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Good morning, bar Hello, Jonas Knocks, I mean, otherwise known
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as Drack. I got a I was thinking about you
this morning. I was all right, So I was working
out clothes on or off on unfortunately, all right, well listen,
that could be arranged. Don't you come in here telling
me you was thinking about Okay, don't you do that?
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So all right? So, so I was watching on television
while I was working out this morning. Was an old
NFL game. I mean we're talking Neil O'Donnell on the
Bengals old Oh okay, so Bengals Lions, old NFL game.
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And I saw some guy on a part return, get clean,
lit out, all the way lit. There wasn't even a
thought of it being a penalty. Well that's what people
looked for. It wasn't even a thought like literally, nobody
looking around to see if the fl you know, a
player like looks around at go all, they're for sure
going to call a flag on that. Nothing, not even
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not even the ten highlights you used to see back then.
We're all big hits. I got annihilated and there was nobody, nobody,
It didn't even occur to anybody that that could be
a possibility. Nobody could fathom that that would be a penalty.
And it was some guy getting wiped out on a
punt return, not looking. Everybody wanted to see it. Yes,
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people still want to see it, if they're being honest.
I want to see it. They showed it immediately. I
want to see dudes getting blown up. Many don't want
to get blown up. Don't get blown up. It's Rubbernecker mentality. Yeah, man,
you know you like get hard r Yeah you got ah,
you got yeah, it's true. Not rubber neck ah, but
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you you uh, you stop to look at whatever is happening,
and if there's an accident, if there's some you know,
some sort of I try and not watch street fights
that come up on the algorithm on Instagram or anything
like that. I try not to, but you almost have
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to watch it twice. If it's a short reel that
goes for you know, fifteen seconds, I'm good for two
of those, like that'll lead up thirty seconds of my day.
And then I realized, well, that's going to throw everything off,
and you see, those are the most viewed clips for
the most part. But it was funny because we've talked
about just what the NFL used to be and what
it is now and I'm watching that play going nobody
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even considered. There was celebrations, there was high fives, Guys
were you know, dapping it up, not even a thought
that that was going to be a penalty. Just a different,
different NFL these days. It was a different NFL then
and it is a different one now. But you know,
evolution happens. People want to be responsible for making the
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game better, leaving it better than what they found it.
And I get it. I mean, you're you're making safety
more of a priority, you know. You know, what would
be even more interesting to me would be to hear
the back end conversations of producers of the of the
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the football games, the GMS, the coaches back then versus
those conversations, now, what do you think they would add? Oh,
broh oh, I think it would be. And you know
what's crazy about it, I'll say this, It would probably
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be the same way as a microcosm, you know, football
as a microcosm of the entire hole of our society.
I guarantee you it would be glaring in comparison. Just
like normal people of today versus normal people from that
era of time, The conversations behind closed doors would be
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wild just what they were, what they would allow in
a game with what you didn't think about, what was normal,
what was commonplace. I feel like you're made to think
more now than you ever have. And while I say
thinking is a is a wonderful thing, it isn't for everybody.
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Thinking is not for everybody, you know, So it would be.
It would just be interesting if some of the people
back in those days had to fit into these days,
and even more interesting people of these days trying to
fit back in those days, Like can you imagine kids
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really don't even go outside anymore? Bro? Like we I
I would not allow my kid outside, and I live
in a dope community. Wouldn't allow her outside? Why if
she's not if she's not monitored or inside of the gate.
Oh yeah, she's not going outside. We were going from
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Burrow to Burrow. We get on me and my brother,
we get on our bikes or catch the bus. And
I mean we're like, what eleven what do they call
lock key kids or latch key latch key kids? Yeah,
but we weren't. We weren't really latch key kids. We
just kids. Just moved around back then. Like it wasn't
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just sitting on a device. It wasn't sitting on your
cell phone. It wasn't like you were. Life was different. Man.
When I take my son out because he loves baseball
and we go, literally go every day, and he's four
years old, I've never and I mean never seen anybody
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at the park when we arrived to play baseball that
we've got to like wait for them to finish in
order for us. Nobody's there. We had and it's summertime,
it's all throughout the year, nobody's there. Ever, we had
street games all the time, baseball. It was woofleball, woofleball,
street hockey. You could you could join a pickup game like, hey,
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you guys need to play We used to play smear
The rhymes with smear or free for all, Free, free
for all. Yeah, but the first one was the name
smear the Okay, so we said different time, different time.
Imagine saying that now, Oh, sh they coming to get you.
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Hey coming, what you mean, We're just going to play
this game? Die heerd worse Oh daily, Oh yeah, it's
it's it is wild man. You get out there and
nobody's there. It's just it's just so it's just this
day and age, it's just so different. Like it's just
so different. Do you realize that gym class back in
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the day was it was modern, It was it was
patterned and modeled after basic training because they were basically
preparing kids to be able to go to basic training.
Like your gym class. Physical education was for you literally
to be getting your body in shape and getting it
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acclimated to being able to do the things that you
would do if you had to go to the military.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Wasn't there the presidential fitness stuff that you were supposed
to test for that was like nationwide, Yes, yeah, yeah,
everyone had to like you had to.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Be able to pass it. Now now, and this is
the wildest thing I've ever heard. If you remember that,
this is the wildest thing I've ever heard. You used
to have to be able to run the mouth is
required of us and pull up yest. Oh, I remember that.
But it's great. But here's what's crazy. Here's what's crazy.
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And like, these kids should be ashamed of themselves. I
ain't gonna lie like you should be out of yourself.
The only guaranteed A that I knew I was going
to get in school, which Jim, I knew Jim, I
count that as an A. People are failing gym class
must be nice. I had to go on the gas
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to get a be minus. People are failing gym class,
how okay? And when you're able to explain that one
to me, then we'll maybe starting down the road of
some of the things that need to change in today's society.
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I believe progression is great. I believe evolving is great.
But some things you just can't You just really can't
lose the essence of what some of these things represent.
And I tell you what missing out like not getting
everyone should get an A in gym class. I don't
care how athletic you are. It's just the effort. People
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are failing. Jim. That's crazy, it's crazy. Yeah, but they're
great on an iPad though, you know what I mean, Like,
they're great. And by the way, you can make gym
class pass. You make the time pass very easily. Just
listen to us on the iHeartRadio app. There you go, like,
listen to the podcast. There's always a way out here.
I mean, gone are the good old days when you
could just call people out for their laziness. Oh don't you.
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You could say firing, he'd be fired, suspend it on
leave and then fire you slovenly, sloppy boy. Imagine you
told a kid, well, go ahead and jump, go ahead
and jump, let's go. I just you know, I don't
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know many. I don't know how we got on that
tangent cause because we were talking about football highlights and
I saw a football highlight of a guy getting blown
up on kickoff as well. Ironically coincidentally, I don't know
these phones and these TVs like are studying our brain
waves and all this stuff because on God the minute,
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I think is something that as pops up on my
social media. I don't know how that works. I don't
know why that is, but I saw that as well.
I saw a kickoff the other day and I posted it.
I was like, imagine this was football, you know, And
it's just times have really changed, man, Like I would
say in some instances, some cases, really the only true
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football that you really watch anymore in terms of the
physicality of it is between linemen. Like that's really it.
And that's even that. I mean, you gotta think when
I was playing ball, and it was way worse, like
Deacon Jones and all of them. You go back to
them days with mel Blunt and all the them. They
were close lining people, they were head slapping people. Deacon
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Jones was giving a dude concussions every single play because
he come off the ball and just slap them in
their air hole. That's why he was getting all them sacks.
People don't realize that. But when Deeke came off the ball,
he slapped you in the head right here, right in
your air hole. And and and that was how he
got around. He was power slapped before power slap dudes. Dudes. Yes,
it's like straight power slapping dudes. Didn't have to have
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the ball for you to close line them. So dudes
like Mail Blunt and and uh night train Lane and
and and you know, uh Lester from from the Raiders,
They used to run around just closed line and dudes,
Oh it wasn't wasn't his nickname Lester. That's why I
didn't use it, though, Yeah, well what's that mean? You know,
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because of the way he can't but think about it.
You can't even say that. You can't even say what
the tank tops are anymore. And I always thought that
I never even thought too two seconds about it saying it,
and you just never thought about it, and you can't
even say it. You gotta say tank top? What do
you mean, wife beater? Do we have to dump that?
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Is that a dumpa bull offense? I'm sure there's some
people out there that still say it. Probably I remember
a word we used to use in the in the
playground when we were younger in grade school. And I'll
tell you what, I honestly believe you could like get
a citation for saying it now as easy as that
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that word rolled off the tongue. And I ain't talking
about the N word. I'm talking about the F work.
And people used to say it and not the one
that ends with K ends with a T. And people
used to say it and and and It's what's crazy
to me is how in today's culture and society, how
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there's been such strong lines drawing and connected to certain
words where it didn't even like when we used to
say we didn't say it because of that. We said
it because it was funny, Like it was funny to
call somebody that, like you call people names like oh,
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don't be mean. At school, like all right, you start
to learn social cues, you start to learn how to
communicate and do things and whatever. But it was like
it just seemed like just like football, man, it was
just it just seemed better. It just seemed better back then.
And maybe that's what everybody says because that's your experience
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growing up. But honestly, like I can't sit there and
look at some of these correlations, Like our society is
soft as hell at this point if you ask me,
you know it is. It was just less complicated. There
just wasn't as much you didn't have to always think
about what could you just did so there wasn't a yeah,
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well god, you know all of these you know, terrible
things could happen or I could get in trouble for this,
or I could do and look, some of that needed
to change. It's not saying that everything was perfect, but
it does feel like people are more likely to be
overly cautious. You can find outrage and everything. Yeah, everything
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you do is like I'm outraged. I'm upset that that
upset me. Like it's so crazy to me. Like if
you take some of these old old dudes and say,
those old dudes that owned football teams in the National
Football League were the jors of P Diddy's trial, what
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they say, why are we even here? Why are we here?
Why are we here? What are you doing to this? Man?
I did that last night? Come on, what it's the
guard and a man diaper on? Where you think he
got that idea from any woman that's willing to take
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my dependence off and go to work as a woman
for me? Like, I just I don't know. I just
feel like the times have changed so much, man, And
even though I still get excited for football, like workout culture.
It's interesting because workout culture is very real now. It wasn't.
Work out culture was like limited to a few people,
and people would get excited about him, like Walter Payton,
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workout dude. You know Jerry Rice, workout dude. Like there
were certain dudes and they would highlight them working out.
That's common. Now that's like it's like, Oh, you don't
work out like that. You don't do specified skilled training,
you don't do this, you don't have a personal training
A coach, a personal coach I coached. I was a
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high school head coach and I had a kid wasn't
even that good person or had a private coach, and
every time I would tell him to do something, he
referenced his coach. I'm like, well, if you want to
play on this team that's coached by me, you probably
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should listen to the way I'm telling you to do it.
Otherwise I'm not going to trust you to put you
out there. But the kid wasn't even throwing the ball.
He was taking sacks. These quarterback coaches teach these kids
these days to take sacks instead of throwing the ball
away because it messes up there. QB rating. Yeah, this
is high school. Brady's talked about that, man. Protect what
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is it? Protect the rating? This is high school? Like, kid,
this is going to be the last time you play ball.
What are you protecting your rating for who are you
going to tell twenty years, thirty years from now that
I had a quarterback rating of ninety nine. Meanwhile you
had three completions for minimum yards? What the hell is
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wrong with that's incomplete? What the hell is wrong? I
don't know, man. You you sprung it like the President
saying they don't know what they're fing doing. The SoundBite
running you talking about seeing when guys used to hit
this funny man, it just it's just it triggered something
to me. I'm sorry everyone, I'm sorry. You know what.
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I'm not sorry if I offended you because it's how
I feel. But you know, it is kind of early,
so there you go. Good morning. It is two pros
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confirm that this is the grand finale of his illustrious career.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
That's why we just did a one year deal. You know,
this was really about finishing with a lot of love
and fun and peace for the career that I've had,
and I've played twenty freaking years.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's been a long, long run.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
And what a better place to finish than in one
of the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin
and a great group of leadership and great guys in
the city that you expects expects you to win.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know. I wonder because I don't think anybody's surprised
that this is it for him. I think that was
the expectation, the understanding that yeah, this is a one
year deal. That's why he signed a one year deal.
And almost certainly he's going to go out play as
best he can and then just call it a career
and disappear into the night, so to speak. But I
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do I wonder if tell me what you wonder, if
he had his say based on his experience in New
York with the Jets, would he have still left Green Bay?
Because what he's saying is I want to go out
with peace within a illustrious organization with one of the
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true cornerstones of the National Football League, which is basically
the Packers. Yet in the AFC, and I wonder if
and we've talked about this before. That two year circus
with the Jets made him realize even more, Yeah, it's
not like this and other places. I remember a moment
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in my career. I was balling against the Eagles, balling,
having a dope ass game, and this play took place
where Donovan McNabb gets flushed out and I'm running him
down and he makes it out of bounce and Andy
Reid says to me, while I'm turning around, getting old, La,
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getting old. I turned to look down. I was like,
F you, you know, F you, coach, and we both
laughed and I went trotting back to jogging back to
the huddle. But what makes that relevant in this moment
was or is the fact that you stated would he
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have stayed in Green Bay? You know, there's always the
things that coaches see because of how closely, if they're
the good coaches, how closely they watch and look and
evaluate the talent that's on the team. Aaron Rodgers wasn't
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going to stay in Green Bay because Aaron Rodgers wasn't
going to be the starting quarterback of the Green Bay
Packers for much longer. He didn't. I don't think I
think a person like Aaron Rodgers in his mind, his
heart of heart, he knew to get out of there,
and he made it a little messy. He made it
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a little ugly because he knew what the writing was
on the wall. So it wasn't about him being able
to stay. It was about him being a able to
finish up his career the way he wanted to finish
up his career. And that's why I think he didn't
stay in green Bay. Not because he didn't want to
stay in Green Bay. It's like, how you guys treat
me like this when I am Green Bay, Like I
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am the guy, this is my team. How you guys
going like you guys have been trying to find a
quarterback to replace me instead of giving me the weapons
that I need as the quarterback of the green Bay Packers.
Handwriting was on the wall. The bigger question that SoundBite
from Aaron Rodgers leaves with me is that all of
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the conversations surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers, this is the type
of responses you want from your incoming starting quarterback. This
is it just want to finish it out the way
that you know. I'd like to finish it out with
peace and da da da And you know I've been
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playing for how long he's say twenty year years or
somebody he's twenty plus years. This is the guy, like,
this is the guy you want? Like this is like
to me, this this has like Manny pacyaw written on it,
like why are you? Why can't you just let the
gag go? If you're at this point in your career
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where you feel this way, where that's the way you've
almost given your that's almost you can wrap that into
a retirement speech when he retires and you listen to
what he has to say. I can guarantee you some
of the things he said in that answer that response
is going to be in his retirement speech. I just
find it interesting that in a year where the year
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before it was a tremendous miss with the quarterbacks that
you brought in, both of them were one year deals,
and we're starting quarterbacks elsewhere around the league prior to
coming to Pittsburgh. You're going to place your reputation, the
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chances of the team, the fans, the fans feelings, so
on and so forth, the sales, the relevance of the franchise.
You're placing that on the arm and the shoulder of
a man who's already telling you I'm done. Good luck.
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I mean, if it works out, I guess the idea
that he's going to play with a sense of urgency
and he's going to play with it all, let it
all hang out, because literally it's all going to be
gone after this. If you feel confident about it, then
you roll with that. But where this Pittsburgh Steelers team
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is where? And respect to Mike Tomlin for making a decision.
It's a big decision and it's going to have large
implications if you ask me much respect for him, you know,
making the decision to do it. Maybe it pays dividends.
But if it doesn't, what what's next. I think there's
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also somewhat of a decent chance then maybe this is
Mike tomlins last year in Pittsburgh as well too, and
I and I wonder if Mike Tomlin also sort of
sees that this is either the beginning of the end
or the end, and he's like, Man, if I'm going out,
I just want to go out on my terms. I
want to go out with Aaron Rodgers quarterback. I don't
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want his last final season. I don't want to go
out with you know, because you know apparently. I mean,
they could have drafted Shit or Sanders. They could have
they could have taken young quarterbacks and really planned for
the future, and they didn't. And I just wonder, based
on the Kenny Pickett experience, based on what happened last year,
Mike Tomlin's like, man, f this all all ride with
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a veteran who I I believe, and I've seen play
his best in the Super Bowl that I lost all
ten years ago. That's a long time ago. But I'll
take my chances with that as opposed to riding with
whatever we've been trying to do or whatever we planned
with at the quarterback position in the past several years.
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Because this isn't just a way you go back to
the Kenny Pickett era. No, man, like the last couple
of years for Roethlisberger weren't great. So I just wonder
if Mike Tomott also realizes, hey, man, riding might be
on the wall. I'd rather go out this way than
trying to go deal with a youth movement and take
my chances there. I just feel bad that I have
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to look at Aaron Rodgers and say this is more
about his name than it is about his game today,
more about his name than it is his game. I
feel bad saying it. Damn, it's a leverage. This is
a leverage job. I got you in a Netflix documentary.
You think you should a little appreciate that you in
a Netflix What you mean they got me in the end? Like,
(30:03):
what you mean you're the one that's talking in that
Netflix there talking about Roger? I just again, I just
I feel as though I'd be remiss if I didn't
say it, because looking at it from with a critical eye,
I just don't understand how you think this can work.
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I just don't see how it can work. That's just
how I feel about it. I mean, I'm not I'm
not trying to be cynical about it or or you know,
be be you know, a Debbie Downer, you know, but
I just don't see how it's going to work. I mean,
weak one is gonna be sweet though Steelers Jets, you know,
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I mean, you know he's gonna have something if they were.
It's it's like, if they win the game, don't you
expect them to beat the New York Jets? Like I
feel like I feel like you're going to get a
false sense of whatever it is by whoever wins that game,
the New York Jets wins that game, that's a false
sense of what do you think the New York Jets
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are going to be? Do we have any sort of
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Week one Steelers at Jets? Who do you think is favored?
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I would say today the Steelers are favorite, and I
would say three points three and a half.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
LeVar Arrington, that is correct. The Pittsburgh Steelers are a
three point favorite. That's what I'm talking about. Six picks
is right? Stix picks? I just that just bad?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Have you picked right? You picked the spread? I think
they when they did the spread for that game, it
was a hurry up and get to the next one.
Damn damn like what Cardinals Saints? Yeah, sure, I just
I don't know, man, I don't know. And if I'm
(32:25):
the Pittsburgh stay, if I'm a player on the Pittsburgh
Steelers and I'm on the defensive side, of the ball,
even if I'm a receiver, I'm I'm like, I just
hope he can do it. And if he can do it,
I hope I hope he can last. You act like
Aaron Rodgers is my truck. We're just hoping he makes
(32:46):
it in just hoping he makes it. Man, Listen, We're
just hoping it gets there. That's that's you know, fingers crossed.
The man went out on the first play, third, third play,
first play, What we'll play with it? His first play,
fourth play, fourth place. Yeah, his fourth play, Okay, I
was three off. My bad. Ain't got to ride it
up next time. I don't know, man, I just you
(33:09):
know again, I kind of feel I feel a little
bad feeling this way, and I really do believe that
if this were to go wrong, it's going to cost
Mike Tomlin his gig. I really believe that. And you're
placing that amount of pressure and weight on this season
(33:31):
with that decision. Maybe it's the same with anything he does.
Like you said, maybe the handwriting is on the wall.
Maybe the time, you know, the sands of time or
are running out. I don't know. I think he's a
hell of a coach. I think he's an even better person.
And I just don't know that I would stake my
(33:53):
claim on what my last campaign or potential last campaign
as a head coach on somebody who you can clearly
hear in his voice that this is this is it.
This isn't a grand finale for a community that he
was drafted in and grew up in and they love
him and revere him and admire him. And he's going
(34:15):
to be a first ballot Hall of Famer for this team,
in this community and everything that he's established. This is
a one year deal. You know what. This makes him
a mercenary. He's a mercenary. He's a paid gun, damn right,
hired gun. If a hired gun doesn't get it done,
(34:35):
he doesn't care as much as if he if he
was a part of the army. Yeah, he's gonna go
out slinging it though, Okay, slinging it. Okay. It could
work out or it could not. Two pros and a
cup of Joe Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington,
Jonas Knox with you coming up next. Though not a
great look for a great team, We'll have the details
(34:56):
for you here on FSR.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
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Speaker 1 (35:10):
Lee, you got a trailer park ass. You know that's
not socially acceptable. These things just hell hurt my feelings.
You are a funky fer bru Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington,
Jonas Knox with you not even embellishing this. Lee cut
a fart that not only it's in here, it not
(35:32):
only latched onto him like a backpack. It's basically a
fart jan sport. And he just brought it into the
studio with him, and it smells and we was breathing
out of my mouth and then when you sit it,
I had to like I had to clear my nose
and I started like, you know, doing my nose. Oh gosh,
(35:52):
how is this succeptible? It smells like it's in your pants,
That's all I'm gonna say. It smells like it came
out in your pants. Right, How are you alive? I
think it took with him.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
I didn't smell it at all, Like he said, Oh,
that's a bad one and then he walked away to you.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
But then he came in here and then he went
he got his cold blood at least it was actually
it started getting out at least once he got in there.
We're gonna call him vaporly, but they're gonna come in
here trying to have a conversation with me. Would would
would with deuces in his pants, Like, I don't get it.
(36:36):
You know why you would clear your nostrils? I didn't know,
Like I didn't know. And then by the time that
I did know, I don't want to sound nasally while
I'm talking, so I'm trying to clear my my my
nose out. It also, doesn't it like we're drinking coffee.
It's like when you go to when you go to
tryout cologne in a mall, they coffee. Yeah, they have coffee,
(36:56):
beaf right because I smelled it clear, yea, So reset
your nose and your your sense of smell. And then
we're drinking coffee and thinking we're resetting our sense of smell,
only to walk in to a far cloud from outer space. Lee,
That's ridiculous, bro.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
This hazelnut coffee, I've switched it mixed with some Indian food.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Oh please boom, please combine. The best part of Wicked
Up is chicken Tika masala and your cup. That is
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Sometimes you can't get to everything in the world of
sports or entertainment.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Good thing. The guys are here to bring you in
case you missed and for that we turn it back
over to our executive producer, Lead.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Lap A good morning everybody, A good morning LeVar, A
good morning Jonas. Guys, in case you missed it, and
I think a lot of people did, including OK. See
thunder fans. The parade for their championship was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Not a lot of fans out there on the streets,
uh for that parade.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
But some highlights include, you know, the guys letting the
fans touch the trophy. Some drinking, not as much drinking
as you might suspect, and that you could you could
have guessed that from their championship night in the UH
in the locker room where they couldn't even figure out
how to open champagne bottles.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I think they counted eight bottles were on the floor.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Oh they did not open them.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
No, they needed UH career.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
So thirty one year old vet old man, thirty one
year old Vet Caruso to teach.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Everyone how to open up the champagne bottles. None of
the youngiins knew how to do it. I think Jalen
Williams had his first drink that night.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
You know they say, really young people these days don't drink,
and that's the youngest team to win the championship in
a couple decades.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Jalen Williams had never had a drink before that night. Correct, really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
He said he had a beer and some champagne. Found
it very disgusting.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
My son's four. He goes to Happy Hour twice a week,
get a grip, get a life.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
I go to two a day. There's a late night
Happy Hour.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know, we drink stick City a l in my crib.
Wait till I get you guys, they're on the way.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
They are on the way and hearing that for a
long ass time. Do you guys like blue Moons? Do
you like Blue Moon?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
I do?
Speaker 5 (39:50):
I do?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Do you like blue Moon?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I do?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Wait till you taste this. I'm excited. I'll be the
judge of that. They were very hard doing on air.
We're going to do it boxing on the air, all
of us. We're gonna do. That's what we're going to do.
I can do that.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
They were very hip for a long time. The Blue Millers. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
After we're going to do it on a Friday. You
really yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Please Like an exception, I'll just stay off how we.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Do it before football season stars, nobody's really paying attention
right now.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
I'll just stay off the air for the rest of
the show.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
What else, you know? How can drink the entire six
pack or twelve pack or whatever it comes in? You
know's drink one but sap, guys.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
In case you missed this, there was an evaluation valuation
on w NBA franchises and every single one of them
to the tea has doubled in value over one hundred
percent in the last calendar year, the most being Golden
State Valkyries at five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I mean you clearly. I mean, are they going to
thank Angel re you saw at the same time? Are
they gonna I mean, come.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
On now waiting for it?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah? They jewelries, huh we know who who butters have
read there? I mean, come on now, buttered that bread.
Thank you, Angel, thank you for making them all that money.
We appreciate you. Yeah,
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talk about collusion in the NFL. Is anybody actually surprised
by it? Aaron Rodgers is back, but just for one
(00:21):
more year. And guess what, everybody, it was too cold,
too cold for an NFL player to partake. And we're
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It's all yours coming up next here, Two pros and
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(01:06):
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That him too, Howard Stern. Howard Stern, there you go. Yeah,
(01:29):
they don't know what the they're doing, and then walked off. Yeah,
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Good morning, bar Hello, Jonas Knocks, I mean, otherwise known
(02:11):
as Drack. I got a I was thinking about you
this morning. I was all right, So I was working
out clothes on or off on unfortunately, all right, well listen,
that could be arranged. Don't you come in here telling
me you was thinking about Okay, don't you do that?
(02:37):
So all right? So, so I was watching on television
while I was working out this morning. Was an old
NFL game. I mean we're talking Neil O'Donnell on the
Bengals old Oh okay, so Bengals Lions, old NFL game.
(02:58):
And I saw some guy on a part return, get clean,
lit out, all the way lit. There wasn't even a
thought of it being a penalty. Well that's what people
looked for. It wasn't even a thought like literally, nobody
looking around to see if the fl you know, a
player like looks around at go all, they're for sure
going to call a flag on that. Nothing, not even
(03:18):
not even the ten highlights you used to see back then.
We're all big hits. I got annihilated and there was nobody, nobody,
It didn't even occur to anybody that that could be
a possibility. Nobody could fathom that that would be a penalty.
And it was some guy getting wiped out on a
punt return, not looking. Everybody wanted to see it. Yes,
(03:38):
people still want to see it, if they're being honest.
I want to see it. They showed it immediately. I
want to see dudes getting blown up. Many don't want
to get blown up. Don't get blown up. It's Rubbernecker mentality. Yeah, man,
you know you like get hard r Yeah you got ah,
you got yeah, it's true. Not rubber neck ah, but
(03:59):
you you uh, you stop to look at whatever is happening,
and if there's an accident, if there's some you know,
some sort of I try and not watch street fights
that come up on the algorithm on Instagram or anything
like that. I try not to, but you almost have
(04:21):
to watch it twice. If it's a short reel that
goes for you know, fifteen seconds, I'm good for two
of those, like that'll lead up thirty seconds of my day.
And then I realized, well, that's going to throw everything off,
and you see, those are the most viewed clips for
the most part. But it was funny because we've talked
about just what the NFL used to be and what
it is now and I'm watching that play going nobody
(04:43):
even considered. There was celebrations, there was high fives, Guys
were you know, dapping it up, not even a thought
that that was going to be a penalty. Just a different,
different NFL these days. It was a different NFL then
and it is a different one now. But you know,
evolution happens. People want to be responsible for making the
(05:04):
game better, leaving it better than what they found it.
And I get it. I mean, you're you're making safety
more of a priority, you know. You know, what would
be even more interesting to me would be to hear
the back end conversations of producers of the of the
(05:26):
the football games, the GMS, the coaches back then versus
those conversations, now, what do you think they would add? Oh,
broh oh, I think it would be. And you know
what's crazy about it, I'll say this, It would probably
(05:47):
be the same way as a microcosm, you know, football
as a microcosm of the entire hole of our society.
I guarantee you it would be glaring in comparison. Just
like normal people of today versus normal people from that
era of time, The conversations behind closed doors would be
(06:10):
wild just what they were, what they would allow in
a game with what you didn't think about, what was normal,
what was commonplace. I feel like you're made to think
more now than you ever have. And while I say
thinking is a is a wonderful thing, it isn't for everybody.
(06:32):
Thinking is not for everybody, you know, So it would be.
It would just be interesting if some of the people
back in those days had to fit into these days,
and even more interesting people of these days trying to
fit back in those days, Like can you imagine kids
(06:55):
really don't even go outside anymore? Bro? Like we I
I would not allow my kid outside, and I live
in a dope community. Wouldn't allow her outside? Why if
she's not if she's not monitored or inside of the gate.
Oh yeah, she's not going outside. We were going from
(07:17):
Burrow to Burrow. We get on me and my brother,
we get on our bikes or catch the bus. And
I mean we're like, what eleven what do they call
lock key kids or latch key latch key kids? Yeah,
but we weren't. We weren't really latch key kids. We
just kids. Just moved around back then. Like it wasn't
(07:40):
just sitting on a device. It wasn't sitting on your
cell phone. It wasn't like you were. Life was different. Man.
When I take my son out because he loves baseball
and we go, literally go every day, and he's four
years old, I've never and I mean never seen anybody
(08:03):
at the park when we arrived to play baseball that
we've got to like wait for them to finish in
order for us. Nobody's there. We had and it's summertime,
it's all throughout the year, nobody's there. Ever, we had
street games all the time, baseball. It was woofleball, woofleball,
street hockey. You could you could join a pickup game like, hey,
(08:24):
you guys need to play We used to play smear
The rhymes with smear or free for all, Free, free
for all. Yeah, but the first one was the name
smear the Okay, so we said different time, different time.
Imagine saying that now, Oh, sh they coming to get you.
(08:48):
Hey coming, what you mean, We're just going to play
this game? Die heerd worse Oh daily, Oh yeah, it's
it's it is wild man. You get out there and
nobody's there. It's just it's just so it's just this
day and age, it's just so different. Like it's just
so different. Do you realize that gym class back in
(09:12):
the day was it was modern, It was it was
patterned and modeled after basic training because they were basically
preparing kids to be able to go to basic training.
Like your gym class. Physical education was for you literally
to be getting your body in shape and getting it
(09:35):
acclimated to being able to do the things that you
would do if you had to go to the military.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Wasn't there the presidential fitness stuff that you were supposed
to test for that was like nationwide, Yes, yeah, yeah,
everyone had to like you had to.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Be able to pass it. Now now, and this is
the wildest thing I've ever heard. If you remember that,
this is the wildest thing I've ever heard. You used
to have to be able to run the mouth is
required of us and pull up yest. Oh, I remember that.
But it's great. But here's what's crazy. Here's what's crazy.
(10:10):
And like, these kids should be ashamed of themselves. I
ain't gonna lie like you should be out of yourself.
The only guaranteed A that I knew I was going
to get in school, which Jim, I knew Jim, I
count that as an A. People are failing gym class
must be nice. I had to go on the gas
(10:31):
to get a be minus. People are failing gym class,
how okay? And when you're able to explain that one
to me, then we'll maybe starting down the road of
some of the things that need to change in today's society.
(10:51):
I believe progression is great. I believe evolving is great.
But some things you just can't You just really can't
lose the essence of what some of these things represent.
And I tell you what missing out like not getting
everyone should get an A in gym class. I don't
care how athletic you are. It's just the effort. People
(11:14):
are failing. Jim. That's crazy, it's crazy. Yeah, but they're
great on an iPad though, you know what I mean, Like,
they're great. And by the way, you can make gym
class pass. You make the time pass very easily. Just
listen to us on the iHeartRadio app. There you go, like,
listen to the podcast. There's always a way out here.
I mean, gone are the good old days when you
could just call people out for their laziness. Oh don't you.
(11:37):
You could say firing, he'd be fired, suspend it on
leave and then fire you slovenly, sloppy boy. Imagine you
told a kid, well, go ahead and jump, go ahead
and jump, let's go. I just you know, I don't
(11:58):
know many. I don't know how we got on that
tangent cause because we were talking about football highlights and
I saw a football highlight of a guy getting blown
up on kickoff as well. Ironically coincidentally, I don't know
these phones and these TVs like are studying our brain
waves and all this stuff because on God the minute,
(12:18):
I think is something that as pops up on my
social media. I don't know how that works. I don't
know why that is, but I saw that as well.
I saw a kickoff the other day and I posted it.
I was like, imagine this was football, you know, And
it's just times have really changed, man, Like I would
say in some instances, some cases, really the only true
(12:41):
football that you really watch anymore in terms of the
physicality of it is between linemen. Like that's really it.
And that's even that. I mean, you gotta think when
I was playing ball, and it was way worse, like
Deacon Jones and all of them. You go back to
them days with mel Blunt and all the them. They
were close lining people, they were head slapping people. Deacon
(13:04):
Jones was giving a dude concussions every single play because
he come off the ball and just slap them in
their air hole. That's why he was getting all them sacks.
People don't realize that. But when Deeke came off the ball,
he slapped you in the head right here, right in
your air hole. And and and that was how he
got around. He was power slapped before power slap dudes. Dudes. Yes,
it's like straight power slapping dudes. Didn't have to have
(13:28):
the ball for you to close line them. So dudes
like Mail Blunt and and uh night train Lane and
and and you know, uh Lester from from the Raiders,
They used to run around just closed line and dudes,
Oh it wasn't wasn't his nickname Lester. That's why I
didn't use it, though, Yeah, well what's that mean? You know,
(13:49):
because of the way he can't but think about it.
You can't even say that. You can't even say what
the tank tops are anymore. And I always thought that
I never even thought too two seconds about it saying it,
and you just never thought about it, and you can't
even say it. You gotta say tank top? What do
you mean, wife beater? Do we have to dump that?
(14:13):
Is that a dumpa bull offense? I'm sure there's some
people out there that still say it. Probably I remember
a word we used to use in the in the
playground when we were younger in grade school. And I'll
tell you what, I honestly believe you could like get
a citation for saying it now as easy as that
(14:33):
that word rolled off the tongue. And I ain't talking
about the N word. I'm talking about the F work.
And people used to say it and not the one
that ends with K ends with a T. And people
used to say it and and and It's what's crazy
to me is how in today's culture and society, how
(14:56):
there's been such strong lines drawing and connected to certain
words where it didn't even like when we used to
say we didn't say it because of that. We said
it because it was funny, Like it was funny to
call somebody that, like you call people names like oh,
(15:16):
don't be mean. At school, like all right, you start
to learn social cues, you start to learn how to
communicate and do things and whatever. But it was like
it just seemed like just like football, man, it was
just it just seemed better. It just seemed better back then.
And maybe that's what everybody says because that's your experience
(15:37):
growing up. But honestly, like I can't sit there and
look at some of these correlations, Like our society is
soft as hell at this point if you ask me,
you know it is. It was just less complicated. There
just wasn't as much you didn't have to always think
about what could you just did so there wasn't a yeah,
(16:01):
well god, you know all of these you know, terrible
things could happen or I could get in trouble for this,
or I could do and look, some of that needed
to change. It's not saying that everything was perfect, but
it does feel like people are more likely to be
overly cautious. You can find outrage and everything. Yeah, everything
(16:22):
you do is like I'm outraged. I'm upset that that
upset me. Like it's so crazy to me. Like if
you take some of these old old dudes and say,
those old dudes that owned football teams in the National
Football League were the jors of P Diddy's trial, what
(16:49):
they say, why are we even here? Why are we here?
Why are we here? What are you doing to this? Man?
I did that last night? Come on, what it's the
guard and a man diaper on? Where you think he
got that idea from any woman that's willing to take
(17:09):
my dependence off and go to work as a woman
for me? Like, I just I don't know. I just
feel like the times have changed so much, man, And
even though I still get excited for football, like workout culture.
It's interesting because workout culture is very real now. It wasn't.
Work out culture was like limited to a few people,
and people would get excited about him, like Walter Payton,
(17:32):
workout dude. You know Jerry Rice, workout dude. Like there
were certain dudes and they would highlight them working out.
That's common. Now that's like it's like, Oh, you don't
work out like that. You don't do specified skilled training,
you don't do this, you don't have a personal training
A coach, a personal coach I coached. I was a
(17:53):
high school head coach and I had a kid wasn't
even that good person or had a private coach, and
every time I would tell him to do something, he
referenced his coach. I'm like, well, if you want to
play on this team that's coached by me, you probably
(18:15):
should listen to the way I'm telling you to do it.
Otherwise I'm not going to trust you to put you
out there. But the kid wasn't even throwing the ball.
He was taking sacks. These quarterback coaches teach these kids
these days to take sacks instead of throwing the ball
away because it messes up there. QB rating. Yeah, this
is high school. Brady's talked about that, man. Protect what
(18:36):
is it? Protect the rating? This is high school? Like, kid,
this is going to be the last time you play ball.
What are you protecting your rating for who are you
going to tell twenty years, thirty years from now that
I had a quarterback rating of ninety nine. Meanwhile you
had three completions for minimum yards? What the hell is
(19:00):
wrong with that's incomplete? What the hell is wrong? I
don't know, man. You you sprung it like the President
saying they don't know what they're fing doing. The SoundBite
running you talking about seeing when guys used to hit
this funny man, it just it's just it triggered something
to me. I'm sorry everyone, I'm sorry. You know what.
(19:22):
I'm not sorry if I offended you because it's how
I feel. But you know, it is kind of early,
so there you go. Good morning. It is two pros
and a cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio,
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(19:43):
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should be. Levar's Guy, Aaron Rodgers was on the Pat
mcavie Show starring AJ Hawk, and he did all but
confirm that this is the grand finale of his illustrious career.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
That's why we just did a one year deal. You know,
this was really about finishing with a lot of love
and fun and peace for the career that I've had,
and I've played twenty freaking years.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's been a long, long run.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
And what a better place to finish than in one
of the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin
and a great group of leadership and great guys in
the city that you expects expects you to win.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know. I wonder because I don't think anybody's surprised
that this is it for him. I think that was
the expectation, the understanding that yeah, this is a one
year deal. That's why he signed a one year deal.
And almost certainly he's going to go out play as
best he can and then just call it a career
and disappear into the night, so to speak. But I
(22:41):
do I wonder if tell me what you wonder, if
he had his say based on his experience in New
York with the Jets, would he have still left Green Bay?
Because what he's saying is I want to go out
with peace within a illustrious organization with one of the
(23:03):
true cornerstones of the National Football League, which is basically
the Packers. Yet in the AFC, and I wonder if
and we've talked about this before. That two year circus
with the Jets made him realize even more, Yeah, it's
not like this and other places. I remember a moment
(23:24):
in my career. I was balling against the Eagles, balling,
having a dope ass game, and this play took place
where Donovan McNabb gets flushed out and I'm running him
down and he makes it out of bounce and Andy
Reid says to me, while I'm turning around, getting old, La,
(23:45):
getting old. I turned to look down. I was like,
F you, you know, F you, coach, and we both
laughed and I went trotting back to jogging back to
the huddle. But what makes that relevant in this moment
was or is the fact that you stated would he
(24:08):
have stayed in Green Bay? You know, there's always the
things that coaches see because of how closely, if they're
the good coaches, how closely they watch and look and
evaluate the talent that's on the team. Aaron Rodgers wasn't
(24:30):
going to stay in Green Bay because Aaron Rodgers wasn't
going to be the starting quarterback of the Green Bay
Packers for much longer. He didn't. I don't think I
think a person like Aaron Rodgers in his mind, his
heart of heart, he knew to get out of there,
and he made it a little messy. He made it
(24:50):
a little ugly because he knew what the writing was
on the wall. So it wasn't about him being able
to stay. It was about him being a able to
finish up his career the way he wanted to finish
up his career. And that's why I think he didn't
stay in green Bay. Not because he didn't want to
stay in Green Bay. It's like, how you guys treat
me like this when I am Green Bay, Like I
(25:12):
am the guy, this is my team. How you guys
going like you guys have been trying to find a
quarterback to replace me instead of giving me the weapons
that I need as the quarterback of the green Bay Packers.
Handwriting was on the wall. The bigger question that SoundBite
from Aaron Rodgers leaves with me is that all of
(25:34):
the conversations surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers, this is the type
of responses you want from your incoming starting quarterback. This
is it just want to finish it out the way
that you know. I'd like to finish it out with
peace and da da da And you know I've been
(25:57):
playing for how long he's say twenty year years or
somebody he's twenty plus years. This is the guy, like,
this is the guy you want? Like this is like
to me, this this has like Manny pacyaw written on it,
like why are you? Why can't you just let the
gag go? If you're at this point in your career
(26:18):
where you feel this way, where that's the way you've
almost given your that's almost you can wrap that into
a retirement speech when he retires and you listen to
what he has to say. I can guarantee you some
of the things he said in that answer that response
is going to be in his retirement speech. I just
find it interesting that in a year where the year
(26:44):
before it was a tremendous miss with the quarterbacks that
you brought in, both of them were one year deals,
and we're starting quarterbacks elsewhere around the league prior to
coming to Pittsburgh. You're going to place your reputation, the
(27:07):
chances of the team, the fans, the fans feelings, so
on and so forth, the sales, the relevance of the franchise.
You're placing that on the arm and the shoulder of
a man who's already telling you I'm done. Good luck.
(27:32):
I mean, if it works out, I guess the idea
that he's going to play with a sense of urgency
and he's going to play with it all, let it
all hang out, because literally it's all going to be
gone after this. If you feel confident about it, then
you roll with that. But where this Pittsburgh Steelers team
(27:54):
is where? And respect to Mike Tomlin for making a decision.
It's a big decision and it's going to have large
implications if you ask me much respect for him, you know,
making the decision to do it. Maybe it pays dividends.
But if it doesn't, what what's next. I think there's
(28:14):
also somewhat of a decent chance then maybe this is
Mike tomlins last year in Pittsburgh as well too, and
I and I wonder if Mike Tomlin also sort of
sees that this is either the beginning of the end
or the end, and he's like, Man, if I'm going out,
I just want to go out on my terms. I
want to go out with Aaron Rodgers quarterback. I don't
(28:36):
want his last final season. I don't want to go
out with you know, because you know apparently. I mean,
they could have drafted Shit or Sanders. They could have
they could have taken young quarterbacks and really planned for
the future, and they didn't. And I just wonder, based
on the Kenny Pickett experience, based on what happened last year,
Mike Tomlin's like, man, f this all all ride with
(28:57):
a veteran who I I believe, and I've seen play
his best in the Super Bowl that I lost all
ten years ago. That's a long time ago. But I'll
take my chances with that as opposed to riding with
whatever we've been trying to do or whatever we planned
with at the quarterback position in the past several years.
(29:19):
Because this isn't just a way you go back to
the Kenny Pickett era. No, man, like the last couple
of years for Roethlisberger weren't great. So I just wonder
if Mike Tomott also realizes, hey, man, riding might be
on the wall. I'd rather go out this way than
trying to go deal with a youth movement and take
my chances there. I just feel bad that I have
(29:40):
to look at Aaron Rodgers and say this is more
about his name than it is about his game today,
more about his name than it is his game. I
feel bad saying it. Damn, it's a leverage. This is
a leverage job. I got you in a Netflix documentary.
You think you should a little appreciate that you in
a Netflix What you mean they got me in the end? Like,
(30:03):
what you mean you're the one that's talking in that
Netflix there talking about Roger? I just again, I just
I feel as though I'd be remiss if I didn't
say it, because looking at it from with a critical eye,
I just don't understand how you think this can work.
(30:26):
I just don't see how it can work. That's just
how I feel about it. I mean, I'm not I'm
not trying to be cynical about it or or you know,
be be you know, a Debbie Downer, you know, but
I just don't see how it's going to work. I mean,
weak one is gonna be sweet though Steelers Jets, you know,
(30:49):
I mean, you know he's gonna have something if they were.
It's it's like, if they win the game, don't you
expect them to beat the New York Jets? Like I
feel like I feel like you're going to get a
false sense of whatever it is by whoever wins that game,
the New York Jets wins that game, that's a false
sense of what do you think the New York Jets
(31:09):
are going to be? Do we have any sort of
game show music here? We're gonna We're gonna try and
see what we got here for mister LeVar Arrington, All right,
what would you guess right now? Courtesy of our friends
at DraftKings, what would you guess the spread is for
Week one Steelers at Jets? Who do you think is favored?
(31:32):
I would say today the Steelers are favorite, and I
would say three points three and a half.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
LeVar Arrington, that is correct. The Pittsburgh Steelers are a
three point favorite. That's what I'm talking about. Six picks
is right? Stix picks? I just that just bad?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Have you picked right? You picked the spread? I think
they when they did the spread for that game, it
was a hurry up and get to the next one.
Damn damn like what Cardinals Saints? Yeah, sure, I just
I don't know, man, I don't know. And if I'm
(32:25):
the Pittsburgh stay, if I'm a player on the Pittsburgh
Steelers and I'm on the defensive side, of the ball,
even if I'm a receiver, I'm I'm like, I just
hope he can do it. And if he can do it,
I hope I hope he can last. You act like
Aaron Rodgers is my truck. We're just hoping he makes
(32:46):
it in just hoping he makes it. Man, Listen, We're
just hoping it gets there. That's that's you know, fingers crossed.
The man went out on the first play, third, third play,
first play, What we'll play with it? His first play,
fourth play, fourth place. Yeah, his fourth play, Okay, I
was three off. My bad. Ain't got to ride it
up next time. I don't know, man, I just you
(33:09):
know again, I kind of feel I feel a little
bad feeling this way, and I really do believe that
if this were to go wrong, it's going to cost
Mike Tomlin his gig. I really believe that. And you're
placing that amount of pressure and weight on this season
(33:31):
with that decision. Maybe it's the same with anything he does.
Like you said, maybe the handwriting is on the wall.
Maybe the time, you know, the sands of time or
are running out. I don't know. I think he's a
hell of a coach. I think he's an even better person.
And I just don't know that I would stake my
(33:53):
claim on what my last campaign or potential last campaign
as a head coach on somebody who you can clearly
hear in his voice that this is this is it.
This isn't a grand finale for a community that he
was drafted in and grew up in and they love
him and revere him and admire him. And he's going
(34:15):
to be a first ballot Hall of Famer for this team,
in this community and everything that he's established. This is
a one year deal. You know what. This makes him
a mercenary. He's a mercenary. He's a paid gun, damn right,
hired gun. If a hired gun doesn't get it done,
(34:35):
he doesn't care as much as if he if he
was a part of the army. Yeah, he's gonna go
out slinging it though, Okay, slinging it. Okay. It could
work out or it could not. Two pros and a
cup of Joe Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington,
Jonas Knox with you coming up next. Though not a
great look for a great team, We'll have the details
(34:56):
for you here on FSR.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Be sure to ca live editions of Two Pros and
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Speaker 1 (35:10):
Lee, you got a trailer park ass. You know that's
not socially acceptable. These things just hell hurt my feelings.
You are a funky fer bru Two Pros and a
Cup of Joe Here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington,
Jonas Knox with you not even embellishing this. Lee cut
a fart that not only it's in here, it not
(35:32):
only latched onto him like a backpack. It's basically a
fart jan sport. And he just brought it into the
studio with him, and it smells and we was breathing
out of my mouth and then when you sit it,
I had to like I had to clear my nose
and I started like, you know, doing my nose. Oh gosh,
(35:52):
how is this succeptible? It smells like it's in your pants,
That's all I'm gonna say. It smells like it came
out in your pants. Right, How are you alive? I
think it took with him.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
I didn't smell it at all, Like he said, Oh,
that's a bad one and then he walked away to you.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
But then he came in here and then he went
he got his cold blood at least it was actually
it started getting out at least once he got in there.
We're gonna call him vaporly, but they're gonna come in
here trying to have a conversation with me. Would would
would with deuces in his pants, Like, I don't get it.
(36:36):
You know why you would clear your nostrils? I didn't know,
Like I didn't know. And then by the time that
I did know, I don't want to sound nasally while
I'm talking, so I'm trying to clear my my my
nose out. It also, doesn't it like we're drinking coffee.
It's like when you go to when you go to
tryout cologne in a mall, they coffee. Yeah, they have coffee,
(36:56):
beaf right because I smelled it clear, yea, So reset
your nose and your your sense of smell. And then
we're drinking coffee and thinking we're resetting our sense of smell,
only to walk in to a far cloud from outer space. Lee,
That's ridiculous, bro.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
This hazelnut coffee, I've switched it mixed with some Indian food.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Oh please boom, please combine. The best part of Wicked
Up is chicken Tika masala and your cup. That is
what I had. You are filthy all right? A reminder
(37:46):
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Speaker 3 (38:06):
Sometimes you can't get to everything in the world of
sports or entertainment.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Good thing. The guys are here to bring you in
case you missed and for that we turn it back
over to our executive producer, Lead.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Lap A good morning everybody, A good morning LeVar, A
good morning Jonas. Guys, in case you missed it, and
I think a lot of people did, including OK. See
thunder fans. The parade for their championship was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Not a lot of fans out there on the streets,
uh for that parade.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
But some highlights include, you know, the guys letting the
fans touch the trophy. Some drinking, not as much drinking
as you might suspect, and that you could you could
have guessed that from their championship night in the UH
in the locker room where they couldn't even figure out
how to open champagne bottles.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
I think they counted eight bottles were on the floor.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Oh they did not open them.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
No, they needed UH career.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
So thirty one year old vet old man, thirty one
year old Vet Caruso to teach.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Everyone how to open up the champagne bottles. None of
the youngiins knew how to do it. I think Jalen
Williams had his first drink that night.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
You know they say, really young people these days don't drink,
and that's the youngest team to win the championship in
a couple decades.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Jalen Williams had never had a drink before that night. Correct, really? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
He said he had a beer and some champagne. Found
it very disgusting.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
My son's four. He goes to Happy Hour twice a week,
get a grip, get a life.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
I go to two a day. There's a late night
Happy Hour.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know, we drink stick City a l in my crib.
Wait till I get you guys, they're on the way.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
They are on the way and hearing that for a
long ass time. Do you guys like blue Moons? Do
you like Blue Moon?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
I do?
Speaker 5 (39:50):
I do?
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Do you like blue Moon?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I do?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Wait till you taste this. I'm excited. I'll be the
judge of that. They were very hard doing on air.
We're going to do it boxing on the air, all
of us. We're gonna do. That's what we're going to do.
I can do that.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
They were very hip for a long time. The Blue Millers. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
After we're going to do it on a Friday. You
really yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Please Like an exception, I'll just stay off how we.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Do it before football season stars, nobody's really paying attention
right now.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
I'll just stay off the air for the rest of
the show.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
What else, you know? How can drink the entire six
pack or twelve pack or whatever it comes in? You
know's drink one but sap, guys.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
In case you missed this, there was an evaluation valuation
on w NBA franchises and every single one of them
to the tea has doubled in value over one hundred
percent in the last calendar year, the most being Golden
State Valkyries at five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I mean you clearly. I mean, are they going to
thank Angel re you saw at the same time? Are
they gonna I mean, come.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
On now waiting for it?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah? They jewelries, huh we know who who butters have
read there? I mean, come on now, buttered that bread.
Thank you, Angel, thank you for making them all that money.
We appreciate you. Yeah,
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