C&R - Steelers Ruined Everything & Metcalf Debate!

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Speaker 1: Well, the observations Rich.

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Speaker 2: Can I start by saying the my proclamation of the day. You know, the Pittsburgh Steelers, I hate you because you ruined everything. The Pittsburgh Steelers ruined what could very well be even more exciting football. That was a great game, ye But Danny, it's great because you randomly picked He didn't win any money on it.

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Speaker 1: Who cares you like Aaron Rodgers. You're the guy that hates him.

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Speaker 4: You were supposed to place our bets from last Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me tell you this. Let me tell you this. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. This season has been remarkable. We've talked about how each week there's games that feel like their playoff level excitement. This year, the NFL has been delivering on every level. So my one and only complaint is by the Steelers winning. They ruined multiple storylines. Going into the final two weeks of the NFL season, the Steelers and the game looked like it was won by Detroit. You saw, you saw a penalty in the end zone. Then you saw maybe a lateral and you're like, oh wait, did that count? Gops of the end zone? You saw the flags.

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Speaker 3: You knew something, and Aaron Rodgers was trying to lip read it.

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Speaker 1: Was an exciting game, dude, it really was.

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Speaker 3: But you're saying, as a result, we got robbed of some really exciting ones next week.

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Speaker 2: Dude, it sucks bung bung that the Steelers won that game.

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Speaker 1: Is that what the.

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Speaker 2: Fans said to DK Metcalf by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna get to that. Yeah, but let me just explain why the Steelers winning sucks.

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Speaker 1: Ass.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers winning now puts them in a position where, because you know, as we expected, the Patriots beat the Ravens, it was close, but because they won now a lot needs to happen for that Week eighteen game between the Steelers and Ravens to matter.

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Speaker 1: Likely that won't matter at all.

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Speaker 2: Where had the Steelers lost yesterday and now you're talking like, ooh, Week eighteen could before the division? Those are major what IFFs because we did have some really great games in the past few weeks that felt playoff caliber.

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Speaker 1: That's what. It's not a what if.

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Speaker 3: What I'm telling you is accurate if the Steelers. My point is we still had great games. As a result this week.

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Speaker 1: I wanted more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, you just sound like a spoiled fan, really, but I mean I get it.

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Speaker 1: There were implications.

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Speaker 2: I get it, Daddy, I want more great NFL games.

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Speaker 1: I get it. I get it.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, you mentioned Drake May Santa. A lot of my friends and a lot of my family members hit me up and they're changing the words to our Tom Brady song.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, Drake May is the mahan, Drake May is the mahan, Drake May is.

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Speaker 2: The mah And are there new words to the Tom Brady anthem?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That was That's all we made up to go along with the NBC NFL theme. But can I give everyone a quick rendition? Yeah, please do. Tom Brady's the ha ha.

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Speaker 1: To Brady and tom Brady's on Mahahn. It's not Drake May yet.

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Speaker 3: Relax, not yet, but I do have some Patriots fans and friends that are singing that tune.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me just say this, by the Steelers, by the Steelers winning, let me just make it plain and simple why they ruined football for the rest of us. If Detroit wins that game, we have two Week eighteen matchups that are playoff football.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The games mean nothing, the first being the Steelers and the Ravens. That game will mean nothing. Had Detroit one, that game would have been for the division. Now the game means nothing now on the flip side, because Detroit won. I'm sorry because Detroit lost, They're like out of it. Where if they had won yesterday, if the forty nine Ers had beat get this, get this, timmy no breaks. Had the forty nine ers if they beat the Bears next week in the Bay Area, then week eighteen, Week eighteen would have been Bears Lions for that final wildcard. So we're talking about a lot of what ifs.

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Speaker 3: But the Steelers ruined all the cookie crumbled. Then you're crying about Steelers ruined it. Like I said, in the past two weeks, Danny g this guy was walking around so pumped about the playoff caliber games that.

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Speaker 2: We were getting blessed every week with great ones like we saw, like we saw, you know, the Jags made me go yesterday. We're gonna get to that in a second. But let me let me just finalize.

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Speaker 4: We thought would you called that said it was going to be a statement game for them.

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Speaker 3: We I take it, man, because that Steelers Lions game, whether ruin next week's games or not, it was action packed, edge of my seat level game, and I'm not a Steelers or a Lions fan. I was watching at the bar. I was at the airport again, I'm here in Idaho. I was at the airport all day watching the games. By the way, and man, even if everyone in the airport was screaming at that game was high. I'm not taking that game back just to make you happy.

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Speaker 1: But I get it. But I get what you're saying. I get what you're selling, I.

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Speaker 2: Think, and Lamar getting hurt sort of adds to the insignificance.

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Speaker 1: Also, yeah, but I don't know. I deal with it.

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Speaker 2: But we talked about the beginning of the year, and I think everyone including Danny and I was Sam who none of them really liked Aaron Rodgers and his whole vibe. We talked about how they were gonna be a pedestrian nine and eight or maybe ten and seven and sniff the playoffs or just get in and not be a factor. And it's exactly what happened. Like we predicted that, you know, they'll find the way to be decent enough, but now like by by winning that game yesterday, they ruined everythang.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So before we move on, because there's other parts of that game. We need to speculate on. Playoffs are gonna be locked up. Playoffs are gonna be locked up in the early games that.

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Speaker 4: You observe on Aaron Rodgers so much for so many seasons on our show. I'm surprised that you're not kissing.

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Speaker 2: His I should, but you know what I was hoping. It came down to week eighteen. But right now, you've got to live in the moment. Rich, you schedule watch a little too much, So did you.

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Speaker 1: Say schedule watching?

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Speaker 5: Rich loves to look at the schedule game schedule watching.

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Speaker 2: Schedule watching is what I do best, right and when you look at the NFL right now, look at the standings, Buddy. If the forty nine Ers beat the Colts tonight, it's over for the Colts, which means all seven teams in the AFC playoff picture will be official, unless, of course, Pittsburgh loses its next two and the Ravens win their next two. That's the only thing other than that we're set. After we'd sixteen, we sixteen's over. Playoffs are set in the AFC, seating varies. In the NFC. Everyone's eliminated Detroit, who will be eliminated very easily when the Niners win tonight and Green Bay would have to lose every game and they'd have to win both. It's I'm saying the playoffs had determined already, Covino, and we just have to deal with it. It's gonna be great playoffs, but we could have had two more like ooh, week eighteen in and win type of things. But those are done now.

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Speaker 1: Dude. It's a great point.

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Speaker 3: I just don't know if everybody shares in your feelings, because we really did have a great game as a result, and that's.

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Speaker 1: Just how it is.

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Speaker 2: That's how the NFL is, And I know, two back to back weeks with like so many insane matchups, But if you do share, and Rich is paying here, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. Danny g is our super producer. He's on standby waiting just to say hi.

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Speaker 1: Iowa.

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Speaker 3: Sam is on the ones and twos, lone Crown's got your updates. Thank you again for being part of the show. You could watch what you hear Covino and Rich FSR. Spidey's on the videos. So let's take some phone calls other observations. But that's a big one. I get it, Pittsburgh ruined football or as Rich said, ruined, Richie, you always say ruined, really ruined football for week seventeen and adcations or yeah at eighteen. But there were some other things that made us go from that game. While we get phone calls on that feedback, the DK Metcalf punch, that was a big storyline that had everyone going hmm, like, what was going on there?

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Speaker 1: What was said?

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Speaker 3: Then we find out that this Ryan Kennedy dude apparently called them a racial slur and said something derogatory about DK Metcalf's.

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Speaker 1: Mama, and those are fighting words. I get it.

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Speaker 3: So DK Metcalf, we all saw it, grabs the Lions fan with the blue wig buy the shirt, and it looks like he punches them Rich, But it depends on what angle you look at. Like, do you remember that famous clip, Danny g You'll remember who it was. It was Kobe and he flinches the ball and it looks like it's right at all.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, Like it looks like.

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Speaker 3: It's right at his face, right, But if you really look at the angle from a different angle, it was like in the direction of his face, but aside from his face, like depending on what angle you look at is how you see it.

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Speaker 1: This guy, he's not just like shoved him up.

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Speaker 4: That was the famous podcaster Matt Barnes.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, so the the famous Kobe to Matt Barnes flinch clip. It looks like he does it right in his face. But if you see it in another angle, which most people don't like to look at because we like the one where Kobe's getting hard, it's not really in his face. Just like this punch wasn't really at this guy's face. It was sort of in another direction. It was just sort of shoving him up.

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Speaker 2: That's just my observation from the side angle.

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Speaker 1: I'm dk Metcalf.

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Speaker 2: I want everyone seeing the side angle where I grabbed the guy by the shirt or wig or whatever he has and shove him back, shove him up. Like anyone that's saying he punched him. That side angle shows that he did not punch him. But you're right, Rich, side angle says one thing. Front angle looks like he threw a punch. And Ryan Kennedy is the fan.

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Speaker 3: He's publicly out there and he's making it no secret that he thinks it was a punch.

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Speaker 1: Well, guess what involved, and he's.

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Speaker 2: Denying every single thing that's being claimed about him. Because you have to ask yourself, is this an NFL spin to save Metcalf's ass?

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Speaker 1: Moving forward?

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Speaker 2: I think I think this guy's a loser. If you were a blue wig to a football game, you already lose the battle of mind. He may be a loser, but that doesn't mean he said these things. There's a lot of controversy. Even our own Dan Byer was saying this is an NFL spin, was saying, louations could be strong here because now you're saying that this guy was saying racial, racial things, racist things that may have never been said, just to save the ass of a DK Metcalf or the face of the NFL. I'll tell you that's what makes it a serious story. I'll tell you this, No one really knows what was said.

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Speaker 1: Allegedly. People could say things.

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Speaker 2: You could make guesses, dude, no, no, But but I'm not going to guess because it's it's in the hands of legal lawyers and crap.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: But I will say this, know who saw him never going to take the s clown fan with a wig on that comes down to the front row to taunt another man, you think that guy's innocent. I mean, for all we know, he could have said nanny, nanny, poof, poof, man. He could have just been Apparently, his side of the story is that he called them by DK metcalt. Hey, let's go around the room, Isaac Danny g I was Sam, would you ever?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: But dude, you would you ever throw these claims out? I know they're very dangerous claims, they're very sticky. I agree, but would you ever, as a grown man, wear a blue wig to a game go down to the front row?

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Speaker 1: And I would you do it?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: Rich, But if we were at a CNR live broadcast and we had listeners there and fans of the show and one of them got like faded and started popping off, I don't think any of us would go over and put our hands on them either.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I might. I might smack a.

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Speaker 3: I mean a lot of professional athletes, even our own Curry Roads.

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Speaker 1: I was, I was getting ready today listen, and he was like.

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Speaker 3: As a fan, as a as a professional athlete, as a fan.

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Speaker 1: You got to be better. I get that, right, we all get that.

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Speaker 3: But there's alcohol involved, and people are stupid, and this guy's got a wig gun, right, they're stupid fans, they're fanatical, But as a professional athlete that's just honestly an everyday thing that you deal with all the time, you have to become numb to you know, what would bother me. So the fan was saying that he called them the Kaitlin Zacharius Metcalf his birth name, and it got under his skin, and that's what happens.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm with you, Rich.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to believe that DK Metcalf lost his cool over something.

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Speaker 2: I'm not making. I'm not making.

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Speaker 1: They had history too, so that's another part of the story.

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Speaker 2: I'm not making racial accusations for multiple reasons. All I'm saying is that that dude NFL is, that dude's the NFL is, that dude's a clown, and if he gets one dollar from the NFL, DK Metcalf for someone, it's an embarrassment. That guy should just be happy they didn't get punched in the face, get out of the stadium like what a loser.

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Speaker 3: If I were Metcalf, I would really lean into that side view and show like, look, I grabbed the guy by the shirt.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't have done that. But I did not think.

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Speaker 2: What do you be grossed out if that guy got a penny from anyone, some drunk idiot with a wig on what if it was you. I'm just saying he's drunk.

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Speaker 3: If he never if you never said those things, wouldn't you get lawyers to be like, yo, man, they're defaming my character. Now everyone in my community thinks I'm a racist based on what the NFL's claiming here.

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Speaker 1: I never said those things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a stupid fan, but I never once said those things.

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Speaker 2: What you do while you're going down to the front road taunting another grown man?

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Speaker 1: Get a life.

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Speaker 2: Here's another thing too, the fans do stupid things. They're drunk, stupid fans. That doesn't mean he said he called them things. I'm just saying that there's two sides to the story, and the truth is we don't know which one is true. It's a he said he said sort of thing.

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Speaker 7: There were witnesses though, there was a family right now, this whole confrontation, And I would I would, I would think it would be a good idea to track them down and see, like what actually transpired, if you could, if you could find those people, like, yeah, we witnessed the whole thing. There was like, you know, young boy, and I think his parents sitting right next to that. The NFL is investigating right now exactly.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 1: His name is Ryan Kennedy.

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Speaker 3: And what makes this interesting is he's all lawyered up now claiming that, Yo, what happened was not cool.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: A player should never put their hands on the fans, regardless. Taunting is part of the game. He's at our stadium. We were taunting them. We called him by his birth name. I had history with him, and he took it too far. He's saying he never said those things. Now, Rich We often say here, if someone said you committed a crime, wouldn't you adamantly deny that if you didn't do it? Like sometimes people don't double down enough, like yo, whoa WHOA hold on, I may be guilty of X, Y and Z. Maybe I drank a little too much and I should be blamed for wearing a stupid wig, but I never said those things.

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Speaker 1: I was drinking it.

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Speaker 3: He could be a sober man. We don't know that exactly. We don't know anything. So we also can't assume that he called them a racial sir, Yeah, but that he said something about his mommy, even though all signs show that maybe he did.

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Speaker 6: Rich.

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Speaker 2: I feel completely confident, though one hundredth in confident in this guy is a fool in going down to the front row taunting another grown man wearing like a silly costume, Like like, you're telling me that guy's credibility in your mind.

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Speaker 1: Let's all. We got breaking news on this fin I hit the stage. Breaking news from Fox Sports.

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Speaker 5: NFL media is just reporting that the National Football League is suspending Steelers receiver DK Metcalf two games without pay for physically confronting the Lions fan yesterday at Detroit's.

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Speaker 1: He plans to appeal.

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Speaker 2: Well, guess what, it doesn't even matter because the Steelers room football anyway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but look, there's there's a few things that make you go, Yeah, the NFL doesn't want this sort of publicity, and they don't want to lose a key player in this situation, right, a DK Mattcalf caliber player ready for the playoffs, entering the playoffs, so they want to put there and this guy, like I said, Ryan Kennedy is claiming that never happened, and that's dangerous territory.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just playing Devil's advocate.

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Speaker 3: If I were to make assumptions, Rich, I would want to believe the guy that we know, DK metcalf. I would want to believe that fans get carried away and they say stupid things. But it's a it's a tough claim and a weird situation that I wish we weren't talking about today. But this happened, and it's a big story. Despite all the great foot we.

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Speaker 2: Can get to, we can't get to a ton of other stuff. I'm just gonna finish by saying this DK getting suspended. I'm okay with that because you know you uh, you know you fell for the trap almost right. It's like someone put a trap out there and it's like, uh, DK hook line and sinker. It's like some woman trying to catch her dude cheating and she has like some woman she pays woman to seduce her husband.

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Speaker 1: Right, Hey, Rich caught him.

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Speaker 3: Does does it matter if he threw a punch or just grabbed him or her hands on his hands?

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Speaker 1: I think hands on a fan.

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Speaker 2: I think DK deserves it, So I don't wan even think I'm talking about it both sides of my mouth.

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is has to be bigger than them.

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Speaker 2: What I want I'm saying is DK deserves some type of punishment for this. That might be a bit harsh, but I'm more adamant about Please don't let this guy get anything. That's my point. My point is, yeah, Dk, she maybe a little slap on the on the wrist, a game suspension, maybe even not two. But this clown, if you, if I hear some like yeah, some undisclosed pay out he got from.

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Speaker 1: The Devil's Advocate, then can play Devil's Advocate.

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Speaker 3: Rich is at a game, he drinks a little too much, He calls the player by his real name, player gets carried away, and he grabs you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Then he and the NFL are claiming you to say racist things in derogatory things about his mom that you never said.

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Speaker 1: How do you handle it? Uh?

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Speaker 2: That would only happen if I don't.

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Speaker 3: Now everyone thinks that Rich Davis is a racist? Now, now, how do you handle that?

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Speaker 2: All? This is only continuing because this guy lawyered up. Man, you racist? No, because that the NFL has to put their side of the story out there. No, the only reason this is going further is because this guy lawyered up and now DK saying, well, what he said or he thought his side of the story, this goes away. If this guy doesn't lawyer up. This guy's trying to get something, Why do you lawyer up? I don't think it goes away.

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Speaker 1: That clip lives everything. I was all over the place.

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Speaker 2: You don't see see this as some cheap ass money grab of some dude trying to get a couple bucks from someone.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, did he get hurt?

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Speaker 3: Speculating all the possibilities here, That's really what I'm speculating. I'm not taking the side of some bozo with a goofy wig on right.

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Speaker 1: I'm not.

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Speaker 3: But I'm just speculating that man, anything could have been said in that moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, listen your thoughts, your feedback.

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Speaker 2: We'll take it next right here on Kavin on Rich and all the other observations. We've hardly even touched some of the games that went down yesterday.

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Speaker 1: All things Pittsburgh to started off.

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Speaker 2: But Pittsburgh ruined everything and look at that to Titan. Not only do they ruin the rest of the season for a couple of good games, DK Metcalf and fans getting at it. So we'll take all your feedback. Next more Kvin on Rich Next right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We got super producer Danny g the best in the game on the phones at eighty seven ninety nine on Fox.

00:24:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, happy holidays.

00:24:41
Speaker 3: Bo boom boom boom, Danny g and of course Low and Crown chiming in with your updates spots on the videos. You can watch what you hear Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. The live chat is popping, by the way, we read some of that feedback and let's get right back into this. I do have one question for you, though, Yeah, I'm reading you know, the Metcalf as Isaac broke in with the updates, suspended two games. He's gonna appeal it for the altercation with the fan. Now that must say that the NFL has no proof that his fan said anything.

00:25:13
Speaker 2: Now, according to the Nightcap podcast that's with Ocho Cinco, the reason this all started was because Metcalf was being called the N word and throw out a sea word. I'm what's the sea word?

00:25:28
Speaker 4: Oh?

00:25:29
Speaker 1: You know the sea word.

00:25:30
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure about his mom.

00:25:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:25:33
Speaker 3: And then the fan is saying Ryan Kennedy is saying that no, he was just calling him by his birth name.

00:25:38
Speaker 1: But they had history.

00:25:39
Speaker 3: I'll explain. We'll take your phone calls, and why is this controversial?

00:25:43
Speaker 1: There you go, what exactly. I love it.

00:25:46
Speaker 2: Another layer is to why this guy's a weenie? They have history, has history taunting the same player, get a life at History's saying this guy isn't a weenie. But there's two sides to every story. Is it like, oh, you know who's history of DK metcha? We have Sauce Gardner or some defender. This is a dumbass fan, Yes, history, what is he? He stalker taunted.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: This guy the great Dan Bayer and Jay Stewart saying earlier today how it really was an eye opener, which is why you need to catch their podcast too.

00:26:17
Speaker 1: I'll explain.

00:26:18
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00:27:24
Speaker 3: Okay, so now think about this as we continue Sam things that made you go This weekend, Low and Crown announced that DK metcalf is suspended.

00:27:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, how they suspend them if they were certain this?

00:27:38
Speaker 3: Fans said these things because what happens, And Jay Suh made a good point.

00:27:42
Speaker 1: It's just something to think about. He was like, oh, you know, especially with all the things.

00:27:46
Speaker 3: With h, we'll see small A and Miles Garrett and the Mason Ruod offensive Uh. Sometimes when drastic things happen, you don't want this to be the quick go to to justify it. And that could be the possibility. Now we're not saying it didn't happen. But we can't use that as an excuse to do violent things and to get away with stuff either, especially if it didn't happen.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: I know, you say, you can't a black man can't have a bad moment and then just be like, uh, you called me the N word, like you don't want to get that crid N word just because you lost your cool in that moment. And like Ioa Sam alluded to before, there was lots of fans in the area that could verify whether or not this guy was being belligerent and saying types of things like that in front of children over there?

00:28:31
Speaker 1: That's is he a Weenie fan? Yes?

00:28:34
Speaker 3: But guess what A few things could be true here. He could be a Weenie fan, but it could also be very true that he never said that. I think DKL could be true that he did. But then why did the NFL suspend DK metcalf?

00:28:43
Speaker 2: I think DK lost his cool and deserves a suspension. Two games is a bit harsh.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: One game maybe, But then you can't be thrown around allegations like that, because that's really serious.

00:28:53
Speaker 1: It's a bad look, you know.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: And now everyone thinks this Ryan Kennedy guy is a big time racist it's not good for ball's not good for society.

00:29:01
Speaker 1: Who cares about this kid?

00:29:02
Speaker 2: I'll say this though, yep, but.

00:29:03
Speaker 1: Is that a good look for our culture?

00:29:06
Speaker 3: That these things? We know they exist, but it doesn't. You don't have to make a story out of it if there is none.

00:29:13
Speaker 1: All right?

00:29:14
Speaker 2: Well, hey, DK metcalf suspended your thoughts. I'm I'm flabbergasted that no one's feeling me at least on the whole. They've had history to me is translation, This stalker fan has bothered DK before. How could a fan and a player just think about that for one second. We'll take all the feedback. How could a player and a fan have quote history? The only way is if the fan is some crazy stalker going to the front fan.

00:29:44
Speaker 1: If you're too thin skin to let it get to you, Like I said.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: You're not addressing what I'm asking.

00:29:48
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, because it takes two to tangle or something. How no one's discrediting this guy. No one's saying, not answering. A professional athlete has to be above those moments. He has to be a love that dude. He's got too much to lose. He can't just be punching every guy that is taunting him and then saying it's because he said some racist stuff.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: He's got to be bigger than that. That's just the world we live in. That's the game they play. That's an everyday thing for these guys. Unfortunately they're getting taunted all the time. Let's go to Jake and Indy. What's up, Jake, you're on the show, Covin.

00:30:23
Speaker 6: And Rich, Hey, what's up, guys. Yeah, man, I've been listening to this story for about fifteen minutes with you guys, and it's absolutely a bad look all the way around, right, Like DK cannot touch that guy.

00:30:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.

00:30:40
Speaker 6: DK's got a history of like he lets the guys get under his skin all the time on the field, like off the field, like I've seen videos where like kids are chirping them and like he gets he let like he lets that stuff get to him. And like he cannot let some Joe Schmoe in the stands actually some guy that he knows or has history with him now that we're saying, like you're like, oh it's this guy again. Oh, this guy's this guy just from just Joe Blow. He's nobody, and like he can't put his hands on him. It's a bad look. But where security? Like if this guy scream involgars, if he is like, where security? Because if I'm yelling at it at the top of my lungs at a game, I know the security is going to be like, sir, shit down or get removed, and like where are they at?

00:31:31
Speaker 2: No, I agree it was I think security should take the blame because it seems like no one's around the idiot in the front row. And again, the one thing I'll say that no one's wanting to address is that repeat a fact, like he's got history?

00:31:44
Speaker 1: How can you history the fan?

00:31:46
Speaker 2: Because I think he's a season ticket holder? So yeah, well, how often do the Steelers play the the Lions? Can we know this is a this is a stalker type guy?

00:31:54
Speaker 7: They go they have history going back to when DK was with Seattle.

00:31:58
Speaker 1: But like, what do we talk history?

00:32:00
Speaker 2: So it could have been the history of the next girlfriend. You've history with an old coworker. So a player and a fan only as history if the fans a.

00:32:07
Speaker 3: Stalker and if the player history is allowing to get to him, you know, like he could easily ignore it, Like look what happens when you don't ignore it? Danny g You were talking about Ed Cooley, the Georgetown head coach who hit a kid with a.

00:32:25
Speaker 1: Water Yeah, he got suspended.

00:32:28
Speaker 3: He suspended a game, like you gotta be bigger than that. Taunting is part of sports, all right, part of sports. It's not going away.

00:32:35
Speaker 2: You're you're a visiting player, You're you're an opposing player. You're gonna get taunted. You can't be putting your hands on throwing things.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now to be cleric, you know, nobody was taunting him. He reacted to the horrible loss over the weekend. Anything throws react, Yeah, exactly. He chucks this water bottle and it nails a kid in the front row.

00:32:55
Speaker 3: You can't be like that if you're a professional, and do we expect more from fans. We of course do, But unfortunately that's just how they are. Did this guy say this as possible that he did, But the NFL, who I'm sure is doing a pretty thorough investigation, Well, he couldn't find any proof that he did or else they want to suspend a DK Metcalf. So again, unfortunately, after a really really great win, this is part of the story. So props again to the Steelers. Even though Rich said they ruined football next week.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: They ruined the other next week. You know, they ruined the rest of the regular season.

00:33:30
Speaker 3: They ruined the rest of the regular season. You know, this is part of the things that made us go hmm this weekend.

00:33:36
Speaker 2: All right, I'm fired up. Let's go to Isaac for an update, and then we'll take all your feedback. We'll move on to all the other things that went down in the NFL. But they didn't even talk about the fight. Listen, big story. That was the big story, DK Metcalf, the Steelers beating the Lions. That was a big storyline yesterday.

00:33:51
Speaker 5: Indian and that was the big story today. A short time ago, the NFL suspending DK Metcalf, the wide receiver of the Pittsburgh Steelers, two games without pay, for initial creating a physical confrontation with a Detroit Lions fan on Sunday. Metcalf will appeal. The attorney for the fan issued a statement today denying an NFL media report that the fan directed a racial slur at Metcalf and also said something derogatory about Metcalf's mother. Meanwhile, for context, guys, a short time after the incident yesterday, the fan in question told the Detroit Free Press and I quote, he doesn't like his government name. I called him that, and then he grabbed me and ripped my shirt. I'm a little shocked. I'm a little rattled, but I just want the Lions to win. Baby unquote. Sounds like a delightful gentleman.

00:34:40
Speaker 1: Wrong man. Get I can't believe me. I get how you could see you guys this and say what a loser.

00:34:45
Speaker 2: But I mean, these are the guys that are there supporting their team.

00:34:49
Speaker 1: Rich still losers.

00:34:53
Speaker 5: He's shocked and rattled, but at the end of the day, he just wants the Lions to win. And he adds for emphasis.

00:34:58
Speaker 1: Baby.

00:34:59
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs will be moving to the state of Kansas for the twenty thirty one season after the State of Kansas today unanimously approved a bond to project for a new domed stadium, which will be approximately twenty five miles west of Arrowhead Stadium. An other suspension of the NFL today, the league suspended Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perriman for the final two games of the regular season for repeated violations of rules intended to protect the safety of players. Sesame Street helped raise all of us. Now it's our turn donate this holiday season at sesame dot org because the world needs Sesame and Sesame needs you. In Major League Baseball, the New York Mets have traded second baseman Jeff McNeil to the Athletics Cinema. Here exactly Rich's response earlier. Finally, in college football, how about this no more annual USC Notre Dame rivalry. They won't face each other for at least the next two seasons because Notre Dame is scheduling a home and home series with byu usc A, Notre Dame releasing a joint statement today reading quote, our institutions will continue working towards bringing back the rivalry unquote, which is kind of like your divorced parents issuing a joint statement saying we will continue working towards getting back together. Quote back to.

00:36:18
Speaker 1: Your Yeah, thank the rest of your feedback.

00:36:22
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00:38:05
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00:38:12
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00:38:25
Speaker 1: That is Rich Davis.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: Should I change my take? Mike Oliver hit us up on the in show and he goes, Rich, you got.

00:38:31
Speaker 1: It all wrong.

00:38:32
Speaker 2: The Steelers didn't ruin the season. The Lion's not finishing that game ruin the season. Blame the Lions, not the Steelers.

00:38:39
Speaker 3: No, I think you should change your take on this fan who was dubbed the racist, because if the NFL had any thoughts whatsoever that dk Metcalf's claim was chrue, they would have defended him in the league and not have suspended him. Well played out live with Low and Crown's update is insane. We'll get to the phone calls and back to that game. But we're live from Fox Sports Radio Studio and it's time for our tire raqt Play of the day. As our show predicted, the Patriots would bounce back.

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00:40:02
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00:40:24
Speaker 1: Like I get it. We were robbed a little bit. But it's been a really inter season.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: If my manager went to the goal, if my manager went to the bullpen earlier, yeah, well he didn't.

00:40:33
Speaker 3: Man if I didn't take out of my Amazon stock, i'd be a millionaires you did.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: And these things didn't happen. But there are three games. I think we could all agree that if they went the other way, the season would have been like ooh.

00:40:44
Speaker 3: And it's a great point. I'm not taking away from your point. It really is a great one. I haven't heard anyone else really cry about it the way.

00:40:51
Speaker 2: Well I'm the number one cry baby. So number one was the Steelers beating the Lions, so to put the Lions out of it and gave the Steelers some breathing room. The other game was New England winning last night, killed any momentum of the Ravens maybe hanging in there. And the game that happened on Saturday, the Packers, my goodness, let that game finish, letting that slip away with the on site.

00:41:14
Speaker 7: Carrow with five minutes to go, Oh my god, with the backup quarterback.

00:41:19
Speaker 2: That game had so much significance because now the Bears, the Bears could have been like in a scary situation where like wow, now they're playing San Franz next week, and then they got to finish against the Lions. So many little things could have been But you know's right, I guess what you didn't by you didn't buy bitcoin fifteen years ago, so shut up.

00:41:34
Speaker 3: So yeah, by the way, yeah, but yeah, but Caleb Williams and the Bears showing that they got a flair for the dramatic. Yeah, And I respect that a lot. I think you need a little bit of that to go far in this league.

00:41:46
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:41:46
Speaker 4: How about Caleb Williams putting his hands in the in his hand warmer after he threw the Oh he's.

00:41:52
Speaker 1: Touchdown so cold? That was cold, by the.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Way, that was he threw the ball, immediately put his hands in his pockets like ooh, that's a strike. I know.

00:41:59
Speaker 1: I just I just hit him in stride. It's called the muff. He put it in the muff.

00:42:05
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what did you think?

00:42:07
Speaker 1: Vegas? Let's make a snappy Hi Larry?

00:42:09
Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on? Bro?

00:42:11
Speaker 1: What's up? Man? Hey? Larry?

00:42:12
Speaker 6: Hey, man, please give me give me three minutes.

00:42:15
Speaker 1: Well, I can't. I can't give you.

00:42:17
Speaker 2: I can't give you three minutes because we got to go to break it. So then hold on, we'll get to you the top. Okay, exactly, exactly want to I want to hear you. I want to hear yeah, Larry. So let's give it a second. And any other thoughts on week sixteen again, I feel like a cry baby about it.

00:42:31
Speaker 3: How about the Jag hype man, the Jags looking like the real deal.

00:42:35
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00:42:37
Speaker 2: We'll talk Jags, I want to talk about Nick Sirianni getting crap for going for two when they were up by so many. The fight the fight, well, a lot went down and we're gonna get to it all. And if he said fight the fight, Jake Paul, then we get to that. So all next right here on fs R, C and R