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So awesome interview with Mad Dog.

Great two interviews.

We also have a preview of championship Sunday, fire fest,

Phil Rivers, retires, and Dan Campbell comes on the scene.

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download it download it download it the cash app. Okay Hey let's break our value. And then we'll take it higher. Oh we're gonna rock down to... Hey let's shake our value. My take. And then we'll take it higher. Welcome to part of my tape presented by the cash app. Go download it right now. Use code bar so you get $10 for free. $10 to ASPCA. Today is Friday. Thank you. Friday, January 22nd and Dan, Dan Gummett, down Gummett. It just gets the stew out of me. Philip Rivers has retired. It's probably the most depressed I've ever been about a retirement of a player that doesn't play for one of my teams. It's a bunch of horse mess. I was sick too when I saw it. I mean, this is a guy that has given so much joy to us and defensive backs on Sunday afternoons. I'm going to be missing him next year. I mean, hopefully we can get James or a quarterback that is of his same ilk to provide us with the same type of type of late Sunday drama. But yeah, this is one of those where were you moments like that. Now I I feel old now when Phil forever I feel like I'm 29 years old. It absolutely. You're 29. I'm 35 going on 50. I had a moment where it happened, I processed it, I tweeted some of my favorite clips, and then I said to myself, wait I'm actually kind of really upset about this because Philp Rivers, and I was thinking about it, I was trying to understand my emotions. I was really trying to get in touch. This great to that like the most emotional thing that happens to us is a football player retires i was gonna say mancard but i think in this circumstance you're allowed to cry during the national anthem and when filip rivers with tires so i was i was trying to do some self-diagnosis really looking in it's it's you know mental health is in the news every day uh... we're in tune with our motions So I was wondering why I feel this way, because we also had, you know, mental health is in the news every day. Uh, we're in tune with our emotions.

So I was wondering why I feel this way because we also had, you know, Eli Manning retired, Peyton Manning retired, guys who have been part of our NFL Sundays for many, many years, but the difference is when Eli Manning retired, we knew it was kind of over. When Peyton Manning retired, even though he won a super, well, it was kind of over. Philip wasn't peak Philip Rivers in the last few years. His arm strength wasn't there, but he still was a joy to watch. And he was still fun, and his teams were still competitive. So it feels like, you know, I'm happy that he's going out on his terms. I'm happy that we won't get some like terrible, terrible year of Philip Rivers where we all we all it just gets sad But I still think he could have played another year. So that's why it hurts me and there are so many Sundays where he was we made the joke many many times But he was the anchor to Sunday at at 6.37 o'clock After watching so much football all weekend long Phil Rivers was there trying to lead a furious comeback, trying to bring the chargers or the cults this last year back and win a game in a hilarious fashion. And we thank him and I'm sad. PFT, I actually went and looked up a stat. He led, I think it was by over a hundred, the amount of passes thrown in the fourth quarter when his team is down one score in the last ten years. And is that not the most perfect scope rivers stat you've ever seen on? I'm pulling it up. Here it is. It is 604. The next closest one is Matt Ryan at 560. So that's Philip Rivers and I love him for up. Well, the only reason Matt Ryan isn't even higher than that is because like he doesn't throw that many passes when they're behind. He throws a shitload of passes when they're ahead and then very few at the end when they give up the lead. So he only gets like two passes in late in the fourth quarter with Philip Rivers. He is Mr. First, Second and Third quarter. And then the fourth quarter actually that is where you get the most distilled version of Phillip Rivers. And it's hard to put a pin on when Phillip Rivers was at his peak. Like if I were to ask you what year were we at peak Phillip Rivers, I don't really know when that was because I remember the stuff like him lying on his back and jumping up in the air like a bullfrog that's getting fucked more than I do the really, really, really good Phillip Rivers where he got to the AFC Championship game. So, peak Phillip Rivers to me started when he was playing that game against the Broncos and Jay Cutler and Phillip Rivers are screaming at each other across the sidelines. I think that was his arrival. We're like, oh man, this is going to be fun. I do think that AFC Championship game when he played on a torn ACL And you know we'll obviously get to the Hall of Fame debate But Phil Rivers had some bad luck. It's a team sport It's actually crazy to look at the numbers and realize how like your career and you know I think he'll eventually get in the Hall of Fame He's not a first-bound Hall of Fame I think you will eventually get it But he obviously will get dinged for the lack of playoff wins and the lack of a signature win and the lack of a Super Bowl But when you actually look at it with Philip Rivers versus Eli Manning versus Ben Rothlessberger Eli and Ben both have two Super Bowls Philip Rivers was the better quarterback in terms of numbers throughout his career Yeah, so it's's, I don't know, I just, he was such an, and honestly,

if I were in the Hall of Fame committee, if David Baker was our boss, I'd be like, okay, all your numbers mean nothing to me. Like he was so much fun to watch. I don't really care. Like I can't think of football the last 20 years without Phil Rivers. And yeah, he was never the greatest quarterback in the league because he played with Brady and Peyton and all these guys and Breeze at the height of their abilities but he was the most fun for a very long time. So I think that there actually does need to be a hall of very good. People forget that it's the hall of fame and not the hall of very good but we should make the hall of very good and put people like him and like Matt Schraub fun guys people that

That gave us moments and football that gave us years and memories that that we can't just like let be lost to the to the Sands of time that need to be memorialized in some way even if they're not good enough to get into the hall of fame and I actually I do think that Philip River should be a hallfamer I agree with you on that. I think yeah, I mean it's fun to go back and say like what if the chargers had drafted

Eli Manning and he didn't hold out and demand a trade to the

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