December 26, 2025 • 40 mins
Rob Parker and Martin Weiss preview the Christmas Day games in the NFL but debate whether or not they’re worth watching. Plus, Last Call before Christmas and much more!
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The odd couple final hour of the program, and then
the Fox Sports Radio will roll on for your Christmas night,
no doubt about it, Lee, Tomorrow is a big everybody's
home everybody after they open up the Presence and all
the other stuff that goes on Christmas morning and breakfast
and cool because today feels like already the weekend, a
(02:16):
Saturday or whatever, right, but it's only Wednesday, and tomorrow
be Thursday, and people have a great time. But there's
a lot of sports on. The NFL's taking over Christmas
Day used to be the NBA. They got like five
games on right, and the NFL has three games on Lee.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And I'm gonna tell you not three great games.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
No, the spreads would tell you that too, Rob, Because yeah,
first we're kicking off and I hope you have your
Netflix subscriptions ready for Christmas morning because it's first two
games are gonna be on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's right, Netflix, I forgot about that.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Right, Cowboys are gonna be at the Commanders and Dallas
is an eight and a half point favorite in that game.
And then we got the afternoon game Netflix as well,
Lions at the Vikings, who of course got brosmer In
for JJ McCarthy, the hairline fracturer in his hand. And
then we go on to from Netflix to Amazon Prime
Video for the late game between the Broncos and the Chiefs,
(03:08):
where Denver is a thirteen and a half point favorite, and.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Can I say it is Martin? Uh huh? Not interested?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I will not and OTV watching NFL football on Christmas.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
What I find hilarious is that the running joke is normally, oh,
it's Netflix time when the game sucks, right, or it's
like he has five times it's like, well, they'll already
be on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Is this gonna be the thing that moves people to
cable right cause you can't. You can't go to Netflix
to run from it. Yeah, I run from it on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I'm gonna have to go to me TV or something
and use the antenna off try to find something else,
some marathon or something, or some Christmas movies that are on.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm sorry, and Lee, you just talked about it.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
The spreads tell you all you need to know, like
like these are not supposed to.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Be competitive, bad matchups.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm sure when they thought about it that the implic
cations would have been great.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You know the Lions Vikings, you know that was a.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Big game last year, the last game of the year
that decided the division. So that's always something. But the
Vikings aren't there. And if the Packers win on Saturday, right.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
What am I thinking?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So, the lines play tomorrow. But if the Packers win Saturday,
the Lions are done, right, they got to win two games.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And the Packers have to lose. It's a lot of
lines to make it as well.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
The Lens win out in the Packers losing game, I
think they're in no, no, no, they.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Got to lose two games.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
The Packers got to lose both games because remember there's
a tie there, they have one.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Less loss than the Lions.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Either way, you know what I mean, it's two and two.
The only way the Packers don't make the playoffs. They
got to lose both and the Lions have to win both.
That's the only way.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
So are you into it? Are you gonna be watching what?
I'm in the football? But I'm in the football, but
not good bad football. I think I'm in the football.
To me, watching game is like buying a ticket to
a movie. Like if you're into movies, you have no
promise that this movie you're walking into going to be good.
So you never flip away from a blowout or a
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terrible game, a lop side of game.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Okay, I'm asking, Okay, I'll say this, Lee wear you
real quick? Did you turn off a bad game like
a blop side of game?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
It depends how long into the game, and if.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's not not your team, not like say it's not
the pack because you're not going to turn off.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
From the Packers. No, that stays all day, all day.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
But I'm saying, like this is a game that you're watching,
like the Cowboys and the Commanders. If it's forty one
to nothing in the second quarter, I'm you're sticking around.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I don't. I'll leave it on the TV, but I'll
walk away. I'll I'll go do something in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I'll go hang out that socialized do something with somebody else.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'm not exactly clocking every single play like I would
have in that ram Seahawks game from a couple of
weeks ago, like where it comes down to the final possession,
it's all well and great. This is my problem. I
think the NFL when I was growing up, like Sunday
at one o'clock was almost like an extension of church, right,
(06:05):
Like everybody went to church in the morning, and it's
Sunday at one o'clock or noon. Noon because I lived
in several time zone was now another like religious gathering.
Because I grew up watching the Saints and that team
was terrible. They always played at noon, ain't They always
played at noon.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It was never a Monday night at there. You know
none of that.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
And I think that one of the things that the NFL,
one of the things that makes the NFL special is
that ritualistic nature of my team is more than likely
going to play Sunday at one o'clock, and you build
it into your schedule, you build it into your routine.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And it's the only sport that's like that. The more
they put.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
These games on standalone windows, they try to make a
new primetime window in the morning by playing a game
in London and Spain.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Or Germany whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
All you're doing that is make it to the West
coast doesn't watch right, like they don't they don't care, But.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Like to me, you want to have Thursday night football? Cool?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Have one team played Thursday, because this is what happens
in the NFL and the college football Playoff is finding
the same problem when you have all the games happen
Sunday at one o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We see two or three.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Great endings and you'll sit there and be like, this
is a great day of football. Right, But you know what,
you didn't see thirty eight to six Jaguars over Chargers. Right,
you didn't see that because it was a standalone It's
very much like the same thing as the first week
in the March madness.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There's only like six good games they have to play.
Sixty eight to get to it. Do you see what
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
There's only like three four good games on a Sunday.
They have to play like twelve to get to it.
You're eliminating that opportunity by having three games tomorrow, and
the benefit, the juice is not worth the squeeze because,
like you said, every every when you're sitting there with
Grandma and your girlfriend and mom, they gonna be like, oh,
where's where if that point that was in the Super Bowl?
(07:56):
Oh he tore his acl Patrick Mahomes is out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Oh where's this? Oh he's out too. Oh.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You know, all the players with any name recognition for
your average you know person who's just dipping in on
holidays like.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
This, they're gone. So the whole juice of all of
it is so it's not even worth it. But to me,
and this is the guy who would not work.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
When I was in high school, I wouldn't work on
Sundays during football season. I was a shoe salesman. I
went to my boss at a sixteen year old no.
Lie Shelley Zimmerman at stride right at the Queens Center Mall. Shelley,
I don't work on Sundays. From September to December. Like
(08:38):
you know, you work at a mall, you gotta work weekends.
I work any other days for you, Sundays during the
summer whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Football season.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Though, my mom used to let me leave church early Martin,
even though we were within walking distance of the church,
so that I could see the kickoff. I didn't want
to come in in the first quarter eight minutes in.
I want to watch the game from kickoff, the entire game.
I look over at her as ten minutes to one
to give me the high sign. You know what I mean,
(09:07):
you could bounce.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I'm out.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I'm walking home by myself because I want to go
see the football game. But as I get older, and
even as a football guy who does this for a
living and I enjoy football blowouts, games that don't matter,
I'm just not. I'm not a fantasy guy. And I
get people who watch fantasy, they watch that, but these
(09:30):
games are unappealing to me.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
They just are.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You just said it. The Chiefs, no Patrick, no Rights.
That is not playing. I don't know who else is missing.
Gardner Minshew is out like like we're down to the
third guns.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I asked, remember when Julio Jones went to Tennessee, yep.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I asked a guy who was.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Coaching in the NFC West at the time, said, how
are you going to handle this? Like, like, how are
you going to be able to stop A J Brown,
Julio Jones, and Derek Henry all at the same time.
He said, we'll see if they're all there when we play.
And sure enough, two of the three missed that game.
I forget what you know. Two of the three missed
that game. And that's the life of the NFL. That's
the reality of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Like the idea that you can schedule out week one,
that you know who's gonna be there week thirteen, the
same in a way that you kind of can in
the NBA. It's just not true, but but that, but
that's always why when people have schedule shows, when they
announce the schedule and they give you the record and
they tell you what you know, like like you don't
(10:34):
it is silly.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And I've said it all, just absolutely silly because.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You don't know who's going to play week nine, or
week eleven or week twelve. Like the idea that you
know everybody's gonna be healthy and you gonna have an say, oh, yeah,
that's gonna be a.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Win for them.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
That's gonna No, no, it doesn't work like that. But
football to me.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Is not sure.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Can I have it on his background noise? Absolutely, But
I'm talking about watch the game. I just can't see
Washington and Dallas. What would I want to Why would
I want.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
To watch that?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
As much as I love football, that game does not
do anything for me. The Lions game I want to
see coming off that Pittsburgh loss.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Do they come and take it out on the Vikings
or do they lose it.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
If they lose to the Viking. I think the Lions
have a very there is and see that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I can find a storyline in anything. But to me,
the Lions losing this this Vikings.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Game, to me, is a sign that you are on
the right side of this, like your opinion, Rob has
been on the right side of this.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Like, seriously, you went back to back.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You weren't losing back to back games, you know, Okay, okay, cool,
You're on a wind streat. Now you go up and down,
up and down, up and down. Now you start losing
back to back games. Like it's just something like things
are going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And Martin and you know what I said, right, because
we did a show together about it, I've said the
window was closed. But here's the thing. If your line's fan,
you look at it and go. We went from NFC
championship game to the best record we ever had in
franchise history, fifteen to two, home field throughout the playoffs,
(12:13):
lose to a rookie quarterback, and now year three, no postseason.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Like that is a dramatic do you know what I mean?
Like like you're going they're going the wrong way. And
I know.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Everybody's said, oh but they got young players and their
sign and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
No, and the division is getting better too.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well that's the thing that to me, like it's kind
of the soundly alarm. Ben Johnson and Chicago they seem
to be figuring it. They probably won't be the one
seed next year. But okay, so you go from winning
thirteen games to winning ten games. Guess what's still a
good team?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Right? Vikings have a great roster, just have quarterbacks. Let
them find a.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Guy with the ride on them that can go back
there and play. And you see that team was fourteen
wins last year. Yeah, right, thirteen wins. They were right
there last year.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
They got a lot of talent on the run, and
so the thing.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That gets in and then then you had the Packers.
The other thing that gets me with the Lions is
it's the same problems. It's it's the same issues, the
same defensive injuries. Right, consistent defensive offense hasn't been the issue.
Even when they switched the offensive coordinate. There's still scoring points.
They're still moving the ball. The reason the Commanders beat
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them in the playoffs last year they scored forty some points.
They got beat because they couldn't play any defensive They
all carved them up.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Also, also you got Jared Goff had four four turnovers,
no no doubt. But even he'm just saying yeah, yeah,
but I'm saying four turnovers in a playoff game. I
don't know what playoff game you are gonna win. When
your quarterback those three picks and fumbles the football like
that turned the game around. And then that halfback that
was another interception. Remember the running back through the interception.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Jamison Williams, I believe that, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
That was it was crazy, all right, eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox, Where are you.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Are you watching football regardless.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Of does it matter who's playing or if the games
don't matter, the score blowed out, if the team's getting
blowed out, as they say in the barbershop?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Are you watching regardless or are you? Do you pick
and choose? Do you go?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm gonna spend my time on this. I'm not gonna
watch that. Is there a game really this Sun, this Thursday,
this Christmas Day that you're dying to watch? Or are
you on board with me?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I'm looking for a Golden Girls marathon somewhere on Lifetime?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
No, just maybe me?
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Speaker 4 (16:26):
On Fox, we're talking about the Sunday I mean Sunday,
the Christmas slate of the NFL games. Three games tomorrow,
all three dogs, according at least in my opinion, games
that I'm not interested.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Are you watching?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And do you watch the football regardless of how bad
it is, or do you have a special reason to
be watching? You can't wait to watch Washington in Dallas tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Is there something there? Antonio in Miami.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You're on the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio, and Merry
Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
What's happening?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I will not ot not merry Christmas, but I will
wish you a happy heart of kerb.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Thank you, happy honka, my man. I appreciate that, Stony.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
I just want to let you know my aunt, dead
aunt Mildrid Goldberg, has been reincarnated in Rob Parker, and
I wanted to have an address to ship my tote
bag to you so you can go into those buffets
and smuggle in and out all of the leftovers, because
(17:35):
I know you love that. No merry Christmas, do you, guys?
I just want to put a vote in that. I
just like the little you know it's Christmas, but you
and Martin got a nice little, a little buzz going.
Then God bless you, Mery Christmas. If you're listening a
little too much to stop thrown when you get in there.
But just for twenty twenty six, if you want to
(17:56):
mix it up, my vote. You guys are great together.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You and Martin appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
I was in terms of the NFL, Yeah, I think
Martin kind of nailed it. If you do go to
the movies that whole person, if you do watch football,
you'll find a way to Netflix. I mean, wink wink,
there's there's these sites. I think there's way wait to
watch that.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
But obviously the what But I guess my point is
I get the gambling and all that.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But I'm saying, do you if a game is out
of hand or if it's a blow, do you turn?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Do you walk away from the game? Do you You
might keep it on, but do you you just watch
it all the way through?
Speaker 9 (18:36):
No? No, Tomorrow. I think a lot of people are
totally disengaged in the NFL lost. I think they lost
for tomorrow. I think if they would have just kept
it for like what you guys are saying Sunday, the
Sunday stuff, even the Saturday that they got to really
kind of, uh, you know, turn it into a commodity
(18:56):
rather than just spreading it out during the week because
it loses value in the NFL always had that, it
always had that prestigious thing about Sundays. And if they
want to do December, you know, the last couple of
weeks on Saturday. I guess that's fine, but it's like
when you see watering it down, I mean, people will
just be doing other things tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
In general, no no doubt about it, and then they're
no good matchup. So thanks for the call and we're appreciated.
Come on, Stony. My first radio partner is Mike Stone,
who Martin and I both know Rocky in Greenville. You're
in the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. Merry Christmas to
you and yours.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
How are you, Rocky?
Speaker 10 (19:34):
I'm doing well? And Mary Christmas to you guys. Also
look here, it's I'm a first time caller, frequent listener though.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I appreciate that, and thank you. We're here for you, Rocky.
Thank you for real.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
I'm going to be late to the party. But I'm
calling about a favorite Christmas gift. Yes, go for it,
and I'll date myself.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
And this was probably.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Back sixty eight, sixty nine something like that, and I'm
seven or eight years old there, and I got I
got a divorce, single mother raising two boys, and on
a secretary salary that you can probably imagine that probably
wasn't too much.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh no back then, no doubt back then.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
But anyway, so we're opening Christmas gifts in the house
and that kind of thing. And I was always appreciative
of whatever a little bit that mom was able to
provide us and all of that, and it's kind of
like that, and then she just kind of says, Rockie,
why don't you just look outside? And so I opened
the front door and at the bottom of the step,
(20:38):
sitting there on the sidewalk was a shwim Toornado bicycle.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I'm getting a rookie, I'm getting goosebumps because you must
have jumped out of your skin, am I right?
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Man? I rode that damn thing with a wheel right
off of it.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
That bicycle.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
That was that was the greatest gift that I've ever
gotten in my life as a kid. Back then was
a bike. And uh that that that will always forever
be in memory just because of the time.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Right, that's a great story.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And your mom probably made a great sacrifice to get
you that bike, you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
She did, Yes, she did. She made great sacrifices while
you know, she she was able to remarry and marry
my stepfather who raised me, and they were married for
thirty five years. So they both passed away, and so
and brought me up and my dad and they was
still and he passed away as well. But so all
of my parents were part of it, but as a
(21:43):
single parent at that particular time. And I'm like, okay,
this is good. And then I saw that red shwined
Tornado bicycle.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I was like, holym what a great story. Hey, Rocky,
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Takes sharing it, yep.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Jeffrey in Tucson, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Merry Christmas, Jeffrey, how are you.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
I'm very well?
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Thank you, Mary Erdie Christmas. I like when Parker and
Washington spar reminds me of Mouhammad Ali and Joe Fraser.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Hey, anyway, Hey, I want to say, you know how
we get at it right?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You know me, we get at it.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
There you go, my favorite gifts of all time after
football and no I'm not watching NFL. No I'm not
watching NBA. They watched too many three. Everybody have a
great holiday season.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
You have.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Thank you, boy said I'm sticking on Netflix, not for football.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Not this time.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And I want to send out a happy holiday wish
to Nancy Lieberman, the Hall of Famer, who's listening in
Texas as she's driving around. And Nancy and I played
one on one basketball many many moons ago when she
was a coach of the shop and I was on
WDFN and on the radio in Detroit, the first all
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sports station. And she's just driving around tonight and she's
listening to the show and I want to send nothing
but love her way to her and her family on
this holiday season.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Thank you, Nancy. I'll second that I love you.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I know I don't know her personally, but I have
something come across some of the work that she has.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Done with let me Sh'll obviously.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Know the name is, but Cooley and Tyler and the
retired NBA players Association, some cool stuff coming out of.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
There last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And Nancy old dominions her Alma Mada and they have
a statue of her. She's a basketball Hall of Famer,
just a great person. Nancy, Happy holidays and thanks for
that text. I'm glad you will listen to.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I scored the I'm gonna say this real quick.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So you know the late great Jamie Samuelson from WDFN,
who is the radio ye Western Peace radio guy with
us when we first lost the station in nineteen ninety four.
So Jamie is like, I'm playing there Nancy, who's again
a Hall of Famer, and he's like, You're not gonna
even score against Nancy.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I'm like, I'm not gonna score. You really think I'm
that lame that I'm I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Not dissing her ability as a Hall of Fame basketball player,
but I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Score against Nancy. And what happened.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So, of course I scored the first basket of the game,
because you got the ball first.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I did score. Yes, uh huh.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I called time out after I scored the basket. I
got video of me pumping my fist when I make
this turnaround and put it up there and it goes in,
and I called time out, and I went straight to
the sideline and found Jamie Samuelson and said, give me
my twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Only I would do that.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And then that was the lesson Jamie learned that day. Well,
you should have made it one and a half buckets.
But I want you to know I scored the second basket.
I was up to nothing and then Nancy, of course,
But after that second basket, your head was bigger than
Jamies was.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You know that? No doubt? All right? That was no
doubt about it, all right.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Odd couple, Rob Parker Martin Weiss here on Fox Sports
Radio and.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
The NBA. Also, Martin Tomorrow has a slew of games.
Are you interested in some of those games? In a
passing tertiary way?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
To me, this is kind of the tip off of
the NBA season, even though they've played about thirty games.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
But I'll be paying attention to it. The thing.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Honestly, this is the conversation I'm gonna be having around
the Christmas dinner table. And Rob, I just just just
hang on this because I sat and watched Aaron Rodgers say,
I said, I said you a clip right, Yes, Aaron
Rodgers against the Lions. There's a clip that came out
on social media's from inside the NFL. Aaron Rodgers telling
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Kenneth Gainwell what to do on the play?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Right he caught? He says it right.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
He literally tells Kenneth Ganwell, no, you're like, come over
here to the other side of me in motion. Then
he goes go all the way to the last all
the way to the sideline, run a go route, and
then he throws the ball to Kenneth Gainwell touchdown. After
it was one of the best plays of the weekend.
Now that's the thing that kind of got me here.
But then I thought about it again because you watched
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that Monday night football game in which Philip Rivers and
the Colts got their asses kicked.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
However, he did throw for two seventy five plus, right
he was.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
But morny thing is, I'm gonna say this for people
who are having a parade for Philip Rivers and bring
him back next year. Dude, you brought him back for
one reason, Martin. What did you bring him back for?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
To try to win game? Okay?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
And they did not. They lost both games that he
was in. And you could say whatever you want. He
didn't get the job done for what you needed. You
needed you thought your best chance to win was with
Philip Rivers. That was the reason that you brought a
forty four year old back or and played for five years,
and it was a fail I don't care what the
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numbers are, how many inns he only threw two inner
what I agree?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I agree absolutely to me, it's it's it's a failure.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I think that the only benefit that comes out of
it for Philip Rivers, in part is this Hall of
Fame clock starts again and I don't think he was
getting in in this round, and he gets the healthcare
starts up again, right, So I think the caangible life
benefits for Philip Rivers to do all this before the
cult side of things didn't make sense to me personally.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But if I'm watching this is what I take I'm
taking away from this.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Do you sit there and watch Philip Rivers he is
called and plays at the line of scrimmage. You sit
there and watch Aaron Rodgers and there he's, you know, dictating,
drawing it up in the dirt at the line of scrimmage.
These guys are in their forties right now, obvious right
to play the whole time.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But Philip, I mean both of that, as in the forties, you.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Don't see on a consistent base Philip Rivers doing to
everlay and he threw for two seventy five and his
limited ability at this stage in the game, where is
it that young quarterback? Like why are any young quarterbacks?
Do they have the ability to do that?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Like it's not being taught in the same way.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
And I think that, like that is the reason why
we sit back and say why is this team so
up and down?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Why is this team? Like because why.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
You know, the forty nine are able to do it
with seemingly any quarterback because they've taken a lot of
the specialness out of the position, Like they've taken a
lot of what made these guys field generals out of
the position, in my opinion, And you see it in
the Philip Rivers and the Aaron Rodgers, like those are obvious.
I mean Philip Rivers obviously from a generation pass. Rogers
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hanging on from a generation pass. And I can say
hanging on, I don't mean a derogatory's no, he's played well,
but he's contemporaries with Roethlisberger and Brady and Rivers like
those are his guys.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Those are all field generals.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
And I look at the top quarterbacks now in the league, Mahomes,
Allen Burrow, I mean Mahomes, Allen's and Lamar, they're all
super athletic. There's no guys out there that are real
field generals in the same way. And I think it
is a major impact on like what makes NFL football good?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Like what makes NFL football good? I think it really
has a major impact on that. Yeah, it's just supporting.
And this is what we talk about.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
We talked about with Lamar when we started the show,
how many teams don't have quarter like seriously like that, Like,
for you mean to tell me that, I get it.
Daniel Jones gets heard and Richardson blows out his eye
socket or whatever, like in a freak accident. Right, okay,
but even but there's no there's nobody gets there's how
(29:44):
many Division I football program one hundred.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And thirty something like that?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Hundred all right, there's nobody who played football at a
major college who could come in and throw the ball
or or like it's mind boggling to me. To me,
and I guess it that the coach, coach and rivers
have a relationship. That's why cronyism, you know what I
(30:09):
mean and all that, But it just it is.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Mind boggling that there aren't more guys out there. It's
it to me, I think there are. I think that's
the thing.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
That is because your point, I said, we set up
and watched not necessarily great college quarterbacks or like guys
that are.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Like Kayler, like Kayla Williams.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
You knew from day one he's a first round pick
from the moment he stepped on the field in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Right right, he had electric starr. And that's not everybody,
And that's fun.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
There's a ton of guys out there who could just
run an offense, right, But to me, it's the uniqueness
of you saw like seeing them go and literally pick
on players right like he's moving game on out to
the out to the sideline to pick on a linebacker.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
That's not happening with the young quarterbacks in the league
just following what.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
And and as a result, you're so dependent on your coach, right,
Your so dependent And that's why half the league sucks,
am I, because half the call they fired a third
of the coaches every year that there's not a lot
of guys that can do it.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Well, that's a big problem.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And you're right, like Aaron Rodgers saw the mismatch and
was like, dude, just just.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Just go and I and I don't know what quarter
like and you asked me.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Even Mahomes after his third his third year in the league,
was like, I'm just now learning to redefenses.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He said that.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I guess like it's like when I see guys like
Tom Brady or Ben Rothers talking about back in my day.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm with you, Like.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I generally you you I have to walk up, you know,
uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes. No,
with this one, I'm with you because it looked way
harder to do what they're doing at a high level
than to see what the roo like the rook the
third year fourth year quarterbacks are doing now and what
do you.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Make of And we saw Jayden Daniels. Where are you
on CJ. Stroud too? I'm just curious as like, they
have a defense that could get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I think they do, but do they have the quarterback?
Like CJ. Stroud has been He's.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Hot and cold for me, Like, like I Year one
was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Year two and I get it.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Injuries were there, didn't have everybody, offensive line was leaky.
I'm not trying to put it all on him, but
he definitely took a step back. And this year there's
so many games I watch or or I'll see the
highlights or see the stats as I.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Go through them.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
No touchdowns, a pick, no touch you know what I mean,
Like a lot of field goals, can't get in the
end zone.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I don't know I would say he did have. I'm
not saying it's misfortune for the team, but there is
a level I think for almost every pro athlete if
they get hurt, they miss games, and then the replacement
comes in and like has a level of success.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
There's a level of your own feeling there.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Right, there's a level of got to make sure I
can get get in here and get this done. Because
Davis Mills plit that team on a winning streak. He
won three big games in a row. But we saw
Davis Mills start seventeen games, they won three of them.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That's how I got c J.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Stroud in the first place, Right, I think CJ. Stroud
is a good enough quarterback. He passes my quarterback manosa
line of a guy who I am not.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So what do you feel about the Texans?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Just do you think they have a shot to get
to the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
I think in this AFC as wide open as it is,
I'm looking at elite units.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The Texans defense is an elite unit. I agree right.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
With all these teams that have all these flaws. I
think the Texas defense is elite. And if you have
an elite one side of the ball as open as
it is, I can't say I think they can get
to the AFC Championship Game for sure, especially winning that division.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, I agree with you there with the cause their
defense is definitely special.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
All right, can't believe it?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Last call here on the odd Couple on this Christmas Eve,
we want to Hey, we'll take as many calls as
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Speaker 3 (34:11):
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Speaker 4 (34:13):
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Speaker 3 (36:09):
Here we go, last calls.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
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Speaker 7 (36:30):
And if you think Rob Parker is going to tell
you Merry Christmas, guess what.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
You know what, I'm not gonna wish you a merry Christmas.
Hang up the phone. Oh that sounds like me. All right,
let's do it. Because it was Mike in Illinois. You're
on the Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
You are one of the last calls on this Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
What's up? Mike?
Speaker 9 (36:51):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (36:51):
Rob is great to be with you again. Before I
get to my last call point, have a real quick question.
Did Calvin call in earlier and asked her absolution for
being a cater hater.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Cause you know he's a kay I was wrong real.
Speaker 11 (37:06):
Quick when you were talking about Lamar in the first
hour of that article. Here's what I find almost hilarious.
So he's he's up late playing video games. Can't make
it into it to have practice in the morning, so
I have practice in the afternoon. He's falling asleep at meetings. So, Craigman,
if I'm wrong, is that not the same Lamar Jackson
that had the King punk Tables.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Pin Bowman, Thank you exactly. He's the one who had
him taken out.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
He was tend him out to his house.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
He's got to practice at home.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
He was getting whooped up Brandon in Indianapolis. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. Merry Christmas, mer Christmas.
Speaker 13 (37:49):
I hope you guys can hear me, Okay, yeah, and clear,
I wouldn't say merk Christmas there one of Fox. I
listen often and love all of the does of shows.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh thank you and Rob.
Speaker 13 (38:01):
You and your new partner Kelvin and your old partner
listen to uh and I hope you all the listeners
haven't merried Christmas. A Happy New Year. And every time
you play the music to Second City Beating the odds.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I think to it very nice. Yeah, Brandon, we appreciate you, man,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
You know, maybe one day he'll actually beat the odds,
so the again part will be true.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
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Speaker 3 (38:39):
There you go, Brandon, just for you, my man.
Speaker 13 (38:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
All right, how about Brandon and Spokane. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Happy Christmas.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Merry Christmas, my boys, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (38:53):
You guys are out here working the hardest shift of
the year. You know. The postman asks you to do
this because he knows you boys can do it.
Speaker 11 (38:59):
So we appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
We're out here. We love you guys, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yes, absolutely, we really appreciate that, my man.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
You're welcome. Merry Christmas, my guys.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Yep, Merry Christmas to everybody. Absolutely, man. I can't even
believe here we are. The end of the year is
like right upon.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
It's just how you know, and everybody keeps sending me
my whatever app rapped.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
I don't care. I don't need to know what I did.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
On this app all year, whatever app it is just
for the record, I don't need to know what Chatchypet rapped, Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
I'm not interested. No, you know.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
So it started with music, right first of people put
out like what's your most listened to song this year?
So now like every eube does it, so like yeah,
YouTube came out with what is it?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I don't I don't want to know.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Yeah, Like how many hours of The Odd Couple and
the Colin Cowhard podcast I've played on my YouTube.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
That's a lot of time to be looking at other
you know today. Do they send it to for poor
stuff or no?
Speaker 7 (40:01):
It depends where you're going. But probably at this point
I would be surprise.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I'm not saying I would not wrap up for sure.
That's right. That would be the wrap up right now.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
I bet you they do got the only fans wrapped it.
If they don't, don't have it in the next few years,
no doubt, man, A thank you, my man, appreciate you,
no doubt filling.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
In you know, my son, Come on, Alex, see we
got the song, Hey Lee, the lap great job producing, Alex,
my man. You know, I don't know where we be
I mean, Alex can't leave Fox Sports Radio at least
for another five years because the show will not be
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able to to that's right.
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It's okay, Scott for listening. It's only two bucks more.
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The odd couple final hour of the program, and then
the Fox Sports Radio will roll on for your Christmas night,
no doubt about it, Lee, Tomorrow is a big everybody's
home everybody after they open up the Presence and all
the other stuff that goes on Christmas morning and breakfast
and cool because today feels like already the weekend, a
(02:16):
Saturday or whatever, right, but it's only Wednesday, and tomorrow
be Thursday, and people have a great time. But there's
a lot of sports on. The NFL's taking over Christmas
Day used to be the NBA. They got like five
games on right, and the NFL has three games on Lee.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And I'm gonna tell you not three great games.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
No, the spreads would tell you that too, Rob, Because yeah,
first we're kicking off and I hope you have your
Netflix subscriptions ready for Christmas morning because it's first two
games are gonna be on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's right, Netflix, I forgot about that.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Right, Cowboys are gonna be at the Commanders and Dallas
is an eight and a half point favorite in that game.
And then we got the afternoon game Netflix as well,
Lions at the Vikings, who of course got brosmer In
for JJ McCarthy, the hairline fracturer in his hand. And
then we go on to from Netflix to Amazon Prime
Video for the late game between the Broncos and the Chiefs,
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where Denver is a thirteen and a half point favorite, and.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Can I say it is Martin? Uh huh? Not interested?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I will not and OTV watching NFL football on Christmas.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
What I find hilarious is that the running joke is normally, oh,
it's Netflix time when the game sucks, right, or it's
like he has five times it's like, well, they'll already
be on Netflix.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Is this gonna be the thing that moves people to
cable right cause you can't. You can't go to Netflix
to run from it. Yeah, I run from it on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I'm gonna have to go to me TV or something
and use the antenna off try to find something else,
some marathon or something, or some Christmas movies that are on.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm sorry, and Lee, you just talked about it.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
The spreads tell you all you need to know, like
like these are not supposed to.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Be competitive, bad matchups.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm sure when they thought about it that the implic
cations would have been great.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
You know the Lions Vikings, you know that was a.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Big game last year, the last game of the year
that decided the division. So that's always something. But the
Vikings aren't there. And if the Packers win on Saturday, right.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
What am I thinking?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So, the lines play tomorrow. But if the Packers win Saturday,
the Lions are done, right, they got to win two games.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And the Packers have to lose. It's a lot of
lines to make it as well.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
The Lens win out in the Packers losing game, I
think they're in no, no, no, they.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Got to lose two games.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
The Packers got to lose both games because remember there's
a tie there, they have one.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Less loss than the Lions.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Either way, you know what I mean, it's two and two.
The only way the Packers don't make the playoffs. They
got to lose both and the Lions have to win both.
That's the only way.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
So are you into it? Are you gonna be watching what?
I'm in the football? But I'm in the football, but
not good bad football. I think I'm in the football.
To me, watching game is like buying a ticket to
a movie. Like if you're into movies, you have no
promise that this movie you're walking into going to be good.
So you never flip away from a blowout or a
(05:08):
terrible game, a lop side of game.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Okay, I'm asking, Okay, I'll say this, Lee wear you
real quick? Did you turn off a bad game like
a blop side of game?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
It depends how long into the game, and if.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's not not your team, not like say it's not
the pack because you're not going to turn off.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
From the Packers. No, that stays all day, all day.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
But I'm saying, like this is a game that you're watching,
like the Cowboys and the Commanders. If it's forty one
to nothing in the second quarter, I'm you're sticking around.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I don't. I'll leave it on the TV, but I'll
walk away. I'll I'll go do something in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I'll go hang out that socialized do something with somebody else.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'm not exactly clocking every single play like I would
have in that ram Seahawks game from a couple of
weeks ago, like where it comes down to the final possession,
it's all well and great. This is my problem. I
think the NFL when I was growing up, like Sunday
at one o'clock was almost like an extension of church, right,
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Like everybody went to church in the morning, and it's
Sunday at one o'clock or noon. Noon because I lived
in several time zone was now another like religious gathering.
Because I grew up watching the Saints and that team
was terrible. They always played at noon, ain't They always
played at noon.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It was never a Monday night at there. You know
none of that.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
And I think that one of the things that the NFL,
one of the things that makes the NFL special is
that ritualistic nature of my team is more than likely
going to play Sunday at one o'clock, and you build
it into your schedule, you build it into your routine.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And it's the only sport that's like that. The more
they put.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
These games on standalone windows, they try to make a
new primetime window in the morning by playing a game
in London and Spain.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Or Germany whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
All you're doing that is make it to the West
coast doesn't watch right, like they don't they don't care, But.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Like to me, you want to have Thursday night football? Cool?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Have one team played Thursday, because this is what happens
in the NFL and the college football Playoff is finding
the same problem when you have all the games happen
Sunday at one o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We see two or three.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Great endings and you'll sit there and be like, this
is a great day of football. Right, But you know what,
you didn't see thirty eight to six Jaguars over Chargers. Right,
you didn't see that because it was a standalone It's
very much like the same thing as the first week
in the March madness.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There's only like six good games they have to play.
Sixty eight to get to it. Do you see what
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
There's only like three four good games on a Sunday.
They have to play like twelve to get to it.
You're eliminating that opportunity by having three games tomorrow, and
the benefit, the juice is not worth the squeeze because,
like you said, every every when you're sitting there with
Grandma and your girlfriend and mom, they gonna be like, oh,
where's where if that point that was in the Super Bowl?
(07:56):
Oh he tore his acl Patrick Mahomes is out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Oh where's this? Oh he's out too. Oh.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You know, all the players with any name recognition for
your average you know person who's just dipping in on
holidays like.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
This, they're gone. So the whole juice of all of
it is so it's not even worth it. But to me,
and this is the guy who would not work.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
When I was in high school, I wouldn't work on
Sundays during football season. I was a shoe salesman. I
went to my boss at a sixteen year old no.
Lie Shelley Zimmerman at stride right at the Queens Center Mall. Shelley,
I don't work on Sundays. From September to December. Like
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you know, you work at a mall, you gotta work weekends.
I work any other days for you, Sundays during the
summer whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Football season.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Though, my mom used to let me leave church early Martin,
even though we were within walking distance of the church,
so that I could see the kickoff. I didn't want
to come in in the first quarter eight minutes in.
I want to watch the game from kickoff, the entire game.
I look over at her as ten minutes to one
to give me the high sign. You know what I mean,
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you could bounce.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I'm out.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I'm walking home by myself because I want to go
see the football game. But as I get older, and
even as a football guy who does this for a
living and I enjoy football blowouts, games that don't matter,
I'm just not. I'm not a fantasy guy. And I
get people who watch fantasy, they watch that, but these
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games are unappealing to me.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
They just are.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You just said it. The Chiefs, no Patrick, no Rights.
That is not playing. I don't know who else is missing.
Gardner Minshew is out like like we're down to the
third guns.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I asked, remember when Julio Jones went to Tennessee, yep.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I asked a guy who was.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Coaching in the NFC West at the time, said, how
are you going to handle this? Like, like, how are
you going to be able to stop A J Brown,
Julio Jones, and Derek Henry all at the same time.
He said, we'll see if they're all there when we play.
And sure enough, two of the three missed that game.
I forget what you know. Two of the three missed
that game. And that's the life of the NFL. That's
the reality of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Like the idea that you can schedule out week one,
that you know who's gonna be there week thirteen, the
same in a way that you kind of can in
the NBA. It's just not true, but but that, but
that's always why when people have schedule shows, when they
announce the schedule and they give you the record and
they tell you what you know, like like you don't
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it is silly.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And I've said it all, just absolutely silly because.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You don't know who's going to play week nine, or
week eleven or week twelve. Like the idea that you
know everybody's gonna be healthy and you gonna have an say, oh, yeah,
that's gonna be a.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Win for them.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
That's gonna No, no, it doesn't work like that. But
football to me.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Is not sure.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Can I have it on his background noise? Absolutely, But
I'm talking about watch the game. I just can't see
Washington and Dallas. What would I want to Why would
I want.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
To watch that?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
As much as I love football, that game does not
do anything for me. The Lions game I want to
see coming off that Pittsburgh loss.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Do they come and take it out on the Vikings
or do they lose it.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
If they lose to the Viking. I think the Lions
have a very there is and see that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I can find a storyline in anything. But to me,
the Lions losing this this Vikings.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Game, to me, is a sign that you are on
the right side of this, like your opinion, Rob has
been on the right side of this.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Like, seriously, you went back to back.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
You weren't losing back to back games, you know, Okay, okay, cool,
You're on a wind streat. Now you go up and down,
up and down, up and down. Now you start losing
back to back games. Like it's just something like things
are going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And Martin and you know what I said, right, because
we did a show together about it, I've said the
window was closed. But here's the thing. If your line's fan,
you look at it and go. We went from NFC
championship game to the best record we ever had in
franchise history, fifteen to two, home field throughout the playoffs,
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lose to a rookie quarterback, and now year three, no postseason.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Like that is a dramatic do you know what I mean?
Like like you're going they're going the wrong way. And
I know.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Everybody's said, oh but they got young players and their
sign and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
No, and the division is getting better too.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well that's the thing that to me, like it's kind
of the soundly alarm. Ben Johnson and Chicago they seem
to be figuring it. They probably won't be the one
seed next year. But okay, so you go from winning
thirteen games to winning ten games. Guess what's still a
good team?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Right? Vikings have a great roster, just have quarterbacks. Let
them find a.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Guy with the ride on them that can go back
there and play. And you see that team was fourteen
wins last year. Yeah, right, thirteen wins. They were right
there last year.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
They got a lot of talent on the run, and
so the thing.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That gets in and then then you had the Packers.
The other thing that gets me with the Lions is
it's the same problems. It's it's the same issues, the
same defensive injuries. Right, consistent defensive offense hasn't been the issue.
Even when they switched the offensive coordinate. There's still scoring points.
They're still moving the ball. The reason the Commanders beat
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them in the playoffs last year they scored forty some points.
They got beat because they couldn't play any defensive They
all carved them up.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Also, also you got Jared Goff had four four turnovers,
no no doubt. But even he'm just saying yeah, yeah,
but I'm saying four turnovers in a playoff game. I
don't know what playoff game you are gonna win. When
your quarterback those three picks and fumbles the football like
that turned the game around. And then that halfback that
was another interception. Remember the running back through the interception.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Jamison Williams, I believe that, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
That was it was crazy, all right, eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox, Where are you.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Are you watching football regardless.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Of does it matter who's playing or if the games
don't matter, the score blowed out, if the team's getting
blowed out, as they say in the barbershop?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Are you watching regardless or are you? Do you pick
and choose? Do you go?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm gonna spend my time on this. I'm not gonna
watch that. Is there a game really this Sun, this Thursday,
this Christmas Day that you're dying to watch? Or are
you on board with me?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I'm looking for a Golden Girls marathon somewhere on Lifetime?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
No, just maybe me?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
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Speaker 4 (14:37):
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Speaker 5 (15:21):
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Speaker 3 (15:24):
What are you doing? Were interrupting our promo?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, he wasn't talking about you. You took those clips
totally out of context.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Oh yeah, well after this promo, I'm gonna take you
out and beat you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Let me put this into context. Shut up.
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Speaker 4 (16:26):
On Fox, we're talking about the Sunday I mean Sunday,
the Christmas slate of the NFL games. Three games tomorrow,
all three dogs, according at least in my opinion, games
that I'm not interested.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Are you watching?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And do you watch the football regardless of how bad
it is, or do you have a special reason to
be watching? You can't wait to watch Washington in Dallas tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Is there something there? Antonio in Miami.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You're on the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio, and Merry
Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
What's happening?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I will not ot not merry Christmas, but I will
wish you a happy heart of kerb.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Thank you, happy honka, my man. I appreciate that, Stony.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
I just want to let you know my aunt, dead
aunt Mildrid Goldberg, has been reincarnated in Rob Parker, and
I wanted to have an address to ship my tote
bag to you so you can go into those buffets
and smuggle in and out all of the leftovers, because
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I know you love that. No merry Christmas, do you, guys?
I just want to put a vote in that. I
just like the little you know it's Christmas, but you
and Martin got a nice little, a little buzz going.
Then God bless you, Mery Christmas. If you're listening a
little too much to stop thrown when you get in there.
But just for twenty twenty six, if you want to
(17:56):
mix it up, my vote. You guys are great together.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You and Martin appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
I was in terms of the NFL, Yeah, I think
Martin kind of nailed it. If you do go to
the movies that whole person, if you do watch football,
you'll find a way to Netflix. I mean, wink wink,
there's there's these sites. I think there's way wait to
watch that.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
But obviously the what But I guess my point is
I get the gambling and all that.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But I'm saying, do you if a game is out
of hand or if it's a blow, do you turn?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Do you walk away from the game? Do you You
might keep it on, but do you you just watch
it all the way through?
Speaker 9 (18:36):
No? No, Tomorrow. I think a lot of people are
totally disengaged in the NFL lost. I think they lost
for tomorrow. I think if they would have just kept
it for like what you guys are saying Sunday, the
Sunday stuff, even the Saturday that they got to really
kind of, uh, you know, turn it into a commodity
(18:56):
rather than just spreading it out during the week because
it loses value in the NFL always had that, it
always had that prestigious thing about Sundays. And if they
want to do December, you know, the last couple of
weeks on Saturday. I guess that's fine, but it's like
when you see watering it down, I mean, people will
just be doing other things tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
In general, no no doubt about it, and then they're
no good matchup. So thanks for the call and we're appreciated.
Come on, Stony. My first radio partner is Mike Stone,
who Martin and I both know Rocky in Greenville. You're
in the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. Merry Christmas to
you and yours.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
How are you, Rocky?
Speaker 10 (19:34):
I'm doing well? And Mary Christmas to you guys. Also
look here, it's I'm a first time caller, frequent listener though.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I appreciate that, and thank you. We're here for you, Rocky.
Thank you for real.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
I'm going to be late to the party. But I'm
calling about a favorite Christmas gift. Yes, go for it,
and I'll date myself.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
And this was probably.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Back sixty eight, sixty nine something like that, and I'm
seven or eight years old there, and I got I
got a divorce, single mother raising two boys, and on
a secretary salary that you can probably imagine that probably
wasn't too much.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh no back then, no doubt back then.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
But anyway, so we're opening Christmas gifts in the house
and that kind of thing. And I was always appreciative
of whatever a little bit that mom was able to
provide us and all of that, and it's kind of
like that, and then she just kind of says, Rockie,
why don't you just look outside? And so I opened
the front door and at the bottom of the step,
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sitting there on the sidewalk was a shwim Toornado bicycle.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I'm getting a rookie, I'm getting goosebumps because you must
have jumped out of your skin, am I right?
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Man? I rode that damn thing with a wheel right
off of it.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
That bicycle.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
That was that was the greatest gift that I've ever
gotten in my life as a kid. Back then was
a bike. And uh that that that will always forever
be in memory just because of the time.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
It was.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Right, that's a great story.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And your mom probably made a great sacrifice to get
you that bike, you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
She did, Yes, she did. She made great sacrifices while
you know, she she was able to remarry and marry
my stepfather who raised me, and they were married for
thirty five years. So they both passed away, and so
and brought me up and my dad and they was
still and he passed away as well. But so all
of my parents were part of it, but as a
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single parent at that particular time. And I'm like, okay,
this is good. And then I saw that red shwined
Tornado bicycle.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I was like, holym what a great story. Hey, Rocky,
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Takes sharing it, yep.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Jeffrey in Tucson, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Merry Christmas, Jeffrey, how are you.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
I'm very well?
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Thank you, Mary Erdie Christmas. I like when Parker and
Washington spar reminds me of Mouhammad Ali and Joe Fraser.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Hey, anyway, Hey, I want to say, you know how
we get at it right?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
You know me, we get at it.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
There you go, my favorite gifts of all time after
football and no I'm not watching NFL. No I'm not
watching NBA. They watched too many three. Everybody have a
great holiday season.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
You have.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Thank you, boy said I'm sticking on Netflix, not for football.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Not this time.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And I want to send out a happy holiday wish
to Nancy Lieberman, the Hall of Famer, who's listening in
Texas as she's driving around. And Nancy and I played
one on one basketball many many moons ago when she
was a coach of the shop and I was on
WDFN and on the radio in Detroit, the first all
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sports station. And she's just driving around tonight and she's
listening to the show and I want to send nothing
but love her way to her and her family on
this holiday season.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Thank you, Nancy. I'll second that I love you.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I know I don't know her personally, but I have
something come across some of the work that she has.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Done with let me Sh'll obviously.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Know the name is, but Cooley and Tyler and the
retired NBA players Association, some cool stuff coming out of.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
There last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And Nancy old dominions her Alma Mada and they have
a statue of her. She's a basketball Hall of Famer,
just a great person. Nancy, Happy holidays and thanks for
that text. I'm glad you will listen to.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I scored the I'm gonna say this real quick.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
So you know the late great Jamie Samuelson from WDFN,
who is the radio ye Western Peace radio guy with
us when we first lost the station in nineteen ninety four.
So Jamie is like, I'm playing there Nancy, who's again
a Hall of Famer, and he's like, You're not gonna
even score against Nancy.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I'm like, I'm not gonna score. You really think I'm
that lame that I'm I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Not dissing her ability as a Hall of Fame basketball player,
but I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Score against Nancy. And what happened.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So, of course I scored the first basket of the game,
because you got the ball first.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I did score. Yes, uh huh.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I called time out after I scored the basket. I
got video of me pumping my fist when I make
this turnaround and put it up there and it goes in,
and I called time out, and I went straight to
the sideline and found Jamie Samuelson and said, give me
my twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Only I would do that.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And then that was the lesson Jamie learned that day. Well,
you should have made it one and a half buckets.
But I want you to know I scored the second basket.
I was up to nothing and then Nancy, of course,
But after that second basket, your head was bigger than
Jamies was.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
You know that? No doubt? All right? That was no
doubt about it, all right.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Odd couple, Rob Parker Martin Weiss here on Fox Sports
Radio and.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
The NBA. Also, Martin Tomorrow has a slew of games.
Are you interested in some of those games? In a
passing tertiary way?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
To me, this is kind of the tip off of
the NBA season, even though they've played about thirty games.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
But I'll be paying attention to it. The thing.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Honestly, this is the conversation I'm gonna be having around
the Christmas dinner table. And Rob, I just just just
hang on this because I sat and watched Aaron Rodgers say,
I said, I said you a clip right, Yes, Aaron
Rodgers against the Lions. There's a clip that came out
on social media's from inside the NFL. Aaron Rodgers telling
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Kenneth Gainwell what to do on the play?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Right he caught? He says it right.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
He literally tells Kenneth Ganwell, no, you're like, come over
here to the other side of me in motion. Then
he goes go all the way to the last all
the way to the sideline, run a go route, and
then he throws the ball to Kenneth Gainwell touchdown. After
it was one of the best plays of the weekend.
Now that's the thing that kind of got me here.
But then I thought about it again because you watched
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that Monday night football game in which Philip Rivers and
the Colts got their asses kicked.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
However, he did throw for two seventy five plus, right
he was.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
But morny thing is, I'm gonna say this for people
who are having a parade for Philip Rivers and bring
him back next year. Dude, you brought him back for
one reason, Martin. What did you bring him back for?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
To try to win game? Okay?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
And they did not. They lost both games that he
was in. And you could say whatever you want. He
didn't get the job done for what you needed. You
needed you thought your best chance to win was with
Philip Rivers. That was the reason that you brought a
forty four year old back or and played for five years,
and it was a fail I don't care what the
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numbers are, how many inns he only threw two inner
what I agree?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I agree absolutely to me, it's it's it's a failure.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I think that the only benefit that comes out of
it for Philip Rivers, in part is this Hall of
Fame clock starts again and I don't think he was
getting in in this round, and he gets the healthcare
starts up again, right, So I think the caangible life
benefits for Philip Rivers to do all this before the
cult side of things didn't make sense to me personally.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But if I'm watching this is what I take I'm
taking away from this.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Do you sit there and watch Philip Rivers he is
called and plays at the line of scrimmage. You sit
there and watch Aaron Rodgers and there he's, you know, dictating,
drawing it up in the dirt at the line of scrimmage.
These guys are in their forties right now, obvious right
to play the whole time.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But Philip, I mean both of that, as in the forties, you.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Don't see on a consistent base Philip Rivers doing to
everlay and he threw for two seventy five and his
limited ability at this stage in the game, where is
it that young quarterback? Like why are any young quarterbacks?
Do they have the ability to do that?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Like it's not being taught in the same way.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
And I think that, like that is the reason why
we sit back and say why is this team so
up and down?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Why is this team? Like because why.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
You know, the forty nine are able to do it
with seemingly any quarterback because they've taken a lot of
the specialness out of the position, Like they've taken a
lot of what made these guys field generals out of
the position, in my opinion, And you see it in
the Philip Rivers and the Aaron Rodgers, like those are obvious.
I mean Philip Rivers obviously from a generation pass. Rogers
(28:45):
hanging on from a generation pass. And I can say
hanging on, I don't mean a derogatory's no, he's played well,
but he's contemporaries with Roethlisberger and Brady and Rivers like
those are his guys.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Those are all field generals.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
And I look at the top quarterbacks now in the league, Mahomes,
Allen Burrow, I mean Mahomes, Allen's and Lamar, they're all
super athletic. There's no guys out there that are real
field generals in the same way. And I think it
is a major impact on like what makes NFL football good?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Like what makes NFL football good? I think it really
has a major impact on that. Yeah, it's just supporting.
And this is what we talk about.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
We talked about with Lamar when we started the show,
how many teams don't have quarter like seriously like that, Like,
for you mean to tell me that, I get it.
Daniel Jones gets heard and Richardson blows out his eye
socket or whatever, like in a freak accident. Right, okay,
but even but there's no there's nobody gets there's how
(29:44):
many Division I football program one hundred.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And thirty something like that?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Hundred all right, there's nobody who played football at a
major college who could come in and throw the ball
or or like it's mind boggling to me. To me,
and I guess it that the coach, coach and rivers
have a relationship. That's why cronyism, you know what I
(30:09):
mean and all that, But it just it is.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Mind boggling that there aren't more guys out there. It's
it to me, I think there are. I think that's
the thing.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
That is because your point, I said, we set up
and watched not necessarily great college quarterbacks or like guys
that are.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Like Kayler, like Kayla Williams.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
You knew from day one he's a first round pick
from the moment he stepped on the field in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Right right, he had electric starr. And that's not everybody,
And that's fun.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
There's a ton of guys out there who could just
run an offense, right, But to me, it's the uniqueness
of you saw like seeing them go and literally pick
on players right like he's moving game on out to
the out to the sideline to pick on a linebacker.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
That's not happening with the young quarterbacks in the league
just following what.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
And and as a result, you're so dependent on your coach, right,
Your so dependent And that's why half the league sucks,
am I, because half the call they fired a third
of the coaches every year that there's not a lot
of guys that can do it.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Well, that's a big problem.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
And you're right, like Aaron Rodgers saw the mismatch and
was like, dude, just just.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Just go and I and I don't know what quarter
like and you asked me.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Even Mahomes after his third his third year in the league,
was like, I'm just now learning to redefenses.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He said that.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I guess like it's like when I see guys like
Tom Brady or Ben Rothers talking about back in my day.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm with you, Like.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I generally you you I have to walk up, you know,
uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes. No,
with this one, I'm with you because it looked way
harder to do what they're doing at a high level
than to see what the roo like the rook the
third year fourth year quarterbacks are doing now and what
do you.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Make of And we saw Jayden Daniels. Where are you
on CJ. Stroud too? I'm just curious as like, they
have a defense that could get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I think they do, but do they have the quarterback?
Like CJ. Stroud has been He's.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Hot and cold for me, Like, like I Year one
was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Year two and I get it.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Injuries were there, didn't have everybody, offensive line was leaky.
I'm not trying to put it all on him, but
he definitely took a step back. And this year there's
so many games I watch or or I'll see the
highlights or see the stats as I.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Go through them.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
No touchdowns, a pick, no touch you know what I mean,
Like a lot of field goals, can't get in the
end zone.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I don't know I would say he did have. I'm
not saying it's misfortune for the team, but there is
a level I think for almost every pro athlete if
they get hurt, they miss games, and then the replacement
comes in and like has a level of success.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
There's a level of your own feeling there.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Right, there's a level of got to make sure I
can get get in here and get this done. Because
Davis Mills plit that team on a winning streak. He
won three big games in a row. But we saw
Davis Mills start seventeen games, they won three of them.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
That's how I got c J.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Stroud in the first place, Right, I think CJ. Stroud
is a good enough quarterback. He passes my quarterback manosa
line of a guy who I am not.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So what do you feel about the Texans?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Just do you think they have a shot to get
to the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
I think in this AFC as wide open as it is,
I'm looking at elite units.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The Texans defense is an elite unit. I agree right.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
With all these teams that have all these flaws. I
think the Texas defense is elite. And if you have
an elite one side of the ball as open as
it is, I can't say I think they can get
to the AFC Championship Game for sure, especially winning that division.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, I agree with you there with the cause their
defense is definitely special.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
All right, can't believe it?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Last call here on the odd Couple on this Christmas Eve,
we want to Hey, we'll take as many calls as
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Speaker 3 (34:11):
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Speaker 4 (34:13):
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because you know Alex is a hidden Talent's you're a
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Last call here on the Odd Couple on this Christmas Eve,
Rob Parker, Martin weiss In for Kelvin Washington right here
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It is the odd Couple on a Christmas Eve. Rob
arkor Martin Weis's in for kelvin Washington and uh, it
is last calls time because we're gonna take as many
as we can.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Here we go, last calls.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
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Speaker 7 (36:30):
And if you think Rob Parker is going to tell
you Merry Christmas, guess what.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
You know what, I'm not gonna wish you a merry Christmas.
Hang up the phone. Oh that sounds like me. All right,
let's do it. Because it was Mike in Illinois. You're
on the Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
You are one of the last calls on this Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
What's up? Mike?
Speaker 9 (36:51):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (36:51):
Rob is great to be with you again. Before I
get to my last call point, have a real quick question.
Did Calvin call in earlier and asked her absolution for
being a cater hater.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Cause you know he's a kay I was wrong real.
Speaker 11 (37:06):
Quick when you were talking about Lamar in the first
hour of that article. Here's what I find almost hilarious.
So he's he's up late playing video games. Can't make
it into it to have practice in the morning, so
I have practice in the afternoon. He's falling asleep at meetings. So, Craigman,
if I'm wrong, is that not the same Lamar Jackson
that had the King punk Tables.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Pin Bowman, Thank you exactly. He's the one who had
him taken out.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
He was tend him out to his house.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
He's got to practice at home.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
He was getting whooped up Brandon in Indianapolis. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. Merry Christmas, mer Christmas.
Speaker 13 (37:49):
I hope you guys can hear me, Okay, yeah, and clear,
I wouldn't say merk Christmas there one of Fox. I
listen often and love all of the does of shows.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Oh thank you and Rob.
Speaker 13 (38:01):
You and your new partner Kelvin and your old partner
listen to uh and I hope you all the listeners
haven't merried Christmas. A Happy New Year. And every time
you play the music to Second City Beating the odds.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I think to it very nice. Yeah, Brandon, we appreciate you, man,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
You know, maybe one day he'll actually beat the odds,
so the again part will be true.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Guess well, Rob, we got a Christmas present for Brandon.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Welcome to Shekel City, the whole base for Rob Parker's
Dally Dix against the Sprat.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
There you go, Brandon, just for you, my man.
Speaker 13 (38:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
All right, how about Brandon and Spokane. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Happy Christmas.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Merry Christmas, my boys, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (38:53):
You guys are out here working the hardest shift of
the year. You know. The postman asks you to do
this because he knows you boys can do it.
Speaker 11 (38:59):
So we appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (39:01):
We're out here. We love you guys, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yes, absolutely, we really appreciate that, my man.
Speaker 9 (39:07):
You're welcome. Merry Christmas, my guys.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Yep, Merry Christmas to everybody. Absolutely, man. I can't even
believe here we are. The end of the year is
like right upon.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
It's just how you know, and everybody keeps sending me
my whatever app rapped.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
I don't care. I don't need to know what I did.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
On this app all year, whatever app it is just
for the record, I don't need to know what Chatchypet rapped, Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
I'm not interested. No, you know.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
So it started with music, right first of people put
out like what's your most listened to song this year?
So now like every eube does it, so like yeah,
YouTube came out with what is it?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I don't I don't want to know.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Yeah, Like how many hours of The Odd Couple and
the Colin Cowhard podcast I've played on my YouTube.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
That's a lot of time to be looking at other
you know today. Do they send it to for poor
stuff or no?
Speaker 7 (40:01):
It depends where you're going. But probably at this point
I would be surprise.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I'm not saying I would not wrap up for sure.
That's right. That would be the wrap up right now.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
I bet you they do got the only fans wrapped it.
If they don't, don't have it in the next few years,
no doubt, man, A thank you, my man, appreciate you,
no doubt filling.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
In you know, my son, Come on, Alex, see we
got the song, Hey Lee, the lap great job producing, Alex,
my man. You know, I don't know where we be
I mean, Alex can't leave Fox Sports Radio at least
for another five years because the show will not be
(40:41):
able to to that's right.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
It's okay, Scott for listening. It's only two bucks more.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I'll be fine. There you go,
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