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January 20, 2025 • 30 mins
Our NFL insider, Vinny Bonsignore, hops on to recap the divisional playoffs and talk about Ben Johnson becoming the new head coach of the Bears. Our discussion in hour 1 about NFL games being played indoors, turned into achitectual issues that were involved in building the Giants' baseball stadium and the 49ers stadium in Santa Clara.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
a five seventy LA Sports and we're running behind, so
let's get right to it. Our good friend Vinnie Bond,
signor our NFL insider, joins the program. Benny, how are
you today?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm doing good. How are you guys doing?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
We're doing well. Before we talk about the playoffs, let's
talk about the most recent development. It looks like the
Raiders are still looking for their coach. Ben Johnson, the
offensive guru of the Lions, took the beards job. Does
that surprise you.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
A little bit? There was a lot of momentum building
for Ben Johnson with the Raiders and how they were
prepared to make him basically a godfather offer money wise,
the opportunity to work with Tom Brady, the opportunity to
help pick the next general manager. But as I was
told this morning or just a little while ago, he
ultimately picked the situation that gives him the best opportunity

(00:53):
to win right now with a young quarterback like Caleb
Williams in place, rather than take up all that money
and every the Raiders were offering. So on that level,
it makes sense, I am a little bit surprised because
it felt toward the end of last week like like
it was headed toward Ben Johnson and the Raiders. But
he's picking Chicago, and it makes a lot of sense
from his perspective to work with Cayleb Williams.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, to me, it makes sense because he's familiar with
the division also, and you know, just look at that
division that got bounced. You know, all season long we
talked about them being the best division in football and
with Minnesota, Green Bay and Detroit all three made the playoffs,
but all got bounced and now it's the NFC East
that is dominated. But when you look at the roster

(01:38):
and the youth of that roster in Chicago, especially offensively,
they might have the best young talent offensively of any
team in the league right now. So I get why
he's doing that, and who knows, you know, what kind
of control they they are going to give him in Chicago.
So I get the Raiders thing offered him the world

(02:00):
and he can bring in his own GM, but the
Chicago roster is so much better bidding.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, I completely agree, And you know, I think you
guys understand know how I feel about Caleb Williams. So
to me that that makes a lot of sense. From
what I understand, He's gonna build a kind of an
all star supporting cast with him. So, you know, a
good day for Ben Johnson is certainly a great day
for the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
All right, Well Caleb is jumping up and down doing
cartwheels right now.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, yeah, a good question. Then, you know, I want
to talk about the Baltimore game against Buffalo and Mark
Andrews the tight end for the Ravens, Baltimore moving, They're
actually looking like they could take the lead, and he fumbles.
All right, they fight their way back somehow, they move
down the field, they score. All they need is a

(02:49):
two point conversion. That game would go into overtime, so
they're still in it. Who did they throw the ball
to Mark Andrews and he drops it? I can't remember
a guy having a worse day.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I had memories for the older guys here, which
I guess all three of us are. Jackie Smith from
the Dallas Cowboys dropping that pass against the against the
Feelers in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, But I'm gonna go back to this real quick.
I know everybody is so, you know for being really aggressive,
but I felt like, when the when when the Ravens
drew to within twenty one nineteen, just kicked the extra
point right there? It's the third quarter. Uh, twenty one
to twenty is not the worst place to be, especially
with the way the offense was playing. They missed that

(03:36):
two point conversion. Now it's twenty one nineteen, and guess
what point they needed to make up at the end
of the game. Had they just kicked the extra point
in the third quarter, you're looking at kicking extra point
to tie it in that in that situation that we saw.
So you know, it doesn't take anything away from the
bad day that Mark Andrews had, obviously the fumble and
the drop pass. But I don't get having to you know,

(04:00):
why they were so aggressive trying to trying to make
it too. I know you want to tie the game,
but there's still a whole game, a whole fourth quarter
left the play.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, I think I think at that time point, if
you look at that way the way that game was
shaping up, that Buffalo was controlling the ball to on
their side, they were having some seven play, seven minute,
eight minute drive in that game, and you're looking up
at how many more possessions are we going to get
and if they take it down and score again, then

(04:27):
we are really behind it. So I I I in
my mind, I was thinking, yeah, it's too early to
go for two, because usually the rule is you wait
for the fourth quarter to go for two, right and
and and so I get you, and I kind of
was feeling the same way. But I also understand that
what what I hate about this is that now it's

(04:49):
even though as Fred mentioned, Mark Andrews had a terrible day,
it's all going to come back to Lamar now. And
Lamar can't win a big game, a big playoff game,
and certainly he had a bad first half. There was
a bad interception, had the fumble, but he rallied them
back to put them in a position to go to overtime.
But at the end of the day, it's going to
come down to mar can't beat Patrick Mahomes and Lamar

(05:13):
can't beat Josh Allen in the playoffs. He can't get
Baltimore over the hump. And then now you know people
are talking about John Harball can't coach. It's just ridiculous
how little things come out, and then that becomes a
narrative that people want to grab onto.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I agree, and I guess you know, you know,
people will say, well, that's why the quarterbacks get paid
so much money. It's always going to ultimately land on
their shoulders. But to me, that was a team loss, uh,
you know, collectively by by by the Ravens number one,
you know, the fumble and the and the drop pass
by Mark Andrews. I thought the coaching a couple of

(05:48):
coaching decisions actually by John Harbaugh. But it just shows
you that football is the ultimate team game, and you
have to be checking off all your boxes from the
sideline to the field. Uh. And whether it's good calling
or bad play calling, at the at the end of
the day, you have to execute. And they just didn't
do that enough to win a game against a really
good team like the Buffalo Bills on the road, who.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Didn't make any mistakes. By the way, Buffalo did not
make a game.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
So that's another thing exactly, and if we want to,
I mean, that was to me, Rodney, that was the
theme of the weekend. In these playoff games, whether you're
talking about the Rams, whether you're talking about the Lions
or the Ravens, you cannot turn the ball over in
these games, especially on the road, because you're just putting yourself.
They're hard enough to win playing clean football, but when

(06:38):
you start being loose with the ball, like all three
of those teams were, you're just you're you're shooting yourself
in the foot. And we see that in the regular
season all the time. You don't have to be Vincembarti
sometimes to figure this all out. The cleanest team usually wins,
and that was that was definitely the case.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, it's possessions, right many. I mean, you're only going
to get so many possessions in the course of the game.
Grutin and I have played for I have used to
calculate that we're going to get eight to ten possessions. Man,
we got to make them all count. And when you
turn the ball over, that's basically eliminating a possession and
giving it to the other.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Team, especially when those teams then, you know, score points
off of those turnovers, which we saw a lot of
that this weekend as well. So you just and I
know it sounds like a cliche, but every time we
talk to a coach or a player, you know, what's
this game going to come down to? A It always
the first thing that anyone always says is win the

(07:30):
turnover battle. And I get it, it sounds like a cliche,
but there is total truth to that, and I think
we saw that in a big way this weekend in
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Award for second worst performance of the weekend has to
go to Jared Goffin.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
He yeah, you know, fumbling it what three interceptions? There
were four total won by a wide receiver. So that's
just an unfortunate game in the biggest game for Jared
goff and the Lions. And we talked about this last
week or leading up to that game. You know, I
think we all three of us felt good about the

(08:07):
Washington Commanders the way they were playing, and they play
in a great game. And Jayden Daniels is the truth,
There's no question about it. But it's hard to believe
that an offense that had over five hundred yards and
scored thirty one points is going to lose the game. Well,
why did they lose the game? Because they turned the
ball over what four or five times in that game
and they just didn't give themselves a chance to win it.

(08:29):
And then a lot of that does fall unfortunately on
Jared Goffs. You just cannot play that way with the ball.
You can't be that careless with the football and expect
to beat a great young quarterback like Jay and Daniels
and a team that was, you know, pretty much the
hottest team in the NFL going into that game.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Very hot. I wouldn't be surprised they go in to
Philly and win. Be honest with you, there are you
talking about you again? Not turning the ball over a poise,
young young quarterback and and a young, youngish team with
some sprinkled veterans in there. But a young team that
are playing with you know, and it's another cliche, playing
with house money. But they got nothing to lose. They

(09:12):
had nothing to lose going into Tampa. When they win,
they had nothing to lose. Going to Detroit. Everybody picked Detroit,
and then Detroit got beat at their own game because
usually teams played Detroit go, oh, we're gonna have to
score because we're gonna get in a shootout with Detroit
because we nobody can stop Detroit. Well, Detroit found themselves
in a shootout with Washington because nobody's been able to

(09:34):
stop them in the last half of the season. They
are and they are the hottest team in the league,
and it's about as much about being hot, or probably
more about being hot at this time of year than
being good.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, and they won a bunch of close games to Rodney.
You know, in the fourth quarter, that's where Jaydon Daniels
seems to be at his best. And it's funny because
we mentioned that they're playing with house money, and you know,
you would you would you would take that and say, well,
and Jaden's playing like a quarterback that's playing with house money.
But that's just how he's wired. I mean, he is,
yeah about last week, as cool and collected as you

(10:12):
can possibly be. It's almost inexplicable for a quarterback that
young and that in experience at the NFL level, But
he looks like he's been there for fifty years and
plays like and just plays with a calmnesst that that
I haven't seen in a young quarterback Rodney.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
No, Yeah, in a long time. I don't know if
other I mean, I go back to the way Joe
Montana used to. He used to feel why they called
him Joe Cool back in the day because nothing fazed him.
And then he saw him on the sideline. He was
the same way as he was in a huddle. Jaden's
the same way you get shots of him on the sideline.
He's on the bench, just say everything's good. I'm just

(10:48):
waiting my turn. It's it's pretty phenomenal as a rookie
to be able to do this in the biggest stage,
at the biggest time of the year.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I completely agree. And uh, and I'm with you. I
don't I'm not going to be surprised if if they
win that game in Philadelphia. Heck, I feel like the
Rams should have won that game yesterday. But again, turnovers,
they just had too many of them, and it felt
like they were in control of that game and could
have won it at the end as well. But but
you just cannot turn the ball over on the road
like that.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
And even with that, they still had a chance to
win there on the fifteen yard line going in Vinnie
with the chance to go ahead and win that game
and and have a home NFC Championship game. So they
were still in it even with the turnovers, which is
to me, I'd be worried if I'm I'm Philadelphia because

(11:40):
take take away Saquan's two long runs. Really, I mean
what the Rams defense actually played pretty well other than
those two plays. And if the if the Eagles are
gonna have to get into a shootout or have to
score points, I don't know if they can score with Washington.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, I agree. And that game by Saquon it kind
of reminded me of your old teammate Barry Sanders. There
were plenty of times where Barry Sanders got bottled up,
got controlled, But then two times or three times he's
breaking off the sixty year seven yard touchdowns. You break
your back and that exactly absolutely and I felt like
that that's you know, the Rams did are pretty darn good.

(12:20):
It's it's almost crazy to say because he had so
many yards uh and had such an impact of the game.
But but throughout the game they did a pretty decent
job on Saquon. It was just a couple of you know,
heavyweight throws that he threw at them, you know, for
those for those long touchdown runs. But this, for me,
this is the second straight week that Jalen Hurts and
the Eagles collectively didn't play a great game but were

(12:43):
able to to survive. If if Jaden Daniels and and
and Washington can play as clean a game as they did,
or have been playing in the last two weeks. I
really do believe that they're gonna that they're gonna go
into Philadelphia and win. But if they blink a little
bit and it and they start turning the ball over,
it becomes just a different ballgame.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Any final question, So, looking at the Rams now, Cooper
Cup could be a cap casualty. Matthew Stafford could retire.
I don't think Matthew Stafford's retiring, But what do you
think about Cooper Cup.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, you know, they've they've got to. It happens to
the best of them, basically, and you can't hold on
to all of them for you know, as long as
you sometimes necessarily want to, so that you know, unless
he's willing to maybe you know, redo his contract and
play for a little bit less because we saw it too,
guys over the last what month or so of the

(13:37):
season between the injuries. But then also you know, his
role sorted diminishing a little bit down the stretch of
that season or or this season, so you start wondering
if maybe not just the contract, but he's kind of
playing out of their plans a little bit. In the Rams,
you know, do a pretty darn good job of being

(13:57):
of knowing when to cut ties with somebody and move
in a different direction, and they rarely step back even
when they make those kind of hard decisions. It's like,
I know, is Aaron Donald's decision, but they didn't really
blink from from that. And there's been some other examples
of good, really good players that they've moved on from
and didn't skip a beat. So I'm sure there's going

(14:18):
to be some long conversations with Cooper Cup and the
Rams about trying to figure out a way for him
to stay on the team. And I think the bigger,
even bigger question is what Matthew Stafford, you know, decides
to do, because Rodney, you know this, when you get
to that certain point of your career where you're like,
do I really want to go to training camp? Do
I really want to give up as much time that
I have to give up in OTA's I mean, I

(14:40):
think the Sundays are fine, that's he probably still lives
for that, But it's all the other time that you
got to put into this to be a great player.
And I do wonder if he's kind of getting to
that point where is it really is that part of
it really worth it?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Ye? Hard part is going to be for him. The
hard part is going to be that they the way
they ended it, right, does he want to go out
that way? And he actually is still playing at an
extreme high level. I would argue that, you know, I mean,
he is still top five quarterback in the league and

(15:14):
nobody wants to give him that credit because there's all
a bunch of the young guns and all that kind
of stuff. But the throws he made, the things that
he's done latter part of the season has been incredible,
and I still think he's got a lot left in
the tank. I would be shocked if Matthew Stafford stays
that they either cut release get rid of Cooper Cup.

(15:38):
They got to find a way to keep him, because
if Matthew Stafford is there, I think Cooper Cup is
still going to be there too. I don't see him
leaving while Matthew Stafford is still playing for the Rams.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, and maybe that becomes something that Matthew Stafford a
card that he could play a little bit like, look,
I'll stay, but you got to keep Cooper Cup as well,
and maybe that helps satisfy both players, you know, kind
of needs for next year. Because I'm with you. I
don't know that he wants to break in another young
wide receiver when he feels like, hey, you know, Cooper
Cup and I have chemistry. This thing is working. I'm

(16:10):
gonna come back. Why are we gonna mess with with
something that was working the way it was?

Speaker 3 (16:16):
All right?

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, have any thanks for the insight, love to chat
and we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
All right, guys, have a great day.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
All right, big happenings on Friday. We got to talk
about that when we come back. And we've also got
to start to get into the Clippers and Lakers.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
All right, let's go, let's keep it moving. Roddy Pte
Fred Rogan on a Monday, feel a good Monday. Freddy,
you still want to change the NFL?

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm sorry you disagree with me?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Freddy?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Come on, and I understand that everybody should play for
home field advantage and battle in the elements. I got
it makes sense for it.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Let's put part. That's why, see, Freddy, you don't. That's
what makes the NFL king in a lot of ways
and every way. I should say no, not bias because
I played in the NFL, but baseball could take notes
basketball certainly needs to take notes. But that's why NFL
is king and makes more money than any other sport combined,
is because they do this kind of thing. They build

(17:16):
up the elements in Philadelphia and Buffalo and the frozen tundra.
I mean, come on, Freddie, you can't get rid of that.
That is what made the NFL great and what continues
to make it great is that snow game that the Rams,
a West Coast team got to come back to Philly
and play in the snow. Oh my god, can they survive?

(17:36):
And he almost won and they actually should have won.
Come on, fred, you don't want to take that away?

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah I would, I would take it away. No, no, no, no,
everybody in football plays in a dome stadium. That's my
new plan, okay, And I think it makes sense quite honestly.
And you know what, the people in the East that
love the elements, Rodney and love to be outside. You
played in La, you played on the floor.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Tampa and Jacksonville should play in a dome stadium. He's
saying to that's right, everybody, everybody, everybody should play the
dorm weather teams that are just South Carolina with a
beautiful stadium. Tampa with a beautiful all should be domed.
You should have a top on it, like so far,
worst case Santa Claire, Santa Clair should have a dome
on top of it.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Santa Clair is awful and you know it. They built
that place the wrong way.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Terrible they did. They did. How do you build a.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Stadium the wrong way? How do you build it facing
the wrong way? With all the research and everything that
goes into it and the amount of money you're spending,
how do you build it like that?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
It's unbearable during the first half of the season with
the sun facing is bad. It is terrible. How did
that happen?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
What? What moron did that? Because that's not that's not
an easy fix. No, no, you can't fix it.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Never got something up with those Norwa architects. Whether where
the Giants play. You realize why they don't have bullpens.
They didn't account for it.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
They just forgot.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh yeah, they.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Literally forgot that. They didn't open like in two thousand
and one or something.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
It was, yes, yes, The only thing they got going
for that stadium is that, Yeah, you can hit it
in the water. That's the coolest right about the stadium?
How do you get.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
I don't forget to account for a bullpen when you're
building a baseball stadium.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
How does that happen? Well, you know what else they
did not account to build, Like the Dugout Seed Club.
They didn't account for that either when.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
They built that ballpark, didn't they put the bullpen like
on the side like they did in the old days.
But that was a hazard because guys were trying to
field foul balls and he would roll an ankle on
the mounds over there on the side.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
I think that.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I think that's what the case was a protector out there.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, what protectors out there doing it?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, once they figured it out, they were like, well,
we got to put the bullpen somewhere. So they had
to have a makeshift situation and put it there because
they didn't account for it in the architecture of the
stadium when they built it and drew it up.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
And that stadium is not fifty years old either.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean, you know.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Reason that you want to protect your investments and not
have them go out there and roll an ankle. Therefore,
build a bullpen in the back, which.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Which by the way, was a great location that they
picked for that for that stadium. And it revitalized that
whole area. It really did. It was that was a
skid roll. We know skid row in LA. That's exactly
what that area was in San Francisco. And they revitalized
the whole thing all and there's restaurants down if you
go to a Giants game, there's restaurants and hotels and

(20:30):
everything down there is really cool you walk around. But
the stadium itself is terrible. It's terrible the way they
built it. Yea, yea.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Still not as agreeious as the forty nine ers building
a stadium where basically half the stadium is baking in
the sun for the entire first time of the year.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
No, Kevin, wait a minute, all right, we're gonna play.
We're gonna put this baseball stadium together. We're gonna build it. Okay,
so let's get it all designed. Great. Hey, you know
what it looks like. It's gonna be pretty cool. Yeah,
it is, and we're gonna build it. Oh my god,
we forgot the bullpens. How can you forget the bullpens
if you're designing a baseball stadium. No one looked at

(21:08):
those plans and went where the bullpens? Yeah, nobody no
what looked at that and went, I think we forgot
the bullpens. How can you do that?

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Does you know how many committees and subcommittees and subcommittees
of subcommittees that are put together for stuff like this,
and for something like.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
That, approvals have to go through. Yeah, before it is
actually start you start building on it. And even even
in the beginning and halfway through, quarter through, ten percent through,
there's always another meeting about are we doing this right,
is this up to code, or is this anything along
the way?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, and it's the football stadium, all right, we're gonna
design this thing. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great,
and we're gonna start building it. No one stood there
and went, wait a minute. If the stadium faces this way,
then thirty five forty thousand people are gonna be blinded
by the sun for the first half. No one stood

(22:07):
there and looked up at three o'clock in the afternoon
and said, I think the sun's coming from that way, Joe, Yeah,
there's the sun. Or you know what, We're gonna do
it for two weeks at the same time, we're gonna
stand in this spot and look up, Abby, damn the
sun's always there at the exact same place, at the

(22:28):
exact same time for two weeks. That must indicate the
sun is going to be there. So here's the plan.
Let's build it like this so the people are blinded
by the sun. That's the right call to make. Who's in?

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Who makes They thought they thought it was a tennis stadium,
so they got to build it north south, right, So
we're not gonna We're not gonna. You gotta build it
north south like when people build their houses. You gotta
have a north south tennis facility. So the sun is
not in the you know, the player's faces. So that's
what they did. So we're going to put it in
the fans face. We're going to put it in the

(23:04):
whole section of the stadium. We're going to put it
in their faces instead.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
And you know what would have fixed that, Rodney putting
a top on it. Then there wouldn't be an issue,
now would There wouldn't be a problem then if they
had just spent the money, and you know why they
didn't because they are c ch eap, cheap.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
That's we could have the sun coming up over the
corner of the stadium. You know what I mean? Over
like the ten yard line or it doesn't matter. Then
have to be like directly over and hitting facing the
whole side of the field. I thought that was bad,
but I've never heard the no bullpen story. That's now

(23:49):
the all time winner. That's like building a baseball stadium.
You know what, we didn't account for. What where are
we going to put home plate? We just didn't think
of that.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Where's that going to go? You build a stadium, design
it and there's no bullpens. And let me tell you
this because I've been to a game up there and
I actually like the stadium. The fadium is beautiful, beautiful.
But you know what Dodgers statum they have the dugout Club. No,
those seats are a little pricey. No, that's that's not fair.

(24:19):
Those seats are very pricey. Yeah, but I mean it
comes with the food and the drink and it's you know,
save your pennies, mortgage your house and go to the
Dugout Club once because you'll really like it. And the
Yankees copy that, well, don't eat. Don't get me started
on the Yankees. The Yankees is the all time. If

(24:41):
you go there, you are helping the Dodgers inclusive, five
star restaurant on the planet. That Yankee Stadium club dug
out Club is great. So I go to San Francisco
and I think, you know what, I'm gonna check out
the Giants dugout Club, and I'm gonna sit in no
seats that you see on TV. Yeah, they're low. I'm

(25:02):
gonna sit in.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
No seats right behind the plate and they're just like
all the way around to almost.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
So you can look up. And so we go there
and we walk in. I go, okay, well here we are,
let's go. There's no dugout club. The dugout Club is
a room the size of a closet with a cooler
with water in it and some potato chips. There's no meal.
There's no meal, but what they have are concession stands

(25:31):
that you can walk around and get food from. It
was the cheapest. Just it's I can't believe they did that.
It was so bad, awful, awful. It was like hot
dogs that you get at you know, a MPM that
have been on a grill for too long. It's rolling
around little yeah, one of those. That's kind of what

(25:53):
it was like, really bad. You know, I think we've
learned that those people up there don't know what they're doing.
They can't build a baseball stadium, they can't build a
football stadium, and they got bad food.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Hey, the Chase Arena is supposed to be nice.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's different, that's different. Yeah, that is nice.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Joe is in charge.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, yeah, Peter Goober is involved in that.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know, when you have guys like that involved, it's
gonna be okay.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
A little bit different, a little bit different.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, then that.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
All right.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
We still will get to Lakers and Clippers. David Vassa
is going to join us top of the two o'clock hour,
where we will get into the Suzaki signing, Tanner Scott
and what's next for the Dodgers except world domination.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
It is It's Monday, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, Fred Rogan
trying to chase the world. He wants to change the
course of NFL.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
One dome at a time.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
No more, no more Ice Bowl, no more frozen tundra,
no no more Monsters of the Midway. And Eric Dickerson
had to go back to the eighty five Bears and
play in that crazy cold and wind. No more m
m no more Fridgid temperatures in Buffalo. No more snow

(27:18):
flurries in Philly. No more cold d C hel to
the no longer the name again.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
For old d C Commanders.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
No more, no more commanders, no more, no more hard
rock stadium in Florida where they can go get a
sun tan because the sun is shining and beating down
in Miami. No more Tampa sun drenched with the cannons flowing,
the cannons every time they score, the cannons flowing in

(27:53):
Tampa Stadium. No more, no more, no more Bronco Bronco Land.
What is an Invesco Park now? I believe it is
no more Broncos. And when a other team throws a
bad pass and the whole crowd goes in, come please,

(28:14):
no more everything domed mile high. Bring it here in
the snow, baby, bring it here in the snow. We
got you. No more advantage. Everybody's good. Rams come whoever
comes to town, Chargers come to town. It's seventy two
degrees in Denver. They don't have to play any elements.
That's no advantage. It's like they're playing in so far.

(28:36):
Why would we want to give that to the Chargers.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Sounds like you're channeling MLK on his day.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Be quite honest with you, a little bit, a little bit, Fred.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
All right, don't forget. We are on the final countdown.
Now Friday will be a spotlight twenty nine Casino and Coachella,
Eric Dickerson's favorite spot in the Coachella Valley. Get on
the ten and just keep driving. Sure it will seem
like it's a long time, but it's really not. You
get down to the Coachella Valley. The weather is great,
and here's what we have at the show from noon
to three. You will win Boys in Blue opening week tickets.

(29:13):
That's right, mutually agreed upon date. You know how hard
those tickets are going to be now, given this roster're
going how hard?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
How hard for it?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's going to be hard, non existent, non existent. This
is like your dream come true. This will be, aside
from your marriage and the birth of your kids, the
greatest moment of your life. If you win those tickets,
and you'll have a chance to do so, we'll give
you tickets to an NFL game in Vegas for the
twenty five season. We've changed that last year. We're going
to give them to you last hour for the twenty

(29:40):
four season, but now they'll be for the twenty five season.
Mutually agreeable dates. Oh At the show on Friday, Food
and non alcoholic beverage will be included. Full cash bar
available so you can come out and get liquored up.
We're going to give you a fifty five inches House
TV and two hundred bucks. I don't know why we're

(30:02):
giving you two hundred dollars, but we are. And you
could win that autograph Thereic Dickerson Jersey autograph Christian Koye
Jersey tickets to Eric's Hall of Fame philanthrop party presented
by Young Warriors at the Canyon Club Sunday, February twenty fifth.
So you want to go, you need to go. You
need to be there. We want to see you out
there Friday. Christian Koye, Eric Rodney, myself. Sign up at

(30:23):
A and five seventy la sports dot Com slash promotions
that will allow you to join the guest list. Everyone
is invited, even if you don't join the list, but
we need you to, so think about making a weekend
out of it. Come out out here and visit us
in the Coachella Valley. Let's get back to the Dodgers

(30:43):
David Vasse joins the program. We'll talk about the signing
of Tanner, Scott and Roki Sazaki.

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