August 20, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 2 of The Odd Couple, Rob Parker and Ben Maller (in for Chris Broussard) discuss whether the Steelers, with their current situation at QB, are screwed either way for this coming season... Ben sure thinks so. USA Today NFL reporter Tyler Dragon joins the show to weigh in with his own thoughts, as well as hit on some of the other big stories from around the NFL. Finally, the guys close out the hour with a new edition of 'Trash Talkin Tuesday'!
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But let's talk more football, and let's go here Ben Malor.
The Steelers. They they haven't. Their quarterback situation has been abysmal.
It's just awful, like kind of like the Jets the
last few years. Just nobody who can deliver the football
or score on the offense or make things happen.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So they go out.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Not only do they get Russell Wilson for uh three
dollars in a bag of balls, but they also pick
up Justin Fields and they get him for nothing like
a six round pick. Like nobody wanted this young top pick,
you know, quarterback who played in Chicago, and nobody wanted
him either, So they got two quarterbacks. I think that
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without question, you got you gotta go with Russell Wilson.
You go with the thirty five year old, You go
with the guy who went to the Super Bowl twice.
You go with the guy who had a decent season
last year in Denver. I know Sean Payton hated him
from day one and tried to sabotage everything and just
didn't want him there, which is fine, But there are
people think that Justin Field should be the quarterback, young
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guy and all this. I just think of your Mike
Timelin and I know he got a new contract extension.
But if you're the Steelers and you got a defense
and you got a lot of other pieces parts, but
you're missing the quarterback, I would go with the proven
veteran to start. Once Russell Wilson proves to me that
he's no longer starting quarterback or he's not that good anymore,
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then you can move on. But you don't go the
other way when you put the kid in first and
then have the kid falter and then try to go
back to the veteran. I just think this is obvious.
Russell Wilson. First, let him play and let's see what
he can do, and if not, then you could talk
about maybe the season is lost, maybe you realize that
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things aren't gonna happen, and you put the kid in.
But I you Ben don't like to be the choice.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Well, I don't because and what I've seen. You can't
judge too much on these practice games because it's it's
pretty painful watching these exhibition football games. But that said,
listening and parsing the words of Mike Tomlin, it sounds
like he knows he is stuck between the devil and
the deep blue sea here.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Either direction that he goes.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
And I would argue Rob that Russell Wilson's been done
for three years, that he just hasn't gotten the memo
he had a decent.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
He didn't. Actually, if he.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Had a decent, if he showed anything, you think Sean
Payton would have gotten rid of him.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I think the numbers were didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But he didn't like him before he got there.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
But go back, but those were empty stats that Russell
Wilson had last year in Denver. He put up empty
numbers for the Broncos last year, and they they dumbed
down the office or whatever. Yeah, Mike Tomlan could do
that in Pittsburgh for Russell Wilson and and you look
at the numbers on your tablet and they're like, well,
Russell's not that bad. But even at the end of Seattle,
uh that the Seahawks were not devastated to get rid
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of him because he was showing signs of falling off
the table. And I look at Justin Fields. Every year,
Justin Field, since he's gotten to the NFL, has all
the razzle dazzle.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He wins the highlights on social media.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
There's people campaigning him for him to be the starting quarterback.
And he's got this panache. He won the MVP from
the TV people in the off season before the twenty
twenty three season, but then when he actually has to play,
it's a hot mess. So it's like it's like the
side if you're Mike Tomlin. On one side you have
manure and on the other side you got fertilizers.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So it doesn't matter which you're gonna go at this
particular point.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Now, what they should have done, because I have the answer,
I activated them out of thinking.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I figured you must have the answer because they screwed
this up.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
They screwed this up.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
What they should have done is added Jameis Winston in
the offseason, who was available, but they're not gonna get him.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Now he's in Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
He's the backup, which means he'll probably play because of
Sean Watson will get hurt.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
But that's the guy I would have gone after.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
And instead they got Russell Wilson, who's on his last legs,
and Justin Fields, who's good for three or four highlight
plays a game.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And that's about it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The only problem is you gotta pick between these two.
That's what they have, I know. And so you you
think they have no shot with either one of these guys.
I think I think that when you consider that somehow
every year they have a record over five hundred with
really no quarterbacking, Like that's the part that's that's amazing,
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with like zero quarterbacking. It's like the Jets they went
they won seven games with no quarterback. I mean, if
Aaron Rodgers don't worth three wins or four games, I
don't know what who is because they haven't had anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And the same thing with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I just think Russell Wilson did enough last year for
me to give him an opportunity to see him play,
and and and if it's I know he's thirty five.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I didn't see what you saw. I know, I know
the numbers were all right, What do you mean? But
the numbers were fine? Like, I don't understand what numbers
do you have an issue with?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You can't. You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
If a guy, if a guy plays well, you got
to give him some credit.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, I didn't think he played well.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
But watching the Broncos like, well, I didn't see every
game last year when I watched him, Did.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sean Payne do a good job coaching last year? To
Broncos when they give up the seventy piece, did they get.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, they quit on him that game. Then in Miami.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
You don't give up seventy if the team's trying seventy
piece on a seventy burger.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, and and all that, but no, I mean.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
They they ran a rudimentary offense rob in Denver last year. Yeah,
the Steelers could do that and then the numbers will
look okay. But the Broncos offense was not It was
not good. It was not an effective offense. It was
a putrid palosa.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Was what it was for the Broncos last year. On
offense so well individually.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
If you look at the numbers, say well, Russ wasn't
that bad when you actually watch on a game by
a game.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Basis and not that good, not impressed. That's it.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
This is if you want to be a legit contider. Yeah,
can the Steelers win eight or nine games again? Be
right around mediocres.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Never they won eight or nine game with no quarterback.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
They have a defense, they have an elite every year.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
So you're saying that you're not gonna get anything. What
I'm saying is gonna be the same as they have been.
It's not gonna be any better with Russell Wilson. It
should have kept Kenny picktso stinks.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Thickets terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, I disagree.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I just think the Sean Payton thing with Russell Wilson,
he didn't want him there and and it was just
a bad whole vibe or even before going in on that,
and that's that's fine. I just think if I'm the Steelers,
I gotta go with the veteran. You went out, you
got him, Let this guy play. I'm not gonna sit
here and talk about some preseason game and what they
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look like.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You know, they couldn't move the four they moved, you know,
move the football or whatever it was. They couldn't get
the offense going that that. The preseason doesn't do that
for me. I once watched the Lions go four to
o and destroy their opponents in all four games. And
guess what happened that year?
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Do you remember, well Horse they went on sixties? Yeah,
that was the year.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Was that was the Who was the quarterback that year
for the Lions? Was that was? Who was Dan Olofski?
Was he part of that?
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
He might have been a part of that. Yeah, that's
when he went out of the end zone. You remember
that famous play?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Yet But I'm a I'm a Mike Tomlin fan. I
love Tom and he's great for what we do. Rob
you know, all the quotes, the fat and sassy and
all that and whatever. You know, he's got a million
different sound bites which are great, and he'll he'll coach
up whoever's there. But don't tell me that Russell Wilson's good.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
All right, He's not.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
He's better than what they've had, and I don't think
he is.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I think he's more of the same.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Really, the sequel is the equal to what they've had.
And you know the Broncos last year, Russell Wilson, he
said he had a good season. They the Broncos office
was twenty six in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Look at his numbers, though, I know, but that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's like, that's can you instead of instead of giving
me that, give me his numbers last year?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He didn't turn the ball over a lot. He played fine,
Was he great? Was he all pro?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
They played safe. You you have to play both.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You have to.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
You can't just play conservative all the time. You know that, Rob,
You've done columns about that over the years.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You've got to You've got to be an attack mode.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
And the numbers individually look okay, But the offense, you
know what, it reminds me of Daniel Jones. The Giants
a couple of years ago made the playoffs. They actually
won a playoff game against the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They did.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Remember that, People said, look at Daniel Jones, he's arrived.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
The Giants gave him some more money, they paid him.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
And yet that season, the Giants passing offense was like
twenty fifth in the NFL. But yet if you looked
at Daniel Jones numbers. It was fine and it was
very similar. It was like a carbon copy. What the
Broncos did with Russell Wilson last year with Sean Payton
was similar to what Daniel Jones did the year prior
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with the Giants, where you looked at the numbers are like, well,
that's not bad, but that you watch in the context
of the game and it stinks.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's my point. That's what I'm saying. I hear you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I mean, You're not alone. There are people who just
don't think that it was good. But if I have
the two quarterbacks, I'm gonna go with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
All right.
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Speaker 9 (13:13):
Hey, how's it going. How are you two doing?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We're doing great, doing great, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We're arguing about the Steelers and their quarterback situation. Ben
says that no matter what, no matter what.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Happened, Tom was in the bats. Yeah, either way, there's
no good direction to go. The weather's bad both directions.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yes, And I'm saying you should start with Russell Wilson
and see what he has left and how he plays,
and then you go to the younger quarterback and justin fields.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Where are you on this situation?
Speaker 9 (13:46):
So I agree with you, Rob. I do think you
start Russell Wilson to begin this season because of his
veteran leadership and justice presence, and when you look at
the Steelers schedule, they have kind of a salt opening
start of the season. They play the Falcons in Atlanta,
and then they played Wilson's former team in the Denver
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Broncos in Denver before going to Los Angeles playing the Chargers,
and see how he does out the gate against those teams,
and then you know kind of reevaluate now later in
the season, if Russell Wilson is not performing well, I
do think you switch over to justin Fields because their
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schedule gets daunting later on in the season. They have
a stretch in December, well they play every team in
the AFC North in Air Division and then they play
the Eagles and the Chiefs. So that's the daunting schedule
to end the season. So you want to try to
start fast if you're the Steelers, especially a coach like
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Mike Tomlin was seventeen straight seasons above five hundred. So
I do believe you start Russell Wilson and to begin
the season, see where you're at by maybe October November,
and then kind of re evaluate from there.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Well, we disagree on Russ, but what you mentioned the Falcons,
the Steelers play the Falcons. Tyler early in the year,
and the two teams that are getting the most love,
maybe I'm wrong on this are the Texans and the
Falcons for moves they made in the offseason. They got
a lot of flowers for making roster moves, improving the
teams defon Diggs going to the Texans. The Falcons got
Kirk Cousins and some other guys there. Who is more
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likely to break hearts though? Between these two teams, Tyler,
is it the Texans or is it the Falcons?
Speaker 9 (15:37):
I believe it's the Falcons because we don't know what
kind of player Kirk Cousin is going to be coming
off of injury. He has Michael Pennick Junior looking over
his shoulder. What how is he going to do under pressure?
He's in an entirely new system and new regime. So
there's a lot of newness going on in Atlanta right now.
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Now paper, it looks good. They've been active in the offseason,
addressing their defense, filling some holes on offense. But you
have a team like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They went
to the postseason, won the division last year. The Saints
should be a little bit better. You would hope the
Carolina Panthers are going to be better. I mean, you
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can't help, but they can't.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Get worse, right, they can't be worse.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
And for the AFC South, the Houston Texans means they're
going in there. You know, their second year with Tamiko
Ryan and CJ. Streu has another year under his belt.
And not only did they ask Stefan Diggs but Joe
Mixon in the backfield to be a quarterback best friend.
So I really do like the Houston Texans and I
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would not be surprised if they win the division again
and they're in maybe the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
When it's all said back our Gusta Tyler Dragon from
USA today, I think people have jumped the gun on
the Texans. I don't know how you don't like the
Baltimore Ray. I don't know how you pooh pooh Joe Burrow.
I really do an AFC And I'm not saying that
the CJ. Strow had a fantastic rookie year and the
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rookie coach and all the other things that all went together.
But I'm I don't see it as far as them
getting to the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Well, can Joe Burrow finish the season healthy?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, I mean that is there's no doubt about it.
That's something there.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But that's my next question to you is is the
Joe Burrow factor and how that factors in? I mean,
every time he's healthy and he plays in Cincinnati, they
seem to do great stuff.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Yeah, so I have the Bengals finishing second in the AFC,
nor I do believe top to bottom the Ravens are
the better team. You could make an argument that Lamar
Jackson as a better quarterback than Joe Burrow. And then
they also added Derrick Henry in the back.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Yeah, their running game might be the best in all
of football next year. And then you add the defensive
component of Baltimore play the rugged style, physical brand of defense.
So they're going to give teams a lot of problems. Now,
if I had to make a guess, I would say
the Ravens and the Chiefs are the cream of the
crops in the AFC. But then the Houston Texans are
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right there at number three. But Joe Burrow. The biggest
question for me is the talent is there? The tangibles
are there, The leadership is there, but just can he
stay healthy and then in the field, because the Bengals
offensive line that's been there Achilles heel since Joe Burrow
got there. That's pretty much why he's been injured in
the last few years. Now, if he can stay healthy,
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I do like their chances, especially being a playoff team,
but I do not think they're better than the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
All right, Tyler.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
The other day, the Washington the Commanders, that's their name.
They what with Jaden Daniels is the court, which is
kind of obvious you would go with Jayden Daniels because
of where he was drafted.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
A lot of high praise.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I've been reading glowing reviews from people that cover the
Commanders about Jaden Daniels as a prodigy, and all these
amazing things are being said about him. How what are
the realistic expectations for him, Tyler this year in DC?
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Well, yeah, you know, that's a good question. When Jaden
Daniels was coming out, I really liked his ability to
be able to process the fields, his ability to read
defenses throwing receivers open. Now is that going to translate
the NFL? You would hope though, But the game of
the NFL is much faster than college.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Now.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
I do believe he's going to have some success. He's
going to have to learn how to slide. He can't
take those hits in the NFL because he has a
smaller type frame. But that division is really tough. I
do think the Commanders they could compete with the New
York Giants, but the Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles, they're
just head and shoulders above the Commanders and the Giants
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and that division. So are they a playoff team?
Speaker 10 (19:59):
No?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Maybe in the next few years. Yes, if Jadon Daniels
could stay healthy and they can continue to build around him,
fortify that offensive line, and bolster that defense. So they
do have what I believe is a franchise quarterback in
the Nation capital. That's the good news. The bad news
is there's still probably a few seasons away from contention.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Last thing, I know, everybody thinks every quarterback drafted in
the first round that everybody's great, everyone's going to the
Hall of Fame, everybody's the.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Next best thing.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
A lot of quarterbacks flop, I mean everybody, you know
what I mean, Like a lot flop and don't wind up.
Sam Darnold's on his nineteenth team. Everybody told me he
was going to be the Cats. Me out. I'm just saying,
this whole new crop, everybody can't be great. If you
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had to pick somebody where it's not going to work out,
I know I'm putting you on the spot where it's
not going to be.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Who would you pick out of these new crop for quarterbacks?
Speaker 9 (20:59):
I can give you too. And JJ McCarthy with Drake
May he kind of reminds me of Sam Darnold at
USC got the big arm, got some mobility, but there's
some accuracy issues, There's some issues with his mechanics and
who is he going to be throwing the ball in
New England? And that's it. He wins the starting job
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over Jacobe Burssett, or when he wins the starting they
had their receiving corpses probably is the worst in the NFL.
And then we all know JJ McCarthy is out this
year with a knee injury. We hope he gets better
and then was able to play next year. But at
Michigan he was helped by the best offensive line and
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all of football, a solid running game and under Jim
Harball's system, especially at Michigan quarterbacks didn't have to do
too much, especially behind that offensive line and krem At
running backs. So in the NFL, he's going to have
to be asked to win games with his arms, win games,
read defenses. And can he do that with the Minnesota
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Vikings team that's a void of a lot of talent
outside of Justin Jefferson. I don't think he can do it,
but we'll see. The good thing about him is he's
not going to be rushed on the field because he
has a year to look and watch and hold a
clip for while he rehab this v injury.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No doubt. His name is Tyler Dragon. Check him out
in the USA today. One of the best in the business.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Tyler. We appreciate you, my man.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Of course, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Have a good night, all right.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
And that's a great name too, Rob Tyler Dragon. Oh yes,
I like the name Radio. Is that his writing name.
That's a great name.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's a real name.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
People used to ask me if Rob Parker was a
real name as a reporter.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I was like, what do you just sounds like a reporter.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
No, yeah, it sounds like like a newspaperman, like Grizzled
the news, which you are, Rob right.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I am, you see, I'm grizzled.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Come did you become that because of the name or
were you going to be that anyway?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Knows?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I think yeah, I think I was going to become
that anyway.
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coming up, So I want you guys to chime in.
Get ready, uh eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Line up for that. We'll also take a couple of
calls I think on this steal a quarterback thing. But
first we're gonna get you caught up with mister Brian Finley.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Let's do that.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Yeah, Ben and roll, we're talking major league baseball here.
I know that you guys are big baseball guys. The
diamond back.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
We love baseball, Ben, don't we know.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I was looking for some baseball stuff today, I know,
talk radio friendly baseball stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
No, not today, Yeah, yeah, yeah, not so much.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
But we do have baseball games, so I guess you
guys can you know, talk about some of those if
you'd like, And.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We only do that in the playoffs.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
We only do that the playoffs, which is usually when
the Dodgers use.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, Padre fan, you've never won anything.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
I know, but this could be the year Rob. I
think Rob might agree. This could be the Padres. I mean,
at least they're showing I got a good.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Team right now, great bullpen. I like them.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Rob likes the Mets.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
This somebody has to like the Marlins. You would feel
sorry for them. But they're trailing right now three to
one against the Diamondbacks. That is in the seventh inning.
Also in the seventh the Nationals are taking it or
they're getting it taken two of them, excuse me by
the Rockies three to one. Seven hits for the Rockies
only three fourth and Nats and what Rod build? That
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could be the preview of the Alcs. The Yankees Guardians matchup,
and right now it's three at piece. And of the
fourth inning there were two whole runs for the Yanks,
in the first, one being Aaron Judge. That was his
forty fifth of the year. The Blue Jays are taking
a fly swatter to the Reds. It's ten to one,
bottom of the fifth, thirteen hits, four to run.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Is that a game of note?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I would say so, because why I'd love to know,
because you never know one of those two teams might
rattle off a big run, just like the Astros are
doing right now.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
They both have a chance to win next year. I think, well,
actually they're in different once in Arizona, once in four.
I was gonna say the grape Brue League, but one
could win the Cactus League next year.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
So yeah, for sure, Yeah for sure. And speaking of
three to three, And speaking of the Astros, that's the
score there, Stros and Red Sox. That definitely is a
game of note. End of one inning, and yeah, all
square at three. Coming up later on, we got the
Padres hosting the Twins at nine to forty Eastern time,
and it's the Dodgers at ten ten Eastern taking on
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the Mariners. Lastly, guys in Major League Baseball, we mentioned
some of those notes. But in the NFL, Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones and that thick Texan accent, after giving his
glasses over to his son Stephen, said that his team
is making progress towards reaching a long term deal with
wide receiver Cede Lamb. Nothing has been solidified as if yet,
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but what they're looking at is something in the range
of making him the second highest wide receiver, the second
highest paid wide receiver in the NFL. Right beneath Justin
Jefferson QB or wide receiver one, excuse me for the vikings.
And then lastly, world number one men's tennis superstar Yonick
Sinner from Italy is not going to get suspended after
two positive steroid test results.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
You ask?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Well, according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency, the illegal
substance that Sinner was taking, he was unknowingly taking this
because his physio as physiotherapist was lathering him up with
it while giving him massage.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Are you sure was a lather or just a rub
not a lather or was it clear?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I'm just saying yeah, and again you never know the
clear right. My favorite was remember the track and field
person that said they ate a burrito from a food
truck in Oregon. That's why they feel that was it?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah? Usually I'll give you gas, not the positive steroid test.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
It's gotta be like me, eat more garlic. That's what
I do, is just eat the garlic. That's my performance
answering drug rob garlic.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Garlic, gollic, golleg real good.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right, thanks, Brian, appreciate you. All right? Eighty seven
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If you want to jump in on the trash talking Tuesday,
We're gonna do an expanded edition for Ben Mallor of
all of his militia. People might start calling in. You
could trash anyone anything in the world of sports.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know how his works. We can't interrupt them. We
don't comment. We just let them go. If they want
to rip you, they want to rip me, they want
to rip.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
The Donas, bring it on. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm here. We'll do all that.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But first, before we get there, I do want to
talk to Marty about the Steelers and the and the
quarterback situation. Marty, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. He is the biggest Pittsburgh Steeler fan. Who
do you want to be the quarterback?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Marty?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're curious, will no hesitation, Russell will say, and we
didn't hear you.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
No hesitation, no hesitation on that answer. It's Russe a whist.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
He'll He'll bring new meanings to that terrible towel.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm I'm with you, Marty, I mean, you gotta go
with him. This is a team Like the last few years,
a quarterback play has been horrendous.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
There's my take, Fellas I was a big Russell Wilson fan. Actually,
some of my close friends knew that. I was super
excited when he ended up a stealer. Do you guys
know what his injury was in Seattle before he was
traded to Denver. It was a mallet finger injury to
his middle finger on his throwing hand. He had two
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pins put in that finger. Now, that's usually an offensive
lineman injury, and any offensive lineman has had that surgery
will tell you when you get that Ben put in
your finger, your numb from that point up. Wow. His
first season in Denver, he was adjusting to his the
last finger that touches the ball when you spin it
off your hand, being numb from that first pin up.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
And he did not throw the ball well.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
But the next season he threw the ball much better. Now,
you were going to put him in a situation he's
been in before. He can rely on his defense, he
can manage the game, and when he needs to make
a big play, they'll ask you to make a big play.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
This is a situation.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
He knows, and you got a young guy with talent
that can sit back and watch and learn. I love
playing Russell and letting that young man sit back and
watch and learn. I think Russell's not done. I think
he's a fighter. I don't like it that so many
people think that his issues with Peyton and Denver are
all on him. Peyton is a man that won one
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super Bowl in the year he did it, he ended
up suspended.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Thank you. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I think that Sean Payton gets a big They say
Mike McCarthy's a buffoon, but he has this identical record
of Sean Payton, one championship with a Hall of Fame quarterback,
And the only difference is that is that Sean Payne
at three straight losing seasons with a Hall of Fame quarterback,
which I which is shocking, but anyway it is.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
I mean, it's fun with Marty there. I know he's
trying to talk that into reality. He's trying to He's
like it sounded to me like a guy who's trying
to convince himself with positive affirmations. And it's like, well
it's now. He wasn't again. Russ was not great the
last year and a half or two years in Seattle.
They say he was hurt. Fine, he wasn't good in
Denver and so and you got the whole other thing.
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We haven't even talked about, the Komodo Dragon, the room Rob,
where he's kind of a polarizing guy, right, I mean
the Bronx. One of my favorite nights doing radio was
when the Broncos we found out they had a trans
continental flight across to England and to play a game
over there.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I think it was in England and he was.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Like high stepping down the aisle on the plane and
there were people documenting like what it was.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
It was hilarious. And that's like.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Small on the on the Russell Big Board of things
that he's he's had, Like he's become a polarizing guy.
He's a polarizing guy.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
There's no doubt about that. I agree with that, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
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Speaker 3 (32:23):
Don't you ever talk about me? It's trash Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
See Raggy, I don't know whether to smile.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Let's see a kick a field go man?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right, Ben, here we go.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Let's start off with Thomas in Iowa. You're on the
Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio. Who your trash Thomas?
Speaker 11 (32:45):
Hey man, may.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I'm gonna Trashatani.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
Everyone talking about this and now like the unicorn when
you want to Heartani, I might he a gambling but
food who got caught.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Gamble and then always doesn't reach an IRB.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Give it to a man who brings bootball on the map.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Give it to Dela Cruz.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
You know Truansporation.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Why don't want to watch MB not this O'tani and
anybody who votes for the mob pall of fame their.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Clowns all thank you, Thomas my man angry man baseball fan.
How about that innis in Corona, California. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Who your trash in is?
Speaker 12 (33:27):
Rob?
Speaker 13 (33:27):
I love your introduction. I'm trashing the Olympic MVP voting
committee and clutch sports. This has clutch sports written all
over it. They put the ballot out to vote in
the first round games before the championship games. What are
they even thinking?
Speaker 14 (33:43):
You know what they're thinking?
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Oh, just something for Lebron because when the games don't matter,
he shines because he has the ball in his hands
and everything needs to revolve around him. But where was
he in the championship game set bailing him out and
saving his life? In the bronze medal games, scoring half
of the points in the first happens, dropping almost forty
while Lebron was just.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Sitting there doing nothing.
Speaker 13 (34:04):
Six turnovers, two points in the gold medal and in
the semi finals games. That guy's supposed to be clutch.
That guy's supposed to.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Be the MVP.
Speaker 13 (34:14):
No way, no how.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
They got shoes to sell.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Those commercials aren't cheap rob as you know, as we know,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Darren and Montana,
you're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Who you trashing? Darren Well?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
I have to preempt it with I love Little League
World Series. These kids are like little pros and they're awesome.
But when the pitcher's hat falls off every single time
he throws the ball and he has to pick it up,
I don't know what the over under on the six
innings would be. Twenty five thirty every time they pitch
(34:55):
the ball, some of the pitchers. Not the first time
I seen it, but I don' I was watching it today.
I'm like, man, this annoys me. It's got to annoy
the manager, it's got to imagine annoy the players. Maybe
the family. I don't know. I'm sorry, but it was.
It was annoying me, and that's what I want to trash.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
There you go down, I hear you.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Big problem Rob keeping hats on?
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Yeah, I see it all the time, Like I've complained
about it for years.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It just why can't they get a hat that snug
that fits, stays on your head?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well, especially when you're pitching.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Because some of the kids have like wild hair, some
have no hair. It's like a hole to do you know.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
It's it's a big deal, all right, Matt in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You're on the Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio. Who
you trashing?
Speaker 15 (35:37):
Matt, I'm trashing Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Oh my, Oh here we go. Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
You see oh, Man, I thought I was for you.
Speaker 15 (35:47):
In the first hour when you were talking, you said
people can't tell who you hate like you keep it
close to the vest. Well, I think anyone who listens
to The Odd Couple for a while, it's pretty clear
that you hate Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
False. I do not hate I don't know Tom Brady
to hate him. I do not hate Tom Brady. That's
all all right, appreciate it, man, listen.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
I mean you were you used to be I filled
in locally on w e I and Boston. You were
like a topic of conversation. Oh man, your takes on
Tom Brady drove the conversation in local Boston sports Rado.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I remember when they had me on during the Super Bowl,
uh in Atlanta and Uh the Patriots fans came around
where you know, where w I was set up and
they started booing me while I was.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
It was great. And I don't think we knew each
other at that time, but I was.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I filled in a little bit, and it was kind
of slow sometimes and then it's like what did.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Rob say on TV? Trashing Brady?
Speaker 6 (36:49):
And you knew there would be something there, and there
it is would be there'd be some red meat on
the bone.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
The gift that keeps giving.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Will in Wisconsin, you're on the couple of Fox Sports
Ready who you're trash and Will?
Speaker 11 (37:02):
What's going on right?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
What's going on? Ben tonight?
Speaker 11 (37:06):
I'm gonna go ahead, man, trash the vestigial NFL preseason.
I know there's some talk there, you know, in the
upper echelons about adding a game, which you know, as
far as guys having opportunities to make money, not just
from a gimme, gimme football. But from a standpoint, if
we're gonna keep having these conversations about safety and change
the game, then one of the major changes in the
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game they need is to lessen the opportunity guys that
have injury. And it's just the preseason, those those joint practices. Now,
I do think as far as marketability yet, you know, hey,
the Pro Bowl's not there anymore, you know, get more money,
you know, sell some tickets at preseason games. But I
do think that there's a pathway similarly there to just
you know, charging tickets maybe for some of these combined
(37:49):
joint practices. I think it gets more out of the players.
It's just as competitive, you know. I know some of
the coaches talk about, you know, how the game's gotten
away from practicing. But get rid of the preseason. Get
these guys some meaningful you know, arrests before before they
get to throw their bodies out there.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Thank you, guys, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Thanks well, people watch rob Ten years from now when
there's no preseason games, will people actually watch these workouts
between teams?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
You're gonna put them on TV?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, they'll put them on because people have nothing else
to do, and people will watch and give money.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
I guess I couldn't do it doing commentary on a
joint practice, like I mean, what do you I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But I believe they'll put anything on. You know that
there's a show called Fat Guys in the Woods that's
on the air. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
I'm telling theater fat Guys. And who doesn't have Fat
Guys in the Woods?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
There?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Eric in Austin, you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports.
Wady Who you draging?
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Eric?
Speaker 15 (38:42):
What's up?
Speaker 12 (38:43):
Row?
Speaker 8 (38:43):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (38:43):
Man?
Speaker 12 (38:44):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Doing great?
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Hi?
Speaker 10 (38:45):
Eric?
Speaker 12 (38:47):
I'm good. Okay, Ben Mallan, I'm sorry I got to
do this you but your your pit birst Ustak was
actually infuriated. Listen Russell Wilson put a twenty six touchdowns
and eight intercessions on a bad Denver Broncos team. Sean
Payton said him up for failure. And yet you talk
about how it was a rudimentary offense or whatever. Oh,
isn't that coaching? Isn't that trying to figure out the
best way for players to succeed?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
All right?
Speaker 12 (39:08):
The Broncos could have made the playoffs. Has Sean Payte
not bench Russell wils at the end of season like that,
they could have made the playoffs, and as far as
pick first concerns, their best scenario ideally for them is
Russell Wilson comes in and he stabilizes that offense. But
I think he will, hopefully as long as the old
line can stay up right and keep him up right.
He stabilized the offense in the next two seasons at least,
and Justice Fields learns under him, because Justin Field's not
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ready to be an NFL starring quarterback in.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
My opinion, all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
I'm gonna play this back.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Eric, when you're calling up in five weeks demanding Russ
gets benched, I'm gonna play this back.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Us squeeze in another one. Sean and Sacramento. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports. Ready who you trash?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
And Sean?
Speaker 14 (39:47):
Yeah, my uncle from another mother.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
My brother's behind the board.
Speaker 12 (39:50):
The man who's dropped it so nice.
Speaker 16 (39:52):
I love when engineers drop it.
Speaker 14 (39:54):
Twic Sminster Ben Mallard. Now I know the Mallard militias
heavy on the Twitter x mentions right now.
Speaker 16 (40:01):
Shout out Rob g listening on his day off like.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I know I saw that.
Speaker 13 (40:05):
Yes, me repped one time for the Parker platoon.
Speaker 14 (40:10):
And an honor of Big Benny, Let's serve up a
little Baba de nouche before dark, Let's serve up a
little tappernick and finally heal, let's stir it all up,
mix it with some NYC hot dog water and give
it a little taste. What do you say, because as
we all know, he got.
Speaker 16 (40:30):
His settlement from the NFL because they don't want their
emails in dirty laundry air and out in lawsuits, much
like Brian Flores has going right now, which leads to
the baby face Wrestley fans know what time it is.
Speaker 14 (40:42):
That's the good guy in the resting ringo.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
With those flick.
Speaker 16 (40:44):
Responses today, mister Flores, you may.
Speaker 14 (40:46):
Have turned the tides on the eternal heel mister Tua. Now,
speaking of Tua, why a Hollywood Hogan heel?
Speaker 16 (40:54):
That guy turned out to be am I right, Big Ben.
Speaker 14 (40:57):
He's a soft heel though, like a pair of crocs,
like a pair of mister Parker's night here. Max's absolutely
gutless of him, all right, thank.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
You so much?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
On a roll he was rifted, he was all right.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
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That's coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But let's talk more football, and let's go here Ben Malor.
The Steelers. They they haven't. Their quarterback situation has been abysmal.
It's just awful, like kind of like the Jets the
last few years. Just nobody who can deliver the football
or score on the offense or make things happen.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So they go out.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Not only do they get Russell Wilson for uh three
dollars in a bag of balls, but they also pick
up Justin Fields and they get him for nothing like
a six round pick. Like nobody wanted this young top pick,
you know, quarterback who played in Chicago, and nobody wanted
him either, So they got two quarterbacks. I think that
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without question, you got you gotta go with Russell Wilson.
You go with the thirty five year old, You go
with the guy who went to the Super Bowl twice.
You go with the guy who had a decent season
last year in Denver. I know Sean Payton hated him
from day one and tried to sabotage everything and just
didn't want him there, which is fine, But there are
people think that Justin Field should be the quarterback, young
(03:00):
guy and all this. I just think of your Mike
Timelin and I know he got a new contract extension.
But if you're the Steelers and you got a defense
and you got a lot of other pieces parts, but
you're missing the quarterback, I would go with the proven
veteran to start. Once Russell Wilson proves to me that
he's no longer starting quarterback or he's not that good anymore,
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then you can move on. But you don't go the
other way when you put the kid in first and
then have the kid falter and then try to go
back to the veteran. I just think this is obvious.
Russell Wilson. First, let him play and let's see what
he can do, and if not, then you could talk
about maybe the season is lost, maybe you realize that
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things aren't gonna happen, and you put the kid in.
But I you Ben don't like to be the choice.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Well, I don't because and what I've seen. You can't
judge too much on these practice games because it's it's
pretty painful watching these exhibition football games. But that said,
listening and parsing the words of Mike Tomlin, it sounds
like he knows he is stuck between the devil and
the deep blue sea here.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Either direction that he goes.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
And I would argue Rob that Russell Wilson's been done
for three years, that he just hasn't gotten the memo
he had a decent.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
He didn't. Actually, if he.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Had a decent, if he showed anything, you think Sean
Payton would have gotten rid of him.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I think the numbers were didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But he didn't like him before he got there.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
But go back, but those were empty stats that Russell
Wilson had last year in Denver. He put up empty
numbers for the Broncos last year, and they they dumbed
down the office or whatever. Yeah, Mike Tomlan could do
that in Pittsburgh for Russell Wilson and and you look
at the numbers on your tablet and they're like, well,
Russell's not that bad. But even at the end of Seattle,
uh that the Seahawks were not devastated to get rid
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of him because he was showing signs of falling off
the table. And I look at Justin Fields. Every year,
Justin Field, since he's gotten to the NFL, has all
the razzle dazzle.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He wins the highlights on social media.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
There's people campaigning him for him to be the starting quarterback.
And he's got this panache. He won the MVP from
the TV people in the off season before the twenty
twenty three season, but then when he actually has to play,
it's a hot mess. So it's like it's like the
side if you're Mike Tomlin. On one side you have
manure and on the other side you got fertilizers.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
So it doesn't matter which you're gonna go at this
particular point.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Now, what they should have done, because I have the answer,
I activated them out of thinking.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I figured you must have the answer because they screwed
this up.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
They screwed this up.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
What they should have done is added Jameis Winston in
the offseason, who was available, but they're not gonna get him.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Now he's in Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
He's the backup, which means he'll probably play because of
Sean Watson will get hurt.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
But that's the guy I would have gone after.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
And instead they got Russell Wilson, who's on his last legs,
and Justin Fields, who's good for three or four highlight
plays a game.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And that's about it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The only problem is you gotta pick between these two.
That's what they have, I know. And so you you
think they have no shot with either one of these guys.
I think I think that when you consider that somehow
every year they have a record over five hundred with
really no quarterbacking, Like that's the part that's that's amazing,
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with like zero quarterbacking. It's like the Jets they went
they won seven games with no quarterback. I mean, if
Aaron Rodgers don't worth three wins or four games, I
don't know what who is because they haven't had anybody.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And the same thing with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I just think Russell Wilson did enough last year for
me to give him an opportunity to see him play,
and and and if it's I know he's thirty five.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I didn't see what you saw. I know, I know
the numbers were all right, What do you mean? But
the numbers were fine? Like, I don't understand what numbers
do you have an issue with?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You can't. You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
If a guy, if a guy plays well, you got
to give him some credit.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, I didn't think he played well.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
But watching the Broncos like, well, I didn't see every
game last year when I watched him, Did.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sean Payne do a good job coaching last year? To
Broncos when they give up the seventy piece, did they get.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, they quit on him that game. Then in Miami.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
You don't give up seventy if the team's trying seventy
piece on a seventy burger.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, and and all that, but no, I mean.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
They they ran a rudimentary offense rob in Denver last year. Yeah,
the Steelers could do that and then the numbers will
look okay. But the Broncos offense was not It was
not good. It was not an effective offense. It was
a putrid palosa.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Was what it was for the Broncos last year. On
offense so well individually.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
If you look at the numbers, say well, Russ wasn't
that bad when you actually watch on a game by
a game.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Basis and not that good, not impressed. That's it.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
This is if you want to be a legit contider. Yeah,
can the Steelers win eight or nine games again? Be
right around mediocres.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Never they won eight or nine game with no quarterback.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
They have a defense, they have an elite every year.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
So you're saying that you're not gonna get anything. What
I'm saying is gonna be the same as they have been.
It's not gonna be any better with Russell Wilson. It
should have kept Kenny picktso stinks.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Thickets terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, I disagree.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I just think the Sean Payton thing with Russell Wilson,
he didn't want him there and and it was just
a bad whole vibe or even before going in on that,
and that's that's fine. I just think if I'm the Steelers,
I gotta go with the veteran. You went out, you
got him, Let this guy play. I'm not gonna sit
here and talk about some preseason game and what they
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look like.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You know, they couldn't move the four they moved, you know,
move the football or whatever it was. They couldn't get
the offense going that that. The preseason doesn't do that
for me. I once watched the Lions go four to
o and destroy their opponents in all four games. And
guess what happened that year?
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Do you remember, well Horse they went on sixties? Yeah,
that was the year.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Was that was the Who was the quarterback that year
for the Lions? Was that was? Who was Dan Olofski?
Was he part of that?
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
He might have been a part of that. Yeah, that's
when he went out of the end zone. You remember
that famous play?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Yet But I'm a I'm a Mike Tomlin fan. I
love Tom and he's great for what we do. Rob
you know, all the quotes, the fat and sassy and
all that and whatever. You know, he's got a million
different sound bites which are great, and he'll he'll coach
up whoever's there. But don't tell me that Russell Wilson's good.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
All right, He's not.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
He's better than what they've had, and I don't think
he is.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I think he's more of the same.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Really, the sequel is the equal to what they've had.
And you know the Broncos last year, Russell Wilson, he
said he had a good season. They the Broncos office
was twenty six in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Look at his numbers, though, I know, but that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's like, that's can you instead of instead of giving
me that, give me his numbers last year?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
He didn't turn the ball over a lot. He played fine,
Was he great? Was he all pro?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
They played safe. You you have to play both.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You have to.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
You can't just play conservative all the time. You know that, Rob,
You've done columns about that over the years.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
You've got to You've got to be an attack mode.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
And the numbers individually look okay, But the offense, you
know what, it reminds me of Daniel Jones. The Giants
a couple of years ago made the playoffs. They actually
won a playoff game against the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They did.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Remember that, People said, look at Daniel Jones, he's arrived.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
The Giants gave him some more money, they paid him.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
And yet that season, the Giants passing offense was like
twenty fifth in the NFL. But yet if you looked
at Daniel Jones numbers. It was fine and it was
very similar. It was like a carbon copy. What the
Broncos did with Russell Wilson last year with Sean Payton
was similar to what Daniel Jones did the year prior
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with the Giants, where you looked at the numbers are like, well,
that's not bad, but that you watch in the context
of the game and it stinks.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's my point. That's what I'm saying. I hear you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I mean, You're not alone. There are people who just
don't think that it was good. But if I have
the two quarterbacks, I'm gonna go with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
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welcome in Tyler Dragon.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
He is a NFL reporter for USA Today.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Tyler Dragon, welcome in and say hello to Ben Maller.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Hey, how's it going. How are you two doing?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We're doing great, doing great, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We're arguing about the Steelers and their quarterback situation. Ben
says that no matter what, no matter what.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Happened, Tom was in the bats. Yeah, either way, there's
no good direction to go. The weather's bad both directions.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yes, And I'm saying you should start with Russell Wilson
and see what he has left and how he plays,
and then you go to the younger quarterback and justin fields.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Where are you on this situation?
Speaker 9 (13:46):
So I agree with you, Rob. I do think you
start Russell Wilson to begin this season because of his
veteran leadership and justice presence, and when you look at
the Steelers schedule, they have kind of a salt opening
start of the season. They play the Falcons in Atlanta,
and then they played Wilson's former team in the Denver
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Broncos in Denver before going to Los Angeles playing the Chargers,
and see how he does out the gate against those teams,
and then you know kind of reevaluate now later in
the season, if Russell Wilson is not performing well, I
do think you switch over to justin Fields because their
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schedule gets daunting later on in the season. They have
a stretch in December, well they play every team in
the AFC North in Air Division and then they play
the Eagles and the Chiefs. So that's the daunting schedule
to end the season. So you want to try to
start fast if you're the Steelers, especially a coach like
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Mike Tomlin was seventeen straight seasons above five hundred. So
I do believe you start Russell Wilson and to begin
the season, see where you're at by maybe October November,
and then kind of re evaluate from there.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Well, we disagree on Russ, but what you mentioned the Falcons,
the Steelers play the Falcons. Tyler early in the year,
and the two teams that are getting the most love,
maybe I'm wrong on this are the Texans and the
Falcons for moves they made in the offseason. They got
a lot of flowers for making roster moves, improving the
teams defon Diggs going to the Texans. The Falcons got
Kirk Cousins and some other guys there. Who is more
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likely to break hearts though? Between these two teams, Tyler,
is it the Texans or is it the Falcons?
Speaker 9 (15:37):
I believe it's the Falcons because we don't know what
kind of player Kirk Cousin is going to be coming
off of injury. He has Michael Pennick Junior looking over
his shoulder. What how is he going to do under pressure?
He's in an entirely new system and new regime. So
there's a lot of newness going on in Atlanta right now.
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Now paper, it looks good. They've been active in the offseason,
addressing their defense, filling some holes on offense. But you
have a team like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They went
to the postseason, won the division last year. The Saints
should be a little bit better. You would hope the
Carolina Panthers are going to be better. I mean, you
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can't help, but they can't.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Get worse, right, they can't be worse.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
And for the AFC South, the Houston Texans means they're
going in there. You know, their second year with Tamiko
Ryan and CJ. Streu has another year under his belt.
And not only did they ask Stefan Diggs but Joe
Mixon in the backfield to be a quarterback best friend.
So I really do like the Houston Texans and I
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would not be surprised if they win the division again
and they're in maybe the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
When it's all said back our Gusta Tyler Dragon from
USA today, I think people have jumped the gun on
the Texans. I don't know how you don't like the
Baltimore Ray. I don't know how you pooh pooh Joe Burrow.
I really do an AFC And I'm not saying that
the CJ. Strow had a fantastic rookie year and the
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rookie coach and all the other things that all went together.
But I'm I don't see it as far as them
getting to the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Well, can Joe Burrow finish the season healthy?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, I mean that is there's no doubt about it.
That's something there.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But that's my next question to you is is the
Joe Burrow factor and how that factors in? I mean,
every time he's healthy and he plays in Cincinnati, they
seem to do great stuff.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Yeah, so I have the Bengals finishing second in the AFC,
nor I do believe top to bottom the Ravens are
the better team. You could make an argument that Lamar
Jackson as a better quarterback than Joe Burrow. And then
they also added Derrick Henry in the back.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I like that a lot.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Yeah, their running game might be the best in all
of football next year. And then you add the defensive
component of Baltimore play the rugged style, physical brand of defense.
So they're going to give teams a lot of problems. Now,
if I had to make a guess, I would say
the Ravens and the Chiefs are the cream of the
crops in the AFC. But then the Houston Texans are
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right there at number three. But Joe Burrow. The biggest
question for me is the talent is there? The tangibles
are there, The leadership is there, but just can he
stay healthy and then in the field, because the Bengals
offensive line that's been there Achilles heel since Joe Burrow
got there. That's pretty much why he's been injured in
the last few years. Now, if he can stay healthy,
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I do like their chances, especially being a playoff team,
but I do not think they're better than the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
All right, Tyler.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
The other day, the Washington the Commanders, that's their name.
They what with Jaden Daniels is the court, which is
kind of obvious you would go with Jayden Daniels because
of where he was drafted.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
A lot of high praise.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I've been reading glowing reviews from people that cover the
Commanders about Jaden Daniels as a prodigy, and all these
amazing things are being said about him. How what are
the realistic expectations for him, Tyler this year in DC?
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Well, yeah, you know, that's a good question. When Jaden
Daniels was coming out, I really liked his ability to
be able to process the fields, his ability to read
defenses throwing receivers open. Now is that going to translate
the NFL? You would hope though, But the game of
the NFL is much faster than college.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Now.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
I do believe he's going to have some success. He's
going to have to learn how to slide. He can't
take those hits in the NFL because he has a
smaller type frame. But that division is really tough. I
do think the Commanders they could compete with the New
York Giants, but the Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles, they're
just head and shoulders above the Commanders and the Giants
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and that division. So are they a playoff team?
Speaker 10 (19:59):
No?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Maybe in the next few years. Yes, if Jadon Daniels
could stay healthy and they can continue to build around him,
fortify that offensive line, and bolster that defense. So they
do have what I believe is a franchise quarterback in
the Nation capital. That's the good news. The bad news
is there's still probably a few seasons away from contention.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Last thing, I know, everybody thinks every quarterback drafted in
the first round that everybody's great, everyone's going to the
Hall of Fame, everybody's the.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Next best thing.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
A lot of quarterbacks flop, I mean everybody, you know
what I mean, Like a lot flop and don't wind up.
Sam Darnold's on his nineteenth team. Everybody told me he
was going to be the Cats. Me out. I'm just saying,
this whole new crop, everybody can't be great. If you
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had to pick somebody where it's not going to work out,
I know I'm putting you on the spot where it's
not going to be.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Who would you pick out of these new crop for quarterbacks?
Speaker 9 (20:59):
I can give you too. And JJ McCarthy with Drake
May he kind of reminds me of Sam Darnold at
USC got the big arm, got some mobility, but there's
some accuracy issues, There's some issues with his mechanics and
who is he going to be throwing the ball in
New England? And that's it. He wins the starting job
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over Jacobe Burssett, or when he wins the starting they
had their receiving corpses probably is the worst in the NFL.
And then we all know JJ McCarthy is out this
year with a knee injury. We hope he gets better
and then was able to play next year. But at
Michigan he was helped by the best offensive line and
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all of football, a solid running game and under Jim
Harball's system, especially at Michigan quarterbacks didn't have to do
too much, especially behind that offensive line and krem At
running backs. So in the NFL, he's going to have
to be asked to win games with his arms, win games,
read defenses. And can he do that with the Minnesota
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Vikings team that's a void of a lot of talent
outside of Justin Jefferson. I don't think he can do it,
but we'll see. The good thing about him is he's
not going to be rushed on the field because he
has a year to look and watch and hold a
clip for while he rehab this v injury.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No doubt. His name is Tyler Dragon. Check him out
in the USA today. One of the best in the business.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Tyler. We appreciate you, my man.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Of course, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Have a good night, all right.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
And that's a great name too, Rob Tyler Dragon. Oh yes,
I like the name Radio. Is that his writing name.
That's a great name.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's a real name.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
People used to ask me if Rob Parker was a
real name as a reporter.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I was like, what do you just sounds like a reporter.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
No, yeah, it sounds like like a newspaperman, like Grizzled
the news, which you are, Rob right.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I am, you see, I'm grizzled.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Come did you become that because of the name or
were you going to be that anyway?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Knows?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I think yeah, I think I was going to become
that anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But all right, coming up next, Uh, trash talking is
coming up, So I want you guys to chime in.
Get ready, uh eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Line up for that. We'll also take a couple of
calls I think on this steal a quarterback thing. But
first we're gonna get you caught up with mister Brian Finley.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Let's do that.
Speaker 10 (23:20):
Yeah, Ben and roll, we're talking major league baseball here.
I know that you guys are big baseball guys. The
diamond back.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
We love baseball, Ben, don't we know.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I was looking for some baseball stuff today, I know,
talk radio friendly baseball stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
No, not today, Yeah, yeah, yeah, not so much.
Speaker 10 (23:37):
But we do have baseball games, so I guess you
guys can you know, talk about some of those if
you'd like, And.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We only do that in the playoffs.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
We only do that the playoffs, which is usually when
the Dodgers use.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, Padre fan, you've never won anything.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
I know, but this could be the year Rob. I
think Rob might agree. This could be the Padres. I mean,
at least they're showing I got a good.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Team right now, great bullpen. I like them.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Rob likes the Mets.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
This somebody has to like the Marlins. You would feel
sorry for them. But they're trailing right now three to
one against the Diamondbacks. That is in the seventh inning.
Also in the seventh the Nationals are taking it or
they're getting it taken two of them, excuse me by
the Rockies three to one. Seven hits for the Rockies
only three fourth and Nats and what Rod build? That
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could be the preview of the Alcs. The Yankees Guardians matchup,
and right now it's three at piece. And of the
fourth inning there were two whole runs for the Yanks,
in the first, one being Aaron Judge. That was his
forty fifth of the year. The Blue Jays are taking
a fly swatter to the Reds. It's ten to one,
bottom of the fifth, thirteen hits, four to run.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Is that a game of note?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I would say so, because why I'd love to know,
because you never know one of those two teams might
rattle off a big run, just like the Astros are
doing right now.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
They both have a chance to win next year. I think, well,
actually they're in different once in Arizona, once in four.
I was gonna say the grape Brue League, but one
could win the Cactus League next year.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
So yeah, for sure, Yeah for sure. And speaking of
three to three, And speaking of the Astros, that's the
score there, Stros and Red Sox. That definitely is a
game of note. End of one inning, and yeah, all
square at three. Coming up later on, we got the
Padres hosting the Twins at nine to forty Eastern time,
and it's the Dodgers at ten ten Eastern taking on
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the Mariners. Lastly, guys in Major League Baseball, we mentioned
some of those notes. But in the NFL, Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones and that thick Texan accent, after giving his
glasses over to his son Stephen, said that his team
is making progress towards reaching a long term deal with
wide receiver Cede Lamb. Nothing has been solidified as if yet,
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but what they're looking at is something in the range
of making him the second highest wide receiver, the second
highest paid wide receiver in the NFL. Right beneath Justin
Jefferson QB or wide receiver one, excuse me for the vikings.
And then lastly, world number one men's tennis superstar Yonick
Sinner from Italy is not going to get suspended after
two positive steroid test results.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
You ask?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Well, according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency, the illegal
substance that Sinner was taking, he was unknowingly taking this
because his physio as physiotherapist was lathering him up with
it while giving him massage.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Are you sure was a lather or just a rub
not a lather or was it clear?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I'm just saying yeah, and again you never know the
clear right. My favorite was remember the track and field
person that said they ate a burrito from a food
truck in Oregon. That's why they feel that was it?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah? Usually I'll give you gas, not the positive steroid test.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
It's gotta be like me, eat more garlic. That's what
I do, is just eat the garlic. That's my performance
answering drug rob garlic.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Garlic, gollic, golleg real good.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right, thanks, Brian, appreciate you. All right? Eighty seven
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If you want to jump in on the trash talking Tuesday,
We're gonna do an expanded edition for Ben Mallor of
all of his militia. People might start calling in. You
could trash anyone anything in the world of sports.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know how his works. We can't interrupt them. We
don't comment. We just let them go. If they want
to rip you, they want to rip me, they want
to rip.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
The Donas, bring it on. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm here. We'll do all that.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But first, before we get there, I do want to
talk to Marty about the Steelers and the and the
quarterback situation. Marty, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. He is the biggest Pittsburgh Steeler fan. Who
do you want to be the quarterback?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Marty?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're curious, will no hesitation, Russell will say, and we
didn't hear you.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
No hesitation, no hesitation on that answer. It's Russe a whist.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
He'll He'll bring new meanings to that terrible towel.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm I'm with you, Marty, I mean, you gotta go
with him. This is a team Like the last few years,
a quarterback play has been horrendous.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
There's my take, Fellas I was a big Russell Wilson fan. Actually,
some of my close friends knew that. I was super
excited when he ended up a stealer. Do you guys
know what his injury was in Seattle before he was
traded to Denver. It was a mallet finger injury to
his middle finger on his throwing hand. He had two
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pins put in that finger. Now, that's usually an offensive
lineman injury, and any offensive lineman has had that surgery
will tell you when you get that Ben put in
your finger, your numb from that point up. Wow. His
first season in Denver, he was adjusting to his the
last finger that touches the ball when you spin it
off your hand, being numb from that first pin up.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
And he did not throw the ball well.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
But the next season he threw the ball much better. Now,
you were going to put him in a situation he's
been in before. He can rely on his defense, he
can manage the game, and when he needs to make
a big play, they'll ask you to make a big play.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
This is a situation.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
He knows, and you got a young guy with talent
that can sit back and watch and learn. I love
playing Russell and letting that young man sit back and
watch and learn. I think Russell's not done. I think
he's a fighter. I don't like it that so many
people think that his issues with Peyton and Denver are
all on him. Peyton is a man that won one
(29:37):
super Bowl in the year he did it, he ended
up suspended.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Thank you. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I think that Sean Payton gets a big They say
Mike McCarthy's a buffoon, but he has this identical record
of Sean Payton, one championship with a Hall of Fame quarterback,
And the only difference is that is that Sean Payne
at three straight losing seasons with a Hall of Fame quarterback,
which I which is shocking, but anyway it is.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
I mean, it's fun with Marty there. I know he's
trying to talk that into reality. He's trying to He's
like it sounded to me like a guy who's trying
to convince himself with positive affirmations. And it's like, well
it's now. He wasn't again. Russ was not great the
last year and a half or two years in Seattle.
They say he was hurt. Fine, he wasn't good in
Denver and so and you got the whole other thing.
(30:24):
We haven't even talked about, the Komodo Dragon, the room Rob,
where he's kind of a polarizing guy, right, I mean
the Bronx. One of my favorite nights doing radio was
when the Broncos we found out they had a trans
continental flight across to England and to play a game
over there.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I think it was in England and he was.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Like high stepping down the aisle on the plane and
there were people documenting like what it was.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
It was hilarious. And that's like.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Small on the on the Russell Big Board of things
that he's he's had, Like he's become a polarizing guy.
He's a polarizing guy.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
There's no doubt about that. I agree with that, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's the opportunity that all sports fans are looking forward to,
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eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox and Yes, the Militia,
we're inviting you in trash anyone anything in the world
of sports will do that. Next, it is the Odd Couple,
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Speaker 1 (31:42):
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it is now time for trash Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Don't you ever talk about me? It's trash Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
See Raggy, I don't know whether to smile.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Let's see a kick a field go man?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right, Ben, here we go.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Let's start off with Thomas in Iowa. You're on the
Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio. Who your trash Thomas?
Speaker 11 (32:45):
Hey man, may.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I'm gonna Trashatani.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
Everyone talking about this and now like the unicorn when
you want to Heartani, I might he a gambling but
food who got caught.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Gamble and then always doesn't reach an IRB.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Give it to a man who brings bootball on the map.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Give it to Dela Cruz.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
You know Truansporation.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Why don't want to watch MB not this O'tani and
anybody who votes for the mob pall of fame their.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Clowns all thank you, Thomas my man angry man baseball fan.
How about that innis in Corona, California. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Who your trash in is?
Speaker 12 (33:27):
Rob?
Speaker 13 (33:27):
I love your introduction. I'm trashing the Olympic MVP voting
committee and clutch sports. This has clutch sports written all
over it. They put the ballot out to vote in
the first round games before the championship games. What are
they even thinking?
Speaker 14 (33:43):
You know what they're thinking?
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Oh, just something for Lebron because when the games don't matter,
he shines because he has the ball in his hands
and everything needs to revolve around him. But where was
he in the championship game set bailing him out and
saving his life? In the bronze medal games, scoring half
of the points in the first happens, dropping almost forty
while Lebron was just.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Sitting there doing nothing.
Speaker 13 (34:04):
Six turnovers, two points in the gold medal and in
the semi finals games. That guy's supposed to be clutch.
That guy's supposed to.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Be the MVP.
Speaker 13 (34:14):
No way, no how.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
They got shoes to sell.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Those commercials aren't cheap rob as you know, as we know,
no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Darren and Montana,
you're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Who you trashing? Darren Well?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
I have to preempt it with I love Little League
World Series. These kids are like little pros and they're awesome.
But when the pitcher's hat falls off every single time
he throws the ball and he has to pick it up,
I don't know what the over under on the six
innings would be. Twenty five thirty every time they pitch
(34:55):
the ball, some of the pitchers. Not the first time
I seen it, but I don' I was watching it today.
I'm like, man, this annoys me. It's got to annoy
the manager, it's got to imagine annoy the players. Maybe
the family. I don't know. I'm sorry, but it was.
It was annoying me, and that's what I want to trash.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
There you go down, I hear you.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Big problem Rob keeping hats on?
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Yeah, I see it all the time, Like I've complained
about it for years.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It just why can't they get a hat that snug
that fits, stays on your head?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Well, especially when you're pitching.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Because some of the kids have like wild hair, some
have no hair. It's like a hole to do you know.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
It's it's a big deal, all right, Matt in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You're on the Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio. Who
you trashing?
Speaker 15 (35:37):
Matt, I'm trashing Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Oh my, Oh here we go. Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
You see oh, Man, I thought I was for you.
Speaker 15 (35:47):
In the first hour when you were talking, you said
people can't tell who you hate like you keep it
close to the vest. Well, I think anyone who listens
to The Odd Couple for a while, it's pretty clear
that you hate Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
False. I do not hate I don't know Tom Brady
to hate him. I do not hate Tom Brady. That's
all all right, appreciate it, man, listen.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
I mean you were you used to be I filled
in locally on w e I and Boston. You were
like a topic of conversation. Oh man, your takes on
Tom Brady drove the conversation in local Boston sports Rado.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I remember when they had me on during the Super Bowl,
uh in Atlanta and Uh the Patriots fans came around
where you know, where w I was set up and
they started booing me while I was.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
On the air.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
It was great. And I don't think we knew each
other at that time, but I was.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I filled in a little bit, and it was kind
of slow sometimes and then it's like what did.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Rob say on TV? Trashing Brady?
Speaker 6 (36:49):
And you knew there would be something there, and there
it is would be there'd be some red meat on
the bone.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
The gift that keeps giving.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Will in Wisconsin, you're on the couple of Fox Sports
Ready who you're trash and Will?
Speaker 11 (37:02):
What's going on right?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
What's going on? Ben tonight?
Speaker 11 (37:06):
I'm gonna go ahead, man, trash the vestigial NFL preseason.
I know there's some talk there, you know, in the
upper echelons about adding a game, which you know, as
far as guys having opportunities to make money, not just
from a gimme, gimme football. But from a standpoint, if
we're gonna keep having these conversations about safety and change
the game, then one of the major changes in the
(37:28):
game they need is to lessen the opportunity guys that
have injury. And it's just the preseason, those those joint practices. Now,
I do think as far as marketability yet, you know, hey,
the Pro Bowl's not there anymore, you know, get more money,
you know, sell some tickets at preseason games. But I
do think that there's a pathway similarly there to just
you know, charging tickets maybe for some of these combined
(37:49):
joint practices. I think it gets more out of the players.
It's just as competitive, you know. I know some of
the coaches talk about, you know, how the game's gotten
away from practicing. But get rid of the preseason. Get
these guys some meaningful you know, arrests before before they
get to throw their bodies out there.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Thank you, guys, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Thanks well, people watch rob Ten years from now when
there's no preseason games, will people actually watch these workouts
between teams?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
You're gonna put them on TV?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, they'll put them on because people have nothing else
to do, and people will watch and give money.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
I guess I couldn't do it doing commentary on a
joint practice, like I mean, what do you I mean?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But I believe they'll put anything on. You know that
there's a show called Fat Guys in the Woods that's
on the air. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
I'm telling theater fat Guys. And who doesn't have Fat
Guys in the Woods?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
There?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Eric in Austin, you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports.
Wady Who you draging?
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Eric?
Speaker 15 (38:42):
What's up?
Speaker 12 (38:43):
Row?
Speaker 8 (38:43):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (38:43):
Man?
Speaker 12 (38:44):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Doing great?
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Hi?
Speaker 10 (38:45):
Eric?
Speaker 12 (38:47):
I'm good. Okay, Ben Mallan, I'm sorry I got to
do this you but your your pit birst Ustak was
actually infuriated. Listen Russell Wilson put a twenty six touchdowns
and eight intercessions on a bad Denver Broncos team. Sean
Payton said him up for failure. And yet you talk
about how it was a rudimentary offense or whatever. Oh,
isn't that coaching? Isn't that trying to figure out the
best way for players to succeed?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
All right?
Speaker 12 (39:08):
The Broncos could have made the playoffs. Has Sean Payte
not bench Russell wils at the end of season like that,
they could have made the playoffs, and as far as
pick first concerns, their best scenario ideally for them is
Russell Wilson comes in and he stabilizes that offense. But
I think he will, hopefully as long as the old
line can stay up right and keep him up right.
He stabilized the offense in the next two seasons at least,
and Justice Fields learns under him, because Justin Field's not
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ready to be an NFL starring quarterback in.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
My opinion, all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
I'm gonna play this back.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Eric, when you're calling up in five weeks demanding Russ
gets benched, I'm gonna play this back.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Us squeeze in another one. Sean and Sacramento. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports. Ready who you trash?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
And Sean?
Speaker 14 (39:47):
Yeah, my uncle from another mother.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
My brother's behind the board.
Speaker 12 (39:50):
The man who's dropped it so nice.
Speaker 16 (39:52):
I love when engineers drop it.
Speaker 14 (39:54):
Twic Sminster Ben Mallard. Now I know the Mallard militias
heavy on the Twitter x mentions right now.
Speaker 16 (40:01):
Shout out Rob g listening on his day off like.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I know I saw that.
Speaker 13 (40:05):
Yes, me repped one time for the Parker platoon.
Speaker 14 (40:10):
And an honor of Big Benny, Let's serve up a
little Baba de nouche before dark, Let's serve up a
little tappernick and finally heal, let's stir it all up,
mix it with some NYC hot dog water and give
it a little taste. What do you say, because as
we all know, he got.
Speaker 16 (40:30):
His settlement from the NFL because they don't want their
emails in dirty laundry air and out in lawsuits, much
like Brian Flores has going right now, which leads to
the baby face Wrestley fans know what time it is.
Speaker 14 (40:42):
That's the good guy in the resting ringo.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
With those flick.
Speaker 16 (40:44):
Responses today, mister Flores, you may.
Speaker 14 (40:46):
Have turned the tides on the eternal heel mister Tua. Now,
speaking of Tua, why a Hollywood Hogan heel?
Speaker 16 (40:54):
That guy turned out to be am I right, Big Ben.
Speaker 14 (40:57):
He's a soft heel though, like a pair of crocs,
like a pair of mister Parker's night here. Max's absolutely
gutless of him, all right, thank.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
You so much?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
On a roll he was rifted, he was all right.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
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