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September 8, 2025 38 mins

Rob and Kelvin debate whether John Harbaugh should be fired after yet another in-game meltdown by the Baltimore Ravens and how much blame Lamar Jackson deserves in all of this, discuss why Brock Purdy never gets the same benefit of the doubt that Joe Burrow gets, preview tonight's Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vikings, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob's nightly bets. 

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g can we talk about the meltdown that happened last
night with the Ravens who were up with four and
a half minutes to go forty to twenty five. People

(05:48):
were looking going, my goodness, gracious, look at them roll
on the road the first game of the year, right
forty points on the roll was impressed though it was,
and then the rains came as far them melting down.

Speaker 9 (06:01):
And then Josh Allen put on his Superman cape and
saved Crypton. That's right, because the Baltimore and Ravens you
mentioned it, led by fifteen points under five minutes to
go in the game. Before last night, NFL teams had
won seven hundred and seventeen consecutive games in that scenario.
In fact, the last team last time a team lost
a game like that was in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
It gets worse, though.

Speaker 9 (06:24):
Baltimore, with about seven minutes left in the game, according
to ESPN win probability Index, had a ninety eight point
seven percent chance of winning the game, and they lost.
It was the eight times since twenty twenty one that
they lost the game with at least a ninety percent
win probability, three more than the next closest team.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I got some more numbers for you. Check this out.

Speaker 9 (06:46):
The Ravens became the first team in NFL history to
lose a game where they had forty plus points and
two hundred and thirty five plus rushing yards. NFL teams
are now two seventy seven and one in that situation.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
According to the Associated this reminds me of that Knicks
playoff game. My next and the Celtics right that same
kind of deal, right like this the game you can't
believe it.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
And then here's the worst one. If you're a Harball
fan or if you're a Harbaugh family member. Head coach
John Harbaugh now has the most losses with a ten
plus point second half lead seventeen by any head coach
in at least the last thirty five season.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
All right, and I want you to go right there.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
All the people we know the easy pointing of the finger,
and I've heard it all day. Lamar should have just
run for the first down. Okay, blame Lamar, even though
he played a really good game. Derek Henry Eye fumble,
blah blah blah, that was the game. I'm done with
both of those guys as far as that. I'm going

(07:51):
to be lazy and just pick one of those two
players and say they're the reason why. If I was
ownership of the Baltimore Ravens last night, I would have
fired John Harball. John Harbaugh should be fired as coach

(08:12):
of the Baltimore Ravens. This happens Kelvin way too often.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
With the talent that they have.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Rob g just told you seventeen times they've given up
double digit leads in the second seventeen.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I get it. He won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
It doesn't mean you're a pope or a Supreme Court
justice and you get to have your job forever.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Because you won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Starting to remind me of Mike McCarthy with the Packers,
they won a Super Bowl. Disappointment after disappointment after disappointment.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
One day you wake up and Aaron Rodgers hasn't won
in ten years?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Right, seriously, stop giving Harball pass. Do you remember the
playoff game in the AFC Championship against the Chiefs when
they had some game playing where Lamar threw the ball
every down instead of running. Remember that that was another one.

(09:17):
I can go on and on and on about the
bad situations, the bad losses, and there's one common denominator.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's John Harball. It it's time stop it. I get it.
He won a Super Bowl. You would again, sometimes you
have to make that hard decision. I get it.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
There aren't that many coaches with a Super Bowl in
their back pocket. But man, it's Lamar's eighth year with
John Harby.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Keep playing.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
You wake up one day and ten or twelve years
will have gone by and you'll say, what happened?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
He never won.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
If you can't get fired off of him piss poor
finish like that, you can never get get fired.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Tibbs, Tom Thibodeau.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
You know why he got fired because he had a
performance like that. He had gotten the Knicks shoot up
the furthest they had gone and since Moby Dick was
a guppy and they laid a terrible egg in a
big situation that was supposed to be a revenge redemption game.
They were supposed to storm the rest of the NFL

(10:30):
after that, forty points on the road in Buffalo and
they go home with an L. The l they went
home with was John Harbaugh. He was the L they
went home with.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
John Harball definitely gets some of the smoke.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
You got seventeen comebacks when you had a double digit
league over his career the last ten years he's had eight.
The issue that I have a couple of things. One,
you're not gonna, They're not gonna specifically the Ravens. Ravens
are kind of operating as an AFC version of the
what the Green Bay Packers kind of do, also what
the Steelers do in their own division, Meaning we don't

(11:09):
want a lot of chaos, we don't want a bunch
of turnover, we don't want a bunch of new gms
and a bunch of head coaches and a bunch of
this and a bunch of that. They like stability. That
organization has been well run to the tune of all
these postseason you know, getting into the postseason, also getting
in the Super Bowls over the last you know, twenty
five years. They won one early, they won one, give
it ten years ago or so, and they keep giving

(11:31):
themselves shots with Lamar Jackson over the last seven eight years.
So the issue, I get what you're saying, he has
these comebacks on his watch, but you gotta be also
saying these comebacks are on the watch of Lamar. And
you know, I believe Lamar Jackson's best player in football,
been saying it since I've been on the show, and
before I even got on this show. You and I
agree on that, we have that same sentiment. But the

(11:55):
onus has to fall on we believe the best player
in the NFL, the guy who has win multiple MVPs
and should have won last year as well, he has
to find a way in some of these Now, last night,
Derrick Henry did him no justice with the fumble, who
had an outstanding game until the fumble. And also they
some of the play calling, like to me, I'm going
for it on that fourth down because I have Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
You should you watch the defense for the Ravens. That's
on Lamar. No, no, man, I'm just saying like.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
No, hold on, I'll let you cook. Let me say so,
I'm talking a more broader picture because if I have
to take the broader picture for firing the coach from
a game, you get what I'm saying. So I have
to get the broader because Lamar played his butt off
like he always does. But some of those eight double
digit leads in the lasts and years are on the
Lamar I, meaning he was the quarterback of some of

(12:42):
those teams. Lamar Jackson is so talented he can find
a way. Sometimes Lamar Jackson can look at John Harbaugh
and say, nah, broh, like I've seen many quarterbacks do,
we're going for this. And he looked at Derrick Henry,
he looked at himself and said, we're getting two plus
yards now. The defense was great the first three quarters
or so. I would be very happy with how we

(13:03):
controlled the Bills if you were the Ravens and then
you let Josh Allen go ballistic two hundred and fifty
plus yards.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
In one quarter. So that's why I'm going for a
rob to.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Your point, because the defense hadn't been great, so I'm saying,
we can't stop. Then now all of a sudden, he's
looking like the greatest quarterback we've ever seen. So I'm
about to go for this. I'm not listening none of
y'all talking about put it on me. I am the
leader of this team. I am the franchise. Put it
on me. Fourth and two. I got dreck Henry, I
got myself, I got Zay Flowers, I got tight ends.
I got this offensive line. We're going to get two yards.

(13:35):
And sometimes, as the leader of the team, you make
that happen. So it's not his fault.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
They lost. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now, Lamar played out standing, But what I'm saying is overarching.
Sometimes Lamar has to go ahead and be the reason
take it over. Whether it's the postseason, whether it's last night.
He had to find a way. And to me, did
you hear what you just said? Though, No matter what
I'm saying is specifically on that play, not the overrocking game.
But to your point of firing Harball, you can't just
fire somebody. This is where me and you differ. I'm
not firing somebody who routine leads gets me to know

(14:06):
the team gets me. An opportunity is None of that
makes any sense to me.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
If I have the.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Guy, It's not like you're firing after after two or
three years. This is going on for long, and the
Lamar has been around for eight years. He's one of
the most talented, unique players. And you keep putting all
these teams around and every year there's something every year.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
So I didn't say no smoke.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
I didn't say every game, but seventeen double digit losses,
you're sitting here talking about Lamar when the defense gave up.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
In the fourth quarter, three points in the fourth quarter,
and you're talking about Lamar. What I'm saying is they're
not going not going to get rid of John Harbor. Stop, brother,
they going to I'm telling you they should. I'm not
told like I told you, Chim should have been fired.
You sat here old all day.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Oh Jim just got them to the Eastern Conference finals.
Oh my god, it's the best thing the Knicks have
done in twenty five years.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
And guess what the Knicks did. They said enough and enough.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Don't look like they're gonna be a great What you
don't even know about that ball? John Harball. No, John
Harball is not absolutely way. He's terrible he's been terrible.
That get you. You're not fire, I'm not super Bowl?
Has he gotten you with the mom Tell me I
said he gets you in the possession of.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Super Bowl, then give me to the super Bowl for year.
Give me. You don't have a go to get you
just like in just like in Green, you just said
I got you.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
The team built around Now every year Lamar has a
team everywhere. Lamar is outstanding. But when we get you
plan against the Kansas City Chiefs, go look at it
where they turtles down?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
That was that was Lamar? Who was that? But I'm
not firing John? Why not? He's not getting the job done.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Every year they picked the Raven to go to the
super Bowl and they never get there.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
At some point, you can't keep doing the s. You
can't do the same thing.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
At some point they either get rid of Lamar or
get rid of d Harball. You're not getting rid of
with right, get John Hargets to the postseason. I have
higher expectations, all right, because the second.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Thing ain't smoker.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
For every other quarterback that's been this great, that has
multiple MVPs. So all I'm saying Lamar is the best player.
Not to me, it is too easy, that's lazy.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Look at Tod, Look at the seventeen double digit seventeen.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
He's been the longest tenior coach.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Right now, it's team John Harball as Don Harbaugh is
not the return of Bill Wash He's not Don Schuler.
I'm not arguing that, but I'm not letting this guy
go who continues to give me let.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Him on the bus last night after the game? All right,
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be fired for yet another in game meltdown? And how
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(19:13):
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Speaker 4 (19:14):
Who we got Damon in Louisville. You're on the Odd
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Speaker 2 (19:18):
What's up? Damon?

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Hey, how y'all doing? Rob has a valid point, Harvball's
been there for a long time, and I'm the George
Seaffert and Mike Shanahan were both Force Style of San
Francisco and Denver, and they won multiple championships. And I
don't think you get the ride one title for thirty years.
That Mike Tomlin. You hear that, Mike Tomlin, And that's
all I got to say no, I assure you.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Mike Tomlin is another one like like after a while. Man,
he hadn't won a playoff getting since twenty sixteen. It's
almost been a decade and there at some point John
at least is winning playoff games.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
But at some point you gotta get it.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
At are youre not gonna be able to be there
for forty if this isn't college basketball.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
But I'm not firing John Harball.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
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Speaker 12 (20:03):
What's up, Randy, Calvin, Uncle Rob? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (20:06):
What's up? Ready?

Speaker 12 (20:09):
All right? Now, it's good to hear from y'all. If
I was the GM, I would have left Harball in Buffalo.
Let of course he should be fined. Think about this.
You put up forty points on the road, you dominate
the game, and you lose. I understand you won a
super Bowl, but sometimes that's not enough. Look at how
Philly did with Doug Peterson. He won a Super Bowl.

(20:30):
I think he was gone like three years later, and
now they just won another super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Thank you, thank you. Because they had talent, they had chalent.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
They weren't a friend.

Speaker 12 (20:40):
For you to be able to find the next giant Harball.
Sometimes you gotta fire the current giant Harball if that
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
You know what, that's a great point, Randy, and I
love it.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
In Philadelphia and anyway out on the streets, people are
saying that John Harbaugh is the Doc Rivers of the NFL.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Like that's where he is. Now you know why, you
know why John Harball is not gonna be fired. Let
me tell you.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
John Harball embraced Lamar Jackson in an arrow. Now it's
cool Lamar style. That don't give you a path. But
what I'm saying is he fully embraced Lamar. He said,
you are our guy, you are quarterback. Put tools around you,
bolster you up, go be good, go be great. And
there's a lot of quarterb coaches who would try to
force him to be why don't you run the ball?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Harball did the same thing in San Francisco around Kaepernick,
and he got Jettison out of there as well. Like
I get that, but that doesn't mean you get to
stick around.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Because after a while he did the same thing super
Bowl he beat hi Man. But it's been a long
guy has had who has Lamar Jo.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
But he still went to a super Bowl one like
Jim Harball never got to them.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Has been a good coach everywhere he goes. He lost
to see it even.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Now, Chili, Tim in Atlanta's You're on the yard couple
of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
What's up? Tim?

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Guys done?

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Uh? I've been the supporter of Lamar Jackson since paid
at Louisville, Washington that night in the draft. Have defended him.
You know when people talk about you know how he speaks.
I've always I will always defend him in encouraging But Rob,
he has to start making You can't make one play.
I mean at some point in the game, you got

(22:22):
to start meeting the moment. And I love the mark.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Tim. Let me let me say this to you. Let
me say this to me.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
You can't meet the moment sometimes.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Tim, Let me let me ask you this. Tim, I'm
gonna let you finish. Let me ask you this. Did
he not make a play last year when they played
Buffalo and he threw the ball to Andrews to tie
the game?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Was that not a play? He drove them down the field.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Okay, But but in that situation he had a chance
to tie the game. But but Tim, I'm asking you,
was that a moment.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
There was that a moment.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
If Andrews catches that ball with a minute and ten,
he would have tied the game in Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Correct, So that's it. So that's it. So he didn't
get it done right because Andrews dropped the ball.

Speaker 7 (23:11):
Can I say this too? He also made some critical
moments mistakes before that.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
No, but you can't go there going at the end
of the game where it was on the line.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
You're just talking about making a play at the end.
You know, to be love of guy will still be critical.
You don't know that, right.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I can pay, I can be, but I'm not gonna
blame But I'm not gonna blame you when the.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Defense gives twenty two point twenty two points in the
fourth quarter. We're talking about Game one in Buffalo. But
I'm not going with his whole career. Just got a game. No,
it's about seventeen f in games. That's what it's. It's
about game.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
He can about the prison of.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
The seventeen and.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
You nevern won a Super Bowl in twenty and then
ten me wins the Super Bowl. Lamar, it would have
been fine.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Drew in New Jersey couples squeeze it in, Drew, what's up?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
We got you? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (24:08):
So I want to say this, I don't contigure. It's
a big game, so Lamar daft, I don't see it
like that. I just see it as we saw the
actual MVP in the league who has left, and you
can see why he's the MVP number two.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
It wasn't the m v P last year, Drew. I
don't give a damn what you say. He was not
the m v P. There's no way his stats were
dwarfed by Lamar. I don't even that was some Hey,
Lamar's wanted too much with it's his turn.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
It was not based on the stats.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Left Lamar, who passes for fifteen yards and nine minutes
the last nine minutes of the game.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
And if you're not throwing.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
The ball, what football game when you're up by throwing
the ball?

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Come, let me ask a question here.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
In a game where you're up by fifteen, you throw
the ball or do you run it?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
With a running backs over two.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Hundred answer, whatever it takes you, don't you run the ball.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
And if at this Buffalo team.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
That terrible, terrible football are your playing and you're you're
talking about firing a coach he's not throwing the ball.
They scored forts if they start from one game, so
he's forty points. You're talking about he didn't the game, coach.
It's about a You don't fire coach off of one game,
and so you have to have a lot of conversation

(25:27):
and you have to take in conversation because we're not
having this conversation. Lamar wins the super Bowl. We see
it here right now. Lamar's MVP should have been last
year super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
The last five years have been what in the playoffs?
What do you mean they've been? What have they been?

Speaker 4 (25:43):
They've been disappointing, and the common denominationd No, it's the
coach man, it's a coach, Lamars. It's okay to be
critical at times. I'm not a fan. I'm not a
fan one.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
You can't be critical. It's the coach, Lomar.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Because if this was the same way were talking about Crazy,
the same thing we talked about was Jared Crazy.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Jared Goff hasn't done it.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
If this was Jared Rivers, the same damn core is
the same coach.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Doc Rivers wont one championship. He won one championship and
he held and he's holding one of.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
That stop seven.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
It's okay, you've got seven seven interceptions in eight games
in the postseason.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Lamar, it's not great.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
We got we talked about last freaking night. If you
got scorty forty points, I'm game.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I'm fired to coach timing off of how disappointing.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Over his tenure, and part of that is lamarket the job.
You're the same guy.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Wanted Wayne Fonce with the Lions for twelve years. That's
why they never.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I was eight years old. You don't know what I wanted.
You wanted Wayne Fonce down. You can't move, you gout.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
You gotta get Birl coming up right now, Steve the Seger,
what's trendy, Wayne Fonce? I was five? What are you
talking about? I was five years old, Wayne Fon Steve.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
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Speaker 2 (27:10):
All right, Steve, appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
We are the Eye Couple on a Magic City Monday show.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
You ass Monday.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I just keep telling you, I just don't long as
it's not yours, because I will do the whole rest
of the show like this. Let everybody don't no money,
aching and ee stiff back joints and cooperating. Some days
your body is just like knowing. On those days, luckily
there's a leave with just one pill you have. Of course,
a leave will provide up to twelve hours of paying
relief so you can keep it moving.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Gus, as directed, ale is the only buns brown are yours?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I think, Oh boy, he the best part of Ali
didn't deny it either.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
We need it. We need a buns cam I got
Can we get a buns?

Speaker 10 (27:52):
We'll do that as like a separate subdivision for that.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Alex didn't even deny it either.

Speaker 10 (27:56):
No, he's like, damn, my buds are brown only pants
around when I'm here now.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Exactly what a man.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
The thing that I'm loving about this first week is
all these you know, so many things you can jump
off it, over react to, but one I will say,
I don't know if it caught you off guard like
it called me on guard? Was the Bengals? You and
I both expected the offense to be what it was
it last year. I'm the owner. I'm paying a bunch
of money. Seven yards in the second half from Joe
Burrow on the offense.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
What the heck was that?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
I looked at that and it was so disappointed because
this is a team that again they went out of
their way to sign. They have an amazing receiving corps.
They got Joe Burrow, one of the four horsemen, if
you will, the best quarterbacks we usually say.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
In the league.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And to come out there and have that performance. It's
a divisional game. I expected to be tough. I don't
expect it to be a blowout, but my goodness, seven
yards with that offense, I literally can't even make sense, Like,
how is that even possible?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
I agree, it doesn't make sense, but I left that
game thinking something different that the offense was non existent
and they won a football game where their offense didn't
even show up in the second half. That's incredible that
they got away with that and they were able to win,
which tells me something about their defense, because that that
was a game that could have easily been lost.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
They did play the Browns.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
No, it doesn't matter, but a field goal, they could
have got a field goal and they would have lost
that game. They only one by one point, so they
like they had. The Browns didn't have to score a
million points. All they do is getting field goal right.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
But that's disturbing. I'm paying millions of dollars. What the
freak is going on with this offense? I mean that
seven it's not even better being anomaly, but I'm saying
more of it. That's what I mean. I can't if
I paid you, I mean, you couldn't even fathom that
having those people that you have on the outside, those
receivers like I and Joe Burrow as your quarterback, you
just figure that's automatically one hundred some yards and a half,

(29:49):
just because of that talent that they have, the money
that I'm paying, We're locked in. We're good to go,
and the continuity. These aren't new guys. This isn't a
new roster. So to me, that was one of the
weirdest takeaways by far. There's a few other ones, uh
in the NFL first week that just didn't make any
sense to me. Man and I was and Robin and
Rob g and I were talking like that's one of
the weirder lines that he's not getting any criticism. And

(30:12):
it's strange because we're thinking of it when you look
at what San Francisco was able to do with Purdy
and had he won what he did.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Had he not won, they just look what he did
and he's not worth the money.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
But he pulls it off and it's like, well, they
should have won more, they should have won cleaner. It
was luck And I'm like, dude, Joe Burrow, I expect
more out of you. I need more out of you
with the offense that you have and again the continuity chemistry.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
This is supposed to be easy money. Yeah, but I
don't think, like why is that. I'm just Joe Burrow.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Way more smoke on this Monday morning. And just then
that team that's a don't.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Get people don't get smoked when they win. Winning is
like makeup. It covers up everything.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
And that's why people aren't talking about that, like like, yeah,
it's a footnote had lost and they had seven yards
in the second half.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
I agree with you, But when you win, you just
it's ugly. You move on and you know that that's
not gonna happen again. It's going to happen, that absolutely is.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's and when I was comparing it to what Rock
Party was able to do, I thought by the no.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
You could look at Rock Party and did say he
didn't play that great and that that should have.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Been a pick in the ends Rock Party.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I liked what I saw from him that last drive,
especially given the injuries to kid or after bat. I
don't know what the I don't know if they cursed
the health gods or something. I don't know what what
they got going over there. Guys continue to be injured,
but I like what I saw, just because we were saying.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Now what party might be out?

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, what is what is going on in San Francisco?
But our point was he made a couple of big
throws on that last drive to get them to w
that I liked from Brock Party. So just some footnotes
that we saw over this first week of action. A
whole lot more to get to too. I don't know
what they got going over there. Their health and strength
consditioner needs to be looked at or something over there.
Play to day Shekel City on the way as we

(31:59):
we gotta get you ready for this Monday night football.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
We'll give you that as well.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
It's the odd couple Robin Kelvin on a Magic City Monday,
Stick with your boy. Shout out to YouTube as well
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
You know what I mean, Hey, somebody listening to this
in the Magic City Monday somewhere. You never know it's
the couple. He's Rob, I'm Kelvin. But they got cowboy
boots on. They do have cowboy boots. Coming up to
the stage next day, Chastity. Yeah, there you go. You
must really have met her because that's your go to right,
That's my girl. Appreciate you guys watching us on the

(32:42):
YouTube as well. Appreciate it as always.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
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You'll be able to get your role and we'll have
details for all that. You'll go to the Odd Couple
Fox Sports Radio store. Coming to video to you, Sue.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
I love. The best part about this was the breaking
news that we just got. You saw Wei. I didn't
know the Wii in this? Who is the Wii in
the breaking news? Steve?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
I got this one? Uh, What's what's the Wi in this?
What would I say? We were there. Well, listen, I
better get a uh some of we better get some
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(33:59):
now to Shecho City. Welcome to Shekel City.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
The whole base for Rob Parker's Daley Dix against the spread.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
How you doing all right?

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Friday night? I was two and one, but he's a
total of three and three. As we start new for
this football season.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Oh when did that start?

Speaker 4 (34:21):
We started new on Thursday? Once football season started, No that's.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
We just we started. No because of we started the court?
Are you falling? How many years even doing com was
that two? Not three?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Not four?

Speaker 2 (34:41):
O seven thousand? Yeah? The people I'll get I'll get
on you. We've we started. Elijah knows that this is common.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Place ever heard of.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Here we go, let's do it tonight. Baseball Milwaukee Brewers
minus one and a half. They were in Texas and
Arlington taking on the Rangers, and also the Atlanta Braids
plus one and a half. They are taking on the
Cubs in Atlanta and they're already up three nothing plus
to one and a half, four and a half. I'm
feeling good about that one. And you know these were

(35:12):
all posted earlier on social media.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I'm a woman. There you go.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
And finally, I just need the context our best bet,
I don't even know where that came from. Rob g
You've been on the show for fifteen years. You don't
even know where that. When did I say that? You
said to a break one time. I remember we talked
about something. It was like we are Fox worse thing
the Backs rock.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
I'ma wove it. Yes, I'm hod over that all right.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
I'm taking the Chicago Bears plus one and a half
in Chicago against the Minnesota Vikings. That's right, a division rival,
JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
We shall see I mean anything, right.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
We don't know who in Michigan could he could wet
to bed tonight, So we'll see JJ McCarthy making the
start there for the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
So I got the.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Bears plus one and a half, Rus minus one and
a half and the Bridge plus one and a half.
And remember, Calvin, what's that. I'm not telling you who
to bet on. I'm telling you who I bet on.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
I don't know who you bet on because it's all gone.
I got the Bears three. Well, i'll tell you what
y'all be.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Letting run a buck up in here, you and Rob
g Elijah, Rob, I'll get you, do you folks trivia
to see how bad you be?

Speaker 10 (36:26):
Why need to ask Scott now to get paid for
my likeness and image?

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Now?

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Right?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (36:30):
I need to get paid for head?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Well, I don't know if it will maybe more, uh,
we wouldn't it be? Maybe likeness, but the ain't gonna
be image, you ain't gonna be on well, I don't know.
Maybe Elijah turned the cameras around you. Man, it's on
right there he is, there, he is.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
I'm just saying this, if Wie's advice was getting paid,
maybe Tyscher Tower needs to just saying I'm e Vanilla brother.
See there we go.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Wow, Ty Shoot, you know what, I never thought about that.
I'm just saying, Okay, all right, who do you got tonight?
You got to Vikings on the band. I'm going Vikings
because of the defense. I don't expect JJ McCarthy to
go crazy. I just think with Kevin O'Connell, what he's
been able to do with quarterbacks, even backups with Dobbs obviously,

(37:12):
what he did with Kirk Cousins, what he was able
to do with Sam Donald. I expect JJ McCarthy to
be solid again solid. You don't have to make a
lot of mistakes with Flora as his defense there. So
I'm expecting that.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
But it's gonna be interesting to see these two young quarterbacks,
one we've never seen and then a professional setting that is,
and then Caleb who was trying to bounce back from
whatever you want to call his rookie year. Because I've
always said you can look at it half class for
I don't think he had a bad rookie year. That's
why people you can look at it out whatever.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
You think of him. How was it bad?

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I mean he had so few interceptions, he had a
rookie record. I just think they had a bad year.
Bad Bears were bad. But I don't think he had
a terrible rookie year.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
The bad part I think is coming out really has
been rob post the season. All the stuff that's coming out,
rob G was those reports that.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Cares about that stuff? Man, there's a damn you pull
a curtain back on everybody. Go back and then find
out about Brett far and about all these.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Joy backs that can be at least to why you
didn't mean the team?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Was you how many games they gave up?

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Do you know how many games the game at the
end did you watch the game? The tape washing? The
dB was was in there playing. You don't know about
all that stuff, man? You know all the sleeping meeting
plenty what quarterbacks you you're being quarterbacks? You're being you're

(38:37):
being quarterbacks? Come on now, quarterback to.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Give you a Thursday guy, I got a big quarterback,
a big game that in it out.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Finally, man was trying to put somebody this quarterback ridiculous,
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