Good morning to every one down me, Kep Turner, Danny Baylis Miike's Roy
Maddie and for JJ today getting a ton of support on a Cogan Cogan's recognizability
being a top fifty most recognized American. Yeah, you have a lot of
fans, so I don't female are said one hundred percent of people between the
age of forty and seventy five could pick Hulk from a lineup like ninety eight
percent, And I think I approved that. In the stats I pulled up
that he's number three amongst gen X, right, but that puts you pretty
close to the top fifty. Just that not if you're in the two hundreds
and the two surrounding generations, what's the it averages out to the one fifty
six that he is. There's no after generation that doesn't know who Hogan,
Baby Boomer Hogan. They do. He's in the two hundreds for them according
to one stupid sight you checked in ten seconds. Hey man, it's a
flimsy search anyway, or got the data I'm given? Like, if we're
watching the floor and the category was famous Americans, HULKVI would be one of
the first ones they put up. It'd be the easy one, just to
get the category going. Do you think two people would just blink and be
like, no, I don't know this man, No, I don't know.
I think they would absolutely get him. Yeah, No, I think
we're splitting hairs here. Discussion is how famous is he? How recognizable is
he? And you said top fifty American? Yes, that's kind of incredible
to me, like Danny's Voice of Reasons. Yeah, what do you think
where you, Commissioner Bayliss? I mean he is a six seven wrestler with
a scullet, so he looks a little different. He's got god, he's
marketed that look since the early eighties, and his unique physique is unique mustache.
It's like a it's almost like an icon. It's a cartoon. Yeah.
The more you the more you make your argument. I don't know if
to the mass population, I would say top fifty, but man probably top
one hundred, top one hundred, I'll even most recognized Americans. Do you
think John Cena ranks higher on that list right now? Yes, I would
assume I would say, no, okay, maybe not, but the Rock
we would say yes, yes, absolutely, the Rock probably ends up top
twenty. I don't know if anyone other than people under twenty just blink when
they're staring at a picture of Hulk Cogan and just have no idea who this
strange man I'm looking at is. And I think most I think the majority
of people from twelve to twenty, I think more than I don't know about
more than fifty percent, but I think a lot like, yeah, I
know Hulk Hogan is. I'm kind of blown away by how this mustn't be
as Brothers. Well, we were expecting it to be icy roads, and
it turns out we're all good. I'll have some updates for you and stuff
in the scuttle. But at seven point thirty, when threats of weather falls
short, I'm always a great fallback, Brothers. I'm in a bit of
an email exchange with the city manager of a town in Oklahoma. Somehow it's
become a bit of a fetish of mine to get into a little bit of
warfare with the town's in Oklahoma. I love it, as I was fighting
for the Oklahoma City h more information on the Oklahoma City Python that was on
the loose, and for weeks people acted like it wasn't a big deal.
Gone the hornets of people I've contacted the city manager about a story that's kind
of taken off in More, Oklahoma who was famous for the tornado from like
two four or something. I plus should get the date on that, but
they're famous for something else now and I wanted to get someone reputable from there
to comment. And I'm frustrated with the lack of participation. And I have
more details on why I'm taking on the city of More, Oklahoma at eight
o'clock, but right now, let's do this. Supports it is there,
it is, And now sports, what are we kicking these two other games
around? Is that kind of got cowboys? I don't know. Throughout the
morning and god, if anything breaks, anything big happens, we obviously are
going to be right on top of her. But two games yesterday, it
turns out most of the games only the Rams and Lions game was competitive and
like really close till the end as we're down to the final eight. But
I don't know. The bill Steelers game was good. I was excited all
morning to like see it right, I'm like, all right, how bad
is this going to be? And I'm one of the idiots that's bets you
know on the under and bets on the running game because no one's gonna be
able to pass the ball. And then the game starts and it's just beautiful.
The field is totally fine. Imagine there was some cold ass in the
seats because they had a hard time shoveling that thing to get it ready.
At high Mark Stadium, I saw a thing they were offering any locals within
walking distance twenty bucks an hour, Yeah, jimmiking and hot cocoa if you
come and help clear these seats. And a lot of them did, and
some of them were showing the bits and sliding down the snow. Shoot.
Yeah, I saw that a couple hours for the game. They're basically like,
just please focus on the walkways. Don't even worry about the seats,
Like, let people deal with the seats. Yeah, and they'll handle on
their own, and you know, And that led to a couple of snowballs
being thrown during There was one on one in the end. Yeah, it
didn't affect the play, but you saw it, and the refs saw it.
Yeah. I wonder if the people around that person scold them. I
think someone does get us a penalty and they will. It's happened, yeah
there, Yeah, and I was thinking a warning for the refs might be
in order. Don't throw ice balls at anyone on the field, especially George
Pickens. Right, uh, you know what I mean. It's like a
little pretty good throw to get on TV and get in the vicinity of that
play. Though. Yeah it's hard to hit the receiver and full stride,
but yeah it's weird. You know, pittsburghdn't turn the ball over all out
the first half, you have a tighter game. You still like it's that
world too. Every time I watch a Mason Rudolph or a you know,
Kenny Pickett or all those guys play a quarterback for the Steelers, I go,
yeah, that's fine, like yes, frustrated, I mean at DAK
And then you'll watch a game here in a game there and go, I
like my guy. One thing that bugs the hell out of me, and
I don't like the Bills. I do admire Josh Allen. I mean I
wish, you know, I think most people wish Josh Allen was their quarterback.
He's really really good. But one thing that just drives me crazy,
and it was personified in that game yesterday, is he will cut out running
and he's six' five and he's a tank and he can run you over.
And he ran through the tackle of a safety and bus at a fifty
something yard run maybe the longest touchdown run of his career, second longest run
for a quarterback in playoff history for a touchdown, just a mack truck right,
can't bring him down. Just weapons galore. And then a few plays
later he runs and slides and someone touches him and he has the biggest hissy
fit. How dare you? And you can look up on YouTube compilation videos
with him selling it like Hull Hogan getting a cross chopped to the chest.
He's trying to job the system. He's trying to get over you can't touch
a quarterback anymore, right, they're just that's fine, But how do you
say that When the guy just ran over our safety and took it fifty something
yards of the house, we couldn't tackle him. It's the ultimate cheet code,
really, And then when he does the slide, oh my god,
he's already selling it before he even hits the ground. How dare you touch
me? You have fifteen If it's a penalty, it's a penalty regardless if
you're six' five in a tank though, right, are are you more
just the problem because he is that size and then acting like he's pee wee
herman if he gets touched when he slides, Yeah, I think, But
there's a nuance to this, and there's a human decision that gets made by
the referees. And yeah, I would love to live in a world where
it's just cut and dry. That's a penalty that's not but obviously every single
play that's not exactly the case. You have to factor some things in.
And yes, I mean he's slid and the guy was already committed to try
I need to tackle him because sorry, I didn't know if you were gonna
slide or run me over and run for another touchdown. So yeah, I
had to make a decision as a defender in the National Football League. It
makes it hard man, especially Yeah, for the few guys that are like
that, That's what I'm saying. Yea, So yes, well maybe a
little to fan quarterbacks, they get greedy and they did this on the sideline
too, is they'll be running on the sideline. Well, how's the defensive
player supposed to stop their momentum If you're still trying to cheat and get a
couple of yards while you're in bounds. So this is why I and I
think it probably help safety as well. Honestly, quarterbacks, now it's gonna
be on you. It wouldn't help, say they would get hurt. Quarterback
woul probably get hurt more. Actually I take it back, but I think
we could get rid of the slide rule. What do you mean, because
I think they still get hit a lot, and there's still a bunch of
personal vows. It still ends up being a thing. But the quarterbacks,
now, if you want to do this and run, then you just need
to go down like slide like diving ahead and just go down. And then
they all get penalized for piling on if they do that. But what they're
doing is they're gaming the system by running and getting greedier, and they go
two three extra steps, then maybe they would if they were really trying to
protect themselves. One of these quarterbacks is going to master the art of the
fake slide, you know, like somehow that they'll be able to kind of
come up with some type of manoeuver that looks like a some kind of weird
deck and then they take off once you let out. In that case,
they will call them down because you are down the moment your slide begins.
And they're really not great at policing that either, because somebody start their slide
early and that's where the ball should be marked, is the moment you start
your slide. So in that case, I think that if they really sold
a fake slide and then got up and kept running, yeah, just come
up with some kind of one little quick that mimics the first element of a
slide, but you never go into it. There's somebody's working on that.
It has been. They would try not to let them do that. I
think, like, you can't have it always. Well, it's just like
the criminal criminals are always one step ahead of the police, right, that's
the NFL. I mean they called Miles jack On, the Steelers linebacker last
night for a late It was just like, how was he supposed to stop?
Right? But we're almost at a decade of this now, yeah,
or at least at sixty years thing of no one knows what to do,
and generally speaking, yes, I want quarterback to protect it. But if
he's not running as fast as he can to be there to jump in and
try to tackle him, then Josh Allen keeps running, So like, right,
you're in that. It's frustrating. You can't win. It's frustrating,
but especially I you're trying to like go in hit him low because you don't
want to go up high. You're assuming this guy is very capable of staying
on his feet and popping one for fifty. Yeah, he just did it.
That's why you go in low. He goes into slide and yeah,
your normal motion, you can't let up and you end up smashing him in
the face. But it's the bottom line, it's just not fair. Yeah,
but it's relatively consistent, and that's it's worth it to the league to
protect the quarterbacks from it. Absolutely is, and that makes sense. And
it's why it drives me nuts when pass interference on defense and holding on defense
gets overcalled, because it's like they're already at a big disadvantage. So right,
I get why they do it. It's just frustrating. And that sets
us up for Bill's Chiefs on Sunday. So and that's always juice, absolutely
so. On the call in the Bill's Steelers game was Romo nance. And
look, we all kind of give Romo hard time sometimes for maybe being ill
prepared making weird noises and whatever you're a fan or not mad beat. Everybody
does exactly the down beat, but you I want to give him props when
he does something, you know, something nice. And he had the opportunity
to give a touching tribute to the great doctor Martin Luther King Junior yesterday on
his birthday, and Nance had a promo of an opportunity for the viewers to
participate in. And then and then Ramo chimed in on MLK Days to perform
one hundred million hours of service leading up to the one hundredth anniversary of Martin
Luther King's birthday, which is today. We can all contribute to mlk's legacy
through acts of volunteerism and social change to learn more, does it realize the
dream? Dot org? What did that? Martin Luther Kings? And as
there is to have a day named after him, most of Pittsburgh fans made
the what just because you can does it mean you always have to? I'm
learning that in radio every day. I've been doing this a long time.
Sometimes because there's a microphone and maybe a little bit of dead air. Yeah,
you can, just you just can let the moment be you don't have
to talk and let Nancy pick it up. At third down. You saw
me motioning when Nancy was giving out the whatever the charity website or whatever that
information and giving it proper props and probably reading something off of a note card,
and I'm thinking, yeah, you got it. Nance back away from
the microphone. We're good. Nope, I got a little sweetness for this
story. Yeah. Does it the dream that Martin Luther King joss to have
a day named after him? Most of Pittsburgh fans mad, wow. So
I was with Christina and I rewound and I'm like, oh no, And
then all day I'm just mumbling, what a day named after him? What
a day? Martin Luther King? And of course I checked Twitter and they're
like, would love to see the remo book report on MLK on the top
of his head. It's like he just exhaled a big hit off of a
duty after Martin Luther King day. It deserves to have in day named after
him. You're right, Frank, Right, Lord only can think of his
Chevy Chase and vacation when he launches the family truckster and the canyon and Russ
goes Dad, you must have launched this thing fifty yards fifty yards, it's
nothing to be proud of. Then he kind of sits back and goes fifty
right A Bell's in thirty one seventeen, they advanced and yeah, they host
the Chiefs. That should be a pretty juicy Sunday doozy. Yeah, night
capper, and then the Eagles get stomped thirty two to nine. Kilt good
lord, I got got a hand pretty quick. I mean sixteen to nine,
middle of the third quarter, you know, and then there was a
safety, and then from then on it was pretty much over. Was that
that wasn't as big of a shocker as the Cowboys performance? Right? No?
Because I think a lot of people had diagnosed the Eagles with chronic quickness.
They were kind of done. It's like the whole team had pneumonia.
Have you ever seen a team that had one loss that late in the season
just completely collapse, well with no very major injuries, right? Did they
have some big I'm sure there's examples. I kJ Brown didn't play yesterday,
which is big yesterday, but not for their entire collapse. I think I
heard the Jets in nineteen eighty six started the season ten and one and then
finished by losing six to seven or whatever it was. To run out of
gas like that as a heavy indictment on coaching and a heavy indictment on not
having enough bags in your not having enough tricks in your bag. And that's
where I kind of go, like, dude, it's not like they were
woefully injured. No, A J. Brown not playing huge in this game.
There's a thought that, yes, he's hurt, but there's a thought
that he's very unhappy. Yeah. So I went to bed scrolling Twitter,
just searching Siriani just morbidly can you imagine? I mean, it's much like
much like here, and I don't know if there are similarities. These are
coaches that have done well, you know. I mean, it's hard to
fire a coach a year after he goes to the super Bowl, and it's
hard to fire coach with three straight twelve win seasons in a division championship.
But boy, it is unanimous they want him gone. Wow, people around
here pretty much want McCarthy gone. And maybe it's just Twitter world that we
live in, where the leasha's are always so short and go right now everything
all of the time, or f off. Well, it's also too like
that whole team has a ton of dudes who have been there for a long
time who are free agents, and including forty five minutes ago, news broke
that Jason Kelsey, their center's retiring. It's of icial, so he told
them last night at the game that he's out. So Jason Kelsey's done.
Fletcher Cox is a free agent, Brandon Graham who's been there for fourteen seasons,
free agent, DeAndre Swift, a running back free agent. He can
go on and on and on. They got tons of dudes who are just
not set to be on the team next year. Love it. So if
there was a time to blow it up, it might be now. And
I realized Sirione took him to a super Bowl last year, but they're already
upset with him, and the team seemed to kind of I'm gonna say quit.
But they didn't have it last second half of the season. And maybe
that's another thing. Any win in the NFC East outside to the Cowboys of
the Eagles as a joke, so maybe you inflate your wins and things like
that. But this is why I think the Cowboys should be quicker rather than
their usual take a little time not interview that many people. I think they
should be more thorough and a little more quick with what they do here on
McCarthy, even if that means we're running it back because the Eagles could be
in the market for a coach. We'll see. They'll probably say that he's
safe. But I don't know. Man. Just through the images of Jeffrey
Lurie, they're over up in the box. He looked pissed. Yep.
So we're at seven openings right now. We were at eight, but the
Patriots got took Jared Mayo, So we're at seven right now. We could
be at maybe eight with the Cowboys, maybe nine with the Eagles, and
that would have if you include the Patriots, say ten, You're getting real
close to a third of the National Football League with coaching head coaching turnover this
year, and how many of those guys are just gonna jump into one of
those vacant positions, Yeah, you know, I don't know. But there's
a lot of big names available too. It's not like the old guard is
just you know, standing pat and those jobs stay the same. I mean,
I don't think Tomin's going anywhere, but he looked real unhappy after in
that press conference that we discussed earlier. It's just a really odd off season.
And I would think that nine hell or just seven that we know for
a fact is available right now. It's got to be near the top of
most head coaching switches in an off season. It's so volatile because it is
the world you live in. The people start screaming online, and you think
that's the uh, the vibe and feeling of the whole city and the whole
organization and the pressure build well. Online madness leads to someone's seat warming up.
I mean, it's true. Damn near half the league makes the playoffs
now, it's not the old days. He's like, twelve of the teams
make it, and you're like, once he added that other team. Fourteen
teams make the playoffs of a thirty two team league. You need to make
the playoffs. You need to make the playoffs every year. Oh the Cowboys
are doing that. Then at some point you're like, well, I need
to get further. It's just so hard, especially like the AFC. You
got to you gotta get past the Mahomes thing. It's almost like the same
thing they did as Brady for all those years. It's still about the quarterback,
Like it will always be that first. But you know that's why I
keep coming back to it. I'm not a McCarthy defender at all. God,
I feel like I'm almost too harsh on him. I almost keep coming
back to maybe you just run it back. I don't know. You know
what mikey tapped in and on something when he when he talked about, you
know, the Twitter culture that we we live in, and you know,
in the seventies, eighties, heck even nineties, it would be fada complee
that McCarthy was coming back. Because the way you lose is a coach or
a coach gets fired, is he ages out of the position there's a developing
or or long running kind of toxic atmosphere that's kind of permeating the entire organization,
or he loses the team where the team just tunes him out. I
don't think anything any of those things has happened to coach Mike McCarthy at all.
No, I don't think so. I don't think so either. And
ten years back then must have been so much longer than now, and then
the disposable you know culture that we live in and results now and shareholders are
sitting there wringing their hands. Yeah, you're responding to the times, not
necessarily the situation. And back then you need like Randy Galloway to write an
article with a head line say team unhappy with coach. But now it's and
it's all screaming all the time. That would have been all screaming. That
would have been a scitillating article back then. Like if anybody came out during
the Landry run and said anything that was nay saying about Tom Landry, that
would have been made national headlines. Yeah, okay, we'll be all this
all, you know, all throughout the day. Bill Belichick interview with the
Falcon yes day, and we keep talking about him. Will mccarthur be back?
I doubt we know the news today, but we'll update update you for
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