Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin debate whether or not the Detroit Lions are poised to take a big step back in 2025, tell us why this Daryl Morey fiasco is further proof that analytics is running sports and explain why Nikola Jokic doesn’t need to be a good defender to be consider the Greatest Player in the NBA.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | Be sure to check us out live every weekday from 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific, 7 to 10 p.m. Eastern on Fox Sports Radio. |
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| 0:22.4 | FSR. |
| 0:23.9 | You're listening to the best of the odd couple. |
| 0:29.9 | Big story today in the NFL. |
| 0:31.9 | All these teams are submitting their proposals for rule changes. |
| 0:35.2 | One of them that we've talked about for weeks now is the Green Bay Packers want to get rid of the push. They've now submitted their third different reason as to why they want to get rid of it. So it shows you that they really don't like that one. What's all like when you're trying to go out? Maybe, okay, here go another reason. Right. Right. But for the purposes of this show, the Detroit Lions to have have caused many of fights here on the I couple, submitted two of them that people like Rob Parker think seem pretty nefarious. |
| 1:01.1 | Number one, they are submitting a proposal that would eliminate the automatic first down that comes with an illegal contact or defensive holding penalty. |
| 1:09.7 | Seems innocuous enough until you see that the Lions have by far the most defensive |
| 1:15.1 | holding penalties over the last two years. |
| 1:17.0 | The NFL owners, they're going to say, okay, yeah, right, lions. |
| 1:21.2 | I mean, talk about going in there with something that you're the biggest culprit of |
| 1:25.9 | and have, you know, cost them in situations. No, it's not going to happen. Go ahead. And number two. You didn't even let Rob G. finish. You were ready to jump on them. Number two, this is the biggest one. This is the one that could send shockwaves, not only through the NFC, but through the NFL altogether. They want to change the NFL playoff seating that would lose regular season records as a way to |
| 1:47.3 | determine rankings as opposed to division winners. |
| 1:49.3 | Right now, you have a situation where if you win the division, you're automatically |
| 1:53.4 | getting a home field. |
| 1:54.9 | You're automatically going to be seated at a certain point, which is why some people don't |
| 1:58.5 | like it because got a team like tabby buccaneers who win the terrible |
| 2:02.5 | NFC South every year. |
| 2:04.0 | The Panthers did that one. |
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