May 28, 2024 • 54 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, the Celtics eliminate the Pacers, setting up a potential epic backcourt showdown with the Mavs. More international locations are rumored for NFL games. A competitive Tom Brady hasn’t gotten used to not cursing yet.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's the best of two pros and a couple with
Lamar Rings, Rady Winn and Jonas Knox on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I mean, you know, it's uh huh, it's a happy,
it's a happy. I'm happy for you're in laws. I'm
happy for the family of ASQ. You know, big Celtics fans,
Brady Quinn. So I'm happy for you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You did.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Yeah, that's gonna make conversation at dinner a little bit more, uh,
you know, a little more braggadocious for them.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But it's not their they don't even for him anyway.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I'm still looking for the sound bites from Carlow saying
that you know, you know what, maybe it wasn't a
bad idea to plan on having a trophy award ceremonial
on on Indiana's court.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean, I just want to hear it because we
heard it.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
We heard with your sound bite saying that it was
disrespectful and got the the blood boiling and got everybody motivated.
And why would they do this.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Indiana had a really good run and there's a lot
to like about them, and they've got some you know,
talented players, and they're a fun team. They play really hard.
They were competitive the whole way through in this series,
and unfortunately, the one takeaway for a lot of people
out of this playoffs for them is you have but
their coach bitched him on the entire time.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He really did.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's like, that's that's sort of if you look at like,
how would you encapsulate the Pacers playoff run Rick Carlisle
crying Okay, really fun.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Rick Carlile's defense, don't you guys feel like a lot
of the coaches have to do that to call attention
to how bad the officiating is sometimes because if they,
like usually the reaction to it from NBA officials is
once they put them on blast, then the next game
that calls a little more even at least that's what
it typically ends up being. But if they don't, then
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it just ends up being lopsided the whole time. And
then you could look at any series and see that
there's always a coach frustrated with the lack of calls
or the lack of how things are being called throughout
the course of the series.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
It's sensible, it's a sensible statement that you just made.
What really kind of took me off the rails was
the whole being upset and and bitching and moaning.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm the head coach.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I received prived information that the NBA was planning on
get this an award ceremony following immediately following the conclusion
of our game. Guess where in Indiana in our arena?
Like that was where you? Like, because I ain't have
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anything to do with any reps that had nothing to do.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
With the game.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I had everything to do with you having some type
of attitude thinking that you were being disrespected to think
that they were going to end the series in that
Imagine if the NBA had listened to mister Carlile coach
Carlile and didn't plan on the series ending last evening.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, go fig, Well, I mean planning for the you know,
sweep and postseason celebration.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
The fishing are two different things.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, That's what I'm saying, Like to me, that's
that's you were he was winding. If you're whining and
complaining about officiating, I feel like people can sympathize with that,
But you took it into a whole, entirely different realm
where it was like you kind of like made me
feel like come on, man, Like enough is enough with that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, you ain't got to go down that road.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He lost me with the small market crap, you know,
I mean, we're a small market team.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We should get the same. But it's okay, dude, Like,
all right, then what do we do? Like, you don't
you don't play in some third world country somewhere out
in the middle of nowhere. It's Indianapolis.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It wasn't the Knicks, but nonetheless, they advanced, they got
it done, and then you know that Game seven against
the Nicks ended up being their final one of the season.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So look, it all worked out for the indian That
was their last win with the last series.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Look, they were they and you know, we were kind
of making jokes about it last year, and I think
Mike Breen kind of made a mention of this at
the end of that game last night where he said,
you know, it's one of the more competitive sweeps you'll
see in a long time, and it's like, you know,
it really was.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
We go one of the pacers.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Like so basically, if you're Rick Carlisle, if you just
follow the trend last year where the Lakers had a
competitive sweep in the conference finals, that means Rick Carlisle
is going to get fired after this season based on
what happened to Darvinham.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But at least maybe you'll win the N Season Tournament.
They were runner up. I think they did lose to
the Lakers in the N Season Tournament. The Pacers did,
and a lot of good that did them. But they're
out and the Boston Celtics move on. Jalen Brown was
named Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Apparently it was a tight vote race between him and
and Jason Tatum, but nonetheless, Jalen Brown got the award,
and he spoke after the game.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
I wasn't expecting that at all.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
You know, I'll never win, so I was just happy
that we won. And give credit to Indiana. You know,
they played us tough. I know, like people think that
Indiana wasn't a good team or whatever the case mean.
I mean, I thought they were tough as anybody we
played all season. I think I'm one of the best
two way wings guards, whatever you want to say. In
this game, you know, I thought this year I've taken
a level and I've increased it and I took the matchup.
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I picked up guys full court. I chased guys off screens.
I battled with Biggs, and you know, I felt like
I should have been all defensive. That probably hurt me
the most because that's one of the things that I
set out in the season that I wanted to be.
We feel like we're a different team than we were
last year and the year before that. I know everybody
wants to continue to kind of pigeonhold us to what
happened in the past, but we've had a different team
every single year. Tom is gone by, experience has been gained,
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and I think we are ready to put our best
foot forward.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So it was very accurate, very accurate.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
He is.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
He is a very fine two way player. He plays
defense very well, very active, delivered some some timely some
timely points on the offensive side.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Takes over sometimes he does.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I mean he hit He hit several threes, at least
two that that were very very critical to the comeback,
them staying close, time pulling even later in the game.
He d's up, like he said. But you know, the
one thing that I think really resonated listening to what
he said is that this team this year is not
the same team that they're trying to pigeonhole them into
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being what they were last year.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And the to me, the big.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Thing about them in years past is that Jalen and
Tatum have disappeared in the big game.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Especially that Game seven last year, just disappeared against the
Heat where Tatum went down early and everyone was waiting
on Jalen Brown to take over. And remember because that
was we talked about this a little bit yesterday, but
that was when people were saying, you can't give Jalen
that big contract because he got the three hundred million
dollar contract because he was all NBA like, you know,
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you can't based on that performance in Game seven against
the Heat, you can't give him that contract. Well, he
got the contract, and he came back and he was
better this year and a lot of that was on
the defense, like you would see them get stops, especially
the last two games, and he was really kind of
orchestrating things and kind of him and also Drew Holliday
was fantasy.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He's a big addition, yeah, because his defense is is
what I think that like Smart was to me, a
leader for this team. He was a facilitator. I thought
he brought an element to the team that was needed
and necessary because I feel like Tatum and Brown are
more kind of quiet leaders, unassuming type of guys, not
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very fiery. And what's interesting is Holiday isn't very you know,
boisterous either. But his style of play has really really
been very, very nice as an addition to this day,
did you like how I like say it very nice?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Very nice?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, Well, because we were looking at something very different
that was very nice, but it did apply.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I mean a pole assassin got the remote.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, when you two are in studio together, there's always
something very nice.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
G got the remote.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Tell you that.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Wow, it's very distracting, but it's it's actually I'm just
trying to pull my thoughts together.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I still think Derek White too is like an unsung
here he is. He's been so good throughout the course
of the playoffs, and you know last night he didn't
shoot well last night obviously until he needed to at
the very end. But I just I think if you
came into the playoffs, you're like, yeah, Derek White's gonna
hit meaningful shots and and they play a lot of
meaningful minutes. You said, okay, probably more defensive than anything else.
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He's really stepped up in a big one. This team's
gonna be tough to beat whoever it is out of
the West. Even if it's Dallas, it's gonna be tough
to beat. And maybe there's an outside shot to get
Porzingis back, which would be another fun storyline.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Assuming it's gonna be Dallas at least at this moment.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Out of the West, they might be too much for Dallas.
If Perzingis comes back and is healthy, they might be
too much for Dallas right now. Now, with that being said,
you gotta have your superstars. Everybody's saying it, you gotta
have your superstars playing like superstars if you're gonna win,
and and Dallas does and and Dallas has a few
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positive contributors outside of the obvious two as well. But
this this Celtics team is different this year. It's a
different feel to them. There's a different, different level of
confidence that's connected to them. It just seemed as though
this was a game that would tell you a lot
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about where this this Celtic team is currently in terms
of being in a closeout game, knowing how the previous
years have ended for them, knowing the scrutiny and criticism
that has been lobbed their way. They answered that if
you ask me emphatically with a we are a different.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Team, because that was always the question they can't close
out games. Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That was always the question, Like you know, what it
gets down to it are they going to be able
to make plays?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And they did.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And Reddick pointed out last night in the broadcast, three
of these games that they won were because they made
plays down the stretch when a lot when the narrative
on them for a long time has been those guys
don't come up big down the stretch, and they did
in those games. Now, Uh, these Celtics are a minus
two to twenty five to win the NBA title. I
think it's a little disrespectful that you guys are just
(10:53):
closing the coffin on the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, you just said that's over. I'm damn. I
mean might be a clean one to two sweep. You know,
it might.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
And if it wasn't, if it doesn't play out that way,
it's still going to be over in the next one
to two games. I don't And I said, listen, I
didn't see them beating beating Denver two games in a row.
I didn't see that. At the end of the series.
They were able to do that, But to be against
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a team where Kyrie and Luca are playing the way
that they're playing right.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Now, the best backcourt and NBA history.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Are we saying that I won't.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I'm not going to go that far.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Like can I who is the competition? I mean, I
know NBA purists will go back through history and be
able to bring up others, but like, who would be
the tandem that would challenge Kyrie Irving and Luca Doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Mark Price, Craig E Low.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I mean, that's what I grew up with that, So
thank you for bringing that up.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I'm pretty sure we're the only two what's up to
We're the only two that would bring that up. And
I do have to point this out someone. I do
love people that like talk trastl and social media. One
guy said something about, well, I'm big in my community,
the black community, and I was like, Okay, well, I
(12:19):
guess that's I don't know what that means, Like I
know what that means, Like I apparently like I I
can't identify you because like you're big in the community
that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Like that you're I'm not a big deal.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I don't know what that means, but apparently that's how
people feel the white community about Mark Price and Craig Elos.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I mean I feel like that's a pretty you know,
that's a pretty impressive for certain I would.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I would not, Okay, I would not put them up
kats Kyrie Irving and Luca Dacis.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
We've got to find another tandem.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Does it have to be a one two John stoff
in point Byron Russell has to be a one two?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
See?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I don't know, because there's like swing guys man like.
I don't know because to me, the best backcourt to
me ever is Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. But some
would say that's what I see, that's what I'm saying.
So that's you know, so when you're you're getting into that,
then it becomes okay, Well, if MJ was two, then
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wouldn't you say, whoever is the point guard with MJ?
Is that's your best slay? Not bad? I mean, that's
not bad and not one has been used? That one
has been used. I don't know. I think if you
go into the annals and the history of the game.
I'm sure there's someone there, There's somebody there, but the
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debate is still going to to go though. This is
this is a good one. Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I mean, do we look at Lucas now that Isaiah
and Joe dumar is pretty good? That's that's all.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
That's it for me.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I would say that might be you might be right there,
that's the that's the duo. But are we looking at
Luca as a true too.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Here's a two.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
He's a man, I mean, he's he's no, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Jon is good man. You know, he gets on he
gets on these Reddit pages.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That was a good one.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Mars and and Isaiah that that's a really really good one.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I feel like, what about Magic and Michael Cooper.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's not bad solid, Yeah, it's not bad. But that
magic of.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
My God, Rip Hamilton and and Johnson Phillips, that might
be it right there?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I mean, Geez Detroit, huh.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, But you can go back in the day like
Bob Coosey and Sam Jones, Jonas knows all.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
About I don't know who to have Sam Jones is,
But then.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Jordan and whoever the what about Kobe and Derek Fisher.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Great, that's a great call. I would have them probably
ninth on my list, to be honest, I was doing
a top.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
How about one that no one's gonna no one will
ever bring this up, Tony Parker.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, that's that, and that's longevity. We're in lockstep here.
I'm telling this because it was too find.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We can find why the fate away world dot that's
in there?
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Yeah, like so flip that bad boy right on in there?
So are we counting Manu and Tony Parker is.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So?
Speaker 10 (15:36):
So we're gonna go all white back white back there too,
next to Mark Price and Craigi Lo. Yeah, what about
Stephen Clay the white Boys?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah? They won back?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Were you all watching?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh bro? I have no idea what I like it though,
I have no idea what to put it on.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Don't don't play us. That was that was when we
got in studio.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
That was on.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
H Well, it looks like a more recent movie, That's
what all I'll say. I don't I don't know. It's
distracting because the people acting in it are more recent actors,
actress actors.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It is too pro proper. You can't say actress, right,
that's not proper. Well you say just actor. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, shouts out to Bill Walton too. By the way,
yeah Bill Walton R. I P my guy.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Quick story about Bill Walton. My first and only time
ever meeting Bill Walton. I was at the NBA All
Star Weekend in DC. I was walking past the where
they were sitting during the dunk contest, and somebody stopped
me and was talking to me. Somebody popular to like,
somebody super famous stopped me and was talking to me,
(17:01):
and I hear, I don't remember. I would I would
have said, I just don't even remember who it was
because what what totally kind of like took over the
whole entire though they were pretty famous, I just don't
know who because there was so many famous people there.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
It was like in their specific community.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, no, it wasn't Who's who was it? P Diddy?
No it wasn't Diddy.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
No, it was an athlete Okay back then, Yeah, no,
I would have been even though he's still he's still,
he's still it's just infamy now instead, you know, it's
instead of famous. But all I know is I was
standing there. I'm entertaining this person talking to me. I
hear somebody go, hey, hey, do you think you can
(17:46):
move out of the way. I'm trying to see what's
going on here. I turned around and I was about
to say, I know you ain't talking to me. And
I turned around to say it, and I was like, hey,
I know you're Bill Walton.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Oh sure, I'll move no words he being an ale yeah,
And I was ready to be an a hole right
on back.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
And then I realized it was Bill Walton was like,
you know, I'm gonna leave him alone.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I'm gonna let the old head live down in front.
I was like, hey, you mother, and Bill Wolton, I'm
going to move. Yeah. He uh now a great career,
great broadcaster, great personality, man, entertaining as hell, loots some
prayers to his family.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, I'm sure that's tremendous loss. I mean he you know,
he lit up a room. I mean he lit up
a uh, you know, a desk, a studio show. You know,
he was really good at calling games and doing studio work.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Man's you know, just one of those guys.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I had one of those magnanimous type of personalities. So
a good dude man and you know, it's a tremendous
loss to the sports community, not just a basketball community.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
You know, what's interesting about talking about his legacy is
it's he had an unbelievable playing career.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I mean, if you look.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
At his college even a pro, two time NBA champ,
you know, MVP, All All Decade Team, all that stuff.
The college level, had won a bunch of national championships.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Was I think a three time All American I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But what's crazy about it is is as good as
his career was, he became so much more too as
a broadcaster. You know, people people forgot about what was
a legendary career as a player, and when you get
into broadcasting, that's I guess as a former player of
the ultimate goal. And there's a lot of guys who
have maybe achieved that where you remember them as a
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broadcast or more so than a player. But in some
in some cases that's because their career wasn't like up
to snuff with what they've done with their career. Like
I would say Bill Walton, Charles Barkley, like those are
like first two guys that kind of come to mind.
But I mean, man, it was it was incredible to
see his transition and how beloved he was too, you know,
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for how he called games and how he did things.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
So it's just so unique and uniquely him and how
he hatled himself.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, he was awesome. So again, thoughts and prayers to
his family, the great Bill Walton passing away yesterday at
the age of seventy one.
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Speaker 5 (20:58):
I can't focus, Okay, I mean I just can't focus.
And Lee's just super comfortable about this. Oh yeah, yeah,
he has all kinds of like analysism breakdown, Like it's
like the show.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You know, he's got it.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You tell us about this movie, Lee, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
This movie is called Sola.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Came out in twenty twenty, starring Taylor Page, Nicholas Brawn
from Severance, Is isn't it? Coleman Domingo, Riley Keo.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What's the plot?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Strippers travel from Detroit to Tampa to work for the
weekend Exotic Dancer Exotic Dancers, and then they kind of
get hijacked by a pimp and then the weekend goes crazy.
It's based off of a real Twitter thread that was
highlighted in Rolling Stone, and if you read the whole
Twitter threat, it basically describes its entire movie. It's fantastic.
(22:00):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's great. It's hilarious. It's great. It's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
It is There hasn't been one scene that made me laugh, right, I.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Mean, as I'm reading through the plot, it says here,
after Stefani engages in a gang bang at a private.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Residence, yeah, you're in. You're right.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
But two, we've been visit another hotel.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Where a client has responded to their backpage ad, Okay, you.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Don't say the fact that lisaid, this is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It's one of the funniest movies you'll ever see. It's great,
it's a fun this is considered.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Your movie previnces dude, ever since last week with Batman.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I'm out.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Uh, well, watch the movie with the sound and you
tell me if you think it's funny or not.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Based on what LeVar and Jonas have said so far
and the fact that I've got four kids, there's most
likely not a chance that I can watch this movie at.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Any point in time missing out.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
And in case you were wondering about Lee's hilarious film,
the budget was five million for this film and it
made five point two million in the box.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All right, an absolute stunner two to pass around.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
I think it only got released on a few screens,
but it's a cold classic.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Four years later, there's no doubt you're right.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
A twenty four it's good. I'm just confused as the how.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
This could be one of the most hilarious movies of
all time. Like I just I haven't seen anything that
gives me hilarious.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
I mean this scene alone, I just look at these
guys Nick Brown, and then they come.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
This is funny. This is too funny. Eddie, are you watching?
Eddie can't see if Eddie can't see it?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Okay, all right, Lorena, do you find this to be
a hilarious film?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I had my eyes closed a lot of it like this.
You know, I haven't seen a lot of comedy though.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Comedy makes you close your eyes when you're watching it. Now,
Oh yeah, well it's just I mean, now I know
a little bit more about Lee.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I mean the I mean, if this is a comedy
to Lee, Lee, you're not allowed. This is one of
my recommendations from twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I invited you out to hang out this past weekend.
I said, I'm not going to do it because you
didn't come when you were in Pasadena. But now my
reasoning for not invite you over anymore has changed.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's messed up, man. Yeah, LeVar is hanging out at
the Stubborn Mule, throws out.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
An invite and Lee tells him to go kick rocks.
Just disrespect man. And you're right up the road too.
We found out that yesterday, like.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Literally like twenty minutes away, twenty five minutes away.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I mean, had I gotten an invite, I would have gone,
but it's not true. That's why I didn't even invite you.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
It's this way, I would have had a better opportunity
of seeing Q, which, by the way, Q came on
up on game thanks my brother, like he joined the crew,
like you know, he was clicked out with his with
the boys on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Dope, it was a dope ass segment. Wow. I would
have had a better.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Chance of seeing Q come meet me at the Stubborn
Mule for a couple of cocktails.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Than see you probably, Oh I know. Yeah, Well that's
why I didn't invite you.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I didn't know that that was the case with Lee.
There's an appearance fee. I get it. You want me,
there's an appearance fee, And I told you that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The hard part was I had some people over because
we're watching the men's lax game for the semi final,
and uh, they were like distracting the hell out of
me as as I'm doing this.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
With var So I felt about that.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
The timing of it didn't work out because there I
believe that that game started at noon on Saturday, so
it was a bit chaotic, but we made it work.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We're dope. Well, I mean we do have.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
As what's been pointed out by many people on social media,
we are officially one hundred days away until the start
of the NFL season. Hell yeah, one hundred days.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
How did people describe their excitement for a hundred days
and anything?
Speaker 6 (26:03):
On social worth sharing?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I mean, yeah, there's some uh some some you know
videos of uh things giving birth. I saw which was
which is very interesting.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Speaking of I came across this video this morning. Have
you seen a seahorse give birth before? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I just did you know that they can be they're
both male and female. They're like, yeah, they're really ahead
of their time, I mean way ahead of there. They
don't need any prefixes or supplements or good for them
condiments or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I just couldn't get over how many they have.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Oh, they just come up at it here like that,
like like.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Like, yeah, it is they have both of them though
they have both things going on.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
What do you mean both things? They have both things
going on male and female? Oh, indoor and outdoor plumbing.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah, no, kidding, and can give birth kind of wow, man,
good for them. I don't know about that. I mean,
I mean a lot of people would agree with you.
But you know, I don't know that. Ont me listen.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Uh you know that wash some people's excitement was that
was used.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
So the one hundred days is like a seahorse giving birth,
is what we're saying.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Like those are the countdown everything coming out of there
is a countdown to at the start of the NFL season.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Uh, Now, we were saying otherwise.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
By the way, this is not what I thought I
was gonna see.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
What do you what do you meanrse move on?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, so that's a little interesting.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Now Sea horses could go to take you down a
rabbit hole.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
So the obviously the NFL is trying to do this
international thing, and so they've got the game going on
in Brazil, and as we've talked about, you know, there'll
be a couple of players who don't make it back
from that game, and it's unfortunate, but you know they'll
they'll get out there and realize the game check spends
and goes a little bit further in South Paulo than
it does maybe in Philly or Green Bay. And so
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the NFL is going to be in Brazil, They're going
to be in London. There's a game in Spain coming up.
There's a game in some games in Germany that'll be
happening based on how successful that's been over the past
couple of years. We've seen games in Mexico and now
we're also hearing Paris and Dublin being brought up. Now
Abu Dhabi is being brought up. According to the New
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York Times, Australia is being thrown out.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
LaVar.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You mentioned Italy yesterday. Japan and Italy are in the
discussion as well.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Yeah, you love Japan.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
So it does feel like what was that city? Like, yeah,
the city in Japan?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What city is you're talking about? Uh, it's Okaya? Ok, yeah,
that one?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
That one.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So you know, the NFL is going international. I have
a concern though, does this mean we're going to lose
the Super Bowl because that cannot happen. You cannot have
a super Bowl in one of these international locations.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And it's just a vacation. The reason for a vacation,
come on.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Man, like that that is we need to stake the
claim the super Bowl is ours. Let you kind of
have you know, you have a couple of games here
or there. You can get a preseason game, maybe you
can get like, you know, a couple of regular season games,
we'll try some stuff out. No lead, no division set
up in Europe, all right, none of this crap that
was floated out there. Maybe we'll have a division in Europe.
(29:36):
You don't get a division. You don't get the super Bowl.
If the Jags want to go there, and they want
to and they want to play in London permanently, yeah,
if they want to jaggerang.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
What you call it?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Tang what I mean?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
In theory, the Jacksonville team on a bye week would
be considered to be.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
What jag off? There you go. I'd say, I'm with you.
You know, it's a better fact. Let's just go ahead
and look, it's.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Kind of like what you're watching right now. But I
think about this.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
By the way, the super Bowl is already a corporate event, though,
is it not?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Yes, yes, absolutely, Outside of the.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Home fans from each team being there, which is it
does not take up the entire stadium. The super Bowl
is a gigantic event for all these corporations out there.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I gotta be honest, it's not my favorite game. It's not.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I like Conference championship weekend better. I like the home
games better. I like there being more of a feel
of the crowd et cetera, being you know, more partial
to their teams, and you just do not get that
in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
So it's a probably an unpopular opinion, but for all
the Super Bowls we've gone to and worked at, we
can kind of step back and take a look at it,
and it feels like it's more of a I'm not
gonna call it a circus, but an attraction. It feels
like people are there for so many different reasons, some
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of which have nothing to do.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
With the game. So I can understand how the NFL
would maybe float.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
This sort of idea out there at the International Games,
and even the idea that one day maybe they would
go to an international venue for it, because all right,
like the home fans that are going to travel are
probably gonna travel regardless. And when you start thinking about
the ticket price to go to a super Bowl, really,
if you're spending that much cash just to go for
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the ticket and the hotels and the flights everything else,
what's just going a little bit further internationally, Like what's
the difference? At that point, You're probably still gonna get
the same people who go or to go and they
don't think it's cool it's the first international super Bowl.
I think what it stinks for is all these other
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teams that are in the United States building a new
stadium with the thought or promise or idea in their
head that they're going to get.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
A super Bowl could get leap frogged, could get.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Leapfrogged by you know, an international city that wants to
host it and is willing to pay the NFL.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
To do so.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I mean, think about that economic driver, by the way,
because that's what it comes down to, is one of
these cities willing to essentially bring the Super Bowl to
their city by bidding more than what we're going to
bid or what are you know cities are able to
bid for in the United States to host a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh, abu dabi, nobody's competing with them. There you go,
I mean, there you go, and you're already seeing like
all these international events or these you know, sporting events
going on there. You know UFC events, you're seeing you know,
wwe go over there boxing.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
We know how Dublin works. Dublin, Dublin, excuse me, Ireland
the country. But Dublin, Ireland is an unbelievable place to
do business. Like forget about sports for a second. Like
the tax incentives over there. It's an unbelievable place. That's
why you see so many people moving down headquarters and
you know, having some you know, some sort of office
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over in Dublin, Ireland for that reason.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
But they're getting more.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Heavily involved than in bringing sports there. I mean, we
witnessed it firsthand last year. They're doing it again this year,
They're doing it in the following year. And then there's
incentives for those teams and programs going there, and for
the locals and even some who are just curious to
see the game of college football, they'll travel and to
watch it. They'll travel and to see it and again
for different reasons. I remember the cab driver reacted one day.
(33:50):
He was he was excited about the flyover because they're like,
they don't get that for rugby matches and for soccer matches.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
So his whole thing was like, oh man.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
He's like I can't wait for the flyover, and we're
like what He's like, yeah, the flyover, Like oh okay,
you're excited about the planes fly out of the stadium,
Like cool, all right, whatever, We're like you realize, like
once that's done and the.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Game starts, it's like three or three more hours to go.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I'm still not sure that they were supposed to get
that close on the flyover like that was. That was
pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Well it was kind of cloudy. I mean, yeah, maybe
they had bad visibility.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
But I think that this show and members of this
show would not last a full super Bowl week in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It just wouldn't. Lee's gone by Wednesday, gone at Lea's gone. Dang,
yeah he would be. I made it a whole week, Dublin.
What are we talking? Not really was a week, Lee?
Not really? We were there.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
We got there what on Wednesday, and we were out
on Sunday morning. Like, I don't think by by Wednesday
of super Bowl week it's over for Lee gone at
any of these international locations.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I can't believe we caught caught up with one another
at super Bowl like that really happened. We ate somewhere
together outside of the show. Yeah, we were like friends
outside of the show. It's pretty interesting. Had wings. The
wings were good, fries were good. Lee was looking around
(35:16):
taking shots of a Tanger ray out of his shot
ray bottle.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
By the way, list, So I mean we were buying.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
That's that's where it is. We're in a casino. This
this tells you. And now it's all starting to come
together for me on Lee after listening to him say
that a porn soft porn was a was a comedy.
But he's we're in a casino. He wasn't even paying,
(35:44):
he wasn't buying. What are you sneaking shots? For the
best part, So once we go out, you could get
a free jake wherever it is that.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Ya restaurant, and that's going to cost you, like way
too much money at the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
But here's the other thing. The one place where.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You can walk around with a mini bottle of booze
that you bought at some liquor store somewhere and not
be judged for it.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's Vegas. So why are you trying to sneak it?
Speaker 8 (36:11):
You're just so used to because we were sitting down
at a table at an establishment, and if you just
busted out stuff at a restaurant, they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
I don't think they would have cared. I would have cared,
you think, So.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Why are we questioning the Lee? He's a pro at this.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
If anyone knows the etiquette of drinking in public and
trying to disclose it or I guess not disclose it.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
It would be Lee.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
He was so suspicious and how he he.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
I was very upset at myself. I went to the
Rose Bowl this weekend, and I brought stuff to sneak.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
In, but I was in those people there you wouldn't
have had to sneak it in.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
But I was waiting in line so long to get
into the venue that I just started drinking it.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
So you had nothing when he got in.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Yeah, so then I had to start in expensive drinks
inside the Rose. I was very upset at myself.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
Hey thing, Yeah, that's a real shame.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Time. I hung out with me and got a whole
bunch of Hey, you don't leave you teasing peas for
you. You blew through.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Your stash in line instead of actually at the actual venue.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Maybe that's why my knee is hurting, because I did
I drank this weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
My knee is hurting. Cue, I'm getting hit. I gotta go.
Think it's not the weather.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
It's no, No, I think it's the it's the Ohio
state knee. Oh no, yeah, I think I'm gonna have
to go get popped in the knee today.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, really, but I drank. I drank this weekend, so
I think I'm gonna have to stop drinking. Man.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I did see a Uh it was an ad where
I was talking about like the biggest trends of twenty
twenty four, and uh.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
They're like, oh, yeah, you know, it's it's all about
not drinking.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
And I was like, huh, loser, that's like for me,
I don't want to stop.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Hey, I'm looking pretty good, my abs are coming in.
But let me tell you something. I drank this weekend.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Like I really drank, Like I was drinking like around
the clock, like woke up, had a sunrise drink.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
You know that's.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I'm big on grapefruit or or pineapple juice with my
tequilas you know, or my maskts.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
You guys know that.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah, I was drinking a lot this weekend, man, and
I enjoyed it, like I haven't drink in so long.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I enjoyed it. But I'm paying. I'm paying for it
right now.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
My joint said, my joint in my knee said to me,
you did something incorrect. We've been we've been living on
a straight and arrow. We've been getting getting good, good
progress in and you're going to go and do this. Okay,
there you go take this now. I'm sure I'm gonna
have to go get that thing popped, you know what
(39:04):
I mean, Get get that inflammation about it.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Just do this. Dust that liver off. Dust it off.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
By Friday afternoon, start tipping and ripping again. You say,
I brought my water bottle in here?
Speaker 11 (39:15):
Do?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I haven't even drink my water. I haven't even taken
a sip of water because the show has been running
so fast. Yeah, I haven't even had a chance to.
You know, now that we've turned this movie off and Lorrain,
it's finally changed it. Now I can drink my you
know my water.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, way to dehydrate, LeVar. Lorena, you gotta be ashamed
of yourself.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Did you close your mouth and stop breathing? So happy? LeVar?
Speaker 6 (39:35):
Whoa damn? My god?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
She can't hot right hand by Lorena?
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Damn, I mean, what the hell happened there?
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I'm not even going to entertain her. Two pros and
a cup of Joe.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Fox Sports you one hundred days till the start of
the NFL season, So there's a I thought we was.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Cool, Lorena. I found out a lot of things going
on in that control room.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Now, be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington,
and Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern, three am Pacific.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
So Tom Brady was on Fox Sports Radio yesterday. He
was on The Herd with Colin Coward, which you can
hear on many of these Fox Sports Radio affiliates.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
And I don't know if he's still in roast mode,
but seems he like he hasn't come out of it.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Well, I.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Don't think on the Pivot roasting too.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, Well, he was on the radio yesterday, and I'm
not sure if he's aware of the fact that you
know some things you can and can't say on the radio.
We talked about walking the fine line here on this show,
like we've got to be very careful about things we say.
Sometimes you can get dumped. And Tom Brady yesterday was
discussing his approach to broadcasting now that he'll be the
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part of the number one team with Kevin Burkhart this
upcoming NFL season. So let's listen to Tom Brady. Tom
Brady on Fox Sports Radio yesterday.
Speaker 12 (41:07):
There are definitely parts of me that are hyper competitive,
and certainly they were as a player and as an athlete.
I love that competition. I relished that competition daily. I
didn't get it. It was practice, if it was a game,
if it was ping pong, if we were playing trash
ketball in the in the locker room, I wanted to win.
(41:29):
There's other parts where I feel like I've matured a
little bit and I don't necessarily have to be absolutely.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Competitive and everything.
Speaker 12 (41:38):
It's a little more selective. I think if I want
to put effort into something, then natural I'll be Naturally
I'll be more competitive at it because I'll invest it
a little bit of my time, a little bit of my.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Energy into it.
Speaker 12 (41:50):
Certainly with the broadcaster, I don't think for me it's
about competition. I think it's for me it's about did
I put everything I could into it? And I did
I give the fans everything that they tuned in for?
And that's really how I end up gauging myself and
and I'll have to look at myself at the end
of every Sunday night going did I do a good
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enough job?
Speaker 6 (42:13):
Did I live up to the belief that Fox had
in me. Did I live up to the expectations.
Speaker 12 (42:18):
Of my teammates Kevin Burkhart and Aaron and Tom and
Richie's Ions and rich Russo in our entire truck, the
entire team. That's that's ultimately how I judge myself in
that new role.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
That's a guy getting prepared for the gig and also
a guy very comfortable. The wild card in the room.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Because there was some speculation when Bruce Arians did broadcasting
for a year, They're like, how's this going to work?
He's got a bit of a foul mouth, Like, how's
how's Bruce Arians gonna work? He does have a little
bit of a little bit of man. Maybe maybe Brady's
got that foul mouth. It comes out too, It comes
out easy. Yeah, it came out on the show.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Came out easy. Trying to figure out that we had
to dump it. In fact we did. We did a
little bit of an issue. He probably should have been
bleeped out so that the people could hear it.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
I think that it was and something well Tom Brady
deflated the bleepout.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
Yeah, he said, shoot, but a different word.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
I'm really fascinated and curious to see how he will
be absorbed by the masses.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Because.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
He is the He is the ultimate trump card to
any of the yahoos, any of the folks that have
an opinion on social media or want to criticize whatever
he does because he is the greatest of all time.
But before Tom Brady, there was Joe Montana, who was
the greatest of all time, and yet it didn't work
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out for.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Him for whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
And so I am curious to see what the reaction
will be, what the criticism will be, because you know
that it's gonna be out there, and you know, based
on his affiliation with the Pats, there's probably Pats fans
who will love him, some Tom Brady fans who will
love him, and maybe they're Bucks fans who love him.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
That are excited to see him.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
But when you're as successful as he is, when you're
a good looking guy as well spoken who's successful, there's
gonna be plenty of haters out there too. And given
his style, just the little bit that we've seen over
the years, you know, it's really more. When he became
a Tampa Bay Buck, he was kind of out in
the public more, at least, you know, the press conferences
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and doing other things. And now since he's retired, I
think he's gonna be polarizing. I think he's gonna be
very polarizing with what he calls games because he's not
going to be afraid of giving his opinion. I don't
think he's gonna be afraid at all of criticizing, and
that's really what that job entails. So I'm fascinated to
see how this is all going to work out, how
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it's going to be absorbed, which d bag on on
X or whatever else or Instagram or something that's going
to have a comment to make about somebody said.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Where would they be sending that comment from.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
It could be from their parents' basement, it could be
from wherever they're living, you know, where they feel like
they're really big in their community, but no one really knows.
Speaker 6 (45:29):
Them, right, you know, outside of their quote unquote community.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
It's it's all in things like that. But it doesn't matter.
That's the funny thing is, it doesn't matter who these
guys are. And Tom Brady's the greatest of all time.
There will be people who try to take issue with
something that he says, which is always fascinating to me.
Speaker 6 (45:47):
It's like, why do you care that much. But people do.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
They love sports, they love their team, and they're willing
to defend them, even versus a guy who's won seven
Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
They're also going to be quick to judge.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
They're going to because anything you do, and I'm sure
you gut you guys have called games before and done
radio before the first one in comparison to the one
you do, you know in week ten or the different Yeah,
And so if he comes out and maybe it's a
little rocky the first game, there's gonna be people that go.
And they gave his spot, gave Greg Golsen spot to
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him for this, and it's like, dude, give him a
little bit of time. I know what he's making, I
know who he is. I know there's anticipation, but it's
gonna take him time to probably find his rhythm through
all this stuff, and he's probably gonna get significantly better
through the course of the ste.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
I think he's finding that rhythm in that time now,
like Tony Romo's gotten worse. Okay, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
I would not even begin to compare the two of them,
for the simple fact that if you know who Tom
Brady is, you know his preparation is going to be
through the roof.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
That's why I think he's just gonna get better and better.
Speaker 6 (46:53):
I was gonna say that there might there might not
be more polar opposite.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Well, but that's my point is that Tony Romo.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
It felt like because of that, he's gone in the
opposite direction. Where's Brady? If he struggles Week one? I
think he's just going to get better and better throughout
the year.
Speaker 6 (47:07):
Can I be honest though, too?
Speaker 4 (47:08):
I feel like there's a lot of folks behind the
scenes who pushed promo to be favorable. And I'm not
going to completely out everything, but there was such a
strong push behind the scenes for him to be liked
and for him to be like, hey, he's our number
one guy. Because of the move that CBS made was controversial.
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Phil Simms had the greatest Super Bowl performance ever ever, arguably,
I guess you want to put it that way, and
you moved on from a guy who had been doing
a good job. Who did a good job at least
that's my opinion of it, for a guy who had
never I mean, that job entails having to call a
Super Bowl, and there's probably a common thought out there
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that like, hey, how can you call this if you've
never been to one? So it's controversial, Like people feel like,
if you're in that broadcast booth, you you have to
have at least been able to say you've been there.
Maybe not even win it, but at least been there.
There's a lot of executives, a lot of people who
feel that way, and so when they went with Romo,
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he obviously didn't have any of that in his history.
Speaker 6 (48:14):
I mean, again, the success of Tom Brady compared to
Romo is is not even competent.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
I mean and even you can go a step further, like,
look out, tom Brady takes care of his body, how
he trains, how he prepares everything else, how he portrays himself.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
It's not even comparable.
Speaker 4 (48:32):
So you have this really stark contrast between the two
where when Fox hires tom Brady, like there's no justification,
Like they don't need to come out and say, hey, guys,
we need to like tom Brady's gonna be really good
at this, Like they don't need to do that. His
resume immediately speaks for itself. It's one of the reasons
why he warrants what he's getting paid and why you
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know executives will go to this and make this move
because they know that to the audience, he comes in
with immediate credibility, even though he's got no experience of
doing this job because of what he did in the
prior job that he's talking about on TV, and whereas
with Romo, there's still a lot of skepticism, at least
when he initially took over the job, and so there
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was a lot of people behind the scenes who were
pushing to make sure you talk favorably, make sure you're excited,
to make sure you're talking about how great it's gonna be,
great he's gonna be There was a lot of that
going on, and then as you heard him do the job,
and as things wore on, you're like, wait a second,
this isn't really what we kind of thought we were
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signing up for here.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
I mean, I think he missed a game for a
golf tournament. If not mistaken most.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Positive lily, Yeah, I think he qualified for some tournament
and missed a game, And I got I want to say,
that was like two or three years ago, so I
can't imagine Tom Brady's gonna pull that off.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
But I do also think this all the love that.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
As I said, you almost said my name of there.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
I was like, don't worry one, I'm not good enough
at golf to actually make something where I would be
in that situation.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
And too, yeah, you're you're my Brady. Okay, I'm oyl
that's cutey.
Speaker 4 (50:13):
I think you're actually misconstring this story. By the way,
he didn't end up missing the game. I think he
would have ended up missing the game, but he missed
the cut, So I understand. I think this was like
five years ago, but at least this was like that
it was a Vikings game. I think that's that was
what it was.
Speaker 5 (50:33):
Well, I think to the to Brady's point, to Jonas's point,
I think it's still the idea that he's not all
in right, there's still that there's still the idea that
if he made the cut, he would have missed the game.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
So I just don't I don't.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
I know that they're there, everybody is is and at
their level they have a level of of you know,
multiple things that you're doing, all right, you're diverse and
what it is you have going on. I just don't
think that Tom Brady is going to at the point
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in time which he starts calling games, will have anything
on his plate that is more important than his focus
and him nailing what it is he's going to do
and calling these games. I just do not just knowing
how he is and the times that I I mean,
the dude is as competitive as like I've seen I've
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been at Preaked this with him. The way they gamble
and the way they hang out, all them dudes together,
it's also super competitive.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Don't you think that The fact that Greg Olsen's getting
all this love and Greg Olsen did a great job,
and the fact that there is a lot of discussion
out there about why would you do this?
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Yeah, Like you don't think.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Brady's hearing all that going, Oh you don't think I
could do that good of a job? Like, if he's
that competitive, that's just going to bleed over into this.
Speaker 6 (52:01):
Are you saying he's got the red ass Hell?
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yes, all he's been hearing is I mean, for for
all of this, you're going to give up all you know,
greg Olsen's job to Tom Brady. What is like Tom
Brady's never done this before. There's just there's no guarantees
this is going to work out. People are pointing to
all these other examples of guys like Drew Brees and
Joe Montana and all these other guys that it didn't
work guys. I just I think he's going to find
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a way and will himself to be great at this.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Jerry Rice in the Booth? Was Jerry Rice in the
booth too? Oh yeah, oh, I remember Emmitt Smith. Go
look up Jerry Rice.
Speaker 6 (52:36):
In the Booth.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
One of the hardest things I think is you have
to have a chip on your shoulder, I really do
to be as aggressive, to really have the desire to
want to continue to keep pursuing it like you did
in the previous career.
Speaker 6 (52:53):
And look, some of these guys make so much money nowadays.
It's like it's like an afterthought of what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (52:58):
It fits their lifestyle, it helps pay some of the
bills coming in right, still gives them some notoriety. Stayed
around the game, but it's not everything to them. Yeah,
And I think to your point about Tom Brady, like
he's just not wired that way right, Like he's it's
almost like the Jordan documentary where he's making up things to.
Speaker 6 (53:15):
Be motivated about. Yeah, Like I would bet he's got
like you don't.
Speaker 4 (53:20):
You don't think I deserve to be paid thirty seven
point five million dollars like he might have that up
on a mirror side.
Speaker 5 (53:25):
I pay somebody like pays his kids just to talk trash.
Speaker 6 (53:30):
What was what was that for? There was a skit,
I swear to god it was on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
There was a skit where it was like like you
got somebody who needs to be like humbled whatever, like
you can pay dudes to call you and talk.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
Trash to you. It was amazing. I wish I could
find this. Oh, it was amazing. I'm trying. I got
I gotta find this to share this with you guys.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Well, I mean, listen, it's gonna be a lot of
fun to watch. And you know, if if Tom Brady
he does want to show up on this show, you know,
we've got a dump button ready to go. You know,
we are ready to go and we will press it if.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
He needs it.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
We got him, So no problem there, Lee, we got
everything's good. We're all clear, nobody got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
All right, We're good
It's the best of two pros and a couple with
Lamar Rings, Rady Winn and Jonas Knox on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I mean, you know, it's uh huh, it's a happy,
it's a happy. I'm happy for you're in laws. I'm
happy for the family of ASQ. You know, big Celtics fans,
Brady Quinn. So I'm happy for you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You did.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Yeah, that's gonna make conversation at dinner a little bit more, uh,
you know, a little more braggadocious for them.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But it's not their they don't even for him anyway.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I'm still looking for the sound bites from Carlow saying
that you know, you know what, maybe it wasn't a
bad idea to plan on having a trophy award ceremonial
on on Indiana's court.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean, I just want to hear it because we
heard it.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
We heard with your sound bite saying that it was
disrespectful and got the the blood boiling and got everybody motivated.
And why would they do this.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Indiana had a really good run and there's a lot
to like about them, and they've got some you know,
talented players, and they're a fun team. They play really hard.
They were competitive the whole way through in this series,
and unfortunately, the one takeaway for a lot of people
out of this playoffs for them is you have but
their coach bitched him on the entire time.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
He really did.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's like, that's that's sort of if you look at like,
how would you encapsulate the Pacers playoff run Rick Carlisle
crying Okay, really fun.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Rick Carlile's defense, don't you guys feel like a lot
of the coaches have to do that to call attention
to how bad the officiating is sometimes because if they,
like usually the reaction to it from NBA officials is
once they put them on blast, then the next game
that calls a little more even at least that's what
it typically ends up being. But if they don't, then
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it just ends up being lopsided the whole time. And
then you could look at any series and see that
there's always a coach frustrated with the lack of calls
or the lack of how things are being called throughout
the course of the series.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
It's sensible, it's a sensible statement that you just made.
What really kind of took me off the rails was
the whole being upset and and bitching and moaning.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm the head coach.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I received prived information that the NBA was planning on
get this an award ceremony following immediately following the conclusion
of our game. Guess where in Indiana in our arena?
Like that was where you? Like, because I ain't have
(02:43):
anything to do with any reps that had nothing to do.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
With the game.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I had everything to do with you having some type
of attitude thinking that you were being disrespected to think
that they were going to end the series in that
Imagine if the NBA had listened to mister Carlile coach
Carlile and didn't plan on the series ending last evening.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, go fig, Well, I mean planning for the you know,
sweep and postseason celebration.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
The fishing are two different things.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, That's what I'm saying, Like to me, that's
that's you were he was winding. If you're whining and
complaining about officiating, I feel like people can sympathize with that,
But you took it into a whole, entirely different realm
where it was like you kind of like made me
feel like come on, man, Like enough is enough with that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, you ain't got to go down that road.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He lost me with the small market crap, you know,
I mean, we're a small market team.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We should get the same. But it's okay, dude, Like,
all right, then what do we do? Like, you don't
you don't play in some third world country somewhere out
in the middle of nowhere. It's Indianapolis.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It wasn't the Knicks, but nonetheless, they advanced, they got
it done, and then you know that Game seven against
the Nicks ended up being their final one of the season.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So look, it all worked out for the indian That
was their last win with the last series.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Look, they were they and you know, we were kind
of making jokes about it last year, and I think
Mike Breen kind of made a mention of this at
the end of that game last night where he said,
you know, it's one of the more competitive sweeps you'll
see in a long time, and it's like, you know,
it really was.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
We go one of the pacers.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Like so basically, if you're Rick Carlisle, if you just
follow the trend last year where the Lakers had a
competitive sweep in the conference finals, that means Rick Carlisle
is going to get fired after this season based on
what happened to Darvinham.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But at least maybe you'll win the N Season Tournament.
They were runner up. I think they did lose to
the Lakers in the N Season Tournament. The Pacers did,
and a lot of good that did them. But they're
out and the Boston Celtics move on. Jalen Brown was
named Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Apparently it was a tight vote race between him and
and Jason Tatum, but nonetheless, Jalen Brown got the award,
and he spoke after the game.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
I wasn't expecting that at all.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
You know, I'll never win, so I was just happy
that we won. And give credit to Indiana. You know,
they played us tough. I know, like people think that
Indiana wasn't a good team or whatever the case mean.
I mean, I thought they were tough as anybody we
played all season. I think I'm one of the best
two way wings guards, whatever you want to say. In
this game, you know, I thought this year I've taken
a level and I've increased it and I took the matchup.
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I picked up guys full court. I chased guys off screens.
I battled with Biggs, and you know, I felt like
I should have been all defensive. That probably hurt me
the most because that's one of the things that I
set out in the season that I wanted to be.
We feel like we're a different team than we were
last year and the year before that. I know everybody
wants to continue to kind of pigeonhold us to what
happened in the past, but we've had a different team
every single year. Tom is gone by, experience has been gained,
(05:52):
and I think we are ready to put our best
foot forward.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So it was very accurate, very accurate.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
He is.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
He is a very fine two way player. He plays
defense very well, very active, delivered some some timely some
timely points on the offensive side.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Takes over sometimes he does.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I mean he hit He hit several threes, at least
two that that were very very critical to the comeback,
them staying close, time pulling even later in the game.
He d's up, like he said. But you know, the
one thing that I think really resonated listening to what
he said is that this team this year is not
the same team that they're trying to pigeonhole them into
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being what they were last year.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And the to me, the big.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Thing about them in years past is that Jalen and
Tatum have disappeared in the big game.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Especially that Game seven last year, just disappeared against the
Heat where Tatum went down early and everyone was waiting
on Jalen Brown to take over. And remember because that
was we talked about this a little bit yesterday, but
that was when people were saying, you can't give Jalen
that big contract because he got the three hundred million
dollar contract because he was all NBA like, you know,
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you can't based on that performance in Game seven against
the Heat, you can't give him that contract. Well, he
got the contract, and he came back and he was
better this year and a lot of that was on
the defense, like you would see them get stops, especially
the last two games, and he was really kind of
orchestrating things and kind of him and also Drew Holliday
was fantasy.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He's a big addition, yeah, because his defense is is
what I think that like Smart was to me, a
leader for this team. He was a facilitator. I thought
he brought an element to the team that was needed
and necessary because I feel like Tatum and Brown are
more kind of quiet leaders, unassuming type of guys, not
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very fiery. And what's interesting is Holiday isn't very you know,
boisterous either. But his style of play has really really
been very, very nice as an addition to this day,
did you like how I like say it very nice?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Very nice?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, Well, because we were looking at something very different
that was very nice, but it did apply.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I mean a pole assassin got the remote.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, when you two are in studio together, there's always
something very nice.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
G got the remote.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Tell you that.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Wow, it's very distracting, but it's it's actually I'm just
trying to pull my thoughts together.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I still think Derek White too is like an unsung
here he is. He's been so good throughout the course
of the playoffs, and you know last night he didn't
shoot well last night obviously until he needed to at
the very end. But I just I think if you
came into the playoffs, you're like, yeah, Derek White's gonna
hit meaningful shots and and they play a lot of
meaningful minutes. You said, okay, probably more defensive than anything else.
(08:58):
He's really stepped up in a big one. This team's
gonna be tough to beat whoever it is out of
the West. Even if it's Dallas, it's gonna be tough
to beat. And maybe there's an outside shot to get
Porzingis back, which would be another fun storyline.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Assuming it's gonna be Dallas at least at this moment.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Out of the West, they might be too much for Dallas.
If Perzingis comes back and is healthy, they might be
too much for Dallas right now. Now, with that being said,
you gotta have your superstars. Everybody's saying it, you gotta
have your superstars playing like superstars if you're gonna win,
and and Dallas does and and Dallas has a few
(09:39):
positive contributors outside of the obvious two as well. But
this this Celtics team is different this year. It's a
different feel to them. There's a different, different level of
confidence that's connected to them. It just seemed as though
this was a game that would tell you a lot
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about where this this Celtic team is currently in terms
of being in a closeout game, knowing how the previous
years have ended for them, knowing the scrutiny and criticism
that has been lobbed their way. They answered that if
you ask me emphatically with a we are a different.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Team, because that was always the question they can't close
out games. Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That was always the question, Like you know, what it
gets down to it are they going to be able
to make plays?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And they did.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And Reddick pointed out last night in the broadcast, three
of these games that they won were because they made
plays down the stretch when a lot when the narrative
on them for a long time has been those guys
don't come up big down the stretch, and they did
in those games. Now, Uh, these Celtics are a minus
two to twenty five to win the NBA title. I
think it's a little disrespectful that you guys are just
(10:53):
closing the coffin on the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, you just said that's over. I'm damn. I
mean might be a clean one to two sweep. You know,
it might.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
And if it wasn't, if it doesn't play out that way,
it's still going to be over in the next one
to two games. I don't And I said, listen, I
didn't see them beating beating Denver two games in a row.
I didn't see that. At the end of the series.
They were able to do that, But to be against
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a team where Kyrie and Luca are playing the way
that they're playing right.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Now, the best backcourt and NBA history.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Are we saying that I won't.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I'm not going to go that far.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Like can I who is the competition? I mean, I
know NBA purists will go back through history and be
able to bring up others, but like, who would be
the tandem that would challenge Kyrie Irving and Luca Doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Mark Price, Craig E Low.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I mean, that's what I grew up with that, So
thank you for bringing that up.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I'm pretty sure we're the only two what's up to
We're the only two that would bring that up. And
I do have to point this out someone. I do
love people that like talk trastl and social media. One
guy said something about, well, I'm big in my community,
the black community, and I was like, Okay, well, I
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guess that's I don't know what that means, Like I
know what that means, Like I apparently like I I
can't identify you because like you're big in the community
that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Like that you're I'm not a big deal.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I don't know what that means, but apparently that's how
people feel the white community about Mark Price and Craig Elos.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I mean I feel like that's a pretty you know,
that's a pretty impressive for certain I would.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I would not, Okay, I would not put them up
kats Kyrie Irving and Luca Dacis.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
We've got to find another tandem.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Does it have to be a one two John stoff
in point Byron Russell has to be a one two?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
See?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I don't know, because there's like swing guys man like.
I don't know because to me, the best backcourt to
me ever is Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. But some
would say that's what I see, that's what I'm saying.
So that's you know, so when you're you're getting into that,
then it becomes okay, Well, if MJ was two, then
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wouldn't you say, whoever is the point guard with MJ?
Is that's your best slay? Not bad? I mean, that's
not bad and not one has been used? That one
has been used. I don't know. I think if you
go into the annals and the history of the game.
I'm sure there's someone there, There's somebody there, but the
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debate is still going to to go though. This is
this is a good one. Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I mean, do we look at Lucas now that Isaiah
and Joe dumar is pretty good? That's that's all.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
That's it for me.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I would say that might be you might be right there,
that's the that's the duo. But are we looking at
Luca as a true too.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Here's a two.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
He's a man, I mean, he's he's no, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Jon is good man. You know, he gets on he
gets on these Reddit pages.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
That was a good one.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Mars and and Isaiah that that's a really really good one.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I feel like, what about Magic and Michael Cooper.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's not bad solid, Yeah, it's not bad. But that
magic of.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
My God, Rip Hamilton and and Johnson Phillips, that might
be it right there?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I mean, Geez Detroit, huh.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, But you can go back in the day like
Bob Coosey and Sam Jones, Jonas knows all.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
About I don't know who to have Sam Jones is,
But then.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Jordan and whoever the what about Kobe and Derek Fisher.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Great, that's a great call. I would have them probably
ninth on my list, to be honest, I was doing
a top.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
How about one that no one's gonna no one will
ever bring this up, Tony Parker.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, that's that, and that's longevity. We're in lockstep here.
I'm telling this because it was too find.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We can find why the fate away world dot that's
in there?
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Yeah, like so flip that bad boy right on in there?
So are we counting Manu and Tony Parker is.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So?
Speaker 10 (15:36):
So we're gonna go all white back white back there too,
next to Mark Price and Craigi Lo. Yeah, what about
Stephen Clay the white Boys?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah? They won back?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Were you all watching?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh bro? I have no idea what I like it though,
I have no idea what to put it on.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Don't don't play us. That was that was when we
got in studio.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
That was on.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
H Well, it looks like a more recent movie, That's
what all I'll say. I don't I don't know. It's
distracting because the people acting in it are more recent actors,
actress actors.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It is too pro proper. You can't say actress, right,
that's not proper. Well you say just actor. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, shouts out to Bill Walton too. By the way,
yeah Bill Walton R. I P my guy.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Quick story about Bill Walton. My first and only time
ever meeting Bill Walton. I was at the NBA All
Star Weekend in DC. I was walking past the where
they were sitting during the dunk contest, and somebody stopped
me and was talking to me. Somebody popular to like,
somebody super famous stopped me and was talking to me,
(17:01):
and I hear, I don't remember. I would I would
have said, I just don't even remember who it was
because what what totally kind of like took over the
whole entire though they were pretty famous, I just don't
know who because there was so many famous people there.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
It was like in their specific community.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, no, it wasn't Who's who was it? P Diddy?
No it wasn't Diddy.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
No, it was an athlete Okay back then, Yeah, no,
I would have been even though he's still he's still,
he's still it's just infamy now instead, you know, it's
instead of famous. But all I know is I was
standing there. I'm entertaining this person talking to me. I
hear somebody go, hey, hey, do you think you can
(17:46):
move out of the way. I'm trying to see what's
going on here. I turned around and I was about
to say, I know you ain't talking to me. And
I turned around to say it, and I was like, hey,
I know you're Bill Walton.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Oh sure, I'll move no words he being an ale yeah,
And I was ready to be an a hole right
on back.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
And then I realized it was Bill Walton was like,
you know, I'm gonna leave him alone.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I'm gonna let the old head live down in front.
I was like, hey, you mother, and Bill Wolton, I'm
going to move. Yeah. He uh now a great career,
great broadcaster, great personality, man, entertaining as hell, loots some
prayers to his family.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, I'm sure that's tremendous loss. I mean he you know,
he lit up a room. I mean he lit up
a uh, you know, a desk, a studio show. You know,
he was really good at calling games and doing studio work.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Man's you know, just one of those guys.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I had one of those magnanimous type of personalities. So
a good dude man and you know, it's a tremendous
loss to the sports community, not just a basketball community.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
You know, what's interesting about talking about his legacy is
it's he had an unbelievable playing career.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I mean, if you look.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
At his college even a pro, two time NBA champ,
you know, MVP, All All Decade Team, all that stuff.
The college level, had won a bunch of national championships.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Was I think a three time All American I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But what's crazy about it is is as good as
his career was, he became so much more too as
a broadcaster. You know, people people forgot about what was
a legendary career as a player, and when you get
into broadcasting, that's I guess as a former player of
the ultimate goal. And there's a lot of guys who
have maybe achieved that where you remember them as a
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broadcast or more so than a player. But in some
in some cases that's because their career wasn't like up
to snuff with what they've done with their career. Like
I would say Bill Walton, Charles Barkley, like those are
like first two guys that kind of come to mind.
But I mean, man, it was it was incredible to
see his transition and how beloved he was too, you know,
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for how he called games and how he did things.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
So it's just so unique and uniquely him and how
he hatled himself.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, he was awesome. So again, thoughts and prayers to
his family, the great Bill Walton passing away yesterday at
the age of seventy one.
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Speaker 5 (20:58):
I can't focus, Okay, I mean I just can't focus.
And Lee's just super comfortable about this. Oh yeah, yeah,
he has all kinds of like analysism breakdown, Like it's
like the show.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You know, he's got it.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You tell us about this movie, Lee, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
This movie is called Sola.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Came out in twenty twenty, starring Taylor Page, Nicholas Brawn
from Severance, Is isn't it? Coleman Domingo, Riley Keo.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
What's the plot?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Strippers travel from Detroit to Tampa to work for the
weekend Exotic Dancer Exotic Dancers, and then they kind of
get hijacked by a pimp and then the weekend goes crazy.
It's based off of a real Twitter thread that was
highlighted in Rolling Stone, and if you read the whole
Twitter threat, it basically describes its entire movie. It's fantastic.
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It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's great. It's hilarious. It's great. It's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
It is There hasn't been one scene that made me laugh, right, I.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Mean, as I'm reading through the plot, it says here,
after Stefani engages in a gang bang at a private.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Residence, yeah, you're in. You're right.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
But two, we've been visit another hotel.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Where a client has responded to their backpage ad, Okay, you.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Don't say the fact that lisaid, this is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It's one of the funniest movies you'll ever see. It's great,
it's a fun this is considered.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Your movie previnces dude, ever since last week with Batman.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
I'm out.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Uh, well, watch the movie with the sound and you
tell me if you think it's funny or not.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Based on what LeVar and Jonas have said so far
and the fact that I've got four kids, there's most
likely not a chance that I can watch this movie at.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Any point in time missing out.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
And in case you were wondering about Lee's hilarious film,
the budget was five million for this film and it
made five point two million in the box.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All right, an absolute stunner two to pass around.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
I think it only got released on a few screens,
but it's a cold classic.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Four years later, there's no doubt you're right.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
A twenty four it's good. I'm just confused as the how.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
This could be one of the most hilarious movies of
all time. Like I just I haven't seen anything that
gives me hilarious.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
I mean this scene alone, I just look at these
guys Nick Brown, and then they come.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
This is funny. This is too funny. Eddie, are you watching?
Eddie can't see if Eddie can't see it?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Okay, all right, Lorena, do you find this to be
a hilarious film?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I had my eyes closed a lot of it like this.
You know, I haven't seen a lot of comedy though.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Comedy makes you close your eyes when you're watching it. Now,
Oh yeah, well it's just I mean, now I know
a little bit more about Lee.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I mean the I mean, if this is a comedy
to Lee, Lee, you're not allowed. This is one of
my recommendations from twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I invited you out to hang out this past weekend.
I said, I'm not going to do it because you
didn't come when you were in Pasadena. But now my
reasoning for not invite you over anymore has changed.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's messed up, man. Yeah, LeVar is hanging out at
the Stubborn Mule, throws out.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
An invite and Lee tells him to go kick rocks.
Just disrespect man. And you're right up the road too.
We found out that yesterday, like.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Literally like twenty minutes away, twenty five minutes away.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I mean, had I gotten an invite, I would have gone,
but it's not true. That's why I didn't even invite you.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
It's this way, I would have had a better opportunity
of seeing Q, which, by the way, Q came on
up on game thanks my brother, like he joined the crew,
like you know, he was clicked out with his with
the boys on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Dope, it was a dope ass segment. Wow. I would
have had a better.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Chance of seeing Q come meet me at the Stubborn
Mule for a couple of cocktails.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Than see you probably, Oh I know. Yeah, Well that's
why I didn't invite you.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I didn't know that that was the case with Lee.
There's an appearance fee. I get it. You want me,
there's an appearance fee, And I told you that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
The hard part was I had some people over because
we're watching the men's lax game for the semi final,
and uh, they were like distracting the hell out of
me as as I'm doing this.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
With var So I felt about that.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
The timing of it didn't work out because there I
believe that that game started at noon on Saturday, so
it was a bit chaotic, but we made it work.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
We're dope. Well, I mean we do have.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
As what's been pointed out by many people on social media,
we are officially one hundred days away until the start
of the NFL season. Hell yeah, one hundred days.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
How did people describe their excitement for a hundred days
and anything?
Speaker 6 (26:03):
On social worth sharing?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I mean, yeah, there's some uh some some you know
videos of uh things giving birth. I saw which was
which is very interesting.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Speaking of I came across this video this morning. Have
you seen a seahorse give birth before? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I just did you know that they can be they're
both male and female. They're like, yeah, they're really ahead
of their time, I mean way ahead of there. They
don't need any prefixes or supplements or good for them
condiments or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I just couldn't get over how many they have.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Oh, they just come up at it here like that,
like like.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Like, yeah, it is they have both of them though
they have both things going on.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
What do you mean both things? They have both things
going on male and female? Oh, indoor and outdoor plumbing.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah, no, kidding, and can give birth kind of wow, man,
good for them. I don't know about that. I mean,
I mean a lot of people would agree with you.
But you know, I don't know that. Ont me listen.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Uh you know that wash some people's excitement was that
was used.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
So the one hundred days is like a seahorse giving birth,
is what we're saying.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Like those are the countdown everything coming out of there
is a countdown to at the start of the NFL season.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Uh, Now, we were saying otherwise.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
By the way, this is not what I thought I
was gonna see.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
What do you what do you meanrse move on?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, so that's a little interesting.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Now Sea horses could go to take you down a
rabbit hole.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
So the obviously the NFL is trying to do this
international thing, and so they've got the game going on
in Brazil, and as we've talked about, you know, there'll
be a couple of players who don't make it back
from that game, and it's unfortunate, but you know they'll
they'll get out there and realize the game check spends
and goes a little bit further in South Paulo than
it does maybe in Philly or Green Bay. And so
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the NFL is going to be in Brazil, They're going
to be in London. There's a game in Spain coming up.
There's a game in some games in Germany that'll be
happening based on how successful that's been over the past
couple of years. We've seen games in Mexico and now
we're also hearing Paris and Dublin being brought up. Now
Abu Dhabi is being brought up. According to the New
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York Times, Australia is being thrown out.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
LaVar.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You mentioned Italy yesterday. Japan and Italy are in the
discussion as well.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Yeah, you love Japan.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
So it does feel like what was that city? Like, yeah,
the city in Japan?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What city is you're talking about? Uh, it's Okaya? Ok, yeah,
that one?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
That one.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So you know, the NFL is going international. I have
a concern though, does this mean we're going to lose
the Super Bowl because that cannot happen. You cannot have
a super Bowl in one of these international locations.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And it's just a vacation. The reason for a vacation,
come on.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Man, like that that is we need to stake the
claim the super Bowl is ours. Let you kind of
have you know, you have a couple of games here
or there. You can get a preseason game, maybe you
can get like, you know, a couple of regular season games,
we'll try some stuff out. No lead, no division set
up in Europe, all right, none of this crap that
was floated out there. Maybe we'll have a division in Europe.
(29:36):
You don't get a division. You don't get the super Bowl.
If the Jags want to go there, and they want
to and they want to play in London permanently, yeah,
if they want to jaggerang.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
What you call it?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Tang what I mean?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
In theory, the Jacksonville team on a bye week would
be considered to be.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
What jag off? There you go. I'd say, I'm with you.
You know, it's a better fact. Let's just go ahead
and look, it's.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Kind of like what you're watching right now. But I
think about this.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
By the way, the super Bowl is already a corporate event, though,
is it not?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Yes, yes, absolutely, Outside of the.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Home fans from each team being there, which is it
does not take up the entire stadium. The super Bowl
is a gigantic event for all these corporations out there.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I gotta be honest, it's not my favorite game. It's not.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I like Conference championship weekend better. I like the home
games better. I like there being more of a feel
of the crowd et cetera, being you know, more partial
to their teams, and you just do not get that
in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
So it's a probably an unpopular opinion, but for all
the Super Bowls we've gone to and worked at, we
can kind of step back and take a look at it,
and it feels like it's more of a I'm not
gonna call it a circus, but an attraction. It feels
like people are there for so many different reasons, some
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of which have nothing to do.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
With the game. So I can understand how the NFL
would maybe float.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
This sort of idea out there at the International Games,
and even the idea that one day maybe they would
go to an international venue for it, because all right,
like the home fans that are going to travel are
probably gonna travel regardless. And when you start thinking about
the ticket price to go to a super Bowl, really,
if you're spending that much cash just to go for
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the ticket and the hotels and the flights everything else,
what's just going a little bit further internationally, Like what's
the difference? At that point, You're probably still gonna get
the same people who go or to go and they
don't think it's cool it's the first international super Bowl.
I think what it stinks for is all these other
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teams that are in the United States building a new
stadium with the thought or promise or idea in their
head that they're going to get.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
A super Bowl could get leap frogged, could get.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Leapfrogged by you know, an international city that wants to
host it and is willing to pay the NFL.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
To do so.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I mean, think about that economic driver, by the way,
because that's what it comes down to, is one of
these cities willing to essentially bring the Super Bowl to
their city by bidding more than what we're going to
bid or what are you know cities are able to
bid for in the United States to host a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh, abu dabi, nobody's competing with them. There you go,
I mean, there you go, and you're already seeing like
all these international events or these you know, sporting events
going on there. You know UFC events, you're seeing you know,
wwe go over there boxing.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
We know how Dublin works. Dublin, Dublin, excuse me, Ireland
the country. But Dublin, Ireland is an unbelievable place to
do business. Like forget about sports for a second. Like
the tax incentives over there. It's an unbelievable place. That's
why you see so many people moving down headquarters and
you know, having some you know, some sort of office
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over in Dublin, Ireland for that reason.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
But they're getting more.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Heavily involved than in bringing sports there. I mean, we
witnessed it firsthand last year. They're doing it again this year,
They're doing it in the following year. And then there's
incentives for those teams and programs going there, and for
the locals and even some who are just curious to
see the game of college football, they'll travel and to
watch it. They'll travel and to see it and again
for different reasons. I remember the cab driver reacted one day.
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He was he was excited about the flyover because they're like,
they don't get that for rugby matches and for soccer matches.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
So his whole thing was like, oh man.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
He's like I can't wait for the flyover, and we're
like what He's like, yeah, the flyover, Like oh okay,
you're excited about the planes fly out of the stadium,
Like cool, all right, whatever, We're like you realize, like
once that's done and the.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Game starts, it's like three or three more hours to go.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I'm still not sure that they were supposed to get
that close on the flyover like that was. That was
pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Well it was kind of cloudy. I mean, yeah, maybe
they had bad visibility.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
But I think that this show and members of this
show would not last a full super Bowl week in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It just wouldn't. Lee's gone by Wednesday, gone at Lea's gone. Dang,
yeah he would be. I made it a whole week, Dublin.
What are we talking? Not really was a week, Lee?
Not really? We were there.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
We got there what on Wednesday, and we were out
on Sunday morning. Like, I don't think by by Wednesday
of super Bowl week it's over for Lee gone at
any of these international locations.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I can't believe we caught caught up with one another
at super Bowl like that really happened. We ate somewhere
together outside of the show. Yeah, we were like friends
outside of the show. It's pretty interesting. Had wings. The
wings were good, fries were good. Lee was looking around
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taking shots of a Tanger ray out of his shot
ray bottle.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
By the way, list, So I mean we were buying.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
That's that's where it is. We're in a casino. This
this tells you. And now it's all starting to come
together for me on Lee after listening to him say
that a porn soft porn was a was a comedy.
But he's we're in a casino. He wasn't even paying,
(35:44):
he wasn't buying. What are you sneaking shots? For the
best part, So once we go out, you could get
a free jake wherever it is that.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Ya restaurant, and that's going to cost you, like way
too much money at the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
But here's the other thing. The one place where.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You can walk around with a mini bottle of booze
that you bought at some liquor store somewhere and not
be judged for it.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's Vegas. So why are you trying to sneak it?
Speaker 8 (36:11):
You're just so used to because we were sitting down
at a table at an establishment, and if you just
busted out stuff at a restaurant, they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
I don't think they would have cared. I would have cared,
you think, So.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Why are we questioning the Lee? He's a pro at this.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
If anyone knows the etiquette of drinking in public and
trying to disclose it or I guess not disclose it.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
It would be Lee.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
He was so suspicious and how he he.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
I was very upset at myself. I went to the
Rose Bowl this weekend, and I brought stuff to sneak.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
In, but I was in those people there you wouldn't
have had to sneak it in.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
But I was waiting in line so long to get
into the venue that I just started drinking it.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
So you had nothing when he got in.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Yeah, so then I had to start in expensive drinks
inside the Rose. I was very upset at myself.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
Hey thing, Yeah, that's a real shame.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Time. I hung out with me and got a whole
bunch of Hey, you don't leave you teasing peas for
you. You blew through.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Your stash in line instead of actually at the actual venue.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Maybe that's why my knee is hurting, because I did
I drank this weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
My knee is hurting. Cue, I'm getting hit. I gotta go.
Think it's not the weather.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
It's no, No, I think it's the it's the Ohio
state knee. Oh no, yeah, I think I'm gonna have
to go get popped in the knee today.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, really, but I drank. I drank this weekend, so
I think I'm gonna have to stop drinking. Man.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I did see a Uh it was an ad where
I was talking about like the biggest trends of twenty
twenty four, and uh.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
They're like, oh, yeah, you know, it's it's all about
not drinking.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
And I was like, huh, loser, that's like for me,
I don't want to stop.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Hey, I'm looking pretty good, my abs are coming in.
But let me tell you something. I drank this weekend.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Like I really drank, Like I was drinking like around
the clock, like woke up, had a sunrise drink.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
You know that's.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I'm big on grapefruit or or pineapple juice with my
tequilas you know, or my maskts.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
You guys know that.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah, I was drinking a lot this weekend, man, and
I enjoyed it, like I haven't drink in so long.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I enjoyed it. But I'm paying. I'm paying for it
right now.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
My joint said, my joint in my knee said to me,
you did something incorrect. We've been we've been living on
a straight and arrow. We've been getting getting good, good
progress in and you're going to go and do this. Okay,
there you go take this now. I'm sure I'm gonna
have to go get that thing popped, you know what
(39:04):
I mean, Get get that inflammation about it.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Just do this. Dust that liver off. Dust it off.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
By Friday afternoon, start tipping and ripping again. You say,
I brought my water bottle in here?
Speaker 11 (39:15):
Do?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I haven't even drink my water. I haven't even taken
a sip of water because the show has been running
so fast. Yeah, I haven't even had a chance to.
You know, now that we've turned this movie off and Lorrain,
it's finally changed it. Now I can drink my you
know my water.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, way to dehydrate, LeVar. Lorena, you gotta be ashamed
of yourself.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Did you close your mouth and stop breathing? So happy? LeVar?
Speaker 6 (39:35):
Whoa damn? My god?
Speaker 3 (39:39):
She can't hot right hand by Lorena?
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Damn, I mean, what the hell happened there?
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I'm not even going to entertain her. Two pros and
a cup of Joe.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Fox Sports you one hundred days till the start of
the NFL season, So there's a I thought we was.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Cool, Lorena. I found out a lot of things going
on in that control room.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Now, be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington,
and Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern, three am Pacific.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
So Tom Brady was on Fox Sports Radio yesterday. He
was on The Herd with Colin Coward, which you can
hear on many of these Fox Sports Radio affiliates.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
And I don't know if he's still in roast mode,
but seems he like he hasn't come out of it.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Well, I.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Don't think on the Pivot roasting too.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, Well, he was on the radio yesterday, and I'm
not sure if he's aware of the fact that you
know some things you can and can't say on the radio.
We talked about walking the fine line here on this show,
like we've got to be very careful about things we say.
Sometimes you can get dumped. And Tom Brady yesterday was
discussing his approach to broadcasting now that he'll be the
(40:57):
part of the number one team with Kevin Burkhart this
upcoming NFL season. So let's listen to Tom Brady. Tom
Brady on Fox Sports Radio yesterday.
Speaker 12 (41:07):
There are definitely parts of me that are hyper competitive,
and certainly they were as a player and as an athlete.
I love that competition. I relished that competition daily. I
didn't get it. It was practice, if it was a game,
if it was ping pong, if we were playing trash
ketball in the in the locker room, I wanted to win.
(41:29):
There's other parts where I feel like I've matured a
little bit and I don't necessarily have to be absolutely.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Competitive and everything.
Speaker 12 (41:38):
It's a little more selective. I think if I want
to put effort into something, then natural I'll be Naturally
I'll be more competitive at it because I'll invest it
a little bit of my time, a little bit of my.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Energy into it.
Speaker 12 (41:50):
Certainly with the broadcaster, I don't think for me it's
about competition. I think it's for me it's about did
I put everything I could into it? And I did
I give the fans everything that they tuned in for?
And that's really how I end up gauging myself and
and I'll have to look at myself at the end
of every Sunday night going did I do a good
(42:12):
enough job?
Speaker 6 (42:13):
Did I live up to the belief that Fox had
in me. Did I live up to the expectations.
Speaker 12 (42:18):
Of my teammates Kevin Burkhart and Aaron and Tom and
Richie's Ions and rich Russo in our entire truck, the
entire team. That's that's ultimately how I judge myself in
that new role.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
That's a guy getting prepared for the gig and also
a guy very comfortable. The wild card in the room.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Because there was some speculation when Bruce Arians did broadcasting
for a year, They're like, how's this going to work?
He's got a bit of a foul mouth, Like, how's
how's Bruce Arians gonna work? He does have a little
bit of a little bit of man. Maybe maybe Brady's
got that foul mouth. It comes out too, It comes
out easy. Yeah, it came out on the show.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Came out easy. Trying to figure out that we had
to dump it. In fact we did. We did a
little bit of an issue. He probably should have been
bleeped out so that the people could hear it.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
I think that it was and something well Tom Brady
deflated the bleepout.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
Yeah, he said, shoot, but a different word.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
I'm really fascinated and curious to see how he will
be absorbed by the masses.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Because.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
He is the He is the ultimate trump card to
any of the yahoos, any of the folks that have
an opinion on social media or want to criticize whatever
he does because he is the greatest of all time.
But before Tom Brady, there was Joe Montana, who was
the greatest of all time, and yet it didn't work
(43:57):
out for.
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Him for whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
And so I am curious to see what the reaction
will be, what the criticism will be, because you know
that it's gonna be out there, and you know, based
on his affiliation with the Pats, there's probably Pats fans
who will love him, some Tom Brady fans who will
love him, and maybe they're Bucks fans who love him.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
That are excited to see him.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
But when you're as successful as he is, when you're
a good looking guy as well spoken who's successful, there's
gonna be plenty of haters out there too. And given
his style, just the little bit that we've seen over
the years, you know, it's really more. When he became
a Tampa Bay Buck, he was kind of out in
the public more, at least, you know, the press conferences
(44:45):
and doing other things. And now since he's retired, I
think he's gonna be polarizing. I think he's gonna be
very polarizing with what he calls games because he's not
going to be afraid of giving his opinion. I don't
think he's gonna be afraid at all of criticizing, and
that's really what that job entails. So I'm fascinated to
see how this is all going to work out, how
(45:07):
it's going to be absorbed, which d bag on on
X or whatever else or Instagram or something that's going
to have a comment to make about somebody said.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Where would they be sending that comment from.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
It could be from their parents' basement, it could be
from wherever they're living, you know, where they feel like
they're really big in their community, but no one really knows.
Speaker 6 (45:29):
Them, right, you know, outside of their quote unquote community.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
It's it's all in things like that. But it doesn't matter.
That's the funny thing is, it doesn't matter who these
guys are. And Tom Brady's the greatest of all time.
There will be people who try to take issue with
something that he says, which is always fascinating to me.
Speaker 6 (45:47):
It's like, why do you care that much. But people do.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
They love sports, they love their team, and they're willing
to defend them, even versus a guy who's won seven
Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
They're also going to be quick to judge.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
They're going to because anything you do, and I'm sure
you gut you guys have called games before and done
radio before the first one in comparison to the one
you do, you know in week ten or the different Yeah,
And so if he comes out and maybe it's a
little rocky the first game, there's gonna be people that go.
And they gave his spot, gave Greg Golsen spot to
(46:19):
him for this, and it's like, dude, give him a
little bit of time. I know what he's making, I
know who he is. I know there's anticipation, but it's
gonna take him time to probably find his rhythm through
all this stuff, and he's probably gonna get significantly better
through the course of the ste.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
I think he's finding that rhythm in that time now,
like Tony Romo's gotten worse. Okay, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
I would not even begin to compare the two of them,
for the simple fact that if you know who Tom
Brady is, you know his preparation is going to be
through the roof.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
That's why I think he's just gonna get better and better.
Speaker 6 (46:53):
I was gonna say that there might there might not
be more polar opposite.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Well, but that's my point is that Tony Romo.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
It felt like because of that, he's gone in the
opposite direction. Where's Brady? If he struggles Week one? I
think he's just going to get better and better throughout
the year.
Speaker 6 (47:07):
Can I be honest though, too?
Speaker 4 (47:08):
I feel like there's a lot of folks behind the
scenes who pushed promo to be favorable. And I'm not
going to completely out everything, but there was such a
strong push behind the scenes for him to be liked
and for him to be like, hey, he's our number
one guy. Because of the move that CBS made was controversial.
(47:29):
Phil Simms had the greatest Super Bowl performance ever ever, arguably,
I guess you want to put it that way, and
you moved on from a guy who had been doing
a good job. Who did a good job at least
that's my opinion of it, for a guy who had
never I mean, that job entails having to call a
Super Bowl, and there's probably a common thought out there
(47:50):
that like, hey, how can you call this if you've
never been to one? So it's controversial, Like people feel like,
if you're in that broadcast booth, you you have to
have at least been able to say you've been there.
Maybe not even win it, but at least been there.
There's a lot of executives, a lot of people who
feel that way, and so when they went with Romo,
(48:11):
he obviously didn't have any of that in his history.
Speaker 6 (48:14):
I mean, again, the success of Tom Brady compared to
Romo is is not even competent.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
I mean and even you can go a step further, like,
look out, tom Brady takes care of his body, how
he trains, how he prepares everything else, how he portrays himself.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
It's not even comparable.
Speaker 4 (48:32):
So you have this really stark contrast between the two
where when Fox hires tom Brady, like there's no justification,
Like they don't need to come out and say, hey, guys,
we need to like tom Brady's gonna be really good
at this, Like they don't need to do that. His
resume immediately speaks for itself. It's one of the reasons
why he warrants what he's getting paid and why you
(48:52):
know executives will go to this and make this move
because they know that to the audience, he comes in
with immediate credibility, even though he's got no experience of
doing this job because of what he did in the
prior job that he's talking about on TV, and whereas
with Romo, there's still a lot of skepticism, at least
when he initially took over the job, and so there
(49:14):
was a lot of people behind the scenes who were
pushing to make sure you talk favorably, make sure you're excited,
to make sure you're talking about how great it's gonna be,
great he's gonna be There was a lot of that
going on, and then as you heard him do the job,
and as things wore on, you're like, wait a second,
this isn't really what we kind of thought we were
(49:34):
signing up for here.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
I mean, I think he missed a game for a
golf tournament. If not mistaken most.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Positive lily, Yeah, I think he qualified for some tournament
and missed a game, And I got I want to say,
that was like two or three years ago, so I
can't imagine Tom Brady's gonna pull that off.
Speaker 3 (49:56):
But I do also think this all the love that.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
As I said, you almost said my name of there.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
I was like, don't worry one, I'm not good enough
at golf to actually make something where I would be
in that situation.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
And too, yeah, you're you're my Brady. Okay, I'm oyl
that's cutey.
Speaker 4 (50:13):
I think you're actually misconstring this story. By the way,
he didn't end up missing the game. I think he
would have ended up missing the game, but he missed
the cut, So I understand. I think this was like
five years ago, but at least this was like that
it was a Vikings game. I think that's that was
what it was.
Speaker 5 (50:33):
Well, I think to the to Brady's point, to Jonas's point,
I think it's still the idea that he's not all
in right, there's still that there's still the idea that
if he made the cut, he would have missed the game.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
So I just don't I don't.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
I know that they're there, everybody is is and at
their level they have a level of of you know,
multiple things that you're doing, all right, you're diverse and
what it is you have going on. I just don't
think that Tom Brady is going to at the point
(51:12):
in time which he starts calling games, will have anything
on his plate that is more important than his focus
and him nailing what it is he's going to do
and calling these games. I just do not just knowing
how he is and the times that I I mean,
the dude is as competitive as like I've seen I've
(51:33):
been at Preaked this with him. The way they gamble
and the way they hang out, all them dudes together,
it's also super competitive.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Don't you think that The fact that Greg Olsen's getting
all this love and Greg Olsen did a great job,
and the fact that there is a lot of discussion
out there about why would you do this?
Speaker 3 (51:52):
Yeah, Like you don't think.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Brady's hearing all that going, Oh you don't think I
could do that good of a job? Like, if he's
that competitive, that's just going to bleed over into this.
Speaker 6 (52:01):
Are you saying he's got the red ass Hell?
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yes, all he's been hearing is I mean, for for
all of this, you're going to give up all you know,
greg Olsen's job to Tom Brady. What is like Tom
Brady's never done this before. There's just there's no guarantees
this is going to work out. People are pointing to
all these other examples of guys like Drew Brees and
Joe Montana and all these other guys that it didn't
work guys. I just I think he's going to find
(52:25):
a way and will himself to be great at this.
Speaker 3 (52:28):
Jerry Rice in the Booth? Was Jerry Rice in the
booth too? Oh yeah, oh, I remember Emmitt Smith. Go
look up Jerry Rice.
Speaker 6 (52:36):
In the Booth.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
One of the hardest things I think is you have
to have a chip on your shoulder, I really do
to be as aggressive, to really have the desire to
want to continue to keep pursuing it like you did
in the previous career.
Speaker 6 (52:53):
And look, some of these guys make so much money nowadays.
It's like it's like an afterthought of what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (52:58):
It fits their lifestyle, it helps pay some of the
bills coming in right, still gives them some notoriety. Stayed
around the game, but it's not everything to them. Yeah,
And I think to your point about Tom Brady, like
he's just not wired that way right, Like he's it's
almost like the Jordan documentary where he's making up things to.
Speaker 6 (53:15):
Be motivated about. Yeah, Like I would bet he's got
like you don't.
Speaker 4 (53:20):
You don't think I deserve to be paid thirty seven
point five million dollars like he might have that up
on a mirror side.
Speaker 5 (53:25):
I pay somebody like pays his kids just to talk trash.
Speaker 6 (53:30):
What was what was that for? There was a skit,
I swear to god it was on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
There was a skit where it was like like you
got somebody who needs to be like humbled whatever, like
you can pay dudes to call you and talk.
Speaker 6 (53:44):
Trash to you. It was amazing. I wish I could
find this. Oh, it was amazing. I'm trying. I got
I gotta find this to share this with you guys.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Well, I mean, listen, it's gonna be a lot of
fun to watch. And you know, if if Tom Brady
he does want to show up on this show, you know,
we've got a dump button ready to go. You know,
we are ready to go and we will press it if.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
He needs it.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
We got him, So no problem there, Lee, we got
everything's good. We're all clear, nobody got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
All right, We're good
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