Craig Carton Questions the Kyle Shanahan COVER-UP: "This Story Doesn't Add Up!" artwork

Craig Carton Questions the Kyle Shanahan COVER-UP: "This Story Doesn't Add Up!"

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

July 28, 2026

Craig Carton and Chris McMonigle dive into one of the strangest NFL stories of the offseason, questioning why news of Shanahan's serious car accident stayed quiet for weeks.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle
**Craig Carton** (0:00)
That's what I'm talking about.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:01)
No, no, give it, yin and yang.

**Craig Carton** (0:03)
Tit for tat. Yeah, usually you say it that fast.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:05)
Quid for quo.

**Craig Carton** (0:06)
Say it which faster?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:08)
Tit for tat. You don't let the tit.

**Craig Carton** (0:09)
No, but you have to, if you have to set it's tit.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:11)
You let it linger.

**Craig Carton** (0:12)
For tat.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:13)
You don't let the...

**Craig Carton** (0:14)
It's not the same thing, dude. No, it's a different tit for tat.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:20)
There are two of them.

**Craig Carton** (0:22)
Yeah, typically. Typically, yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:26)
But typically you don't let the tit linger, it's right to the tat.

**Craig Carton** (0:29)
Tit for the tat. Tit for tat. But I don't think it's the same thing. We're not talking about the same object, are we?
Like when you say tit for tat.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:36)
No, you don't mean that.

**Craig Carton** (0:37)
What's the tat? What's the tit?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:39)
I have no idea.

**Craig Carton** (0:41)
We use it.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:41)
But I know they go together, otherwise there's a miscommunication.

**Craig Carton** (0:44)
I don't know why I know the same, but I don't... Because I don't know what it is.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:48)
Given take, tit for tat.

**Craig Carton** (0:49)
You think Chad Chibutino's?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:51)
Of course it does. Where it came from?

**Craig Carton** (0:53)
I'm looking it up right now. Tit for tat origin. All right.
Often...

**SPEAKER_3** (1:00)
Oh, interesting.

**Craig Carton** (1:02)
It comes from tip for tap, which meant a blow for a blow. You hit me, I hit you back.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:08)
Tip for a tap, okay.

**Craig Carton** (1:10)
And then as we started to bastardize the King's English, it then went from tip for tap when playwright John Haywood used the term tip for tat in his writings, around the same time as Shakespeare, it became the new version of it. It's not for the breast. No. Is what I'm getting at.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:30)
I figured it wasn't.

**Craig Carton** (1:31)
But I don't know any other, what are the definitions would there be for that though? You know what I'm saying?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:37)
No.

**Craig Carton** (1:37)
Tip for tat is a striking, a light blow and then receiving a blow back.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:43)
Right.

**Craig Carton** (1:43)
So if I punch you, that's a tip. Right. You punch me back. Tat. Tat.
There you go. We learned something here today.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:51)
There's also a bird. It's called after a bird as well.

**Craig Carton** (1:54)
What bird? The tit bird or the tat bird?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:56)
Tit bird. Yeah.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:57)
What kind of bird is that, by the way?

**Craig Carton** (1:58)
Can you eat it?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:59)
An active song bird.

**Craig Carton** (2:00)
Oh, you don't kill song birds. Everybody knows that. You ever kill a song bird and eat it?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:06)
No.

**Craig Carton** (2:06)
Right. That's the whole point.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:08)
A song bird?

**Craig Carton** (2:09)
Yeah, a song bird. Like a canary.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:10)
Like a robin or a...

**Craig Carton** (2:11)
Robin. Sure.
Cardinal.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:14)
Don't all birds like make some sort of noise?

**Craig Carton** (2:16)
They don't all sing, though. They're not all songstresses.
No, some just go, I mean, I know a chicken.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:21)
I know, yeah, I wouldn't say... I would say a rooster is a song bird, but...

**Craig Carton** (2:25)
No. I wish there was a song bird.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:28)
What are the birds do you eat?

**Craig Carton** (2:30)
Quail.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:31)
You could eat quail.

**Craig Carton** (2:32)
Small bones, though. Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:34)
You gotta be careful.

**Craig Carton** (2:35)
Yeah. Like you could choke on a quail bone pretty easily. You eat quail.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:39)
Quail eggs.

**Craig Carton** (2:40)
Quail eggs you eat. They're the tiny little eggs. Like with black spots on them. But I'm saying, like, I don't know... You eat chicken.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:45)
That's what I'm saying.

**Craig Carton** (2:46)
Right?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:46)
That's about it. What other birds do you eat?

**Craig Carton** (2:48)
Turkey.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:49)
That's true.

**Craig Carton** (2:50)
Pretty big one.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:50)
Yeah, obviously. Duck.

**Craig Carton** (2:52)
Duck. Yeah. You eat duck. But there's only one kind of duck you eat, Peking.
No, you eat pate.
You don't eat the whole goose. You eat the liver. Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:03)
Goose liver.

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