January 12, 2026 • 40 mins
Minor Sports Stories with an update on how you can get tickets to the LA 2028 Summer Olympics. Top Story of the Day with Matt Smith reflecting on the Rams win over the Panthers and the Chargers loss to the Patriots.. Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day.
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End to It Dome. Won two over the weekend and
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they were six and twenty one. Were the Clippers now
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just eight games under five wind streak.
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You know things were going to turn around.
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Man.
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We could feel it knocked off the Brooklyn Nets and
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on Wednesday. Will have a three to seven show tomorrow,
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And we have a show a week from Thursday at
the BJS and IRV in California starting at three o'clock.
It is our last BJ show of the football season.
So I'm gonna circle it on both our calendars, on
our Soritos calendar and our Buford de Justice. Well, yeah,
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so we will have both calendars and hopefully maybe we'll
get another proclamation from the city at Irvine, although I
don't think that is in the works, but we.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Might get the mayor.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
All right, it is time for well, I guess we'll
call these minor sports stories minor.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sports stories for Great Sports Talk Register registered.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yesooo, if anyone is interested and seeing the twenty twenty
eight Summer Olympic Games that are rapidly approaching, They're gonna
be here before you know it. We have been discussing
their approach for years. The Hobo towers of that loom
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in South Park downtown by Crypto and La Live, that
maps covered in mirrors, mirrors might cause a lot of
trouble with the waymos. I mean a lot of trouble
with the waymos.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Hey. Let's see, man, it's running up the flagpole.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's a bunch of waymos staring themselves down like lizards
in the mirror. Skid Row is a problem, a breathing
place of death that has only grown in the last decades.
Gigantic problem downtown. That's where they'd burn the weymos. And
we talked about how USC is going to be kicked
out of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, their home in
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twenty twenty eight due to the Olympics and Paralympics track
and Field. I said, special Olympics. It's not the same Paralympics, right,
and the Olympics track and field will be at USC.
So all football in southern California in twenty twenty eight.
Eight will be indoors at so far for Shane USC,
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the Rams, the Chargers, and the punk ass Bruins for
Shane Anyway, A lot of people don't know this map.
But if you want to attend the SWO Olympics, if
you want the right to buy tickets in your own
town in twenty twenty eight, to take your children to
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see history Los Angeles Olympics, third time they've been here,
you need to register first right in the registration period.
I know you know this map.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well, my daughter just asked me, are we registered for
Olympic tickets as there cannot.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Be ya because the registration period opens Wednesday, January fourteenth, So.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
In two days I've got a register.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You have to register. You have to create a profile
on the LA twenty eight website so that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Can get hacked and all my personal information will be
in the hands of the dark wet.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well that goes without saying. Right, next thing, you know,
there's a picture of you with a ballgag on. It's
all over the country.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I could say that wasn't real, I promise.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And you enter a draw, yeah, like Oscar de la
Hoya my friend and you enter a drawing. There is
no purchase or payment to register, but all it does
is enter you in a drawing. Only if you win
the drawing, and who knows how that works. Only then
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do you have the privilege to buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So if you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Lose the drawing, I don't know what you do, right,
I don't know what happens if you don't. If they
say sorry, you're not you don't qualify to buy tickets.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Secondary market is your destiny.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And you get tickets through the secondary market when you're
unregistered and they don't have your facial profile and you
show up and they think you're supposed to look like
Barry Rudin and you don't.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's a fair point, right, and that they're gonna do
it into it Dome style.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Not everybody can be like Matt Smith and figure out
how to get a cheap peacock subscription by coaxing that
bird out of its cave.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Not everybody.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
For you, La times you're gonna freaking succumb to me.
I'm not gonna succumb to you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So I don't know. I don't know what happens.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Wait a second.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's one thing to have a Pearl Jam concert, and
you can't change the tickets with somebody, or sell them
to somebody else, or change the name on them.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
It's the Olympics. The world is coming here.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
If you win the drawing, you won't be able to
buy tickets until next year. So the tickets won't even
be purchasable until a year from now. But you've got
to put yourself on the drawing right on Wednesday. Yourself available.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You got to show them that you're available.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Matt, what tickets are you going for? You said your
daughter was asking about it? Is there certain sport?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think they just want to go, you know, if
I have to guess, they probably want to go to gymnastics,
which obviously is to good luck.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, you know that that drawing is crazy. That's like
going to see Amesis in Argentina.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It's like, Babe, I know you wanted to go see gymnastics.
Guess what we got ladies? Shot puts?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's enjoy Do you like European handball?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Rowing through the canals?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, the rowing. I believe I'll be able to go
row because yeah, I look at him mad. Yeah, that
live right there at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, and
I would assume they're going to have a big they're
going to put up.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
A big blockers. They're going to put up big, big blockers.
They probably will, right, yeah, they will. Dude, you're gonna
have to pay. It's going to be like Monoco.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But you know, you go to see rowing and it's
like fifteen hundred meters and it's like, yeah, there they are,
and there they get triple schools.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It sounds like a little much for me. I'm not
a big fan of a drawing, and I don't think
you get any extra credit in the drawing if you're
an og Los Angeles essay like many of our listeners are.
Because there's a lot of people, there's a lot of
people that.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are to lose a drawing for the right to hand
them thousands of dollars. Oh man, I lost. What'd you lose?
So I lost the opportunity to pay thousands and thousands
of dollars to go see gymnastics at the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's like waiting in line to go to the Louis
vutand it's like, wait a minute, I gotta wait in
line to give you thousands of dollars, right?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I did that during the holidays. Yeah, I waited fifty
five minutes. It's terrible to get into wear Loouis Vauton.
You did not the one in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Is that where you know at the Amortica bro.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh Medicana there was a line.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
It was the best melly line in the valley.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You waited in line yep to get into the Louis
Vauton store yep and handed them thousands of dollars for gifts.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Copy that.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I remember.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I was with my wife who needed to uh do
an exchange at the Airmez and we had to wait
like thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
On Rodale Drive.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's pronounced termis dude. Dude.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
If you're gonna say it, say it right.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But you idiot.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There's a reason I don't get it on the road
with all the kolde idiot.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
You'd be happy to know.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Matt.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
The wife was like, you know, I don't really think
I need this for a Christmas game.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
So I returned it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Good.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
At least you now know moving forward to never do
that again.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, it's a little weird returning it too. They look
at you like you're returning to Louis Vauton, Like, what's your.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Problem, dude.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yes, I am. It's cheap Chinese crap.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Trunk wasn't built by Louis Vaton two hundred years ago himself.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It was not all right. Next story for everybody. Minor
sports stories were great sports talk.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Presley drama, Wesley drama, No wrestling drama, Oh wrestling drama,
Notre Dame drama. Not about Lincoln Riley and USC but
the enormously popular head coach of the Irish Marcus Freeman
Matt There was an alleged in at his son's high
school wrestling match.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Freeman's son, Vinnie Freeman, a.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Wrestler at Penn High in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Headed Come On headed at Cornell.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
This event was the Al Smith Invitational, and apparently Marcus
Freeman got into it with a coach of another team
New Prairie, Indiana named Chris Flieger. Fleieger, I think a
champion wrestler in his own right, but only like five
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feet tall like John Gruden's son Deuce, but a champion
wrestler at Purdue. Fleeger filed a police report this past
weekend accusing Freeman a battery.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Chargers are not.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Expected to be filed, but they still could be According
to the South Bend Trib, Vinnie Freeman lost his match.
He's being escorted out with his father and his mother
and his Penn High wrestling coach enter Coach Flieger from
New Prairie, and Chris Flieger started popping off and there
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was a fight of a yelling matcher, some.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Kind of coach and dad. This is famous Marcus Freeman d.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Versus Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman and father of
Vinnie Freeman, who just got done wrestling at the Al
Smith Invitation. This is according to the South Bend Tribune.
I don't think this is what Al Smith envisioned when
he started the Big Wrestling Invitational, which is almost fifty
years old. Al Smith the longtime Mishikawa High School wrestling coach.
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And that's where the event is home of the Cavemen.
Let's go Cavemen. Or just sent me a text. I'm
at the why Not Burger parking lot eating alone also
right now.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Matt Pete Bavaqua Notre Dame's ad the same guy who
was deeply hurt by the ACC's Twitter feed leading up
to the college football playoff seedings. I thought we were
partners He said Freeman didn't make physical contact with anybody, okay,
but Chris Flieger says he did. Miskawa Police, Mishawaka, Mischikawa, Mishawaka.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I think it's Mishawaka, all right, it would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
What I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That's where the Al Smith Invitational is. They are still investigating.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Did they claim like uh as we listened to lunatic
Fringe from Vision Quest like mid eighties villain like full
on shoved to the chest like over some chairs and
you go tumbling into a crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I don't know. No one really is very sure what
exact exactly happened.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
There is a video, but no one it's not leaked
out yet.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Oh is that like the Diddy video that we thought
would eventually get me like to see it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Penn High.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Is the home of the Kingsman and Vinnie Freeman. That's
where he goes to school, Marcus's son. That's in Milwaukee,
Indiana near South Bend.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Chris Flieger at New Prairie High that's in New Carlisle, Indiana.
And they're the Cougars. Bavakua Notre Dame ad hated by
Tomula sorta still said that Chris Flieger was accosting Vinnie
Freeman the son during the match.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Now, I guys, so it wasn't his coach, it was
the opposing.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The opposing coach his coach. Where I got you? Now,
I told you that's where it gets weird. I know
you you're a little short on, but you know I
hope that you you know, I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Come on, sorry, I missed it. I missed it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Take that back to Mishikawaka. I don't expect anything to
come from any of this, but I do love this
story here. Marcus's wife Johanna was also there in Mishawaka,
yelling at Fleeger. Oh, I mean, just a crazy wrestling story.
People get hot in the world of wrestling, There's no
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doubt about it. Remember that college wrestler guy that lost
a championship and his mom ripped off her own glasses
and broke him in the crowd. He was all angry
and furious. Yea, it's a furious sport of furious people.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Just you and one other man. You're out there naked
to the world.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Almost yes, I like to say that as well.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So you're califlower ears.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
For and you're single it for the Olympics. You got
a register on Wednesday and if you don't make it,
then I guess you're screwed. And maybe we'll get some
more details on that and wrestling high school Notre Dame
coach drama with Marcus Freeman and the next segment, Matt
is going to have to do it. He's gonna have
to approach the dash sun up a bitch, Yeah, and
(15:12):
take your medicine, Misha waka.
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you've been waiting for the story of the day of it.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, we'll start with the winners, because I want winners.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Come on. Dedicated Charger loss.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Dedicated to the loss is dedicated to the Chargers' loss.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Rams had their backs against the wall. I thought it
was unrappabs it was. They were going to be the
biggest disappointment of the weekend at ten and a half
point favorite, losing not just not covering, but losing to
the eight and nine Carolina Panthers. A Las Seattle over
New Orleans and the wild card round and we'd have
drastic change in the playoff format. But Matthew Stafford, playing
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the role of potential MVP football hero, saved them from disaster.
The game winning drive was a thing of precision of beauty.
Should they go on a Super Bowl winning run, it
will be a part of his resume for his Hall
of Fame candidacy. Matthew Stafford did something stupid earlier in
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the game. He threw a terrible interception by being cute.
It was one of those oh wait till NFL films
gets a load of mind no look pass on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh, he threw a no look pass and got burned.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, he threw a no look pass and because he
wasn't looking, he didn't see Mike Jackson squad on the
route underneath that intercepted the pass and led to a
touchdown that gave the Panthers a four point lead. But
man if I would have completed that pass, you guys
would be playing that thing over and over again on
NFL films. Would have been cool. They would trade tds
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on that sequence. And then it was time to play
face of the franchise. Stud quarterback two thirty nine left
in the game, he orchestrated a seven play, seventy one
yard touchdown drive, no runs, all passes, Stud quarterback six
of seven never even got the third down. He was
so precise a touchdown when he drive that led to
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his three hundred yard three touchdown road playoff win evening
to start the postseason. No matter the opponent is worth
boasting about. The Rams likely will, they should and with
the Bears on tap, should make for a really really
good Divisional round game. The one issue the Rams are
facing pretty suspect secondary old cokehead Jalen Kocher of the
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Panthers got him for one thirty four and a td
servites t mac got him for eighty one on five grabs.
Some passes left out there by Bryce Young that I
don't suspect Caleb Williams we'll leave out there. Remember when
the Bears were in the midst of a sports Talk
Hot talk debate over whether or not they should take
Caleb with their number one pick or trade the pick
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for a monster haul so they could provide justin fields
with a supporting cast and allow him to improve. That
would have been the most Bears thing ever, But instead,
the Trojan Heisman Trophy winner certainly has some awards, but
in the fourth quarter, he is as good as there
is in the entire league. Repeatedly, Caleb Williams Now in
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his two year career.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Did listen to the Colin Cowhart Show straight out of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Caleb Williams now has nine fourth quarter come from behind
wins in his career in two years. To put that
in perspective, Justin Herbert has the second most come from
behind fourth quarter wins since he came into the league
in twenty twenty, six years ago, with nineteen. Only Patrick
Mahomes has more since twenty twenty, with twenty in six seasons.
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Caleb Williams Now has nine and two years, including a
playoff win in the longest maybe it's no longer the
most storied, but the longest rivalry in NFL history, and
another wild stat for the Rams opponent this coming Sunday.
In three games the Bears and Packers had played this season,
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including Saturday Night's instant playoff Classic, the Packers have had
the ball on offense with the lead for one hundred
and six plays, the Bears zero, and yet they won
two of those three games, including the game that would
set up a matchup with the Rams, who look to
be the better team. But we'll travel to Chicago. It
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will be outdoors. It is January, and as it stands
right now, Sunday's forecast is calling for the Divisional Round
to have temperatures between nine and nineteen degrees with windshill
in the single digits. Oh no, and potential snow. I
believe some call that football weather. It opened at Rams
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minus four and a half.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Technically anything football weather unless there's light, play football.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
In it, even when you're covered in SOFI. Technically out
there stadium. It opened at Rams minus four and a half.
It has since showed some action on the bear side
and has moved to rams minus.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Three and a half.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
As for the not winners, not people that want to win, well,
they want to win, they just didn't. It's a bummer
the Chargers loss. I of course, am invested, financially, motivated,
emotionally invested, biased, all those things. And while this will
sound incredibly cheesy and lame, it is but the truth.
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The first thing I thought of while witnessing what I witness,
what I saw with my own eyes at Gillette Stadium
less than twenty four hours ago, is this year felt
different in the stands with the fans really started to
show up, to raise their hands to hit the road.
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It has been growing. It's been getting better incrementally year
after years since Justin Herbert arrived and they found their
superstar quarterback with the arrival of Jim Harbaugh. It grew
quite a bit last year, but this year, coming off
in eleven win season, winning those first three games, sweeping
the Raiders in each of his seasons, sweeping the Chiefs,
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this year, we have seen on average thousands, like a
few thousand Bolts fans at every road game. There were
thousands of them there at Gillette yesterday, home game in
Houston at Houston. The home game against Houston, I should
say was the best crowd I'd ever seen for a
Charger game at SOFI. Had the fire marshals say that
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they work every game there and it was the best
crowd they'd seen for any football game, Rams or Chargers.
It's growing, it's happening. The football fans here seemed to
like this product. They wanted to work and they keep
getting let down. They lost that Texans game that had
that great crowd at so FAR and in this wild
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card game. Yeah, they're the seventh seed, but the Patriots
were there for the taken. You saw it with what
the Bolts did on defense. The Patriots came in averaging
twenty nine per game, and the Chargers defense forced Drake
May into his worst afternoon or worst evening of football
in any game this season, his lowest halftime passer rating,
his second lowest rating in game this season, an interception
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to fumbles, and the offense did absolutely nothing. With that
dominant performance from the defensive side of the ball, they
were a complete and total no show. Popper talked about
it when he joined us last hour. There are two sides.
Pop popped off always does two sides of the justin
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Herbert coin, and as he put it, I agree, it's
fine that you can acknowledge both. He performed heroically in
the regular season, considering the challenges he faced with both
of his tackles out to protect him in the pocket,
an inside trio that included a solid and slightly above
average Zion Johnson and a below average to completely poor
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Bradley Boseman and mackay back. Then altogether it produced the
worst offensive line group in the league all season when
Joe Walt wasn't out there, when all it was he
is so good that just that one player made this
unit a top fifteen unit in the league when he
wasn't dead last. And that certainly was part of what
haunted them yesterday, not because they were equally as bad,
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but because Herbert seemingly had amassed so much actual scar
tissue and mental scar tissue from the pressure hundred of them.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
That I wish you saw.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Go ahead, give me the name. No, I'm not just
to know it all over one hundred and twenty quarterback hits,
over fifty sacks, a broken hand, a wrecked finger. Even
when the pocket was holding up, Herbert looked like he
was ready to run at the first opportunity or escape
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to throw on the run. And it was unlike anything
we'd seen from him all season. He was incredibly inaccurate.
He missed wide open receivers at times. To put it simply,
he just didn't play well, and part of that is
on him. You know, the misthrows on the sideline won
each to Ladd and one to q running for five
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yards when lad flashed wide open on what had been
a touchdown toss because he was kind of under pressure
and wanted to escape the pocket. But things were just
not used to seeing and did not see over the
seventeen games of the regular season. He picked the worst
time to play his worst game of the season. Now,
it's not fair to put it on him, obviously, there's
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an offensive line in front of him, there's pass catchers
that weren't getting great separation. Keenan Allen looked like he
was sleep walking through half of the game. There's a
lot of incoming right now, not the captain, unfortunately, a
lot of incoming for offensive coordinator Greg Roman. Kind of
hard to go with a guy who had to play
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with seven different offensive tackles this season. But again, like Herbert,
It's fair to ask, why is a guy who had
Lamar Jackson and Justin Herbert, who was calling plays for
those two won an actual MVP another in the MVP
conversation of the playoffs, why are those two guys scoring twelve,
twenty three, twelve and three points in his last five
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playoff games that he would call plays for as an
offensive coordinator with all world talents at the most important
position in sports. The Ravens lost to the Titans in
twenty nineteen twenty eight to twelve when Lamar was an
MVP A Rabel John Harbaugh matchup was that one. The
next year they lost to the Bills seventeen to three.
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The following year they missed the playoffs. The year after
that they scored seventeen again, And of course with Justin Herbert,
we know full well about last year's twelve points against
the Texans disaster, and this year, I think, considering the circumstances,
probably the biggest bummer of a game they've played since
Herbert's been the quarterback, maybe since they moved here. The
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defense with Jesse Minner coordinating, was so good all season
and so good in that game against a really good offense,
second in points, second in yards, top five in everything.
Drake may had been the best quarterback in football and
nearly every metric, and jesse Minner and his defense confounded
him for the majority of that game, forced him into
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two almost three turnovers. This defense was good enough to
win a super Bowl the twenty seven to nothing game
in Jacksonville. That team was good, but that defense was
not anywhere near the level of this one. With that front,
and jesse Minner is the coordinator who most certainly is
going to be a head coach. With eight openings out
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there in short order, I would imagine teams are going
to get him on the interview slate immediately.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Nobody better get Alex Crinch on the Phonies at UCF.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yes, maybe they can pass on Alex Crinch for the Chargers,
but they're gonna lose their best coach under Harbaugh, and
hopefully the guy they replace him with, I would assume
it'll be in house, perhaps Mike Elston the defensive line coach,
or Steve Klinkscale the secondary coach, both who have been
sensational in developing talent like Tuley Tuoy Polow two or
(28:30):
the corners starive still Cam Hart and that bunch, But
they are going to lose the best coach on their team.
And what I think, even with Justin Herbert on offense,
you can say has been the identity of this team
since Harbaugh arrived. An absolutely dominant defense that led the
league in points allowed last year, performed admirably against the
Texans through three quarters before they basically had just been
(28:53):
gassed because their offense couldn't do anything in that wild
card game, and it happened again in this one. The
majority of Drake May's yard came when the offense pitched
one three and out after another. I think they only
had three possessions where they had more than two first downs,
and it caught up to him. Why is it happening,
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don't know. With a team that fought so hard, that
performed so admirably on a four game win streak that
knocked off the Super Bowl champs, that swept the Chiefs,
could not go in to face a Patriots defense that
was ranked twenty sixth and expected points added and only
mustered only was able to muster three points sixty pressures
(29:38):
in total by the collection of their eleven defenders that
were on the field at any given time, and that
is not what that team looked like through their seventeen
games regular season. It's a disappointment. Coach Harbaugh acknowledged as
much yesterday. Justin Herbert acknowledged as much in their postgame
pressers yesterday. What type of changes are coming don't know,
(30:00):
but I would assume after back to back eleven win
seasons and one and done exits from the postseason, they're
likely will be some and unfortunately, one of them is
losing the best coach on their staff under Harbor. Jesse Minner,
Kay Ho, Blay and I'm super Stick.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It is terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's sad. Sadness comes around. You make fun of people
that are sad, and it comes back and into you.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
And then you're saying, and now I'm that guy, Now
you are that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And now I'm living in a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
That's what it feels like. Oh now I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well, we have blues themed dead and alive guy birthday
in the day. Lucky for everybody. We'll be right back
with more petros and money.
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We are your home of Super Bowl Sunday, February sixth.
Sadly the Chargers will not be participating for sure, but
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that doesn't mean we still have that.
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We're not gonna have to book covered Hawaiian gardens. We
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the dead guy today.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I do happy. Would have been eighty fifth to Long
John Baldry. Why Long John? Well? Yeah, tall drink of water.
He was six foot seven, kind of stood out on
stage when he was knocking out the blues. It was
kind of the first brit to bring the American blues
back to the island. He was born in Northampton, ship
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Spot there a cop got into music when he was
a wee lud.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Dad was a bobby.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
His dad was a bubby, a constable. In his late
teens he was a well bop you one stop. I
said early, this is pretty cool. This guy's just kind
of all the paths that he crossed and doors that
he opened for people that became a hell of a
lot more famous than him. The early nineteen sixties coffee
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house circuit Gary and Gimbal Coffee Lounge is where he started.
Then the Bluesville R and B club manor House Kluke's Cleek.
He landed a residency at.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Kluk's Creek It's my favorite Klukes.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Clek at eel Pie Island on the Thames at Twickenham,
another residency at the Station Hotel in Richmond, the famous
Station Hotel that would house the Rolling Stones first weekly residency.
His first commercial run was with Alex Corner's Blues and
Corporate Rated, a band that at times included, along with
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Long John Baldry, Mick Jagger, Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards,
Brian Jones. When the Rolling Stones made their debut at
the Marquee Club in July nineteen sixty two, Baldry is
the one who put the whole thing together. He was
very close with Paul McCartney and performed on the Beatles
(34:23):
when they would do their television specials around the Beatles
in the UK in the early sixties. In nineteen sixty three,
his Long John Baldry and the Uchi Couci Ben That's
a band that was The band featured Rod Stewart on vocals,
(34:45):
and then when the Huchie Cucie Men became Bluesology, he
picked up one Reginald Dwight to play keyboards and Elton
Dean later of Soft Machine on guitar, and when Reginald
Dwight obviously decided to take his shot as a solo artist,
(35:07):
he decided to adopt the first names of his two bandmates,
Elton John that is where that came from, John Long,
John Baldry and Elton Dean, who played guitar in their
band Bluesology, had a big influence on the British blues scene.
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In nineteen sixty seven, he recorded let the Heartaches Begin
that went to number one in Britain, made the Billboard
Hot one hundred here. So he moved to the Big Town,
recorded around New York in the nineteen seventies, then made
his way out here to Los Angeles in the late seventies.
This cover of You Lost That Loving Feeling went to
number two on the Hot one hundred, and then he
got the itch to move to Canada in the early eighties.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Wow, you know it's too nice here, right.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
He's like, you know what, I'm not getting any attention
for Grammys or Amas, but I bet I could win
some Junos. Yeah, probably right. He got involved in acting,
landed a bunch of roles in Canadian TV and for
a minute was part of the kids in the hall.
(36:15):
He remained active in music, recorded albums, blues albums all
the Way and performing until his death in two thousand
and five. He is considered the father of British blues
and kind of one of the most famous mentors to
all of those famous artists and had an influence that,
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of course was far beyond his own original songs.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Well, Matt, we'll double up on the blues from across
the pond today?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
How about that? Who doubling up on the azoul Scottish news?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Hi, yo, Eva, it's Coltian news. Yeah, the wind news.
It is Scoltish.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
What's your wished? Hi?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Do you haven't understand the word I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
God yourself?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
II?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
You own with the Scoltish news.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I'm sure influenced by long John.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Maggie Bell is eighty one years old today from Maryhill, Glasgow.
We love nothing, nothing more than Scottish blues and rock.
That's true story and long John doesn't qualify. It's just
a brit growing up in the sixties as a teen
and a musical family. Markets Margaret sang for her teenage
(37:35):
from her teenage years.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Leaving school.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
To become a window dresser by day and a singer
by night. She met Leslie Harvey and he helped put
her in several band with himself and his brother Alex.
A bunch of crazy bands, but the popular one that
(38:02):
people remember is Stone the Crows.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh, Stone the Crows, not counting Crows.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Those crows have a long memory.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
This is way Stole the Crows, very Scottish name. They
did six albums together and then sadly, Leslie Harvey, her husband,
the guy she met that put her in all the bands,
was electrocuted and died live on stage.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Oh, son of a bitch, that's Dan. You know, we
haven't seen it. Gotta be careful up there with all
that electricity right right.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
You know, I thought I was going to be electrocuted
calling the game in Fresno State with all kinds of
water dripping in from the rain on all our equipment,
A bunch of solo stuff, and various other blues projects.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Midnight Flier.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
She is on Every Picture tells a Story nineteen seventy
one with the aforementioned Rod Stewart. Basically we're talking about
the Scottish Janis Joplin and speaking of crossing paths. This
is her live with Jimmy Page. She is most often
compared to Janis Joplin. Didn't hear that in the I
(39:17):
should hope so, Matt I can hear that. In the
nineties she acted in various UK shows on television and
then lived in the Netherlands for about twenty years. Came
back to the UK joined the British Blues Quintet, who
became a big draw in the European Blue Circuit. Just
(39:39):
like long Job, you know, Matthew long John. The European
Blue Circuit is very muscular, very certainly. She was married
to the guy that was electrocuted. He was electrocuted in Swansea,
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right in front of a live audience.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Hey you grab that, Mica.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
She has not been linked with anybody else. Maggie Bell
and we'll be.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Back at little Little Amy Lee from Evanescen Center.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
You know, can we can? We can? We not sorry,
It's all right, matt.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
You know, you know this reminds me of time for
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Clippers basketball tonight. They are hosting the Hornets at the
End to It Dome. Won two over the weekend and
are making their way toward five hundred. At one point
they were six and twenty one. Were the Clippers now
(01:35):
just eight games under five wind streak.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You know things were going to turn around.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
We could feel it knocked off the Brooklyn Nets and
the Detroit Pistons over the weekend. So Hornets tonight, Washington
on Wednesday. Will have a three to seven show tomorrow,
but Adam Awsen will be along at six thirty tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And we have a show a week from Thursday at
the BJS and IRV in California starting at three o'clock.
It is our last BJ show of the football season.
So I'm gonna circle it on both our calendars, on
our Soritos calendar and our Buford de Justice. Well, yeah,
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so we will have both calendars and hopefully maybe we'll
get another proclamation from the city at Irvine, although I
don't think that is in the works, but we.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Might get the mayor.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
All right, it is time for well, I guess we'll
call these minor sports stories minor.
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Sports stories for Great Sports Talk Register registered.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yesooo, if anyone is interested and seeing the twenty twenty
eight Summer Olympic Games that are rapidly approaching, They're gonna
be here before you know it. We have been discussing
their approach for years. The Hobo towers of that loom
(03:01):
in South Park downtown by Crypto and La Live, that
maps covered in mirrors, mirrors might cause a lot of
trouble with the waymos. I mean a lot of trouble
with the waymos.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Hey. Let's see, man, it's running up the flagpole.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's a bunch of waymos staring themselves down like lizards
in the mirror. Skid Row is a problem, a breathing
place of death that has only grown in the last decades.
Gigantic problem downtown. That's where they'd burn the weymos. And
we talked about how USC is going to be kicked
out of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, their home in
(03:41):
twenty twenty eight due to the Olympics and Paralympics track
and Field. I said, special Olympics. It's not the same Paralympics, right,
and the Olympics track and field will be at USC.
So all football in southern California in twenty twenty eight.
Eight will be indoors at so far for Shane USC,
(04:11):
the Rams, the Chargers, and the punk ass Bruins for
Shane Anyway, A lot of people don't know this map.
But if you want to attend the SWO Olympics, if
you want the right to buy tickets in your own
town in twenty twenty eight, to take your children to
(04:34):
see history Los Angeles Olympics, third time they've been here,
you need to register first right in the registration period.
I know you know this map.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Well, my daughter just asked me, are we registered for
Olympic tickets as there cannot.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Be ya because the registration period opens Wednesday, January fourteenth, So.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
In two days I've got a register.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You have to register. You have to create a profile
on the LA twenty eight website so that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Can get hacked and all my personal information will be
in the hands of the dark wet.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well that goes without saying. Right, next thing, you know,
there's a picture of you with a ballgag on. It's
all over the country.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I could say that wasn't real, I promise.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And you enter a draw, yeah, like Oscar de la
Hoya my friend and you enter a drawing. There is
no purchase or payment to register, but all it does
is enter you in a drawing. Only if you win
the drawing, and who knows how that works. Only then
(05:43):
do you have the privilege to buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
So if you.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Lose the drawing, I don't know what you do, right,
I don't know what happens if you don't. If they
say sorry, you're not you don't qualify to buy tickets.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Secondary market is your destiny.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And you get tickets through the secondary market when you're
unregistered and they don't have your facial profile and you
show up and they think you're supposed to look like
Barry Rudin and you don't.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's a fair point, right, and that they're gonna do
it into it Dome style.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Not everybody can be like Matt Smith and figure out
how to get a cheap peacock subscription by coaxing that
bird out of its cave.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Not everybody.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
For you, La times you're gonna freaking succumb to me.
I'm not gonna succumb to you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So I don't know. I don't know what happens.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Wait a second.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's one thing to have a Pearl Jam concert, and
you can't change the tickets with somebody, or sell them
to somebody else, or change the name on them.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
It's the Olympics. The world is coming here.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
If you win the drawing, you won't be able to
buy tickets until next year. So the tickets won't even
be purchasable until a year from now. But you've got
to put yourself on the drawing right on Wednesday. Yourself available.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You got to show them that you're available.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Matt, what tickets are you going for? You said your
daughter was asking about it? Is there certain sport?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I think they just want to go, you know, if
I have to guess, they probably want to go to gymnastics,
which obviously is to good luck.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, you know that that drawing is crazy. That's like
going to see Amesis in Argentina.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It's like, Babe, I know you wanted to go see gymnastics.
Guess what we got ladies? Shot puts?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's enjoy Do you like European handball?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Rowing through the canals?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, the rowing. I believe I'll be able to go
row because yeah, I look at him mad. Yeah, that
live right there at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, and
I would assume they're going to have a big they're
going to put up.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
A big blockers. They're going to put up big, big blockers.
They probably will, right, yeah, they will. Dude, you're gonna
have to pay. It's going to be like Monoco.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
But you know, you go to see rowing and it's
like fifteen hundred meters and it's like, yeah, there they are,
and there they get triple schools.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It sounds like a little much for me. I'm not
a big fan of a drawing, and I don't think
you get any extra credit in the drawing if you're
an og Los Angeles essay like many of our listeners are.
Because there's a lot of people, there's a lot of
people that.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are to lose a drawing for the right to hand
them thousands of dollars. Oh man, I lost. What'd you lose?
So I lost the opportunity to pay thousands and thousands
of dollars to go see gymnastics at the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
It's like waiting in line to go to the Louis
vutand it's like, wait a minute, I gotta wait in
line to give you thousands of dollars, right?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I did that during the holidays. Yeah, I waited fifty
five minutes. It's terrible to get into wear Loouis Vauton.
You did not the one in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Is that where you know at the Amortica bro.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh Medicana there was a line.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
It was the best melly line in the valley.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You waited in line yep to get into the Louis
Vauton store yep and handed them thousands of dollars for gifts.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Copy that.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I remember.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I was with my wife who needed to uh do
an exchange at the Airmez and we had to wait
like thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
On Rodale Drive.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It's pronounced termis dude. Dude.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
If you're gonna say it, say it right.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
But you idiot.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There's a reason I don't get it on the road
with all the kolde idiot.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
You'd be happy to know.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Matt.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
The wife was like, you know, I don't really think
I need this for a Christmas game.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
So I returned it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Good.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
At least you now know moving forward to never do
that again.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, it's a little weird returning it too. They look
at you like you're returning to Louis Vauton, Like, what's your.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Problem, dude.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yes, I am. It's cheap Chinese crap.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Trunk wasn't built by Louis Vaton two hundred years ago himself.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It was not all right. Next story for everybody. Minor
sports stories were great sports talk.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Presley drama, Wesley drama, No wrestling drama, Oh wrestling drama,
Notre Dame drama. Not about Lincoln Riley and USC but
the enormously popular head coach of the Irish Marcus Freeman
Matt There was an alleged in at his son's high
school wrestling match.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Freeman's son, Vinnie Freeman, a.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Wrestler at Penn High in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Headed Come On headed at Cornell.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
This event was the Al Smith Invitational, and apparently Marcus
Freeman got into it with a coach of another team
New Prairie, Indiana named Chris Flieger. Fleieger, I think a
champion wrestler in his own right, but only like five
(10:37):
feet tall like John Gruden's son Deuce, but a champion
wrestler at Purdue. Fleeger filed a police report this past
weekend accusing Freeman a battery.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Chargers are not.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Expected to be filed, but they still could be According
to the South Bend Trib, Vinnie Freeman lost his match.
He's being escorted out with his father and his mother
and his Penn High wrestling coach enter Coach Flieger from
New Prairie, and Chris Flieger started popping off and there
(11:16):
was a fight of a yelling matcher, some.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Kind of coach and dad. This is famous Marcus Freeman d.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Versus Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman and father of
Vinnie Freeman, who just got done wrestling at the Al
Smith Invitation. This is according to the South Bend Tribune.
I don't think this is what Al Smith envisioned when
he started the Big Wrestling Invitational, which is almost fifty
years old. Al Smith the longtime Mishikawa High School wrestling coach.
(11:49):
And that's where the event is home of the Cavemen.
Let's go Cavemen. Or just sent me a text. I'm
at the why Not Burger parking lot eating alone also
right now.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Matt Pete Bavaqua Notre Dame's ad the same guy who
was deeply hurt by the ACC's Twitter feed leading up
to the college football playoff seedings. I thought we were
partners He said Freeman didn't make physical contact with anybody, okay,
but Chris Flieger says he did. Miskawa Police, Mishawaka, Mischikawa, Mishawaka.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I think it's Mishawaka, all right, it would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
What I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That's where the Al Smith Invitational is. They are still investigating.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Did they claim like uh as we listened to lunatic
Fringe from Vision Quest like mid eighties villain like full
on shoved to the chest like over some chairs and
you go tumbling into a crowd.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I don't know. No one really is very sure what
exact exactly happened.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
There is a video, but no one it's not leaked
out yet.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Oh is that like the Diddy video that we thought
would eventually get me like to see it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Penn High.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Is the home of the Kingsman and Vinnie Freeman. That's
where he goes to school, Marcus's son. That's in Milwaukee,
Indiana near South Bend.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Chris Flieger at New Prairie High that's in New Carlisle, Indiana.
And they're the Cougars. Bavakua Notre Dame ad hated by
Tomula sorta still said that Chris Flieger was accosting Vinnie
Freeman the son during the match.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Now, I guys, so it wasn't his coach, it was
the opposing.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The opposing coach his coach. Where I got you? Now,
I told you that's where it gets weird. I know
you you're a little short on, but you know I
hope that you you know, I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Come on, sorry, I missed it. I missed it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Take that back to Mishikawaka. I don't expect anything to
come from any of this, but I do love this
story here. Marcus's wife Johanna was also there in Mishawaka,
yelling at Fleeger. Oh, I mean, just a crazy wrestling story.
People get hot in the world of wrestling, There's no
(14:29):
doubt about it. Remember that college wrestler guy that lost
a championship and his mom ripped off her own glasses
and broke him in the crowd. He was all angry
and furious. Yea, it's a furious sport of furious people.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Just you and one other man. You're out there naked
to the world.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Almost yes, I like to say that as well.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So you're califlower ears.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
For and you're single it for the Olympics. You got
a register on Wednesday and if you don't make it,
then I guess you're screwed. And maybe we'll get some
more details on that and wrestling high school Notre Dame
coach drama with Marcus Freeman and the next segment, Matt
is going to have to do it. He's gonna have
to approach the dash sun up a bitch, Yeah, and
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seventy LA Sports, and it is time for the moment
you've been waiting for the story of the day of it.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, we'll start with the winners, because I want winners.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Come on. Dedicated Charger loss.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Dedicated to the loss is dedicated to the Chargers' loss.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Rams had their backs against the wall. I thought it
was unrappabs it was. They were going to be the
biggest disappointment of the weekend at ten and a half
point favorite, losing not just not covering, but losing to
the eight and nine Carolina Panthers. A Las Seattle over
New Orleans and the wild card round and we'd have
drastic change in the playoff format. But Matthew Stafford, playing
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the role of potential MVP football hero, saved them from disaster.
The game winning drive was a thing of precision of beauty.
Should they go on a Super Bowl winning run, it
will be a part of his resume for his Hall
of Fame candidacy. Matthew Stafford did something stupid earlier in
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the game. He threw a terrible interception by being cute.
It was one of those oh wait till NFL films
gets a load of mind no look pass on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh, he threw a no look pass and got burned.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, he threw a no look pass and because he
wasn't looking, he didn't see Mike Jackson squad on the
route underneath that intercepted the pass and led to a
touchdown that gave the Panthers a four point lead. But
man if I would have completed that pass, you guys
would be playing that thing over and over again on
NFL films. Would have been cool. They would trade tds
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on that sequence. And then it was time to play
face of the franchise. Stud quarterback two thirty nine left
in the game, he orchestrated a seven play, seventy one
yard touchdown drive, no runs, all passes, Stud quarterback six
of seven never even got the third down. He was
so precise a touchdown when he drive that led to
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his three hundred yard three touchdown road playoff win evening
to start the postseason. No matter the opponent is worth
boasting about. The Rams likely will, they should and with
the Bears on tap, should make for a really really
good Divisional round game. The one issue the Rams are
facing pretty suspect secondary old cokehead Jalen Kocher of the
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Panthers got him for one thirty four and a td
servites t mac got him for eighty one on five grabs.
Some passes left out there by Bryce Young that I
don't suspect Caleb Williams we'll leave out there. Remember when
the Bears were in the midst of a sports Talk
Hot talk debate over whether or not they should take
Caleb with their number one pick or trade the pick
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for a monster haul so they could provide justin fields
with a supporting cast and allow him to improve. That
would have been the most Bears thing ever, But instead,
the Trojan Heisman Trophy winner certainly has some awards, but
in the fourth quarter, he is as good as there
is in the entire league. Repeatedly, Caleb Williams Now in
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his two year career.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Did listen to the Colin Cowhart Show straight out of Chicago.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Caleb Williams now has nine fourth quarter come from behind
wins in his career in two years. To put that
in perspective, Justin Herbert has the second most come from
behind fourth quarter wins since he came into the league
in twenty twenty, six years ago, with nineteen. Only Patrick
Mahomes has more since twenty twenty, with twenty in six seasons.
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Caleb Williams Now has nine and two years, including a
playoff win in the longest maybe it's no longer the
most storied, but the longest rivalry in NFL history, and
another wild stat for the Rams opponent this coming Sunday.
In three games the Bears and Packers had played this season,
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including Saturday Night's instant playoff Classic, the Packers have had
the ball on offense with the lead for one hundred
and six plays, the Bears zero, and yet they won
two of those three games, including the game that would
set up a matchup with the Rams, who look to
be the better team. But we'll travel to Chicago. It
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will be outdoors. It is January, and as it stands
right now, Sunday's forecast is calling for the Divisional Round
to have temperatures between nine and nineteen degrees with windshill
in the single digits. Oh no, and potential snow. I
believe some call that football weather. It opened at Rams
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minus four and a half.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Technically anything football weather unless there's light, play football.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
In it, even when you're covered in SOFI. Technically out
there stadium. It opened at Rams minus four and a half.
It has since showed some action on the bear side
and has moved to rams minus.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Three and a half.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
As for the not winners, not people that want to win, well,
they want to win, they just didn't. It's a bummer
the Chargers loss. I of course, am invested, financially, motivated,
emotionally invested, biased, all those things. And while this will
sound incredibly cheesy and lame, it is but the truth.
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The first thing I thought of while witnessing what I witness,
what I saw with my own eyes at Gillette Stadium
less than twenty four hours ago, is this year felt
different in the stands with the fans really started to
show up, to raise their hands to hit the road.
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It has been growing. It's been getting better incrementally year
after years since Justin Herbert arrived and they found their
superstar quarterback with the arrival of Jim Harbaugh. It grew
quite a bit last year, but this year, coming off
in eleven win season, winning those first three games, sweeping
the Raiders in each of his seasons, sweeping the Chiefs,
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this year, we have seen on average thousands, like a
few thousand Bolts fans at every road game. There were
thousands of them there at Gillette yesterday, home game in
Houston at Houston. The home game against Houston, I should
say was the best crowd I'd ever seen for a
Charger game at SOFI. Had the fire marshals say that
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they work every game there and it was the best
crowd they'd seen for any football game, Rams or Chargers.
It's growing, it's happening. The football fans here seemed to
like this product. They wanted to work and they keep
getting let down. They lost that Texans game that had
that great crowd at so FAR and in this wild
(22:54):
card game. Yeah, they're the seventh seed, but the Patriots
were there for the taken. You saw it with what
the Bolts did on defense. The Patriots came in averaging
twenty nine per game, and the Chargers defense forced Drake
May into his worst afternoon or worst evening of football
in any game this season, his lowest halftime passer rating,
his second lowest rating in game this season, an interception
(23:17):
to fumbles, and the offense did absolutely nothing. With that
dominant performance from the defensive side of the ball, they
were a complete and total no show. Popper talked about
it when he joined us last hour. There are two sides.
Pop popped off always does two sides of the justin
(23:40):
Herbert coin, and as he put it, I agree, it's
fine that you can acknowledge both. He performed heroically in
the regular season, considering the challenges he faced with both
of his tackles out to protect him in the pocket,
an inside trio that included a solid and slightly above
average Zion Johnson and a below average to completely poor
(24:03):
Bradley Boseman and mackay back. Then altogether it produced the
worst offensive line group in the league all season when
Joe Walt wasn't out there, when all it was he
is so good that just that one player made this
unit a top fifteen unit in the league when he
wasn't dead last. And that certainly was part of what
haunted them yesterday, not because they were equally as bad,
(24:24):
but because Herbert seemingly had amassed so much actual scar
tissue and mental scar tissue from the pressure hundred of them.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
That I wish you saw.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Go ahead, give me the name. No, I'm not just
to know it all over one hundred and twenty quarterback hits,
over fifty sacks, a broken hand, a wrecked finger. Even
when the pocket was holding up, Herbert looked like he
was ready to run at the first opportunity or escape
(24:58):
to throw on the run. And it was unlike anything
we'd seen from him all season. He was incredibly inaccurate.
He missed wide open receivers at times. To put it simply,
he just didn't play well, and part of that is
on him. You know, the misthrows on the sideline won
each to Ladd and one to q running for five
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yards when lad flashed wide open on what had been
a touchdown toss because he was kind of under pressure
and wanted to escape the pocket. But things were just
not used to seeing and did not see over the
seventeen games of the regular season. He picked the worst
time to play his worst game of the season. Now,
it's not fair to put it on him, obviously, there's
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an offensive line in front of him, there's pass catchers
that weren't getting great separation. Keenan Allen looked like he
was sleep walking through half of the game. There's a
lot of incoming right now, not the captain, unfortunately, a
lot of incoming for offensive coordinator Greg Roman. Kind of
hard to go with a guy who had to play
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with seven different offensive tackles this season. But again, like Herbert,
It's fair to ask, why is a guy who had
Lamar Jackson and Justin Herbert, who was calling plays for
those two won an actual MVP another in the MVP
conversation of the playoffs, why are those two guys scoring twelve,
twenty three, twelve and three points in his last five
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playoff games that he would call plays for as an
offensive coordinator with all world talents at the most important
position in sports. The Ravens lost to the Titans in
twenty nineteen twenty eight to twelve when Lamar was an
MVP A Rabel John Harbaugh matchup was that one. The
next year they lost to the Bills seventeen to three.
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The following year they missed the playoffs. The year after
that they scored seventeen again, And of course with Justin Herbert,
we know full well about last year's twelve points against
the Texans disaster, and this year, I think, considering the circumstances,
probably the biggest bummer of a game they've played since
Herbert's been the quarterback, maybe since they moved here. The
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defense with Jesse Minner coordinating, was so good all season
and so good in that game against a really good offense,
second in points, second in yards, top five in everything.
Drake may had been the best quarterback in football and
nearly every metric, and jesse Minner and his defense confounded
him for the majority of that game, forced him into
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two almost three turnovers. This defense was good enough to
win a super Bowl the twenty seven to nothing game
in Jacksonville. That team was good, but that defense was
not anywhere near the level of this one. With that front,
and jesse Minner is the coordinator who most certainly is
going to be a head coach. With eight openings out
(27:58):
there in short order, I would imagine teams are going
to get him on the interview slate immediately.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Nobody better get Alex Crinch on the Phonies at UCF.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yes, maybe they can pass on Alex Crinch for the Chargers,
but they're gonna lose their best coach under Harbaugh, and
hopefully the guy they replace him with, I would assume
it'll be in house, perhaps Mike Elston the defensive line coach,
or Steve Klinkscale the secondary coach, both who have been
sensational in developing talent like Tuley Tuoy Polow two or
(28:30):
the corners starive still Cam Hart and that bunch, But
they are going to lose the best coach on their team.
And what I think, even with Justin Herbert on offense,
you can say has been the identity of this team
since Harbaugh arrived. An absolutely dominant defense that led the
league in points allowed last year, performed admirably against the
Texans through three quarters before they basically had just been
(28:53):
gassed because their offense couldn't do anything in that wild
card game, and it happened again in this one. The
majority of Drake May's yard came when the offense pitched
one three and out after another. I think they only
had three possessions where they had more than two first downs,
and it caught up to him. Why is it happening,
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don't know. With a team that fought so hard, that
performed so admirably on a four game win streak that
knocked off the Super Bowl champs, that swept the Chiefs,
could not go in to face a Patriots defense that
was ranked twenty sixth and expected points added and only
mustered only was able to muster three points sixty pressures
(29:38):
in total by the collection of their eleven defenders that
were on the field at any given time, and that
is not what that team looked like through their seventeen
games regular season. It's a disappointment. Coach Harbaugh acknowledged as
much yesterday. Justin Herbert acknowledged as much in their postgame
pressers yesterday. What type of changes are coming don't know,
(30:00):
but I would assume after back to back eleven win
seasons and one and done exits from the postseason, they're
likely will be some and unfortunately, one of them is
losing the best coach on their staff under Harbor. Jesse Minner,
Kay Ho, Blay and I'm super Stick.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It is terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's sad. Sadness comes around. You make fun of people
that are sad, and it comes back and into you.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
And then you're saying, and now I'm that guy, Now
you are that guy.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And now I'm living in a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
That's what it feels like. Oh now I'm the one.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well, we have blues themed dead and alive guy birthday
in the day. Lucky for everybody. We'll be right back
with more petros and money.
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Speaker 4 (31:22):
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Speaker 3 (31:24):
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Speaker 2 (31:42):
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Speaker 3 (31:45):
The quickts with this fun fact with engine engine number
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We are your home of Super Bowl Sunday, February sixth.
Sadly the Chargers will not be participating for sure, but
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that doesn't mean we still have that.
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We're not gonna have to book covered Hawaiian gardens. We
got a Mega ball covered, all right, Matt, you got
the dead guy today.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I do happy. Would have been eighty fifth to Long
John Baldry. Why Long John? Well? Yeah, tall drink of water.
He was six foot seven, kind of stood out on
stage when he was knocking out the blues. It was
kind of the first brit to bring the American blues
back to the island. He was born in Northampton, ship
(32:59):
Spot there a cop got into music when he was
a wee lud.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Dad was a bobby.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
His dad was a bubby, a constable. In his late
teens he was a well bop you one stop. I
said early, this is pretty cool. This guy's just kind
of all the paths that he crossed and doors that
he opened for people that became a hell of a
lot more famous than him. The early nineteen sixties coffee
(33:25):
house circuit Gary and Gimbal Coffee Lounge is where he started.
Then the Bluesville R and B club manor House Kluke's Cleek.
He landed a residency at.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Kluk's Creek It's my favorite Klukes.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Clek at eel Pie Island on the Thames at Twickenham,
another residency at the Station Hotel in Richmond, the famous
Station Hotel that would house the Rolling Stones first weekly residency.
His first commercial run was with Alex Corner's Blues and
Corporate Rated, a band that at times included, along with
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Long John Baldry, Mick Jagger, Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards,
Brian Jones. When the Rolling Stones made their debut at
the Marquee Club in July nineteen sixty two, Baldry is
the one who put the whole thing together. He was
very close with Paul McCartney and performed on the Beatles
(34:23):
when they would do their television specials around the Beatles
in the UK in the early sixties. In nineteen sixty three,
his Long John Baldry and the Uchi Couci Ben That's
a band that was The band featured Rod Stewart on vocals,
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and then when the Huchie Cucie Men became Bluesology, he
picked up one Reginald Dwight to play keyboards and Elton
Dean later of Soft Machine on guitar, and when Reginald
Dwight obviously decided to take his shot as a solo artist,
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he decided to adopt the first names of his two bandmates,
Elton John that is where that came from, John Long,
John Baldry and Elton Dean, who played guitar in their
band Bluesology, had a big influence on the British blues scene.
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In nineteen sixty seven, he recorded let the Heartaches Begin
that went to number one in Britain, made the Billboard
Hot one hundred here. So he moved to the Big Town,
recorded around New York in the nineteen seventies, then made
his way out here to Los Angeles in the late seventies.
This cover of You Lost That Loving Feeling went to
number two on the Hot one hundred, and then he
got the itch to move to Canada in the early eighties.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Wow, you know it's too nice here, right.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
He's like, you know what, I'm not getting any attention
for Grammys or Amas, but I bet I could win
some Junos. Yeah, probably right. He got involved in acting,
landed a bunch of roles in Canadian TV and for
a minute was part of the kids in the hall.
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He remained active in music, recorded albums, blues albums all
the Way and performing until his death in two thousand
and five. He is considered the father of British blues
and kind of one of the most famous mentors to
all of those famous artists and had an influence that,
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of course was far beyond his own original songs.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Well, Matt, we'll double up on the blues from across
the pond today?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
How about that? Who doubling up on the azoul Scottish news?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Hi, yo, Eva, it's Coltian news. Yeah, the wind news.
It is Scoltish.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
What's your wished? Hi?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Do you haven't understand the word I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
God yourself?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
II?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
You own with the Scoltish news.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I'm sure influenced by long John.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Maggie Bell is eighty one years old today from Maryhill, Glasgow.
We love nothing, nothing more than Scottish blues and rock.
That's true story and long John doesn't qualify. It's just
a brit growing up in the sixties as a teen
and a musical family. Markets Margaret sang for her teenage
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from her teenage years.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Leaving school.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
To become a window dresser by day and a singer
by night. She met Leslie Harvey and he helped put
her in several band with himself and his brother Alex.
A bunch of crazy bands, but the popular one that
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people remember is Stone the Crows.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh, Stone the Crows, not counting Crows.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Those crows have a long memory.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
This is way Stole the Crows, very Scottish name. They
did six albums together and then sadly, Leslie Harvey, her husband,
the guy she met that put her in all the bands,
was electrocuted and died live on stage.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Oh, son of a bitch, that's Dan. You know, we
haven't seen it. Gotta be careful up there with all
that electricity right right.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
You know, I thought I was going to be electrocuted
calling the game in Fresno State with all kinds of
water dripping in from the rain on all our equipment,
A bunch of solo stuff, and various other blues projects.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Midnight Flier.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
She is on Every Picture tells a Story nineteen seventy
one with the aforementioned Rod Stewart. Basically we're talking about
the Scottish Janis Joplin and speaking of crossing paths. This
is her live with Jimmy Page. She is most often
compared to Janis Joplin. Didn't hear that in the I
(39:17):
should hope so, Matt I can hear that. In the
nineties she acted in various UK shows on television and
then lived in the Netherlands for about twenty years. Came
back to the UK joined the British Blues Quintet, who
became a big draw in the European Blue Circuit. Just
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like long Job, you know, Matthew long John. The European
Blue Circuit is very muscular, very certainly. She was married
to the guy that was electrocuted. He was electrocuted in Swansea,
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right in front of a live audience.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Hey you grab that, Mica.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
She has not been linked with anybody else. Maggie Bell
and we'll be.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Back at little Little Amy Lee from Evanescen Center.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
You know, can we can? We can? We not sorry,
It's all right, matt.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
You know, you know this reminds me of time for
the Final Hour fun Fact and the Quick its Neck
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