December 29, 2025 • 43 mins
Covino & Rich are in for the great Dan Patrick! They get right to NFL Week 17 'Things That Make You Go Hmm!' The Bears/Niners game was insane! Niners get ripped off having to play this Saturday? They discuss Ravens/Steelers in the Sunday Night Primetime slot. Plus, the big DK Metcalf mistake, and with the Eagles offense struggling, did the Bills make a mistake going for 2?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Yeah, Monday, the ain't quite of the holiday season, ain't
quite Christmas, ain't quite New Year's?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Are we sure it's Monday?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
As the meme goes, as the constant joke goes, And
you're right, it is the grassy knoll of the holidays,
the space between that Dave Matthews sings about.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I think that's what he was thinking about, the Spanish between.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
Going on, Rich, I warry you making a new forty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I got the other day pumped about last night I
can't believe they are one game away from somehow becoming
the one seed in the NFC. Kyle Shanahan is coaching
the best football I think you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Coach of the year, no doubt, no Piggy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, we'll say Ben Johnson and they throw other
names out there. Well, Kyle Shanahan has done. Some people
could say whatever they want. I see it with my
own eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Man, the way they're moving the ball, the way they're playing,
the way they've dealt with injuries, the spirit of that team,
the forty two they play with. Dude, they just look
unstoppable right now. I mean, the Bears played a hell
of a game. Lots of great games, you know what.
Let's get right into it again. Happy Holidays from your boys,
Cavino and Rich. Clearly Rich is a big forty nine
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Ers fan. He's super fired up. We had some great games.
What a great game last night. We take your phone
calls every Monday. We get you involved, We get you
in included. That's what we do, Cavino and Rich and
we do something called things that made you go hmmm,
anything you observed from this past weekend, anything in the
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world of football in the world of life, in the
world of holiday movies, in the world of the grundle
of the holidays, the space between you know, whatever it
is you observed, you call and let us know and
we discuss it. And Rich your team the forty nine
ers are clicking. Like we said last weekend, I think
even more so at the right time.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
My first observation was the fact that brock Party never
gets rattled.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
After that first pick six.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Within fifteen seconds in the game, it's seven nothing, and
everyone's like, oh no, well here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
This is it's unraveling.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
And he's playing with a little bit of confidence, a
little cockiness, a little gustone. His dance moves are improving,
like he is leading that team, man, and they're moving the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Ball with ease. Dude, their offense looks unstoppable.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I worried that without Kittle they would struggle in certain areas.
But yo, tongus, this this guy's you know, really a
solid filling.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
He's been clearly under the tutelage. Well, I want George
Kid too. Rich, I'm not swinging from the forty nine
ers bean bag. I am a little Rich is a
forty nine Ers fan. I'm watching unbiased just watching the game.
Of course, I'm familiar, more familiar with the forty nine ers,
and we've a little bit harder because of Rich. I
don't want to see him sad in the studio. I
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don't root against them, but props to the Bears putting
up a fight.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
They look great too.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But the forty nine Ers, again minus Kittle, every team
has injuries Rich, So clearly the forty nine Ers defense
isn't what it should be right now.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But man, what a game. What an exciting weekend, And.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That's gotta be observation number one. What a battle is
gonna be with the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I would say the thing that made me go hm
the most was that the game is it's you know,
it really is a game of a play here, play there.
The Bears fans and I'm not trying to, you know,
be condescending, you have nothing to be ashamed of, no,
but they're really like you're you're one play, one pass away,
and all of a sudden, if Caleb Williams on that
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final play find someone in the end zone, then the
Bears are the greatest and the Niners blew it like
it really is like those teams last night battled where
I wouldn't be shocking either one like that.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That's not a game when.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Your team loses where you're like, oh man, we suck
like you were a play away.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You really were, you were a playaway. You ran out
of time.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Well, the Bears blew it on that like second last
drive where they didn't score a touch they should have
scored a touchdown and had to go for the field
goal because you knew the forty nine ers would come back.
It was just such a back in fourth game, just
a back and forth, explosive offensive game, and both teams
look great and we reaped the benefits of it. So
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even if you're a Chicago fan, you gotta be pumped.
But man, what a weekend, guys. And this is again
where we get you involved. Even on our show Monday
through Friday, Covino and Rich were on five to seven
on the East, two to four on the West. So
when did you buy that forty nine er shirt? Over
the weekend, I bought my kids.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Some new forty nine ers, you know, some new sports
gear for Christmas, and I was like, you know what,
I saw this shirt. I'm like, you know what, I
need a new T shirt? So let me let me
grab one, so figuring it, I had Rocket Proud.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Today he's burying the lead. He also bought them some
new Dodger gear.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
No, I refused, I thought Danny. I was at the
shop at the mall, the like you know, the I
don't know what it's not.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's not the it's just some random jersey shops sports treasures.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, and I did see some Dodger stuff and I'm like,
I can't do it. I can't buy my kids Dodger
stuff yet. If you don't, if you don't know my
kids are Dodgers fans, I am not.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But I couldn't do it.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
So let's go over this. Things that made you go hmmm,
week seventeen.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Things that make you go all right.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So things that make you go that make gid goal hm.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I would say anyone that ever called brock Party a
game manager has to be seeing some of the things
he's doing and they're like, all right, like we've we
may have like misread this whole situation a year ago
because some of the players brock Party was making, and
the way he moves around in moments, you can't in
any way say he's a game manager.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The way he.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Moves around the poise and Rich when you're watching through
other people's eyes, you know, through the holidays, you're probably
watching with mixed company and everything.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Two other observations I made, Oh people, you don't usually watch.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
One Yeah, yeah, because you don't normally watch with these
people is oh, my god, is this guy eighteen? Like
how young he looks, How young he is yet how
confident he plays like he has a really this sounds corny, Rich,
but it's noticeable. He has a really great touch, so
again or feel for the ball. You know, might have
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the strongest start, might not be the fastest guy, but
he has all the those and tangibles, those qualities. He
has a really great touch, He makes really great passes,
really great timing, and he jels really well with this team.
It's really fun to watch Rich. If I were you,
and I know you don't want to get ahead of yourself.
As the resident forty nine Ers fan, I'd be really
pumped about this.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I've been to you know, a couple of Super Bowls
in the last handful of years, two times lost to
the Chiefs under Kyle Shanahan, and like I feel like
we talked about did their window close, it looks a
little open right now.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The window. The windows open right now, So the NFC
is wide open.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And that's that's another observation where you look around the
NFC and I don't think there is a team you'd
be shocked if they didn't make it or did make it.
I still think the Rams are the best team in
the NFC. And you know they're not gonna be your
one seed. They're a wild card, and I think the
Rams could very well be the best team. Didn't think
about it. We talked about the game of inches, like
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last night, the forty nine ers are the greatest because
the Bears couldn't convert on fourth and goal with four
seconds left. Rewind them a week ago or so, where
on Thursday night the Seahawks go for two, make it
and win. If they missed that, the Rams are the
ones secen I'm like, dude, this is the Rams here,
So it's it really is a matter of who's gonna
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be hot in the month of January.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, you're lucky that that hook and ladder play did
not develop further down the field.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh lenor stop that?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
My goodness, that scared the crap out of every Niners fan,
but all your observations from week seventeen, let's hear him
in for Dan, Patrick, Covino and Rich. I think that
you don't like to live on hope of like this
guy's gonna return. You remember last year, Danny, the Lions
who ended up faltering down the stretch against the Commanders.
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You remember the sentiment was if they make it to
the NFC Championship Game or Super Bowl, Aiden Hutchinson's gonna
make a comeback.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Do you remember that that story last year?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of course, and then they fall short against the Commanders
and Jayde and Daniels and it's like, oh, man, would
Aiden Hutchinson have come out in that like in that
glorious moment and be like, I'm here to save the defense.
The forty nine ers have a situation now where Fred
Warner such a conditioned guy. I don't know if you
saw Fred Warner jumping on the field congratulating his teammates there.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Of course, they showed him a bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
He started the game by getting the Niners crowd fired
up Dumb City. There's the sentiment that he's saying, I'll
be back if the forty nine Ers make the NFC
championship game, which makes this game against the Seahawks even
more high level because if they win, they a bye,
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which means they'd have to win a divisional game. And
then you're telling me, you beat the Seahawks, then you
win one playoff game and you get Fred warnerback for
the NFC Championship.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I don't know how real that is, but that sounds insane.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
No, it sounds It sounds real inspiring, It sounds real great,
really motivating for your forty nine ers. But you know,
not to get far too far ahead. But that is
the next game. How do you think they size up?
Is something else that makes you go hmmm at this
point of the season, forty nine or Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What a battle. By the way, I do want.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
To wish our guy, our producer, super producer, Danny G
a happy belated birthday. He celebrated his birthday weekend during
the tainh of the holidays.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
So happy birthday, Danny G.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
He's got the smooth, this most buttery voice in all
the radio land, and he's on the phones at eighty
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Wish Dan a happy birthday again.
In for Dan, Patrick Covino and rich So Richie, I
think you have every every, every reason to be excited,
and that just gives you another layer to your forty
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nine ers.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Here's the thing. I'll give you another thing that made
not just me, but everyone go hm hm. And again
any observation from week seventeen, a casual Monday.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Let's let's pump it up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
As you said, the taint of the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What day is it? Where are we? Everyone's like off
from work?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
He ain't quite as the fisher, Yeah, because it ain't
quite Christmas, ain't quite New Year's.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He ain't quite of the holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So while we all sit around, you know, scratching our
bellies on our pajamas, I think for football, hell yeh,
Saturday Night Niners hosting the Seahawks for the one seed
and for the NFC West or everything is fun as
a viewer because now you got this primo Saturday night,
primetime eight pm on the East Coast, five out here
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on the West. That's the matchup. But do you think
both teams got a little bit of a raw deal?
Short week they have to plan on Saturday, and that
game is not your Sunday night game because the network's
decided to go with Aaron Rodgers against the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I noticed that, which is also a big game.
We got to talk about.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
The Steelers two blowing it and the Raven's stepping up
big time.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean, I know Aaron Rodgers, I know he's ratings,
and you could say, well, the forty nine Ers had
primetime games the last couple weeks. Yeah, but Saturday Night's
also a primetime game, and it's the game with the
highest level of significance. I just can't understand how and
the forty nine has went from Monday Night to Sunday
Night to now Saturday Night.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Their schedules all over the place.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But I guess if they're rolling and jelling and they
got that camaraderie, I guess it doesn't matter. But when
you got a guy like Kittle, and you saw Trent Williams,
big Trent Williams get banged up last night, you don't
think those guys want one extra day before the biggest
game of the season.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I don't think there's any question.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I know Aaron Rodgers' ratings, like you said, but that's
not the most exciting matchup of the weekend. Yeah, I
do think the forty nine er Seahawks game got hosed
a little bit, Yeah, a.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Little bit, No Metcalf.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Of course for the Steelers, that's gonna hurt, just us
hurt yesterday and then also bad back for Lamar right now,
so that seems like it's gonna be a defensive game
and maybe ugly.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So that Lions fan is the Ravens MVP this year
without DK Metcalf, the Ravens seem to that.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I believe they're like three and a half point favorites
opening up. That Lions fan spoke out over the weekend too.
You may have been returning presence. You may have missed it. Again,
it's a confusing time. That's just between the holidays.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Did you like his folding table us comfort.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
He had his own little press conference just asking DK
Metcalf for an apology because he said two things he
doesn't stand for is animal cruelty and racism, and he
goes he wants the world to know. He says his
family's getting death threats. So DK Metcalf please do the
right thing and tell the world that I said nothing
that you claim I said nothing racist whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He's just a Lions fan.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
No, and honestly, Richard, part of me believes him and
did he Metcalf not being there? And that spin they
tried to put on the story like if there was
any truth to it, the NFL wouldn't have suspended him
the way they did, you know, as fast as they did,
And it played huge dividends for Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers,
and I was Rogers dude, I would be so pissed
about that because there were so many plays and they
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made a point of it during the game that were
designed for DK Metcalf, and had he been there, it
would have been a different outcoming.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now all the pressure on them against the Ravens next week.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I said it a week ago, and I'm not moonwalking,
I'm not back pedaling. I still think that Lions fans
an ask clown, but probably the type of guy you'd
have a beer with.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But he's a dope.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I mean, you know that doesn't make him a race
but but you know who a bigger fool is Dk Metcalf.
I heard LeVar on Two Pros and a Cup of
Joe driving in this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
He was chopping up with Jonas and.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
There they were talking about how you know LeVar played
in the NFL. It was a superstar Penn State. He goes,
fans taunt you, He's like, you know, I would just
casually be like, yeah, you mother like that? That was
his response, you know, he would he would yeah your
mother is That was his thing. He goes whatever someone said,
he jokingly with in jest, said that back because he's like,
you can't let someone get you out of your zone
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and out.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Of your zone, weak skin, thin scan again, superstar not
trying to could he call out DK? But he put
his team in such a bad situation with that selfish
move of not being able to control himself. I know
he doesn't care about the money, but still took a
major hit. What over five hundred thousand dollars and the games.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The Steelers could have got out of some financial long
term commitments, but they didn't. They did the right quote
moral thing because they have a commitment to DK. But
I'll tell you what, DK didn't seem to have a
commitment to the betterment of the Steelers. When you when
you act like an asked and respond to a fan
like that. Again, I still think that fans like ass jackass?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But why why? Though Rich.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
He's a goofball fan because he has a wig on.
Every guy they's showing the stands has a stupid hat on,
by the way, has a stupid chain on.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
If you want to have face paint on. Look at. Uh,
he's not the only.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Guy look at I mean at work when they come
back from commercial breaking, they pants all those people in
the crowd. There's a lot of fanatical crazy people. I'm
saying he's an ass clown, but then again, we have
a bunch of our friends are ass clowns. I'm just saying,
DK really put the Steelers in a bad spot.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Really, and I feel for Aaron Rodgers too, because you know,
even that last play Taylor made for DK metcalf. He
would have scooped that up, jumped up the corner of
the end zone and got that one and the Steelers win.
But that's not the case. Now, all the pressure on
them playing a hot All of a sudden, the Ravens
are hot. Derrick Henry's unstoppable, running people over. You know,
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he had two game balls at the end of the game.
How are you going to stop them?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
As they say, most people, a lot of people had
their fantasy football. I would imagine Danny championships this week
as no one really plays in the week eighteen, right,
If you heard your fantasy football championship and you had
DK Metcalf, who I'm sorry. If you had Derek Henry,
who really didn't do much all year for the most part, Yeah,
and you had him yesterday, My goodness.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I just felt for the Steelers in that moment because
you know, and there's a lot of people yelling and
screaming at Tomlin. A lot of that offense and Danny
GEO backed me up clearly designed around DK Metcalf, and
I don't want to be too hard on Dk Metcalf,
but that mistake it played, played huge dividends.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
But it's for them this weekend. It's not just like
a little mistake.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's a you took the best you could argue, the
biggest stake, the best player on that offense, out of
the final two games of the season in a playoff push.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And you know, look at it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I'm not saying we're geniuses, because everyone made a ton
of like weak ass predictions and awesome predictions going into
the season. But I think the one thing we were
all agreement on, and it's not just us that this
is no pat on the back. I'm not a Barry
Horrowitz in the eighties wrestling patting myself on the back.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Remember that guy? Is that a reference anyone gets?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Barry? Barry? I was in an a weaker reference.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
So it's all good, okay, But I was gonna say, Pat,
who pat on the back?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Pat? Who? Pat? From SNL Are you the guys that
hate everything? That's a good one? So maybe yours. I
feel like I'm hanging out with my pops right now. Ah,
you guys, remember it's Pat pat on the back? Dude.
Awesome to lame eighties and nineties references. I don't know, Pat.
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Some are all could have thrown Pat some aer on there.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I love that legend recide. But we all said the
same thing. We said that the Steelers probably go nine
and eight or ten and seven, and we all said
they'll probably go ten and seven. Got a little better
because of Rogers, and they're they're ten and seven sneaking
the playoffs. And then the thing was we all said,
and if the Steeler's been one playoff game, it would
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be considered like a victory. And they are and it's
really exactly where they are right now, and DK Metcalf
could be the reason why it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It doesn't go down. I don't see it going their way. Man.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, I feel like momentum is not on their side
right now, and it is on the Ravens side. And man,
it is a great game. See NATA, we're talking about it. Yeah,
it is a great game. But I don't think it
takes precedence over your forty nine or Seahawks game.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, if both teams were healthy or had somebody that
wasn't suspended, then I think it would be a better
matchup obviously, But Rich it's kind of like when Kittle
is missing from your offense. He makes your offense go yeah.
Metcalf makes that Steelers offense go.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, Which is why I was so surprising the Niners
last night. It just shows that maybe it's just Shanahan
or Tongus is good. But interestingly enough, the games that
matter the most next week. I think the NFL, hey,
they lucked out. I wish they was more excitement than that.
NFC North I wish I wish the dead lines didn't
phase off at the end, and I wish the Packers,
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I wish there was something at stake in that division
because it's a really exciting division in my mind. But
there's three real good games significance. There's a couple for
seating purposes, but three of them. Two of them are Saturday,
one a Sunday night. I just think they got the
order a little wrong Saturday because the two games that division,
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other than the Niner Seahawks, the two other games that
determine in and win out if you lose division titles,
should be Saturday. I feel like Bucks Carolina and the
Steelers raven should have been like your doubleheader on Saturday,
and they could even have made a gimmick Cavino like
in and win it like this is like round zero
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of the playoffs essentially, because in those two games, losers out,
winner moves on, So why would they not? And the
ones an NFC matchup, ones an AFC matchup. I think
the NFL should have stacked Ravens, Steelers, Bucks Panthers and
made that your Saturday almost.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I call it like the mini wild Card or something.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Because there's gotta be a reason, though, Rich, you know,
there's got to be a ratings reason, any reason. The
NFL very calculated and how they do this so I'm
sure there's a reason that we don't know. We as
fans though see.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It that way.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It can't simply be a network thing where the Niners
played too many times on primetime games on a certain network.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Or what is maybe who gets that Saturday night game, Danny?
Is that Fox?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is Fox get that Saturday night forty nine Ers game?
Let me take a look, because maybe it's a network
that God picks, because isn't there something to be said
about how the networks do get preferences when they wanted times.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
There's probably something like that that we're not seeing right.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Well, ABC, Saturday your Saturday NFL this week Bucks Panthers
nine or Seahawks, those two NFC battles. They're both on
ABC and ESPN. So maybe part of the Monday Night
football package is they got a pick maybe you know, like, oh,
you pick your game?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
What do you want to be your primetime game? ABC?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And then on Sunday, of course Sunday Night Football, last
game of the year, that's on MB so.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
So much more to get too rich And that's where
we get you involved. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
we touched on the forty nine Ers and the Steelers
for the most part, we haven't even talked about any
other games, so we got to get into it. So
much drama in the LBC. So many things happened over
the weekend. You know, the Bills. Should they have went
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for the tie? That's another one, right, that another game.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And Josh Allen answering a question just as honest as
he could. So we'll get to all your week seventeen stuff.
Just a lot of fun. Hopefully everyone had a great
Christmas with friends and family and his Covino said, not
to be a cliche, but every this is the week
where I think everyone is in chill mode, which is
nice because you got a lot of football. You have
a lot of laying on your laying on your couch
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watching football time. So we'll get to all your feedback
next right here on Coveno on Rich.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
What's the date?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Even the twenty ninth, Monday the twenty ninth, As we
get ready for the final week of the NFL season,
can you believe that we're there already?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
What's up? CoV Hold on one second? Can you know
you there? Buddy boy?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, we're getting to everything that went down yesterday Week
seventeen of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I think we're looking at the feedback.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Someone said, you know, there's a reason why Aaron Rodgers
is gonna be on Sunday Night Football, one last opportunity
for Chris Collinsworth to stroke mister Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, I love that's a good thought.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
All right, Well, hey, well we'll get Cavino back up
and running. But hey, any other thoughts you have, Let's
go to your phone calls. Let's start with Frank. Frank,
you're on Coveno and Rich into the Great DP.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
What's up right, Hey, guys, I have a theory on
the why they have the sand Fan Seattle game on
Saturday this week? Could it be because wild Card weekend
starts next Saturday, and knowing that both San fran and
Seattle are going to be playing next weekend, to at
least give those guys those teams seven days rest.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You're saying one of the way, whoever, whoever loses, whatever
team loses nine er Seahawks, you're saying that they've already
mentally slated that is one of your Saturday Wildcard games.
So if the Niners drop this one or see, someone's
gonna drop the game. So one of those teams is
gonna have to play as a wildcard, the other get
to buy. So you're saying, might as well give him
that that one week off exactly into the postseason.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That makes sense. I could see that. Rich. You have
Kyle Shanahan coaching your team, you only need four days rest.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I was gonna say, my only thought that bothers me
about this short week are two of the most important
players on the Niners right now are a little hobby.
And that's George Kittle, who said he wanted to come
back yesterday. He said it was a game time decision,
so likely Kittles get to go in week eighteen. And
(25:53):
Big Trent Williams, who I think Scott Van Pelt JINXD
do you remember after that Indianapolis game, He's like, Trent,
you're one of the best offensive linemen in NFL history,
but you've been banged up over the years. This is
your first season where you've played every game. I'm like,
shut the hell up Van Pelt And here we are
a week later. He's a little banged up, but hopefully
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he's back. What's up, Covina?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
To your feedback at eight seven, seven, nine nine on
Fox Wes and Idaho saying, YO, give me that Sunday
Night crew or the Ulsen crew over Brady.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I don't know what you thought, Brady. Was an observation
I had.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I thought Tom Brady over the weekend is proving that
he's getting more and more entertaining in the booth. Not
only more and more entertaining, but what was that the
glove thing he was he was harping. You know, like
sometimes you get fixated on something. I think tom Brady
was fixated on how in those weather conditions?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
And who know better than him? So you almost have
to take his ward more than anyone.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, but most of all, he looked like a Bond villain.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I can't go for the turtleneck look. I've I don't
know anyone.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I mean, I guess if you're like a dude that's
in like fashion and style, But Danny you do do
you ever rock a turtleneck?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I think he could get away with it. I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Turtleneck with sports code is a look where I'm always
like turtle liquid sports cut. Huh, you get you going
with the turtle licking sports code. But tom Brady proving that.
I think we were all very tough on him, and
I get it. You know what we're tough on him
when you sign a contract and you see the numbers, like, yo,
tom Brady's making hundreds of millions of dollars in a
long term deal to be a broadcaster.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
And he wasn't so sharp at the beginning.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Very easy to say he sucks, But I don't think
he's that bad.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I still think Greg Olsen might be my favorite guy
that's in the in the world of color commentating for Fox.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Dude, I think tom Brady's doing everything we expected him
to do, get better at it, noticeably better. I thought
he was great. I think we're overly critical. It's just
because it's Tom Brady. Were hanging on every word he says,
We're just listening extra close. He's great, you know what
any is than he was when he started, for sure.
And Dude, as far as criticizing his turtleneck, I'm with you.
(28:06):
It's noticeable because he's Tom Brady, but not everybody could
pull it off because they're not tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's like, you know, we make fun of him, but
Cam Newton pulls off those hats.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
You cunn't, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I mean like, yeah, some people could rock a style
and some others can't.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
So it's noticeable, But yeah, does it look bad? Are
they superstars? Can they pull it off? That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know what's funny is that I guess if you
got any retired star in any sport to do TV commentating,
you start to see people's I want to say crutches,
but their their go tos, like Dinny. If you started
call him play by play or something, we'd be like, yo,
you've noticed how Danny always does does this. People love
to talk about how Collins earthles are like, here's a
(28:48):
guy that blank.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You know, Tom Brady man the way he slurs on Mahomes. Yeah,
Tom Brady pointed out last night Tirico was slurping on
your boy party. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They've even made a comment though, they're like, get Collins
are beating the trolls on social media to it by
at least admitting that he's you know, Brock pretty does
some good stuff, and he immediately compares him to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But you look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The the broadcasters that we knew as former players are
all gonna have little things. We point out tom Brady's
very excitable, he gets you can see what a football
fan he is because he gets excited for the big plays, like.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
He's screaming in the booth. And I have no issue
with that, right, I think that's great. I think that's
what you want from an announcer. I just think because
is Tom Brady, and he was so criticized when he
first got in there, we still hang on to it.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Instead of just listening.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You know, it's like Rich, it's like when we as
radio hosts, when our friends are listening, they're hanging on
every word instead of just listening like you would to
any other normal show. You're not overly criticizing everything. Just
listen and enjoy Tom Brady. So things that made you
go hmm, any option you made speaking to Tom Brady?
(30:02):
Even more comparisons, Drake May to Tom Brady five tutties,
the most for the Pats since TB twelve thirteen and
three AFC East Clinch.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Drake May the Mahahan. I just think it's wow.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
People are saying there's a lot of fun you know,
rumors obviously Rich of how Tom Brady is an investor
in you know, cloning, that cloning thing where he cloned
his dog. They're like, dude, maybe Drake May has cloned
because it is pretty amazing to see the stats he's
putting up.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, they just needed the right coach and the
right quarterback. And you know, it's the most underrated thing
in all of sports. Think about every sport, every sport
you got what does it take to win?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
In baseball?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You're like, well, you need to do you need an
ace and you need, you know, you need a couple
guys that could hit thirty five or more home runs,
like you know basketball, you need the right you know
leader every every sport you like, what is the equation
to possibly win in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I think it's very simple.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
If you get a quarterback coach combo that gels together,
and you're seeing it with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams
within year one of them together, You're like, you get
a coach at a quarterback that are like a little
matchmate in heaven.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
That is all you really, that's all you really need.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That again, you fill in the blanks around there, but
you'll compete at minimum, you'll compete with that combo.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You know where you were reminded of that.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I don't know if people watched this over the Taint
of the Holidays, but the John Elway documentary on Netflix,
which I highly recommend, you keep talking about Kyle Shanahan,
but he credits Lway, credits Mike Shanahan for changing his
life and changing his career.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's true, though, think about all the teams that you
really believe in, what do they have in common?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Danny?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
This is the most common. This is the most obvious
statement I brought up. But the Rams, you got McVeigh
and Stafford any good team. And my point was you
have a good young quarterback like Drake may and Vrabel
who came in there, and we forget that Mayo was
the coach of a year. Remember that one year one
year and then it was just like, yeah, it's not
working out of you. You were a former player. Everyone loved you,
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but as Rabel instead, like Rabel and Drake May seem
to have clicked. And you have Sean Payton and bo Nicks.
You get a quarterback coach combo that get each other,
that almost pick each other, right, I mean, like you
you find each other. It's almost like a relationship, and
like you run with it as long as you can.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
There's a wild Drake maystat here he's the first player
with five plus passing touchdowns and over a ninety percent
completion percentage in a game since nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Damn, and that Jake game could have got uglier.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I was flipped. It's not a game.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't think anyone watched all four quarters of it
was disgusting, and there were better games on But anytime
you looked at a highlight or you had your multiple
games up on the TV, like, yeah, this game is
ugly and could have been worse. I almost sew like
at one point the Patriots were like yeah. They were like, yeah,
just take out some starters and relax. Like this game
they could have beat them seventy to ten or whatever
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it was.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It would have been disgusting.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And then you wonder, is there any chance Aaron Glenn
in the world gets another shot at this?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Are they committed to him?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Like, because you just start to hear like in a
week from now, who's on the hot seat right, like
what coaches are the first to go? I'd be shocked
to see if they stick with him. And speaking of
documentaries conving, I'm look at the feedback. Colin hit us
up and said, you brought up the Lway one, which
I'm gonna watch tonight.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I think, oh, man, I haven't watched this yet.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You're so reminded of what a winner he was, what
he meant to Denver, how he put it on the map.
You're reminded of the fact that this dude lost I
mean common knowledge, but when you see how down he
was three Super Bowls, right to come back to.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
AFC when we were kids. Dude, the AFC couldn't stack up.
It was like, do you remember at one point it
was like, all right, whoever wins the NFC, The Niners,
the Cowboys, maybe the Giants of the Redskins, like there
was a powerhouse in the NFC A but like three
or four teams, and it was like, all right, who's
gonna beat the Broncos this year?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
He wins the second Super Bowl, then wins a third
as a GM I think the only player to win
as a as a player at GM. And then he's
watching his highlights. I'm not giving it away. Let's just
say it's emotional. The guy has gone through a roller coaster,
but he's a winner and he credits. Like Rich said,
the quarterback coach combo is so significant, he couldn't do much.
(34:28):
But with Shanahan, everything jeled and you know, a lot
of times maybe we put it on the quarterback, but
you know, maybe behind the scenes, it really is the
fact that they're just not gelling with the system, with
the quarterback and what's expected of them. Like, dang, I
wonder if that's what's happening with your boy, Geno Smith.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I mean, he's not your answer.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
No, I know he's not the answer, but you got
to do to fall off so hard, like something's not
clicking with the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I think he just had a quick little rebirth and
it was just is never the same. And by the way,
when I said the documentary, ken was says Colin said,
speaking of documentaries, not only the lay one. Did you
see the first look we're getting at the speaking of coaches,
Nick Cage is John Madden.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
That's been floating around.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You know, I'm glad he brought that up because I
was thinking about that too.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I have seen it. I watched the trailer.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, and dude, I gotta tell you, man, do you
still see Nick cag or you oh you buy it?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
In Yeah, I see Nick Cage in a fat suit,
Like that's really it. And it really bothers me because
I hear he's a great show.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well I'm John Madden Boom to fact intern acting where
boom boom, turnduck.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
In booms and all I see is Nick Cage's stupid
face in a fat suit. And there's a lot of
rumor and speculation on social media is like they should
have whit were Frank Caliando and they always thought John
Candy would have been Well John can't it would have been,
but he's thirty years ago. Geez right, you know, but
you know I wish, I wish this movie. Well, I'm
(35:52):
gonna watch with an open mind, but I can't not
see Nick Cage's face.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But I am seeing it. I'm hearing good things. You know.
There are so many other observations.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Things we got to get to week seventeen of the
NFL and anything else that was going on in your life.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
What did you watch? Any good shows?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Have you been killing time during the holiday season. We'll
take all your feedback.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
And well, I brought up Dandyg's Raiders too, because I
want him to break down that Max Crosby drama, because
that wasn't making me say, you.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Mean how Max Crosby's on trampolines with his kids. Meanwhile
the Raiders like, yeah, he's out, Like right, there's something there.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
There's lots of observations we still have to make, and
we want to include you. Next eight, seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox, where Cavino and Richard live from the
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Speaker 4 (36:52):
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in the middle of things that make you go, hmm, yeah,
there's a developing story that happened in Nigeria and yeah,
first I read it like in the Sun and I'm like,
I don't know if this is credible. And now it's
in the New York Post but Anthony Joshua, just two
weeks after his big knockout of Jake Paul, was in
(37:49):
a really bad car accident. So he's hospitalized. But there
was two people that were killed in this accident, so
really really bad news, but they keep if you read
the headlines, Anthony Joshua injured in the car crash that
kills two in Nigeria. He was a passenger, so I
don't believe he was driving in it. I'm not saying
(38:10):
that makes it any better or worse. I'm just saying
that I'm getting a lot of feedback even on social
media and people hitting me up, Yo, did you see
what happened? I don't think he was driving. I don't
think it's anything that makes it his fault. Just an
unfortunate story as of now, as it develops, as I
get the story here, but it looks like and there's
(38:31):
pictures of him, which by the way, I can't help
but notice that in the picture he's there like in
the seat, in the car seat.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
With no shirt on. Is he just rolling around flexing?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
No, hopefully, but anyway, wish people involved the best. But
two people are left dead in a tragic story, So
that makes me say, sad story there to keep you
posted on. But Rich, I did want to backtrack a
second before we get everybody involved eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. You know, I was in there scratching
my noug and watching with my buddy Colton again mixed
(39:04):
company and family. It's the grundle of the holidays, the
gooch of the holidays, the space between. And I'm thinking
to myself, why aren't the Bills going for at least
the tie here? Like why the win in this situation?
And then I dismiss it because I'm like, well, I
guess ballsy move props for them, like.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
He had his guys, Josh Allen said he had his guy.
He just can't He's got to make that play. He's
got to make that play.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But it's just the matter of the Eagles not scoring
at all in the second half and having no momentum
at all. Wouldn't you go for the tie and then
like safely go for the win after that? Like or again,
am I missing something here? But it's end of the second.
He made me made me go end of the season.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Wear and tear. They had momentum.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I do you even want to push games to overtime nowadays,
I thought the real story there, believe it or not,
that this guy not.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I'm not saying he's off the.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Hook, because it'd probably probably be replaced their backup placekicker
missing that extra point to make it thirteen to six
instead of thirteen to seven, the.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Weakest something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Like I'm not saying no one's talking about it, because
everyone's talking about Josh Allen missing that pass on the
two point conversion. We wouldn't even have to have come
to that had the placekicker got a little elevation on
that previous extra point. We're talking about thirteen to seven.
They score that touch, that extra point wins the game,
no speculation, do they go for two or force overtime.
(40:33):
You can't be missing extra points in clutch spots like that.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
That's horse, by the way.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Sean McDermott said after the game, wanted to be aggressive
there going for the win. We feel like there's obviously
only a certain amount of time left at that point,
and we felt like we had a great call in place,
a great opportunity to go win it. I want to
be aggressive. I'm not gonna sit back again.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I like that attitude, Like Rich said good pass, we'd
be singing a different tune.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Think about it aggressive aggressive, being aggressive as a coach.
It's it's all results based, right, Like think of how
many times Dan Campbell was like the ballsiest guy in
her own loved him. Then when the Lions started going
like one for five on fourth downs, it's like what
an idiot? Like you know, you're either ballsy and awesome
and like, yo, that's my type of guy, man, ballsy
coach going for it.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Yeah, but the Eagles seemed to have nothing.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
And what is every fan base? Give me know, every
fan base when your team does go for it on
fourth and short, every fan base loves it because no
one really wants to punt, right, Remember when you played
street football as a kid, did anyone when there was
a kicking or sticking? Did anyone kick you? Always you
played when you played tech ball ball or Madden. I'm
saying when you were when you were playing tech bo
ball or Madden when you were a kid, did you
(41:44):
ever punt?
Speaker 4 (41:46):
You know, you were like like mort I played cage football,
Nick Cage.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
I think to Covino's point, Rich, you had the same
amount of passing yards as Jayala hurts did in the
second half of that game.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I'm telling you, man, dude, he only had one hundred
and ten yards the entire game, right, Yeah, they did
nothing the second half. That's really what made me go
home in that in that situation, I'm like, all right,
just play it safe, go for the extra point, and
just beat him because you clearly had the momentum at
that point. Again, Easier said here on a Monday morning
and for DP. But yes, Josh Allen, man, no one
(42:24):
matter than him.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Everyone's got a plan, everyone's got everyone's got a strategy
or a game plan going into a fight, going into
a game, going into anything, it's just a matter if
it's if it's executed right. Josh Allen makes that pass,
the guy's wide open, then all of a sudden, it's like, wow,
why it'd be aggressive. You saw Kyle Shanahan didn't call
time out because he said the Bears look discombobulated going
into that. You know, fourth and goal. You know, I'm sorry,
(42:49):
first and goal from the four yard line with four seconds.
He could have called the time out, he didn't, and
it worked out otherwise. It's like, why didn't he? Right,
So your feedback all the things that Made You Go
HM Week seventeen of the NFL. We Got More Next,
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, Monday, the ain't quite of the holiday season, ain't
quite Christmas, ain't quite New Year's?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Are we sure it's Monday?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
As the meme goes, as the constant joke goes, And
you're right, it is the grassy knoll of the holidays,
the space between that Dave Matthews sings about.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I think that's what he was thinking about, the Spanish between.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You know how I know Rich because I'm officially wearing
pajama pants. Oh you're disgusting, Yeah, yeah, yeah, live from Idaho.
I'm live from Idaho and the rest of their crew
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
Always an honor to be here.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Happy holidays, guys, It's a pleasure to be here during
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It's YouTube dot com at Covino and Rich FSR and
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
Going on, Rich, I warry you making a new forty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I got the other day pumped about last night I
can't believe they are one game away from somehow becoming
the one seed in the NFC. Kyle Shanahan is coaching
the best football I think you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Coach of the year, no doubt, no Piggy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know, we'll say Ben Johnson and they throw other
names out there. Well, Kyle Shanahan has done. Some people
could say whatever they want. I see it with my
own eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Man, the way they're moving the ball, the way they're playing,
the way they've dealt with injuries, the spirit of that team,
the forty two they play with. Dude, they just look
unstoppable right now. I mean, the Bears played a hell
of a game. Lots of great games, you know what.
Let's get right into it again. Happy Holidays from your boys,
Cavino and Rich. Clearly Rich is a big forty nine
(01:51):
Ers fan. He's super fired up. We had some great games.
What a great game last night. We take your phone
calls every Monday. We get you involved, We get you
in included. That's what we do, Cavino and Rich and
we do something called things that made you go hmmm,
anything you observed from this past weekend, anything in the
(02:12):
world of football in the world of life, in the
world of holiday movies, in the world of the grundle
of the holidays, the space between you know, whatever it
is you observed, you call and let us know and
we discuss it. And Rich your team the forty nine
ers are clicking. Like we said last weekend, I think
even more so at the right time.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
My first observation was the fact that brock Party never
gets rattled.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
After that first pick six.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Within fifteen seconds in the game, it's seven nothing, and
everyone's like, oh no, well here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
This is it's unraveling.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
And he's playing with a little bit of confidence, a
little cockiness, a little gustone. His dance moves are improving,
like he is leading that team, man, and they're moving the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Ball with ease. Dude, their offense looks unstoppable.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I worried that without Kittle they would struggle in certain areas.
But yo, tongus, this this guy's you know, really a
solid filling.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
He's been clearly under the tutelage. Well, I want George
Kid too. Rich, I'm not swinging from the forty nine
ers bean bag. I am a little Rich is a
forty nine Ers fan. I'm watching unbiased just watching the game.
Of course, I'm familiar, more familiar with the forty nine ers,
and we've a little bit harder because of Rich. I
don't want to see him sad in the studio. I
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don't root against them, but props to the Bears putting
up a fight.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
They look great too.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But the forty nine Ers, again minus Kittle, every team
has injuries Rich, So clearly the forty nine Ers defense
isn't what it should be right now.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But man, what a game. What an exciting weekend, And.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That's gotta be observation number one. What a battle is
gonna be with the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I would say the thing that made me go hm
the most was that the game is it's you know,
it really is a game of a play here, play there.
The Bears fans and I'm not trying to, you know,
be condescending, you have nothing to be ashamed of, no,
but they're really like you're you're one play, one pass away,
and all of a sudden, if Caleb Williams on that
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final play find someone in the end zone, then the
Bears are the greatest and the Niners blew it like
it really is like those teams last night battled where
I wouldn't be shocking either one like that.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
That's not a game when.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Your team loses where you're like, oh man, we suck
like you were a play away.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You really were, you were a playaway. You ran out
of time.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Well, the Bears blew it on that like second last
drive where they didn't score a touch they should have
scored a touchdown and had to go for the field
goal because you knew the forty nine ers would come back.
It was just such a back in fourth game, just
a back and forth, explosive offensive game, and both teams
look great and we reaped the benefits of it. So
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even if you're a Chicago fan, you gotta be pumped.
But man, what a weekend, guys. And this is again
where we get you involved. Even on our show Monday
through Friday, Covino and Rich were on five to seven
on the East, two to four on the West. So
when did you buy that forty nine er shirt? Over
the weekend, I bought my kids.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Some new forty nine ers, you know, some new sports
gear for Christmas, and I was like, you know what,
I saw this shirt. I'm like, you know what, I
need a new T shirt? So let me let me
grab one, so figuring it, I had Rocket Proud.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Today he's burying the lead. He also bought them some
new Dodger gear.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
No, I refused, I thought Danny. I was at the
shop at the mall, the like you know, the I
don't know what it's not.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's not the it's just some random jersey shops sports treasures.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, and I did see some Dodger stuff and I'm like,
I can't do it. I can't buy my kids Dodger
stuff yet. If you don't, if you don't know my
kids are Dodgers fans, I am not.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But I couldn't do it.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
So let's go over this. Things that made you go hmmm,
week seventeen.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Things that make you go all right.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So things that make you go that make gid goal hm.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I would say anyone that ever called brock Party a
game manager has to be seeing some of the things
he's doing and they're like, all right, like we've we
may have like misread this whole situation a year ago
because some of the players brock Party was making, and
the way he moves around in moments, you can't in
any way say he's a game manager.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The way he.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Moves around the poise and Rich when you're watching through
other people's eyes, you know, through the holidays, you're probably
watching with mixed company and everything.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Two other observations I made, Oh people, you don't usually watch.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
One Yeah, yeah, because you don't normally watch with these
people is oh, my god, is this guy eighteen? Like
how young he looks, How young he is yet how
confident he plays like he has a really this sounds corny, Rich,
but it's noticeable. He has a really great touch, so
again or feel for the ball. You know, might have
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the strongest start, might not be the fastest guy, but
he has all the those and tangibles, those qualities. He
has a really great touch, He makes really great passes,
really great timing, and he jels really well with this team.
It's really fun to watch Rich. If I were you,
and I know you don't want to get ahead of yourself.
As the resident forty nine Ers fan, I'd be really
pumped about this.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I've been to you know, a couple of Super Bowls
in the last handful of years, two times lost to
the Chiefs under Kyle Shanahan, and like I feel like
we talked about did their window close, it looks a
little open right now.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The window. The windows open right now, So the NFC
is wide open.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And that's that's another observation where you look around the
NFC and I don't think there is a team you'd
be shocked if they didn't make it or did make it.
I still think the Rams are the best team in
the NFC. And you know they're not gonna be your
one seed. They're a wild card, and I think the
Rams could very well be the best team. Didn't think
about it. We talked about the game of inches, like
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last night, the forty nine ers are the greatest because
the Bears couldn't convert on fourth and goal with four
seconds left. Rewind them a week ago or so, where
on Thursday night the Seahawks go for two, make it
and win. If they missed that, the Rams are the
ones secen I'm like, dude, this is the Rams here,
So it's it really is a matter of who's gonna
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be hot in the month of January.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, you're lucky that that hook and ladder play did
not develop further down the field.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh lenor stop that?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
My goodness, that scared the crap out of every Niners fan,
but all your observations from week seventeen, let's hear him
in for Dan, Patrick, Covino and Rich. I think that
you don't like to live on hope of like this
guy's gonna return. You remember last year, Danny, the Lions
who ended up faltering down the stretch against the Commanders.
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You remember the sentiment was if they make it to
the NFC Championship Game or Super Bowl, Aiden Hutchinson's gonna
make a comeback.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Do you remember that that story last year?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Of course, and then they fall short against the Commanders
and Jayde and Daniels and it's like, oh, man, would
Aiden Hutchinson have come out in that like in that
glorious moment and be like, I'm here to save the defense.
The forty nine ers have a situation now where Fred
Warner such a conditioned guy. I don't know if you
saw Fred Warner jumping on the field congratulating his teammates there.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Of course, they showed him a bunch of times.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
He started the game by getting the Niners crowd fired
up Dumb City. There's the sentiment that he's saying, I'll
be back if the forty nine Ers make the NFC
championship game, which makes this game against the Seahawks even
more high level because if they win, they a bye,
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which means they'd have to win a divisional game. And
then you're telling me, you beat the Seahawks, then you
win one playoff game and you get Fred warnerback for
the NFC Championship.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I don't know how real that is, but that sounds insane.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
No, it sounds It sounds real inspiring, It sounds real great,
really motivating for your forty nine ers. But you know,
not to get far too far ahead. But that is
the next game. How do you think they size up?
Is something else that makes you go hmmm at this
point of the season, forty nine or Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What a battle. By the way, I do want.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
To wish our guy, our producer, super producer, Danny G
a happy belated birthday. He celebrated his birthday weekend during
the tainh of the holidays.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
So happy birthday, Danny G.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
He's got the smooth, this most buttery voice in all
the radio land, and he's on the phones at eighty
seven to seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Wish Dan a happy birthday again.
In for Dan, Patrick Covino and rich So Richie, I
think you have every every, every reason to be excited,
and that just gives you another layer to your forty
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nine ers.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Here's the thing. I'll give you another thing that made
not just me, but everyone go hm hm. And again
any observation from week seventeen, a casual Monday.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Let's let's pump it up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
As you said, the taint of the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What day is it? Where are we? Everyone's like off
from work?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
He ain't quite as the fisher, Yeah, because it ain't
quite Christmas, ain't quite New Year's.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He ain't quite of the holidays.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So while we all sit around, you know, scratching our
bellies on our pajamas, I think for football, hell yeh,
Saturday Night Niners hosting the Seahawks for the one seed
and for the NFC West or everything is fun as
a viewer because now you got this primo Saturday night,
primetime eight pm on the East Coast, five out here
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on the West. That's the matchup. But do you think
both teams got a little bit of a raw deal?
Short week they have to plan on Saturday, and that
game is not your Sunday night game because the network's
decided to go with Aaron Rodgers against the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I noticed that, which is also a big game.
We got to talk about.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
The Steelers two blowing it and the Raven's stepping up
big time.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I mean, I know Aaron Rodgers, I know he's ratings,
and you could say, well, the forty nine Ers had
primetime games the last couple weeks. Yeah, but Saturday Night's
also a primetime game, and it's the game with the
highest level of significance. I just can't understand how and
the forty nine has went from Monday Night to Sunday
Night to now Saturday Night.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Their schedules all over the place.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
But I guess if they're rolling and jelling and they
got that camaraderie, I guess it doesn't matter. But when
you got a guy like Kittle, and you saw Trent Williams,
big Trent Williams get banged up last night, you don't
think those guys want one extra day before the biggest
game of the season.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I don't think there's any question.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I know Aaron Rodgers' ratings, like you said, but that's
not the most exciting matchup of the weekend. Yeah, I
do think the forty nine er Seahawks game got hosed
a little bit, Yeah, a.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Little bit, No Metcalf.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Of course for the Steelers, that's gonna hurt, just us
hurt yesterday and then also bad back for Lamar right now,
so that seems like it's gonna be a defensive game
and maybe ugly.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So that Lions fan is the Ravens MVP this year
without DK Metcalf, the Ravens seem to that.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I believe they're like three and a half point favorites
opening up. That Lions fan spoke out over the weekend too.
You may have been returning presence. You may have missed it. Again,
it's a confusing time. That's just between the holidays.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Did you like his folding table us comfort.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
He had his own little press conference just asking DK
Metcalf for an apology because he said two things he
doesn't stand for is animal cruelty and racism, and he
goes he wants the world to know. He says his
family's getting death threats. So DK Metcalf please do the
right thing and tell the world that I said nothing
that you claim I said nothing racist whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He's just a Lions fan.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
No, and honestly, Richard, part of me believes him and
did he Metcalf not being there? And that spin they
tried to put on the story like if there was
any truth to it, the NFL wouldn't have suspended him
the way they did, you know, as fast as they did,
And it played huge dividends for Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers,
and I was Rogers dude, I would be so pissed
about that because there were so many plays and they
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made a point of it during the game that were
designed for DK Metcalf, and had he been there, it
would have been a different outcoming.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now all the pressure on them against the Ravens next week.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I said it a week ago, and I'm not moonwalking,
I'm not back pedaling. I still think that Lions fans
an ask clown, but probably the type of guy you'd
have a beer with.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But he's a dope.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I mean, you know that doesn't make him a race
but but you know who a bigger fool is Dk Metcalf.
I heard LeVar on Two Pros and a Cup of
Joe driving in this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
He was chopping up with Jonas and.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
There they were talking about how you know LeVar played
in the NFL. It was a superstar Penn State. He goes,
fans taunt you, He's like, you know, I would just
casually be like, yeah, you mother like that? That was
his response, you know, he would he would yeah your
mother is That was his thing. He goes whatever someone said,
he jokingly with in jest, said that back because he's like,
you can't let someone get you out of your zone
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and out.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Of your zone, weak skin, thin scan again, superstar not
trying to could he call out DK? But he put
his team in such a bad situation with that selfish
move of not being able to control himself. I know
he doesn't care about the money, but still took a
major hit. What over five hundred thousand dollars and the games.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The Steelers could have got out of some financial long
term commitments, but they didn't. They did the right quote
moral thing because they have a commitment to DK. But
I'll tell you what, DK didn't seem to have a
commitment to the betterment of the Steelers. When you when
you act like an asked and respond to a fan
like that. Again, I still think that fans like ass jackass?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But why why? Though Rich.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
He's a goofball fan because he has a wig on.
Every guy they's showing the stands has a stupid hat on,
by the way, has a stupid chain on.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
If you want to have face paint on. Look at. Uh,
he's not the only.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Guy look at I mean at work when they come
back from commercial breaking, they pants all those people in
the crowd. There's a lot of fanatical crazy people. I'm
saying he's an ass clown, but then again, we have
a bunch of our friends are ass clowns. I'm just saying,
DK really put the Steelers in a bad spot.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Really, and I feel for Aaron Rodgers too, because you know,
even that last play Taylor made for DK metcalf. He
would have scooped that up, jumped up the corner of
the end zone and got that one and the Steelers win.
But that's not the case. Now, all the pressure on
them playing a hot All of a sudden, the Ravens
are hot. Derrick Henry's unstoppable, running people over. You know,
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he had two game balls at the end of the game.
How are you going to stop them?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
As they say, most people, a lot of people had
their fantasy football. I would imagine Danny championships this week
as no one really plays in the week eighteen, right,
If you heard your fantasy football championship and you had
DK Metcalf, who I'm sorry. If you had Derek Henry,
who really didn't do much all year for the most part, Yeah,
and you had him yesterday, My goodness.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I just felt for the Steelers in that moment because
you know, and there's a lot of people yelling and
screaming at Tomlin. A lot of that offense and Danny
GEO backed me up clearly designed around DK Metcalf, and
I don't want to be too hard on Dk Metcalf,
but that mistake it played, played huge dividends.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
But it's for them this weekend. It's not just like
a little mistake.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's a you took the best you could argue, the
biggest stake, the best player on that offense, out of
the final two games of the season in a playoff push.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And you know, look at it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I'm not saying we're geniuses, because everyone made a ton
of like weak ass predictions and awesome predictions going into
the season. But I think the one thing we were
all agreement on, and it's not just us that this
is no pat on the back. I'm not a Barry
Horrowitz in the eighties wrestling patting myself on the back.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Remember that guy? Is that a reference anyone gets?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Barry? Barry? I was in an a weaker reference.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
So it's all good, okay, But I was gonna say, Pat,
who pat on the back?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Pat? Who? Pat? From SNL Are you the guys that
hate everything? That's a good one? So maybe yours. I
feel like I'm hanging out with my pops right now. Ah,
you guys, remember it's Pat pat on the back? Dude.
Awesome to lame eighties and nineties references. I don't know, Pat.
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Some are all could have thrown Pat some aer on there.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I love that legend recide. But we all said the
same thing. We said that the Steelers probably go nine
and eight or ten and seven, and we all said
they'll probably go ten and seven. Got a little better
because of Rogers, and they're they're ten and seven sneaking
the playoffs. And then the thing was we all said,
and if the Steeler's been one playoff game, it would
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be considered like a victory. And they are and it's
really exactly where they are right now, and DK Metcalf
could be the reason why it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It doesn't go down. I don't see it going their way. Man.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, I feel like momentum is not on their side
right now, and it is on the Ravens side. And man,
it is a great game. See NATA, we're talking about it. Yeah,
it is a great game. But I don't think it
takes precedence over your forty nine or Seahawks game.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, if both teams were healthy or had somebody that
wasn't suspended, then I think it would be a better
matchup obviously, But Rich it's kind of like when Kittle
is missing from your offense. He makes your offense go yeah.
Metcalf makes that Steelers offense go.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, Which is why I was so surprising the Niners
last night. It just shows that maybe it's just Shanahan
or Tongus is good. But interestingly enough, the games that
matter the most next week. I think the NFL, hey,
they lucked out. I wish they was more excitement than that.
NFC North I wish I wish the dead lines didn't
phase off at the end, and I wish the Packers,
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I wish there was something at stake in that division
because it's a really exciting division in my mind. But
there's three real good games significance. There's a couple for
seating purposes, but three of them. Two of them are Saturday,
one a Sunday night. I just think they got the
order a little wrong Saturday because the two games that division,
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other than the Niner Seahawks, the two other games that
determine in and win out if you lose division titles,
should be Saturday. I feel like Bucks Carolina and the
Steelers raven should have been like your doubleheader on Saturday,
and they could even have made a gimmick Cavino like
in and win it like this is like round zero
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of the playoffs essentially, because in those two games, losers out,
winner moves on, So why would they not? And the
ones an NFC matchup, ones an AFC matchup. I think
the NFL should have stacked Ravens, Steelers, Bucks Panthers and
made that your Saturday almost.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
I call it like the mini wild Card or something.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Because there's gotta be a reason, though, Rich, you know,
there's got to be a ratings reason, any reason. The
NFL very calculated and how they do this so I'm
sure there's a reason that we don't know. We as
fans though see.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It that way.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It can't simply be a network thing where the Niners
played too many times on primetime games on a certain network.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Or what is maybe who gets that Saturday night game, Danny?
Is that Fox?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is Fox get that Saturday night forty nine Ers game?
Let me take a look, because maybe it's a network
that God picks, because isn't there something to be said
about how the networks do get preferences when they wanted times.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
There's probably something like that that we're not seeing right.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Well, ABC, Saturday your Saturday NFL this week Bucks Panthers
nine or Seahawks, those two NFC battles. They're both on
ABC and ESPN. So maybe part of the Monday Night
football package is they got a pick maybe you know, like, oh,
you pick your game?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
What do you want to be your primetime game? ABC?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And then on Sunday, of course Sunday Night Football, last
game of the year, that's on MB so.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
So much more to get too rich And that's where
we get you involved. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
we touched on the forty nine Ers and the Steelers
for the most part, we haven't even talked about any
other games, so we got to get into it. So
much drama in the LBC. So many things happened over
the weekend. You know, the Bills. Should they have went
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for the tie? That's another one, right, that another game.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And Josh Allen answering a question just as honest as
he could. So we'll get to all your week seventeen stuff.
Just a lot of fun. Hopefully everyone had a great
Christmas with friends and family and his Covino said, not
to be a cliche, but every this is the week
where I think everyone is in chill mode, which is
nice because you got a lot of football. You have
a lot of laying on your laying on your couch
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watching football time. So we'll get to all your feedback
next right here on Coveno on Rich.
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
What's the date?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Even the twenty ninth, Monday the twenty ninth, As we
get ready for the final week of the NFL season,
can you believe that we're there already?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
What's up? CoV Hold on one second? Can you know
you there? Buddy boy?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, we're getting to everything that went down yesterday Week
seventeen of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I think we're looking at the feedback.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Someone said, you know, there's a reason why Aaron Rodgers
is gonna be on Sunday Night Football, one last opportunity
for Chris Collinsworth to stroke mister Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, I love that's a good thought.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
All right, Well, hey, well we'll get Cavino back up
and running. But hey, any other thoughts you have, Let's
go to your phone calls. Let's start with Frank. Frank,
you're on Coveno and Rich into the Great DP.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
What's up right, Hey, guys, I have a theory on
the why they have the sand Fan Seattle game on
Saturday this week? Could it be because wild Card weekend
starts next Saturday, and knowing that both San fran and
Seattle are going to be playing next weekend, to at
least give those guys those teams seven days rest.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You're saying one of the way, whoever, whoever loses, whatever
team loses nine er Seahawks, you're saying that they've already
mentally slated that is one of your Saturday Wildcard games.
So if the Niners drop this one or see, someone's
gonna drop the game. So one of those teams is
gonna have to play as a wildcard, the other get
to buy. So you're saying, might as well give him
that that one week off exactly into the postseason.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That makes sense. I could see that. Rich. You have
Kyle Shanahan coaching your team, you only need four days rest.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I was gonna say, my only thought that bothers me
about this short week are two of the most important
players on the Niners right now are a little hobby.
And that's George Kittle, who said he wanted to come
back yesterday. He said it was a game time decision,
so likely Kittles get to go in week eighteen. And
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Big Trent Williams, who I think Scott Van Pelt JINXD
do you remember after that Indianapolis game, He's like, Trent,
you're one of the best offensive linemen in NFL history,
but you've been banged up over the years. This is
your first season where you've played every game. I'm like,
shut the hell up Van Pelt And here we are
a week later. He's a little banged up, but hopefully
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he's back. What's up, Covina?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
To your feedback at eight seven, seven, nine nine on
Fox Wes and Idaho saying, YO, give me that Sunday
Night crew or the Ulsen crew over Brady.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I don't know what you thought, Brady. Was an observation
I had.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I thought Tom Brady over the weekend is proving that
he's getting more and more entertaining in the booth. Not
only more and more entertaining, but what was that the
glove thing he was he was harping. You know, like
sometimes you get fixated on something. I think tom Brady
was fixated on how in those weather conditions?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
And who know better than him? So you almost have
to take his ward more than anyone.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, but most of all, he looked like a Bond villain.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I can't go for the turtleneck look. I've I don't
know anyone.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I mean, I guess if you're like a dude that's
in like fashion and style, But Danny you do do
you ever rock a turtleneck?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I think he could get away with it. I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Turtleneck with sports code is a look where I'm always
like turtle liquid sports cut. Huh, you get you going
with the turtle licking sports code. But tom Brady proving that.
I think we were all very tough on him, and
I get it. You know what we're tough on him
when you sign a contract and you see the numbers, like, yo,
tom Brady's making hundreds of millions of dollars in a
long term deal to be a broadcaster.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
And he wasn't so sharp at the beginning.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Very easy to say he sucks, But I don't think
he's that bad.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I still think Greg Olsen might be my favorite guy
that's in the in the world of color commentating for Fox.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Dude, I think tom Brady's doing everything we expected him
to do, get better at it, noticeably better. I thought
he was great. I think we're overly critical. It's just
because it's Tom Brady. Were hanging on every word he says,
We're just listening extra close. He's great, you know what
any is than he was when he started, for sure.
And Dude, as far as criticizing his turtleneck, I'm with you.
(28:06):
It's noticeable because he's Tom Brady, but not everybody could
pull it off because they're not tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's like, you know, we make fun of him, but
Cam Newton pulls off those hats.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
You cunn't, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I mean like, yeah, some people could rock a style
and some others can't.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
So it's noticeable, But yeah, does it look bad? Are
they superstars? Can they pull it off? That's the truth.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know what's funny is that I guess if you
got any retired star in any sport to do TV commentating,
you start to see people's I want to say crutches,
but their their go tos, like Dinny. If you started
call him play by play or something, we'd be like, yo,
you've noticed how Danny always does does this. People love
to talk about how Collins earthles are like, here's a
(28:48):
guy that blank.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You know, Tom Brady man the way he slurs on Mahomes. Yeah,
Tom Brady pointed out last night Tirico was slurping on
your boy party. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They've even made a comment though, they're like, get Collins
are beating the trolls on social media to it by
at least admitting that he's you know, Brock pretty does
some good stuff, and he immediately compares him to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
But you look at it this way.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The the broadcasters that we knew as former players are
all gonna have little things. We point out tom Brady's
very excitable, he gets you can see what a football
fan he is because he gets excited for the big plays, like.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
He's screaming in the booth. And I have no issue
with that, right, I think that's great. I think that's
what you want from an announcer. I just think because
is Tom Brady, and he was so criticized when he
first got in there, we still hang on to it.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Instead of just listening.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You know, it's like Rich, it's like when we as
radio hosts, when our friends are listening, they're hanging on
every word instead of just listening like you would to
any other normal show. You're not overly criticizing everything. Just
listen and enjoy Tom Brady. So things that made you
go hmm, any option you made speaking to Tom Brady?
(30:02):
Even more comparisons, Drake May to Tom Brady five tutties,
the most for the Pats since TB twelve thirteen and
three AFC East Clinch.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Drake May the Mahahan. I just think it's wow.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
People are saying there's a lot of fun you know,
rumors obviously Rich of how Tom Brady is an investor
in you know, cloning, that cloning thing where he cloned
his dog. They're like, dude, maybe Drake May has cloned
because it is pretty amazing to see the stats he's
putting up.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know, they just needed the right coach and the
right quarterback. And you know, it's the most underrated thing
in all of sports. Think about every sport, every sport
you got what does it take to win?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
In baseball?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You're like, well, you need to do you need an
ace and you need, you know, you need a couple
guys that could hit thirty five or more home runs,
like you know basketball, you need the right you know
leader every every sport you like, what is the equation
to possibly win in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I think it's very simple.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
If you get a quarterback coach combo that gels together,
and you're seeing it with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams
within year one of them together, You're like, you get
a coach at a quarterback that are like a little
matchmate in heaven.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
That is all you really, that's all you really need.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That again, you fill in the blanks around there, but
you'll compete at minimum, you'll compete with that combo.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You know where you were reminded of that.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I don't know if people watched this over the Taint
of the Holidays, but the John Elway documentary on Netflix,
which I highly recommend, you keep talking about Kyle Shanahan,
but he credits Lway, credits Mike Shanahan for changing his
life and changing his career.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's true, though, think about all the teams that you
really believe in, what do they have in common?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Danny?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
This is the most common. This is the most obvious
statement I brought up. But the Rams, you got McVeigh
and Stafford any good team. And my point was you
have a good young quarterback like Drake may and Vrabel
who came in there, and we forget that Mayo was
the coach of a year. Remember that one year one
year and then it was just like, yeah, it's not
working out of you. You were a former player. Everyone loved you,
(32:08):
but as Rabel instead, like Rabel and Drake May seem
to have clicked. And you have Sean Payton and bo Nicks.
You get a quarterback coach combo that get each other,
that almost pick each other, right, I mean, like you
you find each other. It's almost like a relationship, and
like you run with it as long as you can.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
There's a wild Drake maystat here he's the first player
with five plus passing touchdowns and over a ninety percent
completion percentage in a game since nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Damn, and that Jake game could have got uglier.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I was flipped. It's not a game.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I don't think anyone watched all four quarters of it
was disgusting, and there were better games on But anytime
you looked at a highlight or you had your multiple
games up on the TV, like, yeah, this game is
ugly and could have been worse. I almost sew like
at one point the Patriots were like yeah. They were like, yeah,
just take out some starters and relax. Like this game
they could have beat them seventy to ten or whatever
(33:05):
it was.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It would have been disgusting.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And then you wonder, is there any chance Aaron Glenn
in the world gets another shot at this?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Are they committed to him?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Like, because you just start to hear like in a
week from now, who's on the hot seat right, like
what coaches are the first to go? I'd be shocked
to see if they stick with him. And speaking of
documentaries conving, I'm look at the feedback. Colin hit us
up and said, you brought up the Lway one, which
I'm gonna watch tonight.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I think, oh, man, I haven't watched this yet.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You're so reminded of what a winner he was, what
he meant to Denver, how he put it on the map.
You're reminded of the fact that this dude lost I
mean common knowledge, but when you see how down he
was three Super Bowls, right to come back to.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
AFC when we were kids. Dude, the AFC couldn't stack up.
It was like, do you remember at one point it
was like, all right, whoever wins the NFC, The Niners,
the Cowboys, maybe the Giants of the Redskins, like there
was a powerhouse in the NFC A but like three
or four teams, and it was like, all right, who's
gonna beat the Broncos this year?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
He wins the second Super Bowl, then wins a third
as a GM I think the only player to win
as a as a player at GM. And then he's
watching his highlights. I'm not giving it away. Let's just
say it's emotional. The guy has gone through a roller coaster,
but he's a winner and he credits. Like Rich said,
the quarterback coach combo is so significant, he couldn't do much.
(34:28):
But with Shanahan, everything jeled and you know, a lot
of times maybe we put it on the quarterback, but
you know, maybe behind the scenes, it really is the
fact that they're just not gelling with the system, with
the quarterback and what's expected of them. Like, dang, I
wonder if that's what's happening with your boy, Geno Smith.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I mean, he's not your answer.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
No, I know he's not the answer, but you got
to do to fall off so hard, like something's not
clicking with the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I think he just had a quick little rebirth and
it was just is never the same. And by the way,
when I said the documentary, ken was says Colin said,
speaking of documentaries, not only the lay one. Did you
see the first look we're getting at the speaking of coaches,
Nick Cage is John Madden.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
That's been floating around.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You know, I'm glad he brought that up because I
was thinking about that too.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I have seen it. I watched the trailer.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, and dude, I gotta tell you, man, do you
still see Nick cag or you oh you buy it?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
In Yeah, I see Nick Cage in a fat suit,
Like that's really it. And it really bothers me because
I hear he's a great show.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well I'm John Madden Boom to fact intern acting where
boom boom, turnduck.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
In booms and all I see is Nick Cage's stupid
face in a fat suit. And there's a lot of
rumor and speculation on social media is like they should
have whit were Frank Caliando and they always thought John
Candy would have been Well John can't it would have been,
but he's thirty years ago. Geez right, you know, but
you know I wish, I wish this movie. Well, I'm
(35:52):
gonna watch with an open mind, but I can't not
see Nick Cage's face.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But I am seeing it. I'm hearing good things. You know.
There are so many other observations.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Things we got to get to week seventeen of the
NFL and anything else that was going on in your life.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
What did you watch? Any good shows?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Have you been killing time during the holiday season. We'll
take all your feedback.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
And well, I brought up Dandyg's Raiders too, because I
want him to break down that Max Crosby drama, because
that wasn't making me say, you.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Mean how Max Crosby's on trampolines with his kids. Meanwhile
the Raiders like, yeah, he's out, Like right, there's something there.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
There's lots of observations we still have to make, and
we want to include you. Next eight, seven, seven ninety
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comments there. We'll give away some prizes today. But Rich
in the middle of things that make you go, hmm, yeah,
there's a developing story that happened in Nigeria and yeah,
first I read it like in the Sun and I'm like,
I don't know if this is credible. And now it's
in the New York Post but Anthony Joshua, just two
weeks after his big knockout of Jake Paul, was in
(37:49):
a really bad car accident. So he's hospitalized. But there
was two people that were killed in this accident, so
really really bad news, but they keep if you read
the headlines, Anthony Joshua injured in the car crash that
kills two in Nigeria. He was a passenger, so I
don't believe he was driving in it. I'm not saying
(38:10):
that makes it any better or worse. I'm just saying
that I'm getting a lot of feedback even on social
media and people hitting me up, Yo, did you see
what happened? I don't think he was driving. I don't
think it's anything that makes it his fault. Just an
unfortunate story as of now, as it develops, as I
get the story here, but it looks like and there's
(38:31):
pictures of him, which by the way, I can't help
but notice that in the picture he's there like in
the seat, in the car seat.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
With no shirt on. Is he just rolling around flexing?
Speaker 4 (38:41):
No, hopefully, but anyway, wish people involved the best. But
two people are left dead in a tragic story, So
that makes me say, sad story there to keep you
posted on. But Rich, I did want to backtrack a
second before we get everybody involved eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. You know, I was in there scratching
my noug and watching with my buddy Colton again mixed
(39:04):
company and family. It's the grundle of the holidays, the
gooch of the holidays, the space between. And I'm thinking
to myself, why aren't the Bills going for at least
the tie here? Like why the win in this situation?
And then I dismiss it because I'm like, well, I
guess ballsy move props for them, like.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
He had his guys, Josh Allen said he had his guy.
He just can't He's got to make that play. He's
got to make that play.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But it's just the matter of the Eagles not scoring
at all in the second half and having no momentum
at all. Wouldn't you go for the tie and then
like safely go for the win after that? Like or again,
am I missing something here? But it's end of the second.
He made me made me go end of the season.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Wear and tear. They had momentum.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I do you even want to push games to overtime nowadays,
I thought the real story there, believe it or not,
that this guy not.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I'm not saying he's off the.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Hook, because it'd probably probably be replaced their backup placekicker
missing that extra point to make it thirteen to six
instead of thirteen to seven, the.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Weakest something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Like I'm not saying no one's talking about it, because
everyone's talking about Josh Allen missing that pass on the
two point conversion. We wouldn't even have to have come
to that had the placekicker got a little elevation on
that previous extra point. We're talking about thirteen to seven.
They score that touch, that extra point wins the game,
no speculation, do they go for two or force overtime.
(40:33):
You can't be missing extra points in clutch spots like that.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
That's horse, by the way.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Sean McDermott said after the game, wanted to be aggressive
there going for the win. We feel like there's obviously
only a certain amount of time left at that point,
and we felt like we had a great call in place,
a great opportunity to go win it. I want to
be aggressive. I'm not gonna sit back again.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
I like that attitude, Like Rich said good pass, we'd
be singing a different tune.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Think about it aggressive aggressive, being aggressive as a coach.
It's it's all results based, right, Like think of how
many times Dan Campbell was like the ballsiest guy in
her own loved him. Then when the Lions started going
like one for five on fourth downs, it's like what
an idiot? Like you know, you're either ballsy and awesome
and like, yo, that's my type of guy, man, ballsy
coach going for it.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Yeah, but the Eagles seemed to have nothing.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
And what is every fan base? Give me know, every
fan base when your team does go for it on
fourth and short, every fan base loves it because no
one really wants to punt, right, Remember when you played
street football as a kid, did anyone when there was
a kicking or sticking? Did anyone kick you? Always you
played when you played tech ball ball or Madden. I'm
saying when you were when you were playing tech bo
ball or Madden when you were a kid, did you
(41:44):
ever punt?
Speaker 4 (41:46):
You know, you were like like mort I played cage football,
Nick Cage.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
I think to Covino's point, Rich, you had the same
amount of passing yards as Jayala hurts did in the
second half of that game.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I'm telling you, man, dude, he only had one hundred
and ten yards the entire game, right, Yeah, they did
nothing the second half. That's really what made me go
home in that in that situation, I'm like, all right,
just play it safe, go for the extra point, and
just beat him because you clearly had the momentum at
that point. Again, Easier said here on a Monday morning
and for DP. But yes, Josh Allen, man, no one
(42:24):
matter than him.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Everyone's got a plan, everyone's got everyone's got a strategy
or a game plan going into a fight, going into
a game, going into anything, it's just a matter if
it's if it's executed right. Josh Allen makes that pass,
the guy's wide open, then all of a sudden, it's like, wow,
why it'd be aggressive. You saw Kyle Shanahan didn't call
time out because he said the Bears look discombobulated going
into that. You know, fourth and goal. You know, I'm sorry,
(42:49):
first and goal from the four yard line with four seconds.
He could have called the time out, he didn't, and
it worked out otherwise. It's like, why didn't he? Right,
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