Speaker 1: Hello, Yeah, what's up? Man? We got technical, we got
Speaker 1: technical difficult, technical difficult. That's going on over here right now.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yes we do.
Speaker 1: We're blaming on Fred till he comes on. If you yeah,
Speaker 1: we're blaming on Fred.
Speaker 2: We're blame on Fred. I didn't get that, member, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Like going on, lot going on, and a lot going
Speaker 3: on this past weekend, ed we got to get to
Speaker 3: all of that. Man, some great, some great NFL games.
Speaker 3: But but man, that the Dodgers. Dodgers. Oh, I mean,
Speaker 3: I know we're getting down to the wire and we're
Speaker 3: getting down to to playoff time and Dodgers are still
Speaker 3: in a dog fight to get into to win the division.
Speaker 2: It's getting closer.
Speaker 3: But that game yesterday for me, and then I'll hear
Speaker 3: what you have to say about it. But the way
Speaker 3: they was kind of like we losing to the Rockies.
Speaker 3: Losing to the Rockies. We're down, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden they start to climb their way back into it,
Speaker 3: and and and then comes the ninth any where you
Speaker 3: know they're down to run and you say, you figure out, okay,
Speaker 3: we got the top of the lineup. This is what
Speaker 3: this is what we all envision this Dodger team to
Speaker 3: be Uh. When when things are tight and you got
Speaker 3: to face the top of the lineup and you opposing team,
Speaker 3: you gotta like, oh man, I gotta go through Otani,
Speaker 3: Mookie Freddie, you know, Will Smith, Maximunsey.
Speaker 2: That's just a it's just.
Speaker 3: A lineup that you don't want to face, especially late
Speaker 3: in the game, if the game is tight. And sure
Speaker 3: enough it came in. It came that way, right, It
Speaker 3: came where Otani got an opportunity to tie the game up.
Speaker 3: And I said it too. I said it to to
Speaker 3: to my son and said it to Holliday, was like,
Speaker 3: he gets ahead in the count, man, they're gonna have
Speaker 3: to groove one to him because they don't want to
Speaker 3: put him on because he's gonna steal a base and.
Speaker 2: Get the same base.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So I was like, they're gonna if he gets ahead
Speaker 3: in the count, he's gonna get a pitch to hit.
Speaker 3: Sure enough, he got to pitch to hit and drove
Speaker 3: it out man, and tied it up. It's like, man,
Speaker 3: here we go. And then Moki.
Speaker 4: Ronnie, can you hear me? Yes, we want to jump
Speaker 4: in here. I want to Yeah, we've got our issues corrected.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, talk about Mookie then, I've so.
Speaker 3: I was saying that, you know, Moki and and and
Speaker 3: fred and I've talked about this a lot. It's like,
Speaker 3: O Tani's getting so much, you know, attention because it's
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty club obviously you pass that now, and
Speaker 3: it's getting so much attention that you sometimes wondered, like
Speaker 3: Moki and Freddie Freeman sitting over there, like, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a pretty bad dude too, now, you know. I
Speaker 3: know y'all want to, you know, praise Otani all this,
Speaker 3: but I got some I got some history.
Speaker 2: I was an MVP too now.
Speaker 3: So I just felt that because you remember a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks back where they walked Otani to get to Muki,
Speaker 3: and Muki hit a home run to send him up
Speaker 3: to make them pay. And this was the perfect moment
Speaker 3: for Muki. Ohtani set the table by it up and
Speaker 3: Mooki comes up and I could just feel it. I
Speaker 3: don't know, probably the whole stadium could feel it like
Speaker 3: Mookie gonna do something special, and I mean he did
Speaker 3: it more than special. I felt he was gonna definitely
Speaker 3: get a hit and get on but man to end
Speaker 3: the game on a walk off home run.
Speaker 2: Like he did back to back. That is the Dodger team.
Speaker 3: I think everybody was like, this is the Dodger team
Speaker 3: we expect to see when we started talking about this
Speaker 3: team at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I better not be the Dodger team we expect
Speaker 4: to see in the playoffs. I'll tell you that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: this is the Dodger team we expect to see right now.
Speaker 4: Better not be that team in the playoffs. I'm talking
Speaker 4: about the wins, friend. I'm not talking about Oh it's
Speaker 4: the Rockies.
Speaker 3: They got behind, they struggled to get you know, they
Speaker 3: shouldn't have been behind in that ninth inning against the
Speaker 3: rock I'm talking about the way they won it against
Speaker 3: the Braves. It could be against the Phillies. It could
Speaker 3: begin inst anybody. But that team comes up and you
Speaker 3: got the top of the lineup going, I gotta get
Speaker 3: three outs against Otani, Mookie and Freddie. How do I
Speaker 3: do that and the game's tied or you're only up
Speaker 3: by one. That's a tough deal or frightening deal for
Speaker 3: a posing pitcher.
Speaker 4: Very exciting. They won the game ninth inning, came from behind.
Speaker 4: All that good I'm with you. Checks the boxes, exciting
Speaker 4: if you're a Dodger fan. Great home run for Mookie.
Speaker 4: Not taking anything away from it.
Speaker 2: None.
Speaker 4: But here's the problem. Yamamota goes out there and uh,
Speaker 4: not so good. Walker Bueller goes out on Saturday and
Speaker 4: not so good. And it really now gets me back
Speaker 4: to what I've been saying, because we're now what week
Speaker 4: and a half away from when the season really begins,
Speaker 4: the playoffs. They gonna have pitching. You cannot be in
Speaker 4: a hole like that. Yes, the Dodgers hit when they
Speaker 4: needed to hit, and it was great. I'm not denying that.
Speaker 4: I'm not taking it away. Please don't think I am.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is you're down that fast. Two
Speaker 4: games in a row, you're down that fast. Well, you're
Speaker 4: gonna see the Padres starting tomorrow. And they do have hope.
Speaker 4: They're not no hope anymore. They have hop Yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of hope. All right, So you're going to see
Speaker 4: them starting tomorrow, you know, hopefully you do. You take
Speaker 4: care of your business, you win your division, great either
Speaker 4: way you're in the playoffs. But when you get to
Speaker 4: the playoffs, you know, if you're down for nothing in
Speaker 4: the first inning. I would say it's a very different
Speaker 4: game than if you're down four nothing against Colorado in
Speaker 4: the first inning. And it still speaks to the overriding
Speaker 4: concern who's pitching. I gotta say I I don't think
Speaker 4: I'm glad the Dodgers won Sunday, and I'm not a
Speaker 4: class half full guy. I don't think it could have
Speaker 4: been a worse weekend for the time. You're an empty
Speaker 4: guy right now, I'm not empty.
Speaker 3: I don't think it could have been and went all
Speaker 3: the way from green and its yellow?
Speaker 1: Now is it all right?
Speaker 4: It's not read yet, not blood right. But what I'm
Speaker 4: saying is I don't think it could have gone any worse.
Speaker 4: Quite frankly, Uh have a great outing. You needed Yama
Speaker 4: Moto to have a great outing, didn't Could they have
Speaker 4: a great outing in their next outing?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: Would it have made everybody feel a little better if
Speaker 4: they had had great outings in their last outings, one
Speaker 4: thousand percent, because that's now where we're at. That's it,
Speaker 4: and it's coming now to fruition. Who's pitching and how
Speaker 4: good is it if they have a starter that can
Speaker 4: keep them in the game. I believe they can win
Speaker 4: the game. I believe offensively they will win the game,
Speaker 4: even in the playoffs and with the hitting issue, Rodney,
Speaker 4: I do believe that unlike last year. But if you
Speaker 4: go out there and you're down four or five runs,
Speaker 4: two winnings in, I also think you're in a heap
Speaker 4: of trouble. And I think that's the concern here, Rodney's
Speaker 4: you are. You are in a big trouble, especially in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. Gets a good teams, and you don't want
Speaker 4: to be down. We saw this member Game seven. We
Speaker 4: talk about it a lot when they playoffs rolled around
Speaker 4: where you Darvis got down and it felt like the
Speaker 4: game was over in the second inning because the Dodgers
Speaker 4: were down four right away.
Speaker 3: And so you can't do that. No, you can't do
Speaker 3: that in the postseason. But I will say that if
Speaker 3: there ever was a Dodger team, if you go back
Speaker 3: and look at all of them, that has the ability
Speaker 3: and the firepower to come back from a deficit like that,
Speaker 3: given there's a lot of game left. If you're down
Speaker 3: that early, is this team And when you start to
Speaker 3: get that feeling of I don't care how many runs
Speaker 3: were down, we're gonna We're gonna our bats are gonna
Speaker 3: get us back in it. That's a good feeling to have.
Speaker 3: But don't get me wrong. You know, pitching's got to
Speaker 3: hold up their end of the bargain. And and right now,
Speaker 3: like you said, you know guys that you counted on.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the Tiler Glass now injury just
Speaker 3: to a whole monkey wrench in the whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he for most of the season was the consistent guy,
Speaker 3: really known as the ace of that staff, and now
Speaker 3: you don't have him, y'ama modo coming back after injury,
Speaker 3: He's kind of been inconsistent. He had he had an
Speaker 3: okay performance before this last one, but still not to
Speaker 3: where you would like him to be going into the playoff.
Speaker 3: So you know, it could be by committee. And I
Speaker 3: think this is going to be one of those things
Speaker 3: where you, Dave Roberts and that staff is going to
Speaker 3: have to really manage the pitching because you can't let
Speaker 3: these games get out of hand.
Speaker 4: Eric, from where you sit, you're on a team, you've
Speaker 4: had a good season, You've dealt with injuries. You know,
Speaker 4: if everybody's healthy, you've got a real shot here. But
Speaker 4: you also know now you're starting quarterbackers in trouble, may
Speaker 4: be able to go, may not be able to go,
Speaker 4: and if he can go, may not be as effective
Speaker 4: as you would hope. So if that's the case, this
Speaker 4: is football. You're on that team, you start the playoffs,
Speaker 4: what are you.
Speaker 1: Thinking, Well, you're thinking hopefully that if he can't go,
Speaker 1: what does our backup look like? You know, I have
Speaker 1: the backup situation? And can he play and can he
Speaker 1: be effective? And I think that's the things the Dodgers
Speaker 1: is like, Yeah, you know that the hitting is good
Speaker 1: right now, but you know, think about it even last
Speaker 1: year when when they bats went cold, you know, in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and they had won over one hundred games.
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about the pitch and I see
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, Fred when you said, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you know it was a win. But we never should
Speaker 1: have gotten that kind of situation. I mean, because the
Speaker 1: Rockets are not a very good baseball team at all,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are one of the elite teams. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like that was almost like a Hollywood ending there,
Speaker 1: you know, or time of hit and hitting, you know, hit,
Speaker 1: get hitting and hit the home run and then lookie
Speaker 1: come and finishing off and winning and winning the game,
Speaker 1: you know, but that's not gonna happen all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get through these teams that have
Speaker 1: really good pitching, and you know what are they three
Speaker 1: they three day? They three games up on the pot
Speaker 1: bes right now. So I mean, you can't make those
Speaker 1: kind of mistakes against a good baseball the same, the
Speaker 1: same in football. You know, you can't make errors against
Speaker 1: a good football team. You can't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: you can't throw in exceptions, you know you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't drop the fly balls, you can't. You know, you
Speaker 1: get the top of the ending, well, you got your
Speaker 1: strong hitters coming up, you can't strike you can get
Speaker 1: them all struck out. So I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with I'm, I'm kind of on the fence
Speaker 1: because you know, I you know, like you guys know
Speaker 1: baseball a lot better than I know baseball. But I'm
Speaker 1: with Fred and I think you two riding. And when
Speaker 1: it comes to pitching, pitching is is very, very very
Speaker 1: important in baseball. I thought, I thought, I really thought
Speaker 1: that that hitting was was the thing when I saw,
Speaker 1: you know, the Dodgers were hitting the ball like like
Speaker 1: last year, really killing it. And they got in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and everything went cold and so but but if
Speaker 1: you're pitching is good, you know, you're still good. But
Speaker 1: if you can't hit the ball you don't have and
Speaker 1: your pitching is bad, are you in trouble? And and I,
Speaker 1: you know, and I hate to say it, I hope not,
Speaker 1: but I kind of foresee that with the Dodgers because
Speaker 1: you know, the bats are hot right now and it's
Speaker 1: and it's coming down to the riding in the playoffs. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, who's the hottest team, who's hot, who's really hot?
Speaker 1: You know? But and in baseball you need to have
Speaker 1: hot bats and hot pitching at the same time. And
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the difference. Yeah, And that's the thing.
Speaker 3: You you know, you may be able to like the
Speaker 3: game like yesterday, you might be able to get to
Speaker 3: get around, you know, winning one of those games in
Speaker 3: the series, but you can't. You can't have a steady
Speaker 3: tiet of winning games like that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's like, We're gonna walk it over again.
Speaker 3: Count on O'donnie to come up, and then Mookie gonna
Speaker 3: come behind him, and then Freddy's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: No, you can't count on that.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: I mean, the teams that have won it in the
Speaker 3: last few years have been teams that had both right that,
Speaker 3: both their offense and it and hitting and then uh
Speaker 3: and then on top of that, you've got you've got
Speaker 3: the pitching, the complement. The Arizona last year, their pitchers,
Speaker 3: their pitchers got hot last year. Nobody could hit them
Speaker 3: down the stretch They're two aces, couldn't nobody hit them.
Speaker 3: And and then their bats were hot too. They were
Speaker 3: hitting everything and and and stealing bases and doing all
Speaker 3: those things. So as a team, they were the hottest team.
Speaker 3: And that's the scary part of that about the Dodgers
Speaker 3: right now is that you you know, we know how
Speaker 3: good they are, but they could they could lose games
Speaker 3: when they score eight to nine runs because the.
Speaker 1: Pitching you get good, that's it. You can't you can't
Speaker 1: be winning a game of fifteen or twelve. You can't
Speaker 1: win no game like I mean, look at last year
Speaker 1: they took last year, that's exactly I mean the basketball
Speaker 1: how they were playing great. You know, they want like
Speaker 1: I said, what do you want one hundred and five
Speaker 1: games something like that? Hunting some games and then got
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Boom, it was over right quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's gonna be very very interesting.
Speaker 3: So tell me what's your gut before because we're gonna
Speaker 3: finish this up and then we'll get into the into
Speaker 3: the NFL Spotlight Monday, brought to you by Ford. But
Speaker 3: your gut going into the playoffs with the Dodgers, how
Speaker 3: do you feel? I mean, I know, we just heard
Speaker 3: Fred and where he is, but you're leaning towards that
Speaker 3: way too, But how do you feel about them going
Speaker 3: Because a lot of people saying, you know, this is
Speaker 3: make or break for a lot of folks, especially Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3: They don't win at all than Dave Roberts's gone, despite
Speaker 3: the fact that they've had, you know, multitude more injuries
Speaker 3: than any other team in the league. If they don't
Speaker 3: win the World Series, it's gonna be nobody's gonna care
Speaker 3: that they you know, you know, and and and that's
Speaker 3: the problem that that's that's okay, that's the problem right there,
Speaker 3: right And people need to care because if you you
Speaker 3: don't have your your starting pitchers or your starting quarterback
Speaker 3: or starting starting offensive line, it's hard to win.
Speaker 1: I don't care. You know how good you are, how
Speaker 1: well you played so far. But right now we're in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. My gut tells me that. And I hope
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, because you know, I'm a Dodger fan. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be in the same situation we weren't
Speaker 1: last year. I think we're gonna win the division, get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and probably lose.
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I say, and I say, I hope we don't,
Speaker 1: because I think the pitching is a big factor. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, you can't you can't rely on having
Speaker 1: ten runs a game. You can't rely on you know,
Speaker 1: walk off home runs. That's just not gonna happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: and then you have a pitching staff that is basically decimated.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I said it, I said it to
Speaker 1: some guys. Yet yes day before yesterday, how is it
Speaker 1: that all our pictures are hurt? I mean, it's something
Speaker 1: going on now. I mean, I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: look at somebody. You can't. It's like it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: why is the Like I said this before, why is
Speaker 1: the Why is the what we got guys going the
Speaker 1: acls out, you know, or the MCLs or the hamstrings.
Speaker 1: Something is going on with the with the coaching staff
Speaker 1: or the pitching coach. Something is happening there that's just
Speaker 1: not working out right. And I just think that I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna turn out good from im. I'll
Speaker 1: say it again, I'm a Dodger fan, but again I'm realistic.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I hope, I hope we can get
Speaker 1: through it. I hope we can, you know, some kind
Speaker 1: of get it together and say, hey, let's win it all.
Speaker 1: And I feel bad for Dave Robberts because Dave Robberts
Speaker 1: to me, is a great manager. But if you don't
Speaker 1: have your aces, it's hard to win. It is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can't go out and pitch for him.
Speaker 3: But then again, you know, people don't don't really care
Speaker 3: about that, which you, like you said, tom they should
Speaker 3: care because if you're if you're really gonna be a fan,
Speaker 3: or you're gonna analyze the team, you got to analyze
Speaker 3: the whole team, the whole team, right.
Speaker 2: And you can't. I don't care who you bring in there.
Speaker 3: You bring Tommy back, you know, Tommy comes right right,
Speaker 3: you know Tommy, you don't have any pitching you know,
Speaker 3: and they You know Tommy, you know though he used
Speaker 3: to pitch back in the day, you know, Tommy can't
Speaker 3: go out here and pitch for him. So it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a tough dynamic. Just your take on now that
Speaker 3: we're winding up the season with the Dodgers. Uh, and
Speaker 3: just be you know, before we go to preak, you're
Speaker 3: you're your assessment of o Tany and what he's been
Speaker 3: able to do this year.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you know you know, uh right now, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about that a minute ago. I said, what
Speaker 1: he's done is actually phenomenal. It's almost like a I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use myself as a running back. I ran for
Speaker 1: two thousand yards and I and I had I caught
Speaker 1: another had another twelve to fifteen hundred yards receiving. That's
Speaker 1: what kind of that's that's the kind of season here,
Speaker 1: And that sounds crazy. You think about that. You ran
Speaker 1: for two thousand yards and you had another fifteen yards
Speaker 1: one hundred yards received even a thousand yards for see,
Speaker 1: but you ran for so you had three thousand yards.
Speaker 1: That is the kind of season that he's like, like
Speaker 1: David robertson that Dave, Dave Roberts said, it's almost like
Speaker 1: he's not human. And and when you think about baseball,
Speaker 1: because man, you know people say, oh man, I could
Speaker 1: hit that ball. Oh if I hurt my shoulder, I
Speaker 1: could have been a pro baseball player. Yeah right, I
Speaker 1: mean it's hard to hit a baseball. It's hard to
Speaker 1: hit a ninety five, one hundred miles hours baseball and
Speaker 1: come up and do some of the things he's like,
Speaker 1: fifty home runs, fifty stolen bases, well fifty five now
Speaker 1: fifty five home runs.
Speaker 3: Fifty three home runs, fifty five stolen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's phenomenal. So that's how I uh,
Speaker 1: look at look at his his season he's had so
Speaker 1: far as it's running back has had basically two thousand
Speaker 1: yards rushing and another thirteen to fifteen hundred yards receiving,
Speaker 1: and you and you know he'd be MVP.
Speaker 2: The running back would be for sure. Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 3: How do you think that Mookie and Freddie are handling
Speaker 3: or what do you think of what's going on in
Speaker 3: their heads? I mean sometimes at some point, and it'd
Speaker 3: be different if he was you know, he was arrogant
Speaker 3: and he was cocky and he was doing it like
Speaker 3: that there might be some tension.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Like I was saying, these two guys were m vps
Speaker 3: themselves and they're they're watching, you know, somebody come along
Speaker 3: on their team that's doing this. You think it could
Speaker 3: go either way, right, It could motivate you even harder,
Speaker 3: or it could be like, this is my teammate. We
Speaker 3: gonna We're gonna roll with this cat all the way
Speaker 3: to the World Series.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something, Rodney. One thing I link
Speaker 1: at the Dodger organization, and I see the organization is
Speaker 1: a very stable organization. The Dodgs have been a great
Speaker 1: baseball team for a long time. I think about when
Speaker 1: I was in Indianapolis and I told you before how
Speaker 1: selfish some of the players on the team were, like
Speaker 1: it was jealous if your name was in the paper,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I linked the Dodgers. They don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have those kind of problems because I
Speaker 1: think they have players on that football, that baseball team
Speaker 1: that are confident in themselves, like a Mookie that's Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not worrying about we We're glad to
Speaker 1: have him. We were happy to have him here. You know,
Speaker 1: he can help out baseball team. And that's what it's
Speaker 1: all about. Because when you have when you have a
Speaker 1: history of baseball like the Dodgers have, you don't have
Speaker 1: those kind of guys. You might have one or two
Speaker 1: guys like that, but I don't think the stars like
Speaker 1: Mookie and Otany and Freddie Freeman and those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't you don't don't. I don't think you have.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're like, hey, look, I'm happy for him.
Speaker 1: And let's just when let's try to win the World Series.
Speaker 4: All right, Eric Well said, I don't even know what
Speaker 4: I can say after that.
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Speaker 1: Huh how yeah, that's right. It's a Monday.
Speaker 3: That means it's a Ford NFL Spotlight with the Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 1: Right to beat and Fred.
Speaker 4: Rogan, all right, so you're watching the Rams game yesterday
Speaker 4: and I thought, when it was all said and done,
Speaker 4: how did they win that game?
Speaker 1: How did they win?
Speaker 4: Because if you watched from the beginning to the end,
Speaker 4: you're thinking they get beat. I thought that was a
Speaker 4: great win for him yesterday Eric, especially watching it trying
Speaker 4: to figure out how they won.
Speaker 1: Fred, I mean, I agree with you one I went
Speaker 1: to that game. I'm like, first of all, i gotta
Speaker 1: say going there, me being a former Ram player, love
Speaker 1: my team. But I'm like, man, we ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. I mean, say they got injuries.
Speaker 1: I say, we ain't gonna beat them. And it was
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing, I'm like, hey, I'm gonna get out of
Speaker 1: here in a minute because I know this is over with. Seriously.
Speaker 1: I mean that is just how I felt. Finally, when
Speaker 1: they scored and I'm like, we got a shot, and
Speaker 1: then San Francisco scored again, I'm like, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you what I kept saying, They're
Speaker 1: letting the Rams hang around. They would fool around and
Speaker 1: let the Rams beat them. And the thing I got
Speaker 1: to give McVeigh credit for and his team even last
Speaker 1: a week ago when they played Arizona when they were
Speaker 1: getting beat up on one thing I noticed about this
Speaker 1: football team. They play hard and they keep playing hard.
Speaker 1: And a lot of teams don't play hard when they're losing.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, man, when this game is over with,
Speaker 1: you know we'll beat and like two weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: mean last week when they played Arizona, they were beat
Speaker 1: and they but they still played hard. That is one
Speaker 1: thing I give McVay and his staff and the players
Speaker 1: credit for for playing hard. We had a lot of
Speaker 1: players out. They had a lot of players out also,
Speaker 1: but the Rams came through big time. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was a great job of coaching Stafford came through some
Speaker 1: big time throws when he had to the past interference
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. You know that set
Speaker 1: up the field goal. But honestly, I did not think
Speaker 1: we were going to win that football game. But I'm
Speaker 1: my glad because you know, I think the sad thing
Speaker 1: I think the most the saddest thing is is looking
Speaker 1: in that stadium and seeing all those red jerseys all
Speaker 1: looked game. It looked like a forty nine a home.
Speaker 1: It looked like a forty nine home game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it really did that. That's that's the saddest thing about
Speaker 1: It's like they're they're at home plan and but the
Speaker 1: best part of it all was they had to walk
Speaker 1: their ass out of there knowing they had lost. You
Speaker 1: know that was I think that that made the best
Speaker 1: part cool. Y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all came all your
Speaker 1: funny up, but you lost because I know they expected
Speaker 1: to what they expected me. And I want to say
Speaker 1: I want I want to say this too. Uh. I
Speaker 1: want to thank all the people that wear my jersey
Speaker 1: because Fred back in my day, you know when I played,
Speaker 1: you couldn't fans couldn't didn't. They didn't have jersey. Only
Speaker 1: players had jerseys. You know, you didn't fancy get no jerseys.
Speaker 1: And because I didn't, Man, I'm like, dude, I see
Speaker 1: twenty nine jerseys. I mean, I mean, I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: I've been retired from football for thirty years, forty years,
Speaker 1: and fans, I just want to say thank you for
Speaker 1: wearing twenty nine. It makes me happy. I love signing
Speaker 1: the jerseys for the fans. I love taking pictures with them.
Speaker 1: I stopped. I saw this this this girl last year.
Speaker 1: She's walking in my jersey and I said, I said,
Speaker 1: I like that jersey. And she had another girl with
Speaker 1: and she said, oh, thank you, like like okay, and
Speaker 1: the girl said, I think that's him. I think that's
Speaker 1: a jersey. This is your jersey. I said, yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: can you sun take a picture with me? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I gotta say, I said, I said, I think
Speaker 1: thank all the fans, but for wearing twenty nine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's impressive, Edie. You know, like you said,
Speaker 1: you've been tired a long time. But I think when
Speaker 1: people think RAMS, I would be hard pressed to say
Speaker 1: that you. You wouldn't be the first name to pick
Speaker 1: that pops up in people's mind when they talk about
Speaker 1: the history of the Rams and and the Rams and
Speaker 1: what they've done. And that's leader is a close second,
Speaker 1: close second. But I don't know what number was Brock for.
Speaker 1: What number was he listen to you? What was he? Six? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: I was right there. You got the single digit, right.
Speaker 3: But other than current guys, you, yeah, you you are
Speaker 3: the number one dirty that you see, you know, And
Speaker 3: so that's a that's a great testament to you and
Speaker 3: and and appreciate you. And I'm sure the fans do
Speaker 3: appreciate you giving them love because I've seen you, I've
Speaker 3: been out with you, and you do give the fans love.
Speaker 3: And some of the guys, you know, don't necessarily always
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 1: But the hats off to you, man.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that that stadium with the with all the red.
Speaker 3: What was crazy to me was at the end of
Speaker 3: the game, they're going into, you know, to tie it
Speaker 3: up and going into the end zone and the Rams
Speaker 3: had to use a silent count in the home stadium
Speaker 3: because the fans were so loud.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's that's that's crazy. That's crazy practice
Speaker 1: for the road, like right right.
Speaker 3: In the hospital stadium and it's gonna be loud that
Speaker 3: you use a silent count, use hand signals and foot
Speaker 3: signals and all that. And the Rams had to do
Speaker 3: it in their home stadium going in to score and
Speaker 3: tie the game up. That was just it was crazy
Speaker 3: to me. But that just I mean, they've got a
Speaker 3: loyal fan base. They really do, as big as anybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, you think about and it's kind of maybe
Speaker 3: it's sort of weird for a West Coast team to
Speaker 3: have that because you normally associate that with the you know,
Speaker 3: teams in the South or or when it comes to college,
Speaker 3: but also you you associate that with the Steelers or
Speaker 3: Green Bay, you know, teams like that. And the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers got that same kind of following cowboys.
Speaker 1: You know coos cowboys.
Speaker 3: They got that same kind of follow no matter where
Speaker 3: they go, especially if they're playing the Rams. They that
Speaker 3: is that like Eric says, it has said all the
Speaker 3: all along that he hates the forty nine ers, And
Speaker 3: I'm sure the forty nine ers hate the Rams. It's
Speaker 3: just that rivalry that goes back and forth. But they
Speaker 3: show up when whenever they play the Rams. But I
Speaker 3: thought that was crazy that he had to use his
Speaker 3: silent count at home. Do you think that they knew
Speaker 3: that would happen and they worked on it this week?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: You think they were aware of the fact that there'd
Speaker 4: be that many people from San Francisco there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt, without a doubt, knowing, knowing staff,
Speaker 3: knowing Sean McVay, who is you know, his attention to
Speaker 3: detail is the second to none. You know that they
Speaker 3: worked on that like and and had conversations with the team.
Speaker 3: You know, they're gonna be a lot of forty nine
Speaker 3: er fans there. They're gonna they're gonna fill up the stadium,
Speaker 3: And he probably used it to motivation. That's why we
Speaker 3: gotta win. That's why we got to keep winning. That's
Speaker 3: why we got to build our own and and make
Speaker 3: sure that our fan base is proud of proud of us,
Speaker 3: that they show up for us. And so I'm sure
Speaker 3: he used that in his speech. As long as week.
Speaker 3: You know they gonna come in here to our stadium
Speaker 3: and try to take it over. We got to make
Speaker 3: that an unfavorable or uncomfortable place for the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers to come.
Speaker 2: And what do you think of.
Speaker 1: The winning touchdown to flip into the end zone?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I thought it was great. I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: I thought it was great. I mean, I really did,
Speaker 1: you know. I hate when DD's hit you in the
Speaker 1: knees and legs anyway, kisses me off. But I thought
Speaker 1: it was cool. I'm like, oh, Okay, that's cool. But
Speaker 1: I went there. When I saw it, I'm like, who
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking about myself right now? If I would
Speaker 1: land like that on my back, I'm like oh lord,
Speaker 1: bringing the ambulance out. I can't get up.
Speaker 3: It was funny about you just saying that because I
Speaker 3: look at it now, and you know, in that situation,
Speaker 3: it was kind of like it was bang bang. He
Speaker 3: saw it coming, he was gonna get in the end
Speaker 3: zone and the guy went low, so he jumped up
Speaker 3: and he flipped.
Speaker 2: Kind of almost had to do it.
Speaker 3: But when I see guys do it when they're wide
Speaker 3: open running into the end zone and they flip on
Speaker 3: their own, I'm like.
Speaker 1: Why why? I don't understand. I'm like, I'm like you, why,
Speaker 1: what's the purpose?
Speaker 2: I'm waking up.
Speaker 3: I'm like hurting my I'm grabbing my back, my ankles,
Speaker 3: my achilles. Every time I see somebody do a flip
Speaker 3: when they don't have to going into the end zone, like,
Speaker 3: what are you doing?
Speaker 4: He almost stuck her too. That would have been great.
Speaker 4: I thought, oh no, he's going to get it.
Speaker 2: That was a great throw. Great throw by Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 3: You know, we we we kind of said loosely, but
Speaker 3: you know, everybody talks about my homes and his arm talent,
Speaker 3: and you know Aaron Rodgers his arm talent. Stafford is
Speaker 3: right there with with all of them. I mean that
Speaker 3: throw was on the money in a place where he
Speaker 3: had to let it go before he actually came open
Speaker 3: and throw him open a little bit and get him
Speaker 3: in stride for him to go score. But it was
Speaker 3: a it was a great throw in a tight window
Speaker 3: that he made. And uh, you know, he without you know,
Speaker 3: think about that, without pooking a core, without Cooper Cup,
Speaker 3: without the weapons that he had. He went to work
Speaker 3: on that defense, which a lot of people believe it
Speaker 3: was one of the best defenses in the league. He
Speaker 3: went to work on that defense and brought that team
Speaker 3: back and kept them in it and brought him back
Speaker 3: to win.
Speaker 2: It can't say enough about Matthew Stafford this game.
Speaker 4: Well, in the first half, and correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 4: they just ran the ball. They really didn't throw much
Speaker 4: at all in the first half. The Rams then of
Speaker 4: the second.
Speaker 1: Half and they found themselves behind, they came out and
Speaker 1: opened it up. Eric, Well, you know, afraid, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you. People think that that running the ball doesn't
Speaker 1: does nothing. I mean, if you're not a football person,
Speaker 1: see as a football player, I know what running the
Speaker 1: right ball does to a defense. It tires them out.
Speaker 1: They get tired because now I've got to chase this guy.
Speaker 1: I've got to fight off these offensive linemen. I've got
Speaker 1: to go try to make a tackle. Now, gotta go
Speaker 1: run back, get in my stands. I got to do
Speaker 1: that same thing again. Okay, now they're throwing the pass
Speaker 1: or two. Now I've got to try to rush the passer.
Speaker 1: I gotta try to fight out blocks. It wears on them.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I never thought that I would
Speaker 1: see McVeigh run the football like he does now. And
Speaker 1: you know, for for me, Shanahan is that is his mo.
Speaker 1: Just like Dad, run the football running when it's not popular.
Speaker 1: You know, you may run it maybe third and fifteen,
Speaker 1: still run the football, second and ten. Run the football
Speaker 1: because it does something to a defense. And I think
Speaker 1: after a while that and look, Kyra Roon didn't have
Speaker 1: a like he didn't have one hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 1: I think he only had like eighty nine yards. I
Speaker 1: think he had three touchdowns. You know those eighty nine
Speaker 1: yards those running the running the football helps the passing
Speaker 1: game so much and vice versa. You know, when you
Speaker 1: can throw the football and have a quarterback like Mike,
Speaker 1: like Matt Stafford. It has to run the game also.
Speaker 1: And I just thought yesterday that the game plan was
Speaker 1: was perfect for this for that game. The team, I
Speaker 1: keep saying again, the team played hard, man. I mean
Speaker 1: they really played hard when they were down, because right,
Speaker 1: do you know how it is, man, when you get
Speaker 1: down fourteen nothing like start the game? Yeah, like, man,
Speaker 1: this game over with this, you know, this game is
Speaker 1: pretty much over with. But the used to they kept playing.
Speaker 1: I mean they played hard, no matter what. Hard. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I say one thing, I get him, even they were losing.
Speaker 1: I said, give them credit. They're playing hard no matter what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you can look at it and go, we're
Speaker 3: down fourteen. They barely blinked and we down fourteen to nothing, nothing,
Speaker 3: and we ain't got our guys.
Speaker 2: We hurt. Let's just chalk this one up.
Speaker 1: Man. It's just exactly what I said, keep it respectable, exactly,
Speaker 1: Just keep it respectable, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But going back to what you said about the running game.
Speaker 3: You know, and that's a misconception about quarterbacks too, because
Speaker 3: you talk to all of them. You know, you talked
Speaker 3: to Mahomes, you talk to Aaron Rodger, Matthew staff all
Speaker 3: those guys. They we all wanted a good running game
Speaker 3: because what that meant is that first of all, was
Speaker 3: going to take pressure off of us. And yeah, it's
Speaker 3: cool to throw it fifty times a game, but you
Speaker 3: want a running game because when you play action, then
Speaker 3: those guys become even more open than they would be
Speaker 3: if if the team knows you can't run the football.
Speaker 3: So running the football is the quarterback's best friend, the
Speaker 3: best friend. I don't care if you're a rookie or
Speaker 3: you're a fifteen year of vet. It is your best friend.
Speaker 3: And you always want a good running game. Yeah you
Speaker 3: want to throw three hundred and fifty yards and five touchdowns,
Speaker 3: but man, if you could go out and say I
Speaker 3: could be balanced and run the football and I have
Speaker 3: my guys more open. You saw what it did for
Speaker 3: You know what it's done for Brock Perty you mentioned it,
Speaker 3: shan Ann run first. They're gonna run that football first,
Speaker 3: or a defense has to defend the run. When they
Speaker 3: play San Francisco, they got to defend the run first.
Speaker 3: And that's why you see Party having the success that
Speaker 3: he's had with Jennings yesterday is that they ran the ball.
Speaker 3: But their play action game is as good as anybody's
Speaker 3: in the league. And you got guys running wide open
Speaker 3: a lot of times because the running game is so good.
Speaker 1: Party's a good quarterback, Yeah, a great good quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: a I get example about running football. Just going back
Speaker 1: in history, you go back to in my era, two
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks, two Hall of Fame quarterbacks, John Elway, Dan Marino.
Speaker 1: John Elway did not win a Super Bowl til you
Speaker 1: got who dates to Real Davis. My friend Madame Marino
Speaker 1: never won a Super Bowl. He had all the yardage,
Speaker 1: great receivers, good defense, not great defense. No running game,
Speaker 1: That's what he always said. He said, if they had
Speaker 1: a running game, he had no running game. You know
Speaker 1: that that goes to show you how man running game
Speaker 1: is just important. And it kills me that that. You know,
Speaker 1: when when they when they started running the football, and
Speaker 1: these these comments, oh wow, you know they run the
Speaker 1: football now, you know, and and and before they said
Speaker 1: all you don't need it, you don't need a running game.
Speaker 1: You know, he needed a quarterback. And you can you
Speaker 1: can platune running backs through. But when the running game clicks,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when it's working. I mean when I
Speaker 1: saw the I didn't even see the game. I just
Speaker 1: saw Saquon bark I think had a one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six yards I said, I bet they won the game.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, they won the game.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 1: He went up Derrick Henry in Baltimore. I mean, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: same thing, same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, yep, Eric, you were talking about jerseys earlier
Speaker 4: and this I was gonna mention this, and it just
Speaker 4: hit me when you said it. So, the Kings have
Speaker 4: their new jerseys released, the Hockey King, the La Kings,
Speaker 4: and you know, fans want to buy those authentic jerseys
Speaker 4: with the new logo for this year, which is kind
Speaker 4: of the old logo but updated a little bit. You
Speaker 4: want to know what those jerseys cost? Authentic jersey three
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty four hundred and twenty five dollars, The
Speaker 4: King's jersey four hundred and twenty authentic authentic ones four
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five dollars. You want to put somebody's
Speaker 4: name on the back, figure another one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hold it, that ain't no name on
Speaker 1: the fact. No, that's just a jersey. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, you know we can put any name we want,
Speaker 4: but you got to figure it'll be like another one
Speaker 4: hundred bucks five twenty five for an authentic jersey.
Speaker 1: A replica will work just fine. Who's going to spend.
Speaker 4: Five hundred dollars on a hockey jersey seriously to wear.
Speaker 1: To the games? Well, I can tell one person, won't
Speaker 1: it be you free because you'd wear you're talking about it.
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna show angle to send five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: There's no way, There's no way.
Speaker 4: I mean, I understand jerseys are expensive, and you know
Speaker 4: if you go to buy an Otani or a jersey
Speaker 4: like that, I get five hundred dollars for a jersey.
Speaker 1: Listen, you can tell be making his own. Fred go
Speaker 1: into basement to make his own jersey. Really, we can't
Speaker 1: make Fred. Eve don't dollars five five that'd be like
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. Oh my god, you out of your mind?
Speaker 3: Well what you know, you wouldn't It wouldn't be the
Speaker 3: extra fact because we know you're not gonna put a
Speaker 3: name back on the.
Speaker 1: Jersey, So I would save that one hundred. Yeah, say
Speaker 1: that one hundred, I say that one hundred. That's right, man,
Speaker 1: with a certain age. You're not putting a name on
Speaker 1: the back of that Jurney can't be forty forty enough.
Speaker 1: Don't put another man's name on your back?
Speaker 2: Is it just me?
Speaker 1: Does that seem nuts? That seems crazy? But but you
Speaker 1: know they set that price point because I guess they
Speaker 1: figure they can get it. They can't they get it.
Speaker 1: That's the point, that's the most point. If you get it,
Speaker 1: then then no problem. Somebody got five hundred dolls they
Speaker 1: want to pay for a jersey, Well that's somebody. It's
Speaker 1: not for it, but it's not Fred Rogan.
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Speaker 4: so you knew going in that it would be a
Speaker 4: problem if it happened, and boy, it's a problem if
Speaker 4: it happened. Justin Herbert couldn't finish Sunday and that finished
Speaker 4: the Chargers. Give him credit. He went out there. He's
Speaker 4: got a high ankle spring gave it what he could.
Speaker 4: The decision was, I'm gonna go and gut it out
Speaker 4: until I feel like I can't help the team and
Speaker 4: protect myself. That moment came, he was done, and so
Speaker 4: were they Eric, Do they have any chance to win
Speaker 4: without them?
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, when I watched the Charger, the
Speaker 1: Charges defense is pretty good. You know, they're very aggressive.
Speaker 1: Who's the backup you know, you know who's the backup of?
Speaker 1: Do you know the backup there? Tyler Heineke? Yeah, heinekee, oh,
Speaker 1: Heineke Heinke. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well played for the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, that's gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 1: But the defense looked really good. The thing is is
Speaker 1: that going back to the running game, they couldn't run
Speaker 1: the football against Pittsburgh, and that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good defense against the run. Pittsburgh has always been a
Speaker 1: very physical football team. Uh, the Chargers are very are
Speaker 1: very physical football team on defense. I do like it
Speaker 1: when they play on defense. But you know, with out
Speaker 1: there star quarterback and without a running game, I know
Speaker 1: that I think Dobbins he ran for I think one
Speaker 1: hundred yards in both the first two the first two games,
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh shut him down. But you know, without without Herbert,
Speaker 1: I just think it's gonna be tough. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how long it's gonna be out. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be two weeks gonna be four weeks the Chargers, you know,
Speaker 1: I give it again. They are a good football team.
Speaker 1: I think they have a very good coach now. But
Speaker 1: being gona win that division, you know that that's for sure,
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I think they can win.
Speaker 1: I think I think they can win. I think I
Speaker 1: think they'll win. I think they win nine games, maybe
Speaker 1: even ten. But they're not going to that division. But
Speaker 1: you know, and it depends on you know, Ridney. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know there's injuries, you know, and and that like
Speaker 1: at the Rams who are kind of decimated injuries right now.
Speaker 1: You're still able to win to have injuries. But when
Speaker 1: your quarterback goes down and he's a he's a focal
Speaker 1: point of that offense and that football team, that is
Speaker 1: a big difference. And with with heini keep playing quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like I say, I think I
Speaker 1: think they win some games. I think that maybe win
Speaker 1: like I said, maybe nine games, maybe ten. But I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think they're not going to the division
Speaker 1: for sure, because you know, I can't see it with
Speaker 1: that division. Eric Dickerson, that is the nicest thing you
Speaker 1: think I've ever said about the A nice little team,
Speaker 1: that nice little.
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 1: I gotta give myself some credit. Yeah, yeah, I'm listening
Speaker 1: to you know what. That is nice because I watched
Speaker 1: I watched the game. I watched, I watched him play.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know one thing, I like it, and
Speaker 1: I'm on offense, I do like a D fense that
Speaker 1: will hit you and the Chargers will come up. They
Speaker 1: were hitting, but the Steelers were hitting too. That's the
Speaker 1: thing they they played played. They played physical football. But
Speaker 1: you know, without without their quarterback, man, Yeah, and theyre
Speaker 1: that game.
Speaker 3: Look, you know, without they once Herbert went down, they
Speaker 3: had absolutely no offense, no threat of offense or anything
Speaker 3: like that. And the Steelers, Steelers knew it too, and
Speaker 3: Steelers just you know, we you know, kind of teed
Speaker 3: off a little bit. But also the Teelers, the Steelers
Speaker 3: knew that they weren't gonna score. And I got to
Speaker 3: give credit to to to Justin Fields and that offense
Speaker 3: and something because they they knew it and they were
Speaker 3: not going to allow you know, Justin Fields to go crazier,
Speaker 3: make any mistakes that were going to give the Chargers
Speaker 3: any kind of life.
Speaker 2: And they played it conservative. Once Ence Herbert went out
Speaker 2: they played it conservatively and methodically scored some points enough
Speaker 2: to win because they knew that the Chargers were going
Speaker 2: to have a tough time moving the ball and score it.
Speaker 2: But absolutely no way, and Fred, do they do anything
Speaker 2: without Justin Herbert at quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they ran into as Eric pointed out, the
Speaker 4: Chargers are gonna try to be a running team, and
Speaker 4: they ran into the best running defense in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a problem. That is a problem when.
Speaker 3: You look at it, because if you run into that team, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you want to run the football, you run into the
Speaker 3: best running team, but you're still gonna You're still gonna
Speaker 3: commit to the run because that's your identity, that's what
Speaker 3: you want to be. But you also then have that
Speaker 3: quarterback that can go off of play action, that can
Speaker 3: make some plays for you. But when you take him
Speaker 3: out of the mix and you go into the game
Speaker 3: saying we're gonna run the football, well, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: now he's out of the game. The Steelers go, Okay,
Speaker 3: he's out, So now I'm gonna play an eight man front.
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make Heinekey beat me, and and he wasn't
Speaker 3: able to do it. And and if you see the
Speaker 3: thing is, and Eric knows this, that the high ankle
Speaker 3: spring that's a tricky injury. That's a trick that's a
Speaker 3: that's a tricky injury. That can you wait, Rodney, Rodney,
Speaker 3: can you guys explain it? Because people that hear high
Speaker 3: ankle spraining, they said, oh, that's the top of your ankle.
Speaker 3: But that's not necessarily the case. No, it's it's almost
Speaker 3: it's like your shin, you know, it's it's it's up
Speaker 3: that high where it's it's hard to rehabit. It's hard
Speaker 3: to do anything other than rest it because the least
Speaker 3: little hit on it or bend on it or anything
Speaker 3: to it is going to aggravate it. And it takes
Speaker 3: forever to really heal properly. And if they don't, and
Speaker 3: which I was a little surprised that they played him,
Speaker 3: you know when I heard it was it was going
Speaker 3: to be a game time decision. You know, a game
Speaker 3: time decision is different on a lot of lot of fronts. Right,
Speaker 3: if you got even a low anchor, or you got
Speaker 3: a turf toe, Eric, which you've had before, and you
Speaker 3: go out and warm ups and you're like, man, this
Speaker 3: feels pretty good.
Speaker 2: I think I can go.
Speaker 3: You can go, but with a high ankle sprain, I
Speaker 3: think you've got to air on the side of caution
Speaker 3: with that, because all it takes is you don't even
Speaker 3: have to get hit hard. You just fall wrong on
Speaker 3: a high angle's brain and it's setting you back again,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, you back to square one.
Speaker 3: And this will keep happening if they keep trotting him
Speaker 3: out there weekend and week out, it will keep happening
Speaker 3: without allowing it, you know, a couple of weeks to heal.
Speaker 3: And that's why I was a little shocked that they
Speaker 3: were saying it was a game time decision and they
Speaker 3: ended up playing him. You know, right before the game
Speaker 3: they activated to make sure he was gonna play. Because
Speaker 3: if it's that serious that they didn't know up until
Speaker 3: game time, then you didn't sit him, sit him for
Speaker 3: that game, let it heal another week, and then you
Speaker 3: put him, put him back out there.
Speaker 2: But now reaggravate it.
Speaker 3: Now it's now it's now there's going to be another
Speaker 3: week of you know, will he play. He's not gonna
Speaker 3: be able to practice all week, and then we'll get
Speaker 3: to Saturday.
Speaker 2: Is he gonna be able to play?
Speaker 3: And this could be a reoccurring theme all season long
Speaker 3: if you don't allow that thing to heal.
Speaker 1: I think I think you said it right right now.
Speaker 1: I think it will be a reoccurring thing all season long,
Speaker 1: because an ankle, it's something at really needs time. I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes eight to ten weeks, twelve weeks. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: may take a year. I have to say, it may
Speaker 1: take a year. You better bite your tongue. You better
Speaker 1: bolt up and bite your tongue.
Speaker 3: But he seems right because you may take it feels
Speaker 3: good like you can run on it in practice and
Speaker 3: do all things, and when it's a controlled environment, but
Speaker 3: all of a sudden a linement falls on it. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, you got to make a cut that you
Speaker 3: didn't think you had to make in practice, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden it said back.
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you, Fred, you know, in practice
Speaker 1: and walk throughs and you know, and even a little
Speaker 1: light scrimmage is different in a real football action. Because, brother,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. They hitting out that they
Speaker 1: are hitting out there, they don't care nothing about your ankle.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get to your ankle. If we can
Speaker 1: if we can twist it under pod, we'll do that.
Speaker 1: You know at the point and when you hurt because
Speaker 1: I tried to play with a hamstring injury. Man, they
Speaker 1: would tear my heads up. I'm thinking I can run,
Speaker 1: but I can't do what I want do. I can
Speaker 1: only live your mind telling you I can get you.
Speaker 1: I know I can do it. I know I can
Speaker 1: do it. You say no, you can't. You get hurt.
Speaker 1: So no, they're in a dilemma.
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