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- 1:48Speaker 1: number ten thousand. So our lead this hour is from
- 1:52Speaker 1: TV Land in uh yeah. Now, if you remember the
- 1:57Speaker 1: super Bowl, it was way back last like way back
- 2:01Speaker 1: last month. So during the super Bowl festivities, there was
- 2:05Speaker 1: a lot of pomp.
- 2:07Speaker 3: And circumstance around Jimmy Johnson.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Well, Jimmy made it official in the in the last
- 2:16Speaker 1: few hours or so as the crow flies. If he
- 2:18Speaker 1: didn't hear, maybe not Jimmy Johnson announcing turn at the
- 2:23Speaker 1: last the parties over. That's it done, hanging up the microphone.
- 2:29Speaker 1: It's the kind of job you really don't need to
- 2:31Speaker 1: retire from. It's pretty easy job. But Jimmy Johnson, during
- 2:35Speaker 1: an appearance here on Fox Sports Radio with Colin Cowhard,
- 2:39Speaker 1: announced that's it.
- 2:40Speaker 3: He said he loved every minute of it.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Being part of the number one pregame show on Fox
- 2:47Speaker 1: all these years they have dominated the ratings. He said
- 2:50Speaker 1: he loved every single minute of it. Best time of
- 2:54Speaker 1: his GRIZ is a career where he was a college champion,
- 2:57Speaker 1: dominant teams at Miami and also the Dallas Cowboys, and
- 3:02Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson saying, doing TV really cool. So the reason
- 3:06Speaker 1: I'm bringing this up right, we actually have just to
- 3:08Speaker 1: prove I'm not lying. We have a little taste of this.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Here is Jimmy Johnson commenting on that's it. It's all over.
- 3:14Speaker 1: It's TV career done, after all this amazing run at
- 3:18Speaker 1: Fox Sports.
- 3:18Speaker 4: Dig a listen, I've made an extremely difficult decision. I've
- 3:23Speaker 4: been thinking about it for the last four or five years,
- 3:25Speaker 4: and I've decided to retire from Fox. And I'm gonna
- 3:28Speaker 4: miss it. I'm gonna miss all the guys and I'll
- 3:30Speaker 4: see them occasionally. But it has been a great run,
- 3:34Speaker 4: starting back thirty one years ago.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Imagine that thirty one years and then I say, wait
- 3:40Speaker 1: a minute, I'm getting not that far away from there.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Holy crap, how the hell does that happen?
- 3:45Speaker 1: Anyway, It's not about me, So it's about Jimmy Johnson,
- 3:48Speaker 1: But it's really about that job that is one of
- 3:51Speaker 1: the plumb jobs in sports television, the Jimmy Johnson coaches job,
- 3:55Speaker 1: if you will, on the Fox pregame show, which is
- 3:58Speaker 1: the top pregame show out there.
- 4:00Speaker 3: And so the.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Immediate speculation pivoted to who that's right.
- 4:07Speaker 3: Ding ding ding ding ding. Sean McVeigh. Yeah, you can
- 4:12Speaker 3: ram it all day, you can ram it all night,
- 4:14Speaker 3: the Rams coach.
- 4:16Speaker 1: And it is interesting to note that Sean McVay popped
- 4:19Speaker 1: up on the Pat McAfee grab Ass show and was
- 4:24Speaker 1: asked about whether or not he had any interesting not
- 4:27Speaker 1: necessarily about the Fox job, but whether McVeigh had any
- 4:30Speaker 1: interest in media gigs, and he said, of course, McVeigh saying,
- 4:35Speaker 1: but I think we've got some more stuff we want
- 4:38Speaker 1: to accomplish, meaning coaching, obviously, McVeigh said when asked about that.
- 4:43Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the Esteem panel,
- 4:46Speaker 1: which you are part of. Would Sean McVay really leave
- 4:50Speaker 1: the Rams for the Jimmy Johnson chair at Fox? Was
- 4:57Speaker 1: just assuming mcveay is gonna be back coaching the Rams,
- 4:59Speaker 1: and we're p ask the coaching carousel time and all that.
- 5:02Speaker 3: So I've got.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Sounding board, Harley Davidson and White Elephant, and we will
- 5:09Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we'll spin.
- 5:13Speaker 3: The wheel, is what we're going to do.
- 5:15Speaker 1: So a they will go round and run and run
- 5:17Speaker 1: and run. All right, So I'm nodding my head. Yes,
- 5:21Speaker 1: Now do I think it's likely to happen? Though?
- 5:23Speaker 3: Is there a.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Chance in the multiverse, somewhere in the dimension where Sean
- 5:28Speaker 1: McVay says, you know what, this is my shot. I
- 5:31Speaker 1: want that job. I can have that job for the
- 5:34Speaker 1: next forty years. I don't have to worry about anything.
- 5:37Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about the stress of coaching
- 5:40Speaker 1: and replacing quarterbacks and receivers and defensive players, and I
- 5:44Speaker 1: can just right off into the subject. Yes, And I
- 5:48Speaker 1: also believe there's a book written, not very good movie,
- 5:51Speaker 1: but the book was pretty good The Magic Christian years ago.
- 5:53Speaker 1: And everyone's got their price, right, everyone's got their price.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And so yeah, there is a cartoon check that could
- 6:01Speaker 1: be written, big enough, like those old publisher clearinghouse checks
- 6:05Speaker 1: that McVeigh would take and then he would leave the rams.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Now you gotta remember think of.
- 6:11Speaker 1: This, like for McVeigh, Television is like the cute girl
- 6:15Speaker 1: at the bar. McVeigh has been flirting with the cute
- 6:19Speaker 1: girl at the bar, buyner drinks and things like that,
- 6:22Speaker 1: and it's just wetting his appetite. Like, for example, he
- 6:25Speaker 1: appeared on the Fox pregame show last month at the
- 6:30Speaker 1: super Bowl. You think that's a quinkie dink. McVeigh just
- 6:33Speaker 1: popped up there and was on the pregame festivities there
- 6:38Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl, showed up at the game there
- 6:40Speaker 1: in New Orleans. You think that mid Yeah, I don't know.
- 6:42Speaker 1: So eventually he's going to make them. I'm convinced of it,
- 6:44Speaker 1: and I'm trying to enjoy every second here. McVeigh eventually
- 6:47Speaker 1: will leave the RAMS and whether it's Fox or Amazon
- 6:50Speaker 1: or some future media partner that hasn't had media rights,
- 6:54Speaker 1: eventually it's gonna happen.
- 6:56Speaker 3: And if you look at him eventually.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Consummating the relationship and going full time, McVeigh to television
- 7:02Speaker 1: very enticing because it's easy street right when you do TV,
- 7:06Speaker 1: and I got a little taste of it, you know,
- 7:08Speaker 1: just a very small weekend taste the last couple of
- 7:11Speaker 1: years doing TV.
- 7:12Speaker 3: Man is it easy?
- 7:13Speaker 1: You got a staff of producers and directors and people
- 7:15Speaker 1: that their sole purpose is to make you look good. Right,
- 7:18Speaker 1: you get paid big money and a guy like Sean McVay,
- 7:22Speaker 1: you're just a sounding board, that's all. You're like a
- 7:24Speaker 1: sounding board. You just throw out a bunch of cliches
- 7:26Speaker 1: and platitudes and meat. Heead sports fans ooh ahoh. They
- 7:30Speaker 1: get so excited like the dumbest things. But if you
- 7:33Speaker 1: have a resume as a coach or a player, it's like,
- 7:35Speaker 1: oh my god, he's so smart. And then you think
- 7:37Speaker 1: about what, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. But
- 7:39Speaker 1: he's got the resume, so you're like, ooh oo, la la,
- 7:43Speaker 1: just like that. That's wild. I mean, think about Jimmy
- 7:47Speaker 1: Johnson's life at Fox in all these years and different
- 7:52Speaker 1: quarterbacks and coaches have come and gone and all that,
- 7:55Speaker 1: and he really retired Jimmy Johnson from retirement. You retire
- 8:01Speaker 1: from that's a job you work once a week, half
- 8:04Speaker 1: the year. And the hardest part for Jimmy Johnson was
- 8:09Speaker 1: the commute planes, trains and automobiles.
- 8:12Speaker 3: That was ours bart.
- 8:13Speaker 1: He lives in Key West, key West to La That's
- 8:17Speaker 1: a pretty long commute on a weekly basis, and so
- 8:21Speaker 1: that was the issue there, and he didn't always go
- 8:25Speaker 1: back and forth.
- 8:25Speaker 3: He would stay in LA for a month at a
- 8:28Speaker 3: time whatever.
- 8:29Speaker 1: But Nate McVeigh is thirty nine, right, and so you'd
- 8:34Speaker 1: think at that age, that's a young age for coaching,
- 8:38Speaker 1: that McVeigh still has the passion and the perseverance to
- 8:42Speaker 1: keep going. But you keep hearing the noise from people
- 8:45Speaker 1: that are around that world that McVeigh wants to do television. Eventually,
- 8:49Speaker 1: McVeigh is going to do television full time. The RAMS.
- 8:52Speaker 1: I thought he was done a couple of years ago.
- 8:54Speaker 1: I thought McVeigh was gonna leave, and then you know,
- 8:58Speaker 1: it worked it out. He came back and one of
- 9:01Speaker 1: the great coaches of this era in the NFL. And
- 9:06Speaker 1: we'll see how long it lasts. I know it's not
- 9:07Speaker 1: gonna last very now. If Sean McVay says no, reno
- 9:12Speaker 1: to that job, and I'm sure they'll have some back
- 9:14Speaker 1: channel conversations to the TV executives at Fox and McVeigh
- 9:19Speaker 1: and if he says no, what are some of the
- 9:21Speaker 1: other candidates for that Jimmy Johnson chair. So the initial
- 9:27Speaker 1: thought is that it's so late in the game now
- 9:29Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to put some some stooge in there,
- 9:32Speaker 1: some filler like Mike McCarthy. You can sit there in
- 9:34Speaker 1: the corner eat donuts on the pregame show or something
- 9:37Speaker 1: like that.
- 9:38Speaker 3: But eventually it's the Harley Davidson.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Campaign from years ago, go big or go home, right,
- 9:43Speaker 1: that's marketing campaign, go big or go home. So if
- 9:46Speaker 1: not McVeigh, you immediately say what about Mike Tomlin. Tomlin's
- 9:49Speaker 1: another guy whose name has popped up for big time
- 9:52Speaker 1: media jobs from the Pittsburgh Sears, the pop problem there,
- 9:55Speaker 1: and you know this is the Steeler job is a
- 9:59Speaker 1: it's a professor job. It's lifetime employment. It's lifetime employment.
- 10:04Speaker 1: You know, everyone brings up the number they've liked three
- 10:06Speaker 1: coaches since like the sixties. It's insane, you know, it's
- 10:10Speaker 1: it's absolutely wild. But do I think Tomlin would be
- 10:13Speaker 1: great at television?
- 10:14Speaker 3: Sure?
- 10:16Speaker 1: Because Tomlin just we love Tomlin on this show. Every
- 10:20Speaker 1: week we get during football season some dopey statement of
- 10:24Speaker 1: the week for Mike Tomlin. He's a smooth talker, he's charismatic,
- 10:28Speaker 1: he oozes confidence, he's a leader of men. He's a
- 10:31Speaker 1: perfect keynote speaker. He would dominate and he's a little
- 10:35Speaker 1: older act. She's a lot older than Sean mcvaig. Tomlin's
- 10:38Speaker 1: in his early fifties, he's fifty two. But he's again,
- 10:42Speaker 1: he's got that sweetheart deal. He can have that steeler
- 10:44Speaker 1: job as long as he wants in western Pennsylvania. Will
- 10:48Speaker 1: he be swayed by the quality of life any of
- 10:51Speaker 1: these guys? And if not Tomlin, will the next one
- 10:54Speaker 1: you immediately pivot to is Andy Reid, big rant. Why
- 10:57Speaker 1: would Andy ever leave Kansas? Well, at some point he's
- 11:01Speaker 1: going to get too old? Will that be after he
- 11:04Speaker 1: breaks Don Shula's wins record with Patrick Mahomes Stay tuned.
- 11:08Speaker 1: And then outside of that wild card name, wild card name,
- 11:12Speaker 1: how about Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell's established himself as a
- 11:16Speaker 1: legit coach with the Lions. The Lions have been a
- 11:19Speaker 1: playoff team. Something in my childhood. I never thought whatever
- 11:22Speaker 1: happened where the Lions would be consistently a playoff team.
- 11:25Speaker 1: It has happened. And Dan Campbell's the ultimate meathead coach.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Couldn't you see him pop up on TV and just
- 11:33Speaker 1: just kind of roar in the corner there and like Gronkowski,
- 11:38Speaker 1: Like Gronkowski, you meathead kind of caveman commentary.
- 11:42Speaker 3: Could absolutely see that.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Now, all right, last word, turning the page quickly quick, right,
- 11:46Speaker 1: all right, So some news out Minnesota has decided that
- 11:51Speaker 1: they are not going to franchise tag They're quarterback from
- 11:56Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So immediately the floodgates have opened up.
- 12:00Speaker 1: The floodgates have opened up soon to be free agent,
- 12:04Speaker 1: former soon to be former Viking quarterback Sam Donald is
- 12:08Speaker 1: already being connected to the Raiders or the Giants. Which
- 12:14Speaker 1: spot would be a better fit, Which spot would be
- 12:17Speaker 1: a better fit. So on this one I sighed because
- 12:19Speaker 1: remember the reporting a day ago was tom Brady doesn't
- 12:23Speaker 1: want Sam Donald. Now a day later, well, the Raiders
- 12:26Speaker 1: are interested in Sam.
- 12:27Speaker 3: Donald, who goofed. I've got to them now.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Someone's clearly lying, and I'd like to believe that Tom
- 12:32Speaker 1: Brady wants nothing to do with Sam Donald. So I'm
- 12:36Speaker 1: gonna go with the Giants, but your knife to the throat.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I'll go with the Giants and Sam Donald just for giggles,
- 12:42Speaker 1: because he's already left over one new Jersey team, the Jets.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Why not go to the other New Jersey team and
- 12:47Speaker 1: screw their fan base over two Sam Donald and then go.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Two for two.
- 12:52Speaker 1: He'll become the most hated quarterback in the history of
- 12:55Speaker 1: the Tri State area, which I would love to see.
- 12:58Speaker 3: And he's already flopped there one. Why not flop there.
- 13:01Speaker 1: If you can fail there once, you can fail there again.
- 13:04Speaker 1: It's a spin on the Sinatra song from back in
- 13:06Speaker 1: the day. Now, the issue with Donald is obvious, and
- 13:10Speaker 1: every man, woman and child knows this. The issue is
- 13:14Speaker 1: there's a coding problem. There's a glitch in the coding
- 13:18Speaker 1: with Sam Donald. We saw it in Minnesota. Surrounded by
- 13:21Speaker 1: elite playmakers, a pretty good coaching staff in Minnesota, Donald
- 13:25Speaker 1: went out and tossed for over four thousand yards, had
- 13:28Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns, limited the interceptions, and everyone's going wie.
- 13:32Speaker 3: Sam Donald drived.
- 13:34Speaker 1: And then the pressure cooker got turned up for Sam
- 13:38Speaker 1: Donald that winner number one seed game, final weekend of
- 13:43Speaker 1: the year against the Detroit Lions, and Sam Donald went
- 13:46Speaker 1: out there and he.
- 13:47Speaker 3: Rode the vomit comet.
- 13:49Speaker 1: And then he did it again against the l Arams
- 13:52Speaker 1: in the playoff game.
- 13:53Speaker 3: He actually curled up. We saw this on television.
- 13:56Speaker 1: He curled up, face down in the fetal position and
- 14:01Speaker 1: started sucking his thumb in those last two games. It
- 14:04Speaker 1: was fascinating. And he is the white Elephant of free agency.
- 14:09Speaker 1: He is the Booby Prize at the quarterback position because
- 14:12Speaker 1: based on his numbers, the comps are, hey, you got
- 14:14Speaker 1: to pay that guy.
- 14:15Speaker 3: A lot of money and all that, and then you.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Look at him and you're like, oh, man, even if
- 14:19Speaker 1: he plays well, it's one of those that you know,
- 14:22Speaker 1: eventually the other shoe is gonna drop.
- 14:24Speaker 3: It always does at some point.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Even if you win a lot of games, you're gonna
- 14:28Speaker 1: have to play in a playoff game. And that is
- 14:30Speaker 1: when Sam Donald needs diapers. That's the problem. Okay, that's
- 14:35Speaker 1: the issue. Buyer beware. But I just for sen giggles
- 14:38Speaker 1: and for the talk show. I'd like to see Donald
- 14:40Speaker 1: go to the Giants, because that not the Giants have
- 14:42Speaker 1: been relevant in years. But it would be fun and
- 14:44Speaker 1: I could then annoy my friends who are Giant fans,
- 14:47Speaker 1: a certain moving man who loves the Giants and doesn't
- 14:50Speaker 1: call a show much anymore, but I could bust his
- 14:52Speaker 1: chops and some other people.
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- 15:02Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the whirlwind that
- 15:07Speaker 1: is the NFL. Now I said, oh, you talk too
- 15:09Speaker 1: much NFL. I disagree.
- 15:11Speaker 3: I don't think we can talk too much NFL.
- 15:13Speaker 1: And if there's a compelling story in baseball or basketball,
- 15:16Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to talking about it.
- 15:18Speaker 3: I certainly will.
- 15:19Speaker 1: I didn't see anything that rose to the level of
- 15:22Speaker 1: a full mall or monologue in either one of those sports.
- 15:24Speaker 1: So we're gonna go heavy on football. Play the hitch
- 15:27Speaker 1: mom Man play that. So our lead is from the
- 15:31Speaker 1: place that has made chili famous, well, Skyline Chili there
- 15:36Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. The shoe or the other shoe in this case,
- 15:39Speaker 1: has dropped. If you have not heard yet, possibly not
- 15:42Speaker 1: the news coming out not that long before we crack
- 15:45Speaker 1: the microphones here on FSR for the Overnight show The
- 15:48Speaker 1: Ben Gals. The Ben Gals have decided tag You're it.
- 15:54Speaker 1: It's official, official, official official, the Bengals utilizing the dreaded
- 16:00Speaker 1: franchise tag on their star wide receiver. For the second
- 16:06Speaker 1: consecutive season, T Higgins has been tagged by the Cincinnati
- 16:12Speaker 1: football team. The Bengals say they do not want to
- 16:15Speaker 1: allow Higgins to go anywhere else. So they're locking him
- 16:18Speaker 1: in to Cincinnati and he will not hit free agency,
- 16:23Speaker 1: and now they will turn their attention to try to
- 16:25Speaker 1: get a long term contract, as they also have to
- 16:28Speaker 1: try to sign Jamar Chase to a long term contract.
- 16:31Speaker 1: So let's do some malor matt Since this is the
- 16:35Speaker 1: second time in a row that T Higgins has been tagged?
- 16:39Speaker 1: What does that mean? That means that his salary will
- 16:44Speaker 1: go up one hundred and twenty percent. Can you imagine
- 16:48Speaker 1: your salary going up year to year one hundred and
- 16:50Speaker 1: twenty percent. Well, that's that's not enough. That is not no,
- 16:52Speaker 1: that's not enough. No, no, no, Because people are still
- 16:55Speaker 1: complaining bleeding hearts, are saying it's wrong, that it's it's
- 16:58Speaker 1: a shame that the Bengals are doing doing him dirty,
- 17:01Speaker 1: that they should not have tagged him, and it's a
- 17:04Speaker 1: sign of disrespect. So let us discuss the question did
- 17:09Speaker 1: the Bengals quote disrespect T Higgins by giving him the
- 17:15Speaker 1: franchise tag for the second consecutive years. So I've got hullabaloo,
- 17:21Speaker 1: corn maize, and toxic cloud, and we will combine all
- 17:26Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
- 17:29Speaker 1: the gobbagool we're gonna make the gobbagool.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Is what we're going to do. So na I said no,
- 17:36Speaker 3: I said number, that's allow of that time. Hey, to
- 17:40Speaker 3: answer the question, is this disrespect? I roll my eyes.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Tell me you are out of touch with the common
- 17:46Speaker 1: human being without telling me you're out of touch with
- 17:49Speaker 1: the common human And I know the jocksniffers and the
- 17:51Speaker 1: media is well, it's a different world. You're gonna judge
- 17:53Speaker 1: these people. Well, I live in the real world. I
- 17:55Speaker 1: don't live in that world.
- 17:56Speaker 3: And in my.
- 17:57Speaker 1: World, someone getting one hundred and twenty rais is a
- 18:01Speaker 1: wonderful mitzvah is what it is. You buy a cake,
- 18:04Speaker 1: you buy balloons, the whole thing right to a wonderful thing.
- 18:08Speaker 1: So the idea that somehow the Bengals are doing T
- 18:12Speaker 1: Higgins dirty is donkey Dodo.
- 18:14Speaker 3: It's donkey Dodo, is what it is.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Right now, Should we hold some kind of like T
- 18:19Speaker 1: shirt fundraiser or something for Higgins? If this is disrespect,
- 18:25Speaker 1: may everyone be disrespected in this way? May every single
- 18:29Speaker 1: person be disrespected?
- 18:31Speaker 3: I mean, it's ridiculous.
- 18:33Speaker 1: It's one of the great atrocities of our time, being
- 18:36Speaker 1: tagged and getting one hundred and twenty percent raise and
- 18:39Speaker 1: now give us much Now, Higgins, I did some advanced
- 18:43Speaker 1: malor math on this, So T Higgins my supporting evidence here.
- 18:49Speaker 1: If my math is correct, he will be paid at worst,
- 18:52Speaker 1: because he might not end up signing the tag, he
- 18:54Speaker 1: might get an extension, still likely not from the Bengals.
- 18:57Speaker 3: But T Higgins at worst will.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Be paid eighty nine nine zero point three percent more
- 19:03Speaker 1: than your average NFL player. So the way I did
- 19:07Speaker 1: the math on that, the average NFL salary last season
- 19:11Speaker 1: was two point eight million.
- 19:15Speaker 3: That's that's the average.
- 19:16Speaker 1: Two point eight million. So T Higgins will have to
- 19:20Speaker 1: find a way to make ends meet, and he'll have
- 19:24Speaker 1: to do that with twenty six point two million. Don't
- 19:28Speaker 1: you say, if you won twenty six point two million
- 19:30Speaker 1: in the lottery, you think, boy, if I invest that,
- 19:32Speaker 1: probably I never have to work again.
- 19:34Speaker 3: That's it. I'm done. I'm good to go. Uh.
- 19:38Speaker 1: And yet people said, well, it's not right. The Bengals
- 19:40Speaker 1: did him dirty and all that. Now, keep in mind,
- 19:41Speaker 1: to T. Higgins in Cincinnati is a number two wide receiver.
- 19:46Speaker 1: He's really good, but he's a number two receiver. He
- 19:48Speaker 1: also gets hurt a lot. It's football, tackle football.
- 19:50Speaker 3: People get hurt.
- 19:52Speaker 1: But Jamar Chase is at the top of the totem
- 19:55Speaker 1: pole in Cincinnati.
- 19:57Speaker 3: It's pretty good work.
- 19:58Speaker 1: If you can get it is Now does the franchise
- 20:02Speaker 1: tag gar on Tea that T Higgins will work things
- 20:06Speaker 1: out in Cincinnati? And I'm shaking my head, no, shaking
- 20:12Speaker 1: my head. No, here, the ball is in his court.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Now the Bengals have said we want you kind of,
- 20:19Speaker 1: but the ball is in his court and should he
- 20:22Speaker 1: raise T Higgins a hullabaloo? And then they get to impass.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Then it gets really good. And then you get popcorn,
- 20:31Speaker 1: but not still popcorn like the Raino ice. You get
- 20:33Speaker 1: fresh popcorn and you enjoy that fresh popcorn with extra
- 20:38Speaker 1: butter and salt and all that and just the kind
- 20:40Speaker 1: of stuff that you know is taking minutes off your life,
- 20:42Speaker 1: but it's so good you eat it anyway, you know.
- 20:44Speaker 3: What I'm talking about. Anyway, listen, here's the deal.
- 20:47Speaker 1: So the Bengals at that point, knowing the tight wade
- 20:50Speaker 1: nature of the Bengals, it's a mom and pop shop.
- 20:53Speaker 1: They get like four hundred million dollars from television, but
- 20:56Speaker 1: they're a mom and pop shop. So the Bengals would
- 20:58Speaker 1: pivot they would make a trade for that to happen, though,
- 21:01Speaker 1: they'd have to not only find someone willing to pay
- 21:04Speaker 1: t Higgins what he wants, but then they have to
- 21:05Speaker 1: find someone willing to give up a bunch of scratcher
- 21:08Speaker 1: tickets to make that happen.
- 21:11Speaker 3: So good luck on that. Now.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Page two we go to the shores of the Mighty
- 21:15Speaker 1: Mississippi River, the Mighty Mississippi, right there in Louisiana, where
- 21:19Speaker 1: Derek Carr his time in the Bayou could be coming
- 21:24Speaker 1: to an end. Shortly, Did I not just talk about
- 21:28Speaker 1: a story that said Derek Carr may stay.
- 21:30Speaker 3: In New Orleans and I was skeptical of that.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Well, the latest reporting is, despite all the warm fuzzies
- 21:34Speaker 1: that the Saints front office tossed out and the executive
- 21:38Speaker 1: and the coaching staff whispering sweet nothings about Derek Carr
- 21:41Speaker 1: and the microphones and into cameras giving him the manny
- 21:44Speaker 1: and the petty treatment, New Orleans would like Derek Carr
- 21:48Speaker 1: to take a pay cut. Yes, I want him to
- 21:53Speaker 1: give back a little bit. And that means there is
- 21:57Speaker 1: a chance, they're saying, there's a chance that he's still
- 22:00Speaker 1: ends up getting his walking papers from New Orleans quarterback
- 22:03Speaker 1: Derek Carr in the crosshairs with the New Orleans Saints,
- 22:09Speaker 1: amid the chatter that the Pennsburg Steelers and the Tennessee
- 22:13Speaker 1: Titans are said to be interested. How do you dissect
- 22:18Speaker 1: the latest reporting on Derek Carr. So let's navigate. I
- 22:23Speaker 1: know my way through a corn maze. We're going to
- 22:25Speaker 1: work our way through the corn maze here. Now, the
- 22:27Speaker 1: latest story sounds more believable than the previous story. It
- 22:30Speaker 1: also sounds like if you went to the outdoor garden
- 22:35Speaker 1: section at Low's or home Depot, you'd buy it there
- 22:39Speaker 1: because it's a plant. Something seems like that's coming from
- 22:43Speaker 1: the mouth of someone who is on the Derek Carr
- 22:49Speaker 1: trut train. Yeah, doesn't that seem like someone part of
- 22:52Speaker 1: the car posse that they're tossing that out there? Some
- 22:56Speaker 1: rep for Derek Carson, Well, he's not going to take
- 22:59Speaker 1: a pay cut if want to cut his pay And
- 23:01Speaker 1: let me tell you something that Pittsburgh Steelers and the
- 23:03Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans would love to have Derek Carr. But ultimately,
- 23:07Speaker 1: does anyone really love to have Derek Carr. I'm sure
- 23:10Speaker 1: his family likes him and all that, and people that
- 23:12Speaker 1: went to Fresno State, like our old buddy Eddie. But
- 23:14Speaker 1: other than that, Derek Carr is an enigma. He is
- 23:19Speaker 1: a Jag even though he never played for the Jag.
- 23:22Speaker 1: He's just a guy. He's just nothing special. You know,
- 23:26Speaker 1: you're not really a contender when you have Derek Carr,
- 23:29Speaker 1: and he is about to become with his next contract,
- 23:31Speaker 1: the worst two hundred million dollar player in NFL history
- 23:35Speaker 1: to never win a playoff game, literally the worst. We
- 23:39Speaker 1: talked about that stat the other day our final point.
- 23:42Speaker 1: So a surprising story out of NFL free agency. I
- 23:45Speaker 1: wanted to mention this briefly because I thought this was
- 23:47Speaker 1: hilarious and this is the silly season. So there's a
- 23:50Speaker 1: story going around that I say, Bronco quarterback, although he
- 23:54Speaker 1: never played for the Broncos, he was there, Zach Wilson
- 23:58Speaker 1: more of a Jets guy than a Broncos. Yeah, but
- 24:00Speaker 1: Zack Wilson reportedly drawing interest on the free agent market
- 24:04Speaker 1: as a potential QB one a starter. So what do
- 24:09Speaker 1: you make of that? What do you make of the
- 24:11Speaker 1: chatter that Zack Wilson is drawing interest? So this is
- 24:16Speaker 1: a WT situation. Wishful thinking is how I would phrase.
- 24:21Speaker 3: This one and the.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Biggest problem that Zack Wilson has and his agent in
- 24:27Speaker 1: the people in the NFL is you cannot sell Zach Wilson.
- 24:31Speaker 3: You can't.
- 24:31Speaker 1: It's an item that you can't sell no matter how
- 24:33Speaker 1: much marketing. And you know, you dress it up, put
- 24:36Speaker 1: lipstick on, it doesn't matter. No one's buying it. And
- 24:38Speaker 1: here's why there is a toxic cloud of bacteria that
- 24:44Speaker 1: is still hovering over his head. Now, the whole point
- 24:46Speaker 1: of going to the Broncos was image rehab, that he
- 24:49Speaker 1: was going to go out to Denver and he's gonna
- 24:50Speaker 1: have an opportunity to impress everyone and prove that it
- 24:55Speaker 1: was the Jets. The stank was from the Jets and
- 24:58Speaker 1: it wasn't Zach Wilson and all this. So he went
- 25:01Speaker 1: out to Denver, Sean Payton, Super Bowl winning head coach,
- 25:05Speaker 1: all that Rasmataz trying to reinvent himself and change the narrative.
- 25:10Speaker 1: How did that go? I don't ask. He was buried
- 25:15Speaker 1: on the depth chart. In fact, Zack Wilson more times
- 25:20Speaker 1: than not, was a healthy scratch for the Broncos.
- 25:23Speaker 3: That's not good. That ain't good.
- 25:25Speaker 1: So he had zero regular season snaps if my math
- 25:28Speaker 1: is correct. For you didn't get in the game even
- 25:31Speaker 1: in mop up duty at the end of the year.
- 25:33Speaker 1: And so Wilson has not taken any real snap in
- 25:36Speaker 1: an NFL game since he was the miserable Jets quarterback.
- 25:41Speaker 1: And yet there are people out there, likely from Zach
- 25:43Speaker 1: Wilson's marching and shouter society, said well there's a shot,
- 25:47Speaker 1: there's a chance somebody wants to be Who exactly would
- 25:50Speaker 1: that be and how would that work? I don't think
- 25:53Speaker 1: there's a team in Utah. He's from Utah. He went
- 25:56Speaker 1: to college there, and obviously so he can go to
- 25:59Speaker 1: say well to BYU. There's a connect.
- 26:03Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
- 26:05Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 26:08Speaker 3: There we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
- 26:11Speaker 2: To the third degree?
- 26:16Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
- 26:19Speaker 3: we go. Lam Chomp's not a muppet. Actually, go ahead,
- 26:22Speaker 3: But I was offended that.
- 26:24Speaker 5: But Ohio State quarterback Will Howard went viral over the weekend,
- 26:27Speaker 5: but not in a good way, and edited video showing
- 26:30Speaker 5: all of his worst passes at the combine started the
- 26:32Speaker 5: narrative that he had one of the worst combine performances
- 26:35Speaker 5: of all time. Now, Sir Sanders came to his defense, tweeting,
- 26:38Speaker 5: I don't understand y'all hating on Will Howard. He just
- 26:42Speaker 5: won a Natty. It's hard to throw. Yeah, it's hard
- 26:46Speaker 5: to throw to wide receivers that you don't know. Everyone
- 26:48Speaker 5: run routes different.
- 26:51Speaker 3: Yes. Uh, do you think for.
- 26:53Speaker 5: Quarterbacks throwing at the comp Do you think quarterbacks throwing
- 26:55Speaker 5: at the combine it can only hurt them?
- 26:57Speaker 3: No, if you if you impress, If you do well,
- 27:00Speaker 3: it'll help you. If you do bad, it'll hurt you.
- 27:02Speaker 3: It's not that hard.
- 27:03Speaker 1: I didn't watch much of the combine, so I didn't
- 27:06Speaker 1: see I've seen the same clips I think you're.
- 27:08Speaker 3: Talking about here, and Will Howard looked bad.
- 27:10Speaker 1: But he'll have a chance as pro day to impress
- 27:12Speaker 1: scouts and if he does well, then they'll It's one
- 27:14Speaker 1: bad day and you're entitled the one bad day.
- 27:17Speaker 3: Next.
- 27:17Speaker 5: Louisville quarterback Tyler Show is being mentioned as someone who
- 27:20Speaker 5: could potentially climb up the draft boards.
- 27:22Speaker 3: Now. Show spend seven years in college.
- 27:25Speaker 5: Seven he will be twenty six when his rookie season
- 27:29Speaker 5: is underway. Now he says that only reporters make a
- 27:33Speaker 5: big deal about his age and that NFL coaches and
- 27:35Speaker 5: gms like his experience. Ben, how big of a deal
- 27:38Speaker 5: do you think age is for a rookie quarterback? Well,
- 27:41Speaker 5: to be drafted high, it's a huge deal.
- 27:43Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're like a seventh round pick or
- 27:45Speaker 1: a free agent, it doesn't matter. But they don't tell
- 27:48Speaker 1: you that part, Tyler, or come on, it doesn't matter. Next,
- 27:52Speaker 1: shorry up next.
- 27:53Speaker 5: Mike Budenholzer is not having a good first year as
- 27:56Speaker 5: coach of the Suns. Do you think he could already
- 27:58Speaker 5: be on the hot seat? No, because that would be
- 28:00Speaker 5: total dysfunction. He will get another year even though he
- 28:03Speaker 5: doesn't really deserve another. It's a hot mess.
- 28:05Speaker 3: How'd we do you? Passes?
- 28:06Speaker 2: Is a win?
- 28:07Speaker 1: Awead?
- 28:07Speaker 3: I want? I'm aware, I won, Fine.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Scott, I won.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
- 28:16Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsportsradio dot
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- 28:25Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome mar contest. It's no need for
- 28:28Speaker 1: the imaging. We have Tyler in Boston. Hello, Tyler, welcome.
- 28:34Speaker 3: What's going on?
- 28:34Speaker 1: Big Ben?
- 28:35Speaker 3: Hello to you, Tyler. Are you ready to shake it
- 28:38Speaker 3: up a little bit here? Yes? Ready to do it?
- 28:41Speaker 4: Man?
- 28:41Speaker 3: All right? Tyler? And what are you doing Boston? I
- 28:45Speaker 3: am a laborer.
- 28:46Speaker 1: I'm building a bridge. The man's that is a masculine job,
- 28:51Speaker 1: all right. That is hair on your chest. That is
- 28:54Speaker 1: a manly man work, building a bridge. Okay, no woses,
- 28:59Speaker 1: build bridges, all right, men, men and build bridges.
- 29:02Speaker 3: All right? Tyler? Who do you want to partner up with?
- 29:04Speaker 3: You got me? Or you got Cooper? Loop or Lorena,
- 29:08Speaker 3: but probably not Lorena.
- 29:13Speaker 1: All right, very good, Tyler, you and Coop you want
- 29:16Speaker 1: to lose? Okay, I will take all the compliments back
- 29:19Speaker 1: I said about you. Hold on a second, and we
- 29:21Speaker 1: have Mark in Ithaca. Hello Mark, Yeah, Hello, good morning,
- 29:28Speaker 1: Hello Mark? Yes, who do you like to partner up with?
- 29:31Speaker 4: Mark? Let me pick a penny?
- 29:34Speaker 3: Uh No, you gonna go with me? All right? Coop,
- 29:40Speaker 3: I'm guaranteeing victory of this. I don't think I don't
- 29:43Speaker 3: think so.
- 29:44Speaker 1: If I don't win this game, okay, I will pay
- 29:47Speaker 1: you twenty bucks right now.
- 29:48Speaker 3: I have twenty dollars.
- 29:50Speaker 1: You know something that I don't know. I'm just I'm
- 29:51Speaker 1: telling you I gonna win, and all you have all
- 29:55Speaker 1: you have to pay me is like two dollars twenty
- 29:59Speaker 1: versus two. How about the we're in?
- 30:00Speaker 3: Would you know this, Tyler person? I don't understand what.
- 30:03Speaker 3: I don't know anybody from Ithica. I don't know anybody
- 30:05Speaker 3: from Ia. We're talking about, Tyler? What the what are
- 30:08Speaker 3: the categories?
- 30:08Speaker 5: All right?
- 30:09Speaker 3: This is Mallar's mount of Money Jason Newstead edition.
- 30:11Speaker 5: He turns sixty two years old today, all right, former
- 30:14Speaker 5: basis from Metallica.
- 30:15Speaker 3: The categories are.
- 30:16Speaker 5: One sad but true wherever I may roam, and the
- 30:20Speaker 5: memory remains, Tyler, which category would you like?
- 30:25Speaker 3: Wherever I may roam? All right? And Mark? How about
- 30:27Speaker 3: you pick one? Okay? Pick just say one? Two or four?
- 30:37Speaker 2: Four?
- 30:37Speaker 3: Okay? What is that? The memory remains?
- 30:39Speaker 1: All right?
- 30:40Speaker 3: Everyone?
- 30:40Speaker 1: Hold on, We're gonna have in its entirety Mallard's amount
- 30:43Speaker 1: of money. We'll get to that. I'm guaranteeing when I'm
- 30:45Speaker 1: guaranteeing to win. Here, I got twenty bucks on the line.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Coops only got two bucks. We'll get to that. We'll
- 30:49Speaker 1: do it next.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
- 30:52Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
- 30:58Speaker 2: Mailor's mountain of money. Do you have what it takes
- 31:02Speaker 2: to get to the top. Probably not.
- 31:09Speaker 3: If you beat me, it's your all right, Tyler? Are
- 31:11Speaker 3: you ready?
- 31:12Speaker 1: You gotta make him?
- 31:14Speaker 3: Let's go cool? All right, Tyler.
- 31:16Speaker 5: We need the first and the last name of the
- 31:18Speaker 5: athlete in order to get points. Our category is wherever
- 31:21Speaker 5: I may roam. These athletes won championships with multiple teams.
- 31:26Speaker 5: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Quarterback for
- 31:30Speaker 5: the Colts and the Broncos. Yes, this guy was the
- 31:34Speaker 5: big Diesel. He won a championship with the Lakers or
- 31:37Speaker 5: many Yes.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Uh.
- 31:38Speaker 5: This guy's nickname was Shady running back for the Eagles,
- 31:42Speaker 5: but he won the Yes. Uh, this guy's name was
- 31:45Speaker 5: big Shot. He was a power forward for the Lakers.
- 31:47Speaker 5: But yes uh. This guy was a defensive end for
- 31:51Speaker 5: the Cowboys and the forty nine ers. He had like
- 31:53Speaker 5: five Super Bowl rings.
- 31:57Speaker 3: All right.
- 31:58Speaker 5: This guy was a bald forward. He won three championships
- 32:03Speaker 5: with the Bulls. Then he was on the first couple
- 32:06Speaker 5: of championships with the Lakers. Bald, Yes, very good. This
- 32:12Speaker 5: guy was a picture.
- 32:14Speaker 3: Oh I didn't even get the hundred point one. Then
- 32:15Speaker 3: all right, what was that Loretto one to Maigans?
- 32:18Speaker 5: Oh?
- 32:18Speaker 3: I was just I was just excited. Do you want
- 32:20Speaker 3: any all right? Are you there? Mark?
- 32:27Speaker 2: I am here.
- 32:28Speaker 1: I got twenty bucks on the line with Koop. These
- 32:30Speaker 1: sports figures recently passed away.
- 32:32Speaker 3: Are you ready? Mark? All right?
- 32:35Speaker 1: Forty five seconds here we go. Known as the Juice,
- 32:38Speaker 1: the Heisman winner killed two people.
- 32:40Speaker 3: Okay, what's his last name?
- 32:42Speaker 1: Yes, Charlie Hustle, he rose, Yes, the logo in the NBA. Yes,
- 32:49Speaker 1: the say Hey kid in baseball for the Giants. Actor,
- 32:53Speaker 1: he played Apollo creed In in the Rocky Movies.
- 32:58Speaker 5: No.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Broadcaster Bryan's brother Bryan. Yes, a wide receiver for the Ravens,
- 33:07Speaker 1: had one hundred and eight yard kickoff return to the
- 33:09Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Yes, a boxer played Apollo creed In.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Uh in the rock name.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Well, that doesn't help. Come on, walk, Come.
- 33:20Speaker 1: On, alright, that's uh Carl Weathers, Who's who we were
- 33:26Speaker 1: looking for.
- 33:27Speaker 3: So I think we have a lead that you do?
- 33:28Speaker 3: All right, Tyler? Would you like one? Or sad? But true?
- 33:35Speaker 3: That s true? All right?
- 33:41Speaker 5: These Hall of famers never won a championship. Forty five
- 33:44Speaker 5: seconds on the clock. Let's begin, All right. He's the
- 33:48Speaker 5: quarterback for the Miami Dolphins for a long time. All right,
- 33:52Speaker 5: the mailman, yes the answer. Yes, quarterback for the Bills,
- 34:00Speaker 5: lost four Super Bowls in a row.
- 34:01Speaker 3: Jim Kelly running back for the Oilers. His nickname was
- 34:04Speaker 3: the Tyler Rose.
- 34:09Speaker 5: How about mister Cubby Yes, Uh, this guy was the
- 34:16Speaker 5: first pitcher to win a cy Young in the American
- 34:19Speaker 5: and National League. Uh, his first name is kind of
- 34:22Speaker 5: like a slur for homosexual people.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Well, you didn't get to finish the game, and sorry,
- 34:30Speaker 1: the game it.
- 34:31Speaker 3: Does not No, you didn't win. The game is The
- 34:33Speaker 3: game is voided. Game. Nobody wins. The game is void. Nobody.
- 34:37Speaker 3: I did not get my second round. The game is voided.
- 34:41Speaker 3: The game is voided.