LeBron Looks Under his Bed for Kawhi

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They were like, how are we gonna work on this?
Chris bud steal material? I'm glad you still though, because
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I went into the makeup room they you know, they
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I kept the track of though, right, just to give me,
just to give Meg get offendable for skipping chance, especially
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they used to airbrush us to try to get you

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know where you remember what the spray airbrush you. Oh
they did. Yeah, that was the way they did the
makeup rather than just what they did. I think that
was part of it. Yeah, we did. But it wasn't
like all the time. Oh no, they didn't me. It
was like a double dope. They had. They had tools
up in the three four people at the time working

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on I'm a woman. But it is all good on
this Thursday, man, Tomorrow's my birthday. I'm feeling great. Happy birthday.
Thank you, feeling great. You gotta have a I can't
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then you got your Golden Girls crew that's coming. That's
the end of February. That's not that far. No, No,
we're gonna we're going to believe you're taking another vacation
this soon. What are you talking about. You would just
off for the holiday. It was Christmas. It wasn't a
Golden Girls cruise. I was working me and Alex times
family cruise. I mean, hey, we can have a good times.

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It's good, all right anyway, Elijah. You're cool with me, right,
all right? They're all on the other side of the glass.
Come on, Chris bu short on his TV theme song Thursday,
Let's kick some ass. Speaking of that Rob our good friend,
longtime colleague at the Old Place, stephen A Smith. Yes,
he said the Clippers kicked the Lakers butt, which they

(05:10):
did twice. Yeah, Christmas was the big one. Everybody was watching,
and stephen A had him a heavy report that he
uh said on the air today on the first take here.
It is the only reason I bring it up is
because I was personally told that the quote was tell

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Lebraun to stop being scared to guard me. That's what
Kawai Lennard has set up all right. Now, Lou Williams,
obviously Kawai's teammate with the Clippers, has come out and
denied that. He said, I've never heard him say anything
close to that about anybody. He just competes, all right.

(05:56):
So there's that and the Clippers overall. I know a
few other people in the organization have denied it. So
whether it's true or not, though, here's what we want
to get to, Rob should you know a lot of
people and I picked the Lakers to win the championship.
But I'm that's getting shaky in my mind right now.

(06:18):
Down a little bit, I will not. I'm telling you
if they play the Clippers again, right, and I you
you know me. I've covered the league almost thirty years.
I don't overestimate regular season games, Okay, but I already
knew how great the Clippers were. Like the Clippers they are,
and they're on paper they should be the favorites. I
have not liked the way the Lakers have competed against them.

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I don't see the same swag. I don't see the
same confident run running everybody. But when they get to
the Clippers, they don't have that same swag, and they
I want to see them confident. I want to see
their swag because here's the thing. They have outplayed the Flippers,
like the first three quarters of each matchup. Again in

(07:04):
the fourth quarter, the Clippers have taken it to him.
So I'm just they might just be a tough matchup
for the Lakers, because here's the thing. Lebron James is
pretty much the lone playmaker for the Lakers, and that's
one thing they're looking to upgrade. The stats show it
when he gets on the bench that they you know,
they yeah, and so that's hard enough, But when you

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have to be the lone playmaker against a perimeter like Kawhi,
Paul George and Patrick Beverley. Oh my, And that's that's
what has the Lakers should have them concerned, whether they
are or not, maybe that's why they know that they
need to go make a deal for somebody else. Yeah,
because look to me, Rob, it's about two teams in

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the West. I'm look, Houston's good, they're gonna win fifty something, Hardened,
maybe MVP's in the running. Uh, Dallas is nice, but
they're young, they got they got ways to go. Denver, Utah,
they're playing good basketball. But no, the only team that
can beat the Lakers is the Clippers. And so that's

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who they need to be building themselves to beat. And
the question I wanted to throw out Rob is should
the Lakers be concerned about the Clippers? One hundred percent?
I think they should because when the Clippers first beat him,

(08:32):
Chris on opening night, No, Paul George, Okay, and they
had a big like remember they started the game, because
we went to that game, Remember was like it was
like fifteen to two or something or whatever the start was,
and they had a fifteen point leading the third quarter
and that we there, That's right, and I think Lebron
in that game, Chris, if I remember, was it seven

(08:54):
for twenty something seven? And then the next game was
nine for twenty four. He didn't shoot seven for sixteen,
you know, whatever it was. But Lebron is struggle for
whatever reason against the Clippers so far, and then both
of those games they led, so they didn't have uh,
Paul George. In game one, Clippers still won. Then they
got Paul George and they had their full team. They

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were down in the first half, and they come back
right right, cruising, feeling good. Everybody's like feeling good, and
then all of a sudden, that whole thing turns around
and it's another win for the Clippers. And then you
start to say to yourself, Chris, forget about one game.
Can they beat them four out of seven? That's the
thing that the third game they played January twenty eight, right,

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that's the next test. And if the Clippers, if it's
essentially the same old song, then you're right. You have
to start wondering. And again, we wouldn't do this with
most teams because it's the regular season, and we've seen
this movie. We've seen teams get swept in the regular season.
And then't gonna beat the team in the playoffs. And
I wouldn't put anything past Lebron. It's not like I'm
saying they have no chance, no, no no, no. But if

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they beat you three in a row where you know
it's a big game, your upfeats, time to play them,
and how are you gonna beat them four out of seven?
That's the big thing because there is a degree of
confidence and for the Clippers feeling like we get this guy,
we know, we know we don't need it right, and
there is a little factor like that team is tough

(10:20):
to play. They do that. It's all flipped on the
Clippers side because you know, Kauwahi is a closer. I
can't remember who was talking about this, and they were
making a point about the all the closers, and they
do have closers where you feel like three right, Lou
Williams is a closer off the bench, he could close
out of game. And then you got Paul George. But

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I'm just saying, but if he has that ability, if
he gets hot and he's knocking down shots, all I'm
saying is they got almost two and a half three
guys who can do that. And then you're looking at
the Lakers going and no, it was it was Eddie
House who we were talking to House today because Eddie
was the one who was bringing it up, and the
other was, you know, a d needs somebody to get

(11:03):
him the basketball, and that's a big difference. That's always
the thing that can neutralize a big man because you
can't dribble and they're like, I don't need anybody else,
give me the ball. I'm gonna dribble up. I'm gonna
make my own play because he's not shock. It's I
think if he's shocking there, it's easy to get him
the ball and you can't get it. But it's not.
He's not shock. He's not that automatic exactly. And that's

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what I'm saying. So so I think Eddie made a
great point and I agree with it. You know when
we missed just the depth is much better, and the
Lakers have depth, but they don't have the depth that
the Clippers have. And here's another factor in it, rob
The Clippers just appear to be hungrier. I mean, look,
let's Lebron has got three rings. I'm not saying he

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doesn't want more, but it's just human nature. The Clippers
are hungry. Kau why's hungry? Is his first year back
home in LA. You know he wants to win a
championship for his hometown. Paul George never gotten that ring
may have felt like he never had was gonna happen.
Here's a great chance here again, harold their dogs, all dogs,

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and you got a great coach. And it's just what
is there not to like? And the other part And
we talked about it earlier this season, Chris, who do
you trust the front office to go out and get
a piece if they need a piece? I like the
Clippers front office better. I'm not saying that the Lakers
couldn't do it, but I like that. If I was
grading the two front officers, I would take the Clips.

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You would put the Clippers ahead of them. The Lakers,
we gotta give him crazy. I'm not saying that once
they lost Kawhide. They did, but I'm just saying if
I'm if I'm looking at the makeup of the front office,
I would take the Clippers getting the right guy if
they need a piece. Well, and the Clippers have players
because of the depth, they got more players they can offer.

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The Lakers don't have as many assets to offer either.
But the Lakers. Look, if they do the right thing,
then I do think they have a shot. I'm not
going off on the pick yet. I'm not. I'm still
sticking with my pick right now. No, I'm just but
I'm saying Lebron's got to be more aggressive when they're

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playing the Clippers and a D in the fourth quarter.
Rob g find out how many points a d had
on the Christmas Day in the fourth because he has
zero and I think he had now he didn't do
a lot of damnag too in the in the Christmas
Day game. He's a big He hasn't advantage over the

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Clippers because they have nobody his side to guard him.
You put Zubach on him, he takes him outside and
kills him from the perimeter. You put Montres Harold on him,
or Kawhi or Paul George and somebody. He should be
able to post them and murder him on the block.
But he hasn't done it yet. And I was on
with as you know, as you said earlier with Skipp

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and Shannon, Skip brought up a good statistic I hadn't own.
He's said. Lebron in the fourth quarter has taken more
shots than any player in the league. But not only that,
one hundred and three more shots a D in the
fourth quarters, which shocked. That is an incredible number four
points for Ado in the fourth quarters to get the

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best five players in the world. So that's that's use him.
And so I think the Lakers need to start just
like they've you know, they've they've got a D playing
through injuries because they want to build up his toughness
physically and mentally, where now you believe I don't have

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to be ninety five to one hundred percent healthy to
go out there and ball. So that's why he's playing
through all this stuff, because they want to build him
up red, get him ready for the playoffs and the future,
toughen him up. I say, you have to do the
same thing in the fourth quarters. Feed this man, get
him the ball, and get him used to scoring buckets

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in the fourth quarter. So when you face the Clippers
woman on the come down to the fourth quarters, I agree,
and you not only have Lebron, but you'll have him
to help get him ready for it. Right, don't mess around.
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we're down to like eighty days before I go less
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We'll have updates, live updates from the boat every live. Yes, okay,
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expecting on this cruise? Really? Food? Women, women, lap dancers? Yeah,
women's all right? That women too, Chris, they got needs
and once it's the same thing. How anything different is that?
Is it always a Golden Girls cruise. They're gonna have
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we walk on the boat. The theme song will be
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you'd be surprised how many brothers is excited? Rob? Gee?
You want to go with him? Rob? You can't wait
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of her friends play and she said it's fun, so
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a TV team song Thursday. Yes, all right, Clippers Lakers?
What are your thoughts? Max and Georgion with Chris and Rob.
I just think it's a mentality with this team, Like
they just come out in the court expect to win.
I think the Lakers come out and they're expecting to lose.

(18:38):
I really do. And I just think until we see
against the Clippers, the Clippers, it's a mental I mean,
look at Pat dev it's just a mentality. I mean,
you get on the court and it's just like we
can't beat this team. They got a better coach, they
got better players, they got a better organization. We can't
beat this team. They got more dogging them. I tell
you that absolutely. And the other thing too. At the

(18:59):
end the games, Rob, you were talking about finishing games.
Kawai has spots on the floor where he knows if
I get there eighty percent of a time, you know,
little mid range stuff. As great as Lebrin is, he's
gonna either really drive to the hoop or take a
three and uh the drives. Obviously he could miss some
free throws right if he gets filed, so he stays

(19:22):
away from that sometimes to put up some bad three. Yeah,
he's hit jumpers at the end of the the games, but
this year he's been all at the rim or three points.
All right, let's go to Joseph and Virginia. You're on
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Joseph?
Are you man? Good? Good? I don't think the Lakers

(19:43):
have anything. Matter of fact, First, what Rob, I thought,
what happened to Magic City? Now you buying Jenny Taft
Bread Wait a minute, I'm going to Magic City next weekend.
Next weekend, though, what he said, you bought Jenny Grass
or Jenny Tafts Some bread. No, no, no, no, no no,
those were gifts. Those were gifts. But I'm going to uh,

(20:06):
I'm going to Magic City next weekend. So if you're
in Atlanta, you know, stop buying and see us. I'll
be throwing off school supplause. I will not be there.
I'm standing up for the righteous brothers. All right, you guys,
you have your y'all have your day. I thought y'all
have your prayer group or side. That's right. Let's let's
go to Joe. You didn't even give your point. Go
ahead where I got you. But yeah, I don't think

(20:28):
they have anything to worry about. I mean, the same
thing happened with with Cleveland when Lebron was in the
East and everybody was talking about Toronto sweeping them in this.
But Kawai is the only one that's really been proven
on the Clippers. Yeah, but you you're right in that,
but the same well you got Lebron and Danny Green.

(20:48):
I guess on the on the Lakers side, unless you
count Avery Bradley, I think he may have won one.
With Howard's never won a ring. I'm talking about winning rights.
Thanks for the car. All right, Let's go to Larry
in Fort lauder Danie, larry On, Chris and Rob So
Chris and Rob. I just want to say, first, thank
you guys letting me own. I appreciate you. You help
me get through this Miami traffic day in the day out.

(21:11):
Thank you. You know, Miami's where the Golden Girls live
right down now. I can't wait to get there for
the super Well, well, Rod, I was gonna tell you
if you extend and wait for your Golden Girls, cruise.
Lebron and Ada be on that they play the Clippers
in the playoffs the first hand, listen, man, very nice.
Clippers to me are gonna dominate them even if they

(21:32):
run into them the playoffs because in the fourth quarter
the game slows down. The Clippers have a better half
court offense. You stopped to pick and roll with Lebron
and a D the Lakers will scramble and be nothing.
And plus Paul George and Kawhi Cook Lebron like one
minute right if he's guarding us, which opens up the
offense for everybody else with you. That's the interesting thing, though,

(21:55):
is Lebron gonna have to because they Danny Green is
a very good diffenden. He's small, He's small, compared to
Kauai and really Paul George as well, Right, Lebron, and
that's why they needed with Dollar. They needed with Dollar
more than everybody. Everybody feels that that that's that's why
they've been pursuing him, you know what I mean talking
about they got to hope he's bought out, that he's

(22:17):
bought out, and the Memphis where is he Memphis? Memphis,
And they just seem hell bent that they're not because
here right they do not like there's like some personal
thing like we're not sending him to the Lakers no
matter what, We're gonna squeeze in in this uh from
New York. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, hey, guys? Great show was always thank you.

(22:38):
So in two thousand and three, the Lakers, they were
supposed to four peet right, and the Spurs swept them
in the regular season four and nothing. When they got
to the playoffs, the Lakers are like, oh, we we're
not going to worry about and they lost in that series.
This Lakers team cannot beat this Clipper team in the
best of seven because Lebron his best asset has always
been getting to the rim. He can't get to the

(22:59):
rim on these guys. Both Lebron's worst two games of
the season came against Kawhi Leonard and most Clippers. No,
people are like and people. Oh, he was rusty all
he was hurt. Two days after the Christmas game he
had a thirty point and the Christmas all spot on.
The Lakers did beat San Antonio in two thousand and four,

(23:21):
and then they lost to the Pistons in the final.
But they know, but they all three They got three, yeah,
because they lost the Pistons. Yeah, and they lost the
Pistons four. Right, all right, should Lebron you squeeze one more?
We can squeeze one more quickly, right, Robert and Georgia
you with Christ more? Yeah? He Christ and Robing. I

(23:45):
just wanted to love the show. I just wanted to
say that I think the Clippers of on a run
through the Lakers just because Ad is not the answer.
Look what he did in the Pelicans and look what
They couldn't even get to the playoff one or two times,
and they don't have a third on awesome, you know
the Clippers thirds option. It's louisam marks Hell. Please tell
me who's the third Laker who was supposed to be Robert,

(24:09):
Thank you Buck, and he's working in this. You know,
it's tough to miss training camp and you're in a
whole new role. You're coming off the bench. You gotta
judge just a bigger judgment he had. He had, he
had a green light last year, right, So they gotta
hope he gets it together or they get something really
good for him in the trade. All right, Ken Lamar
Jackson continue his dominant play in the postseason. Super Bowl

(24:30):
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As we said, the Super Bowl Championship coach now an
analyst with the NFL network. He'll obviously talk to us
about some of the games coming up this weekend, But

(25:14):
what is your thought? I mean, we obviously make our
picks tomorrow, Rob, but do you have any quick thoughts
on these games coming up this weekend. I'm I'm actually uh,
I know, people gonna think I'm a little sugar, a
little crazy. I'm playing towards a good towards another upset
by the Vikings. Really, yes, I am, Wow, I know

(25:35):
what I'm serious. I might be willing not Jordan's but
like wings or something, I might be willing to do
Wait a minute, so that Thieling get hurt a win
he practice earlier this week. He's questionable, He's gonna play.
I don't know why. I just San Francisco had a

(25:56):
really good year out of nowhere. Nobody expected them to
be the number one seed in the NFC. Most people,
Kush didn't even pick him to make the playoffs. Uh,
not really knowing, And I'm not taking anything away from them,
but I don't know. The Vikings. That win in New Orleans,
that gives you some confidence. And now you got a
quarterback who's not you know, like, well, when are you

(26:17):
gonna show up? And make that big throw. He made
it right. How could you not play with confidence and
feel good going into this game. There's no monkey on
his back anymore. It would be because it would be
a nice story because he's been maligned for a long
time his whole career. Essentially, he's always been counted out.
It would be a nice story. And of course this

(26:38):
wouldn't put them in the super Bowl and put him
one step closer. I think an interesting game is Seattle.
All of them are gonna be interesting, to be honest,
but Seattle at green Bay. Yes, And you know, obviously
you've always given Aaron Rodgers the edge at quarterback, but
I'm not so sure he gets the edge and this

(27:00):
one I do. I think that that team is as
balanced as ever team, and I just look at what
they've done all year against good teams and playing in
the Lambeau and what what a Seattle gets seventeen points
against uh Phillys. YEA, yeah, I'm just that was. I
know it's a road game and whatnot, and you're not

(27:21):
gonna blow anybody out or whatever. But I like green
Bay a lot. In fact, I like green Bay to
go to the super Bowl. That's how much like that
you've been saying that I picked them all year though yeah,
I did pick them before. I'm gonna stick with it,
the Seahawks, and I'm not picking them yet, no, No,
I'm just talking about I'm leaning towards the Packers as well.
But the Seahawks are seven and won it on the road.

(27:44):
That's that's great record. That's a great record. They tied,
you know, New Orleans, San Francisco for the best road
in Baltimore, for the best road record in the Kansas City.
All of them, so everybody, all of them have Green
Bay was six and two. Bay was six and two
on the rows, seven and one at home. Yeah, so

(28:04):
that's what I'm saying. I get it. Yeah, I think
what's gonna be interesting it And here's what I hope
to see rob whoever wins. I hope to see the
Packers in a position where Aaron Rodgers has to be
the old Aaron Rodgers. I'm not saying he can't, but
we didn't see a lot of that this year. I

(28:25):
think just to see it, I think that they'll be
opportunity for him and if they can get if they
if they roll, you know, he's not gonna have to
be that guy. Yeah, but if but if they if
not that he has to put up forty points or
five touchdowns. But I know what you're saying. If Aaron
Rodgers plays, has three hundred yards and three touchdowns with
Aaron Jones and with the defense that makes plays and

(28:46):
gets takeaways Chris, they'll be hard to beat, saying. If
he just kind of snaps into just playing like just
just an Aaron Rodgers game, not a five hundred yards
of five touchdowns, we're not talking about that. I don't
think they need that. Well if he plays, If he
plays that well three hundred yards and three touchdowns, they
win easily. That's what I'm saying. I want to see.

(29:06):
I want to see them put in a position where
they can't get the running game going, the defense isn't
manufacturing points, maybe not even turnovers, and Aaron has to
I don't necessarily want to say put him on his back,
but yeah, I guess I'm saying that he has to
put him on his back and be the old Aaron
Rodgers because and here's why, Because I like Aaron Rodgers

(29:27):
and I know about his greatness, and we said this
earlier in the year. If he gets another ring. He
doesn't get in the gold conversation, but that's the only
thing keeping him out of it. No, definitely, if he
gets two more rings and his numbers, like the way
Brady won the last three Super Bowls at the end.
You remember one three ye early that they didn't win
for ten years, and then Brady came on and won

(29:49):
those other three. It changes the way people look at
you and Aaron Rodgers at thirty five. If he can
somehow Chris put together and win two or three Super
Bowls in the next six years, then then your whole
idea of Aaron Rodgers to change. There's no question. But
I mean, obviously that's asking a lot, But I'm just saying,
but if you told me that Brady was yeah, Brady

(30:10):
was gonna win three at you were the only person
thinking that because you you said he was done in
twenty twenty, well, because yeah, he hadn't wanted he had
won three super Bowls. Nobody but they were early. They
went ten years without winning, and then when many people
go ten years, how many great quarterbacks go ten years plus?
I saw that winning. When they lost to the Giants again,
I was like, this is it. It's done. I felt

(30:32):
very good about it, confident, and then they got lucky
a couple of super Bow eight years later, you were
right finally, and what's seven years? But I'm I was
right ultimately. People in New England they want to build
erect the statue for me up there because they know
what they call me Rob. They can demolish that statue
would last long. Why here's why. One another reason why

(30:55):
why I want Aaron Rodgers to have that Aaron Rodgers game.
It is because I know I just said he should
get major credit if he can win another super Bowl,
and I know that somebody like you, just because you're consistent,
you would not give him credit unless he leads them.

(31:15):
I mean you, that's how you do. You don't give quarterback.
You don't. You're a tough grader. You don't give Peyton
Manning credit for his second super Bowl. No, he didn't
do anything. You don't give Tom Brady credited for his
six super Bowl And you would not give Aaron Rodgers
credit if he if they win the super Bowl but
he doesn't have an a ride performance, and I don't

(31:39):
think that's right, but that's you. But if defense, if
they win it and he doesn't throw a touchdown. He
has two hundred and forty yards. You're not gonna you're
gonna come on this air. You're not gonna celebrate. Yeah,
you're gonna say your pick was writing that to criticize
Aaron Rodgers. If he's gonna have to say he did nothing,
it's not his Super Bowl? What are you trying to

(32:00):
pay me in a cord I'm saying, I mean they
can get trying to pay me in a respect for
your consistent? What do I tell you? I'm very consistent always.
I treat everybody the same, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers. I
don't care who it is. They all get the same treatment.
Yeah right, they do. All right, So we'll see what happened.
It was a bass situation that had potential to be

(32:23):
a whole lot worse. We'll explain. Next is the able
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(32:47):
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(33:08):
seven years old that when that thing was popular. What
the heck were you doing? SpongeBob square That's one of
the great themes. Saw great choice, Alex. I don't even
know what to say. You're so talented. He can't sing
every theme, so no, no, no, But that was a
singer that, right. I know I can't sing. I stay
in my lane. Hey, I mean I've sing you know.

(33:28):
You got into that. Yeah, it was good, Yes, it
was good. Way Chris said, grill you ever when we
play that, that's how will load. It was like, be
don't fight on the good in that that. You couldn't
even tell I was singing it was that good. Yeah,
I was blending right in with you, all right. Uh,

(33:51):
John bee Line, it was a very good coach at
University of Michigan. Hired than this when he got to
the final. He got to a championship twice, didn't he
They lost twice. I'm not sure it's almost part it was,
but he was right there and uh, hired by the
Cavaliers given a five year deal by the Calves owner

(34:11):
Dan Gilbert. And and to be honest, Rob, it's it's
been disastrous. It really had. Before the news this week
came out. Uh, there was all there was talk throughout
the league how he just wasn't There were reports even
about how his college approach wasn't sit at the pros

(34:32):
with with guys. See, college kids are different. They you
got as a coach because you got their scholarship in
your back pocket, so you can get away with a
lot of stuff. These guys are millionaires and they've played
for other people they know. And this guy has for
all the success he's had in college, you don't have
any ann and he sold and they never wanted that

(34:52):
in a negative way at age at Rob g. Check
out how old he is. Uh it's it's high sixties.
If not in this I say sixty six or something
like that. Yeah, that he's it's gonna be hard for
him to change. But anyway, the news of the week
is especially when he tells the kid you, when you
pass the ball, feel for the laces and then you

(35:14):
you didn't even get a Uh, what's his name? What's
the guy? Craig Matthews Men, Craig Melvin. No, but how
old is he? He said a sixty six sixty six
and he was and he was rob g in the
right championship twice he didn't win, so anyway, In a

(35:35):
film session with his team this week, he made a
comment where he was you know, they were going through
the film and he said, now you're not playing like
a bunch of thugs. Thugs. He came out and said
he he says he didn't even know he said it,

(35:58):
and he thought he meant to say slugs, like we're
playing slow footed and all that um. But then after
a while some of the assistant coaches let him know
what he had said, and he said, he called the players,
apologized to him, and then even made an emotional apology
to the players today. So what are your thoughts? I mean, look,
some people are saying he should be fired. Yeah, I

(36:20):
don't mean he should be fired. I think he made
a mistake. And you know you and I before and
my point, Chris to you, uh pre show was real simple.
If the players really thought it was with malice, he
would be fired as coach. And it would you agree
with that if you went in and right, if that happened.

(36:42):
If five players went into the garden in the gym
and sayner and say due, we know and we know
what the connotation was, and we don't appreciate it. We
don't feel good about it. Man, something this, this is
somebody we can't play for. They have no choice. But
because the assistance kind of said something after the fact,

(37:03):
and the players haven't put up a big stink, that's
why he still as a job. And that's why he
was able to apologize and and the whole nine yards.
So I don't think he's gonna get fired because that
time is coming past. You think he should be. I
don't know if if the players didn't feel good, then
I know, but if they if they're if their life, look,

(37:23):
we we over had a problem with four months. We
have not seen this from him. We don't think this
is who he is. He just made a mistake. If
they feel that way, because is how they feel. I
had a problem with Riley Cooper keeping his gig and
staying with the seven with the Eagles, and but uh
when Vic came out in support of him, so you know,

(37:47):
and and I just thought, you know that was that
was really this And I'm just saying, but Riley Cooper
was able to survive because they didn't turn on him.
If Michael Vick went into the office of the coach
and a couple of the prominent black players have said,
is he is he practicing today? Yeah? Yeah, we're not,

(38:07):
then he's off the team. Chris am I right, right, so.
But but because they embraced him and didn't say that,
then that's why. And the same thing here, that's why
there's not going to be a coaching change because the
players apparently didn't put up a big stay. And here's
the thing though, even though they didn't like, they didn't
put up a big stink. This is gonna make it
even tougher for him to coach now because, to some degree,

(38:32):
your authority and he obviously was a coach that believed
didn't write the authority. He wasn't the players coach. No,
he's one of those hardline coaches that's been lessened. That's
been lessened now, you know what I mean. Now you've
had to come back to your players and apologize about
something you said, and you're I know, you're not gonna

(38:52):
have that same authority that you tried to have with
them in the first place, because now you're on penzone. Yeah,
you're watching yourself. He is he even gonna be yelling anymore? Right,
coaching as hard as he usually does. I'm sure he'll
say that it may Bee will, but he's gonna be
a little harder to do that. I agree. I agree.
I think he's gonna be in a tough spot and
we'll see, and God forbid he has some sort of

(39:15):
other slip up, then it's all well. If he has
another one like this, yeah, he's definitely gone. But unfortunately
for him, is probably not gonna end pretty anyway. I mean,
obviously they're not playing well. I think they're ten and
twenty seven, and he was brought given a five year deal.
That's good news for him to get paid. But all right,
it's the Eye Couple. Two hours left. You know what

(39:36):
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(40:18):
got Greg Jennings, the Super Bowl champion, Fox NFL analysts
joining us at the bottom of the hour and Greek God,
I'm sorry, I'm I'm leaving him alone now. Oh what
what happened? Now? You're back in just trying. No, No,
I'm just you know you you said yourself, I was
going too hard, going hard. I was surprised. Let it go.

(40:38):
I'm gonna let it go, all right. Uh, interesting comment, Rob,
and this is your favorite topic. I saw you talking
about it today. Did oh man? We pounded? I actually
saw what. I'm just keeping it real, you know, we
that's the basis of our relationship is truth. We keep

(40:59):
it real with each other. He beat you, He didn't
beat me down to day, I was all over him.
He crushed you. He had what was this point he
he mentioned a bunch of h What was the point
he made? If some of that can't even remember he
was good. He beat you down. He didn't beat me.
But anyway, go ask Twitter and see what they say. Anyway. Uh.

(41:20):
Drew Bledsoe had an interesting comment on CBS radio about
Brady and Belichick and the possible breakup of this great tandem.
Here's what he had to say. Robb's reading it was like,

(41:41):
what got his hands behind it? What are you doing?
I know life is good hipping in this. I'm trying
to find a good story for shop talk. I think
you guys, you know what, it's unbelievable when you know,
when the producer could just latch you onto a great
radio show, when just ride for the next fifteen You say,
other producers around here, you know they're sweating every day.

(42:03):
They just don't know how they're gonna feed their kids,
you know, Rob, And be a shame if nobody sents
you some notes before the show tomorrow. All right, So
here we go. This is what a former Patriots quarterback
Drew bled so told CBS Radio yesterday about the possibility
of Brady and Belichick breaking up this offseason. He said, quote.
I do think there's some intrigue, probably on both sides,

(42:24):
to see if they can do it without the other guy.
For Tom to see if he can win without billing,
for Bill to see if he can win without Tom.
I think there's an intrigue on both sides. It's gonna
see where the credit really lies in that situation. All right, Rob,
I'll let you go first. I know where you're going.
Everybody on Earth knows where you're going. But go ahead.
What no. I believe that Drew is right from the

(42:47):
standpoint that there is something there about if I can
win without him, then not that it's gonna change anybody's legacy, Chris,
because I get it. Once you won six championships, it
ain't gonna be. It ain't gonna go already. He's not
gonna be the goat Goat. He could be the goat, Esquire,
he could be the glow. He could be the gloat.

(43:08):
And the point is, you're the only person on the
planet that doesn't call him to go. He's pleased more
than it's more than just me give me a name.
I can't. Twitter can go. You can't. I don't have enough.
You know, people lie on that Twitter Max Kellerman, Can
I give you all that's a name? You know? How
about that? I'm not sure that does he say he's
nothing he's not a Pats fan. But does he say

(43:30):
he's not to go? Who's he saying? Is the goat?
Joe Montana? You're just just say now he's four. I
think there is a thing to this that each would
love the opportunity to win without the other, and it
would just one up. All the people think that Tom
Brady's the system quarterback and it's all about Bill Belichick.

(43:55):
You don't get goat status or even in the conversation
if you're just a game manage your assistant quarterback. But
he but he's won how many sis? Nobody's won two
or three without having a touchdown? I mean, Tom Brady,
stop give me the arth. It's a short menu. Rod

(44:15):
Parker wins and losses. But they've won super Bowls. Were
taught in the first Super Bowl? Tom Brady at one touchdown?
Did he win? Last year he had none? Did he win?
And I'm just telling you that people looking go tom
Brady's just happened to be lucky in the right stot
the right time. Anyway, hold on when he got five
hundred and five hundred and five yards a playoff record

(44:37):
against Atlanta or no, that was a Philadelphia had lost.
Then you don't give him credit. Well, but don't you
praise him for that if you're gonna kill him for
not throwing the touchdown in the Super because it ain't
about yards, it's about points. He left points on the field.
That's why they lost. Tom Brady left points on the field.
But anyway, answer for everything I do not a good one,
but so so I do believe there's some truth to

(44:59):
that that they would love, because then it would be
that's the tiebreaker. You got two guys who were together.
They did all the winning together, right, so finally if
they separate, right, christa side that he wants to have
a solo show. He didn't want to do the odd
couple anymore. And then you know, I bring in Rob
Gara and uh, he's the f and the show flops

(45:21):
and the show like swords, we get better numbers. Then
what would you say? It wouldn't be about Rob, it
would be about me and we finally got rid of
the dead. Wait you know what I'm saying. So I
do believe Rob g What do you think now you're staying.
Me and Alex you're staying me and DJ Alex Tyson,
you're staying, You're staying. But you see My point is

(45:43):
that no, but when when people break up and if
somebody else has success, then you're gonna say it was
about this guy compared to the other guy. Tom Brady
comes to LA and plays for the Chargers and nothing happens,
and and he looks like he has the last two playoffs,
people would go, tom Brady, really, you know what, he
just was a system quarterback with that he's forty three.

(46:09):
Because nobody wants to hear enough enough enough, nobody wants
to hear madiness. Rob this is madness. Tom Brady. I
don't believe has this itch to go improve. He can
do it without Bill Belichick. Why stay with him for
twenty years at below market value money if you're so

(46:34):
eager to get away improve something. I mean, seriously, he
doesn't have that to prove, and so he wants to
stay in New England. I really believe that. I'm not
saying it's gonna have believe let me finish. Go ahead.
I just want you to believe he wants to stay

(46:56):
in New England. But they may not want to keep him,
and that that's kind of what it's looking like at
this Why not he's to go? You just said he's
to go. You want to keep two years old? Now,
on the flip side, I do believe that Bill Belichick
wants to get rid of Brady and show he Part

(47:17):
of it is because he you know, he's forty two
years old. He knows he's gonna just keep declining. But
part of it, also, I believe, is to prove that
he can win it without Tom Brady because guess what.
Guess what? And this is where I take issue with
you Rob saying it would be a tiebreaker. There's no tie.

(47:38):
There's no tie, folks. Bill Belichick has been without Tom Brady.
And I have utmost respect for Bill Belichick's coaching ability.
How about his cheated right, I don't respect that, But
he's a he's a great coaches, the great coach and
maybe the greatest ever. I think that, you know, cheating
makes it tough, but he's probably the greatest ever. That said,

(48:02):
he's been without Tom Brady for seven years, folks. You
can't wash that away. And he's made the playoffs one time. Well,
no stop, hold on let me these are facts, right.
I know you don't like listening to facts. I'll give you. See.
I know you want to kick feelings up in here,
but I put facts on the airwaves. All right now,

(48:24):
listen one and six without Tom Brady, and look, I
will give Belichick this. There's no doubt he's a better
coach now than he was earlier in their career. And
five of those seasons came in Cleveland, where I actually
did think he was a pretty good coach. They didn't
like him in Cleveland, they fired him. He made the

(48:46):
playoffs once out of five years. But here's the real
This is what really stings those that want to say
Belichick is the key more so than Brady. Belichick's first
year in New England, he went five and eleven and
five and eleven, And you didn't have a slug playing

(49:09):
a quarterback. You had Drew bled so folks, you had
Drew bled Soul. And then the first year that Tom
Brady starts to remember, bled so got hurt. Okay, they
were oh and two, oh and two when Tom Brady

(49:32):
took over after Bledsoe got hurt. And then Brady leads
them to an overall they go eleven and three the
rest of the way, and then they win the Super
Bowl and the rest is history. That's it, Rob, There's
no tie. Rob Parker, top it with the tie talk.
Here we go. Bill Belichick has already wanted the eyes

(49:56):
of a lot of people when you look at the Patriots. Okay,
and what that he's been able to do? What about?
Oh God, you just had to I'm giving you something.
Without Without Tom Brady, they went to they want. They
were eleven and five with Chris they won eleven games
without without the playoffs. They don't care if they went

(50:16):
fifteen and one. If they don't make the playoffs, it's
Ben didn't count. Here's the second part. Garoppolo's rise is
perfect proof that Bill Belichick had his draft. He drafted him,
He had him as as Brady's replacement, and he would

(50:36):
be right where they need and the Patriots to be
ready to go on for the next ten years. Had
they listened to Bill Belichick and had they gotten rid
of Tom Brady a year too early rather than the
years a couple of years too early than a couple
of years late. So Bill Belichick is the right guy.
He understands, he knows what he's doing. Bob Kraft led

(50:58):
his feelings get in the way, and that's why he
kept tom Brady around because he was all of his feelings. Yes,
Bob Kraft, you can't live in the past. So what
it might have been good to you in the past,
It's over a baby. Move on to the next piece,
I mean, next person. You know what I'm saying. Let
me save you from your up But Garoppolo's rise is

(51:22):
a perfect example. They what they did by keeping tom
Brady was derailed Bill Belichick's future. And now Bill Belichick
knew what he was doing. He could have had his
guy one another super Bowl or two without tom Brady
and could have been there. He was already there. Well, look,

(51:43):
you disagree with that. Yes, I'll give you that. Garoppolo
clearly was the air apparent. Right. What this is where
I question you and I look, Garoppolo's being great? What
is he? Rod? He's twenty in three years, He's only
lost like a handful of game up his record as
a starter. But it's something great. You count going out
with the with the porn star in public? Is that

(52:05):
an l or? No? Is that an l or win?
He got an l C. Yeah, I'm just saying for
for taking to a restaurant in public, he's twenty one five.
Here's my issue though, with what you said. We don't
know yet what he's going to do on the big stage. No,

(52:29):
it matters, because what what was it about Tom Brady
that helped make him to go? He was clutch? How
many game winning drives, whether they ended in the field
goal that it's part of the game. Stop it. It's
like criticizing me for hitting game winning free throws rather
than the game winning three points. It doesn't matter. It's

(52:50):
like the Carmelo basket tie game. Anybody can make that shot.
Well it no, they game winning drives are what Time
Brady is known for. You can't tell me guarantee. You
can't guarantee me that the Patriots would have won the
Super Bowl last year with Jimmy Garoppolo instead of Tom Brady. Wife.

(53:10):
Tom Brady didn't do anything in that game. He had
less than two under yard and he had no touchdowns,
one pick in a fumble. I think Jimmy Garoppolo could
have done the same exact thing. It's different on the
big stage, Drob. And that's my now. If Garoppolo you
you think they're gonna lose to Minnesota. Yeah, but that's
because I like, I'm not gonna praise Garoppolo. He's gotta

(53:33):
do it might not be the reason that they lose, though,
what if their defense is bad? It's about w's you.
That's your favorite quote short menu until you're boxed into
a corner, usually by me. I mean, seriously, though, Jimmy Garoppolo,
Let's see what he can do in the playoffs before
we crown him. You want to crown him, crown him.
I'm not crowning him, but all right, that's all I'm saying.

(53:55):
With the crown him, the crowned her ass. Tom Brady
wears the crown, Rob Parker. Don't you forget that either.
And I'm telling you the facts are with with Brady
over Belichick. Watch and see Brady's last two that that
it's you know what, We'll say, he's old. Just like
we said about Michael Jordan. They didn't mess up his
legacy when he went to I didn't say anybody's legacy

(54:16):
was gonna be messed up. When it's a bad look,
it's a desperate Did we say did we ever say
that about Jordan? Nobody he didn't look as bad as
he had put up decent numbers. Brady looks. Brady looks awful.
The last two they won twelve games. I said, the
last two playoff games just has no touchdown. Really, the
defense gave up fourteen point home and they couldn't win.

(54:37):
They won the Super Bowl in spite of Brady. Stop
it six rings anyway, you're turned away in eight seven
seven ninety nine five two of Brady's first three Super
Bowls under two hundred yards passing, and it was about
Adam Venetarian. Wasn't Brady the luckiest of all time? Chris
go look at the stats. He won two other six

(54:59):
Supers for Bowls without throwing the touchdown. Now as we
about to go still untrusting, you get a second win
because Rob G's whisperingnew okay, what he's working on a
shop talk? Can you go ahead with the call? Is
it more important for win away from Belichick or for
Belichick to win away from Brady? Eight seven seven ninety

(55:21):
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(55:44):
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Get in the zone. All those on Please tell me
you're not gonna sing. I didn't say anything. See, I

(56:05):
was keeping my mouth shot. Do you know do you
notice uh DJ Tisher Do you know this song? Yeah?
You remember it? Though? Yes, okay, this was a great show.
Oh yeah, Ginger a marrying I would do marrying the country.
I didn't ask you about doing. Whose hand would you
rather in marriage? Be? Come on, man, what Ginger Maran

(56:33):
was cute Ginger because she's like wholesome and that's what cute.
Ginger was gorge But you don't like her wholesomeness. Didn't
do any before you like it? But Ginger, there was
no indication Ginger was right? All right? I didn't mean
doing her in that way. I met like, I met

(56:53):
like being cool with her. I'm sorry, I gotta protect
you from yourself. You cannot get on stage. No stage. No,
I'm gonna let you go on the material you'll be
I don't care. You'll get on stage. We will have
planned everything. Get on stage, and you'll you'll you'll do
something when I get back to when I get back

(57:14):
from the cruise, we're gonna do this and we're all
gonna go out and make a night of it. Will
go laugh, It'll be fun, it'll be great, all right. Anyway,
let's get to the call eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. Who's who needs to win? Without the other? More?
Tom Brady or Bill Belichick? Mark and Sacramento. You're on
with the eye couple. What's going on, gentlemen? How will you? Mark?

(57:38):
Pretty good? Before I started real quick, Hey, Rob, I
enjoyed you and Shannon smacking around head old cowboy, loving
Tom Brady but kissing Lebron. He this morning. That was good.
It was a tag team. You got Lebron Hayden too?
Who who was a tag team? We got skipped today? No? God, no,
he did not. And Mark Christen watching closely because me

(58:00):
and Shanna war on his head today. Yeah, y'all beat
him up pretty good. Hey, guys, I actually think it's Brady,
And I'll give you the reason why did you hear
my point? Yeah? And it didn't and it didn't register
like most people one and six with the head Let
me let me. Let me give you the reason why.

(58:20):
Brady's resume started when Belichick decided to give him the chance.
When he had to move on, Belichick got hurt. I
get it. But but Belichick's resume started under Barcel being
the construction. Yeah, that great Giants defense that won Super
Bowls before Brady for that do you do you don't?

(58:42):
Do you do? You know why you got and Mark
did not. Buddy Ryan got credit in Chicago with that
defense with Mike Dicka. Do you remember that credit? Buddy
Ryan got credit for that defense? What was it? The
forty one defense? Look, you get credit on your resume,
and I get that. I'm did not carry body right,
It is not. No, don't get me that Belichick had.

(59:05):
He only won two championship rings period. Yes, eight Jabrill,
Jabrill in Atlanta. You're in the couple of Fox Sports
Radiy what you got, Billy? What's going on? I apologize
for the I'm sorry, go ahead, what do you got? Yeah? Yeah, good?
But yeah, I think it's more important for um Tom

(59:25):
Brady to win without him because I think Bill Bilichick
is solidified. Well, they both are solidified. Yeah, yeah, you're right,
You're right, they both they both solidified. But I think
that the Patriots whole knicks man mentality, I think it
applied to the quarterback too. Called Tom Brady won. You
know that the own five quarterback in college. That's why

(59:47):
they got him for so you know so lord and right,
he wasn't that good in college? Bill Bilichick brought out
the best? Why why couldn't Bill Belichick bring out the best?
And Drew Bledsoe, who was a really a good quarterback.
I think they could have won that They were five
and eleven with bled so and he don't go in too,
and they could have won that same super Bowl if

(01:00:09):
you too, why would that season and by goals eleven
and first super Bowl? Um, he could have won the
same super Bowl that Brady won when he got hurt. Yes,
Brady too one touchdown the whole postseason in that first year.
The record says they probably wouldn't have made the playoffs
that year. With Brady said about his whole mouth, then

(01:00:31):
he wouldn't be as good as he is if he
didn't follow some new system because he's and I agree
with I do agree with that. I think I'm not
trying to say it's one sided. Belichick has helped Brady,
Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying Brellichick without Brady,
and it's not pretty. Kenney in Miami own with Chris
and Robb Kenny Kenny in Miami. Hey, Uh so, I

(01:00:57):
think it's Belichick only because there's no position more that's
gets more notoriety than the quarterback. Number one. They're they're
always gonna hold more weight. But I wanted to throw
this at you. It sounded like a little bit like
a Kobe Shack situation going on with Belichick and Brady. Uh.
Like I said, I think it's one sided. Now I

(01:01:18):
know what you mean, because Kobe always felt like he'd
never get enough credit as long as he Belichick being
in that role. And to be honest, Shock, even though
they had their issue, Shock was so happy, go lucky.
He could have kept playing with Kobe. But I'm just
saying Kobe, though Kobe Kobe maybe because it's one. I
think it's Belichick is into Kobe role like I want to.
I want to get more credit, show I can win

(01:01:39):
without this guy, and Brady is like shock, like Imilick
saying I was on a super Bowl winning team already
without toms offensive or defensive coordinator. All right, thanks, Kenny,
appreciate it. Don't act like that, Cassio in Chicago, you're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up doing?
All right, Cassio, I've never heard that. Don't make it. No,

(01:02:02):
I'm just saying I never heard that name? Is there?
What does it make? Keyboard joke was I'm Reillion, I'm Brazilian,
but I get that all the time. Am al right,
I've never heard that. Seriously, That's that's cool? All right, Cassio,
what you got? Um? I wanted to. I think it's
Belichick that has more to prove, But he's guys made
a lot of points, so I don't want to repeat myself,

(01:02:22):
but I will say it's gonna be a lot harder
for Tom Brady to prove that because he's already older,
and we can all agree that he's he's starting to
fall off, right, Oh yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna
be very hard for him to win, you know, somewhere else,
you know. So that's my take on it. I agree.
I think that Belichick would have a better chance at
this stage because you could coach the ten years now.

(01:02:45):
Brady can't play ten more years exactly. Joey from Illinois,
you're on with Chris and Rob. Chris, I don't know
how you deal with this guy. Robbed on a daily basis. Hey,
Chris called my at wife and she told him, oh no,
it didn't walk out. Listen. Rob. Rob's only argument, well,

(01:03:06):
first of all, neither of them have anything to prove.
The only reason they both have six rings, or they
have six rings together is because of each other. If
they were elsewhere throughout their career, neither of them would
have as many rings as they do today. But the
fact of the matter is the only argument Rob ever
has is the Bradys stats in the playoffs the last

(01:03:27):
two years. And yeah, they haven't been pretty, but staffs
don't always tell the entire story. They don't. If you
look at the castle crew that Brady had around him
this year, how can you possibly blame him? For the
performance he's put up in the playoffs easily because he
threw a pick six, he threw another, he threw another
one that the defender dropped. And when you get when

(01:03:50):
your team gives up fourteen fourteen points at home in
the playoff game and Tom Brady can't get only thirteen
points and none in the second half, that's on the quarterback.
This is that's on Tom Bruces. Where Skip killed you?
He did? Now I know, Terrell Owens, Randy Tony Romo,
they would just Collin's worth. Brady is not done. They

(01:04:14):
all said it. That's where he slaughtered you and Shannon
all Right. Super Bowl champion Greg Jennings says the edition
of Mike McCarthy could be the best thing that's ever
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(01:05:00):
I've been Fox NFL analysts our man, Greg. I'm gonna
leave the bodybuilding a lot, that's okay. Greg likes his
theme song, Come on, Diana Ross? Who do I like?
Diana Ross? Am I right? I'm with you running Ross.
We're good, We're good, We're good. I'm I'm in the bed,
I'm I'm I got my I got my dumbbells in

(01:05:21):
the bed. Even Craig would love that. Let me ask
you for real, though, tell us about your the change
in your body since you've been doing this, Like, did
you is it a noticeable difference? You know? I don't
know it's to some. To some people, it's noticeable. To
some they just think I'm super fit. But um, I

(01:05:44):
will say this, you know, hosting first things first this week, UM,
putting with wardrobe, sending my clothes, it's been a it's
been one super jacket that could not go on, and
it's been a second that it was like okay, I
gotta wear it. But this is it? Right? But that's
the slim fit era is tough, right, you change your
body in trouble. Yeah, it's tough, getting broad in the

(01:06:08):
back and in the shoulders and can you can you
button the jackets or you're gonna leave them open? Um?
It was a lot of shoulders, right, yeah, it's it's
more than the shoulders in the arms. But you know
we're gonna make it work. Right. We can't wait to
go to the first event, the first tournament. That's right,
you're not coming, man. We need to do the eye

(01:06:29):
Couple show from there. Yeah, we will do it. I mean,
if we can get them to send us up there
in Minneapolis. Only one thing, Please wear basketball shorts. Okay?
Dose are getting this pretty short and tight too? Is
gonna be bored short? All right? Anyway, let's get to

(01:06:52):
the NFL. Mike McCarthy, obviously you played with him for him,
got had great success when the Super Bowl with him.
Do you like this hiring downs? I've seen you. You
said you like it. Tell us about what you think
you'll bring to the Cowboys. I do. I love to hire.
I'm not surprised that this is what Jerry was looking for.
But when you look at the Dallas Cowboys and what

(01:07:13):
they lacked. They've had personnel, they've had winning seasons, but
they've lacked the consistency and winning, and they lacked being
able to win when it matters most, and that's in
the playoffs. And obviously Mike McCarthy has been able to
do all of those things, and he checks all those boxes.
But what I like more than anything is his ability
to get the most out of the quarterbacks and not

(01:07:34):
get it. He's had talented quarterbacks, but any coach who's
had success has had talented players, which is why they've
had success. But he has. He was able to get
Aaron Rodgers to listen, develop and really sit in those
meetings and get an understanding of what he did well

(01:07:54):
and what would how the offense would thrive with him
at them. So I'm gonna be excited to see what
Dak Prescott looks like. Both of them have something to prove.
Dak has won, but he hasn't won or right, I'm sorry,
Dak has had individual success, he's won games, but he
hasn't won in the most important element of the game,

(01:08:17):
and that's in the playoffs. So I like to move
a lot. Here's a problem I have, and this is
Jerry Jones. And you could pooh poo me all all
you want, but it's Jerry gonna let Mike McCarthy really
run the thing and coach. And the other part is
Mike McCarthy should be able to pick his own offensive coordinator,
you know, like I get it, Kellen Moore and this

(01:08:39):
and that, but they struggled against the really good teams
and I have a problem with that that they basically
told him he had to keep Kellen Moore. So I
don't know if Jerry's going to be involved or you know,
Mike McCarthy was just one of the job so bad
that he was like, okay whatever, I'll just kind of
go along with it. Is that a problem or not? No, Okay,

(01:08:59):
So that's a fair that's a fair assessment. I'm not
going to poo poo that that's fair. However, this is
what I kind of, This is what I feel about
this situation. Now, if you listen to Jerry Jones in
the press confidence, he spoke about the things that Mike
McCarthy was able to accomplish in this track record, in
him being able to win in this league. And so

(01:09:20):
he's not going to just completely fall back and not
do anything that is not who Jerry Jones. I don't
think he's even capable of doing that. However, I do
think we will. We will see more of Mike McCarthy
being able to have freedom and liberties that Jason Garrett
wasn't afforded because he hadn't been a winning coach, he

(01:09:43):
hadn't proven himself. He was given the opportunity as an
interim coach and then okay, let's do it, but you're
gonna listen to me kind of a Okay, you're my son.
You're gonna do what I say when I say to
do it. Whereas Mike McCarthy, he's not coming in in
that role. He's coming in with credentials that he's appreciating

(01:10:05):
and that he's applauding, and that's why he's put him
in that head coach position. But I think he's going
to have some liberties there. The only problem is he
had Bill Parcels, who had won two Super Bowls, who
came to Dallas, and they couldn't make it work because
Jerry still wanted his hands in the cookie jar. Here's
the other part is when you get caught up on
an offensive coordinator or something. This is why the Freddie

(01:10:27):
Kitchens and what happened in Cleveland, and they had a
little success, and oh no, we gotta keep Freddie Kitchens
no matter what. Every everybody who interviewed they wouldn't allow
him to take the job unless they included Freddie Kitchens. Right,
So they missed out on some decent coaches and instead
Freddy Kitchens wind up with the job and it blew
up in their face. That's all I'm saying. When it
comes to a guy getting to hire his own guy

(01:10:49):
and falling in love with a coordinator. Okay, so really quick.
The reason why I don't mind it is because when
we look at offensive coordinator changes, it directly impacts quarterback.
You look at Carson Wentz when he lost Frank Wright.
You look at um Uh Shannon or Matt Ryan when
he lost Shanahan. You look at all these quarterbacks. They

(01:11:12):
take a step back when they lose the guy that
they have the most conversation with in the best relationship
within the building. If that's your coordinator, we talk every day.
You understand what he wants, He understands what you want
and you stay on that same page and then you
to to unplug him and then start over. There's going

(01:11:36):
to be a little bit of a setback. So in
order to alleviate that and try to minimize that as
much as possible, you keep Kelling Moore in place because
he was not the problem. All right, that's the sounds
of Greg James. I tend to agree with you on that.
I think at them against preparing for us. First, body,

(01:12:00):
when is the first tournament? So my first tournament. I'm
gonna sign up for the one and on May twentieth. Wow,
that weekend it many isn't in Minneapolis than many? Job,
get on it. See if they'll send us up there. Yeah,
we should go up there for that. Doay doday? You
do you win money or just a big ugly trophy?

(01:12:21):
What is this? Man? I'm trying to get my pro card?
All right? Oh wow, all right, that's our man, Greg Jennings,
all right, brother, thank you, absolutely appreciate it. It's our
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(01:13:04):
All right, it's time for shop talk. Nobody ain't still
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five pm. So we discuss something that happened outside of

(01:13:25):
the world of sports. Because you know, we're very well
rounded individuals. We got other interests. And this week's story
comes to us courtesy of the Golden Globes. Now you
know that Hollywood is very woke. Oh yeah, very woke,
and they kind of stepped it up even more so
this week. They decided that they were going to offer
a all vegan meal plan. And here's the thing. As

(01:13:49):
far as I can tell, they did not offer any alternatives.
They who wanted a steak or a chicken or a
bison meat like the rock. So here's the question, do
you think the Golden Globe took it too far? Are
by forcing veganism on the rest of the celebrities. Yes, yes,
this is the problem. I like having that having an option,

(01:14:09):
but but where's the option for the people like to
eat meat? I Mean, the problem with the political politically
correct crowd is they're as intolerant as the people that
they claim are intolerant. Right, everybody's got to believe their
way and do what they want. Like, there's nothing wrong
with eating meat. There there they wanted meat? DJ Alex

(01:14:32):
Tysher he's our resident. Yes, come on, does this thing?
We do our things, Alex, right, you you even see
this as a problem, don't you? All right? So, yes,
I'm plant based. I've been for about three years now.
I've made the transition and I'm never going back once.
You see how your body changes before. So once you
go plant you never go back. That's the truest statement
I've ever heard. Rob Um. Here's the thing, though surprising

(01:14:56):
to most, is that I'm going to side with you
guys on wa. The thing is that I have the
biggest issue with most plant based eaters nowadays, especially because
it's more of a cultural growth and it's supposed to
be more of the popping things. And basically is it's
because people now that I've noticed are vegans, they predominantly
have to overtell you that they're vegans and have to

(01:15:16):
push it upon you and other people. I don't believe
in that. Just do your thing, you don't have to.
I've noticed myself because we've had a horde of interns
come through here, is that they're very interested in my
lifestyle because I don't talk about it or go above
and beyond to show it to them. They're interested on
how I act because of it, and they see those
big shopping beds and then Rob, g, where are you?

(01:15:40):
You know what? Look at you? First of all, you
don't even know what is Every time I walk into
our meeting, you're eating either a hamburger, chicken, wings, pizza,
and your husky. This is the reason why, because I
would never pay myself to get at an all vegan meal.

(01:16:01):
But if if I'm gonna get a free meal, and
if I gotta try it, I'd rather not pay for it.
So I'm glad that they're doing it because I'm not
gonna pay for it myself. Not all you in a
long way for that way, we're in a long way.
Would you like to hear what's on the menu, because
I have it right in front of me. The only
go ahead, chilled golden beat soup, no thank you, King, oyster,
mushroom quote unquote, scallops of their face tallops and for dessert,

(01:16:26):
vegan opera dome featuring caramelized He's on that sounds where
the cheesecake. Good cheesecas are vegan, aren't they? I mean
they have dairy. I get that. Chris Chris eat vegan
don Chris chriss they don't have me. I've been fooled
by veganism. Christall eat like twenty vegan donors, thinking that

(01:16:48):
they they don't put health. I thought I was doing
great cookies. I'm gaining weight and I'm like, what's going on?
They get you, man, Hey, the only good thing about
the Golden Globe is that they did in the big
gift bags that they give out, and they did give
everybody a pair of planties. So that was so the

(01:17:11):
women they loved that. You just can't help yourself. Now,
that would be funny on stage. No planties. I could
tell the story of No, this was this. I'm surprised
you're not gonna open mind because you did try to
go vegan for like a week and a half. So
that's why I'm surprised that you're not with it. And
then he had a hamburger with hair on it, and

(01:17:31):
that was not with forcing it on people. Why. I mean,
you can talk about it, you can evangelize on it,
but you don't have to force it on them, like
you know what. By doing that, there are now a
few more cows walking around with nowhere to go. And
I'm not buying a house to not go into college.
That their lives are ruined because they were supposed to

(01:17:52):
go to slaughter and now they got to walk around
for another month with nothing to do there, or maybe
they get turned into some air Jordans or something. All right,
and vegans on their feet. All right, it's the eye
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One hour left of The Eye Couple, We've got trolling
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sixty minutes, so you know, keep it locked, all right.
We start off the show with a quote from our

(01:19:17):
good friend, former colleague, stephen A. Smith, of course over
at the other network. On first take, he dropped a
bombshell yesterday. I believe it was about Kawhi Leonard and
Lebron James. Here's what stephen A said. The only reason
I bring it up is because I was personally told

(01:19:40):
that the quote was tell Lebraun to stop being scared
to guard me. That's what Kawhi Lennard has set up.
Now we have to say that the Clippers are denying this.
Lou Williams, they're great sixth man. He tweeted, I've never

(01:20:00):
heard him, meaning Kauhi say anything close to that about anybody.
He just competes. Other people with the Clippers have said
that this is not true. But whether it's true or not, Rod,
we talked about not just Lebron but the Lakers in general.
Do they need to be scared of the Clippers? And

(01:20:22):
I wouldn't say scared. You can't beat anybody if you're
scared of them, but they do need to have a
healthy fear because the Clippers, in my view, are the
only team in the West that can keep them from
getting to the finals. And obviously, in the first two
games this season, the Clippers have gotten the best of them.
Where the Lakers kind of had their way in the

(01:20:43):
first three quarters, yes, and then the Clippers come along
and just take over in the forth and shut down
a d and Lebron's struggle. Look at his shooting numbers
in both games. Chris and the Clippers when it comes
to closing out in winning time, they've been by far better,
no doubt, right, And I think that's something that the
Lakers have to look at it. And you brought it up.

(01:21:04):
They got another game, a third game, and that's an
important game. And if you can't twenty eight, you can't
pooh poo it and act like it doesn't matter, because
I'm telling you, if the Clippers were to win again,
I don't know how they don't feel like they have
the greatest confidence about a four out of seven series.
It's not about winning one game. Anybody can win one game,
we get that, but they would have to feel really

(01:21:25):
good because they won the first game without Paul George.
They have both guys were down big at Christmas. Everybody
the whole country's watching, and they wind up make getting
that w and uh making people feel pretty good about
where the Clippers are and the depth of their team. Well,
I think the Clippers, even if they lose that game
in January, January twenty eighth, they're gonna be confident about

(01:21:47):
Oh yeah, the question is where with the Lakers cycle. No,
it's a it's a Laker. The Lakers need to win.
But I'm saying you gotta chase obviously, Lebron James a
three time champion. You know, I still would believe. He
thinks they could win. However, every most other guys on
that team other than Danny Green, Ray Jean Rondo, the

(01:22:08):
rest of the guys have it won. Anthony Davis obviously
your second motion one playoff series in one and I
think rob if you look at those two games, Anthony
Davis only scored four points in both games combined in
the fourth quarter average as great as he is averaging
two points in the fourth quarter against the Clippers, the

(01:22:29):
Lakers need to begin making a habit of getting Anthony
Davis going in fourth quarters. Now, I'm not saying he
hasn't had great games in the fourth he obviously has.
But Skip Bayless dropped a statistic today on Disputed when
I was one with him, Lebron James has taking one
hundred and three more shots in the fourth quarter than

(01:22:51):
Anthony Davis. That's incredible. What a number, Because you can't
believe really or he's not he doesn't feel like, uh,
like I should be doing that that this is Lebron's
team and it's pulling back. Do you see what I'm saying?
Like his mentality. If I'm Lebron and I see that stat,
we gotta change this no I got. I gotta start

(01:23:12):
feeding you and you gotta be like, dude, I want
you to take over in the fourth Quarterman, you cannot
be passive. We need you. There'll be days when I'm
not making shots and we need you to close out
the game. And you gotta feel confident and feel good
and feel like, hey, Bron ain't got it today. I
can make this happen. I could take us to him
win no doubt. And that's what the Clippers have when

(01:23:33):
we talk about a Chris. They got three closers, Paul,
George Kawhi, Leonard Lou Williams. Lou Williams could be starting
for almost any team in the NBA. He's a closer.
Him might be an All Star this year. He plays,
he plays, start a minute. Yep, he's got a shot.
All right, let's stick with the NBA and there's a
big game coming up tonight. Right Actually is a good
night for basketball in the NBA. You got Boston in

(01:23:55):
Philadelphia playing right now, Philadelphia without Joel mb You saw
the news he's going to have hand is it hand surgery?
U Joe Limby's gonna be out for at least a
week or two with half hand surgery. That's it. Well,
there's at least a week or two. It's to repair
a ligament in his left hand. Well, they're saying in

(01:24:18):
into a week or two, they're gonna check it back. Yeah,
so it probably won't be back that soon. But after that,
you've got Houston and Oklahoma City. Russell Westbrooks returned to
OKAC remember the first first game there since the trade,
and they're gonna give him the treatment, and they should.
Russell westbrook was a He's the greatest Thunder player in history.

(01:24:43):
Not they they go all the way back to the signings.
So I'm not including those guys. No, but but with
the Thunder and obviously I think Durant was a better
player historically, but Durant obviously left different. Westbrook was loyal
and stage he got traded. It's a big difference between.
You can't look at him. He didn't ask to I
want out of here. He got traded, no doubt, so

(01:25:04):
you can't blame him for that. Of your fan, Durant
decided he didn't want to be there anymore, so there
would be some animosity as far as a fan, right right, Yeah,
I don't look at Westbrook there's no reason for them
to treat him any other way. The guy plays hard
every night. He don't cheat you, Chris. You can talk
about his flaws and shortcomings and he has, but it

(01:25:24):
ain't because he ain't trying. Oh No, the dude is phenomenal,
and I suggest he'll be an iconic figure thirty years
from now as the only player to average a triple
double three straight times. Only one player has done it
even one year, and that was Oscar Robertson, and he
was Oscar was iconic for more reasons than that. But

(01:25:45):
what was the first thing when you hear the name
Oscar Robinson? What's the first thing you've always thought of?
Triple double? Right? Average of triple double before a season?
Russell Westbrook did it three straight years. Not Lebron, not Magic,
not Jason Kidd, all these other great players. None of
them have done it. And I always hear Lebron could
do and maybe because he didn't do it, that's all

(01:26:08):
I know. No, you gotta do it, and people are
saying whatever, No, he did it, and after what was it?
I mean, the big goal hadn't done it for thirty
five or forty years? What was it like? He did
it in like sixty two or something like that. So
you know what, it hadn't been done. And all these
great players have played. Here's the thing about the Big O.
And uh, his first five years, three hundred and eighty

(01:26:31):
four games, all right, five seasons, he averaged a triple.
Done that. Now it was only one year, but because
some years he'd averaged nine point seven rebounds. Right, but
when you add it all together, right, when you add
it all together, it was a triple. That's incredible. But
Cincinnati used to have a basketball team. For people don't know.

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The Kings are from the Royals, right, Royals, and they
moved to around a few places, and what was it
called the Omaha Kansas City Kings. Right. They used to
split the game between the yep, oldest bird song. Yeah,
it was. It's crazy think about where the Omaha Kansas
City Kings or whatever. Then it became just the Kansas

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City Kings, right. And then they moved to Sacramento. Yep. Ye,
little basketball history for you, just like the Buffalo Braids. Yes,
they became the Clippers, right, yep, the Buffalo in Buffalo yep.
And then they went to San Diego, I think, right,
Clippers with Bill Walton. Ye but that was the Buffalo Braves.
Ye all right? And uh so tonight Westbrook returning to

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Oklahoma City. Here's the thing. The folks in Oklahoma City,
as they praised Westbrook and give him the video tribute
and maybe gifts, who knows what they're gonna do for him,
they also are happy. They think they swindled the Houston Rockets.

(01:27:56):
Don't look now, Rob, but the Oklahoma City there are
the seventh seed in the West. I'm not having a
parade for all that. Hold on, They've won eleven I'm sorry, No,
I'm right. They have won elept ten, ten of their
last twelve games. And in that ten game stretch they've

(01:28:17):
beaten Toronto, Dallas, San Antonio, some good team and the Clippers.
I was gonna say, I'm glad you said that, because
you know, I was gonna right away pooh poo it
until I saw who they maybe because there are a
lot of you could rob stretches like it's in the NBA, Chris,
because there's a lot of bad teams. Right, So so
we've seen that. So the Knicks one five in a row, right,

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and Chris Paul, they didn't I thought I don't think
they won five, and Rob, didn't they win five in
a row before? They only won like ten this year.
Check I don't think they won five. Yes, when they
got the new coach, but it wasn't five in a row?
Was it? Check it out, Rob, you? But anyway, maybe,
uh the Oklahoma City Thunder. Chris Paul's playing great for him, Rob,

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I mean to the point where I was talking to somebody,
I suggested, man, dude, should the Lakers go after him?
I mean, as all the talk you need a new playmaker.
And I've always thought that Lebron and Chris Paul, for
all their talk about one to play together, couldn't because
I thought Lebron's gonna have the ball. I knew they

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had a little streak on. I thought Lebron's gonna have
the ball all the time, Chris. But Chris showed he
played with James Harden, he could play off the ball.
He's a good shooter, and obviously Lebron would like another
guy that can create and he's willing to get off
the ball at times as well. But I was told
that's probably not gonna happen because or not likely at all,
because of Chris Paul's contract, that monstrosity. I wouldn't take

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that well. And I'm glad you bring that up because
that leads me to this, I think, and and look
Westbrook and I just praised him icon all that Westbrook
and James Harden. They're not going to win the championship?
Are you saying? No? Way, no how, They're not unless
the Clippers have mass injuries and the Lakers have masse

(01:30:10):
injuries and the Bucks have mass injuries to their stars.
They're gonna win fifty some odd games. They're gonna be
a fairly tough out in the playoffs perhaps, but they
are not going to win the championship. And I say,
as great as Westbrook is, I think they should have
kept Chris Paul wow, because he can catch and shoot.

(01:30:33):
Westbrook shooting like twenty what they do. And let's not
forget Rob. They had the phenomenal Golden State Warriors beat
they didn't have They didn't beat them, Chris, No, but
they were right. They had them on the ropes. And
we don't know what would have happened had Chris Paul stayed.

(01:30:55):
I understand if you look at it and you say, uh,
this works, I know we haven't gotten to where we want,
and I know it, they felt like they had to
make a deal Chris, because well Chris was saying, look,
we got to play differently, right, and buddy, he buddy
has because of it, were hardened, right. And the other
thing was the way that they lost, you know with

(01:31:16):
the depleted um Warriors, right, I mean right, remember that
last year, right, right? Remember that k D Right and
they still lost. Remember they lost the game six at home.
They couldn't even win that and that and that really
like sealed the deal, like we can't bring back the
same squad, right like that? That that I think was
the was the end all? Do you think remember because

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he's let me think, I think it's a bad go ahead.
Westbrook has one extra year at huge money. I think
he's gonna make forty seven million dollars is last year,
one extra year on his contract than Chris Paul has.
So as bad as Chris Paul's contract is, Westbrooks is
a year more and longer, I get it. I don't

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think it was about that day. It was about changing
the optics of the team that couldn't beat the Warriors
with their players hurt. And I think that's where people
are like, we can't bring this back play That Warriors
team without KD would have won the championship. Hey, Klay Thompson, Oh,
I'm not sure about that. Um, I'm sure Kawhi Kawhi

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is the reason why you just won't give that man
credit credit. Give them some credit, plenty of credit. I'm
just saying the Warriors would have won that series. Everybody
knows that was Charlie Hayes, who played for the Yankees,
is a third baseman credic. Yeah, I love that. I'm
all stole it from Charlie Hayes. All right, give the
guy credit. You agree with me? The Rockets should have

(01:32:43):
kept CP three? Oh yes, all right, you're turned away
in eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Big Game tonight,
And I mean it, I'm not and not just because
Westbrooks first matchup back in Oklahoma City since the trade,
but because the Oklahoma City Thunder are balling, and of
course the Rockets are there a great regular season show

(01:33:06):
and a round or two in the playoffs. All right,
but do you agree with Robin and I that they
should have kept CP three? Chris Paul, the guy with
the jump shot, the guy with the position defense, not
as exciting and electric as Russell Westbrook, but in many
ways better eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight

(01:33:28):
seven seven nine nine, six sixty three sixty nine. You're
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(01:34:32):
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. We threw it
out to you. You know, all the millennials like, what
show is that? I never heard that way? That's from
the sixties, way back machine. Yes, uh, and the seventies.
It was going during the seventies. Yeah, well I watched
maybe I watched you watch the rerunes you didn't watch
the original? We all watched them. I didn't watch the
original believe it was on television. I didn't. You went

(01:34:54):
to cover your Knicks game? All right, what do you
think did the Rocket sid hurt themselves when they traded
CP three for Westbrook and did the Thunder helped themselves?
My goodness? Twenty one? Alexander balling too looking like a
future All Star. And Chris Paul has been great for
him too, best clutch player in the league statistically. Really yeah,

(01:35:17):
but you don't hear that much about Chris Paul now
because you don't hear much about Oksey and they're the
seventh seed. But anyway, let's go to Chris in Washington,
d C. Chris, you on with Chris and Rob? Hey,
what's up, guys? How are you amazing to show? Man?
I listened to you every night? Man, Thanks man, thank you.
We love DC. We're coming down there for a big
conventionally like DC. Oh yeah, man. I'm gonna tell you

(01:35:40):
something though, Like I'm gonna I like both players, like
I love Westbrook, right, I feel that Westbrook is undervalue.
I think people think what he do, it's like like
they don't give him much credit and he should get
credit for it. I love Westbrook. I mean, but he

(01:36:01):
he we we we both have said he's a tremendous player.
But I don't know how much credit should he get.
I mean, this is what I this was what he
should get credit for. Every night he's out there fighting. Yeah,
he's not a job though. I mean, I'm just saying
it's really an indictment of other players. You don't play
hard every night. But you're right, he does play hard
every night. Yeah, what I'm what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, Hey,

(01:36:24):
I mean I'm glad you mentioned the Philly because I
was about to ask you a question. So if you
move Westbrook and you put him in Ben Simmons spy
and put Ben Simmons in Houston, how better with Philly
b on that team? I know they both can't shoot,
but the difference with Philly is like, because I really
think Philly can win the East. I know I'm jumping
uh topics, but uh, I think if Westbrook was on
that Philly team the way he attracted basket and if

(01:36:47):
you put him on the team, I think if Westbrook
is all about position, and I really think that, Uh,
I really think Houston, if Houston played the Lakers, I
think they're getting the Lakers of challenge. But I think
if Houston run into a team like Denver or you
try to play Cisco and stuff like that, I think
get out in Houston. Houston's played well against the Clippers. Yeah,

(01:37:08):
and I was going to say the Clippers. I think
they they're good against the Clippers. I think if they
get away from that rugged style play and get a
get away from Utah because a lot of it those
a little dark horsing the West right there. But I
really think, you know, if the Lakers get every day
get here, he see if they get somebody hurt, day
in trouble. Thank you Chris, all right, James and Texas,

(01:37:30):
you're on with the Eye couple. Hey, what's going on?
God's how are you a man? I love this show man,
Thank you brother y'all every night. But listen, here's the thing.
The Rockets should have kept TP three, and I'll tell
you why. Look when CP three was in New Orleans,
there was a much better team. Janny went when he

(01:37:52):
was with Houston. If he don't get hurt in Game seven,
they beat they had a chance to. Don't say it
was automatter. Yeah, but you're right. I personally think Golden
State would have won the series. But we don't know.
We don't know. We don't have him down three two.
The three is a facilitator. He's in his money and

(01:38:13):
everything through James Harden, who is not a clutch player.
CD three, he clut your facilitator. It's a different ball game.
He just really I wasna, yeah, I was gonna say,
he just rubs a lot of people the wrong way
after a while, right, C three. Yep, that's the biggest issues.
I think the probably bestie's ever been in that regard

(01:38:34):
in Okay. See, yeah, sounds like there's nothing going on. Yeah,
you know, like he never thought that was gonna happen.
That was that was a way to Houston. You forced
that trade in the clip and then and then it
worked out great for the Clippers, right and then yeah,
and then Houston trade after two years. Let's go to
Colin in New York. Collin, you're on with christ and Rob.

(01:38:55):
How's it going on. I'm just saying, uh, you know,
Westbrook and Harden, it's a great match up. They're both
you know, MVPs so and they're only getting better as
a seamen. It has been going on so they're definitely
gonna even get better. So it's awesome, you know, so totally.
So you think you think they got a chance to
win the championship, I mean legitimate chance, Like you like
them better than the Clippers, Lakers all that. I mean,

(01:39:20):
I mean you really like if you look at it,
how can you how can you not How can you
look at him and say that they don't that they
that you? How can you look at it and say
you don't like them better? So you do like them
better than the LA teams? Is that what you're saying?
I mean, I hope Lebrown wins, you know, like I've
been all but but you're doing that family, you do,

(01:39:42):
he's doing what we's like that. I mean, we're both
saying they they're a really good team with fifty five whatever,
fifty six, no doubt in my mind. Right It's just
that in Houston, it was about a championship period, right period.
I mean, we're not talking about, you know, the the
Charlotte Hornets, the Brooklyn Nests. We're not talking about teams

(01:40:06):
that have a franchise that has been pitiful for much
of its existence. The Houston Rockets have been in the
finals a lot went from Moses Malone to Akim Elijah
On before he won championships with Ralph Sampson went to
the finals and then the Lijo I won championships. This

(01:40:28):
is a team that's about a championship, not just about
being good. And the whole you could have kept CP
three to be good. The whole purpose was to win
a ring. And I don't think, barring major injuries to
the front runners, this team's built to win a ring.
And that's why I say, you know, Chris Paul did

(01:40:49):
some things that they need that are better than Westbrook.
Westbrook certainly does some things that christ Paul doesn't do,
but I think they were better equipped to win a
tight with CP three, And to boot, he had one
less year on his contract than Westbrook has. So all right,

(01:41:09):
someone in sports is trying to suck up to the
guys like me and Rob. We'll get into that and
so much more in Trolling a Rolling with our man
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(01:41:32):
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(01:41:59):
not have a both season. It's trolling or rolland that's right,
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and Rob don't like the story, you hear the troll sounds.
Oh man, hey, hey, hey, hey hey. So just the

(01:42:23):
other day, Shack was on Jimmy Fallon saying that the
duo of Anthony Davis and Lebron James would not stand
a chance against him and Kobe. Well, young Ad and
Young Lebron both came out of the Gates of Stars,
where Young Kobe had to ride the bench for a while.
When he was asked about his lack of playing time
earlier in his career, recently, he said, quote it still

(01:42:43):
pisces me off to this day because ultimately, what numbers
would I have put up? Kobe went so far to
say that if he knew what he knew now, he
would have gone to college and went to the NBA
as an older player. Chris, are you trolling or rolling
Kobe having better numbers had he gone to college? I'm
trolling it, oh many. Now. I think he would have

(01:43:05):
come into the league and averaged more points right away.
I mean he would have probably come into the league
and average twenty or so as a rookie instead of
the seven I believe he averaged when he came straight
out of high school. However, he wouldn't have played as
many years he would have missed. He wouldn't have played
as many games either. So instead of coming in at

(01:43:27):
eighteen years old, was he he might even even been
seventeen when he actually was drafted. He would have came
in at twenty nineteen something, so he wouldn't have had
as many games. So I think as far as total points,
he's third all time. I actually think Kobe would have
had fewer points. I'm trolling it. This is revisionist history.

(01:43:48):
Stop at Kobey. You did just find the way you
came in. You know what I mean? This whole idea.
You're right, Chris, if you just went to college and
those couple of years that he was able to put
up some any points wouldn't have happened, right, year average fifteen?
So what are you? What are you talking about? I'm
not buying that at all. I don't. I don't know
why he wants to feel like that. Why because he

(01:44:09):
was because of where he is and now he's reflecting
in all that. Man, you did just fine the way
you did coming out of eighteen and playing in the
NBA trolling and rolling odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
The Rockets and Hawks played last night, and boy did
Trey Young put on a show. He dropped forty two,
thirteen and ten. Did they win the first doubling Hawks history?

(01:44:31):
James Harden has something to do with that, right, Trey
Young leads the Eastern Conference with forty point performances and
it's got people on notice. Kendrick Perkins tweeted, quote Steph
Curry wasn't doing the things Trey Young is doing in
year two, Rob, are you trolling or rolling? Trey Young?
Becoming a better pro than Steph. I'm trolling it, and
you know I'm not a big step guy. You don't

(01:44:53):
like any of the light skinning. No, that ain't got
nothing to do with it. That, I ain't got nothing
to s I just I'm not knocking Trey Young. He's
a tremendous talent as he played a meaningful game. Yet, Chris,
I'm just I'm asking you. I'm asking you, is it's
easier to play under those circumstances when there's nothing on

(01:45:15):
the line. And that doesn't mean he's not talented. I
think Steph Curry played in a lot more games that
mattered earlier on in his career compared to where they
are with the Hawks. The Hawks an awful team despite
all the forty point games. I'm sorry, I'm controlling it
as well. Oh man, hey, hey, Now, Trey Young is phenomenal.

(01:45:36):
If you want to say his second season in the
league was better than Steph's second season, okay, I'll give
you that. That's no question. Twenty eight He's never been
twenty nine points and eight and a half assist. Now,
granted they're not winning, but Steph was eighteen and five
his second year in the league. As far as points
and assists, But the question was, will Trey Young be

(01:45:58):
better than Steph Steff won three championships, he was a
two time MVP, and granted he shouldn't have been the
first unanimous MVP. What he is, I mean, you gotta
give it to him. He changed the game of basketball
as we know it now. Trey Young. Look, first of all,

(01:46:19):
guys are putting up numbers that are a little bit
higher than you know, most of our careers covering him
rob because of the prolificness that's not a word, but
the commonality now of the three points, with the passing
yards right like they're blowing away to records. Even the
social quarterbacks putting up four or five thousand yards Jameis

(01:46:41):
Winston yards. So yeah, I mean, his numbers individually may
be better than steps you know, but is he gonna
win championships? And man, he's young, so we'll see. I
think he'll win eventually. I don't know about championships. I
think he'll be on good teams. But that's the thing.
If you're gonna be better than Steph Curry, you're gonna

(01:47:03):
have to bring back some Larry O'Brian trophies. And some
MVP hardware. And right now, as great as trade Young is,
I don't know that there's anybody that would that would
have redone that trade where they traded him for Luca,
and that's what he's known for to some degree. Now,
I see Martin Wis over there frowning like all the
millennials right we are dropping knowledge. Oh no, I'm a

(01:47:23):
big I wouldn't have never made that trade. Luca Don
Luca trolling and rolling odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
The New York Giants had a headscratcher this week New
York Football Giants when they hired former Patriots wide receiver
and special teams coach Joe Judge to replace the fired
pat Shermer as head coach. Judge had his introductory press

(01:47:44):
conference earlier today and did something out of the ordinary.
According to reports, the former coordinator went around to each
member of the media, introduced himself and said, quote, He's
going to help the media do their jobs. Chris, are
you trolling or Joe Judge being extra friendly with reporters.
This is a tough one because it definitely comes off

(01:48:06):
as Brown knows and all that. But I'm gonna say
I'm rolling with it in New York. Everything I've heard
about Joe Judge Rob is that he not only you know,
he knows football and all that, of course, but that
he's a leader of men. He can stand in front
of a team full of great football players and command

(01:48:29):
the room. So I'm not going to rip him for
going out of his way to shake the hands of
reporters in New York where you know Rob. I was
just talking to a recent and executive in New York
who was fired recently, you know, last several years, and
he said that the media didn't like him in New

(01:48:50):
York because he wouldn't give him stuff off the record.
He wouldn't give him leaks. And in New York, you know,
that's a big So I'm not saying Judge is saying, hey,
come to me for the info. I don't give ya
all the leaks, But him trying to have a good
relationship with the media in New York can help you.
So I'm not gonna poo poo. I'm rolling with it.
From this standpoint. A lot of people make this mistake. Chris,

(01:49:14):
you don't want to know who this guy is, who
you see every day, who's asking you question. I've told
I've told players all the time, you look at these
people and act like they don't matter. If they do.
I'm not saying you're gonna be buddy, buddy, who are you?
Where did you go to school? I want to know
a little something about you, what makes you tick if
I'm gonna be there. So that's a good idea by

(01:49:36):
coaches doing the other thing where you try to act
like they don't matter, and or fleas or just nasty
exactly beneath you. I'm telling you it's a mistake. And
that's not brown nosing. It's knowing who you're dealing with
every day. I think it's important and smart. Yeah, yeah,
all right, there's trolling and rolling with Martin Less. I

(01:49:58):
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(01:50:20):
all right, just listen because because when as soon as
Rob heard the song, come on he He jumped up,
put on his handphones and got up to the mic.
I was afraid we're gonna be treated to some disastrous
harmony again. Oh you just snapped me your fingers. This
is one of the best sitcoms ever. Yeah, Cheers was

(01:50:42):
one of those. NBC had a ton of Thursday night
shows and they were right at that time Thursday night years. Yeah,
there was a lot of great shows on the This
was phenomenal. Are you young, guys and across in the
booth and listeners out there, guys don't know, watch some
real old good TV, right, they don't. They don't do

(01:51:05):
it like they used. I know we sound like old guys. Hey,
you kid, and only one of us is old. That's tomorrow.
I feel old. I feel great. It don't matter what
you feel. I feel great. Last time I played basketball,
I felt like I could go out there. That was

(01:51:27):
killing me. I worked out today. I my suggestion. I
told Chris that he should work out. No, Rob was
going to eat pancakes. I was going to work out.
That's true story. All right, here's the deal, Rob. The IOC,
the International Olympic Committee, has made a rule no kneeling

(01:51:52):
during the national anthem, no raising the fist ali John
Carlos and Tommy Smith in the nineteen sixty eight Games,
no politically charged signs or arm bands. That's right. There's
a rule, a no protest policy for the twenty twenty Olympics.
An American and what they're saying, well, the Olympics aren't

(01:52:13):
just American. What they're saying is if somebody tries to
buck the system, buck the rule and go ahead and
protests that there will be disciplinary act. How about they
don't go to the Olympics. How about the players stand
up and say we're not gonna go by these dumb rules.
They have some freaking nerve that if something's going on,

(01:52:36):
you want to call attention to Tommy Smith and John
Carlos heroes, right, heroes? How dare you an Olympic men
moment try to tell them what they should do and
what they shouldn't do. I totally agree, disagree with this rule.
It's asinine, Chris, how dare the Olympic committee. That's why
I don't watch the Olympics. That's why I don't have

(01:52:58):
respect for the Olympics. It is because what they did
to those guys and what was going on in this
country during that time. They didn't hurt anybody. It was
their moment who did they hurt? Chris, tell me, your
feelings got hurt because of what you would do in
this country the black people. Your feelings were hurt because

(01:53:19):
they raised the fish and protests of what was happening.
Come on, this thing boils my blood. I see. I'm
in total agreement with you. Know I'm serious, And here's
what I say. I'm not going to frown or in
an athlete. You said they don't go to the Olympics.

(01:53:39):
I'm not gonna frown in an athlete who does go
to the Olympics despite this policy. Because these guys trained
for three four years for the Olympics. It's not every season,
every night, every week like the NBA, the NFL, Major
League Baseball and all that. It's once every four years.

(01:53:59):
So I get it if they want to go. I'm
gonna agree with you that this is a terrible rule,
because here's the deal. In some countries, there are horrific
things happening. Horrific in America in the sixties, it was
horrific what was happening the black people. And I'm glad
Tommy Smith and John Carlos stood up and with the fist.

(01:54:23):
Here's the other one. And some of these countries. We
talked about Hong Kong in the past. If the athletes
in some of these countries are seeing their fellow citizens,
family members, friends, whatever it may be, treated miserably and
by their country, and they're going there to represent that country,

(01:54:47):
then I think they have every right to be able
to bring it to the attention of the world in
hopes that maybe something will change you. Maybe you embarrass
the country to the point where they'll make a change,
maybe you spark of their nations to get involved and
make a change. So I'm all for protests at the Olympics,
and I agree with you. This is the same Olympics

(01:55:10):
that allowed in nineteen thirty nine for the games that
happen in Nazi Germany and Americans went, when Jesse Owens went,
Chris they they're Jewish friends, Jewish runners, and people who
were athletes in the United States could not participate. How
could they allow the Olympics even go on in Nazi

(01:55:30):
Germany and tell the Jewish athletes they couldn't participate. They
would that was okay, And They're gonna tell somebody they
can't protest. It's not it's ridiculous. So I was as
an athlete, I wouldn't have gone. If my Jewish friends,
who have earned the right, Chris on the Olympic team
can't participate. Nobody from the United States should have gone

(01:55:52):
to Nazi Germany and competed. If I felt strongly about
a situation, I would still go to the Olympics, and
I would still protest. If I get on that gold medal, staying, bronze, silver,
whatever it matter, I can still protest. And I also
believe if your cause is just that a lot of

(01:56:14):
people would get behind you, and you can't discipline this
person for being calling out you know, oppression, that's calling
out discrimination or whatever it may be. That's why the
Kapitet thing hurts me and burns me so much with
the other players, Chris, because he didn't do anything wrong.
He was standing up for what was going on, this
standing up voiceless exactly. And so when people do that, man,

(01:56:40):
it drives me crazy, especially the Olympics and its history.
Nazi Germany Hitler's in the crowd and they wouldn't let
the Jewish athletes from the United States participate I'm surprised
they let the black people participate. Seriously, right, right, Jesse

(01:57:01):
Owens ran in front of Hitler broke all the records. Yes, yeah,
um that's a good point. But all right, it's the
Eye couple. Chris Bruce are Rob Parker wrapping up another show.
We hope you enjoyed. We got a special shoulder mark.
Don't forget that's right your birthday? Can I say how
much you're how old? Yeah, I'm not, I'm not. I'm

(01:57:21):
not bothering. Rob is sixty four. Don't listen to that
fifty six, fifty six. You look good for fifty six.
I'm ho look good for fifty four. If me and Mike,
me and Mike McCarthy the same man, do we look alike? Wow,
he's a little bigger. He's a big dude. He put
on weight, real big dude. All right, I couple. We

(01:57:43):
will be back with you guys tomorrow. See you then,
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