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You Better You Bet

Was Troy Aikman Right?

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Chris Mack reacts to Troy Aikman's comments about NFL franchises ruining the development of young quarterbacks.

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0:00.0

Chris Mack, it for Nick Costos today on You Better You Bet.

0:05.2

Before we wrap up the show in about a half hour, the three stars of the day.

0:10.5

And I will bring it back in a way that for old-timey hockey fans will remind you of something that I don't want to get too old here, but that I feel like you younger generation should

0:23.6

really learn to respect. I'll explain it all before we wrap up. Plus, this weekend in hindsight,

0:28.7

I know it's not necessarily a Friday, but it kind of feels like a Friday, but it's sort of like

0:36.5

a nameless gray day like any other between

0:39.8

Christmas and New Year's Eve. Happy 2026. We'll ring it in about 12 hours on the East Coast,

0:46.3

15 hours on the West Coast. And we appreciate you joining us across North America on Channel

0:52.4

375, Westwood won sports on Sirius XM.

0:57.1

But we're going to take a spin into the future.

1:01.5

I will come back.

1:03.4

I will tell you exactly what's happened over the next few days by virtue of an old Delorean that I found at a used car lot here near my house

1:14.5

and an old crazy scientist who put something called a flux capacitor in it. And I'll tell you

1:20.6

exactly what's going to happen over the next couple of days this weekend in hindsight coming up

1:25.0

before we wrap up the show as well. But I told you that

1:28.7

we have reached a quarterback crisis in the NFL. And I really believe that. And it's not

1:35.1

getting better anytime soon. And a Hall of Famer absolutely agrees. Here's what he had to say.

1:43.8

I think there's been a lot of quarterbacks that have been drafted high who have left the game and have been labeled a bust.

1:50.0

And I think it's unfair because I do feel that organizations and coaching has failed quarterbacks, more than quarterbacks have failed organizations.

1:59.0

Troy Aikman on ESPN's Monday night countdown this past Monday

2:04.2

in Atlanta where the Falcons upset the Rams. And he's completely right. We've completely screwed up.

2:12.5

Both as fans, it's partially our fault too, because we guide the teams that we love, the organizations that we cheer for, the laundry that we root for towards these decisions in some cases with our fanaticism.

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