The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 2 - Wicked, Lame & Bamboozled

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

Covino & Rich tell a great story about Cove's mom & the movie Wicked! Rich has a polarizing take on Kendrick Lamar being the halftime artist. What's the lamest Super Bowl sentiment out there? 'LAST ONE STANDING' gives you your sports trivia fix! Plus, Pete Carroll/Marshawn Lynch & Rich falls into a youth sports trap, again!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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getting to your phone calls at 87799 on Fox. Any observation you made this weekend. It could be a movie you saw. It could be something fight related, basketball related, but mostly football related, because that's what we're really getting to the bottom of. Let's be honest. That's what everyone was really focused on. Well, not really.

You know what I did? And by the way, by the way, this hour giving away prizes. So stand by by. playing our favorite game, last one standing, and a few minutes. So stick around. 87799 on Fox. Rich, besides football, you know what I did this weekend?

I know what you did, and I was going to bring it up later on the show. So if you want to bring it up now, you watched a movie with your mom, didn't you? Yeah. I saw my mom. I read your mind. I read your mind, and it was, I saw you post this on Instagram, and I felt like what you posted related to every,

human on earth. You watched a movie with your mom and you said Let me explain. Because I have a question. I have a question. Is it every mom? Is it generational? Or is it just because my mom's Mexican and that's just how Mexican moms are? Or is it like a she's getting old and senile thing? I don't know.

I think this is Gringo moms, black moms, white mom, any moms. The way, what you described, please tell everyone because this is, I agree. So my mom, huge Wizard of Oz fan, huge. Huge. Her favorite movie made a big deal about it our entire life, right?

Our entire childhood. Mom, you got to watch Wicked because it's streaming now. Put on Wicked. She's lost from the very get-go of the movie. Asking a million questions. Who's that? What's that? What's going on?

Who's that guy? I don't get it. This song stinks. This guy's ugly. Who is that? Right. Do we know him? Mom, we don't know him yet.

We don't know him yet. How do you know him? Well, you know, deductive reasoning, mom. She called them dad. So clearly it's his dad, right? You know, so she's asking a million questions. Where's Dorothy? So that she's talking the whole time, right?

Hold on. The whole time she's talking. Is that E.M? in this? Is that E.M? No, no. It's not. You're pausing it and you're trying to explain, but you're getting frustrated because you want her to like it. And you're trying to be patient. And she's not following.

And then the movie ends. She's like, I hated it. It's like, well, because you didn't stop talking the entire movie. I don't get it. I couldn't follow it. Well, because you were talking the entire time. Wait, that's the end of the story. That's it?

Wait, so that's part one. What happened? And they're like, oh, dude, it's the most frustrating thing. So you introduce this magical movie that you're hoping your mom can enjoy. And she just stomps all. She did the Mexican hat dance all over the movie and hated it. You let your mom know that like the world seemed to love Wicked except her. Yeah.

Okay, okay. She did not. She hated everybody in it, didn't like the song. didn't get the plot, couldn't wrap her head around the prequel. But honestly, bro, it was so funny that I couldn't even be like mad or disappointed. But it made me say, hmm, in a sense that is it all moms? Is it generational or is it just my mom? I think a lot of moms talk through the movie.

And they point out two things. Number one, they talk throughout it and then wonder why they're not following. Bam. And my mom will always be like, who's that? I'm like, I'm sure you'll figure it out. If you don't know the character, mom, I'm going to tell you, here's how movies and TV shows usually work. Maybe in the next scene, it'll dawn on you who that person is based on, I don't know, the conversation, the plot. Yeah, no, dude, it's impossible.

You know, and it made me think, like, just the style of movie, like, the older generation needs to be spoon fed on everything that's going on. They just absorb that differently. It's so wild, dude. It's the wildest experience. I had a laugh. Observation for you that all moms are paying the ass watching movies. They can't sit through it without trying to narrate it and ask a million questions. Social media thinks football is rigged, which is like just so ridiculous to me.

I saw a meme that said what makes Swifties even more annoying is that they've never lost a Super Bowl. Like imagine learning football because you like Taylor Swift and like, oh my God, or Travis is a guy? That fan has never not seen their team win. Meanwhile, there's so many fan bases that have never even tasted victory. Any thoughts on what Jonas Knox was talking about in that promo? Because I noticed it. What was Chris Jones crying about? That was hilarious.

Do you think it's just so emotional to get there again and, you know, just to maybe realize that could be your last run? This could be your last run. You're heading to the Super Bowl. I want to see Jonas say that to his face. No, but did it make you say, hmm? I want to see Jonas. Go up to Chris Jones and be like, yeah, why are you crying? I mean, we all noticed it.

Emotion in sports is a thing. You're about to possibly three-peat and you are a key component to that team's defense. In fact, remember the one game like a year ago where they started the season without him? And they're like, oh, we need Chris Jones. Get this done. I like the emotion, dude. And you never know when it hits you, right? Like, we don't know what's going on in his life on his head that somehow this struck him emotionally.

Oh, another layer of this, which is interesting to me. Mahomes is around for quite a bit. He's a 30-year-old guy, not even 30, right? 29. 29, yeah. What's the story in your mind on Andy Reid and Travis Kelsey? If they three-peat, do they keep going? Or is there that thought of, now we've done it all?

Andy Reid could retire, but what if he has a thirst for coaching? Travis Kelsey has a $100 million podcast deal. He's with Taylor Swift. If they get engaged, maybe he wants to start a family. Like, there's so many layers as to if they win, does a big part of the chiefs go away? Like, do we almost, do we root for the chiefs in lieu of knowing that if they win, then it's sort of, uh...

Well, Mahomes is far from done, so he's not rooting for that. I know, I'm just saying. You know what my mom said to that? Oh, my God, speaking of broccoli heads, I bet you, Mahomes is the first guy to rock the broccoli head alpaca haircut. Very well could be. And I said, maybe he is. Maybe.

Maybe. But those are all things that we took away from this weekend. I got two more. Can we all agree that James Cook reaching for the end zone will go down in history as one of the greatest plays that ended up not mattering? Yeah, that was dope. Remember when Andy Chavez and the Mets reached over the wall in game seven of the NLCS? And it may have been one of the greatest catchies you've ever seen in your life.

But the Mets lose, so the catch means nothing. when someone does something miraculous in a game where they lose, it's, it goes from wow to, man, who cares? And on fourth and goal, the way James Cook battled for that touchdown will go unnoticed forever.

No one will ever mention again after today. Our recap of it might be the last deal over here of it. But if they went on to win the Super Bowl, that would have been part of a montage forever. I don't want to spoil the fun because we're trying to, to get you hyped for the Super Bowl. We're going to be out there in New Orleans, interviewing everybody, being at all the events.

So it's an exciting time for us. But Rich did point out, now that we know who's playing and the Super Bowl stage is set, you were saying off the air that when you think about Kendrick Lamar, you're just kind of disappointed with the whole thing. And I know that's a polarizing thought. I'm sort of just poking the bear right now because you did say that off the air. Oh, no, listen, I think Kendrick Kumar is the worst choice of Super Bowl halftime acts in a long time. Not because I won't enjoy Kendrick Amar.

You're speaking about your mom watching Wicked. I call it the mom test. Your mom knows who Beyonce is. Your mom knows who Dr. Dre is. Your mom knows who Rihanna is and your mom knows who Lady Gaga is in Katie Perry and Maroon 5 and the Who and the Rolling Stars. Yes, bring the who back. For your mom. But your family knows it.

you and people younger will be like, oh, Kendrick Lamar. But you think your mom and dad and your aunt and uncle are going to be like, oh, yeah, Kendrick Lamar. He's the biggest hip-hop artist. But the world of music is more niche than ever before that you're not hearing a lot of Kendrick Lamar on your Kiss FMs and serious hits, one channels and stuff. So my point is, I think overall, the ratings will be huge. But there's a lot of people.

This is the lamest sentiment of all. I've seen people on social media say, I'm just not going to watch. Not going to watch. What type of loser do you need to be? You know what you sound like? You sound like my uncle Tommy who went to bed before New Year's hit. That guy?

That's my uncle Tommy is the lamest guy. That woman is going to bed. Is the lamest woman. The same person that's like, I'm not staying up for midnight. You're not staying up for midnight. That was always, as a kid growing up, he was always the weakest dude in the family because of that. I'm like, wait a second. You mean you're not staying up to watch the new year.

Like you're going to bed, going to sleep by yourself is more exciting than like introducing the new year. That's how I feel about you not watching the Super Bowl. How did you tune out? 1048. I'm going to hit the hay. You can't wait an hour and 12 minutes? You're tuning out on some weird protest because you don't care about the Chiefs, Eagles,

or Kendrick Lamar. The rest of the world is going to be watching. But there still seems to be that sentiment. I have heard a few people saying, well, I'm not watching. Like, you're not watching. And then I'm thinking to myself. If you're not watching, you're not a fan at all, in my opinion. If you told me, oh, I'll watch, but I'll be at a Super Bowl party.

I'll casually watch and I'll check it out, but I'm not honed in. I could 100% understand that. That's fair. I get 100% under-reheat the Buffalo chicken dip. You don't want to watch it. I was Sam. I could 100% understand someone being like, yeah, I'm not going to be locked in. Maybe I'll be doing a little more chit-chat and, you know,

eating food in the kitchen and, you know, I'll keep my eye on it. But to say you're going to skip the Super Bowl, skip the game, halftime, the commercials, everything about what is really a very American holiday essentially. It is. Like, what are you trying to prove? What contrarian moronic behavior is that? Oh, I'm not going to watch. Oh, God, it's like the people that say they're going to move if their candidate doesn't win.

No, Rich now have a beautiful friend. And I've seen a lot of this on social media, but we do have a mutual friend that said it's the first time in their life that they're just not going to watch. I was like, yeah, what are you proven with that? And every other friend on that group chat hit me up individually being like, what's his deal? Yeah, that's so weird. Like, what are you doing? It's a weird stance. It really is.

So, you know, let's start with Josh in Ohio. Your thoughts, we'll wrap it up, things that made you go, hmm, I can't imagine it can be a matchup of the. because this really is the matchup of teams that people may not want to see win. Well, you're going to watch the Super Bowl. It's a Super Bowl. Come on. What are you doing? And your big observations from the games. What's up, Josh?

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I just had, I wanted your opinion on something. Made me go, hmm, was that James Cook play at the goal line more impressive than Devin Hester's returning the opening kickoff and not winning the Super Bowl? I mean, they're such different plays, but they're in the same category. of, you know, great moments that really lost relevance. Kevin Hester wins, though.

That was the Super Bowl. That was awesome. Yeah, but this was the AFC championship fourth and goal. Can we know the stakes were higher. Both amounted to nothing, you know, so just memorable moments. But I think being the Super Bowl and a kickoff return, I think that was bigger. Hold on, Dan Byer, not to rub it in, but when the Seahawks lost that terrible Super Bowl to the Patriots, who made an acrobatic sideline catch that we see, I even forget his name.

Who was that? Germain Curse. Germain Curse made what would have been, to back up my point, if the Seahawks had repeated, that Germain Curse catch would have went down in history as like the David Tyree. Like, it would have been magical. Yep, correct. Magical moments are lost when your team doesn't win. James Cook, welcome to the world of Andy Chavez, Germain Cursed, you know, and such.

Let's go to Noah. Devin Hester, yeah. Devin Hester. Noah and Maine. What's up, Noah? Hey, what's going on, guys? Hey, buddy. The thing that, I have two things that made me go, hmm, and if you go off your point,

go back to the Patriots Eagles Super Bowl from a few years ago, Brady threw for 500 yards for everybody who beat Brady in the Super Bowl, like, as great as it was. But the other thing that made me go, hmm, more recently this weekend, predictable play calling from the bills was, I mean, after that first push push showed that they weren't going to give that. And the fact that McDermott didn't make any changes in the mind and did not make any changes or adjustments to that because I'm loading up on the line

on the push push, it makes you wonder if McDermott deserves to have his job in Buffalo after yesterday. Listen, you could argue as a field goal game and it got out-coached by Andy Reid. I mean, there's no shame in that, but you know, you eventually want a

different outcome. It's now four times in the postseason with these two similar teams that you're looking at 4-0-0-0. There's no, you know, put on your thinking, cap for a second in our lifetime. When I say our lifetime, let's be rounded, you know, since the 80s. Do you remember one team standing in someone else's way that much? Like, this is up there with like MJ stopping teams. This is up there with like, you know, until Steve Young won, it seemed

like the Cowboys just wouldn't let the Niners get by. And I, as a Niners fan, I remember hating like, man, Emmett Smith and Akeman and Irvin, the Niners can't beat this team. You know, I mean, I'll take it to a different sport. Tyson stopped so many people from being champion. He was just that guy. The clitch goes didn't let anyone be a champion for over 10 years. DB, anyone else comes to mind? Well, Nick Wright, first things

first, has pointed out that it's the curse of the bills and the curse of the Pat Mahomes trade that allowed the chiefs to trade up and draft Mahomes. The deal was done by the Buffalo Bills. Similar to, as Kovino knows, curse of the Bambino. For how long that took, and obviously now

we know that the Red Sox finally broke. through. However, the 100 years or whatever it was, the 80 years that it happened, I mean... 1918 to 2004. Yes. So there's... So you do the math. Yeah. And Nick Wrights

pointed out that that's the trade that the bills made allowed with the Chiefs, allowed the chiefs to draft Patrick Mahomes. I saw on social media, you know, you see all these little clips floating around now of like, oh, if this team would have done this or drafted this guy, have you

seen the most beneficial loss of all. It was a couple years ago. It was a year ago, two years ago now, where the Jets won and beat the commanders on a meaningless field goal. Like both teams were not good. Kavino and they beat the, the Jets had beat commanders on a meaningless field goal and had that field goal,

which it was like a 50-plus yard field goal that just made it. If that's different, the commanders go from two to, I think, five or six in that draft and they're saying no Jaden Daniels. So the Jets who can never help themselves help the commanders move up enough to get Jaden Daniels. So all these little things

are, you know, it's all butterfly effect at the end of the day. Hey Rich, can I call you out on one more thing you said in our pre-show meeting? Yeah. Just to have you explain yourself? I wrote it down because I'm like, ooh. Ooh. Ooh. You said, I don't

care. This is the weakest Super Bowl ever. I'm sorry, this is my voice. We're doing. Weekest Super Bowl ever. Well, weakest in that ever? That's what he said. Let me explain.

Again, in the same breath, we're trying to find reasons to be excited. But deep down, there's a part of him that feels that way. Weakest Super Bowl for the casual fan. Let me make it clear. I'm not taking back what I said. No, it doesn't contradict what you said. we're trying to find the best reasons to be excited. Of course, there's going to be, you know, either Sequin Barclay going down as one of the best trades of all time, best acquisitions, and, you know, them hosting the Lombardi or history being made with Mahom.

So to say it's the worst, it's not the worst from that standpoint. From a football standpoint, you got a great game. When I said the worst, I meant the worst from that. There's no real, like, feel good root for this guy. Like, if the lions or bills are in it, that's a feel good story. If, you know, Brock Purdy, rookie going against Mahomes, that's a story. You know, the Rams, they got Stafford or they could they do it. There's always a story.

Yo, Joe Burrow, I find there to be no real likables. You know, there's no heart tugger. It's really, are we rooting for dominance or rooting for an unlikable fan base to be happy because we like Saquan Barkley? It reminds me a little bit of Super Bowl 53, not exact parallels. but when it was the Patriots and Rams, we were sick of the Patriots who was their third in a row. And the Rams didn't have anything that really make you grab onto them. Plus they were new to L.A.

And the difference is that L.A. fan base was still trying to, I guess, get adjusted to the Rams being back in L.A. And maybe it wasn't as big as it was. And obviously isn't close to what Philadelphia. But that's what, that was the disappointment that I felt was, that Super Bowl when I felt what I felt last night. DB, Rich, Fox Sports Radio Nation, speaking of Brady, does it make you say when you see Brady calling all these games

and giving his insight on the Super Bowl outcome? Do you think there's a part of him that wants Mahomes to lose because it does put him in a different category that even Brady couldn't accomplish? I mean, the competitive side is probably like, you know, slow down young buck. I don't like stay at three. because four

each one's hard to get right he's just getting closer and closer and he's not even 30 yet so you know I'm sure Brady's like yeah young buck you can lose one but you know based on what you're saying and you and DB saying the unfavorable

matchups for fan bases the worst world series ever DB for me as a Mets fan was 09 when the Yankees played the Phillies I remember Mets fans being like can we root for like cancellation? Can we root for like a strike or something?

Like what are we doing here? So I can see where some people are like, oh, Eagles fans versus, oh, Swifties? Like, bleh. Bar. All right, well, Fox Sports Radio Nation, if you want to chime in on that, hit us up at Covino and Rich. But if you want to play a game and win a prize, let's do this. You know, play last one standing. Now is your chance to call and win.

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I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad Hey Jonas and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Now, before you come back, I know you're in the East Coast, you were filming some stuff for a history channel? Yeah. Some secret projects? Yeah, secret projects. History channel. Look out for me.

What do you know about history? Nothing. Not a whole lot. I know that the Chiefs may make it in a few weeks. Well, I wanted to just point out, you better be shoving some pizza and bagels in your bag for us on your way back. Don't hold your breath, buddy boy.

You stuff your face or what? Yeah, of course I did. All right. Let's do this. Time to play. Last one standing. You have five. seconds to battle for your sports trivia life.

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Have four categories ready to go. If needed, a tiebreaker. Each contestant gets five seconds to stay alive in the round. If you run out of time or answer incorrectly, Iowa Sam will take you out with his famous buzzer. We keep battling until you are the last one standing. If you win two of the rounds, you are the top dog. Here are the contestants, four-time winner, Steve Covino.

Yeah. You are, I am. Seven-time winner, Rich Davis. I'm like Brady and you are not. Leader in the clubhouse right over there, Dan Byer, 23-time winner. Hello? He's almost like the Yankees. He's got those chief straps on its side.

We're going to go to the studio lines right now, see who's playing for a C&R stainless steel swiggy. I'll use you for this. Would you love to travel to Paradise, California, Gerard, Pennsylvania, Phoenix, Arizona, or Queens, New York. Oh, let's go to Paradise. All right. John. What's up, John? How you doing today? Good man. What do you do for a living there in Paradise? For a lot of years, and since our town burnt down, there's a lot of it to go around. Well, dude.

That's why I chose it. Yeah. Yeah, good job there. Thank you. All right, by the way, Spot is the fact checker during this game. Worst job ever. Pressure is on. When I say your name, the clock. is going to begin. Here we go. First category. Got there, though. You have five seconds to name an NFL team who has lost in the Super Bowl at least twice. There are 18 answers on the board. Wait. Got to wait for your name. Jeez. Do we explain these games? Come on there. 18 answers on the board.

It's okay. Covino's going to go first and the clock starts. Got to start with the pills. Get them out of here. Four losses. All right. Rich. The 49ers. 49ers have three. Byer. Eagles. Eagles have three. John. Vikings. Vikings have four.

Covino. Steelers? Steelers have two. Rich. The Denver Broncos. Five. Byer. Wow.

Seahawks. Seahawks, two. Yep. John. Cowboys. Cowboys. Cowboys. Three on the list.

Covino. Patriots. Patriots. Five. Yep. Rich. The cults. Colts, yes, too.

Good bull. Buyer. Dolphins. Dolphins? Yes, sir. John. Raiders. Yes, too.

Yes. On the list. Big list. Packers. Packers? Not a most. Rich. Rich.

Yeah. The Rams. The Rams. Yes, three. Good one. Byer. Panthers. Panthers?

Yes, two on the list. John. Do you say Chiefs? Yeah. Yes. I thought he said, geez. Didn't I, did I not already say that? No, you didn't.

No, I don't know. No, I thought someone said it. No, no, it's a Chiefs. The Cincinnati Bengals. Yes, correct. Three. Byer. Oh, geez.

Somebody said Rams already? Yes. Okay. There's two left. Three, two, one. I'm out. John? I was just thinking of one.

The Bears. Nope. No. Atlanta Falcons. Yes. Yeah, Rich wins that round. He's the last one standing in that round. That's a boy.

All right. The one that no one got is the, oh. Oh, you're going to. What, what, the, AFC, NFC? Tell me, just forget. It was the commander slash Redskins. Oh, yeah, okay. Oh, geez.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, NFC. Second, second category. I would have known the answer for that. At the old ball game, You have five seconds to name one of the nine MLB teams who employ a live organist for their games.

John, you're going to be up first. I love this topic. I love this topic. They have to go with the Cubs. Cubs, yes, they're on the list. Yeah. I love this. Buyer.

Dodgers do, right? Dodgers do, yep. All right. Rich. I feel like the Yankees do. They do? Yeah. Covino.

Damn. Damn, damn. Yes. I'll go Phillies. Phillies do not. Oh, man, I mean, all the good ones. Yeah. John.

Angels? Nope. No. Angels are too cheap for that. Buyer. Giants? No. Rich seriously won the game like that? No.

Wait, do the Mets have an organist? No. But it doesn't matter. No, you're still the last one standing. Wow. Yeah. Sweet. Yeah, he swept.

That is such a goofy question, but an awesome one. I love it. I think it's a great one. Rich, you don't even know your own team if they have an organist enough? I've seen a guy play the piano at City Field, like a keyboard, but I guess he's not an official organist. Yeah, there's baseball fans at certain cities yelling at their radio, the twins. So, yeah, you said the twins, Red Sox, Reds, yes. Diamondbacks, Cardinals and Braves.

Wow. So fun fact. Less than I thought, though. I got three of. Hey, John, thanks for bringing the fun, buddy. That's great. I love that day. That's good.

Thank you. I appreciate you. No, thank you, buddy, boy. Keep that good construction work up, man. You can have a lot of work. Yeah. I appreciate you, John. We'll talk to you soon.

All right. Thank you guys. That's fun. It's great to be a champion. Crazy 8's. That's Rich's eighth victory. Look at that. Move over time.

Move over Brady. He's always coming for you. Let's go to Danby for an update. DB. What's going on by? I can't believe I missed Washington. on the first one because I had a question in the game that we play on Sundays during my show that would have said Washington. Easy as one, two, three, four.

You know, I know one of the great scores, they lost to your Raiders, Danny G, 38 to 9. It's one of my favorite core memories as a child because my dad had eight and nine in his box pool and I was a little boy and he was explaining, oh, buddy, the terrible numbers I'll never win. And then my dad won. So 38, nine. That was one of their losses. beat the Seahawks in the AFC championship game to advance to that Super Bowl. So the Raiders also introduced a new head coach today, and it's Pete Carroll.

I'm so proud to be part of that and recognizing that we get to represent our following. And here in Las Vegas, to do it in this setting right here where people can't wait to come see us. They can't wait to see what we're all about. We do want to fill our stadium up with our guys. I know that we have a good draw for people. There you go. There you go. That's what I'm talking about.

Hey, Mark, settle down a little bit. That was actually Marshawn Lynch, yelling the Raiders in the background as Carol was introduced along with new GM John Spitech. Cowboys introduced Brian Schotenheimer as their new head coach. Former Bears head coach Matt Eberfluse is expected to be their new defensive coordinator in Dallas. Aaron Glenn is the new head coach of the New York Jets. Jets owner Woody Johnson said he'd be for Aaron Rogers returning next season, saying the ultimate decision is up to Glenn in the front office. Glenn did say they had communication with Rogers recently,

but no decision has been made on his return for next year. And the Jaguars introduced Liam Cohen as their new head coach. It was a weird twist and turn last week when Cohen dropped out of the running for the job. It was going to go back to Tampa, but then the Jaguars fired GM Trent Balke, and Cohen is now the head coach in Jacksonville. Here's Jaguars owner, Shad Khan, and why he decided to fire his old general manager. You know, after the 10 video interviews were done and we were ready for that was a transition

point for me to reflect and what was the right thing for the organization and that's when I decided that it was time for a change. Ravens gave offensive coordinator Todd Monkin a contract extension. Steelers owner Art Rune the 2nd says he believes they'll bring back either Russell Wilson or Justin Fields next season

but wouldn't bring both quarterbacks next year and the Miami Heat are suspending Jimmy Butler indefinitely after he walked out of the team shoot around when he was notified he was being replaced in the starting lineup. And in College Hoops, University of Florida close their Title IX investigation of men's basketball coach Todd Golden

after they found no evidence supporting allegations of stalking and sexual harassment that were made by multiple people against Golden. Guys, back to you. You, Dan Byer, is Robert Sala on your Pay Me No Mind list? Because no shout-out for the defensive coordinator coming back? Is that official official or what? Well, it was last week that wasn't it on Friday? I think it happened over the weekend.

Yeah, because I was going to say it. 49er fans pumped about that because that's... No, you guys live in the past. I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. Wow. Damn. But yeah, you know what?

It's Robert Tile has the ability. Again, if he didn't get a head coaching job, it's an interesting thing, DB, you pointed out last week, where he goes back to where he was and he had success. The Niners' defense has slipped since he left, so he has the ability to look good and bring them back. Or if it doesn't look good second time around, who knows if he'll ever get a second shot. as a head coach. Everybody's three, four years older. Yeah, that's the only problem. That's the problem with 49ers.

But they do have the weakest schedule in the history of the world next year, so we shall see. All right, so many cool things to look forward to next year already, right? All right, hey, we got more Kavine on Rich. Next right here on Fox Sports Radio. Hang tight.

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Yeah, lots of pancakes and grits. Oh, man. Grits. Gries. I can. You know what? Oh. Do the thing you're not supposed to do.

Like starve yourself this week, so next week you can just eat like a sloth. It doesn't work. Binets, grits. fried fish, po-boys, chicken and waffles, gumbo. Man, can't wait.

Jump-a-ya. Oh, yeah, and the Super Bowl, and the game. Oh, what? And the halftime show and all the fun. Oh, that hot. Yeah.

I wanted to run some by you guys. We talked a lot of NFL today, a lot of Super Bowl. Let me throw a story by you guys that it just, I don't know if I'm a sucker or if it's something

you just got to do as a parent. So to put in perspective, my daughter's seven, I've coached her girls' softball team when she was doing six-you, T-ball, the whole deal. My son is about to be five, so he starts his first season of T-ball. So much like most people listening to their parents, your weekends are spent gymnastics, dance, flag football, basketball, little league, everything. It's, with you, if you got little kids, you realize your life is not yours at all on the weekend. and you are just at the mercy of all this other crap. Have kids, they said.

Exactly. So I told my wife, I promise you, babe, I'm not going to get sucked in to coaching and managing. Kavino always mocks this. The manager is the person that runs a team. You got to carry the equipment. You run the schedule. You run the practices.

A coach is just like a parent could assisting coach and help out. Yeah, base coach. That's what I said. Ramos told you, ago just be a base coach. Oh, Ramos. I missed that advice from John Ramos. So I told my wife,

I promise you, since we have our son playing Little League on Saturdays and my daughter playing softball on Saturdays, I will not be a manager. I promise. I'm going to assistant coach, and I'm going to make sure I want to help my son and my daughter. You know, every dad's trying to go above and beyond. I know.

And I know you uphold all your promises to your wife. So I go to the girls softball little draft and their little assessment on Saturday and all the moms and the people that run the league did the whole well we wanted to have an extra team for girls

a you but well we're just short-handed if we can only get one more manager one other really generous willing parent don't tell me you did it and whatever parent that is let me tell you that we have assistant coaches and a great support staff You know, it's like, you know in cartoons where the person would turn into a big lollipop? Because they're a sucker.

That's exactly what they saw when they saw Rich. So, look at this guy. All these, like, all these rough moms that are like that, you know, these women are all business. They suckered the hell out of me. I am now managing. I'm now managing my daughter's team again. So I'm, I drafted a team. So I am now running another eight under girl.

softball team. But I said to him, I go, you know, my son also plays on Saturday. So I'm not going to, I have to let you know, there'll be times where I can't be here. And they're like, it's okay, you'll have your assistance. I call the Little League that my son's playing for. And I go, hey, you know, I said I was going to help you guys assisting coach. Do you know what time the games are? It's because I don't want the games. I want to know if they're going to conflict a lot with my daughter. So what time are the T-ball boys usually play? And they're going to. go, well, we're scramble with the schedule because one of the dads dropped out. We're looking for a dad to manage the boys' tee ball.

I'm like, well, what are you looking for? Well, what time is that? They go, well, the manager of the team could sort of dictate what time of the day. Oh, come on, you did not. Those games are played. I go, what? So if I take on a boys' tee ball team, you could assure me that those games would all be Saturday afternoon. They're like, well, yes, if you might be willing to do this? I go, if you tell me the games

are in the afternoon, I think we got a deal. So now I had to call my wife, who I promised that I would not manage my daughter's team. And now tell her that I'm not only managing my daughter's softball team every Saturday morning, I've made it so that Saturday afternoons is what my son's games are so that I am now doing all of that. But they won't be a conflict. So double suck. You're giving up your entire Saturday. Correct. To be a coach. Correct. But every dad or mom. This is like when Tom Brady refused to retire and went back to playing just so he could avoid his family because he hated them. I mean, I feel like, you know, I justify by saying my kids are only this age once. Sure. But I'm such an ass. I'm such a sucker for this. But what was I going to do?

spot? Sure, Rich. What was I going to do? You're also only this age once. Here, let's give it a whirl. Just go like this. No thank you. I can't, all you have to do. No thank you. I'm busy. No thank you. Dude, the parents listening, they know. They know the pressure. No thank you. They put on these parents. Love it. All right. Well, hey. You love the, you love it. Have a great Monday night. Coach Rich signing off. Ah, Aririma Darci, baby. See you in the promise land. Guys, it's us of the Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what?

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