The Opening Drive – January 26th, 2024

00:00 – Blues at Kraken tonight — Is Belichick out of the running for this cycle? What about Vrabel?

21:10 – Where is our confidence level in the home favorites to win both Championship games?

36:00 – Former PGA Tour Pro Jay Delsing

47:57 – TIOLI

1:07:05 – Fresh Take: What is your perfect Championship Sunday food spread? Plus, Randy needs some help deciding his Detroit-based food choice!

1:20:25 – The View from Vitale: Blues radio analyst Joey Vitale talks about food spread & the biggest things he’s seen from the Blues the last three wins

1:39:20 – The Fight

1:51:30 – They said WHAT?!?

2:04:49 – Rush Hour Reset

2:17:22 – Which non-QBs are the bigegst X-factors? Warner & Hutchinson? Andrews & Kelce?

2:33:10 – Blues Center Robert Thomas on the growth of Jake Neighbours & his choice for ASG captain

2:47:17 – Rocc n’ Roll

Good morning everyone happy Friday from the opening drive on 101 ESPN in St Louis at 7:00 your time check brought to you by Clarks and Jewelers an officially licensed Rolex Jeweler with Brook Grimsley Dan mclin Matthew Rocko I’m r car happy Championship weekend and Americana is what it’s all about and

America is where we live is a great country and I have a very good friend that knows I’m a huge sports fan and this morning I walk into the office that is shocking you yet had a friend that knows you’re a sports fan walk well a

Sports fan and A’s okay uh I walk in this morning and uh here is a giant box of Reese’s footballs thank you dear tap tap and uh so so um yeah incredible so uh yeah we’re enjoying some Reese’s footballs as we get ready for well first

Of all let’s start with this okay uh we were talking yesterday we have deep conversations here in the opening drive we were talking yesterday about the Constitution and we were talking about you know just America in general is there anything more Americana Brooke and Dan sorry I didn’t introduce you already

I’m kind of excited about these good morningand good morning then Reese’s and and football I mean Reese’s and footballs are where it’s right it is it really is and I especially like the football version now I know that they’re all the same but is there something about that you guys prefer different

Shapes because I like the pumpkin one the Reese’s pumpkin shaped one I like the football shaped one which we have a theme going on here and I like the Christmas tree shaped one I’ll take the eggs not all the same the Easter eggs I love those those are big time the eggs

And by the way now they make with the same egg shape Christmas bulbs that’s right same things uh so uh Matthew were you here when the greatest event to happen since I’ve been doing mornings happened that’s one way to describe it I you want to say but don’t feel

Weird there different shapes have different like levels of chocolate and peanut butter discrepancy so if you have like a personal favorite one there’s a reason that shape that you like it better cuz it’s a different balance and that matters that makes sense you guys know that I’m always up for a challenge

My God right you got a tattoo to Pro it wor about 9 I will take a dare yeah so uh Michelle smallman uh our host former co-host here on the opening drive who now is actually it was car smallman back in the day uh and uh so she does the

Morning show before us now and couple of years ago she is well aware of my Affinity for Reese’s and I told her oh yeah I could eat a what this for for Good Friday biggest comeback weekend of the year I I said I can eat a one pound

Reese’s bunny in an hour and she said no you can’t and I saides I can and she said no you can’t and I saides I can and she said prove it I said okay sure do it tomorrow and so uh she comes in with a one pound Reese’s Bunny and I start

Eating one pound Reese’s Bunny at 7 in the morning and by 7:58 one pound Reese’s bunny is gone how were you the rest of the day I was zooming it was uh my got Matthew what happened about 9:15 uh kind of crashed it got rough yeah things got rough in the studio for

A minute but I did the whole show yep did you throw up no okay Dan you know me you’ve known me for 30 years I I’ve known you longer than that actually I was thinking that the other day I’ve known you for almost 32 years I believe

Wow yeah see so you know that I can do that I I’ve seen it I’ve seen some great uh emotional I’ve seen some great physical Feats and usually they’re connected in terms of was one of them of eating it all circles back to eating you have that this weekend yeah right well

I’m willing to share obviously I I want my cohorts to enjoy the fruits of the labor of the framers of our constitution I’m sure planned in 2024 on people having a ton of Reese’s and eating a ton of food before football games it’s it’s the Americana baby at its best so Danny

Asked me and everybody has to weigh in here and you can text in our text line is open 314 well let’s do a segment on this later 314 399 9646 31439 yo see God I I that’s my one I felt like it was emotional I felt like I put a

Little into it little sing to it might be the best one ever was that was that a dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs I don’t know it was something from back IDE came from deep in your soul here’s the question before we get to the

Open we aren’t doing a championship bash this year I think we’ve always done a championship bash except for Co one one ESPN we’re not doing it this year but when you are home on Sunday Dan ask me what’s your menu for Sunday and can I interject cuz normally Randy has a theme

For the play for who’s ever playing so if you’re going to play out in San Francisco or the 49ers are coming to St Louis it would be some type of seafood um you’re looking at Baltimore so crab cakes those kind of things so take it

From there so when you ask me I really hadn’t thought about yeah but uh obviously the best clam Chow I’ve ever had was on Fisherman’s Warf and I know Fisherman’s Warf isn’t what it was so but back in the day you could go out to Fisherman’s Warf what I would do when we

Whenever I would go out there with for a football game or baseball or whatever I’d rent a bike ride across the Golden Gate Bridge go down to selo and then take the the ferry back and land right where the clam Chow out on the on uh Fisherman’s Warf was so I’m going to

Start with San Francisco F clam chowder I I will do that I will do do crab cakes from Baltimore Balmer uh and then Kansas City has really good ribeye I don’t know if I can do Kansas City ribeye or ribs or barbecue just barbecue in general maybe yeah probably for the first game

Uh and then Detroit for the first game just for the first yeah well two games right and then for Detroit I don’t know do they make Reese’s bullets Randy what no they are known here we go I’m going to I’m going to change subjects they are known for their

Swear Pizza oh yeah okay there we go Little Caesar known for that the square Beyond Compare we are yeah uh they’re Pizza Pizza Little Caesars okay again weigh in I used to have Little Caesars near me there was one at Dorsett Melby there was one up on paig I don’t believe there’s a

Little Caesars near me there might be one out in St Charles County so again text in if there’s a Little Caesars around I would do that or you can always do dominoes cuz dominoes is a that was founded in Detroit too but anyway so the question of the day is what’s your menu

For Sunday uh we’re doing great Sports here Randy there is a there we’ll do that at 8:00 8:00 we’ll do what what your menu is for the weekend there’s a Little Caesars in Overland oh other places that have them too I can’t cuz I’ve passed them on

Different places that I’ve gone to and I’ve noticed there’s oh there’s a Little Caesars I’m you know surprised that it’s there but I have seen it there’s a few that are still around I like Little Caesars I I love it we used to go do the Blues games in Detroit and Bernie would

Put on a clinic on how much he would eat and we would put a bet on how many pieces of pizza he could eat and it was amazing I mean we would get into close to the teens wow before a game yeah that’s pretty have a little side bed

Going I would have never thought that Bernie fedko who is a very lean well he can eat man like unbelievable I used to beat back in the day but he works out a ton Like Bernie will run 5 miles a day and then put on a spectacular show at dinner Dan uh

Matthew I have not run five miles combined in my life youve walked plenty though I’ve got a little uh I have walked a lot I I’ve got a little sticker on my car that says 0.0 you know how those people have1 26.2 I’ve got the 0.0

Sticker on mine okay the blues are at Seattle tonight to take on the Kraken Blues are they got to get Kraken again get it I got it yeah Blues have won the first two of this road trip and they play oh they play at home on Sunday afternoon great scheduling NHL uh so

We’ll have that one for you here on 101 ESPN hadn’t thought of that yeah no they didn’t either Canadian uh Canadian playing in Seattle yeah it’s not Canada well that’s tonight I mean the NHL in general playing here on Sunday rules is that what you’re saying exactly yeah uh

How about this looks like Bill bich is not going to get a job this year in the NFL hiring cycle yesterday the the Falcons who were the one team to interview him hired Rams defensive coordinator uh Raheem Morris who at one point was the head coach of the Tampa

Bay Buccaneers Dave Canales the offense first year offensive coordinator of the Buccaneers gets hired by the Panthers for their job so the only teams left are the commanders and the Seahawks Vel is out there looks like the commanders are going to go with Ben Johnson the offensive coordinator from Detroit and

It looks like belich is going to be and McDaniels are going to be on the outside looking in I’m actually a little bit surprised by this because we’ve talked about it I mean Bill bich I know that Randy you have your stats ready to go so

Before I say this a lot of people consider him one of the greatest coaches of all time if you want to plug in your Tom Brady I know NFL ownership listens to the show so they’re well aware of the fact that bill bich without Tom Brady as a starting quarterback has a winning

Percentage of 453 there you go I know that you had that in your pocket but I am very surprised to see that both of them are left standing in this game of musical chairs but it seems like it’s continuing with that theme of the youth movement the younger coordinators taking

Over right now and the fact that belich on the flip side Brook to your point is going to be 73 if he’s on the outside looking in and I’m sure that these organizations said this is a short term this is a two to threeyear situation that we have with this head coach and

Then after that are we going to have to do this all again what’s interesting Raheem Morris is 21 and 38 has never taken a team to a playoff uh uh playoff game and you’re sitting there saying we’d rather have that than Mike Vel we’d rather have that than bill bich I mean

This guy must be really well thought of in NFL circles to do this and he was already there for four years as he was a receivers coach then moved over to be defensive coordinator too right right was her interim head coach the other interesting thing about the bich

Situation there is that the perception was he he didn’t want Rich McCay to have any power in the organization anymore Rich McCay has been the president of the Falcons for more than than 20 years and so all the football people are saying well what about rich even Arthur Blank

You can’t just bring bellich in because of what you say Dan because he’s going to be there for three years so you’re going to blow it up you’re going to cut the legs out from Rich McCay start a whole new football operation and then three years later you got to do it again

Because belich 75 well do you think that a lot of this goes back to we think that the Chargers job is the only one where the head coach would come in with Harbaugh taking that job where he would also have control more of the roster control of how things would look the

Other jobs I don’t know if they were exactly looking for that so you saw what happened with Mike Vel in Tennessee right there was a p a power struggle between him and the GMS Robinson before ran that came in there and then you see with Bill bich what is his reputation of

How he likes to do things so maybe that’s something with what the teams where they’re saying well if we’re going to hire head coach we’re going to want to do it our way and that where we’re going to have this power struggle going on that’s always a problem we we saw

That here in St Louis with a good team that has a power of struggle you don’t have people trying to take credit for B teams by the way you only have power struggles with good teams and that happened here and that’s why the greatest show on Turf fell apart and

That would happen heck that did happen uh in New England to an extent because they lost so many good talent evaluators and demitro and Pioli and uh the guy who’s in uh Houston now their general manager there’s so many people so much brain drain from New England and that’s

Why they don’t have great players anymore by the way Dan and I know this is a singular event when you talk about Raheem Morris’s record everybody’s wanting when they hire the Raheem morrises of the world everybody wants Marv Levy who was with the Chiefs 5

Years 31 and 42 but then goes to Buffalo he goes 112 and 70 and gets to four Super Bowls but that happens much less than it does more here’s the question then would you play in Devil’s Advocate here let’s just say that bill bellich would go to Atlanta and win you a

Championship but then all of a sudden you’re left with all the pieces that come crumbling in let’s say 3 years is that worth it or is it not worth it and then go the other direction and still not win because they’ve never won a Super Bowl I think it’s worth it I think

It was different for the Rams when they won a few years ago now they had to win for La they thought they did but then to to have that all fall apart and lose all the star power it was kind of like the Marlins uh the way the Rams fell apart

So quickly but in a situation indigenous to Atlanta where you’ve never won before and you do then it’s worth it yeah I I think anytime you can have yourself a championship it’s worth it cuz you never know when you’re going to get back there again exactly I’ve always felt that way

I still think while it’s maybe one of the least interesting jobs out there and a lot of people probably didn’t want it the panther situation is intriguing to me just because of David terer and his reputation bringing in Carnales I think that the report by Adam shefer is that

They’re going to give him a six-year contract supposedly they’re going to let him build there but if you look at David terer what he’s done over the years the mid-season firing six months I think they give rule a six-year contract yeah yes they did mhm so just to follow this

Along of how quickly the David teer gets rid of his coaches in his midseason firings you had Frank Reich week 14 of 2023 Matt rule week six of 2022 and Ron Rivera week 14 of 2019 so you signed that six-year contract either way I’m sure it will work out for him but when

You hear that that’s that doesn’t really seem like he wants a coach who’s going to stay there for a long time that’s how you get oneyear offensive coordinators as your head coach now hopefully he works out and he has great familiarity with Dan Morgan they work together in

Seattle and the guy has the Pete Carroll pedigree so hopefully for him and for them it’ll work out but to your point Brooke the odds are that it’s not going to because of the owner so what happens with Seattle what happens with Washington now those are the two openings well Seattle has interviewed

Quinn and I think they’ve had flirtations with Vel so I would think that one of those guys will wind up there and then the commanders I think are all in on Ben Johnson apparently that’s what it seems like so you got Harbaugh with the Chargers pierce with the Raiders Mayo with the Patriots

Callahan with the Titans Canales with the Panthers Raheem Morris now is with Atlanta so it’s all shaken out and you know the other two it just seems like Bill bich could be on the outside looking in and if teams are saying that at the age of nearly 72 it’s going to be

Tough to bring him in what do you say a year from now I mean have we seen him Coach his last NFL game it could be the case I have a conspiracy theory Dan oh I’m sure with him you got to have one okay what about this the rumors of Andy

Reid retiring what if he retires after this season bill bich goes to Kansas City I would be stunned I would be stunned too but it’s it’s a conspiracy theory how about be enemy and spags though because you’ve already got the the infrastructure there for those guys

To try to keep winning mhm do you want to introduce uh Patrick Mahomes to the bill Bell and Kelsey to Bill bellich no fun belich practices guys that have concussions you don’t want that in your building come on so you’re out on that one no you want Patrick Mahomes to be

Fun and be what he is but Travis Kelce could also be retiring just going to throw that he say he’s going to play he he said he’s coming back next this this year in 24 so I I wouldn’t want belich to interfere with that sort of fun

That’d be bad just just didn’t seem like the right fit no as fun as they are offensive minded as they are he just didn’t seem like he’d be the guy that would fit there and by the way I I don’t know what’s happened so far in New

England uh you remember back with the Steel Curtain Jack ham yeah hopefully they’ll hire him as their defensive coordinator so that they have ham and Mayo uh it’s terrible oh my God so bad do you think of this stuff all day I thought of it when you said it with mayo

By the way Jets Pizza people are saying Jets Pizza for yeah they’re saying that’s Detroit that’s right down the street yeah I could do that it’s big deep dish I’m in it is it’s kind of that deep dish and then motortown Pizza in britwood is another really really good

One okay that sounds like Detroit too it is MHM Motor City yeah Motown so there you go Randy you got your pizza for right down the street for Sunday we’re set up so that’ll be well pizza and clam chowa that’s all right we can do that if

You handled an hour worth of all those Reese’s then in the bunny you can handle that I just want to do the for the separate games you know so I that’s what I’m saying I think you can handle it I got no what you think you can handle

That I guess yeah I can that’s no problem whatsoever no problem okay all right coming up it is NFL Championship weekend we’re going to give you our confidence points for the four teams that are playing Matthew Brook Dan and Randy on the opening drive on this Friday Championship weekend Friday on 101 ESPN

It’s going to be an awesome weekend of championship games on Sunday you’ve got at 2:00 the Chiefs at Baltimore Baltimore is a four-point favorite they’re the number one seat obviously in the AFC they’re over under for that game the two teams over under 442 points and

Then in the evening at 5:30 the lions are at San Francisco and San Francisco is a seven and a half Point favorite so we’re going to do confidence points and you assign points to the team that you have the most confidence in so if if you

Think for example like I do that San Francisco is the team that is the biggest lock to win you give them four points and then subsequent to that okay so let’s go down the list and Brooke and and Dan and Matthew will will give you theirs Brooke why don’t you get us

Started with your four-pointer it’s going to have to be the 49ers it’s not the flashy or the more Sur surprising choice but it’s the right choice right even with Brock py where it wasn’t his best game last week he was still able to lead them to a victory and I know that

Debo SEL was injured in that game he’s still questionable for this weekend but the fact that they were able to still win that game without Debo I think says a lot I think that proved a lot of people wrong or the doubters wrong in a

Lot of ways of if they would be able to do it without Debo for an entire game and they still were able to do it and Brock py even though it wasn’t his best game and luckily I think they won’t have the weather issues this weekend right

It’ll be nice and sunny I think that was a huge factor in why he struggled I still think that that is the best overall team so I’m giving him four points four points for San Francisco Brock Pie has a huge game for the 49ers Detroit has to pressure him but the

Lions are 24th in sacks gave up eight yards a pass I think Brock py has a massive game and he’s a reason that he’s an MVP finalist which was announced yesterday so I like San Francisco I like San Francisco too offensively I I think the key is going

To be mcaffrey I I I worry about trying to throw the ball with Aiden Hutchinson coming off the edge and mckivitz the right tackle for San Francisco is he he’s inexperienced and he I don’t know that he can hang with Aiden Hutchinson in the passing game I think that

Offensively everything will go through mcaffry but I think the reason that San Francisco is going to win is because of their defense I I just don’t think as great as Jared Goff is and I think he’s terrific and I like their receivers but man handling uh kinlaw and dealing with

Chase young now and having Bosa and Fred Warner in the middle of the field covering Sam laporta is just going to be really difficult for the Lions to score and we gave this stat yesterday we’ll give it again when the lions are indoors they average 31 points a game when

They’re Outdoors they average 18 a game so that’s a real thing yeah 13 13 Point difference Matthew how about your four pointer it’s four point to the ners okay good all right three points Brook three points man this is tough because I I’ve been high on the Chiefs and I still

Believe in them but I think the better overall team is going to be the Ravens and I think defensively too the Ravens defense is going to be a big factor of course you have Lamar Jackson and how Dynamic that he is but the matchup to watch this weekend is going to be Mark

Hamilton and uh Travis Kelce because Travis Kelce obviously as we know he’s been doing a little bit better he really broke out in that last game and I think that’s something that led Patrick Mahomes to feel a lot more comfortable throwing downfield but at the same time

Hamilton have you guys seen him this season he is and so I think I’m going to go with the Ravens one because of what they’re able to do offensively but then defensively as well they’re just a really well-rounded group so I’m going with uh the Ravens as well I love their

Defense how do you not statistically number one in so many categories and they cannot I don’t care what spags throws at them they will not be able to contain Lamar best player right now in the National Football League electric exciting and I think he’s got the most

Pressure on him by the way going into this weekend lives up to all that and they send him uh to the Super Bowl yesterday in practice the Chiefs got limited participation from Mike Edwards limited participation from Willie gay and conversely the Ravens got full participation from Mark Andrews I think

That the Ravens will be able to score and spags will have a great plan against them but I think the Ravens he’s awesome man really good he he really is but this one is one of those ones where it’s not the x’s and the O’s it’s the jimmies and

The Joe’s and so I I think Baltimore wins this game too on the other side of the coin I do think San Francisco will be or Kansas City will be able to score I think this has a chance to be a 20 kind of like the Buffalo game 272 24

Kind of game but I think Baltimore comes out on top all right we all agree there yep Matthew I’m going to go a little bit different I’m going to put I’m going to give the Chiefs three points on this one I just I just feel like they’re rolling

Right now and right and I’m I’m a big on if you’re the king until you get completely dethroned I’m I’m going to give you the benefit of Doubt unless you’ve just completely fallen off and clearly the Chiefs happen never underestimate the heart of a champion oh

There you go all right we doing two points now also I just want to correct myself real quick I don’t know why I said Mark Hamilton I meant Kyle Hamilton EXC me Mark Hamilton uh there there was a Mark Hamilton somewhere that was famous ice skater no idea why that was

On my brain but anyways Kyle Hamilton I think it’s gonna be a big matchup to watch this weekend with Travis Kelce my number two and that’s this is why I hate this because I’m so high on the Chiefs but I think it’s going to be the Chiefs

For my number two for my two points I’m going to give them you can’t bet against patch Mahomes I still think though that offensively there’s some holes there and that’s why I fully can’t be in on them and defensively I’ve been really high on the Chiefs defense but they’re going to

Have their hands full Chris Jones and the defense is going to have to do a really good job of slowing down Lamar Jackson in their run game and they’re going to have their hands full with that so that is why I’m going with the chiefs with the two points so I’m with rock

Here I was uh really debating whether to put Kansas City as my number three I did go with him as a number two the reason though I like Kansas City potentially in this game is what they did against Buffalo they had seven possessions five scoring drives one of those resulted by

The way one of those drives with the fumble that uh was in the end zone if not they score even more they average nine yards per pass attempt second best this season in the game against Buffalo average eight yards per play the highest rate this season so while everybody was

Questioning their offense and Kelsey getting older and receivers are dropping everything in sight they did have it going last weekend and if they do they make a game of it this weekend guys my two-pointer is the Detroit Lions they’re healthy they’re Diversified offensively they’ve got a defense that can get after

The quarterback and the key is going to be and obviously I have K uh San Francisco as number one the key is going to be able to handle Christian mcaffry for for them can the Detroit defense handle Christian mcaffrey and hold San Francisco below 18 points maybe you have

An 18 17 kind of a game that’s going to be the key I think Detroit is capable of that and that’s why I have them as my two-pointer yeah Ravens are my clear too I I I fluctuated a lot between that one I think the Chiefs are going to win but

Wouldn’t shock me if the Ravens did at all so that they’re my two easy okay here’s my one pointer wow Kansas City wow and here’s the thing Isaiah Pacho did not practice yesterday Joe Joe tonei did not practice yesterday uh they finally got some work out of rashy rice

He’ll play he won’t have any problems uh larus Sneed limited practice yesterday uh Marquez Valdez scantling limited practice yesterday uh they they just are so banged up and when you’re trying to block Justin bab and you don’t have Joe Toney you got problems and I I think

That there’s a chance that the Baltimore defense might be able to stifle Kansas if Kansas City doesn’t have peo they got Pro their running game is gone if they don’t have tuny and peo mhm and so then all of a sudden if Kansas City is onedimensional as great as Patrick

Mahomes is with that Baltimore defense and you mentioned Hamilton and guy guy like matab uh Clowney is back as a pass rusher that’s a really tough defense to score on so I’ve got Kansas City as my number one one point my one point is going to be the Lions and I really like

The Lions and their personality this season but I still think that they’re a pretty young group I think they have a high upside but still the 49ers are just a beast and I think that they’re going to run into a lot of trouble this weekend with them so the Lions to me and

They are my one-pointer if you will they have to run the football and sometimes your best defense is your offense to keep them off the field and so I look at that being a huge key for them jir Gibbs team rushing David Montgomery Fifth in the league if they can run the football

They have a chance to win this game and keep it close Dan you remember the NFC championship game for the 01 season when the offense Andy Reid’s offense for Philadelphia was so solid and what the Rams do in the second half they just started to hand it off to Marshall and

Marshall ran for almost 200 yards I think he ran for like 125 in the second half you’re exactly right that’s the way Detroit’s going to have to win the game Run the football yep Matthew I mean yeah Detroit’s my number one yeah that’s kind of just or my one pointer kind of

Process elimination um the way the total if you I totaled up the scores the uh Chiefs got 16 the Ravens got 11 the Chiefs got eight and the lions got five there you go there you have it so uh if you’re putting your bets down on FanDuel

This weekend or whatever don’t listen to us that’s Entertainment and information purposes only you sure about that yeah pretty sure pretty sure pretty sure yeah coming up we’re going to talk some golf with Jay delsing the farmers is going on a lot of things happening in the World

Of Golf and of course the golf show with Dan and Jay coming up on Sunday morning Jay is next time 101 ESPN this is Rocky with your sports center update driven by Johnny LOL Chevrolet and Johnny LOL Autoplex the blues Are Back In Action tonight facing off

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Laof find your road up 247 at la.com and laof autoplex.com are you kidding me Jay delsing and Danny Mack have a great golf show golf with Jay delsing Sunday mornings 8 to1 here on 101 ESPN Dan is already here and Jay as he does every Friday joins us on the celebrity line

Good morning sir how you doing good morning I I think I he heard a weird weird uh Yoho this morning oh you bet you did yeah it was a fantastic Yoo bet you did yeah you get one my dog sat up and said was that Danny Max yeah you get

You get one show Danny Max Yoo I love it one Yoo a show Jay let’s just keep it there we’re growing we’re making steps here all right uh Jay a couple of things before uh I let the other guys ask questions first question the PGA golf

Show in Orlando this week are we making a big mistake with this show not being at the golf show some year this depends on the weather if it’s really super cold here yeah you’re making a big mistake it hey Randy for golf Geeks it is awesome it is over a

Million square feet of just anything and everything related to golf it is it is really super cool okay so we’ll plan on that for next year my next question is this the golfers are playing at Tory Pines and I was just running down with Brooke and Danny the the uh leaders and

It’s a guy named Stephan Jagger Nikolai hogard Matthew pavon Thomas dri Tony feno we all know Michael Kim but then Joseph bramlet Emiliano gillo U Aaron Ry most of us would kill well not kill O.J might kill but most of us would give a lot to play Tory Pines but why why don’t

Golfers want to play Tory Pines you know Randy everything is all upside down right now in the World of Golf and the the certain events are elevated you’re required to play certain events the next the next tournament at uh it pebble is an elev ated event then

You have um uh uh in Arizona the waste management which is a huge event and then it’s followed up by tigers event in LA and so unfortunately some of these events wind up being H they just they’re they’re victims of the schedule and where they

Fall and I will tell you this Tori you know Jones came in and they call him the US Open doctor and he made the the South course just weird man we played that in college and it was it’s a beautiful setting right out on the water Black’s

Beach down there I was told that that was a nude beach down there but I hit a ball over there I couldn’t my eyesight was good back then couldn’t see anything so I sure about that but the golf course is is beautiful and and what he did to

It um I don’t know it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s tough man it’s not it’s not that great to play anymore Jay a name that a lot of people haven’t heard in a while Anthony Kim is talking about his return to golf after an 11year absence as we

Remember he had a really promising start to his golf career and then it got derailed because of injuries over a decade ago and reportedly he’s considered coming back what do you think about his return oh I think it’s fantastic so Anthony Kim is was was he was a lot like

Tiger in in the in his approach he was Brash he was extremely confident and um I I got to play with him and guys he’s as good a player as anyone I’ve ever seen I talked to his teacher coach last night and uh he’s uh they’re all pretty

Tight lipped about it um so what happened with Anthony Kim is he I think he won three or four tournaments in in the first couple years on tour he had a phenomenal Rider Cup this is guys this is about 10 or 12 years ago on on the um

Down in Valhalla I think where Paul ainger was the the US coach Anthony Kim went out on in the individuals and beat Sergio G Garcia handling which was was was really really pretty cool and and then he wound up getting hurt he hurt his thumb and he he wound up having a

Bunch of injuries he wound up taking a $10 million and this was a much bigger deal you you could imagine 125 years ago he wound up taking a huge um Insurance um disability claim and said look at my career’s over I can’t play anymore he

Got 10 million but he has to give that back if he comes back well with what’s what’s happened with Liv and everything I mean 10 million bucks is nothing anymore so there’s a there’s a big rumor and there have been rumors before uh and and I followed them all I just talked to

His former coach and he’s going to come on the show uh but he’s not going to be able to tell us anything until after the LA open so that’s still a month away so we’re all going to just have to sit and wait a little what a little bit this

Weekend it’s go with J delsing 8 to10 on Sunday morning here on 101 on ESPN one of the guests Jerry hos Belleville area native he’s the head coach at Wake Forest also Bob herig longtime golf reporter at SI and ESPN and he has a new book coming out on Tiger Woods but one

Of the things that we got into was can the PGA Tour and Liv coexist if they don’t make a deal I think it’s very hard for Liv to prosper because they’re going to be considered an outlier they’re not going to be part of the golf ecosystem

Are they ever going to get wor ranking points is there would there still be a stigma with them you see it today people that just do not like it they hate what they’ve done and so they’ll never accept it they need the acceptance they need TV Windows frankly they don’t have them

Right now next week when they play their first event it’s up against Pebble Beach what are you g to watch I mean are you going to go back and forth are you g to watch Pebble Beach I mean it it’s not a it’s not as strict we’re going to just

Watch live it’s interesting rainy and I were talking during the break in Brooke about the TV aspect of live in the PGA Tour and maybe the best way to do this Jay is to stagger those to have an event early at an event late and if it’s the

PGA Tour and live maybe that’s one way they Coexist on the television side yeah I think so you know what I see happening you guys is they may fold one or two Live Events into a worldwide schedule and the rest will go away as as will this silly stupid format let’s just

Call what it is it’s stupid we got 30 we got 54 holes 48 people playing no cut and a shotgun start I mean that’s going to go away I I really believe it and and they’re going to they’re somehow going to come out of this thing with some sort

Of worldwide schedule and some worldwide events where there’s going to be many more events played outside the US and and a good portion of those Live Events will just go away with the with the ridiculous format that’s what I think’s going to happen I just don’t I can’t I

Just can’t figure out out how they’re they’re going to evaluate what the PGA Tour is with and I think that’s it’s worth because I think that’s one of the massive stumbling blocks here before they can you know um get this agreement worked out there there’s just so many

Assets and so many I I don’t know I I we we asked Bob about that yesterday Danny and he was like I don’t know how you even begin to do that and it’s way above my pig rate I can’t figure it out yeah I get it well we’re looking forward to the

Show on Sunday morning Jay it’s always good to hear your voice thanks so much for the time appreciate it and enjoy your weekend you too guys and can I just give a a plug for uh Mark Milton he is the St Louis STL tax attorney we talked some really cool tax situations in

Modern-day athletes Albert P holds his contract when he left St Louis and some really really interesting parts to that but thanks for having me on guys you got it we’re looking forward to that on Sunday morning 8 to 10: all right that is J Delon with us on 101 ESPN coming up

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Packing that’s my final author take it or leave It all right time for T here on 101 ESPN and we’ve all seen the video now of Jason Kelce leaning out of the suite in Buffalo after Travis Kelce scored the touchdown and Jason obviously shirtless and we heard yesterday on rock and roll from the new heights podcast how Jason

Approached with his bride how he was going to go shirtless in said sweet there was not enough cameras on The Suite where you could see Kylie though I wanted to see her reaction to all of this so bad I’m not going to lie I gave

Kylie a heads up the moment we got into the suite I said I’m taking my shirt off and I’m jumping out of that suite and she said Jason don’t you dare I was like hey just letting you know what’s happening I’m not asking for permission I’m doing this so yesterday Kylie Kelsey

Tweets quote I’m not asking for a permission I’m doing this unquote the exact quote I will say when I’m grabbing the keys to go get a cat believe it it was worth it I’m going to have to take it 100% worth it trade a shirtless Jason for a cat yeah why not I

Think they’re so fun I think that they’re so fun I don’t understand why and now you have the Kelsey Brothers the whole situation I know a lot of people fixate on Taylor Swift but now it seems like there’s some hate going towards the wife like Kelsey’s wife and all the

Different kind of stuff I don’t understand it I think this is all so much fun there’s a lot of hate in the world too much I think he’s great I think he’s great for sports I think he’s entertainment and that’s what this ultimately is supposed to be about

And when he decides to do some more broadcasting just let him be him you don’t have to put him in a suit just let him be him but have a delay oh yeah yeah you might need to do that take it or leave it guys um I am gonna throw

Another conspiracy theory I I’m all in on the bill bich conspiracy theories this morning like it okay he’ll sit out this year and then he will become the Cowboys head coach next season ooh Brooke I think that’s interesting but I’m going to leave it because I still

Don’t think that Jerry Jones has it in him to allow that sort of power but I have after keeping McCarthy for another year a lot of people didn’t think that he would do that but will how will bich if belich wanted Rich McKay out in Atlanta

How’s he going to handle an owner that gives press conferences after theame do you think that this interview process maybe humbled him a little bit perhaps how about this one though how about after a one and4 start Bill bich takes over the Jets and Aaron roders and the

Great defense next year you think there’s any way I like that the Jets and bich could coexist it’s a different ownership now he left a different ownership yeah I think I think they can but it with all the media and the things that happened and the Ugly way it ended

I I know the participants are different I get it but I I think they could because those owners the they are the most hands-off owners in football the the Johnson Brothers are uh Johnson and Johnson as a matter of fact they let Joe Douglas and uh and Salah they’re letting

Them hang themselves so I think that they would I I think they could easily coexist okay Missouri football next year at home has Murray State Buffalo yeah go through your wins here I it’ll lead to what I’m doing both you guys so Buffalo Boston College Vanderbilt win Texas A&M

At Texas right that is at Texas either either way it’s a win UMass win win Auburn win that’s always a good Alabama L Oklahoma at home win win South Carolina at South Carolina win Mississippi State in Stark Starkville win that’s a win Arkansas at home in

Columbia win that’s 11 and one so the Vegas odds have the over under at 9 and a half take it or leave it the the uh the Missouri Tigers are over nine and a half I think I just went over yeah I’m I’m going to take that they have a

Chance to do that yeah who would have thought that a few years ago with this program was at and going in the SEC and getting just steamrolled by some of these teams it looked like he had never had a chance and now they have a legitimate shot to be one of the top

Seeds going into the college football playoff here’s another uh fun and interesting thought process from me take it or leave leave it Mike Vel for the defensive coordinator at missou oh I’m going to leave that I’m going to leave that that might that might be a big

Difference Steve wils was an NFL head coach and defensive coordinator who found himself as the defensive coordinator you guys surprised this hasn’t been filled different yeah I got money he’s definitely talking to NFL guys you think so okay yeah so uh so anything’s possible at the univ they’re

They’re paying money they they like winning at missou the money people like they they discovered oh this is fun so yeah they’re they’re willing to pay Matthew what do you got in the text line take it or leave of the Cardinal should have spent that money on Bader instead

Of marp oh didn’t Bader get like $10 million yeah leave that I’m gonna leave that sometimes I got to read dumb ones just it’s well you know they they wanted to say it 10 million versus one down you have you I didn’t say they were dumb I

Said I said they take it or leave it was Harrison Bader could get you 10 completely different things jeez so Bader got 10 what did he get 10 and a half yeah from the Reds right no he’s going to the meds yeah met that’s right

He was with the Reds last year yeah so he had 10 and a half million from the Mets as opposed to the league minimum right for the from the Cardinals yeah so I’m going to leave it take it or leave it pie will throw two interceptions and

The 49ers lose by seven points leave it I’m gonna leave that Brock pie is going to have a massive weekend yeah he is he’s going to light it up I I do think there’s something to the weather last week I also think there’s something and

We saw it a little bit with Baltimore in the first half having the layoff of the week before just trying to catch up and make sure that you’re back into the game speed and the things that happen especially at the playoff level I think there’s something to that yeah I can see

George KD having a big weekend big game for the ners he better be able to block a little bit and chip yeah they’re going to have to need some mil on Hutchinson no doubt take it or leave it Aaron Rogers would mellow out bich if he took over

The jet I actually didn’t even think about that could you imagine bich going on the darkness Retreat yes no yes I could I want to I want I want to see Bill bich on mushrooms wouldn’t that be fun yeah he would heka trip that would be delightful he

Wants to he wants a relationship with his QB maybe that’s the key that if that does happen they do have to go to the darkness Retreat together Kay moment yeah how fitting the Prince of Darkness going into a Darkness Retreat there you go tell us how you really feel Randy

Take it or leave it Mike McCarthy and Mike Tomlin are essentially the same coach they have the same record one just gets a lot of hate because he’s fat what okay uh I am going to leave I’m going to go ahead and leave that too go take it or leave it

Though okay so you are you you’ve got a team that finished nine and eight this year and you have the choice of hiring McCarthy and giving him power to build a staff and Personnel or Tomlin to build a staff and get Personnel who you taking

I’m going to take Mike Tomlin who by the way also has probably the fewest amount of coaches on his staff than anybody else in the National Football League how about that yeah they’re going to encourage him to add to his staff that’s going to be part of what him com back

Yeah I am I’m going to take Tomlin as well uh yeah I’m going to go with Tomlin all day and by the way I think that Mike McCarthy is underrated I I if he sure is I I would love to have a team that goes 12 and every year yeah I love Mike

Tomlin but here’s the thing I’ve heard a lot of there’s been a lot of offensive coordinator issues under under Tomlin arens had had some issues at times and then you had the Canada thing that which went went on way too long Tod he’s had some offensive coordinator problems

In his time there and a lot of those were papered over by Big Ben exactly and so and McCarthy I I mean he’s had some I mean I can’t remember any of his coordinators like becoming head coaches and blowing up you know you know completely in their face off top of my

Head no by the way here’s a fun fact for you I I sent this one to you guys last night the last time Bill Parcels coached in the NFL was 2006 right now bill the bill parcel’s coaching tree has three members in the NFL current coaching Community with Shawn Payton Dan Campbell

And and uh who just I I’ve got three of them uh the bill bich coaching tree if you want to count Brian deall has him and what other there’s more parcel’s coaching uh tree members right now in the NFL even though he hasn’t coached since 2006 you have quite the disdain

For Bill Bell I I’m these are facts facts don’t have feelings Dan yeah uh Bella check coaching tree in the NFL Gerard mayo and maybe Brian deall parcel’s coaching tree Dan Campbell Todd Bulls Sean Peyton okay facts maybe don’t have feelings but you can definitely use

Your facts to play into your feelings oh but here’s the thing Stone Face let me just run I’m trying to find Charlie White trying to find Romeo trying to find no Randy I I love this I I truly do it’s not that hard to find Charlie Weiss

Trying to find try where’s Eric man on this list little less hard to find but still where’s Josh McDaniels um oh no where’s Bill Brien he’s in college so no I’m not finding many of the bellich coaching tree guys that are coaching right now wonder why Matt Patricia just killed it Patricia what

Does he do now I killed it I mean oh that’s a great question where’s man jeie a TV somewhere I think fox or something is that what he’s doing yeah they all wind up doing media yeah well why not it’s you know not coaching not the pressure you just

Come and sit down like we do and talk about sports that’s right Bal enjoy coaching WIS this on TV Rex Ryan think he does a great job I do too NFL Countdown yeah I enjoy watching him a lot he did a good job his winning percentage without Tom Brady as his

Quarterback is way better than belich you got to let it go Randy at this point you got to let it go again facts I know some people don’t like facts but I love facts they’re fun take it or leave at Robert Thomas our 9:30 guest by the way for today’s showy

Tommy finishes the season with 90 points take it I’m going to take it he’s already on Pace for it yeah he’s going to do it so how many points Point does he have right now Blues are just past the Midway point of the Season he’s at what

407 48 he’s currently sitting 49 of 49 points in 46 games so he has to that’s a point per game Pace just got yeah he’s got to tick it up just like by like Point like one points per game to get him on Pace for 90 I think he’s just

Under right now but the schedule softens up significantly it sure does there you go and he’s I mean he’s on a Terry two assist game last uh last game two just before that I mean yeah he’s been killing it lately it’s going to be fascinating to see what the blues do if

They’re playing like this level of hockey and they’re playing a much better game you come trade deadline time what they want to do I mean you know do you say we’re we’re going to be good enough to go get the playoffs or at least just get in which is an accomplishment you

Want to do that but they do have parts that I’m sure other teams would want you know is part of this retool do you sell a little bit or not aside from B navic and maybe a defense steps up maybe a scandella becomes attractive to somebody or Ley but I think bav is

Really the only forward that a playoff team somebody who’s trying to make the playoffs that would be the final piece of the puzzle I can’t think of anybody else that the blues would want to move or that would be valuable enough to move I I don’t think for example a playoff

Team that thinks they can get over the top would want sad I think a playoff team would want Colton Paro but I don’t think the blues move him under he’s Untouchable I agree and he’s got a no trade so even if wanted to you had to go

To him but if you’re looking for assets of the type of player I mean that kind of guy is valuable man come play off time that’s for me he’s Untouchable but that’s the kind of guy you have to get three number one picks for sure and even

Then it’s a team that’s probably good I don’t I’m not even listening on Colton pero and I don’t think that Shen at this point in his career is a guy that they move you don’t move Thomas you can’t move kyou I just don’t know that there’s a lot there probably can’t

Move Krug I think B navic is the one that you would have to because that’s what teams would be looking for I don’t want to move on from him but if you’re trying to get something in return Then That might be the move yeah tricky part

With a Boch trade at this point is that it’s you know good teams don’t have a lot of cap room and so how do you know how do you get the money back to make the trade possible on their end while also adequately preparing for the future

And getting pieces for the future from the team who’s good but doesn’t have the cap room and it does become a lot easier when there’s only 18 games left to the season or whatever 18 or 20 games left uh it’s easier for the math people in hockey to manipulate the cap that way

Dan if you get a call if you’re Army and you get a call about Paro you listening at all I’m listening really I am listening pain me but I’m at least listening okay interesting because I think he’s I think the core and Jr wrote about this last week at the athletic if

You want to read about it but I think the core right now has to be Thomas and and Paro I I’m with you I think it is too but I got to I got to take the thousand foot view of where I’m at as a franchise and is this truly a retool

Which is just to Tinker a little bit wait for these young kids to come up or I rebuilding and only he knows the real answer to that question you know you I think when you’re saying it to the fans you’re saying retool still competitive instead of saying this is a complete

Tear down we’re rebuilding this thing here’s the thing though if you do what Chicago’s done I this ownership doesn’t want to lose that much money absolutely and the difference between and losing money for the blues is making or or not making the playoffs huge I don’t think they can

Afford to go into season saying yeah we’re only going to wind up with the with 68 points this year by the way I want to make sure that you I’m saying this right I would not trade Colton Paro I would listen yeah I he’s playing at

The best level I’ve seen him play at in his career when you look at the the games that he just he almost played 27 minutes the other night on a backto back when he played 25 the night before and played at a great level he’s he’s

Playing the best hockey in of his career right now thanks for your text coming up more texts and if you want to send a mik drop what’s your menu for Sunday before the NFC and AFC championship games or during uh we we’ve kind of given you

Ours but what what kind of food are you preparing on Sunday I just unilaterally made a change to our show I was like I just I literally just looked down at the ren I was like excuse me we talked about it ear we want to hear from you next on

This Friday opening drive on 101 ESPN 807 in St Louis time check brought you by Clarkson Jewelers an officially licensed Rolex Jeweler this text to the Air Comfort Service text line from the 636 I’ll be eating black and Raven on Sunday I know I don’t want to eat crow

#o Chiefs we did that when the Falcons would come to town we would have fried Raven Fried Chicken but it was we fried Falcon back in the day so yeah a raven would be a good thing to have for you Chiefs fans on Sunday never had a raven

Fried that’s tastes like chicken is that right yeah okay does it I’ll take your word for it Randy yeah I don’t think I want to try that one whatsoever from the 618 no doubter smoked honey hot chicken wings ooh don’t you think people just in general don’t uh don’t don’t they just

Do their normal football fair you know what I mean you’re you take it to to another level Randy as you take many things to another level but you have a theme for each Sunday for those particular game so which I love I think it’s great I just think most I don’t

Know if I want to call them normal people cuz you are exception and you’re not normal you’re you’re way out there sometimes you take it to a different level where other people are like okay the games are on I’m going to make a pizza or nachos nachos chicken wings you

Know the football Fair well um I I use my Lindenwood education Dan maybe this explains it too yeah so for me too I I and I use the Google machine so what are certain cities known for for example we mentioned the the fried Falcon with Atlanta Coca-Cola based in Atlanta we

Would always have Coca-Cola uh some cities are hard my favorite tailgates were New Orleans cuz we’d make gumbo we’d make Jaya we’d have like put in your gumbo everything yeah throw it all in there and have at it the key is though to be able to make a rue and I

Would make a rue and it what’s a aru is like a flowery based foundation for your oh okay I know what you’re talking about now and and that was really good so for San Francisco for example now I know that this is New England clam chowder but San Francisco has great clam chowder

So I would make that uh like a shrimp salad is really good for San Francisco big game fudge for San Francisco is always really good and and then for a city like Kansas City where they feel like they’re famous for their barbecue you get some some lesser barbecue so

That you could have enjoy Kansas City uh and then like Baltimore crab cakes right so this weekend kind of sets up for itself so I’m concerned for Brooke as she’s talked about at the Missouri Athletic Club she’s working very hard to get in just this incredible shape for

Her wedding and then you have this big day this big football day and Randy you’re talking about all these foods and bringing in ree’s footballs this morning uh Brooke I’m a little concerned for you approaching this weekend W Dan didn’t you hear how persuasive he was this

Morning too and I said I said Randy no I don’t I don’t need one I love these but I don’t need one and what did he say Randy break us down about how this is thing you could have okay and how is that okay so uh when I was growing up

You had the four food groups so I’m concerned for you now you have a ridiculous food pyramid and I don’t even know and I’m not going to learn how the food pyramid Works uh but you’ve got your Dairy with milk chocolate do you not you’ve got your protein with peanuts

Just like having steak uh you’ve got uh by the way you’ve also got skim milk to help out with with your Dairy here uh you have vegetable vegetable oil right so there’s your fruits and vegetables M and then um you got flow so you’ve got your starch so all four food groups are

Present in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup or a Reese’s Peanut Butter football let me see that box you got one of the healthiest things that you could have in life dare I’m not I’m looking to see how many are in here one no I another one thank

You there’s probably 36 36 okay it is January 26 with 36 of these in this box yes sir by the uh let’s see 27 28 so okay and by the end of the 28th how many of those will be left done it’ll be done gone it’ll be spread out among family or

This all MERS friends here at the station yeah no not all not all me I I thought you were this is a solo Mission so anyway uh for your get together on Sunday just a couple of more uh let me just uh refresh here so that we can get

A couple more texts uh reron the San Francisco treat that’s a great call for the 49ers reron yeah really yeah San Francisco treat that would be fun to have so somebody else is having reron the best dip for Super Bowl parties aside from Buffalo French onion spinach

Artichoke or taco dip question mark I would say the French onion dip for chips I like french onion dip you guys my wife makes an unbelievable spinach artichoke dip so I’m I’m all in when she makes that it’s over I got to ask Tor tortilla chips PE chips like what what are we

Doing here anything spinach arti choke put your finger in it cuz the dip is what matters ex but it doesn’t matter what you’re in there fair enough I like this one Randy I’ll be fusing the regional Specialties of the teams this weekend by making Detroit style pizza

With a Sourdough crust for the NFC championship game and then making barbecue crab cakes for the AFC Championship game I like like to cut of this guy’s gy don’t you get full after the first go around Randy well you’ve got an early game so you do pregame for

Early and then halftime of the second game so it’s what time is the game this weekend 2 o00 for the first game St Louis time yeah okay and then the second game starts at 5:30 so you have like a 1:30 and then 7:00 yeah it’s all right doesn’t it make you little uncomfortable

Guys when you eat that much and you’re sitting on the couch and you’re like man I ate too much this is I’m not enjoying the game you know much you know what I do though I just go I go grab another nacho or Wing yeah it and we should note

By the way and I don’t know if the orders are full but if you want awesome Wings just call our friends at Fenton Barn Grill go and pick some up they they’ve got them to go for Sunday Randy do you do the spots for them I I do yeah

I had lunch at F yesterday did you what did you have I had uh uh what the it’s it’s a bbbb or as I say it uh bacon lettuce and tomato bacon lettuce and tomato from Fen Barn Grill yeah it was delicious good okay so yeah that’s what I had what’s the special

Today I know you probably do you have a spot coming up later or is this yeah I I if I don’t I’ll tell you what the special is later it’s a secret yeah um maybe maybe not go ahead and tell them the special now uh you know what I would have to

Look it up yeah okay well I I thought that maybe in the mornings that you had just knew the special they sent it to you first thing in the morning you know the funny thing is I know the special’s like for Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday I don’t

Know why I I don’t know on Friday but I don’t think you ever do the reads on Friday that’s why that might be it so uh there you have it that’s your fresh take here on 101 ESPN fresh food food Sunday yeah uh NFC AFC J and take a lot of food

Yeah our Buddy Joe Vitali is next we’re going to find out what his menu is for Sunday we talking a lot of sports this morning I like it is a good menu guy oh I’m sure yes so uh he’s next on 101 ESPN hey folks I want you to know about

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Floor learn more at ambassador flor.com Mitsubishi Electric Elite Contractor Joey V is with Brooke and Dan and Randy on 101 ESPN Good morning Joe Vali how you doing brother hey Randy it’s a Friday morning I’m doing great buddy how are you everything’s good good okay I’ve been talking about my menu for Sunday before the AFC and NFC

Championship games I like to make food that is indigenous to the city and I’m a clam chowder guy for San Francisco so tell me your feelings about clam chowder and do you have a favorite oh yeah listen clam chowder I’m a big fan of you know I spent four years

In Boston uh at Northeastern University and there was a place up there called Legal Seafood have you heard of this legal been there okay so you’ve been there um Legal Seafood and I was new to Boston and I remember I stopped off at Legal Seafood my freshman year and I had

This like bullet clam chowder I’m I’m walking in I’m walking in legal thinking okay I found the spot this clam chowder is lights out and so I go there like my whole freshman year and then I end up taking my parents out and some of my teammates locals to Boston uh they

Wanted to go to dinner my parents like hey grab some buddies let’s go to dinner I’m like Mom Dad I got it covered I got the greatest SE Seafood spot in Boston it’s just down the street from us we’re going to Legal Seafood and they’re like

Perfect so I I grabbed some of my buddies and like Jo V where we going tonight with the folks and they’re excited because my parents are paying for the bill you know that’s how that’s how college kids are and know guys guys I got the spot we’re going to Legal

Seafood you should have seen the face of disgust when I said we’re going apparently Legal Seafood up in Boston’s like going to the Olive Garden if you love Italian yeah and I didn’t know that and then I found out later it’s like a chain there’s like hundreds of them and now

It’s like Nationwide so here I was the whole time thinking this is like a one one one stop like Mom and Pop Shop they’re doing everything right and it turns out that it was a a pretty big change it’s still great don’t get me wrong but now I’ve learned to do a

Little bit more research there’s an oyster house in Boston in the North End and all serious is now that that has probably the best seafood It’s just tough to get into but listen Randy I’m I’m all for the clam chowder big big fan you you feel it afterwards it doesn’t

Sit well for a couple days but it’s definitely one of the best so what are your non-negotiables for your game Day menu if you’re sitting down and watch a game what do you have to have there oh my gosh I think nowadays nowadays Brook just a cup of coffee I mean just

Something to get me through the day I mean I don’t know I just uh I would say I would say a cup of coffee and just maybe maybe one free hand to to eat something I don’t know I’m pretty simple these days but yeah I’ve always I’ve

Always felt good about sitting down and you know just just having some sort of Notch nachos for for football it’s kind of it’s kind of our thing at at our house and uh the kids obviously get involved and they make them they of course load up the cheese and then it

Breaks out into a fight usually a couple minutes in because you know with so much cheese it’s all like sticking together and they’re like sharing from the platter and you know one one knucklehead on on my end will just grab one and then they end up taking half the plate

Because it’s all stuck together and then they all start yelling at each other but then the ones got the argument well it’s like it’s still one nacho because it’s stuck together so that usually when it breaks out and then Mom and Dad gota be referees but uh to answer your question

I mean I listen I haven’t sat down and watched a football game from start to finish I I don’t even know how long I can’t even get through five minutes without breaking up a fight or wiping but it’s all great and certainly looking forward to this

Weekend go ahead Randy yeah I I was just going to turn to the blues a little bit those are two pretty darn good WI The Comeback win in Calgary and then staving off the the Canucks the other night those were two impressive wins by the blues yeah they were I mean this team

It’s a funny group it’s a really funny group to watch you know I’ve had the pleasure of watching them in depth the last six years and and they go down stretches like this and what do I mean by they’re funny they’re funny because you get out chanced uh badly in

Vancouver I mean badly I mean you I told that Alex the other day we were talking about this and laughing about it but if if you were to show me the stat line after that Vancouver game if you were to show a 100 people the statline after

That Vancouver game and say tell me who wins this game I mean 99 out of a would say okay that’s Vancouver’s win no doubt they were out chaned they were out attempted uh they were out hit the blues had 16 turnovers in the dzone I mean

It’s just all the things did not add up right and then of course you win the game and and that’s kind of the Blues way um through a lot of stretches the last you know few years especially with the goal tending getting and that’s what really stands out about this team is

They’re getting great goal tending and when you’re getting good goal tending early on like we saw for Joel Hofer uh you can outpatient a team you can get an early save you can give your team a little bit of belief put a little bit of doubt in the other Squad and then take

Advantage of opportunity so that’s something that really stands out it was a resilient win of course in Calgary being down by two goals uh the blue short-handed side of things continues to uh propel them in a lot of great ways and other good good short-handed goal for brayen Shen who’s on a three-game

Goal streak right now who was a little bit slow there for a while mid-season so again good teams right now finding different ways to win games but but yeah it is it’s quite an anomaly sometimes when you look at these these teams and how they’re winning games and but I I

Keep going back to goaling right now we’re getting terrific goal tending saw in Vancouver and and you know it’s no no DGA jaob markstrom but I just I think that he got out goal tender that game Jordan benington with stellar and Calgary Jacob marsham are certainly sharp early but then his game really

Fell off so and and he’s been known to have some games fall off on him against St Louis Blues and and go tening to me has been the number one reason why the blues are two on0 on this road trip and looking to make it a perfect road trip

Against the Kraken here tonight Joey when you’re watching a game and and fans are are watching along with you when do you know that Bennington is right not just looking at oh he made 14 saves in the period but what what do you see from the players point of view in your eyes

That you know that this guys locked in for the night you know it’s not it’s not necessarily making that first save Dany answer your question it’s it’s just kind of seeing how the trend goes but there’s always one save in the game and I I usually say it on the broadcast or like

I’ve been doing the last couple games for B and I I’ll mark a save you I I think it was a save on Gilbert he made versus the Calgary Flames it was in the third period I think the blues were down three to two and there’s like a big

Moment there just just feel it right you feel the the tension maybe the team’s starting to make a push and you just know something big is going to happen and all a sudden I think it was gilber who came down Point Blank and snap one

And bton make made a glove save and you just you look at the reaction of the player who shot it you look at the reaction of the bench you feel the energy in the building if you’re on the road kind of drop or the energy rise if

You’re at home and it’s just that kind of Turning Point save and so certainly in Calgary that that was the moment you know Joel Hur of course made some terrific ones I think it was on Elias Pon on the short side when they were I believe one goal away and eventually

They end up tying it and go we’re going to an overtime but um you know then you found it in overtime when he makes the glove save on the Breakaway then he dishes it off and moments later Braden Shen uh scores the goal so I would say

It’s not any particular time in the game it’s just it’s just the big moment where you just need a huge save but certainly especially for Bennington it really does stand out just about every single game when the blues are getting wins and and it still has been the biggest Difference

Maker for this team Joey because you are so knowledgeable and curious and you pay attention to stuff I want you to weigh in on a discussion we’ve had here I grew up with the four food groups and uh this morning uh when I came in there was a

Box of Reese’s footballs waiting for me and the four food groups are a starch a protein a dairy and a uh fruit or vegetable well the the Reese’s football right off the bat you’ve got peanuts that’s a protein uh you’ve got skim milk that’s Dairy you’ve got vegetable oil

That’s vegetable and then of course the peanuts provide and flour provides the starch I I argue tell me that I’m wrong that all four food groups are present in the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup or in this case the Reese’s foot peanut butter football listen technically you’re bang

On I say you rock with it I think I think you have to go with it so you had the four for groupy I grew up with the pyramid now that’s different correct it is yeah I I don’t agree with the pyramid because it doesn’t fit my narrative

Okay yeah so the pyramid with with with Kash it uh the pyramid I I speak on behalf of because the bottom if you remember the pyramid the bottom is just bread it’s just it’s just a foundation of bread and like and like pasta and Rice and Grain and cereal and oats and

Just lot of bread so like you know what this makes sense to me so I’m gonna rock with this one so I think it’s kind of whatever whatever whatever you grew up with whatever it fits your narrative I guess is the best way like you said to

Put it you know the game has changed a ton I’ll never forget when I was at the pediatrician I was like 10 years old I still remember this and my mom God blessed her I’m one of six and you know we used to hit McDonald’s and fast food

Joints we we we were a ceral family we had eight bounds the feed you know my dad worked late um and you know she was asking about diet I’ll never forget the pediatrician I’m not gonna give you his name because he may still be he may still be practicing but he’s like

McDonald’s fine listen you got a burger right the meat protein ketchup that’s a vegetable you got the bun there’s your carb and the cheese is dairy Maryann you’re doing fine keep it up I’m thinking like I’m 10 years old this doesn’t sound right but I’m gonna still

Go with it because I love myself a good old Happy Meal uh so but you know at the end of the day Randy here you are talking to me here I am talking to you Dan and Brooke we’re all here talking together we never made the the healthiest food choices in our lifetime

So what is right what is wrong I I don’t know who knows anymore yeah as long I always tell people the last thing I ever eat is going to be good that’s right and hopefully it’s uh hopefully for me at least it’s a carrot cake is fresh off

The trigger Grill from rain you know that’s that’s coming your way I’ve actually been looking at the Blues schedule say it’s coming his way for a long time Joe the schedule has been so weird Joey I don’t want to have it be a situation where I bring you a carrot

Cake at a hockey game and then you’re flying the next day I want right that’s fair isn’t it it’s it’s 100% fair and you know what I feel for you whenever you uh Master something or come close to master something and you want to give it

You have to be prepared to get more flak than than praise I mean that’s every now and then I’ll bring a loaf of bread to someone and and I I’ll go home so defeated I’m like and my wife’s like what’s wrong it’s like well I got 18

People upset of me because I brought two loaves of bread to two different people and and that’s and that’s how it is with the car cake I mean you brought that car cake into the booth a couple times and people are looking and SC crashing their

Heads and they’re mad at you they’re mad at me cuz I don’t share my carrot cake like I eat half of it on the way home after a game because usually that’s when my uh I stress eat and then I save the other half for my kids the next morning

So I don’t like to share my carrot cake so you G have hurt more feelings probably at the end of the day than you hope for but uh certainly certainly it’s a worthy cause I think and and I’m I’m ready for it listen this belly is ready

For rain care car or carrot cake whenever you’re ready for it all right hey we’ll be tuned in tonight you’re on B right pre pre- intermissions and post games right yeah we’re on the the pre- intermission and post tonight uh it’s Alexa and then Jamal Mayers is with me

So we got a three man three man desk we’re gonna break down some short-handed goals in the pregame show so make sure you tune in there and uh Chris Kerber will be on the call with Cam Janson tonight Bam Bam cam all right love it Joey we love you thanks brother have a

Good weekend you guys we we’ll be talking here next week you bet that’s the great Joe Vali with us on 101 ESPN see it’s it’s whatever fits your Nar narrative that’s what you got to go with McDonald’s burger that that doctor made all the sense in the world to me yeah

And now everybody wants your carrot cake Randy Carr c is carrot cake but with great power comes great responsibility yeah you’re not giving it to anybody else let’s go you’re you’re getting it you’ve been saying that for weeks you’re getting it uh rivs is getting it Joey’s

Getting it it’s can I get on the list yeah okay yeah I felt left out there for a little bit and Matthew’s had one before but we’ll get see that’s the thing I got a I got a busy day on the triager coming up you do but uh it’s fun

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You by so Le Heating and Cooling an independent ameran heating air conditioning dealer welcome to to the fight in the Red Corner Average Joe lner and in the blue Corner the Undisputed king of morning drive please welcome Randy [Applause] carer welcome back to the opening drive Brook Grimsley here alongside Danny M

Brady carer Matthew Rocko and it is time for the fight and our fighter today is Kevin Kevin how are you doing I’m doing well thank you are you excited is this your first time facing Randy in the fight um the first time to be hum humiliated in public uh been humiliated

Many times in private no we we believe in you Kevin right Dan absolutely you’re going to do well we’re pulling for you so good luck all right all right thanks okay you ready for question number one Kevin bring it with the Lions appearance this weekend in the NFC Championship

Game there are now two NFC teams who haven’t played in their conference title game in this Century the cowboys and who else is it the Washington commanders Chicago Bears or the Arizona Cardinals the Bears are always a good bet we’ll go with the Bears final answer okay question two what was the first

Year the NFL implemented challenges 1997 1998 or 1999 1999 is that your final answer Kevin uh sure why not why not is right why not there you go which was the last team that Wayne Gretzky played for is it the New York Rangers Edmonton Oilers or the New York Islanders

Um last one I remember was the Rangers we’ll go with that and question three who is the first pure Place kicker to be elected to the Hall of Fame George Blanda Lou grosa or Jan stenerud Oh pure Place kicker I know Blanda played quarterback um stude and what was the

Other one Lou grza Lou grza I think Lou groa is that your final answer sir um yes let’s say it is wrong then I might want to change it all right how you feeling about this fight Kevin well um I’m feeling as good as I ever feel going

Up against Randy have you done this before I don’t I I didn’t understand if you had no no only at home only in private oh okay my my my record is not that good well that’s all right thanks for playing thanks for listening I just stole ry’s line as he puts on the

Headsets and say hello to Kevin Kevin good morning how are you sir Oh I’m great uh it’s nice to go up against you for the first time in person I’ve been listening to you for decades welcome and thank you so much I really appreciate that that means a lot to me and I’ve

Been around for decades I say do that make you old yeah okay we we we both have oh you two are young at heart God bless you both the key than you Kevin you ready for question number one Randy ready Brooke with the Lions appearance this weekend and the NFC Championship

Game there are now two NFC teams who haven’t played in their conference title game this Century the cowboys and who else how about them Cowboys uh who else uh let’s see the Falcons played in 90 oh the Falcons played in the Super Bowl in this Century so Falcons Saints bucks Panthers

All have uh Rams have Niners have Cardinals have in 08 um Seahawks have so that’s half of the conference uh the the Lions have not now they they don’t count do they because they’re going to is the lions are not part of the answer right

Yes they they it said it be with the lion appearance this weekend with the Lion’s appearance uh okay so you’ve got uh Giants have been in this Super Bowl uh here you go you’ve got Your fight for old DC it’s the Washington sloot team/ commanders is that your final answer Ry okay uh what was the first year the NFL implemented challenges the first year first year for challenges that’s right I believe that would be when they throw a flag mhm yeah the challenge flag I I

Would I think Dan that that was uh when the Rams won Super Bowl 34 I believe that year was 1999 1999 is what I’m going to go with are you satisfied with that answer yeah it is my final answer question three please there we go what which was the

Last team that Wayne Gretzky played for I don’t think people realize how good Wayne grety was for the Rangers and even in his last year it was the New York hockey Rangers Randall who is the first pure Place kicker to be elected to the Hall of Fame is Jan Steno considered a pure

Place kicker he is okay then I’ll go with Jan stenerud sir for a long time until Morton Anderson I believe was the only kicker in the Hall of Fame but then Morton Anderson I guess they’re going to put vinary in eventually getting Jason Justin Tucker has to be in the Hall of

Fame doesn’t he he doesn’t miss he won’t miss this weekend no he won’t so I’m going to go with Yan J stenerud Who P kicked for the Chiefs and the Packers that would be s t n e r u d yeah okay I just want to make sure

We had stanner rude right and the first punter by the way to be in the Hall of Fame Ray guy that’s right your guy hell of a guy only punter in the in the Hall of Fame yeah um we have a winner in today’s fight now Randy lost one time

Last week but trying to finish off a clean sweep for this week so was he able to do it does he have a new streak going or does Kevin throw off mega mind on a Friday ring that Bell go crazy folks go crazy the winner and still champion of the fight Randy

Carer I’m sorry Kevin you heard Mr Buck there and that means that Randy carer got all four he beat your to two today well you know it’s always good to hear Jack’s voice there you go that’s a great that’s a great way to think about it with the Lions appearance this weekend

In the NFC Championship Game there are now two NFC teams who haven’t played the conference title game this Century it’s the Cowboys and Randy exactly as it is written on the sheet here Washington Redskins footall team/ commanders is the correct answer the first year the NFL implemented challenges was in fact 1999

You know the first year they used instant replay uh 94 uh you’re incorrect so I I might put on that on the fight in like three or four weeks just don’t just don’t do any research on that uh which was the last team that Wayne grisky played for was

The last three years of his career he played for the New York Rangers and the first Pure Play Place kicker to be elected to the Hall of Fame is in fact Jan cud Luke grza played offensive tackle for the majority of his career as well as being a kicker and of course

George Bland a quarterback and what was Luke Rose’s nickname everybody Lou the toe grows oh the toe which is funny because he gets the nickname the toe but he considered himself an offensive line could kick not a kicker who played offensive Lin so it’s weird that you get the nickname

That way yeah well well Kevin thank you so much for joining the fight and joining the show today all right it it was a pleasure thank you thank you Kevin have a wonderful weekend Kevin with us on 101 ESR pleasure he’s it was I love

People that have uh a tried to get in for a long time and finally got the opportunity but then it’s very nice that people listen for a long time I I do truly appreciate that you have a huge fan base Randy long time you’ve been doing this a

Long time I I consider myself a fan a coworker I guess but I’m a big fan of your work well thank you Daniel you bet buddy coming up here on 101 ESPN they said what it’s coming your way here on the opening drive man what you talking about what the hell

Are you talking what you talking about do you actually listen to yourself when you speak or do you find you drift in and out what you talking about I’m out Man welcome back to the opening drive Brook rley here alongside Randy carer Danny Mack and Matthew Rocko and it is time for our new segment which is called they said what so basically in this segment we go over some of the big trending sound that is happening on social media

Typically sports related and there is a sound that’s going around right now surrounding Jared Goff now Jared gof I don’t know if you guys have really paid attention to a lot of his press conferences here lately but I like the Detroit version of golf he’s really funny it seems like he’s allowed to

Showcase his personality more and he had a pretty funny exchange this week with a reporter have you ever gotten somebody who has given you a compliment but then they also kind of give you a non- compliment in the same sentence that’s basically what happened with this reporter and here’s their funny exchange

That they had you guys got a lot of got a lot of really good players obviously but maybe oh thank you what’s that I said Thank you you’re welcome maybe not viewed though as the superstars like 49ers all right never mind but I mean guys like brown getting

Yep S brown was first team All Pro so right right so was pan sorry continue I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m Sor absolutely but do you feel like there this is a chance for more yeah I know I know you’re I know what you’re getting that yes uh I I do I

Think I think we’ve got a lot of ton of ton of great players who um you haven’t had the the national stage that up to this point um that a lot of lot of other guys have and obviously they have a ton of good players as well and and a ton of

Pro bowlers and All Pro players over there and um it’s yeah we we feel like you know we’ve got a lot of good players too though like you mentioned and um excited to play on another National stage and and be able to Showcase that I

Didn’t miss any did no you got it all good he handled that really well and it was just a really funny exchange he was laughing and smiling the whole time because I think that he knew what the reporter was leading to he knows all the story lines that around this about where

People want to give I feel like him and Brock pretty could have a great conversation about how people want to give them credit but not full credit for the success that they’ve had this season and it’s just been a storybook season for golf and the Lions I just really

Like the way that he handled that whole exchange and the relationship between players and the media has changed so much and there’s not many players that do have fun with the media so that’s a cool thing to see too and part of it is the the relationships that were

Developed when I was doing that when I was covering a team you could go in and talk to players and now they bring the players to the media select group of players so you never really get a chance right you don’t get a chance to have a real personal conversation with athletes

Anymore so it’s cool clearly those two know each other right and goof has a relationship with that reporter and that is a benefit to both we want to see these great sides of the players and the personalities that are involved and who they are but yet when a player does that

Then sometimes they get killed for things that they say or what they you know how they these guys are so robotic and they’re Pros that when someone goes outside the box like whoa what’s wrong with this guy he’s he’s doing this yeah and it’s sometimes I think it’s taken

The wrong way and it’s it’s tough to be an athlete in that regard everything else is great for the most part money’s great agulation uh playing on big stages playing a game that you love but man sometimes the media can take it too far and expose things that you don’t want

Out there and that becomes a problem and I love everything about this guy I mean he’s a California guy the the Rams throw him to the curb he’s now he’s playing in a championship game he’s a really good quarterback he’s by all accounts a really good guy has taken to Detroit

Detroit loves him and he loves Detroit so I I really am a fan of Jared G I am too I like everything about the Lions this year Dan Campbell huge fan of him the rookies of course you have the St Louis connections on that team and Jared

Gof I like you were saying Randy the fact that this has been a Redemption for him he’s everything that happened with him on the west coast comes to Detroit and it felt like remember the narrative was that he was just going to be a bridge guy somebody just get them

Through for maybe a season or two and then they would move on to another quarterback but he deserves a lot of credit too for the lion success this season so the next sound bite of course we know the big news this week Jim Harbaugh making his return to the NFL

And everybody is looking at this rivalry now that you have between Jim Harbaugh and his brother John because everybody wants to see this competition play out between the to now an old interview with John Harbaugh has resurfaced from 2019 with part of my take where he talks about really how intense The Sibling

Rivalry is do you ever look at your brother like just catch him and like he knows that you know oh yeah yeah well here’s the thing about it like like like over the years I mean well you know how it is you guys got brothers so over the

Years like he I mean there were times when I when I kicked his butt pretty good and there were plenty of times probably more than he kicked my butt cuz he’s kind of a big guy especially when it got to the point when he got a little

Lower so we were 25 and he was the head coach of the or he was the the quarterback for the Bears got his first big contract got paid and took us all on a vacation down to Amelia Island you know it was great it was nice Fourth of

July paid for everything and got us out on the beach one day and I’m I’m really being grateful I’m thinking you know what this he’s kind of turned the corner here a little bit this is pretty cool and uh we get out there we’re building a

Sand castle with the kids and next thing you know he starts like you know we kind of work our way out into the water as waves are coming big waves are coming and we’re you know wrestling he throws a single leg into my right leg as hard as

He can so I sprawl full sprawl cross face right to his nose as hard as I can you know just smash him right in the face oh he’s strong he stinks the thing picks me up and takes me to the bottom of the bottom of the deal like s all

Right I mean I don’t know if it was like a minute but it seemed like 20 minutes I’m thinking this is going to be it he snapped you know he’s gone I’ve lost him and he’s he going to be in jail for the rest of his life but it’s not going to

Help me brother I’m done you know so he let me up finally once I got my breath he kind of gave me just what you just did you gave me the old you know like all right bro I know you know we know where it stands right yeah and I had to

Live with that like for the next 23 years mhm okay until the Super Bowl and now now every now and then he gives you that look how many times do you think that Jim Harbaugh has thought about that interview and everything that John just released there but I really like that he

Thought that maybe finally the intensity of their rivalry has calmed down and no it has not it turned into a sand War basically on a beach on a nice family vacation and just go back to his interview right after Michigan won the champion ship now I can sit at the table

With my brother and my dad and you know that a big part of the reason that he isn’t the head coach of Michigan anymore is because he wants to one up he wants to have the college championship and the Super Bowl so that he can win that sibling rivalry how many times have

Those guys fought over the years can you imagine the bruises the egos the great they made you know what it’s going to be cool is that they meet each other next year so you have the reigning National Champion you could have the re Super Bowl champion facing off I has that ever

Happened before no in coaches no coaches ever left College after winning the year of winning a championship no coach has ever gone the year of winning to the NFL so Switzer when he went to the Cowboys had he been out for for a few years yeah okay wow that’d be interesting that’ be

Fun it really will and I I know it’s going to be talked about a million times but I’m not going to get tired of this sibling rivalry and how it’s going to be talked about because just hearing how intense that they are do you think that

Even like maybe after a game they would call each other and say why did you do that oh yeah just throw it in each other’s face sure yep yeah by the way I I was just looking trying to play the NFL script game if the Chiefs win the

Super Bowl again is there any doubt that the Chargers at Kansas City is the season opener that’s a good one that is a good one yeah it’s got to be I cuz you want Harbaugh Jim Harbaugh and National Television for sure you know I don’t

Think I don’t know if you guys agree I San Diego is not that far off when you have a QB like that and the way that they had played the previous two years there were some winnable games until the very end of this year when Staley was

Fired they they had then they were getting blown out but prior to that they had some tight football games that they could have won this team is not that far away if they at all get rid of Mike Williams and I know this sounds controversial because uh khil Mack is 33

And Bose is 27 but I I cut Bosa because he never plays or trade Bosa you crazy and that’s how you get under the C they’re 40 million under the cap but you could also cut khil Mack and say okay we got the best he had a career

Year he had a great year great year but those two if you get rid of Williams because I don’t think you get rid of Keenan Allen maybe you restructure Keenan Allen get rid of Williams and either Bosa or Mack I think that gets you pretty close to under the cap no way

I would not do that no I I agree with you got to keep them got to figure out another way well I don’t know what it is but I’m figuring out another way5 man roster yeah I’d go with that as long as I can keep khil Mack here you go that’s

Dan Randy and I’m Brooke coming up two prominent NFL head coaching names are still left standing including one considered by many except for one person in this room one of the greatest coaches of all time we’ll see maybe where they will land we’ll discuss that coming up

Next here on 101 give a coach again hey everyone it’s Brooke here and I want to tell you about why I love the Metro Link so much one I love to support public transportation I think it’s something that it’s very vital to the city for people who Rite it and even

Those who don’t write it it’s something that attracts a lot of big businesses Fortune 500 companies and I even use the Metro Link myself it was so easy to do it just took me right over to Enterprise Center for a Blues game and I really

Enjoyed it it was just $5 for an all day pass Randy and Brooke if you already like the Metro you’ll love it once you know what the difference it makes in all of our communities if you have a negative perception think about the quantifiable positive difference Metro

Continues to make on both sides of the river in bringing helping bring Fortune 500 companies to our area so that people can get to work easier and even if you don’t use it yourself there are a lot of reasons to recommend a Metro to others it really is a great St Louis valuable

Institution having great public transportation makes a city great and it’s a part of why we as a St Louis region can return to Greatness in short thanks to Metro you don’t have to drive to thrive we the biggest Sports stories of the day on the opening drive with a rush hour Reset it is 9:05 in St Louis your time check brought to you by Clarkson Jewelers and officially licensed Rolex Jeweler the blues are taking on the Seattle Kraken tonight 8:00 pregame 9:00 face off here on 101 ESPN Chris Kerber and Cam Jansen will have the call Cam in

For Joe Vali who will be doing pregame postgame and intermissions for B Sports so blues and Kraken tonight and then the blues back in action against the Kings noon pregame on Sunday and then a 1:00 faceof and then we’ll have the N Niners Lions game at 5:30 on Sunday as well you

Know Joey was talking about the compete level of the Blues and how they’re playing more of a a 60-minute game so I went back and looked at this under barui 28 games not a single win when trailing after one or two per periods they’ve done that already six times in 17 games

Since he was let go it just felt like when they were behind early they were not going to come back and it it does have a different feel right now with this team for whatever reason it does feel if they’re down early they have a chance to get back I don’t doubt though

That maybe the message was exactly the same from Craig bruy to Drew banister I think it’s just a different messenger and that somehow is resonating a little bit better with these guys even I of course I haven’t seen Drew banister behind closed doors but it seems like

Even when you hear him in his postgame pregame comments his temperament is a little bit different maybe than Craig Buu’s and something that the younger players might resonate with more the power play has gotten a lot better and that’s something that has made a difference on the ice as opposed to just

Messages but what’s happening something tangible and it’s the power play they’re eighth right now in the NHL under banister since he took over 24% that’s that’s a big difference with this team so uh let’s go Blues football there are only two openings left in the National Football League the Atlanta Falcons have

Hired rahee Morris as their new head coach former Buccaneers coach the Panthers hired Dave Canales as their new coach so now you only have two openings remaining the Washington commanders are one of those and they appear to be zeroing in on Ben Johnson and Seattle is the other one Ben Johnson the offensive

Coordinator for the Lions and then the other one is Seattle and I really I don’t have a feel for what the Seahawks are looking for or what they’re going to do no baby Mike Fel but then again are they just going to do what everybody else is doing with the coordinator route

I would look at Mike Fel if he’s still out there why wouldn’t you take a hard look at him but here’s the thing Brooke you talked about some of the things that were said by players Wesley Woodyard coming out right but because John Snider the general manager of the Seahawks said

In his media availability after they got rid of Carol we want to maintain the fun culture that Pete Carol instilled here I don’t think that it’s a coincidence that Mike Rael and Bill belich are the two that are left standing because I think a lot of these teams by hiring in

Coordinators that a lot of them are not taking over that role of roster development if you look with the Titans ran carthon that was one of the big announcements is that now he will be in full control of the roster moving forward Mike Vel had more of a say and

If you go back and look at the history a lot of people were talking about this in Nashville that was something that caused a lot of friction Mike Rael had a different vision of how he wanted things to go in the future ran carthon and Amy

The owner of the Titans Amy strong she had a different View of where they were going to go and they just really buted heads on that so if you’re a team that you still want to make sure that your GM has control whoever you want the vision

To be moving forward do you take a head coach like a Rael or Bill bich where they would want more of control of that roster and possibly are known for butting heads more with your possible vision isn’t it so weird that you have a national championship head coach and a

Big personality in Jim Harbaugh and he gets the new job within 24 hours of what you know we’re talking about here and it’s kind of like eh no big deal it was like it was expected you know this is totally just a given if you would have had other coaches that jumped after

Winning the national title like this there’d be all kinds of News Made for it and it’s just like to me it just wasn’t that big a deal because it was like a foregone conclusion this was going to happen right at some point three straight years of interviewing with the

NFL and it you know what I’m saying though with that he’s such a big personality and it’s like no big deal right but I think it’ll wind up being a a bigger deal once we see him in the powder blue and yellow yeah by the way the Seahawks are interviewing Dan Quinn

For a second time today they know Quinn because he was their defensive coordinator when they won the Super Bowl that seems to make the most sense to me is the guy they know that John Schneider knows if they’re having him in for a second interview that tells me that

Perhaps he’ll get the job they were 25th in points against last year Dan Quinn did a very nice job with the Cowboys outside of what happened in the playoffs and with his past history history there it would make a lot of sense that he would be the guy to to fill that spot

We’ll see but it does make some sense and a lot of times you bring a guy in for a second interview it seems like that’s where you’re going you’re you’re you’re going in that direction and the Panthers that’s still the job that I’m surprised got filled

But then I’m not surprised by who got the role and Dave Canales he deserves a lot of credit for what he did with Baker Mayfield even back to the Seahawks days he’s credited for really helping Gino Smith and his development as a quarterback but that’s a job where

It’s really tough going in there because as I just mentioned you kind of hope that even if your owner and your GM are in control of things that it’s still a collaborative environment it doesn’t seem that that’s the case based off the history of the Panthers that it’s a collaborative environment with that

Owner no the the owner is a weirdo a football weirdo not I don’t know if he’s a well he did throw ice at fans so or a drink at fans so maybe he’s a weirdo but it seems like he owns like a Fanwood he’s just really impatient you know how

We always always get the after five games of DFA somebody DFA your best player that’s what the owner appears to be it’s incredible I mean and he threw you know a soda on fans and and like got you know $250,000 fine okay I mean that’s terrible that’s a terrible look

For the league it’s a terrible look for their franchise and the way that he’s gone through his coaches you wouldn’t want to work for that guy and by the way a a $250,000 fine somebody did the math it was like 13 cents for the person that

That makes $100,000 a year but it’s just a bad look and you’re mentioning the head coach firings the first team in NFL history with three mid season head coach firings in a five season span he seems impatient Mr terer does my thing about Dave terer is if you’re the fan he threw

The drink at how do you not have a press conference with a neck brace on like within within a 12-h hour span like I’m in front of cameras with a neck brace like I was assaulted by Mr terer this is going to affect and change my livelihood chase the bag come on

People I’m with you I am with you so uh okay so withu is when Bob cus and Isaiah Thomas were doing the finals in 9798 uh Michael and Scotty are together and they just had this great non-verbal communication and they’re going to a break and it’s a highlight of Scotty making a

Pass to Michael and Isaiah says that’s just Michael saying to Scotty I’m with you I am with you yeah so good uh there you have it that’s your Rush Hour reset on 101 ESPN coming up as the NFL Conference Championship Games approach who are the non-quarterback x-factors for the weekend that’s coming

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Play a big role momes Lamar Jackson and then Jared Goff and Brock pie so leaving the quarterbacks out of it who do we look at as major X factors in these games looks let’s look first at the AFC game the the Baltimore Ravens hosting the Kansas City Chiefs so Baltimore is

Allowed the fewest points had the most sacks highest number of takeaways lowest average of yards per play that’s pretty darn good I I would say that Baltimore’s defense if they can find a way to stop Patrick Mahomes find a way to because Mahomes is going to make plays I mean

That’s the one thing but if they can shut down the running game and the extended drives and keep uh and basically keep Pacho in check then I think that Baltimore can win this game from the defensive perspective of what you’re looking at I think with the

Chiefs that Pacho is going to be be a very key part for them and if they are going to be able to win this game he has to run the ball effectively because that’s just going to help them in a lot of different ways but then obviously I

Think that to the matchup to watch this weekend and it’s Kyle Hamilton I know that I renamed him Mark earlier um I need to work on my nicknames Randy because it has to be a little don’t give opening hammy oh okay how about that Kyle Hamilton that’s going to be the

Matchup to watch this weekend because he is a specimen and he’s going to be matched up with Travis Kelce I’m interested to see how that goes but it feels like Travis Kelce he was able to really break out and you mentioned this Dan earlier break out in that last game

But with Kyle Hamilton all over him like that it might be a different story and I felt like with Travis Kelce when he was able to open things up Patrick Mahomes was able to get more comfortable in the game he’s able to throw downfield down the field more and I think that’s going

To be a huge part for things but I think that the Ravens defense might be the key here in winning that game for him for me the exactor is going to be Nick Alig gry it doesn’t look like Joe T is going to play for the Chiefs and Nick Alig is

Going to replace him tuny is one of the best guards in football Alig is a backup for a reason Justin matab the nose tackle for the Ravens is a guy that has 13 sacks this year he’s been great Tony could handle him I’m not so sure that

Nick aligi can and then the other thing I’m looking at in this game from an offensive perspective when Baltimore has the ball is how is Kansas or Kansas going to be able to handle with and Edwards might not play either their safety now you’ve got Mark Andrews back joining Isaiah likele you’ve got

Probably the most lethal two tight end setup in the entire NFL how does Kansas City handle that pair of tight ends I think it’s interesting what spags would do can he play zone can he play manto man because either way Lamar can beat you he can throw out of the pocket and

If you’re going to allow him to scramble he’s the best scrambler in football in terms of what he can do from the quarterback position I don’t know man what do you think if you’re spags can you go Zone with now a weapon added the tight end as you you guys talked about a

Balore is healthy enough to play Can You Go zone or do you have to go man and try to force I think you’ve got to go man against that group and it’s really tough and the other part of this Dan is that but you can’t take your eyes off him for

A split second no and they don’t have they might not have Willie gay either remember last week gay was going to be the spy for Josh Allen you’d think that he would do that for Lamar Jackson too if Willie gay play then all of a sudden Kansas City’s dealing with I guess

Bolton could do it but you take Bolton away from what he does best and that’s run to the ball running here the Ravens defense too just going back to that about why they’re another part of this X Factor is that they’re so good at taking away your weapons so I’m just really

Interested to see how Patrick Mahomes handles that in the rest of offense this game with as dynamic as the quarterbacks are It could wind up being a low-scoring game and this might come down to kind of like it did for buffalo last week this might come down to injuries for Kansas

City I uh and I know this is about the defense I just want to go to Mahomes for a moment I I was just curious like what he’s done in his career so he’s 87 now and 25 he’s 87 and 25 already with 13 postseason wins the dude is 26 years old

He’s got as many wins or more than Marino Aman uh Rogers staback I mean you’re talking about a guy that if it ended tomorrow he’s in the Hall of Fame like no question about it slam dunk right he’s the best thrower of the football especially off platform that

I’ve ever seen just real quick don’t you guys believe even with the injuries and how just fluky of a season it’s been for the Chiefs despite them I mean you say fluky but then they’re in this position right now because of Patrick Mahomes and the chief’s defense all the other

Factors they find a way Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes always finds a way they still feel like the standard in the AFC right they do until somebody beats them they do I don’t know I think Baltimore is right now well just because of the regular season as we speak at this

Moment 9:22 on January 26 2024 Baltimore is they’re the best team y but Kansas City is still the Super Bowl champs that’s right you knock them off that’s right okay non-quarterback X factors for the NFC Championship Game and guys I’m going to start with this Aiden Hutchinson I wanted the Jaguars to take

Aiden Hutchinson with the first pick in the draft they took Trayvon Walker and I think they’ll wind up it’ll it’ll turn out to be a mistake for them Hutchinson is a stud Colton mckivitz is the young right tackle for the 49ers he’s got a ton of pressure on him Dan you mentioned

That they’re going to have to get some help chipping from KD but I think the matchup to watch if perie is going to be successful is going to be slowing down Aiden Hutchinson and I think mckivitz is going to be the X Factor he can do it

He’s capable physically of doing it but not many people have against Aiden Hutchinson I agree with you that’s exactly who I had down too now on the other side of it I will say I think a key for the lions in this one and I think another big match up up to watch

This weekend is the Lions rushing game against the ners front seven now if you saw in that Lions game last weekend in the second half there who were the two players that really stood out and broke that game open for the Lions it was J Gibbs Jamir Gibbs David Montgomery so

You have a great match up there my keys are going to be both of them if that’s okay with you guys The X Factor for the Lions doing well well is going to be jir Gibbs and David Montgomery are you guys sick of hearing whether or not Brock pie

Is just a system quarterback yes I’m sick of it so we find out if he is a product of the system or the engine that kind of runs this system I mean and I think a lot of pressure is on him and I wonder if Detroit is going to load up up

Front Randy like you’re talking about and make Brock pie beat them so if you’re going to if you’re Dan Campbell and you’re defensive minded and you go into this game you say boys here’s the deal if he beats us tip our cap but we’re going to make him we’re going to

Throw everything the kitchen sink at this kid he’s got weapons we may be in one-on-one situations but we’re going to make him because of the pressure that’s on him and pressure literally we’re going to make him beat us we had Ricky PRL on the other day and he talks about

How Tampa Bay blitzed and they didn’t Blitz much but they blitzed on that play where he scored the touchdown San Francisco’s a lot like the greatest show on Turf in that they and they fight the Blitz and P is so good at getting rid of the ball and into the hands this is

Where mcaffrey out in the flat can really cause Havoc for Detroit if py has to get rid of it in a hurry mcaffry is going to be prepared to to get the ball mcaffry is the best running all-around running back in League since Marshall faul and they can do the exact same

Things that the greatest show on Turf did Deo Samuel by the way is participating in practices limited though with his shoulder injury that he’s had but you’d have to anticipate that he’s going to play on Sunday so he’s going to be another weapon and uh

It’s going to be fun man it’s both these games are fun and I think that’s why that narrative exists around Brock pie is because he has so many weapons around him you you brought this up Randy before it’s kind of the same thing that people would bring up with Kurt Warner with all

The weapons that he had around him with the the with the greatest show on Turf all that different that factors into it I get that but at the same time I can’t discount what he did in that last game where he orchestrated 12pl 69 yard game winning drive to me Clutch moments is

What defines a good quarterback in the rain in the rain and without Debo yeah that was huge that was that was a monster drive I can make a case for all few four QBs having a different set of pressures going into this game not just

To win but what the win means for them and I think the one that it means the most too is Lamar I think he’s got a ton of pressure on him to win this weekend you know to get to a Super Bowl then to win a Super Bowl then I think it makes

Him a a Hall of Famer yeah even if he gets in I think if he wins this Sunday I think he’s a Hall of Famer let me give you one other X-Factor and it’s a homer pick but there’s no better field flipper in the NFL right now than Jack Fox the

Punter for the Lions you talked about the Lions wanting py to win the game for for San Francisco if you do force him on a regular basis to try to go go 90 yards 12 or 13 plays what you hope for is a mistake if you’re Detroit and fox could

Put them in a position the lions in a position where they have to defend a 90 yard field so Fox could be a major X Factor he’s a huge weapon for the Lions isn’t it amazing if you look back at the Chiefs and the bills last week the

Chiefs had a total of seven possessions in the game yeah in the game and they scored on five of them so like we’re saying I I said this earlier in the week it was if you went back 10 day 10 days ago you said said man the Chiefs they’re

Just not the same this is where they’re going to go down the the run is over Kelce doesn’t look right it’s Mahomes with limited wide receivers that don’t catch the football now all of a sudden rasid rice is going out 10 yards a catch Kelce looks like he’s Travis Kelce they

Go on the road and beat Josh Allen you feel like it’s a totally different team we may have never seen a better offensive defensive pair on a sideline than Andy Reed and Steve spaga pretty good oh yes and rash rice I think you sometimes we forget that he’s a rookie

Like this is this is a whole new experience for him this season and the way that he’s been able to rise when Patrick Mahomes needs some more of those weapons he’s another big key in this no doubt we’ll have the NFC championship game for you the Niners and lions 5:30

Kickoff after the Blues game on Sunday and of course you’ll be able to watch the AFC Championship game on channel 4 at 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon Kansas City man they just show Kansas City all the time in St Louis yes they do I guess

They kind of have to yes they do this this time cuz they just keep winning what are you going to do not show him on Sunday yeah and uh we hope you enjoy it those are our non-quarterback x-factors coming up Robert Thomas is going to join us

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Performance the only stop for all your aftermarket vehicle Needs grimy D mlo and Randy carer opening drive 101 ESPN and we head to the Pacific Northwest and our friend blue Center Robert Thomas joins us as he does every week here on this program Robert good morning how you doing doing doing well guys thanks okay you’re missing out on just absolutely miserable

Weather here in St Louis it’s been raining and cloudy for the last few days I know it’s rainy and cloudy in Seattle are you a guy that is solar powerered I know you spend your career indoors practicing and playing hockey but are you kind of solar powered is the sun important to you

Um hitting the hard questions today I definitely do enjoy the sun yes I feel like as I’ve gotten older enjoyed it more and more good because I mean this this is depressing right now what we’re the only thing that’s making us happy is that you guys keep winning yeah

There we go that’s uh something to cling to all right I guess I’ll try to follow up with that with that amazing question hard-hitting question well I did want to ask you Robert about just a great start obviously to the road trip as Randy mentioned there and you guys close it

Out tonight in Seattle two impressive wins backto back and both were games where you guys had to really weather a lot weather the storm throughout the game what did you see or maybe even learn from your team during that time yeah I think just just the fight um you

Know we’re a good team in close games we find a way to to win games and um I think we just proove that again uh I mean Calgary’s been playing really well lately and obviously Vancouver is one of the top teams in the league all year so

Uh two really good tests for us especially on the back to back and um you know it came down to to it at the end of the day we uh were’re able to get the job done so uh pretty happy with all of us and uh hopefully it uh builds some

Momentum uh going into the break Robert I know you you’re very close to the kachu family did you have a chance to see the Blues Hall of Fame and and see big walk go into the Blues Hall of Fame yeah yeah uh there’s probably seven or

Eight of us that that were there and uh obviously a cool night um especially when you just get to sit here and they kind of hot stove up there and tell some stories and uh there’s some some definitely some good personalities that were were there so um pretty cool to

Just kind of be there and be in the moment with that and obviously a big honor for for big Walt and the family so it was a pretty special night so Brett Hall was the same way in the room as he was up on that stage and as you know

You’ve been around big Walt enough uh he is a gregarious sort who’s the the teammate that you’ve had past or present that has been that kind of guy where you just never know what’s going to come out of his mouth oh gez uh there’s been a couple um

H it’s a good one uh I I always find the French Canadians are are really loud um Kuran was pretty loud um you know Blazer can be loud so it’s uh I’d have to give it to them well Robert I want to go back to that Vancouver game Jake neighbors was

Spectacular in that one collecting his third multi-point game of the season and he’s up to 15 goals right now now just one away from you what have you thought of Jake neighbors this season and are you surprised that he’s gotten up to 15

Goals uh no not at all I think uh for me he he’s always been known to go to the hard area score the hard goals and he plays an honest game and uh I think the thing I’ve been most impressed with is just uh how quickly he’s gotten

Confidence uh I mean some of these goals that he’s scoring are are highend plays um I remember you know a couple games ago when he was on my line he he made a play um you know at the top of the circle went around at Dem man and then just

Flicked it in the top right corner and I was like oh he’s got some confidence so uh I think that’s that that’s the biggest thing I’ve seen from him and uh I mean he deserved it he’s playing unreal he’s been he’s been playing well

For us all all year long and uh I think just as that confidence continues to grow I think we’re going to see a lot more from him and uh I’m excited to to see where he he turns out uh he’s a he’s a great kid a great player Robert take

Us through your day today so you’re going to have a a lunch at some point maybe a breakfast uh you got practice you got to skate you probably have film session you get on a couple of buses what’s what’s a day like leading up to a game

Tonight yeah you pretty much just said it all so well take us through it practice practice in the morning 11 o’clock and then come home eat sleep get back on the bus watch some video when we get there and um off we go much it what’s your

Pregame meal what do you do you do something that’s the same every time or do you switch it up uh I’m pretty similar like like pasta chicken and uh have some salad so that’s usas I go to you mentioned the break the All-Star break do you have all your

Plans in place now for the trip to Toronto yep yeah I got everything everything squared away now so um pretty excited I have a hard-hitting question for you about the All-Star Game Robert so have you seen the celebrity C who are going to be there have you seen that

Yet uh I’ve seen one or two of them I haven’t seen them all yet so it’s Tate McCrae who is a new pop singer and then it’s gonna be Michael bé Justin Bieber and Will Arnett which one are you most excited to meet huh um I’d probably go with Justin Bieber i’

I’d say have you ever met the beeps before BL no I have not BL is a close second though there we go that’s good do you think that Justin Bieber could score on Jordan Bennington if Bennington is trying um probably not that’s one thing that we at some

Point this has to happen they they’ve had their little uh challenge over the years at some point we’ve got to get binner and Bieber on the ice together just so that Bieber can get shut down by your goalie that’ be uh’ be funny to watch

It’d be good hey one one last thing you get to see a couple of guys tonight that you were on the Stanley Cup team with in Jaden Schwarz and Vince Dunn is it different I because we’ve talked about playing against teammates and guys before is it different playing against

Guys or just seeing guys from that group that you won the cup with yeah yeah it’s always different um you know just winning creates a special bond um something that you always remember and um yeah it’s definitely a little bit weird playing against guys like that um

That you have won with so um it’s always it’s always I mean I’ve always enjoyed playing against friends and buddies and ex teammates and um it’ll be the same but definitely a definitely a little bit of a different feeling that’s for sure and one last thing before we let you go

You guys play on Sunday before the football games are you guys going to get together are you going to head to somebody’s house and watch the other game the the after you’re done the NFC championship game will you guys watch some football on Sunday uh definitely watch some football

But uh it is Friday and that is Sunday and yeah two games between now and then you’re exactly right all right Robert have a great day in Seattle go get him tonight and we’ll see you guys when you get back home yeah thanks guys see thank you Robert Thomas blue Center I’m 101

ESPN Robbie Tommy Robbie Tommy man of uh few words at times yeah he’s kind of yeah we woke him up direct 73 7:30 yeah we probably did Robert yeah after the uh All-Star game then the blues have the week off fifth sixth 7th eth ninth and

Then they play at Buffalo on the 10th so they’re going to have some time off and they should be refreshed and ready to rock and roll when they come off of the allstar bre I would assume that a bunch of these guys are headed to Mexico that

Would be my guess those that are not participating in the All-Star Game usually they try to get away and shut things down get into the warm weather enjoy themselves and then get ready to go not a badad thing to do just be careful while walking on the beach don’t cut your

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Go first through the the big ones the spread in the odds it’s minus and plus three and a half it’s the Ravens favored by 3 and 1 half against the Chiefs and right now you can get the money line for the Chiefs at plus 176 or minus 210 for

The Ravens anything jumping out to you there I like that Chief’s money line I’m just going to say that right now H okay uh I I like the Ravens to cover at home I like the Ravens to cover at home I think that so far in the playoffs only

One home team has Lo no two now two have lost so far Dallas lost at home and the Buffalo Bills lost at home so yeah I’m with you I I think the Ravens covered this weekend I’m going to have to defer to you guys but I’ll agree because that

Sounds right I don’t know I mean do you guys buy into the narrative though that the chiefs were able to get away from the whole you know fixation on that Patrick Mahomes hasn’t played a playoff game away from home and he was still able to do that does that factor into it

Yeah I think so but as good as Buffalo was playing as well as Buffalo was playing I think the Ravens are just a different animal and especially with the injuries that the Chiefs are dealing with with with Edwards gay and tuny Peko potentially to yeah he didn’t practice

Yesterday those are some real issues for the Chiefs to have to deal with the over under is 44 half depending on the defensive injuries to the Chiefs does That Swing you one way or the other on that one I’m going to take the over on that yeah I’m thinking like 34 to 31

Baltimore puts up a lot of points I agree I think both teams in the 30 at least close to that so I think I think the over on 44 and a half is pretty pretty pretty easy but we talked about the defenses earlier I don’t think you stop Lamar I

Think Mahomes will put up his fair share of points and they’ll it’ll be a track meet for a while and then I think Buffalo or I’m sorry Baltimore pulls away I can see it being a lot like the Buffalo game last week score-wise 27-2 24 but like I said I think Baltimore

Will cover so I’d probably look at 28 24 maybe 31 24 I am going to throw out a prop bet if you guys want to want to go with that here in the show Rashid rice right now you can get him for uh higher or lower eight targets over since he had

His first 100 yard game in week 14 these are his Target counts 10 n 10 n 12 6 124 it could be one of the fours but there’s a good chance that they’re feeding him the ball I think I think eight targets is easy for Rashid take the over on that

Like that let’s go let’s look at the other game overall of course lions and 49ers bigger spread here so maybe you’re looking at a money line for the 49ers it’s 7 and2 points right now for the 49ers their money line is- 375 you get the lions at plus3 300 I just I like

Both home teams to cover big number in NC Champion game it’s a big number period in the NFL as TI as these games are I think I still like him to cover I think you got to go I think you got to go Lions to to to to cover that one s

And a half’s a big big number Dan I think I’m going to go with San Francisco to cover this one I just they’re they’re a dominant team the the Baltimore game not withstanding and I always go back and I’ve said it a couple times if you haven’t heard yet the lions

Are not the same team Outdoors Lions averaging 18 points a game Outdoors 31 points a game indoors they’re playing Outdoors 74 and sunny this just plays into San Francisco’s hands the only X Factor question that I have is Debo but I still think even without Debo San

Francisco wins this game and does so by more than seven and a half I agree with you guys and I think that you mentioned the weather Factor you don’t have to worry about that this week like you did last week right and wind won’t be a

Factor either do you ever um you guys ever just focus on and I’m serious with this question an offensive lineman and just watch what he does all the time Trent Williams is unbelievable he’s awesome well when the Rams had Orlando Pace and Mike Marts was the offensive coordinator and Jim Hanahan was the

Offensive line coach they would just X Out the it it all of a sudden became a 10-man defense they would X Out the opposing team’s right defensive end and that’s what you do with Trent Williams too same thing so he’s unbelievable man he is he’s a mountain man and he’s

Athletic he’s quick feet strong nobody can get past him no so when he’s healthy he he exes out a pass rusher which is a big thing okay Randy your stat for the Lions offense that that that’s big for me because the over under in that game seven points higher than the early game

That was an over under a 51 a half Between the Lions and the 49ers so that tells me that Vegas thinks that we’re looking at a 28 24 kind of a game right yep that’s that’s the break 27 24 is under 24 is over I’m stay away from that

Number but S and A Half Point favorite so maybe 30 to 23 kind of a game 31 I could see I could see 3123 I just want to see competitive games that cover yeah I’m no I don’t think that’s a bad number yeah that San Francisco defense when they’re going is so

Good I I think that is a smart over under to stay away from and here’s my other higher lower on Underdog fantasy Brock pie right now 279 .5 is his passing yards he has two 300 games and in his last 16 games he has seven where

He’s passed for over 280 so it’s not so he has so nine where he’s under 280 seven over 280 I think in this one even if he has an efficient game I can’t see them putting the ball in his hands 35 times again I’m going I’m going uh lower

Than 279 and a half this is a mcaffrey game yeah absolutely so you said earlier this week Randy or maybe as Brook um regardless it was how many people was 51 million people watched the bills and the Chiefs so the over under let’s say 54 million this week for the Chiefs and the

Ravens they’re the latter game too no Chief Ravens is the early oh they’re the early game okay well still I mean everybody’s going to be turning into that game so 54 million over under I think you have people doing stuff on Sunday afternoons really do you think I

Mean of course they are but early game last week only had 40 it was 40 for the early game and 50 for the late game see I thought if they were the late game I think they go over I do too with Swifty there yep absolutely but not now uh no I

Would think it’ be similar to last week maybe a little maybe 42 43 million leag 53 54 for the for the late game I you you were joking about this early Randy I love that they have the blue that the blues have an early afternoon game and then we have two football games

Afterwards I mean per in St Louis that’s a perfect schedule I love that but the problem is is that that they Collide because the football game starts at two and the blue start at one correct you can multiscreen it unless you’re there what if you want

To go there it’s not a problem here in St Louis that’s what I’m saying well you can’t be watching well I guess you can watch a football game on your phone while you’re watching the blue Enterprise yeah you could do it you could yeah I love it there you Sunday I

Have no problem with it no I don’t I’ve got two TVs to set up and set my deal up and then you know a table for food how big is the table is the question big yeah well you see it’s my old tailgating table you so what time will you start

Preparing this grandio meal 2:00 start oh Dan that’s a great question 8:00 a.m. um which is some of the fixings Yeah well yeah absolutely yeah did you did we finalize what your Detroit pick was for for the spread I found a Little Caesar’s Pizza I think that might be the play

Jets right down the street here Randy for me yeah jets would be a good call too so I told you motortown Pizza in britwood everybody needs to try so good I’m used to not driving far for things well jet is right down the street I know

Jet might now rock is there a prop bet for Jason Kelce being shirtless again oh gosh I didn’t check um give me a second here let me let me peruse let me peruse I don’t think he will because part of the shirtlessness was the cold yeah but

Was an homage to the bills Mafia yeah he loves the bill he was part of the bills Mafia that’s what he was trying to do so I don’t think he does go shirtless in this game do you think he’ll do anything then I mean what would be the theme

There of what screaming and getting attention some SW do you think he shows up for this game yes yeah yeah oh God yeah okay yeah I think he’ll be there yeah I don’t think he’ll be shirtless so I think it’ll be very calm Serene he

Might have to come home and take care of the cat the new cat yeah yeah so I don’t know so but will Swifty be there because Swifty can’t make the Super Bowl she’s going to be in Tokyo oh no yeah okay hold on a second I think I believe I I

Believe I discovered something you can Accord there are there are some some ve very odd sites that are offering will Jason Kelce take his shirt off if the Kansas City Chiefs win the AFC Championship the yes is minus 300 the no is plus 200 so it’s only if they win and

That’s my and thank you Dan for for pointing out what I thought was going to be odd about that one which is so like if he rips his shirt off in the middle of the game but they lose am I not cashing that so I’m a little confused

Here uh as well there’s also you can get will Jason Kelce celebrate with two beers in his hand if the if the Chiefs win the AFC Championship Game yes plus 250 no minus 400 will he hug Taylor Swift at the end of the game if the Kanas City Chiefs win

Yes plus 16 yes plus 170 no minus 160 so apparently there are prop bets out there for Jason Kelsey they’re very obscure fantastic That’s my kind of betting I’ll do that there you go text from the 314 have you people ever seen momes play before and I responded who

Who’s that I don’t have we ever talked about him before who momes who yeah he an owl um I got it he’s an thanks no problem boy you’re stretching to get to Tac I am I Tac and Ajax coming up with a balloon party here

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But Anthony and Carrie will carry you through great job today by our producer audio video engineer the one the only Matthew Rocky thank you sir pleasure Brooke did you have fun today I did your face we want to see your face who said that you want to see my face Danny can

You just give us a repri please yes Yoho Yoo well done that’s what you wanted so Beau I’m going to come up with some different variations of it I think I like this I’m going to have to think of some things cuz I can’t just do Yoho

Every time I got to come come up with something I got to get creative here yeah I like I like enjoy your grid weekend okay so what are you going to eat I’ve told you what I’m my menu is uh I think my my wife is not feeling well

She makes great great chicken wings so if she’s not feeling well and she can’t do that then I’m thinking maybe Jets Pizza go up the street and go get some Jets be some kind of pizza you want me to drop by some clam chowder I see you enough during the week

Uming like anyways I’m going to off that CL course will I would love it hey we thank you for tuning in texting in and being a part of I was kidding Randy what about see see me too much during the week Cory if you showed up with clam

Chowder and some carrot cake you’re in I got a big recipe baby so I I can feed uh that household of six six a half a dozen cousin yeah so it’s a lot it is uh until Monday morning half a dozen cousin I know what you’re going I know

Where you’re going we it’s homage to Jack an homage to Jack Buck uh until Monday morning at 7 have a great weekend St Louis and Now for Something Completely Different