December 24, 2025 • 40 mins
Brian Noe talks about how the Vikings season seems way worse than the Lions even though they only have one more loss, the disappearing outdoor stadiums in the NFL, playoff scenarios heading into the final weeks of the season, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, what is going on? Happy Christmas Eve to you.
Hope your early Wednesday morning is going swimmingly. Lots to do,
lots to do. This is not like a mail it
in final hour here, not at all. We are off
and running over here. I got a video surveillance footage
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of the DK Metcalf scenario, soap opera, whatever you want
to call it, compliments of Loraine. I've got some thoughts
on that. Oh, I had pushback on my Lamar take
had pushba. I'll get to that tweet. I think it's
a bad take, but you know, we'll see. We'll compare
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Not good. Hopefully I can win this confidence pool. Huh, Coop,
you know if I could win this confidence pool, then
boom presto, everything's magically. I'm glad you asked that, Lorena.
So the confidence pool, it is an evil pool. We'll
start off with that. It's it's gonna make you each
Sunday say why did I pick this team? Or why
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did I put this many points on that team? Right,
that's what you do every Sunday. It's a great time, Loraina,
you're missing out.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It sounds awesome immediately.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, so every game like this is a full week, right,
like sixteen games, so you pick the winning side. Right,
it's with the points spread every game, so you pick
let's say whatever, it's uh, what's a good example. Okay,
let's say Minnesota. Minnesota is hosting the Lions, and let's
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I don't know what the confidence pool has, but let's
say the Lions are favored by five and a half points, right,
So you're like, okay, if you're going with the Lions,
they have to win by at least six points right, right.
If you go with the Vikings, they can't lose by
more than five points. So you pick Lions or Vikings,
and then the real challenge begins. Now you have to
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rank that selection with confidence points. So sixteen games this week,
full week, sixteen points is the maximum amount of points
you can put on a single NFL game, right, So
you put your your games you feel real confidence.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So the ones that you feel the best on you
put your extra confident power points.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's right, Okay. You gotta get your double digit point games, correct,
That's where that's where the real money is, right, Okay,
you can't be missing your fourteen point game here, Loraine,
you can't be missing your twelve point games. A lot
of points right there. Think about your twelve point game.
You could miss your one, two, three, four, like you know,
and it's still I gonna equal twelve, right.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Breeze take them.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I get your twelve. Gotta get your twelve, right, Lorena,
Gotta do it, gotta get the double digit point game.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
How does that normally go for you?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Brian? It went well last week? You know, I'm I
don't like checking the leader board. I know I'm up there,
like I accidentally saw it a week ago when I
was fourth.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I was doing very well this year.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I don't want to know, Coop, don't tell me. Don't
tell me where I'm at. I don't want to jinx it.
I'm doing alright, Loraina, Like I've got a fighting chance
to win some money in this freaking thing, as long
as the wheels don't fall off the tracks these last
two weeks, which you know, the dent in my wallet
do too.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I was gonna say, if you're looking at your first wheel.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Might not be a good example.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, So I don't know. Hopefully I have a good
final weeks. I think Week eighteen is always insanely tricky
because it's just weird.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Week eighteen. Next week is just strange. There's gonna be
some weird scenarios where, yeah, this team just said screw it,
let's put this quarterback in there to see what he
can do. And you're like, oh gosh, this is a
rough call. So I think Week seventeen they call it
in golf, right, they call like Saturday moving day, and
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this is moving day. Week seventeen, I think is moving week.
You want to have a really good Week seventeen, so
you don't have to depend on week eighteen to make
your money, because week eighteen is always a little tricky. Really, goofy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So my wife is forty four spots better than me
and the overall standings, and I could.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Her go nice, shout out cash.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
She doesn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh dude, hey, welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
How dare you say that your wife is ahead of
you and she doesn't know anything? Maybe you think you
know too much?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You ever think about that?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Relaxlerena. I got you, cat, I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Very nice. Yeah, where are you? Coop? You do you
feel like saying? What place you're in?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is it bade?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Good? Lord?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What has happened this year?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, Hey, man, I thought I sucked all year. I
really did. I'm like, I'm like, you know, five hundred
most weeks, I'll be like eight and eight, seven and seven,
depending on how many games there are.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You must do a really good job of assigning your points.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Then I don't know, man, Like last week, I was
eight and eight, but I got every double digit game
correct except one. I missed my fourteen point game, but
I got sixteen, fifteen, thirteen, twelve, ten, twelve, eleven, ten,
I skipped eleven. I got all those right, and so
I had a good week. I started off horrible, by
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the way, too. I missed the first three games. How
disgusting is.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You said you were eight and eight.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think I was eight and eight last week. Yeah,
and I had a really good week. I don't know.
I got the double digit point games, right.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No, you had an okay week.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It was okay. I mean it was fine. I'll take
it all day for.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Luke six, first three game, sixty ninth place.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, well, hey, there you go. Nice. It's better than
how it started. I missed. I had fourteen points on Seattle,
and they're minus a point and a half. Like sometimes
the confidence pool, they have stale lines. You can take
advantage of that. I thought it would be like Seattle
plus a point and a half, but it wasn't. It
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was minus a point and a half.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah I was. I was nine and seven and you
got ten more points than I did.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah. See, like how you how you place these points?
It makes all the difference. Man, It's all about that. Hopefully,
Like ideally you'd have a really good record. You want
to be you know, if you can get to double
digit wins in a week. You could get to eleven
twelve wins in a week, you're gonna have a good
week most likely. But if you have one of those
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nine win eight win weeks, it's all about the confidence points.
You got to get those high point games right or
it's going to be a disaster. But yeah, I missed.
I missed the first game, which was the Seahawks. They somehow,
some way tied the game. They're down thirty to fourteen.
Sam Darnold's throwing picks left and right. Next thing you know,
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it's tied. They're going to overtime. Look like they had
an interception in overtime and you're like, oh, they're probably
going to cover if they get this pick, and it
was the right call, it was incomplete. Next thing you know,
Puka Nakua is in the end zone again, and you're like, well,
I just lost that one. That's fourteen points gone. And
then I had I had eight points on the Packers. Dude,
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that was disgusting. That was a bad loss. And so
I started off zero to three this week. So to
end up with like a respectable point told, I'll take
that all day, absolutely, So high stakes on the confidence pool. Uh.
By the way, it's funny. I was looking at the
upcoming schedule here. So JJ McCarthy, the Vikings quarterback, he's
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gonna miss this week's game. They play on Saturday. They
are hosting the Lions, and there's no that's gonna be
on Christmas Day on Thursday. So I'm getting my days
all mixed up. I said earlier that it was going
to be on Saturday. I believe it's on Thursday. It's
on Christmas Day. Got that triple header? You're not mixed day? Yeah,
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I'm not mixed up. You know exactly where you are?
Where am i Indiana? Back home again for the holidays. Yeah,
so it'll be on Christmas Day, Lions at the Vikings. No,
Jj McCarthy. And what's what's interesting to me, Like, we
do have sound? Do you have that, Lorena? Do you
have the the Kevin O'Connell I just sent it to
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Coop while we were already.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Give me two seconds, I'll have it right here.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, beautiful. Yeah, because Kevin O'Connell, he mentioned this about
JJ's fractured hand, gave an update on what's going on here.
He is here is koc take it away to give.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You guys an update, JJ McCarthy. We did continue to
get further imaging beyond the initial X ray and beyond
even the initial MRI, got some further imaging and it
was discovered he does have a very very small hairline
fracture that was discovered in his hand. We are not
expecting to have him this week. I do not think
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this is anything that will require surgery kind of recovery.
He's kind of similar to a bone bruce, but obviously
there is a small hairline fracture in there. And we'll
keep you guys posted about his availability next week.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Okay, so no JJ McCarthy on Christmas Day against the Lions. Instead,
it is Max Brosmer, yet again expected to start. And
what I took away from this is if you look
at the Vikings and how bad of a season it's been, right,
brutal season, JJ McCarthy. He starts off bad, then has
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a really good quarter against the Bears in week two.
Remember that right away the beginning of the season, and
he brings him back, they win the game. It's this
big win at the time, and then shortly after he's
back to being bad again. He looks rough. Now we
have Carson Wentz is in there for a little bit.
JJ McCarthy's banged up. My gosh, this is a fiasco.
(10:29):
I guess it was Week one against the Bears. Vikings
got that win, and the next week he gets banged up.
JJ McCarthy gets banged up against the Falcons. Now he's out.
Now he got Carson Wentz in there. Oh my gosh.
Now man, JJ McCarthy comes back a little bit later
in the season and it's bad and it looks rough
and he's hurt again. Now we have Max Brosmer come
in against the Seahawks. They get shut out by the Seahawks.
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Brosmer throws the worst interception all season long by far,
kind of like a no look trying to get rid
of the ball, throws it right to a Seattle defender,
pick six. Just a disaster for the Vikings, right, horrible season.
They're seven and eight and they host the Lions, who
are eight and seven. You know what I mean. Like,
as awful as the Viking season has been, they are
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one win worse than the Lions. They're like living on
the same block this season, the Vikings and Lions. That's
wild to me. How much worse the Viking season feels,
at least to me, I think a lot of people
would agree the Viking season feels way worse than the Lions.
The Vikings are seven and eight, Lions are eight and seven.
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There's another game like that that I think it feels
way worse than it actually is. My poor, pathetic, reeling Dolphins, Right,
Miami Dolphins have been rough this season. They what they
started off, it's just a house of horrors. What's their record? Okay,
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lost loss loss win loss loss loss. They start off
one in six, okay, and it's worse than that if
you can believe that. The last loss, like it was
Week seven. So they fall to one in six by
getting punked by the Browns thirty one to six. Remember
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two was throwing all those interceptions against the Browns. So
the Dolphins are one and six. They rallied. They win
a couple of games against Suckey teams. They did beat
the Bills. They smacked around the Bills. That was a
good win. But then they beat the Commanders, they beat
the Saints, they beat the Jets. There is a bunch
of like who cares. Then they get crushed by the Steelers.
They get rolled by the Bengals this last week they
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benched to it. It's been a disaster, right, Well, the
Dolphins are six and nine and they're hosting Tampa who's
seven and eight. Like, think about it. As horrible as
the Dolphins season has been, one in six start crushed
by the Browns, Tua gets benched like they're getting blowed out.
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They're one win worse than Tampa Bay. That's wild, isn't it. Like,
But we had a couple of games like that this
this weekend. I just think Tampa's season is cratering. Man.
I like Tampa's team a lot earlier in the season.
They're playing really good defense. Run defense was fantastic, offense
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was good, and then they had some injuries and the
losses just started mounting up and they can't get out
of their own way now. Man, their season is disintegrating
and they got to win to stay alive this week
against the Dolphins. So there you go. Gonna be interesting stuff.
I'll tell you what. Something else that caught my attention
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the Broncos opponent on Christmas Day, Right they're taking on
the Chiefs on the road. So a couple of things
with the Chiefs. One, it is more so in the future.
But but they're moving away from Kansas City. I'm sure
you heard about that. They're moving to Kansas right across
the state line. They're gonna move into a new stadium
in twenty thirty one. I think it's gonna be a dome.
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How do you feel about this? We're gonna have dome
stadiums for the Chiefs, for the Bears. Something just feels
wrong about that? Does it? Not a dome for the
Chicago Bears? How many years have we talked about bear weather?
You know, like it's a thing like I think about
the eighty five Bears. They're beating the Rams. It's snowing
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like those.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It's a travesty, it's a it's awful.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right, coop, Like you think of the Chicago Bears that outdoor.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
The Broncos are getting a new stadium too, Uh, but
I believe they're doing a like retractable roof.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Okay type of situation. Yeah, Like, I mean I can
live with that if we're talking just straight dome stadium
for the Bears, even the Chiefs. Some just feels wrong
about that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I like what the Bills are doing. The Bills are
still going to be outside but the way they've built
the stadium, they're really conscientious about cutting down the wind.
They built the stadium like the lower Bowl in a
way where it really cuts down on the wind that
gets in there. And okay, fine, but you're still outdoors,
you know what I mean? Like it would feel wrong
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if the Bills were playing in a dome stadium.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
How many stadiums are still left that are in the
elements like that, because if they take away all of them,
isn't that just taking away that part of the sport.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think that the snow games are the best.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I think they're so I know, yeah, well we got
a lot like are you just talking outdoor stadiums or
like outdoor stadiums in.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Cold in cold weather?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, I mean listen, you still have Philly still have
like the Washington Commanders. Well, they're building a new one.
I don't know if that's going to be a dome
or not. I hope not. The Packers obviously, Minnesota no
longer right Like Minnesota, Well, they've been in a dome
quite a bit. I just remember the outdoor game where
where it was what was it Blair Walsh missing the
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chip shot field goal and they lost like thirteen to twelve.
That was when you know, it was frigid out there,
freezing cold.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I just can't imagine, like, even if I'm just the
tiniest bit cold, if my hand gets hit, it hurts
so bad. Imagine taking a full on man at your body.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Like, yeah, oh totally, Yeah, Commanders will be a dome
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh my gosh, what is happening right hitting the ground,
like just hitting the ground. How hard that ground? Oh
my gosh, this is brutal. Patriots outdoors, Bills still outdoors, Jets,
Giants out those are all in the elements. Steelers, Ravens, Bengals.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Okay, so we still got options, Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Still have some, but man, we're losing some ride or
die teams like the Bears, the Commanders, the Chiefs. Like
that's a lot. That's a lot right there. And think
how many playoff games are going to be at some
of those places, you know, like when Mahomes gets better,
and yeah, the Chiefs are still gonna be hosting playoff games.
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Believe me, I don't like it. I don't like it.
I can deal with a retractable roof, but a straight
dome stadium for the Bears there's just something completely Unamerican
about that. They does not feel right.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They should check their domes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Something as far as this weekend though, with the Chiefs
taken on coops Broncos, would you like to guess the
betting line in terms of the Chiefs team total against
the Broncos on Christmas Day? Right? So it's literally just
a you know, there's a line that comes out and
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based on this number, you bet on the over or
the under. Well, the Chiefs score more than this amount
of points or less than this amount of points, right,
what do you think it's set at? And I believe
we've got Chris Ola do'kun who's going to be starting again.
We have mahomes Is on the shelf with a knee injury.
We have Gardner Minshew who didn't tear his acl thankfully,
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but he's on the shelf with a knee injury. So
I think it's gonna be Chris Ola do'coun. They signed
Shane Bouchelle off of game man. They signed him off
a practice squad as insurance right there, So what do
you think they're coop? What do you think the team
total is for the Chiefs against your Broncos.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Let's go fourteen ten and a.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Half on Christmas Day, Bro, I don't know how they're
getting the double digits against your Broncos. Your Broncos should
be out for blood. They were not good. They haven't
been good for a couple of games. Like, I'm not
being a troll right here, right, you would admit they
were not good defensively against the Washington Commanders in Mariota
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a couple of weeks ago. Right, they survived in overtime
in that game. They gave up twenty six points.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Pretty good against the Packers, they were.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, they still give up twenty six points. You know,
it's not like a shut them down like dominant performance
at all. And then this past weekend the Jags they
put up thirty four points, Like what is up with
this defense? So I think the Broncos defense could be
out for blood. And against Chris Ola dookun like the
Chiefs just scored what nine points against the Titans, Like,
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it's not gonna go well against the Broncos. Man, So yeah,
I think under ten and a half might be the
way to go. I don't know how the Chiefs are
scoring in this game. It's you're gonna kick your feet
up and be like, this is beautiful, Coop. The question
is do you put all your sixteen confidence points on
the Broncos minus to points?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, what's the spread? Like twelve and a half?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, it's probably like and a half thirteen and a half.
I don't know what it's going to be on the
confidence pool, but a lot, a lot. Yeah, all right.
Coming up next, we'll get to the militia. I've got
some thoughts. I heard from a member of the militia
who was pushing back on what I had to say
about Lamar Jackson not getting back out on the field
with a back bruise in the second half. He's day
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to day with a bruise, and I was just like, bro,
you gotta get on the field. I got some pushback,
so here the counter argument, and also from the militias
lining up a couple of regulars here I see. Very
excited for that. We will get to all of that
coming up next. I'm Brian no In for Big Ben.
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(23:36):
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Speaker 2 (23:36):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I did get some pushback. This's a good segue. We'll
get to the militia here just momentarily. So I got
some pushback on my Lamar take. So Cliff's notes version
very brief. Lamar Jackson he missed the second half on
Sunday Night against the Patriots. Gots to have it situation.
Ravens really needed that win against the Patriots. Lamar gets
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knead in the back, he leaves the game, never comes back.
Turns out he has a back bruise. He has a
back contusion, so he's had a bruise. I'm sure it's painful,
but he doesn't play the entire second half he's day
to day. You gotta be kidding me. Your day to
day with a bruise and you don't gut it out,
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you don't get back on the field. Really, you gotta
get back out there, have to get back out there.
So BP checks in. Now, I'm assuming this is not
like the the gas station company at VP. Like my
brother in law works for BP. It's more than just
a gas station company. I have no idea what else
they do. That's where he works. I'm assuming it's not that.
(24:44):
But anyway BP checks in, it says bad take by you.
The score was ten to ten at the half. Sunday,
Ravens took an eleven point lead with their backup quarterback.
Ravens lost because Henry did not see the field with
more than twelve minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
He had more than one hundred and twenty yards and
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seven yards per carry. Okay, I think it's a bad take. Now,
not all of it is a bad take. I totally
agree with the second part. How they don't get Derrick
Henry on the field and get the ball in his
hands is absurd. That is a football crime. He went crazy.
Derrek Henry had a great game and you're not gonna
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get him the football. You're gonna put in Keaton Mitchell,
who I like. Keaton Mitchell. By the way, his final
stat line nine carries for thirteen yards. So you have
Keaton Mitchell in there instead of Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry
stat line eighteen carries for one twenty eight and two touchdowns.
They're like, no, this is normally the series that Keaton
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Mitchell plays. So it's just a rotational type. Bro screw
the rotation. Get Derrick Henry the football. What are you doing?
So that part is right, the bad take is, Look,
yes they grew a lead with Tyler Huntley, the backup
quarterback in there, but they didn't grow the lead because
of Tyler Huntley. Tyler Huntley completed nine passes for sixty
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five yards. He didn't do anything special, he didn't do
anything spectacular. Like Lamar Jackson needs to be on the field.
Suck it up, it's a bruise, get back out there.
If Lamar is there, they're fully capable of building a lead. Also,
maybe they would have built a bigger lead. Maybe maybe
they would have had Derek Henry on the field more
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if Lamar was out there. I don't know. It could
be it could have changed their thinking a little bit
in some way. But I don't buy this that. Well
they built a lead with the backup quarterback, Well, they
can't build a bigger lead with Lamar. They can't build
the same lead with Lamar. Maybe it changes the situation
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of the game. Maybe the amount of time left in
the game is different. Maybe they score quicker, maybe they're
not as methodical. Maybe it's you know, it's a bigger
play that they're capable of hitting on. It changes every
scenario going forward. You have to have your best players
on the field. And when your best player, Lamar Jackson
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doesn't gut it out and get out there with what
turns out to be a back bruise that he's only
day to day with, that is a minor injury. He's
just hurt. He's not injured. He could get out there,
but he didn't. Like an injury is you can't get
out there no matter how badly you want to be there.
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That's like torn kneeligam its broken bones. It can't do it.
You're on the shelf. Sorry, dude, get him next time.
Like bruises, you know, shoulders that are you know, I
don't know, like on a socket, but you can gut
it out. You can go like bro, you gotta gut
it out. You gotta get out there. So no, I
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don't agree with that take. I think Lamar has to
find a way to get out there, has to. That's
a game you gotta win. Okay, I've said my piece.
Let me get out to the militia. They want to
check in. I've got Jed, who fled my guy. He's
ready to check in. What's up, Jed? You're on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Well, you've got a gift horse. You don't put that
some bit to the stable. You let it run. You
don't put your best player on the on the bench
when it's crunch time. Also, Wolverine attacking you from Alabama.
Can you imagine Wolverine with his sister in total pregnant
from him and then get run of it out of face?
You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna get too mag
you know, come on now, I've got that big up.
That's what I imagine when you're got from Alabama. That's
why these people are here. We're living in North Florida.
(28:31):
The further North Florida, you go the morn of South
you are and we I've had to defend myself from
just Alabama's here in North Florida most of my life.
The good thing is that you throw a word like
there's anything due, they're stunned for. It's like a flash bang,
just as them to spell anything or do a mathematical
problem and you're okay. So when I was growing up,
we had to unsure pool, the issuy pool in the
(28:52):
confetence pool. If you jumped into the confidence pool, you
couldn't swim. Nobody was gonna jump in and help you. Dude,
you were on your own. That's a that's what we have,
right because Gamblack's the bad thing. Amma's not the devil.
But the domes have got to be institute. Why because
geo engineering would be a temptation for somebody like President
tin Man, you know, but didn't have it. Yeah, if
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I only had a brain, he could be manipulated and
change the weather. We don't need that changing the outcome
of professional sports games. That's why you've got to get
domes to protect it from the weather control. That makes
total sense, right.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So you're pro domes there, jedu.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Fled dude, the ying Yang twins were pro the ying
aate twins were pro done. Dude, I'm pro done.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's a different kind of right.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
That is what's your go to noise? Dude? Like like
ying twins like like that, like go to noise?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I picked.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I think radio talks to your hosts have would go
to noise, like I.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Don't know, very very like you're right, you know, like
uh like the first one that comes to mind is
Jim rome Or's got the you know, like the whatever,
the manual buzzer. That's that's his noise.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Sorry, did that not mean to suggest in the gym
rome via dude uptom so I'm not that stupid. That
got suck. I got that got bad. Dude, you how
do you go challenge the NFL quarterback on the air?
Allows TV to try to whip you because you're a
lat TV.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
If you have.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
To, if you have to punk out a watch TV.
That's why they Hey fucking out real quick and fu
get out of here. Ry Christmas to all and y
christaff's you man, because we're thinking about kicking every male
out of Tallahassee and returning to all girls school because
because dude, you saw the football team that's all I
got to say, pretty Muchay must love to you Brown
must love to j Justice Cooper, the raino Justin doesn't
does give us a woman too much credit? I mean,
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I'm no credit. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I got you too, man, Merry Christmas. There is Jed
who fled very nice. What would be my go to sound?
What would be my noise? My sound effect? Is there
anything you think of anything? I don't know. I have
to work on that. I didn't realize this, but uh,
Dan Patrick, he is a big fan of the word. Okay,
(30:58):
you guys realize, like he's all about this. You'll you'll
never hear DP the same way. There's just a taste
of it. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, dude, it's
like non stop. You'll notice it going forward.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So Roman, well that.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
You have a collection, I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, I do I collect that. I told you you have.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
A very eclectic group of drops that you probably have
that is crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's like, uh,
you know, instead of hey check out my baseball card collection,
you know, it's like, hey, check out my drops. Check
out my drop collection. Right, that's what I have to
offer over here. Let's get back out to the phones.
We got Mike the Leprechaun. Who is with us? What's
going on?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Mike?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Okay, Happy Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Same do you, Mike? What's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Oh a lot? Helena and Cooper. It was not a
bird sanctuary yesterday for my song.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I love to hear saying to tell him like we
aren't sitting right here, like we can't hear you, leprechaun.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Lorena might go anyway. Wimbley is retractable. Okay, newsplash, Denver
Broncos are moving. Did you hear that movie?
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I heard something about them, you know.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
The Dublin They'll be called the Dublin Broncos the movie.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, they're not going. They're not doing anything that radical.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Mike, Lorena is cool, block Lepracaun.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Do you want to give Brian some online dating advice
or some male order bride advice?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
I would love to.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm sure you would, I know, but I'm not.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I'm not sure my girlfriends I am.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I don't have bullet gold if I have real gold.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Anyway, I'm gonna predict who's going to win.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
The college.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Okay, yeah, you got one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
The winning team is going to be.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Not for them.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
No, man, I wish you were right. Man. Yeah, you
got to be in the playoffs though to win it though, unfortunately.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Yeah, okay, Dolerena, I do have a love advice question.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I'm scared that the present I'm going to give my
girlfriend tomorrow she won't like it.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, I think it's pretty easy to uh please your
imaginary girlfriend. You just have to imagine that she's happy.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Squeeze, just go squeeze your chicken. Okay, I went.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I went to a movie yesterday, Lorena, by yourself. No,
with my kids. I have I have five kids.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
What did you see, Mike? What did you see?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Bob?
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, I was it? Was it good?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I stepped through the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
The seats are so comfortable.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
No, you missed it. You missed SpongeBob. That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I saw the first five minutes.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
In the last five.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Minutes, Hey, Mike, do you do you realize that we
learned that Coop Off the Year has not seen Walk
the Line. He has not seen the Johnny Cash movie.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
No, that is a brilliant movie.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's an awesome movie.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh no, no, I hate it now, I can't like
the movie. Why did you do that?
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Sorry? Yeah, all right, Mike. It's good to hear from me, buddy.
I'll you have a good evening.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Are you back tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I thought I was, but thankfully Coop saved me from
hours of putting a show together for no reason. No,
I'm not here tomorrow night, but I will be on
the night after.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
I hope it. I hope it's Chris. I hope it's
Chris Plank.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Is this No, I think it's a tape show. Best
of it's a tape thing.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Yeah, uh you guys, no days off? Think of the Patriots, right.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, same to you, man. Absolutely there he is Mike
the Leprechaun. Let's think in one more. We got Mark
in Boston. I believe I want to check in. What's
going on? Mark? You're on Fox Sports Medio.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Hey, good morning people, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you,
Same to you. So I think from here on oded
the NFL should make it mandatory. Think. First of all,
football is supposed to be played in the elements. It
always was, it always should be so, except for the
stadiums and the teams that were grandfather in that already
have Dome Stadium. Everybody else that wants a new stadium,
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it needs to be open air or remember the old
Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas or just covered the fans,
but the field was still yeah, exposed to that. It
should make either open air or that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, I'm with you, man, Like, can you imagine if,
like the Green Bay Packers just moved to a fully
domed stadium.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
It's just wrong, No, because then you can't say the
frozen tundral.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
That's right, I know, it's the friendly confines of the
new lambeau Come on, what are we doing here?
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Come to Lambeau Field. You can wear a pair of
sweatpants and a T shirt at seventy degrees crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
They can't be like that. Yeah, I feel I'm right
there with you, Mark. I hate it. I hate that
the Bears, Chiefs Commanders all domed stadiums. That's terrible, awful.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
I mean, when you watch a snow game on TV
and if you're there, it's freaking awesome, dude. Oh yeah,
remember remember what that snow game when the Patriots beat
the Raiders and the fans are sitting.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
On miles of snow.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Yes that it is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Absolutely it is. And they were having celebrations in those games,
right like the Patriot fans. They'll when they scored a touchdown,
they throw the snow in the air, like the whole
crowd is that it's awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Not to mention not so much of the fact that's
so cold. Did you get to drink more alcohol?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
There you go, man, Absolutely you two. Mark appreciate it. Man,
that's great. It makes me think. I gotta say one thing.
So I went to a game with my mom years ago.
It is a Notre Dame game was in nineteen ninety two.
A Notre Dame beat Penn State. It's this tremendous game.
Drumbetta scored a touchdown and then Reggie Brooks caught the
two point conversion. Notre Dame beat Penn State by one point.
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Tremendous game. It was a snow game, crazy elements. It's
one of my favorite memories ever in life, just going
to the game with my mom. They were supposed to
film Rudy that day, but because it was snowing and
it messed it up and they couldn't do it that day.
But they're supposed to film some scenes of Rudy that
day and they couldn't. But yeah, the ninety two famous
(37:19):
snow game, Notre Dame beating Penn State. Oh, I can't
imagine if Notre Dame was like, you know, we're just
gonna have a fully domed stadium. Oh, I would hate that.
I've spent many days in that stadium when it's freaking
freezing and it might be a little bit, you know,
miserable at the time, but it's just something about it. Man,
(37:40):
that's the way it needs to be. The Bears. I
can't get over the Bears in a dome. Oh, that's
just sacrilegious. Man, I hate that. All right, coming up next,
we close it down in style. I'll give you a
player and a league that have something in common with
Mac and cheese, at least in my opinion. On the corner,
I'm Brian though in for big Ben Malor here on
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they have something in common with Mac and Cheese in
a roundabout way. One would be you like mac and cheese, Lorena,
the cheesier, the better, that's right, absolutely on. The first
would be Draymond Green. That's what's happening with Draymond. So
the other night, he and the head coach, Steve Kerr
had words on the bench, and Treymond just left, just
(39:01):
left the game. I'm out of here. He said. It
was a basketball deal, you know, kind of like a disagreement,
difference of opinion. He said, he went to the locker
room to cool off. Didn't think that things were gonna
get better. He just left, just left. During the game,
He just left, missed the final twenty minutes. No punishment.
(39:24):
The news is that the Warriors are not punishing Draymond.
Draymond cleared the air quote unquote with GM Mike Dunleavy
Junior after the exchange with Steve Kerr. No punishment crazy.
I think that it's a lot like macaroni and cheese. Okay,
(39:44):
if you like me, If you make macaroni and cheese,
here's what you gotta do immediately. You got to rinse
the pot out. Just rinse it out, give it a
quick rinse. It makes it so much easier to clean.
If you don't and everything just sits there, it's a
nightmare to clean it afterward. That's where the Warriors are
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with Draymond Green, you know. I mean like they've tried
to discipline him here like a slap on the hand,
slap on the wrist. Like it's too far gone. It's
too late. It's too late to correct the behavior. It's
never gonna be good because they've let too much go.
It's very similar with the NBA's new like tanking rules.
They're trying to come up with these anti tanking rules.
(40:27):
I've read them nineteen times. I still can't understand them.
It's too late. It's part of the culture. They've let
it go on for too long. It's mac and cheese
that's caked on. You can't do anything about it now,
it's too late. Everybody, have a merry Christmas Eve. We'll
catch you soon.
Oh, what is going on? Happy Christmas Eve to you.
Hope your early Wednesday morning is going swimmingly. Lots to do,
lots to do. This is not like a mail it
in final hour here, not at all. We are off
and running over here. I got a video surveillance footage
(00:21):
of the DK Metcalf scenario, soap opera, whatever you want
to call it, compliments of Loraine. I've got some thoughts
on that. Oh, I had pushback on my Lamar take
had pushba. I'll get to that tweet. I think it's
a bad take, but you know, we'll see. We'll compare
(00:42):
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Not good. Hopefully I can win this confidence pool. Huh, Coop,
you know if I could win this confidence pool, then
boom presto, everything's magically. I'm glad you asked that, Lorena.
So the confidence pool, it is an evil pool. We'll
start off with that. It's it's gonna make you each
Sunday say why did I pick this team? Or why
(01:39):
did I put this many points on that team? Right,
that's what you do every Sunday. It's a great time, Loraina,
you're missing out.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It sounds awesome immediately.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, so every game like this is a full week, right,
like sixteen games, so you pick the winning side. Right,
it's with the points spread every game, so you pick
let's say whatever, it's uh, what's a good example. Okay,
let's say Minnesota. Minnesota is hosting the Lions, and let's
(02:12):
I don't know what the confidence pool has, but let's
say the Lions are favored by five and a half points, right,
So you're like, okay, if you're going with the Lions,
they have to win by at least six points right, right.
If you go with the Vikings, they can't lose by
more than five points. So you pick Lions or Vikings,
and then the real challenge begins. Now you have to
(02:34):
rank that selection with confidence points. So sixteen games this week,
full week, sixteen points is the maximum amount of points
you can put on a single NFL game, right, So
you put your your games you feel real confidence.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
So the ones that you feel the best on you
put your extra confident power points.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's right, Okay. You gotta get your double digit point games, correct,
That's where that's where the real money is, right, Okay,
you can't be missing your fourteen point game here, Loraine,
you can't be missing your twelve point games. A lot
of points right there. Think about your twelve point game.
You could miss your one, two, three, four, like you know,
and it's still I gonna equal twelve, right.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Breeze take them.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I get your twelve. Gotta get your twelve, right, Lorena,
Gotta do it, gotta get the double digit point game.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
How does that normally go for you?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Brian? It went well last week? You know, I'm I
don't like checking the leader board. I know I'm up there,
like I accidentally saw it a week ago when I
was fourth.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I was doing very well this year.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I don't want to know, Coop, don't tell me. Don't
tell me where I'm at. I don't want to jinx it.
I'm doing alright, Loraina, Like I've got a fighting chance
to win some money in this freaking thing, as long
as the wheels don't fall off the tracks these last
two weeks, which you know, the dent in my wallet
do too.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I was gonna say, if you're looking at your first wheel.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Might not be a good example.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, So I don't know. Hopefully I have a good
final weeks. I think Week eighteen is always insanely tricky
because it's just weird.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Week eighteen. Next week is just strange. There's gonna be
some weird scenarios where, yeah, this team just said screw it,
let's put this quarterback in there to see what he
can do. And you're like, oh gosh, this is a
rough call. So I think Week seventeen they call it
in golf, right, they call like Saturday moving day, and
(04:29):
this is moving day. Week seventeen, I think is moving week.
You want to have a really good Week seventeen, so
you don't have to depend on week eighteen to make
your money, because week eighteen is always a little tricky. Really, goofy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So my wife is forty four spots better than me
and the overall standings, and I could.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Her go nice, shout out cash.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
She doesn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh dude, hey, welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
How dare you say that your wife is ahead of
you and she doesn't know anything? Maybe you think you
know too much?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You ever think about that?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Relaxlerena. I got you, cat, I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Very nice. Yeah, where are you? Coop? You do you
feel like saying? What place you're in?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is it bade?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Good? Lord?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What has happened this year?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, Hey, man, I thought I sucked all year. I
really did. I'm like, I'm like, you know, five hundred
most weeks, I'll be like eight and eight, seven and seven,
depending on how many games there are.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You must do a really good job of assigning your points.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Then I don't know, man, Like last week, I was
eight and eight, but I got every double digit game
correct except one. I missed my fourteen point game, but
I got sixteen, fifteen, thirteen, twelve, ten, twelve, eleven, ten,
I skipped eleven. I got all those right, and so
I had a good week. I started off horrible, by
(05:58):
the way, too. I missed the first three games. How
disgusting is.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You said you were eight and eight.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I think I was eight and eight last week. Yeah,
and I had a really good week. I don't know.
I got the double digit point games, right.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No, you had an okay week.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It was okay. I mean it was fine. I'll take
it all day for.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Luke six, first three game, sixty ninth place.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, well, hey, there you go. Nice. It's better than
how it started. I missed. I had fourteen points on Seattle,
and they're minus a point and a half. Like sometimes
the confidence pool, they have stale lines. You can take
advantage of that. I thought it would be like Seattle
plus a point and a half, but it wasn't. It
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was minus a point and a half.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah I was. I was nine and seven and you
got ten more points than I did.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah. See, like how you how you place these points?
It makes all the difference. Man, It's all about that. Hopefully,
Like ideally you'd have a really good record. You want
to be you know, if you can get to double
digit wins in a week. You could get to eleven
twelve wins in a week, you're gonna have a good
week most likely. But if you have one of those
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nine win eight win weeks, it's all about the confidence points.
You got to get those high point games right or
it's going to be a disaster. But yeah, I missed.
I missed the first game, which was the Seahawks. They somehow,
some way tied the game. They're down thirty to fourteen.
Sam Darnold's throwing picks left and right. Next thing you know,
(07:25):
it's tied. They're going to overtime. Look like they had
an interception in overtime and you're like, oh, they're probably
going to cover if they get this pick, and it
was the right call, it was incomplete. Next thing you know,
Puka Nakua is in the end zone again, and you're like, well,
I just lost that one. That's fourteen points gone. And
then I had I had eight points on the Packers. Dude,
(07:46):
that was disgusting. That was a bad loss. And so
I started off zero to three this week. So to
end up with like a respectable point told, I'll take
that all day, absolutely, So high stakes on the confidence pool. Uh.
By the way, it's funny. I was looking at the
upcoming schedule here. So JJ McCarthy, the Vikings quarterback, he's
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gonna miss this week's game. They play on Saturday. They
are hosting the Lions, and there's no that's gonna be
on Christmas Day on Thursday. So I'm getting my days
all mixed up. I said earlier that it was going
to be on Saturday. I believe it's on Thursday. It's
on Christmas Day. Got that triple header? You're not mixed day? Yeah,
(08:30):
I'm not mixed up. You know exactly where you are?
Where am i Indiana? Back home again for the holidays. Yeah,
so it'll be on Christmas Day, Lions at the Vikings. No,
Jj McCarthy. And what's what's interesting to me, Like, we
do have sound? Do you have that, Lorena? Do you
have the the Kevin O'Connell I just sent it to
(08:53):
Coop while we were already.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Give me two seconds, I'll have it right here.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, beautiful. Yeah, because Kevin O'Connell, he mentioned this about
JJ's fractured hand, gave an update on what's going on here.
He is here is koc take it away to give.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
You guys an update, JJ McCarthy. We did continue to
get further imaging beyond the initial X ray and beyond
even the initial MRI, got some further imaging and it
was discovered he does have a very very small hairline
fracture that was discovered in his hand. We are not
expecting to have him this week. I do not think
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this is anything that will require surgery kind of recovery.
He's kind of similar to a bone bruce, but obviously
there is a small hairline fracture in there. And we'll
keep you guys posted about his availability next week.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Okay, so no JJ McCarthy on Christmas Day against the Lions. Instead,
it is Max Brosmer, yet again expected to start. And
what I took away from this is if you look
at the Vikings and how bad of a season it's been, right,
brutal season, JJ McCarthy. He starts off bad, then has
(10:08):
a really good quarter against the Bears in week two.
Remember that right away the beginning of the season, and
he brings him back, they win the game. It's this
big win at the time, and then shortly after he's
back to being bad again. He looks rough. Now we
have Carson Wentz is in there for a little bit.
JJ McCarthy's banged up. My gosh, this is a fiasco.
(10:29):
I guess it was Week one against the Bears. Vikings
got that win, and the next week he gets banged up.
JJ McCarthy gets banged up against the Falcons. Now he's out.
Now he got Carson Wentz in there. Oh my gosh.
Now man, JJ McCarthy comes back a little bit later
in the season and it's bad and it looks rough
and he's hurt again. Now we have Max Brosmer come
in against the Seahawks. They get shut out by the Seahawks.
(10:51):
Brosmer throws the worst interception all season long by far,
kind of like a no look trying to get rid
of the ball, throws it right to a Seattle defender,
pick six. Just a disaster for the Vikings, right, horrible season.
They're seven and eight and they host the Lions, who
are eight and seven. You know what I mean. Like,
as awful as the Viking season has been, they are
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one win worse than the Lions. They're like living on
the same block this season, the Vikings and Lions. That's
wild to me. How much worse the Viking season feels,
at least to me, I think a lot of people
would agree the Viking season feels way worse than the Lions.
The Vikings are seven and eight, Lions are eight and seven.
(11:38):
There's another game like that that I think it feels
way worse than it actually is. My poor, pathetic, reeling Dolphins, Right,
Miami Dolphins have been rough this season. They what they
started off, it's just a house of horrors. What's their record? Okay,
(11:58):
lost loss loss win loss loss loss. They start off
one in six, okay, and it's worse than that if
you can believe that. The last loss, like it was
Week seven. So they fall to one in six by
getting punked by the Browns thirty one to six. Remember
(12:19):
two was throwing all those interceptions against the Browns. So
the Dolphins are one and six. They rallied. They win
a couple of games against Suckey teams. They did beat
the Bills. They smacked around the Bills. That was a
good win. But then they beat the Commanders, they beat
the Saints, they beat the Jets. There is a bunch
of like who cares. Then they get crushed by the Steelers.
They get rolled by the Bengals this last week they
(12:43):
benched to it. It's been a disaster, right, Well, the
Dolphins are six and nine and they're hosting Tampa who's
seven and eight. Like, think about it. As horrible as
the Dolphins season has been, one in six start crushed
by the Browns, Tua gets benched like they're getting blowed out.
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They're one win worse than Tampa Bay. That's wild, isn't it. Like,
But we had a couple of games like that this
this weekend. I just think Tampa's season is cratering. Man.
I like Tampa's team a lot earlier in the season.
They're playing really good defense. Run defense was fantastic, offense
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was good, and then they had some injuries and the
losses just started mounting up and they can't get out
of their own way now. Man, their season is disintegrating
and they got to win to stay alive this week
against the Dolphins. So there you go. Gonna be interesting stuff.
I'll tell you what. Something else that caught my attention
(13:49):
the Broncos opponent on Christmas Day, Right they're taking on
the Chiefs on the road. So a couple of things
with the Chiefs. One, it is more so in the future.
But but they're moving away from Kansas City. I'm sure
you heard about that. They're moving to Kansas right across
the state line. They're gonna move into a new stadium
in twenty thirty one. I think it's gonna be a dome.
(14:12):
How do you feel about this? We're gonna have dome
stadiums for the Chiefs, for the Bears. Something just feels
wrong about that? Does it? Not a dome for the
Chicago Bears? How many years have we talked about bear weather?
You know, like it's a thing like I think about
the eighty five Bears. They're beating the Rams. It's snowing
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like those.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It's a travesty, it's a it's awful.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right, coop, Like you think of the Chicago Bears that outdoor.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
The Broncos are getting a new stadium too, Uh, but
I believe they're doing a like retractable roof.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Okay type of situation. Yeah, Like, I mean I can
live with that if we're talking just straight dome stadium
for the Bears, even the Chiefs. Some just feels wrong
about that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I like what the Bills are doing. The Bills are
still going to be outside but the way they've built
the stadium, they're really conscientious about cutting down the wind.
They built the stadium like the lower Bowl in a
way where it really cuts down on the wind that
gets in there. And okay, fine, but you're still outdoors,
you know what I mean? Like it would feel wrong
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if the Bills were playing in a dome stadium.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
How many stadiums are still left that are in the
elements like that, because if they take away all of them,
isn't that just taking away that part of the sport.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think that the snow games are the best.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I think they're so I know, yeah, well we got
a lot like are you just talking outdoor stadiums or
like outdoor stadiums in.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Cold in cold weather?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, I mean listen, you still have Philly still have
like the Washington Commanders. Well, they're building a new one.
I don't know if that's going to be a dome
or not. I hope not. The Packers obviously, Minnesota no
longer right Like Minnesota, Well, they've been in a dome
quite a bit. I just remember the outdoor game where
where it was what was it Blair Walsh missing the
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chip shot field goal and they lost like thirteen to twelve.
That was when you know, it was frigid out there,
freezing cold.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I just can't imagine, like, even if I'm just the
tiniest bit cold, if my hand gets hit, it hurts
so bad. Imagine taking a full on man at your body.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Like, yeah, oh totally, Yeah, Commanders will be a dome
as well.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh my gosh, what is happening right hitting the ground,
like just hitting the ground. How hard that ground? Oh
my gosh, this is brutal. Patriots outdoors, Bills still outdoors, Jets,
Giants out those are all in the elements. Steelers, Ravens, Bengals.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Okay, so we still got options, Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Still have some, but man, we're losing some ride or
die teams like the Bears, the Commanders, the Chiefs. Like
that's a lot. That's a lot right there. And think
how many playoff games are going to be at some
of those places, you know, like when Mahomes gets better,
and yeah, the Chiefs are still gonna be hosting playoff games.
(17:13):
Believe me, I don't like it. I don't like it.
I can deal with a retractable roof, but a straight
dome stadium for the Bears there's just something completely Unamerican
about that. They does not feel right.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They should check their domes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Something as far as this weekend though, with the Chiefs
taken on coops Broncos, would you like to guess the
betting line in terms of the Chiefs team total against
the Broncos on Christmas Day? Right? So it's literally just
a you know, there's a line that comes out and
(17:51):
based on this number, you bet on the over or
the under. Well, the Chiefs score more than this amount
of points or less than this amount of points, right,
what do you think it's set at? And I believe
we've got Chris Ola do'kun who's going to be starting again.
We have mahomes Is on the shelf with a knee injury.
We have Gardner Minshew who didn't tear his acl thankfully,
(18:12):
but he's on the shelf with a knee injury. So
I think it's gonna be Chris Ola do'coun. They signed
Shane Bouchelle off of game man. They signed him off
a practice squad as insurance right there, So what do
you think they're coop? What do you think the team
total is for the Chiefs against your Broncos.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Let's go fourteen ten and a.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Half on Christmas Day, Bro, I don't know how they're
getting the double digits against your Broncos. Your Broncos should
be out for blood. They were not good. They haven't
been good for a couple of games. Like, I'm not
being a troll right here, right, you would admit they
were not good defensively against the Washington Commanders in Mariota
(19:04):
a couple of weeks ago. Right, they survived in overtime
in that game. They gave up twenty six points.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Pretty good against the Packers, they were.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right, they still give up twenty six points. You know,
it's not like a shut them down like dominant performance
at all. And then this past weekend the Jags they
put up thirty four points, Like what is up with
this defense? So I think the Broncos defense could be
out for blood. And against Chris Ola dookun like the
Chiefs just scored what nine points against the Titans, Like,
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it's not gonna go well against the Broncos. Man, So yeah,
I think under ten and a half might be the
way to go. I don't know how the Chiefs are
scoring in this game. It's you're gonna kick your feet
up and be like, this is beautiful, Coop. The question
is do you put all your sixteen confidence points on
the Broncos minus to points?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, what's the spread? Like twelve and a half?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, it's probably like and a half thirteen and a half.
I don't know what it's going to be on the
confidence pool, but a lot, a lot. Yeah, all right.
Coming up next, we'll get to the militia. I've got
some thoughts. I heard from a member of the militia
who was pushing back on what I had to say
about Lamar Jackson not getting back out on the field
with a back bruise in the second half. He's day
(20:22):
to day with a bruise, and I was just like, bro,
you gotta get on the field. I got some pushback,
so here the counter argument, and also from the militias
lining up a couple of regulars here I see. Very
excited for that. We will get to all of that
coming up next. I'm Brian no In for Big Ben.
Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (21:03):
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if you're a Bama fan, you want to get on
that real fast. And you know, have Bama just going
far in the playoff out of spite and probably be
horribly wrong on that one. I just want to let
you know something about I don't know, running the ball
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kind of matters. They can't. Oh man, They've had a
golden horseshoe for far too long Man. The end is
near for the Crimson Tide. I can't wait to see
them get smacked around by Iu oh Man, my Saturday
co hosts. You would think they not only went to
(23:15):
Alabama but were born in Tuscaloosa. I don't know what
it is. I say these things like Alabama's total fools
gold and they go crazy on me. They're like wolverines
going after me. It's wild. I like being able to
say certain things and having zero pushbags. Kind of nice
(23:36):
filling in for Big Man.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I did get some pushback. This's a good segue. We'll
get to the militia here just momentarily. So I got
some pushback on my Lamar take. So Cliff's notes version
very brief. Lamar Jackson he missed the second half on
Sunday Night against the Patriots. Gots to have it situation.
Ravens really needed that win against the Patriots. Lamar gets
(23:58):
knead in the back, he leaves the game, never comes back.
Turns out he has a back bruise. He has a
back contusion, so he's had a bruise. I'm sure it's painful,
but he doesn't play the entire second half he's day
to day. You gotta be kidding me. Your day to
day with a bruise and you don't gut it out,
(24:20):
you don't get back on the field. Really, you gotta
get back out there, have to get back out there.
So BP checks in. Now, I'm assuming this is not
like the the gas station company at VP. Like my
brother in law works for BP. It's more than just
a gas station company. I have no idea what else
they do. That's where he works. I'm assuming it's not that.
(24:44):
But anyway BP checks in, it says bad take by you.
The score was ten to ten at the half. Sunday,
Ravens took an eleven point lead with their backup quarterback.
Ravens lost because Henry did not see the field with
more than twelve minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
He had more than one hundred and twenty yards and
(25:04):
seven yards per carry. Okay, I think it's a bad take. Now,
not all of it is a bad take. I totally
agree with the second part. How they don't get Derrick
Henry on the field and get the ball in his
hands is absurd. That is a football crime. He went crazy.
Derrek Henry had a great game and you're not gonna
(25:25):
get him the football. You're gonna put in Keaton Mitchell,
who I like. Keaton Mitchell. By the way, his final
stat line nine carries for thirteen yards. So you have
Keaton Mitchell in there instead of Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry
stat line eighteen carries for one twenty eight and two touchdowns.
They're like, no, this is normally the series that Keaton
(25:46):
Mitchell plays. So it's just a rotational type. Bro screw
the rotation. Get Derrick Henry the football. What are you doing?
So that part is right, the bad take is, Look,
yes they grew a lead with Tyler Huntley, the backup
quarterback in there, but they didn't grow the lead because
of Tyler Huntley. Tyler Huntley completed nine passes for sixty
(26:09):
five yards. He didn't do anything special, he didn't do
anything spectacular. Like Lamar Jackson needs to be on the field.
Suck it up, it's a bruise, get back out there.
If Lamar is there, they're fully capable of building a lead. Also,
maybe they would have built a bigger lead. Maybe maybe
they would have had Derek Henry on the field more
(26:30):
if Lamar was out there. I don't know. It could
be it could have changed their thinking a little bit
in some way. But I don't buy this that. Well
they built a lead with the backup quarterback, Well, they
can't build a bigger lead with Lamar. They can't build
the same lead with Lamar. Maybe it changes the situation
(26:51):
of the game. Maybe the amount of time left in
the game is different. Maybe they score quicker, maybe they're
not as methodical. Maybe it's you know, it's a bigger
play that they're capable of hitting on. It changes every
scenario going forward. You have to have your best players
on the field. And when your best player, Lamar Jackson
(27:11):
doesn't gut it out and get out there with what
turns out to be a back bruise that he's only
day to day with, that is a minor injury. He's
just hurt. He's not injured. He could get out there,
but he didn't. Like an injury is you can't get
out there no matter how badly you want to be there.
(27:31):
That's like torn kneeligam its broken bones. It can't do it.
You're on the shelf. Sorry, dude, get him next time.
Like bruises, you know, shoulders that are you know, I
don't know, like on a socket, but you can gut
it out. You can go like bro, you gotta gut
it out. You gotta get out there. So no, I
(27:52):
don't agree with that take. I think Lamar has to
find a way to get out there, has to. That's
a game you gotta win. Okay, I've said my piece.
Let me get out to the militia. They want to
check in. I've got Jed, who fled my guy. He's
ready to check in. What's up, Jed? You're on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Well, you've got a gift horse. You don't put that
some bit to the stable. You let it run. You
don't put your best player on the on the bench
when it's crunch time. Also, Wolverine attacking you from Alabama.
Can you imagine Wolverine with his sister in total pregnant
from him and then get run of it out of face?
You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna get too mag
you know, come on now, I've got that big up.
That's what I imagine when you're got from Alabama. That's
why these people are here. We're living in North Florida.
(28:31):
The further North Florida, you go the morn of South
you are and we I've had to defend myself from
just Alabama's here in North Florida most of my life.
The good thing is that you throw a word like
there's anything due, they're stunned for. It's like a flash bang,
just as them to spell anything or do a mathematical
problem and you're okay. So when I was growing up,
we had to unsure pool, the issuy pool in the
(28:52):
confetence pool. If you jumped into the confidence pool, you
couldn't swim. Nobody was gonna jump in and help you. Dude,
you were on your own. That's a that's what we have,
right because Gamblack's the bad thing. Amma's not the devil.
But the domes have got to be institute. Why because
geo engineering would be a temptation for somebody like President
tin Man, you know, but didn't have it. Yeah, if
(29:12):
I only had a brain, he could be manipulated and
change the weather. We don't need that changing the outcome
of professional sports games. That's why you've got to get
domes to protect it from the weather control. That makes
total sense, right.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So you're pro domes there, jedu.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Fled dude, the ying Yang twins were pro the ying
aate twins were pro done. Dude, I'm pro done.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
That's a different kind of right.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
That is what's your go to noise? Dude? Like like
ying twins like like that, like go to noise?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I picked.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I think radio talks to your hosts have would go
to noise, like I.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Don't know, very very like you're right, you know, like
uh like the first one that comes to mind is
Jim rome Or's got the you know, like the whatever,
the manual buzzer. That's that's his noise.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Sorry, did that not mean to suggest in the gym
rome via dude uptom so I'm not that stupid. That
got suck. I got that got bad. Dude, you how
do you go challenge the NFL quarterback on the air?
Allows TV to try to whip you because you're a
lat TV.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
If you have.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
To, if you have to punk out a watch TV.
That's why they Hey fucking out real quick and fu
get out of here. Ry Christmas to all and y
christaff's you man, because we're thinking about kicking every male
out of Tallahassee and returning to all girls school because
because dude, you saw the football team that's all I
got to say, pretty Muchay must love to you Brown
must love to j Justice Cooper, the raino Justin doesn't
does give us a woman too much credit? I mean,
(30:33):
I'm no credit. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I got you too, man, Merry Christmas. There is Jed
who fled very nice. What would be my go to sound?
What would be my noise? My sound effect? Is there
anything you think of anything? I don't know. I have
to work on that. I didn't realize this, but uh,
Dan Patrick, he is a big fan of the word. Okay,
(30:58):
you guys realize, like he's all about this. You'll you'll
never hear DP the same way. There's just a taste
of it. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, dude, it's
like non stop. You'll notice it going forward.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So Roman, well that.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
You have a collection, I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, I do I collect that. I told you you have.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
A very eclectic group of drops that you probably have
that is crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's like, uh,
you know, instead of hey check out my baseball card collection,
you know, it's like, hey, check out my drops. Check
out my drop collection. Right, that's what I have to
offer over here. Let's get back out to the phones.
We got Mike the Leprechaun. Who is with us? What's
going on?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Mike?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Okay, Happy Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Same do you, Mike? What's going on? Buddy?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Oh a lot? Helena and Cooper. It was not a
bird sanctuary yesterday for my song.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I love to hear saying to tell him like we
aren't sitting right here, like we can't hear you, leprechaun.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Lorena might go anyway. Wimbley is retractable. Okay, newsplash, Denver
Broncos are moving. Did you hear that movie?
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I heard something about them, you know.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
The Dublin They'll be called the Dublin Broncos the movie.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, they're not going. They're not doing anything that radical.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Mike, Lorena is cool, block Lepracaun.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Do you want to give Brian some online dating advice
or some male order bride advice?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
I would love to.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I'm sure you would, I know, but I'm not.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I'm not sure my girlfriends I am.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I don't have bullet gold if I have real gold.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Anyway, I'm gonna predict who's going to win.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
The college.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Okay, yeah, you got one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
The winning team is going to be.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Not for them.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
No, man, I wish you were right. Man. Yeah, you
got to be in the playoffs though to win it though, unfortunately.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Yeah, okay, Dolerena, I do have a love advice question.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I'm scared that the present I'm going to give my
girlfriend tomorrow she won't like it.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, I think it's pretty easy to uh please your
imaginary girlfriend. You just have to imagine that she's happy.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Squeeze, just go squeeze your chicken. Okay, I went.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I went to a movie yesterday, Lorena, by yourself. No,
with my kids. I have I have five kids.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
What did you see, Mike? What did you see?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Bob?
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, I was it? Was it good?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I stepped through the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
The seats are so comfortable.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
No, you missed it. You missed SpongeBob. That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I saw the first five minutes.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
In the last five.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Minutes, Hey, Mike, do you do you realize that we
learned that Coop Off the Year has not seen Walk
the Line. He has not seen the Johnny Cash movie.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
No, that is a brilliant movie.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's an awesome movie.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh no, no, I hate it now, I can't like
the movie. Why did you do that?
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Sorry? Yeah, all right, Mike. It's good to hear from me, buddy.
I'll you have a good evening.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Are you back tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I thought I was, but thankfully Coop saved me from
hours of putting a show together for no reason. No,
I'm not here tomorrow night, but I will be on
the night after.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
I hope it. I hope it's Chris. I hope it's
Chris Plank.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Is this No, I think it's a tape show. Best
of it's a tape thing.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Yeah, uh you guys, no days off? Think of the Patriots, right.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, same to you, man. Absolutely there he is Mike
the Leprechaun. Let's think in one more. We got Mark
in Boston. I believe I want to check in. What's
going on? Mark? You're on Fox Sports Medio.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Hey, good morning people, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you,
Same to you. So I think from here on oded
the NFL should make it mandatory. Think. First of all,
football is supposed to be played in the elements. It
always was, it always should be so, except for the
stadiums and the teams that were grandfather in that already
have Dome Stadium. Everybody else that wants a new stadium,
(35:13):
it needs to be open air or remember the old
Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas or just covered the fans,
but the field was still yeah, exposed to that. It
should make either open air or that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, I'm with you, man, Like, can you imagine if,
like the Green Bay Packers just moved to a fully
domed stadium.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
It's just wrong, No, because then you can't say the
frozen tundral.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
That's right, I know, it's the friendly confines of the
new lambeau Come on, what are we doing here?
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Come to Lambeau Field. You can wear a pair of
sweatpants and a T shirt at seventy degrees crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
They can't be like that. Yeah, I feel I'm right
there with you, Mark. I hate it. I hate that
the Bears, Chiefs Commanders all domed stadiums. That's terrible, awful.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
I mean, when you watch a snow game on TV
and if you're there, it's freaking awesome, dude. Oh yeah,
remember remember what that snow game when the Patriots beat
the Raiders and the fans are sitting.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
On miles of snow.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Yes that it is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Absolutely it is. And they were having celebrations in those games,
right like the Patriot fans. They'll when they scored a touchdown,
they throw the snow in the air, like the whole
crowd is that it's awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Not to mention not so much of the fact that's
so cold. Did you get to drink more alcohol?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
There you go, man, Absolutely you two. Mark appreciate it. Man,
that's great. It makes me think. I gotta say one thing.
So I went to a game with my mom years ago.
It is a Notre Dame game was in nineteen ninety two.
A Notre Dame beat Penn State. It's this tremendous game.
Drumbetta scored a touchdown and then Reggie Brooks caught the
two point conversion. Notre Dame beat Penn State by one point.
(36:59):
Tremendous game. It was a snow game, crazy elements. It's
one of my favorite memories ever in life, just going
to the game with my mom. They were supposed to
film Rudy that day, but because it was snowing and
it messed it up and they couldn't do it that day.
But they're supposed to film some scenes of Rudy that
day and they couldn't. But yeah, the ninety two famous
(37:19):
snow game, Notre Dame beating Penn State. Oh, I can't
imagine if Notre Dame was like, you know, we're just
gonna have a fully domed stadium. Oh, I would hate that.
I've spent many days in that stadium when it's freaking
freezing and it might be a little bit, you know,
miserable at the time, but it's just something about it. Man,
(37:40):
that's the way it needs to be. The Bears. I
can't get over the Bears in a dome. Oh, that's
just sacrilegious. Man, I hate that. All right, coming up next,
we close it down in style. I'll give you a
player and a league that have something in common with
Mac and cheese, at least in my opinion. On the corner,
I'm Brian though in for big Ben Malor here on
(38:02):
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I got two quick stories for you, and I think
(38:38):
they have something in common with Mac and Cheese in
a roundabout way. One would be you like mac and cheese, Lorena,
the cheesier, the better, that's right, absolutely on. The first
would be Draymond Green. That's what's happening with Draymond. So
the other night, he and the head coach, Steve Kerr
had words on the bench, and Treymond just left, just
(39:01):
left the game. I'm out of here. He said. It
was a basketball deal, you know, kind of like a disagreement,
difference of opinion. He said, he went to the locker
room to cool off. Didn't think that things were gonna
get better. He just left, just left. During the game,
He just left, missed the final twenty minutes. No punishment.
(39:24):
The news is that the Warriors are not punishing Draymond.
Draymond cleared the air quote unquote with GM Mike Dunleavy
Junior after the exchange with Steve Kerr. No punishment crazy.
I think that it's a lot like macaroni and cheese. Okay,
(39:44):
if you like me, If you make macaroni and cheese,
here's what you gotta do immediately. You got to rinse
the pot out. Just rinse it out, give it a
quick rinse. It makes it so much easier to clean.
If you don't and everything just sits there, it's a
nightmare to clean it afterward. That's where the Warriors are
(40:05):
with Draymond Green, you know. I mean like they've tried
to discipline him here like a slap on the hand,
slap on the wrist. Like it's too far gone. It's
too late. It's too late to correct the behavior. It's
never gonna be good because they've let too much go.
It's very similar with the NBA's new like tanking rules.
They're trying to come up with these anti tanking rules.
(40:27):
I've read them nineteen times. I still can't understand them.
It's too late. It's part of the culture. They've let
it go on for too long. It's mac and cheese
that's caked on. You can't do anything about it now,
it's too late. Everybody, have a merry Christmas Eve. We'll
catch you soon.
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Ben Maller
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