October 6, 2025 • 39 mins
Mark talks about the college football weekend and Penn St debacle to start the show before talking some Steelers. Tommy Radio joins in on the fun
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some college football talk because Penn State, they can go
ahead and talk about fire and James Franklin now, well,
not right now, but in the not too distant future,
like at year's end. It's one thing to lose to
the top five teams Ohio State and whoever. But now
you lost arguably the worst team in college football, and
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UCLA had made a coaching change, and that play call
on fourth down, the Reid option fourth and two on
UCLA's nine with a chance to tie it. Wow, that
play call, it was Tomlin esque. And that lost to
a terrible team. It's the first time a top ten
team lost to an owned four team in NCAA football history,
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and that lost very probably eliminated Penn State from any
chance of making the playoffs already. I don't know. Maybe
if they beat Ohio State in Indiana in sicts session,
which for me is the only way Franklin should keep
his job. But even if you went out, ain't nobody
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gonna forget that loss. And Penn State ain't coulda went out.
They're not gonna be Ohio State in Indiana in succession.
So you can legit talk about firing James Franklin at
year's end Penn State all the way out of the
top twenty five, the one in two teams in the
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preseason Texas and Penn State both out of the top
twenty five. Pitt killed Boston College forty eight to seven.
Holstein got benched, so he's gonna go in the portal
after getting a million dollars from Pitt in nil and
this freshman started Mason Heinchel. He did great against a
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one in fourteen. But the Penn thinks are overreacting like
they did for Holstein. Paton Mardoozi said today that that
game was just the kind of game Pitt's been trying
to have. Yeah, because you played a hopeless team, you ask,
That's why that game went like it did. That's why
the freshman quarterback played like he did. In really amusing news,
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North Carolina got battered by Clemson thirty eight to ten.
Bill Belichick should have never come back. Should have never
come back. Between the Bengali young girlfriend and North Carolina
sucks and him failing in New England after Brady left
and New England having cheated to win with spygate and
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the flate gate, there are now a ton of disclaimers
to his success you can look at the six Super Bowls,
but you can say, yeah, but what about Yeah, but
what about Yeah? But what about There's just a lot
of what abouts in Texas. I mentioned then they lost
to Florida Texas three and two. Archmanning through two picks,
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he ate no first round selection, what alone first overall
and he never will be a first round selection, except
he might be anyway because his last name is Manning.
So let's bring in Tommy Radio. Who's a pit fan.
Tom what's your takeaway on the pit win? And this
Heinschel kid a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was just fun to see Pitt actually beat a team,
even though it is the worst team in the ACC.
And Hinchel looked good for an eighteen year old kid.
I mean, the guy was playing high school football in
Ohio last year this time, so it's impressive to see
him go out there and do it. So you're overreacting. No,
I'm not overreacting. Yeah, yeah, I'm overreacting big time. I
like playing this quarterback roulette. It's fun when Heinschel stinks.
Maybe we should just throw in another quarterback and see
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what we get with him.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, I think a small part at least his success
is like BC had no film on whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
They didn't announce it until like Saturday morning at ten
am that he was starting.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
If they would have announced it like Monday, what were
they gonna watch the high school tape?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The high school tapes? But but yeah, it's a win.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But everybody overreacted Holstein last year, and I'll be blunt, Tom,
I just don't trust anything good that happens with Pitt football. Now,
Pitt is that Florida State next Saturday. I know Florida
State lost to Miami on Saturday night, but Miami's real good.
Florida State was right number eighteen and is still right
number twenty five. If Pitt wins that game, then maybe
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they're onto something.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah maybe until Nardoozy gets in the way of the
progress that this kid's making. Like that's the thing Mark
that I truly walked away with the game from. Obviously,
this kid has talent, not incredible talent, because he would
be somewhere other than Pitt if he was that good
coming out of high school. But he's got talent. How
does Pitt develop it? Though? Like, how do you have
any faith that Nardoozi's gonna see this guy through? Keep
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him here and make sure he gets the most out
of that. There's no chance that happens.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Heischel, that's a German name. I like it now better
or not. What happened with Penn State at UCLA. I
watched the second half because I heard what was going on.
And it's not like Ucla was great. Penn State sucked
on both sides of the ball. I heard the Franklin
sound that we're gonna play later and he talked about
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Ucla seizing momentum. Well, you gave it to him, dipstick,
and you came out flat and unprepared.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The onside kick was hilarious. You said you tuned in
the second half, so I don't know if you saw that.
Maybe highlights of it, though I did. Just hilarious to
see them do that little pooch kick. Penn State fall
asleep there, and yeah, they did seize momentum, and that's
the kind of stuff you have to do if you're
a massive underdog like that to win a game like that.
But there's just no excuse for Penn State to lose it.
The only thing I figure UCLA had going for them
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was their quarterback Nico Almliva, who transferred from Tennessee. Was
a really good quarterback for them last year and had
a big nil dispute with Tennessee. Tried to hold out
for more money and Tennessee told him to kick rock,
so he went to UCLA. He's awesome, like he was
projected to go to the NFL. I don't know where
he is now, but he torched Pen State, I mean,
especially on the ground. They had no answer for him.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is Drew Aller of fraud at quarterback for Penn State.
His numbers weren't terrible and he didn't throw a pick,
but he's not a match winner. That said, I have
predicted he'll be a better pro than he is a
collegiate quarterback.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And I don't know why I'm saying that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Maybe because he'll presumably get better coach unless he comes
to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think he's going to be a fine backup in
the NFL. I think he's it. I think he's good
enough to be in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Boy Between Archsmanning and Drew Aller, this quarterback thick draft
in twenty twenty six is falling apart.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It looks terrible right now. Aler looks like the central
casting guy right like you would put him in a
movie to play a starting quarterback, like he looks the
part big pocket presence, or at least it seems that
he has that. There's just something about him that's missing,
though he doesn't. I don't know if it's like that,
just that killer instinct, or I don't know what it is.
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I can't describe it. He just kind of looks meant
in these big moments, in these big games. There's no
excuse he should have let his team lose to zero
to four. Though.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Should Franklin's job be in jeopardy immediately, because I don't
think so. It very rarely does any good to fire
coach midseason, although UCLA did just that and beat Penn State.
But I still think he can save his job by
winning out. But I think that's the only way. Then again,
I don't know what Penn State's thinking.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't know what Penn State's thinking either, And if
they win out, I guess they sneak into the Big
Ten championship game. Although winning out for them they'd beat
Ohio State, they have two Big Ten losses, so that's
not a guarantee that they'd get in over Ohio State.
And then there's an Oregon. That's in your way too, Like,
if they don't get to the Big Ten championship game,
even if they win out in the regular season, I
think they're in serious jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If they went out in the regular season, I think
they'll get one of the final seeds in the playoff
simply because they will have beaten Ohio State in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But that ain't gonna happen. So why are we even
talking about it, especially the Ohio State part of that equation.
There's just no chance that they're gonna beat them. And
Indiana is a better team than Penn State this year.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, Tom, wherever Joe Paturno is, they're making him
watch tape of that game over and over and over.
Is Bill Belichick ruining his rep which seemed impossible to do,
But this at North Carolina, it's an utter disaster.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's a clown show. He is ruining his rep. And
there was a report this morning, Mark someone noticed last
night Drake may lighting up Sunday at football right killing
the Bills. North Carolina's not tweeting about it at all,
And some guy's like, that's curious. He's a high profile
kid who graduated from left from North Carolina first round pick.
He's a stud in the NFL. So they did some digging.
Apparently he found out that Belichick has a mandate within
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the organization. Don't tweet about anything related to the Patriots,
don't tweet about any players Patriots stuff. I don't want
to see it. And then two hours later they tweeted
out some token highlight about Drake May After all this
noise was made like the North Carolina's athletic department did. So.
He's just way over controlling and it's just a bad
look and embarrassing at every turn. These stories just keep
popping up like this one. It's bad.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, Belichick's infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me.
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Next thing, you know, he'll be not sitting behind the
press during games and sitting in a luxury. Oh wait,
that's Kyle Dubis. I got mixed up. There is arch
Manning a fraud? What if his last name wasn't Manning.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Arch Manning is a fraud. If his last name wasn't Manning,
he wouldn't be starting for Texas right now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He's getting criticized, but nobody's using the word fraud because
his name is Manning.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
But it so applies here. He's more of a fraud
than than Aller is. For sure. If he wasn't Manning,
they would have benched him at this point at halftime
in that Florida game. I bet you he would have
pulled the trigger. Sarkisian. There's gotta be somebody in Texas,
you know, a backup quarterback that's got a lot of talent. There.
There's probably another five star on the bench.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, he ain't getting pulled never.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
No, he won.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The only way he'll ever sit as if they dream
up an injury, and I bet he wouldn't play along
with that because he's a Manning.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
But now we know, right why quin you Weers was
starting all of last year and why there was never
even really a thought to go to arch Art.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Really looks the part like he looks terrific.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In those ads, kind of just like Drew Aller does. Well,
it's my theory, Tom I said last week. The reason
quarterbacks are always good looking is because the coach in
high school or you know, youth football always looks at
the good looking kid and say, yep, he looks like
a quarterback. You don't see many ugly quarterbacks name one
ugly quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Man. That's a good question. I don't know. Is Big
Ben kind of ugly? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
For quarterback, he's good. Look at enough one oh five
ninety X.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
My dad pulled double shifts at the Pittsburgh Mills. My
mom showed me compassion. Dad taught me grit. That's why
I'm dx.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This is totally crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Mark Sanchez got arrested, the ex New York Jets quarterback.
Now he's an analyst for Fox, and he got pinched
in Indie because apparently he got drunk and went after
some old guy, like a guy almost seventy and the
old guy, Pepper, sprayed Sanchez and pulled a knife and
stabbed him.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But Sanchez just kept coming, like you know, the undertaker.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
He sat up and uh, the old guy's still in
the hospital. Sanchez was in critical condition at one point,
but it was apparently one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Self defense by the old guy.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Like I said, no charges against him, but Sanchez is
charged with one felony and a few misdemeanors. That's certainly
going off the deep end. And Sanchez couldn't get prison
where the term butt fumble would take on a whole
new meaning in hockey. Connor McDavid reupt with Edmonton. I'm surprised,
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except the deal makes sense for him. He only signed
a two year extension only twelve point five million year,
which I mean you look at what Kaprazov got paid
seventeen MILI. That's McDavid coming in cheap. So McDavid is
telling the Oilers.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We got to win. You got two years.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I gave you cap space to help like Sid has
done in Pittsburgh. So help me, help you, help me,
help you. And I say two years because with that
short term deal and a total three year commitment and
him clearly thinking about leaving. If if they don't get
over the top will win a Cup, you would have
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to trade him before the third year. They got two
years to win, otherwise they will have to trade him.
We haven't talked much about pro football. Some crazy results
in the NFL, but despite the Ravens getting womped by
Houston at Baltimore forty four to ten, the Ravens are
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still somehow the betting favorites in Vegas to win the
AFC North. They are minus one oh five, the Steelers
are plus one thirty. Cincinnati's plus eleven hundred Cleveland's plus
seventeen hundred, and I got to tell you, besides the Steelers,
the team that looks the best of the rest is Cleveland,
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even though they lost the Minnesota yesterday in that game
at London. They're starting five rookies, including the quarterback now
Dylan Gabriel, and they look like they're improving. The Ravens
and Bengals look like they've given up. Tommy Radio, what
do you think about those odds and what do you
think about the state of the AFC North.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The state of the AFC North is that the Steelers really,
I don't want to say, have no excuse if they
don't win the AFC North, but it's on a silver
platter for them. It would really take another screw up
like last year to mess this up. Although last year,
you know, it was even tighter than it is this year.
They have a better chance this year than last year.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well I mean it, they were ten and three with
a two game lead, but.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
The Ravens had Lamar and looked better than what they
are right now.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Right but in fairness, there's more time for them to
make up ground now than there was then. And I
think the reason the odds are what they are in
Vegas is because of what happened last year, how the
Steelers had a lead and the Ravens overtook them. But
I I just don't sinse that's gonna happen this year
to you.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I don't either. I think that that is what's fueling
that is probably skepticism on the Steelers side of things.
But Lamar's probably gonna get back and play this year.
It's not the offense though, That's the problem with Baltimore.
Like when Lamar was playing, they were lighting it up.
He's like ten touchdown passes on the season so far.
Their defense is the worst in football. They averaged thirty
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five points per game allowed. Mark that's four more points
than the next worst team, the Jets, And that thirty
five is being kind of put down a little bit
because of the seventeen points they allowed against the Browns.
Every other game they've gone up like forty points a game.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
The pregame show brought to us by the personal injury experts.
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and Fisherman. They got your back, not your wallet. How
about Buffalo Washton, New England? Last night, great game to watch,
a lot of drama that kind of upgrades the Steelers
having beaten New England. But I just think it it
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wasn't a great game for Buffalo. I think I think
it does a lot for New England maybe snatching the
wild card. I think it does a lot for Drake
May who had an excellent game. Yes, because when you
get back to the wildcard situation, how many teams are
gonna have a win over Buffalo, which you know, like
I said, that's that's something that that could propel New
England into the postseason.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
With the AFC West the way it is, Denver really
waking up this weekend too, getting a big win at Philadelphia,
and the deservingly they were the better team in the
AFC South looking the way it is, with Houston getting
off the mat and they're two and three now and
they look like they're gonna factor into the wildcard and Jacksonville'
three and one. They play the Chiefs tonight and the
Colts are four and won. The Colts look amazing, Like
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I see a potential for both of those divisions now
to have three playoff teams out of them. I never
dream that could happen. With the South. You don't want
to be in that muddiness of the wildcard race, Jackson.
That's what I mean. Like there, who do they played
tonight the Chiefs, and Jackie beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I bet they beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Would not be surprised to be huge statement. But just
get out of that situation, that muddiness. Just win a division,
get a home game, because that's the best route for you.
I think you said this too, Mark, either now or
you were talking to Tim about it earlier today and
I was listening to it on the podcast. Yeah, they
should be looking at the number one seed now. Oh,
I'll talk about that at length later in today's program.
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Like they probably aren't going to get it. I still
think Buffalo is going to be the number one seed
in the AFC. But they played Buffalo on November thirty.
It could be up for grabs right then and there
at home. And Mark, I know that this team might
not be lasting all the way to the end of
the season fighting for the number one seed. But the
Colts right now are in the driver's seat and you
play them at home too. So when you look at it,
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if you truly believe you are who the Steelers think
they are. You should absolutely be looking at it like
we should be getting the number one.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Set are who they always think they are.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But that's where the trouble starts because they're often deluding themselves.
Buffalo is a better team than Pittsburgh, but you do
play them here. I don't think INDI's necessarily a better
team than Pittsburgh. Although Danny dimes is is lighted up,
he's a potential MVP candidate, I'm not kidding. How about
Tampa beat Seattle. Tampa now four and one. Baker Mayfield
has the numbers of a legit MVP. I don't think
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they'll ever give it to him. But I put a
little bet down on him before the season that I
think it was plus twenty five hundred. I put one
hundred bucks down, and I'll get screwed. He'll get screwed,
but he did. He might end up deserving it. I
think he deserves it right now.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And it's so early, so it changes, like week to
week who the front runner is. But this week I think,
in my mind it's Baker Mayfield four and one record
his only losses against the Eagles. He's lighting it up.
Like you said, I don't know. He is just enough
of a star mark where he might be able to
snag that award, like Daniel Jones has no chance, Like
they're just never gonna give it to Danny Dimes. But
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Baker Mayfield, Oh, I don't think they're ever gonna give
it to Bakery. He's popular, though I think that he's
way over enough to tea I don't get.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't think they look at him and think MVP.
Under almost any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
They can just default to Josh Allen because that's the
other guy that I think, although he probably not well
last night.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Won't beat Lamar this year.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Maybe maybe Baker has a better chance than I'm giving him.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
How about that's doing that was and they stink, I know,
but he's kind of carrying them to relevancy for the
first part of this sea.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I've for years people overrated him and it led to
me underrating him.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
No, seriously, he's pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Good, I know, just in the playoffs he's men.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
How about the Jets are the only winless team and
I thought Aaron Glenn would come from the coordinator spot
at Detroit and bring some of that with them. It
goes to show you how being a hopeless franchise is
in the Jets DNA and it will just never change,
which is hilarious. I feel you know who I feel
bad for, though, Who's the one guy you think I feel.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Bad for fields?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
No, screw him?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Ye him, I don't know who.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It ain't Greenberg, so it's a fan.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Because Joe Nama loves the Jets. He is the Jets
and he has to put.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Up with this. Crow'll never see another g I can
almost hear him crying on Twitter. Is he's still active
on Twitter? He's still out how bad the.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Tweets about no No? He tries to keep a brave face.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He tweets more about Bama though, because he Abama could
not No no right? How about how about this idiot
de Marcado the Arizona running back drop the ball at
the goal, Oh my god, after it would have been
a seventy two yard touchdown run and they lost to Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Who were just asked, how does that happen?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
How?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And it happened last week too, it helped him, But
it happens all.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The time, all the time. I have no idea why
these players think that's they obviously think it's a cool celebration,
right to have that like cool little drop of the
football and then start going nuts. I have no idea
you would have to pry that football out of my
hands with a crowbar if I scored a touchdown. I
don't know how it keeps happening.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, you see, I think the coaches now should require
guys to hand the ball to the referee, not by
way of doing the old school type of thing, but
by making sure you scored the freaking touchdown.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Like we can't trust you guys anymore you keep dropping
the damn ball at the one yard line.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Who was the guy last week? Mitchell on Indy Mitchell,
he did it last week. You know what he was
thinking last night? Thank God for that d Marcado guy.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It happens in college all the time too. I mean
even more so honestly than the pros. But sometimes you
know what happens in like some weird game happening at
like two pm that no one's watching. But still it's
it's an epidemic almost.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know, would never do that, Tom the Pitt quarterback Hinschel.
You know why German efficiency one oh five nine the.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
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Speaker 1 (20:27):
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Speaker 1 (20:40):
I celebrated a national holiday, or at least like it
was a national holiday. A couple of days ago. My
homeowners association where I live jammed aluminum siding for every
home down our throats. It cost me eleven hundred and
seventy two dollars a month for thirteen months. I sent
in the last payment and the siding still looks exactly
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the same. I'm gonna talk later about the Brons playing
a bunch of rookies five, including now Dylan Gabriel quarterback.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
They're getting better.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Meanwhile, the Steelers have ruined Rowan Wilson, Caleb Johnson, and
Broderick Jones. The Pirates fired their pitching coach last week.
They're retaining their hitting coach. Okay, that makes zero sense,
but okay, no, it makes a lot of sense. They're
the Pirates and bad Bunny who got the Super Bowl
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halftime gig. He was on SNL kind of laughing about
much of America not liking it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well, I don't like it. I'm sixty four and white.
What do you expect? I want classic rock.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I've never listened to any station that Bad Bunny would
be played on, not Serious Exam not what would it
be on Whammo locally here? I don't know. Maybe Kiss,
I don't know. And that it's not to say he's
not very good. I'm sure he is. Love him and wrestling.
We'll have to be Happy Gilmore too. But I will
not watch that halftime show, and I don't feel it
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all compelled to in the name of whatever cause you
think that serves, and it really doesn't. Tom, what do
you make a bad Bunny? You a big bad Bunny fan?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I've never really listened to a Bad Bunny song. I'd
assume that some of them play on Kiss because he's
pretty mainstream, so I'd guess that there's at least one
or two in the rotation there. It would be great
if he just was his character from Happy gaim Order
in the halftime show, right, like what if he just
went around to a bunch of tables where people were
sitting at it was like a bread a Rephil Walter.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It would be great if he came out like young
Blood with Arrosmith and just did a led Zeppelin metally
or something like that. He just caved and appealed to
white old America.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bad Bunny's pretty funny though.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He's got very talented some people I know, I've worked
with him when he did his running w B and
good things.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
He said he was a good guy.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, and like and cooperative, like didn't want to impose
like Travis.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Is that a guy too? He was in WW and
he just wanted things his own way.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah. You know, I don't really watch SNL appointment television anymore,
but I see the clips, and he hosted this weekend.
As you mentioned, it was funny. He's got some funny clips,
He's got some good timing, and I think people say
the same thing like working with him, he's actually a
host that wants to do it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And he gets why why you know, people like me.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Aren't thrilled with him as a halftime act without being
bitter and angry.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He approached it with humor as he should.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's not like he was petitioning to do this, or
maybe he was. I don't know, but you know what
I mean, Like, what's he gonna do? Say no? When
the NFL knocks and says Hey, come do the halftime show.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
If only Rush should reform before they appointed bad Bunny
is the halftime act because they've got a female drummer
that should be libb enough.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They put that in there. Yeah, I don't know if
that's why I'd love to see Rush. I'm with you
on the classic rock like I think I've never seen Rush.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh? No, I did.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I did my second concert ever.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
My first concert was Rod Stewart fronting the Faces you know,
with Ronnie Wood got a name, Mama Ronnie would Ronnie Well,
Actually Tetsu was at base by then Ian mcclagh and
Kenny Jones. That to me, it might be the best
rock and roll band ever. But my second concert ever
was Kiss Mack the Hoople and Rush with Rush opening.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I just like there's something about a rock band melting
your face off at halftime of a football game. It
just fits. And it's been too long, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What they think. It's not metallic. It being in San.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Francia, it's a layup and I'm sure they would have
done it. I mean a band like Metallica. That's huge
for them. They'd be number one in streaming for weeks
after it. I mean, it'd be big time, so oh
bad bunny, You'll get a lot of streams.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I'll do.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
That's what I'm saying. It will serve the purpose it
always does. They don't even pay him because of the
streaming that they get and the exposure that they get.
But I'm just saying like a band like Metallica would
jump at that opportunity. I'm sure they wouldn't push back
and be like, oh, I don't know if we want
to play halftime.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know, the last classic rock band to play halftime
was The Who, Like I want to say fifteen years ago, I.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Don't remember it, so it has to be that long
ago Prince played. When did Prince play? That was probably
before the Who? Right, it's not really a rock band
that well. Princess a classic rock to be sure.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Who wrapped up their farewell tour and I didn't catch
any dates on it because I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's their farewell to Does any band really have a
true farewell tour?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And Daltrey's gonna keep working so I can go out
there the singer and I can hear the same songs
with the same voice. And I respect Daltre because he
played the music teacher on that seventy show.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like, I'm trying to think of a band right now
that had a farewell tour and have stayed farewell, like
haven't come back yet. Is there one at the top
of your mind right now that Motley did for like
nine years back. That's a long time. That is a
long time. But now they're back, there isn't That farewell
tour was not a true farewell tour.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Ozzie died, so he's done. And I don't say that flippantly.
That's what it was going to take.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I mean bands that break up right, like the Pink
Floyd's and the led Zeppelins, and they just don't work
together anymore. Like, if you have a farewell tour and
you're on terms where you can do that, you're gonna
be on terms for five, ten years down the road.
You're probably gonna get in touch and say, why don't
we just make a bunch of money again?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I'm sure right, it would be nice to think that
Rush isn't doing this for the money, but come on, oh,
they're doing it. You know what's important that they got
to they got the approval of the Peark family, Like
I saw a bunch of quotes there on board with this,
which I don't think they had to have, but I
think it's good.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
It's a good thing that they did. It's the right
thing to do. But you're right, if Kenny Lee just
decided to do it, just let him do it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, no quote.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, if Gedny Lee, I bet him and Lifson both
owned the name. But if even like look at Foreigner,
one guy owns the name, Mick Jones. He's not even
able to play because of Parkinson's but they're still out
there and I go every time because it's fun.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And it would be fun at halftime of the super Bowl.
It would be in now, Mark, it's a weird time.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'm not sure about Foreigner, but yeah, Metallica.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Why not. It's a weird thing though, Mark that now
it would be something different, right, Like it kind of
became the norm to have a band like that for
so many years. Now it's gotten away from it. It
would be the change up would be to go back
to that classic rock.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
You know, we didn't talk no baseball at all.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm so happy for bed Nry pitched real well, pitched
all three games of the Wild Card and had two
real good game's gotta save in the one game.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But now the Yankees are getting splattered.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, but that's okay because they're getting killed in like
the first and second inning. So Benner has no chance
to even come in factor into this thing.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Do you think you think the Yankees can make a
series of it? Yet?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No chance. The Blue Jays are just bashing their heads in.
They're just better, way better. The ace for the Yankees
pitch yesterday. He gave up like six runs in the
third inning. See the World Series. I think Toronto's gonna
make it. They just hit like crazy, is it? I
like Chalk Brewers Blue Jays. I think the one Seeds
are probably gonna get through. Although the Dodgers man against
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the Dodgers, I hate to say it because I'm rooting
for them. I don't trust the Brewers. Dodgers Blue Jays
kind of sounds right now that I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, I and that'll suck.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But I mean I I don't think anything will be
more intriguing the wild Card roundless this Phillies does.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
If the Phillies can bounce back tonight and make this
a series against the Dodgers, I think it'd be a
great series, but it's a big game tonight. If the
Blake snails on the mound for the Dodgers, if they
go up two oh going back to LA, that'll.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Be a I make it a point to root against
Bryce Harper, great player. Total puss. It's like McDavid. McDavid's
a total sour puss. It is what did you make
in that contract? He clearly is telling them you got
two years or see.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Ye yeah, and positioning himself to do you go.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Like, you have a three year commitment, including the year
remaining on the current deal. You got to trade him
before the third year. If he hasn't reupped, I just
don't think he's gonna reapt barring them winning, Like I'm
not even sure one cup does it? He might see
that is the time to say Cyanura.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I wonder if so, what did Kaprosov make from Minnesota,
like seventeen million? I wonder if like the four and
a half million that McDavid didn't take compared to that,
he like put a note to the GM of Edmonton
for a goalie. Go get me a damn goaltender something
like that, because if they don't spend some of the
money that McDavid availed them to spend to it. Now,
lets you do it to dead at the deadline. I mean,
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like you got to be aggressive at the deadline.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I'd like that, Sid. What do you think of that? McDavid?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Do you except he just wouldn't want to talk about it.
It'd give like a really formula a cancer.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, he's happy for right Team Canada member blah blah
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You know, would be a good way to approach it.
McDavid's doing what you did. He's giving them a chance
to win by providing more cap space.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, but he's still taking like four million more than me,
is what I would say if I was saying, that's
a good point.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
That's Tom offering. But I'm Mark Madden. We got Crystala
Tang on the show today at four pm. That's gonna
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Speaker 3 (29:59):
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Speaker 1 (30:16):
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Speaker 2 (30:28):
The Steelers are off this weekend, so I just got
three observations from week five action in the NFL. Number
three for me, the cults are for real and really
the AFC South in general is just a real problem
when it comes to that wildcard race. The Texans got
off the mat. But Indy's talented, Like I know, Danny
Dimes might be a little smoke and miry right now,
but they have one of the best running backs in football,
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a badass O line, and a really good defense.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know, I give them credit switching away from Richardson,
who was a much baallyhooed draft pick when he just
ain't cutting it.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
He's just so bad. But Jonathan Taylor the straw that
starts the drink for that team. He had like three
touchdowns in that route of the Raiders. He's was he
on a TV show with Tim Allen. You're thinking of
a different tailor. That actually is the kid's name though,
I think now, come to think of it, Jonathan Taylor
Thomas that was his name. Yeah, but Jonathan Tale aged out, correct,
Jonathan Taylor did go somewhere. He's badass for the Colts.
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Number two observation Baker Mayfield. He's for sure a top
ten quarterback right now. Talked about it before MVP. Can
he might even be a top five quarterback right now
in the NFL. I mean you really have to sit
down and think about it. But with the guys that
are hurt, I mean, he's closer to top five than
he is on the outside of the top ten. And
then my number one observation, there's just no truly great
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team in the NFL. No, I don't think they're that great.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I think they had a bad night. I think they're great.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Might they might be the only hope. Actually, I was
thinking the Lions could be a decent hope too. Philadelphia,
I don't know, Mark, I just think that all these
teams are vulnerable.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
There's been with Philadelphia. They're vulnerable because they lost.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
To Philly, to Denver, Denver lost the Yeah, Denver lost
to Denver, beat Philly. But Philly's gonna.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Make the playoffs, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Their style is exactly conducive to playoff football. They are
a great playoff team, and if there's no great football teams,
then that'll probably work, and it has.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I guess I can see what you're saying there. But
I just look at like Baker in the Bucks and
Stafford and the Rams and the Lions as teams that
could no doubt beat the Eagles in a playoff game
this year. But I don't think those teams.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Are the Lions.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
But I think the coach is a meathead. Then again,
he lost his coordinators. He's proven me wrong. What's their record?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Four and one?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
There? Four and one? Yeah, Aaron glenzone five and Ben
Johnson's two and two. Ben Johnson's Okay, I mean, Chicago's
not bad.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I'm really sure that Campbell wasn't the brains of the operation,
though he was the heart.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I don't know. The teams you've mentioned are front runners. Philly,
Buffalo to be great teams, and maybe they will be,
but right now, no one is.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Baltimore had the best roster this season coming in, so
you never know.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I thought they would be the truly elite team this year.
I thought that it was their year, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
We're even saying that after the Bills game in Week
one with the Ravens, like the takeaway there was like, Wow,
the Ravens are really good, even though that was just
a classic game that they ended up losing.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Tom something happened with the Steelers that got me pissed off.
Chris Damski, our buddy from the Trib tweeted that Alex
Highsmith right back running with the first team in practice
after Herbig has played better with him ot than high
Smith has in the in memory.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
And people will point to, well, Heighsmith's better against the run?
Was the run a problem against Minnesota for Nick Herbig.
I don't seem to remember him having a trouble there.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
They just do what they do based on who's been
there longer, who the coach is. Like, it's I don't
care if they're three and one. I don't care if
they finished sixteen in one. It's a badly mismanaged organization.
Nothing will change my mind on that. And I look
at Cleveland's starting five rookies now with Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
They got that running back.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wh's his name, the guy from Ohio State, Judkins. He's
really good and you can see them getting better. They
know that no risk, no biscuit, whereas the Steelers just,
you know, play.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Their same old bland hand from week to week, year
to year.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
They ruin rookies, slow play rookies like I had somebody
come back at me on Twitter said, well they started
a Nagy, Yeah, because they literally had nobody else. It
tells you all you need to know about the Steelers.
Really in this State's back to Cower that Paula Malhu
didn't start his rookie year not right away. They think
that their method is so inscrutable that it takes so
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much time to truly learn it. Meanwhile, it's one of
the simplest, most Neanderthal ways of playing football known to man.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Would you agree that NFL football is where rookies of
all the major sports kind of have the most impact,
Like I know, rookies in hockey and baseball was in
the position the top of the classes can come into
the don't.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Forget rookies in rookies in in football and bat expected
to come right in and play play right away. Baseball
obviously not hockey, very rarely.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
At the top of the food chain. For the McKenna's,
of course they'll come in. But my point is like
in the NFL, like you get a good rookie class,
like three guys that are nailed on starters right away,
it changes your team instantly. You can go from really
bad and really great.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I think every first dround pick should come in and
start otherwise, why was he a first round pick? And
the exception is quarterback because that does take some time,
but not as much time as as a lot of teams.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
UH legisla.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I mean, like, I know he lost against the Saints
this weekend, but very obvious Jackson Dart should have been
starting for the Giants since Week one. He was clearly
their better option at quarterbacks. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
A couple of the usual suspects tweeted that Jackson Darts
showing why the Steelers should have taken him. If he
was here, he wouldn't be playing. He just wouldn't be
brought in Rodgers anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I agree with that they or another veteran and they
would or they would have had Mason play in front
of him and he still would have been playing. I
agree with you on playing rookies. Look at the Patriots
their entire left side of their offensive line.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You're getting better. There's an energy about them.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The only thing that'll keep them from being better than
the Steelers within a couple of years is they they
they lost all those draft picks in the uh Deshaun
Watson deal, first round picks.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
You just need that fresh injection into a lineup like
it rallies everybody, and Caleb Johnson's a perfect one to
do that, like a running a young running back with
fresh legs, with a lot of bursts, like that's when
they're at their best.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Like Judkins was taking ahead of Johnson, albeit early in
the second round because the bron suck.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
But but he looks great and and like.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
A Marion Hampton for the Chargers, looks great.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Why are you?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Why are you playing Warren and Gainwell ahead of Johnson
when neither's ever been a nailed on starter. But before
this year, I think they played seven years combined pro
those two they'd only started well. Gainwell started four games,
war not at all. I mean, what have they proven
that mandates they should be in there ahead of Caleb Johnson,
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especially with Johnson until Warren got hurt. Warren, Caleb got
a couple steps like a series or at the end
of the Minnesota game. But he's been buried on the bench,
and I know he's screwed up on the kickoff. That's
not relevant to his performance as a running back.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
No, he's never done that in his career at Iowa either,
Like you made him do something that was stupid to
break him into the head, Like.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I said, I would have cut him after that mistake,
but they didn't, so they should play him.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
And then with Roman Wilson, he's not even a rookie
and you're burying him in the depth on the bottom
of the depth chart behind bums.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yesquronic and Scotty Miller, they're bums.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
They're journeyman.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
They've been cut so many times as to wonder if
they em bled to death.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
No one even pretends that Scornic. The best thing he
brings to the table is blocking. Like everybody just knows.
He's like an extra blocker out there on wide receiver
screens and in the run game. He can't take a
series or two from the slot. Roman Wilson can't.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Just he there's all you know, Tom, He's this try
hard guy, this blood and guts. But Scornic rhymes with Maronic,
which is which is what playing him is.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
That much And that absolutely what plays out on Sunday
right at Akerscher, Skaronic and Miller out snapping Roman Wilson.
I guarantee it. I feel it.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, with Austin out yes, I would think so yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
And it's so stupid. It should just be Roman Wilson
plug and play all the Austin snaps. Go to Roman Wilson,
see what he's got.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I would love to know what Roman Wilson's done to
bury himself on the.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Depth chart, don't you. We would hear behavioral stuff right,
like people would report on that. I think so, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But since I can come up with no logical reason.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
No one says he's dumb, Like no one's you know,
behind the scenes, is like he's just dumb. He can't
pick up the playbook. It's not like that was dumb.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It wouldn't be a problem. Mike Taylor was dumb and
he he played every snap for how many years?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Could he just stink? Like the other side of this.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
If he just stinks, then they wasted a third If
Caleb Johnson just stinks, they wasted a third round draft pick.
If Roderick Jones just stinks, then why did you trade
up to get him? But they ruined him with all
the position dozy dope.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
That's the thing. It's their fault either way, Like they're
either at fault for not playing these guys they should.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I can say this with absolute certainty. Even though they're
three and one. They are a badly managed organization. Rooney,
Tomlin and con don't have a clue between them. And
if they win the division, great, if they win the
FC North Grade blind squirrel, acorn, et cetera, one oh
five ninety x
Some college football talk because Penn State, they can go
ahead and talk about fire and James Franklin now, well,
not right now, but in the not too distant future,
like at year's end. It's one thing to lose to
the top five teams Ohio State and whoever. But now
you lost arguably the worst team in college football, and
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UCLA had made a coaching change, and that play call
on fourth down, the Reid option fourth and two on
UCLA's nine with a chance to tie it. Wow, that
play call, it was Tomlin esque. And that lost to
a terrible team. It's the first time a top ten
team lost to an owned four team in NCAA football history,
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and that lost very probably eliminated Penn State from any
chance of making the playoffs already. I don't know. Maybe
if they beat Ohio State in Indiana in sicts session,
which for me is the only way Franklin should keep
his job. But even if you went out, ain't nobody
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gonna forget that loss. And Penn State ain't coulda went out.
They're not gonna be Ohio State in Indiana in succession.
So you can legit talk about firing James Franklin at
year's end Penn State all the way out of the
top twenty five, the one in two teams in the
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preseason Texas and Penn State both out of the top
twenty five. Pitt killed Boston College forty eight to seven.
Holstein got benched, so he's gonna go in the portal
after getting a million dollars from Pitt in nil and
this freshman started Mason Heinchel. He did great against a
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one in fourteen. But the Penn thinks are overreacting like
they did for Holstein. Paton Mardoozi said today that that
game was just the kind of game Pitt's been trying
to have. Yeah, because you played a hopeless team, you ask,
That's why that game went like it did. That's why
the freshman quarterback played like he did. In really amusing news,
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North Carolina got battered by Clemson thirty eight to ten.
Bill Belichick should have never come back. Should have never
come back. Between the Bengali young girlfriend and North Carolina
sucks and him failing in New England after Brady left
and New England having cheated to win with spygate and
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the flate gate, there are now a ton of disclaimers
to his success you can look at the six Super Bowls,
but you can say, yeah, but what about Yeah, but
what about Yeah? But what about There's just a lot
of what abouts in Texas. I mentioned then they lost
to Florida Texas three and two. Archmanning through two picks,
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he ate no first round selection, what alone first overall
and he never will be a first round selection, except
he might be anyway because his last name is Manning.
So let's bring in Tommy Radio. Who's a pit fan.
Tom what's your takeaway on the pit win? And this
Heinschel kid a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was just fun to see Pitt actually beat a team,
even though it is the worst team in the ACC.
And Hinchel looked good for an eighteen year old kid.
I mean, the guy was playing high school football in
Ohio last year this time, so it's impressive to see
him go out there and do it. So you're overreacting. No,
I'm not overreacting. Yeah, yeah, I'm overreacting big time. I
like playing this quarterback roulette. It's fun when Heinschel stinks.
Maybe we should just throw in another quarterback and see
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what we get with him.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, I think a small part at least his success
is like BC had no film on whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
They didn't announce it until like Saturday morning at ten
am that he was starting.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
If they would have announced it like Monday, what were
they gonna watch the high school tape?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The high school tapes? But but yeah, it's a win.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But everybody overreacted Holstein last year, and I'll be blunt, Tom,
I just don't trust anything good that happens with Pitt football. Now,
Pitt is that Florida State next Saturday. I know Florida
State lost to Miami on Saturday night, but Miami's real good.
Florida State was right number eighteen and is still right
number twenty five. If Pitt wins that game, then maybe
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they're onto something.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah maybe until Nardoozy gets in the way of the
progress that this kid's making. Like that's the thing Mark
that I truly walked away with the game from. Obviously,
this kid has talent, not incredible talent, because he would
be somewhere other than Pitt if he was that good
coming out of high school. But he's got talent. How
does Pitt develop it? Though? Like, how do you have
any faith that Nardoozi's gonna see this guy through? Keep
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him here and make sure he gets the most out
of that. There's no chance that happens.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Heischel, that's a German name. I like it now better
or not. What happened with Penn State at UCLA. I
watched the second half because I heard what was going on.
And it's not like Ucla was great. Penn State sucked
on both sides of the ball. I heard the Franklin
sound that we're gonna play later and he talked about
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Ucla seizing momentum. Well, you gave it to him, dipstick,
and you came out flat and unprepared.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The onside kick was hilarious. You said you tuned in
the second half, so I don't know if you saw that.
Maybe highlights of it, though I did. Just hilarious to
see them do that little pooch kick. Penn State fall
asleep there, and yeah, they did seize momentum, and that's
the kind of stuff you have to do if you're
a massive underdog like that to win a game like that.
But there's just no excuse for Penn State to lose it.
The only thing I figure UCLA had going for them
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was their quarterback Nico Almliva, who transferred from Tennessee. Was
a really good quarterback for them last year and had
a big nil dispute with Tennessee. Tried to hold out
for more money and Tennessee told him to kick rock,
so he went to UCLA. He's awesome, like he was
projected to go to the NFL. I don't know where
he is now, but he torched Pen State, I mean,
especially on the ground. They had no answer for him.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is Drew Aller of fraud at quarterback for Penn State.
His numbers weren't terrible and he didn't throw a pick,
but he's not a match winner. That said, I have
predicted he'll be a better pro than he is a
collegiate quarterback.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And I don't know why I'm saying that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Maybe because he'll presumably get better coach unless he comes
to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think he's going to be a fine backup in
the NFL. I think he's it. I think he's good
enough to be in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Boy Between Archsmanning and Drew Aller, this quarterback thick draft
in twenty twenty six is falling apart.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It looks terrible right now. Aler looks like the central
casting guy right like you would put him in a
movie to play a starting quarterback, like he looks the
part big pocket presence, or at least it seems that
he has that. There's just something about him that's missing,
though he doesn't. I don't know if it's like that,
just that killer instinct, or I don't know what it is.
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I can't describe it. He just kind of looks meant
in these big moments, in these big games. There's no
excuse he should have let his team lose to zero
to four. Though.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Should Franklin's job be in jeopardy immediately, because I don't
think so. It very rarely does any good to fire
coach midseason, although UCLA did just that and beat Penn State.
But I still think he can save his job by
winning out. But I think that's the only way. Then again,
I don't know what Penn State's thinking.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't know what Penn State's thinking either, And if
they win out, I guess they sneak into the Big
Ten championship game. Although winning out for them they'd beat
Ohio State, they have two Big Ten losses, so that's
not a guarantee that they'd get in over Ohio State.
And then there's an Oregon. That's in your way too, Like,
if they don't get to the Big Ten championship game,
even if they win out in the regular season, I
think they're in serious jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If they went out in the regular season, I think
they'll get one of the final seeds in the playoff
simply because they will have beaten Ohio State in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But that ain't gonna happen. So why are we even
talking about it, especially the Ohio State part of that equation.
There's just no chance that they're gonna beat them. And
Indiana is a better team than Penn State this year.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, Tom, wherever Joe Paturno is, they're making him
watch tape of that game over and over and over.
Is Bill Belichick ruining his rep which seemed impossible to do,
But this at North Carolina, it's an utter disaster.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's a clown show. He is ruining his rep. And
there was a report this morning, Mark someone noticed last
night Drake may lighting up Sunday at football right killing
the Bills. North Carolina's not tweeting about it at all,
And some guy's like, that's curious. He's a high profile
kid who graduated from left from North Carolina first round pick.
He's a stud in the NFL. So they did some digging.
Apparently he found out that Belichick has a mandate within
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the organization. Don't tweet about anything related to the Patriots,
don't tweet about any players Patriots stuff. I don't want
to see it. And then two hours later they tweeted
out some token highlight about Drake May After all this
noise was made like the North Carolina's athletic department did. So.
He's just way over controlling and it's just a bad
look and embarrassing at every turn. These stories just keep
popping up like this one. It's bad.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, Belichick's infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me.
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Next thing, you know, he'll be not sitting behind the
press during games and sitting in a luxury. Oh wait,
that's Kyle Dubis. I got mixed up. There is arch
Manning a fraud? What if his last name wasn't Manning.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Arch Manning is a fraud. If his last name wasn't Manning,
he wouldn't be starting for Texas right now.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
He's getting criticized, but nobody's using the word fraud because
his name is Manning.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
But it so applies here. He's more of a fraud
than than Aller is. For sure. If he wasn't Manning,
they would have benched him at this point at halftime
in that Florida game. I bet you he would have
pulled the trigger. Sarkisian. There's gotta be somebody in Texas,
you know, a backup quarterback that's got a lot of talent. There.
There's probably another five star on the bench.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, he ain't getting pulled never.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
No, he won.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
The only way he'll ever sit as if they dream
up an injury, and I bet he wouldn't play along
with that because he's a Manning.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
But now we know, right why quin you Weers was
starting all of last year and why there was never
even really a thought to go to arch Art.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Really looks the part like he looks terrific.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In those ads, kind of just like Drew Aller does. Well,
it's my theory, Tom I said last week. The reason
quarterbacks are always good looking is because the coach in
high school or you know, youth football always looks at
the good looking kid and say, yep, he looks like
a quarterback. You don't see many ugly quarterbacks name one
ugly quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Man. That's a good question. I don't know. Is Big
Ben kind of ugly? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
For quarterback, he's good. Look at enough one oh five
ninety X.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
My dad pulled double shifts at the Pittsburgh Mills. My
mom showed me compassion. Dad taught me grit. That's why
I'm dx.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This is totally crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Mark Sanchez got arrested, the ex New York Jets quarterback.
Now he's an analyst for Fox, and he got pinched
in Indie because apparently he got drunk and went after
some old guy, like a guy almost seventy and the
old guy, Pepper, sprayed Sanchez and pulled a knife and
stabbed him.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But Sanchez just kept coming, like you know, the undertaker.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
He sat up and uh, the old guy's still in
the hospital. Sanchez was in critical condition at one point,
but it was apparently one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Self defense by the old guy.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Like I said, no charges against him, but Sanchez is
charged with one felony and a few misdemeanors. That's certainly
going off the deep end. And Sanchez couldn't get prison
where the term butt fumble would take on a whole
new meaning in hockey. Connor McDavid reupt with Edmonton. I'm surprised,
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except the deal makes sense for him. He only signed
a two year extension only twelve point five million year,
which I mean you look at what Kaprazov got paid
seventeen MILI. That's McDavid coming in cheap. So McDavid is
telling the Oilers.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We got to win. You got two years.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I gave you cap space to help like Sid has
done in Pittsburgh. So help me, help you, help me,
help you. And I say two years because with that
short term deal and a total three year commitment and
him clearly thinking about leaving. If if they don't get
over the top will win a Cup, you would have
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to trade him before the third year. They got two
years to win, otherwise they will have to trade him.
We haven't talked much about pro football. Some crazy results
in the NFL, but despite the Ravens getting womped by
Houston at Baltimore forty four to ten, the Ravens are
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still somehow the betting favorites in Vegas to win the
AFC North. They are minus one oh five, the Steelers
are plus one thirty. Cincinnati's plus eleven hundred Cleveland's plus
seventeen hundred, and I got to tell you, besides the Steelers,
the team that looks the best of the rest is Cleveland,
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even though they lost the Minnesota yesterday in that game
at London. They're starting five rookies, including the quarterback now
Dylan Gabriel, and they look like they're improving. The Ravens
and Bengals look like they've given up. Tommy Radio, what
do you think about those odds and what do you
think about the state of the AFC North.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The state of the AFC North is that the Steelers really,
I don't want to say, have no excuse if they
don't win the AFC North, but it's on a silver
platter for them. It would really take another screw up
like last year to mess this up. Although last year,
you know, it was even tighter than it is this year.
They have a better chance this year than last year.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well I mean it, they were ten and three with
a two game lead, but.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
The Ravens had Lamar and looked better than what they
are right now.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Right but in fairness, there's more time for them to
make up ground now than there was then. And I
think the reason the odds are what they are in
Vegas is because of what happened last year, how the
Steelers had a lead and the Ravens overtook them. But
I I just don't sinse that's gonna happen this year
to you.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I don't either. I think that that is what's fueling
that is probably skepticism on the Steelers side of things.
But Lamar's probably gonna get back and play this year.
It's not the offense though, That's the problem with Baltimore.
Like when Lamar was playing, they were lighting it up.
He's like ten touchdown passes on the season so far.
Their defense is the worst in football. They averaged thirty
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five points per game allowed. Mark that's four more points
than the next worst team, the Jets, And that thirty
five is being kind of put down a little bit
because of the seventeen points they allowed against the Browns.
Every other game they've gone up like forty points a game.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
The pregame show brought to us by the personal injury experts.
They could probably help Lamar sue somebody. Shander Rovias, Shandrorovich
and Fisherman. They got your back, not your wallet. How
about Buffalo Washton, New England? Last night, great game to watch,
a lot of drama that kind of upgrades the Steelers
having beaten New England. But I just think it it
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wasn't a great game for Buffalo. I think I think
it does a lot for New England maybe snatching the
wild card. I think it does a lot for Drake
May who had an excellent game. Yes, because when you
get back to the wildcard situation, how many teams are
gonna have a win over Buffalo, which you know, like
I said, that's that's something that that could propel New
England into the postseason.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
With the AFC West the way it is, Denver really
waking up this weekend too, getting a big win at Philadelphia,
and the deservingly they were the better team in the
AFC South looking the way it is, with Houston getting
off the mat and they're two and three now and
they look like they're gonna factor into the wildcard and Jacksonville'
three and one. They play the Chiefs tonight and the
Colts are four and won. The Colts look amazing, Like
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I see a potential for both of those divisions now
to have three playoff teams out of them. I never
dream that could happen. With the South. You don't want
to be in that muddiness of the wildcard race, Jackson.
That's what I mean. Like there, who do they played
tonight the Chiefs, and Jackie beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I bet they beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Would not be surprised to be huge statement. But just
get out of that situation, that muddiness. Just win a division,
get a home game, because that's the best route for you.
I think you said this too, Mark, either now or
you were talking to Tim about it earlier today and
I was listening to it on the podcast. Yeah, they
should be looking at the number one seed now. Oh,
I'll talk about that at length later in today's program.
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Like they probably aren't going to get it. I still
think Buffalo is going to be the number one seed
in the AFC. But they played Buffalo on November thirty.
It could be up for grabs right then and there
at home. And Mark, I know that this team might
not be lasting all the way to the end of
the season fighting for the number one seed. But the
Colts right now are in the driver's seat and you
play them at home too. So when you look at it,
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if you truly believe you are who the Steelers think
they are. You should absolutely be looking at it like
we should be getting the number one.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Set are who they always think they are.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But that's where the trouble starts because they're often deluding themselves.
Buffalo is a better team than Pittsburgh, but you do
play them here. I don't think INDI's necessarily a better
team than Pittsburgh. Although Danny dimes is is lighted up,
he's a potential MVP candidate, I'm not kidding. How about
Tampa beat Seattle. Tampa now four and one. Baker Mayfield
has the numbers of a legit MVP. I don't think
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they'll ever give it to him. But I put a
little bet down on him before the season that I
think it was plus twenty five hundred. I put one
hundred bucks down, and I'll get screwed. He'll get screwed,
but he did. He might end up deserving it. I
think he deserves it right now.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And it's so early, so it changes, like week to
week who the front runner is. But this week I think,
in my mind it's Baker Mayfield four and one record
his only losses against the Eagles. He's lighting it up.
Like you said, I don't know. He is just enough
of a star mark where he might be able to
snag that award, like Daniel Jones has no chance, Like
they're just never gonna give it to Danny Dimes. But
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Baker Mayfield, Oh, I don't think they're ever gonna give
it to Bakery. He's popular, though I think that he's
way over enough to tea I don't get.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't think they look at him and think MVP.
Under almost any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
They can just default to Josh Allen because that's the
other guy that I think, although he probably not well
last night.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Won't beat Lamar this year.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Maybe maybe Baker has a better chance than I'm giving him.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
How about that's doing that was and they stink, I know,
but he's kind of carrying them to relevancy for the
first part of this sea.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I've for years people overrated him and it led to
me underrating him.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
No, seriously, he's pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Good, I know, just in the playoffs he's men.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
How about the Jets are the only winless team and
I thought Aaron Glenn would come from the coordinator spot
at Detroit and bring some of that with them. It
goes to show you how being a hopeless franchise is
in the Jets DNA and it will just never change,
which is hilarious. I feel you know who I feel
bad for, though, Who's the one guy you think I feel.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Bad for fields?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
No, screw him?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Ye him, I don't know who.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It ain't Greenberg, so it's a fan.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Because Joe Nama loves the Jets. He is the Jets
and he has to put.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Up with this. Crow'll never see another g I can
almost hear him crying on Twitter. Is he's still active
on Twitter? He's still out how bad the.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Tweets about no No? He tries to keep a brave face.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
He tweets more about Bama though, because he Abama could
not No no right? How about how about this idiot
de Marcado the Arizona running back drop the ball at
the goal, Oh my god, after it would have been
a seventy two yard touchdown run and they lost to Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Who were just asked, how does that happen?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
How?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And it happened last week too, it helped him, But
it happens all.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The time, all the time. I have no idea why
these players think that's they obviously think it's a cool celebration,
right to have that like cool little drop of the
football and then start going nuts. I have no idea
you would have to pry that football out of my
hands with a crowbar if I scored a touchdown. I
don't know how it keeps happening.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, you see, I think the coaches now should require
guys to hand the ball to the referee, not by
way of doing the old school type of thing, but
by making sure you scored the freaking touchdown.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Like we can't trust you guys anymore you keep dropping
the damn ball at the one yard line.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Who was the guy last week? Mitchell on Indy Mitchell,
he did it last week. You know what he was
thinking last night? Thank God for that d Marcado guy.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It happens in college all the time too. I mean
even more so honestly than the pros. But sometimes you
know what happens in like some weird game happening at
like two pm that no one's watching. But still it's
it's an epidemic almost.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know, would never do that, Tom the Pitt quarterback Hinschel.
You know why German efficiency one oh five nine the.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
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Speaker 1 (20:27):
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Speaker 2 (20:29):
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Speaker 1 (20:40):
I celebrated a national holiday, or at least like it
was a national holiday. A couple of days ago. My
homeowners association where I live jammed aluminum siding for every
home down our throats. It cost me eleven hundred and
seventy two dollars a month for thirteen months. I sent
in the last payment and the siding still looks exactly
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the same. I'm gonna talk later about the Brons playing
a bunch of rookies five, including now Dylan Gabriel quarterback.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
They're getting better.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Meanwhile, the Steelers have ruined Rowan Wilson, Caleb Johnson, and
Broderick Jones. The Pirates fired their pitching coach last week.
They're retaining their hitting coach. Okay, that makes zero sense,
but okay, no, it makes a lot of sense. They're
the Pirates and bad Bunny who got the Super Bowl
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halftime gig. He was on SNL kind of laughing about
much of America not liking it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well, I don't like it. I'm sixty four and white.
What do you expect? I want classic rock.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I've never listened to any station that Bad Bunny would
be played on, not Serious Exam not what would it
be on Whammo locally here? I don't know. Maybe Kiss,
I don't know. And that it's not to say he's
not very good. I'm sure he is. Love him and wrestling.
We'll have to be Happy Gilmore too. But I will
not watch that halftime show, and I don't feel it
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all compelled to in the name of whatever cause you
think that serves, and it really doesn't. Tom, what do
you make a bad Bunny? You a big bad Bunny fan?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I've never really listened to a Bad Bunny song. I'd
assume that some of them play on Kiss because he's
pretty mainstream, so I'd guess that there's at least one
or two in the rotation there. It would be great
if he just was his character from Happy gaim Order
in the halftime show, right, like what if he just
went around to a bunch of tables where people were
sitting at it was like a bread a Rephil Walter.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It would be great if he came out like young
Blood with Arrosmith and just did a led Zeppelin metally
or something like that. He just caved and appealed to
white old America.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bad Bunny's pretty funny though.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He's got very talented some people I know, I've worked
with him when he did his running w B and
good things.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
He said he was a good guy.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, and like and cooperative, like didn't want to impose
like Travis.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Is that a guy too? He was in WW and
he just wanted things his own way.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah. You know, I don't really watch SNL appointment television anymore,
but I see the clips, and he hosted this weekend.
As you mentioned, it was funny. He's got some funny clips,
He's got some good timing, and I think people say
the same thing like working with him, he's actually a
host that wants to do it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And he gets why why you know, people like me.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Aren't thrilled with him as a halftime act without being
bitter and angry.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He approached it with humor as he should.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's not like he was petitioning to do this, or
maybe he was. I don't know, but you know what
I mean, Like, what's he gonna do? Say no? When
the NFL knocks and says Hey, come do the halftime show.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
If only Rush should reform before they appointed bad Bunny
is the halftime act because they've got a female drummer
that should be libb enough.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
They put that in there. Yeah, I don't know if
that's why I'd love to see Rush. I'm with you
on the classic rock like I think I've never seen Rush.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh? No, I did.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I did my second concert ever.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
My first concert was Rod Stewart fronting the Faces you know,
with Ronnie Wood got a name, Mama Ronnie would Ronnie Well,
Actually Tetsu was at base by then Ian mcclagh and
Kenny Jones. That to me, it might be the best
rock and roll band ever. But my second concert ever
was Kiss Mack the Hoople and Rush with Rush opening.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I just like there's something about a rock band melting
your face off at halftime of a football game. It
just fits. And it's been too long, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What they think. It's not metallic. It being in San.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Francia, it's a layup and I'm sure they would have
done it. I mean a band like Metallica. That's huge
for them. They'd be number one in streaming for weeks
after it. I mean, it'd be big time, so oh
bad bunny, You'll get a lot of streams.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I'll do.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
That's what I'm saying. It will serve the purpose it
always does. They don't even pay him because of the
streaming that they get and the exposure that they get.
But I'm just saying like a band like Metallica would
jump at that opportunity. I'm sure they wouldn't push back
and be like, oh, I don't know if we want
to play halftime.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know, the last classic rock band to play halftime
was The Who, Like I want to say fifteen years ago, I.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Don't remember it, so it has to be that long
ago Prince played. When did Prince play? That was probably
before the Who? Right, it's not really a rock band
that well. Princess a classic rock to be sure.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Who wrapped up their farewell tour and I didn't catch
any dates on it because I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's their farewell to Does any band really have a
true farewell tour?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And Daltrey's gonna keep working so I can go out
there the singer and I can hear the same songs
with the same voice. And I respect Daltre because he
played the music teacher on that seventy show.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like, I'm trying to think of a band right now
that had a farewell tour and have stayed farewell, like
haven't come back yet. Is there one at the top
of your mind right now that Motley did for like
nine years back. That's a long time. That is a
long time. But now they're back, there isn't That farewell
tour was not a true farewell tour.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Ozzie died, so he's done. And I don't say that flippantly.
That's what it was going to take.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I mean bands that break up right, like the Pink
Floyd's and the led Zeppelins, and they just don't work
together anymore. Like, if you have a farewell tour and
you're on terms where you can do that, you're gonna
be on terms for five, ten years down the road.
You're probably gonna get in touch and say, why don't
we just make a bunch of money again?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I'm sure right, it would be nice to think that
Rush isn't doing this for the money, but come on, oh,
they're doing it. You know what's important that they got
to they got the approval of the Peark family, Like
I saw a bunch of quotes there on board with this,
which I don't think they had to have, but I
think it's good.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
It's a good thing that they did. It's the right
thing to do. But you're right, if Kenny Lee just
decided to do it, just let him do it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, no quote.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, if Gedny Lee, I bet him and Lifson both
owned the name. But if even like look at Foreigner,
one guy owns the name, Mick Jones. He's not even
able to play because of Parkinson's but they're still out
there and I go every time because it's fun.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
And it would be fun at halftime of the super Bowl.
It would be in now, Mark, it's a weird time.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'm not sure about Foreigner, but yeah, Metallica.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Why not. It's a weird thing though, Mark that now
it would be something different, right, Like it kind of
became the norm to have a band like that for
so many years. Now it's gotten away from it. It
would be the change up would be to go back
to that classic rock.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
You know, we didn't talk no baseball at all.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm so happy for bed Nry pitched real well, pitched
all three games of the Wild Card and had two
real good game's gotta save in the one game.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But now the Yankees are getting splattered.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, but that's okay because they're getting killed in like
the first and second inning. So Benner has no chance
to even come in factor into this thing.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Do you think you think the Yankees can make a
series of it? Yet?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No chance. The Blue Jays are just bashing their heads in.
They're just better, way better. The ace for the Yankees
pitch yesterday. He gave up like six runs in the
third inning. See the World Series. I think Toronto's gonna
make it. They just hit like crazy, is it? I
like Chalk Brewers Blue Jays. I think the one Seeds
are probably gonna get through. Although the Dodgers man against
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the Dodgers, I hate to say it because I'm rooting
for them. I don't trust the Brewers. Dodgers Blue Jays
kind of sounds right now that I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, I and that'll suck.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But I mean I I don't think anything will be
more intriguing the wild Card roundless this Phillies does.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
If the Phillies can bounce back tonight and make this
a series against the Dodgers, I think it'd be a
great series, but it's a big game tonight. If the
Blake snails on the mound for the Dodgers, if they
go up two oh going back to LA, that'll.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Be a I make it a point to root against
Bryce Harper, great player. Total puss. It's like McDavid. McDavid's
a total sour puss. It is what did you make
in that contract? He clearly is telling them you got
two years or see.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Ye yeah, and positioning himself to do you go.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Like, you have a three year commitment, including the year
remaining on the current deal. You got to trade him
before the third year. If he hasn't reupped, I just
don't think he's gonna reapt barring them winning, Like I'm
not even sure one cup does it? He might see
that is the time to say Cyanura.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I wonder if so, what did Kaprosov make from Minnesota,
like seventeen million? I wonder if like the four and
a half million that McDavid didn't take compared to that,
he like put a note to the GM of Edmonton
for a goalie. Go get me a damn goaltender something
like that, because if they don't spend some of the
money that McDavid availed them to spend to it. Now,
lets you do it to dead at the deadline. I mean,
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like you got to be aggressive at the deadline.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I'd like that, Sid. What do you think of that? McDavid?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Do you except he just wouldn't want to talk about it.
It'd give like a really formula a cancer.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, he's happy for right Team Canada member blah blah
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You know, would be a good way to approach it.
McDavid's doing what you did. He's giving them a chance
to win by providing more cap space.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, but he's still taking like four million more than me,
is what I would say if I was saying, that's
a good point.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
That's Tom offering. But I'm Mark Madden. We got Crystala
Tang on the show today at four pm. That's gonna
be a lot of fun. And don't forget you can
come watch the game with me. The Penguins opener at
Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Creighton. That's right at the brewery.
But they got a great sports bar, biggest big screen
TV you'll ever see. Of course, I see I see
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light even that mango stuff, and it's gonna be great.
Got a lot of giveaways, a Penguin jersey, a Team
USA jersey. I'll have my fire shirts, so don't miss it.
That's my watch party for the Penguins opener at the Rangers.
Puck drops at eight pm. The fun starts at seven pm.
Come in and register to win all the stuff I mentioned,
But I find you get good feedback if you just say.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Register to win.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
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Speaker 2 (30:07):
Gotta be another nice day, mostly sunny, a high of
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Speaker 1 (30:16):
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Speaker 2 (30:28):
The Steelers are off this weekend, so I just got
three observations from week five action in the NFL. Number
three for me, the cults are for real and really
the AFC South in general is just a real problem
when it comes to that wildcard race. The Texans got
off the mat. But Indy's talented, Like I know, Danny
Dimes might be a little smoke and miry right now,
but they have one of the best running backs in football,
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a badass O line, and a really good defense.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know, I give them credit switching away from Richardson,
who was a much baallyhooed draft pick when he just
ain't cutting it.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
He's just so bad. But Jonathan Taylor the straw that
starts the drink for that team. He had like three
touchdowns in that route of the Raiders. He's was he
on a TV show with Tim Allen. You're thinking of
a different tailor. That actually is the kid's name though,
I think now, come to think of it, Jonathan Taylor
Thomas that was his name. Yeah, but Jonathan Tale aged out, correct,
Jonathan Taylor did go somewhere. He's badass for the Colts.
(31:19):
Number two observation Baker Mayfield. He's for sure a top
ten quarterback right now. Talked about it before MVP. Can
he might even be a top five quarterback right now
in the NFL. I mean you really have to sit
down and think about it. But with the guys that
are hurt, I mean, he's closer to top five than
he is on the outside of the top ten. And
then my number one observation, there's just no truly great
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team in the NFL. No, I don't think they're that great.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I think they had a bad night. I think they're great.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Might they might be the only hope. Actually, I was
thinking the Lions could be a decent hope too. Philadelphia,
I don't know, Mark, I just think that all these
teams are vulnerable.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
There's been with Philadelphia. They're vulnerable because they lost.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
To Philly, to Denver, Denver lost the Yeah, Denver lost
to Denver, beat Philly. But Philly's gonna.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Make the playoffs, right, Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Their style is exactly conducive to playoff football. They are
a great playoff team, and if there's no great football teams,
then that'll probably work, and it has.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I guess I can see what you're saying there. But
I just look at like Baker in the Bucks and
Stafford and the Rams and the Lions as teams that
could no doubt beat the Eagles in a playoff game
this year. But I don't think those teams.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Are the Lions.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
But I think the coach is a meathead. Then again,
he lost his coordinators. He's proven me wrong. What's their record?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Four and one?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
There? Four and one? Yeah, Aaron glenzone five and Ben
Johnson's two and two. Ben Johnson's Okay, I mean, Chicago's
not bad.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I'm really sure that Campbell wasn't the brains of the operation,
though he was the heart.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I don't know. The teams you've mentioned are front runners. Philly,
Buffalo to be great teams, and maybe they will be,
but right now, no one is.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Baltimore had the best roster this season coming in, so
you never know.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I thought they would be the truly elite team this year.
I thought that it was their year, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
We're even saying that after the Bills game in Week
one with the Ravens, like the takeaway there was like, Wow,
the Ravens are really good, even though that was just
a classic game that they ended up losing.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Tom something happened with the Steelers that got me pissed off.
Chris Damski, our buddy from the Trib tweeted that Alex
Highsmith right back running with the first team in practice
after Herbig has played better with him ot than high
Smith has in the in memory.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
And people will point to, well, Heighsmith's better against the run?
Was the run a problem against Minnesota for Nick Herbig.
I don't seem to remember him having a trouble there.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
They just do what they do based on who's been
there longer, who the coach is. Like, it's I don't
care if they're three and one. I don't care if
they finished sixteen in one. It's a badly mismanaged organization.
Nothing will change my mind on that. And I look
at Cleveland's starting five rookies now with Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
They got that running back.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wh's his name, the guy from Ohio State, Judkins. He's
really good and you can see them getting better. They
know that no risk, no biscuit, whereas the Steelers just,
you know, play.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Their same old bland hand from week to week, year
to year.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
They ruin rookies, slow play rookies like I had somebody
come back at me on Twitter said, well they started
a Nagy, Yeah, because they literally had nobody else. It
tells you all you need to know about the Steelers.
Really in this State's back to Cower that Paula Malhu
didn't start his rookie year not right away. They think
that their method is so inscrutable that it takes so
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much time to truly learn it. Meanwhile, it's one of
the simplest, most Neanderthal ways of playing football known to man.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Would you agree that NFL football is where rookies of
all the major sports kind of have the most impact,
Like I know, rookies in hockey and baseball was in
the position the top of the classes can come into
the don't.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Forget rookies in rookies in in football and bat expected
to come right in and play play right away. Baseball
obviously not hockey, very rarely.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
At the top of the food chain. For the McKenna's,
of course they'll come in. But my point is like
in the NFL, like you get a good rookie class,
like three guys that are nailed on starters right away,
it changes your team instantly. You can go from really
bad and really great.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I think every first dround pick should come in and
start otherwise, why was he a first round pick? And
the exception is quarterback because that does take some time,
but not as much time as as a lot of teams.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
UH legisla.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I mean, like, I know he lost against the Saints
this weekend, but very obvious Jackson Dart should have been
starting for the Giants since Week one. He was clearly
their better option at quarterbacks. Well.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
A couple of the usual suspects tweeted that Jackson Darts
showing why the Steelers should have taken him. If he
was here, he wouldn't be playing. He just wouldn't be
brought in Rodgers anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
I agree with that they or another veteran and they
would or they would have had Mason play in front
of him and he still would have been playing. I
agree with you on playing rookies. Look at the Patriots
their entire left side of their offensive line.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You're getting better. There's an energy about them.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The only thing that'll keep them from being better than
the Steelers within a couple of years is they they
they lost all those draft picks in the uh Deshaun
Watson deal, first round picks.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
You just need that fresh injection into a lineup like
it rallies everybody, and Caleb Johnson's a perfect one to
do that, like a running a young running back with
fresh legs, with a lot of bursts, like that's when
they're at their best.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Like Judkins was taking ahead of Johnson, albeit early in
the second round because the bron suck.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
But but he looks great and and like.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
A Marion Hampton for the Chargers, looks great.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Why are you?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Why are you playing Warren and Gainwell ahead of Johnson
when neither's ever been a nailed on starter. But before
this year, I think they played seven years combined pro
those two they'd only started well. Gainwell started four games,
war not at all. I mean, what have they proven
that mandates they should be in there ahead of Caleb Johnson,
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especially with Johnson until Warren got hurt. Warren, Caleb got
a couple steps like a series or at the end
of the Minnesota game. But he's been buried on the bench,
and I know he's screwed up on the kickoff. That's
not relevant to his performance as a running back.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
No, he's never done that in his career at Iowa either,
Like you made him do something that was stupid to
break him into the head, Like.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I said, I would have cut him after that mistake,
but they didn't, so they should play him.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
And then with Roman Wilson, he's not even a rookie
and you're burying him in the depth on the bottom
of the depth chart behind bums.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yesquronic and Scotty Miller, they're bums.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
They're journeyman.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
They've been cut so many times as to wonder if
they em bled to death.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
No one even pretends that Scornic. The best thing he
brings to the table is blocking. Like everybody just knows.
He's like an extra blocker out there on wide receiver
screens and in the run game. He can't take a
series or two from the slot. Roman Wilson can't.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Just he there's all you know, Tom, He's this try
hard guy, this blood and guts. But Scornic rhymes with Maronic,
which is which is what playing him is.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
That much And that absolutely what plays out on Sunday
right at Akerscher, Skaronic and Miller out snapping Roman Wilson.
I guarantee it. I feel it.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, with Austin out yes, I would think so yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
And it's so stupid. It should just be Roman Wilson
plug and play all the Austin snaps. Go to Roman Wilson,
see what he's got.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I would love to know what Roman Wilson's done to
bury himself on the.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Depth chart, don't you. We would hear behavioral stuff right,
like people would report on that. I think so, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But since I can come up with no logical reason.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
No one says he's dumb, Like no one's you know,
behind the scenes, is like he's just dumb. He can't
pick up the playbook. It's not like that was dumb.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It wouldn't be a problem. Mike Taylor was dumb and
he he played every snap for how many years?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Could he just stink? Like the other side of this.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
If he just stinks, then they wasted a third If
Caleb Johnson just stinks, they wasted a third round draft pick.
If Roderick Jones just stinks, then why did you trade
up to get him? But they ruined him with all
the position dozy dope.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
That's the thing. It's their fault either way, Like they're
either at fault for not playing these guys they should.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I can say this with absolute certainty. Even though they're
three and one. They are a badly managed organization. Rooney,
Tomlin and con don't have a clue between them. And
if they win the division, great, if they win the
FC North Grade blind squirrel, acorn, et cetera, one oh
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