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Speaker 1: Let's go. How's your Thursday man? A right, it was
Speaker 1: all good man, Honestly, it's it's winding down, meaning we're
Speaker 1: so used to Thursday night football that hasn't been a
Speaker 1: thing for a few weeks. I'm in that mode where
Speaker 1: a lot of people are where it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: we got three football games left, Champion of Chip games
Speaker 1: that we got to wait a couple of weeks for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Before you know it, we'll be in
Speaker 1: Santa Clara bringing all the fun to you line for
Speaker 1: super Bowl week. That's how I'm seeing, and then we
Speaker 1: have already said farewell to college football. Fernando Mendoz's on
Speaker 1: late night TV. He's talking about his future before you know.
Speaker 1: Him and Jimmy Fallon. Man, what a wild pairing. He's
Speaker 1: just he's more animated than Jimmy Fallon. It's so wild,
Speaker 1: it's so likable. Danny g I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a Raiders fan. Man, I don't know that Fernando
Speaker 1: song has been stuck in my head for a week.
Speaker 1: Abba has got to be the happiest old school group
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Speaker 2: Who ever owns those masters, they're getting some major royalties
Speaker 2: right now. But I'm going to tell you guys, what's
Speaker 2: going to be weird is after the Super Bowl YouTube
Speaker 2: leading with an NBA headline. That's what is weird. To
Speaker 2: football winds down, We're gonna have.
Speaker 1: To really interesting. I was talking to I was talking
Speaker 1: to some East Coast buddies. I know Salakata, who is
Speaker 1: a regular on Stutgatts, who is now on before us,
Speaker 1: we used to work with sal At s and Y
Speaker 1: New York City, And I was talking to some buddies
Speaker 1: about how regionally sports interests differ so much during different
Speaker 1: parts of the year. Like right now, if you're on
Speaker 1: the East Coast, there's a lot of cities that are
Speaker 1: way into baseball offseason. Like we're not on right now
Speaker 1: in New York. We're on you know, three four hundred affiliates.
Speaker 1: You're in New York State. We're not in New York City,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee, like local New York radio is talking
Speaker 1: about Bellinger and you know, Bobashett and they're into baseball already,
Speaker 1: Irons and the Knicks. Yeah, so I mean we're we're
Speaker 1: talking about nationally though football still came by far by,
Speaker 1: But I'm getting in that baseball's coming mindset. I'm getting
Speaker 1: the all right basketball, I'm ready to pay attention mode.
Speaker 1: But we still, like we said, three big football games
Speaker 1: left to go, and history would say home underdogs in
Speaker 1: conference games have always covered and done pretty well. So
Speaker 1: while they do have steady, can the Broncos get it
Speaker 1: done with an underdog backup quarterback? Well it's been done before.
Speaker 1: So before we get into brainwave and weekend hob nobbin
Speaker 1: and giveaways, let's talk about it. Let's chop it up
Speaker 1: like we say, backup quarterbacks to win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it happens. Nineteen eighty eight, Doug Williams ninety one. We
Speaker 1: were talking about it the other day. Jeff Hostetler two
Speaker 1: thousand to his mustache. By the way, who was Hosteler's
Speaker 1: mustache more than him? I think he did have a
Speaker 1: sweet stash. Look like my dad won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: back in ninety one. Kurt Warner in two thousand. That
Speaker 1: was pre Choppers. Kurt Warner two thousand and one. Trent Dilfer.
Speaker 1: You had Tom Brady in two thousand and two. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: Now we're in the year two thousands. The last to
Speaker 1: do it twenty eighteen, Big blank Nick Foles. Nick Foles
Speaker 1: did it? Oh was it a big year's Nick? Big? Years?
Speaker 1: Now it was big big Saint Nick.
Speaker 2: Ok.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Saint Nick took Philadelphia by storm, became a hero.
Speaker 1: And this year twenty twenty six, Jared Stidham has the change.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: You know, you could have added to that list if
Speaker 1: it weren't for a bad no call in New Orleans
Speaker 1: against a Ravens defense that held Michael Krabtree. You could
Speaker 1: have added Kaepernick to that list because if you remember,
Speaker 1: he took over for Alex Smith and Tada Niners went
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. It wasn't an injury, but he
Speaker 1: was a guy that started out as a backup. But
Speaker 1: Danny said there's also a caveat with Jim Punkett as well,
Speaker 1: because Jim Plunkett at one point was a backup and
Speaker 1: then would go on to win a Super Bowl. But
Speaker 1: it's been done. I don't know if it has the
Speaker 1: same feel for the fan base, which is why I
Speaker 1: would love to hear from Phil. Would be the first
Speaker 1: time in the twenty first centree that a backup starts
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I think even conference game Conference championship,
Speaker 1: who hadn't started all year. Yeah, because uh Nick falls Hosteler,
Speaker 1: those guys took over towards the final few weeks of
Speaker 1: the regular site. This guy's just getting thrown in there
Speaker 1: in one of the biggest games of the year. It
Speaker 1: has happened, It could happen. He could go all the way.
Speaker 1: We'll see. You could say, no one fresher than Jared Stidham. No,
Speaker 1: for sure, got fresh legs. He seems cool and collected
Speaker 1: about it. He's making statements that he's off social media.
Speaker 1: He's ignoring all that stuff. He's focused on the game.
Speaker 1: Seems pretty confident. You know who told him that? Speaking
Speaker 1: of Jeff Hosteler. Who And it's funny when these people,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, come out of the woodwork. It's not
Speaker 1: like he was hiding, but it's his moment to give
Speaker 1: his insight. And Jeff Hosteller has spoken out and said, hey,
Speaker 1: ignore the noise, and you have more noise now than
Speaker 1: I had in the nineties there was no social media
Speaker 1: and there was no X and Instagram. Yeah, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he could tell I'm off of social media for
Speaker 1: now or at the moment something like that. Stidham's going
Speaker 1: to go back to, you know, looking at dumb videos
Speaker 1: like all of us, but for now, Hosteler's like, avoid
Speaker 1: the noise. And there's a hell of a lot more
Speaker 1: noise now than back then. So Stidham could focus. It's
Speaker 1: avoid the nooid. He just needs to. Honestly, I know
Speaker 1: you could say, well that's a lot, dude. He needs
Speaker 1: to play two good football games because he has a
Speaker 1: good team around them, a great defense, it's not impossible,
Speaker 1: and a great coach. So your thoughts on can it
Speaker 1: be done? But then part two of the question, can
Speaker 1: the only difference here is that he hasn't started all year,
Speaker 1: but backups have won before and it opens up a
Speaker 1: bigger conversation. So first your thoughts about Stidham, Do you
Speaker 1: believe in them? I mean, why not? Right, we've seen
Speaker 1: it before? Why not him? They have a great team.
Speaker 1: But then what does it say about Nick's moving forward?
Speaker 1: What did it say about Wentz moving forward? When Foles
Speaker 1: did it right sort of tarnishes what he accomplished a
Speaker 1: little bit. I think it's a terrible thing to happen
Speaker 1: to a young quarterback that gets injured. If your replacement
Speaker 1: wins the Super Bowl, then you become the redheaded stepchild?
Speaker 1: Does that even PC to say nowadays? Can you a
Speaker 1: redheaded stepchild? No, it's true, shadow become the person that
Speaker 1: lives in the shadow Carson Wentz. Phil Simms was never
Speaker 1: the same. In New York, they were quick to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're sort of done with sim Falls was a hero.
Speaker 1: Hosteddler is a hero that's kind of hard to overcome.
Speaker 1: And the more recent one, I said, even though he
Speaker 1: didn't win. The minute Kaepernick performed, the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: were sort of bat to Alex Smith. They were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: later yeah, he became Yesterday's news after that quit the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: How about how well Davis Mills did as a backup
Speaker 2: for the Texans this past season and there were obviously
Speaker 2: talking heads shouting and screaming for him to come in
Speaker 2: the game over Stroud when Stroud was struggling. If he
Speaker 2: had put up points and the Texans advanced, we would
Speaker 2: have had Davis Mills versus Jared Stidham.
Speaker 1: I like to call him CJ Straggling. You know that's
Speaker 1: pretty good I do have. It's a two layer question
Speaker 1: cause he knows right, what does it say about the
Speaker 1: injured quarterback? Subconscious? Listen, you're a team guy. You want
Speaker 1: your team to win. But there's got to be a part.
Speaker 1: And bon Knicks would deny it until I know what
Speaker 1: do they say the cows come home? He would deny forever.
Speaker 1: But there is a part. Unfortunately, Cage. If Nick Cage
Speaker 1: was a cow. If Nick Cage was a cow, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You have not seen that trend on social
Speaker 1: media as a cow. It's went from it went from
Speaker 1: owl to cow. You know, it was like they're asking
Speaker 1: about the celebrities. I didn't I didn't see the cow ones,
Speaker 1: I know the owl ones. Wow, how would Nick Cage
Speaker 1: sound as a cow? How would Obama sound as a cow?
Speaker 1: I don't know, So think about it. Could it happen?
Speaker 1: What does it say? It says that Peyton's the guy
Speaker 1: and it was him all along, and that's unfair to
Speaker 1: bone Nicks. But this is the situa we're in. You know,
Speaker 1: there's like a you want to feel, wanted to do
Speaker 1: online conspiracy that it didn't happen on the field his injury. Well,
Speaker 1: like we said yesterday, there's also a conspiracy that an
Speaker 1: electrical plant is why Niners are going down. I'm not
Speaker 1: giving any juice, but our job is to sort of
Speaker 1: keep you up on what nonsense is going on on
Speaker 1: social media as well. And there's a theory with the
Speaker 1: fans that it may have happened during a locker room celebration,
Speaker 1: because you do see the second class play where they
Speaker 1: said it happened he sort of springs up, but you
Speaker 1: do see him wincing and wincing off the field later on.
Speaker 1: But there is conspiracy that they tried to cover it up.
Speaker 1: But I think it says a lot about Peyton if
Speaker 1: Stidham wins now, So now Bonnicks, like I said, I
Speaker 1: got distracted in my own dumb cow thought. He'll say,
Speaker 1: until the cows come home. Oh, I want the team
Speaker 1: to win. But there's a part of Jared, there's a
Speaker 1: part of Bonnicks. And I promise you, what does a
Speaker 1: rich Davis cow sound like? I promise you there's a
Speaker 1: horse count. There's a part there's a part of bow
Speaker 1: Knicks that wants him to fall just short and be like, man,
Speaker 1: we really need bow But then you don't get that ring.
Speaker 1: You want to feel wanted, and then you feel bad
Speaker 1: that you let your team down too. So Bonnicks wants
Speaker 1: the team he deep down because and he'll feel like
Speaker 1: he's responsible for the team in the city not winning
Speaker 1: because he was injured. If I if I take a
Speaker 1: day off, if I just if I took a day off,
Speaker 1: it's like it's tarnished a little bit. If I took
Speaker 1: a day off, it's like rain. When you read that,
Speaker 1: uh and we heard oh and that was the best
Speaker 1: show ever, I'd be really upset. I mean, it's happened.
Speaker 1: You don't want you want do you want to feel important?
Speaker 1: Bo Knicks does not want his team to win. You selfishly,
Speaker 1: he wants the who whole city and the whole franchise
Speaker 1: and the whole team is suffered because his ankle got hurt.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. He does not, but it will
Speaker 1: sting a little bit that he wasn't able to participate
Speaker 1: in the victory. Other hurt players like auld defender, cornerback,
Speaker 1: wide receiver, running back, they might want the team to win,
Speaker 1: but the quarterback is so tied to a franchise and
Speaker 1: success that I think Bo Nicks he meant that. He
Speaker 1: may never say it, he would never vocalize it, but
Speaker 1: deep down inside he's probably like, I don't want this
Speaker 1: team to win without I disagree. I disagree with that.
Speaker 1: I do. I got to make it clear, that's rich saying.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: I believe it's rich to hyper cow.
Speaker 4: What's up, Sam, it's not fomo, it's full woe, the
Speaker 4: fear of winning out and I do believe.
Speaker 1: Fo Yeah, everybody says that's what's history showing. I have
Speaker 1: a question, is there as a fan, you want to
Speaker 1: win the championship no matter what for But does it
Speaker 1: feel weird if your team wins with like not the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely there's a weird feeling, right, But but it's it's
Speaker 1: been done. So based on that, right, your thoughts on
Speaker 1: if Stindham could take it all the way. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to make to the super Bowl anyway,
Speaker 1: but it could happen, right, I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: but it could happen. I think based on that, we
Speaker 1: also want to chop it up and share some stories
Speaker 1: about time you stepped into big shoes or other stories
Speaker 1: that you could recall where someone had to step up
Speaker 1: and fill in and deliver. They filled in and they
Speaker 1: did a great job. Who comes to mind? What comes
Speaker 1: to mind? I mean even in our business, in our industry,
Speaker 1: it happens all the time. I really would love for
Speaker 1: someone to tell me that they think bow Knicks like
Speaker 1: so badly wants his team to win. I know those
Speaker 1: are his boys, that's his team. I'm saying this is
Speaker 1: a part of his subconscious He may not even fully
Speaker 1: realize it himself, but you want to feel one. It's
Speaker 1: our nature as human beings in a marriage and a relationship.
Speaker 1: At your job, most selfish families, well, oh you are,
Speaker 1: you're telling me about like bow Nicks is the most
Speaker 1: selfless man, our most selfish, self centered guy. You probably know.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't even like wish that on my team
Speaker 1: and my my my peers and my city, like no way,
Speaker 1: get out of here. I would still want them to
Speaker 1: win because then I would feel responsible for everybody not winning.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's rooting for his team to win. It
Speaker 1: just sucks. He's in a really crappy situation. You know,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate, But I still believe that he believes in
Speaker 1: his talent and that is not just Peyton if they win.
Speaker 1: But what are other situations where the backups, you know,
Speaker 1: came up big? What the Braves won the World Series.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the year Akunya was out the whole season,
Speaker 1: Am I right about that? I think Acunya was out
Speaker 1: the whole year, like, you know, missed the year, and
Speaker 1: the Braves won the World Series. There's got to be
Speaker 1: a part of him that while he got a ring,
Speaker 1: there's there's that weird feeling of like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I got a ring, but I don't. That's always weird
Speaker 1: in itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was out in twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: with the ACL injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he told he tore his ACL and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, how the brave's gonna do without a cunya
Speaker 1: they did.
Speaker 2: That happens a lot though it does. That happens a lot,
Speaker 2: But other players need to rally around each other and
Speaker 2: step up.
Speaker 1: Gotta step up. Huh you I really think that it is.
Speaker 1: It's like just subconscious. It's there somewhere that you don't
Speaker 1: want great things to happen when you're not involved. They
Speaker 1: feel like lesser or something. You want to feel like
Speaker 1: you were missed. But I don't know if i'd want
Speaker 1: my team.
Speaker 2: To lose based on your guys' thoughts here about bo Nicks.
Speaker 2: Would there be a juicy controversy in Denver if Stidham
Speaker 2: takes them to the Super Bowl plays big in the
Speaker 2: biggest game of the year, And you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yet another thing bow Knicks doesn't want to have to
Speaker 1: worry about you. But in reality, Stidham just had to
Speaker 1: win two games. Bow Knicks, in reality is the guy
Speaker 1: that took him there the whole season, So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pride in that near other.
Speaker 2: Teams would be after Stidham at that point.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's how I see it moving forward. But let's
Speaker 1: share some other stories and what do you think about
Speaker 1: what Rich is saying here eight seven, seven ninety nine
Speaker 1: on Fox at Covino and Rich and of course the
Speaker 1: live chat on YouTube Coveno and Rich FSR. What comes
Speaker 1: to mind for you, Rich? Any personal stories I got
Speaker 1: like a bunch of you would you would feel bad?
Speaker 1: Let you know, every year we go away with our
Speaker 1: buds or a little guy's weekend for a football trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you one year couldn't go, bes had like your
Speaker 1: daughter's recital or something, and everyone's like, you know what
Speaker 1: the best year was? And it was that year that
Speaker 1: you weren't there. That's that's a mean glad you guys
Speaker 1: had a good time. That's a meaningless example. That means
Speaker 1: nothing in life. But you'd still be like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm the best time when I wasn't there. Do you
Speaker 1: think this guy wants his team? He doesn't want it,
Speaker 1: But it's a tough break put intended, of course he
Speaker 1: doesn't want it, all right, So I'll kick it off.
Speaker 1: As a kid, I got three stories, all right, and
Speaker 1: I'll make them snappy like a rubber band sandwich. As
Speaker 1: a kid, there was a you know how his Johnny
Speaker 1: football hero in every town. Don't believe it or not
Speaker 1: I was only one of those guys. Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: There was other guys that were really great in my hometown,
Speaker 1: right shocking, and it was a kid that was older
Speaker 1: than me. Let's call him bron and rest in peace.
Speaker 1: He was a stellar athlete, Division one football player. He
Speaker 1: was drafted by everything, really great athlete in my town.
Speaker 1: He was about sixteen and I was thirteen, and we
Speaker 1: were playing what they call Babe Ruth League. We called
Speaker 1: it teenor League in Union, New Jersey. I remember doing that.
Speaker 1: I played Connie Mack right, so it's after little league
Speaker 1: but up to like sixteen year old, and he was
Speaker 1: the best athlete in town by far. But he was
Speaker 1: older than me as well, and he was pitching a
Speaker 1: championship game, so we had it locked. We were in
Speaker 1: the championship. He's pitching, the best guy in town, got
Speaker 1: it locked. So I'm just there like, yeah, man, ride, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pitching, We're gonna win. I'm just it's my first
Speaker 1: year in this league. Dude, first inning, the dude's like
Speaker 1: my elbow and his dad was coaching, took him out
Speaker 1: of the game like Carino. Like me, I'm thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: I had no intention of pitching the championship game. Get
Speaker 1: in there. I'm like me and I dude, I was
Speaker 1: confident pitch, but I did not plan on pitching the
Speaker 1: championship game. First year in the league. Dude, I came
Speaker 1: up stellar bro like a I don't know, like who
Speaker 1: bro like Nolan Ryan out there. Dude won the championship
Speaker 1: at thirteen years old, stepped in the big moment? What
Speaker 1: first inning? Olan Ryan's a big Texan. Can you think
Speaker 1: of maybe? Can you think of like a five ft seven?
Speaker 1: You don't get it? That's how I felt, you see
Speaker 1: what I mean, That's how I found In fact, someone
Speaker 1: charged him mound, I gave him a double knog and
Speaker 1: knocker Sandwich gave him all right in professional career. You
Speaker 1: know this is years later. I'm trying to be a
Speaker 1: radio storm, driving the van around. I'm just a promotion guy,
Speaker 1: hanging up banners at the concerts, promoting the station, handing
Speaker 1: out key chains, and iHeart superstar. Booker couldn't make an interview,
Speaker 1: and I think I've told this story on the air, right.
Speaker 1: He couldn't make an interview, And it was Collective Soul
Speaker 1: of All Bands, which at the time was big. But
Speaker 1: looking back, who cares shine hit but love that the
Speaker 1: point is the main DJ guys no booker and striker right.
Speaker 1: Booker was running later had a cold. I forget what happened.
Speaker 1: But the boss calls me up and I'm hanging a
Speaker 1: poster up and he's like, Kavina, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm like hanging up banners. I don't know. He's like,
Speaker 1: you gotta do the interview. I'm like me, boom stepped up,
Speaker 1: knocked it out the park, gave me some confidence and
Speaker 1: look at me now, well how about you and I
Speaker 1: Rich As a team, did we not fill in for
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith on first take? What the heck were
Speaker 1: we doing there? I don't know what we did? We
Speaker 1: fill in for Dan Patrick, we feel in for Colin Cowherd.
Speaker 1: You gotta step up and seize the moment, seize the day,
Speaker 1: as even Sevenfold says, let's go to the phone calls.
Speaker 1: You gotta do. It is Stidham's time, but everybody has
Speaker 1: those moments where you have to step up and even
Speaker 1: if you fail, you gotta do your best. You gotta
Speaker 1: step up and do your best, even if you fall
Speaker 1: right on your face. You got to give it your
Speaker 1: all and that's what Stidham has to do. We've all done.
Speaker 1: Jim and fall River is on the INChO and he's
Speaker 1: like bon Nix is sitting in a corner somewhere singing
Speaker 1: cheap trick. I want you to walk me a man,
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of pride in he got us there.
Speaker 1: That's the truth. But you saw Peyton was oddly confident
Speaker 1: stid He's ready to go. We're good, doesn't matter. He
Speaker 1: kind of made it feel like, doesn't matter. I'm the coach.
Speaker 1: We got it. That's kind of how it sounded telling
Speaker 1: you Bonnix does not love this. I of course he
Speaker 1: doesn't love it, but he doesn't want his team to lose.
Speaker 1: Backups have won before. Let's talk about other moments. Well, first,
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that and other moments where someone had
Speaker 1: a step up and they delivered. Let's do it more
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Speaker 1: Oh I want you to want? Steve I mean me,
Speaker 1: I see Covino, Ross Davis, is Cavino and Rich on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio telling you deep down inside. Bo Nicks
Speaker 1: is like, do I really want the Broncos to win
Speaker 1: without me? That's craziness. Bro You're you saying that says
Speaker 1: a lot about you. I think it's like Rich wants
Speaker 1: everyone to fail if he's not around, that's craziness. If
Speaker 1: I was not here today, I want to show to
Speaker 1: go off the air. Yeah, but that's wild. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's like when that's like next level selfish behavior.
Speaker 1: When history shows that when I can't have it, nobody can.
Speaker 1: Because when you're ultimately confident in yourself, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: when history is shown. If Bonnicks is the real deal,
Speaker 1: he'll be just fine regardless when history is shown that
Speaker 1: when backups take over and do well, that it's the
Speaker 1: person's forgotten a La Carson Wentz, Alex Smith, what about Brock?
Speaker 4: Party came back? Mac Jones played really well, that's right,
Speaker 4: Brock pretty.
Speaker 1: Tongue over and everyone's like, yeah, Jimmy g later, thank you, Sam.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Roger Staubach took over Terry Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Jim Plunkett. These are guys that took over midseason or
Speaker 1: late in the season and ended up winning a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and never looked back. It's the Wally Pip that's
Speaker 1: the story. It's the Tom Brady later drew Bledsoe, I
Speaker 1: don't care that you signed the deal. Deep down inside,
Speaker 1: bo Nicks might be a great guy and say I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for my team, But there's a part of him,
Speaker 1: whether it's subconscious or it doesn't in the back of
Speaker 1: his brain, doesn't help. But what did the macho man say?
Speaker 1: Tream rises to the top. He also said, oh no,
Speaker 1: the cream rises to the top. So if Boone Nicks
Speaker 1: really is the real deal holy Field, then it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He'll be prosperous and he'll still do well in his
Speaker 1: career somewhere else. You know what else he said doesn't
Speaker 1: define him as a player. Smith, Oh you marry me?
Speaker 1: He did say. He also said, snap into it, So
Speaker 1: anyway we're gonna get into it. The phone calls eight seven,
Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox. I want to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Where the the backup, the understudy had a moment or
Speaker 1: maybe is something you did that was stuff we see
Speaker 1: in movies we see it in the sports, but it
Speaker 1: happens in real life where you had to step out,
Speaker 1: look around the studio. Who would you say is the
Speaker 1: most honorable man in here? Not you look? Don't you
Speaker 1: take a look at Dan Bayer, Damn by Man. Damn
Speaker 1: Byer jokingly says, let's say like Monsey or Isaac fills
Speaker 1: in from he goes, Oh, it seems like you guys
Speaker 1: have phone without me. No, Damn Byers secretly saying, I'm
Speaker 1: the number one dog around here. Don't don't you forget it, Dan,
Speaker 1: don't let him put words in your mouth.
Speaker 6: Listen, no, listen, know you guys, if this has been
Speaker 6: my thing for years, We've had this conversation before, I've
Speaker 6: told you Cavino, remember you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: When we would fill in for you guys, Yes, yes,
Speaker 6: I know where you're going and someone would say, gosh,
Speaker 6: came into Cavino and rich our back. Steve is trying
Speaker 6: so hard to not smile. He likes the tweets. It's
Speaker 6: been it's it's it's always been my thing. I think
Speaker 6: everybody wants to be missed. I said it with link
Speaker 6: Kiffen and LS. But you want your an old miss
Speaker 6: team to fail. Maybe that's extreme, but listen, you're right.
Speaker 6: When someone's like, man can't wait for caveto to come back,
Speaker 6: you'll like the tweet. I agree with that sentiment.
Speaker 1: Failing is another thing you think if dan byern Montsi
Speaker 1: you're feeling in for our show? Right? Do you miss
Speaker 1: Rachel just liking tweets without looking at what you think?
Speaker 1: I want them to fall in their face and suck?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, because dan Byer is great. Do I want
Speaker 1: them to be better than us? No? I want them
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Speaker 1: Let's go to your phone calls, rapid fire. What are
Speaker 1: you thinking? Backups times you stepped up and deep down
Speaker 1: inside do you think? But what what do you think?
Speaker 1: Bow Nicks wants a victory for his team? Okay, that's
Speaker 1: up for debate. Let's go to Idaho and let's hand
Speaker 1: a monster. What's up? Man?
Speaker 7: Hey, boys, thanks for taking a call, first time, long time.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Buddy.
Speaker 7: I gotta tell you Peyton's a hell of a coach.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 7: Okay, and Boone Nicks is the most left on quarterback.
Speaker 8: In the NFL instead of them.
Speaker 7: With the way Peyton coaches, he's gonna step up.
Speaker 8: He's gonna do it possible.
Speaker 7: I mean, they're the dogs, but it's gonna happen home.
Speaker 1: Dogs have done historically well in conference championships. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if that means anything to you, but there
Speaker 1: it is. Louisiana and Mike. What's up? Mike?
Speaker 7: Hey, I've got a statement for you. See if jogs
Speaker 7: your memory, Bernie co Sar Super Bowl Champion? Is that
Speaker 7: ring a bell?
Speaker 1: That doesn't really ring a bell.
Speaker 7: No, okay, well here we go. Aikman takes a need
Speaker 7: of the head, goes out in the second second Super
Speaker 7: Bowl run against the Niners. Co Star comes in, finishes
Speaker 7: the game and without co Sar there's no back to
Speaker 7: back against the Bills. And is Apeman a super Bowl champ?
Speaker 7: And that particular Super Bowl was a one week rest,
Speaker 7: So Aikman came back pre concussion protocol, he would not
Speaker 7: have been cleared, obviously, he came back on one week arrest.
Speaker 7: Was not himself. EMMITTT. Smith, you know, ran him to
Speaker 7: the Super Bowl. But yeah, you know that's an example.
Speaker 7: No co Star was at the end of his career, but.
Speaker 1: At that stage he was a he was a fine
Speaker 1: looking back up. Mike. Let me ask you, do you
Speaker 1: think and again I'm not trying to be dramatic here,
Speaker 1: but do you think deep down inside bow Knicks is like, well,
Speaker 1: a little cautious, like I don't know if I wanted
Speaker 1: to do two well, or do you think he's just
Speaker 1: such a team guy.
Speaker 7: I think that's two. He wants to win.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: I agree with everything he said right there, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a reminder that it's a team sport. That's
Speaker 1: that's really what it is. Yeah, but in football, the
Speaker 1: quarterback is such a face. There's no other sport like
Speaker 1: in basketball, it could be your best player, center, point
Speaker 1: guard for it. It doesn't matter. In baseball, the face of
Speaker 1: your team could be a pitcher, first baseman, DH. In football,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time, the face of your
Speaker 1: franchise is your quarterback. But these opportunities leave room for
Speaker 1: other people to step up. I see it all the time.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Indiana and Rob what's up? Rob? Hey?
Speaker 1: Rob Hand?
Speaker 7: What's up?
Speaker 5: Guy?
Speaker 7: So that's kind of a week take. So next one thing,
Speaker 7: his faith is big in him and he is a
Speaker 7: selfless person.
Speaker 8: Two.
Speaker 7: Rich is one of these guys that breaks up with
Speaker 7: the girl and then roots for her to get fat
Speaker 7: and ugli when he's.
Speaker 1: Done with her. Oh, well, I do that too. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie for that. I'm just kidding. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, he makes a good points, very strong in
Speaker 1: his faith. He's a very faithful Christian. He doesn't well,
Speaker 1: he's not supposed to think that way. It's a terrible
Speaker 1: way to think. I want my team to fail if
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be there I'm saying, it's business
Speaker 1: as well. And by the way, I do, I root
Speaker 1: for my exes to do the same, to do well,
Speaker 1: wears off. She's just not as good as me. All right,
Speaker 1: let's say hi to Josh in Washington State.
Speaker 8: Hey, how's it gone?
Speaker 1: Hold on, do you think Doug gott leaves rooting for
Speaker 1: Stu Gotts. I believe he was asked about it. I
Speaker 1: think there's an article about it somewhere. I'm just saying, like, nope,
Speaker 1: come on, give me a break. What's up, Josh. What's up, Josh, Josh, Josh.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jerome and Charleston. What's up Drome.
Speaker 8: I just want to tell you bull Knicks. You're saying
Speaker 8: what you said about bo Nicks that is some of
Speaker 8: the most preposterous BF I've probably heard, and I heard
Speaker 8: a lot of bs out of people's mouth. It's this
Speaker 8: white guy told me the one reason I got accepted
Speaker 8: into the military I spent like almost nine years in
Speaker 8: the Air Force was because I was black. I said,
Speaker 8: I don't know, can't tell you what my name wants.
Speaker 1: Wait, you're telling me, you're telling me my Bownick statement
Speaker 1: is more preposterous than that idiot that said that to you.
Speaker 8: No, high up there.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's pretty hot, right, so second only to a
Speaker 1: racist idiot you bumped into. Is my dumb statement about Bonet? No, no,
Speaker 1: because I'll take true to what you're saying, Rich, but
Speaker 1: you're taking it one step too far. Nobody wants you
Speaker 1: to have a better time, or better experience, or a
Speaker 1: greater victory without you, right, Yeah, but you don't want
Speaker 1: everyone else to fail at your expense either. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to be missed. Everybody wants to be missed.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he wants his team to lose.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. Yeah, you hit it on the nail.
Speaker 2: There was a time cove where I had CoA in
Speaker 2: the what is it the NIEU at the hospital, and
Speaker 2: so I missed a couple of day, a few days,
Speaker 2: and I remember thinking, I don't want the show to
Speaker 2: go off the rails. I did everything I could on
Speaker 2: my phone, my laptop, and I listened to everybody was
Speaker 2: having fun, made sure everything was going smooth. I want
Speaker 2: the show to fail, but you want to come back
Speaker 2: and have people say, man, it wasn't the same without you.
Speaker 2: Thank god Danny's back. So Rich, it is like ninety
Speaker 2: eight percent. I want it to go good. Probably two
Speaker 2: percent of those ill feelings.
Speaker 1: And I'm not backtracking. I'm just saying I'm talking about
Speaker 1: that two percent. Maybe that two percent is tucked away
Speaker 1: there somewhere, But everyone wants to feel wanted in a family,
Speaker 1: in a marriage, and a job. Everywhere you are, you
Speaker 1: want to feel wanted. And I know bo Nix is
Speaker 1: a leader and a good man of faith, so I
Speaker 1: know you guys could come down on me. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying there is a little part of them, little part
Speaker 1: of it. It's like, all right, let's slow down now,
Speaker 1: because if Jared Sidham plays well, goes to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: wins the Super Bowl, the city of Denver will just
Speaker 1: put Jared Sidham on this pedestal. And bo Nicks just
Speaker 1: is sort of like, hey.
Speaker 2: Guys, I think that's where the two percent could increase.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all great athletes. Stidham's gonna step up.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It makes me think of too rich, how it was
Speaker 1: so blatantly obvious when Montana and Steve Young were playing together,
Speaker 1: like neither one of them wanted each other to do
Speaker 1: that much better than the other person. He openly said
Speaker 1: I'm better than the other guy. Funny but different. These
Speaker 1: guys have to feel that way and think that way.
Speaker 1: It's just part of the game. Now, competitor, Now, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. I think that I'm also thinking this
Speaker 1: because remember, earlier in the year, even really intelligent, reputable
Speaker 1: guys like Colin Cowherb and other folks are saying at times,
Speaker 1: we're not quite sure bo Nix is the answer, right.
Speaker 1: Remember there's been narratives where it's like they're good, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. If bo Nix is the guy out
Speaker 1: when Fred Warner's hurt and he's rooting for the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, I believe it because it's undeniable. He's the best.
Speaker 1: Bow Nicks is still trying to prove himself. If bo
Speaker 1: Nicks was a that's what I meant rises to the
Speaker 1: top of boon Nicks is that guy anyway, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be that guy. But if bo Nicks was Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Mahomes got hurt and he was rooting for the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: I would believe more that Mahomes is rooting for the
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks. Whoever it is is not Mahomes, bo Nicks
Speaker 1: is replaceable. That's all.
Speaker 4: But by Jared's didn't Bonnicks got you the number one?
Speaker 4: I mean the defense really got in the number one
Speaker 4: seed like that. Offense was hard to watch at times,
Speaker 4: but he was good in the playoffs up until his injury.
Speaker 1: Well we shall see. Let's go to dB for an update. Hey, dB, glad,
Speaker 1: I riled you guys up a little bit. What's up?
Speaker 6: dB, Guy's a story that is happening right now. In golf,
Speaker 6: Scottie Scheffler leads the American Express at seventeen under par,
Speaker 6: but he shares the lead with eighteen year old Blades Brown,
Speaker 6: turn professional last year during his senior year of high
Speaker 6: school when he was seventeen years old. He has a
Speaker 6: birdie putt on the eighteenth hole to shoot fifty nine.
Speaker 6: It would be the fifteenth sub sixty round and PGA
Speaker 6: Tour history. Damn doing it in the in Palm Desert
Speaker 6: at the Nicholas Tournament course. They play a bunch of
Speaker 6: different courses for this tournament, so a bit of history.
Speaker 6: So while Scotty Shuffer's name grabs a lot of the headlines,
Speaker 6: the youngster eighteen year old I looked it up. He
Speaker 6: was born in May of two thousand and seven. Wow,
Speaker 6: on May twenty, I'm like, I probably remember what I
Speaker 6: did that day. Yeah, you know, it's like.
Speaker 1: Did you watch an Apple TV's stick. No, it's like
Speaker 1: that young golfer santy is.
Speaker 6: You know, I've not any talking about but I you know,
Speaker 6: you've talked about this show a lot. The Uh it's
Speaker 6: one of the the shows that just has not made
Speaker 6: it yet to the top of the queue.
Speaker 1: dB. I know you're big golfer. Are you going to
Speaker 1: do the TikTok trend where you see guys are golfing
Speaker 1: and there's a sound clip of Tiger woodsand. Oh nice shot.
Speaker 1: Many people are doing like, Yeah, I went, I went
Speaker 1: golfing with Tiger. Yes, yes, I've seen.
Speaker 6: The Buffalo Bills today interviewed Philip Rivers for their head
Speaker 6: coaching vacancy. Yes, that Philip Rivers. They also spoke with
Speaker 6: Mike McDaniel, the former Dolphins head coach and current Chargers
Speaker 6: offensive coordinator after he took the job earlier. This week
Speaker 6: AFC Championship Game, it will be the Patriots and Broncos.
Speaker 1: No JK.
Speaker 6: Dobbins for Denver he was activated or they opened up
Speaker 6: the twenty one day practice window I should say, but
Speaker 6: not activated in time for AFC Championship game on Sunday,
Speaker 6: so they will not have JK. Dobbins. The Broncos won't.
Speaker 6: Patriots want of Harold Landry for the game. Seahawks have
Speaker 6: Sam Darnold off the injury report. He's ready to start
Speaker 6: despite that oblique issue. The twenty twenty six college football
Speaker 6: playoff bracket will continue to have twelve teams in the
Speaker 6: bracket next season. Indiana's Fernando Mendozas declared for the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty six NFL Draft. Cornerback DiAngelo Ponds also turning bro Finally,
Speaker 6: the NCAA will allow division to want schools to wear
Speaker 6: commercial advertisement logos and patches on uniforms starting on August first.
Speaker 6: A maximum of four logos or patches will be allowed
Speaker 6: to be placed on uniforms.
Speaker 2: Guys, back to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, and you know what. Speaking of Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: we've got to talk about him too. We gotta talk
Speaker 1: about this and play brainwave. We got prizes to give away,
Speaker 1: weekend hobnobbing and more. Let's do it more. Next right here, Covino, Rich,
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the show. Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: we're gonna go over our picks this weekend Conference Championship weekend,
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Speaker 1: What is it? I meet my my girl softball team today?
Speaker 1: Today's practice one with my daughter is eight U team.
Speaker 1: We're coming up with a team name today and we're
Speaker 1: the Red team. So if you get what would be
Speaker 1: a cool name for a red team for girls eight
Speaker 1: and younger? Think of that? Hey, DM me at rich
Speaker 1: Davis because today we're picking a team name. And I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I should probably come with a
Speaker 1: couple of cool ideas. I am the coach. I was
Speaker 1: thinking the Heartbreakers. One of the kids is one of
Speaker 1: my daughter's friends, Like what about the hot Cheetos? Like
Speaker 1: that's cool. They could be the red hot Cheetos and
Speaker 1: they could get like socks or something. The ginger snaps yeah,
Speaker 1: like Joe, Hey, Shirley Temples, the Shirley Temples. Honestly, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of little Mexican kids on your team.
Speaker 1: How about the red Hot Cholo Peppers. Oh, the red
Speaker 1: Hot Cholo how about that? You gotta think too, that's
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Speaker 1: He goes rich The reality is the perfect scenario for
Speaker 1: bo Nicks if Denver keeps winning, but totally on the
Speaker 1: back of the defense, where it's like, well, Denver's defense
Speaker 1: is just you know, they stop everything in special ahead,
Speaker 1: like if Denver wins, because let's say they beat the
Speaker 1: Patriots thirteen to six and in the Super Bowl it's
Speaker 1: like a low scoring game and it's really just the defense.
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks secures his job well. At the same time,
Speaker 1: he could be happy for his teammates and his team.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens this weekend. I have a prediction
Speaker 1: on and you'll hear about it. All right, Well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do our Super Bowl predictions. Plus we're gonna do
Speaker 1: brain Wave, which is slowly becoming, i think one of
Speaker 1: the more popular games around here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: That's where you have to decide, are you on the
Speaker 1: same brainwave as all the defices on the show? Can
Speaker 1: you can you think the way we find Oh it's
Speaker 1: more than one. Defense is a fight Ploralf'm sorry, dude, fight.
Speaker 1: Oh can I give you one more backup? That really
Speaker 1: stepped up in the clutch. Let's take it back from
Speaker 1: Danny Zuko on thunder Road when Kanicki went down, Danny
Speaker 1: Zuko stepped up. Oh no, I was gonna say, uh,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Jefferson when he took over for
Speaker 1: Steve on Married with Children. Oh, that's a great one,
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh, man, I know he was great.
Speaker 1: Danny g loved the new aunt viv Is that Can
Speaker 1: you say that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Way, No, you know that's a really great example because
Speaker 1: everybody loved Steve and then Jefferson came in. You're like, oh, wait,
Speaker 1: but I like Jefferson too. That's cool. You know what,
Speaker 1: because Coucher didn't do as good of a job when
Speaker 1: Gean was Charlie Sheen. You know what, I know that
Speaker 1: Michael J. Fox sort of loved when no one liked
Speaker 1: teen Wolf Jason Bateman. Right, yeah, but you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a real one. Nineteen ninety two, we
Speaker 1: were all kids. Frank Reich in that amazing Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: playoff game. It was only a wildcard game, but one
Speaker 1: of the most remarkable games ever. He was a backup
Speaker 1: obviously for Jim Kelly, and that was just a memorable game,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest comebacks ever. So there you go,
Speaker 1: all right, more Covino and Ratch will do our picks
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