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The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington

Best of The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington

Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Football, Baseball, News, Basketball, Sports News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rob and Kelvin tell us if Aaron Rodgers is getting too much blame for all the dysfunction within the New York Jets organization and explain why JJ Redick is dead wrong when he says media outlets like Inside the NBA are to blame for the NBA’s dwindling TV ratings. Plus, former NFL quarterback and FOX Sports Radio NFL analyst Shaun King swings by to discuss all the biggest college football and NFL headlines.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.2

Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast.

0:07.6

Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern, 4-7 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

0:16.6

Find your local station for the odd couple at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeartRadio app by searching FSR.

0:26.4

You're listening to the best of the odd couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker.

0:34.4

But let's start with the NFL and Aaron Rogers and just all that Jets talk and the owner.

0:41.3

And Rob G., can you just kind of fill us in on, you know, like they pulled the curtain back at the Jets, and it wasn't a pretty picture.

0:49.9

And for all people who don't know, I grew up in New York, I grew up as a Jets fan.

0:54.1

I followed this team. Kelvin, when I was in high school. I grew up in New York. I grew up as a Jets fan. I followed this team.

0:55.6

Kelvin, when I was in high school, I did not work on Sundays at the shoe store.

1:00.2

Nichols Stridewright on Queens Boulevard. I'm a 16-year-old guy. I tell the boss, I'll work any day for you,

1:07.4

but no Sundays during football. That's how big of a football fan I was, okay? So I was really into it and all that, and the Jets with my team. I've been in his business a long time. I don't root for teams, but I know that this franchise has been dysfunctional for a long time. But Rob G, just clue us in on some of the stuff that has come out. Yeah, it's actually a combination of two stories.

1:28.1

One of them, the big one that we talked about yesterday, show you guys were both off, in the Athletic. I never missed the odd couple when we're not. I know. I know you don't. But the Athletic published the long-form piece talking about the Jets dysfunction with the keen eye focused on owner Woody Johnson. A few highlights that you guys might appreciate. according to the athletic

1:25.1

Woody Johnson used Mad few highlights that you guys might appreciate.

1:49.8

According to the athletic, Woody Johnson used Madden ratings to justify making trades or not making trades and free agency decisions.

1:52.5

How sick is that?

1:54.3

Hey, he's just one of us.

1:55.9

He's just one of us.

1:57.0

Number two, he used his two teenage sons as advisors on team matters, both including the roster and front office decisions.

2:07.0

Johnson forced coaching staff to make certain roster decisions, including benching their starting safety middle of the season this year.

2:14.7

And number four, Woody Johnson, according to the Athletic, had friends and family member

2:19.8

in the locker room after games, wins and losses, and would occasionally criticize players

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