July 10, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan Patrick discusses the issues of building an NFL roster after giving gigantic contracts to quarterbacks, as represented in Saquon Barkley leaving the Giants. FOX Sports Play-by-Play Voice Gus Johnson joins Dan to preview the college football season. Plus, Dan wraps up the conversation on phenoms.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Final Hour on this Wednesday. We've touched on a variety
of topics today that you've come to expect. The great
broadcaster Gus Johnson, on loan from Fox Sports, will join
us coming up here in a little bit toughest cycling
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(00:29):
watch this program every single day, Monday through Friday. Good
morning if you're watching, Thank you for downloading the app.
So we'll talk to Gus coming up. We were talking
about sequels and the separation between Gladiator, and I misspoke.
I said nineteen ninety. It was two thousand when Gladiator
came out. Here we are twenty four years later. Gladiator
(00:49):
two is going to be coming out and Denzel Washington
is in this movie, which is kind of interesting. Now
he's done all these iconic roles, you know, Training Day
and Malcolm X, and now he's doing Equalizer. And I
watched the first one and I was hooked. I was like,
this is kind of his John Wick and it's good.
(01:11):
So I think we're Equalizer three or four now. But
if you get a chance and you want to like
disappear for an hour and a half or something in
a movie two hours, Equalizer is really really good. And
Denzel is you know, he's Denzel. But this is one
of those where he's probably like, Oh, do I want
(01:32):
to starve myself to play this role?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Or do I want to look at a certain way?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And now I'm just gonna wear baggy clothes and go
around the world killing people?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And where are we shooting Italy? How many pages of dialogue? Five? Yummen?
What's the check?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yuh, definitely, Yeah, there's not a lot of dialogue with it.
You know, he's Denzel, he doesn't need his look says
a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yes, Paully, so Equalizer the first one, Equalizer one was
twenty fourteen. Is that a byproduct of Liam Neeson two
thousand and eight taken? Yes, a lot of money, three
movies at least. Yes, you get paid to kick ass. Yes,
it's a good deal.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yes, I don't know why I'm doing my Liam nieson.
Why not Todd? I will hunt you down, I would
find you, and I will curing you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Not a lot of dialogue and Taken either, but those
are once again. I like to just watch a movie
where I don't have to think too much. Uh, Taken,
I don't have to think too much other than he's
one of the worst parents ever, Like, I don't know
where's my daughter now? All of a sudden with some
Albanian guys who you know are running.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
A drug cartel. How'd you lose your daughter again?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Tuck your family for crimes?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Come on, yes, seven.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Sometimes I can watch movies just based on where it's
set or like the scenery. That's how I got to
I think I haven't seen Equalizers one, two, or three,
But I think I watched four only because I was
on a plane and it was set in Italy and
I was like, oh, I'll watch this. This sounds great,
all right. I could watch The Revenant just because of
the scenery. It looks awesome. You find really good movies
(03:15):
that way, like Equalizer Now. I want to go back
and watch the first three because that character was so awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But I don't think they're great locations.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think one is like Massachusetts Boston, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Which is essentially the New England.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Equalizer in Cape cod wouldn't have worked.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Went in Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Boston is the French riviera of the Yeah, I think
he's on a train in one of them, and then
he's in Italy and one, and then he's in Massachusetts
maybe for the first two.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Essentially the a Mafi Coast of.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's good though, I mean it's Denzel and same thing
with Liam Neeson, Like it's preposterous, you know, some of
the things that happen and taken. But I tried to
kind of suspend any kind of belief in what is
normal when I'm watching these movies.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
So this is kind of like the Senior's Tour, Like
if you're a great golfer, you're on the regular tour.
Denzel Washington made tons of great movies. Liam Needson made
tons of great movies. Now they're on the senior tour.
Big checks, kind of easy script, go and kick some
ass and go home.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Or is this like the live tour.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
It's a bit like the livyah maybe pus controversy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, there's no controversy with this, but this is where
you know, when somebody says, well, why'd you take that paycheck?
Like we always yeah, we always think, oh, you know,
for the artistic you know, working with that director. Oh yeah,
you know, I've always wanted to work with him, you know, artistically,
I love this character.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It speaks to me, this is just why'd you do this?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Money?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like if I'm canu reeves, if somebody says, why would
you do John Wick?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why not? Yeah, Marph.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
So for actors is the arc make popcorn movies, make
some money, then do the Oscar nominated films, something you
could sink your teeth into. And then the back half is,
let's just make a bunch of money and do some
action films. Is that kind of the the arc?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now, that's what I've done, Like I did that with
Sandler and we made over a billion dollars. And now
on the back end now is when I do kind
of indie Films's I haven't done them yet, but I'm
waiting to do the indie films.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Here. Yes, Paul Denzel Washington made sixty million dollars making
three Equalizer movies. The movie's crushed. You know, it's great,
easy sixty mil.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But that's sixty probably salary. And then there's back end
with that, correct, That's when these guys crush it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
When you're going wait, a minute. How mud she make
back end with it?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Like what did Margot Robbie make on Barbie? She had
to make at least one hundred million. Does that seem fair?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Then Jack Nicholson get like the back end of Batman.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I might have, might have.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I think Lawrence Fishburn got three percent back end.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh, I don't know what. I don't know. If it
was Matrix, I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think he got something where it's like, uh, I
mean that's one of those where it shows up like that,
does a check show up and it's like, here's sixty
two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, okay, your wife's going through the mail.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Uh huh, we got the credit card due, we got that.
Oh you got your sixty two million back end for Matrix.
But I would imagine Denzel got twenty million up front
and then just back end, because that's I love when
an actor if you if you bet on yourself, I'll
take less, but I'll take the back end of this.
Do you have what Margot Robbie got for Barbie Marmon?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I don't, sorry, I've Jack Nicholson. He was the highest
paid actor for a single movie for his role as
the Joker in nineteen eighty nine Batman, earning around ninety
million dollars. He took a six million dollars up front
payment and a percentage of the final box office gross.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I gotta believe Margo Robbie got a one hundred million
dollars that that movie made over a billion.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yes, Paulin Keanu.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Reeves has crushed it with the Matrix. He took a
lot of backend money because the original one they weren't
sure about it like a different concept. Supposedly he made
one hundred and fifty six million dollars on the two sequels.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Dag dang, No wonder. He's always in a good mood
when you see him.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
He's rolling.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yes, he can't have a bad day. Yes, time I
see that.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Margot was paid approximately twelve and a half million dollars
just for the role of being the actress and has
made at least fifty million between her salary and box
office business, the bonuses, and her dual role as star
and producers.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, and they may have gone up since then.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I was from a story about several months ago.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, Marvin Tots, it wears out of my mouth. Oh okay,
all right, thank you. Don't little research on this program. Yes,
Paul couldn't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Could it an athlete or would an athlete ever do
something like this. Let's say Patrick Mahomes to be friendly
to his team, so I'll take ten million dollars this season.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But I don't think you can get back in the
back end is the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
If I win the Super Bowl, you have to pay
me a check for one hundred million dollars. But you
can't do that because of the salary camp, right, But
it'd be interesting if you could, because Mahomes said I'll
take ten million, but you only one hundred if I
win us a super Bowl. Think about the owner. If
you're the owner of the Chiefs, you'd be.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Like, but this goes back to what you brought this
up years ago to me, and you said there should
be a separate salary cap for quarterbacks, and I said,
I would love to see it because then the money
is more evenly dispersed on your roster instead of just
being top heavy with one player and if he goes down,
then there goes your season. But you know the owners
(08:48):
don't want that. They're like, no, we want a salary cap.
We don't want you know, idiots out there going on
we're going to spend you know, one hundred million dollars
on you know, these three players, and they're like, no, no,
we don't want that. By the way, the Giants Hard
Knocks is a whole lot better than I thought. The
off season with the Giants had a little bit of
(09:10):
drama in there, and you know, it's all about Saquon Barkley.
I just think that the Giants New York Giants, the
Football Giants is they like to say, New York the
New York Football Giants. Compounded one mistake by making another
mistake that you re signed Daniel Jones the only way
Daniel Jones, and you got Malik Neighbors, who I think
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is going to be a star wide receiver, but you
gotta have Saquon Barkley. I would have paid a little
more for Saquon Barkley just because I overpaid for Daniel Jones.
So now I've overpaid for Daniel Jones. I don't have
a versatile running back who can be Mike Christian McCaffrey,
and I do have a great with the potential for
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being a great rookie wide receiver. I would have paid
a little more for Saquon. They were so caught up
in Oh, he's gonna want Jonathan Taylor numbers. Okay, Saquon
Barkley can be Christian McCaffrey in my opinion, in the
right offense, he can be that player. But you're gonna
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give him an offer that he can refuse, and then Philadelphia,
Philadelphia's become the San Francisco forty nine ers offensively. I mean,
if you look at all the weapons, now, you got
your Christa McCaffrey in Saquon Barkley. You got a good
tight end. He's not George Kittle. You've got really good
wide receivers here, and your quarterback is an upgrade over
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what the forty nine ers have, at least it, you know,
it certainly feels that way. It feels like those two
teams are kind of mirroring each other. But with the Giants,
I just didn't understand the logic. I'd pay a little
more for Saquon Barkley if they think he's got more.
You know, this isn't something like you know when Jerry
Jones does something stupid by extending Zeke Elliott and I go,
(10:58):
what are you thinking? You can't play anymore? Not not
with what's going to be commensurate to what you're paying him.
Saquon Barkley. I don't think his hit his prime yet
Zeke did with the Cowboys. And then they're like, we're
going to bring him back. He's a leader.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
No he's not. Oh he gave you five really good years.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Move on from him.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
They brought him back again, didn't they?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And I still keep throwing in a little NFL stuff
waiting to see what happens with Tua because this might
be next week where we either find out the Dolphins
are going to give him his money or they're not.
And I would hold out. I would hold out giving
him fifty million.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Do so, you're you're the team and you would hold out?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yes, I would not the No, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
It's a different kind of holdout.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Hey, we're going to hold out, you know? With you?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I would hold off. How's that I would hold off
paying to a tuic is not going to win me games?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
He's twenty six years old, he was eleven and six
seventy percent passer, forty six hundred yards, twenty nine touchdowns,
fourteen picks.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, No, why is it? I feel like but I
felt this way with Jalen Hurts, like I just I
wanted to see one more year. I think there's level
levels of good, goodness, good ish, and then great, and
Tua is in the good.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I just don't know if game on the line, Like
like if you said, hey.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Joe Burrow, like watch Joe Burrow throw a football, it's
effortless or Mahomes justin Herbert certain guys, you just go, man.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He it.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It looks like like Russell Wilson looks like he's working
to throw a pass. TWOA looks like he's working to
throw a pass. But I think you're probably gonna hear
here in the next week. What's gonna happen with the Dolphins.
This just in Shams's reporting. Kawhi Leonard is not going
to play for the Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
If I'm the Clippers man, I would certainly give him
a hint that we don't want you to play. But
then we had Joe Varden on and he's covering the
Olympic team, and he said that there was something in
the language with owners and players playing for your country
that you couldn't influence them to not play. That Steve
(13:25):
Ballmer couldn't say to KWHI don't play. Now, logically I'd
be like, should I really be playing for the Olympic team?
Shouldn't I maybe rehab rest and be ready to play
more than sixty games. Now they're talking about Derek White.
Has anybody had a better basketball year?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I take that back.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Lebron had the best offseason because he got re signed,
he got the coach he wanted, and his son got drafted.
But Derek White, Derek White, unbelievable and breakout player with
the Celtics. And then here he is where he might
be the guy who's gonna take Kawhi Leonard's place. I
(14:05):
see where Gus Johnson just called in. How about we
take a break. We'll get to Gus. He's actually covering
the Olympic team and we'll get his thoughts on that.
Coming up back after this.
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
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Speaker 2 (15:08):
Gus Johnson will be on the call with Bill Raftery
Christina Pink for USA basketball the matchup against Canada. That's
tonight at ten thirty Eastern on FS one. Gus Johnson,
the Fox Sports play by play announcer, joining us on
the program.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Hi, Gus, how are you?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Wow? Man?
Speaker 10 (15:27):
I feel like I'm coming in from the wilderness now
that I'm finally back on the Dan Patrick Show. I
mean it's been literally I haven't been on your show
because you.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Don't love me anymore.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Dan, I don't know what happened, man.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
We ain't folk no more.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's been over.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
I've been at Fox for fourteen years, and this is
the first time I've been on your show since I
came over to Fox. So I was just letting you
know that today is just like such a wonderful day
to me. I feel like I've accomplished so many things,
and i just feel like I'm on my way up
some kind of beautiful ascending mountain and I'm going to
reach the peak and have an opportunity to look out
(16:05):
over the entire landscape. Because now I'm back on.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I don't know, Gus. I think you need to get
a better researcher. Fritzi.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Will you do the homework and tell me the last
time Gus Johnson was on the program.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
All Right, we're gonna bet and me and my friends
we have bets we call We're going to bet a
mystical dollar me and you one mystical dollar that I'm
going to beat you in this bet. And it's been
over fourteen years.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I'm going to take the under. Paulie, would you locate
the last time Gus was We're all.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Over, but I know we had him on college basketball
related within the past ten years.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, okay, that mythical dollars maybe I'm running my way.
You might be the drake. You might be the Drake
of bets with announcer. So you're going to lose this.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on hold.
I got to stop you right here. No, no, no, no,
I would never be the drake of anything you know.
Say I'm an American. I have nothing Drake, No, not me.
Don't say that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You are you going Kendrick Lamar here, Hey, listen, listen.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
You're you're diving into a pool that you really don't understand.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Don't say that. Okay, don't say.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
That to me. I'm an American, I'm not. Don't compare
me to Drake.
Speaker 11 (17:15):
Let me get in the pool right now over the
next one to one to two years, or compare me
to anybody but Drake right now.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Tell me what you're expecting with this Olympic team and
is it on par or for or is it more
talented than the dream team, which we've been led to
believe with recent articles here.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Well, I just got some information today that Kawhi Leonard
will not be playing in the Olympics because he is injured,
and uh, is it better than the Dream team? I
wouldn't agree I wouldn't say that, you know, No, I
think that they got a good team, but I think
they have an older team that has injuries. Kevin Durant
got a little nick. Lebron's thirty nine years old. That's
(18:04):
getting older now Kawhi is not playing. I don't think
they have the uh, the same firepower as the Dream Team. No,
I wouldn't say that at all.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well, they don't have a Jordan and they don't. I
don't think they have a Jordan or Berkley and those
two were you know, Charles I think won the MVP
maybe the year after the Dream Team, and we of
course Mike was in his prime. Now that was that
was kind of a banged up roster too. You know,
Larry Bird wasn't Larry Bird at the time, but you
know that was that was a pretty good All I
(18:34):
know is I still had Mike going out there every
single game.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And they don't have Michael Jordan.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Nobody does, but well not they don't have the Lebron
James in his prime.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I don't think.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Maybe that's what you're saying. Yeah, you're right, you're right,
they don't. But they have a good team, a great team.
The Hall of fame type roster. If they can, you know,
if they can stay healthy and get through the entire
gauntlet of the games at the Olympics, I think they
can win the gold medal. But I don't think it's
going to be easy at all. This team Canada, the squad,
(19:11):
I've watched them in practice the last two days, and
they're very enthusiastic and confident with their speed and agility
and also with their talent level with SGA leading the way,
So they're going to be good. And you know, Serbia
and a number of different countries around the world, France
(19:31):
with all the great young talent that they.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Have up there.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
But I think the United States, you know, yes, Steph Curry,
Lebron James, Devin Booker, all these stars. Hopefully Kevin Durant,
he can get healthy and they'll put on a good
show and come home with another gold medal.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What would be more embarrassing for Team USA to lose
to Canada or lose to France in the Olympics.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Well, they lost to Canada last year the Feeble World Cup.
It's a different roster, totally different roster for the American
A couple of holdovers. I don't think anything is gonna
you know, I don't think it's embarrassing anymore because these
are NBA players playing against NBA players a lot of times,
and these are pro players playing against pro players.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I think that.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Losing to either one of them will be a hit embarrassing.
I wouldn't say that, but I think they expect to
win it, but they know they're going to have to
play their best basketball to win it. So it's like
six on one hand, half a dozen on the other.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We're talking to Gus Johnson, Fox Sports play by play announcer,
frequent guest in the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
PAULI, when's the last time Gus was on the show?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Now I can confirm Gus spring of twenty eleven, and
you said fourteen years, that would be thirteen years.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
I got it with you know what, that guy goes
to the runner.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't know if we had happened.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Man?
Speaker 10 (21:09):
You fell out of love with me when I was
the CBS.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You loved me, man.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Now you know, well I talked to you.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Fourteen years. We're going to round that up to the
you know, highest number, because it just sounds better. Fourteen
better sounds better.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Than thirteen was this back when Northern Iowa, when Ali
Fuesh was starring.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I think is that when we had I think us
was on that call? Were you on that call? I
had no idea. Wait, I'm following your career. Remember what
I did last, I did last fifty years ago?
Speaker 10 (21:43):
You know what I'm say?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Where's the strangest place you've been recognized with your voice?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Strangest place I've been recognized? Well, I would incriminate myself
if I actually told you the truth, But.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Look at it this way.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
It's a very strange, strange places.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That you would never expect. You know, I have had
you weren't you? Weren't with James Harden in Houston? Were
you where you got recognized with?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Never that mean? You know?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I travel a lot.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
You know, I've been traveling a lot for the last
thirty five years, so I've I've had some experiences, and
I have been recognized in places, uh, places that that
I didn't think people even really knew I existed.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
So, okay, I'll just leave it at that magic city. Yeah,
I understand that expected for me.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We're seven weeks out until college football. What do you
how do you prepare for what? You think college football
is going to be like or when will you prepare
for the shifting landscape?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I mean, I don't think you ever.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Let's look at it like this, Dad, Our jobs are
the easiest jobs in the history of mankind for people
like us that love sports. So prepare. What does prepare mean?
That's an interesting word because you're always interested in it
in college football, and you never kind of stopped preparing
because you're always interested in what's going on. And last
(23:28):
year we had such an exciting season with Dion and
he started.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Out in Colorado.
Speaker 10 (23:34):
We had a bunch of his early games and he
beat TCU first game on the road, and then we
segue from Dion to Jim Harball and what was going
on with him with the Big Ten and the NCAA
investigation and then Harball getting suspended, and then Jeron Woar
coming in as the Michigan interim head coach and leading
(23:54):
them all the way to the Big Ten championship Jeron
Wore beating Ohio State and then Harball coming back and
we weren't there after the championship when Harball coaching the
championship Big Ten Championship, that was so we had an
exciting season. I'm always looking at it. I'm always interested
(24:16):
in what's going on in college football, and now it's
so exciting with UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Washington moving into
the Big Ten. So the schedule looks good for everybody,
I mean, not only US in NBC and CBS. Some
good games that are going to be shown on television
overall platforms. So I'm always looking at him and I'm
(24:37):
always interested. And we got an exciting schedule coming up.
We got Texas and Michigan week two. I think I'm
really looking forward to seeing that when yours coming back
again for Texas as their quarterback arch manning their backup
quarterback now and going into ann Arbor taking on Michigan
now with a new quarterback, most likely kidnamed alex Orgy. Big, strong, physical,
(24:58):
I mean, just built like a Greek god, like a
domistist kid, alex Orgin. He's from Texas, African American kid.
So it's always something to pay attention to. There's always
some good hot stove topics. So man, I'm always interested
in what's going on with college football. I prepare as
soon as the season ends, which is just keeping.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Up on what's going on, talking to Gus Johnson Fox
Sports play by a play announcer. He'll be on the
call tonight. It's a team USA versus Canada. That's a
ten thirty Eastern on FS one. Where do you stand
on the Cooper flag bandwagon? You in first class seat.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
First class? Oh bit, you know, not only a man
first class. I'm a first class lying on United Arab Emirates.
I don't know if you've been on that play talk
about the first class.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And then there's United Arab Immirates. Folks, Wait, what's that like?
First class? Off the move.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
It's out of the world, It's off the charts.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
Being on the United I took a flight over I
think from New York to London one time on that
flight and it's just it's amazing and it's the greatest
first class I've ever been in. So when you asked
me the question about Coop, I'm in the United Arab
Emirates first class with this young man.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I mean.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
And I was thinking about him because I knew you
were going to talk to me about him today, and
I figured you would ask me a question like what
makes it is he standing out? And my answer was
I thought about it last night I said, yes, he
is standing out because he's not standing out, Meaning on
(26:40):
what day did I come to practice? I want to practice.
First practice was Monday. They had a great scrimmage between
the the national team and the select team that they
have the practice against him, and I was watching because
I can't take my eye. Man, I can't excuse me
for rambling, but I can't take my eyes off Lebron
(27:00):
James because I've never seen Lebron James prior to Monday practice.
I've never seen him practice. I had a chance to
watch him practice the last two days, and what's amazing
to me is, here's a man that's arguably the greatest
player in the history of the game of basketball, who
(27:21):
you know, has a very very good argument to become
to be the goat. And as I watched him practice,
and I kept my eyes on him the entire time
both days, he worked like well, Lebron James in practice
worked like he was trying to make the team at
(27:44):
thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I mean, his.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Energy, his determination, is commitment, all that stuff. He plays
so hard. So to answer your question about Cooper Flag,
does he stand out? No, Well that was my question.
Does he stand out out?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
No?
Speaker 10 (28:01):
He doesn't stand out because he just fits in like
he's just normally a part of this situation. And he's
seventeen years old. I saw Lebron James checking him, checking
him in the scrimmage, and Cooper Flag was playing point
guard at seventeen years old, at six y nine against
Lebron James, and he he didn't flinch. It was nothing.
(28:23):
It was just like he's playing against some kids that
he played against in high school a few.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Months back in Maine.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
I mean, this kid, it's it's you know, it's really
amazing as a sportscaster, especially a guy that's always on
the road and still walks into locker rooms unlike a
lot of you know people in today's a sportscasting, you know,
working locker rooms and being around people. It's so interesting
when you run into a person.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
That is.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
Special just just as a baby, as a young person,
and you just see the future, like Lebron James when
he was a kid out of high schools on Sports Illustrator.
I'll never forgets say the chosen one. This Cooper Flag
is the real deal. And it's just I was thinking
as I was watching him, I was like, here's a
(29:18):
kid that's seventeen years old, playing against not only the
best players in the world, but some of the greatest
players of all time, playing with them, fitting in, not dominating,
but being effective. And he's seventeen and now what is
this July? So he's got August, so he's got another
month and then he's gonna walk onto a college campus
and have to play against college kids.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
This is gonna be.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Phenomenal to watch. Just I mean, I can't wait to
watch Duke. And he's only gonna be there for a year,
so he's gonna be the number one player in the Drive,
There's no question about it. I mean, we are looking
at the future of the NBA, the future of American
basket ball, which makes me feel good because if you look,
(30:02):
you're seeing all these international guys winning MVP, mvs. Dantage's
joke kis antety Cumbo's And now you got a guy
like Anthony Edwards, who the young up and coming cat
American and this Cooper flag is going to be Uh,
he's gonna be special over the next fifteen years. So
it's just, uh, it's a treat.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
I was sitting there saying to myself, I can't believe
that they pay me to do this. But I'm not
going to tell anybody, you know, Dan, don't tell nobody, man,
I won't tell nobody. They pay us for this, right,
I promise you. Uh So, we'll talk to you in
twenty thirty eight. Does that sound about right? Next time
we'll have you on it. Well, I mean that's usually
what kind of schedule you have me on.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So, but I'll hope here. Thanks for doing otherwise. Everything good. Yeah,
you're doing otherwise.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
I've been spoken to you. You good, You've always treated
me great.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Everything's good, no complaints. I still get to do this, guys.
That's that's the fun part. I mean, after a while,
I don't take it for granted. But I'm very fortunate
that you know, you survive, and this is it's a
young person's business, and you just try to make sure
they eventually tap you on the shoulder and say come here,
(31:16):
bring your playbook. But until then we get well to
do it every day.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
That's what's up, man, And you're absolutely right. Words can't
express the amount of gratitude that I have put a
good to the Good Lord for allowing me to do
this for a living, in this particular lifetime. But I
don't think it's a young man's game one hundred percent.
I think it's the game of men. And I take
guys like us who have survived that bring a certain
kind of wisdom to this job and to the covering
(31:43):
and the chronicling and the you know, of sports is
a big deal, and you do a fantastic job. You
have always I learned a lot from you. As I
mentioned to you about fifteen years, I haven't been on
the show. Was sixty seventeen, eighteen years something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's still twenty eleven, twenty eleven.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
It's kind of a mentor. You've always kind of been
kind of a mentor because not only you know, are
you Dan? Are you credible as a journalist, but you know,
you just have a way of style of grace about yourself.
And I really admire of that and and I'm really
a big fan of you and your shows and everything
you've done during your your illustrious career.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
You know, if you keep talking that way, I'm going
to have you on probably on Monday again.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
You know, That's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'm give my best to RAF and uh tonight, you
got it. It'll be ten thirty Eastern. It'll be Team
USA against Canada. Thank you Gus for joining us.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
All right, man, you got a guys.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
Thank you for having me Dan.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I hope Gus Johnson, Fox Sports playback play announcer. I
didn't realize it had been that long.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Yes, well after the twenty eleven and Say tournament, Gus
took the big job at Fox, mostly football, and you
know he's very missed at the CBS at the nca tournament,
he was fantastic at the.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But see if they let j Billis do games. I
thought that they would let Gus do a couple of them.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Foxes look great if they loaned out Gus for a
couple of NCAA tournament game.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
And I know you want to develop your announcers, play
by play announcers, younger announcers. I get that, but it
would have been nice, Like I wanted Dick by Town
to get a chance to do a big game because
I don't know who's been more instrumental in selling the
game of college basketball than Dick EV And I know
Dicky B listens to the show, and I hope he's
(33:31):
feeling better. His cancer is back and you know he
lost his good friend Howie Schwab. So Dick is surrounded
by great people. But you know he's been the face
and the voice of college basketball for such a long
long time.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
All Right, we'll take a break. Last call for phone Calls?
What we learned?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Last Call for Phone Calls?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
What we learn? What's in store tomorrow? This day in
sports history. Yeah, this Reese Hines. He's a thing for
the Reds. A couple of home runs. These are deep
and not playable home runs. He has fifteen total bases
so far through two games in his career. Two homers,
two doubles in a triple. So if you're looking at
(34:22):
total bases, that's fifteen. That's the most by any baseball
player since nineteen oh one.
Speaker 9 (34:32):
Stall of a Day, Style of a day, Start out
a day, scant outa day.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
This is the stule of the Day, Just out of
the Day, brought to you by Panini America, the official
trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. Last Call for
Phone Calls. Let's see Ray and Sconsdale. Ray, thank you
for holding what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well, thank you for taking the call the best sport
show in the business, guys, thank you for entertaining me perpetually.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Mry thanks, thank you, Ray.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Well it's I'm a radio junkie, so it's a true
heartfelt compliment, not patronizing. I wanted to share a quick
story about a father son's sports thing that's rather interesting.
I'm a Scottsdale resident fifty years and you know, scotts
Stale is just not known as a boxing town level
on the sports town.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And dramatic pause, we lost him? Sorry, what what now?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
I want to hear the rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I didn't I didn't know that it was Scottsdale was
a boxing tem nice.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I was waiting. I was waiting to hear maybe wait
and get him back here. Uh Bergie in Florida, Hy Bergie,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Dan?
Speaker 12 (35:49):
You know I'm a little confused. I hear Todd there
in the studio, but I look at any Wimbledon live
update right now on court one, the thirteenth ranked American
Ti Fritz.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, let's go see Fritz Brant home.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, you're right, Bergie. Yeah, although a former producer of
mine is there for the Wembledon coverage and he actually
called Fritz Todd. What's his first name?
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Taylor?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Taylor.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
So our buddy Willie Weinbaum is there and he called him,
said Todd, and then he had to explain that he
had a friend Todd Fritz here in the United States.
That yeah, Ray in Scottsdale is back. All right, Ray,
so finish your story, thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
So my son was fourteen years old, gangly. I got
him into boxing because I was a hobbyist boxer. Every
day I take him to training. Fourteen fifteen, sixteen, sixteen
and a half, seventeen years old. He comes up as
the fourth rated amateur boxer in the state of Arizona.
Floyd Mayweather's father shows up at one of his events,
sees him, can't believe his speed, and he wants to
(36:57):
train him. High school comes he graduate, waits now here
we are. We're talking, and he looks at me and
he says, I got something to tell you. I said, now,
I've lived vicariously through him for four years, took him
to training every single day. He says to me, I
can't do it. Anymore. I go, what do you mean?
He goes, you want the truth? I go, yeah, he
(37:17):
said it's too hard. I go, what do you mean?
He said, Dad, every day it's torture. Pushing myself to
a limit, to a pain threshold is becoming so depressing.
I don't want the life. I got fifty trophies on
the wall that this kid won. I said, what do
you want to do? He said, just when me go
to college and drop the whole thing. You're dropping the
whole thing. I said, yeah. Now, my wife and I
(37:40):
had been following him on the circuit. We had our
own little celebrity status among the crew of people in
the circuit, so we had our own little fame doing
at the same time. And in one coffee cup conversation
it was over and I had to look at him
and say, it's sure, life go ahead, and I just
just walked away from the whole damn thing.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
It's tough stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
And because you get so invested, you and your wife,
and your travel schedules back and forth, equipment, money, aau,
I mean, all of these things. I get it, and
it becomes your identity too. You get wrapped up in
their success. They're the ones putting in the work, the
true work to be good, to be great. You're driving
(38:25):
a mini van. Now maybe you're more involved in that.
But it is difficult. But it's the pressure we put
on these kids that they aren't kids, and you want
them to continue because you benefit from this. It's important
to you. You understand, maybe they can get a scholarship,
like you still have to factor in their kid do
(38:49):
they love this? And I've seen kids who love sports
they get burned out, they burn themselves out. But you
also at the end of all of this, you still
have to ask them, I want you to do what
you love doing, because then it's not work.
Speaker 10 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Seen, it is one of those things like you have
to remind kids that like and maybe we don't as
adults appreciate though, that every time they take a step
up in level, it doesn't get easier, it gets harder,
you know, and that it can be a difficult message
for like a thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen year old, you know,
to be like, yes, and the privilege that you get
(39:30):
for all of this hard work and getting better, is
it just getting harder for you?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
You know, and you don't that could be very difficult.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
But That's where you get the person, the player, the athlete,
the male or female, who then relishes that next competition.
I figured this out. Now it's the next competition. But
you have to you know, they have to be wired correctly,
because it does get tough. There's a reason why it
gets tough, and then it gets easier, and then it
(39:58):
gets tougher again.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
This day in sports history, Paul.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Right On Cue teenage phenoms. Dwight Gooden, at age nineteen,
was the youngest player to appear as a pitcher in
an All Star Game. Nineteen years and seven months old
Dwight good In nineteen eighty four nineteen ninety nine, the
US women's soccer team defeated China to win the nineteen
ninety nine World Cup Tournament.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Brandy Chanstain, that's right, Brandy Chanstain, the big deal. Let's see.
I still love this.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I mean, imagine if you go to a party, You're
walking around Baseball Hall of Famers and now you go, oh,
that's the guy who struck out Babe, Ruth lou Gegg,
Jimmy Fox, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin in a row
and an All Star Game. Carl Hubble nineteen thirty four,
he strikes up Babe, Ruth lou Geregg, Jimmy Fox, Al Simmons,
(40:47):
Joe Cronin, all Hall of Famers to start. That's consecutive strikeouts,
yes time.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
And he wasn't very hubble. He bragged about it all
the time. Ready, that's not bad. And then they named
the hubbled telescope after There you go. I didn't know that, Todd.
Would you learn today you didn't.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Have to worry about pushing your kids to reach high
levels of sports success since none were particularly athletic?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
No, they were not.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Uh seat no Connor. Let's have Gus back on Gus. Yeah,
let's have Gus on before you know. Twenty thirty eight, Marvin,
don't compare Gus to Drake.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I know, I'm just saying about gambling.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Final Hour on this Wednesday. We've touched on a variety
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So we'll talk to Gus coming up. We were talking
about sequels and the separation between Gladiator, and I misspoke.
I said nineteen ninety. It was two thousand when Gladiator
came out. Here we are twenty four years later. Gladiator
(00:49):
two is going to be coming out and Denzel Washington
is in this movie, which is kind of interesting. Now
he's done all these iconic roles, you know, Training Day
and Malcolm X, and now he's doing Equalizer. And I
watched the first one and I was hooked. I was like,
this is kind of his John Wick and it's good.
(01:11):
So I think we're Equalizer three or four now. But
if you get a chance and you want to like
disappear for an hour and a half or something in
a movie two hours, Equalizer is really really good. And
Denzel is you know, he's Denzel. But this is one
of those where he's probably like, Oh, do I want
(01:32):
to starve myself to play this role?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Or do I want to look at a certain way?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And now I'm just gonna wear baggy clothes and go
around the world killing people?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And where are we shooting Italy? How many pages of dialogue? Five? Yummen?
What's the check?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yuh, definitely, Yeah, there's not a lot of dialogue with it.
You know, he's Denzel, he doesn't need his look says
a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yes, Paully, so Equalizer the first one, Equalizer one was
twenty fourteen. Is that a byproduct of Liam Neeson two
thousand and eight taken? Yes, a lot of money, three
movies at least. Yes, you get paid to kick ass. Yes,
it's a good deal.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yes, I don't know why I'm doing my Liam nieson.
Why not Todd? I will hunt you down, I would
find you, and I will curing you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Not a lot of dialogue and Taken either, but those
are once again. I like to just watch a movie
where I don't have to think too much. Uh, Taken,
I don't have to think too much other than he's
one of the worst parents ever, Like, I don't know
where's my daughter now? All of a sudden with some
Albanian guys who you know are running.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
A drug cartel. How'd you lose your daughter again?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Tuck your family for crimes?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Come on, yes, seven.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Sometimes I can watch movies just based on where it's
set or like the scenery. That's how I got to
I think I haven't seen Equalizers one, two, or three,
But I think I watched four only because I was
on a plane and it was set in Italy and
I was like, oh, I'll watch this. This sounds great,
all right. I could watch The Revenant just because of
the scenery. It looks awesome. You find really good movies
(03:15):
that way, like Equalizer Now. I want to go back
and watch the first three because that character was so awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But I don't think they're great locations.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think one is like Massachusetts Boston, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Which is essentially the New England.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Equalizer in Cape cod wouldn't have worked.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Went in Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Boston is the French riviera of the Yeah, I think
he's on a train in one of them, and then
he's in Italy and one, and then he's in Massachusetts
maybe for the first two.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Essentially the a Mafi Coast of.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's good though, I mean it's Denzel and same thing
with Liam Neeson, Like it's preposterous, you know, some of
the things that happen and taken. But I tried to
kind of suspend any kind of belief in what is
normal when I'm watching these movies.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
So this is kind of like the Senior's Tour, Like
if you're a great golfer, you're on the regular tour.
Denzel Washington made tons of great movies. Liam Needson made
tons of great movies. Now they're on the senior tour.
Big checks, kind of easy script, go and kick some
ass and go home.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Or is this like the live tour.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
It's a bit like the livyah maybe pus controversy.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, there's no controversy with this, but this is where
you know, when somebody says, well, why'd you take that paycheck?
Like we always yeah, we always think, oh, you know,
for the artistic you know, working with that director. Oh yeah,
you know, I've always wanted to work with him, you know, artistically,
I love this character.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It speaks to me, this is just why'd you do this?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Money?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like if I'm canu reeves, if somebody says, why would
you do John Wick?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Why not? Yeah, Marph.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
So for actors is the arc make popcorn movies, make
some money, then do the Oscar nominated films, something you
could sink your teeth into. And then the back half is,
let's just make a bunch of money and do some
action films. Is that kind of the the arc?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now, that's what I've done, Like I did that with
Sandler and we made over a billion dollars. And now
on the back end now is when I do kind
of indie Films's I haven't done them yet, but I'm
waiting to do the indie films.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Here. Yes, Paul Denzel Washington made sixty million dollars making
three Equalizer movies. The movie's crushed. You know, it's great,
easy sixty mil.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
But that's sixty probably salary. And then there's back end
with that, correct, That's when these guys crush it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
When you're going wait, a minute. How mud she make
back end with it?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Like what did Margot Robbie make on Barbie? She had
to make at least one hundred million. Does that seem fair?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Then Jack Nicholson get like the back end of Batman.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I might have, might have.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I think Lawrence Fishburn got three percent back end.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh, I don't know what. I don't know. If it
was Matrix, I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think he got something where it's like, uh, I
mean that's one of those where it shows up like that,
does a check show up and it's like, here's sixty
two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, okay, your wife's going through the mail.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Uh huh, we got the credit card due, we got that.
Oh you got your sixty two million back end for Matrix.
But I would imagine Denzel got twenty million up front
and then just back end, because that's I love when
an actor if you if you bet on yourself, I'll
take less, but I'll take the back end of this.
Do you have what Margot Robbie got for Barbie Marmon?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I don't, sorry, I've Jack Nicholson. He was the highest
paid actor for a single movie for his role as
the Joker in nineteen eighty nine Batman, earning around ninety
million dollars. He took a six million dollars up front
payment and a percentage of the final box office gross.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I gotta believe Margo Robbie got a one hundred million
dollars that that movie made over a billion.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yes, Paulin Keanu.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Reeves has crushed it with the Matrix. He took a
lot of backend money because the original one they weren't
sure about it like a different concept. Supposedly he made
one hundred and fifty six million dollars on the two sequels.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Dag dang, No wonder. He's always in a good mood
when you see him.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
He's rolling.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yes, he can't have a bad day. Yes, time I
see that.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Margot was paid approximately twelve and a half million dollars
just for the role of being the actress and has
made at least fifty million between her salary and box
office business, the bonuses, and her dual role as star
and producers.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, and they may have gone up since then.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I was from a story about several months ago.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, Marvin Tots, it wears out of my mouth. Oh okay,
all right, thank you. Don't little research on this program. Yes,
Paul couldn't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Could it an athlete or would an athlete ever do
something like this. Let's say Patrick Mahomes to be friendly
to his team, so I'll take ten million dollars this season.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But I don't think you can get back in the
back end is the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
If I win the Super Bowl, you have to pay
me a check for one hundred million dollars. But you
can't do that because of the salary camp, right, But
it'd be interesting if you could, because Mahomes said I'll
take ten million, but you only one hundred if I
win us a super Bowl. Think about the owner. If
you're the owner of the Chiefs, you'd be.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Like, but this goes back to what you brought this
up years ago to me, and you said there should
be a separate salary cap for quarterbacks, and I said,
I would love to see it because then the money
is more evenly dispersed on your roster instead of just
being top heavy with one player and if he goes down,
then there goes your season. But you know the owners
(08:48):
don't want that. They're like, no, we want a salary cap.
We don't want you know, idiots out there going on
we're going to spend you know, one hundred million dollars
on you know, these three players, and they're like, no, no,
we don't want that. By the way, the Giants Hard
Knocks is a whole lot better than I thought. The
off season with the Giants had a little bit of
(09:10):
drama in there, and you know, it's all about Saquon Barkley.
I just think that the Giants New York Giants, the
Football Giants is they like to say, New York the
New York Football Giants. Compounded one mistake by making another
mistake that you re signed Daniel Jones the only way
Daniel Jones, and you got Malik Neighbors, who I think
(09:30):
is going to be a star wide receiver, but you
gotta have Saquon Barkley. I would have paid a little
more for Saquon Barkley just because I overpaid for Daniel Jones.
So now I've overpaid for Daniel Jones. I don't have
a versatile running back who can be Mike Christian McCaffrey,
and I do have a great with the potential for
(09:53):
being a great rookie wide receiver. I would have paid
a little more for Saquon. They were so caught up
in Oh, he's gonna want Jonathan Taylor numbers. Okay, Saquon
Barkley can be Christian McCaffrey in my opinion, in the
right offense, he can be that player. But you're gonna
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give him an offer that he can refuse, and then Philadelphia,
Philadelphia's become the San Francisco forty nine ers offensively. I mean,
if you look at all the weapons, now, you got
your Christa McCaffrey in Saquon Barkley. You got a good
tight end. He's not George Kittle. You've got really good
wide receivers here, and your quarterback is an upgrade over
(10:36):
what the forty nine ers have, at least it, you know,
it certainly feels that way. It feels like those two
teams are kind of mirroring each other. But with the Giants,
I just didn't understand the logic. I'd pay a little
more for Saquon Barkley if they think he's got more.
You know, this isn't something like you know when Jerry
Jones does something stupid by extending Zeke Elliott and I go,
(10:58):
what are you thinking? You can't play anymore? Not not
with what's going to be commensurate to what you're paying him.
Saquon Barkley. I don't think his hit his prime yet
Zeke did with the Cowboys. And then they're like, we're
going to bring him back. He's a leader.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
No he's not. Oh he gave you five really good years.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Move on from him.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
They brought him back again, didn't they?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And I still keep throwing in a little NFL stuff
waiting to see what happens with Tua because this might
be next week where we either find out the Dolphins
are going to give him his money or they're not.
And I would hold out. I would hold out giving
him fifty million.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Do so, you're you're the team and you would hold out?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yes, I would not the No, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
It's a different kind of holdout.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Hey, we're going to hold out, you know? With you?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I would hold off. How's that I would hold off
paying to a tuic is not going to win me games?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
He's twenty six years old, he was eleven and six
seventy percent passer, forty six hundred yards, twenty nine touchdowns,
fourteen picks.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, No, why is it? I feel like but I
felt this way with Jalen Hurts, like I just I
wanted to see one more year. I think there's level
levels of good, goodness, good ish, and then great, and
Tua is in the good.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I just don't know if game on the line, Like
like if you said, hey.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Joe Burrow, like watch Joe Burrow throw a football, it's
effortless or Mahomes justin Herbert certain guys, you just go, man.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
He it.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It looks like like Russell Wilson looks like he's working
to throw a pass. TWOA looks like he's working to
throw a pass. But I think you're probably gonna hear
here in the next week. What's gonna happen with the Dolphins.
This just in Shams's reporting. Kawhi Leonard is not going
to play for the Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
If I'm the Clippers man, I would certainly give him
a hint that we don't want you to play. But
then we had Joe Varden on and he's covering the
Olympic team, and he said that there was something in
the language with owners and players playing for your country
that you couldn't influence them to not play. That Steve
(13:25):
Ballmer couldn't say to KWHI don't play. Now, logically I'd
be like, should I really be playing for the Olympic team?
Shouldn't I maybe rehab rest and be ready to play
more than sixty games. Now they're talking about Derek White.
Has anybody had a better basketball year?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I take that back.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Lebron had the best offseason because he got re signed,
he got the coach he wanted, and his son got drafted.
But Derek White, Derek White, unbelievable and breakout player with
the Celtics. And then here he is where he might
be the guy who's gonna take Kawhi Leonard's place. I
(14:05):
see where Gus Johnson just called in. How about we
take a break. We'll get to Gus. He's actually covering
the Olympic team and we'll get his thoughts on that.
Coming up back after this.
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You took those clips totally of context.
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
Yeing.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Gus Johnson will be on the call with Bill Raftery
Christina Pink for USA basketball the matchup against Canada. That's
tonight at ten thirty Eastern on FS one. Gus Johnson,
the Fox Sports play by play announcer, joining us on
the program.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Hi, Gus, how are you?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Wow? Man?
Speaker 10 (15:27):
I feel like I'm coming in from the wilderness now
that I'm finally back on the Dan Patrick Show. I
mean it's been literally I haven't been on your show
because you.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Don't love me anymore.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Dan, I don't know what happened, man.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
We ain't folk no more.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's been over.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
I've been at Fox for fourteen years, and this is
the first time I've been on your show since I
came over to Fox. So I was just letting you
know that today is just like such a wonderful day
to me. I feel like I've accomplished so many things,
and i just feel like I'm on my way up
some kind of beautiful ascending mountain and I'm going to
reach the peak and have an opportunity to look out
(16:05):
over the entire landscape. Because now I'm back on.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I don't know, Gus. I think you need to get
a better researcher. Fritzi.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Will you do the homework and tell me the last
time Gus Johnson was on the program.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
All Right, we're gonna bet and me and my friends
we have bets we call We're going to bet a
mystical dollar me and you one mystical dollar that I'm
going to beat you in this bet. And it's been
over fourteen years.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I'm going to take the under. Paulie, would you locate
the last time Gus was We're all.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Over, but I know we had him on college basketball
related within the past ten years.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, okay, that mythical dollars maybe I'm running my way.
You might be the drake. You might be the Drake
of bets with announcer. So you're going to lose this.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on hold.
I got to stop you right here. No, no, no, no,
I would never be the drake of anything you know.
Say I'm an American. I have nothing Drake, No, not me.
Don't say that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You are you going Kendrick Lamar here, Hey, listen, listen.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
You're you're diving into a pool that you really don't understand.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Don't say that. Okay, don't say.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
That to me. I'm an American, I'm not. Don't compare
me to Drake.
Speaker 11 (17:15):
Let me get in the pool right now over the
next one to one to two years, or compare me
to anybody but Drake right now.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Tell me what you're expecting with this Olympic team and
is it on par or for or is it more
talented than the dream team, which we've been led to
believe with recent articles here.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Well, I just got some information today that Kawhi Leonard
will not be playing in the Olympics because he is injured,
and uh, is it better than the Dream team? I
wouldn't agree I wouldn't say that, you know, No, I
think that they got a good team, but I think
they have an older team that has injuries. Kevin Durant
got a little nick. Lebron's thirty nine years old. That's
(18:04):
getting older now Kawhi is not playing. I don't think
they have the uh, the same firepower as the Dream Team. No,
I wouldn't say that at all.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well, they don't have a Jordan and they don't. I
don't think they have a Jordan or Berkley and those
two were you know, Charles I think won the MVP
maybe the year after the Dream Team, and we of
course Mike was in his prime. Now that was that
was kind of a banged up roster too. You know,
Larry Bird wasn't Larry Bird at the time, but you
know that was that was a pretty good All I
(18:34):
know is I still had Mike going out there every
single game.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And they don't have Michael Jordan.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Nobody does, but well not they don't have the Lebron
James in his prime.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I don't think.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Maybe that's what you're saying. Yeah, you're right, you're right,
they don't. But they have a good team, a great team.
The Hall of fame type roster. If they can, you know,
if they can stay healthy and get through the entire
gauntlet of the games at the Olympics, I think they
can win the gold medal. But I don't think it's
going to be easy at all. This team Canada, the squad,
(19:11):
I've watched them in practice the last two days, and
they're very enthusiastic and confident with their speed and agility
and also with their talent level with SGA leading the way,
So they're going to be good. And you know, Serbia
and a number of different countries around the world, France
(19:31):
with all the great young talent that they.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Have up there.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
But I think the United States, you know, yes, Steph Curry,
Lebron James, Devin Booker, all these stars. Hopefully Kevin Durant,
he can get healthy and they'll put on a good
show and come home with another gold medal.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
What would be more embarrassing for Team USA to lose
to Canada or lose to France in the Olympics.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Well, they lost to Canada last year the Feeble World Cup.
It's a different roster, totally different roster for the American
A couple of holdovers. I don't think anything is gonna
you know, I don't think it's embarrassing anymore because these
are NBA players playing against NBA players a lot of times,
and these are pro players playing against pro players.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I think that.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
Losing to either one of them will be a hit embarrassing.
I wouldn't say that, but I think they expect to
win it, but they know they're going to have to
play their best basketball to win it. So it's like
six on one hand, half a dozen on the other.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We're talking to Gus Johnson, Fox Sports play by play announcer,
frequent guest in the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
PAULI, when's the last time Gus was on the show?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Now I can confirm Gus spring of twenty eleven, and
you said fourteen years, that would be thirteen years.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
I got it with you know what, that guy goes
to the runner.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I don't know if we had happened.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Man?
Speaker 10 (21:09):
You fell out of love with me when I was
the CBS.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You loved me, man.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Now you know, well I talked to you.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Fourteen years. We're going to round that up to the
you know, highest number, because it just sounds better. Fourteen
better sounds better.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Than thirteen was this back when Northern Iowa, when Ali
Fuesh was starring.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I think is that when we had I think us
was on that call? Were you on that call? I
had no idea. Wait, I'm following your career. Remember what
I did last, I did last fifty years ago?
Speaker 10 (21:43):
You know what I'm say?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Where's the strangest place you've been recognized with your voice?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Strangest place I've been recognized? Well, I would incriminate myself
if I actually told you the truth, But.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Look at it this way.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
It's a very strange, strange places.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That you would never expect. You know, I have had
you weren't you? Weren't with James Harden in Houston? Were
you where you got recognized with?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Never that mean? You know?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I travel a lot.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
You know, I've been traveling a lot for the last
thirty five years, so I've I've had some experiences, and
I have been recognized in places, uh, places that that
I didn't think people even really knew I existed.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
So, okay, I'll just leave it at that magic city. Yeah,
I understand that expected for me.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We're seven weeks out until college football. What do you
how do you prepare for what? You think college football
is going to be like or when will you prepare
for the shifting landscape?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I mean, I don't think you ever.
Speaker 10 (23:06):
Let's look at it like this, Dad, Our jobs are
the easiest jobs in the history of mankind for people
like us that love sports. So prepare. What does prepare mean?
That's an interesting word because you're always interested in it
in college football, and you never kind of stopped preparing
because you're always interested in what's going on. And last
(23:28):
year we had such an exciting season with Dion and
he started.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Out in Colorado.
Speaker 10 (23:34):
We had a bunch of his early games and he
beat TCU first game on the road, and then we
segue from Dion to Jim Harball and what was going
on with him with the Big Ten and the NCAA
investigation and then Harball getting suspended, and then Jeron Woar
coming in as the Michigan interim head coach and leading
(23:54):
them all the way to the Big Ten championship Jeron
Wore beating Ohio State and then Harball coming back and
we weren't there after the championship when Harball coaching the
championship Big Ten Championship, that was so we had an
exciting season. I'm always looking at it. I'm always interested
(24:16):
in what's going on in college football, and now it's
so exciting with UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Washington moving into
the Big Ten. So the schedule looks good for everybody,
I mean, not only US in NBC and CBS. Some
good games that are going to be shown on television
overall platforms. So I'm always looking at him and I'm
(24:37):
always interested. And we got an exciting schedule coming up.
We got Texas and Michigan week two. I think I'm
really looking forward to seeing that when yours coming back
again for Texas as their quarterback arch manning their backup
quarterback now and going into ann Arbor taking on Michigan
now with a new quarterback, most likely kidnamed alex Orgy. Big, strong, physical,
(24:58):
I mean, just built like a Greek god, like a
domistist kid, alex Orgin. He's from Texas, African American kid.
So it's always something to pay attention to. There's always
some good hot stove topics. So man, I'm always interested
in what's going on with college football. I prepare as
soon as the season ends, which is just keeping.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Up on what's going on, talking to Gus Johnson Fox
Sports play by a play announcer. He'll be on the
call tonight. It's a team USA versus Canada. That's a
ten thirty Eastern on FS one. Where do you stand
on the Cooper flag bandwagon? You in first class seat.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
First class? Oh bit, you know, not only a man
first class. I'm a first class lying on United Arab Emirates.
I don't know if you've been on that play talk
about the first class.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And then there's United Arab Immirates. Folks, Wait, what's that like?
First class? Off the move.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
It's out of the world, It's off the charts.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
Being on the United I took a flight over I
think from New York to London one time on that
flight and it's just it's amazing and it's the greatest
first class I've ever been in. So when you asked
me the question about Coop, I'm in the United Arab
Emirates first class with this young man.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I mean.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
And I was thinking about him because I knew you
were going to talk to me about him today, and
I figured you would ask me a question like what
makes it is he standing out? And my answer was
I thought about it last night I said, yes, he
is standing out because he's not standing out, Meaning on
(26:40):
what day did I come to practice? I want to practice.
First practice was Monday. They had a great scrimmage between
the the national team and the select team that they
have the practice against him, and I was watching because
I can't take my eye. Man, I can't excuse me
for rambling, but I can't take my eyes off Lebron
(27:00):
James because I've never seen Lebron James prior to Monday practice.
I've never seen him practice. I had a chance to
watch him practice the last two days, and what's amazing
to me is, here's a man that's arguably the greatest
player in the history of the game of basketball, who
(27:21):
you know, has a very very good argument to become
to be the goat. And as I watched him practice,
and I kept my eyes on him the entire time
both days, he worked like well, Lebron James in practice
worked like he was trying to make the team at
(27:44):
thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I mean, his.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
Energy, his determination, is commitment, all that stuff. He plays
so hard. So to answer your question about Cooper Flag,
does he stand out? No, Well that was my question.
Does he stand out out?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
No?
Speaker 10 (28:01):
He doesn't stand out because he just fits in like
he's just normally a part of this situation. And he's
seventeen years old. I saw Lebron James checking him, checking
him in the scrimmage, and Cooper Flag was playing point
guard at seventeen years old, at six y nine against
Lebron James, and he he didn't flinch. It was nothing.
(28:23):
It was just like he's playing against some kids that
he played against in high school a few.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Months back in Maine.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
I mean, this kid, it's it's you know, it's really
amazing as a sportscaster, especially a guy that's always on
the road and still walks into locker rooms unlike a
lot of you know people in today's a sportscasting, you know,
working locker rooms and being around people. It's so interesting
when you run into a person.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
That is.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
Special just just as a baby, as a young person,
and you just see the future, like Lebron James when
he was a kid out of high schools on Sports Illustrator.
I'll never forgets say the chosen one. This Cooper Flag
is the real deal. And it's just I was thinking
as I was watching him, I was like, here's a
(29:18):
kid that's seventeen years old, playing against not only the
best players in the world, but some of the greatest
players of all time, playing with them, fitting in, not dominating,
but being effective. And he's seventeen and now what is
this July? So he's got August, so he's got another
month and then he's gonna walk onto a college campus
and have to play against college kids.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
This is gonna be.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
Phenomenal to watch. Just I mean, I can't wait to
watch Duke. And he's only gonna be there for a year,
so he's gonna be the number one player in the Drive,
There's no question about it. I mean, we are looking
at the future of the NBA, the future of American
basket ball, which makes me feel good because if you look,
(30:02):
you're seeing all these international guys winning MVP, mvs. Dantage's
joke kis antety Cumbo's And now you got a guy
like Anthony Edwards, who the young up and coming cat
American and this Cooper flag is going to be Uh,
he's gonna be special over the next fifteen years. So
it's just, uh, it's a treat.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
I was sitting there saying to myself, I can't believe
that they pay me to do this. But I'm not
going to tell anybody, you know, Dan, don't tell nobody, man,
I won't tell nobody. They pay us for this, right,
I promise you. Uh So, we'll talk to you in
twenty thirty eight. Does that sound about right? Next time
we'll have you on it. Well, I mean that's usually
what kind of schedule you have me on.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So, but I'll hope here. Thanks for doing otherwise. Everything good. Yeah,
you're doing otherwise.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
I've been spoken to you. You good, You've always treated
me great.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Everything's good, no complaints. I still get to do this, guys.
That's that's the fun part. I mean, after a while,
I don't take it for granted. But I'm very fortunate
that you know, you survive, and this is it's a
young person's business, and you just try to make sure
they eventually tap you on the shoulder and say come here,
(31:16):
bring your playbook. But until then we get well to
do it every day.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
That's what's up, man, And you're absolutely right. Words can't
express the amount of gratitude that I have put a
good to the Good Lord for allowing me to do
this for a living, in this particular lifetime. But I
don't think it's a young man's game one hundred percent.
I think it's the game of men. And I take
guys like us who have survived that bring a certain
kind of wisdom to this job and to the covering
(31:43):
and the chronicling and the you know, of sports is
a big deal, and you do a fantastic job. You
have always I learned a lot from you. As I
mentioned to you about fifteen years, I haven't been on
the show. Was sixty seventeen, eighteen years something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's still twenty eleven, twenty eleven.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
It's kind of a mentor. You've always kind of been
kind of a mentor because not only you know, are
you Dan? Are you credible as a journalist, but you know,
you just have a way of style of grace about yourself.
And I really admire of that and and I'm really
a big fan of you and your shows and everything
you've done during your your illustrious career.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
You know, if you keep talking that way, I'm going
to have you on probably on Monday again.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
You know, That's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I'm give my best to RAF and uh tonight, you
got it. It'll be ten thirty Eastern. It'll be Team
USA against Canada. Thank you Gus for joining us.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
All right, man, you got a guys.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
Thank you for having me Dan.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I hope Gus Johnson, Fox Sports playback play announcer. I
didn't realize it had been that long.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Yes, well after the twenty eleven and Say tournament, Gus
took the big job at Fox, mostly football, and you
know he's very missed at the CBS at the nca tournament,
he was fantastic at the.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But see if they let j Billis do games. I
thought that they would let Gus do a couple of them.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Foxes look great if they loaned out Gus for a
couple of NCAA tournament game.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
And I know you want to develop your announcers, play
by play announcers, younger announcers. I get that, but it
would have been nice, Like I wanted Dick by Town
to get a chance to do a big game because
I don't know who's been more instrumental in selling the
game of college basketball than Dick EV And I know
Dicky B listens to the show, and I hope he's
(33:31):
feeling better. His cancer is back and you know he
lost his good friend Howie Schwab. So Dick is surrounded
by great people. But you know he's been the face
and the voice of college basketball for such a long
long time.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
All Right, we'll take a break. Last call for phone Calls?
What we learned?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
After this, be sure to catch the live edition of
The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six
am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Last Call for Phone Calls?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
What we learn? What's in store tomorrow? This day in
sports history. Yeah, this Reese Hines. He's a thing for
the Reds. A couple of home runs. These are deep
and not playable home runs. He has fifteen total bases
so far through two games in his career. Two homers,
two doubles in a triple. So if you're looking at
(34:22):
total bases, that's fifteen. That's the most by any baseball
player since nineteen oh one.
Speaker 9 (34:32):
Stall of a Day, Style of a day, Start out
a day, scant outa day.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
This is the stule of the Day, Just out of
the Day, brought to you by Panini America, the official
trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. Last Call for
Phone Calls. Let's see Ray and Sconsdale. Ray, thank you
for holding what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well, thank you for taking the call the best sport
show in the business, guys, thank you for entertaining me perpetually.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Mry thanks, thank you, Ray.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Well it's I'm a radio junkie, so it's a true
heartfelt compliment, not patronizing. I wanted to share a quick
story about a father son's sports thing that's rather interesting.
I'm a Scottsdale resident fifty years and you know, scotts
Stale is just not known as a boxing town level
on the sports town.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And dramatic pause, we lost him? Sorry, what what now?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
I want to hear the rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I didn't I didn't know that it was Scottsdale was
a boxing tem nice.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I was waiting. I was waiting to hear maybe wait
and get him back here. Uh Bergie in Florida, Hy Bergie,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Dan?
Speaker 12 (35:49):
You know I'm a little confused. I hear Todd there
in the studio, but I look at any Wimbledon live
update right now on court one, the thirteenth ranked American
Ti Fritz.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, let's go see Fritz Brant home.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, you're right, Bergie. Yeah, although a former producer of
mine is there for the Wembledon coverage and he actually
called Fritz Todd. What's his first name?
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Taylor?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Taylor.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
So our buddy Willie Weinbaum is there and he called him,
said Todd, and then he had to explain that he
had a friend Todd Fritz here in the United States.
That yeah, Ray in Scottsdale is back. All right, Ray,
so finish your story, thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
So my son was fourteen years old, gangly. I got
him into boxing because I was a hobbyist boxer. Every
day I take him to training. Fourteen fifteen, sixteen, sixteen
and a half, seventeen years old. He comes up as
the fourth rated amateur boxer in the state of Arizona.
Floyd Mayweather's father shows up at one of his events,
sees him, can't believe his speed, and he wants to
(36:57):
train him. High school comes he graduate, waits now here
we are. We're talking, and he looks at me and
he says, I got something to tell you. I said, now,
I've lived vicariously through him for four years, took him
to training every single day. He says to me, I
can't do it. Anymore. I go, what do you mean?
He goes, you want the truth? I go, yeah, he
(37:17):
said it's too hard. I go, what do you mean?
He said, Dad, every day it's torture. Pushing myself to
a limit, to a pain threshold is becoming so depressing.
I don't want the life. I got fifty trophies on
the wall that this kid won. I said, what do
you want to do? He said, just when me go
to college and drop the whole thing. You're dropping the
whole thing. I said, yeah. Now, my wife and I
(37:40):
had been following him on the circuit. We had our
own little celebrity status among the crew of people in
the circuit, so we had our own little fame doing
at the same time. And in one coffee cup conversation
it was over and I had to look at him
and say, it's sure, life go ahead, and I just
just walked away from the whole damn thing.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
It's tough stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
And because you get so invested, you and your wife,
and your travel schedules back and forth, equipment, money, aau,
I mean, all of these things. I get it, and
it becomes your identity too. You get wrapped up in
their success. They're the ones putting in the work, the
true work to be good, to be great. You're driving
(38:25):
a mini van. Now maybe you're more involved in that.
But it is difficult. But it's the pressure we put
on these kids that they aren't kids, and you want
them to continue because you benefit from this. It's important
to you. You understand, maybe they can get a scholarship,
like you still have to factor in their kid do
(38:49):
they love this? And I've seen kids who love sports
they get burned out, they burn themselves out. But you
also at the end of all of this, you still
have to ask them, I want you to do what
you love doing, because then it's not work.
Speaker 10 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Seen, it is one of those things like you have
to remind kids that like and maybe we don't as
adults appreciate though, that every time they take a step
up in level, it doesn't get easier, it gets harder,
you know, and that it can be a difficult message
for like a thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen year old, you know,
to be like, yes, and the privilege that you get
(39:30):
for all of this hard work and getting better, is
it just getting harder for you?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
You know, and you don't that could be very difficult.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
But That's where you get the person, the player, the athlete,
the male or female, who then relishes that next competition.
I figured this out. Now it's the next competition. But
you have to you know, they have to be wired correctly,
because it does get tough. There's a reason why it
gets tough, and then it gets easier, and then it
(39:58):
gets tougher again.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
This day in sports history, Paul.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Right On Cue teenage phenoms. Dwight Gooden, at age nineteen,
was the youngest player to appear as a pitcher in
an All Star Game. Nineteen years and seven months old
Dwight good In nineteen eighty four nineteen ninety nine, the
US women's soccer team defeated China to win the nineteen
ninety nine World Cup Tournament.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Brandy Chanstain, that's right, Brandy Chanstain, the big deal. Let's see.
I still love this.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I mean, imagine if you go to a party, You're
walking around Baseball Hall of Famers and now you go, oh,
that's the guy who struck out Babe, Ruth lou Gegg,
Jimmy Fox, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin in a row
and an All Star Game. Carl Hubble nineteen thirty four,
he strikes up Babe, Ruth lou Geregg, Jimmy Fox, Al Simmons,
(40:47):
Joe Cronin, all Hall of Famers to start. That's consecutive strikeouts,
yes time.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
And he wasn't very hubble. He bragged about it all
the time. Ready, that's not bad. And then they named
the hubbled telescope after There you go. I didn't know that, Todd.
Would you learn today you didn't.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
Have to worry about pushing your kids to reach high
levels of sports success since none were particularly athletic?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
No, they were not.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Uh seat no Connor. Let's have Gus back on Gus. Yeah,
let's have Gus on before you know. Twenty thirty eight, Marvin,
don't compare Gus to Drake.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I know, I'm just saying about gambling.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
That was it, Yeah, Pauline, Gus Johnson like the Cicadas,
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