Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam React to the NCAA Tournament Bracket and Biggest NFL Free Agency Moves!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Well, here we go into the night with plenty going on,
the brackets coming together, the NBA coming into focus as well,
and NFL Free agency has brought its share of wow
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
To what I think is like your favorite time of
the year.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
What's happening? Of course? Man, man, how do you not
love March madness? Come on, now, come on, they.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Wouldn't call it madness if it wasn't a whole lot
of fun, that's for sure. But I got a question
for you. Yeah, well, I mean, look, this is a
sign of the times. Maybe we're a little bit too
cynical or whatnot. But as we get the brackets in
hand and Duke is number one overall seed, a lot
of us are actually more interested in talking about one
individual Duke player who were being told is going to

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play in this tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
But we'll see when we get there. He's the man.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
He's going to be the number one overall pick if
he wants to be, and that is Cooper Flag.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I did a little deep dive, not that deep
of a dive.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
But I went into the actual money because I heard
you reference this the last couple of weeks with regard
to Flag and the idea that maybe he won't go
to the NBA and instead he'll pick three other letters nil.
So tell me what would you do if you were him?
And let us give the listeners a little bit of

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an idea of what's going on. It is an estimated
five million per year that Flag makes through NIL as
a member of the Duke Blue Devils, and it is
projected that next year's number one pick in the NBA Draft,
we'll get a four year rookie contract that will land
him around sixty million guaranteed. To me, this is a

(02:09):
very very easy choice, and I see this as fake
leverage that's being thrown out there.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
But what would you do? Well?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
The biggest caveat is is he going to be able
to play this March madness? Is he going to be
healthy enough to be a part of a team that
has a chance to win the National Championship or at
least play in the National Championship. It's been his dream
to play in March Madness and to do this. So

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if he's not, if he's not healthy and able to
play like he's dreamt about. And that amount of six
million to be at Duke this year, I mean that

(03:04):
amount goes up, right, So now you're landing somewhere in
between eight ten million dollars to come back to school.
As well as that final year of the shoe deal
you have, which allows you now to be a free
agent as a rookie first round draft pick in the

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NBA next year, not this season, next season, which also
can equate to one hundred two hundred million dollars in
terms of a shoe deal. So when you're weighing those
type of options, yeah, that four year guarantee sixty million
seems like, oh, he's gonna take that. But in reality,

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you know, once once you're not worried about money, not
saying this kid ever was, but once you're not like,
I gotta go now, I have to help whoever I
have to help, or I have to whenever that's not
the case, then decisions aren't as clear cut as one

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would think.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
Now.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
I you know, in the past, kids would leave because
I got to look, I gotta go now, this will
help my family and they want to start my journey.
But in Cooper Flag's case, he already reclassified, so you
know he would he would be doing another year at Duke. Now,
all it takes is one or two or more of

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his freshman buddies who aren't projected as high to want
to come back and run it back if they don't
do what they're supposed to do this year. And that decision,
to me is easy. I'm staying. I'll put myself in
a better situation moving forward, and I'm gonna make a
bunch of money and I'm still gonna be a top

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draft pick.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Maybe, I mean unless he tears this or breaks that
or snaps this over here, or if life doesn't go
in insurance policies, yeah, I understand that, But life's not
just about It's funny that you're saying it's not just
about the money, and I'd say that here too, Like,
if it's just about the money, then okay, insurance policy

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this that or the other.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
And look, I have no idea what his dreams are.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
We're told that his dreams are to play in March
Madness and play in a final four. Well, let me
just give this example. I was actually in the building
when the USC marching band and all of this song
girls lined the halls of Heritage Hall on the campus

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of the University of Southern California. So that a guy
who was projected to be the number one overall pick
in his sport but just didn't quite have things sort
of layout the way that he wanted them to at
the end of his college career, so he decided, you
know what, never mind, I'm coming back. And then I

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watched the exact same thing happen again in the exact
same room. This is both Matt Lionert and Matt Barkley.
Both of these players made this decision, and both of them.
I bet if you sat there over a cup of
coffee with them today, we'll tell you they made the
wrong choice.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Now let me just jump in before I continue. Yep,
these are the caveat is. These are two different sports, yes,
and they have the dynamic within These two sports are
completely different, completely different.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
And so the value Cooper.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Has for you know, the basketball and Duke University and
the NBA.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Is is it's.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Not like football. It's not like football. So Cooper Flag,
you know, being a dynamic American born, tall, rangy athletic,
you know, phenom that doesn't change based on his year

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are two in college? It doesn't It doesn't change. No,
those don't change. But he's been everything.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
But a bunch of things that are out of your
control can change.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
And by the way, this Chase say, oh we'll go
to the final four, how do you know, how do
you know? Like everything could fall apart for Duke next Well,
well we can have a bad season.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Well yeah they could.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
But if you get you know, they got three dynamic
freshmen there, and if all three of those are two
of those guys decide to stay.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
You don't think Cooper Flag wants to stay with his boys.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Everybody's eating everybody's eating the look the NBA what NIL
is done. And some people don't like nil, some people
do like innal. But when the NIL has done has
slowed down the urgency to get to the NBA. And
I like that because what we're seeing now is older
players coming into the league ready to actually play. They're

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really they're actually, how many first round draft picks, our
first picks in the draft, our first five picks in
the draft have we never.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Heard from you? I'm with you on that.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
But here's something else that it pains me to bring
to the conversation. Do you know how many people have
heard of Cooper Flag but don't even know what he
looks like?

Speaker 5 (08:41):
I don't. I don't a lot.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
And the reason is is this country doesn't really care
about college basketball.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
Oh they don't.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
They don't until today.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
That's it, yes, Which then I would take the sentence
in another direction, which is this country just flat out
doesn't care about college basketball. They care gambling, and therefore
the show up today. We show up today because we go.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
To the internet.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
We here we go, We're gonna print, make sure it
fits to one page. There you go, and we're gonna
read now for four days and talk to all of
our friends to find out who that twelve seed is
that might be to five because nobody knows a damn thing.
And again I don't. Really it doesn't bother me. Whatever
Cooper flags interests and dreams are, he gets to chase those.

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But if you'd actually like to make an imprint, in basketball.
If you'd actually like to be marketable, if you'd like
to be a name, if you'd like to be a celebrity,
better go to the NBA.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
But what you dotball, What if that's not the driving force?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Maybe it's not.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
And that's what I'm saying, and I think that's really
the different dynamic that's happened in college sports.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Now.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
It's not always about that now back you know, not
too long ago, it was literally like I have to go.
I'm gonna make a name for myself. Like every number one,
everybody doesn't get a chance to make a name for
himself and in the NBA, right.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
But I mean this, this guy would even if he
didn't do well.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Well, yeah, I think I think depending on where he goes, right,
if he goes to the Wizards, we won't be ever
talking about Cooper flag.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, I don't know what the entry point is, and
I don't know what the draft is.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
You know the draft lottery, and know we'll we'll get
that soon enough.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
That team's always going to be a bad team.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
But what I'm saying is it's it's a different it's different.
If it's San Antonio, right, it's okay, Antonio and you
have dearon Fox and victim winm Mignama hopefully after the
blood clot and now you're Cooper Flag. Now you're like, oh, no,
I'm coming out, because that's a different level of Oh

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I'm coming out. But you can really go to teams
and be swallowed up by no matter if you're having
a tremendous year, so much so even Bnchero right in Orlando,
this kid is unbelievable. Like if you look at his
numbers and look how he plays, and most people got

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a chance to see that last year in the playoffs.
He's been hurt a little bit this year, but when
you look at him, it's like, oh, this kid can go.
But the majority of the world doesn't know that because
he's in Orlando, and that means something, right, that really

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means something. The money is the money now. Before it
was like I'll play wherever the money. You know you're
making life changing money. You're making that prior to even
getting into the league. Now, so now the parameters have
changed a little bit. The desire, the want to and
the being okay with being on a team where you

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know you may be in obscurity.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Like the markets matter.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
The markets matter in professional sports, especially in basketball, because
you know, basketball is more of a global thing now
so much so in this country over football football. You
can play on any teams. You're gonna be where you
need to be on any team in football. In basketball,
you can't get swallowed up by obscurity if you go

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to the wrong team, no matter how talented you are.
Look how good Cap Cunningham is. He's been that good
since he's been in the league. But he's been wallowing
in Detroit for the last three years.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, but now they're good, and I would argue he's
gotten a lot better. Actually, I would argue that he did.
Not the player that you're seeing right now. That is
not He's always been good, but he was not this
two years ago.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
No, no, no, But what I'm saying is if Kate Cunningham
had gone to I don't know, New York had gone
to Sure, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Right like this, I think Kate cunning Ham is, But
that exists in football too.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
How How did Sam Donald almost win the m v
P this year?

Speaker 2 (13:20):
So it does he got drafted and then went to
another place and both places were bad programs.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, but we talked about Sam Donald when he was bad,
and with the Jets, no one speaks about these players
in the NBA, no matter how good they were, no
one talks about him. We talked about Sam Donald, we
talked about Geno, We talked about all first round quarterbacks
and nauseum, whether they're good or bad. So we yes,

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we do know they They are recognizable. They are spoken
about every single week of every single year. And so
it's a completely different story when it comes to NBA.
So this whole thing of going to the NBA and
it's my time and all of that, it doesn't necessarily

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translate into I'm leaving college.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I can't argue with you on that, but I can
say you can promise yourself that no one's going to
talk about you if you stay in college basketball.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, but that's like it's like Cooper Flag. I don't
know if that's high on his list.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah maybe No.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I mean that's the end all be all, is what
he wants. I get that. I get that, all right.
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Always got instant access to our Fox Sports Radio videos
on YouTube. All right, So I was just telling everybody
about the bracket challenge, and I don't want anybody to
get this next point twisted. I fill out a bracket.
I will probably fill out multiple brackets. This is a
ton of fun. I have fun with it every year.
Everybody has fun with it every year except one year

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I chose not to, and so I always.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
End up sharing this story. First off, do you fill
out a bracket?

Speaker 5 (16:27):
No, you don't know.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
So you're going to know where I'm.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Coming from on this. You gonna know exactly where I'm
coming from on this. I know what it sounds like
when I say this, but y'all would enjoy the tournament
a lot more if you didn't fill out a bracket. Agree,
It's just a fact. I've done it. I've tried it.
I don't know why I did it the year that

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I did it, but I did it just to try it.
And that's why I say brackets are like chocolate chip cookies.
You know, damn well they're bad for you, but you
can't not have one or a bunch or whatever. They're
just sitting there staring at you, and every time you
walk by, I'm sitting there in the kitchen. Just have

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a cookie. It's the same thing that happens over the
next four days. You're gonna get a flurry of emails
in the next twelve hours. Many of them will be
from friends that you haven't talked to in a decade,
but they show up every March with their bracket pool
and you're like, oh, what's twenty more dollars? Let me

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fill out another one, and let me see if I
can cast a wide net. Let's get four or five
different brackets with four five different champions, and this one
I'll do a lot of upsets, and this one I'll
go kind of chalky, and the tournament ends up being
all about that. And the bottom line is is the

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chances are really high that as we sit here right
now on Sunday, March sixteenth, that by Sunday, March twenty third,
that thing you fill out is gonna be all messed up.
When you and I get back together to talk again
next Sunday night. Oh yeah, it gonna be all messed up.

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Five percent of all the brags will be over. Oh
and what happens is people then head for the hills.
They're like, Okay, doesn't matter anymore. Right, we got it right.
NBA playoffs are right around the corner. Major League Baseball
opening day. Ah, my bracket is busted, as opposed to
what we do in every other sport, which is the
closer we get to a champion, the more excited we get.

(18:42):
But have you noticed this. I don't know anyone who
goes to Vegas for Final Four weekend. No, I know
hundreds of people who are going to Vegas next weekend
because it's the only sporting event in the world that
seemingly gets worse as it goes. Ye.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
You spend that would Friday, Saturday, Sunday locked in.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yep, because you wake up and you're like, I'm gonna
go get me a bloody Mary and get over to
the sports market the game exactly, And so there's nothing
you can do about that. The girth of the number
of games is what it is, and I understand that,
but I'm telling y'all take it from two people who
tried this.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
That bracket.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
That bracket, that's the thing that gets in the way
of you watching this the same way you'd watch any
other sport.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, it does because it really accentuates your rooting interest, right,
and so for me, I'm looking for good basketball. I
love the tournament because you get to see teams you
would have never seen play, and then you get to
see those teams you would have never seen play play

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actually really good basketball. Team basketball, a lot of older teams, majors,
small conference teams who can compete at a very high
level because you know, teams have been playing.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Together for a while.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
They don't have a lot of five star, four star recruits,
blue chips, any of that. You know, it's literally we've
been together grinding. This is our moment. We won our
conference championship. This is our chance. And I love that
aspect of March madness because anything is possible. Use one game.

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You got to figure it out one game. Somebody can
be hot and somebody can be cold, right, ask Steph
asks Wally's Herbie, right, like like one guy can take
over a tournament. I love that. Ask mccullu, C J McCullum, YEP, Carmelo.

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Anthony Carmelo was the name I was going to you
know out next. Yep, all of that, like what will
Lebron James have been in the tournament and.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Maybe these are the days gone by, but that taking
over of a tournament, it can make you man, you
want I mean the name that will forever stand out
for me it was Dwayne Wade. Yep, nobody had heard
of Dwayne Wade. Nobody Marquette, Wisconsin. Well, I'll do you
one more recent. We'll go John Morant.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, everything that entire year was about the trio of
those Duke freshmen RJ. Barrett cam Reddish, Zion Williams. And
all of a sudden you look up and there's this
kid named John Morant at Murray State going ham like highlights,

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and so everybody really was like, oh wait a minute.
And I remember, like it was yesterday. As we got
into that tournament, you hear you heard the murmuring like, hey,
would you would you take job or would you take
would you would you take Zion? Or would you take
this kid John morn right? And so now we start
talking about it and I don't know, I mean, I

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might take you know, joh, he has a higher upside,
Zion is heavy and all that jumping, and we know
all this is this could play out and which is
actually playing out. But that's that started in the tournament.
I remember talking to uh to Jaw's uncle and his
father and they were saying they remember watching the tournament

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and understanding that life was about to change. They were
like they were talking about the change that was happening,
like in real time.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I don't want to say where, you know, his uncle worked,
but he was remember being at work and looking and
his boss came in, like, uh no, not many people
knew that was his nephew, and his boss came in,
was like things about to change, huh right, like alluding
to something like that, you know, but that was because
of the tournament.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
And that's exciting to me.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Although I mean, if you want to be real aphroim,
you don't have to wait for the tournament to watch
an individual walk into a room and take over.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Talk about it.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
You and I have it happened three times a Sunday
at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's exactly what Steve Desager does. Watch this.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
Hello, gentlemen, it is so good to talk March madness
with you. And if you're talking tournament runs, let's not
forget Loyalamaramount with Bo Kimball at thirty five points a
game and the incredible story that was in nineteen ninety.
I'm glad you mentioned Steph Curry with Davidson, David Robinson,
Navy was making a Larry byrd to the final with

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Indiana State. How about also Glenn Rice winning a title
with Michigan or the Danny Manning unlikely title with Kansas. No,
you know, San Diego States as Techs were not left
on the cutting room floor. They were selected for this.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Ncay better watch him this weekend though, this time.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Just saying no, no, no, we got Tuesday. We got Tuesday.
North Carolina. We we're gonna We're gonna play. We gotta
don't worry Wed. I'm just saying we got.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Tuesday. A few years you've wanted to travel late in
the tournament. I don't. I don't think that's going to
happen this time. Just a prediction.

Speaker 8 (24:38):
Carolina.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
Apparently the last team in San Diego State opened it
season beating you see San Diego, which it turned.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
Out was the dominant team in the Big West.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Conference, and in fact, you see San Diego's men's and
women's programs have each made the NCAA Tournament this year.
This is a first because this is their first year
of eligibility and they're each in So as we speak
this hour, the women's.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
Field is being announced.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
You see, San Diego is in a playing game with
the winner between UCSD and Southern You the winner then
going to face one seed UCLA. By the way, South
Carolina is one seed Texas as well, but the entire
men's field has been named, and Auburn is the number
one overall seed for the NCAA men's tourney. Duke is
also a one seed, as are Houston and Florida. Florida

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Gators won the SEC tournament today beating Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yes, who beat Houston earlier this year.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
Team, if you could score low, and I know it
was it was overtime. If you could score low and
be even with that great Houston defense, you got a shot.
And that's San Diego State's game, and it has been
for seemingly decater. Houston Cougars, by the way, I have
to reiterate, are a one seed. Chance to make another run.

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It's another thirty win season for them. Michigan won the
Big Ten Tourney beating Wisconsin. Memphis was a conference tournament
champion today VCU and Yale as well.

Speaker 8 (26:10):
So how are things going to be going?

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well?

Speaker 7 (26:12):
San Diego State North Carolina one of the playing games
in Dayton on Tuesday night.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
Texas got in.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
It'll play Xavier on Wednesday night in Dayton, and then
a full slate of games Thursday and Friday in the
first round of the tournament that will include the Houston
Cougars a one seed against SIU Edwardsville on Thursday. Iowa
State guard Keisha and Gilbert out for the postseason with
the groin injury. Cyclones or a three seed to the NBA.

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Cleveland had won sixteen straight games. It lost at home
today to Orlando one o eight, one oh three, so
the Cavs season record now fifty six and eleven. Philadelphia
won at Dallas one thirty to one twenty five. The
Lakers beat Phoenix one oh seven ninety six. Luka Doncic
with thirty three points. Lebron James could miss at least
another week with the string groin. As for the Utah Jazz,

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they were in action tonight and in fact, Utah has
lost eight straight fifteen and fifty two this season.

Speaker 8 (27:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
They are in action and losing again. Mid third quarter
at Minnesota seventy eight sixty six for the Timberwolves. Anthony
Edwards with thirty points in two and a half quarters
so far. The Clippers lead late third against the Hornets
eighty nine fifty eight, so it looks like the Hornets
record will go to seventeen and fifty this year. The
late game and a half an hour Oklahoma City at Milwaukee, NHL.

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Colorado in overtime beat Dallas. The Ravens signed backup quarterback
Cooper Rush from Dallas. In golf play was suspended due
to darkness. It'll be a three whole playoff Monday morning
at the Players Rory McElroy against JJ Spawn and guys.
The Major League Baseball season actually starts this week with
a couple of games, as the Dodgers and Cubs open

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the regular season with two in Tokyo on Fox TV
the first game and then on FS one the second.
The games will start at six am Eastern Time Tuesday
and Wednesday. Dodger shortstop Mookie Betts might miss the Tuesday
opener in Japan, due to illness. He missed both exhibitions
there this weekend. Apparently was sick even before the flight over.

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The Dodgers won their first exhibition this weekend in Japan.
It was five to one against the Tokyo Giants as
Shoheo Tani homerd and a five run third at a
La hit three long balls in that third. But late
Saturday night, the Dodgers were shut out by the Haunchin
Tigers three nothing, a team that had shut out the
Cubs three nothing the night before, also at the Tokyo Dome.

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And I must pass along this final baseball note. Some
fans might remember the name of Joey Gallo, over two
hundred home runs in his ten years, but a career
batting average of one ninety four. The White Sox have
released Joey Gallo, who barely had a hit at spring
training this year. And he says he will now try
pitching back to you.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well, maybe he's just doing the wrong thing the whole time, Like,
who knows can't hit?

Speaker 7 (29:03):
So bitch, it's worked both ways? Can I Jansen was
a catcher.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Remember when Rick ain't healed? Yeah, he was like.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Count couldn't throw the ball. Straight anymore, So we went
out to hit for a little while. Who knows, maybe
he'll be amazing. All right, Thanks Steve Tyreck dot com Studios.
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glad you're with us.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
That Laker wind that.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Steve mentioned was not a small one. It no, we
need it dead.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Did you see all all right over there? Man, Tom Petty.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Tom Petty had a song that was about the Lakers
last week and a half or so, free.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Falling, m.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Free falling exactly.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Now, I wonder because people were like, oh, this Lebron injury,
isn't it perfectly timed because he's actually just resting for
the playoffs. When they said that the Lakers were the
two seed, now they're the five seed. I understand there's
still only a game out of the two seed. Things
have gotten a little tight there in the race for

(30:40):
the West outside of Oklahoma City. But with the way
the Warriors and Wolves are playing, both have seven game
win streaks, and the Wolves will have an eight game
win streak here in about an hour. Like, it's not
out of the question that the Lakers end up in
the playing tournament from Yeah, it's not.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
But we're not gonna talk about that. That's foolishness. Well,
what'll we talk about that, right?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Because it's fun and interesting.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
That's not interesting.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
The Lakers are always fun and interesting. Lebron.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
But look, but what I would say is it wasn't
so much the Lebron injury that really had them on
the slide.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
It was the others.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
It was a lot bit difficult to win at a
high clip in the NBA with three starters out. That's
just the reality of the situation. And so Lebron being
the third starter that was out, that's a tough load
to carry, especially given the back to backs, the travel,

(31:37):
the schedule that was that was tough to combat. Now
we got those guys backs as you saw today, Jackson
Hayes had nineteen points, twelve rebounds. You know, Finny Smith
is back, like those type of things. Those were the

(31:58):
things that were really hurting the Lakers. Is just the
lack of depth. Yeah, and and and firepower. So you
put the onus on two players in Austin Reeves and
on a Litkadante, and that's a lot to carry.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
That's a lot to carry.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Now, getting those guys back and having them more, uh,
you know, a deeper roster and guys being able to
contribute like they did today, things will change.

Speaker 9 (32:26):
Now.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Rory is coming back, which is another big piece of that.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
And so we're excited to have these guys back, these
pieces back because they obviously have a pretty deep bench.
But when you make people play out of their comfort
zone and ask them to do things they may not
be comfortable with, it's it's always tough. But you know,
I got every faith and in them coming back. This
is good rate rest. This is good rest for Lebron.

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He gets healthy, comes back for the playoffs or at
the end of the season and not the playoffs. End
of the season, gets gets five games under his belt,
gets gets back into it and then we hit the
ground roads.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
He's sitting out that portion of the schedule, that that
that he was complaining about on Twitter a couple of
weeks ago, you know as kwinky dink.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Well, you know.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
You think he's hurt, hurt or like just kind.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Of no, No, I think he tweets is growing weak, right,
I think it's tweaked.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
But why exacerbated by going out there? And you know,
I mean they did. They had the number one defense
since you know, January fifteenth in the league. They were
playing excellent basketball. So this is what the team can
be and will be in the playoffs. But you need
everybody at full power able to do it.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Look at that schedule.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Man got to play again to the mall, got another
back to back in the middle of the week. He
got a road trip that's going to take it to
Memphis in Indiana. He got Houston on the schedule twice,
Golden State, Oklahoma City, both on the road.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Oh, there's a lot out there. There's a lot of
work to do.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
It's a lot of work to do. It's fine, it's fast,
of all, it's a lot of work.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Just look long as we have those pieces back that
we didn't have that the last two weeks. That makes
all the difference in the world, or or.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Or you're just playing the Sons.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
I mean no, it's just actually having a viable big
to throw to. I mean that matters. It didn't matter
who they were playing, the fact that you can actually
lob the ball to someone who can finish.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I mean, Sons like gave up like three weeks.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Ago, they had no bigs at all. No, I know,
so having that back, having Darren Finney Smith, a three
and D guy, a wing defender back that helps. Now
you can bring Vanderbilt off the bench as a three
and D guy. Now the rotations get back to being

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more regular like they were prior to all of the injuries.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
No, I'm I'm I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm
sure three things gonna be fine.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
No, I I really I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I don't see. I don't see anything going wrong. I
really don't. I don't see. I don't see how anything
could go wrong. But anyway, uh with you from salam
Mark Will, there's a ton of NFL free agency stuff
to get to. There's one team I really want to
ask you about. And then coming up at the top
of the hour, one of my favorite press conferences of

(35:39):
the year happened last night.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
So we'll do all of that around the Bend on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Okay, Fox Sports Radio Team Glad you're with us ty
rack dot Com Studios from salam Mark Willard. Top of
the hour, an NBA coach gets loose, and those are
my favorite.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Those are my absolute favorite.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
When they get loose after the game and the raw
emotion starts flying and tables start getting pounded.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
So we're gonna play this for you, talking out a
little bit here at the at the top of the hour.
On this one, though, I come from a place of curiosity.
I really I don't want to lead you to water
on this one. I just want your straight reaction. What

(36:33):
are the forty nine ers doing?

Speaker 5 (36:40):
What heart? What aren't they what do they do?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Can you can you explain?

Speaker 6 (36:45):
No?

Speaker 5 (36:48):
No, I can't, I really can't. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
It's you know, you expect so much from a well
run organization like the Niners and what they've been able
to do in the last five, six, you know years,
and then you have a you know, off season like
you have now, and it's kind of reminiscent of.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
I don't know Dallas or somebody like that.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
You know, what I'm.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Struggling to figure out is like what it is they're
trying to achieve. Like, I think it's a very very
good front office. It has been for a while. I
want to give them the benefit of the doubt. For
those of you who haven't been following, it's just been
a steady stream of veteran players out the door, replaced

(37:47):
with very few. And John Lynch had said at the combine, Look,
we've been one of the number one, two or three
cash out teams. That doesn't mean salary cap stuff. That
means signing bonus is actual cash paid by the owner.
They've been one of the top teams with that for
the last handful of years, and now it's time to reset.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
And get a little younger.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
So to a degree, I guess it's telegraphed, but everybody
listened to that, and no one thought it was going
to be this intense. I mean, they've set themselves up
to where it's like you need to go find six
or seven starters in the draft. You can't do that,
You certainly can't expect to do that.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
No, So yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
I don't know. I don't know like it just if
the goal is to win, I don't quite understand what's happening.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Well, you know, everybody's everybody's idea of how to win
is different. I can see how something like this begins
to happen because, let's be honest, they've been in position
to where they have had the teams, they've paid the money,

(39:06):
and they don't have anything to show forward except for
a couple of NFC Championship rings, and so that could
can you continue to do the same things? Can you
continue to forge the same path and expect a different result?

(39:30):
And I think this year, with the injuries and how
they ended up, it was a hard reset for them.
I think that really Now, if they would have made
a deep playoff run again, you know, I don't know, honestly,
I don't know what hurts more making a deep playoff

(39:52):
run again and not winning the super Bowl or not
getting to the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Oh well, I could tell you one's a lot more
boring than the other one, right, which is what is right? Yeah?
All right, Well let's get to this press conference. We
want to play next.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
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Speaker 3 (40:11):
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Speaker 2 (40:12):
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Speaker 3 (40:19):
Everybody thinks they keep it real. However, sports leagues.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
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Speaker 2 (40:51):
Alexander is not the only NBA scorer who does, shall
we say, a good job of making certain officials think
things that didn't happen happen. Yeah, like, you're not the
only one, and in fact, there might be more of
those than than the opposite, the ones who love to

(41:12):
do the snap head back where nobody even said that's
the worst, that's the absolute worst. And the Lebron but yes,
James Lebron, Yeah, I think James is probably the poster
for it. But anyway that happens it is in a
way part of basketball. It's part of the culture. It's

(41:33):
you're not going to get around that. But with that
being part of the game, here's what I don't understand
in terms of why it's not a part of the game.
Why can a coach or a player not after the
game keep it real? Why are they not allowed to

(41:55):
say what they think and feel? Should be encouraged, provided
that it does not a get personal like Anthony Edwards
did a number of weeks back, and b provided that
it is not seemingly accusing the NBA of unsavory dealings.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
How about that, right, Tim Donaghy sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
If you're insinuating that, I'm going to understand why the
NBA is going to come down on you with a fine.
But take a listen to what happened last night after
the Detroit Pistons, which is a young and good up
and coming team in the East, took on the best
team in the West, the Oklahoma City Thunder. They had
a hell of a battle. The Thunder end up coming

(42:50):
out on top. The best player for the Pistons, Cade Cunningham,
got thrown out with a rat tat technical double technical.
It was that fast on and we can talk about
that separately too, because I don't really understand throwing out
the best players in the game just because you don't
like what they're saying to you during a timeout. That's

(43:10):
a little wild to me. But let's focus on the
Pistons head coach JB. Bickerstaff, who after the game unleashed
this at his press conference.

Speaker 10 (43:20):
I'm disgusted by the way that game was officiated. The
level of disrespect was above and beyond. They have a
guy fall down and trip on his own teammates foot,
they review us for a hostile act. They throw an
elbow to our chest neck area. I asked for him,
at least take a look at it, right, Just show
us the respect to take a look at Okay, no

(43:43):
one would take a look at it. Okay, the disrespect
has gone far enough, and I'm not going to allow
our guys to be treated the way that they were
treated tonight.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (43:51):
I tried to have a conversation with official. The official
was arguing with Mark. I say his name one time
and he screams at me.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
And tells me that's an enough.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Right.

Speaker 10 (44:02):
We understand that we play a style of the ball
that's physical, it's on the edge, right. I coach my
ass off with the passionate way I'm into the game.
Our players are into the games. We understand that, right.
But we deserve a level of respect because we're competing
our tails off and bringing something positive to this league.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Right.

Speaker 10 (44:20):
We're growing young players, Our young players are competing.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Their tail off.

Speaker 10 (44:24):
The least that they could do is get the same
respect that everybody else in this league gets, and get
referee the same way that everybody.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
Else in this league gets.

Speaker 6 (44:33):
And enough is enough of it.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
And what you saw tonight was disgusting.

Speaker 10 (44:37):
It was a disgusting display of disrespect towards our guys
and what we're trying to do.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
And then he walked off with your chest.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
He sure did.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Now, I haven't even seen if there's been a fine,
Probably not this quickly, but I'm pretty sure there will
be one.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
And before it even happens, I'd like to know why, why,
what's wrong with that? I?

Speaker 2 (45:17):
In fact, I heard him protect officials in there, because
he started to talk about specific interactions, but he never
named him, No, never named the ref. So we didn't
sell anybody out. We didn't send him down the river,
and we did not insinuate that something nefarious was taking place.

(45:44):
We simply said, this is a bunch of crap and
I don't like it. What's wrong with that?

Speaker 5 (45:54):
I don't think anything's wrong with it.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
I can guarantee you he's gonna get fined.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Oh yeah, lot, Yeah, it's going to cost. It's going
to cost. But he knew that coming into it.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
Of course, you did see the thing with coaching and referees,
and it's different on every level, especially the NBA. But
as a coach of nine ten year olds, eleven and
twelve year olds, I've informed my team not.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
To speak to the referees.

Speaker 9 (46:23):
That's a good idea. Don't talk to the refs. I
told my parents, don't talk to the rest, right, that's
my job, and I will go defend my players. I
will walk onto the court and I will walk over
to the referees and I will defend my players during
the time.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Out of course, and that's what coaches do. You're supposed
to take one on the chin for your players because
then they know you got their back. If you don't,
they'll feel like they have to take things into their
own hands. Now, like I said, it's different than the

(47:03):
NBA and college level and so on and so forth.
But for me, I understand what that is. I've been
a part of games where ref looked at me and said,
I'm not giving you that call.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
Your kids are too good? What does that mean?

Speaker 4 (47:23):
Excuse me because I've coached and taught my kids to
not travel.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
Are double dribble? You're not going to call it on
the opposing team.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
That that's that's what It almost had me walking away
from coaching because it became about me and not the kids.
When when referees allow kids to be more physical with
our kids, with my with my players, I have to
answer to them after the game. Why aren't they calling

(48:02):
the fouls?

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Why this?

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Why that?

Speaker 4 (48:05):
So I need to talk to the I need to understand,
like what's going on. You can't you you can't be
subjective or objective when you're making these calls.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
You call.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
If it's a travel, called the travel. I implore you
to call it on my kids because that's how they learn.
If it's double dribble, then called double drible, because that's
how they learn. If they step over the line on
the free throw, then call it because we practice it.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
So you can't decide.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Because you know how well, my kids are coached and
we've won plenty of championships over where I coach. That
you're going to now decide how you're going to ref
a basketball game.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
That's that.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
That sounds crazy to me. So I understand what jab biggerstad.
I know, I understand where he's coming from because you
can see it happening for whatever reason. I don't know
what the reason is. He doesn't know what the reason is,
but you can see it happening, and you must address it.

(49:19):
You must address it because now his team has heard
him address it, his team will understand the fine he's
willing to pay for them. Now it's us against them mentality,
which bowes well for teams, right, don't let them be
the reason.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
As a coaching point moving forward.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
I think that part all makes sense. The question I
still have is what precisely is it that the NBA
is worried about when something like that is said to
where they have to deem it illegal and then fine
in a hefty manner. Whoever it was that let loose

(50:09):
in such a way that I don't I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
I don't know why that protection even exists, you know,
like in an odd way, Ephraim, this is attached for
me to the same thing that you and I said
about this Lebron James stephen A. Smith thing last week.
I don't know what are you all so worried about.

(50:37):
Let people say what they think. And by the way,
there's a hypocrisy to any player who thinks.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
JB.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Bickerstaff can do that, but Stephen A. Smith can't do this.
Let people say what they think. That's it, that's it.
If it gets personal, now we're having a different conversation.
Lebron may think STI even a got personal.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
He didn't.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
He was speaking about an NBA player, one that you
ushered in and therefore opened him up and yourself up
to criticism.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
And that is the way it should work.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Everybody can be complimented, everybody can be criticized. Everybody is
in this entertainment business which is open for business as
far as commentary and opinion. Like, that's how I see it,
and that's all JB. Bickerstaff did. He let go of
a really good rant.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
That was really good.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
It was entertaining, it was organized, it made sense. I
was like, give the man a microphone. I got you,
and I did not come away from it thinking anybody's
cheating or anything like that. There there are certain things
that refs get caught up in, and we know this,

(52:00):
whether it's a home crowd or the fact that the
other team has a star player or really good record,
which I think is what JB was saying here. He's like,
we're young, up and coming in. We're physical. That's the
style we play. It's not dirty like teams in that
Jersey have been in the past. I went to a

(52:21):
Piston's Warriors game just last weekend, one of the most
entertaining games I've watched all year, and neither team got
to one hundred points. They will get in you good
for them, that is stated, that is their style.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Call a foul.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Okay, fine, but in his opinion, don't hold it against us,
and don't hold it against us that maybe you've never
heard of any of our players before like that, Like,
that's fair, that is fair. There's nothing there that the
NBA has to go, Oh, we got to protect the
world from here in something like that.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
What are you hiding? What are you so worried about?

Speaker 5 (53:02):
Is completely fair.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I'll never understand it. And I know some people will go, well,
you let that go, then where's it going next? Well,
worry about that then, and you can find that. And
when Anthony Edwards starts going, yeah, that raf that one
right there. His name's Bob, here's his address, and he's
an idiot, Well now we're having a different conversation. But man,

(53:25):
you this whole like people can't speak their mind thing
even when they're keeping it nice and fair, just passionate. Boy,
to find that is crazy. There should be more of that.
There should be more of that. It's the only thing
that happened in the NBA yesterday that I remember.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
Today, that part.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Yeah, so keep it up.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Instead of keeping it down. Hey man, we talked about
the Niners, But good lord, there's a lot going on
in NFL free agency with a bunch of teams that
I would love to run around with you.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
So let's do that next.

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(54:50):
Mark Willard. Bunch of NFL teams we need to run
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Speaker 3 (55:32):
Well, I saw a story a.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Couple of times throughout the week, and I thought to
myself immediately, well, there's something that I know I would
like to discuss with E from Salam, being that you
and I have had so many conversations about the wide
receiver market over the last year or so. When I
see that the Bengals have essentially gone public with the

(55:58):
idea that they would like Jim Chase to be the
highest paid non quarterback in the game. They said that
prior to Miles Garrett getting a monstrous contract hanging out
in the neighborhood of forty million a year. And the
reaction to that is to say, oh, yes, yep, that's
where Jamar Chase's contract is going in. Oh, by the way,

(56:20):
the double franchise tag that we've used on T Higgins
probably gonna shed that here pretty quick too, because we're
moving down the road of a really nice extension for
him as well. A shudder to think what that would be,
because if Jamar is gonna get forty, I don't know
how T Higgins doesn't get somewhere close to thirty and

(56:42):
Cincinnati if you do that.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
If you do that.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
This is one of those classic moments where you say
you're doing something for someone and the opposite is true. Oh,
we're giving Joe Burrow weapons, give him a line. They
will ruin I'm saying this right now on this show.
They will ruin Joe Burrow's career. If they sign Jamar

(57:13):
Chase and t Higgins to contracts that are north of
sixty five million dollars per year for the two, they will.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Ruin his career.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
You're absolutely correct in that assessment. In no world.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Would you.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Deemed this a good IDEA matter of fact, I don't
think any other team as of present would make that
type of decision. It is beyond Ludacris to even broach
that in that way. I mean, what are we doing?

Speaker 5 (58:03):
Passing the ball wasn't the problem for for the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
I mean, Joe Burrow put up crazy numbers, so much
so people were arguing he should be in the MVP conversation. Yeah,
but it's hard to be in the MVP conversation when
you can't even make the playoffs. And so obviously, Joe
Burrow is a dynamic thrower of the football, one of
the very best elite quarterbacks in our league. That's a given.

(58:38):
He's proved that since he's been in the league, one
of the very few people who've beaten Patrick Mahomes at
the head whatever.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
But if you're planning on allocating that level of resources
to two receivers and completely the your offensive line and
your defensive line and back end, then you get what

(59:08):
you get. You get a quarterback and two receivers putting
up great numbers and home for the holidays.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I mean, that's the thing that's so crazy to me,
big Dog, is the fact that the example of what
we're talking about is staring them right in the face
because it just happens.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
I know, the Steelers and Baltimore are like, yes, do
e's do that? Do that?

Speaker 2 (59:37):
You went nine and eight, and you went nine and
eight with a five game winning streak at the end
of the year just to get to nine and eight,
and it still wasn't enough. And Jamar was all over
the place, and Tea was everywhere, and Joe Burrow with
the MVP consideration all of that, and you lost eight games,
and you had lost eight games before we got to December.

(59:59):
I don't even like, I have no idea what the
thought process is here on on on why after throwing
the ball all over the yard and missing the playoffs,
you would you would turn around and think that this
this is how you're going to combat that is to
pour not just more resources, but essentially all the resources.

(01:00:21):
Let's put all the resources into the spot that's already
going well like wild and it hasn't happened yet, but
Adam Schefter two days ago Bengals actively working to get
both wide receivers signed as soon as possible and making progress.

Speaker 9 (01:00:39):
Go ahead and been two hundred million dollars on the
receiver man, and you have glaring holes everywhere else.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
Boy, that'll get you fired.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
That's some next level attitude right there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
I mean, the Cincinnati Bengals gave up one less point
than the Browns did this year.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
They gave up one less point than the Jags did
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
They gave up the exact same amount of points as
the Raiders did this year. That's their defense. You scored
four hundred seventy two points this year. Bengals. Two teams
in the AFC scored more. They're called the Ravens and Bills.

(01:01:26):
Their quarterbacks both came one and two in the MVP.
You were next, and you decide to put all of
the resources into that side of the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
Where everything's already going hunky.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Doherty flabbergasted, especially after they already tagged t Higgins.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
You've already got him for next year, He's already there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
I like, I know you, and I said, we're kind
of confused by the forty nine ers. This is even
more confusing. This is even more confusing to me.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
Yeah, this is this is what.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Bad teams do. This is what bad teams do. You
why would you sign Jamar Chase last year? Why wouldn't
you have gotten that out the way? This is the

(01:02:42):
Dallas model. We're gonna wait and wait and wait. We're
gonna allow someone else to set the market and then
catch up.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Waiting never works. You just said that to me last week.
I don't understand why you're waiting. It never works. You
gotta go now, like like like, if you've got enough
money to buy a house, buy a house, what do
you think the price is gonna come down?

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
Just pay? It was too late now, yeah, I know
it's too late.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Get It's a few teams around the league that seem
to have this habit where they're always like, you know what,
we're gonna do offense. That's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna do offense. There's a few teams that really sort
of pop to mind. The Raiders pop to mind, The
Bengals pop to mind, The Dolphins pop to mind. The

(01:03:46):
Cowboys have had moments of this throughout their history. And
I'll bring up one other team that finally figured it out.
But for years, remember how the Lions would draft to
receive in the first round every year. Yes, and remember
how they would never win football games?

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
And then once upon a time, not too long ago,
they're like, you know what, what if we turned our
super fancy quarterback into a different, like solid quarterback and
got a thousand draft picks and we started using them
on people like Aiden Hutchinson. I wonder what would happen. Well, oh,

(01:04:32):
by the way, let's use it on some offensive lineman too.
Let's use it on some offensive lineman.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
We'll do that. Also, sure we're still gonna sprinkle in
a Jamir Gibbs here or there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
Well, what you'd really need to sprinkle in is the
Steve the Seger.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
I mean, holy hell, that would solidify your front line
one thousand percent.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
My fault, my fault.

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
Good evening once again, gentlemen, and the fields are set
for the men's and women's to tournaments now for the NCAA,
Auburn is number one overall seed for the men. Even
though yes, the Tigers are ranked number one a lot
this season, they have lost three of their last four games.
The SEC final today was Florida beating Tennessee eighty six
seventy seven. Florida Gators, by the way in top ten

(01:05:16):
matchups this season five and two record.

Speaker 8 (01:05:19):
The SEC set a record.

Speaker 7 (01:05:21):
Fourteen of the sixty eight teams in the field are
from the Southeastern Conference. Duke is a one seed Houston
and Florida as well. Duke's going to open in Raleigh
on Friday. The Blue Devils just won the ACC tournament
this weekend without star Cooper Flag and his sprained ankle.
The ACC has only three other schools in the field,
Saint John's with Rick Beatino opening in Providence this week.

(01:05:43):
Michigan State is in its twenty seventh straight NCAA tournament.
Seeded second, it will face America East champion Bryant in
its opener. North Carolina was apparently the last team in.
It'll face San Diego State on Tuesday. The tar Heels
are an eleven seed, worst seeding for him since seeding
by in nineteen seventy nine, and this season North Carolina
against the so called Quad one opponents the best in

(01:06:06):
the land one and twelve record. Texas is in despite
fifteen losses barely made it in, tied for the most
losses by an at large team to earn a bit
by the way, also winning conference attorneys in the Big Ten.
Michigan beat Wisconsin fifty nine fifty three wins for VCU,
Yale and Memphis in the NBA, the late game is
underway at Milwaukee Thunder with a record of fifty five

(01:06:28):
and twelve and leading late first quarter twenty four to
nineteen against the Bucks. Minnesota won its eighth straight game
forty one points for Anthony Edwards in a win over
Utah one twenty eight one oh two. The Jazz have
lost nine straight. Lakers beat Phoenix today thirty three points
for Luka Doncic final score one oh seven ninety six,
and Orlando won at Cleveland one to three, snapping the

(01:06:49):
sixteen game winning streak of the Cavaliers in the NHL
Colorado in overtime beat Dallas four to three. Dodgers shortstop
Mookie Betts might miss Tuesday's opener in Japan due to illness.
The Ravens signed backup quarterback Cooper Rush from Dallas, and
golf play was suspended due to darkness at the players.
It'll be a three hole playoff on Monday. Rory McElroy,

(01:07:10):
who blew a three shot lead today going up against
JJ spawn more golf in an hour than NASCAR race
at Vegas went to Josh Barry his first ever Cup
Series victory. And I must mention as we get to
cuts here regular season, most of the major league teams
will be setting on their rosters for twenty twenty five.
I ran across the name of a minor league catcher

(01:07:32):
in the Mets organization named Hayden Singer. This guy's now
twenty seven years old, a career minor leaguer drafted in
twenty eighteen, has not spent a day in the majors,
he said. When the Mets catching instructor called him a
couple off seasons ago, he had to say, coach, I
got to call you back. He was asked why, he said,
because I'm working. This guy works at Whole Foods. He's

(01:07:55):
stock shelves, he brings the heavy stuff onto the floor.
For the past two off seasons, Pete, he's never spent
a day in the major leagues. A reporter asked him,
why do you have a job at a supermarket. He
shrugged and said I needed the money.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:08:08):
So the guy, thank you very much, again, wakes up
around five am, gets to work stocks the product until noon,
and it's good for a workout with the large water
jugs and the heavy bags of whatever. He says on
my Apple watch, I almost hit my calorie goal by
ten am every day. And then when it shifts ends,

(01:08:28):
then he goes to the batting cage or the gym
or whatever, and then gets to return home. He likes
having a job where he's home and with his wife
in the evening. He likes the schedule in the off season,
and yes it does pay, but he's really got no
path to the major leagues. But Mets starting catcher Francisco
Alvarez was just injured recently broke a bone in his hand,

(01:08:49):
so the backup at least for opening Day and beyond
is becoming the starter. And it's between three minor leaguers,
including this guy, to become at least for the start
of the season, the Mets backup. Come on, it's incredible,
it's what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
What's his name again, the man?

Speaker 8 (01:09:07):
It would be incredible.

Speaker 7 (01:09:08):
The man's name is Hayden. Singer has never been in
the majors. And for those who are unaware, everybody talks about,
especially in baseball, the huge salaries. But if you're a
Triple A player, you might be making seventy thousand dollars.
If you're a good Triple A player. If you're a
major league player, minimum wage is seven hundred and sixty thousand.

Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
Dollars for the full year. In other words, you break.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
It down, whoever gets and somebody will whoever gets that
backup catching job to start the season for the Mets
is going to be making over four thousand dollars a
day as a Major League Baseball Players Union member.

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Not bad for a whole foods worker.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
No back to you playing baseball. Doesn't have any games
in the morning, so he could still keep that gig too.
You keep that gig over there at the Whole Foots.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
I'm sure they'll work with him on a schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
Tell you what, here's the beauty of the whole thing.
If he becomes a major league player, might actually be
able to afford to go to Whole Food right and
shop for a day. So that would be fun.

Speaker 8 (01:10:11):
Literally, there is a reason why that market is known
as whole paycheck.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Holy crap, right, even if you're a ballplayer, Steve, that's awesome,
all right, Hayden Singer, that's my guy, that's my guy.
We're all rooting for Hayden. It's incredible live inthetirack dot
com studios. We're all fans of Hayden Singer. That is
so good.

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(01:11:23):
here with me from Salam, Mark Willard, more NFL stuff
that I wanted to get to with you. Anytime Aaron Rodgers'
name comes up, I'm like, oh, I want to ask
you from So the Vikings apparently have a decision to make.
The Vikings might be one of the more fascinating quarterback

(01:11:44):
situations we've ever seen. And last year's starter has already
moved on. He is now a member of the Seattle Seahawks.
So Aaron Rodgers has sort of put his his name
in the hopper and now the Vikings have a decision
to make. And I can't wait to find out what

(01:12:05):
Ephram Salam would advise them to do. So we'll find
that out coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
it's Mark Willard and Ephram Salam live Inditi RAG dot
com Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
It's funny, I don't know how many of our.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Affiliates heard during the commercial break just moments ago the
promo running for Colin Cowherd's show where he talks about
all the Super Bowl bets that came in on the
Pittsburgh Steelers when the rumor started that Aaron Rodgers might
join them.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
And now it's kind of like, well, you're.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Going to go to the Vikings if the Vikings say yes,
but then if they don't, then maybe that'll spin to
the Steelers and the Giants. And it just leads to
two questions for me. First of all, why is there
still a bidding race for this player number one and

(01:13:07):
number two? Why would any team continue to allow itself
to sort of be held hostage by this player all
in an effort to do what like, I'm not even
gonna sit here and tell you that he's like done, done, done.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
But it's the same thing I said to you when
we were talking Niners earlier. What is it you're attempting to?
Are you trying to win?

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
If you're trying to win, why on earth would this
guy even be on your radar now? If you're trying
to like usher someone else in, If you got some
side deal where Aaron Rodgers wants to work with JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
Or something like, explain something to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Me about why you would want this player in your building.
But if what you're sitting here doing in the off
season is, Okay, guys, how are we going.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
To win this year? How's this name even come up?

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
I'm perplexed. If the question is if I was the Vikings,
would I do that? Absolutely not. What you don't want
to do is you don't want to undermine or undercut
JJ McCarthy in his development. Aaron Rodgers isn't in a
place to where he's trying to lead and guide the

(01:14:33):
young quarterback aks Jordan Love. That's just not what he's doing.
Aaron Rodgers is trying to hold on to his legacy
and continue him being Aaron Rodgers even though he hasn't
been that in four years. So if you were to
ask me, if I'm Minnesota, would I do this? My

(01:14:56):
answer would be absolutely not because what's the payout?

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
What do you get?

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
Are you going to the Super Bowl? Are you winning
the Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback? Based
on the last four years of him actually well three
of playing, one being negated from injury.

Speaker 9 (01:15:17):
Is this.

Speaker 4 (01:15:20):
Is this what you think you're signing up for? Because
that is not the case. I don't care how he
finished the end of the season. Aaron Rodgers was showing
the decline in Green Bay. With his offensive coordinator, with

(01:15:45):
his receivers, with the comfortable aspects of being there his
whole career. He did not put up Aaron Rodgers type numbers.
Follow that up with injury. Achilles then came back with
subpar quarterback play. Now as good as Justin Jefferson is,

(01:16:10):
I'm you would do. You would bode well by going
with JJ McCarthy and seeing what you have with the
tenth pick in the draft that you did you use
last year. His development is now the most important thing,
not what you think and older Aaron Rodgers could bring
to your team, because what it could bring is it

(01:16:33):
could offset the balance in the locker room. Sam Donald
was a great piece. He stepped right in when needed,
did what he was supposed to do. Now he's gonna
go make some money somewhere else. That's not the same
as Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers still believes he's the MVP
Aaron Rodgers, and so with that comes the attitude of

(01:16:55):
the MVP Aaron Rodgers. And that's not what you want
in a locker room, especially when you have a young
quarterback that you're trying to groom.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
You know, it's wild.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Aaron Rodgers' average salary with the New York Jets. And
I know average salary doesn't tell the whole story because
there's all the guarantees and the whatever. But his average
salary for the three year contract he signed there was
thirty seven and a half million dollars. Okay, I don't

(01:17:32):
necessarily know what he would command on the open market. Now,
I would assume it's a little bit less. But if
what the Minnesota Vikings wanted to do was well, I think,
actually we need a veteran in here, and we need
that veteran to essentially be here for one year because

(01:17:54):
we got JJ McCarthy. Now, you and I had this
conversation last week, and I know that you're a big
opponent of JJ McCarthy getting his shot. You spent the
tenth pick on him, So do it, bite the bullet,
and do it. But they didn't know that they were
going to go fourteen and three and do all the
things that they did this year. So if you came

(01:18:14):
back and said, we would like a veteran, but we
just want a one year deal, and we're really looking
at you know, thirty five to forty million dollars, but
for one year. If that's what you wanted to do,
I know someone you could have had, Sam Darnold. Yeah,
that's what he just signed in Seattle. The details have

(01:18:37):
come out. That three year deal is completely non guaranteed
after one year. It is a one year, thirty seven
and a half million dollar deal with two opt ins
for the team.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
If you wanted to do this, Vikings, why wouldn't you
just do it with Sam?

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
Because they stopped believing in him, just like the world did.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Is that what it was us?

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
Yep, that's exactly what it was. How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
So he went fourteen and three, but because of essentially
the last six quarters.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
There there was it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
We're all out.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Hmm. That's really something. That's really something I get it.
I mean, look, we watched those games. It was ugly.
It was ugly. I see dead people.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Yeah, all right, not done in the NFL because Kirk
Cousins is staying and what are the Giants doing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
At the quarterback position?

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
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Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
We're going to circle back to that in just a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
Had an interesting conversation earlier tonight about Cooper Flagg, who
right now they're saying is going to play in the
tournament which gets started later on this week, but until then,
it's the play in tournament. Don't call it the play
in tournament, and start printing things out at your office
and getting them all right, and listening to this upset

(01:20:37):
and that upset, and listening to your friend tell you
that they've got a live dog, and then you pick
too many upsets and then you lose. That's pretty much
the way it goes, I think, right, yep, yep. So
we'll get back to that in a second. But first,
hold on a second. They're keeping Kirk Cousins. Is that

(01:21:00):
what I'm to understand? Yeah, that's so the Falcons are
just gonna keep Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 5 (01:21:06):
Well, it just gave him ten million dollars, so ten million.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
Bucks, and and he's just gonna be the backup. And
that's not gonna bother anybody, right, I would liken it
to this. You ever had a leaky faucet in the house, Yeah, okay,

(01:21:30):
like yeah, just tune it out. Plumber's coming on Thursday.
Good luck sleeping, because that thing just becomes more annoying
and more annoying, and you hear it more, and as
soon as you hear it, then you can't unhear it,

(01:21:51):
and now it's a problem. And I don't want that
analogy to sound like I'm saying that Kirk Cousins is
gonna be like some sort of bad guy, Like I
actually think he might be on a very short list
of people who just don't even have that in their DNA.
In the NFL, I'm sure he'll be a wonderful soldier.

(01:22:12):
That's not what I mean. You can't do this.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
You can't have somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Making forty million dollars with the name value of Kirk
Cousins and just sit him there on the bench and
have him watched football games with a headset like Namely,
this is unfair to Michael.

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
Pennix, clearly unfair to him. Now, I'm sure he's okay
with it. I'm sure he's like, it's gonna be what,
it's gonna be, whatever it is, because he has a
confidence in himself.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
But he doesn't understand what that looks like. Now.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
Granted, I understand a little bit where they're coming from,
giving my penis injury history. What you don't want to
do is be caught out there with nothing. So you
got to kind of hedge your bet, and it's going
to be expensive, but you have to protect yourself. If

(01:23:15):
all goes well, it goes well, all right, you paid
for it, all right, The dead money hit was going
to be there anyway. So at least you're like, we're protected,
we're protected. And look, and I know, I know that's
a it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
And and actually are you are you?

Speaker 5 (01:23:42):
Well you can win games with with Kurt, Yeah, but
I mean now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
You're sticking somebody on the shelf who over the last
few times we saw him over a four game period,
I think it was had one touchdown in nine interceptions. Okay,
so are are are you doing what the Jets did
last year? Are you fooling yourself into thinking that you're

(01:24:07):
a contender because you have a big name at quarterback
as opposed to somebody who can functionally go win football games.

Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
Well, I think the division bolts to fair point. You know,
there's there's a little difference there.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
I mean, they could win the division, right if Michael
Pennix has to miss two three games for whatever reason,
they know they have a viable.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
Signal callers.

Speaker 4 (01:24:37):
They can put in it can it can can manage
until he gets back if he's playing at a level
that you know, they hope and and we hope that
he plays that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Don't you feel like Tampa is ascending still?

Speaker 5 (01:24:48):
They are?

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
They are, Like I'm starting to actually like that team.
I love.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Yeah, that's is still Baker Mayfield, right, Like, you know,
although he's changed the they have a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
Just like Sam has and Kurt had did at one point.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
It's yeah, you're right, But what you don't want to
do is be caught without ask Miami what that looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
Yeah, I get that. To me, that's not worth it
in exchange for.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
Well, they already did the deal so well.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Right, But but here here's the problem with with keeping
him around you think you're protecting yourself, what you're actually
doing to Michael Pennix is making it much much harder
for him to grow into the job.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
Because if you've.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Got Kirk Cousins on the sideline and Michael Penix, who
to this day has still only started what what do
we got like four games? Four games?

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
Did I get that right?

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
He's played in five games games, okay, and I do believe, yeah,
has only actually he's only started three and he has
appeared in five games. So this is still a very
young player. And if he goes out there, and I
would bet at some point during the season because he's

(01:26:20):
a young player, he'll struggle. And instead of everybody going, oh,
Michael Pennix is struggling, let's see kind of what the
Falcons can do. No, no, no, it's cutaway shot to
Kirk Cousins. Cutaway shot to Kirk Cousins, cutaway shot to
Kirk Cousins. That's all it is, and then it's sports
radio and television. Should the Falcons move on to Kirk Cousins.
That can be one of those little debate lines that

(01:26:42):
Fox puts right there at the bottom of the screen.
Should the Falcons move on to Kirk Cousins, isn't it.
Let's go around the table now and everybody's sharing an opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
The Falcons have got to move back to Kirk. The
season is on the break. Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
I'm not doing that to my first round draft pick.
I'm not doing that if I'm the Falcons for any price,
that's just stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
If you're if you're really making.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
An investment in a player, invest in them, not just
financially invest in them, put all of your energy toward
them being a better player.

Speaker 5 (01:27:21):
Hey man, you're preaching to it a choir.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
That's what I would do.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
I'm just trying to rationalize the decision. It's a lot
of dead money just to be out there if you
cut somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
No one was trading for him for real, though, No,
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Why are these teams all interested in Aaron Rodgers not
interested in Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
Don't you think you have a better chance with Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 5 (01:27:52):
I yes, right, yeah, but Kirk Cousins has never been
a four time MVP.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Well, and obviously Rogers and Russell Wilson's of the world.
You don't have to you don't have to make a trade.
You can just give them a piece of paper and
a pen. So I understand that. But man, there are
still a lot of teams sitting out there right now
who could use a veteran quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
There's a lot of them. Cleveland, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
See.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
I mean, I don't think the Jets know that they're
one of them, but they still.

Speaker 5 (01:28:41):
Are the Jets.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
Indianapolis, Yeah, I mean they they brought in Daniel Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
I guess that's their answer.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Well, somebody wants to compete with Anthony Richardson, so it's
almost like we want someone to compete, but we don't
want them to actually win the job. So let's go
with with Daniel Jones. You know, the New York Giants.
Obviously the Vikings are on that list.

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
I were Miami, I would have that's an interesting comment.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
Because the inevitable thing, which I hate saying like this,
is we don't know can Tua be healthy an entire season.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Yeah, it's a fair question.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
And so if I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
Miami, I start looking at unconventional ways of addressing a situation.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
This would be one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:29:44):
Because I know, if something goes down with Tua, I
have a viable guy who can sling that ball all
over the field. What were they on like four quarterbacks
last year?

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
It was at least three.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
It can't can't do it again, So I would Yeah,
it's gonna cost you some money, but I would have
I would have made a decision. And there is no
no tool is our starter, right, But you know we
have someone here who we won't be We won't fall

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off a cliff like we did. And I think that's
important as an organization. You got to start looking at
things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
That's fair because by the way, and I don't even
want to think about this, to be honest with you,
and you know you you sort of framed it as
staying healthy, but we all know exactly what the repetitive
injury is that that to us has suffered.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
Yes, dude, if that happens again.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
It's got to be over.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
We have to that, like we've already, like a lot
of people have already said that one twice already, partially
because it keeps.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
Happening in primetime games and it's so jarring.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
It's not just a concussion, it's these awful concussions where
his body is like locked up and laid out.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
It's incredibly hard to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
If that happens again, I mean maybe to him makes
the exact same decision again, But at the same time,
there'd almost be like a there'd be like.

Speaker 3 (01:31:25):
A pr issue here, there really would.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
Yeah, if that would have happened again, I think there'd
be people that would be like, dude, Dolphins, you're like
complicit here. You can't put him back out there. So
that's an interesting thought. And yeah, it's it's not a
crazy one. It's not a crazy one. I mean, the

(01:31:50):
silly broadcaster and me left this team off. But I'd
love to see him go back to the Vikings.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Right right, how about that? I mean he'd be perfect,
he'd be perfect, how about that?

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Knows the system has worked with the coach, super nice guy,
would help JJ out, would probably get out of the
way if that ends up being the right thing. But
at the same time, probably could keep Minnesota viable one
way or another in a division that's super hard, and
I don't know that even if JJ McCarthy works out,

(01:32:22):
I don't like that division is going to move too
fast next year, So I think it's really difficult for
the fan base there to go fourteen and three one year,
and then you follow it up with, oh, by the way,
there's no chance we win the division again this year.
Even if he plays well, you're not gonna beat Detroit
and Green Bay and whatever Chicago becomes.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
No way.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
I just don't think you're doing that with a rookie.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
It's tough living. Balms you that it's tough living.

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get off the air. Okay, this is interesting to me,
and I don't want to put anybody, anybody on blast
because you know, here comes the NFL Draft and like
I'm just like the next fan. I don't know who's
going to be good, who's going to actually turn out
to be a great player, and who's going to be
a bus got no idea, So.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
This phrasing was interesting to me.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
You and I and our producers all kind of throwback
ideas back and forth before the show and and uh.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Nameless gonna gonna have your back.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
Nameless producer sends us this sentence for one idea quote,
are the Giants going to be forced into drafting Shadoor
Sanders if they can't get a.

Speaker 5 (01:35:14):
QB leading the witness?

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Don't you think just that phraseology alone? I was like, Wow,
that's so interesting. And I understand where this author is
coming from, because that that phraseology is based on what

(01:35:39):
we're told, what we're told by mock drafts and experts,
and this whisper at the combine and then that one
over there. I sit here and I can't tell you
with any definitiveness that Shadoor Sanders is not going to
be better than Kim Ward.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
Maybe you will. I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
And the latest mock draft that I'm looking at right
now has the Giants trading up to the number one
pick with the Tennessee Titans, and the Titans, who needed
quarterback two, are so wowed by this amazing offer from
the Giants they move down to number three and go
with Travis Hunter, and instead the Giants get cam Ward
number one overall pick, and this mock leaves Chadur to

(01:36:25):
Krein all the way down to number twenty one, where
he is drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers. We'll see. But
isn't it fascinating?

Speaker 5 (01:36:34):
The idea bad the best thing that ever happened to him?

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
I agree with you there. But if the Giants can't
make some sort of a move they sit at three
and quote, will they be forced into drafting Shadors.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Well, let's give that unnamed producer and opportunity if he
so chooses to speak about it. I mean, I don't
want to speculate guilty. See I am I ian am
unnamed producer.

Speaker 11 (01:37:03):
Okay, uh yeah, I mean I the fact that they've
been going after Stafford and Rogers, doesn't it kind of
seem like Shadur is not their guy? That That's all
I mean by forced is if it's the plan all
along to take them, then fine, But it seems like
they're doing everything they can to to do anything else.

(01:37:25):
So if it comes around and they don't have a
quarterback by the time the draft, you know they're picking
third in the draft, shoulders on the board. You don't
have a franchise quarterback dables on the hot seat, chains
on the hot seat. You might not have a choice.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
M So it's I mean, it's a it's a fair thought.

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
It's a good take based on what we've been told, right. Yeah,
I believe.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
If they were to get should Do at three, that'd
be tremendous for the franchise.

Speaker 5 (01:37:56):
You do, yeah, I do. Uh one.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
It brings energy back to the franchise. A franchise has
been much maligned the last year in terms of some
of the missteps they've had. Right, So, they've been everyone's
punching bag and laughing stock. Right We've witnessed them on
television make horrendous decisions.

Speaker 5 (01:38:23):
And have to deal with the aftermath of that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:26):
By watching one of those decisions catapult a team to
greatness in terms of a Super Bowl championship, I mean,
the team was on his back second greatest rushing single
season ever, I think, the third most rushing yards including

(01:38:48):
playoffs and regular season ever. He was the leader in
your locker room, and we won't let you forget that.
So I think by creating different energy and having should
Do in New York, I think to me, that kind

(01:39:16):
of ushers in uh, you know, a new front in
terms of Okay, what is this going to be, like
is this going to work?

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
It should do?

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
Or the answer is like, now we're asking different questions
opposed to just the ridicule that you'll continually get based
on the decisions you've made just as early as a
year ago.

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (01:39:46):
Absolutely so, I think it's a it's the quickest and
best way. Like if you bring in Aaron Rodgers, now
you're adding to the bad decisions you've been making. Yep,
well right, Like so if you're looking for other options,
you're now, oh, they just they're just dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Well right now, if you go to the veteran route,
the dividends need to be immediate, right, they need to
be immediate.

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
You buy yourself time, yourself some time, and sure you
have an opportunity to pair a dynamic We all believe
they're young receivers dynamic with a young quarterback and you
can now watch them grow together.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Right, But then again, what an incredibly unsound decision making process,
Like think of all the things we just said, they're
all based on like, well, I'm just trying to keep
my job or I'm trying to do the opposite of
what I did last year on hard.

Speaker 5 (01:40:50):
Knocks or like like, oh, I'm trying, he's the best
quarterback option.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Okay, okay, now we're getting somewhere. Yeah, but do they
actually feel that way?

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
Well, it doesn't matter if they feel that way. If
they say it and they draft him, then that's what
it is, right, But they have to feel it. You
believe it when you make the draft pick, you believe it.
When you make the pick. You can be on the
fence all you want, but when you make that pick,
you believe it, and everybody else around you and your
fan base believes it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Yeah, I guess. I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
I mean I've watched I've watched teams make that pick
and then before that pick even ever really hits the field,
they're like, don't I don't believe.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Look, Brian Dabbos, coach, did the.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
Vikings believe in JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 5 (01:41:42):
I do believe they do.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Then what the hell are they doing? Why are they
talking to Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 5 (01:41:47):
We don't know what those conversations are for Aaron Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
Why I mean they talk to him?

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
Obviously, I do believe they believe in JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Brought him in. Of course, they brought him in. You
know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:41:58):
Yeah, what will happen? Will they go that route?

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
I would bet against it, but I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
Right, Like, sometimes we talk about Steve de Seger and
sometimes we let him talk.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Yeah, I think we wish to let him talk.

Speaker 7 (01:42:14):
Hello again, gentlemen, Hello the breaking baseball news. The Dodgers
say shortstop Mookie bats will miss the Tuesday opener in
Japan and miss the Wednesday game against the Cubs as
well due to illness. They are actually contemplating sending him
home early. He apparently was ill already at spring training
before the flight to Japan this past week. He did

(01:42:34):
not play the two exhibitions the Dodgers have played overseas
this weekend. The Dodgers Cubs two games, yes count open
the regular season this week, one on Fox TV Tuesday
and then on FS one Wednesday. Those two games start
at six am Eastern time. The Ravens signed backup quarterback
Cooper Rush from Dallas. NASCAR's race at Vegas went to

(01:42:57):
Josh Berry's first ever Cup Series victory. Late night NBA
game has Oklahoma City winning again halftime lead at Milwaukee
fifty three forty one if OKC gets a victory the
record would be fifty six and twelve. Cleveland is fifty
six and eleven. Actually lost at home today, Orlando beat
him one o eight one oh three that ended the

(01:43:17):
Cavs sixteen game winning streak. Victories for the Clippers and
Brooklyn wins for Philadelphia and Portland which ended a five
game losing streak. Edging Toronto today one oh five, one
oh two. Minnesota won its eighth straight game down to
Utah one twenty eight, one oh two, forty one points
for Anthony Edwards in thirty one minutes. He had just
one turnover. The Jazz have lost nine in a row.

(01:43:37):
Lakers beat Phoenix today one oh seven ninety six Luka
Doncic with thirty three points. Auburn is the number one
overall seed for the NCAA Men's Tournament. Duke is also
one seed Azar Houston and Florida. North Carolina was the
last team in. It'll face San Diego State in a
so called play in in Dayton on Tuesday. Texas, despite
fifteen losses, made it in barely tied for most losses

(01:44:00):
by an.

Speaker 8 (01:44:00):
At large team to earn a bid.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
By the way.

Speaker 7 (01:44:03):
Florida today won the SEC Tournament beating Tennessee. Michigan won
the Big Ten beating Wisconsin. Would not have predicted that
a week ago, fifty nine to fifty three to the final.
That conference has eight teams in the NCAAs. The SEC
has a record of fourteen of the sixty eight teams
in the NCAA field. Keep in mind that Texas is

(01:44:23):
now an SEC team. It's got to like for the
women's field. The Big Ten, My goodness, they've got so many. Well,
USC and UCLA are now Big ten schools. So congratulations
to record twelve teams from the Big ten in the
women's NCAA attorney, including top overall seed UCLA and USC,
which is a one seed. The other one seeds are
South Carolina and Texas. We had golf today and it

(01:44:46):
did not finish. The tournaments in Florida. Play was suspended
due to darkness at the Players. It'll be a three
to a hole playoff on Monday with Rory McElroy against
jj Spawn. The winner gets the first prize of four
and a half million dollars. There was a four hour
weather delay today and then McElroy blew a three shot lead.

Speaker 8 (01:45:05):
Sure he's not going to think about that overnight.

Speaker 7 (01:45:07):
By the way, there is a great name that actually
got a chance to golf on Thursday. Now, he's not
a big name in golf, but it's a great story.
Danny Walker is from Florida. He lives in Florida now
and this tournament there is not far from his home
in Jacksonville. He showed up there on Thursday because he
was first alternate for this huge event. It's about the

(01:45:30):
biggest thing you can play outside of a major. So
he's there in the locker room Thursday morning at TPC
Sawgrass and at about seven am gets a phone call.

Speaker 3 (01:45:41):
You're in.

Speaker 7 (01:45:42):
Jason Day's sick. He's had to withdraw. You're the next
man up.

Speaker 8 (01:45:47):
He says.

Speaker 7 (01:45:48):
This means the world to me because I've been wanting
to play this event since i was a little kid.

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
He said.

Speaker 7 (01:45:53):
He watched this tournament just last year from behind the
ropes and now gets to play it. He said, living
here locally, could not be more excited got the call
than had to go sit in my car for a
few minutes afterwards. Let it hit me, maybe let a
tear out. Let the emotion out early so you can
relax and actually go play a round of golf. And

(01:46:14):
then he shows up for the tea time, which was
only an hour and a half later, and it's a
pair of major champions that he's playing golf alongside Jordan
Speith and Wyndham Clark. And he winds up with a
one over seventy three okay for day number one. This
is a University of Virginia alum we're talking about. And
then he's going very well in round number two, he's

(01:46:36):
at four under par. He might actually be making the
cut here in Florida on seventeen bogie eighteenth oal bogee.

Speaker 8 (01:46:45):
He eventually finished.

Speaker 7 (01:46:46):
These two rounds at one under par. Overall, didn't think
he was going to make the cut. The cut line
settled at one under exactly. He got to play Saturday. Also,
he said, this is a little surreal. I'm getting to
meet all these guys who've won on tour. I haven't
met most of them. And then it was a very
windy Saturday at the tournament, but he shot well. In fact,

(01:47:08):
he said, since moving to Jacksonville five or six years ago,
I've played this course close to one hundred times. That
came in handy because the writers were starting to ask
him Saturday night. You might actually get some sort of
check out of this. How are you going to spend it?
He said, no, no, no, I'll just get a take
an app tonight or try to didn't get a lot
of sleep the night before.

Speaker 8 (01:47:29):
See if I can make up for that.

Speaker 7 (01:47:31):
But this guy's total career earning since turning pro in
twenty eighteen about six hundred eighty thousand dollars for about
one hundred events in golf. Just by comparison, John Rahm
won about that much just this weekend on the Live
Golf Tour for finishing for a tie for fifth in Singapore.

(01:47:52):
This guy's big payday was Mexico opened last month. He
got about one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars ladies
and gentlemen and Danny Walker finished in a tie for
sixth place. He shot a final round seventy after a
sixty six yesterday. He's going to get a check for
over eight hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
Let's go.

Speaker 7 (01:48:13):
He did not know he was playing the stinking of
Oh my Thursday morning, let's go.

Speaker 8 (01:48:20):
That is astounding. Again. The event ends with the playoff tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:48:24):
Back to you, is he needs to sign up? A
live golf right now.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
I don't know if I'm more impressed by his performance
or your storytelling ability.

Speaker 5 (01:48:35):
Definitely the story. Yeah, the dive, that's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
The dive that you took to even be able to
share all of that with the audience was also a plus. Wow,
this is kind of becoming a sponsorable event.

Speaker 7 (01:48:51):
I believe it's like the Ernie Johnson segment that's never
sponsored on DNA.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Yes, that's what we have here, seven seven thirty Pacific,
ten East di Sega on golf.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
If you don't know, you don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:49:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, another subject, Fancheck, you mentioned that that
Dodger Cubs game in Japan on Tuesday will get started
at six am.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Yeah, that's if you live in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
If you live where the Dodgers play, that game will
start at three in the morning.

Speaker 7 (01:49:31):
I am told the Dodger radio announcers are calling it
from the TV studio in La no.

Speaker 8 (01:49:36):
Way live at three am.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
Why didn't they go?

Speaker 8 (01:49:39):
TV's there?

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
Radio?

Speaker 8 (01:49:41):
Apparently not. You didn't answer my question, oh am, I
getting up at three?

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
No, I have a new question. Why didn't the radio
team go?

Speaker 8 (01:49:53):
Yeah? That's a good one.

Speaker 7 (01:49:54):
I'm just telling you what I heard, Okay, Because they
played in South Korea to open last season, I think
this was the same gig TV went and radio did.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Not interesting all right?

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Now, yeah, back to the original question, who's getting up
at three am to watch this game?

Speaker 7 (01:50:09):
They played an exhibition with Otani homering on Saturday, yep,
and I woke up early, but not at all at
three am. So the DVR is my friend.

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
The DVR is everyone's.

Speaker 8 (01:50:22):
One of the great inventions of my lifetime.

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
It's the time you get, the time you won't know.
You could just watch it, maybe because it's the middle
of the night. But the bottom line for me is,
and this is my own problem. Maybe I'm too connected,
but that would be a problem. The bottom line is
I cannot DVR sports.

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't
do it.

Speaker 5 (01:50:49):
That's all I do.

Speaker 3 (01:50:51):
All I do.

Speaker 9 (01:50:52):
Can do it.

Speaker 7 (01:50:52):
We went out to lunch and then watch the Lakers
game with no commercials today.

Speaker 5 (01:50:57):
Isn't it great? Seeming a great?

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
No, because actually the no commercials thing kills me. I
am too impatient to watch people shoot free throws.

Speaker 5 (01:51:06):
I don't watch free throws are commercials.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
Yeah, but then you're you're you're like when you start
fast forward and then it goes too far, Like I.

Speaker 5 (01:51:16):
Just it just doesn't problem.

Speaker 11 (01:51:18):
I'm with you, Mark, I knowing what happens, you just can't.

Speaker 5 (01:51:21):
I can't do it on knowing what happened either.

Speaker 11 (01:51:24):
Well, it's also just the fact that you knowing that
it already happened.

Speaker 3 (01:51:27):
You and me exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:51:29):
Yeah, but I don't know what happened though.

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
You know that at a touch of a button you
could get the final answer.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
You know that somebody's gonna text you when they wake
up through Yes, they will.

Speaker 5 (01:51:39):
Steve, do you ever have this problem? No, not at all,
because we're not six years old.

Speaker 7 (01:51:44):
Isn't it just like whatever big movie is coming to
the theaters and you don't see it on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
I think I've seen a movie since before COVID, So
there's that I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (01:51:54):
Over the years, there have been plenty of movies that
I've wanted to see but just too busy for the
first few weeks, and I just say, away from it,
they're still still enjoy it.

Speaker 8 (01:52:02):
Everybody else saw it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:03):
But then I'm just telling you that this is in
the back of my mind at all times. I can't
do sports when it's already done.

Speaker 5 (01:52:12):
Do you know the time I watched the Laker game
to day thirty?

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
No, you should have just called me. You should have
called me. I would have told you they didn't know anything.

Speaker 5 (01:52:23):
I didn't know on what happened. I just watched. It
takes me about an hour off that to watch the
whole game.

Speaker 3 (01:52:32):
I knew that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
I knew the Lakers won by by double digits at
about ten o'clock this morning, to be honest with you,
because that's when I bet it, because there's no way
in hell with getting a bunch of their starters back.

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
They were losing to the Phoenix freaking Sun.

Speaker 8 (01:52:47):
Lakers are up first four.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
They've given up. Did you hear Bob Myers and steven A. Smith?

Speaker 8 (01:52:53):
I could not believe what he was seeing.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
Holy crop. You want to talk about.

Speaker 8 (01:52:59):
Effort?

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Wow? Steven A.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
Smith basically said they look like a bunch of kids
who've been punished by their parents and are being told
this is what you have to go do as your punishment.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
You have to go play this basketball game.

Speaker 7 (01:53:13):
Isn't this another example of not lighting the players run
the asylum?

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
Yes, it is get a Big.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
Three, although no trade.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
Yes, But at the same time, another good idea front office,
don't tell your star you're going to trade him and
then don't because then you get back to the locker
room and everybody hates everybody. So that's on the front
office too. The Sun's front office is right next to
the Mavericks. As far as I'm concerned, this month, new.

Speaker 7 (01:53:44):
Owner, ready to spend extremely rich basketball guy and.

Speaker 8 (01:53:48):
Crazy might not even make the play in thirty one
and thirty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Then you can change that mite.

Speaker 2 (01:53:53):
I mean, the only reason they've got a shot is
because all Mavericks are hurt.

Speaker 7 (01:53:57):
Yeah, they're right around Portland. Who really nobody has paid
attention to right for most of the season. That's the equivalent.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
Yeah, the Suns are a game and a half behind Dallas,
and Dallas may not ever win again either, So maybe
they'll get the ten spot. But if they do, they're
gonna get unceremoniously kicked out right away.

Speaker 8 (01:54:13):
What if it's this Phoenix team at Golden State for
a play in.

Speaker 3 (01:54:17):
I don't believe that Golden State will be in the
playing tools.

Speaker 2 (01:54:21):
Oh no, no, no, they could, but obviously, if Golden
State ends up in the playing tournament, I would see
them as the in the seven.

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
Eight game and uh and not in the nine to
ten game. That would be.

Speaker 8 (01:54:36):
Correct for me.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
Yes, yes, yeah, because they could. Minnesota doesn't lose either,
so they definitely could just like the Lakers. Am I
righty from you?

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
No? All right? Tyrech dot com studio is glad you're
with us. Thank you, Steve. Phenomenal stuff. As always.

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(01:55:30):
here with the from Salam Mark Willard, I do have
the brand spankin new play in tournament lines, and I
would like to throw the San Diego State North Carolina
line at you. E from Salam get your reaction and
your game breakdown of that game that is coming up

(01:55:51):
here real real soon.

Speaker 3 (01:55:52):
We'll do that next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
Okay, these arethe tire rag dot com studios. That's E
from Salama Markwell, hey, before I get a little bracket
breakdown from you, dude, I just need a little therapy
from you, Just a little therapy for a second.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
You ever have one of these.

Speaker 2 (01:56:09):
Days around the house, dude, Literally in the last twenty
four hours. I met my son's literal league game. Last night,
I get a call from my other son. All the
shelving in the laundry room has collapsed. Oh man, there

(01:56:31):
are drinks, detergent, dog food everywhere everywhere. And I don't
know if you've ever seen a teenager try to clean
something up. But when I got home, let's just say
we weren't quite all the way there.

Speaker 3 (01:56:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
Oh then today today my daughter's I'm all excited to
get her VENTI Starbucks drink. She knocks that over the
second that she gets home with it. So I try
to be a good dad brother VENTI I see you

(01:57:13):
big money, hey man, you gotta get in where we
fit in. So like then I take my little guy
out to let's get a little outside time. And I'm
going on the way back. Don't tell your sister, but
we'll bring her a new one and I'll get you
something too. So we get them both drinks. As I
get home, I hand her a new drink. She's so appreciative.

(01:57:36):
She comes in gives me a big hug. There's arms
flying everywhere. My arm wheels and whacks the drink out
of my son's hand, and that flies everywhere. So I
have been sopping stuff up with paper towels and regular
towels all day long. Come to find out that during
our last segment, Aphrom the dog ate an entire bag

(01:57:58):
of Hawaiian rolls.

Speaker 5 (01:57:59):
Oh no, that's what we're doing today. Wow. Hey, but
look on the bright side, you've had a great show.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
I mean, right on the bright side, Like if these
are your problems, she ain't got problems, right am? I okay,
that the dog get an entire bag of Hawaiian rolls. Yeah,
I don't like. That's okay, right, it's not chocolate. No,
she's gonna be all right.

Speaker 3 (01:58:22):
And the good news is I stole one earlier today,
so it was only eleven, not twelve. She'd be all right, Okay,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
San Diego State is a four point underdog against North Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:58:33):
I like that they bet the moods. You're so biased, bets.
I know, I know one team deserved to be in
the tournament. No other team did not, mister president of
the head of the committee, it happens just to be
the athletic director of North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Come on, now, well, if college sports wasn't corrupt, then
what would we do?

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
I don't even know how. I didn't know how I
would handle that.

Speaker 5 (01:59:02):
I take them odds though, okay all day, but for
real or just like because you're biased?

Speaker 3 (01:59:07):
No, for real? O, give me give me fifteen seconds
on why.

Speaker 4 (01:59:11):
Yeah, because we played defense and defense travels. We don't
have to worry about if somebody's hot or not. We
play defense. We're getting the Mountain West defensive player of
the Year back. I averaged three blocks a game to
protect the paint. We guard the wing and three point shooters.
Second best, better than any other team in NC DOUBLEA. Okay,

(01:59:33):
facts not fiction.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
Hey, great stuff, my man. Keep your drinks inside their
cups and have a good night.

Speaker 5 (01:59:39):
The women made it too,

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