Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Talk Michael Penix Debut In Atlanta, Jayden Daniels Proving He Is A Star, Whining In the College Football Playoffs, And Much More!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
Radio, Well, happy, happy, whatever the hell you celebrate, happy happy,
And I hope what you're celebrating tonight is maybe a
trip to your fantasy football finals. I know that's what
everybody's thinking about heading into Sunday Night Football. We got
it covered from every single angle. Alongside E from salam

(00:23):
Mark Willard, Good evening, Happy holidays, and he from Hello, Hey,
what's happening?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
You know, A lot's happening. It's a busy time of year.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
He is a very busy time of year. Yes, yes,
we're doing though, we're doing a lot, but we're loving it.
Everything is phenomenal. And I was sitting here just moments
ago trying to think of an analogy for the Atlanta
Falcons quarterback situation, and I came up with a stupid one.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
So let's go with it. Here's what here, We're stupid,
real quick story. Have you ever done this? I'm not
like a tech guy, and so once upon a time,
my iPhone, like it wouldn't charge very well anymore and
you'd have to reboot it sometimes. And I'm sometimes the
type of guy that, like, I'm a little slow on

(01:10):
the uptake in terms of like, let's do something about it.
I'm more like, ah, let's make the best of it.
And so I'm sitting there with this crappy phone and
people are like, why won't you get a new phone?
And I'm like, because they're expensive. It is expensive to
get a new iPhone. Little did I know if you
hop into the app and it's been a few years,

(01:35):
check on your plan, you might be able to get
a brand new, free phone. And that was the case
for me a few years ago. And so I got
the new phone, and I spent about a week or
two going, well, why did I do it that way?
Why didn't I go get something new a little bit sooner?

(01:56):
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, that's my analogy of
the Atlanta Falcons Corter situation.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Why didn't you go get your new phone?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
From the beginning, he can really play from He looks
great today.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
He looked fantastic, like he looked like he had been
practicing and learning how to be a pro. And there's
something to be said, what would he have looked like
this at the beginning of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's a good question.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
And so to fit with your analogy about your new phone,
sometimes you can go and get a new phone too early,
because a month after you get a brand new one,
another one comes out. So it's best to just wait
to make sure you get the right one you want.
And I think that's what the Atlanta Falcons did in

(02:51):
this situation. He had shown enough in the practices that
he was the real deal and he was going to
make it happen. And when he got an opportunity, they
picked the right team.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
To also a good point.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, all of these things matter, right. You want to
make sure you get the new phone with the right plan,
you don't want to be charged extra. All of those
things come into play, and I think the Atlanta Falcons
did what they needed to do, so moving forward, they
have someone.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Who can really lead them. Right.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Not everybody's ready to come in and be Jadon Daniels,
Andrew Luck or something like that Cam Newton, but I
like what I see in Michael Pennix. I think he
is the answer to Atlanta's question about the quarterback.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
I think he is.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Now it's an expensive answer because they have Kirk Cousins,
who's they have to pay. It's one hundred million dollars
fully guaranteed. You know, you know, a cent at least
for two unless they can trade him this offseason. But
you know, that's that's what it's going to be moving forward.
They can cross that off the list they may, and look,

(04:13):
this is a very tiny sample size against a really
bad team.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's that's all fair, that's all. That's all.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
He did look promising.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
He he looked like he had the goods man in
terms of what I know you and I we like
to look for early on in a quarterback's career, like, okay, rocket, arm, accuracy, sure,
like the top ten picks should have those things. I'm
looking at feet, I'm looking at poise, I'm looking It's
kind of like how Jaden Daniels looked pretty quickly a

(04:44):
couple weeks into the season, where you're like, you know what,
he snaps the ball and he just looks calm. Like
if it looks calm and under control, I'm like, that's promising.
And Pennix absolutely look that way. Now you bring up
some very very fair points, and so maybe Atlanta is
crazy like a fox here and it ain't my money,

(05:07):
so I don't give a rip, but holy hell, Ephraim,
I mean, there are a couple ways that this could
play out, But it seems like the league thinks that
Kirk is most likely going to be cut somewhere in
the spring, and the grand total if they're not able
to trade him, which I don't think they will, because
the league thinks he's going to be available as a

(05:27):
free agent. The grand total for those fourteen football games
that he played was ninety million dollars and he won
half of them, so that's more than ten million dollars
per win that the Falcons are going to play pay Kirk.
And you can say, hey, this was sort of their
way of ensuring that they liked who they got in

(05:50):
the first round. I can buy all that, and if
it doesn't hurt you at other positions, Okay, I don't
really know how to quantify that, though it feels like
it has to hurt you on some level at other
positions because of that amount of money. So I don't know, Man,
I like, I get it, And if they get Panix
and he's great and it works out, that's fine. At

(06:12):
the same time, it has to feel like there was
a more efficient way to do this.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, look, in hindsight, you can go back and say, man,
we should have or we could have, but I'd like
to say, what do you have Now you have an answer.
In the short term, quarterback is not going to be
the issue moving forward. That in itself, it brings on
a sigh of relief, right for gms and head coaches

(06:37):
moving forward, Now you can really focus and concentrate on
other things. Receivers not going to be an issue. Running
back's not going to be an issue. Maybe bolster up
the offensive line a little bit. But they got a
pretty good young offensive line defensive side of the ball.
Right now, you can really shift your focus getting that
position right. You can now shift your focus to other

(07:01):
parts of your team to really you got the you
got the coach right. I think they uh, I think
they're happy with the name. So absolutely there's a collective
sigh of relief. We drafted right, we brought in a
free agent to give our draft picks some time to
learn to understand we're still in the hunt. This thing

(07:22):
could still uh uh shake out in our favor. That
I mean, the Atlanta Falcons should be all smiling, all
smiles right now.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
It's working.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
This is how you This is how you build a team,
This is how you gm this is how Everything's not
a home run right.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
And again not my money, and and a safe way
to if you will mess up, because I don't know
that there's any way for us to quantify what they
would have done with the money if they weren't spending
it there, And you bring up a fair point about
what would Pennix look like if he had to play
right away?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
And by the way, I'll still ask what's it gonna.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Look like when he has to go on the road
in whether against a real football team. These are all
questions that will be answered later on. At the same time, though,
you do wonder, and I wonder about Kirk like he's
getting late in his career. He was coming off of
an achilles this year. This was a pretty good situation,
so it seemed for him the last month he has

(08:22):
played horrid football. Is he done or is he going
to resurface somewhere else? A year removed from the achilles
surgery and refined at least a portion of the quarterback
that we thought we knew.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I don't think he's done. Okay, I don't think he's
done there. If you haven't noticed, there's not a lot
of starting caliber quarterbacks out there now, you may seem
like you have one, but in reality it's not always
the case. You look at a game today between I

(08:59):
don't think anybody watched it, but between Tennessee and Indianapolis. Indianapolis, sure,
I don't know if anyone upstairs is happy about are
looking forward to the future with either of those high
draft picks that haven't really panned out or haven't really
figured out how to how to be consistent in their play,

(09:21):
no doubt, and I think there always be a market
for someone like Kirk Cousins always.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
You know, don't forget the the the other team, not
the Texans, but the other team in that division. I
know they've already paid their quarterback. But you watch the
Jaguars play the Raiders today and that's an interesting one
as well. And then there are another group of teams
where it's kind of like they're in that veteran situation
where you don't know where they're going to go next.

(09:50):
The New York Giants, who we've already talked about that
that's it. That's a team, The Jets, that's a team.
And then there are some other quirky ones out and
about in the league that we should probably discuss next.
But Kirk is always gonna represent one thing. And I
think this is what got me when I saw the

(10:12):
Falcons do what they did. It was never that they
brought in Kirk, and it was never that they were
gonna give him a big annual salary. It was the
four years thing, yeah, which isn't four years, it's two
and even that even that, because they're gonna end up
essentially paying for two years and all they got was
fourteen games.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
But you know, once again, I'd rather be safe than sorry,
because they've been sorry.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
They've been sorry. Sure, to be honest, they've been sorry.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
So you look at it in a way where it's like, Okay, yeah,
we have the answer we've been searching for.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
This kid can really play now.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
You gotta also remember God forbid anything happens to him.
He's had a bit of a history, a history of injury, right,
a couple major major surgeries in college. I think both
acls I believe. Uh so there's always ways the headge
your bit. Now, that's an expensive hedge. If Kurt's not

(11:17):
gonna start, I'm sure he's gonna want to move on. Sure,
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Speaker 1 (12:07):
Is he America's favorite villain? Ephraim?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Can you think of any other villains in America who
are loved more than the Grinch? No, he's the one.
He's the one, and I know that his heart grew
in the end. But come on, listen to this song.

(12:34):
He's a mean one.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Everybody loves him. Though. You've got nothing on the Grinch.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Do you?

Speaker 7 (12:46):
What about Ebenezer Scrooge.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I've got the Grinch greater than Ebenezer Scrooge.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
What about the Joker?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
No? I'll take the Grinch who like you.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
And again, when I say that, I'm not saying that
you're not coming up with good answers. I'm just saying
I think that the Grinches ahead of both of those.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Megatron, I'm with Megatron.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Let's go on that, Joe, Megatron is a good one.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
That is a good one.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
I want to quiz the audience because I am exactly
the age where Transformers were just bananas. All I was
about when I was like, whatever age that is, eleven
or nine or whatever it is, can you automatically name,
like Megatron the leader of the bad guys known as
the Decepticons, who was the leader of the good guys?

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Very good? This great knowledge by everybody in the room.
I'm excited to be working with all of you.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
When when the live action Transformer came out, did you
go see.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
It in the movie theater?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Damn right?

Speaker 5 (13:52):
How how insane was that?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
This was pretty insane?

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Like we went opening night? Yeah, and it was when
they first transformed. Oh my god, Oh my god. Right,
but but you know.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
It erupts. Yes, I want to know what's even more
insane than that?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
How much money I made on eBay selling my original Transformers.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
When that movie came.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Out, why did you sell them?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Because I was like thirty years old and I don't
play with toys anymore.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
It doesn't matter. Guess how much you could have sold
them for today.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
I made it pretty good, made it.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Pretty good amount, Then I made it pretty good amount.
Then you know what I mean. The Kennedy family will
tell you when asked how they made their fortune, they
will say by getting out of the stock market too early.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's all. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Movie have been a bust, and that could have been
the last we had ever heard of Transformers.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, you knew for a fact that wasn't gonna be
You saw it, right, of course, then you knew it
wasn't going to be able to do.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
But anyway, as good of an answer as that is,
I'm still taking the Grinch over Megatron.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
As far as beloved villains. I don't like. Megatron is cool,
but not beloved.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Like people want posters of the Grinch in their room,
they want Grinch related toys still, they want to watch
the movie five times leading up to Christmas.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Ain't nobody doing that for Megatron.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
I'm not gonna either. I would argue Joker.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, I kind of agree with the Joker on that one.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, you could argue all you want. I mean, the
Joker has the debate class. Joker has his own standalone movies.
No villains.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
Really really, what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Not really? Not really, not really what the Grinch of
the Joker?

Speaker 7 (16:01):
I'm talking about the Grinch like, like the Joker is clearing.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Absolute the Grinch did one movie, put his feet up
and watch for forty years and rules.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
The money in Well, no, because they got to keep working.
Is that It's like the difference between me and Ephraim.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
One of us needs to keep working, other one just
sitting there watching stuff come into the bank account.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
We all need to keep working.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, I'm just saying we all need to keep working,
all right. Anyway, Live Tireck dot Com Studio. So who
should want Kirk Cousins next year? And I've got, like
you mentioned, some obvious ones, yeah, and then maybe there's
some controversial ones like talk me through this. Sure we
can all yell Tennessee Titans, Las Vegas Raiders. Okay, I

(16:52):
like that's that's easy, and then we could say, uh,
New York Giants, Although that very much feels like they're
going to have the draft pick they want, right, they'll
they'll take their new quarterback. I don't know, do you
want to throw Cleveland into this conversation? They're still going
to be paying so much money?

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
I don't think you can put Cleveland there. I think
they got a lot that they still have to deal with.
Kirk Cuttins may be a little bit too expensive, okay,
on top of their expensive quarterback who's probably never gonna
play again there.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well tell me how expensive Kirk will be considering that, Like,
if he ends up simply being a cut, if no
one will trade for.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Him, then I don't think they cut him.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Well, I tell all I know is that the league
thinks they will, or or they're saying that because they
don't want to pony anything up for him.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Do you think someone's going to trade for him? I
think and take on that deal.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
I think yeah, I think there are teams that.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Will trade for him.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
I really do. And I don't think.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
You know it'd be it'd behoove them not to cut him,
because that's it keeps his value what it is right now.
Somebody will trade for him if you are not going
to cut him. Now there's a scenario where you're not
paying Michael Pennix anything. He's on his rookie deal, and

(18:20):
you know, there is a world where this next year,
next season, you have Michael Pennis start starting and have
Kurt as the backup.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's a lot of money in the room.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, but what's the alternative if you cut him, there's
the money still in the room.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Well no, no, it's kind of like you know.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
You're still sending them.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
You're sending the money out the room, so you don't
have to look at it.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
Yeah, but you're still paying though, you still have to pay.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
So I'm like, look, anything can happen during the season,
you know, another tool situation, God forbid anything you have
Prescott situation. Anything can happen. What you don't want to
do is you don't want to have to pay that
and not have any way to get anything out of it.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
I understand where you're coming from, and even.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
On your own front, even with Michael Pennies, like I said,
he does have a bit of a serious injury issue.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
No doubt, But like especially as.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
An alignment, I would argue you very much also would
understand this opinion, which is to say, like if I'm
going to put all of my resources really in to
my brand new, still kind of rookie quarterback, that's a
lot of money that I could be using to protect

(19:42):
him with alignment, with wide receivers, whatever, whatever, protects with
a great defense so that he doesn't have to score
thirty five. That's a lot of money to go to
someone that you are planning to not play.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Okay, but if you cut him, you're still paying him.
You still don't have the money. That's the problem, Right,
It's not like when you cut him, wow, have to
pay him.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
It pushes it one hundred million dollars fully.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Year, but it pushes it forward another year. It pushes
it forward another year, and it may kick in further
guarantees if he's still on the roster on June first.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Right, But what you don't want to do is be
in a situation where God forbid, if something happens to
Michael and now you're trying to figure that out as well.
You don't want to make a compound a situation and
find yourselves like uhh yeah, but I.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Mean it's some five million dollars.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
You go get yourself a high level backup somewhere all
the market, But those.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Guys are fruagents every year to what end? Though, I
don't know. Go get Mariota back, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Like, I would rather have someone like that as my
backup for four million dollars as opposed to.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Paying forty to keep Kirk around, even though I think
he's a good mentor and a nice guy. So he'd
probably handle that really well. Although that's the other question,
would he would he handle that well? He doesn't want
to be the backup somewhere?

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeah, I'm sure he doesn't. But there's what is he
making next year? What is what is he on the
books for?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'll pull it up. I'm gonna pull it up.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Forty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Kirk Cousins deal which was four years and one hundred
and eighty million.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Dollars but with one hundred fully guaranteed.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Correct, well the guarantees, Yes, that is correct, a hundred
fully guaranteed. The potential out is actually built to be
twenty twenty six after twenty five next year, right, So.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yes, that lends to what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Your cap hit and your salary next year is forty million.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Dollars, right, yes, yeah, so the out is built for
two years from yes.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yes, correct, So you just take the out when it comes.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, wow, I mean I hear it's not I hear you.
I do you know what that feels? That feels very complicated?

Speaker 5 (22:15):
You ever, it is complicated relationship stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
And sometimes you're like, I like you, but this is complicated.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Do you know what relationship I have that's not complicated?
I could guess it's the one relationship in my life
did I know? I know what to expect and I
get what I expect. And that's from our guy, mister
consistent Steven C.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Descent.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
Good evening, gentlemen, and another happy NFL Sunday to you.
There are unfortunately only so many of these left. But
while you're talking about money and quarterbacks, let's think back
to the last off season and the record dead money
hit that the Broncos took when they cut Russell Wilson
after the new league year. The final stats were thirty
regular season games in Denver for starts two years worth.

(23:03):
Russell Wilson got over one hundred and twenty million dollars
in cash for that ouch. At Dallas, a fifty eight
yard field goal on the opening drive tonight from Brandon Aubrey.
The Cowboys are up six to nothing first quarter against
Tampa Bay, which is won four in a row. Minnesota
won its eighth straight game of victory at Seattle twenty
seven to twenty four, Justin Jefferson with ten receptions, one

(23:26):
hundred and forty four yards and two scores. Seahawks running
back Kenneth Walker left with an ankle injury. Miami's still
alive in the playoff Chase seven and eight on the
season after beating San Francisco twenty nine to seventeen. Devon
eighth and seventeen carries one hundred and twenty yards and
a late fifty yard TV included. He also had six
catches for seventy yards. San Francisco with eleven penalties. Niners

(23:49):
have officially been eliminated. Arizona's officially eliminated after losing in
overtime at Carolina thirty six thirty and Cards running back
James Connor left with a knee injury. Meanwhile, the Rams
won a game yeah nineteen nine at the Jets Washington
over Philadelphia thirty six thirty three. The Eagles had won
ten in a row. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts left early
with a concussion. Vegas had lost ten in a row,

(24:11):
but the Las Vegas Raiders were winners today nineteen fourteen
over Jacksonville. Buffalo sent New England to a fifth straight loss,
twenty four to twenty one. Indianapolis over Tennessee thirty eight
to thirty Jonathan Taylor two hundred and eighteen yards rushing
and three touchdowns. Cincinnati a winner twenty four to six
over Cleveland Joe Burrow three touchdown passes. Detroit is thirteen

(24:33):
and two after winning at Chicago thirty four seventeen. The
Bears have lost nine in a row, but the Giant said,
hold on, We've now lost ten in a row. Atlanta
beat him up thirty four to seven v Jean Robinson
ninety four yards rushing and two scores. Saints running back
Alvin Kamara is out with a groin injury for Monday
night at Green Bay. Wide receiver Chris Olave of New

(24:54):
Orleans also out with a head injury. Penn State will
be facing Boise State next on New Year's Eve in
the fiel yes To Bowl. The other quarterfinals of this
New twelve team playoff will be on New Year's including
an Oregon Ohio State rematch in a Rose Bowl quarterfinal
in mid October, the Buck Guy's lost at Oregon thirty
two thirty one. There are three NBA games tonight that

(25:16):
includes an Indiana win at Sacramento one twenty two to
ninety five. Oklahoma City gave guard Alex Caruso a four
year extension move. Wagner of Orlando will have surgery for
a torn acl He is out for the year. John
Moranda the Grizzlies is due to play Monday after missing
last game with bad back, and in the NHL Florida
one four two at Tampa Bay. And guys, somewhere on

(25:38):
that list of villains, you're gonna have to include Darth
Vader somewhere back to you.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
My man, and he always comes in and drops it.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Wow, that was powerful.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
It's destroyed the whole thing.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
I mean, what song did the Lakers play every game?
They introduced Shaquille O'Neill onto the court as people cheered.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
And went, but no, this is a answer.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
It's a great answer.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
I literally feel right now like the guy in Star
Wars when Darth just kind of points his hand to
that guy and it just locks his throat up.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
That's what I feel like, right.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Now, I want Steve Way to go, yep, way to go.

Speaker 9 (26:18):
And this is not the anchor you're looking for.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, actually it is, it is, Yes, it is, thank
you Steve. Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
We're live in the Tireck dot Com studios with Ephram
Salam Mark Willard. I did like, I almost feel contractually
obligated to ask you this because he is a weekly
lightning rod. I don't care what debate show you're watching
or listening to around the country every damn week for
two plus years.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Now, you and I included Brock Purty this week. It's
the contract sixty million, what's the structure? Blah blah blah,
what do you want to do? Okay.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Prior to the San Francisco forty nine Ers trading for
Jimmy Garoppolo early in the Kyle Shanahan regime, this is
a well, well well known story. They did not know
that Garoppolo would be available, or that there would be
a different quarterback option, and the plan was to go
get Kirk Cousins in free agency. Kyle has worked with

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Kirk Cousins before. Kyle has a big spot for Kirk Cousins,
and now Brock Purdy is not.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Having the same kind of season that he has had
in the past.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
So I think I know what you're gonna say, and
don't take my question to mean anything about my opinion.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
But I want to ask, are the.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Forty nine ers interested in kirk Cousins?

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Ooh, that took longer than I thought it would.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
No, No, No, I'm thinking of the right scenario where
that would make sense. Okay, are you talking do that?
Are they thinking of Kirk Cousins to be their guy.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Or to come or I don't think he would. I
don't think it would make a whole lot of sense,
mainly for him.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Oh, so they're punning on brock Party.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Then that's because that's the only way that would be interesting.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm asking. I'm asking the question in any any way
that you want to answer it. No, okay, that's what
I thought you'd say. No, that's what I thought you'd say.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yeah, no, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Do you do you have any hesitation going forward with
a with a contract extension for Brock Party?

Speaker 4 (28:48):
No?

Speaker 5 (28:49):
I don't. I don't.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I really don't, And you know why, because it will
really boil down to this. You could do so much
worse than someone who wins the majority of their games
as a staff. If you believe in you and the
way you coach and your ability to put players that

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you've picked in the right situation to be successful, and
he's proven he can be that guy, then why wouldn't
you pay him?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
I agree with you, that's just I agree with me.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
I think that you could be.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Well, no, I was just going to say, I think
that that team came in with such expectations this year
that there has been way too much discussion about if
you're going to extend him, he's got to be Josh Allen,
he's got to be Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
No, we've seen that's not the case.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
He's got to be Lamar Jackson, and he's got to
be Joe Burrow. And I'm like, well, he's not those things.
He's not he's not those people. And I like, there
aren't that many of those people. So the question then becomes,
are you only extending quarterbacks who are top five in
the league.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
It's not gonna then nobody's gonna have a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
No one's going to extend anyone, and everyone's going to
be in a perpetual state of starting over, and quite frankly,
often sucking.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
I'll tell you why.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
I am super bullish, at least in the short term,
like I would structure the deal going forward for Brock.
Everyone gets all hung up on sixty million per year.
I don't really give a crap what the per year is.
Kind of like what we've just been talking about with
the Atlanta Falcons, I don't care what the per year is.
I care what the structure is and how deep are

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we going into the guarantees and how many years If
you've got something that's almost Daniel Jones esque, where a
couple of years down the road you could wiggle out
of it. And the Niners usually do this with almost
all of their players. Like great, I'm completely comfortable with that.
And watch, in my opinion, watch what happens next when

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that group you would hope is blessed with a a
little more health, be a little bit less expectation and attitude.
And see, here's the big one, Ephraim, a fourth place schedule.
Way do you see this, cookie man, Wait till you

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see this. That's gonna be the to me, that is
the biggest thing about that team next year.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
And look, you're absolutely right and as smart as we are,
and you know, we like to believe we're the smartest in.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
The room, very very smart, very smart.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
They too know this, John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan, they know this, right,
they understand this. They've been in this far too long
to start panicking now. They've only been representing the NFC
in the NFC Championship of the Super Bowl in some

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facet the last you know, three to five.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Years, four out of six, I think.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Right, like, so let's all just take a breath and
take a breather. And oh, by the way, in three
of those years it's been Brock Perdy to get them there.
So how about we just chill out.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I like chill out. That sounds good, especially this time
of year. I would love to do a little bit
more chilling out, But not right now. With me from
salam Mark Willard and coming up next, we spend a
lot of time looking at the top of divisions. Why
don't we talk for a second about the bottom of
divisions and how those teams should be executing the final

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two weeks of the regular season. I have questions. We'll
do that next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
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Speaker 1 (33:03):
Locked In tonight.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I'm just saying locked in, we're living the tie rag
dot com studios. That's it from salam Mark Willard. I
was talking this out with a buddy last week, and
I want to start by just asking, as an NFL player,
how this would go. What is the responsibility of a

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team that's out of it to keep playing, keep playing
their players, keep you know, I mean, obviously, whoever's on
the field is gonna try, But like, what is the
responsibility of the eliminated team to to to keep putting
forth the best roster they can down the stretch.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
What most people outside of the sport uh failed to
realize is it's a job. The responsibility, no matter what
it looks or feels like, is to do the job. Okay,
It's if you're having a down year at whatever office

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you work in and you're not going to hit your bonus,
do you stop working?

Speaker 5 (34:22):
Do you just like I'm cool?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
No, But I'm going.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I mean, I mean it less from the player's standpoint
and more from the coaching, general manager ownership standpoint.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
They're they're trying to answer questions.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
That see that that's kind of where I fell. But like,
I don't know if there's a great example. I'm looking
at the schedule next week to see if there's a
great example of like someone who matters against somebody who doesn't,
and and then they've also got something to really protect.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Yeah, And so.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Maybe this is the best example I can come up with.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Sunday Night football next week during our show is gonna
be It's actually gonna be really fun.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
We get to watch Jaydon Daniels play Michael Pennix. Okay,
but well, Atlanta is probably a bad example because Atlanta
is still kind of in it, especially in it if
there is especially if what if this continues, Dallas is
up ten to nothing.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Okay, how about Monday night the following night, the Lions
are going for the one seed, the Niners have been eliminated.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Should they play rock Party?

Speaker 5 (35:31):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
I agree? But why why do you feel that way?

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Because it's his job, that's why.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
But don't they want to protect him, Devil's.

Speaker 5 (35:42):
Advocate, protect him from what the off getting.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Injured, getting injured over the injury? Yeah, yeah, I know,
if he does an ACL he misses next year too?

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yes, what then you don't have to renego. Then you
don't have to sign him to an attention.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
That's true, that's true. This is I don't think that
that's not what anybody wants.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah, but this is the business of it. There is
no downside for you playing him, right, it's his job.
He's the quarterback, he's healthy, he's going to play. God
forbid something tragic happens. You push your extension one year,
you pick up his fifth year option.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Yeah, it's it. Well, you got to go to work.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
When someone asked me this question, here's my answer to me.
And and it's different for every team based on what
their specific situation is. But uh, there's a few things.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
For me.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
The number one thing is, if your season's gone poorly
and I'm the coach, I actually want the people who
I know are going to be playing next year, I
want them to play even more because I would like
to get some damn answers as to what is going
on out there, and i'd like to see them play

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better football together and I would like to start working
on that. If you want to call this pre OTAs
call it, whatever the hell you want, but I'd like
to I'd like everybody to start playing better football if
you're eliminated already by week fourteen fifteen sixteen, that's my
number one answer.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
But I do think somewhere in there it's.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
A little different in the last week of the season
because that traditionally you do like we're going to the playoffs,
we're resting a guy, or we're out of it and whatnot.
But with two weeks to go, we use that game
as an example of the Lions forty nine ers Monday
Night football next week, Like.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
The Niners have they got to play that team. You
got to try to beat that team. That team has
a lot on the line and a lot of teams
chasing it.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Yeah, that game is important. That game is really important
next week, and it's important for the Niners as well.
Like you gotta figure out and it starts now what
your roster is going to start to look like, right,
So you need these high level, high competitive games towards
the end of the year. You want to see who's

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going to go out there and do their job, no
matter if their season is about to be over in
two weeks, Like that's the most important thing. It's easy.
It's easy to do this job when you're winning. Trust me,
I've been there. You got to dig down deep when
you're not. And that's the type of people you want
on your roster. The eye and the sky don't lie

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that camera that you out there going through the motions,
right like everybody. The coach will come in and be like,
hey man, where everybody playing for jobs? Everybody playing for jobs?
Because if you the guy who is a front runner

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for the last couple of years, because you've been in
a situation where it's been terrific and now you come
back and it's like, oh, we don't have anything to
play for it, so you don't want to play cool.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
Can't build a team around those guys?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
No, absolutely not, no, no, no, no. I again I
with two weeks to go, I'm putting everybody out there
for all kinds of reasons.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
There is a crowd that says, hey, Tank, get a
better draft pick. You know, we can get into that
a little bit more coming up around the bend. We
also need to really talk about some college football man
that got everybody all turned up this week. We'll talk
about it next.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Oh college football fan, do you have any idea. How
insufferable you are?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
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I have been listening to this crap for north of
forty years.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
We need more teams, any more teams. This needs to
be more fair.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
We gotta get We gotta get all the whole country
needs to me in this unite in the north and
the South, and the east, the West.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
We need more teams. We need more teams.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
We get more teams, and you all have the nerve
to say these teams now shouldn't be there.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
You have got to be kidding me with the opinions
that I am.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Seeing all over the world wide web this weekend.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
We switch the damn thing to get more people involved.
We switch the damn thing so that the good teams
earn home field advantage.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Of course they're supposed to win. That's how it works.
They earned that through the regular season. Yes they're the
bigger team, Yes they're the batter team. Yes they've got
home field, and yes they're fans all bought tickets. And
then when they win by two touchdowns or more, you

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thumb your nose at the process again. And now we're
supposed to Are we back to inviting fourth place in
the SEC again? Good god, college football fan, I've finally arrived.
It's not them, it's you. You're never gonna be satisfied.

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I cannot stand this idea that keeps coming up in
college football that when there's a blowout, it means the
other team actually shouldn't have even been there.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Stop it, stop it.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Just look at the home team and go nice job
earning that home field, and nice job playing well today.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Next round? Please? Ugh, I thought that was awful.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
You can't please everybody. You know that, you know that.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Apparently you can't please anyone.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Like, honestly, what are we back to the drawing board
in college football?

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Now, you're from, No, I don't think we are. I
never thought it should have been twelve teams. I thought
eight teams the most would have been great. It just
I don't know what people expected on any given year,

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there's about four or five teams that have the real
capability and skill from coaching to talent to win the
national championship. Now you can look up and get a
one off, or you know, you could be one of

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the twelve and find yourself. You know, it's not like
March madness, you know what I mean? Like most fifteen
seeds who beat a two seed or sixteen to beat
to one seed get destroyed the next by a thousand

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and so even if you have an upset in the
first round, there's such a disparity in terms of talent
when you deal with so many different conferences, if that
makes sense. Like we know the SEC is the SEC,

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Big ten, Big twelve, right, very high level talent.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
So when you get a situation where you know, like.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Indiana and Notre Dame, that sounded and it looked on
paper like it was going to be, Oh, this is
going this could go either way.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
Could have been interesting, yeah, but it's not.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
But listen to the example you just brought up. When
Duke plays Sam Houston State and they're not allowed to
go to the next round unless they win, we don't
go Oh Sam Houston State actually shouldn't have been in
the championship bracket. Oh we don't.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
We go to Vegas and we bet on it and
we we we we print stuff out and we create
office pools and we freak out and love it. But
apparently in football, if a game is lopsided, why then
it shouldn't have happened.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
Well, you can get you can get fooled in football
easier than in basketball, right, I.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Mean, this is this is the playoffs.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
You've got to play the first round and and and
pummel someone.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
That's the That's the way it.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Works, you gotta that's exactly right, in.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Every sport, that's how it works.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Right, Yeah, it was, you know it was.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
It was what I expected, which was all right, these
games are on I don't know if I don't know
if I've watched that an entire one out of out
of the four.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Well, I mean I was in and out on all
four actually, And and you're.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
It was just so much to watch yesterday.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yes, and nothing ended up being unbelievably compelling. But that we, like,
I just don't think we're allowed to do that kind
of hindsight. You can't just like show up and if
the game doesn't tickle your fancy and go to overtime,
then thumb your nose and be like, shouldn't have even
done it shouldn't have happened because, by the way, once

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upon a time in this new format, somebody at home
is going to get their butt kicked.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
And that's the way it works. Like it's just round one.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I was so shocked by how annoyed everybody was by this.
And then you've got Lane Kiffen on Twitter basically as
an example, just totally cherry picking this situation and going
back to the old argument of like, well, fifth place
in the SEC would have beaten well, so what, so what?

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That's not sports? The Bucks and the Falcons are going
to win their division. The Commanders are better. So what
the Bucks or Falcons are going to be at home?

Speaker 9 (47:08):
Right?

Speaker 5 (47:08):
Look at Minnesota, thank you?

Speaker 1 (47:10):
They are they what are they? Thirteen and two?

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:13):
And they and they're probably they're probably gonna be on
the out there. Could probably gonna be a wildcard team.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
They are going to be a wildcard team.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Well, they may win the division. Maybe the Lions will
be a wildcard team.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Either one though, right either one of them.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Is going to be a wildcard.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
It just feels like you spend decades asking for more,
and as soon as someone gives you more, you'll like,
I think I want less. I hear this in all sports, right, NBA, NBA,
Oh my gosh, yeah, let's do this. Let's do that.
You know what, maybe we shouldn't start the seas until Christmas?
This is boring.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Well, if you're bored, that's your problem. That's like, I
don't know, man, what a weird deal. The games weren't fun.
The teams that were supposed to win one, then they
get to go play again, period, period.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
It's not offensive anywhere else the NBA sends people to
Round one with losing records that built a playing tournament
around it. In fact, are the Atlanta Hawks now not
supposed to be there when the Boston Celtics kick their
rear in April?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Maybe? I don't know that. Just were you surprised by
this that.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
It that it went like it did?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Know that people seemed to be very negative about it.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (48:37):
I knew that was coming, man. Really, you've been in
this business as long as I have. You know that
it's coming. You can't prove you can't please anybody. You
can't please anybody, and all people, one is competition to be.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
Even, but it very rarely is. It very rarely is.
And so this is just the.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Beginning of what will be very exciting uh moving forward. Uh,
you know, with the with the playoffs and and teams
vying for one of those positions and trying to get
the home game and trying to get the buy. And
it's going to work out in the long run for

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fans because when you do have one of those upsets,
then you know that just see, anybody could win. Everybody's
got their eyes on that Boise State game.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
I can tell you that.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
They you want to talk about being in a serious spot.
Everybody wants to know what that looks like.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Well, that in and of itself means it's good that
it's happening.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
And you gotta remember the only team they lost two
by three is Oregon. Yeah, number one team in the nation.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
But like, just if there's curiosity now, if there's varied
opinions now, then you don't get to come to us
in ten days and go, oh, that team won by seventeen.
Actually that was stupid. We shouldn't have played it at all.
I don't know, man, I hear a lot of people.

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What is it about twenty twenty four where I hear
a lot of people and it's not the year, it's
just the time asking for less sports.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
I don't know who's asking for that.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Everybody.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I'd argue, i'd have the baseball schedules too long, the
NBA ratings sucked, don't play till Christmas.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Oh, we've got a new twelve team format. That was dumb.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
We shouldn't have done that. Like baseball schedule it's too long.
Maybe I already said that whatever, Like NFL is going
to an eighteen game schedule.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
That's happening. Like that'll happen, and.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Yes, there will continue to be like more playoffs will
get added, and more plaiffs will get added in more
and more and more because it's it's more money and
there's a thirst for this stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
And I don't know, man, I'm not offended by it.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
No, I'm not either. It's entertaining. It gives us something
Like Saturday was jam pack me. It was so much
stuff on Saturday, totally college women's basketball, the college football playoffs,
San Diego State basketball, the Lakers played like I was like,
oh my my DVR was like, hey, bro, what is
going on? And Saturday night I had a comedy show.

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I did my first Uh, I hosted a comedy.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Special on Saturday Night.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
When you were like the MC or did you actually
do stand up?

Speaker 5 (51:55):
I did stand up? Come on, I did want something
by me?

Speaker 1 (52:00):
No, you don't want to run some material.

Speaker 5 (52:02):
I did stand up man, for the first time in
my life.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
How to go.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
From what I was told?

Speaker 4 (52:11):
First of all, it felt amazing, okay amazing, And from
what I was told by the comedians that were actually
on the show, Yeah, that I can do this, that
I killed.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Well, what did the audience tell me?

Speaker 5 (52:27):
Oh? They were they were in, they were all in.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Well they're not faking that.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
Yeah, but I get it.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
But I from from people who do this like all
day every day, Like that's where you want to you know,
a crowd could be hit and miss, right, But the comedians,
if they're laughing, if they're like, where did you get
that from? And how something that that's your time You've

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never done this before. Your timing is amazing, Like that's
what I was looking for.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
And from I'm so because I've said this, I don't
know if I've ever said this to you. I say
this to anyone who listens, especially because we talk into
microphones for a living. I am a huge fan of
stand up comedy, partly just because I love to laugh
and it makes me laugh. But the other part is
to me, in the world of entertainment, there is nothing
more impressive. Nothing. I look at a comedian who can

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sell out an arena, and when that person walks out
on stage, you think about it. A rock band, they've
got people, they've got instruments, there are eight of them, right,
if there's a musical, you've got a stand up comic
walks out in front of twenty five thousand people, and

(53:43):
what do they have?

Speaker 1 (53:45):
A microphone? Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Like, that's gotta be the most intimidating thing in all
of entertainment.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
And if you can do that, I'd argue you could
do anything.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
I was oddly at home.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Well, I would like, if you're good at it, I bet,
I bet, like you're either made to do that or
or you're not.

Speaker 4 (54:14):
So I have to learn the etiquette because initially, as
a host, I was supposed to come out, do five minutes,
then bring up the first comic.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Okay, and you went twenty I went fifteen that's probably
against etiqette.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
And the comedian.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
You're six and I'm thinking, no, I'm just gonna sign
it to you.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
The comedians wearing the back like, hey, if if he
if they keep laughing, he's going to keep going right,
And I'm like, well, I'm gonna keep making them laugh.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
And then you know, you come out after one comedian,
you give it up for him, and then you do
a little something and then you bring the next one out.
My little sof between comedians was you know more bits?

Speaker 11 (55:05):
Yes, like it's itself.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
All in all.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
I think I did a total of probably thirty two minutes.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
That's pretty that's pretty close to a headline set. Yeah,
like a headline set is maybe going an hour.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Yeah, I I did close to thirty two minutes of material.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
What'd you talk about? Like? Was there a theme? Like
where were like? Was it sports? Was it parenting? Was
it like it was marriage? Different?

Speaker 5 (55:39):
It was parenting.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Marriage is a good one, it was.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
One of the.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
Things I said is, uh, you know, marriages like a
roller coaster, right, and theory you know, you everybody wants
to get on a roller coaster. Seems like a good idea.
It seems fun. But the problem is you don't know
that you don't like roller coasters until you're on it.

Speaker 5 (56:06):
And that's marriage Like we were told.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
No, you're supposed to get married and have kids, but
you won't know if if that's the right thing for
you until you're in it.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
And now you can't get off.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Now, now you're squeamish, and.

Speaker 5 (56:25):
Now you're squad. Now I said, I've been on this.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
I've been on this roller coaster for eighteen years.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
Oh my god, what ever? I wish I was there, man,
I'll send it to you.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Are you gonna do it again?

Speaker 5 (56:41):
I have one percent will do it again?

Speaker 12 (56:44):
Okay, huh, want to do a bit for.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
The rest of the night. I'll watch the game.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
I didn't write anything, It's okay. I swear to god.
I did not write one thing.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Damn.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
I've had Okay on my show, like I don't know,
three months ago to promote his show. You know who
Bill Burr is, of course, right, And if you're a
noble comedy at all, you know, oh dude, Yeah, amazing.
Bill came on our show to promote his show because
he was coming to the Bay Area and we went

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and he was amazing as he always is. But the
one of the questions I asked him was, hey, are
you more comfortable with and I know everybody goes off script,
but do you go out there, at least in your mind,
with a little bit of a roadmap or would you
rather just freestyle? And his answer was kind of like,

(57:47):
I mean, you go out there with an idea, but
the show is at its best when then you make
the whole.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Thing up as you go.

Speaker 5 (57:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
I was like, my god, and then I got not
even more impressed because I'm like, no, you're walking out
there with a microphone and no clue.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
What you're gonna say. Who I love it.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
I'm gonna send it to you. They taped. I don't
know they taped that. I was like, y'all tape. That
was like you, of course we do. I'm going to
send you the entire show. And then you get you
can let me know.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Okay, no, please do, And then if you're ever gonna
do this again, you let me know.

Speaker 5 (58:25):
I will come. You don't even live up and down here.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Atter I got a car.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
I will come and see you. There's family down there.
I have a bed and a car. We're good, all right,
I'm coming all right, anyway, we should talk about the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
I find them to be very fascinating.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
They had a weird day, so let's do that coming
up next, or maybe Ephraim will tell jokes. We'll find out.
Maybe it's both on Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're
live tire rack dot com Studios. Uh, we got so
far into stand up comedy that we're a little behind.
De Seger's going to be here in like two minutes,

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so we can get to the Eagles in a sec.
But let's use this a couple of minutes. I wanted
to get this off my chest just to kind of
see what you think. So a lot of the sports
sites tonight have a headline that says colts Taylor atones
for fumble with two hundred.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
And eighteen yard day. Now, Jonathan Taylor had a had
a great game, two hundred and eighteen yards. I think
he went to the house three times, and the first
time he made it to the end zone. He even
made fun of himself as he crossed the gold line.
He tucked the ball with two hands, and then the
celebration with his teammates included them trying to slap the

(59:50):
ball out of his hands. And he would not let
it go.

Speaker 13 (59:53):
It's funny, entertaining, but the headline Jonathan Taylor atones for
fumble with two hundred and eighteen yard day, and I
immediately thought to myself, well, no, you didn't. You still
lost that game last week.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Yeah, you still lost that football game last week. It's
great that you won today, and I bet your fantasy
owners aren't mad at you anymore, except for some of
them are out of the playoffs because of what you
did last week, and so this week didn't even matter
for that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
But it's not about fantasy. The whole thing just made
me laugh. It's like, oh, this made up for it. Well,
no didn't, No didn't. You can look at the standings,
and you still lost that football game. To me, of
all the sort of like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Inexcusable things in sports, the whole dropping the ball at
the one yard line thing has got to be the
front of the line.

Speaker 12 (01:00:57):
Yes, that is yes, what are we doing? That shit
never happened.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Ever, and it happens all the time, more time than
it should.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Right Anyway, I just felt like saying that I wanted
to see if you thought kind of the same way
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Of course, yes, yes, that that is like, bruh, you
did the hard part, what not? Would none of the payoff?
That's essentially what it is. Broke all the tackles you
got free and it's for nothing, literally nothing. So yeah,

(01:01:47):
I that that bothers me for real, for real.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
That's great that he can make fun of himself.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
But I mean, I like, would we would you feel
like it was a to for if the Colts were
a little closer in the standings, which, oh, by the way,
they would be if you hadn't dropped that ball, you
would be a game behind the Houston Texans.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
With two games to play. But you're not. But you're
atoned for it today. Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
You gotta be able to be locked into your job
no matter what, right, Like, if I were going to
use to an example of somebody who was locked into
their job no matter what was going on, it would
be the one and only locksmith himself, Stephen de seger El.

Speaker 8 (01:02:49):
Good evening to you once again, gentlemen. By the way, Mark,
I would add, not only would the Colts have been
a game behind Houston and the division, they would have
been a game behind the Denver Broncos for the last
playoff spot in the AFC whether they won the division
or not, and that gaff was at Denver, which means
if they had tied Denver in the standings, that game

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is the.

Speaker 9 (01:03:12):
Head to head tiebreaker.

Speaker 8 (01:03:13):
Also, the Colts would have had a better conference tiebreaker
than anyone else who's fighting for the seventh seed. We
can't undersell how huge that was. I know there's only
two games left here, but no, it didn't. It didn't
atone for it, I think that is the wrong verb.
Let's get to Dallas as we've got two and a
half minutes to go first half, and the Cowboys are

(01:03:34):
leading the Tampa Bay Bucks thirteen to seven. Brandon Aubrey
with field goals made from forty nine and fifty eight
yards out, Rico Dowdell seven carries ten yards, and yet
at the two minute warning, Dallas is in the lead
and driving. They're in the red zone looking for more.
The Cowboys home record this year is one and six. Meanwhile,
Minnesota overall thirteen and two after a victory at Seattle

(01:03:55):
twenty seven to twenty four. Eight straight wins for the Vikings.
Justin Jefferson would receptions one hundred and forty four yards
two touchdowns, including the game winner with under four minutes left.
Miami stayed alive in the playoff Chase seven and eight
record Now after beating San Francisco twenty nine to seventeen.
Buffalo over New England twenty four to twenty one, the
Bills are seven to zero. At home, Bills trailed fourteen

(01:04:18):
to nothing in the second quarter of this one. Las
Vegas had lost ten in a row, but got a
home win against Jacksonville nineteen fourteen. Rookie tight end Brock
Bowers eleven catches ninety nine yards. Washington over Philadelphia thirty
six thirty three. Philly had won ten in a row.
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts left early with a concussion. Jade
and Daniels five touchdown passes, including the game winner in

(01:04:40):
the final seconds. The Rams won nineteen to nine. At
the Jets, Rams had won four straight. Arizona's officially eliminated
from the chase after losing in overtime at Carolina thirty
six to thirty two. Be Hubbard one hundred and fifty
two yards rushing two touchdowns, including the game winner. Indianapolis,
I heard Jonathan Taylor atoned.

Speaker 9 (01:04:58):
For last week.

Speaker 8 (01:04:59):
He had two hundred eighteen yards rushing three touchdowns. Nobody
will remember the prior game now it's literally been erased
from your forehead. Coltsover, Tennessee thirty eight to thirty, Indies
up to seven and eight. Cincinnati beat Cleveland twenty four
to six. Joe Burrow with three touchdown passes. That's kind
of an understatement. Joe Burrows had an NFL record today.

(01:05:20):
This is seven straight games with at least three touchdown
passes and two hundred and fifty yards. Joe Burrow just
broke a Tom Brady record. Detroit was a winner at
Chicago thirty four to seventeen. Bears have lost nine straight.
Giants have now lost ten in a row. Lost thirty
four to seven at Atlanta. Drew lock of the Giants
through two pick sixes. Penn State will be facing Boise

(01:05:42):
State next on New Year's even the Fiesta Bowl. The
other three college quarterfinals are on New Year's Day, including
the Rose Bowl. A Buckey's Oregon Ducks rematch just three
NBA games tonight. The late contest is midway through overtime.
The Nuggets are tied at New Orleans at one, twenty
five earlier wins for HU Houston and Indiana. The Phillies
traded for pitcher Jesus Lozardo from Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Back to you, Steve, great stuff is always appreciate you.
We are in the tie rack dot Com studios. Mark
Willardy from Salama.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
How you doing your fantasy? Well, you're going to the
championship game. I know you got twelve leagues.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
I got.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
So uh four leagues at two of them did not
make the playoffs. Two of them were still alive today.
One win, and it appears I am headed for one loss.
So I will I will make.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
You will make a championship game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
I will make a championship which with four leagues, you know,
like I don't know, you better make some money in
one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Right, I have a league right now that that I'm
in I was in. I'm not in the league the
league I'm I'm in solely I didn't make the playoffs.
But my sons are in a league. They don't even
watch footballer can care less about football, So it's basically me.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
You're doing it for them.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Yes, last year I played against myself in the championship.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
This year.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I had the number one seed with one of my sons,
and then the second seed with my other one.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
I'm currently.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Up one seventy two and a half to one seventy
one point three.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Oh damn. And so what I have here?

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
I have Mike Evan. I have Mike Evans playing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Oh, Mike Man, do something, man.

Speaker 5 (01:07:43):
And they have Green Bays defense tomorrow.

Speaker 11 (01:07:46):
Oh, which is a real good, spicy matchup for them,
because it's New Orleans, it's December, it's cold, and I'm sorry,
is someone named Bill playing?

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Like? Who's the quarterback for the Saints tomorrow? I don't
even know.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
I need Dallas to score right here, so we start
just chucking.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Yes, hugging it, hugging it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
I need Dallas to score right now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
All right, because I'm the league where I'm winning. I
have Bucky Irving. But I'll tell you what. I'll let
the Bucks throw because you want to know what the
score is of my game right now?

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Two hundred and two to ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Oh yes, I made a statement from.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
I'm a statement.

Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
I see you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
I made a statement today. There's a statement win. I'm
letting I'm letting them know that next week I'm coming.
I'm coming for that hip.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
Oh I see you? Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Love where we act like we have something to do
with it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
All right, Hey, what do you make of the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
I'm getting super fascinated by this team because they're like
a soap opera.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
They got a whole New Diddy going on every single week.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Right, we're gonna win nine in a row, but we're
gonna get in a fight about it and the hold
press conferences and yell at each other, call each other out,
and then a quarterback's gonna get hurt and high profile loss,
but meantime they're just be bopping their way.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Essentially, is the only NFC, non NFC.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
North team that anybody thinks has a real shot.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
Look, this was a tough loss for Philip because you know, obviously,
if Jalen Hurt saysn't go out with the concussion, it
quite possibly could have been, you know, a different outcome.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
They're probably gonna win that game. You're probably gonna win
that right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
So the fact that they were in there batting out
this young man, Jaydon Daniels man.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
Wo right, Washington got that thing all the way, right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
They got this thing set. That's all I needed to see. Well,
see what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:10:08):
They got twelve twelve to fifteen more years it is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Well, I don't know about that because of the way right,
like when you use your legs that much, I don't
know about twelve to fifteen.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
What happens is he'll develop, Yeah, he'll because he could
throw the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
I mean absolutely he can. No, Like, I'm not putting
water on your point. I just mean more like seven
to ten. But whatever you however many years you want
to call it, Like if we do truly look at
NFL teams and say, if you've got a superstar quarterback,
you're going to be a factor every year. It won't

(01:10:45):
work every year because like look at Cincinnati for example,
right now, it can go sideways, but you're a factor
in some way, shape or form every year. We'd like
to welcome the commanders to this party. Yeah, they are
going to be a factor.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
They have invitation, they have an invitation. That young man boy.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
We've seen some spectacular late wins from a rookie quarterback
and it's been brilliant. So I mean I'm looking forward
to the future. Are ten wins with two to.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
Go to to go?

Speaker 9 (01:11:27):
Woof?

Speaker 5 (01:11:28):
That's not bad, brother, No.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
No, they they and they really they had a dip
where just and he wasn't quite healthy and they didn't
look quite right and everything, but I think they weathered
the storm and today was sort of re establishing their footing.
You got a running back turn the ball over two
times on the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
I had five total turnovers and still one and.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
They won thirty six points against the way that defense
has been playing.

Speaker 5 (01:11:54):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I am in. So there's that
side of it. But I do like the Eagles. I
cannot get a finger on it because I don't think
they're the best coached and I don't think they've got
the best passing game.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
And I don't and I don't and this and that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
But also they got the best running game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Yeah, they got the best running back, and yeah, they
just they just keep coming. So we can get into
that with me from Slama, Mark Wather, This is Fox
Sports Radio, all right, tyright dot com Studios. Boy, you
spoke that into existence, didn't you. Cowboys got a touchdown
and here come the Bucks.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Slinging it, come on slinging it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
And Mike Evans has two big catches on the drama. Mike,
what do you need? Give me more? What do you need?

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
What do you mean to be comfortable, I need Mike
to give me at least twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Come on, yeah, that's that. That's not number thirteen.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
We don't even know who that guy is. Get out
of here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
By the way, I proposed this a week or two ago,
I was with my kids and we were watching Red
Zone and rooting for our fantasy teams.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
In today's day and age of the NFL, Ephraim.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
I believe it is high time that when a touchdown
is scored, if that player is not on anyone's fantasy team,
it shouldn't count.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
You have to take it off the board.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
There is no reason for that reason. There's no reason
that is a ten yard penalty.

Speaker 10 (01:13:32):
Can you imagine the flag goes up as you're like
illegal throwing to someone no one's ever heard of on
the offense to ten yard penalty, we'll replay second down.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
That tell me that won't happen within the next twenty years.
H It might, It might. I don't know if you
know this. In baseball, when they go to extra innings,
they're just like, hey, you go stand on second base,
you can score. Like crap just gets made up out
of thin air.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Why not this?

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Ben Scaronic, you are not on enough
fantasy teams. You got to hit the showers. Twenty to fourteen.
The Cowboys lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So anyway, I

(01:14:28):
still want your answer on like, what do you make
of the Eagles? You go back six weeks even felt like, ah,
they're winning in spite of Nick Sirianni. Philadelphia's been very,
very loud this year. The fan base. Go back to
the beginning of the year, they were out on their
quarterback and their coach. But obviously winning calms everything down.

(01:14:52):
But then you get even after a long win streak, right,
You've got your best receiver and your quarterback beefing. You've
got lineman talking about it openly at press conferences. It's
a lot, it's a lot of it's a lot of
drama on that team. And so I I wonder when

(01:15:12):
when the stakes get really high coming up here next month,
what you think we're going to see.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
They're this old saying pressure bus pipes. We've seen it
happen to them before. We watched it happen every week
last week, coming down the stretch, they seem to have,
you know, been able to win. You know, despite things

(01:15:42):
this year, how do they deal with a hurt Jalen hurts?
Like what what is that?

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
You know, what does that? That type of adversity can
crumble a fragile team, and that's honest. That level of
adversity can can crumble a team that's not locked in right.
And so I'm I'm curious to see just how long

(01:16:20):
Jalen's gonna be out and then what that If he's
out for the remainder of the season or another game,
that's that's that's gonna be tough, man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Sure, And just so people know that the injury is
a concussion, I will say, and this is gonna sound
I do not want this to sound irresponsible.

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
It sounds before you even say it sounds thank.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
You, I know, which is why I trot my ass
off to qualify this thing here.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
But the bottom line is, in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Of concussions, simply by how it looked on the field,
this this one did not look like one of the
really really bad ones.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
Yeah, but its bearing on it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
It has no bearing on it. I know that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
But my point is is, like some of them you
look at and you're like, oh my gosh, that's a
multi week concussion. And and and I know we shouldn't
can't do that, but like there's the two of variety
versus one where Jalen Hurts immediately gave thumbs up to
the refs, and then at one point on the sideline
he put his helmet back on. He wanted to go in,

(01:17:29):
they wouldn't let him, and then he got ruled out.
So I'm with, like, believe me, I get it. He
could be having headaches and nausea right now for all
I know, and and.

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
And it could be the real damning one.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
It's tomorrow, right, That's what that is tomorrow, and what
that is on Tuesday. And that's when you're like, oh, okay, huh,
still cloudy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
And and they've there the two seed, provided that they can.
They may get it even without winning another game, but
they'll get it for sure. If they just win one
more game.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
Well they're gonna they'll probably they'll be able to beat
the Giants. The Giants, Giants. The Giants want the number
one pick in the draft.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Correct, The Giants will want to lose. That's the last
week they're going to leave.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
Next week, the Cowboys are going to want to throttle them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
They're gonna want to.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
It's in Philly, Cowboys in Philly next next weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
Yeah, I mean anywhere outside of home for the Cowboys,
they fare a little bit better, a little bit better.

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
So true, we'll see what that uh what that looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
No doubt, no doubt. So anyway, I just fascinating to
me that a week or two ago, A J.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Brown is like, we can't throw the ball. You got
linemen stepping up and being like, y'all have to stop
this beef. And then all of a sudden, Hey, AJ Brown,
you're gonna get a second to test out life without Jalen.
And I know that he caught a touchdown right away
from Kenny Pickt, but I don't think that means that
he wants Kenny Picktt to be his quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:18:59):
No, it changes the dynamic of the offense. I think
Kenny came into the yolman's job, but you know, coming
down the stretch, you want to be firing on all cylinders.
Dave limped into the playoffs before. It hasn't worked out
well for him, so you know, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
We talk a lot about Dan Campbell. Do you see
what the Lion's pulled off today. We'll talk about it
coming up. All right, it's halftime and Sunday Night football.
As you heard Steve say, it's the Cowboys by nine.
But let's be real. What Ephraim is watching is that
Mike Evans has four catches for fifty nine yards. Let's

(01:19:34):
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Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
I need at least I need him at least get
all right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
And is this a full PPR?

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
So all right, So you're sitting right now at about
ten points. You need another ten? You need another ten?

Speaker 5 (01:20:10):
Yes, he's at nine point nine exactly, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
All right, so you need you need a touchdown.

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
I get a touchdown. I think I'm good and.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
The Bucks are down by nine.

Speaker 5 (01:20:20):
This is going to have to throw.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
This is perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
One seventy seven point five against one seventy one point three.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
I can't wait to see it unfold. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
The second half will get started shortly, and Ephram may
Or may not pay it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
You may not be with you, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
We'll see, we'll see, we'll see. All good however it
plays out. But let's all watch together, let's check it out.
And then I wanted to ask you this too. Hey,
did you ever see an old Adam Sandler movie called
Billy Madison? Of course, of course, Okay, all a certain age,
you know what that movie is. Bottom line to go

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into the whole story, But bottom line is, Billy Madison
is often seen on the school yard as a much
much older kid, even young adult. Basically is like attending
kindergarten or a grade school. And so when it's really funny,
one of the most famous scenes is when they go
out on the playground and he's playing dodgeball with people

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who are less than half his size, and he is
absolutely pummeling them in dodgeball because he's an adult and
they're little kids.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
And here's why I asked that. That's what it looks.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Like to me when the Lions and the Chiefs call plays,
just those two teams, I want to focus on those
two teams because they think this is all fun and games.
They're out here the Chiefs ring around the Rosie. Patrick
Mahomes will throw a pass from any angle.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
He might throw it around his back one of these times,
and then here come the Lions. Did you see this
play today?

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Did you see this play where Jared Golf acted like
he was falling over on purpose, yes, and hit the
ball acting like he handed it to Gibbs, who then
acted like he was juggling it and fell over only
so that Golf could suddenly stand up straight and huck

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the ball to Sam Laporte in the end zone for
a touchdown.

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
And I'm like, dude, Ben Johnson, offensive coordinator, Detroit Lions,
how much do you drink during the week?

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
How arrogant do you have to be?

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
You got twenty eight offensive coordinators in this league stressing
over how to.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Get four yards and these dudes sit down with a
pen and they're like, all right, we're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
I want Jared to fall down and tie his shoe,
and then I want the wide receiver to start yelling
like he's a bird.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
Ca ca.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
We're just gonna distract everybody and then the title.

Speaker 10 (01:23:11):
Like what are you doing? Who the hell even thinks
of this crap? Furthermore, then make it work? What's happening?
I don't understand. I don't understand how you can be
that arrogant with all.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
The other teams are just trying to figure out how
to get for you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
As how it is, man, when you you know, when
you're good, you got to try to do things to
keep you entertained.

Speaker 5 (01:23:36):
Sometimes winning isn't enough.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
Sometimes you gotta be entertained, right, you gotta film sessions
are tomorrow, right you. Everybody's excited to watch this on
film tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:23:51):
Like that brings for sure, brings energy and levity to
to you know, to something, and they've earned them. Both
teams have earned the right to play with others emotions.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
What like, honestly, I didn't even I'm less interested in
the play and I'm more interested in what did that
look and sound like when you sat down and wrote
that up and pitched it to the team.

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
Huh, Okay, what do you think? What do you think.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Belichick would have said if an oc if McDaniels had
come to him.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
One time and then like all right, here's what we're
gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
I'm thinking Tom Brady out of the shotgun and then
once he gets the ball, he starts doing the cabbage
Patch dance.

Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
Tom would have never done it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
Only twice, only twice.

Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
Yeah, he's a different He's not playing games with Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Meanwhile, Gronks can run down the scene doing the centipede
and everyone will be so freaked out that Edelman will
be He'll be opened down the left sideline.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
Bill, Trust me, it's gonna work. What I just.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
I'm so, I'm very very tickled by this, not even
that it worked, just the concept and and and then
what do we take from that?

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Like, are the Lions that much better than everybody else?

Speaker 4 (01:25:22):
They're out there playing, to put it in a Vegas term,
they're playing with house money, are they though? That's what
it feels like in their minds and in their minds.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
Yeah, they are one slip away from being a wild
card team.

Speaker 4 (01:25:37):
But you know they they were outside in the elements today, sure,
and people have been saying, oh, Jered Gum can get
outside kenn even it's cold and it's not indoors. So
they were gonna be out there, and they were gonna
take liberties. They were out there trying to prove something
to somebody today. Uh and hey man, I mean, oh man,

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this is look they're they're setting it up to where
they're going to get back to where they were last
season and close out the deal. All right, got a

(01:26:23):
big game next Monday in San Francisco, ginormous game against Minnesota,
against Minnesota at home.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
Well, maybe Minnesota's got business first.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Minnesota's got to play Green Bay and if they lose
that and the Lions win, then the Lions can start
Ben Johnson at quarterback himself the following week.

Speaker 5 (01:26:48):
Me knowing Dan Campbell, I don't think he'll do that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Probably not.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Remember they won the last game of the season and
gave up and forfeited the number one pick in the
draft three years ago, just because remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Yeah except for them with the second pick in the draft,
they probably got the best player in the draft.

Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27:05):
But what I'm saying is they gave up the opportunity
to pick him because he could have not been available
totally just off that we needed to wind And I'm like, no,
you did not, right, So there's a little there's a
little of there's a lack of the big picture. That's

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the perfect way to put it. When Dan Campbell's coaching style,
there's a lack of the big picture.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
It's all about the now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
I mean that, I feel that, but I'm also I mean,
I'm currently prepping my anti tankathon argument because you know
where I live and what were talking. There's a lot
of teams right now, and I feel like you and
I kind of went over this in a different angle
a couple of hours ago. As a fan, I understand

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if you're talking about the number one pick. If you're
the New York Giants and I'm a fan of the
New York Giants.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
You want the number one pick. I want you, Sam,
You want.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
To be able to pick who well, whether you want
you whoever, you want to make the decision.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Yes, yes, But if I'm somewhere in the like, well,
I'm gonna end up at like seven through twelve.

Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
Yeah, but that's that's I get that.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
But what I'm rooting for my team to win.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
Yes, but that's for my team to.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Play good football and not look like morons out there.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
That was in Detroit two years ago, right, it was
them and Jacksonville. They were playing each other for the
number one pick in the draft, correct, and I think
Dan cambill went for a two point conversion or something
like that, something late in the game to win them
the second pick in the draft.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
What he was trying to change a culture? Though, Yeah,
he shout to establish a culture.

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
The guy you picked changes the culture. You cut it
not I got him Jesse, Why no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
No, Like culture is great and if you don't have players,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
But Michigan born, Yes, yes, right, like it was all
there and I just scratched my head.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
I'm like, that's weird.

Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
Now it worked out for him because, like I said,
that takes me back to my point. Dan doesn't look
at the big picture. It's the here and now. The
big picture in that scenario would have been old, we
need the first pick in the draft because we want
Hayden Hutchinson, who is through and through what this team

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is and is going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
There's a lineage there, there's a bloodline there, and to me,
that would be more important than having three he wins
that season. The here and now is we got to
get this last win. Okay, but what does that last

(01:30:10):
win cost you the ability to pick any player you
want in the draft, Is it worth it absolutely not.
Now it worked out because Jacksonville decided they wanted to
do something else, but they you gave them the option
to do that, which is crazy to me.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
Well, and although I will say this not I guess
in defense of Dan Campbell, but it's funny because you
and I talk about him so much and there's a
lot of I can't believe he did this dot dot dot,
but it worked out for him.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
Well until it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Though, that's until it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
I know the example obviously of the NFC title game
when it didn't, and that's quite frankly, the biggest game
of his career, and it's an out, it's the biggest
that until that's not on his resume, it's on his resume,
the biggest game of his career. He gaffed it away
doing the stuff that he always does. But he does

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seem like he has a pretty good batting average.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
Also, m don't you think, to what end? Well, it's early,
So to what end is he wins most of the
football games.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
I mean, their record from the moment that they started
to finally click last year, their record is intense.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
Man. Yeah, they almost never lose.

Speaker 4 (01:31:37):
Yeah, Yeah, it's it's you gotta be careful when when
you're when when you play with fire, you gotta be

(01:32:01):
careful when you play with fire.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
And he plays with a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:32:04):
He plays with a whole bunch, and it's dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:32:13):
Ah, it's foolish at times, and it can and will
come back to bite you like it did last year.
But if you make a practice of it and you
don't learn from it, then now it becomes something that's

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ingrained in who you are, right, Like it's the guy
in the casino who is the college funds, insurance policies,
it's all got to go right. It's the guy who's
a gambler who's won four hundred that before and lost

(01:33:04):
a million. Right, the four hundred thousand feels good, but
that's the fuel, so you end up losing a million.
That's similar to the coaching style Dan Campbell has. He's
changed the culture, But how do you elevate it now

(01:33:25):
now that it's changed.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
I do think that's the question.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
It's like, you change the culture, but now sometimes you
still coach like you're still trying to change the colts.
We get it, you guys are called it's changed. The
culture has changed. You can stop trying to prove it to.

Speaker 4 (01:33:40):
Everybody, and you have to be mindful that you have
to save your defense. You can't put your defense that
is decimated by injuries on a short field. Yeah, that's
the part I don't get. I'm like, yo, your defense
is dying out there, so you at least make a

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team earn points.

Speaker 5 (01:34:05):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (01:34:06):
At least make them drive eighty yards to get a
field goal or a touchdown opposed to.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
Four yards in a field goal. That's the problem totally.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
I get it, man. The playoffs are gonna be interesting
this year. We're gonna keep talking about it. I do have,
as has been sort of our norm, before we get
out of here, the big NBA question is worth our time,
and I'll ask it here in a little bit. But
also coming up, I wonder if you can do this,

(01:34:41):
like we got tonight and tomorrow night to finish out
Week sixteen, over a six day period in Week seventeen,
do you know how many days don't have NFL football?

Speaker 5 (01:34:58):
One?

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
That is a correct answer.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
We got to talk about this because it's a fascinating
week that is coming up. We'll do that with me
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(01:35:43):
wrapped up in all the work, all the errands, all
the wrapping. Oh, they just get wrapped up in it. Man,
Get in the spirit. I hope everybody has people around
them this week. That's my hope for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
I hope you got loved ones around and that's my
wish for everybody this week. I also am wishing for
a Mike Evans touchdown from I then from Salam. That's
that's what I'm wishing for. So far, we don't have it.
We're still we're still searching.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
But really, if you start today and then rock all
the way through to next Monday, Ephraim, So that's a
period of what nine days. I guess from today to
next Monday, we have a sum total of two days
that do not have NFL football. And actually, I guess,

(01:36:35):
I guess I should have started it yesterday yesterday, starting yesterday,
a ten days stretch where only twice do we not
have NFL games.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
Yeah, And we.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Talked about it a little bit, I think last week
or the week before. But what do you think if
you're a Texan or a Chief, or a Steeler or
a Raven, particularly you're Houston Texans with emotionally what they had.

Speaker 1 (01:37:06):
To go through yesterday?

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
You lose the game in Kansas City, you watch Tank
Dell leave in a truck.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
CJ. Stroud is over recover. Yeah, just weeping.

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
Him play that disturbed in that bad ever he could
not recover, couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
And and it comes in the middle of three football
games in eleven days. And I don't want to, I
don't want to just dismiss that, you know, like they
got they got Lamar Jackson coming to town in three
days right after that happened.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
It's it's fun for us, you know, and for those
who don't know, you've got you got two games on Christmas,
you have another game, you have regular Thursday Night football
the day after that. Yep, Saturday has a three game
schedule next week, as it often does during the holiday
week Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
And then then you've got.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
Your i say, your full Sunday schedule, which only has
nine games, so Red Zone channel might look a little
different next Sunday, not as many games. And then you
got your Monday night game in San Francisco with the
Detroit Lions trying to trying to continue to set the
pace in the NFC.

Speaker 5 (01:38:31):
Man, it's tough to be a player these days. That's
tough living.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
That's a lot of ball, man, it's too much ball. Well,
you know what I mean. We're having fun with the
fantasy angle on this. What kind of performance do you
expect from the Chiefs, Steelers, Ravens and Texans on Christmas Day?

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
I mean, they're gonna go compete and it'll start off good,
but then you know, in the second half.

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
You can't outrun fatigue. You cannot run it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:11):
And it's one of those situations where it will catch
up to you and manifest itself at the worst time,
and you know, God forbid, someone gets seriously hurt or
it's just it's difficult to play football more than once
a week.

Speaker 5 (01:39:30):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
It's physically Think about the offensive defensive lineman. I'm not
even talking about the receivers. Are the dbs. Think about
the running backs the collision because I'm not talking about
the quarterback. I'm talking about the guys who who have

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to make forcible contact with another human beings. Their size
are bigger for sixty five times again.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Yeah, I mean, let's talk I mean the lineman. How
about like just to put a name on it, Like,
let's talk about Derreck Henry for a second. You know,
Derrick Henry yesterday twenty four carries for one hundred and
sixty two yards. He also had two catches for twenty
seven yards, so twenty six touches. Justice Hill his backup

(01:40:23):
got hurt, so he really needed to carry the load.
It's their second game in less than a week, and
now they've get three days off.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
Now to go do it again.

Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
That's nice, that's nice. That's tough living right there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
That's a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
So you know, I mean, I'm not trying to like
wag a finger at the NFL or anything like that should.

Speaker 1 (01:40:54):
Well, because I think that this is the world in
which we live, and.

Speaker 5 (01:41:00):
It is, but it's still you can still be like
that's not cool.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Well, I I more think about it this way, like,
this is why I don't like police officers hiding in
the trees. If I if I see you and I
still speed, pull me over, Pull me over.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
And I'm not saying that that means I can speed
when I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
See That's what it sounds like you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:41:27):
Mark the analogy I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
The analogy I'm trying to make is as opposed to
when you started playing football. If you play football now,
you know exactly what you're signing up for.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
Yeah, I get it, But we know what CT is.

Speaker 1 (01:41:44):
And you know about Thursday Night Football and you know that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Actually, if you're a rookie this year, before you retire,
there will be an eighteen game schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
Yeah, if you and they're gonna right and they're gonna
take They're gonna take over Smith. They've taking it from
the NBA. They did it two years ago. It was
already on the books. Well that's it. If they can
do it on Wednesday, then there will never ever, ever
not be it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:10):
Never for the duration of the league.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
This is the year where you're like, I don't know
if they can do it. Well they can't.

Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
They can do it, so they can do it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:19):
That's that's the end of that.

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
Sorry, Right in about six years, it'll be on Tuesday, right.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
I mean, hell if it's on Wednesday this year, I
like the next four years, I would argue they're probably
going to be about four games on Christmas.

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Thursday night. Sure, that's regular Thanksgiving. Yeah,
And I just want to say, you know, Thanksgiving the
holiday season. I'm thankful, I'm thankful to be with you guys,
and I'm most definitely thankful for our one and only
Steven the Sega. Thank you, thank you for your sultry,

(01:43:01):
soulful voice.

Speaker 9 (01:43:03):
Right back at you.

Speaker 8 (01:43:04):
By the way, it's Netflix with a three year Christmas
deal with the NFL. Rumors are it's seventy five mil
per so there could be two per or as you say,
Christmas isn't always going to be on a Wednesday. By
the way, as soon as you mentioned Linman in this game,
it came to mind a play in this Tampa Bay
at Dallas game where defensive lineman Videvea tackled Cavante Turpin

(01:43:28):
of Dallas. That was a guy getting tackled. That's five
foot nine, about one fifty five tackled by six four
three point fifty. It was as lopsided as you thought.

Speaker 5 (01:43:39):
It was.

Speaker 9 (01:43:39):
The wall with arms. The play ends here.

Speaker 8 (01:43:42):
Dallas is up twenty six fourteen over the Tampa Bay Bucks.
Cooper Rush two hundred and sixty two yards passing in
a score, Ceedee Lamb at one hundred yards receiving in
the first half six catches.

Speaker 9 (01:43:53):
Brandon Aubrey.

Speaker 8 (01:43:54):
If you don't know the name yet, you should. This
kicker for Dallas is phenomenal. Including tonight, He's four for
four on field goals. It's why they have a twelve
point lead over the Bucks. He had an early fifty
eight yarder. He kicked another fifty eight yarder at the
end of the first half. He just kicked from fifty
three and made that. And he's also made a forty
nine yard field goal twenty six fourteen. Dallas in the

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lead Bucks with the ball about five minutes left third
quarter and with the ball midfield. On the previous drive
for Tampa Bay, the drive was going well. They got
past midfield and then there was a holding call and
a sack with a fumble that went out of bounds.
They wound up with a third and forty that Tampa
Bay did not complete.

Speaker 9 (01:44:34):
Need list to say they didn't get that. No, they
did not.

Speaker 8 (01:44:36):
Convert the incompletion on third and forty, so they got
the ball again down twelve. Tampa Bay with a four
game winning streak on the line. Minnesota won its eighth
in a row, a win at Seattle twenty seven to
twenty four. Buffalo over New England twenty four to twenty one.
James Cook eleven carries, one hundred yards, two total touchdowns.
Las Vegas ended a ten game losing streak beating Jacksonville

(01:44:57):
nineteen to fourteen a Mere Abdullah touchdown early fourth quarter.
Washington ended Philadelphia's ten game winning straight thirty six thirty three.
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts left early with a concussion. Saquon
Barkley one hundred and fifty yards rushing two touchdowns in
the loss. The Rams won their fourth straight nineteen to
nine at the Jets. Carolina in overtime beat Arizona. Wins

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for Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Detroit won at Chicago. The Bears
have lost nine straight. Atlanta beat the Giants thirty four seven.
Giants have lost ten straight in the NBA Denver and
overtime winner at New Orleans, which has lost seven in
a row. And I must mention that Miami is still
a bit alive in the AFC playoff chase at seven
and eight after beating San Francisco twenty nine to seventeen.

(01:45:43):
A deep dive on the Niners tonight from Associated Press
in the Bay Area, and among the findings. First off,
they've been held now under twenty points this year in
almost half their game San Francisco, they fall to six
and nine. Mathematically they're officially eliminated, but they were close.

Speaker 9 (01:45:58):
In this one.

Speaker 8 (01:45:59):
With a couple minutes to go, Miami kicked a field
goal to go up twenty two seventeen, and two plays
later Brock Party throws an interception. So they did a
deep dive on the stats of all the quarterbacks in
this scenario close game, late game this century Rock Party,
when he's down one score in the fourth quarter or overtime,

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has three touchdown passes, six interceptions, and a passer rating
of just fifty five. That means in the late game
close situations, Party ranks one fiftieth out of one hundred
and sixty quarterbacks in that scenario since two thousand and so.
In his first forty games with the Niners, the record
was seventeen and three. In Party's last forty games with

(01:46:40):
the Niners. Within that, I should say ten and ten.
San Francisco loses on the road today.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Back to you. There's some hefty stuff right there. And Steve,
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays, man.

Speaker 9 (01:46:56):
Hey, right back at you. That's correct Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
Thank you for thank you for everything that you do
on this show.

Speaker 8 (01:47:03):
Thank you very much. This is a very enjoyable entertainment.
Don't tell anybody I said this, but the Sunday nights
with these two shows are my favorite nights of the week.
And I have been on vacation and thinking, man, I
miss Sunday Night.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:47:19):
I love that. I love I love you now.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
And now let's push it even further. Which of the
two shows do you like better?

Speaker 5 (01:47:25):
Yeah, that's what I want to know.

Speaker 8 (01:47:27):
No, I'm gonna be like that Tampa Bay guy who
you know when they introduced themselves, their name, and their
college on Sunday Night Football, the guy brought up his
two kids and they did the introduction. It's like trying
to pick between those two that were on the screen,
both favorites.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
My daughter does that to me all the time. She's like,
I'm your favorite, right, And I'm like, you're you're my
favorite daughter. You're my favorite daughter. Yes, So anyway, we
have one.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
It's impossible for parents not to have a favorite, right,
you got.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
It's funny because.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
There's a lot of parents that will tell me with
like as firm as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
They'll say both sides of that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
They'll be like, I can't pick between my kids, and
then others are like, oh, you know, damn well, you
have a favorite.

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
Wait till they get older and start making decisions for themselves,
it'll clear up for you. Oh yes, so you you
decided it would be a good idea, you know, yes,
but not that I fill in the blank.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
Now that I know what.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
You do as a side gig, I would argue that
this is just perfect your stand up comedy routine.

Speaker 4 (01:48:35):
That's why I was able to just go up there.
I called it therapy. I just went up there, yes,
and I just talked about life and life happens to
be funny even when it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:48:49):
It is if you choose to let it be.

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
And so I just went up there and I just
had a conversation with the.

Speaker 1 (01:48:57):
Audience and let it rip.

Speaker 8 (01:48:59):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:48:59):
It's what what TikTok and social media has shown us
is there are more people that think like you and
experienced things you experienced than you ever thought.

Speaker 5 (01:49:16):
In the past.

Speaker 4 (01:49:16):
It was like, man, you felt like you were going
through this alone, whatever that is, and then you realize, oh, snap,
oh I'm not the only one that you know. It
feels like this in a marriage. Are my wife is like,

(01:49:38):
it's there's some there are some things that you do
as a husband and as a partner that are kind
of universal and vice versa.

Speaker 1 (01:49:48):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:49:51):
One of the things that I knew for sure was
so my wife loves like the I D Channel and
like twenty four hours a day, morning, noon, and night.
You know, uh snapped who killed Who? Like real true

(01:50:14):
crime stories. And I thought it was just her, But
it happens that there are millions and millions of women
who love and who's like I'm talking about anytime my
wife's alone and there's a TV on one of those
things a wrong morning, noon and night, so I'll wake

(01:50:37):
up and be like Oh, so we're just we're gonna
start today with murdered mayhem.

Speaker 5 (01:50:40):
Hunh okay, murder, death and Mayhem.

Speaker 4 (01:50:43):
We're gonna all right, we're gonna we're gonna head on
in and took ourselves into murder, death and mayhem.

Speaker 5 (01:50:50):
Hunh okay.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Cool cool, Yeah, just right at the end of the
day with an All State commercial.

Speaker 1 (01:50:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:50:55):
Like it's literally I really thought. I was like, man,
I'm the only one, and then I just you see
some you know, influencers and TikTokers doing stuff, and I'm like, oh, oh,
this is the thing. Oh, this is the thing. Like,
Dad's in the bathroom. That's our alone time, right, Dad's
in the bathroom. That's our long time.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
No, yeah, a lot of years before I realized it
doesn't actually take that long.

Speaker 4 (01:51:20):
Well, no, we'll spend some time in the bathroom. Right,
it's just just you and your thoughts? Are you and
your phone? Now, I damn didn't watched the whole episode
of television in the I'm like, because you're hoping when
you come out of the bathroom it's different.

Speaker 1 (01:51:38):
It'll be different.

Speaker 5 (01:51:39):
That's right, that's different.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
Whatever you're trying to escape from is gone.

Speaker 5 (01:51:43):
It's gone. Kids are in the bed, wife had to
go shopping or.

Speaker 4 (01:51:48):
Something that you could come out and you look around
and you're like, oh, I made it.

Speaker 5 (01:51:51):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (01:51:52):
You come out and you'd be like, oh, okay, I'm
back in here. Yeah, all right, there you have it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
I want to see routine. Man. All right, we're the
Tyrek dot Com Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
Look, man, before we get out of here for the holiday,
Lebron James is being forced to answer the questions, So,
so should you how do you fix the NBA ratings?
That's next on Fox Sports Radio. I told you Mary
was locked in. What a perfect way to wrap this

(01:52:27):
thing up. This will not be our last show of
twenty twenty four, but it is the last show before
the holiday hits. It's actually December twenty second run DMC,
but we'll be at the twenty fourth soon.

Speaker 1 (01:52:41):
Tire Req dot Com Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:52:42):
Mark Willardy from salam I.

Speaker 1 (01:52:45):
Think our audience knows this by now. At heart. You're
an NBA head. What do you see? Man? Like it's
gotten so bad that they're just talking about it now
in public. What do we do about these ratings? What
is it? Out the game? Is it the calendar?

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
What is it that you see that has people seemingly
right now tuning the NBA out.

Speaker 5 (01:53:08):
It's not basketball anymore. The difference.

Speaker 4 (01:53:13):
But what made the NBA so great was it was
the place you got to go and watch people play
a sport that only they could do it. That was
the difference. If you watch an NBA game now, you
can go to LA Fitness twenty four, All Fitness, Equinox,

(01:53:38):
Lifetime Fitness. You can see that.

Speaker 5 (01:53:41):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:53:44):
Nobody plays defense. Everyone's a three point shooter even when
you're not. No one runs any plays, and they're no stakes.

Speaker 5 (01:53:58):
So it just.

Speaker 4 (01:54:01):
Turned remember the nuance of taking advantage of your opponent,
scheming to take advantage of your opponent, putting the pressure
on the opposing team's defense. No one even fights over
screens anymore. People are switching on defense and you're not

(01:54:27):
even being screened. There's no energy behind it. There are
a few teams that are up in your face and
play true defense on the wing. The Celtics are one
of those teams, right, That's why they have the record
they have. They have real wing defenders. You can watch

(01:54:54):
any given NBA game, and I said it, in a
two three four minute span, you'll only see three pointer shot.
Tell me, how is that sustainable to watch?

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
It's not. Do you feel like it's different this year
than it's been the last few.

Speaker 4 (01:55:12):
Well, yeah, because it's being exposed more now. It's the
guys don't even train to play basketball anymore. I know,
I have a ten year old. We have trainers, and
the training is different.

Speaker 5 (01:55:29):
Now. It's literally about just getting your shot off.

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
Just getting your shot off, not screen and roll not
it's right, it's double step back. They don't call traveling
in the NBA. They don't call traveling in the NBA.
Think about that. There's all kinds of stuff they don't call.
There's all kinds of stuff they do call.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
I mean, I don't know if you saw and the
Edwards get loose in one of the most compelling referee
rants I think I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (01:56:07):
Like I want to simultaneously.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
Admit that this is a really hard job and they're
human beings, and I do think that they're they're doing
their best, and they get more right than we realize.
But there are not many NBA games right now that
I walk away from not frustrated with the refs.

Speaker 4 (01:56:25):
You know, what, do you know how much you can
call carry You know what carry is right when you're
bought with it's the bottom of the basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:56:34):
You carry it across your body. Guess why I dribble.

Speaker 4 (01:56:37):
You can't stop that move because it's an unnatural move
for a defender to stop.

Speaker 5 (01:56:44):
They do it on every possession. Mm hmm, no one
calls it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:49):
One of the top point guards in the game, Luka
Dantis carries every time he dribbles the basketball. Yep, you
want to fix the game, fix the game.

Speaker 1 (01:56:57):
Start start calling it like a youth game.

Speaker 5 (01:56:59):
Call the real infractions.

Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
Yeah, you can't.

Speaker 4 (01:57:05):
You can't catch a pass from a three point line
and dunk it without a dribble. You only get count
them one. Two steps. That's all you get without a dribble,
not three, Not a gather in two and a half,

(01:57:26):
not four. If you want to fix the game, you
have to fix the game right like on the hard
and triple step back. It's called traveling. If you want
to fix the game, fix the game. It's your product.

(01:57:50):
You're policing it, so fix it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:57):
Fix it.

Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
If you start calling the infractions, people will have to
evolve back into playing the real way.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Yeah, I mean, doesn't stop all three point jacking up though, No.

Speaker 5 (01:58:10):
But what it does is it will give you a
real rhythm.

Speaker 1 (01:58:14):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
You can't now do a triple step back behind the
three point line at a travel So now what do
you gotta there? Right, this is what I'm talking. You
can't carry the ball in front of the defender, So
now what are you gonna have to do? That's the
whole point. If you're gonna fix it, fix it, it'll
work itself out. If you're calling it like it's supposed
to be called, officials are lazy.

Speaker 1 (01:58:39):
I dig it, man, it's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:58:40):
Hey, I know you celebrate everything, so Mary, happy everything.

Speaker 4 (01:58:48):
Marry Christmahana Kwanzica. There you go, hey man, let's hog
hid it for you. Enjoy yourself audience as well.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
Happy holidays everyone,

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