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Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll.

The Ring of Comfort. Coming soon to a Super Bowl new you. Alrighty, hour number three of our radio program. That's right, it is the Zach Gelb show coast to coast on CBS Sports Radio. We are on the road this week. Mandalay Bay Super Bowl 58. San Francisco 49ers.

Kansas City Chiefs. Zach Gelb here with you. One more hour to play. Solomon Wolcott's going to join us coming up 20 minutes from now. But look who's making an appearance to my left. He's been hiding off in the corner. He's actually dressed nice for work today. Doesn't look like some bum.

Clean shaven. You got the sports coat on. The producer extraordinaire of the Zach Gelb show extravaganza on CBS Sports Radio. Moist mic, which this gives you a reason.

YouTube.com slash CBS Sports Radio to tune in. You look dapper, my friend. I will give it up to you. I clean up nice. I clean up nice. Humbly said too.

Yeah, believe it or not, I clean up okay. Yeah, so we'll get into some trouble this week, I'm sure. I just want to make sure that you don't wind up on some hotel balcony with a tattoo on your face, okay?

I'm definitely going to mortgage my entire house and everything that goes along with it trying to win poker. So this could be dangerous. I might need you to help me out here. Just pull me back. Oh, I thought you meant financially. So when you run out of funds, keep on giving me some Benjamins.

I would not be interested. No, when you see me chasing my losses, just pull me back and say, hey, Sam, come on. Well, you know what I'm going to do? I didn't want to really reveal this to you. But I reached out to your wife before this trip.

I don't know where this is going. I slid into her DMs and she gave me an emergency number to call. She said Mike could get a little out of control at the casino. So I have your wife on FaceTime. She gave me a nice FaceTime call last night right before I went to bed. And she gave me her number, her direct emergency line.

And she said, if Mike does anything questionable, just FaceTime. So if you see me going for my phone, I may be FaceTiming your wife. Well, I don't want to finish the saying, but you know, bros before. I thought you were supposed to be on my side. I never said that I was going to actually do it.

As long as you believe that you're going to do it, that doesn't matter. And then if it gets to a point where I can't reel back in Moist Mike, then I may have to bring in the top dog. That's a weird way to refer to your wife, the top dog. But anyway, before we get kicked out of here for going after, well, I'm not even going after Sam's wife. It's more so going after Moist Mike.

Stu, you can hit a little on-site, off-site. Save us, please. Zach's taking on the most polarizing issues in sports. Which side of the line of scrimmage will he end up on? Off-side, defense number 69. It's on-sides, off-sides with Zach Gelb on CBS Sports Radio.

Alrighty, Sam, so what do we got cooking today? Alright, well in a series of Snapchat videos, former Steelers and... Snapface or Snapchat? Snapchat?

Is it the same thing? That was a Belichickism. He would always go, you know, those guys are on their Snapface.

He would never hit a come on or instaface. You know what it is, coach. Well, you were confusing me because I'm thinking to myself, listen, I'm older. I don't know. Is there a new app called Snapface? You're on Snapchat, though, right? I was. I may have used it twice in my life.

I don't know much about it. But I do know that former Steelers and my Jets running back, Le'Veon Bell... But this was when I was a Jets fan, no longer. He expressed his desire to make an NFL comeback, implying he preferred to return to Pittsburgh. So on-side, off-side, you believe Le'Veon Bell will be able to return to the NFL?

This is an off-side. Maybe he would get a training camp invite. I don't think he is going to make a roster. This is the same Le'Veon Bell that two years ago he was doing some fight and he joined me. And he lost a lot of weight and he looks in really good shape. Because when he was on the Ravens, I want to say two years ago, he was wearing like 19 or 17.

I'm like, who the heck is that? They're like, oh, that's Le'Veon Bell. I go, man, he's shredded. He lost some weight. But at that time when he walked away from the Ravens or however it did go down, it slipped in my memory. He said to me, I would only want to come back if I could bypass training camp, bypass most of the regular season and just go on a playoff run. So now, I think Le'Veon Bell is just one of those guys that it's tough in the public spotlight to get out of the spotlight. So now he'll just float this card out of him coming back and making a triumphant NFL return.

I don't think that's happening. I would go off-side. Off-side. Now as the 49ers prep for the big game on Sunday, reports out of San Fran's camp say the team is actually unhappy with the conditions of their practice field at UNLV. Where's the sod father guy?

Remember him from last year at the Super Bowl? Who knew there was a field expert, but apparently there is. A sod father. And usually the team and the league puts the sod down a few weeks in advance. Well, apparently the league only laid down the sod for the field last week. And the field rating, which is usually in the 70s or 80s when it comes to hardness level, is actually in the 50s. So it's actually much softer and therefore more dangerous and troublesome. So the field's a little moist some would say.

I hate you so much. On-side, off-side. This practice field issue will actually impact the 49ers in the game. So this is for the practice field, not the game? Correct. This is the practice field, but not the cheese practice field, the 49ers practice field.

Gotcha. Because I'm a little bit of a grass expert, some may say. And the grass that I was told at Allegiance Stadium... Alright, alright, alright. Alright, alright, alright. Travis Yelzy, alright, alright, alright.

Alright, alright, alright. I was told the grass for the stadium's good. So the practice field grass is, I guess, in good condition is what you're saying? It's just too soft. It's way softer than they normally would have it.

And it was laid down way later than it should have been laid down. So you're asking me, is this a concern? Will this impact the 49ers? I'm gonna say off-side and watch. You will get some practice report tomorrow where someone goes down with the luggage. Knock on wood, the one thing we don't want, whatever happens in this game, the one thing we don't want is for a bad injury to happen. I want everyone to be full strength.

Now, I don't want to be this guy, but I'm gonna be this guy. The NFL makes like, what, 13, 14 billion dollars a year? We can't figure out the grass. You know, in the age of 2024, everyone else is figuring out the grass. The NFL can't figure out the grass?

No sense. All right, off-sides. Off-side.

I was waiting for that. Now, on the other side, Patrick Mahomes... More grass? No, no, no, not grass. Puff the grass? Pass the grass?

A little dirt, maybe. Oh, okay. Now, Patrick Mahomes, he's focusing on winning his third Super Bowl title in five years, but he might have a little of a distraction.

His father, former baseball pitcher Pat Mahomes, Sr. Oh, yeah. I know you're gonna set this up. I landed on the plane here. They give you the option to buy the Wi-Fi, which you could just expense anyway, so I probably should have bought it. But I was watching movies, and I kind of wanted to be disconnected from my phone. I guess my phone connected to the plane Wi-Fi, which allowed me to just get text messages.

Outside, because you don't have an iPhone, right? I don't, but you should still be able to text me. No, I was only able to text iPhones. That's what it was, maybe because of the iChat. That's why Androids get it. And all that. Well, no, it's actually good, because I didn't have to text you on the plane and respond to you, which is fine. That's a good point.

But I landed, and this news that Sam has given me was the first thing that I saw that was not through text messaging and whatnot. So, as we know, Pat Mahomes Sr., former baseball player, he was arrested for a DWI. It was his third arrest for driving while impaired, and he could be facing up to 10 years in prison. What a moron. Based on his history with this incident. Now, on-site, off-site, this situation will have a negative impact on Patrick Mahomes come Sunday.

So, I've shared this before in my previous time slot. My mother, when she was in college, got hit head-on by a drunk driver, went through the windshield, and she nearly died. Thankfully, everything turned out to be okay. But I have no sympathy, like, for people that drink and then get behind the wheel. Especially nowadays with Uber, with Lyft, you know, a good old-fashioned taxi.

And I don't want to make this about a money thing, but when you have money as well, it's not like you could say, and this is not a good enough excuse anyway, oh, I couldn't afford it, you could afford getting in an Uber or a Lyft. And now, you become a big story for all the wrong reasons on Super Bowl week. You take away from your son, and I wasn't even aware of Pat Mahomes Sr.'s two previous DUIs, because remember, he's always smoking that cigar where he doesn't always sound coherent, let's be fair, like, oh, I was smoking on that Burrow pack, or I was smoking on that Lamar Jackson pack, whatever it is, we've all seen the clips, and they were fun.

But now we know all this stuff, and maybe I just missed the other two, it wasn't reported a lot, but this is now a story. I don't think it is going to affect Mahomes on the field, because how many times do you hear people use football to get away from things, and that's an element to now get away from it? But I can guarantee you this, that he's going to be asked about it tonight, and it's unnecessary to Patrick Mahomes, and also, Pat Mahomes Sr., I have no sympathy for you, because it's very simple, folks, and I don't mean to lecture people, but this just gets me so fired up, because I've known so many people that have been impacted by this, and are lucky to walk away from what happened. Nothing good happens when you drink and then drive.

Like, you want to drink, you want to have fun, great. You know, I had a few drinks last night, I didn't get behind the wheel, and neither should Patrick Mahomes Sr., and when this happens, no one just says, yeah, I was wrong, I was an idiot, I was a moron, I was a dope. There's always excuses, and people just don't take accountability for their actions, but I don't think this impacts Mahomes on the field Sunday, Pat Mahomes.

I wonder if he's going to come to the game now. Like, your son's in the Super Bowl, you have now turned into a negative storyline, I guess I would imagine he's still going to go to the game, but, man, Pat Mahomes is so likable. Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes, yes. I have done a little, I'm not going to say a 180, but a little bit of a 180 on his wife, Brittany Mahomes, but the brother is obnoxious, and the father really never gave me a reason before this that I knew of to dislike, and now the father's unlikable too. This is the second negative story with Pat Mahomes, because last week he told ESPN Radio that his son is the third best quarterback of all time. It's like two straight times.

No, but that was the right answer. Sure, but at the end of the day also, we shouldn't be talking about Pat Mahomes, we should be talking about Patrick Mahomes, and the fact that now twice in a week we're talking about his dad, I have a problem with that. None of the previous Super Bowls were talking about the dad, but now we are, and it's negative, and he's going to get those questions tonight, he's going to get those questions throughout the week, and who knows how much he creeps into his head.

I don't know if this is a weekly story. I think this is a tonight story, where they'll ask him a question or two, and I think most people understand he didn't do anything wrong, he's just answering for his family member, and I would like to think, and maybe I'll be dead wrong on this, that there will be some respect to Patrick Mahomes tonight, because he didn't do anything wrong here. Now the Pro Bowl games were yesterday, and the NFC won it, though they didn't actually score more points in the flag football game.

They garnered more points in some of the other games, especially with the big fellas pushing sleds and whatnot, that pushed their total above the AFCs. So onside, offside, you actually like this Pro Bowl format, especially that the actual game isn't the end-all be-all part of the scoring system. Have I gone offside for every question here? Yeah, I think so far. You are 4 for 4. Stu tells me yes. I don't know if that was on the year, or if that was just in my year. Yeah, I'm going offside here again. Damn. How can I like something that I don't care about? It exists, it's there. Do you like it better than the way it was before, where they actually patted up and played a game?

I would be fraudulent if I gave you an answer here, because this would assume that I actually watched some of this stuff. The only things I saw was Instagram stuff from my buddy Dion Dawkins, because he was a Pro Bowler for the third straight year. Outside of that, I didn't watch a single second of that live, because I don't like All-Star games. The only thing I like is NBA All-Star Weekend, not the actual game, but I'm a sucker for the three-point contest and things like that. And the hockey skills competition is awesome, too. Yeah, the hockey skill competition is fun, too.

Yeah, that was awesome. Maybe we could dress you up as a goalie and we could have some slap shots at you. Yeah, no thank you.

That would be fun. No? Okay. Yeah, I would go offside, because I can't give you an opinion on this, because I don't care for it. Offside! All right, we're four for four. Let's go for number five on Friday. Is this the last one? No, we have a couple more. We discussed Stu's Raiders being set to hire Cliff Kingsbury as their OC.

How about this? However, sorry Stu, Kingsbury made a 180, pulling his name from contention, reportedly over contract disputes. I heard he didn't like Mark Davis' PowerPoint presentation on how to turn around the Raiders.

That certainly could be a part of it. And at the last minute, he decided to sign instead with Dan Quinn in Washington as his OC. So onside, offside. Kingsbury made the right call going to Washington over Vegas. Yes, because we're going to know who his quarterback is. So I'm going to go onsides, or you're going to know who the quarterback is after the draft. I don't know what the Raiders are doing at the quarterback position.

I was bummed for Stu that this happened, and I ended up pivoting to Luke Getze. I don't know if you want to be stealing things from the Chicago Bears these days, if you're just asking me. But I think that this is the better decision, because in all likelihood, you're either trading up for Caleb Williams or probably getting either Drake May or Jayden Daniels.

At least you will know who your guy is when we may not even know who the Raiders guy is at quarterback until a year from now, potentially. All right. So as Bill Belichick... All right, all right, all right. All right, all right, all right.

I feel like that could be, whenever there's an awkward moment of silence this week when we're waiting to do things, I think we just owe to Travis Kelce. All right, all right, all right. Well, it's actually the Matthew McConaughey. All right, all right, all right. Let's be honest. Sorry, you're right. Kelce does, all right, all right, all right.

It's a little bit different. You're right, you're right. The McConaughey is all right, all right, all right. Yeah, I don't think I have enough of the... Texas is going to blow a big game. All right, all right, all right.

I don't think I have enough of that grass to be able to pull that off. Horns down happened again. All right, all right, all right. Now, as Bill Belichick sits out the 2024 season, the former patch coach put out a full-page ad in the Boston Globe, thanking fans for their years of support, saying, quote, nowhere in America are sports fans as passionate as in New England.

That's a lie. Onside, offside. Taking out an ad. Where else? New York, Philly, Chicago. Yeah, but they're all like relatives of one another. You're in the playing field. In the playing field, but he's not correct. New England fans are not the most passionate.

Oh, I don't know about that. I would say it's either in terms of where you have like a lot of sports, it's not just one city that has one team. I would say the most passionate fans I've ever interacted with were New England and Philadelphia. I would put Philadelphia one. I'd probably put Philly one.

Yeah. And then Boston and New York are kind of right there together. I think there's more passion in New England because there's just so many sports teams in New York. Like you have two baseball teams, you got three hockey teams, you got two basketball teams, if you want to say that. It's a little bit more spread out.

Two football teams, yeah. That's true. Now, onside, offside. Taking out an ad in a newspaper is the proper way to thank fans. I have no problem with that. I actually thought it was the most emotion Belichick's probably ever displayed as the head coach of the Patriots.

I'll go onsides. So lame. Really? It's so lame. All these guys who spend years and years in this city and they put out a newspaper ad that cost them like 10 cents.

It's nice. Or whatever. Talking to a mass audience.

I don't know if people read newspapers. If you want to thank the fans, go to a restaurant or a bar, tell people you're going to be there. Buy them shots. Shake hands, buy people shots, do a round, hang out, talk to the fans.

Cigaz. Do something for them. What does it do for the fans who spent years of their emotional support, their financial support, and all the other things that he's thanking them for? What does a newspaper ad do for them?

What are they going to do? Cut it out and hang it on their walls? I used to do that as a kid.

I love collecting newspapers as a kid. Go talk to the fans. Go hang out with the fans. Stop.

Go actually thank the fans in person and do something nice for them after all the nice stuff they did for you. It's just an old man. I hate that stuff. It's so lame. It's an angry old man.

So lame. Doc Rivers has been with the Bucks for a grand old four games. Four games. Finally got his first win this weekend on Saturday against the Mavs. However, based on the NBA's criteria for the All-Star game, even though the Celtics have the best record in the East, they cannot coach the All-Star game because he coached last year. So therefore, because the Bucks have the second best record, Doc Rivers, after four games, is the coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team. Doc actually shouldn't do it.

It makes no sense. Onside, offside. I don't know if this is a fake tweet, but I read that you get an All-Star game ring and he's going to give that in the bonus to Adrian Griffin. Stab in the back. Oh, here's something. Adrian Griffin should coach the game. I agree. Onside, offside. I know your answer. You are okay with Doc Rivers coaching this game. Offside. Of course. Doc, like.

So dumb. You coach four games. I know Coach Morby for the All-Star game. You don't deserve to be the coach. I don't usually care about the actual All-Star game, but Doc Rivers should have the awareness to say, guys, this just, I'm not doing it this year.

I had something. I can't do it. Just do that. Let one of the assistants coach.

No, no, no. Just no one on the buck should. It's either Adrian Griffin or whoever's in the third play. Put Tom Thibodeau in as the All-Star game coach. At least they'll get good effort in the All-Star game. That's what I would do. Nobody gives good effort in the All-Star game. He may ruin a few knees, but hey, that's what I would do.

Anyway, that's Onside, Offside. This is that Guild show on CBS Sports Radio. We're coming on back from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center inside Radio Row, Super Bowl 58, on location all week in Las Vegas. Solomon Wolcott's one of our favorites.

He's going to join us when we return. The Sultan of Sizzle. The Titan of Toastiness. The Kingpin of Kindling.

These are the admired ones. Those who've created the prime place together. They don't just have a backyard. They have the backyard because they know a solo stove fire pit is more than just the ultimate smokeless fire pit. It's a place where friendships are forged, football is revered, and food is enjoyed. Solo stove, the perfect flame for the big game.

A peanut butter M&M's production. In a world where Super Bowl winners get the world's admiration and a fancy ring, but the runners-up get nothing, one retired cop returns. That's one retired quarterback. Read the script.

Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll.

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That's Stamps.com code program. Alrighty, rocking and rolling from Radio Road, day number one. And each and every year we talk to Solomon Wolcott. He's one of my all-time favorites. Of course, played for the Bengals.

You could obviously listen to him each and every morning on Sirius XM's NFL radio here today on behalf of www.macy.com. Solomon, always great to see you. How's it been? Zach, doing great, man.

It's good to be back with you. Of course, I always enjoy our time together, whether it's over the phone or in person, like we get to do here at Super Bowl 58. So I know that you work for NFL radio, so this may not be best for you, but then you're also a Bengal true to your core.

Are you tired of the Chiefs at this point? No, because I'm a big Andy Reid fan. I've gotten to know Pat Mahomes Sr., you know, Pat's father. Look, his dad is a cool guy, great father who taught his son very well, not just the athletic side of the game, but psychologically the mentality you got to have. And then he would do these mock interviews with him to help him to understand accountability and how you take on. And it had to come to fruition this year, right, with all these drops that you saw Pat dealt with it. He seems to be this kid that's older than his age, which suggests at 28. He seems to come with a lot more wisdom, a lot more understanding of how to go about doing his job.

And he's winning at a clip that we've never seen before, at least at this age. So that's something that you got to pay attention to. And so as much as I'm a fan of obviously Joe Burrell, Cincinnati Bengals, you have to look at what's happening with the Chiefs.

You look in awe, and you have to appreciate what you see. So after the AFC Championship game, I was in the media room, and Chiefs owner Clark Hunt was to my right. Patrick Mahomes was sitting there waiting to obviously go up to the podium.

He's right there. Brett Veitch, the GM, is talking, effusive with this praise, obviously. Like, the next Mahomes negotiation, there is no card the Chiefs can play after how many positive things they were saying about Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes is like a robot, though. He is looking at his phone.

Someone's saying all these nice things about you. He could clearly hear what was going on, but he's laser focused. And I don't think he wants to listen to any of these words of extolment, because if you let your guard down for a little bit, who knows what happens in this league.

Yeah, it's hard to really tell how does he keep it all together. Like, we knew that with Tom Brady that he was a sixth-round pick. Everybody passed on him. He had a list of all the quarterbacks that went ahead of him, and he was bound and determined to make everyone live in regret. It's kind of like how Michael Jordan just used any slight that he needed to sort of motivate him to have this killer mentality. Patrick seems to just have it. He's unflappable. He doesn't even need a reason. I'm here to beat you, right?

And you know what? I think sometimes when you are the guy, that it's tough to consistently be the guy, not that anyone questions him on the field, but just the mental battle of it, the attention. I bet you he's the happiest that Travis Kelce is dating Taylor Swift, because now when people talk about the Chiefs, it's not Mahomes who, but from just a general standpoint, tonight they have their podiums together, Mahomes and Kelce. Everyone, and then some, is just going to want to be talking to Travis Kelce. And he loves the attention, Kelce. Travis is one of those guys that has the kind of personality that he can, and that's not even a distraction for him, is it? Most guys who would maybe have this kind of dating choice would kind of get caught up in it all. Not Travis Kelce, because he's such a magnet for the eyeballs and for the attention of the viewing audience. It sort of feeds him.

It sort of adds to who he is. I remember as a younger player, he had this reality show. Oh, yeah, the dating show. I think it was called Chasing Kelce.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I remember I was there doing, I said, Coach Reed let you do this in season? He was like, yeah, Coach is fine.

He's cool with it. And I even asked Andy, he was like, no, you got to know Travis to know that this is no problem for you. I remember, this is like an old school coach at Andy Reed who had a sense of understanding who Travis Kelce was and is for him to say yes to that kind of project in season. And boy, did they turn out to be right, because nothing has served as a distraction for Travis Kelce. No, and it takes away from everything else with the team when you usually have to go, because Reed talked about the mental grind of just being there every single year.

And I know it's all like first world problems. You're living in the penthouse. You're going to all these Super Bowls. You're winning a bunch of them. But when your offseason does get cut short and you're there all the time and you know, just get an AFC Championship game when the Super Bowl isn't good enough. It's Super Bowl or bust every year. I think the team has had fun with the whole Taylor Swift thing. Yeah, they've had a lot of fun with that. It's been refreshing.

Think about it. Everyone was pointing fingers at the receivers, wanting guys to get cut, asking Andy Reed, when are you getting rid of these guys? And Patrick Mahomes is having to deal with some frustrations. And next thing you know, Taylor Swift shows up.

Saves the day. But she's driving also the economics of the league. Awful announcing right here. Boomer Esiason, your former quarterback. Taylor Swift might demand NFL cover, Super Bowl travel expense from Tokyo. You know this, the NFL doesn't genuflect to anyone.

They have genuflected to Taylor Swift because... She moves the needle. And you don't need to bring more eyeballs to the NFL, but she does it. She does it. And think about what she's done for the Chiefs. She's done the same thing for the Chiefs.

She's what we call economic stimulus package. And you might not need it, but you're sure not mad when you get it. Yeah, not 100%. We all experienced that a few years ago. Well, you probably did.

You make too much money. Some of the mo-gots with us. Is Burrow the only hope in the AFC right now? When he's healthy, he's been the one guy that has been able to go toe-to-toe with Mahomes at Selective.

I know, right? I thought Lamar Jackson might be able to break through and to become a more formidable opponent for Patrick Mahomes. I have more confidence in Josh Allen than Lamar to do it.

Yeah, and I thought it would be Josh. If you go back and look in all of these games that the Bills lose, particularly in the postseason, to the Chiefs, Josh plays great. Yeah, he does. His production level is phenomenal. I mean, he does his part.

It's a team-driven thing. There's no doubt about it. But I do think if you're Josh Allen, I think you have the stuff to kind of break through there. But Joe Burrow is the one that's the only one that's broken through.

He's won three of the four games when they played against one another. I could see a mutual respect when those games have concluded, when Patrick Mahomes comes over to Joe Burrow. You could tell there is this high level of respect that Pat Mahomes knows he's got to bring his best to beat that guy. And Joe Burrow already knows that that's the guy we're all chasing. They're all chasing Patrick Mahomes. So look, if the NFL is smart, Zach, they're going to make sure those two guys are playing against one another every year, right?

Are the injuries a concern with Burrow? I know it's been two years where his season has ended. We all know what the talent does he have.

Does that just start to scare the crap out of you? I think it should be. I think we all who are those of us who were around for Andrew Luck, right?

Yeah. Transcending talent, winner, smart, has the temperament to handle what comes with that job, but yet they didn't protect him enough. He got hit early and often in his career, and he rode off into the sunset as almost like a dream that went unfulfilled.

And that's not good. I mean, it didn't leave the Colts in a good spot. It left us wondering what could have been for Andrew Luck. He's going to be fine in life. There's no doubt.

You don't get the sense that he's living with some great deal of regret. However, we're the ones who lose out as football fans, right? And I think with Joe Burrow, he's already shown and proven what he is and what he was. He went further in the cycle in those four years than what Andrew Luck has gone through because he got his team to the Super Bowl, right? He's won and took his team to back-to-back AFC title games. And if he had an extra half second in that Super Bowl, he had Jamar Chase right down the right sideline, but Aaron Donald wanted to make everyone a rag doll. And if his own defensive linebacker doesn't hit Patrick Mahomes out of bounds, you know, who knows, right? But they're right there.

They're right there. And it's really about doing everything you can to protect Joe Burrow, but also teaching him and understand how to protect himself. I remember in 2021 they played the Green Bay Packers earlier in that season. Aaron Rodgers ran over. You could tell he talked to him and he said, hey, man, don't be taking these hits.

You need to get down more. You could tell he was saying he wanted to see him take care of himself. But Joe plays with a certain kind of mentality and certain physicality. But everyone wants to see him on the field competing in this game. He makes our game better when he's playing.

Yeah, absolutely. And also, right, in Brady's years of excellence in New England, the Jets never got their act together. The Dolphins never got their act together.

The Bills never got their act together. Inside the AFC West, I like the Raiders' hire of Antonio Pierce. The Chargers, that's got to be the team, because now you have an elite head coach in Jim Harbaugh. And then Herbert, I think he is good. I want to see if he could be great. And if Harbaugh can't get that out of him, then he's just one of those good, not great quarterbacks.

But that's a direct competition. I'll take on the personality of their head coach. He's got a coach that's got a dog in him.

Yeah. And trust me when I tell you, get ready for the new improve Justin Herbert. There's no doubt, because to me, that's the only element missing from his game, is that dog of just refusing to lose, refusing to go down unless you win this game. And the coaches in that division, like Sean Paden, phenomenal coach. But I don't got a quarterback right now.

That's right. He ran them out of town, didn't he? Yeah, Antonio Pierce doesn't have a quarterback. I don't think anybody's walking away after this game. They ran their quarterback out of town. What's up with this league that coaches that don't want to get rid of quarterbacks? That's what Josh McDaniel was doing.

That's what Sean Paden did. Well, Derek, I was okay with getting rid of Derek. Yeah, but hey, look, if not him, then who? That's the point, right?

If you're going to run them out, tell me who's coming through that door. This is what we realize. Good quarterbacks make great quarterback money, and when you want to get rid of the good quarterback, you're not wrong.

It's tough to then make that next step and find the next guy. Ask Devante Adams about that. Just think about it. That, to me, is what it's really about.

It's the team around that player and how does that player handle his team. And then if it's not him, tell me who it's going to be. Yeah, wrap it up with Solomon Wilcox.

We'll get to basey.com in just a second. Who's winning this game on Sunday? Are you going like everyone else and picking Kansas City, even though the 49ers are favorite? It's going to be a high-scoring game.

Okay, I like that. A high-scoring game. I'm picking Kansas City 42-38 because that's Patrick Mahone. Really high-scoring? That's Patrick Mahone, oh yeah. Some people say high-scoring and they're like, oh, 34-31.

You win. No, 49ers, man. That offense is a juggernaut. It's the fourth offense in NFL history to have a quarterback with 4,000 yards passing and four players with over 1,000 yards from scrimmage.

Not just any guy. You've got a guy named Christian McCaffrey. It's his second season over 2,000 yards from scrimmage, right? 20-plus touchdowns this season. And during the regular season, I mean, he is phenomenal in terms of his production, but Brandon Ayew, Deebo Samuel, George Kittle, explosive playmakers everywhere. And then you've got Patrick Mahone, and that's all you need to say, right?

Now, I've got to say this. The reason why I feel like the Chiefs are going to win 49ers run defenses scares me. They give up a lot of points. They give up a lot of rush yards.

And if you can't stop the run, it's going to be tough to win. All right, tell me about what you're doing today, www.macy.com. Solomon Wilcox here with us. What if I told you that if you had cartilage damage that we can use your own cells, your own cells to grow your cartilage tissue. We go back in and reinsert it adheres to the healthy cartilage and to the bone to allow you to have healthy knees, whether you're a weekend warrior or an NFL ball player. That's what MACI does. It uses your own stem cells to grow your cartilage and to help you recover from cartilage damage in the knee.

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Thanks so much. Great to see you, Zach. Thanks for having us. Zach Gilb Show, CBS Sports Radio.

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I really don't. But Dan Silverman just brought me back a grilled chicken with chipotle mayo, lettuce, tomato, and cucumbers. It was phenomenal. And I think there was a little provolone, a hint of provolone cheese as well.

If I was on the pick crew trying to change the tires, like this analogy I would use for NASCAR, you know I have to do it real quickly. That was the way that I just devoured that sandwich during the break. So now I am fed nicely, I'm in a good mood, and I can only thank Dan Silverman for that one.

Now anyway, enough of Dan Silverman. We've got to get to a little Ask the Pros question of the day. It's time to answer Ask the Pros question of the day, and it's brought to you by O'Reilly Auto Parts. You can submit a question by tweeting at CBS Sports Radio or at Zach Gelb using the hashtag Ask the Pros.

You can think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all your car care needs at guaranteed low prices and excellent, and I mean excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Our guy, Delta 9 Brian, chimes in. He goes, Zach, what is your favorite bet for the big game?

Plus 4.11, it's the only bet so far that I've placed on the game, and I placed it last week. Anytime touchdown parlay. George Kittle, who's been dealing with a little bit of a foot injury this week and last week, and then Travis Kelce. I like big personalities in the big game.

There is no way that Travis Kelce is not scoring a touchdown. Kittle, I guess, is the riskier play, but you've got to feel a little uncomfortable to win money, as the great Stu Feiner would say. So you've got to feel a little uncomfortable with one. I'm actually very comfortable, though, and I feel confident with George Kittle, so maybe I should just say that I'm uncomfortable so I could start to maybe win some dinero coming up on Sunday. And, man, this turns into an expensive trip with tickets to the game. I'm going to the Golden Knights game on Tuesday night.

I've also got to find someone to go with. Did I tell you what transpired here with the Golden Knights tickets, Sampther? You may be going to the Golden Knights game tomorrow free of charge because I wouldn't charge you. But I thought I had a free ticket for the Golden Knights game, and then I found out that they were not free tickets and not as much as what you said, but pretty close. And I was just assuming it was one person going on those tickets. Now it's two people going on those tickets. So I have to find another person. If I can't find someone that's willing to pay the price, out of the kindness of my heart, or maybe actually Dan's busy on Tuesday.

I was going to say, after I got him that sandwich, maybe I would have just taken him free of charge, but Dan has some big fancy schmancy dinner that he didn't invite us to, you know, a real nice guy. Maybe I'll end up bringing you. You want to do the hockey on Tuesday?

That's certainly a possibility I'm looking for. I've never seen Conor McDavid play. I'm just impressed that you actually got his name correctly. Well, listen, I know enough about hockey. I thought you were going to say Conor McGregor for a second.

I can pronounce the names of the American and the Canadian players, but when you start asking me about the Eastern European players, Igor Vela, I can't do anything. Shasturkin? That one, there you go. Gotcha. There's a lot of names that I could give you that don't sound right on the radio, and I don't want Stu to be dumping anything or thinking about dumping something in the final segment of the show. Talking about something that doesn't make sense. Stu, you know that there's a lot of crap recently with your Lakers, correct Amundo?

That's right, absolutely. So Rich Paul makes it clear that LeBron's not getting traded. We know that LeBron can opt out after this year. So the Knicks are playing the Lakers over the weekend, the Lakers win, and LeBron is wearing a Knicks towel over his head while he's doing some interview after the game. Now, I know the Knicks were just recently speculated as one of those teams that could be interested in LeBron James. Who knows if that actually has legs or not, and who knows what LeBron James is going to do over the summer. All I know is he's going to opt out, and either he will stay in L.A. for another year or go wherever Bronny goes if Bronny does come out. But the mouthpiece for LeBron James, Brian Windhorst, or as his friends call him, Windy, he was on his own podcast, and this is what Brian Windhorst had to say about the towel that was a Knicks towel that LeBron James was, I guess, draping over himself after the game. Listen up. LeBron, this is what he excels at. He computes all this stuff. Of course he was cognizant and aware that he was putting on a towel that said New York Knicks, and why would he mess with the Knicks?

Because he was using the Knicks as a tool to pressure the Lakers. Stu, I'm going to try to not yell right now. I want to be peaceful. I want to have a moment of zen, let's just say, and do some yoga right now, be very just at peace in the final five minutes of the show. And how could my day be bad when Dan Silverman just gave me a Subway sandwich and I got moist mic sitting to my right, right?

Life cannot be better for yours truly. With all that being said, though, a Knicks towel is now being used as leverage to try to put pressure on the Lakers to do a deal from now until the trade deadline. Is this what we're really doing, Stu? Don't tell me this is what we're doing. Don't tell me that this mouthpiece for LeBron James in Windhorse, he's now pushing that a towel with a Knicks logo is pressure on the Lakers. That's bullcrap.

I almost just said a word that I couldn't say, Stu. Yeah, seriously, you are going to get dumped. That's, like, you don't actually believe that, do you? I know LeBron puts out the hourglass. I know that LeBron wants the Lakers to do something. What are the Lakers doing from now until the trade deadline when they could only trade one first-round pick and then the summer I was reading that they could trade three first-round picks, what are they doing that is not only just going to improve the team but make this team a championship contender this year? There's nothing, right?

There's nothing, Nicki. There's not a singular trade or move they can make that'll make them a championship contender. No way. I'm tired of LeBron.

I am. I like LeBron, but I'm tired of him. The drama this year, your team stinks, okay?

Let's just... Your team stinks. You're not winning a championship.

You're not winning a championship again in Los Angeles. This is what happens. LeBron, he goes to play. He wins. He wins a lot. And then he leaves, and the organizations most of the time usually go to bleep.

Like, that's just what happens. And I'm fine with it because, you know, one of those teams, you get the good times, and the Lakers got a championship out of this. But the drama now at this stage of his career, he's better than that. He is.

And I know Wintour's and him don't have the greatest relationship anymore, but that was his guy. To now use the towel with a Knicks logo, and this is some grand plan of LeBron James. Stu, if this is really his plan, I'm out on LeBron. I'm out. I'm done. I am done with LeBron James, Stu, if this is some big plan.

This cannot actually have legs to it, right? I don't think so, but you never know. I'm kind of with you. Like, I'm kind of over it, too. Like, if it's after the season, he's gone. I'm not going to really shed a tear.

I'm kind of over it as well. How? Now, Sam, I've got to ask you this. Stu has been beaten down a lot by his team.

You guys usually could relate. The difference between you and Stu, Stu doesn't jump ship. He's a loyal person. He doesn't say, ugh, I'm done with this team.

I'm just going to go to the new team and the great team and the team. Stu sounds beaten down. The Raiders brought him to edge, and they gave him a little Antonio Pier, so that sucked him back in. He is dunzo with the Lakers. He's out. I mean, cry me a river, Stu.

The world's smallest violin. I mean, you won a championship two years ago. You've got the second most championship in NBA history. I've seen six, so yeah. I've seen six rings. You know, so like, cry me a river, right?

Stu just said, Santa, shut up. I won six rings. Like, honestly, yeah. I don't care, man.

It's the world's smallest violin. It's like me complaining about being a Yankee fan, right? I've been to four world series. Well, you do complain a lot about the Yankees. I don't really care. No, I don't really care about that. I don't talk about the Yankees very much at all.

I don't know about that. I don't complain. I witnessed four championships, five championships. I got to go to the world series games.

I don't complain about that stuff. So Stu complaining about LeBron and the Lakers. And they went to the Western Conference Finals last year.

They won a title three years ago. He'll be fine. Well, to be fair, I don't think Stu was complaining about the Lakers. I just asked him a question and he agreed with me. I was complaining a lot about LeBron. I was tired of LeBron. Yeah.

As you should be. Stu is a Raider, a Notre Dame fan, a Lakers fan, a Yankees fan, a Liverpool fan. Liverpool's leading the Premier League table right now. I mean, Stu likes to go with winners. You ditched the Jets for the Chiefs. Yeah, you have no argument here.

Yeah, but you know what, though? I stuck with the Jets the whole time until then. Anyway, that concludes day number one on Radio Row.

Mike Pritchard, Solomon Wolcott, Eric Eger, Thomas Dimitrov, Brian Billick, Solomon Wolcott as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Trevor Lawrence, good to join us tomorrow. I'm excited for that conversation.

The guests will only keep on getting bigger and bigger throughout the week. We'll talk manana, everybody. I guess I'll get the times right.

3 p.m. Eastern, noon Pacific. We out. Buh-bye. Peace.

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