August 27, 2024 • 36 mins
Covino & Rich fill in for Colin, and they are getting ready for football season but Covino tries to convince Rich it's still baseball season. They agree there's a consensus among the top 4 QBs in the NFL but can't seem to figure out who number 5 should be. They also give their nominations for "hardest NFL team to predict" for the 2024 season
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the Best of the Herd with Colin cowher
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Surprise, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Covino and rich In for Colin on the Herd, I'm
Steve Cavino.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That is rich Davis.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We got super producer Danny G on the phones and
the numbers eight one eight eight one seven seven five
zero nine.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, give us a call, n right that number down again?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Eight one eight Okay, eight one seven seven five zero nine.
Danny G the producer with the smoothest radio voice, the
most buttery radio voice in all the land. So when
he answers the phone, don't think it's best White or somebody. Hey,
Welcome to the show. And of course Twoy and music
are here. Spotty's on the videos. You can play along
at home at Covino and rich On social media. Let
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the wild rumpus start. Good morning, Good day. It's a
last book you read, Where the Wild Things Are. It's
a great book. You know, I wanna, I wanna to
leave on top. Rich, is hard to top that one.
So we're gonna talk about NFL teams that are hard
to predict. The hardest teams to predict this season. I
think there's a really obvious answer. Quarterbacks. We'll talk some
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qbs today. But the quarterbacks you'd least likely to be
stuck with the least, the ones you.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Want to party with, the least I want to try again.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, the ones you don't want to hang with for
the most part because of a Justin Herbert story. But Rich,
I'm very pumped because, well, I'm a Yankees fan, I'm
a baseball guy, and as you can see here, they're
tops in the Al East. They're slaying it. What a
fun week of baseball history in the making. You know,
we've been ratting about, I've been ratting about. If you're
(02:02):
not watching Show Hay and Judge, then where the hell
you at?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You just say where you're at.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You're like everyone else who is so ready to turn
the page on every other sport because football's here, all right,
Bob Seeker, all right, Metallica. You don't turn the page
on baseball unless your team stinks. That's really as simple
as it is. You know, it's like my little league theory.
We just passed the Little League World Series. Congrats again
(02:30):
to Lake Mary, Florida. When you picked no, no, no,
when you sucked. Yeah, and that's where that's where it
all started for you. Little League World Series.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
There's a lot of people I talk about, Hey man,
you watch the Little Girld Series and they have this
weird resentment toward it, Like I don't watch that because
they have resentful memories because they stunk at Little League.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And that's why.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So when I ask people if they're still watching baseball,
you still tuned in, They're like, nah, man, it's football season.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm like, no, it's not. It's August August.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That just means your team stinks and you're resentful about it.
The Yankees are in it. But it's not even that.
It's not that your Mets think. It's that you just
love football more. Be honest about it. I mean, the
world does I just looked at I don't think so.
I looked at the average ratings for last year's Major
League Baseball playoffs across ESPN, Fox, TBS. They were down
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eight percent last year. The average game four point four
million viewers. I think I'm never going to debate the
ratings and America's love of football, but I think if
you tune out of baseball, it's just because you really
don't love the sport as much as you claim to
love the sport. You're more of a front runner mentality
if your Mets were more in it and they're not
out of it, which is embarrassing too because they're only
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three games out of the wildcard now. I think it's
a little embarrassing that you tune out so quickly. I
don't tune out. It's let me give you the flip.
I said, four million people watch Major League Baseball playoff games. Yeah,
guess how many people watch the Lions Chiefs NFL kickoff
last year? And I'm expecting similar or higher numbers for
Ravens Chiefs this year.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What do you think? I think? A well, guess, I'll
just tell me. I take a guess.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
A hundred million, five hundred million, twenty five million people,
twenty five million people versus four million, so your NFL
World buddy boy. Well again, not here to debate that,
but why would you turn the page so fast? Are
you the Starbucks of sports? It's like, can we enjoy
the summer? The dog days of summer? I say, Starbucks.
(04:29):
Here's another analogy. You go buy Starbucks. Now they're pushing
fall drinks on you, pumpkin spice, apple crisp, whatever it is.
It's like, yo, dude, it's summer still. Why are you
forcing me? I think summer? What doesn't end until September
twenty something. Twenty second? Can we enjoy the dog days
of baseball, of summertime? Why do you need to turn
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a page? And here's my point. If your team is
out of it, okay, fine, I get it, you're not
as interested. You're seeing sho heo tani. Grab your kid,
grabbing by the sit him down. Hey, little Gregor's you're
watching history. We've never seen anything like this. He's about
to go fifty to fifty and he's primarily a pitcher.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
This guy's amazing. No one's ever gone fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Think about when you were a kid, how pumped you
were about Kinseko going to forty four.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I will say this.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You know, it's interesting weight rookie when the Dodger signed
Otani for that ridiculous deal, and you're like, why the
first year he's not even gonna pitch? Is it worth it?
He's so good, he's so zoning that I'm exaggerating, But
I almost forgot he pitched right Like, You're like, this guy,
this guy's gonna be a fifty to fifty guy that
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you almost forget.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh yeah, next year he saw young level.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
In addition to this, he's it's up hatred for forty
nine home runs, but I think he could get fifty. Yeah,
And that's exciting to watch. Aaron Judge about to break
his own American League home run record. Dudes on fire
could get the Triple Crown if what Junior gets into
a little bit of a slump and he continues to streak.
These are exciting things to care about if your team's
(06:04):
out of it. Witnessing greats Ruthian numbers. We're talking like
Babe ruth style of players, and you're like, nah, football,
because your team stinks. This room for both Danny G.
Please back me up on that. Dannyg's a Raiders fan.
I know he's pumped about the Raiders. I know he's
pumped about Gardner Minshew, but he's gonna turn his back
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on his Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Absolutely not No. And I understand where Rich is coming
from because he's a Mets fan, all right, and that's
the only reason why he's about to dip out on baseball.
If you are used to your team being in postseason contention,
then you are still having half of your brain locked
into the MLB. That's that's all of Rich's brain.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I am. I'm let me tell you, I'm about to
do freak nasty to dip and dip out of here,
because when I dip, you dip, we dip. The Mets
are three games out of the wild card. I think
if they lose today, today's day where I'm like a
later today might be the day. Could you claim to
be a baseball fan, little, I'm a Mets fan. If
you're that quick to jump Now, I got a quote Rich,
(07:10):
because this is what he said off the year. I
really think And it's sort of like painting and broad
strokes too, because you said I really think football simply
just supersedes baseball once football, once it kicks in, that's it.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Baseball's over.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Baseball is not over just because you say so, or
just because football started. I feel like we were talking
to and we were talking to Collin's crew. I think
Tilly Music, you know, Big Papa Bear, Ryan, Big Sexy, Hey,
big Sexy. That's look sexy today. I think we all
agreed that we all love baseball. I'll give you an
analogy where we are filling in for Colin. There's there's
(07:48):
a month left, and you're like, I'm done. We're filling
it for Colin. So what does Colin do best analogies? Right,
let me do my best.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Colin stars attract stars. Let me let me give you
a Colin eat the scorecard at home. This impersonation is
gonna happen a lot. This is I'll give you a Colin.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Baseball is like being at the bar and you're talking
to a girl that's a six. Oh okay, now you
might want to go home with her. You might see
there's some fun there. Colin would never say something now,
he's too classy. Baseball is the six that you're sort
of okay hanging with. Then you look at the door
(08:28):
and a twelve walks in. Oh weave. That is the NFL,
And I'm like yo, baseball, It's been nice, goodbye, and
I dip away to football. She's the twelve? Are you
sticking around talking to the girl that you have no future?
What I said the baseball? What happened to the rich
(08:48):
Davis I met in the early two thousands? What happened
to the rich Davis that would have said, I could
have fun with the six and the twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I can make a night of this guy. You know what? Yeah,
what happened to that?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I'm just saying with what we were saying with the
n eg He's dropping off kids at school, That's what happens.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yes, you could do exactly what happened to that guy, rich,
mister party guy. You could do both. You don't have
to choose. I don't understand why you have to choose
a lot of people to choose.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You don't.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
That's my point. Consider me the Oldel Paso Tortilla girl.
You know, the old al Passa tortilla girl.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Leney.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Just call yourself the old Passo tortilla boy. I might
as well be. There is a very famous commercial. At
least in the barrio I grew up in where Jersey
I did. I grew up in Union, New Jersey. But
there was a commercial growing up and they had this
big dilemma of do they want corn or flower?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Tortillas? Corn or flower.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
It's a big debate, and the little olde El Paso
tortilla girl goes, why not both? Why not both? It
is ridiculous. It makes me want to strangle you. You
saying this conversation was solid by little tortilla girl. It
pretty much is, uh, why not both? And the answer,
by the way, is flower. If you go for corn,
you're lying because you just want to like eat healthier. Like,
who would choose a corn tortilla? It is a taco Tuesday? Rich,
(10:01):
So would anyone be a corn voluntarily? I mean I
got a little I got both, you know what? I
have both of him? He really are a little tortilla boy.
I'm the tortilla boy. Well, so hold on. I want
to make it very clear if your team's out of
it and Rich's Mets aren't on the brink. But let's
say you're a Rockies fan or a pirate sky yeah whatever,
(10:22):
I just gave you two awesome reasons to tune in.
Huge fan of one Eyed Willie. You know Shohey is
doing ridiculous things. These are circus numbers. It's it's it's absurd.
It's like what Jean Carlos Stanton said this week, Aaron
Jude's out here playing video games. He's like Herman Munster
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and pinstripes. Every time he connects, every time he hits.
Everything he hits, he just throws, he makes contact and
is gone, and you're like, oh my goodness, he's gonna
break his own record. This guy's insane. He's out here
playing video games while the rest of us are. He's
just that much better than everybody. I'm not sure I've
(11:04):
watched baseball my whole life. I don't think I've ever
seen anyone as locked in as this dude. And then
in the National League you have this superhero by the
name of Shohy who's doing ridiculous things for you to
be able to say, no, I quit baseball just because.
And by the way, for preseason football, give me a break,
talk about boring. I have it on in the background.
(11:25):
I start falling asleep. They're not playing anybody. I'm not
saying you should be excited for football. Everybody is. I
get that, But I let's enjoy the summer. Let's enjoy
baseball while it's here? So do you turn the page
Metallica styles to go with Metallica? Do you turn the
page on baseball and dive right into football?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Is that automatic like Rich claims it to be.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I think you could still keep your eye on baseball.
But I'll go back to my bar analogy. By the way,
would you say this if polar Bear Pete was here,
he would look at you with disdain, with disgust, as
a google, as a goober.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
At least give me Lindor.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
If Lindor was here, he'd be like, what kind of
Mets fan are you?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What country you think this is?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So the Mets have I'll just be selfish for a
second and tell you what I'll determine this on Because
football starts next week. NFL kickoff is a week and
two days away. The Mets play the Garbaggios, the trashiest,
terrible team in baseball. They play the White Sox for
three games next week over the weekend, actually while the
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Braves have to go to Philadelphia. Oh see, that is
the three. If there's like one or two games swing there,
then I'm in still, But I always say it, and
I can't be the only one I guarantee there's people
that are like yo, that Rich Davis, He's onto something,
because I feel like the goal of baseball for a
lot of fans is yo, can you keep me interested
(12:54):
at least until football starts?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Now?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's a bonus if your team mix a postseason. Yeah,
if you're a Dodgers fan like Danny and you're show, hey,
be ridiculous, and Mookie Betts is back in Freeman and
Munsey and your line up that's ridiculous. Or if you
got Sodo, Judge and Stanton and Belly to belly back
to back to back home runs, I get it. But
if you're not rooting for an elite baseball team, I
think a lot of goals revolve around hey, could these
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sports bring me to football?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And I'll credit the Mets they kept me interested. I'm
starting to, you know, lose it now. But with this
weekend series coming up against the White Sox, the Mets
don't sweep the White Sox in a playoff chase, I'm out.
I think if you do the math, you could say
it's a great time to be a sports fan, though,
because I mean baseball, we grew up with it, you
(13:42):
love it and football. I mean, there is nothing better
than football. I'm just saying, enjoy the baseball season. Why
you can, because it's synonymous with your summertime. You waited
all year for this time of the year, and you
want to fast forward and jump right into the fall.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I say, relaxed a little bit. You need that pumpkins
spice in your life.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Not yet.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I think what the NFL season interrupts is a random
Angels Tigers game that maybe you'd have on in the background.
But if it's a Monday, Thursday, Sunday, even Saturday with
college football, you're not going to have that MLB game
on anymore. Yeah, your favorite team in baseball, you're not
going to sleep on them.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But it's the casual.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's the teams were casually watching that we're not going
to pay attention to as much in baseball.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
As as the saying goes, which is true, you could
watch any two football teams. Yeah, you could only watch
your baseball team. It's the truth. Who said that, unless
it's a playoffs I think it was you know it
was at Rutherford B.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Hayes.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I remember, yeah, I remember. You see the guy got
taff got stuck at a bathtub right. It was the
president that got stuck at a bathtubs after he said that, yeah,
a that that is true. I mean that is the
power of the NFL. You can watch any random game
and joy. Take two teams that you think are in
your mind boring Titans Seahawk. You could watch a Titan
Seahawks game and be fully invested. If I told you
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right now the season kicks off tonight with Titan Seahawks,
you'd be like, oh, Gino Smith will Levis. If I
told you tonight, can you know you're gonna watch the
uh the Marlins play the Red Not a chance I
give you that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I'll never I'll never debate that.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
When it comes to base you'll try to sell you
your team bro Cruise, and I'll be like, no, no, no,
my cell here, let's make it clear was you're watching
greatness and history in the making. And if you don't
care about greatness, then I have to question your your fandom.
I have to question what you're into. It's like, you
don't need to be a Dodgers fan to appreciate what
some people, some players transcend sports. You don't have to
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be a Dodgers guy who appreciate show hey, or a
Yankees fan who appreciate judge what these dudes are doing
here once in a lifetime sort of things. I think
a lot of guys right now are sadly coming to
the realization that at one point in the life they
were baseball. They were talking to some girl like, where'd
she go?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
She ghosted me?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
NFL showed up some better. Dude, Oh they're baseball. I've
been baseball.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Have you ever been baseball? It gives you character? Have
you ever been baseball player?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Dude, I think. And then I saw her with football
on social media.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
God, and I was like, oh my goodness, she's having
so much fun on our Instagram story with with football.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And it's just a matter of opinion.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, So again, if you have any thoughts, do you
turn the page on baseball automatically? I'm saying that proves
you're not really that big of a fan in your team.
Stinks eight one seven seven five year old nine.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
There's room for both.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Enjoy both eight one seven seven five year old nine,
and of course hit us up at Covino and Rich
and speaking of the NFL, Speaking of football. We do
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Speaker 3 (17:01):
With Fox Sports Radio, Cavino on Rich's logo, no doubt,
we're gonna get to that.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Plus the hardest NFL team to assess a week out?
What team confuses the hell out of you? We're gonna
get to that, and we aren't for Colin. So I
want to say, great analogy on the tortilla girl. Oh
you like that baseball football. Being a girls at a
ball got to bring analogies when you're filling in for
the show.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, hey more.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
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Speaker 4 (17:35):
I wanted to get a a. I want to take
the temperature on this question again. We touched on this
briefly on our Afternoon cavin on Rich Show. You talk
about Josh Allen, you brought up Mahomes, we brought up
Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. I think universally those are
considered your top four quarterbacks. I feel like I've heard
people on the network talk talk about it. We've talked
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about it. So Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson.
You might not agree with that top four, But if
you do, who is your number five? Because I feel
like there's a slight dip after that, and some would
say Herbert, some might say well Dak. And I bring
this up also because if you remember, Tom Brady and
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Peyton Manning both sat down and gave those identical four.
So you talk about two of the great to the
last twenty five years, they said Alan, Mahomes, Burrow, Jackson,
Brady refused to name a fifth, Herbert was brought up there,
and Peyton Manning reluctant, was like, a fifth maybe Herbert?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
So is there a fifth?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
To you?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Is there someone this year that could have that breakout?
Is it Jordan Love who I know Colin said is
his MVP pick?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
No, that was a bold take.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Is it Dak who's playing for a lot this year
and say it's probably I think it's gonna be Dak,
and I know it get a lot of pushback because
he's a cowboy, because he's Dak, but I think he
has a lot to play for. He's looking for that
fat contract. He may end up somewhere else and be
that guy. But I didn't think he's been around long enough.
His numbers back it up. Up, you said something that
(19:03):
I agreed with him. Then I heard Colin during one
of the promos. We said, are we forgetting Aaron Rodgers?
And then you got to remember, Aaron Rodgers hasn't been
elite in a couple of years, and a couple of
years in the NFL is seems like an eternity. I'm
just surprised they didn't say Aaron Rodgers being who he
is and just knowing his resume and leadership, just being
a veteran in the league, because he comes to mind.
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I also find it surprising that guys like Jalen Hurts,
who if it was a year ago, you would have
had him right there. But one bad year he's like, nah,
he took a step back. It seemed right, Yeah, but
you can't write him off. I mean I believe he
led the league in quarterback turnovers. So you can't really
put him number five when you have one bad year
and that's it. That's craziness to me, right, I'm just saying, like,
(19:45):
that's surprising that you just write it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's not even in the conversation.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You start going division by division, you start canceling out
guys like Danny.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If I would have to.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Show you how many great quarterbacks there are, because that
fifth spot will be a multitude of people.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It's up for grabs.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
If I said AFC East, we already said Josh Allen,
Aaron Rodgers will getting old New England's you know that's
a work in progress. If I said Tua, is he
even a possibility? I mean he just got paid a ton.
Is he top five?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I mean he could round out the top ten maybe,
But I think vying for the number five spot would
be Herbert and C. J.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Stroud. There's another one.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, but what about if Anthony Richardson comes back and
lights it up exactly exactly? Hey, if you had to
make that decision, I know you you hate Mount rushmore
as rich as do I. I like the backside of
the Mount Rushow did people don't know this asses on
the back on the back, my goodness, you got to
go check that out. But if you were in charge
of making the top five top five, you had you
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had a fix, had to extendunt Rushmore, you had to
sign it off. All right, Well this is the fifth guy,
and who would it be? Because I don't think anyone
would debate the four that you said Mahomes, Alan Burrow Jackson.
I mean my answer your dad, knowing your dad, Jersey guy,
he would say.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Rich is kissing ass. Because I'm gonna agree with Colin.
I think. I think if Jordan Love, yeah, you feeling
me for Colin? You kids, it isn't. I do think.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I do think there's something to be said about Jordan Love.
One of my softball buddies used the perfect word. The
first half last year, Jordan Love was pedestrian. He was like, listen,
we talked about it, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, people on
every network were saying, Jordan Love, maybe he's not the guy.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And then something happened.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I don't know if him and Matt Lafleur had a
you know, had a pow wow, they had a nice
uh they sat or a nice pumpkin spice a lot
and had a conversation. Something happened and Jordan Love went
from maybe he's not the guy to yo, he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He's top five.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Like that though, So you're right off hurts, but you'll
write in love just based on one guy. Let me
let me give you. Let me give you a legacy
question you asked. Sometimes one thing ruins a guy's legacy.
Jared Goff, number one pick, got the Rams to the
super Bowl. That was the most boring thirteen three super
(22:04):
Bowl they got. They got beat by the Patriots. If
you're saying he got exposed to way, but that was
also Gurley was done at that point.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
He just heard.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
It wasn't the same. But if that, if Goff and
the Rams had beaten the Patriots in that super Bowl
and Gof's a super Bowl champ, the Stafford trade probably
never happens. And I think, oh maybe, But I think
if that's for me, the fifth guys a super Bowl champion,
I just think that that matters, right. I mean, here's
guys that have won. You're not gonna count them.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, Jared Goff didn't win, and some guys are.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Then you gotta throw Russell Wilson in that conversation, and
you know he's not in that Chris Wilson.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He shouldn't be starting, not in that conversation anymore.
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Speaker 4 (23:00):
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Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yea, hey, listen, we have time to think about it
round the room. Yeah, what NFL team has you confused?
As hell? What NFL team do you look at and
say there's one team that leads this key of shame.
You think that, I think there's a handful. There's a
number one, survey says Steve Harvey says, survey says number
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one answer on the board by far, simply because of
the quarterback situation. But it's not only that they need
an offensive tackle. They need another receiver, they need a cornerback,
they need to to improve their special team. There's so
many question marks with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Were they starting
when they faced the Falcons. It's gonna be Russell Wilson.
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But if he slips, then you got Justin Fields. And
by the way, that's just me saying that, yeah, you know,
but you got Justin Fields backing them up. People are
gonna be chatting for Justin Fields once they get at home.
It's gonna be a sticky situation. And not only do
they need an offensive tackle, like I said with her
big au, and receiver and cornerback to replace rush special teams,
but like Tooey was saying off the air, we have
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a pre show meeting in the kitchen. I was there
still waking up. He thought I wasn't listening, but he
was like, yo, I don't think Mike Tomlin's gonna last
through the year. That's my hot take. Why do you
think that two wee by the way, because he was like,
I don't think he's gonna last. There's so many question
marks there, Rich, this is the this is the catalyst
to the questions. So at the start of it all,
like when you think of teams with the biggest question
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marks and hardest to predict, is the Steelers number one?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Yeah, I mean like, look, he was already sort of
on the warm sea last your quarterback situation disaster, right, Like,
things are just very it's it's unsettling, and I think
it's gonna go soft aware.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I mean, you could flip it a little bit and
change your perspective and say, well, those are good problems
to have, right, two guys to choose from, But it's not.
It's like, I'll give you the analogy. It's like, I
hate to always make it about dating, but it's like
dating two average girls and being like cru shala, I
choose how about neither? Hey, you have two job interviews
with jobs you really don't want wait for the job.
(25:27):
You know, like sometimes two mediocre it does not equal
one good. Yeah, And I think that would be most
people's number one. So I got to get that out
of the way. That's sort of why we pose this
question anyway. So tell me you you think not only will,
not only will Tom Will be on the hot seat.
You think so he does not continue his over five
hundred streak.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
That's my hot take. It's sizzling, sizzlings, sizzling. It's like
a fajita coming in the room. There's a lot of
pressure there, Yeah, to figure it out. I mean, look,
a lot of people will ask you like you honest,
I'm glad. That's not my job. That's his job. He's
got to figure this out. It doesn't work out, that's
on him and Danny g I know. There's some action
in Vegas right when it comes to the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Yeah, the Steelers are the most bet on team to
go over their season win total, which Vegas has said
at eight and a half.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
See, so a lot of people but also a lot
of Steelers fans out there, a lot of Steelers fans
doing you know, they're making a bet with their.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Heart, that's all. Yeah, that's all over eight and a
half wins.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Yeah, that's the public saying their coach Tomlin can't go
under five hundred. He never does. Man.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
So I'm just looking at the TV screens through here
in the studio, like everybody's talking about the Steelers because
it's like, well, what's gonna happen? Well, what's what's your team?
Danny g I'll hold mind for a second. What is
your team?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
And I know you're a big Raiders guy, and you
you have a lot more faith in them than I
think a lot of people do.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah, I'm not going to be a Homer. I'm not
going to go that route. The most confusing team to
me is the Miami Dolphins because besides Tua getting paid,
we know he's got a lot of weapons on offense,
but their defense was always stout and suddenly they lost
Wilkins to my Raiders. Thank you for that, Christian Wilkins,
Robert Hunt, Xavian Howard, Jerome Baker, Andrew van Ginkel who
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was a great piece to that defense, Brandon Jones the safety.
They lost all those pieces on defense, So how is
that going to translate on the field for the Dolphins
this season?
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Has to think Bradley Chubb starting on the pup list,
so he's gonna miss the first four games of the year.
Like they're coming into the season a lot of losses
in free agency and already injured.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Doesn't look good. Yeah, but Mike McDaniel got a glow
up though. Did you see his hair? He looks like.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
It's gonna be worth something. But Danny g I like
what you said about the Dolphins. I feel the same
thing about the Steelers. There's a lot of voids in
their roster and they're adding a lot of new people.
You know, we forget that chemistry is a big part
of this. Like you can't just start replacing people and
all these voids and have all these new people and
expect them to gel right away too. So there's gonna
be that that transitional period for the team. And how
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fast are they going to jail? That's awkward. It's hard
to predict. We haven't seen it yet. Hardest team to predict.
You got the Dolphins, Steelers, You got the Steelers. I
mean we're talking about teams where some people would say
maybe they win, they're six and eleven, seven and ten,
and then other people were saying, no, no playoff team.
I think just based on the USA today, which means
(28:25):
nothing to me. But the USA today, did they not
predict the Jets to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yes? Right? Was that right? They predicted the Jets to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
I look at the Jets as confusing as can be
because I grew up in New York and people, much
like my Mets, people say Jets are gonna Jet.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
They're still the Jets. J t Yes, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
True that there's something about just the stigma of that team.
Aaron Rodgers coming off an injury, but he's still Aaron Rodgers.
But is he still the elite? Aaron rodgersry and getting old?
So you don't know what to predict because that's what
we're talking about. They added Mike Williams, they're healthy. Javon
Kinlaw I'm a nine Ers fent. He's going to be
a big acquisition. Solomon Thomas, Hassan Reddick like the Jets
(29:11):
made some moves. I feel like the Jets are a
playoff team. I think the Jets for them, what stinks
is that they have to play the forty nine ers
week one, and that'll that's.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Like a weird way.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's like, uh yeah, it's like a weird place to start,
Like Hey, let's play the forty nine ers out west.
That's like you draw the shark straw in the schedule making.
But then after that, the Jets have a little bit
of a cake schedule for a minute. So I think
the Jets are a playoff team. I'm on board with
the Jets making the playoffs. Roger, you know that's what
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you're really banking on too. And again, I'm going to
take a look at the Jets schedule, and I don't
want to do that thing where we go over every game,
but there are very winnable games. After the forty nine Ers,
they play the Niners, then they play Get this, because
I think these are like we're talking about a couple
winnable games in a row. Let's say they drop the
opener to the Niners. I'm a Niners fan. I'm cool
with that. Own one, they play Tennessee. If the Jets
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have anything they're gonna they should beat Tennessee right. Then
they play the Patriots two and one, the Broncos three
and one, the Vikings. If the Jets are what you
think they might be, four and one, then they played
the Bills. You could go four and two, Steelers five
and two, Patriots again six and two. Texans give them
a lost six and three. The way we're going is
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it's looked like the Jets are a ten to twelve
win team based on how things are going.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
So confusion. I say the Jets, but I'm leaning on.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
The playoff Jets, not the dude. The Jets are gonna Jets.
They're gonna be seven to ten. Aaron Rodgers has done.
I don't believe that. I like, I like these are still,
you know, productive, they have a good team. But aside
from Aaron Rodgers and not knowing what to predict, there's
not as many question marks as there are with the
Steelers as there are with the Dolphins. Did Jets play
the Cardinal conversation? Jet say the Cardinal? The Seahawks they
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were a couple, you know, week games down the stretch too.
I think I'm on board with the Jets postseason possibilities.
Who are we forgetting? Who do you want to add
to this list that we're making the teams that are
hardest to predict this upcoming NFL season eight seven, seven,
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Speaker 3 (31:32):
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Speaker 4 (31:33):
Thanks for checking out? Cnry. He goes Sunshine. Trevor Lawrence
and the Jags. They got to show up or that
team's gonna implode. That team should with what they built
around Trevor Lawrence. At this point, they're well coached. He's like,
if they don't somehow remember last year. I remember this
specifically because they were six and two going into that
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forty nine Ers game. They lost to them. They got
trounced by the forty nine Ers and then went on
a downslide, much like the Eagles season. The Eagles and
the Jags. But you know what, all the bad at
the end of the year, all these teams have that.
The Steelers don't an official starting quarterback. I think if
you can't even figure that out, that screams like we
don't know what's going on yet. That's hard to predict.
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What do you think about the Chargers music, Ryan, what
do you do you think that? Do you think the
Chargers are.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
So the Chargers is similar to what you had said
about the Jets. I want to believe the Chargers aren't predictable,
but everybody here in LA knows that chargering is an adverb,
and so it's almost predictable that regardless of what happens,
you're gonna have a catastrophic end of the season in
the playoffs, even going back to the standpoint, even go
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back to Stan Humphers, not like there's a way that
whether it's you know, Philip Rivers, even that team does charger.
I'm intrigued by the Chargers because I think it's going
to be interesting, obviously with Jim Harbaugh and Collins A
big fan of Jim Harbaugh, and he's had so much
success everywhere he goes, and I want to see if,
as you guys were talking about earlier, can like Justin
Herbert really establish himself as like that bona fide top
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five guy along with all the other elite quarterbacks. I
just don't find them confusing because I don't I personally
don't have super high expectations for them, Like there's so
many teams in the AFC that we know were like,
we know the Chiefs are going to be really good,
we know the Bill should be very good. Whether you
think it's the Ravens or the Bengals in the AFC North,
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we know all those teams are going to be very good,
and so I'm like, at best, if the Chargers have success,
what they're going to be like maybe like the sixth
or seventh best team barely getting into the playoffs. So
I don't see a huge range for them. I what
you said earlier. I think the Eagles, I'm like, I
don't know what to expect because for them to go
from in the Super Bowl to last.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Thing, we started out like ten and one.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I like that answer because he again the question is
what is hardest to predict.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
That's hard to predict. You don't know what Eagles you're
gonna get.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Yeah, you have no idea because they had to turn
over both coordinators because that didn't work for Nick Sirianni.
There's all the questions that Sirianni and Jalen Hurts don't
have the best relationship. One of their biggest veteran leaders
on offense, Jason Kelcey's now gone, and so now you're like, Hi,
I actually don't really know what I mean. They have
a lot of talent. I expect that they should be
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good or are they gonna come out and struggle and
then all of a sudden they start pulling apart like
that did at the end of last season.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
I love what you said because you could say this
about so many teams, which is why NFL is king. Yeah,
which is why everyone's turning the page. Because like, back
to the Chargers one second, they should be running the
ball a lot to bounce out that offense. That's I'm
I'm a hardball guy like them.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
JK.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Dobbins, Gus Edwards, Like who did they even have? Like
do they have an elite running game right now? To
compliment justin.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Herbert, they're in salary cap hell, and there's no more
Mike Williams to throw the ball to, no more Keenan
Allen to throw the ball to. So you gotta look
at the weapons. It might take another offseason for Harbaugh
to get the salary cap mess figured out and get
the right additions to that offense for his quarterback.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Oh, because we don't know Anthony Richardson and if he's
going to take time, now, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Due.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I mean, I love the fact that we've named like
five teams and we could keep going on and on, right,
we can't.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Make some fun. That's what makes it fun. That's what
makes it fun.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
So Harbaugh where I think because he's gone places and
has had resulted pretty quickly. He went to the forty
nine ers and took them from three and thirteen to
thirteen and three. The next year he went to Michigan
won a national title. It's like, wait, their peace out,
Chargers fans. I hope their expectation isn't too high because
that would be like doing it three times in a round.
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Like he's a great coach, great Khakis, great programs, had
a great preseason. I mean, did you see how cool
he was under pressure when he was stuck in an
elevator for two hours? It's two hours. He didn't even crack.
I'm cool, guys, relaxed.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
It was a test. So it's a good Yeah, it's
a good sign moving forward.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
He worked on his footwork for the whole two hours,
and he.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Was getting some practice in there.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
That's a true story, by the way, stuck in an
elevator for two hours with fifteen other people,
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the wild rumpus start. Good morning, Good day. It's a
last book you read, Where the Wild Things Are. It's
a great book. You know, I wanna, I wanna to
leave on top. Rich, is hard to top that one.
So we're gonna talk about NFL teams that are hard
to predict. The hardest teams to predict this season. I
think there's a really obvious answer. Quarterbacks. We'll talk some
(01:32):
qbs today. But the quarterbacks you'd least likely to be
stuck with the least, the ones you.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Want to party with, the least I want to try again.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, the ones you don't want to hang with for
the most part because of a Justin Herbert story. But Rich,
I'm very pumped because, well, I'm a Yankees fan, I'm
a baseball guy, and as you can see here, they're
tops in the Al East. They're slaying it. What a
fun week of baseball history in the making. You know,
we've been ratting about, I've been ratting about. If you're
(02:02):
not watching Show Hay and Judge, then where the hell
you at?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You just say where you're at.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You're like everyone else who is so ready to turn
the page on every other sport because football's here, all right,
Bob Seeker, all right, Metallica. You don't turn the page
on baseball unless your team stinks. That's really as simple
as it is. You know, it's like my little league theory.
We just passed the Little League World Series. Congrats again
(02:30):
to Lake Mary, Florida. When you picked no, no, no,
when you sucked. Yeah, and that's where that's where it
all started for you. Little League World Series.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
There's a lot of people I talk about, Hey man,
you watch the Little Girld Series and they have this
weird resentment toward it, Like I don't watch that because
they have resentful memories because they stunk at Little League.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And that's why.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So when I ask people if they're still watching baseball,
you still tuned in, They're like, nah, man, it's football season.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'm like, no, it's not. It's August August.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That just means your team stinks and you're resentful about it.
The Yankees are in it. But it's not even that.
It's not that your Mets think. It's that you just
love football more. Be honest about it. I mean, the
world does I just looked at I don't think so.
I looked at the average ratings for last year's Major
League Baseball playoffs across ESPN, Fox, TBS. They were down
(03:23):
eight percent last year. The average game four point four
million viewers. I think I'm never going to debate the
ratings and America's love of football, but I think if
you tune out of baseball, it's just because you really
don't love the sport as much as you claim to
love the sport. You're more of a front runner mentality
if your Mets were more in it and they're not
out of it, which is embarrassing too because they're only
(03:44):
three games out of the wildcard now. I think it's
a little embarrassing that you tune out so quickly. I
don't tune out. It's let me give you the flip.
I said, four million people watch Major League Baseball playoff games. Yeah,
guess how many people watch the Lions Chiefs NFL kickoff
last year? And I'm expecting similar or higher numbers for
Ravens Chiefs this year.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What do you think? I think? A well, guess, I'll
just tell me. I take a guess.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
A hundred million, five hundred million, twenty five million people,
twenty five million people versus four million, so your NFL
World buddy boy. Well again, not here to debate that,
but why would you turn the page so fast? Are
you the Starbucks of sports? It's like, can we enjoy
the summer? The dog days of summer? I say, Starbucks.
(04:29):
Here's another analogy. You go buy Starbucks. Now they're pushing
fall drinks on you, pumpkin spice, apple crisp, whatever it is.
It's like, yo, dude, it's summer still. Why are you
forcing me? I think summer? What doesn't end until September
twenty something. Twenty second? Can we enjoy the dog days
of baseball, of summertime? Why do you need to turn
(04:49):
a page? And here's my point. If your team is
out of it, okay, fine, I get it, you're not
as interested. You're seeing sho heo tani. Grab your kid,
grabbing by the sit him down. Hey, little Gregor's you're
watching history. We've never seen anything like this. He's about
to go fifty to fifty and he's primarily a pitcher.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
This guy's amazing. No one's ever gone fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Think about when you were a kid, how pumped you
were about Kinseko going to forty four.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I will say this.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
You know, it's interesting weight rookie when the Dodger signed
Otani for that ridiculous deal, and you're like, why the
first year he's not even gonna pitch? Is it worth it?
He's so good, he's so zoning that I'm exaggerating, But
I almost forgot he pitched right Like, You're like, this guy,
this guy's gonna be a fifty to fifty guy that
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you almost forget.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh yeah, next year he saw young level.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
In addition to this, he's it's up hatred for forty
nine home runs, but I think he could get fifty. Yeah,
And that's exciting to watch. Aaron Judge about to break
his own American League home run record. Dudes on fire
could get the Triple Crown if what Junior gets into
a little bit of a slump and he continues to streak.
These are exciting things to care about if your team's
(06:04):
out of it. Witnessing greats Ruthian numbers. We're talking like
Babe ruth style of players, and you're like, nah, football,
because your team stinks. This room for both Danny G.
Please back me up on that. Dannyg's a Raiders fan.
I know he's pumped about the Raiders. I know he's
pumped about Gardner Minshew, but he's gonna turn his back
(06:25):
on his Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Absolutely not No. And I understand where Rich is coming
from because he's a Mets fan, all right, and that's
the only reason why he's about to dip out on baseball.
If you are used to your team being in postseason contention,
then you are still having half of your brain locked
into the MLB. That's that's all of Rich's brain.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I am. I'm let me tell you, I'm about to
do freak nasty to dip and dip out of here,
because when I dip, you dip, we dip. The Mets
are three games out of the wild card. I think
if they lose today, today's day where I'm like a
later today might be the day. Could you claim to
be a baseball fan, little, I'm a Mets fan. If
you're that quick to jump Now, I got a quote Rich,
(07:10):
because this is what he said off the year. I
really think And it's sort of like painting and broad
strokes too, because you said I really think football simply
just supersedes baseball once football, once it kicks in, that's it.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Baseball's over.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Baseball is not over just because you say so, or
just because football started. I feel like we were talking
to and we were talking to Collin's crew. I think
Tilly Music, you know, Big Papa Bear, Ryan, Big Sexy, Hey,
big Sexy. That's look sexy today. I think we all
agreed that we all love baseball. I'll give you an
analogy where we are filling in for Colin. There's there's
(07:48):
a month left, and you're like, I'm done. We're filling
it for Colin. So what does Colin do best analogies? Right,
let me do my best.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Colin stars attract stars. Let me let me give you
a Colin eat the scorecard at home. This impersonation is
gonna happen a lot. This is I'll give you a Colin.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Baseball is like being at the bar and you're talking
to a girl that's a six. Oh okay, now you
might want to go home with her. You might see
there's some fun there. Colin would never say something now,
he's too classy. Baseball is the six that you're sort
of okay hanging with. Then you look at the door
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and a twelve walks in. Oh weave. That is the NFL,
And I'm like yo, baseball, It's been nice, goodbye, and
I dip away to football. She's the twelve? Are you
sticking around talking to the girl that you have no future?
What I said the baseball? What happened to the rich
(08:48):
Davis I met in the early two thousands? What happened
to the rich Davis that would have said, I could
have fun with the six and the twelve.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I can make a night of this guy. You know what? Yeah,
what happened to that?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
I'm just saying with what we were saying with the
n eg He's dropping off kids at school, That's what happens.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yes, you could do exactly what happened to that guy, rich,
mister party guy. You could do both. You don't have
to choose. I don't understand why you have to choose
a lot of people to choose.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You don't.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
That's my point. Consider me the Oldel Paso Tortilla girl.
You know, the old al Passa tortilla girl.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Leney.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Just call yourself the old Passo tortilla boy. I might
as well be. There is a very famous commercial. At
least in the barrio I grew up in where Jersey
I did. I grew up in Union, New Jersey. But
there was a commercial growing up and they had this
big dilemma of do they want corn or flower?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Tortillas? Corn or flower.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
It's a big debate, and the little olde El Paso
tortilla girl goes, why not both? Why not both? It
is ridiculous. It makes me want to strangle you. You
saying this conversation was solid by little tortilla girl. It
pretty much is, uh, why not both? And the answer,
by the way, is flower. If you go for corn,
you're lying because you just want to like eat healthier. Like,
who would choose a corn tortilla? It is a taco Tuesday? Rich,
(10:01):
So would anyone be a corn voluntarily? I mean I
got a little I got both, you know what? I
have both of him? He really are a little tortilla boy.
I'm the tortilla boy. Well, so hold on. I want
to make it very clear if your team's out of
it and Rich's Mets aren't on the brink. But let's
say you're a Rockies fan or a pirate sky yeah whatever,
(10:22):
I just gave you two awesome reasons to tune in.
Huge fan of one Eyed Willie. You know Shohey is
doing ridiculous things. These are circus numbers. It's it's it's absurd.
It's like what Jean Carlos Stanton said this week, Aaron
Jude's out here playing video games. He's like Herman Munster
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and pinstripes. Every time he connects, every time he hits.
Everything he hits, he just throws, he makes contact and
is gone, and you're like, oh my goodness, he's gonna
break his own record. This guy's insane. He's out here
playing video games while the rest of us are. He's
just that much better than everybody. I'm not sure I've
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watched baseball my whole life. I don't think I've ever
seen anyone as locked in as this dude. And then
in the National League you have this superhero by the
name of Shohy who's doing ridiculous things for you to
be able to say, no, I quit baseball just because.
And by the way, for preseason football, give me a break,
talk about boring. I have it on in the background.
(11:25):
I start falling asleep. They're not playing anybody. I'm not
saying you should be excited for football. Everybody is. I
get that, But I let's enjoy the summer. Let's enjoy
baseball while it's here? So do you turn the page
Metallica styles to go with Metallica? Do you turn the
page on baseball and dive right into football?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Is that automatic like Rich claims it to be.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I think you could still keep your eye on baseball.
But I'll go back to my bar analogy. By the way,
would you say this if polar Bear Pete was here,
he would look at you with disdain, with disgust, as
a google, as a goober.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
At least give me Lindor.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
If Lindor was here, he'd be like, what kind of
Mets fan are you?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What country you think this is?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So the Mets have I'll just be selfish for a
second and tell you what I'll determine this on Because
football starts next week. NFL kickoff is a week and
two days away. The Mets play the Garbaggios, the trashiest,
terrible team in baseball. They play the White Sox for
three games next week over the weekend, actually while the
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Braves have to go to Philadelphia. Oh see, that is
the three. If there's like one or two games swing there,
then I'm in still, But I always say it, and
I can't be the only one I guarantee there's people
that are like yo, that Rich Davis, He's onto something,
because I feel like the goal of baseball for a
lot of fans is yo, can you keep me interested
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at least until football starts?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Now?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's a bonus if your team mix a postseason. Yeah,
if you're a Dodgers fan like Danny and you're show, hey,
be ridiculous, and Mookie Betts is back in Freeman and
Munsey and your line up that's ridiculous. Or if you
got Sodo, Judge and Stanton and Belly to belly back
to back to back home runs, I get it. But
if you're not rooting for an elite baseball team, I
think a lot of goals revolve around hey, could these
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sports bring me to football?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And I'll credit the Mets they kept me interested. I'm
starting to, you know, lose it now. But with this
weekend series coming up against the White Sox, the Mets
don't sweep the White Sox in a playoff chase, I'm out.
I think if you do the math, you could say
it's a great time to be a sports fan, though,
because I mean baseball, we grew up with it, you
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love it and football. I mean, there is nothing better
than football. I'm just saying, enjoy the baseball season. Why
you can, because it's synonymous with your summertime. You waited
all year for this time of the year, and you
want to fast forward and jump right into the fall.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I say, relaxed a little bit. You need that pumpkins
spice in your life.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Not yet.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
I think what the NFL season interrupts is a random
Angels Tigers game that maybe you'd have on in the background.
But if it's a Monday, Thursday, Sunday, even Saturday with
college football, you're not going to have that MLB game
on anymore. Yeah, your favorite team in baseball, you're not
going to sleep on them.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But it's the casual.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's the teams were casually watching that we're not going
to pay attention to as much in baseball.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
As as the saying goes, which is true, you could
watch any two football teams. Yeah, you could only watch
your baseball team. It's the truth. Who said that, unless
it's a playoffs I think it was you know it
was at Rutherford B.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Hayes.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I remember, yeah, I remember. You see the guy got
taff got stuck at a bathtub right. It was the
president that got stuck at a bathtubs after he said that, yeah,
a that that is true. I mean that is the
power of the NFL. You can watch any random game
and joy. Take two teams that you think are in
your mind boring Titans Seahawk. You could watch a Titan
Seahawks game and be fully invested. If I told you
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right now the season kicks off tonight with Titan Seahawks,
you'd be like, oh, Gino Smith will Levis. If I
told you tonight, can you know you're gonna watch the
uh the Marlins play the Red Not a chance I
give you that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I'll never I'll never debate that.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
When it comes to base you'll try to sell you
your team bro Cruise, and I'll be like, no, no, no,
my cell here, let's make it clear was you're watching
greatness and history in the making. And if you don't
care about greatness, then I have to question your your fandom.
I have to question what you're into. It's like, you
don't need to be a Dodgers fan to appreciate what
some people, some players transcend sports. You don't have to
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be a Dodgers guy who appreciate show hey, or a
Yankees fan who appreciate judge what these dudes are doing
here once in a lifetime sort of things. I think
a lot of guys right now are sadly coming to
the realization that at one point in the life they
were baseball. They were talking to some girl like, where'd
she go?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
She ghosted me?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
NFL showed up some better. Dude, Oh they're baseball. I've
been baseball.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Have you ever been baseball? It gives you character? Have
you ever been baseball player?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Dude, I think. And then I saw her with football
on social media.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
God, and I was like, oh my goodness, she's having
so much fun on our Instagram story with with football.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And it's just a matter of opinion.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, So again, if you have any thoughts, do you
turn the page on baseball automatically? I'm saying that proves
you're not really that big of a fan in your team.
Stinks eight one seven seven five year old nine.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
There's room for both.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Enjoy both eight one seven seven five year old nine,
and of course hit us up at Covino and Rich
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Speaker 3 (17:01):
With Fox Sports Radio, Cavino on Rich's logo, no doubt,
we're gonna get to that.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Plus the hardest NFL team to assess a week out?
What team confuses the hell out of you? We're gonna
get to that, and we aren't for Colin. So I
want to say, great analogy on the tortilla girl. Oh
you like that baseball football. Being a girls at a
ball got to bring analogies when you're filling in for
the show.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, hey more.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
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Speaker 4 (17:35):
I wanted to get a a. I want to take
the temperature on this question again. We touched on this
briefly on our Afternoon cavin on Rich Show. You talk
about Josh Allen, you brought up Mahomes, we brought up
Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. I think universally those are
considered your top four quarterbacks. I feel like I've heard
people on the network talk talk about it. We've talked
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about it. So Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson.
You might not agree with that top four, But if
you do, who is your number five? Because I feel
like there's a slight dip after that, and some would
say Herbert, some might say well Dak. And I bring
this up also because if you remember, Tom Brady and
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Peyton Manning both sat down and gave those identical four.
So you talk about two of the great to the
last twenty five years, they said Alan, Mahomes, Burrow, Jackson,
Brady refused to name a fifth, Herbert was brought up there,
and Peyton Manning reluctant, was like, a fifth maybe Herbert?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
So is there a fifth?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
To you?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Is there someone this year that could have that breakout?
Is it Jordan Love who I know Colin said is
his MVP pick?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
No, that was a bold take.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Is it Dak who's playing for a lot this year
and say it's probably I think it's gonna be Dak,
and I know it get a lot of pushback because
he's a cowboy, because he's Dak, but I think he
has a lot to play for. He's looking for that
fat contract. He may end up somewhere else and be
that guy. But I didn't think he's been around long enough.
His numbers back it up. Up, you said something that
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I agreed with him. Then I heard Colin during one
of the promos. We said, are we forgetting Aaron Rodgers?
And then you got to remember, Aaron Rodgers hasn't been
elite in a couple of years, and a couple of
years in the NFL is seems like an eternity. I'm
just surprised they didn't say Aaron Rodgers being who he
is and just knowing his resume and leadership, just being
a veteran in the league, because he comes to mind.
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I also find it surprising that guys like Jalen Hurts,
who if it was a year ago, you would have
had him right there. But one bad year he's like, nah,
he took a step back. It seemed right, Yeah, but
you can't write him off. I mean I believe he
led the league in quarterback turnovers. So you can't really
put him number five when you have one bad year
and that's it. That's craziness to me, right, I'm just saying, like,
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that's surprising that you just write it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's not even in the conversation.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
You start going division by division, you start canceling out
guys like Danny.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If I would have to.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Show you how many great quarterbacks there are, because that
fifth spot will be a multitude of people.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It's up for grabs.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
If I said AFC East, we already said Josh Allen,
Aaron Rodgers will getting old New England's you know that's
a work in progress. If I said Tua, is he
even a possibility? I mean he just got paid a ton.
Is he top five?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I mean he could round out the top ten maybe,
But I think vying for the number five spot would
be Herbert and C. J.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Stroud. There's another one.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Yeah, but what about if Anthony Richardson comes back and
lights it up exactly exactly? Hey, if you had to
make that decision, I know you you hate Mount rushmore
as rich as do I. I like the backside of
the Mount Rushow did people don't know this asses on
the back on the back, my goodness, you got to
go check that out. But if you were in charge
of making the top five top five, you had you
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had a fix, had to extendunt Rushmore, you had to
sign it off. All right, Well this is the fifth guy,
and who would it be? Because I don't think anyone
would debate the four that you said Mahomes, Alan Burrow Jackson.
I mean my answer your dad, knowing your dad, Jersey guy,
he would say.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Rich is kissing ass. Because I'm gonna agree with Colin.
I think. I think if Jordan Love, yeah, you feeling
me for Colin? You kids, it isn't. I do think.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I do think there's something to be said about Jordan Love.
One of my softball buddies used the perfect word. The
first half last year, Jordan Love was pedestrian. He was like, listen,
we talked about it, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, people on
every network were saying, Jordan Love, maybe he's not the guy.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And then something happened.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I don't know if him and Matt Lafleur had a
you know, had a pow wow, they had a nice
uh they sat or a nice pumpkin spice a lot
and had a conversation. Something happened and Jordan Love went
from maybe he's not the guy to yo, he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He's top five.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Like that though, So you're right off hurts, but you'll
write in love just based on one guy. Let me
let me give you. Let me give you a legacy
question you asked. Sometimes one thing ruins a guy's legacy.
Jared Goff, number one pick, got the Rams to the
super Bowl. That was the most boring thirteen three super
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Bowl they got. They got beat by the Patriots. If
you're saying he got exposed to way, but that was
also Gurley was done at that point.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
He just heard.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
It wasn't the same. But if that, if Goff and
the Rams had beaten the Patriots in that super Bowl
and Gof's a super Bowl champ, the Stafford trade probably
never happens. And I think, oh maybe, But I think
if that's for me, the fifth guys a super Bowl champion,
I just think that that matters, right. I mean, here's
guys that have won. You're not gonna count them.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, Jared Goff didn't win, and some guys are.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Then you gotta throw Russell Wilson in that conversation, and
you know he's not in that Chris Wilson.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He shouldn't be starting, not in that conversation anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
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Speaker 7 (22:50):
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described us when he came on our.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
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Speaker 3 (23:04):
What are you doing interrupting our promo?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
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totally out of context.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
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Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yea, hey, listen, we have time to think about it
round the room. Yeah, what NFL team has you confused?
As hell? What NFL team do you look at and
say there's one team that leads this key of shame.
You think that, I think there's a handful. There's a
number one, survey says Steve Harvey says, survey says number
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one answer on the board by far, simply because of
the quarterback situation. But it's not only that they need
an offensive tackle. They need another receiver, they need a cornerback,
they need to to improve their special team. There's so
many question marks with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Were they starting
when they faced the Falcons. It's gonna be Russell Wilson.
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But if he slips, then you got Justin Fields. And
by the way, that's just me saying that, yeah, you know,
but you got Justin Fields backing them up. People are
gonna be chatting for Justin Fields once they get at home.
It's gonna be a sticky situation. And not only do
they need an offensive tackle, like I said with her
big au, and receiver and cornerback to replace rush special teams,
but like Tooey was saying off the air, we have
(24:30):
a pre show meeting in the kitchen. I was there
still waking up. He thought I wasn't listening, but he
was like, yo, I don't think Mike Tomlin's gonna last
through the year. That's my hot take. Why do you
think that two wee by the way, because he was like,
I don't think he's gonna last. There's so many question
marks there, Rich, this is the this is the catalyst
to the questions. So at the start of it all,
like when you think of teams with the biggest question
(24:53):
marks and hardest to predict, is the Steelers number one?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Yeah, I mean like, look, he was already sort of
on the warm sea last your quarterback situation disaster, right, Like,
things are just very it's it's unsettling, and I think
it's gonna go soft aware.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I mean, you could flip it a little bit and
change your perspective and say, well, those are good problems
to have, right, two guys to choose from, But it's not.
It's like, I'll give you the analogy. It's like, I
hate to always make it about dating, but it's like
dating two average girls and being like cru shala, I
choose how about neither? Hey, you have two job interviews
with jobs you really don't want wait for the job.
(25:27):
You know, like sometimes two mediocre it does not equal
one good. Yeah, And I think that would be most
people's number one. So I got to get that out
of the way. That's sort of why we pose this
question anyway. So tell me you you think not only will,
not only will Tom Will be on the hot seat.
You think so he does not continue his over five
hundred streak.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
That's my hot take. It's sizzling, sizzlings, sizzling. It's like
a fajita coming in the room. There's a lot of
pressure there, Yeah, to figure it out. I mean, look,
a lot of people will ask you like you honest,
I'm glad. That's not my job. That's his job. He's
got to figure this out. It doesn't work out, that's
on him and Danny g I know. There's some action
in Vegas right when it comes to the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Yeah, the Steelers are the most bet on team to
go over their season win total, which Vegas has said
at eight and a half.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
See, so a lot of people but also a lot
of Steelers fans out there, a lot of Steelers fans
doing you know, they're making a bet with their.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Heart, that's all. Yeah, that's all over eight and a
half wins.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Yeah, that's the public saying their coach Tomlin can't go
under five hundred. He never does. Man.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
So I'm just looking at the TV screens through here
in the studio, like everybody's talking about the Steelers because
it's like, well, what's gonna happen? Well, what's what's your team?
Danny g I'll hold mind for a second. What is
your team?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
And I know you're a big Raiders guy, and you
you have a lot more faith in them than I
think a lot of people do.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah, I'm not going to be a Homer. I'm not
going to go that route. The most confusing team to
me is the Miami Dolphins because besides Tua getting paid,
we know he's got a lot of weapons on offense,
but their defense was always stout and suddenly they lost
Wilkins to my Raiders. Thank you for that, Christian Wilkins,
Robert Hunt, Xavian Howard, Jerome Baker, Andrew van Ginkel who
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was a great piece to that defense, Brandon Jones the safety.
They lost all those pieces on defense, So how is
that going to translate on the field for the Dolphins
this season?
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Has to think Bradley Chubb starting on the pup list,
so he's gonna miss the first four games of the year.
Like they're coming into the season a lot of losses
in free agency and already injured.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Doesn't look good. Yeah, but Mike McDaniel got a glow
up though. Did you see his hair? He looks like.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
It's gonna be worth something. But Danny g I like
what you said about the Dolphins. I feel the same
thing about the Steelers. There's a lot of voids in
their roster and they're adding a lot of new people.
You know, we forget that chemistry is a big part
of this. Like you can't just start replacing people and
all these voids and have all these new people and
expect them to gel right away too. So there's gonna
be that that transitional period for the team. And how
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fast are they going to jail? That's awkward. It's hard
to predict. We haven't seen it yet. Hardest team to predict.
You got the Dolphins, Steelers, You got the Steelers. I
mean we're talking about teams where some people would say
maybe they win, they're six and eleven, seven and ten,
and then other people were saying, no, no playoff team.
I think just based on the USA today, which means
(28:25):
nothing to me. But the USA today, did they not
predict the Jets to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yes? Right? Was that right? They predicted the Jets to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
I look at the Jets as confusing as can be
because I grew up in New York and people, much
like my Mets, people say Jets are gonna Jet.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
They're still the Jets. J t Yes, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
True that there's something about just the stigma of that team.
Aaron Rodgers coming off an injury, but he's still Aaron Rodgers.
But is he still the elite? Aaron rodgersry and getting old?
So you don't know what to predict because that's what
we're talking about. They added Mike Williams, they're healthy. Javon
Kinlaw I'm a nine Ers fent. He's going to be
a big acquisition. Solomon Thomas, Hassan Reddick like the Jets
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made some moves. I feel like the Jets are a
playoff team. I think the Jets for them, what stinks
is that they have to play the forty nine ers
week one, and that'll that's.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Like a weird way.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's like, uh yeah, it's like a weird place to start,
Like Hey, let's play the forty nine ers out west.
That's like you draw the shark straw in the schedule making.
But then after that, the Jets have a little bit
of a cake schedule for a minute. So I think
the Jets are a playoff team. I'm on board with
the Jets making the playoffs. Roger, you know that's what
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you're really banking on too. And again, I'm going to
take a look at the Jets schedule, and I don't
want to do that thing where we go over every game,
but there are very winnable games. After the forty nine Ers,
they play the Niners, then they play Get this, because
I think these are like we're talking about a couple
winnable games in a row. Let's say they drop the
opener to the Niners. I'm a Niners fan. I'm cool
with that. Own one, they play Tennessee. If the Jets
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have anything they're gonna they should beat Tennessee right. Then
they play the Patriots two and one, the Broncos three
and one, the Vikings. If the Jets are what you
think they might be, four and one, then they played
the Bills. You could go four and two, Steelers five
and two, Patriots again six and two. Texans give them
a lost six and three. The way we're going is
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it's looked like the Jets are a ten to twelve
win team based on how things are going.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
So confusion. I say the Jets, but I'm leaning on.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
The playoff Jets, not the dude. The Jets are gonna Jets.
They're gonna be seven to ten. Aaron Rodgers has done.
I don't believe that. I like, I like these are still,
you know, productive, they have a good team. But aside
from Aaron Rodgers and not knowing what to predict, there's
not as many question marks as there are with the
Steelers as there are with the Dolphins. Did Jets play
the Cardinal conversation? Jet say the Cardinal? The Seahawks they
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were a couple, you know, week games down the stretch too.
I think I'm on board with the Jets postseason possibilities.
Who are we forgetting? Who do you want to add
to this list that we're making the teams that are
hardest to predict this upcoming NFL season eight seven, seven,
five zero nine. And of course, stay interactive. We stay
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Speaker 3 (31:32):
What's up? Wes?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Thanks for checking out? Cnry. He goes Sunshine. Trevor Lawrence
and the Jags. They got to show up or that
team's gonna implode. That team should with what they built
around Trevor Lawrence. At this point, they're well coached. He's like,
if they don't somehow remember last year. I remember this
specifically because they were six and two going into that
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forty nine Ers game. They lost to them. They got
trounced by the forty nine Ers and then went on
a downslide, much like the Eagles season. The Eagles and
the Jags. But you know what, all the bad at
the end of the year, all these teams have that.
The Steelers don't an official starting quarterback. I think if
you can't even figure that out, that screams like we
don't know what's going on yet. That's hard to predict.
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What do you think about the Chargers music, Ryan, what
do you do you think that? Do you think the
Chargers are.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
So the Chargers is similar to what you had said
about the Jets. I want to believe the Chargers aren't predictable,
but everybody here in LA knows that chargering is an adverb,
and so it's almost predictable that regardless of what happens,
you're gonna have a catastrophic end of the season in
the playoffs, even going back to the standpoint, even go
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back to Stan Humphers, not like there's a way that
whether it's you know, Philip Rivers, even that team does charger.
I'm intrigued by the Chargers because I think it's going
to be interesting, obviously with Jim Harbaugh and Collins A
big fan of Jim Harbaugh, and he's had so much
success everywhere he goes, and I want to see if,
as you guys were talking about earlier, can like Justin
Herbert really establish himself as like that bona fide top
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five guy along with all the other elite quarterbacks. I
just don't find them confusing because I don't I personally
don't have super high expectations for them, Like there's so
many teams in the AFC that we know were like,
we know the Chiefs are going to be really good,
we know the Bill should be very good. Whether you
think it's the Ravens or the Bengals in the AFC North,
(33:28):
we know all those teams are going to be very good,
and so I'm like, at best, if the Chargers have success,
what they're going to be like maybe like the sixth
or seventh best team barely getting into the playoffs. So
I don't see a huge range for them. I what
you said earlier. I think the Eagles, I'm like, I
don't know what to expect because for them to go
from in the Super Bowl to last.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Thing, we started out like ten and one.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I like that answer because he again the question is
what is hardest to predict.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
That's hard to predict. You don't know what Eagles you're
gonna get.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Yeah, you have no idea because they had to turn
over both coordinators because that didn't work for Nick Sirianni.
There's all the questions that Sirianni and Jalen Hurts don't
have the best relationship. One of their biggest veteran leaders
on offense, Jason Kelcey's now gone, and so now you're like, Hi,
I actually don't really know what I mean. They have
a lot of talent. I expect that they should be
(34:21):
good or are they gonna come out and struggle and
then all of a sudden they start pulling apart like
that did at the end of last season.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
I love what you said because you could say this
about so many teams, which is why NFL is king. Yeah,
which is why everyone's turning the page. Because like, back
to the Chargers one second, they should be running the
ball a lot to bounce out that offense. That's I'm
I'm a hardball guy like them.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
JK.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Dobbins, Gus Edwards, Like who did they even have? Like
do they have an elite running game right now? To
compliment justin.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Herbert, they're in salary cap hell, and there's no more
Mike Williams to throw the ball to, no more Keenan
Allen to throw the ball to. So you gotta look
at the weapons. It might take another offseason for Harbaugh
to get the salary cap mess figured out and get
the right additions to that offense for his quarterback.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Oh, because we don't know Anthony Richardson and if he's
going to take time, now, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Due.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I mean, I love the fact that we've named like
five teams and we could keep going on and on, right,
we can't.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Make some fun. That's what makes it fun. That's what
makes it fun.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
So Harbaugh where I think because he's gone places and
has had resulted pretty quickly. He went to the forty
nine ers and took them from three and thirteen to
thirteen and three. The next year he went to Michigan
won a national title. It's like, wait, their peace out,
Chargers fans. I hope their expectation isn't too high because
that would be like doing it three times in a round.
(35:45):
Like he's a great coach, great Khakis, great programs, had
a great preseason. I mean, did you see how cool
he was under pressure when he was stuck in an
elevator for two hours? It's two hours. He didn't even crack.
I'm cool, guys, relaxed.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
It was a test. So it's a good Yeah, it's
a good sign moving forward.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
He worked on his footwork for the whole two hours,
and he.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Was getting some practice in there.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
That's a true story, by the way, stuck in an
elevator for two hours with fifteen other people,
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