Covino & Rich - Week 5...Make You Go Hmm!

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Coveno and Rich podcast.

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Speaker 1: Fun fishball all here on Coveno.

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Speaker 2: The by the way, is Jalen Hurt's wearing a chef's hat at the press conference?

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Speaker 1: What is that? I gotta put my glasses on? What the hell is that?

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Speaker 2: No? He lost, so it was like a bet, like you lose against the Broncos, you gotta wear this funny ass hat.

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Speaker 1: That is the weakest thing. How did I miss that tear? I know it makes me go hmm.

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Speaker 2: And, as we do every Monday, your observations from this weekend in the world of football life, whatever we get you involved at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox or broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Video Studio again Steve Cabino, Rich Davis, Danny g Sam Spotty dB and you let's right out now do it? I could have looked this up, but I forgot. Is this the earliest in a long time there hasn't been an undefeated team in the NFL through five weeks. I feel like every year that's at least one five and oh team like four and one's your best record shared by a handful of teams. But both undefeated teams picked up an L. They took an L yesterday, Eagles and Bills last night. So you're looking at a league of parody. And no one's that great, no one's unbeatable. But I feel like there's always one team that, maybe even just based on strength of schedule, makes it at least five or six weeks undefeated.

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, I mean real four to five week predicted. That's it.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens being booed, right, But I hope you had a Texans, Saints, Broncos, Buccaneers, Pats sort of weekend, not in Arizona, Cardinals, New York Yankees sort.

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Speaker 1: Of weekend, and I could throw Mark Sanchez.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna try to avoid that, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: But I do.

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Speaker 2: What a story that was over the weekend. You know what's a better story, Taylor Swifts new album or that Mark Sanchez story, the Mark Sanchez story. You know, it's all sensitive and terrible, Like, no, there was a stabbing. Lives are almost lost. The pictures of the other guy are gruesome, Danny, you and I were saying, it's just it was a.

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Speaker 1: A range of emotions.

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Speaker 2: At first, it's like, oh my god, you thought someone probably just f with Mark Sanchez because maybe he's wearing a nice watch or he's a celebrity. And then you're like, oh my god, I hope he lives. Oh my god, thank god. It went from prayers for Mark Sanchez, which people still have to.

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Speaker 1: He was the aggressive Wait a minute, he was the guy.

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Speaker 2: What exactly? Yeah, very weird developments. There's videos coming out as we speak. Terrible, terrible story. We'll touch on that a little bit, but not too much. Plus will play some games called Last One Standing. We do it every Monday. We give away prizes. Lebron's in the news and by the way, we won't touch on it because we choose not to. I have people hit me up being like you guys were for Fox Sports. Did they tell you not to talk about it? No one tells us. Honestly, no one has ever told us don't talk about blank, Well, it means in your own head, but I don't know all the details. Mark Sanchez has always been nice to us. Who knows what the real false story is?

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Speaker 1: So what the hell are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: It makes me go hmmm, for sure, no doubt, And that's where we start to show. But again, hope you had a great weekend. Spooky season is here. I'm busting out jeans for the first time of the season. So it's that time of year guys out here in California. Oh, I hope you had a nice one. Hope you have a great fall at Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty always has a great fall. Hey, Sam, are you invest in this fall? Are you gonna rock a vest like Martin McFly, because that's the look.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely will. But didn't Humpty Dumpty fall and crack his eggshell? No, dude.

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Speaker 2: He walked around the foliage, he got a pumpkin spice latte, he went apple picking. Yeah, he had a hell of a fall. He had a great fall. That's pro visionist history here. Yeah, I mean the Humpty Dumpty great fall. Max Freed not sorry, Aaron Judge debatable. I don't know he's got to come up in the big moments. But in the world of foosball, lots of surprises and it doesn't have to be just football. Could be UFC three twenty, it could be the smashing machine at the box office. It only made six million this weekend, so a while you go. Meanwhile, thirty three million dollars worth of people watching Taylor Swift discuss her album.

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Speaker 1: So that's where we're at.

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Speaker 2: But I do want to start with your Yankees real quick before you dive into all the football.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. One, a guy like Max Freed, who's.

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Speaker 2: Been arguably a top three pitcher in baseball all years. You have the motion he's in that conversation when you say who dominated you know, schoo ball and schemes and Freed those to me, Zach Wheeler got hurt, Crochet, Crochet. It's really unfortunate when your team makes the postseason and the guy that really put the team on his back anytime you needed a guy to stop the losing, stopped the bleeding, as they say. I think he was eleven and one after a Yankees loss. So if ever there was a time, yeah, now eleven and two, if you kept the postseason, if there was ever a time to stop the bleeding and get to win. It was the game two yesterday. And what's disheartening about that, and any sports fan could relate, is you wait all year for these moments only to watch your team fizzle like that. It's the worst, So it must win tomorrow. Basically, if you don't know what we're talking about, the Yankees got schlid on yesterday, a little taste of their own medicine. A rookie for the Blue Jays came out, shut him down, and shut it down. Now the Blue Jay's just teeing off on Max Freed, So you have to admit if you were not a Yankees fan.

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Speaker 1: By the way, that's a player's name, to be clear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kem Slittler is the Yankees saving grace. The rookie star that came through, well, guess what Blue Jays was it? Ya Savage? Yesovich, He was savage yesterday against the Yankees. Came through and dominated with eleven strikeouts of his own. So Yankees got shut down. They look like ass. They might be ass and it was not fun to watch. One last Yankee thought, unless you're a Blue jaysan One less Yankee though, before we get into football. More people's heads in the football game right now. But if you are at a Yankees fan, could you at least admit how electric that crowd in Toronto looked when Vladdie Junior hit that grand Salami. It was the most predictable grand salami that ever was. Meaning like, you're like, they get a groove of one. Arn had no choice but the groove one down there, Laddie's sitting there tease off on it, and it was just so obvious. In fact, there's a funny viral clip of John Boy totally predicting it, and I felt the same way watching it. I'm like, here it is, this is a grand slam coming grooves one bam. Game over sucked, Will Warren, he's cheeks, he's straight buns. As the kids say in these moments, again, you gotta step up. So a week weekend for this guy, especially since I was driving my daughter around like her personal chauffeur trying to find sweet sixteen dresses.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, No, that's a good day the sports.

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Speaker 2: It's a special But at the same time, I do want to just sit back and relax a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But I hope your weekend was good. I hope it was better than the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: Hope it was better than Will Warren's and Max Frez and Hey, national games tonight, National League fans, Tonight, your night, Danny g You're gonna go off two to zero in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: In just about an hour. First pitch, Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 2: See if you don't name this what we were talking, He's like, he named all three series and he forgot Milwaukee versus the Cubs, and he goes, no, no one cares, no, it's it's not that I was just speaking from the heart, meaning I was thinking that the Dodgers Philly series was the more exciting one to talk about. Good save would just insult everybody else. Cubs, you know, that's an exciting one too. So we'll enjoy some games tonight and some Monday Night football. But like we always do, can you not want to ignore the sixth spot the Brewers put up in the first inning the other day in Game one?

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Speaker 1: He just think, you know, yeah, I remember.

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Speaker 3: It was like two years ago when the Rams beat the Seahawks in Week one and Cavino came in, He's like, oh, he had.

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Speaker 1: A forty hours. It was right.

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Speaker 3: There was a Rams weekend John Ramos is whooping it up, and I'm like, screw you.

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Speaker 1: I remember that now that you bring it up. Yeah, he holds onto these things. Man never like cho Yeah he does. They always say that a buyer never forgets, right, that is true.

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Speaker 2: You're so fun heard that, So you know, I hope your weekend was better than the Yankees weekend. I hope your weekend was better than Mark sanchez Is weekend, and how about better than Amari Demarcado. Why does this happen multiple times a year? We talk about it every year, so I don't want to repeat something we said maybe six months a year, two years ago, three years ago, every freaking year, this time this year, right, there's got to be an explanation, and my explanation. I remember we even posted a video about this on our Instagram Patrick a year ago. Because it's happened, and my take hasn't changed. When a guy goes for a pick six or bust open a big run or catches a slant and he's going to the house, when the guy drops the ball at like the half yard line and the play is null and void and he ruined the whole moment. It's simply one thing and one thing.

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Speaker 1: Only show voting.

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Speaker 2: There's no other explanation other than yo, I burnt you, I beat you, and like in the most arrogant, douchey way, you're just like, I'm so apathetic. As I cross the goal line, I'm just gonna drop the ball. Like there's it's the biggest bumble fumble of the weekend. Other explanation like in other sports, right, what are we saying? Baseball when a guy doesn't run out of a ground ball and then the guy bobbles it and he would have been safe if he had busted out of the box, Or you know when a guy doesn't get back on defense in the NBA and you're like, she's just hot dogging it and they got caught.

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Speaker 1: It was the weakest, you know what.

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Speaker 2: It was one of the things that made me go, hmmm this weekend, let's get into it, because I think things that make you.

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Speaker 1: Go, things that make your goal.

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Speaker 2: When you think of some of the bad things we saw over the weekend, the Bills, the Yankees, Mark Sanchez, Penn State, the Cardinals come to mind immediately. I think it was the weakest play of them all because they needed one more play to blow the game.

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Speaker 4: Out.

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Speaker 2: I think it was twenty one six in the fourth quarter. They needed one more big score. That's your call of the day. That was the play, and Amari Demcardo breaks open seventy two yard run to hot dog get right there and like Bridge said, after we see time and time again, right we as the fan, no, like, don't do that, don't make that mental stupid mistake. Get in the end zone, then do your stupid dance. Drops the ball right there at the half yard line, and that was it, and they end up losing the game as a result. That is pathetic. That is the biggest thing that made me go more over the weekend. Someone's unfortunate, no good that that was it, Alexander. I'm sorry, Amari Democardo's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. It was just the beginning of a series of like just remarkably odd plays that went against the card. Again, they would have been it would have been twenty eight to six had they scored there, and they end up losing that game.

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Speaker 1: That's pathetic.

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Speaker 5: How about the video that's gone viral that I sent you guy of his coach lighting him up.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well observingly so man, and then he did say at the press conference it should never come down to one play, and I mean, he really had his back there, but it really was that one play that unraveled everything. Dan Bayer and I would be in agreement that we laugh at it, being that his Seahawks and my Niners are in that division.

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Speaker 1: That was.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember last year I'm gonna reference last year. Remember when the Bears lost on a hail Mary when the secondary was cheering in the end zone before the game was over. Yeah, oh yeah, and then after that the wheels came off the Bears. We forget the Bears are right there for the first quarter of the season with the Lie and the Packers, and and then the wheels fell off after that botched hail Mary. The Cardinals win that game. Yesterday, they're three and two with the Rams and Seahawks. The Niners are four and one and they're playing Tampa this week, And as a Niners fan, I can't be confident. The Bucks look really good. So you're talking about your one game behind in the division. The Niners play the Bucks, which you could argue that the Bucks likely could win this game, so you could be even in your division.

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Speaker 1: Now you're at the bottom of two and three.

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Speaker 2: I think this could be the moment where the Cardinals are just because now you know who the Cardinals play going forward. If you want to schedule watch a little bit, you know, I love to look at the schedule.

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Speaker 4: Although Rich loves to look at the schedule. Game schedule watching, Yeah, schedule watching the sub schedule, watch it. I love schedule watching, sub schedule watch him.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the new Mark and Lewis. I think that's new Market and Lewis. They in Indianapolis at the Colts and the Cults are four and one. The Coults look good. So now you're two and four. Then you play the Packers, you'd be two and five. Then you play at the Cowboys, who show or have shown that they're better than we thought, right, And then you play at.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks that that game could have been.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna look back and say the wheels fell off with that game. That was a nightmare play and nightmare moment. Again, they could have put the game away in the fourth quarter. I think there was like twelve minutes left. It would have been twenty eight to six the Titans. Then you want to give props to the Titans go right ahead, because then they had to do everything right moving forward and they had to get in at least field goal range, which they did with another great play, and they win twenty two were you're forgetting, You're forgetting an interception that was then dropped and bumbled around it, and they scored sixteen points in the fourth. So props to the Titans. But the Cardinals, as they say in baseball, Amari Demcardo, pulled a major boner this weekend.

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Speaker 1: They lost to the Tennessee ass. I mean, we're keeping a book right now, we ass totally they lost to the Tennessee ass Tennessee a cheeks.

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Speaker 3: The Cardinals had a third and seven and ran the ball on third down, which they then punted it back to Tennessee with like two minutes left. They're only up by two. Like in that situation, let Kyler Murray do it. Kyler Murray tries to do or make a play or do something. Yeah, it was a whole, a whole comedy of airs. And by the way, the Titans weren't even perfect down the stretch. Remember they missed a extra point, you know, like on the ensuing possession after the fumble.

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Speaker 2: But tbe who was on the call for the Eagles TORONCOS game. Is that Tony Romo? Whoever it was, Oh, it's Tony Romo, but he just looks different.

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Speaker 1: Now have you seen nobody?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but actually I don't know who whoever was on the call was saying. I think it was Romo might have been saying, now like that different rich He was saying, how Sean Payton dialed up a great play on third down with a minute and a half left.

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Speaker 1: He had bow Knicks rollout, had a couple looks.

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Speaker 2: But then if those looks aren't there, then you try to scramble because you don't want to. You don't want to do The worst thing you could do in those scenarios is meaninglessly run the ball on third and long knowing you're not going to get the first down, or the other worst thing to do is throw the ball stop the clock for the other team. So they were saying, how, how are more team like Sean Payton designed a play where bow Knicks rolled out, looked, was had coverage, second look covered, snuck for.

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Speaker 1: A couple of yards. For now it's worked down.

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Speaker 2: It's I'm shocked how that we're going to run it three times and just sort of submit to this being a a three downs and punt.

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Speaker 1: That's just it's bad football, really bad football.

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Speaker 3: And I was talking with Kerrie Rhodes, who I work with on Sundays, and even just off there, I think this is a secret conversation. It feels just like half the coaches in the NFL can't coach. They can't like there's like sixteen really good coaches, and maybe that's not accurate number, but there's just way too many things that are slipping through the cracks and situations that you think that you should be able to come up with at least something in those moments and you're just not seeing it weekend.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes you get away with one and again they won the game, so I'm happy. But if you want to go back to Thursday, even do remember when the Niners the forty nine ers caused that goal line fumble.

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Speaker 1: I remember they had the ball left, They had the ball with like.

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Speaker 2: A minute left. Kyle Shanahan just ran the ball up the gut three times and punted. And I'm not saying I know it's a little risky to throw at that part of the field with mac Jroones your backup, but they gave the Rams good field position, field goal tied, the game went to overtime and luckily the Niners escape. But you could argue he got the ball back when a guy fumbled on the one yard line, one first down, you win that game. Yeah, And even Kyle Shanahan, who is a genius, sometimes makes them like oddly conservative, like I just run up the gut three time, interesting coaching moves, interesting plays, bonehead plays. And it was Tony Romo that side story. My reference, if you don't know, is there's a lot of speculation on social media about why does he look so different? And I don't look. I'm not here to make an opinion there. He does look different, but maybe it's makeup. It's like it's getting older.

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Speaker 1: Who the hell knows.

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Speaker 5: A couple of years ago, Alex Rodriguez, remember when he got dark from the sun.

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Speaker 2: Romo is Mexican. Yeah, maybe he just got a sweet tan I don't know, but something, something does exchange recognized. People are saying, uh, he looks tanner in his face is chubby. Whatever he can do, he doesn't play every day.

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Speaker 1: Don't change you know what. Yeah, it could be bad makeup, who the hell knows?

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Speaker 2: Or maybe you remember back in the day where there was the uh, the rumor that Avril Vine it wasn't really her, she had she had passed away and there was like a filling out. It makes me say, hmm no, And I will say this, I don't wanna. I don't want to pour assault in the wounds pun intended, because there was a lot of them. But I think Mark Sanchez drops in the Mexican quarterback rankings because it's probably Tony Romo, Jeff Garcia and then Mark Sanchez. Now I don't want to make let me say this very clearly, I'm not making light of anything that happened to Mark Sanchez.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, or that dude over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: But this story, like this is not the way Mark Sanchez wanted people to forget about the butt fumble, because it's like yo, that like like now there's another more terrible, a real terrible story that follows this guy, like it just a guy with a great career it has always been nice to us, has an embarrassing story and a horrible story that are now attached to him. It's it's sort of unfortunate. This one's hard to recover fromhim and we'll talk about him. Is there an escape plan for anything? Is there a way he lands a job down the road or something, or is it this is Yeah, there's an escape plan. The video and the footage and everything that's coming out as we speak makes it harder. The Yeah, pictures of the sixty nine year old truck driver in the host that doesn't help. But if it's something more serious than just drinking, right, it could be. It could be CTE. I don't want to overspeculate, but if it was right, then yeah, I think that he has more of a of a case to be forgiven. Yeah, well we shall say again some sort of PT not for us side, right, Yeah, no traumatic but fumble disorder. You know, if there's something else involved, then I think there's a chance years from now to.

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Speaker 1: Be forgiven.

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Speaker 2: And it's also how it's handled, I think, by the family of this poor guy. So so, yeah, lots went down this weekend. Things that made you go, we'll take your phone calls now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I think the biggest one so far, Rich, besides the questionable calls that you talked about, is the Samari the Marcrado thing, Because you make this seventy two yard run. We're watching it now on TV two. You can't cross the end zone before you drop the ball, Like, how do you not know that? And at this stage of the game.

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Speaker 5: By now, we've never seen this in back to back NFL weeks where it changed a game. It just bothers me because so much Mitchell last week that the Colts could be five and oh potentially.

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Speaker 2: You know what it feels like the NYG when you have a professional baseball player and you can't lay down a bunt and it's like, dude, you're a professional baseball player and you struck out trying to lay down a bunt or you pop one up laying Now you couldn't do the basics. It's as simple as like, it's just simple fundamentals and a mental error to just drop the ball in that.

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Speaker 1: Way, all into the frameworok framework of honestly just showing off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's also just in you guys started the show and talking about how there's no undefeateds. I don't think anybody in the NF in the NFL is great. So the saying of ball don't lie is sometimes it's overused, but I think it's entirely accurate for what we saw just this past weekend in the National Football League. What team of the thirty two do you think is worthy of being five and zero. Doesn't mean that they should have won this game, or could have won that game, or this could have been there. I just think the league as a whole, it's very interesting. And if you're the Cardinals, you could sit there and point to all those things. But if you're mistaken making mistakes like this, you probably should be two and three at that point.

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Speaker 2: And you could argue that, Wow, New England, you know New England is with all the new personnel, new coaching and everything. Like I'm that break after Belichick and Brady where they did stink it up for a little while. Maybe we got to put that Patriots team in our in the back of our mind too, because this new Patriots team seems like a mid level team. This is not a bottom feeding Patriots team anymore. No, they play hard, not even close. They turned them all over five times against the Steelers and lost by a touchdown, you know, last night Buffalo. To answer your question, dB, you're saying, how no one's really sticking out?

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Speaker 1: The Bills are the one team where you're like, well, you know, I mean Josh Allen and that there there. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: There's a pool that we're in at serious X and the Cavino and I still take part in. It's like five bucks a week and there's like a couple hundred people and you have to do a four for four parlay. And just to show you how hard a four for four parlay is, sometimes one hundred people, no one hits four for four, and the money carries over to the next week. So do the math after two weeks, like five hundred bucks on a five dollars entry and I house three for three. No one else was going into last night, I needed Buffalo minus eight and I was like, oh, I'm looking good.

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Speaker 1: Nope, carries over one more week.

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Speaker 2: So last night when you see Josh Allen, especially, they're at home, they wearing those sweet ash uniforms. The crowd is I uniform all matching. We're in there the white out. They they look like they look like ass.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like Blake buns. They did. They looked average. The spirit of Pale Belichick is coming back to haunt the a.

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Speaker 3: There were some wards showing at Buffalo over the last couple of weeks. The record just kind of covered it up when we saw him when went to the game in week three, when it called in prior. You know, against the Dolphins, they weren't perfect, but they they were able to manage some stuff.

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Speaker 1: And last night that wasn't the case. You know what, We're gonna take all your feedback. Next I'm gonna throw one more out there.

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Speaker 2: I'll throw them a little bait hook line and sink you guys observations things that made you go hm.

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Speaker 1: We said it a couple.

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Speaker 2: Weeks ago, and my goodness, we weren't the only ones, but could we have been more right? We said, the Broncos and the Chargers have a real opportunity to really separate themselves. When the Chiefs started out zho and two and we were like, my goodness, the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs were looking average.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs were looking average, jump out, jump out, And after they win tonight against the Jags, which I think will happen, the Chiefs will be tied for first place after five weeks. And we thought they had an uphill battle. What happened to John? I'm sorry, Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert, the little sideline kisses from Madison Beer aren't working because they would work for me, did you do you?

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Speaker 1: I mean their line has been in chatters, but you got to rise above it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like on their schedule, you thought the Commanders would be a tough game, but that was in la I don't think you thought you'd go to the Meadowlands and lose to the Giants last week.

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Speaker 1: And they just got by Denver the week before.

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Speaker 2: So we thought the Chargers, remember, like weeks one and two, which is why we say you can't ever judge too early. After the first two weeks, Danny, we were all putting the charges in the Bustleow, what did I say about the Chiefs. I'm like, I hear this every year on almost every show on TV and radio. Oh the Chiefs, the chief and what always happens. They always rally in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Always.

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Speaker 2: We always say, give it at least six weeks to make an assessment. So we make an assessment from yesterday. We do it every Monday. We call it things that made you go Hm. We get to your feedback next at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hey, welcome back to the Showgram Covino and Rich streaming live on our YouTube channel, Covino and Rich FSO, which is where you can also get our bonus podcast brand new episode available now Episode one to eleven of over Promised on our YouTube page. I personally think it's one of the best things we do, and we do a lot, no doubt. Man, We got a Patreon, we do music stuff, We have this show. I mean, we love hanging with you. But Uncensored, Unleashed on over Promised again Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube and what other business do we have to take care of our podcast? Guys, Definitely check our podcast, stream our podcast, follow, rate and review for free search Covino and Rich wherever you stream your podcast. And right now, it's a pleasure being here with you again Monday through Friday live on the Fox Sports Radio Studios at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Danny G's on standby waiting just to say hi, I told you, uh, this is big news of my world. I think I'm losing my kids to the Dodgers. I told you this the other day. We're timing. Man, look at the team you're competing with, the dark Side. Yeah, you know, I'm a Mets fan. I'll never change, but I feel like I can't force my kids. They're like, Dad, we like the Mets, but is it cool if we like the Dodgers too?

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Speaker 1: Because all their little school friends like the Dodgers. They are surrounded by it, they Dodger fandom.

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Speaker 2: And I was saying, this is a big one. Over the weekend, my daughter said, Dad, can you change my walk up music? As all the little kids have walk up music for softball and baseball. She comes up to Michael Boublay the Otani Oh boy, the song. Yeah, dude, it's it makes me uh right here, I use a little ballpark DJ.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, here, we go good. And it's fitting because she also pitched recently.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it hurt my harp and I'm like, all right, buddy, I get it's the best.

00:26:49
Speaker 1: So you guys know, I'm a big George. Michael Fanny is my favorite artist.

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Speaker 3: His version of feeling Good was the song that we walked to after we said I do so as we're walking down the aisle. You know that's what beautiful man? Yes, right and right at that point. So it can be a walk down the aisle or a walk up music if you'd like.

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Speaker 1: Is that why you call your show the I Want Your Flex Podcast? Absolutely? Yeah, that's good cross promotion. Yeah, dB, So he doesn't care about you. He just looked that up. That just when I lost faith. Oh no, Dan, you know I look at you as a father figure. So thank you for I appreciate Taylor swift new album.

00:27:30
Speaker 2: Yes, and dB is here, Danny G is here, Sam's her. Thank you Fox Sports Radio Nation for being here every Monday. Things that make you go hmm, we get you involved, like hmm, what made me say hmm? Are we talking enough about Indiana Jones? Are we talking enough about him?

00:27:48
Speaker 1: Danny G.

00:27:49
Speaker 2: When you're watching your Raiders get stomped by the Cult, seriously, what are your thoughts there? Because you have all these hopes with Gino Smith, you're seeing what happens with Daniel Jones forty to six.

00:28:01
Speaker 5: What were your thoughts watching that? It's just been a weird season so far. Rich mentioned how the Patriots aren't the Patriots we know from the past few seasons. Yeah, Raiders look good against him. In week one, Gino Smith came out with a bang, and then he turned into a pumpkin and has been throwing all these picks. He through his ninth interception, and it's weird the Raiders seem and Dan byron I said after Game one, it looked like Carol and his staff made some really good coaching adjustments at halftime of that first game, and ever since, it looks like Pete Carroll and company have been out coached. Their special teams is horrendous, which is weird. They've always had a great punter and kicker and have been good on coverage, and this season, for whatever reason, they can't punt, they can't kick field goals, they can't cover the other team when they're kicking to them.

00:28:46
Speaker 1: So it's I don't know, dude, it's been so weird.

00:28:49
Speaker 2: Well it's kind of ironic because I feel like Gino Smith is the face, like the modern day face of written off and then redeemed himself, came back, got second life and now now back to now.

00:29:01
Speaker 1: Back to the reality bus. Yeah, it's so strange.

00:29:04
Speaker 2: And Daniel Jones is that guy now and well, you know, two hundred and twelve yards two touchdowns, The guy looks impressive. Indiana Doctor Jones is going to be rooting for tonight o Patrick Mahomes because if they beat Jacksonville, sitting alone in first place in the AFC South Indianapolis and the added a wild year right they lost their owner. Who's running the team is you know wildly since we lost Jim Mayor say, just a very interesting and think about where we started with Indianapolis. So I'm great brought them up, could you know? Because remember it was Anthony Richardson and it was like who wha well, hold on, Daniel Jones is.

00:29:43
Speaker 1: Competing with him?

00:29:44
Speaker 2: And then when they said open quarterback battle, let's be honest the don't we all think at first.

00:29:48
Speaker 1: Like you have to say that?

00:29:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now you were hearing the favoritism Daniel Jones, So it's for real because you know, we forget that NFL teams want to win. They they want to win at all costs. So there's no well, we're gonna go with Richardson, regardless he had no big contract yet. So it was interesting to see, Wow, Daniel Jones won the battle. Richardson doesn't seem like he's the guy. And now Richardson, I'm not saying rooting against this team, but you don't think subconsciously he's like, damn, why is Daniel Jones rolling Yo and in the battle of written off quarterbacks, Gino Smith, Daniel Jones, you saw the Buccaneers and Seahawks going at it, and that was a game that made me say, hmm, really good game. That was a really great game. And Baker Mayfield again separating himself, I think, from the pack of quarterbacks that were sort of written off, or as they say, he wasn't written off.

00:30:40
Speaker 1: He was just playing for the Browns.

00:30:43
Speaker 2: But again he then somebody bounced around and he's playing big, three hundred and seventy nine yards, two tuddies and a really great win over the Seahawks four and one, just battling and grinding every game. How could you not like why at least watching the Buccaneers play well, Dan Buyer, your Seahawks fell just short. And I said before, I don't feel comfortable as a Niners fan playing the Bucks next week. They they could secretly be a top two or three NFC team right.

00:31:12
Speaker 3: Now, considering they played yesterday without Bucky Irving and Mike Evans. Yes, I know the Seahawks a defense missing some pieces as well, but Donald up until the last interception, was just as good as Baker Mayfield. But to have the cross country trip that Tampa had to not have Evans, to not have Irving, and to be able to do what they did. Yeah, sitting there at four and one in a division that honestly already feels wrapped up like in the NFC, suald like the Buccaneers are going to be there.

00:31:39
Speaker 1: He is your leading MVP candidate right now.

00:31:41
Speaker 2: Remember two quarterbacks that played together on the same team, Sam Donald and Baker in the Carolina both have a chip on their shoulder a little bit, or as Colin says, Mayfield has that good chip on his shoulder. You know, it's a good ship. And to see them battle in that way and both put up big numbers and both looked good, it was really cool to see. So, you know, just some observations we're making and then we open it up to you eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox things.

00:32:08
Speaker 1: That make you go hmm. But first and first and mostly we got to talk to our guy dB. Let's get it up date my friend.

00:32:14
Speaker 3: We forget Cleveland made the playoffs with Baker, but then they wanted to go in a different direction and kind of forced him out, moved him to Carolina where Sam Darnold already was, and that's how they were teammates, and then the Mayfield experiment didn't work, and funny how everything sorts out. Bengals have a unique quarterback situation right now because Joe Burrow's injured and Jake Browning's just turning the ball over today. Had coach Zach Taylor was asked if Browning's going to remain the starter for Week six against the Packers.

00:32:40
Speaker 1: You see Jake starting on Sunday, We'll see where it goes.

00:32:42
Speaker 6: You know, it's I think I got all personnel decisions. We got to evaluate it. Jake's been very accountable for how the game went for him. I've got to be accountable for how the game went for me as well, and so we'll continue to progress here through the days.

00:32:55
Speaker 1: Not necessarily a vote of confidence.

00:32:57
Speaker 3: In other NFL news, the Chargers are placing running back of mar And Hampton on injured reserve because of the injured ankle suffered in yesterday's loss to the Commanders. Colts kicker Spencer Schrader done for the year with a torn ligament torn ligaments in his knees suffered in yesterday's win over Danny's Raiders. Patriots running back Antonio Gibson done for the year with a torn ACL Lions got the win against the Bengals, but they lost Cornertarry and Arnold for a while. Head coach Dan Campbell said it'll be a long time before Arnold returns from a shoulder injury. Tonight, Chiefs and Jaguars eight fifteen Eastern Time Baseball. Top of the Hour, Dodgers and Phillies. No Harrison Bader in the lineup for the Phillies. He's out because of his growing injury. Comes in Brewers nine Eastern Jackson Turio batting leadoff for Milwaukee, playing left field as they're up one zero and the best of five matchup.

00:33:40
Speaker 1: Guys, back to you, thankste B.

00:33:42
Speaker 2: And as far as things that make you go hmm, I love the meme that's like, well, well, well, let's look at the AFC North Burrow, Floco Lamar, all under five hundred and injured, and look who's just sitting there three and one in a bye week with his feet up, dominating that division. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. Yeah, that's a story that we would not have predicted. And uh, as we said, there's no undefeated teams, there's only one winless team and is what does your mom always say, Steve? And it all comes out in the wash, like do the Jets just permanently stink? The only oh to five team in the NFL?

00:34:19
Speaker 1: Would did Justin Field say something about? Oh what did he say? He got a lot of criticism for it. You know what, think about it? I find out what it is.

00:34:25
Speaker 2: We' still buying into hope, like oh oh, they're like, no team has ever made the playoffs starting you know, oh and five or whatever.

00:34:32
Speaker 1: He goes, well, there's the first time for everything like that. Yeah, maybe not. And we landed on the moon.

00:34:37
Speaker 2: Hey, we got more Kvine on a rich next right here on Fox Sports Radio. By the way, Sam dB said before he's a big George Michaels fan. I thought he meant the George Michael Sports machine, but he actually meant, you know, George Michael of Wham. And this is by far my favorite song. It's such a great song, Freedom ninety four with.

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Speaker 1: All the hot models. Yea, yeah, bro, great video too. BB. Is this a fair one to say it's like just a universally awesome song. Yeah.

00:35:08
Speaker 3: I think this is the one that people will point to, like I think we mentioned Faith earlier. I think Faith is the worst song on the Faith album, but people it's more popular.

00:35:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, however, however, Biscuit version better.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: However, have you seen Dan Byron some tight nim Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're shaking his.

00:35:23
Speaker 1: Booby my leather jacket as well.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, dB is hanging out. He's your grand champion when it comes to last one standing.

00:35:31
Speaker 1: Not today, I'm bringing it today. I'm bringing it today.

00:35:33
Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to work on it because when it comes to process of elimination, just have a mental roadblock.

00:35:41
Speaker 1: Man. It's tough, but that's what makes it fun. It's a battle.

00:35:44
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00:36:04
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00:36:16
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00:36:17
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00:36:29
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00:37:15
Speaker 1: It's it's not crazy to say he's an MVP candidate.

00:37:18
Speaker 2: Well, the point we're going to make here right now, real quick. Things that make you go hmmm, is when are we going to start putting Mayfield in that conversation of of top quarterbacks in the league, Like what more does the guy have to do? Is it is previous reputation that's holding him back because he's doing everything right and it has to be applauded. It's impressed a lot of times when your reputation. Unfortunately, as they say, precede you, yeah, going to give you one, you know, rude one and one like funny one. The root one would be of Unfortunately this is it's sexist and not right of guys to think. But if a woman has been around quite a bit, who it's hard to shake that reputation when she was like a party girl and like she could be a great woman, but in college, you know what she used to do it and sometimes it's hard.

00:38:07
Speaker 1: You're about to see that storyline on Love is Blind by the way, Oh I can't wait.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: So jam Keane's mom would call her a Jezebel, So I to me, it's sort of like that and my dumb analogy. I was gonna tell you when we were kids, it was so hard for me to acknowledge that Brett the Hitman Heart was like a champion because in my mind he was part of like a weak ass tag team. I'm like, I say, like, you mean Brett Hart and Jim the Annville. You're convinced me that the guy that was on the mediocre tag team is now like the guy for wrestling, like Brett the Hitman Heart.

00:38:35
Speaker 1: Like to me, it's like, no, he's like a tag team guy with the goate guy Jim the Annville. He's not a champion.

00:38:41
Speaker 2: That's why I think he's more relatable and fun to root for, because I think everybody faces that at one point. I can't tell you how many people still think of me as the van driver for k Rock New York. I haven't driven the van since nineteen ninety nine, but in the end, until you branched out and did something else, everyone there would think of was, oh, could you know the guy that promotionally drives the van, the k Rock van, or you mean the national radio host for Fox Sports Radio, like give me a break. But that's how people remember you sometimes, how you started. I think people think of Baker as the he was. He had a fork in the road and he could have went down a Johnny Manziel path, which it looked like he was going, and he did the exact but because the Browns stinks so much, we forget that he's the only guy that's brought them any glimmer of glory. He won playoff games, he was but then they decided, oh, we're going to go with the Shawn Watson and it was really unfortunate.

00:39:32
Speaker 1: So is he elite that makes it go? I'm a big Baker fan.

00:39:35
Speaker 2: I think most people are now right, we got more CNR coming up here on Fox Sports Radio.