August 14, 2020 • 36 mins
It's The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker! Chris and Rob explain why Michael Irvin is setting Dallas Cowboys fans up for disappointment with his comments comparing the addition of CeeDee Lamb to the Golden Warriors getting Kevin Durant, and former NFL wide receiver Tori Gurley swings by to share his thoughts on the upcoming NFL season and explain why he thinks college football should be played in the fall.
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wrapping up a funky Flashback Friday and another week and Rob,
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just like you took your vacation a few weeks ago,
I'm off next week. Many you take it off. I'm
but all so much. I think you played time you
were anybody at the network stop it. I don't think
I've been off since you were on the Golden Girls cruise.
You've had like three vacations since my last vacation. That's
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because I work every holiday, right, Robi Yester, No, he
thinks a holiday's worth like two weeks off the regular time.
I'm building up time. So do you have your your
your group, your your lineup set? Yes? Well, okay, I
want to hear it. I want to hear it. Um
do I have it in front of me? You might
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not know the days, but whoever? Yeah, uh, mister Bernardo
really okay, that's is that a first for him doing that?
This will be second. Martin Weiss is in the Okay,
he's in the who else is? Uh? Let me see
Jonas Jonas Jonas knocks of course from I from Salaam yep.
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And there's one other rister, George Rice fred Rogan. Fred
Rogan is going to join us on Friday. This will
be his second time as well. Okay, okay, we got
a nice little, nice little mix of people are feeling
for you all week, and uh we'll do the best
wee can. We all have. It'll be the odd couple light,
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but it'll be good. It'll be fun. I'm gonna go
out to the Hamptons for a few days, all you really? Yeah? Wow,
But I'm still doing TV, so you know, right, I'm
being take off the right playoffs are and I'll be
watching these games too, you know. But uh, but we'll
make the most of it. We got Tory Gurley, former
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NFL wide receiver and in NFL and college football analysts
coming up, so we can get into NFL and college
with him. Rob. So that's that's a good guess. At
the bottom of the hour, let's uh. We talked earlier
about the Blazer's name Lillard. They survived the New York,
the brook the Nets, and let's get to the Nets though,
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because maybe the story is in the team that just lost.
They look good. I know you you love the Clippers.
You like the little engines that could, even though they
even when they couldn't like the Clippers couldn't beat the Warriors,
but you liked them. I just couldn't you like them? Yeah? Yeah,
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I just like you think this is a sign of
I mean, let's you think they went in the championship
next year when they get their two main guns, which
is k D and Kyrie Irving back. But but I
already I already picked that when those two guys went
to Brooklyn. I roped up. I said, Clippers in twenty
twenty and the Nets in twenty twenty one. That was
just right off the top. When I looked, I knew
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them to win it. Yeah, because I mean I remember
when Kyrie, Kyrie gave you the head nod and you
were all play and we just melt that the Jordan party.
You just melt it, Chris Kyrie. Did you see Kyrie?
No I say that? Would you stop? You know? I
did not say that. And he didn't just give me
a head. No, we talked for a little bit. They
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had nothing to do with it. You gave me a head.
He gave me. When you remember that house, it was
like being on a cruise ship. It was really it
was a bell It was Belle air Man, right, Yeah,
I don't know where it was. Was it Belle? Was
that Bellela? That was Belle A jeez. The kitchen you've
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been over there, Belle air The kitchen was the size
of a basketball court. It was. It was a no exaggeration.
It was crazy. But anyway, you here's my thing about Brooklyn.
You think they're gonna win the championship next year? Look
on paper, they're gonna be nice. I got there. I
just think there's major questions. First of all, Kyrie's health.
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We know he's twenty games this year, sixty seven last year,
sixty the year before. He just teams to be banged
up too much. That's one question. If that's as the
affirmative and he's healthy, great, Second question, who's gonna be
the coach? Jacque Vaughn I think is making a nice
little case for himself. But anyway, you know, you know,
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but we'll see who's the coach, tylu jacque Vaughn, whoever.
And then I think they've got like Carris Laverte. They're
not as good as Kyrie and Durant obviously, but Spencer
then Witty. These are guys capable of averaging nineteen and
twenty points a game, and I think they would probably
prefer those two. Like an equal opportunity offense where the
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ball's moving, everybody's got a chance to shoot right, And
that's that's why I think the chemistry. I'm not saying
they're gonna revolt and it's gonna be ter, but chemistry
is important. And I think with the Clippers, Rob everybody
knew their role. Lou knew. Yeah, I'm a twenty point
score or off the bench, but I'm off the bench.
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Harold knows, you know. I'm off the bench. I'm an
energy guy. Patrick Patterson, Landry Shammon, if it kazoo, but
like they know their roles. None of them are stars,
and they understand that. Although you can make a case
for Lou maybe to make an all star team here
or there, but so when they drop two stars in,
I think everybody kind of fit around him. I don't
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know if that'll happen in Brooklyn, but I'm gonna throw
something match you Rob, And I don't know that it
can happen. But if I'm the Nets, I think hard
about I wonder if I can package Karis Lavert, He's
looked great in the bubble, and Spencer Dinwitty, who many
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people think is out of there anyway, and whatever else
I need to give up to get Bradley Bill. Now
he could be the third wheel, that right shooter. Oh
that that's there's no question there the favorite in the
East if they get if they can do that, And
I tell you what, if I be deal and then
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might for somebody because they have talented players and you
can look around and say, you know this guy in
the right place, Uh could could be what we're looking for.
And uh, I agree with that. I don't think to see.
If I'm Washington, look, I'm paying Bill all this money
and he's great, but I'm losing, not winning. Maybe I
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bring in some young guys. Now you still got John Wall,
and that's gonna change everything too. They probably would want
to try to build around Wall and build yet again,
and they probably won't work, but they they'll try to
give it a shot. I'm with you, I might take it.
I might take a flyer and do something different. You
keep but Wall is the issue, you know, as long
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as you have him. Yeah, but you Kim, he's gonna
be the star, right right, So maybe they'll just ride
out with Bill. But we'll see. But speaking of Kevin
durant U, Michael Irvin, who we love, a friend of
the show. He's on every Super Bowl and even Super Bowl. Yeah,
but he's great to us. He is a and he
is a great commentator. Although I think what he said
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recently was assinine and here it is. It's about Cede
Lamb and what like, how how good Cede Lamb is
going to be with the Cowboys. What the Dallas Cowboys
did in the ninth and in the twenty twenty NFL
Draft by adding scene d Lamb to the number one
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offense in the National Football League? Uh, what what will
McClay did. What what Jerry Jones those guys Mike McCarthy
did by adding this guy, Cede Lamb. It's a kid.
Almost tantum mount almost tantamount to Kevin Durant being added
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to a seventy three win Warriors team. Stop, bitch, stopping?
Are you kidding me? Oh my god? Oivey two live jews. Oivey.
It's so humid in here, it's like a saunah. What
was he talking about, Chris? I hate to break it
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to you, but the Cowboy didn't make the playoffs last
year and haven't won a play haven't won a championship
in twenty five years, and has three playoff wins in
twenty one. What stop the Warriors? They had already won
a championship in seventy three games. That'd be like the
Cowboys going sixteen and old and winning the championship the
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year before. Prisoner of the Moment. That and that's just
one of the reasons he was over the top. Okay,
they're not the Warriors. Clearly, he didn't even make the playoffs. Secondly,
I mean, look, I like cg cd Lamb, like everybody else.
He was great, like Lamb, a little medium, a little
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jelly on the side. He's nice, but Kevin Durant, Kevin
Durant is and I look, I'm willing to step out
on the limb and I think, ceedee, Lamb's got a
great future ahead of him. I'm willing to bat Rob.
He's not gonna be the Kevin Durant of white receivers.
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I will agree with that. I don't. I don't. I
just as good as he could be. I mean, the
whole idea. I mean, this is just so over the top,
and I don't know, we can we go back this.
This is one of those things. This is where like
sometimes you know, being a former player and attached to
a team, Chris, you just you go overboard, remember trying
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to get back into good Grad's just about to say
the same thing because what he's saying about Jerry, Uh
do he say something about trading Dak or yeah that
was something and you remember yet that they were talking
about it or whatever, and then when they pushed back, man,
he was peddling. Ever since then, he's just thrown flowers
at the right right and that's part of that. I mean,
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maybe that's Michael Irvin. You know how it is you
want to get back into good graces. But to say,
I know Will McClay and he's done a great job there, Chris,
drafting and whatnot. He's really really good in that front office.
Of course, he was with the Lions and they let
him go to Dallas, and he'd become a typical typical
Will McClay back in the day. But he is, Uh,
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he's tremendous. Yeah, And and look so so Number one,
the Cowboys aren't the equivalent of the Warriors by any
stretch of the imagination. Number two, Uh, Ted Lamb, Look
and he I think he could be a great one,
But my goodness, he's gotta be Randy Moss, like Jerry Rice,
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like maybe not quite that good, but slightly below to
be Kevin Durant. And then he's a receiver. And receivers
in football, as big an impact as they make, they
don't make the type of impact that Kevin Durant can
make in basketball because there's only five guys on the floor.
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Totally different. And uh, you're right, you gotta get the football, Chris.
There's other guys out there, other skill guys who also
demand the rock. I just don't look at it that way.
And scoring points and stuff. I don't think that's been
an issue for the Cowboys, do you know what I mean?
Like that, So it's not like, oh my god, they
just added the piece that was meant they've been scoring
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right now, right, it's a great move to get him
at seventeen. I mean, it's it's nice. I mean, we're
we're with Irvin or that we just think he overstated
it to the degree. But I like, look, Ceedee lamb
Amari Cooper and uh, what's his name of the third guy? Uh, Michael,
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what's the third receiver? Gallup? Yeah, Gallup. Yeah. So they're
gonna have a nice receiving corps for Doc to throw to,
and it'll be interesting to see Dak with Mike McCarthy.
I actually think it's gonna be it's gonna work out
pretty well. Rob. I know, of course you do. But yeah,
wolf Qua you hope. So because you said DA's on
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his way to what, well, he's on his way. This
is the big they don't make the playoffs, He's on
the path and that'll be interesting to see. We'll see
what happens. All right, You're turned away in eight seven
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won't stink. Eight seven seven ninety nine On Fox, Let's
see what the callers think about Ceedee Lamb and uh
the high heights. He's going to take the Cowboys too.
All right, let's kick it off with Hank in Virginia.
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Hank?
Hey man? What's going on? Guys man? It's tough being
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the Cowboys. Send here in the Washington the football club area.
So you know, when when you watch your team go
and and putting numbers on the board, I think what
gets overlooked is when you're putting the numbers on the
board and he's just gonna take Cobbs numbers. I think
maybe eight, five or six downs. And even if if
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if Ceedee Lamb you know, gets more catches, he'll just
take some from Galloping, some from Cooper. The problem is
what is your quarterback gonna do against New England? You
know where he's full for twelve on third and fourth down,
including over six on three yards or less? Um is
he gonna do anything before Green Bay gets up thirty
one to three. We're gonna be talking about consistently entire
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halfs where the offense does nothing because the quarterback struggles. Well,
I mean it's a fact. It is. All you're doing
is feeling facts. If you think about this, Dallas lows
um eight games, three of them were about twenty four.
They scored twenty four points. That's the most loss that's
gonna get you beat in a lot of NFL games. Now,
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that's what about? What about the two years they made
the playoffs? Were you down here talking about? Now? What
was that down on? I was on? Zeke Elliott was
who I was on? I mean, you know what quarterback
couldn't step in there right now? It does the exact
same thing. I trade that lay Kyler Murray in a heartbeat. Well,
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let's see, let's see what Kyler can do. Actually, the
Cowboys fan, I think he just was calling in the troll.
I think, so, yeah, all right, let's talk to our
Ham in New Jersey. You're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Ham? What's up? Guys? The
last caller was hilarious. CD Lamb, Guys, I just don't
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know what Michael Irvin is doing or saying. I think
he's just reaching. This is like when the late Al
Davis back in two thousand and nine drafted Davis Herod
Bay and said he was a second coming of like
Jerry Rice. I just don't think the CD Lamb is
enough to solve the Cowboys problems. He's not a quick
fix and you know what receivers, it's not a guarantee,
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and he's not even that fast. Well, yeah, because some
people were can he be a Randy Moss? I mean,
Randy Moss had blinding speed. Randy Moss was. I tell
you my career, Chris working you know, and covering all
those Lions games for all those years in Detroit and
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seeing Randy Moss twice a year play was worth the
price of admission. There's only about a handful of players
that I would pay money, my own money to go
see play, and I'm telling you he was one of them.
He was tremendous. No, no, if he was actually just
shake my head all the time and watching what he
could do on a football field. David and Lincoln, Nebraska,
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You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up David.
What's up my family? I haven't met. Yeah, what's going on?
Good to hear from you. Hey, Look, man, like I've
told you guys before, I'm a forty year Cowboys fan,
I ain't. I really have never known a single team
in the NFL history really that has ever been one
wide receiver way, especially especially a rookie wide receiver, you know,
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like Wasn't It wasn't. Odell was supposed to save the
Browns last year. And did they make the playoffs last year? No? Yeah,
you know that's what I'm saying. It's like, I mean,
I love Michael ur He's like a god in my house,
you know, but uh, you know, no, the Cowboys aren't
a wide receiver away. Um. And you know what if
the team they're playing next year is uh is over
five hundred, Dak probably won't get into damn ball anyway. Yeah,
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have a have a good Weekend's been good talking to you. Yeah.
I want you to callback with that same energy when
Dak has a Pro Bowl season. That's right, I said it. Yeah,
All y'all callback with that same energy that sounds like
a Jordan's bet. Yeah you wish you wish. I was
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born at night, Ryan Parker, but it wasn't last night.
I got it. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. Look, I
think you know we I don't know if you ready
to make your picture yet. Rob, I'm not ready to
make my yet. But I think Dalla is gonna be
much improved. I mean, we can get mit. Jason Garrett
wasn't a good coach. I'm medio layoffs though I'm still
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not well. The NFC is tough, but they're seven teams
now in the playoffs, so we'll see. But we got
Tory Gurley coming up, so we can talk to him
about this and get into some college football with him
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I love our next guests. Great guy. He's a former
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NFL wide receiver. He's an NFL and college football analysts.
You can follow him on Twitter at t Girly gu
r l e y eighty one. The thing I love
about him is he's always willing to bet me in
something that's gonna end up with him owing me wings.
Oh it's great. I've had so many free wings on Tory.
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It's ridiculous. Tory, Welcome to the eye couple that was
going on. I don't know what you talking about, you
texting me that, when you talking about losing anytime you
bet against me and Rob? You know? All right, Well, look,
let's the last time we were all together watching the game.
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If I remember correctly, it was Kansas City, New England.
Now we know Kansas City went on to win the
Super Bowl last year. They are talking a lot of
stuff and I don't not so much Patrick Mahomes, but
you got several players talking about not five, not six,
not seven, dynasty this and that. What do you think
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is this team going to be a team that wins
multiple Super Bowls? Or are they messing up with all
this talking? Yeah? I think they're feeling themselves a little
too much. They are extremely talented and it reminds me
of the team I played on a two thousand and
ten with the Green Bay Packers. Those guys the year
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before won the Super Bowl and we went into the
season and we rolled through the regular season. A matter
of fact, we were fifteen and one, and everyone had
us pencil then to be in a super Bowl, probably
facing against the New England Patriots. And we end up
losing to Kansas City week seventeen, a game that didn't matter,
and we turned right back around, had a week off,
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just like you would if you were the number one seed,
and we lost to the New York Giants. We lost
the Eli Manning and long story short, I can see
the same thing happening to the Kansas City Chiefs this year,
where they have a great regular season and out of
nowhere there's a team, a wild card team that knocks
them off, because it's just it's hard to sustain that
type of success for weeks at a time. You know,
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usually you can turn up in the playoffs and you
ready to roll. But these guys are now everybody's primetime
game and they're gonna be ready to knock them off,
and eventually it just you your courses runs out. Tory
if you were still playing in the NFL, would you
have opted in or out with the COVID A lot?
You know, a lot of players are the number of
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players have opted out. I think the Patriots have lost
six players, Chris Right three, three starters. Yeah, well, I
can speak from undrafted free agent. If it's my first
year in the league, no, I'm doing whatever it takes
to go out there and provide for my family. But
if I'm a starter and I'm established, and you know,
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I've been good with my money, then that'd be a
different decision. Or you know, I could be like, you
know what, you know, I've done what I needed to do.
I need to take care of my family and not
play football, and I'll pick up the following year. But
something about this game, about any sports life goes on,
it moves forward, and then these guys who opt out,
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if they think they're gonna just step back in next year.
You know, we all know what the NFL stands for,
and that's not for long. And whenever a team or
a general manager can find a player at a cheaper
price that can give you that same type of production,
those guys are going to be out of the door.
So it's a catch twenty two on both sides. But
you know, I command anyone that do whatever it's best
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for their family tour. I really want to ask you
about two teams, so it can be one question about
two teams that are kind of related. Tampa Bay, how
good you think they're gonna be? I mean, Tom Brady's
got weapons galore and that definitive is really good at
the end of the season, So you think they're gonna
be good. So so what do you think Tampa is
going to do? And then with Cam Newton, what do
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you think New England's gonna do? Okay, Well, the answer
about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I think they're going to
struggle coming out of the blocks. And the reason why
Tom Brady is one of the few guys in the
NFL that loves to practice. And whenever you miss out
on OTAs and you have this foreign type of preseason
training camp that's going on this year, it really disrupts
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the learning curve of him being able to get that
timing down with his players. I know we've made a
big deal of him working out at a park or
him being in these secluded areas, but it's nothing like
actually being in the building, having on your helmet, your
shoulder paths and getting those reps with real defenders and
whenever you don't have that, I think for a person
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like Tom Brady, it's going to take him a couple
of weeks and then eventually he'll get the ball rolling
with the next team. With the New England Patriots, I
kind of feel I feel that for Cam and the
reason why I say that is they're not giving them
much to work with. You know, outside of Julian Elman,
I really can't name any other personnel. Like a lot
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of those guys are young and they're gonna be out
there fighting for spots, and then on defense they look
paper thin. Right now outside of steff On Gilmore, I
don't know how New England is going to be competitive.
And you know, there's been some talks about you know,
Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields having guys like that in
the upcoming draft, so you know, Cam might be a
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person that he might not even get to start over
Jared Stedham or Brown Horrier, like who knows what's going
on in New England. So it's one of those things
where we're just gonna have to sit back and let
this thing play out, all right? College football? Obviously there's
some conferences who pulled the plug on the season. Others
want to continue going on. A SEC is one of them.
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Where are you won this with college football? And should
they have just pulled the plug on all Division one
college football? Do you like that it's individual conferences making
a call? Yeah, rob, My heart goes out to all
the student athletes. I know a lot of coaches are
going to come out and you know, give their speech
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about why they should be playing. But it matters to
me what happens to these young men and young women
who go to school for the opportunity to brand themselves
to play at the next level. If it wasn't for
me having a scholarship, I wouldn't have had opportunity to
be in college. And I knew with that college opportunity,
I had to make the most out of it and
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get to the NFL. And for these young men and
young women, what's going to happen with them when this
year goes by and the school gives you a degree
and they move on to the next year, and no
one remembers that that senior who was the captain, who
did everything right and had probably had pro potential, but
there was no season for him, and you know, there's
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just like good luck. You know, we're going to leave
you with the bad. And something that you know I've
spoken with many people about it is people make a
big deal of COVID, you know, where these guys could
get hick on the field or this, that and the
third last time I checked, these institutions are still charging
full price for tuition. So if people really cared about
the world being of any human why would you charge
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kids for price to take classes online where they have
no access to getting to certain buildings or being u
in the classroom setting. So if the institutions are still
going to make money off kids paying tuition, why not
allow these student athletes to be in school just to
play their sport. Because something we all know is major
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sports continues to be played in America as we speak.
You have the NBA. You have to tor, is that
what you're saying you think should I definitely, I definitely
think the kids should have an option to play um
you know, with certain conferences like the Big Ten and
and the Pact twelve pulling the plug on the programs
(30:03):
that my whole thing is you're still charging kids to
be at school so that the university can continue to
make money and put kids in debt. And you know
they talk about, well, we care about our football players,
but do you care about the student body and something?
Those students still they're not gonna be on campus or
in class. Some of them be on campus, but maybe
(30:23):
not going to class. You know, they're still charging. Yeah,
but the tuition prices are still full. No, but but
but but they are looking at like at USC, we
start school on Monday. I mean I'm teaching online virtually.
Uh so, so no, they don't want to put the
kids in harm's way. And I think it's weird that
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you would ask USC football players to come on campus
and be a part of the student body when the
student body's not there, do you know what I mean? Like,
they're students. So if it's not good enough for the
students to come come to class, how could be good
enough for football players to play. I think that with
these certain Paler file schools, they have the resources to
(31:07):
create many bubbles. We all know that there are certain
sides of you know, Rob, you professor at Southern cal
We know at certain sides of a school where the
normal student body isn't on when it meaning you know,
the weight room, the cafeteria where the athletes are at
a certain things, or the hotel they stay at the
night before the game. So just looking at the resources
(31:28):
they have to be able to have a season and
keep guys COVID free, I think that could be done.
Or if they do catch COVID, they have the resources
to get them to these great hospitals to continue get
them tested so they can move on and play ball
and have that opportunity because when this is over with,
I mean these college coaches who sit there in your
(31:50):
living room and say, hey, I'm want to be with
you for the next four years of your life, and
I'm gonna be there for you. What's gonna happen when
you get that degree in Like a coach, you know,
I did everything I could for this university. Now I
need opportunity for a job or or to move on
in life, and that coach is gonna look at him
like son, you know, I'm kind of sorry, I gotta
I gotta worry about coaching this year's football team. And
(32:11):
you're just looking at him like wow, Like I gave
you everything I had and you promised me you were
gonna be there for me. All right. That's Tory Gurley.
Will agree to disagree on that one. We don't think
they should be playing. But Tory, you're wrong on that,
and you're wrong on a lot. So let's bet on
Tampa Bay. We got wings, Tory, I got Tampa Bay
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making the playoffs, wing bet, that's what I know. They're
gonna make the playoffs. Well, you know what we can do.
I like the New Orleans Saints Week one, so we
can put some wings on that. You take Tampa, I
take the New Orleans. Now you know what I do?
You a solid I got New England making the playoffs. Okay,
that's all right? All right, there you go, wing Bet,
(32:55):
all right, you think you're gonna win that one, but
many stay safe, right, yes, you guys take care? All right, brother,
Good job, Tory. That's Tori Gurley, former NFL wide receiver
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you know your last two definitely great. This is first hit,
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(34:46):
and Houston are playing right now, and they're playing their
players like there, I mean, Eric Gordon, James Harden, Daniel House,
P J. Tucker, and then you got Joe lmb to Buias. Hey, Like,
I guess you know, these are two teams obviously to
have injuries and maybe they just want to you know,
work out their new lineups. I guess yeah. And you
(35:09):
know it's only eight games, like there really wasn't a
need to rest guys. I mean, I get it, you
don't want to risk injury, but you know what I'm saying,
it's not like they just finished an eighty two games
scenes No, I get it. But you know, but I
think you might be right that they just want to
get people so that the first playoff game made, the
first time, you really get comfortable, you know what I mean,
and then no, West, you lose that game, and then
(35:31):
you know what I mean, you're automatically in the hole
because you're are unfamiliar and then maybe you struggle. So
so I get it. I think it does make sense.
Do you I think Philly's gonna lose to Boston. Do
you give them much chance? Yeah? I did without Simmons
and just where they are. The buzz, the bloom is
off Philly right now, and I just don't feel good
(35:54):
about them. Now. Do you think Houston is in any trouble? Okay,
see it in the first round without Westbrook a few games, Yep,
I think they are. I mean that's a big blow. Huge,
that's a big blow. And if if Harden can win
this without him, say if he misses the first two
or three games Christ and they still win the series,
that'll be amazing. But there's a chance Houston could get
(36:17):
knocked out, right, And I don't think small ball is
the same without Westbrook because he puts so much pressure
on the defense because he's always attacking and that you know,
that keeps you on your heels. But without him, they're
pretty much a half court team where Harden's gonna create everything.
You know, they become very predictable. And you know, Mike D'Antoni,
(36:39):
as much as I like him as a coach and
many others don't, he's not gonna make any adjustments. He
never does. That's why he never wins, right, he's not
gonna make one adjustment. All right, Rob, have a great
week next week, and you guys have a great weekend.
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wrapping up a funky Flashback Friday and another week and Rob,
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just like you took your vacation a few weeks ago,
I'm off next week. Many you take it off. I'm
but all so much. I think you played time you
were anybody at the network stop it. I don't think
I've been off since you were on the Golden Girls cruise.
You've had like three vacations since my last vacation. That's
(01:15):
because I work every holiday, right, Robi Yester, No, he
thinks a holiday's worth like two weeks off the regular time.
I'm building up time. So do you have your your
your group, your your lineup set? Yes? Well, okay, I
want to hear it. I want to hear it. Um
do I have it in front of me? You might
(01:36):
not know the days, but whoever? Yeah, uh, mister Bernardo
really okay, that's is that a first for him doing that?
This will be second. Martin Weiss is in the Okay,
he's in the who else is? Uh? Let me see
Jonas Jonas Jonas knocks of course from I from Salaam yep.
(01:59):
And there's one other rister, George Rice fred Rogan. Fred
Rogan is going to join us on Friday. This will
be his second time as well. Okay, okay, we got
a nice little, nice little mix of people are feeling
for you all week, and uh we'll do the best
wee can. We all have. It'll be the odd couple light,
(02:20):
but it'll be good. It'll be fun. I'm gonna go
out to the Hamptons for a few days, all you really? Yeah? Wow,
But I'm still doing TV, so you know, right, I'm
being take off the right playoffs are and I'll be
watching these games too, you know. But uh, but we'll
make the most of it. We got Tory Gurley, former
(02:41):
NFL wide receiver and in NFL and college football analysts
coming up, so we can get into NFL and college
with him. Rob. So that's that's a good guess. At
the bottom of the hour, let's uh. We talked earlier
about the Blazer's name Lillard. They survived the New York,
the brook the Nets, and let's get to the Nets though,
(03:04):
because maybe the story is in the team that just lost.
They look good. I know you you love the Clippers.
You like the little engines that could, even though they
even when they couldn't like the Clippers couldn't beat the Warriors,
but you liked them. I just couldn't you like them? Yeah? Yeah,
(03:24):
I just like you think this is a sign of
I mean, let's you think they went in the championship
next year when they get their two main guns, which
is k D and Kyrie Irving back. But but I
already I already picked that when those two guys went
to Brooklyn. I roped up. I said, Clippers in twenty
twenty and the Nets in twenty twenty one. That was
just right off the top. When I looked, I knew
(03:47):
them to win it. Yeah, because I mean I remember
when Kyrie, Kyrie gave you the head nod and you
were all play and we just melt that the Jordan party.
You just melt it, Chris Kyrie. Did you see Kyrie?
No I say that? Would you stop? You know? I
did not say that. And he didn't just give me
a head. No, we talked for a little bit. They
(04:09):
had nothing to do with it. You gave me a head.
He gave me. When you remember that house, it was
like being on a cruise ship. It was really it
was a bell It was Belle air Man, right, Yeah,
I don't know where it was. Was it Belle? Was
that Bellela? That was Belle A jeez. The kitchen you've
(04:31):
been over there, Belle air The kitchen was the size
of a basketball court. It was. It was a no exaggeration.
It was crazy. But anyway, you here's my thing about Brooklyn.
You think they're gonna win the championship next year? Look
on paper, they're gonna be nice. I got there. I
just think there's major questions. First of all, Kyrie's health.
(04:54):
We know he's twenty games this year, sixty seven last year,
sixty the year before. He just teams to be banged
up too much. That's one question. If that's as the
affirmative and he's healthy, great, Second question, who's gonna be
the coach? Jacque Vaughn I think is making a nice
little case for himself. But anyway, you know, you know,
(05:15):
but we'll see who's the coach, tylu jacque Vaughn, whoever.
And then I think they've got like Carris Laverte. They're
not as good as Kyrie and Durant obviously, but Spencer
then Witty. These are guys capable of averaging nineteen and
twenty points a game, and I think they would probably
prefer those two. Like an equal opportunity offense where the
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ball's moving, everybody's got a chance to shoot right, And
that's that's why I think the chemistry. I'm not saying
they're gonna revolt and it's gonna be ter, but chemistry
is important. And I think with the Clippers, Rob everybody
knew their role. Lou knew. Yeah, I'm a twenty point
score or off the bench, but I'm off the bench.
(06:02):
Harold knows, you know. I'm off the bench. I'm an
energy guy. Patrick Patterson, Landry Shammon, if it kazoo, but
like they know their roles. None of them are stars,
and they understand that. Although you can make a case
for Lou maybe to make an all star team here
or there, but so when they drop two stars in,
I think everybody kind of fit around him. I don't
(06:24):
know if that'll happen in Brooklyn, but I'm gonna throw
something match you Rob, And I don't know that it
can happen. But if I'm the Nets, I think hard
about I wonder if I can package Karis Lavert, He's
looked great in the bubble, and Spencer Dinwitty, who many
(06:44):
people think is out of there anyway, and whatever else
I need to give up to get Bradley Bill. Now
he could be the third wheel, that right shooter. Oh
that that's there's no question there the favorite in the
East if they get if they can do that, And
I tell you what, if I be deal and then
(07:07):
might for somebody because they have talented players and you
can look around and say, you know this guy in
the right place, Uh could could be what we're looking for.
And uh, I agree with that. I don't think to see.
If I'm Washington, look, I'm paying Bill all this money
and he's great, but I'm losing, not winning. Maybe I
(07:27):
bring in some young guys. Now you still got John Wall,
and that's gonna change everything too. They probably would want
to try to build around Wall and build yet again,
and they probably won't work, but they they'll try to
give it a shot. I'm with you, I might take it.
I might take a flyer and do something different. You
keep but Wall is the issue, you know, as long
(07:48):
as you have him. Yeah, but you Kim, he's gonna
be the star, right right, So maybe they'll just ride
out with Bill. But we'll see. But speaking of Kevin
durant U, Michael Irvin, who we love, a friend of
the show. He's on every Super Bowl and even Super Bowl. Yeah,
but he's great to us. He is a and he
is a great commentator. Although I think what he said
(08:11):
recently was assinine and here it is. It's about Cede
Lamb and what like, how how good Cede Lamb is
going to be with the Cowboys. What the Dallas Cowboys
did in the ninth and in the twenty twenty NFL
Draft by adding scene d Lamb to the number one
(08:35):
offense in the National Football League? Uh, what what will
McClay did. What what Jerry Jones those guys Mike McCarthy
did by adding this guy, Cede Lamb. It's a kid.
Almost tantum mount almost tantamount to Kevin Durant being added
(08:55):
to a seventy three win Warriors team. Stop, bitch, stopping?
Are you kidding me? Oh my god? Oivey two live jews. Oivey.
It's so humid in here, it's like a saunah. What
was he talking about, Chris? I hate to break it
(09:16):
to you, but the Cowboy didn't make the playoffs last
year and haven't won a play haven't won a championship
in twenty five years, and has three playoff wins in
twenty one. What stop the Warriors? They had already won
a championship in seventy three games. That'd be like the
Cowboys going sixteen and old and winning the championship the
(09:40):
year before. Prisoner of the Moment. That and that's just
one of the reasons he was over the top. Okay,
they're not the Warriors. Clearly, he didn't even make the playoffs. Secondly,
I mean, look, I like cg cd Lamb, like everybody else.
He was great, like Lamb, a little medium, a little
(10:01):
jelly on the side. He's nice, but Kevin Durant, Kevin
Durant is and I look, I'm willing to step out
on the limb and I think, ceedee, Lamb's got a
great future ahead of him. I'm willing to bat Rob.
He's not gonna be the Kevin Durant of white receivers.
(10:21):
I will agree with that. I don't. I don't. I
just as good as he could be. I mean, the
whole idea. I mean, this is just so over the top,
and I don't know, we can we go back this.
This is one of those things. This is where like
sometimes you know, being a former player and attached to
a team, Chris, you just you go overboard, remember trying
(10:42):
to get back into good Grad's just about to say
the same thing because what he's saying about Jerry, Uh
do he say something about trading Dak or yeah that
was something and you remember yet that they were talking
about it or whatever, and then when they pushed back, man,
he was peddling. Ever since then, he's just thrown flowers
at the right right and that's part of that. I mean,
(11:03):
maybe that's Michael Irvin. You know how it is you
want to get back into good graces. But to say,
I know Will McClay and he's done a great job there, Chris,
drafting and whatnot. He's really really good in that front office.
Of course, he was with the Lions and they let
him go to Dallas, and he'd become a typical typical
Will McClay back in the day. But he is, Uh,
(11:26):
he's tremendous. Yeah, And and look so so Number one,
the Cowboys aren't the equivalent of the Warriors by any
stretch of the imagination. Number two, Uh, Ted Lamb, Look
and he I think he could be a great one,
But my goodness, he's gotta be Randy Moss, like Jerry Rice,
(11:48):
like maybe not quite that good, but slightly below to
be Kevin Durant. And then he's a receiver. And receivers
in football, as big an impact as they make, they
don't make the type of impact that Kevin Durant can
make in basketball because there's only five guys on the floor.
(12:12):
Totally different. And uh, you're right, you gotta get the football, Chris.
There's other guys out there, other skill guys who also
demand the rock. I just don't look at it that way.
And scoring points and stuff. I don't think that's been
an issue for the Cowboys, do you know what I mean?
Like that, So it's not like, oh my god, they
just added the piece that was meant they've been scoring
(12:34):
right now, right, it's a great move to get him
at seventeen. I mean, it's it's nice. I mean, we're
we're with Irvin or that we just think he overstated
it to the degree. But I like, look, Ceedee lamb
Amari Cooper and uh, what's his name of the third guy? Uh, Michael,
(12:59):
what's the third receiver? Gallup? Yeah, Gallup. Yeah. So they're
gonna have a nice receiving corps for Doc to throw to,
and it'll be interesting to see Dak with Mike McCarthy.
I actually think it's gonna be it's gonna work out
pretty well. Rob. I know, of course you do. But yeah,
wolf Qua you hope. So because you said DA's on
(13:20):
his way to what, well, he's on his way. This
is the big they don't make the playoffs, He's on
the path and that'll be interesting to see. We'll see
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won't stink. Eight seven seven ninety nine On Fox, Let's
see what the callers think about Ceedee Lamb and uh
the high heights. He's going to take the Cowboys too.
All right, let's kick it off with Hank in Virginia.
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Hank?
Hey man? What's going on? Guys man? It's tough being
(16:41):
the Cowboys. Send here in the Washington the football club area.
So you know, when when you watch your team go
and and putting numbers on the board, I think what
gets overlooked is when you're putting the numbers on the
board and he's just gonna take Cobbs numbers. I think
maybe eight, five or six downs. And even if if
(17:02):
if Ceedee Lamb you know, gets more catches, he'll just
take some from Galloping, some from Cooper. The problem is
what is your quarterback gonna do against New England? You
know where he's full for twelve on third and fourth down,
including over six on three yards or less? Um is
he gonna do anything before Green Bay gets up thirty
one to three. We're gonna be talking about consistently entire
(17:25):
halfs where the offense does nothing because the quarterback struggles. Well,
I mean it's a fact. It is. All you're doing
is feeling facts. If you think about this, Dallas lows
um eight games, three of them were about twenty four.
They scored twenty four points. That's the most loss that's
gonna get you beat in a lot of NFL games. Now,
(17:47):
that's what about? What about the two years they made
the playoffs? Were you down here talking about? Now? What
was that down on? I was on? Zeke Elliott was
who I was on? I mean, you know what quarterback
couldn't step in there right now? It does the exact
same thing. I trade that lay Kyler Murray in a heartbeat. Well,
(18:08):
let's see, let's see what Kyler can do. Actually, the
Cowboys fan, I think he just was calling in the troll.
I think, so, yeah, all right, let's talk to our
Ham in New Jersey. You're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Ham? What's up? Guys? The
last caller was hilarious. CD Lamb, Guys, I just don't
(18:32):
know what Michael Irvin is doing or saying. I think
he's just reaching. This is like when the late Al
Davis back in two thousand and nine drafted Davis Herod
Bay and said he was a second coming of like
Jerry Rice. I just don't think the CD Lamb is
enough to solve the Cowboys problems. He's not a quick
fix and you know what receivers, it's not a guarantee,
(18:55):
and he's not even that fast. Well, yeah, because some
people were can he be a Randy Moss? I mean,
Randy Moss had blinding speed. Randy Moss was. I tell
you my career, Chris working you know, and covering all
those Lions games for all those years in Detroit and
(19:16):
seeing Randy Moss twice a year play was worth the
price of admission. There's only about a handful of players
that I would pay money, my own money to go
see play, and I'm telling you he was one of them.
He was tremendous. No, no, if he was actually just
shake my head all the time and watching what he
could do on a football field. David and Lincoln, Nebraska,
(19:39):
You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up David.
What's up my family? I haven't met. Yeah, what's going on?
Good to hear from you. Hey, Look, man, like I've
told you guys before, I'm a forty year Cowboys fan,
I ain't. I really have never known a single team
in the NFL history really that has ever been one
wide receiver way, especially especially a rookie wide receiver, you know,
(20:04):
like Wasn't It wasn't. Odell was supposed to save the
Browns last year. And did they make the playoffs last year? No? Yeah,
you know that's what I'm saying. It's like, I mean,
I love Michael ur He's like a god in my house,
you know, but uh, you know, no, the Cowboys aren't
a wide receiver away. Um. And you know what if
the team they're playing next year is uh is over
five hundred, Dak probably won't get into damn ball anyway. Yeah,
(20:27):
have a have a good Weekend's been good talking to you. Yeah.
I want you to callback with that same energy when
Dak has a Pro Bowl season. That's right, I said it. Yeah,
All y'all callback with that same energy that sounds like
a Jordan's bet. Yeah you wish you wish. I was
(20:53):
born at night, Ryan Parker, but it wasn't last night.
I got it. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. Look, I
think you know we I don't know if you ready
to make your picture yet. Rob, I'm not ready to
make my yet. But I think Dalla is gonna be
much improved. I mean, we can get mit. Jason Garrett
wasn't a good coach. I'm medio layoffs though I'm still
(21:17):
not well. The NFC is tough, but they're seven teams
now in the playoffs, so we'll see. But we got
Tory Gurley coming up, so we can talk to him
about this and get into some college football with him
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(22:00):
NFL wide receiver. He's an NFL and college football analysts.
You can follow him on Twitter at t Girly gu
r l e y eighty one. The thing I love
about him is he's always willing to bet me in
something that's gonna end up with him owing me wings.
Oh it's great. I've had so many free wings on Tory.
(22:24):
It's ridiculous. Tory, Welcome to the eye couple that was
going on. I don't know what you talking about, you
texting me that, when you talking about losing anytime you
bet against me and Rob? You know? All right, Well, look,
let's the last time we were all together watching the game.
(22:47):
If I remember correctly, it was Kansas City, New England.
Now we know Kansas City went on to win the
Super Bowl last year. They are talking a lot of
stuff and I don't not so much Patrick Mahomes, but
you got several players talking about not five, not six,
not seven, dynasty this and that. What do you think
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is this team going to be a team that wins
multiple Super Bowls? Or are they messing up with all
this talking? Yeah? I think they're feeling themselves a little
too much. They are extremely talented and it reminds me
of the team I played on a two thousand and
ten with the Green Bay Packers. Those guys the year
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before won the Super Bowl and we went into the
season and we rolled through the regular season. A matter
of fact, we were fifteen and one, and everyone had
us pencil then to be in a super Bowl, probably
facing against the New England Patriots. And we end up
losing to Kansas City week seventeen, a game that didn't matter,
and we turned right back around, had a week off,
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just like you would if you were the number one seed,
and we lost to the New York Giants. We lost
the Eli Manning and long story short, I can see
the same thing happening to the Kansas City Chiefs this year,
where they have a great regular season and out of
nowhere there's a team, a wild card team that knocks
them off, because it's just it's hard to sustain that
type of success for weeks at a time. You know,
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usually you can turn up in the playoffs and you
ready to roll. But these guys are now everybody's primetime
game and they're gonna be ready to knock them off,
and eventually it just you your courses runs out. Tory
if you were still playing in the NFL, would you
have opted in or out with the COVID A lot?
You know, a lot of players are the number of
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players have opted out. I think the Patriots have lost
six players, Chris Right three, three starters. Yeah, well, I
can speak from undrafted free agent. If it's my first
year in the league, no, I'm doing whatever it takes
to go out there and provide for my family. But
if I'm a starter and I'm established, and you know,
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I've been good with my money, then that'd be a
different decision. Or you know, I could be like, you
know what, you know, I've done what I needed to do.
I need to take care of my family and not
play football, and I'll pick up the following year. But
something about this game, about any sports life goes on,
it moves forward, and then these guys who opt out,
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if they think they're gonna just step back in next year.
You know, we all know what the NFL stands for,
and that's not for long. And whenever a team or
a general manager can find a player at a cheaper
price that can give you that same type of production,
those guys are going to be out of the door.
So it's a catch twenty two on both sides. But
you know, I command anyone that do whatever it's best
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for their family tour. I really want to ask you
about two teams, so it can be one question about
two teams that are kind of related. Tampa Bay, how
good you think they're gonna be? I mean, Tom Brady's
got weapons galore and that definitive is really good at
the end of the season, So you think they're gonna
be good. So so what do you think Tampa is
going to do? And then with Cam Newton, what do
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you think New England's gonna do? Okay, Well, the answer
about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I think they're going to
struggle coming out of the blocks. And the reason why
Tom Brady is one of the few guys in the
NFL that loves to practice. And whenever you miss out
on OTAs and you have this foreign type of preseason
training camp that's going on this year, it really disrupts
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the learning curve of him being able to get that
timing down with his players. I know we've made a
big deal of him working out at a park or
him being in these secluded areas, but it's nothing like
actually being in the building, having on your helmet, your
shoulder paths and getting those reps with real defenders and
whenever you don't have that, I think for a person
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like Tom Brady, it's going to take him a couple
of weeks and then eventually he'll get the ball rolling
with the next team. With the New England Patriots, I
kind of feel I feel that for Cam and the
reason why I say that is they're not giving them
much to work with. You know, outside of Julian Elman,
I really can't name any other personnel. Like a lot
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of those guys are young and they're gonna be out
there fighting for spots, and then on defense they look
paper thin. Right now outside of steff On Gilmore, I
don't know how New England is going to be competitive.
And you know, there's been some talks about you know,
Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields having guys like that in
the upcoming draft, so you know, Cam might be a
(27:31):
person that he might not even get to start over
Jared Stedham or Brown Horrier, like who knows what's going
on in New England. So it's one of those things
where we're just gonna have to sit back and let
this thing play out, all right? College football? Obviously there's
some conferences who pulled the plug on the season. Others
want to continue going on. A SEC is one of them.
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Where are you won this with college football? And should
they have just pulled the plug on all Division one
college football? Do you like that it's individual conferences making
a call? Yeah, rob, My heart goes out to all
the student athletes. I know a lot of coaches are
going to come out and you know, give their speech
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about why they should be playing. But it matters to
me what happens to these young men and young women
who go to school for the opportunity to brand themselves
to play at the next level. If it wasn't for
me having a scholarship, I wouldn't have had opportunity to
be in college. And I knew with that college opportunity,
I had to make the most out of it and
(28:35):
get to the NFL. And for these young men and
young women, what's going to happen with them when this
year goes by and the school gives you a degree
and they move on to the next year, and no
one remembers that that senior who was the captain, who
did everything right and had probably had pro potential, but
there was no season for him, and you know, there's
(28:57):
just like good luck. You know, we're going to leave
you with the bad. And something that you know I've
spoken with many people about it is people make a
big deal of COVID, you know, where these guys could
get hick on the field or this, that and the
third last time I checked, these institutions are still charging
full price for tuition. So if people really cared about
the world being of any human why would you charge
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kids for price to take classes online where they have
no access to getting to certain buildings or being u
in the classroom setting. So if the institutions are still
going to make money off kids paying tuition, why not
allow these student athletes to be in school just to
play their sport. Because something we all know is major
(29:41):
sports continues to be played in America as we speak.
You have the NBA. You have to tor, is that
what you're saying you think should I definitely, I definitely
think the kids should have an option to play um
you know, with certain conferences like the Big Ten and
and the Pact twelve pulling the plug on the programs
(30:03):
that my whole thing is you're still charging kids to
be at school so that the university can continue to
make money and put kids in debt. And you know
they talk about, well, we care about our football players,
but do you care about the student body and something?
Those students still they're not gonna be on campus or
in class. Some of them be on campus, but maybe
(30:23):
not going to class. You know, they're still charging. Yeah,
but the tuition prices are still full. No, but but
but but they are looking at like at USC, we
start school on Monday. I mean I'm teaching online virtually.
Uh so, so no, they don't want to put the
kids in harm's way. And I think it's weird that
(30:45):
you would ask USC football players to come on campus
and be a part of the student body when the
student body's not there, do you know what I mean? Like,
they're students. So if it's not good enough for the
students to come come to class, how could be good
enough for football players to play. I think that with
these certain Paler file schools, they have the resources to
(31:07):
create many bubbles. We all know that there are certain
sides of you know, Rob, you professor at Southern cal
We know at certain sides of a school where the
normal student body isn't on when it meaning you know,
the weight room, the cafeteria where the athletes are at
a certain things, or the hotel they stay at the
night before the game. So just looking at the resources
(31:28):
they have to be able to have a season and
keep guys COVID free, I think that could be done.
Or if they do catch COVID, they have the resources
to get them to these great hospitals to continue get
them tested so they can move on and play ball
and have that opportunity because when this is over with,
I mean these college coaches who sit there in your
(31:50):
living room and say, hey, I'm want to be with
you for the next four years of your life, and
I'm gonna be there for you. What's gonna happen when
you get that degree in Like a coach, you know,
I did everything I could for this university. Now I
need opportunity for a job or or to move on
in life, and that coach is gonna look at him
like son, you know, I'm kind of sorry, I gotta
I gotta worry about coaching this year's football team. And
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you're just looking at him like wow, Like I gave
you everything I had and you promised me you were
gonna be there for me. All right. That's Tory Gurley.
Will agree to disagree on that one. We don't think
they should be playing. But Tory, you're wrong on that,
and you're wrong on a lot. So let's bet on
Tampa Bay. We got wings, Tory, I got Tampa Bay
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making the playoffs, wing bet, that's what I know. They're
gonna make the playoffs. Well, you know what we can do.
I like the New Orleans Saints Week one, so we
can put some wings on that. You take Tampa, I
take the New Orleans. Now you know what I do?
You a solid I got New England making the playoffs. Okay,
that's all right? All right, there you go, wing Bet,
(32:55):
all right, you think you're gonna win that one, but
many stay safe, right, yes, you guys take care? All right, brother,
Good job, Tory. That's Tori Gurley, former NFL wide receiver
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favorite print song. Now two for two? Uh, this is yeah,
you know your last two definitely great. This is first hit,
but it was his best one to me. Yeah, some
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other great ones obviously, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. What's your
favorite print song? You saying pop life? I think yeah, poplife?
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(34:46):
and Houston are playing right now, and they're playing their
players like there, I mean, Eric Gordon, James Harden, Daniel House,
P J. Tucker, and then you got Joe lmb to Buias. Hey, Like,
I guess you know, these are two teams obviously to
have injuries and maybe they just want to you know,
work out their new lineups. I guess yeah. And you
(35:09):
know it's only eight games, like there really wasn't a
need to rest guys. I mean, I get it, you
don't want to risk injury, but you know what I'm saying,
it's not like they just finished an eighty two games
scenes No, I get it. But you know, but I
think you might be right that they just want to
get people so that the first playoff game made, the
first time, you really get comfortable, you know what I mean,
and then no, West, you lose that game, and then
(35:31):
you know what I mean, you're automatically in the hole
because you're are unfamiliar and then maybe you struggle. So
so I get it. I think it does make sense.
Do you I think Philly's gonna lose to Boston. Do
you give them much chance? Yeah? I did without Simmons
and just where they are. The buzz, the bloom is
off Philly right now, and I just don't feel good
(35:54):
about them. Now. Do you think Houston is in any trouble? Okay,
see it in the first round without Westbrook a few games, Yep,
I think they are. I mean that's a big blow. Huge,
that's a big blow. And if if Harden can win
this without him, say if he misses the first two
or three games Christ and they still win the series,
that'll be amazing. But there's a chance Houston could get
(36:17):
knocked out, right, And I don't think small ball is
the same without Westbrook because he puts so much pressure
on the defense because he's always attacking and that you know,
that keeps you on your heels. But without him, they're
pretty much a half court team where Harden's gonna create everything.
You know, they become very predictable. And you know, Mike D'Antoni,
(36:39):
as much as I like him as a coach and
many others don't, he's not gonna make any adjustments. He
never does. That's why he never wins, right, he's not
gonna make one adjustment. All right, Rob, have a great
week next week, and you guys have a great weekend.
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