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Bowl fifty four. We got a great show for you today. Um,

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some great guests coming your way, NFL Hall of Famers,
some of the best players to ever played the game,
and they'll be joining us, so you definitely want to
stay tuned for that. Uh. We got a great guest
coming up this hour. One of my favorites. You know,
a lot of people do impressions. A lot of people
think they're funny. You know, some people they want to

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do stand up. They they want to do their they
have their one chance to shine on the stage and
think they're funny. I've been shotting forever. Who are you
talking about? I did I say a name? I'm I'm
just why are you? Why are you so? Sensing? Felt
so good from like, uh, felt like something close to me.

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But we got Frank Caliendo coming up and just about
not even twenty minutes, about eighteen minutes, he'll be joining us,
and he's got some great impressions. You all know, you've
seen him all over TV, so that'd be great to
have him here. But let me welcome in my co host,
mister Ry Parker. What's up man? How are you? What's
happened to mister Chris Bussar? You're doing all right? I'm

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doing well. What a busy day. And boy, were running
so many people and did so many other interviews, you know, uh,
where people wanted to talk to us and get our
feelings and thoughts on and takes on so many different
things in sports. So what a busy Day Times. Did
you talk Tom Brady a billions? You know, yeah, the

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main thing. People were the main thing. People ask me
about what course I understand, and they asked me about Kobe,
but it was more about the Brady thing and and
obviously Brady's future and what do I do? I think
he's going back to New England and all that. Did
they know that you switched up on Brady? And now
you're famis? Streets are talking Rob here in Miami, South Bob,

(02:54):
the streets is talking. I did not switch up on
Tom Brady. I was just making a poll to tell
that to the streets. You may or may not have
flip flop just a little bit, you they whatever, You
better get out there on the streets though, and tell
some people because your reputation has been besmirched. Mali. You

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may flop or you may flip flop. No, I never
flip flop. So let's get it. Uh, Let's welcome in
the Odd Couple crew. Of course, Rob g is our
producer down here in Miami. Elijah is also here, our
social media guru. And back in Sherman Oaks, Ryan b

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is our Sherman Oaks producer. Alex of course is our
engineer and mister David gascon Is at the anchor desk
will keep us updated throughout the program. All right with that,
saying Rod Parker, we are here in Miami to bring
in Super Bowl fifty four, so let's do just that
and get to a Super Bowl topic. Jimmy G jim

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Me Garoppolo was the air apparent to Tom Brady in
New England. We all know the story. Got traded for
a second round pick, given away for a second round right,
that is a better way to put it to the
San Francisco forty nine ers, and it's been magic ever since.
Yet some people, and you may be one of them,
some people are calling Jimmy G a system quarterback, a

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game manager, saying he's being carried by the forty nine
ers and their great running game and their great defense.
Because he only threw the ball eight times in the
NFC title game, six for eight, and in the two
playoff games this year, Rob he's only attempted twenty seven passes.

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I was gonna say you on that you are that
that guy. His sixth for eight that was probably since
they started passing the ball, probably the lowest of any
quarterback to ever get into us, you know, to make
it to a Super Bowl. I mean to have some
numbers on their ribs. You can look those up. They
did have some numbers on that. No, I bet. I mean,
I mean once they started passing the football, because remember

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we basically just run the football. But no, I mean
I get it, Chris, when it comes to where he
fits in and what he needs to do. It hasn't
always been like that. But when you have a when
you have a running back who rushes for two hundred
and twenty yards in a in an NFC championship game,
and you have the defense that they have and they
give you a twenty seven to nothing lead going into

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the second half, you don't need to throw the ball.
That's good coaching. You need to run the football, continue
to run the football, to eat up the clock, to
not give time back to let the Packers come back
and beach. We understand. So I get all that. And
if Jimmy g needs to make a pass or play,
I believe he will be able to make that. Okay,

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So you don't do you? Do you believe he is
a game manager in a system? Cop? No? Okay? So
you're with me because I think it's ridiculous. Jimmy Garoppolo,
and I've said this about Dak Prescott, I said it
about Tom Brady. I'm not putting him in Brady's class yet, obviously,
but he's a winner. The San Francisco forty nine ers

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are not even just the forty nine. I wish you
wouldn't in that conversation. Dak has one more regular season
games finishes than anyone not named Tom Brady. I don't
know what the number is. Eight and they got him.
He's still last. Sure, he's right up there. He may

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be his third now, but even if he's third, I mean,
go Alie, that's great. So even if he's in third, Rod,
But the bottom line is Jimmy Garoppolo is twenty one
and five as a starter. Twenty one and five. That
includes two games in New England. Two and oh it's
not a lot of games. But still he goes to

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a San Francisco team, need I remind you that was
one and ten one and ten when he got there,
and he leads him to five straight victories as a starter.
This is a team that beat Let me finish, doesn't matter.
They beat NFL teams, they beat They were a team

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that was done, the season was over. They had every
reason to pack it in. Football is a painful sport,
and when you're old and nine, one and ten and
you know you have no chance to make the playoffs,
the easiest thing in the world to do is pack
it in. And he lifted that team to five straight wins.

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And then that same team that looked great, he comes
in last year and he gets hurt, and then they
fall off the map and they go four and twelve.
He's back this year year and leads them to a
thirteen and three record. I mean, the dude wins. And
I know you like to poo pooty intangibles, but he

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has them. He's a leader of men, he's a winner.
And I look, I'm picking Kansas City to win this game.
But Jimmy Garoppolo is indeed worthy of being their quarterback
of the future. You don't have to worry about him.
If I'm in the forty nine ers, I don't have
a problem with with Jimmy Garoppolo and what's going on.

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I just think you're overstating the whole idea. When they
won the five games and they have nothing to play for,
they have jobs to play for, and We saw it
with the Dolphins. They had an ugly start to their
season and they wind up winning games that probably hurt
them in the draft status because those guys don't care
about no draft picks. I'm trying to make the team

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next year. I can't roll over, So I don't buy
into the whole notion that those games you're gonna roll
over and not play. I don't believe in that at all.
Jets were off to a terrible season. How they finished
the season, you always try to bigger. They made the playoffs,
so your narrative can be well, if if if uh

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Darnal doesn't get mino, then't they make the playoffs And
I would have been right. I was gonna was gonna
be right. Doesn't work. But but you asked me who
they beat. Let's see, Oh who they beat? Wow, they'd
be some good teams. Chicago, Okay, Right, that's a good
win at Chicago. At Houston, it's another good win, did

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you I believe? So? Yeah, last year they made it
what five years under under O'Brien, five out of six
I believe Tennessee, Jacksonville and the LA Rams. So those
are good wins. Rob, Those are at least three good wins,
and there was the last game of the season against
the Rams, who obviously didn't play. It didn't played, It

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didn't players, But I don't. But my point is, my
point is I hear you. I'm not one of these
guys who acts like Jimmy g doesn't matter and he's
just riding the coattail. So I agree with you from
that standpoint, and I do believe that he will be
He's able to lead them if they need a score
or need something late in the game. I don't believe

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that for one second that he doesn't matter and they're
gonna win without him. I just think that that that
the situation that in which they were in in the
in the NFC Championship Game allowed a small Because Kyle
Shanahan is the same guy who botched the Super Bowl
when he was the offensive coordinate of the of the
Falcons when they didn't run the football up twenty eight

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to three. Am I right? And and and had he
coached that game differently, he probably did it right because
right because all of a sudden it was like, Okay,
we can't do that again. And I think you're right, Chris,
he probably overdid it. And said, we don't need to throw,
eat the clock, run the football. They had done that
against the Patriots, Tom Brady and them would have never

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won that game. But he did. Brady did well. But
I'm just telling count just because I know your next
sentence was, so it doesn't count. And then last year
he didn't throw a touchdown. He's only got four. He's
down to four. And when the Panthers kicked the ball
out about that's another one, so he's down to three. Yes,

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let me give people a little info about Jimmy g
For those that Rob and I both agree, he's a
very good quarterback and deserves credit. But for those who
are on the other side, Jimmy Garoppolo is the only
quarterback this season who was in the top five in
completion percentage. He was fifth a sixty nine point one

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yards per attempt, third eight point four and touchdowns fifth
twenty seven. So you gotta give him a lot of
credit there, right, I'm giving him credit. He's he's a
he's he's a very good quarterback. And um, the forty
nine ers would definitely not be where they are were

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it not for Jimmy Garoppolo, and he had you know,
he threw for four hundred yards in a game this
season four twenty four. He would you know, threw over
three hundred a couple of times, but as we said,
this is a running team. I mean the most he
threw it forty six times one game, but for the
most part he was throwing it around. You know, in

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the in the twenties, his attempts were about twenty twenty
something per game, which is low in this day and age.
So I'm with you, Rob, Jimmy g is a legitimate
quarterback and definitely deserves credit, and you're picking the Niners. Yes,
Is that just to be a contrarian? Why does it

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have to be I didn't didn't say it. If I thought,
if I really thought Kansas City was gonna win, I
would pick him. I'm trying to be right. I'm not
trying to uh definitely, uh just go against you to
have a little dialogue because other people could disagree with you.
It doesn't have to be me. I believe that the
Kansas City defense, that ugly defense will rent will wear

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its ugly head and it won't have anything to do
with Patrick Mahomes. That the defense will let Kansas City down.
We've seen uh, Andy Weed and the offense and put
up numbers and you can lose. Tom Brady put up
five hundred yards and all those points, and they lost,
but they still lost. And my point is the same thing.

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I'm looking at this game. As as time is going on,
we're getting closer to it that this might be like
when the Patriots lost to Eli and the Giants, when
they average thirty five points a game and they got
into the big game and they store fourteen. Pat Mahomes. Okay,
all right, I'm go ahead, go ahead, all right. I
told you, and you will say who detail Ernie Terrell.

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You will announce you said it. You said, if Patrick
Mahomes when this whins this Super Bowl, you will join me.
I say, he's Jordan. No, I did not say that.
You did, did Rob? I said, no, I didn't what
you said. I would be more in the conversation of
him being the best quarterback in the league. Oh gosh,
heer bowl. I just said, I consider that one of

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the top five quarterbacks. You said, Jordan. Chris Broussard is
the king of the prisoner of the moment. And you
always crowned people too early. Yes, don't make you crowned
Dak Prescott after the first three games, and he had
a great season, and you had egg. He had a

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great season. Don't make me go back to twenty two.
You know everybody knows you're the prince prisoner of the
moment more than anybody. All Right, anyway, it is the
Eye Couple, Chris and Ride. We got a great guest
coming up, as I told you, Frank Callian though, and
he may have a new impression or two. And uh
maybe he might. He might impress Oh you, probably both

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of them. No, I think you easier to do. I
can do. I can do. I can do a good
Rob part. Let me hear the prisoner of the moment.
Chris is the prisoner of the moment. Is that what
I sound like? You? That is what you sound like? Period?
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Our next guest man. I've been a longtime fan of

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this guy. We've had him on the show before on
the phone, right, but we've never met in person with him.
It is the one and only Frank Caliendo. You can
check him out on Frank Caliendo dot com for his
upcoming tour dates and podcasts info. But he's live on
the set with his man Welcome. It's great to say, yeah,
it is great to finally be at even look at

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me with the glasses out. Its ugly. Play a second, lie,
Why would you say that. I gotta keep it real.
It's just awesome. I remember last time I was talking
to you too. Because so many voices are similar, voices
blend into each other. You don't know. You don't realize
that until you really try and break it down and

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listen at not all. I shouldn't say they're like little tears.
So the George W. Bush has this kind of voice
right here. You can change it and make a little
more southern, become Taran Brands. And he put power into it,
it becomes Chris Rock. I can't believe that said. So
you wouldn't think those three they don't they in your mind,
they're not even close. But in terms of their voice,

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there are little pieces that are close together. Now when
you hear my voice, do I sound like a little
bad voice? Worry what you're gonna know? But it's it's
that And what's unbelieve there's some New York who you
are from New York? Call me, we'll talk me. We'll
talk about dogs, daughters and coffee. Yeah, and you may,
you see, if you may, if you multiply you by

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like a thousand, it becomes Tracy Morgan. Right, that's what
I start. Well, you're talking about exactly what's everybody pretending
they love him? They don't. That was you and he's
from Brooklyn. I'm from Weeds and he's white. Tracy is
a little higher. That's it. There's an element of energy,

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there's there is a change. It's not like the same voice,
but there's something in the Barack Obama. The Rock people
have made that comparison. If you I don't do it,
I can do Barack Obama talk slow at the beginning
and it speed up at the end, and then you
kind of change. Do you know what the rock is cooking?
It's somewhere in there, somewhere, but it's I can't find

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that little twitch, that little change for me. So sometimes
I can, and sometimes I can. I talk to Clay Travis.
I'm talking to him. I did the betting show Lock
it in and he's got this voice that's in here,
somewhere in here, and if you change it, make it
really sharp. It's Jim Rome. How great is that? Incredible?
But you bring down's Clay Travis. I remember Jim. He

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still on the radio. Ridiculous. Actually a few blocks what
is alas Rob Parker pretending to have ambiesia, dude, is ridiculous.
It's not good right now, Parker, Rob Parker, try to
figure out how he can rip this pressure. I'll say
it's not good, but he's not going to remember he's there.

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I'm kidding. That's one of your best one and you
know that's the first time I heard you and Jim
Roman I had a fight on the radio way back
on No He when you were one of his guests.
No we we see you getting in a fight with anybody.
We had our show and Jim Rome was doing it,
and he was on our station in Detroit, and so

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they had him one as a guest on our show.
And he had just started a new TV show which
I didn't like, and I basically told him I didn't
like bird. Can't believe, I can't believe something like that.
He went off, You said you don't like So it
was it was all you critiquing something. Can you imagine that?
I can't know? Me and the fabulous sports Baby had
a fight too on the radio. You remember her, Yes,

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I do remember her. I don't want even want to
say what I what I said to her back then
those days, it would it wouldn't fly today. You'd be
fired today. So I'm not gonna say this, thank you,
but this is how you you. Tony Romo has become
this big superstar. ESPN reportedly offered him what ten to
fourteen million dollars just a year. And you're not a fan, right?

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I love him, I really don't think that he's the
only thing that I wished that he could work on,
the one thing I like them. He is good think no, no,
he is. But but Jim Nance is a big time
professional brought play by play guy. You can't step on
that guy. Nance's present day Pat Summer, all right, because
Pat twenty to the twenty five he was in there

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and then Nance's hello friends somewhere. I don't really have
that Nance, but it's that's where they lie, like um
Summer all couldn't didn't even say full sentences. I used
to talk about it in a bit. He just say, dude,
the twenty dude, the twenty five, there's a flag on
the play. He didn't even give you that full thing.

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So and then Madden would chime in with whatever. But
now Roma does that thing where he's like, oh, Jim,
this is gonna be incredible. It's gonna be amazing and wonderful.
I can't believe. Take a look at if he ordered
a pizza like let's bus go this way, because I
was trying to think of different bits for Tony Romo,
different ways to go. But Tony Romo, you could never
watch a movie with him, right because he's gonna he's

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gonna predict it. It's like, oh, Jim, the way they're
focusing in on that girl at the beginning, I know
what's gonna happen. They're gonna be switched. At the end. Jim,
there's an upside down world, a positive world, and Jim,
that girl, Oh they're switching. Everybody's gonna be dead, Jim.
They're gonna be holding hands across the world's gonna be
incredible and amazing and wonderful, incredibly amazingly. And he always
Tony Roman Whiz has his look on his face like

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he has some some material to blackmail you with, and
he's got that smile on his face, like, Oh, that's
gonna be good. Guys, it's gonna be really really good.
Rabbit Corona, Everything's gonna be fine. He Now, I sold
you last time you were on. I say, when we
worked at Deal Network ESPN, I always say, every time
you went on and Mike and you would do like

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seventy people ESPN. Yeah, I would be waiting. But that
wasn't it. That wasn't it. There's you just can't find them.
Sometimes I look for him, but I'm not in those
categories of you. You mentioned there a lot of people
linked up together and I'm not one of those. Yes,
you're in You're in the Damon Wayans, Damon Wayne. You

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almost sound like a Damon Wayne's character. I'm sorry, that's
but Damon. Yeah, the inmbiquities, remember that, the iniquities and
contemplation that was. So you're in there somewhere, And because
we've never met before, when you in person, when you
talk to the person in person, you get a lot
more from it. So like when I did did the

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Betting Show, I can never lock it in. Uh, when
I'm talking to Clay, all of a sudden that starts
to fester a little bit more, start to getting him
after today to day. I've never even tried it before really,
and so I just started doing that and it started
sound pretty good. Yeah it's not, but it's it's better

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than everybody else, just like me. We are joined by
Frank Caliendo, comedian and podcast host, and the podcast is
called what Frank the Caliendocast or Frank Caliendocast. You can
get there Frank caliendocast dot com or just look at
the instant social media stuff I'm sometime doing. Uh, doing
Clay Travis and I even trying to do it. Uh,

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it's at Frank Caliendo. If you can't spell Caliendo, it's
the letter C, the word alien and the word D
at Frank c Alien do um. And John Holmberg is
on that podcast with me as well. He uh, he
does a bunch of impressions and characters. He does Scott Long.
So are you guys doing the podcast in other people's voices? Uh? Yeah,
lots of different voices, lots of week We kind of

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whatever flows naturally. So one time we just started doing
Bernie Sanders watching et for some reason. I got there.
It was funny. Yeah. Yeah, And we're touching hands and
stuff like that, touching fingers on I'm not even really
sure why we're doing it, you know that kind of
a thing. Uh. We try to stay away from the
political st I was gonna ask you do you do
president tremendous? It really is. We touched fingers as well,

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but we touch all five of them because the hands
are that big, incredibly large. They're bigger than your ego. Rap,
that's not product. I just go for the easiest joke.
I'm sorry about that. Yeah, I keep thinking, I keep
thinking of Chris's podcast. They're in there. I ruined casting.

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He's been he was raised all over the country. So
whatever team we're talking about, I lived there. I lived
here for a couple of We do have a connection
every every city. That's the cadence right there. I do
have a connection. That's that's the cadence that I have
to focus on. Yeah, but I was born in Louisiana,
so I could claim l issues. We have enough time
in this segment. I moved. I lived in Ohio, all

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the places where Ohio, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, Okay, and my
wife's from Okay, so in Lorraine County. I lived in Iowa.
He was the only black family in Iowa. That's funny
because I've I've introduced you to what maybe five or
six people from Iowa, and almost all of them are black. Yeah,

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I'm shocking. He's shocked. He thinks, like, wow, I always
got a ton of black It's unbelievable that they have
five people from Iowa were black. Oh the best part
of him staying out of this part of the conversation.
But okay, tell us about the Super Bowl or do
you have a rooting interest, Is there a team you're

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you know, I can't tell you why I want. I
would like to see uh Andy Reid win. I don't
ever any maybe do you ever say that? Absolutely, he
rips it. Yeah, he thought he should have been fired
if they would have lost the playoffs. Absolutely, Andy Weed
can't win a big game. We're still waiting. Andy Weed

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has has been really sto teams. No, I got that's
two big games, right, But I'm saying you gotta be
able to At some point, there is I think that's
a legitimate critique. At this point, I think there's something
to be said. But people love him. Why do people
inside the NFL? He is an offensive great offensive mind.
I people call him an offensive genie, right, and people

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you know me, I'm not on that bandwagon. But at
some point, I just to validate yourself. I always bring
up Marv Levy, who was a coach in a Buffalo
bill Right, Okay, but he went to four straight Super
Bowls but nope, right, which is in itself an accomplishment.
But nobody ever brings him up as one of the
greatest coaches of all time. You know why, because he

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hasn't won and though. But I'm just saying there's a
different coach, a great, great coach and one of the best. Right,
you have to put everybody lists Belichick first. Now because
he's won so much, it makes sense he's also cheated.
So that's another thing that we have to listen to.
Think everybody's cheating somewhere since he's better at it, like

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the Astros. That's okay, Yeah, that might be a little
bit come on extreme a little bit, A little bit. Yeah,
I listen. The more I find out about the world,
the more I realize everybody's cheating at something somewhere. Ever
you ever speed who me all the time? But if
trash cans, but that's that I mean, listen, I'm not

(27:29):
condoning it, absolutely, not like any We have to call
it that. When you're discovered, you gotta discipline it. Because
in high school if everybody a lot of people chat
in high school. But that doesn't mean once I, oh
I caught you cheating, you know what, everybody does it
go hit you know what I mean? So you still
gotta Yeah, I think yeah, And I like Patrick Mahomes.
I just think he's fun. I think he's gonna make

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some mistakes. Uh, you know, he is authentic. We that's
what we look for in this world now, everybody wants
to see authenticity. You see this guy, he was the
tenth pick. Everyone's like, why are you picking him tenth?
What's the reasoning behind this? Is crazy? And Andy Reid,
who is the offensive genius in ninety nine of the

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Minds not Football's equivalent to Mike D'Antoni at this point, Yes, okay,
I get it. Yeah. If he wins Sunday, he'll he'll
leave that all of a sudden. He's in something. I
think he's a Hall of Famer already, even without the
super Bowl. But I mean there's something about Patrick Mahomes
that I don't know. I just root for him. I

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like the demeanor, he doesn't get too upset. Russell Wilson
has this better than almost anybody. Russell Wilson can throw
a terrible pick and he'll be out there like, let's
go right. That's hard to do. That's because even Brady
you see it on well. You see when somebody makes
a mistake in sports and they get that look on
their face. You're done at that point. You make this
face that scrunched up, there's nothing. It's hard to come

(28:58):
back from that because your whole or a your whole
demeanor changes. Russell Wilson's like, here we go and that's
Patrick Mahomes has some of that you brought up Tom Brady?
What is Tom Brady? Is that a voice that's doable?
Tom always plays the awe shucks, gee whiz? What's going on?

(29:20):
Because what should you be? What do you want to do?
You want to walk around saying and the best? When
people do that, you don't have to sell people the best. Well.
I always say that he's not the goat, he's the lot,
the luckiest of all time. When you chronicle Tom Brady's
career and what's happened, you know a lot of the
stuff that's been happened for him. And that doesn't mean

(29:41):
that he's not a great player. I mean, but luck
plays into everything. I'm talking about that over here too
on the side, it was luck plays into everything. You
can't I don't know. A piece of me wants to say,
you know what, Rob, you're right, but those words are
tough about it sounds like Chris but can't say it either.
But there's right. But my dad always used to say

(30:04):
and they probably he probably still says it. I just
don't do any sports anymore, play any sports anymore. I'd
rather be lucky than good. To be that lucky, to
be the low I would take it, because you're gonna
be rated. You're gonna be Some people will say no,
but you're going to be listed as the number one
quarterback pretty much forever, even if it is on luck.
I think he's Is he the most fun to watch? No?

(30:26):
I would wait rather watch Patrick Mahone Lamar Jackson. We
got a couple of minutes. We're joined by Frank Caliendo,
comedian and podcast host. Yes, and uh, Lamar Jackson. My
son has this made this point to me, and I
think it's a great point. He said, people the way
they consume media now, especially my son doesn't watch a

(30:48):
full football game. But but he is also a thinker,
and he said, you watch how everybody's going in saying
Lamar Jackson the greatest player in the universe. I think
he's very good. One of my things was he seems great,
fantas aastic, but everybody keeps gonna saying, wait till you
see him get better. If he's that amazing already, how
you're gonna say he's gonna get better? Now? I do
find him to be really great already. Um. But at

(31:11):
the same time, so what my son said was this,
he goes people consume media in little highlights. Who has
the highlights? Anybody the mar Jackson might throw for one
hundred yards and you have to build to have the
most exciting He'll have five not even touchdown runs, just
runs like almost Barry Sanders issue that you're going, how

(31:32):
did he do that? And then you're going, he had
an amazing game. No, he threw for one hundred yards.
He had three hundred yards last week and ran for
a hundred this week he had one hundred and one
hundred and everybody's like, that's the most amazing game. No,
it's not the most amazing game, but three amazing plays.
But that's where we are in the society. Everybody wants
to crown people, yes, immediately, like Chris is a prisoner

(31:56):
of the moment, like anybody does anything. He's ready to
crown greatest of all time. He was just praising Pat Mahomes.
That's what I do. No I think has got after
three games this year, he called him a lead. He
didn't even mean well, he did not look for the
first few games he came back. He looked like he
wasn't all the way back. Yeah, he looked like he was.

(32:16):
He was limping a little bit. He didn't have the
He could still throw right for the most part, but
they didn't have to worry about the run because they'd
see him limping around just like he just didn't seem
to have that extra little burst. So take us out
here to Frank, because we got to close in a
few You one of our favorite shows that we're old
Undisputed with Skin Machined. I know you do a good skit, oh, Shannon, Yeah,

(32:37):
I don't know if you shann Yeah. It's it's really
just I say one word with Shannon Sharp and it
can say everything, just depends on how you say it. Skip.
That's what this is. This is him angry. Skip, This
is him happy Skip skip skip skip yea and then

(32:57):
then skip just come back. You don't get it, skip,
come on, come on skip. Yeah. Yeah, it is the
great Frank Caliendo, comedian and podcast host. Follow him on
Twitter at Frank Caliendo. And he told you calliando is
c A or I actually see alien? See alien? See alien?

(33:20):
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Every once in a while, we come down hard on analytics. Now,

(34:27):
we're not saying that analytics doesn't have some value. Analytics
is a definitely a part of the equation. It's just
not the entire equation. We have a problem with teams, organizations,
executives who live and die solely based on analytics, like

(34:50):
the Cleveland Browns are basically about to do. And Rob
g has a quote from the Hall of Fame GM
Ron Wolf. That's right, Chris, His son, Elliott Wolf was
actually part of the Brown's front office blood letting that
happened this week when they had the new GM. They
fired three very respected personnel men to move towards this

(35:13):
analytics approach to football. Here's what Ron Wolf said to
Chris Morrison our ESPN. He said, quote, the analytics driven
model is out of control. When something goes wrong, who
takes responsibility? Their answer, well, that's not what the data
told us. That's a crock. That's what got him to
one and thirty one. There it is and Andrew Burry,

(35:34):
their new GM. We should say, especially with all the
stories going around, he is African American and that's been
you know, they they finally of some of these jobs.
We haven't seen an African American coach this go around,
but he is a front office So now how many
two or three? Rob? I believe it makes two Miami right?

(35:55):
Oh no, yeah, Miami and I can't even think it again. Guys,
it's not Baltimore anymore because yeah, but anyway, Rob, you
and I agree. I mean, analytics is not the entire
let's let's go to basketball. The analytics hates the mid
range shot. Kawhi Leonard, arguably arguably the best player in

(36:18):
the world, certainly the defending Finals MVP led Toronto to
its first championship in its history, is a mid range assassin.
The Finals MVP the two times before that, Kevin Durant,
a mid range assassin. I'm not saying the three pointer
doesn't have value, and I'm not saying it it's not

(36:40):
great to get into the paint as much as you can,
but the mid range shot also has great value, and
analytics tells you it done. In baseball, Rob, we see
the same thing, same old thing, and um all Homer's
as strike out and that's not the way it has
to be. And I get some of the the dad up,
but there's also looking at people and you're the eye

(37:03):
test and uh and remember, Chris, analytics can't tell you
when the guys in a pressure situation in a playoff
or a World series, and what you did in May
against a fourth starter or a mop up reliever, those
numbers can't count. Right, You're now in up, so it's
for the World Series, and you're going up against the

(37:26):
best close or the best picture. So those numbers are
valid all the time in every situation. Because what analytics
doesn't do is it can't measure the heart. It can't
measure how a guy is under pressure the moment, right.
It can't measure team chemistry. And that's why a lot
of teams that live and die by analytics they are

(37:48):
they have no team chemistry. It doesn't tell you get
a veteran in the locker room to work with the
young guys and be the leader and teach them how
to be in the NBA, the MLBOR or professional football,
analytics measures none of that, and that's where it falls short.
The most analytically driven team in the NBA is the
Houston Rockets, and they look. Houston was a great franchise

(38:11):
before Daryl Morey became GM. They won championships, They won
two to the finals before even before Eli Juan, they
had been to the finals with Moses Malone, so being
good that that's nothing new in Houston. Win the title,
thank you and they keep falling short and they're gonna
fall short again this year. And even when the Red

(38:32):
Sox won their title and they were like, oh Red
Sox or analytics and all that dude did the highest
payroll in baseball then some of the best players you know,
so so I get it cheating and right thousand where
the analytics can't measure the video, so that Houston and
Red Sox got credit for the analytics. You just said it.

(38:55):
Both of them were cheating, right, that was the best
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(40:23):
to the NBA, and of course, the whole league is
mourning the loss of the great Kobe Bryant. No one
more though, than the Los Angeles Lakers. Understandably, that was
the franchise he played twenty years for it's the franchise.
He's arguably the greatest Laker of all time. For it's
the franchise he led to five NBA championships and they

(40:47):
were deal they're dealing with it and it's hitting them
harder than anyone else. And it's would have been reported
that they had a meeting with the coaches and the
players on Tuesday yesterday and they just kind of got
it out, you know, and everybody was able to share
their favorite moments about Kobe Bryant, and I'm sure they cried,

(41:07):
they laughed, They you know, look back at some of
the things he did, things funny, things competitive, the whole
nine yards, and I think that is a good way
to deal with it. I will say myself that from
hosting First Things First and just being on all the
Fox Sports one shows on Monday and talking constantly about
Kobe for three hours on First Things First, that did

(41:31):
help me deal with it because you got it all out,
You're able to articulate your feelings, and so I think
that was very smart and therapeutic for the Lakers. But
according to ESPN dot Com, one of the things to
come out about that was that Lebron James kind of,
you know, put the franchise on his back and said

(41:53):
God gave me broad shoulders for a reason, and the
implication being I'm going to carry on Kobe's legacy with
the Lakers. Now, I want to hear you, Rob. The
first thing I want to say, though, is, over these
past few days since Kobe's passing, it has crossed my

(42:13):
mind a few times that the Lakers may take this
and use it as motivation to propel them to a championship. Now,
obviously you have to go out there and play, and
that sounds all well and good, but at the end
of the day, you still have to get it done
on the court. We know they got the talent. What

(42:35):
I've been wondering is do they have the dog Do
they have the hunger to match a team that is
doggish and hungry like the one right down the hall
of the LA Clippers. And I'm wondering will this you know,
because Rob, you know there are certain things that can
motivate you beyond the level where you thought you could go.

(42:56):
And I'm wondering. I claiming that death will, but wondering
will that happen with the LA Lakers. And for a
team where you gotta Lebron James with three titles, you
gotta Rajon Rondo with one tit, you gotta Danny Green
with a few championships, you know you got guys there
that have won, will this kind of give them that

(43:18):
extra edge hunger and particularly Lebron James as he made
this statement that they need to get over the hump
and bring a title back to the Lakers. I'm gonna
say that. I know people love and makes a great storyline,
but Chris, history shows that it doesn't. And I'll give
you a couple of examples. Hurricane Katrina and the New

(43:41):
Orleans Saints went to Chicago with a chance to go. Remember, oh,
this would be great for New Orleans. They could get
to the Super Bowl whatever. They lost to the Bear,
but they did win it a couple of years later. No,
but I'm just saying, but the year that had happened.
Same thing with the Yankees in nine to eleven in
the World Series when everybody's rooting for the first time
in the history of America, everybody's rooting for the Yankees.

(44:02):
You remember that and the Arizona Diamondbacks of all teams, right,
But it's great Game seven, it was great, but they
didn't win the World Series that year. So I hear
what you're saying, and it can't give you another one.
Ali Frasier won. You know what I mainly comes back from,
you know, being exiled because of his views, So that
should have been beat and he got beat. It would

(44:24):
have been a great story that he comes back and
all that. So I hear your point. I think that
it could be a motivating factor, but it just doesn't
seem to always work out like that, and I don't
know why that is. I remember nine eleven the World Series.
I was covering it. It looked like the Yankee Who's
gonna win? Mariano Rivera's on the mound everything, Chris great story, right,

(44:46):
one of the greatest stories of all time didn't happen.
But there are other examples, rob of storybook indies. I mean,
you remember twenty sixteen with the Cleveland Cavaliers. If you
wrote a movie about a guy I leaving his hometown
team and then going back and then delivering them a championship,

(45:07):
coming back against a seventy three win team down three one,
never been done in the finals, you wouldn't believe it. No.
I get that as last year, right, but going it's around,
he's got one year there and he's out and he
delivers them the first I get that, But that's different
from We're gonna use a tragedy. As as motivation, do

(45:29):
you know what I mean? Like you could be highly motivated.
The Clippers could just be better than you, right, do
you know what I'm saying? And it doesn't mean that
that they didn't play hard for Kobia, wanted to win
for La and and He'll They could have all those
great intentions and the Clippers just happened to be better
than you in a seven game series. That's all I'm saying. Oh,
there's the motivation part is absolutely I agree. And my

(45:51):
take on this whole thing, yeah yeah. As a guy
that picked the Lakers to win the championship in the preseason,
I'm glad to hear Lebron James say this. But my
take is this, I want to see you against the Clippers.
I mean, and and Rob G and others may think
I overstated the Clippers. The Clippers are legit and you
said that, No, right, come on that roster on paper

(46:14):
to the best roster in the league. And Kawhi Leonard
is a mid range assassin. He's clutch. We've seen it
all year. We saw it last year. Uh, Lou Williams
is doing this thing, Paul George, I mean, that team
is a great team, Doc Rivers the coach, and and

(46:35):
but the Lakers had him beat on Christmas Day and Rally,
you know, had him beat early in the first game
of the season, fell behind, but rally going into the
fourth quarter. But both of those fourth quarters they couldn't deliver.
And so I've said in both games, Lebrin's not being
aggressive enough. So if Lebron is really saying this, I'm

(46:59):
gonna put the team on my shoulders, I'm gonna carry
Kobe's legacy on and help lead the Lakers to the championship,
that's the game I'm pointing to. But do you but
if he doesn't get there, I'm just saying no, that's
what that was my point. Could you could try and
want to do that. I don't know if that's added

(47:20):
pressure you're putting that on yourself, that's not You don't
have to say that, Chris. And you know what, if
you do win, you could then then that's the greatest
story to tell people after the fact, you know what
I mean? You know what, Yes, after the thing and
you say, Lebron was that he said, I'm gonna carry
Kobe's legacy. I want to do this for Kobe. He

(47:41):
meant so much to us, to Los Angeles, to the
Lakers organization, whatever, and you go, that's great. You know
it was mode. He was highly motivated by the loss
of Kobe putting it out there now And I'm not
saying he put it out there, but when you say
it in front of other people, Chris, you know this
today it's getting out. Ain't no secrets anymore. Well, it's
interesting you say that, Rob, because if there, if you

(48:02):
look back at some of the I can't It may
have been a documentary done by Uninterrupted Lebron's company with
Maverick Carter where they were talking about the twenty sixteen
run to the championship for Cleveland, and it came out
in the documentary that when they were down three one,
and maybe even before that, Lebron kept saying, we're good,

(48:27):
We're good, we got them where we won them. Like
that there was that came out and like you said,
that's great. After the fact, Wow, that type of confidence.
But this way, if you don't get it done, this
quote will come back to haunt you, just like you
always use the quote about I'm in playoff mode. I'm
activating right right and then and it didn't work and

(48:51):
then they lost to last years in Atlanta, and you go,
what what were you saying? Why? Why did you about
to said that, we know you want to win, we
know you want to get your team. You don't have
to announce that, right, you should just go ahead and
do it. And the backfire. Yeah, it's it's interesting. But
I say this, robe though the Lakers have the talent. Now, granted,

(49:12):
the Clippers, certainly one to ten have more talent, but
I don't think I think the Lakers have enough talent.
And everybody talks about they need a play No team
is perfect. The Clippers are looking for shooting, right, they're
one of the bottom teams in terms of three point
shooting percentage. They need size. They gotta if i Ka
zubaches their big man so they can use another big.

(49:34):
No team is perfect. Milwaukee's got one superstar, you know.
They love to ad another superstar with Yannis. So every
team's got its flaws. But I do think the Lakers,
if they play with that drive, they play with that dog.
And this is what I would say to you, Lakers,
get Anthony Davis. Used to being the go to guy

(49:58):
in the fourth quarter. He's not getting the rock enough
in the fourth, Skip Bayless is given the numbers. Lebron
takes far more shots in the fourth than a D doesn't,
And obviously Lebron's worthy of shooting the ball. But you're
he's the matchup. Lebron's gonna get his point. He's not

(50:20):
gonna abuse Kawhi and Paul George, right, but a D
could should be able to abuse Harold or Zoo Box
or whoever they put on. And that's the guy who
has to be different and break out and and and
tip the scales. So that if if Lebron uh can
match Kawuhi, you have the advantage because you have a DR.

(50:43):
So they got to give him the ball. But you know,
do you I think this is good again, right, you
make a good point. It might be better if this
hadn't come out, but I think it's good that Lebron
said this. I would love to see this, you know,
motivate him uh to to Not that he hasn't been motivated,
but you know, there are a lot of times, drib

(51:04):
you know, where we feel like we're motivated. But sometimes
whether it's adrenaline, whether it's a tragedy, whatever it might be,
whether it's the just the moment is there and you
gotta deliver. But sometimes there's something that can take you
beyond where you normally would have gone. And you know,

(51:25):
you made good points about past tragedies not doing that.
But if you're a Laker fan, this would be great
for the Lakers. If if I mean, what talk about
a year? I mean, Kobe Bryant's life obviously is worth
way more than a champions but it would but it
would have helped the city heal no doubt about a
Chris and the people of LA and what's going on
with the basketball and to lose Kobe and then for

(51:47):
the do you know what the tears would be if
they want a championship and they could hold that trophy
up to the to the to the heavens for Kobe
Bryant and what it would be. I mean, maybe you
talk about a story like the like the Lebron championship
in Cleveland, right, I would be of that magnaz It
would be. It would be a great story and it
would be great for Lebron's legacy because then you're talking

(52:11):
about having two just iconic championships, don't you. I mean,
the Cleveland win is first championship in fifty two years
of any kind for the city, because then this one,
Kobe Bryant, you know, you're you're making good on your
promise to deliver for Kobe. I mean it would be
it would be storybook because because after he won the

(52:32):
one in Cleveland, that's when I knew he was to go.
You know, that's the one Lebron told me that that's
been saying, all right, it's the odd couple you're turning
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Lebron James make good on his promise to carry on
Kobe's legacy on his broad shoulders and will it be

(52:56):
enough to help prepare the Los Angeles Lakers to the championship.
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deliver when his promise to carry out Kobe's legacy on
his big broad shoulders. Let's get to the calls ride
all right, let's do that Keith and Ellen or you're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What you
gotta keep? Are we doing? Felling? Just sitting here at

(55:05):
work on a brick right now? Hey, I gotta I
gotta gonna thay. So you guys are great. You know
that I was looking at the game Saturday night. Did
you see the game against Philly with basically been a
Simmons were sitting up there getting on Lebron, guarding Lebron.
It seemed to me like Lebron didn't want to get
on the guarden. Did you see that game? Been guarding

(55:28):
any of the best players? Right? Yes, you remember what
Kawai said about lebar to get on me and stop
being scared of me. You remember what he said. You
got to get the marvel of mentality, and if you're
gonna do it, it doesn't take a death to do it.
When he starts get the talking like I'm better than you,
you gotta get out there and show it. Lebron ows

(55:51):
the game, knows how to do it. Get this butt up,
get on. It doesn't take a death from the greatest player,
one of the greatest of all time, to get you
bolted data. All it takes is a wily philosophy at heart.
Gets your party to it. Un get your game together,
get hold of here. Check that chapionship well you're saying,

(56:12):
look up in disguise and say to Kobe, I got
it done for you, big brother, Big brother, I got
it done all right, Keith appreciate it? What about him? Uh?
In Bakersfield, California, you're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, hid me? What's going on? What's going on? Fellas?
I I got a couple of things. I have something

(56:34):
I do. Like what he's saying. I don't like what
he said, because Lebron has got a history of saying
things and then things don't happen, and then you know
the whole not one we talked about that kind of thing. Okay.
The other thing is when you signed that one hundred
and fifty million dollars contract, that should have been enough
for you to carry on the legacy of the Lakers.

(56:54):
And yes, it's sad that Kobe's gone, and he should
do it, and I believe that he can do it.
But you, it should already be in you to drive
to keep that legacy, to keep the Lakers, to keep
those championships coming, not use something like this. But it
is sad that Kobe's gone. But I don't want to
sound rude. I don't want to sound bad. I'm saddened,
but Lebron needs to just pretty much man up and

(57:16):
do it by himself. I'm not right, Hodie, right, I
don't think I think what you said is fair. And
maybe Lebron it shouldn't have to take such a tragedy
to light a fire under him. I could understand why
he would want to, but he should have already come
to LA with the whole idea of talent because chrise,
what do we talk about off the air that if

(57:37):
Lebron doesn't win LA, you start looking and going. He
played twenty years and he won three championship. Right that
that ain't special, right, And and look, I've said it,
Lebron may very well have that mentality. This year. It
looks like he has that mentality most nice, right, It
just hasn't looked like it against the Clippers. And so

(57:57):
that's what I want to see. That's the one game
I'm glad they didn't play last night because I don't know,
I think you wouldn't have been able to get a
good barometer. Maybe the Clippers would have been out of it,
Maybe the Lakers would have been out of it. You know,
it would have you couldn't have read anything into that.
Next time they play, I think it'll be a barometer.
So all right, Eric and Oregon, you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Eric, Terry Fellas,

(58:17):
thanks for taking the call, Yes, sir, Hey, all right man.
So here's they've got two quick things on this. So yeah,
you know, the loss of someone specialty your franchise, you
know that can definitely spurn a good deep run. I mean,
look no further than last year. Paul Allen passed away
in the off season and Dame Lord. The next day,
it was like, we're gonna make a deep run. We're
gonna win this. You know, we're gonna go as big
as we can go for Paul. And they did. They

(58:37):
had a big run. A lot of people but they're saying, okay,
but they went as far as they could go though,
you're right, yeah they couldn't. Yeah, yeah, okay, but say
so that's one thing. But the thing is, you know,
he can say whatever he wants. Man, then it ain't
gonna trade him if if they don't win. But it's
more like, if they're gonna win, you guys had a
good point earlier, it's gonna take a D. And it's

(58:58):
gonna take a D in the if you go back
a couple of seasons to win the pellas upset my Blazers.
What they do a D was killing him in the
fourth every game, all four of those games. He was
killing him on the pick and roll. He was getting
buckets all right until the fourth. Yeah, and they're they're
gonna need him in the fourth. They're gonna need him
to get touches and get good clean buckets and get
one and get that, you know, get his laps right now,

(59:20):
get his reps right now. Like I liked what you
were talking about it. I thought that was a really
good point. Right all right, Rick, we appreciate the call,
Thanks so much. What about Matthew in Palmdale, California. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Matthew? Hey,
what's going on? Good talking with the fellas. I appreciate
the show and everything y'all y'all talk about and do. Man,
it's a great joy to hear you guys eat each

(59:42):
and every day. Thank you, Thank you, no problem. I
just wanted to say that I feel like sometimes emotion
can outweigh reality, you know, And I feel like even
with the statement, wonder shouldn't even been made public what
he said. But then too, when you look at the
Lakers record, they have a losing out of their ten losses,
eight or nine of which are against teams with winning records,

(01:00:05):
so they haven't played well all year against teams with
money records. I think it's one of those things where
you know, you hope for the best, but sometimes the
best can't be reality, you know, when you look at
the Lakers. I think Chris, you hit on it earlier
when you said that the Lakers don't have that dog

(01:00:25):
in them, you know when they look down the hall.
The Clippers are a team that have that dog in them.
They have that pedigree, they have that hunger. You know,
after a while, a dog, a puppy is eventually going
to show that it's a puppy. And the reality of
it is the Lakers tend to have more puppies in
their locker room than they do dogs, and I think

(01:00:45):
eventually that will show itself. Maybe they can correct that
with some trades, with some moves by the trade deadline,
But we'll see what happens. I think it'll be very
interesting to see what transpires over the next couple of
weeks with the deadline and then afterwards. That's a good cause,
no doubt, no doubt. All Right, real quick, we could
go to Corey in Denver, Corey on the Odd couple

(01:01:06):
of Fox Sports Radio. Corey, what you got, Harry? Thanks
falls Rest in peace, Kobe Bryant Um. I just want
to say, like sometimes I think if you're in the
Lebron's shoes, like you can't really win. You know, like
no matter what you say, if you don't say anything,
if you say something, you know, people are gonna have
something to say, So you really can't. You really can't win,

(01:01:28):
no matter what you're saying. But I didn't take his
quote as saying, you know, he didn't say how he
was gonna win the championship. He talked about you know,
his you know, really representing Kobe and the legacy that
he had, and we sort of spin it and we
put words a little bit in his mouth. Now we
had that. Yeah, But but don't you think I mean,

(01:01:49):
I'm just asking you. Uh, Kobe was about winning, wasn't it, Chris?
What about winning championship? I get where you're coming from.
We talked with Rob g about this, like, is Lebron
really ain't in that? And you know what does that mean?
But if he indeed said, guy gave me broad shoulders
for a reason. The only way to carry on Kobe
to win a championship, Right that you gotta admit that,

(01:02:11):
what else would I be, Corey, Here's no getting sixty
five wins, getting to the finals. That's not gonna carry
on Kobe shape. So Corey, what did you what did
you take it to as meaning? What did you get
out of that? Oh? He's down? I'm sorry, No, you're right,
that's what I'm saying. That's that's the only thing, and
I get it, nobody's Sam. But but what else could
it be? Chris? There's nothing right? What else could it be?

(01:02:35):
I mean, is he talking about just comforting the guys
and making sure that you know they handle this right
basketball wise? The only thing is a championship. That's absolutely
all right. This Greg Jennings is the buffets man in
the media. Then Shannon Sharp is at least number two.
Who you got in that. I haven't seen Greg. I

(01:02:55):
haven't seen the pictures, but I haven't seen him with
his shirt off. I don't Shannon is pretty Jim, I'm
got Rob strag or Shannon. Well, Shannon is much bigger
than Greg. But but cut. Have you see Shannon's Instagram?
I'm a married straight mail But let me tell you man. Okay,
so you were santing, so after Rob Ge looked at

(01:03:18):
his Instagram he needed a cigarette gigin. All right, Sandy. Sorry,
we'll be coming up next, but first be sure to
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(01:03:38):
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will see him every more on this feuded battling against

(01:04:01):
Skip bayliss our fs one colleague, old champion Hall of
Famer Shannon Sharp. What's up, man, man, I'm good, man,
I'm good. I'm good. I'm having a good old time
in Miami. Rob I'm having a way better time than you.
You know. Are you gonna come out here with those
sneakers on? What what you got on? Uh? These are customed,

(01:04:24):
These are off whites. Uh. You don't wear nothing but
custom Uh. A guy named Dominique, the shoe surgeon, UH
made these. They're kind of like easter. I've had them
for a while. I had him over a year, and
I've just been waiting for the right time to break
him out. And I said, you know what, I want
to wear something radio row that I'm not gonna worry
about anybody else having on or nobody got those. You

(01:04:47):
help design him or he just you can. You can
help design some shoes if you like. But this was
a limited run and I was like, I really like those.
I said, I'm gonna get those. You ruined Rob's day.
You know you got the phone posits on hess. I thought,
I thought I had something going on, and you killed
your question. As a matter of fact, I brought all
heat that I've never worn before. So I got something.

(01:05:09):
I got some. Yeah, I got some more star that
I hadn't even broke out yet that I'm aware of. Uh, Friday,
Thursday and Friday, I'm gonna have to he got something.
How many sneakers do you have? I know you're a
sneaker head, but how many you got? Oh my goodness,
I'm gonna say how many shoes? How many pairs of shoes?
You think I got? Six hundred thousand, six hundred? I was,

(01:05:32):
I was six hundred and you've worn how many of them?
Probably three hundred. The thing is is that it is
getting to them because you know, like, okay, right, you
got something, you gotta have a separate room. I guess
I got. I got like I gotta still got some
in Atlanta. Um a lot of them. I only have
like maybe maybe seventy five pairs still in Atlanta. The

(01:05:55):
bulk of the shoes are here. Now. I heard you.
I remember who you were talking to. I just overheard
you said, you're not working out this week. I'm not
not at all. Now you work out to you that
you feel funny though, you feel guilty, but you know
what I feel. I feel. I feel refreshed. I feel,
you know, because I was hitting it really hard. Uh

(01:06:15):
and you know because I told myself, said, you know what,
I'm gonna see if I'm gonna go two weeks, I'm
gonna see if I can work out like I once
could with the same intensity, with the same frequency for
two weeks. For two weeks. Broke me down, really broke
me down. I ended up having to get a massage
every day for a week. So you went to your
football workout, right, and you and it was like your

(01:06:35):
body was like, you're not a football player anymore. Yeah,
you're a football player. You'ren ex football player and you're
fifty one. So if you don't sit down I'll see
you down right. So I learned my lesson. So the
thing is, I just can't do I can't do the
frequency in which I used to work out with. I
still have the same intensity, but if I work out

(01:06:56):
hard like on a Monday, I can't come follow that
up on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. But you work out twice
a day on Mondays and Tuesdays. Then I take Wednesday off,
I hit it again on Thursday, take Friday off, and
I hear again on on Saturday. Okay, okay, So I
try to get I try to get five five workouts
in a week. That's good. How does you how does
your you know? We see so many pro athletes whose

(01:07:17):
bodies they're aching whenever they wake up, and it's your
you like that? I mean you play the position. I'm
sore sometimes not not bad. I found out that I
get I ache more if I don't work out. Okay,
um So I still I still squat, I still you know, lift,
I still do things. I just can't bound. I can't
you know, you know, jump up and down? Do you

(01:07:38):
know a plow metric? Things of that nature. But I
can still squat um and and I still do um.
I think the thing is what a lot of athletes
do is that they have the same eating habits that
they had when they play dudes will blow up exactly.
But for me, I've always been one that I enjoy

(01:07:59):
working out, and so for it was nothing for me
to continue. And I was like, wow, I get to
continue to work out and I ain't got to work
about taking those licks. So that was that was That's
fine for me. And but the hardest thing was is
that when I moved to La having to get up
at three am, take a shower with get myself situated,
get my dogs because I have three dogs, get them situated,

(01:08:20):
get to work by four, prep for the show, shoot
the show for two and a half hours, go home,
feed the dogs, get dressed, go work out, come home,
eat myself, sit around, start prepping for the next day show,
go back and work out again. Wow, I'm like I
found myself. The guys, I just didn't have the energy
to want to do it. And I was like, well,

(01:08:40):
you know why, I'll work out tomorrow. And then tomorrow
came and then I like, I don't feel like working out.
So a buddy of mine told me about this product
called true Nigen and so I tried it six to
eight weeks and I noticed that like, okay, let me
see what. So I kept taking it felt like and
my my energy levels because for me being up at

(01:09:02):
three am by noon, that's nine hours. Man, I'm starting like,
oh man, this, ain't he really tried to you know?
Anytime to go get another workout in another two hours.
So it's been an unbelievable product. And the thing is
the mistake people making that well, if I take this product,
I can eat whatever I want. No, No, you still

(01:09:24):
have to maintain My diet still consistent, chicken and turkey
and bison, sweet potatoes, brown rice, broccoli, egg whites, old meal, fruit.
I still eat sensible because you know I want, I
want to look. I want to look. I don't want.
I never wanted. My biggest fear is that when I retired,
some father would tell his son or his daughter that

(01:09:45):
guy played football and they look at it there like
for real, what was her officer? So we have seen
guys like that when you go you look at him
and go, ain't no way he was in the National
Football e. I know exactly, And I tell guys, man,
look here, I tell guys like when you retire, take

(01:10:06):
that weight off. Take that first year to start taking
that weight off, because it gets harder and harder. You
start to get comfortable carrying that weight around, and then
it gets harder and harder because the metabolism slows and slows.
And so for me, I was never really a big
I had to lift a lot of weights, but you
know I played it. I'm heavier now that when I
played twenty eight okay, and I'm two forty two five rights? Wow?

(01:10:31):
Why but you want to be you could? Could you
get down to two twenty eight if you wanted? Or yeah? Yeah,
but I don't want to eat catch it with I wouldn't.
I wouldn't. I would enjoy my life a little bit.
You know. I did all that and having to watch
what I eat, eat two thousand calories a day and
then burn thirty five hundred four thousand calories a day
to get to that way. I don't. I don't want

(01:10:52):
to do that now. I want. I want to enjoy myself.
But I see eye couple with joined by Shatton Sharp
super Bowl champion, you know it from un disputed. I
give shotting some credit for for me and my health
because Shannon was giving it to me, uh, you know,
up on the on the set and it was like
he said, I think the button from your past gonna
pop me in the eye, and a right he did.

(01:11:19):
But Shannon did not be glad with this segment over.
But I did, and I did. He was like, and
I was surprised because not only did he take the
way out, he was like, I like, because I had
heard that he be he likes to yo yo, he'll
take it off. You'll take it off and gave it back.
I like, rab, but you're gonna yo yo this time
and be like nope, He's like, you remember I took it.

(01:11:39):
I was. I gave him credit taking it off. And
you know our colleague Greg Jennings, he's into the body.
But if you talk to him about that, I was
talking to him about it. He's doing what they call
me and physique where you know, uh, it's basically you
wear the board shorts and you know they have the
physique the court of turns, and so I'm excited. I
don't have a desig. I don't want to think about
doing it, and then I don't want to train like that.

(01:12:01):
If people know you, Shannon, obviously, as we said from
undisputed in the NFL. But just tell us about Like,
what are some things you like doing? What are your hobbies?
Where do you like away from the camera and all that. Uh?
I like to work out, I like the movies. And
I'm a homebody. You like to be at home shilling out,

(01:12:22):
not out. I just like that. I just like to
be there with my dogs. U. I called my sister,
talking to my sister every day. I got a homeboard
that I talked to every day. Uh, my sister. Obviously,
I called touch base with her and see what's going on.
Who do I need to call? What do I need
to do? But for the most part, I'm just home.
I'm just you know, people talk all the time about

(01:12:44):
people in their second careers, and you were on television,
you worked at CBS, you did the football thing. But
I'm telling you, nobody knows because those segments are so short.
You really don't you know what I mean. It was
just football. But it's just football. And when you took
this job, a lot of people are like, I don't
know if he could do you know, he know he
knows football, so that's not even the issue. But Kenny

(01:13:05):
talk basketball? Can he talk other sports? How surprised are
you of where you've gone in your second career? Because
because Chris and I talk about you all the time,
you really like hit a stride where people look to you.
You got a real following. People want to hear your
takes on a lot of stuff. Did you think it

(01:13:26):
was gonna do that when you took this job or
you weren't sure? Man? Look here, the guy that gets
the most credit from my success has to be skilled paylors,
because you know, proud of me. There was no athletes
that did what I did for all time we used
to do the show right, everybody that did it with
journalists had journalism backgrounds. And Skip says what I want him?

(01:13:46):
And it's like, well, yes, Skip, he knows football, but
canny talk basketball. Can't he talk baseball? Can't he talk golf?
Can he talk if there's anything else going on? Kenny
talk that Skip says, yes, I believe he can. Skip
dugging in and says, I want to do show. And
if you want me to do the show, I want him.
So they gave me the opportunity. So now it's my

(01:14:07):
job to put the work in to show that yes
I can do this. Um, you don't. Look. I thought
I could do it, but if it's I didn't know
how well I was gonna be received, because, like you
said a lot of times, you know the pigeonhole you
right exactly. It's like, you know, look, it's kind of
like when Chicken Fila came up with a chicken saying, Okay,
y'all do chicken sandwich, but pop pop, my chicken sandwich

(01:14:29):
ain't gonna be nothing, right, y'all do regular chicken. Don't
do no sandwich and behold the game of an opportunity
and lout. Okay, So I was giving an opportunity and
so for me, And like you said, Chris, it does
me good. Man. People see me in the street and say, man,
appreciate you talking for the community, appreciate you keeping it real.
He said, Man, look, I don't agree with everything you say,

(01:14:51):
but the one thing I know is that you keeping
it reach and that and that's that's it for me.
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you where from me. You
made that That turn enough for up And I was like, okay,
this is real deal. And you and ray Lewis are
as close as anything. And when it came down to that,
and it was like and you had to speak on it.
I know that had to be talked about you, but

(01:15:11):
but you you were like, this is what I'm doing now,
and I'm going to give my opinion on it. And
I know it wasn't easy. It wasn't. It wasn't because
Ray and I are very good friends. And um, and
but and the thing that I told Ray is that
you have to understand like when you do TV people
you don't think so, but people can see if you're
being real, if you're being authentic, and and so I

(01:15:32):
said for me, and you know, I talked to him
off camera. I said, look, man, I'm not trying I'm
not trying to make anybody look bad. I'm not trying
to show anybody up. I say, but I'm gonna be real.
I'm gonna be authentic. I said. You know, I said,
we've known each other for two decades, so you know
exactly what you're gonna get from me. And I think
I think he understood. Um. You know, look, and I said,
I think we kind of want to get to the

(01:15:53):
same place. We just want to we're I think we're
taking different modes of transportation to get there because at
the end of today. You know what's right. You live
in Baltimore. You remember the Freddy Grace situation, You remember
what transpired, you remember what led to that, and so
uh and I think, look, it did a little damage
to our relationship um shortly after that, but I think

(01:16:15):
over time we'll built it back up to where we're
will good will will in good terms. Shannon Sharp Man,
come on man for sure. More couple coming up Fox
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(01:17:01):
for what looks like it'll be one of the most
competitive Super Bowls, uh that we've seen in a while.
And that's saying a lot, because we've had some great
Super Bowls recently, and that's refreshing because Robert, you and
I we grew ober. Yeah, some blowouts. There's nothing worse
than a bad super Bowl, And we used to watch
them when we were growing eyes. There was just lopsided.

(01:17:24):
We used to see, uh, the Denver Broncos get their
heads being like year after year it was a lot
of bad super Bowls where it seemed like one team
showed up and the other one never got off the plane.
The last bad one that I remember wasn't it uh
Seattle and Denver, which I thought was gonna be a
great one, manning against the legion of boom right and

(01:17:47):
the legion of boom it was boom shocka locka? Can
I get a? That was one of those Ryan Parker
jokes were not even Craig Melvin laugh. I got that's
my first crickets ever. No, it ain't. DJ Alex tis
the Vegan. Isn't that my first crickets effort? You know
what's crazy Christmas? If I go back and look, I'm
pretty sure that is your first crickets See, No, it ain't. Well,

(01:18:10):
he doesn't say anything funny. He does. I get more.
I've gotten more laughs than you know. He doesn't. I'm
not even trying. He doesn't even try. I know and
I get laughed. You know. It's called like like trying
to make the show better. And how many times did
I crack up like a guest and they're like laughing
and like those are tight, those those are awkward laughing.

(01:18:33):
Love it. I feel good. Park is so funny. Not
only is he smart, he's funny. I got exhibit at
how did Ice Cube respond when you called him mister
que It was radio side I called two Change. I
called two Change, mister change. I mean funny. I thought, Rob,

(01:18:55):
we got Jeezy coming on Friday' gonna call him mister
Jesus to jez Is that not for the word? All
I know is ice Cube? Man. I feel like he
was giving you the grill the cover one of his
albums or something like wow man, all right? Uh he
was like Chris, I don't know you had a white partner.

(01:19:16):
All right, Rob, Look, let's get to we. Uh. Yesterday
we interviewed Deon Sanders, arguably the best cornerback in all
of football, and the other the one that is also
arguably we had on the show as well, Rod Woodson.
We know those two of the greatest defensive backs in

(01:19:37):
NFL history, and Deon is obviously they're both Hall of Famers,
and Deon's got a little bit of a beef with
the Hall of Fame. He feels like it's getting kind
of watered down here. He is. First of all, if
you know history, you know I love me seeing me
Like everybody know, I've been riding for ELI for years.
What I'm saying is, what is a Hall of Famer?

(01:19:57):
What has that become? Once upon a time, it was
a dog to separate himself that we wanted to reach
in out pocket and go see that was a guy
that changed the durned game without a shadow. Without We
didn't second guess when we hear Mell Blunt's name of
Jerry Rice or Nate train Lane or some of these guys,
we never second guessed it. Now we're throwing out names

(01:20:19):
that were saying for real, I do agree, Robo. Not
only the Pro Football Hall of Fame, no, no, no, no,
this is this has happened where even Chris and you
could debate or whatever. But when Tracy McGrady got in
for the Pro basketball for the Basketball Hall of Fame,
there were people like what like, like really, he obviously
had a great run, but it was kind of short lived.

(01:20:41):
Because of the injuries and at the NBA, right, Drisen Petrovitch,
who was great for like four years, Right, but but
is that a Hall of fact career? Exactly? Dwight Howard,
everybody says he's a definitely Hall of Famer and he
was great, but the second half of his career has
really been medio. And so yeah, the Basketball Hall of

(01:21:02):
Fame has that's the one that is reputed to be
the most watered down because it's the Basketball Hall of Fame.
So a guy could have been phenomenal in college, maybe
changed the game to some degree in college, and then
fizzle out in the pros and maybe make the Hall
of Fame because the college in the Olympics. Right, But
baseball is getting there, you know that theod guys who

(01:21:25):
are getting into that, I didn't vote for Chris who
I don't believe in. What I said earlier last week
was it's turned into the sympathy Hall of Fame guys
on their last year on the ballot. If it takes
ten years, right, if it takes ten years, you're not
a Hall of Famer. And who just went in where
we were like Walker, Larry Walker. The same people who

(01:21:47):
voted him in, didn't vote for him for nine years,
and then the last year on the ballot they have
the sympathy thing and he goes from fifty five to
seventy six in one year, twenty one percent last two
years ago when fifteen percent, yes, three years because we
had the night guilt told us that, right, right, right, yeah.

(01:22:09):
And then you got Harold Baines, who was you know,
nice player, but he got in on the you got
the Veterans Committee. Alan Trammell got in on the Veterans Committee.
So you start to water it down. And then when
you start the question when you start saying to me,
and I've always said this, when you say Hank Garon
and Babe Ruth and those guys, come on, man, there's
no debate. And that's what Dion saying. Right. Here's the

(01:22:30):
thing though, and I'm not even saying this to go
at you. You you your criteria rib is when I
say your name, do every does everybody think hall of famer? Right?
If there's any question, you say, you're not a Hall
of Famer? Absolutely in your mind. There's no question with
Eli Eli Man only because of what he accomplished to me, Chris,

(01:22:53):
and I think that you have to who you beat
does matter, and and and and that's why I nom
always beat time break. No, but but he did one time. No,
I'm just saying by beating twice that I mean no,
but too super to me. I always say, anybody can
win one. When you win a second se that's your
little The stars can alie and something can happen. You

(01:23:18):
could win one, but you ain't winning two by by lucky.
I'll give you that. That's all I'm saying. The point
I want to make though, is and I and I
believe you, and I know you're sincere about this. In
your mind, there's no questions, notion. However, you have to
admit this right. This is just clear and in a
lot of people's minds, including voters, there is a question

(01:23:41):
with Eli. And that's all I'm saying. You would say
he's in no doubt. I would put him in, but
I have questions. I would tell you this. A lot
of other guys wouldn't put him in. So there is
a debate about Eli. Not in my mind. But but
you said so if we go by say what Dion
said and what you say in theory, then Eli wouldn't

(01:24:04):
get in. No and and see this is the difference
where you would look at Marv Levy. I don't think
Marv Levi's a Hall of fame, okay, And you know
I mean because if we went by the criteria what
you said, no doubt although look getting the four straight
Super bowls, Rob it is impressed. It's dubious. Though to
lose four straight? Would you admit that? Is that not dubious? Well,
dubious means doubtful, doesn't? No, what does dubious meaning? Rob G?

(01:24:27):
Can you look at dubious distinction? It's a dubious. Look
it up to me. I know we always have used
it for a dubious distinction, but I looked it up
one day and I thought it mean I might be
wrong or it may have two mean I got two definitions.
Number one hesitating or doubting. Alex looked dubious. That's the example.

(01:24:51):
Umber two doubting not to be relied upon, or suspect
I'm extremely dubious of your suspect. That's what I maybe.
I okay, it's all right, but but you know what
I mean. I would use it in that journalism school, right,
Why go that? I couple always educating, But but you

(01:25:12):
gotta admit. I mean Eli, Look, there are there's Hank Aaron,
There's Dionne sand There's there's you know, Ronnie Litte. There
are guys where there is no doubt. ELI hall of Famer,
though he probably will be, is not on that level
where there's no doubt. Philip Rivers isn't either. We're talking
about Tom Brady, guys in the league. Now you're talking

(01:25:34):
about Tom Brady, Drew Brees, you know that, guys that
are older, Aaron Rodgers. Eli is not on that level.
Like you gotta think about Eli. I just you know,
but most people because I just put a premium on winning.
I really do like winning chance I do, No, I do.
I think that that's very important. That's why you play

(01:25:55):
the game. And and you know, I'm Plunkett one too.
I know, but Jim Plunkett wasn't the MVP twice. Jim
Plunket didn't have the final championship MVP. That doesn't mean
and not even even even even Terry Bradshaw with his
with his Super four Super Bowls, Nobody ever said Terry
Bradshaw was to go as a quarterback. Nobody, no. And

(01:26:16):
that's but he was better than Eli man But my
point is he won four, but he was. But he
won four and nobody said he would because of the
team and the way that they used to win and
Frank o' harrison other than La Swan, nobody ever said,
nobody ever was better than Terry than Eli. No, but
my point anyone twice as much. But my point is

(01:26:37):
that it's not just winning. Uh. If if Eli Manning
won two Super Bowls, Chris wasn't the MVP, and Michael
Strahan and and Justin Tuck with the MVPs, I then
I would have a different conversation with you. I don't
think I would look at Eli the same way. I
don't even would see Super Bowl. I don't put that

(01:26:58):
much until and being the MVP. I do because core
bred Maxwell was MVP, and Larry Bird's first worthy winn
MVP in One of Magic and Kareem's title he liked
through two game winning touchdowns at the end of both
of those championships to win. Without them, they don't win.
That's like saying they don't win. This is an overexaggeration

(01:27:21):
because it's not like saying, but David Tyree without that catch,
they don't win. Mario'manny and without that catch, they don't win. No.
But just because he made two and again, I'm with
you that he's a Fall of Famer. Where I differ
with you is the no brainer Hall of Famer. And
I think if we really go by the criteria of
there's no doubt period he's all of Famer, then Eli

(01:27:43):
would not be in. He wouldn't Mike drop that. Rob conceded,
this is the first on The Eye Couple. He is silent.
The hit boat has nothing less to say. Alex, you
you win with something right. The champ is here, soup,

(01:28:04):
you gave it up, Save up the ghost. You know
What's Sometimes I'm looking at my full rip ry and
I just don't have nothing to do. The Champ is here, Joda,
send me a checklick me up on this. Lions corded
Darius Slay joins us. Next, it's The Eye Couple Live
from radio role Fox twys Radio. Be sure to catch

(01:28:28):
live editions of The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and
Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. Welcome
back to the Eye Couples. Chris and Rod. We are
joined by Detroit Lions Pro Bowl cornerback Darius slay Man.
Welcome to the Eye couple, brothers. You mean, big play,

(01:28:49):
no doubt, no doubt. Congratulations on making the Pro Bowl. Obviously,
that's something every player looks forward to. You know, how
how has that made you feel? And when you get
that type of honor, you know just how you feel
as a professional athlete, it may you feel great. Man, Um,
the appreciation the league showed me, the players show me
the coaches as well, because um, for me, I'm never

(01:29:12):
a top top ten guy and fan vote. So getting
a lot of not abody from the players and teams
and stuff that appreciate how approach the game makes you
feel a lot more appreci That's even better because you
get it from your peers, the one they really know
what's going on. It's not just name recognition. And I
also think it's uh, it speaks volumes. When you're on
the team that doesn't make the playoffll right, it's not

(01:29:35):
a good team, you know what I mean? As far
as standing wise, standing wise, and and and people recognize
you're still good despite what's going on around you. All Right,
that's it's like I said, it's a it's a blessing. Um,
I'll go out there and try to perform at a
high level and every Sunday and um and I'll do well.
But but speaking of you guys, earlier in the year,
and we talked about like you guys were in some

(01:29:56):
close games, you had some decent wins. Remember that looked
like you guys were a good team, and then it
seemed like it just kind of fell apart. What what
is it that you guys haven't been able to get
over the hump and play consistently good football. We just
gotta finish man as a team, as a whole, me
as myself. Uh, you know, it'd be just halftime swings.

(01:30:17):
They'd be swinging on they score, you know, three, three,
three or seven points on us we're going into halftime
and receiving the ball back or either as the offense
going out there and not getting no points in them.
So it's just a whole team effort right now. And
we just gotta put it all together and just get
to work. Because because when when the start you're talking about,
they let the Cardinals come back to time and the

(01:30:37):
open night, even when Kansas City they hold Patrick Mahomes
to zero touchdowns and you don't win that game. The
game against Green Bay, they were in the red zone,
the entire game settled for field goals. Aaron Rodgers comes
back at the end to beat you. All right, It
was that kind of stuff every time that that kind
of did you guys in and speaking of the Lions,

(01:30:58):
you know we talk about all the time. Two Lions
have one playoff win since nineteen fifty seven, which seems inconceivable,
which was nineteen ninety one? Did you know that since
nineteen fifty seven, which seems inconceivable when you think about
the league and think about like where the forty nine

(01:31:19):
ers were just a few years ago, you know what
I'm mean, and now they're at the super Bowl. So
when you so, does that wear on you at all?
If you knew like from ninety one, or you just
try to block it out, that's not us, has nothing
to do with the players in here. Is that? Is
that what you're trying to do? Yeah, that's I'll block
it out. All I think about it is trying to
find the way to win. What I could do to

(01:31:40):
the team win. I alway don't think about a lot
of stuff that happened in the past, because that's the past.
But I'm here to try to change all that. Rob
mentioned Pat Mahomes and you guys held him the zero touchdowns.
So what advice would you give San Francisco and you
know you you you defended him as well as anybody has.
What advice would you give them? Just take away his playmakers? Uh,

(01:32:01):
they got a lot of guys that go deep. Um,
you take away his playmakers and get pressure on them,
make a move a lot and them contain them. That's easier,
said you gotta you got speed obviously, Yeah, but I
mean they got so much speed? Are they the fastest
group of receivers by far? By far? But do you

(01:32:22):
give them more? Do you instead of eight yards from
the line screams are you nine back? Or if you
press them, are you making sure you get them a
few seconds before they get off the line. They got
fast little guys. So what we do best is put
your hands on them, slow them down, and just run
the route. But other than that, we had You know,
you have a guy like Tyree, and make sure's somebody
deeping us to stay over the top of Tyreek and

(01:32:43):
let somebody else beat you. Help me with This is
my biggest thing with dbs, and I don't. Oftentimes if
they get beat deep, they never like look for the ball.
I just don't understand how you could play a man
not look for the football, because the only thing you
could do is tackle a guy in the end zone
all right, right after the plastic catches the ball. Does
that taught? Or why don't guys do it? You know?

(01:33:07):
Are you just supposed? I'm just running with you, sticking
with you, sticking with you, and then you make the
catch and I tackle you? Or what is the and
you hope he doesn't catch it? Where it's a technique
we gonna use. You know, he get played through his hands.
Sometimes you out of phase. Sometimes you're in phase. A
lot of times I feel like I need to be
in phase because that's the best place position to be in.
But sometimes I'm out of phaseing I make plays like

(01:33:28):
that out of phase two. Um, it's all about eye control.
Where his eyes get big. You know the ball coming.
So if you're trailing, you know, sometimes receivers put their
hands up. You stick your hand through and you know,
but sometimes you know it get backfired. But I tend
to look back for the ball because I like the ball.
The ball is where the money and I like money. Right.
The NFL, you know, adopted the pass interference because you

(01:33:51):
know of what happened with the Saints and that they
kind of, you know, felt the pressure of people in
New Orleans being mad that they didn't make it to
the Super Bowl. Do they need to readjust that because
it just didn't seem like it really changed. They very
seldom picked up the flag. Right. Whatever the call was
is the is the call that stuck. So so did
they really the league need that rule? I mean, I

(01:34:14):
think they didn't because it ain't changed too much this year.
But you know, I don't see too many defensive passing
friends get happened to us, so it ain't do me
no benefit on a different offense, say you do touchdowns
and stuff like that, right, big play. Darius Slay, Detroit
Lions Pro Bowl cornerback. Join you mentioned earlier when you
made the Pro Bowl. As we said you, you rarely

(01:34:35):
get voted in by the fans or if ever so
a lot of people aren't familiar with us. Tell us
off the field, what do you like? What are some
of your hobbies, your interests? You know what do you
like off the field, Well, I like playing the game,
Um I do. I'll play a lot of games. I
like to play pub g like video games. And you
just hooked, you hooked. Yeah, And then you play against

(01:34:56):
a lot of guys in the league league, you know,
almost in informal league league. I'm getting to that level
of being good that good good guys got too much
time on their hand, too much time. I ain't got
that much time like that. But other than that, ten
high school games every Tuesday and Friday, definitely for basketball season. Football. Yeah,

(01:35:17):
I made sure I go to a football game every
Friday in Detroit, showing my community service. There's a lot
of talent. It's a lot of talent, man, It's a
lot of kids that's in Detroit, man, Michigan. It's just
it's just crazy how athletic it is to be in
a cold you know, because of me, a guy like
me would have been born in Michigan. It's no way
I'm coming out in December, you know, and I'm from
the South, so it's still kind of warm. So I

(01:35:38):
was out, still kind of getting better. But for these
kids to be so talented in the cold weather like this, Uh,
you mentioned you go to two high school basketball games
a week, so that were you a basketball player? Yeah,
I could hoop, but I wasn't. I wanted that. That
crazy good, but I was. I was an athlete. I
could play ball. Okay, you like I said, I spent
twenty two years of my career in Detroit. I think
Detroit sports fans, it's the best sports town in America. Stopping.

(01:36:02):
I'm dead serious. You might be right now, right now,
I am. And and do you feel a little bit
like those fans have been through it this past year?
They had more losses between the Lions, the Pistons, um
the Red Wings, like it was just do you feel
for the fans and they want nothing more than to
go to a Super Bowl? Yeah, that's the goal, man.

(01:36:24):
The fans is a a lot down there. They're very supportive. Man.
They come to every game. You'll think we three and
twelve and they want nobody gonna show up, but still
packing out, still cheering us own. I appreciate them a lot.
That's why I gonna do what I do for the community.
Because they shown it's a great town. I hate to
break it. He once wrote that the fans should stop

(01:36:45):
going to games protests you know that, don't know, make
them to make the owners do the right thing and
get the right people in place. That's what I'm saying. Okay, understanding,
all right, big play Darius Joy the great stuff. Man.
We appreciate and again congratulations on the Pro Bowl. Appreciate
you can. I ask him a quick question though, before
you go the Pro Bowl. It's you know, when you're

(01:37:06):
out there playing, you obviously nobody wants to get hurt,
right right, what speeder guys going, would you say thirty
percent for yeah? Easy? Thirty Uh. This year they kind
of turned up on those at the end quick and
then it was kind of funny. I like, yeah, they
try to turn up on it. It was too late
the time to play at least that percent. That's a
tough game to play. Yeah, you know what I mean.

(01:37:27):
I had two choices to watch reruns of The Golden
Girls or watch the Pro Bowl? Which one did I pick?
You know's going He's going on the Golden Girls cruise, man,
I'll know it. Wow, all right, we're going for one
playmaker to another. Jets All Pro safety Jamal Adams joins
us next. But first, welcome back to the Eye coupleless.

(01:37:50):
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We are joined by one of the best safeties in
the league, point blank New York's Jets All pro Jamal Adams.

(01:38:10):
What's up? Man, Welcome to excuse my uh abruptness or whatever.
You're on the show with us here last year. Yeah,
I know you want to be here this week for
different reasons, you know. So what what what do you
guys have to do to get to win where you're
playing in this game rather than always here on the radio? Yeah, man, obviously, Man,

(01:38:32):
it's bringing in you know, some names. You gotta bring
in some guys. Man, you gotta take chance. He's gotta
roll the dice on certain guys and um, you know,
you we gotta fill these holes, the holes that that
we were struggling in. Um, and you know, we gotta
we gotta get better, simple as that. But you guys
did turn The second half of the season was better, right, right, Yeah,
because Sam Donald had Mono, you know, and all that stuff.

(01:38:55):
But but you did the second half gave you some
hope for the next season to the Yeah, yeah, it's
definitely it's a confidence builder. But we don't need We
don't need that, man, Like you said, Man, enough confidence builders.
You need to win. We need to win. It's simple
that it's no, it's no excuse. Um, it's been too long.
The city of New York, they deserve it. Um, it's

(01:39:17):
time to turn it around. Now. You you had had
some issues with this team. You heard your name wasn't
you know? It wasn't like they were shopping you, but
just they weren't, like absolutely not. Don't even ask us
about Jamal Adams and you had an issue. How are
you feeling now about the situation and and all that.
Did you explain it to you or yeah, yeah, you know,
they explained their side and I explained my side. Man.

(01:39:37):
At the end of the day, I understood it was
a business. Everything was about respect with me. It wasn't.
It wasn't anything else, just disrespect. Um does that mean
you want them to tell you from the get go?
I just think it should have been a better communication.
I mean and you know, Joe, Joe Douglas and I
had that conversation. We could have we could have had
better communication on just between us two, you know what
I mean. And I think that's what it's about. And U,

(01:40:00):
um do we regret what happened though, but we understood,
you know that we needed to move forward. And there's
no bad blood, um, but you know, obviously I did
have a problem with it, but we we addressed it.
We understood that communication was something that we needed to
get better at, and you know, we move forward. The
AFC East could be up for grabs. Tom Brady's on

(01:40:20):
his way, I mean Chargers, I mean I made the Chargers, right.
But if that, if Tom Brady doesn't return to the
you know, it would be a changing of the guard
in New Ad obviously, and and it would be an
opportunity Sam Donald, uh. And I know Buffalo last year
made the playoffs, so they were a good team. But
you would have a chance at the division man obviously.

(01:40:41):
You know, Uh, Tom, if he did leave, um, which
I which I think he deserves to, you know, UM,
look for different opportunities out there, because he definitely should
not take the home discount. Um he did it his
whole career. Yeah, you're right, but he's he's he's pasted it. Man.
I think he's kind of over. Um. I think that
you know, he wants something a little bit different and um,

(01:41:03):
it wouldn't shock him if he stayed. But definitely if
he left, man, that would be a plus for us
for sure. What is it like to face him? Because
he's he's widely recognizes the goat. And I want I
want your opinion when I'm done asking the ques, I
want your opinion. First one, is he to gold? Or
who is the go But if he is or not,
He's not the most physically gifted quarterback in the league

(01:41:25):
by any stretch. So what is it about him that
makes him so good so difficult to defend? And again
start off with who's the goat? Yeah, he's He's definitely
go you know, Okay, I agree? Eleven touchdowns? Yeah, no,
Joe Montanas not to go. He's the go to man.

(01:41:46):
It's no on the somebody for me. You know, it's
time because I played against him. I've seen him play
so uh but yeah, you guy, man, Joe is from
what I hear him the bad He's number two like
that boy. So and they Yeah, it's it's definitely. Um,

(01:42:06):
he's he's the ultimate competitor, man, and you know he
deserves to be paid for for what he's done. Um,
if not, he's the best to ever go through that organization.
And um, you know it's I hate playing against him,
but I respect the hell out of him. What is
it about him? Though they're playing against him? Makes it
so hard. He's seen he's seen so much ball, you
know what I mean, He's seen, he's seen every coverage

(01:42:26):
and and you know, uh, you know you can't you
can't disguise versu him. It's very tough. So, um, the
best thing to do is is get pressure on him. Uh,
get him, get him off his spot. But when he
when he's on a rhythm, man, and he's he's just
throwing it like we we're playing seven or seven out there. Man,
he's dangerous. But we're joined by Jamal Adams, New York
Jets all pro safety on the eye couple. The big
thing too, is like there's a tug of war from

(01:42:48):
some people. It's about Bill Belichick. It's about Tom Brady.
Say Tom Brady does go to LA and play for
the Chargers, and they get to the Super Bowl or
they win a Super Bowl in the next couple of years.
Don't you think that would up the annie on where
he is in his legacy? If Tom Brady could do
it without Bill BELLI charge percent. And that's the battle
you're playing with, you know, right, So you don't know,

(01:43:10):
you don't know what Tom is thinking, you don't know
what what Bill Belichick is thinking. So I think that
is that is the competitive juice right there, you know
what I mean. I think Tom could say, hey, man,
I want to I want to go show that people
that I don't need Bill. You know, I ain't vice versus.
So it's gonna be interesting. Man. I'm I'm looking forward
to seeing what's gonna happen. Now you're a safety, not
a corner. But what do you think of the Durrell Reevers?

(01:43:33):
Richard Sherman Beef. I mean, how you you know in
the game? Honestly, man, I think that uh man, I
think everybody should just show up and appreciate each other. Man.
You know, I look back and um, you know, people
always talk about Kobe, they talk about recipes or Soul,
they talk about Kobe, they talk about Jordan, they talk
about lebron Man just appreciate greatness, you know what I mean.

(01:43:57):
I mean that you can't you can't appreciate it enough.
And I think that players should shouldn't bash on one another,
you know what I mean at the day, just show love,
respect his game. If you don't respect his game, move
on from it. Don't. You don't have to, you know,
bring anybody down because at the end of the day,
you're not gonna You're not gonna win by that, you
know what I mean. It's gonna make you look bad.
But um, I have so much respect for both of

(01:44:17):
those guys. Um, I just wish you know, people and
this is not the only time I've seen this happen. Um,
there's there's plenty of guys that talk down on players
and don't like this player or what he does, or
it's jealous. Right at the end of the day, man,
just this show love, appreciate the game. Man, That's what
I'm about. I know, I know you Jets, and we're
gonna talk about the really quick ELI for the Giants.

(01:44:40):
But I always say a lot of people diss his
career and I think he is a clutch player who
won two Super Bowls, two Super Bowl MVPs, also made
two of the greatest throws in Super Bowl history and
beat the eighteen and old Patriots and beat Tom Brady twice.
How's he not a Hall of Famer? Like, when I
hear people talk that he he ain't a Hall of Fame,

(01:45:02):
I think they're crazy. Now they are because he's like
I said, he's never complaining about anything. All he does
is put his head down a grind. Um He was
a clutch player for sure. Um I think he's a
Hall of Famer in my book because I was a
giant fan growing up. That's all I knew. Um Man.
Just seeing him win those two Super Bowls was outstanding.
And then you can't. You can't take away from the
play when he escaped the pocket and made that right

(01:45:24):
David Tyree. Man, it's stuff like that that you they
always saying, Oh, well he was that was lucky. I said,
that wasn't a touchdown that winning the game. He still
had to throw the plaxico to win that game. Or
you can look at Manny him when he threw on
the sideline. That's one of the greatest ball first throws.
So you can't you can't take away from you hear
that Chris he's a Hall of Famer. I mean, he's
the president of ELI Manning Fans. No, I just I

(01:45:45):
do have him in the Hall of no. But I
grew up in Queens. I grew up as a Jets fan.
I'm from originally, so I grew up as a Jets fan.
So I was never a Giants fan. But I recognize
ELI because it is about I told Chris all the time,
sports has a short menu. Yeah, it's wins and losses,
none of all that other stuff, right, remember that, right,

(01:46:05):
because whenever it comes to some other All right, Jamala,
you're here on behalf a New Air. You got the
freshness and about that. Yeah, yeah, man. So I've been
you know, teamed up with New Era for two years.
Um it's been number love and one big family. And
we teamed up with uh, you know, Team Wilson man.
Uh And obviously you can see on the brand we

(01:46:26):
got the football leathers, um, you know, and you got
the W on the side to represent him with the
to celebrate the hundred season. Um, this is this is
pretty it's pretty cool, man. And you know obviously New
Air always does it big, the best of the best
out there. Man. So brought you guys two hats man,
you take home. Only problem when you put the football
on the on the brim, Chris will probably fumble a

(01:46:48):
hat the ball. But you know, I want to give
a shout out to Alex from New Era. He did
our show, uh the odd couple hats. Yeah, and he
did a great job. That's my man. Right. Yeah, you
gotta get Jamal an eye couple hats. Yes, we'll do it,
do it. Let's do it, all right, Thank you, Jamal.
We're moving over to the other side of the ball.

(01:47:09):
Vikings wide receivers to find Diggs joins us. Next, it's
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(01:47:31):
game plays for the Minnesota Vikings. You knowing, Stefan Diggs.
What's our brothers? Thank d Now you hear it? Super Bowl.
I know you wish you were here for other reasons,
but what you are here? What type of things you
got going on? Here this week. All right, Now I'm
kicking with a child because you know I'm here on
the AFA Genesis, the official luxury car of the NFL.

(01:47:53):
If we didn't know, um great car, you only luxury.
It fits me. It's what I like to do. Mexican
and shefford a run in a que ninety. You might
not be that familiar, but it's it's spacious inside. So
then my first time getting to show first, so I
feel kind of important. I was disgusting. But and I'm
doing an unbuilding up their car this evening. So they
have a Vince and night's gonna be big and they

(01:48:14):
unveiling their new SUV. So six seven times that's great, man,
that's great. Well, look, how how tough is it? As
I said, you wanted to be here playing in the game.
How tough is it to be in this atmosphere or
just to have come up short this year? Like I'll
tell you now, like my early years, it was real
rough because when I would work to Super Bowl, Dude,
I'm like this, damn Like, man, I want to play
in the Super Bowl bad, Like that's all I want

(01:48:34):
to do. I want to play at the highest level.
I want to play in the biggest games, you know,
and every athlete should want that. But it was rough
my first couple of years. As I got older, I
feel like I realized everybody don't go to the super Bowl.
This is me, be honest. You get as close as
you can. Some guys barely go to the playoffs, right
like I feel like guy like Karvin Johnson barely touched
the playoffs a couple of times. Is he one of
the best receivers ever play? Gonna say? I didn't think so.

(01:48:59):
I'm more thankful than anything. Of course, you want to
you want to go all the way, but when you
come up short, it's a couple of things that need
to happen. So just kind of working through it. I've
talked to athletes over the years, and some guys and
an all sports. Some guys said, I can't watch the championship,
you know, if I'm not in it or I'm not practiced.
Are you one of those guys? Or do you watch
the Super Bowl and you watch? Some guys tell me

(01:49:20):
they don't watch at all. I have to watch it.
I'm remember a football fan, you know, whether I was
playing it or not. I love the game. I love
everything about it. I will never go. I'm saying that's
another thing. I ain't going to super Bowl watch, so
you go as a play exactly. You see, I'm saying
that's another animal. But I definitely gotta watch again. You
gotta watch the game, you know what I'm saying. The
super Bowl. You know you're gonna miss out on him
so much sometimes if you don't watch it. But I

(01:49:41):
enjoy watching it and being in front of my TV.
Give us a breakdown. Um, obviously, you know you know
quarterbacks because you're a receiver. I'm sure you study guys
beyond even yours Kirk Cousins. Uh. And you know defenses
because you gotta go against So give us a breakdown
to this matchup. Okay, you got you got two good defenses.
Ken City, they're getting slept on right now. Where they
got some great they are getting slept owner. They better

(01:50:02):
than people think. You know, they played well, Yeah, they
played well lately, and they showed up. They just showed
up against one of the best teams. You know, Tennessee
showed you that they were a good ass team. Excuse
my language, but they were a good team and they
showed up in the biggest game. So, right, now, a
lot of people they found under the radar, and I think,
you know it's my one would be one of those
underdog kind of things. And you count them out, they're
gonna show you because you know, Tyron Matthew is a

(01:50:22):
great player. Frank Clark is a great player. I think
as well. We're joined by the great Ride receiver for
the Minnesota Vikings to find digs. And with all due respect,
neither one of y'all know what y'all talking about. Kansas
City Cat Maholes quarterback in the boy and just when
you know that Chris picked him in the priest, No, no,

(01:50:43):
you did. But during the year he was terrible with
football picks. Hold on, he was theofs. I'm all about
the post. I killed them. Patrick Mahomes though, I think
he's the best quarterbacks. Take out, Kurt, that's your guy.
Is he the best quarterback? I'm saying like as far
as like like physical ability him and Aaron Rodgers and

(01:51:06):
Rodgers is amazing too, just as far as like what
they can do talent level with the ball, and Patrick
Mahomes is is the best out right now. Chris Greet
that boy's bad. That's what I'm saying, and so I'm
were a little let me ask you this, the Richard
Sherman Derell Reeves beef. What was your take on that? Um?
It was more for me from what I saw timming.

(01:51:27):
You know, everybody kind of took it as timming because
to Hall of Fame cornerball nonetheless saying and you know,
good or good, they're good. They both well respected and
appreciate it. I feel like at this point in his career,
Richard Sherman still proven that he is still playing at
a high level, and Derell Reevers was coming from a
perspective of his his career and he's not. I'm not
I'm not saying nobody wrong. I'm saying just because man

(01:51:49):
voice their opinions all the time, we grown, we grown man.
But Drell Rievers was a man the man corner. I'm saying,
he was a guy that I'm gonna follow you around
and I'm gonna take you out of the game timing.
That's what That's what it because it was during and
he was trying to take away Sherman ship, but he wasn't.
And for my thing, is he not saying nothing that
isn't isn't factual travel. You'm saying he doesn't travel. He

(01:52:12):
but to say at that time that it might have
been that, I don't know. But what I do know is, uh,
two Hall of fame guys. I have a lot of
respect for just Sherman. He played at playing at a
high level. Um and it's two Hall of Fame guys
argue who gonna get mad at the argument as a
receiver in the league, who were the toughest, say two

(01:52:32):
or three defensive backs for you to go again, I
didn't see him a lot. I didn't see him this year,
but I played him a little bit last year. And
that Stephon Gilmore, he's in. He's not only a great system,
but he's a great player. I'm saying he's smart, he's
in't sneaked, got good hands for the most part for
a corner, you know, and uh, I feel like he's active.
He's like I kind of compare my game to hooping,
like I'd be out there hooping like it ain't perfect.

(01:52:53):
I'm saying, I'm out here figuring it out and I'm
always making a way. When you got a guy that
can stand in front of you. These guys going backwards
on time about or in your pocket. Does the NFL
need to change the pass interference? I think it was
a message ship. It's a little bit of a show
because they did install a rule, and even with the
rule you throw the flag, they rarely riding with what

(01:53:16):
they called. So even if I'm a refe if we
ref we though a flag man. Look that's what I
called Like, that's real, that's what it is. But but
the league overreacted to the New Orleans thing, and that
had bright and they did something, but but it didn't
really didn't do anything. This It was like your parents
telling you what I'm saying, Like, all right, next time,
I'm gonna watch your sisters. Right, it ain't I gotta

(01:53:42):
ask you this. You gotta clear this up, man, because look,
I love the one handed catches and all that, but
we we grew up. You didn't see I'm gonna talking
about great receivers Jerry Rice Terrell always, you weren't seeing
one handed catches. What in the world is on these
gloves that I mean, I got to make up one

(01:54:04):
hand because what's up with the gloves? Back in the day,
it was a couple of people grabbing it on one hand. Uh,
Chris cardistagram them with one hand there, right, he had
some of the best hands. I'm saying, but the gloves
are a little They got little sticks. We remember. I

(01:54:25):
remember the I remember stick you can put stick them
on your body, on your uniform. But they outlawed that,
and then you had this period where there was no
stick them and the regular batting gloves. But these things
they are stick right, because we saw who was it
the sportswriter who did it, and Riley Rick Runny did

(01:54:47):
the whole thing where he went out high school receivers
to catch the ball, couldn't catch it. They put the
gloves on, and all the kids we catch caught every
ball that came there. I feel like gloves having a grade.
I was just saying, look, it's some new technology. I
don't know what's going on. I just rocking when they
get I just got so. I'm like, y'all shouldn't be

(01:55:08):
dropping nothing. Man. But but listen, you also, you gotta
think about it. Back in the day, they don't have
all that. It's a little bit more focused that they had.
We're catching the ball then, compared to somebody who got
the luxury of using gloves. And what I'm saying you
might get a little more lack of days ago. Back then,
they ain't taking it off the ball. They locked in.
They all got his knees, gloves, touching their hands all

(01:55:29):
right quickly, we got about forty five seconds left. Next year,
what do you think you guys need to do? You've
been close. It seems like year after year, what do
you guys need to do to get over the hump
and get here as a get over the humps? Hues
because it's so crazy, Like I've been in the year.
I've been in the league for a couple of years now,
and it's been like we're good, We're okay, We're good,
We're okay, and it's like one of the tears that
we're just trying to get over the hump. And we've

(01:55:50):
been one of those teams. You know, I haven't been
in the league for that long, but Minnesota has been
one of those teams that camera to get over the hump.
So at this point, from what I know, we got
to execute that at a higher level. You know, we
gotta be able to have a balance offense, and we
gotta continue to play great defense because you know, we
got all the pieces. We just gotta put it all together.

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