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of It's a big one, Big old healthy cock. We
got a per fight and gobbler perfect same way Virginia.
So there's a We got another one now I don't
it's not to this degree. And another one at least
that we know of. But Ohio has fired their head

(01:48):
football coach before we get to coach speak, I thought
this was appropriate. Ohio has fired their head football coach,
Brian Smith. He was just given in an extension I
believe in October he took over the gig. They were
eight and four. This year, they've got a bowl game
coming up, and he's just been kind of, you know, gone,
not been there, and it's been very strange and so

(02:12):
uh by Ohio. There reasoning for letting him go. He
was fired because of quote, engaging in serious professional misconduct
and participating in activities that reflect unfavorably on the university.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Now, some of the.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Rumors that are out there is that well that he
had that he had alcohol in his office so that
so him and his coaches would toast after wins.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Uh that inappropriate. That there's also the there's some rumblings
out there. Again, have you ever.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Seen a team win the Super Bowl or a world Okay,
but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
There's also been now again, I just want to be
clear on this. Brian Smith was actually a teammate of
mine Thousand Oaks High was really yeah, we played we
played high school football.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Again, I don't It's not like I talked too many
moddies with him.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
He was, he were he didn't remember, but I uh
but uh he uh. He then found himself in Hawaii.
He uh, you know, did a really good job. You know,
people thought highly of him. He got the gig at
Ohio and again they're eight and four. He took over
that that's a good season. But one of the rumors
out there is that maybe, you know, he's getting a

(03:28):
divorce and that maybe he had an inappropriate relationship with
a nursing student at the school.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Again, I don't know whether or not that's that's factual.
That's just one of the inappropriate I you know.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
They're they're denying and they're pushing back on this, saying
not have his.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Relations for that woman.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
You know, his his legal team uh is saying that,
you know, listen, they're gonna push back against this, fight
back against this.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
But it just like it feels like this is like
we live in a copycat society.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
It just you know, there's a lot going on, man Like,
so whenever I see schools come out and let somebody go,
and I know every situation is different.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm not comparing this to the Charon More stuff, but
it just.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Feels like there's a lot of there's always a lot
of stuff out there that that makes the news, the
rumors that are out there, all of it, and and
I don't know what's true, but it's almost like this
guy's immediately guilty and must have done something wrong, and
they get out in front of the story first and
then he's got to like counter punch afterwards. Like it

(04:38):
just it feels like there's there's a lot going on
there with that. So that's that's one of the stories
that was making the rounds yesterday, and we will wait
to see what is actually true, what is actually factual,
whether or not his divorce had anything to do with this,
and why was that even a part of the story,
But they made sure to include that as part of
the story. It just all of it is, uh, is
very bizarre. It's a strange time in the world of

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college football. Interesting if you're if you're a coach, you're
probably a lot of temptations out there are probably a
lot of stuff going on. It just feels like now
more and more that stuff's becoming public.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's just the trend is like putting your business out there.
That just seems to be the trend. It didn't used
to be like that. People kept their business their business,
But this whole new social media generation of people, they

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just they do things differently.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Man, people want attention to. People put themselves in these
situations to be able.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
To do that. Yeah, yeah, it's a come up.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
I mean you're putting yourself in positions to have come ups.
And I don't know. That's why for me, I don't
live I don't live like that. I don't live scared
like I live my life. I do what I do, Like,
there ain't nothing you can do that I haven't already
said I've done anyway, So at the end of the day,
it's like, oh you were and and like like I

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just feel like, like to weaponize things like this is
kind of crazy because for real for real. It's like
holten penalties. It's like you can call one on every play.
You go anywhere, go to any program, you can find
activity that you could guard or you could deem inappropriate behavior.
Have you not heard the way some of these coaches talk.

(06:31):
Let's not just limit it to to women, Let's just
talk about conduct in general. Have you ever been in
a meeting room at a football facility? Have you ever
heard the way these guys communicate? Have you heard some
of the things that seen some of the things that
go on.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's why this whole well he had alcohol in his
office and him and his coaches drink after games.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
And who cares?

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Why?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Why is that? Why is that a problem? Is Ohio?
Like am I am? I?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
You know?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Like misunderstanding? Like is there is there no alcohol in Ohio?
Is that what it is? Is this like Salt Lake?
Or I mean, is there no no booze past?

Speaker 6 (07:08):
You know?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Eight pm? Are they?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I know there's an Amish community there. I didn't know
they went to Ohio. I didn't know they were bobcats.
I had no idea. Apparently I had no idea. But
it's like that's that's the story that's out there and
then you've got the other rumors and stuff that are attached.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
With It's like, dude, if you want to just get
rid of the guy, get rid of the guy.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
I know you don't want to pay him whatever the
two point five million that you would have had to
pay him, but it's like this stuff comes out. Well,
he had him and his coaches toasted with with alcohol
after games, and when they won games, they were throwing ones.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
There was reported they were throwing ones that women while
drinking alcohol, like and like people are just naive to whatever,
Like what word I just I don't.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Know, man, But it just feels like open season.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Man, Like if you were to pull back the curtain
on professional sports, on college sports, and you could see
the behaviors, the cultures of what takes place with the players,
the coaches, all of it. Bro, it's like that few

(08:16):
good men line like you you can handle the truth,
like you guys get things in bits and pieces, and
the stuff be so like like really like that's so simple,
and and and people will judge. They'd be like, what
do you mean it's simple? You're supposed to have high
character and be a great person and dae da die this.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
That and the other. Then you like, you have no idea.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Then when somebody decides to start talking about it, saying
it's like, oh, you're such a snitch, you're a rat,
dah da die, you don't it's not true, you're disgruntle.
It's always a reason to discredit somebody who's lived it,
who starts talking about it, you can't handle it, and
so you sit there and you condemn the person. But

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let me tell you something. What's normal for guys in
football and sports culture. What's what's normal is extremely, extremely
outside of your realm of understanding as a regular civilian.
And I might be offensive to some people, but what
does it matter? So what so what like the bottom

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line is is that when you're in those those circles
and you're in that that lifestyle, we could we could
make it as simple as talking about women, like, oh,
it's women.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Women.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Most of these coaches, I told you all this before.
Most of these coaches be marrying very very unattractive people.
They don't be good looking people at all. Yeah, they don't,
and and you you you marry them and you build
families with them. You'd be out here flexing and then
you're this wholesome group, this, that, and the other. Meanwhile,

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you got a badass stripper over on here over here,
and she's bad, like she ain't average, but she's a stripper,
Like that's what you're doing. Or oh, I'll help you out,
I'll get you a job. And Jill, you don't have
to stop. You don't have to keep front you like
you don't have to keep fronting, right, like like, don't strip,

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come over here and get this Dutch job so I
can I can make sure you're good.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
You want to be my running backs coach?

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Hey, you want to be a salesperson, Like yeah, you
want to be a salesperson like over here, like if
you pull back like.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Owners do it? Owners? How about you now? Gms do it?

Speaker 7 (10:37):
Like?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Come on, man, like it's just interesting now? And am
I saying all of this say that it's right? It's correct.
I'm not saying it to say you shouldn't live right,
you chose to marry that unattractive person, like roll with it,
roll with it. Don't be working, like, don't be doing
this job so you can get away from her ugly
as like you you chose this life.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Don't order a large pizza to say can I get
the sound instead, you chose, you.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Chose this life, right. So I'm not justifying anything. All
I'm saying is is that I think it's interesting that
people pick and choose when they want to come out
and start saying like stuff like this and then go
at people as like private lives and and kind of
go at it and say things that they could say.
You know, I don't know, but I don't know what

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the right or wrong of it is. Wrong is wrong,
and wrong is always going to be wrong. But I
just think it's interesting how people react when they hear
these stories, Like watching the way people reacted to the
Sharon More story and stuff like that. It's just crazy
to me, man, it's crazy to me. You see, I'm
telling you. You see that'd be even plain sight. You

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see how people like what their relationships are, and and
it stems far beyond the football field, stems far beyond.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Just coaches, like.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
People that are high up in the in the universities,
like I said, ownership, like GM's head of sales. I
tell you, bruh, there was a dude that was ahead
like he was a salesperson or something. He was like
a high up out in Washington, and bro the stories
I could tell you about how he was handling things

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with the cheerleaders and their cheerleaders are still fighting to
get attention, drawing on it the way they were being
handled and used in situations to close deals and stuff
like that. Crazy crazy and it was understood crazy.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
So I don't know when I hear stories.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
The more and more I start to hear stories like that,
it's like, it's like, who's out here clout chasing?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Man?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Like, who's clout chasing? Because how did you get to
the point of where you're doing what you're doing?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
What made it? What made it? So?

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Do you not want this person? Or did that or
did somebody put this information out there out chasing? Like
I'd be curious to know what the origin of where
all of these reports all of a sudden are coming
from on people getting put out there like that, and
it's like changing their lives, Like your wife might not
be good looking, but she doesn't deserve this treatment.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's a great point, just say it.

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Speaker 2 (13:43):
Here on two pros and a cup of Joe.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
This is where Patrick sweeka our executive producer.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
The Verona Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
He's got sound bites from coaches around the world of football.
We're going to listen to it and then we're going
to try and tell you what they're actually saying and
make sense of the words that come out of their mouth.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Patrick, who do we got first? All right?

Speaker 7 (14:04):
So up, first, guys, we have head coach Jim Harbaugh
for the Chargers here and he was talking about, you know,
the last win that they had and it made him
feel a certain way.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Give a listen here.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
Everybody's fighting for their playoffs lives right now. Everybody's laying
it on the line. Everybody's competing. You see that, But
you know, then to do it beat the other team,
but you don't beat the crowd. You know, beat the
had some elements. Had to beat the elements too. I
mean it makes you feel like a man, uh, really
proud of our team and.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
With that makes you feel like a man. Well, the
first one.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
To go up here is Enie Meanie, mighty var you
get to go first?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (14:47):
I think what he was trying to say in so
many words is every man wants to win the championship
of handling themselves the right way, and in this moment,
I just felt like letting the people know that, you know,
beating things and beating them the right way for the

(15:07):
right results is what I'm going for. And you know what,
I want to win the contest of beating in the
proper the proper category. And I'm not going to say
that to you guys, obviously because of maybe being accused
of being inappropriate, but make no mistake about it, I

(15:28):
do want to make the playoffs of being the best
beater that's out here. I want to win the super
Bowl of beating. So therefore I have to beat the elements.
I have to beat a lot of things, and beating
is the life I live. You got to beat it,
you gotta beat.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
It, got to beat it. Just beat it, well, Jonas,
beat that what you got, Yeah, listen.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I think what Jim Harbaugh was trying to do there
is he's trying to speak loudly.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
He's trying to make a lot of noise.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
He's trying to get a lot of distractions because he
doesn't want to be asked about his former assistant who
may or may not have pulled out a machete and
may or may not have had some sort of inappropriate
relationship with somebody. And he probably is thinking to himself,
I mean, christ Cheron, I thought you better than that.
What's with the the plan? B through a door dash driver?
That's what I think Jim Harbo is trying to say.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
And the first one on the board in scathing degree,
here is one and only mister Jonas not Yes, that
was on the board.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh come on, he was.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
It's because he's afraid of you.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Are That's what it is. It's fine.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
No, he doesn't want them to think that he's afraid.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
That's why you want to I mean, I mean, just
find it.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
No, hello, just beat it psychology, that is exactly what
it is.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
What it is, Just beat it. You had a better
run than me on that one.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
I don't think I did. The next one up, bro,
come on, next one. Maybe Ryana needs to be the judge. Yeah,
all right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
All right.

Speaker 7 (17:03):
Next one up, we have forty nine Ers head coach
Kyle Shanahan and he was asked regarding a certain player
of his Brandon I yougan.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Give a listen to what he had to say.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
We haven't seen him forever, so I mean, that's just
that's the decision they make. It's been pretty simple for me.
I haven't seen him in a month, so you know,
that's the same with our team. So it's hasn't been
an issue with our team at all. I'm kind of
been plugging away and no big deal or its just
something we've been used to for a while. But I
really have been hoping you would come back all year.

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But one point was I really planning on it. So
that would have been a great bonus. That would have
been awesome, and I would love to have that type
of player. But I know something I realized early on
wasn't going to come for a while, and there was
nothing that made me sit there and think it was
happening soon.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
So all and with that, going up first, with the
first point, Jonas you get your first.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Listen, I don't know what's going on, Brandon, I you
I haven't seen him, He's not around here. I didn't
agree with the fact that we gave him an extension.
Why don't you talk to John Lynch. This is the
second time he's put me behind the eight ball, so
to speak, when it comes to contractual moves that he's made.
All right, giving up three first round picks for Trey Lance.
I bailed him out, Brandon. I you getting that monster

(18:17):
contract when everybody knew. Listen, man, this is probably not
a good idea. The guy didn't even want to change
and get into the right shorts at practice one time.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
This is problematic.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I'm tired of im going to answer for John Lynch's
misgivings when it comes to handing out contracts and making
moves here with the organization. I'm bailing everybody out. Talk
to the GM. Leave me out of this. Next question.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Okay, maybe not next question, but next man up. We
got var.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
I still gotta win games. We're having a pretty damn
good season. Have you looked at our record yet? Have
you seen the coaching job that I've done? Why are
you asking me about cats and the group that ain't
ain't holding their key, holding their note. Sure, there's been
an empty microphone over there. The whole entire time we've.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Been singing chan you and the ring.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
We don't hear his voice, but we got great harmony
going on here. We're gonna keep going on with our concerts.
We're gonna keep selling out shows. We're gonna do what
we need to do. If you want to go out
here and be Bobby Brown and do his own little
little solo act, then go do your solo act. We
don't care. We haven't seen you. We've still got the tour,
we're still getting money, and we're still getting dubs and

(19:35):
people still cheering when we sing.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
We'll check you later.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
You get okay, you know what for the for that
little one liner and the little sing song in there,
you get a point.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
It was pretty solid, but it just didn't feel very
very energetic from It was almost like, well I can't
give it. I dad just keep giving it to Jonas
every time.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Sof alright, this is not what it felt like. That's
how I felt trying. It felt like, yeah, all right,
go ahead. So this so this next one determines the winner. Yeah,
you know what, we're gonna this one's gonna determine that.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
Here.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'm ready for this, all right, let's go.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
So head coach Dan Campbell of the Detroit Lions was
asked about well him playing and losing to the Rams
last week, and here's what he had to say about
the NFC top.

Speaker 9 (20:23):
Now we know, you know, now you have first hand
knowledge of what what probably the top of the NFC
looks like. Right now, that's that's them, you know. And
so now you know, you know what it looks like,
you know what it is. And we're not there right now.
Doesn't mean we can't be, but now we know what
it looks like. And uh, you gotta get better. We
got to get better. We got to move on. Can't

(20:44):
talk about it, can't feel sorry for ourselves. We make
the corrections and we move on.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
All right, well, let's make our corrections and move on
to var You good to go, first first blow, let's go.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well, we're on our backs. We got knocked on our back.
I thought we was gonna have to make contact with
the knees. But we saw what the top looked like.
And it was a rude awakening, rude, very rude awakening.
In fact, it was scary. And all I could do

(21:16):
was look up at the top and look at the
rest of my team and say, team.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
We got to do better.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I don't know how we do better, but we got
to figure out different ways to do better.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Because if this.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Is the top, if this is what they're bringing to
the table, then we got to think of some alternatives
on how we're going to get the winds right, and
we got to get up off our backs. We gotta
be better. We gotta be harder, longer lasting. We're not

(21:52):
blue for just the color, We're blue for the chew.
We're gonna have to add some blue chew to our
daily regimen if we're going to be able to get
to the top of the NFC.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
From the bottom of the deck. Incorporating a sponsor. That's
a dirty tactic.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
Dirty tactic. Indeed, Oh bosh, who knows if that if
that gets a win or not. We'll see Jonas retort.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
I mean, listen, does everybody remember that NFC title game
a couple of years ago when I had this team,
this franchise, this organization a game away from going to
a super Bowl in San Francisco, and a lot of
people thought we should have won that game. But I
was too reckless on fourth down. I was too going
for it. Too many times, not settling for field goals.
Does everybody remember that? Do you remember that NFC Championship game?

(22:40):
I hope you do, because I'm going to ask the
organization in about a month or so, when we're eliminated
from the playoffs, if we can hang up a banner
inside Ford Field that says we went to the NFC
title game two years ago, because that's the best it's
going to get. That's the closest we're going to get.
We had our opportunity. We took a step back last year.
We took another step back this year. We are regressing

(23:03):
our divisions getting better. We got problems, but at least
I got us to an NFC title game, and I'm
gonna work to try and get a banner put up
in Ford Field because of it.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we do have a winner.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
With a vote of food A one can get drum roll, Yes,
you can give me dreamt it?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Jeez? Are you ready? Are we ready? I'm ready?

Speaker 7 (23:33):
And with the whole two to one your winners, LeVar Arrington, everybody,
of course, six picks.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Let's go. Oh it wasn't dirty tag.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
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Speaker 2 (24:15):
All right, coming up next here we are going to hear.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Somebody who hasn't quite figured out how to handle this
whole media thing in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
We'll get into that for you right here on FSR.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well, if you want to be able to handle your
business the right way like my man Jonas Knox does,
you're gonna want some blue Choo. And you know why well,
because it gets your right. It makes you strong. You
could be able to take on all comers if you.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Whoa oh no, oh, no, I did mean it though.
Blue Choo that is it's going to get you right.
It's going to set you up to perform at a
high level.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
You want to be looking in the mirror at yourself
like that was me. That was maybe I did that.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Look at you, buddy, you're the end pe pe whoo
because you got you that blue chew peel. That's right,
It all goes together. And you know what, we want
you to have that experience. We want you to feel
good about yourself. We want you to wake up the
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(25:21):
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Speaker 2 (28:14):
Good morning. I'm just saying I'm coming in hot.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
What I do?

Speaker 2 (28:17):
What did I do? Yeah, you definitely aren't coming in hot.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
My bead, bruh, I didn't do it in here talking
about his gas. I left it outside. I thought I
left it outside. It came in here with me. I
mean it was a creepy crawler that's all we call
those walkers.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
By the way, LaVar got a fart before the show
that had a key fab that thing walked into the building.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
I really did, I really was outside, put a mic
cover on.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Change the channel. How did you not smell it?

Speaker 7 (28:52):
Like?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
It had to have been a trail for you to
get it in here? There was something like the hallway there.
It was a little bit more spacious than there's other thing.
There's a little bit of space in here and not enough.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
The sad thing is you say you got poor smelling,
so so the fact that you like picked up on it,
and I wanted to keep a straight face so bad.
I wanted to keep a straight face. But I knew
when I did it, I knew it was going to
be bad.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Did smell it too, No, I.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Mean he was shaking his head like he might add,
but I didn't. There was no indications by his facial
expressions or reactions that that I thought we were good like.
I didn't think nothing of it, honestly, Like I was polite.
I never ever tried to blow down in here unless
it just happens.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
You know, we've had craft cakes in a while. I
did have a jumbo jumbo.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
And speaking of bones to pick get back to my
original point. So now you know we got Patty the
the spaghettio cowboy, the Beeferoni Cowboy, orange ring mouthed cowboy.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
So we've been talking about out Biferoni and spaghettios for
a few shows now, and Lorena goes and post on
her story that she's trying it, and she says, I'm
not offended by it. Da Da Da shows, the grilled
cheese shows, the spaghettios.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Right.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
So when I get in this morning, I go wash
my hands, do my little usual thing after you know,
you blow it up in your pants, and you know,
you feel like you gotta wash your hands, you know,
Da da dadas. And as I'm walking around the corner,
something catches my eye and I look into the trash can.

(30:38):
I don't know why it caught my eye, Maybe because
of how brighted it, I don't know. And I look
down and it's one of the microwaveable spaghettio dips in
the trash.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Fool.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
You know some people get executed, arrested. Yeah, they get
deported for doing much less than throwing away a full
container of spaghettios.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
Bro No that's where it belongs in the trash.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm back with you. No, it was the raina, but
I'm backing her on this.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
That's why you didn't grow Coop. Oh, that's why you
didn't grow Wow, take that. You want to back her
on that one? You take your short ass and you
back her on that one. O us gets are disgusting.
It's it's it's peasant food. You have robbed yourself from

(31:39):
a true young experience as a person.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
That's why you acted.

Speaker 11 (31:44):
There's no nastier smell in the world than spaghetti.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
You weren't able to have a real childhood and and
now I know part of the reason why.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, Coop, that's you grew up rich. So you don't
know that. You don't know that one.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
It's a peasant you know what, rich That's why King
Henry and all of them were short as hell because
they didn't eat spaghettios either. It's let them eat spaghettios. Oh, okay,
I do want that's why we're taller than you.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Do You want to defend myself though I did dip
the first half of my sandwich in that spaghetio sauce
until Coop sniffed it and made a very nasty face.

Speaker 11 (32:19):
She forced me to try the grilled cheese dipped in
the spaghetio.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Said, don't knock it until you try it.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
I said, even tight shirt said that it was really
good and it was like fundamental to his childhood.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
So I can't believe you.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Two of all people are judging somebody's childhood and that
dish actually all dishes to judge.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Hey, Coop, when you're walking the green wolf, so to speak,
you've eaten.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Worse, eaten worse. Let me tell you something. Nothing's worse
than spaghettio. Bruh. You have totally exposed yourself. Bruh.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Let me tell you something. You ain't a real one.
I thought you was a real one, Coop, You ain't
a real one. Ain't a real one. I used to
like like like, I used to think you were like
somewhat like a hero to me.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
He's a rat.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I'll never say, I'll never do it ever again. It's retired,
He's I look at him differently now, man, she looked
at him.

Speaker 11 (33:16):
I don't expose my palate to trash like spaghettios.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Doesn't make me any less of a real one. Yeah, man,
you lost your card, your car's been revoked, bro food snob. Yeah, man.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
And and then the fact that you would bring Loreina
in on on that hateful behavior.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Almost going to get into it.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Those those little rings were looking a little appetizing because
I know how smuch.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
She they are.

Speaker 11 (33:42):
Listen, look, she tells me she was already on my side,
and that you convinced her to otherwise.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Tastes like poverty to me.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
But I just think that is crazy, y'all talking about
poor people food. That is crazy, just for people listening
out the poverty like their ass off to pay for
the holidays. Just no, you got that ain't yeah, that
ain't us you, that ain't us talking like that. So
when next time y'all see Coop and Lorraine out, make

(34:11):
sure you don't offer them anything because it probably isn't
up to their standard of what it is that they
would put on their palettes.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Michelin Star restaurant next week, Coop.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
That is ridiculously. No, Look, it's not even.

Speaker 11 (34:24):
It's not even because it's cheap like there's other like
you know, type of like poor foods that are good
like ramen.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
He just said, he said poor food. Again. I put
it in quotes because you that's what you said, poor foods,
poor people.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's what I said. Now you're gonna, Travis Dad, you
just white boy me. You gonna you gonna make it
like I said it.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
That's what you did. Oh that's what you said.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
You people are I'm gonna get arrested for what did
what Coop said and did he did it. He's the
one who said it. He's guilty, Like oh no, no, no, you
just tried to turn around and saying that. I'm saying
it's nasty because it's like cheap food. It's nasty because
it's nasty. It has nothing to do with that. How

(35:09):
you guys are the one calling it peasant and poor food.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
I O.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I am totally if it walks like disappointed and disgusted
by the conversation points that you guys have brought to
the table, I'm just telling you, and whoever's out there
listening at three oh nine or six o nine or
four oh nine in the morning right now five oh
nine in the morning, they're disgusted with both of you
as well. I'm just telling you, I'm speaking for the people.

(35:36):
What y'all have just said is totally out of pocket.
And inappropriate, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
It makes me want to go to home deep.

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Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, it's disgusting their behavior, not the Yes, Spaghettio's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Man, We do have a follow up. I mean we
did talk about it, Yeah, I mean listened.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
We speculated that this was the direction this was heading,
and it headed that way, and it headed that way
in a hurry. The Miami Dolphins have got a new
QB one in South Beach, and that QB one is
quinn ewrs Tua Tugobyloa, the starter, the franchise quarterback, the
two hundred plus million dollar quarterback. He is now third

(36:31):
on the depth chart behind Quinn Ewers and Zach Wilson.
So that'll be your your starting quarterback for the Miami
Dolphins as they head into this weekend's game against the
Cincinnati Bengals, and Tua himself spoke about his reaction to
the news yesterday.

Speaker 12 (36:48):
Naturalie, I'd say, I'm disappointed. I think it's normal. It's
a normal human emotion, you know. Outside of that, I
got to do my part. My road here right now
is to help who have the quarterback is going to
be for this team, to lead this team, help.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
In whatever way I can.

Speaker 12 (37:06):
You know, to help the team win in this game
on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Why do you think this has happened?

Speaker 12 (37:11):
I would say the biggest thing, and it's being honest
with myself as well, had been my performance. I haven't
been performing up to the level and the capabilities that
I have invest.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
What you think we played in the last time with
the hope. I'm not too sure. I can't predict the future.

Speaker 12 (37:26):
I can't you know, predict any of that.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
So it is what it is.

Speaker 12 (37:31):
And as I said, I've got to help out Q,
got to help out Zach. Whoever the starter is or
is going to be, do do what.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
I can to help them in that role and help
them the team in the games.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
All right, So there's two discussing the news at a
South beach Chester and you.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Could stay cool and you could stay calm and collect
it because you're a professional, and that's what it sounds
like he did, Jonas. But you can also stay cool,
calm and collect it when you know you got that
bag before you gat bench.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yeah, he's good. You know, he's good.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Like, Hey, you know, it didn't work out the way
that we'd like for it to work out, but hey,
that's for the Dolphins to figure it out. I'm gonna
I'm gonna have to do what I need to do
to make sure Q and and UH and Zach are
are ready to go whoever it is that's going to start.
From his words, you know.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I think this is a sign that Mike McDaniel is
going to be back next year.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Well, I thought it was a sign that he's saving
his job. I want to save my.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Job because well, I look at it and I go,
there's no way that Mike McDaniel thinks that, because if
he really needed to win out to save his job,
then Tua would still be the starter.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Really, it's not about winning out because these are hard
games that they're going to have to play. I don't
think it's about winning out.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I think Mike McDaniel recognizes that, Look, maybe he needs
a refresher, maybe he needs to to sit back. You're
not listen. They're not gonna be able to trade him.
You can cut him. It's going to be one hundred
million dollars. So like all that. You know, So if
that's not on the table because nobody's taking that contract
and the Dolphins don't want to eat a hundred million

(39:13):
dollars in dead cap, then they look at this and go,
what's the best way for us to get this back
on track and heading in the direction that it was
heading when he was playing at his best under Mike McDaniel.
And that's dude, just sit out, all right, let's let's
start fresh next year, and let's let's try and figure
this thing out again. Because if it was about Mike

(39:33):
McDaniel wanting to save his gig or wanting to win out,
I don't know how you think quin yours is an
upgrade on.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
I'm gonna take it a step further. Here's a step further.
Maybe because head coaches always have conversations with front office
people after games. Maybe after the game they had a
conversation or the day after they had a conversation, and
they the coach. Know, we're okay with it. We're okay

(40:06):
with you sitting to a We're okay with you trying
to figure it out with one of these other guys
that's behind them. We're okay with that. You're not going
to lose your job. So maybe it's to your point
if he was still trying to win his job, keep
his job or whatever, some assurance. Here's the insurance you
can Benching. Yeah, do it with confidence. Don't do it

(40:29):
thinking that all this, this, that and the other is
going to happen. We got your back. Yeah, that's possibly
what took place. Yeah, maybe, like now that I'm like
kind of really trying to like roll it in my head,
like maybe that's what took place.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, because it just it's kind of a I mean,
there there is the potential that you know, they they
went out and all of a sudden, you know, outside
of the loss that they just suffered against Pittsburgh, that's
a pretty strong finish to a season.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Correct that they had following nice winning streak.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yeah, following the firing of their gs and Tyreek Hill
being out and for being fair to Mike McDaniel, it's
not as if they put them in the best position
to win this offseason. I mean, Jalen Ramsey, like there
was moves that they made to where I remember having
the conversation with Albert brewho is going to join us
later on before the year, and Breer was just kind
of like, well, it's kind of a rebuild without actually

(41:22):
saying that there's a full blown rebuild happening, like you
have to you have your butt. People are looking at
the Dolphins going is this really the best roster you
could have on the field for a team that you
think is going to go out there and really compete
in that division. And it played out exactly that. So
I just wonder if Mike McDaniel got that reassurance that
you mentioned and felt like, look, this is the best

(41:47):
thing for the situation. He's not playing well, there's some
people who were you know, who think it landed wrong
that he's on the field celebrating or I'm not celebrating.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
They were key key it up and you're you're just
way too happy. You're way too happy to have just lost.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
A big game.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
And listen some people that to me, that's like it's
kind of almost like a little bit like cap like
you don't get to judge that man. If that man
is put in his work, and he's put in his time,
and his job is done, you can't no matter how
mad you get or how whatever you are, you can't
change the result of the game. Now you may say, well,
maybe that's the reason why they lost. He wasn't taking
it seriously enough. It's not for you to make that

(42:29):
determination or that judgment. So I would hate for that
to be a part of why people are upset and wanted,
you know, to see that he didn't play anymore.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
That's one of his homeboys.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
You see your homeboys after the game, they could have
been talking about somebody something that that was really really
near and dear to their friendship. I don't have a
problem with dude key keyen with with Jaylen Ramsey after
the game.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
But I will.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Say the biggest issue here has been the ongoing discussion
of Tua not being the guy. That's too much of
the conversation at the moment. And again, just like the
conversation we had yesterday, I think you know what you're

(43:13):
getting with Tua at this point. You know what you're getting.
So you got three games left, you don't You're not
going to make the playoffs. Why not see what you
have in yours. He's a very very interesting name and
player on your roster. The guy had great success in

(43:35):
a very very very good, good showing as a Texas Longhorn.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Why not see what you have? And I think that
that's the direction they're going. Now.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
What I will say is, ultimately you said, what does
that mean or taking it into a new start, a
new fresh start for next year for Tua.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
I don't know what you do with Tua.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
And I think that I made that very clear yet yesterday,
and I'm making very clear again this year. And I said,
if they benching, you've now basically cut the legs from
out under them. I'm not bringing back a player that
I know everybody in the locker room is having questions,
especially after he called Cats out. They have questions surrounding

(44:22):
how they feel about him being the starter.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
You benching. You didn't.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
You didn't deactivate him like Jaydon Daniels in Washington.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
You didn't.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
You're not preserving his health, like we're not gonna win,
get healthy come back next year.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
They didn't present it that way.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
They could have presented it that way, and there's no
conversation about it right, three games left, Let's just see
what we got in in our backups, Like, we don't
want you to get hurt. Da da da, No, he's disappointed.
Why you think you're not playing because of my performance?
Very very direct correlation of why he's not playing. It
really exposes the question of you're going to have you're not.

(45:01):
It is impossible for you to be able to just
trade him and move on from them if you, like
you said the dig cap, if you just let him go.
So now the question becomes what do you do with
Tua moving forward? If you're the Miami Dolphins, if you
have him on the bench, that's like dang, Like, okay,
you got Cleveland Brown's two point zero. You got a

(45:24):
major money dude sitting on the bench while you've moved
on and he's just there, or you let him go,
or you try to trade him. And probably the best
move is to try to trade him, and you got
to eat a whole lot of money in the trade
to do it, and I don't know who would do it.
But ultimately the most complex question that you have coming

(45:47):
out of this announcement is.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
What do you do with Tua? Now? I mean, you
throw it out there.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
If anybody's you know, if there's any takers, anybody out
there that says, oh yeah, you know, we'll take that count,
which there's not going to be, but we'll take that
contractor we'll do the you know, we'll offer up like
you throw it out there.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
But I think Miami just looks at this and says.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
All right, we must this up. Coach, you'll be back
next year. We're going to do this again with Tua.
Probably create a little bit of a quarterback competition there
like we've seen in years past, whether it be you know,
Marcus Mariota and Ryan Tannehill in Tennessee, like they'll they'll
probably create something along those lines. Maybe there's an intriguing
free agent out there that could make them say, look,

(46:29):
I mean, you want to talk about the system he
comes from and Mac Jones, I mean, maybe Mac Jones
is a signing that you bring in and go listen,
Mac had success in the Shanahan system. That's where Mike
McDaniel comes from. Maybe Mac Jones could be a guy
that's brought in for a little bit of competition. But
I just I saw that yesterday and I thought Mike
McDaniel had to have had some sort of reassurance at

(46:52):
some level to know, Hey, if you make this move,
don't worry, like, don't go ahead?

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Yeah, like not if do it, Like, let's see, let's
see what we got. Yeah, let's see how he responds.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
I mean, if he's if he's you know, regressed this year,
then it's a year involving him calling out teammates.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Let's see how he likes this move.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
And let's see if he comes back next year and
he's fired up, and and who knows, we lose a
couple of these games, our draft stock improves and we've
got a couple of top ten picks, or we got
a top ten pick next year.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
And so yeah, I just I look at that, Betty.
You've crippled him. You want you want to see how
he responds to it. Have you ever seen a dude
with no knees walk? You have seen a dude with
no no ankles, no feet walk.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
I have no legs. I have no legs. I have
no legs.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
That's how they did to like, he's not there is
no way to respond to it, like it's it's over,
it's over. You're you're telling tah, it's a rat, you know,
it's pretty sweet though.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
What checks are still going to cash?

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's sweet. Yeah, that's why you could be cool, Like,
all right, it didn't work out to work out. I
got a national title. I'll be a college Football Hall
of Famer. I got paid. I'm happy, I got my health.
I mean, for what it's worth, I did take on
some concussions. I did take some head injuries on. Like

(48:19):
I'm a just chill yeah, Like, whatever decision they make,
it's going to impact my future positively. Anyway. If you
don't play me anymore, what are you going to do?
I just get that. So you're saying, I just get
to get out here, throw the ball in practices, encourage guys,
pray for him to be a good stoard over them

(48:39):
as a mentor. Got dinged up a little bit. I mean,
later on in life, he'll be, you know, brushing his
teeth with a breadstick. Probably, you know, at least he
got paid in the meeting.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
You never know, he might have got out early enough.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
He might this, might have this might have stant Maybe
they're like, you know what, we're gonna bench him because
we want to save his life.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Hey, you know, we're gonna pay them all this money
that kind of year, and we're going preserving you're welcome
to hum that kind of year. There you go.

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Speaker 2 (49:23):
All right, so we are gonna have.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
The usuals coming up later on, we get another edition
of incase you missed it. We've got the return of
Coach Speaking, our two of the program. We're handing out
an award. Albert Breer is gonna stop by. We've got
the leftovers. All of it is yours here on this
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from Joe Burrow, the Bengals quarterback who made some news
last week when he sounded a little bit down in

(52:53):
the dumps following the Bengals elimination from playoff contention. And
so Joe Burn spoke with the media. It was a Wednesday,
it was his turn to talk, and it sounded a
little bit like this.

Speaker 10 (53:05):
I like to play football.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
That's for the same reasons that I wanted to push to.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Comeback from injury.

Speaker 9 (53:11):
For some reasons, I want to play.

Speaker 8 (53:13):
This week, it feels like everything everybody's trying to do
everything in their power to make me not play football,
and I feel like I'm fighting it, like fighting everybody else.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
I just want to I just want to play ball.

Speaker 8 (53:24):
That's all I want to do.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Is there any world in your mind where you're not
the quarterback with Angals next year.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
If I can't see that.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
No, you ever thought about the possibility of not being
the quarterback here.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
During your career, or you think.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
About a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
So is that a good question? I mean, is that
a good question? You know what I think it is.
I don't think. I don't think Burrow's real good at
this because he's I think he's being honest, but I
think he doesn't realize that when you leave stuff sort
of up for interpretation.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
They can take in do with it what they want
to do with it, run wild.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Because even mentioned yesterday that his comments last week that
he was getting text messages from people asking if everything
was okay, and he's like, does it don't sound okay? Yeah,
because like I didn't even I didn't understand it. I
don't know, Like he was almost like kind of like, yeah,
I don't, I don't get what the what did you
guys think I was trying to imply?

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Like what did you think I was trying to get?

Speaker 3 (54:24):
You don't sound very upbeat, you don't sound very positive,
and you sound down.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
He's just not good at this. Man Like sound down.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Cadences is awkward. It's just I look at Joe Burrow
and I go kind of a quirky guy, great football player,
kind of a quirky guy. I just I don't think
people truly get him, and I don't think he does
a great job at presenting himself to where he's he's
easy to understand.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
I will say this, It's like, if you take the
name Joe Burrow of it and you're listening to it,
it sounds like a victim mentality. And and people that
I've experienced in life that have victim mentalities, they like,
there's always an excuse, there's always a reason. Now, I'm
not saying that that's who Joe Burrow is. I'm just saying,

(55:15):
like the world like everybody wants like they want me
to not play ball, and I'm fighting against all Like, Bro, no,
you fight against you.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
You know who you.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Gotta You know who you have to answer to every
single day, the person staring right back at you when
you start your day, man, And that's the person that
knows you best, not all these other people, not everybody
all the listen, man, Like, don't don't fall into the
category of being a victim.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Bro, You're not a victim. You're a football player. You
imagine him playing in New York with the media.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Oh well, cause they're going to instigate that. And that
last question that was some instigator. That wasn't definite instigator.
He was definitely feeding off of Joe Burrow's energy and
felt as though he might be able to get a response.
That's very very interesting for him and polarizing for him
to use and for everybody to use based off of

(56:13):
how he was handling the questions prior to that one
coming out, like do you ever see yourself not being
the quarterback next year? Like next year? Come on, dude,
next year, that's a dumb question. Yeah, now you want
to change and say, well, at any point in your career,
like we all end up somewhere else. More often than not,
there's there's a small number of guys that's starting finish

(56:35):
with the same team, but more often than not, you're
gonna end up with a different team. You're asking a
question to get a reaction, and that's all that was.
And you know what if Joe Burrow doesn't and listen,
Q took aim at him the last time like he
did this like weird little like soft talking like somebody
bring me my blanket and tuck me in and give

(56:57):
me some warm milk discussions. He's got to tighten up, bro,
tighten up, man up, and be a leader for yourself,
be a believer for yourself, and do that for your team.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Because the way you're handling things.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Right now, you walking, you it's like your walk, your
talk is like wounded. It's it's banged up, it's battered,
and you're you're making it sound that way.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
You know, you know what it's.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
It's kind of reminds me of like when because I've
talked about this before because it always pissed me off
and it's part of the reason why I got off Facebook.
But when people back in the day on Facebook used
to have a random post that would just be like
just when you think you know, somebody dot dot dot,
what's wrong everybody?

Speaker 2 (57:49):
What's talk? Is everything okay? In the comments though, like
oh yeah, thinking of you.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
You're not you're not going into their inbox, you're not
texting on the comment.

Speaker 13 (57:59):
My gosh, I so he's looking for it almost a
kind of reminds me to where where he's he like
is leaving things so open and maybe it's not even intentional.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Maybe he's not even trying to do that, which I
kind of lean into too many interviews.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
That now it's just because last week he has the
comments and he's talking, and you heard every theory in
the book from Brady saying, you know, why are you not?
You should be happy with with what you've got, the
opportunity you had. You're not having fun. You should be
having fun. That one makes sense, like generally speaking, that
should be the case. You've had other people say, well,

(58:36):
is this another Andrew Luck situation? Based on what he said?
That could be the case? Well, seem fun? Does he
want out of Cincinnati? Based on what he said? That
could The problem is he leaves it so open ended
to interpretation and so opened up to interpretation that everybody's
throwing out every theory in the book. And then afterwards

(58:56):
show Burrow looks around and goes, no, I want to
I want to play?

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Why are people trying to get me to not play?
I don't?

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Well, you got like, could you at least like fill
in the gaps so to speak?

Speaker 2 (59:06):
So like what did I do?

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Like it's like relationship status, it's complicated.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
You're either slotting around or you're not. Like just to
call what it is, like, get to the point. What's
happening here? Do you want to be in Cincinnati? Do
you want to play?

Speaker 5 (59:24):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (59:25):
And he just kind of like, you know, hey, do
you ever think about you know, I think about all
sorts of things what like?

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Hey, Definitely that was definitely not the proper response. That
was definitely not the proper response.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
What is this like?

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Like, you know, a definitive response is like, bro, what
the are you talking about? Right? That's a proper response.
Let them use it, Let them use the F bomb?
What the f are you talking about? Bro?

Speaker 8 (59:54):
Like?

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Why are you asking me? Right now?

Speaker 3 (59:56):
That's coming in as a warrior, Like even if you're
not a scream like I'm passionate, Like people be thinking
I'm screaming. I'm not screaming. I'm just passionate out talk,
But in that moment, I'd be like, like, what are
you trying to do? Like what you want to know?
Like when you're asking me that question, what would you
like to know? Just just shoot it straight, like do

(01:00:18):
you are you asking? Do I want to do? I?
Do I not want to be here?

Speaker 6 (01:00:21):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
What are you trying to ask me? So I can
answer you?

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
Or not?

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Of course, I want to play with everyone. See, it
seems like everyone's trying to get me to not play
fool well man like. Based on the comments last week,
it sounded like you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
Didn't, Hey, bro, leave everybody out of it. That's what
I'm saying, Leave everybody out of it. Like, leave everybody
out of it. I'm talking to y'all asses right now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
You're the media.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
If these are the questions you're asking me, here's my response.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I'm here to win.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
I want to win, and I want to win as
a Cincinnati Bengal and that's what it is. Next, if
y'all don't have anything different than that, I can only
answer it the way that the answer is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
I can only give you my truth.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
I can't manufacture something to fit what you want.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Period. Now. The only problem with.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Any of this is, again, you've stated it very well.
He's already created a narrative by the way he's handled things.
You're never going to dispel what it is that you're
going to dispel when somebody already has their article written,
You're not going to do it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:40):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
What makes what evens the playing field a whole lot
more now is that social media and podcasting has given
guys new new ways of being able to break their
own news, give their own thoughts. So if you've written
something that is beyond reproach about a person, they can
rebuttal it and people will see it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
That wasn't always like that. It's very different now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
But outside of that, man, you just got to be
aware of the fact that these people already have their
articles written, they already have their stories ready to go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
They already have.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
It where they're going to report it the way that
they're going to report it. You're not going to change that.
But what you can do is make sure you handle
yourself and control yourself in a way that is acceptable
for you and yourself. Don't be nobody's victim. Don't you
telling everybody, Hey, you're all out against me, You're all

(01:02:38):
against me. All you're basically saying is it's all impacting me.
I'm feeling it's it's it's it hurts, like. Don't give
people the value of that. Don't give them that type
of power over you. They don't have that type of
power over you. It's just weird, it seems, And for

(01:02:58):
what is worth now that I'm hearing myself talk about it,
I know we got to go to break but you
know what, like, hey, bro, like get help, get help.
And I'm not saying not to be a a hole.
I'm sad for real, for real life. If somebody plays
this back for you, get help, because somebody can talk
you through this where you can get a hold of that, Like,
don't spiral over over what people and what they and

(01:03:21):
all of them in the world, what they're saying. Have
somebody helping you dial in into yourself and understand the
beliefs of who you are. That's how you get through
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