August 20, 2024 • 40 mins
In Hour 3 of the Odd Couple, Rob Parker and Ben Maller (in for Chris Broussard) discuss recent comments from Tom Brady where he said the NFL has 'dumbed the game down' to help rookie QBs start early. That leads into a discussion on how the guys think Brady will do in his first year as a broadcaster. Martin Weiss joins the show for his weekly 'Trollin or Rollin' segment. Finally, the guys close out the show talking about whether the Yankees/Guardians matchup is a preview of the ALCS game!
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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with Martin Wise will do that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Bet.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm sure you loved a little trash talk and we
just had all the callers there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, yeah, you know. I didn't fight back, Rob, I
could have thrown some haymakers. I stayed in my lane.
I stayed in my land. I didn't throw back.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, there's some some shots I could have taken
some of these guys, but I was polite.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I was respectful.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
No, no, no, definitely we give we give them their
time to shine. So it's for us to pull back,
uh and whatnot. But yeah, we got another hour here
and we want to hear from you too, and your
favorite guy, Tom Brady's ready to make his day butt
on Fox.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now, how's this gonna go?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Because I I look at Brady as a broadcaster, I
have mixed Well.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
He wasn't that glib as a as a he was terrible, right,
that's what's terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
They paid him, the station in Boston paid him tons
of money to come on every Monday. Well actually it
was through the Patriots. But he he went out of
his way. In fact, he's admitted it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He tried to say nothing interesting every time he.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Did an interview, and taking all that money, he took
all this money, he purposed like like Derek Jeter does
the same thing. Like he just didn't want to say anything,
and so now he's gonna be a practice. But even
as a broadcaster, he said he doesn't want to be
too critical of certain guys.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But to be good. I think we agree on this, Rob,
you gotta throw some haymakers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, you got all the players dislike Charles Barkley because
he's honest. He's not in that camp. And if you
really want to be a broadcast or analyst, you gotta
be willing. And that doesn't mean you have to go
out and just rip everybody. That's not what we're talking about.
But if somebody makes a bad player or bad situation,
you gotta be able to say that.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't I don't know what to call it. Call
a spade a spade, Right, somebody's stinks.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Don't try to sugarcoat it and tell me that something else.
Don't don't spin on my cupcake and tell me it's
frosting if it's not.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, I don't want to hear that. And so
now Brady.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Made some comments recently, Rob about these rookie quarterbacks. There's
gonna be at least two starting Caleb Williams and Jayden
Daniels are going to start to begin the year.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And he won on a ran at that fanatics fest.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
In aig oneble.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah it was a wild man.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How much money did they pay out because everybody was there.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
They got all the biggest names in sports.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, everybody's available for a price, you know that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So Brady was one of the keynote speakers at this thing,
and some comments he made still are resonating a couple
of days later, and they're still bouncing around. And he
went on this this rant about rookie quarterbacks and and
just the way the state of the NFL. But he
used the T word rob He said, it's a tragedy
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that we're forcing these rookies to play early. But the
reality is the only reason why we are is because
they've dumbed down the game. That's what that's Brady's argument,
you know. He went on, he had a lot more
to say that, but that's the gist of it is
it's a tragedy they've done dumb down the game and
that's why.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We're seeing rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And he then bragged and patted himself on the back
about how much time he spent at Michigan and then
with the Patriots developing, and it's just.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Not like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's a dumber version of football. So what do you
make of that? Yeah, just so Brady out there throwing
out so.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Let me let me give you my take, right and
I want to hear what you have to say, because
Brady's not completely wrong. But the main point is not
that they've done dumb down the game.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
What they've really done is they've.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
What's the way I want to describe this, the woosification
of football, because remember the hardest hits in the end
of it. They used to encourage that the defensive part
of football. So it's not that they necessarily changed the
offensive rules. It's the defensive rules which have opened up
Pandora's box of offense. Because it used to be you
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celebrated great defense.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There was a point I was younger.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You're celebrating now if somebody hits somebody and lays him out,
what happens, Rob There are people gasping.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I can't believe that. It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It's you know, violent, all that stuff. So that's changed.
But I don't think it's dumbing down the game of football.
I don't think that's I don't I think that's the
wrong way to describe it. And clearly I know more
about football than Tom Brady obviously Robin and about it doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And this will be something And I'm just curious, and Ben,
I do want to pivot this from Brady just stepping
out there talking about the game. And we've heard some
comments about quarterback in the league and the changes that
they've made and whatever that allow Brady to be able
to play as long as he did because you couldn't
hit him. I mean, Joe Montana got killed when he
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was a player quarterback in the NFL. You remember that
guy got hurt all the time as quarterbacks and that's
where in the grasp came from and all those kind
of things to try to protect them because quarterbacks would
get leveled. But but what what kind of broadcaster do
you expect him to be? Like, like, do you have
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any expectations? I like, I think I think it's over blown.
I think it's overblown that people think people tune into
games just to hear announcers. You know, like, are you
happy when you tune in and somebody's really good and
give you some insight like that?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, but you don't tune in?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
What was proven when when Fox lost Joe Buck and
Troy Aikman to ESPN and it didn't matter the ratings
didn't go down.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That didn't change at all.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's the formula is pretty simple. You know this, Rob
from from your experience of the business. If Fox has
the Cowboy game that right Sunday, they have the highest ratings,
it doesn't matter. They could they could have dead air
in terms of like who's talking, and they would have
the highest ratings.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's it's just Tug the Cowboy and there's certain.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Other And it doesn't mean that we don't need guys
who are bet There are guys who are better than others,
and guys who make it interesting and guys who are
smart or glib.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I like that. I'm not saying that they enhance the experience.
They do.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And I appreciate good broadcasters on games, I really do.
I as a guy who watched a lot of Mets games,
I thought Tim McCarver was one of the best color
analysts ever.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like I'm dead serious, Ben.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He would say stuff all the time before it happened,
but not like Tony Romo way got annoying. He would
just say, hey, this is a bad matchup. This guy
eats up right handers like this, and then the next
pitt would be hit out the park. That's what I
want to hear from the color.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You mean Macarver back in the day got ripped because
they said he was too long winded, and he you know,
he talked too much in the broadcast. I mean, so
everyone's gonna get rad and Brady's gonna get criticized a ton.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But here's the thing about what I expect from Brady.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I expect well foot hardo football conversation, but I don't
tune in for That's not what I'm there. I like
the Barkley style. I like the way Barkley does broadcasting.
I don't think Brady's gonna be anything like that because
he doesn't want to step on toes. Now, maybe I'll
be wrong, and I hope I am wrong, but I
think he's just gonna be very vanilla and there's got
not gonna be a lot of spice to it. I
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need some spice for my commentary. I need don't lie
to me. If I see a guy stinks, don't tell
me they don't stink. If everyone sees the same thing.
But he's gonna have There's so many Brady fans, so
he's gonna have them no matter what he says. You know,
the jocksniffers out there, rob that are gonna love Brady.
Whatever he says, they're gonna laugh and they're gonna suck
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it all up and say how great it is. And
then there's people that don't like him. They're gonna So
it's somewhere in the middle is where.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He's a polarizing gud. There's no doubt about it. So
it's gonna be interesting to see whether or not people
take to him. I'm expecting. I have low expectations.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I didn't even think we would get to this point.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I thought when he wouldn't do it that I didn't
think he would actually do it.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, thirty seven and a half million dollars a year
to do seventeen football games. I don't care who you are.
I don't care how much money you've made, Ben, that's
a pretty sweet that's a pretty sweet get.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Now?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
How many other things does he have to do for
that thirty seven million? Like he has to do appearances?
I would assume, right, there's other stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I'm still waiting for him to come on The Odd Couple.
I'm sure he has not come on the Odd Couple.
Why not? I know, we don't rate. I guess we're
in the Fox family. You and and Tom Brady are connected?
Would that be? Would that be some show me and Brady?
You know, you know he knows all about you, you know,
Is that right? Oh? Yeah. All these guys that say
they don't listen, they don't pay attention to the media,
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they paid.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I did a friend of mine, I'm not going to
say his name, but in the media, and he knows, uh,
Bill Belichick, and he said that this that Bill Belichick
did ask him about me. Tell me about this, Rob Parker.
I want to know, you know what I mean, because.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, Belichick is a closet did sports radio listener? Oh
people don't know. Yeah. I met there's a.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Radio guy in New York named Joe Beningo years ago. Joe, Yeah,
Joe's good guy. So you should ask him a story sometime.
He told me the story at the Old Say Stadium
that when he was starting out, he was doing like
overnights like I'm doing now, but he was starting out
doing overnights and he started he seem like ten pals
with Bill Belichick. Belichick would listen on his way to
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the Jets facility in the morning, you know, early in
the morning, right, and uh, and they became like uh
pen pals, like just you know, they would they would
communicate about different things. Yeah, I think email at the time.
And you wouldn't suspect Bill Belichick is a sports radio
listener right right now. You wouldn't think of him as
a consumer of our product. But yeah, he did.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And you never know who's listening.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So this is the curious part. I'm curious. Yeah, eight
seven seven ninety nine Old Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six sixty three sixty nine. Your expectations of Tom
Brady just just what do you expect? Uh? Insight a
little dry with what what are you expecting to get
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from Brady on these broadcasts? Because ultimately it's about the game.
But he could make a name or a career for itself,
you know what I mean, if he's able to make it.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
We've seen guys become really good. I want the entertainment fact.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know, what do you yeah, yeah, or what
do you want?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
What do you want from Brady?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I mean, like, like I've heard him on that uh
who is that Jim Gray?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Right? The podcast? Every week it's Buddy Jim Gray. Yeah,
they break it all down. Yeah, it's uh, they play
Patty Cake.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It doesn't It doesn't sound like you got any kind
of uh, you're expecting too much.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
No, not a lot of hard hitting questions on that
at the interview that he does every.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Week, and and and and and who's the best who's
the best color analyst out there today? I know for
a while people were all into Tony Romo, but he
got he got. What happened was he started calling every
play and and then it was wrong a lot, and
it just became too much right to watch.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
And Barkley's not a color commentary because he's in the studio,
but he's so far ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's like secretariat.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
He's so far ahead of everyone else that does this,
like the former players.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't even I watch the NFL every week, and
I usually tune out. I'm at the point now, Rob,
I don't feel like me. I kind of tune out.
The broadcasters don't. I don't even usually pay attention, just
background noise. They say, elevator.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Music to me, Well, there's some I want to hear something.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
If people have something to say and can give me insight,
especially what I should be looking for. That's what I'm
That's what I'm looking for to say, somebody made a
great play. Ben, After I'm watching the app, that was
a great play. I would rather know why or before
was you know, could he be in a position to
make a play or stuff like that. That's what I'm
really looking for. But we want to hear from you.
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Brady as a color analyst, the lead color analyst on Fox.
You're anticipating that he'll be great at it, will be
fun at it? Will we flop at it? And what
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six sixty three sixty nine talking about Tom Brady, who
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will make his Fox Sports debut on a real game
coming up.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Not using it.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
What do you think of that? Rather, they're not trying him.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Usually they put him, they would put the A team
on one of these practices.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, No, they want they want to build up, to
try to get the biggest, you know, and not give
anybody a taste until they get there. But what are
you expectations of Tom Brady as the league color analyst
for Fox. H Do you think he'll do well? We're
just curious to see where you are on this and
how well you think he will do or will he
flop or will he be a rising star in the
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TV business. Let's do it, Ben, all right, Yeah, let's
do it.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
People need to speak here.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So on a scale of one to ten, Rob, I'm
at like a four for Brady.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I'll say yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'll say for me too, I'll say five. I'm not
expecting anything spectacular. Yeah, Jake in Wisconsin, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What you got, Jake?
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Absolutely. So when it comes to Tom Brady, he it'll
just be quite interesting hearing you know, some call him
the goat to talk about things. Now, he's going to
be boring, maybe, but I will be chiming in. I
remember when I was younger and my brother and I
would race home back in the eighties to hear Harry
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Carey talk. Now, the game could be a blowout, but
I wanted to hear the guy talk. Now, that's not
comparable to Brady Well.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Harry Carey was a big time broadcaster, right, that's Apple
Store Orange.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And here's the other thing, just because you're a great player,
and Ben backed me up on this. Yeah, Joe Montana
did NBC Sports was not good.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh my god, he didn't even make it through the
whole year. If I remember, Yeah, Doctor j did NBA
on NBC. Not good. How about Emmitt Smith?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Remember EMMITTT. Smith did it? But he was on like
Monday Night Football, right or was it ABC? I think
he was.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I think he was doing like studio stuff. Yeah, it
was not good, not good.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Just because you're a great player doesn't automatically mean that
you're going to be a great broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But you know what that is.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It reminds me there was this long ago sportscaster which
many people have forgotten, but you know who there is,
Howard Cosell, who did a rant. He was very angry
at the end of his life, but he did this
rant about the jockocracy.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Jock ocracy. I remember that in TV.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
He he was he was way ahead of that about
what was going on and the players that were bringing
into the boots.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He was a soussayer.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He was a distant relative of No Street Damas like myself,
and friend of no strudeas because he he did predict
and and Cosell's been gone.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think he died in the eighties. I think maybe
maybe a little after that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
But but to this day, the same process happens, where
like a guy like Tom Brady, you know, I hope
he does well, but he's hired without any experience, right,
he just got the job because he's Tom Brady and
he's like a legend.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, Now, Howard Coast is one of the all time greats.
If you guys don't know anything about Howard Cosell, go
YouTube it and go listen to this guy. He probably
wouldn't be able to work today, Ben, but he was.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He wouldn't last two minutes in today's climate, not at all.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Andre and Massachusetts, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What's up, Drey, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
This isn't honor down goes.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Frazia, down, go Razia.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Speaking at a great Howard Coast. And I got to
tell you this is a this is a great moment
for me. Because not only the odd couple, but we
got Ben Maller. I'm working my way into the Mallard
militia because I'm a night out so I'm up late
at night. I did not know that Ben would be
up during these so early hours to be on this show.
But you two together, as I said, it's an honor.
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Also what the people have to know. We got the
starting center and the starting power forward for the spots
Fox Sports News, Fox Sports Basketball team. Because Ben Mallard,
he's taller than you, Rob, I've seen the pictures.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Ben Mallery taller than me. We're close. But now this
is Andre.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I call him Andrea from the Commonwealth, And Rob, did
you know that I know a little bit about Andre.
He's got a dog named Willis. But the dog does
not bark. Have you ever known a dog that does
not bark?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Rob?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Because I know right, I mean this dog, your dog,
Willis Andrea's next level ma man.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And you know what I would just say to the dog,
what you're talking about Willis?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
That is what I say. And that's where he gets
his name. Will Let's will bark at anybody walking by
the house. Only reason doesn't bark for Ben Because it's
late at night that when the neighbors are sleeping, and
we try to we try to be mindful. So it's
a great honor for me to be on this call.
And let's get to the specific point. Tom Brady's going
to be a natural. In my opinion, I'm giving him
a starting seven as a broadcaster because first of all,
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he has that high football IQ. He can see things
that other people can't see. I think that's that's what
made Tony Romo good. And the second point is those
other guys, Joe Montana, tom Brady has always had an
inkling and a desire to be in front of the camera,
to have his TV twelve method, to have all the
media that he does on his own, to do the
Netflix roast. So I think that he's inclined to the
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back and forth of live of live broadcasting. I think
he just has a natural enjoyment of it and inclination
where other guys aren't so much of that ilk and
so I think he's going to start off as a seven.
The only question in terms of his continued success, tom
Brady still wants to play football, and so him watching
football and talking about football, well, I think it's gonna
make him want to play more and think that he
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can get.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Back out there.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I think that'll be the only thing that shortens his
successful and lucrative media career. Thanks taking a call, all.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Right, appreciate it. Thank you. R Brady. Prady's forty seven
even turned forty.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
He just turned forty seven, right, you just said a
birthday's forty seven? And he looked people don't like to
talk about. He looked done at the end with Tampa Bay.
He was a shell of what he had.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Man Raymond in Ohio, you're in the odd couple Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
What's up, Raymond?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, I'll start by saying, I'll give Tom Brady a
eight point nine as a possible success. Right to start off?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Eight point nine? You're giving him an eight point nine.
You haven't even done a game yet. You give him
an eight point nine? Ch ridiculous score? You've ever got
eight point nine? How you given eight point nine? Are you?
Are you just a Russian judge? Are you call him
from Russia?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Are you related to Tom Brady?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I did you do a DNA match or selling? What
is that eight point.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
You know?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
We just have the Olympics, so you know, but yeah,
and here's why. I just watched a whole special on
Tom Brady and it was narrated partially by his former
offensive coordinator, and play after play after play, they showed
why Tom Brady was so great, and he gave an example.
He said, on the flight home from a game, by
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the end of the flight, tom Brady will have watched
six games of the next week's opponent. Tom Brady is
a preparer. That's what made him so great, and that's
what's going to make him so great as a color
man announcer.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
All Right, I said, I would disagree because Rob as
a commentary you have to react. You don't know what's
going to happen in the game, so it's not you
can be prepared and all that, but you have to
react in real time. And I love documentaries, but there's
a lot of Humdinger stories they ended up in documentary,
no no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
If far fetch things that get tossed in there.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, and there's no pushbacks. You can just throw anything
in there. What about Kim in California, You're in the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Hey, Kim.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Ken, okay man, listen to you tonight, man, I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You right now. Well, Ben will, Ben will not be
on tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I want you to know two point nine is a
lone and four point nine is a high.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Now they come with Matthew Stafford is throwing a little
ball here.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Can't called them the wrong name, Rob, It's it's stat Patford.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Right there, you go, one of the all time great names.
Come on, you gotta admit that it is good.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
That's a solid name.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I did see, Brady, though, You're not gonna like this.
He was pumping the tires on the Rams. He said
the Rams are a big threat to the chief. Okay, yeah,
he said it, he did. I'm a Rams fan, Rob,
he said that about my Rams. I'm Brady.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, we'll see that, all right, coming up to do
a little trolling, a rolling with Martin Weiss. But first
let's get you caught up with Brian Finley. Brian the hat,
the glasses. You look a little crazy over there on
the other side.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Of the glass. So how do I look crazy? Dishoveled?
How do I look? He always looked at You've mastered
the disheveled look. Dishoveled.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I thought I thought you only did that at night.
When you came into work on the show when Eddie's away.
I didn't realize you did it earlier.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
First of all, I just got back from my honeymoon,
so I have all the excuse in the world to
be disheveled.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I was in such a tranquil spot, and you're always
in goblin mode though even when you're you're not like that.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Well, I just thought it was really cool that you
had your cousin come in the studio last night.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Ben, I didn't know that. So you're making fun of
Robbie the Mariner fan. That's a schmuck move, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Robbie's a good guy, a fan of our product here.
He likes what we sell at Fox Sports Radio. And
you just trashed the guy, right because you can't find
someone Brian to come in here who likes you, so
you gotta trash the people. The guy travel all rob
This guy, Robbie the Mariner fan, he loves Fox Sports,
came in from Oregon. He came He's at the Dodger
(24:12):
Mariner game tonight. But he's a big mannor fan, obviously,
he came in there. I gave him the VIP tour.
I showed him where Rob where wrong?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Button?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Bob shut the whole network off. I showed him a
room where that took place and all that, and then
and then I post some photos and then I got
Brian Philly ripping the guy.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I mean, how Darren, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We've got to treat our listeners we would love and respect.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, you trash the people we talk about, the athletes
or whatever. That's their fair game, right, that's what that's
the comment.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The people that listen, My god, we love.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I love every single listener except Mark the full name guy.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I love him, you know, and I wonder why? Moving on? Yeah,
all right, guys, So here's what we got.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
We've got some baseball going on here, including major league
based awesome games that are notably happening. That would include
the Braves. Are they are leading the Phillies two to one.
That's in the eighth inning, Brewer is two to nothing.
In front of the Cardinals seventh inning is where they
are there. You got Rob's Mets and they are getting bamboozle.
(25:17):
To take a term that I often use and Ben
sometimes will use from me, but it's seven to two
Orioles in front of the Mets that's.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
In the eighth inning.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Yankees and Guardians, they're still all square at three in
the eighth there and Judge at home run this forty
fifth of the season, that game, in the first inning,
she dropped a piano. Yeah, that's another one of the
phrases that I created that you have used as your own.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Hurry yes.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
And then lastly, guys, two notes from the NFL one
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. In that thick Southern drawl, he
basically continuated that the team is making progress towards reaching
a long term deal with receiver Ceed Lamb. And lastly,
Pete Carroll is following something Rob Parker is doing. According
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to Carroll, who was just on a radio interview with
soft Y kJ R.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh, Softy Maller my my brother from a different mother.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Yes, yes, exactly the sports radio in Seattle. Carol said
the former Seattle Seahawks head coach that he intends to
teach at USC.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Maybe maybe they're pushing me out for Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
No, no, Rob, you and Pete can go to the
same meetings. You guys have professor meetings at SC You, guys,
that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
And the thing is is I get it back to
you guys. If Ben goes to those classes, question is
is he going to actually get into the school.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Wow, you know what I'm going. I'm gonna take a crowbar.
I'll get right in there.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, you know what, I just got a just looked
at my email, got a memo, and he'll be teaching
how to lose a Super Bowl with a bonehead called that.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That's the classes. I'm just saying, when to run and
when to pass. All right, thank you, Brian, have a
great night. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
It is the odd couple, Rob Parker and Ben Maller
in for Chris coming to you live from the tyrech
dot Com studios, and now it's time for our little
trolling or rollin' with Martin Wise.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
That's right, Rob Parker, it is time for trolling or rolling.
And Ben Maller, well, I know you've done all types
of things over your marvelous radio career. I don't believe
you've ever played trolling and rolling. So I was played
it for you real quick. If you and Rob like
the story that I read, they're in a roll sound,
and for some reason you don't, you'll troll it now.
(27:53):
To keep on theme, of the last five. I'll sorry
twenty minutes of the show. Jaydeon Daniels is going to
be the starting quarterback in Wa Washington, but Tom Brady
is not a theme of that, saying quote, I think
it's just a tragedy. We're forcing these rookies to play early.
But the reality is the only reason why they are
is we've done the game down so much it's allowed
(28:14):
them to play. Rob Parker, are you trolling or rolling
Tom Brady saying the NFL is easier than ever?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I'm I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But from the standpoint, that's what allowed Brady to play
all these years because they protect the quarterback. So it's
funny that he's saying this, Ben, but that's how he
was able to play until he was fifty five.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I'm going the other way. I'm trolling Tom Brady. Oh man,
he's doing the.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Old old man. It was harder in my day.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You know, I had a talk you did, my lord,
I take I walked ten miles to school in the snow,
and you kids, you get dropped off.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
That's what Brady's doing. Stop.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You know hey, it reminds me when I covered the
NBA early on back in the you're littld of me, Rob.
But in the nineties, guys complained about the players in
the nineties, and now as I've aged, guys now are
guys in the nineties then complained.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
The generation after them was SI.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Like every generation complains in the next generation soft It's constant.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Trolling and Rowland a couple of Fox Sports Radio. Lamar
Jackson has been the subject of derision due to his
playoff success or lack their row but Jackson said today, quote,
I don't really care what their critics says, because at
the end of the day, I had just come off
with an injury of the year before and we made
it all the way to an AFSC championship game in
a new system. Ron Parker trolling and rolling Lamar Jackson
(29:43):
ignoring what the critic type to say.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
They see me.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He'll win when he wins, and I just think that
he's a tremendous quarterback. He's one vote shot winning two
unanimous MVPs. He's a difference maker. They will win. He
will find a way to win a championship. I'm not
saying he's gonna win eight of them, but he will
win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So I'm going the other way. I'm trolling. Oh man,
I'm two for two. But here's why we already Odd
Couple to night.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Well you got I mean, you guys both know this.
If the Ravens ever win the Super Bowl, what is
Lamar gonna say?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Nobody believed in me, nobody thought we could do it.
I proved the doubters wrong. Well, how do you know
there's doubters if you don't pay attention? So stop.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Somebody told him Ben, he wasn't paying attention, right, he's listening.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
He's listening, Controller Rolling Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
We all remember the last time that Aaron Rodgers played football.
It was nearly a year ago and he only played
four naps.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But it doesn't look like he'll play again this preseason.
When he was asked about how he felt about playing
in the preseason or, as Ben Madlin was saying, the
exhibition finale, Rogers said he had quotes no preference rob
trolling or rolling Rodgers really has no preference of playing
in the preseason or excuse me, the exhibition finale.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
They see.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I mean, at this point, what is it to go
out there for four plays, you know, and God forbid
the Jets with everything that's bad luck and things that
have happened to them, he'd go out there and pull something, Ben.
So I just try to get this guy in the
first game, try to get him to stay healthy after.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The first game, and then we'll go from there. So
why even chance it.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I'm going the other way again, Mart, Listen, you know
that that's Tom Brady's public position, like I don't care
whether I play or not, But privately he didn't want
to play. He said how meaninglessness is and what a
waste of time it is, and all that he's been
on the record saying this. Of course he doesn't want
to play, but he knows if he says that Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
People are gonna rip him.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
So instead he's trying to be diplomatic and say, I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Care whether I play or not. It's not my decision.
But he doesn't want to play. Of course he doesn't
want to play. Yes, he's trolling. I'm trolling him.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Come on, Rob, Rob, I got what I got something?
I got a trash real quick, Rob, If I.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
May, yes, go ahead, What are you trashing, I.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Got a trash line. Fellow Fox Sports radio co worker
an update anchor. What Eddie Garcia is who doesn't drink water?
That's right to drink water?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yes, that's a good job. What do you mean he
never drinks water?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yo?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Man, he said last night, that's great job, Mark, I
forgot about that. Eddie said he does not believe in water.
We're made up as human beings of water. He hates himself,
he hates you know. That makes that makes notes. What
do you mean he doesn't drink water? Everything is he
doesn't like the taste of it. He said, he doesn't
there's no taste in the kitchen and ed He's like, yo,
(32:53):
I'm going Martin.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Is that not the greatest upgrade we've had here? That
water machine?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Tried the water machine. No, Like, we are living like
rock stars and I'm a big water guy. I'm all
about the water.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
What great. What I don't get is is Eddie brushes
his teeth with dye coke just so a moonshine. Are
you a guy?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
There was a guy for a German reporter NBA guy
who also didn't drink water. He said, that's because we're
the fish.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
You know, they make love.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Okay, very nice? All right, h Martin Wise, thank you
for trolling the roll and catch up Martin on Saturday
here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
What is that eight to eleven Eastern? Correct on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I never missed that, Hey Ben, I never miss Martin
and Vija.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I never listened to it, so I never miss it. Sorry.
I see Martin's notes in there sometimes when I come in,
he los, he lives by. I can check him out.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
He can he can he throw it out? I mean,
can he clean?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I don't think he could throw it out? All right, Martin?
Thank you, man, appreciate.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
It, all right, Martin?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
All right, Ben will put a bow on this bad boy.
My goodness, gracious, we're almost done. What a fun day,
fun evening working with you. But it is the odd
couple on the trash talking Tuesday, Rob Parker and Ben
Mallor here on Fox Sports Radio, Stick and stay in America.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
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Speaker 1 (34:32):
It is the odd couple wrapping up a trash Talking Tuesday,
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Speaker 3 (35:00):
Again.
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Just search odd Couple wherever you get your podcasts, and
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the air, and Ben, before we wrap this bad boy
up with the Indians and Guardians who were playing some game.
It's three three Yankees led to nothing after one, but
it's three three. Uh Yankee just had a player Grisome,
(35:23):
thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the
eighth so top of the ninth, three three is that game?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
But Ben, Y tell people about you the.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Show and yes, yes, yes, just how long how long
you been at Fox Sports? Ready from the very beginning
and on your own I want to I just want
to know.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
A little bit about Ben Maller.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I'll give you my whole Wikipedia pig. Now you don't
want to look at my weekly wikis, but I know
I have been here.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I call it rob Apedia when I'm making up stuff exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I was not here when the network started. I
was hired a.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Couple of weeks after the network starts, so kind I
consider my self one of the originals at Fox Sports Radio.
I started a couple weeks after the network started. We
weren't even in the studio. Well, we've been in three
different studios since we really we started. Yeah, we were
not in the the old studio, which we were in
the studio upstairs. Upstairs, Michael Reagan, the adopted son of
Ronald Reagan, had a show and.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
We used his studio, his old studio. Is that one
when me and you did Dan Patrick that little one?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is that what?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
That was the old Jim Rome studio. It was across
it was across the it was on that floor, but
it was across the hall.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Okay, so that was the original studio.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
They were still finishing up the studios at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
So I started.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
I did weekend overnights, I did updates on the weekends,
and then I've done every hour. I've done the radio cycle.
Rob I've been on around the clock. He had Fox
Sports Radio all hours of the day, every shift twenty
four hours.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So you've done every shift.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yeah, every shift I've done over the years, and settle in.
It's the Peter principal. You get to the highest level
of incompetence and you stay there.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
And for me, that would be.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
The overnight hours, which I love because I can do
whatever I want.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I have editorial.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Freedom and I can you know, let it rip, and
you know, we have a good loyal following of Minions
late at night. I'm actually not on tonight because I'm
doing the show with you, so I otherwise the show
would be on in like four hours and some change
would be when the show starts.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So what do you.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
So you like the night time? You like to I
do like the nighttime. And it's it's cool too because
the last hour I'm doing the overnight show. But as
you know, because people getting up early and earlier, they
have to live further and further away from work. So
on the East Coast that I got early am drive
the last hour people getting up trying to get to
work beat the traffic.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
So yeah, that's all good. What do you what will
you do tonight? One a night where you don't have
to go to bed, You're gonna go out to dinner.
Are you gonna do anything?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Yeah, well I'm gonna you know, I'm trying to eat
a little healthier, so I'll make some some chicken and
some rice, and then I'm gonna watch what an exciting
life the Dots and the Mariners. I'll probably watch a
little bit of the Giants and the White Sox. At
the end of that Red Sox, I'm gonna flip around
watch a bunch of baseball games.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
And a buddy of ours who used to work here,
David Gaskin, I was talking to earlier today.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
O my condolences.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
You know that's your man. He just says, how great
you're looking. I said, yeah, that is true, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
It never sends this to me. How come he never
sends this to me? He said? The things he sends
me are very offensive.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, No, no, he had nothing but understand, nothing but
high praise.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
He's mister Miami, that guy I know. Is he in
La those visiting?
Speaker 7 (38:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
No, no, no he yeah, we're just having a phone
because he's on my podcast inside the Parker. So that's
the only reason.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Really, Yes, I did not realize this.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
See there you go.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
He won't do my pot He quit my podcast. Well
he was on there for a while. He couldn't handle
the podcast, the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
He got out of there.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, you gotta pay.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I've had I've had you on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
I know, I love We've had you on there, breaking
it down, no doubt baseball style.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
So all right, in his final two minutes, give me
uh the a l uh Yankees have the third best
record in baseball.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Uh, Cleveland is really good as well. We know that.
Who do you LIKEE? Is this a preview of the
of the Alcs?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
This UH three game that's at the bottom of the night,
the Guardians and the Yankees? Or are we missing somebody? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
So I was.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
I think the the Orioles are the one that you're missing.
These teams are not battle tested though. That's the probably
the Yankees. This group of Yankees hasn't succeeded in the playoffs.
The Orioles have. They were an absolute failure last year.
And I don't trust the Guardians. So but you got
to pick one. And I'm gonna take the team with
the best player. That would be the Yankees because of
(39:42):
Aaron Judge. So I'll take the Yankees. But there are
flaws in all of these.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I agree, there's there's no team that's like the Yankee
bullpen or the closer Combs. I don't trust Tom.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I saw the I was, you know, the gambling market, Robin.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
They had the Dodgers, Phillies and Yankees are at the
at the top still despite all of them have had
their issues here since the All Star break in one
way or another, but they're still the favorite. But I
think a lot of that isn't that based on the
public perceptions.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, I it's the word. The money is gonna come in.
The money's gonna come in anyway, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
You know what I mean. I totally agree with that.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
But the National League, it's to me, it's got to
be the Dodgers of the Phillies. But both teams have issues,
but I would I would like to see one of them.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
I would like to see the Dodgers Yankees. That was
my original pick.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
But we shall see mister Ben Mall and my goodness,
gracious always Rob.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Everyone's call me Rob everyone, So I'll hang out, We'll
do the show. We gotta have dinner. I've always been
seeing we know that happen we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I'll scare up a date, you bring your wife, and
the four of us will go out. Let's do it,
you know for sure, normally normally I need to get
the approval of my MasterCard to get a date.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
But we'll make it. Is that okay? All right? Stick around,
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Speaker 3 (01:07):
Bet.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm sure you loved a little trash talk and we
just had all the callers there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, yeah, you know. I didn't fight back, Rob, I
could have thrown some haymakers. I stayed in my lane.
I stayed in my land. I didn't throw back.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, there's some some shots I could have taken
some of these guys, but I was polite.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I was respectful.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
No, no, no, definitely we give we give them their
time to shine. So it's for us to pull back,
uh and whatnot. But yeah, we got another hour here
and we want to hear from you too, and your
favorite guy, Tom Brady's ready to make his day butt
on Fox.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now, how's this gonna go?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Because I I look at Brady as a broadcaster, I
have mixed Well.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
He wasn't that glib as a as a he was terrible, right,
that's what's terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
They paid him, the station in Boston paid him tons
of money to come on every Monday. Well actually it
was through the Patriots. But he he went out of
his way. In fact, he's admitted it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He tried to say nothing interesting every time he.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Did an interview, and taking all that money, he took
all this money, he purposed like like Derek Jeter does
the same thing. Like he just didn't want to say anything,
and so now he's gonna be a practice. But even
as a broadcaster, he said he doesn't want to be
too critical of certain guys.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But to be good. I think we agree on this, Rob,
you gotta throw some haymakers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, you got all the players dislike Charles Barkley because
he's honest. He's not in that camp. And if you
really want to be a broadcast or analyst, you gotta
be willing. And that doesn't mean you have to go
out and just rip everybody. That's not what we're talking about.
But if somebody makes a bad player or bad situation,
you gotta be able to say that.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't I don't know what to call it. Call
a spade a spade, Right, somebody's stinks.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Don't try to sugarcoat it and tell me that something else.
Don't don't spin on my cupcake and tell me it's
frosting if it's not.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, I don't want to hear that. And so
now Brady.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Made some comments recently, Rob about these rookie quarterbacks. There's
gonna be at least two starting Caleb Williams and Jayden
Daniels are going to start to begin the year.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And he won on a ran at that fanatics fest.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
In aig oneble.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah it was a wild man.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How much money did they pay out because everybody was there.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
They got all the biggest names in sports.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, everybody's available for a price, you know that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So Brady was one of the keynote speakers at this thing,
and some comments he made still are resonating a couple
of days later, and they're still bouncing around. And he
went on this this rant about rookie quarterbacks and and
just the way the state of the NFL. But he
used the T word rob He said, it's a tragedy
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that we're forcing these rookies to play early. But the
reality is the only reason why we are is because
they've dumbed down the game. That's what that's Brady's argument,
you know. He went on, he had a lot more
to say that, but that's the gist of it is
it's a tragedy they've done dumb down the game and
that's why.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We're seeing rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And he then bragged and patted himself on the back
about how much time he spent at Michigan and then
with the Patriots developing, and it's just.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Not like that anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's a dumber version of football. So what do you
make of that? Yeah, just so Brady out there throwing
out so.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Let me let me give you my take, right and
I want to hear what you have to say, because
Brady's not completely wrong. But the main point is not
that they've done dumb down the game.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
What they've really done is they've.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
What's the way I want to describe this, the woosification
of football, because remember the hardest hits in the end
of it. They used to encourage that the defensive part
of football. So it's not that they necessarily changed the
offensive rules. It's the defensive rules which have opened up
Pandora's box of offense. Because it used to be you
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celebrated great defense.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There was a point I was younger.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You're celebrating now if somebody hits somebody and lays him out,
what happens, Rob There are people gasping.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I can't believe that. It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It's you know, violent, all that stuff. So that's changed.
But I don't think it's dumbing down the game of football.
I don't think that's I don't I think that's the
wrong way to describe it. And clearly I know more
about football than Tom Brady obviously Robin and about it doubt.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And this will be something And I'm just curious, and Ben,
I do want to pivot this from Brady just stepping
out there talking about the game. And we've heard some
comments about quarterback in the league and the changes that
they've made and whatever that allow Brady to be able
to play as long as he did because you couldn't
hit him. I mean, Joe Montana got killed when he
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was a player quarterback in the NFL. You remember that
guy got hurt all the time as quarterbacks and that's
where in the grasp came from and all those kind
of things to try to protect them because quarterbacks would
get leveled. But but what what kind of broadcaster do
you expect him to be? Like, like, do you have
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any expectations? I like, I think I think it's over blown.
I think it's overblown that people think people tune into
games just to hear announcers. You know, like, are you
happy when you tune in and somebody's really good and
give you some insight like that?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, but you don't tune in?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
What was proven when when Fox lost Joe Buck and
Troy Aikman to ESPN and it didn't matter the ratings
didn't go down.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That didn't change at all.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's the formula is pretty simple. You know this, Rob
from from your experience of the business. If Fox has
the Cowboy game that right Sunday, they have the highest ratings,
it doesn't matter. They could they could have dead air
in terms of like who's talking, and they would have
the highest ratings.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's it's just Tug the Cowboy and there's certain.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Other And it doesn't mean that we don't need guys
who are bet There are guys who are better than others,
and guys who make it interesting and guys who are
smart or glib.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I like that. I'm not saying that they enhance the experience.
They do.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And I appreciate good broadcasters on games, I really do.
I as a guy who watched a lot of Mets games,
I thought Tim McCarver was one of the best color
analysts ever.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Like I'm dead serious, Ben.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He would say stuff all the time before it happened,
but not like Tony Romo way got annoying. He would
just say, hey, this is a bad matchup. This guy
eats up right handers like this, and then the next
pitt would be hit out the park. That's what I
want to hear from the color.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You mean Macarver back in the day got ripped because
they said he was too long winded, and he you know,
he talked too much in the broadcast. I mean, so
everyone's gonna get rad and Brady's gonna get criticized a ton.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But here's the thing about what I expect from Brady.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I expect well foot hardo football conversation, but I don't
tune in for That's not what I'm there. I like
the Barkley style. I like the way Barkley does broadcasting.
I don't think Brady's gonna be anything like that because
he doesn't want to step on toes. Now, maybe I'll
be wrong, and I hope I am wrong, but I
think he's just gonna be very vanilla and there's got
not gonna be a lot of spice to it. I
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need some spice for my commentary. I need don't lie
to me. If I see a guy stinks, don't tell
me they don't stink. If everyone sees the same thing.
But he's gonna have There's so many Brady fans, so
he's gonna have them no matter what he says. You know,
the jocksniffers out there, rob that are gonna love Brady.
Whatever he says, they're gonna laugh and they're gonna suck
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it all up and say how great it is. And
then there's people that don't like him. They're gonna So
it's somewhere in the middle is where.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He's a polarizing gud. There's no doubt about it. So
it's gonna be interesting to see whether or not people
take to him. I'm expecting. I have low expectations.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I didn't even think we would get to this point.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I thought when he wouldn't do it that I didn't
think he would actually do it.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, thirty seven and a half million dollars a year
to do seventeen football games. I don't care who you are.
I don't care how much money you've made, Ben, that's
a pretty sweet that's a pretty sweet get.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Now?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
How many other things does he have to do for
that thirty seven million? Like he has to do appearances?
I would assume, right, there's other stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I'm still waiting for him to come on The Odd Couple.
I'm sure he has not come on the Odd Couple.
Why not? I know, we don't rate. I guess we're
in the Fox family. You and and Tom Brady are connected?
Would that be? Would that be some show me and Brady?
You know, you know he knows all about you, you know,
Is that right? Oh? Yeah. All these guys that say
they don't listen, they don't pay attention to the media,
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they paid.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I did a friend of mine, I'm not going to
say his name, but in the media, and he knows, uh,
Bill Belichick, and he said that this that Bill Belichick
did ask him about me. Tell me about this, Rob Parker.
I want to know, you know what I mean, because.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, Belichick is a closet did sports radio listener? Oh
people don't know. Yeah. I met there's a.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Radio guy in New York named Joe Beningo years ago. Joe, Yeah,
Joe's good guy. So you should ask him a story sometime.
He told me the story at the Old Say Stadium
that when he was starting out, he was doing like
overnights like I'm doing now, but he was starting out
doing overnights and he started he seem like ten pals
with Bill Belichick. Belichick would listen on his way to
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the Jets facility in the morning, you know, early in
the morning, right, and uh, and they became like uh
pen pals, like just you know, they would they would
communicate about different things. Yeah, I think email at the time.
And you wouldn't suspect Bill Belichick is a sports radio
listener right right now. You wouldn't think of him as
a consumer of our product. But yeah, he did.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And you never know who's listening.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So this is the curious part. I'm curious. Yeah, eight
seven seven ninety nine Old Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six sixty three sixty nine. Your expectations of Tom
Brady just just what do you expect? Uh? Insight a
little dry with what what are you expecting to get
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from Brady on these broadcasts? Because ultimately it's about the game.
But he could make a name or a career for itself,
you know what I mean, if he's able to make it.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
We've seen guys become really good. I want the entertainment fact.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know, what do you yeah, yeah, or what
do you want?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
What do you want from Brady?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I mean, like, like I've heard him on that uh
who is that Jim Gray?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Right? The podcast? Every week it's Buddy Jim Gray. Yeah,
they break it all down. Yeah, it's uh, they play
Patty Cake.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It doesn't It doesn't sound like you got any kind
of uh, you're expecting too much.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
No, not a lot of hard hitting questions on that
at the interview that he does every.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Week, and and and and and who's the best who's
the best color analyst out there today? I know for
a while people were all into Tony Romo, but he
got he got. What happened was he started calling every
play and and then it was wrong a lot, and
it just became too much right to watch.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
And Barkley's not a color commentary because he's in the studio,
but he's so far ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's like secretariat.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
He's so far ahead of everyone else that does this,
like the former players.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's hard.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't even I watch the NFL every week, and
I usually tune out. I'm at the point now, Rob,
I don't feel like me. I kind of tune out.
The broadcasters don't. I don't even usually pay attention, just
background noise. They say, elevator.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Music to me, Well, there's some I want to hear something.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
If people have something to say and can give me insight,
especially what I should be looking for. That's what I'm
That's what I'm looking for to say, somebody made a
great play. Ben, After I'm watching the app, that was
a great play. I would rather know why or before
was you know, could he be in a position to
make a play or stuff like that. That's what I'm
really looking for. But we want to hear from you.
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six sixty three sixty nine talking about Tom Brady, who
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will make his Fox Sports debut on a real game
coming up.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Not using it.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
What do you think of that? Rather, they're not trying him.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Usually they put him, they would put the A team
on one of these practices.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, No, they want they want to build up, to
try to get the biggest, you know, and not give
anybody a taste until they get there. But what are
you expectations of Tom Brady as the league color analyst
for Fox. H Do you think he'll do well? We're
just curious to see where you are on this and
how well you think he will do or will he
flop or will he be a rising star in the
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TV business. Let's do it, Ben, all right, Yeah, let's
do it.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
People need to speak here.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So on a scale of one to ten, Rob, I'm
at like a four for Brady.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I'll say yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'll say for me too, I'll say five. I'm not
expecting anything spectacular. Yeah, Jake in Wisconsin, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What you got, Jake?
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Absolutely. So when it comes to Tom Brady, he it'll
just be quite interesting hearing you know, some call him
the goat to talk about things. Now, he's going to
be boring, maybe, but I will be chiming in. I
remember when I was younger and my brother and I
would race home back in the eighties to hear Harry
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Carey talk. Now, the game could be a blowout, but
I wanted to hear the guy talk. Now, that's not
comparable to Brady Well.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Harry Carey was a big time broadcaster, right, that's Apple
Store Orange.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And here's the other thing, just because you're a great player,
and Ben backed me up on this. Yeah, Joe Montana
did NBC Sports was not good.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh my god, he didn't even make it through the
whole year. If I remember, Yeah, Doctor j did NBA
on NBC. Not good. How about Emmitt Smith?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Remember EMMITTT. Smith did it? But he was on like
Monday Night Football, right or was it ABC? I think
he was.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I think he was doing like studio stuff. Yeah, it
was not good, not good.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Just because you're a great player doesn't automatically mean that
you're going to be a great broadcaster.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But you know what that is.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It reminds me there was this long ago sportscaster which
many people have forgotten, but you know who there is,
Howard Cosell, who did a rant. He was very angry
at the end of his life, but he did this
rant about the jockocracy.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Jock ocracy. I remember that in TV.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
He he was he was way ahead of that about
what was going on and the players that were bringing
into the boots.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He was a soussayer.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
He was a distant relative of No Street Damas like myself,
and friend of no strudeas because he he did predict
and and Cosell's been gone.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think he died in the eighties. I think maybe
maybe a little after that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
But but to this day, the same process happens, where
like a guy like Tom Brady, you know, I hope
he does well, but he's hired without any experience, right,
he just got the job because he's Tom Brady and
he's like a legend.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, Now, Howard Coast is one of the all time greats.
If you guys don't know anything about Howard Cosell, go
YouTube it and go listen to this guy. He probably
wouldn't be able to work today, Ben, but he was.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He wouldn't last two minutes in today's climate, not at all.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Andre and Massachusetts, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What's up, Drey, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
This isn't honor down goes.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Frazia, down, go Razia.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Speaking at a great Howard Coast. And I got to
tell you this is a this is a great moment
for me. Because not only the odd couple, but we
got Ben Maller. I'm working my way into the Mallard
militia because I'm a night out so I'm up late
at night. I did not know that Ben would be
up during these so early hours to be on this show.
But you two together, as I said, it's an honor.
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Also what the people have to know. We got the
starting center and the starting power forward for the spots
Fox Sports News, Fox Sports Basketball team. Because Ben Mallard,
he's taller than you, Rob, I've seen the pictures.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Ben Mallery taller than me. We're close. But now this
is Andre.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I call him Andrea from the Commonwealth, And Rob, did
you know that I know a little bit about Andre.
He's got a dog named Willis. But the dog does
not bark. Have you ever known a dog that does
not bark?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Rob?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Because I know right, I mean this dog, your dog,
Willis Andrea's next level ma man.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And you know what I would just say to the dog,
what you're talking about Willis?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
That is what I say. And that's where he gets
his name. Will Let's will bark at anybody walking by
the house. Only reason doesn't bark for Ben Because it's
late at night that when the neighbors are sleeping, and
we try to we try to be mindful. So it's
a great honor for me to be on this call.
And let's get to the specific point. Tom Brady's going
to be a natural. In my opinion, I'm giving him
a starting seven as a broadcaster because first of all,
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he has that high football IQ. He can see things
that other people can't see. I think that's that's what
made Tony Romo good. And the second point is those
other guys, Joe Montana, tom Brady has always had an
inkling and a desire to be in front of the camera,
to have his TV twelve method, to have all the
media that he does on his own, to do the
Netflix roast. So I think that he's inclined to the
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back and forth of live of live broadcasting. I think
he just has a natural enjoyment of it and inclination
where other guys aren't so much of that ilk and
so I think he's going to start off as a seven.
The only question in terms of his continued success, tom
Brady still wants to play football, and so him watching
football and talking about football, well, I think it's gonna
make him want to play more and think that he
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can get.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Back out there.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
I think that'll be the only thing that shortens his
successful and lucrative media career. Thanks taking a call, all.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Right, appreciate it. Thank you. R Brady. Prady's forty seven
even turned forty.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
He just turned forty seven, right, you just said a
birthday's forty seven? And he looked people don't like to
talk about. He looked done at the end with Tampa Bay.
He was a shell of what he had.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Man Raymond in Ohio, you're in the odd couple Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
What's up, Raymond?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, I'll start by saying, I'll give Tom Brady a
eight point nine as a possible success. Right to start off?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Eight point nine? You're giving him an eight point nine.
You haven't even done a game yet. You give him
an eight point nine? Ch ridiculous score? You've ever got
eight point nine? How you given eight point nine? Are you?
Are you just a Russian judge? Are you call him
from Russia?
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Are you related to Tom Brady?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I did you do a DNA match or selling? What
is that eight point.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
You know?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
We just have the Olympics, so you know, but yeah,
and here's why. I just watched a whole special on
Tom Brady and it was narrated partially by his former
offensive coordinator, and play after play after play, they showed
why Tom Brady was so great, and he gave an example.
He said, on the flight home from a game, by
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the end of the flight, tom Brady will have watched
six games of the next week's opponent. Tom Brady is
a preparer. That's what made him so great, and that's
what's going to make him so great as a color
man announcer.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
All Right, I said, I would disagree because Rob as
a commentary you have to react. You don't know what's
going to happen in the game, so it's not you
can be prepared and all that, but you have to
react in real time. And I love documentaries, but there's
a lot of Humdinger stories they ended up in documentary,
no no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
If far fetch things that get tossed in there.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, and there's no pushbacks. You can just throw anything
in there. What about Kim in California, You're in the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Hey, Kim.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Ken, okay man, listen to you tonight, man, I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You right now. Well, Ben will, Ben will not be
on tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I want you to know two point nine is a
lone and four point nine is a high.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Now they come with Matthew Stafford is throwing a little
ball here.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Can't called them the wrong name, Rob, It's it's stat Patford.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Right there, you go, one of the all time great names.
Come on, you gotta admit that it is good.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
That's a solid name.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I did see, Brady, though, You're not gonna like this.
He was pumping the tires on the Rams. He said
the Rams are a big threat to the chief. Okay, yeah,
he said it, he did. I'm a Rams fan, Rob,
he said that about my Rams. I'm Brady.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, we'll see that, all right, coming up to do
a little trolling, a rolling with Martin Weiss. But first
let's get you caught up with Brian Finley. Brian the hat,
the glasses. You look a little crazy over there on
the other side.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Of the glass. So how do I look crazy? Dishoveled?
How do I look? He always looked at You've mastered
the disheveled look. Dishoveled.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I thought I thought you only did that at night.
When you came into work on the show when Eddie's away.
I didn't realize you did it earlier.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
First of all, I just got back from my honeymoon,
so I have all the excuse in the world to
be disheveled.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I was in such a tranquil spot, and you're always
in goblin mode though even when you're you're not like that.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Well, I just thought it was really cool that you
had your cousin come in the studio last night.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Ben, I didn't know that. So you're making fun of
Robbie the Mariner fan. That's a schmuck move, you know.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Robbie's a good guy, a fan of our product here.
He likes what we sell at Fox Sports Radio. And
you just trashed the guy, right because you can't find
someone Brian to come in here who likes you, so
you gotta trash the people. The guy travel all rob
This guy, Robbie the Mariner fan, he loves Fox Sports,
came in from Oregon. He came He's at the Dodger
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Mariner game tonight. But he's a big mannor fan, obviously,
he came in there. I gave him the VIP tour.
I showed him where Rob where wrong?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Button?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Bob shut the whole network off. I showed him a
room where that took place and all that, and then
and then I post some photos and then I got
Brian Philly ripping the guy.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I mean, how Darren, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We've got to treat our listeners we would love and respect.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, you trash the people we talk about, the athletes
or whatever. That's their fair game, right, that's what that's
the comment.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The people that listen, My god, we love.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I love every single listener except Mark the full name guy.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I love him, you know, and I wonder why? Moving on? Yeah,
all right, guys, So here's what we got.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
We've got some baseball going on here, including major league
based awesome games that are notably happening. That would include
the Braves. Are they are leading the Phillies two to one.
That's in the eighth inning, Brewer is two to nothing.
In front of the Cardinals seventh inning is where they
are there. You got Rob's Mets and they are getting bamboozle.
(25:17):
To take a term that I often use and Ben
sometimes will use from me, but it's seven to two
Orioles in front of the Mets that's.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
In the eighth inning.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Yankees and Guardians, they're still all square at three in
the eighth there and Judge at home run this forty
fifth of the season, that game, in the first inning,
she dropped a piano. Yeah, that's another one of the
phrases that I created that you have used as your own.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Hurry yes.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
And then lastly, guys, two notes from the NFL one
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. In that thick Southern drawl, he
basically continuated that the team is making progress towards reaching
a long term deal with receiver Ceed Lamb. And lastly,
Pete Carroll is following something Rob Parker is doing. According
(26:02):
to Carroll, who was just on a radio interview with
soft Y kJ R.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh, Softy Maller my my brother from a different mother.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Yes, yes, exactly the sports radio in Seattle. Carol said
the former Seattle Seahawks head coach that he intends to
teach at USC.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Maybe maybe they're pushing me out for Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
No, no, Rob, you and Pete can go to the
same meetings. You guys have professor meetings at SC You, guys,
that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
And the thing is is I get it back to
you guys. If Ben goes to those classes, question is
is he going to actually get into the school.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Wow, you know what I'm going. I'm gonna take a crowbar.
I'll get right in there.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Well, you know what, I just got a just looked
at my email, got a memo, and he'll be teaching
how to lose a Super Bowl with a bonehead called that.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That's the classes. I'm just saying, when to run and
when to pass. All right, thank you, Brian, have a
great night. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
It is the odd couple, Rob Parker and Ben Maller
in for Chris coming to you live from the tyrech
dot Com studios, and now it's time for our little
trolling or rollin' with Martin Wise.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
That's right, Rob Parker, it is time for trolling or rolling.
And Ben Maller, well, I know you've done all types
of things over your marvelous radio career. I don't believe
you've ever played trolling and rolling. So I was played
it for you real quick. If you and Rob like
the story that I read, they're in a roll sound,
and for some reason you don't, you'll troll it now.
(27:53):
To keep on theme, of the last five. I'll sorry
twenty minutes of the show. Jaydeon Daniels is going to
be the starting quarterback in Wa Washington, but Tom Brady
is not a theme of that, saying quote, I think
it's just a tragedy. We're forcing these rookies to play early.
But the reality is the only reason why they are
is we've done the game down so much it's allowed
(28:14):
them to play. Rob Parker, are you trolling or rolling
Tom Brady saying the NFL is easier than ever?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
I'm I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But from the standpoint, that's what allowed Brady to play
all these years because they protect the quarterback. So it's
funny that he's saying this, Ben, but that's how he
was able to play until he was fifty five.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
I'm going the other way. I'm trolling Tom Brady. Oh man,
he's doing the.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Old old man. It was harder in my day.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
You know, I had a talk you did, my lord,
I take I walked ten miles to school in the snow,
and you kids, you get dropped off.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
That's what Brady's doing. Stop.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You know hey, it reminds me when I covered the
NBA early on back in the you're littld of me, Rob.
But in the nineties, guys complained about the players in
the nineties, and now as I've aged, guys now are
guys in the nineties then complained.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
The generation after them was SI.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Like every generation complains in the next generation soft It's constant.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Trolling and Rowland a couple of Fox Sports Radio. Lamar
Jackson has been the subject of derision due to his
playoff success or lack their row but Jackson said today, quote,
I don't really care what their critics says, because at
the end of the day, I had just come off
with an injury of the year before and we made
it all the way to an AFSC championship game in
a new system. Ron Parker trolling and rolling Lamar Jackson
(29:43):
ignoring what the critic type to say.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
They see me.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He'll win when he wins, and I just think that
he's a tremendous quarterback. He's one vote shot winning two
unanimous MVPs. He's a difference maker. They will win. He
will find a way to win a championship. I'm not
saying he's gonna win eight of them, but he will
win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So I'm going the other way. I'm trolling. Oh man,
I'm two for two. But here's why we already Odd
Couple to night.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Well you got I mean, you guys both know this.
If the Ravens ever win the Super Bowl, what is
Lamar gonna say?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Nobody believed in me, nobody thought we could do it.
I proved the doubters wrong. Well, how do you know
there's doubters if you don't pay attention? So stop.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Somebody told him Ben, he wasn't paying attention, right, he's listening.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
He's listening, Controller Rolling Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
We all remember the last time that Aaron Rodgers played football.
It was nearly a year ago and he only played
four naps.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
But it doesn't look like he'll play again this preseason.
When he was asked about how he felt about playing
in the preseason or, as Ben Madlin was saying, the
exhibition finale, Rogers said he had quotes no preference rob
trolling or rolling Rodgers really has no preference of playing
in the preseason or excuse me, the exhibition finale.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm rolling with it.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
They see.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I mean, at this point, what is it to go
out there for four plays, you know, and God forbid
the Jets with everything that's bad luck and things that
have happened to them, he'd go out there and pull something, Ben.
So I just try to get this guy in the
first game, try to get him to stay healthy after.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The first game, and then we'll go from there. So
why even chance it.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I'm going the other way again, Mart, Listen, you know
that that's Tom Brady's public position, like I don't care
whether I play or not, But privately he didn't want
to play. He said how meaninglessness is and what a
waste of time it is, and all that he's been
on the record saying this. Of course he doesn't want
to play, but he knows if he says that Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
People are gonna rip him.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
So instead he's trying to be diplomatic and say, I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Care whether I play or not. It's not my decision.
But he doesn't want to play. Of course he doesn't
want to play. Yes, he's trolling. I'm trolling him.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Come on, Rob, Rob, I got what I got something?
I got a trash real quick, Rob, If I.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
May, yes, go ahead, What are you trashing, I.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Got a trash line. Fellow Fox Sports radio co worker
an update anchor. What Eddie Garcia is who doesn't drink water?
That's right to drink water?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yes, that's a good job. What do you mean he
never drinks water?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yo?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Man, he said last night, that's great job, Mark, I
forgot about that. Eddie said he does not believe in water.
We're made up as human beings of water. He hates himself,
he hates you know. That makes that makes notes. What
do you mean he doesn't drink water? Everything is he
doesn't like the taste of it. He said, he doesn't
there's no taste in the kitchen and ed He's like, yo,
(32:53):
I'm going Martin.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Is that not the greatest upgrade we've had here? That
water machine?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Tried the water machine. No, Like, we are living like
rock stars and I'm a big water guy. I'm all
about the water.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
What great. What I don't get is is Eddie brushes
his teeth with dye coke just so a moonshine. Are
you a guy?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
There was a guy for a German reporter NBA guy
who also didn't drink water. He said, that's because we're
the fish.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
You know, they make love.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Okay, very nice? All right, h Martin Wise, thank you
for trolling the roll and catch up Martin on Saturday
here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
What is that eight to eleven Eastern? Correct on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I never missed that, Hey Ben, I never miss Martin
and Vija.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I never listened to it, so I never miss it. Sorry.
I see Martin's notes in there sometimes when I come in,
he los, he lives by. I can check him out.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
He can he can he throw it out? I mean,
can he clean?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I don't think he could throw it out? All right, Martin?
Thank you, man, appreciate.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
It, all right, Martin?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
All right, Ben will put a bow on this bad boy.
My goodness, gracious, we're almost done. What a fun day,
fun evening working with you. But it is the odd
couple on the trash talking Tuesday, Rob Parker and Ben
Mallor here on Fox Sports Radio, Stick and stay in America.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 1 (34:32):
It is the odd couple wrapping up a trash Talking Tuesday,
Rob Parker and the radio legend himself, Ben Malor filling
in for Chris Broussard. Shortly after the show, our podcast
will be going up, and if you missed any of
today's show, be sure to check out the podcast. Just
(34:52):
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sure to also follow, rate and review the podcast.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Again.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Just search odd Couple wherever you get your podcasts, and
you'll see today's show posted right after we get off
the air, and Ben, before we wrap this bad boy
up with the Indians and Guardians who were playing some game.
It's three three Yankees led to nothing after one, but
it's three three. Uh Yankee just had a player Grisome,
(35:23):
thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the
eighth so top of the ninth, three three is that game?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
But Ben, Y tell people about you the.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Show and yes, yes, yes, just how long how long
you been at Fox Sports? Ready from the very beginning
and on your own I want to I just want
to know.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
A little bit about Ben Maller.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I'll give you my whole Wikipedia pig. Now you don't
want to look at my weekly wikis, but I know
I have been here.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I call it rob Apedia when I'm making up stuff exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So I was not here when the network started. I
was hired a.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Couple of weeks after the network starts, so kind I
consider my self one of the originals at Fox Sports Radio.
I started a couple weeks after the network started. We
weren't even in the studio. Well, we've been in three
different studios since we really we started. Yeah, we were
not in the the old studio, which we were in
the studio upstairs. Upstairs, Michael Reagan, the adopted son of
Ronald Reagan, had a show and.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
We used his studio, his old studio. Is that one
when me and you did Dan Patrick that little one?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is that what?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
That was the old Jim Rome studio. It was across
it was across the it was on that floor, but
it was across the hall.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Okay, so that was the original studio.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
They were still finishing up the studios at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
So I started.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
I did weekend overnights, I did updates on the weekends,
and then I've done every hour. I've done the radio cycle.
Rob I've been on around the clock. He had Fox
Sports Radio all hours of the day, every shift twenty
four hours.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So you've done every shift.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yeah, every shift I've done over the years, and settle in.
It's the Peter principal. You get to the highest level
of incompetence and you stay there.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
And for me, that would be.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
The overnight hours, which I love because I can do
whatever I want.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I have editorial.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Freedom and I can you know, let it rip, and
you know, we have a good loyal following of Minions
late at night. I'm actually not on tonight because I'm
doing the show with you, so I otherwise the show
would be on in like four hours and some change
would be when the show starts.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So what do you.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
So you like the night time? You like to I
do like the nighttime. And it's it's cool too because
the last hour I'm doing the overnight show. But as
you know, because people getting up early and earlier, they
have to live further and further away from work. So
on the East Coast that I got early am drive
the last hour people getting up trying to get to
work beat the traffic.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
So yeah, that's all good. What do you what will
you do tonight? One a night where you don't have
to go to bed, You're gonna go out to dinner.
Are you gonna do anything?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Yeah, well I'm gonna you know, I'm trying to eat
a little healthier, so I'll make some some chicken and
some rice, and then I'm gonna watch what an exciting
life the Dots and the Mariners. I'll probably watch a
little bit of the Giants and the White Sox. At
the end of that Red Sox, I'm gonna flip around
watch a bunch of baseball games.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
And a buddy of ours who used to work here,
David Gaskin, I was talking to earlier today.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
O my condolences.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
You know that's your man. He just says, how great
you're looking. I said, yeah, that is true, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
It never sends this to me. How come he never
sends this to me? He said? The things he sends
me are very offensive.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, No, no, he had nothing but understand, nothing but
high praise.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
He's mister Miami, that guy I know. Is he in
La those visiting?
Speaker 7 (38:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
No, no, no he yeah, we're just having a phone
because he's on my podcast inside the Parker. So that's
the only reason.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Really, Yes, I did not realize this.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
See there you go.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
He won't do my pot He quit my podcast. Well
he was on there for a while. He couldn't handle
the podcast, the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
He got out of there.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, you gotta pay.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I've had I've had you on the podcast.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
I know, I love We've had you on there, breaking
it down, no doubt baseball style.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
So all right, in his final two minutes, give me
uh the a l uh Yankees have the third best
record in baseball.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Uh, Cleveland is really good as well. We know that.
Who do you LIKEE? Is this a preview of the
of the Alcs?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
This UH three game that's at the bottom of the night,
the Guardians and the Yankees? Or are we missing somebody? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
So I was.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
I think the the Orioles are the one that you're missing.
These teams are not battle tested though. That's the probably
the Yankees. This group of Yankees hasn't succeeded in the playoffs.
The Orioles have. They were an absolute failure last year.
And I don't trust the Guardians. So but you got
to pick one. And I'm gonna take the team with
the best player. That would be the Yankees because of
(39:42):
Aaron Judge. So I'll take the Yankees. But there are
flaws in all of these.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I agree, there's there's no team that's like the Yankee
bullpen or the closer Combs. I don't trust Tom.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I saw the I was, you know, the gambling market, Robin.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
They had the Dodgers, Phillies and Yankees are at the
at the top still despite all of them have had
their issues here since the All Star break in one
way or another, but they're still the favorite. But I
think a lot of that isn't that based on the
public perceptions.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, I it's the word. The money is gonna come in.
The money's gonna come in anyway, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
You know what I mean. I totally agree with that.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
But the National League, it's to me, it's got to
be the Dodgers of the Phillies. But both teams have issues,
but I would I would like to see one of them.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
I would like to see the Dodgers Yankees. That was
my original pick.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
But we shall see mister Ben Mall and my goodness,
gracious always Rob.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Everyone's call me Rob everyone, So I'll hang out, We'll
do the show. We gotta have dinner. I've always been
seeing we know that happen we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I'll scare up a date, you bring your wife, and
the four of us will go out. Let's do it,
you know for sure, normally normally I need to get
the approval of my MasterCard to get a date.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
But we'll make it. Is that okay? All right? Stick around,
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