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August 28, 2024 42 mins

Covino and Rich list the top AFC contenders according to the latest betting odds and why the Bills should feel slighted not making the top 5

They also discuss LeBron James saying he doesn’t want his son calling him “Dad” when they team up on the Lakers

 

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Speaker 3 (01:52):
Being here on the herd. You heard your nerd.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Now we're gonna talk Lebron James in just a second.
But I saw the Vegas odds for the top five
AFC teams to represent represent Zen in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay, do you agree with this top five? I'll read it.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
I'll read it to re Can you do it in
countdown form like Spider Harrison. I'll do my best, Rick Dy,
Spider Harrison and Casey Ksem Kimbang. If you're gonna do
a top five countdown. You gotta do it like a
pop radio superstar Spider Harrison, Casey casem In case you
don't know. By the way, Rich Davis is the guy
on Pop two, k on SXM, and I am the

(02:31):
guy on Turbo and all that other stuff. We combine
and joined forces to do this show. Pretty sweet side hustles. Yeah, alright,
So I'll give you the top five AFC teams coming
in at number five, Las Vegas number five, the Jets
at plus a fifty.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Okay, number four.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
They're Houston, Texans coming in at number four plus eight hundred,
Cincinnati Bengals plus seven to Fiftyals with a bullet. As
we move up the countdown, the Baltimore Ravens at plus
five fifty and we made it to the top. Of course,

(03:19):
the Kansas City Chiefs at plus three fifty. Is there
a team outside the top five that you're like, hell,
they forgotten them, So you got Kansas City, Baltimore, Bengals, Texans, Jets.
Is there a little disrespect on the name of the
Buffalo Bill. I'm just amazed that little respect on everybody's
sort of list because there's so many question marks there.

(03:42):
You're really banking on Aaron Rodgers to be the man,
and I understand, you know they've been picked to win
it all.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Keep them on kiving.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
No, they had Aaron Rodgers, you know, last four plays.
But then you say yesterday the Jets are gonna jet
the team around the Jets. They're not jetting anymore on
the Jets around Aaron Rodgers. Last year was good. I
think they made improvements and he is actually going to
play this year, knock on wood. So I don't hate
the Jets being in the top five. In fact, where

(04:10):
were your.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Forty nine ers?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Again?

Speaker 4 (04:11):
This is THEFC, oh AFC, okay AFC top five forty
nine ers would be number one in the NFC. I
imagine Jets, Jets, Houston, Cincy, Baltimore, Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
The only.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Mabey is if you have faith in Buffalo or Miami
and you think that we're sleeping on Mike McDaniel. But
Danny g pointed out yesterday a lot of defensive setbacks
on the Dolphins. They lost a couple of key players
to free agency. And the Buffalo Bills. You wonder if
Josh Allen has enough weapons and if that team is

(04:48):
you know, did they lose, did they miss their little
window of opportunity.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
But at this point, the Bills are more proven than
the Jets are, so you'd think the Bills would be
at five and the Jets would be at six.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Speaking of, they do have the number one trash talker
in the league, Josh Allen.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah, so so you're telling me I was voted as
the number one best trash talker.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Coming in and number one trash talker Josh Allen, let's go.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
That's Josh Allen tweeted that out a couple hours ago.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, we talked about that. You know what, I don't
I don't hate the list, so we can move on
to Lebron. But I saw that come across the TV screen.
I'm like, you know what, Casey of course, Baltimore. Of course,
NFL is uh high five, high fiving themselves for making
that your kickoff game. Your your two most favorite teams
in the AFC play a week from tomorrow. So congratulations

(05:41):
NFL for just you know, striking gold again. Yeah, I'm
not mad at this. So Kansas City, Baltimore, Cincinnati with
Joe Burrow. That's I mean, these are those are your
top three. We've talked about those quarterbacks being three of
the four current best. Right then you got Houston, who
was coming off a really hot year with ce Stroud,
And I've heard people argue that they take a step back,

(06:05):
and then I've heard other people say that they're gonna
win twelve plus games. So what No one really knows.
That's the funny part about sports talk radio and TV.
I mean, that's the part that drives me crazy, like
no one's got a crystal ball. I mean, the funny
part is when you see the outtakes years later of
you know, people's terrible hot takes that are as cold
as ice. Who knows what the Texans are gonna do?

(06:28):
If they went twelve and five and CJ. Stroud lit
it up, he'd be like, yeah, I get it. If
they went eight to nine and took a step back
and he threw, you know, got a little exposed through
more interceptions, you wouldn't be terribly shocked either, because that
division got better.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
The Texans had a great offseason, So I'm not sure
how they take a step back.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
CJ.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
Stroud would have to fall on his face.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
I know people are like, what if you know, the
typical well, what if they have what if people are
studying the tape on him, and they find the holes
in his game and expose them, you know, the typical.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
And nobody's talking about their defense. Land that defense in
the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
And you know how we were talking about the top
four quarterbacks in the league yesterday. Who's the number five?
Who's the number five? The top four are obvious, who's
the number five? Got a lot of feedback of a
lot of people backing up Danny g with c J.
Stroud too, like, dude, it's him, it's him, he's him,
and we'll see. And you know how I feel about
Demiko Ryans. I think he's a hell of a coach.

(07:22):
I love him.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I love him.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
I know I think Demko Ryans is great. So I
think I think though I think they got the top
five right, I think Buffalo could say disrespect other than
Buffalo's that's sort of I think where we all stand.
Or if you're a Jacksonville fan, I don't know many
of them, but you could say no, no, A hold up. Now,
Trevor Lawrence signed that big contract. It's time for him
to prove why he was considered a generational guy that

(07:47):
just has, as you said, match statistically to I know,
Colin does those blind comparisons. The fact that Garner Minshew
and Trevor Lawrence have the same stat line over the
last couple of seasons. That's got to change if Trevor
Lawrence wants to, you know, be the guy that everyone
thinks he could be. So yeah, Danny G does that
fire you up as a Raiders guy that they're not

(08:09):
even in the mix here? Well, I mean that's not expected. Yeah,
but does that make you excited? Like, well, hey, I
hope they prove everybody wrong.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
No.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
At the big white meeting table in the blue kitchen
here at Fox Sports Radio, we were having our pre
show meeting. Yeah, and Tooy and Music were not surprised
to see Nick Wright on the big screen picking the
Raiders last in the AFC West. And then it was
my friend Chris Broussard's turn to go, and he picked
the Raiders last in the hard you know, And I

(08:37):
told those guys if bulletin boards were still a thing,
if I'm Antonio Pearis, I just put that.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Up for the team to see.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, you know Tom Brady, Yeah, let's motivate Tom Brady.
I love that he did admit that they would take
those things that they would hear on sports TV or
radio and make it bulletin board material. Yeah, I've never
seen a bulletin board before.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I know.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know, I will say our Grandpap you had, Danny.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's hard to It's hard to argue though, with that division,
with everyone being so high on Jim Harball and you
know what Trump, Payton and bow Nicks looks like that
they could put together in Denver, but you know, in
the right direction. I'm intrigued about your Raiders because you're right,
they do have a good defense. They're fun to watch,
you know, Antonio Piercey get that team fired. Raiders this

(09:23):
because there's a lot of teams that stink and I'm
not watching them the Raiders. They're projected to not be
that good, but they're fun to watch them still, right, Like,
I still watch the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'm tuning in.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
They have they have a very talented squad. They lack depth,
so if any of the starters go down, that's where
they get into the weeds a little bit. But the
thing about the Chargers, people are basing their predictions on Harbaugh.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Not sure.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Yeah, I'm not sure if he has the right personnel yet.
But he's going to get there. And one thing that
was really interesting is the teams got down to fifty
three yesterday. The Chargers kept seven wide receivers, which made
people kind of look twice because, as you were saying,
yesterday's show rich people expect him to run the ball
a lot, but the Chargers keeping seven receivers kind of

(10:07):
leans towards maybe they're gonna throw the ball on.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Those are your top five and the AFC hey tooy music.
Any any of you guys watch A Receiver on Netflix?
I thought it was fantastic. Did you watch just briefly
they start? I haven't finished it. DeVante Adams struck me
as so generally unhappy in Las Vegas, and there are
times where it was like, do you know towards the end,

(10:31):
like I get a different story. It was a different
story with Pearce. It was the QB situation. Oh he
did not, I know he did not. He didn't show.
There's two ways look at it. Oh he's very unhappy
or he cared a lot. So he didn't like Garoppolo,
you could tell. And I don't even think he liked
Aidan O'Connell. You were like, no, they liked him I

(10:52):
think he was just like yo, I went from Aaron
Rodgers to this.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, I Danny knows, as he said we were talking
about it earlier.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
The Raiders thing is tough.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
It's it does not look like a great situation for success.
And yeah, when you're a guy like Davantae Adams who's
like done it all and wants to continue to add
to his resume, I'm I know. He mostly moved to
Las Vegas for personal reasons. He wanted to be more
towards like the West Coast. Him and Derek Carr were boys.

(11:24):
But as soon as they got rid of Derek Carr,
I think he was left looking around, going he how
did I end up here?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's like it's like you move, you relocate. I mean,
it's just not football. Nobody wants to move back many time,
nationally or in life. Richie always like to bring relationships
into this. It's like going from a ten that you're
happy with, there's sixth that you're unsure.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
But I mean like it.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
I think everyone's been there personally where you might move
to a city or move to a different town for
your jomb and then boss changes, you get let go.
There's a budget cuts and you're like, all right, now,
now I'm living in Cincinnati or caught, why am I
here like you? And I think Devanta Adams, even though
Vegas is cool, he's got a new kid.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
He's happy.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
I think if Gardner Minshew doesn't get him the ball
and he didn't even like how Jimmy Garoppo was passing
the ball in like unsafe situations, I throwing the ball
behind them, exposing him to get hit hard. I think
if Gardner Minshew delivers, he'll be happy. Otherwise I don't
know how it happens. But you've seen the rumors about
he'll end up with Aaron in New York. I don't
know how that happens. Maybe you get something.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
The rumors started because of comments Aaron Rodgers has said
and put out there.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I can't wait to play again with him, right.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
And also, people watched the first few episodes of Receiver
took that and ran without finishing it, because if you
finish the Netflix series, you see, Okay, he really loves
playing for Antonio Pearce, as do all the Raiders, and
he says I was born to be a Raider. Look
at my school year pictures in elementary school fits with
the raider. He was born to be a raider. So

(12:53):
if Minshew can just be a serviceable quarterback, hit the
intermediate routes and get out of the way, let the
receivers and the tight ends do the work for you.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Maybe your raiders will be in the top six. Then
maybe maybe nobody's gonna put them there. But like you said,
a few things happen.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
Yeah, use that as fire light a fire under your
team six.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
If all these things happened, they might be They might
be like there were twelve, but the raider, if that
defense steps up the raiders. It did make me think
of something else when I was watching Receiver. You saw
when DeVante Adams had the birthday party for the kid
at the house and some of the other parents like
who who is he? I was fund of funny because
I went to back to School night with my wife

(13:37):
last night of our kids elementary school, you know as
a like open house parent. Teacher the school year started
was Thornton Mellon there. Back to school a good one.
Do you think parents fake it when there's a celebrity
or athlete at the school, like pretending they don't know them?
Or do you like or or do you think a
lot of times, like if you're if you're a teacher
and you have Devanta Adams kid in your classes, all

(14:00):
it's possible because they're in helmets and uniforms all the time.
But you know they're massive and big, so they're probably somebody.
But I do believe that some of these parents don't
know who he is.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
What does he do?

Speaker 4 (14:13):
He's obviously a professional athlete, right they see him. But
I do believe that I saw people before were like, who.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Is this guy?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
But but I didn't recognize him outside of the uniform.
I saw Kim Kardashian post like I can't believe my
kids in first grade. I'm thinking, there's no way any
teacher in that school is not like that's Kim Kanye.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
But they're on a.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
Different level of pop culture fame. Well, I would say
the difference with DeVante Adams. He's in Taco Bell commercials.
He's got a Taco Bell in his house.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
No, I do love a good Gordia crunchy.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, Hey, that's I just want to bring that up
because do I pretend you just treat them like normal people.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I don't pretend.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Every once in a while you'll see somebody famous here
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
And you know I freaked out when you saw mister T.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, Rich, you were the guy that I was sitting
pumped about it. I was sitting in a diner two
weeks ago my wife on a Friday morning. Mister T
clubver Lang himself rolls up into Mortz, which is a
little it's like a diner in Tarzana, California, and me
he doesn't have like a lifetime supply mister tea cereal.
But he's like, hey, I'll have a scribbled egg sandwich, fool,

(15:18):
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
To come from.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
And I said, I thought he pitied a fool that
didn't need a serious I said, mister t Legend, hey
have a good day, man. And he's like and I
was like cluver Lang in the flesh. He was so kind.
He's like, you made my day. No one bothered mister T.
I didn't bother him. I just said hi.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
I mean, as you know, I teach Joka Spot I spot.
I once had Jennifer Lawrence come in to take my class,
but she really perum like conditioning her. She's but no,
but she's like an A list actress. She used a
fake name when she came in, So I had to
pretend the entire time like, oh, hi, Barbara, I don't
know who you are, and I can't acknowledge who you are,

(15:56):
but you're taking my class. It's like the most recognizable
actors are now. Jennifer Lawrence is tenth. Guy Johnson, I
thought it was Joey Lawrence. You look like, oh, that's
pretty funny. That's funny, man, that is funny. All right,
So thank you guys for hanging out with us. That's
your top five. We gotta talk Lebron. It basically goes

(16:18):
like this. Think about it. He said that he doesn't
want to be called Dad on the court.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Take a listen. Cannot call me Dad in the workplace.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
All right, once we once we leave out of the
private facility and the gates closed, I could be Dad.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Again in the car, if we ride together at home.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
I could be Dad. No, he gotta call me like
two three or bron. Okay, you know, go if you
want to.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
It's up to him.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
I mean, it's up to him.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
We have some thoughts, share yours on that too again.
Eight seven seven forty four three four three seventy seven
seven for the herd Well we'll do that next Your
thoughts on Dad aka Lebron next right here on Fox
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Speaker 3 (18:18):
I said it to drink drinks on me.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I said it to you in the pre show meeting
with the guys that if you are trying to stay
in shape or trying to like keep your diet clean,
if you're trying to do the right thing, I said,
eat clean the rest of the week because next week,
Thursday night football kicks off the season. Then Friday nights,
then Friday Night. Yeah, you got Eagles Packers. Then you

(18:42):
got a weekend, a weekend of football, and then it
just starts, so enjoy, enjoy, and then this weekend's Labor
Day weekends, So if you are going.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
To be eating and grilling and everything dogs and.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Before you know it, Halloween decorations and pumpkin spice beer
and football and the seasons change. Everything's different. Before you
know it, you're nice and chubby, for winter, perfect sweatshirt.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
So we're talking lebron but before we do that, let
me tell you a quick little story that sort of
backs up what's going on here. I think, Yeah, nobody
wants to be feeling like the old guy. Nobody wants
to be like, oh, he's the old guy at the club.
It's the old guy at the club. No one wants
to be, you know, that guy or made to be

(19:22):
feeling that way. And you know, I'm very close in
age with my uncle Joe. So it's my mom's younger brother.

Speaker 7 (19:30):
Right.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
They're Mexicans, so there's a lot of kids involved. So
it's my mom's younger brother. He's significantly younger than my mom,
but he's my uncle. So we would go out on
the prow. Back in the day, we would get involved,
That's what he would say, Get involved, yo, but keep
it mind involved tonight. That meant we were going out
to the bar, maybe meet a few ladies, have some fun.

(19:52):
You don't know, right, but keep them on the age
difference because it's your mom's younger bro. Let's say he
was thirty something and you were in your twe exactly right,
So we could go out and have a good time,
but there was a rule in place, and he would
be like he'd called me ba O Babe. That's just
my nickname in the family. Heyo babee because I hit
home runs like babe Ruth.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
That's why. That's why. Yeah, that's why.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
I know, I actually excited because I hate hot dogs,
like I was a hot dog king. Ayo Babe. When
we go out, I'm your cousin. I'm not uncle, Joe,
I'm your cousin.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Got that.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Everyone in my group of friends, the girls we'd hang with,
they all thought he was my cousin because when we
went out, that was it. He's my cousin. Yeah, your cousin, Joe.
I'm like, he's not really my cousin, my uncle. But
that's just how we rolled to not make him feel
like the old guy. So I understand where Lebron is
coming from. Lebron says to Bronni, Hey, when we're playing,

(20:54):
you call me two three.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Here's what he said. Cannot call me Dad in the workplace.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Once once we leave out of the private facility and
the gates closed, I could be Dad.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Again in the car. If we ride together at home.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
I could be Dad. No, he gotta call me like
two three or bron Okay, you know, go if you
want to, that's up to him.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
I mean, no, we've talked about this when Bronni got
drafted by the Lakers. It never dawned on me the
amazing trash talking that will take place anytime something happens
to Bronni. Like, yo, go tell you daddy, there's gonna
be so much great trash talking. We look at it
as a you know, some people were like, nips, he

(21:38):
doesn't belong. Other people are saying, what a beautiful story,
father son. We've yet to talk about what amazing trash
talk potential.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
There is here.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
There hasn't been a father son combo like this since
me and my dad when I would go to work
with him as a kid. My dad he ran a
vending route.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
This is a true story, and I want your feedback
because we have a thought on this. Okay again eight
seven seven for the herd. My dad would bring me
to work on his vending route. He'd be taking me
all these factories and all these weird places where he
had soda machines. And I'd be there with my pumpkin
pie haircut, right, and I look very Hispanic. My dad's
an Italian guy. Okay, when you were a kid, you
look like Tattoo from Fantasy Island, almost identical.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So imagine Tattoo Deplane, Moss Deplane.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
That's me, right, little white tuxedo on and everything. I'd
be helping my dad carrying cases of soda to whatever
place he was filling up because he had the vending route,
and I would go to work with him, and it
was so embarrassing. No one ever really thought he was
my dad because he's a very Italian looking guy and
I was a very Hispanic looking kid, so they always thought.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Like I was his hired help, and.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Oh, you brought a little helper with you, And I'm like, no,
he's my dad. He's my Ba ba and they were like, oh, hey,
you brought your little helper.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
I was always the little helper.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
And so my point is on the flip side, Broanni
never wants to be looked at like he's the little helper.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
That was the weakest feeling ever. I'm like, no, I'm
here because that's my dad. Yeah, And and there's no
shame in that. And I bring that up because Lebron
didn't have any problem with ever saying I got to
give two of the props here. He never had problems
saying I want to play with my son. We could
have endless soundbites of play with my son, Play with

(23:27):
my son, Play with my son, Play with my son.
But he has a problem being called dad. So that's
where there's some hypocrisy there.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
You know, if Lebron has any sort of issue about
being the old guy Covino as your cousin or slash uncle.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Cousin Joe, Yeah, no, there's no women around that my
uncle Joe. It's okay.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
He should start with some color in that beard in
that that right, Amenause he's letting that white take over
as we saw in the Olympics. And I guess he
wants to look like the mature dudism.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, I got a lot of that.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Look, it's a young man's game. I get it's a
young man's game. So he doesn't want to be looked
at like dad. Right, But I'm with you, get the
just for men, dye that beard. The beard is weird.
No play for mister Gray. We know the deal. I
agree with Danny g completely on that. I'll tell you
that EMITTT. Smith or keithrnendzh both and again that that
adds to the hypocrisy of what he's saying. You know,

(24:22):
does Bronnie want to be called Bronnie, then you know,
stop referring to me as your son. I'm Bronnie. Then
can't go both ways. There's gonna be a lot of
great trash talking. I think it's that that's that's the
story we've we've neglected that.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Think about it.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Think of all the veterans and people that are gonna
you know, bust chops as far as that goes. If theays,
you know, if they lose a game or there's a
you know, there's miscommunication on the court, if he starts
yelling at Bronnie.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Then he's like, Yo, your daddy's yelling at you.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Like there's gonna be because you've seen lebron barket teammates,
is he is he gonna be having that attitude towards
his son.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
We can't play dumb and pretend like we don't understand
that he's trying to set the ground rules of you know,
when they're on the court, it's just business. You know,
they're just teammates at that point. So there's no favoritism,
there's no father son. They're just teammates at that point.
But again, the whole thing what makes it a beautiful
story is that it is father's son.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Do you refer to your parents ever by their first names?
Do other people?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
I've never called my parents. Oh, that's a weird thing.
Mom and dad ever in my life. So everyone's like,
are you adopted? Like, no, that's my mom and dad.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Truth, it was the wrong person. You're the one person
on planet Earth that never called their parents. But it
goes with the story. The first time you're called dad,
not in the bedroom, Rich, I'm talking about like you know,
when you're actually a daddy. Yeah, when you're actually dad,
it sort of hits you like, wow, I am I'm
a dad now. It makes you feel a little older,
Like I'm a dad now. My parents had me when

(25:54):
they were like twenty one, so mom and dad to
them just sounded like an old person thing and they
felt too young for that. And when you're a kid,
no one ever told me to call them that. So
what do I know?

Speaker 3 (26:05):
You don't instinctively pop out and be like that. No
one told me that you're the one baby that never
said mom and dad.

Speaker 9 (26:12):
Ever.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Ever, still to this day, I refer to them when
I'm talking to my siblings as mom and dad. Whoa,
But I never called them mom and dad ever because
they were young when they had me. So if you
ask my mom, she'd be like, it's like we grew
up together. I'm like, well, Mom, slow down, you're in
your sixties seventies.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Maybe I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
So, yeah, I never did that. That's the truth. To
answer your question, I know it sounds a little lot, yeah,
very odd. But hey, lebron James, Bronnie James, this will
be a fun storyline that we didn't even think about.
So your thoughts at Covino and Rich. Now it's time
for some heard line news.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Let's do it.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
No, no, no, hear.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
On the news. This is the herd line news, all right, guys,
go from the NBA to the NFL. We talked about
this yesterday.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
ESPN polled over one hundred current NFL players anonymously and
one of the categories was biggest trash talker at quarterback. Well,
Josh Allen brought home that top spot, and now Josh
Allen has responded on Twitter, just a bit of go
here's what he said. So you're telling me I was
voted number one best trash talker.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
That's good. I love it. You know, when do you
want that?

Speaker 4 (27:27):
That's a cool that's a company number one, many o's
and then let's go six.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, I think six. It's more like, let's cool. Yeah,
to owning the title. Good for him.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
I think it's cool. It's interesting to me that he
was surprised by that. I wonder if he was aware
that he was a big trash talker, you know, like,
oh really, I didn't know. I'm trying to blank. Who
is the quarterback that was super polite? Like it was
Philip Rivers, Like every time he got hit, he's like
great hit man. No, he was one of those like
country boy trash Andrew Luck. I think yeah, I love

(28:01):
that subconscious like it makes the guys not want to
hit you out.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Philip Rivers was a trash trash talker, but he had
like a specific way about it. Yeah. So yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:11):
And then the other thing we pointed out yesterday was
Josh Allen also voted most overrated. So perhaps a connection
there between all that trash talk and also people thinking
that he's over ranged.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
And we talked before. Buffalo is not in the top
five in the AFC. As far as you know, Vegas
to make it to the Super Bowl, So maybe he's
gonna play with a little chip on his shoulder this
year overrated team's not in the top five. He's a
trash talker, So watch out for Josh all Josh Allen,
here we go.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
All right, we'll stay in the NFL. The forty nine
ers still without Brandon Aiyuk and Trent Williams due to
some contract issues ahead of their Week one matchup against
the Jets. Now, what are the Jets preparing for? Well,
let's take a listen to their head coach Robert Solin
what he has to say about the situation.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
Fully expect those two. Fully expect Trent Williams to walk
on the field and still be his all pro self
with a newly minted contract. I'm sure, But and I you,
I'm sure he'll be there. I'll say this, with or
without them, there's still a championship roster, and you know
they've got some dudes all over the roster. It's going
to be a fun game, great count It's gonna be
a great challenge.

Speaker 7 (29:19):
Robert Sola expects both Iyuk and Williams to be back. Rich,
I guess that's good news for you.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Trent Williams way more important.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
I mean, what less than two weeks Monday night at home,
I said yesterday. I don't want it to be a
Chief's scenario from last year, where if you remember they
didn't sign Chris Jones last week one and they're like,
sign Chris Jones.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Signed Trent Williams.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Worry about we were talking about that noise that could
be in the Chief's way, right, you don't need all
that extra noise. Forty nine ers don't need all that
extra noise. It's true, That's okay, Yeah, it's kind of
annoying to start the season off that way.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
I'll say this, if they are without Williams and I
to start the season, it is interesting the Jets, even
despite all the issues they had last year, they were
super competitive against the Chiefs and it was Mahomes's second
worst game all season.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
So there's something I love, Ryan, and that is forty
nine ers minus three and a half because I think
if they do get these two guys signed, that seems
like a gift of a line. You might say, oh,
you got the hook to half a point. It's Monday night,
first game of the season at home. I know the
Jets got high hopes, but the forty nine ers at

(30:34):
home week one. If Trent Williams and Auker signed three
and a half, I like to pick the number in
my head before I look at the spread to see
where my mind was at, and I'm like, what nine
is six six and a half three and a half
by a half a point?

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I love it. I love it. There you go, So
all right, I wrap up with this.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
Pengos wide receiver Jamar Chase has returned to practice and
is prepared to play Week one versus the Patriots. Chase,
of course, was a whole throughout training camp and hopes
for a new contract. Teams made it pretty clear they
think he's great, they love having him, but currently sides
cannot agree on a new deal. So he still has
this current year, next year's fifth year option, and then

(31:13):
of course the franchise tag if that were to eventually
come into play. So Jamar Chase back into the fold
for the Bengals, but unlike Ceedee Lamb, does not have
that new contract in place just yet.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
You know, you ever see that Jerry Seinfeld bit where
he says when he's scuba diving, all you're thinking the
whole time is like, don't die.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Don't die. I don't.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
When you're a wide receiver that's elite. Now you got
to just be thinkuring like don't get hurt. Don't get hurt.
The money being given to wide receivers like Jamar Chase
is thinking like, come on, let's let's get this done. Yeah,
he'll get thirty something MILLI year for sure.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:46):
And you know, the Bengals have sort of talked about
this where they didn't feel as though the sides were
particularly close on a new deal for this offseason, and
they have the franchise tag on T Higgins. This feels
like they're like, this season, we're going directly at the
Chiefs one more time, and then after that, like, okay,
we'll see what we have to do. Probably gonna have

(32:06):
to let T Higgins go. We're gonna have to pay Jamar,
so we'll give Jamar that big deal. It'll probably surpass
Justin Jefferson if he stays healthy, and then kind of
rebuild from there.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Perfect. Thank you, Ryan, thank you, well, that's the news,
and thanks for stopping by the.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Herd Line News.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Now, I know, Cavino, you love bobbleheads. That's why I
chose you as a cod. So tonight all the rage
out here in Southern California Otani bobblehead night last year,
like people were fighting over these, Not that that there's
not already fights at Dodger stadio fans, but the Otani
bobblehead caused an extra hour of traffic.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Last year time earlier.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
This season, they're doing it again second round right now,
and there were more adults fighting over the for these
things than there were kids.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
So see, I think we're gonna upset some people here
because this is ridiculousleheads, stadium giveaways, Otani. We'll get to
all of it, plus some more NFL. We'll talk about
drinking on the job. I'll uh some testitur Jesse Palmer
last week, so more next. Covinoon rich In for Colin
on The Herd Hangtip.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
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Speaker 3 (33:23):
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Speaker 11 (33:25):
Yeah, as everybody knows we're the hosts of the award
winning Polly and Toni Foosco Show. Yeah, but instead of
us telling you how great we are, here's how Dan
Patrick described us when he came on our show.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated. What what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
We were interrupting our promo. Yeah, you wasn't talking about you.
You took those clips totally of context.

Speaker 11 (33:46):
Oh yeah, well after this promo, I'm gonna take you
out and beat you.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Let me put this into context. Shut up. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (33:53):
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on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yeing, good one, Tony Covino and Rich that's ushuwa these guys.
It's the seeing our show in for Colin on the Herd.
And we just discovered j Lab headphones like my box,
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(34:20):
I have the Hybrid a n C. I got the
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(34:42):
simply visit JLab dot com. These are nice. Can't wait
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That's Rich Davis, Franklin Square, Long Island. We're out here
in the Valley live from the Marios of Los Angeles
with Dandy, g Spot, Twoy and music. Ryan's here. Thank

(35:04):
you guys for hanging out with us again. The number
eight seven seven four eight four three four three seven.
That's eight seven seven for the Herd. Now, Rich, we're
going to continue talking about bobbleheads, right yeah, but coming
up next hour midweek major the biggest stories in sports
and pomp culture and drinking on the job, and of

(35:26):
course some more NFL because can't get enough, right, Yeah, exactly, Ryan,
and Fresno wants to talk real quick about drinking on
the job. He's been on whole forever, so damn let's
go right. Yeah, what's up?

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Ryan?

Speaker 9 (35:37):
It is Brian actually from Fresno.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
What's up, Brian? What's up, right, Brian, right.

Speaker 9 (35:41):
Wide leaders of nonsense. That's us, your brother from out
here in California.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
What up?

Speaker 9 (35:45):
I listened to the show in the afternoons, but I
got a drinking on the job story for you.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
Let's hear it.

Speaker 9 (35:51):
Yeah, during my summers in college way back when, for
three summers, I had a job at a major brewery
and every fifteen minute break and every lunch break, we
got this whole staff of guys would come up to
the break room and they had a fridge just fully
stocked with all of our products and there was no

(36:12):
holds barred. Man, you could drink as much as you
want during your breaks, and these guys would come in
here on a fifteen minute great break and they'd be
shotgunning and hook shotting their empties into the garbage and
it was a full on frap party in the in
the break room.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Tell you how unproductive and how many beer guts were
Imagine every day they're in your breaks, beer dude. The
second he said no holds, barn, I just thought a
whole call good and I was and Zeus and I
sort of no, I'm just kidding, h Brian, Thank you
so much for getting us started on that. We're talking
about that next hour drinking on the job. Is it

(36:46):
a good thing? Are we headed there where it becomes
a normal sort of thing. We'll explain because it's happening
in sports. But right now we got to get into
this bibblehead conversation. We've talked about it in the past.
It's ridiculous. We're out here in Los Angeles, like we said,
and I'm sure there's a lot of people in LA
that woke up this morning and you're.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Like, yes, day's a day. It's bobblehead day.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
And I have to ask, respectfully, of course, how old
are you.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
I just don't get it. I understand the value.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
I guess this is our Collins sort of thing where
he hates people with backwards hats. I don't understand bobblehead obsession.
I just don't. I understand that this has X amount
of value and you want to get it. There were
some rare There were some rare Otani bubbleheads from the
previous run that they had the gray road jersey on.
They misprinted some on purpose, and the ones with Otani

(37:40):
and the gray Los Angeles Road jersey are online right now.
People are bidding like tens of thousands of dollars. Right,
there's nothing lame about ten g's if you can make
it somehow. Okay, so money and all that, but to
collect them, to obsess over them, to take one from
a kid, You're an adult better than that guy who's

(38:01):
getting autographs in front of the little kid who deserves one,
you know what I mean? Like because they always say
the first eighteen thousand or whatever. Last week was that
Soto Figurine Day in New York. That's my favorite thing
about the Juan Soto figurine is at any time they
advertised it at Yankee Stadium, when the umpire would stand up,
he'd cover the fig Yeah, so it said sodo urine night, yeah,

(38:26):
instead of figurine.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
So you know, we're man boys. We thought that was fine.
Of course I did. I'm child a child. There's so
many levels, right, because only the first eighteen thousand get one.
What's the process there?

Speaker 3 (38:38):
You know?

Speaker 4 (38:38):
Do you have to run around to another entrance and
find where they have more inventory? And why only the
first eighteen thousand, like you're going to sponsor something greed?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Why not let every kid get one?

Speaker 6 (38:50):
And this is what caused the major pile up around
Dodger Stadium the last time Otani had a bobble head.
People are fighting, yes, because uh, Dodger fans across southern
California are getting out of their job at two point
thirty three pm today to get to the stadium first.
But not everybody can be first, obviously, so there was
an extra pile up for an hour and a half

(39:11):
HP set around Dodger Stadium getting in last time.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
Now, I don't want to talk out of both sides
of my mouth, but I'll try. Yeah, so let's do this, korp. Look,
I don't understand the obsession. I don't care. I don't
collect them, but I do love free things. Right, So
if I'm there and everybody has one and I don't,
or even worse, all the kids are there and I

(39:35):
got my Otani bubblehead and your kid didn't, that sort
of sets such a terrible tone. You're already overpaying for
everything there, Right, you don't get the free bobblehead because
you weren't there on time or whatever the case is.
That in itself is a story. But then for you
to then take it and sell it, I want to
punch you in the face. Then for you to talk

(39:57):
about it and brag about it and collect these things
also on a karate kick you so adults in their
babble heads? Are we alone on this? Do you love them?
Do you secretly frown on people that obsess over these things?
Do you throw it in the same category rich as
just like toys for an adults, it's the same as
collecting action figures.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Some do it.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
I won't judge, as we all got our own thing,
but if you want my honest opinion, I think it's
a weird I'll tell you this. If you're a single guy,
it's not going to help you with the ladies, you
know what. In fact, I'll give it a George Forman guarantee.
No woman, no woman has ever said, oh my god,
I'm so hot. Have you seen his bibblehead collection?

Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know how?

Speaker 4 (40:38):
You know how, no man has ever said, I'm not
getting with that girl. Have you seen her eyelashes? Because
you don't really care about that stuff, right, A woman
does not care about your bobblehead collection. I don't think
there's any woman under the moon that would care. You
don't think a woman's ever said the following sentence an
he has the throwback Fernando Valence. Well, no woman has

(40:59):
ever said that. Listen, but we all collect different things.
So I don't want to be that much of a
you know, a jerk. But I have a couple thoughts.
I don't know here right. Number one true, we all
have our dumb things. Number one, Yeah, it's been said before,
but I'm piling on. Why not everyone? Why not everyone?
Why not everyone? Especially kids? Or why not every kid?
Why under thirteen? You don't want to you don't want

(41:22):
to print more at your three D printer?

Speaker 3 (41:24):
How much does it cost to make a bubblehead?

Speaker 4 (41:26):
If you're sponsoring a night at Dodger Stadium, give everyone
a bubblehead. Stop trying to create this sense of urgency
because now you got traffic.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Imagine telling you, Imagine telling your kid.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Let's say imagine you have like a twelve year old son,
crying kids, a little kid. You have your ten year old,
and you're like, buddy, we're going to the Dodgers game tonight.
O Tani bobblehead night. You get there and there's none left.
You know why, because some old guy like hoarded for them.
Like it's just ridiculous. Everyone should get one, dude. It's
Dodger Stadium billion dollar industry sponsors need to step it

(41:58):
up and say we're gonna make we have one for
every kid. I'm not saying like every kid deserves a trophy,
it's a giveaway. Every kid does deserve the giveaway to stadium.
When you're paying the prices for tickets Dodger, dogs, beer, prices, everything,
every once you get one, and if you don't do
that and you say, no, that's not how it works.
You need to find a way to distribute these because
it can't be like we're gonna give a creative two

(42:21):
thousand down the left field line. Two thousand down the
right field line comes with the ticket when you buy it,
Like you might write the first eighteen thousand they purchased
that ticket, they started that. Yeah, stadium, Well, yeah, props
to them, because not every stadium does that. It should
be linked to the barcode I agree, and you know what,
we'll take your feedback on this next plus we'll get
to midweek, Major and more C and R and for

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