February 27, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin explain why NFL teams would be wise to allow Travis Hunter to become a full-time, two-way player at the next level. Plus, USA Today NFL columnist Jarrett Bell swings by to discuss his report on the lack of Black offensive coordinators in the league right now. Finally, The Odd Couple Crew debates clothing alterations in this week’s edition of Shop Talk.
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Speaker 1 (02:15):
Looking forward to that, Rob g Let's talk about Travis
Hunter and comments he made.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, so of course he met with the media today
for the first time since going to the NFL Combine,
where he was listed as a defensive back only that was.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
A big a dB talking point for us here on
this show.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
And if you saw the photos online, it's gonna blow
your mind because while most of these guys have you know,
fifteen twenty reporters around and maybe five six asked questions,
Travis Hunter had at least one hundred different media members
surrounding him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, what was a Heisman trophy?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And he's answering questions and to his credit, he didn'
answer all the questions, but he wasn't exactly you know,
elaborative in his answer. So the fact that he was
up there for so long was just shows how, you know,
what people think of him, that everybody wants to be
around and get some of Travis Hunner. And naturally during
his media availability, everybody's asking him about his insistence I'm
(03:12):
playing both sides of the football, because he did so
in college. He was a Defensive Player of the Year
in the Big Twelve. He also was the National blendakov
wide Receiver of the Year, so he's got all the awards.
And when they said, hey, are you still planning on
playing both sides of the football. If so, do you
want to be full time like you were in college?
And he says, absolutely. Quote they say nobody's ever done
(03:35):
it the way I do it, But I tell them
I'm just different. I'm a different person. End quote.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know what, what's that They should absolutely give him
a chance of doing it his first year. He's willing
to do it and put in the grind, put in
the work, and the kid really believes that he can
do both. I don't understand it. You don't stop a prodigy.
We've talked about this before. It's not for everybody. Everybody
(04:03):
was U show TONI has been in the big leagues
for how many years now.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Like four or five? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Like he was with the Angels for how many years
it's been that I was in the sixth yeah, rob
g find out is it six.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Years with the Angels? He just had a three quarter
coach shot. But this is my point. You haven't seen
anybody follow show.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, nobody else might be able to, you know what
I mean, there's a right, but it ain't happen like now,
you know, like right, And this is the same thing
with Travis Henley. I mean, Travis Hunter, it ain't going
to We're not talking about If this is for everybody,
you give them a chance at one shot. So this
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is his seventh year or seventh fold that he's passed.
He played seven years, that is eight year coming up?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
This very nice? This will be eight Okay, this so
why MONSI runs those tours.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I know, I know she knows what's going on, but
you get my point is that he's nobody else is
come along, right, this might be a one off. That's
why you have to let Hunter explore this and not
just be like WHOA, I got news for you. They
used to do it in the NFL. Hello, before everybody
(05:22):
got specialized and they had offensive.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
With your friends play both sides of the ball. It's
not like it's never been done in the NFL. I
get it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Back then they played eight games or twelve games or
whatever it was the number, right, It was different. But
you don't want to see if this kid maybe it's
something special to give them a chance at it. As
soon as he's too tired as a dB or whatever
and he's getting burnt out there or he's dropping passes
(05:56):
as a wide receiver, then as a coach, I could say, okay,
I'm done, but I think this is a mistake not
to let this kid explore everything. That's laid out for him.
He's a special pertion because we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
They've been telling him we can't do it every step
of the way to Rob, all right, you can't do
it in college like that.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You can do a player too, Okay, you can't.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
The dude plays like almost eighty ninety percent of the
snaps on both sides of the ball. It's crazy. He's
just a freak of nature like that. He's built for it,
and he and he wants to try. But here I'm
gonna go I'm gonna scale it back even a little
bit more than what you were just saying.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
You know, want to know why the NFL sometimes get
called the not fund league the no fun league, because,
let's say, Rob, even if it makes sense what they say, Hey,
that's too much in the NFL. It's too hard, it's
too specialized. The guys are better than college players. Okay,
I will concede that point to you. He couldn't do
both at the combine and underwearing tank tops. He couldn't
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go dB receiver at the combine.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
That's the stupidest thing for me.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Everybody's there, Rob g just said, one hundred media folks
there he's the Rainy Heisman Trophy winner. We can't just
enjoy this for two or three days in Indianapolis. Ain't
nothing else happening. Okay, I mean not take a shot
at Indianapolis.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I like, now they got the Saint Elbows has great
shrimp cock. Yet shout to them, shot at them. Have
you been there?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I haven't it a great restaurant. I'm telling them, I've been.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
To the Inniapolis's pretty actually, got a bunch of Washington's
out there, a lot of family that I didn't even
know I had when I went out there.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But that's not my point.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
My point is, I know Robb G's never been close
to Indianapolis. That's just so far from la.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
If I told him as a bunch of black folk,
he'd be there. You know, Robb G is Honorey Black.
Actually didn't evend it. He's just black at this point. Now,
my point is, it's the combine. You can't just go
to the combine and let him play dban receiver like
the NFL is a overthinking this. It's just the combine,
it's just the show. It's just a spectacle. Let him
do it there. Now, when we get to the league.
(07:52):
I believe to your point, there's a big campaign you have,
like if he signed with Nike, you can already see
the whole Remember Bo just does when Bo Jackson had
all those commercials. Bow knows, Bo knows this, Bow knows that,
Dion Sanders and the like. There's a whole campaign you
can build around this kid. What's he gonna do? What
is he canna be? You run with the mystery of it.
(08:14):
I believe eventually it plays itself out where he becomes
just a you know, a receiver, where he becomes just
a dB. Eventually you get to that place where all
right levels out. We know what he's gonna be. We'll
throw him a trick, play here, gadget play here. We'll
let him return a kick, punt or something, a punt
or a kick return here or there. But the idea
that you just cancel it right now is ridiculous. If
I'm a team that is about to get Travis Hunter,
(08:35):
We're gonna keep the mystery alive. I want people buying tickets.
I want it to unexpected, to surprise. You never know
what he's gonna be, what he can do, and you
build up the momentum for how unique and special vitality
is I'm not gonna shut it down before it even starts.
So to me, I'm just shocked that they that they
won't see the opportunity for this in the marketing end
of it, for the.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Fun of the league of it.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
And going back to our simple point, not even in
T shirts and draws, can the man be a dB
and a receiver. That's just come on. With the NFL,
that's just ridiculous. There's no reason why he should have
did both at the combine.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Right, That's as simple as a guess the easiest right, right.
But I just think, what what's so wrong? Like they
could have they the Angels could have told show, hey,
what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Just come over here. All we need to do is
play every day and we need your bat or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, they were like, Okay, nobody's done it since the twenties,
since Babe Ruth.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Let's sell let's try it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And because it's right and and the worst thing that
can happen is he doesn't play well on one of
the two sides. You decide, okay, as a dB or
as a he's not a wide receiver, he's a dB
or whatever it is. And then you go and say
we're going to go to that. No, no egg on
his face, no issues, nothing, It's just like, Okay, we
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tried it. We think it's too much for him to
be able to do both, and we're getting fifty percent
of each rather than one hundred percent on one.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I think to just be saying no's right now is
crazy when we saw Deon Sanders do it from kick
returns and punt returns and obviously a couple of plays
here or there, you know, in a slot or something like.
To just say no already is what's crazy to me.
I'm gonna just play, see what we got, let it go,
let us see what the fans want to see from him,
and have a little fun with it.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That's just me.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
And eventually, like I said, it'll level itself out. He'll
find his ground and find what he's best at between
the two positions, and you move on from there. But
to just deny it right now, before we even he's
even on a team, it's crazy. So if I'm a team,
I'm drafting him and I'm saying, man, the sky's the limit.
We can see what you can do, well, see how
far we can take this, and eventually we'll find a
home for you in a position.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
But let's just see, let's have some fun with it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Absolutely, I think it's a mistake by the NFL. And
you're right, you said it earlier, the no fun league.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Sometimes they out think him. Remember I told you that one.
Remember what were we talking about saying you overthink it?
What was that again?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Was the coach who went on the mic was like, hey,
don't stow in the court. Sometimes you just overthink things.
To me, the combine who freaking cares, let him go
be a dB and a wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
He can do it. He can do it. I think
he can.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
He just went trophies for both of them in college.
He's you know, NFL, shoot, let's not let's throw him.
You know, fifteen players of offensive game.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You know what? There was? There was another rob G
I don't know if you had you didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Have this cut of a Hunter being an interviewed. You
said how many people one hundred reporters and stuff for
around him? And then some people said, uh so, uh,
you know, you could be a wide receiver or you
could be a dB, and Hunter said this.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
There? You go? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
One movie was that from again, that's scared. You think
it was a little and the window in there.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I think so. And what did he mean by that?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Well, I think he was talking about the yellow brick road, right, No,
but no, no, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The scene, you know that, right, But but he's going,
some people go this way, some people go that way,
then again some people go both.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
With me, that was the loss and they was freaky.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Back in the thirties forties, they was freaky, and we
talk about it nowadays it's just more out there.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
They was freaking out. I'm gonna say this. On those movies, though,
I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Women used to get beat up and slapped around and
movies in the forties.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Do you ever watch those movies? Oh my gosh, all
they do is slap women. I can't even like, I
can't even watch it. Crazy to watch it, a little
too much excitement in your voice.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I needed you to be.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Back in the day, they used to slap right up.
I mean, honestly, me and Monsie were kind of wait
for you to get to your point.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Where they were like, I thought he was going. I
thought he's gonna anyway. And I'm glad things have changed
I'm glad to hurry up, get to that ro You
had that nervous for a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
No, I'm just saying around back then, I watch have
you seen it? Have you seen it? Excited? But they
used to be like you ever seen these movies? No,
I don't think I'm missing much either.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
No, No, they would be. It's always like, yeah, like that,
you're going to be home, woman, I'm home when I'm home,
like it.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Was regular, Rob g Am, I lying or they are
not lying? You so right, you can't turn left? Rock
there you go. You got to check three right away.
One of the people. Look at the scarecrow cracking a
little in the windows back in the day.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The point is, what is the point that he should
be able to play both ways?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Offense and defense. That's the biggest point in this home. Well,
this is what I do. I'm supposed to make it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, here we go, pancakes, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I'm done.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
But one of them is actually the pancakes. Actually, Rob Jesus,
here you go.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Allrightb.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Next year when we go, we're not having breakfast with him?
Rob g is that something we are not getting together? Before?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
You act like you didn't do this at dinner too,
eating the man bread hot hot fresh bread.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You ate hot fresh buns of his? Did you? Did you?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Did you?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Did you? Now? The bread turned it to buns. Mantie
can't remember. It was a big difference between the buns
and slice bread. I didn't remember. Okay, it was a
month ago. Some people go both ways. Just brought us
back full circuit. We're ready to go for a tease,
(14:23):
and you had to make it weird. You do.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I'm just saying I remember you made it weird. You
asked for He was like, O, can you bring out
his buns first?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And I was like, what's that bread? His bread?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Fun?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I never forgot.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I remembered, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven, seven, nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
She is so beautiful. It's ridiculous, Taylor Rooks. She is.
She is ridiculous, very nice. All right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Should NFL teams allow Travis Hunter to be a full
time two way player at the next level.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
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Speaker 4 (15:00):
You think you slicked to you said that right, because
you're talking about the buns right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
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and stay.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I wasn't eating red f funes and go both ways.
You know what it is WOD.
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Speaker 6 (15:42):
Quick trivia for you? Do you know who that was singing?
She's about to sing again right here? Who is this?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Mary J? Blise this one? I'm glad? Who's that?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
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I t wan Queen Latif? Is that Queen latv yees
star of the show, also sang and wrapped the intro song.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
All right, nice yea makes sense?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
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(16:31):
an award on both sides of the ball by special,
you're not normal.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And he says he's is different.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
He is NFL saying we gotta be one thing at
the you gotta be a dB only at the combine.
Everyone's saying you can play one position in the league.
Robin I both agreed. Let him give it a shot?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Why not? And what say you a seven to seven
niney nine O one Fox?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So we got Scott in Pennsyl Tucky. You're on the
couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What's up Scott Hey, best team in the radio.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Appreciate you with a doubt.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Let this, let this young man show off. Is God
given town, right, my gosh, who knows?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And making it short.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
In the long run, there could be a bunch of
older guys there, coaches scratching their head saying, wow, we
have something special here.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah, I just due. He's gonna level out. He's not
gonna pay ninety percent of snaps on both sides for ten.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Years, right right? Let me see, Yeah, uh, Dre in Michigan.
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Drake?
Speaker 7 (17:32):
What's up? My good people?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Y all all right?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Yo?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What up?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Drake? Yes, good to hear from you.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I'm good, Thank you, Kevin Ay, Kevin Yo. Hey, when
we said ride out.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
To l A.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
He wasn't sapping another man better or touching the bus.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You said he got l A fire, Drey Drey, I
just had brand I ain't had nobody's buds.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I want you to know that, you.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Know you want to do.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's the last time I'm gonna order bread, ask for
anybody's bread.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, please do and then the next morning at it.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Okay, go ahead, twelve hour span.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
But no, I think as far as like the combat, yeah,
that's stupid. Letting me go ahead and and go do
what you know why they receive ran dB. As far
as the season, it's like I was telling Rod, if
you got kids, sometimes the risk is not worth proving
yourself right. We know, can't nobody play both sides.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
But they did it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They did it before, though, dra They used to do
it in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I'm okay, right, but back then I think the money
wasn't like it is now. Now it's about investments. That's
why they changed most of these rules because they're trying
to protect their investment. So you're not gonna pay this
man millions of dollars and then he only gonna play
four or five games because he hurt the rest, you know.
And then not just that, but if you her number
one wide receiver in your number one dB, he gets hurt,
You hurt on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
But Drake, my biggest point is it's a few plays.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Like I'm not saying you're scheming in eighty but I'm
not gonna shut the eye idea down right now. Plus
from a marketing to I'm selling tickets, man, I'm not
shutting anything down now.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
They did Dion, I would model it like how they
did Dion. You starle defense. But we got a couple
offensive plays for you to get busy with.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I don't have a problem with trying it. That's what
I'm saying. Let the kid try it. Thanks for the call, Drey,
appreciate it. Andrew and Bakersfield, California. You're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Andrew?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Guys? Uh? I got Walter Payton as my number one
greatest athlete of all times, and I got Bo Jackson
his number two. He was a running back and he
also played baseball.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
He was the center fielder for Kansas City.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Yeah, he was an amazing hitter. And I think Travis
Sunner should let this man go and uh uh he'll
be uh. I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Ok, all right, but we got your point.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Let him try it, you got And yeah again, I
just don't think it's sustainable.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
We know that. I just think the idea of poo
pool and it's shutting it down. Now, that's right. Who
came up with that poop poo? I don't know. You
said you're the poo pool king.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I'm the pool I'm the poo pool king. Absolutely there,
you have it, all right, Jared Bell.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You never went to a Chinese restaurant and had a
pool pool platter?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I haven't had the pool rob g you ever have
a pool pool platter? No, that wasn't the menu when
I was there.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Mary, have you had a pool pool platter? They used
to sell no bread at a Chinese restaurant? Come on, Mary,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We got if they put bread on the table at
a Chinese restaurant, get up and walk out.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Yeah that ain't that ain't that's somebody else in the
back round. Let me see you've never seen that. Let
me see the buns. Those are fire.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
At a Chinese restaurant. They have buns like.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Delicacy, like the borderline melting your mouth. Don't think like traditional.
But can you put a hamburger on it?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Okay, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Mary?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I'm a sophisticated and some point what I don't want
to be sophisticated.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I want to be me.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I just want to be me. You are well, nothing
but that Jared Bell, who knows you well. Hall of Fame,
Hall of famer.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
We're gonna talk to him USA today, NFL columnists. We'll
get to him, talks some football with him in just
a minute. But right now, it's what's trading Manzieline?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know MONSI Rob, you can be a sophisticated version
of yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
You think so, you don't want to be you want
to be getting to be ghetto. I have an Ivy
League education. How could I be got a ghetto?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Because you order taketos from seven to eleven regularly.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yes, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You know what, I'm thinking about going to get my
PhD at USC That's what I'm live just because first time?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
What do you need it for?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
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Speaker 6 (21:52):
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Jared Bell on X give him a follow if you
don't already, brother, Jared?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What's up man? How are you?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh? Hanging in there?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Rob?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
How you doing? Bro?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I wanted to say that in twenty twenty two he
won the.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Bill a non memorial Award and is in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
We always got to give you your flower. Sure, absolutely,
what's happening?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Thank you, sir. I appreciate that I'm sitting here at
the NABJ Combine gathering that our mad Clarence Hill and
d Labbatter put together. So okay, you hear some of
the noise in the background.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All right, I want to know how many black writers
are covering the NFL at this dinner?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
How many? How many are out there? I'm curious?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Yeah, that's probably about forty people.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
That's a big wow. That's a lot, y'all. Y'all waited
the nab jail.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I know, right, that's like that's a sports test on
your way, right, very nice? All right, Well, you wrote
a a great piece the other day about, uh, the
terrible hiring record of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
What was me?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
What a shocker as far as the offensive coordinator ever
since Eric b enemy right got the ziggy basically so Jared.
The stat that's in there that's incredible is oh for
twenty nine, Yeah, that there have been twenty nine openings
and no black offensive coordinator coaches have been hired to
be offensive coordinator. What do you what do you make
(23:30):
of this? And what's happened to the NFL?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
I don't think that that's ever happened in back to
back years over the past say, twenty twenty five thirty years,
there was always, you know, a black coordinator in the league.
Somewhere doing you know, getting opportunities. And you know, we've
talked about the issue with you know, black head coaches
(23:54):
being hired and the you know, abysmal numbers when it
comes to that, and you just posed that rob against
the you know, the hirings of head coaches in general,
and more than half of these coaches are offensive coordinators.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
That get opportunities.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Now, we just saw Aaron Glenn get hired as a
Jets coach as a defensive coordinator, right, so you you
definitely have another path to become a head coach besides
being an offensive coordinator. But when you look at the
numbers and you look at the fact that most more
coaches than than others get the opportunity as offensive coordinators,
(24:35):
the lack of coordinators being hired on the offensive side
is really problematic when you think about the long term
possibilities of head coaches being hired. And so it's two
cycles in a row, twenty nine out of twenty nine.
As I mentioned in the article where you know, white.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Guys have been hired as offensive coordinators.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Here's one thing I want to say, and I'd stop
me if I'm wrong, because if I'm wrong with the numbers,
but I'm almost positive in all the years Mike Tomlin
has been there, I think he's only hired one black
coach to be either offensive or defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Is that not true?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
I'd have to double check the number. I mean, his
defensive coordinator right now is CHERRYL.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Austin. I'd have to go back.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's an unbelievable It's an unbelievable thing.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I want you to check that out on the next
story because you know that is mind boggling because he's
been a coach for a long time, you know what
I mean, and he's had a lot of openings.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
But yeah, this is bad.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Eric b enemy with Kansas City, and let's just be honest.
And I know there's a lot of other things some
players are missing, but their offense is not the same
and hasn't been for the last few years.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Yeah, that definitely would would agree with that. And you
know when b n me went to Washington, you know,
he left Kansas City. He could have stayed in Kansas
City as offensive coordinator, but he tried to, you know,
kind of push himself to another level because he was
so frustrated that he didn't get a head coach and
shot like say a Matt Nagy, who was offensive coordinator
(26:16):
as well under Andy Reid, got a shot. And now
he's back in that role with the chiefs after the
enemy left, and so be enemy goes to Washington, which
was a tough situation because Ron Rivera was on thin
ice as the head coach, right, but the enemy felt like, hey,
let me go and at least see what I can do.
They didn't have a quarterback, you know. And the interesting
(26:40):
thing was that when he got to Washington, people were
saying that he was too hard right, went to Rivera
and they started grumbling about the fact that the enemy was,
you know, expecting too much of them. And I thought
that was really revealing in a positive way for Eric Benemy,
even though he only lasted one year job and Bavaria
(27:01):
got fired and everybody got cleaned out and he ended
up going to the college level. He's back in the
NFL now, but not as a coordinator.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And you know, those.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Opportunities are so far few between, and you've got to
have a lot of things that go right, including having
a quarterback and having talent, and you know, for the enemy,
it you know, it goes deeper than that, because here
was a guy who was passed over so many times
as a head coach, and you just always wondered why,
(27:36):
and you can still wonder why when you see so
many other people get opportunities. So hopefully he'll you know,
get a chance to you know, re establish himself and
get another shot. But the point of the story was
the fact that there are just not a lot of
you know, black coaches in the pipeline on the offensive side,
in those key offensive positions, in terms of coordinator, in
(27:58):
the quarterback room, back coaches, even offensive line coaches. So
I think that's where the Fritz Polor the lines for sure,
is looking and has talked about it. And you know,
these things are interesting too while because you see people
get these opportunities as coordinators and their resumes are pretty
(28:20):
slight when you talk about where they came from to
get that opportunity. And so that's another thing. But you know,
if you're looking for a job, rob to see if
you can can hook up with Sear McVay.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
All I need to do is have a cup of
coffee in a sweet role and they'll hire me because
he's off.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Because a lot of these guys just seem to, you know,
And that's no knock on Sean McVay at all, because
I think the world of Sear McVay as a coach,
but yeah, a lot of his guys have just kind
of really been able to fast track to other opportunities.
And you look at Kevin O'Connell with the Minnesota Vikings,
and I don't think anybody would say that that he
(29:03):
was a bad hire for the Vikings, and he came
from the Sean McVay tree. So again, I'm not trying
to cast a spurson on McVeigh, but I'm just saying
that certain people get opportunities that others don't. And so
when it comes to you know, black coordinators getting that
opportunity and that grooming and that nurturing, that has to
(29:23):
still happen on a much broader level.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Jared Bell, I Guess Hall of Fame writer, USA Today
NFL columnist Jared Bell on Twitter. Real quick, we don't
have much more time, but I would want to ask
you about this. I mean, we're talking about this in
an era in which so many of the star quarterbacks
in the league are black, and you would in the
league that is, you know, around seventy percent black, you
would think just simply based off almost like an American census, right,
(29:49):
just naturally, or what we have a representation of in
the league, you would think there would be more based
off as I mentioned, more quarterbacks are black, that they
would be like, hey.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
This just makes sense.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
How you feel like you got the di stuff that's
happening in the country, happening even in the NFL too.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
What do you think of players?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
How have you had a chance to talk to the
players how they feel about this, maybe, like I said,
specifically quarterbacks at all.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Yeah, not specifically since I wrote that story, but it's
definitely a thing that has been discussed over, you know,
many years, and what I found is that players generally
don't get but so involved when it comes to this issue.
And that's a bit frustrating because if anybody can have
(30:35):
a voice that might have an influence, it would be
you know, the quarterback or the coach or one of
the key players on a team. And they have just
not been as inclined as I think they could be
in knowing their power and really kind of pushing for guys. Now,
you know, we talked about Eric Banemy a few minutes ago,
(30:58):
and I know when he was in the mix for
head coaching jobs over multiple years, his players really spoke
up for him black and white, Okay, but that still
didn't get them a job. But in terms of what's
happening on some of these other levels with the coordinators
and the quarterbacks, no, I have not seen a big
movement on that front. So a great question. I wish
(31:22):
I had more depth to that answer, but it is
one that has been kind of, you know, in the.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Mix for quite some time.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
And I just I think with players so often and
not necessarily quarterbacks, but players in general. You know, there's
such a cycle in the NFL where guys come and
go and they leave this team to go to that
team and this team. But yeah, I think more concentrated
effort to really speak up on behalf of of some
of the up and rising coaches would be, you know,
(31:52):
would be a good thing. But even without that, I'm
still sitting here thinking about different guys, like saying, David Shaw,
who's back in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
I saw that. Yeah, Yeah, And I'll say this the
one that stands out to me.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I mentioned it earlier in the show when Ray Rhase
was the coach of the Green Bay Packers in nineteen
ninety nine. And do you remember this, Jared, he had
a black offensive end defensive coordinator in Green Bay. Sherman
Lewis was the offensive coordinator and Emma Thomas was the
defensive coordinator. That was the first time I think it
ever happened. It was opening Grand Clothes. That was one
(32:27):
year or two. I mean, the only they said.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Here you go, get on, all right, Jared, thank you
so much, Jared Bell. Make sure you go check out
his article again USA Today. Appreciate you. Calm, I appreciate you.
The Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Jared, Thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Okay, no product, all right on the way. Uh you
got something you need to get off your chest?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I gotta see if this is too bougie. All right,
I'm not that boogie. I'm a regular guy. What did
you Mary said? I was gettle you give me ghetto woogie,
ghetto fabulous.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Yeah, get We'll get into that. It is a little
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I never met never met her for a second.
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I met Brandy at ESPN Nice. She came Monday. What
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You know, you got your friends with her daughter. So yeah,
I'm not anymore.
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That's right, an abbreviated version of shop talk and saying
when we talk about something happening outside of the world
of sports. This week, We could have went to the news,
could have went to movies, but there was one story
that stood out above the rest Rob Parker, as you know,
has a lot of quirks about him. This might be
the quirkiest thing.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Okay, let's hear this. Rob.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Tell us what you did to a pair of sweatpants
and let us discuss.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
So I bought a pair of sweatpants and I'm gonna
say high end because they cost seventy five dollars.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
I'm just gonna be oh, put all on the tape,
so don't get you one minute. It has to be
six dollars ninety eight seventy.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I will admit that I have this thing about trying
to find the perfect sweatpants. Like that is a like
if I'm to your pair of sweatpants, I'm buying them
if I think like that's that's fit. Yes, I'm looking
for the So the problem with them? And they're really
nice and soft. I love them, you know what I mean,
And I thinkness and everything's perfect. But the legs were
(35:09):
like bell bottoms. Those are not you can't wear those
with sneakers or kicks or whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
It's just that's that's like, what's crazy is that's the
new look.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
But that's not for me. I'm not wearing bell bottomed sweatpants.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
That's the look.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So I took them to the tailor and I had
them tailored. I had them what do they call it, tapered?
And now my favorite sweatpants. I actually just got rid
of a couple of sweatpants. Now these are the ones
I had. I think I told you I got uh
during my breath during my birthday. So these are these
(35:45):
are now my favorite? All right, so you give me
thumbs down? Why, Mary Max, I'm not. I feel offended
because I'm wearing the little bell bottoms.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
No, but that's for women wear bell bottoms. But I
haven't watched. Hey guys walk into the time. You ain't
seeing us straight there. I'm not wearing. There is no
straight leg. But is that a big deal to get?
So here's sweatpants tapered?
Speaker 6 (36:09):
No, here's what it is. Not that it's the biggest
of deals. Although sweatpants is kind of crazy talk. The
thing that makes it interesting is again, you're the guy
who will go nine different places looking for the deal,
yet you will spend seventy five dollars on sweatpants taylored
them with another thirty bucks twenty five. I knew it
thirty bucks, I said, So you spent over one hundred dollars.
(36:29):
It's called one hundred bucks on some sweat I don't
get you sometimes.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Also the new sweatpants because I don't know mine. They
have I can like scrunch them up like they have
the where I can scrunch them up. No, but I
know what he's I know the I know what he's saying.
All right, Rob, G have you ever had a pair
of sweatpants? Tip, that's crazy? Once in my life? That's done.
Do you think it's crazy? That's crazy?
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Now?
Speaker 5 (36:49):
I was telling Rob before the show. I know one
tailoring story I thought was wild, and this one topped it.
Until I was in high school where I had our
football pictures that you know, the off season, and I
was a fresh men the senior the varsity strength the
conditioning coach had on the tightest coaches polo I'd ever seen,
like all his muscles are coming out, looks like he
was painted on. And our head coach, the freshman coach
(37:11):
asked the varsity a coach like, hey, why didn't you
just get him an excel like, what.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Are you doing?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I did, We got everybody excels and he had it tailored,
so make it tighter on.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
His No, no, no, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Didn't rob that's crazy at least, just like I just
needed a little taper from my bottom.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
But you know I love sweat pen.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Yeah, like that's the only reason why it's crazy is
because it's sweats.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
If there were even jeans, I will give you sweats.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Is kind of like come as is like whatever you
are is what you are looser because there's a multitude sweat.
Sometimes you got the back of your ones, you got
the joggers, you got the like I got some joggers
on right now.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
You see. I mean what you say? You like this?
You like the little taper at the bottom like that, Yeah,
not scrunched all the way.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
But I'm like, yeah, the bell bottom kind of lamar
at the super.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Bowl, all tight things are in I know, not for me.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah, I respect you liking what you like, but I
want to feel comfortable. They're like, I've never tailored cotton
in my life. They have never tailored cotton like sweats
in their life. They're like, I guess I'm doing it
right now.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
I've never done this before. That's how you know he
got money.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
No, No, I don't. I'm bro
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Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, man, baseball got here.
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Speaker 4 (02:02):
Jared Bell, Hall of fame football writer.
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Speaker 4 (02:13):
So we don't talk to him about that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Looking forward to that, Rob g Let's talk about Travis
Hunter and comments he made.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, so of course he met with the media today
for the first time since going to the NFL Combine,
where he was listed as a defensive back only that was.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
A big a dB talking point for us here on
this show.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
And if you saw the photos online, it's gonna blow
your mind because while most of these guys have you know,
fifteen twenty reporters around and maybe five six asked questions,
Travis Hunter had at least one hundred different media members
surrounding him.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, what was a Heisman trophy?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
And he's answering questions and to his credit, he didn'
answer all the questions, but he wasn't exactly you know,
elaborative in his answer. So the fact that he was
up there for so long was just shows how, you know,
what people think of him, that everybody wants to be
around and get some of Travis Hunner. And naturally during
his media availability, everybody's asking him about his insistence I'm
(03:12):
playing both sides of the football, because he did so
in college. He was a Defensive Player of the Year
in the Big Twelve. He also was the National blendakov
wide Receiver of the Year, so he's got all the awards.
And when they said, hey, are you still planning on
playing both sides of the football. If so, do you
want to be full time like you were in college?
And he says, absolutely. Quote they say nobody's ever done
(03:35):
it the way I do it, But I tell them
I'm just different. I'm a different person. End quote.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know what, what's that They should absolutely give him
a chance of doing it his first year. He's willing
to do it and put in the grind, put in
the work, and the kid really believes that he can
do both. I don't understand it. You don't stop a prodigy.
We've talked about this before. It's not for everybody. Everybody
(04:03):
was U show TONI has been in the big leagues
for how many years now.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Like four or five? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Like he was with the Angels for how many years
it's been that I was in the sixth yeah, rob
g find out is it six.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Years with the Angels? He just had a three quarter
coach shot. But this is my point. You haven't seen
anybody follow show.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, nobody else might be able to, you know what
I mean, there's a right, but it ain't happen like now,
you know, like right, And this is the same thing
with Travis Henley. I mean, Travis Hunter, it ain't going
to We're not talking about If this is for everybody,
you give them a chance at one shot. So this
(04:51):
is his seventh year or seventh fold that he's passed.
He played seven years, that is eight year coming up?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
This very nice? This will be eight Okay, this so
why MONSI runs those tours.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I know, I know she knows what's going on, but
you get my point is that he's nobody else is
come along, right, this might be a one off. That's
why you have to let Hunter explore this and not
just be like WHOA, I got news for you. They
used to do it in the NFL. Hello, before everybody
(05:22):
got specialized and they had offensive.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
With your friends play both sides of the ball. It's
not like it's never been done in the NFL. I
get it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Back then they played eight games or twelve games or
whatever it was the number, right, It was different. But
you don't want to see if this kid maybe it's
something special to give them a chance at it. As
soon as he's too tired as a dB or whatever
and he's getting burnt out there or he's dropping passes
(05:56):
as a wide receiver, then as a coach, I could say, okay,
I'm done, but I think this is a mistake not
to let this kid explore everything. That's laid out for him.
He's a special pertion because we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
They've been telling him we can't do it every step
of the way to Rob, all right, you can't do
it in college like that.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You can do a player too, Okay, you can't.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
The dude plays like almost eighty ninety percent of the
snaps on both sides of the ball. It's crazy. He's
just a freak of nature like that. He's built for it,
and he and he wants to try. But here I'm
gonna go I'm gonna scale it back even a little
bit more than what you were just saying.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
You know, want to know why the NFL sometimes get
called the not fund league the no fun league, because,
let's say, Rob, even if it makes sense what they say, Hey,
that's too much in the NFL. It's too hard, it's
too specialized. The guys are better than college players. Okay,
I will concede that point to you. He couldn't do
both at the combine and underwearing tank tops. He couldn't
(06:55):
go dB receiver at the combine.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
That's the stupidest thing for me.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Everybody's there, Rob g just said, one hundred media folks
there he's the Rainy Heisman Trophy winner. We can't just
enjoy this for two or three days in Indianapolis. Ain't
nothing else happening. Okay, I mean not take a shot
at Indianapolis.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I like, now they got the Saint Elbows has great
shrimp cock. Yet shout to them, shot at them. Have
you been there?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I haven't it a great restaurant. I'm telling them, I've been.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
To the Inniapolis's pretty actually, got a bunch of Washington's
out there, a lot of family that I didn't even
know I had when I went out there.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But that's not my point.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
My point is, I know Robb G's never been close
to Indianapolis. That's just so far from la.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
If I told him as a bunch of black folk,
he'd be there. You know, Robb G is Honorey Black.
Actually didn't evend it. He's just black at this point. Now,
my point is, it's the combine. You can't just go
to the combine and let him play dban receiver like
the NFL is a overthinking this. It's just the combine,
it's just the show. It's just a spectacle. Let him
do it there. Now, when we get to the league.
(07:52):
I believe to your point, there's a big campaign you have,
like if he signed with Nike, you can already see
the whole Remember Bo just does when Bo Jackson had
all those commercials. Bow knows, Bo knows this, Bow knows that,
Dion Sanders and the like. There's a whole campaign you
can build around this kid. What's he gonna do? What
is he canna be? You run with the mystery of it.
(08:14):
I believe eventually it plays itself out where he becomes
just a you know, a receiver, where he becomes just
a dB. Eventually you get to that place where all
right levels out. We know what he's gonna be. We'll
throw him a trick, play here, gadget play here. We'll
let him return a kick, punt or something, a punt
or a kick return here or there. But the idea
that you just cancel it right now is ridiculous. If
I'm a team that is about to get Travis Hunter,
(08:35):
We're gonna keep the mystery alive. I want people buying tickets.
I want it to unexpected, to surprise. You never know
what he's gonna be, what he can do, and you
build up the momentum for how unique and special vitality
is I'm not gonna shut it down before it even starts.
So to me, I'm just shocked that they that they
won't see the opportunity for this in the marketing end
of it, for the.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Fun of the league of it.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
And going back to our simple point, not even in
T shirts and draws, can the man be a dB
and a receiver. That's just come on. With the NFL,
that's just ridiculous. There's no reason why he should have
did both at the combine.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Right, That's as simple as a guess the easiest right, right.
But I just think, what what's so wrong? Like they
could have they the Angels could have told show, hey,
what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Just come over here. All we need to do is
play every day and we need your bat or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, they were like, Okay, nobody's done it since the twenties,
since Babe Ruth.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Let's sell let's try it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And because it's right and and the worst thing that
can happen is he doesn't play well on one of
the two sides. You decide, okay, as a dB or
as a he's not a wide receiver, he's a dB
or whatever it is. And then you go and say
we're going to go to that. No, no egg on
his face, no issues, nothing, It's just like, Okay, we
(09:58):
tried it. We think it's too much for him to
be able to do both, and we're getting fifty percent
of each rather than one hundred percent on one.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I think to just be saying no's right now is
crazy when we saw Deon Sanders do it from kick
returns and punt returns and obviously a couple of plays
here or there, you know, in a slot or something like.
To just say no already is what's crazy to me.
I'm gonna just play, see what we got, let it go,
let us see what the fans want to see from him,
and have a little fun with it.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
That's just me.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
And eventually, like I said, it'll level itself out. He'll
find his ground and find what he's best at between
the two positions, and you move on from there. But
to just deny it right now, before we even he's
even on a team, it's crazy. So if I'm a team,
I'm drafting him and I'm saying, man, the sky's the limit.
We can see what you can do, well, see how
far we can take this, and eventually we'll find a
home for you in a position.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
But let's just see, let's have some fun with it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Absolutely, I think it's a mistake by the NFL. And
you're right, you said it earlier, the no fun league.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Sometimes they out think him. Remember I told you that one.
Remember what were we talking about saying you overthink it?
What was that again?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Was the coach who went on the mic was like, hey,
don't stow in the court. Sometimes you just overthink things.
To me, the combine who freaking cares, let him go
be a dB and a wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
He can do it. He can do it. I think
he can.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
He just went trophies for both of them in college.
He's you know, NFL, shoot, let's not let's throw him.
You know, fifteen players of offensive game.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You know what? There was? There was another rob G
I don't know if you had you didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Have this cut of a Hunter being an interviewed. You
said how many people one hundred reporters and stuff for
around him? And then some people said, uh so, uh,
you know, you could be a wide receiver or you
could be a dB, and Hunter said this.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What do you say?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
There? You go? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
One movie was that from again, that's scared. You think
it was a little and the window in there.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I think so. And what did he mean by that?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Well, I think he was talking about the yellow brick road, right, No,
but no, no, I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
The scene, you know that, right, But but he's going,
some people go this way, some people go that way,
then again some people go both.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
With me, that was the loss and they was freaky.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Back in the thirties forties, they was freaky, and we
talk about it nowadays it's just more out there.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
They was freaking out. I'm gonna say this. On those movies, though,
I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Women used to get beat up and slapped around and
movies in the forties.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Do you ever watch those movies? Oh my gosh, all
they do is slap women. I can't even like, I
can't even watch it. Crazy to watch it, a little
too much excitement in your voice.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I needed you to be.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Back in the day, they used to slap right up.
I mean, honestly, me and Monsie were kind of wait
for you to get to your point.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Where they were like, I thought he was going. I
thought he's gonna anyway. And I'm glad things have changed
I'm glad to hurry up, get to that ro You
had that nervous for a minute.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
No, I'm just saying around back then, I watch have
you seen it? Have you seen it? Excited? But they
used to be like you ever seen these movies? No,
I don't think I'm missing much either.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
No, No, they would be. It's always like, yeah, like that,
you're going to be home, woman, I'm home when I'm home,
like it.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Was regular, Rob g Am, I lying or they are
not lying? You so right, you can't turn left? Rock
there you go. You got to check three right away.
One of the people. Look at the scarecrow cracking a
little in the windows back in the day.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The point is, what is the point that he should
be able to play both ways?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Offense and defense. That's the biggest point in this home. Well,
this is what I do. I'm supposed to make it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, here we go, pancakes, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I'm done.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
But one of them is actually the pancakes. Actually, Rob Jesus,
here you go.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Allrightb.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Next year when we go, we're not having breakfast with him?
Rob g is that something we are not getting together? Before?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
You act like you didn't do this at dinner too,
eating the man bread hot hot fresh bread.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You ate hot fresh buns of his? Did you? Did you?
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Did you?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Did you? Now? The bread turned it to buns. Mantie
can't remember. It was a big difference between the buns
and slice bread. I didn't remember. Okay, it was a
month ago. Some people go both ways. Just brought us
back full circuit. We're ready to go for a tease,
(14:23):
and you had to make it weird. You do.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I'm just saying I remember you made it weird. You
asked for He was like, O, can you bring out
his buns first?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And I was like, what's that bread? His bread?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Fun?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I never forgot.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I remembered, all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven, seven, nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
She is so beautiful. It's ridiculous, Taylor Rooks. She is.
She is ridiculous, very nice. All right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Should NFL teams allow Travis Hunter to be a full
time two way player at the next level.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
We'll continue that conversation next with you. It is the
odd couple.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
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Speaker 4 (15:00):
You think you slicked to you said that right, because
you're talking about the buns right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
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and stay.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I wasn't eating red f funes and go both ways.
You know what it is WOD.
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Speaker 4 (15:31):
Hey Mary, Oh, it's kind of up. They sold us
for the Golden Girls, right you hit up? That's right?
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Quick trivia for you? Do you know who that was singing?
She's about to sing again right here? Who is this?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Mary J? Blise this one? I'm glad? Who's that?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
She was the star on the show. Uh you and
I t wan Queen Latif? Is that Queen latv yees
star of the show, also sang and wrapped the intro song.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
All right, nice yea makes sense?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
All right?
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(16:31):
an award on both sides of the ball by special,
you're not normal.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And he says he's is different.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
He is NFL saying we gotta be one thing at
the you gotta be a dB only at the combine.
Everyone's saying you can play one position in the league.
Robin I both agreed. Let him give it a shot?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Why not? And what say you a seven to seven
niney nine O one Fox?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So we got Scott in Pennsyl Tucky. You're on the
couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What's up Scott Hey, best team in the radio.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Appreciate you with a doubt.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Let this, let this young man show off. Is God
given town, right, my gosh, who knows?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And making it short.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
In the long run, there could be a bunch of
older guys there, coaches scratching their head saying, wow, we
have something special here.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah, I just due. He's gonna level out. He's not
gonna pay ninety percent of snaps on both sides for ten.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Years, right right? Let me see, Yeah, uh, Dre in Michigan.
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Drake?
Speaker 7 (17:32):
What's up? My good people?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Y all all right?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Yo?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What up?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Drake? Yes, good to hear from you.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I'm good, Thank you, Kevin Ay, Kevin Yo. Hey, when
we said ride out.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
To l A.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
He wasn't sapping another man better or touching the bus.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You said he got l A fire, Drey Drey, I
just had brand I ain't had nobody's buds.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I want you to know that, you.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Know you want to do.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's the last time I'm gonna order bread, ask for
anybody's bread.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, please do and then the next morning at it.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Okay, go ahead, twelve hour span.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
But no, I think as far as like the combat, yeah,
that's stupid. Letting me go ahead and and go do
what you know why they receive ran dB. As far
as the season, it's like I was telling Rod, if
you got kids, sometimes the risk is not worth proving
yourself right. We know, can't nobody play both sides.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
But they did it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They did it before, though, dra They used to do
it in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I'm okay, right, but back then I think the money
wasn't like it is now. Now it's about investments. That's
why they changed most of these rules because they're trying
to protect their investment. So you're not gonna pay this
man millions of dollars and then he only gonna play
four or five games because he hurt the rest, you know.
And then not just that, but if you her number
one wide receiver in your number one dB, he gets hurt,
You hurt on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
But Drake, my biggest point is it's a few plays.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Like I'm not saying you're scheming in eighty but I'm
not gonna shut the eye idea down right now. Plus
from a marketing to I'm selling tickets, man, I'm not
shutting anything down now.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
They did Dion, I would model it like how they
did Dion. You starle defense. But we got a couple
offensive plays for you to get busy with.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I don't have a problem with trying it. That's what
I'm saying. Let the kid try it. Thanks for the call, Drey,
appreciate it. Andrew and Bakersfield, California. You're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Andrew?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What's up?
Speaker 9 (19:25):
Guys? Uh? I got Walter Payton as my number one
greatest athlete of all times, and I got Bo Jackson
his number two. He was a running back and he
also played baseball.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
He was the center fielder for Kansas City.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
Yeah, he was an amazing hitter. And I think Travis
Sunner should let this man go and uh uh he'll
be uh. I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Ok, all right, but we got your point.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Let him try it, you got And yeah again, I
just don't think it's sustainable.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
We know that. I just think the idea of poo
pool and it's shutting it down. Now, that's right. Who
came up with that poop poo? I don't know. You
said you're the poo pool king.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I'm the pool I'm the poo pool king. Absolutely there,
you have it, all right, Jared Bell.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You never went to a Chinese restaurant and had a
pool pool platter?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I haven't had the pool rob g you ever have
a pool pool platter? No, that wasn't the menu when
I was there.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Mary, have you had a pool pool platter? They used
to sell no bread at a Chinese restaurant? Come on, Mary,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We got if they put bread on the table at
a Chinese restaurant, get up and walk out.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Yeah that ain't that ain't that's somebody else in the
back round. Let me see you've never seen that. Let
me see the buns. Those are fire.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
At a Chinese restaurant. They have buns like.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Delicacy, like the borderline melting your mouth. Don't think like traditional.
But can you put a hamburger on it?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Okay, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Mary?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I'm a sophisticated and some point what I don't want
to be sophisticated.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I want to be me.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I just want to be me. You are well, nothing
but that Jared Bell, who knows you well. Hall of Fame,
Hall of famer.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
We're gonna talk to him USA today, NFL columnists. We'll
get to him, talks some football with him in just
a minute. But right now, it's what's trading Manzieline?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know MONSI Rob, you can be a sophisticated version
of yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
You think so, you don't want to be you want
to be getting to be ghetto. I have an Ivy
League education. How could I be got a ghetto?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Because you order taketos from seven to eleven regularly.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yes, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You know what, I'm thinking about going to get my
PhD at USC That's what I'm live just because first time?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
What do you need it for?
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Speaker 4 (22:05):
What's up man? How are you?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh? Hanging in there?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Rob?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
How you doing? Bro?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I wanted to say that in twenty twenty two he
won the.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Bill a non memorial Award and is in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
We always got to give you your flower. Sure, absolutely,
what's happening?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Thank you, sir. I appreciate that I'm sitting here at
the NABJ Combine gathering that our mad Clarence Hill and
d Labbatter put together. So okay, you hear some of
the noise in the background.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All right, I want to know how many black writers
are covering the NFL at this dinner?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
How many? How many are out there? I'm curious?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Yeah, that's probably about forty people.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
That's a big wow. That's a lot, y'all. Y'all waited
the nab jail.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I know, right, that's like that's a sports test on
your way, right, very nice? All right, Well, you wrote
a a great piece the other day about, uh, the
terrible hiring record of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
What was me?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
What a shocker as far as the offensive coordinator ever
since Eric b enemy right got the ziggy basically so Jared.
The stat that's in there that's incredible is oh for
twenty nine, Yeah, that there have been twenty nine openings
and no black offensive coordinator coaches have been hired to
be offensive coordinator. What do you what do you make
(23:30):
of this? And what's happened to the NFL?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
I don't think that that's ever happened in back to
back years over the past say, twenty twenty five thirty years,
there was always, you know, a black coordinator in the league.
Somewhere doing you know, getting opportunities. And you know, we've
talked about the issue with you know, black head coaches
(23:54):
being hired and the you know, abysmal numbers when it
comes to that, and you just posed that rob against
the you know, the hirings of head coaches in general,
and more than half of these coaches are offensive coordinators.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
That get opportunities.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Now, we just saw Aaron Glenn get hired as a
Jets coach as a defensive coordinator, right, so you you
definitely have another path to become a head coach besides
being an offensive coordinator. But when you look at the
numbers and you look at the fact that most more
coaches than than others get the opportunity as offensive coordinators,
(24:35):
the lack of coordinators being hired on the offensive side
is really problematic when you think about the long term
possibilities of head coaches being hired. And so it's two
cycles in a row, twenty nine out of twenty nine.
As I mentioned in the article where you know, white.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Guys have been hired as offensive coordinators.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Here's one thing I want to say, and I'd stop
me if I'm wrong, because if I'm wrong with the numbers,
but I'm almost positive in all the years Mike Tomlin
has been there, I think he's only hired one black
coach to be either offensive or defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Is that not true?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
I'd have to double check the number. I mean, his
defensive coordinator right now is CHERRYL.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Austin. I'd have to go back.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's an unbelievable It's an unbelievable thing.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I want you to check that out on the next
story because you know that is mind boggling because he's
been a coach for a long time, you know what
I mean, and he's had a lot of openings.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
But yeah, this is bad.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Eric b enemy with Kansas City, and let's just be honest.
And I know there's a lot of other things some
players are missing, but their offense is not the same
and hasn't been for the last few years.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Yeah, that definitely would would agree with that. And you
know when b n me went to Washington, you know,
he left Kansas City. He could have stayed in Kansas
City as offensive coordinator, but he tried to, you know,
kind of push himself to another level because he was
so frustrated that he didn't get a head coach and
shot like say a Matt Nagy, who was offensive coordinator
(26:16):
as well under Andy Reid, got a shot. And now
he's back in that role with the chiefs after the
enemy left, and so be enemy goes to Washington, which
was a tough situation because Ron Rivera was on thin
ice as the head coach, right, but the enemy felt like, hey,
let me go and at least see what I can do.
They didn't have a quarterback, you know. And the interesting
(26:40):
thing was that when he got to Washington, people were
saying that he was too hard right, went to Rivera
and they started grumbling about the fact that the enemy was,
you know, expecting too much of them. And I thought
that was really revealing in a positive way for Eric Benemy,
even though he only lasted one year job and Bavaria
(27:01):
got fired and everybody got cleaned out and he ended
up going to the college level. He's back in the
NFL now, but not as a coordinator.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And you know, those.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Opportunities are so far few between, and you've got to
have a lot of things that go right, including having
a quarterback and having talent, and you know, for the enemy,
it you know, it goes deeper than that, because here
was a guy who was passed over so many times
as a head coach, and you just always wondered why,
(27:36):
and you can still wonder why when you see so
many other people get opportunities. So hopefully he'll you know,
get a chance to you know, re establish himself and
get another shot. But the point of the story was
the fact that there are just not a lot of
you know, black coaches in the pipeline on the offensive side,
in those key offensive positions, in terms of coordinator, in
(27:58):
the quarterback room, back coaches, even offensive line coaches. So
I think that's where the Fritz Polor the lines for sure,
is looking and has talked about it. And you know,
these things are interesting too while because you see people
get these opportunities as coordinators and their resumes are pretty
(28:20):
slight when you talk about where they came from to
get that opportunity. And so that's another thing. But you know,
if you're looking for a job, rob to see if
you can can hook up with Sear McVay.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
All I need to do is have a cup of
coffee in a sweet role and they'll hire me because
he's off.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Because a lot of these guys just seem to, you know,
And that's no knock on Sean McVay at all, because
I think the world of Sear McVay as a coach,
but yeah, a lot of his guys have just kind
of really been able to fast track to other opportunities.
And you look at Kevin O'Connell with the Minnesota Vikings,
and I don't think anybody would say that that he
(29:03):
was a bad hire for the Vikings, and he came
from the Sean McVay tree. So again, I'm not trying
to cast a spurson on McVeigh, but I'm just saying
that certain people get opportunities that others don't. And so
when it comes to you know, black coordinators getting that
opportunity and that grooming and that nurturing, that has to
(29:23):
still happen on a much broader level.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Jared Bell, I Guess Hall of Fame writer, USA Today
NFL columnist Jared Bell on Twitter. Real quick, we don't
have much more time, but I would want to ask
you about this. I mean, we're talking about this in
an era in which so many of the star quarterbacks
in the league are black, and you would in the
league that is, you know, around seventy percent black, you
would think just simply based off almost like an American census, right,
(29:49):
just naturally, or what we have a representation of in
the league, you would think there would be more based
off as I mentioned, more quarterbacks are black, that they
would be like, hey.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
This just makes sense.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
How you feel like you got the di stuff that's
happening in the country, happening even in the NFL too.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
What do you think of players?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
How have you had a chance to talk to the
players how they feel about this, maybe, like I said,
specifically quarterbacks at all.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Yeah, not specifically since I wrote that story, but it's
definitely a thing that has been discussed over, you know,
many years, and what I found is that players generally
don't get but so involved when it comes to this issue.
And that's a bit frustrating because if anybody can have
(30:35):
a voice that might have an influence, it would be
you know, the quarterback or the coach or one of
the key players on a team. And they have just
not been as inclined as I think they could be
in knowing their power and really kind of pushing for guys. Now,
you know, we talked about Eric Banemy a few minutes ago,
(30:58):
and I know when he was in the mix for
head coaching jobs over multiple years, his players really spoke
up for him black and white, Okay, but that still
didn't get them a job. But in terms of what's
happening on some of these other levels with the coordinators
and the quarterbacks, no, I have not seen a big
movement on that front. So a great question. I wish
(31:22):
I had more depth to that answer, but it is
one that has been kind of, you know, in the.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Mix for quite some time.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
And I just I think with players so often and
not necessarily quarterbacks, but players in general. You know, there's
such a cycle in the NFL where guys come and
go and they leave this team to go to that
team and this team. But yeah, I think more concentrated
effort to really speak up on behalf of of some
of the up and rising coaches would be, you know,
(31:52):
would be a good thing. But even without that, I'm
still sitting here thinking about different guys, like saying, David Shaw,
who's back in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
I saw that. Yeah, Yeah, And I'll say this the
one that stands out to me.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I mentioned it earlier in the show when Ray Rhase
was the coach of the Green Bay Packers in nineteen
ninety nine. And do you remember this, Jared, he had
a black offensive end defensive coordinator in Green Bay. Sherman
Lewis was the offensive coordinator and Emma Thomas was the
defensive coordinator. That was the first time I think it
ever happened. It was opening Grand Clothes. That was one
(32:27):
year or two. I mean, the only they said.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Here you go, get on, all right, Jared, thank you
so much, Jared Bell. Make sure you go check out
his article again USA Today. Appreciate you. Calm, I appreciate you.
The Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Jared, Thanks, I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Okay, no product, all right on the way. Uh you
got something you need to get off your chest?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Huh yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I gotta see if this is too bougie. All right,
I'm not that boogie. I'm a regular guy. What did
you Mary said? I was gettle you give me ghetto woogie,
ghetto fabulous.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Yeah, get We'll get into that. It is a little
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Speaker 6 (33:20):
The Odd Couple on a TV theme song Thursday, Little
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Speaker 4 (33:31):
I never met never met her for a second.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I met Brandy at ESPN Nice. She came Monday. What
was the what was the she was coming through when
we were at first tay or something. But I got
to meet her. I have a picture somewhere with her.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
You know, you got your friends with her daughter. So yeah,
I'm not anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
But oh yeah, I live a ro by night might
be shop talking.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
A whole different a whole different person. Hold on, clarify
that that might all right? Another go here we go.
Let's right, we are coming to.
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Speaker 5 (34:16):
That's right, an abbreviated version of shop talk and saying
when we talk about something happening outside of the world
of sports. This week, We could have went to the news,
could have went to movies, but there was one story
that stood out above the rest Rob Parker, as you know,
has a lot of quirks about him. This might be
the quirkiest thing.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Okay, let's hear this. Rob.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Tell us what you did to a pair of sweatpants
and let us discuss.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
So I bought a pair of sweatpants and I'm gonna
say high end because they cost seventy five dollars.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
I'm just gonna be oh, put all on the tape,
so don't get you one minute. It has to be
six dollars ninety eight seventy.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I will admit that I have this thing about trying
to find the perfect sweatpants. Like that is a like
if I'm to your pair of sweatpants, I'm buying them
if I think like that's that's fit. Yes, I'm looking
for the So the problem with them? And they're really
nice and soft. I love them, you know what I mean,
And I thinkness and everything's perfect. But the legs were
(35:09):
like bell bottoms. Those are not you can't wear those
with sneakers or kicks or whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
It's just that's that's like, what's crazy is that's the
new look.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
But that's not for me. I'm not wearing bell bottomed sweatpants.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
That's the look.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So I took them to the tailor and I had
them tailored. I had them what do they call it, tapered?
And now my favorite sweatpants. I actually just got rid
of a couple of sweatpants. Now these are the ones
I had. I think I told you I got uh
during my breath during my birthday. So these are these
(35:45):
are now my favorite? All right, so you give me
thumbs down? Why, Mary Max, I'm not. I feel offended
because I'm wearing the little bell bottoms.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
No, but that's for women wear bell bottoms. But I
haven't watched. Hey guys walk into the time. You ain't
seeing us straight there. I'm not wearing. There is no
straight leg. But is that a big deal to get?
So here's sweatpants tapered?
Speaker 6 (36:09):
No, here's what it is. Not that it's the biggest
of deals. Although sweatpants is kind of crazy talk. The
thing that makes it interesting is again, you're the guy
who will go nine different places looking for the deal,
yet you will spend seventy five dollars on sweatpants taylored
them with another thirty bucks twenty five. I knew it
thirty bucks, I said, So you spent over one hundred dollars.
(36:29):
It's called one hundred bucks on some sweat I don't
get you sometimes.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Also the new sweatpants because I don't know mine. They
have I can like scrunch them up like they have
the where I can scrunch them up. No, but I
know what he's I know the I know what he's saying.
All right, Rob, G have you ever had a pair
of sweatpants? Tip, that's crazy? Once in my life? That's done.
Do you think it's crazy? That's crazy?
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Now?
Speaker 5 (36:49):
I was telling Rob before the show. I know one
tailoring story I thought was wild, and this one topped it.
Until I was in high school where I had our
football pictures that you know, the off season, and I
was a fresh men the senior the varsity strength the
conditioning coach had on the tightest coaches polo I'd ever seen,
like all his muscles are coming out, looks like he
was painted on. And our head coach, the freshman coach
(37:11):
asked the varsity a coach like, hey, why didn't you
just get him an excel like, what.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Are you doing?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I did, We got everybody excels and he had it tailored,
so make it tighter on.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
His No, no, no, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Didn't rob that's crazy at least, just like I just
needed a little taper from my bottom.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
But you know I love sweat pen.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Yeah, like that's the only reason why it's crazy is
because it's sweats.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
If there were even jeans, I will give you sweats.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Is kind of like come as is like whatever you
are is what you are looser because there's a multitude sweat.
Sometimes you got the back of your ones, you got
the joggers, you got the like I got some joggers
on right now.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
You see. I mean what you say? You like this?
You like the little taper at the bottom like that, Yeah,
not scrunched all the way.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
But I'm like, yeah, the bell bottom kind of lamar
at the super.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Bowl, all tight things are in I know, not for me.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Yeah, I respect you liking what you like, but I
want to feel comfortable. They're like, I've never tailored cotton
in my life. They have never tailored cotton like sweats
in their life. They're like, I guess I'm doing it
right now.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
I've never done this before. That's how you know he
got money.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
No, No, I don't. I'm bro
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