Hour 1 - Three Times is Elite!

Published Jan 14, 2025, 12:54 AM

C&R discuss the breaking news of the day, as the Cowboys look for a new head coach! They explain why 3 times is elite, in the HC world. Sanders to the Dallas sidelines? Ben Johnson to the Raiders? Plus, 'THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM' dives into Wild Card Weekend! 

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We'll get to you know all who you asked wild card weekend stuff? Heends how much money you had on them. But I gotta ask you out the gate because I heard dB saying the update it's did the hot story of the day. Mike McCarthy out as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and it would be obvious for Kavino and Rich to give a relationship analogy, so I will. It was just last week that the Bears asked for permission Mars the interview Mike McCarthy, and what did the Cowboys say?

No, that would be.

Like you knowing that a girl you're sort of messing around with she's not the one, and you prevent her from maybe meeting.

A really good guy.

Like, wasn't that a very selfish move with the Cowboys to be like you can't talk to him?

Yeah, but we don't want them.

Maybe there's more than meet Stey though of course I agree with you, right, of course, But maybe they weren't ready to pull that trigger. Maybe they were unsure, which is never a good thing in relationships either.

Right.

Maybe it's a territorial thing. In sports, as you know, moves are made to block the competition. Sometimes that's true, so maybe that's also part of the thinking. But yeah, he's gone, Mike McCarthy, your thoughts on that too? We welcome him eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. What are your thoughts?

Rich?

My instinct is that again I'm not sitting down there with Jared Jones simmer down.

Mike McCarthy older than I thought sixty one? You know what? I agree? I thought he was just an old looking fifty something.

Yeah, I thought he was like a good fifty five tops. Not that sixty one's old by any means. Look been around a long time, think about him in the Green Bay days, But I didn't think he was sixty one. That time's flye. Yeah, Danny g what is your instinct there? I was saying, damn Bayer, anyone chime in. He's right up there, Andy reads sixty six?

Is there.

The same feeling you had when you when you heard McCarthy they got let go where You're like, man, you know what? Maybe there were some territorial like you can't talk to him, and then they didn't keep him anyway.

I thought that it was probably best for both parties to part ways. It is just funky on how Jerry Jones operates, And yeah, I know you can't talk to him, can't talk to him. We have big plans and then in a week, all of a sudden, everything has changed.

Yes, dB, there's sayings and expressions that my mom uses all the time, but they're always better in Spanish, and I don't speak Spanish very well, I don't speak English very well. And there's a saying or an expression that goes along the lines of she's or he's like the dog that doesn't want his food but doesn't want anyone else to have it either. So that's kind of how the cowboys were acting, like, Nah, we don't want them, but we don't want you to have them either, Oh, comito de perro and sweet, you know.

Sorts of crazy expression.

No one's eating sna sana something like that. I don't know SoCs, but no, no, it seems wrong, but I'm sure there was some reason, or maybe not, Like Dan said, maybe it's just how Jerry Jones operated.

Jerry Jones also said that they never got to the contract portion of it, and anybody who's been reporting on this says it's absolutely gone to the contract portion of it, and so I think that there's I don't know who to believe, but I just wouldn't tend to believe Jerry Jones in this situation that maybe Mike McCarthy's demands were way too high and so it wasn't realistic that he was going to return. But it's just interesting to see Jerry Jones point out that they never got to the negotiation phase even though his contract expires tomorrow.

Guys, how about this saying, you know, forget about the Spanish one, about the dog. How about never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Why should Jerry Jones, as an owner give up his cards to let everybody know that this.

Was going to be the case? It is big business. You know, I understand what Rich's saying.

It's a courtesy thing, but it is business as competition.

You know.

Why put your cards out there, is what I'm trying. There's also a trickle down effect to this. And one of the things that wasn't pointed out aside from this is, I'll just say this, the Bears to me, interviewing twenty different people when they haven't had a head coach since Thanksgiving is absurd to me. Over what have you done since at the end of November to not figure out what type of person you want to lead your franchise? So if the Bears had five interviews and they're like, Okay, these are the guys we want it, that makes sense because it took six weeks to figure it out. I think the Cowboys have had five years to figure out if they want Mike McCarthy, and if his contract expires tomorrow, you probably have this same decision last week. But the other domino is you have a whole staff of guys who if they don't coach the Cowboys, who are they going to coach for Whether Mike McCarthy does or doesn't get another job, all of his assistants also need to find work. So while amazing that Jerry Jones is being thorough, it actually didn't do a lot of the parties any favors because it was a week after the regular season.

And that's why I was investigating his age too, because some teams want new blood, some teams require that old school leadership.

So I was just wondering where his fit would be.

I you know, we've heard stories, like in our world, stories where I don't know, some big morning show the host is about to buy a house and the program director knows they're getting fired, but lets them buy the house.

It's like there's a professional courtesy. But that's the story, that's the story. But is that really the truth exactly?

For all we know, For all we know, Jerry Jones, I'm gonna make up a scenario, but for all we know that that boss that you just described was handed a different budget and all of a sudden, he's like, oh sorry, I was gonna say, for all we know, Jerry Jones came to the table thinking, all right, now, settled down, Mike McCarthy, we're gonna give you.

You know, we're gon we're gonna give you this.

We're gonna give you a year or so to get this right, but sure, hollering, and we're going to figure it out. For all we know, Mike McCarthy came in there, they're all cocky like, yeah you are, and you're gonna give me a five year deal. And it's like, whoa hold what now?

Hold on?

So let's not all make it look like Mike McCarthy's the victim right away, because we don't really know what happened. But I ask you, because you're a big Yankees fan and you're saying, what does that have to do with anything? The price of bananas? If you're a coach in baseball, if you're a manager, there was always, let's be honest, a mystique of like if you could be the manager of the Yankees. That's as bad as as it gets in baseball, right, You're you're as much as I roll my eyes at your pinstripe conversations to manage the Yankees sort of a damn honor right?

In the NFL?

Is it appealing to go to the Cowboys knowing that Jerry Jones is just hovering, knowing that there's an expectation by the fans, by ownership that like, you better get it done, Like the leash is short, but you're still the coach of the Cowboys?

Is that?

Like?

Is that appealing?

I know that you're angling it to be a position that's lost its luster, but I don't think that's the case. I think being the manager of the Yankees is still a highly coveted position. You're gonna get paid, but there's expectations, and I think that's what people are scared of, you know, the expectations that are required for this position any organization.

So you might as well coach the Cowboys, right, Like.

If you're going to coach a team, you think there's less pride or more pride in being the coach of the Cowboys. Yet there's more pressure, there's more expectations. To win, but that still comes with a lot of clout. I think whoever's in line for that job takes that with an immense sense of pride, but with that comes a lot of pressure. I agree with that. I don't think it's a bad thing by any means. I think people just like to shy away from those expectations. Now, in any industry, there comes a time where it's like, is that I gonna get or is that woman going to get another job? Do you think Mike McCarthy after a running Green Bay, won a Super Bowl, went to Dallas, couldn't.

Get the job finished.

But let's be honest, a handful of twelve and five seasons, they had good, regular seasons, had some injuries. It's it's not his fault. Does Mike McCarthy get a job easily? Or is Mike McCarthy the type of guy that, hey, maybe he'll throw his hat in some broadcasting, take a back seat, and then re emerge like in three years. Again, based on him being sixty one, I think option B is more likely.

For a guy like him. Look at the remerging.

A lot of people want to take new ideas, younger leaders.

That's just how I see it.

I don't think there's not a lot of Andy Reid's in the league anymore.

Who's trying to re emerge right now?

Rex Ryan, maybe Gruden that you know, they also dipped out for a while. So maybe it's time for McCarthy to reinvent himself a little bit. Not saying he's out of it. He can always come back, but is anyone really knocking down his door?

What do you think?

Well, the Bears and Saints are possible landing spots for him, but it also puts him in a in a unique territory of how many guys have coached three different NFL teams. We hear a lot of two. There've been a select group that would have done four.

Bill Parcells maybe shot another one did four.

But when you really look at it, like for someone to have four bites at the Apple, it's pretty pretty shocking, let alone three. There's not tons and tons of coaches I mean that have coached at three different spots, even great coaches.

In leadership, You're right, there comes a point where I'm not saying it's like, eh, you gave it a shot, You're done, but you know, like.

Yeah, more than two, more than two?

Sure, Yeah, if you're and likely because you've won, so you're staying at a place, and if you didn't win, then you're not appealing to another team for a third go at it or you know, it's it's a it's a it's a unique spot. But McCarthy's in it. Did have three twelve win seasons with the Cowboys in the five years. This year obviously didn't make the Bose season, but he kind of fits the bill as well with the Super Bowl with Green Bay. Wasn't like they were awful with the Cowboys, so yeah, he could get his chance at a third team.

Yeah, the Cowboys have always been good enough under his reign. So that's where the problem is. It's sort of that Tomlin purgatory that a lot of people talk about with Pittsburgh.

There is something to be said about it. They've won, but they haven't won when and where it matters.

We've talked about that many times over the years that when you're like good in the NFL, like sometimes being good, it's like the worst place to be because you're not forced to make real moves because people are still coming in to watch, you're still making money and at the beginning, middle and end of the day, That's what it's all about.

Are you filling the seats? And they have been.

We talked about Bill Belichick on the show last week in regards to Tom Brady and Richard Seymour in the new leadership with the Raiders. I'm not alone in this. I always just assumed that the Cowboys job would be the perfect landing spot for Belichick. I know he's close to the Jones family, and it just seemed like he would fit in there. And I read this morning that through back channels, the Cowboys never gave him a clue that their job would be open.

I'm gonna take a hot take deon Sanders bro Well, you know, I know who doesn't want the on apparently your Raiders like no thanks, Yeah, but Dion prime Time for America's team. I mean, he did win a Super Bowl or two with the Jared in that uniform. Man, you never know, you don't know what they're cooking, dude, and a guy like him would embrace.

That's the thing. You need.

A coach that's going to embrace the expectations in the pressure. A guy like Primetime leans into that. He'll lean into that and own that. You know, will he succeed I don't know, but he's the guy built for that type of position.

Somebody angles here.

But my favorite takeaway might be what we sort of talked out with Dan Bier a second ago. You see coaches get so many coaches get the second shot, then very few get three, and then when you start the thinking about four, because you got to think of the progression to get to you had to be successful in the first spot.

Yeah, and we're talking head coaching position.

Yeah, to get a third spot, that means you probably were a champion somewhere. It didn't work out at the second place, and someone's like, all right, third time, you know it'll work out.

Here.

I have a list of the most coaching wins, and you don't want to know who is the most coaching wins that was in three spots only. And this will go to your maybe your your point. Dan Reeves, great example, went to Denver Denver, then went to the Giants, and then at the end of his career, the Falcons led him.

To the Super Bowl where they lost against yes Man. Yeah, I almost feel like Pete Carroll, great.

Example, but I feel like the four that's the thing. A lot of these guys will get if you have success. It makes sense right, like look at it like divorces. We've talked about this, man, I thought i'd go at least it's only Monday, and Rich had to bring up my divorce over No, I did.

Bring up your divorce. You know.

Sorry, I know you're Cavino. God damn Buyer. I'm not bringing up your divorce. But a lot of times, if you have a friend that's divorced and then they find love again, you're like, yeah, half the people in the world get divorced.

Second job, right, second job. Now, Now, if you.

The second time, god forbid, you lose a spouse, there's an issue or something like, you could maybe get it wrong two times, third job, third spouse. No one's really gonna buy it if you're on number four now so three No, If it's by the third one, you might be the problem.

But what I'm saying is by the third one, you better get one.

You're definitely out, much like a marriage. By the third head coaching job, you better get it right. By the fourth time, people are talking about you behind your back.

I do know someone who is on number four and the fourth one is the best one that they've had.

Really finally got it. But like they say fourth times to.

Charm, they say, but there's reasons, like the second one was just a complete wash out, just like Marty Schottneimer only had one season Washington, Like that one really doesn't count.

Like ae We, one of our best female friends, got married when she was eighteen to a guy for like a year, Like does that count?

I don't know it does, but you know what I'm saying. Yes.

So I think, much like marriages, great people, great coaches are gonna get three shots.

By the fourth one, it's like, I don't know, you think they deserve a fourth shots. Maybe they should just give up on.

And when they do, it's it's a true testament to their resume and their ability to coach, because not everybody gets that opportunity. So I think a guy like Mike McCarthy should pick and choose wisely what the third step is. Because you want a Super Bowl in Green Bay, you lived off of that enough to get a great job in Dallas. You had success and people still look at you as you know, super Bowl champion coach. You get the third job. Let's say he goes to the Bears for two three years and it stinks then Mike McCarthy, you might be like, dude, lost the luster. So we'll take your feedback. We'll take your thoughts and we get into things that made you go hmmm this wild card weekend and your thoughts on the game tonight. So any of your observations from this weekend, it could be from anything you watch, but especially football, a lot of football this weekend. And we'll take your phone calls. At eight seven to seven ninety nine on Fox, we got more Cavino and Rich. Next on Fox Sports Radio, Playoffs Playoffs.

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All right, welcome back to the show.

I hope you had a Texans, Ravens, Bills, Eagles commanders, Tyson Fury sort of weekend. He called the quits. He's like I'm done, but he'll be bad for real. Yeah, he's retired again.

That's like wwa. Yeah, the them boxers.

The only thing they have in common, because you know one's real ones sports entertainment, is that retirements are fake to me. Yeah yeah, but how many times has a UFC fighter or a boxer.

Been like I'm done?

They get that itch, yeah, and they get a dollar signs. So we're live from the ti rack dot com studio. Rapid Radios are the walkie talkie for the playoffs. They're pushed to talk, offering national LTE coverage, no subscription ever, perfect for instant contact with your friends. We use them on the show. Go to Rapid radios dot com now for up to sixty percent off and free shipping. Iowa Sam on the Ones and twos? What Up Sam? Danny G?

Hey?

You know Danny G who's super producing at eight seven to seven nine m box No. I was talking to him off the air and he's really hyped about the Raiders getting Ben Johnson and it looks like they're getting closer closer to that deal. We saw some rumors over the weekend, which means that a Deon Sanders rumor would be out, which means he might be a guy for Dallas. If Mike McCarthy's out, maybe that's not as crazy as a thought as I thought it was. Well, during the break, there's so many other there's some many other thoughts about what this McCarthy thing means. And again it's it's like the butterfly effect in that because that happens, Now, what happens next? And can a guy much like marriage, can you can you coach multiple teams? And eventually is it like yeah, maybe I just don't coach anymore. It's like anything. It's like uh, in real life, when someone you hear is leaving your job, you're like, well, that means this guy might get that position, and that leaves another position open up for me, and then maybe someone else comes in and takes my position. Yeah, this this definitely starts a domino effect of well what does that mean for Dallas? They have up there and you know what it means. Also, I think of any career, I'll use ours. For example, there's only so many landing spots, right. A guy could work at Fox Sports and it's like, yeah, you got fire to Lico. Then he ends up at ESPN. If that doesn't work out, ends up at CBS Sports. Eventually, it's like, dude, it's might be over. Yeah, I think I think he ends up in the booth for a little while and then and then who knows no, But what happens is you notice this Covino.

A guy goes to the booth.

And if he has a resume, if he's gone for a couple of years, there becomes like some odd thirst for this coach. Hey, maybe he's really good though, maybe he's so good he pushes a guy like Tony Romo out because people are hating on him all weekend?

What does that all? That made me say?

But you know what to wrap up DB's point, Dan, I know you have a list of coaches that have been the head coach of multiple teams in the NFL, and it is funny how the magic number is sort of three. Not many, you know, not many great coaches, even with success, go beyond three.

Yes, And I actually feel that there's a caveat with Danny's team where because the Raiders have made so many wacky hires throughout the years that sometimes guys are put into the three team group when maybe they shouldn't be. Someone like North Turner the yeah, because you know he was Raiders head coach at one point, but Mike Shanahan short Raiders tenure then that happened. Yes, absolutely, he was one John Fox ready Carolina and then Denver and then the Chicago Bears. So they're just they're just it's a select few. Dick for Meal coach the Eagles took fifteen years off, came back to the Rams, won a Super Bowl, and then coached the Chiefs afterwards. But we're talking about the top coaches, and and I would this is all designed, and I'm getting these names via wins. If you don't have enough wins, you're not coaching three different spots anyways. So it's that's why, that's why McCarthy fits into this, because he was a winner, had success in Green Bay with a Super Bowl, and actually did win in Dallas, just maybe not to the Cowboys life Viking, and so likely we'll find somewhere else. But it's a select group of three timers.

But I haven't heard anyone of all the speculation and conversation today, i'n't really heard anyone else mention that that it is sort of like a three strike, you're out a three time situation where if you're a head coach and a major sport, you.

Almost get three chances with success.

I think I only think you get two, and I think that there's a select group of three based on what your prior accomplishments were. And I think that this list of names of the three timers and the four timers, I think three is borrowed time. If you get three, then you must have really done something right somewhere else, or something funky must have happened somewhere else agreed to allow you that third time.

How about getting remarried to the same team dB Does Artshell lead that list?

It's like Billy Martin and Lupenell.

Does that count when like steybren And flipped the coin and he's like, this year I want no Deally want brings up an interesting point. Three is elite territory, like it's rare and exceptional, and say that in entertainment there's only a handful of people that have three different franchises like Sylvester stallone meaning Rocky Rambo and Expendables, right, like three is real. To get three, you have to be you have to be a proven box office.

Draw three different roles like we we rave how ed O'Neil so great modern family and obviously is al Bundy like now is like the next territory for him is to do three top yes, like just to do.

One more is what to strike twice is incredible? What a great observation.

Three times. You've got to be stallone level. That's a great thing. That's the observation of the day.

Forget a j Brown reading books and uh, you know Josh Allen hugging referees three times is for the elite. Yeah, name, there's only a few. Name one other than stillone or the coaches we've already mentioned. Mike McCarthy could be in that category. But name Matt We talked about Harrison Ford Harrison for Star Wars and also Jones.

And also the the other what was it guarding the president?

Wasn't that franchises? That's tough. That's tough.

You know, you talk about people that have had success multiple times. I'll shout her out because today's her birthday, but uh, Mary Richard Dreyfus with.

Her Mary Ay Richard, Julia Dreyfus, Yeah, Julia Louis du Mary.

You know Richard d Elaine from Seinfeld, I didn't watch the show, but New Adventures of Volcristine was successful. It was a good show. And and Veep was an award winning show. And Seinfeld, that's rare company. It's her, it's her birthday today. And you know what, very rare company to say you're part of three big things. So again, if Mike McCarthy gets another shot, that just proves that my ning could strike twice, striking three times. Man, that's that's crazy luck or crazy fortunate based on your resume.

Like Dan said before, So.

By the way, really quick pace at Games and Claire in Present Danger. That was the Jack Ryan franchise. They have him listed as Star Wars Indiana Jones, Blade Runner and Jack Ryan.

About Keanu Bill and Ted Matrix and John Wicky, you know what, it's Kean who would not want to be.

In that can gotta be on a search, Yeah, you gotta be on a certain level of awesome. Is Mike McCarthy there? Does he wait? Does he hit the booth? Does he end up somewhere right away? Does he reconnect with Aaron Rodgers? I was trying to figure that out. Oh you and I were Is there a place where that gonna happen. That's that's a wild thought McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers. But you know what, I I mentally stole this. I thought that I'm sorry Rich, because he spoke super highly. I was really impressed that Mike McCarthy gave his time for that Netflix documentary.

I really was.

He gave his time for that spoke really high of Aaron Rodgers, and you know, I knew they had a good relationship, but it really said a lot to me. He was wearing his cowboy uniform talking about Aaron Rodgers on some BS Netflix thing. You know, I was like, yeah, he must have a lot of respect for that dude to put a little bow on this conversation and that Aaron Rodgers thought you and I were talking about it during the break And again I stole this from just this thought, from just some dumb image I so on Twitter or something where someone had Aaron Rodgers in a Steelers uniform. Oh and it's not crazy when you think about the narrative that the Steelers are in purgatory, which sounds crazy because you think to yourself, wait, you've won eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve games. Mike Tomlin doesn't have a losing record ever, but again, sometimes there's nothing worse than being good enough to sneak in the playoffs.

But never make noise.

Doesn't he have one season where it was maybe five hundred or something? Yeah, five, no, but never under never under right.

So they haven't won a playoff game since January twenty seventeen.

So Tomlin, who again is in you know, are arguably football purgatory with that team.

I'll tell you a way to blow it up one way or the other.

Justin Fields and Russell Wilson, both you know, are not signed beyond what if for one year you say, let's bring in Aaron Rodgers and either it becomes a wild season of you'll look at Aaron Rodgers after a year removed from the injury, bringing Aaron Rodgers for one year and then if it goes terrible, then you know what you got after that?

A big draft pick.

You move down the board, you go four and thirteen, and it's like, man, Aaron Rodgers really is done. And then at least you have the clarity to know it's time to move on and you blew it up. It's restarting, right, But Aaron Rodgers, it's like, you know, Derek compare it to you know, some of the players you're Yankee. I love some of your Yankee moves because Goldschmidt Bellinger.

Like these if they stink, yeah, what did you really lose?

And if they're great, Wow, what a great high risk, low risk, high reward situation. Many times the Dodgers did that with Kershaw. I'm like, what a great deal, low risk Kyrieward. That's the craziest thought. Because Aaron Rodgers doesn't apparently em like he's doesn't seem sold on returning to the Jets, and Tomlin likes Rogers. Tomlin likes Rogers, so what if he went to Pittsburgh one year and then if things don't go well, it'll be terrible, but at least the Pittsburgh Steelers will have the clear obvious vibe to all right, we're gonna draft a quarterback. Move on officially, but if he's great, then you have a really fun playoff run with Aaron Rodgers. To me, I just think it sounds ridiculous, but there's something there that's fun. So Mike McCarthy out, now we get into it. We do it every Monday. Things that make you go hmm. But first, an update from the Great Dan by What's up d as you guys been talking about.

Mike McCarthy, now returning as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, is expected to speak with the Bears and Saints about their head coaching vacancies. Mike Vrabel officially introduced today as the head coach of the New England Patriots.

When I started my coaching career, like I think, it was important for me to go somewhere else to start another coaching journey. The opportunity at one point was probably presented itself to be here at coaching, but I felt like it was important to forge my own path somewhere else.

Rabel back of the Patriots as he was once a player with the team winning three Super Bowls, introduced today. Wild Card Game tonight, Vikings and Rams and Glendale, Arizona eight o'clock Eastern time winner gets the Eagles on Sunday. He goles linebacker to Kobe Dean's going to be done for the postseason because of an injured knee. So you mentioned Russell Wilson and the Steelers, while the Steelers quarterback says that his intention is to return to Pittsburgh next season. But Wilson will be a free agent this year. Penn State running backs Nick Singleton and k Tron Allen all return to Happy Valley in twenty twenty five, as do other Nitney Lions, so Penn State trying to run it back, while Texas wide receiver Matthew Golden is declaring for the NFL Draft. A fifty five year old Texas man was arrested for stalking Indiana fevers our Caitlin Clark. The man was arrested in Indianapolis on Sunday and faces a Level five felony and could face up to six years in prison. Both the Lakers and Clippers will be playing at home tonight for the first time since the wildfires hit Los Angeles last week.

Guys, back to you, thanks BBBE, And you know, it's interesting to think that they could play home games on the same night.

That's that's also a new thing in our life.

Right when we were, Danny, when you were younger living out here now, you know, before they moved in together, that was a common thing.

Yeah, the LA Sports Arena, the Clippers used to play there and they would go out and hand free tickets to homeless people to get a crowd inside.

We've been out here Kevino Night. How long have we been out here? Ten years?

In the ten years as a show, I've been back and forth fifteen Yeah, And you know, up until this year that was just never a possibility.

Now it is. Look at that all right?

Hey, we got more Covino and Rich things that made you go think about it. Your observations from Wildcard weekend. We'll break it down next right here on Fox Sports Radio live from the Tirack dot Com studio from the fuck Winter Winter Chicken Dinner. Who's winning tonight, Minnesota or Los Angeles? Minnesota Vikings all day, no offense? What if Los Angeles is like now, we're doing it for Palisades, man, We're doing it for all the victims. They got something to play for. As I said to you the other day, Rich doesn't believe in that. I don't believe in that sentiment. I know because I got proof. You want to know why I got proof. The only time I ever root it for the Yankees in my life was oh one and they lost after nine.

And approved Prett fav when his dad died. He was playing for something, man. He won most of his games after Hurricane Katrina. Yeah, people step up in big moments.

So happy that the Chargers then pregame they were showing all their LA fire gear.

Dad.

That's a whole debate in itself. Rich does not believe in, like I call it, to do it for Johnny, to do it for Johnny. I don't believe in doing for Johnny. I do. I believe sometimes you need the extra something to fight for man and to play for. But I do think that Minnesota's got this tonight about a year go, because I keep notes in a journal of all the arguments. Can you know what I've gotten? Go go back to the archives. We had a debate once about sort of like do it for Johnny, But the sentiment was one of my pet peeves in sports is when someone goes, oh, they want it more, and I'm like, no one wants it more.

They all want it tonight.

Don't tell me Sam Darnold or Matthew Stafford one of them want it more than the other. They all want it on No one's a professional athlete and they don't want it.

That's not true.

What about desperation, though, it's kind of one of the same, right, who's more desperate?

And if everybody on the Buccaneers wanted it the same way that Baker Mayfield wants it. I think they would have won yesterday that dude wants it. You don't see the difference. Can I tell you Tom Brady who people love or hate? In the booth he was stroking. He was like Clarence Carter's that's the right artist, stroke to the left.

He was stroking joh Jacobs.

And how many times yesterday did Tom Brady say if everyone played with the intensity of Josh Jacobs, Like there was a moment where you're like, yo, Packers play up to the intensity of Jacobs, like you must be said you lost him, Danny. Let's be honest on the Raiders. Yeah, Josh Jacobs played yesterday. If you if everyone played with that intensity, And right when Tom Brady's done talking about that, that's when Jacobs rumbled for that where he almost hit the end zone where he dragged four eagles with him. It's amazing by the way, this all leads us to something we do every Monday. We reflect and we go over.

Things that made you go hmm, things that make you go, things that make you go.

Any observations from this weekend could be in entertainment, could be in the NBA, but primarily the NFL.

Or college football. There's lots of great football this weekend.

Any of your observations, feel free to hit us up at eight seven, seven ninety nine m Fox or at con O Andrich at Fox Sports Radio.

This is where you get involved. You make the call.

You would think I'm gonna start with like AJ Brown his book or something you said, it could be about anything, anything. Then I'm gonna say that Robbie Williams movie where they portrayed him as a CGI chimp. Yeah, they're saying it might be one of the biggest box office bust of all time. It made one million dollars. You know why, It's because he never translated here in America. Most Americans like, who's Robbie Williams When he's a big deal overseas. No Robbie Williams the pop star in England. The theory goes like this, they like their superstars to be like them, a guy that you'd see at the pub, that you root for. In America, you know, we wanted our celebrities to own a chimpanzee, you know, so we wanted to have celebrities on a pedestal. So guys like Robbie Williams never translated to us, but a true king over there.

You know, they love him over there. So there's a documentary about him. You've seen the monkey on the cover of Rolling Stone. That's the movie Better Man, and no one's really buying into it. A cooler version of that.

Is Pharrell, like you said, where he did a documentary about himself, but he used legos to portray everyone. Yeah, that's a great one if you like music or documentaries. Definitely worth the watch. It's called Peace by Piece. It's fun for the whole family because it's lego based. But yeah, everybody knows Pharrell. Not everybody into Robbie Williams. Not a surprise now, clearly the number one thing is it's so right up our alley. Things that made you go hmm. The Philadelphia Eagles look like a team that's gonna, you know, maybe cruise right to the NFC Championship game.

They look good.

Okay, they take it away from the start, But can I say, because this ties into what you're about to say, that fumble special teams in the beginning of the game. If our eyes could see that, it looked like Green Bay recovered it and then there's a big, giant, mysterious pylon, Like I hate that rule.

That's the lamest rule when the Yeah, it was the aerial shot that let us see.

Is it like a saw?

Like baseball?

Remember we found out there in the baseball playoffs that we on TV were getting angles the replay room wasn't getting because if you watch that overhead view that Tom Brady and our buddy Kate b Kevin Burkott we're talking about, there's a clear moment where the Green Bay Packer gets possession, he's holding the ball for a few seconds, he's down.

We all saw it.

Why why is that not an official We all understand that, hey, someone's biting his arm in the pile up and somehow he got away with it.

But how is that?

Okay, I know it's been that way and it's always been that. I don't in a game like that, it just doesn't seem fair, It doesn't seem right.

Also, it was a helmet to helmet collision penalty.

The whole thing was like, oh, come on, man, a weird tone, right, It did absolutely set a weird tone for the RADII.

It was a clean hit.

Yeah, old school. So Tom is very old school when it comes to stuff like that. We watch that game and you know, Eagles look good.

Ah.

J Brown caught on the sideline reading an inspirational book mid game. Now, there's so many layers to this where some people are like, yeah, listen, who is Who are you to tell a grown athlete who's one of the best, what gets his mind right or what levels him during a game? It's AJ Brown. This isn't some putts. This is one of the best receivers in the National Football League. They're winning, they're moving on to the divisional round. Do you care if AJ Brown is reading a book thinking about that he spoke on it. We'll get to it next, as well as all your other fun from Wildcard weekend.

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