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October 3, 2025 34 mins

Super Producer Rob G is in for Rob, and he and Kelvin debate whether or not Mac Jones has done enough this season to potentially supplant starter Brock Purdy and start a quarterback controversy in San Francisco, tell us why the league's growth has happened entirely too quickly for the WNBA to handle, and explain how the infamous Peanut Punch has completely overtaken the NFL.

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his phone rings and I hear that song. All right,
let's get to it. You just mentioned it. We're gonna
get straight to it. Man, A lot to get you
on this Friday. We had a good game last night.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
We tell you what.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
We had a good Thursday night football game with two teams,
some rivals there have been in the forty nine Ers
and the Should I say it was a home game
for them, because my guys, did you hear the crowd
which always happens if you've ever seen forty nine Ers
when they come to town, When the Raiders play here
as well, whether it be the Chargers or for some
reason they play the Rams as well, it feels like
a home game.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
They got cops pumping in the crowd noise.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, oh true, trying to you know, oppose that, but
ended up being a really good game. We are all
witnesses to the mac Montana. That's right, Era, or you
could say mac Jones, who Mac Jones to Mac Jones?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Era is upon us.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
My gosh, he's now three and oh after having a
really good game through for three hundred plus yards, a
couple of touchdowns, beat down, battered, bruised up, stuck with
it and he looked really good. So there's a lot
of conversations coming out of that as they sneak out
and get a win and we'll have I mean, there's
so many different layers of this conversation. We could talk
about Sean McVay and the decision he made. Will get

(02:58):
to that in a little bit, but one of the
things people are starting to walk around with and think
about it. And this happens when these types of things happen.
You have the backup quarterback have success, do you brock
party when he's back or do you stick with the
hot man the hot hand in Mac Jones. And that's
the conversation starting to slowly go around matriculate around the
sports media world. I'm gonna jump in on this one.

(03:20):
For me, one of the things that I'd always tell
people to be wary about is the newness of something.
Mac Jones is the newness for the forty nine ers,
because obviously brock Perty's out and Mac Jones is now
three to zero. But the real I would caution things,
and I think he's looked great, but also think this
is more of a testament. And I wish Rob Parker

(03:42):
was here so I could tell him to Kyle Shanahan,
and even he would admit the system, whether you're Jimmy
g whether you're brock p or whether you're Mac Jones.
Who Mac Jones, they've been successful, right, and they've been
able to.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Find guys and you can win games.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
You can get the NFC Championship games, you can get
the Super Bowls, you can be three and oh so
far Mac Jones and this system. And this is a
credit to Kyle Shanahan. He's able to say, all right,
what are we gonna do now that I have Mac Jones.
Let me cater something, Let me get in this kitchen,
let me cook up something that works with his talent,
his skill set, and by the way, what we have
around him right now which is basically nothing. They got
a mass unitvers for receivers and they're struggling on that end.

(04:25):
Guy's health, and they said, what we're gonna do is
we're gonna dink and duncan. We're gonna get this thing
out in like one point seven seconds, get the ball
out of his hands, find find Borne. All of a sudden,
I thought he was Jason Bourne the way he was
out there. Receiving usually averages around twenty nine yards a
game end, there will be like a buck fifty. We're

(04:46):
gonna find guys, get him open. We're gonna use Christian
McCaffrey to the point he's probably looking at us like
if you don't get somebody else to do it, about
to wake up dead. He is gotta be exhausted. Mind you,
we were concerned during the offseason, how's he feels, how's
this hamstring? Howsie? How's his health? And they're like, hey,
you're playing good. Here you go catch receive. We're gonna
use you a lot via decoy all that. But my
point is Kyle Shanahan is cooking up some stuff right

(05:07):
now with Mac Jones, and they're able to find success.
But where I think people can get carried away is right. Now,
teams are coming into games and historically they're preparing for
Brack Purdy, preparing for George Kittle, preparing for other Ayuk,
maybe they're preparing for kind of this team as is.
Now they have Mac Jones and that's a thing that

(05:28):
throws you off because well, not only have I not
really seen him with this version of the forty nine ers,
I also don't know what they're gonna do because they
don't have receivers. So you can't really game plan as
well because you don't actually know what you're about to get.
And so I would be weary in your caution. Just
hold on before you jump on the mac Jones train,
and just say, what we're seeing is the hotness to newness,

(05:49):
because when people didn't know who Cjxtraw was, he was
lighting them up. Now that they know, ain't got a
better idea what it is, it gets a little tougher.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Bo Nicks, he's looked out.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
He looked a hiah, but he didn't look like that
next step everybody he thought, because people start to get
the film out on you. So my whole point is
Brock Purdy has been a stabilizer for them. For the
most part, he's not the greatest, which is why I
think they paid him perfectly. He's right around where he
needs to be paid. It didn't have to go Dak
Prescott money. And I think he has a great flow
with this offense, great flow from the belief in the team.

(06:18):
You heard the team talking about you know we want
him there and MATC. Jones, to his credit, it said
I am the backup right now. It's not causing any
controversy as much as he can. Obviously we can do that.
It's sports media, but that would be My point is
you got something good with Rock Purdy. You got the
guy you believe in. You got him at a good
rate all things considered, and it's great that you have
a backup that you can utilize because by all accounts,

(06:41):
people get injured in the forty nine jurny forty nine
Ers Jersey, so having that backup is an ultimate thing
to have in case, for some reason you go on
a Nick Foles run and you got a capable backup.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
At least you know you have that.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
But to me, it's a good situation where you got
the guy you believe in, you paid them the money.
This is your guy moving forward, but you know you
have a capable back up at Mac Jones.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, I'm glad that we said what you did because
we have a guy who agrees with you, and his
name is Michael McCorkle Jones. Here is Mac Jones after
the game talking about this budding quarterback controversy building in
the bay.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Well, shoot, man, I just you know, I just come
out and I'm having a good game and it's good
to go. But listen, man, this is bron Party's team.
I'm the backup. I'm just trying to help my team win.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
You know, they brought me here as a backup and
now my job and Brock's the starter of this team
and right now he's dealing with something and for him
to go out there last week and play when you
know he probably wasn't a full full health like he
cares about this team, So I'm just trying to get
some wins for him so it helps us down the line.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Again, I'm glad that Mac agrees with you, because I don't.
We are seeing right now the Brock Party two point
oification of the San Francisco forty nine ers. Mac Jones,
in his first three games leads the NFL in passing
yards per game three hundred and won a game. He's
top ten in passer rating, he's top ten in QBR,

(07:59):
he's top ten in touchdown interception ratio. He is doing
everything that brock perty did three years ago. Remember brock
Purty exploded on the scene, not his first season when
he played only six games, I think the second season
when they made front of the Super Bowl. That year,
brock Purty tops in the NFL passer rating, yards per ten,
touchdown percentage, you know, up near the topic in QBR

(08:22):
fourthing Compolis percentage fifth and passing yards single season franchise
yards total, which is incredible. Will you consider how many
great quarterbacks have played for the Niners and what you
saw from brock Purty then in twenty twenty three, which
you're seeing from Mac Jones now in twenty twenty five,
is for as much grief as Kyle Shanahan gets on

(08:43):
this show, specifically because Rob Parker hates.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, he wants he wants some fire with a passion.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
His system works. It's like novacine. You give it time,
it's gonna be effective. I am gonna scheme some dudes open.
Whether I have Brandon Ayyuk or Deebo Samuel or if
I have Juwan Jennings and Ricky piersoll over, I have
Kendrick Bourne. Like last night, I'm gonna find a way
to get these guys open. And if you are on

(09:10):
time and on target and shout out to Mac Jones.
Last night, average time per snap between snapping the ball
throwing it was just under two and a half seconds,
which would be the fastest in the NFL this side
of Aaron Rodgers. When he can play within structure, he's
as good as anybody in the NFL. And that's something

(09:30):
that people like to poke fun about and joke about
and say, well, you're a system quarterback, and how great
could you possibly be. You can make a lot of
money and win a lot of games being a system quarterback.
No disrespect to you. But Jared Goff, you could say,
is a system guy. Jared Goff doesn't have the livest arm.
He's not the most fleet of foot, but if you
give him the offense that he knows and understands, and

(09:52):
he can scheme it up the right way, he is
gonna deliver it with the best of them. He's gonna
put it right on the hands, so the guy's a
mom Ross Saint Brown. He can catch the ball yards
after catch. He's gonna hit Jamior Gibbs coming every swing route.
He's gonna turn a six yard pass and do a
sixty yard pass because he put it where it has
to be. And Matt Jones by playing within himself and
not trying to do too much, which is what brock

(10:14):
Purdy had done wrong for the last year and a half.
Brock Purdy has said so himself. The fact that all
these guys are banged up means he's gonna put on
the Superman cape and he wants to do too much,
and that leads to him having a career worst passer
rating this season, having the lowest passing yards per game

(10:34):
or shud yards per completion of his career because he's
trying to do everything outside of structure. He's trying to
push the ball down the field. He's trying to you
know what, I don't have all my guys, So instead
of just taking his three yard pass and I don't
know how good my defense is, I'm gonna hold it
a tick second longer and try to get it down
for a fifteen yard pass. And that's not what they

(10:54):
need with Kyle Shanahan's offense. Matt Jones is making this
a real controversy because he's just playing within the offense.
He's not doing too much. He's not trying to be superman.
And here's the biggest reason why I think this could
be a real thing, where not for the dollar amount
that you mentioned with the extension, Matt Jones, for all

(11:16):
of his faults and all of his limitations, was a
better NFL quarterback prospect coming out of college than Brock Party.
Of course, there's a reason why he was rumored to
go in the top three. There's the reason why he
went in the first round is because enough people saw
the traits that he does have. He's smart between the years,
he's accurate, he makes quick decisions that could lead to

(11:36):
him having a lot of success in the NFL, and
you're seeing it playing out right now, which is so again,
to sum it all up, this should be a real
controversy in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
So I'm glad you're married, because if you went on
a date and after three dates, you'll be saying, in
their praise, I'm glad you out the game.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
He's been objectively better than Brock Purdy.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I'm glad you're out the game, because here's the difference.
When you are simply just the backup. I don't have
to act as though I'm a franchise player. Rock Purty
has to act as a franchise player, has to act
as the guy who's trying to get these dubs, just
like the other guys, the Josh Allen's and the Lamars
and the Jared, the guys who have to put it
on their shoulders from time to time of Baker Mayfield.

(12:16):
So Rock Party has felt the obligation of a franchise quarterback.
When you're the backup, and you know, as Mac Jones
just said, I'm the backup, it's easy for me to
come on. It's the opposite. I don't want to rock
the boat. Simply want to do it a mask, do
what the Simpson is and here we go. When you
the team is looking at you and saying, guys are injured,

(12:36):
guys are hurt.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Patrick Mahomes, we don't have receivers this year. I need
you to do it.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Lamar Jackson, we don't have running backs this year. A
couple of years back, everybody in our backfield is gone.
But you you try to make it happen. And that's
the difference. The luxury you have the back those guys
either know what I'm saying is the luxury being a
backup is that you don't you keep coming. And it's
almost like I'm only do exactly as I'm asked. When
you are the franchise, there is an onus for you
to get done and make something happy.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Period, find a way. Period.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
When you're the backup, you don't necessarily have that. Now,
I don't believe Mac Jones is a to your point,
I don't think he was. Now the Pro Bowl gets crazy,
especially noway because nobody wants to disrespect Pro Bowl than
Mac Jones. They'd be picking fifth string guys to be quoted.
Nobody want to go, Don't nobody want to go? Don't
you want to go?

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Exactly seriously.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
But my point is he can very much be a
quality quarterback, and I think more than ever and when
O we're up against it. We're seeing resurgence in quarterbacks, right.
We're seeing Geno Smith all of a sudden become a
pro game. We're seeing Uh, Sam Sam Darnald uh become one.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
We're seeing obviously I just mentioned Baker, Jared Goffer cast
off and all of a sudden, now he's one of
the better ones.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
This is the era to do that.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
So I think he's put himself in a great position
that somebody's gonna throw him a bag. But I don't
think if you're John Lynch down to Kyle Shanahan, you've
done too much to find your guy to work out
a deal. I think you very much say we've got
our guy.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
I got a question for you, Yes, do you think
they're already regretting that brock Perty contract.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
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Speaker 3 (15:02):
But one of the things he said was someone told
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Speaker 4 (15:06):
He's ready for the grind.

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Maybe you shot yourself with the week whatever you want?
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Speaker 3 (15:17):
Oh week govy doesn't make sense but Olympics. Yeah, but
we got some other comments just related to this topic. Yes,
Scott Lewis says, Mac Jones and Daniel Jones super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Ooh, the commissioner does not. Roger Goodell does one.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
None of these Jones is Michael Thomps says quite sucinctly,
tell him Kelvin, okay, I appreciate that. And then there's
a lot of people upset about our one of the
podcast is I fixed it?

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Okay, YouTube ins I fixed it. What was the issue?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
It just wasn't published properly. But it was live, but
it wasn't on the feed. And you know what I
like that they get mad like that. I don't know, Well,
it's because it's personal, is you. But what I mean
is they care.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
They care, They're in, they're waiting, it's like crap, They're like,
come on, I need my hit, give me my fix please,
And we appreciate you. That's love. They're part of They're
part of the show. We appreciate it. Real quick. You
asked me, do I believe the forty nine ers already
havin Buyer's remorse. I simply answered that with no. I'll
tell you why specifically one game and then we gotta
I know, we gotta break here. You can reply, but

(16:16):
if you look at to me, the best case scenario,
like when I vision this person. I think the NFC
Championship game versus the Lions is brock perties. If you're
John Lynch Kyle Shanahan down seventeen, you're you know, you're
you're totally in the game. You look like you're gonna lose.
Super Bowl was you know, within reach and you're like, oh,

(16:38):
and he comes back. And if you recall that game,
that a lot of that was him running I did.
We didn't even know he could run like that, right, running, passing,
staying in the pocket, getting hit, making plays. And I
think when he had a game like that, that shows
you I'm willing to do whatever it takes. And yeah,
to your point, you had a great point. He's talked
about it. We Rob and I have talked about it. Now,

(16:59):
you that he did start to put too much on
his shoulder, right, because in that's human nature. I'm trying
to justify I'm worth his money. Right then you get
the money. Now I'm trying to justify that I'm worth
the money you gave me. I do think there's an
element of that, But I think for me, they realize like,
that's our guy, And I think he won the locker room.
When you hear guys talk about them him. They love teammates,
love brock Perdy. They'll run through a wall for him,

(17:21):
and I just think they got their guy. He's not
a world beater. He ain't Patrick Mahomes, you know, he
ain't Josh Allen, but he's our guy and we feel
like we can win with him to the tune of
a Super Bowl appeance, and to the tune, I think
they also know if we can't ever just be healthy.
You see the way they compete. You gotta beat those
forty nine ers. Mac Jones, Mike Jones, Roy Jones Junior.

(17:43):
They're gonna fight and compete because credit them the way
they're built. And I just think they feel we got
our guy. And Mac Jones is also a part of
our system. We can find guys. Thank god we found
a great backup because you never know.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
No, I agree with you, and as much as I
say it should be a quarterback controversy, you said one
thing that I think separates Purdy from mac Jones, and
that's the intangibles. What he has he has in spades,
like that's something that you cannot take away from his
toughness factor. He's more mobile than you think, but his
willingness to stand in there and take those big shots,
or to run for that extra three or four yards

(18:15):
to extend a drive like that kind of stuff really matters.
And the other thing is, again, as much as I
think this is a controversy, I would much rather have
to ask my quarterback to reel it back than to say, hey,
I need you to take me to another level that
I don't know if you can get to. And that's
the thing when I think that we've seen with Rock
Purdy he can get to that level. But I think
where he's at his best at that sweet spot in

(18:36):
the middle, and so occasionally take it up, but most
of the time be here. And so I think it's
easier to ask him to say, hey, we need you
to be more twenty twenty three and less twenty twenty four.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Great point in this sweet spot.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I view it as it's my job, John Lynch, to
make sure I have guys around him. It's my job
Kyle Shannan to cook some things up, and then it's
his job to do his job, you know what I mean.
So he can't just we have to help him be
at his best. Sure, And that's why I've always said
about the Chiefs. If the Chiefs messed around and finally
start got some crazy top tier talent and didn't just go.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well, they had top tier talent.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
But that's my point I'm saying, but why does it
have to be well we had it, we don't never
need it again, Like, why can't we just sustain top
TOI talent?

Speaker 4 (19:15):
My goodness.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
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Speaker 1 (19:27):
To me, it's gonna get messier, you know when somebody
says respectfully, you know.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, some super disrespectful's coming respectfully.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
I do wonder if the WNBA Brass, not the players
the brass, were ever prepared for them to actually be
at this level of public eye, notoriety, scrutiny and just attention,
because it's one thing that always like want it. But

(19:56):
if you just play here, I mean, like this is
the level we're operating under, then you only have to
do certain things right.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
It's like people aren't watching.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
It's like if all of a sudden you start getting
good grades, now your parents are like wait hey, and
now we're watching it, and now that little C plus
a and as good as I see you can get
good grades, I see you can be respectful.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Point being WNBA we're talking about is this is making
shows that it normally doesn't make, and people are, you know,
in a good way, conversing about it and having Twitter
debates about it. And I just think over the last
couple of years, I don't know if the brass was
really ready on how to handle this, and they weren't
ready to be a big brand that people are you know,
trying to pay attention to, trying to learn more, because again,

(20:32):
look at it, people are like, yo, I wasn't all in.
Now I'm paying more attention. I'm talking about it more.
And I think they fumbled some things because of that,
Like you fumble the Olympics, not getting Caitlyn in there
because you understand it, you know, you like you don't
understand like you know, you get put her in? Well,
what about they'll figure it out because I'm trying to
grow the brand. Right, you don't talk to one of
your best players like that, if allegedly, if that's what,

(20:54):
if that's what happened, you know there's a lot of
little small things that are doing the way. If players
are complaining about referring, then you talk about it, you
hear what's going on, you try to. I feel like
they've just been operating like this is the league, this
is what it is, it'll be what it is, and
it's like all of a sudden, bam, all eyes are
on it, and they weren't prepared to adjust and prepare
for what comes with people having more eyeballs.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Now you're so right, you can't turn left. I agree
with you.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Three rights, three rights, three rights a circle, yep. And
I'll add to that. I don't think the players were
prepared for what was coming, because do you understand how
unusual it is to have a player like Collier, who's
one of the best players in the league, to come
out and not only be critical of the commissioner, but

(21:38):
to have like, point by point for four minutes of
going off on him, like you can for all to
talk about Roger Goodell and whether or not the players
like him or respect him, that they don't like the
way he does business. And you know he's always about
the shield, not about the players. You'll never hear a
player come out and say Roger Goodell did X y
Z wrong, and this is inappropriate because even if they

(22:00):
feel that way, they understand this is a partnership. And
if we're gonna talk trash or we're gonna be negative
and we're gonna say these wild things about the guy
in charge, we're gonna do it behind closed doors with
our PA and your representatives, and we're gonna hash it
out there, and if it really gets bad, maybe we'll
have a strike. But it's never gonna get to be personal.
And the way this is playing out right now and

(22:21):
has been playing out basically ever since Kaitlyn Clark brought
all the eyeballs, is everything is under a microscope. The
front offices and the brass doesn't know how to deal
with it. The players still haven't really understood that now
that all the eyes are on you, you can't act the
way you did four years ago. Like, for example, this
might be a really odd example. Asia Wilson played great

(22:43):
in that elimination game, and if you saw in the
postgame conference, the reporter asked like, hey, how are you
able to be as successful? And as you were down
the stretch said, well, my teammates gave me the ball
where I like it, and then she makes a joke
about liking balls around her, which was a clear sexual
know what she was referring to. Can you imagine if

(23:03):
they ask Jay Gildos Alexander a question like that and
he makes some sexual reference during the post game.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like, no, I don't even know who you are right now,
alex We can't do that. This guy gets high brow
when he gets on this. We can't be our show,
but we.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Know we are representative of a multi billion dollar I mean,
I guess iheard that's a bad.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Exactly look at that. But you broke out here in
the streets. No, there's certain representing the lead. I like it.
It's funny, it's humorous. That ain't what I'm talking about.
I get your point, your sentiment, right, You need to
be professionals, No, because you know how many times NBA
dudes sit up there like this. Somebody says, yeah, man,
they was just giving it to us Harden to paint, and.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
One of them go like snickers pass. We've had the
top players, Chris Paul James Harden.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Post Yo, don't do that, Rob g I'm telling you
don't get over here and get on high brown.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Neither side knows how to how to act like a major.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
No, I'm giving you see, I'm giving the brass more
because the brass is supposed to be God blessed the
dead David Stern like, and he didn't do everything right.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Don't get it twisted because plenty of the act of point.
I didn't like this, I didn't like.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
This, but he had this big, bigger, bigger picture global
or the world want to be keep sending pros to
these Olympics. Go get the pros, go get mic and them.
Mike Larry, I thought, you know, I thought I was
gonna retire.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
David Certon allegedly forced the MJ to b or not
j Magic Johnson to be the finals MVP in that
first Why.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Because he's the future he's about to right and alleged,
But my point is he does what he needs to
be to.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Hey, look, the Knicks need to be relevant again.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
There's this guy coming out of Georgetown that will look
great in a Nick jersey.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Somebody freezing envelope allegedly. My point is, you do what
you gotta do when you gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
And I feel like the brass of w n A
is supposed to be like, yo, we we are about
to take full advantage of this experiment experience right now.
Kaitlyn's popping page, Backer's popping anguries. But you know what
I mean, and you you build it up and you
grow it, and I just feel like there's a couple
of missteps and they don't get in there, kind of
like operating at a slower.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Pace, and well, we'll get.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
There or I don't like her and out, man, you're
supposed to be thinking bigger and you've had eyeballs on
you that you haven't had really since the beginning of it.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
So you don't think the players have had some kind
of role in this too. The player.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
But I'm gonna tell you why, because there are other
players hating on Kaitlyn Clark Doc. When you have the
newness of something a lot of people hate. Michael Jordan
was getting a lot of smoke, and people forget that.
People Mike Tyson was getting smoke. He ain't a real boxer,
He only fighting tune of cans.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
He ain't this.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Net like people, we're over selling this because again the newness,
by the way, include fans in this newness, not just
the brass, not just players, not just fans.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
An't all how to operate right everything around the WNBA
because you're like, hey, man, these girls are too rough.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Have you been watching right WNBA been throwing them bowls
like Ludacris for a minute, Yes they have. And so
I think everybody's operating from this newness man, and not
knowing how to play, and you know, should they You know,
I even have some I have somebody who always says
stuff like we have a personal text going back and forth.

(26:13):
They'll be like, I don't know, Andre Lisa doing a
little too much off the court, like a little too
you know, you shouldn't do that as a lady. And
I'm like, okay, yeah, so she can't live her pop
fame life on the side, as if Sga ain't walking
around with skims on.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
But you get what I'm saying, because now she's a woman.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
He is.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Elijah's looked at me.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, he's one of the skims ambassador walking around with
nothing but some brown skims on.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
He brown.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
You don't know what's going on for many you got
to double take what the heck? So my point, we're
all trying to figure this thing out, and I think
they're just they're getting exposed to because it happened Bam
out the blue.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Caitlyn Clark tastes off Andresa's right there with her.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
They're competing. And then you're starting to get a multitude
of great players coming. They've always had great players, but
I mean people are main coming in from college. People
followed page, people followed age, you know, and you're starting
to get that people file and now, Sabrina, I ask you,
and you just have all this talent people, oh, shoot,
keeping an eye on this, and I just feel like

(27:09):
everyone's trying to figure this out in real time.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Yeah, it feels like everybody is stuck in Like twenty
eighteen right now.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Caught them off guard.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
They're like, oh, everybody from the top down is like, well,
this is how we've always done it. Like the FI
should call you again. The idea of a player for
caliber speaking out like that is unusual, but they have
been a outspoken league with their players forever. They've been
ahead of the curve in all of these social initiatives whatever.
I think that they've been on at the forefront before

(27:39):
anybody was. And so now that they're in a position
where they are a bigger league and there are more
eyeballs on them, and you're in a situation where, however
you feel about it, there is something to be said about. Hey,
let's just keep the main thing the main thing. We've
got to comment on everything. We don't got to talk
about everything. We got to always have a moment of silence.
We don't all we've got to have initiatives. Let's just
focus on growing this. And they can't, the league can't,

(28:00):
and it's.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Just that, yeah, not happening, and we'll see and we'll
see because like I said, they got Juju coming and
she's not gonna play this year, but you know another
year away, and you got other players gonna be coming in.
Just to me, you have an inn Kaitlin Clark bounces
back from health, and like you, there's a chance you
can keep building a momentum.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
But they gotta kind of be at best cohesive as possible.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
You're never gonna be one hundred percent with something lockstep,
but as much as possible.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
On the other other side, we have, of course our
player of the day plus Rob g Me and you
debated something the other day. You might be right about
it heavy on the mic Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
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.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
App Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's The Odd Couple, Kelvin Washington, Rob G and for
Rob P on this funky Flashback Friday. Also a big
shout out to Rob Man. He's gonna be honored tomorrow
at his alma mater. Oh God, out in there in
southern Connecticut, So big shot out to him. They're gonna
be naming the press box after him. It's a big
honor for him. I'll have a bunch of family and
friends there. So if you follow him, I just I

(29:13):
don't know what. If you're gonna do a tournament, they
gotta be Rob Okay. Just first off, Oh God, you
know how long I've been covering the league.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Says nineteen eighty six or seven. Dick was a guby
Keep up k Dot.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I'll tell you this now, knowing that my name's on
the side for ev Oh God, my mother and I
I used to have a terrestrial radio.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Do you know what that is? Rob G? Of course not,
I don't. Here's the play of the day Tyreck Player
of the Day.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Stafford takes Gibbs Kyron Williams and he is out. He
fumbled it.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
The Niners are saying they got it. The play was
shy of the line. Again, wait for a signal. They're
unpiling everybody at the one. The forty nine Ers come
out of there. Alfred Collins has the football. It's your
tyreck play of the day day right there.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
That is, of course on forty nine Ers radio where
the Rams thought they had the game, getting ready to
go in and ice that thing out. But no, that
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(30:21):
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while we're hitting right here, might as well ask you
since it's just sitting right there, you okay.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
With the call of the well that call was the
fumble where Kyra Millers got punched in the face and
then fumbled.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Hey, the punch the the we gotta talk about the
Peanut Tielman.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yes, has it gone too far? No? Because they're right
about the Kyro Williams.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Kyri Williams took it in the face, yes, And I
was like, oh that's lee.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
I'm pretty the penalty yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
I was like, I don't know what to call that
because he just got punched the face and it just happened,
and then go down to the ball and then it
followed through and hit the ball and it was a fumble.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
I'm like, the peanut tilment has gone too far?

Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, it has not, people are saying, because I started
laughing about it, so you want to all.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Right, Maritel we're here now.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
You're gonna laugh when I tell you what I did
after watching that play, all right, I punched myself in
the arm pretty hard, pretty hard.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Hear me out. YouTube, hear me out, Alex, hear me out.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Because I was like, we always see the benefit of it, right, Oh, what.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
A defensive play punch the ball.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'm like, how many punches do we see where you
just took a punch and the ball never popped out,
So it wasn't a big deal. So they didn't replay it.
But I'm like, dude, just straight up cold cop. Who
during this commercial break?

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Who will you? And I just look at Aaron Aaron Donald.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Imagine Aaron Donald, who might be the swoleest human being
on earth with two percent body fat, swinging his hard is,
but he misses the ball completely just.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Which happens ninety percent. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
So these dudes are just taking punches that we only
celebrated when the ball comes out. They were like, oh,
he pumped it out one an amazing but that all
game loped. I'm getting Mike Tyson, I'm like, hold on, no,
you're not about to be swollen up my bicep just
because you're trying to get this ball out.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Is it weird that when you're telling that story, my
first thought went to Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
We're one.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
We part only because he's white. Okay, How bruised must
he be after a game?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
You know? I think because the Bruce.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I'm donut, No, we got to turn They don't show
as well on black on dark skin.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, so wow, you know you talk about you turns.
So here's the thing about Rob G that I find interesting.
I don't know if there's anyone more consumed with race.
What do you but not race in the sense of
like cultural racial things, literal skin like Rob G's obsession
with literal skin.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yes, needs to be studied. Why that's a legitimate question.
You're lucky.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I love you like a play cousin. Otherwise I call
you out about what the game? What do you say
the other day? You can't say because you lose your die.
But we were talking about baseball. It's all I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
That was a good question. I want to understand. Is
that what it is?

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, I'm just curious, like three year old kid who,
like I'm curious, goes up to a non black kid,
goes into a black like wipes the skinning and licks
like it's not chocolate. Why are you not answering the question? Yes,
I'm sure he's bruised up. Do you think it looks
worse than most other athletes?

Speaker 1 (33:20):
And I didn't you know what? Yeah, I'm sure there's
some purple. There are some purple marks and blue marks.
I just hadn't really gone there. You and your obsession.
You just said you punched yourself in the four All
I just see if it hurts any other race, more
justifiable than me saying oh I bet you. Christian mccafrey
got more bruises at the rig.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
You and Rob.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
He's actually just says racist stuff, you and your obsession
with skin tone, not concerned about you racially and on
a racial end of things like racists and racism.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
I feel like I have to be because until you
got here, I was the second darkest person on the show.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
There there is that, so I almost had to Chris.
And that's why Chris Brussar, he probably had the opposite
He was the least. He wanted to make sure that
everybody knew how black because I'm so light skinned.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I think so too. That's got to be racist.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
That has to be racist. Alex used to challenge him like, hey,
you get tanned this weekend.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
And he's like, no, I'm tanner than you. No, he
was probably right.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, and he probably went outside in the backyard doing landscaping.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Yes, I guess.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
But wait, so then why Christian mccav I mean, why
wasn't it Why wouldn't mac Jones.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
I mean he ain't looking like it's a lot of melm.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Like he don't get punching arm like that. Yeah, the
peanut Tilman is gone too. That's a that's a that's
a thirty for thirty right there. What if I told
you that punches actually are legal, but because they all
of a sudden, because everybody is punching, they punch you now,
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