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A right, it was 0:01:55.280 --> 0:02:00.200 all good man, Honestly, it's it's winding down, meaning we're 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.320 so used to Thursday night football that hasn't been a 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.440 thing for a few weeks. I'm in that mode where 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:06.880 a lot of people are where it's like, all right, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.720 we got three football games left, Champion of Chip games 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.160 that we got to wait a couple of weeks for 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.640 the Super Bowl. Before you know it, we'll be in 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.040 Santa Clara bringing all the fun to you line for 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.200 super Bowl week. That's how I'm seeing, and then we 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.960 have already said farewell to college football. Fernando Mendoz's on 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.080 late night TV. He's talking about his future before you know. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.320 Him and Jimmy Fallon. Man, what a wild pairing. He's 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.840 just he's more animated than Jimmy Fallon. It's so wild, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.519 it's so likable. Danny g I think I'm going to 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.919 be a Raiders fan. Man, I don't know that Fernando 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:41.680 song has been stuck in my head for a week. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.000 Abba has got to be the happiest old school group 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:46.720 of Yeah. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.320 Who ever owns those masters, they're getting some major royalties 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.320 right now. But I'm going to tell you guys, what's 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.080 going to be weird is after the Super Bowl YouTube 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.440 leading with an NBA headline. That's what is weird. To 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.600 football winds down, We're gonna have. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.600 To really interesting. I was talking to I was talking 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.640 to some East Coast buddies. I know Salakata, who is 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.120 a regular on Stutgatts, who is now on before us, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.280 we used to work with sal At s and Y 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.720 New York City, And I was talking to some buddies 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:21.560 about how regionally sports interests differ so much during different 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.000 parts of the year. Like right now, if you're on 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.680 the East Coast, there's a lot of cities that are 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.000 way into baseball offseason. Like we're not on right now 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.920 in New York. We're on you know, three four hundred affiliates. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.520 You're in New York State. We're not in New York City, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.080 but I guarantee, like local New York radio is talking 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.800 about Bellinger and you know, Bobashett and they're into baseball already, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.480 Irons and the Knicks. Yeah, so I mean we're we're 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.920 talking about nationally though football still came by far by, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.120 But I'm getting in that baseball's coming mindset. I'm getting 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.760 the all right basketball, I'm ready to pay attention mode. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.320 But we still, like we said, three big football games 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:08.800 left to go, and history would say home underdogs in 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.440 conference games have always covered and done pretty well. So 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:17.000 while they do have steady, can the Broncos get it 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.080 done with an underdog backup quarterback? Well it's been done before. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.400 So before we get into brainwave and weekend hob nobbin 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:29.080 and giveaways, let's talk about it. Let's chop it up 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.560 like we say, backup quarterbacks to win the Super Bowl, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.640 it happens. Nineteen eighty eight, Doug Williams ninety one. We 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.560 were talking about it the other day. Jeff Hostetler two 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:44.720 thousand to his mustache. By the way, who was Hosteler's 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.320 mustache more than him? I think he did have a 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.600 sweet stash. Look like my dad won a Super Bowl 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.719 back in ninety one. Kurt Warner in two thousand. That 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.800 was pre Choppers. Kurt Warner two thousand and one. Trent Dilfer. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:01.120 You had Tom Brady in two thousand and two. Yeah. Man, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.359 Now we're in the year two thousands. The last to 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:09.520 do it twenty eighteen, Big blank Nick Foles. Nick Foles 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.560 did it? Oh was it a big year's Nick? Big? Years? 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.200 Now it was big big Saint Nick. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:14.360 Ok. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.559 Yeah, Saint Nick took Philadelphia by storm, became a hero. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.560 And this year twenty twenty six, Jared Stidham has the change. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:23.680 Oh. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.440 You know, you could have added to that list if 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:30.160 it weren't for a bad no call in New Orleans 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.640 against a Ravens defense that held Michael Krabtree. You could 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.599 have added Kaepernick to that list because if you remember, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.440 he took over for Alex Smith and Tada Niners went 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.880 to the Super Bowl. It wasn't an injury, but he 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.600 was a guy that started out as a backup. But 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.880 Danny said there's also a caveat with Jim Punkett as well, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.880 because Jim Plunkett at one point was a backup and 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.520 then would go on to win a Super Bowl. But 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.479 it's been done. I don't know if it has the 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.360 same feel for the fan base, which is why I 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.000 would love to hear from Phil. Would be the first 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.000 time in the twenty first centree that a backup starts 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.360 the Super Bowl. I think even conference game Conference championship, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:12.000 who hadn't started all year. Yeah, because uh Nick falls Hosteler, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.479 those guys took over towards the final few weeks of 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.000 the regular site. This guy's just getting thrown in there 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.359 in one of the biggest games of the year. It 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.800 has happened, It could happen. He could go all the way. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.039 We'll see. You could say, no one fresher than Jared Stidham. No, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.719 for sure, got fresh legs. He seems cool and collected 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.240 about it. He's making statements that he's off social media. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.960 He's ignoring all that stuff. He's focused on the game. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.039 Seems pretty confident. You know who told him that? Speaking 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.480 of Jeff Hosteler. Who And it's funny when these people, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.560 I wouldn't say, come out of the woodwork. It's not 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.200 like he was hiding, but it's his moment to give 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.280 his insight. And Jeff Hosteller has spoken out and said, hey, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.920 ignore the noise, and you have more noise now than 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.119 I had in the nineties there was no social media 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.720 and there was no X and Instagram. Yeah, I'm pretty 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.719 sure he could tell I'm off of social media for 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.680 now or at the moment something like that. Stidham's going 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.360 to go back to, you know, looking at dumb videos 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.600 like all of us, but for now, Hosteler's like, avoid 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.120 the noise. And there's a hell of a lot more 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.520 noise now than back then. So Stidham could focus. It's 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.920 avoid the nooid. He just needs to. Honestly, I know 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.520 you could say, well that's a lot, dude. He needs 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.880 to play two good football games because he has a 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.400 good team around them, a great defense, it's not impossible, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.440 and a great coach. So your thoughts on can it 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.920 be done? But then part two of the question, can 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.320 the only difference here is that he hasn't started all year, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.320 but backups have won before and it opens up a 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.240 bigger conversation. So first your thoughts about Stidham, Do you 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.000 believe in them? I mean, why not? Right, we've seen 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.360 it before? Why not him? They have a great team. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.320 But then what does it say about Nick's moving forward? 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.720 What did it say about Wentz moving forward? When Foles 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.920 did it right sort of tarnishes what he accomplished a 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.840 little bit. I think it's a terrible thing to happen 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.000 to a young quarterback that gets injured. If your replacement 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:10.640 wins the Super Bowl, then you become the redheaded stepchild? 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.120 Does that even PC to say nowadays? Can you a 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.160 redheaded stepchild? No, it's true, shadow become the person that 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.560 lives in the shadow Carson Wentz. Phil Simms was never 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.280 the same. In New York, they were quick to be like, yeah, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.240 we're sort of done with sim Falls was a hero. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.800 Hosteddler is a hero that's kind of hard to overcome. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.640 And the more recent one, I said, even though he 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.120 didn't win. The minute Kaepernick performed, the forty nine ers 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.800 were sort of bat to Alex Smith. They were like, yeah, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.040 later yeah, he became Yesterday's news after that quit the 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:39.760 forty nine ers. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.640 How about how well Davis Mills did as a backup 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.000 for the Texans this past season and there were obviously 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.720 talking heads shouting and screaming for him to come in 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.959 the game over Stroud when Stroud was struggling. If he 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.440 had put up points and the Texans advanced, we would 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.680 have had Davis Mills versus Jared Stidham. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:02.400 I like to call him CJ Straggling. You know that's 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.320 pretty good I do have. It's a two layer question 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.199 cause he knows right, what does it say about the 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.800 injured quarterback? Subconscious? Listen, you're a team guy. You want 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.040 your team to win. But there's got to be a part. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.120 And bon Knicks would deny it until I know what 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.520 do they say the cows come home? He would deny forever. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.839 But there is a part. Unfortunately, Cage. If Nick Cage 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.800 was a cow. If Nick Cage was a cow, I 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.880 don't know. You have not seen that trend on social 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.199 media as a cow. It's went from it went from 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.040 owl to cow. You know, it was like they're asking 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.160 about the celebrities. I didn't I didn't see the cow ones, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.120 I know the owl ones. Wow, how would Nick Cage 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:44.040 sound as a cow? How would Obama sound as a cow? 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:51.079 I don't know, So think about it. Could it happen? 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.680 What does it say? It says that Peyton's the guy 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.640 and it was him all along, and that's unfair to 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.920 bone Nicks. But this is the situa we're in. You know, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.439 there's like a you want to feel, wanted to do 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:07.240 online conspiracy that it didn't happen on the field his injury. Well, 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.520 like we said yesterday, there's also a conspiracy that an 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.319 electrical plant is why Niners are going down. I'm not 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.559 giving any juice, but our job is to sort of 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.720 keep you up on what nonsense is going on on 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.360 social media as well. And there's a theory with the 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.760 fans that it may have happened during a locker room celebration, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.000 because you do see the second class play where they 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.800 said it happened he sort of springs up, but you 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.520 do see him wincing and wincing off the field later on. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.920 But there is conspiracy that they tried to cover it up. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.040 But I think it says a lot about Peyton if 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.880 Stidham wins now, So now Bonnicks, like I said, I 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.000 got distracted in my own dumb cow thought. He'll say, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.000 until the cows come home. Oh, I want the team 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.240 to win. But there's a part of Jared, there's a 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:52.959 part of Bonnicks. And I promise you, what does a 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:58.400 rich Davis cow sound like? I promise you there's a 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.240 horse count. There's a part there's a part of bow 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.880 Knicks that wants him to fall just short and be like, man, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.960 we really need bow But then you don't get that ring. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.760 You want to feel wanted, and then you feel bad 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.120 that you let your team down too. So Bonnicks wants 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.360 the team he deep down because and he'll feel like 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.679 he's responsible for the team in the city not winning 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.520 because he was injured. If I if I take a 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.760 day off, if I just if I took a day off, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.959 it's like it's tarnished a little bit. If I took 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.520 a day off, it's like rain. When you read that, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.920 uh and we heard oh and that was the best 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.720 show ever, I'd be really upset. I mean, it's happened. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.199 You don't want you want do you want to feel important? 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.640 Bo Knicks does not want his team to win. You selfishly, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.760 he wants the who whole city and the whole franchise 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.040 and the whole team is suffered because his ankle got hurt. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.800 Get out of here. He does not, but it will 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.040 sting a little bit that he wasn't able to participate 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.439 in the victory. Other hurt players like auld defender, cornerback, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.040 wide receiver, running back, they might want the team to win, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.240 but the quarterback is so tied to a franchise and 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.480 success that I think Bo Nicks he meant that. He 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.880 may never say it, he would never vocalize it, but 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.800 deep down inside he's probably like, I don't want this 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.600 team to win without I disagree. I disagree with that. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.360 I do. I got to make it clear, that's rich saying. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:16.000 I believe. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.360 I believe it's rich to hyper cow. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.199 What's up, Sam, it's not fomo, it's full woe, the 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.599 fear of winning out and I do believe. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.760 Fo Yeah, everybody says that's what's history showing. I have 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.360 a question, is there as a fan, you want to 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.440 win the championship no matter what for But does it 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:41.640 feel weird if your team wins with like not the guy. Yeah, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.720 definitely there's a weird feeling, right, But but it's it's 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.080 been done. So based on that, right, your thoughts on 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.640 if Stindham could take it all the way. I don't 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.320 think they're going to make to the super Bowl anyway, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.360 but it could happen, right, I don't think they're gonna 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.600 but it could happen. I think based on that, we 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.520 also want to chop it up and share some stories 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.079 about time you stepped into big shoes or other stories 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.440 that you could recall where someone had to step up 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.840 and fill in and deliver. They filled in and they 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:13.439 did a great job. Who comes to mind? What comes 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.720 to mind? I mean even in our business, in our industry, 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.839 it happens all the time. I really would love for 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.880 someone to tell me that they think bow Knicks like 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.319 so badly wants his team to win. I know those 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.559 are his boys, that's his team. I'm saying this is 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.880 a part of his subconscious He may not even fully 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.959 realize it himself, but you want to feel one. It's 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.600 our nature as human beings in a marriage and a relationship. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:40.520 At your job, most selfish families, well, oh you are, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.160 you're telling me about like bow Nicks is the most 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.840 selfless man, our most selfish, self centered guy. You probably know. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.000 And I wouldn't even like wish that on my team 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.600 and my my my peers and my city, like no way, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.280 get out of here. I would still want them to 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.000 win because then I would feel responsible for everybody not winning. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.760 I'm sure he's rooting for his team to win. It 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.040 just sucks. He's in a really crappy situation. You know, 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.080 it's unfortunate, But I still believe that he believes in 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.160 his talent and that is not just Peyton if they win. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.400 But what are other situations where the backups, you know, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:18.120 came up big? What the Braves won the World Series. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.000 I'm pretty sure the year Akunya was out the whole season, 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:26.080 Am I right about that? I think Acunya was out 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.120 the whole year, like, you know, missed the year, and 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.600 the Braves won the World Series. There's got to be 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.440 a part of him that while he got a ring, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.040 there's there's that weird feeling of like, yeah, I mean 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.840 I got a ring, but I don't. That's always weird 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:40.240 in itself. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.240 Yeah, he was. He was out in twenty twenty one 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.280 with the ACL injury. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.840 Yeah, he told he tore his ACL and everyone's like, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.240 oh man, how the brave's gonna do without a cunya 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:49.920 they did. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.520 That happens a lot though it does. That happens a lot, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.160 But other players need to rally around each other and 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:57.680 step up. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.000 Gotta step up. Huh you I really think that it is. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.400 It's like just subconscious. It's there somewhere that you don't 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.920 want great things to happen when you're not involved. They 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.080 feel like lesser or something. You want to feel like 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.960 you were missed. But I don't know if i'd want 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:16.480 my team. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.320 To lose based on your guys' thoughts here about bo Nicks. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:24.080 Would there be a juicy controversy in Denver if Stidham 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.920 takes them to the Super Bowl plays big in the 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.840 biggest game of the year, And you know what I mean. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.200 Yet another thing bow Knicks doesn't want to have to 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.680 worry about you. But in reality, Stidham just had to 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.040 win two games. Bow Knicks, in reality is the guy 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.800 that took him there the whole season, So there's a 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.280 lot of pride in that near other. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.040 Teams would be after Stidham at that point. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.520 Yes, that's how I see it moving forward. But let's 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.560 share some other stories and what do you think about 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.800 what Rich is saying here eight seven, seven ninety nine 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.800 on Fox at Covino and Rich and of course the 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.160 live chat on YouTube Coveno and Rich FSR. What comes 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.240 to mind for you, Rich? Any personal stories I got 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.080 like a bunch of you would you would feel bad? 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:04.760 Let you know, every year we go away with our 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.760 buds or a little guy's weekend for a football trip. Yeah, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.120 if you one year couldn't go, bes had like your 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.440 daughter's recital or something, and everyone's like, you know what 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.760 the best year was? And it was that year that 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.640 you weren't there. That's that's a mean glad you guys 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.960 had a good time. That's a meaningless example. That means 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.920 nothing in life. But you'd still be like, oh man, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.800 I'm the best time when I wasn't there. Do you 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.200 think this guy wants his team? He doesn't want it, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.000 But it's a tough break put intended, of course he 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.560 doesn't want it, all right, So I'll kick it off. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.080 As a kid, I got three stories, all right, and 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.920 I'll make them snappy like a rubber band sandwich. As 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.520 a kid, there was a you know how his Johnny 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.880 football hero in every town. Don't believe it or not 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.800 I was only one of those guys. Believe it or not. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.320 There was other guys that were really great in my hometown, 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.680 right shocking, and it was a kid that was older 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.080 than me. Let's call him bron and rest in peace. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.840 He was a stellar athlete, Division one football player. He 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.960 was drafted by everything, really great athlete in my town. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.159 He was about sixteen and I was thirteen, and we 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.640 were playing what they call Babe Ruth League. We called 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.160 it teenor League in Union, New Jersey. I remember doing that. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.680 I played Connie Mack right, so it's after little league 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.199 but up to like sixteen year old, and he was 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.480 the best athlete in town by far. But he was 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.760 older than me as well, and he was pitching a 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.760 championship game, so we had it locked. We were in 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.040 the championship. He's pitching, the best guy in town, got 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.000 it locked. So I'm just there like, yeah, man, ride, yeah, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.080 he's pitching, We're gonna win. I'm just it's my first 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.960 year in this league. Dude, first inning, the dude's like 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.560 my elbow and his dad was coaching, took him out 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.320 of the game like Carino. Like me, I'm thirteen years old. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.280 I had no intention of pitching the championship game. Get 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.399 in there. I'm like me and I dude, I was 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.760 confident pitch, but I did not plan on pitching the 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.960 championship game. First year in the league. Dude, I came 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.520 up stellar bro like a I don't know, like who 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.199 bro like Nolan Ryan out there. Dude won the championship 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.919 at thirteen years old, stepped in the big moment? What 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.320 first inning? Olan Ryan's a big Texan. Can you think 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.879 of maybe? Can you think of like a five ft seven? 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.200 You don't get it? That's how I felt, you see 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.480 what I mean, That's how I found In fact, someone 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.560 charged him mound, I gave him a double knog and 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:32.639 knocker Sandwich gave him all right in professional career. You 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.600 know this is years later. I'm trying to be a 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.080 radio storm, driving the van around. I'm just a promotion guy, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.720 hanging up banners at the concerts, promoting the station, handing 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:49.760 out key chains, and iHeart superstar. Booker couldn't make an interview, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.679 and I think I've told this story on the air, right. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.359 He couldn't make an interview, And it was Collective Soul 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.720 of All Bands, which at the time was big. But 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.199 looking back, who cares shine hit but love that the 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.960 point is the main DJ guys no booker and striker right. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.439 Booker was running later had a cold. I forget what happened. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.040 But the boss calls me up and I'm hanging a 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.600 poster up and he's like, Kavina, what are you doing? 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.439 I'm like hanging up banners. I don't know. He's like, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.480 you gotta do the interview. I'm like me, boom stepped up, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.520 knocked it out the park, gave me some confidence and 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.639 look at me now, well how about you and I 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.040 Rich As a team, did we not fill in for 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.040 Steven A. Smith on first take? What the heck were 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:33.960 we doing there? I don't know what we did? We 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.760 fill in for Dan Patrick, we feel in for Colin Cowherd. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:41.320 You gotta step up and seize the moment, seize the day, 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.200 as even Sevenfold says, let's go to the phone calls. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.760 You gotta do. It is Stidham's time, but everybody has 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:52.120 those moments where you have to step up and even 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.480 if you fail, you gotta do your best. You gotta 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.320 step up and do your best, even if you fall 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:57.840 right on your face. You got to give it your 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:59.920 all and that's what Stidham has to do. We've all done. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.400 Jim and fall River is on the INChO and he's 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.080 like bon Nix is sitting in a corner somewhere singing 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.000 cheap trick. I want you to walk me a man, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.760 And there's a lot of pride in he got us there. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.399 That's the truth. But you saw Peyton was oddly confident 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.240 stid He's ready to go. We're good, doesn't matter. He 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.480 kind of made it feel like, doesn't matter. I'm the coach. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.800 We got it. That's kind of how it sounded telling 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.639 you Bonnix does not love this. I of course he 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.840 doesn't love it, but he doesn't want his team to lose. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.640 Backups have won before. Let's talk about other moments. Well, first, 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.240