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December 8, 2025 41 mins

Covino & Rich invent a “December to remember!” They talk dad life/Zootopia 2, hibachi, Portnoy/Raiders, UFC & ask who’s first to retire, LeBron or Kelce? Plus, MNF & Rich schedule watches with 3 big games!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich podcast.
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just saw a stat that said, uh, Jim Harball, Yeah,

(00:24):
seven and two all time on Monday Night football. So yo,
Eagles wown be scared Eagles Chargers tonight both eight and four.
We'll talk about it. We're broadcasting live from the Fox
Sports Radio studio. We are Covino and Rich. Dude, Yes
we are. And by the way, what's it gonna take
for that stadium to be filled with both Chargers fans?
Because you know, tonight you're gonna watch Monday Night football

(00:47):
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All right, you had a great weekend. Let's have a

(01:09):
great week Hey, Rich I was thinking of this. I
thought it was a cool catchphrase. Let's make it a
December to remember when you came up with that. Yeah,
that's awesome, but yeah, I like that. So over the weekend,
let me give you three quick things and we're gonna
wrap up all the things that made you go. Trip's
got a great segue into the next conversation. It has
to do with bad beats and gambling. But Hank tight
trip our number one pal is that questionable play call

(01:32):
at the Raiders game. Hi, goodness, I saw that. So question,
do you want me to have three things? Something about
Dan Bayer, something about Booty and some of that live
in the dad life? What do you want to do?
You peak your water. I wanted to talk Henry s Hudo,
but you shut that down last hour. So it's all good.
We can talk about talk about your dad life if
you want, talk about your Nike Monarchs all day, if
you want, I wear Nike Monarchs, I just talk about it.

(01:54):
I just want to let you know things that make
you go hmm. Is it only about football? Like you said,
Zutopia two fantastic. If you need a movie to watch
with the kids, sure that takes No one watched it,
no one who dollars for this movie? Utopia too. But

(02:14):
you tell me about Henry so Hudo a billion f
and dollars. I wasn't gonna say just that. I was
gonna tell you that there was some good fights over
the weekend. Hey, some good UFC bout take a good box.
Take your kid to go see Zootobia too. Both. Take
your kids Utopia too. It's fantastic. Take it to the zode.
So good Utopia. I'm sure. My thing about dam Bayer, Yeah,

(02:36):
I went out with one of the other dads from
baseball and his kid and a couple of our families
went out for himbachi, and it made me realize tepan
Yaki right, made me realize that it's got to happen soon, dB,
in the next month. I know you're a busy guy,
your dad, you're a professional. You gotta tell your wife
we're dragging you out. Honestly, bring your wife. Dan Bayer
has never been to Teppanyaki's got to watch the kid.

(02:56):
That's why I said, but bring the kid. You want
him to thirty forty something years. I'm going about it.
I want Dan to appreciate the volcano. Y volcano with
that is, I would appreciate it too. Wants to get
together and maybe cuss a little around. Always a guys,
no kissing ass. But you know what, I went, and

(03:19):
I realized that while it is overpriced, well when you
get like I got the scallops and steak and it's
like fifty sixty bucks, it's overpriced. The kids men, the
sandwich at the airport's overpriced. Stop, you know, I get it.
But what I'm saying is if you need a fun
night out, I really do think like Hibachi again, Ari Rang?
What's the other ones called give me the like theo

(03:40):
your motto? The one by us is something Benny Hannah.
The one by us is called Threeishy Ari Rang. Yeah.
So it's just honestly always fantastic. And I thought of
Damn Buyer because Dan's never been. We told you we
should make it a win a Dan Byer experience, like
one lucky winner gets to go to Hibachi with all
of us, and then we watched Rocky afterwards, because he's

(04:00):
never seen Rocky Rocky three in Rocky four all right,
so Rocky and Hibachi sounds like a perfect date.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
And my last thought was absolutely Jackson Dart. We've already
talked about how we love how this kid plays. He's
a fun young stud in the NFL I mel Gibson haircut, reckless, yes,
fun when he butts heads with the camp scataboo. Yes.
But I thought there was something else even cooler about him.

(04:28):
I'm like, man, this guy's relentless with the booty. But
apparently it's not true. Alex Earl hot Influencer and she
was on Dancer with the Stars, hot blondie. Who is
with Braxton Barrios former? Is he playing? That? Is Burrios
even playing? I don't know. Yeah, he's like one of
those is he on a roster? But Braxon Burrios I

(04:50):
remember as a Jet right, he was a Jet for
a second. Super cool, handsome dude. But they broke up,
and the rumor was that Jackson Dart immediate at least
slid into her DMS And I was like, she denied it. Though, yeah,
she denied it. I was like, yeah, that's a boy.
But apparently and she who denied it supplied it. So yeah,
she's saying that's not true. It with fake screenshots. But

(05:12):
there was the rumor that Jackson Dart got word of
this and immediately was like, yo, you single now. She
alluded to the fact too, though, that even if it
were true, she wouldn't tell anybody, so she keeps it
big and discreets. Yeah. So I wouldn't blame him one bit.
He's a young quarterback in the NFL for the New
York Football Giants. You don't think he's trying to kick

(05:33):
it to every hot chick out there on ig or whoever,
a prominent figure. Absolutely why he was to say, why
shouldn't I was gonna say no crime in that, not
to you know, not to sound eye rolly, but who
should get any if that's the type of girl he wants?
If who should get the hot Instagram girl, the hot model,

(05:55):
I don't know, maybe like the cool young quarterback of
a football team in the NFL. So I just thought
it was I thought it was wild, the Jackson Dart.
It's not true, but would have been cool. I think
Kelsey reminded everybody even though these guys aren't hurting when
it comes to bank accounts and ass options, they don't
get stock options they get ass off. I heard that, Yeah,
but I think it did remind some people to shoot
their shot wherever. I think when when whensh Allen Kelsey Kelsey,

(06:22):
When Kelsey did that interview with Taylor and she tells
the story about how he kicked it, I'll be honest,
that was the most endearing they've been together. Yeah, it's
kind of where like he was he didn't even think
he had to ask security, So like, yeah, I want
to meet her, but this is my girlfriend is friends
with a lot of ig models and hot chicks like that.

(06:43):
And when they start boozing and schmoozing in my presence,
let's say the girls aren't my house or something. Oh
here is that when you walk out of the shower
and drop your towel, I'm like, oh, sorry, I didn't
know anyone was here. No, but there's some you know,
prominent girls friends like you hear them slid into my
ms exactly in their big time names, and I'm like,

(07:05):
no way, let me tell you, this isn't that guy
in a relationship. When we worked part of it, when
we worked at ESPN, we worked with a couple really
talented and beautiful female sports broadcasters and they were talking
a list. Oh no, but celebrity. When we were at ESPN,
I remember a couple of the talented beautiful women we

(07:26):
worked with. They're like, yeah, he split in my DMS.
He slit of idms, he slip of idms. So if
you don't think these players are shooting their shot, yo,
I promise you probably like a part time job. You know,
as much as they put in as far as gameplay
and studying and getting ready in film, it's scrolling and
dming and copying and pasteing their little opening line to

(07:48):
every hot chick they see, especially if they're single. Dude,
you'll want to come to my game, girl, copy paste
a matter of let's see who takes the bait. It's
casting a wide net, got a casting all right. Let's uh,
let's wrap up our things that made you go with
maybe one of the most questionable things of the weekend
trip in Vegas. Since you are a Vegas guy, trip
and our good pal. And by the way, can you

(08:10):
give us the quick breakdown of the Vegas gambling effect
that this Raiders call had.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, so I'm sitting at the game, man, I'm literally
at the game. So fourth down and four they run
this crazy play, just give up the ball. So now
the Raiders have it. Of course, the line is seven
and a half and forty and a half. The score
at this point is twenty four to ten. Twenty excuse me,

(08:39):
they they kick the field goal. There was twenty four
to fourteen. It didn't matter. Yeah, it's three points, so
it's a ten point. So they run a play, run
and play. Of course, Kenny picks in, run to spike
the ball and then kick spike it. With one second left,
they kick a.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Field goale goal with what like was it three seconds
or something? The biggest last player and yeah, trip, wasn't
there a penalty because the guy was like leaning on
the guy that they gave him like the downright defensive Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
But here's another thing that happened in the Cleveland game.
Think about this. The score was twenty four to ten,
and with you know, in the last few minutes, Cleveland
hunted from the raiders twenty nine yard line instead of
kicking a field goal. And the total in that game
was thirty six and a half.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
So everybody go ahead veins dude. Nah, But but but
he's saying, is that even though even even though you're
up a couple of scores, you would traditionally still go
for a field goal from the twenty nine, So that
was peculiar. And then in the Raiders and I'm never
the guy that's a conspiracy and I'm still not, but
but that talk today is that should be investigating because
it was two suspects. The Raiders going for a meaningless

(09:49):
field goal affected you know, the point spread and the
over hunt. Like it wasn't like like it was a
double bad beat. If you had like a parlay, it affected.
And that was the game in Vegas. Yo, I was Sam,
So give a little fishy, give the things fishy. Did
you have the Portnoy rant or as a two X
rated we we we do not have an edited version

(10:12):
of that. Yeah, take a chance, I'm kidding. Yeah, I
didn't see it, so give me like Portnoy is just
one point. At one point, he was uh saying, I
think he was in he was gonna go, uh beat
up Pete Carroll. I think he said he was gonna
go murder him. But no, he's saying it was the
worst criminal. They should be in prison. Beat But you
were sitting pretty it didn't seem like that was gonna happen,
and they went for it anyway. It almost felt like

(10:35):
one of those situations where we've all been there where
you're hoping for something to happen and you're like, my
team just got the ball back and they're winning and
there's fifty seconds left, no one's gonna score point, and
then somehow something wild happens. That happened. It was there.
There was probably someone on the winning end of that

(10:55):
that was crying, and then you know, think about for
everyone that loses, someone else went. I can play the
very very end of this where he calls for jail
time for Pete Carroll Carroll, and that's it. I let
me tell you, Chris, I love Portnoy's passion. I'm a
big barstool fan, and I thought that short of going

(11:18):
to kill Pete Carroll, I think everything he said was
had some validity to it. It's very, very strange, very strange.
Do you be any thoughts on this? I knew you
were monitoring all the games yesterday.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
We put it up on Fox Sports Radio Twitter page
as well. I did about three minutes with Carrie Rhodes,
and I think that Pete Carroll did it to make
sure all the Broncos fans in attendance did not hit
their bets.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's why there.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Were you could see tons of orange in Allegiant Stadium
yesterday and the Broncos were covering and in the end
they didn't. They had just as much reason to throw
up a Hail Mary at that point.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
So genuinely, the international fans that love a good field goal,
they're going to prove Trump raw.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think it was his only win.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
You think it was You think it was to upset
Broncos fans in a weird way.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, because I'm sure he said that a bunch of
Broncos fans probably made the trip came. I mean it was.
There were orange everywhere in the standing. Maybe not like
in LA, but it stands out. It was significant. They
were winning by ten.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
There is a sentiment Dan's right, there's a sentiment that
when you go to a game, I bet you the
stats after the show that if you are a fan
that goes to travel to a game, you also maybe
bet a couple bucks on your team. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Absolutely, that's why I think that he did it. Yeah,
I agree, That's why I think he did it to
stick it to at least the Broncos fans that were
in attendance. He may not beat the Broncos, but you
can at least stick it to their fans.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, I respect that. How wild was that? Well? Thank
you dB and thank you Tris. Thanks for the call.
Appreciate all the phone calls eight seven, seven ninety nine
on fix any of the final thoughts. I mean things
that made you go hmmm, other other than the only
thing that made me go hm. In a fight world

(13:07):
Duallas Shwilly beat Yon in UFC in a five round
battle for the main event bantamweight event. But in the
world of boxing, that's where I was tuned in most.
I just think there's an overuse of the term robbery.
And I've said it here, but I say it when
I mean it. I really don't use or abuse that word, right.

(13:28):
There's a lot of overused terms in sports and social
media just to get your attention. Robbery, man, outrage and
all these buzz terms. I think the referees got it
right for once. It was a draw. It's just you know,
that's not a sexy thing. But the Lamont Roach and
Pitt Bull Cruise fight was a draw. Lamont Roach went

(13:51):
down for the first time in his career pit bull
Cruise sucked the last half of the fight, so it
was a draw. But if you read social media and
you didn't watch the right robbery man Lamart Roach got
robbed because it was his second draw. He got robbed
against Tank Davis. I agree, but that was also a
close fight. If it's a close fight, you can't say

(14:11):
you were robbed. Like both things count each other out,
they don't go together. You can't say it was a
close fight, but I was robbed. It's a close fight,
then there's no robbery. It could go either way. That
means a lot of swing rounds. It was a clear
drawf you watched the fights over the week. I in UFC,
Like I said, congrats to Triple C Henry su Whooda
on his retirement. We're gonna talk about retirement, not necessarily him,

(14:35):
but we have a question about retirement next. Can I
give you my observation about some fight stuff, not UFC,
not boxing over the week, but not every decision is
a robbery, Rich I just want to make now. Of course,
I would say my biggest takeaway not UFC, not actual boxing.
Two non related stories Number one Jake Paul and Anthony

(14:58):
Joshua was two weeks away, less than two weeks away,
and Anthony Joshua is saying he is going to destroy
Jake Paul and anything less will he'll be disappointed in himself.
And he actually I think he quoted Drago. He's like,
I will destroy him. So, Anthony Joshua, If so, if
you're one of those people that hate Jake Paul in
the spectacle, I hate to say it, maybe you watch.

(15:19):
But if Jake Paul could look good and the loss
he still wins, No one expects this guy to Maybe
maybe you watch with the intent of Jake Paul getting
knocked on his asster. Well, my goodness, what if somehow
Jake Paul hangs. And the other thought I had in
the world of boxing was someone on TikTok and Instagram
you sent me this. And when I say you sent me,
a fifty other people sent this to me too. Yeah.

(15:40):
There's a really cool viral video that's gone out today. Yeah,
it's it's from someone called The Storm. I believe d E.
S T O R M The Storm on social media.
Have you guys seen It's a It's a couple of
bros hanging playing Mike Tyson's punch Out and some guy goes, man,
it'll be cool if Mac had a backstory. It flashes

(16:01):
to like an AI yet cool video of what a
movie would be like if let's say Lil Mack was
a dude down on his luck, his girlfriend just had
a baby, and he was trying to battle, and they
make a storyline of Mike Tyson's punch Out and he
goes through the ranks class Joe von Keiser, the whole deal,
and they do a great job of creating CGI versions

(16:25):
of the fighters you know from punch Out. And I've
seen this done before, but not to this degree, not
this level. It was really well done, so if you
haven't seen it yet, I didn't click on it at
first because the thumbnail should be punch Out, but the
thumbnail is just a dude's singer out with video game controllers.
It's an AI I guess, fake trailer of what the
Little Mac punch Out story would be. As he climbs

(16:47):
the ranks and finally gets to Mike Tyson, it's a
little Max down on his luck. He has a kid
with his wife and he's just trying to fight out
of poverty, and he finally gets that title shot, and
it's kind of cool to see because then Mike Tyson
rolls up. By the way, isn't it when you watch that?
You gotta be honest, weren't you thinking of yourself like
I would watch this. I would totally watch that. That's

(17:08):
why we're talking about it right now. Said, it's a
next level AI teaser trailer of a movie that I
don't know. Maybe maybe it inspires the actual movie to
be made. Then then hold on, how do you feel
about this? Is an interesting thought? You know what? I'll
put it on our ig story right now at Covino
and Rich so you could play along at home and
see it at nothing worth the watch at Covino and

(17:29):
Rich Video producer spot. You don't have to play it
on the video, but if there's like a screenshot you
could show. We're streaming on YouTube, YouTube dot com slash
at Covino and Rich FSR. I bring it up because
I mentioned z Utopia and how it made. Zootopia two
has made almost a billion dollars worldwide. We're cool with animation.

(17:51):
We don't want AI taking our jobs. How do you
feel about AI in that scenario? Are you okay? If
they made an AI movie. Was that crossing because because
you know what I'm saying, like, you're okay with animation.
We don't want we don't want Ai to take jobs,

(18:11):
but we'd both really want to see this. So what's
your thought? You know what I'm saying, Like, what have
already been there? What do you think Pixar did? You
don't think that eliminated the actual artist? You know what
I'm saying, Like, so I would say that computers have
been taking jobs as far as animated movies, it's sort
of an I don't want to say it's animated, but
I don't know what you would call. That's what it's ais,

(18:34):
you know what I'm saying. So it's like it's a
weird in between because animation we accept we don't want
Ai to take jobs. But I think that's because you
could say, like, well, what can't you just cast some
guys done Flamenco And it's like, yeah, you can't cast
that King Hippo. You know it's it's really worth the
watch and butterbeans and old guy, so, uh, check it out.
We'll post it at Cobino and Rich at Steve and

(18:55):
Scotty's playing a little Uh the video of it in
the background on our YouTube page. Right now, there's Little
Mac with his girlfriend. They're having a baby. They're down
on their luck, and he goes to the docs boxing gym. Yeah,
and there he is Doc with his red zip up
training Little Mac and he, you know, goes through everything.

(19:17):
It's pretty cool again at covid and Rich will put
a clip on our Instagram story so he can play along.
All right, now, coming up, we're gonna we're gonna give
you some prizes. We're gonna pick some people that are
actually playing along on the YouTube chat. And there's talk
about possible retirement for two superstars, one in the NFL,
one in the NBA, which is more likely to happen.

(19:40):
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Also on the page, you know we've I'm sorry, we've
had the playoff situation with that seventh wildcard for a
handful of years. Now, your quick temperature, when you take

(23:38):
a temperature of NFL fans, just the one team getting
the buy? You like that or did you like the
old school days where like two teams got the buy?
I feel like one team that's like it's like an
awfully grand reward. But I don't even know what do
you think? dB? I would say, I'm just left you
with your mic off, and he went.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
I was waving to him as he was walking. I
was like this, Christmas cookies, who's squint in time? I
like the old way.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, it's nothing cool about the two elite teams in
each conference had to buy and then it sort of
led to maybe them reaching the championship together.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Because I think that I don't even know if a
buy is in advantage or not. But I think I
think that ultimately it is. But it may just be
those teams are just better than everyone else. But I
like the two team by I did.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, well, now we got the wildcard Monday. Just more football,
I suppose, and no one's gonna argue more football.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Imagine it being a nine to four team would be
out of the playoffs right now. If it was only
the six team, right, yeah, it'd be crazy.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's insane. So I mean, I think when the teams
that make the postseason are all like good winning teams,
I'm okay with it. When and you know what, the
NFL has been lucky there. There's no like bunk teams
that are the seventh seeds. Usually the seven seed is
a team that's better than one of the division winners.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
So absolutely that's what the Buccaneers and Panthers in the
NFC South like.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Man, Yeah, that's the next step, right uh yep. Receding
all right, Covino on Rich Now you had a hypothetical
Cavino had to do with retirement. Yeah, I mean, I'm
gonna throw some wrenches because that's what I do. I
throw wrenches. Who are you on patches a hold hand.
That's why I am just to even this up a

(25:26):
little bit, because I think there's an obvious answer, But
I'm gonna give you a little caveat, little wrench in
air to make it a little more fair. Now, the
reason I kept bringing up Triple C Henry Sujudo, who's
been nothing but kind to us, Triple Cringe, a multi
champion in the UFC and a gold medal winner. Let
me just give you his credentials real quick, rich and

(25:46):
you're right, he was always very kind to me. So
fourth fighter ever to hold two titles simultaneously, Olympic gold medalist,
UFC Bantamweight Champ, UFC Flyweight Champ, holds wins over Demetrius
Johnson Cruz Dyla shaw stellar career came to an end
this weekend, as he said to Dana White, and just
by the look of his face, he got his ass

(26:07):
kicked in his last fight with Talbot. So he fought
bantam Waite over the weekend UFC three twenty three, and
he lost the last few of his fights pretty bad.
So he's done right. He should have never took time off,
he retired, came back, was never the same fighter because
father times on the feet. Isn't that what fighters do?
They said they could retire and then they hope he
gets them a little more money, and then they go

(26:28):
they come back. But you know what, he already did
his thing, except that his comeback. He just didn't have
that gas anymore. I guess I got to him. I
feel like there's more fake retirements in boxing and UFC
than acting in wrestling. Remember back in the day, there
will always be like retirements and fake retirements. No, it's true.
So congrats on a sweet career in the UFC. Yeah,
faught those locals wherever, Henry Sujudo. But based on that thought,

(26:51):
there's two other superstars in football and basketball that are
toying round with the retirement idea. Let's talk football first,
because Steven A went on this rant today saying, I
think Kelsey is gonna retire after this season, no big stretch,
because I believe it too. I was surprised came back

(27:12):
this season and now they're what six seven and they're
out of it? What more to play for? The guy's
done it all. You think he's gonna come back for
like the rebuilding of a Chiefs organization. The guy's on
his way out. No one wants to be a detriment
to their team either, and I'm not saying he is.
But if they're gonna look younger and build, and Mahomes

(27:33):
needs some good receivers, young receivers, I don't know if
Kelsey's in the mix. His priorities are different. He already
has a career in broadcasting. He has a bride to be,
you know, like the future is bright for him elsewhere.
Hit me with option number two. So Kelsey against steven
A talking about it today and it's gone viral. Then
the other one is Lebron, but hear me out because

(27:55):
people are saying he's got like one more year left Lebron.
It's season twenty three. That's his magic number, right, twenty
third season. Let's say, and I would never wish this
upon anybody, but I think teams like OKAC would be
in their way, right, I mean the twenty three and one. Okay, see,
But let's say, let's say, and I would never wish

(28:16):
this rich, I would never ever wish this, but this
is sports. Let's say someone on OKASE gets hurt. Not
wishing it on anybody, I'm knocking wood in fact, right,
that opens up the lane even more for a Lakers
team who's hot, they're playing good. They got young, they
got veterans, they got old, they got everything. Can't disagree, right,
Let's say the Lakers win and it's his twenty third

(28:38):
season magic number, last win, last Hurran. You don't think
he retires. My question is who's more likely to retire
a la sajudo style after this season, Kelsey or Lebron
if they wins. I think Lebron's gonna still play one
more year. I think the answer is obvious. Kelsey, no,
oh really, what for sure? And Elex, maybe it's not

(29:02):
as obvious as like, maybe we don't need that wrench
of Lakers winning. Then I think Lebron's proven it all, okay.
And if there's no path to a championship and there's
teams that are in his way, like you said, the
Lakers are a top I would say three to five
team in the NBA. The Lakers look good. It's fun
to watch the Lakers. Dude Reeves putting up crazy numbers.

(29:24):
They're comparing him to stat wise, to Kobe Bryant, now
saying they've already used the word superstar to describe Austin
Reeves exactly. They've already sort of moved past Lebron being
the centerpiece. That's Luca now, but a major piece still,
you know, Austin Reeves, and they may go after another
big star if Lebron were to walk away. I think
Travis Kelcey, I look at it this way. You know,

(29:45):
when you have a lot in the future. I know
recently you were like in your mind, you're like, dude,
I got my daughter's streets extremes and I got through.
And when you have all these things on the horizon, right,
you try to cram things in and you don't. My
point is this, He's he married June thirteenth. They made
the announcement him and Taylor Swift June thirteenth. He's got

(30:05):
a top twenty five podcast thirteen. You're her little lucky
number symbolics. So they're getting married, and then I bet
you within a year, because you know they're at the
age they have every resource possible, they're gonna have a kid.
And I bet you that he runs it back one
more time after the career he's had. I don't think

(30:26):
you go out the one time you don't make the playoffs.
I feel like it's like it's like like tom Brady
wouldn't want to go away. Remember tom Brady the last
interception he threw the Patriots, And you're not gonna go
out like that. I think he's not in Cypress Hill.
He's on the Chiefs. I'm not going out like that.
We ain't going out like that. Who are going out?

(30:47):
I think that that gives him more reason to be
like it's over, like this run is over. He has
a very bright post football career, but it's almost like
once you stop, you're never going to go back, right,
So if he has any desire to play one more time,
where I think Lebron could with all good conscience. I
played with my son. I've won on three different teams.

(31:11):
It's a good question. Your thoughts at eight, seven, seven,
nine nine on Fox, Well, you and I I thought
it was obvious, and you and I completely disagree. I
think if anyone's going to retire, it's Kelsey, and I
think Lebron's got like one year because when you he
announced it, already looking at taking in that farewell tour,
I'm looking at it from another angle. I'm you're saying,
who's gonna retire? I'm saying who may who would want
to run it back more? And I think Lebron doesn't

(31:33):
need to. Kelsey would not want to go out like this.
Dan Byer, what say you? And let's get an update? Man,
what's up.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
I'm not breaking a tie, but I am siding with Cavino.
I think Kelsey, I think it's at the end of
the rope. Yes, And I think that Lebron, even with
the Lakers success this season, which has mostly been without him,
that he wants that farewell tour that Cavino mentioned. And
I still think that there's an opportunity he would go
and play elsewhere next year to try to do it

(32:01):
on his own turn.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, with Lebron, don't you think if it was his end,
we would know it? I think so so, Yes, I
don't know. That's my take. Your thoughts A seven to
seven ninety nine on Fox will take your phone calls.
But dB, what's up? Yeah, guys?

Speaker 3 (32:13):
A couple of things winning on the Heisman Trophy finalists.
More news from college football as the ACC has responded
to Notre Dame Ads Bavaqua's comments that he made earlier
today on The Dan Patrick Show. Bavaqua called the relationship
now between the ACC and Notre Dame as permanently damaged.
Jim Phillips, the ACC Commissioner, released a statement saying, when

(32:34):
it comes to football, we have a responsibility to support
and advocate for all seventeen of our football playing member institutions,
and that he stands behind the conference's efforts to do
just that leading up to the Committee selections on Sunday,
Notre Dame not happy with the ACC network playing Miami's
win over Notre Dame. Also social media pushes as well,

(32:55):
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(33:16):
dot com. Colts quarterback Daniel Jones gonna miss the rest
of the season with the torn achilles. Kevin Stefanski says
shud Or Sanders will be the Brown starter for the
rest of the year. Bengals put wide receiver T Higgins
inconcussion protocol. Also defensive Entrey Hendrickson out with core muscle surgery,
and the team released wide receiver Jermaine Burton. Commanders tight
end Zach Ertz done for the season with the torn ACL.

(33:38):
The NFL flexed Week sixteens matchup between the Patriots and
Ravens to Sunday night football. Dolphins and Bengals will move
till one o'clock Eastern and tonight it's the Eagles and Chargers.
Chargers running back O Marion Hampton has been activated. He
will play tonight against Philly.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Guys. Back to you, all right, dB, Now, it wouldn't
be like Cavino on Rich if we didn't look ahead.
So a little schedule watching next as we can continue
to talk about the NFL. We're getting into Week fifteen
in a few days. I know we're still wrapping up
Monday and their football tonight, but I have a couple
things I want to get to for next week. And
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He's like, hey man, I got a sore throat today.
I'm not feeling my best today, so we hope he

(34:45):
gets some rest. He'll be back soon. Eight seven, seven
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and Rich FSR and Hey, tis the season to give
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I'm the Jerry Rice of receiving. I would love as
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(35:05):
us at Covino and Rich FSR and checked our bonus
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(35:25):
which is on our YouTube page where we're streaming live
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it's it's free. Do it, have fun with it. And
you know, interestingly enough, as twenty twenty five comes to
an end and you start seeing all these lists and
recaps and all this nonsense, I listen. We talked a

(35:48):
lot about it, so I can't speak out of both
sides of my mouth, but the whole Bill Belichick in
UNC is pretty uneventful. They're like stunk and like there
was no real impact. Man, that was a weak story. Yo,
would you agree that minus his girlfriend it would have
been the weakest non story. Like Jordan Hudson's the only
thing that like made that interesting at all. It was

(36:09):
like Torpedo Bats. It was like the biggest story and
then sort of fizzled. Maybe later this week we talked
about seen our's biggest fizzles, and I think Torbo Torpedo
bats and Bill Belichick at UNC definitely on the list.
Anti climax. All right, Well, you know what ioa, Samuel.
You know I love to schedule watch and there are three.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Games, so Rich loves to look at the schedule, game.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Schedule watch it three games. I didn't want to analyze ITT,
but I just want everyone to know that after we
wrap up tonight, which is a great game. I know
Bo's got his Eagles hats on, like you said to
eight and fourteen, he got his Eagles at the Chargers.
Hell yeah, there's you know, something at stake for the Eagles,
but we wrap up fourteen. Man, I say more so

(36:51):
for the Chargers because it's a very crowded AFC playoff picture,
a very crowded AFC playoff picture, So I think the
Chargers shouldn't need this more than the Eagles. The Eagles
A I don't see the Eagles getting that one seed.
And we said with Dan Byer before now that there's
only one team that gets a bye. The reality is

(37:12):
that if you're not the one seed, is there much
difference than being the two, three or four? If it
doesn't really matter? Right, that's second home game, I guess,
but more at stake for the Chargers because they're not
in you know, with all these with the Texans and
teams like that lurking for those wildcards. I would think
Chargers need this, and they have a winning record at home,

(37:32):
so but I think that's in their favor. We'll see, well,
I mean, I think once we look towards next week,
there's again every week now, we keep talking about it's
like playoff football before the playoffs, because there's games that
are just determining where teams are at, and some teams
are you know, are sort of seeing their hopes and
dreams go or you're seeing team's peak. And there's three

(37:54):
games that we could break down further into the week
as the week goes on. As we enter week fifteen,
week or so before Christmas, Sunday's early set of games
has the Bills at Patriots, and if the Patriots Cavino

(38:14):
beat the Bills, that's that's to me. It's like, how
can you do anything but say, well, the Patriots are
like a legitimate contender. I think it's the Tommy DeVito effect,
maybe pretty solid since he's been on the team. Listen,
the Patriots snuck by the Bills earlier in the season
in Buffalo. We were and we remember, we were all like, Wow,

(38:35):
the Patriots are for real. They're for real. The questioned
the Bills though, so many teams that are for real
that we're so hesitant to say are for real. And
this is the week. I think this is the week
officially where we're like, yeah, the Patriots are for real.
But is this where is this where the Bills say
the Bickers are for real? Yeah, the Seahawks are for real?
Is this, though, where the Bills say, I slow down there,
young Buck Drake May and everything everything the Patriots are

(38:59):
doing right you well, still a moment's at the Patriots.
That's a big one. M dude. I think the Patriots
got that game. I mean that's first since thin I'll
think about it. How about two teams that are fighting
for the number one seed and two teams that we
got to take serious? You mentioned Jordan Love Packers are
playing at Mile High Packers versus the Broncos. How do

(39:22):
you not circle that game and say that's that's an
interesting one right. By the way, I just saw a
cool stat about the Broncos. I would go Broncos on
that one too. But the Broncos have a chance to
be the AFC West champions. They'll be the first team
them are the Chargers? Right? Oh? Yeah, there's gonna be
new AFC West champ first time since twenty sixteen. Man,

(39:45):
it's been Kansas City ever since. And that's why we
said that's the biggest story of the weekend. It's like
sort of the end of one of the greatest runs
we've seen. And as the run, is the run totally
done or is it revamped? Connection that's a whole other question.
We mean, we can't answer you. You know, you still
have Andy Re and Patrick Mahomes sod as long as
you have those two guys, like, I feel like you
have the two of the most important pieces the team
looks for, right, all right? And the third game to

(40:08):
circle and look forward to Rams are hosting the Lions.
And as a forty nine Ers fan, I'm so torn
on this. And Bo, you're an Eagles guy, but I
know you also pull for the Rams. It's an interesting
one for that. As a Niners fan, you would think
I would want the Rams to lose, but the forty
nine Ers aren't guaranteed the playoff spot, So if the

(40:30):
Lions lose, then I could almost promise you the Niners
are then likely in the playoffs because and the Rams
are looking ahead to the Thursday game again in Seattle too,
So that's a that's an interesting game. So there is
a part of me that's like, ooh, like interesting, who
do I want to win that game? Right?

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Like?

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Who do you think wins? Yeah? That's stats Lions Beta
hot Cowboys. You know, are they going to keep that
momentum going with the Rams that win? They're good at home?
Who can? Who? By the way, happens to be the
one current NFL player I think we've had on the
show the most. Yeah, is such a stud man. Watch
it his intensity after that second touchdown, flexing like what
a great dude for the record as well, So hey,

(41:07):
watch of great football. Looking forward for next week, but
enjoy your Monday night football tonight and check out that
Tyson Little Mac video we talked about at Covino and
Rich Perfect. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Until then, are
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