Softy & Dick 12-23 Hour 3: Jon Wilner, Soren Petro, Petros Papadakis

In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler chats with Jon Wilner about Notre Dame, Michigan, and the CFP, get the scoop on the end of the Chiefs’ run and time in Kansas City with Soren Petro, then Petros Papadakis joins to discuss USC and the DK Metcalf incident.

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Speaker 4 (01:04):
Here he is the Pope of the Pack, the Big
ten Bear, and our.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Friend from the San Jose Mercury News, Johnny Wonner, John, how.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Are you, man?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
I'm good. Thanks? How about yourself?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm gonna remind people, first of all, that will get
your pick of the week coming up in a few
minutes here. And you are red freaking hot. You've won
seven in a row. You're twelve and four, and I
think you're in the wrong business. I think you should
be a handicapper. Forget this sports writing thing. Man, what
do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Well, I mean, there's lots of reasons to say I'm
in the wrong business.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
That would just be one of them.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, hundred percent, man, I'm with you. Well, let's let's
start off with USC, Notre Dame Petros. You know Petros Papadakas.
He'll join us at six o'clock tonight, and he is,
I'll be honest with you, he's good and pissed at USC.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Keishaan Johnson came out today ripping Lincoln Riley. They're all
mad about this USC Notre Dame thing falling apart. They've
been playing football for one hundred years and they're not
going to play next season. And I guess the question is,
who's to blame? Why did this happen?

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Ultimately, it happened because USC left the Pack twelve for
the Big Ten. That is, you know, that's the root
source of this, and then everything else flows from there.
The schedule issues for USC, the college playoff situation, they're
all part of it.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
But that's the problem because USC does not want to
go to South Bend.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
In October every other year when they are also criss
crossing the country for conference games. So in some ways
they are to blame because if they hadn't left the
Pac twelve, everything would be fine. Now it is more complicated,
you know, as you narrow your time frame then it
gets a little bit more complicated.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
And Notre Dame has some culpability here.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
The CFP has got some culpability here.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
It's a mess, it's unfortunate.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
But again, there's a lot of traditions that are going
up and smoke these days in college football.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well, what are the odds Notre Dame USC rivalry, which look,
I mean, you don't need to be a real hardcore
college football fan to know that Notre Dame in USC
is one of the greatest long standing rivalries in all
of sports, right, I mean, it's Yankees Red Sox, it's
Ohio State Michigan. I mean, not having it played would
be a major downer. What are the odds of it

(03:20):
at some point coming back or is this thing on
ice for the foreseeable future in your opinion.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
Well, I think it's on ice for four years.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Based on the way the schedules are.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
I don't think Notre Dame's got an opening until twenty thirty,
that would be my guess. And I mean they've already
gone ahead and scheduled BYU for the next two years
and then they're I think they're booked in twenty nine,
twenty eight, twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
So, but part of the issue is the CFP situation.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
Right in the spring of twenty twenty four, they signed
a memory the Conferences Commissioners.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
I'll sign this memorandum understanding that says if.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
The CFP is starting next year in a twelve or
fourteen team CFP, Notre Dame gets an automatic bid if
they're in the top twelve or the top top fourteen.
USC's looking at that and they're thinking, well, we could
play Notre Dame in November.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Beat them, finish ranked ahead of them.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
But if they're in the top twelve, they're still going
to get in ahead of us. So a lot of
it is rooted in USC's concerns over the sweetheart deal
that Notre Dame has got with the CFP, and there's
a lot of schools that don't like that sweetheart deal.
If the playoff expands to sixteen teams, I don't think
the deal is valid. And so that is actually a

(04:42):
way to get USC to kind of come back to
the new oceanting table is expanding the sixteen teams, invalidating
Notre dame sweetheart deal and maybe giving the Trojans a
little bit of reason to consider playing. But they could
argue from a competitive standpoint that they're better off not
playing Notre Dame of this sweetheart deal they've got.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, well, and look, I don't mind Notre Dame for
taking that sweetheart deal. I'd take that deal. It's a
damn good deal. Damn good deal, no question about it.
But and I think I know the answer to this question,
but for people like me who just want an answer,
why does Notre Dame continue to get this type of
preferential treatment that other schools do not?

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Oh boy, yeah, it's terrible.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
You know that in the CFP governance structure, Notre Dame
has eighteen times the voting power.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Of Ohio State. Why because Notre Dame.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Notre Dame has its own vote, right, The CFP is
the ten Conference commissioners, and Notre Dame they have the
same vote as the Big ten Big ten guests ones vote.
Notre Dame gets one vote. Ohio State is one eighteenth
of the Big ten. So they have had this sweetheart

(05:54):
deal because they're an independent, because they are a huge
draw and a national brand. But there are many ways,
many examples of them getting preferential treatment that I don't
think they deserve. The CFP even allowed Bear Athletic director
former athletic director Jack Swarbrick to design take part in
designing the new system that gives them this great access.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah yeah, well, I mean I get why other schools
would be pissed, right, especially in a down year, for
Notre Dame to have that kind of you know, power
over college football just seems to be kind of a
thing of the past and no longer necessary. This isn't
nineteen eighty seven or eighty eight with you know, Tim
Brown and Low Holtz running around for God's sakes. But

(06:37):
John Wilner is with us, and John you know, Biff
Poggy is the interim coach at Michigan. He was asked,
I think it was yesterday Jackson why he should get
the job full time, and he said, because I know
this place, I want to fix it, and he slammed
his fist on the table for emphasis. Is there any
shot in your mind that Biff Poggy does get that
job full time?

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Two weeks ago? Said no way.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Now I'd say, I bet you he's got a thirty
forty chance.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Okay, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
He's their first choice, but I think he has kind
of come onto the middle of the spectrum.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Here in terms of their options.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
I think that Jeff Brohm at Louisville is their guy.
But Jeff Brom is also a Louisville alum. Now I know,
Michigan is Michigan, but Jeff Brom's got a lot of
ties to Louisville. He was that Purdue, did a great job,
then went to Louisville. He's a really good coach. I
think he's the guy Michigan's got targeted right now. I
think Jedfish is a secondary and I've thought this all along,

(07:37):
a secondary candidate, but I would put him probably behind
BIV Poggy and Jeff Brohm at this point.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Wow, Well you mentioned Jed there for a second. There
was a report that came out the ore day that,
for lack of a better term, and this may sound
like almost an insult, that that Jed failed some background
check or there was some red flag that came up
in Michigan's investigative process. Do you have any idea what
that could have been all about?

Speaker 5 (08:02):
I have I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
Okay, got I do know that given what's going on
at Michigan, Yeah, you know, they need like black ops
to do these background checks for every candidate because they
they cannot miss a thing given given their situation. I
have no idea. I would have assumed that Jeb would
be fine with the background check. I had no idea

(08:24):
what that reports about.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I don't think it's anything personal with him or
anything that would be almost like, you know, humiliating. For example,
I I'm assuming that there's something in his background connecting
him to potentially Jim Harbaugh and Connor Stallinggans that maybe
possibly Michigan just wanted to turn the page away from Well, that's.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Always been a question for me.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Is he did coach there, but way before all the current.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Issues they've had. But he was on a hardbass staff.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
And if you're Michigan, there's an argument to be made
that you should not hire anybody to work for Jim Harbaugh.
And even though it was in twenty fifteen sixteen and
Jeed is not connected at all with these current issues,
just completely disassociate yourself from the Harborugh era. I don't
think that that's an unreasonable approach for Michigan to take.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
So if Mike McDonald decided the current coach of the Seahawks,
which he would not do, but let's just for shiggles
and gets have the argument. Mike McDonald said, you know what,
I don't like the NFL. I want to go back
to college and I want to coach the Michigan Wolverines.
And he was the defensive coordinator for Jim Harbaugh, a
couple of years ago when Jimmy Lake went out there
and got destroyed by Jim Harbaugh. Mike McDonald, who might be,

(09:40):
you know, one of the premier head coaches in the
NFL right now was Jim Harbaugh's DC. You're telling me
if Mike McDonald wanted the Michigan job, the Wolverines would
say no because of his tied to Harbaugh.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
I'm saying that I think that there are some folks
in the Michigan decision making free got it, who don't
want anybody associate with Harball. Now, I don't know that
that's the majority, but I think that that's part of
their thinking and part of their decision making. Is anybody
associated with Harball or nobody associated with Harball.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, and John, here's the deal, because I think a
lot of folks thought, if Kaylyn de Bor beats Oklahoma,
as you predicted by the way last week, that he's
gonna be off the table for Michigan because that's just
too long for Michigan to wait.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Well, Michigan's already waited two weeks.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Alabama plays Indiana in nine days in the Rose Bowl,
meaning in nine days from now, Kaylen de boor season
could be over. Do you think or excuse me, Michigan
is willing to wait another nine days to potentially have
a shot at Kaitlin de boor or as that ship
already sailed.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh boy, at this point, I wouldn't be shocked if
they did wait.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
But I don't. I think that dbor ship is sailed.
I think there's no way he would take the job now.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
And he's not gonna if they had lost to Oklahoma
twenty four to ten and he's going back to Tuscaloosa
and it is just a firestorm. You know, there was
a small I thought there was a small chance he'd say,
you know what, I don't want my family to be
subjected to this, and then he'd leave. But now, even
if they lose it in the end, the Alabama fans

(11:13):
are not going to call.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
For divorce head. So I think that he's that chip
has sailed for Michigan.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yep, John widows with us. So you know, Dan Lanning,
that son of a bitch. I want to hate his guts.
And then he goes out and says something I totally
agree with what he said. I think it was today
where he said, look this game against Texas Tech in
the Orange Bowl, right, should be played in Lubbock. There
should be some advantage for Texas Tech to having being
a top four seed, winning their conference and getting a buye.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
And the advantage is they just get a bye.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Right, they don't get to play at home, but they
get the bye, they have to go play in Miami
at the Orange Bowls. So number one, do you agree
with Dan Lanning that these quarter final games should be
played at home sites?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
And do you think that will ever have in reality?

Speaker 6 (12:02):
I do think it'll happen. I also I agree with it,
but I thought the same thing. Oregon deserved a home
game last year undefeated one to Big ten, just like Indiana,
they deserved a home game. I think that if they
go to sixteen, what they should do is a straight
seed sixteen, a one play sixteen, and you got the

(12:24):
top eight seeds.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
All are at home for that round.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
That's a distinct possibility. If they don't go to sixteen,
I don't know. They may keep this stupid system. It's
all because the beholden to the bulls because they need
you know, the peach, cotton, orange sugar Fiesta rose they had.
The sport has got such a long history with most
of those bulls. They want them to be part of

(12:50):
the big games. And if you completely uproot the structure
of the playoff right and put like the first round
or two at home, then some of those six bowls
can't host big games.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, and that's a big part of their problem.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well, I guess there's a lot of folks after last
week's performances by James Madison and Tulane using that as
evidence that those types of programs don't belong in the
College football Playoff.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
What do you say to that idea?

Speaker 6 (13:21):
I say Ohio State forty two, Tennessee seventeen. I also
say Ohio State thirty four, Oregon zero.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
I think that was a score in the second quarter
of the Rose Bowl. They're blowouts.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
I looked back last year's NFL Playoffs Wildcard round average
margin was fifteen points.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
There's blowouts in the first round in all sports. I
think it's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Look, the bottom line is, James Madison got in because.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
The ACC screwed up its tiebreaker.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
No, if ACC hadn't screwed up, it would have just
been Tulane. They would have played in Eugene and they
wouldn't be nearly this out. People are upset at James
Madison and the Group of five.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Because the ACC screwed up. So the college football has
always been about access. It's always been an open system.
And the thing is.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
If they try to cut the Group of five out,
there will be an anti trust lawsuit. They had an investigation,
a congressional investigation into it ten years ago. That's the
reason that there's a spot for the Group of five
because they're going to get the big guys are going
to get sued. So in some ways it's not worth
talking about. When they do restructure for next year, there

(14:34):
is a new clause that prevents the Group of five
from getting two bids. There's still one guaranteed, but they
can't get two.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, well, John, Before we get to your pick, Willner's
winner is on a roll twelve and four seventh straight.
The Wendelorian is just kicking ass and taking names walking
down a path and he is in the lead by
a mile. Nobody is and within breadth of this guy.
He's been so dominating. So a hell of a performance
by you will go for thirteen to four and eight

(15:07):
in a row in a second, But talk to all
the Husky fans out there, and I guess fans of
teams in general that are kind of wondering what's going
on with a transfer portal. I mean Adam Mohammad, who
was set to become the starter at running back next
year for you, dub is in the portal. Rayden vines Bright,
who was a potential star as a freshman at wide receiver,
is in the portal, and fans are wondering what's behind

(15:29):
all of this?

Speaker 4 (15:30):
What's your take on them?

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Well, I think money's behind it, all right, I mean
that's this is the way the way the world works.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
I mean we I think we talked about it last week.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
Nobody's guaranteed to get all their guys back, no matter
what those players say before the season ends.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
They're out there.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
They're seeing what the best deal is, and it's up
to Fish and his staff to manage their money properly,
sort out their salary structure by position, make the best
offers to the guys that they want to.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Keep, and and hope for the best.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
This is the way of the world. Washington is not
immune from it at all.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Now, no question about that.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Man.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, we'll see what happens. Some of these guys could
end up coming back. I mean hell, Will Rogers for
sure put his name in the portal after Kitlin to
board left for Alabama and then pulled himself out after
they hired Jed Fish, and Jed talked him into staying
at Washington. Man, So a lot of these guys made
upstaying all right, John, before you go, hell of a
run for you man, seven in a row on the air,

(16:28):
seven in a row.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Twelve and four.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Overall, you nailed it with Alabama and Oklahoma a week ago,
to go thirteen and four and to run this thing
to eighth straight.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Who do you like this week? My friend?

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Well, I guess the.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
First thing I should ask you is do we have
a show next Tuesday?

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Because I'd like to pick a playoff game. But if
we got the show next Tuesday, I can do it.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Bet Jackson, you tell us John, yes, he says, yes,
You're on the year Tuesday unless you have something better plan.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
By the way, so never, well never, we'll play.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
I will hold off my playoff my quarterfinal pick for
next Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
But right now I will actually pick a game that
is being.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
Played tomorrow night, Uhaii, the Hawaii Bowl. I want to
say kickoff is at like five o'clock. I'm not sure
it's Cal. It's fat ya Cal at Hawaii in uh
in Honolulu, and I'm going to take the Bears because
I think that they are going to be their quarterback,

(17:30):
Jaron Kiwa is from a beach.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
It's a homecoming for him.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Nick Rolovich, your listeners know that name well. He used
to coach at Hawaii. He is Cal's interim coach. I
think they are going to have Cal fired up for
this game, and Cal will cover what I think is
a three point spread.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
No, it's a point and a half. That's it.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Point a half even better, yeah, yeah, even better. Col's
cow's getting a point and a half. By the way,
oh they are, Yes, yes, it's Hawaii minus a point
and a half. So Cal's a dog in this game.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
I will take Rollo.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
I love it. I love it California.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
I don't know what's more impressive the fact that you
pronounced the cals quarterbacks name properly or the fact that
you've won seventh straight. Either way, we love you, man,
have a great holiday, Appreciate everything you do for the
radio show and Dick and Jackson.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I'll have you next Tuesday, all right.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Thanks Sam to your listeners, and thanks to simply Seattle for.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Everything, No question, great call man, all right, cal plus
the point and a half against Hawaii in the Hawaii
Ball is the pick for John Wilner. We're going to
break Saren Petro gonna join us from Kansas City Chiefs
are moving to a different state. At five point forty
five on ninety three three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
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Speaker 3 (18:59):
So can you explaining something to me like I'm an idiot?
Which I am, so it should be easy. Why does
Dak Prescott have a higher QBR than Matt Stafford does?
When Stafford's thrown twelve more touchdowns, five less picks, averages
more yards per throw, has thrown for four more passing

(19:21):
yards on thirty three less attempts than Dak Prescott.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
His QBR is a broken statistic. It is, I mean
it is.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm looking at Matt Stafford because I was just for
I just saw a story on Dak Prescott who vows
a turnaround in twenty twenty. Shits great, fine, whatever, I'm
rooting for you. You're a nice guy. Matt Stafford's got
forty touchdowns, five interceptions, Dak Prescott has twenty eight and ten.
Dak Prescott has thrown for four and seventy five yards.

(19:50):
Matt Stafford's thrown for and seventy nine yards. One guy's
at eight point one yards per throw, one guy's at
seven point six yards per throw. And Matt Stafford's done
this on thirty three less passes than Dak Prescott has.
Yet he's got a lower QBR than Dak Prescott does.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
I don't get.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
It's a broke there's no other I don't mean to
be so simple about it. I maybe you can strip
fan more. It's a broken statistic. It clearly doesn't measure
accurate quarterbacks. I don't know how we're supposed to measure quarterbacks. Then,
because they say passer rating doesn't matter, it's QBR. Then
they say, don't worry about passing yards, it's completion percentage.
Then they say no completion percentage.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's dumb.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
It's yards per attempt. So can we just figure this out?
So as sports fans, how we're going to judge quarterbacks,
how we're gonna rank quarterbacks when it comes to deciding
who's at the top and who's at the bottom.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Firstly, I would say, no, we can't fans all agree
on something because that never happens. I mean the same
thing with starting pitching, right. I mean, for years it
was wins and that you know, it's just blatantly wins.
And then we grew up and figured out when we
should look at more than just wins, right, And then
we figured out, oh, we shouldn't just look at eer a.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
We have to look at all the f war and
war and bab.

Speaker 7 (21:00):
Whatever, all those stupid stats that Andrews knows a lot
more than I do.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
But bapav is an offensive stat by sure, right, That's
tells you how much I know.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
But I would just say that, like with quarterbacking, I
think it just does come down to what you value
as a fan. Yeah, well, so okay, this guy throws
more touchdowns, cool, this guy can escape the pocket better, cool, whatever.
I just we have to look at very individual statistics.
We can't view it overall. It's like talking about the
greatest of all time, greatest in what this, that or whatever.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Yeah, I think I think, by the way, for me
just to answer my own question, not that you give
a damn it, I'll tell you anyway, the most impressive
season I think at quarterback has probably been Matt Stafford
overall from week one to wherever the hell we are
now week sixteen. But I also do think that the
season that a guy that Drake May's putting together, a

(21:49):
season that a guy like Dak Prescott's putting together, Bo
Nicks is putting together.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I don't know, man. The MVP race to me is
wide open.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Remember back in the day, it was gonna be Jonathan Taylor,
and then Daniel Jones got hurt, and then Jonathan Taylor
fell apart. I mean they were going over all the
numbers on the game broadcast last night on Monday Night Football.
If Daniel Jones had stayed healthy, Jonathan Taylor probably wins
the MVP with the way that he was running the ball.
I mean, hel Jackson Smith and Jigbu for me, should
be in the MVP conversation. I don't have any idea

(22:20):
who's gonna win this thing. It is wide freaking open.
Everything is wide freaking open in the NFL. The possibility
of the amount of teams that could win the Super Bowl,
the amount of teams that could win a conference, the
amount of teams that can win the are players that
can win the MVP.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
It is bananas, dude.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
How many things are still massively undecided with only a
couple of weeks left in the NFL season. One thing
we do know is this the Chiefs are done. They
will not be in the playoffs, and they're moving out
of Arrowhead for the first time. They will play somewhere
else since nineteen seventy one. Sarn Petro from WHB and

(22:58):
then Petros Pop Padakas at six all coming up on
ninety three to three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
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Speaker 3 (23:19):
All Right, boys and girls, a busy Tuesday night continues
right here on ninety three to three kjr FM. Petros
Papadakas will join us six pm coming up next segment.
He's off tomorrow as all of us are for Christmas Eve,
and we thought, you know what, there's a lot of
things on the bucket list that we haven't accomplished yet
here on this radio station in over thirty years, and

(23:40):
going from Siren Petro of eight ten WHB in Kansas
City to Petros Papadaccas is one thing that we have
not yet done.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
And we are going to do that.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
And start the process of going from Serene Petro to
Petros Papadoccus. Right frickin' now, we're crossing it off the list, baby,
because here he is our friend from Kansas City, a
ten whb, our buddy, Saren Petro, s Ren Mary, Christmas,
Happy Holidays.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
How are you?

Speaker 8 (24:06):
Man? It's same to you, my friend, and everybody there
in Seattle, and it is, you know, just always a
pleasure to beyond with a true trailblazer like yourself making
radio history here today.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love it, Yeah, no doubt, man, I'm glad that
you appreciate the impact that this moment we'll have on
the radio community. But hey, dude, lots of stuff to
talk about, the Chiefs moving back to Kansas across the
state line, the chief season at least from a playoff perspective,
coming to an end the other week. Let's just talk
about that man, because dude, you knew at some point,

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like we didn't Seeattle the Lob era was going to
end at some point, and you knew that this Mahomes Reed.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Kelsey era was also going to end at some point.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
I guess the question is is it over or did
it just hit maybe a little bit of a speed
bump here.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
You know.

Speaker 8 (24:56):
The hope is that this is a reset, not a rebuild,
but there's no doubt I think, you know, if the
Travis Kelsey era is not over in Kansas City, then
somebody's making some big mistakes in the front office because
I don't think he wants to come back and play
for five to seven million dollars, which is really what
his abilities warant right now. You can't be paying him
eighteen million dollars anymore. They're thirty five million over the

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cap for next year, and that's without all the players
that are free agents and walking away, So they have
to do some serious cutting just to be able to
keep you know the team they've got, let alone add
to it. So I think the Kelsey part is over.
There's no better time your quarterback is rehabbing. You know,
you know you've got cap issues anyway, why try to
force it? Go ahead and pair things down, maybe even

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take a step back in twenty six as well, to
set yourself up for the rest of Patrick mahomes time
in Kansas City. He's thirty years old this year. Thirty
one needs to be a reset so that you can
be as strong as possible for his age thirty two
to thirty seven or eight year old seasons. And that's
what you need to do. And I expect the Chiefs
to make those kind of moves.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, saren We saw Russell Wilson change a lot when
he was here as a quarterback. Obviously, the older he got,
the less the legs were a factor, and he was
eventually surrounded by an entirely new roster. What does Patrick
Mahomes five seven years from now look like? Does he
look like a scrambler? Does he look like Peyton Manning?

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Does he look like a reasonable facts simile? Talk to
me about what the fans expect and what the Chiefs
think they'll get from Mahomes in the next half decade
or so.

Speaker 8 (26:26):
You know, when you're a kid and you know you
know nothing's under your bed, but you don't want to
look because you know something might be.

Speaker 9 (26:34):
Under your bed.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
Like to me, the question you asked is Chiefs fans
not wanting to look under the bed? Like, is Mahomes
gonna be able to morph into just a pure pocket passer.
He's not a scrambler, He's not a run He's a
very efficient, you know, playmaker.

Speaker 9 (26:47):
Right.

Speaker 8 (26:47):
What he does he knows when he can take almost
always when he takes off, he gets to the first
down mark, he gets outside, he keeps his eyes down field.
He creates opportunities to make plays. And I think anyone
with those abilities, like the guys that can really they
usually run too much because they grew up their whole
time in high school. Like, hey, if it's not wide open,
why not just take off because I can run for
sixteen yards. You know, Mahomes is always taken off to

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try to make a play, throwing first, and then he'll
scoop for the first down, move the chains if he can.
But what happens when he can't do that? When he
can't evade when he can't get outside. I think you
mentioned Russell Wilson. You can talk about you know a
number of guys. Donovan McNabb was suddenly old at thirty
two years old. Is that the future for Patrick Mahomes
or is the future a little more Aaron Rodgers esque
who was very good with his feet but was able

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to just kind of evolve into more of a pocket passer.
The hope is he's Aaron Rodgers. What do we know?

Speaker 4 (27:35):
We don't know.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
We don't know, because I don't think any quarterback really
knows until he can't do it. I'll say this, his
spatial awareness of just where everybody is on the field
where he is, his ability to know what he can
make it and not make it, I think gives him
the best chance to age well. But he's gonna have
to change, and the Chiefs are gonna have to change
what they do around him. They're going to have to
make sure that they're good at tackle. They're going to
have to make sure that they have weapons, guys that

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can get open and get open quick. They're gonna have
to vary offense. The offense already needs an overhaul. I
think that's a very scary question that they've got to answer.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Well, Saren Petro eight ten WHB with us. We'll get
to Petros Papadakis next segment. How about how about Andy?

Speaker 9 (28:11):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
I mean, he's sixty seven, but he's not seventy seven.
I know Pellisero and Rapaport reported over the weekend that
he's not getting fired and he's not going to retire.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Is that what you're hearing too out there?

Speaker 8 (28:25):
I've been telling people there have been what I will
call erroneous reports, whether it was you know, from Fox,
whether it was from Pro Football Talk over the last
couple of Super Bowls and Amy Reid was mowing retirement.
You know how the Super Bowls get, everybody's looking for
a new headline and they take some semi quote from
Andy Reid twisted out and try to act like he's
been thinking about retiring. I believe that the man will
coach football and tell either someone says you can't do

(28:47):
it anymore, or he physically can't do it. And I'm
not saying you know that, you know, heart attack or something,
but he's had some leg surgery, some knee surgeries. If
he can't get around the practice facility, if he can't
get around the field, then I think you would see
him step away right now you can still do, I
don't think, and Andy reads the type of guy that
he does not want to walk out on a down year.
That may mean that he digs an even bigger hole
for the Chiefs if he has lost it, if the

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game has passed him by. But with the success he's
had in Kansas City, he's earned the right to be
the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs a year
too long, if that's what it takes to be sure
that he doesn't have the answer. So I think he'll
want to come back as long as he's physically capable
of coming back. I'd be shocked if he didn't.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, no doubt. I mean, Saren, I gotta be honest
with you.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
I was convinced that Pete Carroll would be allowed to
call his own shot in Seattle when and if the
time came, and I was wrong on that. He was
eventually fired by John Schneider and by Jody Allen. So
we'll see if if Andy Reid, you know, gets a
little bit of some different considerations from Kansas City.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Because I'm with you, I think he deserves it.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Sir n Speaking of the Chiefs, I'm fifty two and
the Chiefs have been at Arrowhead for fifty three years.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
I've literally never.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Known a Kansas City chief football team that does not
call Arrowhead Stadium home. The announcement yesterday, you guys, I
think broke the story right a week ago. They're gonna
move about twenty three miles west to Kansas near the
Kansas Speedway. How big a deal is this out in
Kansas City, Missouri? And our fans fired up? Are they

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angry about to move?

Speaker 8 (30:17):
What's the reaction both fired up and angry depends upon
which side of the state line you live on Kansas City.
So I know there are a lot of towns that
spill over into other states. You know that. You know,
I think Cincinnati spills into Kentucky. You know, Saint Louis
spills into Illinois. But Kansas City really is divided by
a state line, and that's created a lot of problems. Like,
you know, one side of the state line is paying

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for all of the stadium. Meanwhile payings on the other
side are rolling right in without having to pay me
taxes for it. So it's always presented challenges. There's certainly
a big rivalry going back to the Civil War between
KU and MU, between Kansas and Missouri. So you know,
Missouri people are disappointed that they're leaving. Kansas people are excited.
I really think it's the wrong way to look at it.
The bottom line is the Kansas City chief state in
Kansas City. We never got to I think this is

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good news. They never got to the point of having
to use other towns as scare tactics that all of you,
you don't pass the stadium, We're gonna go here. She's
played it brilliantly. They told Missouri, here's what we're looking for.
They told Kansas, here is what it is. Give us
the best deals possible, and they made the best business
decision there. They're what's called star bonds that Kansas has,
which is something good only a handful of state tab

(31:20):
where basically new revenue only taxes on new revenue only
will pay the stadiums off what you allow them to offer.
What is going to be up to four and a
half billion dollars for a new stadium out by Kansas
Speedway and then south of that a brand new practice
facility that the model will be the star in Frisco,
Texas the Cowboys. Yeah, you know, training facility that has
everything around it, So they're gonna have two different things

(31:43):
to generate revenue on the side, and when you're a
small market team, that's an important part of the equation
because that local revenue isn't shared, and the Chiefs had
virtually no local revenue whatsoever around the two stadiums. The
Truman Sports Complex was revolutionary it's time, but having giant
amounts of parking lots generates no revenue other than the
park working on game days, and the Chiefs are trying
to take that next step and modernizes a franchise and

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increase their revenue.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Screen Soren, you're the man. Great stuff, lots of stuff
going on out there. Have fun with it. Have a
great holiday, buddy, and we will talk very soon.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
Man.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Appreciate this, dude, Softie, you're the best.

Speaker 8 (32:16):
All my best of you and your.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Family you as well. Siren Petro.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Here we go eight ten WHB with an update from
Kansas City. We go from Siren Petro to Petros Papadakas Baby,
a special edition of Petros coming up next on ninety
three to three KJRFF.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football enalyst
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Speaker 9 (32:37):
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Speaker 4 (32:55):
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Alrighty boys and goes here we go one final time,
kind of getting this in under the gun.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Huh, right under the wire before the cracking take on
the La Kings in La Tonight. I wonder if our
next guest will be there. Chances are slim, I won't. Yeah,
we figured so. The Prince of Pigskin in Southern California,
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Speaker 4 (34:03):
That sounds like you went out of your way.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
I'm sensing to buy your producer something very nice, very.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Nice and thoughtful gift for Colin.

Speaker 9 (34:13):
Ye and the only thing people think to get me
is liquor because it's such a drunk and.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
It's just sad.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Oh well, that's really what you want though, right, everybody's
like here, look at here, here's a bottle of whiskey,
freaking lush. Yeah, I'm looking at a gift, a little
uh liquor container here with a little card, says softy
from my producer, Jackson felt maker container.

Speaker 9 (34:33):
What is it like a Saint Bernard with a barrel
under its? Exactly what you sound like an idiot?

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, hey man, god, it's a it's a bottle of Titos,
my favorite.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Oh great, hell, what do you want from me? I's
a drink like a college girl. What do you talk
about you bloody Mary throwing some titos in there? Do
you like a bloody man? Why don't you tell me
it's appropriate? What's not to drink at my age?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Go?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Please tell me? Well, you gat me you drink weird drinks?
Like what what do I drink?

Speaker 4 (35:07):
That's weird? Don't you drink like blue drinks and stuff
when you go out? Only when I'm in liking Hawaii
or what?

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Okay, you drink vodkatonics, right, vodka sodas vodka? So my
go to I'm trying to watch my figure, you know.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
So yeah, so I don't know, man, that's okay.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
It's kind of a chick drink, but whatever, vodka soda
is a chick drink. I mean, it's more of a
chick drink than it's not a chick drink.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, I would say it's more of a chick drink
than like, you know, a bourbon or a shot of
whiskey or what?

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Correct you know? Is there anything wrong? What the hell's
wrong with a vodka soda?

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Nothing? You know. I'm tired of you judging me every week. Well,
I'm sorry, what else do you want to be on for?

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Like I don't come here to be judged. I get
enough of that home for God's sakes.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah that's true. Hey, what the hell's going on with
a Notre Dame USC thing? Is this thing done? What's up?

Speaker 9 (35:54):
Yeah? They they bubbled it, they destroyed this. This is
really bad.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
And I hate to say, who's they at the top
of the blame.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Game leadership at USC.

Speaker 9 (36:04):
They don't have a president and Gen Cohen, who I
like very much, oh boy, allowed this to happen. And
it started with Lincoln Riley, and Lincoln Riley's the one
that started talking about the viability of the Notre Dame
rivalry as if he had a place to do that,
and they are doing it. They got into a kind

(36:27):
of a peeing match with Notre Dame going back and
forth after This should have just never been changed. It
should have been left like it always was in the
odd years us he plays there in mid October and
the even years Notre Dame plays out here during Thanksgiving.
It's like that for one hundred years, with very few
exceptions world wars and the pandemic. And it's your job,

(36:51):
if you're Jen Cohen, to make sure that the tradition stays,
to keep the tradition, and it's very ironic. It does
not lost on me that I have been somebody barking
about new blood in the USC athletic department for years
and years. But this could have never happened under Pat Hayden,

(37:12):
as bad as he was, or Mike Garrett for whatever
he let Pete Carroll get away with, and the lack
of institutional control. This would have never happened under Lynn's Swann.
I don't think the bone Areno would have done this.
Mike Bohone. But USC doesn't even have a university president now.
And it's a great example.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
What happened to Carol? Where'd she go?

Speaker 9 (37:34):
Carol Folt is gone, They got rid of her, she
resigned her or retired or whatever.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Carrol.

Speaker 9 (37:40):
Yeah, and now they have like an interim and there's
nobody to stop this. And let me say this, there's
a reason that the former players are really upset because
the thing that made you cool if you played at USC,
the thing that sets you apart from other great programs
in the West, was the Notre Dame rivalry and the

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legitimacy that it gave USC, and playing in the Big
ten is not the same. I'm sorry say whatever you want,
but it's not the same as the Notre Dame rivalry.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
It was unique.

Speaker 9 (38:12):
People say, well, this rivalry went away, that rivalry went away,
Well why did they go away. They went away because
of conference shifting. But USC and Notre Dame never had
that problem. It transcended that. And I don't care how
entitled Notre Dame acts or how annoying they are to
deal with. It's your job to make and at a

(38:33):
certain degree Notre Dame as well, although they didn't start this,
but it's your job to make sure that the rivalry stays. Now,
I don't think it matters anymore. I don't if USC
doesn't play Notre Dame. Yeah, and they might as well
get rid of the band and have a DJ. I'm
not even kidding. They might as well play at Bemo
Stadium instead of the Coliseum where the LAFC plays. They

(38:55):
might as well go ahead and wear the alternate uniforms
and do all that stupid crap that everybody else does.
They might as well start scheduling FCS teams because that's
what they want to do. Obviously, that's what they're going
to replace Notre Dame with. They might as well wear
purple and pink and stupid ass shoes. They might as well.

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They might as well put names on the back of
the jerseys. Honestly, it's not USC football anymore.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Well, so let me go back to the Jen Cohen
thing for a second, all right, because I don't I mean,
what what should she like? I'm just hearing like surface,
I don't know. I mean, they should have saved it, well,
I mean, did she that's your job? Ultimately they tried.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (39:39):
I mean, they didn't try hard enough, because it's your
job to make sure it doesn't go away.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (39:45):
Then they got lost in the fervor of whatever these
negotiations were in semi public because everybody's known, this has
been going on for a year, and they got lost
in the fervor of negotiations. I think they forgot about
what their duty was, which was to preserve the rivalry.
Athletic directors come and go and so to coaches. This

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rivalry is not supposed to do that, and the fact
that they both let it slip away is really I mean.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
I hate to say it, but I have. I'm disgusted
by it.

Speaker 9 (40:15):
Yeah, Usually if somebody says they're disgusted by something that
happens in sports, I think, Wow, what a blow hard,
What a tool. But today I am that blowharden tool
because I really am super pissed off.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
How disgusted were you by dk Metcalf taking a swing
at that?

Speaker 9 (40:32):
Well, that's what I'd like to do with you, if
you had longer hair. I'd like to grab your hair
and hold you close and then use your hair as
a springboard to do like a flying anime punch like
like make Medcalf did like a punch up, like kind
of like Mario when he punches the rock above his head.
You know that's the kind of punch. So I saw

(40:53):
that and I felt like, Wow, that's something I'd like
to do to me.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Yeah, when was the last time you socked a guy
like really saw? A long time? It's been a lot
high school college.

Speaker 9 (41:02):
I stay in line because my radio partner is such
big arms. My radio partner's arms are so swollen. He
surfs every day and he fights the Pacific Ocean and
he's like pop by the sailorman out there.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Is he the kind of guy that like shows up
to work with like a wife beater and shows his
guns off.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
He might as well. He's swollen as hell, man.

Speaker 9 (41:24):
But yeah, when we have it, if we have a
summertime event in a beach city, yeah, almost guaranteed tank top.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Well, if I looked like him, i'd show him off
to Oh I.

Speaker 9 (41:33):
Just got and the Chargers of eleven wins. You know,
I mean, right now, we are puffed, We are puffed.
It's my time right now, cock of the walk Down.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:44):
Well, my question, like the Great Buddy Guy song, it's
your time right now, but it might be my time
after a while.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
My question about DJ is this, we do we completely
rip apart DK Metcalf for what happened?

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Or is there any room.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
At all for disgust at whatever came out of that
found fan's mouth?

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Period?

Speaker 9 (42:11):
Well, it feels like that guy is there all the
time and didn't say and he's all lawyered up because
if you sit in those seats, you're not poor, So.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
I haven't. I think DK Metcalf just really hates that guy.

Speaker 9 (42:26):
He does, and he was all fed up and he
lost his mind for a second. You can't fight. You
can't fight with fans. It's you can't. You have to
ignore them. Even college players know that.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Yeah, come on, do you ever hear anything just awful
the coliseum or on the road when you played?

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Always everybody may look at me.

Speaker 9 (42:45):
I'm funny looking, I'm white, and it hurts those words
hurt hey, funny looking away guy. Yeah, hey, your uniforms clean.
It's like it's terf you a whole everybody's clean.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
What was the where was the you know I do?

Speaker 3 (43:02):
I gotta tell you, honestly, the worst place as far
as language, that I've ever visited.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Eugene.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Well, no, you're gonna be shocked to hear this, by
the way, Gill Coliseum, Oregon State basketball sitting in front
of the students.

Speaker 9 (43:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
I've never been in there. Horrible. Yeah, I've never. I've never.
I've never been there.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
To be fair, that was twenty five years ago, man,
But yeah, Eugene would be a second place.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
The people that come over from Springfield are rabid, too
toothy built duck fans, and they are really mean, like
they really really get mad, like they really take it personally.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Oh god, I understand. You know, people are angry out there.

Speaker 9 (43:42):
I'm angry too, very very very very some fat faced
bearded organ douche, you know, in a north Face Vest.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
So there's two kinds of guys. By the way, there's
two kinds of husbands. And you know this as well
as me. Those that wait until Christmas Eve to get
all they're shopping done for their signific Another are those
that are done and finished and wipe their hands of
it by the Tuesday before Christmas Day, which yeah, I mean.

Speaker 9 (44:08):
My wife and I are. We have an understanding, you know,
we don't get that much for each other. We hate
raising our very difficult children, and we just fight our
way through the Christmas season. It's best if it's not
a time of joy. It's a time of panic. It
is a time of disgust, it's a time of anger,

(44:28):
It's a time of of heated feelings, and just a
time that I look forward to the end of the
season every year. And then when almost immediately when my
season ends, I look back and go, what was I
striving toward?

Speaker 4 (44:43):
This is worse. You know, I'm getting worn out. These
kids are in grades. You'd rather be covering a game
in Albuquerque.

Speaker 9 (44:51):
Yeah, let me go see talk to let me talk
to right, we spend a little good time with a
red roof in some one. I will always almost immediately regret,
longing and pining for the end of the season.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
You know what I've been doing.

Speaker 9 (45:07):
I've been watching a lot of a lot of city
council meetings on YouTube, watching like local cities attack, like
people attack each other on the city council. And I
don't know what it says about me or what's wrong
with me, but I find it very gratifying. I exhausted
a whole year of politics in West Covina, and I

(45:30):
moved on to Huntington Beach last night, which I just
I can't get enough of.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Hmm.

Speaker 9 (45:36):
And I heard that Santa Clarita got pretty hot recently
with some accusations of corruption.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Arguments back and forth. H yeah, Is they really get
out of control though? Like violent? Well, there was a
physical altercation in West Covene about a year ago.

Speaker 9 (45:52):
Yes, and what happened, Well, these people are pretty old,
so they just kind of wrestle around.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
And shake him down. There was the guys like that's battery,
that's battery. What this amount of rusted? What I'm arrested
right now? Hey, look in my face, it's flushed and read.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
If you've been following any of the transfer portal news
coming out of you.

Speaker 9 (46:17):
No, No, it's overwhelming. I can barely follow though. I've
re signed, right. You know, UCLA just got their quarterback back. Yeah,
they got nico Ia Malayama back, which probably means that
he didn't like his draft grade and they're gonna pay
him three million dollars to stay with a more stable
coach under a Jney Chesney. Yeah, right, right, so we'll see.

(46:41):
I think that's probably a good move by old Nico. Well,
we're just wondering to know how the quarterback draft classes
all shake out, the NFL experts and stuff, But he
could probably use another year getting paid millions of dollars
and have a better looking year and kind of solidify
himself more as a as a leader of young men.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
I don't think it looks good on paper the draft class.
I mean, look, I love Frando Mendoza. I think he's gritty,
He's gutty, Ferdy Mendoza.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
You like.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Trophy win.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
I love his ability to speak so freely deservedly so
with the Heisman Trophy. But number one pick in the
NFL draft, I don't know, man, are you seeing that?

Speaker 4 (47:20):
What do I know? I'm asking you as a football mind.

Speaker 9 (47:24):
Well, he runs kind of in a dorky way, but
he's I mean, every time I watch Ferdy Mendoza play,
he plays really well. I was impressed with him at Cal,
going to places like Auburn and winning, and I think
he's obviously a guy that can lead an offense and
he's tough as nails and he seems to be able
to get the ball out and throw it when and

(47:45):
where it's supposed to go.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
This is fantastic analysis, but yeah, there you go.

Speaker 9 (47:51):
Oh god, he does still kind of like do that
that nerd lean when he runs.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Well, how about what Diego Pavias said when he lost
the Heisman trophy.

Speaker 9 (48:01):
Yeah, he said, F softy, that's not well you kind
of you softy laughing.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
F F those you're a voter. F the voters, man.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Yeah, and then Reese Davis came out family Forever but
Family Reysese Davis came out and said he regretted voting
for him for the Heisman because he said, F the voters.

Speaker 9 (48:17):
Yeah Rhese Davis didn't like that. No, Reece Davis is
a pretty buttoned up guy.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
From what I understood. He's not a slovenly sloppy idiot
like you were my side. So what is the what's
the big toy for the kids this Christmas?

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Like?

Speaker 4 (48:30):
What are they into?

Speaker 9 (48:31):
Now?

Speaker 3 (48:31):
What's the I'm not following this stuff. I don't it'd
be creepy if I did, because I don't have any kids.

Speaker 9 (48:36):
My daughter likes clothes and makeup. My son likes electronics,
motors and things. Motors, yeah, lawnmowers, things like that. He
used to love washing machines and now he's on the bicycles.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
I do remember that you said he liked washing machines.

Speaker 9 (48:53):
Oh, I used to have to take them to the
lows and sit there for an hour while he went
through all the machines and hit the buttons, and the
salespeople rolled their eyes at me inside because they knew
I wasn't going to buy a machine.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Oh, that is fantastic.

Speaker 9 (49:05):
And then we used to go to the the laundrymat.
He would demand to go to the laundry mat, even
though we have a washer and dryer right right, yeah,
And there'd be like the homeless guy washing his clothes
when his underwear staring at the right next to my son.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
People see Petro's Papaaka's big famous highly paid La radio guy.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
To laundry mat thing. Yeah, what do people think is
going on?

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Falling on tough times here, for God's sakes, going into
a freaking laundry mat Well, I have.

Speaker 9 (49:30):
Been selling some oranges and some Center diviners and stuff
this year.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
You ever buy fruit from a stand on the street
like that? Sometimes?

Speaker 5 (49:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Yeah, there's a guy.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
That's set up shop right outside my house, just down
the street, down the block. Pretty sure he's working illegally,
but whatever, it's fine. I don't give a damn.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
What about the brick and mortar businesses in your neighborhood?
Your back on that?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah? Ah right, well we gotta go. We got I
love you. I'm very grateful for you and your audience. Time,
shut up, zip it. You are not you hate doing
this every day.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
That's not true. It's the pain of the ass. I
enjoy it. Doing this show is a pain in your
Greek ass, and you know it. No, I enjoy it,
all right? Yeah you look, you're I've even done this
show for free, and that you have done.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
This show for free, and then sweet James tripled this
out of the Remember when, remember when you used to
get a fifty every week?

Speaker 4 (50:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:23):
But yeah, well we got you more. All right, we
got to run good stuff. We love you, best of
the family. That quarterback analysis you pay more, that was
absolutely incredible.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Man.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Yeah, Ball gets out.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
The insight you bring to the table every week is
unmatched in this industry.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
I see him work that quarterback progression.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
I'm off next week. You want to talk to Dick
or you want to take the week off?

Speaker 9 (50:44):
What you want to do? Is Dick gonna know if
I say no?

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Yeah, probably, but whatever say it, he said, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
I don't know yet. Okay, I'll see it, man, love you,
best of the family.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and yeah, all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
I love you too. Bye, see you, man.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Petros Papadakis with us, all right, we're going to break
and get out of here.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
That's it for us. Dick's got you.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Starting next week, I'll take a little bit of time off,
reset the engine, come back, and then just kill it.
In twenty twenty six. Appreciate everybody tuning into the radio show.
I know it's difficult at times to stomach, and we
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I know, God forbid man.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Without you, there's no us whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
We'd just be wandering around with no point in life,
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Speaker 4 (51:44):
So yeah,