January 1, 2024 • 36 mins
Former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam is in for Chris, and he and Rob explain why Lamar Jackson should be the runaway winner for the NFL MVP award, discuss whether or not the College Football Playoff expanding to 12 teams is a good idea, tell us why the Detroit Lions need to stop blaming the referees for their loss to the Dallas Cowboys, provide up-to-the-minute analysis of the Michigan-Alabama CFP Semifinal and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.
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Let's get this.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, Rob Parker, Ethan.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You hear that, Ethil play that again for Ethim.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't need to hear that again.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You hear that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't need to hear that again.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I'm one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You ain't got nowhere to go? You don't got no
where to go?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Man, I got a family. What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They don't really want to hang out with you like that? No, no,
nobody wants to hang out No, no, no, no, man.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'm a fun guy to hang out with.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Here's the man kicking off four who takes pride in
working on the holidays.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
No doubt anyway, it is a happy New Year, Happy
New Year's Day year, no doubt, no doubt. Rob Parker
along with Ephraim Salaam filling in for Chris Brusson.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
On a Magic City Monday. Man.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
The only shocking thing other than Chris being off, is
that rob G is working on a holiday. Rob G
when he called me today, you know, to go over
some stuff, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh wow, I thought it was going to be Brandon
and somebody.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I'm like, yeah, I just didn't even buy it. And
Brandon the truth truth for he's on his way out.
You've got a job in San Diego. That's right, my cough.
Congratulations Brandon. Man will miss you and thanks for all
your hard work and dedication to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
We appreciate you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
And I'll go down to the San Diego see him
down there, go to Padres game.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I love that ballpark. Have you been down there? You've
been there. I know you're at the school.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I missed to Sandia.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I know I know you went the schoolss Yeah wow,
But that ballpark is beautiful. I love that place. San
Diego's beautiful. It really is other than climbing over the bombs.
Other than that, I love Sandia. I'm sorry, is that
what we're doing?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, I'm just saying.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
If I were going to be homeless, that's the place,
right I wouldn't go to New York to be homeless. No,
because the rats are fighting for the pizza that's on
the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I wouldn't go to Detroit to be home.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
No, No, it's too coal in Detroit to be.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I would go to San Diego, right, But.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
It's got to be miserable to be in a beautiful
place with beautiful weather and you have nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Wouldn't that be worse?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But you have beautiful weather, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
But you can't take a bath or the heat and
the humidity got the whole ocean man jumping the water. Yeah,
before bathtubs. That's where people had to get clean somehow.
No wonder my water tastes funny. I'm just saying, hey,
all right, we are from the tyro rack dot Com studios. Man,
(03:04):
what a show we have for you today? Yes, we
are all the way live. Bill O'Reilly on this. Thank you, Bill,
and uh let's first to welcome in the odd couple coo.
Because we wouldn't be able to do this fine radio
program without him, Rob G working on the holiday. Wow, unbelievable.
Uh So, Rob G, of course is our producer. Alex,
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our steady engineer, the best in the business, always works
on the holiday with me and uh, the third leg
of the guys who always worked on the holiday.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Mister Steve, the on the update.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Steve is the best update guy in the National right,
there's just no doubt about it, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And we're voting for it's my vote from.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I mean, it's not like some of these wacky people
who wouldn't vote for like Lamar's like Lamar Jackson of
the you know, like that's the kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Perform with violence. Right, Well, let's do it.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Okay, because Ephroim, let me tell you he Lamar Jackson
was my MVP best player on the best team. If
you go look at what the body of work of
what the Ravens had done. I was impressed already. Then
they go to San Francisco and this was the the
comparison I made. Do you remember this past year when
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Ronald Lacuna and the Braves came to town to play
the Dodgers right at the end of the year, and
it was between Ronald Lacuna and Mookie Betts right for
the National League MVP. Ronald Lacuna came to town and
tore up the place home runs left and right. I
think they swept the Dodgers. It was ugly, but he
did all the damage. And it was after that weekend
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We're like, he's the MVP at the National League, and
of course he won the MVP, and I thought, okay,
here's Brock party. Always thought that Brock perty is gonna
have a hard time winning because Christian McCaffrey and because
oftentimes teammates split votes. That's why Kobe and Shockedon win
a lot of MVPs, Like it just doesn't happen when
you have two great players, because they're gonna be people
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the same people cover the team. Half are gonna say
it's because the Christians running the ball, and the other
half gonna say is because of Brock Purty throwing the ball,
and then they split the vote and somebody else wins.
So I always thought he was gonna have a hard time. Well,
but that's what happens. But in this case, I said,
if Lamar and them go to San Francis, is gonna
win that game and he plays well, he gonna grab
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the MVP.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
And so not only did he do that, and people
could say, well, the defense was great.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
They had the five interceptions of all this other stuff, right,
four interceptions, No five four against Brady, I mean, you know,
against a rock party. But then this past week and
the game against Miami. Miami beat Dallas the week before
exactly what a double digit wins and they blew them
out and lamar, just in case you think he can't
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throw the football for touchdown, I have five touchdowns, a
perfect quarterback rating. You couldn't play the quarterback position any better.
E from even people say, oh, you know I have
all the touchdown enough touchdown this and that. Do you
know all those touchdowns that Edwards gets in the red zone?
He could easily take those if he wanted them, right,
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He could easily Why put wear and tear on your body.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
He doesn't need to do all that. He takes what
he needs and does what he has to do.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
But anyway, he's clearly the MVP, and he's the definition
of MVP, the best player on the best team.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And you saw that yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
You know, the MVP doesn't necessarily have to be it's
not the MVP of the team. The MVP doesn't necessarily
have to be the best player on the best team.
It just has to be the best player in the
league in my opinion. Right, So when you look at
Lamar Jackson, and let's be honest, it's become a quarterback
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award unless someone in another position, receiver, running back, even
a defensive end breaks a record that people deemed unbreakable.
In my opinion, that's the only way someone would get
consideration outside of the quarterback, which is fine. This is
where the league is going now when you watch Lamar
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Jackson and yes, these two back to back weeks have
been all about the raving, the Ravens staking their claim
as the best team in the league.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And it is clear.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And when they beat it, when they beat those teams,
they're beating all.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's not one score games, not coming down to the wire.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Think about and we'll get to Philadelphia, but think about Philadelphia.
They were ten and one, but go back and look
at those games that they won. They were all closed,
all nail, but they weren't blowing anybody out. Baltimore's blown
everybody out of the of the really good teams in
the league.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's impressive. What Lamar Jackson has been able to do
this year is I mean.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Number one, staying healthy. All right, do you remember prior
to the season started, we were having the conversations about
the new look Ravens offense. Is Lamar Jackson going to
be able to pass from the pocket. They're not going
to run him as much. The question marks on how
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is he going to do in this new style offense.
So everyone was waiting and anticipating what that looked like. Well,
this is what it looks like. It looks like a
more efficient Lamar Jackson. It looks like someone throwing for
you know, thirty six one hundred plus yards, twenty four touchdowns,
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only seven interceptions, but not only that, being healthy going
into December and January, which he hadn't.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Which is in the last week, yes, two years.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
So when you add a player like Lamar Jackson healthy
to this team, the Baltimore Ravens, who hang their hat
on defense. They've won a Super Bowl because of defense,
a couple of Super Bowls because of defense, then yes,
you get the best player in the league on the
best team, and that is Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He especially brother watching him.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Play, I'm like, hey, man, I don't even know how
you what you're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I haven't seen anybody like that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You can just see the way he affects the game.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And people were trying to make a case for other people,
and that's fine, it's all it's your opinion.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
But to try to discount Lamar and go, well, look it,
let me touch on you that as the year he
was unanimous and now he's got half of that mount
and there's no way he could be MVP. No way.
Have you watched the games.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
From people?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Is at no way? And I argued Rob g who
is a former forty.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Nine player, we had on me with Chris uh Dante Whittner.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Am I right? Didn't we go at it Dante Whitner?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Which is fine, he played for them, he was doing
his rock party spiel. And what did I tell him?
I told him we'll have him back on when when
when Lamar wins the MVP? And I get it? And
I heard there was one little SoundBite from Jerry Rice,
who put the Joe Montana's name in with brock Purty
played fine, I don't have anything. Okay, he's a really
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good player, but he ain't Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I said like this, if brock Purty, if Lamar Jackson
were not healthy this year, then brock Purty would probably
be the MVP of the league.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And that's a great compliment for him.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, that performance though that for interset.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's the one. Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I like to do is I'll take a player's best
game in their worst game and throw it out, okay,
because then you get to see who that player is.
You take their best game in their worst game, and
you throw those away because yeah, everybody's gonna have a
bad game. That was a terrible game on the big
stage between you know, a super Bowl contender. But that
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game was so bad bad he went to bed. Because
you know, this plays white for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
A lot of people probably have never seen Rock Purty
play live, like in that moment. Everybody's home for Christmas.
It's the biggest game game, it's the biggest game of
the year. You got you got the top two teams
right in each conference. I mean like like that was
the game you want to play well and not with
the bed.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
But you got to remember, Brock Purdy is still in
his second year, no not even his second full year
of being a starting quarterback in this team, and all
he's done is won. He's lost four times since he's
been at the Helm. So you got to give credit
to where credit is due. But with that said, lamark
on a whole other level. Brother, No, he's on a
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whole nother level. He's literally out there the game of football,
like he's out in the street, are U, you know,
out playing amongst kids. Some of the things he's doing.
Did you that Jacksonville about three games ago? That Jacksonville
game where defensive end had him, lost him, had him again?
(12:17):
He drops a pass down to the one yard line.
Like at this point you just saw it on the
defensive player's face where he was like.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
What can I do?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean, then you even do you just gotta just
shrug your shoulders to be like, all right, man, we
gotta get back in the huddle. So when you bring
that type of energy to the position, and I mean
it's literally a man amongst boys, then yeah, you come on,
you gotta tip your hat to Lamartin.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
And here's Baltimore. This is how we were talking about
how good they are against the good teams. Baltimore is
seven to one against team that entered the game with
the winning record this season. Baltimore as a plus one
seventy point margin in those games. Do you have me
a plus one seventy which is the biggest point differential
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against teams with the winning record in the Super Bowl era.
These are and then their defense, I think thirteen out
of their first out of their last fourteen or so games,
they had an unbelievable thing where they only gave up
ten or less points and thirteen out of fourteen in
the first half like this.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
It's when you combine a dominant defense with a dominant
offensive player. This is what you get. We get to
witness this happening right now, and for me, I'm happy
because you gotta remember at this time last year, the
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conversation that was being had by Lamar Jackson about Lamar Jackson. Right,
he doesn't want he wants his money. He's not hurt,
he wants it. He's just right. We're all those people
you should have got an agent. He's wasting time, YadA YadA, YadA.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Ya and even and even all the teams that passed
who could have had him.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I mean, you know, what's the other part.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I know because you know, but I'm just saying it
tells you a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
And that's why the whole story about collusion, because because anybody,
if you're really trying to win he from and that
guy's available, what football You're an owner and your football
people didn't go to you and say, dude, we gotta
get this guy play receiver.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, Bill Poullion who was in the Hall of Fame.
All right, let's do this.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
We want to hear from you eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
It is the Odd Couple.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Rob Parker E from Salaam uh filling in for Chris
Bussard on this New Year's Day evening. I guess is
that where we are now New Year's Day evening? We
want to hear from you with Lamar Jackson. Have you
come aboard if you were wrong about Lamar Jackson, this
is your chance to call in and be cleansed. We
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will cleanse you of your that's right a baptism. Well
Chris isn't here, but we'll do it for him, and
we'll cleanse you because you were so wrong about this
guy and it's time for you to at least acknowledge
it and admit it. This guy's the best player on
the best team, and damn it, he's the MVP. It
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Speaker 4 (16:15):
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Speaker 5 (16:19):
Glizzy in my mouth. Happy New Year to everybody listening.
We're coming to your live from the Tireich dot Com studios,
Rob Parker and E from salam And for Chris Broussard,
Chris is four week vacation will end and he'll be
back tomorrow and uh, let's go a from We got
some calls.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
We got let's go Charles Jerome. What's happening? Man? What
you got?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
All I got to say by Lamar Jackson is don't
listen to these people.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Man.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
They'll build you up one minute and then they'll tell
you down the nickt now that you're the mark team,
because you're the team. All I'm saying, Oh, they got
the INSI track to the super Bowl consumerblele, you got
the inside track to nothing.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Man win him at Jerome?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Jerome?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Is he the Jerome? Is he the m v P?
Speaker 9 (17:08):
More likely? But you know what that means? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
No but nobody but nobody. But look, look I get it,
and and we can't. He can't play a playoff game
and in January first, okay, like like when people do that,
I hate it because you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
He can't win the super Bowl today.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oh don't matter. No, you win the m v P
and then you go on to the next thing. And
that's what happens. Come on, man, that ain't fair. He
can't win the super but can't win the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Now, all he can do is play the best that
he's played.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
That's all I worry about him getting.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Hurt the season is over. The season is over.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Though, like the season is over, I can guarantee you
he probably won't play more than a series or two.
Then they have a bye, and then you're in the playoffs.
So at this point you got to throw caution to
the win. You're trying to win a super Bowl. You
got two games and you're in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's it. He made it.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
He made did eighty nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Will in Wisconsin. You only our couple with Robin e
from what you got.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Going on, gentlemen, Mary new Year, boy, I gotta tell you, man,
Lamar is a Ferrari on a buick lot. Just the
way that he's able to impose himself, it's almost like
watching a basketball player be able to I mean, you know,
there's eleven guys. Of course they're of the offense, to
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the whole fifty plus person roster. But Lamar is just
such a special player, man, And and I can I
can understand what everybody's saying about him needing.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
To win the big game.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
But right now, honestly, there's only one team that I
take in one game, just one game in a playoff
to win a game, And honestly, that's the Chiefs man
with that playability, with.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Everything that was great. Not this year.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Everything was great.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You watched this year they have you know what, last
yesterday's game, they just scored touchdown for.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
An hour and a half.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
For an hour and a half, I think it takes
Andy Reid longer to order than then for them to
get a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I mean it was ridiculous. That's why eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Drew in New Jersey on the our couple with Robin Ephrom.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
What you got, Hey, how's it going? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (19:35):
You guys doing what's up?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Drew?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Happy New Year?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Happy New Year. So I'm gonna get right to it.
So last week when I called, I said, hey, I
need to see stats. So to me, stats do matter
if you look in any sport, We've never given the
MVP to anybody that didn't have stats at least backing
it up Carl. If you want to say the most valuable,
when Carl Malone was winning those m vps, I don't think.
If you ask any s expert, I think they were
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saying John stock And was more valuable behind all.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
What are you trying to say, Drew? You don't think
that Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Is the MVP.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
I think now he does. I needed, like I said,
I think I needed to see the stats to go
along with it. For me, as there's a sports traditionalist,
I needed a stat. Now you look at it, he
has twenty four touchdowns. He's going to finish below one
thousand yards rushing, and he's gonna have four thousand yards
pass and he might end up with with twenty five
to twenty six touchdowns. But if you look at it, now, okay,
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it makes sense to me. I can accept that.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, I just thought I thought that.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I thought that, especially that game against the forty nine ers.
That was the one that pushed it over to me,
you know what I mean, Like, I was like that
that was the game. If brock Party had outplayed him
in that situation, it probably wouldn't have gone. It wouldn't
have gone as why that was a big game then.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Well normally went to that point to having the stats,
uh that you know, you have to to be the
quarterback or the MVP. When you look at this year,
no one has, you know, forty touchdowns passes. No one
has fifty touchdown passes. That made it extremely easy to say, oh,
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they've thrown for fifty five hundred yards or five thousand yards,
forty touchdowns, ten interceptions.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But in a year.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
This is why Christian McCaffrey's name was coming up, because
you don't really have that outlier in terms of quarterbacks.
You look at Tua, he has forty five hundred yards passing,
brock Party has forty two hundred yards, only twenty eight
touchdowns for Tua passing touchdowns thirty one for brock Party.
So it's not one of those years where the quarterback
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stats will jump off the page.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Right, like when Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady and those
gods talking about right and Patrick Mahomes at fifty and
those gods. When you have that, that's easy, it's an easy.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
But now when you're just watching the test and you
watching and what Lamar Jackson has meant to that Baltimore's team,
they're the number one seed in a loaded AFC. Man,
everybody was clawing and fighting, and when they've played the best,
they've demolished. They've not only beating them, they've beating them
down no doubt.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
All Right, I'm not excited from about the future of
college football, and I'll tell you why that's coming up next.
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Speaker 4 (22:47):
He from, Here's the problem I got with college football. Now,
everybody want to expand it.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
The biggest one is expanding you know, the college football playoffs.
There are on twelve teams that are really viable. We
just saw what do we see in Florida State?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Right?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Like this is how many blowouts have we seen in
these college football playoff games?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Seriously, Like, I.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Mean, is there really twelve teams that are good enough
to compete for a national championship?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
You could play the games if you want to and
make money off of them, but are they really viable
to win a national championship?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And the answers no.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Even Michigan Jim Harbar's won in six in bowl games
and the last two years they've been annihilated. Like all right,
they got a chance now here with this team, but
they're the last two years they were embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
So at my personal opinion is, I don't think at
any point if you've lost three games in a season
in college football, I don't think you should have the
right to play for a college championship.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So in the.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Top twelve, Oklahoma is ten and three, Penn State is
ten and three, LSU ten and three, Like, I don't
think any of these teams should have have earned excuse me,
earned the right to play for a national championship because
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now you're muddying the water in my opinion, right you
got a bunch of one loss teams and maybe a
handful of two loss teams like Ohio State, like Oregon
only lost to Washington twice. Right, so now it's like, Okay,
I can understand that. I can see that, but you know,
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a ten and three Penn State team, what are we doing?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
And that's the kind of teams you're going to have
if you spread the net and you bring in twelve teams. Like,
people are all upset that everybody erect brightly over corrected.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Everybody can't get in. I get it.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
There's always going to be somebody who feels like they
should be in and you know what I mean, they
have a good had a great season.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
But I'd rather error on the side of just the
four best, you.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Know what I mean, rather than four teams that don't
belong at all. And that's what you'll wind up getting
when you add the other eight team.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
So basically it's the power The winner of the Power
five conference gets an automatic bid, right what the sole
winner of the Power five conferences? That's five teams, and
then if you add it to me, at the at
the maximum, I would say six, but at the very maximum,
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I would say eight teams. But six to me feels
like you take the top six.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Probably be even better than right than the eight.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I know, twelve is no good because we got Michigan, Washington, Texas,
Florida State, Alabama, Georgia. That would be our top six
this year to me if they if they expanded it
to six instead of twelve, and even eight if you
threw two more in there, you get the Ohio State
in Oregon. All of those eight teams have shown throughout
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the year that they have a legitimate shot that possibly
winning the national championship. But when you add twelve, then
you're just gonna you're gonna get liberty. Right, who was
thirteen and oh just played Oregon and got drilled.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It wouldn't even I mean.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Outside of that first drive that they had and went
down and scored a touchdown and then missed the extra point.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It was over. After that, it was over. No, no
substance to it.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Nobody wants to watch that, let alone part.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
You know what Patrick Henry said after watching that game,
give me liberty or give.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Me that you just only know five? Right, you're on fire.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Oh wow, that's what happened when you take a radio
personality and he turned stand up comedian. I got to
sit here for three hours an endure.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You got endure some of it. I'm working on my materials,
see it. This is my well this at least I'm
not cheating you. You know, I come and prepare for working.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Are you working?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I'm working, You're working. I got no doubt about it.
And here's some other just notes. When we talk about
the college football nine of the twenty seven college football
playoff for history games right, and nine of the twenty
seven games in the history of the college football playoffs
have been decided by single digits. Only nine of twenty
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seven and thirteen of those games have been decided by
more than twenty points. So that was my point about
all these games are being blowouts. So you're now expanding
it and adding more and more and it doesn't make
any sense. And war is not always good. I'm looking
at the NFL playoffs right now in a picture. Too
many bad teams have a chance to make the playoffs.
(28:08):
Like last night, Yeah, all right, we gotta watch Minnesota
chair up.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
They couldn't even move the football.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
They had a champ Knight seven and eight, Green Bay
seven and eight, all these bad teams and they're not dead,
you know, Like here we are the last week of
the season because there's one or two teams too many
and to play. These teams are not playoff team.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
What I will say to that this year is an
outlier in terms of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Uh and these records.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Do you realize for the majority of the year, eleven
or twelve or more backup quarterbacks started for these teams? No,
I get it, that's where that's what we're watching. Oh no,
but it is bad. There's no doubt. This has been
like one of the worst years. Well, when you when
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you lose, the top five teams in the league all
have their starting quarter.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Right, But I'm just saying, but also there's a lot
of teams that just aren't that good, and you know
what I mean, And I just think you don't want
to water it down to where you're letting people in.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Did they get it yep? Alabama score see, and that's
what we.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Were talking about. You let them stick around. You've dominated
them the entire game, dominated five sacks in the first half, right,
all of that, and then before you know it, now
you're down. And then you got that extra point missed, right,
So now that you gotta you need a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
If they make that, you need a touchdown. You're gonna
have to chase that two point conversion. I mean that
that point you blew early in the in the first quarter.
So it's just a situation where you know, you can't
let a Nick Saban type team just hang around and
be within striking distance. We saw what Auburn did what
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four weeks ago in the Iron Bowl against Alabama. Alabama
should even be here. It was a fourth and eighteen
and Alabama school with no time left on the clock.
Alabama scores.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
What was it fourth and thirty one?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It was out of control? Ridiculous?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
All right, Dan Campbell and the Lions have nobody to
blame but themselves. I'm sorry for them. I'm not with
the crying party or whatever they were doing the other night.
I'll explain that. It is the Odd Couple on Fox
Sports Radio. Rob Parker e from Salaman for Chris Broussard
right here on Fox Sports Radio. And you know what
you need to do. You need to stick and.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Stick and stay.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, I should say stay. I'm usually ready for the
America party. Okay, stick and stay America.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 5 (30:54):
It is the Odd Couple on a Magic City Monday,
Rob Gig from Salam That sounds like me at Magic City, you.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Know, drinking die coke. That's me drinking techo.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
We're coming to your live from the tire rack dot
Com studios and eat from guess what It's time for Shekel.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
City two, Shekel City, the whole Bits. Rob Parkers Daily
Dicks against the scrap rob g. There's a whole slew
game tonight. What schedule are you looking at now? I
said there was games, but I didn't know if you
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had any bets for him.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Now wow, oh yeah, I'm ready to go. Here we go,
shecho city best bet. I'm going with the Dallas Mavericks
minus three and a half two in the taking on
the Utah Jazz, the Nuggets minus fifteen and a half
hosting the Hornets. I'm gonna take the Hornets plus fifteen
(32:00):
and a half is blaying. I know they're bad. Oh,
fifteen and a half from this is just one of
those gods.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Of points because they could win by fourteen and you lose,
you know what I mean, Like like fourteen is a
lot of points. And uh, I'm going to take the
Pistons plus nine and a half as Houston, not to win,
but to cover. They just got to win, you know.
So I got a couple of bad, bad games, definitely.
(32:33):
What about was that a fumble that was a fumble
in Michigan?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Got it? Yep?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Terrible? Where are they are they in? What territory?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's the face of despair?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Alabama territory.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
That was big, big fumble there and there that a
guy right there couldn't get it, couldn't pick it up.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Why do big guys just not fall on it and
try to pick it up?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Well, because we don't ever get a chance to touch
the ball, touch the ball, so we don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I shouldn't say a big guy because this might have
been a receiver somebody out there we're looking at. I'm
just trying to look at it was a receiver. Couldn't
get the ball, couldn't get there, He couldn't get there, he.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Couldn't get there.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
They got Yeah, the dB got it all right. Remember,
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who I bet on, all right. From so the Lions,
they lose on that. There was a miscommunication. I guess
the Lions tried to be so cute right that they
outsmarted themselves, right because they went and told the before
(33:33):
the game.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
They went out and told, uh, the referee that they
were gonna do.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Another guy's going to come in or you know, to
try to clarify and then a referee.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
They didn't get it right.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Even if they didn't get it right right, it was
a brilliant play touchdown. Once they call it back. Once
they call it back, you got to just kick. You
have to kick the balls.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
See I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You have to kick the ball.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
This loss is on Dan Campbell and and they've had
losses on Dan Campbell since he's been there.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
That's the problem.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
When your ego gets in the way of the actual game,
then you must be held responsible.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
And you know what, earlier in that game too, they
had up there. He went for it on fourth down.
If you would have kicked the field goal, they would
have won a game. I'm not even I'm just saying
like they're like, there are more more those situations where
teams don't take points.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
All I'm saying me it drives me crazy, But like,
like take the points. As an offensive lineman.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
If I'm we're on a twelve play drive, we get stalled,
it's fourth and three at the fifteen yard line, d man,
just get the three points.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Get the take the point. I saw brand You saw
you did too. We saw Brandon Staley lose so many
games for the Chargers.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Well now he's hanging out I know, at home depot
or wherever he is.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
But but am I right? Like how many, how many,
how many games you can get?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
There was a game against the Chargers, not last year.
You remember what I'm talking about here, that that that
that would have helped him get in the playoffs. And
this dude, there were like two or three situations where
he could have kicked field goals and then and then
he also went for it on fourth down in his
own end.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I'm just like, what are you doing? Like this is
this Maden nor real foot?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
They just don't care. Like when you get caught up
in analytics, when you let analytics, analytics supersede intelligence, then
there's the problem. Yeah, the feel of the game, the
EBB and the flow, all of that.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Well, the book says do this, do that, do this?
Do that? Points are a premium, pinks are a premium.
And so we're in this.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Steve just saying could have missed it, Like yeah, it would.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Miss just lined up after getting a tremendous turnover.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
At least it pulled within one and then you could
win on a field goal. That's a bad mess.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
The field goal kicker just kicked the ball and you
might have to just like the ball was hungry and
he saw the hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
He just went right on over.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
You might you might have to check his shorts. I'm
just saying like it is not.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
But that lost to get back to Dan Campbell, that
was on him. That was a terrible but twice though
twice right, it was a false start. Then they went
forward again like then they were at the seven right
and kicked the field goal man. Go to overtime, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
All right, our number two of the odd couples coming
up on this New Year's night. Uh he from salam
Rob Parker stick
Speaker 4 (36:43):
And stay unless you're the Michigan kicker.
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You hear that, Ethil play that again for Ethim.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't need to hear that again.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You hear that.
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I don't need to hear that again.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I'm one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You ain't got nowhere to go? You don't got no
where to go?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Man, I got a family. What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They don't really want to hang out with you like that? No, no,
nobody wants to hang out No, no, no, no, man.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'm a fun guy to hang out with.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Here's the man kicking off four who takes pride in
working on the holidays.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
No doubt anyway, it is a happy New Year, Happy
New Year's Day year, no doubt, no doubt. Rob Parker
along with Ephraim Salaam filling in for Chris Brusson.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
On a Magic City Monday. Man.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
The only shocking thing other than Chris being off, is
that rob G is working on a holiday. Rob G
when he called me today, you know, to go over
some stuff, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh wow, I thought it was going to be Brandon
and somebody.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I'm like, yeah, I just didn't even buy it. And
Brandon the truth truth for he's on his way out.
You've got a job in San Diego. That's right, my cough.
Congratulations Brandon. Man will miss you and thanks for all
your hard work and dedication to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
We appreciate you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
And I'll go down to the San Diego see him
down there, go to Padres game.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I love that ballpark. Have you been down there? You've
been there. I know you're at the school.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I missed to Sandia.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I know I know you went the schoolss Yeah wow,
But that ballpark is beautiful. I love that place. San
Diego's beautiful. It really is other than climbing over the bombs.
Other than that, I love Sandia. I'm sorry, is that
what we're doing?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, I'm just saying.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
If I were going to be homeless, that's the place,
right I wouldn't go to New York to be homeless. No,
because the rats are fighting for the pizza that's on
the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I wouldn't go to Detroit to be home.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
No, No, it's too coal in Detroit to be.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I would go to San Diego, right, But.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
It's got to be miserable to be in a beautiful
place with beautiful weather and you have nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Wouldn't that be worse?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
But you have beautiful weather, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
But you can't take a bath or the heat and
the humidity got the whole ocean man jumping the water. Yeah,
before bathtubs. That's where people had to get clean somehow.
No wonder my water tastes funny. I'm just saying, hey,
all right, we are from the tyro rack dot Com studios. Man,
(03:04):
what a show we have for you today? Yes, we
are all the way live. Bill O'Reilly on this. Thank you, Bill,
and uh let's first to welcome in the odd couple coo.
Because we wouldn't be able to do this fine radio
program without him, Rob G working on the holiday. Wow, unbelievable.
Uh So, Rob G, of course is our producer. Alex,
(03:26):
our steady engineer, the best in the business, always works
on the holiday with me and uh, the third leg
of the guys who always worked on the holiday.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Mister Steve, the on the update.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Steve is the best update guy in the National right,
there's just no doubt about it, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And we're voting for it's my vote from.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I mean, it's not like some of these wacky people
who wouldn't vote for like Lamar's like Lamar Jackson of
the you know, like that's the kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Perform with violence. Right, Well, let's do it.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Okay, because Ephroim, let me tell you he Lamar Jackson
was my MVP best player on the best team. If
you go look at what the body of work of
what the Ravens had done. I was impressed already. Then
they go to San Francisco and this was the the
comparison I made. Do you remember this past year when
(04:28):
Ronald Lacuna and the Braves came to town to play
the Dodgers right at the end of the year, and
it was between Ronald Lacuna and Mookie Betts right for
the National League MVP. Ronald Lacuna came to town and
tore up the place home runs left and right. I
think they swept the Dodgers. It was ugly, but he
did all the damage. And it was after that weekend
(04:49):
We're like, he's the MVP at the National League, and
of course he won the MVP, and I thought, okay,
here's Brock party. Always thought that Brock perty is gonna
have a hard time winning because Christian McCaffrey and because
oftentimes teammates split votes. That's why Kobe and Shockedon win
a lot of MVPs, Like it just doesn't happen when
you have two great players, because they're gonna be people
(05:11):
the same people cover the team. Half are gonna say
it's because the Christians running the ball, and the other
half gonna say is because of Brock Purty throwing the ball,
and then they split the vote and somebody else wins.
So I always thought he was gonna have a hard time. Well,
but that's what happens. But in this case, I said,
if Lamar and them go to San Francis, is gonna
win that game and he plays well, he gonna grab
(05:34):
the MVP.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
And so not only did he do that, and people
could say, well, the defense was great.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
They had the five interceptions of all this other stuff, right,
four interceptions, No five four against Brady, I mean, you know,
against a rock party. But then this past week and
the game against Miami. Miami beat Dallas the week before
exactly what a double digit wins and they blew them
out and lamar, just in case you think he can't
(06:01):
throw the football for touchdown, I have five touchdowns, a
perfect quarterback rating. You couldn't play the quarterback position any better.
E from even people say, oh, you know I have
all the touchdown enough touchdown this and that. Do you
know all those touchdowns that Edwards gets in the red zone?
He could easily take those if he wanted them, right,
(06:22):
He could easily Why put wear and tear on your body.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
He doesn't need to do all that. He takes what
he needs and does what he has to do.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
But anyway, he's clearly the MVP, and he's the definition
of MVP, the best player on the best team.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And you saw that yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
You know, the MVP doesn't necessarily have to be it's
not the MVP of the team. The MVP doesn't necessarily
have to be the best player on the best team.
It just has to be the best player in the
league in my opinion. Right, So when you look at
Lamar Jackson, and let's be honest, it's become a quarterback
(06:59):
award unless someone in another position, receiver, running back, even
a defensive end breaks a record that people deemed unbreakable.
In my opinion, that's the only way someone would get
consideration outside of the quarterback, which is fine. This is
where the league is going now when you watch Lamar
(07:22):
Jackson and yes, these two back to back weeks have
been all about the raving, the Ravens staking their claim
as the best team in the league.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And it is clear.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And when they beat it, when they beat those teams,
they're beating all.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's not one score games, not coming down to the wire.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Think about and we'll get to Philadelphia, but think about Philadelphia.
They were ten and one, but go back and look
at those games that they won. They were all closed,
all nail, but they weren't blowing anybody out. Baltimore's blown
everybody out of the of the really good teams in
the league.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's impressive. What Lamar Jackson has been able to do
this year is I mean.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Number one, staying healthy. All right, do you remember prior
to the season started, we were having the conversations about
the new look Ravens offense. Is Lamar Jackson going to
be able to pass from the pocket. They're not going
to run him as much. The question marks on how
(08:27):
is he going to do in this new style offense.
So everyone was waiting and anticipating what that looked like. Well,
this is what it looks like. It looks like a
more efficient Lamar Jackson. It looks like someone throwing for
you know, thirty six one hundred plus yards, twenty four touchdowns,
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only seven interceptions, but not only that, being healthy going
into December and January, which he hadn't.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Which is in the last week, yes, two years.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
So when you add a player like Lamar Jackson healthy
to this team, the Baltimore Ravens, who hang their hat
on defense. They've won a Super Bowl because of defense,
a couple of Super Bowls because of defense, then yes,
you get the best player in the league on the
best team, and that is Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He especially brother watching him.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Play, I'm like, hey, man, I don't even know how
you what you're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I haven't seen anybody like that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You can just see the way he affects the game.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And people were trying to make a case for other people,
and that's fine, it's all it's your opinion.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
But to try to discount Lamar and go, well, look it,
let me touch on you that as the year he
was unanimous and now he's got half of that mount
and there's no way he could be MVP. No way.
Have you watched the games.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
From people?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Is at no way? And I argued Rob g who
is a former forty.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Nine player, we had on me with Chris uh Dante Whittner.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Am I right? Didn't we go at it Dante Whitner?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Which is fine, he played for them, he was doing
his rock party spiel. And what did I tell him?
I told him we'll have him back on when when
when Lamar wins the MVP? And I get it? And
I heard there was one little SoundBite from Jerry Rice,
who put the Joe Montana's name in with brock Purty
played fine, I don't have anything. Okay, he's a really
(10:31):
good player, but he ain't Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I said like this, if brock Purty, if Lamar Jackson
were not healthy this year, then brock Purty would probably
be the MVP of the league.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And that's a great compliment for him.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, that performance though that for interset.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
That's the one. Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I like to do is I'll take a player's best
game in their worst game and throw it out, okay,
because then you get to see who that player is.
You take their best game in their worst game, and
you throw those away because yeah, everybody's gonna have a
bad game. That was a terrible game on the big
stage between you know, a super Bowl contender. But that
(11:09):
game was so bad bad he went to bed. Because
you know, this plays white for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
A lot of people probably have never seen Rock Purty
play live, like in that moment. Everybody's home for Christmas.
It's the biggest game game, it's the biggest game of
the year. You got you got the top two teams
right in each conference. I mean like like that was
the game you want to play well and not with
the bed.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
But you got to remember, Brock Purdy is still in
his second year, no not even his second full year
of being a starting quarterback in this team, and all
he's done is won. He's lost four times since he's
been at the Helm. So you got to give credit
to where credit is due. But with that said, lamark
on a whole other level. Brother, No, he's on a
(11:56):
whole nother level. He's literally out there the game of football,
like he's out in the street, are U, you know,
out playing amongst kids. Some of the things he's doing.
Did you that Jacksonville about three games ago? That Jacksonville
game where defensive end had him, lost him, had him again?
(12:17):
He drops a pass down to the one yard line.
Like at this point you just saw it on the
defensive player's face where he was like.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
What can I do?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean, then you even do you just gotta just
shrug your shoulders to be like, all right, man, we
gotta get back in the huddle. So when you bring
that type of energy to the position, and I mean
it's literally a man amongst boys, then yeah, you come on,
you gotta tip your hat to Lamartin.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
And here's Baltimore. This is how we were talking about
how good they are against the good teams. Baltimore is
seven to one against team that entered the game with
the winning record this season. Baltimore as a plus one
seventy point margin in those games. Do you have me
a plus one seventy which is the biggest point differential
(13:00):
against teams with the winning record in the Super Bowl era.
These are and then their defense, I think thirteen out
of their first out of their last fourteen or so games,
they had an unbelievable thing where they only gave up
ten or less points and thirteen out of fourteen in
the first half like this.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
It's when you combine a dominant defense with a dominant
offensive player. This is what you get. We get to
witness this happening right now, and for me, I'm happy
because you gotta remember at this time last year, the
(13:41):
conversation that was being had by Lamar Jackson about Lamar Jackson. Right,
he doesn't want he wants his money. He's not hurt,
he wants it. He's just right. We're all those people
you should have got an agent. He's wasting time, YadA YadA, YadA.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Ya and even and even all the teams that passed
who could have had him.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I mean, you know, what's the other part.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I know because you know, but I'm just saying it
tells you a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
And that's why the whole story about collusion, because because anybody,
if you're really trying to win he from and that
guy's available, what football You're an owner and your football
people didn't go to you and say, dude, we gotta
get this guy play receiver.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, Bill Poullion who was in the Hall of Fame.
All right, let's do this.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
We want to hear from you eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
It is the Odd Couple.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Rob Parker E from Salaam uh filling in for Chris
Bussard on this New Year's Day evening. I guess is
that where we are now New Year's Day evening? We
want to hear from you with Lamar Jackson. Have you
come aboard if you were wrong about Lamar Jackson, this
is your chance to call in and be cleansed. We
(14:56):
will cleanse you of your that's right a baptism. Well
Chris isn't here, but we'll do it for him, and
we'll cleanse you because you were so wrong about this
guy and it's time for you to at least acknowledge
it and admit it. This guy's the best player on
the best team, and damn it, he's the MVP. It
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know what you need to.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
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in the US of A.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
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Speaker 5 (16:09):
It is The Eye Couple on a Magic City Monday gig.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
That was me on New Year's Eve with some shampiople.
I had a.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Glizzy in my mouth. Happy New Year to everybody listening.
We're coming to your live from the Tireich dot Com studios,
Rob Parker and E from salam And for Chris Broussard,
Chris is four week vacation will end and he'll be
back tomorrow and uh, let's go a from We got
some calls.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
We got let's go Charles Jerome. What's happening? Man? What
you got?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
All I got to say by Lamar Jackson is don't
listen to these people.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Man.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
They'll build you up one minute and then they'll tell
you down the nickt now that you're the mark team,
because you're the team. All I'm saying, Oh, they got
the INSI track to the super Bowl consumerblele, you got
the inside track to nothing.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Man win him at Jerome?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Jerome?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Is he the Jerome? Is he the m v P?
Speaker 9 (17:08):
More likely? But you know what that means? Nothing?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
No but nobody but nobody. But look, look I get it,
and and we can't. He can't play a playoff game
and in January first, okay, like like when people do that,
I hate it because you can't.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
He can't win the super Bowl today.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oh don't matter. No, you win the m v P
and then you go on to the next thing. And
that's what happens. Come on, man, that ain't fair. He
can't win the super but can't win the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Now, all he can do is play the best that
he's played.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
That's all I worry about him getting.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Hurt the season is over. The season is over.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Though, like the season is over, I can guarantee you
he probably won't play more than a series or two.
Then they have a bye, and then you're in the playoffs.
So at this point you got to throw caution to
the win. You're trying to win a super Bowl. You
got two games and you're in the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's it. He made it.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
He made did eighty nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Will in Wisconsin. You only our couple with Robin e
from what you got.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Going on, gentlemen, Mary new Year, boy, I gotta tell you, man,
Lamar is a Ferrari on a buick lot. Just the
way that he's able to impose himself, it's almost like
watching a basketball player be able to I mean, you know,
there's eleven guys. Of course they're of the offense, to
(18:40):
the whole fifty plus person roster. But Lamar is just
such a special player, man, And and I can I
can understand what everybody's saying about him needing.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
To win the big game.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
But right now, honestly, there's only one team that I
take in one game, just one game in a playoff
to win a game, And honestly, that's the Chiefs man
with that playability, with.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Everything that was great. Not this year.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Everything was great.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You watched this year they have you know what, last
yesterday's game, they just scored touchdown for.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
An hour and a half.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
For an hour and a half, I think it takes
Andy Reid longer to order than then for them to
get a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I mean it was ridiculous. That's why eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Drew in New Jersey on the our couple with Robin Ephrom.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
What you got, Hey, how's it going? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (19:35):
You guys doing what's up?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Drew?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Happy New Year?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Happy New Year. So I'm gonna get right to it.
So last week when I called, I said, hey, I
need to see stats. So to me, stats do matter
if you look in any sport, We've never given the
MVP to anybody that didn't have stats at least backing
it up Carl. If you want to say the most valuable,
when Carl Malone was winning those m vps, I don't think.
If you ask any s expert, I think they were
(20:01):
saying John stock And was more valuable behind all.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
What are you trying to say, Drew? You don't think
that Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Is the MVP.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
I think now he does. I needed, like I said,
I think I needed to see the stats to go
along with it. For me, as there's a sports traditionalist,
I needed a stat. Now you look at it, he
has twenty four touchdowns. He's going to finish below one
thousand yards rushing, and he's gonna have four thousand yards
pass and he might end up with with twenty five
to twenty six touchdowns. But if you look at it, now, okay,
(20:33):
it makes sense to me. I can accept that.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, I just thought I thought that.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I thought that, especially that game against the forty nine ers.
That was the one that pushed it over to me,
you know what I mean, Like, I was like that
that was the game. If brock Party had outplayed him
in that situation, it probably wouldn't have gone. It wouldn't
have gone as why that was a big game then.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Well normally went to that point to having the stats,
uh that you know, you have to to be the
quarterback or the MVP. When you look at this year,
no one has, you know, forty touchdowns passes. No one
has fifty touchdown passes. That made it extremely easy to say, oh,
(21:17):
they've thrown for fifty five hundred yards or five thousand yards,
forty touchdowns, ten interceptions.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But in a year.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
This is why Christian McCaffrey's name was coming up, because
you don't really have that outlier in terms of quarterbacks.
You look at Tua, he has forty five hundred yards passing,
brock Party has forty two hundred yards, only twenty eight
touchdowns for Tua passing touchdowns thirty one for brock Party.
So it's not one of those years where the quarterback
(21:46):
stats will jump off the page.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Right, like when Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady and those
gods talking about right and Patrick Mahomes at fifty and
those gods. When you have that, that's easy, it's an easy.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
But now when you're just watching the test and you
watching and what Lamar Jackson has meant to that Baltimore's team,
they're the number one seed in a loaded AFC. Man,
everybody was clawing and fighting, and when they've played the best,
they've demolished. They've not only beating them, they've beating them
down no doubt.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
All Right, I'm not excited from about the future of
college football, and I'll tell you why that's coming up next.
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Speaker 4 (22:47):
He from, Here's the problem I got with college football. Now,
everybody want to expand it.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
The biggest one is expanding you know, the college football playoffs.
There are on twelve teams that are really viable. We
just saw what do we see in Florida State?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Right?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Like this is how many blowouts have we seen in
these college football playoff games?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Seriously, Like, I.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Mean, is there really twelve teams that are good enough
to compete for a national championship?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
You could play the games if you want to and
make money off of them, but are they really viable
to win a national championship?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
And the answers no.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Even Michigan Jim Harbar's won in six in bowl games
and the last two years they've been annihilated. Like all right,
they got a chance now here with this team, but
they're the last two years they were embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
So at my personal opinion is, I don't think at
any point if you've lost three games in a season
in college football, I don't think you should have the
right to play for a college championship.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
So in the.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Top twelve, Oklahoma is ten and three, Penn State is
ten and three, LSU ten and three, Like, I don't
think any of these teams should have have earned excuse me,
earned the right to play for a national championship because
(24:18):
now you're muddying the water in my opinion, right you
got a bunch of one loss teams and maybe a
handful of two loss teams like Ohio State, like Oregon
only lost to Washington twice. Right, so now it's like, Okay,
I can understand that. I can see that, but you know,
(24:41):
a ten and three Penn State team, what are we doing?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
And that's the kind of teams you're going to have
if you spread the net and you bring in twelve teams. Like,
people are all upset that everybody erect brightly over corrected.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Everybody can't get in. I get it.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
There's always going to be somebody who feels like they
should be in and you know what I mean, they
have a good had a great season.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
But I'd rather error on the side of just the
four best, you.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Know what I mean, rather than four teams that don't
belong at all. And that's what you'll wind up getting
when you add the other eight team.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
So basically it's the power The winner of the Power
five conference gets an automatic bid, right what the sole
winner of the Power five conferences? That's five teams, and
then if you add it to me, at the at
the maximum, I would say six, but at the very maximum,
(25:44):
I would say eight teams. But six to me feels
like you take the top six.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Probably be even better than right than the eight.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
I know, twelve is no good because we got Michigan, Washington, Texas,
Florida State, Alabama, Georgia. That would be our top six
this year to me if they if they expanded it
to six instead of twelve, and even eight if you
threw two more in there, you get the Ohio State
in Oregon. All of those eight teams have shown throughout
(26:16):
the year that they have a legitimate shot that possibly
winning the national championship. But when you add twelve, then
you're just gonna you're gonna get liberty. Right, who was
thirteen and oh just played Oregon and got drilled.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It wouldn't even I mean.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Outside of that first drive that they had and went
down and scored a touchdown and then missed the extra point.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It was over. After that, it was over. No, no
substance to it.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Nobody wants to watch that, let alone part.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
You know what Patrick Henry said after watching that game,
give me liberty or give.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Me that you just only know five? Right, you're on fire.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Oh wow, that's what happened when you take a radio
personality and he turned stand up comedian. I got to
sit here for three hours an endure.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You got endure some of it. I'm working on my materials,
see it. This is my well this at least I'm
not cheating you. You know, I come and prepare for working.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Are you working?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I'm working, You're working. I got no doubt about it.
And here's some other just notes. When we talk about
the college football nine of the twenty seven college football
playoff for history games right, and nine of the twenty
seven games in the history of the college football playoffs
have been decided by single digits. Only nine of twenty
(27:44):
seven and thirteen of those games have been decided by
more than twenty points. So that was my point about
all these games are being blowouts. So you're now expanding
it and adding more and more and it doesn't make
any sense. And war is not always good. I'm looking
at the NFL playoffs right now in a picture. Too
many bad teams have a chance to make the playoffs.
(28:08):
Like last night, Yeah, all right, we gotta watch Minnesota
chair up.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
They couldn't even move the football.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
They had a champ Knight seven and eight, Green Bay
seven and eight, all these bad teams and they're not dead,
you know, Like here we are the last week of
the season because there's one or two teams too many
and to play. These teams are not playoff team.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
What I will say to that this year is an
outlier in terms of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Uh and these records.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Do you realize for the majority of the year, eleven
or twelve or more backup quarterbacks started for these teams? No,
I get it, that's where that's what we're watching. Oh no,
but it is bad. There's no doubt. This has been
like one of the worst years. Well, when you when
(29:00):
you lose, the top five teams in the league all
have their starting quarter.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Right, But I'm just saying, but also there's a lot
of teams that just aren't that good, and you know
what I mean, And I just think you don't want
to water it down to where you're letting people in.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Did they get it yep? Alabama score see, and that's
what we.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Were talking about. You let them stick around. You've dominated
them the entire game, dominated five sacks in the first half, right,
all of that, and then before you know it, now
you're down. And then you got that extra point missed, right,
So now that you gotta you need a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
If they make that, you need a touchdown. You're gonna
have to chase that two point conversion. I mean that
that point you blew early in the in the first quarter.
So it's just a situation where you know, you can't
let a Nick Saban type team just hang around and
be within striking distance. We saw what Auburn did what
(29:53):
four weeks ago in the Iron Bowl against Alabama. Alabama
should even be here. It was a fourth and eighteen
and Alabama school with no time left on the clock.
Alabama scores.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
What was it fourth and thirty one?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It was out of control? Ridiculous?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
All right, Dan Campbell and the Lions have nobody to
blame but themselves. I'm sorry for them. I'm not with
the crying party or whatever they were doing the other night.
I'll explain that. It is the Odd Couple on Fox
Sports Radio. Rob Parker e from Salaman for Chris Broussard
right here on Fox Sports Radio. And you know what
you need to do. You need to stick and.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Stick and stay.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, I should say stay. I'm usually ready for the
America party. Okay, stick and stay America.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 5 (30:54):
It is the Odd Couple on a Magic City Monday,
Rob Gig from Salam That sounds like me at Magic City, you.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Know, drinking die coke. That's me drinking techo.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
We're coming to your live from the tire rack dot
Com studios and eat from guess what It's time for Shekel.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
City two, Shekel City, the whole Bits. Rob Parkers Daily
Dicks against the scrap rob g. There's a whole slew
game tonight. What schedule are you looking at now? I
said there was games, but I didn't know if you
(31:36):
had any bets for him.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Now wow, oh yeah, I'm ready to go. Here we go,
shecho city best bet. I'm going with the Dallas Mavericks
minus three and a half two in the taking on
the Utah Jazz, the Nuggets minus fifteen and a half
hosting the Hornets. I'm gonna take the Hornets plus fifteen
(32:00):
and a half is blaying. I know they're bad. Oh,
fifteen and a half from this is just one of
those gods.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Of points because they could win by fourteen and you lose,
you know what I mean, Like like fourteen is a
lot of points. And uh, I'm going to take the
Pistons plus nine and a half as Houston, not to win,
but to cover. They just got to win, you know.
So I got a couple of bad, bad games, definitely.
(32:33):
What about was that a fumble that was a fumble
in Michigan?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Got it? Yep?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Terrible? Where are they are they in? What territory?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's the face of despair?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Alabama territory.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
That was big, big fumble there and there that a
guy right there couldn't get it, couldn't pick it up.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Why do big guys just not fall on it and
try to pick it up?
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Well, because we don't ever get a chance to touch
the ball, touch the ball, so we don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I shouldn't say a big guy because this might have
been a receiver somebody out there we're looking at. I'm
just trying to look at it was a receiver. Couldn't
get the ball, couldn't get there, He couldn't get there, he.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Couldn't get there.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
They got Yeah, the dB got it all right. Remember,
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who I bet on, all right. From so the Lions,
they lose on that. There was a miscommunication. I guess
the Lions tried to be so cute right that they
outsmarted themselves, right because they went and told the before
(33:33):
the game.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
They went out and told, uh, the referee that they
were gonna do.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Another guy's going to come in or you know, to
try to clarify and then a referee.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
They didn't get it right.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Even if they didn't get it right right, it was
a brilliant play touchdown. Once they call it back. Once
they call it back, you got to just kick. You
have to kick the balls.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
See I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You have to kick the ball.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
This loss is on Dan Campbell and and they've had
losses on Dan Campbell since he's been there.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
That's the problem.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
When your ego gets in the way of the actual game,
then you must be held responsible.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
And you know what, earlier in that game too, they
had up there. He went for it on fourth down.
If you would have kicked the field goal, they would
have won a game. I'm not even I'm just saying
like they're like, there are more more those situations where
teams don't take points.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
All I'm saying me it drives me crazy, But like,
like take the points. As an offensive lineman.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
If I'm we're on a twelve play drive, we get stalled,
it's fourth and three at the fifteen yard line, d man,
just get the three points.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Get the take the point. I saw brand You saw
you did too. We saw Brandon Staley lose so many
games for the Chargers.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Well now he's hanging out I know, at home depot
or wherever he is.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
But but am I right? Like how many, how many,
how many games you can get?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
There was a game against the Chargers, not last year.
You remember what I'm talking about here, that that that
that would have helped him get in the playoffs. And
this dude, there were like two or three situations where
he could have kicked field goals and then and then
he also went for it on fourth down in his
own end.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I'm just like, what are you doing? Like this is
this Maden nor real foot?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
They just don't care. Like when you get caught up
in analytics, when you let analytics, analytics supersede intelligence, then
there's the problem. Yeah, the feel of the game, the
EBB and the flow, all of that.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Well, the book says do this, do that, do this?
Do that? Points are a premium, pinks are a premium.
And so we're in this.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Steve just saying could have missed it, Like yeah, it would.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Miss just lined up after getting a tremendous turnover.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
At least it pulled within one and then you could
win on a field goal. That's a bad mess.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
The field goal kicker just kicked the ball and you
might have to just like the ball was hungry and
he saw the hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
He just went right on over.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
You might you might have to check his shorts. I'm
just saying like it is not.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
But that lost to get back to Dan Campbell, that
was on him. That was a terrible but twice though
twice right, it was a false start. Then they went
forward again like then they were at the seven right
and kicked the field goal man. Go to overtime, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
All right, our number two of the odd couples coming
up on this New Year's night. Uh he from salam
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Speaker 4 (36:43):
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