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(01:29):
mister Roy Parker. What's up man? What's happening to mister
Chris Broussard. You're doing all right? I am doing great, man,
just great. A busy Friday. I did the Dan Patrick
Show this morning with Jason Smith. Yeah, I was one
of your guests. That's right, you up early on your
way to it was on my way to Undisputed the Herd.
So I had a lot of fun with Skip Shannon
and Doug Gottlieb, who was in for college. Okay, so

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you did all that, and then I was at five
seventy locally here in Los Angeles? Would Fred Rogan and
uh Rodney Pete that? Of course I didn't. Were you
only on for an hour? Yeah? Okay, I was listening
to the show in my car, but I didn't hear you. Yeah,
that was it. And now I'm not sure whether you
were on or not. He fibbing? What you know, I Alex,

(02:12):
You know me. I'm a word corse. There's one thing.
If Rob's talking about work, you know he's telling the true. Okay,
I'm just asking. I don't know about Magic City, though
I got pictures. You don't want to see outside outside,
He's got pictures I can't take pictures and he got
his cousins into me tex As proof. I don't know.
I'm just saying I got other pictures once. No, this

(02:32):
is from Magic City, outside of company and grounds from
I do have to thank you, Rob though, before we
get started. You have bought me a gift card? Is
that what I I didn't buy It was a gift
from Natasha who owns the big Really, yes, I told her.
I told her about you that you never got a manicure, pedicure.

(02:55):
Y'all hear that, Chris Bruce has never had a manicure
or a head of cure. I'm proud of that. Why
and potatoes? Brother, that ain't got nothing to do a
full school man, all right, I'm not sitting in boutiques
getting my feet worked on, hey, getting my hand the
fingernails polish. I'm just letting y'all know. She's not gonna

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polish your fingernails. Natasha does a great job. And now
air is the name of her place. And oh I
r and guess what. It's in Beverly Hills right there
on Wilshire, Okay, And it's just you going, Chris. There's
not a lot of I'm also usually hanging out in
the hood. It's one on one and she just does
it right there. Beautiful job. And she gave you a

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gift card for you to go in to do both
a manicure and a pedicure. You will enjoy it. Hey,
I'm not her only client. You know what he says?
What I said. I said, Look, you're a pro athlete.
We've been in locker rooms pro athletes. We're seeing their feet.
They run, you know, they're working on their feet all

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the time. They I get it with them. What's your excuse?
What my man? They need to go get there. And Shannon,
as a receiver, needed to take Gary's fingers. Look at
my fingers. My fingernails are good so and I cut
my own nails. Softball season is just months away. I
gotta have my feet right. See. I take after my grandfather, Burley,

(04:21):
Bruce Hard Burley, who was a sement finisher whose nails
were so hard that he had to cut them with
a knife. Really, he had to cut his fingernails with
a knife. That's what kind of stock I come from.
And his hands probably and the day season all that.

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I'm just saying, No, woman, you should take care of yourself.
Don't look at it as a feminine side. There's nothing
wrong with a man being pampered. Chris, it's just all you's.
All she's doing is cutting your nails, and and she's
not giving you any polish, any of that stuff. You will,
I guarantee nails polish. No, okay, she just did me

(05:05):
the other day. Look, no, I don't do what anything
you can see you see polish on my nail. No,
she just cut my nails the day. What did I
give you the gift card? Two days ago? Two days?
She did it that day. And look you don't see anything.
You can't tell I have polish or anything. And she
cut him nice and low like I like them. You
will really enjoy this, all right. I'm looking forward to it.

(05:25):
I am. You just gotta go call him, make an appointment. Okay, okay,
all right, all right, let's welcome in the US. I
bet everybody else has done it except for Chris. Call
y'all had Yeah. Here's Elijah's Elijah, Elijah. You can see
Elijah's face worked Victoria's secret. He has no cloud. I know, right,
that's true. He worked in. Elijah was making money folding panties,

(05:49):
and he's scare you charge me, Alex the vegan. I'm
sure he's had a pen multiple times. Really. Oh it's
it's one of the best things. They feed you, grapes.
You just sit there and enjoy yourself. Well, the grapes
I feed myself. But still Lee, I don't think Lee,
Lee asked Lee. Lee's girlfriend probably gave him Lee. Oh,

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it's a good time. Yeah, you go, crew, the whole crew.
That's what you and your boys do. Y'all go get pedicuted.
Hell yeah, okay, yeah, it's a good time. All right.
See christ you never got you never got it. Lies.
Now I know who I can roll with. How about
a man half my back? Am I calling the brother
who's like hecky nah? Or am I calling the many

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petty boys? Here we go? All right? Lee is our
producer today. Rob G's still not feeling well, so Rob
G hopefully he'll rush up over the weekend. I'll be
back on Monday, Alex. Of course, our engineer, Steve de
Sager is at the anchor desk. I bet you Steve
de Sagers had a pedicure of medicure in his life,

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so that's a good question. No, I barely been in
hills Stevens. See I'm rolling with Steve too, all right,
Isabel uh as I in turn, and of course Elijah
is our social media guru despite the pedicure manicure, but
he is one of the best in the business. And
they're all on the other side of the glass on

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this funky flashback Friday. All right, Chris Bussard, let's kick
some mat, Let's do it and look, it's a big weekend.
Y'all thought football was over? It is thought. Patrick Mahomes
closed the door on twenty twenty football at least you
know twenty twenty in the beginning of twenty twenty football.
But no, there is more football coming your way. The Xful,

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the return of the XFL, the XFL Remix, the XFL
Park du is coming your way this weekend. Are you excited?
You know what I'm I'm gonna check. I would probably
check it out. Name a team, Cities to have teams.
I know the Roughnecks are playing tomorrow, right, is it
the Ruckas and your Roughnecks? Well, I think there's a

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team called the Rucas Lee. I need your help on this.
I think there's a team called the World a team,
but I know there's a team called the Roughnecks. They're
playing tomorrow. I don't know what town there is lee,
what LA has a team? New York has a team,
the Roughnecks. They're taking on the LA Wildcats. Rucks. Nobody's

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there's no ruckas LA wild the Renegades, the Guardians, the Dragons.
I like the names. Give me some cities names Dallas Renegades,
Houston Roughnecks, Los Angeles Wildcats, the DC Defenders, Tampa Bay Vipers,
and the New York Guardians. I tell you what the
names speak violence. The name sound like they're gonna be

(08:49):
hitting Dragons, Dragons, Roughnecks, Vipers. I mean, right, you know
what I'm saying those names. So look, I'm going to
be honest, I do you know, let's just face it.
We all like football, baseball, basketball, but names matter. You
want to see some people, you know, right, But you

(09:09):
were into a year ago. That week after you went
to you watched Chris watched the AAF if he came in.
It was all excited. You said, you was Jones and
some football, and you watched right, and the first week
you were like a little high on it, you know,
and all that, and then you just fell off the table.
Like because you were like, you didn't record, I don't
know anybody, and and look, I love college football and

(09:31):
I do watch college football. I love the NFL, of course,
and I definitely watched the NFL, and I'm going to
give it a shot. I saw something today, a story
that said Landry Jones is the face of the XFL.
So I remember Landry. I don't remember him Oklahoma, I believe,

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But that's not a cup of coffee in the NFL.
Oh yeah, he was Pittsburgh, right, you played at Oklahoma.
No sweet roll, just a couple coffee. He had a
sweet role to Okay, yeah, the sweet and actually a
few chips. He was there for a little while. So
here's my thing. I think they missed the mark from
this standpoint. You needed some bigger names well, but you

(10:13):
couldn't get Kaepernick. That would be huge. I'm sure. Would
you be watching if Kaepernick was playing, definitely watching. If
Kaepernick was playing tomorrow, I gart I would be watching,
all right, Johnny Manzel, he's not in the league. No,
here's the only thing. He had so many tries he
had Canada, and I was interested. I watched. I think

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they had some of the games on it when he
played in Canada. I gave it a shot, yeah, and
he fizzled. And so I don't think at this point
he'd be a name. I mean, because we've seen him
failed time after time. So maybe for some people, but
I don't think he'd be He wouldn't be a quarter
of the Drawdi Kaepernie. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna admit

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this that in two thousand and one, when this league
first started, it was on NBC and Vince McMahon WWE
back then, right, what is it not WWF? What is it?
Which one is it? It's the other way around, So
it was the WWF back then and now it's WWE.
I watched it. I remember, he hate me. I remember.

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I think everybody remembers, but I remember had their nicknames,
and I watched it. I remember watching the game and whatnot,
at least a couple of games. And it only lasted
a year. And but they also had big names. They
herschel Walk, Steve Young. You know, they had some top players.
And this is the thing that's missing this time around.

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And I just don't know, is does America want to
watch minor league football of people who they don't know Chris,
that you talk about, Oh, people can't get enough football.
We just watched Patrick Mahomes and players at the highest level,
and that's what it makes us come back and makes
us want to see. Do I now want to I'm
not living in new Haven, Connecticut, and new Haven, Connecticut

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you might want to watch double A baseball, Chris. Do
you understand what I'm saying, Because that's your only option.
You want to get out some freshhair, you go to
a double A game in towns like that Paul Tuckett
and you know cities. This is what I'm saying. I don't,
so I'm not I'm not sure what they're going after.
I do think they're Look, we all know how big

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football is, whether it's pro or college. But how many
football leagues have failed though? We just we just saw
one fail a year ago. We saw that they didn't
have the money. But we saw we saw the World
Football League, uh, you know in Europe failed, Well, they
don't know football back by the NFL. I'm just saying,
all these leagues that they've tried have all failed. I

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hear you, and look, I'm I'm i am now obviously
I've been in the basketball for the whole season. But
now I've turned my attention to the NBA from the internet,
and then you're gonna have March Madness. So college basketball
takes a seat for a month baseball and then baseball
spring training. People are buzz about some offseason players movement.

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So you got all that juiced up, and now you're
gonna have a league for ten I think it's going
to depend on the quality of play. And they got
a lot of new rule changes, and so if people
take to the rules, like, for instance, extra points. They're
not kicking extra points. You have to go for it.
So you can go from the two yard line and
get one point, so you're up seven oh. You can

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go from the five yard line and get two points
eight oh. Or you can go from the ten yard
line and get three nine oh. How you liked. I
think that does add excitement. And they're talking about the
games being quicker doublewards. Yeah, I think that's a little over.
That's too, don't you Ye, well no, because it's a
little over. It's just it's not like you can throw

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a fifteen yard out pattern and then that guy can
throw the pass. It's just really it has to be
get on here. A league doesn't have to be near
the line of screen. First, forwards has to be caught
behind the line of scrimmage. Yeah, like a shove pass,
know what, I'm not that, but a double forward pass
and he's behind then. But that's what they're but big

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of a deal. That's not that big of a deal.
I like it. I like it. Like the white receiver
comes around, gets a forward pass. I mean, if if
it's behind the scrimmage, it is it's got something else?
What is a catch? And the XFL receivers only need okay,
one foot has to be in bounds, like college or

(14:33):
any other part of their body contact the ground in bounds, okay,
instead of the two feet in the NFL. Here's how
the league defines where the catch is. We don't have
to go through all this, right, you know. I think
the extra point rules um are going to be interesting.
I think that adds a little excitement to it. You know,

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now you can go for one, two, or three. That
that adds strategy, and I do think that's something they try.
I'm given a and a running clock. Yeah, because they're games.
They're talking about two and a half hour games, so
it's gonna be quick. You're probably gonna see a ton
of no huddle offenses, maybe maybe almost exclusively no huddle.
So I'm gonna give it a shot because I think

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they're what they're trying to do is with these different
rules make up for the lack of name recognition. What
does that team. There's a team in Tampa Bay, and
I know they're trying to attract fans, So I'm hearing
that there's a possibility that they're gonna have a fifty
dollars night down to Tampa Bay Vipers. You buy tickets
and you get fifty dollars when you walk in. It
probably would sell out. Don't use that and then you're staying.

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All right, I'm just just trying to make from a friend.
All right, it's the I Couple. Chris and Rob eight
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looking forward to more football this weekend? They got games Saturday,

(15:58):
they got games Sunday, So you know you still jones
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Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. It's the Eye
Couple of DJ Alex Tysher digging into crates with a
little chic Oh, everybody dance? This was everybody dance. This
is a jam about about ten minutes long, is it really? Yeah,
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get to the bathroom like that. Jason Smith next, that's right.

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You should have seen me doing the hustle to this.
I'll pay for it today. And how how wide were
your legs on your pants like this? Remember that was
really only about eleven years old or something like that.
But I used to have the real wide leg pants.
It was on Gabbardine material. Dude, it was a mess.
It was at your wedding. No, something like I don't

(17:07):
always go Did you think I got married? Hey, I
just know you old. This song lasted longer than my marriage. No,
you said it not? Men seven ninety nine on the Fix.
You're excited about the x foul. Let's start with Andre
in Massachusetts. Andre, you Christ and Rob, Yeah, thanks for

(17:27):
taking my call. Very excited about the XFFL. The appetite
for football in this country's bottomless a Andre, Andre, what
happened to the af if it was? What happened to
that and didn't have appropriate back and didn't have good leadership? No,
but they weren't selling tickets either. But before that, I
get it, they had a TV deal with CBS. They

(17:50):
had everything in place and all the people who were
representing that league and who was it the the producer,
the television guy. I mean, if they had like big
names behind it, and that thing is the XFL selling tickets?
I don't know. Go ahead, Jan folks, get the XFL

(18:10):
is gonna be selling tickets. We've got Vince rict Man running,
We've got Oliver luck as the commissioner. And historically speaking, listen,
U s FL was successful in the eighties until it
come up under bad leadership, and then the AFL and
the sixties was successful, operating for ten years and then
merged with the NFL to become the AFC. So if
it's done right, this is the second time around for
Vince ric man, it will be successful. In conclusion, final point,

(18:32):
Chris started listening. Real men get manicures and petty cours
set out to late great Bernie Mack and then also
Pauli Walnuts from the Sopranos Manicure Preddy Corps all day.
You gotta get down with yes, sir, yes sir, and
whatever will I do? Want to make that correction. I
was thinking the USFL when you when I said herschel Walkers,

(18:53):
all right, okay, because I was wondering, you know what,
it flew over my head and I was thinking US
and they know they had the USFL. Has that was
a great league. Yeah, you know Reggie last about four
years for Reggie. Reggie White played in that league. It
was kind of like the ABA Jim Kelly basketball. Yes,
oh no, it was a ton of man the best
players in the NFL play. Let's go to Richard in

(19:15):
West Virginia. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up, Richard? Anybody i'd be interested in l or
any other I'd like to see, pably Richard, we're not
doing all that. Stop it. You could say that you're

(19:35):
not interested, but co Ed, stop it. Let's go to
Rodney in d C. Rodney owned Christ and Rob. Yeah.
I love it. Professional football using using flag football rules,
perfect perfect gall dare those for the players that didn't
didn't make it in the pros, they still play flag
football and they're using the flag football rules. I love it.
Were you into Were you into the AAF like it

(19:58):
was on what three four weeks? Were you? Are you
watching it every week? No? Not? Why not? So why
are you gonna be into the XFL versus the AAF
Because the rules they're using it, Like I said, the
flag football rules and the rules is the common person's
gonna enjoy watching the game in itself? Rodney, what's the

(20:18):
name of the team down in DC? Do you know
the defenders? And it's just true that you put two
tickets on your win shield winning to have lunch, came
out and there were four on there? Is that true?
I'm playing ticket That was not bad. That was like,
that was like a C minus. That was Alex, that
was funny curve, that was an age and everything. What

(20:42):
about Dmitria, You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
How they going, guys, big fan? Thank you? I'm excited
FLA XFL. I mean I'm a diehard Cowboys fan, so
I'm gonna be rooting for, you know, the Dallas Renegade.
So maybe maybe the Renegade can make the playoffs since
the Cowboys didn't. Okay, okay, next year, there's always next year.

(21:06):
So are you going to that opening game? Are you
going to the game? Do you have tickets? Are you
waiting to buy tickets? Tell me? Are you going? No,
I'm not going, buddy. I'm gonna make some good guawk.
You know what I mean? Sit down, watch the game,
all right, so you you it's appointment television for you. Okay, Yeah,
I'm gonna bet football. So all right, all right, good,

(21:26):
let's go to Sean and Sacramento. Sean, you're with Chris
and Robs. Man, what's up with my uncle from another mother? Man?
How y'all doing today? How are you? What's up? Man?
Real quick pockets? To my point about that the field, Chris,
I was just like you, brother. I used to send
my girl to go get her nails done. Tell I
don't even want to know what you do over there.
Just come back. Then one day she brought me in

(21:48):
there and I found out it's not just you getting
your nails done. Man. They rub your feet then, yes,
your leg down, they rub your hands down, and if
they speak English, they put you up on some real
good female guys. Man. So you enjoyed that, brother, that
was better than any Joe GRIBs told stop. Craig Melbourne

(22:08):
liked it real quick on the XFL. That was the
real reason why I think there's gonna be more successful.
It is Fox is involved. Just like what you saw
with Thursday Night football. Fox just puts out a better product. Man.
They put out better broadcasters. They give you better camera
angles and just the way that promote everything asvensic man
with that SmackDown money. How Fox does? Man. Fox just

(22:29):
put out a better product, just like they put you
on the radio waves. And I appreciate everything they do.
Thank you God. That's true. I mean we saw the
setup in Miami. It was lieup. It was a big time.
The hotel we stayed that, they took care of us.
It was definitely Robert and Georgia. You're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Robert? What's going on?

(22:52):
We're good man? How are you? Yeah? I just want
to say that I think the XFL is gonna do
great man, I don't think they need big names, because
that's what the NFL they brand on, no names above
the shield. I just think they need to change up
the rules and get more gory, get more back to
the old football where a lot of heat and a
lot of good contact going on, because the NFL then

(23:13):
got a little too tall. But I don't think they
need no big names because Robert, you want to see
some heads. Well, but I remember the AAF was hitting.
They were hitting. Remember I remember some quarterbacks getting Yeah.
But the only problem, Rover, this is like a flag football.
They don't have no kickoffs. Are flag football? But no,

(23:33):
but they don't have kickoffs and stuff. They got punts, right,
no kickoffs. I'm not sure about that. Yeah, I'm almost positive. No,
they I think they got kickoffs. Yeah, they got kickoffs.
I thought they didn't. Yeah. Yeah, want to kickoff. The
kicker will kick the ball from but they can't run
and they can't run it to every Every blocker will
be lined up on the opposing teams thirty five the

(23:56):
return team blockers will be lined up at their own.
Only the kicker and receiver can move before the ball
is called, right, so they can still kick. Yeah, but
you can't just you. You can't be like a car
crash with guys in full speed. But I think it
makes you better. You see longer return. But I'm saying,
hit you when when the ball's coming, is what I'm saying. Well,

(24:17):
you never see that anyway, because it's on the kickoff.
Nobody's that far down the field when the punts on
a part. Yeah. So all right, it's the Eye Couple,
and we are going to be joined by Robs is
it former ne Vinny Goodwill, senior NBA rider for Yahoo Sports,

(24:38):
and you also see him occasionally on FS one. He's
been on first thing, first in the rotation. So we're
looking forward to being joined by Vincent Goodwill. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Odd Couple with Chris
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(24:58):
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(25:22):
North whatever Christian University, which is where Rob went. Vincent Goodwell,
what's up, brother Vinny. What's happening? Doing great to have
you on. Let's get right to the NBA talk Rockets
last night. I mean they did it when a few
days ago when they traded Clint Capella, they're going small.
They started what six five and under Robert Covington six

(25:43):
seven came in and played for him and played well.
They beat the Lakers. What do you think about the
small ball? How well can it work? Is gonna be
a disaster? What are your thoughts? I don't think it's
going to necessarily a disaster, but I think this may
be the only way that they can win is they
have to go all in on this crazy Cocameme strategy
of basically just trying to spread the floor with Russ

(26:05):
and Harden, giving them as much as space as possible
and then wearing out PJ. Tucker. Like, if you look
at it, no team is really going post up anymore
than not really going to even the Lakers having Anthony
Davis probably the best big in the game. He's not
the type that's going to pound you, you know, and
keep posting you up all night, so they can try
to get away with it. I think the one game

(26:27):
sample size leads to a little bit of hyperbole, but
at best, guys, they're the third best team in the
West even before all of this. So where does that
leave them? That leaves them in the second round getting
knocked out again? Hey n Vinny. Before the season started,
Chris and I when we were talking about the Clippers
and Lakers, the one part that I gave the Clippers

(26:49):
an advantage was about the front office, and I said
to Chris, if they need to go get a piece
at the trade deadline, I believe that they would be
able to do it better than the Lakers did. They did.
They hit a home run yesterday and picking up Marcus
Morris to add to that squad. I mean, I think
the only I think I would say a solid double
in the gap ro Maybe you can stretch it to

(27:10):
the trip, maybe you set it to a trip. Because
my thing is this, I like the toughness that they've added,
I like the veteran guy in the shooting, like, you're
not going to punk you know, Paul George and Kawhi
Leonard and Marcus Morris, Like, you're not you know what
I'm saying that, Pat Beverley, You're not going to outmuscle
these guys. You're not going to turn these guys in
the mental midget. But one thing I wish they had

(27:32):
going out and gatten or some level of rim protector.
Had they going out and gatten like an Aaron Baines
or someone like that, someone who can meet Lebron at
the rim, someone who can meet Russ and James Harden
at the rim, that would have been a solid you know,
that would have been a Grand Slam. But for the
players that they had available to not only get Marcus Morris,
but to keep them away from the Lakers. And now, honestly,

(27:54):
you're starting to see, I'm curious, now did that play
in the Kyle Kuzma's head last night. You're talking about
a young player didn't necessarily sign up for this type
of serious basketball, you know when he first got to
the Lakers. And now you heard that the Lakers maybe
they dangled them out there. Maybe they didn't want to
trade him to leon Rose's future team in New York
as opposed to not on the trail them because they

(28:14):
didn't because they didn't want to have them. So I'm
wondering if it's like a double win for the Clippers,
because maybe you messed up the head of the Lakers
key reserves, Vinny. Both Rob and I think the Clippers
are the best team in the West, if not the league.
Do you agree and if so, what chance do you
give the Lakers to beat them? And what the Lakers
need to do to beat them? Well, I think step

(28:36):
one is going to get Darren Collinson. And I think
because Lebron in a one game series, like if this were,
you know, Super Bowl, I would probably take Lebron in
a one game situation over any other player in the
league right now. But in the seven game series, where age, attrition,
and everything else wears on you, that's where I would
give the edge to a Kawhi Leonard. Like I'm feeling

(28:58):
like this, and guys, you've covered leagues and everything else
for a long time. If there are two evenly matched teams,
tie goes to the team with the best player. This
situation is kind of Murky because in the one game
situation and maybe Lebron is seven game situations, it could
be quad because he'll be fresher, he plays on both
ends of the floor, and he's not as dependent on
some of the things that Lebron is. So if you're

(29:19):
the Lakers, you need another playmaker who can take pressure
off Lebron because he can't create shots for everybody, especially
late in the four quarters where he's going to be
playing another deep run into May and possibly June, and
then this is year seventeen, Like you have to factor
those things in, and if they don't get there in Collinson,
the Lakers are in deep trouble. Now, Benny, is it

(29:40):
true that after Yannis picked the Y'all Star team that
the Knicks called him to ask him to be their
general manager? Rob? Rob? There's only one other person they
could have called worst in Yannis, and that would have
been you. All right, but no, look, you know what,

(30:05):
I don't know. I was like, I think I need nothing.
I think he said, I'm picking all the dudes that
I think they're gonna go out there and actually play hard,
not the names. And I'm not defending him because it
was atrocious, but I think he like, look, I'm because
I do see this. I think Janniss, dude's gonna go
out there and play hard and take it seriously. I

(30:26):
think Lebron's team, you know, they all the superstars, They're
gonna just have fun and they'll still probably win. But
do you think that same thing, Vinny, or you just
think it was bad altogether? All think was bad all together?
I mean his trategy was I'm picking all the guys
in Africa, which I can't disagree with, you know, and
it's not a shot because basically they are from Africa

(30:47):
one way or the other. But well, well we all
are African people, right, you know that type of thing.
But but I mean, this was the same guy last
year who picked the team that Lebron's team to playing,
and Lebronson playing gim across the league for years. He's
used to that, right right quick, we got about thirty
seconds left, maybe forty five, Vinie, Philadelphia, we know they're

(31:11):
in mess. How do you see the season ending for them?
And you know, what do you think, like if they
go out in the second round, get bounced badly in
the conference finals, do you see major changes gonna be
coming that way? Chris, they should be major changes right now.
Like I'm a proponent of trading Ben Simmons, I'm a
proponent of fire and Brett Brown. I think Brett Brown

(31:33):
is one of like the bottom ten coaches in the league.
I think because he says, but look, man, it's like
five good coaches, five back coaches, and a bunch of
dudes in the middle, and he's trending towards the back end. Like,
I don't think there's anything that he's done that's been
innovative as far as putting that team together in good
in a good space to win. And you haven't been
able to manage the egos and the opportunities of Simmonson
and beating either one of these guys wants to bend

(31:54):
for the other and maybe you don't. Maybe they can't
work together. And if that's the case, you need major overhaul.
I don't know why you got why you picked up
out Horford over the summer. I don't know why you
get to Bias Hills one hundred and eighty billions dollars.
Nothing that they did over the summer makes sense. Nothing
that they've done so far makes sense. So I'm not
surprised that they're sixth in the East. I would be
surprised if Brett Brown made it through if they wound

(32:16):
up getting kicked out in the first round again. Vinny
goodwill great stop man in Chicago for the All Star Game,
Rob can you can you please leave the strippers along?
They have had enough paid or over super Bowl Week?
I don't think he goes Vinnie. I think that's just
all a marad. Chris Christians just pictures outside. No wants quickly.

(32:42):
He God bought me. He's gonna save me up for
my first manicure. Petticure? Do you get Manny? Petty's my
girlfriend treats me to something? Say I can? I can
say that I get pure and Vinnie tell Christi'll enjoy it,
won't he? Yeah, as long as it's a woman doing it. Yeah,
you don't want to do do you? Usually a woman

(33:06):
that's Theatasha. She'll do you to do a good job
for you, all right by any great stuff? Yeah? Sports
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(33:50):
it's my Computer Career dot edu. Dak Prescott something. He
had a great year, his best year. Just think he
may have had his worst year, depends on how you're judging. Statistically.
It was his best year, winning wise, it was his worst.
So however, you here's the but hold on, you can't

(34:12):
have it both ways, Robert. He was not a Pro
Bowl and they I don't care about this. Numbers were
hard when he won. First of all, his numbers weren't
horrible when they played good teams. They were when they
when they won his first three years in the league,
and his numbers weren't eye popping. You didn't give him
credit because his numbers weren't all that So what is it?
Is it winning or is it numbers? It is winning.

(34:35):
But in this case, the problem I had this year.
But I'm just saying becausistent. Would you be would you
just be honest on this that when they played when
they went to Philadelphia this year with a division on
the line, he didn't score a touch, He didn't have
a touch, not all on him. I agree that he
was team Okay, that's all. But he's got a track

(34:56):
record or three years before that. We'll be again some games.
He beat Russell Wilson the playoff game. I mean, that's big.
Would you give him some credit for that? All right?
All right, that's all the brothers say. Anyway, Rob, we
know he's in contract negotiations with the Cowboys and he
reportedly we're starting to see some numbers be reported. He

(35:16):
turned down a thirty three million dollars per year extension
back in September. That's according to Clarence Hill of the
Fort Worth Star Telegram. He according right. According to Hills sources,
Dak is looking for a deal that would pay him
as much or more than Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson,

(35:38):
who's the league's highest paid player at thirty five million
dollars a year. So here's the top five. Russell Wilson
thirty five, Ben Roethlisberger thirty four, Jared Goff, Aaron Rodgers
at thirty three and a half, and Carson Wentz at
thirty two million. Look, you we know, I like Dak.

(36:00):
I would I get the market, I get that the
caps about to jump. I would give him about thirty
five and that's it. And if you can't take that,
then I'm franchise you could, because let's let's just keep
it real. Rob. He ain't Aaron Rodgers. He certainly isn't
Russell Wilson. I mean Carson Wentz. He's won more than Wentz,

(36:23):
but Wentz has more talent, right, Jared Goff, Okay, that's
a mistake though for them to pay Jared Goff all
that money. At least that's what it looks like at
this point. It Ben Roethlisberger. You know, he's a two
times where he's a super Bowl champion. So what I
just what do you think? Would you give him thirty five?
That's way higher than I was thinking, you know, a

(36:45):
year ago, But I get the market. I'll give him
thirty five. And if you can't take that that, I'm
sorry you're not. Patrick Mahome, I couldn't I know, I
couldn't give him more at thirty five, he would be
the highest because he would right, well, Wilson's right at
says time with Wilson or that would just be hard
for me. I know how, I understand the quarter. I understand,

(37:08):
and normally you I'll do the last contract, which was
Russell Wilson's right, So normally you do, but in this case,
I don't see how they could. I'll do that contract
only because of what happened this year. Had they made
the playoffs Chris and made a run, I think that
they would have had no choice. But because he didn't
play as well against the better teams, it just feels

(37:30):
weird to reward the guy on what I would consider
despite the numbers, you know what I mean to collective numbers,
Like wasn't one of his best ships. He's had better
years where he's had bigger wins, a bigger situation. Do
you agree with that? Yes? That that it just doesn't
feel right, like like you didn't beat any of the
good team that you needed to be If you would
have beat two or three of those teams, you win

(37:52):
eleven games, you win a division, Now what what? I
don't think it trocious years but it just yeah, it's all. Look,
we've met him by wins in his first few years,
which I'm fine because I don't think he's the best throwers, football,
most talented, any of that. But I think he's a
winner and that's what he's going to be. He didn't
do that when it mattered the most, right, So we'll

(38:13):
see what happens with Dak. But it's getting interesting. I couple.
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Graham and we got some great stuff for you. This hour.
You definitely want to keep it locked right here on
Fix Sports Radio, the iHeartRadio app or Serious XM Channel
eighty three, however you are listening. But we want to
get to Kevin Durant Now. Obviously Kevin Durant is not

(39:20):
playing basketball this year and he's with the Brooklyn Nets now.
He went there as a free agent. And KD was
on the All the Smoke podcast, which is great with
Steven Jackson, former NBA player Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes,
both of whom we've worked with here at FS one

(39:41):
and Fix Sports Radio. Yes, and they do a great job. Obviously,
they can get a lot of you know, great interviews
and you know, play guys open up with him, so
it makes for a really good listen. And with Kevin
Durant their latest guest, there was some really interesting stuff
that he talked about, and one of them being you
remember Rob a few years ago he got nailed for

(40:04):
having a burner account. Yes, we did remember that. And
now he is admitting do we have audio of this?
Lee He's admitting that he still he says, I'm still
going to do the burner thing. Now I think he
has burner accounts right now. Yeah, he hasn't stopped. Don't

(40:25):
you do that? Why would you stop? Because you got caught? Right?
But here's what he said about the burner accounts on Twitter.
Burner accounts for those, uh, the uninitiated are accounts that
you run anonymously. So if I had a Burner account,
I don't. But if I did, let's say I called
it Jones twenty two seven, and when he could, people

(40:46):
wouldn't know, and I could just rip and say you're
ripping me, Rob, my partner, right, and you're ripping me.
But I'm like, who is this guy? Jones? Right? You
know what I mean? Like that? That's what it is
that I didn't think about it that way, But you're
right now. If I could be sitting here Destroyer sorry
carries his show, right, I guess ridiculous. Get Parker off there,

(41:09):
you know whatever exactly, or or the other way around.
Rob is great. I could I could have a Burner account.
Look at Rob, he was right on this. He was
right on that. Oh my god, you know he should
have his own show blah blah, so so or we
could you could even have one where we just praised
the show exactly. Both exactly, but whatever the case is, Anonymous,

(41:30):
here's what he said about it. And remember again he
got caught a few years ago ripping his former teammates
at Oklahoma City. I'm paraphrasing, but it was something to
the effect of, how do you expect Katie to win
with those bumps? Right? Other than Russ? And he wrote
that he was like, yeah, other than Russ, he was
playing with a bunch. But I'm gonna find that because

(41:51):
that I don't want to. I mean, that was such
a it was something more powerful quote that I don't
want to, uh, you know, I want to get the
exact thing. That's embarrassed it. It was the way he
I mean that was that was that was crazy. Here here,
I'm trying to find it. Let's see. But anyway, find

(42:12):
that lead for me and we'll get to the exact quote.
But anyway, here's what he's saying about Burner account's going forward.
I'm still going to do the Burner thing. I'm still
going to do that certain people. I'm going to come
back on my regular account. I think he meant to
come back at on my regular account when his name attached.
But if I'm just trying to do my thing. I

(42:34):
want to dip in, you know what I mean, I
got the burner. I just slipped up that one time.
I like Twitter. I mean, if I see something on
there that I want to respond to, I'm just going
to do it. It's not like a predetermined thing. I
just kind of see it, scroll on it. I like
the platform, and any chance I get to give somebody
a piece of my brain, I want to do it,

(42:56):
especially a former teammate who's talking ish or a fan.
All right, Um, I look, let me say this because
I know right and I don't I can't fully disagree
with Rob when he says Kevin Durant is sensitive and
episode the most sensitive of all times. Here's what I'm
gonna say, all Right, I don't think he is overly

(43:20):
or abnormally sensitive. And obviously I've thought about this and
at times I thought he was. But I gotta be
if he was sensitive, like just overly sensitive, you don't
admit that you're gonna keep doing Berner accounts. I mean,
if he was sensitive, you'd be like, nah, I never
do that again, and you're doing it on the side.

(43:40):
So I really think that Kevin Durant is a guy
that's grown up in this social media age, he's essentially
addicted I'm not saying in a negative way, but addicted
to social media. And he just goes back he sees
something he wants to respond, Like, Rob, you're on Twitter

(44:01):
all the time and you're going at people. I'm not
really like that. That's I got other things I'd rather do.
I just he you know so. And my thing is
with Duran has always been this, if it doesn't negatively
impact your game, then fine, and we we know it
hasn't negatively impacted this game. I just think he's a
guy that wants to go back at people that say

(44:23):
something about him. And I gotta be honest, that's okay.
I just think that's very sensitive in that Chris. I
know what he's talking about. The platform, and you can
do it, but you should be worried about other things.
I really believe, Like what what, Chris, Everybody's not gonna
like you. You go back at Twitter? No, I just
block him. I don't. I don't go back, but I

(44:45):
don't go back. When they say if you did, would
it be a problem When they say foul stuff? What
I'm saying like, if you went let somebody says good morning.
I might block him. But let's say you went back
at some people. I don't do it, but if you did,
would it be a problem. Would it be a problem
for me doing it? Or I mean, like I'm saying,
I'm looking at durand I'm saying, Okay, he goes back

(45:06):
at people, We in the media jump on it, criticizing whatever.
I just but ultimately, like you said, he should be
worried about differently. But but if this is what he
likes doing, I mean, but I know this as uh
and you notice too, being in this business, it's okay,
Like we have a platform, we get to say what
we want. People can say what they want as long

(45:27):
as they keep it clean and don't do any you know,
foul stuff. I don't have a problem with it. But
I'm not bothered by Chris, Like I'm not. I don't.
I don't have to, like normally if I would think
he's bothered by I do. I think that it really
bothers him that of any kind of criticism or anything,
as if he never played basketball or he doesn't know

(45:48):
what the media does. Like like, that's the part your
energy is elsewhere. You must have a terrible life and
I'm talking about yeah, and I'm talking yeah, I'm talking
about Chris. You're he gotta zillion dollars. He's a great
basketball players, one championships. You should be involved in other
stuff sitting on a couch. But who are you to say?

(46:09):
I'm just saying this is the way I view for
people who who are so caught up in getting validation
from other people. This is just my opinion. But is
he Yes, I hear you, and I will admit my
thing with Kad you don't care. I've got a million
people you don't Chris. What I've said about him, though,
is again two things. One, as long as it doesn't

(46:30):
impact this play, fine, and it has it. Two I
have wondered, does it ruin no or or really mess
up his quality of life? And that I would think
it does. I think it. But if he doesn't think
it does, if he likes laying on the couch responding
to people on Twitter, I mean, that's his baroget. It

(46:51):
just it just seems like like there's a lot of
it just seemed like that would be a high school
kid or some insecure college kid who who wants to
be validated by other people. He's a very successful guy
who's a hell of a basketball player. Everybody's not gonna
like you, Chris. It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. And

(47:13):
I just can't understand why you would let some eighteen
year old kid on this on their mother's basement couch
bother you. It's okay, that's the question. That's just bothering him?
Or is he just engaging? You know what I'm saying,
I'm with you. I have no interest in doing that.
I got other things, but I'm not what is he

(47:37):
twenty nine? I didn't grow up in this social media age.
That's not it's not your personality. And the same with me,
Like like if somebody says something about the show me whatever,
I just usually say thanks for listening, thanks for watching.
That's that's my comeback. Okay. So so they they think
that they're like saying something, but you're the one responded

(47:59):
to me. You're the one watching the show. I'm so terrible,
but you listen to the radio show, do you know
what I mean? That's just my way of just saying, hey, right,
all right, So what do you think about him having
a burner account? You know? Another like that? That that
is interesting? Because something's that that shows like, like, I

(48:20):
give him credit, but you're hiding behind it. If you
want to come at people, just come at people. Be
can and do that. If I want to rip my
former teammates, I shouldn't do it in a burner account.
I think that's weak with you. That's all just just like,
but why admit you're still gonna do it burn Like
I don't get that. I don't either. Why are you saying, yeah,

(48:42):
I'm still doing a burner account. That kind of defeats
the purpose of burn account And I'm gonna tell you this.
He shouldn't have said, like I get I'm I'm all
for being honest. So I'm happy with that. But there
are little geniuses out there, just like they found his
first burner account right, well, no, his first when he
he just messed up in. But there are guys out there, Elijah,

(49:04):
you are you a technical guy? Zeke? They can find out, right,
don't you think they? Like Brian Colangelo, the former president,
they can find They'll have ways. You know, right as
we speak, they are out there trying to figure out
what Kevin Durant's burner accounts are and so and if

(49:26):
you if if they find out his burner accounts and
then they see it's some crazy stuff written on there
about former teammates or other players in the league. You
know what I'm saying, I agree with you ride there.
That's weak. If you want to criticize, criticize or Lebron
or who And I'm not saying he's criticizing or or

(49:47):
like when he did when that Kendrick Perkins, he put
his name to it. Just do it that way, then
I can at least respect that you're not hiding behind something.
But to say, like act like you're a fan of
a well, he couldn't win with those bums, and that's you, right, right,
that's just and that's there is something very wrong with
that because these were the dudes you went to war with,
right and and and granted KD was their best player,

(50:11):
but you you you fell apart in that Series two
when you had Golden stayed down three one, y'all could
have won. Right, whatever your teammates were, y'all got y'all,
they were good enough to help you get up three.
And he was that good of a player that he
could have won one game by hisself. Yeah, he's up
that caliber. So you could talk about all the other guys,
you could have won all you need. He didn't play

(50:33):
up to his normal standards in those last three losses either,
So but yeah, it's it's crazy, man, It's um it's interesting,
but I'm just shocked. And again, on one hand, I
gotta give him credit for admitting that he's going to
go back to the burner accounts. I don't agree with it.
But and that's one thing we say about us, Rob,

(50:54):
We we have to be accountable for what we say. Absolutely,
you come out here and rip Lebron, or I gotta
got the center, I gotta go out and I'm out
and you see them and whatever I mean, not that
the right, right. That's part of the always is if
you're gonna say, like in our business, you have to
have any public job, yes, you have to have thick

(51:15):
skin politician, athlete, actor, actress, entertainer, and what we do.
I've heard people yell in the supermarket or they're driving
their car, Chris and I'm walking or in the parking
lot or something right, Lebron, Like I just that's what
they'll say. And I'll be like, okay, you know, right

(51:35):
right right, or you roll up on them, like get
chesty with them though, or they'll say they'll they'll one
of their guys that will be pointing out me to
somebody else and they go, that's that dude who RiPPs
lebron all the time. That's how they'll say, you know
who that is? And then you run and I go
buy a new pair of sneakers and run. Six weeks

(51:56):
in counting, I'm impressed. I'm oh, no, it's within two
weeks in the year. What you gotta be is it
the whole year? Well, I'm pressed with six weeks considering
that you were you were Yet every six days you
were buying a new pair, right, and not a not
by a pair for six weeks. That's impressive. I'm I'm
I'm happy about myself, right, I'm proud of you. I

(52:19):
am proud of you, all right? Eight seven, seven ninety
nine On Fox A seven seven nine nine, six sixty
three sixty nine, You're turned the way in On Kevin Durant.
What does the burner counts say about KD? Does it
prove he's soft or too sensitive? Or do you give

(52:39):
him props or admitting? I mean, what are your thoughts?
Kd's continuing with the burner accounts. It's the Eye Couple,
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(53:00):
It's the I Couple Chris and Rob. And we're gonna
get to your calls about Katie. What's the burner accounts say?
Let's start with Jabril in Atlanta eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fix eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
three sixty nine. Jabrille and Atlanta. What do you think he's?
What's up? Brother? How are you all right? Man? Katie?

(53:23):
Katie is ann weaning man like, like real sensitive type
of stuff like then and he got like a real
jelly like type of spirit about him. Yeah. I mean, look,
I just one thing I'll say. I just feel like,
if you're that sensitive, why in the world would you
admit that you're gonna keep doing burner accounts? Yeah? Exactly.

(53:47):
And then like he's so sensitive he turned it coming
so he don't never have it coming so m because
he because he don't want nobody to say nothing that
he don't like. So when he's going back at people
though he's he's obviously seeing what they're saying. But right,
but he won't let but he won't let them comment.
I think that's what it is. All right, Jonathan and Orlando,

(54:08):
you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Jonathan?
We lost Johnay. He was waiting a long time too,
Sorry about that. He can call back eighty seven seven
ninety nine. All right, Katie's not the only one rob
making some news with his mouth. Gail King, Oprah Winfrey's

(54:28):
right hand woman, Is that fair to s Yeah, her
best friend. She interviewed Lisa Leslie about a lot of stuff,
but she also talked to her about Kobe Bryant, and
we have audio of that. I believe so here. This

(54:49):
has caused a ton of controversy, and here's what she
said in the interview. It's been said that his legacy
is complicated because of sexual assault charge, which was dismissed
into two thousand and three, two thousand and four. Is
it complicated for you as a woman as a w
NBA player. It's not complicated for me at all. Even

(55:09):
if there's a few times that we've been at a
club at the same time Kobe's not the kind of guy,
never been like you know, at Lisa, go get that
girl or tell her or send her this. I have
other NBA friends that are like that. He was never
like that. I just never see, have ever seen him
being the kind of person that would be do something

(55:29):
to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way.
That's just not the person that I know. But Lisa,
you wouldn't see it though. As this friend, you wouldn't
see it, and that's possible. I just it's just I
just don't I just don't believe that. And I'm not
saying things didn't happen. I just don't believe that things
didn't happen with force. Is it even a fair question

(55:51):
to talk about it, considering he's no longer with us
and that it was resolved, or is it really part
of his history? I think that the media should be
more respectful at this time. It's like, if you had
questions about it, you've had many years to ask him that.

(56:11):
I don't think it's something that we should keep hanging
over his legacy. I mean, he went to it, went
to trial. Yeah, it was the cases. It was dismissed
because the victim in the case refused to testify, so
it was dismissed. And I think that that's how we
should leave it. All Right, a lot of people calling
about KD. You may want to weigh in on this

(56:32):
Gail King, Kobe Bryant, Lisa Leslie situation as well. We're
gonna talk about it, Robbing myself, stay on the line,
or if you want to call in eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, we'll get to you in a
few minutes after the update. But Rob, I'll say this.
I think that and we should say this as we

(56:52):
go forward. Me and you are both trained journalists, Okay,
So I just want people there's a lot of people
in New York. You've been to Columbia Journalism school, degree,
Daily News, you know New York Times. So I just
want to say we come from a different There's a
lot of guys on the radio and whatnot christ who
are trained in journalism like we all, So I want

(57:13):
people to know where we're coming from. Okay. So Gail
King is getting criticized for asking these questions of Lisa
Leslie with Kobe Bryant's death not even two weeks old,
and I get how people are still grieving and all that. Unfortunately,
this is a part of his story. And so as

(57:34):
a journalist she's sitting down interviewing somebody. She I thought
her first question was fine, you can ask that. Is
it complicated for you? This is something that you know
was a part of Kobe's history, and so on and
so forth. The second question or statement really after Lisa

(57:55):
Leslie gives her answer, and then Gail King is like, well,
you wouldn't know as a friend you That is where
she went over the line in my view, because that's
not a question. I just gave you an answer. Now
you're saying you're saying I didn't give you the right answer.
It seemed accusatory. It seemed like she had an agenda.

(58:16):
It seemed like she didn't want to accept what Lisa
Leslie said. I don't mind a follow up question. You know,
a lot of times, rob you go into an interview
with somebody and you know the interview is gonna be
a nice, positive interview. But there is a situation right
where it's such a big part of the story. I
gotta ask it, so you might ask one or two

(58:38):
questions about it. I thought her third question was fine,
where she was like, you know, is this even appropriate
to talk about with the situation and the recent day.
I thought that was if she had stuck to the
first and third question. Fine, the second one, I thought
she got beyond being a journalist and was almost like,
I want to stand up for the me too, you know,

(59:00):
and all that, and you wouldn't know. Well, first of all,
maybe I wouldn't known. You know. Yeah, you don't know
everything your friends do. But sometimes you you know, maybe
a guy's around you and he is crafted with women,
you know that he how he talks to women. You know.
So that's where my main problem was with Gil King. Yeah. Um,

(59:21):
you know me, I've asked a lot of tough questions
in my life. I have. I've gotten in trouble for
some of them, you know what I mean. And I've
been in Prescott all kinds of stuff, Chris Saul, I
get it. If she did that interview without touching on that,
like like to bring it up, she would not have
done her job as a journalist. Would you agree with that?
And go rid the obituary in the New York Times.

(59:48):
It's in there. I read the whole thing. It was done, Chris.
It is not in the lead that's not the lead.
And Bill Cosby's lead down the road what happened to
him and him being in prison, and that will be
in the lead because he went to jail and he
was convicted. Do you see what I'm am? I right? Yea,
it won't be about the television Dad first changed everything

(01:00:11):
he was convicted. That's going to be in the lead.
Ye And Kobe's it's not the lead, but it is
a part of his story. It is a part of
his history. And I get it. People are very sensitive
at this time and the daughters have to hear and
I do. I understand that, you know, and it's it's unfortunate. Um.

(01:00:34):
And again it's very soon, so I still stand it.
But like I said, you you as a journalist, sometimes
you gotta ask these tough questions. I just thought, what
you think? Did you? You didn't think the second question
where what you could have it could have it could
have been said in a different way. I will give
you that, um. But I'm with you on one and three.

(01:00:55):
I think those are legitimate questions. And she even soft
soaked it in the saying is appropriate. You know, I
understand how recent this was, so she was there was
her her like throwing out like a buffer or softener,
right water softener to make it kind of soft question.
They weren't like he was there, he was that. How

(01:01:16):
could you be friends with him? Now? That would be
totally over the combative. You know, how could you have
been friends with how you saw what happened? How could
you in your right exactly he was this and whatever?
That would be totally different, that would be inappropriate. Um,
but I could see where people are vulnerable and sensitive

(01:01:38):
over sensitive right now and don't want to hear anything
bad about Kobe because he's gone. He can't respond to it.
His daughter was also killed. Nine people in total were killed.
So I get that from people, But uh, don't always
be sometimes. Uh, you know it's easy to attack the

(01:01:58):
media all the time. Chris and I always say this,
Yes we make mistakes. We're not perfect were we We
make mistakes like everybody else. And I'll be the first
one to say, but poor you wouldn't want to live
in this world us. They're just countries where j and
you wouldn't want to live in a world like that.

(01:02:20):
I really I hope you guys understand where we're coming
from the media and and and when we got in
this business, Chris, the newspapers, especially here for the little
man to take on the big boys. What do we
see when we went to see Jess Mercy, When we
saw that movie, when they went to sixty minutes, that's

(01:02:40):
when it got turned around, Chris, right ed Bradley took
an interest in the story all of a sudden put
it out there. That's what turned it. It happens all
the time people wrongly accused in jail. If you don't
have these investigative reporters who take an interest in the
Houston as out about that, that's how they in the

(01:03:00):
league volunteer information. It was somebody digging and getting to
the right source. So don't always be like, oh, all
the media wants to do is rip one somebody that's not.
I don't believe that. Does it happen sometimes? Chris? Yes,
all right? Eight seven seven ninety nine. On Fix, we're
gonna let you weigh in on either KD or Gail King,

(01:03:20):
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to talk about that KDS Burner account or Gail King
and her probing questions of Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant.
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(01:04:06):
Gail King and her interview about Kobe Bryant with Lisa Leslie,
Jonathan and Orlando, you can weigh in. What do you
have to say? I want to go in on the
Gail Gail situation with Li with Lisa Lever, I think
at a point where at a point where she was

(01:04:28):
asking those questions, I felt like it was a long place,
a long time. Kobe just died, and the way she
was asking those questions, it was like kind of disrespectful
in a way. I thought, like I said, I thought
the first and third questions weren't disrespect The way she
asked them was in a soft way. I thought the
second part where she's like, but you wouldn't know you

(01:04:50):
like that, to me was accusatory and that didn't see
that was not a journalist asking a question. That was
making a statement that you have No, that's no basis
in fact, you don't know what Lisa Leslie would have known, Jonathan.
The other thing, too, is is I hear people say
this about the right time, right place being an interviewed.
It's it's you're talking about Kobe. It's in play. It's

(01:05:14):
just in play. It it's not an interview. Uh at
the crash scene? Do you know what I mean? What
about Kobe and his uh great case? That's inappropriate, Chris, right, right,
this is a sit down interview. And I know it's
been two weeks, but but but she knows what we're

(01:05:34):
interviewing you about. If you're not an ambush. We're talking
about Kobe, we're talking about his life, we're talking about
his legacy, right am, I right, you gotta know what
we're talking about. Robert and Georgia, you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports radio. What's up, Robert, Yeah, what's
going on? I just want to click what's going on?
I just want to quickly Kaby, Like I said, Kab,

(01:05:55):
I think he should have a you have an opinion
about about himself, about everyone with everybody have opinion about
him and what he should have winned. We should went
to Golden State, did this? Did that? He's just human
like everybody else. He should be able to voice his
opinion and say what he wants just because he's famous.
Should he do it with his name on it? Or
should he have his own name on it? If that's
what you want to do. Yeah, yeah, he should have

(01:06:16):
his own name on it. But you know how that go?
Where you you're a brand, so you can't attach the
name to everything. Y'all guys know how that go. I'll
give you damn something there. I mean, okay, you represent Nike.
You can't go as hard as you might want to.
I'll give you a little bit of that. But he's
he going as hard as he ain't cussing folks out
that stuff. And I'm saying, all right, Robert, real quick

(01:06:38):
on the other oh, did we lose him? Let's go
to Sammy in Orlando. Sammy on with Chris and Rob
and I just don't want to say that the KD.
I totally understand. I used to work for NIKEE and
then make you like not even express your own opinions
about anything. So I kind of understand where he's coming
from on that regard. So he's doing it okay, is

(01:07:02):
you know he should He could have said that, right,
he could say, look, I got endorsements with different types
of companies, can't make people that would have been more understanding,
because I do get that, Sammy, I mean I don't.
I'm trying to think of other Nike athletes. I mean,
Lebron didn't really go back and forth with people making statements.
But you know what always was curious when you think

(01:07:23):
about it was Tiger woods first ad. Do you remember
his first half for Nike. No, he talked about uh
not being allowed to play in certain country clubs. It
was very ethnic, very about I'm this black kid playing
and I wasn't allowed on these gods, you know what
I mean. And then somebody got to him was like
that's not where we want to go, and then not

(01:07:44):
that disappeared. But that was his very first ad. So
Nike was cool with him, yeah obviously, but then other
people's prof got to him and was like, this isn't
gonna work. All right, thanks Sammy appreciated? Is that aldddd
albb albb Where are you from? We just see an

(01:08:06):
e in the ie? Okay, yeah, we got you. Go ahead.
First of all, I want to say, I'm happy to
be on with you guys. I'm a huge FAMI and
the family yours since back of the ESPN day. Thank you, man,
appreciate no doubt. So I have a twenty four year
old and after you and a twenty year olds about

(01:08:27):
to turn twenty one, and uh, just from looking at
them and how they operate, it just seems to me
that KB is just being what you know, this age
of youngsters are. They did all the time. It's just
part of their daily routine. Just you know, they're naked

(01:08:48):
without their phones. You know that's true. I even Lebron
didn't grow up in this era fully, you know what
I mean, Like when he was a kid, he wasn't
on social media. Kadi's a little younger, so he's it's
been with him most of his life. So yeah, okay, good,
let's go to Jabril in Atlanta, Gail King. Yeah, I

(01:09:13):
had to get back in on this. Yeah, I don't
should she said, asked those questions because I feel like
if he was convicted of that, then yeah, that'll that'll
be that'll be kind of I can see that being appropriate.
But by him not even being convicted of that, like,
what are you trying to prove he not even like,

(01:09:34):
how is they gonna be on his legacy when he
wasn't need to compete to the You don't anybody can
be accused. Anybody can be accused. Somebody can accuse either
one of you or anything, you know, and we're we'll
have to get to the bottom of it. But until
they do, like y'all shouldn't be here guilty. No, but
but but but it's more, it's more to the accused.
I mean, there was there there was he would had

(01:09:55):
to be indicted for a court for a court case,
you were, he was indicted. It was a little more.
I mean, we've seen accusations and turned out to be baseless.
This wasn't baseless, right, but but it did go further
than just just somebody saying that I remember that. But
if they gonna say all of it, why not say okay,
and the lady who accused him heads amount of seem

(01:10:19):
different seamen in her you know, in her pennies too. No,
but this stuff in there about her if I don't know,
don't read this New York Times story. It just it
was to me, Chris, it was real straightforward. He this
is what happened. Uh, you know, she didn't testify. The
case was thrown out, and he settled financially and a

(01:10:41):
civil suit. That's and that that's it. That's right, and
you settle the finance. And again I'm not I'm not
judging Kobe, and I get where everybody's coming from. It's
uncomfortable to talk about two weeks. But we're just saying
as a journalist, she had a responsibility to ask that
Kilken interview her what I'm asking him. But she had

(01:11:01):
she did it. Yeah, but you know, it's and like
Rob said, it had he been convicted, it's it's it's
it might be in the league. It might be in
the league, but he wasn't. So it's not in the lead.
But it is a part of the story. Look, we
got a lot of people that want to weigh hid
him from you. We're gonna get your calls after the
break eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You want

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want to talk about, Quentin in Virginia. You're on with
the Eye Couple. How you doing? Christ and Rob? Hey?

(01:12:10):
I just wanted to make three points um Personally, I
think that there was an agenda because Gail King could
have interviewed hundreds of Kobe's former teammates, but you know
she chose a female I think for a purpose, and
you know, alluding to me too, and you know that true.

(01:12:32):
I think there was an agenda. Secondly, I um I
was uncomfortable with her putting she put her own company.
She threw her own company under the bus. She trying
to back down and say, well, it wasn't her idea,
and they purposely put her in a bad light. And

(01:12:53):
and the other point is she had a colleague, Charlie Rose,
who was suspended and removed from the show. He said
on the same paddle as her, on the same show,
and not once as she interviewed him or one of
his accusers. Well, but they wouldn't interview her one he
was fired from the company. That would be for like
ABC or another network that the network that fired you

(01:13:15):
wouldn't interview you, I know. But I'm what I'm saying
is how how dare she come after Kobe's legacy? And
and R Kelly wasn't really coming after first of all,
R Kelly man, come on, yeah, right, is she really
coming after Kobe's legacy? Or it was she asking the

(01:13:35):
question now again I thought her second her follow up
was wrong and accusatory to your point, but just asking
the question about that they did settle out of course, yes,
you know, so asking the question isn't coming after his legacy.
That's a part of his legacy. Quinton, do you not
believe that? But I'm just no, I'm asking you, Quinn,
answer the question. Do you so it shouldn't be asked?

(01:13:59):
I mean, when did you we ask? Ten years from now?
When do you ask about it? But I'm asking you.
I look, I agreed. A second part we drop dropped that.
I'm just asking you when do as a media, if
you're talking to somebody about his legacy and and and
somebody sits down, when do you ask that question? Is
what I'm saying to you. Oh, when when do you ask?

(01:14:21):
When you ask? I mean you you asking? You asked?
You doing an interview? Okay, that's that's okay, That's that's all.
That's what she did. That's now again, I think she
could have done it better. Yes, we agree with that,
but but the idea that she's asking this question in
the interview is not out of place. Let's go to
Paul in California. Paul, you're on with christ and Robb. Hey, guys,

(01:14:43):
love your show man, Thank you. Hey. Um, I have
two points and then I want to ask a question. Um,
she had seventeen years to interview Kobe. She wanted to
ask the question. She should have asked him, but that
but but hold on, CBS News has done stories if
you wouldn't back. And she wasn't working at CBS News
seventeen years ago. She was a local anchor person who

(01:15:04):
I watched growing up in college in Connecticut. So so
don't you can't put that on her. She might not
have been with CBS News during the time when that
case was there, So that's not it. Her thing is
this is news happening now. She's a main anchor on
the network news. They got set up the interview with
Lisa Lesbie, Lisa Leslie and and and that's that's her

(01:15:26):
job to ask questions. So you can't go she should
have asked her seventeen years ago. No, the news is now,
that's not That's not good enough. What's your second point?
If anybody should feel offends, it should be Lisa Leslie
because that was her friend. Okay, I thought Lisa actually
handled it well. She did handle it well. I thought

(01:15:47):
Lisa actually handled Lisa could have said no comment too.
She could have done that in the interview if she
was because she probably was caught by surprise. She knew.
I assume she knew you were gonna ask her about Kobe, right,
but it was because it was But I thought she
handled it well. All right, let's squeeze one. Let's go
to Chris in North Carolina. Chris jan with the eye couple. Hey,

(01:16:08):
I got two points on this kind connected. So I
think the first I completely agree with you, Chris that
I think her tone. The second one is a little pushy.
Like the tone, I think that kind of goes to
the whole, the whole part of the interview. I think
context is really important because it was an opportunity to
put his life in context. Yes, that was the something
he had happened bad sixteen seventeen years ago. But since then,

(01:16:31):
what has he done? He said, Women in power in
his organizations and around him wherever he goes. I mean,
you look at the helicopter that went down and one
of people on there was a female coach on his
staff that he thought was a great person he wanted
to promote. Bring up Chris championed w NBA. Hey, Chris,
let me ask you this real quick. What if she
asked a question and Lisa Leslie said this thing warned

(01:16:53):
him for a long time. He really felt bad about
how this went down. This was not a part of point.
It could have been that answer, like you know what
I mean that people would have loved it, would have
loved the answer, and he might have been a hero exactly.
You see what I'm saying. Right, it could have been
answered differently, and Kobe really regretted that whole incident, in

(01:17:15):
the whole situation, but he became a better man from it. Right,
do you know what I mean? Na, that's a good point. Right,
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says something I just cannot tolerate. When he said something
I couldn't toler but you were cool with it. Now
you got your pennies in a boy. Hey, Bucky tripping
on this. But anyway, we've been talking about the Gail King,
the controversial Gail King interview of Lisa Leslie where she

(01:18:20):
brought up Kobe Bryant's sexual assault case from years ago.
And we want to we want to hear from you, guys.
What's your opinion on it? Eight seven seven ninety nine
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little different today. If you want to weigh in, hit

(01:18:41):
us up at that number. Let's start with Cody in Louisville. Cody,
you're on with Chris and Rob. Hey, what's going on, gentlemen.
It's a real privilege to be on your show. I've
been a fanny off for a long time. I have
been called back in in a while, but um, you
know you guys let me talk and for the last time,
and I really appreciate it. Thank you what you got.
Um oh and one quick thing, y'all had Trey Moses on.

(01:19:03):
He went to my high school. I just want to
give a shout to that, like he's a great guy.
That's right, Yeah, yes, yeah. So I think that what's
really upsetting a lot of people is that it's it's
not necessarily just gayl King, but a lot of people,
especially on social media, but viciously bringing up the sexual

(01:19:23):
assault case Kobe Bryant after he passed away. And I
think that that's what's rubbing people the wrong way. So
when someone in the national media brings it up, they're like, really,
come on, Like I watched the interview and you know,
you could see where she's coming from. It's just it
just soured on a lot of people. And um, you
know that there was a lot of there was a
lot of inconsistencies in that case. I don't want to

(01:19:45):
get into you know, there's no doubt, no doubt. Yeah,
And at the end of the day, we all really
don't know what happened that night. In my humble opinion,
I think that he was just really young and he
messed with the wrong wrong lady at the wrong time,
and I think that it it's just a messy situation
at the end of the day. But Cody real real
quick and Chris read some of the stuff on there

(01:20:07):
when when he was at first interviewed by the police
he said there wasn't any sex, and then it changed
to he thought it was consensual. So there's some stuff
in there, and that's why it was both sides, all right,
That's why I went to trial. Thanks Cody, Let's go
in Virginia. Joseph, you're on with the Eye couple, good
even fellas. How are you great? Good good fellas. I

(01:20:28):
just had to say, I know, I think Rob said
it earlier. You know, she may not have known, but
as you as your job as a journalist, you should
be able to do the research and to go out
and ask that question. It's just a little bit of sensitivity,
and it's completely understandable. She's a journalist, she's doing her
job and it was something that was there. But to

(01:20:48):
bring it up at this time, you know, his memorial
coming up, everything that just happened, it was it's still fresh. Yeah,
But Lisa Leslie is there to talk about Kobe. I
mean that that's the only reason she's being an interviewed
by CBS. Do you understand. Oh yeah, okay, But but

(01:21:09):
if she doesn't, if she doesn't ask him to cry.
But it wasn't the first question. If she if she
bought them, bought her on and it's the first thing
out of her mouth, I think I'll have a problem
with that too, you know what I mean. And I again,
I thought the way she asked the first time, and
then the third question was it was? It was the

(01:21:30):
second the follow up? What you wouldn't like? That was what?
It was accusatory In my view, I just wanted the
context of Kobe owning that mistake. You know, she could
have said, well, yes, he did get in trouble, but
she came out he owned a mistake. He apologized to
the girl in public, he apologized to his wife publicly,
He apologized to everybody publicly. It's one way to say

(01:21:51):
that somebody was accused of something, but it's another thing
to say that a man owned up to it and
took on the responsibility of making that mistake. All right,
we appreciated you. Some things you want to call Let's
go to Jojo in Maine. Jojo. You're on with the
Eye couple. Well, so, guys, like I said last time,
that Fightto my credit, scow on Fleet, you always say

(01:22:11):
that just let me know. Very nice. Um, I want
to throw out there. Um we always we always do
this with celebrities. We always want to talk about the
you know, we always want to throw just because of beloved.
If you always want to throw what they do bad
and then someone brings up letter, My whole point is, yes,

(01:22:32):
Kobe did something horrible. He's the closest thing that Jordan
We've ever got. First off, I am a fan, but
when you do stuff like that, it's still it's still
part of you. Whether it's consent more or not, it's
still going to be brought up. So my whole point
is is when it comes to celebrities, we can't draw
a line and say it's okay because it's been enough
time to forgive them. These are horrible situations that happen.

(01:22:54):
You know, God goes out to that girl and even
Kobe's family, but we have to and knit These are realities,
are going to be broad part of part of the
part of the story. It just is. As Christ and
I said, Uh, we talked about this. If this is
I say, God forbid, but Bill Cosby died, it'll be
in the lead. It won't be about the Cosby show, right,

(01:23:15):
it won't be right because he was convicted. It's not
in Kobe's lead. It's not anybody would have put that
story right. Anybody would put that in the lead. That
would be wrong, right, I'll be the first one that's
not the lead about Kobe Bryant. Let's go to Ricky
and Florida. Ricky, you're on with christ and Robb. Hey,
what's up, gentleman. There's always a pleasure talking to y'all.

(01:23:36):
Thank you. Yeah, I'd just like to say, um, you know,
I know, I know she's doing her job, but it's
all about timing. Man. You know, in my case, if
I was in Gail Kings shoes, I would have never
even asked the question. Well, and you would. You probably
wouldn't be doing that job because you wouldn't be you

(01:23:58):
wouldn't be Ricky, you wouldn't be a re order. And
you can ask it in a different way or whatever,
but to say that you want to ask it because
there are and one of the Ricky, one of the callers,
brought up on Twitter, a lot of people are and
they're not doing it the right way. People are being
crafts some people are being way, you know, just doing
it wrong. But it shows that some people are thinking

(01:24:19):
about that. And so again two weeks, two weeks, I
think a lot of people would have had a problem
with it. If it's two years from now exactly. You
gotta admit that, Ricky, that they don't want to hear
it at A lot of Kobe fans don't want to
hear it at all. They just don't. And you can
use the timing. If it was a month from now,

(01:24:40):
two months from now, you would still be mad that
Gail King asked the question no question, And I look,
I agree. I didn't like the way she followed up.
So I'm with you. We both don't have a problem
with her asking the questions. Right, let's go to let's
go to John in California. John, you're on with Chris
and Robb. Yeah, I agree with um as far as

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the timing goes, where were these questions a month ago?
If you didn't ask him why he's alive? Why are
you waiting to ask him? They add those things were
done back at the time of that, and you're not
gonna and you're not gonna be bringing it up every year.
And you know what, I mean like you put it
to rest, and then when someone dies, you put together

(01:25:25):
their life story. The ops, the downs, the misshots, when
he was a rookie against Utah, that's in there because
that's a part of his story. It's like we always say,
you can't tell the story of football without Eli Man
or whoever what I'm right, that's the same thing with individuals.
Can things happen how the lead? It's not, you know,

(01:25:47):
high up, but it's it's a part of the story.
Let's go to Willie and Texas. You're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Willie? Hey, how
you doing? Guy? What's up? Man? First year? I'd like
to say, you know, it's to be on the thank you.
I appreciate it. You know, I agree with a lot
of the guys talking about timing um because really, no
one's really taken into consideration his wife and the three

(01:26:11):
other daughters that he has. I hear that. I totally agree.
It's kid can't be I mean, you all you really
hope that other daughters didn't see it or don't even
know about it, which is probably impossible in today's day
and age. So I get that. But again, as Gail
King's job as a journalist and the interview, Uh, Lisa

(01:26:34):
leslie about this that that has to be asked. If
she doesn't do that, well she would be crushed. And
then truth, let's even if this interview doesn't take place.
They may have seen stuff on social media. There are people,
there were other people bringing this stuff that in a
even in worse way. Absolutely, let's go to Brian and Florida. Brian,

(01:26:56):
you're on with Chris and Robb. Hey, how y'all doing
what's right? So listen, man, My biggest thing is I
listened to y'all show every day. You know what I'm saying,
big fan, you support her, and I can't believe I
hear grown men saying it makes me uncomfortable that a
journalist asked a question about an NBA superstar. Listen, I'm

(01:27:17):
a big guy. Small stars make me uncomfortable in the bathroom.
But I gotta do with you know what I'm saying, Like,
if you don't like it, change the channel. Let's ask
a bigger question, and I know it's gonna get bizarre
fired up. I believe Kobe could have never did Kobe
if it wasn't for Shack. How big would Kobe b
Let's talk about that. Thanks for having my call. We'll

(01:27:37):
get to the stuff at another time, not right now. Right.
Thanks for the car. Bran Brandon in California. Brandon, you
know with Chris and Rob. Hey, what's going on? Guys?
Are you doing great? Man? How are you? Yeah? I'm good.
I want to bring up because Chris you talked about
there was three points, but there's a fourth point where
she made another statement, which is not journalism. She's not

(01:28:00):
asking questions. She made the statement saying, oh, well, he
settled out of court. And where I feel that this
is irresponsible journalism is that she didn't even go on
to say what that could have meant. She left it
out there with an agenda to basically say, oh, well
he didn't get convicted, um, but he still could be

(01:28:20):
you know, he still could be guilty of it. Hey, Brandon,
did he set a lot of court? Did he said
a lot of court? Yes or no? Did he set
a lot of court yes or no? In the civil Okay,
that's a fact. It's a fact. She didn't say he
was guilty. That's not what brand you want to keep.

(01:28:41):
We want to hear from you. Let me just say
she didn't say he set it out of court. He's
guilty that that that's he settled out of court. As
a fact, just because you're you're you weren't. Uh, Kobe
Bryant was not acquitted, that the case was dismissed. If
Kobe Bryant went through the case and the woman testified

(01:29:04):
and he was acquitted, then that's not a part of
his legacy. He would have been acquitted in the court
of law and you couldn't hold that against him. That's
the difference. That's why she brings up he settled out
of court. That's all. That's the only This is the
only thing I'll say to you, Rob, but that if
you're gonna step as a journalism into that rabbit hole

(01:29:25):
of speaking fact, then you need to speak every fact
that happened. Then if you're going to open up that
so now speak the fact that there were other things
in the case brand consistent. But she didn't want to
say that there were. But look, you didn't want to caution,
we try the case. So don't bring it up in

(01:29:45):
Brandon looking back to the case, don't bring it up.
Go ahead, Jay, Let's go to Jay in California. Jay
you're on with Chris and Rob? Hey, what's going on?
Gust thank you? You know all? And I just is
there any um way that compassion or just human being

(01:30:05):
element could come into play instead of just being oh
the fact hide behind the fact that as a journalist
and the guy to asked this questions, Jay Chris. Chris
said that that two of the questions were asked in
a compassionate way. Didn't she say that, like, how does
this affect you? I mean it was and I admitted
the way the way she followed up the first question

(01:30:27):
was wrong, that's what that's what right? But but but
the first, the first and third question, the way she
asked him showed compassion. She didn't say, hey, Kobe did this,
how could you be best friends with him? That that
that would be a question that would be out of bounds, right,
That's absolutely right. She didn't ask that. But but for

(01:30:48):
her to be asked, you know, talking to Leza Leslie
as a friend, you know, because I'm pretty sure Rob
wouldn't ever throw you under the bus, and Chris, you
wouldn't throw robbing the bus. So you know, you kind
of know where the question gonna be. How it's going
to be, I don't think about here. It was justin
is Jay. I'm sorry, Jay, let me ask you this.
Rob brought up a great point last segment. What if

(01:31:09):
she asked the first question, Hey, is this uncomfortable for you?
And so on and so forth, and Lisa Leslie says, look,
it aided Kobe. I was close with him, and it
bothered him. And that's one reason he was such a
champion for women's rights in sports and all this stuff,
because he, you know, he knew what had happened in

(01:31:30):
that situation. Not that he was guilty, right, but he
knew it. It was a bad look. And he wanted
to make am like, if she had given a really
good answer like that, that it had changed him in
a positive way, then it would have been a great
Would you feel the same way? Would you be jumping
on Gail King? You would probably be like, Wow, that's
great that that from that I would like that would

(01:31:53):
definitely show him of respect and more compassionate. But that's
got nothing to do with Gail King. It's with the
answer that so Leslie at least his answer was it bad.
We're just saying if she had answered differently, you wouldn't
even be saying nothing about game. You would be raving
about the interview that she had with Gail King. You
know that that that is true. And at the end

(01:32:13):
of the day, you know, I really you know, just
feel Kobe. Uh, you know we all feel like I said,
thanks Jo Field for Kobe Brown, Yes, and his family.
I mean we we we were journalists, we covered Kobe,
we knew, but you know, we're we're we understand. But
we're just saying she Gail King, had a job to

(01:32:35):
do it. Again, I don't think she did it well.
It points but asking the question. It is not out
about it just isn't justin and Illinois. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. Hey, what's going on? Gentlemen?
Thank you very much for having me on. Yeah, appreciate
I appreciate you guys talking about journalism and what it is.
My wife was a journalist. She was a journalist for

(01:32:56):
a long time. Um, I think people are looking at
the whole story is only about this sexual assault. It's
not the whole The whole interview is not about that.
It didn't center app second off, if Ben Roethlisberger was
to die tomorrow, yes weeks, people would be talking about that.
Thank you, justin part of his story spot on spot On.
There's no way that you can write an old bit

(01:33:19):
about Ben Roethlisberger and not talk about that he was
suspended from the league and what went on in those
bathrooms with women. Absolutely about being neutral and presenting a
completely the best neutral view you can not the full
story about pardon me, what a bad person he was,

(01:33:40):
justin spot on spot thank you, justin all right, mored
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(01:34:02):
and Rob coming to you live from the Guy go
Fix Sports Radio Studios. All right, We're about to have
Bucky Brooks on in about eight minutes. Why are you
going off from Bucky my Bucky's my man. Usually he's
at odds with Rob. Here's what I gotta say. Do
we have the audio? Okay, on speak for yourself. I
believe it was yesterday. Here's what Bucky Brooks said about

(01:34:25):
Tom Brady. Let's just call it what it is. He's
a system quarterback who has played in a great system
that has produced a lot of winning. Because that same
system helped Matt Castle go eleven and five when Tom
Brady wasn't available to the knee. I told Jimmy Garofolo
also won games in that system. So what I'm saying

(01:34:45):
is this Tom Brady at this stage of his career,
he needs the system more than ever. Stop it, Bucky,
this is ridiculous. Tom Brady a system quarterback. How does
system do without Tom Brady? Bill Belichick and his system.

(01:35:06):
And he's a great coach. I said, he's the goat.
But he's coached seven years without Tom Brady. Guess how
many times they made the playoffs once once. You can
bring up Mac House all you want. They didn't make
the playoffs that year you bring up Jacobe Brossett and
Jimmy Garoppolo. That was a tiny not a small, a

(01:35:31):
tiny sample size. They were eleven and five. Did they
make the playoffs? Not that short menu, Royn Parker. And
here's the other thing. I'm bringing up the seven years,
six of them no playoffs. Bill Belichick. When he took
over the New England Patriots, the year before he took over,

(01:35:52):
they were eight and eight. In Belichick's first year with
four time Pro Bowler Drew so as his quarterback in
his system, they went five and eleven. The next year
with Drew Bledsoe at quarterback, they start oh and two.

(01:36:13):
Bledsoe gets hurt, Brady takes over, they go eleven and three,
win the Super Bowl. The rest is history. He's not
a system quarterback because the system didn't work for Drew Bledsoe.
The system didn't work in Cleveland. The system is Tom Brady.

(01:36:34):
And again I'm not taking away from Belichick, but look
at it. Some years they're more run, some years they
were more passed. Here's the other thing about Brady. System
quarterbacks don't have great statistics. System quarterbacks or game managers
that just don't mess it up. Tom Brady led the

(01:36:59):
NFL in passing yards three times. That's the same as
Peyton Manning. That's three times more than Aaron Rodgers, who's
never done it. Tom Brady threw for four thousand plus
yards eleven times, five thousand plus yards once. He led

(01:37:21):
the NFL in touchdowns four times. That's the same as
Peyton Manning and three more times than Aaron Rodgers. He
led the NFL and yards per game two times, same
as Peyton Manning and two more than Aaron Rodgers. He
led the league in passer rating and QBR two times,

(01:37:45):
Aaron Rodgers passer rating leader two times. I'm just saying
this is not These are not the numbers of a
system quarterback. I'm stopping. I mean because he brought up
Michael Jordan later, you would never call Michael Jordan a
system And I agree, Michael Jordan was phenomenal. He could

(01:38:08):
have played in anything and won. And hey, well but
if I really want to get like Bucky, let's keep
it real. Did Michael Jordan ever win in a system
other than the Triangle? All the other systems he ran,
he never wanted other than in the Triangle. So I'm
I'm not I'm not limiting Jordan to a system, but

(01:38:30):
I'm just saying, we want to be technical like Bucky's
trying to be. And don't tell me what. Yeah, he
wasn't as great in college obviously as Jordan. Joe Montana
who you think rob is to go? And there's an
argument there. He wasn't anything tremendous at Notre Dame. Yeah,
they won the national title. He wasn't a driving for us.
He's a third round pick. Nobody thought he was that special.

(01:38:53):
So I'm I can't wait to get Bucky on. I
know you're gonna be glad with me and Bucky. I'm
just sitting back. I want I want to see this
for a change. I'm always think I'm always the one fighting.
I want to hear his argument and then I could
make a fair I just want you heard his little
I want I heard the quote, but I want to
hear his Brady a system quarterback. I just want to

(01:39:14):
break from what I would never call him a system fake.
But I don't think I don't think he's I don't
think he's the greatest quarter right, but you think he's second? Yeah, yeah,
Tom Brady could do that. No, Tom kid, y'all gotta
rack that Rob Parker at second best quarterback. That Tom
Brady is the second greatest quarter Parker. I've always said

(01:39:37):
he's the most accomplished quarterback. Have I not said that? Yes?
But you got looked to the most accomplished and if
you take to get accomplishments talent ability, I mean, you
know what I'm saying. Come on, all right, let's bring
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The only hard part figuring out which way is easier.
We're glad to have our friend on the NFL network analyst.
You see him on Fox Sports one as well. He's
a co host here with Jonas Knox on Fox Sports
Radio Saturday's one to five pm Pacific time. Our man,
Bucky Brooks. He gets a lot of stuff wrong, but
he might have fun to hit on one. Bucky, And

(01:40:43):
usually as you and Rob Button hands, but you and
Christ heads on this one. I'm gonna give you the
You're gonna have the first shot though. I saw you
on speak for yourself say that Tom Brady is a
system quarterback. Now are you saying at forty two He's
a system quarterback. He's always been a system quarterback. He's

(01:41:07):
always been a system quarterback. The overwhelming majority of players
in the National Football League as system player, Tom Brady included.
When Tom Brady ended the league, Tom Brady was a
six round pick one ninety nine overall. He comes into
a great system in New England, where letters go for
the defense, to run a game, and a game manager.

(01:41:29):
The first three Super Bowls that he won, when they
won three out of four, it was all because their
defense and the way that they manage a game and
played complimentary football. He has never been viewed as a
transcendent talent. What he's always been viewed as is a
great manager, leader and winners. But now that he's older,
it's just a matter of he has to be in

(01:41:50):
the right system to be able to get it. All right, Bucky,
I'm gonna say something to you. I often say to
Rod Parker, stop it, Bucky, all right, I gonna hit
you with some facts system, Bill Belichick system. I assume
Bill Belichick has coached seven years without Tom Brady as
his quarterback. They've made the playoffs once once and in

(01:42:15):
New England the year before Brady took over with Drew Bledsoe,
a four time Pro Bowler, as his quarterback. Bill Belichick
in his system went five and eleven. The next year
when Brady does take over, when Bledsoe starts the season
his quarterback, they're oh and two. Brady takes over. The

(01:42:35):
rest is history, going eleven and three and win the
Super Bowl and three of the next four. Tom brad
system quarterbacks don't have great numbers, they just managed. To
your point, Tom Brady's led the league in passing yards, touchdowns,
and yards per game, and as much as Peyton Manning
has and way more than Aaron Rodgers has, He's second

(01:42:58):
all time in passing yards and touchdowns passing. That is
not a system quarterback. I mean Trent Dilferm was the
system quarterback, not Tom Brady. Okay, so so so, Chris By.
You're at account like, if you play long enough, you
ring up stops. That's why you led. He threw he

(01:43:20):
left time four thousand yards. Eli's numbers aren't even close
to Tom Brady stopping. But because Eli never led the
league and anything but interceptions, Bucky right right, and all
of those years that you talk about Tom Brady with
those great numbers and touchdowns and those things. He didn't
win super Bowls in those years, right, because some of

(01:43:41):
them he did. Talk about. The system that we talk
about is the same system where Jacoby Recess stepped in.
How many games the same? How many games? How many
games did those they played? Four combined? That's samplesize you
that that qualified four castle. Did they make the playoffs? Bucky?

(01:44:03):
Did they make the playoffs? No, I don't care about
eleven and five. They didn't make the playoffs. They were
five and eleven the year, Bucky, you are so wrong.
You know you didn't even know the numbers I threw
at you. Now you know you're wrong. No, No, So
so here here's what I know. I'm enjoying this. Here's

(01:44:25):
what I know about Tom Brady. Chris. I want you
this year so heavy on the numbers. I want you
to check the number the last four years and you
will noticed that it's completion precentage and pass the Rady
the class I'll give you as a forty year old
you want to talk that you also will note in
twenty from twenty eighteen on, he's been one of the

(01:44:46):
worst quarterbacks in football, and last year in the playoffs
he was the worst quarterback in the playoffs field Bucky.
That's fine. If you want to talk about the last
couple of years, that's fine. He's four years old. But
don't don't give me system quarterback for his whole career
you talked about. He wasn't transcended coming out of college.

(01:45:08):
Neither was Joe Montana. Montana was a third round pick.
Montana wasn't driving for us behind that national championship at
Notre Dame. They didn't think he was gonna be special.
But he's the If Brady's not the goat, it's Montana.
So how do you I mean, come on, no, but
you can be the goat without being transcended. You could

(01:45:28):
be the goat without being transcended. What goat is, What
goat is considered not transcended. So if if we're saying
that Tom Brady is the greatest of all time and
by winning six super Bowls, we can say that, however,
he got numbers, but you would you would say accomplished,

(01:45:50):
like that's that's if you're just looking at the title.
I mean, like that's really what it is. Because that
last super Bowl that we saw in Atlanta when they
beat the La Rams, that wasn't because of tom Brady,
that was because the defense. But if he didn't leave
the game winning drive. So that's what we're saying is
he made he made fourth throws and that's enough to

(01:46:11):
define him. That's why they wanted and if he's done
it every Uper Bowl they've been, he led the drive, Chris,
the first three Super Bowls, they didn't win it because
of Tom Brady. They want it because the defense and
everybody else carried up. I mean, let's be real about
what it is. And when we talk about the Tom
Brady Peyton Manning, Eric, if you go kick for tat

(01:46:34):
when it comes to it, Peyton Manning was a transcendent talent.
Tom Brady was an ultimate winner. But when we talk
about Chanson and talent, we're talking about god that when
we look at it, we look at them and it pops.
Tom Brady was a sixth round kick for a reason.
Tom Brady was a game manager early in his career
for a reason. He wasn't a transcendent star. So look,

(01:46:57):
I can give him credit for being accomplished and the
ultimate winner, but I'm not going to sit here and
pretend that Tom Brady is the Boogeyman, and he is
the best quarterback physically that we've ever seen. He's not
the same talent that Pat Mahomes is. He's not the
game telling that Aaron Rodgers won. He's not why he
Why are his individual numbers so much better than Rogers

(01:47:20):
his individual because the system is outstanding? Well, why didnt
Drew Blesso win in that system? Drew Blesso is a
four time Pro bowler. Yeah, but Drew Blesso also didn't
stand that system. Let's just say Drew Blesso saying that system,
Who's to say that he wouldn't have won. I'm gonna
say it because he was five and thirteen in Belichick.
For Belichick, he was five and thirteen, and the say
the next week. The next week, Brady took oh no,

(01:47:44):
Belichick second year and he was five and eleven the
first year with Bledso second year he goes oh and two,
Brady becomes the quarterback because Blesso got hurt Week three,
they start a role and they go eleven and three
and win the Super Bowl and the rest is history.
So come on, man, I'm just he's a three time MVP.
What game manager wins MVP awards. Well, you know, part

(01:48:08):
of the majority of playing quarterback is managing the game
and understand the situation and circumstances. Tom Brady, because he's
been coached by maybe the best coach the ball pass,
understands how to do that. The complimentary football that you
look at with the New England Patriots, that is why
they win. They don't turn the ball over, They played
the right way. They find a way to continue to

(01:48:29):
win games with everything to round him is murky. Look,
I can give Tom Brady credit and they chief eleva
some things or whatever. However, I'm not going to stand here,
particularly when he's forty two. And I'll give you if
you want to say at forty two, when when when
the one year he had a receiver, or the couple

(01:48:49):
of years he had a receiver like Marvin Harrison, who
with Peyton had he broke records. When he had Randy Moss.
That's when I start the get this dude might be
the go because look at his receivers early in his career,
Bucky and then it really all the time without Moss,
they were mediocre at best. So what we're saying is

(01:49:11):
when you put Tom Brady with the Hall of Fame
like Baton Manny had his whole career, Like Baton Manny
had his whole career. Okay, I'm just saying, like, so
you're saying, if you're surround good players with great players,
they played better. That's what they're supposed to do. Brady
ain't a good player. He's a great player. This is
a blood bath. Bucky, just just stop it, you my boy,

(01:49:33):
but this has been a slaughter. This is not really
I mean, you came with a lot of fan boys stuff.
I can't. I came with facts, but one look at him.
I came with facts. You came when he was a
six round draft pick. In that case, Joe Montana is
not transcended. He was a third round pick. Nobody thought

(01:49:54):
he was gonna be anything. You're gonna have a good weekend,
but transcend. See, you thought you were messing with you.
Are we saying that Joe Montana was a generational talent?
Yan't telling that, Damn Marino. I don't care about the talent.
Who was the better quarterback? Joe? Who was a better quarterback? Okay,

(01:50:19):
so that because Marina played for Don shuemall. Since you're
a basketball aficionado, That would be like saying Michael Jordan
and John Stocking both are in the Hall of Fame,
both have decorated careers. Are we saying that John Stocking
is the same kind of player that Michael Jordan. No,
and Stockton didn't have nearly the achievements that Jordan or Brad.
He wasn't transcendent, right, better transcended right? Thank you? You

(01:50:44):
just made my point, Bucking and Brady had the achievements
because he was transcendent. You a great coach in a
great system. That's what we've talked about, a great coach
in a great system, just like John Stockton had a
great coach and a great system. It's nothing. They didn't win.

(01:51:04):
He didn't win. Stop, they didn't win it thing all right,
Let's look what you know, Bucky, because he ran into
a transcendent talent and Michael Jordan's Bucky. Give us your
final thoughts. Buy this fuck we got, we got tried,
We got less than the minute. Your final thoughts on
the super Bowl falls on the Super Bowl. I think
we found out everything that we wanted to find out

(01:51:25):
about the quarterback. Pat Mahomes is a generational talent. Pat
Mahomes was so good that Kyle Shanahan basically said, I
speared that quarterback more than I trust my own quarterback.
That's why they didn't go for it at the end
of the second at the end of the first half,
and it's also why he had been managing and protecting
his quarterback throughout. It would be interesting to see how

(01:51:45):
the forty nine ers play with Jimmy Garofolottle going for Bucky.
That was the smartest thing you said this segment. Good
job high you know what, I'm gonna start watching Buy again, Bucky.
We gotta get you in the studio. Bucky, thanks so
much man, great time, weekend, All right, brother in peace?

(01:52:05):
That was come on, I demolished fucking I mean seriously,
that was Lucky. But he gave it the uh the
old college try is that? That's right? What are you doing?
You know? We gotta do this? Did give me the honestly,
Rob you said the list who won that argue Bucky

(01:52:28):
didn't have enough strong like like some of his things
about being a six round you know, six round that
doesn't factorund like, like, what does that mean? I don't
there's a lot of great plass. You don't want to
give me my full prize. But that's your way of saying,
job well done, Chris, thank you, job well, thank you?
That all right? Is that what you want? Thank you?
I'll give you a gift card for a pedicuret a

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and Rob wrapping up a funky flashback Friday. DJ Alex
Tyson digging in those crates. He got a lot of
funk in those crates. Boys. Oh yeah, especially for a
young dude, a millennial. You know what's funny is I
hear that a lot when I spend tracks at like
my mom's thing. When you get together with their friends,
they're always impressed. Hey, you gotta you have a wide

(01:53:33):
range of music, or young guys, you know a lot
of music that's good stuff. Yes, all right, Well let's
wrap it up with this, Rob. We both, you know,
believe the Clippers are the best team in the West
and the favorites to win the championship. Milwaukee's tough, but
we got the Clippers just like we just liked the
depth and where they are and what the mindset. You

(01:53:54):
like the mindset a lot like the dog. They're hunger
and all that. But I do give the Lakers a
show shot. You know you got I think I think
you agree two of the best three players in La
Paul George four, but you know he's great, but you
would take Lebron, A D and Kawhi over him. Um.
But the Lakers, I've said it, what they gotta do.

(01:54:15):
Anthony Davis has to be dominant against the Clippers, and
that yes, I'm fast forward into the Lakers Clippers and
the playoffs, probably the Western Conference finals before right, and
a D. Lebron is gonna be Lebron, but he's not
gonna like just destroy Kawhi and Paul George probably be
an even matchup at this stage of his career, and

(01:54:36):
so A D has to be dominant, particularly down the
stretch and in the fourth quarters of the two regular
season matchup so far, both won by the Clippers ADS
four points. But here's the thing. This was surprised me today,
Rob I had to research when the FS one. When
you do this number out, I was shot. It shocked me.
First of all, a D is only playing five and

(01:55:00):
a half minutes on average in the fourth quarters. They're
staggering minutes. They're starting him on the bench for light.
He plays like the whole third quarter and then sits
for the first three or so minutes three and a
half minutes of the fourth. He's playing five and a
half minutes in the fourth quarter. A D averages over
twenty six points a game. Guess how many he averages

(01:55:20):
in the fourth quarter. I forgot you told me because
three three. So he's doing the twenty three points in
the first three quarters and then base Yes, you're averaging
more than seven almost eight points a game a quarter
in the first three and seven and a half points, right,
and Lebron is taking the more has taken more shots

(01:55:42):
than any other player in the league in the fourth quarter.
Now get it, Lebron can close games and all that.
That's fine, but they're gonna need a D to have
the dog mentality to have the I'm taking over mentality
to have the mantras Harald Marcus Morris, if vick A,
Zoobach Kawhi, Leonard Padreck, you can't mess with me, you

(01:56:05):
can't see me, you can't stop me. How's he gonna
develop that on three shots per in the fourth quarter?
I don't I don't understand how we could be here
at the All Star break essentially that knowing what you
need to do long term, and how they have not
gotten him into the mix like that bizarre, bizarre. We

(01:56:26):
will talk more about this, you know, going forward in
the eye couple, But that that shocked me. That shocked
both of us when I totally shocked by those numbers.
Three three shots a game he's getting in the fourth quarter,
three points in the fourth quarter on the average. All right,
our couple, have a great weekend. Go to iTunes, Apple podcast, SoundCloud,
Fox Sports radio dot com, subscribe, download, leave a comment

(01:56:48):
five stars, and have a wonderful Saturday and Sunday,

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