X's and BrO's - "Heroes and Heels" 9/29/25

Shep and Trent present their "Heroes and Heels" from the sports weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get to hero and heal. We do

(00:02):
this every Monday at eight eighteen. We want your best
and worst of the weekend. Doesn't have to be sports
related if you don't want it to be. Doesn't have
to be a specific player or a hometown team. It
could be a commission, it could be a team in general.
It could be a franchise, It could be an owner,
it could be a coach. Oftentimes we side with players

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and or teams, but we want your hero and heels,
the best and worst of the week. My hero. This
is going to make Trent cringe. It's Patrick Mahomes. Chiefs
and Ravens, both one and three on Sunday afternoon, both
of them desperately needed a win. Mahomes led his team
to a decisive thirty seven twenty two home knockout. They've

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now beaten the Ravens in seven of their last eight meetings.
He threw for two hundred and seventy yards four touchdowns,
did not turn it over, and became the fastest quarterback
in NFL history to throw for two hundred fifty career touchdowns.
He did it in one hundred and sixteen games. That
was that, That is now the new record, breaking the

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old mark set by Aaron Rodgers, who did it in
career start number one twenty one. My hero for the week, wow,
he is Patrick Mahome.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, that's a good one. It's hard not to pick
an elite player like that. You know. I'm gonna give
mine to the Atlanta Falcons because last year, not last year,
last week, you lose thirty to nothing, you get blasted
by a division opponent. Losing a division game sucks as
it is, but getting blown out thirty to nothing, and
you know what, Rahie Morris did. He still showed up
in front of the media. He still went on the

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radio shows, he talked about it. He owned it. And
you know what, they came back and beat a pretty
good Commander's team, albeit without Jaden Daniels. But the Falcons
steady the ship. Shep they get back to two and two,
and that's my pick to win that division. I still
think that's on the board. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers dealing
with some injuries. They finally lost the game yesterday, So
credit of the Falcons for steadying the ship yesterday. I'll

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give it the Falcons my hero.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, and that's a good one. You could specifically go
to Michael Pennix, who threw for three hundred and thirteen
yards pretty good and two touchdowns pret pretty good. This now,
he hasn't been exactly what you thought, but remember the
last week against Carolina he threw for just one hundred
and seventy two yards and two picks. Yep, got bench

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and got bench. He's got three touchdowns, three interceptions. Nothing
to write home about just yet. But the Falcons are
a good one. They're alive first time in dan Quinn's
Washington tenure where they've lost back to Becker. All right.
Time for the heel. My heel is three pronged. I
want to take anything away from Trent because he might

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have one of these. Mine are pretty obvious. Here are
the three team USA and the Ryder Cup, the Tigers
and Mets. Nice. So the American team stunked most of
the weekend. I mean Sunday they were damn good in
singles matches, but it was too far gone by then.
They were embarrassing period. Okay. I was so fired up
to watch it and it just and this is what

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we mean about moment on the very first day to
shamble almost drive, it seemed like it felt like almost
every day, the first group out for Team USA grabs
a one up lead by getting on the board in
the first and then they just fall apart. Okay, so
it was embarrassing. Tigers led Cleveland by fifteen and a
half games, you know that on July sixth, came on

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glued lost the Ales Central Crown, going seven and seventeen
in September. So I know we're overlooking that because why
because they're in the playoffs. If they lose in the playoffs,
especially in the first round, you're gonna go back to
seven and seventeen in September, blowing a fifteen and a
half game lead and not doing enough at the trade down.

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The Mats had the best record in baseball June twelfth.
Since that they had the fifth worst record in all
of baseball. Outs. Yeah, they finished the year five and six.
Could have sealed a playoff spot with a win on Sunday,
but lost four ZIP to Miami. They had a payroll
over three hundred and forty million dollars, second heuist in baseball.

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They gave way to a Reds team who also lost
Sunday in Milwaukee, but finished nine and two down the stretch.
So since he closes the year eighty three and seventy nine,
they become the third team since twenty twenty to reach
the postseason with eighty three wins. Both deserving of their
epic collapses, but at least one gets to shake off

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the regular season disappointment the Tigers, while the Mets wonder
who they're going to hire next as a manager and
why are they wasting the careers and a lot of
money with Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto and others. On top
of all that, Pete Alonso says, I am opting out.
I will test free agency again. He had a player option.

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He probably just played his final game as a New
York Met. Who's your heel?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
A lot of questions this offseason for the Mets. Thirty
seconds before break, so I'll be quick. Penn State football,
how do you have any shred of confidence in that program?
A losing record in big games is one thing. Two
and twenty one against top six opponents is completely different.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Chep James Franklin.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'm not pointing the finger at one guy, but Penn
State football, when was the last big game you won?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's what's the consistency? Though, what's the constant If you
don't want to play it, point your finger. That's nice
of you. Point your finger at James. Frankly, if you
don't want to do that, I would. He's the one constant.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, I'm just saying, you know, the interception at the
end of the game has changed.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
A lot of different things. Yes, but I mean you're James,
frank You're right. First place, you're at home, You're right.
It's James supposed to make the biggest difference, right, That's
what I've been told the white out. Yeah,