August 24, 2023 • 21 mins
Former Jets & Browns head coach and so-called "football expert" Eric Mangini reacts to the huge Chiefs QB controversy and discusses if Patrick Mahomes will get benched. He also reacts to the mind-blowing stats Aaron Rodgers has already put up with the New York Jets. Plus, Paulie & Tony explain why the Buccaneers should be very happy about Baker Mayfield's financial struggles.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's show, we'll tell you about the quarterback controversy
brewing in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Let's go roll the edge row all right, all right
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Been freeloading off of us for way too long time
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Speaker 1 (01:25):
Anyway, getting into today's show, you know, Tony, we got
this guest coming back today. We kicked him off the
show several times. Clearly he hasn't gotten the message yet.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Some people have learned coach of the Browns and Jets.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And you know, one of these are so called you know,
quote unquote experts you see on these sports shows these days.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Eric Mangini. And you know we're gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Him the question that I'm sure he's terrified of being asked.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, exactly, watch him run and hide when we hit
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Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (03:01):
All right, first out to the gate.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, you probably think we're gonna say the top
story is Baker Mayfield getting named Bucks starting quarterback. No,
everybody fucking saw that coming.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Come up, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And if you didn't see that coming, then you're as
blind as a cat.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah you are.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Anyway, the big story is that Baker Mayfield is now
coming after his family's financial firm for twelve million dollars
that he says has gone missing. And you know, Donny,
if I'm the Bucks here, I like this nose.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
If your quarterback, like Tom Brady, he has five hundred
MILLI in the bank, then what the hell does he
have to play for yeah nothing, nothing, Yeah, Personally, I
want my quarterback to be in tremendous financial peril, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean every team wants a quarterback who knows how
to overcome a huge deficit. Right, Well, what bigger deficit
is there to overcome than having to make up for
twelve million dollars that you're greedy?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No good fan just farted away?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Great point, Tony. And you know this doesn't just apply
to quarterbacks. Look at the great boxes throughout history. You
know they were all terrible at managing a little money. Yeah,
Yu Dyson, Evander Holyfield. You know it makes sense because
you know you want to see fight. Nothing is more
motivating than knowing the irs is moments from seizing your home.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And what's the quality you want in both a boxer
and a quarterback elusiveness? Elusiveness Exactly. You need to be
able to dodge anything that comes your way. And when
you have spent all day and night dodging bill collectors,
and you know, of the quote unquote organizations that you
might have owed some large sums of money to, it
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has to be very elusive. They can come at you
from any direction. The back window, your chimney coming out
of a deli.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You don't know, great points.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All around that, and you know, just another angle to
throw out here. You know, the fact that Baker Mayfield
lost twelve million dollars just shows how focused he is
on football. You know, one hundred in my mind, the
more money and athlete losers due to mismanagement, well the better.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, way better. You know, cut up that shot. Look
at this chart.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You can see there's a direct correlationism there between money
loss and on field success.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yep, this is why Kyle Trusk had no chance of
winning the Bucks job. My sources at Bank of America
tell me that the Trask family trust is very solvent
and that it's very troubling how well Kyle Trusk manages
his money. Maybe he should be focusing less on his
bank book and more on his playbook.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, said Tony. I mean the stats say it all, don't.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
They absolutely absolutely, as they say, numbers don't lie. Well,
your family may lie about the numbers in your bank account,
but you know on field number those don't lie.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, anyway, now to another quarterback. We're keeping our eye on.
As you know, we've never said a bad word on
the show about Aaron Rodgers always support ever and we
have to say, after seeing his performance on these last
few episodes of Hard Knocks, we are just blown away
by the level of football skill we are seeing out
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of this legend.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Isn't that right? Don't it? It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Whenever they show a throw by Aaron Rodgers on Hard Knocks,
he always completes it. In fact, I've done a statistical
analysis of his performance so far on the show and
he is a whopping seventy eight for seventy eight with
zero incompletions and zero interceptions. I'm blown away watching this.
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This is the greatest performance by a quarterback in NFL history. Now,
some idiots out there have told me, oh, it was edited,
edited exactly. How what are they using special effects to
make those passes look complete? It's called reality TV for
a reason. It's not called fake TV because it's reality.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Seems totally obvious that donty exactly On that note, You know,
the other night I was watching this a fantastic new
documentary called Swampkings about the Floor to Go.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, I heard about that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know why this urban maya gets such a
bum wrap.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know people say things, have ever understood it? Yeah,
he's a jerk, he's egoistical.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know, he let a serial murderer slip from his
grasp even though it was staring him in the face.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Do you know what these people are talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
This documentary showed us all what a terrific upstanding guy
this is.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, this is why you should never believe everything in
the media.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yep. And that's just a perfect seguae.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Don'ty because it leads us the one of the most
underreported stories in the whole entire media. You won't see
this anywhere else, folks, No, because frankly, the people in
our business don't have the stones to report the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
They don't know what we do. That's why people come
here to get the news exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We're talking about the quarterback controversy brewing in Kansas City.
After two games in the preseason, Chiefs quarterback Shane Bukeley
is putting up historic numbers, just crazy, Tony. When you
compare his numbers to Mahomes, it seems like Andy Reid
has a very difficult decision, even though you know the
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choice is pretty clear.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Absolutely, Let's take a side by side look at their
career numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Put up that graphic.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Bukeley has a seventy five percent career completion percentage, but
Patrick Mahomes has a lowly sixty six point three percent.
Bukeley's one hundred and twelve point two career passer rating
also crushes Mahomes, who has a passer rating of a
relatively mediocre one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Also, let's not forget age here.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Bukeley is a ripe twenty five years old, while Maholmes
is entering the twilight of his career at age twenty seven.
So needless to say, I'll be keeping my eye on
this quarterback battle to see how it unfolds.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There you go, Tony, And that is the kind of
football analysis you won't be getting anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Nope, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, Well, the football analysis you will be getting all
over the place. Let's bring in this guy. He thinks
he's an expert on football for some reason. Let's go
to the FUSCO.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Satellite network, Satellite the world.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, this guy won a Super Bowl with the Patriots
as an assistant to Bill bellet Jack. All right, then
he began every of them, Hey, hold on, I'm not
I'm doing your intro. This is where you need to
shut up and sit.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
There, hold your horses. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Then he became a head coach for the Jets and Browns.
One of those jobs went okay, the other not so much.
All right, you here, you can figure out which was which.
All right, now, you see him on all these shows
FS one. He's a member of the thirty third team
and also has the very distinct honor of being thrown
off the show multiple times. But you're right, Eric Mangini,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Come back. You can shy, you can go ahead and think.
Now you can start.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I would like to say it's good to see you guys,
but you know I'm always cautiously optimistic as how this
is going to go and whether or not I'm going
to make it through the show.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, you trust me. We're not so in your favor.
Let's just say that. Trust us.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We're more worried than you are. All right, Look, I
know how it's going for you right now. You know
you're head coach of the Jets. When Brett fav came
to down from the Packers, you know, now we got
history repeating itself with Aaron Rodgers there how worried. Are
you right now that the Jets will win the super
Bowl and make you look terrible?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I think they should be in the mix of the
super Bowl when you get Aaron Rodgers and you've got
all the advantages that they have. They have the whole
off season of his offensive coordinator. He's I got a
system that he knows, I got the number four defense.
I mean, things look really good for them.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's very positive of you. You know, you're doing a
great job hiding your jealousy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
They we know. Yeah, that's very impressive. You know watching Yeah,
we have you been watching had Knocks?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You saw the hard knocks with Aaron Rodgers so far?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Rodgers? Yeah, you watch him passing. He hasn't thrown a
single incomplete pass on the whole entire show. Have you
ever seen a performance like this out of a quarterback
and training camp? Or he hasn't thrown a single incompletion.
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. I don't know how how they've been
able to do that. I'm very impressed with what he's doing.
I love what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Wow, you know you have so much positivity hit, don'ty?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean, yeah, what's going on you on drugs?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
As?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I think he's scared. He's walking on pins and eggshells here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I always wonder why they don't have the Eagles on
Hard Knocks? What do you think that's about?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Why would we go on hard Knots and show our
hand in poker? Do you show your hand in poker?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
And never too many incompletions? Wouldn't be good TV?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Oh yeah, he wouldn't be good TV as anytime you're on.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, we're learning that now.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, what do you know about making good TV? Look
at the two answers you've given on the show so far.
You're born our audience at that. Yeah, we're looking for something. Yeah,
Aaron Rodgers, I can I.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Can only I can only work with the with the
questions you give me, I get burned.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You're putting it back on us like you could.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, you could only work with Brett Favre in New
York and look how that went off the rails for you. Yeah,
you know he wants a better question, Tony, this diva,
he's asking for bed. We got one for you, fine, Yeah,
we got one for you. Let's see you try and
knock this one. Yeah, coach all right. On the subject
of another quarterback.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You see this. You got a Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He's accusing his family's financial firm of misplacing twelve million dollars.
Now we say this is great news, fantastic news.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, when you have a QB like Tom Brady, who's
worth you know, five hundred mil, he's got nothing to play,
no incentive to win, now, Baker, he's got to play
just to put food on the table. As a coach,
is this what you like to see out of a quarterback? Yeah,
you know, he's literally hungry to succeed.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I don't think you ever want to see anybody lose money,
especially if they're losing to their family.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I think I think you said if you guys could
lose some money and and maybe up your game, I
think that would be a positive thing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Base based off the set, based off the preparation. I
don't think there's a lot of money rolling in.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We just opened our March store.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Oh wow, I bet I bet you. I bet you.
The products are flying off the shelf.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh yeah, exactly. If I don't see your March Star.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Doing exactly, We're gonna buy a yacht already. We just
launched the store today. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You're doing a bully.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I heard you had to borrow that hoodie from Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's that's how you're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Needless to say, then, when you were deciding, you know,
between Chad Pennington and whoever, when you were deciding between
your starting quarterback, did their bank statements not factor into
that decision?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yeah, we usually didn't check on how much they were raking.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That explains ever, That explains everything.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah. Well, I mean, if if you're using that logic,
then Jalen Hurts is going to be terrible the season,
right because he just got paid a lot of mone
So you guys must be really excited by how much
money he made.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Because Jalen Hurts doesn't care about the money. He only
cares about winning. Winning, cares about I heard he doesn't
even check his bank statements. I already gets all his
clothes at Goodwill, so trurific.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm telling you this is this is This
is good, solid, deductive reasoning by you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No reason. Don't worry, We're gonna from the show. It
can be you in a minute here.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean, you guys are used to paying quarterbacks and
getting rid of them, so I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
You, oh you kidding me? This guy.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The NFL teams couldn't get rid of you fast enough.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
But Jalen Hurts is a super Bowl quarterback, which is
actually a good segue there, Paula talking about Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Which you seem to forget it.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
He went through the Super Bowl board.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Let's talk about because you can't evaluate quarterbacks. What are
you talking about him trying to hear the Super Bowl
winning quarterback.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, they scored more points on offense than the Chiefs
day more, had more points.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
More points. So if you look at the head to head,
maybe they should.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Have spent some money on cleats. Maybe they should have.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Maybe the FIC should have been in with that wet
grass with the Bermuda triangle grass, spent money on a
better gardener.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Didn't seem, didn't seem to affect the other team, but.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They they were in on it.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Uh yeah, magical cleats.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, well, it sounds like someone was listening to our
previous episode with our other guest, who was frankly just
as shitty as you are.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But that's another story.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Anyway, you're bellyaching about cleats on the previous show. Shocking.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
All right, now he's acting like he didn't watch a
previous show. Come on, all right, hold on, you're trying
to steer this conversation all over the place. This is
why you're coaching didn't go so well. You know you're
going to in too many places here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, have a plan and follow it like we do. Yeah.
Watch all right, look.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Listen talking about quarterback decisions here. You know, I'm sure
you've been keeping an eye on the quarterback controversy brewing
in Kansas City. We got backup quarterback Shane Bukeley. He's
putting up whopping numbers in the season. I mean, look
at this graphic. All right, So when you look at
Bukeley's career numbers side by side with mahomes.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Career numbers, I mean, look at this.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Bukeley's got a seventy five percent completion percentage. Mahomes has
got a lowly sixty six percent.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I mean, look at his age.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He's Bukeley's twenty five years old. Mahomes is entering the
twilight of his career at twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, so you know, clear, you know Bukeley has an
argument if not a slamgunk argument for this job.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So you know you're a coach. I guess, how.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Do you see Andy Reid handling this uh clearly complicated situation.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, that's that's uh yeah, that's a strong argument. Uh yeah,
I think I think. I think they're gonna be okay
in Kansas City. And you know, I can't imagine, and
I can't imagine. And he's worried about.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This typical media and the typical media just trying to distract.
Now looking at the stats, now, looking at the real stories.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
All right, fine, you know what, let's just here's a
real test of football knowledge. We'll give you one chance
to shiney. Let's move to some predictions. All right, we're
going to start in the NFC. Your prediction, coach, who
do you see facing the Eagles in the NFC Championship
this year?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, first, I don't know if the Eagles are gonna
be able to make it to the NFC Championship. They've
lost both their coordinators. Dalen Hurts had a big contract
extension oftentimes. You know what that comes.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm not even gonna bother listening to this answer. You
know what I'm gonna coordinate? You exit from this show
because you're.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Off the show.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Shows gone.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Half man, Genie. You make up for it in the
merch store. Go buy some merch. You're off the show?
Is he off the line? Jay, hang up the phone.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know that guy is just a real downer all around.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, my wish was to put that main Genie back
in the bottle.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Great one doning and great way to start it around there,
you know, because otherwise it was a terrific show.
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Cliff, Yeah, somebody I wanted to throw into a propeller.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
What do you j Corrections? Corrections?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Hurry up.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
First, you said you've only said positive things about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, respect, bro, always Bro.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
You spent all of last year ripping him and saying
he was a quote shitty quarterback.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh yeah, well this is going to be your last
year alive. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
If there's one thing we're going to be ripping, it's
your lower intestines. Oh yeah, we're done, let's go.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
No more.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
What you said Aaron Rodgers throw zero incompletions in training
camp because you didn't see any on hard knocks.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, bro, unbelievable it's incredible.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah, no, those shows are edited.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's a TV show. Trust me.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
He's thrown many incomplete passes that you haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh yeah, well you know what, I'm about to edit
your lifespan.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, I wish that when your father hit on your
mother that was an incomplete pass.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh great, let's go with Finnish. Why hurry up?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You actually believe that Patrick Mahomes could lose the starting
job to backup quarterback Shane Bukeley, who's never played in
a single game.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, bro check his preseason stats.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It could happen. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
That might be the single worst take, not only on
the show, but ever.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh yeah, well, you know what's going to be the
best take when you take your final breath?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, you want to know the worst single anything? It's
you and your love life.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yea, you're done.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Great one, Tony, Yeah, it's another great one.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Just came across the desk.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
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Speaker 2 (21:31):
Great job as.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Always, same to you, Polly, another flawless show.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
See your people next week. See U
On today's show, we'll tell you about the quarterback controversy
brewing in Kansas City.
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Store wown Do.
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Yeah, you're gonna click the link in the description, Yeah, click,
go to the store and you're gonna show you thanks
to us for all we do for you by buying
some shirts, you know, some hats, some mugs and other whatnot.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's in there. Yeah, and you've.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Been freeloading off of us for way too long time
to pay the pauper bro Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Anyway, getting into today's show, you know, Tony, we got
this guest coming back today. We kicked him off the
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Speaker 2 (01:36):
Some people have learned coach of the Browns and Jets.
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And you know, one of these are so called you know,
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Speaker 2 (01:45):
Eric Mangini. And you know we're gonna ask.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Him the question that I'm sure he's terrified of being asked.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, exactly, watch him run and hide when we hit
him with some real questions.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
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Speaker 2 (03:01):
All right, first out to the gate.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, you probably think we're gonna say the top
story is Baker Mayfield getting named Bucks starting quarterback. No,
everybody fucking saw that coming.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Come up, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
And if you didn't see that coming, then you're as
blind as a cat.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah you are.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Anyway, the big story is that Baker Mayfield is now
coming after his family's financial firm for twelve million dollars
that he says has gone missing. And you know, Donny,
if I'm the Bucks here, I like this nose.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
If your quarterback, like Tom Brady, he has five hundred
MILLI in the bank, then what the hell does he
have to play for yeah nothing, nothing, Yeah, Personally, I
want my quarterback to be in tremendous financial peril, don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean every team wants a quarterback who knows how
to overcome a huge deficit. Right, Well, what bigger deficit
is there to overcome than having to make up for
twelve million dollars that you're greedy?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No good fan just farted away?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Great point, Tony. And you know this doesn't just apply
to quarterbacks. Look at the great boxes throughout history. You
know they were all terrible at managing a little money. Yeah,
Yu Dyson, Evander Holyfield. You know it makes sense because
you know you want to see fight. Nothing is more
motivating than knowing the irs is moments from seizing your home.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And what's the quality you want in both a boxer
and a quarterback elusiveness? Elusiveness Exactly. You need to be
able to dodge anything that comes your way. And when
you have spent all day and night dodging bill collectors,
and you know, of the quote unquote organizations that you
might have owed some large sums of money to, it
(04:46):
has to be very elusive. They can come at you
from any direction. The back window, your chimney coming out
of a deli.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You don't know, great points.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All around that, and you know, just another angle to
throw out here. You know, the fact that Baker Mayfield
lost twelve million dollars just shows how focused he is
on football. You know, one hundred in my mind, the
more money and athlete losers due to mismanagement, well the better.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, way better. You know, cut up that shot. Look
at this chart.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
You can see there's a direct correlationism there between money
loss and on field success.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yep, this is why Kyle Trusk had no chance of
winning the Bucks job. My sources at Bank of America
tell me that the Trask family trust is very solvent
and that it's very troubling how well Kyle Trusk manages
his money. Maybe he should be focusing less on his
bank book and more on his playbook.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Well, said Tony. I mean the stats say it all, don't.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
They absolutely absolutely, as they say, numbers don't lie. Well,
your family may lie about the numbers in your bank account,
but you know on field number those don't lie.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, anyway, now to another quarterback. We're keeping our eye on.
As you know, we've never said a bad word on
the show about Aaron Rodgers always support ever and we
have to say, after seeing his performance on these last
few episodes of Hard Knocks, we are just blown away
by the level of football skill we are seeing out
(06:24):
of this legend.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Isn't that right? Don't it? It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Whenever they show a throw by Aaron Rodgers on Hard Knocks,
he always completes it. In fact, I've done a statistical
analysis of his performance so far on the show and
he is a whopping seventy eight for seventy eight with
zero incompletions and zero interceptions. I'm blown away watching this.
(06:48):
This is the greatest performance by a quarterback in NFL history. Now,
some idiots out there have told me, oh, it was edited,
edited exactly. How what are they using special effects to
make those passes look complete? It's called reality TV for
a reason. It's not called fake TV because it's reality.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Seems totally obvious that donty exactly On that note, You know,
the other night I was watching this a fantastic new
documentary called Swampkings about the Floor to Go.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, I heard about that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know why this urban maya gets such a
bum wrap.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You know people say things, have ever understood it? Yeah,
he's a jerk, he's egoistical.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know, he let a serial murderer slip from his
grasp even though it was staring him in the face.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Do you know what these people are talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
This documentary showed us all what a terrific upstanding guy
this is.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, this is why you should never believe everything in
the media.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yep. And that's just a perfect seguae.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Don'ty because it leads us the one of the most
underreported stories in the whole entire media. You won't see
this anywhere else, folks, No, because frankly, the people in
our business don't have the stones to report the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
They don't know what we do. That's why people come
here to get the news exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We're talking about the quarterback controversy brewing in Kansas City.
After two games in the preseason, Chiefs quarterback Shane Bukeley
is putting up historic numbers, just crazy, Tony. When you
compare his numbers to Mahomes, it seems like Andy Reid
has a very difficult decision, even though you know the
(08:33):
choice is pretty clear.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Absolutely, Let's take a side by side look at their
career numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Put up that graphic.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Bukeley has a seventy five percent career completion percentage, but
Patrick Mahomes has a lowly sixty six point three percent.
Bukeley's one hundred and twelve point two career passer rating
also crushes Mahomes, who has a passer rating of a
relatively mediocre one oh five point seven.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Also, let's not forget age here.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Bukeley is a ripe twenty five years old, while Maholmes
is entering the twilight of his career at age twenty seven.
So needless to say, I'll be keeping my eye on
this quarterback battle to see how it unfolds.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There you go, Tony, And that is the kind of
football analysis you won't be getting anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Nope, thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, Well, the football analysis you will be getting all
over the place. Let's bring in this guy. He thinks
he's an expert on football for some reason. Let's go
to the FUSCO.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Satellite network, Satellite the world.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, this guy won a Super Bowl with the Patriots
as an assistant to Bill bellet Jack. All right, then
he began every of them, Hey, hold on, I'm not
I'm doing your intro. This is where you need to
shut up and sit.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
There, hold your horses. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Then he became a head coach for the Jets and Browns.
One of those jobs went okay, the other not so much.
All right, you here, you can figure out which was which.
All right, now, you see him on all these shows
FS one. He's a member of the thirty third team
and also has the very distinct honor of being thrown
off the show multiple times. But you're right, Eric Mangini,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Come back. You can shy, you can go ahead and think.
Now you can start.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I would like to say it's good to see you guys,
but you know I'm always cautiously optimistic as how this
is going to go and whether or not I'm going
to make it through the show.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, you trust me. We're not so in your favor.
Let's just say that. Trust us.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We're more worried than you are. All right, Look, I
know how it's going for you right now. You know
you're head coach of the Jets. When Brett fav came
to down from the Packers, you know, now we got
history repeating itself with Aaron Rodgers there how worried. Are
you right now that the Jets will win the super
Bowl and make you look terrible?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I think they should be in the mix of the
super Bowl when you get Aaron Rodgers and you've got
all the advantages that they have. They have the whole
off season of his offensive coordinator. He's I got a
system that he knows, I got the number four defense.
I mean, things look really good for them.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's very positive of you. You know, you're doing a
great job hiding your jealousy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
They we know. Yeah, that's very impressive. You know watching Yeah,
we have you been watching had Knocks?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You saw the hard knocks with Aaron Rodgers so far?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Rodgers? Yeah, you watch him passing. He hasn't thrown a
single incomplete pass on the whole entire show. Have you
ever seen a performance like this out of a quarterback
and training camp? Or he hasn't thrown a single incompletion.
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. I don't know how how they've been
able to do that. I'm very impressed with what he's doing.
I love what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Wow, you know you have so much positivity hit, don'ty?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean, yeah, what's going on you on drugs?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
As?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I think he's scared. He's walking on pins and eggshells here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I always wonder why they don't have the Eagles on
Hard Knocks? What do you think that's about?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Why would we go on hard Knots and show our
hand in poker? Do you show your hand in poker?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
And never too many incompletions? Wouldn't be good TV?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Oh yeah, he wouldn't be good TV as anytime you're on.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, we're learning that now.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, what do you know about making good TV? Look
at the two answers you've given on the show so far.
You're born our audience at that. Yeah, we're looking for something. Yeah,
Aaron Rodgers, I can I.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Can only I can only work with the with the
questions you give me, I get burned.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You're putting it back on us like you could.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, you could only work with Brett Favre in New
York and look how that went off the rails for you. Yeah,
you know he wants a better question, Tony, this diva,
he's asking for bed. We got one for you, fine, Yeah,
we got one for you. Let's see you try and
knock this one. Yeah, coach all right. On the subject
of another quarterback.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You see this. You got a Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He's accusing his family's financial firm of misplacing twelve million dollars.
Now we say this is great news, fantastic news.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, when you have a QB like Tom Brady, who's
worth you know, five hundred mil, he's got nothing to play,
no incentive to win, now, Baker, he's got to play
just to put food on the table. As a coach,
is this what you like to see out of a quarterback? Yeah,
you know, he's literally hungry to succeed.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I don't think you ever want to see anybody lose money,
especially if they're losing to their family.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I think I think you said if you guys could
lose some money and and maybe up your game, I
think that would be a positive thing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Base based off the set, based off the preparation. I
don't think there's a lot of money rolling in.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We just opened our March store.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Oh wow, I bet I bet you. I bet you.
The products are flying off the shelf.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Oh yeah, exactly. If I don't see your March Star.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Doing exactly, We're gonna buy a yacht already. We just
launched the store today. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You're doing a bully.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I heard you had to borrow that hoodie from Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's that's how you're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Needless to say, then, when you were deciding, you know,
between Chad Pennington and whoever, when you were deciding between
your starting quarterback, did their bank statements not factor into
that decision?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yeah, we usually didn't check on how much they were raking.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That explains ever, That explains everything.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah. Well, I mean, if if you're using that logic,
then Jalen Hurts is going to be terrible the season,
right because he just got paid a lot of mone
So you guys must be really excited by how much
money he made.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Because Jalen Hurts doesn't care about the money. He only
cares about winning. Winning, cares about I heard he doesn't
even check his bank statements. I already gets all his
clothes at Goodwill, so trurific.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm telling you this is this is This
is good, solid, deductive reasoning by you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No reason. Don't worry, We're gonna from the show. It
can be you in a minute here.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean, you guys are used to paying quarterbacks and
getting rid of them, so I guess.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
You, oh you kidding me? This guy.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The NFL teams couldn't get rid of you fast enough.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
But Jalen Hurts is a super Bowl quarterback, which is
actually a good segue there, Paula talking about Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Which you seem to forget it.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
He went through the Super Bowl board.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Let's talk about because you can't evaluate quarterbacks. What are
you talking about him trying to hear the Super Bowl
winning quarterback.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, they scored more points on offense than the Chiefs
day more, had more points.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
More points. So if you look at the head to head,
maybe they should.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Have spent some money on cleats. Maybe they should have.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Maybe the FIC should have been in with that wet
grass with the Bermuda triangle grass, spent money on a
better gardener.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Didn't seem, didn't seem to affect the other team, but.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They they were in on it.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Uh yeah, magical cleats.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, well, it sounds like someone was listening to our
previous episode with our other guest, who was frankly just
as shitty as you are.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But that's another story.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Anyway, you're bellyaching about cleats on the previous show. Shocking.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
All right, now he's acting like he didn't watch a
previous show. Come on, all right, hold on, you're trying
to steer this conversation all over the place. This is
why you're coaching didn't go so well. You know you're
going to in too many places here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, have a plan and follow it like we do. Yeah.
Watch all right, look.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Listen talking about quarterback decisions here. You know, I'm sure
you've been keeping an eye on the quarterback controversy brewing
in Kansas City. We got backup quarterback Shane Bukeley. He's
putting up whopping numbers in the season. I mean, look
at this graphic. All right, So when you look at
Bukeley's career numbers side by side with mahomes.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Career numbers, I mean, look at this.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Bukeley's got a seventy five percent completion percentage. Mahomes has
got a lowly sixty six percent.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I mean, look at his age.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He's Bukeley's twenty five years old. Mahomes is entering the
twilight of his career at twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, so you know, clear, you know Bukeley has an
argument if not a slamgunk argument for this job.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
So you know you're a coach. I guess, how.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Do you see Andy Reid handling this uh clearly complicated situation.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, that's that's uh yeah, that's a strong argument. Uh yeah,
I think I think. I think they're gonna be okay
in Kansas City. And you know, I can't imagine, and
I can't imagine. And he's worried about.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This typical media and the typical media just trying to distract.
Now looking at the stats, now, looking at the real stories.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
All right, fine, you know what, let's just here's a
real test of football knowledge. We'll give you one chance
to shiney. Let's move to some predictions. All right, we're
going to start in the NFC. Your prediction, coach, who
do you see facing the Eagles in the NFC Championship
this year?
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Well, first, I don't know if the Eagles are gonna
be able to make it to the NFC Championship. They've
lost both their coordinators. Dalen Hurts had a big contract
extension oftentimes. You know what that comes.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm not even gonna bother listening to this answer. You
know what I'm gonna coordinate? You exit from this show
because you're.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Off the show.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Shows gone.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Half man, Genie. You make up for it in the
merch store. Go buy some merch. You're off the show?
Is he off the line? Jay, hang up the phone.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know that guy is just a real downer all around.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, my wish was to put that main Genie back
in the bottle.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Great one doning and great way to start it around there,
you know, because otherwise it was a terrific show.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Got good friends at Propel. Wait wait, wait, if you
propel off a.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Cliff, Yeah, somebody I wanted to throw into a propeller.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
What do you j Corrections? Corrections?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Hurry up.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
First, you said you've only said positive things about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, respect, bro, always Bro.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
You spent all of last year ripping him and saying
he was a quote shitty quarterback.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh yeah, well this is going to be your last
year alive. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
If there's one thing we're going to be ripping, it's
your lower intestines. Oh yeah, we're done, let's go.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
No more.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
What you said Aaron Rodgers throw zero incompletions in training
camp because you didn't see any on hard knocks.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, bro, unbelievable it's incredible.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Yeah, no, those shows are edited.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's a TV show. Trust me.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
He's thrown many incomplete passes that you haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh yeah, well you know what, I'm about to edit
your lifespan.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, I wish that when your father hit on your
mother that was an incomplete pass.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh great, let's go with Finnish. Why hurry up?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You actually believe that Patrick Mahomes could lose the starting
job to backup quarterback Shane Bukeley, who's never played in
a single game.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, bro check his preseason stats.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It could happen. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
That might be the single worst take, not only on
the show, but ever.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh yeah, well, you know what's going to be the
best take when you take your final breath?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, you want to know the worst single anything? It's
you and your love life.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yea, you're done.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Great one, Tony, Yeah, it's another great one.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Just came across the desk.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Here booked our next week's show, super Bowl hero Eagles
legend Nick Foles will be Wow, you don't forget where
you're gonna go. You're gonna click and go to our merchancy. Yeah,
buy all the mercy shack for all we've done for
you you always on the YouTube, follow us on TikTok,
(21:28):
listen to us on Fox Sports Radio and Tony.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Great job as.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Always, same to you, Polly, another flawless show.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
See your people next week. See U
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