Brian Noe & Ephraim Salaam Preview Big Game & Are Sick of Lakers

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports. Oh what's going on? Everybody's
Super Bowl eve? Baby, big game right around the corner.
Absolutely cannot wait, and let's just keep the good news going.
Your candy bars, big Man are in routs, all right,
they're in transit. They're on the way. Keep an eye

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out right now. Yeah, not there yet, but they're on
their way. So but there. I won't be in it.
I won't be able to enjoy them for Super Bowl Sunday.
So that's right, you will not, okay by design? Maybe
you know some people are just hateful. Uh huh okay,
uh yeah, super Bowl Sunday right around the corner. A

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lot of angles to this thing. You know, I'll get
to your Lakers a little bit later. I feel like
it would be the wrong thing to talk smack about
the Lakers and breakdown. Why not we can just I mean,
you know we can or we could talk, you know,
James Harden, Ben Simmons, we could get into all of that.
But what it tro on the eve of Super Bowl Sunday,
and they put it all together, Vito shout out, puts

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all the audio together, did a great job. This is
the best Super Bowl fifties six coverage leading up to
the game. I feel like we gotta talk ball right here.
You know, well, let's get it done, let's talk Okay,
let's go with this here. Um, I think the Rams
are going to win the game. We're just doing just

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right off the top, right, leave nothing but the imagination. Ok.
I think there is a better chance that the Rams
win in a blowout than the Bengals win the game. Period.
That's what I'm seeing heading into this thing. What is
your gut feeling on how Super Bowl fifty six is

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gonna go down? Well, I'll say mine for the third hour,
like you would normally do on a pre pre show. No, no, no, no.
We don't have time to mess around. This is the
day and age. You see all these people sit in
courtside at basketball games. They're all on their phones. You know,
you gotta keep me entertained or I'm out of here.

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I'm on in the next thing right like quick. We
need stuff, constant stimulation, you know, so we go outside
the box every now and then. With that said, I
would say this, I believe the Rams will win, but
I also yeah, I'll do it like this. How it

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depends on how Cincinnati has is taking this game. If
they're taking this game like we're happy to be here.
We made it to the super Bowl. Rams will run
away with this thing. If they still have that chip
on their shoulder, if the ignorance of what they've accomplished

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is still prevalent, then they'll win this game. So Incinnati
will win this game. What we've seen Cincinnati do is
Joe Burrow being under siege nine sacks against Tennessee. They
still found a way to win. It's hard for a
young quarterback to be able to fight through that just

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him himself. Um, we know the Rams are gonna get
after him, Aaron Donald, Floyd Miller, I mean, they everybody, Um,
But if they can withstand that, and Joe Burrow can
stay laser focused like we've seen him do, then they

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can they can shock a lot of people. Yeah. Uh.
The thing I dislike the most about the Bengals, and
I'll get into the things I do like, um, because
I don't want to make it sound like the Rams
can just show up, yawn and win by three touchdowns.
You know it's gonna be tougher than that. But what
I dislike the most about the Bengals, and you hit
on this, the nine sacks given up against the Titans.

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When you look at I just went and I was
trying to get the audio of the Bengals Raiders game right,
the first playoff game the Bengals played, because I'm like,
I want to make sure I know how to pronounce
one of the lineman's names correctly. You know, an NBC
typically does those intros on Sunday Night Football with the
players announced themselves. They didn't do it for that Raiders

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Bengals game. But anyway, when they were flashing the starting lineups,
they showed the PFF ranks right, the Pro Football Focus
ranks for the Bengals offensive line. Get a load of this.
The right side problematic problematic for the Bengals starting at center,
Trey Hopkins ranks thirty five of thirty seven. Hakim Identity

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thirty eight forty one, and the right tackle Isaiah Prince,
he ranks forty forty four. That's really not what you're
looking for now, Jackson Carmen. He is the second round
rookie out of Clemson. He's played meaningful snaps in the playoffs,

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so it hasn't just been identity. But look, man, when
you're going up against Aaron Donald, and Company, and you're
that low in PFF ranks that it does. And the
crazy thing is they're in the super Bowl with all
of those terrible, terrible numbers and the way that that

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line ranks, they're still in the super Bowl, which means
there's something there, you know what I mean, there's something there. Uh,
And they've been able to capitalize on that is swagger.
It's all of the energy, the fun, the ignorance of

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youth in that locker room. It's it's been translating on
the fig Old and I and I'm a fan of
that because that's amazing. Yeah. And you look earlier in
the playoffs, right, they gave up the nine sacks against
the Titans. Well, how did they beat the Titans? They
slowed down Derrick Henry and they picked off Ryan Tannehill

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three times. And that's been the formula for the Bengals
throughout the regular season. They are ten and one in
games where they want the turnover battle. They're one in
five in games that they didn't. And that's why I
go back to we know the Rams are gonna get
after Joe Burrow. They're gonna rush him right there, gonna
hurry him. They're gonna sack him at times. Can the

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Bengals get more takeaways than the Rams? Can they force
Matthew Stafford to make some stupid decisions. It's possible, but
I don't think the Bengals can win this game if
they don't win the turnover battle. With their offensive line
being what it is against this specific Rams teams, they
need extra possessions. But what we've seen from Matthew Stafford

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is he will give you the all. Yeah, he will
give you the ball. And if they can force that,
if they can capitalize on that and get one or
two extra possessions, then they are right where they want
to be. What we've seen, especially the last game, right
a f C Championship game, hostile territory, Kansas City, very

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difficult to play, Patrick Mahomes and every single weapon they
have offensively, which is everything down big at halftime and
they come roaring back defense, play lights out second half,
held it, held it into three points. If they can
continue to do that, right, if they can start the

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game that way, then this is going to be an
exciting Super Bowl. Yeah. And I think that on the
good side for the Bengals, I think their defense has
been largely overlooked because most of it is Joe Burrow
and what he's done, and certainly he deserves his roses,
you know, But I think because Joe Burrow has been
such a stud and he's got the cool outfits and

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now he's trying to win a super Bowl on the
heels of winning a Heisman and a national championship. No
quarterback has ever been able to do all three. He's
the guy that's the focus when it's like sports shows
and we're getting ready for the game and all of that.
But you look at what this Bengkal's defense is done.
They haven't allowed a red zone touchdown in the postseason.

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There's been six opportunities. They haven't allowed one for any
of their opponents. That's never been done before in the playoffs.
There are only two teams that have done that four times.
And then you mentioned Big Man what they've done, particularly
in the second half tightening up against Mahomes. They did
the same thing in the regular season where they only
allowed three points in the second half from the chief

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From the Chiefs. That's tough to do. And about them,
no game is too big, and that's the scary part.
No moment, no team, no game is too big or deficit.
That's the other thing is this is a young team.
They were down to three to the Chiefs on the
road and they came back to win. That's impressive, I said,

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ignorance man, When you don't care, when you don't know
how tough something is to do it, and then you
do it, that's that's that's everything. When I was I
always tell people this, I was fortunate and blessed enough
to play thirteen years in the in the NFL rookie year,
started the whole nine yards, went all the way to

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the super Bowl. I didn't know how difficult that was
to do. I didn't know I was one of only
four rookies in NFL history to ever do that. I
didn't know I was the youngest person to start in
the Super Bowl. I didn't know any of those things
while I was doing it, because it just was, it
was what it was. I thought after that Super Bowl run,

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I would be going to the super Bowl at least two, three,
four more times in my career because I just didn't know.
I was is out there playing having a good time.
They have a whole team full of those guys at
core positions, and that my friend is dangerous. Yeah, that

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is dangerous. It is dangerous. But here's where I come
back to reality. You know, and I'm not saying what
you're talking about isn't reality. It really isn't, because it
was like, you know, that's that's something unique and specially
that doesn't happen all the time. But I didn't know that.
Oh no, no, no, I hear you on all of that.

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I just think with the Bengals, it's been an unbelievable
storyline to do what they've done. They were one to
one long shots to win the Super Bowl before the
season started. Those were the same odds as the Jets
and the Jacks. How did their seasons play out? You know,
if you combine the winds of the Jets and Jacks,

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that'd be seven. They still wouldn't be sniffing the playoffs,
and those two teams had the same preseason odds to
win the Super Bowl as the Bengals did. It's insane
that the Bengals are even here. But I think sometimes
what happens. You can get seduced by a storyline and
oh this Joe Burrow lad team and they scratch and claw,
they keep fighting. Storylines don't win football games. Blocking, tackling, executing,

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that's what wins football games. And I just think the
Rams are better. Now. We'll see, we'll see if they
out execute the Bengals. But I think when you get
away from the storyline of wow, it's kind of like
this magic carpet right with that the Bengals are on,
It's like they are. But how is that offensive line
gonna keep Joe Burrow clean enough where they can outscore

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the Rams? I just don't see it. So we'll see
how it plays out. Though it's gonna be fun to watch. Man,
it's gonna be fun to watch. I'm telling these kids, man,
they can care less. They don't care about none of that.
And it's it's so fun to see because that's what
the game is. This is the next this is the
evolution of the game. The energy, the celebrating they come
you know, they come out with the music, coming out

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of coming out of the locker room, with the boombox.
I love all of that. I know there's some purists going, oh,
look at this, this is no man, this is a
young man's game. This is a young man's game, and
they're proving it. Look at these young guns that were
these young gun quarterbacks they were in the in the playoffs.
They don't want to hear nothing about no old school

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you know, no, we're not trying to hear that. Matthew
Stafford is the old man, right, You've been in the
league thirteen years. This league is full of young energy.
Swag is what the what the youth call it? Swagger?
And I love that. I love that energy they're bringing
to the game. Did the Bengals do that too? I'm
just asking because I know the Niners did with the

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boom box. I don't know if I missed it. Did
the Bankers do it also? They do in the locker
room where they get themselves fired up and in the
locker room. But Burrows dancing and up six years ago. No,
but coach would never let that happen, right, it will
never let that happen. We're like, what are you kidding me? Focus? Focus?

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But this is why these kids focus. This is it, man.
I love it. I love it. Absolutely are There a
lot of things to get to for sure. I will
get to your purple and gold here, big man. I
mean there's one thing that is a how did they
lose to the Blazers B team? The other night. What

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was that. We'll dive into that a little bit deeper.
You know, I don't know what's going on with them.
Also that James Harden Ben Simmons trade lots of layers
with that for sure. And one thing, keeping with the
Super Bowl, one thing that this matchup shows that sometimes
other sports and other levels don't show. We'll dive into

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You know, I think that Slayer should a company. Dr
Dre Snoop, We got eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar.
You don't want a little Flayer in the background. No,
no hip hop. It's the day and age of being inclusive.

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Come on, we're going to include that at your house. Okay, alright,
No Slayer this year. Maybe they can get new next year.
Super Bowl. Hey, by the way, I love some of
these prop that's where the halftime show. How many of
the five artists do you think start off on stage?
You can go one to three, four or five? What's

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your guess two two of them? Do you have any
two specifically in mind? Or Snoop and Tre to start
this thing, because that's who started it. California loves nothing
but a g thing. What do you think the California

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lobe is not? I know, I know, but you could
do it like a little hologram. There's been a lot
of stuff with tupacs, you know, whispers of what the
halftime show might look like no, no, no no. Mhmm um.

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I'm fascinated by this. Ever since I've seen these prop
bets for the super Bowl halftime show, I'm like, I
don't know what the first song is gonna be. I
don't know who the first artist is gonna be that
says something. They have a prop bet who will be
the first to speak slash sing slash rap during the
halftime show. Who's your money on? Dr Dre is the favorite?

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Lamar is the biggest long shot. The first person to
rap will be Snoop. The first person to say something
will be Dr Dre. Okay, book it. Yeah. By the way,
here shout out to our guy, David Gascon. I know
you've worked with Gascon update anchor here at Fox Sports Radio.

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I was flipping around last night. There was a college
basketball game on FS one late last night, un l
V against Boise State, and who's on the call? Listen
to Gascon running goes and l four on two, four
on three, corner three on the way it. Shout out

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to him doing college basketball games and FS one. That's awesome,
that's really good. I do love this. It's gotta be
a catch phrase also. Right, So if we're doing our
Super Bowl prop bets here, you're saying the first person
to speak during the halftime show is Dr Dre Right, Yeah,

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then the first person to rap is gonna be Snoop R. Okay,
it's booked, considerate booked. Okay. Now, there's one thing about
this matchup where we've been talking about the Rams and Bengals, obviously,
but I think bigger picture is, this is what makes
the NFL so great is we have two number four

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seeds in the Super Bowl. You have a Bengals team
in particular where their win total before the season started
was six and a half. The the sharps in Vegas
didn't even think they'd have a winning record, and here
they are in the Super Bowl. That's awesome. I love
the parody aspect of the NFL, and if you compare

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it to other things. Let's look at college football, you
have the same two three, maybe four teams in the
mix to have a legitimate shot to win it all.
Each season it's been Bama, Clemson, now Georgia. Those teams
have been in the mix. If you look at the NFL,
there are far more teams that have a legitimate shot
to win it all or a legitimate shot to make

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a huge improvement. That's what makes the league's oh great.
I think sometimes people hear that and they just get
tired of that and they're like, oh, no, dominance is
where it's at. Dominance is not where it's at. Man,
it is parody all day. Yeah. I love that that
aspect of And what what we know that's for sure
is in order to make this deep run, you gotta

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have a quarterback. If you look at the teams that
were left and and the guys at the quarterback position,
it makes sense right coming into the playoffs. I mean,
were you really that surprised with Tannehill that Tennessee? Yeah,
you know what I mean. Derrick Henry first game back,

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It's just it was ripe for upset. And you look
at the other teams who had top tier quarterbacks, and
that's what the formula it's going to be going forward.
Good the quarterbacks in this game, right, young upstart and

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in in a a prolific pastor of the football who
was who was lost in the sunken place for twelve years.
That's a good way to put it. Yeah. But if
Detroit fans for the Rams, of course, because they feel
Staffords pain. Yeah. I was there with him for one year,

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his first year, and I'm pulling for him because I
know what he had to go through the last twelve years.
You know. It just they they just don't have their
finger on what's going on in Detroit, like they just
cannot get it together. What's so interesting to me about

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Stafford is you think about how high the stakes are.
It's obviously win a championship. He's a Hall of Famer
if they win a championship, and if he doesn't, just
the range we it's not the same range even close
to a young guy like Joe Burrow or a lot
of quarterbacks like Mahomes lost the Super Bowl last season.

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It's not like it wrecked his his legacy or his
reputation or anything like that. If you look at Stafford,
there are a lot of Bouquet's right now because he's
played very very well in the playoffs to this to
this point. But if he doesn't play well and they
lose to the underdog Bangles. All these negative things that

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have been said about him throughout the years in Detroit,
and a lot of it I think is unfair. It
had more to do with the roster than it did him.
But it doesn't matter. Don't let logic slow down a
fierce sports opinion. You know, if he doesn't play well
and they lose, all these people that said he's just
patting his stats, he's no good. You can't trust him
in the big moments. He's got a losing record. Yet

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those people are gonna be out in full force. Yeah,
they will put you know, most of the time those
people are on you know, they're just just noise. It's
just noise. You can't take anything away from from Matthew
Stafford what he was able to do his first year
at a real team first year. Would you know, with
a coaching staff that that really understands what's going on

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right and with the team that's been put together the
right way, spare no expense, go all in because that's
what you gotta do. And you know, for him to
take this team to the super Bowl. If you would
have told Sean McVeigh and every Rams fan and every

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naysayer of Matthew Stafford when that trade was made last
year that Matthew Stafford and the Rams will be in
the Super Bowl, I'm talking about the day of the trade.
How many people would have said, yes, not very many,
not very many. Yeah, there would have been a lot

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fewer during that rough patch. I'll tell you. I'll tell
you this, my UH city inspector out here in Los Angeles,
in my in my district, we're getting some work done
uh at our our place. Huge Rams fans. So every
time he came over to do an inspection, we spent
the first hour and a half talking about the Rams

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and Stafford what he thought and what you know, what
what would it look like? And and I was assuring him,
I said, the Rams are in good hands. Matthew Stafford
is a rock star quarterback, trust me. Wow, I don't know.
In Detroit and you know, we had all it was
it was always oh hell, you know, you know what

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I mean. And during the season, you know he throw
a pick or somebody that he'd give me. God, you know,
I just I don't know if he's a all of
a sudden, he's less than twenty four hours away from
being in the biggest, biggest game on the play, the
biggest game of his career. Yeah, he's it up, man,

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right where he's supposed to be. With the level of
talent in the coaching that they have out here with
the Rams. This is he stepped right into a situation
and did exactly what they wanted him to do, win
or lose tomorrow. By the way, you mentioned that the
Stafford negativity is largely a bunch of noise. We've got

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a guy he's not only the opposite of noise. He
is the voice of reason, he is the voice of information.
He's the voice of heart, soul and genuine care. That
is a friend of America. Mr Steve, all very kind words,
and we will certainly have Rams Bengals information every bottom

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of the hour this evening. You mentioned Matthew Stafford. He's
gonna break an NFL record tomorrow most career passing yards
by a player finally making his first Super Bowl appearance,
about fifty thousand yards passing. Also most career passing yards
passing touchdowns before final making a Super Bowl about three
under those. So congratulations. And also to David Gascott, I'm
glad you brought that up because he caught me on

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his way he anchored here last Saturday and said right
after his shift he was driving up to Fresno because
he did the Fresno State basketball game play by play
for FS one in the Mountain West last Sunday. Very
very happy for him. He's been working on his play
by play. That drive isn't right down the road either,
Steve vine Man, I had a Chevy Malibu one year.
I would literally be driving thirty miles per hour up

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the grape Vine. Like my car does not like large
hills at all. At least it wasn't snowing. Uh. When
you mentioned that, Matthew Stafford in the Detroit Connection and
some people there there will feel like, hey, we have
a rooting interest in the Super Bowl. Reminds me very
much of when Ray Bourke had been with the Boston
Bruins all those years and finally won a Stanley Cup
after he left Boston, and when he was lifting the

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cup with Colorado, all these Boston fans were cheering. He
brought the cup back to Boston. It was a similar
type of thing. And what we've got tomorrow is the
rams As visit in Sofi Stadium for the first time ever.
Pro Football Talk points out they were due to be
visitor first year the place was opened for a preseason
game against the Chargers, but preseason was canceled because the pandemic.

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This past August Rams Chargers preseason had the Rams as
a home team. They are those two going to meet
in the regular season next year, but it will be
a Chargers home game. Will explain the whole home team
thing in a minute, but first off, the Bengals have
elevated defensive tackle Mike Daniels from the practice squad and
wide receiver Trent Taylor. Also, the Saints do not plan

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to trade wide receiver Michael Thomas. According to NFL Network,
he missed this past season due to ankle injuries. Quite
a story developing at Gulfs Phoenix Open because the guy
who leads is a Heath. The Gala up one stroke
over Brooks Kepka. Who you say, a guy who's only
in the tournament because of a sponsor exemption. A former

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college golf star at pepper Dae in Southern California, Native
he's ranked number three eighteen in the world, and he
now one round away from a first prize of nearly
one point five million dollars. That's the final round at
the raucous Phoenix Phoenix Open tomorrow. In the NBA one Final,
Portland came from twenty three points down third quarter to

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beat New York one twelve to one oh three and
in progress in college hoop sixteenth ranked Ohio State leads
at Michigan with about ten minutes to go, and there's
a game on FS one halftime to Paul ahead at
number eleven Providence twenty eight to twenty four. Rams tight
end Tyler Higbee will miss the Super Bowl sprained mcl
He's officially on I R but yesterday running back Darryl

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Henderson was activated, but the Rams backup tight end Kendall Blanton. Remember,
last game had five receptions fifty seven yards scored a
touchdown at Tampa Bay. Before that, he only played four
regular season games. So the Bengals, as a f C
champs the designated home team for the Super Bowl, and
they chose to wear their black jerseys for the big game,
so the Rams will wear the white jerseys. Apparently the

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team's wearing the white jerseys have won fourteen of the
last seventeen Super Bowls, including Tampa Bay a year ago.
It is the a f C s year their turn
to be the home team in the title game, so
the Rams as visitors will be calling the coin toss
tomorrow and learn this on the RJM. Bell Show. This
week the coin toss winner has been the Super Bowl losers.

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It turns out seven straight years the Rams will still
be using their home locker room. Cincinnati will be in
the Chargers locker room at that stadium tomorrow. Back to you,
good stuff, Steve. I'm Brian. No, he's e from salam
here on Fox Sports Radio. If I was Cincinnati, I'd
be like, no, they're the road team, we get the
home locker room. Will be absolutely not. Nope, move all

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that stuff out of there. Yeah tough, we're home. Have
fun in the Chargers locker room. I bet the difference
being a new stadium is that they're equally enormous locker rooms,
unlike so many stadiums over the years where the road
team gets almost nothing but just to make him uncomfortable.
It would, absolutely it would, and they you know, it's

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on opposite sides of the city. Change. You gotta change something.
You can't just let them, you got That's what I
would do. Absolutely not. No Ramps are going to be
in the same hotel they usually are before regular season.
I'm going to the hotel and putting fire alarms. I'm
doing alcnom. I'm just I'm chasing I have those are

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just completely do not do that, absolutely not. That's unspeakable.
I could not even be out there. That is against
the law. It's criminal, actually against the law, and I
am not a proponent of being lawless. By the way,
have you I would imagine you've had an instance in

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your NFL career where the fire alarms were Oh yeah,
of course, of course. I mean I think everybody who
plays for you know, even some colleges, that something happens,
something happens where you in middle of the night, it's
three o'clock in the morning, alarm off, you gotta come
out of the room, you know, any age, an age.

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I wonder if they ever have discounted rates for the
other people in the hotel, like, actually, this is uh
the Falcons team hotel, so get off rate here just
in case the fire alarm is pulled. I would imagine
there there isn't there's not one of those things. No, Um,
how about this with Sean McVeigh, rams head coach, he

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raised a couple of eyebrows. He was talking about his
future and he's talking about being only thirty six years old.
He's gonna be married soon in the off season. He
wants to have a family, and he's talked about having
time for his family. And there have been some networks
that are interested in hiring Sean McVeigh as a color commentator.

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And if you just start to piece together the network's
interest Sean mcveigh's words, he's talked about maybe working as
a television analyst. I don't think this is the time
for it. But I've seen these rumors and I've completely
dismissed them. Where you'll see all the networks they're interested
in a couple of coaches like Pete Carroll, and it's like, Okay,

(31:19):
he doesn't have that many more seasons left, and Sean
McVeigh and I just laugh out loud. And the dude's
thirty six. He's not going into a commentating booth right now.
And when Sean McVeigh says what he recently said, you
can see it's at least a lot more possible sooner
than later that he may choose to do that. Yeah,
everybody's on lifers. A lot of coaches in this business

(31:41):
their lifers. They got it in, you know, they don't
know what to do with themselves if they're not coaching.
I mean, that's what this business breeds. You gotta eat. Sleep.
You know coaches used to sleep in their offices. Yeah,
they have cots and they sleep on the cot. Wake up,
go right to installed. Maybe go home on on Friday,

(32:04):
see the kids for twenty minutes. Right, Like I was
asked by um by coach Gibbs. That's why that's the
name I was gonna throw out there. He was a
lifer man. You talked about sleeping on the cop. That
was Joe Gibbs. You know. It just those guys who

(32:32):
I mean xs and ohs, they dream about it. They
they when they're eating, even when they're you know, at home.
It's just all about it, similar to how Tom Brady
was as a player as as as a chronic preparer. Right,
it's just everything else happened around you is ancillary. Right,
you're at the dinner table, but you may have your

(32:54):
iPad watching plays, your kids and your your wife and
they're just there. Right, football is present. They're just there.
And uh, you know, I was asked when I was retiring,
would you go into coaching? And I said, no, I
love my family too much. And that's real. That's that's

(33:16):
people like, well, what do you mean by that? Because
I always explained it like this, say we're I'm in Houston,
and we play the Giants, and we fly all the
way to New York. We play the game, we get
back at three o'clock in the morning. All the players
are going to their cars and they're head at home
because they know they got to be back at at

(33:36):
at the complex by noon to get a workout in
and film. While all the players get in their cars
and go home, every single coach goes into the facility
to break down tape to grade the game and start
installed for the next game. At three o'clock in the morning,
I'm not doing that. I want to go home, right

(33:59):
I I didn't. I didn't. I wouldn't want to do
I would. I didn't want to do that to my wife.
She had been with me, been on several teams, you know,
put things on hold just for for us in the family,
and I just didn't want to do that. I wanted
to just break free from it. I was offered a
job at at our at another station, and they told

(34:22):
me I had to move to like Connecticut, and I'm like, yeah,
I'm not doing that. M like, I'm not moving to Connecticut.
I want to have some family time. I retired from
the NFL, and I tell my wife, we gotta move
to Connecticut for four weeks, four days out of the week. No, right,
but a lot of people they just do it. They do.

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And yeah, Sean McVeigh sounds like what you're explaining, he's
doing it now. But he mentioned earlier this week he
said if he's coaching until he's sixty, he quote unquote
won't make it. And he said he was halfway joking
about that, but serious. He's looking at life beyond coaching

(35:05):
football and who knows when that maybe. But I think
if he wins this game tomorrow, I think it makes
it easier to move away from ball when you have
that box checked. If he gets a couple of these early,
much easier that way, are playing more to get to
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(35:26):
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I'm Brian No, he'sy from Salam. This is Fox Sports Radio.
I'm Brian No, He's he from Salam. Here on Fox
Sports Radio. So big Man Gronk got Rob Gronkowski weighing

(35:47):
in on tom Brady's potential future here, and he says,
give it a couple of years and he expects him
to be back. It's thinking Brady will take two years
off potentially and then come back. And he says he's
a beast. He could play it fifty years old if
he wants to. But Cronk says he expects him to

(36:10):
recharge and then re enter the NFL. What do you
think about that? And not going to happen either he
comes back and plays this year or that's it. Don't
don't That would be a terrible idea. Yeah, it's just
not the same once you step away from it. He's

(36:33):
not going to get that. Yeah, that would be awful
because when he came back, he wouldn't be the same
and the game wouldn't be the same. Yeah, And I
think too, man, when you get in the habit of
doing all this training like he has year after year
after year, it's not as bad when you're in the
habit of doing that, But when you aren't preparing for

(36:54):
an NFL season, you're not doing the same stuff. So
to give it a couple of years and then try
to get back on that the worst worst thing ever.
That's a good luck with Yeah, man, that's uh, that's
a whole different ball game. And the thing that is
everyone got younger and faster and stronger, and you just

(37:16):
got older. M hmm. Here's Brady. This was earlier in
the week on his Let's Go podcast with Jim Gray
over on Serious x SIM he was talking about the
possibility of leaving the door cracked when it comes to
a possible return. You know, I'm just going to take
things as they come, you know. I think that's the
best way to put it. You know, you never say never,

(37:38):
you know. At the same time, I know that I'm
very I feel very good about my decisions. So it
feels six months from now change it most likely won't,
you know. I try to make the best possible decision
I can in the moment, which I did this last week.
And again I think it's not looking to you know,
reverse course, I'm definitely not looking to do that. At
the same time, I think you have to be realistic

(37:59):
that you never know what what what challenges there are
going to be in life. Again, I love playing. I'm
looking forward to doing things other than playing. It's as
honest as I can be with you there, Jim mm. Hmm.
I think a couple of things. I think that it's
tough to walk away. He obviously loves the game of football,

(38:19):
and uh, I can understand that six months from now
maybe you feel a little bit differently. And all that.
I think that it's over. I don't think he's coming
back at all. I think it's now or never, you know.
But I also think that Tom Brady is not an idiot,
and I think playing the game of football the way
he has at that level, it's the competition of it,

(38:41):
but it's also the stage. You know. Tom Brady knows
what he's doing. When he says something like that, I
don't think he's just being honest. I think he likes
some of the attention. That's not all bad. He knows
what the reaction is going to be. If he says
I don't know how it feels six months from now.
He knows what the headlines are gonna be. He likes
some of that stuff. Some of that is by design.

(39:03):
They like the attention. So yeah, I don't think that's
a bad thing to stir the pot a little bit
and get people talking it is Brady gonna return? Like
it's nice to be Uh. The center of attention, and
he's gonna miss that when he's retired. There's no doubt
about it. He definitely is gonna miss it because it
won't be there anymore. I don't be anywhere. Well he's

(39:27):
gonna realize is they're gonna move on real fast. By
the way, what do you think is more difficult? And
I know it varies from person to person, but would
it be the first year of retirement knowing that you're done,
you're a step slower, you can't play anymore, or is
it the first year of retirement like Tom Brady knowing
he can play at a high level and be one

(39:49):
of the best players in the league. That's the That's
just gonna be the most difficult part, hands down. A
TC watching those games and like, oh my god, right,
you're gonna get right down to the playoffs and be like, wow,
we could have I could have made it, We could
have made it to the Super Bowl. He flips on
the Dolphins game and sees two and said, gosh, you know,

(40:09):
is that how it's gonna be. I'm just I know
he's going to rethink this as this season goes on.
I think so, I think he's have to alright, plenty
more to get to. It's a very strange time to
press the panic button, but this guy just did it.
We'll dive into that right around the corner. Oh yes,

(40:34):
a very pleasant Super Bowl Eve to everybody listening out there.
I appreciate you checking out the show. I've got a
stat here, big man, that shows how quick of a
turnaround it's been for the Bengals. You've got stats upon
stats upon stats, but this one is pretty crazy. Check
this out. Before season, the previous three years combined, the

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Bengals won twelve and a half games. There was time
mixed in there. They won twelve and a half games
over a three year period. Just this season alone, the
Bengals have won games, including the playoffs. Took them three
years to win half a game less than what they've
done this season. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, But that's the

(41:17):
that's the game, right. It happens fast. The key is
you gotta get two things right, the head coach and
the quarterback. It happens much faster when you can lock
in on those two things. Yeah, it's slower when you
have one of the two, but if you can get

(41:40):
too fast, the turnaround happens fast. That's the problem. We
just watched it in Jacksonville. They may have the quarterback,
but the head coach was just garbage. Yeah, right, so
we don't know what that sit you way she is.

(42:00):
But when you can get both of them, then it
happens so fast, because that's how you changed the culture
of a team. It's amazing too that that Zach Taylor
was six five and one in his first two years
and now that Joe Burrow is healthy upright, he's the

(42:22):
main reason. Certainly not the only reason, but he's the
main reason that they are a thirteen win team and
pending this season, right, it could be a fourteen win
team if they win tomorrow. But that is the the
most meaningful reason why the Bengals are where they are.
And that's not to be, you know, discount the importance
of coaching. It's just it's the Brady Belichick thing. No

(42:43):
one's gonna say that Belichick is just along for the ride,
because that would be one of the dumbest things you
could ever say. But who was more responsible for the success?
You say the same thing with the Bengals. Zach Taylor
has a lot to do with their success, but Joe
Burrow has more. Oh yeah, because he's actually facilitating the vision.
It's one thing to call the place, another thing to

(43:04):
execute the play. Sure, right, you can have some of
the greatest play callers in the world. You don't have
the person executed, then you're just calling good place that
may or may not work. Happens all the time. Having
someone to be able to number one, buy into your
system and then be able to facilitate the things you

(43:25):
work on, and and and and what you want. That's
the culture changing, that's the leadership aspect of of a
young quarterback. Those are the things that that make change happen.
Go out and get a bunch of free ages and
do all of this. If you don't have those two
things right, good luck. Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna have to

(43:46):
have everything fall into place in one particular year to challenge.
But you just you can't be a consistent Super Bowl contender.
No no, And we've seen one office. We've seen the
Chicago Bears get there with Rex Grossman at quarterback. What
happened to him after that? Yeah? Right, We've seen, uh,
the Jacksonville Jaguars get all the way to the a

(44:07):
f C Championship Game with Blake Bortle. What happened after
that falls apart quickly, right, Like that's you can get
an outlier, you can get right, uh A, Trent Dilford.
M hmm. Brad Johnson, Brad Johnson. Not to take anything

(44:30):
away from those guys, because they were great pros. But
if you want to consistently do it Pete Carroll and
in Seattle, right, they got the quarterback right, had to
coach right Belichick, Brady Tomlin, Roethlisberger. Right, everything has an
expiration date and all of that. But even look McCarthy

(44:54):
and and and and Rogers, they had ultimately said they
just can't win play games. Isn't that wild? Where think
about some of those situations you just rattled off. Seahawks
they have the head coach in the quarterback right, Packers
head coaching quarterback right, Matt la Fleur has done a
very good job after McCarthy, and they have been consistent

(45:16):
Super Bowl contenders and they have one ring apiece. Isn't
that wild? Get it done? Yeah? They can't. They can't
fit it. You know what what is the what's the
problem is it? Aaron? Is it? It's just hard, really
hard to win it all outside of Tom Brady and
what he was able to do with the Patriots and

(45:37):
then the one year in Tampa Bay. He's got everybody
confused and looking at this like we should all be
having multiple So no, right, it's one of the most
difficult things to do on the planet Earth. Yeah, it's like,
and how late he's played. He could easily be playing
until age and beyond. He chose not to. But there's

(45:57):
this reaction of well, Brady's playing at four d four,
so we should have what this quarterback in that quarterback
playing late. It's like Big Ben retired at thirty nine.
That's much more common than playing at a high level
to your forty four man, he's just he's a he's
not normal at all. No, and Ben Roethlisberger couldn't turn
to he can throw the ball to you, right, Yeah,

(46:18):
I mean it was just yeah, we saw it. We
were like, yeah, yeah, it fell apart at the end.
Brian no On E from salam with you here on
Fox Sports Radio. So Carson Palmer, former Bengals quarterbacks, an
odd time for him to press the panic button leading
right up to the Super Bowl, but he was on
NBC Sports brother from another and he had this to

(46:41):
say about Joe Burrow and his long term future with
the Bengals. Right, So, think about this former Bengals quarterback
talking about the current Bengals quarterback. He speaks from experience,
and Palmer said, I think Joe is gonna sit back
after this game winner, lose, and be like, man, am
I gonna resign with this team? Are they willing to

(47:02):
do what it takes to continuously build to get back
to the next Super Bowl next year and the year
after that and the year after that. How are they
willing to structure salary cap wise to be able to
afford me, but to also be be able to afford
Jamar Chase when he comes up, or Tee Higgins or
maybe even redo this offensive line. I just look at

(47:23):
it and say, this is life in the NFL. This
isn't just exclusive to the Bengals. All these teams have
those situations. So to think it's gonna be rosy or
somewhere else is gonna be the same set of problems
anywhere you go. Yeah, and and I mean he's really
jumping the gun right now. Yeah, Joe Burrow is three
years left on his contract. Jamar Chase has four years

(47:45):
left on this because what are they talking about? Yeah,
Joe for a while the second year what are you?
What are you? What are you talking about? He's he
has two more years to play before they extend him.

(48:06):
Uh and and instead of picking up the fifth year option,
Jamaar Chase has three more years. Like, they don't have
to do anything, they have to do nothing. They don't
have to Joe Burrow doesn't have to concern himself with resigning.

(48:26):
I think that's the last thing that Joe Burrow is
not even thinking about it. And guess what, He's from Ohio, right, Yeah,
where's he going? You grow up a hundred miles away
from where he's playing now, and he's spoken about the
importance of that's ridiculous, ridiculous, you know, And I know Carson,

(48:49):
and you know, and you know his his brother and
all of that. But that that that doesn't resonate because
that that's a that's a non factor. Right now, you've
probably had this situation most people have back in your
dating days. Right there are people that think that a
bad experience from a previous relationship will automatically happen again

(49:14):
in the next relationship. That's what Carson Palmer is doing.
He's like, it went south for me, probably gonna go
south for Joe Burrow. Like he's got to be conscientious
of that. He was in Cincinnati forever. Yeah, yeah, an
opportunities to leave. Who's there forever until he wanted out.

(49:37):
Joe Burrow is fine Cincinnati. They're not even concern with that.
What would you put the percentage chance of Joe Burrow
after the super Bowl win or lose? And he's like,
you know, what are the chances I resigned with this
team in three years from now? If not, it's not

(49:58):
like he's gonna win the super Bowl and then doubt? Yeah,
or well, I mean, look, he could sign a contract
a year from now. Sometimes players re up after three
years sort of thing. Just wait, the money's gonna be
so much bigger, right, it would be. It would do
himself a disservice to be worried about and trying to

(50:20):
sign right now because in two years, quarterback money is
gonna be off the charts. Yeah, it's just gonna grow
and grow. So why wouldn't you re up? The only
not now? Right? He couldn't do it now, he'd have
to do it next year. Once you can do it now, yeah,
you gotta at least do three. But but still you're

(50:41):
saying wait till four instead of do it at three. Yes, yeah,
I hear. Yeah. The only reason he would is for
the security. He already had that torn a c l
and it makes sense. But that's definitely not on his
mind now. No, no, absolutely not. It's all about the
here and now has to be. That's the only thing
that makes sense. Look at Aaron Rodgers situation with the

(51:03):
Packers and the salary cap issues they have, and they
can't afford everybody. They're gonna have to make some tough decisions.
That's anywhere you go, it's called a hard salary cap.
This isn't just a Bengals that like, the Bengals have
a salary cap and nobody else does and they have
none of these problems. This is the same thing everywhere
you go, right and trust me, the Cincinnatis will not

(51:24):
let Joe Burrow go anywhere. Oh no, no, he's a lifer.
He will not be moving on none and none of that. Yeah,
he would have to be on his last leg in
your seventeen and they're just like, yes, we drafted a
young guy. It's a far Rogers situation. And he moves on.

(51:46):
That's it. He's not moving on in the prime of
his career, in his early twenties. There's no way, no
chance that happens. Alright, coming up next, the deal has
been made. Who has won the mammoth deal? Maybe outside
the box? Answer around the corner. I'm Brian No, he's

(52:07):
he from salam This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No,
he's he from Salam. Here on Fox Sports Radio. By
the way, there's a prop bet for the Super Bowl.
How many songs during halftime of the uh the Super
Bowl show? Right, the halftime performance? Ten and a half
is the line. This is an easy over all day. Right,

(52:30):
You've got five artists, You've got how many hits songs
between those five artists? They've got to hit on eleven,
don't they. It's gotta be over. Can I borrow some
cash to put more on the over? Big man? If
I want a Candy Barn maybe it's not good. You

(52:51):
gotta let go of that hatred. Not it's hatred. H
pay me what you owe me. It's on the way,
that's what they all say. It's on the way. It's
been mailed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's on the way, by
the way, you're gonna get more bang for your buck.
I don't know if I should be letting the surprise

(53:11):
out right now. I don't want to. Don't let don't
let the surprise out. Okay, all right, you just wait
to open. You're a hundred grand, Yeah, just saying there
might be a little bit more there, alright. So huge trade,
huge trade in the NBA, the biggest of all these

(53:33):
dead and there were a lot. You've got James Harden
going to Philadelphia. He touched down today, the video of
him hugging Darryl Morey, the grand decision maker over there
in Philly, right now, right, um, so James Harden is
in Philly. We'll be playing soon. Ben Simmons heading to

(53:54):
the Brooklyn Nets. There's more involved in that deal. I
like it for Brooklyn. You get Seth Curry, get Andre Drummond,
you get two first round picks. That's a lot. I
like that deal for the Nets. But I think this
is the way it always goes, big Man. We immediately
react to a deal like which team one who got
the better end of the trade. I think who got
the best end of the trade are the fans the

(54:17):
NBA basketball in general. Just imagine these two teams meeting
in the playoffs, which will likely happen. Imagine Ben Simmons
going back to Philly as a member of the Nets. Like, Bro,
you gotta watch every game. That's gonna be fantastic. I
love it. I love um when big trades like this

(54:38):
happened because it changes the whole trajectory of the of
the season for these teams. Brooklyn needed it because they
needed to get James Harden out of there. He was overweight, right,
pouting and pouting. No one likes the pouting superstar worse,
worst thing on the planet you can have, right, the uncertainty,

(55:00):
Kyrie Irvan, all of this was this is, this is
gonna kill them in the playoffs. Who was gonna kill him?
M hm. So they got some real tangible pieces. Ben
Simmons can finally get on the court. He doesn't need
to shoot the ball. He's a great distributor, great rebounding,
a great wing defender, which they needed. That's defense is awful.

(55:26):
So they addressed the situation, right, they got all. They
gave up an All Star to get an All Star.
Helped him on the defensive side. But oh by the way,
they got bigger with drumming, and they got better shooting
with Curry. Yeah. I think the trade benefits both sides. Yeah,
and on and and for Philly, they got rid of

(55:49):
Ben Simmons who was just at home collecting five million
dollars just hanging out on his peloton far As hydro machine. Right,
and you get a bona fide score and floor spacer
for Joel Embiide. So now that high screening role on

(56:10):
one side of the floor is impossible to stop. Impossible. Yeah,
and if you look at the nets, he definitely don't
get a floor space or in Ben Simmons. But if
you don't want basketball to go around, right, you got
plenty of scoring. You got plenty of scoring. What they
don't have his wing defending, high levels of rebound capability,

(56:34):
just defense in general, regular defense. Yeah, and now you've
answered that, you you address that situation. Yeah, I think
it benefits both teams. And let's be honest, both players
had absolutely quit on their teams. And this is the
second time Harden has done that. He did that in Houston,
he just did it in Brooklyn. Ben Simmons, without a doubt,

(56:56):
did that in Philly. So they're part of the same trade.
So many layers to that thing. And how about the
layer with Joel Embiid. Now this is funny, right, his
tweet when uber viral. I don't know what the next
layer of viral is, but he hit it. He had
over four hundred thousand likes on this thing, so he

(57:17):
just tweeted a man in a suit. And the whole
backstory is this was an Instagram post a while ago
and the caption said, stopped by one of my biggest
haters funerals just to make sure that he was dead.
It's so so Joel Embiad tweets out this picture of
the guy who had that viral tweet, and the takeaway

(57:41):
is he's directing this at Ben Simmons, right, Like that's
the only logical takeaway you could have. It's one heck
of a coincidence if it was related to anything else
this it's a funny back and forth. Reporters were asking
Joel Embiid how long he had that tweet ready to
be fired off, and this is what him be had
to say about it. Oh, ship, we did it again.

(58:05):
I was grabbing audio, big man, you did it again. Sorry?
Any we go brief thing? Sorry, Yeah, I'm sorry that
I don't Yeah, poor choice support trying. I did it again.
We again, Yeah, we did it again. Don Brown and
he from Salon. We're all in this together over here,

(58:26):
right like or not? No, this is a you issue. No,
here's embed talking to reporters about the tweety put out.
I just tweeted, uh, you know, random person. Yeah, I
mean I I just saw the picture on and that
I thought he was wilde plus. Um, you know, you

(58:48):
know you had a nice suit all, uh, good looking.
Uh so you know you have some swack. So I
just thought it was a good picture. I of that,
just completely playing it off, Like I know, I just
thought it's a good looking guys, not throwing shaded. Ben
Simmons me, no, that's hilarious. I'll tell you what. And

(59:11):
you know under the guys of Kumbaya, we're all a
team and all that. What great players hate is when
other great players are selfish. Sure they hate that when
other great players don't put team first. What do you
think the riff between Kobe and Kobe and Shock was.

(59:35):
Kobe was a perfectionist. He worked harder than everyone. Jack
did not. Jack came into the season constantly out of
shape and decided he was gonna get these are his
own words, I'll just get in shape as the season
go along. For someone like Kobe Bryant, he hated that. Right,

(59:59):
So when you look at at k D didn't even
pick James Harden, Right, when you look at k D
and you're you're watching Carrie Irvin not be available half
the games, so you're looking at James Harden not Karen
Complain four points against the King's last game he played,

(01:00:21):
you know, like that is just killing you inside. On
the flip side of that, when you look at jo
all embiad and what he's able to do with with
what with uh the seventy sixers, and then you you
have to deal with what Ben Simmons like what like
they hate that because they're willing to do what it

(01:00:42):
takes to sacrifice to put it all on the line
for the team and anybody else, especially with supreme talent
like those people we just mentioned, when they don't do that,
that's so off putting. Yeah, And that's the thing Joel
and bad direct directly talked about that. He said that
Ben Simmons it himself above the team point blank after

(01:01:02):
the trade went down, said that and he's right. And
I think what you're explaining is right on the money.
If you look at a guy like Joel Ebide, that
puts him in a bad spot. When a star player
like Ben Simmons is just not even playing, he's like, no,
not doing it. You know, Oh, it's my mental health,
that sort of thing. Um, Joel enbad knows that it's

(01:01:25):
all on him now, and that Ben Simmons, if he's dedicated,
he's got the skill set to put the Philadelphia seventy
is in a much better position. So you're completely right
about that. And you see it play out. You saw
it with Kobe with what you mentioned, and you're seeing
it right now when Kevin Durant is a captain for

(01:01:46):
his All Star team and the final two picks are
James Harden and an injured Rudy Gobert and k D
picks go bear like that tells you everything you need
to know about how much he respects James Harden. Now,
all that friends and we should be together, all that,
all that's out the door, because when it all boils
down to we're basketball players. We're high level basketball players.

(01:02:09):
And if you can't bring the same thing I'm bringing
to the game every night. We're about to fall out.
That's that's what it is. We're we're about to fall
out because you're not viewing this as serious as I am,
just like on on our team. Right, that's what stood

(01:02:31):
out to me. Right, of course, you mean we we
we bring everything, but the one thing that takes us
and puts us over the top is this man who
himself is the epitome of high level. Every time he
touches the mic, every time the update is due. I

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mean it's at the the highest of of of levels.
And that's one Stephen h S H. Siger. Good evening, gentlemen,
and he froms right on the shack. You remember his
famous quote, I got hurt on company time. I'll just
rehab on company time. That's what Scotty said to Yeah,
and the Lakers went up third in the Western Conference

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that year, so yeah, somebody was stewing on that roster.
By the way, Woes on the ESPN pregame shows said
Philadelphia's James Harden and Paul Mills that past physicals, so
the Sixers Nets trade is now officially complete. Of course,
we're not gonna be seeing James Harden in a Philadelphia
uniform until Tuesday at the earliest. Ben Simmons, of course,
out for Brooklyn. They've lost ten in a row. Going

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into action tonight, Philly is leading late first half fifty
seven against the Cavaliers. The Nets are playing at Miami,
the first place team in the Eastern Conference. The Heat
or one game over Cleveland and Chicago. Miami up late
first quarter twenty four to nineteen. Also in action the
Memphis Grizzlies. They lead early third quarter seventy five at

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the Nets, and Portland was down twenty three mid third
quarter and still came back and beat the next one
twelve one oh three Evan four yea and the next
one of thirteen shooting from the floor. In college basketball,
number four Arizona one at Washington, seventh rank Duke one
at Boston College, sixteenth ranked Ohio State has won at Michigan,
and number nineteen Tennessee beat Vanderbilt. There's a game still

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going on FS one two and a half minutes to go,
and DePaul is still leading at eleventh rank Providence fifty
seven fifty four. DePaul is three and nine in Big
East play. Earlier Memphis one at sixth rank Houston sixty
nine fifty nine. The Cougars thirty seven game home winning
streak is over Baylor over Texas eighty to sixty three.
Baseball's negotiating session today listed lasted less than an hour.

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That's really not much negotiating session. According to some of us.
The lockout of the players continues. Spring training will not
be starting on time. I think we can say that
officially now. Major League Baseball in the players Union needing
a new cb A have had only about five together
since December one. Will the season start March thirty one.
The Bengals elevated defensive tackle Mike Daniels from the practice squad.

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The Bengals had a brief walk through this morning at
u c l A, then went to the Rams stadium
for team photos team meetings for him. Tonight, the Rams
had about a twenty minute walks through at their own
practice facility, then took a team photo. They're staying at
the same regular season hotel. Case you didn't here yesterday.
Cincinnati tight end c j O Zama, after his spring
mc l is expected to play Sunday despite being listed

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as questionable. Rams tight end Tyler Higbee is out Super
Bowl fifty six starts at about six thirty pm Eastern Time,
with the Rams the visiting team in their own stadium.
Rams did go seven and three at home this season,
lost to San Francisco at the end of the regular campaign,
but just beat San Francisco there for the NFC title.
Bengals were seven and three on the road. But the
Super Bowl is a neutral site game. It is not

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the Rams game. It is not the Rams ticket distribution.
Back to you, Yeah, we'll have a story talking about
Rams ticket distribution, about Eric Dickerson being put in the
nosebleeds over the Yeah, he made some comments about that,
so we will get to that here momentarily. I think
he could afford to buy Super Bowl tickets just from

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the money you got at s m u AM I
right on that allegedly. Yeah, sure, all was Craig the
pony James paid handsomely well. At that time, the school
was quite successful in college football a little over forty
years ago, as you recall, Yeah, times changed. That was
the death penalty days. There's a reason for it. Yeah, yeah, wow,

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how different it is now with n I L And
that's crazy. Brian noany from Salam with you here on
Fox Sports Radio. Ramping up closer to the big game here,
super Bowl fifty six, big Man. I ran across something.
There's a video from the Player's Tribune and it's a
voicemail that Tee higgins mom left him. So, Tee Higgins

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is a very good receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. He
does a really good job. He's put up big numbers
in the playoffs also, and they're gonna need him to
be big against the Rams, right Like if Jalen Ramsey
is on Jamaar Chase, it might be a te Higgins
big game. Yeah, he's very good. But I just thought

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this was really really cool, Tee higgins mom leaving her
son a voicemail talking about fifth Super Bowl fifty six
coming up. Check this out. Hey, t it's mama. I
just wanted to tell you how proud I am of you.
I've always dreamed and wanted to go to the Super Bowl,

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and now my dream has finally come true. I need
to watch my son play in the Super Bowl. I
can't explain to you what that means to me. Like
I always tell you, play hard. We have food hill

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for life. I love you, sir. I just thought that
was cool. Yeah, it's amazing and that that's the cool thing,
is right. She was like, uh, son, hold on and

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hit the music. No, it was the Player's Tribune put
that together, but you could just hear her love, right,
and the journey for her son. And he's really young
his second year in the NFL. They're all, ye, yeah,
and here they are real kids out there. Yeah. That's

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another part of this too, is for a long time
there was a real debate about teams with stud wide
receivers not winning the Super Bowl. There were NFL gms
that subscribed to the thought of, hey, when's the last
time a team won the Super Bowl with the top

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receiver and they just didn't prioritize the importance of having
a top wide receiver on their team. They've been literally
NFL gms that have said that, you can't say that
about this year's Super Bowl. Remember saying backs too, Yeah, yeah,
until you don't have one, right, Yeah. But you look

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at the Bengals and the Rams. They have stud receivers
both teams. Yeah, Cooper cup is one of the best
in the game. Odell Beckham Jr. He's a one on
a lot of Yeah, and then you have the tandem
of Jamaar Chase and te Higgins. That's a lot of

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talent at the wide receiver position. The resurrection of the receiver.
That's right, those GMS. That was the last time a
team with the top receivers won a Super Bowl. I
just think it's a lazy argument where I would go
look at some of the teams that lost Super Bowls.

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Think about Julio Jones being an absolute baller with the
Atlanta Falcons when they were on the doorstep of winning
a Super Bowl. They didn't blow a three lead because
they had Julio Jones as their top receiver, you know
what I mean. And they didn't directly impact them losing
that game. If anything, it's the reason why they had

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three lead. That's exactly right. This notion that you don't
need a certain position to have star players is ridiculous, Yeah,
because all it does is add value to the team
you have. Yeah. I understand that it's a salary cap
and you gotta skimp, and you've gotta be savvy, and
you gotta prioritize the importance of one position over the other.

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But to downplay the importance of having a top receiver,
it just doesn't make sense to me man bad argument. Yeah,
I think it is. Are We got a lot to
get to coming up next. Two NFL players make statements
that are are pretty interesting. They might get you to
to chuckle a little bit, but I think they're speaking
the truth. We'll get to that. I'm Brian No, he's

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he from Salam. This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No,
he's he from Salam. You're on Fox Sports Radio. So,
as we alluded to Eric Dickerson legendary Rams running back,
he uh, he was initially headed to the Super Bowl,

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big man. We don't know if that's going to be
the case now going forward. So there's a little bit
of a ticket snaffoho, if you will. So he was
on with Maggie and pearl Off on CBS Sports and
listen to their conversation. Here, what time you have to
be at the stadium? I gotta be that early. But
I don't think I'm going to the game on TV

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because you like that experience better. People don't hassle you
at home or you're too nervous. Absolutely not. No. Um,
let's put it like this here, my ticket want to
give me tickets in the rafters? So yet out of here,
hold on, hold on, I thought all this stuff got
taken care of once Jeff Fisher got fired, which he

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didn't want you on the sideline. Now they're giving you
tickets in the raft, so I said, I'd said I'd
rather see at home and watch it. I'm in shock,
I was. I'm not in shock, but it was good. Look,
I'm gonna tell you this is not about me. It's
it's about winning this football. That's the most important thing
to me. I want my team to win. I don't
care if I've been watching from an island on a

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boat and I didn't get on boats. But no, I'm
good at home. You got a five billion dollar stadium.
We can't get, you know, something near the fifty yard
line for a legend. Hey, you know, like I said,
I I was in the rafters. I gave those tickets
to my sister. M hmm, no love for a legend
over there. We got him in the four section or whatever,

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the four hundred level. Come on, Rams, you gotta do
better than that. Yeah, you know that those two those tickets, Man,
that that's a whole situation. They've made it impossible for
for any anybody would really go enjoy the game. The
price for these tickets. It's ridiculous. Those tickets you were

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talking about. You can get six seven thousand dollars for
those tickets And were you literally turning the lights off? Yeah?
I just think that there's this thing about publicity and
think about the price whatever it is to get Eric
Dickerson in a good seat versus the amount of money,

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Like the damage you're doing just in terms of pr
When he's just going on the show and he's like,
there's to put me in the nose bleeds over there,
I said, no thanks. It just makes the RAMS organization
look stupid and small, very stupid and small. You can't
do things like that. Yeah, that's just bad business right there? Man,

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Come on, Yeah, it's bad business. And look, he shouldn't
he shouldn't even be in the seats. He should be
in a box. Yeah, for anybody the owner's box. Wouldn't
you want to surround yourself with Hall of Fame greats
that played Come on? Now? Yeah, I wonder if Martin.
I'm gonna call Marshall and see if he's going I

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wanna do it where he's sitting Marshall folk. Yeah, right,
well I would hope not, but I don't know at
this point what they were initially planning with any of
their legendary guys. I don't know, man. That's just a
bad look. That's a real bad look. Yeah, I I
don't know. I don't know what they're what else there

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is to the story? It out the tickets, and and
they worry where they were even even the players get
terrible tickets. When I went to the Super Bowl, we
got what do we get? Fifteen tickets? Each player got
fifteen tickets. That was the first year that they changed.
Each player used to get thirty tickets. Uh. And in

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the Super Bowls prior. Uh, but so many guys were
selling them and making you know, hundreds of thousands of
dollars um. But they was fifteen tickets and only four
of them were in the lower bowl. Only the four
four tickets were in the lower bowl. Everything else was
up in the nose blades. But the players, right, the

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actual players who are playing in the game, like, gee, thanks,
big man. I appreciate the tickets, but they give us
nine tickets in the three hundred plus section. I need
some binoculars over here, which I think is is a
is a mischaracter of justice. I think if you as
a player, as a coaching staff, any of that have

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worked that hard to get to that game, then you
should be rewarded. Your family should be able to sit
and watch the game, whether they or not. They don't
need binoculars, are are oxygen mass. I'm just curious that's
that's that's the worst thing that that happens. Yeah, I'm

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just curious. It's gotten personal obviously between Eric Dickerson and
he's suposed to be the RA ambassador. Yeah, maybe they're
just tired of some of the things that he said.
I'm not justifying it. I'm just trying to figure out
why they would make a bad decision where he was
blasting the new uniforms, remember that about a year ago
and the beef with Jeff Fisher didn't want him on

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the sideline. But no matter what, what's the saying, keep
your friends close and your enemies closer. The worst thing
you could do as the RAMS organization is let this
thing just get more personal and more personal and you
give them nosebleed seats. What do you think is gonna happen?
Do you think you're just gonna be like it's cool?
Do you think he might do a radio radio interview

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here or there and discuss how you're doing them wrong
and make your organization look stupid in the process. You
just gotta be better than that. Look, man, people, people,
it's in l A. Are you going, uh, you're going
to know? I'm not going. I know, I'm just not.
It's just so much that goes into that. Yeah, it

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was way too many people for me and just all
of the things that go into it. And I've been
to uh, I've played in super Bowls. I've gone to
see super Bowls. I'm good. I got it all in.
I'm okay. I love watching it at home. We get
to watch my commercials, get to have my victuals, right, victuals. Yeah,

(01:17:56):
what's that? Foods? I've never heard them. Frisket and chicken
and salmon, oh you can't go? And cheese? Yeah, right?
And then all of the junk food, right, the chips
and the cookies, sour patch kids, No, ridiculous. You don't

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get down with them. Candy what what will be eating?
Candy doing Super Bowl Sunday? Halloween? Why not? Why not?
By the way, this is about a minute long, but
it's very good. Taylor Rooks with Bleacher Report, she was
doing a sit down interview with Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf. Okay,
and she's asking him about forty receiver Deebo Samuel. Let's

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check this out, Deebo Samuel, tell me some things that
Deebo can do that you can't and things that you
do the debot can't. I'm not gonna say can't, but
I would rather not line up in the backfield running back.
That's something I'm not no, I'm since I'm not about
to line up in the backfield. Deebo is a very
versatile player to where he could line up in the backfield.

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He can go out to receive, you can go into slide,
you can return punting kicks like. He's a very versatile
player to where the forty nine has did a very
good job of using them, you know, at the end
of the season or when they did have him healthy.
So I would say he has a lot of tools
in his uh in his pocket. Okay, and the opposite,
that's something that you do that you don't see him do.

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I really don't like doing this. I don't like talking
about other players in a negative way. So I'm gonna
just say I'm very fast. I'm fast enough. Yeah, I
just love that. Man. Maybe it's just me, but yeah,
I don't. I don't like doing this. I don't. I
don't like saying negative things about other players. But I'm

(01:19:46):
faster than him. I'm definitely, definitely faster than him. It
comes to speed. You know. Have you seen me familiar
with my work over here? I mean, that's just that's
just a show of respect. Though. Yeah, I'll tell you
what deepo. Sammy's fast now, Yeah he is. You ask
those defenders when he could move? Man, I love watching

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him play. Both of them. Both of them are fantastic team. Right,
There's one team that loves to do the dirty work
and another not so much. Oh, what's going on everybody?
Hope you're enjoying your Saturday evening. Brian, noany from salam
with you on Super Bowl Eve? Do you want to

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lock in your official prediction at the very end of
the show here, big man. Of course, that's what you're
supposed to. We're here to break rules though. Now I'm
just here watching Russell Westbrook airball layups. Man bro last
four games ten points a game, two from thirteen, uh
from three shooting from the field. That's our starting point guard. Yeah,

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you know, it's funny because you kind of read my
mind in a way. I was mentioning there are two teams.
One loves doing the dirty work and another team doesn't.
The team that loves to do the dirty work, the
Cincinnati Bengals, they're all about that. That is and this
is a compliment. That's a grimy team. You know Trey

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Hendrickson who had twelve and a half sacks with the
Saints last season and he's picked up by the Bengals
and a lot of people are like, is he really
that guy or was that just a standalone season? And
he was an absolute stud for the Bengals. High motor,
high energy, relentless, all that type of stuff. That's the Bengals.

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The Lakers, No, they're not about doing the dirty work
right now. And we have defended Russell Westbrook a lot
when he's deserved it. He just doesn't deserve it at
this point. And he was talking about the other night,
I don't feel like I need to hit certain benchmarks
to be in the closing lineup. It's like, bro, it's
not about what you did at okay, see your averaging

(01:22:03):
a triple double. It's about the here and now. That
doesn't mean anything. It's about right now, it's about not
turning the ball over in the fourth quarter, not missing shots.
As he just turns the ball over. As I am
speaking it into my mind, it just came out and
just right on target. It's just so bad. And I

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used to be a Westbrook fan. Of course I respected
what he was able to do, averaging a triple double.
He wasn't on my team, so I didn't watch him
like I'm watching every game now and it's just it's
disgusting to watch. It's hard to watch. He's in his head.
He's a headcase. His his basketball i Q was very low.

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There are so many drops that he doesn't speel. He
doesn't even realize the problem. That's the thing. Like he
can't when you're combative when people are asking you how
can you get better? How can you help that? And
you're combative when you're all about, oh, I don't have

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to I can do this. I've earned the right to
do That's not what we're asking. Right when they say
does it bother you to turn and then you say no,
it doesn't bother me to turn the ball over. I
don't care about turning the ball over. I don't care
about you know, missing shots. What what do you care

(01:23:37):
about if you don't care as a point guard, if
you don't care about turning the ball over, I don't
want you playing point guard, right, isn't that right? Yeah?
That would be like a quarterback saying I don't care
about what when I mean, I can't worry about that.

(01:23:57):
I just you know, when you turn the ball over,
you're giving the team extra possessions. So if a team
scores twenty one points off the turnovers, that's twenty one
you gave them. M hm, that's the that's the problem

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that he's not connecting. Oh, just a bad pass, you know,
I'll make a go. When you're in the fourth quarter
and you throw two three turnovers in a row, that
changes the flow of the game. It destroys whatever rhythm
you're trying to build. And of course I'm hyper sensitive

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about the Lakers because it's my team. It's always been
my team. And when I see someone come in and
don't they don't care or they don't see it, it
doesn't seem like they care. Because you can stop yourself
from turning the ball over. You can, you can, And
for him to this, I've always been PU. That's just

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not good enough, bro, that's why you've never won a championship. Well,
this is championship aspirations, not let's go out there and
play as fast as we can. Yeah, and look, I
understand the middle ground of you're gonna have some pride
and you're trying almost get your confidence back, you know.
So there's a little bit of that involved. But that's

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just there's nothing wrong with saying I need to be
way better because he does. There's nothing wrong with saying that.
It's not as if he's pulling some Jedi mind trick.
And if he says, oh, I don't know, I don't
I don't really need to worry about that, and we're
just like, yeah, he doesn't need to worry about that.
It's like we know better than that. That's not fooling anybody.
This was Russell Russell Westbrook after the Lakers lost to

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the Bucks during the week. Listen to the exchange, the
question and the response about earning his way into the
closing lineup. Do you have a sense for what smarks
you have to hit to be in the starting line
or the closing line up more consistently? Um, I don't
got that answer for you, but I wish I did.

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I shouldn't have to hit any benchmark. To be honest,
I put a lot of work and I got a
lot of respecting this game, and I don't have to
hit a benchmark. I shouldn't have to. Um, I earned
the right, you know, to be in clothing lineups. I mean, uh,
you know, numbers would say, I don't have to explain that.
But like I said, once again, it ain't my decision.
That's the decision that he and touched that I think

(01:26:32):
is best for the game, And unfortunately, I just kind
of just gotta go with it and figure it out
the best way I can and be there for my
teammates as much as I can and make sure I
come in to work and do my job as a refreshman. Man.
You know what, I just had a flashback to Carmelo Anthony.
This is very similar with Carmelo, and it's funny that

(01:26:53):
their teammates right now. Remember when Carmelo he was in
Okay see I believe, and there was a reporter talking
about him maybe coming off the bench, and he said
to one of his teammates, I'm like, hey, man, they
think I'm gonna come off the bench over here, and
it's like, that's where you are talking to a teammate.
I think he was talking to his boy and because
he was like, yo, who jolly, they think I'm coming up?

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And he found himself out of the league. Yes, and
that's where Russ is. Where as soon as you start
leaning on the past and you're not getting the job
done right now, that's the worst mentality to have. Boy.
If you can't evolve with the game, you can't play
the game. Yeah. Well, and if you're like, hey, I

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averaged a triple double five years ago, it's like, what
good does that do us right now? That doesn't mean
anything right now. It's not like Frank Vogel is thinking
about his starting lineup. I'm sorry, it's closing lineup. And
he's like, well, Russ did average a triple double a
few years ago, let's put him in there. It's like,
what's he doing right now? He's going off the fact

(01:28:01):
that you're hurting the team down the stretch. You're hurting
the team. The team is worse with you on the court.
That in itself. You should that should just sink in
like you should you should be like, wow, okay, well,
let me reassess that, because if I was a football

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plug when I played football in the fourth quarter with
two minutes left, if they took me out of the
game as a left tackle, that would speak volumes to me.
What I wouldn't say is I've been in this league
for ten years, thirteen years, I've earned the right to
be in the fourth quarter. No, you earned the right

(01:28:45):
to be in the game and crunch time by the
way you perform now, not not then. Now, and think
about your teammates. Think if you okay, let's put you
back in the end felt Imagine if you had a
teammate who was once a great player, who was just

(01:29:06):
stinking up the joint right here, right now, and that
player was saying, I don't need to earn my minutes.
My my resume speaks for itself. You tell me you
wouldn't be looking sideways at that guy or have words
for that guy. Like how do you think lebron A
d and Company feel about Russ saying these things? It's like, bro,
it's not about what you did, It's about what you're

(01:29:26):
doing right now. That's all that matters. That's all that matter.
He can't see that though, Yeah, he doesn't. That's the
problem I'm having. I knew they wouldn't be able to
trade him. Nobody's taking on that. In that contract, you
got a player option forty seven million dollars next year.
Who about to do that? Nobody doing that? Yeah, all

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these teams are like so I was like, I was like, yeah, right, Like, man,
it's gonna hurt. Yeah, But I mean they look they
look bad right now. They looked tired, they looked old.
No defense. Yeah, you know, playing in spurts, they get
so they get so far behind early that it takes

(01:30:12):
it takes everything they have to come back. And you know,
things like this, it's two seconds left in the in
the in the quarter. They filed him shooting a three,
but not just a three, a forty ft with one
second literally like literally three steps past half court and

(01:30:36):
you run into the back of him. You shouldn't even
be running behind him, Yeah, you should just be. It's
one second left in there, and just stop. I just
think this Lakers season is taking valuable years off your life. Man.
He's killing me. Man, it's killing me. It is. It's hard.
It's hard to watch. You know, I love it. I'm
a fan. I know I know you've been die hard

(01:30:59):
for a long time with the Lakers, and man, this season, bro,
this has just been rough, rough and rough man. But
that's the other part is I don't see how it's
getting better. You've we've been saying this. What was that
Anthony Davis just a little bit ago, he was like, Hey,

(01:31:21):
when we're healthy, we're gonna be a really tough team. Well,
at the time, you couldn't get healthy. You couldn't be healthy.
At the same time, now they are, their guys are
playing and they're losing to the Blazers B team team. Yeah,
come on, man, you can't do date. Milwaukee beat them
so bad. Uh yeah. Yeah. But that's the other part

(01:31:48):
is if you do this Bengals Lakers comparison, you could argue,
just from a talent standpoint, the Lakers have more talent
in their sport than the Bengals do. In there have
four Hall of Famers out there, But look at the effort,
no effort, look at the difference in effort. We have
to tell you those four Hall of Famers are all old.

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That's the other part. Yeah, they can't hang with these kids.
These kids out here balling, man, these kids out here
running up in that. Look at look at Memphis. These
kids out here getting it. Memphis has beaten yes down. Yes,
kids are flying. Yes, you talk about young energy and swag,

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Memphis has it. They have it, and even the Hornets
have it with Wood Lamello. And that's the thing, man,
they play hard. You cannot look at the Lakers and
say they don't play even close to her. They can't
play hard. They're trying to just get to the playoffs.
They're just trying to get to the playoffs. And what's
gonna happen is there. Don't make it, man, you gotta

(01:32:58):
get grimy. I don't care what you're talent level is.
If you're not interested. It sounds corny, but it's there's
a lot of truth to it. You'll talk about who's
first to the floor. The Lakers aren't even interested in
getting on the floor. They're like the floor that's kind
of beneath me on the ground. Gosh, terrible idea. Yeah,

(01:33:19):
and that's why there's sub five hundred. It's a big
part of it. Yeah, all right, coming up next, man,
you talk about high steaks. Goodness, We've got some high
stakes gambling for you right around the corner. I'm Brian,
though he's e from Salam. This is Fox Sports Radio.

(01:33:42):
I'm Brian though he's he from Salam. Here on Fox
Sports Radio with the great Don Brown, Technical producer extraordinaire,
with him blasting some Mary J obviously going to be
part of the Super Bowl halftime show. Of the five
artists that are going to perform, big man, what song
do you have at the top of your list from

(01:34:04):
any of the five artists at the top, at the
tippy top, tippy top. Um, it's a mind vendor right there. Yeah, man,
it's we won't tell about. Greatness is a catalog goodness.
Anything off the chronic, every single song, anything off let

(01:34:31):
Me Ride, Oh, let Me Ride. Dandy's deep in the
music game as well, anything off Snoop Dogg's first album,
any anything off any of the album, I mean anything
except when he was Snoop lying, I don't want to
do the reggae. You don't want to do that the
gospel Snoop I'll do it with no limit. Even he

(01:34:54):
had some good ones then he had it was a
couple of um but you know, I mean, that's like,
I'll take that. Oh, it's gonna be good. Mary J.
Ho and Eminem come on, I know. I just I'm

(01:35:15):
so interested in it because you could literally arrange it
thousands of different ways. Who starts off first, who ends?
What songs you do? What song leads to the next song.
I'm just so curious how they piece the whole thing together.
I mean, it's probably the most anticipated halftime since Prince

(01:35:36):
There's just no way it. It's gotta be awesome. I
just don't see how it can't be. Yeah, it will
be awesome. I I don't know how you would get
artists that good um and that creative come up with
something You're like, that sucks? What a terrible idea? Like,
I just I don't see that being the case at all. No,

(01:36:00):
it's gonna be good Man Musty TV. Yeah. By the way,
our guy Mattress Mac, this will be Musty TV for
him as well. So this guy, he owns a furniture
store in Houston, Texas. He's made huge bets before on
numerous sporting events, and so Mattress Mac he originally put

(01:36:21):
four point five million dollars on the Bengals to win
the game. So he's going money line plus one seventy.
Then he's got this promotion at his store where he
tells everybody, hey, if you make purchases of three thousand
dollars or more, if the Bengals win the Super Bowl,
then your furniture is free. So what happens. A lot

(01:36:44):
of people are like, hey, honey, we might get free furniture.
Let's go buy something. So he accumulates all this money
and he's like, well, the heck with it, I might
as well bet more on the Bengals. So he put
another five million dollar bet on the Bengals to win
the game. So this guy, Matt Tris Mac, he has
a total of nine point five million dollars that he's

(01:37:05):
wagering on the Bengals. If they win the game, he
nets sixteen point two million dollars. Mhm, high stakes right there.
My favorite part of this story. When I'm reading this thing,
they they always include the sucker, one of the worst

(01:37:29):
bets in the history of betting. He goes back to
Super Bowl thirty six, so somebody put four point nine
million dollars on the St. Louis Rams to beat the Patriots.
Of course, was Tom Brady's second season in the NFL,
and they win the game. They had the legendary drive

(01:37:50):
at the end of minitary field goal. So this poor dude,
he put four point nine million dollars on the Rams
just to win the game. They're huge favorits. He's like,
I want to get greedy. Let's just go with the
sure thing. Let's go with the Rams minus nine hundred.
I'll put four point nine million dollars on it. And
they ended up losing. Of course, that's beyond brutal. Man, Yeah,

(01:38:15):
that's brutal. That that is. That's rough right there, by
the way, with our own prop bets here, big man,
what do you think about this a couple of relating
to the game. Well, a player who is not a
running back or a wide receiver score a touchdown, yes
or no? What do you think really? Are you thinking quarterback?

(01:38:39):
Defensive touchdown? What are you seeing here? Both of those? Really?
And what the the thing now is to throw it
to an offensive lineman? Mm hmm, Yeah, you bring the
extra lineman in. Uh and you know he's blocks, block, blocks,
sheds the defender. He's wide open, little razzle dazzle. Maybe

(01:39:04):
you get a return, probably not a kickoff return. We're
pretty much not doing that anymore with these kickers. Just
booting it through the end zone, right, especially in that stadiums.
Not like the wind is going to prevent it from
going into the end zone. Maybe a punt return for
a touchdown, something wacky. But you see, yes, you see
a non running back or wide receiver scoring. How about this?

(01:39:25):
They're also tight ends there are. The only thing with
that is, as Steve de Seger mentioned, you know, Tyler
Higbee is out, but you do have a capable backup
for the Rams. And Bryson Hopkins shout out per Due
over there, right, and Kendall Blanton from Missouri but it's

(01:39:45):
not it's not a great threat. And then c j
Usama he's got the sprained m c l a R
ready to go zone. I hope that. I definitely take that.
You're jumping all over that one. Nice last one for
you here, at least in this section. I might have

(01:40:06):
more for you at the end of the show, But
will a highlight video clip of Chris Collinsworth playing in
one of the bengals previous two Super Bowls be shown
during the Super Bowl broadcast? Really, you're going no doubt
right here, you guys can't miss situation. I mean, when
are you ever gonna get that again. And he had

(01:40:29):
the old school like not quite a single bar face mask,
but just a couple of bars, you know, the old school. Okay,
you're going all day Wow, I'm gonna oppose you on
the and I'm rooting for you to be right. I
think that would be fun to either have a quarterback,
an old lineman, a defensive score, something wild, something wacky

(01:40:52):
like that. You know, I'm rooting for a non wide receiver,
non running back score. I'm gonna bet on No, that's
all we get is a wide receiver running back scoring
a touchdown. And the collins Worth thing. I'm gonna bose
you on that one as well. I say, they don't
do it. Yeah, I wish you could have put some

(01:41:12):
candy bars on the Like I said, it's in root,
it's on the way. You know someone else who is
constantly en route searching for sports facts, sports information, sports goodies,
if you will. That is the tirelessly working, but does

(01:41:36):
it with a smile in his face. A friend of America,
Mr Steve Sager. There was one sports fact about the
Super Bowl from the experts at the Aliah Sports Bureau
that the Bengals this postseason have scored in literally every
quarter of every game. They could become the first team
since the two thousand eight Steelers to score in every
quarter of an entire postseason, including the Super Bowl. That's

(01:41:59):
a great stat I love that. Of course, their kicker
hasn't missed right, and they keep settling for field goals.
So three after three after three, we'll get to the
NBA a moment. Lakers are losing again. Not to spoil
the info there, we just had the longest tie break
in the history of the Men's Tennis Tour. It was
twenty four points to twenty two at the inaugural Dallas
Open tonight, and the loser was John Isner to Riley

(01:42:22):
Opelka is Ner, the guy who played the longest Wimbledon
match ever about a decade ago, where they had no
tiebreaker in the last set. You might recall the final
score that last set was not something like six four.
He wanted seventy to sixty eight in a match that
took eleven hours over three days. It was not quite
that tonight in Dallas, but it was an ATP Tour record. Well.

(01:42:43):
As far as the NBA, the Lakers have a record
of twenty six and thirty and they are losing at
Golden State mid second quarter, fifty to forty one. Meanwhile,
the Sons, who lead the West by four and a
half games over the Warriors. Sons are winning again late
first quarter against Orlando. Updating other games, Chicago is losing
at home in the third quarter at Oklahoma City sixty

(01:43:04):
fifty eight despite DeMar De Rosen's nineteen points in the
first half. Brief scare for Memphis, which is going for
its fifth straight win. A Memphis win by the way
tonight and they'll be forty and eighteen on the season.
They were led at the halftime tonight at Charlotte seventy
four forty three. John Morant second half went to the
locker room with an ankle injury, but has returned. He

(01:43:25):
stepped on a cameraman's foot under the basket. Grizzlies are
now winning it with under four minutes to go. They're
gonna go in the W column. Meanwhile, the Nets have
lost ten games in a row and they're losing tonight
in the third quarter at first place Miami Heat seventy
six to sixty one. Raptors of one eight in a row,
but they're down to to Denver one oh one with

(01:43:46):
about four minutes left coming up in college hoops number
twelve U C l A at number twenty one USC
and for the Trojans, Isaiah Mobili will not play tonight
due to a broken nose. He's averaging fifteen points per
game on FS. One come back and overtime win for
eleventh rank Providence beating to Paul seventy six to seventy three.
Brooks Kepco has one stroke back at the Phoenix Open.

(01:44:08):
Super Bowl fifty six is tomorrow at the Rams Stadium.
The Rams visitors against the Bengal six thirty pm Eastern time.
Rams just won the NFC title against San Francisco seventeen
and they came back in their game as well, down
seventeen seven to start the fourth quarter. Remember Matthew Stafford
over three thirty yards passing. He was hitting nine times
in that game, including two sacks. You talked about all

(01:44:30):
the sacks Borrow has taken in this postseason. And yes,
a matchup of great receiving corps and that would include
Cooper Cup on the l A side. Last game against
San Francisco eleven catches a hundred forty two yards. He
had both touchdowns and Odell Beckham same game had over
a hundred yards receiving on nine catches. Rams kicked two
field goals last seven minutes to win. There's your matchup

(01:44:52):
for Super Bowl fifty six. And by the way, as
far as the Super Bowl weather for tomorrow, about eighty
degrees in Los Angeles. Ram Stadium does have a roof
over the field. Apparently. The Super Bowl record is eighty
four degrees at kick off when the l A Coliseum
hosted the undefeated Dolphins back in seventy three. Back to you,
good stuff, Steve, I love that stat what was it?

(01:45:13):
The O eight Steelers the only team that scored in
every quarter of every game that year. Wow, And the
Bengals have a chance to do that. They've done it
so far at least. That's wild. That's a great stat
right there. That's a testament to a good team. Yeah,
that's a sneaky statue. Four field goals in all three

(01:45:35):
games this postseason. And McPherson that Raiders game when the
Bengals beat the Raiders, that's not a high scoring game,
you know, it's just snuck up on you, like, Wow,
they scored in every quarter. Huh. Late defensive stop. Remember
in that game beating Las Vegas. See Higgins had one
catch in that game and they advanced. I had Derek
Carr the over point five. Throwing an interception comes down

(01:45:59):
to that. By the way, big man, where do you
rate this on the degenerate meter? I cashed in not
a big bet, but uh. I cashed in on Mike
Vrabel uh to win Coach of the Year at plus
two seventy five. I didn't put that much on. I
should have put way more. Should put way more. But
this was going into this is funny, you'll laugh. This

(01:46:21):
is going into Week eighteen, right final game of the
regular season, and those were the odds for Able to
win Coach of the Year. I'm like, they're most likely
gonna beat the Texans, and if they do, they're gonna
be a one seed. And they missed Derrick Henry for
half the year. Like, that's a really good argument for
Able to win Coach of the Year. And so I

(01:46:41):
bet on it. It worked out. He's now my guy, right, Mike,
Mike Vrabel is my guy until I passed away. And
but that was the game where you you took the
Texans plus the points and they had this dramatic comeback
to at least cover the spread. Then you won the
thousand America in dollars and the candy bar that's en route. Yep,

(01:47:03):
allegedly it is. You can trust me watching this. Uh.
Steve mentioned earlier how lopsided that grizzly uh Charlotte game was,
and uh it was thirty when we were talking about him.
It is now one twelve to one oh five. Sure,
everybody makes a run in the NBA, right, but that's

(01:47:25):
the what we were talking about, is how the youth right,
they can do that. They're not gonna run out of gas.
They just play it. They just play it. Hornets are
fun team to watch. I love watching them. A mellow
Ball is the real deal. He deserves to be an
All Star this year. Uh he's the real deal. Like literally,
yeah he is. He's good for the NBA. It's just

(01:47:48):
his style of play. It's eye catching, it's just entertaining
and see everything. Yeah, that's that rare quality for a
point guard. You can see James Kid hit I mean,
um uh kid. Yeah, you know who else has it
is and he's not playing right now, but Damian Lillard

(01:48:09):
has that where LaMelo can score but he's also not
opposed to deferring. If someone has the hot hand, he
can see what's best for the team. And that's something
that Dame has done when c J was there. Now
he's with the Pelicans, but when c J was there
and headed cooking, Dame would be like, hey, it's your
show man, you're hot. I don't have to be the man.

(01:48:29):
It's all about us winning. And I see that with
LaMelo too. Yeah, it's this is the NBA's it's fine. Man,
Hey while we're while we're talking about it, what do
you make of this? So Bobby Marks, he used to
be in the front office with the Brooklyn Nets. He's
now on ESPN, But this is what he had to
say about James Harden's contract going forward now that he's

(01:48:51):
a member of the seventies sixers. Here's what he said
on ESPN. I don't want to be the one who's
piling on James Harden right now in Philadelphia, but I'll
say this in three years and I know it's all
about winning a championship, We're gonna be talking about James
Harden like we're talking about Russell Westbrook and we're like
we're talking about John wall from a contract standpoint, and
that that contract will be the worst contract in NBA history.

(01:49:15):
Sixty two million dollars, that's if he signs it. And
that's a Philadelphia offers sixty two million dollars when he
is thirty eight years of age. M hmm. That doesn't
have a sexy ring to it. No, he's absolutely right,
he's absolutely right. That's why we're talking about this contract.

(01:49:36):
The Westbrook contract is ridiculous. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Has a
player option for forty seven million dollars next year, and
people are wondering why they couldn't trade him on the
right mind. Yeah, given what he's shown, that's almost fifty
million dollars. Yeah, that's uh. You know, you've heard till death,

(01:49:59):
do us part. That still contract, do us part. This
is real life money. You you signed it, you gotta
pay it. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing you have, which
doesn't do you a whole lot of good, is to
buy them out. You pay him to go away, like like, oh,
is that good? No, you gotta get an asset for

(01:50:21):
an asset, you know, not just offer. Yeah. That's yeah,
that's a rough spot. Zero takers, zero, no, thank you,
not for that price tag. Good lord like uh a
Nissan Ultimate? Whatever car? Russell Westbrook is right now, I
drive a Nissan Ultimate. I like it. They're better cars.

(01:50:44):
I'm not spending two and fifty dollars from a Nissan
ultimately not worth it. All right, we'll close it down
in style coming up next. It's a really bad take,
but it is highly entertaining that in more I'm Brian
though he's he from salam This is Fox Sports Radio.

(01:51:06):
I'm probably no, he's he from Salam here on Fox
Sports Radio. You know, big man, I love a bad
take every now and then, as long as it's highly entertaining.
I've got one for you here. So Trey Young, Atlanta
Hawks guard. He's an outstanding player, there's no doubt about it.
And his dad he kind of he kind of went.

(01:51:33):
He took a hard left turn here because he starts
with Trey Young being a great player, but he blows
it out of proportion. So Trey Young's dad, Ray Young,
had this to write on social media. He said, y'all
can think or say what you want, but my son
shook up the whole Eastern Conference after last season's playoff run,
got every team scrambling all good though he's just twenty three,

(01:51:57):
just getting started. That's a promise. So that's Ray's obviously
talking about the trade deadline and all the deals that
have been made. He's saying it's because of what the
Hawks did getting to the Eastern Conference finals last year,
and it's just just not not not even clause Atlanta's
below five hundred didn't even resonate with anyone when they

(01:52:20):
were going into the trades, not at all. That's exactly
That's not what Darryl Morey is thinking. That's not what
Sean Marks with the Brooklyn Nets is thinking. They're not
thinking about Trey Young and the Hawks run last season
at all, not even a passing thought. Yeah, uh, that's

(01:52:41):
you know, another team that's very disappointing. We're focusing on
the Lakers a lot, but the Hawks when even further
in the playoffs last season and they're battling to try
to play their way in. As it stands right now,
that's a rough season for them. And I know they
had some COVID stuff going on, as pretty much all

(01:53:03):
the teams did. They got hit pretty hard and they're
playing multiple games significantly undermanned, But that doesn't explain everything.
Not everything right there, They've had a rough season. One
more NBA thing. I found this funny with the NBA
trade deadline. It ended on Thursday. Shout out to the
Orlando Magic their Twitter account. They they tweeted a pile

(01:53:26):
of cash and it just said, welcome to the oh
cash considerations. That was their wheeling and dealing. They got
some cash, cash considerations and the moves that they made,
and they're just making fun of the other tweets welcoming
actual players to their organization. I thought that was very
well done. Some of these media teams, man, they do

(01:53:48):
a great job with the That was a good one
right there. Okay, we're nearing prediction time over here. How
about this with Joe Burrow. We've touched on it for
a second, but the dude has wanna Heisman. He's won
a national championship, he has a chance to win a
Super Bowl. He'd be the first quarterback ever to do

(01:54:11):
all three. How crazy would that be if he does
it in year two of his NFL career. That that's
why I love that, because why not? That's how you
prove you're the real deal? High school college pros common

(01:54:32):
denominator you. That's it. You are the common denominator. What
does that say about you? I'm a winner. All I
do is win, win, win, no matter what. Yeah, and
we both loved this audio from earlier in the playoffs.

(01:54:56):
This was after Joe Burrow's first playoff win with Bengals
against the Raiders. He had this to say. I think
the fans were very excited, but I tried to downplay
it and all that, because this is this is how
it's gonna be from here on out. It's a great
win for us, but that's the standard for you know,
the bare minimum every year going forward. That's awesome. May

(01:55:21):
when we talk about this in sports a lot, setting
the tone, being a leader for him to be like, yeah,
this is the bare minimum right now, so let's settle it.
To settle it down with the shirtless cart wheels, you know,
like this is this is what we do. So get
used to this success. And that is absolutely setting a
tone and laying a foundation. Yeah, that's the belief is

(01:55:43):
the first step. You can't carry the old baggage in
with you and and oh what are we doing? And
we go again? All that has to go. And that's
what I love about this Bengals team. They don't care
about none of that. Nothing. They don't care about any
of that. I love this also, like the the underdog

(01:56:08):
thing where he completely downplayed that. I'm tired of the
underdog narrative and we're really really good team. We're here
to make noise. How about that? It's like this, dudes
in a second year? Do you see I want to
blow uside of proportion, But do you see at least
some similarities between this Bengals team and the Super Bowl

(01:56:29):
thirty six Patriots. We'll think about at least the level
Burros playing on right now and the level Tom Brady
was at the time. No, because that's that's not a
team that would that would be an individual thing, right
to Tom Brady because he was young and all that.
The Patriots had veterans all over the place. That was
an older team. They did that. Yeah, that's true. So

(01:56:51):
this is not even the same dynamic. Tom Brady was
the young one and they were like, you know, but
this team, they're all like, what what did it do? Right?
I think the comparison I would make between whether you
buy it or not, the Super Bowl thirty six Patriots
and this Bengals team is they're just ready for a

(01:57:13):
street fight, you know what I mean, Like they're the
Patriots then they were. They were taking every play as
if the Super Bowl is hinging on this play. They're
not going through the motions or anything like that. That's
what the Bengals do. I still think they're gonna lose
because I don't think they're as good as the Rams.
But how weird is it too that the Patriots played

(01:57:34):
the Rams way back then and that's the opponent for
the Bengals right here. It's just strange how that comes together. Yeah,
it does. Look it's this is two teams, one full
of veterans, one full of for a second year year players,
a lot of newbies, a lot of newbies. And this game, well,

(01:57:56):
this season has been monumental for the Bangles. French are
is moving forward. They have enough young pieces that are
playing at such a high level and the highest of
games that their future is beyond bright. All they have
to do sure if that offensive line, they're gonna get

(01:58:17):
guys wanting to come there right playing with that offense
being you know, and in that culture that they've created,
they're going to take over this division. And when you
look at the division and you have the Steelers. We
don't know what they're gonna do at quarterback. We have

(01:58:40):
the Cleveland Browns. We know what they're doing the quarterback,
and it's just as bad if if we didn't know.
And then you have Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, and
I mean, the Bengals are the toast of of that
division for years to come. I agree with you, and
I think that I know this is where the Bengals

(01:59:02):
mind is. It's just a matter of executing and following through.
And although the future is very, very bright. They were
to one to win the Super Bowl and here they
are right like before the season, those were their odds.
So the future is very bright, but the time is
freaking now. You know, nothing is guaranteed going forward, and
they're one game away from winning it all. So it's

(01:59:24):
all about executing and getting it done. Now. It's prediction time,
big man, the moment of truth, the reason why you're
picking who you are and what's the score you're seeing here?
I'm taking the Bengals. I'm taking the Bengals, uh thirty one? Really,
and the reason is on a two thousand eight episode

(01:59:48):
of The Simpsons, okay, it had the Bengals winning the
Super Bowl playing l A and the score is Simpsons
have been right on so many things predicting the future.
I've taken to go with that. I'm going with the Rams.

(02:00:09):
It's like last year people are like, my homes will
be fine offensive line and he wasn't. It's gonna be
the same for the Rams. They win thirty seventeen,

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