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You're listening to the Best of the Odd Couple with
Chris Brussa and Rod Harker. Here's something I just wanted
to throw out as a thought. I'm not saying it's definitive,
but it's something to watch. When I said in the
offseason that when Bill Belichick benched Malcolm Butler in the
Super Bowl, he may have lost some of his locker room.
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And I don't mean they dislike him. Don't thinking can
coach you know none. I'm not saying all that because
he's got too much respect for that and he's had
too much success for that. But I believe we know
Bill Belichick has been hard nosed. We know that players
have left there and said they don't have any fun.
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But the reason players could put up with it is
because they won and they always felt like Belichick was
doing what was best for the team and doing what
it took to win. You might not like it, It
might get on your nerves, you might want more pats
on the back. But at the end of the day,
you know that Bill Belichick is doing whatever it takes
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to win. And now I think a little bit of
doubt may have crept into the minds of some of
these players because he clearly didn't do that in the
Super Bowl. And I know, you know, we talked with
Ian O'Connor last week, who's written this book that's coming
out this week about Belichick, and it looks like it's
gonna be a terrific book. And Ian said, you know,
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Butler just didn't have a good week of practice. It
stick a little bit. Yeah, And I get all that,
and even't even admitted this part, But that doesn't I
get that in the first half, or even if you
don't start him or whatever. But when you saw the
way Nick Foles was picking you apart, I don't understand
how you don't go back to Butler the second. That
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makes it seem like it was personal. There was some
other thing that nobody knows at this point that was
going on. And so I'm wondering if in the minds
of some of these players. Now there's doubt as to
whether or not Bill is all about winning one hundred percent,
and if sometimes you wonder does he have other motives
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as a voltaire motives and that that in world class
sports where the difference between great and good or his
first and second is very slim, that can make all
the difference in the world. Our FS one colleagues, Kip
Bayless has said it on the air that he thinks, uh,
Bill Belichick is trying to sabotage, sabotage Tom Brady, that
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that's what this is, Chris straight up sabotage because of
some of the things that he's done. Obviously, Brady had
a chance to win a six Super Bowl, which would
have been you know, uh, you know, cemented his legacy
even more. And now you know with some of the
stuff and the players that aren't available, the weapons he's
that's what he's say. And then the story comes out
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yesterday and even Gronk acknowledged it after the game that
indeed he was traded to the Lions. He was gonna
be gone to the Lions, and he threatened them and
said he would retire before he would go to Detroit
and that tom Brady's his quarterback and he ain't going
anywhere without Tom Brady in period. And that's another thing.
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If if I could imagine that, if you knew I
wanted to get rid of you, even if we pass
ring out, all right, no, no, but I'm just right.
But you know what I'm saying, Right, if I was
scheming to get another partner instead of you, and I
wanted you out and all that, and we could come
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back together, well we will make up, and that would
always be in the back of your mind. Though you
know what, we got not have the same passion and
you do right now. In the NBA, that was that
was the storyline that was out there about Kyrie and
Lebron that he wanted to trade and get Chris Paul.
Remember the year afterhol You're right, Ribaul, after they won
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the championship and Kyrie of course had the Big Three
to seal Game seven and all that. So if you're Kyrie,
you're like, Wow, I just hope you win a championship
and everything, and now you're trying to move me out
for your best friend. Yeah the relationship beans right, Yeah,
I mean something like that. Again. You you're a professional.
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You're gonna perform, but it can take a little of
your zest and your zeal away from you. And again,
in a sport like the NFL, that can be all
the difference in the world between a win and a loss.
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We saw it for the third straight weekend. Clay Matthews
makes what looks like a great sack of the quarterback
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and he's called for roughing the passer, and Clay Matthews
afterwards was just exasperated. He was good. He didn't, you know,
say anything that was fine worthy he was She tried
to be good, but I'm I'm exasperated for the guy.
I think it's unfair what's going on. But here's what
Clay had to say about it. Unfortunate. This lead's going
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in the direction I think a lot of people don't like,
you know, I think they're getting soft and hard about
this league, or is the fines that they let me
down on guys like me to play the game hard.
So I don't know. I mean, I'm just gonna keep
playing hard. You know, maybe now pass rushers guys can
have the quarterback. He just have to attack the ball,
which is you know, I'm playing this game for over
twenty years. That's how you tackle. So we'll see. I mean,
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you know, something's gotta change because you know at least
not Yeah, Clay, you have to change. You have to change, Clay.
You have to change supposed to do no, not put
your weight down on him. That's what he wasn't supposed
to do. And this whole notion, Chris, I'm not buying
his SOB story three weeks in a row. It's unfair.
This what he what he just did on Sunday was
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clear violation of what they're talking about. Clay changed to
not following the games. You don't gravity that's been changed,
Like what what is the NFL lex play? And we
saw him in Miami, William Hayes try he sat Derek
Carr eyes to not put land on him so he
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doesn't get penalized and tears his ACL, tears his ACL.
So you're you're actually I you you're actually getting more
other guys hurt because you're trying to protect the quarterback
and you're going above and beyond and pass. What is
what makes sense? We've seen this league when quarterbacks aren't
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in it, the top quarterbacks and most of the games
are unwatchable. You gotta protect you, you know, the guys
who are holding the bag or all the quarterbacks in
this league. I saw it as a kid when they
did the in the grass move right where you could
just grab their jersey and not even bring them down,
and they would say, sack. I've seen it. That's what
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they might have to do. Oh, we might have to do.
They might have to go back to that. If you
really want to protect the quarterback, go back to that.
You can do not penalize guys for text hucks. I'm
about just about just touching them trying to tackle you.
That's what it's headed towards. Well. But I mean Clay
Matthews made a textbook. In fact, I think are not
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his textbook. It's it's violation, not it's violation rule. No,
it's the new rule. Chris, you're living in the past.
You got to change the rule. You gotta get out
to change the Chris tackle the guy without my weight
landing or no you can't. That's what you can. Yes
you can, how easy you you can. You can bring
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him to the side. You don't have to bring him down.
I think it's gravity. I think it's gravity. I think
that's the law. I don't think I don't think the
NFL's law can outlaw the law of gravity. A lot
of you guys are, oh, you know, it's just this
and America's soft now and blah blah blah blah blah. No,
it's not about being soft. It's about putt it's about help,
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it's about it's about helping to keep people in her
in life. Yes, al, it's just nothing. And here's the thing, Rob,
and I want the NFL to hear this. Football is
a dangerous game and no matter what you do, you
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can't stop guys from getting hurt. We just saw with
Jimmy Garoppolo. He didn't get hurt by somebody landing on
him with the force of their weight. He didn't get
hurt by somebody picking him up and slamming him to
the ground. He didn't get hurt by somebody spearing him
with their helmet into his helmet. He got hurt making
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a move nine contact. It happens, it ruins the season
for the forty nine ers, But there's nothing you can
do about it. People are going to get injured one
way or the other. It's a dangerous game. Guys know
what they sign up for, and you gotta let him play.
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It's like having boxing and saying you can only throw
three punches at a time, and if you throw board
in three punches in the combination, it's illegal because it
might hurt the guy too badly. That's the sport. It's
a hurt business. No, but that doesn't mean that you
can't prevent or try to make it as as safe
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as possible. And you and that damn mister softy stuff.
You know I'm right you, Chris. You remember this, don't
you remember this? The mister Softy, the ice cream truck.
Everybody in America? You remember mister Softy? Hey, Rob G
Didy have mister Softy in LA. They never misters sir,
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they did everybody when you were a kid. This was
like I used to hypnotize you, right, Chris, you would
hear the truck no matter what, no matter, you would
stop everything, and you were like mister softy, you would
run to try to get money from your parents to
get ice cream. But you know, mister Softy is good.
Chris and missus good. Is the NFL? Now that's okay,
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I'm cool with it. Isn't okay, It isn't okay, right,
I mean, this is I feel so bad for defensive players.
I mean, that's why we're raving about these quarterbacks throwing
for you know, three hundred and fifty yards a game
and breaking all the records and all these tds completing
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seventy five percent of their passes and sewing and so forth. Oh,
they're so much better than the guys of yesterday. You know,
the guys of yesteryear had to worry about getting their
clock clean. The guys of yesterday year had running backs
who could be hit five yards at the line of scrimmage.
The guys of yesteryear. We're playing football. This is not
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fair to the defensive players. But you're acting like Aaron
Rodgers didn't get hurt, Andrew Luck didn't get hurt, Tony
Romo didn't get her quarterbacks getting her bross. You gonna
get hurt sometime, yeah, but you gotta change matter what
William Hayes I got hurt too? Who cares about him?
He was trying to follow the rules, trying. I mean,
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come on, man, this is hit us up at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. If you want to weigh in, you on
Clay Matthew side or you on Rob Parker side? What
you wants to make it flag football? I mean Rob,
like I'm really serious. Like they may have to say
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they may have to go back to in the grass,
or like if you just I mean, if you just
such a guy touch a quarterback, like if you touch
him on grab his jersey, that's enough. You don't have
to Would you like to see that? I would like
to see the game safer. I just would, And it's
only gonna be so safe. But but they don't let
you just did see I'm I'm with you on making
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it safer, but I'm on making it safer within reason.
It's like foot boxing. Yeah, I'd like to make boxing safer,
but I don't want to see him put headgear on
these guys. I don't want to see him, you know,
go to to eight round fights. I watched some college
softball this year, and it was shocking to me because
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I don't watch that often. But every every player has
a cage in a helmet, even in the field. You
know it's they're trying to be safe. I didn't. I
couldn't even imagine playing with that in the in the
field they have on the face guard and everything. I
was shocked, but I thought maybe the picture because the
ball could come back at you fast. The catcher, but
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every position they have him on and on the field
or when they come up to bat and chuch. We
got a slew of people ready to get at you,
get at me. I'm right, we'll get to them. We'll
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way is easier. Rob. I can't wait to get to
these calls. I gotta think if we have some football
fans and some guys that may have played the game
at a younger age, they gotta be siding with me.
We're going to keep a tally on this. I want
to lea see where we go. Numbers wise, all right,
age seven seven ninety nine on Fox. If you want
to join the odd couple, let's start out with Chris.
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We'll start out with Johnny in Vegas. You're on the
odd couple on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Johnny? Hey,
what's up? Guys calling in from Vegas. Thanks for taking
my car. Just wanted to let you know, Chris, you're wrong, man.
It's all about player safety. I'm sorry. Clay Matthews. I'm
sorry that was It was a good clean hit two
years ago, but not anymore by the rules that what
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can you do. I'm just wondering I'm just I'm for safety,
but I'm for it within reasons. You can bring him.
You can bring him down without putting your weight on him.
Strip stack, He's got a strip sack every time. That's
all you can do. Try to talk, you gotta go
for the ball sack. You gotta go for the ball
every time. Absolutely, thank You can't try to not put
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your weight on him, because William Hayes did that for
Miami and we saw it cost him his season touring
ACL no doubt about it. There we go one for Rob,
zero for Chris. I love that. I know that. I
know you text somebody in Vegas. No, I did not
think that. He always says, I'm texting somebody. All right,
cousin Johnny, appreciate the call. I mean, I'm sorry, what
did I say? Jerry in Florida? Are you on the
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odd couple of Fox Sports Radio? Was up? Jerry? Hey,
thanks doing listening to you. I'm telling you, it's like
getting your car fixed and then two weeks later something
else breaks. Then you fix that, and then something else breaks.
They finally worked on the catch rule because last year
it was got awful and now it's the tackling. It's
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like one extreme to another extreme. And what really upsets
me is and I don't watch the NFL like I
used to because it's like the government overregulated, overruled, and
from one extreme to another, from one year to the next.
I think Clay matthews hit was perfect. I agree with
you with the gravity, and I think in the next
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game he should pick up the quarterback him on the
ground gently just to prove a point. It's gotten just
off the charts ridiculous, all right, So you wondering, I
think that's a great call and appreciate the call. He
brought up the catch rule, Yeah, it got to the
point where nobody could even determine what was a catch,
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Like we were overthinking this and now it's the same
thing with a tackle. It's like, oh, did you see
him lift up slightly? You know, and that's why he
was penalized. Oh he landed right on him. What where
is hes supposed to land? I mean, my goodness, it's
this stuff. Is the call is right, it's overregulated, and
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we have to accept that football is what it is.
We accept that boxing is what it is, MMA is
what it is. If somebody gets a bloody nose in MMA,
are we Oh no, he got a bloody nose. Oh
my goodness. No, if you don't want to risk that,
then don't fight. And I'm saying if you don't want
to risk getting injured, I mean had Rob, Aaron Rodger
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and Troy Aikman, two are the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Has said they've gone too far. I hear you. But
they're in it, and they're in it, and they can't
because of what Troy Aikman went through with all those
concussions and what he went through. So I get it,
that's what he's used to. But things change, and at
some point the NFL's doing the right thing. Maybe it's
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not till you're liking right away, but eventually players will
readjust and understand what it is they need to do.
All right, Tim and Texas, you're on the odd couple
on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Tim, Hey buddy, how
are you guys doing? Loving it? Loving it? Loving it.
I'll tell you what, man. It is called tackle football. Correct,
thank you? All right? It's called tackle football. Tack it off.
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That's why you draft linemen are so suspect. These guys, Okay, now,
they can't protecting when you get to him, and that's
your job. Knock them down. That's what the point of
the game is, right And and you also in the
caller sounds like he knows something about football because he's
on your side. I'm not no, I'm not saying you
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want to injure anybody. But when you're a defensive player,
you want to put a good stick on somebody. That's
part of the game. You want to hit somebody hard.
You got bad intentions, and they're trying to take the
bad intentions out. Again. I go to boxing, it's like
trying to take out the knockout punches. No, that's what
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I want to do. I want to knock him out.
I don't want him to, you know, be injured permanently.
I want him to get up afterwards, but I want
to knock him out for about ten seconds. That got
us in football. We got to accept it. That's these
dudes mentality, and that's what it should be. Go play soccer.
If you don't want contact, Look at you. You get
easy for you to say, you got two daughters, nobody's
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playing football on your family. If I had a son,
he would have been playing. People like you would be
on the side like going don't hurt my boy. What
did you do? Oh? You dirty football player? That's right?
Or or you give your bull one. Oh, now you
don't want to go to college. We're gonna go. We're
gonna go to call, and it's about to get worse.
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I'm sure you would put the ball. You would put
the baseball in your son's head and try to get
him to play baseball because you wouldn't want him to
get hurt. It'd be different. You know your daughters don't
play all right, Dwight in Oklahoma, you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Dwight? Hey, how
y'all doing? Man? Doing great? What's up? Man? I'm gonna
have to agree with Chris. Oh look at you. You
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know it's some men that listen to them. Is that
what it is? Hey? That's all it is. Man. When
defensive players are gonna end up injured because they're going
to second guests and still, how should I hit this guy?
I'm going full speed and now I got a readjust
to hit the quarterback. I might pull a handstream, I
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might break an angle. Trump slow down to get this
soft guy. Hey, Dwight, Dwight, hold on William Hayes just
saw it, Dwight. Dwight and Chris hold on. So tell
me when you're going full speed to go block a punter, right,
you're going after them, you pull up and you don't
run into him. Dude, don't you you understand you alter it.
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You're going full speed out you're not speed, but hang on,
but you're jumping straight up to block the punt now,
and if I correct me up from from they got
on helmet, they got on shoulder pads, they got protection them,
rib paths, rib case. Hold the quarter you're talking about
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the quarterback? Yeah, all right, thanks for the call, Dwight.
I don't know a great call. Three one. It's a
man I like it. We got we got a couple
more before we get there. When you ain't win yet. Well,
speaking of winning, Pittsburgh just tied it up against what
they will assuming they get the extra point. Um. Wow,
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long touchdown Roethlisberger. Who was the player? It was it Tighten?
Who was that that just absolutely ran over a defensive
back for Tampa Bay. But that part of the thing,
it was Vince McDonald. Vince McDonald down with a seventy
five yard touchdown run. Yes, and the extra point and
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then just my goodness, I don't even say run because
I gonna want to be conte. I say run because
he caught the ball like seven yards and then and
then stiffed on the the d Conti's thinking, can I
hit him? Can I really tackle him? Can I, you know,
use my helmet? That is that a personal file? Pants
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to the face? No? No, not for the runner? Yeah too,
I mean, but let let that was a great call.
And I think the calls where I was watching part
they didn't get it. Did he or did he go
to Vinsburg Steelers defensive back And he actually said on
TV today he said that when when they put in
the new targeting rule, you know where you could hit,
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you couldn't you know, hit helmet to helmet and you
couldn't hit uh, you had to hit him in certain areas.
He said he got more concussions because he started trying
to hit guys low and he's getting more knees to
the head you know, um yeah, yeah, you're getting hit
on the side of the neck because you're trying to
move your head out of the way. He said he
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suffered more concussions that way than playing the old way,
and so the call is right. I think if you
got these defenders thinking too much, they're gonna be hesitant,
and in a game like football, that can cost you. No,
I hear all that. You just have to adjust. It
takes time. Let's squeeze him one more. David in Vegas.
Another guy in Vegas during the Odd Couple on Fox
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Sports Radio. What's up, David Rob I'm a longtime big
Fanny and Chris. I'm I'm a forty nine er fans.
So it wasn't a great day yesterday. But as much
as I'm about yeah, I gotta take Christmas side, David ruining.
They're ruining the league. Brother, you're ruining the league. It's football,
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you know what I'm saying. I mean, this sport. If
you don't want to sign up for a go play basketball,
go play baseball, right. I mean as far as for
the fan, I mean it is sister, they could us.
I mean, I'm not a I'm a kind of guy
who likes one team and hates soldiers. I could care
less about Clay Matthews. What he did yesterday was perfectly honest,
you know, and fair. Many years you know before, when
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I was a kid going up. Uh. The best UH
for man rush was the Parson Porson was the Rams,
David Deacon Jones, marn Holson, Lamar Lamney and Rue Rosie
Greer and David Deacon Jones would have been penalized every
play right. He was hitting guys upside the head, which
I'm you know, that's fine. The out rude that I'm outlawed,
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that I'm glad about Chris. I'm gonna say this to
you when you right, like, I'm just sorry robbed, there's
not that was a textbook tack. I want you real
quick the next time you get a chance to watch
the Lawrench tailor in a what is it called uh
in a in a football football life watched and they're
showing all his greatest sacks and none of them does
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he wind up on top of He just pulls the
quarterback down. He doesn't wind up Every great sack I've
seen so far, and this guy revolutionized the game. He
doesn't wind up on top of the quarterback. He grabs
him and throws him down. He reaches with his arm.
Not one have they shown where he is on top
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of a quarterback and there's nothing but sacks. That's fine,
but that maybe is the angle he's coming in at,
you know, I mean, I don't know. I'm sure he
had hits that would have been deemed and all of
his sacks are about grabbing and bringing people down. All right,
you had to pull the Lawrence Taylor car, Yes, I did.
For one. I to you thought you had to win
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everything after this weekend, but we had to bring you
back to earth. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Odd Couple with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker weekdays
at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific, and now as
the host of Hank Haney's golf radio show on Sirius
XMPGA Tour Radio. You can follow him at Twitter or
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on Twitter at Hank Haney. Hank Haney, Welcome to The
Eye Couple. Is great to have you on. Hey, thanks, guys,
I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on, Hank. We
all know what happened yesterday, great moment with Tiger Woods
winning the tour championship. But I've been a little bit hesitant,
more hesitant, i should say, than most people, because I
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see everybody saying Tiger is back, and I'm just not
so sure. Where do you stand on that? Oh, I
think he's back. I mean I really do. I saw
it in October when he posted a swing of you know,
one of his first swings he'd made, and everybody's hon
I said, he can win with that swing. And he's
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He's played well this year. I mean, he just missed
qualifying for the Ryder Cup team and he got picked up,
you know, as a captain's pick. But but having only
gathered points for one year where the other players gathered
for two years, he actually probably he would have been
like the fifth player on the points after this year.
That a good year, a couple of near misses, a
major championships. I mean, you know, I feel like Tiger
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is gonna win more golf tournaments. I knew he's gonna
I said he's gonna win this year, and then I
was down to the last tournament of the year. So
I got it right, but just barely. Uh, you know,
he's he's playing a very competitive level right now. Hey, Hank,
is it? Uh? Tiger went five years between winning a
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tournament and he hasn't won a major in ten years,
which is just mind boggling when you think about the
right that he started his career of winning made je
but has his lack of winning up until yesterday, was
it more physical or mental because he's had a lot
of injuries. But but when you don't win as it
become a mental thing as well. Well, I mean it's
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hits both, but but it starts with the physical. I mean,
you've got you've got to hit the ball. I mean,
you know, Tiger had all these great mental abilities, and
everybody talks about how he intimidated these guys and this
and that, and you know, I hear all this talk
about how the intimidation factor was gone. But when when
you're not hitting a golf ball, you know, you can't
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just intimidate your way to victory. I mean, you got
you gotta be able to strike the ball. When Tiger
was dominating, he was literally number one and or thereabouts
and every important statistical category. He was just so much
better than everybody else. So, you know, the last two
years he hasn't been Now for whatever reason is swing injuries.
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I mean, there's a lot of things that go into it.
But this year, if you look at him statistically, he's
been great. Uh, you know, he hasn't putted probably quite
as good as he as he has in the past.
But having said that, I didn't think his putting looked bad.
I just thought he's just, you know, a week away
from putting good and he, you know, finally had a
real good putting week and had a good ball striking week,
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and you know, he won. You know, I really feel
like his game is right there, and it has been
pretty much all year. He's played very very well. Uh
you know, he didn't get it done a couple of
times when he was when he was right there, but
nobody gets it done all the time. A lot of
that is circumstances. He wasn't on the best courses for him.
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But but going forward, even with the major championships, he's
got a lot of good golf courses coming up. But
he likes and I think he's going to be a
factor in these major championships from from now on. Well, hey,
you know as well as anybody that Tiger's always been
about the majors, and I think everybody who's wondering, I mean,
do you think I feel like it's a lot to
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ask him to chat? Is Jack Nicholas's record again for
major championships? But do you think that's realistic within the
realm of possibility in a realistic way. No, it's not realistic,
it's not within the realm of possibility. But I mean,
as long as you know he's got four to tie Jack,
five to beat him, as long as he plays in
five more, there is a possibility. But the fact the
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matter is is for players that have that have won
more than two majors, they win one out of every
three times they're in serious contention. And you define serious
contention by on the lead or tied for lead on Sunday.
He was on the lead on Sunday at the Open Championship.
So that's one time he's on the lead. You got
you got to do that three times to win one
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of them, if you if you stick to the odds
that other players have one at and that that means
to win five more majors, he'd have to be on
the lead fifteen times on Sunday. Uh. You know. And
for somebody that when the next Major comes around, he's
gonna be forty three years old, that that's just not
that's not realistic. I mean that that that can't logically happen.
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But having said that, he is Tiger Woods, and you know,
who knows, maybe he'll you know he may win every
time he's on the lead from here on out. You
just you just you just never know. But the odds
are pretty long against that. But as soon as he
wins one of him, everybody will think, hey, he can
still do it. And you know, and honestly that's good
for golf because you look at all the attention that
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golf got yesterday. There's only one person that can do that,
and that's Tiger Woods. Do you do you think Tiger
during the drought ever got to a point where he said, man,
this is just I can't win again. I just have
him won. It's been a long time. You think he
came to a point where he doubted that he might
ever win again. Now only when he couldn't swing, only
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when he couldn't move because of his back. But if
he as soon as he could swing again, he knows
he can win. He's been, you know, an assistant captain
for these uh Tider Cup team, Presidents Cup team. He
goes out there and he watches those guys, and I
guarantee in his mind he's thinking, I can beat these guys.
I mean, there's just there's not a dominant There's a
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lot of great players don't get me wrong, but there's
no buddy that's close to Tiger Woods that's playing the
game today. Uh, not even close. Uh. And and he's
looking at those guys. He's thinking, I can still beat
all these guys. And I'm sure he feels it now,
especially after yesterday. It's the Eye Couple with Chris Brussar
and Roy Parker on Fox Sports Radio. We're joined by
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Hank Haney, the former swing coach for Tiger Woods. And Hank, you,
you and Tiger obviously have had some ups and downs,
been through some great times and then some down periods.
Where's your relationship at now? Do you have one? And
where would you like to laugh? It can't be good, No,
what We've never we've never had it. We've never had
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a downtime. We only had up times, to be honest
with it, We've never had a downtime. But uh, when
I when you know, when when I left Tiger, uh
back in you know, you know two thousand whatever, Uh,
two thousand and nine Masters was my last tournament when
I when I left Tiger, you know, the last thing
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Tiger said to me is he said, Hank, We've been
great friends and we need to stay that way, and
that was the last I ever heard from him, So
you have it wasn't we never had any problem. It's
just it's just, you know, that's just kind of the
way it goes with Tiger. But wait a minute, Hank,
you left out a part when he said, don't let
the door hit you on the way out. No, he
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didn't say that, But yeah, yeah, you would you reach
out to I mean, I'm sure you were happy for
him yesterday. Would you reach out to him and you know,
say anything to him or or are you just gonna
leave it alone? No? I just leave alone. I mean, hey, listen,
I had a great time with Tiger. It was great
for my career. It was you know, I was with
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him during the most dominant time in his career, so
you have to assume that it was. It was great
for both of us. I mean, I've got nothing but
great memories about it. I mean, you know it. And
I'm happy for Tired to play good again. I'm just
happy for him. You know, he looks like he's a
much happier person now. I mean, he's had a lot
of problems and he's for him to overcome that, you know.
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You know, people talk about the back problem, and that's
a big thing. But I mean, when you get arrested
and you got like, you know, six drugs in your
system or whatever it was, you're not just having a
bad night. I mean, you got a problem. And now
to see him where he is, it just makes me
feel really good about where he is in his life
and he just you know, it's just great to see
him do good because I wish him nothing but the best. Hank.
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Did you sound like No, we sound like you sound
like a nice guy, Hank. But most people, if you
would have parted with somebody, you probably you would lose, Hank,
say it in person, but but you would probably be like,
you know, not not that thrilled. I mean I should
say when he was struggling, had a little extra ground,
never at all. No, why would I ever that? No,
(35:00):
I mean, once you part with somebody, I'm just saying
you and and and you said you were with him.
To not hear from him at all since that day,
didn't that a little unusual? It must have been some
some sort of strain in the relationship not to have
talk since then. Not really, because that's kind of the
way it is with him. But you know, that's all right.
I mean, it's just it doesn't change anything about how
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I feel like I did with Tiger. It doesn't change
anything about you know how. I know that I was
as a coach and a friend to Tiger, So you know,
it's all fine. I mean, I had no problem with it,
to be honest with you, you know, I knew that. Listen,
when you're as great as he is, there's something different
about you, and you have to accept those differences as
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a coach, and I certainly did. Uh. You know, it's
just it's just the way it is. But but you
always just you just do your best, you know, and
you try your best. You try your hardest. I had
great times with Tiger. He did good. I did good. Um,
you know what what else could better than that? To
be honest with you, I mean, you know, hey, nothing's forever. Well, Hank,
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thanks a lot for joining us. We appreciate it. And um,
we'll see what Tiger does from here on out. But
thanks you. Jo. All right, couple, all right, you all right,
guys can watch all right? So yes or no? Will
you win a major next year? Real quick? Hank? Yes
or no? I beg you will? Okay, he will all right,
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sources say, yes, sir. Sources say America's favorite radio game show,
Rob Parker, Chris Bussar got a thousand years of journalist
some experience. You know, I'm still breaking stories in these days.
I'm still breaking stories, but sometimes they can't tell a
difference between what's real and what's fake in the world
of sports. So Rob Parker, I want to get this
(37:11):
out of the way real quick. Though you had five
and oh and your picks against the spray this. Did
you hear that? Chris Broussard, it's early five and oh
I could have had a big golfhins or three and oh.
We'll see how that five and oh. Well, because of that, Rob,
you're gonna get the first crack at the first story
here on sources say it because my sources tell me
that Adam Levine and Room five they'll be performing at
(37:32):
the Super Bowl at half time. They'll be releasing a
song on their upcoming album dedicated to Colin Kaepernick. My
source is good. I just can't believe the league is
gonna sign off on that with the Colin Kaepernick. I
know I'm gonna be wrong, but I say, no, that's
not correct, that's that's not true. I'm going to say
(37:54):
that is true. You sit on a throne of a lie. Yeah,
I'm six to no, keep it rolling, baby, I'm six
to old, all right. Actually, Meek Mill has a Colin
Kaepernick song and I'm the Room five yet not yet,
it's coming out of the new album. My sources say
that a Yankees beat writer broke his arm while pitching
(38:17):
during an annual baseball game between members of the New
York and Boston media. Chris, my source is good. I'm
gonna say true. Are you ready? I used to play
in those games and it was writers against the Yankee coaches.
I played at Yankee Stadium, so I know those games
go on. Was it Bob clappitch who got hurt or
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you don't know the name. No, I would say that
that's true. Oh it was not, though, do you know
who it was? I'll get it for you. I have here,
just give me yet. But I'm not. I'm not. I
can believe this. Is it baseball or softball? No, it's baseball.
It's fast pitched base broke his arm trying to pitch.
Wo so trying to pitch. Yep, you got that torque?
(39:03):
Got that torque, sources say Fox Sports rad of the
Odd Couple Christmas. Sorry. Rob Parker, My sources say that
former NBA player Antoine Walker admitiate earlier this week that
he used to smoke weed after every shoot around during
his NBA career. Rob Parker, my source is good, lay
off the weed. I say that that is true. Uh
(39:24):
the NBA weed. Uh is commonly used in the NBA.
I'd say, yes, I do think that's true. But Chris
only knows it from the wider standpoint. Right right, I'm
gonna try to get a win though, I gotta break this.
I need I need to score, so I'm gonna say false. Right,
(39:47):
So who was it was? Matt Barnes? Okay, Barnes really
every day former Laker. That's that's not shocking to me.
He won a championship too, didn't he? All right? My
sources say that during his media day press conference, Nick
Center and his cancer admitted that the thought of making
the playoffs quote makes my nipples hard. Chris, and my
(40:08):
source is good. I think that is true. And this
is that type of guy. I could see him saying that.
Oh jeez, oh god, do we have to really go there?
All right? Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with true.
Oh see, he always trying to play for the tie?
How about trying to play? Sources say the Odd Couple
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Colorado had to pay five hundred bucks and damages after
their mascot shot a fan in the face with a
T shirt cannon and broke his nose. Robin, my source
is good. That's true. Yes, the way he said it,
I think it's true. No, what don't say that, Chris.
Maybe it's false. He said it with authority? Is it true? Oh? True?
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So it was a tie. I'm still on the winning streak.
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You're listening to the Best of the Odd Couple with
Chris Brussa and Rod Harker. Here's something I just wanted
to throw out as a thought. I'm not saying it's definitive,
but it's something to watch. When I said in the
offseason that when Bill Belichick benched Malcolm Butler in the
Super Bowl, he may have lost some of his locker room.
(00:46):
And I don't mean they dislike him. Don't thinking can
coach you know none. I'm not saying all that because
he's got too much respect for that and he's had
too much success for that. But I believe we know
Bill Belichick has been hard nosed. We know that players
have left there and said they don't have any fun.
(01:06):
But the reason players could put up with it is
because they won and they always felt like Belichick was
doing what was best for the team and doing what
it took to win. You might not like it, It
might get on your nerves, you might want more pats
on the back. But at the end of the day,
you know that Bill Belichick is doing whatever it takes
(01:28):
to win. And now I think a little bit of
doubt may have crept into the minds of some of
these players because he clearly didn't do that in the
Super Bowl. And I know, you know, we talked with
Ian O'Connor last week, who's written this book that's coming
out this week about Belichick, and it looks like it's
gonna be a terrific book. And Ian said, you know,
(01:50):
Butler just didn't have a good week of practice. It
stick a little bit. Yeah, And I get all that,
and even't even admitted this part, But that doesn't I
get that in the first half, or even if you
don't start him or whatever. But when you saw the
way Nick Foles was picking you apart, I don't understand
how you don't go back to Butler the second. That
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makes it seem like it was personal. There was some
other thing that nobody knows at this point that was
going on. And so I'm wondering if in the minds
of some of these players. Now there's doubt as to
whether or not Bill is all about winning one hundred percent,
and if sometimes you wonder does he have other motives
(02:37):
as a voltaire motives and that that in world class
sports where the difference between great and good or his
first and second is very slim, that can make all
the difference in the world. Our FS one colleagues, Kip
Bayless has said it on the air that he thinks, uh,
Bill Belichick is trying to sabotage, sabotage Tom Brady, that
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that's what this is, Chris straight up sabotage because of
some of the things that he's done. Obviously, Brady had
a chance to win a six Super Bowl, which would
have been you know, uh, you know, cemented his legacy
even more. And now you know with some of the
stuff and the players that aren't available, the weapons he's
that's what he's say. And then the story comes out
(03:24):
yesterday and even Gronk acknowledged it after the game that
indeed he was traded to the Lions. He was gonna
be gone to the Lions, and he threatened them and
said he would retire before he would go to Detroit
and that tom Brady's his quarterback and he ain't going
anywhere without Tom Brady in period. And that's another thing.
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If if I could imagine that, if you knew I
wanted to get rid of you, even if we pass
ring out, all right, no, no, but I'm just right.
But you know what I'm saying, Right, if I was
scheming to get another partner instead of you, and I
wanted you out and all that, and we could come
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back together, well we will make up, and that would
always be in the back of your mind. Though you
know what, we got not have the same passion and
you do right now. In the NBA, that was that
was the storyline that was out there about Kyrie and
Lebron that he wanted to trade and get Chris Paul.
Remember the year afterhol You're right, Ribaul, after they won
(04:30):
the championship and Kyrie of course had the Big Three
to seal Game seven and all that. So if you're Kyrie,
you're like, Wow, I just hope you win a championship
and everything, and now you're trying to move me out
for your best friend. Yeah the relationship beans right, Yeah,
I mean something like that. Again. You you're a professional.
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You're gonna perform, but it can take a little of
your zest and your zeal away from you. And again,
in a sport like the NFL, that can be all
the difference in the world between a win and a loss.
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We saw it for the third straight weekend. Clay Matthews
makes what looks like a great sack of the quarterback
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and he's called for roughing the passer, and Clay Matthews
afterwards was just exasperated. He was good. He didn't, you know,
say anything that was fine worthy he was She tried
to be good, but I'm I'm exasperated for the guy.
I think it's unfair what's going on. But here's what
Clay had to say about it. Unfortunate. This lead's going
(05:55):
in the direction I think a lot of people don't like,
you know, I think they're getting soft and hard about
this league, or is the fines that they let me
down on guys like me to play the game hard.
So I don't know. I mean, I'm just gonna keep
playing hard. You know, maybe now pass rushers guys can
have the quarterback. He just have to attack the ball,
which is you know, I'm playing this game for over
twenty years. That's how you tackle. So we'll see. I mean,
(06:18):
you know, something's gotta change because you know at least
not Yeah, Clay, you have to change. You have to change, Clay.
You have to change supposed to do no, not put
your weight down on him. That's what he wasn't supposed
to do. And this whole notion, Chris, I'm not buying
his SOB story three weeks in a row. It's unfair.
This what he what he just did on Sunday was
(06:41):
clear violation of what they're talking about. Clay changed to
not following the games. You don't gravity that's been changed,
Like what what is the NFL lex play? And we
saw him in Miami, William Hayes try he sat Derek
Carr eyes to not put land on him so he
(07:03):
doesn't get penalized and tears his ACL, tears his ACL.
So you're you're actually I you you're actually getting more
other guys hurt because you're trying to protect the quarterback
and you're going above and beyond and pass. What is
what makes sense? We've seen this league when quarterbacks aren't
(07:26):
in it, the top quarterbacks and most of the games
are unwatchable. You gotta protect you, you know, the guys
who are holding the bag or all the quarterbacks in
this league. I saw it as a kid when they
did the in the grass move right where you could
just grab their jersey and not even bring them down,
and they would say, sack. I've seen it. That's what
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they might have to do. Oh, we might have to do.
They might have to go back to that. If you
really want to protect the quarterback, go back to that.
You can do not penalize guys for text hucks. I'm
about just about just touching them trying to tackle you.
That's what it's headed towards. Well. But I mean Clay
Matthews made a textbook. In fact, I think are not
(08:10):
his textbook. It's it's violation, not it's violation rule. No,
it's the new rule. Chris, you're living in the past.
You got to change the rule. You gotta get out
to change the Chris tackle the guy without my weight
landing or no you can't. That's what you can. Yes
you can, how easy you you can. You can bring
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him to the side. You don't have to bring him down.
I think it's gravity. I think it's gravity. I think
that's the law. I don't think I don't think the
NFL's law can outlaw the law of gravity. A lot
of you guys are, oh, you know, it's just this
and America's soft now and blah blah blah blah blah. No,
it's not about being soft. It's about putt it's about help,
(08:53):
it's about it's about helping to keep people in her
in life. Yes, al, it's just nothing. And here's the thing, Rob,
and I want the NFL to hear this. Football is
a dangerous game and no matter what you do, you
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can't stop guys from getting hurt. We just saw with
Jimmy Garoppolo. He didn't get hurt by somebody landing on
him with the force of their weight. He didn't get
hurt by somebody picking him up and slamming him to
the ground. He didn't get hurt by somebody spearing him
with their helmet into his helmet. He got hurt making
(09:39):
a move nine contact. It happens, it ruins the season
for the forty nine ers, But there's nothing you can
do about it. People are going to get injured one
way or the other. It's a dangerous game. Guys know
what they sign up for, and you gotta let him play.
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It's like having boxing and saying you can only throw
three punches at a time, and if you throw board
in three punches in the combination, it's illegal because it
might hurt the guy too badly. That's the sport. It's
a hurt business. No, but that doesn't mean that you
can't prevent or try to make it as as safe
(10:20):
as possible. And you and that damn mister softy stuff.
You know I'm right you, Chris. You remember this, don't
you remember this? The mister Softy, the ice cream truck.
Everybody in America? You remember mister Softy? Hey, Rob G
Didy have mister Softy in LA. They never misters sir,
(10:42):
they did everybody when you were a kid. This was
like I used to hypnotize you, right, Chris, you would
hear the truck no matter what, no matter, you would
stop everything, and you were like mister softy, you would
run to try to get money from your parents to
get ice cream. But you know, mister Softy is good.
Chris and missus good. Is the NFL? Now that's okay,
(11:06):
I'm cool with it. Isn't okay, It isn't okay, right,
I mean, this is I feel so bad for defensive players.
I mean, that's why we're raving about these quarterbacks throwing
for you know, three hundred and fifty yards a game
and breaking all the records and all these tds completing
(11:26):
seventy five percent of their passes and sewing and so forth. Oh,
they're so much better than the guys of yesterday. You know,
the guys of yesteryear had to worry about getting their
clock clean. The guys of yesterday year had running backs
who could be hit five yards at the line of scrimmage.
The guys of yesteryear. We're playing football. This is not
(11:49):
fair to the defensive players. But you're acting like Aaron
Rodgers didn't get hurt, Andrew Luck didn't get hurt, Tony
Romo didn't get her quarterbacks getting her bross. You gonna
get hurt sometime, yeah, but you gotta change matter what
William Hayes I got hurt too? Who cares about him?
He was trying to follow the rules, trying. I mean,
(12:12):
come on, man, this is hit us up at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. If you want to weigh in, you on
Clay Matthew side or you on Rob Parker side? What
you wants to make it flag football? I mean Rob,
like I'm really serious. Like they may have to say
(12:34):
they may have to go back to in the grass,
or like if you just I mean, if you just
such a guy touch a quarterback, like if you touch
him on grab his jersey, that's enough. You don't have
to Would you like to see that? I would like
to see the game safer. I just would, And it's
only gonna be so safe. But but they don't let
you just did see I'm I'm with you on making
(12:57):
it safer, but I'm on making it safer within reason.
It's like foot boxing. Yeah, I'd like to make boxing safer,
but I don't want to see him put headgear on
these guys. I don't want to see him, you know,
go to to eight round fights. I watched some college
softball this year, and it was shocking to me because
(13:17):
I don't watch that often. But every every player has
a cage in a helmet, even in the field. You
know it's they're trying to be safe. I didn't. I
couldn't even imagine playing with that in the in the
field they have on the face guard and everything. I
was shocked, but I thought maybe the picture because the
ball could come back at you fast. The catcher, but
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every position they have him on and on the field
or when they come up to bat and chuch. We
got a slew of people ready to get at you,
get at me. I'm right, we'll get to them. We'll
get to them next. Um. Look, I want to tell
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way is easier. Rob. I can't wait to get to
these calls. I gotta think if we have some football
fans and some guys that may have played the game
at a younger age, they gotta be siding with me.
We're going to keep a tally on this. I want
to lea see where we go. Numbers wise, all right,
age seven seven ninety nine on Fox. If you want
to join the odd couple, let's start out with Chris.
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We'll start out with Johnny in Vegas. You're on the
odd couple on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Johnny? Hey,
what's up? Guys calling in from Vegas. Thanks for taking
my car. Just wanted to let you know, Chris, you're wrong, man.
It's all about player safety. I'm sorry. Clay Matthews. I'm
sorry that was It was a good clean hit two
years ago, but not anymore by the rules that what
(15:28):
can you do. I'm just wondering I'm just I'm for safety,
but I'm for it within reasons. You can bring him.
You can bring him down without putting your weight on him.
Strip stack, He's got a strip sack every time. That's
all you can do. Try to talk, you gotta go
for the ball sack. You gotta go for the ball
every time. Absolutely, thank You can't try to not put
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your weight on him, because William Hayes did that for
Miami and we saw it cost him his season touring
ACL no doubt about it. There we go one for Rob,
zero for Chris. I love that. I know that. I
know you text somebody in Vegas. No, I did not
think that. He always says, I'm texting somebody. All right,
cousin Johnny, appreciate the call. I mean, I'm sorry, what
did I say? Jerry in Florida? Are you on the
(16:13):
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio? Was up? Jerry? Hey,
thanks doing listening to you. I'm telling you, it's like
getting your car fixed and then two weeks later something
else breaks. Then you fix that, and then something else breaks.
They finally worked on the catch rule because last year
it was got awful and now it's the tackling. It's
(16:35):
like one extreme to another extreme. And what really upsets
me is and I don't watch the NFL like I
used to because it's like the government overregulated, overruled, and
from one extreme to another, from one year to the next.
I think Clay matthews hit was perfect. I agree with
you with the gravity, and I think in the next
(16:57):
game he should pick up the quarterback him on the
ground gently just to prove a point. It's gotten just
off the charts ridiculous, all right, So you wondering, I
think that's a great call and appreciate the call. He
brought up the catch rule, Yeah, it got to the
point where nobody could even determine what was a catch,
(17:18):
Like we were overthinking this and now it's the same
thing with a tackle. It's like, oh, did you see
him lift up slightly? You know, and that's why he
was penalized. Oh he landed right on him. What where
is hes supposed to land? I mean, my goodness, it's
this stuff. Is the call is right, it's overregulated, and
(17:39):
we have to accept that football is what it is.
We accept that boxing is what it is, MMA is
what it is. If somebody gets a bloody nose in MMA,
are we Oh no, he got a bloody nose. Oh
my goodness. No, if you don't want to risk that,
then don't fight. And I'm saying if you don't want
to risk getting injured, I mean had Rob, Aaron Rodger
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and Troy Aikman, two are the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Has said they've gone too far. I hear you. But
they're in it, and they're in it, and they can't
because of what Troy Aikman went through with all those
concussions and what he went through. So I get it,
that's what he's used to. But things change, and at
some point the NFL's doing the right thing. Maybe it's
(18:22):
not till you're liking right away, but eventually players will
readjust and understand what it is they need to do.
All right, Tim and Texas, you're on the odd couple
on Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Tim, Hey buddy, how
are you guys doing? Loving it? Loving it? Loving it.
I'll tell you what, man. It is called tackle football. Correct,
thank you? All right? It's called tackle football. Tack it off.
(18:45):
That's why you draft linemen are so suspect. These guys, Okay, now,
they can't protecting when you get to him, and that's
your job. Knock them down. That's what the point of
the game is, right And and you also in the
caller sounds like he knows something about football because he's
on your side. I'm not no, I'm not saying you
(19:06):
want to injure anybody. But when you're a defensive player,
you want to put a good stick on somebody. That's
part of the game. You want to hit somebody hard.
You got bad intentions, and they're trying to take the
bad intentions out. Again. I go to boxing, it's like
trying to take out the knockout punches. No, that's what
(19:28):
I want to do. I want to knock him out.
I don't want him to, you know, be injured permanently.
I want him to get up afterwards, but I want
to knock him out for about ten seconds. That got
us in football. We got to accept it. That's these
dudes mentality, and that's what it should be. Go play soccer.
If you don't want contact, Look at you. You get
easy for you to say, you got two daughters, nobody's
(19:49):
playing football on your family. If I had a son,
he would have been playing. People like you would be
on the side like going don't hurt my boy. What
did you do? Oh? You dirty football player? That's right?
Or or you give your bull one. Oh, now you
don't want to go to college. We're gonna go. We're
gonna go to call, and it's about to get worse.
(20:10):
I'm sure you would put the ball. You would put
the baseball in your son's head and try to get
him to play baseball because you wouldn't want him to
get hurt. It'd be different. You know your daughters don't
play all right, Dwight in Oklahoma, you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Dwight? Hey, how
y'all doing? Man? Doing great? What's up? Man? I'm gonna
have to agree with Chris. Oh look at you. You
(20:33):
know it's some men that listen to them. Is that
what it is? Hey? That's all it is. Man. When
defensive players are gonna end up injured because they're going
to second guests and still, how should I hit this guy?
I'm going full speed and now I got a readjust
to hit the quarterback. I might pull a handstream, I
(20:54):
might break an angle. Trump slow down to get this
soft guy. Hey, Dwight, Dwight, hold on William Hayes just
saw it, Dwight. Dwight and Chris hold on. So tell
me when you're going full speed to go block a punter, right,
you're going after them, you pull up and you don't
run into him. Dude, don't you you understand you alter it.
(21:18):
You're going full speed out you're not speed, but hang on,
but you're jumping straight up to block the punt now,
and if I correct me up from from they got
on helmet, they got on shoulder pads, they got protection them,
rib paths, rib case. Hold the quarter you're talking about
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the quarterback? Yeah, all right, thanks for the call, Dwight.
I don't know a great call. Three one. It's a
man I like it. We got we got a couple
more before we get there. When you ain't win yet. Well,
speaking of winning, Pittsburgh just tied it up against what
they will assuming they get the extra point. Um. Wow,
(22:02):
long touchdown Roethlisberger. Who was the player? It was it Tighten?
Who was that that just absolutely ran over a defensive
back for Tampa Bay. But that part of the thing,
it was Vince McDonald. Vince McDonald down with a seventy
five yard touchdown run. Yes, and the extra point and
(22:24):
then just my goodness, I don't even say run because
I gonna want to be conte. I say run because
he caught the ball like seven yards and then and
then stiffed on the the d Conti's thinking, can I
hit him? Can I really tackle him? Can I, you know,
use my helmet? That is that a personal file? Pants
(22:45):
to the face? No? No, not for the runner? Yeah too,
I mean, but let let that was a great call.
And I think the calls where I was watching part
they didn't get it. Did he or did he go
to Vinsburg Steelers defensive back And he actually said on
TV today he said that when when they put in
the new targeting rule, you know where you could hit,
(23:07):
you couldn't you know, hit helmet to helmet and you
couldn't hit uh, you had to hit him in certain areas.
He said he got more concussions because he started trying
to hit guys low and he's getting more knees to
the head you know, um yeah, yeah, you're getting hit
on the side of the neck because you're trying to
move your head out of the way. He said he
(23:29):
suffered more concussions that way than playing the old way,
and so the call is right. I think if you
got these defenders thinking too much, they're gonna be hesitant,
and in a game like football, that can cost you. No,
I hear all that. You just have to adjust. It
takes time. Let's squeeze him one more. David in Vegas.
Another guy in Vegas during the Odd Couple on Fox
(23:51):
Sports Radio. What's up, David Rob I'm a longtime big
Fanny and Chris. I'm I'm a forty nine er fans.
So it wasn't a great day yesterday. But as much
as I'm about yeah, I gotta take Christmas side, David ruining.
They're ruining the league. Brother, you're ruining the league. It's football,
(24:12):
you know what I'm saying. I mean, this sport. If
you don't want to sign up for a go play basketball,
go play baseball, right. I mean as far as for
the fan, I mean it is sister, they could us.
I mean, I'm not a I'm a kind of guy
who likes one team and hates soldiers. I could care
less about Clay Matthews. What he did yesterday was perfectly honest,
you know, and fair. Many years you know before, when
(24:35):
I was a kid going up. Uh. The best UH
for man rush was the Parson Porson was the Rams,
David Deacon Jones, marn Holson, Lamar Lamney and Rue Rosie
Greer and David Deacon Jones would have been penalized every
play right. He was hitting guys upside the head, which
I'm you know, that's fine. The out rude that I'm outlawed,
(24:57):
that I'm glad about Chris. I'm gonna say this to
you when you right, like, I'm just sorry robbed, there's
not that was a textbook tack. I want you real
quick the next time you get a chance to watch
the Lawrench tailor in a what is it called uh
in a in a football football life watched and they're
showing all his greatest sacks and none of them does
(25:17):
he wind up on top of He just pulls the
quarterback down. He doesn't wind up Every great sack I've
seen so far, and this guy revolutionized the game. He
doesn't wind up on top of the quarterback. He grabs
him and throws him down. He reaches with his arm.
Not one have they shown where he is on top
(25:39):
of a quarterback and there's nothing but sacks. That's fine,
but that maybe is the angle he's coming in at,
you know, I mean, I don't know. I'm sure he
had hits that would have been deemed and all of
his sacks are about grabbing and bringing people down. All right,
you had to pull the Lawrence Taylor car, Yes, I did.
For one. I to you thought you had to win
(26:02):
everything after this weekend, but we had to bring you
back to earth. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Odd Couple with Chris Brussard and Rob Parker weekdays
at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific, and now as
the host of Hank Haney's golf radio show on Sirius
XMPGA Tour Radio. You can follow him at Twitter or
(26:23):
on Twitter at Hank Haney. Hank Haney, Welcome to The
Eye Couple. Is great to have you on. Hey, thanks, guys,
I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on, Hank. We
all know what happened yesterday, great moment with Tiger Woods
winning the tour championship. But I've been a little bit hesitant,
more hesitant, i should say, than most people, because I
(26:44):
see everybody saying Tiger is back, and I'm just not
so sure. Where do you stand on that? Oh, I
think he's back. I mean I really do. I saw
it in October when he posted a swing of you know,
one of his first swings he'd made, and everybody's hon
I said, he can win with that swing. And he's
(27:06):
He's played well this year. I mean, he just missed
qualifying for the Ryder Cup team and he got picked up,
you know, as a captain's pick. But but having only
gathered points for one year where the other players gathered
for two years, he actually probably he would have been
like the fifth player on the points after this year.
That a good year, a couple of near misses, a
major championships. I mean, you know, I feel like Tiger
(27:30):
is gonna win more golf tournaments. I knew he's gonna
I said he's gonna win this year, and then I
was down to the last tournament of the year. So
I got it right, but just barely. Uh, you know,
he's he's playing a very competitive level right now. Hey, Hank,
is it? Uh? Tiger went five years between winning a
(27:51):
tournament and he hasn't won a major in ten years,
which is just mind boggling when you think about the
right that he started his career of winning made je
but has his lack of winning up until yesterday, was
it more physical or mental because he's had a lot
of injuries. But but when you don't win as it
become a mental thing as well. Well, I mean it's
(28:12):
hits both, but but it starts with the physical. I mean,
you've got you've got to hit the ball. I mean,
you know, Tiger had all these great mental abilities, and
everybody talks about how he intimidated these guys and this
and that, and you know, I hear all this talk
about how the intimidation factor was gone. But when when
you're not hitting a golf ball, you know, you can't
(28:33):
just intimidate your way to victory. I mean, you got
you gotta be able to strike the ball. When Tiger
was dominating, he was literally number one and or thereabouts
and every important statistical category. He was just so much
better than everybody else. So, you know, the last two
years he hasn't been Now for whatever reason is swing injuries.
(28:53):
I mean, there's a lot of things that go into it.
But this year, if you look at him statistically, he's
been great. Uh, you know, he hasn't putted probably quite
as good as he as he has in the past.
But having said that, I didn't think his putting looked bad.
I just thought he's just, you know, a week away
from putting good and he, you know, finally had a
real good putting week and had a good ball striking week,
(29:14):
and you know, he won. You know, I really feel
like his game is right there, and it has been
pretty much all year. He's played very very well. Uh
you know, he didn't get it done a couple of
times when he was when he was right there, but
nobody gets it done all the time. A lot of
that is circumstances. He wasn't on the best courses for him.
(29:36):
But but going forward, even with the major championships, he's
got a lot of good golf courses coming up. But
he likes and I think he's going to be a
factor in these major championships from from now on. Well, hey,
you know as well as anybody that Tiger's always been
about the majors, and I think everybody who's wondering, I mean,
do you think I feel like it's a lot to
(29:59):
ask him to chat? Is Jack Nicholas's record again for
major championships? But do you think that's realistic within the
realm of possibility in a realistic way. No, it's not realistic,
it's not within the realm of possibility. But I mean,
as long as you know he's got four to tie Jack,
five to beat him, as long as he plays in
five more, there is a possibility. But the fact the
(30:22):
matter is is for players that have that have won
more than two majors, they win one out of every
three times they're in serious contention. And you define serious
contention by on the lead or tied for lead on Sunday.
He was on the lead on Sunday at the Open Championship.
So that's one time he's on the lead. You got
you got to do that three times to win one
(30:43):
of them, if you if you stick to the odds
that other players have one at and that that means
to win five more majors, he'd have to be on
the lead fifteen times on Sunday. Uh. You know. And
for somebody that when the next Major comes around, he's
gonna be forty three years old, that that's just not
that's not realistic. I mean that that that can't logically happen.
(31:05):
But having said that, he is Tiger Woods, and you know,
who knows, maybe he'll you know he may win every
time he's on the lead from here on out. You
just you just you just never know. But the odds
are pretty long against that. But as soon as he
wins one of him, everybody will think, hey, he can
still do it. And you know, and honestly that's good
for golf because you look at all the attention that
(31:27):
golf got yesterday. There's only one person that can do that,
and that's Tiger Woods. Do you do you think Tiger
during the drought ever got to a point where he said, man,
this is just I can't win again. I just have
him won. It's been a long time. You think he
came to a point where he doubted that he might
ever win again. Now only when he couldn't swing, only
(31:50):
when he couldn't move because of his back. But if
he as soon as he could swing again, he knows
he can win. He's been, you know, an assistant captain
for these uh Tider Cup team, Presidents Cup team. He
goes out there and he watches those guys, and I
guarantee in his mind he's thinking, I can beat these guys.
I mean, there's just there's not a dominant There's a
(32:10):
lot of great players don't get me wrong, but there's
no buddy that's close to Tiger Woods that's playing the
game today. Uh, not even close. Uh. And and he's
looking at those guys. He's thinking, I can still beat
all these guys. And I'm sure he feels it now,
especially after yesterday. It's the Eye Couple with Chris Brussar
and Roy Parker on Fox Sports Radio. We're joined by
(32:30):
Hank Haney, the former swing coach for Tiger Woods. And Hank, you,
you and Tiger obviously have had some ups and downs,
been through some great times and then some down periods.
Where's your relationship at now? Do you have one? And
where would you like to laugh? It can't be good, No,
what We've never we've never had it. We've never had
(32:51):
a downtime. We only had up times, to be honest
with it, We've never had a downtime. But uh, when
I when you know, when when I left Tiger, uh
back in you know, you know two thousand whatever, Uh,
two thousand and nine Masters was my last tournament when
I when I left Tiger, you know, the last thing
(33:12):
Tiger said to me is he said, Hank, We've been
great friends and we need to stay that way, and
that was the last I ever heard from him, So
you have it wasn't we never had any problem. It's
just it's just, you know, that's just kind of the
way it goes with Tiger. But wait a minute, Hank,
you left out a part when he said, don't let
the door hit you on the way out. No, he
(33:33):
didn't say that, But yeah, yeah, you would you reach
out to I mean, I'm sure you were happy for
him yesterday. Would you reach out to him and you know,
say anything to him or or are you just gonna
leave it alone? No? I just leave alone. I mean, hey, listen,
I had a great time with Tiger. It was great
for my career. It was you know, I was with
(33:54):
him during the most dominant time in his career, so
you have to assume that it was. It was great
for both of us. I mean, I've got nothing but
great memories about it. I mean, you know it. And
I'm happy for Tired to play good again. I'm just
happy for him. You know, he looks like he's a
much happier person now. I mean, he's had a lot
of problems and he's for him to overcome that, you know.
(34:16):
You know, people talk about the back problem, and that's
a big thing. But I mean, when you get arrested
and you got like, you know, six drugs in your
system or whatever it was, you're not just having a
bad night. I mean, you got a problem. And now
to see him where he is, it just makes me
feel really good about where he is in his life
and he just you know, it's just great to see
him do good because I wish him nothing but the best. Hank.
(34:39):
Did you sound like No, we sound like you sound
like a nice guy, Hank. But most people, if you
would have parted with somebody, you probably you would lose, Hank,
say it in person, but but you would probably be like,
you know, not not that thrilled. I mean I should
say when he was struggling, had a little extra ground,
never at all. No, why would I ever that? No,
(35:00):
I mean, once you part with somebody, I'm just saying
you and and and you said you were with him.
To not hear from him at all since that day,
didn't that a little unusual? It must have been some
some sort of strain in the relationship not to have
talk since then. Not really, because that's kind of the
way it is with him. But you know, that's all right.
I mean, it's just it doesn't change anything about how
(35:22):
I feel like I did with Tiger. It doesn't change
anything about you know how. I know that I was
as a coach and a friend to Tiger, So you know,
it's all fine. I mean, I had no problem with it,
to be honest with you, you know, I knew that. Listen,
when you're as great as he is, there's something different
about you, and you have to accept those differences as
(35:43):
a coach, and I certainly did. Uh. You know, it's
just it's just the way it is. But but you
always just you just do your best, you know, and
you try your best. You try your hardest. I had
great times with Tiger. He did good. I did good. Um,
you know what what else could better than that? To
be honest with you, I mean, you know, hey, nothing's forever. Well, Hank,
(36:05):
thanks a lot for joining us. We appreciate it. And um,
we'll see what Tiger does from here on out. But
thanks you. Jo. All right, couple, all right, you all right,
guys can watch all right? So yes or no? Will
you win a major next year? Real quick? Hank? Yes
or no? I beg you will? Okay, he will all right,
appreciate it. Thank you. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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Let's put the big Jay journalists to the test. It's
(36:50):
sources say, yes, sir. Sources say America's favorite radio game show,
Rob Parker, Chris Bussar got a thousand years of journalist
some experience. You know, I'm still breaking stories in these days.
I'm still breaking stories, but sometimes they can't tell a
difference between what's real and what's fake in the world
of sports. So Rob Parker, I want to get this
(37:11):
out of the way real quick. Though you had five
and oh and your picks against the spray this. Did
you hear that? Chris Broussard, it's early five and oh
I could have had a big golfhins or three and oh.
We'll see how that five and oh. Well, because of that, Rob,
you're gonna get the first crack at the first story
here on sources say it because my sources tell me
that Adam Levine and Room five they'll be performing at
(37:32):
the Super Bowl at half time. They'll be releasing a
song on their upcoming album dedicated to Colin Kaepernick. My
source is good. I just can't believe the league is
gonna sign off on that with the Colin Kaepernick. I
know I'm gonna be wrong, but I say, no, that's
not correct, that's that's not true. I'm going to say
(37:54):
that is true. You sit on a throne of a lie. Yeah,
I'm six to no, keep it rolling, baby, I'm six
to old, all right. Actually, Meek Mill has a Colin
Kaepernick song and I'm the Room five yet not yet,
it's coming out of the new album. My sources say
that a Yankees beat writer broke his arm while pitching
(38:17):
during an annual baseball game between members of the New
York and Boston media. Chris, my source is good. I'm
gonna say true. Are you ready? I used to play
in those games and it was writers against the Yankee coaches.
I played at Yankee Stadium, so I know those games
go on. Was it Bob clappitch who got hurt or
(38:40):
you don't know the name. No, I would say that
that's true. Oh it was not, though, do you know
who it was? I'll get it for you. I have here,
just give me yet. But I'm not. I'm not. I
can believe this. Is it baseball or softball? No, it's baseball.
It's fast pitched base broke his arm trying to pitch.
Wo so trying to pitch. Yep, you got that torque?
(39:03):
Got that torque, sources say Fox Sports rad of the
Odd Couple Christmas. Sorry. Rob Parker, My sources say that
former NBA player Antoine Walker admitiate earlier this week that
he used to smoke weed after every shoot around during
his NBA career. Rob Parker, my source is good, lay
off the weed. I say that that is true. Uh
(39:24):
the NBA weed. Uh is commonly used in the NBA.
I'd say, yes, I do think that's true. But Chris
only knows it from the wider standpoint. Right right, I'm
gonna try to get a win though, I gotta break this.
I need I need to score, so I'm gonna say false. Right,
(39:47):
So who was it was? Matt Barnes? Okay, Barnes really
every day former Laker. That's that's not shocking to me.
He won a championship too, didn't he? All right? My
sources say that during his media day press conference, Nick
Center and his cancer admitted that the thought of making
the playoffs quote makes my nipples hard. Chris, and my
(40:08):
source is good. I think that is true. And this
is that type of guy. I could see him saying that.
Oh jeez, oh god, do we have to really go there?
All right? Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with true.
Oh see, he always trying to play for the tie?
How about trying to play? Sources say the Odd Couple
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Colorado had to pay five hundred bucks and damages after
their mascot shot a fan in the face with a
T shirt cannon and broke his nose. Robin, my source
is good. That's true. Yes, the way he said it,
I think it's true. No, what don't say that, Chris.
Maybe it's false. He said it with authority? Is it true? Oh? True?
(40:53):
So it was a tie. I'm still on the winning streak.
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