Hour 2 – Big Game of the Week, One and Done for Tom Brady?

Published Jan 3, 2025, 8:37 PM

Covino & Rich are in for Colin Cowherd! They react to their Kelce cereal taste-taste. 'RICH'S BIG TV GAME OF THE WEEK' gets you set for NFL Week 18! LeBron & the fellas' 20-year run together. Is there a chance that Tom Brady is one & done in the booth? Plus, HERDLINE NEWS & anti-Yankees scruff!

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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise, surprise. Oh what's up, buddies. Now, let me use this as an opportunity to say, hey, if you like our show or you just tolerate us, we're on Monday through Friday two to four on the West, five to seven on the East, right here on Fox Sports Radio, or just search Covino Enrich wherever you stream podcasts. Yeah, well, you even have a bonus podcast called over Promise because blabbermouth Davis over here always over promises things we never have time for because we do a two hour show. So we have a bonus podcast that you could watch on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page, or you could just again listen wherever you stream over Promised with Cavino and Rich, and we really dove into that CROCS discussion on over promise. So if you want more catch Over promised Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. Yeah, yesterday's bonus pod. We also talked about all the incentives in the NFL Week eighteen, which brings up another conversation we're gonna have today about if life was incentive based, because I think Geno Smith and Mike Evans, among other players have a hell of a lot to play for Sunday and something else we did on over Promised. We tried the Kelsey mixed cereal and we were talking to Danny g and Music about this before the show. I wanted to hate it because I'm like, oh, the Kelsey's They're everywhere. His wife's now got the number one podcast. You know, Jason's. The Kelsey's are in your face more than ever. So you sort of wanted to hate the cereal. What do you think?

What do you think we liked it? Of course we did.

I hate it, but I congratulated cinnamon toast Crunch, Lucky Charms and Reese's Puffs together.

Yeah, there was sugar involved. How is Rich not gonna like that?

Yeah, Danny, I thought there was no way the cinnamon toasty goodness would vibe with the peanut buttery Reese's mixed with the marshmallowy greatness of lucky charms. I'm like, that's just too much going on. And at first it hits you and you taste the peanut butter, and then the cinnamon kicks and you're like, o ah, right, this sort of all compliments itself, and you're.

Like, dang it, they did it. I can't believe it. I hate these guys. I hate how good it was. Yeah, it was good.

I'm just surprised you guys thought that they like grabbed a box of grape nuts put the Kelsey's on it, and you're like, oh, this is gonna be terrible. It's all the best cereals. Why wouldn't it work? Yeah, honestly, And you don't even need to be drunk or high to appreciate it. It was I had it yesterday morning in Mouth. You have to be drunk or high to come up with the idea. And that's what makes you want to vomit, because you got these two goons who were probably high or one of their goofy college friends probably did this because they were running out of other cereal and other options. And then they pissed it to General Mills and General Mills said, great idea. This is something your dumb college friend would do three random cereals.

It's like the invention of the everything bagel.

If people don't know that on Long Island, back of the day, a drunk bagel shop owner went with his buddies to the shop after hours, probably out of their mind, drunk or high or something, started dipping the bagels and all the remnants that had been used throughout the day.

Tadah, the everything bagels.

How the fat darrel and all those fat sandwiches were invented? Yeah, I'll have a chicken parm and yeah, throw some cheese sticks on it. Yeah, yeah, throw some bacon. I mean they know how trail mix was invented, right heh, Dad just shook out the car seat in in the back of the minivent.

True story. Yeah there's pena. No, there's an eminem as.

True story all right, So somehow it worked and if you want to again be part of that again, over promised on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. Enjoy your Kelsey mix. Yeah, this weekend when you're watching cars tunes, you know what, Uh, let's have It's up to Joe, who's calling from Pa Covino and Rich in for the herd.

What's up, Joe?

Joe?

Uh, all right, Well we're still trying to figure out these phones.

Yeah, we're working out the cow herd phones. It's all good. Eight seven twenty twenty five. Phones for the calls anyway, text me yeah, eight seven seven four eight four three four three seven are easier. Hit us up at Covino and rich the most inclusive, most interactive show on radio, according to US.

What's the chance you pick up your phone to an unknown number? No chance? No, I don't pick up face times.

Ever.

I'm allergic to face times. I don't do that. Sinteresting someone face.

There's a lot of things today that could be handled on text, and you're the biggest culprit of bothering me. Like when you could easily set a text, you're calling me all the time. You know how many times I put down the phone and my girlfriends say who is that? It was Rich And she's like, he could have texted you that, and I'm like, yep, he could have, but he decided to call.

What you're doing is out there to mind your own business.

It's true.

It's I feel the same way. I'm like, you could have texted that. Well.

I think if someone face times you though, you have to pick up because it's one of two things. It's someone that really just wants to see you.

What do you do? What do you look good enough to pick up? FaceTime?

Absolutely a lot of times if it's a random If it's a random person, it's usually they bumped into someone else, you know, right, and it's like, oh.

My god, you know covinos. So do I.

Yo, let's FaceTime And you missed out on a fun opportunity and I'm happy about it. You think when I'm lamping there in my natural habitat on the couch looking lazy. You think with my bed heead, you think I want to see somebody? You're out of your mind. No thanks, I'll be okay. Missing that face time enough. So the phone number again if you want to call an interact eight seven seven four eight four three four three seven. Now it's time we do this every Friday for Riches Big TV Game of the Week.

You should hit my fat up. I got an extra TV.

The game game that I will have you Riches Big TV Game of the Week.

It's Rich's Big TV Game of the Week.

Hey, Rich, you want to explain, well, KE mean, because TVs are so damn cheap. And I say that respectfully to be honest. Truth is, you go to Walmart, Target, best Buy, anywhere. I saw like a sixty inch TV for under three hundred bucks, and I said, you know what, let me get a couple of TVs. Can I explain why to my living room? On I wheel them in and out on Sundays. It's not that everything else got more expensive and TV's got cheaper. You're just buying a screen. You're buying a monitor. There's no tuner in the things that you're buying. It's not necessarily a TV. It's just just a screen. Who needs a tuner? You're gonna tell you we're talking about not answering phone calls and texting. But I'm saying why they're so cheap because they're just a monitor. At this point, that's really it. That's all you need, right pretty much? Smart you got everything you need. So point is I wheel in the big TV. So I have multiple TVs going on Sunday? What gets the big screen? Because the other TV has the four boxes for Sunday ticket, my TV has the octobox. I can't watch Red Zone. My add is blazing too much. I would I would be pacing like a maniac. So this week is a rare week. I'm not saying I'm killing our segment, but there's nothing worthy of the big TV except for Sunday Night. Vikings Lions is worthy of a conversation in itself.

But every other game, I think, I know you want.

To watch Geno Smith simply based on the incentives he's playing for. Yeah, you're gonna see some of these players balling because of their incentives. Gino Smith is playing for six million dollars in incentive bonuses, so you know that's that's major money. You're gonna see some big numbers being put up. But every every game of interest to me, there's a there's a rub, you know, like, oh, man, I want to watch Steelers Bengals, but it's on Saturday, so you don't need to be worried about other games. And the Bengals win and you'll be all excited, like, oh, Joe Burrow's got a chance, and then Kansas City sits the whole team and Denver will win and be in and I think I think the sentiment is that we should all root for Carson Wentz I'm sorry, Denver. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but if we root for the Chiefs to win, who do you rather see? And God, I don't want my friends and family in Colorado to hate on me. Sorry Bo Nicks, Sorry sorry Sean Payton. Who do you rather see in Round one? Joe Burrow? I know the defense of Cincinnati's not great, but don't you want to see Joe Burrow sneak into the playoffs?

Yes?

Yeah, and he's earned it.

So maybe one of those games you throw on the big TV on Sunday is Denver in Kansas City. And for some reason you hope that Carson Wentz shows that you know he still got to he's got the juice. So actually this is your segment, rich right, because you're the one with two TVs days.

Brag about it all the time.

Never brag you the reason heels his TV and like he's the av guy in your junior high class. He's so proud of it. And I want to say, you use the entire day just to take down your Christmas decorations. Yeah, this is the Sunday you casually watch and you take down. You tell your wife or girlfriend that you choose them over football this week because starting next week when wild card weekend kicks in, right, it's could be wild brou So my advice is you don't even need to wheel out your second teav I take down your decorations, right, you pick the tree away all that stuff, and then you use your one TV for the Vikings Lions later on that night. Like in my opinion, you don't even need the second TV this week. So segment diad no, But but I think you go, you know, Bengals, Steelers. You know, you could argue Steelers aren't gonna necessarily play everyone, but I think it's fun to see what the Bengals could do. And again and given Sunday, it's not like it's not like Denver is a shoeing, but they are favored by double digits because Andy Reid they are just resting. But hey, you never know, right, So the games in Denver, which is another advantage Broncos. Keep an eye on that one because it's the only game that would make any playoff scenario fun. And in the NFC South Falcons and the Bucks should both win easily, but the tiebreakers, you know, the Bucks you know are in if they win so no real fun Week eighteen. But Sunday night, I want to go around the room, don't. I don't want your prediction. I want who you want to win? Oh wow? Because the Lions and Dan Campbell, that was like the feel good story of football in my opinion.

Last year they got caught up.

You know, the Niners shouldn't have won that game NFC Championship Detroit. Let that slip away, some decisions in the second half. I don't think the Lions have that likability factor this year. I want to see that Minnesota Vikings win the Vikings at Detroit. Potential coaches of the year get the head. I want five seed, you dude, there's so many ramifications here, so many great reasons to watch. I don't know, you know, I really do love you know what My dad has ingrained in me to never kiss ass. Oh you think I'm kissing asking it's the bosses a Vikings fan, But I was just gonna say, maybe it's in our best interest to kiss some ass and say, hey.

Isn't our boss a Vikings fan. I don't care about that.

We predicted Sam Donald and the Vikings on our Covino and Rich Afternoon Show.

Prior to the season starting.

It doesn't I think you could say, Anny, I think you could say I want the Vikings to win. And I love the fact that our boss is a fan, and I love the Sam Donald's story.

Without hating on the Lions, you know what I mean.

Like they're a great story. I like Dan Campbell, I like GoF I like that team. I like their fight. But there's something, there's a soft spot Rich that I have, honestly for the for the Viking story at Detroit, it would be cool to see them with I want the NFC to go through Minnesota. As a Niners fan. When they mocked Fred Warner last week, I was like, I'm gonna rust Saint Brown. I loved you on Receiver, I loved watching you on Netflix. They the fact that they mocked my dude, Fred Warner a little bit doing the whole limping thing. I'm like, you know, let's go Minnesota. Let's let's go Vikings. You could say that Detroits.

Do Minnesota, that.

That organization has had some rough breaks in our lifetime. So and that's no hate on Detroit. I actually agree with Rich and when when we agree is fact. So how about you music? What do you who you call for? Well, while you guys are sucking up to Colin and his Sam Darnel fandom and our boss Scott, who's the Vikings fan, I'm gonna sick with the team that everyone's always been on board with, and it's the biting kneecaps Detroit Lions, who have had to fight through the most injuries in the NFL. And that's why you don't get pay raises, right, That's right, that's the only reason. Yeah, so I'm pulling for the Lions. I love the fact that this team got completely resurrected over the past two seasons and they're still overcoming all of these injuries, and yeah, count me in on Detroit now there is there's definitely something to be said about how Vegas doesn't even have a feel for this game because it's Lions minus three two and a half in some places, which means it's just your home field field goal advantage.

So I think this couldn't have lined up better.

Now, Again, the NFL would have definitely wanted every game to have some type of implication Week eighteen, it's still first time in recent history that I remember nothing really up for grabs again except for this game, because this game determines the one seed going through Minnesota or Detroit, or you're a wildcard that has to go on the road next week. Yeah, you're fifth. Now is it week eighteen or week eighteen? It depends. There's a lot of player incentive. We talked about it on our bonus podcast over Promise, but without a doubt, the big TV game of the week is Minnesota at Detroit.

Who you pulling for? And by the way, Danny g we got the phones going. Yeah, so figured out the cow herd phones. It was in star mode star for some reason that didn't work. It didn't work for you guys, Joe and Pennsylvania. You're on the air.

Hey Joe, Hey, So three things. I'll keep it moving. One crops up the gym, totally fine. Two guys can talk about the vikings. It's a great story. But Lamar's getting his ring this year. And Three I heard your voices and I couldn't believe it. I used to listen to you guys all the time on Maxim Radio. You still have there's still segments that I've referenced to this day. I can't talk about them on this radio.

Probably not, but I'm.

Glad to hear that you guys are still together doing your thing and I'm just gonna hang out and listen.

Hey man, I appreciate that.

Yeah, we started on MAXIM Radio Entertainment Relationships or it's MAXIM Lifestyle the magazines everybody exactly exactly, and that was over twenty years ago. Rich and I have celebrated twenty years of working together just this past month. So we realized that this relationship. We realize that we've taken our show together from our twenties to our forties. Lebron James has sort of covered the extent of our show pretty much. Tom Brady like that there are athletes that as we watch them retire, I'm like, I hope that doesn't me work coming to it. No, No, we're just getting started. But hey, let me tell you, it's good to hear from you. Joe and I think this Sunday, this is huge because the loser of Vikings Lions no shame in you know the losers what fourteen and three?

Yeah, I mean, how do you get back if you're fourteen and three?

You don't think you're gonna be a wild card and that that team will have to travel to That's the other crazy part of this team. I think it's the most victories ever of all time heading into week eighteen are both four team and two teams.

That sucks. It really, it really does suck.

Suck that a fourteen and three team will be in the wild Card going to the Rams. One of those teams is gonna have to go play on the road next week and the other one gets to sit back and chill. So lots at stake Sunday night, and we got a lot still to get to here. On the show Covino on Rich, We're gonna do showtime Mahomes Trivia, give away some prizes.

Deshaun Watson, God, what a bust that guy is. Huh, what a what a Yeah?

When you talk about bad decisions, even Cleveland looks at Baker Mayfield and says, you know, that's the girl that got away without a doubt. Baker Mayfield took that team to the playoffs with that that he got them like if I remember correct, like a game away from the AFC Championship he did. Baker was on the track and they saw this shiny new toy and they thought Deshaun Watson was the answer. No. Ital example of the grass was greener and they made a bad decision and now look at Baker. So we're gonna talk to Sean Watson. There's a lot to get to and what if life was incentive based? A lot of fun, silly conversations coming up. Covino rich In for Colin on The Herd right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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It's the cn our show, Covino and Rich in for Colin on the Herd. And even though my dad says that we shouldn't kiss ass.

Yu always kissing as stop kissines.

Who's actually kissing at the affiliates because I think we need to be on more so Hella, hey, if you liking us now, yeah, addis in the afternoon, let's do this. If you think we're good now, man, you should hear our show five to seven on the East two to four Monday through Friday on the West, Covino and Rich at Covino and Rich and you know what Rich. Right after this, we do our Patreon podcast. We have lots of things going on. We even have are over promised podcast that's on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. It's our bonus show and later today, keeping with the theme of kissing as, we're gonna be kissing ass giving away prizes because we want you guys to listen to our show, so we came with prizes and giveaways. We're giving away stainless steel water bottles. Next hour, a little trivia Swiggies, Yeah, seeing our swiggies, Showtime Mahomes trivia plus signs that you're in the doghouse in life when you're playing from behind. We'll get to that. It's a story about the Sean Watson. But you want to talk a little Brady.

I do.

Before you get to Brady, I just want to bring up a word that I saw trending today. Uh oh, and this is gonna make everyone. Was it rizzly bear?

No? It's gonnay? Was it skibbety? Ohio?

No? Riz or? Is that last year? That was very twenty twenty four. I don't know what the new one is. Then there's a term that will make I think everyone thirty or older roll their eyes. It's a term called micro retiring, micro of dirty jobs. He's retiring. No, not micro, not micro micro. Do you guys know micro the host? I love that Guy Covino's gonna be at Flappers in Burbank Tonight's Mike.

Micro micro.

Now I can't think of anything but micro micro retiring jobs, micro retiring. They're saying, younger people are saving a little money and walking away from their job for a couple of years, and then when they run out of money, they re enter the workforce. How do you gain any momentum in your career no matter what you do. They need to listen to some mc hammer old school gaining momentum. You're not gaining any momentum. If you're stepping out of the game like that, it's hard to get back in.

I saw that.

It's like a complicated game of double Dutch dear luck trying to jump back in there. I can't understand what industry you'd be in that you could work be like, yeah, I'm like twenty seven, I'm gonna retire for a year, go travel which Listen, it's beautiful, has its perks, but it feels like very I get it. The younger generation is all about experiences and living life.

But I wonder how that all ends up when they're older. Look if it.

Works for them, like you said, people and they're older, yeah, it.

Doesn't work for me. I don't know how that works.

So if you see that word floating around, they're saying it's a big trend now for younger people micro retiring.

Nah in it to win it. That's my philosophy.

This.

You could go like a guy like Tom Brady're gonna talk about him, You guy it never wanted to retire. The opposite exactly. Puts his heart into everything he does, work ethic, a true champion. I believe in working hard, work ethic. That's why I love Tom Brady. I mean, his face is a little punishable, but you gotta respect what he does. And there's two stories.

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Super producer in at eight seven seven forty four three four three seven eight seven seven for the Herd Ryan, Big Sexy Ryan, and of course Ryan Music is here on the updates, Spotty's on the videos. Ryan Music far less sexy than big Sexy Chocolate over there, and of course.

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Yo. He's eating he's eating salad for breakfast. He's trying to, you know, step his game up in twenty twenty five.

Yeah, I know.

And of course Spotty's on the videos at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio, so our very own Arnie Spaniard, right. According to Bovada official, Arnie was going on a rant saying that there's fifty to one odds that Brady returns to the field, and he's talking about all these loopholes where yeah, then he'll transfer the ownership of the Raiders to his son, yeah right.

And then Arnie also told me who's behind the drones?

Right?

Ryan?

Is this like a big conspiracy? Though?

It is on a Vegas board that you could bet it is? What is it plus five hondo? Well, what is it plus five five thousand? That Tom Brady returns to the field?

Okay?

Now, there was a bold prediction also made by Richard Ditsch. Does I hewy to say his name music?

That is correct?

Richard Ditsch of the Athletic is making what he's calling. Let me make it clear with us spreading rumors here a bold prediction that he's sort of won and done and stepping away from broadcasting after this year, like a one and done sort of thing, and you know what, and he's getting better by the way for the for the haters, I feel like week by week he's getting better and better and goes back to his commitment and his work ethic, and you know, he's a winner at everything he does.

I believe in that.

But it does also make me think, well, is the juice not worth the squeeze? Like people are way critical of broadcasters, dude, Like way critical. You could be the best broadcaster and people still hate you. Like there's people that I admired Joe Buck. You could say, really when people say I mute the game? When Bucks calling him, like, who are you? You don't like to call the game? Everyone does a podcast, you know, and like we always say, podcasts are like, uh, opinions, everybody has one and most of them stink. I didn't want to say opinions, you know what I wanted to say. But because everyone has a microphone set up, or because everyone watches football, they're the experts. That's really the world we live in, where everybody's the expert and everything of everything and everybody else sucks. So maybe Tom Brady's living in that world now of wow, you mean Tony Romo, who everybody loved, now everybody hates, and every week there's some sort of like broadcasting competition going on. Like I find it hard that Tom Brady wants to shy away from that. I just believe that maybe he has other interest in things he wants to do. Tom Brady, you know, played under the microscope for twenty years. So Tom Brady's used to hate. He's used to criticism, he's used to all that. But I think to Beck could be ported by broadcasters. I never understood that people hate Chris Collins with people hate you know, Romo, people hate Akman and Buck, people hate Al Michaels. Like Bob Costa is pretty much retired because everyone's like.

Bob Costa sucks? Like what who are you?

I want to hear all these Jebbroni's on Twitter and on their couch call a game. Yeah, I would love to hear again. It's a two prong sort of Tom Brady deal. Remember they used to do Pros versus Joe's. Yes, that reality show. I would love there to be a segment or maybe it's an online Petros hosted it.

Yeah, Petros some money, right, yeah? No, just Petros he hosted it.

Oh, Yeah, yeah, I would love to see the average guy just get in the booth and try to call a game. Yo, rich and I tried that with play by play for baseball, and we're huge baseball fans. So difficult. It's a particular set of skills that we don't have. You can hone eventually, but you can work at it, but it's not as easy as you think.

So again, what are the two stories?

Arnie Spanners saying that according to Bravada Official that there's fifty to one odds that Brady returns to the field and he switches the ownership to his son, that Brady could return, And yeah, maybe there's something to that. I've been seeing a lot of photos and a lot of stories about how in shape Tom Brady is. Like, he's oddly in shape right now for a guy who's not playing any professional sports. Me and then hold on, Okay, then part two, I'm just recapping again. Richard Ditsch of The Athletic made a bold prediction that he's stepping away from broadcasting A one and done. So my question, based on those two stories, what's more likely to happen Brady plays again or we find out what's going on with the drones, because to me, this is a big conspiracy discussion, like what are the drones? What are the plasmoids? What's going on with the orbs? Do you believe in this mystery fog that people are experiencing the big controversy on social media?

I like your question.

Yeah, what's more likely to happen Brady plays, or we find out if plasmoids are alive, if we find out what the drones are real or not? Let me ask Danny g who's wearing his Raiders hat today. This goes along with Brady. I'm gonna paint a picture for you, Bob Roths style, Hold on pretty little trees. I'm gonna paint a picture. You tell me if this is your fantasy or if you or if this is like by no means what you want? What if somehow, some way you guys get shit or Sanders and Dad wants to coach and who are they really friendly with Tom Brady? Is there a world in which the Sanders sort of take over the Raiders and Tom Brady for one year comes out of retirement to mentor Dion's kid, who he is already sort of mentoring in life. Right in that case We've seen shoulder of his son, We've seen the social media eclips where Tom Brady and Dion and the whole family are close.

Is that a Raiders dream? I don't think so.

No.

So Danny's answer is, we'll find out what the drones are all about before Tom Brady plays.

Pretty much.

Look, this is bad timing for Tom Brady to suddenly do something else with the ownership stake that the owners just approved. By the way, all right, in what's the end game for Brady? He wants to own a team like Jerry Jones outright, okay, or have majority ownership. He needs all the cheddar he can make right now. So he's not giving up that broadcasting gig.

He's not. He's getting paid too much.

So I think he's still stacking his chips, and now more than ever, Mark Davis is going to let him play a huge part of the quarterback decision and the head coach.

But so Divik, the Sanders part of that equation is crazy.

No, that's not crazy, because the Raiders, especially being in Las Vegas now, they need billboard material.

They need lights, they need names and lights.

You know, it's billboard material. Primetime and his son both coming to Las Vegas. Is that too crazy to speculate your thoughts? Absolutely not. I have another layer of this again. The number is eight seven seven for the Herd. I have another layer of this for you.

Go ahead.

We know Colin Love's analogies. We are filling for the Herd stars. So if you're Greg Olsen, let's say Tom Brady does walk away and they put Greg Olsen. Greg Olson should have played Dexter in the new reboot. It looks like Michael C. Hall a little absolutely, especially after your parties a little bit at a wedding, right sometimes I'm like, is that Dexter?

Oh it's Greg Olsen.

Now?

People still love Greg Olsen. Great Greg Golson on six he was great. You see Greg Golsen. What if they throw him back on the A team with Kevin Burkhart. Do you just take that and stride and say, all right, you got it? Guys, It's almost like you got pushed aside for Tom Brady. So I'll give you the analogy. If you're a regular Joe. I'm not talking about a successful, handsome, put together guy like Clearsally, regular dude, schlubby guy, and you're you find out like the girl you're dating I don't know, like slept with Zach Effrom. But then she's like, oh my god, I made a mistake. I want to be back with you. Do you do you just with no questions like I got it, I get it. Like do you think Greg Olsen really deep down inside understands like, ah, listen, I get it. You paid Tom Brady three hundred million dollars. You had to put him in, you know, the top position. If Brady walks away, I think Olson gets it. I don't think he's a fan of it. He did a great job, he earned it. But again he's not Tom Brady, So I think he does get it, and he puts his professional face.

On and say I'm not happy to be back, and he's happy to be back.

What's up?

Kevin Burke, Caarr, what's up? Kby?

He's proven to be a professional, so absolutely that's what would happen there. So to wrap up this whole conversation, Tom Brady, where do you see him? If I said, you know, crystal Ball, Crystal one year from now, where we're breaking in twenty twenty six, where hey and for the Herd one year from now?

What do we talk about? Oh Man?

Tom Brady an the second year in the booth was great? Are we saying, man, Tom Brady? I think that Tom Danny g nailed that he needs that cheddar is what he says, that broadcasting cheddar, And I feel like that he views broadcasting the same way he viewed the NFL, like I need to work hard at this, and if I work hard at this, I could be great at this. Tommy is a competitive guy and he wants to be the best at everything he does. So I don't think he steps away because he wasn't that good at it. I think, and again, like you already said, Rich, he's definitely improved and he's good and he's getting better all the time. I think is something he wants to work at and look back at and say he was great at it, like he wasn't for ball, and he's not coming back to the field. These are these are big odds, and these are big what ifs. But I think we're likely to find out that the drones are taken over. In fact, my dads in Jersey said he saw him over Applebee's, So there the drones are there. They're scoping out the boneless wings at Applebee's. That we as we speak, you know, we're likely to find out what's going on with the drones and the plasmoids more than Tom Brady playing, More than Tom Brady stepping on the field to get you know, who better to ask than Ryan Music, who works with the Herd every day and may listen. Colin has Tom on from time to time. When you do you get the sense when when Tom's on the Herd that he loves the broadcasting world. I do, yeah, I actually think, yeah, he's all in on the broadcasting stuff. And I would say one year from now it is all about what's year or two been like for him in the booth and what's the future of the Raiders based off of where they land on this whole quarterback situation. Him staying Shae is just TB twelve doing his I'm staying in shape form a fit guy. I'm a handsome dude, like that's his Yeah, I think almost his brand now. I mean yeah, I think for him, the whole thing is when you do something when you're as obsessed with fitness and lifestyle and the grind of a routine like he was for two and a half decades of his life.

I don't think you can just like drop it now. He's disciplined on a new level.

Like you see some athletes retiring like three years later, they're fat, Right, tom Brady's gonna be the guy that's like ripped when he's fifty sixty years old. I feel like he's just such a discipline disciplined love in the booth.

I think that goes with the game.

You want to look your best and feel good about it, and you got to put things in perspective. Is his first year doing this, I think he's done great. To be honest, I'm highly impressed. So props to him. I think we're again, we're gonna find out what's what's the deal with this mystery chemical fog and plasmoids before we see him ever play again. That that that's done, and I don't believe he's one and done in the booth. I think he becomes one of the greats. I do because he has what young people today don't have work ethic. And speaking of Tom Brady, you know, as we're watching you know, Squid Game and all the nonsense you're watching on Netflix now, I'm pretty sure his roast logged the most minutes in twenty twenty four on Netflix, and.

I believe eighty for Brady is available. It is.

I happen to see that, speaking of what to watch weekend, Hobnobby on the show, but he got Tom Brady alerts on your phone. Well, I was doing some prep earlier. I saw that eighty for Brady. All right, So hey, listen, we got the Herdline news coming up. We're going to talk about Shaun Watson, a bunch of Rando stuff, CNR and for The Herd on Fox Sports.

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Surprise, convene on rich In for Colin on the Herd and when someone who works as Hey, we'll circle back in the new Year.

That's that's Monday, the sixth. No one's really looking at this.

It's the new year yet, because if this toys from Christmas on your floor, decorations are still up and you're still eating leftovers, it's it's not the new Year yet. It's my heart take really okay, Well.

And there's still nose picking kids terrorizing your house. Yay, your kids are still home. That is true, Mom and dad could hardly wait.

For school to start again. I get that lyric.

Now, happy New Year, I'm bored. I hope you do big things in twenty twenty five. Stay alive in twenty twenty five. There you go, now, next hour, show time, a homes trivia, your chance to win some prizes, plus weekend hobnobbing. What you need to watch this weekend? But rich you ready for some herd Line news.

Let's do it.

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No, no, no, the news. This is the herd Line News.

All right, guys, here we go.

Say Kwon Barkley will not be playing against his former team, the Giants on Sunday, but he will still be giving them nightmares.

That's right.

The superstar running back will not break Eric Dickerson's single season rushing record, but he did take a not so subtle shot at his former team on social media with this ad campaign promoting a sleep aid.

I heard some of you were having trouble sleeping, so I wrote.

You a lullaby rock a bye baby, Awaken you a bit as a thought of two thousand swolls in your head.

It's shure. It's tough to lo sleep over football. Not for me though. Good night to you all.

This, of course a nod to the Giants owner John Mara, who was featured on The Hard Knocks offseason with the Giants, saying he would have a tough time sleeping if Saquon ended up signing with the Eagles.

Oh oh, I see what he did there.

By the way, Teiquon seems like his family is bummed, and by him saying that, I think that's his way of saying he secretly bummed that he's not going to get a shot at breaking the record. Yeah, speaking of sleep, I saw that Eric Dickerson also said that he wasn't losing any sleep if he were to break that record. Easy to say, now, I don't believe that. He also, in the same breath, said that he didn't necessarily.

Want him to break the record. Damn. I wouldn't want him to break the record if I were him. Yeah, that's uh. I think.

I think he didn't want to look entirely like the bad guy, so he's trying to soften it a little bit.

But yeah, I don't know.

I don't necessarily think that's exactly the case. But he doesn't really matter because Saiquon sitting out the last game of the season. Eric Dickerson remains your single season NFL rushing champ. All right, last hour we discussed AFC Pro Bowl selections. This hour turn our attention to the NFC. Here are your quarterbacks, Jared Goff, Jaden Daniels, Sam Darnold. People a little bit up in arms. Why well Baker Mayfield left off that list? Who happens to be second in touchdown passes and second in completion percentage? And of course the Buccaneers can lock up the NFC South and a playoff spot with a win over the Saints.

You know, it's tough to figure.

Out who you would leave off, right, It's like one hundred percent, not to always compare to relationships and stuff. But you see a beauty pageant, not every good looking, talented woman's gonna win, right, I mean golf Jaden Daniels, Donald Baker.

I feel should be on there. But who do you take off?

Could be exactly Yeah, let me Goff, Jaden Daniels, Darnold, Man, that's tough. Donald, They're gonna be They could end up being fifteen and two, a one seed.

Yeah, they're all pretty high. I mean, I don't know.

GoF you know, I don't know, man, I guess the one you would say is like Jade and Daniels. But even still, it's like, look what he was able to do with the team that he turned around from a complete disaster in just one year as a rookie.

So that's where I was leaning though.

But like you said, man, they're chanting MVP when he's playing doing big things.

So we'll wrap up with this.

Caleb Williams about to finish off a rocky rookie season, unlike Jadon Daniels who had a ton of success. But when the Bears tick on the Packers and Lambeau, well that will come to an end and Chicago on a ten game losing streak, all eyes are on who their next head coach will be, well Caleb. He was asked about Commander's offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury, who's rumored to POTENTI be in the mix for that position.

I've been around Cliff. I know what type of guy he is. I know that he loves football. I know that he wants to win. He's a competitor, you know, and and many different aspects that I was just speaking about. I've been around him, so I would say that, you know, been around him, knowing I'm asking him questions and things like that. I think obviously if he was if he was here, I probably have more to say. But I think he fits a bunch of those qualities that I said.

So some contexts here around those comments. Cliff and Caleb go back to his time at USC as an offensive analyst, and prior to that question, when he was referencing some of the stuff that I was talking about, he was asked about what are the qualities he looks for in the head coach challenging us as players, A man who keeps his word, and a coach that's all about discipline, and as you heard Caleb say, all qualities he thinks Cliff Kingsbury has. I'd like Cliff Kingsbury. He's from my wife's hometown, New Bronfels, Texas. Okay, and I remember during draft night, Remember we got to see his sweet house that's right there, and then then he got fired. He went on like he went on vacasion with his hot girlfriend. He's like, yeah, I'm just fine. Yeah, I feel like maybe more of an offensive coordinator than a head coach. Sure, but yeah, you know, what if he clicks with the quarterback that's so important it would be It would be a pretty interesting twist and about face, if you will, for the Chicago Bears, who didn't even really bring him in to be their offensive coordinator when everyone thought that was going to be the natural fit. Going back to as we said the time with Caleb at USC so to go from hey, we're not really considering you for offensive coordinator too, we'd love for you to be the next head coach would be a pretty interesting twelve month turnaround.

Things change when you lose ten in a row. That's right, by the way.

You remember, we speculated like everyone else when that Hail Mary pass hit for the Washington Commanders over the Bears.

And we joked like, oh, that's a turning point. Bears are done.

I didn't think Bears were done, meaning they would lose ten in a row. Since then, you hear that Bears fans Rich Jinks to your whole seat exactly what everyone in Chicago to point their hate to this guy.

And a Rich Davis. Well, thank you, Ryan, Well.

That's the news and thanks for stopping by the herd Line news.

So dumb observation.

Before we get into incentives in life and my home showtime trivia. I'm looking around the room and again I said dumb observation. So I set it up by saying dumb sure.

Coming from you. You could have just said observation. It's all good, thanks man.

It's everyone in this room has some type of beard, scruff, facial hair.

Yeah right, yeah, I.

Thought about all the baseball season moves, the offseason moves, and Paul Goldschmidt. I'm thinking of like I'm just thinking of like when you play for the Yankees. I just looked in the mirror, went out to the bathroom, like I gotta trim up the stubble. Imagine having to shave every day. I feel like we've taken for granted like our parents, like maybe your dad in the seventies, eighties, or nineties shaved every day. Does that just seem like the biggest any of the as thing that no dude does anymore. I mean, I know Colin looks clean shaven all the time on TV every day, but do you know many guys that are clean shaven? I meanwork for a few years, I went scruffed and clean shaven, then back to the scruff again. I'm not coming down on the Yankees and the lame rules. I'm just saying, like it's a very interesting thing, Like it's not even just gold Schmid, because he's been doing a bunch of interviews the past few days and you're seeing that he's gonna have to probably shave his head and his face. But Devin Williams, two of the Yankees, recently said that he hasn't shaved completely in six years. And it got me thinking too, like, well, what's going underneath there? You know, some dude's got a lot of stuff going on. Maybe he's lack of a chin, lack of confidence, maybe he's got like some razor bumps, Like maybe he doesn't want to shave because if you look.

Good, you feel good, you play gird Again.

Dumb observation, But in twenty twenty five, I don't know many friends, family members, grown men that shave every I wonder if the Yankees eventually say, yeah, you know, we're gonna you're allowed to a beard to keep it neat possibly more convened on Rich next

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