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00:00But we thought we would kind of stop down and have a little fun with you since we don't get
00:04you in person all that often.
00:06By the way, though, we should let everybody know what you're doing tomorrow on 95.7 The Game.
00:11I'm on Moschewski and Spadoni tomorrow. It's 6 a.m.
00:14Even better, Baldy. You're Bonte and Spadoni.
00:17You're out. He's out.
00:19I didn't get the memo.
00:21But guess who's in at 8.30 joining us? The Hall of Famer, Terrell Owens, baby. Let's go.
00:26Terrell Owens on the show.
00:27Popcorn.
00:28Baldy, to offset my absence, you need at least T.O., Baldy, and Bonte to come in.
00:32Stop.
00:33Okay.
00:35All right.
00:36But we thought each of us get a chance to ask you a non-sports question.
00:43Okay.
00:44Who wants to go first?
00:46Joe Shasky raises his hand.
00:48Ladies and gentlemen, go ahead.
00:49How many fights have you lost?
00:54Well, so here's the thing.
00:55Like, I hit this guy in the weight room one day.
00:57Oh, okay.
00:58Right?
00:58And it was a pretty good brawl.
01:01And I, you know, I felt like I won the fight, but I broke my wrist.
01:05Oh.
01:06So I'm the center.
01:07And so my snapping hand.
01:09So, like, I couldn't really just say, I hit this guy and I broke my wrist.
01:14Like, I had to wear a cast, but, you know, I was trying to pretend like it wasn't hurt.
01:19But the thing was a balloon.
01:21Oh, no.
01:22Like, so I think I technically won the fight.
01:24But I feel like if you have a broken wrist and you now got a snap to Jeff George with
01:29a cast on it, like, I probably lost.
01:31If you weren't, last one, if you weren't doing football, if you weren't doing football, what would you have gotten
01:38into in life?
01:40Oh, I probably would have been an orthopedic.
01:42I'd just been, you know, just, like, operating on knees.
01:44Doctor, sure.
01:45Yeah, I would have gone through that Duke medical school.
01:47Dude, he went to Duke.
01:48I know.
01:49He would have been fine.
01:50I want to follow up on Jeff George, though.
01:52I wanted to follow up on what caused the fight.
01:55You know what, is this what causes a lot of fights in NFL weight room?
02:00So this was an NFL weight room?
02:01NFL weight room.
02:02Okay.
02:02All right.
02:04It comes down to music.
02:06You know, it comes down to music.
02:07Oh, yeah?
02:08Yeah.
02:08And I don't care about the music, but when it's ear-splitting level,
02:13and I'm talking to the weight coach, and I can't hear the weight coach,
02:17then there's a problem.
02:19So somebody's going to have to catch five fingers straight down the hole.
02:23One guy in the fight played 12 years.
02:24The other guy lasted a year and a half.
02:27Uh-huh.
02:27Gotcha.
02:28So one guy got sent out of the league pretty quick.
02:30There it is.
02:31Straight on green over here.
02:33Okay, here.
02:34I want to do mine.
02:35The question is, if you could pick one place to go with one person on earth,
02:43and have one meal, what would be the answers to those questions?
02:48Where, with who, and what would you eat?
02:50I think I would probably take my girlfriend back to Bangkok.
02:53Okay.
02:54Yeah, just to have some street food.
02:55What a great answer.
02:56I spent 10 days in Bangkok this year.
02:58I'm like, I didn't know if I slept.
02:59It was open all night long.
03:01It was awesome.
03:02What is street food in Bangkok?
03:05Street food in Bangkok?
03:05What is that?
03:06They're just like, they've got these stir-fried things.
03:08Hot time.
03:08And they're just throwing things at them.
03:09They're working it up on the street right there.
03:12And it costs $6 or $8.
03:14And it's the best thing that you ate.
03:16Meanwhile, here, we've got the guy with the hot dog cart.
03:20Street meat.
03:20Street meat.
03:21Street meat.
03:22Maybe you'll catch a hot dog.
03:23I like a good street dog.
03:25Yeah, I got one.
03:26Mine kind of follows up with that.
03:28I just know we're going by it.
03:29Yeah, I mean.
03:29I mean, whatever, whatever, yeah.
03:31If you were going to be a competitive eater, what would be the food that you most would like to
03:37competitively eat?
03:40I feel like I can eat pizza with the best of people.
03:43Like, we used to have this place where it was two big pies, eight slices, right?
03:48So $16, and it cost $5 back when I was growing up in New York.
03:52I feel like 16 slices was just the start of a meal.
03:56You know, I feel like I could go pizza slice for slice with just about anybody.
04:01What is your favorite pizza place?
04:03Right now?
04:04Yeah.
04:05You know, they've got a bunch of places around my house.
04:09Ragazzi right there in Marlton, New Jersey.
04:12Totally.
04:12So where do you live?
04:14I live between Florida and South Jersey.
04:18Wait, Florida does pizza?
04:21I didn't know Florida.
04:22So he lives along the East Coast.
04:24Well, speaking of, I'm glad you're out in Florida because my question, because you are out on the reef all
04:28the time.
04:28I follow on Instaball, dude.
04:29I'm jealous.
04:30I live vicariously.
04:31Stalker-ish.
04:32I am a stalker.
04:33Yeah.
04:33I wish I could snorkel as well as you do.
04:35Have you ever had a near-death experience doing something like that or anything else?
04:41I got attacked by these jellyfish yesterday.
04:43Yesterday?
04:44I could not, like, literally, my back was on fire last night.
04:48I don't know what happened, man.
04:49And I, like, I saw them, but I didn't, I was, like, swimming between them because I was following this
04:54spotted ray yesterday.
04:56And I was kind of swimming with it.
04:58And these jellyfish, I don't know, they attacked me yesterday.
05:03But it was not near death.
05:04I'm just saying, like, that was the latest experience.
05:07But I haven't really had, I can't think of anything.
05:10Like, I'll be in Cozumel on Saturday.
05:13Sure.
05:13There's, like.
05:14It won't be.
05:15Yeah.
05:15So they've got these, they've got hammerheads there right now and these whale sharks that are breeding out.
05:21So I want to go see them.
05:22Like, maybe something will happen this week.
05:24Like, it would be horrible to be swallowed by a whale shark.
05:28Because they just open, they call it bottle feeding.
05:30They just open their mouth and let all the plankton comes in.
05:33And I want to get close enough to watch it, but I don't want to be inside.
05:36Sure.
05:37And it would suck for your last show to be with Spadoni and Bontag.
05:40Yeah.
05:42What?
05:42I was going to say the opposite.
05:46It could have been Maurice Jones Drew.
05:48Courtesy of the River Island's guest line.
05:51There you go.
05:51Stunny and goo?
05:52I mean, I'm sorry.
05:54You know, one of the things that always bothers me is a misconception.
06:00Yes.
06:01And, you know, I consider myself bi-coastal from outside Philadelphia.
06:06Yeah, yeah.
06:07And the one thing I grow tired of is these people out here that rip
06:14Philadelphia.
06:15Yeah.
06:16So I'd like to ask you, Baldy, as somebody who played for the Philadelphia Eagles,
06:21did you like Philadelphia Eagles fans?
06:23What do you think about Philadelphia Eagles fans?
06:25When I got done playing after 12 years, I could have gone anywhere to start this media thing I went
06:48on.
06:48I stayed in Philly because one thing about Eagle fans or Philly fans, they always show up.
06:56They always, no matter if you're good or bad, like, it doesn't matter.
06:59They show up.
07:01Yeah.
07:03Like, where are you guys?
07:05Do you guys show up?
07:07They're here now.
07:08Now when you're 6-11.
07:10San Francisco Giants on line one.
07:11Yeah, well.
07:13I went to the game on Tuesday.
07:16The pass is 30 games under.
07:18Matt, look at him.
07:18It's like, it's second to none.
07:20It really is amazing to watch.
07:22And I've seen some horrible teams.
07:25But, like, you know, from, like, look, they will boo Santa Claus.
07:28Oh, yeah.
07:29They booed every quarterback.
07:30Like, when they boo Jalen Hurts, I'm like, they booed Randall Cunningham, Ron Jaworski, Mike Vick, Donovan.
07:36They booed him all.
07:37Norm Seed.
07:38Like, I could go back.
07:39Great Norm Seed.
07:41Roman Gabriel.
07:42Roman Gabriel got booed right out of town.
07:43They booed Sam Sneed.
07:44Yeah.
07:45Let me ask you this, Ron.
07:46I hate to do this to you.
07:47No, no.
07:48But I'm blessed to have three kids, two sons and a daughter.
07:50I got a 23-year-old son who's like his dad.
07:53We got the same personality outgoing.
07:55And I got a 21-year-old.
07:57He's kind of an introvert, quiet.
07:58And I got to go in his room and talk to me, son.
08:00Let me know what's going on.
08:02And last night, he's been dating a young lady.
08:04She's been to a couple family functions.
08:06That's amazing.
08:07And he came in this morning, came to me.
08:10I'm headed to work.
08:11And he says, I don't think she's into me, Dad.
08:14And I go, why do you say that?
08:16Because I've seen her at the functions.
08:18Yeah.
08:18And he goes, well, she ain't texting me.
08:20She's not, you know, no text messages.
08:23And it kind of blew me away because the old, my era was we didn't have that.
08:28Right.
08:28The time is everything.
08:29So I asked you, Baldy, the great Brian Baldinger, when does a man know a woman's into it?
08:35Oh, my God.
08:37Dr. Phil.
08:37Great question.
08:38Oh, my God.
08:40Hold on.
08:41Hold on.
08:41Everybody lean in.
08:44Everybody lean in.
08:45Here's how you know.
08:46Yeah.
08:46When they care more about you than you do about yourself.
08:50Oh, that's sweet.
08:51That's true, though.
08:52Yeah.
08:52That's sweet.
08:53When a chick is totally into you, she's going to, like, she's going to be there, like, to
08:56help you get dressed properly.
08:58Right?
08:59They're going to, like, they're going to, like, make sure that you're brushing your teeth
09:02properly.
09:03Like, your hair is combed before you go out.
09:05They're just going to be into you.
09:06Okay.
09:07And then what after year 11, 16, what happens?
09:10Seriously.
09:1145.
09:12You'll find out.
09:13I bet you're 16.
09:15Are you?
09:15Yes.
09:15Sometimes, Joe, you have to take that girl to, like, Cozumel.
09:19Oh, man.
09:20Do the back of the show.
09:22And by Cozumel, you mean, like, just Chevys for chips and salsa.
09:26Yeah.
09:31By the way, by the way, so the two oldest in the family are both boys.
09:37Yeah, both boys.
09:37Less than five years apart.
09:38Yeah, two years apart.
09:40So, I was a psychology major.
09:41Oh.
09:41They will always be completely opposite.
09:44Oh.
09:44Always.
09:45Interesting.
09:45Because they're competing with each other from day one.
09:47Yeah.
09:48Interesting.
09:48So, one's an extroverted and is like you.
09:50The other one is the opposite.
09:51This guy, talk to me.
09:53Yeah.
09:53They're going to be opposite.
09:55It's never going to change.
09:56Yeah, Baldy wouldn't have any trouble if he didn't make the NFL.
10:00He would have been just fine.
10:02None.
10:03None.
10:03Good call.
10:04Although, we have to add in one more follow-up because there was so much
10:08conversation about food and you were an offensive lineman.
10:11Yes.
10:11This is always my, I'm so fascinated by how you guys keep the weight on.
10:16What was a normal food day like for you when you were playing?
10:20Well, I'll say this.
10:22Because we had two other brothers that played in the NFL as well.
10:25So, we had a big family.
10:27But I literally finished every day that I can remember with two peanut butter and jelly
10:32sandwiches and a glass of milk.
10:33Oh, so good.
10:3411 o'clock at night.
10:34That's at the end of the day.
10:35At the end of the day.
10:3611 o'clock.
10:36No matter what I eat, I finished it.
10:38I always went to bed without any hunger.
10:42Two PB&Js and a glass of milk.
10:43Two PB&Js and milk before I went to bed every night.
10:45What would happen leading up to that?
10:47Well, I mean, I had a deli right across the street from my house.
10:51So, there wasn't a, we called them heroes in New York.
10:54Italian sub.
10:55There you go.
10:55Like, I could eat a veal Parmesan hero, like, for breakfast every day.
11:01It'd be just fine.
11:02So, you had two of your brothers also played in the NFL?
11:05So, as kids, what was dinner like when you guys are, whatever, 14, 12, and 10?
11:11Your poor mom must have been cooking around the clock.
11:14So, she went to the store every day.
11:16And here's what was funny was, she started hiding food from us.
11:19But we knew where all the hiding places were.
11:21So, we went straight to the hiding place.
11:24I came home from basketball practice one time.
11:27It was my birthday.
11:28My mother made me a chocolate cake.
11:30When I got home, the cake was eaten.
11:33They didn't even save me a piece.
11:35It's all good.
11:36Got a lot, Brian.
11:37It's all good.
11:38Got a lot.
11:38We're hanging out with Brian Baldinger at the Red and Gold Summit, 95.7 The Game.
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11:53Yeah, we're having a blast.
11:55Before we go, we do want to get it back to Niners.
11:58See what everybody thinks about where this is actually going this year.
12:02If you were to put a record on this and how far you think the Niners are going to go
12:06this
12:07year in a very difficult NFC, what would you say?
12:09I would say somewhere between 9 and 11 wins.
12:14Right?
12:14That's where I would put it right now.
12:16I know they're going to have a winning record, but can they get to 11 and secure a playoff
12:22spot?
12:23Does 10 get you in if you get 10?
12:25I feel like it could be 9 up to 11.
12:28And I would have gone higher, except the Rams and Seattle are still so good.
12:31And I think the Eagles, Cowboys, and Giants are going to be good.
12:34So there's just going to be a lot of parity in the NFC.
12:38Who else do you think is going to be good?
12:39I mean, you mentioned those teams, but no one from the NFC North.
12:43Like, who?
12:44Vikings.
12:44Like, how many teams should be good?
12:46How many teams do you see as, like, true contenders to come out of the NFC?
12:51Like, I think Kyler Murray was the number one pick in the draft.
12:54Okay?
12:54Because he had a great arm and elite athletic ability.
12:57He is accurate.
12:58He's never played in those six years in Arizona.
13:01He never played on a good...
13:02The organization was awful.
13:04But he's now with Kevin O'Connell and a Viking organization that has built a good team around
13:08the quarterback.
13:09And Justin Jefferson is dying to get back to being the elite receiver in this league.
13:13Like, I think if Kyler Murray is good this year, like, they won 14 with Sam Darnold.
13:18Like, they could win 12, 13 games this year.
13:21They've got an elite defensive coordinator.
13:23They've got talent everywhere.
13:25Like, I think the Vikings could jump up and win that division this year.
13:28You think we're sleeping real quick?
13:30No.
13:30No.
13:30You think we're sleeping on Kansas City a little bit?
13:33Like, no one is talking about that team and that head coach and that quarterback.
13:36They almost three-peated.
13:38I know last year ended and Mahomes got hurt.
13:40I think he's going to be fine.
13:41And I think that's a team that no one is talking about could easily win.
13:45They love it.
13:45Not only the division and conference.
13:46I was in St. Joseph's, Missouri, two and a half weeks ago.
13:49And you can't tell that Patrick Mahomes had a knee injury.
13:52Oh, boy.
13:54He took every play in practice.
13:56Every play.
13:57Like, he never came off the field.
13:59And you, Andy, and him together are just such a, you know, they're just so united in how they see
14:05things.
14:06Like peanut butter and jelly sometimes.
14:08And milk.
14:10And milk, yes.
14:11Chargers and Broncos, though, also.
14:14I think the Broncos are the best team in the AFC West.
14:17Right.
14:17I think that they haven't done, like, they got Jalen Waddell for a reason.
14:20They needed a number one.
14:22I think Sean Payton is so disgusted with himself in that playoff loss to Buffalo that he said,
14:28Davis Webb, you call the plays.
14:30I'm going to coach this game.
14:31And we're not going to lose a game like that again.
14:33So, I think between Sean Payton, between the defense that might still lead the league in sacks, between what they
14:40have in a secondary, the same offense line coming back, I think they look like there's going to be a
14:46very difficult team to beat.
14:47I think their Chargers are going to be good.
14:48But they've already lost their starting center.
14:50And you lose your starting center, things just go south from there.
14:54Well, D, let me ask you this.
14:55And Niner fans might be mad at me, but I'm keeping it real.
14:58I think of McVay almost like I think of Kyle Shanahan.
15:02He's got a Super Bowl.
15:03Okay.
15:03Almost.
15:04He's got something upstairs.
15:05We've seen what Kyle's done with Jimmy Garoppolo, Brock Purdy.
15:08And a lot of people on my station, my brothers, act like, hey, if Stafford goes down, it's a wrap
15:15for the Rams.
15:15I feel like they are happy hours, so loaded.
15:18I'm looking at Ty Simpson, who's played big-time college football under the toolage of McVay.
15:24Do you get intrigued by that?
15:27Because I'm like, I don't know if it's over or something were to happen to Stafford with Ty Simpson playing
15:32with those resources and Nakua Adams and the rest of the game.
15:35But Stetson Bennett's to back up right now.
15:37Stetson Bennett's to back up.
15:39Uh-oh.
15:40Yeah.
15:41Oh, no.
15:43Clean up on Iowa.
15:45No, no, clean up.
15:46Clean up on Iowa.
15:48Clean up on Iowa.
15:50Can I hear him?
15:51No.
15:51There will be a big drop-off.
15:53Okay.
15:53Like, Stafford is as good as anybody that plays a game.
15:58Like, the throws that he makes to Puka in the middle of the field.
16:01No, I'm not arguing that, but Ty Simpson, are you high or do you feel like he had a good
16:05preseason?
16:06He had a good preseason.
16:07He'd be better off with Sterling Bennett.
16:08Shout out our favorite movie.
16:09There was no clean up.
16:10Is he still with us?
16:12All right.
16:12Let's go.
16:13I don't know.
16:14Go down the line.
16:14Might be better with Homer Simpson.
16:16Let's get a record.
16:18No.
16:18A record and how far you think they can go.
16:21What do you say?
16:23I'm going to go 10-7, and they definitely make the playoffs.
16:26I feel comfortable with that.
16:28And it might supersede.
16:30They did that last year, but 10-7 right now.
16:3210-7.
16:32Do they advance?
16:33How far?
16:35One and done right now to me.
16:37That's exactly like last year with fewer wins.
16:40No, last year they weren't one and done.
16:42They won a game, so they were two and done.
16:44Oh, two and done.
16:44Oh, so they won't win a playoff game.
16:45I got you.
16:46I got you.
16:47Yeah.
16:47Okay.
16:47Stiney, what do you got?
16:49Uh-oh.
16:50Let's put the – everybody's going to –
16:52Get the food ready, everybody.
16:53I smell 7 and 10 coming.
16:55No.
16:56Well, here's why you're going to smell 7 and 10.
16:58Because everybody's going to go, 10 and 7.
17:02That's safe 10 and 7.
17:04Let me tell you what's going to happen.
17:05It's not all going to be good.
17:07They're going 8 and 9.
17:098 and 9.
17:10Wow.
17:10You know why?
17:11Look – hey, you guys have never heard of anything called regression of the mean.
17:17Without Eddie Pinero last year, they probably lose two more games.
17:23They got a lot.
17:24The bounces went their way.
17:27That doesn't happen two years in a row.
17:30It doesn't.
17:31Just keep that in mind.
17:35Dan Dibbley.
17:37So 8 and 9, they don't make the playoffs?
17:38Correct.
17:39Right.
17:39Unless they're in the –
17:40Oh.
17:42Hey, somebody get the baldy laugh and we'll reconvene in late December.
17:47I'm not laughing at you.
17:47I'm just saying, Mike, there was a tongue-in-cheek.
17:50I'm just laughing with you, Stiney.
17:52Not at you.
17:53I appreciate it.
17:54To the NFC South, and then they win the division.
17:56Because that's the way that goes.
17:57The correct answer is 11 and 6.
18:00The schedule is much tougher.
18:01You face the AFC West.
18:03You face Dallas.
18:04You face a lot of tougher teams.
18:07And no regression to the mean.
18:09They were so decimated with injury last year.
18:12If they're healthier, if their quarterback's healthier, they're going to be just fine.
18:1711 and 6 is the correct answer.
18:19And they win the playoff game.
18:21Wow.
18:21All right.
18:23Wheel, I'm going 11 and 6 as well.
18:26I had, wow, everybody had you at 15 and 2.
18:29Yeah, I know.
18:31I got, I got 11 and 6, but here's the way I'll say it.
18:36Because it's hard to know about how many playoff games do they win.
18:40I don't know who they're playing.
18:41Are they home or on the road?
18:42What I'll say is that they go 11 and 6, and that is second place in the NFC West this
18:48year.
18:48They do not finish behind both the Rams and the Seahawks.
18:52See, I like that.
18:52And they, they, they do like that.
18:54That I like.
18:55The Rams win the division, the Niners win 11, and they are the top wild card.
18:59That's what I'll say.
19:00That's what I'll say.
19:01Butch?
19:02Yeah, I like 11, 5, and 1.
19:03I think they're going to tie this one.
19:05Yeah, everybody.
19:06Yeah.
19:07Woo!
19:08Who do they tie?
19:10Arizona Cardinals.
19:11They have a history of that.
19:12I don't know.
19:13But here's what I was saying.
19:14That's what they do.
19:15I think no one's brought up that I actually feel really encouraged about their, their playmakers this year.
19:20Stripling, Kalon Black.
19:21I think Jake Tonjes is set up for a monster year.
19:24Everyone's sleeping on him.
19:25We're talking a lot about Kittle.
19:26I like that.
19:27Tonjes was a great, reliable target for Purdy.
19:29He loves the big targets.
19:31Last year, they finished the Philadelphia game throwing to Juice and Demarcus Robinson for crying out loud.
19:38So I actually really like the young playmakers they have on this team.
19:41And defensively, as long as Nick Bosa plays 14 games, this team will win double digits.
19:46He has to play 14.
19:48If he plays less than that, they're in big trouble.
19:51But I really like them, like Mark, to compete right down to the wire for the NFC West.
19:56I don't think they're going to get it, though.
19:57I still think it's going to be the Rams.
19:59The Rams, to me, are sitting in the top spot.
20:03Voldy, I disagree with you on Seattle.
20:04I think losing the coordinator is huge.
20:06Dan Campbell's still searching for a coordinator.
20:09We saw what happened to Philadelphia when they had to hire new coordinators.
20:12I think we have no idea what Brian Fleury is going to look like.
20:16He's never called a game.
20:17That is a huge question mark for me.
20:19And they stayed extremely healthy last year.
20:22I just don't know if they can replicate that this year.
20:26I think they go 9-8.
20:28I think they go 9-8.
20:30Sneak into the playoffs.
20:31All right?
20:32They're going to make the playoffs.
20:33Hold on.
20:34They're going to make the playoffs.
20:37All of the 0-7 New York Giants, they're going to go on a roll.
20:41And they're going to win the damn Super Bowl, brother.
20:44Let's go.
20:47How do you like them apples?
20:49That should do it.
20:50You like that, Stiney?
20:51Well, we still have Baldy, but that should do it.
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