July 29, 2024 • 38 mins
Chris and Rob explain why they had a problem with Dawn Staley’s recent comments about Caitlin Clark getting left off the Women’s Olympic roster and debate whether or not Patrick Mahomes is doing the right thing by consistently taking less-than-market value contracts from the Kansas City Chiefs. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Eddie House swings by to discuss Jayson Tatum’s benching against Serbia, whether or not Tatum gets the respect he deserves across the NBA, how this offseason of discontent might impact the Boston Celtics moving forward, whether or not LeBron James is still a top-5 player in the NBA and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
The big story, of course, was that Caitlyn Clark was
left off of Team USA and Don Staley, the former
WNBA player and legendary player and coach now for South
Carolina University of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
She was a part of the selection committee.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Rob g I believe and here's what she said when
she was asked about Caitlyn being left off the Olympic team.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
As a committee member, you're charged with putting together best
team of play the best talent. Caitlyn is just a
rookie in the WNBA. Wasn't playing bad, but wasn't playing
like she's playing now. If we had to do it
all over again the way that she's playing, she would
be in really high consideration of making the team because
she is playing head and showed us above a lot
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of people shooting the ball extremely well. I mean, she
is an elite passer. She's just got a great basketball IQ,
and she's a little more seasoned in the pro game.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
In a couple of months, Yeah, in a.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Couple of months, and she was two months ago.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Rob poppy Cock boulder dash rubbish, Really, Chris, they didn't
know she could play, like they needed to watch her
for two months in order to say whether or not
she should be on the Did they watch the college
women's tournament?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Chris?
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Did they watch that at all? Seriously? To say that
they needed two more weeks to evaluate her and whether
or not she belonged on the Olympic team is the
biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever heard. I know she
can play. What are you talking about? Maybe, okay, maybe
she wasn't going to be the starter, Chris, or you
had some more seasoned players, but the city here and
(02:09):
say that she wasn't one of the top twelve or
fifteen players in the country to represent the USA for
the women's team, and you needed a couple more weeks
really that she oh, she had a great two weeks,
and yeah, we would have had two more weeks, we
would have.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Put her on nonsense. Stop it, Come on, I Rob
Parker is fired up. I am, You're excited to see me?
I guess.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I mean, I don't remember. I wasn't on vacation last
week and got fired up. You are hyped? Come on, Chris?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
With or she well? Is she definitely one of the
best twelve Americans.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't know yet. I'm not certain what I am
certain of, Rob. They blew an opportunity she was playing.
It is true that now she is bawling, But I'm
not sure Rob, if she started her career because she
was still playing well, but has she started a career
(03:08):
playing like she has for the last month or so,
would she have been on Team USA, Rob, I got
to be honest, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I think there was some.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Jealousy, resentment, maybe not even wanting to play into the
whole you know thing about Ray's sexuality, what you know,
all the different topics that were following Kaitlyn Clark early
in her WNBA career. Maybe they didn't want to deal
with that. But the bottom line, Rob, is that they
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blew an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Period.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
If Caitlyn Clark's on this team, you're still gonna win gold.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But if she's on the team, more people are watching.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And it's true, I do think rob there would have
been a a big push among American fans to have
her play a lot, you know, like we're talking about
Jason Tatum getting bitched. If she didn't play a lot,
there might be some backlash. But she was definitely good
enough to be on the team, whether she's top twelve.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That's what I'm saying. That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
They just blew. I just think they blew an opportunity. Yeah,
I know, to come back now. You just be better
off to just say we just picked it. Of course,
whenever you do a team like this, Chris, there's always
gonna be some great players left off and we can't
take everybody. That's a better conversation for me and and
to hear that rather than saying if we had evaluated
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her for a couple more weeks or a month or whatever,
would she wasn't.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Playing that she was playing well, That's what I'm saying.
I mean, again, not as well as she has been lately,
but she was still.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Playing well exactly, and you.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Could have argued nobody would I mean, people would have
got mad because they got mad that she was you know,
all the other accolades she's got, But it would have
been justifiable to have her on the team. And Rob
the fact that and she didn't have a great game.
She only had four points. She did have ten assists
in that All Star Game against Team USA, But Rob
the fact that they beat Team USA, and I think
(05:17):
they may have beaten them in twenty twenty, Rob g
maybe check that out.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I think they may have beaten him in twenty twenty
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But the fact that they beat them, Rob, and you
had the basically the two most popular players in the
game were Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese playing for the
WNBA All Star team. I think that makes it look worse,
Rob right, that they left her off right, because like,
oh no, on, they just.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Beat you, right, she couldn't make your team, right, It.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Doesn't make any sense. And I think that they were trying.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
To smooth it over and make people feel better about it, like, oh, wow,
she's playing great now, and man, we wish we would
have known this.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Going with you right, know how good she is? Wow,
you're too right, That's all.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's the only issue I really have is that It
just doesn't make any sense just say what she got
left off because there's so many great players in this
country and we had a team set up, and there's
a ton of people we've left off, you know, over
the years, and she just happened to be one of them.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And accept that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The fact rib that Mike Tarrico asked about it shows.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You that they blew an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It shows you that they right, Like he's why is
even asking her about that, right? Because she's the most
popular women's player in the world, That's why, and that
should have informed Team USA. I mean, you got and
look shout out to Diana Tarassi. I don't have a
problem with her being on a team. Was she forty
two years old? Forty two years old something like that?
(06:51):
I get Lebron's up there too, but Lebron is actually
and Tarassi I think had a pretty decent game.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And now, yeah, I just think.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That they, like I said, they missed an opportunity to
get eyeballs on that team and now they're going to,
for lack of a better word, suffer for it because
I don't think their games are gonna be as watched
as they would have otherwise been. And people are gonna
be far more focused on the men's team USA.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
And then I think Steve gave the record was the
women's seventy and one, Chris, if she was on a
team or not, would that really have affected whether or
not they win the gold? I mean seventy and one,
like really like it was that that big of a
deal on trying to decide who's going to play, And
I'm sure she could have easily been on that squad,
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and it just didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Rob g jumping here.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
For so well, this is just quickly for you guys
for the last segment, especially somehow in the game that
the USA women also won by twenty six points, every
single player was able to get minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I don't know how they were to figure how'd they
do that? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
And then you know Diana Tarazzi forty two years old.
How to get her on the team because she's invaluable, right,
couldn't get her over Caitlyn Clark, dad at Tarronzi in
fifteen minutes of action, scored two points, had one assist,
three rebounds, and three fouls.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Very nice. I mean Clark can't do that, man, Let's
just keep it it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Was a lot of petty pettiness then, right, and Chris jealousy.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
It was jealousy, but because she got so much attention,
the numbers that they got on on her games and whatnot,
they just they it was it was almost like almost
like Chris, like when Michael Jordan was his first All
Star game and they didn't want to turn it over
to him like they did. They were like, this, dude,
that the NBA is not going to just give him everything,
(08:45):
you know what I mean. So we're gonna We're not
gonna pass on the ball. We're gonna do this, We're
gonna do that. Like that's what it turned out being.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
No, I think that's very that's right on the money
and what they need to And I do think rob
I could be wrong, but I think they are coming around.
First of all, I think there was legitimate question among
some players in the WNBA as to how good Caitlyn
(09:13):
Clark was. I mean, I think they knew obviously she
was a phenomenal college player, but I really think that
they were one is she.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Really all that?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And now the way she's been playing this last three
four weeks, they know now, And I feel like there's
a little more acceptance.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Of her, and there should be.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And what they need to recognize is, look, obviously you
compete against her and you try to beat her. But
the more popular she gets, the more popular and the more.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Money we get.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Am I wrong with I mean, you're not gonna get
as much as her, but she is going to li
if your league to the degree that one person can
lift a female basketball league.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
She really is. I get it.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
But people in the game who know the game just
a little surprised that they watched her. Chris, She's not
like she was a one year wonder. They've been watching
her for years. Last year we got a real glimpse
people paid attention to her, right, and we got this year,
and then for people still to have these questions, not
(10:29):
to be to start a team, but to even make
the team. I just wonder how basketball people didn't think
she could play or didn't think that much of her.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I think it was probably rooted in to your point,
jealousy of you know what I mean, Like, instead of
objectively looking at her, it was like, all right, we're
gonna see you know, because she was even in college,
her ratings were through the roof.
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Speaker 3 (11:35):
Jordan Love got his money, didn't he match?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, what four years to twelve or something like that.
I thought more than that. I think he robs it.
What are the numbers on these to twenty? He got twenty?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I think he matched Trevor Lawrence and Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Is that correct? That is correct for Jordan.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
But it was two twenty and two got to twelve? Correct? Correct? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So now with those guys getting that much, you know
in salary. Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the league
is no longer in the top ten highest paid quarterbacks
per year. And he was asked by a friend of
the show, Jared Bell, longtime NFL USA today. Yes, and
(12:26):
he asked Mahomes if he was fell underpaid. And here's
what Mahomes said, not necessarily. I think we do a
great job of managing my money to be able to
pay me a lot of money and keep a good
team around me.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I know we've kind of restructured.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It a couple of times and got the cash flow
up in certain spots and in certain years. It's about
having a good dialogue and good communication with the front
office with ownership. We've done that here. We've been able
to allow me to be a highly paid guy while
at the same time build a great team around me.
(13:07):
And Rob what he's talking about is because his deal
is ten years. We talked about this on First Things
First today. Because his deal is ten years, they can
move his money all over the place and if he
wants like meaning they can give him more money, which
they have done, and if he wanted to, he could
(13:29):
demand more money.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Obviously they got to pay him more.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
But from twenty twenty three, and this is according to
Mike Florio, Rop of course Pro Football Talk from twenty
twenty three to twenty twenty six, Patrick Mahons will get
more money than they quarterback. He's gonna get two hundred
ten point six million, Lamar Jackson will get two hundred
and eight, Deshaun Watson will get one eighty four, Joe
(13:55):
Burrow won eighty one, and if he gets all his money,
Daniel Jones with one sixty. So Mahomes is getting his
money because of the way that contract is set up.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So I got no issue with what Mahomes is doing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I actually think he's got his priority straight. He's clearly
making a ton of money. Even if you just say, okay,
he's only getting you know, the number that's on the
books is forty five million a year. He's he's still
wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's a capped league.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So you do have to, you know, if you lose players,
if your quarterback or certain other players are making so much.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I would like if he if the cost.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Of you know, he's willing to give up a little
money to keep some better players and have more chances
of winning the Super Bowl, and he's still filthy rich.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I actually think that's.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Smart I'd rather make forty five million a year, have
five or six rings super Bowls because I'm trying to
be the greatest ever. If I'm him, they make fifty
five million a year and maybe have.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Three Super Bowls. And so I got no issue with
what Patrick Mahons do. I have an issue with what
you just said. And here's the problem I have.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Is that you naturally correlate that winning rings is because
he takes less money. That's not why he wins. It's
his talent. It has nothing to do with ye, but
you can't. He's lost players, he's.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Still great, but that doesn't mean you're gonna do that
every loss.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
In spite of that because he's a great player. It
has nothing to do with how much money he makes
or if he was making fifty is it million? Yeah,
but they're paying guys who aren't even as talents as
him way more money. Chris, you must just acknowledge and
you know this a lot of people. This is not
(15:48):
rob Bapedia, This is not me talking. It was the
worst contract anybody could have ever signed who had the
leverage that Patrick Mahomes signed. It was sixteen million guarantees
on a half a billion dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Hear what I.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Said, No, I'm just over the In the next forty years,
he's gonna have more money than any quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
When he signed the deal, he had the ultimate leverage
of a guy who was a young quarterback who had
won a Super Bowl in an MVP. He should have
set the standard for the rest of the quarterbacks and
for the rest of the league. Instead, he took a
piss poor deal that now they have to kind of
finagle and and throw smoking mirrors and tell you, well,
(16:30):
still he's gonna if all this work, he's still.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Gonna get his meal.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
All I know is ten other guys, eleven guys make
more money than him, And if he's the best quarterback
in the league and he keeps winning, he should be
the highest paid.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's not a it's just Tom Brady wasn't always the
highest It's just as some Tom brad he except he
retired with the as the person who had made more
money than any player, and he still.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Didn't do justice for it. So he got maybe three
d and thirty sixty million, I think, and he would
four hundred minutes. He played for fifty years. Of course,
he made more money than anybody.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Nobody played that long Chris and the Longeviarty thing when
it talks about money. The bottom line is Patrick Mahomes
took a terrible deal and he should be the highest
paid quarterback.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That ten or leven change every year. That that that's
not about who's the best. I'm just talking about.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
But you keep saying that, oh, he'd rather take five
million or ten million less and win more Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It doesn't go hand in hand, is what I'm saying.
And but what my point.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
What you know, what does go hand in hand, or
or can can go hand in hand, is if you
if the quarterback takes less money, there's more money to
go get better players, and that increases your chances of winning.
But I mean, if you, if you are the tight
to say, I gotta get as absolutely as much as
(17:56):
I'm worth my teammates, so the quality of my team
be darned. That's fine, that's your right. But if he's
like man, I got money galore, my children's childrens will
be filthy rich and their children as well. And I'm
still making I'm making tons of money, and I got
a better chance of winning every year.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I got no issue with that.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Did you see Matthew Stafford didn't come into practice until
they restructure his deal. That dude has all the money
he's made, and they won a super Bowl, they paid them.
They gave him a ridiculous contract even then, and that
dude told them I'm not coming unless you restructure and
fix my deal.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
He not coming in and guess what they did. They
fixed it.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
And my only point, Chris and you that the way
you look at it is fine if that's you and
that's Patrick Mahomes, But that doesn't mean he didn't take
a bad deal. And if you talk to most agents
in the business and most executives and just on forget
about feelings and what you want to do. But whether
or not it was a good deal he got, he got.
(19:03):
He took a horrible deal, and the Chiefs took advantage
of his kindness. Nobody's saying he has to ask for
a gazillion dollars and leave nothing for anybody else. But
there ain't no way three super bowls in he should
be the eleventh highest paid quarterback in the league.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It just me if it's such a bad deal, then why.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
From twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six is he
gonna make more money?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Than any quarterback.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I don't know why is he the eleventh highest payer.
I mean that that might be, that might be the
smoke in the mirrors.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It ain't no smoking case. So I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm looking at this chart, and from twenty twenty three
to twenty twenty six, according to Mike Flourio, he's going
to make more money than any other quarterback because they
can adjust his money every year. So with justin now
and give him more money what they clearly have, he's
gonna get to hundred ten million.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Andrew brid and shn in Burrow and he works it.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
He worked in the front office and said they could
do whatever they want.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
He said they could kick the can down the road.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
He says, it's it's it's it's it's nonsense that they
make it like, oh, we can't do this, we can't
do that. They can do whatever they want to do
if the chiefs want to make it right and adjust
other people's money to make sure that their quarterback is
by far he's the best.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Guy in the league.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
He's going to be the more highest paid and we're
gonna do whatever he takes to do that they could
do that, that's all I'm saying, Chris, you could do
whatever you want. If you're telling me that they could
adjust Patrick Mahomes contract, they could adjust anybody else's contract
on the team as well to make sure that Patrick
gets his money.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's all. No, they can.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He should be not only the highest paid player in
the NFL, he should be the highest paid player.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
In American sports. But I think he's got.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
His priorities in order. He's still making tons of money.
He's still going to make more than any other quarterback
from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six, and he's
got a better chance of winning Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He as great as he is, you still need great teammates. Still.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They got the greatest, arguably the best defensive player in
the league in Chris Jones.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
He got paid.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
They got arguably the best tight end for that. But
he got paid, and Travis Kelce.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Tyree Hill had the bounce to us left. Sneid left,
Honey Badger left, and they replaced them with good players.
And so I'm just saying I need that just lost it.
And I'm speaking from experience.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I've been in a good situation and I've fortunately my career.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I've always been in good situations.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But I've been When I was at ESPN, I could
have went somewhere else for more money, but I was
happy and content with where I was. And I state
that he has been made less?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Can I say this though? And I was great and
and like, I don't think the happiest people are the ones.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That gotta chase every last dollar and fred over every
last dollar.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
I didn't say that. I didn't say I'm just telling you.
I mean, that's what you sound like, though, I just
don't believe in that you should be. That's their responsibility
to front office to figure out the money. That's not
your responsibility. It's nonsense to put that burden on yourself.
What are the other people paying? Feels is a.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Burden that he has to do with the willfully? Have
they left?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Have they lowered the ticket prices in Kansas City on
the eighteen dollar beers or the twenty two dollar pizzas
because Patrick Mahomes took less as the fans there at
the Chiefs fans if they got a break because Patrick
Mahomes took less money, did tickets keep going up?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Go look at the ownership and the money they're putting
in the bank. It's to say taking less money. It's
a capped lead. No, but that doesn't mean any so
it's off cap, but it's a cap.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
They can still do what they want. I'm not This
is not me.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I'm talking to people who have worked in the NFL
front offices. They say it's a con that they can
do whatever they want, and they give.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You there you can keep pushing the money down the line.
But if I'm an owner of a team, I'm not
pushing all that money down.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The line all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Sometimes I will, but sometimes I won't. They got they
gonna do their business too. I mean, that's why the
Dallas Cowboys are in a mess right now. They got
three guys they need to sign. They haven't signed one
of them yet. So if it was an uncapped league
like baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Sure, but this ain't. Patrick Mahomes, like I said, If.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Florio's correct, he's still gonna get more money than any
quarterback from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I'm supposed to be shedding tears for him, and
then he's on his way to be in the goat.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
And then they use it, and then they're using Patrick
Mahomes as as the poster boy for for welfare in
the NFL?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Really, how's that working out?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Every quarter back that signs is getting more money than
they're using them, But they didn't work in Even Jones
is telling everybody the radio Undallas, Oh Dad and c D.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Land, why don't you take look at what Patrick Mahomes did.
You should give us a hometown discount.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
The Cowboys are the highest working h franchise in sports
history asking for a discount.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Can you imagine that and using Patrick.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Mahomes as a as a poster boy on why they
should take less money than the market value?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Plea? Did it work? Did it work with the Jaguars
and Trevor Lawrence? Did it work with the Packers?
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Now?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Did it work with the Packers and Jordan Love? Did
it work with the Bengals and Joe burd Ain't nobody
getting less because of Patrick.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Mahomes but the US?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
But they're using him, but they're using all they wanted,
the idea that that Patrick Mahomes is the post they
need to retire that land.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Everybody in their mama getting paid. So I don't know
what you're talking about with that. They can say it
all they want. Then you just say no, this ain't
Patrick Mahomes. Let's move on and give me my fifty
five million a year. That's what's going down.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
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Emmy Award winning broadcaster ar Man Eddie House.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
What up the house?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Yo? Yo? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
How you.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
I'm great man? How you guys feeling?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We're good man, We're good.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Look, we and everybody that listens to.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Our show regularly knows you are a Celtics homer. So
as you watched Jason Tatum sit on the bench for
the entirety of yesterday's game, what thoughts were going through
your mind?
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Oh? I had a million of them, but I'm gonna
keep it. I'm gonna keep it censored. And so what
I was it was the divide and conquered tactic. I
felt like it's like, oh, we're gonna play everybody else.
You the best player, one of the best players on
the team, one A, one B. However you want to
do it between him and Brown, But you got two
(26:39):
of the other guys getting all the minutes and you
don't get know me, Oh that's a divide and conquered tactic. Oh,
I didn't like it. I didn't like it at all,
because that's the only way they can stop this wave
that we got coming.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I was wondering about that, right and I think I
am mean, it's just odd because the thing is Tatum
can play defense like and I'm fine, I get it.
White and Drew that's their specialty, their role players.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
But it was it was definitely odd.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I mean, do you think this will just motivate and inspire? Now,
maybe maybe Jason will play twenty minutes a game going forward.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But do you think overall the slights to Jalen at
least so far a slight to Jason, that this is
just gonna.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Motivate the Celtics or could it? Could there be some dissension?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Ain't gonna be. It's no dissension because those guys are
locked in with one another. But I see the tactic
is the one. It's the tactic they could try to
That's the only way that you could try to break
up what they got going on. Okay, number one, because
this is the reason why, right, So, Jason Tatum being
one of the best, he don't get the MVP. Well,
(27:58):
Jalen Brown played better throughout a whole playoffs, so we
get we understand that do holiday big time addition to
the team and showed up in big time moments. Same
thing with Derek White. The narrative that they're trying to
create is making Jason Tatum feel some kind of way
(28:18):
for those two guys playing before him, and jt ain't
that guy though, So at the end of the day,
I think all he's going to do is motivate him.
So I expect a big game from him when his minutes,
when he gets caught, when his number get caught, I
think he's going to show up in a big way. Eddie.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Why couldn't Steve Kerr go to him even at the
end of the game and say, hey, you know, do
you do you want to go in or you know,
or get him four or five minutes and still let
him get his feet wet or whatever it is. Would
that have been like something wrong for him to ask
him to go in disrespectful, so he can't even ask
(28:57):
him whether he wants to go.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
No, disrespectful. Think about this, they can Tatum have been
an All NBA player for three straight years, and so
we asking somebody that's an All NBA player. He's on
the team full of All NBA players, but he's been
the first team, right, so now you got other guys
that ain't even first team, second team or third team
(29:20):
that's getting Okay, Yeah, that's kind of disrespectful. But at
the same time, sometimes you got to eat some humble pie.
And it's not about him having to be humble. It's
just like, oh, this is how they doing me. Okay, cool.
If they did call his number, I'm quite sure he
would win in And that's on Steve Curve not to
call his number. And but I now know the tactics. Man,
(29:41):
It's all it is is to divide and conquer. Man.
I'm telling you they trying to cause division because we
are the only team that's coming back Hole have to
winning the championship in a long time, and so what
they trying to do is trying to figure out a
way they could dissect us, wiggle their way in and
try to have some kind of actions and Winter. Well,
(30:02):
the Warriors don't got it, so Steve Kerr might as
well put that to the side. So the Warriors ain't
got no action for that. And I mean, Steph, I
love him, but that's it, you know. I mean, after
you talk about Steph, the Warriors ain't got nothing else coming,
are you.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'm just gonna keep it real, Eddie. I've not been
impressed by Joe lmb it at.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
All in these Olympics. Are you feeling.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Look, the dude is a great player in the NBA,
but I don't know, it just feels like when the
lights are brightest. I mean, he just isn't the same
guy he is during the you know, the bulk of
the eighty two games. Where are you at on NB
because he's to me, he's been the most disappointed individual
player he's in.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
The I would say this, and I said this on
the Card and Show last week or the week before,
and I don't remember when I said it, but I
said it, and y'all can pull that up. I say,
he in the way Joel Speed is in the way
of what As soon as he get out the game,
it looked like the pace pickup defense's activity is better.
(31:12):
They getting deflections, they switch in, they playing harder, moving fast.
The balls popping around when he out there is just
like doom doom bam. I'm like, come on, man, you
know what. And at the end of the day, I
think he is a great NBA basketball player. But in
this game, the international game, where the floor is shrunks,
(31:35):
where its dictated on ball movement, body movement, being able
to switch and guard multiple he's not great for this.
But in the NBA, he's going to go out there
and get you thirty points a game if you play
through them and allow that to happen. But to me,
not a difference maker out here. And I just feel
(31:56):
like we could have used another roster spot, you know,
we didn't need We didn't need him, you know, we
did not need him. We could use somebody else at
that particular with that particular roster spot that could have
actually helped this team in a different way. I just
feel like he bobs us down and he's in the way.
I mean, I'm not gonna get off of that. I
(32:16):
see what I'm seeing.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
But he's not gonna stop them from winning a championship,
I mean gold medal.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Well, yeah, no, he can't. He can't stop. You can't
stop the inevitable sometimes, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
And you don't doubt at all that they promised him
something to pick the United States. He could have played
for three different countries, right, I mean France.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
You think France was like, nah, we got Joel, we
have Joel, we have go Bear, and we'll have Wemby. Nah,
we ain't gonna be able to get it done with that.
And then okay, who else he was gonna play for
after that?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Caon Cameroon?
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Right, yeah, I may come on, stop it.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well, speaking of Cameroon, Uh, what did you see the
South two day in game?
Speaker 9 (32:58):
I did? I watched every game. I watched every game,
every minute of every every second every game.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
When they're gonna play Wednesday, you think it's gonna be
a blowout for Team USA, or that this is actually
gonna be another close game.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
I think it's gonna be a big foot in the
ass for South Sudan. I'm gonna tell you this why
because it was a tight game. No, I'm saying. The
reason why I say that is because I really believe
that when you go into certain games, you just like, hey,
we're gonna show up in and we're gonna do what
we do. Just Caul, we show you know. And it
(33:32):
was an exhibition. It really wasn't all the marbles out there.
And with this it's a different the stakes are different
and you actually seen like, oh, okay, that's how y'all.
All right, I got y'all. Now you got to think
that all of these greatest of the players that are
on the USA team, the greatest of the players in
the world, felt that and heard all that, and they
(33:55):
gonna they gonna make a statement. So I don't expect
it to be I think we win by double figures easily.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
They're favored by something like twenty seven or something like that.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Okay, well, you know, take.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It matters how much you win by in.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
That first No, I do understand that it doesn't matter.
But at the end of the day, they gonna win
that game and they should blow them out. I say
double figure I say, I say double figures.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Uh. Let me ask you.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
In an Olympic play, do you enjoy the games if
they're you know, not competitive or you just they are
what they are, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The other some of the countries just aren't up.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
To par, so they're gonna be blowouts and you just
take what do you take from them?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Or how do you watch games like that?
Speaker 9 (34:38):
As long as USA is winning by big blow ups,
I'm cool with it. I like watching close games, and
I don't care who wins those games, right, But as
long as the United States is out there blowing everything
out and winning, and even if they don't blow it
out and they have a tight battle and they still win,
that's all that matters, is about the United States winning,
(34:59):
because I'm tired of hearing all of this that the
world is catching up because it sounds good, it really does.
It sounds good. Yeah, And that's the reason why the
NBA globalized and went out and did the great job
that they did to neither globalizing and give these kids
and people opportunities from other countries to be able to
(35:19):
play in the league right and change their family trajectory
of what they're doing as far as you know, monetarily
and and things like that. But we're still on tip
and I just I feel like everybody keeps forgetting that
because I'm forgetting.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I thought France was on the top of the I
thought was well, I mean, I think we got as
a whole, Like if the top fifty players in the world,
the majority of them by far are American, But I
don't think we have the like best three or four
players in the world.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
But I think they're from other countries.
Speaker 9 (35:59):
Yep. So okay, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa what? Ain't talking out?
And Lucas who.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Jokis, Jiannis and Luca I think are the best players
in the world.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Jokis, Joannis and Lucas. Luca's never won a championship, right.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And but at this point, I think they're the best,
Like right now, I get it historically, I'm not saying
they are, but right now.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
So, so you think those are the top three players
in the NBA right now? Oh? Oh, christ Bass, I
think Lebron.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
So you think Lebron still at time?
Speaker 9 (36:36):
You need to bring me on one of these you
know we got to talk about.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We have longer.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Will do you think there's still top three?
Speaker 9 (36:46):
I'm thinking Lebron is showing that he is still top.
I think Steph Berry is still top.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
You're like Lebron got Anthony Davis with him.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Doing the regular seasons, and we talk about Anthony Davis
being hurt all the time.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
He id this past year, and I just think, do
you don't think Eddie and Lebron? Lebron is playing great.
He has been the best player on Team USA. I think, hell,
but don't you think that a lot of that is
obviously you're coming off a rest. You got six games
plus what four exhibitions, so it's six to ten games
(37:21):
you play.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
You're only playing twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Five minutes a game, you can defend, You got better teammates,
so you don't have to carry a team like I
think Lebron like those are all reasons he's shining in
this brief time.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
But he don't dominate the NBA like this, and like he.
Speaker 9 (37:38):
Used to he was, he was balling last year.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
No, he's great still, but I'm just saying I don't
think he's top three.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Can we shoot out? Can we give a shout out
to Yokis because he looked more in shape right now
than I ever seen him. Look, can we give him
a shout?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Shout out? Yoke?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
You know they were eighty one eighty one when he
played yesterday?
Speaker 9 (38:01):
What does that mean? I don't just say mean.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
That they got our score by twenty six when he
was on the bill.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
What does that mean though he said they was, I'm
just saying, I mean, well, damn it. You know what, Hey,
you know what the coach might need to get fired if.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Hey, we we we gotta run.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Man, I'm gonna get you on the longer form, but
we're gonna go at it.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
We got to
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You're listening to the Best of the Odd Couple with
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
The big story, of course, was that Caitlyn Clark was
left off of Team USA and Don Staley, the former
WNBA player and legendary player and coach now for South
Carolina University of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
She was a part of the selection committee.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Rob g I believe and here's what she said when
she was asked about Caitlyn being left off the Olympic team.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
As a committee member, you're charged with putting together best
team of play the best talent. Caitlyn is just a
rookie in the WNBA. Wasn't playing bad, but wasn't playing
like she's playing now. If we had to do it
all over again the way that she's playing, she would
be in really high consideration of making the team because
she is playing head and showed us above a lot
(01:17):
of people shooting the ball extremely well. I mean, she
is an elite passer. She's just got a great basketball IQ,
and she's a little more seasoned in the pro game.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
In a couple of months, Yeah, in a.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Couple of months, and she was two months ago.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Rob poppy Cock boulder dash rubbish, Really, Chris, they didn't
know she could play, like they needed to watch her
for two months in order to say whether or not
she should be on the Did they watch the college
women's tournament?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Chris?
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Did they watch that at all? Seriously? To say that
they needed two more weeks to evaluate her and whether
or not she belonged on the Olympic team is the
biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever heard. I know she
can play. What are you talking about? Maybe, okay, maybe
she wasn't going to be the starter, Chris, or you
had some more seasoned players, but the city here and
(02:09):
say that she wasn't one of the top twelve or
fifteen players in the country to represent the USA for
the women's team, and you needed a couple more weeks
really that she oh, she had a great two weeks,
and yeah, we would have had two more weeks, we
would have.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Put her on nonsense. Stop it, Come on, I Rob
Parker is fired up. I am, You're excited to see me?
I guess.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I mean, I don't remember. I wasn't on vacation last
week and got fired up. You are hyped? Come on, Chris?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
With or she well? Is she definitely one of the
best twelve Americans.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't know yet. I'm not certain what I am
certain of, Rob. They blew an opportunity she was playing.
It is true that now she is bawling, But I'm
not sure Rob, if she started her career because she
was still playing well, but has she started a career
(03:08):
playing like she has for the last month or so,
would she have been on Team USA, Rob, I got
to be honest, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I think there was some.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Jealousy, resentment, maybe not even wanting to play into the
whole you know thing about Ray's sexuality, what you know,
all the different topics that were following Kaitlyn Clark early
in her WNBA career. Maybe they didn't want to deal
with that. But the bottom line, Rob, is that they
(03:45):
blew an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Period.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
If Caitlyn Clark's on this team, you're still gonna win gold.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But if she's on the team, more people are watching.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And it's true, I do think rob there would have
been a a big push among American fans to have
her play a lot, you know, like we're talking about
Jason Tatum getting bitched. If she didn't play a lot,
there might be some backlash. But she was definitely good
enough to be on the team, whether she's top twelve.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That's what I'm saying. That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
They just blew. I just think they blew an opportunity. Yeah,
I know, to come back now. You just be better
off to just say we just picked it. Of course,
whenever you do a team like this, Chris, there's always
gonna be some great players left off and we can't
take everybody. That's a better conversation for me and and
to hear that rather than saying if we had evaluated
(04:40):
her for a couple more weeks or a month or whatever,
would she wasn't.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Playing that she was playing well, That's what I'm saying.
I mean, again, not as well as she has been lately,
but she was still.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Playing well exactly, and you.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Could have argued nobody would I mean, people would have
got mad because they got mad that she was you know,
all the other accolades she's got, But it would have
been justifiable to have her on the team. And Rob
the fact that and she didn't have a great game.
She only had four points. She did have ten assists
in that All Star Game against Team USA, But Rob
the fact that they beat Team USA, and I think
(05:17):
they may have beaten them in twenty twenty, Rob g
maybe check that out.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I think they may have beaten him in twenty twenty
as well.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But the fact that they beat them, Rob, and you
had the basically the two most popular players in the
game were Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese playing for the
WNBA All Star team. I think that makes it look worse,
Rob right, that they left her off right, because like,
oh no, on, they just.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Beat you, right, she couldn't make your team, right, It.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Doesn't make any sense. And I think that they were trying.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
To smooth it over and make people feel better about it, like, oh, wow,
she's playing great now, and man, we wish we would
have known this.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Going with you right, know how good she is? Wow,
you're too right, That's all.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's the only issue I really have is that It
just doesn't make any sense just say what she got
left off because there's so many great players in this
country and we had a team set up, and there's
a ton of people we've left off, you know, over
the years, and she just happened to be one of them.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And accept that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The fact rib that Mike Tarrico asked about it shows.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You that they blew an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It shows you that they right, Like he's why is
even asking her about that, right? Because she's the most
popular women's player in the world, That's why, and that
should have informed Team USA. I mean, you got and
look shout out to Diana Tarassi. I don't have a
problem with her being on a team. Was she forty
two years old? Forty two years old something like that?
(06:51):
I get Lebron's up there too, but Lebron is actually
and Tarassi I think had a pretty decent game.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And now, yeah, I just think.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That they, like I said, they missed an opportunity to
get eyeballs on that team and now they're going to,
for lack of a better word, suffer for it because
I don't think their games are gonna be as watched
as they would have otherwise been. And people are gonna
be far more focused on the men's team USA.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
And then I think Steve gave the record was the
women's seventy and one, Chris, if she was on a
team or not, would that really have affected whether or
not they win the gold? I mean seventy and one,
like really like it was that that big of a
deal on trying to decide who's going to play, And
I'm sure she could have easily been on that squad,
(07:42):
and it just didn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Rob g jumping here.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
For so well, this is just quickly for you guys
for the last segment, especially somehow in the game that
the USA women also won by twenty six points, every
single player was able to get minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I don't know how they were to figure how'd they
do that? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
And then you know Diana Tarazzi forty two years old.
How to get her on the team because she's invaluable, right,
couldn't get her over Caitlyn Clark, dad at Tarronzi in
fifteen minutes of action, scored two points, had one assist,
three rebounds, and three fouls.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Very nice. I mean Clark can't do that, man, Let's
just keep it it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Was a lot of petty pettiness then, right, and Chris jealousy.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
It was jealousy, but because she got so much attention,
the numbers that they got on on her games and whatnot,
they just they it was it was almost like almost
like Chris, like when Michael Jordan was his first All
Star game and they didn't want to turn it over
to him like they did. They were like, this, dude,
that the NBA is not going to just give him everything,
(08:45):
you know what I mean. So we're gonna We're not
gonna pass on the ball. We're gonna do this, We're
gonna do that. Like that's what it turned out being.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
No, I think that's very that's right on the money
and what they need to And I do think rob
I could be wrong, but I think they are coming around.
First of all, I think there was legitimate question among
some players in the WNBA as to how good Caitlyn
(09:13):
Clark was. I mean, I think they knew obviously she
was a phenomenal college player, but I really think that
they were one is she.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Really all that?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And now the way she's been playing this last three
four weeks, they know now, And I feel like there's
a little more acceptance.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Of her, and there should be.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And what they need to recognize is, look, obviously you
compete against her and you try to beat her. But
the more popular she gets, the more popular and the more.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Money we get.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Am I wrong with I mean, you're not gonna get
as much as her, but she is going to li
if your league to the degree that one person can
lift a female basketball league.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
She really is. I get it.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
But people in the game who know the game just
a little surprised that they watched her. Chris, She's not
like she was a one year wonder. They've been watching
her for years. Last year we got a real glimpse
people paid attention to her, right, and we got this year,
and then for people still to have these questions, not
(10:29):
to be to start a team, but to even make
the team. I just wonder how basketball people didn't think
she could play or didn't think that much of her.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I think it was probably rooted in to your point,
jealousy of you know what I mean, Like, instead of
objectively looking at her, it was like, all right, we're
gonna see you know, because she was even in college,
her ratings were through the roof.
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Jordan Love got his money, didn't he match?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, what four years to twelve or something like that.
I thought more than that. I think he robs it.
What are the numbers on these to twenty? He got twenty?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I think he matched Trevor Lawrence and Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Is that correct? That is correct for Jordan.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
But it was two twenty and two got to twelve? Correct? Correct? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So now with those guys getting that much, you know
in salary. Patrick Mahomes, the best quarterback in the league
is no longer in the top ten highest paid quarterbacks
per year. And he was asked by a friend of
the show, Jared Bell, longtime NFL USA today. Yes, and
(12:26):
he asked Mahomes if he was fell underpaid. And here's
what Mahomes said, not necessarily. I think we do a
great job of managing my money to be able to
pay me a lot of money and keep a good
team around me.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I know we've kind of restructured.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
It a couple of times and got the cash flow
up in certain spots and in certain years. It's about
having a good dialogue and good communication with the front
office with ownership. We've done that here. We've been able
to allow me to be a highly paid guy while
at the same time build a great team around me.
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And Rob what he's talking about is because his deal
is ten years. We talked about this on First Things
First today. Because his deal is ten years, they can
move his money all over the place and if he
wants like meaning they can give him more money, which
they have done, and if he wanted to, he could
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demand more money.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Obviously they got to pay him more.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
But from twenty twenty three, and this is according to
Mike Florio, Rop of course Pro Football Talk from twenty
twenty three to twenty twenty six, Patrick Mahons will get
more money than they quarterback. He's gonna get two hundred
ten point six million, Lamar Jackson will get two hundred
and eight, Deshaun Watson will get one eighty four, Joe
(13:55):
Burrow won eighty one, and if he gets all his money,
Daniel Jones with one sixty. So Mahomes is getting his
money because of the way that contract is set up.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So I got no issue with what Mahomes is doing.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I actually think he's got his priority straight. He's clearly
making a ton of money. Even if you just say, okay,
he's only getting you know, the number that's on the
books is forty five million a year. He's he's still
wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's a capped league.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So you do have to, you know, if you lose players,
if your quarterback or certain other players are making so much.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
And I would like if he if the cost.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Of you know, he's willing to give up a little
money to keep some better players and have more chances
of winning the Super Bowl, and he's still filthy rich.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I actually think that's.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Smart I'd rather make forty five million a year, have
five or six rings super Bowls because I'm trying to
be the greatest ever. If I'm him, they make fifty
five million a year and maybe have.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Three Super Bowls. And so I got no issue with
what Patrick Mahons do. I have an issue with what
you just said. And here's the problem I have.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Is that you naturally correlate that winning rings is because
he takes less money. That's not why he wins. It's
his talent. It has nothing to do with ye, but
you can't. He's lost players, he's.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Still great, but that doesn't mean you're gonna do that
every loss.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
In spite of that because he's a great player. It
has nothing to do with how much money he makes
or if he was making fifty is it million? Yeah,
but they're paying guys who aren't even as talents as
him way more money. Chris, you must just acknowledge and
you know this a lot of people. This is not
(15:48):
rob Bapedia, This is not me talking. It was the
worst contract anybody could have ever signed who had the
leverage that Patrick Mahomes signed. It was sixteen million guarantees
on a half a billion dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Hear what I.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Said, No, I'm just over the In the next forty years,
he's gonna have more money than any quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
When he signed the deal, he had the ultimate leverage
of a guy who was a young quarterback who had
won a Super Bowl in an MVP. He should have
set the standard for the rest of the quarterbacks and
for the rest of the league. Instead, he took a
piss poor deal that now they have to kind of
finagle and and throw smoking mirrors and tell you, well,
(16:30):
still he's gonna if all this work, he's still.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Gonna get his meal.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
All I know is ten other guys, eleven guys make
more money than him, And if he's the best quarterback
in the league and he keeps winning, he should be
the highest paid.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's not a it's just Tom Brady wasn't always the
highest It's just as some Tom brad he except he
retired with the as the person who had made more
money than any player, and he still.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Didn't do justice for it. So he got maybe three
d and thirty sixty million, I think, and he would
four hundred minutes. He played for fifty years. Of course,
he made more money than anybody.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Nobody played that long Chris and the Longeviarty thing when
it talks about money. The bottom line is Patrick Mahomes
took a terrible deal and he should be the highest
paid quarterback.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That ten or leven change every year. That that that's
not about who's the best. I'm just talking about.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
But you keep saying that, oh, he'd rather take five
million or ten million less and win more Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It doesn't go hand in hand, is what I'm saying.
And but what my point.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
What you know, what does go hand in hand, or
or can can go hand in hand, is if you
if the quarterback takes less money, there's more money to
go get better players, and that increases your chances of winning.
But I mean, if you, if you are the tight
to say, I gotta get as absolutely as much as
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I'm worth my teammates, so the quality of my team
be darned. That's fine, that's your right. But if he's
like man, I got money galore, my children's childrens will
be filthy rich and their children as well. And I'm
still making I'm making tons of money, and I got
a better chance of winning every year.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I got no issue with that.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Did you see Matthew Stafford didn't come into practice until
they restructure his deal. That dude has all the money
he's made, and they won a super Bowl, they paid them.
They gave him a ridiculous contract even then, and that
dude told them I'm not coming unless you restructure and
fix my deal.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
He not coming in and guess what they did. They
fixed it.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
And my only point, Chris and you that the way
you look at it is fine if that's you and
that's Patrick Mahomes, But that doesn't mean he didn't take
a bad deal. And if you talk to most agents
in the business and most executives and just on forget
about feelings and what you want to do. But whether
or not it was a good deal he got, he got.
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He took a horrible deal, and the Chiefs took advantage
of his kindness. Nobody's saying he has to ask for
a gazillion dollars and leave nothing for anybody else. But
there ain't no way three super bowls in he should
be the eleventh highest paid quarterback in the league.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It just me if it's such a bad deal, then why.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
From twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six is he
gonna make more money?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Than any quarterback.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I don't know why is he the eleventh highest payer.
I mean that that might be, that might be the
smoke in the mirrors.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It ain't no smoking case. So I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm looking at this chart, and from twenty twenty three
to twenty twenty six, according to Mike Flourio, he's going
to make more money than any other quarterback because they
can adjust his money every year. So with justin now
and give him more money what they clearly have, he's
gonna get to hundred ten million.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Andrew brid and shn in Burrow and he works it.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
He worked in the front office and said they could
do whatever they want.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
He said they could kick the can down the road.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
He says, it's it's it's it's it's nonsense that they
make it like, oh, we can't do this, we can't
do that. They can do whatever they want to do
if the chiefs want to make it right and adjust
other people's money to make sure that their quarterback is
by far he's the best.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Guy in the league.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
He's going to be the more highest paid and we're
gonna do whatever he takes to do that they could
do that, that's all I'm saying, Chris, you could do
whatever you want. If you're telling me that they could
adjust Patrick Mahomes contract, they could adjust anybody else's contract
on the team as well to make sure that Patrick
gets his money.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's all. No, they can.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
He should be not only the highest paid player in
the NFL, he should be the highest paid player.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
In American sports. But I think he's got.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
His priorities in order. He's still making tons of money.
He's still going to make more than any other quarterback
from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six, and he's
got a better chance of winning Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He as great as he is, you still need great teammates. Still.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They got the greatest, arguably the best defensive player in
the league in Chris Jones.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
He got paid.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
They got arguably the best tight end for that. But
he got paid, and Travis Kelce.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Tyree Hill had the bounce to us left. Sneid left,
Honey Badger left, and they replaced them with good players.
And so I'm just saying I need that just lost it.
And I'm speaking from experience.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I've been in a good situation and I've fortunately my career.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I've always been in good situations.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But I've been When I was at ESPN, I could
have went somewhere else for more money, but I was
happy and content with where I was. And I state
that he has been made less?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Can I say this though? And I was great and
and like, I don't think the happiest people are the ones.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That gotta chase every last dollar and fred over every
last dollar.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
I didn't say that. I didn't say I'm just telling you.
I mean, that's what you sound like, though, I just
don't believe in that you should be. That's their responsibility
to front office to figure out the money. That's not
your responsibility. It's nonsense to put that burden on yourself.
What are the other people paying? Feels is a.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Burden that he has to do with the willfully? Have
they left?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Have they lowered the ticket prices in Kansas City on
the eighteen dollar beers or the twenty two dollar pizzas
because Patrick Mahomes took less as the fans there at
the Chiefs fans if they got a break because Patrick
Mahomes took less money, did tickets keep going up?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Go look at the ownership and the money they're putting
in the bank. It's to say taking less money. It's
a capped lead. No, but that doesn't mean any so
it's off cap, but it's a cap.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
They can still do what they want. I'm not This
is not me.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I'm talking to people who have worked in the NFL
front offices. They say it's a con that they can
do whatever they want, and they give.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You there you can keep pushing the money down the line.
But if I'm an owner of a team, I'm not
pushing all that money down.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The line all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Sometimes I will, but sometimes I won't. They got they
gonna do their business too. I mean, that's why the
Dallas Cowboys are in a mess right now. They got
three guys they need to sign. They haven't signed one
of them yet. So if it was an uncapped league
like baseball.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Sure, but this ain't. Patrick Mahomes, like I said, If.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Florio's correct, he's still gonna get more money than any
quarterback from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I'm supposed to be shedding tears for him, and
then he's on his way to be in the goat.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
And then they use it, and then they're using Patrick
Mahomes as as the poster boy for for welfare in
the NFL?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Really, how's that working out?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Every quarter back that signs is getting more money than
they're using them, But they didn't work in Even Jones
is telling everybody the radio Undallas, Oh Dad and c D.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Land, why don't you take look at what Patrick Mahomes did.
You should give us a hometown discount.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
The Cowboys are the highest working h franchise in sports
history asking for a discount.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Can you imagine that and using Patrick.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Mahomes as a as a poster boy on why they
should take less money than the market value?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Plea? Did it work? Did it work with the Jaguars
and Trevor Lawrence? Did it work with the Packers?
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Now?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Did it work with the Packers and Jordan Love? Did
it work with the Bengals and Joe burd Ain't nobody
getting less because of Patrick.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Mahomes but the US?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
But they're using him, but they're using all they wanted,
the idea that that Patrick Mahomes is the post they
need to retire that land.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Everybody in their mama getting paid. So I don't know
what you're talking about with that. They can say it
all they want. Then you just say no, this ain't
Patrick Mahomes. Let's move on and give me my fifty
five million a year. That's what's going down.
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Speaker 3 (25:51):
What up the house?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Yo? Yo? What's happening?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
How you.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
I'm great man? How you guys feeling?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We're good man, We're good.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Look, we and everybody that listens to.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Our show regularly knows you are a Celtics homer. So
as you watched Jason Tatum sit on the bench for
the entirety of yesterday's game, what thoughts were going through
your mind?
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Oh? I had a million of them, but I'm gonna
keep it. I'm gonna keep it censored. And so what
I was it was the divide and conquered tactic. I
felt like it's like, oh, we're gonna play everybody else.
You the best player, one of the best players on
the team, one A, one B. However you want to
do it between him and Brown, But you got two
(26:39):
of the other guys getting all the minutes and you
don't get know me, Oh that's a divide and conquered tactic. Oh,
I didn't like it. I didn't like it at all,
because that's the only way they can stop this wave
that we got coming.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I was wondering about that, right and I think I
am mean, it's just odd because the thing is Tatum
can play defense like and I'm fine, I get it.
White and Drew that's their specialty, their role players.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
But it was it was definitely odd.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I mean, do you think this will just motivate and inspire? Now,
maybe maybe Jason will play twenty minutes a game going forward.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But do you think overall the slights to Jalen at
least so far a slight to Jason, that this is
just gonna.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Motivate the Celtics or could it? Could there be some dissension?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Ain't gonna be. It's no dissension because those guys are
locked in with one another. But I see the tactic
is the one. It's the tactic they could try to
That's the only way that you could try to break
up what they got going on. Okay, number one, because
this is the reason why, right, So, Jason Tatum being
one of the best, he don't get the MVP. Well,
(27:58):
Jalen Brown played better throughout a whole playoffs, so we
get we understand that do holiday big time addition to
the team and showed up in big time moments. Same
thing with Derek White. The narrative that they're trying to
create is making Jason Tatum feel some kind of way
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for those two guys playing before him, and jt ain't
that guy though, So at the end of the day,
I think all he's going to do is motivate him.
So I expect a big game from him when his minutes,
when he gets caught, when his number get caught, I
think he's going to show up in a big way. Eddie.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Why couldn't Steve Kerr go to him even at the
end of the game and say, hey, you know, do
you do you want to go in or you know,
or get him four or five minutes and still let
him get his feet wet or whatever it is. Would
that have been like something wrong for him to ask
him to go in disrespectful, so he can't even ask
(28:57):
him whether he wants to go.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
No, disrespectful. Think about this, they can Tatum have been
an All NBA player for three straight years, and so
we asking somebody that's an All NBA player. He's on
the team full of All NBA players, but he's been
the first team, right, so now you got other guys
that ain't even first team, second team or third team
(29:20):
that's getting Okay, Yeah, that's kind of disrespectful. But at
the same time, sometimes you got to eat some humble pie.
And it's not about him having to be humble. It's
just like, oh, this is how they doing me. Okay, cool.
If they did call his number, I'm quite sure he
would win in And that's on Steve Curve not to
call his number. And but I now know the tactics. Man,
(29:41):
It's all it is is to divide and conquer. Man.
I'm telling you they trying to cause division because we
are the only team that's coming back Hole have to
winning the championship in a long time, and so what
they trying to do is trying to figure out a
way they could dissect us, wiggle their way in and
try to have some kind of actions and Winter. Well,
(30:02):
the Warriors don't got it, so Steve Kerr might as
well put that to the side. So the Warriors ain't
got no action for that. And I mean, Steph, I
love him, but that's it, you know. I mean, after
you talk about Steph, the Warriors ain't got nothing else coming,
are you.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'm just gonna keep it real, Eddie. I've not been
impressed by Joe lmb it at.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
All in these Olympics. Are you feeling.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Look, the dude is a great player in the NBA,
but I don't know, it just feels like when the
lights are brightest. I mean, he just isn't the same
guy he is during the you know, the bulk of
the eighty two games. Where are you at on NB
because he's to me, he's been the most disappointed individual
player he's in.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
The I would say this, and I said this on
the Card and Show last week or the week before,
and I don't remember when I said it, but I
said it, and y'all can pull that up. I say,
he in the way Joel Speed is in the way
of what As soon as he get out the game,
it looked like the pace pickup defense's activity is better.
(31:12):
They getting deflections, they switch in, they playing harder, moving fast.
The balls popping around when he out there is just
like doom doom bam. I'm like, come on, man, you
know what. And at the end of the day, I
think he is a great NBA basketball player. But in
this game, the international game, where the floor is shrunks,
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where its dictated on ball movement, body movement, being able
to switch and guard multiple he's not great for this.
But in the NBA, he's going to go out there
and get you thirty points a game if you play
through them and allow that to happen. But to me,
not a difference maker out here. And I just feel
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like we could have used another roster spot, you know,
we didn't need We didn't need him, you know, we
did not need him. We could use somebody else at
that particular with that particular roster spot that could have
actually helped this team in a different way. I just
feel like he bobs us down and he's in the way.
I mean, I'm not gonna get off of that. I
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see what I'm seeing.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
But he's not gonna stop them from winning a championship,
I mean gold medal.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Well, yeah, no, he can't. He can't stop. You can't
stop the inevitable sometimes, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
And you don't doubt at all that they promised him
something to pick the United States. He could have played
for three different countries, right, I mean France.
Speaker 9 (32:34):
You think France was like, nah, we got Joel, we
have Joel, we have go Bear, and we'll have Wemby. Nah,
we ain't gonna be able to get it done with that.
And then okay, who else he was gonna play for
after that?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Caon Cameroon?
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Right, yeah, I may come on, stop it.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well, speaking of Cameroon, Uh, what did you see the
South two day in game?
Speaker 9 (32:58):
I did? I watched every game. I watched every game,
every minute of every every second every game.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
When they're gonna play Wednesday, you think it's gonna be
a blowout for Team USA, or that this is actually
gonna be another close game.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
I think it's gonna be a big foot in the
ass for South Sudan. I'm gonna tell you this why
because it was a tight game. No, I'm saying. The
reason why I say that is because I really believe
that when you go into certain games, you just like, hey,
we're gonna show up in and we're gonna do what
we do. Just Caul, we show you know. And it
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was an exhibition. It really wasn't all the marbles out there.
And with this it's a different the stakes are different
and you actually seen like, oh, okay, that's how y'all.
All right, I got y'all. Now you got to think
that all of these greatest of the players that are
on the USA team, the greatest of the players in
the world, felt that and heard all that, and they
(33:55):
gonna they gonna make a statement. So I don't expect
it to be I think we win by double figures easily.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
They're favored by something like twenty seven or something like that.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Okay, well, you know, take.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It matters how much you win by in.
Speaker 9 (34:09):
That first No, I do understand that it doesn't matter.
But at the end of the day, they gonna win
that game and they should blow them out. I say
double figure I say, I say double figures.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Uh. Let me ask you.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
In an Olympic play, do you enjoy the games if
they're you know, not competitive or you just they are
what they are, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The other some of the countries just aren't up.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
To par, so they're gonna be blowouts and you just
take what do you take from them?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Or how do you watch games like that?
Speaker 9 (34:38):
As long as USA is winning by big blow ups,
I'm cool with it. I like watching close games, and
I don't care who wins those games, right, But as
long as the United States is out there blowing everything
out and winning, and even if they don't blow it
out and they have a tight battle and they still win,
that's all that matters, is about the United States winning,
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because I'm tired of hearing all of this that the
world is catching up because it sounds good, it really does.
It sounds good. Yeah, And that's the reason why the
NBA globalized and went out and did the great job
that they did to neither globalizing and give these kids
and people opportunities from other countries to be able to
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play in the league right and change their family trajectory
of what they're doing as far as you know, monetarily
and and things like that. But we're still on tip
and I just I feel like everybody keeps forgetting that
because I'm forgetting.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
I thought France was on the top of the I
thought was well, I mean, I think we got as
a whole, Like if the top fifty players in the world,
the majority of them by far are American, But I
don't think we have the like best three or four
players in the world.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
But I think they're from other countries.
Speaker 9 (35:59):
Yep. So okay, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa what? Ain't talking out?
And Lucas who.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Jokis, Jiannis and Luca I think are the best players
in the world.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Jokis, Joannis and Lucas. Luca's never won a championship, right.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And but at this point, I think they're the best,
Like right now, I get it historically, I'm not saying
they are, but right now.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
So, so you think those are the top three players
in the NBA right now? Oh? Oh, christ Bass, I
think Lebron.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
So you think Lebron still at time?
Speaker 9 (36:36):
You need to bring me on one of these you
know we got to talk about.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We have longer.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Will do you think there's still top three?
Speaker 9 (36:46):
I'm thinking Lebron is showing that he is still top.
I think Steph Berry is still top.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
You're like Lebron got Anthony Davis with him.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
Doing the regular seasons, and we talk about Anthony Davis
being hurt all the time.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
He id this past year, and I just think, do
you don't think Eddie and Lebron? Lebron is playing great.
He has been the best player on Team USA. I think, hell,
but don't you think that a lot of that is
obviously you're coming off a rest. You got six games
plus what four exhibitions, so it's six to ten games
(37:21):
you play.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
You're only playing twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Five minutes a game, you can defend, You got better teammates,
so you don't have to carry a team like I
think Lebron like those are all reasons he's shining in
this brief time.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
But he don't dominate the NBA like this, and like he.
Speaker 9 (37:38):
Used to he was, he was balling last year.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
No, he's great still, but I'm just saying I don't
think he's top three.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Can we shoot out? Can we give a shout out
to Yokis because he looked more in shape right now
than I ever seen him. Look, can we give him
a shout?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Shout out? Yoke?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
You know they were eighty one eighty one when he
played yesterday?
Speaker 9 (38:01):
What does that mean? I don't just say mean.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
That they got our score by twenty six when he
was on the bill.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
What does that mean though he said they was, I'm
just saying, I mean, well, damn it. You know what, Hey,
you know what the coach might need to get fired if.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Hey, we we we gotta run.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Man, I'm gonna get you on the longer form, but
we're gonna go at it.
Speaker 9 (38:20):
We got to
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