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may not yet know who's playing quarterback, as they have
tried with desperation fact replaced that position over the last
two seasons. Another position that they've tried to replace Antonio
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Julio Brown, A J.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Brown. That's the first thing, actually is Antonio.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
However that man, no, it's one is his middle name
if stands for one. Not however, AJ Brown kind of
guy replaced by one Julio Jones who couldn't stay healthy.
Now their replacement for the Julio Jones who couldn't stay healthy.
It now looks like to be DeAndre Hopkins, who again
miss what five six games early this season for Peds
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and also has a little bit of trouble staying healthy
and rarely practice. Yeah, this laugh.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
This move just made me laugh because it was almost
a desperation move by both parties.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
He only got a two year deal. He wasn't gonna
get a big deal.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It was only two teams that's really out you know,
that was out wanting him and was actually seeking him
to sign to a contract to complay wide receiver there.
But if you're telling me you're replacing AJ Brown with
Treylan Burks and with DeAndre Hopkins, I'm you know, I'm laughing.
I'm scratching my head and it's not gonna make them
any better. I think they're still the middle of the
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road team there. I think Jacksonville wins that division this year.
Not sure what the coach will because they have a
rookie quarterback, and we know there's always one rookie that
surprises and plays well, and then there's most rookies that
kind of struggle at first and they start, you know,
one and five, oh and six in a hole and
you can tell where that season's going for them. But
this puts Ryan Tannanhill on notice.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Are you listening to Ryan? Do you hear?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Do you hear everybody that's that's been defending you and
saying that that you are good quarterback? As if you
know having Derek Henry hasn't helped you out tremendously. I
do know in your last two home playoff games you've
thrown five interceptions. I don't want to hear about the
ball bouncing here, bouncing there, That's that's why it's oblong
because it bounces weird.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But you gotta at least put the ball where it's
supposed to be. And you have not done that.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Mister Apple turnover, You're turning into Josh Allen here turning
the football over.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
This is you want to talk about an apple turnover?
Just real quick. I'm sorry, I know.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Where you're going.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Is turning his bat over now getting a bat flip
for the age he's out this thirty fifth home run
of the season, seventy fifth RBI. Look seven is I
mean three to three right now, bottom of the seventh,
two outs.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
How do the Angels lose this one? Well, they lose
it because they're the Angels.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
And what I'm saying, how do you think it goes
like wild pitch or something like that over the catcher's
head with the basis loaded at the top of the ninth,
like what Because you have a like with the players
that old Tony just saw. It just goes against Angels
history that they'll win this game.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Right, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well out here in Los Angeles we see it time
and time again, and that's why I say it will
shift a second away from DeAndre. But with shoe Heeytani
and I said this Saturday, if I'm the Angels number one,
I'm not trading them.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I'm sorry, guys, I'm just not doing it.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
But when it comes time to put a contract on
the table, I'm gonna put numbers so astronomical in front
of this man and call us bluff.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Say you really want to leave us?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Okay, here's a twelve year, seven hundred and fifty million
dollar contract. You're gonna turn that down to go possibly
so called win somewhere, or you can stay here. We'll
move Mike Trot will build around you, or maybe not
build around you. But then in twenty four months when
he's unhappy, still before he turns thirty, just go ahead
and ask out and they'll trade him again.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You're still getting your money, You're still getting paid. But
back to my man.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
DeAndre Hopkins and the Tennessee Titans signed a two.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Year deal wide receiver position.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Like I said, Ryan Tannehill, Sir, you my man, are
seriously on notice.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
There's no excuses for you now.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Now I did tell you during a commercial break a
few segments ago. I wouldn't be surprised though, if DeAndre
didn't have a great season.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Let me give you two Hall of Fame receivers.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I'llbeit a little later in their career, but it was
about the same time where Deandre's being traded there, coming
off of injury and suspension. Two guys that got traded
there got signed there. Listen to these numbers they put
up there. Mister Julio Jones, who I was always infatuated
with and always been a huge fan of, ten games,
thirty one catches, four hundred and thirty four yards and
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one touchdown, and one Randy Moss who also played eight games.
They're only starting four games, six catches, eighty yards, zero touchdowns.
It feels like this place is the place where good
the great receivers go for their career to crash and burn.
And it would not surprise me Martin Weiss that by
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week eight or nine, we're looking at this And I
said the same thing about Odell.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
These are two receivers.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I think that they're not gonna have the years that
people are projecting them to have. I think this is
another one. I just show hell Ton his third straight game.
Mar has been staring up at the screen the whole
time I was on my little.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
We have plenty of time to talk about Ryan Tannemah,
plenty of time.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
He's been on notice for the last two years. They
keep drafted quarterbacks. Tell you what, if they keep tigning
up a place for radio host, I'd be like, hey,
I'm looking over my show.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
But yeah, I mean this guy last night home running
the ninth inning, two nights ago, late ending home run,
this bottom of the seventh I mean clutch.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I mean, geez, Louise clutch that right there. It just
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
There's something to mark about that to where it's like,
you know what you're making these runs scored at the
great at the most important part of the game. And
then at the bottom of the third inning, I saw
he had a he ripped a double and Neto got
thrown out by half a mile at whole plate, And
it's just, you know, everybody's tweeting a free show. Hey
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you Sometimes I'm like, yo, I get it, man, I mean, lord,
have mercy.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Do you do that's absurd? Do you think he wins
cy Young and League MVP this year?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
No? I don't, Brandon, what do you think you think
you ran? This is this is your department. If I
had to bet on him. Do you think he wins
CY Young and MVP.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
He's leading most categories as a starting pitcher, he's leading
the most categories at a as a hitter, Like, how
how could he not?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Right? I don't think he wins the cy Young, but
he wins the MVP for sure.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
So you think is the MVP's got his name on it,
they've already engraved it. He would have to get he
would have to get hurt in his games, right, because
if he's gonna play, he's gonna do this right. If
he's gonna play, he's gonna hit what fifty home runs?
You think this year he's gonna hit fifty on runs?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He's at thirty five and win? Oh yeah, fifteen more
definitely we're only on seventeen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, so he's gonna hit fifty seven I say, fifty
six fifty seven home runs one twenty one thirty RBIs
that's MVP right there.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But I don't see how he wins. Who's winning the
say yo, who's winning? S Young Martin? If it's not him,
who's winning the side.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Here's the smart bet look at American League guys Corey Shaker,
Rose Raina Wander Franco Boba Schett. Maybe around that teams
that are on winning, teams that are successful, because if
shoe Haletani gets traded to the National League, those odds
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are going to drop like rocks.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
There's your play right there. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's the way to try to find an angle betting
around this Otani thing.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
That's that would be my wife's advice. Wis the wife's advice.
That would be the wife's advice.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Wait, what he's doing, you're right, what he's doing is
just it's it's crazy because I think Otani's so good.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I think people are waiting.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
For it to fall apart, are waiting for it to
become average or become regular where you go, Okay, so
maybe he's not the best guy we've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
He's good. He's one of the greatest today. But yeah
he's not.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
He's not up there with the rest of those guys.
I And every time you wait for that to happen,
it just doesn't. As you said, last three games home runs.
The one last night I thought they won. I thought
I was happy to see that. I need the Angels
to beat the Astros, and of course they blew the
game last night, but he continues to rescue them, and
then the rest of the team just continues to let
him down.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And I'm with you. You made a good point where you go.
You know, some days you're.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Just like I get it, dude, like get me out
of here. I get it. But again, if I'm the
front office man, I lay a massive deal in front
of him. I call his bluff. But you do not
trade him. You can't get equal value for this guy
at all. Speaking of a guy that you could trade
throw as a market for. Let's get back to Ryan Tannehill.
There is no market for Ryan now, of course, trade market.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
That's why he is still a tighten and they trying
like hell to replace him since then.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And you know what, just just look around.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They've been trying to get rid of Ryan Tannel for yeah,
however long, at least three years.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You know they keeping the whole.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Time, Derrick Henry rest my case pro running backs. Go ahead,
Brandon before we get back into football.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So last season, when Judge hit sixty two, he no,
Tony just hit number thirty five.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, Judge did it in ninety five games. Last year,
the Angels are playing their ninety fifth game tonight.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Wow, that's a good fine. That's a good fine. That's
money right there. You see what happened when you let
the locks flow.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They had off it. You let the locks flow your brain.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Your brain can absorb more of all that great knowledge
that you have. Man, So you think over sixty, You think,
O Tani hit sixty this year.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He's on pace to do what Judge did last year
right now? Currently, that's crazy. Just what this guy does
and what he means. What do you? What do you do? Brandon?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You trade this guy? You you can't, right, I just
I'm not with that. You you can't, No, thank you,
you can't trade him. You gotta try to figure this
out if you're the front office there. But they don't
seem like they want to win, right Mark, They don't
seem like they want to put a product.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
What are you doing? I hear you talking about you
can't trade it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
But then you look at the rest of the rush
there and there's like there's nothing here, there's nothing like,
there's not like it's like it's not like it's not
like you can just have a replacement level Why left
fielders in first basement across the board, like you could
just run in and running back.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Apparently you're not gonna let this running back take go
because it just drives me crazy, I feel, because I
don't have a problem with the whole idea that like
like Miles Sanders not breaking the bank, Okay, Tony Poller
not breaking the bank.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But when you're the best of the best at your position,
you should be paid like it. Otherwise that's how you
end up with some of these salary type of arguments,
because like I would not want to walk in knowing
that at times I took snapat at quarterback in New
York if I'm Saquon Barkley and.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Now I gotta sit there and look at Daniel.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Jones bump self take all the snaps for forty million
dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And it's like it just it just drives me crazy, man.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Like you look at the different ways that teams strip fail,
like we's all about copycat league and so on. Look
at how everybody fails. Look at what happened with the
Dolph Fish last year. They would have beaten the Buffalo Bills.
With Josh Allen, who was the presumptive AFC MVP for
the first five weeks of the season, they would have
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beaten them if they had just been able to run
the ball a little bit more. Tyler Thompson, No, but
that's not the point. The point is people get hurt.
The point is your quarterback may just may get bopped
on the head and be out for a while. Okay,
that could happen your quarterback. And you know what happens
if your quarterback is hurt. I getting maybe if you're
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Bill Pollion, like he said many years ago, famously, we
don't practice enough Peyton because we would be aft and
we don't practice aft. Okay, understand that. If you got
Patrick Mahomes, get it, if you got you know, but
like too, I'm sorry, I don't put him in the
same class. I don't put him in that. Is he
a very good quarterback? Absolutely? Is he one that is
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at the top of the top.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
No, no, no, he's not there yet. No, So run
the day old ball.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
When they and when they did have a commitment to
running the ball, they did run it well, they just
didn't do it enough. And I thought, you know, as
you and I talked about before, I thought mcdaiel was
trying to prove that his quarterback, his quarterback was the
guy how long do you think sae Quon and Josh
Jacobs hold out?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Do you think they show up at all?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I think Josh Jacobs will play, say Quon, I'm not
sure because like Josh Jacobs won't have the endorsement money, right, Like,
when's the last time seeing Josh Jacobs?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, Saquon's all over TV. All due respect
to Josh Jacobs, I'm not saying. I mean, it's just
part of the problem where he is and what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But like Sakuon Barkley is a star that has transcended
his position. Sequon's on TV all the time. Saquan I
think got Subway commercials and stuff like that. He got
a little bit more money coming in. He might be
able to sacrifice him. Plus two you look at his body.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, year Off might not.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
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in for Jason Smith and Mike Harmon. We got running
back contracts in play. We got show Hey Otani? Do
you trade him?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Do you not?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
He just hit his thirty fifth home run of the
season to tie it up in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We'll see how that game finishes up.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
It's been an incredible season for show hey, obviously as.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
We go on.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And also DeAndre Hopkins, Yeah, he signs with the Tennessee Titans.
People were curious about where that was gonna happen, if
that was gonna happen. What was going on with that scenario? Well,
it's done deal now he's not in New England. What
do you think about that? Everything else? Eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine On Fox Sports Radio,
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Let's go to Angry Bill and Jacksonville DJ.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
What do you think has Angry Bill so angry? What's up? Man?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
How you doing? Guys doing? All the angels aren't going
to trade up Towny the owner would be lad based
that of baseball. They're gonna wait for my Trout to
come back. They're going to try to add a couple
of pieces and go for it. If they lose, they
lose the trade up town. He would just make the owner.
It would set the franchise back years if you lose.
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So what okay, and then try to resign the guy.
He's always got a relationship with Trout, their friends. He
might he might want to stay there, might not want
to stay there. But to trade him would be the
biggest joke in baseball for the last one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Hey Bill, let me throw this at you, man, So say,
my idea is they don't trade him. And then when
it comes to contract time, they lay an astro I'MO
deal in front of him and call us bluff and
I and the number I come up with twelve years,
because you know, have these stupid long contracts at MLB,
twelve years, seven and fifty million dollars and put a
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pin on it and push it across the table and
call us bluff.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, okay, whatever you got, whatever you gotta do. After
the season, But to see they're still in the run
for the playoff spot, okay, I want to get there.
And we know when we get to the playoffs, anything
can happen. So it's no matter if we've to get
into the playoffs, have some nuts and go out and
get some players at TOI I mean Otanmi and Trout
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and one or two other guys can go ahead and
get him to the playoffs and then then you go
from there. But you just can't give up on the
season and give up on Otani. He would look like
the biggest fools on a facity or.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Six games out of the wildcar you think they still
got a shot pure six?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
What six games? It say? It's only the middle of July,
got it August September. I mean, you know, I just
no reason why they.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Can't do it with I just don't know with the
with the whole you know, he talking about Angel's owner
Hardy Marinos, was trying to sell that team.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
He just recently walked away.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
He's I can sell it a times like so that
would honestly probably lead towards maybe that big contract deal
is coming, because you know he's signed up for it,
or at least, but at seventy five years old last
year he was looking to sell this team. Just as
recently as January. So the idea that the owner be
laughed out of baseball. Who's trying to buy his way
out there, trying to leave anyone, you know.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So I just don't think you want to be the
owner that was known for trading what some people think
is the greatest generational talent we've ever seen in the
sport of baseball.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'm not ready to say that yet.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I just know that there are people that are ready
to jump on that, jump on that up that bandwagon
at Shohel Tani is the greatest you know, generational talent, pitcher,
hitter that we that we've ever seen. So I just say,
like I said, you can't trade that makes no sense.
And you call this bluff with a huge deal.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
But I'll tell you this, you call us bluff and
then it turns out he's got a full house ace
high and you're screwed. Yeah, and now you get absolutely like,
what's worse, what's worse getting a return for who may
be the greatest baseball player ever or not? Because like
I understand the argument of we'll just build around him
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and win. All right, I've seen the movie the last
few years. Yeah, I read the book. Yeah, I read
the book. Last few years, I've seen the ending of this.
There's not fundamental changes happening around.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
And Sammy the Bull still rats out Gody in the courtroom.
He doesn't.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yeah, Harry still tells on PAULI and Jimmy Conway at
the end of Good Fellows, I got you, But let
me let me throw this at you.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Would you rather lose him for nothing?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Or would you rather trade him and the prospects you
bring in end up not panning out to be nothing?
Like the trade ends up being just nothing and it
ends up being abysmal. I much rather keep them and
put a contract on the table and say, hey, we
tried to keep him.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
We gave him an offer. He chose not to take
the offer. If you trade him, there's no out at that.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
It's like, well, dude, you traded him, like you you're
the one to out him out.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The door, all right, So if you're being pragmatic, if
you're the GM, I did trade him.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Now if nothing more than hey, look we got these guys.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Are you know we got some players back. Well, you
should get some major leaguers back for a guy like Otany.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
But they don't get no prospect.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We're gonna get some prospects back as well. But it's like,
when we get these prospects up, we'll be in great shape.
If you're sitting here right now, you're like, you got
a call. He said, there's six back right now, you're
under like unless you're if you're not selling, then you.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Have to be buying.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And if you have to be buying at the deadline
and you start making the wrong call, guess what. He's
out anyway and you're out anyway, they're gonna say you're
gonna be both of y'all will be somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
He's not making a while. They're not making a while.
I don't agree with to call her not making a wildcard.
They have the Astros, the Socks, the Yanks, the Mariners,
the Guardians.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
They're all in front of him.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
And then along with the Jays and the Orioles are
the two teams that hold the two wildcard spots right now.
They have all those other teams in front of them
that I think are better baseball clubs right now. They
have better pitch and better hitting other than again, oh,
they don't have Altani, but who does. I think they
missed the playoffs, and I think that maybe like I said,
you have to throw the contract on the deal if
you if you trade them, you're not going to the playoffs.
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That's for damn sure. If you trade them, you're definitely
not making the wild Card. You still got them, maybe
I just don't pick them to go to the Wildcard.
And I just say, you can't trade the guy. You
gotta try to keep them. You gotta try something. But
you can't give up talent like that. You just can't.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Here's the he's leaving anyway. Okay, so you got him,
he's gone, Like he's going to leave. Okay, he's going
to leave.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I'm like unless, like unless you know where you got him.
Maybe maybe he's Damian Lillard. Okay, maybe maybe Damian and
he's loyal to the Anaheim soil. But time and time again,
you name the sport, skis are going to leave, like
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unless they have a shot to win.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I'm sorry, right what in and here? I mean no,
it's just not happening.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He goes where just throw I'd say San Francisco, somewhere
with somewhere with big pockets and a big market here.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I hear Seattle could be Seattle could be in there too.
With the you know what, there you go. But I
just refuse to believe that he would be losing in.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
This scenario, be offered a similar money and a scenario
that is winning, and he would stay in the losing scenario.
So the question is, are you going to turn your
scenario around in six to eight months, because that's what
they're going to have to do to essentially show him
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why he should stay, Like why should he stay?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
You know, say it like seven hundred and fifty million
dollars that.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Is gonna get across the board. Somebody else go pony up.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Somebody else will pony up, somebody else is gonna win up.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Trout has the biggest contract right now, right Brandon, like
four hundred and twenty six million, or he has the
biggest current MLB contract in Mike Trout.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Correct. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
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Speaker 3 (23:33):
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Hal Tony out in three pitches. I don't know, maybe
he's a bust after Ay.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We move on, Yeah, hey we move on. I don't know,
how could you cat. How you keep this guy? He
just truck out on three pitch at the bottom of
the night. I'm just joking. I'm just joke.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Everybody, relax, but I do. I did just bet on
the Yankees in the commercial break. I have a feeling
that the Angels are gonna blow this when they, like
Steve said, just had another game in which show Tony
does something fantastic and you know they have trouble winning.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
But bj where would you like to go? Right here?
We got all types of things on the board.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We got the running back contract situation, we got DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Let's see what your little paper? Where do you want
to go here?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Let's see here, man, we've already talked enough da I mean,
I think we know what they're gonna be with the
with the tight ends and show hey kind of hijack
the last what thirty forty minutes of the show. He's
just such, you know, riveting stuff here, man, I mean,
we could keep an NFL we talk more about that
great show quarterback that's out right now. We can also
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talk about how I don't believe might shout the top
ten player of all time.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But let's do quarterback. But yeah, yeah, I know, I know,
I know, yeah, I know. Let's do quarterback.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Okay, all right, what is it about Kirk Cousins that
you like more now after watching what you've seen?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
It's toughness.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I already knew he was tough, but that guy's really
really tough. But the fact that I know he's from
Michigan State and I know he's Big Ten, that's tough
football up there. Man, don't know softies go to the
NFL from the Big Ten. The Big Ten puts tough,
physical football players in the NFL in the league because
that's what they are, that's what they do, that's what
that's how they're It's like Alabama, right, you know, when
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you get a defensive player from Nick Saban, he is physical.
They You've heard players even say when they get to
the league they feel like sometimes NFL practices are lighter
and easier than Alabama practices because Nick will beat you
and drive you into the ground. Now, there's something to
be said for that too, and a lot of people
don't want to point out and admit it. There's not
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a lot of longevity as far as long standing careers
coming from Nick Saban. Guys, you got a lot of
guys that are out within five, six, seven years, the
physicality really really gets to them.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
They'll have this, you'll have that SEC championship, yes, a
national championship game, parents appearance of surgery of course, and
the surgery, yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
And you're not gonna play ten years in the NFL.
I mean, it's just it's so physical there. So that's
what I like about Kirk Cousins. The guy is tough,
and he's never Every quarterback is not gonna win it
all man. Every quarterback can't be Patrick Mahomes. Every quarterback
can't be you know, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning. There are
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some B level guys that I still think we can
look at what respectability and go, okay, maybe the guy
the the what the prime time record of one in
nine or one in ten or oh and so whatever
it is for Kurt because all right, it is what
it is. I'm not gonna defend that. But if you
give him some weapons, you put people around them, like
any other quarterback, the guy's been effective. The guy's been
two years ago. Coming into last season, what was it,
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thirty four touchdowns and only eleven interceptions and I'm like
forty seven hundred or forty six hundred yards. I'm taking that.
I'm taking that from any quarterback in the NFL, like
that's a great season, but he hasn't put it together.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
When the postseason wins and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
But and then also the family, being a father, myself,
having a son and daughter, knowing what that feels like
that when I come home tonight, when I go home tonight,
my daughter and my son, they're not gonna care what
I talked about. They're not gonna care who listened. They're
not gonna care whether Daddy was good or not. They're
only gonna care that that big guy just walked into
the door while they're there in their pajamas waiting for
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Daddy to come.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
That type of stuff I ID with.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And that's feel good stuff because at the end of
the day, Martin, you'll find this out.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
You get married and have kids one day, at the
end of the day, that's what it's all about, bro.
All the other stuff, yeah, you gotta go to work,
I get it. But once you get inside and you
close and you lock that door behind you, the family
and the kids and stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
And I like to see. I like to see when
pro athletes show that it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Just seemed like I don't have kids and I'm not married,
so maybe I'm out of my depth. But they all
were doing the family thing. They all were like they
feel it. Trust me, it's different for certain people you
can feel. I didn't seem didn't seem to me that
Kirk cousins family was any different than than Patrick Mahomes
his family, or Marcus Marriotta is starting, you know, let's
start his family, but having his child to add to
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his family, him and his wife.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
It's just people got that.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I don't know, it just that to me, it doesn't
resonate like it doesn't like I didn't think that Kirk
Cousins was a bad dad or like Patrick Mahomes was
a bad dad, Like it doesn't and ultimately whether or not,
and maybe it should, maybe this should like fact they're
in in the mind like the way I view this,
but like ultimately, like if Kirk Cousins was a bad
dad and a good football player, I would probably be advocating.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
For him to be paid more.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Yeah, it was like, you know, in terms of the
what what he's actually doing on the field. I think
the hold up when you get to is he's not
as Kirk Cousins is better.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Than Daniel Jones, but I think for a long time.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
He was the poster child of an average quarterback making
super big money because of the way he played it.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Hold.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I was about to say that that was his smart
So you can't. You can't put that on the man said,
I'm gonna gamble on me and I'm gonna collect these
I'm gonna do these guaranteed contracts.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Guys been healthy, Guys have been hurt. He's been showing
up every Sunday.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
That's more than we could say for a lot of
other quarterbacks NFL, including my, my guy, my guy Uno
my got oos down in South Beach. Is more than
what we can say for him and count something. But
I think that is what That's what if you had
to put a pin on it. Why does Kirk Cousins
gets so much hate? I think that's your answer. It's
the contract, you know what I'm saying, if he really
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because I mean, dude, you think about it.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He came, brought Minnesota to the playoffs and they've won
one play they've won one playoff game since and Kyle
Rudolf pushed off in the end zone at the time.
You know, do you pay a guy like that you
expect to see return off? I mean, so you expect
to see returns like and so like. That's part of
the issue. But we'll get into more Kirk Cousins talking
quarterback talk at the top of the next hour. Steve
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de Seger will have more on this Angels Yankees game. Spoiler,
it's still going on.