January 13, 2026 • 42 mins
C&R react to an embarrassing ending for Aaron Rodgers! Or will Rodgers return? They talk sad endings in sports & entertainment. Plus, Rich teases a 'Wife Swap' topic that has to do with Mike Tomlin being out in Pittsburgh!
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
Die. Let's rock out into this Taco Tuesday. I hope
your night was better than Aaron Rodgers night. Hope your
day's going better than his. And congrats to the Texans man.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
What a wallop.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
As I said earlier to you, Rich, it was a
really close game until it wasn't. It's like the wheels
fell off and it got really ugly in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You're like, feel like, what the hell happened? I feel
like in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Not to sound gross, but if you dipped away to
take a little bathroom break and you're sitting there a
little long, you were doing the ball scroll, you might
have came back to a completely different game. Yeah, way,
this is this is close, man, give a seven to six,
all right, ten to six?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
They were a touchdown, they win it, and then you.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Blink your eyes thirty six, you know, go read your
kid a bedtime.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Story, go back to the living room, and it's thirty
to six.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
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all agree that Sheldon Rankins, well, that dude picked up
the ball randomly. It was just like I'm gonna run
for a touchdown. I thought that was awesome. That's that's
the big guy, the big dude.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Any time a big boys chugging.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Out of respect.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I just looked up his name because I was going
to say, remember when the.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Big fella, because everyone knows what big fella.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sheldon Rankins, And he got love after the game in
the post game as well.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I gotta s he's a big man.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And because in that moment when Rogers got popped and
his helmet looked like it mangled his head in slow motion.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That looked brutal.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
When that ball goes to the ground, you assume big
dudes are gonna fall on the ball. That guy just
reach his hand down like, well there's the ball. Well
it's a risk to move. You're taught to fall on
the ball. Yeah, but he did not, and it worked
out went down favor. Yeah, he saw an opening, went
for it. That's a huge drill for a big fellow
like that. So yeah, it was a really close game.
(03:28):
It seemed like, tell your boy Danny G.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
CJ.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Stroud was was giving them the game, keeping them minute.
You got to give props to their defense. Texans defense
continues to carry them and that's why they're the hottest
team in the NFL ten in a row now, right,
So man, you really got to take them serious moving
forward because they turned it around. You thought it was close,
but it really really was it. When he stepped out.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
You could tell that the Steelers offense was gassed there.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
At the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was so embarrassing at them. I'm though, you know,
offensive line specialist. You know, I'm not a Kyle Shanahan
of sorts, but I mean that offensive line for Pittsburgh
was either collapsing or the running backs were taking weird angles.
I feel like every running attempt, you know, when Aaron Rodgers,
(04:16):
you know, every offensive pocket was collapsing on Rogers, there
wasn't a lot he could do.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Go.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What I'm saying is we all know that even if
the running game's not working, you have to run the
ball once in a while just to keep the defense
on their toes. Like you can't just say we're abandoning
the run. But even on those runs where you're like
maybe we'll get to and it'll be second and eight,
it's second and eleven or second and twelve. Like the
running back was hitting the backfield every time, every time.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And I'm gonna call this the.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Rich loses in Vegas all the time theoryty theory.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I need to work.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I know we got to talk about Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers,
but I just thought of this, So let me kick
it with this thought. Can't get when we're in Vegas.
What happened the other day? We're in Vegas for I
to talk.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
About that on the radio. Nothing happened? Oh? Or did it?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm kidding?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So I think I put up.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Uh you know a couple couple bucks. I play roulette.
It's a terrible choice of game. I love it because
I love to play, like my kid's birthday is my
favorite player's jersey numbers. And once in a blue moon
you throw ten bucks on Red sixteen and you're like
three hundred and sixty bucks. But then most of the
time I just blow one hundred dollars in five minutes.
So I'm playing Roulette and I come in. I look
(05:29):
up at the board. There's been about fifteen reds in
a row. And then I'm like, what did Wesley Snipes
always teach?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
You?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Always been on black? Right there? I go, see you
got some black friends, now, didn't you? Didn't you?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I said, you know what it's been like, Red has hit.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
A million times.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You gotta you gotta bet on black because it's bound
to happen. And there's two things in the playoffs that
I think we're gonna watch it happen and unfurl an
unfold Divisional Weekend Number one is we saw C. J.
Stroud have his blunder of a game last night that
will not happen again. He're still talking smacking lucky. They're
(06:06):
just lucky that they played a terrible opponent in a
team that shouldn't have even been there in the Steelers, right,
I mean they outclassed them.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
They were at one point if you remember, they should
have been there. They got there. Come on, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But Danny, the Texans were three and five, busted out
nine in a row.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
You didn't say that about the Chargers. You didn't say
they shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
They the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But I think last night the Texans had their stinker
and they still clobbered the Steelers, like even at their worst,
they clobbered them. There was nothing very impressive thirty points.
If you didn't watch that game, you'd probably think something different.
But as Kivino and I was saying, fourth quarter that
game seven six, ten six, a snore fest, and then
it just got out of control, I think they tightened
(06:52):
up the ship. I think New England's in trouble next
week because I think Houston will not allow two games
like that in a row. So I think number one
Houston's ringing it as a three point underdog. I think
you go Houston heavy next week. And my other thought,
and this benefits me, Dan Byer in the hall, you
know what he said, to me, I don't want to
look at you because he's a Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I go, damn, he goes out here. I don't want
to ug at you.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
He said, your run ends here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah he did so, I said, you know, Sam Donald,
don't we feel like he's due for a stinker. Sam
Donald's been known every so often he has a game
where he's exposed, makes some mistakes, ill advised throws, but
he's been pretty consistently solid. I think Sam Donald or
he dies by the stork for a stinker, and for
(07:39):
some reason, I think it happens in this high pressure
playoff game, Mike McDonald's first game as a head coach
in the playoffs. I feel like Donald's gonna have a stinker.
And the Texans got their stinker right of the way.
So based on my roulette theory, it's not gonna happen again.
It's patterns, patterns. I think you need to work out
this theory.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, I don't know if I agree with your here
are you here?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I'm trying to figure out how long Sam Donald hasn't
been great to end the season.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I just feel like something's bound to give.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I want you that what you're saying, I want you
to note this moment because Danny G isolate this last
thirty seconds and come Monday, I want everyone to be
like man Rich, You're in the money.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So what you're saying is bet on black. Bet on black,
all right?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Betting? Who are you, Rob Barker now betting?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I told you all season betting on black would mean
Houston doesn't have two stinkers in a row. They just
happened to escape against a team that was overmatched and
the Niners injured but inspired, playing with house money against
a team that is I feel like is due for
a little bit of a stink.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I agree with.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You on the Texans, and I think Danny G hit it.
It was close, but what we saw was the defense
breaking down that offensive line and breaking down that offense,
and at the end they had nothing left. It's like
a prize fight, right where the guys just work in
the body, work in the body, working the body, and
all of a sudden you see that that dude's gassed
by the eighth round because he's getting punched into ribs.
(09:05):
He's getting liver punched all night long. You know, by
the end of the game, by the fourth quarter, Steelers
had nothing and that was it. That's exactly what happened.
So that defense is vicious, bro, So I'm with you
on that all the way. The Texans are good even
at their worst, So congrats to them.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Don't think that Drake may can't pull the ball down
and run a little bit though, right because you saw
in the fourth quarter Aaron Rodgers had all that field
in front of him and he threw an incomplete pass.
He could have ran the ball twenty twenty two yards
but he didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But he couldn't.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah, thirty two year old Aaron Rodgers would have ran
that ball absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You know what I thought about that When I saw
Aaron Rodgers hugging some of these young dudes at the
end of the game, there's got to be like a
conscious and subconscious sentiment of like, yeah, like ten years ago,
you were the man, sir, like you know, like I
wish I.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Knew you and I was young, but everyone waited to
say something to him.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
When like the Texans were hugging him, they were probably
in their mind thinking, like, yo, man, like when I
was a kid, you were good, you know, like that
That was probably the sentiment because it's like they respect
him so much. But yeah, you could tell lesson him.
It wasn't he was on him though, it really wasn't.
I mean, they were letting him through. He only got
clobbered because well he couldn't really get out of that pocket,
(10:20):
but because they were gassed, the line was gassed and
they couldn't protect him anymore. And you're talking about stinkers, Rich,
that was the definition of a stinker, watching him get
sacked like that, watching him get hit like that, having
to get up like that, And I'm just wondering if
that might be the weakest eggit we've ever seen. And
(10:41):
I hate to dump on it and pour salt in
the wound because I really don't want to. No one
wants to see that. I was rooting for Aaron Rodgers.
Now I'm not hating. I'm just stating, but do you
come back if that's the lasting image or is that
just the end of it?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
How do you go out like that?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I mean, if he were to ever listen to Cypress Hill,
you know you can't go.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Out like that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We ain't going out go it, dude, I mean, but
then again, that's just the writing on the wall. What
could you do with sports Father Times Undefeated as they say,
and there's honor in the fight, and he fought with honor.
But you can't get shoved out of bounce like that.
That might be the biggest stinkeroo that ever.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Was rich And then Rudolph goes in and he's just
standing there on the side.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I don't want to remember him like that. Well, do
you know what?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Here's where we're the most interactive show on all networks
eight seven, seven nine nine on Fox. The YouTube chat
is going strong. Sometimes you just don't have that choice
of how you remember. And that's that's just life. What's
that is the weakest farewell that you could remember in sports?
I got these televisions any like visually, I don't think
you could top mind. I'm serious, the weakest farewells. Let's
(11:51):
take your feedback. And by the way, I'm high on
the Texans right now. So let me let you know
according to DraftKings and all our sites, right yeah, Seahawks
of the odds on face to win the Super Bowl
Super Bowl odds right now of the eight remaining teams,
number six Houston Texans at plus eight to fifty. I
feel like there's a value there only because I think
(12:13):
they have the goods like the Niners are the longest
long shot of the eight teams.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I'm a realist as a Niners fan. Even if
they slip.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
By their rival opponent, their division opponent this weekend and
then they got to play the Bears at the Seahawks,
then they would have to go play some stacked AFC team.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I'm a realist. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But the Texans at plus eight fifty, I'm I'm I'm
a fan.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I like that team.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
They're fun and last night they played like asd and
still the one because their defense is so good it
should be interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It was all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
You don't think your boys, c J. Stroud can lift
up the Lombardi.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
You know, Danny doesn't look dudes, anybody seasoned and as
a fight fan, does a look great at times. I
have an answer to your question as I look at
the matchups. That's why I love the NFL, and that's
why I feel almost fortunate to not have a team,
because I'm able to watch unbiased as a fan, just
(13:13):
for the matchups. Bill's Broncos, Niner, Seahawks, Texans, Pats, Rams,
Bears all great. That's better than Tiafimo Stevenson. That's better
than Ryan Garcia, Mario Marios. These are great matchups. That's
what excites me, the matchups. You could say that these
matchups next week, we're better than the ones we just watched.
(13:33):
I think we're in for some really great games next week.
We're gonna get you hyped about it. But you asked
about or you were talking about Stinkaroos and bad exits
and Aaron Rodgers and how hard that was to watch, right, Well,
what comes to mind, Well, what comes to mind as
a fight fan, and that's why I was talking about
the matchups is I'll never forget Bernard Hopkins. He was
sort of like an ageless wonder. Remember they called him
(13:54):
the alien because he was doing things that we've never
seen before. He's like not of this earth, Like how
is he still fighting? Well, I remember Bernard Hopkins got
in the ring one too many times and he fought
this guy named Joe Smith.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And Joe Smith wasn't like a known dude.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And he's fighting Bernard Hopkins and you're like, man, Bernard
Hopkins crazy. He's got to win this because this might
be his last fight. I think he had lost the
previous fight. In fact, I'm pretty sure he lost to
who do you lose to one of those Russian dudes?
But anyway, if I think it was Drago, and I
(14:33):
remember this dude Joe Smith in like the eighth round
fighting a legend, Bernard Hopkins the executioner, now the alien.
He knocks him out the ring like the video game
Ring King. He goes flying through the ropes on to
the floor, and that was the end and lasting image
of Bernard Hopkins in the ring. He's a great promoter,
(14:56):
he's a great, great face for boxing. I love him,
but the last memory of him in the ring is
getting knocked out of the ring by like a right hook.
How embarrassing is I mean, he came back the ring
like a WWE moment. He came back for some exhibition fights.
But I always hated when Mike Tyson fought some nobody
and at the end of the fight don't.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Have the fighting guy thing.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, he gave up and he said that phrase, I
just don't have the fighting guts, have the fighting guard.
And he said he does it for the money because
he needs to support his kids. And I remember feeling like,
oh man, the most vicious dude of our life Mike Tyson.
But dude, you remember the video game ring King, or were
you like a punch out guy if you got hit
with an uppercut in the video game ranking you went
flying after and you flew He flew out the ring.
(15:42):
That was his last moment. That's what I'm saying. Like,
the first time I ever heard this, hold on again,
it was a three pointer in Double Dribble. No, that's
you getting excited for the games next week when I
see Fred Water practicing.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, that was actually more about.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Pause.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, you know, the first time I heard this, it
was a morbid thought.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I remember when my grandpa died, my pop Pop good Man, right,
grandpay passed away.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
They didn't want me to go to the funeral.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I was a teenager, but they're like, nah, no, we
don't want you to see your grandfather like that.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Remember him how he was.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And that was like the first time I had that thought, Like, yeah, like,
you want to remember someone at their best, you know,
not not at their worst, especially as a young kid
like that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right, you want to remember Aaron Rogers.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
One of the goats, the greats of all time, being
clobbered in the head like that, throwing desperate passes getting
picked off, losing like that in the fourth quarter in
a big playoff game. Dude, that was straight up embarrassing.
And like I said, there's nothing you could do about it.
And I'm not trying to to like add to it, right,
(16:58):
but it was what it was. So the question is, well,
there's a two part question. Does he come back? I
say absolutely not, absolutely not, And unfortunately that's it. So yeah,
but was that the weakest exit? Well, did you remember
before Tom Brady came back and won a Super Bowl
and then had a great even his last game when
the Bucks got eliminated, he had a great playoff game.
But you remember when we thought he might retire after
(17:20):
the Patriots a pick six in the postseason to lose
a game. Was how he couldn't stomach it. That's why
part of the reason he said he came back at
that time.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Right, this is the opposite of John Lway.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Like you could say John Elway had the greatest exit, right,
Aaron Rodgers for his career. First of all, you have
to have a legendary career to even be in this conversation.
So props, again, I'm not trying to be mean, None
of us are trying to be mean about it. We
all watched this last night, rooting for the dude. When
you have a legendary career that he had twenty something
years in the NFL, the old guy, You're rooting for
(17:53):
him and you go out like that.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
He's like, oh, dude, does it go away with time?
We're in the moment right now.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I mean Rich, Yeah, Rich doesn't remember Jerry Rice in
a Seahawks uniform.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
True, yeah, it's forgotten. I heard other people talking about that.
Someone I think might have been Dan Patrick. I forgot
who I was listening to, but something about like, no
one remembers Dan Marino's like last game. What a stinker
that ony? I mean, people have stinkers, You don't. It's
on our conscious radar right now. It's prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
We do live in a different world right now. Back then,
with Marino, there was no social YouTube TikTok all that
to keep reminding everybody that clips didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Live as as prominent as they do right now. And
I just think, yeah, that's it's just an unfortunate way
to go out. And I guess maybe how about to
soften the blow, we just bring up other ones like Hey,
you're not the only one Rogers.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You don't get to choose how you go out. Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
There was one this year that had all the ingredients
for ultimate saidness and disappointment, and it ended up working out.
I remember, I'm not even a fan. I was on
the edge of my seat with a nervous stomach for
Clayton Kershaw that inning when he came in, I became
a Dodgers fan for a minute because I'm like, please
(19:11):
let this guy go out on this high note. They
bring him in a high leverage situation, bases juice, if
I remember, and it's like, we're going to Kershaw, We're
bringing in the left, and I remember thinking, when it
was a full count, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Like, oh, don't walk a guy, please, don't want.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You're messing with the game, but you're messing with the
storyline of this guy's career. When he got out of
that and they panned to his family, I shed a
little bit of a tear. I believe that was a
moment that you pray for. But that was not Aaron
Rodgers story last night. Now, Aaron Rodgers know what I said, Danny.
I hit up Covino at the end of the game,
after it seemed out of reach. I go, maybe Aaron
(19:48):
Rodgers has one like two minute drill drive. He throws
one more touchdown and it's sort of like they lose
the game, but hey, you got one more little glimpse
of moving the ball downfield. Nope, Nope, that's just not
how a bad lasting image bad exits in the fight game.
It happens that way alive, dumb quick, because people stick
around way too long they don't know when to quit.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And maybe that's the case here.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't think that is the case because I mean,
Aaron Rodgers, they went ten and seven. I have a
great It's just they went up against a really tough
defense and it made them look bad.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I said, it's a dumb question and a great question.
Why not both.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I want everyone in the room to be honest with themselves.
Have you ever thought about the last time you were
intimate with somebody?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know you're going to say that, and.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Like you wonder, like like you might have dated someone
for a long time, you got to give them one
last like almost like if the last time you were
with someone was really good, you could almost walk away
being like I she'll remember versus it was like awkward,
like bad makeup sex and it was bad. The relationship
is over. You're like, oh, I don't want her.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
To remember that. That was weak. Oh yeah, like a lot.
What you're talking about, play boy?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, Ryan's like I only deliver.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, that's pizza. Try to call him big Papa. What's
his name? Mansi? Ryan Rich?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Something that was noticeable at the end of the game
and Brenda watch the Ravens game with me the week prior.
Have you ever seen a crowd in a moment and
a player and a coach celebrate with their fans, And
then one week later it was like that that scene
that we saw, like they were so joyous that remember
(21:32):
that the camera kept panning on the fans celebrating and Tomlin.
Tomlin did his beating on the chest and we were like,
oh my god, Aaron Rodgers got some magic left. And
then to go from that to this in one week.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
To make it even worse. At his home game, they
were chanting for him to retire. How embarrassing is that? Like,
it's not how legends should go out. That's why, please
please don't think we're piling on.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
They were booing him, telling him to retire. You know,
even after the game it got even uglier. And that's
what Tomlin has been going through there in Pittsburgh. But
it's not like Aaron Rodgers handled it with like a
smirk and like, hey, what are you gonna do? I
gave it my all. He was angry, it was bitter,
it was sad, it was ugly. It's uh and that's sports,
and that's why we love it. It's it's it's drama.
(22:23):
But legends in our in our minds, legends aren't supposed
to go out that way.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's it's not just it's not just players.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's sometimes a legendary coach like Bill Belichick right now
is his final chapter? We remember like like some mediocre
week UNC campaign in college?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Is that that's another one?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Is that where I.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Feel like that's not completely written? U. Now, this guy,
this guy paved the way for everyone, including us in
this room. So this is not trash talking. But sometimes
I look at Howard Stern type and he was the
king of all media, no one cooler. He was like,
like we're talking the face of radio, Like how it's
Starned made radio. Kave on meete for a reason. He
(23:06):
had the number one movie at one point, the number
one soundtrack, the number one radio show. He was number
one in every media platform that was available. On the factime,
you could argue that our longevity as serious sexem only
was because he joined that company and made it what
it was. And just for anyone who's new to us.
Side note, as a as a teenager, I was working
(23:29):
at ky Rock, New York, so I was able to
witness the megastartom of what this dude did for radio.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So I worked with those dudes on my come up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I'm not saying he's on his way out, but I
doubt he loves the fact that he watched the world
of podcasting swoop in and sort of replace his appened
around that, right, Like yeah, why I always said that
Letterman and guys like that dipped out at the right
time because they realized they were legends. But there's beauty
in that, right And you know, you question guys like
Barry Sanders or whoever called it quits earlier than we
(24:01):
had thought, and you say, well, hey, they went on
their terms.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So other examples we gave you.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Bernard Hopkins lick it up, by the way, because I
know it sounds unbelievable. The guy went flying through the ring,
off out of the ring, got airtime out of the ring.
I think your your description is gonna be better than
the actual video.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Dude, he like high jumped out of the ring. Well, listen,
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Speaker 1 (26:13):
We Ain't going out like that. We ain't going out
like that.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Scooby Do.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Scooby Doo, Scoopy Scooby Doo.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The more and more I think about this, I know
I'm making it overly dramatic, but this is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I do love did Aaron rodd twenty one years in
the league.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I know you say, people don't remember about our buddy
Mouser hit us up, who is a big Dolphins fan.
He goes, yeah, I remember Dan Marina losing like sixty
to seven in his last game, and then they got
stomped in the playoffs and it was embarrassing for a
guy like Dan Marine. Does that hurt his legacy? The
answer is no, it does not. But Danny G's right,
those highlights don't live the way these living. And Dan
(26:51):
Reno is not as hateable in my opinion or deviceive
as Aaron Rodgers is. So people want to lean into that, like,
look at it, I'm getting clobbered.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Dude is an ace Ventura.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, but Aaron Rodgers, I think Garner's a different level
of criticism twenty one years in the league.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Put it in perspective.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Rich ready, you and I started this show Cavino and
Rich actually in four, but really an O five at
the end of four. Right, that's when Aaron Rodgers football
career started in two thousand and five. So imagine playing
all this time and your last show is a stinker.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Oh, I mean, like that's his last game.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Everything was off kilter. You two kept stepping on top
of each other. You had a big guest halfway through
it disconnected on the phone or or someone comes.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
In and clobbers us on the head and everyone sees it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You know, like I get it, it's sports, but no
one wants to go out that way. You want to
go out like John Elway. You want to go out
like like Scarface and half baked.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
If you, if you, if you, you're cool, if you
are out.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You want to go out on your own terms and
when you're a legend like that. Yeah, this is rare,
and it doesn't have to be like you're you're hoisted off,
like you're rudy or something. But it shouldn't also be
like this. This is like what movies are made oft
like like a sort of like Shakespearean in a way,
like he went down bad last night, big big sexy run.
I know you're a wrestling fan, right, yes I am.
(28:18):
How'd you feel about that the John CENAF Fairs.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
A guy who says he's never gonna give up, don't quit, YadA,
YadA YadA. What happens He gives up?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
But is it there irony? Irony in that I know
fans were sort of split on that. I know it's
sports entertainment, but that's it kind.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Of kills the character for me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You know, I'd expect him to like win, but what
they should have done is have him just pass out
because he would not give up.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I heard he's gonna be the new Ernest p Worrel.
Is that true?
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Speaker 2 (29:33):
Miche stick around for Moncey's update. We got Papa Bear here,
we got Danny g on the phones at eighty seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Of course, we're gonna get
to tom when I put him in his career and
Rogers sort of well together Givino when I said it
from the minute we woke up this morning, Danny, it's
been Tomalin Tom and Tomalin Tomlin. We'll get to it,
but I figure let's kick our show off with Aaron
Rodgers in a little different twist, because yeah, when it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Comes to Aaron Rodgers, you too can't help yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I was gonna say I was a little tomlined out,
but now I'm ready to dive in. But let's say
hi to Syracuse and Tim. What's up Timmy, Tim, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
High first time caller. I'll try to make this quick.
You know, I'm calling about the Steelers and I'm not
even a Steeler fan. But my point is this, First
of all, the OC, uh, you know, what are you doing?
You know, I know you're only giving the players you have,
and that reflects on what the GM. So Metcalf is
(30:27):
your best player and you had to buy him, so
you don't draft well. And then the OC makes these
crazy calls, for example, sprint out Rogers knowing they're not
expecting the runs. Simple things, but you know, they don't
continue it, and and I don't, you know, I kind
of want to feel bad for Tomlin, but at the
(30:49):
end of the day, he allowed all those terrible calls
and Metcalf's a pain in the neck and I know this,
but I just think that there's a lot more to
it with the OC and the GM, and.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, it's gonna be wild in the It's not all
on Rogers, It's not all on Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But Arthur Smith is their OC.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
By the way, them together collectively, man put out a
stinker roo last night in the fourth quarter, and.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
They did kind of they it did seem that they
were out schemed. And I talked to a longtime Steeler's
friend of mine this morning, and he said, I love
Tomlin because he's kind of like Imano, you know, he's
he's like a man's man, and he has the vibe
of my team will just punch your team in the mouth.
He said, But what Ben Johnson is proving in Chicago's
(31:36):
you could be both tough and smart. And he said,
I want a young and upcoming offensive mind that can
scheme with you know, the best of them.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And that's sort of a question. I think we're gonna
get to a little bit. But let's say one more
from Trip in Vegas and we'll go to Monsie for
an update.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What's up, Trip? How are you man?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I'm good? Comment a question and a couple of examples
of the comment is Monsi's always looking good in the
twenty year anniversary shirt. And then, uh, my question is
for Rich was it a nervous stomach or a tummy ache?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I know that Tommy ache tummy a tummy.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
And then my examples were not legacy, they're just bad
Trewell's nameless got bench. And then I didn't like seeing
Muhammad Ali getting knocked out or not knocked out, would
beat by Trevor Burbert. And then Nanny Ramirez. Where did
he go? He just got lost?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, man, he did get lost in the time.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
About Robbie Cano, dude, that's a pretty tragic sort of end.
He was playing for the SpongeBob Square Pan League.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
That was that was Actually he had a he had
a great season in Mexico U was.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
It was last year.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
But the ultimate, still, the ultimate, like embarrassing moment, was
when Robbie Cano you saw him in that like minor league.
It was SpongeBob night, and here he is a guy
that you know at one point like one of the one.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Of the great were a SpongeBob shirt.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, come on, you know steroids, minor leagues, not the
eggs that you wanted. And then there's so many ways
to think about this, and again it's just life. Guys
were speculating. Who knows how your story's gonna end, And
I'm not talking about your life, I'm talking about your career.
We don't know, So I'm not trying to be mean,
but it's like it makes me think of like Roseanne
and how criticized that guy. When Roseanne was everyone loved
(33:12):
her and then all a sudden the last now she's like, uh,
you know the right wing people, you know the first
when the first series ended, wasn't it all the dream?
And people are like, wait a second, So the whole
storyline was a stupid dream she had. That's how the
show ended, right of course. And then on the comeback
of the show she got swept off.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
So weak, the weakest.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, I mean, let's let's let's hope that doesn't happen
to any of you. All right, Manzi, what's going on?
Give us a little update, pal, guys.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Aaron Rodgers is coming back next year.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't, I don't know power where ye like, but
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
The more I let the simmer, I think about how
he made it worse by how he acted at the end,
and how you have.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
To come back. You have to come back.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Also blame Philip Rivers, because the Philip Rivers.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Came off the couch. He's probably like, if you're gonna
call me off the couch in week eight, nine, ten,
I might as well just play.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I think he's playing another year.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Even though I thought that before the bad ending it
was about it didn't end on a pick six?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Wasn't that his last throw?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah? He can't. And then then he missed the guy
trying to push him out of bounce.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Callice really ended with him getting shoved down the round.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
He really tried though, at least he tried.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
He went out there.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
He tried.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
You know what if it was his last hurrah, Yeah,
that's the reaction I think we would have gotten, like, hey, guys,
I get hey man, I came back from a band injury.
We made the playoffs. I gave it everything. I could
smirk a little bit, shrug. He was too angry to
not come back. I love the shot he gave it
the Jets, though, He goes, I've had the otto play
for two great organizations.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yes he did, Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
He didnew what he was saying.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
All right, Well, Aaron Rodgers, we don't know if he's
going to return to the Steelers. We do know Mike
Tomlin is not returning to the Steelers. He stepped down
today after nineteen seasons, but all winning seasons.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
So good for him on that.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Eagles so far, offensive coordinator Kevin Patulo after one season,
so Philadelphia is looking for their fifth offensive coordinator in
five years. ESPN reports at Marcus Freeman still expected to
remain at Notre Dame for the twenty twenty six season,
and there's a lot of rumors that NFL teams are
trying to get him to cross to the dark side.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Apparently he's gonna stay.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
Chargers of Fart offensive coordinator Greg Rowman and offensive lineman
coach Mike Devlin. Brian Dable, former Giants coach, is going
to interview for the Titaness head coaching job on Friday,
while today the Ravens completed an interview with Vikings defensive
coordinator Brian Flores for their head coaching vacancy. When it
comes to the NBA, ESPN reports at Anthony Davis is
likely to undergo surgery to repair ligament damage in his
(35:31):
left hand and miss several months, but ad tweeted, quote,
y'all better stop listening to all these lies on these apps.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Anthony Davis tweeted that after.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
The news came out that he's apparently done for several months.
Lakers stars Lebron James and Luca Doncic are questionable for
tonight's game against the Hawks. And in case you missed it,
in baseball, the Diamondbacks are requiring eight time All Star
third baseman Noblen Adanado in a trade with the Saint
Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I love he aeronato at an a. You know no
more than that this sweet sure you're wearing. Oh thank you,
od I would love more than that if you told
me Fred Warner is going to play.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
But I know it's not going to happen this week.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
It's not going to happen this week.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
They've opened his practice window.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
But they hope he returns for the NFC title game.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And did you leave out Kyle Tucker to the Mets.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
Or that's not for sure yet, but apparently they offered
him a deal that's fifty million a year. But the
Blue Jays are also in this mix.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
The Mets needs something happened. We got more Covine on wretch.
We'll talk a little about everything.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
In fact, Tomlin, I have a theory about Tomlin has
to do with wife swapping.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Ooh sounds juicy?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
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Oh well week exit last night. Aaron Rodgers. We're sorry
that went down like that. But hey, you know it's
the NFL playoffs. Man, he ain't going out. You hit
a team that had won nine in a row. I mean, yeah,
you hit a hot team, it's bound to happen. And man,
they just man, they just got combered at the end. Hey,
Covino and Rich Here, by the way, Fox Sports Radio
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Life from the Fox Sports Radio Studio, and it is
time for our tire Ranck play of the day, speaking
of will this play be the last time we ever
see Aaron Rodgers playing on an NFL field?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh? Boy, I hope not. On fourth and five, Rogers
looks it over. Here's the snap. Rogers hit the pocket.
Rogers pinging at.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Downfield and picked off at the fifts set pull off
to his left, forty thirty five, thirty pullock twenty, pullock
upedded up the sideline, maintains his pallets head run for
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Speaker 1 (39:20):
And keep in mind, this is fresh.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We all witnessed this last night, and not everyone has
the luxury of going out on top.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's just not how life is. Right.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Think about every great movie. It really is like a movie, right,
with a tragic ending. Every great movie. I'm thinking of
my guy from my hometown of Union, New Jersey, Ray Liota,
in the nineteen is it ninety or ninety one good Fellas,
Henry Hill.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
All those guys were on top of the world. I mean,
they were committing.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Crimes, but they were living the life nineteen ninety good Fellas,
They were living their life. What happens at the end
with Henry Hill, he's in witness protection and his slippers.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You know this guy was.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
He was living the high life, making cash, money, eating
at the best restaurants. And where is he again, wearing
a robe, reading the paper like he's a nobody from nowhereville.
And that's what he talks about at the end of
the movie. That's just how it ends. Sometimes you see
it in sports, you see it in life, you see
it in entertainment.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You know, sometimes you see some.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Man or woman that's been a baller in the business world,
running companies and then like you know, eventually they just
got to be removed. What is Henry Hill say? Look
at me, look at me. Now, I'm a slub. He
says something about slub and that's probably how Aaron Rodgers feels.
But will we remember that? Is that the lasting memory? No, No,
it won't be. Ye, I don't think it will be.
So I think he should feel confident in knowing that
(40:39):
his legacy, uh stands before him and you know, he's
a Super Bowl champ and that's really what's going to
be remembered at the end of the day. I don't
need to come back, but I think there's a chance
he will. I know something that bothers you give it
to me that Mike Tomlin coached for the Steelers nineteen years.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yeah, I hate that. I do hate that. Camo is
one of those like oh c D like why not Twine?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I thought they were gonna have a little let's go
one more, get the twenty, get his little Steelers pin
Watch and they would agree together, like let's go one
more year together, because they seem to have.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
A Nobody else cares about even numbers, Cavino.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
When you listen to a game, does your TV sound
have to be on an even number? Or do you
go by the fives? I can't do it. Yeah, it
has to be by the fives. Fives every five, yeah five.
Your your volume can't be on like thirty one.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
And I don't like that. No bother is me go
to Kvino's house and just mess with this volume. Yea?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
All right, So you guys, I said Mike Tomlin, I
had a thought, and it has to do with a
Remember that's your wife Swap? I Do I remember Celebrity
Wife Swap? Do you remember Celebrity Wife Swap? I feel
like there was an episode where it was like, who's
to say, Rico Swave Girardo was on there.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
There were some wild characters on Celebrity Wife Swap. There
was one with Rick Flair and rowdy Roddy Piper, one
with a flavor flav and d Snyder and I bring
this up because it's wild. The concept of that show
is not the dirty and sexual the concept of the
show is live with someone else's spouse for a week
or so and you start to see, hey, maybe where
(42:11):
I'm coming up short, or hey, maybe you start to
acknowledge what's really great about your partner because they might
be better than you think. Like if you and your
girlfriend Cavino did a wife swap with Mancy and her
boyfriend Sewan whoa again nothing kinky.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Say again, nothing kinky ky, But.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Wouldn't there be a sense of I'm sure there's things
that can you know, would do with You're like, oh,
how annoying. But then there's things where he would do
He'd be like I wish Seawn did. And you know what,
I have a theory on it and has to do
with coaching, and we'll get to it next
Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich Podcast.
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I don't mind it at all. Going think these guys
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's the that's the whole day.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Die. Let's rock out into this Taco Tuesday. I hope
your night was better than Aaron Rodgers night. Hope your
day's going better than his. And congrats to the Texans man.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
What a wallop.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
As I said earlier to you, Rich, it was a
really close game until it wasn't. It's like the wheels
fell off and it got really ugly in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You're like, feel like, what the hell happened? I feel
like in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Not to sound gross, but if you dipped away to
take a little bathroom break and you're sitting there a
little long, you were doing the ball scroll, you might
have came back to a completely different game. Yeah, way,
this is this is close, man, give a seven to six,
all right, ten to six?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
They were a touchdown, they win it, and then you.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Blink your eyes thirty six, you know, go read your
kid a bedtime.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Story, go back to the living room, and it's thirty
to six.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So between Rogers and Tomlin and your boy Warners in
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all agree that Sheldon Rankins, well, that dude picked up
the ball randomly. It was just like I'm gonna run
for a touchdown. I thought that was awesome. That's that's
the big guy, the big dude.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Any time a big boys chugging.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Out of respect.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I just looked up his name because I was going
to say, remember when the.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Big fella, because everyone knows what big fella.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sheldon Rankins, And he got love after the game in
the post game as well.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I gotta s he's a big man.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And because in that moment when Rogers got popped and
his helmet looked like it mangled his head in slow motion.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That looked brutal.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
When that ball goes to the ground, you assume big
dudes are gonna fall on the ball. That guy just
reach his hand down like, well there's the ball. Well
it's a risk to move. You're taught to fall on
the ball. Yeah, but he did not, and it worked
out went down favor. Yeah, he saw an opening, went
for it. That's a huge drill for a big fellow
like that. So yeah, it was a really close game.
(03:28):
It seemed like, tell your boy Danny G.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
CJ.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Stroud was was giving them the game, keeping them minute.
You got to give props to their defense. Texans defense
continues to carry them and that's why they're the hottest
team in the NFL ten in a row now, right,
So man, you really got to take them serious moving
forward because they turned it around. You thought it was close,
but it really really was it. When he stepped out.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
You could tell that the Steelers offense was gassed there.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
At the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was so embarrassing at them. I'm though, you know,
offensive line specialist. You know, I'm not a Kyle Shanahan
of sorts, but I mean that offensive line for Pittsburgh
was either collapsing or the running backs were taking weird angles.
I feel like every running attempt, you know, when Aaron Rodgers,
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you know, every offensive pocket was collapsing on Rogers, there
wasn't a lot he could do.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Go.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What I'm saying is we all know that even if
the running game's not working, you have to run the
ball once in a while just to keep the defense
on their toes. Like you can't just say we're abandoning
the run. But even on those runs where you're like
maybe we'll get to and it'll be second and eight,
it's second and eleven or second and twelve. Like the
running back was hitting the backfield every time, every time.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And I'm gonna call this the.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Rich loses in Vegas all the time theoryty theory.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I need to work.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I know we got to talk about Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers,
but I just thought of this, So let me kick
it with this thought. Can't get when we're in Vegas.
What happened the other day? We're in Vegas for I
to talk.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
About that on the radio. Nothing happened? Oh? Or did it?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm kidding?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
So I think I put up.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Uh you know a couple couple bucks. I play roulette.
It's a terrible choice of game. I love it because
I love to play, like my kid's birthday is my
favorite player's jersey numbers. And once in a blue moon
you throw ten bucks on Red sixteen and you're like
three hundred and sixty bucks. But then most of the
time I just blow one hundred dollars in five minutes.
So I'm playing Roulette and I come in. I look
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up at the board. There's been about fifteen reds in
a row. And then I'm like, what did Wesley Snipes
always teach?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
You?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Always been on black? Right there? I go, see you
got some black friends, now, didn't you? Didn't you?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I said, you know what it's been like, Red has hit.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
A million times.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You gotta you gotta bet on black because it's bound
to happen. And there's two things in the playoffs that
I think we're gonna watch it happen and unfurl an
unfold Divisional Weekend Number one is we saw C. J.
Stroud have his blunder of a game last night that
will not happen again. He're still talking smacking lucky. They're
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just lucky that they played a terrible opponent in a
team that shouldn't have even been there in the Steelers, right,
I mean they outclassed them.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
They were at one point if you remember, they should
have been there. They got there. Come on, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But Danny, the Texans were three and five, busted out
nine in a row.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
You didn't say that about the Chargers. You didn't say
they shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
They the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But I think last night the Texans had their stinker
and they still clobbered the Steelers, like even at their worst,
they clobbered them. There was nothing very impressive thirty points.
If you didn't watch that game, you'd probably think something different.
But as Kivino and I was saying, fourth quarter that
game seven six, ten six, a snore fest, and then
it just got out of control, I think they tightened
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up the ship. I think New England's in trouble next
week because I think Houston will not allow two games
like that in a row. So I think number one
Houston's ringing it as a three point underdog. I think
you go Houston heavy next week. And my other thought,
and this benefits me, Dan Byer in the hall, you
know what he said, to me, I don't want to
look at you because he's a Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I go, damn, he goes out here. I don't want
to ug at you.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
He said, your run ends here.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah he did so, I said, you know, Sam Donald,
don't we feel like he's due for a stinker. Sam
Donald's been known every so often he has a game
where he's exposed, makes some mistakes, ill advised throws, but
he's been pretty consistently solid. I think Sam Donald or
he dies by the stork for a stinker, and for
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some reason, I think it happens in this high pressure
playoff game, Mike McDonald's first game as a head coach
in the playoffs. I feel like Donald's gonna have a stinker.
And the Texans got their stinker right of the way.
So based on my roulette theory, it's not gonna happen again.
It's patterns, patterns. I think you need to work out
this theory.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, I don't know if I agree with your here
are you here?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I'm trying to figure out how long Sam Donald hasn't
been great to end the season.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I just feel like something's bound to give.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I want you that what you're saying, I want you
to note this moment because Danny G isolate this last
thirty seconds and come Monday, I want everyone to be
like man Rich, You're in the money.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So what you're saying is bet on black. Bet on black,
all right?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Betting? Who are you, Rob Barker now betting?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I told you all season betting on black would mean
Houston doesn't have two stinkers in a row. They just
happened to escape against a team that was overmatched and
the Niners injured but inspired, playing with house money against
a team that is I feel like is due for
a little bit of a stink.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I agree with.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You on the Texans, and I think Danny G hit it.
It was close, but what we saw was the defense
breaking down that offensive line and breaking down that offense,
and at the end they had nothing left. It's like
a prize fight, right where the guys just work in
the body, work in the body, working the body, and
all of a sudden you see that that dude's gassed
by the eighth round because he's getting punched into ribs.
(09:05):
He's getting liver punched all night long. You know, by
the end of the game, by the fourth quarter, Steelers
had nothing and that was it. That's exactly what happened.
So that defense is vicious, bro, So I'm with you
on that all the way. The Texans are good even
at their worst, So congrats to them.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Don't think that Drake may can't pull the ball down
and run a little bit though, right because you saw
in the fourth quarter Aaron Rodgers had all that field
in front of him and he threw an incomplete pass.
He could have ran the ball twenty twenty two yards
but he didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But he couldn't.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah, thirty two year old Aaron Rodgers would have ran
that ball absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You know what I thought about that When I saw
Aaron Rodgers hugging some of these young dudes at the
end of the game, there's got to be like a
conscious and subconscious sentiment of like, yeah, like ten years ago,
you were the man, sir, like you know, like I
wish I.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Knew you and I was young, but everyone waited to
say something to him.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
When like the Texans were hugging him, they were probably
in their mind thinking, like, yo, man, like when I
was a kid, you were good, you know, like that
That was probably the sentiment because it's like they respect
him so much. But yeah, you could tell lesson him.
It wasn't he was on him though, it really wasn't.
I mean, they were letting him through. He only got
clobbered because well he couldn't really get out of that pocket,
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but because they were gassed, the line was gassed and
they couldn't protect him anymore. And you're talking about stinkers, Rich,
that was the definition of a stinker, watching him get
sacked like that, watching him get hit like that, having
to get up like that, And I'm just wondering if
that might be the weakest eggit we've ever seen. And
(10:41):
I hate to dump on it and pour salt in
the wound because I really don't want to. No one
wants to see that. I was rooting for Aaron Rodgers.
Now I'm not hating. I'm just stating, but do you
come back if that's the lasting image or is that
just the end of it?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
How do you go out like that?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I mean, if he were to ever listen to Cypress Hill,
you know you can't go.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Out like that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
We ain't going out go it, dude, I mean, but
then again, that's just the writing on the wall. What
could you do with sports Father Times Undefeated as they say,
and there's honor in the fight, and he fought with honor.
But you can't get shoved out of bounce like that.
That might be the biggest stinkeroo that ever.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Was rich And then Rudolph goes in and he's just
standing there on the side.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I don't want to remember him like that. Well, do
you know what?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Here's where we're the most interactive show on all networks
eight seven, seven nine nine on Fox. The YouTube chat
is going strong. Sometimes you just don't have that choice
of how you remember. And that's that's just life. What's
that is the weakest farewell that you could remember in sports?
I got these televisions any like visually, I don't think
you could top mind. I'm serious, the weakest farewells. Let's
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take your feedback. And by the way, I'm high on
the Texans right now. So let me let you know
according to DraftKings and all our sites, right yeah, Seahawks
of the odds on face to win the Super Bowl
Super Bowl odds right now of the eight remaining teams,
number six Houston Texans at plus eight to fifty. I
feel like there's a value there only because I think
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they have the goods like the Niners are the longest
long shot of the eight teams.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I'm a realist as a Niners fan. Even if
they slip.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
By their rival opponent, their division opponent this weekend and
then they got to play the Bears at the Seahawks,
then they would have to go play some stacked AFC team.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I'm a realist. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But the Texans at plus eight fifty, I'm I'm I'm
a fan.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I like that team.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
They're fun and last night they played like asd and
still the one because their defense is so good it
should be interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It was all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
You don't think your boys, c J. Stroud can lift
up the Lombardi.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
You know, Danny doesn't look dudes, anybody seasoned and as
a fight fan, does a look great at times. I
have an answer to your question as I look at
the matchups. That's why I love the NFL, and that's
why I feel almost fortunate to not have a team,
because I'm able to watch unbiased as a fan, just
(13:13):
for the matchups. Bill's Broncos, Niner, Seahawks, Texans, Pats, Rams,
Bears all great. That's better than Tiafimo Stevenson. That's better
than Ryan Garcia, Mario Marios. These are great matchups. That's
what excites me, the matchups. You could say that these
matchups next week, we're better than the ones we just watched.
(13:33):
I think we're in for some really great games next week.
We're gonna get you hyped about it. But you asked
about or you were talking about Stinkaroos and bad exits
and Aaron Rodgers and how hard that was to watch, right, Well,
what comes to mind, Well, what comes to mind as
a fight fan, and that's why I was talking about
the matchups is I'll never forget Bernard Hopkins. He was
sort of like an ageless wonder. Remember they called him
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the alien because he was doing things that we've never
seen before. He's like not of this earth, Like how
is he still fighting? Well, I remember Bernard Hopkins got
in the ring one too many times and he fought
this guy named Joe Smith.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And Joe Smith wasn't like a known dude.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And he's fighting Bernard Hopkins and you're like, man, Bernard
Hopkins crazy. He's got to win this because this might
be his last fight. I think he had lost the
previous fight. In fact, I'm pretty sure he lost to
who do you lose to one of those Russian dudes?
But anyway, if I think it was Drago, and I
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remember this dude Joe Smith in like the eighth round
fighting a legend, Bernard Hopkins the executioner, now the alien.
He knocks him out the ring like the video game
Ring King. He goes flying through the ropes on to
the floor, and that was the end and lasting image
of Bernard Hopkins in the ring. He's a great promoter,
(14:56):
he's a great, great face for boxing. I love him,
but the last memory of him in the ring is
getting knocked out of the ring by like a right hook.
How embarrassing is I mean, he came back the ring
like a WWE moment. He came back for some exhibition fights.
But I always hated when Mike Tyson fought some nobody
and at the end of the fight don't.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Have the fighting guy thing.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, he gave up and he said that phrase, I
just don't have the fighting guts, have the fighting guard.
And he said he does it for the money because
he needs to support his kids. And I remember feeling like,
oh man, the most vicious dude of our life Mike Tyson.
But dude, you remember the video game ring King, or were
you like a punch out guy if you got hit
with an uppercut in the video game ranking you went
flying after and you flew He flew out the ring.
(15:42):
That was his last moment. That's what I'm saying. Like,
the first time I ever heard this, hold on again,
it was a three pointer in Double Dribble. No, that's
you getting excited for the games next week when I
see Fred Water practicing.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, that was actually more about.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Pause.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, you know, the first time I heard this, it
was a morbid thought.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I remember when my grandpa died, my pop Pop good Man, right,
grandpay passed away.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
They didn't want me to go to the funeral.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I was a teenager, but they're like, nah, no, we
don't want you to see your grandfather like that.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Remember him how he was.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And that was like the first time I had that thought, Like, yeah, like,
you want to remember someone at their best, you know,
not not at their worst, especially as a young kid
like that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right, you want to remember Aaron Rogers.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
One of the goats, the greats of all time, being
clobbered in the head like that, throwing desperate passes getting
picked off, losing like that in the fourth quarter in
a big playoff game. Dude, that was straight up embarrassing.
And like I said, there's nothing you could do about it.
And I'm not trying to to like add to it, right,
(16:58):
but it was what it was. So the question is, well,
there's a two part question. Does he come back? I
say absolutely not, absolutely not, And unfortunately that's it. So yeah,
but was that the weakest exit? Well, did you remember
before Tom Brady came back and won a Super Bowl
and then had a great even his last game when
the Bucks got eliminated, he had a great playoff game.
But you remember when we thought he might retire after
(17:20):
the Patriots a pick six in the postseason to lose
a game. Was how he couldn't stomach it. That's why
part of the reason he said he came back at
that time.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Right, this is the opposite of John Lway.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Like you could say John Elway had the greatest exit, right,
Aaron Rodgers for his career. First of all, you have
to have a legendary career to even be in this conversation.
So props, again, I'm not trying to be mean, None
of us are trying to be mean about it. We
all watched this last night, rooting for the dude. When
you have a legendary career that he had twenty something
years in the NFL, the old guy, You're rooting for
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him and you go out like that.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
He's like, oh, dude, does it go away with time?
We're in the moment right now.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I mean Rich, Yeah, Rich doesn't remember Jerry Rice in
a Seahawks uniform.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
True, yeah, it's forgotten. I heard other people talking about that.
Someone I think might have been Dan Patrick. I forgot
who I was listening to, but something about like, no
one remembers Dan Marino's like last game. What a stinker
that ony? I mean, people have stinkers, You don't. It's
on our conscious radar right now. It's prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
We do live in a different world right now. Back then,
with Marino, there was no social YouTube TikTok all that
to keep reminding everybody that clips didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Live as as prominent as they do right now. And
I just think, yeah, that's it's just an unfortunate way
to go out. And I guess maybe how about to
soften the blow, we just bring up other ones like Hey,
you're not the only one Rogers.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You don't get to choose how you go out. Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
There was one this year that had all the ingredients
for ultimate saidness and disappointment, and it ended up working out.
I remember, I'm not even a fan. I was on
the edge of my seat with a nervous stomach for
Clayton Kershaw that inning when he came in, I became
a Dodgers fan for a minute because I'm like, please
(19:11):
let this guy go out on this high note. They
bring him in a high leverage situation, bases juice, if
I remember, and it's like, we're going to Kershaw, We're
bringing in the left, and I remember thinking, when it
was a full count, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Like, oh, don't walk a guy, please, don't want.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You're messing with the game, but you're messing with the
storyline of this guy's career. When he got out of
that and they panned to his family, I shed a
little bit of a tear. I believe that was a
moment that you pray for. But that was not Aaron
Rodgers story last night. Now, Aaron Rodgers know what I said, Danny.
I hit up Covino at the end of the game,
after it seemed out of reach. I go, maybe Aaron
(19:48):
Rodgers has one like two minute drill drive. He throws
one more touchdown and it's sort of like they lose
the game, but hey, you got one more little glimpse
of moving the ball downfield. Nope, Nope, that's just not
how a bad lasting image bad exits in the fight game.
It happens that way alive, dumb quick, because people stick
around way too long they don't know when to quit.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And maybe that's the case here.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't think that is the case because I mean,
Aaron Rodgers, they went ten and seven. I have a
great It's just they went up against a really tough
defense and it made them look bad.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I said, it's a dumb question and a great question.
Why not both.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I want everyone in the room to be honest with themselves.
Have you ever thought about the last time you were
intimate with somebody?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know you're going to say that, and.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Like you wonder, like like you might have dated someone
for a long time, you got to give them one
last like almost like if the last time you were
with someone was really good, you could almost walk away
being like I she'll remember versus it was like awkward,
like bad makeup sex and it was bad. The relationship
is over. You're like, oh, I don't want her.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
To remember that. That was weak. Oh yeah, like a lot.
What you're talking about, play boy?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, Ryan's like I only deliver.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, that's pizza. Try to call him big Papa. What's
his name? Mansi? Ryan Rich?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Something that was noticeable at the end of the game
and Brenda watch the Ravens game with me the week prior.
Have you ever seen a crowd in a moment and
a player and a coach celebrate with their fans, And
then one week later it was like that that scene
that we saw, like they were so joyous that remember
(21:32):
that the camera kept panning on the fans celebrating and Tomlin.
Tomlin did his beating on the chest and we were like,
oh my god, Aaron Rodgers got some magic left. And
then to go from that to this in one week.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
To make it even worse. At his home game, they
were chanting for him to retire. How embarrassing is that? Like,
it's not how legends should go out. That's why, please
please don't think we're piling on.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
They were booing him, telling him to retire. You know,
even after the game it got even uglier. And that's
what Tomlin has been going through there in Pittsburgh. But
it's not like Aaron Rodgers handled it with like a
smirk and like, hey, what are you gonna do? I
gave it my all. He was angry, it was bitter,
it was sad, it was ugly. It's uh and that's sports,
and that's why we love it. It's it's it's drama.
(22:23):
But legends in our in our minds, legends aren't supposed
to go out that way.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's it's not just it's not just players.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's sometimes a legendary coach like Bill Belichick right now
is his final chapter? We remember like like some mediocre
week UNC campaign in college?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Is that that's another one?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Is that where I.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Feel like that's not completely written? U. Now, this guy,
this guy paved the way for everyone, including us in
this room. So this is not trash talking. But sometimes
I look at Howard Stern type and he was the
king of all media, no one cooler. He was like,
like we're talking the face of radio, Like how it's
Starned made radio. Kave on meete for a reason. He
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had the number one movie at one point, the number
one soundtrack, the number one radio show. He was number
one in every media platform that was available. On the factime,
you could argue that our longevity as serious sexem only
was because he joined that company and made it what
it was. And just for anyone who's new to us.
Side note, as a as a teenager, I was working
(23:29):
at ky Rock, New York, so I was able to
witness the megastartom of what this dude did for radio.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So I worked with those dudes on my come up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I'm not saying he's on his way out, but I
doubt he loves the fact that he watched the world
of podcasting swoop in and sort of replace his appened
around that, right, Like yeah, why I always said that
Letterman and guys like that dipped out at the right
time because they realized they were legends. But there's beauty
in that, right And you know, you question guys like
Barry Sanders or whoever called it quits earlier than we
(24:01):
had thought, and you say, well, hey, they went on
their terms.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So other examples we gave you.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Bernard Hopkins lick it up, by the way, because I
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So I'm just gonna.
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Speaker 1 (26:13):
We Ain't going out like that. We ain't going out
like that.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Scooby Do.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Scooby Doo, Scoopy Scooby Doo.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The more and more I think about this, I know
I'm making it overly dramatic, but this is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I do love did Aaron rodd twenty one years in
the league.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I know you say, people don't remember about our buddy
Mouser hit us up, who is a big Dolphins fan.
He goes, yeah, I remember Dan Marina losing like sixty
to seven in his last game, and then they got
stomped in the playoffs and it was embarrassing for a
guy like Dan Marine. Does that hurt his legacy? The
answer is no, it does not. But Danny G's right,
those highlights don't live the way these living. And Dan
(26:51):
Reno is not as hateable in my opinion or deviceive
as Aaron Rodgers is. So people want to lean into that, like,
look at it, I'm getting clobbered.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Dude is an ace Ventura.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, but Aaron Rodgers, I think Garner's a different level
of criticism twenty one years in the league.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Put it in perspective.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Rich ready, you and I started this show Cavino and
Rich actually in four, but really an O five at
the end of four. Right, that's when Aaron Rodgers football
career started in two thousand and five. So imagine playing
all this time and your last show is a stinker.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Oh, I mean, like that's his last game.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Everything was off kilter. You two kept stepping on top
of each other. You had a big guest halfway through
it disconnected on the phone or or someone comes.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
In and clobbers us on the head and everyone sees it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You know, like I get it, it's sports, but no
one wants to go out that way. You want to
go out like John Elway. You want to go out
like like Scarface and half baked.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
If you, if you, if you, you're cool, if you
are out.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You want to go out on your own terms and
when you're a legend like that. Yeah, this is rare,
and it doesn't have to be like you're you're hoisted off,
like you're rudy or something. But it shouldn't also be
like this. This is like what movies are made oft
like like a sort of like Shakespearean in a way,
like he went down bad last night, big big sexy run.
I know you're a wrestling fan, right, yes I am.
(28:18):
How'd you feel about that the John CENAF Fairs.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
A guy who says he's never gonna give up, don't quit, YadA,
YadA YadA. What happens He gives up?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
But is it there irony? Irony in that I know
fans were sort of split on that. I know it's
sports entertainment, but that's it kind.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Of kills the character for me.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You know, I'd expect him to like win, but what
they should have done is have him just pass out
because he would not give up.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I heard he's gonna be the new Ernest p Worrel.
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
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I actually have because I think my mom accidentally bought dudewipes.
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Speaker 2 (29:33):
Miche stick around for Moncey's update. We got Papa Bear here,
we got Danny g on the phones at eighty seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Of course, we're gonna get
to tom when I put him in his career and
Rogers sort of well together Givino when I said it
from the minute we woke up this morning, Danny, it's
been Tomalin Tom and Tomalin Tomlin. We'll get to it,
but I figure let's kick our show off with Aaron
Rodgers in a little different twist, because yeah, when it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Comes to Aaron Rodgers, you too can't help yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I was gonna say I was a little tomlined out,
but now I'm ready to dive in. But let's say
hi to Syracuse and Tim. What's up Timmy, Tim, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
High first time caller. I'll try to make this quick.
You know, I'm calling about the Steelers and I'm not
even a Steeler fan. But my point is this, First
of all, the OC, uh, you know, what are you doing?
You know, I know you're only giving the players you have,
and that reflects on what the GM. So Metcalf is
(30:27):
your best player and you had to buy him, so
you don't draft well. And then the OC makes these
crazy calls, for example, sprint out Rogers knowing they're not
expecting the runs. Simple things, but you know, they don't
continue it, and and I don't, you know, I kind
of want to feel bad for Tomlin, but at the
(30:49):
end of the day, he allowed all those terrible calls
and Metcalf's a pain in the neck and I know this,
but I just think that there's a lot more to
it with the OC and the GM, and.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Yeah, it's gonna be wild in the It's not all
on Rogers, It's not all on Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But Arthur Smith is their OC.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
By the way, them together collectively, man put out a
stinker roo last night in the fourth quarter, and.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
They did kind of they it did seem that they
were out schemed. And I talked to a longtime Steeler's
friend of mine this morning, and he said, I love
Tomlin because he's kind of like Imano, you know, he's
he's like a man's man, and he has the vibe
of my team will just punch your team in the mouth.
He said, But what Ben Johnson is proving in Chicago's
(31:36):
you could be both tough and smart. And he said,
I want a young and upcoming offensive mind that can
scheme with you know, the best of them.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And that's sort of a question. I think we're gonna
get to a little bit. But let's say one more
from Trip in Vegas and we'll go to Monsie for
an update.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
What's up, Trip? How are you man?
Speaker 4 (31:51):
I'm good? Comment a question and a couple of examples
of the comment is Monsi's always looking good in the
twenty year anniversary shirt. And then, uh, my question is
for Rich was it a nervous stomach or a tummy ache?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I know that Tommy ache tummy a tummy.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
And then my examples were not legacy, they're just bad
Trewell's nameless got bench. And then I didn't like seeing
Muhammad Ali getting knocked out or not knocked out, would
beat by Trevor Burbert. And then Nanny Ramirez. Where did
he go? He just got lost?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, man, he did get lost in the time.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
About Robbie Cano, dude, that's a pretty tragic sort of end.
He was playing for the SpongeBob Square Pan League.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
That was that was Actually he had a he had
a great season in Mexico U was.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
It was last year.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
But the ultimate, still, the ultimate, like embarrassing moment, was
when Robbie Cano you saw him in that like minor league.
It was SpongeBob night, and here he is a guy
that you know at one point like one of the one.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Of the great were a SpongeBob shirt.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, come on, you know steroids, minor leagues, not the
eggs that you wanted. And then there's so many ways
to think about this, and again it's just life. Guys
were speculating. Who knows how your story's gonna end, And
I'm not talking about your life, I'm talking about your career.
We don't know, So I'm not trying to be mean,
but it's like it makes me think of like Roseanne
and how criticized that guy. When Roseanne was everyone loved
(33:12):
her and then all a sudden the last now she's like, uh,
you know the right wing people, you know the first
when the first series ended, wasn't it all the dream?
And people are like, wait a second, So the whole
storyline was a stupid dream she had. That's how the
show ended, right of course. And then on the comeback
of the show she got swept off.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
So weak, the weakest.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, I mean, let's let's let's hope that doesn't happen
to any of you. All right, Manzi, what's going on?
Give us a little update, pal, guys.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Aaron Rodgers is coming back next year.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't, I don't know power where ye like, but
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
The more I let the simmer, I think about how
he made it worse by how he acted at the end,
and how you have.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
To come back. You have to come back.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Also blame Philip Rivers, because the Philip Rivers.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Came off the couch. He's probably like, if you're gonna
call me off the couch in week eight, nine, ten,
I might as well just play.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I think he's playing another year.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Even though I thought that before the bad ending it
was about it didn't end on a pick six?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Wasn't that his last throw?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah? He can't. And then then he missed the guy
trying to push him out of bounce.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Callice really ended with him getting shoved down the round.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
He really tried though, at least he tried.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
He went out there.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
He tried.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
You know what if it was his last hurrah, Yeah,
that's the reaction I think we would have gotten, like, hey, guys,
I get hey man, I came back from a band injury.
We made the playoffs. I gave it everything. I could
smirk a little bit, shrug. He was too angry to
not come back. I love the shot he gave it
the Jets, though, He goes, I've had the otto play
for two great organizations.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yes he did, Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
He didnew what he was saying.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
All right, Well, Aaron Rodgers, we don't know if he's
going to return to the Steelers. We do know Mike
Tomlin is not returning to the Steelers. He stepped down
today after nineteen seasons, but all winning seasons.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
So good for him on that.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Eagles so far, offensive coordinator Kevin Patulo after one season,
so Philadelphia is looking for their fifth offensive coordinator in
five years. ESPN reports at Marcus Freeman still expected to
remain at Notre Dame for the twenty twenty six season,
and there's a lot of rumors that NFL teams are
trying to get him to cross to the dark side.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Apparently he's gonna stay.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
Chargers of Fart offensive coordinator Greg Rowman and offensive lineman
coach Mike Devlin. Brian Dable, former Giants coach, is going
to interview for the Titaness head coaching job on Friday,
while today the Ravens completed an interview with Vikings defensive
coordinator Brian Flores for their head coaching vacancy. When it
comes to the NBA, ESPN reports at Anthony Davis is
likely to undergo surgery to repair ligament damage in his
(35:31):
left hand and miss several months, but ad tweeted, quote,
y'all better stop listening to all these lies on these apps.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Anthony Davis tweeted that after.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
The news came out that he's apparently done for several months.
Lakers stars Lebron James and Luca Doncic are questionable for
tonight's game against the Hawks. And in case you missed it,
in baseball, the Diamondbacks are requiring eight time All Star
third baseman Noblen Adanado in a trade with the Saint
Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I love he aeronato at an a. You know no
more than that this sweet sure you're wearing. Oh thank you,
od I would love more than that if you told
me Fred Warner is going to play.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
But I know it's not going to happen this week.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
It's not going to happen this week.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
They've opened his practice window.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
But they hope he returns for the NFC title game.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And did you leave out Kyle Tucker to the Mets.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
Or that's not for sure yet, but apparently they offered
him a deal that's fifty million a year. But the
Blue Jays are also in this mix.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
The Mets needs something happened. We got more Covine on wretch.
We'll talk a little about everything.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
In fact, Tomlin, I have a theory about Tomlin has
to do with wife swapping.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Ooh sounds juicy?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yes? You heard me?
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bro out of the ring. Bernard Hopkins, Man, it was embarrassing, buddy.
(38:10):
Oh well week exit last night. Aaron Rodgers. We're sorry
that went down like that. But hey, you know it's
the NFL playoffs. Man, he ain't going out. You hit
a team that had won nine in a row. I mean, yeah,
you hit a hot team, it's bound to happen. And man,
they just man, they just got combered at the end. Hey,
Covino and Rich Here, by the way, Fox Sports Radio
(38:33):
Life from the Fox Sports Radio Studio, and it is
time for our tire Ranck play of the day, speaking
of will this play be the last time we ever
see Aaron Rodgers playing on an NFL field?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh? Boy, I hope not. On fourth and five, Rogers
looks it over. Here's the snap. Rogers hit the pocket.
Rogers pinging at.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Downfield and picked off at the fifts set pull off
to his left, forty thirty five, thirty pullock twenty, pullock
upedded up the sideline, maintains his pallets head run for
paydirt Wow.
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Speaker 1 (39:20):
And keep in mind, this is fresh.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
We all witnessed this last night, and not everyone has
the luxury of going out on top.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's just not how life is. Right.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Think about every great movie. It really is like a movie, right,
with a tragic ending. Every great movie. I'm thinking of
my guy from my hometown of Union, New Jersey, Ray Liota,
in the nineteen is it ninety or ninety one good Fellas,
Henry Hill.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
All those guys were on top of the world. I mean,
they were committing.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Crimes, but they were living the life nineteen ninety good Fellas,
They were living their life. What happens at the end
with Henry Hill, he's in witness protection and his slippers.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You know this guy was.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
He was living the high life, making cash, money, eating
at the best restaurants. And where is he again, wearing
a robe, reading the paper like he's a nobody from nowhereville.
And that's what he talks about at the end of
the movie. That's just how it ends. Sometimes you see
it in sports, you see it in life, you see
it in entertainment.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You know, sometimes you see some.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Man or woman that's been a baller in the business world,
running companies and then like you know, eventually they just
got to be removed. What is Henry Hill say? Look
at me, look at me. Now, I'm a slub. He
says something about slub and that's probably how Aaron Rodgers feels.
But will we remember that? Is that the lasting memory? No, No,
it won't be. Ye, I don't think it will be.
So I think he should feel confident in knowing that
(40:39):
his legacy, uh stands before him and you know, he's
a Super Bowl champ and that's really what's going to
be remembered at the end of the day. I don't
need to come back, but I think there's a chance
he will. I know something that bothers you give it
to me that Mike Tomlin coached for the Steelers nineteen years.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yeah, I hate that. I do hate that. Camo is
one of those like oh c D like why not Twine?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I thought they were gonna have a little let's go
one more, get the twenty, get his little Steelers pin
Watch and they would agree together, like let's go one
more year together, because they seem to have.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
A Nobody else cares about even numbers, Cavino.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
When you listen to a game, does your TV sound
have to be on an even number? Or do you
go by the fives? I can't do it. Yeah, it
has to be by the fives. Fives every five, yeah five.
Your your volume can't be on like thirty one.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
And I don't like that. No bother is me go
to Kvino's house and just mess with this volume. Yea?
Speaker 2 (41:32):
All right, So you guys, I said Mike Tomlin, I
had a thought, and it has to do with a
Remember that's your wife Swap? I Do I remember Celebrity
Wife Swap? Do you remember Celebrity Wife Swap? I feel
like there was an episode where it was like, who's
to say, Rico Swave Girardo was on there.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
There were some wild characters on Celebrity Wife Swap. There
was one with Rick Flair and rowdy Roddy Piper, one
with a flavor flav and d Snyder and I bring
this up because it's wild. The concept of that show
is not the dirty and sexual the concept of the
show is live with someone else's spouse for a week
or so and you start to see, hey, maybe where
(42:11):
I'm coming up short, or hey, maybe you start to
acknowledge what's really great about your partner because they might
be better than you think. Like if you and your
girlfriend Cavino did a wife swap with Mancy and her
boyfriend Sewan whoa again nothing kinky.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Say again, nothing kinky ky, But.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Wouldn't there be a sense of I'm sure there's things
that can you know, would do with You're like, oh,
how annoying. But then there's things where he would do
He'd be like I wish Seawn did. And you know what,
I have a theory on it and has to do
with coaching, and we'll get to it next
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