B (3:06)

Okay, I'm going to agree with you right down the line. I'm gonna hold up all my notes. If people can see them, they'll see exactly what I've written. Before I say it. Jacksonville had the most impressive win. They've won, I think, seven in a row now and eight out of nine. And Trevor Lawrence, who you loved coming out of college and I liked a lot coming out of college, he had been somewhat of an underachiever. He's not an underachiever lately. He's closing like a great horse. In his last four games, he has 14 touchdowns running and passing and no interceptions. So I give you that. Pittsburgh, I agree, is the most important win because they have turned their season around. They now look like they're going to win that division. This started when people in the stands hollered out, fire Tomlin. And the response was they won three games in a row. Aaron Rodgers looks like Aaron Rodgers at the moment. And please don't tell me that that was not offensive pass interference. It was. He used two hands. I went. Ross St. Brown used two hands to push off.

A (4:03)

That's right.

B (4:04)

Now the Patriots, the Patriots have a good win on the road in Baltimore. Baltimore is not as good as we thought, but they're now 7 and O on the road. The Patriots, you know, and Carolina did what it had to do. But Carolina does not clinch a division, Mike.

A (4:18)

Not two weeks down the road.

B (4:20)

They got to do it again in Tampa Bay. So they just kicked the can down the road. So I agree with you. Well, stay with me talking to you. I will, but let's not keep you waiting any longer. Let's get to the Chicago Bears huge win at home on Saturday night in overtime over the hated Green Bay Packers. You were there. You haven't slept since then. You're so happy. Take us through. How did it feel and what does it mean?

A (4:43)

Tony, you know, I've been going to sporting events in Chicago, including playoff events and championships and ones where they skate the Stanley cup out. I. I've seen all of that with my teams all my life, luckily, 60 plus years. This was as joyous as anything I have ever attended in Chicago. That didn't include a guy wearing 23 in white. It Was that joyous because it was beating the packers and the packers, as Aaron Rodgers reminded us a couple of times in his late years there, he and they owned us. And you get tired of it. You get tired of the people up north coming down and just beating the Bears. And the Bears owned the rivalry at one point, but that was the 80s and the 90s. The packers have owned it. And to win the game that way, Tony, it was impossible to win the game. The game was over. To even recover an onsized kick, which they say is an 8% chance. At one point the bears had a 5, 100% of a chance to win the game according to whatever stupid metrics are out there. But I just sat there thinking, this is done. I'm angry. The loser of this game could really miss the playoffs. But to win the game with Caleb Williams throwing those two passes, one to get us into overtime, one to win the game to DJ Moore, it's stunning. It's one of the stunning games in a city that is used to to big sporting events. It still ranks way up there.

B (6:16)

I'm going to give a couple of numbers here because I think they're important for context. This is the first time since 2018 that the Bears beat the packers in Chicago. It's a long time. And that's why Aaron Rodgers said, I own you. Over the last 17 seasons, okay? The Bears have only won six of these games wherever they've been played. You know, 29 and 6, 35 games. So it's a huge win. I know you sat with your boy Richard Dent and you sat with the mayor of Chicago and you hugged the owner of the Bears. And it just seems to me. Who did you, who did you hug? You hugged the President, right? Yeah. The soon to be Indiana Bears, as we like to call them in my house. So here's what I need. Cause I'm happy for you. I'm happy for you. The Bears this year have won six games now when they've trailed in the last two minutes. That's the most any team has won under those conditions since the merger. That's over 50 years. So I think you should do a Super bowl video. You and Denz and Otis Wilson and Tommy Waddle. You should do a Super bowl because this is the dream of your life. This is the dream of your life.

A (7:26)

It is. It is a joyous fall. Stressful. Cause every game comes down to something crazy like Saturday night. But how can you complain? It's also magical. It is. And you don't use that term in a Big city, you know, but we're acting like little kids in Chicago right now.

B (7:44)

No, I mean, you know, I'm happy for you. Can I just remind. I want to remind you of one thing.

A (7:49)

What's that?

B (7:49)

The beginning of the year. You were afraid they'd go 05.

A (7:52)

Yes.

B (7:52)

You're 11 and 4. They didn't go, did they?

A (7:55)

At 02 with a 52 to 17 loss? Is that what the Detroit loss at 02, having lost 52 to 17. I was terrified. Yes. Yes, I admit it now. I'm overjoyed. Let's move to the opening round of the results from the College Football playoff. Alabama trailed 17 nothing on Friday night before bouncing back to beat Oklahoma by 10. In Saturday's games, Miami snuck past Texas A and M. Ole Miss crushed Tulane and Oregon beat James Madison, though not as soundly as Ducks coach Dan Lanning apparently would have liked. Tone, which playoff opener stood out to you?

B (8:38)

If I'm going to be honest, because I watched them all. If I'm going to be honest, the one that stood out the most to me was Miami and Texas A and M. Because it was so terrible for so long, for 57 minutes. It was. It was torture. It was brutal. There was no offense. It was three nothing with eight minutes to go. It was three three after 57 minutes. Now, the last two and a half to three minutes were spectacular. Unbelievably exciting. You're at the edge of your seat, unless you had fallen asleep because the game was so terrible before that. These are good teams. Miami and A and M are good teams. I'm not going to knock it. And yes, I know they beat Notre Dame in August by three points and one point, but if I played for Notre Dame or I rooted for Notre Dame and I had to watch this thing, I would say, come on, we'll play them both tonight. We'll play them both tonight. We'll beat them both. And I want to say this overall thing, and you can explain why you and I have a disagreement over this about the College Football Playoff at the moment. God bless Tulane and God bless James Madison, but I don't think they belong in this tournament. I don't think it's a charity tournament for the gang of five teams. I think it's only 12 teams, and I think you get the best 12 in the country. And I think Texas and Notre Dame should have been in there and not these other schools. I think I'm in the minority. So I know you disagree with that, but that's how I feel.

A (10:03)

Yeah, you don't call the NCAA men's basketball tournament charity when one of your favorite schools beats up on some little school. 64 teams, 63. You don't call that shared. I don't care how many teams it's. The attempt to be national. March Madness is huge. What college football has attempted to do after years of being stupid and obstinate was essentially copy the NCAA men's basketball tournament, even though football is going to get greater viewership. So that's what they're doing in Congress. God help me for even resorting to Congress. They're going to be forces in this country that don't just say, give us the biggest schools and. And we'll just take a pile on the small schools, a group of five that don't have the same resources, and the big schools refuse to play. So that's that for me, and that's the way it's going to stay. Luckily, more people feel like me. The game that mattered was Alabama being down by 17 because you could already hear in the airport the announcement will coach the war. Please report to the airline. The flight headed for Detroit is leaving in about an hour because if they continue to lose that game like that, it would have been a mess.

B (11:20)

Congratulations to Alabama and Miami for winning on the road last year. The home teams went down 140 in this particular round. And I should also say, I don't know how you feel about this. Maybe you consider Oregon a Big Ten team. I look at A and M and I look at Oklahoma. I don't really think of them as SEC teams. I think of them as Southwest Conference teams or Big Eight teams. I just don't. I just don't. Let's take a break. Same here. Coming up, the Chargers and the Texans both win again. Which team should feel better heading into Saturday's matchup?

A (11:54)

And what should happen to DK Metcalf after he took what looks like a swipe at a fan, whatever that was.

B (12:01)

By the way, the three leading candidates for coach of the year, Jacksonville, New England and the Bears. They all won. They all won this weekend.

C (12:10)

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B (14:26)

Time to find out what's nagging the naughty animals. Nice and mail time. Let's see what's first. I'll put on my glasses. Should the should the Chargers or Texans feel better about themselves heading into Saturday's matchup?

A (14:39)

Well, Tony, you know, this is interesting because neither one of them beat a world beater. They remained hot by doing what good teams really do most of the year. If you're going to be good, beat the bad teams, beat the teams you're supposed to. I was less impressed with Houston narrowly eking out victory over Pete Carroll and his Raiders, a little bit more impressed with the charges scoring a bunch of points against the Cowboys. Although everybody scores bunches of points against the Cowboys. So I think they they they did what they're supposed to do. I don't want to see these two as feisty as they've been. Charges have won four straight, seven out of eight. Houston's won eight out of nine and seven straight. I don't want to see them face each other in like some first round game. I'd like to see them maybe, you know, go against the heavyweight, each one of them and if they advance, meet and play each other in that next round. But they give the AFC a little more depth right now than it appears to have had.

B (15:41)

So who are you picking? Who are you picking? The Chargers. Saying the Chargers should feel better. I'm going to. I'm going to go the other way.

A (15:48)

Yeah.

B (15:48)

I'm going to say that Houston should feel better precisely because of what you said, because they almost gave one away yesterday. They were at home and they won a two point game against the Raiders, who have the worst record in the league. I think they'll probably spend this entire week atoning for that bad performance and be totally jacked up when they go to the to play the Chargers. The game is in L. A. I think that also benefits Houston because the cliche is that defense travels. Houston has the best defense in the league in terms of points allowed, 16.6 a game. The tale of the tape for boxing fans is very similar. The Chargers are 11 and three or 11 and four. 11 and four. And the Texans are 10 and five. As you said before, the Chargers have won seven out of eight. The Texans have won seven in a row and eight out of nine. This is, this is the AFC right now. It's up in the air. It's a jumble of teams. And these two teams in particular, unlike New England and unlike Buffalo, these two teams have been under the radar the entire season.

A (16:51)

Look as good as Buffalo.

B (16:53)

Right now, though, how should the NFL punish DK Metcalf for taking a swipe at a fan?

A (17:00)

Well, we know now that the NFL has suspended Metcalf two games and he says he's going to appeal. I don't know. I mean, there wasn't a punch that was landed. This doesn't look good. A swipe. I don't know. I mean, sometimes it's okay to say, I don't know. I guess the NFL. I don't know how much they could have investigated between that point and this morning or this afternoon when they announced this penalty. It just, it, it's, it's irritating, Tony. I'm sure to a league to have as many spectacular things as went on this weekend to have to even deal with this. And Metcalf seems like he's been in the middle of stuff before. I just don't know. I'm not rubber stamping this. I need to know what was said. I don't know what was said. And if there's more video. Let me see that too.

B (17:47)

Yeah. So I thought that a one game suspension would be adequate. Metcalf will appeal this suspension of two games and may very well get it knocked down to one game. I don't think he's going to get it knocked out. Just maybe knocked down to one. You say you need more evidence. The evidence, you know, it's not like Dusty Baker looking at the cork bat and saying, we have to wait till we gather all the evidence. All the evidence is gathered. CBS deliberately showed this. He took a swipe at a fan. They showed it. Everybody has seen this. I don't know what the relationship of these two men are. Some people say that this has been going on in other games. I don't know if that's true. I don't know what was said. I'm pretty sure of this, Mike. I'm confident this. A player can't do this. Can't take a swipe like that. You got to walk away. You just can't do it. If they get. If it goes down to one game, that's Cleveland game and he goes back into the lineup against Baltimore, which is probably more important. Enough email. Let's take one last break. Still to come, Philip Rivers takes the field again tonight, this time facing the.

A (18:49)

49Ers and the Sauks and the Sox both made acquisitions. Which one, red or white? It's more impressive.

B (19:00)

You just can't. You can't swing at somebody or do that. You're a player. Don't do it. Walk away. You gotta walk on that. You gotta walk.

C (19:10)

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B (20:37)

Happy time, people. Happy 81st birthday. Steve Carlton the Hall of Fame lefty won the Cy Young Award four different times for the Philadelphia Phillies and five times led the National League in strikeouts around the time Tom Seaver and Ferguson Jenkins were pitching. Carlton was on two World Series winners in 1967 with the Cardinals, 1980 in Philadelphia, where he pitched for 15 of his 24 big league seasons. In 1972, Carlton had what might be the greatest season ever for a pitcher. He went 2710 with a 197 ERA, 30 complete games and eight shutouts. Carlton led the National League in wins, ERA, innings pitched, 346 and strikeouts, 310. All this pitching for a Phillies team that went 59 and 97 and finished in last place 37 and a half games out of first.

A (21:29)

Tony there's got to be more than Theo Epstein at the top of Major League Baseball's pyramid brain trust pyramid that understands what great starting pitching can mean to the sport. The product attracting people. It really Theo's the only one. He's out there by himself singing solo. You don't have like everybody doesn't realize stuff like this. Steve Carlton, My God.

B (21:55)

Happy anniversary. Philip Rivers on this day 22 years ago, Rivers threw for 475 yards and five touchdowns in his last game as quarterback for NC State in a 5626 win over Kansas in the Tangerine Bowl. Tonight, Rivers will be back at quarterback for the second time in five years as the Colts host the 49ers on Monday Night Football. Now 44 years old, Rivers and his wife welcomed their first grandchild last year. The immediate Rivers Clan consists of seven daughters and three sons, the oldest of whom Gunner, at 17, is a star high school quarterback in Alabama, where Rivers coaches. Gunner is a 2027 recruit and has numerous offers already, including including one from NC State.

A (22:39)

I know the 49ers are missing Bosa and Warner. But the 49ers major in taking quarterbacks out of what it is they feel comfortable doing. And now, with a week to adjust and maybe do what wasn't done last week, worried about Phillip Rivers tonight.

B (22:58)

Happy trails to Missouri for the Kansas City Chiefs. The team announced today that it intends to leave Arrowhead State Stadium and move across the state line from Missouri to Kansas after 2031. Kansas has been courting the team for some time, proposing to pay up to 70% of the cost of a new dome stadium. The Chiefs would be the third NFL team to leave Missouri in recent decades. The Cardinals left St. Louis for Arizona after the 1987 season and the Rams came for 21 years before returning to La. Wilbon, I know you said the Bears won't leave for Indiana, but Fort Wayne is shooting its shot, posting a mock up of a new stadium with the caption don't mind us. Just seeing how this looks and ccing your team.

A (23:40)

I overwhelmingly pay no attention to these announcements. Just like you paid no attention when the Washington Capitals and Wizards announced they were entering an agreement with the governor of the state of Virginia. How'd that turn out?

B (23:54)

Yeah, well, I did pay attention. I called it villainy, you know, so. And they didn't move because the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia is a one term guy and he doesn't have that kind of power. Let's go to the big finish. The Red Sox traded for Cardinals first baseman Wilson Contreras. White Sox signed Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami. Bigger deal.

A (24:14)

Murakami. He's 25 years old. He hit 56 home runs three years ago. Man, I can't believe he didn't go to the north side. They'll bellicose. Belichick is reportedly finalizing a deal with Bobby Petrino to be his offensive coordinator. Is that a good move?

B (24:30)

Petrino was once a good coach like Belichick. Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth. Your thoughts?

A (24:37)

This broken stuff. Broken stuff from that fight. Enough with Jake Paul. Georgetown suspended head coach and Cooley one game for throwing a water bottle that hit a child. Your thoughts?

B (24:51)

He has apologized profusely. It was very bad. He threw it really hard into the stands. That was just not good. Last one. Sidney Crosby passed Mario Lemieux as the Penguins all time points to. You're impressed, aren't you?

A (25:02)

Lemieux's the most important player, the greatest player in franchise history. Absolutely.

B (25:07)

Alex and Leonard Copeland shout out.

A (25:10)

I'm Mike Wilbond. Dues tomorrow.

C (25:12)

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