October 17, 2022 • 37 mins
Chris and Rob explain why Tom Brady skipping team walkthroughs to go to Robert Kraft’s wedding is just the latest example of him undermining both his own and head coach Todd Bowles’ authority, discuss the biggest reason why Dave Roberts is keeping his job even after the latest Los Angeles Dodgers postseason flameout, and tell us why the New York Yankees should be heavy favorites in tonight’s deciding Game 5 against the Cleveland Guardians.
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it was a sports weekend, to say the least. Saturday
you had a huge upset in college football, Tennessee taken
down Alabama. You had great baseball. You had unless you're
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a Dodger, but right hey, we'll get into that. Deontay
Wilder is back robed. Deontay Wilder connected on three punches
and one of them knocked out Robert Hellanius and uh,
first round, so he's back. It can't beat anybody except Fury,
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it seems. But um, great weekend, and then of course
you had some some real rob some real I guess
litmus Test games Buffalo at Kansas City. They take care
of business there and yes, yes, so great weekend and
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However you may be listening, Rob Parker, what's up, Bro?
What's happened to mister Chris Bussard. I just I'm excited. Uh,
A lot of good stuff to talk about, of course
on a Monday after football, baseball, as you talked about
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all those things. But I do want to say, man,
my trip to Newhaven, Connecticut to my alma mater, Chris
is not an agricultural college, Southern Connecticut State University, was awesome.
I got EPMD, that's right, half of VP. They used
to wear the sweatshirts on their video Southern Serious. Yes,
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I can show you a picture. I'm shot they didn't
get canceled for EPMD. Man, we always have that, but
but it was a great time. I spoke to the students, uh,
Chris and the kids. The journalism program awesome and homecoming
and I want to thank my man. Uh. Go to
the football game I did Saturday night. H Yeah, they
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steam rolled Franklin Pierce. I don't even know where the
Division two Division two football. Yeah. Kevin Gilbride, you remember
a coach for the Chargers and the Giants offensive coordinator.
He was the head coach of the football program when
I was there. Kevin gilb Yeah, great guy. I've known him.
But anyway, let me just say thanks to Greg Bernard,
who's at the He's in the alumni office. And Chris
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rolled out the red carpet for me. It was pretty
awesome the way that they treated me. I loved it
a lot. The president of the university came to my
speech as well. And I had dinner on Saturday night, Chris,
with seventeen you know, my closest friends. I mean, can
you imagine seventeen friends showed up to have dinner with
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me Saturday night at Italian restaurant in New Haven. It
was awesome. So you had a great weekend, my man.
I did as well. Saw a great jazz concert kirk
Waylam Okay, but no Delaware, Delaware. We went to visit
nice friends and checked out the jazz festival. And one
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last thing, you know, Elijah's back. For all the people
who are looking for our YouTube clips, Elijah, our social
media guru, is back on the job after him and
his beautiful wife had a baby boy and his name.
Elijah's father gave him a nickname, an African nickname, Chris.
So his name. They're calling him Tendo t e n
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d o tendo. So his grandfather's given him. I don't know.
I have to ask. Elijah can text me about that,
but I want to say welcome back. And he sent
me a picture of his little boy and Chris. You
know what, babies, all babies look cute. He is the
cutest little boy. God blessed that kid, all right, Elijah. Um, yeah,
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I was in the parking lot the other day and
somebody just randomly saw me drive by and ran up
to the car. When y'all gonna be on, Yeah, so
I'm seeing it just missed, yo, doubt Elijah. Great to
have you back. Good to have Elijah back with the
old Couple crew as well as DJ Alex tightsher aka Vegan,
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but he's not here. As I was saying, I'm bad,
I was Sam always good to have him on the table.
No Vegan, I can tell you that he's a meat eater, right,
super producer Rob Geez in the house and on the
updates you heard her, Missy Blinos Rob let's get into
a Tampa base Shocked, shocked by Pittsburgh. Still never bad time,
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Chris Mollish by Buffalo the week before. They are bad.
Obviously they had a spirited performs, but that there's no
excuse Tampa Bay. It is an ugly, ugly loss. Tom
Brady did not play well. He was one of I
don't know that any Buccaneers played well when you lose
to a team in the position of the Steelers. But
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Brady wasn't particularly good. Um And it came out Rob
that he missed the Saturday walk through because he went
to Robert Craft, you know, owner of the Patriots, obviously
a good friend of his, and he went to Robert
Craft's wedding and missed the Saturday morning walks through and
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his team big right, that's become a big story because
of the way they lost and clearly they didn't look
prepared and they didn't play well. Now, Todd Bowles, the
head coach, Rob, he comes out today and he addressed it.
Here's what he said. All on it. We all people
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look at Tom going to a wedding, missing what he
missed Saturay, walked through a meeting. They see the eleven
days and when you're losing, it becomes you know that
this guy's not as invested. He's you know, he's treated differently.
Is that fair to the rest of the team or
guys in the locker room talking about But your take
on just from your perspective about him sort of perceptively
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getting special treatment. He works as hard as anybody, you know,
special treatment. There's been a few guys that's missed some
meetings and some practices for some special thing that just
doesn't get publicized because they're not him. So it kind
of comes with the territory. You don't worry about it
too much. Rob, Here's what I think. Do I think
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Tom Brady would have played better had he been at
that walkthrough? I don't think walkthroughs or you're doing too much.
I mean James Jones, former receiver with the Packers, he
was with us to Dawn. First, First he said, you know,
walkthroughs are no big deal. I mean, you don't do anything.
But so maybe I don't know that it affected his
his actual performance. But here's what I'll say. Tom Brady
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has undermined the authority of Todd Bowls. And that started
with the eleven day hiatus from training camp. And then
I don't the Wednesday practices that I don't think that's
his big of a deal, as other players are taking
off certain days. But this Bill Belichick, Rob wasn't There
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wasn't that Robert Kraft's wedding because he told him, look,
we we got got we got things to do this weekend, obviously,
which is played football, and we'll celebrate and you know,
we'll do it another time. Obviously Kraft understood no current
Patriots of course wedding. And so to me, Rob, what
this does is undermine top Bowls in the odds of
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the other players. And I think it takes away from
Tom Brady's authority. And when you saw him upbraiding the
offensive line saying they weren't playing well, yelling at him,
I don't doubt that some of those dudes are sitting
there and James Jones said it looked like the face.
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He brought this up. He said, you look at their faces,
they're thinking, man, do your job now. And Rob And
We've said this before, but obviously Brady's great and I
think of him as the goal and I think everybody
in that locker room respects him. But it doesn't matter
who you are. We saw it with Michael Jordan's his
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last year in Washington. Players who've grown up idolizing him
couldn't stand him, not because he wasn't working hard, but
just the attitude he was bringing. And they can do
the same with Tom Brady. So I think it's undermining
his own authority already in the locker room, his ability
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to lead in the locker room. Everybody knows he hasn't
been doing this for the past twenty one, twenty two years,
however long he's been playing, and now of a sudden,
you're doing it and you're not playing. Well, would you
do it with Belichick? Would you do it with Arians?
So I just think it's it's a negative for the team,
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a subtle negative that I think it does show up
on the field in certain ways. I'm gonna I'm gonna
say todd Balls, Shame on you. I'm serious, Chris, because
ultimately he's gonna be the one hell responsible. Okay, when
other players decide they want to do their own thing
as well, and all kinds of issues because it's not
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just and you just said it. No Patriots or Bill
Belichick didn't even go to the wedding. They're working, Chris.
I heard Tom Brady with my own two ears say
that he missed birthdays and weddings and field rules the
last twenty years. And now he's going to a Saturday
night a wedding in New York and not flying with
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his team, and he took eleven days. You think he
would have taken eleven days off with the Patriots. No,
tom Brady's not in, and you can't have it both ways,
top Balls. You can't ask everybody else to be in
when your quarterback, your leader's not in. It ain't about
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the past. We know what he's done. Either you're in
or you're out. Tom Brady's made it very clear he's out.
Few guys. I'm gonna do what I want to do.
We got it. Everybody's going through issues, family issues, Chris,
kids wife, Right, He's not the only one and now
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to do this and then have a piss poor performance
against the bad team. You're not flying. The last time
Herbert Martin didn't fly with the team, Chris, you remember
that after they lost. Tom Brady not was gone a
few weeks later, right, but Tom Brady not flying with
his team, And you just said it. The only people
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who would air Chris like were former players, right. Nobody
currently playing is going to a wedding on a Saturday
night before a game. That's total disrespect to todd Balls,
total disrespect to all of his teammates. And then to
have the nerve to stint on the sidelines and chastise
them and brake them for not playing well, I mean
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that takes something that takes some balls. It just does
it just and look, I'm offered. He's a leader and
he's you know, been doing that and that's fine, but
it's not right. Here's my thing. It's not going to
come off the same way. And it even can come
off negatively. I don't know if it is or not,
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but it can come off negatively when you're not there.
And I'm sure Brady feels like he's all in. But
all we're saying is you have done it one way
for twenty plus your career, and you've had a tremendous
amount of success, and now you're doing it differently and
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you're not. At least at this point, they're not having
much success. And so what do we I mean, come on,
it's two and two point equals four. It's you did
it the one way and it worked. You're doing it
this way and it's not working. And Rob we quickly
LaVar Arrington. You remember with the eleven days at training camp,
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and leavar who was obviously a former Pro Bowl player himself,
he said, look at some point we all grown min
I'm out here working my tail off. I know you,
Tim Brady, and though you're the gold and all that,
but still these dudes are all pride for Rob. These dudes,
all guys. They think we're superstars and something. Right, that's
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how they made it to the NFL. And and I'm
with them, and I just think of all people, Chris
Bill Belichick wouldn't even entertain the idea like that's the
owner of his team who's paid him for the last
twenty some odd years. Right, you don't think he wanted
to be a part of the wedding celebration. Of course
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he did, but he had bigger fish to fry. I
wish some player would have said, oh, I want to
go to the owners thing. Bill would have been like, well,
you're not coming back here playing, are you kidding? You
must be always stay there the honeymoon with him. Let
me ask you this ride quickly before we go to
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the listeners. Do you are you writing off Tampa as
a contender in the NFC. I don't know. This whole
football season, I'm not convinced. Of all these teams with
the big records, I'm not so, I don't know. There's
a long way to go. You still got eleven game teams, right,
So I'm not there, you know what I mean. I mean,
look at all the teams that are struggling. Look at
the Jets and the Giants and all these other teams,
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and who are doing well. I'm just not I still
not buying. You obviously got to take them over the Giants,
you know what i mean. Right Well, I'm it's not
there yet. That's what I'm not writing, almost out of default,
because the NFC just said it's really it's clearly at
this point you would say the number one Green base
is number two, right green Basta the ram, Chris, and
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they look terrible winning that game. Yeah, I gotta be honest, Rob,
this is the worst conference I've seen in the Why. Yeah,
it is. It is very very weird, very weird. Yeah.
So so, yeah, they're they're still in the hunt, um,
but they're not on the I mean, Chris, they can
win eight games in a row and then be eleven three.
I'm just saying, they just got to turn it around
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because this isn't It just doesn't look good and it's
not a good way to end. Uh. If indeed this
would be the last year for his career. All right,
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Mark in Sacramento, you're on the onble Fox Sports Radio.
What up? Mark? What's going on? Gentlemen? Come back music
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don't get no love, it ain't very white faults joke, real,
real quick comes. That's totally disrespectful. First of all to
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the organization that he played for to leave them and
go to another organization. I don't care who it is,
another organization's player that close to a game time. This
this has been a this has been a trade right
from the beginning. He retired, well, first of all, I
tried to go to Miami. Then he retires, and then
he comes back. Then he leaves for ten days. Then
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he does this, and you can see his anger building.
He's been yelling at new guy for three three games.
Really seen him smile. I mean, I'm sure he's really agree.
I agree, Mark, he has been hostile and there's a
time bomb inside and leeds back to what's going on
at home. If mama's unhappy, everybody's unhappy. That's an underlying
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current here. It's building because I look and I don't.
I look. I gotta believe Rob that there's other stuff issues,
but because it's gotta be. But on that point that
you know, you wouldn't give you give that up to play,
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but you wouldn't miss dude's wedding. You know, it's just
like sense. All Right, Jerome and Charleston, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports rading. What up? Jerome? Hey,
everybody knows that Todd Bolls is like a son to
boost Arians and that's the real reason he's got that job.
And by the way, Brandy's the coach man, he's Todd
Bows's daddy. You can't count Brady what to do. He's
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the super Bowl It Tom Champions, no know it. Look,
I will say this, it looks like that. It's a
tight it's a tough situation. Thanks because if he does,
like let's say, he came down hard on Brady. Do
you think the organization we're backing? Well, I just Marty things.
Marty thing is, he's gonna get blamed for it. Though.
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When Brady is that's malty, thing is like, are you right?
And then if other players Chris like like start to
test them or do stuff right, then it's gonna be
all top bolts can't control them. That'll be the right,
that'll be the knock on down. Totally right, Marty, totally right.
And Kentucky, you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio?
What up? Marty? What's up? Fellows that y'all doing this
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Magic City Monday? Great? But Marty, how are you? I'm great.
I'm enjoying this fall. I'm football seasons and full effect.
And we're seeing a major shift in in the NFL.
We're seeing defensive games. We're seeing bad football, we see
adjustments on the defense. Out love it. I love the
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evolution of football. But we're also seeing something we've never
seen before, and that is Tom Brady in a situation
that he's not in control. His home life obviously is
a distraction, um his focus on the team is not there.
I'll tell you what, as a Steelers fan, I've watched
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him pick apart the Fitzburgh Shuter's three four defense his
entire career, and to watch the game where he doesn't
just seem to have the mental upper hand of just
picking that defensive part, especially without their best player out
there to pass rush, I just couldn't believe it. I thought,
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he's really he's really not in control. He's human. That's
a great that's a great point, uh, Marty and rob
one thing I said, and you know I've been saying
since his last year in New England, he could no
longer carry you know, mediocres gil position. No, no, no,
they gotta be right good, they gotta be stars and
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right typically in Tampa whenever he's got I'll just say
god Win in Evans. I mean, that's two really good
receivers right there. He's been really good. He had them
on Sunday and he still was bad. So, uh, this
is this is a look again. I don't want to
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jump the gun. He really washed up, but he's not
looking like the Tom Brady we've all come to know
over these last and doing the stuff you just talked
about Chris doing the stuff that he like I told
you before he said it out of miss funerals, weddings, Chris,
birthdays of kids, all kinds of stuff, oh, in the
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last twenty years, and now he has to go to
this Bob Kraft who's eighty one years old getting married.
I mean, really I was, And what the sunsweting? Chris?
You know what I'm saying. Like for though, really I
hear you. You're totally right, all right, apparently the biggest
disappointment in baseball history. Wow, still won't be enough for
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We are live from the Tireraq dot com studios and Rob,
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we just heard Monsey talking about it Dave Roberts. Reports
are that he's expected to be back with the Dodgers.
And look, we've had Dave Roberts on the show all
I mean from our interactions within NI Rob, but even
just talking to other people, really seems like a great
guy and obviously has had success with the Dodgers. He
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won a World Series Christie wanted the last thirty three
years he won. I mean, right, so it's I mean,
it's not like a travesty that's gonna be back. But
let's just keep it real. They keep failing in the postseason,
like you said, they want it in the strike or
the COVID shortened bite that pay sixty games. They won
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the championship. Uh in Arlington. You remember, Chris and the
bubble World Series bubble? Uh? Yeah, we'll call it the bubble, yes,
which is fine. I mean, but Chris, what do you
think about this? First off? I think Dave Roberts and
this is just me, Chris, if I'm going to continue
to manage here for the Dodgers, I need some freedom.
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I need Are you certain that he is not calling
the shot? I think that a lot. I think a
lot of it is scripted, like they you know, like
you you ever see the skid the big menu that
some NFL coaches have, Chris, when they script out the
first tay, Yeah, whatever is the script, it doesn't matter
what's going on. We're running these fifteen plays. And they
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have a philosophy with the Dodgers that you know, after
the five innings or whatever, when they start to hit
for the third time against the pitcher. The numbers show, Chris,
you hit better the third time around. But sometimes you
have to look at it and say he's pitching grade.
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Don't take a guy out just because if he gets
in trouble, Chris, then you take him out. And that's
the issue that I have. I get it. As soon
as you see a hard hit ball or a warning
track or somebody gets a hit Chris, then you could
go get him and say, okay, you didn't do that
the first five innings. That's the hardest ball they've hit
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off you. Okay, I see a crack and your stuff.
But to just take guys out. And I believe that
Dave has been able to survive all these disappointment mins
Chris because he's doing what they want him to do.
He's a good soldier, do you. I think that's why
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because a lot I know, before they won in twenty twenty,
remember they had a couple of really disappointing postseasons. They
want a division eight out of nine years yea, and
got one World Sion. This is like the Atlanta Braves,
all right, from the nineties. No, it's exactly like that.
I look, I agree, I tend to agree. I don't
know if one hundred percent, um, you know if, but
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it seems like, and I hate to it just seems
like you said, I'm not gonna call him a puppet,
but like they're dictating. They dictate too much. And maybe
that's why they keep him because it's like he's not
making the decisions anyway. He hasn't done. It's not him
making a bad call, putting in the wrong player, it's us, right,
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I mean, And then you don't know the next guy
we go out and get is he going to be
as uh, you know, accommodating if you will, probably and
they probably won't. They probably won't hire him because if
that's if they believe in it. But I just think
it's unfair for Day, for Day to get all the
brunt of it, Chris, because nobody Freedman's the general manager.
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And as well as he's done, Okay, he was in
Tampa Bay with Joe Madden. They got to the World Series.
They didn't win anything. Okay, they put together a good team, Chris,
but they never won. He and in the Dodgers, he's
been here I think eight years an hour or seven
or something, like that, and they keep, you know, doing great.
Regular season, they won one hundred eleven games, but they
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haven't won enough for me, Freeman hasn't won enough to
continue doing what they've been doing. And I think that's
where you have to look at yourself in the mirror
and say, this has worked in the regular season, but
the postseason is a different animal. And you know, I
told you I picked the Padres because of their pitching,
and it happens a lot. And if you're if you
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don't have pitching and you're not and when you have
good pitching, you just can't take that guy out. Yes,
And I because look, and you know we've talked about
it analytics at nauseum. And my thing is, what if
you're taking anybody out in the fifth inning just because
he's about to face the lineup for the third time,
It doesn't That doesn't tell you who's a gamer. You know,
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some guys rise to the occasion robbing big games in
the seventh inning when the arms not quite as strong
as it was, but they're gamers. Or and some guys
who you might put in there for an inning, he
might not be a game of what happened last night,
Garrett Cole gave you seven innings. That's a nice Chris.
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That's a must win game. You're not going to some
bullpen guy who doesn't have the stuff that you have.
He going out there and gutted it. It wasn't an
easy game. Got the Indian, the Guardians had runners on base,
he had to get out of him, made big pitches.
That's what I'm talking about. That that's a gamer. I
also think Rob, at some point, how long could you
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sit there and be dictated too? And like you said,
especially when you're the one being criticized, you get criticized left,
he's getting beat on and you And again, I don't,
I don't know. I don't know what degree I'm with
you on that. I don't, but I don't say. But
I I do too, And I do think that they're
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heavily dictating to him. That's just my opinion. But I
think like I think you started off saying, at some point,
like Dave Roberts may need to go to them, and
maybe he would cost him his job, right, So I
don't know, maybe that's why he's not doing it, but say, look,
let me do it my way. Buck. So Walter did it,
and I get it. They got bounced, but they won
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one hundred one game. He made them contenders. And he's
old school Chris, Yo. Yeah, he wouldn't put up with
some of this stuff that's going on. And I just
and I finally, Rob, I'll say this because if we
take like you said, don't let the picture go three
times around the lineup, if you take that to the degree, Rob,
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do we get to a point where basically you got
you know, seven guys throwing one or two innings a piece.
That's what I done. I mean, really, I got seven
dudes they throw ninety five to a hundred. That's what
they think is like, we're better off bringing in those
guys at top, you know, speed with the arms, because
because they're only pitching an inning or so compared to
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a guy who's already been through the lineup before a
third time. I mean that's the mentality. But I'm gonna
tell you the Padres, they're three best daughters, Chris. They
all pitched like seven innings. They all pit so that
more so they lean a little. I mean, I look,
we we've always said analytics has a place in the game.
You have the final say that's it. When the red
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Sox won it. Rob, it was a mix it so yeah,
it's all I look, I it's just and I don't
know Rob, how he's gonna sit with fans. I don't
know what fans in LA because it sends the message
that you're fine with, you know, getting close season. I
listened to local AM five seventy radio in LA and
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it was I mean, they're so hot they want him
really so they want Roberts out because that's what they
see as a man of right, and they want him.
They want him out, and they're tired of it. They're
tired of losing in the playoffs when they have great
regular seasons. It's just it's become all hat like enough,
like they sent a franchise record of one hundred eleven
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wins and and again it meant nothing. Yep. Well, Rob,
another team that had a great regular season or very
good kind of struggle down the stretch at times. But
the Yankees, if they're hanging on by a thread, he
could be just as disappointing as the Dodgers. If they
don't take care of Cleveland tonight or tomorrow or whenever
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daily dicks against the spread. Oh yeah, little Sheckyl City, Chris.
I'll hit on a parlay yesterday, three team parlay cash dout. Yes,
you didn't send in your talk. I didn't, but I
didn't get Rob G Did you email meet them? I
don't know what happened. I did not. Okay, Hey, have
no fear VJ i' VJ husky Pat. I'm not usually
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when it say he's got three and two. I'm not
blaming you. I'm not blaming you, Rob, I would just
wonder if I missed it because the week before you
sent it and did not send it back in Okay, Well,
look I was four and one, so we keep in mind. Yeah,
mine will be you know what's on yours out this week,
because that'll be good, all right? Anyway, MGM Grand Chris
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is the best way to sprinkle some shekels around if
you want, all right. I had the Guardians uh and
the Yankees as on the money line. The Yankees on
the money line, it's the best bet. Obviously we're waiting
through the rain, so we don't know what's gonna happen there.
And then I had the Yankees minus one and a
half runs as well as the top two bets. And
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then for the football game, I got the Charges Chris
at home against the Broncos minus four. I'm not that
crazy about the Charges, but I'm even less thrilled about
the Bronco just I just don't feel good about them,
so I have to go with the Chargers minus for Remember,
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I'm not telling you who the bet on, thank God,
I'm telling you who I bet on. And I did
put down some shekels on the football game I did. Yeah, look,
I'm hoping for you know, for my early I didn't
pick Differ to get to the super Bowl, but I
picked him to make the playoffs. So I would like
to see them turn things around and come through with
a But but it's hard. Yes, look they've had a
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long but ten days off or whatever, so I'm hopefully
they've been able to write some things. But I don't know.
Russell Wilson don't look like himself and that continues. Yeah,
the defense is good. It's not awesome, but it's very good.
They've been playing well enough that you know, they've been
playing well enough Rob that if you got the Russell
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Wilson you had in Seattle, this team might be four
and one. Certainly at least three and two or something
like that. Um, but they're not even in the mix
right now. To tell you what happened, We tried to
tell you, and Geno's actually playing, you know, good football.
I keep waiting for him to turn into a pumpkin,
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which I'm sure he will at some point, but uh,
he's doing all right. So so you, um again, I
don't know that we're gonna get this game tonight. Do
you agree with me? That whenever it's something strange going on,
whether it's whether whether it's you know, some something out
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of the ordinary, let's put it that way. I think
in just general, that tends to benefit the less talented team.
I don't know, I don't have any You got any.
I'm not saying it's a academic you know what I mean.
But I just I just think that throwing off like
what what would have normally be Like you're at home,
you're the way you prepare for a game, you know
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what I mean. You get that if you're the Yankees,
you get thrown off that right, Okay, I'll agree with that.
If I'm lesser talented, I need something right to be
different because just if everything's as is, you're better, We're
probably gonna get right beat by you at home. Because
I think the Guardians, Chris, this is just me and
I don't know what's gonna happen in the game. I
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thought I thought they needed to beat the Yankees last
night in Cleveland. That's what I thought, you know what
I mean, Like they shocked them. I mean you would
think so they shocked you, right, and you saw it.
I think the stat is just astounding. The Yankees were
one hundred and sixty seven and oh when they had
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a two rue lead, Chris going into the ninth in
the postseason won sixty seven and oh and Cleveland won
that game. I mean that that's so you want to
capitalize on that, you know what I mean, momentum and
everything going on in Cleveland, Cleveland, Rob and you notice,
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like I mean, they have had some historic games, you know,
but just half it being able to get over the hump,
you know. I mean they have had what you just said,
but you know, even a few years ago when Lebron
was there, and they just can't get over the hump
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though to win the big one, win the World Series.
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What's happened to mister Chris Bussard. I just I'm excited. Uh,
A lot of good stuff to talk about, of course
on a Monday after football, baseball, as you talked about
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all those things. But I do want to say, man,
my trip to Newhaven, Connecticut to my alma mater, Chris
is not an agricultural college, Southern Connecticut State University, was awesome.
I got EPMD, that's right, half of VP. They used
to wear the sweatshirts on their video Southern Serious. Yes,
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I can show you a picture. I'm shot they didn't
get canceled for EPMD. Man, we always have that, but
but it was a great time. I spoke to the students, uh,
Chris and the kids. The journalism program awesome and homecoming
and I want to thank my man. Uh. Go to
the football game I did Saturday night. H Yeah, they
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steam rolled Franklin Pierce. I don't even know where the
Division two Division two football. Yeah. Kevin Gilbride, you remember
a coach for the Chargers and the Giants offensive coordinator.
He was the head coach of the football program when
I was there. Kevin gilb Yeah, great guy. I've known him.
But anyway, let me just say thanks to Greg Bernard,
who's at the He's in the alumni office. And Chris
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rolled out the red carpet for me. It was pretty
awesome the way that they treated me. I loved it
a lot. The president of the university came to my
speech as well. And I had dinner on Saturday night, Chris,
with seventeen you know, my closest friends. I mean, can
you imagine seventeen friends showed up to have dinner with
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me Saturday night at Italian restaurant in New Haven. It
was awesome. So you had a great weekend, my man.
I did as well. Saw a great jazz concert kirk
Waylam Okay, but no Delaware, Delaware. We went to visit
nice friends and checked out the jazz festival. And one
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last thing, you know, Elijah's back. For all the people
who are looking for our YouTube clips, Elijah, our social
media guru, is back on the job after him and
his beautiful wife had a baby boy and his name.
Elijah's father gave him a nickname, an African nickname, Chris.
So his name. They're calling him Tendo t e n
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d o tendo. So his grandfather's given him. I don't know.
I have to ask. Elijah can text me about that,
but I want to say welcome back. And he sent
me a picture of his little boy and Chris. You
know what, babies, all babies look cute. He is the
cutest little boy. God blessed that kid, all right, Elijah. Um, yeah,
(05:10):
I was in the parking lot the other day and
somebody just randomly saw me drive by and ran up
to the car. When y'all gonna be on, Yeah, so
I'm seeing it just missed, yo, doubt Elijah. Great to
have you back. Good to have Elijah back with the
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a Tampa base Shocked, shocked by Pittsburgh. Still never bad time,
(05:54):
Chris Mollish by Buffalo the week before. They are bad.
Obviously they had a spirited performs, but that there's no
excuse Tampa Bay. It is an ugly, ugly loss. Tom
Brady did not play well. He was one of I
don't know that any Buccaneers played well when you lose
to a team in the position of the Steelers. But
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Brady wasn't particularly good. Um And it came out Rob
that he missed the Saturday walk through because he went
to Robert Craft, you know, owner of the Patriots, obviously
a good friend of his, and he went to Robert
Craft's wedding and missed the Saturday morning walks through and
(06:40):
his team big right, that's become a big story because
of the way they lost and clearly they didn't look
prepared and they didn't play well. Now, Todd Bowles, the
head coach, Rob, he comes out today and he addressed it.
Here's what he said. All on it. We all people
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look at Tom going to a wedding, missing what he
missed Saturay, walked through a meeting. They see the eleven
days and when you're losing, it becomes you know that
this guy's not as invested. He's you know, he's treated differently.
Is that fair to the rest of the team or
guys in the locker room talking about But your take
on just from your perspective about him sort of perceptively
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getting special treatment. He works as hard as anybody, you know,
special treatment. There's been a few guys that's missed some
meetings and some practices for some special thing that just
doesn't get publicized because they're not him. So it kind
of comes with the territory. You don't worry about it
too much. Rob, Here's what I think. Do I think
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Tom Brady would have played better had he been at
that walkthrough? I don't think walkthroughs or you're doing too much.
I mean James Jones, former receiver with the Packers, he
was with us to Dawn. First, First he said, you know,
walkthroughs are no big deal. I mean, you don't do anything.
But so maybe I don't know that it affected his
his actual performance. But here's what I'll say. Tom Brady
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has undermined the authority of Todd Bowls. And that started
with the eleven day hiatus from training camp. And then
I don't the Wednesday practices that I don't think that's
his big of a deal, as other players are taking
off certain days. But this Bill Belichick, Rob wasn't There
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wasn't that Robert Kraft's wedding because he told him, look,
we we got got we got things to do this weekend, obviously,
which is played football, and we'll celebrate and you know,
we'll do it another time. Obviously Kraft understood no current
Patriots of course wedding. And so to me, Rob, what
this does is undermine top Bowls in the odds of
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the other players. And I think it takes away from
Tom Brady's authority. And when you saw him upbraiding the
offensive line saying they weren't playing well, yelling at him,
I don't doubt that some of those dudes are sitting
there and James Jones said it looked like the face.
(09:19):
He brought this up. He said, you look at their faces,
they're thinking, man, do your job now. And Rob And
We've said this before, but obviously Brady's great and I
think of him as the goal and I think everybody
in that locker room respects him. But it doesn't matter
who you are. We saw it with Michael Jordan's his
(09:41):
last year in Washington. Players who've grown up idolizing him
couldn't stand him, not because he wasn't working hard, but
just the attitude he was bringing. And they can do
the same with Tom Brady. So I think it's undermining
his own authority already in the locker room, his ability
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to lead in the locker room. Everybody knows he hasn't
been doing this for the past twenty one, twenty two years,
however long he's been playing, and now of a sudden,
you're doing it and you're not playing. Well, would you
do it with Belichick? Would you do it with Arians?
So I just think it's it's a negative for the team,
(10:24):
a subtle negative that I think it does show up
on the field in certain ways. I'm gonna I'm gonna
say todd Balls, Shame on you. I'm serious, Chris, because
ultimately he's gonna be the one hell responsible. Okay, when
other players decide they want to do their own thing
as well, and all kinds of issues because it's not
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just and you just said it. No Patriots or Bill
Belichick didn't even go to the wedding. They're working, Chris.
I heard Tom Brady with my own two ears say
that he missed birthdays and weddings and field rules the
last twenty years. And now he's going to a Saturday
night a wedding in New York and not flying with
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his team, and he took eleven days. You think he
would have taken eleven days off with the Patriots. No,
tom Brady's not in, and you can't have it both ways,
top Balls. You can't ask everybody else to be in
when your quarterback, your leader's not in. It ain't about
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the past. We know what he's done. Either you're in
or you're out. Tom Brady's made it very clear he's out.
Few guys. I'm gonna do what I want to do.
We got it. Everybody's going through issues, family issues, Chris,
kids wife, Right, He's not the only one and now
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to do this and then have a piss poor performance
against the bad team. You're not flying. The last time
Herbert Martin didn't fly with the team, Chris, you remember
that after they lost. Tom Brady not was gone a
few weeks later, right, but Tom Brady not flying with
his team, And you just said it. The only people
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who would air Chris like were former players, right. Nobody
currently playing is going to a wedding on a Saturday
night before a game. That's total disrespect to todd Balls,
total disrespect to all of his teammates. And then to
have the nerve to stint on the sidelines and chastise
them and brake them for not playing well, I mean
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that takes something that takes some balls. It just does
it just and look, I'm offered. He's a leader and
he's you know, been doing that and that's fine, but
it's not right. Here's my thing. It's not going to
come off the same way. And it even can come
off negatively. I don't know if it is or not,
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but it can come off negatively when you're not there.
And I'm sure Brady feels like he's all in. But
all we're saying is you have done it one way
for twenty plus your career, and you've had a tremendous
amount of success, and now you're doing it differently and
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you're not. At least at this point, they're not having
much success. And so what do we I mean, come on,
it's two and two point equals four. It's you did
it the one way and it worked. You're doing it
this way and it's not working. And Rob we quickly
LaVar Arrington. You remember with the eleven days at training camp,
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and leavar who was obviously a former Pro Bowl player himself,
he said, look at some point we all grown min
I'm out here working my tail off. I know you,
Tim Brady, and though you're the gold and all that,
but still these dudes are all pride for Rob. These dudes,
all guys. They think we're superstars and something. Right, that's
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how they made it to the NFL. And and I'm
with them, and I just think of all people, Chris
Bill Belichick wouldn't even entertain the idea like that's the
owner of his team who's paid him for the last
twenty some odd years. Right, you don't think he wanted
to be a part of the wedding celebration. Of course
(14:25):
he did, but he had bigger fish to fry. I
wish some player would have said, oh, I want to
go to the owners thing. Bill would have been like, well,
you're not coming back here playing, are you kidding? You
must be always stay there the honeymoon with him. Let
me ask you this ride quickly before we go to
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the listeners. Do you are you writing off Tampa as
a contender in the NFC. I don't know. This whole
football season, I'm not convinced. Of all these teams with
the big records, I'm not so, I don't know. There's
a long way to go. You still got eleven game teams, right,
So I'm not there, you know what I mean. I mean,
look at all the teams that are struggling. Look at
the Jets and the Giants and all these other teams,
(15:07):
and who are doing well. I'm just not I still
not buying. You obviously got to take them over the Giants,
you know what i mean. Right Well, I'm it's not
there yet. That's what I'm not writing, almost out of default,
because the NFC just said it's really it's clearly at
this point you would say the number one Green base
is number two, right green Basta the ram, Chris, and
(15:33):
they look terrible winning that game. Yeah, I gotta be honest, Rob,
this is the worst conference I've seen in the Why. Yeah,
it is. It is very very weird, very weird. Yeah.
So so, yeah, they're they're still in the hunt, um,
but they're not on the I mean, Chris, they can
win eight games in a row and then be eleven three.
I'm just saying, they just got to turn it around
(15:54):
because this isn't It just doesn't look good and it's
not a good way to end. Uh. If indeed this
would be the last year for his career. All right,
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Mark in Sacramento, you're on the onble Fox Sports Radio.
What up? Mark? What's going on? Gentlemen? Come back music
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don't get no love, it ain't very white faults joke, real,
real quick comes. That's totally disrespectful. First of all to
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the organization that he played for to leave them and
go to another organization. I don't care who it is,
another organization's player that close to a game time. This
this has been a this has been a trade right
from the beginning. He retired, well, first of all, I
tried to go to Miami. Then he retires, and then
he comes back. Then he leaves for ten days. Then
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he does this, and you can see his anger building.
He's been yelling at new guy for three three games.
Really seen him smile. I mean, I'm sure he's really agree.
I agree, Mark, he has been hostile and there's a
time bomb inside and leeds back to what's going on
at home. If mama's unhappy, everybody's unhappy. That's an underlying
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current here. It's building because I look and I don't.
I look. I gotta believe Rob that there's other stuff issues,
but because it's gotta be. But on that point that
you know, you wouldn't give you give that up to play,
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but you wouldn't miss dude's wedding. You know, it's just
like sense. All Right, Jerome and Charleston, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports rading. What up? Jerome? Hey,
everybody knows that Todd Bolls is like a son to
boost Arians and that's the real reason he's got that job.
And by the way, Brandy's the coach man, he's Todd
Bows's daddy. You can't count Brady what to do. He's
(19:56):
the super Bowl It Tom Champions, no know it. Look,
I will say this, it looks like that. It's a
tight it's a tough situation. Thanks because if he does,
like let's say, he came down hard on Brady. Do
you think the organization we're backing? Well, I just Marty things.
Marty thing is, he's gonna get blamed for it. Though.
(20:18):
When Brady is that's malty, thing is like, are you right?
And then if other players Chris like like start to
test them or do stuff right, then it's gonna be
all top bolts can't control them. That'll be the right,
that'll be the knock on down. Totally right, Marty, totally right.
And Kentucky, you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio?
What up? Marty? What's up? Fellows that y'all doing this
(20:40):
Magic City Monday? Great? But Marty, how are you? I'm great.
I'm enjoying this fall. I'm football seasons and full effect.
And we're seeing a major shift in in the NFL.
We're seeing defensive games. We're seeing bad football, we see
adjustments on the defense. Out love it. I love the
(21:01):
evolution of football. But we're also seeing something we've never
seen before, and that is Tom Brady in a situation
that he's not in control. His home life obviously is
a distraction, um his focus on the team is not there.
I'll tell you what, as a Steelers fan, I've watched
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him pick apart the Fitzburgh Shuter's three four defense his
entire career, and to watch the game where he doesn't
just seem to have the mental upper hand of just
picking that defensive part, especially without their best player out
there to pass rush, I just couldn't believe it. I thought,
(21:43):
he's really he's really not in control. He's human. That's
a great that's a great point, uh, Marty and rob
one thing I said, and you know I've been saying
since his last year in New England, he could no
longer carry you know, mediocres gil position. No, no, no,
they gotta be right good, they gotta be stars and
(22:03):
right typically in Tampa whenever he's got I'll just say
god Win in Evans. I mean, that's two really good
receivers right there. He's been really good. He had them
on Sunday and he still was bad. So, uh, this
is this is a look again. I don't want to
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jump the gun. He really washed up, but he's not
looking like the Tom Brady we've all come to know
over these last and doing the stuff you just talked
about Chris doing the stuff that he like I told
you before he said it out of miss funerals, weddings, Chris,
birthdays of kids, all kinds of stuff, oh, in the
(22:46):
last twenty years, and now he has to go to
this Bob Kraft who's eighty one years old getting married.
I mean, really I was, And what the sunsweting? Chris?
You know what I'm saying. Like for though, really I
hear you. You're totally right, all right, apparently the biggest
disappointment in baseball history. Wow, still won't be enough for
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We are live from the Tireraq dot com studios and Rob,
(23:34):
we just heard Monsey talking about it Dave Roberts. Reports
are that he's expected to be back with the Dodgers.
And look, we've had Dave Roberts on the show all
I mean from our interactions within NI Rob, but even
just talking to other people, really seems like a great
guy and obviously has had success with the Dodgers. He
(23:55):
won a World Series Christie wanted the last thirty three
years he won. I mean, right, so it's I mean,
it's not like a travesty that's gonna be back. But
let's just keep it real. They keep failing in the postseason,
like you said, they want it in the strike or
the COVID shortened bite that pay sixty games. They won
(24:16):
the championship. Uh in Arlington. You remember, Chris and the
bubble World Series bubble? Uh? Yeah, we'll call it the bubble, yes,
which is fine. I mean, but Chris, what do you
think about this? First off? I think Dave Roberts and
this is just me, Chris, if I'm going to continue
to manage here for the Dodgers, I need some freedom.
(24:40):
I need Are you certain that he is not calling
the shot? I think that a lot. I think a
lot of it is scripted, like they you know, like
you you ever see the skid the big menu that
some NFL coaches have, Chris, when they script out the
first tay, Yeah, whatever is the script, it doesn't matter
what's going on. We're running these fifteen plays. And they
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have a philosophy with the Dodgers that you know, after
the five innings or whatever, when they start to hit
for the third time against the pitcher. The numbers show, Chris,
you hit better the third time around. But sometimes you
have to look at it and say he's pitching grade.
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Don't take a guy out just because if he gets
in trouble, Chris, then you take him out. And that's
the issue that I have. I get it. As soon
as you see a hard hit ball or a warning
track or somebody gets a hit Chris, then you could
go get him and say, okay, you didn't do that
the first five innings. That's the hardest ball they've hit
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off you. Okay, I see a crack and your stuff.
But to just take guys out. And I believe that
Dave has been able to survive all these disappointment mins
Chris because he's doing what they want him to do.
He's a good soldier, do you. I think that's why
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because a lot I know, before they won in twenty twenty,
remember they had a couple of really disappointing postseasons. They
want a division eight out of nine years yea, and
got one World Sion. This is like the Atlanta Braves,
all right, from the nineties. No, it's exactly like that.
I look, I agree, I tend to agree. I don't
know if one hundred percent, um, you know if, but
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it seems like, and I hate to it just seems
like you said, I'm not gonna call him a puppet,
but like they're dictating. They dictate too much. And maybe
that's why they keep him because it's like he's not
making the decisions anyway. He hasn't done. It's not him
making a bad call, putting in the wrong player, it's us, right,
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I mean, And then you don't know the next guy
we go out and get is he going to be
as uh, you know, accommodating if you will, probably and
they probably won't. They probably won't hire him because if
that's if they believe in it. But I just think
it's unfair for Day, for Day to get all the
brunt of it, Chris, because nobody Freedman's the general manager.
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And as well as he's done, Okay, he was in
Tampa Bay with Joe Madden. They got to the World Series.
They didn't win anything. Okay, they put together a good team, Chris,
but they never won. He and in the Dodgers, he's
been here I think eight years an hour or seven
or something, like that, and they keep, you know, doing great.
Regular season, they won one hundred eleven games, but they
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haven't won enough for me, Freeman hasn't won enough to
continue doing what they've been doing. And I think that's
where you have to look at yourself in the mirror
and say, this has worked in the regular season, but
the postseason is a different animal. And you know, I
told you I picked the Padres because of their pitching,
and it happens a lot. And if you're if you
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don't have pitching and you're not and when you have
good pitching, you just can't take that guy out. Yes,
And I because look, and you know we've talked about
it analytics at nauseum. And my thing is, what if
you're taking anybody out in the fifth inning just because
he's about to face the lineup for the third time,
It doesn't That doesn't tell you who's a gamer. You know,
(28:18):
some guys rise to the occasion robbing big games in
the seventh inning when the arms not quite as strong
as it was, but they're gamers. Or and some guys
who you might put in there for an inning, he
might not be a game of what happened last night,
Garrett Cole gave you seven innings. That's a nice Chris.
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That's a must win game. You're not going to some
bullpen guy who doesn't have the stuff that you have.
He going out there and gutted it. It wasn't an
easy game. Got the Indian, the Guardians had runners on base,
he had to get out of him, made big pitches.
That's what I'm talking about. That that's a gamer. I
also think Rob, at some point, how long could you
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sit there and be dictated too? And like you said,
especially when you're the one being criticized, you get criticized left,
he's getting beat on and you And again, I don't,
I don't know. I don't know what degree I'm with
you on that. I don't, but I don't say. But
I I do too, And I do think that they're
(29:22):
heavily dictating to him. That's just my opinion. But I
think like I think you started off saying, at some point,
like Dave Roberts may need to go to them, and
maybe he would cost him his job, right, So I
don't know, maybe that's why he's not doing it, but say, look,
let me do it my way. Buck. So Walter did it,
and I get it. They got bounced, but they won
(29:44):
one hundred one game. He made them contenders. And he's
old school Chris, Yo. Yeah, he wouldn't put up with
some of this stuff that's going on. And I just
and I finally, Rob, I'll say this because if we
take like you said, don't let the picture go three
times around the lineup, if you take that to the degree, Rob,
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do we get to a point where basically you got
you know, seven guys throwing one or two innings a piece.
That's what I done. I mean, really, I got seven
dudes they throw ninety five to a hundred. That's what
they think is like, we're better off bringing in those
guys at top, you know, speed with the arms, because
because they're only pitching an inning or so compared to
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a guy who's already been through the lineup before a
third time. I mean that's the mentality. But I'm gonna
tell you the Padres, they're three best daughters, Chris. They
all pitched like seven innings. They all pit so that
more so they lean a little. I mean, I look,
we we've always said analytics has a place in the game.
You have the final say that's it. When the red
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Sox won it. Rob, it was a mix it so yeah,
it's all I look, I it's just and I don't
know Rob, how he's gonna sit with fans. I don't
know what fans in LA because it sends the message
that you're fine with, you know, getting close season. I
listened to local AM five seventy radio in LA and
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it was I mean, they're so hot they want him
really so they want Roberts out because that's what they
see as a man of right, and they want him.
They want him out, and they're tired of it. They're
tired of losing in the playoffs when they have great
regular seasons. It's just it's become all hat like enough,
like they sent a franchise record of one hundred eleven
(31:35):
wins and and again it meant nothing. Yep. Well, Rob,
another team that had a great regular season or very
good kind of struggle down the stretch at times. But
the Yankees, if they're hanging on by a thread, he
could be just as disappointing as the Dodgers. If they
don't take care of Cleveland tonight or tomorrow or whenever
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daily dicks against the spread. Oh yeah, little Sheckyl City, Chris.
I'll hit on a parlay yesterday, three team parlay cash dout. Yes,
you didn't send in your talk. I didn't, but I
didn't get Rob G Did you email meet them? I
don't know what happened. I did not. Okay, Hey, have
no fear VJ i' VJ husky Pat. I'm not usually
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when it say he's got three and two. I'm not
blaming you. I'm not blaming you, Rob, I would just
wonder if I missed it because the week before you
sent it and did not send it back in Okay, Well,
look I was four and one, so we keep in mind. Yeah,
mine will be you know what's on yours out this week,
because that'll be good, all right? Anyway, MGM Grand Chris
(33:31):
is the best way to sprinkle some shekels around if
you want, all right. I had the Guardians uh and
the Yankees as on the money line. The Yankees on
the money line, it's the best bet. Obviously we're waiting
through the rain, so we don't know what's gonna happen there.
And then I had the Yankees minus one and a
half runs as well as the top two bets. And
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then for the football game, I got the Charges Chris
at home against the Broncos minus four. I'm not that
crazy about the Charges, but I'm even less thrilled about
the Bronco just I just don't feel good about them,
so I have to go with the Chargers minus for Remember,
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I'm not telling you who the bet on, thank God,
I'm telling you who I bet on. And I did
put down some shekels on the football game I did. Yeah, look,
I'm hoping for you know, for my early I didn't
pick Differ to get to the super Bowl, but I
picked him to make the playoffs. So I would like
to see them turn things around and come through with
a But but it's hard. Yes, look they've had a
(34:37):
long but ten days off or whatever, so I'm hopefully
they've been able to write some things. But I don't know.
Russell Wilson don't look like himself and that continues. Yeah,
the defense is good. It's not awesome, but it's very good.
They've been playing well enough that you know, they've been
playing well enough Rob that if you got the Russell
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Wilson you had in Seattle, this team might be four
and one. Certainly at least three and two or something
like that. Um, but they're not even in the mix
right now. To tell you what happened, We tried to
tell you, and Geno's actually playing, you know, good football.
I keep waiting for him to turn into a pumpkin,
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which I'm sure he will at some point, but uh,
he's doing all right. So so you, um again, I
don't know that we're gonna get this game tonight. Do
you agree with me? That whenever it's something strange going on,
whether it's whether whether it's you know, some something out
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of the ordinary, let's put it that way. I think
in just general, that tends to benefit the less talented team.
I don't know, I don't have any You got any.
I'm not saying it's a academic you know what I mean.
But I just I just think that throwing off like
what what would have normally be Like you're at home,
you're the way you prepare for a game, you know
(36:04):
what I mean. You get that if you're the Yankees,
you get thrown off that right, Okay, I'll agree with that.
If I'm lesser talented, I need something right to be
different because just if everything's as is, you're better, We're
probably gonna get right beat by you at home. Because
I think the Guardians, Chris, this is just me and
I don't know what's gonna happen in the game. I
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thought I thought they needed to beat the Yankees last
night in Cleveland. That's what I thought, you know what
I mean, Like they shocked them. I mean you would
think so they shocked you, right, and you saw it.
I think the stat is just astounding. The Yankees were
one hundred and sixty seven and oh when they had
(36:46):
a two rue lead, Chris going into the ninth in
the postseason won sixty seven and oh and Cleveland won
that game. I mean that that's so you want to
capitalize on that, you know what I mean, momentum and
everything going on in Cleveland, Cleveland, Rob and you notice,
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like I mean, they have had some historic games, you know,
but just half it being able to get over the hump,
you know. I mean they have had what you just said,
but you know, even a few years ago when Lebron
was there, and they just can't get over the hump
(37:27):
though to win the big one, win the World Series.
Keep it like two hours left. A couple
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