October 8, 2018 • 36 mins
It’s the Best of The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker! Chris and Rob dissect another Giants loss amidst comments from Odell Beckham Jr and discuss whether or not OBJ was justified in calling his team out like he did. The guys also go all-in on the Conor McGregor/Khabib Nurmagomedov fight, and explain why they think the post-fight melee might actually be beneficial to the UFC. Don’t sweat, because there’s another award winning edition of Sources Say.
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f S one. Let's start off sticking in New York
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where the New York Football Giants lost again tough game
thirty three thirty one at Carolina. But the big story,
Rob is everybody's talking about Odell Beckham Junior's comments that
he made to Josina Anderson, our former colleague over ESPN
in a sit down interview that he and Little Wayne did.
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Let's hear a little bit of that. I don't know,
Like I said, I feel like, is it amount of
time and you can can you steal a thort? Yeah,
it's been pretty safe and it's been you know, cool,
catching shadow and trying to take it to the house.
But I'm you know, I want to I want to
go over the top of somebody. Haven't been in the
place where I feel like I can really go out
and do everything that I'm capable of doing. I don't
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get twenty targets like some other receivers, shits everything. And
not to say that it's not gonna work, but at
the moment, I feel like I work entirely way too hard. Yeah, Rob.
The first comment he was talking about was Eli Manning.
The first part of that comment that everybody heard. Uh.
He was asked, is Eli the problem? Is her quarterback
the problem? And he said, I don't know. He said,
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obviously he's not gonna scramble, you know, he's not gonna run,
you know, But I don't know. It's almost an indictment,
you know what I mean. When you watch it, it
sounds like, yeah, it sounds like an indictment. There's no
question because you would say no if it's not, if
it's not him, it's not when you say I don't know, yeah,
you at least considering it, right, you're questioning him. But look,
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here's the thing. This is what Ben McAdoo got fired
because he saw this. He saw that Eli Manning was done.
Benched him. The New York fans sentimental because Eli's delivered
too super Bowl, as you have said, will be a
Hall of Famer because of those two. And he was
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magnificently clutched yes in both. So give him his props,
give him right, right, and time moves. Everybody's not gonna
play till their forty one, like Tom Brady. Most quarterbacks
are breaking down at Eli's age or a year or
two after, and he, you know, he's still okay. But
you and I have both said, and this is not
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revisionist history, this is not you know, jumping on the bandwagon.
We both were saying before the draft, do not take
say KWin Barkley, nothing against him, but take a quarterback.
It's a quarterback rich draft. Get one of these young guys,
and you should be said, or could be set for
your future. But that's what Odell saying. A couple other things.
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The second part of that interview, he was basically saying that,
you know, the Giants are not putting him in position
that he said, he used the term being out schemed,
and he said they're not putting him in position to
be the best that he can be. So he really
you know, initially people jumped on his quotes about the
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team not playing with energy and not you know, playing
with heart. But I thought the most telling quotes from
him were one, I don't know if he lies the problem.
He very well might be. And two, they're not putting
me in position to be effective as effective as I
can be. And three Josina asked him, are you happy
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in New York? And he said that's a tough question. Really,
I like the sunshine in LA That's what he said.
And Rob, let me just throw this out there. After
their game a loss, remember Odell, Odell seemed like he
was in a good mood, cheery mood, and he said,
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if it took me saying all that to get us
to play with some energy and to play the way
we did today, then I'll do that every day of
the week. I'm fine with it. I'm paraphrasing, but that's
essentially what he said. And so where do you stand?
Was was Odell out of bounds or is this a
good thing? The way he went at the team and
the organization. I'm okay with it. Only from this standpoint
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I get the frustration. I do, because this is not
what the Giants signed up for, not what I'm sure
he thought it was all good to be. Don't forget.
People made all kinds of excuses last year. Chris all
the injuries, oh Eli lost his obj and and other receivers,
and the offensive line wasn't good and they had bad coaching,
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every excuse in the world why the Giants suffered through
a three and thirteen year and was able to get
the second overall pick in the draft. So this is unexpected.
People really thought that Giants had fixed this problem, We're
gonna be good. And granted it doesn't matter. I know
they were closed. It took up eighty five yard field
goal of beating dumb, you know what I mean? The
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guy kicked the sixty three yarder with time expire and
had just made it inside the upright, I get it,
So they could have won that game. But if you
just take a look at how this team feels and
and you see all the numbers, they haven't scored, well,
that was the first time they scored over thirty points,
right in three years, since twenty fifteen, since twenty fifteen.
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And this man's NFL Chris, where everybody's putting up numbers
and points and all kinds of other stuff. So that
tells you one thing. Number two, Eli doudn't have it.
Eli just doesn't. He doesn't he well, he was better, No,
he was in this game, but I'm talking about it
better the overall numbers though. He doesn't throw the ball long.
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And let's just be honest. I mean, right now, Odell
Beckham Junior could be the quarterback because she could touchdown
he threw. That was a nice throw. That was a
really man I mean, heck, that was one of their
longest passes in the year. Right. I wonder, I don't
maybe Rob g see if we can get this, but
that ball traveled how far are they travel in the air?
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Maybe forty something yards, thirty something yards. I wonder if
they've had a completion in the air in the air
that's gone longer than that ball did. And I get it.
A lot of people are like, keep it to yourself,
don't rip the team in public. Don't We ask guys
to be honest and candid, and then when they are,
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we got an issue. I just can't have it. When
they get when they give us the politically correct answers
and don't say anything, we rip them too. We rip
them and say he's useless. He didn't say anything. Dude,
you can't have it both ways. This was great, Josina.
I mean, she did a great job pull it out
of him. I don't know if little Wayne was there
to pull it out of him too, or you know
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what I mean, like to make it more comfortable. But
whatever the case, she got good quotes out of him.
I'll say this, Rob I do. I'm not gonna kill Odell.
And course that ball was twenty four yards in the air.
It was only twenty four yeah, okay, I bet you
was in their top five completions though, as far as
you know, bin in the air, but but longer than
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anything he lives thrown in in about a year, so
you were right. Beckhams was what thirty three? The touchdown
they connected on yesterday was about thirty three yards or
something like that. But up to that point, yeah, ELI
hardly connected on passes that far there. But beyond that,
if here's what I say about Odell and his comments,
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I think it's fine to do what he did. If
you have been beating this drum to the coaches, the
coaching staff ELI all season. If week after week you've
been like, look I can beat my man, Let's go long,
let's throw it deep, get me in some different schemes.
They know what we're doing, let's do let's change it up.
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What you know. If you're saying all of that and
they're not listening, it's falling on deaf ears. Then eventually
your only recourse is to go public, right, because now
you want to put pressure. Look, they're not listening to me.
I said the same thing about Aaron Rodgers last week
when he talked about, you know, Mike mccarth in, the
scheme and the plan and all that. If they're not
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listening to you behind closed doors, then at some point,
if nothing else is working, then the only recourse you
have is to go public. And here's the thing, Rob,
they did change some things up. They we saw I
mean the double pass to Odell when he threw the
touchdown to say kuon Barkley right, that was unique. Eli
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did throw deeper in three of his first four games.
He averaged six yards an attempt. Yesterday averaged nine yards
an attempt. So I think that's what Odell meant when
he was saying, if this is what it takes to
get us to play better, blah blah blah, then I'm fine.
I'll take it now. I'm a I don't know that
Odell's been beating that drum. If he hasn't, if he's
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never you know, if this is the first the Giants
have heard that Odell doesn't think we're putting him in
position to succeed, and you know he's got questions about Eli,
then I think you deal with it in the house
first before in public. That would be my only criticism
of what O'Dell did. I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt that, yes, indeed, he's talked about it. Why
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would why would he just keep it to himself. He's
not that he's out there, you know, boisterous, So I'm
gonna give him that he's had a conversation. Maybe it
didn't seep in, Maybe the frustration got to him a
little bit more. But that stuff happens, and it's not
the end of the world. You can live through it.
It's not like he said. It'd be totally different if
he went out public and said, Eli Manning is a
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bomb and we'll never win anything with him quarterback and
they need to cut him. Okay, now now we got
Now we got an issue. Do you know what I'm saying?
Now there's an issue. So so yeah, And here's the
thing too, rod Well, we also don't know it's possible
because O'Dell is. It seems like he's very popular on
that team. He is viewed as a leader, whether we
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like to view him as a leader or not. He
clearly has some clout with that team and his teammates.
There may be teammates going to him, or they may
be talking about it amongst themselves, like yo, can we
throw the ball downfield? Like what's going on? You know
what I mean? Like our stuff, like des Bryant said
about the Cowboys, our stuff is basic. We need to
do some different things. So maybe some of his teammates
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have been saying this and he went public like I'm
gonna speak for the team. So there's a lot behind
the scenes that may have been taking place to lead
obell Odell Beckham Junior to do what he did. Be
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and Rob. We ended off the last segments talking about
the Connor McGregor Kebibe fight. I thought it was an
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excellent fight. I thought Cabebe looked tremendou just just flat
out dominated McGregor and unbelievably in my opinion, McGregor won
the third round on all three judges scorecards. That's when
Cabeb decided to stand up and strike with him, and
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I actually thought Kabeb did a good job. McGregor hit
him a few times early, but Cabeb knocked McGregor down
and with a punch, and I thought he won. I
thought he won all three rounds until he submitted. McGregor
made him tap out in the fourth round. He won
on their feet, and then of course he dominated him
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or on the ground and won the second round ten
eight because he got McGregor on the ground and was
just pounding him for a good thirty forty seconds or
whatever before the bell saved McGregor. But but the belly
who was more about afterwards? Right? And afterwards Cabeb jumped
over the fence, went after McGregor's jiu jitsu trainer, and
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then McGregor actually started climbing the fence to get out
of the octagon when he saw that, and one of
Kabeb's guys was there on the fence and McGregor punched him,
and then somebody else from Cabeb's team jumped in and
hit McGregor sucker punched him from the back. I mean,
it was a melee. It was out of control and
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Cabeb was wrong for going off jumping over the fence.
I will say this. He was upset and he said
it because we all saw the footage of Connor McGregor
throwing the dolly at the bus that Cabeb was on
and injured several people. McGregor talked about Cabeb's family, his father,
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He talked about his country Russia. He talked about his
religion and Muslim He criticized deem islames his religion, he
criticized all all of that, and Cabibe this was personal
for him. Throughout the fight, he was talking trash to
McGregor as he beat him up. After he submitted him,
he starting kept talking trash to him, and then you know,
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he went after one of McGregor's guys. So I'm not
excusing it. It was wrong and it can't happen. You
can't let that stuff happen. But McGregor is not innocent.
Let's not make him the innocent, you know, party in
this whole thing. But here's the real question. It hit
us up at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
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eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Do you think it was bad for UFC? Because I
gotta be honest, Rob, I don't. As ugly as it was,
as much as nobody wants to see that, I don't
think it was bad because if they have a rematch,
and McGregor is saying he wants an immediate rematch, and
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he'll get pummeled again in my opinion, but he wants
an immediate rematch. This will be by far the big
its grossing fight in UFC history. Yeah, I mean that
sounds good, but it was a bad look. When stuff
gets into the crowd and other innocent people who aren't
the part of it are involved, Chris, it's a bad look.
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The UFC's lucky nobody got seriously hurt very much. Okay,
you know what I mean. So so I get you,
and I understand about the fighting stuff. As long as
you keep it in the ring. Once you get into
the crowd with the other people and any other stuff
going on, you could have an issue. And that's where
it comes in. I mean, if you didn't see the
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fight and you just saw the melee, you go, what
the heck is this? Oh my god, this is awful.
You know the guys in the crowd and there's a
fight breaking out, do you know what I mean? And yeah,
that's the part that the UFC has to be careful.
You don't really want all that, all the other stuff
leading up. I get it, the pre fight stuff, you know,
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and all that. People kind of expect it. And because
we should say that the Dodgers did beat the Bridge
six to two, and they do move on to the
NLCS for the fourth time, and so there's only one
series remaining, right, Yankees, Red Sox yep. And the Red
Sox just went up one oh. Yes, the Red Sox
are up one oh. But I'm second yep. So we
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wanted to at least get that, uh, to let you
know that. But but I think that's the part that
you have to watch out if you're the UFC, because
I hear what you're saying. Yes for them, it does work,
and it seems like it's going to uh and and
the Saints just went up six nothing so so much
is just happening. So you're trying to keep you updated. Yeah,
it's gonna it's gonna work. I get where you're saying,
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nobody wants to see that, because what you don't want
are innocent bystanders being hurt. And you're talking about world
class fighters. You could hit somebody you don't even plan
on hitting, you know what I mean, and and really
injure somebody. So I get what you're saying. Um and
but Dana White has to decide, and he's saying all
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the right things, but I wonder inside what he's really thinking,
like is he does he see dollar signs? Because you know,
it was a just as ugly and even more damaging
in terms of humans being injured, was when a Connor
McGregor threw that dolly at Kebebe's bus and did injure
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a couple of UFC fighters. Absolutely, and how dangerous to
throw that into a blasts that kind of stuff. He's
lucky they allowed him to plead down and leave, but
New York authorities could have easily detained him, could have
been in jail for that because he put a lot
of people at risk. Chris, let's go. Here's the thing,
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you know, here's the thing. Dana White used that video
to market the fight. That's why I'm saying like this
is not going to I mean, as bad as it was,
the UFC is gonna make money off of this situation.
If Cabiebe wants to fight, there's rumblings that he might
want to retire. What else has he got to prove?
He beat the heck out of McGregor, and I think
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we'll do it again. But if I were him, I
come back for the money. But we'll see. But I
know we got some calls. Yeah, let's do that. Hey,
Max and Florida, you're on the odd couple on Fox
Sports Radio. What you got Max? How are you guys
doing to pleasure to get on again? I'm a big
UFC guy. I love Connor McGregor, But Chris, I have
to disagree with you, my man. Even though this gets
pay per view buys, it gets people talking about it,
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I do not think this is a good look for
the UFC because this is not okay. You have media
people in the stands, you have fans in the stands,
and people can get hurt. I love the trash talk,
I love people getting involved with the hype with the fight,
but I don't want people to get involved or they
get hurt. No, I agree. I mean it was ugly
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and hopefully we never see anything like that again. But
I'm just saying going for like, do you think I'm
not saying the UFC would want stuff like this to
continue happening. I think what should happen is that Kabib
should get a hefty fine hefty, you know, And but
I don't think it should be anything. I don't want
him suspend it or anything like that. I hope that
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doesn't happen. But do you think I mean, if they
have a rematch, don't you think it will be the
most anticipated fight in UFC history. No I do. I mean,
I get all that, and there's no doubt about it
that people will get fired up about it because of
the crazy ending. I'm just saying, you gotta be careful
not to promote that and be okay with it, do
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you know what I mean, so that the next time
they think, oh, that's cool, it was cool when we
went into the stands and started fighting. That's never good.
So because then you get other people fighting. You know
what else makes you you wonder about UFC is a
sport where you have a lot of people from a
lot of countries, and boxing too. But we've seen in
some of the European countries, I mean, whether soccer or whatever,
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you see a lot of violence in those you know,
in the crash, you've seen it with the bob wire
on the soccer and the crowd for to keep the
two sides apart, the barbed wire. And that's what I
wonder if you see in America, we're not you you know,
we keep that stuff from happening for the most part.
But I you, you've got a lot of people who
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aren't from America at these fights, and you know the
obviously the fight. I mean, Cabebe's from Russia, and I
don't know if they just got a different mentality and
they're like, look, this is how he goes at sporting
events here every once in a while. But whatever the case,
I'm with you, it's gotta, it's gotta. They gotta stop that. Hey, hey,
let's squeeze in one more real quick before we get
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to death. Ron and Kentucky. You're on the yard Couple
on Fox Sports Radio. What's up Ron? How much? Guys?
How you doing today? Doing great? What's happening? Hey? Listen?
So do you guys not think for a minute that
this UFC is turning into a WWE all over again?
They don't white as a brilliant mind and anyway that
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they're gonna try to make money and make big fights,
they're gonna do it. And I guarantee you, without a
doubt in my mind, all this was set up the public.
You're not I agree with you. I tweeted Ryn, was it? Ryan? Yeah?
I tweeted Uh the Saturday night that the UFC is
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real life WWE. That's what it is. I mean, WFE
was great when we were kids and I was in
eighth grade, and I'm into it and I think it's real,
and everybody's trash talking and Meleey's happened and all that stuff.
The UFC is WWE for real. Hey, Chris, we got
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an update from Rob gr producer. There's some rob What
do you got? According to uh Robert Little Black Sports online,
it's one of the most plugged in guys, you know
when it comes to these kind of things UFC WWE
boxing kind of stuff. Um, there's been an initial medical
suspension for both guys ten days, you know, just recovery,
and they're expecting longer suspensions forthcoming, but nothing longer than
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six months, which is code for let's not delay the rematch,
right and cash these checks? Yes, right now, that's what
that's That's absolutely right. And again I think the caller
was right on the money. This is you know, when
I got to an age where I knew WWE and
you know, Georgia Championship Wrestling and with Gordon Soley and all,
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that's when I got to an age where I knew
it was fake. There was a part of me like, man,
I wish this was real. That's what we have now.
You only got one trash talker right now, and that's McGregor.
But if you start getting more guys talking trash, that's
what the UFC is. Be sure to catch live editions
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robbing this McGregor cabebe hubbub something else that people are missing.
Remember the UFC before the fight. A couple of weeks
before the fight, they announced the six was it six
fights or eight fights? Rob g okay a six fight
deal with McGregor. McGregor has lost three of his last
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four fights if you include Floyd Mayweather and Dart included.
He's lost two of his last three in UFC and
a lot of people thought he lost the rematch with
Nate Diaz and so what this is UFC is really
they're they're beholding to Connor McGregor, and if he gets
beat down again by cabebe like, you know, he's not
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at the point where he's not relevant anymore because it's
just lost. You know, he hadn't lost too much. I
guess Nate Diaz was bigger. You can justify that that way.
Floyd Mayweather, of course was a boxer. You can justify that.
But if he loses again that could be then you
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wonder how big of a draw he's gonna be, and
will people just start looking at his talk as just
empty noise. Alex dj DJ Alex Tisher, who brings you
to funky sounds coming in and out of every break.
You had an interesting take on this. Yeah, my perspective
on this too. It kind of seems like it might
come to fruition, just like the Rhonda Rousey effect, where
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she was the hottest thing around, everybody was clambing to her,
but she never really fought anybody that was up to
her standard. She was always fighting down to her competition,
and she finally fought somebody that was above her and
she got rocked. She got unsteadily, unsteadied, she got knocked
off her feet and she ultimately lost the fight and
also her fighting career out of it. So in my
inspective with Connor, he's coming so much out of the gate,
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just being flamboyant, yelling, talking all this up, and Kebeb
sat there quiet. I knew from the get go that
this wasn't a good fight for him going into it,
and he got demolished within the fight, regardless of what
the cards are, and I could tell for the UFC
in general itself, he's going to blow over quickly. And
he should have never came back and fought because after
you transcend fighting as he did, coming back to the situation,
putting yourself through these rounds again and going into these
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situations not only hurts you as a platform, but it
hurts the sport in general because look how the afterbawl was.
Do you think that would have happened with any other fight.
Of course not. But he's attacking people's aggression of their personality,
their religion. It's it's just a bad looking He's not
hungry anymore. That's what Yeah, That's what I was gonna
get to is he's lost his hunger, and once you
lose that, anybody who's kind, Yeah, Kebeb is hungry. He's
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fighting for something. He wants the glory. He's chasing something
that's bigger than what McGregor is. McGregor has hit the
pinnacle of his career. He's done absolutely everything he's chasing for.
So what's the point of coming back and fighting for what?
You're not fighting for anything other than just for extra money.
You have all these careers, these outlet of revenues, So
what's the point he's gonna make. He made one hundred
million off the Mayweather fight, which I thought he could
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have retired after that. Yeah, he's made He's gonna make
about fifty million off this fight with the sponsorship his
Whiskey as a sponsor company, as a sponsor, he was
involved in the promotions, So yeah, he didn't have to
fight anymore. The one thing I disagree with you on
is I don't compare McGregor to ron Da Rousey because
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I think I think ron Da Rousey, for the most part,
was became so big and great because she was beating
fighters who weren't that good. Like I think at that
stage of women's MNA, you know, you weren't getting a
lot of the great women that were fighting I think
McGregor was a legit fighter, Like I think he's a
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really good fighter. H this was just a bad matchup
for him. You know, he beat Jose Aldo who had
been undefeated for like ten years or something like that.
So he was a legit fighter. But Kabib's just better.
It's and it's a terrible matchup for McGregor. You know,
they say styles make fights, and that's true in UFC
as in boxing. Uh, but you give us a call,
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let us know what you think. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. But the other part, two, Chris, is
I think some people enjoy it's two nothing red sox JD.
Martinez with a sack fly to left field. By the way,
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the Wizards are beating the Knicks fifty to forty four
in a preseason Please, I know you're not giving me
preseason scores. Please. You should be shot to even have
that on. You mean, I was just flicking. I'm trying
to get to the game. I got the I was
going to go to ball to football tbs. Oh, I
see a flipping ball. M But but the other part
is some people might enjoy Connor McGregor getting beat up.
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Do you know what I mean? Like there's another element
of that, or maybe maybe people because he's so out there,
he's uh nasty and yeah, grotesque like Mayweather where people
start watching because they hope that Mayweather gets knocked out
or they want to see him get beat up or
see him lose. Do you know what I'm saying, Well,
to enjoy Yeah, Saturday, I was enjoying. And there's a
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part of me that does like McGregor. There's a part
of me, but I really was pulling from Kabebe to
just beat him down and he didn't. I was enjoying it.
But I think that only lasts so long, Like there
has to be a feeling of, well, we think this
guy is really great, we want to see him lose.
But if he keeps losing over and oh no, no, no, no, right,
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it can't be what I'm just saying. I think a
lot of people enjoyed that and oh yeah and would
probably love to see another beat down. But right, he
can't get beat down six fights in a row or anything, right, Right, Well,
that's where that's where there's gonna be a rematch, and uh,
they're gonna both make a ton of money if Kebeb
decides to do it. But yeah, it was an interest
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night for UFC. But it's events like this that you know,
people are saying it's gonna surpass boxing. Events like this
really make you wonder, you know, if they're if people
get turned off by what happens in the crowd and
then you know they don't have fight. Great fighters don't
last as long in UFC as they do in boxing.
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You know you're not. I mean, McGregor was a great champion,
but he's pretty much I think he's pretty much done
in that regard because with the different disciplines in the fighting,
it's hard to stay undefeated and have a long rain.
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We do this every Monday at this time where we
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Ron came out the womb with a pen and papers.
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Do we do we have seventy eight? Because I started
in ninety I got thirty two years, so I got
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I got what's I got? Twenty eight? Yeah? Okay, so yeah,
so we're closing in on seventy eight here here, we're
closing in now. Recently this game has been called the
crisp we started invitation though, because he's been taking rob
to the woodshed on it well, because he knows all
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these things that don't matter when it comes to sports
or something different. I'm sorry, but just like could be
Rob's gonna shock the world right now with the dominating performance.
I'm a feelings See story number one, Gentleman. My sources
say that Yukon had football coach Randy Etzel gets a
two thousand dollars per game bonus if his team even
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has the lead at halftime. Robin, my source is good,
Oh that that sounds ridiculous. If a two thousand dollars
bonus if he has the lead at halftime. Um, I
gotta say no, that's not that can't be right. Yeah,
there's a part of me that wants to say true
just because it does sound so ridiculous. But I'm gonna
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say false. Oh what he gets bonuses if he has
the most sacks on their team, the most tackles for loss,
if he scores first, they have the greatest bonus package
in history. The coach, the coach, So this is just well,
they must pay him a dollar forty nine an hour.
I mean, come on, everything's commission. That sounds ridiculous. Story
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number two, My sources say that the five year old
son of former NFL running back Jamal Charles got in
some up over the weekend when he accidentally shredded over
a thousand dollars in cash that Charles had in his office. Chris,
and my source is good. I feel like I would
have heard about that. But I'm gonna say true. That
sounds true. Kids get into everything, and you know, he
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was just living by the mantra it's always better with
the shredded chetta? Is that it? Tho? I say it's true?
Oh my god, it was somebody else that happened to
a Utah Ute season ticket. Hold, all right, we knew
what happened. It had with some kids, Yes it did, okay,
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sources say Fox Sports rad of the Odd Couple, Chris
We sorry, Rob Parker. My sources say that former Alabama
coach Mike DuBose accidentally shot himself in the abdomen while
he was writing a lawnmower on his property the other day. Robin,
My source is good. Another ridiculous story. I'm gonna say true.
Why would you have your gun with you? Did you
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say he was a lawn on the lawnmower? Wait? Minute
was cut? He was cutting? He was cutting his grass
in the bronx. Where was he about to say? He
must live in a rough neighborhood. I might have to
do some stand up, Rob, I'm gonna say true. Oh
all right. He said he had his guns for the
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snakes in the area, that he shoots them when they
getting the way. Oh wow, all right. My sources say
that the Adaheim Ducks veteran players have banned everybody on
the team from playing the game Fortnite on road trips
because they think it's a distraction. Chris, Sorry, my source
is good. I'm gonna say true. I'm gonna say false.
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You sit on a throw, we might have a little
upset in man. Come on, hurry up, a running out
of time? What you say a seconds? The bills shocked
the world, sources say. University of Central Florida basketball player
Rocas Uvidas was arrested over the weekend after he threatened
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to kill his roommate because he didn't say hi to
him at a tailgate. Robin, my source is good. Oh
sounds crazy. I'm gonna say true. It does sound so
crazy that you would think it's true. But I'm gonna
say false to get back in this game. I figured
it was so ludicrous that you couldn't make that up.
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All right, So Rob's gonna get the win. Well, this
next one is just for fun and bragging rights, my
sources say. Las Vegas PD reportedly made sixty three arrest
for fighting and disorderly conduct in the four hours immediately
following the McGregor could be matched. Chris sum my source
is good. I think that's false. I don't think it
was that many. What did Chris say false? I'm gonna
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go with Chris because it doesn't matter. You sit on
a throne of love. Yeah, what was it twenty something.
They didn't even announce it. Oh yeah, you're slick. You're
getting slicker by the by the week. You don't even know.
I'm like, I'm all in. Yeah, the first it's the
first time in like five months that you've won. Stop,
(35:12):
it hasn't been that long. Four It is at least
four months. It's been four it's been four months for
something else, but that hasn't been that. We'll enjoy my
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f S one. Let's start off sticking in New York
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where the New York Football Giants lost again tough game
thirty three thirty one at Carolina. But the big story,
Rob is everybody's talking about Odell Beckham Junior's comments that
he made to Josina Anderson, our former colleague over ESPN
in a sit down interview that he and Little Wayne did.
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Let's hear a little bit of that. I don't know,
Like I said, I feel like, is it amount of
time and you can can you steal a thort? Yeah,
it's been pretty safe and it's been you know, cool,
catching shadow and trying to take it to the house.
But I'm you know, I want to I want to
go over the top of somebody. Haven't been in the
place where I feel like I can really go out
and do everything that I'm capable of doing. I don't
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get twenty targets like some other receivers, shits everything. And
not to say that it's not gonna work, but at
the moment, I feel like I work entirely way too hard. Yeah, Rob.
The first comment he was talking about was Eli Manning.
The first part of that comment that everybody heard. Uh.
He was asked, is Eli the problem? Is her quarterback
the problem? And he said, I don't know. He said,
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obviously he's not gonna scramble, you know, he's not gonna run,
you know, But I don't know. It's almost an indictment,
you know what I mean. When you watch it, it
sounds like, yeah, it sounds like an indictment. There's no
question because you would say no if it's not, if
it's not him, it's not when you say I don't know, yeah,
you at least considering it, right, you're questioning him. But look,
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here's the thing. This is what Ben McAdoo got fired
because he saw this. He saw that Eli Manning was done.
Benched him. The New York fans sentimental because Eli's delivered
too super Bowl, as you have said, will be a
Hall of Famer because of those two. And he was
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magnificently clutched yes in both. So give him his props,
give him right, right, and time moves. Everybody's not gonna
play till their forty one, like Tom Brady. Most quarterbacks
are breaking down at Eli's age or a year or
two after, and he, you know, he's still okay. But
you and I have both said, and this is not
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revisionist history, this is not you know, jumping on the bandwagon.
We both were saying before the draft, do not take
say KWin Barkley, nothing against him, but take a quarterback.
It's a quarterback rich draft. Get one of these young guys,
and you should be said, or could be set for
your future. But that's what Odell saying. A couple other things.
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The second part of that interview, he was basically saying that,
you know, the Giants are not putting him in position
that he said, he used the term being out schemed,
and he said they're not putting him in position to
be the best that he can be. So he really
you know, initially people jumped on his quotes about the
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team not playing with energy and not you know, playing
with heart. But I thought the most telling quotes from
him were one, I don't know if he lies the problem.
He very well might be. And two, they're not putting
me in position to be effective as effective as I
can be. And three Josina asked him, are you happy
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in New York? And he said that's a tough question. Really,
I like the sunshine in LA That's what he said.
And Rob, let me just throw this out there. After
their game a loss, remember Odell, Odell seemed like he
was in a good mood, cheery mood, and he said,
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if it took me saying all that to get us
to play with some energy and to play the way
we did today, then I'll do that every day of
the week. I'm fine with it. I'm paraphrasing, but that's
essentially what he said. And so where do you stand?
Was was Odell out of bounds or is this a
good thing? The way he went at the team and
the organization. I'm okay with it. Only from this standpoint
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I get the frustration. I do, because this is not
what the Giants signed up for, not what I'm sure
he thought it was all good to be. Don't forget.
People made all kinds of excuses last year. Chris all
the injuries, oh Eli lost his obj and and other receivers,
and the offensive line wasn't good and they had bad coaching,
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every excuse in the world why the Giants suffered through
a three and thirteen year and was able to get
the second overall pick in the draft. So this is unexpected.
People really thought that Giants had fixed this problem, We're
gonna be good. And granted it doesn't matter. I know
they were closed. It took up eighty five yard field
goal of beating dumb, you know what I mean? The
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guy kicked the sixty three yarder with time expire and
had just made it inside the upright, I get it,
So they could have won that game. But if you
just take a look at how this team feels and
and you see all the numbers, they haven't scored, well,
that was the first time they scored over thirty points,
right in three years, since twenty fifteen, since twenty fifteen.
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And this man's NFL Chris, where everybody's putting up numbers
and points and all kinds of other stuff. So that
tells you one thing. Number two, Eli doudn't have it.
Eli just doesn't. He doesn't he well, he was better, No,
he was in this game, but I'm talking about it
better the overall numbers though. He doesn't throw the ball long.
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And let's just be honest. I mean, right now, Odell
Beckham Junior could be the quarterback because she could touchdown
he threw. That was a nice throw. That was a
really man I mean, heck, that was one of their
longest passes in the year. Right. I wonder, I don't
maybe Rob g see if we can get this, but
that ball traveled how far are they travel in the air?
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Maybe forty something yards, thirty something yards. I wonder if
they've had a completion in the air in the air
that's gone longer than that ball did. And I get it.
A lot of people are like, keep it to yourself,
don't rip the team in public. Don't We ask guys
to be honest and candid, and then when they are,
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we got an issue. I just can't have it. When
they get when they give us the politically correct answers
and don't say anything, we rip them too. We rip
them and say he's useless. He didn't say anything. Dude,
you can't have it both ways. This was great, Josina.
I mean, she did a great job pull it out
of him. I don't know if little Wayne was there
to pull it out of him too, or you know
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what I mean, like to make it more comfortable. But
whatever the case, she got good quotes out of him.
I'll say this, Rob I do. I'm not gonna kill Odell.
And course that ball was twenty four yards in the air.
It was only twenty four yeah, okay, I bet you
was in their top five completions though, as far as
you know, bin in the air, but but longer than
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anything he lives thrown in in about a year, so
you were right. Beckhams was what thirty three? The touchdown
they connected on yesterday was about thirty three yards or
something like that. But up to that point, yeah, ELI
hardly connected on passes that far there. But beyond that,
if here's what I say about Odell and his comments,
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I think it's fine to do what he did. If
you have been beating this drum to the coaches, the
coaching staff ELI all season. If week after week you've
been like, look I can beat my man, Let's go long,
let's throw it deep, get me in some different schemes.
They know what we're doing, let's do let's change it up.
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What you know. If you're saying all of that and
they're not listening, it's falling on deaf ears. Then eventually
your only recourse is to go public, right, because now
you want to put pressure. Look, they're not listening to me.
I said the same thing about Aaron Rodgers last week
when he talked about, you know, Mike mccarth in, the
scheme and the plan and all that. If they're not
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listening to you behind closed doors, then at some point,
if nothing else is working, then the only recourse you
have is to go public. And here's the thing, Rob,
they did change some things up. They we saw I
mean the double pass to Odell when he threw the
touchdown to say kuon Barkley right, that was unique. Eli
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did throw deeper in three of his first four games.
He averaged six yards an attempt. Yesterday averaged nine yards
an attempt. So I think that's what Odell meant when
he was saying, if this is what it takes to
get us to play better, blah blah blah, then I'm fine.
I'll take it now. I'm a I don't know that
Odell's been beating that drum. If he hasn't, if he's
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never you know, if this is the first the Giants
have heard that Odell doesn't think we're putting him in
position to succeed, and you know he's got questions about Eli,
then I think you deal with it in the house
first before in public. That would be my only criticism
of what O'Dell did. I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt that, yes, indeed, he's talked about it. Why
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would why would he just keep it to himself. He's
not that he's out there, you know, boisterous, So I'm
gonna give him that he's had a conversation. Maybe it
didn't seep in, Maybe the frustration got to him a
little bit more. But that stuff happens, and it's not
the end of the world. You can live through it.
It's not like he said. It'd be totally different if
he went out public and said, Eli Manning is a
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bomb and we'll never win anything with him quarterback and
they need to cut him. Okay, now now we got
Now we got an issue. Do you know what I'm saying?
Now there's an issue. So so yeah, And here's the
thing too, rod Well, we also don't know it's possible
because O'Dell is. It seems like he's very popular on
that team. He is viewed as a leader, whether we
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like to view him as a leader or not. He
clearly has some clout with that team and his teammates.
There may be teammates going to him, or they may
be talking about it amongst themselves, like yo, can we
throw the ball downfield? Like what's going on? You know
what I mean? Like our stuff, like des Bryant said
about the Cowboys, our stuff is basic. We need to
do some different things. So maybe some of his teammates
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have been saying this and he went public like I'm
gonna speak for the team. So there's a lot behind
the scenes that may have been taking place to lead
obell Odell Beckham Junior to do what he did. Be
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and Rob. We ended off the last segments talking about
the Connor McGregor Kebibe fight. I thought it was an
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excellent fight. I thought Cabebe looked tremendou just just flat
out dominated McGregor and unbelievably in my opinion, McGregor won
the third round on all three judges scorecards. That's when
Cabeb decided to stand up and strike with him, and
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I actually thought Kabeb did a good job. McGregor hit
him a few times early, but Cabeb knocked McGregor down
and with a punch, and I thought he won. I
thought he won all three rounds until he submitted. McGregor
made him tap out in the fourth round. He won
on their feet, and then of course he dominated him
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or on the ground and won the second round ten
eight because he got McGregor on the ground and was
just pounding him for a good thirty forty seconds or
whatever before the bell saved McGregor. But but the belly
who was more about afterwards? Right? And afterwards Cabeb jumped
over the fence, went after McGregor's jiu jitsu trainer, and
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then McGregor actually started climbing the fence to get out
of the octagon when he saw that, and one of
Kabeb's guys was there on the fence and McGregor punched him,
and then somebody else from Cabeb's team jumped in and
hit McGregor sucker punched him from the back. I mean,
it was a melee. It was out of control and
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Cabeb was wrong for going off jumping over the fence.
I will say this. He was upset and he said
it because we all saw the footage of Connor McGregor
throwing the dolly at the bus that Cabeb was on
and injured several people. McGregor talked about Cabeb's family, his father,
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He talked about his country Russia. He talked about his
religion and Muslim He criticized deem islames his religion, he
criticized all all of that, and Cabibe this was personal
for him. Throughout the fight, he was talking trash to
McGregor as he beat him up. After he submitted him,
he starting kept talking trash to him, and then you know,
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he went after one of McGregor's guys. So I'm not
excusing it. It was wrong and it can't happen. You
can't let that stuff happen. But McGregor is not innocent.
Let's not make him the innocent, you know, party in
this whole thing. But here's the real question. It hit
us up at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
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eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Do you think it was bad for UFC? Because I
gotta be honest, Rob, I don't. As ugly as it was,
as much as nobody wants to see that, I don't
think it was bad because if they have a rematch,
and McGregor is saying he wants an immediate rematch, and
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he'll get pummeled again in my opinion, but he wants
an immediate rematch. This will be by far the big
its grossing fight in UFC history. Yeah, I mean that
sounds good, but it was a bad look. When stuff
gets into the crowd and other innocent people who aren't
the part of it are involved, Chris, it's a bad look.
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The UFC's lucky nobody got seriously hurt very much. Okay,
you know what I mean. So so I get you,
and I understand about the fighting stuff. As long as
you keep it in the ring. Once you get into
the crowd with the other people and any other stuff
going on, you could have an issue. And that's where
it comes in. I mean, if you didn't see the
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fight and you just saw the melee, you go, what
the heck is this? Oh my god, this is awful.
You know the guys in the crowd and there's a
fight breaking out, do you know what I mean? And yeah,
that's the part that the UFC has to be careful.
You don't really want all that, all the other stuff
leading up. I get it, the pre fight stuff, you know,
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and all that. People kind of expect it. And because
we should say that the Dodgers did beat the Bridge
six to two, and they do move on to the
NLCS for the fourth time, and so there's only one
series remaining, right, Yankees, Red Sox yep. And the Red
Sox just went up one oh. Yes, the Red Sox
are up one oh. But I'm second yep. So we
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wanted to at least get that, uh, to let you
know that. But but I think that's the part that
you have to watch out if you're the UFC, because
I hear what you're saying. Yes for them, it does work,
and it seems like it's going to uh and and
the Saints just went up six nothing so so much
is just happening. So you're trying to keep you updated. Yeah,
it's gonna it's gonna work. I get where you're saying,
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nobody wants to see that, because what you don't want
are innocent bystanders being hurt. And you're talking about world
class fighters. You could hit somebody you don't even plan
on hitting, you know what I mean, and and really
injure somebody. So I get what you're saying. Um and
but Dana White has to decide, and he's saying all
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the right things, but I wonder inside what he's really thinking,
like is he does he see dollar signs? Because you know,
it was a just as ugly and even more damaging
in terms of humans being injured, was when a Connor
McGregor threw that dolly at Kebebe's bus and did injure
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a couple of UFC fighters. Absolutely, and how dangerous to
throw that into a blasts that kind of stuff. He's
lucky they allowed him to plead down and leave, but
New York authorities could have easily detained him, could have
been in jail for that because he put a lot
of people at risk. Chris, let's go. Here's the thing,
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you know, here's the thing. Dana White used that video
to market the fight. That's why I'm saying like this
is not going to I mean, as bad as it was,
the UFC is gonna make money off of this situation.
If Cabiebe wants to fight, there's rumblings that he might
want to retire. What else has he got to prove?
He beat the heck out of McGregor, and I think
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we'll do it again. But if I were him, I
come back for the money. But we'll see. But I
know we got some calls. Yeah, let's do that. Hey,
Max and Florida, you're on the odd couple on Fox
Sports Radio. What you got Max? How are you guys
doing to pleasure to get on again? I'm a big
UFC guy. I love Connor McGregor, But Chris, I have
to disagree with you, my man. Even though this gets
pay per view buys, it gets people talking about it,
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I do not think this is a good look for
the UFC because this is not okay. You have media
people in the stands, you have fans in the stands,
and people can get hurt. I love the trash talk,
I love people getting involved with the hype with the fight,
but I don't want people to get involved or they
get hurt. No, I agree. I mean it was ugly
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and hopefully we never see anything like that again. But
I'm just saying going for like, do you think I'm
not saying the UFC would want stuff like this to
continue happening. I think what should happen is that Kabib
should get a hefty fine hefty, you know, And but
I don't think it should be anything. I don't want
him suspend it or anything like that. I hope that
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doesn't happen. But do you think I mean, if they
have a rematch, don't you think it will be the
most anticipated fight in UFC history. No I do. I mean,
I get all that, and there's no doubt about it
that people will get fired up about it because of
the crazy ending. I'm just saying, you gotta be careful
not to promote that and be okay with it, do
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you know what I mean, so that the next time
they think, oh, that's cool, it was cool when we
went into the stands and started fighting. That's never good.
So because then you get other people fighting. You know
what else makes you you wonder about UFC is a
sport where you have a lot of people from a
lot of countries, and boxing too. But we've seen in
some of the European countries, I mean, whether soccer or whatever,
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you see a lot of violence in those you know,
in the crash, you've seen it with the bob wire
on the soccer and the crowd for to keep the
two sides apart, the barbed wire. And that's what I
wonder if you see in America, we're not you you know,
we keep that stuff from happening for the most part.
But I you, you've got a lot of people who
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aren't from America at these fights, and you know the
obviously the fight. I mean, Cabebe's from Russia, and I
don't know if they just got a different mentality and
they're like, look, this is how he goes at sporting
events here every once in a while. But whatever the case,
I'm with you, it's gotta, it's gotta. They gotta stop that. Hey, hey,
let's squeeze in one more real quick before we get
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to death. Ron and Kentucky. You're on the yard Couple
on Fox Sports Radio. What's up Ron? How much? Guys?
How you doing today? Doing great? What's happening? Hey? Listen?
So do you guys not think for a minute that
this UFC is turning into a WWE all over again?
They don't white as a brilliant mind and anyway that
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they're gonna try to make money and make big fights,
they're gonna do it. And I guarantee you, without a
doubt in my mind, all this was set up the public.
You're not I agree with you. I tweeted Ryn, was it? Ryan? Yeah?
I tweeted Uh the Saturday night that the UFC is
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real life WWE. That's what it is. I mean, WFE
was great when we were kids and I was in
eighth grade, and I'm into it and I think it's real,
and everybody's trash talking and Meleey's happened and all that stuff.
The UFC is WWE for real. Hey, Chris, we got
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an update from Rob gr producer. There's some rob What
do you got? According to uh Robert Little Black Sports online,
it's one of the most plugged in guys, you know
when it comes to these kind of things UFC WWE
boxing kind of stuff. Um, there's been an initial medical
suspension for both guys ten days, you know, just recovery,
and they're expecting longer suspensions forthcoming, but nothing longer than
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six months, which is code for let's not delay the rematch,
right and cash these checks? Yes, right now, that's what
that's That's absolutely right. And again I think the caller
was right on the money. This is you know, when
I got to an age where I knew WWE and
you know, Georgia Championship Wrestling and with Gordon Soley and all,
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that's when I got to an age where I knew
it was fake. There was a part of me like, man,
I wish this was real. That's what we have now.
You only got one trash talker right now, and that's McGregor.
But if you start getting more guys talking trash, that's
what the UFC is. Be sure to catch live editions
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robbing this McGregor cabebe hubbub something else that people are missing.
Remember the UFC before the fight. A couple of weeks
before the fight, they announced the six was it six
fights or eight fights? Rob g okay a six fight
deal with McGregor. McGregor has lost three of his last
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four fights if you include Floyd Mayweather and Dart included.
He's lost two of his last three in UFC and
a lot of people thought he lost the rematch with
Nate Diaz and so what this is UFC is really
they're they're beholding to Connor McGregor, and if he gets
beat down again by cabebe like, you know, he's not
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at the point where he's not relevant anymore because it's
just lost. You know, he hadn't lost too much. I
guess Nate Diaz was bigger. You can justify that that way.
Floyd Mayweather, of course was a boxer. You can justify that.
But if he loses again that could be then you
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wonder how big of a draw he's gonna be, and
will people just start looking at his talk as just
empty noise. Alex dj DJ Alex Tisher, who brings you
to funky sounds coming in and out of every break.
You had an interesting take on this. Yeah, my perspective
on this too. It kind of seems like it might
come to fruition, just like the Rhonda Rousey effect, where
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she was the hottest thing around, everybody was clambing to her,
but she never really fought anybody that was up to
her standard. She was always fighting down to her competition,
and she finally fought somebody that was above her and
she got rocked. She got unsteadily, unsteadied, she got knocked
off her feet and she ultimately lost the fight and
also her fighting career out of it. So in my
inspective with Connor, he's coming so much out of the gate,
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just being flamboyant, yelling, talking all this up, and Kebeb
sat there quiet. I knew from the get go that
this wasn't a good fight for him going into it,
and he got demolished within the fight, regardless of what
the cards are, and I could tell for the UFC
in general itself, he's going to blow over quickly. And
he should have never came back and fought because after
you transcend fighting as he did, coming back to the situation,
putting yourself through these rounds again and going into these
(25:24):
situations not only hurts you as a platform, but it
hurts the sport in general because look how the afterbawl was.
Do you think that would have happened with any other fight.
Of course not. But he's attacking people's aggression of their personality,
their religion. It's it's just a bad looking He's not
hungry anymore. That's what Yeah, That's what I was gonna
get to is he's lost his hunger, and once you
lose that, anybody who's kind, Yeah, Kebeb is hungry. He's
(25:47):
fighting for something. He wants the glory. He's chasing something
that's bigger than what McGregor is. McGregor has hit the
pinnacle of his career. He's done absolutely everything he's chasing for.
So what's the point of coming back and fighting for what?
You're not fighting for anything other than just for extra money.
You have all these careers, these outlet of revenues, So
what's the point he's gonna make. He made one hundred
million off the Mayweather fight, which I thought he could
(26:09):
have retired after that. Yeah, he's made He's gonna make
about fifty million off this fight with the sponsorship his
Whiskey as a sponsor company, as a sponsor, he was
involved in the promotions, So yeah, he didn't have to
fight anymore. The one thing I disagree with you on
is I don't compare McGregor to ron Da Rousey because
(26:30):
I think I think ron Da Rousey, for the most part,
was became so big and great because she was beating
fighters who weren't that good. Like I think at that
stage of women's MNA, you know, you weren't getting a
lot of the great women that were fighting I think
McGregor was a legit fighter, Like I think he's a
(26:50):
really good fighter. H this was just a bad matchup
for him. You know, he beat Jose Aldo who had
been undefeated for like ten years or something like that.
So he was a legit fighter. But Kabib's just better.
It's and it's a terrible matchup for McGregor. You know,
they say styles make fights, and that's true in UFC
as in boxing. Uh, but you give us a call,
(27:10):
let us know what you think. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. But the other part, two, Chris, is
I think some people enjoy it's two nothing red sox JD.
Martinez with a sack fly to left field. By the way,
(27:31):
the Wizards are beating the Knicks fifty to forty four
in a preseason Please, I know you're not giving me
preseason scores. Please. You should be shot to even have
that on. You mean, I was just flicking. I'm trying
to get to the game. I got the I was
going to go to ball to football tbs. Oh, I
see a flipping ball. M But but the other part
is some people might enjoy Connor McGregor getting beat up.
(27:53):
Do you know what I mean? Like there's another element
of that, or maybe maybe people because he's so out there,
he's uh nasty and yeah, grotesque like Mayweather where people
start watching because they hope that Mayweather gets knocked out
or they want to see him get beat up or
see him lose. Do you know what I'm saying, Well,
to enjoy Yeah, Saturday, I was enjoying. And there's a
(28:16):
part of me that does like McGregor. There's a part
of me, but I really was pulling from Kabebe to
just beat him down and he didn't. I was enjoying it.
But I think that only lasts so long, Like there
has to be a feeling of, well, we think this
guy is really great, we want to see him lose.
But if he keeps losing over and oh no, no, no, no, right,
(28:37):
it can't be what I'm just saying. I think a
lot of people enjoyed that and oh yeah and would
probably love to see another beat down. But right, he
can't get beat down six fights in a row or anything, right, Right, Well,
that's where that's where there's gonna be a rematch, and uh,
they're gonna both make a ton of money if Kebeb
decides to do it. But yeah, it was an interest
(29:00):
night for UFC. But it's events like this that you know,
people are saying it's gonna surpass boxing. Events like this
really make you wonder, you know, if they're if people
get turned off by what happens in the crowd and
then you know they don't have fight. Great fighters don't
last as long in UFC as they do in boxing.
(29:22):
You know you're not. I mean, McGregor was a great champion,
but he's pretty much I think he's pretty much done
in that regard because with the different disciplines in the fighting,
it's hard to stay undefeated and have a long rain.
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f SR to listen live check check check. Sources say
these two have been covering sports for nearly three decades.
The Peace I will say this, let's put the big
Jay journalists to the test. Its sources say yes, Sirs.
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Sources say the odd a couple of Fox Sports Radio.
We do this every Monday at this time where we
put seventy eight years of journalism experience to the test
between down now recently got like twenty two. So rob
Ron came out the womb with a pen and papers.
(30:26):
Do we do we have seventy eight? Because I started
in ninety I got thirty two years, so I got
thirty two year thirty You only got thirty two, So
I got what's I got? Twenty eight? Yeah? Okay, so yeah,
so we're closing in on seventy eight here here, we're
closing in now. Recently this game has been called the
crisp we started invitation though, because he's been taking rob
to the woodshed on it well, because he knows all
(30:46):
these things that don't matter when it comes to sports
or something different. I'm sorry, but just like could be
Rob's gonna shock the world right now with the dominating performance.
I'm a feelings See story number one, Gentleman. My sources
say that Yukon had football coach Randy Etzel gets a
two thousand dollars per game bonus if his team even
(31:07):
has the lead at halftime. Robin, my source is good,
Oh that that sounds ridiculous. If a two thousand dollars
bonus if he has the lead at halftime. Um, I
gotta say no, that's not that can't be right. Yeah,
there's a part of me that wants to say true
just because it does sound so ridiculous. But I'm gonna
(31:29):
say false. Oh what he gets bonuses if he has
the most sacks on their team, the most tackles for loss,
if he scores first, they have the greatest bonus package
in history. The coach, the coach, So this is just well,
they must pay him a dollar forty nine an hour.
I mean, come on, everything's commission. That sounds ridiculous. Story
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number two, My sources say that the five year old
son of former NFL running back Jamal Charles got in
some up over the weekend when he accidentally shredded over
a thousand dollars in cash that Charles had in his office. Chris,
and my source is good. I feel like I would
have heard about that. But I'm gonna say true. That
sounds true. Kids get into everything, and you know, he
(32:16):
was just living by the mantra it's always better with
the shredded chetta? Is that it? Tho? I say it's true?
Oh my god, it was somebody else that happened to
a Utah Ute season ticket. Hold, all right, we knew
what happened. It had with some kids, Yes it did, okay,
(32:39):
sources say Fox Sports rad of the Odd Couple, Chris
We sorry, Rob Parker. My sources say that former Alabama
coach Mike DuBose accidentally shot himself in the abdomen while
he was writing a lawnmower on his property the other day. Robin,
My source is good. Another ridiculous story. I'm gonna say true.
Why would you have your gun with you? Did you
(33:01):
say he was a lawn on the lawnmower? Wait? Minute
was cut? He was cutting? He was cutting his grass
in the bronx. Where was he about to say? He
must live in a rough neighborhood. I might have to
do some stand up, Rob, I'm gonna say true. Oh
all right. He said he had his guns for the
(33:21):
snakes in the area, that he shoots them when they
getting the way. Oh wow, all right. My sources say
that the Adaheim Ducks veteran players have banned everybody on
the team from playing the game Fortnite on road trips
because they think it's a distraction. Chris, Sorry, my source
is good. I'm gonna say true. I'm gonna say false.
(33:44):
You sit on a throw, we might have a little
upset in man. Come on, hurry up, a running out
of time? What you say a seconds? The bills shocked
the world, sources say. University of Central Florida basketball player
Rocas Uvidas was arrested over the weekend after he threatened
(34:07):
to kill his roommate because he didn't say hi to
him at a tailgate. Robin, my source is good. Oh
sounds crazy. I'm gonna say true. It does sound so
crazy that you would think it's true. But I'm gonna
say false to get back in this game. I figured
it was so ludicrous that you couldn't make that up.
(34:29):
All right, So Rob's gonna get the win. Well, this
next one is just for fun and bragging rights, my
sources say. Las Vegas PD reportedly made sixty three arrest
for fighting and disorderly conduct in the four hours immediately
following the McGregor could be matched. Chris sum my source
is good. I think that's false. I don't think it
was that many. What did Chris say false? I'm gonna
(34:51):
go with Chris because it doesn't matter. You sit on
a throne of love. Yeah, what was it twenty something.
They didn't even announce it. Oh yeah, you're slick. You're
getting slicker by the by the week. You don't even know.
I'm like, I'm all in. Yeah, the first it's the
first time in like five months that you've won. Stop,
(35:12):
it hasn't been that long. Four It is at least
four months. It's been four it's been four months for
something else, but that hasn't been that. We'll enjoy my
man and Jay. You got the drum roll The Odd
Couple of Fox Sports Radio keep it locked. Thanks for
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