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Man. I gotta be Hones.

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I was surprised when I saw this,

0:36

as I'm sure many people were, if

0:38

not most. But Oj Simpson

0:40

died today, seventy six

0:42

years old of cancer, and

0:47

obviously Rob OJ Simpson, it's

0:51

an understatement to say it's

0:54

complicated. You know, one

0:57

of the greatest running backs of all

0:59

time was

1:02

for the young people. Rob They don't

1:04

know and I get it, but

1:07

they may not understand how big

1:09

he was.

1:11

Right.

1:11

I'm not gonna say Lebron James because

1:15

I don't think he was as good as Lebron James

1:17

in this.

1:17

Sport, but he was at

1:19

the in the seventies.

1:22

O J.

1:22

Simpson was in

1:25

the conversation who's the best running

1:27

back of all time? It's either Oj or

1:30

Jim Brown. OJ was

1:32

in all the commercials and was.

1:35

A crossover god like crossover.

1:37

Oh, he went out of his way to crossover.

1:40

No, there's no doubt to where he

1:42

was. Go ahead, I'm

1:44

not to where he

1:47

he was. A famous quote that

1:49

he wasn't black, he was OJ. Is that what it

1:51

was?

1:52

I think there was something in his Brentwood,

1:54

California neighborhood. Yeah,

1:58

I don't remember the context when somebody said,

2:01

I know there was a quote where he said during

2:05

the time of his trial or whatever, when

2:07

blacks were out in Brentwood trying to support him,

2:10

he said something like, where are these in woods?

2:12

In words? What they doing out

2:15

here? Or something like that.

2:16

Crazy.

2:17

But yeah, I mean I think I

2:19

remember this stuff from his documentary.

2:21

I don't know exactly, but O

2:23

J.

2:24

Yeah, he I mean, I remember

2:27

Rob when he did he did Monday Night

2:29

Football? Right, Was he the first African

2:31

American and commentator on

2:33

Monday night Football?

2:34

He might have been. And I think Kelly did it

2:36

for a year or two.

2:37

I think he did more than a year because

2:39

I think at first he came

2:42

back he did it, and

2:45

then he purposely took the base

2:47

out of his voice when

2:50

he came back so he could sound more white.

2:52

I mean, you remember that, Rob,

2:55

remember that he wanted to sound

2:57

more white.

2:57

And but I'll be

3:00

beyond all that.

3:03

You know, he Uh,

3:06

in most people's eyes, murdered.

3:10

Two people, including his ex

3:12

wife. And Uh.

3:14

The question, I mean, the question

3:16

we have up here, Rob, is can

3:19

you separate O. J.

3:20

Simpson from these

3:22

murders? You know, whether

3:25

you think he did them or not.

3:27

And

3:29

the answer to me is a clear

3:31

cut no.

3:32

I mean when you think of O. J.

3:34

Simpson, that is

3:36

what's going to come to mind, regardless

3:40

of what side you stand on. And

3:44

yeah, I mean I remember Rob

3:47

where you know, it's one of those things when

3:50

the white Bronco that

3:52

he was in and his friend

3:55

AJ Cowling's I think was the name, former

3:57

player teammate of his, was.

3:59

Driving in the white Ford Broncos.

4:04

With the Astles, with the rockets and the

4:06

Knicks, and I had

4:08

a double box, Chris during

4:11

the NBA finals, there was a double box. There

4:13

was a game, and and

4:15

and O j Uh and al Cally.

4:18

He was an absolute again

4:21

legend.

4:22

And I

4:25

remember I was covering high school sports

4:27

in Cleveland at the time, and

4:29

just and I and robh at least the people I talked

4:31

to, and these were white people.

4:35

Most people thought he didn't.

4:37

You know, Initially, when he was first

4:39

made a suspect, people were like, no

4:41

way, you know, it was just kind of like, Okay, they're

4:44

just doing their due diligence and

4:46

all of that. And then

4:48

it became an incredibly

4:50

polarizing trial, uh

4:53

that to some degree, to some degree was

4:55

split along racial lines to

4:57

some degree. I don't want to say completely,

5:00

but I don't think you

5:02

can separate him rop at all from this.

5:05

No. And you know, you say it's

5:07

complicated, I don't know how complicated

5:09

it is, Chris. I just

5:11

think that when you're involved in

5:15

a case like that,

5:18

that's what you're remembered for that, no

5:20

matter what he was, And I've said this all the time

5:23

he was acquitted, people don't want to

5:25

hear it. I'm not saying I'm not naive, Chris.

5:28

Do I think he was involved in this? Did

5:31

he lose the civil Yeah? Yeah,

5:33

but that's easy.

5:36

It's easier right

5:38

right.

5:39

Right in the criminals. Yeah,

5:42

it's beyond reasonable doubt and civil

5:44

you don't have to hit those kind

5:46

of market exactly.

5:49

So I just think young

5:53

old when you think of O Jay. It

5:55

ain't about his college

5:57

career, and ain't about the Hurts commercials

5:59

running through the airport. It ain't

6:01

about two thousand yards and rushing for the

6:03

Buffalo Bills. It's

6:06

just not. It's always going

6:08

to be an And

6:11

that's why I think there were people today Chris

6:13

on Twitter, right, was

6:15

it magic as well?

6:18

Toddle and

6:21

Magic John.

6:21

They got an enormous pushback

6:23

from people.

6:24

Yeah, go ahead, Rob you and explain what happened

6:26

on you.

6:26

Yeah.

6:27

So they both were two of the very

6:29

small minority of public figures to

6:31

put anything even close to condolences

6:33

to OJ Simpson. Let's start off Todd

6:35

Gurley number one. His tweet out

6:38

that was put out this morning says,

6:41

rip to the legendary O. J. Simpson, your

6:43

favorite running Back's favorite running back. Appreciate

6:45

you, Uncle low juice. You'll be missed. Thanks

6:48

for the past year being on it is what it is that

6:50

podcast, Heisman number one

6:52

pick NFL MVP, first

6:54

ever two thousand yard rusher, let alone to do

6:56

it in fourteen games. The list goes on and on, praying

6:59

hands. Todd

7:01

Gurley turned off all replies

7:03

to his tweet. That's how bad things got Okay,

7:06

Magic Johnson, that was a pretty

7:08

Yeah it was. It was favorable.

7:11

But this, you know, you know what you can't do in

7:13

life, Chris, even

7:16

in time of death. You can't

7:18

just keep praise on people

7:21

when other things are involved in there.

7:23

It's like an obituary, like you

7:25

know, you go to the New York Times obituary

7:27

Chris OJ Simpson,

7:30

who was acquitted in a world.

7:32

Famous double Right, that's what they

7:34

say, first O J.

7:35

Simpson, Rob G Kama who

7:38

who was acquitted in a famous double

7:41

murder case with involving his

7:43

ex wife and another person. Whatever,

7:45

was a great NFL running back like

7:47

that, The murder comes first,

7:50

Yeah, ain't nowhay around it.

7:53

Well, then listen to this one, Magic Johnson.

7:55

Now this might be the most innocuous

7:57

tweet possible, and he still found a way to

7:59

get roasted. Magic Johnson on Twitter.

8:02

Cookie and I are praying for OJ Simpson's

8:04

children are now Aaron, Justin, Jason

8:06

and Sidney and his grandchildren

8:08

following his passing. I know this is

8:10

a very difficult time. Let me just

8:12

read you some of the comments from this tweet.

8:15

Yeah, a difficult time for the staff in hell

8:17

arranging his arrival you're

8:20

kidding, right, Hell just got a top draft

8:22

pick. Ain't no prayers needed?

8:26

Yeah, I mean, look, Magic's tweet

8:29

wasn't even about OJ. I mean, it was about

8:31

his family. There's nothing wrong with Magic's

8:34

tweet. I mean, I hear obviously

8:36

people you know, many,

8:38

if not most, people think he did commit

8:41

these murders. And I

8:43

get people being upset and all the Magic's

8:45

tweet. That doesn't make OJ's

8:48

children and survivors

8:51

guilty of anything, And

8:54

so I have no problem with Magic's tweet.

8:56

Todd Gurlies is just straight naive.

8:59

I mean, And how old is was Todd

9:01

Gurley? I mean he

9:03

he was probably a toddler

9:06

when all this happened.

9:08

I agree, that's not necessarily Yeah,

9:10

he's he didn't see that's not them.

9:13

But you know that he obviously,

9:16

I mean, it's just naive. And I

9:19

under you know you're gonna get pushed

9:21

back on that. I mean, he acted like

9:23

nothing ever, nothing else happened.

9:25

It was just like a football career, like a

9:27

great football player.

9:28

Just gotta be like I said, Chris, you tell the whole

9:30

story. We talk about it all the time in

9:33

life.

9:34

You gotta tell the whole story. The good the bad

9:36

being different.

9:37

Tom Brady and his obituary, Chris,

9:40

they'll talk about the flake Gate,

9:42

they'll talk you know what I mean, Like that'll be lower,

9:44

it'll be much right. But I'm just saying, but it'll

9:47

be in there. It's all I'm saying. Everything

9:49

you do, but that'll be low.

9:51

But this is when I'm

9:53

gone, it's gonna be you know. R

9:56

G three is gonna be in my obituary.

9:58

I'm just saying, you know what I mean. No, it didn't

10:01

No, Mike, it will be in there. What do you mean?

10:03

It will be in there. I'm just saying, everything

10:05

you do, and there'll be a lot of good

10:08

stuff, which I'll be happy about.

10:09

Like I work with you for you're happy about

10:11

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That's why you that's why you're in a bad mood because

11:38

now, what about Tom.

11:39

Brady saying he might not

11:42

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11:43

Why rob On deep

11:45

cuts the social media podcast

11:49

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11:52

and check out this conversation route one

11:55

day. It is a situation, right, Maybe it's

11:57

the forty nine ers, Maybe you know, head.

11:58

In to the playoffs offenses, right, Patriots,

12:01

somebody, somebody you

12:03

never know, Scott forbid, somebody goes down, would

12:06

you pick up that phone?

12:07

I'm not opposed to it.

12:08

If they would.

12:09

I don't know if they're gonna let me if I become an owner in the

12:11

NFL team, but I don't know.

12:13

If I don't know, I'm always going

12:15

to be a good ship.

12:15

I always be able to throw the ball, so to

12:17

come in for a little bit like MJ coming back.

12:20

I don't know if they let me, but I wouldn't be opposed

12:22

to it.

12:23

Wow, rob your thoughts?

12:25

Uh?

12:26

He isms sugar, Huh. He is so crazy

12:29

and so pathetic and here

12:31

he is on the cusp. Yeah, I'm calling him

12:33

pathetic. Wow, he's on the cusp because

12:36

he's a fifty years old talking

12:38

about sil close

12:41

to it, about still coming back and playing

12:43

and jumping in on some team

12:46

that has a chance and I still can throw the ball

12:48

well and all that forty he's about to he's

12:50

about to embark on on a TV career

12:53

making thirty seven and a half million dollars

12:55

a year.

12:56

Uh.

12:56

His family broke up, and I'm not saying it

12:58

was all over football.

12:59

I was.

13:00

There's other issues there too, and

13:02

he can't let it go. I just I feel

13:04

bad for people can't let it go in life

13:08

because it just feels

13:10

like, Uh, at some point,

13:13

Chris, it's

13:15

it's it's okay two

13:21

to look at your accomplishments, feel

13:23

good about him, and move on. Because

13:25

what people don't look at And I know Tom Brady

13:28

doesn't think about it like this, and a lot of people don't

13:31

that you stop other people from having Uh.

13:34

The longer you hang around, you

13:36

stop other people from from allowing

13:38

those guys to have their dreams

13:40

and have their opportunities. Guys stick around

13:43

too long, and I just think that

13:45

that's the shame of it, is that he hasn't

13:47

been fulfilled. Or he needs to

13:49

have his neck broken, or he needs to have his

13:51

legs snapped in two, or he needs

13:54

to play awful. Uh you

13:56

know what I mean, where they rip the uniform off

13:58

of him. For him to be done, I

14:00

just

14:01

boy, it's just to me,

14:04

absolutely pathetic and nonsensical.

14:09

I totally disagree. I totally

14:12

disagree. First of all, he's forty six, not fifty.

14:15

And he's still.

14:18

In life a fairly young

14:21

man. And I

14:23

think rob.

14:25

That the.

14:28

Kind of the what's

14:30

the word I'm looking at, I guess standard or

14:33

whatever.

14:34

I think that it's changed, and I don't

14:36

know what.

14:36

He can go out there and do I know, the last time

14:38

we saw him play, he was actually good through

14:40

for forty seven hundred yards through

14:42

for twenty five touchdowns, nine interceptions.

14:45

They made the playoffs. Not a very good team, but they

14:47

made the playoffs.

14:48

And I think now

14:52

guys are just saying, you know what, he looked

14:54

at Joe Flacco, who granted was thirty nine,

14:57

but I've always

14:59

been better than and Joe Flacco. I

15:01

can go out there and do that.

15:04

And I also think that.

15:07

People are even Brady, who burst

15:09

through the door of conventional

15:12

wisdom, if you will, by playing until he

15:14

was forty five. Even

15:16

he though, I think, was like a

15:19

bit bound by conventional wisdom

15:21

because it was like, I'm forty five, you know,

15:24

I'm old, I need to I'm done,

15:26

when.

15:27

Actually he had actually had a pretty good year.

15:30

I think maybe, maybe, is it possible

15:32

that Lebron James seeing him play, even

15:35

though he's younger than Brady. I'm sure Lebron was

15:37

inspired by Brady playing at such a long

15:39

age or old age. Is

15:42

he looking at Lebron saying, man, he's still

15:44

doing it athletically.

15:47

Maybe I can keep playing.

15:49

Maybe guys are playing, we all are playing longer

15:51

now. But bottom line is,

15:53

I got no issue with it. I do

15:56

think this though, Rob. I think he's

15:58

all but begging to get back in the league.

16:00

Like he clearly seems like he clearly

16:02

wants to play. Because Tom

16:05

Brady is not stupid. He

16:07

understands that when

16:09

I say this, he knows

16:12

what's gonna happen.

16:12

It's going to become a huge

16:15

story.

16:15

He even throws out teams,

16:18

the Raiders and the Patriots

16:20

who happen to need quarterbacks

16:23

and everybody. A lot of people Rob are

16:25

taking this like he maybe would

16:27

come back for the last few games of a regular

16:29

season with a team that might,

16:32

you know, be able to make the

16:34

playoffs, and he can help him make a run.

16:37

I think he's

16:39

thinking more like coming back for the whole

16:41

season, because the Raiders

16:43

and the Patriots aren't likely to make

16:45

runs without

16:48

a quarterback like a Tom Brady the way they

16:50

are right now. So I

16:52

think he wants to play more.

16:55

Power to him if he can give

16:58

him a defense, an O line,

17:01

a run game, some weapons.

17:03

He needs all that.

17:04

He needs all that because he's not what he used to be, obviously,

17:07

but why not? And

17:09

and the stuff about taking opportunities, I mean, come

17:11

on, man, this is life.

17:13

Everybody take an opportunity.

17:14

That's that's it's a it's capitalism, it's

17:16

a it's a competitive society.

17:19

That's in everything.

17:20

You get mad at the sportswriter or the broadcaster

17:23

who works till he's seventy five or

17:25

eight.

17:27

Why they can do that? You can do what you want

17:29

to do. Of course you can't, right

17:34

and tell them there, but

17:36

there is a.

17:37

Time that people should step

17:39

down. You don't need to be fired and thrown

17:41

out. You don't need to be fired and thrown

17:44

out. Vince Scully was still doing the

17:46

Dodgers and sounded great, and he still

17:48

stepped down because he realized, let

17:50

me let another step

17:52

down.

17:53

Wasn't ready to just retire, No, was

17:55

he ready to.

17:56

Just still done? Ernie

17:58

Hall will sounding great when and it's

18:00

almost eighty years old, Bob

18:02

Youucker's still doing Brewers games. He's

18:04

eighty five years old. Don't

18:07

go home, go home.

18:10

I'm dead serious, Tom Brady, go

18:12

home.

18:13

They won the world.

18:14

Spend time with your kids. It's

18:16

ridiculous forty six

18:18

years old to play football. It's just it's

18:21

it's being self centered as

18:23

being the world's gonna be about you.

18:26

No, it's not. Chris is bigger than that,

18:29

naive. It ain't about being playing. I'm

18:32

simply saying he needs

18:34

the spotlight to feel good about himself.

18:36

He's got some deficiencies in life

18:39

that he's not satisfied unless he's

18:41

the center of attention. That's what this

18:43

is about. It ain't about football.

18:46

You sound awfully self righteous right now.

18:49

He's got some deficiencies in his life because

18:51

he wants to play football. Does Lebron

18:54

have deficiencies and he's his life because

18:56

he's still playing basketball at thirty nine,

18:58

Well, because he's changed on forty.

19:01

He ain't forty six trying to still chase

19:03

Michael Jordans. I'll

19:07

say the same thing about it.

19:08

If you can do it if you're still good enough,

19:11

why not? Who

19:13

are you to tell an individual. I'm

19:16

giving my opinion. I'm not telling to

19:19

my opinionary my opinion.

19:22

What about talking to

19:24

Tom Brady, I'm talking to you and

19:26

the listeners. Chris, that's what this

19:28

is. A talk show. We're talking about

19:31

it. This is how I feel about it. You don't

19:33

have to agree me how you feel now

19:36

you're telling me.

19:37

Yeah, because if I came to say you got a

19:40

deficiency because you're sixty years

19:42

old and still doing a talk show, why

19:44

don't you give a twenty five year old a chance.

19:46

That wouldn't be fair. I am, you're doing what

19:48

you want to do. You're

19:50

doing what you want to do.

19:52

If you want to do it at seventy and you're still

19:54

good, so bid when

19:56

I step down, and it won't I doubt

19:59

I'll be seventy. It won't be

20:01

because I can't do it. It'll be

20:03

because I'm ready to move on to the next stage

20:05

of my life. But everybody

20:08

doesn't have to. It's not it doesn't have to be do

20:10

it until the wheels fall off. I

20:13

mean, if a guy wants to do Vince Gully,

20:15

I mean, maybe he just wanted to step down. I doubt

20:17

it was like, let me give the next guy

20:19

a chance. I

20:21

mean that you talk about naive, that's

20:24

naive.

20:25

It ain't. I'm telling you that there are people

20:27

who have a sickness about celebrity

20:30

or being the center of attention, and they

20:32

can't let it go. They can have

20:35

a great run, do everything.

20:37

Mike Francesca was on the radio in New York

20:40

for almost forty years. The dude

20:42

retired, they gave him the greatest going

20:44

away party and send

20:46

off Chris you could have in broadcasting, and

20:49

the guy couldn't stay home for nine

20:51

months, came back was a

20:53

flop and that's the way he left

20:55

the radio. Bit do with this because

20:57

it's ego, because it was ego,

21:00

It has nothing to do with.

21:01

I think it's

21:03

a love for football. And I'm not saying he doesn't.

21:05

Tom Brady doesn't have an ego. A lot of people have egos.

21:09

But I think this is more

21:11

about I love playing football.

21:13

He's gonna be in.

21:14

The spot like if he doesn't play football, he's

21:16

gonna be paid almost forty million dollars

21:18

a year to broadcast games.

21:20

He's not gonna be lacking for attention.

21:25

I doubt.

21:26

All the work you have to put in to prepare

21:28

for an NFL season and the chance

21:30

that you might get your block knocked off

21:33

is just about ego. It's

21:36

about him wanting to play. Now we'll

21:38

see is he still ain't good? I mean, maybe

21:40

we'll see if anybody takes him up on this.

21:42

I'm just saying, if the guy wants

21:45

to play and he's still good

21:47

enough, then he can play.

21:50

It's not about age, if you're good enough,

21:54

and so last time we saw him he's

21:56

still played fairly well, pretty good.

21:59

But it'll be a I don't know if anything will

22:01

come of this.

22:02

I think it's interesting what he said about

22:05

the Patriots. Rob Remember he played with Gerib

22:07

Mayo. Mention of Raiders,

22:09

he played with Antonio Pierce. So

22:12

I wouldn't be surprised if conversations

22:14

have already taken place, not that anything's

22:17

in in place, but just saying,

22:19

hey, man, you know they need quarterbacks.

22:21

What do you guys think? Something like that.

22:23

But it'll be interesting to

22:26

see if anything comes of this, but he certainly put

22:28

it out there.

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Rob Detroit

22:43

Lions quarterback Jared

22:45

Goff had this to

22:48

say about the Detroit media.

22:51

I probably need to drop it pretty soon here because I'm gonna hopefully

22:53

be in Detroit for a long time. But I have this thing

22:56

with our local media where like they they

22:58

almost like relish in in

23:00

negativity at times, and

23:02

maybe that's what gets clicks and that's what sells.

23:04

It's no longer what they

23:06

need to live in. Like, hey, guys,

23:08

like we have a good team, we've had success, Like

23:11

we can be happy about that, we can celebrate

23:13

that and not have to write about how like we're

23:16

constantly the underdog, Like no, like teams

23:18

are gonna be gunning them for us now, like we won the division

23:21

and all that. And I'm probably overthinking

23:23

in my head just because it's the chip on

23:25

my shoulder and the

23:27

the competitor in me. But in that moment, I

23:29

was just giving that guy a hard time. I actually really like it.

23:33

Play football. Don't worry about

23:35

what the media is doing. That's

23:38

your issue. Let

23:40

them cover the stories. We've

23:42

been to J school. We know what a good story

23:45

is. We know when to praise teams.

23:47

We know when to dig deep and

23:50

try to figure out why teams are bad. I

23:54

told Steve the Sega earlier, Jared

23:57

Goff, you've never read a

23:59

story about every plane landing safely

24:01

at Metro Airport in Detroit, cause

24:03

that ain't news. And

24:07

when people have to write about stuff, my

24:09

god, worry

24:12

about what you can control. Stop

24:14

trying to control the narrative.

24:17

And everybody's supposed to be Homers

24:19

and raw Rod Alliance. Guess what.

24:22

You guys blew a big lead in San Francisco

24:25

and didn't make the Super Bowl? Are you

24:27

supposed Are they supposed to celebrate that or

24:29

dissect what happened in the second

24:31

half why they didn't make a trip to the

24:34

super Bowl, or overlook

24:36

coaching mistakes or bad plays

24:39

on your part. I don't know what you want.

24:42

I've had plenty of players. Oh yeah, you

24:44

have never made it to the NFL. And guess

24:46

what, You've never written a column

24:49

for a major daily either. I

24:51

don't know what you do and you don't know

24:53

what I do. How's that?

24:57

Wow? You're right?

24:59

Yeah, I'm good.

25:02

I don't know what he's referring to.

25:04

I mean, it was I don't

25:06

know if he's talking about guys,

25:08

you know, having an at least in his opinion

25:12

and attitude of Robi was a phrase.

25:15

Sol same old Lions.

25:17

I don't know if he's felt like they

25:19

should have been praised for going as far

25:22

as they did to the NFC Championship

25:24

game, but maybe

25:27

he saw negative columns about how they

25:29

did blow that huge lead, how

25:31

Dan Campbell made some mistakes.

25:35

I don't know. It's hard

25:37

for me to comment on it. But

25:39

and Jared, though, I'll

25:42

say this to Jared.

25:44

Rob was a columnist in Detroit,

25:46

and we know Rob's model.

25:49

His fuck writing.

25:50

I'm ripping you.

25:52

Guys could probably guess that from the show.

25:55

But Rob would turn on the homrism

25:57

too stop when he

26:00

sins one in two thousand and four, upsetting

26:02

the Lakers crush.

26:03

That was no bigger cheerleader.

26:07

Stop.

26:08

He came to the arena with pom

26:10

poms on and bells

26:13

on his shoes. He

26:15

had everything but a too too on. I

26:18

thought he was gonna dance and halftime.

26:20

Now,

26:24

I don't know what Jared I mean.

26:25

He even laughed Robbie saying, I'm kind of talking

26:27

tongue in cheek. I was messing with the guy. My

26:30

guess is that he probably

26:32

you know, I don't know.

26:33

I mean, maybe you know what, but I think

26:35

he just was kind of talking about

26:37

rass In one of the local columnists.

26:40

You know what I tell people athletes when

26:42

they come to Detroit, young guys, Chris, when they when

26:44

I was a columnist there, Seriously, I

26:46

would just tell him, this is not for you.

26:49

I'm just I'm gonna be This is for the fans.

26:52

The sports talk radios for the fans, the

26:54

newspapers for the fans.

26:56

It just is.

26:57

And if you you take everything that you hear

27:00

personally, you're gonna have your feelings hurt. You

27:03

just are because

27:05

you unless you're winning the Super Bowl every year,

27:07

Chris, you're gonna get criticized, am I

27:09

right? Like like that's the only people who normally

27:12

don't get criticized. And there still

27:14

could be a little bit, but you know what I mean, You're the one

27:16

who wound up winning the championship

27:18

and people are gonna pray you to the high heaven.

27:21

So most people in the

27:23

business are criticized. That's

27:25

all and and and don't get

27:28

caught up in it. It really is just for the

27:30

fans. And uh,

27:32

that's the advice I give young young

27:34

uh athletes when I when

27:36

they come to a town that I'm working in.

27:39

Yeah, and I think that athletes, I

27:42

would say, they need to understand

27:44

what type of person they are, because

27:47

some athletes Rob Ala, Michael

27:49

Jordan, Uh, there have been

27:51

others. I think Tom Brady

27:54

maybe may have been in this category.

27:56

Rob where if they take.

27:58

The criticism and use it this fuel

28:01

like it really motivates. Then we know Jordan

28:03

actually leaked at

28:05

least one time a falsehood just to

28:07

get himself motivated. Right, And

28:11

so if you're that type of person,

28:13

then by all means read everything

28:16

right. If you're the type of guy

28:18

that it would get in your head bother

28:20

your performance, you know, and you got

28:23

all these voices in your hand. Now they think I can't

28:25

play and you can't concentrate and focus

28:27

and it actually does take away from

28:30

your game, then don't read.

28:31

It, avoid it, you know. So I

28:33

think Chris he is to know what type of person you are.

28:36

Roight, You've had issues with players

28:38

when you were a beat writer writing, you know, you got to

28:40

report stuff that not happy

28:42

with with the story or the headline or whatever

28:45

it is. And belly

28:47

aching about it isn't going to stop you from doing

28:49

your job, because if you don't do it, Chris,

28:51

guess what the New York Times will get

28:54

somebody else. That's just how it is. You got

28:56

a job to do.

28:57

I just always tried when I was writing

28:59

rob and even now, just to be objective.

29:02

You know, I didn't want to if i'm I

29:05

would not.

29:06

Even if a player didn't

29:08

like me, or if I had an issue with him

29:10

for whatever reason, I would

29:12

still try to write just based on his

29:15

performance.

29:16

I wouldn't oh, oh he don't like me, all

29:19

right, we'll stick it to him.

29:20

I agree, right, No,

29:23

I wouldn't do that, and even now

29:25

I don't. I try to not make it personal

29:28

and just say my opinion, but be you

29:30

know, be fair about it and truthful.

29:33

But we're in the opinion business, Robin. Sometimes

29:35

guys might not.

29:36

Like your opinion, but everybody

29:38

has a right to it, and we always say, right, we're

29:40

not doing anything at least on this show in radio.

29:44

We're doing the same thing that they're

29:46

all doing in the barbershop, ye you

29:48

know, and it's just now we

29:50

have to answer for it. Though you can say

29:53

anything you want in the barbershop and I have to answer

29:55

for it.

29:55

We do