February 27, 2025 • 41 mins
The show opens with memories of Gene Hackman's movies in light of his passing. And NFL insider Albert Breer reports in from the NFL Combine about how the league is proposing to change overtime rules and the strange story about Matthew Stafford and Tom Brady.
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Speaker 3 (02:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
If you're watching on Peacock, thank you downloading the app
and our radio affiliates around the country. Gene Hackman passed
away at the age of ninety five. He was living
in New Mexico. I believe Santa Fe And when you
think of Gene Hackman, at least when I think of
Gene Hackman, I think of Normandale in the great sports movie. Hoosiers.
(02:44):
Actually it's a great movie. It's it's not just limited
to a great sports movie. That's a and a lot
of times when we think of a sportsman like Rudy
is not a sports movie. Rudy is about the underdog
who gets a chance. Hoosiers isn't a ketball movie, but
it has basketball in it. It's about life in a
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small town. And I think sometimes we make the mistake
of saying, oh, what a great sports movie. Bull Durham
is not a baseball movie. It's really about a guy
who's been sent to the miners.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's going to help.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's about relationships, and you know, but we use, you know,
the focal point, the the centerpiece is sports. I think
a lot a lot of times with these movies or
we think of that, but it's really more than that.
And Hoosiers was that. It was about relationships. And Gene
Hackman was wonderful. And I spoke with, you know, the
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actor who played Jimmy Chitwood, Maris Volanus, and he had
no acting experience, he wasn't even really a basketball player,
but he played that role so well. And we'll bring
back a portion of the interview I did with him
a few years ago where he talked about all the actors,
well want to the actors, people who weren't even actors,
(04:04):
who just went and auditioned and they got a chance
to meet Gene Hackman, and the role that Hackman played
for them getting ready to be actors in the movie Hoosiers.
But he passed his way at the age of ninety five.
Now there's other movies. I go back when he was
Popeye Doyle the French Connection, and he had his little
hat that he wore and he was going to catch
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he was going to catch that drug dealer from France
and never did.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Seaton a little more recent but one that I always
forget about. But man was he great in The Royal Tenenbaumbs.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes he was.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
That was a phenomenal role that was. That's a great movie.
But man was he He was so good in that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, there were so many of those movies that I mean,
that's that's quite a We talked to Kevin Costner years
ago in New York and he talked about working with
him on No Way Out movie and just talked about
Costner saying, I knew I had to up my game
because I was going to be acting alongside Gene Hackman.
But I still go back to the replacements with Keanu
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Reeves the quarterback, and I don't know, Like, look, Paul
Newman was in slap Shot, and that's what made Slap
Shot even more brilliant because Paul Newman, legendary actor, was
willing to play this down and out minor league hockey
coach and Gene Hackman in the replacements, Like I kept
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whenever I would see the movie, I go, how do
they get Gene Hackman to me in the replacements?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean, it's it's it's not a legendary, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh my gosh, have you seen the replacements great sports
movies of all time? That's not going to be in
the category Alex on Jeopardy. But and Keanu Reeves, I
think had done Speed. He had done the movie Speed
and Matrix, so he had a little bit, you know,
little bit of a resume. But Gene Hackman and all
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of a sudden he's the coach and replacements and I go, okay,
all right. Although Gene Hackman did think that his career
could be over. In Hoosiers, he acted alongside Dennis Hopper
and they did talk about it, you know, off screen,
like this could be the end of our careers because
of that. But Dennis Hopper, legendary actor as well, plays
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the alcoholic father of one of the players in Hoosiers.
But Gene Hackman aged ninety five and feels like everybody
has their favorite. He was what Lex Luthor and Superman? Yeah,
I never saw it, never saw the movie, didn't see
the first one. I still haven't seen the first Star Wars,
so I'll get around to it one of these days.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, Pauline, there's a story.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I looked it up after you brought it up that
Keanu Reeves was in the replacements. He was set to
be in the replacements and they got interest from Gene
Hackman and they were shocked. But he is pricey, So
Keanu Reeves said, you can cut my salary if it
gets Gene happened in the movie. I don't know if
that's a true one.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's a legendary Hollywood story.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Todd reach out to Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
We're on it.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Did you see any of the Superman movies, by the way,
with General Zod And there was one with Richard Pryor,
And there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No, none of the Superman.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That was the note that I said earlier that I
hadn't seen. I didn't see the first one.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Thought maybe you checked out one of the sequels.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It would be odd to see two and three without
seeing the first one, kind of standalone. And I'm not
going to watch the original Rocky, but I'm going to
watch three and four.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Eton isn't it crazy?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Speaking of the Superman movies that the first one, the
first Superman was George Reeve, and then the next one
was Christopher Reeves.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Hm was that he was the that was the TV
series George Reeves, George Reeve. I think Christopher Reeves, I
think so?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, Okay, I.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Say George Reeve was in the TV Showeorge Reeves has
an S and then Christopher Reeve. Yes, oh that's what
is I have it backwards, Yeah, but yeah he was.
He was in the TV show.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
And we also just referenced Keanu Reeves. Oh, in the
same segment dan Reeves was a consultant.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
What Dan Reeves was a consultant on the stupier member.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You had to get that line out of here. I
thank you. We didn't hear it the first time.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
But you know, yes, Paul, it is interesting that some
movies give you a level of immortality. There might be
better movies, bigger movies that Gene Hacken was in, but
with sports movies, so those will be talked about on
sports radio and TV forever. And Hoosiers is it really
is the one seed and then it goes down from
there If you look at all those lists.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I mean it depends. You know, people love Bull Durham,
they love Rudy, those are usually the top ones. But
uh I loved I loved Hoosiers because it's just small town.
It's in Indiana. Uh I could relate to a little
bit of it. The scenery is so underrated, you know
when they do those bus trips, we're going to their
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games and just the landscape that you had now. Granted
it's not exciting because it's a lot of cornfields and barns,
but I could relate to it. So Geene Hackman passing
away at the age of ninety five. Michael in Chicago, Hi, Mike,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Good morning Dan, Good morning Dan Utts. Is what you
guys missed on the pre show introduction you've missed a
couple of great movies that he did. One of the
best to ever think he did was The Unforgiven with
Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
He was unbelievable in that is the mean sheriff in
the town of Big Whiskey, if you remember. And he
was good in the firm he played.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yes, well, we couldn't do all of them, Michael, I mean,
I mean the compliment is we couldn't get to all
of that. But we are a sports show. That's why
we brought up Hoosiers. But you're right, the Firm with
Tom Cruise, he was very good in that. But uh,
we we've taken a trip down memory lane.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
We just sent margin Mississippi burning an apology.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Go God.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So I'm going to apologize to all the Hackman fans
and of course mister Hackman rest in peace that if
we didn't get all the movies mentioned where, we can't
do the entire show on Gene Hackman. Let's see NFL
considering overtime tweaks. We'll talk to Albert Breer about this,
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and maybe they're going to get rid of the chain Gang.
There's going to be a digital spotting of the football.
So these are some of the things they're discussing at
the combine. I've been saying all along about the digital
spotting of the football. It is so random when you
see the official grab the ball and put it down
after somebody's made a catch or a run, and you're going,
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really there and it's just random, And I thought, can't
we come up and we accept it. You're like like
the Bills against the Chiefs and the playoffs. You're like, uh,
I think he got it, and all of a sudden,
you go, he didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I do like the chain gang when they bring it
out and then they stretch out the chain. I think
we all like that. I don't know if we're going
to have that. Maybe you do a kind of a
video component of that. If you're watching on TV, like.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Loop loop blop, bloop bloop.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And then all of a sudden you see it's a
first town and you get a you know whatever sound
effect there are you saying, just.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Recreate the digital marker and and have the same anticipation.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, perfect, just go gas price is right ish?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
You know, yeah, that's what is that? Uh? That game
of a mountain clown law dude, dude, it on.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
The mountain climber guy and then he falls off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oh I thought it was this one. You spin the
big thing you spin. Yeah, yeah, it could be that too.
Okay for the.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Showcase Showdown, ye try to get on that. You got
to get close to it. You got two spins to
get close to.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
A dollar cliffhanger?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Is that the name of the hell of a segment?
We're gonna submit this for the Sports Emmy. Oh yeah,
this is this is how we lose it instead of
this how we do it?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Todd, This how we lose it. That's what Jordan and
Patrick doesn'tect.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
My Pistons won. The Pistons won again. They beat the
celt You got to take them seriously. They're in the
playoffs right now. I think they have the sixth best
record in the East. They won eight in a row.
It's a young team, fun team. Those are always the
ones that make me nervous. You know, when you get
to the playoffs, you got to play against the team
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may not know what the hell they're doing come playoff time.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
But sometimes they don't have pressure on them.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady, Ski Buddies, question Mark question mark.
We'll have that story for you coming up. Another betting
investigation the University of New Orleans basketball team. There's probably
five or six open investigations into college basketball game fixing.
(13:22):
They got to do away with prop bets said that
last year. Got to do away with that because if
you're a kid at the University of New Orleans, you're
not getting an IO. Your team is terrible, and I'm
just going to give you a hey, this might be
something that played out. You're not going to the NBA.
(13:45):
Who's going to notice we're New Orleans. We're not any good.
We've won four games, so what you know, I missed
a shot, you know the over under. We're playing University
of Texas at Rio Grand. Nobody's going to know. Well,
Vegas has to know. This is what Vegas does. They're
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the watchdogs because this is their business. And a lot
of times you'll see these aren't big time programs because
the big time programs they're getting taken care of. It's
when you play at these smaller schools that maybe you
have the temptation to go, you know what, be nice
to get a couple of one hundred bucks, a thousand
bucks here, whatever it is there's a lot of investigations
(14:29):
going on, open investigations in this I think there's been
an open investigation into Temple basketball for a couple of
years now, and there's going to be more. But get
rid of prop bets for college athletes. Certainly that I
don't think they'll do it with the pros, but at
least the college athletes, because they can be they can
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be lured, they can be tempted because they don't have
that money. You make it to the NBA. You're making
money college basketball not the case. All right, phone calls,
we'll get to those. We'll settle on a poll question.
We'll head out to the combine. Albert Breer, the Monday
morning quarterback, will join us on a Thursday morning. We'll
talk to him about the NFL considering a tweak to
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overtime and the digital spotting of the football and the
other things going on, the ancillary things with the draft
and possible trades, and Tom Brady Matthew Stafford seen in
Montana skiing together. So we got a few things talk
(15:35):
about today.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, ski gate.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
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Speaker 2 (16:50):
Very busy man. He's the Monday morning quarterback, but he
works other days as well. Don't want you to think
that he only works on Monday. He's Albert Breer joining
us from them in Indianapolis. Thanks for joining us. Let
me start with tweaking overtime. What the NFL is proposing.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
Yeah, so they want to formalize or at least look
at formalizing the rules so it's the same from the
regular season to to the postseason. And as you know,
you know, Dan, what they did to amend the rule
in the postseason after you know, Super Bowl a few
years back was to ensure that both teams would have
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a chance to have the ball in overtime. And you know,
whether or not they go to that or tweak it further,
I know, you know, Troy and Vincent had talked about
reimagining the whole thing all together.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I don't think we'll go to, like, you know, a
college version of overtime. I do think they.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Want to maintain some of the elements of a normal
game flow that you have in the way that overtime
has been played in the NFL forever.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
But you know, I I I think the general idea is.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
To come up with a solution that would work for
both the season and the postseason.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
The Brady Matthew Stafford's story of skiing together in Montana, like,
do you have the real story of this, because there
seems to be conflicting stories of this was something that
was planned, and then there's another story that says that
it was random that they ran into each other in Montana.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
I mean, I can say that that is and you
may be familiar with the place, but that's a pretty
high end club in Montana that people on that level,
that level of celebrity are at and spend time at,
and so the idea that they would unintentionally run into
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each other is not far fetched.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I don't know exactly how that happened. I don't think that.
I'm not you know, I don't know for sure.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
I haven't dunk into it quite as much yet, but
I don't think I I I don't know that Brady
invited Matthew Stafford there.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Matthew Stafford, I know had been.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
There in the past, and so again not that unusual
that it would happen, But I do think it shows
how Brady is really a part of what the Raiders
are doing now, and Brady, you know, is an integral
part of their of their interview process of convincing head
coaching and general manager candidates that it was a better
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job than it has been in recent years and that
and then ultimately, you know, they wind up hiring two
guys that Brady's got a relationship with, Pete Carroll of course,
who he competed against for me all those years, and
and John Spotech, who he became pretty close with over
the three years they spent together in Tampa. So I
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think the Raiders are serious, a serious suitor for for
Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But this wasn't tampering that if Brady permission okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Yeah, I mean Stafford at permission out and Stafford's had
permission Dan for over three weeks now, like Stafford got
permission to speak with other teams starting during Super Bowl week.
So I believe it's either right at three weeks or
just over three weeks that he's had permission to go
out and speak to other teams.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
What is the market for Matthew Stafford more than.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
The Rams want to pay right now, I think is
the best way to describe that.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
For those who don't know.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
He's on the books for twenty seven million dollars in
cash in twenty twenty five, and that number was lowered
by four million dollars because they borrowed that four million
and another million from twenty twenty six to give him
a five million dollar raise in twenty twenty four, which
isn't a raise at all if you're just borrowing from
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one year and giving it to the and putting it
in another, which is why I think everybody knew when
they made that contract adjustment after a really tough six
months ago, that they.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Were going to be back at the table again.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
And the way Stafford's looking at it is the quarterback
market has materially changed. There are nine quarterbacks making over
fifty million dollars a year, and his deal at forty
million per is fifty percent below the top of the market,
which is Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
At sixty million.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
So the Rams basically said to Matthew, all right, like, well,
if you go out and see what the market is,
and go out and see what you can get, and
I don't think they use the word trade specifically with him.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
But once you kind of.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Let him out of the building and let him go
do that to go and see his worth, there's some
risk involved, and the risk is that the way he
sees his his worth is going to be matched with
the way other teams see.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
His worth, even at thirty seven years old. And that's
what happened.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Matthew found teams plural that we're willing to go to
a number that was commensurate with where the.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Market is at the position. So how do you put
that tooth paste back in the tube?
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Now?
Speaker 11 (22:02):
If you're the Rams, who I mean McVay still really
likes Matthew at It's a good relationship. Matthew really likes
living in southern California. But the reality is they told
him he was worth, They felt like he was worth,
acts he felt like he was worth. Why then he
goes to the market proves he's Worthwhy? So, now, how
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do you reel that all back in? If you're the team,
it's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
The Rams, wouldn't they learn from what happened with Saquon
Barkley with the Giants, where you say go out there
see if anybody wants to pay you that kind of money.
Oh wait a minute, wait, you're leaving. Granted, you know
Stafford is thirty six, thirty seven years of age, but
it feels but I'm always interested when I are curious
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when I hear an analyst go, you know, he wants
to go to a place where he can win. Well,
the Rams that that's a team that can win now,
and they did win now and they almost went to
the NFC title game. You got pook, You've got a
great young defense, you got Pukinakua, you got Williams is
your running back. I don't know, just feels like, pay
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him the money if you want to try to make
another run at the Super Bowl, giving two years one
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
I agree, But I think part of this is timelines too, right,
Like does the RAMS timeline match up with Matthew Stafford's
which Matthew Stafford's timeline is to win right now and
to go all in right now, to win right now, And.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You don't think the Rams timeline is to win right now.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
But yeah, but here, okay, So like let's say you're
the Rams and Matthew Stafford is going year to year now,
and you've dealt with this, You've got a really difficult negotiation.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Now you want to see You're you're.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
In this spot where you're being asked to set another
contractual precedent that maybe could be a problem for you
down the line, and you're looking out at the market
and you're saying, well, can we get Aaron Rodgers for
a lot less than that and bring back the assets
that would come to Matthew Stafford deal.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I mean, I know McVay really likes Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 11 (24:11):
That's gonna sound crazy to some people, but I think
he believes he can win with Jimmy Garoppolos. So I
think for the Rams part of this is our timeline
may not match up completely with Matthew's timeline. We've got
a team here that we think can win for the
next five or six years. We're gonna have a lot
of big contracts coming down the pike, and you know,
if we're in a year to year situation with Matthew Stafford,
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that's a pretty tough place to be based on what
we would what we what we might need to spend
to keep him. And so that's when you start to
look at some of the alternatives, Like, again, what id
be Aaron Rodgers on a cheaper deal. Now you got
more cash to spend this offseason to surround Aaron Rodgers,
and then you get the assets, whether it's a first
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round pick, second round pick, whatever it is, get the
assets coming back to us too. So it's interesting from
that perspective. And I mean, shoot, it's I mean think
about like if the Giants were to get him. Now
you have Andrew Thomas coming back at left tackle, you
have Milite Neighbors as your number one receiver, you have
Tracy coming back as a young back. Maybe Cooper Cup
winds up there, maybe Travis Hunter winds up there. Like
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that team I think could become a contender pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
He's Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter.
The digital spotting of the football.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I like it. I don't know if it's a done deal.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm always curious when I watch a game, how random
it sometimes seems when the official spots the ball. Yeah,
do you think we're how far down the line do
you think we are with the digital part of spotting
a football?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I think we're getting closer, you know.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
I this is something that they're not going to just
you know, do all in one fell swoop. You know,
I think there's going to be some experimentation, and I
don't think they want to be completely reliant on technology
that maybe they haven't been able to do wholesale checks
and all that different stuff with. But I think it's coming,
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you know, and I think it makes sense. You know,
it's I always sort of think of like the tennis matches,
right where how long have they had they hadech that
technology at Wimbledon, the US Open wherever.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You know, where they got the ball and you can
see where the ball hit. You know, like how long
have they they had that?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Dan a decade maybe longer, right, They've had it for
so but you don't have a lot of tennis players
in the way of seeing where the ball hits or
where it goes out where the NFL there's a lot
of confusion going on with tennis. It's a player, is
the ball in or out? You know, you don't have
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a lot of bodies blocking that.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
And I agree that like the technology is more it's
more complicated in football.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Because, like you said, the amount of bodies out there.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
But I mean, if it's been over a decade that
they've had that in tennis, then wouldn't it stand to
reason that they've made enough advances to make it on.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
A well baseball. Baseball's going to implement this. The question
is not if, but when. I just maybe you keep
the chain gang as a backup in case the technology
goes down during the game.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm all for it just because I've seen how random
the spotting of the football is.
Speaker 11 (27:34):
It does feel that way, doesn't it, Like when you
see a guy under a pile.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I mean, there are definitely times for me where I'm wondering,
how the hell does he know where to spot that?
You know what I mean? Like, there aren't those and
so it would I think to some degree solve that.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Help me understand.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The NFL Players Association gives team grades, so the players
vote on things from is your team friendly? To the
families of the football players, the food, nutrition, weight room?
Does does anything happen? I saw the Jacksonville Jaguars. Their
grade for treating families of football players was an F like.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
An F.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Like, I don't know what the treatment is, but how
do you does anything change with this? I think the
Kansas City Chiefs got like.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
It like they're ground like they're grounding some of these
kids or something.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I don't I don't know, given timeouts or bad seats
or whatever, not preferential parking. But does anything change when
the players vote and it's an anonymous vote on your team.
Speaker 11 (28:40):
Yeah they I mean it actually has worked, and you know,
I think we all like gravitate to the low hanging fruit.
I don't know if you remember, but there was like
a I can't remember what team it was, but there's
a rat problem with one of the teams.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I think, not somebody who was ratting things out, it
was I think.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
The Chiefs have like folding chairs and there locker room
instead of real shairs.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But that's when you're supposed to win. Then you take
care of your players. That's proof that you win. And
all you do is keep the money. You didn't upgrade
your Was it.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
The Cardinals that were like if you were staying late
at the facility as a player, they were charging you
for dinner like I don't know, Like, but here's the
thing is, like some of this stuff is ridiculous, and
I do think like making a public has shamed some
owners into making changes.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
You know, what I mean like, and maybe that's the.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
Wrong word, but I think part of it has been.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I mean, look, here's the deal.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
So these guys come from major college programs, most of
them do, where they're in these facilities that are palaces,
and everything is done to make them feel like the
most important people on campus. And it has to be
that way because in college, you're recruiting kids and you
(29:57):
need to entice them to pick your school over and one.
And now in the era of the transfer portal, you know,
you have to convince the guy that he should stay
when he can up and leave whenever he wants.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
The NFL has never had to do that, you know.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
So I got a lot of cases like these guys
go from big time college programs, They'll walk into the
NFL and their NFL facility will be way worse than
what they were than their workplace in college. And there's
really with the amount of money the NFL makes, there's
no reason for it to be that way.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I mean, these are supposed to be finely tuned athletes.
Speaker 11 (30:33):
That are, you know, measuring everything that goes into their
body and spending every waking moment trying to put themselves
in position to play at the highest level on Sunday,
and so like, I think there was this feeling among
NFL players in general, based on what a lot of
those guys had as college players, that NFL teams.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Were falling way, way, way short of where they should be.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
And I think there had complaints in the past, and
they've fallen on deaf here, so you know, they go public.
And I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot
of these things improved. I mean, the Patriots who've gotten
killed the last couple of years in this are opening
a new facility, I think in part because of the
bad pr they've taken. You know, the Chiefs replace those chairs.
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The Cardinals don't charge for dinner anymore, which I you know,
I don't think anybody.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Charges for dinner anymore, which is like a good thing.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
It's funny that somebody did in the first place, but
it took care of the problem in the back end,
you know.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
So I think that's the idea here, and I do
think to some degree it's working. Maybe not with.
Speaker 11 (31:38):
Everybody, but I'd say the great majority of owners who've
been publicly embarrassed by these report cards over the last
three years have have done something about it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
On the back end, mel Kiper in his latest mock
draft has Abdul Carter Penn stay goal number one now
comes word that could need surgery. I know he had
a bad older. Now they're talking about foot surgery here.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
Yeah, So, like I, I think he's gonna be okay now,
and I don't think it's.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Gonna affect his draft stock. Like I, I still think
he's likely. He's probably the leader in the clubhouse to
be the number one overall pick. I think a lot
of people would tell you he's the best player in
the draft.
Speaker 11 (32:21):
The easiest translation in the draft, I would say Travis
hunder might be the best player. But this is the
guy who you look at him and you know exactly
what he's gonna be in the pros. But you know,
it's a foot and those can be problematic, like what
I think his foot, back and hamstring, right are the
ones that, like.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
You just you have to be yeah, yeah, yeah, you
have to you know.
Speaker 11 (32:44):
Do your diligence on it, have your doctors look at it,
and then if you draft him, something something you have
to keep an eye on.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
So I don't think.
Speaker 11 (32:52):
It'll affect his draft stock. But I don't want to
tell you that you know, a foot injury. You know,
at a young age for an athlete like this is nothing.
It's not nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I know you got a busy schedule, so we appreciate
you carving out some time.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Thank you. Albert.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
That's Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter.
Will take a break. We will give you our poll
question for the first hour, but up next Play the Day.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
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Speaker 2 (33:30):
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Speaker 3 (33:37):
This is the play of the day.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Shut this out.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I go let us speak for three.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
Call him no hooks the conr.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's courtesy the Big Ten Network. That was Michigan State's
first game winning buzzer beater since the second round of
the twenty ten NCAA Tournament against Maryland.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
That's your play of the day.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's a coincidence, isn't it, Todd that's a major Is
it ironic?
Speaker 5 (34:21):
It's tricky.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think it's more of a coincident.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, I don't know. What's ironic anymore? After Alanis Morris
set isn't it ironic? And then it wasn't ironic? So
is it ironic that it wasn't ironic?
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Yeah, maybe she was like like four D chess kind
of thing, like she gave all examples examples of crappy luck,
not irony, and that was ironic.
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What's the poll question for the first hour of the program, Well.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
We have one pole question and then we're kind of
doing things a little differently too. Okay, we have a
poll question up there right now, that is, how would
you want calls in sports being made by people? Are
all digital MM.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Electronic?
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You can only pick one. You can only pick one?
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Todd reminded me that I was probably not I was
not accurate in what I was saying about digitally spotting
the football. It's for the first down markers correct, So
it's not they're going to have somebody something that will
digitally say, oh, that's where the ball should be spotted.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
As of this moment, the human element is still involved
with spotting it out. Okay, they're going to still discuss that,
but basically they're going to use the technology to determine
whether something was a first.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Down or Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Dean Blandino, the former head of officials, will join us
coming up next hour.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Yes, funny because then that implies that the problem was
really the chains, which I'm.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Quite sure it's not.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
It's really where the ball is spotted is probably the
most important thing.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Three inches this way, three inches that way. That's really
the whole Yeah, the whole game.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
See, I thought they're going to have something digitally to
help us spot the ball.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
These chains are never accurate. I know, those poor.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Guys over there getting you know, seven to fifty an
hour and they get to hold a chain and then
they could get blasted by a football player going out
of bounds.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
According to this article I'm reading, the first step is
the digital chains, and then the next step down the
road is the spot and the ball of some way
being digitally spotted, so one has to happen first and
then the other one happened.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
We were wondering about the Hawkeye Albert Bert the tennis
you know, the digital spotting of the tennis ball. It
first appeared in two thousand and five in a tournament
in London, and that's first time we had that in tennis.
But in tennis, you know, there's not bodies all over
the place. It's either in or out.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
In or out.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
They got that from us. They did something to play
in or out. All right, So we have our poll
question today. We get some phone calls here as well,
Zach and Knoxville leads us off. Good morning, Zach, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 12 (37:24):
ADP, thanks for taking my call. One just want to say,
if if those are the stats of the day that
made it on air, then I feel bad for Tyler
for having to listen to the ones that aren't going
to make it. But anyways, yesterday when you had Ryan
Leaf on for that brief moment, y'all got into whether
(37:45):
Dion would have any poll and where s your door
would end up? And I thought it was kind of
interesting his comment of he's not they're not the Mannings
or he's not Archie, And I just wonder.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Does the rest of the league feel that way?
Speaker 12 (37:59):
And how do you think that we'll play out with
Dion's influence on where Sor ends up.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Well, he did tell me that at the Super Bowl.
He said he's already reached down to teams, so he's
probably going to try to influence teams steer his you know,
his son to a certain team or away from a
certain team.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I just I was kind of surprised that Dion admitted
that that he's already reached out to a couple of
teams at the top of the draft. Now, what kind
of influence If Dion's calling me and he says, hey,
don't draft him, he's not coming here, Well, where's he going?
He's not going to Europe? Oh he you know whatever, whatever,
(38:44):
it's going to be all he'll be a problem or
we'll make it a problem. I don't know if Dion
is going to get to that level, But it feels
like there's certain teams or a certain team he wants
his son to play for. Does he want his son
to go to the Cleveland Browns? Does he not want
his son to go to the Cleveland Browns. Does he
want him to go to the Giants? Does he want
(39:04):
him to go to the Raiders. I think we're gonna
we'll eventually find out first of all where he's going
or who wants him and if teams will, you know,
be truthful and say, look, Dion said he doesn't want
to play for you. It's hard to keep a secret,
certainly with the NFL because there's so many reporters insiders.
(39:25):
But if there is something there sort of nefarious, then
maybe ab'll surface. Let's see. And by the way, I
purposely didn't ask Albert Brier about the tush push. I
had to take one hour off from the tush. I
am tushed out totally. I am so tushed out. And
(39:45):
as my wife will say, you have no tush.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Oh, I know? Can we push you to know again?
Speaker 5 (39:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Next hour all ask Dean Blandino, head of the Officials,
former head of the Officials. We'll talk about the Bush
Andrew and Washington High Andrew.
Speaker 14 (40:04):
Good morning, Dan, and that's I just had a real
quick thing on Genie been.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
In the NFL and maybe a satura the day.
Speaker 14 (40:11):
But I just remember it most for Agent Rupert Anderson
in Mississippi burning. I just remember that movie putting into
light the actual situations of small town southern cities throughout
the throughout that time, and so it really brought it
to life for me.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
But I remember in that.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Role most NFL.
Speaker 14 (40:30):
I don't know why they just won't go to electronic
you know, marking without the chain gangs. I don't know
if they think it's fun, like you said, just kind
of marching out there and doing that. Why are they
only using it for first downs if they have the
full technology to do it for every down? And my
stat of the day, I'll take your advice. It won't
be hard today. Doke hast eight conference wins by twenty
five points or more and that is an all time
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record for an ACC season. That's your stat of the days.
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They just yes.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Does it sound like something Usher may put together?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
No, it does not.
Speaker 7 (41:16):
That doesn't sound anything like anything Elsher wouldever even be associated.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
A little intro. We'd like to apologize, Yes, mister Usher,
I'm sorry. Paul's comments do not speak for the group retracted. Retracted. Yeah,
it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Just's hour two on the way, Miss Thursday. Get more
of your phone calls. We'll talk to Dean Blandino, former
head of NFL officials. Oh, we're back after this
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Speaker 3 (02:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
If you're watching on Peacock, thank you downloading the app
and our radio affiliates around the country. Gene Hackman passed
away at the age of ninety five. He was living
in New Mexico. I believe Santa Fe And when you
think of Gene Hackman, at least when I think of
Gene Hackman, I think of Normandale in the great sports movie. Hoosiers.
(02:44):
Actually it's a great movie. It's it's not just limited
to a great sports movie. That's a and a lot
of times when we think of a sportsman like Rudy
is not a sports movie. Rudy is about the underdog
who gets a chance. Hoosiers isn't a ketball movie, but
it has basketball in it. It's about life in a
(03:05):
small town. And I think sometimes we make the mistake
of saying, oh, what a great sports movie. Bull Durham
is not a baseball movie. It's really about a guy
who's been sent to the miners.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's going to help.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's about relationships, and you know, but we use, you know,
the focal point, the the centerpiece is sports. I think
a lot a lot of times with these movies or
we think of that, but it's really more than that.
And Hoosiers was that. It was about relationships. And Gene
Hackman was wonderful. And I spoke with, you know, the
(03:42):
actor who played Jimmy Chitwood, Maris Volanus, and he had
no acting experience, he wasn't even really a basketball player,
but he played that role so well. And we'll bring
back a portion of the interview I did with him
a few years ago where he talked about all the actors,
well want to the actors, people who weren't even actors,
(04:04):
who just went and auditioned and they got a chance
to meet Gene Hackman, and the role that Hackman played
for them getting ready to be actors in the movie Hoosiers.
But he passed his way at the age of ninety five.
Now there's other movies. I go back when he was
Popeye Doyle the French Connection, and he had his little
hat that he wore and he was going to catch
(04:27):
he was going to catch that drug dealer from France
and never did.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Seaton a little more recent but one that I always
forget about. But man was he great in The Royal Tenenbaumbs.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes he was.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
That was a phenomenal role that was. That's a great movie.
But man was he He was so good in that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, there were so many of those movies that I mean,
that's that's quite a We talked to Kevin Costner years
ago in New York and he talked about working with
him on No Way Out movie and just talked about
Costner saying, I knew I had to up my game
because I was going to be acting alongside Gene Hackman.
But I still go back to the replacements with Keanu
(05:07):
Reeves the quarterback, and I don't know, Like, look, Paul
Newman was in slap Shot, and that's what made Slap
Shot even more brilliant because Paul Newman, legendary actor, was
willing to play this down and out minor league hockey
coach and Gene Hackman in the replacements, Like I kept
(05:28):
whenever I would see the movie, I go, how do
they get Gene Hackman to me in the replacements?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean, it's it's it's not a legendary, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh my gosh, have you seen the replacements great sports
movies of all time? That's not going to be in
the category Alex on Jeopardy. But and Keanu Reeves, I
think had done Speed. He had done the movie Speed
and Matrix, so he had a little bit, you know,
little bit of a resume. But Gene Hackman and all
(06:02):
of a sudden he's the coach and replacements and I go, okay,
all right. Although Gene Hackman did think that his career
could be over. In Hoosiers, he acted alongside Dennis Hopper
and they did talk about it, you know, off screen,
like this could be the end of our careers because
of that. But Dennis Hopper, legendary actor as well, plays
(06:26):
the alcoholic father of one of the players in Hoosiers.
But Gene Hackman aged ninety five and feels like everybody
has their favorite. He was what Lex Luthor and Superman? Yeah,
I never saw it, never saw the movie, didn't see
the first one. I still haven't seen the first Star Wars,
so I'll get around to it one of these days.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, Pauline, there's a story.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I looked it up after you brought it up that
Keanu Reeves was in the replacements. He was set to
be in the replacements and they got interest from Gene
Hackman and they were shocked. But he is pricey, So
Keanu Reeves said, you can cut my salary if it
gets Gene happened in the movie. I don't know if
that's a true one.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's a legendary Hollywood story.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Todd reach out to Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
We're on it.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Did you see any of the Superman movies, by the way,
with General Zod And there was one with Richard Pryor,
And there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No, none of the Superman.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
That was the note that I said earlier that I
hadn't seen. I didn't see the first one.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Thought maybe you checked out one of the sequels.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It would be odd to see two and three without
seeing the first one, kind of standalone. And I'm not
going to watch the original Rocky, but I'm going to
watch three and four.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Eton isn't it crazy?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Speaking of the Superman movies that the first one, the
first Superman was George Reeve, and then the next one
was Christopher Reeves.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Hm was that he was the that was the TV
series George Reeves, George Reeve. I think Christopher Reeves, I
think so?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, Okay, I.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Say George Reeve was in the TV Showeorge Reeves has
an S and then Christopher Reeve. Yes, oh that's what
is I have it backwards, Yeah, but yeah he was.
He was in the TV show.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
And we also just referenced Keanu Reeves. Oh, in the
same segment dan Reeves was a consultant.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
What Dan Reeves was a consultant on the stupier member.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You had to get that line out of here. I
thank you. We didn't hear it the first time.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
But you know, yes, Paul, it is interesting that some
movies give you a level of immortality. There might be
better movies, bigger movies that Gene Hacken was in, but
with sports movies, so those will be talked about on
sports radio and TV forever. And Hoosiers is it really
is the one seed and then it goes down from
there If you look at all those lists.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I mean it depends. You know, people love Bull Durham,
they love Rudy, those are usually the top ones. But
uh I loved I loved Hoosiers because it's just small town.
It's in Indiana. Uh I could relate to a little
bit of it. The scenery is so underrated, you know
when they do those bus trips, we're going to their
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games and just the landscape that you had now. Granted
it's not exciting because it's a lot of cornfields and barns,
but I could relate to it. So Geene Hackman passing
away at the age of ninety five. Michael in Chicago, Hi, Mike,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Good morning Dan, Good morning Dan Utts. Is what you
guys missed on the pre show introduction you've missed a
couple of great movies that he did. One of the
best to ever think he did was The Unforgiven with
Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
He was unbelievable in that is the mean sheriff in
the town of Big Whiskey, if you remember. And he
was good in the firm he played.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yes, well, we couldn't do all of them, Michael, I mean,
I mean the compliment is we couldn't get to all
of that. But we are a sports show. That's why
we brought up Hoosiers. But you're right, the Firm with
Tom Cruise, he was very good in that. But uh,
we we've taken a trip down memory lane.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
We just sent margin Mississippi burning an apology.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Go God.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So I'm going to apologize to all the Hackman fans
and of course mister Hackman rest in peace that if
we didn't get all the movies mentioned where, we can't
do the entire show on Gene Hackman. Let's see NFL
considering overtime tweaks. We'll talk to Albert Breer about this,
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and maybe they're going to get rid of the chain Gang.
There's going to be a digital spotting of the football.
So these are some of the things they're discussing at
the combine. I've been saying all along about the digital
spotting of the football. It is so random when you
see the official grab the ball and put it down
after somebody's made a catch or a run, and you're going,
(10:51):
really there and it's just random, And I thought, can't
we come up and we accept it. You're like like
the Bills against the Chiefs and the playoffs. You're like, uh,
I think he got it, and all of a sudden,
you go, he didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I do like the chain gang when they bring it
out and then they stretch out the chain. I think
we all like that. I don't know if we're going
to have that. Maybe you do a kind of a
video component of that. If you're watching on TV, like.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Loop loop blop, bloop bloop.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And then all of a sudden you see it's a
first town and you get a you know whatever sound
effect there are you saying, just.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Recreate the digital marker and and have the same anticipation.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, perfect, just go gas price is right ish?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
You know, yeah, that's what is that? Uh? That game
of a mountain clown law dude, dude, it on.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
The mountain climber guy and then he falls off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oh I thought it was this one. You spin the
big thing you spin. Yeah, yeah, it could be that too.
Okay for the.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
Showcase Showdown, ye try to get on that. You got
to get close to it. You got two spins to
get close to.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
A dollar cliffhanger?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Is that the name of the hell of a segment?
We're gonna submit this for the Sports Emmy. Oh yeah,
this is this is how we lose it instead of
this how we do it?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Todd, This how we lose it. That's what Jordan and
Patrick doesn'tect.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
My Pistons won. The Pistons won again. They beat the
celt You got to take them seriously. They're in the
playoffs right now. I think they have the sixth best
record in the East. They won eight in a row.
It's a young team, fun team. Those are always the
ones that make me nervous. You know, when you get
to the playoffs, you got to play against the team
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may not know what the hell they're doing come playoff time.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
But sometimes they don't have pressure on them.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady, Ski Buddies, question Mark question mark.
We'll have that story for you coming up. Another betting
investigation the University of New Orleans basketball team. There's probably
five or six open investigations into college basketball game fixing.
(13:22):
They got to do away with prop bets said that
last year. Got to do away with that because if
you're a kid at the University of New Orleans, you're
not getting an IO. Your team is terrible, and I'm
just going to give you a hey, this might be
something that played out. You're not going to the NBA.
(13:45):
Who's going to notice we're New Orleans. We're not any good.
We've won four games, so what you know, I missed
a shot, you know the over under. We're playing University
of Texas at Rio Grand. Nobody's going to know. Well,
Vegas has to know. This is what Vegas does. They're
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the watchdogs because this is their business. And a lot
of times you'll see these aren't big time programs because
the big time programs they're getting taken care of. It's
when you play at these smaller schools that maybe you
have the temptation to go, you know what, be nice
to get a couple of one hundred bucks, a thousand
bucks here, whatever it is there's a lot of investigations
(14:29):
going on, open investigations in this I think there's been
an open investigation into Temple basketball for a couple of
years now, and there's going to be more. But get
rid of prop bets for college athletes. Certainly that I
don't think they'll do it with the pros, but at
least the college athletes, because they can be they can
(14:51):
be lured, they can be tempted because they don't have
that money. You make it to the NBA. You're making
money college basketball not the case. All right, phone calls,
we'll get to those. We'll settle on a poll question.
We'll head out to the combine. Albert Breer, the Monday
morning quarterback, will join us on a Thursday morning. We'll
talk to him about the NFL considering a tweak to
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overtime and the digital spotting of the football and the
other things going on, the ancillary things with the draft
and possible trades, and Tom Brady Matthew Stafford seen in
Montana skiing together. So we got a few things talk
(15:35):
about today.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, ski gate.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
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Speaker 2 (16:50):
Very busy man. He's the Monday morning quarterback, but he
works other days as well. Don't want you to think
that he only works on Monday. He's Albert Breer joining
us from them in Indianapolis. Thanks for joining us. Let
me start with tweaking overtime. What the NFL is proposing.
Speaker 11 (17:10):
Yeah, so they want to formalize or at least look
at formalizing the rules so it's the same from the
regular season to to the postseason. And as you know,
you know, Dan, what they did to amend the rule
in the postseason after you know, Super Bowl a few
years back was to ensure that both teams would have
(17:32):
a chance to have the ball in overtime. And you know,
whether or not they go to that or tweak it further,
I know, you know, Troy and Vincent had talked about
reimagining the whole thing all together.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I don't think we'll go to, like, you know, a
college version of overtime. I do think they.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Want to maintain some of the elements of a normal
game flow that you have in the way that overtime
has been played in the NFL forever.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
But you know, I I I think the general idea is.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
To come up with a solution that would work for
both the season and the postseason.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
The Brady Matthew Stafford's story of skiing together in Montana, like,
do you have the real story of this, because there
seems to be conflicting stories of this was something that
was planned, and then there's another story that says that
it was random that they ran into each other in Montana.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
I mean, I can say that that is and you
may be familiar with the place, but that's a pretty
high end club in Montana that people on that level,
that level of celebrity are at and spend time at,
and so the idea that they would unintentionally run into
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each other is not far fetched.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I don't know exactly how that happened. I don't think that.
I'm not you know, I don't know for sure.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
I haven't dunk into it quite as much yet, but
I don't think I I I don't know that Brady
invited Matthew Stafford there.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Matthew Stafford, I know had been.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
There in the past, and so again not that unusual
that it would happen, But I do think it shows
how Brady is really a part of what the Raiders
are doing now, and Brady, you know, is an integral
part of their of their interview process of convincing head
coaching and general manager candidates that it was a better
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job than it has been in recent years and that
and then ultimately, you know, they wind up hiring two
guys that Brady's got a relationship with, Pete Carroll of course,
who he competed against for me all those years, and
and John Spotech, who he became pretty close with over
the three years they spent together in Tampa. So I
(19:47):
think the Raiders are serious, a serious suitor for for
Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But this wasn't tampering that if Brady permission okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Yeah, I mean Stafford at permission out and Stafford's had
permission Dan for over three weeks now, like Stafford got
permission to speak with other teams starting during Super Bowl week.
So I believe it's either right at three weeks or
just over three weeks that he's had permission to go
out and speak to other teams.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
What is the market for Matthew Stafford more than.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
The Rams want to pay right now, I think is
the best way to describe that.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
For those who don't know.
Speaker 11 (20:28):
He's on the books for twenty seven million dollars in
cash in twenty twenty five, and that number was lowered
by four million dollars because they borrowed that four million
and another million from twenty twenty six to give him
a five million dollar raise in twenty twenty four, which
isn't a raise at all if you're just borrowing from
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one year and giving it to the and putting it
in another, which is why I think everybody knew when
they made that contract adjustment after a really tough six
months ago, that they.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Were going to be back at the table again.
Speaker 11 (21:03):
And the way Stafford's looking at it is the quarterback
market has materially changed. There are nine quarterbacks making over
fifty million dollars a year, and his deal at forty
million per is fifty percent below the top of the market,
which is Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
At sixty million.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
So the Rams basically said to Matthew, all right, like, well,
if you go out and see what the market is,
and go out and see what you can get, and
I don't think they use the word trade specifically with him.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
But once you kind of.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Let him out of the building and let him go
do that to go and see his worth, there's some
risk involved, and the risk is that the way he
sees his his worth is going to be matched with
the way other teams see.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
His worth, even at thirty seven years old. And that's
what happened.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Matthew found teams plural that we're willing to go to
a number that was commensurate with where the.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Market is at the position. So how do you put
that tooth paste back in the tube?
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Now?
Speaker 11 (22:02):
If you're the Rams, who I mean McVay still really
likes Matthew at It's a good relationship. Matthew really likes
living in southern California. But the reality is they told
him he was worth, They felt like he was worth,
acts he felt like he was worth. Why then he
goes to the market proves he's Worthwhy? So, now, how
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do you reel that all back in? If you're the team,
it's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
The Rams, wouldn't they learn from what happened with Saquon
Barkley with the Giants, where you say go out there
see if anybody wants to pay you that kind of money.
Oh wait a minute, wait, you're leaving. Granted, you know
Stafford is thirty six, thirty seven years of age, but
it feels but I'm always interested when I are curious
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when I hear an analyst go, you know, he wants
to go to a place where he can win. Well,
the Rams that that's a team that can win now,
and they did win now and they almost went to
the NFC title game. You got pook, You've got a
great young defense, you got Pukinakua, you got Williams is
your running back. I don't know, just feels like, pay
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him the money if you want to try to make
another run at the Super Bowl, giving two years one
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
I agree, But I think part of this is timelines too, right,
Like does the RAMS timeline match up with Matthew Stafford's
which Matthew Stafford's timeline is to win right now and
to go all in right now, to win right now, And.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You don't think the Rams timeline is to win right now.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
But yeah, but here, okay, So like let's say you're
the Rams and Matthew Stafford is going year to year now,
and you've dealt with this, You've got a really difficult negotiation.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Now you want to see You're you're.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
In this spot where you're being asked to set another
contractual precedent that maybe could be a problem for you
down the line, and you're looking out at the market
and you're saying, well, can we get Aaron Rodgers for
a lot less than that and bring back the assets
that would come to Matthew Stafford deal.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I mean, I know McVay really likes Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 11 (24:11):
That's gonna sound crazy to some people, but I think
he believes he can win with Jimmy Garoppolos. So I
think for the Rams part of this is our timeline
may not match up completely with Matthew's timeline. We've got
a team here that we think can win for the
next five or six years. We're gonna have a lot
of big contracts coming down the pike, and you know,
if we're in a year to year situation with Matthew Stafford,
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that's a pretty tough place to be based on what
we would what we what we might need to spend
to keep him. And so that's when you start to
look at some of the alternatives, Like, again, what id
be Aaron Rodgers on a cheaper deal. Now you got
more cash to spend this offseason to surround Aaron Rodgers,
and then you get the assets, whether it's a first
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round pick, second round pick, whatever it is, get the
assets coming back to us too. So it's interesting from
that perspective. And I mean, shoot, it's I mean think
about like if the Giants were to get him. Now
you have Andrew Thomas coming back at left tackle, you
have Milite Neighbors as your number one receiver, you have
Tracy coming back as a young back. Maybe Cooper Cup
winds up there, maybe Travis Hunter winds up there. Like
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that team I think could become a contender pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
He's Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter.
The digital spotting of the football.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I like it. I don't know if it's a done deal.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm always curious when I watch a game, how random
it sometimes seems when the official spots the ball. Yeah,
do you think we're how far down the line do
you think we are with the digital part of spotting
a football?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I think we're getting closer, you know.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
I this is something that they're not going to just
you know, do all in one fell swoop. You know,
I think there's going to be some experimentation, and I
don't think they want to be completely reliant on technology
that maybe they haven't been able to do wholesale checks
and all that different stuff with. But I think it's coming,
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you know, and I think it makes sense. You know,
it's I always sort of think of like the tennis matches,
right where how long have they had they hadech that
technology at Wimbledon, the US Open wherever.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
You know, where they got the ball and you can
see where the ball hit. You know, like how long
have they they had that?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Dan a decade maybe longer, right, They've had it for
so but you don't have a lot of tennis players
in the way of seeing where the ball hits or
where it goes out where the NFL there's a lot
of confusion going on with tennis. It's a player, is
the ball in or out? You know, you don't have
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a lot of bodies blocking that.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
And I agree that like the technology is more it's
more complicated in football.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Because, like you said, the amount of bodies out there.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
But I mean, if it's been over a decade that
they've had that in tennis, then wouldn't it stand to
reason that they've made enough advances to make it on.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
A well baseball. Baseball's going to implement this. The question
is not if, but when. I just maybe you keep
the chain gang as a backup in case the technology
goes down during the game.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm all for it just because I've seen how random
the spotting of the football is.
Speaker 11 (27:34):
It does feel that way, doesn't it, Like when you
see a guy under a pile.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I mean, there are definitely times for me where I'm wondering,
how the hell does he know where to spot that?
You know what I mean? Like, there aren't those and
so it would I think to some degree solve that.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Help me understand.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The NFL Players Association gives team grades, so the players
vote on things from is your team friendly? To the
families of the football players, the food, nutrition, weight room?
Does does anything happen? I saw the Jacksonville Jaguars. Their
grade for treating families of football players was an F like.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
An F.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Like, I don't know what the treatment is, but how
do you does anything change with this? I think the
Kansas City Chiefs got like.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
It like they're ground like they're grounding some of these
kids or something.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I don't I don't know, given timeouts or bad seats
or whatever, not preferential parking. But does anything change when
the players vote and it's an anonymous vote on your team.
Speaker 11 (28:40):
Yeah they I mean it actually has worked, and you know,
I think we all like gravitate to the low hanging fruit.
I don't know if you remember, but there was like
a I can't remember what team it was, but there's
a rat problem with one of the teams.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I think, not somebody who was ratting things out, it
was I think.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
The Chiefs have like folding chairs and there locker room
instead of real shairs.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
But that's when you're supposed to win. Then you take
care of your players. That's proof that you win. And
all you do is keep the money. You didn't upgrade
your Was it.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
The Cardinals that were like if you were staying late
at the facility as a player, they were charging you
for dinner like I don't know, Like, but here's the
thing is, like some of this stuff is ridiculous, and
I do think like making a public has shamed some
owners into making changes.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
You know, what I mean like, and maybe that's the.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
Wrong word, but I think part of it has been.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I mean, look, here's the deal.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
So these guys come from major college programs, most of
them do, where they're in these facilities that are palaces,
and everything is done to make them feel like the
most important people on campus. And it has to be
that way because in college, you're recruiting kids and you
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need to entice them to pick your school over and one.
And now in the era of the transfer portal, you know,
you have to convince the guy that he should stay
when he can up and leave whenever he wants.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
The NFL has never had to do that, you know.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
So I got a lot of cases like these guys
go from big time college programs, They'll walk into the
NFL and their NFL facility will be way worse than
what they were than their workplace in college. And there's
really with the amount of money the NFL makes, there's
no reason for it to be that way.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I mean, these are supposed to be finely tuned athletes.
Speaker 11 (30:33):
That are, you know, measuring everything that goes into their
body and spending every waking moment trying to put themselves
in position to play at the highest level on Sunday,
and so like, I think there was this feeling among
NFL players in general, based on what a lot of
those guys had as college players, that NFL teams.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Were falling way, way, way short of where they should be.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
And I think there had complaints in the past, and
they've fallen on deaf here, so you know, they go public.
And I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot
of these things improved. I mean, the Patriots who've gotten
killed the last couple of years in this are opening
a new facility, I think in part because of the
bad pr they've taken. You know, the Chiefs replace those chairs.
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The Cardinals don't charge for dinner anymore, which I you know,
I don't think anybody.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Charges for dinner anymore, which is like a good thing.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
You know.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
It's funny that somebody did in the first place, but
it took care of the problem in the back end,
you know.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
So I think that's the idea here, and I do
think to some degree it's working. Maybe not with.
Speaker 11 (31:38):
Everybody, but I'd say the great majority of owners who've
been publicly embarrassed by these report cards over the last
three years have have done something about it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
On the back end, mel Kiper in his latest mock
draft has Abdul Carter Penn stay goal number one now
comes word that could need surgery. I know he had
a bad older. Now they're talking about foot surgery here.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
Yeah, So, like I, I think he's gonna be okay now,
and I don't think it's.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Gonna affect his draft stock. Like I, I still think
he's likely. He's probably the leader in the clubhouse to
be the number one overall pick. I think a lot
of people would tell you he's the best player in
the draft.
Speaker 11 (32:21):
The easiest translation in the draft, I would say Travis
hunder might be the best player. But this is the
guy who you look at him and you know exactly
what he's gonna be in the pros. But you know,
it's a foot and those can be problematic, like what
I think his foot, back and hamstring, right are the
ones that, like.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
You just you have to be yeah, yeah, yeah, you
have to you know.
Speaker 11 (32:44):
Do your diligence on it, have your doctors look at it,
and then if you draft him, something something you have
to keep an eye on.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
So I don't think.
Speaker 11 (32:52):
It'll affect his draft stock. But I don't want to
tell you that you know, a foot injury. You know,
at a young age for an athlete like this is nothing.
It's not nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I know you got a busy schedule, so we appreciate
you carving out some time.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Thank you. Albert.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
That's Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter.
Will take a break. We will give you our poll
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This is the play of the day.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
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Speaker 13 (33:45):
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Speaker 3 (34:13):
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Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's a coincidence, isn't it, Todd that's a major Is
it ironic?
Speaker 5 (34:21):
It's tricky.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think it's more of a coincident.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, I don't know. What's ironic anymore? After Alanis Morris
set isn't it ironic? And then it wasn't ironic? So
is it ironic that it wasn't ironic?
Speaker 7 (34:34):
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Speaker 7 (35:04):
We have one pole question and then we're kind of
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all digital MM.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Electronic?
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You can only pick one. You can only pick one?
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Todd reminded me that I was probably not I was
not accurate in what I was saying about digitally spotting
the football. It's for the first down markers correct, So
it's not they're going to have somebody something that will
digitally say, oh, that's where the ball should be spotted.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
As of this moment, the human element is still involved
with spotting it out. Okay, they're going to still discuss that,
but basically they're going to use the technology to determine
whether something was a first.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Down or Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Dean Blandino, the former head of officials, will join us
coming up next hour.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Yes, funny because then that implies that the problem was
really the chains, which I'm.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Quite sure it's not.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
It's really where the ball is spotted is probably the
most important thing.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Three inches this way, three inches that way. That's really
the whole Yeah, the whole game.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
See, I thought they're going to have something digitally to
help us spot the ball.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
These chains are never accurate. I know, those poor.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Guys over there getting you know, seven to fifty an
hour and they get to hold a chain and then
they could get blasted by a football player going out
of bounds.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
According to this article I'm reading, the first step is
the digital chains, and then the next step down the
road is the spot and the ball of some way
being digitally spotted, so one has to happen first and
then the other one happened.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
We were wondering about the Hawkeye Albert Bert the tennis
you know, the digital spotting of the tennis ball. It
first appeared in two thousand and five in a tournament
in London, and that's first time we had that in tennis.
But in tennis, you know, there's not bodies all over
the place. It's either in or out.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
In or out.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
They got that from us. They did something to play
in or out. All right, So we have our poll
question today. We get some phone calls here as well,
Zach and Knoxville leads us off. Good morning, Zach, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 12 (37:24):
ADP, thanks for taking my call. One just want to say,
if if those are the stats of the day that
made it on air, then I feel bad for Tyler
for having to listen to the ones that aren't going
to make it. But anyways, yesterday when you had Ryan
Leaf on for that brief moment, y'all got into whether
(37:45):
Dion would have any poll and where s your door
would end up? And I thought it was kind of
interesting his comment of he's not they're not the Mannings
or he's not Archie, And I just wonder.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Does the rest of the league feel that way?
Speaker 12 (37:59):
And how do you think that we'll play out with
Dion's influence on where Sor ends up.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Well, he did tell me that at the Super Bowl.
He said he's already reached down to teams, so he's
probably going to try to influence teams steer his you know,
his son to a certain team or away from a
certain team.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I just I was kind of surprised that Dion admitted
that that he's already reached out to a couple of
teams at the top of the draft. Now, what kind
of influence If Dion's calling me and he says, hey,
don't draft him, he's not coming here, Well, where's he going?
He's not going to Europe? Oh he you know whatever, whatever,
(38:44):
it's going to be all he'll be a problem or
we'll make it a problem. I don't know if Dion
is going to get to that level, But it feels
like there's certain teams or a certain team he wants
his son to play for. Does he want his son
to go to the Cleveland Browns? Does he not want
his son to go to the Cleveland Browns. Does he
want him to go to the Giants? Does he want
(39:04):
him to go to the Raiders. I think we're gonna
we'll eventually find out first of all where he's going
or who wants him and if teams will, you know,
be truthful and say, look, Dion said he doesn't want
to play for you. It's hard to keep a secret,
certainly with the NFL because there's so many reporters insiders.
(39:25):
But if there is something there sort of nefarious, then
maybe ab'll surface. Let's see. And by the way, I
purposely didn't ask Albert Brier about the tush push. I
had to take one hour off from the tush. I
am tushed out totally. I am so tushed out. And
(39:45):
as my wife will say, you have no tush.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Oh, I know? Can we push you to know again?
Speaker 5 (39:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Next hour all ask Dean Blandino, head of the Officials,
former head of the Officials. We'll talk about the Bush
Andrew and Washington High Andrew.
Speaker 14 (40:04):
Good morning, Dan, and that's I just had a real
quick thing on Genie been.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
In the NFL and maybe a satura the day.
Speaker 14 (40:11):
But I just remember it most for Agent Rupert Anderson
in Mississippi burning. I just remember that movie putting into
light the actual situations of small town southern cities throughout
the throughout that time, and so it really brought it
to life for me.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
But I remember in that.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Role most NFL.
Speaker 14 (40:30):
I don't know why they just won't go to electronic
you know, marking without the chain gangs. I don't know
if they think it's fun, like you said, just kind
of marching out there and doing that. Why are they
only using it for first downs if they have the
full technology to do it for every down? And my
stat of the day, I'll take your advice. It won't
be hard today. Doke hast eight conference wins by twenty
five points or more and that is an all time
(40:52):
record for an ACC season. That's your stat of the days.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
It's just a day. It's just as Saturn of the day.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
It's just a it's just assassins of day, no video.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Clip, just a click trip down them.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
They just yes.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
Does it sound like something Usher may put together?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
No, it does not.
Speaker 7 (41:16):
That doesn't sound anything like anything Elsher wouldever even be associated.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
A little intro. We'd like to apologize, Yes, mister Usher,
I'm sorry. Paul's comments do not speak for the group retracted. Retracted. Yeah,
it's just it's.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Just's hour two on the way, Miss Thursday. Get more
of your phone calls. We'll talk to Dean Blandino, former
head of NFL officials. Oh, we're back after this
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