The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 2 - Micah Parsons isn't happy with the Eagles, Lebron late All-Star scratch

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

A little championship envy as Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons feels like Dallas needs a call to action in the shadow of the Eagles Super Bowl. Adding to a terrible NBA All-Star Game, Lebron James was a late scratch, denying someone else the opportunity. #2ProsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So this is considerably later than what we're used to getting up for. Oh, it feels so good. Yeah. I got to admit, it feels nice being awake while I'm doing the show. tell you something. That whole, that whole five to six hours of consecutive sleep really underrated. I mean, totally

underrated. I'll tell you what. I woke up like, what the hell? It was like 430, 445. What are these cars doing on the road? Wait a second. I get to go back to sleep. Let me do that. That is the one thing that when we were in New Orleans for the Super Bowl,

like the one, the common question you get from everybody is, How do you guys do it? You mean, get up at 1 a.m. Monday through Friday? Right? You just do it. Then we chose to do a weekend show, too. That's what's crazy. Like, all right, it's not enough.

You got to do one more show and knock down six days a week. You do a weekend show? A dope weekend show. I had this loser dude that comes on right immediately at. Did you like that perfect? How are hitting with that? We had loser in the topic with Cam Newton. We go into it and immediately transatlose.

translated into using that as a transition to Jonas Knox. That's messed up. Listen, as your technical producer for both of your shows in the weekends, I'm not going to get into the middle of the fight between mom and dad here. That's fair. That's fair. As long as I'm dead and he's mom. All I do is promote that whatever that show is you do.

No, no. See, there you go. Look at your hate. I promote your show at least three times during the course of my show. At least. Perfect? Truth or not? Truth or not.

I don't know. I think the over under is two and a half. Two and a half. Two and a half. Okay, two and a half. I'll settle on two and a half, at least two times. My favorite part is that people don't understand the dynamic. So they go, God, they hate each other.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, Johnson. They don't like each other. If you think that's real eight, should have been there Thursday night in New Orleans. Oh, whoa. That was all love. That was all love.

Oh, man. That was a damn good time. That was too much love. Now, we did talk earlier in the show. We were discussing, you know, the dysfunctional New York Jets. Well, the dysfunctional NBA All-Star weekend, the dysfunctional New York Jets. They've still got to throw stories out there on Aaron Rogers. And then, you know, there's Sequin Barclay, Penn State along.

We are. Big time player. Another member of the Stick City class. Yeah. Number 11, Mike Apart. He's seen the Philadelphia Eagles now win a Super Bowl. From Harrisburg. Yeah, the Washington.

He's from that side of the state. The Washington commanders, also in the division. They were in the NAC title game. The Giants, who knows? Who knows? Why even address them right now? But Parsons spoke about the Eagles winning the Super Bowl and said the following, quote, yeah, that makes me hurt, man.

Over the past couple years, we kind of got our wins and losses against that. and battle with them. Obviously, talent is here, but we've got to just finish and go be aggressive the same way they did, you know? I don't want to sit back and just watch other people build and build and build, and we stay the same. So we definitely need some call to action. That from Micah Parsons, a member of the Dallas Cowboys. What did he say that was wrong? Nothing.

The problem is. Like I saw Stephen A and other people kind of chiming in on it. Like, what did he say that's wrong? no one out here should take any exception to what he just said what he said in his quote what he said that's wrong Dak Prescott made the same comments and it was even more it was even more like at least Micah said look we can beat these teams like it's we're competitive that the way I heard Dak and how he said it's like he's

disappointed that they weren't in the Super Bowl challenging to win the Super Bowl Like, that's delusional. Like, one is to me comes from a more, a more grounded space. Like, we got to get better. Like, we're a team that has to get better and not let everybody else get better and get away from us and get ahead of us. Whereas I felt like Dak was saying, like, look, we beat them. We should have won. And I'm terribly disappointed that we weren't.

I mean, maybe I read it wrong. But I just felt like he was like, I'm terribly. Or was that Jerry Jones. That said he was terrible. Well, Jerry Jones. Jones was disappointed and, you know, I thought for sure we were going to be in the Super Bowl. But the problem is, like, you can't keep track of what each of these guys is saying because it all is going to result in the same thing, which is they're never going to win a Super Bowl.

Dang. Like, if Michael Parsons wants to win a Super Bowl, he's got to get the hell out of Dallas. Dang. And I say this is somebody who's been bullish about the Cowboys. I mean, there's some reports out there. I might have had him in the Super Bowl this past year. I'm not here to confirm nor deny any of that stuff. but Micah Parsons is probably looking around going

the way we operate and do things is a lot different than the best teams in the league and we're not close like yeah you're in the same division but I got news for you the bears were in the same division as a lion's so what like the Jets were in the same division as the Patriots for years just because you're in the same division

and maybe there's some familiarity and you play them tight doesn't mean that you're close to being the same team. Because there's like, you know, this little thing called 15 to 16 other games you have to play. Is that what a – So, like, I mean, I know that, listen, you've beaten them a couple of times and you played them competitively. Dallas wasn't close this year. Dak Prescott went down with an injury. And this was their, quote, unquote, all in year.

That's what he said. I just – That's what he said. Hey, do you find yourself curious at – to what the call to action is that he's referring to? What is the call to action? What do you do? What would be the most efficient, most intentional,

most effective call to action? What do you think Michael Parsons was thinking? What do you think people who are thinking a call to action? What would the call? What should that call to action be? If you were going to do something drastic, it would be at the quarterback position. But they can't because they already paid him. So you are stuck with, and look, Dak Prescott has had good years.

But I just don't. It feels like the Cowboys window closed. Come on, keep trying. You got to keep reaching. Come on. You want to stop on that one? Well, no. You're going to leave it out.

personnel on the field. Didn't he bring up Philadelphia? Yeah. And say Philadelphia. Who's been getting all the love from Philadelphia? Think about it. Who's been getting the love before he didn't win in the championship? Sequin.

No. You're on the field. Oh, Howard Roseman. All right. Of course. Now think about that. Yeah. The GM is getting all, everybody in their mama is singing

the praises of the GM. I just wondering, because I don't want to put Micah in no compromising situation because, listen, I don't talk to Micah about what he's got going on professionally or anything like that. So this is not no inside bit or anything like that. We strictly family talk about family things. But I'm just wondering, is the call to action, since we can't replace the owner, you can't replace your call to action can't say we got to replace the owner. The owner has got to stop doing all of the meddling that he's doing.

wouldn't you think the second singular biggest move that would be a call to action, especially if you're the best player on the team saying it, and you still haven't done your contract yet. So I'm telling you there needs to be a call to action. And that could be gently or lightly positioned to say, if you want me to redo my contract, you want me to do a contract that's going to keep me here, there needs to be some changes made that make us.

better. He made a specific statement and comment to getting better. Like, they're out here getting better. What are we doing? What are we doing? To me, you can't say, oh, well, it's the quarterback position. You can't say, oh, it's this position. You got to say that it's the people that are making the decisions on the personnel

of this team that have to do better. That's the only way you can make. That's the only way you can make way he said a valid a valid point of emphasis, right? Yeah. Okay. He wants a call to action. The problem is he wants... We need a GM. Well, he wants impossible calls to action

because Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones run the show there. They're not going anywhere. It's their team. Well, whether they do it or not, a drastic call to action means you got to make

a decision that you wouldn't normally want to make in order to get different results. Okay. The definition of insanity is doing something repeatedly getting the same results but expecting different ones. That's insane that they haven't made a move with their GM situation. Like, you don't have to get rid of, you don't have to get rid of Steve. The Cowboys have tried twice to bring in somebody and give them some say in how you

build your roster. one of them was Jimmy Johnson. That didn't end well. The other was Bill Parcells who even said You got to let me stop. Yeah, they want you to cook the dinner. At least ought to let me shop for the groceries. Like they've tried it.

So Micah Parsons... They didn't try it. Micah Parsons in a spot where everything he's saying is correct. Everything DAC is saying is correct. Everything the fan base is saying is correct. And you can do nothing about it until you're not on that team anymore or not a fan of that team anymore. That's it just is what it is.

And if you're Dallas, not a shot in hell, you're going to let Michael Parsons walk. Like they will pay him. It will go down to the last minute like it always does. And he's going to get a huge deal from them and stay there for the rest of the career. At least look at it like this. I'm Michael Parsons. I made it a point of emphasis to say we need to be getting better. and there needs to be a call to action.

So if there's no real motion that way, then no one can be upset at this man saying, I want the most top dollar that my position or a defender in the National Football League can command. You're going to have to pay me the most of anyone because I am sacrificing my career because the call to action is bringing somebody in here who can build our team the right way.

That's the call to action. And if you're not going to do that, then the fans of Dallas should not be upset with me. If I'm going to have to take a deal and be on this team, that's going to continue to have malfunctions as the season goes on, you're going to compensate me for that. You're going to compensate me for that. I've proven to you I'm a historical player. I'm a generational player.

and the call to action is not being met with the type of ferocity and intensity of making this a real winner. If you're saying this year was our all-in year and you're our owner and you're the employer of me, you pay my checks and you're saying this is our all-in year, I got all the information I need to have in terms of what decision I need to make. I need to put myself first. I need to put myself first because Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Stephen Jones, Jones, you guys are putting yourselves first. Do you think, Micah, and obviously not that you've talked to him about this,

but do you think part of him, and I wonder if players think like this, they look around the situation and go, to your point, all right, if we're never going to compete for a Super Bowl, I'm going to get paid. You have to. Like, I'll just take the most money I can possibly get. I'll have a great career here. We'll be somewhat competitive. I'm going to get really famous.

I'm going to go to the Hall of Fame. I'm just never going to win a Super Bowl here. And you got to accept it. And what's crazy is, is if you either accept that or you force your way out, you force your way out, then you go somewhere different, you see what you got, or you put your best years down with a team that isn't going to compete for a Super Bowl. Because I wonder if that's where Miles Garrett's at, where he's like, man, like. I'm over it. Yeah. Like, I got two choices.

Straight me. Yeah. And by the way, one of the teams that's looked at as the potential landing spot for Miles Garrett is Washington. Jeez. So if you're Michael Parsons and that happens, you're looking around your division going. They're saying.

He wants to go to Dallas. I don't know how to make that work. Imagine if you were to get, that would be the best sense, what, where and Miller on your edges if you pulled that off? Jeez. Talk about all in. Bring Miles Garrett in the goddamn Dallas.

That's the start. You want to say you're all in? That's the start. Pay Michael Parsons. Bring in Miles Garrett. That's a start. I was going to say, I was going to say Arrington, Bruce Smith.

We got that record. I mean, we forever in that record book. I was only there for about 10 of them. But the one that mattered, that last one that broke it, I was there. I was there. I was on the field. I was on his side. I was helping him out.

That's right. I gave the pick that got him sprung free, and he got that record. We got that record, y'all. We made history that day. I want to see if I do a quick Google search of... Oh, you see me all on him. I'm draped all on him. Bruce Smith breaks sack record.

You'll see... There's a picture of Lovar Arrington hugging, jumping on Bruce Smith's back. His old ass back. Bruce Smith breaks record. I guarantee you, you see me on his back. Look, there it is right there. There is right there. I hadn't got to him yet.

I was close. I hadn't got there. He just turned around to the camera going, Hey! We did it. We broke history. I'm telling him. I'm bruised.

We broke history, baby. We made history. That's right. That's why I always tell people. Between Levar and I, we've been to three Froebols. Like, that's right. That's how it works. Hey, man.

That was probably going to be the most significant achievement in my entire program. career. I leaned all the way into that. I ain't let him go. He was trying to get away. I knew NFL films, everything. They're going to play this thing forever. I knew this was my moment. Bruce broke the record. Oh, man.

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Can I say this? The star of the weekend was Barry Bonds, all right? Barry Bonds, who was part of the celebrity game. Okay. Yeah, I think he might have been coaching against Jerry Rice. Okay. Don't worry, that was another event for the NBA this weekend I didn't watch. But I did see this. Jerry Rice, in a little trash talk before the game, said, how many rings you got to Barry Bonds?

Yikes. And Barry Bonds said, I was going to be a flex. Yeah, Barry Bonds said, I got two divorce rings. Dang. Dang. So, hey, that's something. So that... I ain't quite the same.

rings he was you know Jerry Rice I'm certain was referencing yeah that's different type of hardware situations probably a little bit a little bit more expensive as well too but nonetheless there was also the

complaints that were being levied towards LeBron James who decided for the first time in his career he was not going to participate in the All-Star game and kind of a late notice kind of a late scratch if we will didn't let anybody know this ahead of time just that weekend decided to show up

and thus somebody else who could add an opportunity to be an all-star didn't get their opportunity and LeBron explained his decision over the weekend. You won't see anything for me tonight. Unfortunately, I would not be in uniform tonight. Still dealing with ankle and foot discomfort so I will not be

playing tonight, unfortunately. I hate that but I'm looking forward to seeing the format. This is the first year for it. I know we got a lot of great calls the OGs. That's hilarious. We do got a few guys with gray hairs so that it makes sense. It's a bummer. So, LeVar, when you didn't go to the Pro Bowl,

did you also go to the Pro Bowl? When I didn't go to the Pro Bowl, like if I didn't make it? No. Why would I do that? I mean, if you wanted to be seen, if you wanted to be like part of the story. Man, the only way you go is if you were a pro.

Like, you vote me in, I'm there. And I'm playing. You know, but. I've never been the greatest football player in the game either, like, actively. I don't know what liberties, you know, LeBron James takes and what I'll say this. I'll say this. I bet if I'm LeBron James, which at this point I don't even know that money is even a deal, but I can't even imagine the amount of money he's getting to be there for appearances

and different activations or whatever. whatever it may be. So if I were there under the premise of what LeBron James, I would assume LeBron James, why he was on site, but not playing, yes. Hell, yes, I'd be there every single time. Got to be seen. You know, got to be. Yeah, I mean, that's how you get paid.

That's how you get paid, bro. Got to let everybody know that, hey, even though I'm not playing, I'm here. You're trying to make it about him being there so he could be seen. I'm saying he's 100% there because he's making money doing it. It's two different things. You can wrap what you're saying up into him being there to be seen. It leads to dollars. It leads to revenue.

Not only for him, but he's probably generating revenue for the NBA. The relevance of him being there is important. He's probably doing it for the TV station that was broadcasting it. The relevance of hearing his voice and seeing his face is important. It's important because he's a driver. He's one of the lone drivers, if not the lone driver of the NBA popularity and relevance right now. Can I ask you honest questions? Sure.

What good came out of this weekend for the NBA? Like, no. And it's not even just, well, you guys are just being bitter, man, because football's over it. No, no, no. It's not just us. The players didn't like it. The broadcasters didn't like it. Dremon Green didn't like it.

The fans didn't like it. I don't know what came out of this weekend that you look at and go, oh, well, that was a bright spot. Like, at least there was that. Like, even the guy that did win the dunk contest, all of a sudden there's fatigue. I don't know why there would be fatigue for a guy winning at three. But even that, people looked at and went, yeah, not into it.

It just feels like the entire weekend was a miss. know how many people I just don't know how many people were aware of the fact that this was even All-Star Weekend like if you told me right now if you hit me and said

LeVar to save your own life like not die right now immediately tell me where was it at I might get it wrong now I'm going to say it was in Golden State. I think it might have been in the bay

but I ain't sure. That is correct. But look, but look, if you were to ask me that and you're saying I dropped it if I get it wrong, I ain't answered. I'm going to take a stab. I took a stab at it because there's no, you know, there's no, nothing

happens after. But if you said your life depends on this, answer the question. I'm not answered. See, but I think you knew that because they showed the logo from the All-Star game this year, and it was a guy in a sleeping bag. Stupid. Stupid. The alternate logo for the All-Star weekend.

Yeah, it was a guy dribbling a ball. Yeah. With the caption, Wilson! Two different shoes. Dang. Yeah, I just, I look at it, I go, I don't know what the win was for any. He had two different shoes. By the way, just in case you missed this from earlier,

here was Draymond Green, broadcasting for the event in his hometown, talking about how he feels about the new All-Star game format. You work all year to be an All-Star, and you get to play up to 40, and then you're done. This is so unfair to Victor Wembeiyama, who just took this game really seriously, Sheikh Gilges Alexander, who just took this game really seriously.

When you talk about chasing after the points records, Mello, Kobe, and all these guys who've had great scoring nights. They don't get the opportunity to do that with this game, all so we can watch some rising stars. We're about to watch the Olympic team. Now we get the treat of watching the Olympic team play against a U-19 team. Come on, what are we doing? Kale of 1 to 10, your thoughts of the format? 10 being the best?

Yes. A zero. Sucks. Tang. Tang. 10 being the best. Him making sure you know that 10 is the best. Way to sell the product, guys.

He gave you a number that ain't even a number. Zero ain't even a number. By the way, see, and this is why the NFL is great, because the NFL's like, all right, why don't we just, I mean, listen, if they're not going to take advantage of this weekend, we'll just throw us something out there. Who's up for Jonathan Martin, Richie Incognito from 10 years prior? What?

That story making the rounds. Where Jonathan Martin, in an interview with the SPN, basically just says, Yeah, I never believed I was being bullied. That was my mom pushing the narrative and pushing that discussion. That's crazy. And so Richie Incognito has been making the rounds on social media, calling everybody out. Schefter, Florio. Zero is a number.

It's just an empty quantity. Like Sam Darnold has an empty calorie. But go ahead. Go ahead. That's crazy. Yeah, but Richie Incognito. He went through all that because of that dude. Yeah.

He went through. That dude was drunk. through the mud over that situation. Like he never really recovered from that in his career. And instead of, oh yeah, because he got laid away, he got suspended for the

final eight games of that season, and there was a lingering... Oh, it was just, yeah, that was a volatile, like asset. You couldn't touch him. And you don't bother you. I think Miami ended up taking him anyway, right? Wasn't Miami that it? Somebody ended up taking them anyway.

I think you went to the Raiders, if I'm not mistaken. like that something a little bit after but it wasn't long he was out of there not too long after he was a good player he's a heck of a ball player and um instead of just any of the people that previously reported on that and ran with it and

sensationalized the whole bullying etc etc you know whether it's florio or shifter any of these guys instead of just being like you know what we got that one wrong like we believed a story and we got it wrong instead they're justifying it by pointing to a voice

that was left from Richie Incognito to Jonathan Martin where he uses some profanities, some slurs, some things like. And in real time, I remember having the discussion here at Fox Sports Radio and being like, well, just be like, if you don't know the relationship between two people and you hear the way they talk to each other. You can't bring it into context. Man. Unless you know, because if people heard our conversations, they would think you are the biggest

bully in the world, bro. Like, wait, Jonas bullies LeVar? Like, I don't know. Are you serious? That's like... I would have never thought it at all. Like, Jonas Knox

the way he conducts himself and his communication with LeVarvon. I mean, the text message you sent me right after I finished my show on Saturday. I was, if that was like taken out of context, like, I would like... Is that not hilarious?

But you're bullying me. but that was to me. Somebody said that about me. I know, but you said, but I felt like it was you sending it to me. Like, he was pointing. He's like, you are. That, yeah, right. Exactly.

Exactly. Like, I know where it came from. But you put it front and center on my text message with the dude point straight at me. Like, he got that, opened it up. He's pointed straight at me. I read what it said. There you have it. I just think, I just, look, and I,

I'm nowhere close to being at the level of where you guys were at, but I grew up with brothers. I grew up with my friends from high school football are still my friends, and this is, you know, 20 years later. Like I grew up with all these people, and I grew up in that locker room environment. And to try and explain to somebody why you would do that to another human being or say that to another human being, doesn't make sense when you're not in the situation. Like, no, no, no, you don't really mean it like that. That's one of my best friends. You're just calling him that and saying that to him because we're just busting balls.

Like, it's just... I mean, and that's generally a lot of times when you're really close to people. That's kind of the premise of your relationship, right? Like, that's kind of how you're, you break on each other all the time. You've earned that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, like, instead of all these years later, a guy comes out and says, oh, yeah,

I never believe that. We would be canceled 100 times over in 10 minutes of a conversation of all of us together. Cancelled. And you know what? That's the beauty of trusting the people that you're friends with. That's the beauty of the interaction and all the time that you spend communicating with one another. And football, you're going through workouts. You're sweating.

you're like it's a lot of struggle that goes into what takes place in the football arena. So when they say you come in as strangers, you come in as strangers, you become teammates, you leave as family. That's a real statement. You go through so much together that the bonds that you build are pretty, pretty, remarkable and that's the one thing that you'll always hear former players say the one thing i miss about the game is the locker room they'll tell you like i miss being in a locker room and that's the very thing that you're talking about and the reason why you miss the locker room is because you be laughing

at the stuff that you're saying to one another or you hear somebody saying to somebody else it's funny and it's in it's in fun every once in a while somebody will take it the wrong way you might see a little a little lockup, you know, you might wrestle it out or you might have to break them up from swinging every once in a while. But for the most part, it's just all in fun. And to me, I always feel like, you know, outside of some, like, very specific, like, ways of looking at things,

how would he be bullying the dude? You're both linemen. How is he really bullying you? Like, you've had to go through some trench, like real trench work to get to where you're at as an adult playing offensive line. Please tell me how he's bullying you. Now, if it was a quarterback or if it was like a receiver or like some type of little dude,

like people are like, ah, motions don't wear size. They don't have sizes and weights. I get that. Like the way a guy feels, okay, I get that. You could potentially be, you know, put in a bully situation as a lineman. But I'm just saying, this dude was not a young guy. He wasn't no rookie guy.

It just came across to me as like, you're running this victimhood mentality, and you ran it in a way where it kind of ruined the dude's career. And I didn't know if it was accurate or justified or accurate. It just seemed kind of strange. Like, just seems strange if you understand the culture. That's what else. It's like when Josh Lambo, the kicker was accusing Urban Meyer of, you know,

when he was in a stretching line. man I remember in football you heard that come out of your mouth like I remember like a coach like we'd be in stretch lines and a coach would take his keys and bang the top of your helmet and it would rattle your head like bro

I never thought for say oh that's bullying if you could do a playback of the things coaches say to players and meeting rooms on the football field on the sideline and drills in practice if you could just pull one

raw footage of Greg Williams one. Pull one raw footage of Ray Rhodes. One. Just pull one raw. Ray Rhodes hit us one time. You're just going to let the man just come up in your house and like this is censor version. You're just going to let him come up in your house, butt naked, midnight, bleat, and just look at you in your face while your family's sitting there on the couch and tell you, hey, I'm home, I'm ready to eat. Where's my plate? He's looking at you. Then he looks at your woman, and he's saying, where's my got name plate? why I got that long midnight out for everybody to see. You better get my mother effing food and you better deliver it to me right now because I'm home.

Like you're just going to let them just walk up into your house like that. Like they used to say some of the most graphic. Tell you what I'm going to let you do for me. Tell you what I'm going to let you do. And what's bad about it is is when you hear them type of dudes talk about it, You can actually get a mental vision of what that looks like. Like, dang, would I really let this dude walk up in my crib, butt naked, like, looking stronger than me.

So now you got it in your head. It's like I'm grossed out by it first and foremost. Like, this is ridiculous that he would illustrate it this way, but this is what you're talking about. Somebody comes in, they're able to run the ball or do what it is that they want to do on the football field, and you ain't doing nothing about it. It's like, dang.

I can't be that guy. I can't be the guy that lets my coach feel this way about me. I'm just going to walk into my crib. Right. But naked. I'm just saying, bro, you can't. There's certain things that you cannot overstate in terms of being sensitive about what the situation is. And that's where we're at.

That's where we're at as a world. that's where we're at as a culture, as a society, especially here. I would say especially here in America, we are so soft. We've gotten so sensitive. We've gotten so comfortable with just being offended and sensitive to any and everything that said or done.

It's crazy, man. That's absolutely insane that this dude would come out. He should have to do time. He should either have to do time or pay a penalty to incognito. There should be a penalty. There should be a consequence. And I say this for other things too.

Like when it comes down to like, you know, like consent and all that. If it comes out that you lying, you should have to pay the cost. Whatever that sentence was going to be, you should have to do it. Agreed. You should have to do it. It is the herd here. Fox Sports Radio, LeVarrington, Jonas Knox, in for Colin. Coming up next here in the herd line news, we're going to tell you how things are getting a little bit interesting.

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Okay, we've known that Matthew Stafford's future in LA remains murky. And this morning we got an update from the athletics, Jordan Rodriguez, Jordan Rodriguez, and her story, quote, she says, though it has been clear of the past month, the Rams are ready to move on from Cooper Cup. Matthew Stafford's situation remains fluid. The side's met to talk about a long-term deal before the Super Bowl, and although not much progressed after their ongoing conversations, it will pick back up in the coming weeks. It's not a given, though, that Stafford will remain with the Rams despite both sides initial openness to work out a deal.

Where do you guys think this thing lands with the Rams and Stafford? I got a weird feeling it's over. It feels like it, right? I don't know. It just, it seems like it's the obvious thing would be, well, of course, he would want to stay and they would want to make it work, but it feels like going into last year there's still maybe some bad blood that there wasn't more figured out because that also was a discussion last season. and to where like after the year

Sean McVey was pretty direct when he said we just want some clarity on Matt's situation as soon as possible and Les Sneed just said somebody would have to call us to talk about wanting to make a deal it's not you know we love it just feels like we're coming towards the end It doesn't help that in the midst of all those things

that you've mentioned Jonas that you make it clear that you're parting ways with one of his closest friends I mean, you got to take that into consideration. That's like a shot across the bow, right? Like, this is my guy. All right, you're getting rid of my guy. Like, what does this mean for us as a team moving forward?

Just creates a lot of questions, a lot of uncertainty. So I would tend to agree with you guys on that. It's kind of similar to what we're seeing in New York with the Jets. Like with Aaron Rogers, they have a very younger, young roster that they're trying to turn their roster over, right, to a younger roster. Stafford doesn't really fit that timeline. They've drafted really well. They drafted amazing, yeah. like they're trying to get all these young guys with a younger quarterback and yeah it feels like

this is we're training toward the end I just if not him who yeah and that's why like the same conversation about the saints with Derek Carr it's like yeah maybe you don't think he's one of the best quarterbacks in the league but if it's not him who like it just feels like you got a bunch of quarterbacks who are kind of in the same spot that are potentially going to be looking for jobs when they could probably be better off just staying where they are yep Jonas I know this is going to hurt. This is going to hurt you, and I know it has hurt you, and it's hurt me as well. You being a Cubs fan, me being an Astros fan.

But last week, Star Free Agent Alex Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Red Sox. But the Red Sox are deferring $20 million in each of his each year, in each of his three years. The Cubs were a finalist for Bregman, but according to Bruce Levine out of Chicago, the Cubs would not be deferring any money on contracts this offseason. Yeah.

At what point do they pay it then? So that's the question, right? We've seen the Dodgers here in LA. 20 years from now? Is it 15 years from now? Well, they're paying it three years after his contract's up. So it'll be 20 million each year after that. So with the Dodgers, right, we're seeing them do this.

Anybody can do this in baseball, right? And the big market teams like Chicago, Boston, they should be doing that. Right? Yeah. But the problem is the Cubs know they have the fans by the balls. because their selling point is Riggly Field. And they could roll out a bucket of vomit every year. And they generally do because the team generally is underwhelming.

And people are still going to show up because they're selling the ballpark and they're selling that experience. And they're not going to commit, you know, we're not deferring contracts anymore. Okay, well, the best team in baseball does, but why would you want to do that? Like, why compete? They got their one world series. They're good. We're good here. We'll worry about that 100 years from now, like the last time it happened.

Like, no, we don't need to win another World Series. It feels like there are certain teams in sports that want to win and others that want to make money. And they're one of those teams that are looking at it from a money standpoint, not for wins, which is unfortunate. I agree. And I just think that the baseball landscape has changed. I mean, it has. The Dodgers are proving that this is, like, going to be the new way to go moving forward.

And if you got on board, then you were in Washington. You were in, okay, you were in Washington. Okay, Nationals won a World Series. I was there. All right, Nationals won a World Series. And then decided. Jason Worth. Yeah.

Zimmerman. And then just decided, you know what? We got ours. We're good. Strasberg. And everybody, Bryce Harper, gone. Bryce Harper. Why am I blanking on the GM?

Who is the GM again? Rizzo. Rizzo or something like that? Yeah. Mike Rizzo? There we go. But it's like they won their... So you're no baseball a little bit.

But they won their World Series and even before that point, we don't need Bryce Harper. See that you win it? This is new balance. Yeah. But can you spell it? A baseball is right around the corner. Your buckos are back bar. Yeah. I mean, I like the buckos, but I'm a national.

Hell yeah. Yeah. Go get a half smoke. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.