WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.200 And we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete Sports one 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:07.080 Hour Down twenty twenty five. Upon us, it's going to 3 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:09.240 be a great year. And you know why, Rodney, Why 4 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.839 is that? Because we got no choice. Every year's got 5 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:14.599 to be a great year because we got no choice. 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:16.399 Got no choice, Freddy, I like that. 7 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.640 You know what I mean? Yeah? Do it? You got 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:20.239 no choice. 9 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:23.120 Can't go back, can't go back, can't put the toothpaste 10 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:27.399 back in. Every year we start with optimism. Every year, 11 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:30.280 we start with a sense of wonderment. Every year we 12 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.079 start with a sense of excitement. We're human beings and 13 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:34.880 that's what we do. It is the beginning of a 14 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.600 new year. For some of us, we get older. For 15 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:42.719 some of us, exciting new life changes occur. And really, 16 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.479 as we go through the year, it comes down to 17 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.359 how we deal with everything. 18 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:48.520 Tossed at us. 19 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:51.000 I mean, last year was a good year for you, Rodney, 20 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.320 and in some ways it wasn't very good. It was 21 00:00:54.439 --> 00:01:01.320 absolutely but you know, we start anew We carry our 22 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:04.519 memories with us, but we start with renewed optimism and hope. 23 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:11.040 Are you a resolution guy, fred I'm not that guy 24 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:15.719 because I lie, and if you lie, there's no reason 25 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:16.519 to make a resolution. 26 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:21.239 Yeah, it's almost better than okay, do you know, to 27 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:24.319 have goals or whatever you do, and then you know, 28 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:27.640 December thirty first eight, did I accomplish what I want 29 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:28.920 to accomplish in Yeah? 30 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:30.000 Year? All right. 31 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:32.760 I'd rather do the end of the year situation rather 32 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.920 than say okay, because situations change, you can say I'm 33 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:37.079 gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. 34 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.400 Uh my New Year's resolution. 35 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:41.760 I'm gonna eat right, I'm gonna do that, and then 36 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.519 you get invited to a vacation where you're eating steak 37 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.719 every day, right, you know what I mean, there's a 38 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.879 chef cooking for you. You gotta do that. So you're gonna 39 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.640 break them. I always feel like they just if there's anything. 40 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.480 And I don't do change for the sake of change 41 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.480 or make false promises or anything like that. But I 42 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.680 do try to change one thing. I try to do 43 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.159 one thing that didn't work for me. I try to 44 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.919 change one thing, one habit, one thing that's all, and 45 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.360 work on it. Not saying I'm gonna completely do it 46 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.240 or whatever. But that's one thing I'm gonna focus focus 47 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.520 on each year. Is I'm a focus on whether that's 48 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:22.719 being organized, or getting up earlier, or being more prepared 49 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.960 on certain things, or you know, connecting with people back. 50 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.560 I mean, it's one thing and I write them down 51 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.560 and I say that's this is the one thing I'm 52 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.319 gonna do this year. But you get into there's my 53 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:37.080 ten New Year's resolutions, You're always gonna fall short. 54 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.560 All right, let me give you an example of something. Let 55 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.360 me give you an example. You talk about resolutions. I 56 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.719 think if you know me, you know that occasionally I 57 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:55.039 enjoy a nice bottle of cabernet. You know I'm heart smart. Yes, 58 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:56.960 red line is makes you heart smart? 59 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:58.159 Right, that in. 60 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:04.680 Itself read is half full view of the world. Not 61 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:09.759 sure you're drinking cabernet, but you're drink heart smart, right right, 62 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.879 That's what I'm saying. So I look at it like that. 63 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.680 Now, granted, three bottles a night is probably a little excessive, 64 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.520 but I look at it like this. The more you drink, 65 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.159 the more heartsmart you are. Anyway, it doesn't matter. So 66 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:24.280 I made a statement, and this was my statement, January 67 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:28.199 will be dry January. I am not going to have 68 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:33.919 a drink, Okay, all right, So this is January second, correct, Yes, Okay, 69 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.000 So after New Year's Eve, I said, and that's it. 70 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.719 You will not see me have a drink for the 71 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:42.840 month of January. 72 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.520 There there, Okay. 73 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:56.479 Went to the King's game yesterday, day one, day one. 74 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.240 What the hell of the King's game? It's fine, I 75 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.840 just won't have a drink at the Kings game. Right 76 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:08.520 that that's going to be my plan. Now, my stream adjust. 77 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.479 But here if it's the Kings, and maybe it's okay. 78 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:17.959 That's why I don't make resolutions, right because your situation changes. 79 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.800 Things change. Life is EBB and flows. You know, you 80 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.279 can't be so rigid. Oh, I'll never do this, never 81 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.439 do that when you might be put in a situation 82 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.439 where you know there's some I gotta a little compromise. 83 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.120 I gotta do it now. Certain things you should never 84 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.199 compromise with. But for the most part living your life, 85 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.399 and if you're a good person, they're gonna be things 86 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:41.519 where you fall short. You know, as long as you 87 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:45.920 are working towards something positive and something new to better yourself, 88 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.839 that's okay. But to suggest, oh, I'm. 89 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.120 Gonna be so rigid and this is it, and if 90 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.040 I don't have these ten resolutions, and I don't stay 91 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:57.120 to them. And it's February and I already broke three 92 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.759 of them. It's okay, give yourself a break, give meself 93 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:01.120 a break. 94 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:01.959 You don't. 95 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.000 I said I was gonna do this year. I was 96 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.720 gonna play more golf. I really want to learn golf, 97 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:10.959 and I was gonna play more golf. And that was 98 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.839 my plan. I said it, I'm gonna play more golf. 99 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.240 When am I gonna play more golf? I still have 100 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.160 two jobs? When am I gonna play more golf? I'm 101 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.240 gonna play more golf. That's what I'm gonna do. I 102 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.199 said that. Yeah, Then I thought, wait, how can I 103 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.000 do that? I have two jobs. I've had two jobs 104 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:27.959 for like fifty years. How am I gonna How am 105 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.519 I gonna do that? But that was another one of 106 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.399 my brilliant statements. Dry January, I had a drink January. First, 107 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:37.040 I'm gonna play more golf. I have two jobs. I 108 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:42.720 can't do that. Another reason I don't make resolutions. 109 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.319 No listen, I'm I'm with you, is that I want 110 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.920 to play golf. You gotta okay, start okay, I gotta 111 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.800 get up at five o'clock to go play golf. Right, 112 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.000 And it's not even it's not even light yet. Nowadays 113 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:02.000 you gotta wait until the spring because it gets lighter earlier. 114 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.519 And then, am I really going to do that before 115 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:07.680 my bay starts? Am I really going to get up 116 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.000 five o'clock to go play golf? And then weekends? Now, 117 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:11.439 am I really going to go just do it on 118 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:11.959 the weekends? 119 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:12.240 No? 120 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.480 No, But my schedule doesn't permit me to play more golf. 121 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.600 I'm the same way every year I say that, I 122 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.439 say the golf is one of the things that's ironic 123 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:22.040 that you said that. It's like, I got to play 124 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.000 more golf. I see everybody, you know, folks out there 125 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.199 playing golf. Are good, buddy, Eric. Every time we talk 126 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.639 to Eric Dickerson, he's coming off the golf course. Yes, right, 127 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:32.639 he's like going to play golf or coming off the 128 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:37.560 golf course. James Worthy always coming from the golf course. Like, man, 129 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:39.079 I got to come from the golf course. I got 130 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.040 to get to the golf course. But what does that entail? 131 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:42.879 I got so much going on, we got the show 132 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.000 and then during the week and then you know, playing 133 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.160 golf on the weekends is not really an option for me. 134 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.560 But you know, it's just it's it's things. Yeah, you 135 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.240 want to say it, and you try, but you can't 136 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.079 limit yourself to the resolutions. 137 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.160 Another thing you said, and then we'll wrap this up. 138 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.240 But I do have to comment up. You know, you said, well, 139 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.000 you want to get up at five o'clock in the morning, 140 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.759 it's dark outside. But see, and people of a certain 141 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.040 generation realize as you get older, five am is when 142 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:16.600 you have lunch. I mean you're having dinner like at 143 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:21.920 two in the afternoon. You're done by seven point thirty. 144 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.279 And get up for breakfast. He's got a full ten 145 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:29.600 hour sleep at five am. Right, You went to bed 146 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:29.920 at eight? 147 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:31.160 Right? 148 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.879 And then well, you know, at a certain age, you 149 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.319 know you have lunch like at four in the morning. 150 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:38.839 Yeah, I mean. 151 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.319 Breakfast at four in the morning. You might have lunch 152 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.279 like it. I don't know, ten ten, yeah, ten dinners 153 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:46.920 at three and you're back in bed. 154 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:47.720 Right. 155 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:49.439 When's there time for golf? 156 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:52.680 Yes? 157 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:57.879 Because that that body clock is real. That body clock 158 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.199 will hit you. It'll hit you. It's certain points say ooh, 159 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.480 I gotta cout a bed and you look up and go, damn, 160 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:05.480 it's only eight o'clock. 161 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.680 They would going to bed at eight? What am? I 162 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:17.759 what am I doing? Oh god? Okay? So final? All right? 163 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:22.439 Final NFL games the regular season. Most don't matter, some do. 164 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:23.480 Uh. 165 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:26.680 Philadelphia is locked up, so there's no question they're good. 166 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:27.120 They're in. 167 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:30.399 There's a number two seed and the number two seed 168 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.000 correct me if I'm wrong. But the number two seed, 169 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:34.960 now it is the number one and number two seed 170 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.919 gets has a bye, right or is it just the 171 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.919 number one? No, the number two seed gets a bye. 172 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:44.559 To right number one since the number one team, right, 173 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.559 only the number one seed gets the buy. 174 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:48.679 So just the one seed gets a bye that's correct. 175 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:54.919 Right, right? So only only Detroit really well Minnesota troter Minnesota. 176 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:56.639 They troter Minnesota will get the buye. 177 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.399 So so the Eagles, and this factors into it. The 178 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.120 Eagles will not have a buye. 179 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.240 Corrects. We know for sure they will not. 180 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:11.720 They were locking through the two seat and will go there. 181 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:19.000 In essence, thereby is this week correct. And look, I'm 182 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.399 all for I'm all for records, and I'm all for 183 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.639 going for especially if you're close, and but at the 184 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.879 same time, it can't be at the expense of what 185 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.759 the ultimate goal is, which is win in a Super Bowl. 186 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:42.799 So let's just said this side. I'm sorry, Barkley could 187 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.480 break Eric Dickerson single season rushing record. 188 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.039 Yes, he's one hundred and one yard short. 189 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.080 Right, and and there was you know, are you going 190 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:51.360 to let him go for it? 191 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:51.720 Now? 192 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.639 How long has Eric's record stood? Are you going to 193 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:04.080 let him go for it? And Nick, Okay, I'm gonna 194 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:06.039 talk to everybody. I'm gonna talk to the owner, the 195 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.559 general manager, the players, and we're gonna make a decision 196 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.600 that's best for the franchise. And the decision they made 197 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.080 was he said out this week, we can't afford him 198 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.080 to get hurt going for the record. But we also 199 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:25.759 know that this record may never be broken. This could 200 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.759 be just one of those years whereon Barkley had that 201 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:33.519 kind of season. So then you have to weigh the options. 202 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.759 What's more important. We put him out there in a 203 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:40.120 game that doesn't really matter, he breaks the record and 204 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.240 all is wonderful, or we put him in that game 205 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:47.440 and he gets hurt. They aired on the side of Rodney. 206 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.039 We're not gonna get him hurt. We're gonna sit him. 207 00:10:52.519 --> 00:11:00.440 Do you agree with that decision? This is a very difficult, 208 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:06.039 difficult one because I don't think there's a right or 209 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:10.000 wrong answer to this. I think that if there is 210 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:17.799 a consensus with the team of and this includes players, 211 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.799 not just owners and coaches, we're gonna go for it, 212 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.360 then you go for it. If there's a consensus that no, 213 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:32.200 let's rest and be careful and not play anybody and 214 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:39.679 be safe, then that's the consensus. Because I think that 215 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.279 if you do it because you're. 216 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.000 Gonna worry about getting hurt, you can get hurt in 217 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.639 the first play of the first playoff game. 218 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:47.759 You can get hurt any time. 219 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.039 There's no guarantee if your player you don't play, you're 220 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.240 gonna get hurt. I don't think you can play that 221 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.399 way and make a decision that way. And I never 222 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:59.840 liked that as a reason, Oh we're not gonna play. 223 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.440 If a guy has banged up, Yeah, he needs to 224 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.000 rest that ankle because it's been rolled for year, you know, 225 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:06.519 played on it for several weeks. 226 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:07.200 Yeah. 227 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:12.519 But if people are healthy and you decide to play 228 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:14.639 him and they happen to get hurt, I don't fault that. 229 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:19.000 Oh they shouldn't have played that game because they got hurt. 230 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.720 And then you got a factor in one thing with 231 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.679 Sakon Barkley, he did get two thousand yards. Only what 232 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.279 the ninth player ever to rush for more than two 233 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:32.720 thousand yards, So he's already crossed that hurdle and put 234 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.639 himselves in himself in the record books. But yes, this 235 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:40.440 is a forty year record that Eric Dickerson held, which 236 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.799 many believe because the way the game is played nowadays, 237 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:45.679 that running backs are not going to even get close 238 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:50.080 to that anymore. Well, Saquon did Derrick Henry is another guy, 239 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.200 probably the only other guy that can get close to it, 240 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.679 and he got two thousand yards himself at one point. 241 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.440 But the thing that I go back to is when 242 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.600 they interview Saquon, he said, I'm good either way, but 243 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:06.440 if they want me to go for it, I'm ready 244 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:08.399 to go for it. It was he didn't come out 245 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:11.519 and say, nah, I'm gonna sit back. I don't only 246 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:13.320 it's not it doesn't even matter to me. I don't 247 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.559 want to do it. It's different for running backs and any 248 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:18.240 other position than quarterback. 249 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.480 Quarterbacks are judged, you know, on Super Bowl rings and 250 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.159 wins and all that kind of stuff. 251 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.799 Running Backs are judged on their place in yards and history. 252 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.600 And Eric Dickerson has certainly been at the top of 253 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:39.879 that for forty years, and you know, for Saquon to 254 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.000 say I want to go after and accomplish this, I 255 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.159 wouldn't fault him for saying that. But now everybody has 256 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.519 to be on board. I think the problem that occurred 257 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:53.279 in Philly was Lane Johnson, the All Pro soon to 258 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.360 be Hall of Fame right tackle, said oh, I. 259 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.279 Like the rest, I like the rest this week. 260 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:01.559 And so when you have your starting offensive lineman who's 261 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:04.000 a superstar as well, say I don't know if we 262 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.080 should play or I don't know if I want to 263 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.759 play this game, then it makes it difficult for everybody 264 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:10.360 else to say, let's go for it. 265 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.039 Yeah, and you certainly can't send him into the war 266 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.720 without his artillery. 267 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.840 Yeah, no, you can't send him out there playing with 268 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.759 backup offensive linemen because all the offensive lineman want to 269 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.159 sit out and they say, okay, but Saqua's going to 270 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:28.480 do that. 271 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:31.240 No, it has to be everybody. 272 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:32.759 It has to be, like I said, it has to 273 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.519 be a consensus that everybody wants to do that. And 274 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.039 then there's the argument that everybody's making nowadays that oh 275 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.840 it's you know, it's seventeen games versus sixteen, that Eric 276 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.080 Dickerson did it in you know, and Eric has always 277 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.559 been adamant and I'll back him up because there was 278 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:55.480 a little controversy with another show that talked about Eric 279 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:59.840 Dickerson and him doing it in fifteen games as opposed 280 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.440 to fourteen games when he broke O. J. Simpson's record, 281 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.759 And Eric's always acknowledged that he did it in fifteen 282 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:12.039 games and not fourteen. And so there's that debate that's 283 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.559 going on right now. Well, even if Sakwan does it, 284 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:17.080 he does it in one more game than Eric Dickerson did, 285 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.279 which you can debate that forever. You know, in all sports, 286 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.919 and like oh, times have changed, the game is the game. 287 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.440 The record will be the record, whether it's seventeen games 288 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:29.879 or sixteen games, fourteen games, as long as it's acknowledged. 289 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.399 I don't think it's the same thing as a team 290 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:36.440 winning a title, which I pushed back against when people 291 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:40.120 talk about the Dodgers and an asterisk in the pandemic year, 292 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.399 because everybody was on the same playing field. It wasn't 293 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.519 like the Dodgers played less games than everybody else or 294 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.399 had to do something different. The Dodgers had fans and 295 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.120 nobody else in the league had fans, so they had 296 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.559 an advantage. Everybody went through the same criteria. A strike year, 297 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:59.440 everybody had to go through the same situation. But I 298 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.360 wouldn't fall him any other way. Look, I was on 299 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:05.440 a team. I just get a quick, quick story. I 300 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:11.919 was on my rookie year. Barry Sanders had a phenomenal 301 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.919 rookie year. And we're playing Atlanta, last game of the season, 302 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:20.360 and we're on the East Coast, playing in Atlanta, and 303 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:24.120 we get word that the Kansas City Chiefs had just 304 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:28.039 completed their game and christian Na Koye had finished the 305 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.919 game with one hundred and whatever yards and Barry was 306 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.399 only like fifty seven or something like that yard short 307 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.320 of Christiana Koye, something that was really attainable. And Barry 308 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.120 went off in the first half. He almost had one 309 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:44.480 hundred yards in the first half, and we ended up 310 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.080 getting ahead of Atlanta pretty good. We're up by like 311 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:52.360 twenty five twenty eight points in the third quarter, and 312 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.720 word came down that the Chiefs game was over and 313 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.320 Barry only needed fifty something yards to get it and 314 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:02.559 the series before Barry came out of the game because 315 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:06.799 we were already winning, and everybody on that bench, including 316 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:08.880 the coaches and the people from the front office, came 317 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.720 down said Barry only this month's yards away from winning 318 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:16.079 the rushing title this year. From Christi Nakoyer, let's go 319 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:17.640 back in the game for a few series so we 320 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.640 can get you the record. And he refused to go 321 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:24.039 back in the game. Why he refused to because, first 322 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:26.119 of all, that's who he was. He was just an 323 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:29.079 unselfish guy, still is a very unselfish guy. Didn't care 324 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.960 about records. But at the same time, he looked up 325 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.839 and there were guys that didn't play a whole lot 326 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:35.720 throughout the whole season that were getting a lot of 327 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:39.920 playing time, and backup running backs that didn't play were 328 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:42.960 getting their time to play, and he did not want 329 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:45.119 to go back in the game and take the moment 330 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.720 away from those guys who were getting an opportunity. So 331 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:49.319 he refused to go back in the game and say 332 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.920 this is not appointment, even to the to the notion 333 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.519 that had he won that rushing title, probably would have 334 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:03.079 got another million dollar in bonus, and he still decided 335 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.079 not to go back into the game. And Christian Nakoya 336 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.440 ended up winning the rushing title that year, and Barry 337 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:12.359 was second. I say that, patis it's not important to 338 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:17.079 every guy, but you go down. Sometimes there's records in history. Look, Eric, 339 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.279 Eric is known for twenty one oh five. Mister twenty 340 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:24.319 one oh five, right, I mean, he's he's it's it's 341 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:28.000 his legacy. And I think when you get a guy 342 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.480 like Saquon who probably looked up to Eric growing up 343 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.079 and watched him play, go like, if I could break 344 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.000 that record, man, that would be that would be kind 345 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:36.319 of cool. 346 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.839 So I get it. I get it either. 347 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:43.440 Way, and I would not fault him for wanting it 348 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:46.440 or the team for wanting it. And I understand that 349 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:49.000 there's a fear like, oh, everybody's not on board, and 350 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:50.880 if somebody gets hurt, they're gonna blame that and hold 351 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:52.119 that against us. 352 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:55.839 All right, So we have two NFL teams in the playoffs, 353 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:57.920 two NFL teams in the playoffs, So you think. 354 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:58.640 Could win a game or two. 355 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.960 Who's had the better year, but who's got the better chance, 356 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:04.599 let's talk about it. 357 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:11.160 That's right, Hey, twenty twenty five, y'all make it the 358 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:12.440 best one yet. 359 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.279 Right to Pete Fred Rogan, glad to be back with you. 360 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:20.920 Hope you had a wonderful holiday, New Year, all of 361 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:25.519 that good stuff. Let's get it in twenty five, y'all, everybody. 362 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.319 How about this? Both the Rams and the Chargers in 363 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.279 the playoffs. Now, the one thing we can say about 364 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.960 the Chargers, they will not defeat themselves. Brandon Staley is 365 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.799 no longer the coach, so if you're facing like a 366 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.000 fourth and twenty from your own five yard line, you 367 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.720 won't go for We know that now. Jim Harball is 368 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:47.039 not going to coach that way, No he's not. And really, 369 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.039 both teams have had the Rams against all odds, and 370 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:52.960 look the Chargers with a whole new staff and a 371 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:58.799 new culture. Both teams have had pretty good years. So 372 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.359 the way it looks like this, the Rams will finish 373 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.240 with the three seed, will win or tie against Seattle 374 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:08.400 or a loss by Tampa against the Saints. Keep in mind, 375 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.920 this is going to be a big weekend for the Rams. 376 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:18.480 Jimmy Garoppolo is playing quarterback, so it's a good weekend. 377 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:21.799 It'll be a weekend probably where a lot of women 378 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:25.079 will be watching. Jimmy Garoppolo will be playing quarterback for 379 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.079 the Rams. And the only request they had and I 380 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.039 checked this on some online comments as that he plays 381 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:31.799 without a helmet. They just want to stare at him 382 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:32.279 the whole time. 383 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:33.799 Oh that works. 384 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:37.559 Yeah, please tell Jimmy g not to wear a helmet 385 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:41.160 because we want to fall in love with that. Rams 386 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.400 quarterback Matthew Stafford in active for the game. 387 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:48.039 So that means so the Rams are and Kevin you're 388 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.400 the you are numbers in Draft Guru and all that 389 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.079 kind of stuff. 390 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:55.160 Rams are the third seed no matter what. 391 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.920 No, there's a chance that they could be the four 392 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:02.200 seed as well. So if they could potentially, if they 393 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.400 lose and Tampa wins, they'd be the four seed and 394 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.160 they would host either the Vikings or Lions whoever loses 395 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.240 that game. Yeah, okay, whoever doesn't win the NFC North, 396 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:10.759 they'll host that. 397 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.319 Tampa can jump them if they lose and Tampa wins, correct, 398 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:16.599 I got you, got you. But they'll still be the 399 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:20.000 division winner what they've already done. Yeah, they'll still have 400 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:22.079 a home home playoff game. What do you guys think? 401 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:22.559