August 16, 2024 • 40 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, the Falcons are making moves to try to start the season strong, Notre Dame Men’s Swimming Team gets popped for gambling violations, would Tom Brady actually ever come out of retirement & what in the world are briefcases from Mexico?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of two pros and a couple
of Joe with Lamar Errings, Rady Win and Jonas Knox
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So the Atlanta Falcons stay aggressive. They are going after it,
and they're going after it on defense yet again, two
time Pro Bowl safety Justin Simmons agrees to a one
year deal on Thursday. I saw for about eight million dollars.
It's a day after they traded for Matthew Judon fills
a need. They've been a little bit banged up there,
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but two consecutive days they make a move add talent
with Pro Bowl pedigree on defense. It looks like the
Atlanta Falcons are ready to mark the NFC South as
theirs and get after it. And I just want to
know how much of this is on Arthur Blank who
told them you didn't take a defender, you took a
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quarterback number eight. Overall, I need to see what the
plan is in Atlanta's going after it thinking they're going
to make a playoff run. How much heat is on
the Atlanta Falcons front office.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
How much heat?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I don't think there's I don't think there's heat on
their front office right now. I think that if you're
looking at what they're doing right now, they look like
they're very strategically sound.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You want to talk about hold the line.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You know you're getting a quality player, and Justin Simmons
doesn't really have an injury history safety at thirty years old,
it's not that old.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You can still do.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
A lot of really really good things at at thirty
years old in the league, at that position in particular.
And the fact that now safeties are basically I mean
they at times and nickels or dime situations or penny
situations are basically glorified linebackers as well. That's the league now,
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that's college football now is you really only have maybe
two linebackers that are true linebackers, sometimes maybe only even one,
and you're using safeties really in place of where you
used to use linebackers because the game on offense.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Has changed so much.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So I don't think this is about pressure on the
front office of Atlanta. It looks as though they've taken
advantage of a relationship that fell apart in New England.
Didn't seem as though they wanted in New England, wanted
to get it done with Judon and you sneak in
there and you get a very very nice pickup at
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the last minute to get in Judon and then now
you have a guy and Simmons who you know, there
probably are a few more quality players that are out
there that aren't on rosters right now. So you've addressed
some serious needs on your defensive side of the ball.
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You have a lot of firepower on the offensive side
of your ball. I mean, I don't think this is
about pressure. I think you're seeing a team that feels
confident in a push to try to be a more
competitive team in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And why not. Why shouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The NFC is probably the most up for grabs side
of the NFL conferences that that's available right now, So
go get it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It looks like they're trying to get it. Yeah, they're
going for it.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I mean, that's the easy sweat to describe it. Like
they're going all in for it this year. Their ownership,
everything else. I do think there's an element though, of
the front office, you know, finding value and make some
of his moves. The trade for JUDEA on bringing in
a player like Simmons who's the consummate pro is a
former pro bowler, and there was a need for them
too in the back end, you know, so you find
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those guys you can bring in, and you're probably getting
them at least.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
In the case of Simmons, a little more economically.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
But there does have to be an element of pressure
that is on this front office because this is the
same group of people that convinced you not to bring
in Bill Belichick. And and if that's the case, then
they've got to show that they're going to be able
to turn this team into a contender. And so you know,
they're using the cap space they have to make the
moves they're making, and so far, it looks like it's
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going to work out. I mean, I would be hard
pressed to look at another team in the NFC and say, like,
they did more of this offseason than the Falcons to
put themselves in a position to win.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I mean, that's the type of offseason they had.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Now, whether or not that translates over to games, well
off the wait and see.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What do you think Arthur Smith is thinking right now? Like,
wait a second, where was that for me?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Like what wait? I had to I had to basically
go figure it out and and you guys now just
decided after I left to get aggressive and go make
all these moves. Not only you know, we couldn't figure
out the starting quarterback spot. You basically have two, went
and signed one for big money, and then he drafted one.
I wonder if farther Smith's sitting around going what the
f man like, why couldn't I get I.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Think he's too busy with what he's got in Pittsburgh.
I don't think he's sitting around thinking anything in regards.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
To that last year. You don't think, you know, he
looks around.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
I think he's got a lot of this play in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What are you getting at? I mean, Russell's his debut.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
He made his debut.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
But I think he's also focused on making sure that
this offense is what Pittsburgh Steelers fans won.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I mean, that's one of the.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Best fan bases in any professional sports franchise, and they're
going to be hard if this offense isn't an improvement
from what it was last year, because that's all I've
been saying, That's all Var has been saying, That's all
Ben Roethlisberger has been saying, is that it's been the offense.
It's been the offense has been the play calling. Well,
he's the guy to come in and fix it. So
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you know, yeah, maybe they could blame Russell Wilson. But
if Russell Wilson doesn't look great, Justin Fields doesn't look great,
at some point, they're gonna turn right back to the
play caller and then then that he'll be, you know,
the guy of one's pointing out. So that's the tough
part about this is you know, you can you could
sit there and think this he's just sitting twiddling his
thumbs thinking about Atlanta, but he's got his hands full
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on Pistopher.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Are the excited about Russell Wilson's debut.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I think there's a lot of cautious optimism. Man, It's
it's funny. I just we're not the most We're not
where we're We love our team and we'll love our
coach until we don't, you know, And that's just how
a lot of us are. And sometimes we're a very
split community. Sometimes you have a very very strong feeling
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towards keeping a coach, and then you have a strong
feeling of getting rid of the coach. I can recall
when Chuck Nole was at the end of his time there.
You had a very very split community. You know, there
were times where with Bill Cower you had a very
very split community. There's times with Mike Tomlin you have
a very very split community. And how people feel there's
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always going to be that one for something. I'll say this, yensers.
We feel like we know the gang, right like we
feel like we know the game.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And sometimes I don't use it. I don't. I don't
use it.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't really have It's funny, if I'm home long enough,
I start saying I start sounding more Pittsburgh. But I
don't sound Pittsburgh on a regular on a regular day,
Like if you heard my son.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Not sunny Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I mean, I don't really think about it. I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I just don't sound like I'm from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But no, I don't. I mean there's no party.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
That's like, man, I got away from my roots.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I mean I didn't try to lose my accent. It
just kind of went away. I guess, like I don't
say pop anymore. Like there's certain things I don't say
that are yinzerisms, and I treat pop though.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I don't say gum bad. I don't. I don't drink prop.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
That's probably part of it too.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
But if I were to get a pop, I would
say what the flavor is now, versus saying, you know,
I'm gonna go get a bottle a two liter a pop.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
You know I'm not. Now, I'd say I'm going to
get PEPSI or I'm going to get a.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Look an adolescent thing, though I feel like that's kind
of for.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Younger kids anyway, though I don't know, because the adults
say pop. In Pittsburgh, we say pop. Yeah, we get
some pop anyway. Yeah, I think that we just we
feel as though the way football is played in Western
Pennsylvania has to be a certain way, it has to
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look a certain way, it has to feel a certain way,
and if it doesn't, then the narcissism starts to creep.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Up on you.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It starts to come out, and then you start thinking
that you would be able to do a better job
than the guys that are coaching. And that's that's kind
of how our culture is, you know. So it's just
never enough for some of our fans and our fan
base because they know it better than the coaches that
have been hired to be you know, the coaches of
the team.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right, yinzer. Do you want to hear Wikipedia or
the Urban Dictionary version of it?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Okay, I hear both.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Okay, well, because one of them is a little bit
more insulting than the other.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
All right, so I don't know, like, uh, why are
you do the lesson?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Right?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
So?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Speakers of Pittsburgh English are sometimes called yinsers in reference
to their use of the second person plural pronoun yins.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
That sounds like the Webster's definition yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The word yinser is sometimes heard as a pejorative, indicating
a lack of sophistication wow, But the term is now
used in a variety of ways.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So there's that, But the the original, like do you
know the original of YenS? It's like you guys, Yeah, YenS,
you guys, that's what YenS is. So so the people
out there that don't like didn't catch what Jonahs just said.
It's like, when you say you guys, is the proper
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way of saying you know, you guys instead of like
hey guys, right, you say hey yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
But that's that's why I pushed back, what are you doing?
Because that guy in the Goonies would have said hey,
yins instead he said hey, you guys. So I don't
know that that's accurate what you just said, Like, I
believe that you know, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'm telling you what the chances LaVar that Jonas gets
slapped if he shows up in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Why would I.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Because they expelled the punk on you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Hold on dump that dum dumb that I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I might be taken wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
They might take dump that No, that was might take
that the wrong way. That's that's the world we live on. Man,
hit that button.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What what does this world come to?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
What's dum?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
If? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Because the P word it could be interpreted a couple
of different ways.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just say, for what does this world come to when
you have to dump a legitimate quality insult between co
hosts on the air? That was the quality insult? Yeah,
nothing at all, just a little I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
End up like just make sure that Hey, I'm no cruissant.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I'll just say this, uh the other Now, the Urban
Dictionary says this about yinsers, a person from Pittsburgh who
is terrified to leave. Western Pennsylvania has has one of
the highest percentage of born and bred population, yet still
has a decreasing population because nobody outside Pittsburgh ever wants
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to move in. Most successful people work at a family
business or their parents connected them and couldn't be successful
outside the city itself. Yinsers obsessed about sports because there's
nothing else positive about this town. That's insulting. It is
Urban Dictionary.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It seems like they took it necessary shot, and like
who what the Urban Dictionary hates Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't know, but yeah, that's pretty bead stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
But as somebody who grew up a Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
That sounds like somebody who got their ass kicked, not
almost got their ass kicked, It sounds like somebody who
did get their.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Ass I agree. And you know what, as somebody who's
a Penguins fan, don't show up on Carson Street with
that attitude.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You had to make sure you told people you were in.
That's that's still a tourist the area go go, well,
the Hill District still is in the Hill District, but
it's very close to where the Penns play. Yeah, just
go say you walk through, uh through Saint Clair Village
or something to that effect. Say say you went over
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to I don't even know where everything is anymore because
there's been so much.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Build up and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
But Pittsburgh is actually a very very beautiful town, by.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
The way, underrated city, by the way.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
There's a lot of great things to do, a lot
of a lot of great food there. I mean, Pittsburgh
is an amazing place. Now, one thing I will say
about Pittsburgh, people who are native to there, they will say,
I love being where I'm from. I just don't want
to go back there to live. But with that being said,
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I do believe that we were voted the highest city,
and if I if I recall correctly this year, in
fact the highest city of movebacks, like people moving back
from where they were to reside, that that highest, that
highest number has gone to Pittsburgh. So yeah, I don't
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I don't buy that urban. That urban definition of.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Just uncalled for.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, it's inaccurate too. Now, there are some parts that
I have a little accuracy to it. I mean, if
you look up Italian crime families and stuff like that,
a lot of it you know originate.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, the origin is in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Why does Brady have to catch astray? Well, why does
his family have to catch astray?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Italian crime families, like how am I catching austraight because
you're Italian.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Because three and me, there's there's there's there's some real
conversation about leave.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Those nerds, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The way.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
It's twenty three of me said, yeah, I know what
mine says, but we don't. We don't have What did
you say? I said, I'm black black dog. If this
was Roberto shouts out to Roberto. But yeah, there, I mean,
there are there are there There has been a lot
of nepotism in certain areas and places in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
But you're taking this seriously right now, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah? I am.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Why do you take these like non serious subjects, get
so serious about.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Like saying we're not sophisticated or you know, Urbana, who cares?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I mean, it's just hey, let me tell you something.
You want to have a good time.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
To never follow the darn rundown because we got pushed.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
First of all, we called lee to the first segment
and it bumped everything back.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So I was really hoping to get like talking about
Nicholas Cage at some point we should apparently.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No, No, that's a that's a great idea. That's a
great idea. I just want to point this out. Faththead
Saloon on Carson Street in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Establishment just will to let people know they're just looks Google.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I've been to Fathead Saloon a couple of times. I
have to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'm trying to prove to the people out there.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Next up, he's going to talk about Todd Hayley and
the bar and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
He went to all the tequila, the tequila Cowboy. Yeah,
Todd Ailey got shoved over by some guy who just
trying to.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Keep convinced people that you you were in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I've been to Pittsburgh many times. I love Pittsburgh. It's
a great spot. Watch Games three and four, the Stanley
Cup in two thousand and nine in Pittsburgh. Okay, tic
tac toe goal, Tyler Kennedy. I was there. I saw
it from the nosebleeds.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, good.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, I'm a true Ginzer.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Speaker 2 (16:28):
The Notre Dame men's swimming team. I just tell you something,
right now, you got a friend in me.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Okay, you got a friend of me?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
All right? Suspended for the year, Brady, Like what the
whole season gone?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The men's swimming team is suspended for the year. You
can go ahead and read off what has taken place
or transpired.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Okay, So let's let's get the water to make sure
that we represent them fairly here. So the entire the
entire Notre Day men's swimming team suspended for a year
after an external review found that the team was wagering
among themselves on results of their competition. This from ESPN.
According to a person with knowledge of the situation, members
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of the team had set up a makeshift internal sportsbook
where athletes could wager on the times of themselves or
teammates at meets. Athletes were not found to have bet
on opposing teams or on any other Notre Dame athletic events,
the person said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity
because Notre Dame was not making the contents of the
report public. The person said that more than sixty percent
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of the returning team, which includes twenty five swimmers took
part in betting on the performances of members of the team.
The review also revealed some members of the team had
been amongst themselves on events such as the Super Bowl
and March Madness basketball tournament games. The person said in
a group text chain with members of the team was
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filled with derogatory remarks and meths and messages were also found.
No evidence of physical hazing or abuseless found. So here's
the way I look at this.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Sounds like a standard group text.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
One hundred percent guys betting on stuff, having some fun conversations,
insulting each other because the bets go poorly, like happens
on this show, publicly all the.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Time, and now they're suspended for the entire year. I
think it's a bit exaggerated, to be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I mean, look, you clearly don't want to have And
the other side note to this is the coaching staff
was completely unaware of this, and through the internal and
external investigations they were able to determine that through the
communication and how the athletes were keeping it away from
the coaching staff so they wouldn't know what I guess
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what I find interesting about it, and LeVar, this is
what I was gonna ask you to see if you
have an issue with it. Is I mean, if I'd
said to you and we're the locker before the game,
like a bro, I bet I'm a throw for over
four and a half touchdowns tonight today, You're like, out, no, man,
their defense is pretty good. You might get four, and
I'm like, no, I'll throw five. Like is that detrimental
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to the game or is that? I mean, I understand
there's an element of if let's say, for example, it's
in the fourth quarter, you're up by a couple of scores,
but the over unders in doubt and I'm trying to
get that fifth touchdown, so I'm pressing instead of trying
to run the clock out to get it.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I mean, dudes, do that stat padding anyway?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
You know, people will keep their star athletes in to
try to help them, promote them for a Heisman and
to do that stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You know, I think it's easier in football. I mean,
I would assume how do you know how do you
know to slow down and e or either be able
to speed up while you're swimming? Yeah, you know what
I mean, Like, how are you aware of the time.
I would assume you're not aware of the time because
of the way swimming works, you know what I mean.
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So if you're getting a time that's base off of
the bet, that's a time that you got based off
of how you you.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Swam, is what I would assume.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I mean, are you able to are you able to
see and know the time? Like all right, let me
slow down right here, like let me slow my my
breaststroke down, or my my you know, my backstroke.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Let me let me slow that down. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Like I don't. I guess I'll put it the other way.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
They finished top ten last year this past March, which
is I believe maybe the first time ever for the
men's program.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And I'm not advocating at all for gambling in this.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Case, but it made them more competitive.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, And I thought, you say, I'll throwt to you
this way, Like if I if every single time you
and I went out and let's say we're talking about swimming,
and like we continually bet.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Of what our goal was going to be, you know,
saying like.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
There's to me yet to me, you're not point shaving,
You're not time shaving or anything like that. You're just
betting this is the time that I'm going to get.
I'm gonna say that's a little that's it's a slippery slope.
But at the same time, I don't see how you
can you can time shave or time ad you know
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what I mean, Like it's like, oh crap, I'm five
seconds off. Let me go faster, Like, don't I don't
see how that will work in swimming.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You can't, like people try and do this because they
don't understand or they're new to betting. You can't just
paint everything with a broad stroke because point shaving is
different than a couple of guys on a swim team
in a group text chain saying hey, I'll bet you,
you know, fifty bucks you don't finish in the top
four in this next meet at you know wherever.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Now, that's more like i'll finish last, you know what
I mean. Like if you're betting that I bet you
I finished last, or I bet you he finishes last.
That's different. And by the way, if you're talking times,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Make it seem like they've got some brick and mortar
sports book that they built there next to touchdown, Jesus
and they're like all right, you know, come on up,
come to the window. If you're like, dude, this could
have been guys on a text chain just you know,
venmowing money to each other.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm curious as to who snitched too, by the way,
Like did they get kicked off of the team. Did
they have beef with somebody and said I'm taking the
whole dang thing down.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Like, yeah, what was the insult?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Who was the snitch?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
What was the insult that went above and beyond anything
that had been said on the text chain? I just
want to know.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I mean, I've gotten through work with the collective to
know a lot of the different student athletes, and that's
not necessarily a sport that always will stand out. They
did have an Olympian this year though swam I believe
the fifty four by one hundred.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
They actually he actually won a gold medal. He was
not caught up in this.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
His name was not part of it from both the
internal and external investigation.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
But you know, By and Lars, these are good kids.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And the tough thing is is, you know, they suspend
the program for a year because they want to get
the culture right and I understand Pete Bovaqua's position, Like
he's a new athletic director. You've got to come down
really hard on this sort of thing because you can't
allow those tentacles to kind of reach out into other
sports and think it's okay. Because if someone here's the
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men's swimming team's doing something and.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
That you know, they flew under the radar.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
And another team finds out about it, another team finds
out about it, you know, now these kids will be
subject to being able to transfer if they want, they
can stay the course. You know, there's all sorts of
different options they've got. But you know he's in a
tough spot as a new athletic director to handle this
and be able to just set a strong precedent. But
at the same time, like, I look at it and
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I just go I'd love to see all the information
and data to know what you asked LeVar, like, is
anyone trying to you know, bet again, like against themselves?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Because if everyone's.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Trying to, like and this is kind of the argument
I guess for Pete Rose is it wasn't like he
was supposedly betting against them, so and so then you
kind of say, well, now, you've got somebody who's actually
pretty pot committed, Like not only are they, you know,
playing for a paycheck, but they're actually taking money out
of that paycheck, depend on themselves like there is invested
as anyone is right, You could you could, you could
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make that case.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
The problem is more like bounties to me, like like
and that was big, Like I played for Greg Williams.
But Greg Williams wasn't the only one that did that.
Ray Rhodes did it. Guys were doing that. There were there.
They called them briefcases from Mexico. That's what they called.
That's what they call lebar. Why Mexico Why, I don't know.
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Why I have I have no idea why they called
them briefcases from that.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Let let me tell you something.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh my gosh, I want to start a lying I
would have sort of line of suitcases now that.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Briefcases from Mexico.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I see briefcases from Mexico at home every single day.
I can assure you that's a real thing.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
And I started selling.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I'm gonna I'm going to source all my material, have
them made in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
St that's what they were called. What we're called.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
That'll be the only way I'll have people ship money.
Like forget Western Union or any other crap out the
briefcases from Mexican.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
You would have sent some of cash. Twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
We've got you covered. We're gonna send a briefcase from Mexico.
Not only do you get the cash, you get the briefcase.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
From Mexico as well.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh good.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean that went on for a long time. Like
knock somebody's ass out. You were getting paid. There was
like there were amounts of money connected to what you did.
If you got a quarterback, you got like that was
the pot, like you like that was.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It was a lot of money, but it was a.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I was on a team where you know, when you're
a backup quarterback, you you were oftentimes going and working
with the defensive staff talking about like what they want
to see in practice and different things. It's not as
simple just hey, we're gonna watch the go Like we
had actually a couple of coaches who would have us
come in and watch film and say these are their
main concepts is how they run it and be like okay,
like do you want us to work like our progression?
Their progression. They'd be like, now do this, and so
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they would talk about all this, but why you be
in there. I remember one team, I was like, oh,
that's that's a points system. And I was like, well,
what's this. They're like, oh, this is this type of hit.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Well, what's this? This is this type of hit.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It was the same exact thing. It was a points
system that added up to rewards. It was it was
like it wasn't directly correlated with money, but it was
like a step away from it, or like a degree
away from it. I'm like, oh, all right, this is
like the exact same thing. This got pop fur there
in New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Are you sure I don't get three points for that?
His mouthpiece came out.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, we looked at it.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
The other you go to LeVar before, probably in private.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
But like they used to tall, I forget what kind
of tackle they'd call it, but they would try to
get the running back.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
They would always try.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
To roll him, so his head was always turning back
towards his own goal line. Yeah, because there was it
was the mental warfare of always feeling like he's not
ever moving forward, he's moving backwards.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Yeah, And I.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Was like this is some unbelievable psychotic warfare. That's yeah
right now, and they're like no, so their studies third
fourth quarter at keep turning that guy back. He's gonna
feel like not gonna have the same vision for cutbacks,
et cetera.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
If you go back and look at people's film after
a conversation like this, you'd be like, oh my gosh,
there it is right there. Oh my gosh, they're doing
it right there. Oh my gosh, look they're doing it
right there, like if you were to go back and
watch now, or if you're even watching watching that. I
don't know football culture now. I'm not in a I'm
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not in meeting rooms at the pro level, so and
I'm not I don't think. I don't recall that ever
being a money thing. But we didn't have money back
in the day, you know what I mean. So I
don't even know what that even looks like in college,
you know, in terms of like vetting and stuff like that,
or bounty gates, like because we had bounties in college,
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but it was just like we're gonna get We're gonna
get Tom Brady or we're going to get Drew Brees,
Like can we get him out in the first quarter
or something like that. But it was just trash talk.
That was like our goals for the game. You know,
there was no money connected to it was just goals
for the game, like I want to try to get
this dude out of the game, Like I'm really trying
to knock his ass out, right, But in the pros
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it was definitely yeah, like you see it, like what
you said. I remember one time I took Troy Hambrick.
I think it was Troy. He was a running back
for Dallas. I took his head and I literally tried
to put the back of his head on the heels
of his of his feet.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I tried to break his back, he tried to scorpi him. Bro, Bro.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And there's a picture of it somewhere. There's there's like
a picture of it out there somewhere. I don't know,
but you could see it clearly. I was given everything
I had put his head on the back of his heels.
It's just some of the craziest I.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Like thinking about much in that briefcase from Mexico. Have
you done that?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Like I said, I don't remember, I don't recall the prices.
I don't I don't remember the prices on people's heads.
But I'm just telling you if there was certain stuff
that you score high, bro, like it was like you
hit the jackpot, and one and one was definitely getting
the quarterback out, Like get the quarterback out, you get
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like you was getting paid, bro, like he was getting paid.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
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Speaker 2 (29:46):
So you guys want to hear Tom Brady. I don't
know this is considered a threat, but he was on
his vlog recently on a showcasing his yacht. It's been
working out per usual. Throwing the football around at some
guys on jet skis.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Good for him.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And you know you wanted to do a send out
a little piece of information to some of the other
quarterbacks in the NFL. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
The media these I just.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Want to make sure all those gung bucks in the
NFL know that I might still wanted to come out
of retirement.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
All the way out, way out, way out, they still
got somewer deals.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So he's always going to be a competitor, man, just
a competitive dude.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
We're flexing there and just trying to cool and relevant
or do you think it's a competitive thing.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That I think it was a competitive flex, Like like
I'm I'm gonna go into this booth and I'm I'm
gonna live life the way that I live like, But
make no mistake about it, if I did want to
come back, it could be your job that's on the line.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That's a flex because he ain't lying. If you get
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I mean, yeah, I get what you're saying. I'm kind
of over it, dude, Like, I mean, I'll take it
over Colin Kaepernick any day of the week, but I'm
more fascinated.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah, I think that's offensive to me that you would
even say that. Why why would you put those two
names in?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
All right, that's that's your now for a second show.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That hit me the wrong way, man.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Sorry about that. All good by the way. Camp Brady
also be offended.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
I mean, Kaepernick play was a starting quarterback and in
a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You know what I mean. But I'm just saying.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
I called his last game.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
A lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
But I'm just saying, don't put those don't like that's like,
that's the I just sent you all a goat.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I just want to I just want to make sure
because I I know that, Like sometimes, I'm not saying
this would happen in this case at all, because I
know people sometimes occasionally rewrite history. But if I'm not mistaken,
didn't wasn't it Kaepernick who opted out of his deal
with the Niners back then? I think I'm pretty sure
that it was him that did that. They didn't opt it.
But again, who's counting point is Tom Brady?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Is I could that could be definitely wrong. By the
way I do, I do appreciate, you know, when Jonas
knows he might be wrong, he just pivots quickly.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
No, because I know I'm not wrong. I know that happened.
That is what happened. He opted out. Okay, they wanted
to bring him back. You didn't want to be part
of it.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
All I know.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Potentially Tom Brady came back today and said he's he's
open for business and wasn't under any contract restrictions or
anything like that, and it said, you know what, I'm
gonna put call in these games off for another year.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I want to come back and try to get one.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
You're telling me that there wouldn't be a team that'd
be like, yep, yep, right here, we'll take them.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
We'll take you.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
The Niners did it last year.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Okay, exactly, and they do it again this year too.
We're talking about Tom Brady or calling Tom Brady. Yeah,
tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
By the way, he did opt out of his contract.
You're correct.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
That was though, with Kyle Shanahan coming from Atlanta wanting
to run a different offense, Kaepernick thought there opportunity elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Doesn't that sound like ridiculous now looking at what colech
has to do with that team.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
That was a decision on Kaepernicks party.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
That's what I'm saying. That sounds crazy now interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I mean, you would say that as far as talent goes,
like Kaepernick's probably more talented than say a brock Perdy, like.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
What would chalented?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah? What would what?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Shannon maybe at the time like more athletic. He's more athletic,
probably arm talented. I don't know that he was a
better passer.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
From the pocket.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I mean, listen, I'm a brought pretty guy through and through.
But you know, either.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Way, I'm not a guy either one.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
I'm just saying I wouldn't jump out there and say
more talented than brock Purty, but definitely more athletic. For
certain Yeah, he was more athletic than him.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I mean, hey, he's not even gonna coach on the
Chargers this year, so you know, it is what it is.
By the way, Tom Brady, I'm more excited to see
what he's going to be as a broadcaster than him
make a return in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I think he's going crush it.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I do too.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I think he's going crush it.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Man.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I think it's be fun. It's gonna be fun to
listen to his perspective. It's gonna be fun to hear
him tell stories. It's gonna be fun to hear I
think what he gets out of coaches and players too,
because when you're I mean think about as a player,
you're gonna open up and tell him pretty much anything
you want. Like he's like that guy. It's not like
you're to hold stuff back. So I even think the
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insight he'll be able to bring out of the other
people that are involved will be like something completely different
than ever before.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You know, I was going through the list of games
week one, and I was thinking, all right, so of
all these games week one, which like of Tom Brady's debut,
like just his performance alone in the Browns Cowboys game,
how much more am I looking forward to that than
games that are actually being played elsewhere in Week one?
(35:27):
And I think I've got like five, and you tell
me if you agree. All right, So Cardinals Bills, I'm
more interesting. I'm more interested in Tom Brady and hearing
him week one that I am watching the Cardinals Bills game.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
No, I'm interested in that Cardinals Bills game.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Patriots Bengals not interested. Yeah, I'll take tom Brady broadcasting
over that. Jaguars Dolphins interested? What about Panthers, Saints not interested?
Damn Vikings Giants.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Not interested.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I mean, like, that's like a decent amount of games
that I look at it and go and those.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Are the games he's calling.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Right, Well, no, those are those are other games on
the slate week one. Like I'm talking specifically tuning in
to listen to Tom Brady. I'd rather do that than watch
like four or five games Week one of the NFL.
Come on, man, Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Don't get carried.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I'm a Fox guy through and through. You know that.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Don't get carried.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Trying to support our own Here's what I'm trying to do,
real team.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I mean, some of those matchups are dope matchups.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Man, I mean, come on, Saints Panthers.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I said no on that one. Okay, who choose the
worst one.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I'm just saying that's not a dope matchup.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Jacksonville and that's a dope matchup. You don't think so, really,
Prince Charman and Tua, come on.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Man, listen, it's South.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
It's like this is.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Like a really big year, a pivotal year for Trevor
Lawrence and and the Jackson Deal Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I mean, and that's fine. We got seventeen more weeks
that we can worry about them.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah, but you're on, You're on week one.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, but it's South.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
It's the only one that really matters.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I'm gonna try and put you up on game when
it comes to sound please, no.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
He did it me you No, he didn't South South.
He just did. Didn't he South Florida?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Week one?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
And he gets slick like that. He'll slip it in
every once in a.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
While, you're hold on slip right on in there, all right,
that's exactly what Jonas does.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Man South Florida Week one. How many weather delays? Is
that game going to see fourteen? Yes, I will say this.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I sided with Jonas on Week one as far as
that being the one I'm most interested to watch and see,
only because I think, I mean, I'm just trying to
think of all the quarterbacks who've immediately retired. Now, I
know he took last year off, but like I don't know,
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even with the Peyton Manning cast and all that, how
that's kind of done. This is, this feels different, and
I just there's something about this that's going to stand
out from the rest of games. Like we've got everyone
else has sixteen other games right the rest of the
year to talk about, but this will be like the
goat the greatest of all times, first time color analysis
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of an NFL game, and it creates that first impression like.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
That to me is huge. It's monumental. It's something game.
What's the game the Browns in Cleveland versus Dallas.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
I Mean, it's an interesting enough too, It's an interesting
game too. But I'm just saying like, I will forever
probably remember this, like it's I wasn't only old enough
to remember Joe Montana really commentating, and obviously that didn't
go great. But I think similarly at the time, it
was probably like, dude, this is the greatest of all time,
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like people were anticipating that, Like, depending on how long
time Brady does this, well, probably remember this one way
or another forever.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Are you are you surprised that he's doing it because
again other sports.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Now, Michael didn't paid three seven and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
But like Michael, Jordan never considered being a broadcaster.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Was he offered thirty seven and a half million dollars?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I'm sure he could have been. I don't know, Like
I'm just I look at it and I go, he
probably doesn't need to do this. The fact that he
wants to do it like that takes a lot of
balls because he's he's the greatest of all times, like
what he did, and then he's getting an opportunity to
do this and there's.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
No but Jordan also has this. You had the shoe
deal off the court and all that. I mean, I'll
put it this way, how much do you think Jordan.
His biggest year in the NBA made.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Jeez, twenty million.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Maybe no is I mean his largest year he made
over thirty three million dollars. Okay, he only made north
of thirty million twice.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
That's why Barkley always says, man, he's all come out
and I'll play every game at the rate that these
guys are making right now and some of the the
load management.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
But it just goes to show you, like I don't
care who you are.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Someone offers you a ten year deal for thirty seven
and a half million dollars, You'll do pretty much any job.
This is the best of two pros and a couple
of Joe with Lamar Errings, Rady Win and Jonas Knox
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So the Atlanta Falcons stay aggressive. They are going after it,
and they're going after it on defense yet again, two
time Pro Bowl safety Justin Simmons agrees to a one
year deal on Thursday. I saw for about eight million dollars.
It's a day after they traded for Matthew Judon fills
a need. They've been a little bit banged up there,
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but two consecutive days they make a move add talent
with Pro Bowl pedigree on defense. It looks like the
Atlanta Falcons are ready to mark the NFC South as
theirs and get after it. And I just want to
know how much of this is on Arthur Blank who
told them you didn't take a defender, you took a
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quarterback number eight. Overall, I need to see what the
plan is in Atlanta's going after it thinking they're going
to make a playoff run. How much heat is on
the Atlanta Falcons front office.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
How much heat?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I don't think there's I don't think there's heat on
their front office right now. I think that if you're
looking at what they're doing right now, they look like
they're very strategically sound.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You want to talk about hold the line.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
You know you're getting a quality player, and Justin Simmons
doesn't really have an injury history safety at thirty years old,
it's not that old.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
You can still do.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
A lot of really really good things at at thirty
years old in the league, at that position in particular.
And the fact that now safeties are basically I mean
they at times and nickels or dime situations or penny
situations are basically glorified linebackers as well. That's the league now,
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that's college football now is you really only have maybe
two linebackers that are true linebackers, sometimes maybe only even one,
and you're using safeties really in place of where you
used to use linebackers because the game on offense.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Has changed so much.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
So I don't think this is about pressure on the
front office of Atlanta. It looks as though they've taken
advantage of a relationship that fell apart in New England.
Didn't seem as though they wanted in New England, wanted
to get it done with Judon and you sneak in
there and you get a very very nice pickup at
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the last minute to get in Judon and then now
you have a guy and Simmons who you know, there
probably are a few more quality players that are out
there that aren't on rosters right now. So you've addressed
some serious needs on your defensive side of the ball.
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You have a lot of firepower on the offensive side
of your ball. I mean, I don't think this is
about pressure. I think you're seeing a team that feels
confident in a push to try to be a more
competitive team in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And why not. Why shouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The NFC is probably the most up for grabs side
of the NFL conferences that that's available right now, So
go get it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It looks like they're trying to get it. Yeah, they're
going for it.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I mean, that's the easy sweat to describe it. Like
they're going all in for it this year. Their ownership,
everything else. I do think there's an element though, of
the front office, you know, finding value and make some
of his moves. The trade for JUDEA on bringing in
a player like Simmons who's the consummate pro is a
former pro bowler, and there was a need for them
too in the back end, you know, so you find
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those guys you can bring in, and you're probably getting
them at least.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
In the case of Simmons, a little more economically.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
But there does have to be an element of pressure
that is on this front office because this is the
same group of people that convinced you not to bring
in Bill Belichick. And and if that's the case, then
they've got to show that they're going to be able
to turn this team into a contender. And so you know,
they're using the cap space they have to make the
moves they're making, and so far, it looks like it's
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going to work out. I mean, I would be hard
pressed to look at another team in the NFC and say, like,
they did more of this offseason than the Falcons to
put themselves in a position to win.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I mean, that's the type of offseason they had.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Now, whether or not that translates over to games, well
off the wait and see.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What do you think Arthur Smith is thinking right now? Like,
wait a second, where was that for me?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Like what wait? I had to I had to basically
go figure it out and and you guys now just
decided after I left to get aggressive and go make
all these moves. Not only you know, we couldn't figure
out the starting quarterback spot. You basically have two, went
and signed one for big money, and then he drafted one.
I wonder if farther Smith's sitting around going what the
f man like, why couldn't I get I.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Think he's too busy with what he's got in Pittsburgh.
I don't think he's sitting around thinking anything in regards.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
To that last year. You don't think, you know, he
looks around.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
I think he's got a lot of this play in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What are you getting at? I mean, Russell's his debut.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
He made his debut.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
But I think he's also focused on making sure that
this offense is what Pittsburgh Steelers fans won.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I mean, that's one of the.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Best fan bases in any professional sports franchise, and they're
going to be hard if this offense isn't an improvement
from what it was last year, because that's all I've
been saying, That's all Var has been saying, That's all
Ben Roethlisberger has been saying, is that it's been the offense.
It's been the offense has been the play calling. Well,
he's the guy to come in and fix it. So
(05:48):
you know, yeah, maybe they could blame Russell Wilson. But
if Russell Wilson doesn't look great, Justin Fields doesn't look great,
at some point, they're gonna turn right back to the
play caller and then then that he'll be, you know,
the guy of one's pointing out. So that's the tough
part about this is you know, you can you could
sit there and think this he's just sitting twiddling his
thumbs thinking about Atlanta, but he's got his hands full
(06:09):
on Pistopher.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Are the excited about Russell Wilson's debut.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I think there's a lot of cautious optimism. Man, It's
it's funny. I just we're not the most We're not
where we're We love our team and we'll love our
coach until we don't, you know, And that's just how
a lot of us are. And sometimes we're a very
split community. Sometimes you have a very very strong feeling
(06:41):
towards keeping a coach, and then you have a strong
feeling of getting rid of the coach. I can recall
when Chuck Nole was at the end of his time there.
You had a very very split community. You know, there
were times where with Bill Cower you had a very
very split community. There's times with Mike Tomlin you have
a very very split community. And how people feel there's
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always going to be that one for something. I'll say this, yensers.
We feel like we know the gang, right like we
feel like we know the game.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And sometimes I don't use it. I don't. I don't
use it.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't really have It's funny, if I'm home long enough,
I start saying I start sounding more Pittsburgh. But I
don't sound Pittsburgh on a regular on a regular day,
Like if you heard my son.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Not sunny Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I mean, I don't really think about it. I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I just don't sound like I'm from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But no, I don't. I mean there's no party.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
That's like, man, I got away from my roots.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I mean I didn't try to lose my accent. It
just kind of went away. I guess, like I don't
say pop anymore. Like there's certain things I don't say
that are yinzerisms, and I treat pop though.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I don't say gum bad. I don't. I don't drink prop.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
That's probably part of it too.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
But if I were to get a pop, I would
say what the flavor is now, versus saying, you know,
I'm gonna go get a bottle a two liter a pop.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
You know I'm not. Now, I'd say I'm going to
get PEPSI or I'm going to get a.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Look an adolescent thing, though I feel like that's kind
of for.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Younger kids anyway, though I don't know, because the adults
say pop. In Pittsburgh, we say pop. Yeah, we get
some pop anyway. Yeah, I think that we just we
feel as though the way football is played in Western
Pennsylvania has to be a certain way, it has to
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look a certain way, it has to feel a certain way,
and if it doesn't, then the narcissism starts to creep.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Up on you.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It starts to come out, and then you start thinking
that you would be able to do a better job
than the guys that are coaching. And that's that's kind
of how our culture is, you know. So it's just
never enough for some of our fans and our fan
base because they know it better than the coaches that
have been hired to be you know, the coaches of
the team.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right, yinzer. Do you want to hear Wikipedia or
the Urban Dictionary version of it?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Okay, I hear both.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Okay, well, because one of them is a little bit
more insulting than the other.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
All right, so I don't know, like, uh, why are
you do the lesson?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Right?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
So?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Speakers of Pittsburgh English are sometimes called yinsers in reference
to their use of the second person plural pronoun yins.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
That sounds like the Webster's definition yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The word yinser is sometimes heard as a pejorative, indicating
a lack of sophistication wow, But the term is now
used in a variety of ways.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So there's that, But the the original, like do you
know the original of YenS? It's like you guys, Yeah, YenS,
you guys, that's what YenS is. So so the people
out there that don't like didn't catch what Jonahs just said.
It's like, when you say you guys, is the proper
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way of saying you know, you guys instead of like
hey guys, right, you say hey yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
But that's that's why I pushed back, what are you doing?
Because that guy in the Goonies would have said hey,
yins instead he said hey, you guys. So I don't
know that that's accurate what you just said, Like, I
believe that you know, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'm telling you what the chances LaVar that Jonas gets
slapped if he shows up in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Why would I.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Because they expelled the punk on you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Hold on dump that dum dumb that I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I might be taken wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
They might take dump that No, that was might take
that the wrong way. That's that's the world we live on. Man,
hit that button.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
What what does this world come to?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
What's dum?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
If? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Because the P word it could be interpreted a couple
of different ways.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just say, for what does this world come to when
you have to dump a legitimate quality insult between co
hosts on the air? That was the quality insult? Yeah,
nothing at all, just a little I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
End up like just make sure that Hey, I'm no cruissant.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I'll just say this, uh the other Now, the Urban
Dictionary says this about yinsers, a person from Pittsburgh who
is terrified to leave. Western Pennsylvania has has one of
the highest percentage of born and bred population, yet still
has a decreasing population because nobody outside Pittsburgh ever wants
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to move in. Most successful people work at a family
business or their parents connected them and couldn't be successful
outside the city itself. Yinsers obsessed about sports because there's
nothing else positive about this town. That's insulting. It is
Urban Dictionary.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It seems like they took it necessary shot, and like
who what the Urban Dictionary hates Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't know, but yeah, that's pretty bead stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
But as somebody who grew up a Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
That sounds like somebody who got their ass kicked, not
almost got their ass kicked, It sounds like somebody who
did get their.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Ass I agree. And you know what, as somebody who's
a Penguins fan, don't show up on Carson Street with
that attitude.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You had to make sure you told people you were in.
That's that's still a tourist the area go go, well,
the Hill District still is in the Hill District, but
it's very close to where the Penns play. Yeah, just
go say you walk through, uh through Saint Clair Village
or something to that effect. Say say you went over
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to I don't even know where everything is anymore because
there's been so much.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Build up and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
But Pittsburgh is actually a very very beautiful town, by.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
The way, underrated city, by the way.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
There's a lot of great things to do, a lot
of a lot of great food there. I mean, Pittsburgh
is an amazing place. Now, one thing I will say
about Pittsburgh, people who are native to there, they will say,
I love being where I'm from. I just don't want
to go back there to live. But with that being said,
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I do believe that we were voted the highest city,
and if I if I recall correctly this year, in
fact the highest city of movebacks, like people moving back
from where they were to reside, that that highest, that
highest number has gone to Pittsburgh. So yeah, I don't
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I don't buy that urban. That urban definition of.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Just uncalled for.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, it's inaccurate too. Now, there are some parts that
I have a little accuracy to it. I mean, if
you look up Italian crime families and stuff like that,
a lot of it you know originate.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, the origin is in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Why does Brady have to catch astray? Well, why does
his family have to catch astray?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Italian crime families, like how am I catching austraight because
you're Italian.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Because three and me, there's there's there's there's some real
conversation about leave.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Those nerds, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The way.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
It's twenty three of me said, yeah, I know what
mine says, but we don't. We don't have What did
you say? I said, I'm black black dog. If this
was Roberto shouts out to Roberto. But yeah, there, I mean,
there are there are there There has been a lot
of nepotism in certain areas and places in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
But you're taking this seriously right now, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah? I am.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Why do you take these like non serious subjects, get
so serious about.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Like saying we're not sophisticated or you know, Urbana, who cares?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I mean, it's just hey, let me tell you something.
You want to have a good time.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
To never follow the darn rundown because we got pushed.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
First of all, we called lee to the first segment
and it bumped everything back.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So I was really hoping to get like talking about
Nicholas Cage at some point we should apparently.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No, No, that's a that's a great idea. That's a
great idea. I just want to point this out. Faththead
Saloon on Carson Street in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Establishment just will to let people know they're just looks Google.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I've been to Fathead Saloon a couple of times. I
have to.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'm trying to prove to the people out there.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Next up, he's going to talk about Todd Hayley and
the bar and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
He went to all the tequila, the tequila Cowboy. Yeah,
Todd Ailey got shoved over by some guy who just
trying to.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Keep convinced people that you you were in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I've been to Pittsburgh many times. I love Pittsburgh. It's
a great spot. Watch Games three and four, the Stanley
Cup in two thousand and nine in Pittsburgh. Okay, tic
tac toe goal, Tyler Kennedy. I was there. I saw
it from the nosebleeds.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Okay, good.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, I'm a true Ginzer.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Arrington and
Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern three am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
The Notre Dame men's swimming team. I just tell you something,
right now, you got a friend in me.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Okay, you got a friend of me?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
All right? Suspended for the year, Brady, Like what the
whole season gone?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The men's swimming team is suspended for the year. You
can go ahead and read off what has taken place
or transpired.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Okay, So let's let's get the water to make sure
that we represent them fairly here. So the entire the
entire Notre Day men's swimming team suspended for a year
after an external review found that the team was wagering
among themselves on results of their competition. This from ESPN.
According to a person with knowledge of the situation, members
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of the team had set up a makeshift internal sportsbook
where athletes could wager on the times of themselves or
teammates at meets. Athletes were not found to have bet
on opposing teams or on any other Notre Dame athletic events,
the person said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity
because Notre Dame was not making the contents of the
report public. The person said that more than sixty percent
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of the returning team, which includes twenty five swimmers took
part in betting on the performances of members of the team.
The review also revealed some members of the team had
been amongst themselves on events such as the Super Bowl
and March Madness basketball tournament games. The person said in
a group text chain with members of the team was
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filled with derogatory remarks and meths and messages were also found.
No evidence of physical hazing or abuseless found. So here's
the way I look at this.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Sounds like a standard group text.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
One hundred percent guys betting on stuff, having some fun conversations,
insulting each other because the bets go poorly, like happens
on this show, publicly all the.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Time, and now they're suspended for the entire year. I
think it's a bit exaggerated, to be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I mean, look, you clearly don't want to have And
the other side note to this is the coaching staff
was completely unaware of this, and through the internal and
external investigations they were able to determine that through the
communication and how the athletes were keeping it away from
the coaching staff so they wouldn't know what I guess
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what I find interesting about it, and LeVar, this is
what I was gonna ask you to see if you
have an issue with it. Is I mean, if I'd
said to you and we're the locker before the game,
like a bro, I bet I'm a throw for over
four and a half touchdowns tonight today, You're like, out, no, man,
their defense is pretty good. You might get four, and
I'm like, no, I'll throw five. Like is that detrimental
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to the game or is that? I mean, I understand
there's an element of if let's say, for example, it's
in the fourth quarter, you're up by a couple of scores,
but the over unders in doubt and I'm trying to
get that fifth touchdown, so I'm pressing instead of trying
to run the clock out to get it.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I mean, dudes, do that stat padding anyway?
Speaker 5 (19:28):
You know, people will keep their star athletes in to
try to help them, promote them for a Heisman and
to do that stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You know, I think it's easier in football. I mean,
I would assume how do you know how do you
know to slow down and e or either be able
to speed up while you're swimming? Yeah, you know what
I mean, Like, how are you aware of the time.
I would assume you're not aware of the time because
of the way swimming works, you know what I mean.
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So if you're getting a time that's base off of
the bet, that's a time that you got based off
of how you you.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Swam, is what I would assume.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I mean, are you able to are you able to
see and know the time? Like all right, let me
slow down right here, like let me slow my my
breaststroke down, or my my you know, my backstroke.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Let me let me slow that down. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Like I don't. I guess I'll put it the other way.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
They finished top ten last year this past March, which
is I believe maybe the first time ever for the
men's program.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And I'm not advocating at all for gambling in this.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Case, but it made them more competitive.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, And I thought, you say, I'll throwt to you
this way, Like if I if every single time you
and I went out and let's say we're talking about swimming,
and like we continually bet.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Of what our goal was going to be, you know,
saying like.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
There's to me yet to me, you're not point shaving,
You're not time shaving or anything like that. You're just
betting this is the time that I'm going to get.
I'm gonna say that's a little that's it's a slippery slope.
But at the same time, I don't see how you
can you can time shave or time ad you know
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what I mean, Like it's like, oh crap, I'm five
seconds off. Let me go faster, Like, don't I don't
see how that will work in swimming.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You can't, like people try and do this because they
don't understand or they're new to betting. You can't just
paint everything with a broad stroke because point shaving is
different than a couple of guys on a swim team
in a group text chain saying hey, I'll bet you,
you know, fifty bucks you don't finish in the top
four in this next meet at you know wherever.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Now, that's more like i'll finish last, you know what
I mean. Like if you're betting that I bet you
I finished last, or I bet you he finishes last.
That's different. And by the way, if you're talking times,
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Make it seem like they've got some brick and mortar
sports book that they built there next to touchdown, Jesus
and they're like all right, you know, come on up,
come to the window. If you're like, dude, this could
have been guys on a text chain just you know,
venmowing money to each other.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm curious as to who snitched too, by the way,
Like did they get kicked off of the team. Did
they have beef with somebody and said I'm taking the
whole dang thing down.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Like, yeah, what was the insult?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Who was the snitch?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
What was the insult that went above and beyond anything
that had been said on the text chain? I just
want to know.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I mean, I've gotten through work with the collective to
know a lot of the different student athletes, and that's
not necessarily a sport that always will stand out. They
did have an Olympian this year though swam I believe
the fifty four by one hundred.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
They actually he actually won a gold medal. He was
not caught up in this.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
His name was not part of it from both the
internal and external investigation.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
But you know, By and Lars, these are good kids.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And the tough thing is is, you know, they suspend
the program for a year because they want to get
the culture right and I understand Pete Bovaqua's position, Like
he's a new athletic director. You've got to come down
really hard on this sort of thing because you can't
allow those tentacles to kind of reach out into other
sports and think it's okay. Because if someone here's the
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men's swimming team's doing something and.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
That you know, they flew under the radar.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
And another team finds out about it, another team finds
out about it, you know, now these kids will be
subject to being able to transfer if they want, they
can stay the course. You know, there's all sorts of
different options they've got. But you know he's in a
tough spot as a new athletic director to handle this
and be able to just set a strong precedent. But
at the same time, like, I look at it and
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I just go I'd love to see all the information
and data to know what you asked LeVar, like, is
anyone trying to you know, bet again, like against themselves?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Because if everyone's.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Trying to, like and this is kind of the argument
I guess for Pete Rose is it wasn't like he
was supposedly betting against them, so and so then you
kind of say, well, now, you've got somebody who's actually
pretty pot committed, Like not only are they, you know,
playing for a paycheck, but they're actually taking money out
of that paycheck, depend on themselves like there is invested
as anyone is right, You could you could, you could
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make that case.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
The problem is more like bounties to me, like like
and that was big, Like I played for Greg Williams.
But Greg Williams wasn't the only one that did that.
Ray Rhodes did it. Guys were doing that. There were there.
They called them briefcases from Mexico. That's what they called.
That's what they call lebar. Why Mexico Why, I don't know.
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Why I have I have no idea why they called
them briefcases from that.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Let let me tell you something.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh my gosh, I want to start a lying I
would have sort of line of suitcases now that.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Briefcases from Mexico.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I see briefcases from Mexico at home every single day.
I can assure you that's a real thing.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
And I started selling.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I'm gonna I'm going to source all my material, have
them made in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
St that's what they were called. What we're called.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
That'll be the only way I'll have people ship money.
Like forget Western Union or any other crap out the
briefcases from Mexican.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
You would have sent some of cash. Twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
We've got you covered. We're gonna send a briefcase from Mexico.
Not only do you get the cash, you get the briefcase.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
From Mexico as well.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh good.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean that went on for a long time. Like
knock somebody's ass out. You were getting paid. There was
like there were amounts of money connected to what you did.
If you got a quarterback, you got like that was
the pot, like you like that was.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It was a lot of money, but it was a.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I was on a team where you know, when you're
a backup quarterback, you you were oftentimes going and working
with the defensive staff talking about like what they want
to see in practice and different things. It's not as
simple just hey, we're gonna watch the go Like we
had actually a couple of coaches who would have us
come in and watch film and say these are their
main concepts is how they run it and be like okay,
like do you want us to work like our progression?
Their progression. They'd be like, now do this, and so
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they would talk about all this, but why you be
in there. I remember one team, I was like, oh,
that's that's a points system. And I was like, well,
what's this. They're like, oh, this is this type of hit.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Well, what's this? This is this type of hit.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It was the same exact thing. It was a points
system that added up to rewards. It was it was
like it wasn't directly correlated with money, but it was
like a step away from it, or like a degree
away from it. I'm like, oh, all right, this is
like the exact same thing. This got pop fur there
in New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Are you sure I don't get three points for that?
His mouthpiece came out.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, we looked at it.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
The other you go to LeVar before, probably in private.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
But like they used to tall, I forget what kind
of tackle they'd call it, but they would try to
get the running back.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
They would always try.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
To roll him, so his head was always turning back
towards his own goal line. Yeah, because there was it
was the mental warfare of always feeling like he's not
ever moving forward, he's moving backwards.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Yeah, And I.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Was like this is some unbelievable psychotic warfare. That's yeah
right now, and they're like no, so their studies third
fourth quarter at keep turning that guy back. He's gonna
feel like not gonna have the same vision for cutbacks,
et cetera.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
If you go back and look at people's film after
a conversation like this, you'd be like, oh my gosh,
there it is right there. Oh my gosh, they're doing
it right there. Oh my gosh, look they're doing it
right there, like if you were to go back and
watch now, or if you're even watching watching that. I
don't know football culture now. I'm not in a I'm
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not in meeting rooms at the pro level, so and
I'm not I don't think. I don't recall that ever
being a money thing. But we didn't have money back
in the day, you know what I mean. So I
don't even know what that even looks like in college,
you know, in terms of like vetting and stuff like that,
or bounty gates, like because we had bounties in college,
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but it was just like we're gonna get We're gonna
get Tom Brady or we're going to get Drew Brees,
Like can we get him out in the first quarter
or something like that. But it was just trash talk.
That was like our goals for the game. You know,
there was no money connected to it was just goals
for the game, like I want to try to get
this dude out of the game, Like I'm really trying
to knock his ass out, right, But in the pros
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it was definitely yeah, like you see it, like what
you said. I remember one time I took Troy Hambrick.
I think it was Troy. He was a running back
for Dallas. I took his head and I literally tried
to put the back of his head on the heels
of his of his feet.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I tried to break his back, he tried to scorpi him. Bro, Bro.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
And there's a picture of it somewhere. There's there's like
a picture of it out there somewhere. I don't know,
but you could see it clearly. I was given everything
I had put his head on the back of his heels.
It's just some of the craziest I.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Like thinking about much in that briefcase from Mexico. Have
you done that?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Like I said, I don't remember, I don't recall the prices.
I don't I don't remember the prices on people's heads.
But I'm just telling you if there was certain stuff
that you score high, bro, like it was like you
hit the jackpot, and one and one was definitely getting
the quarterback out, Like get the quarterback out, you get
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like you was getting paid, bro, like he was getting paid.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
a Cup of Joe with Brady, Quinn, LeVar Errington, and
Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern, three am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio AIP.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So you guys want to hear Tom Brady. I don't
know this is considered a threat, but he was on
his vlog recently on a showcasing his yacht. It's been
working out per usual. Throwing the football around at some
guys on jet skis.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Good for him.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And you know you wanted to do a send out
a little piece of information to some of the other
quarterbacks in the NFL. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
The media these I just.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Want to make sure all those gung bucks in the
NFL know that I might still wanted to come out
of retirement.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
All the way out, way out, way out, they still
got somewer deals.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So he's always going to be a competitor, man, just
a competitive dude.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
We're flexing there and just trying to cool and relevant
or do you think it's a competitive thing.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
That I think it was a competitive flex, Like like
I'm I'm gonna go into this booth and I'm I'm
gonna live life the way that I live like, But
make no mistake about it, if I did want to
come back, it could be your job that's on the line.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That's a flex because he ain't lying. If you get
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I mean, yeah, I get what you're saying. I'm kind
of over it, dude, Like, I mean, I'll take it
over Colin Kaepernick any day of the week, but I'm
more fascinated.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yeah, I think that's offensive to me that you would
even say that. Why why would you put those two
names in?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
All right, that's that's your now for a second show.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That hit me the wrong way, man.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Sorry about that. All good by the way. Camp Brady
also be offended.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
I mean, Kaepernick play was a starting quarterback and in
a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You know what I mean. But I'm just saying.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
I called his last game.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
A lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
But I'm just saying, don't put those don't like that's like,
that's the I just sent you all a goat.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I just want to I just want to make sure
because I I know that, Like sometimes, I'm not saying
this would happen in this case at all, because I
know people sometimes occasionally rewrite history. But if I'm not mistaken,
didn't wasn't it Kaepernick who opted out of his deal
with the Niners back then? I think I'm pretty sure
that it was him that did that. They didn't opt it.
But again, who's counting point is Tom Brady?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Is I could that could be definitely wrong. By the
way I do, I do appreciate, you know, when Jonas
knows he might be wrong, he just pivots quickly.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
No, because I know I'm not wrong. I know that happened.
That is what happened. He opted out. Okay, they wanted
to bring him back. You didn't want to be part
of it.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
All I know.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Potentially Tom Brady came back today and said he's he's
open for business and wasn't under any contract restrictions or
anything like that, and it said, you know what, I'm
gonna put call in these games off for another year.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I want to come back and try to get one.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
You're telling me that there wouldn't be a team that'd
be like, yep, yep, right here, we'll take them.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
We'll take you.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
The Niners did it last year.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Okay, exactly, and they do it again this year too.
We're talking about Tom Brady or calling Tom Brady. Yeah,
tom Brady.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
By the way, he did opt out of his contract.
You're correct.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
That was though, with Kyle Shanahan coming from Atlanta wanting
to run a different offense, Kaepernick thought there opportunity elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Doesn't that sound like ridiculous now looking at what colech
has to do with that team.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
That was a decision on Kaepernicks party.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
That's what I'm saying. That sounds crazy now interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I mean, you would say that as far as talent goes,
like Kaepernick's probably more talented than say a brock Perdy, like.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
What would chalented?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah? What would what?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Shannon maybe at the time like more athletic. He's more athletic,
probably arm talented. I don't know that he was a
better passer.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
From the pocket.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I mean, listen, I'm a brought pretty guy through and through.
But you know, either.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Way, I'm not a guy either one.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
I'm just saying I wouldn't jump out there and say
more talented than brock Purty, but definitely more athletic. For
certain Yeah, he was more athletic than him.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I mean, hey, he's not even gonna coach on the
Chargers this year, so you know, it is what it is.
By the way, Tom Brady, I'm more excited to see
what he's going to be as a broadcaster than him
make a return in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I think he's going crush it.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I do too.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I think he's going crush it.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Man.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I think it's be fun. It's gonna be fun to
listen to his perspective. It's gonna be fun to hear
him tell stories. It's gonna be fun to hear I
think what he gets out of coaches and players too,
because when you're I mean think about as a player,
you're gonna open up and tell him pretty much anything
you want. Like he's like that guy. It's not like
you're to hold stuff back. So I even think the
(34:56):
insight he'll be able to bring out of the other
people that are involved will be like something completely different
than ever before.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You know, I was going through the list of games
week one, and I was thinking, all right, so of
all these games week one, which like of Tom Brady's debut,
like just his performance alone in the Browns Cowboys game,
how much more am I looking forward to that than
games that are actually being played elsewhere in Week one?
(35:27):
And I think I've got like five, and you tell
me if you agree. All right, So Cardinals Bills, I'm
more interesting. I'm more interested in Tom Brady and hearing
him week one that I am watching the Cardinals Bills game.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
No, I'm interested in that Cardinals Bills game.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Patriots Bengals not interested. Yeah, I'll take tom Brady broadcasting
over that. Jaguars Dolphins interested? What about Panthers, Saints not interested?
Damn Vikings Giants.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Not interested.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I mean, like, that's like a decent amount of games
that I look at it and go and those.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Are the games he's calling.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Right, Well, no, those are those are other games on
the slate week one. Like I'm talking specifically tuning in
to listen to Tom Brady. I'd rather do that than watch
like four or five games Week one of the NFL.
Come on, man, Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Don't get carried.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I'm a Fox guy through and through. You know that.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Don't get carried.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Trying to support our own Here's what I'm trying to do,
real team.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I mean, some of those matchups are dope matchups.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Man, I mean, come on, Saints Panthers.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I said no on that one. Okay, who choose the
worst one.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I'm just saying that's not a dope matchup.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Jacksonville and that's a dope matchup. You don't think so, really,
Prince Charman and Tua, come on.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Man, listen, it's South.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
It's like this is.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Like a really big year, a pivotal year for Trevor
Lawrence and and the Jackson Deal Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I mean, and that's fine. We got seventeen more weeks
that we can worry about them.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah, but you're on, You're on week one.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, but it's South.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
It's the only one that really matters.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I'm gonna try and put you up on game when
it comes to sound please, no.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
He did it me you No, he didn't South South.
He just did. Didn't he South Florida?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Week one?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
And he gets slick like that. He'll slip it in
every once in a.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
While, you're hold on slip right on in there, all right,
that's exactly what Jonas does.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Man South Florida Week one. How many weather delays? Is
that game going to see fourteen? Yes, I will say this.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I sided with Jonas on Week one as far as
that being the one I'm most interested to watch and see,
only because I think, I mean, I'm just trying to
think of all the quarterbacks who've immediately retired. Now, I
know he took last year off, but like I don't know,
(38:02):
even with the Peyton Manning cast and all that, how
that's kind of done. This is, this feels different, and
I just there's something about this that's going to stand
out from the rest of games. Like we've got everyone
else has sixteen other games right the rest of the
year to talk about, but this will be like the
goat the greatest of all times, first time color analysis
(38:23):
of an NFL game, and it creates that first impression like.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
That to me is huge. It's monumental. It's something game.
What's the game the Browns in Cleveland versus Dallas.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah, Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
I Mean, it's an interesting enough too, It's an interesting
game too. But I'm just saying like, I will forever
probably remember this, like it's I wasn't only old enough
to remember Joe Montana really commentating, and obviously that didn't
go great. But I think similarly at the time, it
was probably like, dude, this is the greatest of all time,
(38:57):
like people were anticipating that, Like, depending on how long
time Brady does this, well, probably remember this one way
or another forever.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Are you are you surprised that he's doing it because
again other sports.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Now, Michael didn't paid three seven and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
But like Michael, Jordan never considered being a broadcaster.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Was he offered thirty seven and a half million dollars?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I'm sure he could have been. I don't know, Like
I'm just I look at it and I go, he
probably doesn't need to do this. The fact that he
wants to do it like that takes a lot of
balls because he's he's the greatest of all times, like
what he did, and then he's getting an opportunity to
do this and there's.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
No but Jordan also has this. You had the shoe
deal off the court and all that. I mean, I'll
put it this way, how much do you think Jordan.
His biggest year in the NBA made.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Jeez, twenty million.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Maybe no is I mean his largest year he made
over thirty three million dollars. Okay, he only made north
of thirty million twice.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
That's why Barkley always says, man, he's all come out
and I'll play every game at the rate that these
guys are making right now and some of the the
load management.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
But it just goes to show you, like I don't
care who you are.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Someone offers you a ten year deal for thirty seven
and a half million dollars, You'll do pretty much any job.
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