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Feb. 4, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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I checked some email during the break, and I found some people who are still confused about this unemployment business.
I don't blame you.
It's it's tough to follow numbers on the radio, even presented by such a highly trained broadcast specialist as me.
But look, here's from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this will this I think will help.
It's still convoluted, which is the because we're being spun here.
The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage points to 9.0.
That's the unemployment rate.
That's U three in January.
Non-farm payroll employment changed little.
We gained 36,000 jobs.
So we are supposed to believe that a measly increase of 36,000 jobs made the unemployment rate go down almost a half a point.
The unemployment rate, 9.0%, declined by 0.4 percentage points for the second month in a row.
The number of unemployed persons decreased by about 600,000 in January to 13.9 million while the labor force was unchanged.
The number of unemployed persons decreased by 600,000 while the labor force was unchanged.
Sorry.
That is not even mathematically possible.
Maybe the explanation can be found in the Bureau of Labor Statistics accompanying announcement below, which is changes to the employment situation tables and data.
After accounting for the annual adjustments to the population controls, the employment population ratio blah blah was unchanged.
So folks, just trust me on this.
If we're reading this correctly, after doing this apparently brand new annual adjustment to population controls, the employment to population numbers went up.
So the workforce, number of people with jobs, didn't go down.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just decided the U.S. population was actually smaller.
Bottom line is this.
What they have done, they've just taken a number of people, it has it, it's around two million, two million people who have stopped looking for work, and they've just decided that there are two million less jobs overall to be had, reducing the universe.
Now there's another way of looking at this, and it ain't good.
This is all about this employment participation business.
All kinds of new terminology being used here.
But they they're telling us the 26-year low in the workforce partition survey.
It's a 26-year low.
What that means is opportunity is at a 26-year low.
And we talk about the United States as the land of opportunity.
If they're simply going to erase two million jobs, because there aren't two million jobs that they used to be.
Well, we've had we're we we faced with a declining opportunity.
That's that is uh that that's not good.
Breaks my heart.
United States of America.
And from Gallup, Obama's approval ratings more polarized in year two than in year one.
Obama's job approval ratings were even more polarized during his second year in Orifice than during his first, when he registered The most polarized ratings for a first-year president since Eisenhower.
By most polarized, it's the strongly approve versus strongly disapprove.
And so there is he has come to divide, and he has.
Now, this Washington Post story.
Amid Arab protests, U.S. influences waned.
What this really means is that amid Arab protests, Obama influence has waned.
This story, folks, I'm gonna here's a brief summary of it.
This story maintains that we have lost on two fronts as a country.
We are no longer a force to be dealt with, and that we are no longer the light of freedom to the rest of the world.
That's what this Washington Post story says.
And why is that?
They don't say.
They just want to blame the country.
Why is that?
What's changed?
We always have been the light of freedom to the rest of the world.
We have always been a force to be dealt with.
What's changed?
Clearly, it's Obama.
We are not a force to be dealt with.
He's running around apologizing for this country as often as he can.
To whoever will listen.
No longer the light of freedom to the rest of the world.
What's he?
I mean, you can sprinkle in a lot of other socialist democrats as well.
But here's a here's a quote from the last line of the story.
Nobody's listening to America anymore, he said.
It's become irrelevant.
This is just some hack in the story.
Why is that?
Why has America become irrelevant?
This is what David Rodham Gurgen's so worried about when Obama goes out there and makes a speech and tries to take credit for this mob in Cairo.
Try to get out front of the mob and make it his.
This story is written by somebody named Liz Sly.
Now, this is a news article, not an editorial.
However, it reads as an opinion piece.
From the champions of democracy and the haters of dictators at the Washington Post.
Its dateline is Baghdad.
In days gone by, it was pretty much guaranteed that any demonstration in the Arab world would feature burning American flags and a blazing effigy or two of the U.S. president.
Days gone by pretty much guaranteed.
You get that.
At the pro-democracy demonstrations on the street of Cairo and elsewhere, do we know that's what they are?
We don't yet know that, do we?
We don't know that this is pro-democracy.
We've got a lot of people here hoping it is.
At the pro-democracy demonstrations on the streets of Cairo and elsewhere, where else is this happening?
What am I missing?
Yemen, Jordan?
Is that what she means?
References to the United States have been conspicuously absent, a sign of what some analysts are already calling a post-American Middle East of diminished U.S. influence and far greater uncertainty about America's role.
Well, I would think the Washington Post would be overjoyed at this.
Isn't this exactly what Obama said he wanted?
Obama has run around.
No longer is the U.S. going to tell people what they have to do.
No longer is the U.S. going to lead the world economically.
No longer is the U.S. going to be a dominating influence in the world.
Those days are over.
Obama has essentially said it, in so many words.
Isn't that exactly what the Washington Post wants?
Margaret or Madame Albright?
We need a competing superpower.
It's not good that the U.S. is the sole superpower in the world.
Why, that's that creates an imbalance.
Terrible possibilities.
Only if you think of the U.S. as a bad guy.
See, this is where these people lose us, and I know I speak for you.
You and I see nothing wrong with the United States as the lone superpower in the world.
We're the good guys, we're a force for good.
The American people are the solution.
We're not the problem.
But to people like Madeline Aldright, and I assume Obama and many of his administration.
The United States has been the problem.
In way too many places.
Why else apologize?
Doesn't the Washington Post want America to have less say in the world?
Don't they say we should let other countries take the lead for a change?
It's time yet ourselves out of every other nation's business.
For just as burning flags, this back to the story now, for just as burning flags are not part of the current repertoire, neither are demonstrators carrying around models of the Statue of Liberty, as ChICOM activists brought to Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Yeah, well, look at all the good that did him.
Being realistic.
Ask China's Noel Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
How much good it does to count on the U.S. for support or leadership in the cause of freedom if you can find him.
The Chicom's have him in jail.
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner is in jail.
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner just held a state dinner for the jailer.
Hu Jintao.
Middle East activists say that they avoid references to the United States as a political role model for fear of alienating potential supporters, said Tujan Faisal, the veteran democracy campaigner in Jordan, who has been advising young protesters in Amman.
I don't think America appeals to the younger generation.
I'm cautious not to present them with the American example because there's a negative attitude to America, a disappointment.
Yeah.
Uh what's changed?
The Post writes about this in the most curious of ways.
I thought the Statue of Liberty was a symbol about immigration anyway.
What was what why?
They revel here in the country being trash, and if they're not reveling in the country being trash, they're perplexed as to why it's being trashed.
Either way, we scratch our heads.
No one yet knows what kind of Middle East will emerge from Cairo's embattled streets, a newly democratic one, an increasingly radicalized one, or perhaps one in which authoritarian regimes tighten their grip.
But even though we don't know, we've got to do it now.
That's what Mr. Obama has decreed.
It must proceed immediately.
That's what he said.
Even though we don't know what kind of Middle East will emerge.
Events in Cairo are unfolding too rapidly to predict, but one possible outcome could be a more visibly anti-American drift.
The hell you say?
A more visible anti-American drift?
This, of course, ladies and gentlemen, could be why.
Mr. Obama wants to rush it through, of course.
Well, I know that's offensive to some, perhaps, to hear that.
Remember now we do have a president who runs around apologizing.
He does think this country's transgressed.
He does think that we need to be shown a thing or two, learn a couple of lessons.
Mainly because, apart from the one and a half billion dollars in aid we give Egypt, we haven't done a whole hell of a lot to enable Mr. Mamarik.
And apart from his keeping his hands off Israel, he hasn't done much to help us either.
In fact, according to former Ambassador John Bolton, Egypt has regularly led the opposition to any American moves in the UN.
Story continues, reform of a particular sort could actually bolster U.S. interests if it allows more open commerce and development of a strong middle class in societies often split today between a connected rich and a dispossessed poor.
Sounds like they're getting exactly what they want over there.
Anyway, the story goes on and on and on.
And as I say, it basically paints this country as a loser, no longer a force to be dealt with, no longer a light of freedom in the world, no longer a force for good.
And it's either that we deserve it.
Or somebody has made it happen.
In which case, you have to ask who.
And I don't mean Jintao.
Sit tight.
We'll be back and continue.
Open line Friday, the EIB network after this.
Robbie Harrison of the New England Patriots and now NBC Sports coming up in about nine minutes.
Before we get a couple calls here, the the one of the appalling piece, I think maybe the most appalling line in that Washington Post piece uh is this.
America has had its Mideast moments, not the least of which.
Now remember America has had our good moments in the Mid East.
Not the least of which was that Obama took office in 2009, pledging a new era in relations with the of all the things we've done in the Middle East, that's the thing that stands out to Liz Sly at the Washington Post.
Not that we've liberated 40 million in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Not all the other good works that we have done that.
No, no, it's Obama making a speech in Cairo that stands out.
The bottom line of that Washington Post piece is that the U.S. needs to change its policy.
Why are we losing?
Why are we no longer a light?
Why are we looked down because we have Israel as an ally.
That's what that piece is all about.
She writes a brilliant piece on why we've lost it.
She just gets it wrong.
It's Obama is why.
This is no longer a light of freedom place.
It's it's Obama is why uh influence is waning.
We don't we don't project power, we don't do things for good the way we used to.
Now, this Washington Post piece is all about trying to sever our relationship with Israel.
If we do that, and we're and it's a news story.
It's really although it's not, it's it's an editorial disguise as a news story.
If we just throw Israel overboard, folks, that's that's that's our answer.
That's how we get back our good offices in the world.
All right, here is Peter in Phoenix.
Peter, your next open line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh I was also raised in Missouri, what I affectionately call the greatest state in the Union, and my lifelong Democrat father uh made the mistake of plopping me on a tractor that only had an AM radio when I was about 15 years old, and well, he doesn't have a lifelong Democrat son.
Uh my question to you is in in the spirit of Super Bowl week, uh I I kind of got my rooting cap on, and they've kind of portrayed this problem in Egypt as some sort of blockbuster movie, but I don't know any of the politics behind it, and I guess my question is I don't know who to root for.
Yeah, it's a great question.
It is a great nobody knows who to root for right now.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
I have I've I've taken the council of people wiser than I, who, scholars who have paid attention to this part of the world, and have uh have studied our relationship with allies who are dictators, allies who maybe not passed the moral smell test, but balanced out, and I'm I'm telling there are a lot of people who would think on this we need to be rooting for Mubarak.
Well, and I'm inclined to agree with you.
We need to be rooting for the price.
If you're if you're when he was in power.
If you are concerned about U.S. national interests, Mubarak seems to be the root for.
But and that's I think that's why that you see so many people dumping on Mubarak, uh, both in the U.S. media.
There's so many people.
This is portraying this as a big democracy move, and it's why we, the U.S., we stand for democracy.
We gotta get behind.
The Muslim Brotherhood does not equal democracy to me.
I'm sorry, I don't, it just I don't get there.
They want an Islamic state.
Muslim Brotherhood wants an Islamic state.
I don't, Iran, half of Iran.
I don't know.
This is all aimed at Israel.
Everybody's got their ammo aimed at Israel over there.
That's what this is all about.
Indianapolis, John, I've got one minute.
I wanted to get to you.
What's up?
I hope the Navy never names any ship after Obama, and if the Navy ever decides to name something after Obama, name an anchor.
Because to me, Obama is no Ron Reagan.
He is the gum that's stuck on the sidewalk of the president have a fantastic Super Bowl, and thanks for all you do.
Thanks, sir.
Bye.
Wow.
Now there is the the true illustration of brevity being the soul of wit.
Well, did I hear him right?
Don't ever name a ship after Obama, but name an anchor after one.
Now that's brilliant.
And I've never heard that.
I'm sure you have.
I'm sure you military people, it's probably a long held joke.
You know, name an anchor after somebody, but it's a new one on me.
And boy, does that fit.
Okay, brief time out here at the bottom of the hour, Rodney Harrison, who you're going to enjoy hearing from.
The best safety to play in the National Football League, in the opinion of many.
Destined to be in the Hall of Fame now at NBC Sports, most recently with the New England Patriots to discuss this great Super Bowl matchup that we've got and other things coming right up.
And we are back.
It's open line Friday, it's Super Bowl Friday, and as always, we take a departure from our normal schedule of events and talk about the game.
And I'm really excited.
This is going to be fun.
Rodney Harrison joins us from his home in Atlanta.
Rodney, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Russ, how are you?
Thanks for having me, but you bet.
Um what I want to explore with you.
I love taking media conventional wisdom and asking people like you.
You've how many Super Bowls you played in?
I played in four.
How many won?
Two.
Two.
You miss it, by the way.
How many you've been retired two years?
Do you miss it?
You wish you were there?
Not at all, Russ.
You know, I I I've I've been playing football since I was six years old and played in four Super Bowls, and I just don't miss it.
When I walked away from the game, although I well, I was carted off away from the game, but um I I don't miss it.
I I'm enjoying retirement.
Now you're doing media.
Now now you're on the side of the of the bunch that is outside looking in, and we as fans really don't know how far inside the media gets.
What what's been your experience now?
Does um uh media really know what it's talking about say when it discusses in-depth preparations for a big playoff game like this one or a championship game, or are there things that they know that they don't tell us?
Well, I think um, you know, you look at individuals that have that you've played against that you probably play with, and you listen to their insight, and you know, most of the guys that are talking about football, they know exactly what they're talking about.
But you know, there's other guys that say or make big comments just to get attention.
So, you know, my experience has been since I've gone to the media side, I've had players act totally different towards me.
Um, guys that I was really close friends with, um, they won't even really pick up the phone call because they think I'm trying to pry for information.
So, as an analyst, a former football player going into the booth, you have to be able to separate yourself because there's a lot of people out there.
They don't like when you're critical of them.
People get mad, they get upset, players stop talking to you because they think you're personally attacking them, as opposed to looking at their own play and seeing that they're not very good.
Well, there are, you know, I can understand that.
I mean, uh, athletes in our culture are revered.
Uh, and it uh regardless what kind of people they are, if they if they have uh brilliance on the field, they are reported on in uh in way I I would never be reported on in ways that these people are.
And I can understand those people not wanting to have that upset.
Let me get to area conventional wisdom uh that we're peppered with every Super Bowl, every big playoff game, and that is distractions.
Super Bowl distractions.
Rothisberger took the offensive line out, had dinner uh on Tuesday night, became a big story.
Do you guys in a game like this?
Do you really get distracted?
Is it possible?
Well, it is distraction.
You you deal with anything from tickets that you have to deal with, you deal with um flights, people coming in, calling you, um, asking you, hey man, where's the party at?
I mean, the some of the smallest minute things people are calling you and and bothering you with, and you're like, I'm trying to prepare for the biggest game of my life, and you know, you got friends coming in, flying in from all different types of places, they're calling you and you're like, Man, get you you know, just take care of your own business.
But as far as Ben Rothesburger doing what he did, and people are making such a big fuss about it.
It's ridiculous.
It's a Tuesday night.
He's having fun with his buddies, his teammates.
He should be allowed to go out and have dinner.
And if he wanted a couple drinks, that's on him.
He's been playing football the last um six and a half, seven months.
What's the big deal if the guy goes out on a Tuesday night with his teammates?
He didn't break curfew, and he's not like he's hung over the very next day in practice.
If his coach and his organization didn't have a big deal about it or had um had any problems with it, why is everyone else?
This is just part of the distractions, part of the hype, and part of the nonsense that goes along with being in the Super Bowl.
What about the whole notion of um experience?
I've listened to Coach Tomlin, and he said, Well, I don't think experience matters once the game starts.
You might have butterflies and nerves up until that time.
Other people say it makes all the difference in the world.
A team like the Steelers that's been there uh far more frequently, more players than the Packers have.
Does it matter in a game like this?
No question it matters because it it you know, I look at one particular situation uh when we played against the Philadelphia Eagles, and you know, right before the game, we're all warming up, and what happens is you warm up for about say 25, 30 minutes, and then you have to go back into locker room and sit for about 50 minutes to an hour in a normal game.
You only sit for about 10 or 15 minutes, and then you come back out on the field.
Well, Philadelphia, they were jumping around, they exerted all this energy in that that brief time, but they didn't realize that it was a 50 minute wait.
So they came back out and they were tired.
But little experiences like that really make a difference, and I believe that Mike Tomlin, you know, he kind of brushed it over his shoulder, but it experience plays a huge part because now in those critical moments, you have those players that have played in those big games.
They're not as nervous as the other guys for the first time there them being there, and you know, they're not afraid to go out there and take chances on the field and and try to make a play.
Steelers number one defense this year.
Even their pass defense, which is unusual ranked high in terms of the average yards per completion that they allowed.
Um but Rodney, I'm I'm there were two games this year, the Patriots game and the uh and the and the New Orleans game, where they were lit up in the secondary.
I mean just and the way the way it happened was that it the way it's said to have happened is that both those offenses, the Patriots and the Saints spread them out four wide receivers, uh and basically took away Lawrence Temmins, linebacker from pass rush, kept him in coverage or off the field because they had to go dime coverage.
Um now the Packers have got all kinds of wide receivers.
They can go four wide.
It is is this is this a vulnerability you think the Steelers have, or do you think they've uh found a way to fix it?
Rush, I've talked this whole year about the way you attack the Pittsburgh Steelers and the way you attack them, they're fast, they're blitzing type defense, they're very aggressive, and you attack them by spreading them out.
And Tom Brady, we've done it, and and the the years that I play with the Patriots, we've had a lot of success because the way you you you you you force them out and you throw quick intermediate passes, you take shots, you challenge their cornerbacks, which I believe are the weakest part of their defense.
Now they have good cornerbacks, but they're not great.
So you tack those guys from the outside, and now you you're able to neutralize Troy Palomalu, keep him in coverage, keep him on a deep part of the field.
If you come out and spread the ball out four or five receivers, that forces Troy away from the line of scrimmage.
And he does so much damage along the line of scrimmage, and that's why these guys have had and Tom Brady and Drew Brees and those guys that can see and and especially with Aaron Rodgers, he has the ability to scramble outside the pocket, and that's what really makes him dangerous because you see James Harrison and these guys coming off the edge.
He has the ability and he's very patient in the pocket, but he can escape, and he's a very fast quarterback.
People don't understand how athletic this guy is.
So I think, you know, and I know you're a beloved pitch burst still as fan, but I believe Aaron Rodgers can beat this defense, not running the ball, but passing the ball forty to forty-five times, and I think Green Bay wins this game.
We're talking with Rodney Harrison, formerly of the uh New England Patriots, and now with NBC Sports.
Well, that's I've seen it.
I I I'll tell you where I first saw the beginning of of teams figuring this out was in the Super Bowl.
Kurt Warner and the Cardinals tore them apart in the second half, just ate the Pittsburgh secondary up.
Their pass defense is always where I've had, you know, as a Dyden the Wolf Steelers fan.
That's that you're right.
That to me Appears to be the weakness.
So here, here's the football question.
The Steelers know this, apparently.
Everybody knows it.
Four wides, quick release.
Aaron Rodgers can scramble.
Cornerbacks are fine, but they're not great.
Keep Palomalu away from the uh line of scrimmage.
So the Steelers know this is how they're gonna be targeted if they do.
What do they do?
They do what they all what they do best, and that's let James Harrison and these guys, they sky disguise coverage.
They uh bring cornerbacks, they bring linebackers, they drop offense, um, defensive linemen.
You just continue to do what you've done, and I think that's the myth about playoff football and the myth about playing in a championship game that you have to do something so outside of yourself and and and try something differently.
Just be yourself, be who you are, be who um who got you there.
And that's blitzing, that's playing a lot of zone coverage, that's jamming the receivers, and even when these receiver catch catches the ball down the field, they're gonna catch a lot of balls.
You gotta hit them in the mouth, and that's when r um guys like Ryan Clark, who's an intimidator back there, Palomalu and those guys coming across the middle, you have to intimidate and stay patient because Aaron Rodgers and this offense will be able to go up and down the field a little bit, but you negate them, you hold them to three points, force them in kicking field goals, and I think your offense can make some noise, possibly on that defense.
All right, hit them in the mouth.
No question, Russ.
Hit them in the mouth.
Contrasted, contrasted with the commissioner trying to keep that from happening, especially with helmets.
And are we correct or incorrect as fans?
We look at Super Bowls, and it seems that um for the most part, unless it's really flagrant, the refs let you play.
They not call they're not throwing a lot of flags in the Super Bowl.
Well, uh, you know what?
Now with with all these rule changes and um the heightened awareness of concussions and legal hits and things of that sort, especially with James Harrison, all the publicity that he received this year, they're gonna throw the flag, and there's a hundred million people that'd be watching the Super Bowl, and you best best believe the commissioner, he'd be one of those people, and they're gonna they're gonna be very conscious and cautious of you know those dirty hits.
James Harrison talked about it all year.
Um I think you know, you just go out there.
You can't you can't think about it.
You have to go out there and play, but James Harrison, he's too good of a player to put him s his team in a situation where it may cost them the game or critical third down or something if he lowers that helmet.
You gotta play within the rules, and and and really what I'm looking at from a standpoint of a guy that's done it and done it for a long time and finally stepping away from the game, Russ, you realize that you know what, the the league is trying to protect these players because I go out on the golf course, Russ, and sometimes the light hurts my eyes.
Sometimes I have dizzy spells because of the sun, because of the sensitivity to the light, because of all those concussions I sustain playing football.
So I suggest to these young players you got a life after football, man.
You know, you're gonna play tennis, twelve, thirteen years if you're fortunate, but life after football is more important because you have family, you have kids, and you have to take care of yourself.
Rodney, I mean, you were one of the hardest hitters the game has ever seen.
How do you balance that with what you just said?
How do you dial it back?
I I didn't, Rush.
I didn't.
It it didn't matter to me because I was in a different mindset.
I was in a different I I went out there and I played hard, and I tried to be intimidator, and I tried to make my reputation by taking guys out, not like trying to hurt like kill them and anything like that or injure them, but just trying to establish my reputation.
But as I've gotten away from football, and I realize, you know what, there's life after football.
I'm removed and I have four kids and I have a wife, and I realize how much they depend on me and they need me to be able to function mentally.
You know, I realize that.
That's why I'm using my experience and my platform to let these guys know.
And fans call me, oh, he's a hypocrite.
I'm not a hypocrite.
I made mistakes during my years of playing, but at the same time, I'm trying to keep these guys from sustaining concussions and and and dealing with the headaches and the migraines and the lack of sleep sometimes that I go through.
Yeah, but Rodney, you know, half the time you had a concussion, you wouldn't even tell 'em.
If they couldn't figure it out, if the staff you wouldn't tell them because you don't want to come out, and you didn't you didn't want anybody thinking you were susceptible to them.
Right.
But that was part of my mindset when I was playing the football because I had this gladiator mentality.
I didn't care.
I had no regard for my body and my and my future.
It was all about the moment now.
But if you can educate these players and let them know that football's not everything, and that you know, your family and and your life for the next thirty years after you retire or forty years is more important, and that's my job, and and that's what I'm gonna use my experience for.
All right, gotta take a quick time out.
This is Rodney Harrison.
And uh we'll be back and continue here.
Super Bowl Friday EIB Network back after this.
And we are back, number thirty-seven, Rodney Harrison.
The New England Patriots, prior to that San Diego Chargers with us.
You told us about the vulnerability of the of the Steelers.
Spread them out four wides, take advantage of them that way.
What is the Packers' vulnerability?
If you were coaching the Steelers, what would you tell them to do?
I would tell them to make sure you have a balanced offense, make sure you run the ball, you you do a lot of play actions, a lot of screens, and you and you you're aware of Charles Woodson.
Um his presence in the run game, his presence in the blitz packages.
He's one of those guys where you have to know exactly where he is at every single play.
Well, how do you do that?
You gotta call him out.
You just there's something about Charles Woodson.
You you pay attention to him because he's lined up in the slot, and he's not on, especially on third down, he's he's rarely lined up outside as a cornerback, but he likes to blitz, he likes to move around, and you have to move your receivers around to make sure if he follows the receiver, that means he's playing man-to-man coverage.
But if he stays in a zone when the receiver goes in motion, that means he's either blitzing or it's a zone coverage.
So those little type of tidbits that Aaron Rodgers, I mean, at Ben Robinsberger will have to pay attention to.
Just make sure you know where he's at all the time.
Rodney, is a sports media biased.
How'd you get along with them?
Um had I got along with yeah, they're b they're biased.
Some of them are.
Yeah, I've had relationships with guys that, you know, I've played terrible, and they've said they've come out and said, you know what, Rodney, you've you played terrible, and they were very critical of me of things that have gone on in my career.
But I had other guys that I had bad relationships with that um I played well in the whole year.
You know, they they would say nothing but bad things about me.
So they're very biased, but I think for the majority of the people that are uh media related, I think they're fair and I think they're pretty honest.
How many well, I'm not trying to provoke a cause any trouble here.
Yes, you are.
How many of them are groupies with a pen?
Excuse me.
How many of these how many sports reporters just groupies?
They just uh they they're wannabes, and they've got a pen or they got a camera.
Um How many of them really know the game, Rodney?
How many of them really know what to talk to you about?
You know what?
I I look at guys, you know, really I look at guys that are fair.
I look at guys that um and I'm not gonna name any names, but I look at guys that when they're wrong about something, they're not afraid to come out and say they're wrong.
I look for guys that um if they make excuses, you try to stay away from them.
And guys know who they are, and guys will stay away from first from certain guys because they have a bad reputation, and guys, like I said earlier, guys try to make a big statement just to get attention because you you look on ESPN, Fox, MBC, we're all talking heads.
We all think we know we got all the answers, but there's always certain guys trying to make big statements to get that attention.
Right.
Okay, I've got a minute here.
Eighteen games.
I got a minute for you.
I got one question for you.
How's your golf game and and what is that process like for you?
Um, you know, because I've seen your golf swing and it was bad at first, but now it's starting to get better on the show.
It is getting better.
I've the I the only reason I did this show is to try to get better at something I'm not very good at.
Uh because I love it.
And I I just want to enjoy playing it more.
And it actually is improving.
The next two episodes don't miss them.
This is people are gonna people are I think gonna be shocked uh with these next two episodes.
I'm Russ, it has to be frustrating for you to be able to play some of the world's most beautiful golf courses yet not be able to play them as well as you want to play them.
Well, there's uh there's two schools of thought.
A, it's great to be out there on the right side of the grass.
And to be able to be able to see those things.
But yeah, that's the whole point.
I mean, I those of us who are not athletes, envy those of you who are.
You make it look so easy, and it isn't.
Uh and it's it's for me, it's it's just trying to to enjoy it as much as I can when I'm out there and get better at something that I'm not uh very good at.
Okay, so Rodney at twenty seconds here, you really do think the Packers win.
I I think the Packers win.
I have a lot of respect for Pittsburgh, their organization.
I think they're first class, everything, but I think this is Aaron Rodgers' time.
Well, this is a guy who never lost to the Steelers in the playoffs.
The Patriots had their number.
And if anybody knows how to do it, it'd be Rodney Harrison.
Thanks, Bun, for your time.
I appreciate it.
It's um it's always a thrill to talk to Rodney Harrison wherever you see him and whatever the circumstances.
And we've got a brief timeout.
We'll be back with more right after this.
Well, you heard it.
Rodney Harrison thinks that the Steelers'secondary can be had with four or five wide receivers on Sunday.
We're waiting on James Farrier and Larry Foote of the Steelers.
It's touch and go.
Depends on when their practice ends and if they have time.
And if they can squeeze it in, they'll be calling us sometime in the next hour.
We'll be here.
So will you.
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