September 21, 2023 • 22 mins
NFL veteran and noted Washington Commanders (or whatever their name is now) QB Gus Frerotte gets KICKED OFF THE SHOW after being VERY COMBATIVE and giving TERRIBLE takes on Aaron Rodgers, Nick Chubb, and other football topics. Plus, Paulie & Tony reveal their SMART plan to save Deshaun Watson's career with the Cleveland Browns and VERY GENTLY discuss Bill Belichick breaking up with his super-hot girlfriend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's show, We're gonna save Deshaun Watson's entire career.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let's go roll thee intro, all.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Right, jo your life from Philly. It's the Polly and Tony.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Foolsco Show, y'all always Polly Fool's go here with Tony
Fosco and Tony Yo Eagles doing.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
O y morons out there. They say they don't deserve
to be doing. Oh what the hell are these numbs go?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Do is check the scoreboard and count the number of points.
It's not hard, that's it.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, it's amazing how you got to explain such simple
concepts to people all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, exactly. Well you better buckle up, people, because there's
gonna be more of that on this show anyway. Today
we're gonna tell you how Aaron Rodgers just changed all
of sports create just crazy, and we're going to very gently,
very gently discuss the unfortunate turn of events in Bill
Belichick's love life. Yeah, we're gonna do it with class, exactly.
(01:09):
But you know, talking about unfortunate events, Tony. You know,
our guest today is a man who he claims, first
of all, to be a Pro Bowl quarterback. We'll get
into that. He's a fifteen year NFL veteran. He's known
mostly for playing for the Washington team, whatever you want
to call it. And you know, he's also known for
an unfortunate event where he happened to headbutt a cement wall.
(01:32):
But you know, as we know your people, you want
us to bring that up, but you know we're professionals.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Look, we don't do that on this show. That's low
hanging food.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Anyway. Former Washington quarterback Gus Farratt will be joining us
on the show. And you were talking about low hanging food, Tony,
that's a great segue. Thank you. It's time for an
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(02:02):
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Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah. In fact, just the other day I was at
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(02:27):
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Speaker 1 (02:30):
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got that business out of the way. Don't you have
another check in the mail? Top story story? All right,
first out the gate. You know, if there's one thing
(02:52):
we know about Aaron Rodgers, it's that he always knows
the right doctors to go to, no doubt with the
correct answers. And yeah, and now he's done it again
because you know, you know, throughout all of sports history,
Tony and achilles injury meant you're out for it was
a yeah, yeah at least, but not anymore. Reports say
(03:13):
that thanks to doctor Neil Attaci, Aaron Rodgers could be
back in four months, right in time for the playoffs,
thanks to a new procedure called a speed bridge. And Tony,
this just changes everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Absolutely, It's a true miracle of science.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah. I mean, you know, you look around sports right now.
I mean Colorado wide receiver Travis Hunter he's out with
a lacerated liver.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You know, no problem, speed Bridge. He'll be back in
a week exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know Brown's running back, Nick Chubb, you saw that
devastating injury.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yep, speed Bridge, he'll be at practice tomorrow. Make sure
you leave him in your fantasy lineups.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, and you know show hey o Donnie. They say
he may not pitch for another toy years or so.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Nope, speed Bridge, he'll be on the mound tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just incredible when you see the changes. And you know,
Tony another angle here. This is what they call spinning
it forward to all U. That's what we're doing to
come up in the business. You know, now that Aaron
Rodgers has proved that you can recover from an achilles
in a few months, the question must be asked, will
players start deliberately injuring their achilles so they can be
(04:27):
rested for the playoffs? You gotta ask it, Dony.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, you know it would be the smart move. If
I was Patrick Mahomes, I would seriously consider tearing my
achilles to get some much needed rest and be ready
to go for the playoffs. Spot By my projections, the
teams in the AFC West are so shaty that the
Chiefs simply need to go seven to ten to win
(04:52):
the division, which can easily be achieved with the backup
quarterback Shane Bulkley.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Great point, Dony. And you know, as long as we're
discussing advice to quarterbacks here, let's move to Brown's quarterback
DeShawn Watson. You know, he was seeing they had him
meditating on the sidelines before the Dealers lost, and it
was clearly the wrong approach because you're a fixed six
and fumbled, and you know, it just goes to show
that he's not getting the right coaching here, right, Yeah,
(05:20):
people are blaming DeShawn, blame the coaching. You gotta you
gotta get to Deshaun in the right way, communicate to
him in the right exactly. Do you have a smart
solution here, don't you?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yep? Deshaun Watson needs a coach who knows how to
communicate with him. And that's not Kevin Stefanski. It's clearly
now fired Michigan State College football head coach and phone
sex expert Mel Tucker. You know, Mel would know the
right way to speak to DeShawn, like, you know, go deep.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
With those balls.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Uh, you know, DeShawn carefully massage those balls into that opening.
When you see that wide open hole, you got to
penetrate that gaping hole and cradle those balls carefully so
you aren't dangling your balls out there and exposing yourself
to everybody. You know, hold on to those balls so
(06:16):
we can all have a happy ending. You know, good
sound coaching like that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Terrific analysis, Tony and will now do a very delicate matter.
You know, we don't like to talk about people's personal
lives on this show. Then again, it's a dowty as
a journalist to report the news and report that Bill
Bellajack in his longtime surprisingly hot girlfriend Linda Holiday have
called it quits after sixteen years. And Duella Sauce, source
(06:46):
that spoke with People magazine said, quote, Bill is all
about football and very busy now. He doesn't want a
lot of public attention on this. And well, then, you know,
out of respect for coach Belichick, we are going to
refrain from commenting on this matter, aren't we, Dony.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Absolutely, you know it would be wrong at this time
to comment on Bill Belichick's breakup, So you know, we're
absolutely not going to point out that he broke up
with a super hot woman who was way out of
his league just to focus on an zero to two
team with absolutely no shot of winning the super Bowl,
(07:26):
let alone making the playoffs, because again, that would be
wrong at this time, and we don't do those types
of TMJ stories on this show.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Again, low hanging food. So well, said Tony. And you know,
we also want to respect Linda Holiday's privacy at this
time year, so we'll let her reach out to us
when she's ready to come on the show or go
on a date with Dony.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Absolutely take your time, but just let me know.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, anyway, while we wait for that to happen, it
looks like our guest is coming on the line, so
let's go ahead and bring him on the Fusco Satellite Network.
Fusco Satellite Rod. All right, this guy, fifteen year NFL veteran,
most notably with Washington, went to the Pro Bowl in
nineteen ninety six, which is extremely dubious. If you ask us,
(08:19):
you know, we'll get into that. You know, also holds
the record for longest pass play in NFL history, Lucky
you know, also once led the Broncos to the playoffs.
But then again, so did Tim Tebow. So you know
that's not saying much anyway, exactly. You know, one thing
we're not going to bring up is the head butt
with the cement wall, because you know that's just low
hanging food. We don't do that on this show anyway. No,
(08:41):
you know, here we go. He's a rival, but we're
bringing him in in anyway. Gus Farott, Welcome to the show.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You guys, it looks like somebody had better that wall
behind you. It's fall apart. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Excited? He sees another wall to put his head through. Yeah,
you know, but you throw that wall, you know for
number time number two.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I don't know, I don't know. You look like one
of those guys from Philly that talks a lot but
doesn't back it up.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh okay, well we'll see how some of them goes.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We'll back you in the last place, like we did
many times.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You know, I always wanted to bring those fans down
onto the field with some of my three hundred and
fifty pounds linemen and then see how much crap they talk.
Oh you're wiet, well you're real quiet around it.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
But the yeah, right, our family who's sitting up in
the stands least.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Our team actually has fans. You can actually met the
Washington fan. Yeah, all right, hold on, he's trying to
steer this interview. That's not how this works, Gus. You're
not the quarterback here, all right, So just sit and fight.
You know, this is why you know what he's doing done.
He's trying to distract us from the real exactly, so
you don't get me ask you. You're probably afraid of
(09:53):
this question. But you know it said in your bio
as we read that you went to the Pro Bowl
in ninety six. That year you threw a whopping twelve touchdowns,
eleven interceptions, and had a fifty seven point four completion percentage.
So when it says you went to the Pro Bowl,
was that because someone got your tickets or something? Yeah,
you get caught, see it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
We went on vacation and then just ended up that
they needed another quarterback. So I just ended up playing
in the Pro Bowl over there. You know, it's just timing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Who knew, Well, how did you play in the game?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Oh, they let anybody in that game?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, it clearly seems like it. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Exactly, yeah, I mean first, first, going on, first, well,
I don't know if you know if JaMarcus Russell was
born yet when I was playing in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But you got to play from you, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Oh and I think I think it was uh other
people taught JaMarcus not very well. But I don't really
know much about JaMarcus. But anyway, getting back to the
Pro Bowl. Going in to the Pro Bowl, I'm pretty nervous.
First play I get in. You know, they tell you, hey,
there's no blitzing, there's no you know, it's just like
you're you're in practice whatever. You know, everybody's kind of
(11:07):
going half assed. First play I'm in, Junior say, ow
blitz has hits me in the chest, puts me on
my back, and he goes, welcome to the Pro Bowl kid.
I'm like, all right, that's how it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I actually don't think that was Junior say I will
hit you. I think it was a security guard who
realized you shouldn't be on the field.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Do you think it's because you had like a very
hittable face. So then Junior say I couldn't resist.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I must have, because you know, it seemed there was
a few games in when I played in Washington that
they like to hit me, you know, and I love
I love how people like you guys who sit in
the stance never been hit by anything except maybe by
hitting by astray, a HOGI or something.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, you been hit by a playoff win.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You guys are the guys you love to say that
the NFL is soft now, and it is.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh oh okay, it is doing it in touch out there,
except you know, I.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Don't know if it's off. It's a guy like Nick Chubb.
A guy like Nick Chubb hurts his hurts his knee
the way he did. There's nothing solid. Worry speed Bridge.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He'll be back.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Don't worry. Speed Bridge simp kind of like.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be back, right, He's gonna
be back, dude.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
He's gonna have a miracle surgery bring him back and
he's gonna be able to walk.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
So one leged Aaron Rodgers is better than Zach right?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is that what you guys are saying?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Wow, I appreciate you following the show, you know, Yeah,
this is I got to applaud you have your year
of very well done sportsos here. You know this speed
Bridge technology, Gus is a game change. I mean now,
you know, quarterbacks may approach the season differently. Don't you
think a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes might deliberately injure his
(12:47):
achilles so he could, you know, rest up all season
then be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, that's exactly what everybody wants to do, is just
go through a surgery. Not like we go through enough
of them. But hey, I'm going to take a rest.
Let me blow my achilles. This doctor is going to
put me back together easually. He's not a quack. He's
not a guy that's only done it twice in his
whole career. Let's let's use that.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're a scientist.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, I'm like you guys, you know, I'm armchair quarterback.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, we've been to the playoffs more than you have. Yeah,
exc you have?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
How many who bought you your tickets?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No? So he's giving it back to us now? Yeah,
you know, you know exactly if they had Speedbridge when
I was seventeen, I'd be in the Hall of Fame
by now. Unfortunately, devastating injury.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
The technology.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know, they still have wolfleball. I mean you could
still play that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I'll be throwing I bet you couldn't even I bet
you could even hit one of those guys throwing a wolfleball.
That hand eye coordination.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You're talking about hand eye coordination, the guy who ran
into a cement wall. Yes, that has.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Nothing to do with hand eye That has to do
with stopping. That has to do with stopping. That's like,
it's like bat That's like it's like not having disc
brakes on your car.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Now, that just gave us an idea, don't start your
card after this show. Yeah, exactly. Let's just say you're
going to be going to top speed down the freeway.
All right. Look, let's talk about your your old team Washington, right,
you know, right now they're too and no gus in
a first place.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
They got my boy Eric the enemy in their calm plays.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, you know, and things are looking good right now,
you know. But is that why that makes this time
of year so tough for you? When expectations are so
high and you know that the commanders will inevitably, you know,
crumble and disappoint everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
The collapse is imminent.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Uh, I don't know, I hope not. I think it
all depends on injuries, you know. I think that with
what Eric the enemy's doing. The talent they have is
Sam Howe. You know, everything everything focuses on a quarterback,
just like this show right, not on YouTube, but on
the quarterback. So if if the quarterback stays healthy, I
think the Commanders can do it. I don't know if
they're ready to go out and beat the Eagles. Yeah,
(14:59):
and it looks like Dallas has a pretty formidable defense.
But I think that the Eagles will be able to
kind of handle that. But the Commanders, I think they're young,
they got a lot of talent. The coaches are pretty
good down there, and it's going to be a lot
of fun to watch the nfcast year.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, mostly for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's going to be the spoiler alert. Nobody's playing with
the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Nobody not that first game? Nope, who's that first game
they played against?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
How do you play in Week one? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I don't know. I'll have to go back and watch
the film. I don't they they don't have that VC
that that VHS tape is old. You can't really it's
hard to watch I know VHS.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Let me ask you a questions, you seemingly fountain you.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Soon don't answer any of the questions.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I asked, hold on, you're not quota backing this show.
All right, see he'll get you're running it straight into
a wall like usual. All right, Look, when you play
the Eagles in your career, what was your career record, Gus?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't know. I think I think the the Eagles
got me on that one?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Correct? So what was that number? Correct? Us?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well, if I was at I didn't play them every
year because I didn't start against them every year. I'm
not sure what that number.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Was exactly, because you were benched by smart coaches.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Go yes, I don't know if you can go that
far smart coaches.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You had no turner. He was a smart coach.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
He was all right anyway, I'm not sure what it was.
Give me the number.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Ah, it was one? And for what I was about,
you know, playing in Philadelphia that was so hard for you?
Was it, you know, the other team being so good?
Was it the fans? Was it the distance between the
walls and the end zone? What was it for you?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
It was that unbelievable ship turf they had.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh oh, he's blaming you know, this is blaming that turf?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
No accountability?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
How many people blame that turf?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Tell us what was wrong with the turf. I want
to hear this excuse you've got.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Oh, the turf was terrible. It would just eat you alive.
It was like playing on sandpaper.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
When you heard that the Super Bowl field last year
with the Eagles and Chiefs was slippery, don't you think
the result of that game should be thrown out?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Talking about Oh, you.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Were just giving me crap about the turf, and now
the grass field was slippery, and you're the one going
to handle the poor Super Bowl turf where they actually
take every little blade.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It was playing on a slipping side.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They couldn't get any track shots.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
No, it's amazing that the other team could. Though.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's the conspiracy, isn't it. How did they?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I think it had to do with spikes and the
shoes Eagles had wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That's what you think. That's what you say.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Probably tried cheating that weight to hold on. You're trying
to steer this show straight into a wall as usual, right,
as usual? As usual? You just but look, you know
we talk to your people beforehand, and you know you
said you wanted to bring up this charitable work you're doing,
you know, squit pro crow with the business. Yeah, usually
(18:16):
at this point of the show, we tell you to
off and leave, but that's his charity, So we're gonna
let you talk up all right, don't tune out people
listening to everybody from now while Gus talks about his charity.
If you don't turn down the volume. This is very important,
so so just give it a listen. Well, it's not
a charity, fellas.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This is this is this is our alumni being able
to own and tell their stories and keep it for themselves.
So what we did we created a media network and
we call Alumni Media. You can go to NFL Alumnimedia
dot com check it out. We are streaming network. Our
(18:56):
guys have their own channels. They can come on, create
any content they want. They have a channel on there,
and they can sell their merchandise, they can build their brand.
So what we're doing is we're creating a whole streaming
network for all of our alumni that can come on,
have a place to tell their stories and own their content.
Because what has happened for most of all of our
(19:19):
careers after we leave the league, you know a lot
of us don't know how to use technology. So we
help train those guys and how to get on like
you guys have mics and a camera. Our guys sometimes
don't even know how to turn on their.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Phone, you know, and it's just so terrible sometimes I
see these guys come on shows and the hosts just
talk all over them, don't let them get a word
ed you and edge wise, right, and this is where
to fix that, right.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
This is this is going to be them hosting. This
is going to be them owning their own content. Because
we've gone on every show told our stories and somebody
else gets all the credit and ratings.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So this is just a way for profit enterprise? Is
that what you're saying? This is? This is up to guy.
We give them a week to know. We just gave
you that airtime. What percentage of the proceeds and profits
will we be getting from this company?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I don't know. I don't know. It depends how many
views you guys get, how many views, how many eagles.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's not the pay. We got millions of views, bro.
You know, the only view you're going to have is
the end of the show because guess guess what, there's
a gust of wind coming to blow you out of here.
You have the shot show get out in man, going
I command you to turn around and run headfirst into
(20:38):
that wall. Get done? So is the off the line? Jay,
hang up the fall. There you have it, as usual,
another loss to the Eagles for Gus Farot. Nothing he's
one and five now, yeah, exactly, Well, let's not let
him ruin, which was otherwise a terrific show. Of course.
We want to thank our sponsors, Jersey, Mike's and ye
(21:01):
hold on, oh you kidding meet someone who's Mike. We
should remove talking about Mike's corrections.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, Harry app go.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
You said Aaron Rodgers doctor is doctor Neil el.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Attache Yeah, bro, great doctor.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
His name is pronounced doctor Neil Latrage, not Neil ell Attachie.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, well I'm going through unattachee all of your limbs.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, and Neil is what you're gonna do when we
cut off your feet. You're downing. God, let's get out
of here.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No more? What r that?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
If Brown's running back? Nick Chubb saw Aaron Rodgers doctor,
he could also come back the season.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, bro, modern medicine, anything's possible, bro. Yeah, no, no,
no it's not. Nick Chubb's injury was way worse. He's
definitely gonna be out for the season if not longer.
Oh yeah, well, when I'm done with you, you're gonna
be out of blood. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You remind me of the Browns because this year your
chubb is also not going to see any action. Yeah,
you're done, don't night. That's the end of the show.
Let's go all the way.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
It's low hanging fruit, not low hanging food.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh yeah, well nothing of yours is low hanging. If
you catch my drift, yeah, any exactly. We're not gonna
let him ruin the show anyway. No. Next week on
the show, super Bowl hero Eagles legend Nick Foles will
be coming a water great news, don't forget. Go to
our merch store. Subscribe, yeh, follow us on all subscribe
(22:43):
on your doub all that stuff and donty.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Great job as always, same to you, poorly, another fallless show.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Show. We'll see if peopul next week. See your
On today's show, We're gonna save Deshaun Watson's entire career.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let's go roll thee intro, all.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Right, jo your life from Philly. It's the Polly and Tony.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Foolsco Show, y'all always Polly Fool's go here with Tony
Fosco and Tony Yo Eagles doing.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
O y morons out there. They say they don't deserve
to be doing. Oh what the hell are these numbs go?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Do is check the scoreboard and count the number of points.
It's not hard, that's it.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, it's amazing how you got to explain such simple
concepts to people all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, exactly. Well you better buckle up, people, because there's
gonna be more of that on this show anyway. Today
we're gonna tell you how Aaron Rodgers just changed all
of sports create just crazy, and we're going to very gently,
very gently discuss the unfortunate turn of events in Bill
Belichick's love life. Yeah, we're gonna do it with class, exactly.
(01:09):
But you know, talking about unfortunate events, Tony. You know,
our guest today is a man who he claims, first
of all, to be a Pro Bowl quarterback. We'll get
into that. He's a fifteen year NFL veteran. He's known
mostly for playing for the Washington team, whatever you want
to call it. And you know, he's also known for
an unfortunate event where he happened to headbutt a cement wall.
(01:32):
But you know, as we know your people, you want
us to bring that up, but you know we're professionals.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Look, we don't do that on this show. That's low
hanging food.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Anyway. Former Washington quarterback Gus Farratt will be joining us
on the show. And you were talking about low hanging food, Tony,
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Speaker 2 (02:05):
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got that business out of the way. Don't you have
another check in the mail? Top story story? All right,
first out the gate. You know, if there's one thing
(02:52):
we know about Aaron Rodgers, it's that he always knows
the right doctors to go to, no doubt with the
correct answers. And yeah, and now he's done it again
because you know, you know, throughout all of sports history,
Tony and achilles injury meant you're out for it was
a yeah, yeah at least, but not anymore. Reports say
(03:13):
that thanks to doctor Neil Attaci, Aaron Rodgers could be
back in four months, right in time for the playoffs,
thanks to a new procedure called a speed bridge. And Tony,
this just changes everything, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Absolutely, It's a true miracle of science.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah. I mean, you know, you look around sports right now.
I mean Colorado wide receiver Travis Hunter he's out with
a lacerated liver.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You know, no problem, speed Bridge. He'll be back in
a week exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You know Brown's running back, Nick Chubb, you saw that
devastating injury.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yep, speed Bridge, he'll be at practice tomorrow. Make sure
you leave him in your fantasy lineups.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, and you know show hey o Donnie. They say
he may not pitch for another toy years or so.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Nope, speed Bridge, he'll be on the mound tonight.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Just incredible when you see the changes. And you know,
Tony another angle here. This is what they call spinning
it forward to all U. That's what we're doing to
come up in the business. You know, now that Aaron
Rodgers has proved that you can recover from an achilles
in a few months, the question must be asked, will
players start deliberately injuring their achilles so they can be
(04:27):
rested for the playoffs? You gotta ask it, Dony.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, you know it would be the smart move. If
I was Patrick Mahomes, I would seriously consider tearing my
achilles to get some much needed rest and be ready
to go for the playoffs. Spot By my projections, the
teams in the AFC West are so shaty that the
Chiefs simply need to go seven to ten to win
(04:52):
the division, which can easily be achieved with the backup
quarterback Shane Bulkley.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Great point, Dony. And you know, as long as we're
discussing advice to quarterbacks here, let's move to Brown's quarterback
DeShawn Watson. You know, he was seeing they had him
meditating on the sidelines before the Dealers lost, and it
was clearly the wrong approach because you're a fixed six
and fumbled, and you know, it just goes to show
that he's not getting the right coaching here, right, Yeah,
(05:20):
people are blaming DeShawn, blame the coaching. You gotta you
gotta get to Deshaun in the right way, communicate to
him in the right exactly. Do you have a smart
solution here, don't you?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yep? Deshaun Watson needs a coach who knows how to
communicate with him. And that's not Kevin Stefanski. It's clearly
now fired Michigan State College football head coach and phone
sex expert Mel Tucker. You know, Mel would know the
right way to speak to DeShawn, like, you know, go deep.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
With those balls.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Uh, you know, DeShawn carefully massage those balls into that opening.
When you see that wide open hole, you got to
penetrate that gaping hole and cradle those balls carefully so
you aren't dangling your balls out there and exposing yourself
to everybody. You know, hold on to those balls so
(06:16):
we can all have a happy ending. You know, good
sound coaching like that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Terrific analysis, Tony and will now do a very delicate matter.
You know, we don't like to talk about people's personal
lives on this show. Then again, it's a dowty as
a journalist to report the news and report that Bill
Bellajack in his longtime surprisingly hot girlfriend Linda Holiday have
called it quits after sixteen years. And Duella Sauce, source
(06:46):
that spoke with People magazine said, quote, Bill is all
about football and very busy now. He doesn't want a
lot of public attention on this. And well, then, you know,
out of respect for coach Belichick, we are going to
refrain from commenting on this matter, aren't we, Dony.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Absolutely, you know it would be wrong at this time
to comment on Bill Belichick's breakup, So you know, we're
absolutely not going to point out that he broke up
with a super hot woman who was way out of
his league just to focus on an zero to two
team with absolutely no shot of winning the super Bowl,
(07:26):
let alone making the playoffs, because again, that would be
wrong at this time, and we don't do those types
of TMJ stories on this show.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Again, low hanging food. So well, said Tony. And you know,
we also want to respect Linda Holiday's privacy at this
time year, so we'll let her reach out to us
when she's ready to come on the show or go
on a date with Dony.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Absolutely take your time, but just let me know.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, anyway, while we wait for that to happen, it
looks like our guest is coming on the line, so
let's go ahead and bring him on the Fusco Satellite Network.
Fusco Satellite Rod. All right, this guy, fifteen year NFL veteran,
most notably with Washington, went to the Pro Bowl in
nineteen ninety six, which is extremely dubious. If you ask us,
(08:19):
you know, we'll get into that. You know, also holds
the record for longest pass play in NFL history, Lucky
you know, also once led the Broncos to the playoffs.
But then again, so did Tim Tebow. So you know
that's not saying much anyway, exactly. You know, one thing
we're not going to bring up is the head butt
with the cement wall, because you know that's just low
hanging food. We don't do that on this show anyway. No,
(08:41):
you know, here we go. He's a rival, but we're
bringing him in in anyway. Gus Farott, Welcome to the show.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You guys, it looks like somebody had better that wall
behind you. It's fall apart. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Excited? He sees another wall to put his head through. Yeah,
you know, but you throw that wall, you know for
number time number two.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I don't know, I don't know. You look like one
of those guys from Philly that talks a lot but
doesn't back it up.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh okay, well we'll see how some of them goes.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We'll back you in the last place, like we did
many times.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You know, I always wanted to bring those fans down
onto the field with some of my three hundred and
fifty pounds linemen and then see how much crap they talk.
Oh you're wiet, well you're real quiet around it.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
But the yeah, right, our family who's sitting up in
the stands least.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Our team actually has fans. You can actually met the
Washington fan. Yeah, all right, hold on, he's trying to
steer this interview. That's not how this works, Gus. You're
not the quarterback here, all right, So just sit and fight.
You know, this is why you know what he's doing done.
He's trying to distract us from the real exactly, so
you don't get me ask you. You're probably afraid of
(09:53):
this question. But you know it said in your bio
as we read that you went to the Pro Bowl
in ninety six. That year you threw a whopping twelve touchdowns,
eleven interceptions, and had a fifty seven point four completion percentage.
So when it says you went to the Pro Bowl,
was that because someone got your tickets or something? Yeah,
you get caught, see it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
We went on vacation and then just ended up that
they needed another quarterback. So I just ended up playing
in the Pro Bowl over there. You know, it's just timing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Who knew, Well, how did you play in the game?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Oh, they let anybody in that game?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well, it clearly seems like it. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Exactly, yeah, I mean first, first, going on, first, well,
I don't know if you know if JaMarcus Russell was
born yet when I was playing in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
But you got to play from you, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Oh and I think I think it was uh other
people taught JaMarcus not very well. But I don't really
know much about JaMarcus. But anyway, getting back to the
Pro Bowl. Going in to the Pro Bowl, I'm pretty nervous.
First play I get in. You know, they tell you, hey,
there's no blitzing, there's no you know, it's just like
you're you're in practice whatever. You know, everybody's kind of
(11:07):
going half assed. First play I'm in, Junior say, ow
blitz has hits me in the chest, puts me on
my back, and he goes, welcome to the Pro Bowl kid.
I'm like, all right, that's how it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I actually don't think that was Junior say I will
hit you. I think it was a security guard who
realized you shouldn't be on the field.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Do you think it's because you had like a very
hittable face. So then Junior say I couldn't resist.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I must have, because you know, it seemed there was
a few games in when I played in Washington that
they like to hit me, you know, and I love
I love how people like you guys who sit in
the stance never been hit by anything except maybe by
hitting by astray, a HOGI or something.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, you been hit by a playoff win.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
You guys are the guys you love to say that
the NFL is soft now, and it is.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh oh okay, it is doing it in touch out there,
except you know, I.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Don't know if it's off. It's a guy like Nick Chubb.
A guy like Nick Chubb hurts his hurts his knee
the way he did. There's nothing solid. Worry speed Bridge.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He'll be back.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Don't worry. Speed Bridge simp kind of like.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be back, right, He's gonna
be back, dude.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
He's gonna have a miracle surgery bring him back and
he's gonna be able to walk.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
So one leged Aaron Rodgers is better than Zach right?
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Is that what you guys are saying?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Wow, I appreciate you following the show, you know, Yeah,
this is I got to applaud you have your year
of very well done sportsos here. You know this speed
Bridge technology, Gus is a game change. I mean now,
you know, quarterbacks may approach the season differently. Don't you
think a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes might deliberately injure his
(12:47):
achilles so he could, you know, rest up all season
then be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, that's exactly what everybody wants to do, is just
go through a surgery. Not like we go through enough
of them. But hey, I'm going to take a rest.
Let me blow my achilles. This doctor is going to
put me back together easually. He's not a quack. He's
not a guy that's only done it twice in his
whole career. Let's let's use that.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You're a scientist.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, I'm like you guys, you know, I'm armchair quarterback.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, we've been to the playoffs more than you have. Yeah,
exc you have?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
How many who bought you your tickets?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No? So he's giving it back to us now? Yeah,
you know, you know exactly if they had Speedbridge when
I was seventeen, I'd be in the Hall of Fame
by now. Unfortunately, devastating injury.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
The technology.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know, they still have wolfleball. I mean you could
still play that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I'll be throwing I bet you couldn't even I bet
you could even hit one of those guys throwing a wolfleball.
That hand eye coordination.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
You're talking about hand eye coordination, the guy who ran
into a cement wall. Yes, that has.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Nothing to do with hand eye That has to do
with stopping. That has to do with stopping. That's like,
it's like bat That's like it's like not having disc
brakes on your car.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Now, that just gave us an idea, don't start your
card after this show. Yeah, exactly. Let's just say you're
going to be going to top speed down the freeway.
All right. Look, let's talk about your your old team Washington, right,
you know, right now they're too and no gus in
a first place.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
They got my boy Eric the enemy in their calm plays.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, you know, and things are looking good right now,
you know. But is that why that makes this time
of year so tough for you? When expectations are so
high and you know that the commanders will inevitably, you know,
crumble and disappoint everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
The collapse is imminent.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Uh, I don't know, I hope not. I think it
all depends on injuries, you know. I think that with
what Eric the enemy's doing. The talent they have is
Sam Howe. You know, everything everything focuses on a quarterback,
just like this show right, not on YouTube, but on
the quarterback. So if if the quarterback stays healthy, I
think the Commanders can do it. I don't know if
they're ready to go out and beat the Eagles. Yeah,
(14:59):
and it looks like Dallas has a pretty formidable defense.
But I think that the Eagles will be able to
kind of handle that. But the Commanders, I think they're young,
they got a lot of talent. The coaches are pretty
good down there, and it's going to be a lot
of fun to watch the nfcast year.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, mostly for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's going to be the spoiler alert. Nobody's playing with
the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Nobody not that first game? Nope, who's that first game
they played against?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
How do you play in Week one? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I don't know. I'll have to go back and watch
the film. I don't they they don't have that VC
that that VHS tape is old. You can't really it's
hard to watch I know VHS.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Let me ask you a questions, you seemingly fountain you.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Soon don't answer any of the questions.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I asked, hold on, you're not quota backing this show.
All right, see he'll get you're running it straight into
a wall like usual. All right, Look, when you play
the Eagles in your career, what was your career record, Gus?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't know. I think I think the the Eagles
got me on that one?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Correct? So what was that number? Correct? Us?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well, if I was at I didn't play them every
year because I didn't start against them every year. I'm
not sure what that number.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Was exactly, because you were benched by smart coaches.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Go yes, I don't know if you can go that
far smart coaches.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You had no turner. He was a smart coach.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
He was all right anyway, I'm not sure what it was.
Give me the number.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Ah, it was one? And for what I was about,
you know, playing in Philadelphia that was so hard for you?
Was it, you know, the other team being so good?
Was it the fans? Was it the distance between the
walls and the end zone? What was it for you?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
It was that unbelievable ship turf they had.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh oh, he's blaming you know, this is blaming that turf?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
No accountability?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
How many people blame that turf?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Tell us what was wrong with the turf. I want
to hear this excuse you've got.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Oh, the turf was terrible. It would just eat you alive.
It was like playing on sandpaper.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
When you heard that the Super Bowl field last year
with the Eagles and Chiefs was slippery, don't you think
the result of that game should be thrown out?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Talking about Oh, you.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Were just giving me crap about the turf, and now
the grass field was slippery, and you're the one going
to handle the poor Super Bowl turf where they actually
take every little blade.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It was playing on a slipping side.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They couldn't get any track shots.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
No, it's amazing that the other team could. Though.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That's the conspiracy, isn't it. How did they?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I think it had to do with spikes and the
shoes Eagles had wrong.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That's what you think. That's what you say.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Probably tried cheating that weight to hold on. You're trying
to steer this show straight into a wall as usual, right,
as usual? As usual? You just but look, you know
we talk to your people beforehand, and you know you
said you wanted to bring up this charitable work you're doing,
you know, squit pro crow with the business. Yeah, usually
(18:16):
at this point of the show, we tell you to
off and leave, but that's his charity, So we're gonna
let you talk up all right, don't tune out people
listening to everybody from now while Gus talks about his charity.
If you don't turn down the volume. This is very important,
so so just give it a listen. Well, it's not
a charity, fellas.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This is this is this is our alumni being able
to own and tell their stories and keep it for themselves.
So what we did we created a media network and
we call Alumni Media. You can go to NFL Alumnimedia
dot com check it out. We are streaming network. Our
(18:56):
guys have their own channels. They can come on, create
any content they want. They have a channel on there,
and they can sell their merchandise, they can build their brand.
So what we're doing is we're creating a whole streaming
network for all of our alumni that can come on,
have a place to tell their stories and own their content.
Because what has happened for most of all of our
(19:19):
careers after we leave the league, you know a lot
of us don't know how to use technology. So we
help train those guys and how to get on like
you guys have mics and a camera. Our guys sometimes
don't even know how to turn on their.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Phone, you know, and it's just so terrible sometimes I
see these guys come on shows and the hosts just
talk all over them, don't let them get a word
ed you and edge wise, right, and this is where
to fix that, right.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
This is this is going to be them hosting. This
is going to be them owning their own content. Because
we've gone on every show told our stories and somebody
else gets all the credit and ratings.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So this is just a way for profit enterprise? Is
that what you're saying? This is? This is up to guy.
We give them a week to know. We just gave
you that airtime. What percentage of the proceeds and profits
will we be getting from this company?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I don't know. I don't know. It depends how many
views you guys get, how many views, how many eagles.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's not the pay. We got millions of views, bro.
You know, the only view you're going to have is
the end of the show because guess guess what, there's
a gust of wind coming to blow you out of here.
You have the shot show get out in man, going
I command you to turn around and run headfirst into
(20:38):
that wall. Get done? So is the off the line? Jay,
hang up the fall. There you have it, as usual,
another loss to the Eagles for Gus Farot. Nothing he's
one and five now, yeah, exactly, Well, let's not let
him ruin, which was otherwise a terrific show. Of course.
We want to thank our sponsors, Jersey, Mike's and ye
(21:01):
hold on, oh you kidding meet someone who's Mike. We
should remove talking about Mike's corrections.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, Harry app go.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
You said Aaron Rodgers doctor is doctor Neil el.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Attache Yeah, bro, great doctor.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
His name is pronounced doctor Neil Latrage, not Neil ell Attachie.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, well I'm going through unattachee all of your limbs.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, and Neil is what you're gonna do when we
cut off your feet. You're downing. God, let's get out
of here.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No more? What r that?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
If Brown's running back? Nick Chubb saw Aaron Rodgers doctor,
he could also come back the season.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, bro, modern medicine, anything's possible, bro. Yeah, no, no,
no it's not. Nick Chubb's injury was way worse. He's
definitely gonna be out for the season if not longer.
Oh yeah, well, when I'm done with you, you're gonna
be out of blood. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You remind me of the Browns because this year your
chubb is also not going to see any action. Yeah,
you're done, don't night. That's the end of the show.
Let's go all the way.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
It's low hanging fruit, not low hanging food.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh yeah, well nothing of yours is low hanging. If
you catch my drift, yeah, any exactly. We're not gonna
let him ruin the show anyway. No. Next week on
the show, super Bowl hero Eagles legend Nick Foles will
be coming a water great news, don't forget. Go to
our merch store. Subscribe, yeh, follow us on all subscribe
(22:43):
on your doub all that stuff and donty.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Great job as always, same to you, poorly, another fallless show.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Show. We'll see if peopul next week. See your
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