Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Former NFL All-Pro safety Kerry Rhodes is in for Kelvin, and he and Rob explain why the NFL decided not to give number 1 overall NFL Draft pick Fernando Mendoza a single primetime game this season, and discuss why Deion Sanders should focus more on Shedeur’s sub-par play on the field that what people say about him on the field. Plus, former NFL quarterback and FOX Sports Radio NFL analyst Shaun King swings by to discuss his expectations for Fernando Mendoza as a rookie, why the NFL scheduled the New England Patriots on Opening Night, the ongoing Dianna Russini-Mike Vrabel soap opera, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:26.3 | You're listening to the best of the odd couple. |
| 0:32.6 | All right, Rob G. Let's do it. But the NFL, we want to start here, Carrie. You're bread and butter, |
| 0:38.7 | of course, as a former NFL player. The schedule came out and of course people are looking |
| 0:43.7 | at all kinds of stuff. And Rob G., there is one glaring thing to the schedule that you can |
| 0:50.1 | enlighten this on. Yeah, so when the schedule comes out, everybody looks at a couple. They look at when's your buy week? They look at what's the standalone games. You know, we talked about yesterday Thanksgiving and Christmas. Those are big marque events for the NFL. And then the other thing you look at is which teams have the most prime time game. So no surprise. You know, you've got the Rams got a lot. The Bills get a lot. The Seahawks get a lot. |
| 1:12.5 | You're not surprised by that. But when you look down the list, you say, well, who are the teams didn't get any? There were five teams that didn't get a single primetime game, not a Monday night, not a Sunday night, not a Thursday night. They can't even get that Black Friday game. Like nothing. |
| 1:25.4 | They got no primetime games. |
| 1:27.7 | And the one that stood |
| 1:28.9 | out was my beloved Las Vegas Raiders despite hiring a new head coach who came from the super |
| 1:34.9 | bowl champion Seattle Seahawks and drafting first overall Fernando Mendoza the Heisman |
| 1:40.3 | trophy winner the most recognizable college football player last season. |
| 1:45.0 | The Raiders, no love from the NFL. |
| 1:48.5 | Kerry, this speaks volumes to me. |
| 1:52.0 | It says a couple of things. |
| 1:54.0 | What you got, Rob. |
| 1:55.9 | It says, Fernando Mendoza will be a bus. |
| 2:00.3 | Don't even bother watching. |
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