December 8, 2020 • 38 mins
Chris and Rob debate if LeBron James should feel hurt by Kyrie Irving suggesting that he wasn't a clutch player when they played together in Cleveland, and discuss if Jim Harbaugh should be willing to take less money to stay at Michigan. Plus, former NFL general manager and NFL Network analyst Charley Casserly swings by to share his thoughts on the biggest headlines around the League.
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rate quote and Rob what day is this? It's a
trust talking to That's right, You'll be able to trash
anyone or anything in the world of sports. In the
third hour, I want you get your takes ready. I
saw you lout. You trash today. I saw you Trashwe
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on money. Don't let Floyd catch you. Don't let Floyd.
He might challenge you next. Come on, boy, get on
the step cloud. I'm ready to fight you. Oh yeah,
we gotta talk about that one day. Uh maybe later
this week. Him fighting Logan Paul. That is a bit ridiculous,
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Chris even at twenty four ninety five. No, thank you seriously, Yeah,
I got money grab. Well, it's definitely a money grab,
but the question is will it be entertaining enough for
people to I mean a lot of people are gonna
watch it. It is exactly what you said. It is
a straight up money grab. And here's the thing. And
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we're not gonna obviously have a whole boxing segment today,
but rob boxing these You saw how much money the
Tyson Jones exhibition made eighty million dollars and Tyson may
Timmy they gross like eighty million. I believe rob g
check eighty million? Was it eighty million? One point six
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million buys on pay per view? People money? Well, what
it's doing right some of these celebrity boxing matches, like
even maybe I know this was supposedly real, but Mayweather McGregor,
I know it was real, but there was no way
McGregor was gonna beat him. I think Floyd carried him.
You know, Oh no, that was I told you that
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was the first time in American history that a white
man got welfare from a black man. That's what that was.
That was that exactly what it was. And when Casey
wanted to fight, you know, and when Tyson picked up
his check, Chris, did you hear about this? He wore
ski masks to get his chest. So I mean, like,
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I'm sorry. That was okay, so so not bad. I
might put that into routine. Alex, you're ready to do
another comedy special rob for you. I will drop everything.
Let's do this twenty one. We're gonna get one and
nub in March. Let's do it in March, a new comedy.
All right, that'll be good, just as covid' is lessening
and uh yeah you can. You can bring that humor. Okay,
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but quickly about that rob now Jake Paul who knocked out,
like literally knocked out Nate Robins. You mean Logan Paul. No,
Logan is the one that's fighting Floyd. Jake Paul is
his brother. That's oh, I got it? Okay, No, so
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so Jake Paul, who's Logan's younger brother who knocked out
Nate Robinson. He wants to fight fight Connor McGregory. Here's
the thing, Rob, I think that fight would make a
ton of money. Don't you like these guys need either
one of them is a good boxer. But it's really
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like you don't need to be like you're getting people
now who really may not even know how to fight.
Now those two know how to fight obviously, but you know,
if you're a big name, like like what if a
couple of rappers that are well known we're gonna fight,
they make a lot of money, Like that's what is
don't you think like if I don't just throwing out
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little Wayne and oh god jay Z or something, little
Wayne and jay Z. Yes, that's my point, like boxing
better be careful, you know what I mean? Because these
name people that can't fight will draw big crowds and
so or a big pay per view, you know, fans,
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so it's gonna be interested. But anyway, speaking of fight,
uh Lebron James spoke on the Road Tripping podcast with
Richard Jefferson Channing Fries former teammates. Yeah, he's we got
to get well Channing come back on the Eye Cup.
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I think you scared him, Rob, No, He's like good,
we'll try to get him back on. But but it
was a great I was just listening to it before
the show part two, and one of the things that
Brian said is that he was hurt when Kyrie, you know,
implied that he wasn't clutch. Here here's Lebron. I was
a little like, like damn. Once I got the whole transcript.
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But I was like damn. You know, I wasn't like
all you tripping hit game when it shots my old life.
I was not like that. I was like damn, because, um,
you were there for a couple of seasons. I mean
I played with Kyrie for three seasons. The whole time
while I was there, Um, I only wanted to see
him be an MVP of our league. I only cared
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about his success and and and it just didn't align.
It just didn't align. And we was able to win
a championship. That's craziest things. We were still able to
win a championship and we could never align. But I
only cared about his well being, both both on and
off the floor, and it kind of like it kind
of hurted me a little bit. Now, for those that
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might not remember, we don't have the Kyrie sound right Rob.
For those that might not remember, this was a few
months ago. Rob and Kyrie was on Kevin Durand's podcast.
It was while the Lakers and everyone else was still
playing in the Bubble and kyriean on Kevin Durand's podcast
and basically was saying, look, I've always, you know, been
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comfortable in the clutch. I'm paraphrasing but summarizing what he said.
I've been comfortable in the clutch my whole life. I've
always felt like I was my team's best option to
take the last shot. And this is now that he's
playing with Kevin Durant. Obviously he was like, you know,
this is the first time. Why can really look down
at another dude on the team and be like, yo,
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that dude He didn't say dude, but that dude hit
this shot too, you know, And so that of course,
Kyrie Irving's most famous teammate was Lebron James. So if
you say that, you are implying that you Lebron couldn't
hit that shot. At least you didn't think he could
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hit that shot. And so Lebron said, look, obviously this
became a big story. We talked about it on the show,
They talked about it everywhere, and Lebron said, robbed that
what he did was he had he heard about it.
Of course it was all over. He had his people
get the transcript. So he could really see because you know,
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sometimes stuff does get taken out of context and all that,
and so he wanted to see was Kyrie really kind
of called him out? Because Kyrie came out with an
Instagram post like why must it always be brother against
brother all this stuff? If I would have called him out,
I would have said his name and all that, so
kind of saying he didn't. But Lebron into the transcripts,
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saw it and came, you know, to the conclusion that yeah,
he was calling me out. And I say this, Rob,
if I because your boy and shout out we love TiO.
TiO Instagram me today, hit me on you know, the
DM on Instagram. Kyrie. They tripping the media tripping. He
wasn't going at Lebron. He would have he would have
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called his name if he wanted to go at him.
And I said to tell, I said, TiO, I said,
if me and you, if me and you got a
radio show next year, And I say, no, I know,
but hold on. Hear me out, Rob, And I want
your answer on this because I think TiO has infected
your psyche because I know you're talking about what's so
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if I said to TiO, if I me and you
got a radio show next year, And I said, finally,
finally I got a show with a co host who
knows something about sports. Now I don't have to say
your name, but obviously I would be this in you,
Rob Parker, you know what I'm saying right now? You
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would you be bothered by that? Well, I wouldn't be
bothered from this stam, but you wouldn't know I was
talking about you were talking about me? Yes, okay, but
but I wouldn't be bothered from the standpoint that I
know what I'm talking about. So so you're what you're
saying wouldn't affect me, And I guess what I'm saying
in this case is yes, he was talking about Lebron
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obviously was in that conversation because of the people who
he had played with. But when you talk about Kevin
Durant and it's a compliment, I think more so to
Kevin Durant than it is a slight to Lebron. I
really do. When I think about it, Well, I don't
disagree necessarily what because that's really to Ron. That's that's
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really where he was going. Like this dude who helped
the Warriors when two championships who back to back MVPs
in the final, who had that big shot in Lebron's
mug in one of those farms. I'm just saying, Chris,
like in talking about his admiration and respect for Kevin Durant,
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he trampled on Lebron. But I do agree with to
if you just want to say, he could have said
Lebron ain't clutch like that championship we got in Cleveland.
I won that bad boy, You remember that three no
I made that shot, you know, like he could have
just gone that route. Of course, I do believe it
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was more about his admiration for KD than it was
a flat out Lebron can't make a clutch shot. I
don't believe that that was his intention. I can give
you that. I think he had a lot of you know, yeah,
he says KD is just a flat out because he
was talking about right about how good Thede is. But
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you didn't have to this, Lebron. And look, did Kyrie
get amnesia? I mean, you know you your only championship
right now? Rob And I was talking to somebody around
the league earlier about this, and I said, right now,
because Kyrie is a tremendous player. There's no doubt. You know,
you've heard me say he's a Hall of Famer. You know,
I assuming he stays healthy, maybe even if he doesn't,
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he might be in the Hall of Fame. But at
this point in his career, Rob, why is Kyrie a
Hall of Famer because of he played with Lebron? Well?
But he also he wouldn't know he was great individually.
You know what I'm saying. It might be the best
shot ever. But my point is had he If you
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look at Kyrie's career, he's never won anything without Lebron.
He's made the playoffs one time in the four years
I believe he's played without Lebron James. And so I'm
just saying you didn't have to take a shot at
Lebron because you I mean, Kyrie isn't tell legit. He
knows he played with Lebron. So when you say this
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is the first time I can look down, It's just
like if I was talking to I brought up the
example with you. I don't have to I don't have
to dish you to say it's gonna be a lot
of fun. We're gonna have a great radio show. You know,
what I'm saying. So that's all. That's the point. But
here's another thing, though, Rob and and I've been saying,
this is the best odd couple show I've ever been
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on on national radio. I told you that before, right, right,
But but I gotta say this too, because Lebron James
and I think you're in this boat. People do not
give him credit for being clutch. Now know this, and
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you you, I think you've heard it before. He has
more game winning shots in the playoffs than Michael Jordan.
But they don't resy don't resonate with anybody. I mean
you could, Chris, you can recite several you can recite
those numbers, but that's not not even just the no.
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I'm just telling you, but but it doesn't resonate with people.
That's why former players always say that they would that
they would take Kobe any day over Lebron, even though
Kobe didn't make as many shots, because there's just a
feel for it. Like Kobe wanted it. Lebron doesn't always
want it. I want a dog who always wants it
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no matter what. And I think that's why people don't
connect that. Chris, you could recite all the numbers you
want it won't change people's minds about Lebron, James and
the clutch. Here's the thing though, and you you're probably right.
I mean, people have this narrative about Lebron because he
has passed the ball in the clutch. But Solway's Michael Jordan.
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We know two of the biggest shots. Now, obviously Jordan
was the factor that the driving force behind all six
of those championships, without question, But Jim Paxson and Steve
Kerr hit two of the biggest shots in bullshit, but
seeded difference and Jordan passed it to concur He wasn't
even involved in the play when practicing hit it. But
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the difference is, here's the difference. You're talking about a
guy who was six and old, where Lebron has lost
uh six championships, right, But that's a DIFFI no, no, no, no,
no no no. But I'm saying he's giving up the ball,
but he ain't winning. It's what I'm saying, like he's
giving up the ball and these were winning. I think
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you're doing tongue in cheek to some degree, and then
to some degree you mean it, but you kind of
give Lebron kind of you mess with him, or or
give him short shrift because Kyrie hit the big shot
when they won, Joe, that was winning. No, No, the
guy took the shot. No, I know, but I'm saying
he also has lost, and it's I think because he's
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lost so much, and people think, why are you giving
up the ball to these guys? And it's not like
you know, and then and then it's always all Lebron
doesn't have anybody, or those guys aren't good enough, or
look at the team that Lebron played with, So then
you question, well, why are you giving up the rock
to those guys who are exposed you aren't that good?
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After you lose, you say they aren't that good? Why
are you feeding them the ball? We'd rather lose with
you taking those shots. I'm just telling you there's a perception,
and you could you could recite all the statue want
No one's gonna take Lebron and classify him some do.
I mean, it's really he's obviously a polarizing player, and
those that believe these clutch are gonna stay on that side,
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and probably those who don't aren't gonna stay on that side.
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eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. You heard it?
It is an interesting topic. Should Lebron James really feel hurt?
He said he was hurt a little bit by Kyrie,
implying that he's not clutch. Should he feel hurt? You'll
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a pick in their own territory and Dallas is threatening.
What do you mean Dallas already scored? It's three nothing?
Oh they scored. I'm my stream is behind. That's why
you got that stream. Yeah, enjoy your buddy. Let me
know it's actually on commercial. But I wasn't looking at that, Chris.
You make too much money to not have cable in
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your house. I mean a streaming I had cable. I
like streaming better. Yeah, but you do a live radio
show and you're three and a half minutes behind everybody
the commercials on. I was just looking at something else
on the internet while they while they scored. I guess, hey, Chris,
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the moon. And Chris is still waiting to find out
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United States only. All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox? Should Lebron be sweating Kyrie's slight to him?
What do you think? All right? We always know these
sensitive people. Let's see what it's all about. Robert in
South Florida. You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
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What's up, Robert? I think Lebron should not be upset
about it because one of the marks of true greatness
is that other people keep you in their conversations. So
the fact that Kyrie is still grieving about the fact
that he played in lebron Shadow is a testament to
Lebron's greatness. And on the side note, I would rather
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play with Lebron because if I'm open, I want to
play with somebody who's gonna give me a chance to
make a shot. So I would rather play with Lebron
than Kobe. So there you go, Yeah, I would rather.
Most players don't believe that, though, it's they know that'd
be interested. With a lot of players we've the ones
we've talked to have said they think Kobe was better. Right,
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they take Kobe over Lebron. How Kobe and Kobe was selfish,
and they still think it was better saying, but that
what the caller said, though Rob was who he'd rather play.
I get that, but I'm just talking about I don't
know that all these guys that say Kobe is better.
I bet you a lot of them say they'd rather
play with Lebron though, and a lot of guys, and
a lot of guys to Chris, you noticed don't even
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want the rock when it's when the game is on
the line. So a lot of people, I mean, you
notice you wouldn't say that about Lebron though. No, I'm
not saying. I'm just saying I'm talking about, right, A
lot of guys just don't want it. They don't want
the response games, they don't want the responsibility. Andre in Massachusetts,
you're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Andre?
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What's going on? Guys? Thanks for taking care. I've been
waiting for you to call in. Man. I gotta I
got a bone. I got a bone to pick with
Andre rall. Oh, here we go in my car last
week and he called whose show? He called Alan Hahn
and um Bart Scott heard you like, hold on, that's
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my man, Andre. He's supposed to be our guy. Andre.
You you two timing us you want another radio show. Wow,
what happened? You know what? What what what had happened was?
You know what I mean? You guys broke it down.
I gotta get my skills up. I gotta get my
skills up and I set my game up. You know
what I mean. He's national radio spots that I'm at
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your level. But I gotta get you know, I have
to prepare myself. You know, the coup is only on
three hours a day, like the awesome. Know that Chris
recognized your like distinct. Very nice, Andre, no disrespect, you
know what I mean? Andre? You know what. I never
missed the Han Bart Scott show. I never listened to it,
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so I never miss it. I'm sorry, indeed, indeed, but
a couple definitely Number one is no denying that. But
in terms of Lebron James and his rabbit ears, he
has to have him, mister Page, He's taken from obviously
many the person. Many people think it's a goat Michael Jordan.
You got to use any little bit of motivation when
you're the king with that heavy crown on your head
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to keep yourself moving forward. Lebron, sign that to year extension.
You want to play with Brownie. Okay, so we've got
to stay motivated. I will not a couple. Number one
is no denying that policy. All right, can we squeeze in?
Squeezing back? It's all good, brother, you're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio gentlemen for squeeze Never you better
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not call in some to Doug Gottli show keeping. I'm
keeping task Dan Patrick. When you guys hold Dan Patrick's
I call, that's it. Yes na see. I wouldn't have
been fine if it's another Fox Sports radio show. But
it was, of course ride with y'all. Hey, So for me,
this is pretty clear. It definitely affected him. He obviously
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told us it affected him. But the thing is that's
something you just don't share. I don't even think you
tell your tight boys, but you just don't share that.
The truth always hurts, It always stings. I don't really
think he's gonna use this for motivation because I think
he's I think he's just too weak. This guy um
everything bothered with, Kyrie said. They asked him what's the
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dearest in Cleveland and Boston? He said, bald movement. So
it's bald movement. It's late game abilities I mean, Lebron,
what do you do right now? You just block a shot,
block off the backboard. I mean, the guy, he just
lets everything affect him in the negative ways, and that's
just something you just don't share. You just don't share that.
Well what I was on the Herd today talking about
this robe and I said, look, because Colin basically said
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the whole the same thing. You guys in like, shouldn't
Lebrown be above this? I said, you know what, Lebron
was just honest. A lot of people, as Max said,
a lot of people would have been like and I
might have even been like this. They might have been like, man, please,
I ain't even thinking about that dude, you know, like,
I'm not worried about what he said. But like I said,
it put you if you were started a new radio
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show and you was like, man, finally I got you.
And Chris Hayes, I got a dude. If an NBA
dude who knows what he's talking about when he talks
about the NBA, Yeah, it would bother me. But I
might not publicly come out and say it, you know
what I mean. I might be like, man, please, right
right right, you know, but most people would do that
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Rob Lebron is just I'm not trying to paint him
like a saint, but in this case, I think he
was just being honest, whereas a lot of people wouldn't
have showed, you know, that sensitivity. So just scored Chris down.
That looked like the old Lamar a little bit there
so and I actually saw it too. So now they're up,
they're about to go up seven three. Cowboys, of course
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only got a field goal, so seven three. See Ralph Urban,
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He's the former NFL GM now an analyst with the
NFL Network. Our man, Charlie Castley, Charlie, how are you?
What's up? Charlie? Don't you're great? Man? We are great.
Let let's start with the game that's on right now,
and Baltimore is up seven to three against Dallas, and
you know, we everybody pretty much expects the Ravens to
win this game. But a lot of focus has been
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on Lamar Jackson and how he hasn't played as well
as he did last year. But I think their problems
are go deeper than Lamar Jackson. What do you see
besides Lamar? What what do you see about that team
that's just not stacking up to what they were last year? Well,
I think part of it is people have caught up
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with the option offense, which was understandable, and they've done
a better job at defending Lamar um and therefore done
a better job forcing him to throw the football, and
that's not his strength outside the hashes and deeper not
his strength. He got hurt by not having an offseason
where he could be getting coached um and having a
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full training camp where he's playing preseason games, and so
his improvement did not come the way they anticipated. People
have cut up with them um. The offensive line isn't
as good as it was a year ago. So it's
a combination of all those things. Now, they're still scoring points,
but we're talking about beating good teams now, right, okay,
And and that and that's where they that's where they're
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struggling recently on that part there they get criticized for
not having a top receiver. They don't, but in their offense,
um he would be important, but still he wouldn't be
a guy that's gonna be leading the league and receiving
because of the nature of their offense. That's it. Defensively,
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I think they've been hurt by the injuries, by the
COVID those things. You know, they started off the year
playing very well. People have figured out that you can
run on them at the inside linebackers, you can get
outside if you crack back, so the heart there have
been some things that people have come up with. Peters
is not playing at the level he was last year,
getting him back to some of his habits of guessing
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which got him in trouble and got him moved him,
you know, every time from the two teams he was
with before. So it's a lot of things here. But
you know, we'll see how they finished the season. But
people are doing a better job defending the option. Another
guy seemed like the league is caught up and they
caught up during the season is Kyler Murray. What's happened here?
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He the last game he had a season low two
hundred and thirty two total yards. You know, he had
like he had three three touchdowns, but you know there
was like they were down by seventeen. It was kind
of like, Uh, it's what I call the stat pad
for time where these uh putting up some numbers and
points against prevent defense. What is the issue with Kyler
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Murray and how did he go from that hail Murray
passed where everybody was ranting and raving about him to
this team that struggled so much now offensively Charlie, Yeah,
I think you know, well the Hail Mary. You couldn't
you lose the game? Otherwise if you don't have the
Hail Mary? Right, if they didn't, if they didn't win
that game, Charlie, they might be on a five game
losing street. No, I know exactly the book on him
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and what people are doing, and I talked about this
on the preview they came last Friday NFL Network is
it's a combination of two things. Man keep him in
the pocket, making Beecher from the pocket. Hey, so what
do you do that? You you're a disciplined rush team
and don't worry about sacks um blitzing affects him, so
that that's one of the things that people have blitzed them,
(27:58):
and you wouldn't they get blitzes guy, But it does
seem to affect Himember he's a short quarterback and he
can box them in that that that makes it tough. Uh.
You know, Breeze is a Hall of Famer and Kyle
Murray's not a Hall of Famer yet. So shorter quarterbacks
do have a problem when you box them in and
get your hands up. So that's number one. Number two
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is uh, you know, take away the deep ball and
make a move down the field. Now, it's a short
passing offense for the most part, so the run after
the catch is critical. Now, Hopkins is a heck of
a player, but Ramsey will shut down Hopkins more often
than Hopkins will beat him because it's a matchup thing
that favors Ramsey because of size and Hopkins not a Blazer. So, um,
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that's gonna so he's gonna take away that part of it.
But the big thing is people are doing a better
job of containing him on running plays. Again, people have
caught up to the option. Um, don't letting them scramble
for big runs and make their team, Uh move the
ball down the field, and that's kind of been the
game plan of people have been able to executed. Chris,
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let me just follow up on this. She was just
talking about blitzing and Greg Williams had the Jets blitz
and wand up losing that game to the Raiders. Was
that a fireball offense? He got fired the next day? Uh, Charlie,
if you were running the team and you and and
a coach called that that kind of uh defense in
that situation thirteen seconds to go? And should he have
(29:26):
been fired? Well, obviously as a general manager, I didn't
fire coaches, but if I had to say, uh, he'd
have been fired in the locker room. Yeah wow, Yeah,
that's how bad that was. Like you just can't do
it against Greg Williams. But the call didn't make any sense, right.
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First of all, who's covering Rugs? Okay? One on one?
Are you kidding me? Right? Uh? First of all, if
you're gonna cover Rugs, jam him at the line of
scrimmage and cover him deep. Don't don't give him a
free release. Okay? Um, No, you're defending the goal line
there at that point in the game. And to put
a guy out there on one on one coverage with
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nobody behind him. And you know the young man who's
playing against them, I mean, he can't cover rugs, right,
So Greg Williams has to know that, doesn't he. You know,
we'd have to have Greg Williams explain what thing his
reasoning was. Okay, not not to blitz to get to
the quarterback, but guess what what happens if the quarterback
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gets to throw the ball? How is how is this
guy going to be covered? You can't cover them. The
news of the day, of course, is Philadelphia going with
Jalen Hurts over Carson Wentz. Is that the right move
in your opinion? You know, I said on the show
last Friday, and and I I didn't use it as
(30:54):
a headline, okay, because we were doing some tape. I said,
this is not going to be fixed this year. I
see three things with Wentz. Number one, it's started in
the opening. The offensive line is a mess, and it's
nobody's fault. It's all about injuries. Okay. They had a
good plan going into the year, and injuries have killed them. Hey,
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they lost Brandon Brooks the guard, they lost Villa the
tackle lane Johnson has been hurt, so he can't replace
all those people, all right, So all of a sudden,
now Wentz, who's a guy who does hold the ball?
Now this complicates things further. So he's getting beat up
right off the beginning of the year. That's number one.
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The offensive line is a mess and that and from
people who play them, that's what they tell me. The
receivers are not consistently getting open, they've been have injuries,
a tight end, So who's he thrown to, who's he
playing with? So that becomes a problem. Then I think
this guy's been hit. He's starting, he's looking at the rush.
That's not good. His fundamentals team have gone downhill over
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the last couple of years. So this is a rebuild
job for him and that offensive line that's not going
to get solved. But Hurts in, you see what happens.
We'll see what happens this week. I would not have
taken Hurts in the second round with WinCE as my
franchise quarterback. It's interesting how much that has affected him.
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I can't I don't know that, okay, But Haroon Rodgers
was pissed off, right, she was a language only He's
having a great year, okay. John Elway didn't like it
when they took thematics. Okay, he got mad. Okay. Sometimes
dealing with the psychology of a player can be a
little tricky there, and maybe that has added into this
(32:39):
thing because the guy's not playing with a lot of
confidence here, right, no doubt? All right, great stuff, Charlie
is always We appreciate it. Thanks Charlie. Right where you
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The Eye Couple, Christ and Rob and uh, we know
you're out looking for Christmas gets man, Rob, I know
you're done with your Christmas shopping, right, all done, all
mailed out, all good? Yea believable. I haven't even started.
You haven't started yet? What are you waiting on? I
don't know I'm starting. Time's running out though, so it's
(33:22):
just December. What's today? Well? I think my wife it's
the what is it? The eighth? Eighth? The eighth? My
wife and I are gonna go out this weekend together
and just buy each other what we want. You know,
like she's gonna pick some mouth and she because you know,
I'll tell you what. Man. And I know you're not married,
but you still know that it's hard shopping for women. Man,
(33:43):
Oh yeah, they're harder to get mine. Goodness there. I
mean because you think the men's section and the department
store has a lot of clothes. Now women five times
as men, much as that wepen. We're more clothed, mandiculous,
and I typically get her something she don't like, so
I'm tired. Yeah, so she'll be like, oh no, I
(34:04):
don't like right, right, usually, you know, I mean, we're
comfortable enough now you know she can take it back.
I'm like, look, you don't take it right and then
and then once you give it a receipt. He's the
problem with when I was married, and I would give
the receipt for her to take it back, didn't She'd
see that it was fifty percent off and another twenty
five right, you would be like, what you only paid
(34:27):
twenty dollars for my shot? That's foul. Rob G. Did
you get your wife for a lifetime supply dressing because
I think he got her cooking lessons. Oh wow, Chris,
rob to wake up dad. He's lucky. Lives in the
hills in Jersey. Rob Ge went on a national radio
(34:48):
and said his wife couldn't cook. Don't get mad at
me say that when you said you gotta port rands
dressing on everything dressing, that's like Kaye reesing. I didn't
say Lebron's Now, That's exactly what it's like. When Chris
says that he's from the streets but he wants to
park his luxury vehicle and have some guy watch it
for him. Chris, I can't believe that you went to
(35:09):
the hood and you say, can you watch my car
out here? Don't you? Hey, Alex, Alex is right here
sitting in front of me. Did he not say, I'm
worried about parking this car in front of this park
where I like to walk because my car is super pricy.
No mean, Bobby, don't align on everything the car. I
don't even have the car yet. Oh if are you
(35:30):
getting the Bentley? Are you getting? Nah, not a Bentley.
I'm not gonna get a Bentley. I'm not gonna get
a Biley. The fact that we can ask that we
wouldn't be surprised if you did get one. Shows you
what kind of tax bracket that with me getting the
Bentley nothing, I might get a Bentley to spite y'all.
I told you, I told you that picture of the
Bentley of our friend. I love it, I think, yeah,
(35:50):
I just want to say that his tax we claim
Rob Parker because even though he's got the flashy car
and the watch, still he's still a bargain shopper. He's
still a blogging shopper is better than mine. Yes, but
I'm a boy. But can't say your car, Rob, Yes,
you never said your car never. I'm fun. You got
(36:10):
a nice range Rover, one of those new ones, you know,
the new style beautiful. Yes it is black on black.
I love it. But Rob also shops at Marshall's and Burlington,
so he's cool with the people. Yes, chrisred Dollar, Gucci,
sneak Chris out here and paying full price for everything
like it's no big deal, Like that's a problem on
(36:32):
the streets. Stop Ge, rob Ge when I was there,
who was coming in with a new pair of sneakers
every single day because he shopped at Burlington on the
other Burlington. Meanwhile, Chris Easy, I just paid to college
tuitions cash and even dip into my savings. Keep my secrets. Keep.
(36:54):
Don't don't be putting my business out there anyway. Speaking
of business being out there, Rob, Jim Harbaugh, he remember
I've been saying this and apparently and I know you
tweeted something about this too a few days ago. So
Michigan looks like they either have made him, they made
him an offer, or they're going to But what I
(37:16):
was told was that was that he was going they
were going to extend him, give him a contract extension, Chris,
probably two years, so he wouldn't be a lame duck, right.
And then the details that came out is that it's
for less money the base and with more incentives, right,
and then the smaller buyout if he does want to
go to the NFL wants to leave, so that with that,
(37:38):
that would make sense if they do that, Rob, that's what.
If I'm Michigan, I'm with it, because look, let's face it,
he's a name people in ann Arbor. You know, he's
got connections beyond just having gone to Michigan. He's from there,
and you know, as I've said, he's made him relevant. Now,
this was a horrible season. You obviously they're gonna try
to rationalize it. His hay as COVID. You know nobody
(37:59):
was read, you know, for the most part. Blah blah, Right,
you know, right, But I don't mind this. As bad
as this year has been, I don't mind an extension.
I've been saying this at less money, I'm not giving.
They only had two options. He couldn't be a lame
duck because we talked about it. They either had to
fire him, right because you can't get any recruits, fire
(38:20):
him or giving him an extension. And I guess we
had a reduced salary and make him after earn all
the money. Is right, probably the best route route, right, No,
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rate quote and Rob what day is this? It's a
trust talking to That's right, You'll be able to trash
anyone or anything in the world of sports. In the
third hour, I want you get your takes ready. I
saw you lout. You trash today. I saw you Trashwe
(01:10):
on money. Don't let Floyd catch you. Don't let Floyd.
He might challenge you next. Come on, boy, get on
the step cloud. I'm ready to fight you. Oh yeah,
we gotta talk about that one day. Uh maybe later
this week. Him fighting Logan Paul. That is a bit ridiculous,
(01:32):
Chris even at twenty four ninety five. No, thank you seriously, Yeah,
I got money grab. Well, it's definitely a money grab,
but the question is will it be entertaining enough for
people to I mean a lot of people are gonna
watch it. It is exactly what you said. It is
a straight up money grab. And here's the thing. And
(01:55):
we're not gonna obviously have a whole boxing segment today,
but rob boxing these You saw how much money the
Tyson Jones exhibition made eighty million dollars and Tyson may
Timmy they gross like eighty million. I believe rob g
check eighty million? Was it eighty million? One point six
(02:17):
million buys on pay per view? People money? Well, what
it's doing right some of these celebrity boxing matches, like
even maybe I know this was supposedly real, but Mayweather McGregor,
I know it was real, but there was no way
McGregor was gonna beat him. I think Floyd carried him.
You know, Oh no, that was I told you that
(02:39):
was the first time in American history that a white
man got welfare from a black man. That's what that was.
That was that exactly what it was. And when Casey
wanted to fight, you know, and when Tyson picked up
his check, Chris, did you hear about this? He wore
ski masks to get his chest. So I mean, like,
(03:00):
I'm sorry. That was okay, so so not bad. I
might put that into routine. Alex, you're ready to do
another comedy special rob for you. I will drop everything.
Let's do this twenty one. We're gonna get one and
nub in March. Let's do it in March, a new comedy.
All right, that'll be good, just as covid' is lessening
and uh yeah you can. You can bring that humor. Okay,
(03:22):
but quickly about that rob now Jake Paul who knocked out,
like literally knocked out Nate Robins. You mean Logan Paul. No,
Logan is the one that's fighting Floyd. Jake Paul is
his brother. That's oh, I got it? Okay, No, so
(03:44):
so Jake Paul, who's Logan's younger brother who knocked out
Nate Robinson. He wants to fight fight Connor McGregory. Here's
the thing, Rob, I think that fight would make a
ton of money. Don't you like these guys need either
one of them is a good boxer. But it's really
(04:05):
like you don't need to be like you're getting people
now who really may not even know how to fight.
Now those two know how to fight obviously, but you know,
if you're a big name, like like what if a
couple of rappers that are well known we're gonna fight,
they make a lot of money, Like that's what is
don't you think like if I don't just throwing out
(04:25):
little Wayne and oh god jay Z or something, little
Wayne and jay Z. Yes, that's my point, like boxing
better be careful, you know what I mean? Because these
name people that can't fight will draw big crowds and
so or a big pay per view, you know, fans,
(04:45):
so it's gonna be interested. But anyway, speaking of fight,
uh Lebron James spoke on the Road Tripping podcast with
Richard Jefferson Channing Fries former teammates. Yeah, he's we got
to get well Channing come back on the Eye Cup.
(05:06):
I think you scared him, Rob, No, He's like good,
we'll try to get him back on. But but it
was a great I was just listening to it before
the show part two, and one of the things that
Brian said is that he was hurt when Kyrie, you know,
implied that he wasn't clutch. Here here's Lebron. I was
a little like, like damn. Once I got the whole transcript.
(05:30):
But I was like damn. You know, I wasn't like
all you tripping hit game when it shots my old life.
I was not like that. I was like damn, because, um,
you were there for a couple of seasons. I mean
I played with Kyrie for three seasons. The whole time
while I was there, Um, I only wanted to see
him be an MVP of our league. I only cared
(05:51):
about his success and and and it just didn't align.
It just didn't align. And we was able to win
a championship. That's craziest things. We were still able to
win a championship and we could never align. But I
only cared about his well being, both both on and
off the floor, and it kind of like it kind
of hurted me a little bit. Now, for those that
(06:12):
might not remember, we don't have the Kyrie sound right Rob.
For those that might not remember, this was a few
months ago. Rob and Kyrie was on Kevin Durand's podcast.
It was while the Lakers and everyone else was still
playing in the Bubble and kyriean on Kevin Durand's podcast
and basically was saying, look, I've always, you know, been
(06:35):
comfortable in the clutch. I'm paraphrasing but summarizing what he said.
I've been comfortable in the clutch my whole life. I've
always felt like I was my team's best option to
take the last shot. And this is now that he's
playing with Kevin Durant. Obviously he was like, you know,
this is the first time. Why can really look down
at another dude on the team and be like, yo,
(06:56):
that dude He didn't say dude, but that dude hit
this shot too, you know, And so that of course,
Kyrie Irving's most famous teammate was Lebron James. So if
you say that, you are implying that you Lebron couldn't
hit that shot. At least you didn't think he could
(07:17):
hit that shot. And so Lebron said, look, obviously this
became a big story. We talked about it on the show,
They talked about it everywhere, and Lebron said, robbed that
what he did was he had he heard about it.
Of course it was all over. He had his people
get the transcript. So he could really see because you know,
(07:40):
sometimes stuff does get taken out of context and all that,
and so he wanted to see was Kyrie really kind
of called him out? Because Kyrie came out with an
Instagram post like why must it always be brother against
brother all this stuff? If I would have called him out,
I would have said his name and all that, so
kind of saying he didn't. But Lebron into the transcripts,
(08:01):
saw it and came, you know, to the conclusion that yeah,
he was calling me out. And I say this, Rob,
if I because your boy and shout out we love TiO.
TiO Instagram me today, hit me on you know, the
DM on Instagram. Kyrie. They tripping the media tripping. He
wasn't going at Lebron. He would have he would have
(08:23):
called his name if he wanted to go at him.
And I said to tell, I said, TiO, I said,
if me and you, if me and you got a
radio show next year, And I say, no, I know,
but hold on. Hear me out, Rob, And I want
your answer on this because I think TiO has infected
your psyche because I know you're talking about what's so
(08:46):
if I said to TiO, if I me and you
got a radio show next year, And I said, finally,
finally I got a show with a co host who
knows something about sports. Now I don't have to say
your name, but obviously I would be this in you,
Rob Parker, you know what I'm saying right now? You
(09:09):
would you be bothered by that? Well, I wouldn't be
bothered from this stam, but you wouldn't know I was
talking about you were talking about me? Yes, okay, but
but I wouldn't be bothered from the standpoint that I
know what I'm talking about. So so you're what you're
saying wouldn't affect me, And I guess what I'm saying
in this case is yes, he was talking about Lebron
(09:32):
obviously was in that conversation because of the people who
he had played with. But when you talk about Kevin
Durant and it's a compliment, I think more so to
Kevin Durant than it is a slight to Lebron. I
really do. When I think about it, Well, I don't
disagree necessarily what because that's really to Ron. That's that's
(09:53):
really where he was going. Like this dude who helped
the Warriors when two championships who back to back MVPs
in the final, who had that big shot in Lebron's
mug in one of those farms. I'm just saying, Chris,
like in talking about his admiration and respect for Kevin Durant,
(10:15):
he trampled on Lebron. But I do agree with to
if you just want to say, he could have said
Lebron ain't clutch like that championship we got in Cleveland.
I won that bad boy, You remember that three no
I made that shot, you know, like he could have
just gone that route. Of course, I do believe it
(10:35):
was more about his admiration for KD than it was
a flat out Lebron can't make a clutch shot. I
don't believe that that was his intention. I can give
you that. I think he had a lot of you know, yeah,
he says KD is just a flat out because he
was talking about right about how good Thede is. But
(10:57):
you didn't have to this, Lebron. And look, did Kyrie
get amnesia? I mean, you know you your only championship
right now? Rob And I was talking to somebody around
the league earlier about this, and I said, right now,
because Kyrie is a tremendous player. There's no doubt. You know,
you've heard me say he's a Hall of Famer. You know,
I assuming he stays healthy, maybe even if he doesn't,
(11:19):
he might be in the Hall of Fame. But at
this point in his career, Rob, why is Kyrie a
Hall of Famer because of he played with Lebron? Well?
But he also he wouldn't know he was great individually.
You know what I'm saying. It might be the best
shot ever. But my point is had he If you
(11:41):
look at Kyrie's career, he's never won anything without Lebron.
He's made the playoffs one time in the four years
I believe he's played without Lebron James. And so I'm
just saying you didn't have to take a shot at
Lebron because you I mean, Kyrie isn't tell legit. He
knows he played with Lebron. So when you say this
(12:03):
is the first time I can look down, It's just
like if I was talking to I brought up the
example with you. I don't have to I don't have
to dish you to say it's gonna be a lot
of fun. We're gonna have a great radio show. You know,
what I'm saying. So that's all. That's the point. But
here's another thing, though, Rob and and I've been saying,
this is the best odd couple show I've ever been
(12:25):
on on national radio. I told you that before, right, right,
But but I gotta say this too, because Lebron James
and I think you're in this boat. People do not
give him credit for being clutch. Now know this, and
(12:45):
you you, I think you've heard it before. He has
more game winning shots in the playoffs than Michael Jordan.
But they don't resy don't resonate with anybody. I mean
you could, Chris, you can recite several you can recite
those numbers, but that's not not even just the no.
(13:07):
I'm just telling you, but but it doesn't resonate with people.
That's why former players always say that they would that
they would take Kobe any day over Lebron, even though
Kobe didn't make as many shots, because there's just a
feel for it. Like Kobe wanted it. Lebron doesn't always
want it. I want a dog who always wants it
(13:28):
no matter what. And I think that's why people don't
connect that. Chris, you could recite all the numbers you
want it won't change people's minds about Lebron, James and
the clutch. Here's the thing though, and you you're probably right.
I mean, people have this narrative about Lebron because he
has passed the ball in the clutch. But Solway's Michael Jordan.
(13:49):
We know two of the biggest shots. Now, obviously Jordan
was the factor that the driving force behind all six
of those championships, without question, But Jim Paxson and Steve
Kerr hit two of the biggest shots in bullshit, but
seeded difference and Jordan passed it to concur He wasn't
even involved in the play when practicing hit it. But
(14:11):
the difference is, here's the difference. You're talking about a
guy who was six and old, where Lebron has lost
uh six championships, right, But that's a DIFFI no, no, no, no,
no no no. But I'm saying he's giving up the ball,
but he ain't winning. It's what I'm saying, like he's
giving up the ball and these were winning. I think
(14:34):
you're doing tongue in cheek to some degree, and then
to some degree you mean it, but you kind of
give Lebron kind of you mess with him, or or
give him short shrift because Kyrie hit the big shot
when they won, Joe, that was winning. No, No, the
guy took the shot. No, I know, but I'm saying
he also has lost, and it's I think because he's
(14:58):
lost so much, and people think, why are you giving
up the ball to these guys? And it's not like
you know, and then and then it's always all Lebron
doesn't have anybody, or those guys aren't good enough, or
look at the team that Lebron played with, So then
you question, well, why are you giving up the rock
to those guys who are exposed you aren't that good?
(15:18):
After you lose, you say they aren't that good? Why
are you feeding them the ball? We'd rather lose with
you taking those shots. I'm just telling you there's a perception,
and you could you could recite all the statue want
No one's gonna take Lebron and classify him some do.
I mean, it's really he's obviously a polarizing player, and
those that believe these clutch are gonna stay on that side,
(15:40):
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eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. You heard it?
It is an interesting topic. Should Lebron James really feel hurt?
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implying that he's not clutch. Should he feel hurt? You'll
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a pick in their own territory and Dallas is threatening.
What do you mean Dallas already scored? It's three nothing?
Oh they scored. I'm my stream is behind. That's why
you got that stream. Yeah, enjoy your buddy. Let me
know it's actually on commercial. But I wasn't looking at that, Chris.
You make too much money to not have cable in
(17:04):
your house. I mean a streaming I had cable. I
like streaming better. Yeah, but you do a live radio
show and you're three and a half minutes behind everybody
the commercials on. I was just looking at something else
on the internet while they while they scored. I guess, hey, Chris,
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United States only. All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox? Should Lebron be sweating Kyrie's slight to him?
What do you think? All right? We always know these
sensitive people. Let's see what it's all about. Robert in
South Florida. You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
(18:29):
What's up, Robert? I think Lebron should not be upset
about it because one of the marks of true greatness
is that other people keep you in their conversations. So
the fact that Kyrie is still grieving about the fact
that he played in lebron Shadow is a testament to
Lebron's greatness. And on the side note, I would rather
(18:50):
play with Lebron because if I'm open, I want to
play with somebody who's gonna give me a chance to
make a shot. So I would rather play with Lebron
than Kobe. So there you go, Yeah, I would rather.
Most players don't believe that, though, it's they know that'd
be interested. With a lot of players we've the ones
we've talked to have said they think Kobe was better. Right,
(19:10):
they take Kobe over Lebron. How Kobe and Kobe was selfish,
and they still think it was better saying, but that
what the caller said, though Rob was who he'd rather play.
I get that, but I'm just talking about I don't
know that all these guys that say Kobe is better.
I bet you a lot of them say they'd rather
play with Lebron though, and a lot of guys, and
a lot of guys to Chris, you noticed don't even
(19:31):
want the rock when it's when the game is on
the line. So a lot of people, I mean, you
notice you wouldn't say that about Lebron though. No, I'm
not saying. I'm just saying I'm talking about, right, A
lot of guys just don't want it. They don't want
the response games, they don't want the responsibility. Andre in Massachusetts,
you're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Andre?
(19:54):
What's going on? Guys? Thanks for taking care. I've been
waiting for you to call in. Man. I gotta I
got a bone. I got a bone to pick with
Andre rall. Oh, here we go in my car last
week and he called whose show? He called Alan Hahn
and um Bart Scott heard you like, hold on, that's
(20:24):
my man, Andre. He's supposed to be our guy. Andre.
You you two timing us you want another radio show. Wow,
what happened? You know what? What what what had happened was?
You know what I mean? You guys broke it down.
I gotta get my skills up. I gotta get my
skills up and I set my game up. You know
what I mean. He's national radio spots that I'm at
(20:45):
your level. But I gotta get you know, I have
to prepare myself. You know, the coup is only on
three hours a day, like the awesome. Know that Chris
recognized your like distinct. Very nice, Andre, no disrespect, you
know what I mean? Andre? You know what. I never
missed the Han Bart Scott show. I never listened to it,
(21:08):
so I never miss it. I'm sorry, indeed, indeed, but
a couple definitely Number one is no denying that. But
in terms of Lebron James and his rabbit ears, he
has to have him, mister Page, He's taken from obviously
many the person. Many people think it's a goat Michael Jordan.
You got to use any little bit of motivation when
you're the king with that heavy crown on your head
(21:29):
to keep yourself moving forward. Lebron, sign that to year extension.
You want to play with Brownie. Okay, so we've got
to stay motivated. I will not a couple. Number one
is no denying that policy. All right, can we squeeze in?
Squeezing back? It's all good, brother, you're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio gentlemen for squeeze Never you better
(21:51):
not call in some to Doug Gottli show keeping. I'm
keeping task Dan Patrick. When you guys hold Dan Patrick's
I call, that's it. Yes na see. I wouldn't have
been fine if it's another Fox Sports radio show. But
it was, of course ride with y'all. Hey, So for me,
this is pretty clear. It definitely affected him. He obviously
(22:13):
told us it affected him. But the thing is that's
something you just don't share. I don't even think you
tell your tight boys, but you just don't share that.
The truth always hurts, It always stings. I don't really
think he's gonna use this for motivation because I think
he's I think he's just too weak. This guy um
everything bothered with, Kyrie said. They asked him what's the
(22:34):
dearest in Cleveland and Boston? He said, bald movement. So
it's bald movement. It's late game abilities I mean, Lebron,
what do you do right now? You just block a shot,
block off the backboard. I mean, the guy, he just
lets everything affect him in the negative ways, and that's
just something you just don't share. You just don't share that.
Well what I was on the Herd today talking about
this robe and I said, look, because Colin basically said
(22:57):
the whole the same thing. You guys in like, shouldn't
Lebrown be above this? I said, you know what, Lebron
was just honest. A lot of people, as Max said,
a lot of people would have been like and I
might have even been like this. They might have been like, man, please,
I ain't even thinking about that dude, you know, like,
I'm not worried about what he said. But like I said,
it put you if you were started a new radio
(23:18):
show and you was like, man, finally I got you.
And Chris Hayes, I got a dude. If an NBA
dude who knows what he's talking about when he talks
about the NBA, Yeah, it would bother me. But I
might not publicly come out and say it, you know
what I mean. I might be like, man, please, right
right right, you know, but most people would do that
(23:39):
Rob Lebron is just I'm not trying to paint him
like a saint, but in this case, I think he
was just being honest, whereas a lot of people wouldn't
have showed, you know, that sensitivity. So just scored Chris down.
That looked like the old Lamar a little bit there
so and I actually saw it too. So now they're up,
they're about to go up seven three. Cowboys, of course
(24:01):
only got a field goal, so seven three. See Ralph Urban,
We don't need your update because Chris just updated the game.
That ain't right, Chris, why are you doing that? Be
sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple with
Chris Broussard and Rob Parker week days at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app. We love having him more than this show.
(24:21):
He's the former NFL GM now an analyst with the
NFL Network. Our man, Charlie Castley, Charlie, how are you?
What's up? Charlie? Don't you're great? Man? We are great.
Let let's start with the game that's on right now,
and Baltimore is up seven to three against Dallas, and
you know, we everybody pretty much expects the Ravens to
win this game. But a lot of focus has been
(24:43):
on Lamar Jackson and how he hasn't played as well
as he did last year. But I think their problems
are go deeper than Lamar Jackson. What do you see
besides Lamar? What what do you see about that team
that's just not stacking up to what they were last year? Well,
I think part of it is people have caught up
(25:04):
with the option offense, which was understandable, and they've done
a better job at defending Lamar um and therefore done
a better job forcing him to throw the football, and
that's not his strength outside the hashes and deeper not
his strength. He got hurt by not having an offseason
where he could be getting coached um and having a
(25:25):
full training camp where he's playing preseason games, and so
his improvement did not come the way they anticipated. People
have cut up with them um. The offensive line isn't
as good as it was a year ago. So it's
a combination of all those things. Now, they're still scoring points,
but we're talking about beating good teams now, right, okay,
And and that and that's where they that's where they're
(25:47):
struggling recently on that part there they get criticized for
not having a top receiver. They don't, but in their offense,
um he would be important, but still he wouldn't be
a guy that's gonna be leading the league and receiving
because of the nature of their offense. That's it. Defensively,
(26:08):
I think they've been hurt by the injuries, by the
COVID those things. You know, they started off the year
playing very well. People have figured out that you can
run on them at the inside linebackers, you can get
outside if you crack back, so the heart there have
been some things that people have come up with. Peters
is not playing at the level he was last year,
getting him back to some of his habits of guessing
(26:28):
which got him in trouble and got him moved him,
you know, every time from the two teams he was
with before. So it's a lot of things here. But
you know, we'll see how they finished the season. But
people are doing a better job defending the option. Another
guy seemed like the league is caught up and they
caught up during the season is Kyler Murray. What's happened here?
(26:49):
He the last game he had a season low two
hundred and thirty two total yards. You know, he had
like he had three three touchdowns, but you know there
was like they were down by seventeen. It was kind
of like, Uh, it's what I call the stat pad
for time where these uh putting up some numbers and
points against prevent defense. What is the issue with Kyler
(27:13):
Murray and how did he go from that hail Murray
passed where everybody was ranting and raving about him to
this team that struggled so much now offensively Charlie, Yeah,
I think you know, well the Hail Mary. You couldn't
you lose the game? Otherwise if you don't have the
Hail Mary? Right, if they didn't, if they didn't win
that game, Charlie, they might be on a five game
losing street. No, I know exactly the book on him
(27:37):
and what people are doing, and I talked about this
on the preview they came last Friday NFL Network is
it's a combination of two things. Man keep him in
the pocket, making Beecher from the pocket. Hey, so what
do you do that? You you're a disciplined rush team
and don't worry about sacks um blitzing affects him, so
that that's one of the things that people have blitzed them,
(27:58):
and you wouldn't they get blitzes guy, But it does
seem to affect Himember he's a short quarterback and he
can box them in that that that makes it tough. Uh.
You know, Breeze is a Hall of Famer and Kyle
Murray's not a Hall of Famer yet. So shorter quarterbacks
do have a problem when you box them in and
get your hands up. So that's number one. Number two
(28:19):
is uh, you know, take away the deep ball and
make a move down the field. Now, it's a short
passing offense for the most part, so the run after
the catch is critical. Now, Hopkins is a heck of
a player, but Ramsey will shut down Hopkins more often
than Hopkins will beat him because it's a matchup thing
that favors Ramsey because of size and Hopkins not a Blazer. So, um,
(28:42):
that's gonna so he's gonna take away that part of it.
But the big thing is people are doing a better
job of containing him on running plays. Again, people have
caught up to the option. Um, don't letting them scramble
for big runs and make their team, Uh move the
ball down the field, and that's kind of been the
game plan of people have been able to executed. Chris,
(29:03):
let me just follow up on this. She was just
talking about blitzing and Greg Williams had the Jets blitz
and wand up losing that game to the Raiders. Was
that a fireball offense? He got fired the next day? Uh, Charlie,
if you were running the team and you and and
a coach called that that kind of uh defense in
that situation thirteen seconds to go? And should he have
(29:26):
been fired? Well, obviously as a general manager, I didn't
fire coaches, but if I had to say, uh, he'd
have been fired in the locker room. Yeah wow, Yeah,
that's how bad that was. Like you just can't do
it against Greg Williams. But the call didn't make any sense, right.
(29:48):
First of all, who's covering Rugs? Okay? One on one?
Are you kidding me? Right? Uh? First of all, if
you're gonna cover Rugs, jam him at the line of
scrimmage and cover him deep. Don't don't give him a
free release. Okay? Um, No, you're defending the goal line
there at that point in the game. And to put
a guy out there on one on one coverage with
(30:11):
nobody behind him. And you know the young man who's
playing against them, I mean, he can't cover rugs, right,
So Greg Williams has to know that, doesn't he. You know,
we'd have to have Greg Williams explain what thing his
reasoning was. Okay, not not to blitz to get to
the quarterback, but guess what what happens if the quarterback
(30:33):
gets to throw the ball? How is how is this
guy going to be covered? You can't cover them. The
news of the day, of course, is Philadelphia going with
Jalen Hurts over Carson Wentz. Is that the right move
in your opinion? You know, I said on the show
last Friday, and and I I didn't use it as
(30:54):
a headline, okay, because we were doing some tape. I said,
this is not going to be fixed this year. I
see three things with Wentz. Number one, it's started in
the opening. The offensive line is a mess, and it's
nobody's fault. It's all about injuries. Okay. They had a
good plan going into the year, and injuries have killed them. Hey,
(31:14):
they lost Brandon Brooks the guard, they lost Villa the
tackle lane Johnson has been hurt, so he can't replace
all those people, all right, So all of a sudden,
now Wentz, who's a guy who does hold the ball?
Now this complicates things further. So he's getting beat up
right off the beginning of the year. That's number one.
(31:35):
The offensive line is a mess and that and from
people who play them, that's what they tell me. The
receivers are not consistently getting open, they've been have injuries,
a tight end, So who's he thrown to, who's he
playing with? So that becomes a problem. Then I think
this guy's been hit. He's starting, he's looking at the rush.
That's not good. His fundamentals team have gone downhill over
(31:58):
the last couple of years. So this is a rebuild
job for him and that offensive line that's not going
to get solved. But Hurts in, you see what happens.
We'll see what happens this week. I would not have
taken Hurts in the second round with WinCE as my
franchise quarterback. It's interesting how much that has affected him.
(32:18):
I can't I don't know that, okay, But Haroon Rodgers
was pissed off, right, she was a language only He's
having a great year, okay. John Elway didn't like it
when they took thematics. Okay, he got mad. Okay. Sometimes
dealing with the psychology of a player can be a
little tricky there, and maybe that has added into this
(32:39):
thing because the guy's not playing with a lot of
confidence here, right, no doubt? All right, great stuff, Charlie
is always We appreciate it. Thanks Charlie. Right where you
with you? Guys? Yep? See if more couple coming you away,
keep it lit. Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch
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Rob Parker weekdays at seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific
(33:00):
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. It's
The Eye Couple, Christ and Rob and uh, we know
you're out looking for Christmas gets man, Rob, I know
you're done with your Christmas shopping, right, all done, all
mailed out, all good? Yea believable. I haven't even started.
You haven't started yet? What are you waiting on? I
don't know I'm starting. Time's running out though, so it's
(33:22):
just December. What's today? Well? I think my wife it's
the what is it? The eighth? Eighth? The eighth? My
wife and I are gonna go out this weekend together
and just buy each other what we want. You know,
like she's gonna pick some mouth and she because you know,
I'll tell you what. Man. And I know you're not married,
but you still know that it's hard shopping for women. Man,
(33:43):
Oh yeah, they're harder to get mine. Goodness there. I
mean because you think the men's section and the department
store has a lot of clothes. Now women five times
as men, much as that wepen. We're more clothed, mandiculous,
and I typically get her something she don't like, so
I'm tired. Yeah, so she'll be like, oh no, I
(34:04):
don't like right, right, usually, you know, I mean, we're
comfortable enough now you know she can take it back.
I'm like, look, you don't take it right and then
and then once you give it a receipt. He's the
problem with when I was married, and I would give
the receipt for her to take it back, didn't She'd
see that it was fifty percent off and another twenty
five right, you would be like, what you only paid
(34:27):
twenty dollars for my shot? That's foul. Rob G. Did
you get your wife for a lifetime supply dressing because
I think he got her cooking lessons. Oh wow, Chris,
rob to wake up dad. He's lucky. Lives in the
hills in Jersey. Rob Ge went on a national radio
(34:48):
and said his wife couldn't cook. Don't get mad at
me say that when you said you gotta port rands
dressing on everything dressing, that's like Kaye reesing. I didn't
say Lebron's Now, That's exactly what it's like. When Chris
says that he's from the streets but he wants to
park his luxury vehicle and have some guy watch it
for him. Chris, I can't believe that you went to
(35:09):
the hood and you say, can you watch my car
out here? Don't you? Hey, Alex, Alex is right here
sitting in front of me. Did he not say, I'm
worried about parking this car in front of this park
where I like to walk because my car is super pricy.
No mean, Bobby, don't align on everything the car. I
don't even have the car yet. Oh if are you
(35:30):
getting the Bentley? Are you getting? Nah, not a Bentley.
I'm not gonna get a Bentley. I'm not gonna get
a Biley. The fact that we can ask that we
wouldn't be surprised if you did get one. Shows you
what kind of tax bracket that with me getting the
Bentley nothing, I might get a Bentley to spite y'all.
I told you, I told you that picture of the
Bentley of our friend. I love it, I think, yeah,
(35:50):
I just want to say that his tax we claim
Rob Parker because even though he's got the flashy car
and the watch, still he's still a bargain shopper. He's
still a blogging shopper is better than mine. Yes, but
I'm a boy. But can't say your car, Rob, Yes,
you never said your car never. I'm fun. You got
(36:10):
a nice range Rover, one of those new ones, you know,
the new style beautiful. Yes it is black on black.
I love it. But Rob also shops at Marshall's and Burlington,
so he's cool with the people. Yes, chrisred Dollar, Gucci,
sneak Chris out here and paying full price for everything
like it's no big deal, Like that's a problem on
(36:32):
the streets. Stop Ge, rob Ge when I was there,
who was coming in with a new pair of sneakers
every single day because he shopped at Burlington on the
other Burlington. Meanwhile, Chris Easy, I just paid to college
tuitions cash and even dip into my savings. Keep my secrets. Keep.
(36:54):
Don't don't be putting my business out there anyway. Speaking
of business being out there, Rob, Jim Harbaugh, he remember
I've been saying this and apparently and I know you
tweeted something about this too a few days ago. So
Michigan looks like they either have made him, they made
him an offer, or they're going to But what I
(37:16):
was told was that was that he was going they
were going to extend him, give him a contract extension, Chris,
probably two years, so he wouldn't be a lame duck, right.
And then the details that came out is that it's
for less money the base and with more incentives, right,
and then the smaller buyout if he does want to
go to the NFL wants to leave, so that with that,
(37:38):
that would make sense if they do that, Rob, that's what.
If I'm Michigan, I'm with it, because look, let's face it,
he's a name people in ann Arbor. You know, he's
got connections beyond just having gone to Michigan. He's from there,
and you know, as I've said, he's made him relevant. Now,
this was a horrible season. You obviously they're gonna try
to rationalize it. His hay as COVID. You know nobody
(37:59):
was read, you know, for the most part. Blah blah, Right,
you know, right, But I don't mind this. As bad
as this year has been, I don't mind an extension.
I've been saying this at less money, I'm not giving.
They only had two options. He couldn't be a lame
duck because we talked about it. They either had to
fire him, right because you can't get any recruits, fire
(38:20):
him or giving him an extension. And I guess we
had a reduced salary and make him after earn all
the money. Is right, probably the best route route, right, No,
I think that's fair. All right, M you're looking for gifts,
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