Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam React To Packers Vs Steelers On SNF, Chiefs Path To Playoffs Still Hard, NBA Gambling Scandals, Brian Kelly Fired, And More!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
You've watched Law and Order or I don't know, back
in the day NYPD Blue, you've watched some cop show
and or a courtroom drama. Therefore, once upon a time,
you have heard the phrase circumstantial evidence.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
And there's a reason that people do not convict.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
They do not make decisions based solely on circumstantial evidence.
We've got a couple of NFL teams out there that
it appears I have been making decisions based on circumstantial evidence.
We will unveil those teams to you in just a second.
Let's get this thing started. It is by Mgeddon, also
known as Week eight in the National Football League, and

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here to go through all of it as we also
launch into our watch party. Ephraim's favorite Aaron Rodgers is
going to be on display here momentarily in the Aaron
Rodgers bull should be a ton of fun, So let's
have a ton of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Good evening game.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
From how you're doing, I'm good man, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I wanted to just start to show off and say,
you know, send thoughts and prayers out to Nick Mano's family,
long time offensive lineman New York Jets passed away forty
one years old. So just thoughts and prayers go out

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to his wife and his family. You know, it's tough
man when you're contemporaries and and.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
And people you've you've played with and you know pass away.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Do you know Nick pretty well?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I mean when you're in that fraternity, ye, you know,
it's it's it's a brotherhood, especially at that position, and
so you know, it's only a few of us at
that level like that, so we understand what.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
We all go through. So it's it's.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Tough man when you when you start seeing stuff like that,
because you start thinking about your own mortality when it
comes to things like that.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Forty one years old and it you know, I learned
a little bit even more about the story today, is
I think a lot of us did. And what a
sad story that he had even taken to social media
to plea for a kidney that would fit for a transplant,
which is what he needed, and even that.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Was unsuccessful.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
And so yeah, I echo your thoughts in thinking about
his entire family, extended family, I know mourning today as
well as as you put it your fraternity today.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, so just wanted to be remiss if I didn't
start to show off like that. You know, it's it's
always sad when when something like that happens.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
No doubt, no doubt, we appreciate it.

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I would argue, circumstantial evidence has led us to what
it sounds like to me because we're about to approach

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the trade deadline here.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's coming up real soon.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
You got another game maybe or so before you can
kind of make a decision, and trade deadlines around sports
are basically all about deciding declaring are you going for
it or you're not going for it? And sometimes the
question to answer is as simple as do we have
a chance to be good this year or do we not?

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And I think there's a handful of teams out there
that are not doing a great job of assessing themselves.
And let's start with the team that refers to itself
as America's team. Okay, they got absolutely panted by one
of your former teams just not too long ago. This

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game didn't go final until I don't know, maybe a
half hour. So yeah, thirty four. Well, you know they
got to hold those commercials after each and every score
that Denver had, so you stop, start and do all
of that forty four to twenty four. Look, don't get
me wrong, you and I have agreed all year. Denver's
very good. I think the Broncos are excellent. They're even

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tougher to beat when they're there in Denver. So they
go to six and two. But look, Washington is out
of sorts right now. Jayden Daniel has been in and
out of the lineup. They're having a little bit of
an identity problem and a sophomore slump for him. So
Dallas gets a big win against them last week and
they get back to five hundred, and I you know,

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you hear Jerry Jones talk and it felt like he
thought that maybe this team could contend this year.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
And I'd like to use right now and today as
exhibit a for no, you can't. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
The thing with Dallas in particular in their fan base,
the pendulum swings so far, so fast, because you can
come off a loss for them and it's the end

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of the world. Trading, Michael Parsons, what are you doing?
And then you win last week we beat baby. You
can't stop our offense. It don't matter, Michael Parser. Trade
was great. We're gonna use those pieces and you and
then you have today. Oh man, we couldn't stop nobody. Man,

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we could.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think that's why people.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Love to pick on cow the Cowboys and Cowboy fans,
because rational and you know, most fan bases are irrational,
but for the Cowboys, I mean it is the Cowboy fans.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's and Jerry Jones is the is the leads.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
He's he's leading that that band of irrational drummers down
the street. They just don't First of all, they can't
stop anybody, and.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Which to me makes it a non starter by the way, Yeah,
like non starter conversation. If you can't stop anybody, then
you can't play in the playoffs in the.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
NFL period and that they've proven that.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yep, they've proven that over the last what fifteen twenty years,
And so once again this is the pendulum swinging all
the way back to the other side.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
We gotta run the ball more, we gotta do this, and.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
The Broncos don't have a secondary that's obvious.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yep. Well, they got a bunch of injuries back there.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
They got a bunch of injuries, so they got a
bunch of young players. They got some undrafted players, late
round draft pick guys playing. But that front four for
Denver and they were Dallas was under siege. They from
the get go. They were gonna blitz and put pressure
on him and not let him sit back there and
just to have a good day. And they had a

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heck of a game plan.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yep, we're gonna there's more to say on this, unveil
a couple other teams as well. But we get an
early trip over to hang out with our guy, Steve
Disager because he from we got some break into.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Breaking news, hello, gentlemen, and sources TELEESPN that LSU football
coach Brian Kelly was informed of the intention to dismiss
him earlier today, and the school is expected to inform
the team of this development tonight.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I guess they know now.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Talks about the terms of his departure are expected to continue.
There are millions of dollars involved. This is just his
third season. He went ten and four, then ten and
three at LSU nine and four, so make it three
and a half years. And yikes, it was bad at
home last night.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Back to you, well, Steve, this is going to yeah great.
This is going to bring up a lot of questions
for people. And the first one that I have is
does that mean that Brian Kelly can now go back
to not having a Southern accent?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Again? Sorry? Is that too soon?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
And starky?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I apologize? Is that? Yeah? That was the first thing
that popped into my head. It can start talking?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, right, like he can go back That's great, what
a wonderful thing at this point in his life.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
He can go back to talking like he normally talks.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
Hilarious, that is do you remember that when he went
from Notre Dame to ls Hey, y'all, what's happened that?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Just happened to that man? But anyway, yeah, look, it's
LSU right. And I mean you listen to those records
that Steve just rolled off. They're not terrible, but they
kind of are at LSU. It's that simple.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, look, we kind of saw this come. This was
a game that they had to win. Uh, and I
didn't think they could win, So I kind of knew
that this was happening.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
The writing was on the wall.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Tough task for them, uh, to be team It just
didn't click. And and everybody's not the right fit. And
LSU there's a lot of money out there. It's a
lot of spend a lot.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Of money on a team.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
So it starts with the head coach. You have to
be able to put the proper product on the It's
not just scholarships anymore. You're actually tangible. Millions of dollars
are being put into a roster that you have to
make competitive.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
And it hadn't happened to the level that they wanted
and used to.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
And the level is the three previous coach one titles,
Yeahastion Mary titles and.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
In their third our fourth year, right making.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
The playoffs with him, you know, they weren't winning the SEC.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
They have a losing record in the SEC this year
also though, I mean the guys two years removed from
having his quarterback up there on the podium with the
Heisman Trophy. So it's just like it's another window into, uh,
the expectations around a program like this.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
But no one's going to feel bad for you. You
take a job like this, you know.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
This going in and the millions of dollars in the
contract are the expectations. So when you don't finish in
the top ten in any of your years, and after
last night they completely dropped out of the top twenty five,
you could kind of see it coming.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, forty nine to twenty five Texas A and m.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh, that second half was horrendous.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
It was bad.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, that was a I think thirty five to
seven if I was counting that straight touchdowns, Yeah was
the was the final score just in the second half alone.
And LSU doesn't do home losses like that.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
No, especially the night games. They're really good at primetime wins.
In fact, the best in college football over the last
decade or two. I'm sure at primetime wins. It's part
of their culture and yikes, that's what they showed to
the country. The buyout has been talked about as like
the kind of buyout we saw earlier, like a fifty
million dollar type of thing, like we said with Penn State.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Another reason why no one's going to feel bad for
Brian Kelly today. Yeah, I think that he will still
eat and if he does want to work on, you know,
anything as far as his dialect is concerned, he can.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
Probably got the money for those courses. The coaching we
got vacancies at LSU at Florida, at Penn State, at UCLA,
Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech, Arkansas, Stanford. Stanford's only an interim coach. Remember, So,
I mean we're not even into November yet.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, I mean I don't know, Like I think my
mind is kind of going, also where your guys' mind's
going with regard to this isn't just about wins and
losses anymore. When you see that many changes being made
this early into a season, it has to also be
about the financial aspects that are going on behind the scenes,

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what they're able to acquire in terms of all the
nil deals and whatnot. And so I'm sure there's a
little bit more to this than meets the obvious eye.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
No funding is a good word that you're bringing up
here because did you see the fourth quarter crowd at LSU?
There were more A and M fans than home fans.
When does that ever happen at that stadium? How do
you get any excitement for the program after what has
gone on just in recent weeks, but especially last night.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
But Dion still got his gig and my family was
out at that game last night, and oh mah, that
was worse. Oh boy, that was a whole lot of
points for one team and not a lot of points
for the other team. But anyway, yeah, whole new world obviously,
and Steve, thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Brian Kelly out at LSU.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
More on that coming up in about fifteen minutes or so,
when we get to hang out with Steve again. All Right,
we started it with the Cowboys, it's not just them,
aphrom and, so let's get to a couple other teams.
I'd love to battle around with you. Plus, we're just
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looks like a wet and foggy situation. Good thing the
Steelers will wear bright yellow because that might help the
referees and the rest of us see them tonight. This
is a classic early trip into November and December, even
though we're not there yet. Kind of a feel to
it with a night game between these two teams.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah, it's what you want to do is is just
take it easy. Like it's a lot of pyro out there.
I think do they have fireworks?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
That can't be that the fault is that it's just
kind of damp, But yeah, I actually do think that
that's more fireworks.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
It looks like there was.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Had a little pre celebration going.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
But the whole thing right, Like there was a lot
of talk about that field surface. Yeah, you know last
week also like it's just gonna be kind of a
winter It feels like a wintery feel to this one.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's football weather, right, that's what they say, football weather.
So this is gonna be a good one. I was telling, uh,
one of my old co hosts of Brian Nose in
Town okay. And we have a little pick them thing
that we do. We each pick three teams. Uh, and
that's you know, put a little something on it. At
the end of the season, whoever has the best record,

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you know, we pay out. And I'm normally just crushing them.
And you know, I had a great had a great day.
I had a great day today. I went three and
oh and he picked the uh, the Stealers. Now, I'm
I'm a Stealer fan because I have rooting interest in
in in In Cam Hayward and DK metcalf and and

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those guys.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
But today, not today, not today, not today.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I need him.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
He's one in one right now. I need you to
go one and two.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, And this is what the spread I assume.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yes, of course, what do you think we animals?

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Man? I mean you know sometimes I don't know, like
some Survivor picks whatever.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
No spread, No, no, no, no, we're gamblers here.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
But I got you. I actually like his pick.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I kind of liked like his pick too.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, dude, we'll we'll see, we'll see. This is.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Both of these teams have been a little bit hard
to figure a time or two. Kristin Watson just made
a catch, and he made his debut for for the
Packers in this one tonight, So keep an eye on
that as the receiving court gets a little bit of
a boost there. I wanted to kind of pick up
that conversation where we left off earlier with regard.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
To the Dallas Cowboys, and.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
You know your friends who have sort of said, boy,
they can't stop anyone. To me, that's like, again, you
need to not get stuck on circumstantial evidence. If you
look at the Cowboys games, the way that defense is played,
that's just it's not a good group. It's not a

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group that's ready to go do anything. And there's a
couple other teams out there. I wanted to throw at you.
I was really, I don't want to say shocked, but
let's just put it this way. When Justin Fields spends
all week fending off his own owner and then hangs
thirty nine on you, the fact that the Bengals continue

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to grab on with their fingernails and say we're not
giving up Trey Hendrickson or anyone else for that matter,
all because you had a fancy, fun and very high
profile win against these same Steelers on Thursday night, a
week and a half ago. You're kidding yourself. You're kidding yourself.

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I know what's going on in that division. I know
Lamar Jackson's still out. But the idea that the Cincinnati
Bengals are going to be able to function as a
playoff team this year with that defense is comical.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
This comical.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Even if Joe Burrow was healthy.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Even if Joe Burrow was healthy, thank.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
You, because that's what the knock was. The knock was, Yeah,
they're going to be able to score points. I just
said this to to Brian. If you score thirty eight
points in the NFL, you should win the game.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's a win.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
If you can't, there's a serious problem.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
That is a lot of points to put on the
board and to lose because you gave up one more
to a team that was zero to seven and a
quarterback who nobody wants to have quarterback for them, and

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you made him look like he actually can play.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wow and down multiple weapons on that offense, and you
had a two touchdown lead with those thirty eight points
in the fourth quarter and somehow allowed that team.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
No no pressure on the quarterback, no pressure on the quarterback,
no secks, and and it's just you gotta be better.

Speaker 9 (20:57):
Wow, Aaron Rodgers throws one down the field. That thing,
he can still do it. He can still do it.
So that's a field flipper and the Steelers are now
in the high red zone. On their opening drive, Packers
already had one first down and then punted.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Man, there's something about like the way Aaron is not
doing facial hair anymore. That like when you watch him,
when you when there's a close up of his face,
You're like, oh my god, why did they they let
grandpa onto the field? He looks so old out there,
and then you see that, then you see that, you're like,

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is this still can play?

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Not old?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
That's something else, man, something else. So Steelers on the
Move will keep you up to date. Steve's going to
be here in just a minute. There's another team I
want to ask you about. And this is a different
kind of a vibe though, because this team has a
winning record, and this team actually woke up today in
first place, but they lost more people to injury again.

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And you and I know that the Houston Tech Houston
Texans offensive line might be the worst in football, but boy,
they looked good today and that tells me all I
need to know, Like, would I like to see the
forty nine ers make an acquisition or two here at
the deadline? Sure, But the bottom line is, I just

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you can only take so many injuries for crying out loud. Yeah,
and so I just I don't know what that. Maybe
you know, they get the quarterback back here in another
week or two.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I don't know they like the Texans. I don't know
if they did they punt today? Maybe once. I don't
know if they used their punter. Dude to the dude,
let's see, No they did. He punted twice. Okay, he
punted twice.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
If he punted twice, then I think we should punt.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay, fine, let's.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Part to U fair. Catching Steve Desader.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
Packers at Steelers is scoreless. And we can see those Steelers'
uniforms from a mile away. I mean, like without a television,
we can see the bright yellows jerseys and helmets and
sucks from a mile away. Apparently they're honoring nineteen thirty Steelers. Okay,
I kind of had the same reaction with the Chargers
all Gold a couple of weeks ago. Can we just

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once and we're done? Thank you. Meanwhile, the Chargers went
back to the junior seou era Navy Blues pants and
jersey this past Thursday night gorgeous, and they honored Rodney
Harrison at the game as well. The Steelers home game
against the Packers, yes scoreless in the opening minutes, that
was a forty five yard Rodgers completion to Roman Wilson

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that you reference. With a win tonight, Aaron Rodgers can
become the fifth quarterback ever to win starts against all
thirty two teams because by the end to their careers,
Tom Brady, Peyton Manning did that, Drew Brees, Brett Favre
as well. And if you're thinking we have a lot
of blowouts so far this weekend in the NFL, you
would be correct because the average margin of victory so
far is nineteen. It's been very rare in the last

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fifty years that anything more than an average margin of
twenty happens in an NFL weekend, and that would include
that Houston game you referenced, which was shockingly close. Actually
Texans beat San Francisco twenty six to fifteen. The forty
nine Ers still have just one touchdown catch from a
wide receiver all season. That is their fewest TD catches

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by wideouts ever through eight games of a season. They
did actually get a pick though, and I'm talking about
the defense. The forty nine Ers had a league record
fourteen straight games without intercepting a pass. The Street got
up to four hundred and sixty nine straight attempts until
they finally picked one off. Amazing to me going in
that the Niners had the top rank passing team in

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the league. With the rotation at quarterback, they were still
averaging over two hundred and seventy yards a game through
the air. It was about one to seventy today. Quarterback
brock Perty was out again with the toe injury. Six
game this year he has missed. Texans wide receiver Nico
Collins was out with a concussion and wide receiver Christian
Kirk was out with a bad hamstring. But Damiko Ryans

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has the Texans as the top rank scoring defense in
the league. They were allowing just under fifteen points per game,
only gave up fifteen in this one tonight. But the
Niners today, I should say, in the first quarter, San
Francisco had no first downs. Well, Houston's opening drive was
sixteen plays and they settled for a field goal. San
Francisco's first first down came in the final minute before halftime.

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Their time of possession in the first half was under
five and a half minutes. Texans led sixteen to nothing.
Late first half, went four for four on field goals
twenty six to fifteen. The final red zone tds, the
Texans were one for five.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
C J.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
Stroud starred thirty of thirty nine, passing three hundred and
eighteen yards two touchdowns. We can update the game from Pittsburgh.
Chris Boswill a fifty six yard field goal that is impressive.
Pittsburgh Stadium not known as a kicking palace. Three nothing
Steelers early as they host Green Bay. Denver ripped Dallas
forty four to twenty six. You talked about the Cowboys defense.

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The offense had been ranked number one overall three hundred
and ninety yards a game. Thing is they allowed the
most yards in the league, over four hundred yards a
game average, and they gave up twenty nine points per
game coming in and then gave up six touchdowns in
Denver today forty four twenty four. The final RJ. Harvey
three total TVs TVs and bo Nicks and this was

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the main TV game the late afternoon slot. They can't
give us much. Bo Nick's four touchdown passes, one interception.
Indianapolis is seven and one after ripping Tennessee thirty eight
to fourteen. Jonathan Taylor on twelve carries had one hundred
and fifty three yards three total touchdowns. Can we say
out loud, I think we have an MVP candidate because

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this is in half a season. This is already four
times this year he's had at least three touchdowns from scrimmage.
This is like Ladanian, Tomlinson, Shawn Alexander, territory of Marshall Falk.
It's a very rare running back this century that has
done what Taylor is already doing this year. Daniel Jones
three touchdown passes. Tampa Bay is six and two after

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winning at New Orleans twenty three to three. Saints say
they will be discussing their quarterback situation. Spencer Rattler as
starting QB in the pros is one in thirteen. Now
New Orleans was averaging eighteen points a game, worst in
the NFC three points today Saints with four turnovers. Earlier,
Philadelphia beat the Giants thirty eight to twenty Jalen Hurts

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four touchdown passes, two to tight end Dallas Goddard. Saquon
Barkley on fourteen carries had one hundred and fifty yards
rushing in three quarters. Home wins for New England. It's
fifth victory in a row for Baltimore, as well road
wins for Miami, Buffalo and the Jets, who won thirty
nine thirty eight at Cincinnati. Breeshall three touchdowns in the

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fourth quarter and not to gloss over the Buffalo win
forty to nine at Carolina. James Cook on only nineteen carries,
had two hundred and sixteen yards rushing and two scores.
LSU fired coach Brian Kelly. The World Series continues Monday night,
Toronto at the Dodgers, series tied at one. William Byron
won the NASCAR race at Martinsville. And we do have

(28:23):
NBA news as Anthony Edwards in Minnesota has left early
with hamstring tightness. Minnesota is hosting Indiana in this game.
Pretty full slate on it for Sunday night for the NBA,
and we have three finals in wins for Miami, for
Detroit and for San Antonio. Minnesota's down sixty six sixty

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two mid third quarter against the Pacers, and the Lakers
will be playing at Sacramento tonight. Luka Doncich of La
out at least a week with a sprain left finger
and a bruise leg, and of course Lebron James out
with a bad back.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Come on, beg you.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
It sounds like you has something to say.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Man, that's terrible, But I do want to say to
Steve's point about Jonathan Taylor and been an MVP candidate
as good as he is, and you're right, he's in
the class of those that you said, the Seawan's and
the Peyton's, Sean Lts and the folks. The crazy part

(29:31):
about as good as he's been, the person that would
probably get the MVP nod on that team is Daniel Jones.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
I think the name Daniel Jones is what's keeping people
from taking the cult seriously. But look up the numbers
people week after week, this offense is doing this.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Hey man, I've been talking about this since he's made
me talk about it. He's not going anywhere. This is
the best offense in the AFS by a mile. This
thing is on five. I told you Scorched Earth and
if you come into this game saying, oh, it's just
Daniel Jones.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Buggle up.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
There's been a better offense than even Buffalo so far.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Oh, yes, Buffalo has struggled offensively, this offense has not.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Would it shock you if I told you that there were.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Eight quarterbacks in the league right now with a higher
rating than Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, it would shock me. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, that's true. Thought do right here?

Speaker 6 (30:34):
Man.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Well, today the offense, I mean, I don't care that
they're playing Tennessee. Today, the offense averaged eight yards per
play per play, not per pass or per play. Yeah,
for the four quarters, they had four hundred and twenty
yards total without a zillion plays happening.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
They are impressive. They are for real.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Every week they're oppressive.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
They are really really for real because they are just pummeling.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
People, including the Chargers a couple of weeks back. Yep,
they got offense couldn't be stopped from the start.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
They beat the Broncos.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
I mean, they're just beating people. They lost to the
Rams by a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, because they the ball.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Right exactly, because the guy decided he wanted to switch
hands through the back of the end zone.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
They should be eight.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
And oh and by the way, next Sunday they're playing
at Pittsburgh, the place where we've got the NFL game tonight.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, schedule gets a little bit more interesting for them
coming up.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
No, no, no, not one of the europe Games next month.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yup.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
They got to play Atlanta in uh I think in
Berlin in a couple of weeks. And then after they're
by they go straight to Kansas City, like, let's go start.
You know these measuring sticks that we want.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
To get the Yeah, yeah, I mean thirty eight points,
thirty three points, twenty nine points, forty one points, you.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Know, forty thirty one, thirty eight.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Good lord, I want to see this offense in that
division against the Houston Texans defense. Because they still got
to play Houston twice second half of the season.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes they do. They have a trip to Seattle, they
have to play Jacksonville twice, which is.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know, a team.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Higher praise, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
They are one of the teams in the NFL. So
there's that.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
No, I mean they've been you know, they got a
winning record. That's put it this way. It's I think
I know Houston's defense is tough, but I think Jacksonville
is the next best team in the division so far
this year, after the Colts.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
But let's say it out loud. Jacksonville had a buy
and nobody even knew it.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Or maybe no, no, didn't even know.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Didn't notice them, didn't notice them.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
You know, somebody has Brian Thomas on their fantasy team
and they noticed, right.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
But other than that, I.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Noticed Tank takes me on another team, getting one hundred
yards in garbage time today.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yes, well left that game injury, right, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Mean, if you own got him, I think you should
pick him up.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
He claims the groin injury is fine. So they set
him out because of the score in the fourth quarter.
I don't know if that's just the player and not
the training staff talking, but there's that.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, I know, and.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
I've learned what he does. You need to grow?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
There are there are there are there humans on earth
that would not say that.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, right, exactly, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
I feel like what I do I need a grind?

Speaker 5 (33:44):
No, No, but I don't. His first touch today sixty
five yards to the house.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, gone, No, he looked like today, but uh, and
he don't know to play?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
He limped off it was forty herds thirty something your hearts.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
He looked great. He looked great.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
So that's the look like the Eagles today.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
This was an offense this season that had thirty one
different drives without a single first down, and then from
the start, up and down the field all day against
the Giants.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, the Eagles, more than anyone in the NFL, go
from we're awesome to we've got all kinds of internal
problems to right back to being awesome again.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
And you know who didn't play today?

Speaker 2 (34:22):
From notice they ram the ball today a lot, you
know who didn't play in the game and mispractice all week.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Reader the extra time to read, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
So anyway, all right, great step Steep, thank you very
very much. It's Mark with Ay from SLAM. We are
live in the Fox Sports radio studios and this is
totally off the subject.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I have a quick dip out on football.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
To congratulate you for a take that you had six
months ago that now suddenly looks brilliant.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Do you know what I'm about to say?

Speaker 3 (35:10):
I mean, most of my takes are brilliant, So I
don't know, you.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Don't know, okay, okay, Well I got them for you. So, okay,
I'm a highlight one of them. I know there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
To sift throughout it, a lot, but I'm gonna highlight
one of them.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
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Speaker 2 (35:40):
So we sit right now in the Fox Sports Radio
studios and coming up in ten minutes, three things.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Doesn't sound like much, but it is.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
It's our each of us top three observations from the
NFL day, the NFL week, and then if you're nice,
Ephram might take it out into the world beyond the
NFL maybe, which is where I would like to spend

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the next couple of minutes. Let's do it real quick, dog,
So this is not gonna sound like it was a
hot take of your heart.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Do you know what I'm gonna say? I but go ahead?

Speaker 2 (36:24):
What what what are his initials? What are his initials?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Hold on?

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Wait a minute, hold up, hold up, Nope, I'm not
it's not that thing.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Go ahead, Okay, my man, you and I we get
to do this all year long, not just during the
NFL and it was actually, let's see October is number
ten is at least six months ago, maybe even eight,

(37:05):
back towards the beginning of the year, when the NBA
season was really really coming into focus, and you said
to me, you know, the guy has everything he needs
to be an absolute dominant star, but I don't understand

(37:28):
why his team keeps letting him sit way out there,
oh and shoot three.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Now you know what I'm about.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
I know exactly what you're saying. I've been talking about
that boy.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
I don't know why that guy would sit way out there,
twenty five feet from the basket.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
And shoot threes.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
And the bad news for the Oh.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Is that the injury to Victor whim Ben Yama, something
happened while he was gone, and he got mad. He
got mad, and he decided to come back for the
following NBA season And go, okay, that's about enough of that.

(38:24):
I'm gonna block all the shots, and I'm gonna dunk
all the shots, and we're going to stop shooting three pointers,
and we are going.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
To use my seven foot five frame.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
And we're going we're gonna take the thing over there
to the basket, and we're gonna get all the rebounds
and and the spurs are three and oho.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
This is what I said, Victor Womenyama will never be
the best player on the planet if he keeps doing
what he's doing. And that came off. He had played
the Lakers, going up against Anthony Davis. This is pre
trades or anything. And at the end of the first
quarter he was one for nine and the eight that

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he missed were all threes.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
And the reason he was shooting threes is because he
didn't want to go bang with Ad.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Well did he bang with Ad? In the opener.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
To the tune of he took twenty one shots, only
two of them with threes.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
There you go in five forty Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
In fifteen against a All first team All defensive player,
and he was putting him under the rim.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Sixty five shot attempts so far this year, eleven are
from three.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
I'm telling you, man, he is going to be, if
he can stay healthy, the greatest basketball player to ever play.
There is zero you can do.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
There's nothing you could do.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
It's zero.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
There is not a defense or person that can stop
him from getting whatever shot he wants.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Nothing you can do.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
There's nothing you can do, and Anthony Davis said it
after the first game, all right, three things, top observations
coming up next.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
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We're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports radio studios. We'll
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Speaker 1 (41:44):
All right, let's not waste any time on it at all.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Here we go three things, and as always the rule
is I'm gonna go first so that you can go last.
Earlier today, Steve de Seger spoke about Jonathan Taylor and
talked about those three letters that are so iconic in sports.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
MVP.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I'd like to add another name to this conversation, and
his name is Drake May. Drake May is a star.
I understand that the schedule for New England has been
a little bit friendly lately. Three weeks in a row
of Saints, Titans, Browns.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
I get that.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Don't forget though, that prior to those three games on
Sunday Night football, right in front of us as we
did our show, Drake May went into Buffalo and won
a football game. We expected big things from New England
when the year started, and we were very disappointed with
the way that year started.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
But something has clicked.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
And if you look, that's three out of the last
five games where Drake May has taken his team to
north of thirty points in a football game, and the
two times that he didn't, he was north of twenty.
This guy is rushing the ball, He is not turning
the ball over. He is throwing the ball to a
multitude of receivers, spreading it around. And the New England

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Patriots have won five games in a row. They are
now six and two. To me, that team is headed
for the playoffs. And this guy is headed for stardom.
Drake May is in the MVP conversation.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
He is and the thing that he's doing is he's leading.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
He's leading with not only his play, but if you
watch him on the sideline, his energy. He's bringing a
youthful approach to a franchise that was used to having
things a certain way for a long time and winning
in that way. This is a new look Patriots, even
though Varia Bowl was part of that old way. As

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you can tell, Drake May is kind of taken on
the personality of his coach. His coaches fiery, His coach
is a player's coach, and Drake May exhibiting those type
of leadership qualities and I love it, and you're absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
He is the real deal.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
And it's amazing what someone who had a little bit
of talent last year in his rookie year, once you
get the stability in your relationship, it's amazing what you
can turn into.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Just to throw this out there, and stats are stats,
and we can all pick which ones matter to us
the most. But I asked you a couple of minutes ago,
if you were surprised to know that eight quarterbacks in
the NFL have a higher rating than Daniel Jones. Only
one has a rating higher than Drake May, and his

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name is Lamar Jackson, and he has only played in
four football games so far this year. Drake May's QB
rating is one sixteen point four or twelve touchdowns against
only two interceptions. He is completing over seventy five percent
of his passes. He's north of seventeen hundred yards, and

(45:12):
that's not even bringing his rushing game into play, which.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Is very, very strong.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I'm super impressed by the way this kid looks in
year two.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
For my first one.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
When players feel that they their value outweighs the team,
sometimes you you just have to deal with that. But
sometimes you can be proven wrong instantly. And so when

(45:48):
I watched the Philadelphia Eagles and they're tweeting Maestro, who
for whatever reason is completely unhappy, to the point of
even when you win, even when you catch a bunch
of balls and you get a bunch of yards, you

(46:10):
still have something to say in a negative context. It's
very distracting to a team that's trying to repeat as
Super Bowl champions. And when you're out and that very
same team goes back to doing what they've done the

(46:31):
best and why they won the Super Bowl in the
tune of thirty three rushing attempts for two hundred and
seventy six yards eight yards a carry, and you only
throw the ball twenty times fo one hundred and seventy
nine yards and four touchdowns. It's amazing what the running

(46:56):
game does for you. So for the Philadelphia Eagle without
AJ Brown, they looked like a real offense. So my
question is if he wants to leave, do you move him?
Because if you can play like you've played the last

(47:17):
year and recapture and dominate the time of possession and
the down and distance in these games, do you need
a sub subliminal tweeter after every game? And what value
can you get for him?

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Hell of a question.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
There were reports that came out just a couple of
days ago the Eagles do not.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Plan, of course I'm trading AJ Brown.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Now that of course does not mean that they're not
going to trade AJ Brown. But wonderful observation by you
to notice that you know what the Eagles did today.
They got back to being the Eagle Man.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
And you saw it right, It was just popping off
the screen.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
One percent. They looked like the Eagles again, and they
scored thirty eight points, and they scored in every quarter,
and they beat somebody by eighteen points. And as you said,
eight point four yards per carry. Holy smokes, you don't
lose football games when you do that period.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
And oh, by the way, there are other highly paid receiver.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
He got his nine targets in his six catches, and
there was still plenty of room to go around. But
Jalen Hurts looked like Jalen Hurts. He did what Jalen
Hurts does when he's playing.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Well.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
I don't understand what the Eagles were doing when they
lost those two football games. I really don't get it.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Something else, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Okay, Number two by the Vikings really messed this thing up.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
They really really messed this thing up. I get it.
Your pot committed.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
You have draft capital and money all sort of put
into one spot on the blackjack table, so you feel
like you've already laid the card. Therefore you've got to
play the card. But one thing I've learned over and
over and watching the NFL through the years is you

(49:17):
can never be flipping with the idea of a quarterback
that works. When the quarterback and the coach and the
system are all working together. My gosh, you got to
cradle that thing like a baby because it is.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Very hard to find that mix.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
And they had it last year and they won fourteen
football games. I know they flamed out in the end,
but they had it and it was working. And then
they decided that they had to go all in on
their first round draft pick who had never played in
the NFL.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
And then he came out and he looked very good.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
And then I don't know if you remember what I
said last week, I wish the Vikings and the world
would stop trying to tell us that Carson Wentz was
playing well. Like I didn't understand it. They're like, yeah,
they won two of their last three. I'm like, watch
the games. He's not playing well. He's not good. It's
not working. Sure, they were able to grind one out

(50:20):
overseas against the Browns. That doesn't mean he's playing well.
And you saw this whole thing in action on Thursday night. No,
it's not all his fault. The offensive line is banged
up in terrible But the bottom line is now they're
going to hand the.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Keys back to McCarthy.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
And the dirty secret that everybody knows is that they
are not digging the way McCarthy is playing either. But oh,
I'll remind them Seattle's five and two. Woo, Seattle is
five and two. The Vikings really messed this up.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Yeah, they mess it up.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
And it's so funny you say that because we're sitting
here watching a team that didn't panic right away when
they drafted a first round quarterback. We're watching Green Bay
with Jordan Love and they drafted him with Aaron Rodgers
still playing, and he just sat there, yep, for three years.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
He just sat there. They didn't panic.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
They gave Aaron Rodgers his due, and then they made
the transition when they thought it was time.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Now, Sam Donald puts you on the place.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
That you didn't expect, and he's continued to play that well.
They could have easily brought Sam Donald back and let
JJ McCarthy just sit.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
What you have to do is you have to tune
out the noise. Now.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Granted, you know Sam Donald isn't Aaron Rodgers, he didn't
have that cachet, he wasn't a four time MVP, he
didn't win a Super Bowl, But you gotta know your team.
There was no rush to put JJ McCarthy in because
you could have got Sam at a price, and now
you get what you get here. You got Carson wins

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every time he throws the ball, and JJ McCarthy, who
is not Dino might So there you have.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
It, nice ref erends.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Well you know I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Good job.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
I'm trying to build this thing on the fly.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
I hear you for me.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Number two for me is the Dallas Cowboys are who
we thought they were now. The thing with Dallas Cowboy
fans and Jerry Jones is the pendulum. It swings so far,
so fast. They can come off a loss. It's the

(53:02):
worst team ever. They can win a game. They're the
greatest team. There is no middle ground for them, and
so it makes it extremely difficult to know what's what
and who's who. You beat a Commander's team, this crippled,

(53:23):
and now you put up all these numbers, Oh this
is the best offense and can't stop them, can't stop them.
And then you show up today against the Broncos team
and you can't show up. First of all, you have
no defense. You couldn't exploit a secondary that had you

(53:45):
me and Patrick playing dB, and you couldn't stop anybody. Oh,
We're glad, you know he traded Mike because with the
Pigs and our offense, and we're gonna use it and
we're gonna get Hey, man, the Dallas Cowboys are on

(54:06):
a very good team. Now, do they have offensive talent? Yes,
Dak is playing out of his mind. You got to
be able to stop somebody. You have to be able
to stop somebody. And if that's who Dallas Cowboy fans
and Jerry Jones, if you want to hang your head
on that team like they're going to make noise in
the playoffs, then good luck.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
The roster construction decisions for the Dallas Cowboys over the
last handful of years for me, rank number one on
the head scratcher chart. I do not understand what they're doing.
They still have the highest paid player in the league

(54:49):
and he's not bad, but he's not that and all
of the things that he would need around him, like
a run game and like a defense, things that every
good quarterback needs, there is just little to no investment
in that. And then that's before the Micah Parsons decision.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
That they just made.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
And now Micah is performing tonight here on Sunday Night
Football instead of playing in Denver today. I don't get it,
and I'm with you, and that frustration for America's team
is going to continue, all right. I got one more
and it is that the Baltimore Ravens are still in

(55:37):
this thing.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
This was a sneaky one today.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
It did not make many headlines, and as soon as
all of the dust settled around the Lamar Jackson thing,
I think a lot of people went, oh, okay, never mind,
because now they're going to lose today as well. But
somehow they went out there without Lamar and scored thirty points.
Tyler Huntley was efficient enough. He completed seventeen of twenty two.

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He did not turn the ball over and therefore Derrick
Henry his run game, some opportunistic stuff on defense or
were able to carry the day. And now the Ravens
are just laying in the weeds at two and five.
It's very possible that we'll go to bed to nightie
from with the Ravens only two games out, two games

(56:31):
out in the AFC North, and listen to the next
five weeks of Ravens football. I don't know if Lamar
is going to be ready in four days. They play
on Thursday, but we'll see he practiced in full on Friday.
But their next five games at Miami, at Minnesota, at

(56:53):
Cleveland home to the Jets, home.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
To the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
That, my friends, is as friendly as an NFL schedule gets.
And if Lamar Jackson comes back, do not discount the
Ravens in the AFC North.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
No, they're they're there.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
And we said this right the the AFC North is
so up for grabs, it's so.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
It's brutal. That's what it is right now, Yep.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
That they can go on a run when he comes
back and he's healthy, and they can end up winning
a division. They're not out of it because they got
Superman coming back.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Right.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Planet Earth is in disarray when Superman is not around,
but when he comes, it kind of, you know, rights itself.
And that's what we are with Lamar. For my third one,
I'd be remiss. It's October. It's playoffs, I mean, and
I'm not going to I'm not going to spend a
lot of time on this. Yoshinobu Yamamoto the first pitcher

(58:02):
to pitch two complete games in the playoffs since I
don't know, I think Kurt Chilling or for the Dodgers
or a horsheier. Okay, that's how rare that is. And
when I tell you he's unhittable, now, Blake snee you

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know Sneill, he he was our guy. He had a
rough outing. Anytime we get to our bullpen, good luck.
We've talked about it all year long.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
I will text you.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Doing just regular season Dodger games like, hey, oh, here
we go. But Yamamoto highest highest salary, highest money for
a pitcher ever, worth every penny, unblo. Because most people
don't know. The Blue Jays are the real deal. They

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put back to ball consistently, and what he did yesterday,
not many can.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
He If they needed that one, they needed that one.
They got that one. It's a good strategy. Let's not
use our bullpen.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
At all at all.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Lee absolutely worked last night. And so now you're right,
we got ourselves a series, sou We shall see.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
It's been a good one so far.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
And now the series shifts to Los Angeles. All right,
we'll keep an eye on that. Steve de Seger is
ten minutes away. We'll get back to the NFL. I
want to talk about both Western divisions, which seem to
be right now, the two best divisions in football. We'll
talk that out coming up next with E from Salam,

(01:00:03):
Mark Willard.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
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Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
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Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
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been another tremendous week. This is the apex for me.
October mid October is the apex for me because not
only do you have, especially with my baseball teams in
I don't presume to be a baseball aficionado, but I
do like the Dodgers. I love the and when they're

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in the postseason it makes everything great. But not only
do you have baseball postseason, the World Series happening right now,
the start of the NBA season has been fantastic, and
we're right in the midst of the swing of the
NFL season. So those three things, if you love sports

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like I love sports, and I'm talking all sports. That's
why I pride myself on being able to stay on
the radio all year round. After football season, I'm still
here and we'll still grinding market myself because we both
love sports. There's only one thing on Sundays that I

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love more than sports. One thing, and that's an update
from Steve to say.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
And a good evening to you again.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
I've got baseball in just a moment, but updating the
Steelers game at home against the Packers tonight Pittsburgh with
three field goals from Chris Boswell, up nine to seven
about four minutes to go second quarter. You mentioned the
Dodger starting pitcher who won last night, Yoshinobu Yama Moto. You,
if you take it even a step further, of what
he's done. It's not just consecutive complete game, which was

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rare enough in baseball to do it in a single postseason,
but he's done both on the road. That part has
only happened once since nineteen forty five until Yamamoto. These
last couple of weeks, and the World Series continues Monday night,
Toronto at the Dodgers series tied at one, all The
games started about eight pm Eastern Time on Fox TV.

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They'll be in La Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. You talked about
Toronto with the hitters. The Toronto Blue Jays had the
best team batting average in all of baseball this year,
when a lot of teams are batting two forty five,
they were at two sixty five, and they tied for
third in RBIs and they beat the slugging team, the
Yankees in the playoffs to advance. Yankees had been number
one in the Majors and homers RBIs run scored walks

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with Latimericauro Junior and company. Toronto actually outslugged them and
then came back against Seattle to win the AL. Why
is the World Series with Toronto as the home field advantage,
you may ask, Well, it's because the Dodgers finished with
ninety three wins and Toronto finished with ninety four. And
I can point to two games exactly in the long

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season of why this is happening at exactly your point.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Oh, yes, it's the bullpen.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
The Blue Jays were at Dodger Stadium for a weekend
series in August. Dodgers are going for a three game
sweep they'd already had Clayton Kershaw beat Max scherz Or
on the Friday, and Blake's noew won on the Saturday,
And they're winning on the Sunday, and the Dodger bullpen
gives up two home runs in the eighth, one in
the ninth, and loses. The Dodgers finished one win behind Toronto,

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and therefore the Blue Jays have home field advantage for
this World Series. It turns out this is the matchup.
One other game I would mention is Yoshinobu Yamamoto was
the Dodger starter in early September in a game at Baltimore.
We had a no hitter with two outs in the ninth.
They left him in for all the thinking he could
finish the nine innings. He gave up with two outs

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in the ninth a home run, and then they brought
the bullpen in. Why And the Dodgers gave up four
runs in the bottom of the ninth, And this had
never happened before in baseball ever. You didn't even just
it was two outs in the ninth trying to close
out a no hitter, and they didn't even win the game.
Giving up four in the ninth. It didn't even go
to extra innings. So those two losses, and I think

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that was the most painful that one. The Dodgers turned
it around literally right after that. That's why the Dodgers
started on the road. We're at a game apiece. And
by the way, Toronto infielder Bob Baschett, who pinch hit Saturday,
is due to be back playing infield for Game three.
He had started Game one for the Blue Jays after
sprain me he'd been out since early September. Earlier in
the show, we mentioned the Laker injury. Luka Donsitch of

(01:04:55):
La out at least a week with a sprain left
finger at a bruised leg. Of course, Lebron James out
with a bad back. The Lakers have one of the
late games tonight. They're underway and already up ten at Sacramento,
thirty one to twenty one late in the first quarter.
But I got this from stad Zinc that in his
first two games this season, and they were spectacular. Doncic
had near triple double with forty three points and shot

(01:05:19):
sixty three percent from the floor, and then near triple
double with forty nine points and shot sixty one percent
from the floor. They looked it up. Only one other
player in NBA history has done that in back to
back games at any point, forget starting the season left.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
I guess, go ahead, Well, Chamberlain, you are correct, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
In December of nineteen sixty three to go on back
to back games with at least forty points, ten rebounds,
eighty eight assistant sixty percent shooting, just astounding. The details
on the game at Pittsburgh, they're at the two minute warning,
nine to seven stealers over the Packers. Chris Boswell is
three for three on field goals. He's hit from fifth

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fifty six, fifty and forty eight yards out. But the
Packers do have a touchdown and that was Jordan Love's
sixteen yard TD pass to tight end Tucker Kraft. The
other games, of course, are final and that includes a
Denver win over Dallas forty four to twenty four. Five
straight wins for the Broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
RJ.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Harvey, three total touchdowns Indianapolis seven and one after beating
Tennessee thirty eight to fourteen. Guys, I found another stat
on Jonathan Taylor as we were talking about him as
a nominee for First Half NBAF.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Of course you found another one.

Speaker 5 (01:06:31):
Next gen stat has examined every carry he's had so
far this year. They added up eight more misstackles in
this game today, where on only twelve carries he had
one hundred and fifty three yards rushing three total touchdowns
as they beat the Titans this season. Their exact estimation
is that Jonathan Taylor, just off miss tackles, has over

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three hundred and sixty yards rushing, which is over one
hundred more than any other player on the list. Oh
Tampa Bay, New Orleans twenty three to three Saints with
four turnovers. Philadelphia and Houston each one at home. Houston
beat the Niners twenty six to fifteen. Although I did
see an item on Christian McCaffrey, he's up to five
thousand career rushing yards and five thousand career receiving yards.

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The only guys that have done that are guys like
Teeky Barber, Marshall Folk, Lenny Moore if you go back decades,
and Marcus Allen ad McCaffrey to that list. Baltimore and
New England each one at home. Pats have won five
in a row victories for the Jets, their first Miami
and Buffalo each one on the road as well. The
Bills victory was forty to nine at Carolina. James Cook

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nineteen carries two hundred and sixteen yards and two scores.
LSU is reportedly firing head coach Brian Kelly. He zowed
over fifty million dollars, subject to offset if he takes
another job. LSU has a bye this weekend, then they
play at Alabama.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I'm not taking another job.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
No, why would you?

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Honestly, LSU was not ranked at all after the horrendous
second half losing at home to A and M.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Last night.

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
NHL overtime wins for San Jose, Tampa Bay, and New Jersey,
which is eight and one. William Byron won the NASCAR
race at Martinsville. Their championship is next Sunday at Phoenixpeck to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
You, thanks and thank you, Steve, thank you, double thank you.
Sorry for some technical difficulty, man.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Team, Yeah, you know you don't even have to say nothing. No,
nobody know, nobody knows.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
I know. We're good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Okay, okay, we're good. Not as good as Brian Kelly's
buy out. Man, I'm not working for I Could you
imagine he's sixty four years old?

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
No, I'm good right about to go buy a villa
in Tuscan. He could buy an island at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
What the Beatles deal there? Will you still need me?
Will you still feed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Me when I'm sixty four?

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
When I'm sixty four? I guess in this particular case,
the answer would.

Speaker 5 (01:08:54):
Be yes, by a machine that's self feeding at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Right, But then also no, no, no, we don't need you,
but yes, we'll still feed you.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
We're gonna feed you a lot when you're sixty four.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Is there anything better in life than being given that
kind of a going away gift when you're sixty four
years old?

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
I'm with you. I wouldn't. I don't need another job.

Speaker 5 (01:09:16):
He probably jumped up and down when he originally got
the what was it, ten year contract? Yeah, I'm not
staying here ten years. They're not gonna have me ten years.
This is the sec Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
That man needs shelter and a set of golf clubs.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
That's it for the rest of it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Is Actually, the golf would be good because, as you've
seen him on the sidelines over the years with three
other college football teams, he needs an outlet to vent.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Shall we say that's well said. Do that on an
open course.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's not could work if you can get it, man, man.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
You right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
And people thought because Nils and all of that, that
they wouldn't, you know, fied these coaches and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
They don't care. They don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
They do not care.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
And the whole idea of why they fought for years
to not have a system like this in place was
because they tried to get the public to believe that
in college there wasn't enough money.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
Remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Yeah, they don't have enough money to do that, and
there is always enough money.

Speaker 5 (01:10:40):
Expand the regular season, get playoff system. Expand the playoffs.
They're already talking about expanding the expanded playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
Expand the expansion.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
By the way, Aaron Rodgers short touchdown pass extra point
would make it sixteen to seven late first half against.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
The Packer, DK metcalf on the receiving end. Indeed, And
so yeah, looking at a looking at a potential nine
point lead for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
He's not good for you and your bet right.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
Now, I know, but good personally. I'm glad DK got
a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Yeah, that's I guess that's It's.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Funny like I consider the guy still playing like my
little brothers, right, Like I try to give him advice
and do stuff like that. So when I'm I was
out with cam or the bye weekend, cam Heywardward.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
You know, he's an elder statesman, but he's still so
much younger than me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
So it's like, you know, it's like, you know, I'm
sitting there and I'm talking to him about life and
advice and stuff like that, and it's like he's been
in the league fifteen years. He's like the grandpa the
locker room. Well not anymore that Aaron is there, but
it's like he's like the old uncle of the locker
room and all of that. And I'm just every second

(01:11:57):
I spend with him, I get ten years older.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
I'm just aging by the second.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
They say, I don't know this yet because I haven't
had any quite fly the coop yet, but I have
a lot of like I'm at that age and you'll
be there soon where a lot of parents are sending
people off to college and a lot of people are
becoming you know, like my sister and her husband just

(01:12:23):
became empty nesters, right, And there's this feeling when you
become the empty nester, it's like, we did it, it's over.
And then I'm told it's it's not. The parent never
stops being a parent. Yes, I knew, by the way,

(01:12:45):
you'll love this story. I knew another another mom who
will remain nameless, who got in trouble with her son.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Her son went off to college just a couple months.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
Ago, and.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Well, I think she wants.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
To but she ald him at one point because she
could see on the little app.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
That he wasn't in class.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Oh wow, she's not watching.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
She's not watching the eighteen year old.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
That's a good way to get the phone thrown away.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Yeah, she called him and said, are you in h
are you a econ right now? Like, yeah, I bet
you're in your ECON class right now. And I guess
he responded with are you at work right now?

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
That made me laugh very very hard. That very laughed
very hard. Okay, yeah, yeah, No. The parent never stops
being a parent. And I guess the.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
That mom wasn't black. Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:13:47):
That first thing that popped into my mind, Like, I
don't know, I don't know if you never replied to
a black mama like that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
I guess I'm sitting up here looking at Mary, Mary
looking eyes.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
I'm like, I don't know about I don't know if
I would have said that one back to he said.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
I'm hold, I'm outside your damn dorm right now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
That evening.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
No matter where you went to school, you would have
heard him.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
Oh man, And I said, what was that you said
on summer text? Yeah, that's just black mama energy right there.

Speaker 4 (01:14:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
You know, that's fun.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
You know, sometimes you can tell something, you can tell
somebody a story, or you can hear a story and
you can you can know from the information in the story,
you know what ethnicity the subject in the story is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
You know, I don't want to pay with two bros time,
but you just know, you just know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
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That's S t R A U s S dot com.
That's E from salam I'm Mark Willard. This is Fox
Sports Radio sid live in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
and I think you know this. You're not an elder
statesman when it comes to this radio show. But one

(01:15:29):
of us played football. One of us didn't. So I
come to you sometimes for for help, for help with
with my team.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
So I got this question for you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
We're talking about the Eagles earlier and how they they
sort of rebecame the Eagles today. They ran the ball,
and they ran the ball a lot more than they
threw it, and they look like the Eagles. Now, this
was a game flow situation and also it wasn't going well,

(01:16:07):
so I get why it was abandoned.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
The forty nine Ers were down.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
They were down by a significant amount, sixteen points in
the first half. But a Kyle Shanahan team that is
now coming off of the Sunday Night Football performance last
week where they ran the ball phenomenally. Christian McCaffrey was
the NFC Player of the Week for the effort last

(01:16:31):
week on Sunday Night. Today, the forty nine Ers had
eight carries by running backs. That's it, eight carries by
running backs and they only threw the ball for one
hundred and ninety three yards as well.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
So add all that up and they did.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Not move the ball today, and they were thoroughly outplayed,
and twenty six to fifteen is the final. And I
sort of look at this and I go, I don't
even know how the hell they're five and three. I'm
not like frustrated by it. I'm amazed by the fact
that they're five and three. Everybody who you've heard of
on defense is out. A lot of the people who

(01:17:12):
you've heard of on offense are out, but they've got
enough to be able to function on the offensive side
of the ball. Put it this way, if the Houston
Texans offensive line is blocking you, you're bad or your
babies and that's who the Niners are. It's just a
bunch of babies that have not really had big roles before.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
And so trade deadline's coming. You're five and three, You
adding to this team?

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
You have to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
I'm so curious by this thought because I want to
be with you on that thought at the same time, like,
my god, are you are are you chasing?

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
Or is this a wild Goose chase? No? I mean,
where where is this? Three? But where going eight games?
Didn't Fred Warner and Nick Moose are not coming back.
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
That's why you have to make a move.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
That's why you're five and three if you were three
and five, different conversation. Oh, by the way, Mac Jones
is the backup quarterback yep, as well as he's played,
and people can say whatever they want to be about. Uh,
you know competition. No, no, no, Rock Party is the starter.

(01:18:34):
He's coming back. You got Kittle back, you got Jennings back,
Kendrick Bourne has become something. Christian McCaffrey is still healthy.
You don't have their captain and your leader and Brock Party.
That's the value of a Rock Party. Yes, he is

(01:19:00):
that guy, and so no, yes, you absolutely don't throw
the whole eight games out the window.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
No, No, Brock should be back next week maybe and
at the trade deadline you definitely want to go. Look,
those two all pro guys aren't coming back, so you
have to address it. You have to do something. You

(01:19:31):
have to this overs the season because your schedule is
still conducive to the playoffs and then anything can happen after.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
This is no, this is true. This is true.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
I mean the schedule is something that got talked about
all year long. This fourth place schedule, the fourth place schedule,
which you know down the stretch once the holidays come,
includes Carolina and Cleveland and Tennessee and Chicago. So I
hear you, I hear you. I don't know if it's
the top of the market type of a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
I don't think. I don't see them giving up any
first or second round draft picks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
But no, Yeah, an addition seems wise. Okay, major betting
scandal in the NBA this week. What does it mean
for the NFL and beyond? We do that next. Oh, yes,
into the night, we go into the second half Sunday
Night football goes and Aaron Rodgers so far is winning

(01:20:28):
the Aaron Rodgers Bowl. It is sixteen to seven in
favor of the Steelers. As you just heard Steve pass Along.
We'll get you through a good portion of the second
half here tonight, broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Week eight in the National Football League, and of course,
the big story of the week did not really center

(01:20:51):
around the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
But I'm sure no matter what your league.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Was, whether it was Roger Goodell or the commissioner of
any other league out there, they immediately put out the
ap be to all their players, their coaches, their executives,
their everything, and said, hey, we've got to just re
remind everybody to be as careful as possible when it
comes to the whole gambling thing. The scandal in the

(01:21:17):
NBA kind of got me thinking, though, Ephraim, because it's
not terribly surprising. I think we'd be naive to think
that there aren't things like this that go on out there.
But my reaction is not to necessarily excuse anyone involved.
But whenever we have the conversation of like, oh, what's
it going to do when you let all of these

(01:21:41):
gambling companies in and the leagues have done that now,
you know, it used to be taboo.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
You weren't allowed to even I can remember.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
It was only about twenty years ago that I think
it was Tony Romo was disallowed from appearing at an
event in Vegas, and I think it was just like
a fantasy football draft party or something like. They wouldn't
even let him go. That's how far away from it

(01:22:10):
you had to be just a couple of decades ago. Now,
I mean, the gambler is served at every turn when
it comes to sports, and so's my that's my response
when stuff like this happens.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
I go, this is who we are. Like, you can
run from it all you want.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
But if I challenge every sports fan to really look
inward and be honest for a second and answer, what
percentage of your sports viewing has some attachment to gambling?

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
What would you say?

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
It's just hard to get away from it. Yep, yep,
it's hard to get away from it, really is. It's
like you said, it's so much part of of the
culture and the stratosphere of sport. You know, you just

(01:23:14):
gamble on it, you get, you put. It's easy to
place a bet. It's easy, yep, doesn't take much at all,
and so you plays your bet.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
I mean, on some level, how much like how much
true fandom is still out there? And I'll I'll like, look,
they're just kids or whatever, but I'll put my kids
up there. And as an example, I got a text
today because I was I was out the house watching
football in another spot, and my daughter, who is a

(01:23:55):
huge forty nine er fan, comes home during the forty
nine er game, and I get a text and she says,
I cannot get my little brother to turn the forty
nine er game on. He will only watch red Zone
and I can't get him to change the channel. And
I said, hun, go go, go, go down into the

(01:24:16):
dad's room and turn the other TV. There's a solution here.
Just go downstairs into my room, turn the other TV on.
Watch yourself. We don't need everybody doing this. You know,
there's a second screen in the building.

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
And yeah, I'm like, what type of household you running
over there?

Speaker 9 (01:24:32):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Going on?

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
They want the big day, want the big TV with
the couch and the food, and you know they all
TV and we don't. The other TV is great, but
it's dad's rooms and not going down in the dad's room.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
But you go, whin, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
Go watch But why do you think he won't let
red Zone get off of the television set.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Oh okay, he.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Wants to follow his fantasy players all around the league.

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
That's the worst. That would be the worst. That's experience ever.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
What do you mean? That's why how most people do this?

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
I know that's why. I just couldn't imagine just watching
the game for that reason. And I play fantasy football. Sure,
this is this is this is what I do. This
is when I check my fantasy football scores at the end,
at the at halftime of the first games.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Of the first games, I think that's very, very.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Healthy, and then at halftime of the second.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
Games, Yep, yep. But you know what, that'll tell you
everything you need to know. I know, and that's the
healthy answer.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
At the same time, I think most people, as much
as it's an eye roll and they'll tell you they
hate it, I.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Think they like the roller coaster. I think they like it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
I think the stupid If you made me king of
sports for one day, you want to know what I'd
get rid of projections and that little percentage bar that
tells you if you're gonna win or not.

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
I'm like, like, dang, sixteen percent.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Right, It's ten nineteen in the morning, and they're like,
you have an eighty nine percent chance to win, and
you're feeling yourself like, yeah, I got this one eighty
nine percent.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
And then two people on the other team score touchdown.
It's like fourteen one, Like it's done.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
You can't tell me that that was only eleven percent
chance that over the next three hours two other people
were going to score a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
You know what I would change what I will make
every single league this in terms of points, every single
I would have a standard format. Well there is a standard, yeah,
but you can do anything. And one league quarterbacks are

(01:27:15):
wool value. And I'm in all of the leagues. I'm like,
I'm like, I got Josh Allen this supposed he says,
he goes seventeen points. I'm like that, Josh Allen, and
another league he's going to get sixty nine points. Right
to me, that's crazy. But what it does is when
you're in multiple leagues, it messages you up when you're drafting. Yes,

(01:27:38):
you got messages you up when you're drafting.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
You gotta set a new set of rules for every draft.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
And that's the problem I have. If it's just these
are these bes the rules.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
All right, and it's standard across the board.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
You want basically, you want universal health care.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
I want so health care for fantasy football.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Okay, well, good luck, that's not happening.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
But you get what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Right, I'm in two survivor pools, and in one of
them you can't pick the same team twice, and then
the other one you can't. So we're bouncing all over
the place with who we're picking.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
No, you're not. You don't actually want uniform though, Yes,
you don't. Yes, that's not the kind of person you are. No.

Speaker 4 (01:28:30):
No, no, In fantasy football, that's what I want.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
I want that. I want it all to be worth
to say.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
Do you have any true fandom left seeing as you
actually played?

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
I love I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
I know you're a Laker fan.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
Oh, I love it. I love sports. Yes, I look
forward two right during the week when it's you know,
a lak a game coming on at night, Dodger game
or any and when the NBA will started all of it.
I look forward to Thursday night football, Monday night football,

(01:29:09):
Wednesday night football, the Tuesday night football, all of the football.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
And I look forward to.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
College.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
I'm with you, but do you have a team?

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
Yeah, I got teams? You got teams? Yeah, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
But that's like because it's either you played there or
you've got a boy there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Or why does anybody have teams?

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Well, the standard answer is because it's where you live
or where you grew up or the or it's what
your parents taught you to do.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
Right, I'm a Laker fan. I'm a Dodger fan. I'm
a San Diego State fan. Right, I'm a Houston, Denver
and Atlanta fan. You left one of them, a couple
of them, you know, I you know, you know. But

(01:30:06):
I'm also looking. I've always hated the Niners because I
started with them in our division. Back in the day.
Atlanta and San Francisco used to be in the same division.
Along with this is what weird divisions. Along with it
was Tampa Bay US and the Saints, Tampa Bay, the

(01:30:28):
Niners and the Falcons. Okay, and so my dad was
a Niner fan. Of course I played for the Falcons,
so there was a rivalry there. But I look, I'm
a fan of Brock Party, fan of Christian McCaffrey. He's
known him since he was a baby when I played
with his dad in Denver. So yeah, but what I

(01:30:50):
do like is competition. I like sport. I think it's awesome.
I know how hard it is to be good. I
know how hard it is to continue to get better
and to play for a long time. All of those
things draw me into the world of sport. I think

(01:31:11):
it's amazing and so yes, I'm a huge fan, and
I love coming in here and talking about it every Sunday,
no doubt, I really dig that. I get a kick
out of it. I look forward to it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
You might be one of the few I know who
would still be locked in even if there wasn't some
sort of gaming involved.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Oh one times of percent. I look, I was late.
I was late to fantasy football.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
Yep. So I was to a degree too, probably not
as late as you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
No, really late, like I didn't. I wasn't even you know,
I got into fantasy football. I don't know if I've
ever told a story. My wife's my father in law
and his brothers they have that they've had like a
family fantasy football thing forever, and then they've expanded. It's

(01:32:10):
it's a big thing. It's actually two leagues. It's to
be league in the A league and you can get relegated.

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
Oh oh right.

Speaker 4 (01:32:16):
And so I was like, oh, I want to be
in and they were like yeah no, And I was
like wait what.

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
And this is back when I was still playing. So
I was like, so.

Speaker 10 (01:32:26):
You you don't want a current NFL player to be
in your fantasy football league.

Speaker 4 (01:32:37):
Now we don't have any space. Someone has to drop out.
And I'm like, oh my god. But my wife had
a team and so we just she don't even look,
she don't even I've taken that team over but I've
won the league a couple of times. I've been relegated
a couple of times, you know, And so that's how
I really got into it. I was never into it before.

(01:33:01):
I used to think people were crazy when they were,
you know, scouring the phone for you know, for picks,
And now I do that, wake up early, make sure
my guys are are playing, all of that stuff. I
used to be anti that, but now I'm locked in
and it's fun. I'm in too many this year. I'm

(01:33:25):
in too too many. It's kind of taking the fun
out of it because they're all different. They're all like,
like I was saying, they're all different scoring, and so
it's kind of like, I don't I don't get it.
I'm like, okay, well in this league, this very same
person is worth a million here not so.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
Much, not as much. Yeah, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:55):
So I'm constantly trying to figure out, Okay, well, so
what how do I okay, little?

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
What do I do here? Go over?

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
It's a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
I mean, it's only going to keep on, you know,
going and growing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
I have craft as a tight end, and he's killing right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
He's having a nice night, having a nice night. But
in one of the leagues.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
I mean, I'm actually going against him, So then you
find yourself in that situation.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
Yeah, but then just you know, like I find, actually
the more leagues that you're in, the easier it is
to kind of just deal with all of the frustration
that comes because a you're in so many leagues, at
least one or two of them are gonna be good
and be It's kind of like you just said, whenever

(01:34:46):
one of your players does well, it might be bad
for you in another league, or vice versa. If one
of your players does bad, that might be good for
you in the other league.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
So there's always something good that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
That's kind of the way I look at it. It's
easier to just sit back, like you said, and just
look at it at the end of the day and
be like, all right, what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Yeah, it's it's a lie.

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
You're the one that doesn't fill out a March Madness bracket.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
You realize that just about every other human being on
earth would not even watch the NCAA tournament if there
was not a bracket.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
Yes, but so we are again like sport as Green
Bay just scores I love sports, love March madness, I

(01:35:52):
love the Olympics. I love competition.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
Yep, I get it, I get it, I get it. Yeah,
we got a football game here. Green Bay just made
this thing nice and tight with a touchdown pass from
Jordan Love and so we got a close one as
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really really love what I'm seeing some in the NFL,
which is this kind of expedited review deal.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
Oh man, right, where.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Like they get the call wrong, we see the clip,
we go, oh, coach should probably throw that red hanky
and right, and then the ref will come out and
be like no, no, no, we had people look at it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
We messed up. We're going the other way.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
I'm like great, And that was a that was a
veteran move just now by Aaron Rodgers of being sacked
to just flick the ball at the feet of Jalen
Warren and keep the ball incomplete pass.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
Old wiley veteran.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
And you wondered at the you know, watching it in
real time, you're like, fumble, what you know, what's going on?
There's a big pile for it air and screaming at
the ref like it's going on. Second you see the
highlight and like, oh, would you look at that? Would
you look at that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
You think the Chiefs are going to the playoffs? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
I think they have the possibility to go to the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
It sounds like a silly question, right, Yeah, but I
mean you look at the framework of the league, like,
what if I asked it this way? You think the
Bills and Patriots are both going to the playoffs?

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
Of course? You feel like the Colts are going to
win the South.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
Of course? All right, that's what that's five.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
That's that's three, that's sure four. Going to have a Yeah,
the Steelers. If you and I are both going to
say the Ravens can still do this, then it's possible
that the Steelers and Ravens could both go. It's possible maybe.

(01:39:17):
All right, how do you feel about Jacksonville and Houston?

Speaker 4 (01:39:22):
No, Jacksonville, No, Jacksonville, Probably not Houston, Probably not Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Jacksonville does have a little tiebreaker on Kansas City. Kansas
City's got a game tomorrow night and they're playing much better.
But they've got a game tomorrow night, and even if
they win it, they will remain in third place behind
both the Broncos and the Chargers. And now that the

(01:39:49):
Chargers have some offensive line help coming back. Healthy, man,
that thing's going to be a war. And I keep
looking at that chief schedule and shirt's Washington tomorrow night.
There's no Jaden Daniels. But then they get the Bills
next week. They get the Bills next week, and then

(01:40:10):
after a bye they go to Denver, and then after
Denver they host the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
Oh yeah, we're gonna find out.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
Yeah, this is that's the next three after this one
for the Chiefs, Bills, Broncos, Colts. So they better really
really have their best foot forward here pretty soon, or
else the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Speaker 1 (01:40:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:38):
I think, you know, getting all the receivers back helps.
Maybe we'll see if they can eventually find a running
game with Checko. It's just, you know, you can never
count Patrick Mahomes out. That's the crazy part.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
But of course, and that guy.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
You know, the reason we think Baltimore as as what
do they two and five? Two and five, it's because
Lamar Jackson, Right, The reason we think Buffalo is because
of Josh Allen. So Patrick Mahomes is still at the
top of that mountain because it's just he makes the

(01:41:22):
game seem so easy right between that and the refs help.
I'm just I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:41:33):
I can't you go through a whole game you didn't
have one penalty because I don't know, it's almost impossible.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
It feels pretty damn impossible.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
All right, let me run a test with you in
the NFC, and I'm gonna ask this in a sort
of weird sort of a way. Do you think the
Cowboys or the Commanders are playoff teams this year?

Speaker 1 (01:41:57):
No? Okay, you think the Bears are playoff team? No?

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Do you think anyone besides Tampa in the South is
a playoff team?

Speaker 1 (01:42:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
All right, So I think what you just said is
that the NFC West is going to send three teams.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
That's what it feels like.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
Eagles, Packers, Lions, Bucks, Seahawks, Rams, forty nine Ers.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
Is that your seven?

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
That feels right?

Speaker 1 (01:42:34):
It feels right to me. Yeah, I mean a lot
can happen.

Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
Oh of course, we're just just starting to think about
the halfway point here, So a lot can happen. But
the Commanders are staring at a fifth loss tomorrow night
unless something pretty fancy happens. The Steelers have changed the

(01:42:58):
score of this football game, and we have changed the
makeup of the three people who talk on this show,
because we are going to welcome Steve to seger In
Thanks right now so that he can do some talking.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
Hi, Steve, Hey, there, change the makeup of the show.
I thought somebody else was why I looked around. Actually
nobody else is here.

Speaker 1 (01:43:16):
Well, you never know. Sometimes people just stuck out for
a while.

Speaker 5 (01:43:20):
Actually, actually you do know. It's radio.

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
People disappear all the time. Yeah, never heard from again.
We've been in this station like that.

Speaker 5 (01:43:27):
Actually, yes we have. Pittsburgh Steelers are leading the Packers
nineteen to fourteen with about five and a half minutes
to go in the third quarter. Chris Boswell four for
four on field goals for Pittsburgh. He has hit from
fifty six and fifty yards and he's hit from forty
eight and now fifty six yards. Denver won its fifth
straight game, beat Dallas forty four to twenty four. Our

(01:43:49):
Jay Harvey rookie with three total touchdowns in that one.
Tampa Bay a twenty three to three winner at New Orleans.
The Bucks are six and two. Chase McLoughlin three for
three on field goals in the second and a half.
He hit from fifty two to fifty four and fifty
five yards out ending three short drives. Indianapolis is seven
to one after beating Tennessee thirty eight to fourteen. Jonathan

(01:44:11):
Taylor over one hundred and fifty yards rushing on just
twelve carries. He had three total touchdowns. In fact, he
had an eighty yard TD run in this one. They
clocked him at twenty one point two miles per hour
at a top speed on the play, and they say
he has reached at least twenty miles per hour running
as a ball carrier this season six different times, most

(01:44:34):
in the NFL. So Jonathan Taylor's had now seventy five
career games. He has seventy seventy touchdowns from scrimmage in
seventy five games in this league. The record is Jim Brown,
who had seventy nine in his first seventy five games.
Elsewhere was Philadelphia over the Giants thirty eight to twenty.
Giants rookie running back Camp Scataboo suffered a horrible ankle

(01:44:58):
injury cardo surgery tonight, obviously out for the season, although
they haven't said that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
Saquon Barton never know with him. You take me up
coach was a.

Speaker 5 (01:45:08):
Pass catcher with a touchdown You'd never know from him,
but the Eagles have won thirteen straight at home against
the Giants, including playoff over the years. Saquon Barkley on
fourteen carries at one hundred and fifty yards in three
quarters of work, one touchdown run, one touchdown reception, Houston
beat San Francisco twenty six to fifteen. The Niners in
the first quarter had no first downs. Their time of

(01:45:30):
possession in the first half was under five and a
half minutes. By the end of the game, they'd only
had forty four plays on offense the whole day. That
ties for the fifth fewest in any fort or nine
ers game in the Super Bowl era. Going back sixty
years almost there was a low scoring NFC title game
where they lost to the Giants nineteen ninety, where the

(01:45:51):
Niners only had forty one plays all day. This was
only forty four today. Baltimore ended a four game losing
streak beating Chicago thirty to sixteen. Derrick Henry two short
touchdown runs and seventy one yards. You mentioned Lamar Jackson,
the Ravens quarterback was out again with the bad hamstring,
but they are talking like he's back this Thursday night.

(01:46:11):
Ravens had the Thursday game at Miami, which was one
and six until getting a victory at Atlanta thirty four
to ten. Falcons laid one of the eggs of the
NFL today. They started quarterback Kirk Cousins, Michael Pennix was
out with a bone bruise and his knee. Wide receiver
Drake London was out with a hip injury. In the
first half, Atlanta had two first downs, fifty eight yards

(01:46:33):
of offense and forty five yards in penalties. Tuatanga Iloa
four touchdown passes. The Jets were zero to seven, but
they won at Cincinnati thirty nine thirty eight. Breese hal
three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Buffalo won forty to
nine at Carolina. James cook on only nineteen carries, had
two hundred and sixteen yards and two scores. New England
won its fifth straight game, beating Cleveland despite five sacks

(01:46:56):
from Miles Garrett, a Browns record thirty two to thirteen.
Patriot it's the final. Drake May three touchdown passes in
the third quarter. You mentioned the Chiefs. They're hosting Washington
Monday night. Washington's actually the NFC's number one rushing team
so far, averaging almost one hundred and fifty yards a
game on the ground. LSU fired head coach Brian Kelly.
The team has a buy this coming weekend, then plays

(01:47:18):
at Alabama. The World Series continues Monday nights, so all
the games started at about eight pm Eastern Time on
Fox TV Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in La Dodgers hosting Toronto.
Series tied at a game apiece. The Orioles new manager
will reportedly be Cleveland assistant Craig Albernaz to the NBA.
Luka Donsich of the Lakers is out at least a

(01:47:38):
week with a spring left finger and a bruised leg.
Lebron James out with the bad back. Lakers have one
of the late games, and they are leading early third
quarter at Sacramento seventy to sixty five. Austin Reeves with
twenty one points.

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
In this game.

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
Beck week and updated he's up to twenty three points
and the Lakers have fallen behind by two in the third.
Also in action, we've got the Clippers down seventy to
sixty eight to Portland. That game is in the third quarter.
Minnesota beat oh and three Indiana one fourteen to one ten.
Anthony Edwards left early with hamstring Titan as Julius Randall

(01:48:13):
thirty one points. Boston's oh and three lost to Detroit
Today one nineteen one to thirteen despite forty one points
from Jalen Brown. NHL overtime wins for San Jose, Tampa Bay,
and New Jersey. William Byron won the NASCAR race at
Martinsville again late third quarter, final minute before the end
of the period. At Pittsburgh, it is the Steelers nineteen
fourteen over Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
Back to you, Steve, great stuff tonight, as always appreciate it.
And yeah, got a good football game going on here tonight,
and we're not done yet. So the Packers with the
ball in Steelers territory and down by five closing seconds
of the third quarter. So we've got we've got some
stuff to check out here as it comes down the stretch.

(01:48:57):
You know what we haven't talked about yet today? And
Steve reference it there and I'm a little surprised that
more wasn't made of it. Did you happen to watch
Kirk Cousins play football today?

Speaker 1 (01:49:08):
I did? What'd you think?

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
I didn't look very long.

Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's fair to
just grab somebody and throw him out there for one
game for the first time in a year and then
make all those judgments and Drake London's not there, but
boy dink and dunk and against a really poor team.

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
They did nothing at home, they did nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:49:36):
That they didn't look good at all.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
So maybe all those teams that didn't go for Kirk
Cousins knew what they were doing.

Speaker 3 (01:49:44):
Well, they know now scratch him off the list.

Speaker 4 (01:49:49):
And yeah, that was a great opportunity for him to
you know, showcase himself. But that offense did not look
the same.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
I mean, Jon Robinson got held a two point yard
it's per carry.

Speaker 4 (01:50:09):
Yeah, that thing looks stagnant, It looked disjoin it. It
just had no flow, no rhythm to it.

Speaker 7 (01:50:21):
M I.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
And this was, you know, an offense nobody gets stop.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
I know it, and I forever, I mean, I don't
know that we're ever going to fully understand the way
the Falcons approached this whole quarterback thing. And the worst
the guys play because Pennis, you know, he was not
great last week in San Francisco on Sunday night. That

(01:50:49):
was a less than impressive performance. But Michael Pennix is
still just getting.

Speaker 1 (01:50:54):
Started in his career.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
I think he's played you know, maybe ten eleven game
teams in his career. Is all so long way to
go there. And I think I really like Michael Pennix.
I think he's got a lot of talent. But you
go back three years and try to figure out exactly
what the game plan was for the Falcons at quarterback,
and we talked about it at the time, and they

(01:51:19):
were able to sort of pass it off as you know,
just kind of swashbuckling and taking a big swing and
we're going to have a high priced quarterback, but we're
also going to do a top ten pick and we're
going to figure it out and competing all this. I
don't know, Man, the further we get from those those
signings and that pick and I think, the more I'm

(01:51:41):
scratching my head.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
Yeah, It's it's one of those situations where it's like,
what are we thinking? Right hindsight, It's look, I guess

(01:52:04):
being a GM is a tough job, I think across sports.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
Sure, right when you look at it, you.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
Gotta have your pose on on on the finger on
the pulse of everything, right, how do we what do
we give up? What do we get back? What do
we need to get back? What won't what don't we need?
And how can they help us now? And so you know,

(01:52:35):
the younger the gms, the less experience in my.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
Opinion, Yeah, I just think I mean, today was the
day that they didn't want like you a lot of times.

Speaker 6 (01:52:46):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:52:47):
It's kind of like that memorabilia that you know people
have these YouTube channels now and it's like you got
to keep the box unopened. Yeah, you got loses all
of its value. Well that was Kirk Cousins today. There
he went and opened up the box.

Speaker 4 (01:53:05):
He had all kinds of value there.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
Right, because like and if somebody was only offering you
a third rounder or second rounder, you probably should.

Speaker 3 (01:53:16):
Have done it seventh rounder.

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
Now now, I mean, I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (01:53:23):
There's a market for Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:24):
With the finances being the way they are, there's probably
no market now. I don't even know if there was
because of the finances, but.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
Well we know there's not nowesh, that's what we.

Speaker 1 (01:53:37):
Know all right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
Uh more, coming up the Packers. Packers have just gone
in front in what has been a really entertaining Sunday
night football game yep, and they're gonna be They're gonna
go for two to see if they can get themselves
a little three point lead. Here in these Fox Sports
Radio studios. We'll keep you up to date on everything
that's happening down the stretch before we headed off to

(01:53:59):
plank a Spaniard. Indeed, it is twenty two to nineteen
for the Packers with e from Salama Mark whether or
not Fox Sports Radio Fox Show. As always, brother, we're
live in the Fox Sports Radio studios. And a reminder
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(01:54:20):
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(01:54:40):
so it's always going to pop up at the top
of your screen.

Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
Packers in the lead and tempers are flaring.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
Ought to be interesting to see how they sort this
one out.

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
Twenty two nineteen, Packers, keep you up to date.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
Uh, Steelers went three and out gave the ball back
to Green Bay and on the punt return, apparently there
were some people that weren't getting along, so we'll see
what happens. There were yellow flags that you can barely
see because of the Steeler uniforms. That's okay, just we'll
we'll figure we'll figure it out.

Speaker 1 (01:55:20):
Hey. Have you ever had one of them things in
life where.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
You thought something was gonna be awful, but then you
experienced it and you're like.

Speaker 1 (01:55:32):
Oh, that wasn't so bad.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
I kind of compare it to, uh, the first time
that I ever got, ah a COVID test.

Speaker 1 (01:55:43):
Do you remember?

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
You remember when you used to to like, yeah, you
could like drive up to the little window.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
They would just.

Speaker 3 (01:55:52):
Crazy time, crazy time.

Speaker 4 (01:55:55):
You know, I'm a hypochondre, right, so I do. Now
I was going to take like COVID tests like every
other week.

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
All the time. Oh my god. And I at first
they were awful, right, you know what?

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
The crazy part for me it never felt awful because
I wanted the information you wanted.

Speaker 1 (01:56:19):
But like that thing they put that Q tip all
the but like you're.

Speaker 4 (01:56:22):
Like that, you need to go deeper, make sure you
make sure you scraped the bottom of the brain.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
Oh my god. I was so scared the first time
I pulled up on one of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
And then you ever have that Like I had uncontrollable
laughter when it was over because I was so relieved
because I was like, that wasn't that.

Speaker 1 (01:56:47):
Bad at all? That bad?

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
And then even more so when then, you know, a
day later, two days later, whatever it would be, they're like,
you're negative. And then a year went by and then
everybody got it. Did you ever end up getting it?

Speaker 1 (01:56:59):
I got covid?

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
Okay, but this is after yeah, after.

Speaker 4 (01:57:05):
The vaccine and all of that, I was more concerned
with getting it before because I was like, I don't
know what that's gonna be, right, And you gotta remember,
I never stopped that whole time. I was here on
Sundays doing the show the whole time.

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
Yes, that was that was That was during my uh
Fox Sports Radio hiatus, So I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
I wasn't with Fox Sports Radio at that time.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
So you never stopped, never stopped, which allowed me, Well,
let's not get into the weeds.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Here's why I asked though, Here's why I asked. So, dude,
your boy is locked out of Twitter?

Speaker 1 (01:57:50):
You got hacked? Wow, so you could go to my
feed right now and.

Speaker 3 (01:57:56):
If you're just tweeting all kinds of crazy, if.

Speaker 1 (01:57:58):
You'd like to buy some bitc and I'm your guy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:01):
Okay, So yeah, bitcoin and new cars and there's all
kinds of stuff on there apparently that you know, I
get text messages every couple of days, or not every
couple of days. There's only been a few days, but
every few hours. It was like, hey this you like,
do you realize what's going on? I'm like, I know,
and I'm going through the whole process of how to

(01:58:22):
get back in and everything, and I'm waiting on Twitter support,
and you know, it's the weekend. So apparently Twitter support
gets the weekends off, which I'm glad.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
You know, good, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Deserves the weekends off unless you're doing national radio on
Sunday nights. But outside of that, if like when it
first happened, when I saw the note, dude, you've been hacked,
and I went in there, you try to change your password,
knock everybody out, have them log back in, the whole thing,
and then turns out it was me that was locked out,
couldn't log back in, and I was like, oh crap,

(01:58:57):
I've been hacked Ephraim, and I'm like, three days later,
I'm like.

Speaker 6 (01:59:02):
You know, this twitterlest life is not such a bad thing.

Speaker 1 (01:59:07):
I'm kind of like this. I think I can get
used to this.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
I figured the only thing that sucks is I couldn't
go to Schefter last night and find out who was
in and who was out.

Speaker 1 (01:59:17):
That was it. That was the only time anyway. Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (01:59:26):
I don't spend that much time on there.

Speaker 1 (01:59:28):
I know you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
That's why I figured you'd probably be like, yeah, you
don't need that negativity.

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
A lot of other stuff going on. Man Craft scores again.

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, there he goes. Jordan loves having
himself at night, isn't he?

Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
Packers Yeah, Packers are up two scores, playing in Spain.
Here coming up next freight from Salam. I'm Mark Willard.
This is Fox Sports Radio.

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