September 16, 2025 • 45 mins
Eric Dickerson joins as as we talk about the Rams and Chargers getting out to 2-0 starts, the potential demise of the Chiefs dynasty, Russell Wilson's hot tub time machine game in Dallas and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, shine the light. It's time for the appearance
of Eric Dickerson. Eric, my first chance to talk to
you this season. How are you good? How you doing? Fred?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm great, Man? How are you? What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Ridney?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
All good ed? All good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Fred? Fred is back ed. You know what was.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What was Fred?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That last?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We don't know?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Fred? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Freddy?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I was I was tending to some issues. I was
dealing with some business. I was taking care of what
had to be taken care of. And I was very disappointed.
I missed your first appearance of the season so much
so I said, this was your Frida did that?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I said?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He kept it very vague.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I got it very vague. Was it was he making
some money? Fred?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
At least you know what I was doing. I was
moving and shaking.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
That's what I got more, that's more specific.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, okay, okay, no problem. Well, good, good to see you, Fred,
d great. See wheeling, so wheeling and dirt, dirt, dirt,
regular rolling stone, you know, like Papa.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
By the way, Where are you Eric? Where I am Man?
I am where?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's probably very few black people at I am in Providence,
Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh, why would you say there's very few black people
in Providence, Rhode Island?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Because the only ones I've seen is the crew I'm with,
and that's for Jeffrey Osbourne's golf of men out here. Uh,
and it's beautiful, idea, I can't last nice and the
weather's beautiful. I mean, I wouldn't want to live out here.
I can tell it. I can tell it gets very
cold out here. But you know, and this is Patriot
country too. I mean, I don't have any fun memories
of playing you in the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But have you been in the Providence, Fred, I've never
been there? Have you?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I have? I've never been a province.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So when he says there's very few black people, I'm asking,
why would you say there's not? Because he's there, and
if you've been to Providence, it's, uh, yeah, there's there's not.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
A whole.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's like I'm going, I'm going to Wyoming and I'm
gonna see a lot of brothers out there.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I know you're not well.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I just had no idea what Providence was. That's why
I am.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I said problem. I said, I said, Providence, Rhode Island. Yeah, Yeah,
it's nice.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Any good restaurants or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Eric, I don't know, Fred, I just got it late
last night, and so I went to play in this
in Jeffery's golf tournament.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Today. We're going.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
He's having a concert tonight that I'm going to. I
don't I don't like concerts, but I know Jeffrey gonna
put on a great show.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Holding on. You know you played can you woo ye
know what that is? So yeah, so I'm looking forward
to that. I mean I meant to that, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, little interlude, little interluded. I think we lost Eric,
we did.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, Yeah, Jeffrey Jeffrey Osborne, obviously iconic R and B
singer from formerly LTD, then went on his own. Jeffrey
Osborne wrote and sung some of the unbelievable songs of
all time, unbelievable songs of all time. And uh, he's
got a tremendous voice still and uh but yeah, I've
(03:31):
I've actually, yeah, I've been to that golf turner back
in Rhode is On and it's made that Jeffy. That's
where he's from. That's why the golf turner is back there.
But he uh, he does a great job for that
community as well. All right, Uh, well, we're getting Eric
fired up. Every time Eric goes to talk, we have
a musical interlude.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Now every time is this? Every time this phone ring,
it cuts me off. I'm trying to put it on.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now, you cut yourself off, Eric, You put it on mute,
on mute your phone? Is that what it is? Yeah,
that's what he's doing. All right, So we'll move on.
Eric will be back with us in a minute.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Here. He'll figure it out, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So the rams are CHEWNO. Matthew Stafford, I think it's
fair to say is holding up, you know, when he's healthy, Rondie,
I think I would. I would take him on any team.
I mean, he's not Patrick Mahomes. But I gotta tell
you what why is he not Patrick Mahomes?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Because Patrick Mahomes a bit more athletic than he is now.
I think has done a little more than he has.
He's won more. But certainly I would take Matthew Stafford
as my quarterback. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
If Stafford was on Kansas City, you think that he
would or have been with Kansas City as long as
Mahomes has you think that he would have as many
Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I think it'd be close. I think there are different
kinds of quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh, let me ask you this. Then, if.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Matthew Stafford was with Sean McVay the whole time Sean
McVay was with the Rams, how many.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Super Bowls do you think he had had. I think
he'd have more than one. I'll tell you that. I
think he would win. I think he would have won some. Yeah,
I agree with that. Yeah, but right now, I would
put him with any quarterback in this league. It's remarkable
in his age is for him to do the things
he's doing and he moves still and he still gets hit,
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and I'm even more amazed that that back is holding
up and he's okay.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I mean, every time he even gets nudge, no, no
problem so far.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, that's going to be the question all season long,
and everybody's going to ask all season.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Talking about uh Stafford, Matt Stafford. And you know, I
don't I just say somebody's back. I think may Look
when I went to training camp and I asked him
about his back. So, I mean, you know, he says,
you know anything, they say, you're older, you know you
got the bad problem. But he said, you know, he'll
be okay. You know, I think the thing he didn't
they didn't want him to play, and they didn't wan
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him to play in the preseason. They didn't want to
play in training camp. I mean that staffenos he's doing.
He's been doing this long enough to not have to
play in the preseason. I mean seriously, I mean, you'd
like your quarterback to kind of get a feel for
your receivers, for sure, you know, but you know, I
think people had two hundred ninety eight yards, So he's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I think, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Obviously, the question was, you know, you you you don't
practice a whole lot in training camp, obviously, don't play
any preseason games. And everybody's especially Eric, you know this,
and you talk about the back man that can go anyway,
They go all over the place. You never know how
the back's gonna respond on any given day. And the
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question was, how is he going to respond once he
takes that first hit and gets tackled or lands on
it or somebody lands on him. And in the first
two weeks, it just it looks like everything's fine with.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Him, Everything's fine. I'm serious, Like I said, when I
asked him. I asked some of the staff out there,
you know, what's going on with Matt's back. And this
is when they were Crims scrimmaging the Cowboys, and they said,
he all right. They said, he's okay, you know, he'll
be guy. You know, they just keeping him out.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You know how it is, they don't they don't want
to tell you everything. You know, like, oh, Matt Stafford,
you know he might not play this year. Oh my god.
Oh that's big news for the Ram. Oh we need
we need to cover that. But it really ain't nothing
going on. So, I mean, he looked good yesterday. I
can say that. I mean they started off slow. It
started off really slow, but they came back and won
the game. Let me tell you something the Rams have
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really we've always even they were in Houston, Llis, we
had problems with them. You know, it's Tennessee Titans. Remember
last year the Titans came in and beat them up
at home, really embarrassed them with that defensive front. And
I didn't I thought we beat them. I thought it
would be a tough football game, and it was a
tough football game. But in the end, I think the
better team won. I mean, I think they know they played.
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They played a good game, you know, and it's nobody
plays you know, you can say a great game. It's
never a flawless game. But I think they played really
I think they played a really good football game.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And the defense looks the defense looks look really good.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
That's the thing I think that people, you know, every
all offseason and training camp, preseason talking about Matthew Stafford
in his back. I also think, you know, DeVante Adams.
I think he's gonna be a tremendous addition to the team.
Pooking the cool just another year, He's gonna be better
already showing that, you know, I think people underestimate I
did how the speed of pooking the cool. I you know,
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when he came in the league. I know he was
a good receiver, but he rarely gets caught from behind.
If he gets in the open, he can run. And
then DeVante Adams is still, you know, still a top
notch receiver that can get open runs of all the receivers,
probably the best route runner still in the NFL, which
is complementing Matthew Stafford. Going forward, if they stay healthy offensive,
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they would be great But the thing that impresses me
right now. We saw this a little bit last year
in the playoffs when they when that defense got going
and they started dominating people and even you know, to
a certain extent other than the two big runs by
Sae Kwon Bartley, they held Philadelphia and check. But that
defense this year, now, the young guys, now they're a
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year older, got a little bit more experience. That's the
part of the team that I think people are underestimating
because it might be at the end of the day,
the strength of this team might be their defense.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I think it is the strength.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I think the strength of this team is their defenses
and those young young defensive players.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think it showed last year kind of like the
last five or six games going into the one to
make that playoff run, you know, when they kind of
got everybody back and got everybody healthy and going down
to Philadelphia. And I said this, and I say it again.
I said it last year. I even said it today again.
I say on the golf course, I said, if the
Rams and did not turn the football over being fited,
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I said this playing I said, we don't turn the
ball over against phillip We can beat Philadelphia, I said,
we can beat them, but if you turn the ball over,
I said, Philly is a good football so you can't.
You cannot turn the ball up. They didn't turn the
ball over once. You turned the ball up for twice
and we still lost by six points. But like what
I always say, aybody, that's a loser to say that
all the time. Man, if we're going to turn the
ball over, man, we had that game, but we did
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turn the football over. And you know, play they playing
Philly this Sunday, playing Philly Sunday, and it's you know,
it's a rematch. Philly is a good football team. They're
playing in Philadelphia. That defense has to come to play
and they have to control I think, you know, the
offensive line has to be of control.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Phillis defensive line.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Philly has one of the top, if not the top
defensive line in the National Football League. They're one of
the best best defenses in the league. And the thing
about it Philadelphia is they don't make a lot of mistakes.
They don't, you know, they don't make a lot of
mistakes and that and that push. I hate that crap.
I do hate it, but I feel you got to
you gotta figure out where to stopp it. I can't
say take it out. You gotta figurehere to stop it.
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If that's the case, everybody used to figure how to
do it. You know, everybody needs to figure out how
to do this push if you want to be I
won't say take it out because it's not fair.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's that's that is what they're known for. So you know,
figure it out.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, we'll see how good the Rams defense is Sunday.
And here's why Philadelphia doesn't really throw the ball.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They just want to can't throw They can't throw it.
They just it's like this. It's like in football. Is Eric.
Eric loves that because you know what you run first?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Right, if you can if you can start off, let's
say first and first, and you know second and five,
you know, oh man, that's great. You know third and two,
you know third and one. I mean, if you can
run the football, it sets up everything else because now
the play action really comes into effect. Because when right now,
you know this as well as I do. And you know,
even as a young player, I didn't realize what the
play action would do. The play action makes a linebacker
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or a defensive back take that step forward and you
take that step forward, the receiver is running to obstetrate
that that freezing you just for just for a split second.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
In the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That's all You'll be beat.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You can have tremendous speed, you would have, but you
take that step forward, man, you you're beat.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And that's that's what That's what play action does, that
you can run the football.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh when you look at the NFC West, because we
know we have the Rams and Eagles on Sunday, but
if you look at the NFC West so far, uh,
San Francisco, Matt Jones played, uh with pretty out. It
looked very good. I don't know if it's Kyle Shanahan.
I don't know if it's Mac Jones, who has never
been great but looked pretty good Sunday. I guess if
you play for Kyle Shanahan and you're a quarterback, you
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got a pretty good chance of success. Because I thought
he did a pretty good job this weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Who they play They played Saints, sat the Saints. They
played the Saints in New Orleans, in New Orleans too, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Exactly, yeah, the FRED when they played Philadelphia Fred. It's
not go crazy, you know, but you know, you know,
right as well as I know the NFL.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know, give a Sunday unless you're playing against the
brown the clowns.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
And and the and the Jackie JITs.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You know, they can't get out of their own way.
Yeah way. But now yeah, you know, look they're they're
the NFC West, you know, you look at it. The
Cardinals are really going to be a threat to the Rams.
You know, are the Seahawks? You know, yeah, they're gonna
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be okay. But to me, it's it is It is
the Rams and everybody else, because I even look at
the forty nine ers. You know, first week they already
banged up kettles out for four wheels. You know, they
lose their quarterback party. I mean, it's as good as
Mac Jones played. They can't get far with Mac Jones.
You know, what, what does does party have right now?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What What did he hurt? I forgot what he heard?
Fred I forget what he was Kevin't you know what
he hurt?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
He's got a couple of weeks though, or three weeks
or something like that, but I don't I don't remember
what it would exactly hurt.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But the way they use McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
You know, you worried about how long he's gonna last
because they rely on him so much in that offense
and they feed him so much that, uh, is he
gonna be able to last most of the season given
the way they utilize him in the pounding that he
takes on the regular basis because toe.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Sorry, I stepped out. He has turf toe, not as
severe as Joe Burrow. Obviously his timelines about two to
five weeks for party.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, Joss, what months?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Three months for Borough? Three months?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Okay, let's take it out. I wont how bad the turf.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I had turf toe when I had man for two
thousand yards, and I did not think that I could run.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I couldn't run.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I talked about talk about what it felt like, what
it was. Let me they tell you what turf toe would,
How it hurt my toe played? I think Lamb.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I forgot who he played, but whoever felt they fell
on the back of my toe, fell the back of
my heel. It's like if I would take your thumb
and I would bend it back to touch your wrists.
That's what it's stayed and everything. You know, you could
break your toe. You could sprain your toe and everything,
the vessels breaking your toe. My toe swoll up so big.
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I could not even like read. Really, you couldn't even
blow on it. You couldn't touch it. Oh my, it
hurts so bad. I couldn't put a shoe on it nothing.
I mean, That's how I'm like, I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I can't run. And then I could do I mean,
and I didn't know what to do. So then first
of all they had to get a new and take
to get the blood out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Man, that hurts so bad. I mean, I tears came down.
I want I did cry. I yes, because it was
tears in mind. If they had to drain it first,
then they injected to try to, you know, keep the
swelling down.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So I had to keep it elevated. I won't forget
for like them.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
First four days and we had to play the forty
nine ers and I played I think had forty nine yards.
I'm like, man, I can't run like this. And our trainer,
Tutheel was our trainer. He sent me to a foot doctor.
Uh and they made this device. It actually fit around
I still have it at home. It fit around my toe.
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It took the place of the joint of the toe.
It's like a hard part plastic on the outside, it's
cushion on the inside. And they taped it to my toe,
cut my shoe open, and I was able to run.
I'm like, damn, it hurt, but I could run. I
could run, And that was the only way I could play. Oh,
I wasn't like edi. Once you played, and then you
got to deal with it all week long. Probably didn't
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feel good until about Saturday and they.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Start right, it would swell back up.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
But but wearing that, wearing that that that cup, it
was like a cup, almost like a cup on your foot.
It could it could keep the swelling down and it
didn't damage the toe anymore because it almost took the
it took the pressure off of the toe. I mean,
Jackie Slater had to wear Jackie Slater would, I think
most his careyer, I.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Would in a whole career.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
After my second year, thinking about my second year to
child retired, I wore that thing that.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Told me there's nothing you can really do about it.
I mean, that's you could take your toe and you
know all of that, and it bothers you and bothers you.
And if you are like Eric running back that has
to cut on a regular basis, or even if you know,
even with perty who has to push off of that foot.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's painful.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It is.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It is definitely painful.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And then the thing is like I said, you have
to you have to you have to have to cut
my shoe open, stell and slice it open so it
would take the pressure off of it. And that's what
that was. That was the way I played that. I don't,
I don't, I don't see what, no, what I talk
about this all the time. No one seems to wanted
to go back and see, hey, what's that device.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Eric Dickerson used to, you know, so wait a minute, Eric,
you were injured and you played the next game.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I played the next game. Yeah, I played the next game.
I only had forty nine yards. I remember I had
forty nine I couldn't. I couldn't run, and I said,
I can't I came run on this because I didn't
I didn't have the toe piece.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Then I don't think I had the toe piece. Then
I'm like, I cannot run. I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And then I think that's when the that after that,
that Monday, a Tuesday took me to the doctor's a
foot doctor. And they made this this this this tope
that it's called a toe piece, and they molded it
to my foot, put my foot in, wax, put it out,
took it out, made this this thing went and I'm like, wow,
that's kind of cool. Taped it to, taped it to
my toe. My shoe was tight, so they slipped my
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shoe up and on the inside my big toe and
I was able to it. Did it took up? It
absolutely took all the pressure off the toe, that is
what it did. And I'm not trying to help the
forty nine or so.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't want to. Don't tell them, you know, let
it stay hurt.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's crazy. Back in the day, you you did that,
you suffered that injury. You play the following Sunday. You
got one guy out three weeks when I got out
three month.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know, I remember, I remember two thousand yards and
a raggedy toe.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
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Speaker 2 (19:12):
Talking about my raggedy toe.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
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It's all good.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
The Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson joins Fred Rogan and
me U on a beautiful Tuesday. All right, he did
we we talked about, uh, talked about the Rams a
little bit, and we'll get back into the Rams too.
But last night the Chargers go to Vegas and and
really beat up on on the on the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
And in these first couple of weeks for the Chargers
beating Kansas City in Brazil and then you know, beating
the Raiders last night. Uh, would you think they look
They actually looked pretty good. Now in Hardball's second year
with the team, and Justin Herbert looks like he is
the quarterback that everybody believed he could be when he
came out of Oregon.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Well, I believe he was at quarterback for the last
couple of years. I just didn't think sometimes he had
the weapons. Uh take go along with it. Matter of fact,
I toy. I played golf with him this summer and
I told him, I said, man, you need you need
some weapons, Yeah, I said, I mean, I said, I'll
say it, but you can't say I said, they give
you some weapons.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Man, you can slink. I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And he's a big guy. Uh right, he's about six
for five sixty seas a big game. Nice young one too, yep.
But man, I don't tell you. They looked really really
good last night. The Raiders didn't do anything. I mean,
the Raiders defense played the best they could play. The
offense could not score a touchdown. The defensive backs looked great.
That defensive front was putting so much pressure on Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm like dog he threw he threw three picks. Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I mean they was like, I mean, I gotta I
gotta give them credit that I still come. That nice
little team over there. But man, they were they were bringing.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
The heat last night. The Chargers looked excellent. I mean
really did what's your name? James? What's your name? The man?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Because Derwyn James always hurt and you know, see she's
a great player, but he seems to be always hurt
and man he was he turned he was turning it
up last night. I mean, I gotta say Chargers looked
they looked like, they looked like they controlled the AFC.
To me, I mean, you could put them against the
d O or whoever. But to me, when they played
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Kansas City in but Brazil, they made Kansas City look
like an old football team. They made them look old.
They really did. They looked like, Okay, this team is old.
I mean they might not be, but it's like, man,
they look faster. You know, they look more aggressive than
Kansas City did.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Just like last night.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
The Layers defense was aggressive, but to me, I would
have to say the Chargers defense was more aggressive.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
They were the defensive breaking on the ball.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I mean, the defensive front was putting, pushing the offensive
line into the back of into the into the face
of Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So you know, I got to say the Chargers look good.
I mean, I.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Mean even when Bill Mack went out, I was like, okay,
oh then and they didn't miss a beat the you
know they yeah, they got it, they got it going.
And just with Jesse Winter, I think is the defense coordinator,
Yeah done it, done a great job with that team
and again, you know, Herbert is just feels like he
(23:05):
is so much more comfortable. He's always had a lot
of talent, but to your point, getting I think getting
Keenan Allen back has just elevated him because now you
know he's got you know what, Mconkey's kind of like
their new go to guy.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They got the over the top guy.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But but but Keenan Allen coming back to that team
just gives him that comfort level, that guy on third
down that is going to always make a play for you.
And I'm sure you know as a quarterback you have
those guys that just in the right moments, always show
up in your vision, always come through and it becomes
your go to guy and the clutch. And Keenan Allen
is that guy. And he's been that for the first
(23:44):
two games and he's just you know, for them to
get him back and he's still doing it at a
high level even at his age. I think it's been
great for them so far. If he can stay healthy
and that offensive line can stay healthy. I know they
lost their big guy, but moving all to the to
the left tackle now he's been really good. They are
(24:06):
a really good team. You know, no longer can you
say you're right about Kansas City, you know, getting a
little bit older, But no longer can you say this
is a lock for Kansas City to win the division.
I think right now you look at it, the Chargers
are the favorite to win that division where they manhandle
the Raiders, and then you know Denver kind of you know,
sputtered a little bit and them beating Kansas City, and
(24:29):
then Kansas City be kind of being oh and two,
you know, the Chargers are the team.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
To beat in that division right now. See, the thing
is about Justin Herbert this year. This is a big
year for him, all the talent in the world. Everybody
had great expectations and still does. But but they got
to get over the hump. You know, after what happened
to the playoffs last year. They've got to get over
the hump. He does look more comfortable. I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
What do you call getting over the hump? Fred? What
you said, get over the hump?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Me? You got to go deep in the playoffs now, okay,
but you don't have to win the super Bowl. The
that's getting over the hump. Well, you know what, let's
let's just say let's just say he throws for I
don't know, six thousand let's do the six thousand yards
and and.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know, and they make the player they lose in
the first round. Is that is that getting over the hup? Still, No,
they've got to go deep in the playoffs. Okay, yeah,
they have to this year, but you can't. But I
say one thing is they have a tendency to put
it all on one.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Guy the court.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
No, it's unfair to put it on him.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I get it right, right right, I said, I hate
to see him put all the pressure on one guy.
It's like, hey, I can't catch punts, I can't play
defense and make tackles.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I can't kick field goals. I mean I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean, you know, but you know, did I think it?
You know, to to Fred's point, I think he's flown
a little bit under the radar in terms of criticism
of big time quarterbacks that make, you know, in that
fifty sixty million dollar range. He flies a little bit
under the radar of a guy that hasn't gone deep
(25:56):
in the playoffs because I mean, you know, all the
flak that Lamar Jackson takes and all the fact that
that that even uh now I can't even think of
his name. Bill's quarterback that he takes. He takes now
Josh Allen takes because he can't get past mahomes uh,
(26:17):
and they can't win the big winner, can't get to
the super Bowl. And you know, Herbert had a you know,
struggled in that playoff game last year. But he's kind
of flown under the radar. And so this year, I
think that people, especially the way they've started, it is
a year for him to kind of you know, go dee.
I'm not saying they got to go win the super Bowl,
because obviously that's gonna be difficult.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's going to take a minute. They got to get
they got to get on a roll.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But I think he has flown a little bit and
unscathed in terms of the harsh criticism that Josh Allen
or Lamar Jackson has faced by not winning a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, let's let's let's talk about Let's talk about Josh Allen.
You know, Josh Allen has had some real weapons to
work with. He's had, he's had a defense, he's had
he's had we had receivers, he had a running game.
You know, Uh, he's had all the stuff. He's had
the weapons before. But they ran up against a real
good Kansas City football team. You know, that's what happened.
I mean, remember remember they had him beat and I
(27:15):
think they beat him with like twelve seconds left in
the game.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeh came back and beat them.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So, so it's not like like Josh Allen had had
he said he's had the weapons. Lamar Jackson another one,
he's had the weapons too. He's had all the weapons
to put them in the super Bowl. I think even
I think the last two years when I looked at
it and I talked to one of my friends that
they pleased to play me at the Rams. Vince newsom
uh last year, last year and year before. He said,
(27:41):
he said, man, we are a running football team. He said,
we need to run the football, and Lamar needs to run.
He says, all of a sudden, he wants to drop
back and past. He said, that's that's what that's what
hurt us. So I think the criticism on them, and
you want to criticize, I hate to criticize one guy
because you know he's the the focal point of a
football team. But yeah, Josh Allen has had had the weapons.
(28:05):
Mark Jackson has had the weapons. He got Derreck Henry
that ran for at nineteen hundred yards last year, but
likes when what's the quarterbacks? I can't think of his
name for the charges. Justin Herbert, Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert
has not had a horrible game in the playoffs. I
think that's agree. But he had but he hasn't had
(28:27):
all the weapons. And even in that game, they're putting
pressure on him. I mean they they were putting pressure
on it. It's different when you got weapons, you know, right,
you notice as well as I do when you when
you play them. When you got a football team, and
sometimes you have to carry the team. Sometimes it's got to.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Be your day.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You know, it's a quarterback or run there. You know,
sometimes you have to make the difference. But it makes
it a lot easier when you've got guys that can
make plays. Everything is not solely dependent upon you. Like
I look at Buffalo right now. To me, Buffalo, I
think the Chargers are a better team than Buffalo. They
depend on Josh Allen way too much. He has to run,
he has to throw. I mean if he don't make
(29:01):
a big throw of you know, a big, big play,
they lose, you know, and the and the defense is
not great this year.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
The defense is not great. The defense is not great.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So Kansas City's owned two. Eric, you mentioned they look
like an older team. You know, they have been the
team of record, the team every year that you expect
who's going to be there at the end. To me,
it seems like, you know, mahomes Is, you just pointed
out one guy can't beat everybody. And as your roster changers,
you're starting to pay certain people a lot of money.
(29:32):
You don't have enough money for everybody else. Do you
think this is the year it comes to an end?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I mean I think they got to start, you know,
regrouping on that football team. Look, these teams usually they
have three maybe four years.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I think you will not.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
See the Tom Brady's anymore, that that dynasty they kept
for so long. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I don't. I don't think that's gonna happen anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I think those days are gone if I'm wrong, But
I don't think I'm wrong, because you can only keep
a team together maybe three years, really, and and the
money's great now money, right, the money's too good. I mean,
you know, you could, you could be a you could
be on a team. Deil a fit that team perfectly.
But if you're making ten million dollars and somebody open
uping you twenty million, I got to later.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I gotta get this twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
By Felicia thinks seven straight years, right, seven straight years?
So I think I think that that that dynasty is
the start to break down something, just like the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Can.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I kept telling Hi when New England was doing it.
Every I said, I said, soon a lady comes to
an end, Everything comes to it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
It comes to an end.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Everybody starts to get older, and you know, teams start
breaking episode going different ways, and that's what happens. And
I think that's what's gonna happen on this football team.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Hey, can I just ask you? Can? I can?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I just mention this real quick? How good was Russell
Wilson against the Cowboys? How good was he on Sunday?
He looked like the Russell Wilson of old. That was
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah he did. He did look good. I mean he
do some passes like dang wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I was happy for Russell. You know, you know I'm
not no Cowboys fan, ain't no Giants fan either, But
that was a great game to watch if you didn't
see it, Man, that was one exciting football game.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah that's tough because then you know they didn't win it.
So at the end of the day, it's gonna fall
on the quarterback. And at some point I'm sure like
it's already happening, and they called him for Jackson dark
to go start.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Why were they doing that? Why were they going back
and forth with them?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I didn't understand that Russ had four didn't almost five
hundred yards passing?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
What what?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
What were they doing? What could Jackson dot run or something?
Or I didn't I didn't understand what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
The coach is not.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Sure what he wants to do or what.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I don't know. Well, after watching that, he should be sure.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, I guess he had a great He had a
great he had you know, yeah those days you're like, man,
thank you, you could have those games.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But again, gotta win, you.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Know the Cowboys or you know, goody good. You gotta
take that with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Rodney's what's the frustration Rodney had to him for four
hundred and fifty yards and losing. You ever do that
for Yeah, you've had big games and loss. It just
it happens in the NFL. If you your defense can't play,
you can throw for five hundred yards and five touchdowns
and you know, gotta keep going. Remember I remember that
(32:28):
used to happen to uh I Remember poor Dan Marino
used to happen to him all the time, you know.
And fouls too, damn fouls with all them yards and
the five touchdowns, but the defense couldn't stop anybody. So yeah,
it's it's it's frustrating, you know, at the end of
the day, be okay, throwing for two hundred and fifty
yards and two touchdowns and your team keep winning. That's
(32:51):
that's you know. It's why you see Jalen hurts. He
don't He's not complaining about nothing. He turned around, hand
that ball off and that offense line on gonna let
Sa Kuan run and every now and then I'll throw
for two hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I'm not I don't have to throw for four hundred yards.
But if we gonna win, that's how we're gonna win.
And that's the formula. It's gonna get us to a
Super Bowl. I'm okay with that. So I think most
quarterbacks would trade throwing for four hundred and fifty yards
and losing as opposed to throwing it for two hundred
yards and winning.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Man, I would take them two thousand yards for a
Super Bowl any day. I trade them in in a heartbeat.
I remember my first, my big game. The Jets had
one hundred and ninety nine yards, just the Jets, and
we lost. We're still lost, and it's a great game.
We lost, and it's all about the wins.
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nurse saves drunk baby by doing CPR. Ready, So this
is in Kentucky and uh sports, why why of course
would it be in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, you know it's in the south, and you know
little weirdness, you know, small.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
To Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whiseburgh, Whitesburg, Kentucky. How many brothers do
you think in them? Let me gave it the story,
then we'll figure it out, like white Man, India. So, uh,
Misty Combs is a registered nurse and she works in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
(35:25):
She's she's walking out of work with her co workers
and they noticed something strange with a raccoon near a dumpster.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
They get closer, the chitter chatter noise was in the
dumpster and they realized there were two babies in the dumpster.
Combs was able to get one baby out with a shovel.
The other baby was fully submerged in water. The other
worker that was with her sort of pushed it over
to the side the corner of the dumpster pulled out
(35:57):
the other raccoon. It stunk so bad, bad because the
dumpster baby with.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Nearby watait baby with the raccoon raccoon, baby raccoon.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
You made it sound baby, Okay, Okay, I'm like I'm thinking,
I'm like what.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yeah, okay, did I leave that word out in the tees? Yeah? Ba?
All right. Anyway, so they pull out the other raccoon,
but it smelled really bad. Here's why.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
The dumpster belonged to the nearby moonshine distillery. All right,
So the baby raccoon was in the dumpster surrounded by alcohol.
The nurse. Oh, by the way, the nurse said the
baby was too drunk to stand. Too drunk from being
in the dumpster.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
With the moonshine the baby raccoon.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So this was a very serious situation. The nurse did
chest compressions on the raccoon. What slippery and little bitty,
and she was afraid of getting rabies, but she tried
to save the raccoon. It actually worked. She did CPR
(37:08):
on the drunk raccoon baby, and the drunk raccoon baby survived.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
What do you think of that.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Real that raccoon baby would have been dead as hell,
because I'm not fooling with no raccoon.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
The coon could have it, he'd going to coon heaven,
a coon hell.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
She didn't know if the raccoon had rabbies or not.
I mean, you're getting a raccoon out of a dumpster
that is dumped by a distillery dumping alcohol into the dumpster,
and you're gonna pull a raccoon out of the you know,
he said water but probably water and alcohol, and gonna
(37:53):
give the raccoon mouth the mouth not and with ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
She said chess cos it was a mouth to mouth.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
It was okay, okay still but percent of the time,
the raccoon's gonna have some to of the rabies living
in a dumpster.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Well, man to like you said, coon heaven.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I got two questions. First of all, Yeah, the town.
What's the name of the town, Whitesburg.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
It's Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
And yep, whatever my neck? What color was the lady?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Well, I'll tell you this because I just looked it
up that you guys asked as we came back from break.
So I looked up the demographics of Whitesburg. Ninety five
point three percent of residents identify as white.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I'm shocked.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Start like, that's what white land, white lady, white white.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Land in the you know, just in case anyone was wondering,
you know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Just cause you're wondering. I mean, well, I know it
wasn't no black lady, got no raccoon.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Well maybe it was just a coincidence that the people
in Whitesburg are white. Come on, Fred, how you sound
do you think white people do? Do you think people went,
I'm white, I'm gonna live in Whitesburg. That's where I
want to move.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I probably grew up there.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
You don't think that if they got a choice in
around the area's oh let's move to Whitesburg.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, that's where we want to live.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Now, I'll say this.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
We all know about Blacksburg, Virginia, Techias. Now, seventy five
percent of the population in Blacksburg is white, and there's
only four and a half percent out of black.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
How to explain that? Virginia.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
It's Virginia and Virginia, and it's got Burg right outside
the Blacksburg was right outside Detroit, then it would be
then it would be.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
We're talking Virginia.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Well, Louisiana, Yeah, right outside New Orleans and Blacksburg, Blacksburg, Louisiana.
Oh yeah, it's like right outside the third Ward in
New Orleans. Yeah, it's it's gonna be black. But Virginia, Yeah, Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Would you say white Land Indiana? Is that the is
(40:00):
that the clan the headquarters there.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
It was called it was called white it was called
white it was it was called wheat Land. And they
tell you to white Land, it must be called white Land,
now white Land Indian.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
But I know one thing you didn't the brother. You
didn't go out to white Land.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
And then there's still a white Land Indiana. There's also
a new white Land Indiana. You know, white Land ahead
new white Land.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Eric, I saw you and Byron Scott talking about Indiana
man on that podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
It was it was riveting stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
If you don't have a chance, check out check out
the podcast of Eric and Byron Scott. I told me,
y'all playing he playing for the Pacers, you're playing for
the colt.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
That was an interesting conversation.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, you stumbled out there. If you want to, Eric,
you you stay in church with anybody from Indiana. No, no,
not at all.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
My laws of Indiana though, some good people, you know,
and then thinking about me, Phil, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm not big on you know. I'm not racist like
that race stuff.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I mean, my girl is white and her parents are
some of the nicest people that you'll ever meet.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I'm serious them. Some those are some nice people.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
And I just goes to show that I don't care
what color of people are a nice people, but absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
They not go back to in THEWN if I don't
have to. I ain't been back there. I think I've been.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
The last time back in.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I think it was her for her moms. I think
she had turned maybe like seventy nine or eighty, had
a seventy birthday. That's my fifteen, maybe seventy years old.
That's the last time I went back in there. I
don't go down there, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
What's the difference between Whiteland and New Whiteland.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
I can try to find that. New Whiteland seems to
be about I'm just looking at this matter. Maybe a
kind of half about a half a mile north. Apparently
there's a West Whiteland too, white Land all around.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Man, ain't I don't mess around das I saw my
first land rally.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
You know, it's interesting though.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
There's no south white Land, no Southland, no north. Is
that interesting? Why is that interesting? South? Yeah, there's no south.
I guess there's no north to no northeast.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
I guess, well you got to you got two whitelands.
I mean that's enough. Yeah, how many of you want?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Fred? Really? Is it? Is it a blackland Indiana? I
bet it ain't. No black man Indian. I looked at
him fast. No, I can tell you that.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
Okay, there's a blackland Texas apparently.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Sure, it is a blackland Texas.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Okay, I don't know about that one. Yep, in rock
Rockwall County.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
It's a via to Texas too. You ever heard the
fight in Texas red no doubt. Yeah, you don't want
to hear about it. When I'm gonna tell you something.
They had a thing in the Dallas Morning News, and
never forget. I was in college. If I can look
it up.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Uh, it was.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
It was all white and it said, don't let the
sun go down on your black and buy the Texas.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Basically that was it.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I mean, that's just that was he by the Texas
right off there, right, it's right off the Louisiana Texas border.
You just stopped there. Matter of fact, I had a friend,
my buddy of mine went to college with nam. Jackie
Wilson played football, and he said he will not to
sing the Jackie will no not that Jackie Wilson. And
Jackie was funny. Jackie talked like this man, dick Man.
(43:26):
Let me tell you, man, I came.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Through through by the Texas. I stopped and got some gas.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
And you know, you put the money you pay for
you you go and you get pumped the gas and
you go and then you pay for the gas inside,
he says.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
So I go in.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I pumped like pump twenty dollars in my car and
I go inside. I go to get my man the money.
And man looked at me and say, we don't take
no black money here. He say black, he said other money,
he said. I looked at him. He says, guy will
sit there in the corner with a shotgun.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
He said. I said thank you, sir, and he said
I left. So I got in there free taking as
they come. See the classes that for.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
Vider.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Apparently, as you mentioned, Eric known as a sundown town sundowntown.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
The sundown sundowntown is there, Fred, No, I really don't
Fred Fred Fred Fred buried down the sand sometimes turns
and Fred Fredon lived in California too low.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
What does that mean they're going want a sundown.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
If you look a certain way. Absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You don't go in that town the sundown.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
You don't go outside the sundown out there.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Now, you don't. You don't go in that town outside.
You do not go in that town in darkn.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Fred, you really don't know where the sundowntown is.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
As much as you've been in the news and you've
been in you know, entertainment and news and all that
kind of you don't know what a sundowntown.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I really don't see a couple of sundowntown Fred. You
know they're welcome you in there. No, I you know,
I learned something new every every time, Erick Shan Then
I will say yeah downtown.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Yeah, I'll say this.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
I see an article from June of last year saying
vider Text is still working to restore a reputation for
being racist.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
That was last year.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
That last year.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah, go go back and look at all coming back.
Speaker 6 (45:14):
The fact that it's still a thing in twenty twenty four,
Like that's insane.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Yeah, twenty it's unfortunately coming to new norm again.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yep, we'll leave it there all right. The Ford NFL
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Speaker 2 (45:34):
UH we touched on it earlier.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Let's talk about NFL quarterback injuries when we come back,
and let's talk about the Dodgers.
All right, shine the light. It's time for the appearance
of Eric Dickerson. Eric, my first chance to talk to
you this season. How are you good? How you doing? Fred?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm great, Man? How are you? What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Ridney?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
All good ed? All good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Fred? Fred is back ed. You know what was.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
What was Fred?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That last?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We don't know?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Fred? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Freddy?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I was I was tending to some issues. I was
dealing with some business. I was taking care of what
had to be taken care of. And I was very disappointed.
I missed your first appearance of the season so much
so I said, this was your Frida did that?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I said?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He kept it very vague.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I got it very vague. Was it was he making
some money? Fred?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
At least you know what I was doing. I was
moving and shaking.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
That's what I got more, that's more specific.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, okay, okay, no problem. Well, good, good to see you, Fred,
d great. See wheeling, so wheeling and dirt, dirt, dirt,
regular rolling stone, you know, like Papa.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
By the way, Where are you Eric? Where I am Man?
I am where?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's probably very few black people at I am in Providence,
Rhode Island.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh, why would you say there's very few black people
in Providence, Rhode Island?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Because the only ones I've seen is the crew I'm with,
and that's for Jeffrey Osbourne's golf of men out here. Uh,
and it's beautiful, idea, I can't last nice and the
weather's beautiful. I mean, I wouldn't want to live out here.
I can tell it. I can tell it gets very
cold out here. But you know, and this is Patriot
country too. I mean, I don't have any fun memories
of playing you in the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
But have you been in the Providence, Fred, I've never
been there? Have you?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I have? I've never been a province.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So when he says there's very few black people, I'm asking,
why would you say there's not? Because he's there, and
if you've been to Providence, it's, uh, yeah, there's there's not.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
A whole.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's like I'm going, I'm going to Wyoming and I'm
gonna see a lot of brothers out there.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I know you're not well.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I just had no idea what Providence was. That's why
I am.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I said problem. I said, I said, Providence, Rhode Island. Yeah, Yeah,
it's nice.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Any good restaurants or anything.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Eric, I don't know, Fred, I just got it late
last night, and so I went to play in this
in Jeffery's golf tournament.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Today. We're going.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
He's having a concert tonight that I'm going to. I
don't I don't like concerts, but I know Jeffrey gonna
put on a great show.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Holding on. You know you played can you woo ye
know what that is? So yeah, so I'm looking forward
to that. I mean I meant to that, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, little interlude, little interluded. I think we lost Eric,
we did.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, Yeah, Jeffrey Jeffrey Osborne, obviously iconic R and B
singer from formerly LTD, then went on his own. Jeffrey
Osborne wrote and sung some of the unbelievable songs of
all time, unbelievable songs of all time. And uh, he's
got a tremendous voice still and uh but yeah, I've
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I've actually, yeah, I've been to that golf turner back
in Rhode is On and it's made that Jeffy. That's
where he's from. That's why the golf turner is back there.
But he uh, he does a great job for that
community as well. All right, Uh, well, we're getting Eric
fired up. Every time Eric goes to talk, we have
a musical interlude.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Now every time is this? Every time this phone ring,
it cuts me off. I'm trying to put it on.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now, you cut yourself off, Eric, You put it on mute,
on mute your phone? Is that what it is? Yeah,
that's what he's doing. All right, So we'll move on.
Eric will be back with us in a minute.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Here. He'll figure it out, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So the rams are CHEWNO. Matthew Stafford, I think it's
fair to say is holding up, you know, when he's healthy, Rondie,
I think I would. I would take him on any team.
I mean, he's not Patrick Mahomes. But I gotta tell
you what why is he not Patrick Mahomes?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Because Patrick Mahomes a bit more athletic than he is now.
I think has done a little more than he has.
He's won more. But certainly I would take Matthew Stafford
as my quarterback. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
If Stafford was on Kansas City, you think that he
would or have been with Kansas City as long as
Mahomes has you think that he would have as many
Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I think it'd be close. I think there are different
kinds of quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh, let me ask you this. Then, if.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Matthew Stafford was with Sean McVay the whole time Sean
McVay was with the Rams, how many.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Super Bowls do you think he had had. I think
he'd have more than one. I'll tell you that. I
think he would win. I think he would have won some. Yeah,
I agree with that. Yeah, but right now, I would
put him with any quarterback in this league. It's remarkable
in his age is for him to do the things
he's doing and he moves still and he still gets hit,
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and I'm even more amazed that that back is holding
up and he's okay.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I mean, every time he even gets nudge, no, no
problem so far.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, that's going to be the question all season long,
and everybody's going to ask all season.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Talking about uh Stafford, Matt Stafford. And you know, I
don't I just say somebody's back. I think may Look
when I went to training camp and I asked him
about his back. So, I mean, you know, he says,
you know anything, they say, you're older, you know you
got the bad problem. But he said, you know, he'll
be okay. You know, I think the thing he didn't
they didn't want him to play, and they didn't wan
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him to play in the preseason. They didn't want to
play in training camp. I mean that staffenos he's doing.
He's been doing this long enough to not have to
play in the preseason. I mean seriously, I mean, you'd
like your quarterback to kind of get a feel for
your receivers, for sure, you know, but you know, I
think people had two hundred ninety eight yards, So he's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, I think, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Obviously, the question was, you know, you you you don't
practice a whole lot in training camp, obviously, don't play
any preseason games. And everybody's especially Eric, you know this,
and you talk about the back man that can go anyway,
They go all over the place. You never know how
the back's gonna respond on any given day. And the
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question was, how is he going to respond once he
takes that first hit and gets tackled or lands on
it or somebody lands on him. And in the first
two weeks, it just it looks like everything's fine with.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Him, Everything's fine. I'm serious, Like I said, when I
asked him. I asked some of the staff out there,
you know, what's going on with Matt's back. And this
is when they were Crims scrimmaging the Cowboys, and they said,
he all right. They said, he's okay, you know, he'll
be guy. You know, they just keeping him out.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You know how it is, they don't they don't want
to tell you everything. You know, like, oh, Matt Stafford,
you know he might not play this year. Oh my god.
Oh that's big news for the Ram. Oh we need
we need to cover that. But it really ain't nothing
going on. So, I mean, he looked good yesterday. I
can say that. I mean they started off slow. It
started off really slow, but they came back and won
the game. Let me tell you something the Rams have
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really we've always even they were in Houston, Llis, we
had problems with them. You know, it's Tennessee Titans. Remember
last year the Titans came in and beat them up
at home, really embarrassed them with that defensive front. And
I didn't I thought we beat them. I thought it
would be a tough football game, and it was a
tough football game. But in the end, I think the
better team won. I mean, I think they know they played.
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They played a good game, you know, and it's nobody
plays you know, you can say a great game. It's
never a flawless game. But I think they played really
I think they played a really good football game.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And the defense looks the defense looks look really good.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
That's the thing I think that people, you know, every
all offseason and training camp, preseason talking about Matthew Stafford
in his back. I also think, you know, DeVante Adams.
I think he's gonna be a tremendous addition to the team.
Pooking the cool just another year, He's gonna be better
already showing that, you know, I think people underestimate I
did how the speed of pooking the cool. I you know,
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when he came in the league. I know he was
a good receiver, but he rarely gets caught from behind.
If he gets in the open, he can run. And
then DeVante Adams is still, you know, still a top
notch receiver that can get open runs of all the receivers,
probably the best route runner still in the NFL, which
is complementing Matthew Stafford. Going forward, if they stay healthy offensive,
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they would be great But the thing that impresses me
right now. We saw this a little bit last year
in the playoffs when they when that defense got going
and they started dominating people and even you know, to
a certain extent other than the two big runs by
Sae Kwon Bartley, they held Philadelphia and check. But that
defense this year, now, the young guys, now they're a
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year older, got a little bit more experience. That's the
part of the team that I think people are underestimating
because it might be at the end of the day,
the strength of this team might be their defense.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I think it is the strength.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I think the strength of this team is their defenses
and those young young defensive players.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think that.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think it showed last year kind of like the
last five or six games going into the one to
make that playoff run, you know, when they kind of
got everybody back and got everybody healthy and going down
to Philadelphia. And I said this, and I say it again.
I said it last year. I even said it today again.
I say on the golf course, I said, if the
Rams and did not turn the football over being fited,
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I said this playing I said, we don't turn the
ball over against phillip We can beat Philadelphia, I said,
we can beat them, but if you turn the ball over,
I said, Philly is a good football so you can't.
You cannot turn the ball up. They didn't turn the
ball over once. You turned the ball up for twice
and we still lost by six points. But like what
I always say, aybody, that's a loser to say that
all the time. Man, if we're going to turn the
ball over, man, we had that game, but we did
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turn the football over. And you know, play they playing
Philly this Sunday, playing Philly Sunday, and it's you know,
it's a rematch. Philly is a good football team. They're
playing in Philadelphia. That defense has to come to play
and they have to control I think, you know, the
offensive line has to be of control.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Phillis defensive line.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Philly has one of the top, if not the top
defensive line in the National Football League. They're one of
the best best defenses in the league. And the thing
about it Philadelphia is they don't make a lot of mistakes.
They don't, you know, they don't make a lot of
mistakes and that and that push. I hate that crap.
I do hate it, but I feel you got to
you gotta figure out where to stopp it. I can't
say take it out. You gotta figurehere to stop it.
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If that's the case, everybody used to figure how to
do it. You know, everybody needs to figure out how
to do this push if you want to be I
won't say take it out because it's not fair.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's that's that is what they're known for. So you know,
figure it out.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, we'll see how good the Rams defense is Sunday.
And here's why Philadelphia doesn't really throw the ball.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They just want to can't throw They can't throw it.
They just it's like this. It's like in football. Is Eric.
Eric loves that because you know what you run first?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Right, if you can if you can start off, let's
say first and first, and you know second and five,
you know, oh man, that's great. You know third and two,
you know third and one. I mean, if you can
run the football, it sets up everything else because now
the play action really comes into effect. Because when right now,
you know this as well as I do. And you know,
even as a young player, I didn't realize what the
play action would do. The play action makes a linebacker
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or a defensive back take that step forward and you
take that step forward, the receiver is running to obstetrate
that that freezing you just for just for a split second.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
In the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That's all You'll be beat.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You can have tremendous speed, you would have, but you
take that step forward, man, you you're beat.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And that's that's what That's what play action does, that
you can run the football.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh when you look at the NFC West, because we
know we have the Rams and Eagles on Sunday, but
if you look at the NFC West so far, uh,
San Francisco, Matt Jones played, uh with pretty out. It
looked very good. I don't know if it's Kyle Shanahan.
I don't know if it's Mac Jones, who has never
been great but looked pretty good Sunday. I guess if
you play for Kyle Shanahan and you're a quarterback, you
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got a pretty good chance of success. Because I thought
he did a pretty good job this weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Who they play They played Saints, sat the Saints. They
played the Saints in New Orleans, in New Orleans too, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Exactly, yeah, the FRED when they played Philadelphia Fred. It's
not go crazy, you know, but you know, you know,
right as well as I know the NFL.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know, give a Sunday unless you're playing against the
brown the clowns.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
And and the and the Jackie JITs.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You know, they can't get out of their own way.
Yeah way. But now yeah, you know, look they're they're
the NFC West, you know, you look at it. The
Cardinals are really going to be a threat to the Rams.
You know, are the Seahawks? You know, yeah, they're gonna
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be okay. But to me, it's it is It is
the Rams and everybody else, because I even look at
the forty nine ers. You know, first week they already
banged up kettles out for four wheels. You know, they
lose their quarterback party. I mean, it's as good as
Mac Jones played. They can't get far with Mac Jones.
You know, what, what does does party have right now?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What What did he hurt? I forgot what he heard?
Fred I forget what he was Kevin't you know what
he hurt?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
He's got a couple of weeks though, or three weeks
or something like that, but I don't I don't remember
what it would exactly hurt.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But the way they use McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
You know, you worried about how long he's gonna last
because they rely on him so much in that offense
and they feed him so much that, uh, is he
gonna be able to last most of the season given
the way they utilize him in the pounding that he
takes on the regular basis because toe.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Sorry, I stepped out. He has turf toe, not as
severe as Joe Burrow. Obviously his timelines about two to
five weeks for party.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, Joss, what months?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Three months for Borough? Three months?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Okay, let's take it out. I wont how bad the turf.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I had turf toe when I had man for two
thousand yards, and I did not think that I could run.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I couldn't run.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I talked about talk about what it felt like, what
it was. Let me they tell you what turf toe would,
How it hurt my toe played? I think Lamb.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I forgot who he played, but whoever felt they fell
on the back of my toe, fell the back of
my heel. It's like if I would take your thumb
and I would bend it back to touch your wrists.
That's what it's stayed and everything. You know, you could
break your toe. You could sprain your toe and everything,
the vessels breaking your toe. My toe swoll up so big.
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I could not even like read. Really, you couldn't even
blow on it. You couldn't touch it. Oh my, it
hurts so bad. I couldn't put a shoe on it nothing.
I mean, That's how I'm like, I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I can't run. And then I could do I mean,
and I didn't know what to do. So then first
of all they had to get a new and take
to get the blood out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Man, that hurts so bad. I mean, I tears came down.
I want I did cry. I yes, because it was
tears in mind. If they had to drain it first,
then they injected to try to, you know, keep the
swelling down.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So I had to keep it elevated. I won't forget
for like them.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
First four days and we had to play the forty
nine ers and I played I think had forty nine yards.
I'm like, man, I can't run like this. And our trainer,
Tutheel was our trainer. He sent me to a foot doctor.
Uh and they made this device. It actually fit around
I still have it at home. It fit around my toe.
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It took the place of the joint of the toe.
It's like a hard part plastic on the outside, it's
cushion on the inside. And they taped it to my toe,
cut my shoe open, and I was able to run.
I'm like, damn, it hurt, but I could run. I
could run, And that was the only way I could play. Oh,
I wasn't like edi. Once you played, and then you
got to deal with it all week long. Probably didn't
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feel good until about Saturday and they.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Start right, it would swell back up.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
But but wearing that, wearing that that that cup, it
was like a cup, almost like a cup on your foot.
It could it could keep the swelling down and it
didn't damage the toe anymore because it almost took the
it took the pressure off of the toe. I mean,
Jackie Slater had to wear Jackie Slater would, I think
most his careyer, I.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Would in a whole career.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
After my second year, thinking about my second year to
child retired, I wore that thing that.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Told me there's nothing you can really do about it.
I mean, that's you could take your toe and you
know all of that, and it bothers you and bothers you.
And if you are like Eric running back that has
to cut on a regular basis, or even if you know,
even with perty who has to push off of that foot.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It's painful.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It is.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It is definitely painful.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And then the thing is like I said, you have
to you have to you have to have to cut
my shoe open, stell and slice it open so it
would take the pressure off of it. And that's what
that was. That was the way I played that. I don't,
I don't, I don't see what, no, what I talk
about this all the time. No one seems to wanted
to go back and see, hey, what's that device.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Eric Dickerson used to, you know, so wait a minute, Eric,
you were injured and you played the next game.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I played the next game. Yeah, I played the next game.
I only had forty nine yards. I remember I had
forty nine I couldn't. I couldn't run, and I said,
I can't I came run on this because I didn't
I didn't have the toe piece.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Then I don't think I had the toe piece. Then
I'm like, I cannot run. I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And then I think that's when the that after that,
that Monday, a Tuesday took me to the doctor's a
foot doctor. And they made this this this this tope
that it's called a toe piece, and they molded it
to my foot, put my foot in, wax, put it out,
took it out, made this this thing went and I'm like, wow,
that's kind of cool. Taped it to, taped it to
my toe. My shoe was tight, so they slipped my
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shoe up and on the inside my big toe and
I was able to it. Did it took up? It
absolutely took all the pressure off the toe, that is
what it did. And I'm not trying to help the
forty nine or so.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't want to. Don't tell them, you know, let
it stay hurt.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's crazy. Back in the day, you you did that,
you suffered that injury. You play the following Sunday. You
got one guy out three weeks when I got out
three month.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know, I remember, I remember two thousand yards and
a raggedy toe.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
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Speaker 2 (19:12):
Talking about my raggedy toe.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
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Speaker 1 (19:53):
It's all good.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
The Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson joins Fred Rogan and
me U on a beautiful Tuesday. All right, he did
we we talked about, uh, talked about the Rams a
little bit, and we'll get back into the Rams too.
But last night the Chargers go to Vegas and and
really beat up on on the on the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Man.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
And in these first couple of weeks for the Chargers
beating Kansas City in Brazil and then you know, beating
the Raiders last night. Uh, would you think they look
They actually looked pretty good. Now in Hardball's second year
with the team, and Justin Herbert looks like he is
the quarterback that everybody believed he could be when he
came out of Oregon.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Well, I believe he was at quarterback for the last
couple of years. I just didn't think sometimes he had
the weapons. Uh take go along with it. Matter of fact,
I toy. I played golf with him this summer and
I told him, I said, man, you need you need
some weapons, Yeah, I said, I mean, I said, I'll
say it, but you can't say I said, they give
you some weapons.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Man, you can slink. I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And he's a big guy. Uh right, he's about six
for five sixty seas a big game. Nice young one too, yep.
But man, I don't tell you. They looked really really
good last night. The Raiders didn't do anything. I mean,
the Raiders defense played the best they could play. The
offense could not score a touchdown. The defensive backs looked great.
That defensive front was putting so much pressure on Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm like dog he threw he threw three picks. Yep.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I mean they was like, I mean, I gotta I
gotta give them credit that I still come. That nice
little team over there. But man, they were they were bringing.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
The heat last night. The Chargers looked excellent. I mean
really did what's your name? James? What's your name? The man?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Because Derwyn James always hurt and you know, see she's
a great player, but he seems to be always hurt
and man he was he turned he was turning it
up last night. I mean, I gotta say Chargers looked
they looked like, they looked like they controlled the AFC.
To me, I mean, you could put them against the
d O or whoever. But to me, when they played
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Kansas City in but Brazil, they made Kansas City look
like an old football team. They made them look old.
They really did. They looked like, Okay, this team is old.
I mean they might not be, but it's like, man,
they look faster. You know, they look more aggressive than
Kansas City did.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Just like last night.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
The Layers defense was aggressive, but to me, I would
have to say the Chargers defense was more aggressive.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
They were the defensive breaking on the ball.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I mean, the defensive front was putting, pushing the offensive
line into the back of into the into the face
of Geno Smith.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So you know, I got to say the Chargers look good.
I mean, I.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Mean even when Bill Mack went out, I was like, okay,
oh then and they didn't miss a beat the you
know they yeah, they got it, they got it going.
And just with Jesse Winter, I think is the defense coordinator,
Yeah done it, done a great job with that team
and again, you know, Herbert is just feels like he
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is so much more comfortable. He's always had a lot
of talent, but to your point, getting I think getting
Keenan Allen back has just elevated him because now you
know he's got you know what, Mconkey's kind of like
their new go to guy.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They got the over the top guy.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
But but but Keenan Allen coming back to that team
just gives him that comfort level, that guy on third
down that is going to always make a play for you.
And I'm sure you know as a quarterback you have
those guys that just in the right moments, always show
up in your vision, always come through and it becomes
your go to guy and the clutch. And Keenan Allen
is that guy. And he's been that for the first
(23:44):
two games and he's just you know, for them to
get him back and he's still doing it at a
high level even at his age. I think it's been
great for them so far. If he can stay healthy
and that offensive line can stay healthy. I know they
lost their big guy, but moving all to the to
the left tackle now he's been really good. They are
(24:06):
a really good team. You know, no longer can you
say you're right about Kansas City, you know, getting a
little bit older, But no longer can you say this
is a lock for Kansas City to win the division.
I think right now you look at it, the Chargers
are the favorite to win that division where they manhandle
the Raiders, and then you know Denver kind of you know,
sputtered a little bit and them beating Kansas City, and
(24:29):
then Kansas City be kind of being oh and two,
you know, the Chargers are the team.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
To beat in that division right now. See, the thing
is about Justin Herbert this year. This is a big
year for him, all the talent in the world. Everybody
had great expectations and still does. But but they got
to get over the hump. You know, after what happened
to the playoffs last year. They've got to get over
the hump. He does look more comfortable. I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
What do you call getting over the hump? Fred? What
you said, get over the hump?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Me? You got to go deep in the playoffs now, okay,
but you don't have to win the super Bowl. The
that's getting over the hump. Well, you know what, let's
let's just say let's just say he throws for I
don't know, six thousand let's do the six thousand yards
and and.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You know, and they make the player they lose in
the first round. Is that is that getting over the hup? Still, No,
they've got to go deep in the playoffs. Okay, yeah,
they have to this year, but you can't. But I
say one thing is they have a tendency to put
it all on one.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Guy the court.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
No, it's unfair to put it on him.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I get it right, right right, I said, I hate
to see him put all the pressure on one guy.
It's like, hey, I can't catch punts, I can't play
defense and make tackles.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I can't kick field goals. I mean I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean, you know, but you know, did I think it?
You know, to to Fred's point, I think he's flown
a little bit under the radar in terms of criticism
of big time quarterbacks that make, you know, in that
fifty sixty million dollar range. He flies a little bit
under the radar of a guy that hasn't gone deep
(25:56):
in the playoffs because I mean, you know, all the
flak that Lamar Jackson takes and all the fact that
that that even uh now I can't even think of
his name. Bill's quarterback that he takes. He takes now
Josh Allen takes because he can't get past mahomes uh,
(26:17):
and they can't win the big winner, can't get to
the super Bowl. And you know, Herbert had a you know,
struggled in that playoff game last year. But he's kind
of flown under the radar. And so this year, I
think that people, especially the way they've started, it is
a year for him to kind of you know, go dee.
I'm not saying they got to go win the super Bowl,
because obviously that's gonna be difficult.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's going to take a minute. They got to get
they got to get on a roll.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But I think he has flown a little bit and
unscathed in terms of the harsh criticism that Josh Allen
or Lamar Jackson has faced by not winning a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, let's let's let's talk about Let's talk about Josh Allen.
You know, Josh Allen has had some real weapons to
work with. He's had, he's had a defense, he's had
he's had we had receivers, he had a running game.
You know, Uh, he's had all the stuff. He's had
the weapons before. But they ran up against a real
good Kansas City football team. You know, that's what happened.
I mean, remember remember they had him beat and I
(27:15):
think they beat him with like twelve seconds left in
the game.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeh came back and beat them.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
So, so it's not like like Josh Allen had had
he said he's had the weapons. Lamar Jackson another one,
he's had the weapons too. He's had all the weapons
to put them in the super Bowl. I think even
I think the last two years when I looked at
it and I talked to one of my friends that
they pleased to play me at the Rams. Vince newsom
uh last year, last year and year before. He said,
(27:41):
he said, man, we are a running football team. He said,
we need to run the football, and Lamar needs to run.
He says, all of a sudden, he wants to drop
back and past. He said, that's that's what that's what
hurt us. So I think the criticism on them, and
you want to criticize, I hate to criticize one guy
because you know he's the the focal point of a
football team. But yeah, Josh Allen has had had the weapons.
(28:05):
Mark Jackson has had the weapons. He got Derreck Henry
that ran for at nineteen hundred yards last year, but
likes when what's the quarterbacks? I can't think of his
name for the charges. Justin Herbert, Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert
has not had a horrible game in the playoffs. I
think that's agree. But he had but he hasn't had
(28:27):
all the weapons. And even in that game, they're putting
pressure on him. I mean they they were putting pressure
on it. It's different when you got weapons, you know, right,
you notice as well as I do when you when
you play them. When you got a football team, and
sometimes you have to carry the team. Sometimes it's got to.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Be your day.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You know, it's a quarterback or run there. You know,
sometimes you have to make the difference. But it makes
it a lot easier when you've got guys that can
make plays. Everything is not solely dependent upon you. Like
I look at Buffalo right now. To me, Buffalo, I
think the Chargers are a better team than Buffalo. They
depend on Josh Allen way too much. He has to run,
he has to throw. I mean if he don't make
(29:01):
a big throw of you know, a big, big play,
they lose, you know, and the and the defense is
not great this year.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
The defense is not great. The defense is not great.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So Kansas City's owned two. Eric, you mentioned they look
like an older team. You know, they have been the
team of record, the team every year that you expect
who's going to be there at the end. To me,
it seems like, you know, mahomes Is, you just pointed
out one guy can't beat everybody. And as your roster changers,
you're starting to pay certain people a lot of money.
(29:32):
You don't have enough money for everybody else. Do you
think this is the year it comes to an end?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I mean I think they got to start, you know,
regrouping on that football team. Look, these teams usually they
have three maybe four years.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I think you will not.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
See the Tom Brady's anymore, that that dynasty they kept
for so long. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I don't. I don't think that's gonna happen anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I think those days are gone if I'm wrong, But
I don't think I'm wrong, because you can only keep
a team together maybe three years, really, and and the
money's great now money, right, the money's too good. I mean,
you know, you could, you could be a you could
be on a team. Deil a fit that team perfectly.
But if you're making ten million dollars and somebody open
uping you twenty million, I got to later.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I gotta get this twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
By Felicia thinks seven straight years, right, seven straight years?
So I think I think that that that dynasty is
the start to break down something, just like the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Can.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I kept telling Hi when New England was doing it.
Every I said, I said, soon a lady comes to
an end, Everything comes to it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
It comes to an end.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Everybody starts to get older, and you know, teams start
breaking episode going different ways, and that's what happens. And
I think that's what's gonna happen on this football team.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Hey, can I just ask you? Can? I can?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I just mention this real quick? How good was Russell
Wilson against the Cowboys? How good was he on Sunday?
He looked like the Russell Wilson of old. That was
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah he did. He did look good. I mean he
do some passes like dang wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I was happy for Russell. You know, you know I'm
not no Cowboys fan, ain't no Giants fan either, But
that was a great game to watch if you didn't
see it, Man, that was one exciting football game.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Yeah that's tough because then you know they didn't win it.
So at the end of the day, it's gonna fall
on the quarterback. And at some point I'm sure like
it's already happening, and they called him for Jackson dark
to go start.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Why were they doing that? Why were they going back
and forth with them?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I didn't understand that Russ had four didn't almost five
hundred yards passing?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
What what?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
What were they doing? What could Jackson dot run or something?
Or I didn't I didn't understand what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
The coach is not.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Sure what he wants to do or what.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I don't know. Well, after watching that, he should be sure.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, I guess he had a great He had a
great he had you know, yeah those days you're like, man,
thank you, you could have those games.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But again, gotta win, you.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Know the Cowboys or you know, goody good. You gotta
take that with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Rodney's what's the frustration Rodney had to him for four
hundred and fifty yards and losing. You ever do that
for Yeah, you've had big games and loss. It just
it happens in the NFL. If you your defense can't play,
you can throw for five hundred yards and five touchdowns
and you know, gotta keep going. Remember I remember that
(32:28):
used to happen to uh I Remember poor Dan Marino
used to happen to him all the time, you know.
And fouls too, damn fouls with all them yards and
the five touchdowns, but the defense couldn't stop anybody. So yeah,
it's it's it's frustrating, you know, at the end of
the day, be okay, throwing for two hundred and fifty
yards and two touchdowns and your team keep winning. That's
(32:51):
that's you know. It's why you see Jalen hurts. He
don't He's not complaining about nothing. He turned around, hand
that ball off and that offense line on gonna let
Sa Kuan run and every now and then I'll throw
for two hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I'm not I don't have to throw for four hundred yards.
But if we gonna win, that's how we're gonna win.
And that's the formula. It's gonna get us to a
Super Bowl. I'm okay with that. So I think most
quarterbacks would trade throwing for four hundred and fifty yards
and losing as opposed to throwing it for two hundred
yards and winning.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Man, I would take them two thousand yards for a
Super Bowl any day. I trade them in in a heartbeat.
I remember my first, my big game. The Jets had
one hundred and ninety nine yards, just the Jets, and
we lost. We're still lost, and it's a great game.
We lost, and it's all about the wins.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
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nurse saves drunk baby by doing CPR. Ready, So this
is in Kentucky and uh sports, why why of course
would it be in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, you know it's in the south, and you know
little weirdness, you know, small.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
To Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whiseburgh, Whitesburg, Kentucky. How many brothers do
you think in them? Let me gave it the story,
then we'll figure it out, like white Man, India. So, uh,
Misty Combs is a registered nurse and she works in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
(35:25):
She's she's walking out of work with her co workers
and they noticed something strange with a raccoon near a dumpster.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
They get closer, the chitter chatter noise was in the
dumpster and they realized there were two babies in the dumpster.
Combs was able to get one baby out with a shovel.
The other baby was fully submerged in water. The other
worker that was with her sort of pushed it over
to the side the corner of the dumpster pulled out
(35:57):
the other raccoon. It stunk so bad, bad because the
dumpster baby with.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Nearby watait baby with the raccoon raccoon, baby raccoon.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
You made it sound baby, Okay, Okay, I'm like I'm thinking,
I'm like what.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yeah, okay, did I leave that word out in the tees? Yeah? Ba?
All right. Anyway, so they pull out the other raccoon,
but it smelled really bad. Here's why.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
The dumpster belonged to the nearby moonshine distillery. All right,
So the baby raccoon was in the dumpster surrounded by alcohol.
The nurse. Oh, by the way, the nurse said the
baby was too drunk to stand. Too drunk from being
in the dumpster.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
With the moonshine the baby raccoon.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So this was a very serious situation. The nurse did
chest compressions on the raccoon. What slippery and little bitty,
and she was afraid of getting rabies, but she tried
to save the raccoon. It actually worked. She did CPR
(37:08):
on the drunk raccoon baby, and the drunk raccoon baby survived.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
What do you think of that.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Baby?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Real that raccoon baby would have been dead as hell,
because I'm not fooling with no raccoon.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
The coon could have it, he'd going to coon heaven,
a coon hell.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
She didn't know if the raccoon had rabbies or not.
I mean, you're getting a raccoon out of a dumpster
that is dumped by a distillery dumping alcohol into the dumpster,
and you're gonna pull a raccoon out of the you know,
he said water but probably water and alcohol, and gonna
(37:53):
give the raccoon mouth the mouth not and with ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
She said chess cos it was a mouth to mouth.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
It was okay, okay still but percent of the time,
the raccoon's gonna have some to of the rabies living
in a dumpster.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Well, man to like you said, coon heaven.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I got two questions. First of all, Yeah, the town.
What's the name of the town, Whitesburg.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
It's Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
And yep, whatever my neck? What color was the lady?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Well, I'll tell you this because I just looked it
up that you guys asked as we came back from break.
So I looked up the demographics of Whitesburg. Ninety five
point three percent of residents identify as white.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I'm shocked.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Start like, that's what white land, white lady, white white.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Land in the you know, just in case anyone was wondering,
you know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Just cause you're wondering. I mean, well, I know it
wasn't no black lady, got no raccoon.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Well maybe it was just a coincidence that the people
in Whitesburg are white. Come on, Fred, how you sound
do you think white people do? Do you think people went,
I'm white, I'm gonna live in Whitesburg. That's where I
want to move.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I probably grew up there.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
You don't think that if they got a choice in
around the area's oh let's move to Whitesburg.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, that's where we want to live.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Now, I'll say this.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
We all know about Blacksburg, Virginia, Techias. Now, seventy five
percent of the population in Blacksburg is white, and there's
only four and a half percent out of black.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
How to explain that? Virginia.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
It's Virginia and Virginia, and it's got Burg right outside
the Blacksburg was right outside Detroit, then it would be
then it would be.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
We're talking Virginia.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Well, Louisiana, Yeah, right outside New Orleans and Blacksburg, Blacksburg, Louisiana.
Oh yeah, it's like right outside the third Ward in
New Orleans. Yeah, it's it's gonna be black. But Virginia, Yeah, Whitesburg, Kentucky.
Would you say white Land Indiana? Is that the is
(40:00):
that the clan the headquarters there.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
It was called it was called white it was called
white it was it was called wheat Land. And they
tell you to white Land, it must be called white Land,
now white Land Indian.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
But I know one thing you didn't the brother. You
didn't go out to white Land.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
And then there's still a white Land Indiana. There's also
a new white Land Indiana. You know, white Land ahead
new white Land.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Eric, I saw you and Byron Scott talking about Indiana
man on that podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
It was it was riveting stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
If you don't have a chance, check out check out
the podcast of Eric and Byron Scott. I told me,
y'all playing he playing for the Pacers, you're playing for
the colt.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
That was an interesting conversation.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, you stumbled out there. If you want to, Eric,
you you stay in church with anybody from Indiana. No, no,
not at all.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
My laws of Indiana though, some good people, you know,
and then thinking about me, Phil, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm not big on you know. I'm not racist like
that race stuff.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I mean, my girl is white and her parents are
some of the nicest people that you'll ever meet.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I'm serious them. Some those are some nice people.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
And I just goes to show that I don't care
what color of people are a nice people, but absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
They not go back to in THEWN if I don't
have to. I ain't been back there. I think I've been.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
The last time back in.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I think it was her for her moms. I think
she had turned maybe like seventy nine or eighty, had
a seventy birthday. That's my fifteen, maybe seventy years old.
That's the last time I went back in there. I
don't go down there, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
What's the difference between Whiteland and New Whiteland.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
I can try to find that. New Whiteland seems to
be about I'm just looking at this matter. Maybe a
kind of half about a half a mile north. Apparently
there's a West Whiteland too, white Land all around.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Man, ain't I don't mess around das I saw my
first land rally.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
You know, it's interesting though.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
There's no south white Land, no Southland, no north. Is
that interesting? Why is that interesting? South? Yeah, there's no south.
I guess there's no north to no northeast.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
I guess, well you got to you got two whitelands.
I mean that's enough. Yeah, how many of you want?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Fred? Really? Is it? Is it a blackland Indiana? I
bet it ain't. No black man Indian. I looked at
him fast. No, I can tell you that.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
Okay, there's a blackland Texas apparently.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Sure, it is a blackland Texas.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Okay, I don't know about that one. Yep, in rock
Rockwall County.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
It's a via to Texas too. You ever heard the
fight in Texas red no doubt. Yeah, you don't want
to hear about it. When I'm gonna tell you something.
They had a thing in the Dallas Morning News, and
never forget. I was in college. If I can look
it up.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Uh, it was.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
It was all white and it said, don't let the
sun go down on your black and buy the Texas.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Basically that was it.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I mean, that's just that was he by the Texas
right off there, right, it's right off the Louisiana Texas border.
You just stopped there. Matter of fact, I had a friend,
my buddy of mine went to college with nam. Jackie
Wilson played football, and he said he will not to
sing the Jackie will no not that Jackie Wilson. And
Jackie was funny. Jackie talked like this man, dick Man.
(43:26):
Let me tell you, man, I came.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Through through by the Texas. I stopped and got some gas.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
And you know, you put the money you pay for
you you go and you get pumped the gas and
you go and then you pay for the gas inside,
he says.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
So I go in.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I pumped like pump twenty dollars in my car and
I go inside. I go to get my man the money.
And man looked at me and say, we don't take
no black money here. He say black, he said other money,
he said. I looked at him. He says, guy will
sit there in the corner with a shotgun.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
He said. I said thank you, sir, and he said
I left. So I got in there free taking as
they come. See the classes that for.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
Vider.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Apparently, as you mentioned, Eric known as a sundown town sundowntown.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
The sundown sundowntown is there, Fred, No, I really don't
Fred Fred Fred Fred buried down the sand sometimes turns
and Fred Fredon lived in California too low.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
What does that mean they're going want a sundown.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
If you look a certain way. Absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You don't go in that town the sundown.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
You don't go outside the sundown out there.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Now, you don't. You don't go in that town outside.
You do not go in that town in darkn.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Fred, you really don't know where the sundowntown is.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
As much as you've been in the news and you've
been in you know, entertainment and news and all that
kind of you don't know what a sundowntown.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I really don't see a couple of sundowntown Fred. You
know they're welcome you in there. No, I you know,
I learned something new every every time, Erick Shan Then
I will say yeah downtown.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Yeah, I'll say this.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
I see an article from June of last year saying
vider Text is still working to restore a reputation for
being racist.
Speaker 6 (45:09):
That was last year.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
That last year.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Yeah, go go back and look at all coming back.
Speaker 6 (45:14):
The fact that it's still a thing in twenty twenty four,
Like that's insane.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Yeah, twenty it's unfortunately coming to new norm again.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yep, we'll leave it there all right. The Ford NFL
Spotlights presented by Ford in Spotlight twenty nine Casino.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
UH we touched on it earlier.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
Let's talk about NFL quarterback injuries when we come back,
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