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Joba and the Mouth 10-13-25 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The New York Jets and head coach Aaron Glenn returned from London
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still seeking their first win of the season and Glenn's first as
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head coach after falling to the Broncos 13 to 11, bringing their
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record to Owen 6. Can quarterback Justin Fields,
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who had -10 net passing yards on the day, find a way to turn it
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around or is this the end of the well traveled young quarterbacks
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time behind Center for gangrene? The Penn State Nittany Lions
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fired head coach James Franklin after yet another loss to a team
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that they were 20 point favorites to 22 to 21 to
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Northwestern, their third straight loss of this season.
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Franklin's record in big games may have been the main culprit,
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but how influential were donors and sponsors in making this
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decision to move on from the longtime coach with 49 million
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guaranteed remaining on his contract?
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And before we whip around the rest of the Week six NFL
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schedule, we'll breakdown the start of the AL and NL
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Championship Series with the Mariners leading one O on the
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Blue Jays in the middle of Game 2 right now and the Dodgers and
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Brewers kicking off the NLCS later tonight as we go live for
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another. All gasps, no breaks.
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Receipt wielding Monday night edition of.
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Jabba. And the man?
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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A.
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Game where? You got to.
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Go for four, I told you. Giant feet and Saquon Barkley.
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At this Let's do it.
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w.worldwidesportsradio.com. Well, it was a rainy, rainy
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weekend here in Long Island, New York, NY City.
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It would and now I don't know what you call it.
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What is this like a northeastern or something?
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It was windy, it was a storm, it was rainy.
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It was disgusting out today and I had to drive in it.
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But nevertheless, All in all, I like this weather.
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We're in the 60s probably if we got down to the 50s and the 40s,
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I think that would be my favorite time of year weather.
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I I don't like it under 40 because once you hit those 30s
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he gets icy and dangerous and I don't like driving in danger
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even though I usually do speedy. What's up, man?
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And enjoying this a little bit of the fall weather.
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Shout out to my dog. Dealing with a lot actually.
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I had to have a surgery. Recently I got 6 teeth teeth.
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Pulled. Yeah, he's still in a bit, a
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little bit of. A That's a surgery.
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Yeah, it's a it's a process. He's still in a little bit of a
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daze. They put him under anesthesia
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for a while. He's no really like if you watch
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him like walk around outside like he does, he's like what?
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He's like dozing off. He wants to crash and
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everything. It's like it's been tough, but
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overall it's been a struggle for my uncle more than this for me.
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I would love to try whatever they give the dogs to put them,
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like put them down or put them to sleep so they can do all
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those surgeries. That's what I would like to try,
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a little dose of that. Well, I'm going to need a big
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dose because I'm a big dog, if you know what I mean.
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But nevertheless, I'm happy that your dog is feeling better.
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It was a crazy, crazy weekend for me.
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I don't understand it. I was supposed to go to this
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like food festival and it was cancelled because of the
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weather. And then they were supposed to
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have it open today and Brittany couldn't go anyways today even
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if it was open but the weather. So they cancelled it and they're
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not returning the money. So it was like $65 to get a VIP
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section at the festival and Brittany lost $120.00.
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Not only that, she lost $700.00 because she was supposed to go
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to Central Park for that concert with Shakira and Cardi B.
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The weekend was supposed to be there.
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She did not want to see Cardi B so she decided not to go.
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She spent $350.00 a ticket for me and her and she lost $700.00.
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So and then we just got back from Florida.
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So I don't know, it's been a crazy one.
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But you know what with sports and yesterday I got, I got a
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chance to hang out because it was raining at Miller's Ale
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House. I watched practically every game
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all the way towards 7:00 where I left Miller's Ale House.
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I started from 12:00 to 7:00 at Miller's Ale House.
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It was fun. Deer Park Ave. if if you've
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never been there, the food's great.
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I'll give him a shout out over there over on this show.
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Miller's Ale House, love it. It's one of my favorite places,
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one of my favorite sports bars to go to.
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It is sensational, Speedy. You've been there.
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We hang out, I think. I've been to that one.
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I remember that one. I'm talking about Miller's hair
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house. You like the food?
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Yes, of course. What is your favorite food over
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there? Prime Burger.
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The prime burger. What do you have on your Prime
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Burger? So it's a, it's a, it's
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mushrooms. There's, there's like those
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fried onion thingies, there's melted cheese on it.
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There's. Fried onion thingies, that's
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what he says. You hear that, Tommy Fried?
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Onion think you mean like fried onion rings?
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Not not rings, they're. They're, well, they're in the
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shape. They're like, they're like BBQ
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onions, but they're they're fried a little bit.
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They're onion. They're onion rings, straws.
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They're just thin onion rings. That's what they are.
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They're like straw rings. That's what they call them.
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That's what they call them. Speedy, I mean.
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Like onion straws or? Something yeah, that's what
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they're called. I mean, I understand.
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And by the way, if you've never had the the prime rib burger
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over there at Millersdale House, well, you are missing a treat
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because it's actually if you like prime rib, you'll love the
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prime burger over there. I also like the cube bacon
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burger. It's really, really good over
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there. That was.
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Going to be my next one. That's a that's a really good
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burger. It is.
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It really is. But you got to put a little bit
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of honey mustard on it, you know, I know everybody's going
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to make jokes. You and the honey mustard.
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Thing I'm just saying you're glad Goody and Jabba is not
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here. They would have they.
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Would have been all. Not yet.
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I am a honey mustard fan. I don't know what it is with
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with. With on the burger dude, yeah.
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Absolutely. I don't know about on a burger.
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I'll try it. I'm telling you, go try the
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honey mustard on the Q bacon burger.
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It's delicious. It is absolutely delicious.
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So Q bacon burger? You mean it's got like roast
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pork on it? No, it's a regular burger.
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It's got all the different things.
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Tomato. Lettuce.
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It's got some. Cuban, like a Cuban sandwich is.
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Roast. No.
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Was it Cuban? It's AQ.
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Bacon Cuban. It's like AQ.
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It's literally spelled CUE bacon burger.
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It's a cute bacon. Burger, it does, yeah.
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BBQ what it is, Yeah. I mix you mix a little honey
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mustard with BBQ. It's got a nice taste to it.
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Has a little BBQ sauce on it. Yeah, it's a nice taste to it.
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What are you shaking your head for not?
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Honey mustard. Man, it's delicious.
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How could you not like honey mustard?
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How could you put honey mustard on a burger?
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What do you mean how could I put honey mustard?
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On that's a. That's a.
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That's a weird. Ladies and gentlemen, if you
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don't like honey mustard, raise your hand.
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I I'm raising my hand. I love it.
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I like it with chicken fingers. I like honey mustard.
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Well hold on, hold on one second.
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So that's all you would eat honey mustard with is chicken
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fingers. I think that's it.
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Me too. Honestly, I don't know.
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I don't know. I don't know anything.
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Else I don't. Maybe onion rings.
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Maybe onion rings if they're like a spicy onion.
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Ring so you don't use honey mustard on fries.
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Absolutely not. No way.
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Actually that that's pretty good.
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I've tried like if. It's delicious.
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Get away, get away from me with this mustard on.
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No, no, it's not mustard. I hate mustard.
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I like honey mustard. There's chicken tenders and
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fries. It's different.
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Fries and dip it in the honey mustard.
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It's different. I don't know where you where you
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guys think that honey mustard is so damn bad.
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It is delicious. It's got that nice sweet taste.
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It melts in your mouth and hopefully not in Speedy's pants,
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if you know what I mean. It does.
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It melts in your mouth. It does.
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It's. Yeah, it's just like M&M's.
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That's exactly. Absolutely, I'd rather have
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honey mustard than M&M's. I would.
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I love honey mustard, it's delicious.
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It depends also with what honey mustard it is.
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If it tastes too much like mustard, I can't stand the
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taste, so you. Basically just want honey with a
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little bit of mustard. It's got to be sweet.
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It's got to have to have a sweet taste to it.
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It's a little tangy taste to it. What's?
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Related question, you go to get breakfast?
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Yeah. Do you just douse everything in
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Maple syrup? No, I'm not a big Maple syrup
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fan. But that's like sweet, you know,
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I would think if you like honey mustard, you would be all in on
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the Maple. Syrup.
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No, I actually with my waffles, if I'm having waffles, I want to
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butter them down. I like to, I like to put a lot
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of butter on my pancakes and my waffles.
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And then I, I, I'm not going to say I don't put enough syrup on
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my waffles or pancakes, but I, I don't like completely drain it
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or what do they call it? Drench it.
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That's that's the word. Drench it with syrup.
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I, I don't, I definitely don't do that.
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So how? About a bacon, egg and cheese.
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Would you put honey mustard or ketchup on that?
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Bacon, egg and cheese. Ketchup.
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Absolutely. I would never put honey mustard
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on an egg sandwich. Thank you, you just made me
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almost like gag. I wouldn't do that.
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That's one thing I won't do. That's one thing I won't do.
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I would never put that on my egg sandwich.
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I like honey mustard too. I don't know about as much as
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you, but I mean I would never put honey mustard on my bacon,
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egg and cheese. No, nobody would do that.
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That would be really disgusting. And it would probably make
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everybody throw up. I would make me throw up.
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And I like honey mustard. I mean, I like my eggs too.
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If I'm pouring any honey mustard on my eggs, I'm probably going
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to throw up. So yeah, I don't want to go into
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the my food tasting possibilities in my future, all
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right, because that could be a great job for me.
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Could you imagine me walking to a restaurant and be a food
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taster and they don't even know who I am?
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And I walk right through the door and I'm like, could I have
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a, could I have a seat? And you see me walk right in and
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I'm like, I'll try this and I'll try that and I'll try this.
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Make sure you give me some of that honey mustard too.
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Those like the young people. You you make your own food show,
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it gets cancelled on you, you start your own and that's how
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you get at your. Event here is not one show if
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I'm a part of is ever going to get canceled and even if it was
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with food, I'm going to make it be funny and stupid at the same
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time. I I it it has to be funny.
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You can't go into a restaurant when somebody has a camera on
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you and not act like a Jackass. Honestly, you have to you have
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to show some personality. If there's some cameras pointing
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right at you and you're eating a beef sandwich or whatever the
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hell it is, you know what I like?
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Have you ever had those like they're like these steak flats,
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They're steak flats and they put steak on a piece of like bread,
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but they call them flats and they put like some kind.
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Of bread. No, it's not flatbread.
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It's flats. They call them flats, steak
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flats. And they put this like, I don't
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know what it is. It's like some kind of like some
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kind of like, I don't know what it is.
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It's some kind of cheese or something on it under, under the
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IT actually tastes really, really good.
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And I, and I can't remember what it is, but it is delicious.
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I, every time I have, I go to a party lessons.
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If if anybody has never been to a catering hall out here in New
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York, it's owned by practically every, every catering hall is
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owned by lessons. And it, it, it's a company
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owned, family owned. And they make some good food.
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And when they give you cocktail hour, when they're walking
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around with all different things, they're giving you
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sausages and all this other stuff.
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Yeah, they, they bring these like these steak flats out and
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they're, so I'm like stealing them.
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She brings all, she brings out the whole tray.
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How many you want? So I think.
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You described it very poorly. You just said it was like steak
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and there was cheese. Yeah, that and like you know.
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Something else is on it. Like flattened steak?
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Is it like hors d'oeuvre they beat it flat or?
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Something it is an hors d'oeuvre they they consider an hors
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d'oeuvre. Is it like a steak roll up like
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a flat steak? No, it's a piece of bread.
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It's got a little flat steak on it, and then it's got like this
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cheese and something else under the cheese and it's melted on
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it. It's really delicious.
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And they toast it. The bread is like a flat toast
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it. It really is delicious.
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I got to give Lessons a little bit of credit.
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You know, I don't want to scare anybody away, but if you like
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your food, go to Lessons. New York catering halls, you
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name it, the Condra Hall, go over there, Black, Bethpage
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Black, that's owned by Lessons. Go test out the phone at 8:45.
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We'll be talking to former New York Giants Super Bowl champion
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wide receiver Stephen Baker will be joining our show for the
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first time on Jabba and the Mouth.
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If you don't know who Stephen Baker, he's the playmaker. 1987
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and 92 was the Super Bowl 25 champion wide receiver.
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So we're very excited to have Stephen Baker on the show.
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Speaking of not excited and that has something to do with the New
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York Jets. The New York Jets went to London
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in search of their first win in 2025 and came up empty again,
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falling to the Broncos 13 to 11 in a defensive struggle.
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The Broncos sacked Justin Fields 9 times and are are on pace for
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the NFL record of 85 sacks in a season.
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The Jets are tied with the Titans for the most sacks
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allowed this season. Dustin Fields had only 45
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passing yards in the game -10 net passing yards with the yards
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lost in sacks -10 in the lowest totals in the game since 1998.
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The Jets played calling. Play Calling had color analyst
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Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner telling live audiences.
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I'm not sure what. I just watched as The Jets
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completed and blew a drive at the end of the first half.
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The aired to add injury on top of insult.
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SN Wise. Connor Hughes reports that
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Garrett Wilson suffered a knee injury during the fourth
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quarter, but apparently avoided a major injury after the MRI was
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done. After the game, Wilson is still
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expected to miss some time. When asked if Aaron Gladd would
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consider a quarterback change after fields of struggles, he
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responded to reporters. What kind of question is that
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today after receiving heat for this exchange, Glenn and said
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that Fields needs to play better but appears to be staying at
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with the struggling quarterback for now.
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I'm not going to blame Justin Fields for this debacle of a
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game. You travel all the way from New
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York to London. That's that's a long, long
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travel. The Broncos really, I thought
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would be at this point, 5 and one at worst.
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The Broncos have not had a good season.
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They have not. Their defenses looked really,
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really good. Their offense has been a shell
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of what they were last year, maybe because of lack of
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offensive weapons. They added Mr. Pot hands himself
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in the offseason. He made a couple of grabs.
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Courtland Sutton is a sensational wide receiver, but
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they don't have any secondary wide receivers on this team.
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And it's not going to be Franklin.
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I know everybody wants to believe that Franklin is a
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decent wide receiver. He's not a #2 The Jets all
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season long has looked like a peewee football team.
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You want to blame Aaron Glenn, so be it.
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The coach is going to get a lot of the heat.
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It usually happens that way. The quarterback is usually going
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to get the second most of the heat when the team isn't playing
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well, especially the offensive side of the ball.
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Justin Fields did not look good if you look at his numbers and
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his struggles. 9 completed passes out of 1745 passing
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yards. Sacked 9 times.
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His quarterback rating was 58.7. Here's the problem right now for
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the New York Jets, and I don't care what anybody says, the
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problem with The Jets is they can't run the ball.
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They cannot run the ball. Breece Hall had 22 attempts to
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rush the ball only 59 yards. He was averaging 2.7 a rush in
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the NFL. If you're rushing less than 3.5
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a rush, it's bad bad. And when Justin Fields is your
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#2 rusher, there's a problem, man.
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He had 7 carries for 31 yards. He averaged more yards per carry
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than their star running back in Breeze Hall.
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Breeze Hall is up for a contract at the end of the season.
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He does not look good. He's been up and down.
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He had one really unbelievable game against the Pittsburgh
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Steelers, and then it's been up and down really for the last six
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games, Five games because it's Week 6.
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They have nobody besides Garrett Wilson when it comes to their
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playmakers. Taylor's going to be a playmaker
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in the future. He's still young.
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Tight ends take three years to develop.
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I don't expect Taylor to really pick up this offense as quick
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being that it comes from LSU and and it comes from a college.
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Tight ends take a little bit longer because you're going to
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have to do a lot of different things.
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You're going to have to block, you're going to have to catch,
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you're going to have to run routes in an NFL style game.
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It's not that easy for a tight end.
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The Jets are not a good team. They're not.
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I'm not going to beat around the Bush.
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I'm not giant fans out there thinking, well, we beat the
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Eagles and we got Scataboo and we got dart.
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We're we look like we're going to be a Super Bowl contender in
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two or three years. And I'm not taking shots at the
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Giants. I'm just speaking facts here.
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Both teams are not good. They're not.
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And The Jets, to me, with the roster that they have, have more
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talent than the Giants, but the talent that they have on their
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roster are not being used in the right, proper way.
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So everybody's going to say it's Aaron Glenn's fault, it's Steve
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Wilkes his fault. Aaron Glenn hired Steve Wilkes
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everywhere. Steve Wilkes is gone as a
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defensive coordinator, even as a head coach.
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He was fired in one year by the Arizona Cardinals.
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Why? Why?
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How many coaches in the NFL get fired in just one year?
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There were stories coming out, many, many teams have said.
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That Steve Wilkes has worked for and coaches that have worked
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besides Steve Wilkes have said Steve Wilkes is not a people's
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person. He doesn't get over, he doesn't
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get along with a lot of his players.
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He has his own way of doing things.
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So my question to Aaron Glenn is if you know this and I
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understand you're friends with Steve, why did you choose Steve
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Wilkes to be your defensive coordinator?
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I love Aaron Glenn. I think Aaron Glenn is the coach
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of the New York Jets and their future.
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I, I think he's sensational. I think he has all the ability
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and the greatness to be a great Jets head coach in the future.
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I like the fact that Bill, he's a Bill Parcells disciple.
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We've heard many people say that, including Campbell saying
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that they believe he believes that this guy is going to be a
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sensational head coach in the NFL.
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Might take him a little while. The fact is there is nothing
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that tells me right now that this team can't compete.
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If you look at every single game this year besides the Buffalo
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Bills game, The Jets have been in every single game.
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They should have beaten Pittsburgh.
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They should have. Mistakes happen at the in the
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fourth quarter, with 5 minutes left of the game, The Jets had
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an 8 point lead. At one point in the fourth
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quarter, they choked. You look at all these games last
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night. Yesterday they had the ball with
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less than a minute left. Justin Fields was on the 50.
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All he had to do was run. Instead he ran backwards.
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They made him, they made a couple of play mistakes at the
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line of scrimmage. The offensive line, and I'm
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going to say this, The Jets strength right now is their
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offensive line. But the last two weeks they have
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not looked good and again, there's seems that need to be
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cleaned up. That doesn't mean The Jets are
21:55
going to go oh and 17 this year. I don't believe they will.
21:59
I think The Jets will find a way to win at least one or two
22:02
games. Do I think The Jets are the
22:04
worst team right now in the NFL, even though they are the only
22:08
team right now in the NFL? Not with a win, no.
22:10
I think they're better than the Browns.
22:12
I think they're better than the Titans.
22:14
I think they're better than a lot of these teams that have one
22:16
to two wins. Just bad luck.
22:19
And in certain parts of the game, The Jets can't close.
22:24
They can't and they don't have a quarterback that can do the
22:27
things that you want, not just A1 dimensional, a guy that can
22:32
run and throw the be a mobile quarterback and throw in the
22:35
pocket. Justin Fields has proven as a
22:38
professional NFL player that he is not a guy that can step into
22:43
the pocket and make every single throw.
22:44
He has not developed that part of his game.
22:47
And because he hasn't developed that part of his game, he's
22:50
become a one-dimensional type of quarterback.
22:52
Every single team knows what he is going to do when he steps
22:56
back and he can't throw in the flats.
22:59
He's going to run. The only person, the only player
23:01
he's throwing to is Karen Wilson.
23:03
And, and that has something to do with the GM.
23:07
And I think Moogie, he's new. This is his first year he came
23:11
in with Aaron Glenn. Did I like that they decided to
23:15
bring in Aaron Glenn before Moogie?
23:17
Moogie I I, I thought in my eyes, you usually bring in the
23:22
GM first, right? That's what you usually do.
23:24
Didn't The Jets bring in Aaron Glenn 1st and then they brought
23:28
in the GM I? Think Moogie was the last GM
23:30
that was hired. Right.
23:32
That's the problem with the New York Jets.
23:35
They do everything lopsided. When you look at Mooji, and I
23:37
might, I'm not taking shots at Mooji.
23:39
I think Mooji might be a good GM.
23:41
I love what he did with the Broncos.
23:43
He was with the Broncos for what, 12-13 years?
23:45
He was a part of the Super Bowl champion Broncos.
23:48
He was part of some of the drafts, the draft picks that
23:51
they made over the years, the Broncos success.
23:55
Pretty much. He didn't.
23:56
And Mooji was the one that didn't want Russell Wilson, if
23:59
you've heard the stories. The problem right now with the
24:01
New York Jets has a lot to do with the lack of talent
24:05
playmakers on this roster. They can't run the ball.
24:08
The coaching has been lopsided. The offensive coordinator, now
24:12
The Jets are going to say he's a rookie offensive coordinator.
24:15
And The Jets fans are going to say, well maybe they made the
24:18
wrong decision bringing in a rookie offensive coordinator.
24:21
We won't know what this kid is until the 3rd year and The Jets
24:25
are still a team that needs to figure out who they are, what
24:28
their identity is, and it's not going to be this year.
24:31
My opinion here here is, is if The Jets want the fans to follow
24:37
in their lead with this team in this roster and and their future
24:41
with Aaron Glenn, they're going to have to win against teams
24:45
they should beat. Miami is coming up again in the
24:48
next couple of weeks. They got to beat Miami.
24:50
They got to beat Miami. They lost against Miami a couple
24:53
of weeks ago. They have to beat Miami.
24:55
They're going to have to beat the Patriots One of the times
24:58
they play them. They haven't played them yet,
25:00
but when they do, they're going to have to beat the Patriots.
25:03
If The Jets can pull off two wins and stay close in every
25:07
single game, then the fans have something to look forward to
25:10
next year. If you look at this, The Jets
25:12
with the Robert Sala era, you know the Robert Sala era, the
25:16
Bambi, the Sala era, The Jets would either win a very close
25:20
game because they play prevent defense and give the game away
25:23
practically when they have a 10 point lead with three minutes
25:27
left. Or what The Jets have always
25:29
been known to do is they just completely get killed by the
25:33
beginning of the game. You already know the game is
25:36
over because they're down by 17 in the first quarter.
25:40
That was the Robert Sala era. That is not the Aaron Glenn era.
25:44
It hasn't been yet. So fans, take a step back,
25:48
breathe a little bit. I have been a Jet fan my whole
25:50
life. I have seen some bad, bad
25:55
coaches bad. Reg Ryan might be the best one.
25:59
There's one right now with Baker Mayfield that was not successful
26:03
here. He had one good season with The
26:05
Jets, his first year and Todd Balls.
26:07
Now look at him. Baker Mayfield looks like he's
26:09
an MVP candidate and he looks like he could be up for coach of
26:12
the year. That's how quick it could turn.
26:14
You have to take a step back and understand, understand that this
26:17
is not a winning organization. I'm not going to be sitting here
26:19
like, and I know Fish is going to come out and he's going to do
26:22
things and he hates The Jets and a lot of Giant fans can't stand
26:25
the New York Jets fans. Gangrene.
26:27
It's the worst name. I think it's the worst football
26:29
name in in professional sports. It's terrible.
26:33
You can't sit here and tell me what The Jets have done so far
26:37
this year and the way they've looked that this doesn't look
26:41
like a better team. They look better than they have.
26:44
They have been in every single game consistently throughout the
26:49
first game all the way to the 6th game.
26:52
Now, I'm not going to cheer for that.
26:53
I'm not going to jump for joy for that, but that's something.
26:57
That is something Detroit, the Lions, Dan Campbell, Aaron Glenn
27:01
was a part of that growth and that team.
27:05
He was the defensive coordinator when Dan Campbell.
27:07
Dan Campbell hired Aaron Glenn to be his defensive coordinator.
27:10
And if you remember, Aaron Glenn was the cornerback coach of the
27:14
Saints under Sean Payton. Does anybody know that?
27:19
I'm giving you, I'm going to spit some facts to you guys, Who
27:22
is Sean Payton? Sean Payton is a disciple of
27:24
who? Bill Parcells.
27:26
Dave Campbell, Who is he a disciple of?
27:28
Bill Parcells. Now you look at Bill Parcells
27:31
and his record everywhere he's gone.
27:33
Is Bill Parcells one of the greatest coaches of all time?
27:36
You would probably say yes. And every single coach that I
27:39
can remember that comes from that tree.
27:42
Bill Belichick, one of the greatest of all time.
27:44
Tom Coughlin, one of the greatest of all time.
27:47
I don't know. Sean Payton, one of the greatest
27:50
of all time. Jin Tank Campbell, he's pretty,
27:54
pretty great right now. He won coach of the year last
27:57
year. Everyone of these guys that come
27:59
from the Bill Parcells tree is usually successful and it takes
28:05
a little while to figure things out.
28:07
When Tom Coughlin came to the Giants, were they winning?
28:09
They weren't. Their first two years was blah.
28:12
Then they made a move for Eli Manning.
28:14
It took a year. They brought in Kurt Warner.
28:17
Six games in they brought it. Tom Coughlin took took it on a
28:20
whim. He decided to move on from Kurt
28:22
Warner. They brought in Eli Manning in
28:24
week 5 or 6 when the Giants had a winning record that year.
28:28
The Giants did not make the playoffs guys.
28:30
They did not. But did Tom Coughlin make the
28:32
right choice? He did.
28:33
Aaron Glenn is not a stupid man. This guy was a successful player
28:37
in the NFL. He was one of the best corners
28:40
in the 90s. For four years he was in elite
28:43
corner, a Pro Bowl corner. He knows a little bit about the
28:47
game here. Here's another problem with The
28:49
Jets that people don't see. The secondary on this roster is
28:53
really, really bad. Besides sauce, what do they got?
28:56
They brought Brownlee in to play safety.
28:59
Brownlee, who they drafted as a wide receiver, they brought in
29:02
more from Alabama. He was a fourth round talent.
29:05
Everybody thought that this guy, this guys been he's been
29:08
horrible. Adams, I thought he was going to
29:10
be good. He he fit the Robert Solar
29:12
craft. He's there.
29:14
He's he's, he lost his job. This team is not good in the
29:18
secondary. Their front 7.
29:20
Quinn Williams is good. Will McDonald, he looked good in
29:23
the first game. He hasn't had a sack since the
29:26
first game. He had two sacks in the first
29:28
game. He has not had a sack since the
29:31
Pittsburgh game. The Jets are one of the worst at
29:34
putting pressure on the opposing quarterback.
29:37
Why guys? Because Steve Wilkes is doing
29:41
the most ridiculous things and everybody's going to say, what
29:44
do you see, Arrow? What do you see?
29:46
Here's what I see. Ever since Quincy Williams went
29:49
down, they have no pass rush up the middle.
29:52
They have nothing. Now they're trying to go on the
29:54
edges and Jermaine Johnson, it's just not that guy.
29:56
Honestly, Jermaine Johnson should be a middle linebacker.
29:59
He's a run stopper. He's not a defensive head.
30:02
They need to shift him to the linebacker position.
30:05
If they bring him back, he's not going to get paid a lot of money
30:07
because he's not had a good season and you move to the
30:10
middle linebacker position. Remember when he played college
30:12
ball? What position was he playing in?
30:14
Florida State Speedy. He was an outside linebacker.
30:17
He was a linebacker and that's where he should be.
30:20
He should not be a defensive end.
30:22
Will McDonald, I think he is an efficient defensive end, but
30:26
he's not a number one. He's a good number 2.
30:29
They need to find a prominent pass rusher now.
30:33
Those don't. They don't grow on trees guys,
30:35
but there are going to be guys that are going to be available
30:38
next year that The Jets should be looking at.
30:40
Veteran guys that can help, guys like Will McDonald.
30:44
How about this Von Miller, even though he's not in, he's not the
30:47
same player he once was. He signed a one year deal.
30:51
I forget who he's playing for this year.
30:53
I don't remember. I I pretty.
30:55
Sure, he's with Washington. I think he is with Washington.
30:58
He is with Washington right now. Von Miller becomes available in
31:01
the all season. I'd bring Von Miller in, I'd
31:03
bring him in. I'd bring a veteran guy in to
31:05
help. Will McDonald develop?
31:07
He's got, by the way, who did will McDonald break?
31:11
What record did he break in college to become the most
31:15
efficient pass rusher in his conference?
31:18
Von Miller. So you look at it and you
31:21
understand that The Jets need to be a little bit smarter.
31:24
Stop pointing fingers. Stop blaming somebody.
31:27
This is not a winning season. This is not a winning roster.
31:30
Any Jet fans standing here today listening to me understands that
31:35
this team is not a good one. But that doesn't mean mean that
31:39
if they had three or four pieces in the offseason, they can't be
31:42
a contender. They can't make the playoffs
31:44
next year. And by the way, they need to
31:47
figure out the quarterback position.
31:49
The Jets are going to get a top three pick this year.
31:51
They're going to get a chance. Is it going to be Mendoza,
31:53
Fernando Mendoza maybe from Indiana?
31:56
He looks like he's going to be a player.
31:57
Are they going to go after seller?
31:59
Sellers is a is a good young quarterback.
32:01
We've watched him for Carol and play for Carolina, South
32:03
Carolina. Maybe he's a guy that The Jets
32:06
will be interested, interested in.
32:08
The Jets need to make the right decision at the quarterback
32:12
position. If The Jets want to win in the
32:15
future, they cannot keep making these bad mistakes.
32:19
Remember, Fish, you know this, Speedy.
32:22
You know this. When you pick a quarterback and
32:24
you're wrong about a quarterback, that sets your team
32:26
back 8 to 10 years, 8 to 10 years, and every eight to 10
32:33
years The Jets make the same friggin mistake.
32:38
Mark Sanchez, We saw what happened to him.
32:40
Remember him, Mark Sanchez, What was Mark Sanchez doing in
32:44
Indiana the night before he was supposed to be a broadcaster and
32:49
work with Iron Eagle. I, I think I know what he was
32:52
doing, ladies and gentlemen. He was out drinking and then
32:55
threatens a guy that was doing his job, a 70 year old man, and
33:00
threatens to kill him. And then he gets stabbed up.
33:02
And then he runs away and tells everybody, including the police
33:06
and the detective that goes to the hospital that he doesn't
33:08
remember anything. And then Fox, I don't know if if
33:12
it's true or not. Fox tried to brush this under
33:14
the rug. Nobody's even talking about this
33:17
anymore. That was a huge story.
33:19
And then all of a sudden, it absolutely disappeared.
33:21
And by the way, Mark Sanchez was not fired from Fox yet.
33:25
Does that make any sense to you guys?
33:27
It doesn't to me, but that's very jet like.
33:30
Do we remember Sheldon Richardson, defensive lineman
33:33
The Jets drafted in the first round in the offseason?
33:36
This man decided to go and drive his brand new car 120 mph hour
33:42
on an open Rd. with a kid in the back with a gun in his car with
33:47
his best buddy in the front with him smoking marijuana.
33:52
Gets pulled by over by a cop and then when he gets pulled out of
33:57
the car and the cop says, what do you have in the car?
34:00
He says, oh, nothing, absolutely nothing.
34:04
And he says smells like marijuana in here.
34:06
And he said, well, I, I don't know where that smells coming
34:09
from. And then they seem to go under
34:12
his seat and they find a gun under his seat with a kid in the
34:15
back, no, no older than five in the back of the seat with by the
34:20
way, not in his high chair, not in even, not even a kids seat.
34:24
He was buckled in a seat illegally.
34:30
It's very jet like this is not I'm I'm not even making a joke
34:33
about this. It it happens.
34:35
Here's another one. Here's another story.
34:38
X jet tight end. You know where I'm going at.
34:41
I'm not going to mention any names.
34:44
He was at Walmart in New Jersey and he decided for some reason
34:50
to get messed up and play with himself.
34:56
Gets caught by a cop, gets arrested and gets thrown off for
35:01
the New York Jets roster. Do you want me to go on?
35:05
I could go on and on and on and on about the New York Jets.
35:09
It's always a debacle. It's always a story and and
35:13
everybody wants to blame Woody Johnson.
35:14
These guys are professional athletes.
35:17
They're multimillionaires. There is no excuse for them.
35:21
There's no excuse for the losing.
35:22
I know Jet fans are going to say, well, you want to blame
35:25
somebody. There's no blaming anybody.
35:27
Yesterday's game was strictly on the players, not the coaching
35:33
the players. They were down 13 to 11 against
35:36
a team that made the playoffs last year, a quarterback and Bo
35:41
Nicks that was one of the best young quarterbacks in the
35:43
league, who by the way did not have a good game.
35:46
Bo Nicks was 19 for thirty, 174 yards, 1 passing touchdown and
35:51
he was sacked once his his quarterback rating was 90.
35:54
But nevertheless, he was not good.
35:57
They couldn't run the ball. The Jets actually stopped the
35:59
run yesterday. It didn't matter.
36:02
It didn't matter what The Jets did, because The Jets couldn't
36:05
get out of their own friggin ways.
36:08
You know, Errol, I think that a lot of Jets fans would disagree
36:10
with you and blame the coaching because of what happened at the
36:13
end of the first half. You know, they lose by less than
36:15
three points and that's an easy, you know, couple of plays they
36:18
could have gotten off to get into field goal range and that
36:21
could have been the difference in the game.
36:22
And I think you saw a lot of this type of stuff in Dan
36:25
Campbell's first year when Glenn was there as a defensive
36:28
coordinator where they still didn't have these real good, you
36:31
know, during the game, you know, skills that you need to coach
36:35
that he just hasn't developed yet.
36:36
But you know that Glenn is being hired as a program builder.
36:39
He's not being hired as he's going to be this elite, you
36:42
know, during the game, you know, coach, he's going to develop
36:46
that over time. You got to give guys that are
36:48
new at coaching and The Jets have hired I I went through the
36:52
list. You realize they haven't hired a
36:55
coach that had prior head coaching experience since Bill
36:58
Parcells. I know oh wow, every every
37:00
single coach they hired I know was never a head coach before
37:04
since Parcells. Look Al grow wasn't a head coach
37:06
her Eric Mangini or The Jets Mangini Rex wasn't a head coach
37:10
bowls. That was his first head coaching
37:12
job. Gays, Salah, Ulbrich and now
37:15
Glenn. Not a single one since Parcells
37:19
had any experience. Gates did in Miami, but that was
37:22
not good either. That's why it was so puzzling,
37:24
because he completely flamed out with Miami, and he had only done
37:28
that briefly because he was Peyton Manning's guy and he got
37:33
all the credit for maybe, maybe Peyton Manning knew a little bit
37:35
about offense and it. Wasn't Well, first of all,
37:37
Peyton Manning screwed the New York Jets.
37:39
Let's be quite honest here. He he was supposed to be the
37:42
number one pick in that draft. Instead, he decided.
37:44
Him and Archie Manning decided, hey, you know what, I want to go
37:48
in my senior year to play for Tennessee.
37:49
I don't want to go into the draft.
37:51
And The Jets, who did they draft?
37:52
Keyshawn Johnson. And and that was a debacle
37:55
himself. And that's another whole nother
37:57
story over there as he started with Wayne Quebec called him a
37:59
flashlight and The Jets had to move on from him.
38:02
Then he goes to Tampa and wins the Super Bowl over there with
38:04
Tampa and and Jon Gruden. That's a whole nother story.
38:06
By the way, Keyshawn Johnson also implied by the great Fox
38:09
Sports. Yeah, that's a that's a whole
38:11
nother story too. It seems like every single Jet
38:13
that gets a job when it comes to broadcasting or media work, they
38:16
get fired as as well so. And I realize your Bill Parcells
38:21
argument. It's a great argument, but
38:23
there's one flaw. What if they're great?
38:25
Everyone from the Parcells tree is this great football mind.
38:30
Joe Shane is also from the Bill Parcells tree, so I think if if
38:36
maybe Joe Shane is still developing.
38:39
One exception. Everywhere.
38:41
Joe Shane first First of all, Joe Shane was not considered the
38:46
on on the Bill Parcells tree. Well, you can say that, but he
38:49
started under Parcells. He was.
38:51
He's Buffalo Bills. Come on, stop.
38:53
Stop trying to jerk. Come on, Jerk me off on, man.
38:56
Let's face it. You're, you're, you're trying to
38:57
play games here and you're trying to throw me a feather.
39:00
I, I to me right now with the New York Jets, just have to
39:03
figure out who they are. And until they figure that out,
39:06
Jim can, Dan Campbell said it very, very well after his first
39:10
year with the Lions. And I remember what he said at
39:13
the press conference, he said this year was a dud.
39:17
We're A-Team. We're going to stick together
39:19
and we're going to be better next year and we're going to
39:22
come out harder. We're going to work harder in
39:23
the offseason. We're going to play harder and
39:25
we're going to come out as champions the next year.
39:27
Dan Campbell, you how could you not like Dan Campbell?
39:30
Did you watch him yesterday when you even they lost against
39:33
Kansas City and coming out in the second-half, he said,
39:36
listen, we have to score 30. If we don't score 30 against
39:38
this team, we're not winning. And he he did it in such a
39:41
unique way. And he's got that, that just
39:45
like that personality that that squaring personality that you
39:48
love. And even the broadcasters, they
39:50
loved it after they got off. How could you not like that guy?
39:53
Aaron Glenn needs to go up to the media and, and, and not try
39:57
to make excuses. Don't be don't be Todd Bowles,
40:02
don't be Rex Ryan, don't be Eric Mangini, who was quiet to the
40:06
media. Herm Edwards, we play to win the
40:10
game. You know, I, I don't be like
40:13
these guys. Go up there and call your
40:15
players out. Call them out.
40:19
Go out there and say Justin needs to play better not do it
40:22
the next day when your owner probably said, why did you say,
40:26
why don't you tell the truth? Why not go after Will McDonnell?
40:32
Will McDonnell has two sacks in game #1 he hasn't had one since
40:37
then. There's just a lot of things as
40:41
a Jet fan, that where are you? It worries me, Speedy.
40:44
Yeah, and again, you look at the analogies of making, of trying
40:47
to build a team culture. We've made the Lions win a lot,
40:49
obviously, because that's where Glenn came from.
40:51
But I'll, I'll give you two others too.
40:52
The Saints, when Sean Payton first got there too, they were
40:55
considered a poverty franchise for a while.
40:57
They didn't make the playoffs until 1989.
40:59
They made a couple of playoffs appearance since then.
41:01
Obviously Mike Ditka was there. He traded up for Ricky Williams
41:04
and then they Sean Payton to undo all of that and try to make
41:07
it work. They took a chance on Drew
41:08
Brees, which obviously helped out, but they needed that kind
41:11
of culture change for a team that was a really dysfunctional
41:14
mess in a football culture that's very good.
41:16
They made the playoffs within three years or so.
41:18
They went to the NFC championship game, lost to
41:19
Chicago, and they won a Super Bowl a few years later.
41:22
The other one is the Bills. Recently.
41:24
The Bills, their first two years were not great.
41:26
When they first brought in Sean McDermott, they had a long
41:28
playoff drought. They make the playoffs with
41:29
Tyrod Taylor, Josh Allen's first year.
41:30
They were projected to be one of the worst teams in the AFC, but
41:33
they still believed in each other.
41:34
The Jets need that kind of belief in these players,
41:37
especially the ones that had the, I guess the stench of the
41:41
previous. Result.
41:42
Was it a stench man? Yes, and a bad 1 and I think.
41:45
That's where you were talking about a few few weeks ago with
41:47
Sauce Gardner. I think a lot of that the his
41:48
struggles in the beginning. Of this, and here's another
41:50
thing before we get into the Penn State story, here's another
41:53
thing that really bothers me. The Jets over the last five
41:56
years have been a top 10 defense, top 10 defense.
42:01
It doesn't matter who their coordinator was.
42:04
They were a top 10 defense last year.
42:06
They were a top five defense. How do you go from a top five
42:09
defense to not even in a not even a top 20 defense in all of
42:13
football? That's scary.
42:16
And Aaron Glenn has to look at Steve Wilkes and say this guy is
42:20
not my guy. I got to take the reins here.
42:23
I got to be the defensive coordinator.
42:25
I got to play my defensive game. It's worked over there.
42:29
It worked with the Lions. It didn't matter.
42:31
He lost Aiden Hutchinson last year.
42:33
He lost practically his whole front seven.
42:36
He lost like five of his front 7.
42:38
And he still had one of the best defenses in the league.
42:41
And his team still went as far as they did.
42:43
And they were the best team in the NFC last year.
42:47
And one of the reasons why was Aaron Glenn.
42:49
Nobody was scared of Ben Johnson going to Chicago.
42:52
Everybody was happy that Aaron Glenn left the NFC North.
42:58
A lot of coaches, a lot of players said that he gave a lot
43:03
of these offenses problems, problems of sleeping offensive
43:09
coordinators. They couldn't sleep when they
43:11
were playing Aaron Glenn's defense.
43:13
Well, you know that as Aaron, and I know Aaron Glenn wants to
43:15
beat Bill Parcells and he wants to beat.
43:17
He doesn't want to be considered a defensive guy.
43:19
But Steve Wilkes is not your man.
43:22
He's not your man. And the players don't like him.
43:25
They don't like him. It's pretty simple.
43:28
I don't care if he's your best friend, your best buddy, he
43:31
doesn't work. Yeah, I know.
43:34
We were to think that the schematic trajectory to Steve
43:37
Wilkes similar 43 type defense to Sala and then Aaron Glenn is
43:41
trying to bring in kind of the hybrid attacking a little
43:42
different. So I think it's all mixed up all
43:44
at once. And I felt bad for Wilkes when
43:46
the Niners randomly fired him. And last year, obviously.
43:48
Obviously deserved. I mean, yeah, but again, the
43:51
Niners going with a freaking special teams coordinator, the
43:53
defensive coordinator made me wasn't a good idea either.
43:55
Now they have Bambi back. But nevertheless, yeah, there
43:58
comes a point where Aaron Glenn does have to step in and make
44:00
that real first move as a head coach to say I'm taking over
44:03
the. Not bring Steve Wilkes back next
44:05
year. He better not do that.
44:07
That is that should be rule number one in the offseason,
44:10
fire Steve Wilkes. That's a rule that has to not be
44:14
broken. All right, that is embarrassing.
44:17
What Steve Wilkes is doing right now as the defensive coordinator
44:20
for the New York Jets. This is a good defense.
44:22
This is a good defense. That's failing to be the defense
44:26
that we thought they were going to be with Jermaine Johnson on
44:28
one side and Will McDonald on the other and Quinton Williams
44:31
in the middle, with Phillips, who they added in the offseason
44:34
that everybody thought was an absolute, absolute home run for
44:38
the New York Jets. The Associate Press reports that
44:42
Penn State University has fired head coach James Franklin.
44:47
The move comes after losing their third consecutive game,
44:50
including two straight losses to unranked opponents they were
44:54
favored to beat by over 20 points, the first time that has
44:59
happened since Texas Tech in 1997.
45:03
James Franklin will not be going to to the poor house as he is
45:08
still owed a guarantee $49,000,000, the second largest
45:13
buyout ever, only behind Jimbo Fisher who got 76 million in a
45:19
buyout money from Texas A&M. Penn State spent a school record
45:25
of $20 million in the transfer portal this year.
45:29
After Franklin made comments last year critical of the NIL
45:34
system and now and how the transfer portal has hurt college
45:39
football as a whole, he's not the only one.
45:42
Franklin is likely to have many suitors for his services,
45:47
including power for schools like UCLA, Wisconsin, Virginia Tech
45:52
and Arkansas. Nebraska head coach Matt Rule is
45:55
currently the betting favorite to become Penn State's next head
45:59
coach, followed by Bill O'Brien and Indiana head coach Kurt
46:03
Cignetti. Franklin finished with 104 and
46:09
45 record in 11 1/2 coaching years for Penn State, tied
46:14
second in school history with wins.
46:18
I'm I'm going to say this, I like Coach Franklin.
46:25
I've argued with Fish. I argued with Jake over about a
46:29
week ago. I thought Franklin was going to
46:33
keep his job. I really did.
46:36
He had a bad season. It hasn't looked good.
46:38
The players aren't buying in to the way he is coaching right
46:41
now. That doesn't mean that he
46:43
couldn't clean it up in the off season and turn this team into a
46:46
contender. About a year ago, this team was
46:53
one game away from going to a national championship.
46:57
One game. I remember it like it was
47:01
yesterday. And who did he who beat him?
47:03
Speedy Riley Leonard. Riley Leonard, a friend of ours.
47:08
We all understand that winning means everything in college
47:12
football, and with the money that's given to players and the
47:15
portal that any player can jump in and move wherever he wants in
47:20
the offseason. Yeah, you would expect that
47:24
James Franklin was going to figure this out and make this a
47:27
better winning season. It didn't work out that way.
47:31
Now, maybe it was the fans booing him and and trying to
47:36
find ways to get his contract being bought out.
47:39
I, I don't know. I, I don't know what the truth
47:42
is. I'm not a Penn State guy.
47:44
I don't know. I'm not in the offices over
47:47
there with the program athletic director trying to figure out
47:51
who they're going to bring in next.
47:53
The fact here is James Franklin is going to get another job.
47:57
He is. He is a great coach.
47:59
He's one of the best in the country.
48:03
When you look at a record like this in 11 years, how many
48:07
coaches in NCAA, NCAA history has a record like this one?
48:14
Think about it. I, I just, my argument here
48:18
isn't that he hasn't been good this past year.
48:20
My argument here is he is a quality coach.
48:24
You don't just push a quality coach out like this for no
48:28
reason. And everybody's going to say,
48:29
well, wait a second, they're losing this year.
48:32
He can't win against top end teams.
48:35
He's got a losing record against top and top 20 teams.
48:40
This guy was one game away from being in a national
48:43
championship. And you're going to sit here and
48:47
tell me, well, that doesn't matter, Who cares?
48:51
This guy didn't have a number one quarterback this year.
48:54
I'm sorry, they didn't. I know a lot of people wanted to
48:58
believe that this running game that everybody thought was going
49:01
to be superb, the best in the nation, where are they ranked
49:06
13th, 14th in the nation when they were supposed to be a top
49:09
two, top three running game. Players aren't playing.
49:14
You're going to blame the coaches.
49:16
Is it partially his fault? Yeah, it is.
49:19
You're you're the coach. You take responsibility for it.
49:22
But the fact is, as much as you want to blame the coach, you got
49:27
to blame the players. You're a professional athlete,
49:32
OK? Jabba knows this.
49:35
You go out there, you're getting signed, you're getting a lot of
49:38
money. The coach goes out there, you're
49:41
a pitcher. Coach goes out there.
49:43
He works with you before the game, you're practicing and
49:48
you're ready to go out there. You go on the mound, you throw 3
49:52
innings and you suck. Who they going to point their
49:57
finger to? Are they going to point their
49:58
finger at the player if he's a superstar player, or are they
50:02
going to point him at the coach? They're going to point it at the
50:07
manager. Why?
50:09
Because the first person they want to blame is not the player.
50:13
Because they love the player. They're going to blame the
50:16
coach. Jabba's in right now.
50:20
That's the job. What's up, Jabba?
50:23
No. I I can only imagine moving
50:25
three houses. My problem here with the Penn
50:29
State situation is pretty simple.
50:31
Who they going to bring in Matt Rule?
50:33
What I I know Jabba is a Nebraska fan.
50:36
Matt Rule, what has he won? Has he won a national champion,
50:40
A championship? Has he ever played or one game
50:42
away from winning a national championship?
50:44
The answer would be no, he has not been successful.
50:47
So you're going to take Matt Rule over James Franklin?
50:49
That makes sense. OK, so maybe you decide not to
50:52
go at Matt Roll. Bill O'Brien.
50:54
Now, Bill O'Brien was successful over there with Penn State.
50:57
He was, he was very successful. He brought that, that tight end,
51:01
the dual tight end and the running game and all that other
51:05
stuff and, and they were successful.
51:07
Did they win a national championship with with Bill
51:09
O'Brien? No, they did not.
51:11
Did they play in a national championship?
51:13
No, they did not. Were they one game away from a
51:16
national championship speedy? No, they were not.
51:21
So what is it with everybody saying, well, you know what?
51:24
He had a bad season, so we're going to give up on the one guy
51:27
that was what had the second best record in Penn State
51:31
history, right behind who? Speedy Joe Paterno.
51:35
Joe Paterno, one of the greatest coaches in NCAA history, Do you?
51:43
What nonsense does people have here?
51:47
It's it's lost. It's lost for what this guy did
51:50
this year. And the players not buying into
51:52
his, his, his way of coaching. They maybe he picked the wrong
51:56
players. Maybe he picked the wrong
51:57
running backs, maybe he picked the wrong offensive line.
52:00
Maybe he picked the wrong portal guys.
52:02
Maybe they invested too many, too much money, $20 million in
52:05
the wrong guys. That happens.
52:07
So you're going to give up on a guy that was one year away from
52:11
possibly going to win a national championship?
52:15
I don't want to hear it. And I know what everybody's
52:17
going to tell me. The one argument is he can't
52:20
beat top ten teams. I just, I don't understand this.
52:29
And that's that's sports guys, that's sports.
52:32
That's why I sit here and I'm trying to figure out and I'm
52:35
trying to put two and two together as an analyst and
52:38
analyzing why teams or why coaches get fired.
52:41
It makes no sense. And this and then Bill
52:43
Belichick, I mean, that made no sense why he got fired.
52:47
That made no sense. Robert Kraft was pissed off and
52:50
Tom Brady and him we're in an on flawed and onslaught.
52:53
Robert Kraft was pissed off that he had to trade Tom Brady and
52:58
let Tom Brady go to the Buccaneers and that pissed him
53:02
off and that turned him against Bill.
53:04
Bill Belichick. That's what I think.
53:07
I think that's the reason why Bill Belichick was let go was
53:10
because of the whole Tom Brady thing.
53:12
Because Tom Brady won a championship with the Buccaneers
53:14
and he didn't win a championship back with the New England
53:17
Patriots. He made the wrong decision in
53:19
his eyes, Robert Kraft said. And his little pea brain is I
53:23
should have fired Bill Belichick and kept Tom Brady.
53:26
Maybe he would have been right, maybe not.
53:29
The fact is you can make these decisions on a whim, and that's
53:34
what I think Penn State did. This could set this team behind
53:40
for the next couple years. Now you're bringing in a new
53:42
coach, a new way of thinking offensively and defensively, and
53:47
that takes three years to develop and and put players in
53:51
your scheme of things. So that means Penn State could
53:54
be bad for the next two or three years.
53:56
I wonder with James Franklin too, because I think him trying
54:00
to go into the transfer portal was a way of trying to elevate
54:03
his job. I wonder if he knew he was
54:04
already like already in trouble based on that.
54:06
Now, last year obviously was a better boost for him.
54:08
They went to the College Football Playoff in the first
54:11
year of the expanded format. But again, where they're
54:13
finished is probably about the same as where they finished in
54:15
the years and they they quote UN quote miss just because the the
54:17
platform didn't expand for the analogy I I've made.
54:20
I know you were talking about you and the other people on the
54:23
panel last we were talking about Mike Tomlin is an analogy of Tom
54:26
Coughlin. We heard his analogy.
54:28
The one I wanted to make was Marvin Lewis.
54:30
I think Marvin Lewis was a guy that's really good program
54:32
builder, like you've always said, Errol, one of the best
54:35
player development coaches in the NFL at that with the
54:38
Cincinnati Bengals. And I think you're seeing that
54:39
same kind of thing here. You look at Penn State, they've
54:41
been a factory of linebackers. They've been a factory, like you
54:43
said, of tight ends that have been very good for a while,
54:45
offensive lineman with Foshanu, with The Jets and other guys
54:48
like that over the years, they've been very good.
54:50
It's just a matter of like getting those concepts into
54:52
college football to be able to adapt to the modern game.
54:55
We saw that in the SEC when the SEC was always that defense
54:57
first conference and running game.
55:00
Some coaches evolved to finally get the quarterbacks there and
55:02
Georgia took a little while for them, but they finally won a
55:05
national championship. Alabama had to evolve to get
55:07
these better quarterbacks to get in there to win national
55:09
championships when they were running with Derrick Henry and
55:11
like AJ McCarron was their was their quarterback.
55:14
Yikes. Like those are the types of
55:16
things you have to evolve to. And I don't know if Franklin did
55:18
that. I was kind of off of him in the
55:19
end of 2023. That was their most talented
55:21
year. That was their best chance
55:22
because Ohio State was down and Michigan, that was the year that
55:25
the scandal hit them and Penn State lost in Michigan that
55:28
year. So that was when I was out on
55:29
him. I agree with you.
55:30
Here's another job. State and I remember that year,
55:33
Michigan was still a good team. They were still at a great
55:36
roster. Penn State at the time was in a
55:38
College Football Playoffs, but they were #3 I believe at the
55:40
time. And then they lost when they had
55:43
the interim coach in. And then they lost another game
55:45
that they shouldn't have lost back to the Michigan State or
55:47
something like that. And I think that's where it
55:48
started to crumble for him. And that's where I think all
55:50
these hot seat questions started to rise with them.
55:52
Now, where they go after that, I think Signati would be the best
55:54
choice because Indiana was a similarly rising pro, was a
55:57
similarly struggling program. They had one Goodyear in the
55:59
COVID year. And Signati's done a great job
56:02
with that team since. Then I think you go Bill
56:04
O'Brien. OK?
56:05
I don't think that's where you go.
56:06
Yeah, I I like that idea too. Obviously, there's a lot of
56:08
familiarity there. I just think the concepts do
56:10
have to change though, and I wonder if they go with a
56:12
different type of style. Like you saw these SEC teams
56:14
too. There's going to be a lot of
56:15
like quarterback type coaches out there because their
56:17
quarterbacks hurt now. But it's going to take three
56:19
years. You're going to have to
56:20
completely change this whole roster.
56:23
Whoever he the, the, the, the team brings in the, the, the
56:28
program director, the sports director decides to bring in,
56:32
You're bringing in a new guy that has a completely different
56:35
way he's going to run this roster and run this team.
56:37
So now you're set back, you're you're taking a step back again.
56:42
Penn State When was the last time they won a national?
56:44
Championship in the 80s with Paterno.
56:45
There you go. And they were one game away from
56:49
going to a national championship and then they're just going to
56:52
part ways with the guy that got him there.
56:54
And that's why college football's different.
56:56
And I think Carl's mentioning that very well in the comment
56:57
section before you go Jabba, he's mentioning how you you
57:01
could question who they brought in because the there's not a lot
57:03
of continuity because college players, because they change so
57:06
much. And obviously college football
57:08
different in the NFL, you need to have that right type of right
57:10
type of thing. But it's also not as much the
57:11
coaches, the power as much as just the recruiting and the NIL
57:15
money that they're going to have too.
57:16
And that's where I think Franklin does have maybe to go
57:18
to a team like UCLA or something like that and still rebirth his
57:20
image. And I think when it comes to
57:23
Penn State, though, they have to get the identity changed to not
57:25
be the same, like running in defense, I think.
57:27
You're right like on the on the three-year deal with whoever it
57:30
is and that's kind of going into with with rule.
57:33
How you know it's been the three-year thing with him at
57:35
Temple Baylor. We've obviously seen it hasn't
57:37
really translated in the NFL. It's it's like wildfire here
57:42
right now with the fact that he went to Penn State was a walk on
57:46
three time academic, all American.
57:47
His family's still there and his best friend is the AD.
57:50
There's a lot of stuff going that way.
57:52
And I've heard a lot of it had actually a couple conversations
57:56
about it today. And it's, I mean, it's a win win
57:58
for him personally, if it, if it works, Obviously you don't know.
58:03
But yeah, he it's that it's that time right now for us because
58:07
it's his third year here and obviously we're ranked.
58:11
Everybody was still moaning and groaning about the fact that
58:14
since he is, is 1 ahead of us and we beat since he, but I
58:18
mean, we're just ranked. So we're we're excited about
58:20
that. But yeah, I, I think there's
58:22
probably other factors that are going to play into this.
58:26
But I think if, if rule wants the job, he it, it'd be his
58:32
former player. Obviously great standing in the
58:34
community was like there. I mean, he started his coaching
58:37
career there, ended up, you know, obviously moving forward
58:42
with a bunch of I just don't think though, if if he said I
58:46
want to go there, that they would kind of turn the other
58:48
cheek and go somewhere else. But like I said, it's it's
58:52
anything here when we're finally successful or semi successful or
58:56
having a winning record for us is meaning we've been successful
58:59
lately. But it's kind of the way Penn
59:01
State feels right now too. And that that's kind of rules.
59:05
MO is that rule of three, like seeing what he did at Baylor,
59:08
seeing what he did at Temple and you know, the third year is kind
59:10
of when it turns around. So I I don't know, it's been
59:14
it's been funny listening to talk radio here as as I've just
59:16
been in the truck going back and forth everywhere today and you
59:19
know, people's panties are all in a bunch around here.
59:22
You know it's. You know it's maintaining.
59:23
We were. There's three of us and we all
59:25
have different coaches that we believe could could get the job.
59:27
I have Bill O'Brien, you got the Indiana coach and he's got that
59:31
rule. That's why I think should get
59:32
it. I don't know if he will, but I'm
59:33
actually going to reveal it later who I think they who are
59:35
they will. I'm getting in our final
59:36
segment. It's going to be a bold one, but
59:38
I that's what I think they should have go because these
59:40
guys that has big 10 familiarity too and Java.
59:42
It's interesting. I don't know if you saw this on
59:44
Twitter like that. A lot of people are saying, oh,
59:46
why would they go after Matt Rule when he's the other one
59:47
that hasn't won big games like you're gonna recycle type thing,
59:50
even though it's a different philosophy all together.
59:53
Yeah, and Fish said it too. It's like he was he was part of
59:56
the question about not winning against ranked teams and
59:59
whatever. So yeah, it's I it's 6 1/2 dozen
1:00:02
to the other, right? Which way do you go?
1:00:04
After a thrilling 15 inning, 15 inning win over the Tigers, the
1:00:09
Mariners advance to the ALCS, their first appearance since
1:00:13
2001. The Mariners won game one in
1:00:16
Toronto 3 to 1 which featured a game tying home run from sixty
1:00:22
home run hitter. The Big Jumper Cal Rally game #2
1:00:27
is in action as we speak, with the Mariners in the lead late in
1:00:32
the game. The All Star.
1:00:34
It's over now. Oh, so the Mariners won, so
1:00:36
they're up to oh, right now. All Star pitcher Brian Wu made
1:00:40
the Mariners roster after being out for an extended period of
1:00:44
time at the end of the season with a pectoral injury, while
1:00:49
the Blue Jays shortstop Beau Bichette was still left off the
1:00:53
roster, unable to recover enough from his sprained knee.
1:00:57
The Brewers advanced to the NLCS with A31 win over the Cubs in
1:01:03
game #5 making their first NLCS appearance since 2018.
1:01:08
The Brewers were six and O versus the Dodgers during the
1:01:13
regular season, the only National League team they didn't
1:01:16
beat. The Dodgers are a -. 200 or
1:01:20
better favorites to win the series despite the lack of
1:01:24
regular season success. ESP NS Jeff Passan reports that
1:01:29
the gap in payroll between the Brewers and the Dodgers is the
1:01:32
largest in the luxury tax era at $106 million.
1:01:40
Game 1 of this series begins tonight with Blake Snell
1:01:46
starting for the Dodgers and Aaron Ashby starting for the
1:01:49
Brewers. Well, let's go into now.
1:01:52
The Mariners up to O and is expected to run away with the
1:01:57
American League Championship and, and honestly, the Mariners
1:02:01
deserve it. The Mariners to me with the I
1:02:04
believe the best catcher in baseball we've seen in the last
1:02:07
three years when it comes to power defense and everything
1:02:10
that he does. I Molina's the closest thing I
1:02:13
can compare rally to now. Molina didn't have the power
1:02:16
Rally has, but Molina was as good defensively and can hit
1:02:20
average just like Raleigh. It to me the importance of just
1:02:26
the lineup and and the extended lineup the Mariners have with
1:02:29
the power that they have in the middle of the lineup with
1:02:31
Rodriguez and Raleigh. This team might be the best team
1:02:35
out of all the teams that made it to the playoffs that could
1:02:38
beat the Dodgers. It's crazy to say that because
1:02:41
I'm a Yankee fan and the Yankees have Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron
1:02:45
Judge, who's the best player in baseball.
1:02:46
I still think that if there's a team that can beat the Dodgers
1:02:50
in A7 game series, it would be the Mariners.
1:02:53
The Mariners all season long, rotation or not, up and down
1:02:57
this rotation has been consistent.
1:03:00
They they have a good bullpen, they've got power pitchers in
1:03:04
their bullpen. They extended some of their
1:03:06
starting pitchers to the bullpen for 6th or 5th inning pitching
1:03:10
if they needed it or if they were looking to get that in the
1:03:14
playoffs. I think the depth that the
1:03:16
Mariners have is is substantial and and you can see that against
1:03:20
the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays are not a good
1:03:22
team. I'm sorry.
1:03:24
They beat the Yankees and I'm and I know a job is making a
1:03:27
face and he could say what he's got his own opinion.
1:03:30
I never thought that the Blue Jays were a good team all season
1:03:33
long. I I really didn't they they did
1:03:35
have the best record in the American League.
1:03:37
They did win the American League East, but they had a lot of
1:03:41
flaws. They did, and when you look at
1:03:43
their schedule all season long, their schedule got easier in the
1:03:48
middle of the year when after the All Star break, their
1:03:52
schedule for the for the first month and 1/2 was as easy as any
1:03:55
team in baseball. And the Yankees had one of the
1:03:59
hardest schedules after the All Star break.
1:04:02
If the Yankees had the same schedule as the Blue Jays, the
1:04:05
Blue Jays would have never won the division.
1:04:06
If the Blue Jays never would have won the division, the Blue
1:04:09
Jays don't beat the Yankees. That's that's my opinion.
1:04:13
Now, I'm not saying that Guerrero is not a great player.
1:04:16
I'm not saying that this team is not a good overall team.
1:04:20
I just don't think they're as good as people think they are.
1:04:23
Beau Bichette, who is their best player besides Guerrero is not
1:04:27
has not been on this roster. Who's their second best hitter
1:04:30
on this roster? Speedy.
1:04:31
Could you even name them? Varso.
1:04:33
Well, the playoffs or overall? Overall, who's the second best
1:04:38
player besides Beau Pichette that you could trust in this
1:04:41
lineup it. Probably be varso for me.
1:04:43
Varsha okay, I mean. Clement in the playoffs.
1:04:48
But the fact he's more of a slap hitter generally, but that, But
1:04:51
what I'm trying to say is if you look at the rosters right now,
1:04:54
you look at the Dodgers, Varsha, where does he fit on that
1:04:56
roster? I I mean, seriously, this is not
1:05:00
a good roster. They're not even their pitching
1:05:03
staff. Does your pitch, does their
1:05:05
pitching staff really scare you? Come on guys.
1:05:07
There's a bunch of like old like 30 or. 30 They don't scare you.
1:05:11
They really don't. And that's why I thought when
1:05:14
they beat the Yankees, the Yankees practically choked.
1:05:17
They choked. They're pitching.
1:05:19
The Yankees by far had the better pitching staff.
1:05:21
It wasn't even close. But their pitchers did not pitch
1:05:24
in that series except Cam Schlittler.
1:05:28
And, and that was the problem. That youngster was the only one
1:05:31
that showed up in that series. And again, everybody had
1:05:34
something to blame of Aaron Boone.
1:05:36
Who's going? Who's going to blame this
1:05:38
catastrophical loss? If they lose in four games
1:05:41
against the Mariners? Are you going to blame
1:05:43
Schneider? No, it's your offense that
1:05:45
disappeared. And again, it's good pitching.
1:05:46
But at the same time, this is they hit good pitching, they hit
1:05:49
Freed. It was great in the regular
1:05:50
season. They hit some of the good
1:05:52
Yankees relievers in in that series.
1:05:54
They did enough to do that. And they still just haven't
1:05:56
carried over the identity. Springer had the home run to
1:05:58
start the series and you're like, OK, is this going to be
1:05:59
the same offensive outburst you've seen?
1:06:01
I just don't know if it was going to keep up up.
1:06:03
And like you were saying, Errol, they have so much depth.
1:06:05
Even losing Woo in that rotation, Logan, Logan Gilbert.
1:06:09
Logan Gilbert got hurt for a little while and he's pitched,
1:06:12
he's pitched two different games so far after pitching that long
1:06:14
15 inning marathon against the against the Tigers.
1:06:18
And then you have you have Castillo and etcetera and a good
1:06:21
bullpen too. And they finally have the lineup
1:06:23
that they didn't have in previous years.
1:06:25
They were so close at making the playoffs for a while and now
1:06:27
you're seeing how good they can really be.
1:06:30
Yeah, I it's Brian Moo was I mean, you don't get to see a lot
1:06:34
of these West Coast guys just because the time that they're
1:06:37
starting everybody on the East Coast is kind of asleep.
1:06:39
So there there's a lot of that. But the man it just he was
1:06:42
consistent all year, 6 innings for I think 25 or 26 starts,
1:06:46
then had a couple hiccups, but you know, he was just crushed
1:06:49
when he when he couldn't pitch and and came back And I just
1:06:53
they, they have so many arms and and they can beat you so many
1:06:56
ways. I mean, you know, Raleigh had
1:06:59
like 1314 stolen bases. I mean, he threw they never
1:07:02
they, they say there's never such a thing as a perfect throw
1:07:05
from the catcher. Did you see his throw against
1:07:08
the Tigers? Like you can't.
1:07:10
There's there's. Right into the guy's leg.
1:07:12
And hats off to dingler too, from the Tigers because he made
1:07:15
the exact same throw literally like in two innings later.
1:07:19
And so it's just it's it's hard to see.
1:07:22
And I I think you're right, Errol, that they can beat you so
1:07:25
many ways defensively, offensively, pitching.
1:07:28
And when it comes to the Blue Jays side of it, it's are they
1:07:32
one-dimensional or they are they right now, you know, they're
1:07:35
just kind of, you know, you got Clement who's going to put
1:07:38
together great at bats. He doesn't, he's not going to
1:07:40
bridge you. He's not going to scare you.
1:07:41
Yeah. Is he going to be a pester?
1:07:42
He's going to be like the little brother that just says I'm not
1:07:45
touching you, I'm not touching you.
1:07:46
And he's just going to have good at bats and just slap some stuff
1:07:49
over. Yeah, VAR show is he's got some
1:07:51
thump, but he's about the only other guy really.
1:07:54
You know, Kirk's a great catcher, but you know, he'll run
1:07:57
into something here and there. But I think you're right with
1:08:00
just the depth of what the Mariners and how they can beat
1:08:04
you is probably the closest that you're going to get.
1:08:07
And it's just I thought they would have a little bit.
1:08:10
And and This is why I think momentum comes into play because
1:08:12
everybody's like, oh, they're going to have, you know, the 15
1:08:14
inning hangover, blah, blah, blah.
1:08:16
No rest for the weary, right? They have no time to like, hey,
1:08:20
sweet celebration. Boom, no peace out.
1:08:22
We got to go and. It's another.
1:08:23
Country. Yeah, literally another country,
1:08:26
but in it's I think that the home team to lose the first two
1:08:31
games, they're three for 28 in this series.
1:08:34
It it to come back and win. So they're in a good spot
1:08:37
obviously going home and and that fan base is loud for the
1:08:41
Mariners. So I just think depth wise, I
1:08:43
think they're the they're the most complete to get to the
1:08:46
Dodgers, but the Dodgers aren't going to have any Brewers are
1:08:50
going to fight and claw. I love I love Murph.
1:08:52
Pat Murphy is fantastic. I love the dude.
1:08:55
I think he is perfect for that team and his, you know,
1:08:58
structure, his demeanor, the way that he gets and relates to the
1:09:02
players. And obviously you're seeing it
1:09:04
and, you know, I think this is going to be a really, really
1:09:07
good series. And that, that one with the
1:09:10
Mariners and Blue Jays, I, it was so funny because I'm calling
1:09:14
people out there like, oh, Toronto's going to roll the M's.
1:09:16
I don't know about that yet. That dude, he was, he was so
1:09:20
excited too that I responded and then but I, I got nothing today,
1:09:24
so. I think whatever this plays
1:09:26
Charlotte, I think that series is over.
1:09:27
And as far as the Brewers are concerned, I I do believe
1:09:30
they'll claw and they're young and they have nothing to lose.
1:09:34
But the Dodgers, the way they're playing right now on all
1:09:36
cylinders, it's going to be. And by the way, Otania has not
1:09:39
played well in the playoffs. It really has not been good.
1:09:42
It wasn't great the second series.
1:09:43
Think about it, if Otani's not playing at the top level and
1:09:46
they're still winning, that is scary because they're absolutely
1:09:50
running through people and Otani is has no part of it.
1:09:54
So that's the scary part. It's part for as far as I'm
1:09:58
concerned, when it comes to looking at that series with the
1:10:00
Brewers, if Otani hits at all in that series, do the Brewers
1:10:04
really have a chance? No, I I don't think so.
1:10:06
Then you got Mookie, who didn't really hit in the regular
1:10:09
season. Now going off like, did you?
1:10:11
Did you guys see this stat too? Like he's obviously played for
1:10:14
some really good teams and hit behind some really good players.
1:10:18
When it's like Otani Ortiz or whatever, like when they
1:10:22
intentionally walk him to get to him, he's hitting over 500.
1:10:24
Wow. Interesting.
1:10:26
So I'm like what like fate take your chances like and we're not
1:10:29
talking like a small sample size like 6.
1:10:31
We're talking like in the I think it's 21 at bats when
1:10:35
there's been intention to walk with him.
1:10:37
And so it's when you have guys like that and Otani's going to
1:10:41
bridge you. I think he's got one or two
1:10:43
homers, but other than that, he really hasn't done much.
1:10:46
I, I still, I think the coolest story for me is, is watching
1:10:49
Sasaki and, and what he's been able to do and never thrown out
1:10:53
of the pen and then goes and is lights out.
1:10:55
And it's it's always fun to see for me when when guys get put
1:10:58
new, new positions in the game and obviously magnified by 10,
1:11:03
being in the playoffs and he goes out and just does his does
1:11:06
his thing. Well, now they have this Sasaki
1:11:08
rules. You know Sasaki?
1:11:10
Sasaki rules. Yeah, they can.
1:11:19
When we come back, ladies and gentlemen, we will be talking to
1:11:22
former New York Giants Super Bowl champion wide receiver, the
1:11:25
playmaker Stephen Baker. If you don't know him, he played
1:11:29
in 87 to 92 and was a part of Super Bowl 25 champion New York
1:11:34
Giants when we come back. But first, our sports minute
1:11:37
with the fish this. Is the Jabba and the Mouth
1:11:42
Sports minute? All right guys, Aaron Fishman
1:11:47
here with your sportsman. It got a couple of stories
1:11:50
before we get into the scores this evening.
1:11:53
Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray will miss four to six
1:11:56
weeks with a torn UCL in his left thumb.
1:12:00
Murray suffered the injury in a preseason loss to the Blazers on
1:12:02
Sunday afternoon after undergoing surgery.
1:12:05
Murray will be reevaluated after missing what could be 1/4 of the
1:12:08
season, is in the last year of his rookie contract and is
1:12:12
eligible for an extension after this month.
1:12:14
He has been a starter for much of his short career and average
1:12:16
12.4 points per game and 6.4 rebounds a game last season.
1:12:21
If he is not extended, look for him to be a hot name around the
1:12:25
trade deadline as he returns from his thumb injury and
1:12:28
following up on a story we covered quite a while ago.
1:12:30
About a summer ago, former Dolphins Pro Bowl safety Rashad
1:12:34
Jones, who had his money with Merrill Lynch, was ripped off by
1:12:39
his former financial advisor for two point five, $2.59 million.
1:12:45
His name was Isaiah Williams. He allegedly stole over
1:12:47
1,000,000 using at his own access to Jones accounts as his
1:12:51
financial advisor for Merrill Lynch in an official capacity,
1:12:54
and separately orchestrated a scheme with a woman from Georgia
1:12:58
named Octavia Monique laundering over another $1,000,000 through
1:13:02
Cash App, court records show The money was used to fund Williams
1:13:06
lavish lifestyle. Williams is facing 4 criminal
1:13:09
charges on top of this, two of which carry a sentence of 30
1:13:13
years each if convicted. Merrill Lynch settled with Jones
1:13:17
last Thursday for $9.5 million, putting this whole ordeal to
1:13:22
rest. Hopefully this case is an
1:13:23
outlier, not something that starts happening more regularly
1:13:27
with supposedly safe methods of taking care of your money in NFL
1:13:32
scores. Right now, it's just before the
1:13:34
half. The Falcons are all over the
1:13:37
Bills 21 to 7. Bijan Robinson had an 81 yard
1:13:41
touchdown run in this one. And just at the start of the
1:13:44
second quarter, the Bears are up 6.
1:13:46
Nothing on the Commanders in Washington.
1:13:50
Guys in baseball, we have a baseball result.
1:13:53
We just said it. It's 2:50.
1:13:55
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1:16:09
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1:16:12
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He's a giant fan over here. Scoops the poops is a giant fan.
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Just me? I'm not, but I love this guy.
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We are now talking to former New York Giants Super Bowl champion
1:16:26
wide receiver. I've got a new name for him.
1:16:30
I'm going to call him the play shaker himself, Stephen Baker.
1:16:35
Stephen, what is? What's up?
1:16:38
Hey, I'm so excited to be here, man.
1:16:40
You guys are very professional. I'd love the pre thing you were
1:16:44
talking about baseball. I'm a Dodgers fan because I grew
1:16:47
up in Los Angeles. I go back to the old days with
1:16:49
Steve Garvey on first base doing the splits.
1:16:54
Steve Garvey. Now I'm now I'm really feel old,
1:16:57
Steve. Garvey, you guys?
1:16:59
I well, I'm 43, so I'm not too far from you.
1:17:03
I might not look it, but I, I remember Steve Garvey and I
1:17:06
remember those Dodger teams. I remember Oral Hershiser.
1:17:11
Jabba talks about him all the time, tells me he's one of the
1:17:15
best pitchers of all time. I, I think Jabba's on drugs, but
1:17:18
that's, that's just, he's Jabba Chamberlain.
1:17:21
He's Jabba Chamberlain. So I can't, I can't attack him
1:17:24
because he's a former Yankee and he and he was a flame thrower
1:17:27
and one of the great relief pitchers when he played at the
1:17:30
time that he was playing. So I can't really attack him on
1:17:32
that. So and I, he'll tell you what do
1:17:34
you know about baseball? I was in the league who never
1:17:37
played, so whatever. I'm sorry.
1:17:39
You know, Speaking of New York Giants football and you know a
1:17:43
little bit about it because you were coached from two of the
1:17:47
greatest coaches, actually three of the greatest coaches of all
1:17:50
time, Tom Coughlin, Bill Belichick and the great Bill
1:17:54
Parcells. What was it like being coached
1:17:57
by all of those 3 great coaches? Well, first of all, coming to
1:18:02
the New York Giants after they won the Super Bowl, Parcells was
1:18:06
a straight up heads up guy. He didn't talk to you like a
1:18:08
player coach. He talked to you like somebody
1:18:11
in the street. So when we came here as rookies,
1:18:14
he let us rookies know right away when we weren't practicing.
1:18:17
Well, we had a dual practice with the Patriots and we weren't
1:18:21
doing too well. And he caught us all in a huddle
1:18:23
and told us, take a look over there.
1:18:25
We looked at the team over there and he's like, I won the Super
1:18:27
Bowl with them. I don't need any of you sons of
1:18:29
bees. And like, man, you know what,
1:18:32
He's right. They won the Super Bowl.
1:18:33
They don't really need us. So he was that type of guy, man.
1:18:36
He motivated you through fear and to see how you would
1:18:41
respond. And as you can imagine, he would
1:18:44
always talk about me and my size being little, having an earring
1:18:47
in my ear. Coming from California, he
1:18:49
didn't like any of them and Fast forward to Tom Coughlin being
1:18:54
our wide receiver coach. Man, he was actually harder than
1:18:57
Parcells. Most people don't realize that
1:18:59
he gave us written tests the night before the game and if you
1:19:03
didn't pass the written test, you did not play.
1:19:07
We used to sneak out of the hotel rooms when we had home
1:19:10
games. We as soon as they do bed check,
1:19:12
we would peek out. Nobody's there.
1:19:13
We go get in our cars and go home and sleep in our beds.
1:19:16
When Tom Coughlin came on the team, he sat outside in the the
1:19:20
room of the floor rather where we were reading a newspaper till
1:19:24
about three or two in the morning man to make sure we
1:19:26
didn't sneak out. Belichick always respected my
1:19:32
gameplay. He always made sure that I went
1:19:34
up against Mark Collins and Jesus Perry Williams in
1:19:39
one-on-one drills because we made each other better.
1:19:42
I was a little receiver, which always gave big, tall defensive
1:19:45
backs problems and vice versa, tall guys trying to jam me.
1:19:50
It made me a better player. So he always respected my input
1:19:53
on that. And you know, I look back on it,
1:19:55
those were the three best coaches I think that I've ever
1:20:00
played for. So you played in the heyday of
1:20:02
the NFC East when it was thought of as the best division in
1:20:04
football for a long time. I see you guys winning 2 Super
1:20:06
Bowls, Dallas winning all the Super Bowls they did in the 90s.
1:20:09
We've actually had a few of them on our show to Doc Walker, who
1:20:11
played for the Commanders, Washington at that time, tight
1:20:14
end Tony Casillas who was on those Cowboys teams.
1:20:16
There were a lot of rivalries with those guys.
1:20:18
What was those some of the rivalries like for you and is
1:20:20
there any individual player that you had a personal grudge with?
1:20:24
The rivalry, like you said, the NFC Eastman, the Redskins, well,
1:20:27
now they're commanders. But man, when they were called
1:20:29
the Redskins at Daryl Green, Man, he was a beast.
1:20:33
But he was all class. And I always told people when
1:20:37
you ran a route against him, you couldn't do like a change of
1:20:40
speed route. Like run slow and then try to
1:20:42
speed up. You had to run full tilt at him
1:20:45
because you run full tilt at him, come out to break.
1:20:47
You're like, it's no way he could break on this ball.
1:20:51
And sure enough, a soft hand would come and just bat the ball
1:20:54
away. He gave me the best compliment
1:20:57
ever. My first start against the
1:20:58
Redskins, I went 80 yards. And they asked him at the end of
1:21:02
the game, why didn't he catch me?
1:21:04
And he said the guy I was chasing wasn't exactly a turtle.
1:21:09
Yeah, I I I treasure that because he was gaining on me.
1:21:13
Man, if everybody see the highlight, like, yo, he was
1:21:15
gaining. Hey, but he didn't catch me.
1:21:17
That's all that matters. He called Mark Guevaro that game
1:21:20
and he called Maurice Carthon because they both look back.
1:21:24
I just tilted my head back and act like I was running, playing
1:21:27
street ball in California when I grew up.
1:21:30
And of course we hated the Eagles.
1:21:31
The Eagles, man, come on. You know that they used to throw
1:21:34
batteries at us, man, 9 Volt batteries hit you in the helmet
1:21:37
and it resonates so loud. And they, they were the most
1:21:40
hated. I think them and the Cowgirls, I
1:21:43
mean Cowboys, were the two most things we could not take.
1:21:47
You're going to you're going to. There's a lot of Cowboy fans
1:21:49
that listen to their show, so I'm sure you got them jumping
1:21:54
for whatever, trying to trying to grab them, trying to grab
1:21:57
them in the scream and. You know what, that is fine
1:22:00
because I can say that because I was born in San Antonio, TX and
1:22:04
I was a die hard Cowboy fan until the day I got drafted.
1:22:07
I had Tony Dorsett's picture on my dorm wall until the day I got
1:22:11
drafted. Then it was time to put childish
1:22:13
things away. I'm a giant fan for life now,
1:22:15
but I like the Cowboys up to that point.
1:22:17
I like him. I like him.
1:22:19
We are we are talking to former New York Giants Super Bowl
1:22:22
champion wide receiver, the touchdown maker, but I'm calling
1:22:26
him the play. Shaker himself played for the
1:22:30
New York Giants from 1987 and 92 and won Super Bowl 25.
1:22:34
And his name is Stephen Baker. You know Stephen.
1:22:38
We look at the game and and the game's completely changed from
1:22:41
when you played in those days. The corners can pull your
1:22:45
jersey. There was no penalties.
1:22:47
There's you barely can. I mean, if you played in the
1:22:51
days of now where if you touched a wide receiver, you're getting
1:22:56
a 15 yard penalty. If you played with your speed
1:22:59
now, you would be a lot faster with all the training facilities
1:23:02
that they have right now and all the the opportunities that some
1:23:05
of these players have in the offseason.
1:23:07
What type of player do you think you would be now in the NFL for
1:23:10
what you were in the 80s and the early 90s?
1:23:12
I actually got the best compliment from coach Pope, who
1:23:16
coached the tight ends for us and then he coached Dallas, I
1:23:18
believe Green Bay. And he had told me a couple
1:23:20
years ago, he said, Bake, if you were playing today, they would
1:23:24
not be able to touch you. And I would say this about
1:23:27
yesteryear's players. The way we played, we were a
1:23:30
little more aggressive. Man, I see the me and my, my
1:23:32
brother and I was just talking about this.
1:23:34
When receivers are running routes now on the DB, they let
1:23:37
them do this hand grabbing. Now the little fighting and
1:23:39
whatnot. Tom Coughlin taught us to beat
1:23:42
the crap out of their hands. They need to take karate lessons
1:23:45
because all you got to do is chop them right across that
1:23:47
radius. They're all in their bone really
1:23:49
hard and they'll stop all that grabbing.
1:23:51
But I, I know for a fact I would have stayed off of social media
1:23:56
because people are so critical of your play today.
1:23:59
And I would have just focused on me, man, just doing what I do
1:24:03
best and work hard and practice practicing like his game time.
1:24:07
Not complaining about not getting any targets.
1:24:09
I ain't gonna say no names. A.J.
1:24:11
Brown for that kills me, man. You're freaking four.
1:24:14
And oh, and you're complaining about touches.
1:24:17
Mark Ingram caught 37 passes our Super Bowl year.
1:24:20
I caught 34, I believe. Did we complain?
1:24:23
No. It got us one of these.
1:24:25
We worked our tail off when they asked us to block.
1:24:28
We block. I get a lot of haters.
1:24:30
How do you get the touchdown maker?
1:24:31
He only scored 23 touchdowns. The little history on that.
1:24:34
I got that name in junior college when I scored 31
1:24:37
touchdowns in two years. A reporter came up to me after
1:24:40
the first time I played on artificial turf and said, hey,
1:24:42
that was the greatest performance I've ever seen by a
1:24:44
wide receiver. I scored four in a row.
1:24:46
And he said, do you mind if I call you Stephen Baker, the
1:24:48
touchdown maker? And I said, sure, go ahead.
1:24:50
And I went on to score 31. At that time, it was a junior
1:24:53
college national record, which I shared with OJ Simpson.
1:24:57
That was the only thing we had in common, by the way.
1:24:59
The name just kind of stuck. And you can imagine coming here
1:25:02
to Parcells, he's like, how many touchdowns you got in this
1:25:05
league? Giant fans still Remember Me by
1:25:07
that name, and I didn't score a lot.
1:25:09
But hey, I always say that one in the Super Bowl when my team
1:25:12
needed it and I was always there for my team when they needed me.
1:25:16
So I want to reference some a guy you brought up earlier in
1:25:18
Mark Bavaro that was thought of as one of the best tight ends of
1:25:20
that era, one of the best, probably a top ten, top 15 tight
1:25:23
end in in the game. What was he like as a teammate
1:25:26
on and off the field? And do you think he was one of
1:25:28
the guys that kind of changed the tight end position where
1:25:30
he's always kind of thought of as more of that like big tight
1:25:33
blocker? Yeah, you know what?
1:25:34
He kind of reminds me of Mackey from back in the day.
1:25:36
God rest his play for the Colts, he was a hard running tight end
1:25:40
as well. And there's the guy on the
1:25:41
Giants right now that kind of reminds me of Bavaro, but he's a
1:25:44
little more vocal scout. Bavaro was real quiet, but he
1:25:49
was a quiet assassin. I recall one game we played a
1:25:52
preseason against the Houston Oilers and we ran a play.
1:25:55
We got back in the huddle and he said run it against Sims.
1:25:59
And I brought in the the play you're supposed to run.
1:26:01
And Tim said coach said to run this.
1:26:03
He said no, run it again. Bavaro Pancake the guy man.
1:26:07
And of course, in the meetings when Parcells is over there with
1:26:09
his hands on his hips and the meetings, I had to take the
1:26:12
blame. So I said I brought in the wrong
1:26:13
place so the quarterback wouldn't get in trouble.
1:26:15
But Mark was a silent assassin. If you did him wrong, he was
1:26:20
going to get you back, and I tell you, he was.
1:26:23
Now, he talks a lot. He didn't talk a lot.
1:26:25
You know, he's called him Rocky and all that stuff.
1:26:27
Now, man, you get my mark on a microphone.
1:26:30
You can't shut him up. Lawrence Taylor I met Lawrence
1:26:34
Taylor I one of the nicest people I've ever met, sitting
1:26:38
and having a conversation. He knows football.
1:26:40
He knows a little bit about everything.
1:26:42
When you have a conversation with Lawrence, he'll talk about
1:26:45
music, he'll talk about it. He'll talk about anything you
1:26:48
bring up. He'll tell you what that what
1:26:50
his favorite gum is, what type of gummy you should eat and and
1:26:53
what you shouldn't be eating. He is one of the funniest people
1:26:56
you'll ever meet. What type of player, what type
1:27:00
of captain was Lawrence Taylor in the locker room?
1:27:04
The way he led was by his play. He wasn't really a vocal leader
1:27:07
like a Pepper Johnson or Harry Carson.
1:27:10
But I remember we were playing The Jets in preseason.
1:27:12
Richard Todd, I believe was the quarterback and I'd never seen
1:27:15
that stadium get so loud when he came on 1/3 and something and
1:27:18
got a sack and I said to myself, man, that's why he gets paid
1:27:21
$1,000,000, which is nothing compared to today's salaries,
1:27:25
but back then it was a lot of money.
1:27:26
He was just a team leader by his play and one of the nicest guys
1:27:30
in the locker room. Man, I remember my daughter was
1:27:33
Girl Scouts and he, he bought like, you know, 50 boxes from
1:27:36
me. If you needed to borrow some
1:27:38
money from him, he would loan it to you.
1:27:40
Just better remember to pay him back because he won't forget.
1:27:43
But I, I still see Lawrence at golf events.
1:27:47
You know, I see him at Otis Anderson's golf event.
1:27:49
We do every year. He can play some golf, man.
1:27:52
But he was playing ever since back in the day when we were in
1:27:55
the 80s and whatnot. His game is, is impeccable.
1:27:58
That's what keeps him going is golf.
1:28:00
Him and Otis Anderson, by the way.
1:28:01
He is one of the most competitive people I've ever had
1:28:05
a conversation with. He would tell me, listen, let's
1:28:08
see, I you have a deck of cards. I'll never forget when I first
1:28:11
met him, I was like, no, why would I have a deck of cards?
1:28:13
He's like, he pulled it right out of his back pocket.
1:28:15
He says, I bet you I'll pull out a bit.
1:28:18
I'll, I'll pull out a heart, a higher card than you.
1:28:20
I'll bet you 20 bucks. I said, I don't want to bet you
1:28:22
20 bucks. I was like, wait, wait.
1:28:24
Why is it he just said, I'll bet you 20 bucks.
1:28:26
I'll pull out the I'll give you a better chance.
1:28:28
I'll, I'll split the cards and you can pick anything from the
1:28:32
split cards and say no, Lawrence, I, I, I'm sure you
1:28:34
could. So I, that was, that's a funny.
1:28:37
And of course you brought up The Jets because I am a jet fan and
1:28:39
I'm an Eagles fan too, by the way.
1:28:41
So say. Yeah, Well, I'll tell you a
1:28:44
quick story. Everybody asked me, how are you
1:28:46
a Jets and Eagles fan? All right.
1:28:48
I was a Donovan McNabb fan. I followed him in Syracuse.
1:28:52
I followed him in Syracuse. He was my favorite player in
1:28:54
college. I followed him in the NFL when
1:28:56
he was drafted by the Eagles. And The Jets were never good.
1:28:59
So when The Jets would never make the playoffs, I had to root
1:29:03
for somebody. And I couldn't stand the Giants.
1:29:05
I couldn't. I can't stand.
1:29:08
And then I got this guy, and you probably you haven't seen him.
1:29:12
You could pop in just for a second fish.
1:29:15
I want you to see this guy wears all giant stuff on this show.
1:29:20
Every show. See.
1:29:22
Look. At I'm mad.
1:29:23
There he is. There he is, and he's my
1:29:25
executive producer. Got to represent, you know what
1:29:28
I mean? Look at I hide it from nothing
1:29:30
just because we don't win every year.
1:29:31
Yeah, and he makes a lot of excuses and he finds a wagon.
1:29:35
Bandwagon second favorite team. And he finds it.
1:29:39
Are you kidding me? Please get out of here.
1:29:41
Get out of the frame. You pissed?
1:29:42
Me off you come back coach. Hey, but on a serious topic of
1:29:52
Wesley Walker is a very good friend of mine.
1:29:55
I called him the real 85. He should be in the Hall of
1:29:58
Fame. Bruce Harper is another good
1:30:00
friend of mine. I I'm a little bit taller than
1:30:02
him but I told him when I watched him I always looked up
1:30:05
to him because I said if that little dude made it I have a
1:30:08
chance. So couple of jets are my
1:30:10
favorite. Wesley Walker.
1:30:12
I met Wesley Walker three times. I got his phone number.
1:30:14
He told me I can. And that was another thing that
1:30:17
I have to give you. Wesley.
1:30:19
I saw him at a couple of concussion events with Curtis
1:30:22
Martin and a bunch of Jets. Joe Namath and Wesley was the
1:30:26
nicest, nicest person too. Very kind, very collective, very
1:30:31
nice to the ladies. He's very smooth.
1:30:34
He is a smooth dude, I could tell you that.
1:30:38
You know what most people don't know?
1:30:39
He's legally blind. And why not?
1:30:40
Yes, I did know that. And he actually told me because
1:30:43
I was like, I was playing like slap boxing with him and I was
1:30:46
just like, and he's like, I'm blind.
1:30:48
I'm blind. I actually found it out because
1:30:53
I used to read up on receivers and I read that sometime when I
1:30:56
was in high school and I was like, wow.
1:30:58
And if anybody thinks it's easy, go try to catch a over shoulder
1:31:01
ball with one eye close. He's he should be in the Hall of
1:31:05
Fame. And I tell him all.
1:31:06
The time. He's got the numbers.
1:31:08
Before I answer my question, I just want to mention on a side
1:31:10
note, we also a couple years ago had The Jets superfan Fireman Ed
1:31:13
on our show and he actually Bruce Harper is the jersey he
1:31:16
always wear. Yes.
1:31:17
And he was actually telling a story about that that was that
1:31:19
was very interesting. So I want to shift gears.
1:31:21
First of all, Fireman fire, Mr. Fireman was a Miami Dolphin fan.
1:31:26
That's also true. Yeah, that's right.
1:31:28
OK, so let let's not really go too deep into that.
1:31:32
I got it. I didn't know that.
1:31:33
Thanks. Steven, I'll give you, I'll
1:31:35
throw you some curves, Steven. Steven made sure.
1:31:37
To say, do the same tradition when he got dropped by the
1:31:39
Giants, always hit the Cowboys for the rest of his life.
1:31:41
So we get respected. We get back to that way of
1:31:43
thinking. So I want to shift the gears
1:31:44
with the the current Giants and obviously the drama that they've
1:31:46
had the last two years with, with Saquon Barkley, obviously
1:31:49
with with Daniel Jones. I gave him the contract and then
1:31:52
they caught him last year and now he's striving over there in
1:31:54
Indianapolis. Mistake.
1:31:55
And So what are your thoughts to like that whole saga, how it
1:31:57
went down with everything, with hard?
1:31:59
Knocks Well, of course I saw it like you guys, man.
1:32:01
And I I was shocked to hear when you heard Mara say, I don't want
1:32:05
to say I know that kid is good for our locker room.
1:32:08
He's a team player. What not.
1:32:09
I'd hate to see him go to the Eagles.
1:32:11
And where does he go? Right to the Eagles.
1:32:14
And on another note, look at Oh my God, they went to the Colts.
1:32:19
Daniel Jones, Daniel Jones, Daniel Jones, man, Evan Ingram,
1:32:24
yes, Evan Ingram. Look how well he's doing.
1:32:27
The guy that went to the Raiders, who left the Giants, I
1:32:29
mean, The Jets losing name the black quarterback for the
1:32:34
Raiders. Dang, you know, thank you guys,
1:32:38
man. And one more, the Seattle
1:32:40
quarterback right now. This is my philosophy on it and
1:32:45
Otis Anderson as well. Some of these kids can't handle
1:32:48
the New York pressure, man. New York would keep it real.
1:32:51
The reporters, they keep it real.
1:32:53
You go to these other places like Indianapolis, hey, why did
1:32:56
you drop that ball? I was just having a bad day.
1:32:58
And they'll accept that, but New Yorkers won't accept that.
1:33:01
And I think these kids can't handle the New York pressure,
1:33:04
and when they go to other teams, they thrive.
1:33:07
We are talking. We are talking to former New
1:33:09
York Giants Super Bowl champion wide receiver, the one and only
1:33:13
Stephen Baker. You know, Steven, Danny Dimes is
1:33:17
a guy that I of since he was drafted, I stuck up for him.
1:33:20
I there are a lot of haters, a lot of people that didn't like
1:33:23
him. They thought he was goofy and
1:33:25
goofy. He tripped on his own feet all
1:33:28
the way to the end zone. And everybody, they show that
1:33:31
video every single time they show clips of the New York
1:33:34
Giants and Danny Dimes and I thought that the Giants did him
1:33:37
a disservice. They never really gave him
1:33:39
anything. No wide receivers.
1:33:41
They were reaching the offensive line was horrible.
1:33:44
They never did the right thing for the kid and now you see him
1:33:46
right now flourish over there in Indianapolis.
1:33:49
Maybe he'd be doing that with the Giants.
1:33:50
I'm not taking shots at the Giants organization, or maybe I
1:33:53
am, maybe I am. But Jackson Dart has looked
1:33:58
special. He has and he's a young kid.
1:34:01
He's a little wet behind the ears.
1:34:03
He lost against the Saints. He didn't look good against the
1:34:05
Saints. And then he goes on Thursday
1:34:07
Night Football. And finally, after how many
1:34:10
years the they beat the Eagles and Eagles team that I expect to
1:34:14
be a Super Bowl contender this year.
1:34:16
And this is the same Eagles that last year did not look good
1:34:20
until the second-half of the season.
1:34:21
Then it barely lost the game. So the Giants got the Eagles at
1:34:25
the perfect time where the Eagles were not.
1:34:27
They're not offensively sound. They're not getting the ball
1:34:29
into the places they should be. And Jalen Hurts has been a shell
1:34:32
of what he was in the second-half of the season last
1:34:35
year. What are your thoughts?
1:34:36
What do you think? What do you believe is the
1:34:38
problem right now with the Eagles offense?
1:34:41
Well, for one, and you know, I have to take it to my to my wide
1:34:43
receivers because I played the position man.
1:34:46
If you saw the what game was that the game Saquon the ball 6
1:34:49
times was that last week, last week, a week before and didn't
1:34:52
A.J. Brown go on Twitter or whatever
1:34:54
and say that the offense is boring?
1:34:56
I want more targets. What do they do?
1:34:59
They target him. He what, 5 catches for 43 yards
1:35:01
or whatever and you go for away from who you are.
1:35:05
You can't do that man. You're not bigger than the team.
1:35:07
Who cares about your targets, bro?
1:35:09
I just told you that earlier make the plays when they call
1:35:12
your number, just be ready. All that going to social media
1:35:15
and complaining about not getting the ball like we all
1:35:18
want the ball. You think I Mark Ingram 37, I'm
1:35:21
34 passes. We didn't want the ball.
1:35:23
We see it on 3rd down. They're blitzing.
1:35:25
We look over at the side like guys, look, I'm one-on-one.
1:35:28
But no, keep your mouth shut. Let it do what it do.
1:35:31
Y'all could have been probably 5 and all until we beat you.
1:35:35
But and that that's just freaking from the offensive side
1:35:38
of the ball defensively. I mean, you know, silly stuff.
1:35:43
Even that first game when the guy spit in Dallas.
1:35:46
The quarterback Jalen Carter. Yeah.
1:35:48
Yeah, where do you where do you get this from?
1:35:50
I don't. I just don't understand these
1:35:52
kids mentality sometime today, but that's my thoughts on the
1:35:55
Philadelphia offense. Now if you want to know about
1:35:57
the Giants, I'm loving this kid. Dart and scataboo Scalabu
1:36:02
reminds me of a old school all stop, you know all snot, all
1:36:06
stop from the Tampa Big Buccaneers.
1:36:09
Remember him? Yeah, Mike Alstott.
1:36:11
Yeah. Mike Alstott men Otis Anderson
1:36:13
say he may not last long, but who cares?
1:36:15
This is how you play football. If Parcells was coaching his
1:36:18
team, he would say look, guys, defensively and offensively,
1:36:22
this is how you play football. And I'm loving him and I like
1:36:26
how he gave praise to his offensive line during the the
1:36:29
ending of that game because he had a couple of 10 yard runs or
1:36:32
15 yard runs and he gave homage to his offensive line.
1:36:37
Dart has to learn how to to go down, man.
1:36:39
We saw the one hit he took and had to go in the tent and then
1:36:43
another first down he put his head down and went head up with
1:36:45
somebody. Now they got tape on you man.
1:36:49
You know they're going to start devising plans to make you go a
1:36:53
certain way so they can sack you.
1:36:54
So. But he is exciting to watch.
1:36:57
And that was, you know, I live down here by Philly, believe it
1:37:00
or not. I'm in Woodbury, NJ, 5 miles
1:37:03
from the Whitman Bridge, thus Eagles country.
1:37:07
So it felt good to be able to wear my stuff with pride for a
1:37:10
change around here. And everybody was looking at me
1:37:13
side eye, believe it or not. I'm sure I'm positive.
1:37:17
I'm positive on that. So you're talking you're talking
1:37:20
about the the the running backs and obviously Jackson Dart would
1:37:24
deal with the injuries and stuff like that too.
1:37:25
There was a story during the offseason about a lot of people,
1:37:28
a lot of players that were mentioning that the guaranteed
1:37:31
money was not right for a lot of these players.
1:37:33
And there was collusion in the offseason.
1:37:35
Lamar Jackson got underpaid as a result because of Deshawn Watson
1:37:38
and stuff like that. And obviously there's all these
1:37:39
running backs like Saquon that did not get the money that they
1:37:42
deserve to get. Obviously you played in the pre
1:37:43
salary cap era, but obviously you've probably been around the
1:37:46
team enough to know some of these players, like just in
1:37:48
contract negotiations, like what is it like as a player?
1:37:50
And do you think there really is so these nitpicking going on in
1:37:53
the NFL? Well, you know what, I think if
1:37:56
you produce and you do what you're supposed to do, you will
1:38:00
get paid. I don't like when athletes try
1:38:02
to get paid when they haven't done nothing yet.
1:38:05
I mean, that's just life one-on-one.
1:38:08
You just have to work for stuff these days, you know what I
1:38:10
mean? Back in our day, you had to work
1:38:11
for it. You know, I ain't a shame to say
1:38:13
my contract my final year was 50525I thought I was the richest
1:38:19
person in the world. That is a bonus, way more than
1:38:23
that for just, you know, 80 million guaranteed and whatnot.
1:38:25
And you still haven't done nothing.
1:38:28
And what really? And I'm sure if you were owner,
1:38:31
it would make you angry too. You pay a kid all this money and
1:38:34
then they wind up getting hurt, you know, and they say no name
1:38:38
CD Lamb, but you know that no rush to get back on the field.
1:38:42
It seems like too, if people ask me, why would you think Tyreek
1:38:45
Hill was smiling? Because what, he got an 80% of
1:38:48
his contract. He ain't got to play no more.
1:38:50
He wanted out anyway. I believe it's just a different
1:38:53
era. Mr. Baker All right, I'm going
1:38:55
to put you in a position right now.
1:38:56
You're a GM of GM of a football team, an NFL football team, and
1:39:01
you have your pick on what quarterback you would pick right
1:39:05
now and wide receiver, You have anybody you want.
1:39:09
Who would you pick at the quarterback position and who
1:39:12
would you pick at the wide receiver position to win a Super
1:39:15
Bowl? Give me two guys.
1:39:17
All right, I'm going. My quarterback is going to be
1:39:19
Lamar Jackson. I just love what he brings to
1:39:21
the game with his mobility and his ability to throw the ball
1:39:25
down field. Now, wide receiver, I don't go
1:39:28
for the cocky guys, man. Give me somebody like the kid
1:39:32
from the Rams and the Joku. Is that his name?
1:39:36
I'm sorry. Give me him.
1:39:37
I like somebody like that who's consistent, makes plays.
1:39:43
Ain't the fastest guy in the world as a total team player
1:39:46
because I've never been a fan of these guys that that get in the
1:39:49
end zone and start twerking like like women and stuff like just
1:39:53
do what you're supposed to do and this first down that's what
1:39:56
you're supposed to do so you. Don't celebrate.
1:39:58
I'm sure you now you know as a giant you weren't a big fan of
1:40:01
Odell Beckham then I. Have to tell you, I wasn't, man.
1:40:05
I didn't like all that. Because it's unnecessary.
1:40:08
I can see your first touchdown. OK, you're excited, but you know
1:40:12
what Parcells would have said to us if we did all these
1:40:14
shenanigans here, Like, are you a football player or a dancer?
1:40:17
Because the football player is not working for me.
1:40:21
And you know, to think that guys, I know it's a different
1:40:23
era and I may sound like a old fogey stovey, but you know,
1:40:25
these guys go out of their way to plan these things that they
1:40:30
do in the where they could be catching balls from the ball
1:40:34
machine or something. But no, they want to practice.
1:40:36
But you know, it's all about self marketing, I guess on
1:40:39
social media and whatnot. I just don't get it.
1:40:42
I'm old school. I don't think you're old school.
1:40:44
I even me if I'm, if I'm playing in the NFL and I'm I'm trying to
1:40:48
make a statement, I'm going to make sure I like, I'm going to
1:40:50
be like Calvin Johnson. Did you see Calvin Johnson dance
1:40:53
around the football field? As soon as he scored a
1:40:55
touchdown, he hand the ball right to the referee and he ran
1:40:59
to the sidelines. I never seen Calvin Johnson one
1:41:03
time ever in his career, ever dance when he scored a
1:41:07
touchdown, ever. I don't.
1:41:09
I've I've never seen it. If somebody can find a video,
1:41:13
I'll pay you $1000. You find a video right now of
1:41:17
Calvin Johnson when he scores a touchdown doing some kind of
1:41:19
crazy, stupid dance, I will pay you guys $1000.
1:41:23
You could send it to me. I promise you, you could book
1:41:26
it. I will send you $1000 because
1:41:28
I've never seen it and I'm I follow Calvin Johnson.
1:41:31
And people always ask me, Baker, what was your touchdown dance?
1:41:34
I say, first of all, I'm the rhythmless brother.
1:41:36
I can't rhythm. I don't have any rhythm.
1:41:38
So I never did dance or anything.
1:41:41
But I did spike the ball on occasion because defensive backs
1:41:44
were talking a lot, a lot of noise, but never showboating and
1:41:48
trying to show them up like these kids do today, man.
1:41:51
But you know, it's a different ball game and the coaches allow
1:41:54
it because their jobs are on the line.
1:41:56
And if these kids don't perform, they lose their jobs.
1:41:58
So that I guess they let them get away with it all right.
1:42:01
Steven, last question for me and we're going to let you go and I
1:42:04
would love to get you on again and we'll have a lot of fun with
1:42:07
you in the next time you come on.
1:42:09
We'll have job on job was moving right now.
1:42:11
He's moving three houses. His father passed away.
1:42:14
So he's moving all the stuff out of his father's house.
1:42:17
Yeah. He's if you know anybody that
1:42:20
knows the Jabba story, his father was very, very important,
1:42:23
very, very close with him. He was everything them.
1:42:25
And his father passed away about a year ago.
1:42:27
And Jabba's been dealing with that and, and trying to get, you
1:42:31
know, his life together from it. So it's hard.
1:42:33
I I lost my father nine years ago, so I know all about that.
1:42:37
They all up there high fiving each other today man.
1:42:39
Absolutely. All right.
1:42:41
Top running backs of all time. And I and, and I know there's
1:42:44
that. I saw a picture recently and it
1:42:46
had Barry Sanders sitting in the crowd.
1:42:48
He had Walter Payton bowing down to him, OJ Simpson and I, I
1:42:54
think Emmett Smith and somebody else.
1:42:56
Who do you think? Oh, oh, I'm sorry, Brown.
1:42:59
Also, who do you think is the best running back of all time?
1:43:04
You know, that is such a hard question.
1:43:06
Man, I want to. I want to ask you.
1:43:08
I want to ask you. I know.
1:43:10
All right. Well, I'm going to.
1:43:13
I can't answer that because for excitement it was Barry Sanders,
1:43:16
all right? Walter Payton, Sweetness, man.
1:43:19
I used to hold the ball like him in college until I got to the
1:43:22
pros and Parcells cussed me out and told me not to hold it like
1:43:25
that anymore. On Hunt returns.
1:43:28
Jim Brown, I'd never forget the great John Fassinder when he
1:43:32
says, if you, I don't know if you guys know who John Fassinder
1:43:34
is. He's known as the voice of God.
1:43:37
And the way he narrated, he was like, I thought Superman was
1:43:41
white and lived in New York City, but I found out he's black
1:43:44
and he's from Cleveland. And that was Jim Brown, bro.
1:43:46
And Jim Brown was everybody was targeting it and they knew he
1:43:50
was getting the ball and they still couldn't stop him.
1:43:52
So I used to say to myself, little as I was, I said I'm a
1:43:56
run like Jim Brown and Walter Payton and those were my 2
1:44:00
heroes. Do you know where, Jim?
1:44:02
Do you know where Jim Brown's from?
1:44:05
I know he went to Syracuse. Do you know where he's from?
1:44:08
Do you know where he he was born?
1:44:10
No. Right here.
1:44:13
Long Island, New York. No way.
1:44:15
Yes, he was. Long Island, New York.
1:44:18
Yes, he was. He's from Long Island, New York.
1:44:21
You could look that. Up I got an I will.
1:44:22
I got another tidbit for you. You know lacrosse, right?
1:44:25
He played. You know why they twirl it like.
1:44:28
This no. Jim Brown used to pin that thing
1:44:32
to his chest and run all the way.
1:44:35
And they made the rule. Yeah, Google it.
1:44:37
They had to. I'm looking at it right now.
1:44:39
Wow, really? OK, interesting.
1:44:43
Look it up. But no, Jim Brown was a beast,
1:44:45
man. I really respected his game.
1:44:47
I loved those old highlights. I actually still watch those
1:44:50
highlights, man. Listening to John, and now with
1:44:52
the advent of AI, I always wanted John Fassinder to say my
1:44:57
name. I'm going to figure out how to
1:44:59
do it because they did it with, say, Corn Barkley.
1:45:01
John Fassinder narrated his touchdown in the playoffs in the
1:45:04
snow. Just so everybody knows, he
1:45:06
played in high school at Manhasset.
1:45:08
He is from Long Island, New York.
1:45:10
Jim Brown is. Yeah, he played for Man Hasset
1:45:13
High School here in New York. OK, so, so just just a little
1:45:18
tidbit for you guys. If you didn't know about Jim
1:45:20
Brown, he is from Long Island, so one of the greatest
1:45:23
roverbacks of all time. So.
1:45:24
And by the way, you know, somebody, a basketball player
1:45:27
that came from, played for Roosevelt Speed.
1:45:28
You know what I'm talking about. I do not.
1:45:30
Doctor J is from Long Island too.
1:45:34
Doctor. J is from Long Island.
1:45:35
Yes he is. Yes, he is.
1:45:37
Wow, I didn't know that I. Played for Roosevelt?
1:45:39
Yes, he did. And I, I got to throw you some
1:45:42
current curveballs, man. I want to help you out, you
1:45:44
know. And I take it you're from Long
1:45:46
Island? I am from Long Island.
1:45:47
Yes, I am born and raised, baby born and raised.
1:45:51
I've been all over the world, but born and raised.
1:45:54
But Steve, we really appreciate you, man, and I think you're
1:45:58
such a great personality. I mean, some of your takes and
1:46:01
your tidbits are just fantastic. You, you really do.
1:46:04
This is something that you should definitely look into
1:46:06
doing. I think you have the personality
1:46:08
to do it. No, thank you man, and you guys
1:46:11
are great too. It feels like I'm just talking
1:46:13
to you guys like we're just couple of guys talking sports,
1:46:16
man. And I, I love it.
1:46:17
I'm I'm not just wearing this because I'm on here today.
1:46:20
I wear my New York Giant stuff every freaking day, offseason or
1:46:25
on season. So thank you very much and you
1:46:28
guys continued success and I'm always here for you.
1:46:31
You're the man. Thank you, Steven.
1:46:32
And by the way, I'm not a Giant fan, but I'm a fan of you.
1:46:35
So if, if you know what I might do, I might buy a Giant's jersey
1:46:39
with your name on it. No, I'll call.
1:46:42
I'll get, I'll get your nickname put on the back of it.
1:46:45
The touchdown maker. All right.
1:46:47
Well, if I will send you a jersey, how about that?
1:46:51
That sounds good to me. I would love it, and I will.
1:46:55
I'll give it to you. Sign it up.
1:46:56
I'll frame it. I'll put it in the studio.
1:47:00
You got it buddy. You're the man and and we'll get
1:47:03
together one of these days when you come back to New York, we'll
1:47:05
get together and we would love it.
1:47:07
And Jabba, you know, we're going to be doing something at
1:47:09
Carmine's sometime in the holiday.
1:47:11
Maybe we'll get you to come down and and do a live interview for
1:47:14
the giant fans at Carmine's, eat some dinner, you bring your wife
1:47:17
and we'll hang out. Now where's Carmine's at?
1:47:19
Carmine's in Atlantic City. Manhattan.
1:47:22
Manhattan. Yes, I've never been to that
1:47:25
one. Yeah, so it's very, it's very
1:47:27
well known. So we, we, we just had we had
1:47:30
the world's famous chef from, you know, the chef from
1:47:33
Carmine's on the show last week and I kind of pitched it to him
1:47:36
and he was like, done, let's do it.
1:47:39
So and I said we'll bring some guests, we'll bring some guests.
1:47:42
So why not bring some ex Giants, some ex Yankees and show up and
1:47:47
and and have a fun time with the fans and, and give away some
1:47:50
giveaways and have just fun. You know that's what we want.
1:47:52
To do sounds fine to me. Please keep me informed.
1:47:55
Absolutely. Thank you, Steven.
1:47:57
All right, take it easy, speedy. Thanks man, always fun having
1:48:01
you having fun having you man. Love the ring?
1:48:05
Too. You have them, you have them
1:48:06
stuttering Steven, I know what you did to him.
1:48:08
I mean, it's like it's the gaming.
1:48:12
Chair, clearly. It's really the gaming chair.
1:48:15
Why You play games? You play video games.
1:48:18
Oh no y'all don't play games do you?
1:48:20
I'm PS five. I got.
1:48:22
I got 3. I play Madden, I play Call of
1:48:25
Duty, I play World of Warcraft. I got a gaming PC.
1:48:30
I I'm a hardcore gamer. Real talk.
1:48:32
Well. You definitely look like one,
1:48:35
that's for damn sure. Stephen Banker, ladies and
1:48:41
gentlemen, Super Bowl champion, New York Giants.
1:48:44
Fantastic. The touchdown maker.
1:48:47
I call him the play shaker. How's that?
1:48:51
I like it. I love it.
1:48:52
He's shaking and bacon. Well, he's not going to do it on
1:48:54
the football field, but he'll do it off the football field.
1:48:57
There you. Go and Madden, come see me.
1:48:58
There you go. Come and see him and he's like,
1:49:02
he's like ranked 95 on his game. The touchdown maker is ranked
1:49:06
95. He made sure he's ranked 95
1:49:09
anyways. And made sure not to celebrate
1:49:10
the touchdown. He'll just bow.
1:49:15
He'll just bow down. Oh, give.
1:49:17
Him a curtsy. Give him a little curtsy, but
1:49:20
he's fantastic. He's really, really fantastic.
1:49:23
He was a great get Speedy, good job.
1:49:25
I like it. Now that was Nathan.
1:49:27
That was Nathan's get. That was Nathan's get.
1:49:29
He's fantastic. He was fantastic.
1:49:31
He was really, really good. Great personality and straight
1:49:36
to the point. And dude, he didn't hold back on
1:49:39
anything we asked him. He pretty much gave you an
1:49:42
answer and he gave it. He stuck it right to us.
1:49:45
He stuck it to me, that's for damn sure.
1:49:47
But thank you to Stephen Baker. I really appreciate him for
1:49:49
joining us. And unfortunately, we didn't
1:49:52
have job up because job is moving, but that was a great
1:49:55
interview, definitely one of my favorite ones we've had in a
1:49:57
while. So thank you to Stephen Baker.
1:49:59
I really appreciate you and looking forward to getting him.
1:50:02
If we if we really do the Carmine thing and I think we're
1:50:05
going to work on that, we should definitely reach out to Steven
1:50:10
and have him come out and hang out with us.
1:50:12
I think he'd have a lot of fun with us.
1:50:13
So it'll be fun. How about you fish?
1:50:17
Not so many people are going to turn down some Carmine's, you
1:50:19
know. No, not at all.
1:50:21
You know, my Britney was telling me the other day she's like,
1:50:24
that's not a place to do something like this.
1:50:26
I say, well, it is going to be a place for this.
1:50:29
We're going to make it a place. You know, we'll, we'll find a
1:50:32
way to make it make it happen. You know what I mean?
1:50:34
Like. We'll make it a, we'll make it a
1:50:36
place. We'll make it a place, I
1:50:38
promise. So it's definitely something and
1:50:41
I think they'll have a lot of fun with us and, and you know,
1:50:44
Jabba's not. Would you sing like any like
1:50:47
Italian? Like ballads?
1:50:48
Do you want me to scare people away?
1:50:51
Well, I'm just saying, you know, like you do grab the mic very
1:50:54
often when we go out. You know, I, I, I think that,
1:50:58
you know, there would be some standards that need to be sung
1:51:02
at a place like. Dude, I first of all, I just
1:51:04
want to let everybody know that I did a wedding.
1:51:06
I did 2 weddings this weekend and I broke it down Saturday
1:51:10
night at this wedding at the contour hall.
1:51:14
And my boy, yes, if he's listening, James, DJ, we killed
1:51:18
it. I was breaking.
1:51:20
I was doing all crazy stuff. I was doing a robot.
1:51:23
I was doing some crazy, crazy. I'm a dancer, man.
1:51:26
I love to dance. So if if there's a dance floor
1:51:28
and I can entertain people, I'm going to do it.
1:51:30
So that's all I'm going to say about that.
1:51:33
All right, ladies and gentlemen, my golf clap of the day.
1:51:38
This deserves a golf clap. No doubt.
1:51:41
Golf clap. Golf Clap My Golf Club of the
1:51:45
day goes to the Tennessee Titans as their one in five season
1:51:51
seems to be in turmoil and and finally they made the right
1:51:56
decision. Brian Callahan gets fired.
1:52:00
Yes, after only two years, the Titans decided to part ways with
1:52:07
the one and only Brian Callahan. Does anybody know who his father
1:52:10
is? Speedy Bill Callahan.
1:52:11
Bill Callahan. That's right.
1:52:14
And do you know who Bill Callahan was on on the
1:52:17
sidelines? What team was he coaching on the
1:52:19
sidelines for? You're talking about as a head
1:52:22
coach. No, right now.
1:52:23
Oh, the offensive line. He was on the Titans.
1:52:25
On the Titans and after, yes. So just so everybody knows,
1:52:29
after Brian Callahan was fired, Bill Callahan stepped down after
1:52:35
his son got fired and and decided to part ways with the
1:52:38
Tennessee Titans. Right now, Ward looks like a
1:52:42
shell of what I thought he was going to be in his first year.
1:52:44
Now, that doesn't mean he's not going to be a good quarterback.
1:52:47
That doesn't mean that he's not going to be a star in this
1:52:49
league. It just means that the coaching
1:52:51
staff that they had placed there for him in his first year as an
1:52:56
NFL quarterback has failed him. And hopefully moving forward in
1:53:00
the offseason, they find the right guy that fits with this
1:53:03
team in this organization, find an offensive coordinator that
1:53:06
can help him. And there's one guy that could
1:53:08
become available if he gets fired from the Browns, and
1:53:11
that's Kevin Stefanski. And if I were the Tennessee
1:53:15
Titans, that's the first person. That's the first person I call
1:53:19
if he becomes available. I think he's the perfect fit for
1:53:22
a mobile quarterback that can throw the ball as well as Ward
1:53:26
Ken. I think he'd be fantastic for
1:53:28
the Tennessee Titans. So my golf clap of the day goes
1:53:30
to thank God as they fire Brian Callahan.
1:53:34
So the golf clap, Tennessee Titans firing the one and only
1:53:39
Brian Callahan, and then Bill Callahan heads out with him and
1:53:42
probably go gets a beer and gets drunk at the end of the night.
1:53:45
So here you go. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1:53:48
we call this Speedy's Stat of the Week.
1:53:52
The speedy well you may run like me, but you hit like stat of the
1:53:59
week. Another tow job.
1:54:01
Go suck on an egg and. Well, there's going to be plenty
1:54:06
of Cowboys fans sucking eggs on this one, including the beef
1:54:09
that love this guy for a while. I tried.
1:54:11
To like a serial killer. Kavinsky was a good running back
1:54:14
a couple years ago and that's Rico Dowdle.
1:54:16
He gets to the side of the day. 239 scrimmage yards this week,
1:54:22
234 last week. He is 1 of 6 running backs ever
1:54:26
that have ever done that stat. A lot of them in the Hall of
1:54:29
Fame. You mentioned Walter Payton
1:54:30
during the interview with the touchdown maker, Marshall Faulk,
1:54:33
Hall of Famer, one guy that is a mess right now in Le'veon Bell.
1:54:37
We don't reference him much more.
1:54:39
Deuce McAllister, another one. And Dalvin Cook was the most
1:54:42
recent one doing it in 2020 with the Minnesota Vikings.
1:54:45
I believe that was his last year there in Minnesota.
1:54:48
But Rico Dowdle was a backup at the start of the year for Chuba
1:54:51
Hubbard, Mikey C's boy. And now back-to-back games 239
1:54:54
and 234. Scrimmage yards.
1:54:56
I love what Canalis is doing with this team.
1:54:59
I love what he did with Baker Mayfield.
1:55:01
Everybody keeps giving the Cohen all the credit for what Baker
1:55:05
Mary Fell has turned into. It was Canalis.
1:55:07
Canalis really changed everything.
1:55:09
Cohen was right under Canalis and and Canalis was the
1:55:13
offensive corner and Canalis went to Carolina Panther team
1:55:18
that decided to part ways with their coach in the middle of the
1:55:20
season. OK.
1:55:22
And I it was, it's fantastic to watch.
1:55:25
I think teams the the team is buying in right now.
1:55:28
There are three and three. They just beat the Cowboys.
1:55:31
This is the first time the Carolina Panthers have been
1:55:33
three and three in about 7 years.
1:55:36
Just think about that. It's been a long time for the
1:55:39
Carolina Panthers. You're talking about Jonathan
1:55:42
Stewart and, yeah, Cam Newton. Those teams, it's been a long,
1:55:47
long time, and they finally look like a scrappy.
1:55:49
I I think this might be one of the more scrappier teams right
1:55:53
now in the NFL. Yeah, and they're actually like
1:55:56
those running back records that he's breaking to.
1:55:57
Jonathan Stewart, DeAngelo Williams, that was there.
1:55:59
And then most recently, Christian McCaffrey before they
1:56:01
traded him and this guy Rico Dattle as the Scrubbage.
1:56:04
When was the last time they were three and three it?
1:56:06
Has to be it was one of late Ron Ron Rivera's later years.
1:56:09
They, I remember they were six and two.
1:56:11
And got to be 5 or 6 years. Collapsed and missed the.
1:56:13
Playoffs got to be 5 or 6 years ago.
1:56:16
It's been a lot I want. To say it was 2019 more I want
1:56:18
to say 2019 and was his last year there.
1:56:20
I think that's when he got fired after subsequently after they
1:56:23
went to Washington. Well, I do want to point out
1:56:25
that the Panthers, the first year they had Sam Donald, they
1:56:29
did start off 3 and oh, but then absolutely collapsed so around
1:56:32
that time a couple years ago. He did have a heart start one
1:56:36
year and then he ended up moving on or something like that, yeah.
1:56:40
OK, so that was the last. Time the offensive line.
1:56:42
Look, if Rico Dowdell's putting up numbers like that, no one
1:56:45
thinks Rico Dowdle is Bijan Robinson out there, right?
1:56:49
He shouldn't be putting up those type of numbers.
1:56:51
That's only happening with the offensive line playing at a
1:56:53
really good level. They really have kind of come
1:56:56
together. They they've spent a lot of high
1:56:59
picks on some guys over the years.
1:57:02
I think that they're finally starting to pay off.
1:57:04
You know, it's it's kind of a crapshoot when you try to get
1:57:07
lineman. You don't know how far along
1:57:08
they are, what they've learned, you know, as far as, you know,
1:57:11
body mechanics as well as the game, like how well they see the
1:57:15
game. How will they understand what
1:57:16
they're supposed to do coming into the league?
1:57:18
Like, like Kelsey, you know, Jason Kelsey was a fifth round,
1:57:21
sixth round pick, right? You just don't know.
1:57:24
And it takes good coaching, which is why, like this whole
1:57:26
thing, you know, we started talking, you know, the Titans
1:57:28
way back in the beginning of this, that was supposed to be an
1:57:31
offensive line coach. That was supposed to be that.
1:57:33
That was supposed to develop guys.
1:57:34
Sometimes you just don't know until you get everyone together
1:57:37
who plays together, who gets response to coaching if the
1:57:40
coach is the right guy. You said it, Canalis might be
1:57:43
the right guy in the right spot. You mentioned their offensive
1:57:47
line, so I know this because he's on my all 22 team.
1:57:49
Taylor Moulton, their best offensive lineman, their right
1:57:51
tackle without in that game so and he's still Rego Dallas.
1:57:53
So put up those numbers. They just, they just have a good
1:57:58
system might be the way to say it, like where a guy can go down
1:58:01
and you can. Replace them and.
1:58:02
You don't miss a beat. It's just like I've coached
1:58:06
teams, you know, at obviously much lower levels where you lose
1:58:11
somebody and everything falls apart or get high back and
1:58:14
everything comes together. The Giants, you know, started
1:58:17
playing better as soon as Andrew Thomas came back.
1:58:20
That's that's surprising. They haven't given up.
1:58:22
I think they gave it one pressure last week.
1:58:24
The Giants offensive line had a rating in the 900, the 90s for
1:58:28
two weeks in a row. Who would have thought that was
1:58:30
even possible? Sometimes that's what it takes.
1:58:32
Yeah, that's what it takes, though, like an elite guy to
1:58:34
come back or just a really good system.
1:58:36
I think the Panthers have figured it out.
1:58:38
Well, I, I've been very interested to see what Canalis
1:58:42
was going to do with this Carolina Panthers team.
1:58:45
I liked Canalis. When he decided to part ways
1:58:48
with Baker Mayfield in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to go to
1:58:51
Carolina, I knew it was going to take a little while to remember.
1:58:54
It took. He's been there.
1:58:55
Canalis has been there almost three years now.
1:58:57
So it took him right. Canalis has been there two
1:59:00
years, two years. So this is no, is this his
1:59:02
second year? Yes, this is your second year.
1:59:03
Well, it's even faster than I thought he was going to do this.
1:59:06
But I, I think Canalis is a very good coach, quality personality.
1:59:11
And you could see when they're interviewing him.
1:59:13
I saw him in the second-half when, when she, I forget who was
1:59:16
interviewing him and what he said.
1:59:17
And she says, what do we, what do you have to do to win this
1:59:19
game? He says, just play football.
1:59:21
Let as long as we play football, we're going to be in this game.
1:59:24
And that's, that's what you want to hear from your coach.
1:59:27
He didn't look, he didn't say anything cocky, say anything
1:59:29
confidently. He just says we got to play
1:59:31
football. So I you like you like
1:59:34
everything that you've seen right now with the Carolina
1:59:36
Panthers and hopefully they squeak into the playoffs and
1:59:39
surprise the world. I and the way Dowdell is
1:59:42
playing. If he could stay healthy, they
1:59:44
could be scary with the way they play and the and the offensive
1:59:47
line, what they're doing right now, pushing people around.
1:59:50
So you're right, Fish. They've been unbelievable.
1:59:52
All right, ladies and gentlemen, our NFL whip around.
1:59:59
Whip, whip, whip around. All right, here we are back with
2:00:05
the NFL. Whip around for Week 6 of your
2:00:08
NFL coverage. We're going to start with
2:00:09
Thursday night's win by the Giants over the defending Super
2:00:14
Bowl champion Eagles, 34 to 17 in this game, Jalen Hurts 2430,
2:00:20
three 283 yards, a touchdown and an interception.
2:00:24
He also had a rushing touchdown in the game.
2:00:26
At one point they ran four straight push pushes in a row
2:00:30
before they got into the end zone.
2:00:31
Saquon Barkley only 12 carries and 58 yards and just two
2:00:35
catches for 9 yards. Dallas Goddard had 110 yards on
2:00:38
9 catches and a touchdown. A.J.
2:00:40
Brown was more involved, 6 catches, 80 yards, but it was
2:00:43
not enough because Jackson Dart and Cam Scataboo ran wild.
2:00:49
Scat with 19 carries, 98 yards, 3 touchdowns.
2:00:52
Dart 13 carries, 58 yards, a rushing touchdown 17 of 25195
2:00:57
and a passing touchdown to Wandale Robinson.
2:01:00
Giants did this without Darius Slayton, without neighbors.
2:01:03
Stop with Darius. Slayton.
2:01:04
He's going. To bring that up again.
2:01:06
Please, Brian. Darius Slayton.
2:01:09
Leading the NFL in sacks. Brian Burns playing with that
2:01:14
and and on top of. It better they're paying him
2:01:17
enough money. He's the highest paid
2:01:18
linebacker. In the league, well, I don't
2:01:21
think he's the highest paid, but he's definitely on top five, top
2:01:23
10. No, I think he was. 30 million a
2:01:25
year for an edge, that's not going to be the highest for an
2:01:27
edge. No, but he when they gave him
2:01:29
the. There was a bunch of guys that
2:01:30
got contracts after him, I think that and pushed him down.
2:01:33
But like literally he's playing like he deserves that contract.
2:01:37
So I'll take it if he's going to give you that kind of
2:01:39
production. It's been pretty good to see
2:01:41
Kayvon Thibodeau in this game. Thibodeau had the best.
2:01:45
He looked like Carl Bank stopping the run out there for a
2:01:48
couple of plays. I couldn't believe what I was
2:01:50
watching while the game, while we were doing the show on
2:01:52
Thursday, I he just shut down every play on the edge.
2:01:56
If Thibodeau is going to be the run stopping edge, you got to
2:01:58
Abdul Carter and then Brian Burns doing stunts together,
2:02:02
which is what they were doing. I mean, how do you stop that?
2:02:05
And the answer is you don't, and you get a lot of pressure.
2:02:07
And the that's a real good recipe for success, even against
2:02:10
a guy like Jalen Hurts. All right, I, I will say this,
2:02:15
the Eagles offensive line was not healthy going into the game.
2:02:18
So I know everybody's sitting here and they're saying, well,
2:02:21
look what the Giants did defensively against the Eagles.
2:02:23
That was not the starting five. The Eagles start started in the
2:02:27
beginning of the season and it won't be the starting five
2:02:30
that's going to be starting in the playoffs.
2:02:32
Now, the Giants aren't going to make the playoffs, but they
2:02:34
looked very, very good the last this past week.
2:02:38
They didn't look good the week before that with the Saints.
2:02:40
So they had to come out strong. I like Jackson Dart.
2:02:43
I'm not look at him turn down or put put down a guy that is
2:02:47
playing good football. Now, is Jackson Dart a superstar
2:02:51
player? Has he proven to me that he is
2:02:53
going to be a Starness league? All he has proven to me is that
2:02:56
he can take the pressure and when it came down to the big
2:02:58
game, he showed up in the big game.
2:02:59
Now as far as Cam's cataboo is, I heard, obviously we heard what
2:03:03
Stephen Baker said about him. He he he tries to compare him.
2:03:06
A lot of people are comparing. I did hear that comparison to
2:03:09
Mike Allstock. Maybe if that's what you want to
2:03:12
compare him. I remember him on Tampa.
2:03:14
He's a beast. Mike Allstott was a lot bigger
2:03:16
than Cam Scataboo. Now Scataboo plays bigger than
2:03:20
he is and I liked his personality.
2:03:22
I like what he does, but it's not going to, he's not going to
2:03:25
last long. If he's going to leave with his
2:03:26
head the whole game, that's what he does.
2:03:28
That's how he runs the ball. It doesn't work in the NFL.
2:03:31
If he continues to do that, he won't have a long lasting career
2:03:35
in the NFL. But you have to like his
2:03:37
personality. You have to like what the Giants
2:03:38
are doing defensively. You have to like that they
2:03:41
finally beat the Eagles and they did it on their own turf.
2:03:44
And and you you can see that the happiness of the Giant fans.
2:03:47
But Giant fans take a step back and with the signs that you have
2:03:51
in the audience and and the fans holding up, we don't have we
2:03:55
don't need Saquon. We have scataboo.
2:03:57
What a joke. And by the way, the Eagles need
2:04:00
to wake up. You have the you still have one
2:04:02
of the top three running backs in the league.
2:04:03
You're not using them enough. Stop listening to A.J.
2:04:06
Brown. Stop listening to the the
2:04:08
garbage that they have on that team and do what you have done
2:04:11
over the last past year that won you a Super Bowl.
2:04:13
As far as the Giants, congratulations to them.
2:04:16
It's not going to mean anything. Only puts them in a bad position
2:04:19
to not get a top ten pick. Yeah.
2:04:21
We're talking about all year fish with how bad Shane Baldwin
2:04:24
has been in a lot of instances this year and Eagles fans all
2:04:27
over social media have take a shot to Kevin Petullo
2:04:29
immediately after. Like obviously Kellenmore going
2:04:31
to the Saints and he's just been terrible as an offensive
2:04:34
coordinator so far. And like I was saying before 6
2:04:36
carries in one game last week for Saquon against the Broncos
2:04:39
that it's just not a good recipe for success.
2:04:41
And you're seeing this in this game too.
2:04:42
Now. They were trying to get AG Brown
2:04:43
more involved the at 80 yards fine, but it's still not a game
2:04:46
breaker performance. It's these illustrious giants,
2:04:48
young corners of Cordell Flot and Deonte Banks and all these
2:04:52
other guys that have struggled most of the year.
2:04:53
Flot obviously at the pick six in this game.
2:04:55
But this is what you described before, where they end up
2:04:57
winning probably the most dominating thing.
2:04:58
This is the best game the Giants have.
2:05:00
Played in the in a long time. Notice I never mentioned Jalen
2:05:02
Hurts because he did have a good game.
2:05:04
I know a lot of people want to point their fingers.
2:05:06
Oh, that wasn't a Jalen Hurts game.
2:05:08
His players were. A.J.
2:05:09
Brown was not catching the ball. Devante Smith was not catching
2:05:11
the ball. They weren't right running the
2:05:13
right routes. He did overthrow a couple of
2:05:14
passes. I'll admit it, he did.
2:05:17
But Jalen Hurts has not played well in the last two weeks.
2:05:20
This week against the Giants, he did play well.
2:05:24
The players did not make the plays that he needed them to
2:05:26
make when they needed to make them, and that's why they lost
2:05:29
against the Giants that way they did.
2:05:30
Yeah. And I also think like you saw
2:05:31
some of the game plan that Denver used against the Eagles
2:05:34
when they came back in that game, They were getting a lot of
2:05:36
pressure. And the Giants were able to use
2:05:37
a lot of those concepts, too, with the versatility of their
2:05:39
pass rushers. And that was a big difference
2:05:41
for them, finally making the defensive leap they needed so.
2:05:44
Yeah, I loved every freaking second of it.
2:05:47
What what a what a beautiful win.
2:05:49
I don't care if the Giants don't make the playoffs if they can
2:05:52
beat the Eagles like that. That was great.
2:05:54
Now this game was pretty fascinating.
2:05:59
For the second week in a row, Patrick Mahomes gets 4
2:06:02
touchdowns. The Chiefs beat the Lions 30 to
2:06:05
17. Mahomes finished 22 of 3257.
2:06:09
Three passing touchdowns, 10 carries, 32 yards and a rushing
2:06:12
touchdown. 2 of those touchdowns were to Hollywood Brown who had
2:06:17
four catches, 45 yards and the 2 scores.
2:06:19
Xavier Worthy coming back from the shoulder injury, played a
2:06:22
limited snaps, had the other touchdown.
2:06:25
The Lions, you know Jared Goff 23 of 29203 and two touchdowns.
2:06:30
No turnovers. Jameer Gibbs and David
2:06:33
Montgomery held in check. Montgomery only got 4 carries in
2:06:36
this game for 24 yards, Gibbs 17 for 65.
2:06:40
Neither one of them found the end zone for the first time this
2:06:43
season. Laporta and Jameson Williams
2:06:46
both had a receiving touchdown, 66 yards and 55 yards,
2:06:51
respectively. All right, I'm, I'm going to
2:06:53
tell you. And I, I, I read so many people
2:06:56
all over social media says if Kansas City plays like that,
2:07:00
they're going to the AFC title game once again for the night
2:07:02
time in a row, this team is not going to the AFC title.
2:07:07
GameStop, this rubbish. Even if Rice comes back and he's
2:07:10
half as good as he was before he left and he was suspended,
2:07:15
they're still not good enough to go to the AFC title game.
2:07:18
Yeah, Patrick Mahomes had a good game.
2:07:19
Was it one of his best games? No, he threw 3 touchdowns.
2:07:23
Look at the Lions. The Lions lost their, their,
2:07:26
they lost another safety in that game early in the game.
2:07:28
They have no secondary. None.
2:07:31
They played A-Team without a secondary and they put up those
2:07:34
numbers. I don't know why anybody is
2:07:36
trying to brag about what the Kansas City Chiefs did.
2:07:39
And they were at home. They weren't in, they weren't in
2:07:43
Detroit. They were in Kansas City.
2:07:44
So stop this crap. Stop bragging and all these, all
2:07:48
the stupid crap that I'm reading.
2:07:50
Yeah. And I'm not going to mention I
2:07:51
have, I'm a, I'm a fan of this guy.
2:07:53
I watched his show today because I wanted to check out what he
2:07:56
was going to say about Kansas City.
2:07:57
And he was one of the guys that says, book it.
2:07:58
Kansas City is going to the AFC title game.
2:08:00
He's on drugs. They're not going on.
2:08:03
They're not going on to the AFC title game.
2:08:05
They're not even winning their division.
2:08:06
They'll be lucky to make the playoffs still.
2:08:08
What are they three and three right now, Please?
2:08:11
Yeah, there's some things you can like with this thing.
2:08:13
Obviously they had their own injuries that they were able to
2:08:15
overcome with their wide. Receiver and Chris Jones looks
2:08:17
old still he did not look good. Chris Jones has struggled this
2:08:20
year and he did well the first couple of games.
2:08:23
Since then he hasn't played great, but the linebackers have
2:08:25
played really well for the the Chiefs.
2:08:26
And this is a Chiefs run defense that was really bad coming into
2:08:29
this game. And Steve Spagnola made a point
2:08:31
of it to make sure that they could contain these two guys.
2:08:34
And the other thing, obviously with Trent Mcduffey, you could
2:08:36
trust him. Somebody against St.
2:08:37
Brown, who was limited in this game as well.
2:08:39
They let fish you were mentioning they let LaPorte to
2:08:41
do their thing. They let Jameson Williams do
2:08:43
their thing and they were able to key in on the run and trust
2:08:45
Trent Mcduffie to do that. It was a good game plan by
2:08:47
Spagnolo and on the offense, they just still can't run the
2:08:49
ball, the Chiefs, but they're still trying to make it work
2:08:51
with these. Receivers.
2:08:51
I agree with Kev too. Kev actually posted he said also
2:08:55
the referees did not call 7 holding plays and you can see
2:08:59
they were holding. The Kansas City Chiefs were
2:09:01
holding throughout the game and there were no penalties called
2:09:04
in in very important parts of the game, which could have set
2:09:07
them back 1010 yards, 15 yards at some points of the game,
2:09:11
which because I, I caused possibly the Lions a chance to
2:09:15
get back into this game. So I agree with you, Kev.
2:09:17
There was a lot that the NFL stands for, and that's cheating,
2:09:21
as they always do for Candace. And we talked about it at the
2:09:23
beginning of the year, like would the Lions be able to
2:09:25
adjust with all these new assistant coaches all at once to
2:09:27
this maybe have been there were the first Test if spec when
2:09:30
Spagnolo adjusted to the run, they could never adjust back to
2:09:33
get those guys involved. And Dan Campbell obviously is a
2:09:35
great coach, but he could only do so much with somebody like
2:09:38
Spagnolo, who's a defensive, we know his defensive whiz.
2:09:40
Not surprised Bagnolo tried to stop the run.
2:09:43
That's what they're really good at, I think, if you can.
2:09:46
They weren't going into this game.
2:09:47
They were third worst I think an EPA.
2:09:49
But you know, like, I'm, I'm just saying like, you know,
2:09:52
that's what they want to do. So if you stop doing what they
2:09:55
want to do, that's a smart strategy.
2:09:58
You know, you Belichick forever would try to make, they said,
2:10:01
try to make teams play left-handed, make them do their
2:10:03
second best thing, make them do their third best thing.
2:10:06
Don't let them, you know, like as in baseball, maybe like.
2:10:10
I love Lisa Ann and. Beat you with your third third
2:10:13
pitch. You want to.
2:10:14
Throw that fastball. That's.
2:10:16
You know, I think. That's that's kind of the thing.
2:10:19
The Chiefs are smart, they're well coached and they can beat
2:10:22
A-Team like this if they're really motivated.
2:10:24
They've been, they've been playing tough.
2:10:26
The Lions have been riding high. I thought it was a trap game for
2:10:29
them. Anyway, not surprised the Chiefs
2:10:31
won this one. That's the coverage, Errol, I
2:10:35
know you've been wanting to talk about this, so here it is.
2:10:37
Daniel Jones and the Colts 31. The Cardinals collapse, this
2:10:42
time without Kyler Murray, Jacoby percent filling in.
2:10:46
And yes, yes, I gave you the points for Jacoby Percent.
2:10:48
I don't know why you want years. I don't.
2:10:51
Know why you well, Because I mean, technically that's not the
2:10:53
same guy. It doesn't matter.
2:10:54
It was at the last minute. Kyle Murray was going to play.
2:10:57
That's so. It was, you know, like Chris
2:10:58
Scott. Wait a second.
2:10:59
There were you picked? You picked 2 running backs in
2:11:01
the same week. It was white or or.
2:11:04
Urban That's that's fair going in.
2:11:06
That's not fair. Well, no.
2:11:07
No, that's not fair. That's not.
2:11:09
Fair. I gave you the points.
2:11:11
I'm just saying matter the results, that's fine.
2:11:14
That doesn't matter to me. But it it it nevertheless.
2:11:16
Now it's mattered. Enough that you like text me in
2:11:19
the middle of the. 100%. You better be given me like. 20.
2:11:21
Percent. I texted you during the game.
2:11:24
That's what I said. That's what I meant the week of
2:11:26
games anyway. Let's just go through some of
2:11:29
the stats. Percent was really good for
2:11:31
Murray. 320 yards, 2 touchdowns and a pick.
2:11:35
Their rushing attack was non existent.
2:11:36
As you know all their running backs are hurt.
2:11:38
Elvis and Mari Demicardo after that fumble.
2:11:41
They only gave him one carry in this game.
2:11:43
Bam Knight had 11 carries, 34 yards and a touchdown.
2:11:46
Jets legend Michael Carter had 9 carries, 34 yards.
2:11:51
Jonathan Taylor was the dominating force in this game
2:11:54
for the Colts. 21 carries, 123 yards and a touchdown.
2:11:58
Daniel Jones 212 on 22 of 32 touchdowns a pick, 5 carries, 20
2:12:03
yards and a touchdown on the ground.
2:12:05
Tyler Warren just continues to be beast mode Tight end in the
2:12:09
league. 6 catches, 63 yards and A and a touchdown.
2:12:12
That's a. Beast mode for a tight end?
2:12:14
Come on. Stop.
2:12:15
That's stats. Are not good man.
2:12:18
What do you it's not? About the stats with him though,
2:12:21
he he's great at every. Play in the mode.
2:12:24
I mean, yeah, you're going to give hold on one second.
2:12:27
You're going to give Warren all the credit.
2:12:29
And Daniel Jones was 22 for 30. He was 20, 22 for 30 and he's up
2:12:35
for an MVP and you're not going to give him any credit for what
2:12:38
he did? You're not going to give him any
2:12:39
credit. No, no.
2:12:41
Why? Why?
2:12:43
It's. Ridiculous.
2:12:43
No, it's not ridiculous. Why is it ridiculous?
2:12:46
Why is it ridiculous right now? Fine, fine.
2:12:48
He's in the top five in almost every single statistic right now
2:12:51
in the NFL and you're not giving him any credit.
2:12:53
You are a big hater. He's you're a hater.
2:12:56
Outside the top. You are a hater.
2:12:57
You're a hater. No in a lot of the statistics
2:13:00
right now. It's way too early to vote.
2:13:02
For him really. Not to me.
2:13:05
Not to me. And they're always doing.
2:13:07
Voting yet? So look.
2:13:09
In PFF, he's a top five quarterback right now in the
2:13:12
league too. About the PFL.
2:13:15
Your PFL where you can use it. Your own benefit training bride.
2:13:22
Is the number one. Technically.
2:13:23
Currently though, he had another 8 catches, 72 yards and a
2:13:28
touchdown. The other game, though, real
2:13:29
fascinating game. The Dolphins blow another one.
2:13:33
They fall to one in five. If we already lost Callahan, the
2:13:38
other hot seat in the NFL, it's clearly Mike McDaniel.
2:13:43
They lost this game at the end. They tried to come back and they
2:13:46
blew it at the end. Herbert 29, of 38264, two
2:13:50
touchdowns. Kimani Vidal 18 carries, 124
2:13:57
yards. Out of nowhere.
2:13:58
Lad Mcconkey is first real. Good.
2:14:00
All right. Can we move on from this?
2:14:02
We're talking about the charges in the Miami Dolphins.
2:14:05
Who? Devon, 8 chain, 128 yards, 2
2:14:07
touchdown. Who cares?
2:14:08
I'm running back in the league. Who?
2:14:10
Cares it's not going to be Cares it's not going to.
2:14:12
Make a coach who's going to get fired.
2:14:14
He's not. He's not getting fired until the
2:14:16
end of the season. Miami doesn't.
2:14:18
So yeah, I don't think Miami is going to fire him until the end
2:14:20
of the season. I think he deserves it.
2:14:22
I like Mike McDaniel and I know a lot of people have their own
2:14:26
thoughts to him. The the team, as far as I'm
2:14:28
concerned, are really not a team anymore.
2:14:31
Tyree Kill has been a problem really since the beginning of
2:14:34
the season on the offseason. He's always on these podcasts
2:14:38
saying what he says. He's taking shots at the
2:14:40
coaching staff. It hasn't worked over there.
2:14:43
But Mike McDaniel is a great offensive coordinator.
2:14:45
He's a great personality. I think you'll get another job
2:14:48
very quickly. He'll be an offensive coin
2:14:50
somewhere in the NFL. But the charges are for real.
2:14:53
I'm I'm sorry, they're your for real.
2:14:55
They they're up and down in certain parts of the game.
2:14:58
Their defense could play at the top level and then sometimes
2:15:01
they don't show up on certain plays and you're wondering where
2:15:04
they are. But this is a good team.
2:15:06
Justin Herbert is one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
2:15:09
Can't really take that away from him.
2:15:11
And Jim Harbaugh is going to be up for coach of the year.
2:15:13
As far as the Colts. I'm going to tell you this right
2:15:16
now. If the Colts stay healthy all
2:15:18
season long with this roster, the offensive line playing as
2:15:22
well as they are in their defense, they can come out of
2:15:25
the AFC, they can go to the Super Bowl this year.
2:15:27
Don't be surprised if they head to San Francisco as the AFC
2:15:32
champion. I, I'm telling you, this team is
2:15:34
playing great football right now and I I'm telling they're as
2:15:39
dangerous as any team right now in the NFL.
2:15:41
So. They've actually had some other
2:15:45
aspects of their defense I was worried about that are actually
2:15:47
playing well. When it comes to the pressure
2:15:48
rate, you were talking about the Broncos earlier being very high.
2:15:50
The Colts are actually one of the top five in the league
2:15:52
getting pressure as well. Their secondaries played a lot
2:15:54
better. Not as good in this game, but
2:15:56
again, your game planning for a new quarterback like you're
2:15:57
saying. But overall, I still look good
2:15:59
and the offense is phenomenal as always.
2:16:01
Dolphins, I think they're going to McDaniel is going to get
2:16:03
fired at the end of the year. I agree with you.
2:16:05
It's not going to come when they have no assistance that are
2:16:07
worth taking over at this point. The Chargers, they're good right
2:16:09
now. Just trying to grit it out.
2:16:12
Well, look, McDaniel, I think everyone thinks he's a good guy
2:16:16
and everything. It just seems to not be working
2:16:18
there. Might have run its course.
2:16:20
Maybe he's one of those guys that gets it, gets it together
2:16:23
on the second job. All right, so here we go.
2:16:25
The Patriots 25, Saints 19 in a game that was a lot closer than
2:16:29
people thought and in a game that went pretty much the way
2:16:33
people thought after the Browns traded away Joe Flacco to the
2:16:37
Bengals, the Steelers put up 23 against their only nine with
2:16:42
Nachador Sanders. Dylan Gabriel in that one.
2:16:46
The stats in that game for Arrows favorite quarterback in
2:16:49
the world, Aaron Rodgers 21 of 3235 and two touchdowns.
2:16:54
The touchdowns went to DK Metcalf with 95 yards and it
2:16:58
looks like a backup tight end. These games have Browns, the
2:17:02
Browns, you know, Gabriel threw, threw the ball 52 times in this
2:17:06
game for some reason, 29 of 52 for 2/21.
2:17:10
That game was not close whatsoever.
2:17:12
The Drake may love affair, though.
2:17:15
People are really, really in awe of some of the things he's
2:17:19
doing. There's a lot of quarterback
2:17:21
guys on the Internet that are saying he's doing some next
2:17:24
level stuff. Errol 18 of 26261, three
2:17:29
touchdowns. They had no running game
2:17:31
whatsoever. He led the rushing attack with
2:17:34
28 yards. Kay Sean Booty, 93 yards and two
2:17:38
touchdowns. Pop Demario Douglas 71 yards and
2:17:42
a touchdown. Congratulations to him.
2:17:45
He's still not a top five quarterback and he won't be.
2:17:49
And I'm just going to let you guys know that as far as I'm
2:17:51
concerned, the Patriots played the Saints, the Saints, the same
2:17:55
Saints team that beat the New York Giants the week before.
2:17:58
This is not a good team. So that's all I'm going to say
2:18:01
about that. Drake May, congratulations to
2:18:02
him. I like Drake.
2:18:04
I watched him play for North Carolina.
2:18:06
Do I think he's going ever going to be a top five quarterback?
2:18:09
He'll be a top ten quarterback. No question that he will be.
2:18:11
He's good enough to be a top ten quarterback, Top five.
2:18:15
That's a little reach. And until he proves that, as far
2:18:17
as the Steelers are concerned, Dylan Gabriel is going to be,
2:18:21
he's going to get one more week, maybe 2 at best.
2:18:24
And then they're going to give Shador Sanders the rain.
2:18:26
And I'm going to tell you this right now, this is going to be
2:18:29
an absolute debacle. I am telling you right now, this
2:18:33
is going to hurt because step Kevin Stefanski is going to be
2:18:36
forced to put in Shador Sanders because of the fans and
2:18:40
ownership and he's going to lose his job because of it.
2:18:42
It's not going to work over there.
2:18:44
They're in a terrible division right now.
2:18:46
The Baltimore Ravens don't have Lamar Jackson.
2:18:48
He's going to be out maybe another week with his injury.
2:18:51
The Bengals don't have a quarterback.
2:18:53
Joe Burrow has been out and the Browns are the Browns.
2:18:56
So I, I mean, that's why Pittsburgh's right now sitting
2:18:59
in first place. They better start moving, moving
2:19:03
and moving because once Lamar comes back, if they're not, they
2:19:07
don't have a hefty lead on them. I could see Baltimore coming
2:19:11
right back and winning that division.
2:19:12
Yeah, these are two very ugly four and two teams because the
2:19:15
Patriots, they obviously they proved their mark last week
2:19:17
against the Bills, but this game was very ugly.
2:19:19
Drake made did make some very very impressive throws, but
2:19:21
again, I'm not going to jump the gun and elevate him to the level
2:19:23
that a lot of these Twitter people want to do because he
2:19:25
beat the Saints and the Patriots are still not well-rounded.
2:19:28
The Steelers I agree with you, they're very ugly right now.
2:19:30
Still having a line problems, still having issues running the
2:19:33
ball. And DK Metcalf's been great but
2:19:35
I mean he can only do so much with 1 weapon.
2:19:37
Mike Tomlin is going to keep his job if this keeps up.
2:19:40
Mike Tomlin will keep his job for one more year.
2:19:43
That's about it. Aaron Rodgers is not Aaron
2:19:45
Rodgers. OK, I don't want to hear it
2:19:48
anymore. It's not the same guy.
2:19:50
It's just not anymore. And he might get into the
2:19:54
playoffs. The Steelers might be able to.
2:19:57
They'll probably lose in the first round again.
2:19:58
I I, I don't see the Steelers beating anybody.
2:20:01
They don't have a good enough offensive line.
2:20:03
Their offense, they as good as their running game has been up
2:20:06
and down throughout the season. They don't even have a #1
2:20:09
running back. They really don't.
2:20:11
They're using two guys, Gamewell, who was a third string
2:20:14
running back for the Eagles. And then they have Warren.
2:20:17
Who really is a #2 on any other roster?
2:20:21
So they don't even have a number one guy.
2:20:23
So I, I, I don't think this team's any good.
2:20:26
I, I really don't. And I don't want to hear about
2:20:27
DK Metcalf and what what he's doing right.
2:20:29
He stinks. He looks pretty good, I would
2:20:33
say, but you know, he's a limited in some in some facets.
2:20:36
I get you. All right, let's keep going.
2:20:39
We have the Panthers 30, the Cowboys 27.
2:20:44
Rico Dowdell, 30 carries, 183 yards on the ground, 4 catches,
2:20:48
56 yards and a touchdown in the air was the entire offense.
2:20:53
Outside of a couple of touchdown catches by Ted Toroa McMillan,
2:20:59
the rookie on from Bryce Young, who had 199 yards on 17 of 25
2:21:04
passing, 3 touchdowns and a pick only one sack, it was enough to
2:21:09
beat the Cowboys. You have to hear losing.
2:21:12
I'm going to tell you guys beef was texting me.
2:21:15
Do you guys want to hear what the beef wrote to me?
2:21:18
Hold on, hold on. I got to break.
2:21:20
Speedy. You go and say do your tick.
2:21:21
I want you to hear what beef? I'll stop.
2:21:23
Let me let me give you the rest of the cowboy stats because Dak
2:21:26
was good. 261 three touchdowns. George Pickens 9 catches is 168
2:21:31
and a touchdown, but they only had 31 yards rushing the entire
2:21:36
game. 13 carries for 29 yards by Devante Williams and a whole
2:21:40
bunch of nothing by everybody else.
2:21:42
That's where I was going to start, was actually the Panthers
2:21:44
front 7, like being very young all at once.
2:21:46
They have Derek Brown, they have it's a couple good linebackers,
2:21:49
but again, it's not a lot of great things.
2:21:51
They did a great job stopping the Cowboys running game and
2:21:53
really out matching their offensive line in some instance
2:21:55
too. And like we said before, Canal
2:21:56
has done a really good job with McMillan and a lot of these
2:21:58
other wrong young receivers. All right, so this is Beef's
2:22:01
take on the Cowboys loss. This Cowboy team is a friggin
2:22:06
joke and I wrote to him. Dak is definitely having an MVP
2:22:10
season. He says he sucks.
2:22:13
Jerry Jones needs to go. He's a Jackass.
2:22:16
This defense is an absolute joke.
2:22:19
A high school team can beat this defense.
2:22:22
And I wrote that's true. And he says it's mostly the
2:22:25
defensive fault, the defensive team's fault.
2:22:29
They can't stop anything. I would fire the defensive
2:22:33
coordinator ASAP. That's what he wrote to me.
2:22:35
That's the great Matt Eberflus. That that was the Biebs take on
2:22:41
the Cowboys. Absolutely.
2:22:43
Honestly, you can't blame Dak on this.
2:22:46
Dak did what he was supposed to. I mean, George Pickens had
2:22:49
another big day. CD Lamb's not playing.
2:22:52
When CD Lamb comes back, they're going to put up even more
2:22:56
points. The problem is they can't stop a
2:22:58
Nosebleed. That doesn't mean that this team
2:23:00
can't make the playoffs. They're only two and three.
2:23:02
That doesn't mean they can't sneak as a wild card team and
2:23:05
maybe even win the division. Look, the Eagles are four and
2:23:09
two. They just lost against the
2:23:10
Giants. They lose another game and the
2:23:13
Cowboys win two more. They have the same record.
2:23:16
So because the eagles are coming up on their bye week.
2:23:18
So I mean, there's a good chance the the Cowboys could still
2:23:22
fight for that division. And and I don't trust the
2:23:25
commanders. I don't I don't know what the
2:23:27
commander this commander team is yet because they're not the same
2:23:30
team they were last year. So not surprised about what the
2:23:33
beef is saying. I I'll tell you this.
2:23:36
The Panthers are The Panthers are a much better team than the
2:23:38
beef made amount to be. Seahawks before.
2:23:42
You do that before you do it. I have a statistic for you for
2:23:45
that Game 5 and 15. Could you guess what those
2:23:50
statistics go come from? It's.
2:23:53
Probably something to do with the gremlin.
2:23:55
So here's the thing. It's actually worse.
2:23:57
It's 4 and 15. All right, I'm.
2:23:59
Sorry. And it those stats don't do
2:24:02
Travis Hunter's poor offensive performance justice, because
2:24:06
there was also a touchdown called back to Brian Thomas
2:24:10
Junior because Travis Hunter lined up with his foot over the
2:24:14
line of scrimmage. Cadarius, Tony from two years
2:24:16
ago. Basically bringing down back
2:24:20
that play. So he was a basically a net
2:24:23
negative to the team in this. Jamie Lee.
2:24:26
Jamie Lee had to write this. He says Mike's still blaming DAC
2:24:29
and he said had a great game. The defense is bad because
2:24:33
Everfloose is trash. That's what he said.
2:24:36
Everfloose is trash. I think the general manager
2:24:39
might be trashed as well getting those guys.
2:24:41
That whole Kenny Clark debacle, he only had one tackle I think
2:24:45
the entire game. This game featured no running
2:24:48
attack whatsoever. Kenneth Walker 34 yards,
2:24:51
Charbonnay 24 at the end, 27 Tootin 14.
2:24:55
Nothing going on there. It was all about airing it out.
2:24:58
Jackson Smith and Jigba, 8 catches, 162 yards and a
2:25:02
touchdown from Sam Darnold to a 295 yards.
2:25:05
He looks good 16 to 27. Two touchdowns, looks pretty
2:25:09
good out there. Another touchdown to Cooper Cup,
2:25:11
his first of the season has been, you know, kind of that
2:25:14
possession receiver like we thought, you know, kind of
2:25:17
fitting in nicely as #2 at this point in his career for the
2:25:20
Seahawks. I I think Seattle's dangerous.
2:25:23
I think they're very dangerous. If they make the playoffs, they
2:25:25
could be very dangerous. The defense is a lot better than
2:25:27
they look, and they have one of the more unique defensive minds
2:25:31
in the NFL in McDonald. I think he's a great coach.
2:25:35
I think he's going to be there for a very, very long time.
2:25:37
He reminds me of a young Pete Carroll.
2:25:38
He really does. And I think the team and the
2:25:41
players are buying into the way he likes to run that defense.
2:25:44
I, I think that they, they're dangerous.
2:25:46
I the problem with them is they really don't have a number 2
2:25:49
wide receiver. I, I, I love Cooper, Cooper Cup.
2:25:53
I love him, but he's more of a slot guy than he is a #2 now I
2:25:58
think you put Cooper couple in the slot, they got a number
2:26:00
another #2 on the other side. I think this team would be
2:26:04
unstoppable and Sam Donald, I didn't know if this was going to
2:26:07
work out or it's going to fit. I think they made the right
2:26:10
choice. Sam Donald looks really good in
2:26:12
the last two weeks, really, really good and he's starting to
2:26:15
get get a feeling of who where his players are going to be and
2:26:18
he's getting the ball to him so they look good.
2:26:20
Yeah, he looks sharp, like you're saying, without having a
2:26:22
real #2 receiver. They had flashes with their
2:26:24
rookie and Tori Horton, but he's.
2:26:26
Not a #2. He's not a #2 he's a seventh
2:26:28
round pick. That is a guy that you're going
2:26:30
to have some random flashes with.
2:26:31
Cooper Cup is probably a short route guy at this point and the
2:26:36
one you mentioned, AJ Barner Fish a couple weeks ago, he's
2:26:38
actually come together as a nice young tight end.
2:26:40
He was a random red zone target. I always said that with the
2:26:42
Seahawks tight ends in the past, like they'll have their moments,
2:26:45
but they're not overly consistent.
2:26:46
We'll see if it keeps up. But that defense, I agree with
2:26:48
you is what I was very impressed with in this game is what's a
2:26:50
good Jacksonville offensive line.
2:26:52
The. Only reason why Cooper Cup still
2:26:53
has a job in the NFL is because he's one of the top five route
2:26:57
runners in the NFL and he still is.
2:26:59
He doesn't have to be fast, he just knows how to run a route
2:27:02
and he knows how to run them just as good as anybody.
2:27:04
Ask anybody when he is at the top of his game, who is better
2:27:07
than Cooper Cup when it came to running a route?
2:27:09
Nobody. The guy knows where to be.
2:27:11
He knows where the ball is going to go and he just gets there.
2:27:14
So. You know what he does that's
2:27:16
really good? It's like he doesn't have to be
2:27:18
open. You could throw it back shoulder
2:27:20
to him and he's just going to. It's just going to stick to him.
2:27:23
He's like one of those guys like remember DeAndre Hopkins a few
2:27:26
years back, like even though he didn't, he lost maybe some of
2:27:28
that top flight speed that he you know, he was never a top
2:27:30
flight guy, but he had enough speed to get open.
2:27:33
Then he was just like, just throw it to me anyway, because
2:27:36
I'm going to make the play. And Cooper Cup has that ability
2:27:38
to him too. So moving on to the next slate
2:27:42
of games here we got the I mean this game Cooper Russia got
2:27:47
benched in this game or Snoop Huntley, who made his way
2:27:51
somehow back to the. Ravens.
2:27:53
Jeff Cooper Rush No. No.
2:27:55
No Tyler Huntley, the Pro Bowler that Jeff said was better than
2:27:58
DAC. Cooper Yeah, yeah, that's what
2:28:00
I. Remember, it was ugly.
2:28:01
The Rams didn't really have to do much at all in this game.
2:28:04
Stafford had 181 yards and a touchdown.
2:28:07
Karen Williams had 50 yards and a touchdown on the ground.
2:28:10
But Cooper Rush was an abject disaster.
2:28:14
Tyler Huntley was no better. They combined for like 117
2:28:18
yards, just really bad. Derek Henry had 122 yards on the
2:28:22
ground. Doesn't matter when you can't
2:28:25
score and you can't put together any kind of red zone offense.
2:28:27
Could I feel something? Could I feel something in this
2:28:30
game? I thought the Rams were going to
2:28:32
be a pretty good team this year. I, I, I don't, I don't think
2:28:35
they're any good. I with the weapons that they
2:28:38
have with Devante Adams and and and Puka Nukuwa and the running
2:28:42
game that they have, the Ravens playing the way they're playing
2:28:46
defensively, all you put up was 17 points against that Ravens
2:28:49
team. They couldn't put the ball in
2:28:52
the end zone. They should have won by 40 in
2:28:54
this game and they still couldn't do that.
2:28:57
The Rams are not as good as people thought, including yours
2:29:00
truly. I thought they were going to be
2:29:01
much better. Devante Adams, for the first
2:29:03
time, I could say looks old. He looks old and and Puka Nuku
2:29:08
is breaking records. Yes, he's the only to me and
2:29:12
everybody keeps talking about Williams.
2:29:14
Williams is up and down. He never plays every day, every
2:29:17
game at the top level who could AKU is the only top level player
2:29:21
they have. I don't think the Rams are any
2:29:22
good. I I'd be very surprised even if
2:29:25
they make the playoffs, they get out of a rounds.
2:29:27
I I just don't think they're any good.
2:29:28
Yeah, they need Pooka to get healthy.
2:29:30
Left the game in the third quarter, of course, and you
2:29:32
definitely saw at Devante Adams nowhere near a #1 receiver at
2:29:35
this point. It's not even a #2.
2:29:36
Tyron will Tyron Williams I think is some flashes of being
2:29:39
good, but he's still not overly efficient for somebody that you
2:29:42
would think is a top top end running back like that.
2:29:45
Their offensive line, the Rams has been pretty good this year
2:29:47
and Williams has had his flashes.
2:29:48
It just much more of a defensive team than with the.
2:29:50
Rams am I missing something because Devante Adams, he just,
2:29:54
he can't separate himself anywhere.
2:29:58
There's corners all over him. When he was playing, even with
2:30:01
The Jets last year, at some point you saw him separate
2:30:03
himself. He has not separated himself
2:30:06
that much this year. If you look at his numbers right
2:30:08
now, I would have thought right now being that he's the number 2
2:30:12
of Puka Nakor, he would have like 400 and something yards.
2:30:15
I don't even think he has more than 200 yards right now.
2:30:18
It's crazy. Let's see, Devante Adams, he had
2:30:22
four catches for 39 yards in the game.
2:30:26
He no, he had a couple of strong games earlier in the season.
2:30:29
He's got 396 yards. Does he have 390?
2:30:32
Six yeah, he had a couple of strong games early in the
2:30:35
season. You know, it's he's a guy that
2:30:38
if there's the right matchup, he's going to be good, but he's
2:30:41
not beating top flight corners anymore.
2:30:43
He's a he can't be the number one guy, you know, but they
2:30:46
don't need him to be. It's just can they all stay
2:30:49
healthy? It's a bunch of guys that are
2:30:50
older. It's an old team.
2:30:52
And then Puka seems to get banged up all the time.
2:30:55
And you know, you just hope that he can play at a high level and
2:30:58
play through injuries or not get that many.
2:31:00
Dude, the only two games that the only two games he did well
2:31:03
in was the Tennessee Titans. Their secondary is horrible.
2:31:07
He had 106 yards. Then he had 56 against the
2:31:11
Philadelphia Eagles. He had 56 against Indianapolis.
2:31:14
He had 88 against San Francisco and 39 against Baltimore.
2:31:18
He does not look good dude. He does, you know, over 50 yards
2:31:21
in almost every game. You know, like he's still, he's
2:31:23
still a serviceable player. He's above average for a #2 I
2:31:27
would say, but he's certainly not the Devante Adams.
2:31:29
Remember, Geno Smith got the win.
2:31:32
And even though he's now up to 10 interceptions on the season,
2:31:36
they won 20 to 10 over the Titans.
2:31:38
That led to the firing of head coach Brian Callahan, as we've
2:31:43
already talked about earlier tonight.
2:31:45
Cam Ward, 26 at 38222 yards, touchdown and an interception.
2:31:50
Not much of A run game. 34 yards for Pollard, 31 for Taje Spears.
2:31:54
Ashton Gente on the other side, 75 yards on the ground and a
2:31:57
touchdown. Other 11 receiving.
2:32:00
Michael Mayer had 50 yards and a touchdown because Brock Bowers
2:32:03
didn't play. So Mayer got a little bit more
2:32:04
action in the receiving game. There wasn't really much to
2:32:08
write home for the Titans. Yet again, they lose their
2:32:11
coach, they're in full rebuild, rebuild mode and they've just
2:32:15
had the number one overall pick. Ashton Gente is going to be
2:32:18
special. I He reminds me of a smaller
2:32:21
Bijan Robinson. I think he's going to be fun to
2:32:24
watch for the Raiders once he figures out the scheme and the
2:32:27
offense. They're going to give him the
2:32:29
ball. He's going to touch the ball and
2:32:31
he is going to be the go to guy. It's not going to be Brock
2:32:33
Bowers. Brock Bowers is the #2 Ashton
2:32:36
Gente is the number one. They're going to be a run first
2:32:38
team as we've seen Pete Carroll over the years.
2:32:41
And I'm going to tell you this right now, the offensive line
2:32:44
has played a lot better in the last two weeks than they were in
2:32:48
the first three weeks of the season.
2:32:49
I think they've been sensational the last two weeks.
2:32:53
The Titans are not a great defense this year, but at last,
2:32:57
going into the season, we thought they were going to be
2:32:59
somewhere where they were last year at a top five, same players
2:33:02
practically. They just really haven't
2:33:04
produced. So to do that against that
2:33:07
defense the way they did in Anston Gente, I thought they
2:33:10
played very well. So I'm going to take the angle
2:33:12
that you were taking about fish with with Mayor.
2:33:14
I'm curious once Bowers comes back with Mayor having a little
2:33:17
more target share a little more production, granted not against
2:33:19
great teams, but they don't have an obvious #2 receiver.
2:33:23
Would they consider using Bowers more split outside than they
2:33:26
have been in the past too? Is going to be very interesting
2:33:27
to see if they can get any level of offensive adjustments because
2:33:30
their defense besides a couple of games held their own this
2:33:33
year. I think that you have like kind
2:33:37
of the best of both worlds. If I'm them, I kind of go to
2:33:40
that, you know, offense. The Patriots ran back in the day
2:33:43
with Gronkowski and Hernandez, the two tight end look with one
2:33:47
guy on the ball and one guy off the ball and you kind of
2:33:51
attacking the slots with guys that are so big and strong and
2:33:54
have speed that they're open even if they're not open.
2:33:58
And Brock Bowers is going to get open and Mayor is a huge target.
2:34:02
I think that's the way to go with them.
2:34:04
And I think those guys can both run block.
2:34:07
I think there's a lot to do that.
2:34:08
I just think they need to kind of, you know, sometimes with
2:34:11
old, what's old is new again, you know, in football and going
2:34:15
to that kind of maybe early 2010's type of offense might be
2:34:21
something that I would look at with those guys just because you
2:34:23
have such a unique grouping, a tight end, so two guys that
2:34:27
different abilities, but really elite at both of them.
2:34:31
So it's a really interesting point.
2:34:32
Speedy for sure. So we got one last slate of
2:34:36
games here. The Buccaneers handle the 49ers
2:34:40
30 to 19. Fred Warner carted off.
2:34:43
Looks like he's going to miss the season with a bad. 49ers are
2:34:47
done. They're done.
2:34:48
Well, he in my opinion, Fred Warner is the best off ball
2:34:51
linebacker in the league. So they just lost him.
2:34:54
That's a big problem they. Lost.
2:34:55
Nick Bosa. They lost.
2:34:57
They lost Bosa, they've lost guys.
2:34:59
Purdy hasn't played the IT was the Mac attack again in this
2:35:02
one. Not enough from Mac Jones.
2:35:04
He did put up another 347 yards in the air, but no touchdowns. 2
2:35:09
picks. CMC had another 5050 game.
2:35:12
He just keeps going. 54 yards and a touchdown on the ground,
2:35:15
57 in the air on 7 catches. Kendrick Bourne for the second
2:35:19
game in a row has had a a ton of receiving yards, 142 yards in
2:35:23
this game for San Francisco. But again, this game was
2:35:27
completely in control. You know, basically by the time
2:35:30
we got to the third quarter, the the Tampa Bay was up over once.
2:35:34
1 possession for most of that get second-half of that game.
2:35:37
Mayfield 256, two touchdowns. Rashad White touchdown on the
2:35:42
ground. Sean Tucker had another one on
2:35:43
the ground for them. Cam Johnson, I believe a rookie
2:35:47
receiver touchdown for the year and a big pass that says Johnson
2:35:51
as well. Baker, Baker, Baker.
2:35:56
That's all I'm going to say right now for the Buccaneers.
2:35:59
Baker is going to lead this team and and they're dangerous.
2:36:01
Baker is definitely up for an MVP right now.
2:36:03
If you were to ask me right now who are the three best
2:36:06
quarterbacks, who has been the best 3 quarterbacks in the first
2:36:09
six weeks of the season, I would go in order DAC Prescott.
2:36:13
I would go Baker and Daniel Jones.
2:36:15
Those are the three guys who would have thought that all
2:36:17
three nobody wanted Baker Mayfield.
2:36:20
Remember that when he left the Browns and they parted ways with
2:36:24
with Baker Mayfield, he jumped to two or three teams before he
2:36:28
found a home. Now he found a home with the
2:36:30
Buccaneers and he's really changed his career.
2:36:33
This is a guy that was a number one pick with a lot of people
2:36:36
thought he was a third round talent and he shouldn't have
2:36:38
been a top first round draft pick.
2:36:39
The Browns finally got it right and then they parted ways with
2:36:43
the kid and now he's playing for the Buccaneers in shining and
2:36:46
becoming an MVP candidate. It's it's an incredible story
2:36:50
for Bacon Mayfield. The Buccaneers are dangerous.
2:36:52
They're this is one of the best defenses in the league front 7.
2:36:55
They got a great secondary and Todd Bowles is one of the best
2:36:59
defensive minds as far as the blitz is concerned, Probably one
2:37:02
of the best, best blitzing coaches the NFL has seen in a
2:37:05
very long time since Rex Ryan. So Buccaneers are dangerous.
2:37:09
They're not even healthy yet. They don't have Mike Evans, they
2:37:12
don't have Godwin. They lost.
2:37:14
What's his name again? Their whole, your whole
2:37:16
receiving corps was out in this house.
2:37:18
They lost the Buca early in the game so they didn't have their
2:37:21
top. Four.
2:37:22
They still wins and they still win and they still win.
2:37:25
And they still have two offensive lineman that are out
2:37:26
for the year too. They lost Grand Bar and they
2:37:28
lost Gecky I think was the right tackle that they lost.
2:37:31
Tristan Works wasn't playing much of the year as well.
2:37:33
They lost Kalasha can't see their defensive tackle, their
2:37:36
second guy who's a good pass rushing type.
2:37:38
Yeah, they've lost a lot and they've overcome everything.
2:37:40
This reminds me of the 49ers 2 years ago when I wasn't as sure
2:37:43
as they were they would win the division because they had all
2:37:44
these injuries, including party at the start of the year, and
2:37:47
they still ended up winning anyway.
2:37:48
This Tampa Bay Buccaneers team reminds me of that kind of
2:37:51
thing. They don't really have a
2:37:51
significant weakness and they've so much organizational depth
2:37:54
that they could just still keep winning on anyway.
2:37:56
Could you imagine when Mike Evans, Godwin come back and
2:37:59
they're all at full strength, how good this team, they don't
2:38:02
even have their other star running back who's been out to
2:38:05
Irving. Yeah, yeah.
2:38:06
So Bucky's. Been out as well, you know, and
2:38:09
he's going to miss another game this week.
2:38:11
I know it's killing. It's killing.
2:38:13
Me they're they're just starting to peak.
2:38:16
And you know, it's really great to see, you know, like when you
2:38:19
compare Baker Mayfield and Daniel Jones.
2:38:22
And that's why I like I, I don't want to say I'm scoffing at
2:38:25
Daniel Jones stuff, but to me, MVP is you're carrying a team
2:38:30
that has four receivers you've never heard of or washed up guys
2:38:33
and rookies and you're still beating legitimate teams with
2:38:37
winning records like the 49ers, Baker and.
2:38:40
Indianapolis isn't doing now. What are you talking?
2:38:42
No way. No.
2:38:43
Way yes, they. Have everybody on.
2:38:45
There's no one's hurt. They have their.
2:38:46
It doesn't matter. Set of guys, it doesn't matter.
2:38:48
It does. No, it does.
2:38:49
Baker Mayfield's throwing to Ted Johnson.
2:38:51
Hold on, Baker Mayfield's been there for freaking three years.
2:38:55
This guy comes over there and he shows up and he doesn't wins a
2:38:58
job. He wins a job.
2:39:01
Throwing to practice. Stop, stop, stop, stop.
2:39:04
Stop. Come on.
2:39:05
You're just taking Mayfield. Let's stop talking.
2:39:07
No, no, it's not. What Daniel Jones is doing is
2:39:09
more impressive. You're wrong.
2:39:11
You're wrong, dude. You can't give him any credit.
2:39:13
That's a loaded team. I don't think the loaded loaded.
2:39:16
Loaded. That's the same team from last
2:39:19
year and they couldn't do crap. Daniel Jones goes there.
2:39:21
Anthony Richardson is an abject disaster.
2:39:24
Stop. And you thought that about
2:39:26
Daniel Jones, dude, last year. You thought that about Daniel
2:39:29
Jones, dude, did you not? Did you not?
2:39:31
You said he's an absolute disaster.
2:39:33
Did you not say that? Did you not say that?
2:39:36
Yes or not? Yes.
2:39:37
Yes or no fish? Yes or no?
2:39:39
Yes or no? Yes, Sir.
2:39:40
OK. You.
2:39:41
Said he was an absolute disaster and that absolute disaster went
2:39:45
there and he's doing it right there, so stop.
2:39:48
Yeah, but you're still not. You're not arguing my point.
2:39:51
You're just yelling at me about things.
2:39:52
I'm arguing my point. My point is that Baker is doing
2:39:56
it with nobody around him and Daniel Jones says.
2:39:58
Daniel Jones This is his first year he came to a.
2:40:01
Loaded team. He's got a loaded tight end.
2:40:03
He's good at receiver. He's got one of the best running
2:40:05
backs. In the loaded tight end.
2:40:06
One of the best offensive lines in the loaded tight.
2:40:08
Tell me how that's not a loaded team.
2:40:10
Loaded tight end. That's a rookie, but.
2:40:13
He's already top five. In the league and Taylor's been
2:40:16
up and down for the last couple of years.
2:40:18
Finally. Stop.
2:40:19
He's a top five running back. Taylor was not last year.
2:40:22
Taylor was not last year. Well, at the end of the year,
2:40:24
maybe not, but I'll tell you if he's healthy.
2:40:26
He played through ankle sprain last year.
2:40:28
That dude played hurt. And.
2:40:29
Move on. Just because.
2:40:30
We got to move, move on, Come on.
2:40:32
Let's we got the NIT. No, no, we got, we got a lot of
2:40:35
things. Oh, you.
2:40:36
We've got some things to do, but I don't know, I just feel like
2:40:38
I'm winning this point. You want You're not?
2:40:40
No. No, really, you're winning this.
2:40:41
You're not. All right, you know it's all
2:40:43
right, we can move. On you're not winning.
2:40:44
You're not winning any. I get it, we can.
2:40:46
Your point was wrong. Josh Jacobs, 2 touchdowns on the
2:40:49
ground, 93 yards rushing, another, you know, just keeps
2:40:52
doing it every year. Josh Jacobs, people sleep on
2:40:55
him. That Packers team is good.
2:40:57
Jordan Love, 259 yards, touchdown and a pick, 26 yards
2:41:00
on the ground. Matthew Golden, the most
2:41:02
involved he's been as a rookie so far this season. 3 catches,
2:41:05
86 yards and he had a some rushing yards as well.
2:41:09
He's been getting carries every single game.
2:41:11
Something to keep an eye on. Flacco was just traded to
2:41:15
Cincinnati in his first game. He has less than a week of
2:41:18
practice, 29 to 45219 and two touchdowns, no turnovers.
2:41:24
That's kind of crazy that you get traded, you know, and you
2:41:28
just somehow can pick up the offense enough that you can have
2:41:31
a real competent performance. It's kind of crazy he did that,
2:41:34
I think. I don't know.
2:41:35
The Packers are the better team, the Bengals, until they get Joe
2:41:39
Burrow back, they're nothing. They better hold by week nine,
2:41:42
week 10, he comes back and maybe makes win seven games or or
2:41:47
whatever. How many games they have left,
2:41:49
They just go on a they go on a winning streak and they
2:41:52
completely torch teams because this is another year loss with
2:41:56
the Bengals, another year with a quarterback that was come back
2:42:00
play of the year. What is he going to come back
2:42:02
next year and be come back player of the year again?
2:42:04
I mean, this will be the third time he's won it.
2:42:07
I mean, it's ridiculous. I'm done with this.
2:42:09
Yeah, I think this game says more about the Packers than it
2:42:10
does about the Bengals. They weren't letting the defense
2:42:12
actually dominate them for a while in that game until
2:42:15
probably the second quarter, like late in the second quarter.
2:42:17
Yeah, like this you said Golden and some big plays and
2:42:19
eventually Josh Jacobs going to run against a bad front 7, but
2:42:22
they were letting him hung tough for a while.
2:42:24
There's some questionable offensive coaching going on
2:42:26
there in Green Bay, then maybe can't account for those
2:42:28
injuries. Oh, all right, all right.
2:42:31
So Kevin says yeah, so Kevin, you could shut the music.
2:42:34
So Kevin told me, so I'm reading what everybody says.
2:42:38
So James says Errol, we need Jayden Reid back.
2:42:43
Boy, that's not going to happen. So whenever he comes.
2:42:46
Collarbone right to Jayden Reid. And then Kevin says Flacco trade
2:42:51
makes Chase relevant again, so. For fans, thanks for noting
2:42:56
Kevin. I had to play against him this
2:42:57
week. So I don't know how it it makes
2:43:00
him. It doesn't really matter if he's
2:43:01
relevant. Honestly.
2:43:02
Well, for fantasy, you know. Yeah, well, it doesn't matter.
2:43:05
I mean, the Bengals, this is another lost year for the
2:43:08
Bengals. And now Taylor's going to lose
2:43:10
his job and now they're going to bring in a new coach and and now
2:43:13
you're going to start over again.
2:43:15
You just paid Higgins and Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow and you're
2:43:19
going to go into an offseason where Trey Hendrickson is going
2:43:21
to go to free agency and you have all these guys.
2:43:24
You got no future on that defensive side of the ball.
2:43:27
I I have no idea what the Bengals are going to do.
2:43:30
I I mean, you're wasting away. Joe Burrows great years of his
2:43:34
career. It's crazy and Joe Burrow is
2:43:36
special. So every time he's out there,
2:43:39
you know he's going to put on a show.
2:43:41
So that's all I'm going to say about that.
2:43:43
It's been absolutely horrible. It's sad.
2:43:45
It's sad because I root on, I root for Joe Burrow.
2:43:48
I think he's, in my opinion, straight up talent throwing the
2:43:51
ball like accuracy and and the way he steps into the pocket.
2:43:54
I think Joe Burrow is the best quarterback in the NFL doing
2:43:57
that. So he when he's on, nobody can
2:44:00
stop that guy. So it's just a shame what what
2:44:03
the Bengals could have been this year if he was 100% healthy.
2:44:06
So, all right, ladies and gentlemen are save your tears
2:44:11
Compliments. Mom.
2:44:13
What's one thing that you can't talk to me about?
2:44:16
My sexual fantasies, no. Say your sorry.
2:44:21
This is not ideal, but if it's what means it is not ideal.
2:44:24
But if it's just not ideal, but if it is, what means?
2:44:27
You can't treble stamp a double stamp, you can't treble stamp a
2:44:29
double stamp Lord. You can't dribble stamp a double
2:44:31
stamp. Lord, you guys and.
2:44:35
Now it's time for save your tear.
2:44:41
All right guys, welcome to Save Your Tears, the results round on
2:44:46
Monday. We call this the compliment
2:44:49
chorus because we're going to say who won week sixes action
2:44:54
shortly and everyone who lost, starting with the lowest
2:44:58
finisher ending with our second place finisher, will give 51%
2:45:02
genuine compliments to the winner, even if they are not
2:45:06
currently here with us in the studio.
2:45:09
It'll be recorded for posterity. So here we go.
2:45:13
Week 6 action. If you just take a look at the
2:45:15
board, we already know who did well and who didn't.
2:45:18
Kyler Murray was substituted for Jacoby Brissett.
2:45:21
The only guy I couldn't substitute was Chris Godwin, who
2:45:23
went out late. If you took Godwin, you got a
2:45:25
big zero this week. Jonathan Taylor had a big week,
2:45:28
so. Did CMC got a big zero too?
2:45:31
Egg Buca had a couple of catches in the game before he went down.
2:45:35
Travis Hunter just kind of sucked.
2:45:38
That wasn't that he didn't. He went down, he just kind of
2:45:41
sucked and these backup, these tight ends did pretty well.
2:45:45
Once again, it's a pretty loaded position.
2:45:47
So let's see the results of save your tears.
2:45:51
Jabba Chamberlain is the winner of week sixes Save Your Tears.
2:45:57
Speedy PD came in second, followed by our intern Jared,
2:46:00
who also couldn't join us tonight in.
2:46:03
I came in last. I came in fourth, Tommy came in
2:46:06
fifth, and Errol, this is going to damage your FedEx Cup
2:46:12
standings a little bit here. Came in last place, which means
2:46:17
that you get to go first with your video.
2:46:20
Note to 1 Mr. Jabba Chamberlain for his first place finish here
2:46:26
in Week 6. All right, Jabba, over the last
2:46:31
couple of months, we've built a good friendship and
2:46:34
relationship. You're kind when you want to be.
2:46:37
You're a pain in the ass all the time.
2:46:39
But All in all, the personality that you bring to this show and
2:46:45
the weight that you've lost and everything that you do inside
2:46:49
and out when it comes to baseball and your quality of
2:46:52
takes with baseball is superb. Congratulations, this will be
2:46:56
the last time you win. All right, up next, Tommy
2:47:04
scoops. All right, Mr. Chamberlain,
2:47:07
Congrats, Congrats, Congrats. Is this Jabba's first time
2:47:09
winning? The first time I think since I
2:47:11
started this, I think he won the first or second one in the
2:47:13
beginning, very beginning, OK. Yeah, it's been a while.
2:47:16
Way, way back when, when was we were doing basketball or
2:47:19
something? Yeah.
2:47:19
OK, well, hey, Jabba, man, you did it.
2:47:22
You know you haven't. You haven't been holding the
2:47:24
crown for a minute, but now you reigned supreme, you know, And
2:47:27
it sucks that you were over there moving your stuff.
2:47:29
You got to do what you got to do.
2:47:31
And hey, you did what you had to do for save your.
2:47:34
Tears. So you did what you had to do.
2:47:36
You did what you had to do. Do do you know what I'm saying?
2:47:39
But yeah, there we go. So Congrats Mr. Jabba
2:47:41
Chamberlain really, really came through on this one.
2:47:44
Suck my indo Doo Doo all right ass licker blowjob.
2:47:49
I am next Jabba, as you know, I'm.
2:47:54
Dober fan. And I think you embody this
2:47:57
mantra that my football coach always said to us in a heavy
2:48:01
Boston accent, Dare to be different.
2:48:04
Dare to be great. And that's what you did as an
2:48:07
athlete. I need to blow up.
2:48:09
Yankees and that's what you did here when you selected Rashad
2:48:12
White running back. What a great move.
2:48:15
No one else took Brian Thomas junior, You did.
2:48:18
You made to. You were daring and then you
2:48:21
went into a Cooper Cup who had great numbers.
2:48:23
I got the bubble in this game outpacing almost everyone else.
2:48:28
I'll let those kind of choices that brought you to the top
2:48:33
daring. Like a serial killer.
2:48:35
Daring to be great Who's up next?
2:48:40
We are now up to our no Jared. So we're just going to go
2:48:44
straight to Speedy to. Wrap it up so Java.
2:48:47
Congratulations on your first. Football makes my Peck.
2:48:50
Save your tears. Win.
2:48:50
There was no coin necessary. It was all straight intelligence
2:48:54
making some bold moves. Like Fish was saying, I didn't
2:48:56
like Ryan. Thomas at the price.
2:48:59
I did like Brian Thomas at the price of $4.00 at the time, but
2:49:02
you are smarted us all sabermetric nerds as as you like
2:49:05
to say all during our baseball segment and that was the
2:49:07
difference between you and me. We had a lot of the similar
2:49:09
picks, but I went with Pittman. Who I got to go back off.
2:49:12
Fall this week and you took it to the top with Brian Thomas
2:49:15
Junior along with Errol's guy Danny Dimes and Triumph with all
2:49:21
the great Nebraska food that. You smell my ass.
2:49:23
And all the great luxury things that you could have moving into
2:49:26
that new House of yours. Congratulations.
2:49:29
On all you're moving. Good luck with all your moving.
2:49:30
Process and you are a well deserved save your tears
2:49:33
champion. Wow, you you you guys Grobar
2:49:37
Grobar ass licker we. Will be back on Wednesday for
2:49:42
week Sevens action. Grobar, save your tears.
2:49:45
Drobar Jabba takes it up the ass.
2:49:52
I I think we're going to go through the sports minute.
2:49:55
This is the Jabba and the Mouth Sportsman ads.
2:50:00
All. Right guys, Aaron Fisherman here
2:50:03
with your sports minute. Got a couple of stories before
2:50:06
we get into the scores this evening.
2:50:07
The AP Top 25 poll is out for college football and Ohio State
2:50:12
remains the top dog for yet another week after claiming the
2:50:15
spot from Texas after a Week 1 victory over the Longhorns.
2:50:19
Speaking of the Longhorns, Arch Manning and crew upset the
2:50:22
Oklahoma Sooners, jumping them back into the rankings and #21
2:50:25
after falling out for a week, Oklahoma falls out of the top 10
2:50:28
down to 14 after the loss. The biggest win of the week goes
2:50:31
to Indiana Hoosiers and coach Kurt Zignetti after they knocked
2:50:35
off Oregon on the road road in the zoo, jumping them all the
2:50:38
way to #3. In the rankings, Miami remains
2:50:41
at 2 with Texas A&M at 4, Ole Miss at 5, Alabama at six, the
2:50:45
highest one loss team with undefeated Texas Tech behind
2:50:48
them at 7, newly won loss Oregon at 8 and SEC mainstays Georgia
2:50:53
at 9 and LSU at 10. Jabba's Nebraska Cornhuskers
2:50:57
also made their season debut at #25 this week, and this is a
2:51:03
story you got a kind of here to believe.
2:51:05
Colts backup quarterback Anthony Richardson's season has not gone
2:51:09
the way he has hoped this year. First, the team brought in
2:51:11
Giants afterthought Daniel Jones to compete with Richardson for
2:51:14
the starting job after a lackluster season where he was
2:51:17
benched for Joe Flacco the year before.
2:51:19
Then Daniel Jones clearly wins the job for Richardson and camp
2:51:21
and proceeds to be in the early season MVP conversation for his
2:51:24
great play. Then before week the Week 6 game
2:51:28
this weekend, Richardson couldn't stay healthy enough
2:51:30
through his pregame stretching routine where in a freak
2:51:34
accident his elastic stretch band he was using snap the pole.
2:51:39
It was around slingshotting the pole into Richardsons face,
2:51:43
breaking his orbital bone. It is said that the swelling is
2:51:47
so bad it is temporarily affecting his vision, but there
2:51:50
appears to be no damage to the actual eye for Richardson 2025.
2:51:54
Even in a Dome, apparently when it rains it pours.
2:51:57
Here's to open. He can get out of his own way
2:51:58
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2:52:02
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All right, I know we touched on this first subject a little bit
2:54:10
last week, but the Penn State Stadium redevelopment and Adidas
2:54:14
controversy. So Penn State is embarking on a
2:54:17
$700 million reconstruction of the Beaver Stadium.
2:54:20
The renovation will race stands by 30 feet, move them 100 feet
2:54:25
closer to the field, replace the press box and maintain a
2:54:27
capacity above 100,000 seats. If completed as planned, it
2:54:31
could become the largest stadium in the US by capacity.
2:54:34
Now. Around the same time, Penn State
2:54:37
announced a new 10 year apparel deal with Adidas reporting were
2:54:43
reportedly worth around $300 million total in cash,
2:54:47
merchandise and NIL money. This also coincides with the
2:54:52
firing of head coach James Franklin as triggered, which has
2:54:56
triggered a bunch of controversy, especially because
2:54:59
of his $49 million buyout and the rumors that Adidas
2:55:04
influenced or supported the buyout financially.
2:55:09
Penn State's trustees issued a statement defending the Adidas
2:55:12
deal, calling some of the criticism false rumors in
2:55:14
defending the negotiation process.
2:55:17
But there was definitely tension between the stadium
2:55:20
infrastructure versus the funding, the athletes and
2:55:22
academics. What I want to know is, is it OK
2:55:25
for companies such as Adidas or Nike or Under Armour to be able
2:55:35
to to heavily influence a school into firing a coach or hiring a
2:55:39
coach? You know, that's a good
2:55:41
question. But if you guys watch the
2:55:43
Cowboys documentary, that's exactly what Jerry Jones did
2:55:49
with the Cowboys when the NFL did not want him to negotiate a
2:55:52
deal with Nike. He brought Nike to the
2:55:54
forefront. He negotiate his own deal.
2:55:57
And he said, this is my team, I'm going to do what I want.
2:55:59
You want to sue me, I'm going to sue you back.
2:56:02
Yeah. I think it if it's, if they're
2:56:04
capable of doing it and they're capable of making a move like
2:56:07
this and they can bring in a $300 million contract, they're
2:56:10
going to do to it and, and they're going to save themselves
2:56:12
a lot of opportunities to dig into their own pockets for NIL
2:56:16
deals and, and trying to pay under the table.
2:56:18
This is a great move for Penn State.
2:56:21
The only thing I could say about the firing of Franklin,
2:56:24
absolutely this deal had something to do with Franklin's
2:56:27
firing. They're not.
2:56:29
In their eyes, they're not winning enough this year and
2:56:32
they're building 1 of the biggest stadiums the NCAA has
2:56:35
ever. Seen.
2:56:36
It could be the biggest, yeah, it could be the biggest ever.
2:56:39
I definitely believe that fans and obviously the, the program
2:56:44
did director and the what do they call that?
2:56:47
No, no, but they call that like the, the, the list of guys, what
2:56:51
do they call it? The seats, What do they call the
2:56:53
panel? The panel of people that are
2:56:56
sitting down at that panel and deciding and making these
2:56:58
decisions are probably saying, listen, we can't, we can't go
2:57:02
into another season with Franklin because we, we have an
2:57:05
opportunity and we haven't, we, we're putting ourselves in this
2:57:08
position to succeed in the future with a new stadium and,
2:57:12
and new deals. So I I think it's if it's
2:57:14
allowed, you should be able to do it.
2:57:17
Is it an overreach or is it a necessary investment?
2:57:19
Necessary. Necessary because obviously we
2:57:22
talked about earlier, Franklin was kind of against that for a
2:57:24
while up until last year. And again, they got a little
2:57:27
more NIL production and obviously transfer portal, but
2:57:31
they weren't evolving to get that big leap and they were
2:57:33
still letting other schools, especially in their own
2:57:35
conference get more of them. Ohio State had a record setting
2:57:37
amount of NIL money last year, obviously winning a national
2:57:40
championship. We saw Texas have a $60 million
2:57:42
this year. So they're still kind of behind
2:57:44
the curve in that regard. So if they're going to part ways
2:57:47
with somebody like Franklin who's been a well respected
2:57:48
coach, obviously hasn't won. So you could see the argument
2:57:51
against that too. But this is another alternative
2:57:53
incentive. Good.
2:57:54
You're absolutely right. Kevin says.
2:57:56
Kevin says they shouldn't, and he says on a college level they
2:58:00
should not be allowed. To it's going to happen though
2:58:02
more often, Kevin, because there's a lot of these teams
2:58:05
that have these brand deals already.
2:58:06
Even before the NIL was this prevalent.
2:58:08
Look at Michigan and Oklahoma with Air Jordan deals and stuff
2:58:10
like that. And and and Oregon, with Nike
2:58:14
now like was, will Phil Knight be able to dictate who the next
2:58:17
head coaches for Oregon? Absolutely, Absolutely.
2:58:21
I think it's a little, which is a little crazy to me.
2:58:24
I don't. Know if I don't think I don't
2:58:25
think the product that you wear should dictate who you hire as a
2:58:28
coach. When it comes to money and now
2:58:30
with the NIL deals, we knew this was going to happen.
2:58:33
It's going to get worse before it gets better.
2:58:35
And until the NCAA steps in and tries to figure out what can be
2:58:39
done and and what needs to be done to kind of control this,
2:58:44
it's going to keep getting worse and I believe it's going to get
2:58:46
a lot worse. And for a program, too, that's
2:58:48
already kind of established, you know, they want anything like
2:58:50
Penn State, maybe that's the next leap they need.
2:58:52
It's just something to get a higher reputation when it comes
2:58:54
to the big name five star like money recruits.
2:58:56
That way it's. An interesting story.
2:58:59
Yeah, it's, it's, it's going to be, yeah, it's definitely going
2:59:02
to be interesting to see how this plays out.
2:59:03
But yeah, I'm, I'm wondering what, you know, like schools
2:59:10
like Under Armour, Under Armour Peril and and more Adidas
2:59:13
schools and more the Air Jordan schools who like who's Jordan
2:59:16
going to want to hire for those schools?
2:59:18
Yeah, it's crazy if that's what comes down to here's.
2:59:21
Another. Thing up in hundreds of millions
2:59:23
of dollars. Here's another thing for people
2:59:25
to understand. If you remember in the 80s when
2:59:29
a lot of these these basketball apparels, these these
2:59:32
professional sneaker companies, and I don't know if you've seen
2:59:35
Air, go check out that movie if you haven't.
2:59:37
Fantastic. It's a fantastic movie and Ben
2:59:40
Affleck's in it, Matt Damon's in it.
2:59:42
It's a really, really good, good, good story.
2:59:44
And it's the story of the Air Jordans.
2:59:47
If you remember that story, a lot of these, these
2:59:51
organizations, Adidas, Converse and Nike, they were fighting for
2:59:54
the best players and trying to bring them to their
2:59:56
organization. Nike was on the bottom.
2:59:59
They were the worst and. Yeah, Converse was a hot head of
3:00:03
them. Yeah, because they had Magic
3:00:04
Johnson and Larry Bird and what it took was Michael Jordan in
3:00:07
the deal that they gave to Michael Jordan.
3:00:09
That changed everything. That opened up the floodgates
3:00:12
when it came to Nike and like, he became the biggest sneaker
3:00:15
company in the world. So yeah, it's all about bringing
3:00:19
players and bringing money in from NIL deals and making sure
3:00:22
the best players are getting the best treatment.
3:00:25
So I'm not surprised. Interesting.
3:00:29
I see it from their perspective. I just think from like a
3:00:33
governance perspective on college sports, it could get a
3:00:37
little, it could get a little sketchy.
3:00:41
That's whatever. I guess money talks.
3:00:43
All right, next one I got coming up, keeping it kind of in the
3:00:45
football realm. This was kind of interesting to
3:00:47
me. Maybe not for you, but NFL TV
3:00:49
ratings have surged. They're the highest since 2010.
3:00:53
Through week five of the 2025 NFL season, the average
3:00:57
viewership per game is 18.58 million, which it blows my mind,
3:01:02
up 8% from 2024. That's one of the highest mid
3:01:07
season numbers since 2010 and week 1.
3:01:10
The NFL average 22.3 million viewers per game.
3:01:14
TV and digital platforms marking the highest opening week ever
3:01:18
recorded. That's a 5% increase over the
3:01:22
last year. the Super Bowl drew 127.7 million viewers, making it
3:01:28
one of the largest US telecast ever.
3:01:31
What is going on? Is it real growth or is it is it
3:01:39
inflated? Like what are we seeing here?
3:01:41
Why is this viewership going through the roof right now for
3:01:44
the NFL? I mean, through with baseball in
3:01:47
the playoffs, in the postseason. I talked about that last week a
3:01:50
little bit. We can see that every game is
3:01:54
high, intense. And now you and now you're
3:01:56
adding a Toronto in a different country and, and just all these
3:02:01
other teams that haven't been in it and, and forever the Dodgers
3:02:04
have been in, but you got the Brewers, you got Seattle who's
3:02:06
never been the World Series. You got Toronto.
3:02:09
Who knows when's the last time they were in the World Series?
3:02:11
I can't remember. And then, you know, you're kind
3:02:13
of your staples, a Dodger. So I can see that.
3:02:15
But like football, every single week, we're just crushing the
3:02:19
ratings here. Well.
3:02:21
I know they, they, they did say that they added, they're,
3:02:24
they're adding a little bit of that like the way that they
3:02:26
count the numbers is different, but I don't know.
3:02:30
I think it has a lot to do with the international play.
3:02:32
If you if you're looking at what they're doing, going to all
3:02:35
different parts of the world, Brazil and England and Germany
3:02:39
and Italy and they're having them all and they're they're
3:02:42
bringing new fans to the table. There's more international
3:02:45
players being drafted and being brought to the NFL, rugby
3:02:48
players and I think now you you have the European fans
3:02:52
interested in the game of football.
3:02:54
It's not football like we call, they call football, but it's
3:02:58
football, American football, as they call it American football.
3:03:01
So I think that has a lot to do with it.
3:03:04
Also, obviously it's the biggest sport here in America.
3:03:07
It's a full contact sport. At least that's what we believe
3:03:10
it is. And that Rodger Goodell
3:03:13
understands how to draw fans from other sports to watch their
3:03:17
sport. And fantasy sports has changed
3:03:21
everything. And what is the number one
3:03:23
fantasy fantasy thing to play a fantasy sport to play out of all
3:03:28
the fantasy sports? It's football.
3:03:30
It's not even close. It's up like 60 something
3:03:32
percent from all the other years.
3:03:35
It's crazy. So I think fantasy, I think
3:03:37
betting, sports betting is another reason why.
3:03:40
So I, I think now it's become legalized in different States
3:03:44
and different parts of different countries.
3:03:46
I think it's opening up the floodgate for money.
3:03:48
And that's why these people are watching it, because they have
3:03:50
that's they're playing parlays and they want to win money and
3:03:53
they want to take care of their families.
3:03:55
So I think that has a lot to do with it too.
3:03:57
That's the main thing. I think for me it's fantasy and
3:03:59
betting. I think those are the easily the
3:04:00
biggest things because betting obviously has a much more wide
3:04:03
range of outcomes. Also wide range of sites that
3:04:06
could be used now that probably even three years ago weren't
3:04:09
around or wasn't as prevalent in fantasy.
3:04:11
Obviously there's like so many different types of leads you can
3:04:14
play now too. The other thing too is probably
3:04:16
technology. There's more accessibility with
3:04:17
these games available. That's why I do believe you,
3:04:19
goodie. I could see the NFL trying to
3:04:21
inflate numbers because this streaming service is here now
3:04:23
this is going to pop up our numbers a little more.
3:04:26
Yeah. And I also read that they're
3:04:28
actually like front loading or they did front load the
3:04:31
schedules this year to kind of gain momentum, which?
3:04:34
College football. Did too for a while and helped
3:04:36
their growth It's. Interesting.
3:04:38
Yeah. Is that kind of, as I haven't
3:04:41
been paying attention to the NFL too much, but is that pretty
3:04:45
accurate? Are they front loading?
3:04:47
Yes. They definitely did because they
3:04:49
already had the Super Bowl rematch, which usually comes in
3:04:51
later in the season. If they had that kind of thing.
3:04:53
The Bills Ravens at the. Beginning and honestly, this is
3:04:55
probably the worst year of football.
3:04:57
I mean, there's no dominant team right now in the NFL.
3:04:59
Is there really a dominant team? There isn't.
3:05:03
I mean, Kansas City, none of them, Chargers, all the teams
3:05:05
that we thought were going to be, they were going to pull away
3:05:08
from everybody. They're not, Baltimore was
3:05:10
supposed. To be the Giants are pretty
3:05:11
good, aren't they? Oh, stop.
3:05:13
Please stop. Better than expected, but if
3:05:15
they're not? Great.
3:05:16
They're not good. Come.
3:05:17
On I like watching. I have watched Scat run the
3:05:21
football. He is fun and he's entertaining.
3:05:24
I'm sure you you got fish, you know, like blasting in his
3:05:27
pants, if you know what I mean. So.
3:05:29
Just got a little chub going on back there.
3:05:31
He's definitely he's growing one.
3:05:33
He's got a scatter Boo right in his pants.
3:05:36
He's got a scatter booing, yeah. He's scatter booing.
3:05:41
Yeah. Scat, scat.
3:05:42
That's all right. What do you call it?
3:05:44
Skating. I know, but that guy can run a
3:05:45
football. He's been fun to watch.
3:05:47
So, you know, I don't know, Jackson Bart's been pretty cool
3:05:53
too. Well, maybe they got something
3:05:55
going on over there. I thought.
3:05:57
I thought Pittsburgh doing pretty good as well.
3:05:59
No, they stink. Thank you.
3:06:00
Please. They stink.
3:06:02
They stink. I, I, I don't know why anybody
3:06:04
believes that Pittsburgh is going to do anything, even if
3:06:07
they make the playoffs during a division right now that has
3:06:09
injured quarterbacks. Joe Flacco is not even playing
3:06:13
on the same team. He's playing on the same another
3:06:15
team in the same division, the Bengals, who they lost Joe
3:06:18
Burrell for a significant amount of time.
3:06:20
Lamar Jackson's been out in a crappy division.
3:06:22
That's why Pittsburgh has a winning record.
3:06:25
If they had, if if Burrow was healthy and Lamar Jackson was
3:06:28
healthy, I bet you they don't have more than two wins right
3:06:31
now. Pittsburgh, they're not.
3:06:33
They're not good. Still got to win with you know
3:06:35
who you're playing. Still got to be who you're
3:06:36
playing with, what you got. Stop being Owen.
3:06:39
You're turning into Owen now. Now stop.
3:06:42
It's just part of it. I know, I know.
3:06:45
All right, last one I got here. This is the I.
3:06:48
I just looked this up actually I haven't.
3:06:51
I actually saw the video because it was deleted but thought it
3:06:55
was pretty interesting because I have heard of these things.
3:06:58
Not sure if they're real or not. Hope they are.
3:07:01
But recently Donald Trump posted then deleted an AI generated
3:07:04
video on true social promoting conspiracy theory around Med
3:07:08
beds, which is a futuristic medical device said to cure
3:07:13
nearly every ailment accessible via a Med bed card.
3:07:19
The video purported to show a Fox News segment which obviously
3:07:23
was fake. We don't know but that's what
3:07:26
they saying with large Trump hosting saying every American
3:07:30
would get access. The narrative comes from the Q
3:07:35
Anon adjacent conspiracy circles where Med beds are alleged to be
3:07:39
suppressed technology hidden by the elites.
3:07:44
Now what is true and what is fake?
3:07:46
The video is fake. It was AI generated.
3:07:50
There's no evidence of the Med beds apparently or that any
3:07:54
policy is being implemented to distribute them.
3:07:57
That's what's we have what is what is false, but the truth is
3:08:01
he did he did put this on his true social then delete it.
3:08:06
So what do we got going on? Is this a misinformation or are
3:08:11
we getting are are there they're medical devices that they're
3:08:15
hiding from us? Listen, Kate sent me a video
3:08:18
today, my wife about a hair transplant video.
3:08:23
She said it was funny because I'm like.
3:08:25
Why you need a hair transplant? I'm getting there.
3:08:29
I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
3:08:32
Get sketchy, man. Get at it.
3:08:33
Worry worrisome. I got it all in my face.
3:08:37
It's all in my face and butt, but not in my head.
3:08:39
So it is like this. No, I definitely.
3:08:40
Don't want to look at your butt? I don't want to know how hairy
3:08:43
your butt is. You.
3:08:44
Did a nice butt plug from. Nathan, I was sitting there.
3:08:46
I was. I was sitting in the I, I was
3:08:48
sitting in the kitchen and I'm thinking like if they have
3:08:53
devices, if they have the technology to send us to the
3:08:57
moon and 3D print something. You're telling me we don't have,
3:09:02
we don't have like a device that can grow your hair back.
3:09:07
Come on. They're definitely not.
3:09:09
Maybe. Not maybe not regular hair, but
3:09:12
maybe artificial hair. Enough of that.
3:09:13
But. Bro they're definitely hiding
3:09:17
medical technology from us for sure.
3:09:19
But what you're describing is more likely for like. 300 years.
3:09:22
From now, I don't think for right now.
3:09:25
You know, what's interesting about AI is AI is going to run
3:09:28
the world. I don't even know if you're
3:09:30
going to sit here today and tomorrow or even 10 years from
3:09:34
now, you're going to say, hey, do we have to actually go to
3:09:37
work? Because AI is going to do all
3:09:40
the work for us. I mean, if you're, if you're, if
3:09:43
you're a betting man, like let's say you want to make a valuable
3:09:47
bet, eventually you're going to be able to go to AI and ask him
3:09:50
what is the best bet to make on games.
3:09:53
And it's going to give you percentages.
3:09:55
And once that does that, it's going to give you the best
3:09:57
chance to make money and sit home and not have to do
3:09:59
anything. And I know a lot of people
3:10:01
probably doing. That right now.
3:10:02
Probably do that now, honestly. So.
3:10:05
The the jobs that are going to be worth taking in the next 10
3:10:08
years are going to be trade jobs.
3:10:10
Your plumber, your mechanic, your electrician, something like
3:10:15
that. Because AI can't do that.
3:10:19
They can answer a lot of questions, but they can't do
3:10:22
that, which is crazy. Well, they're building robots
3:10:25
and robots can so. And AI is gonna be controlling
3:10:28
robots. So disagree on that one buddy.
3:10:31
There are robots right now. There are robots dude.
3:10:35
Elon Musk. Elon Musk has a practically a
3:10:39
human robot in his place that it doing doing things that other
3:10:44
humans can't do. So.
3:10:46
Yeah, I've seen, I saw some videos about that.
3:10:49
It was the Tron. There was like a Tesla bought
3:10:52
out for the Tron deal, but I'm not sure.
3:10:58
I'm not sure if I believe all that.
3:10:59
They all started talking about having pilots as the robot
3:11:02
pilots and all that. I'm not about that.
3:11:05
No chance of my getting on an airplane without human freaking.
3:11:09
I definitely want the human aboard involved.
3:11:12
Definitely want the human element involved.
3:11:14
I know that they have some like drones and stuff that do that,
3:11:17
but there's a man, there's a human manual override there that
3:11:22
can that can that takes place in case if something happens so.
3:11:28
I, I want to tell you, you know, we got Kevin over here.
3:11:31
He called Fish, he called him a scatter boner.
3:11:35
That's what he called him. So a.
3:11:36
Scatter boner. A scatter boner.
3:11:38
That's what he called him. I I think he does have a boner.
3:11:41
I don't know. What do you think, Speedy?
3:11:43
I'm. Not going to this conversation.
3:11:45
Oh no. Somebody's boning something.
3:11:48
I mean, if there's somebody scatting or skeeting, maybe
3:11:52
Coach Fish knows a little bit more than we do when it comes to
3:11:54
that stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, that was
3:11:57
goodies big. This is just a hit piece on
3:12:00
someone who likes their running back.
3:12:02
Me. What do you mean?
3:12:05
I like your running back. No, Errol, not you.
3:12:09
I like your running back. I think he's great.
3:12:10
He. Just wants.
3:12:11
Everyone to feel as bad as a Jets fan feels right now.
3:12:14
Really, I don't feel bad as a Jets fan at all.
3:12:16
Yeah, because you have a second team that just lost.
3:12:19
To the no, that's not why, because as a Jets fan, I knew
3:12:22
this was going to happen. They're in almost every.
3:12:24
Single. Oh, and six, though.
3:12:25
Yeah, yeah. Oh, and six, I told you they
3:12:28
were going to probably win three to four games and they were
3:12:31
going to be in every single game.
3:12:33
And there have been practically every single one except, except
3:12:36
the Buffalo Bills game. And I expect them to.
3:12:38
I'll be they'll be lucky to win two games.
3:12:41
I think The Jets realize now that this is this is going to be
3:12:44
a lost season. Just remember what Dan
3:12:46
Campbell's first season was with the Lions.
3:12:49
He knew what the team was and what the roster was and he
3:12:52
needed to figure out how he was going to sort out that roster.
3:12:55
I think Aaron Glenn knows that as well.
3:12:57
I think Aaron Glenn's going to be fine.
3:12:59
I think that team's fine. They got a lot of talent on that
3:13:01
roster. So to sit there and say, well,
3:13:04
I'm mad about the no, I'm not mad about The Jets.
3:13:06
I'm fine. We did.
3:13:07
The roster is if you're going to compare rosters right now.
3:13:11
All right, so you're not mad about The Jets, you're just
3:13:13
intentionally being a Dick about the guy?
3:13:15
Absolutely Giants. No, I'm not being a Dick, I just
3:13:17
think you're out of your monitor.
3:13:18
It's catapult so. No.
3:13:20
What do you mean he's doing great?
3:13:22
Good. He's objectively doing great.
3:13:24
Great. OK.
3:13:25
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Dial it up. We interrupt this regularly
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3:13:38
As long as she's using dude wipes and taking care of my 2
3:13:40
hole I'm good. That's the best clip ever.
3:13:44
That's one of the best sound bites, guys.
3:13:46
Welcome back to dial up everyone's favorite Lightning
3:13:49
Round stories. Errol hasn't heard these yet.
3:13:53
He's going to have to react to them in real time, and then
3:13:55
we'll go back and forth to them. The first one here, Padres
3:13:58
manager Mike Schilt, retires. He retired, according to the
3:14:02
severe toll of the job. He's only 57 years old.
3:14:07
He informed the team that he would retire nine days after the
3:14:11
Padres were eliminated by the Cubs in the Wild Card Series.
3:14:14
While it has always been about serving others, it's time I take
3:14:18
care of myself and exit on my terms.
3:14:21
I gave every fiber of my being to help achieve Peter Seidler's
3:14:24
vision of bringing a World Series championship to San
3:14:27
Diego. We fell short of the ultimate
3:14:29
goal, but I am proud of what the players, staff and organization
3:14:33
were able to do accomplish these last two seasons.
3:14:36
We would like to congratulate Mike on a successful here and
3:14:38
thank him for his significant contributions to the Padres and
3:14:41
the San Diego community over the last four years.
3:14:43
Padres general manager AJ Preler the Padres now join Listen to
3:14:48
all this huge list and Texas already got their coach Angels,
3:14:52
Braves, Orioles, Twins, Giants, Nationals and Rockies as teams
3:14:59
with managerial openings for 2026.
3:15:03
Errol. Dial it up.
3:15:06
You know, it's so funny when you look at the Padres and what the
3:15:09
Padres accomplishments have been over the last couple of years.
3:15:12
They've been a very good roster. They've been a very good team
3:15:15
and and I I would say a decent organization.
3:15:18
They like to trade away good young prospects, but All in all
3:15:21
this team has been a good team. And the fact that you're hearing
3:15:25
that the coach of the manager is walking away because of his
3:15:28
health problems. I think there's a little bit
3:15:30
more in involved in this. Obviously there might be a
3:15:34
player situation. Maybe there's something behind
3:15:36
the scenes that is going on that he doesn't want to come out and
3:15:40
maybe he's not getting along with the GM.
3:15:42
Maybe he's not getting along with the executives over there
3:15:44
because I bet you any amount of money that in a year from now,
3:15:48
that guy Shilt, he's going to, he'll have another job right
3:15:51
now. He'll get another job in the
3:15:53
MLB. He's not 57 years old.
3:15:55
He's just going to walk away from baseball.
3:15:57
Doesn't make any sense. I expect him to have another job
3:16:00
and get another job. I just think there's something
3:16:03
more behind the scenes that he really doesn't want to bring up
3:16:07
or he doesn't want to put or throw under, you know, throw in
3:16:10
a situation where it's going to hurt a player or hurt the roster
3:16:14
of the team. So I I think that's probably why
3:16:16
he walked away. Interesting.
3:16:21
No congratulations on a on a good career.
3:16:24
It was tough for them to try and be Big Brother Dodgers over
3:16:27
there. So maybe he's trying to retire
3:16:31
like you said, maybe take a couple a year off or a couple
3:16:35
months off or so, however long it's going to be, walk away from
3:16:38
it, get out of that division and go to another division where one
3:16:43
where he doesn't have to face the Dodgers.
3:16:45
But I I would probably agree with what you said.
3:16:50
There's probably definitely something going on behind the
3:16:52
scenes. Maybe he's not making all the
3:16:54
calls in game, which seems to be kind of the going theme around
3:16:57
the MLB where the front office is more heavily involved in the
3:17:00
game to game, you know, the game time decision.
3:17:02
So maybe he wants to go to an organization where he feels like
3:17:05
he can be in charge fully. But nonetheless, listen, the
3:17:11
Padres went all in like they go in all in every year and just
3:17:16
find up falling short. I think they traded away like 20
3:17:19
of their prospects this year, which is unreal and just still
3:17:23
couldn't get over the hump. So maybe we're all it's all
3:17:27
speculation, right? It's all speculation, but.
3:17:30
You got to speculate and also if you if, if you know anything
3:17:33
about that roster, Machado, how many times have we seen fighting
3:17:35
in the dugout with Machado and all the other players?
3:17:38
There's been arguing he was there for all of it.
3:17:41
So I, I mean, obviously there might be something going on, you
3:17:46
know, in the locker rooms that he, again, he's a professional
3:17:49
and he just doesn't want to throw anybody under the bus and
3:17:51
he'd rather just walk away and step down and retire as he
3:17:55
claims he's retiring. As Bochy said, he's retiring
3:17:57
again. The job is the job is very
3:18:01
stressful. Of course it is a stressful gig.
3:18:03
Like not people. It's you're one of your First
3:18:05
off, you're 1 of 30 in the world, right?
3:18:08
It's very highly sought after gig and you have a ton of
3:18:11
pressure like San Diego, probably it's, it's definitely
3:18:15
pressure and filled environment, but probably not as much as like
3:18:18
New York. For sure.
3:18:20
The hardest job probably in the world in professional sports is
3:18:23
being the manager of the GM of the New York Yankees.
3:18:26
Now it's, it's all relative, but being in being a manager in the
3:18:31
major leagues, you're expected to win.
3:18:33
Like that's your livelihood. And if you can't win, then your
3:18:36
next paycheck's not guaranteed. You know, so it's like, and, and
3:18:39
not only that you're, you've given a, you've been given the
3:18:42
keys and they've done every single thing that they could do
3:18:45
to help you win a World Series and you've just fallen short the
3:18:48
last few years. So like I said, like it, it's,
3:18:54
it seemed like it would be an easy job.
3:18:56
It's not an easy job. It's not life or death.
3:18:59
You know, we're not going, we're not making crazy decisions, but
3:19:01
in, in his life, in his realm, it is life or death because
3:19:05
that's how he feeds his family. So it's like maybe he's just
3:19:07
stressed out and he's like, you know what, I'll take a
3:19:09
coordinator role where I can go home, see my family every night
3:19:13
and, and be happy that way. So nonetheless, I wish him
3:19:18
nothing but success and his future endeavors.
3:19:22
All right, let's move on to the next story.
3:19:26
Let's go to football. Yeah, that's Mike Tomlin, and he
3:19:29
had some interesting comments about the Browns trading Joe
3:19:33
Flacco within the division. He openly questioned the logic
3:19:38
of the decision. AFC North division rival
3:19:41
Cleveland Browns and GM Andrew Berry for trading Joe Flacco
3:19:44
within the division to the Bengals.
3:19:46
To be honest, it was shocking to me, Tomlin said on Monday.
3:19:49
Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us because it
3:19:53
doesn't make sense to me to trade a quarterback that you
3:19:55
think enough of to make your opening day starter to a
3:19:59
division opponent that's hurting in that area.
3:20:01
But that's just my personal feelings.
3:20:04
It's certainly made sense from Cincinnati's.
3:20:06
Perspective, Tomlin said. He can throw the football.
3:20:09
He's always been able to throw the football.
3:20:11
Arm strength, arm accuracy, anticipatory passer, fluid
3:20:14
movement through progressions. That's always been his game.
3:20:18
The Steelers, who beat the Browns 23 nine on Sunday, face
3:20:21
Flacco in the Bengals Thursday night to kick off Week 7.
3:20:26
Errol, dial it up. Why is Mike Tomlin bitching
3:20:32
about Joe Flacco going to the Bengals?
3:20:36
It's Joe Flacco, It's old man Joe three years ago sitting on
3:20:41
his parents sofa when he gets a call from the Texans.
3:20:44
Okay, it's ridiculous. This is so redundantly stupid.
3:20:48
I I'm not it's not going to change anything for the Bengals.
3:20:51
The Bengals aren't making the playoffs unless Joe Burrow comes
3:20:54
back. It's only going to help Jamar
3:20:55
Chase and Higgins numbers. That was why they brought him
3:20:58
in. They don't want to piss off
3:20:59
Jamar Chase and Higgins after get them getting their big
3:21:02
contract and it only helps their thought on maybe keeping their
3:21:06
coach for one more year in Taylor.
3:21:09
I I don't think it's a big deal. It's it's not like it's a
3:21:11
superstar quarterback. We've seen this before.
3:21:14
This is the first time this has happened.
3:21:16
I mean, we've seen quarterbacks get traded in the same division.
3:21:19
So again, you look at it, you wonder why Mike Tomlin came out
3:21:24
and said that maybe he was just trying to, you know, dig it in,
3:21:27
take a knife in to the Browns organization because he thinks
3:21:31
they're laughing stock. But guess what?
3:21:33
What are the what are the Pittsburgh Steelers doing right
3:21:35
now in some of their situations? How about their quarter position
3:21:39
right now, besides Ramsey on the secondary corner positions that
3:21:43
they could, they could use a little bit of help and the
3:21:45
safety position, because they decided to part ways with
3:21:48
Fitzpatrick, they haven't really filled in those spots to help
3:21:51
out their deficiencies on the defensive side of the ball.
3:21:54
So and hey, if the Browns were willing to give you a a safety
3:21:58
on that team, on their team that was a former pro ball player or
3:22:02
a corner that was a former pro ball player, you won't be
3:22:05
bitching and moaning about that, would you?
3:22:07
So stop. Stop crying.
3:22:10
I get the the I get him being animated about it, but one thing
3:22:15
that I don't understand is this common of him saying that you're
3:22:17
got the guy you decided to make your starting quarterback week
3:22:21
one. We knew after week one it was
3:22:23
going to be, it was only a matter of time.
3:22:24
Joe Flacco was going to eventually play the bench and
3:22:27
let either Dylan Gabriel or Shadora Sanders actually touch
3:22:30
the field. On the other hand, though, it's
3:22:33
Joe Flacco. We're not talking about someone
3:22:34
like Justin Fields who's getting his chance with The Jets this
3:22:37
year. We're talking about a guy like
3:22:38
you said, Earl. He was sitting on his couch.
3:22:40
He was sitting on his couch, retired, basically done with
3:22:43
football. He won his, he did his dues.
3:22:45
He did everything he needed to do, won his Super Bowl with the
3:22:48
with the Ravens and whatnot. And now it's obvious that the
3:22:52
Browns, I mean, look, the way I see it, Andrew Berry, if he's
3:22:55
going to make a trade that can benefit his team and get rid of
3:22:57
old Joe Flacco, which like we all said, we knew he wasn't
3:23:00
going to be on the on the field the entire season.
3:23:02
Come on, did we all believe Joe Flacco was going to play 17
3:23:05
games this season? Of course not.
3:23:07
So I don't understand taking shots at the Browns when the
3:23:10
Browns are being smart and getting rid of them and the
3:23:12
Bengals are being smart in the sense of we need a quarterback
3:23:15
for right this second. Now, of course, it'll end up
3:23:16
working out well for the the Bengals yesterday and their game
3:23:19
against the Packers, but I don't know, his comments don't make a
3:23:21
lot of sense. All right, let's go from
3:23:25
football to basketball. Yes, you might be seeing Triple
3:23:31
Arrow. The Bucks sign the 3rd and Teda
3:23:35
Kumpo brother. Yes, they've agreed to a two way
3:23:39
contract with Alex and Teda Kumpo.
3:23:42
According to ESPN Shamsarania. Alex joins his brothers
3:23:47
Thanassis and perennial All NBA forward Giannis in Milwaukee,
3:23:51
the first time an NBA team has had three brothers under
3:23:54
contract at the same time. The likely reason for the
3:23:58
acquisition has more to do with Giannis staying with the Bucks
3:24:01
then Alex's G League stats where he has averaged 5.8 points and
3:24:06
three rebounds a game since 2022 in 50 appearances.
3:24:11
The Knicks appear to be likely suitors for Giannis and a
3:24:15
destination at the trade deadline.
3:24:18
If the Bucs family ties ploy doesn't pay off, is Giannis
3:24:25
possibly on his way to New York? Errol.
3:24:28
Dial it up. Absolutely.
3:24:31
I don't think it matters. He can.
3:24:32
They can. They can bring in his mother,
3:24:35
his his cousin, his sister, his aunt and uncle on the roster.
3:24:40
It's not going to stop the New York Knicks and it's not going
3:24:42
to stop Giannis trying to go for a second championship.
3:24:46
This is a guy that should have won two championships already on
3:24:49
a Milwaukee Bucks team that at one point was the best team in
3:24:52
Eastern Conference for three years straight, and the fact
3:24:55
that they have only won one makes it shameless and shameful.
3:24:59
I will say this, I understand what the Bucks are trying to do.
3:25:03
They're trying to make Yanis happy.
3:25:04
They're trying to put a put themselves in a good position to
3:25:07
keep him. I don't think anything is going
3:25:09
to change his mind going into the trade deadline when he knows
3:25:12
that he can go to the Knicks and and make that team a contender,
3:25:16
A contender that they haven't been since the 90's, the 94 New
3:25:20
York Knicks, the 93 New York Knicks.
3:25:22
So I don't think it's going to change anything.
3:25:25
I think obviously they're just trying to put a smile on Giannis
3:25:28
face before the season starts. This team is going to be really,
3:25:31
really bad. This is an older team that has a
3:25:35
superstar player that realizes there is no secondary offense.
3:25:40
I don't even know who his brother is.
3:25:42
Who the hell is he? So he won a championship with
3:25:45
the Lakers, and he barely played.
3:25:48
That's true. And it's his.
3:25:50
It's his other brother. They're trying everything to
3:25:52
keep him there. Who, by the way, was drafted by
3:25:54
the New York Knicks, by the way. The Nasus?
3:25:57
Yeah, the Knicks always seem to get the wrong brother.
3:25:59
It's like getting the Frank Stallone instead of Sylvester
3:26:02
Stallone to be in your movie back in the 70s was the old
3:26:05
joke. Cole Anthony is playing point
3:26:08
guard for them. Miles Turner was the big
3:26:10
offseason acquisition at center is kind of like the last piece
3:26:15
you would add, not a foundational piece.
3:26:17
They got Kevin Porter junior. They got, you know, Bobby Portis
3:26:23
is still there. Gary Trent is there.
3:26:26
I mean, look, Bobby Portis is fine, but does this sound like a
3:26:30
roster that's going anywhere outside of Giannis?
3:26:33
Like if they don't have Giannis, this team bottoms out and gets
3:26:37
lottery picks. And if they have Giannis, maybe
3:26:40
he's good enough to carry them to 46 to 50 wins because he's
3:26:44
Giannis. But are you really going
3:26:47
anywhere after that? I think they already found out
3:26:49
they're not. They had to do the stretch
3:26:51
provision to get rid of Damian Lillard's contract because that
3:26:55
was their all in move that failed.
3:26:58
They lost on that move. And now what do you do in the
3:27:02
after effects? Do you blow it all up?
3:27:05
Middleton's already gone. He's the last guy there from
3:27:08
that team that won the title. Is it really even worth keeping
3:27:12
it together? You have to make that decision.
3:27:14
You're not getting anything for Bobby Portis.
3:27:16
Maybe you'll get, you know, I guess a late first round pick if
3:27:20
you're lucky for a guy like that, Giannis is the only thing
3:27:22
that's going to bring back anything valuable to help you
3:27:25
rebuild for the future. Send him, his two brothers and
3:27:29
whatever else makes the contracts work to New York to
3:27:32
set yourself up with some of their younger pieces and pick
3:27:35
Let's go Knicks. And also I will say this, the
3:27:38
New York Knicks can send three guys over there to Milwaukee and
3:27:41
automatically probably makes them a playoff team if they send
3:27:44
OG Robinson McBride and somebody, you know, somebody
3:27:49
else on that roster and two first round draft picks.
3:27:52
You're practically A borderline playoff team with the players
3:27:55
that you have on that roster. So I, I think that's the way the
3:27:59
Milwaukee Bucks should look at it here.
3:28:01
You're not going to beat the Knicks.
3:28:02
You're not going to be able to compete with the other teams in
3:28:04
in you know that are a little bit better than you, a little
3:28:06
bit younger than you, but you still have players that you can
3:28:08
move in the offseason to build when it comes to draft picks.
3:28:12
So they're they got to rebuild. Giannis is is not going to be
3:28:15
there for the the. Long So if you're the Bucks, who
3:28:18
do you ask for from the? Next, I already told you I'm
3:28:21
going. I'm going OG, I'm going
3:28:24
Robinson. I'm going two first round draft
3:28:26
picks, maybe 3, McBride and Clarkson or the kid that they
3:28:32
got from the 76ers. I think that will get the the
3:28:34
deal done. So I, if I'm the Knicks, I'm OK
3:28:38
with that deal because, and we talked about this off the air,
3:28:41
Robinson and is not a guy who stays healthy when he's out
3:28:45
there. He looks great, man.
3:28:46
I, I love watching him when he plays, but he has yet to really
3:28:50
get through a season fully healthy.
3:28:53
And big guys don't age well. That's just a fact about big
3:28:56
guys. So I would be willing to move
3:28:59
him before some of the other guys And OG, who is fantastic.
3:29:03
Everyone loves OG Ananobi. He's a great player.
3:29:07
This is the healthiest he's ever been, right?
3:29:10
You don't want to like assume he's going to be able to play
3:29:13
every game again or close to it every year because he's never
3:29:16
done that before. Mikhail Bridges on the other
3:29:20
hand, that guy plays 82 games every year.
3:29:23
So if it's me, even if OG maybe is slightly a little bit better
3:29:26
than than Bridges, I think he keep Bridges because, you know,
3:29:30
you can depend on that guy going forwards and you try to, you
3:29:33
know, sell high on guys that have, you know, inconsistent
3:29:37
health coming off of healthy years.
3:29:39
I think it's just a smart thing to do.
3:29:40
If they do it, hopefully, you know, they're not going to be
3:29:43
able to make some of these moves until December when the contract
3:29:45
extensions. You know, the NBA has that rule
3:29:47
is like a certain amount of days you have to wait.
3:29:50
If they get to that December point and OG is playing well and
3:29:53
he's healthy, I think they got to look long and hard at that
3:29:55
move. And as a Knicks fan, it's very
3:29:57
exciting. Very, very exciting 'cause I
3:30:00
think if they get Yannis and they have a three guy rotation
3:30:04
with Towns now being like the stretch, you know, stretch four
3:30:08
with Giannis playing inside and covering up for his, you know,
3:30:11
laziness perhaps and rotations on defense and then Brunson
3:30:14
still dominating out there and you just get a couple of guys
3:30:17
around him like Bridges still there.
3:30:19
I mean, that's that's a lot. Even if it's not hard, if they
3:30:22
have to include hard in the deal, they still have a ton of
3:30:24
guys they're not. And I don't think they're going
3:30:25
to have to. I don't think they would have to
3:30:27
do it. I don't think they would have
3:30:28
to. That's really nice.
3:30:30
If I'm a Knicks fan, and I am, that would be very, very nice
3:30:35
for this possible down year in the Eastern Conference.
3:30:39
We got one last story here for dial it up and we're going to go
3:30:42
to some puck. This is the Calder Trophy winner
3:30:50
from last season, Lane Hudson. Eight years, $70.8 million
3:30:55
contract with the Canadians. They locked him up.
3:30:59
He was a second round pick in 2022, played in Boston
3:31:03
University, was fantastic. He now joins Noah Dobson, Nick
3:31:08
Suzuki call Caulfield, Gerard Schlefsky, who I definitely
3:31:11
pronounced incorrectly, and Caden Gully on long term deals.
3:31:16
Think Gully was 60. Everyone else was eight years.
3:31:18
They're setting themselves up for the future.
3:31:20
Listen to this In his rookie season, 6 goals and 60 assists
3:31:25
from the rookie defenseman, which was the most ever in NHL
3:31:29
history for a rookie. He became the 4th defenseman
3:31:32
ever to lead rookies in scoring, joining only Bobby Orr, Brian
3:31:38
Leach and Quinn Hughes. Errol.
3:31:42
Dial it up well, they brought in no adoption.
3:31:46
They made a trade, they gave up two first round draft picks.
3:31:49
Now they have a 1-2 punch with those two guys.
3:31:51
Luke is a a sensational player. I I could see what they're
3:31:55
doing. They're trying to build around
3:31:56
the back end of their back end on the ice.
3:32:00
I like that that they're doing that.
3:32:01
They, they have a good young goalie.
3:32:03
They actually have two good young goalies, one in their farm
3:32:06
system. I, I think the Canadians are set
3:32:08
up very, very well and they have a very good, good coach that
3:32:11
understands hockey. He's been around hockey for a
3:32:14
very, very long time AGM that has really slowly but surely
3:32:18
built this team from the, from the farm system and, and, and
3:32:22
drafting the right players to fit.
3:32:24
And they've traded away the older players.
3:32:26
This is one of the youngest teams in the NHLI like this
3:32:29
move, paying young guys because you believe they're the future
3:32:33
of your organization. This is an organization that's
3:32:36
dreaming for another Stanley Cup, and hopefully this could
3:32:40
change everything for. Yeah, you're right.
3:32:41
They've gone to the young approach all at once after they
3:32:44
went through many different veteran approaches that did not
3:32:46
work at all, bringing a lot of these flashy names to find
3:32:49
forwards to go alongside Carrie Price for a while, that did not
3:32:52
work out at all. They did the opposite.
3:32:53
Now rebuilding through some good trades.
3:32:54
Nick Suzuki, who they got when they traded Max Patcher ready to
3:32:57
Vegas, has turned into a really nice pair player.
3:32:59
Patrick, a lot of good veterans leader on that team, and he's
3:33:01
still only 27 years old, too. And it's kind of like the Braves
3:33:04
model with hockey, like you're trying to pay these players
3:33:06
earlier. So Zoloski was a first, first
3:33:08
overall pick. Like you said, Lane Hudson was a
3:33:10
tremendous young defenseman last year and he's better
3:33:12
defensively. A lot of people were saying the
3:33:14
Luke Hughes contract the Devils gave them was going to rig the
3:33:16
market for a while, but I think Hudson last year defensively was
3:33:19
better than Hughes was. You mentioned Dobson, which I
3:33:21
agreed with at the time was probably a little bit of an
3:33:23
overpay unless he can try to improve on defense.
3:33:25
But if he gets the potential there, he's right over there.
3:33:27
Who's better than both of those guys?
3:33:29
Offensive on the same line, That's probably the best, yeah,
3:33:33
the bat, you know, first line defense in the NHL and they're
3:33:37
both fairly very young. Hudson is how.
3:33:40
How old is he? Lane is gonna be?
3:33:42
20. Four and and and and Dobson's
3:33:46
24. They're both 24 years old.
3:33:48
They're. Kids and again, both tremendous
3:33:50
passers. They both have spaced the ice
3:33:51
very well. And again, he's a better skater
3:33:53
as a defensive guy too, to go along with that and go along
3:33:56
with a pretty deep offense. 21 for Hudson, by the way, 21.
3:34:00
Dobson is 24. OK, So and then you go along
3:34:03
with guys like I said, Suzuki, Caulfield, Cole Caulfield's a
3:34:06
very good young one too. That was very good for them when
3:34:08
they made the cup three years ago in the short season.
3:34:10
So this is a really good foundation.
3:34:12
We were talking about all the young teams that broke out last
3:34:13
year with Ottawa at the end of the year, and Montreal was
3:34:17
another one too. When all these other veteran
3:34:19
teams like the Rangers struggle. This is a dark horse for
3:34:21
Montreal this year. I think it'd be like second or
3:34:22
third in the division this year, so.
3:34:24
And guys, that has been another episode.
3:34:28
Of Dial it up, I have been very impressed with the Pittsburgh
3:34:33
Pittsburgh Penguins early this season.
3:34:35
I could say that there are a lot of the young players that they
3:34:38
drafted and they've moved around in their farm system have worked
3:34:42
out for them. Does Sidney Crosby ask for a
3:34:44
trade at the trade deadline? Does he stay a Pittsburgh
3:34:47
Penguin for the rest of his career?
3:34:49
That that that's a question that I can only ask guys like Mario
3:34:54
Lemieux because he probably only knows the answer to it.
3:34:56
So. Well, the team he wanted to
3:34:58
could be traded to. If he was going to be traded to
3:34:59
what's Montreal? So it's funny we brought that
3:35:01
up. Yeah.
3:35:02
And these young pieces to do. It Montreal is a good young team
3:35:05
man, they're dangerous and they got 2 good young goal tenders in
3:35:09
there, one in there right now and one in their farm system.
3:35:12
One of them I think is one of the top top 3 prospect goal
3:35:17
tenders in all of hockey. So it's ridiculous.
3:35:20
They're they're set up very, very well and I I think they're
3:35:23
dangerous. I think they're going to be
3:35:25
very, very dangerous. I'm waiting for the drop for
3:35:27
this I I'm still waiting for the drop, but I did make sure that
3:35:30
we should have it by next week. We call this call your shot
3:35:36
speedy. You want to call your shot you.
3:35:38
Want me to go first? Well, you got to call something
3:35:40
you. Want me to take a shot?
3:35:44
You want to take a shot on who? What a shot of what?
3:35:47
Shot of whiskey. No, Java's not here.
3:35:49
I can't do that, Sam. Well, Java doesn't drink like
3:35:51
that anymore. Yeah, but she still owns a
3:35:53
restaurant called American Whiskey, so I can't do that to
3:35:55
him. Well, will you give you?
3:35:57
Would you give him your American whiskey?
3:35:59
What would you give? I don't have American whiskey.
3:36:02
Well, you have to give him your American whiskey.
3:36:04
I don't. What do you got?
3:36:05
Canadian whiskey I don't possess.
3:36:08
Any right now? Oh, so you've lost all the
3:36:10
whiskey in it? I don't have any.
3:36:12
I figured you don't have any. It's, it's a little lost, right?
3:36:16
Maybe we need to it. Was never there you can't lose
3:36:18
something you never have me Goody might be goody might be
3:36:24
able to maybe he imagined something was there and then
3:36:26
lost it as. Part of well, you want
3:36:28
conspiracy. Do you want it?
3:36:29
Do you want Goody to look for your American whiskey?
3:36:32
I've done that. I've done.
3:36:33
I've done that plenty of times bro.
3:36:35
Do you want do you want Goody? He can.
3:36:36
Look for his own whiskey. So you he found his whiskey, but
3:36:39
OK, so then you can enjoy that. Don't waste time searching for
3:36:43
someone else's problem. For our call your shot,
3:36:48
everyone's going to make a a, you know, a.
3:36:52
Prediction. All right, sweetie, I'll go
3:36:54
first. All right, this one's for you,
3:36:56
bro. My prediction for the 2026 MLB
3:37:00
season is that the New York Mets will bounce back from their
3:37:05
disappointing 2025 collapse and secure a spot in the postseason.
3:37:14
I think they keep, I think they re sign Alonso and I think they
3:37:20
bolster their rotation and their pen.
3:37:23
I think Stevie Cohen is going to be aggressive in spending again
3:37:29
in this offseason. And I think they have a really
3:37:33
good chance. They know what they sadly, they
3:37:39
know what it feels like to be at the top and then fall very far
3:37:42
down from the bottom. And I don't think I think an
3:37:45
embarrassed athlete is a dangerous athlete.
3:37:48
And I think the two, the whole 2025 New York Mets are
3:37:52
embarrassed. Therefore, they will be
3:37:54
dangerous in 2020. 6 Goody I will I will say this, I did
3:37:57
mention this when we're doing our baseball preview at the
3:37:59
beginning of the year, because obviously the Mets are going to
3:38:01
get all the hype with signing soda last year, but I was like
3:38:03
this this helps the case of Errol.
3:38:06
You may even let you last week bring up how sports were rigged.
3:38:08
It's 40 years removed from their last championship.
3:38:12
Maybe that's the adversity they needed to go rock bottom to
3:38:15
that. Hopefully that's.
3:38:16
Exactly. Sometimes you have to hit rock
3:38:18
bottom to to climb Mount Everest.
3:38:21
I mean, if you. Smell.
3:38:22
So I can't trust it yet, but you never know.
3:38:24
I'll go next. I got one for you, Errol.
3:38:28
You were just talking about Pittsburgh Penguins.
3:38:31
Well, mine is about a team that just took them to the woodshed 6
3:38:36
to 1. Yes, the New York Rangers under
3:38:39
former Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan.
3:38:44
I got 2A2 for prediction for you #1 The Rangers are back in the
3:38:50
playoffs this year under Sullivans guidance and more so
3:38:55
Adam Fox, who already has three goals this season in four games.
3:39:02
We'll finish as a finalist for the Norris Trophy once again in
3:39:06
a resurgent season under a new head coach that believes in him.
3:39:12
Let's go Rangers. There's.
3:39:14
The Homer. There he is, ladies and
3:39:17
gentlemen, he's back. All right, I'll go.
3:39:19
I'll go next. I'll go next.
3:39:21
I'm going to go for the opposite angle of what we're talking
3:39:23
about with James Franklin. Like who would Penn State hire
3:39:24
next? I'm going to go for the other
3:39:26
angle and go for one of the dark horse contenders to be hired by
3:39:30
a Power 5, by a Power 4 school, a guy that stepped away from
3:39:33
coaching for a while and is now undefeated this year in his
3:39:36
first year from coaching. Goody, it was your LSU Tigers
3:39:38
that probably led to him getting fired in the infamous Florida
3:39:42
Gators game where Marco Wilson throws a show.
3:39:44
How about Dan Mullen for a six and O UNLV team?
3:39:47
He's wanted to coach again in in one of those SEC or Big 10
3:39:50
schools for a while. He's from Pennsylvania.
3:39:52
He actually was born in Drexel, Pennsylvania.
3:39:54
He played college football in Pennsylvania as a tight end.
3:39:56
It Ursinus just like a Eros boy Bambi Sala College tight end.
3:40:01
And he coached some pretty good quarterbacks in his time at
3:40:03
Mississippi State, including the Beefs boy Dak Prescott when he
3:40:06
was in college. And in Florida had some pretty
3:40:08
good guys too, Philippe Franks and yeah, CJG Simone's boy, Kyle
3:40:11
Trass. So if anyone needs a guy that
3:40:14
can rebirth the quarterback if Doral are stuck staying there
3:40:16
off of his injury, why not try for somebody like Dan Mullen?
3:40:19
So watch out for him as a dark horse for that Penn State job.
3:40:25
Wow, by the way, I also I also saw that Brian Kelly was that's
3:40:29
Sports Illustrated attached his name to the all.
3:40:31
Right, that's interesting too because I I get Mullins wine and
3:40:33
SEC job for a while. So once it surprised me if he
3:40:36
pounces on LSU. If that ends up happening, so is
3:40:38
he. Going to get an Amish accent now
3:40:40
for being in Pennsylvania. Oh God, I don't know how I want
3:40:43
to know how that one's going to turn out.
3:40:47
Interesting. We got Tommy.
3:40:49
Yep. All right, so I didn't really
3:40:51
have one prepared, but I'm going to be I'm going to go over to
3:40:55
wrestling now. I'm particularly going over to
3:40:58
wrestling as in recently, everybody of course knows the
3:41:02
game, the Cerebral Assassin, the man Triple H is in charge of, of
3:41:07
course, the creative, head of the creative and WWE, everything
3:41:10
that goes through him, everything that goes through WWE
3:41:12
goes through him. My main being is that a lot of
3:41:15
the fans, a lot of the community, a lot of the fans
3:41:17
within the community are just somewhat irate at his decisions
3:41:21
recently. Now, of course, being a Booker
3:41:23
does take a lot. You realize you have to be a
3:41:25
Booker book these storylines years in advance, not years, but
3:41:29
months in advance build up for WrestleMania, which is of course
3:41:32
the Super Bowl of the of the WWE.
3:41:35
My thing is a lot of people have been really critical of Triple
3:41:38
H. Now, I was a big supporter of
3:41:39
his. I'm somewhat more critical of
3:41:41
him as of now as well. But my thing is, is that we all
3:41:45
know, of course, the man who's his father-in-law, Mr. Vincent
3:41:49
Kennedy McMahon. Now he's of course not in the
3:41:53
WWE because of all the Janelle Grant playing dipsy doodle with
3:41:56
a bunch of his Co workers or a bunch of his colleagues,
3:41:59
whatnot. So my thing is did.
3:42:03
You say dipsy doodle? Dipsy Doodle.
3:42:06
That one over like a fart in church.
3:42:09
Well, it definitely did go over like a fart in church.
3:42:11
With Vince McMahon, another tow job.
3:42:13
The. Thing I'm going to be going with
3:42:14
is after, I would say a year if Triple H doesn't have it figured
3:42:18
out by now, which means it'll be about four years that he'll be
3:42:22
in charge at that point. And we see 2, numbers are going
3:42:25
down, numbers are tanking as we speak.
3:42:27
Like I said, fans are just starting to tune out.
3:42:30
The net sucks. My Indo.
3:42:31
The Netflix move has been somewhat of a flop.
3:42:33
John Cena's retirement tour I could see very much within the
3:42:37
next year, maybe 2, if Vincent Kennedy McMahon comes back and
3:42:41
takes over the reins for Triple H.
3:42:43
So of course, it would have to be here we go.
3:42:47
We have Brock Lesnar that just came back recently, was all in
3:42:49
the news, all in the media, never going to get brought back,
3:42:51
never going to get brought back. So after all, we've even seen in
3:42:55
wrestling, you should never say never.
3:42:57
So, hey, I could see totally coming back.
3:43:00
Vince McMahon taking over the reins if things don't go over
3:43:03
well with Triple H. And yeah, Vince McMahon could be
3:43:08
coming back, making a comeback. All right, all right, ladies and
3:43:11
gentlemen, last time we did call your shot, I told you where I
3:43:15
think LeBron James is heading, and that's going to be the
3:43:18
Dallas Mavericks. Here's another crazy, crazy
3:43:22
thought. November 14th, it will be a big
3:43:27
fight in Miami and it's not going to be anything that you
3:43:30
even thought. It will be Javonte Tank Davis
3:43:35
versus the one and only Jake Paul.
3:43:39
Now if anybody knows about this fight, Jake Paul has bought his
3:43:42
way through the boxing world telling everybody that he's
3:43:47
going to be champion after champion can.
3:43:50
He wants to fight Canelo Alvarez.
3:43:54
He wants to fight Triple G. Well, he's got a chance to fight
3:43:56
a great fighter at who weighs 133 pounds, 133 lbs to his 199
3:44:03
lbs. My prediction in this fight is
3:44:07
straightforward. Javonte Tank Davis is not going
3:44:10
into this fight and letting Jake Paul go all 12 rounds with him
3:44:16
or 8 rounds. However way this fight goes, I
3:44:19
expect Javante Davis to knock Jake Paul out for the first time
3:44:25
in his boxing career. There is no way, if Javante
3:44:30
believes that he is going to continue moving forward as a
3:44:34
championship fighter, as a prize fighter, that if he goes into a
3:44:38
ring with Jake Paul and let Jake Paul last 8 or 12 rounds with
3:44:43
him and not end him, he will be the most embarrassed boxer in
3:44:48
boxing history. This guy is still in the prime
3:44:50
of his career and he's going to go in the ring to try to make
3:44:53
money, make a significant amount of money expected.
3:44:56
Book it. And if you're going to bet
3:44:58
Javonte Davis will knockout Jake Paul in 7 to 8 rounds, book it.
3:45:06
He will knock about. So take that 133 pound, 133 LB
3:45:12
fighter getting in the ring with 199 LB fighter and he is going
3:45:16
to knock him flat, cold on the canvas.
3:45:19
You can book it. I promise you guys, if you're a
3:45:22
betting man, I don't know what the betting line is right now.
3:45:25
It will probably come up in the next couple of weeks.
3:45:28
Javonte Tank Davis is not going into this fight to just give
3:45:31
this fight away to Jake. He is going to knock him out.
3:45:35
So Jake, this might be the last time you see Jake Paul even try
3:45:41
to attempt to get into a ring with a real boxer because this
3:45:45
man is still in the prime of his career career and he hits like a
3:45:48
heavyweight. So he's not going to go into the
3:45:50
ring and let Jake Paul beat him. So why?
3:45:53
Does Jake Paul look so fat? I, I I I'm not the one that
3:45:55
thinks that, no. No, he's.
3:45:57
Yeah, I see it so. No, no, no.
3:45:59
It's it's just a shirt. Jake Paul is not fat.
3:46:01
He's in great. Shape.
3:46:03
Jake Jake Paul is in great shape.
3:46:05
He's a great, he's listen, he's an athlete.
3:46:07
There's you can't take that away from here.
3:46:09
It's hard to, but Javonte Davis that is, is tank is, is still in
3:46:15
the prime of his career. And besides his last fight, this
3:46:19
guy was unbeatable and, and he spars with heavyweights and he
3:46:22
hurts heavyweights and those guys are real boxers.
3:46:26
This guy's getting in the ring with a guy that's not really a
3:46:29
boxer. So I I do not believe that that
3:46:33
somebody like Jake Paul is going to and Jake gets very tired in
3:46:36
the first two or three rounds. Javonte eats away on rounds and
3:46:40
as the rounds get deeper, he gets better and he hits harder.
3:46:44
So I don't think Jake has a chance and I don't, I don't
3:46:48
think what I'm hearing other fighters say that if Javante
3:46:51
Davis lets him last more than 5 rounds, he's going to be the
3:46:55
laughingstock of boxing. There's no way Javante is going
3:46:58
to allow Jake Paul to even last a significant amount of time.
3:47:01
He's going to kick his ass. So just book that, Mark my
3:47:05
words, he knocks out Jake Paul. TKO is Jake Paul and you.
3:47:08
That will be the last time we hear of Jake Paul saying that
3:47:12
he's going to get into the ring with a professional boxer.
3:47:14
Again, I'm not talking about Julio Cesar Chavez Junior who
3:47:18
pretty much was doing drugs and selling drugs on the side
3:47:22
because he can't, he couldn't stay in freaking the United
3:47:24
States and do it do it the right way.
3:47:26
He had to be sent back to Mexico because he was doing illegal
3:47:29
things here. So that's all I'm going to say
3:47:31
about that. So book it Javonte Tank Davis
3:47:35
knocks out Jake Paul November 14th on Netflix.
3:47:41
So that's it. That's my prediction.
3:47:44
And and by the way, Tank, I I knew tank.
3:47:47
I've watched tank years. I've watched his development and
3:47:52
I I think he's embarrassed, but he he understands that this is a
3:47:55
game of money and he knows what marketing does for him.
3:47:59
He's and he wants to put on a show and he's going to put on a
3:48:01
show with Jake Paul, but he's not going to let Jake Paul tell
3:48:04
him, well, just let me last. Let me last all the rounds.
3:48:09
You're still going to win. There's no way tanks going to
3:48:11
allow that to happen. He's not going to allow that
3:48:13
happen. He's not that kind of person.
3:48:15
So anyways, that's it for our show.
3:48:18
Shout out to Jabba. He's moving three houses.
3:48:21
He he actually showed up for a little bit of the baseball
3:48:24
segment. So thank you to Jabba.
3:48:26
He definitely popped right in and popped right out.
3:48:28
Thank you to my good stir. Big part of our show every
3:48:33
single week. Goodies, bag of balls.
3:48:35
I appreciate you. I know you're busy daddy and
3:48:38
you're you're doing so many things and I'm going to shoot
3:48:40
you a call tomorrow. As as you always know, I'm
3:48:43
definitely going to shoot you a call tomorrow.
3:48:44
But it was a great, great show. Thank you to all the fans on
3:48:49
social media, Speedy. Speedy was telling me our
3:48:52
numbers are driving right now. It's been incredible.
3:48:56
So say thank you to all the fans tuning in and listening to us
3:48:59
and tuning into us on all the platforms.
3:49:02
I don't have to name it. You know what platforms you're
3:49:05
following us and we'll be back on Wednesday.
3:49:08
Who do we have coming on all? Right.
3:49:09
Speaking of some SEC football, we have a former SEC Football
3:49:11
Player of the Year. Also was an NFL quarterback.
3:49:13
He played for Washington, the Raiders, the Bears and one other
3:49:16
team I forget offhand. Jason Campbell will be joining
3:49:18
the show. He now does Auburn Radio radio
3:49:21
broadcasting as well and has a podcast on the Believe Network
3:49:23
as well, which is the same as what our friend Bilal Powell
3:49:25
has. Yeah.
3:49:26
And just so everybody knows, we were asked to go on the Believe
3:49:29
network and I decided two years ago, me and Speedy, I decided
3:49:33
not to go on the believe network because I didn't like their
3:49:36
offer. We were going to talk a little
3:49:38
Nick's basketball at that point. But believe is doing some
3:49:42
amazing things or a good podcast organization, a big
3:49:45
organization. And they've got a lot of guys
3:49:47
just like Blue wire with us. And thank you to Nick because
3:49:51
Nick, Nick was behind all of that and, and getting us the
3:49:54
hook up with Blue Wire and and thank you to Blue Wire as well
3:49:58
for letting us shout out to Kyle.
3:50:00
I reached out to Kyle today. He was sensational.
3:50:02
Thank you to Kyle for, you know, obviously reaching back to me.
3:50:06
So yeah, we'll be back on Wednesday and we're looking
3:50:09
forward to it. So as everybody knows, suck my
3:50:12
Indo. Good night everybody.
3:50:14
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