July 9, 2024 • 37 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Joe Burrow lays out how to improve the Pro Bowl. An all-time great calls out the fans. Gilbert Arenas uses “WE” when talking Lakers offseason, and the James family is owning the news cycle.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the best of two pros and a couple
Joe with Lamar Arings Brady Winn and Jonas Knox on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So Joe Burrows got an idea, all right, he has
figured out an idea now.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
He was on with Pardon My Take.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
He talked about a bunch of stuff, learning piano to
try and help with his recovery from the wrist surgery,
talking about you know, being you know, forgotten as an
injured NFL player, Like a lot of that stuff we
broke down yesterday, just the optimism around Cincinnati or skepticism
if you will, about them heading into this upcoming season.
(00:40):
We discussed a lot of that on the Herd yesterday.
But one thing that he did also talk about on
Pardon My Take was his idea on how to change
and kind of redo the NFL schedule if we get
to this eighteen games and by if, I mean when
we get to these eighteen game seasons that the owners
are going to be pushing for here any minute.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So here was.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Joe Burrow's idea on what the schedule could look like.
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It'd be cool to do a normal bye week schedule
that it is now, like have it spread out, but
then like week thirteen, do like the Pro Bowl break
where you're doing like the seven on seven and all
the skills challenges like the NBA does, because I think
that would get more ratings for the Pro Bowl. And
then it would also give everybody that bye week going
into like the last six games, the guys that are
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injured that would be able to potentially come back. And
you want your best players out there. As a league,
you want them in the last six weeks of the season.
You want your best players on the field. So I
think that would be a smart idea.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
As a player, what do you think about Joe Burrow's idea?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
And theory makes sense, It makes sense to have an
all star break within the season in theory. I just
I don't know. Football is just one of those It's
just one of those sports. To me, as a purist,
I just wouldn't want anything to create risk of injury.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
That would be if I was a coach, if I.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Were an owner of an organization, a GM or president,
I would be mortified at them doing skills challenges and
stuff like that. You remember a while back, it's been
a while now when they were doing the flag football
game on the sand. They did it on the beach,
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and the one dude was really super talented, big up
and coming rookie star or.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Whatever it was was Edwards.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
It sounds that sounds about right, and tore his leg
out the frame and was never the same To me,
I just look at it more from a cautionary approach.
It to me sounds good in theory, but if you're
gonna do it as an All Star break, then do
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it in a way where there is literally no zero
zero chance of any type of injury taking place, because
you're talking about the best players, the best players in
the league, and in a week where they should probably
be resting their their bodies, resting their minds, getting rehab,
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getting ready for the next run of an entirely different season.
I just in theory it sounds good, but I just
think the physicality, the nature of football versus basketball.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You know, they do it. I think they do.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
They do All Star Break in hockey too, don't they. Yeah,
and and and it's all like, do they do an
All Star Game or do they do skills challenges?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, they do the game, they do an All Star Games,
skills challenge all that stuff. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I just I don't know, man.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
I just think the physicality of football and what that
looks like and what it brings to the table. I mean,
would I want my guys mid season doing something so
trivial to what the outcome of the season, what that represents.
(04:32):
I like the idea of an all Star break in
the center of the season. I really like that, like
the acknowledgments. But with that being said, what if what
I mean you're talking eight game? He said eight game
because it's seventeen games, right, seventeen now even.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well it's seventeen. This is if they get to the
eighteen games.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
So okay, so you get the eighteen games at week
but what do you say week at week thirteen?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So where you have your bye weeks kind of spread
out like you have now to door. Some teams have
it week four or five. Some teams have it, and
then once you get to week thirteen, that's like a
league wide by week and.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
That okay, so week thirteen and you have five games
left after you come back.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I would venture to say.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
At that point you probably do know who your MVP is,
But a lot could happen in five games, right a
lot could happen in five games, but for the most part,
you probably know who your MVPs are. You probably know
who your all stars are for the season at that
point with five games remaining. So I could see that
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making sense in theory to announce your Pro bowlers you're
all pros. Hell, maybe you even do you know, like now,
you don't do awards, can't do awards there, you gotta wait,
you gotta wait.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I just I look at it and I go if
I'm a player, like in the midst of a long
ass season.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, like yeah, like I want to like actually rest,
Like I don't give a rip about the Pro Bowl.
I don't care about the Pro Bowl festivities during the year.
If I want to get to that, I'll do it
after the season. And to your point on the Robert
Edwards stuff and his injury, like that's one that people
sometimes forget about because he was like his rookie year,
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he was fantastic with New England, like he was great,
and then he gets to that sand football game it
was basically flag football during the Pro Bowl in Hawaii,
and he almost had to have his leg amputated, like
because he ripped up his knee so bad and just
was never able to really plague and he didn't come
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back to the NFL until like four years later. He
played sparingly with the Miami Dolphins for a couple of
games here or there, but other than that, his career
was completely over. So I'm not like I don't want
any part of any of that stuff during a long season.
I get the idea of having a universal bye week
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to where everybody's got the same bye week. You know,
from a fairness standpoint, that probably makes some sense, But
I just I can't imagine that there's players around the
league that are like, oh, let's throw the Pro Bowl
in there and we can get more people interested in
the Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl's done, like it's over.
When they made the decision to take it out of
Hawaii and move it to Orlando and then Vegas, yeah,
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completely changed, Like it was never the same. It was
never the same. You were there, you know, like they
were just even watching on television. There was something first
time I ever went to Hawaii, when I went to
the stadium, Aloha Stadium, I wanted to go because it
was presented on the Pro Bowl, or was presented at
the Pro Bowl every year, Like, I just wanted to
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see that. And yes, it was run down and it's
you know, it was condemned and they tearing it down,
tore it down, and they're moving on. But there was
something about it that was special and magical because that
was the place where you saw all of these super
teams get together AFC versus NFC, and that's what you
grew up with.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
So tell you what, I had a lot of fun
at cheesecake factory there.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
They do have a cheesecake factory in Waikiki, they do,
by the way, that's it.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
That's it. I had a lot of fun and wykik that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Is a by the way, that cheesecake factory in Wikiki.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Huge damn Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So let me ask you this because I was thinking
about if they did decide that they were going to
do a league wide bye week and they were going
to do a universal bye week in the NFL when
they get to eighteen games, what would the NFL do
to fill time during that week? Like what would be
the move Because if you're not going to do the
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Pro Bowl because it's too risky, you know, to be.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Honest with you, they've been pushing this flag football initiative
so big. I say, do a national championship or world
championship flag football NFL flag football, you know, championship like
the girls, the guys, whatever, whatever they have going on,
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flag football wise, put it, put it on front and center.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Put the spotlight.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Totally on what's going on within flag football, and take
that gazillion dollars of ad space and valued NFL time
and promote promote flag football. Because what will happen with
that is flag football is easier. It's more easy to
(09:56):
adopt worldwide than tackle. Right, it costs less money. It's
just it's more. It's it's something that you can, it
can be implemented and so and now it's becoming an
Olympic sport. I would say start highlighting your initiative around
(10:18):
that and and have the championship rounds being played like
the everything leading up to week thirteen is qualifying to
make that tournament of that day. Now, I'm not sure
how long the games are at the level that you
(10:38):
know they're talking about and they discuss. But if you
turned that into something that obviously has been very big
with women, don't I don't know how it applies to guys. Honestly,
I'm not even sure because it just seems like it's
a very very big initiative for women. But if it
is indeed guys as well, is it going to be
(11:01):
flag football in the Olympics for guys to I don't know.
I'm not sure, But depending on what it is, find
a way to create a almost like a bracket tournament
of the best flag football teams men and women around
the country and bring them to one place and play
(11:25):
it out.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I bet you it would be well received.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know, if you were the you know who's hoping
they do a league wide universal bi week later in
the season the NBA, Because if you're the NBA, put
on your best games and your best teams that entire week.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Let me ask you a question, that's a week off.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
If it's the NBA and they're just getting going, they're
just getting going at that point, right.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
And there is.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
An NFL sanction, there's an NFL marketed and advertised World
Flag Football Championship and it's airing instead of an NFL game.
Are you watching the NBA games or are you watching
that that that championship.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Tournament Probably the NBA to be honest with.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Really, hell, yes, if it's the NFL advertising it and
marketing it and the way they're championing it, championing it,
and it's it's now a sport that is in the
Olympics and we're going into an now, I mean, this
is an Olympic year. But I just I think that
(12:36):
it would be intriguing, especially if you bring the look
at this way, who does entertainment of a game better
than the NFL?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Who does it production wise?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
They can't. Nobody can touch the NFL. So if you
bring that production aspect to the table, because you have
a league wide bye week, if you bring those resources
to the table, you're telling me the storylines that they
create with these these people that are participating and what
takes place within the games wouldn't be interesting enough for
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you to want to watch it.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's flag football. It's not the same.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
See, but your your scope. You're limiting your scope because
you're saying it's not the same as taxing.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, but listen, I'm a defensive minded guy, like I
think about the serengetti and you're not getting you're not
getting the serengetti when you're playing flag football. Okay, I
need sanctioned violence. That's what I want. I want people.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You haven't been watching the NFL lately?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What do you mean what you say? You calling it
flag football? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, look, I mean whatever, whatever they're going.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
To decide on the eighteen game season is coming, Joe Burrow.
You know, NFL players all know it. It'll be here soon,
and they got to figure out what they do with
that second bye week. But adding that second bye week
would also lead to what many people have been campaigning for.
Super Bowl weekend would be on President's Day weekend, and
(14:12):
thus the Monday after the super Bowl would be a
day off for a lot of people, not us.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know, we're we're grinding away here.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I'm taking off.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You are. See how that goes on?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Take off? You take off?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I'm like Lee, see how that goes over the bosses?
Oh you guys taking off day after super Bowl? My ass.
Scott and Don would beat our brains and if we
did that.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
But don't think that's gonna happen. My guy, my man,
my man, my man. I know you need some rest,
but it ain't. It ain't post super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
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Speaker 2 (15:04):
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Speaker 3 (15:08):
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Speaker 7 (15:08):
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Speaker 8 (15:14):
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Speaker 1 (15:20):
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Speaker 9 (15:24):
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Speaker 5 (15:45):
Good thing.
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Speaker 3 (15:50):
After that, we turn it over to our executive producer.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Lee.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Laugh. Good morning, everybody, Good morning, Jonas, Good morning, LeVar.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Guys, in case you haven't been watched wibbled and you
might have missed the fact that Novak Djokovic beat Holgarrun
in straight sets.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yea, hey Brady uh.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
And in in case you did miss that, you might
have missed this awesome postgame rant from Djokovic telling the
crowd to get in line, take a listen, and.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
To all those people that have chosen to disrespect the
play player in this case me have.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
A good night night, good night, very good night. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I'm hoping that they were just commenting on RUNA and
that they weren't disrespecting you. They were, they were, they were.
I don't accept it. No, no, no, I know they were.
I know they were changing for Rune. But that's an
excuse to also boo. I listen, I've been I've been
on the tour for more than twenty years, so trust me.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I know all the tricks.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
I know how it works. It's fine, it's fine, it's okay.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I focus on.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Irrespectful people to have respect that paid a ticket to come.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And watch tonight.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I love tennis and love tennis and appreciate the players
and the effort that the players put in here, I
played in much.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
More hostile environment. Trust me, you guys can't touch.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Me, all right.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
That's when you know you a goat. Yeah, that's why
you know you are a goat.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Nothing beats a bad guy promo and professional wrestling, and
nothing beats an athlete telling the crowd they suck.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And they can't do a damn thing about it.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Good for him, you swing a racket player. God, I
get it though.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Damnang bang bang, and everybody was talking to Booty.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He just got like man told him, like listen and
just see. You know, if you guys think you are
any good at this, you're not. Basically just clown the
entire crowd. Well, good for him. You know you are
the You are the man. By the way, Uh, Lee,
we've got time for one more.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Yeah, in case you.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Have been living under a rock.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Haley Welsh, the hawk Tua Girl, did a promo for
the Hard Rock Guitar Hotel. Guess what jersey she was wearing. Yeah,
there you go, Fort Lauderdale Flora that.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Was hosting her. You do does sound mister Midnight.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
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Speaker 2 (18:39):
By the way, if you were listening to close Out
Last Hour, you heard details from Lee to lap Bar
executive producer over the course of the weekend. Guy had
a long weekend, did a lot of damage, got on
the liverloo early, and just continue.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
To go down that slide all the way through. He
left out a.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Key, a key part of the story. Left out.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, I was thinking about another part.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh oh wow, leave that right there.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Lee went to the Lee went to the movies, Yes
he did. Yeah, there's a reason I left that part out.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
What happened he was the movie?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
I don't know, because I uh, I fell asleep during
the trailers and I did not wake up until people
got up for the credits.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
By the way, how slaughtered must you have been day
drinking that you slept through in a movie theater?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
How many people were in the theater?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
It was a full theater, so a full theater in fact, yeah,
in fact, I got the handicap seat because it was
a full theater, and.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You slept through all day, just keep sleeping because you
was in the handicap chair.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
So this guy's handicap. We clearly need to leave him
wherever he is right there? Does he need assistance that
they have to wake you up to leave?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I don't remember exactly how that part happened, but I
I remember being.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Very refreshed after that.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I know this that when Lee sleeps, he sleeps, because
when we were in I think we were in Colombia
at one of the Graduate hotel. Yeah, we were at
the Graduate Hotels remote that we did out there, and
we went out and took an uber back and it
wasn't like a long uber drive, but it was a
little bit long of a walk, and I was like, yeah,
(20:25):
I'll just get an uber.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And he was in no shave to walk anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And he was out cold, like closed the door, completely
out cold. When the uber driver turned the corner to
pull into the front of the hotel, he didn't have
a seatbelt on and went flying across the seat and
didn't wake up.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Literally didn't wake up wake up, like literally.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Throwing somebody down a flight of stairs and just checked it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Not even it might be hurt when I wake up,
we'll worry about that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Not even one of those didn't even know his eyes
to be like, oh, do I have a scratch or anything,
just completely out cold like sleep. Lee's like one of
those that big piece of luggage they just throw around
on baggage claim. They're like, oh, whatever, it's not going
to go anywhere, Like we'll just throw that down the
heap and then somebody else will figure it out.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah. He just when he sleeps, he sleeps movie theater
and all. So I slept through the Northridge earthquake and
I was in Northridge.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
He just sleep through earthquakes. I've only felt like literally
one or two earthquakes since being here. Like I'll wake up,
stuff will be on the floor. People will be like, oh,
my gosh, did you feel the earthquake.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I'd be like, I'll sleep okay.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It happened at the ninety four earthquake. For people listening,
I was in southern California, Like just to give you perspective,
they was listed as a six point seven And I
remember my dad at the time because we lived in
Thousand Oaks and that's like, you know, twenty twenty five
minute drive away from Northridge. And I remember my dad
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at the time saying, there's no way that was a
six point seven seven one. He's like, it was had
to be more than a six to seven because places
got destroyed. I mean it was well, and the after
shocks were in the fives. Yeah, whole morning. Japan uh
marked it as a seven to one. But if the
insurance company sees it as over a seven, then it
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raises everything. So they marked it as a six nine
or six five.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah. Oh, they was about to get smashed.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, and you were in Northridge and you slept through
the entire thing.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
How old are you at the time? Was six or seven? Okay,
so he probably had like what two three beers?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, that was pretty what do you mean what listen?
He was taking his time? Damn. Well listen, you.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Got how old was he? Six or seven? Three? Four? Beers?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Like two and bottles next to his Ya? Well listen,
what a what a life? What a weekend? Well, I mean,
here's what we do know about what's going on in
the world of sports, and we kind of made the
point that, you know, there's not a lot of action,
(23:18):
especially last night, you had like five six baseball games.
There was a couple of summer league games. But one
of the storylines has been kind of carrying a lot
of people through these difficult times as we wait for
football to start in training camp and all that fun stuff.
Is what the hell's going on with the Los Angeles Lakers?
And I was unaware of this. I did not know
that the Lakers did make a big addition this offseason,
(23:43):
not just Bronnie James, but Gilbert Arenas. And if you
don't think so, why don't you take a listen to
Gilbert Arenas who was on Gil's Arena podcast discussing some
of the deals and rumors about deals that the Lakers
have made so far.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
We didn't offer nobody to know eighty million dolls. Stop man,
stop listening to Vosion, And we didn't offer him no
eighty million. We didn't offer that, damn coach, no seventy million. Man,
y'all crazy, This is crazy talk.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
See, this is why we were the Lakers.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Man, you use our name to get famous, they use
the Laker brand to boost up their their financial status
and other teams. We did not offer these people that
kind of money.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, so I was unaware.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
That he's he's from here. I know, yeah, he's from
And most guys that are from here do that.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
TJ does that all the time on up on game
make sure you too, and then to eleven on.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah Newton to two if you're on the East coach,
damn right.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
But he says like anybody that's from here says like
us my team or or you know, they talk like
they work there or are part of it. So I
understood where he was coming from. But more importantly the content,
the context of the content. I think it's interesting, like
(25:08):
what would be what would be the advantage to Wards
and those guys doing that?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
If anything?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Why playing cat on something like that?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
If anything, I would say woes and a lot of
those guys have been carrying the water for Lebron and
getting his side of the story out before any of
this stuff, like they're the ones that we're trying to
throw out there.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That Yo.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
By the way, Lebron, you know, wanted to be left
out of the JJ Reddick hiring. He had no he
had no input or no saying that he's a fan
of JJ Reddick, but he wanted to leave it up
to the organization like they've been. If anything, they've been
trying to make it look way better than it actually
has gone this off season, which I would argue it's
(25:54):
probably been a great off season for Lebron, James and
the family. I mean, everybody got paid, everybody got drafted.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
They're good.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's just the organization that's, you know, kind of in
a tough spot. And it actually reminds me a little
bit of Kobe Bryant's final years with the Lakers, to
where they gave him that last big deal. He got paid,
but everyone recognized, dude, they're not close to being able
to compete for a title. And Lebron can say whatever
he wants about Oh, I think we're still in contention.
(26:23):
I think we're still in contention. You got worse this
offseason while other teams around got best.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
For certain, they did not get better.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
And it just it just goes back to the original
point of if you had a thought process of We
heard yesterday that it was reported that that Hurley turned
down a difference of like twenty million dollars six years.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Fifty million is what he took at Yukon to down
six or so.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Can you imagine what that man had to hear on
his job conversation I'll say interview, we could say interview.
I guess what did you hear in a job interview
that would make you pass up on a job that
gives you a twenty million dollar pay raise, think about it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I mean it had to be.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
It had to be to him some of the most
egregious ass that you could hear in order for him
to say, yeah, I'm good, I'm good here, I'm not
in need of twenty million dollars. Does not does not
make me feel comfortable or confident in where I can
(27:37):
go and what I can be as a coach, and
where I will end up being, and where I will
end up what I'll end up doing if I take
this job, even if I received the twenty million dollars,
like that, to me to pass up twenty million dollars difference,
that's said something was really really bad.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
It was bad because.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I mean, everybody's got a price, right, It's the old
million dollar man.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I mean, you got to believe that everybody's got a price.
I mean, hey, twenty million you Hey.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I'll tell you. I said it.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I said when we were filling in for the
Herd yesterday, I would play for the worst team in
the league gladly for some of the money that's being
thrown around.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Hey, Bud, he don't party with Diddy though, so it's
kind of like me that like the price tag is
maybe that price tag is a little too deep man.
Maybe it's a too steep. Maybe it's a little too
steep man. Maybe the thing, maybe the things that you
you got to take part in to get that twenty
million dollars different.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Maybe it just ain't worth it.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Who partied with Diddy?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Video surface in there talking about ain't no party like
a Diddy party.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I mean, that's that's out there that them. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I don't use banana, but that's not a term I used.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh yeah, No, there was a there's a picture that
went around where Lebron and I think it was Chris
Paul and was it Carmelo Anthony We're all sitting on
a banana boat just kind of hanging out altogether.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Just it was listen, it's out there. I don't know
if it was photoshopped or not, but it was there.
So I was just wondering if that was like in
at a pool party or because I had no.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Idea that you hung out with Diddy. I had no idea,
but you know, maybe.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Uh, I mean, I'm just saying maybe that was.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The By the way, could you imagine if Danny Hurley
actually came out and said, listen, love the opportunity. Love
Lebron as a player. Cannot say enough good things about
the organization. They treated me nicely. They were great to
my family. The money was great. But you know he
hung out with Diddy. I don't know what to tell
you like that.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I just can't. I can't do it. I just can't
do it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It just but when you put in Danny Hurley, you
put in all the other options that were out there
and potentially available for them to try and acquire this offseason,
and all have chosen. Whether it was Klay Thompson wanted.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
To go to Dallas. You know, there was the old.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, you know, the state income tax and you know
Texas compared to California. Oh okay, So what was the DeMar
DeRozan excuse? Because he's playing a Sacramento And if you
would have told Laker fans for years agoeah, if you
would have told Laker fans years ago that and again
it was a sign and trade and all that, but
I feel like that would be something potentially that Lakers
(30:35):
want to pull off because we've been hearing about DeMar
DeRozan potentially being a Laker for a long time because
he's from out here, and I think he was on
stage with Kendrick Lamar and so people thought, well, you know,
does that mean he's coming back home and are they
trying to work behind the scenes. And he ends up
in Sacramento on a three year deal and not with
Lebron and the Lakers. I just I look at it
and I go, it feels like a lot of teams
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around the NBA got better. It feels like Minnesota took
a big step last year. Denver is going to be
back and they're going to bounce back. And neither one
of those teams were in the finals. Dallas was. They
got better, but not the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Here's a probably question. Here's a trivia question for you.
Who's the most high profile signing that the Lakers have
had this offseason?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Ronnie James pal.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
That's deep.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
I mean when you put it in that, in that
manner and that that frame.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I mean, if we're going to be honest, Bronnie.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
James is the highest profile signing that the Lakers had
this year.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Look, they did this at the end of Kobe's run.
They were playing for headlines, not for titles. And if
we're gonna be honest about it, what is the most
talked about acquisition this entire NBA off season?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Under so fIF pick right, it's been the most talked
about draft pick period, like not even close.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And look, we discussed earlier Jerry Jones and the greatness
of Jerry Jones. The Cowboys are always a talking point,
even when they're mediocre.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
That's the brilliance of it. I'm telling you, you got
to give Lebron James. You have to.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
He's brilliant too. Yes, you have to.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I mean, even if it means his kids like they
going to be in the headlines now. I mean, it's
it's it's amazing marketing. Yeah, it's amazing, Like it's it's
it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, I mean it really is.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
It's just it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And I'm even I'm not even saying that to be
a wise ass. It legitimately is the biggest storyline this
NBA off season, and it's Lebron James who's kind of
behind the scenes orchestrating everything.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I mean, think about right now, where we're at in
this ditch spot of time and space and sports outside
of baseball, think about what what are you what's on
your mind about sports right now? When is Brownie going
to play it right? And what is that going What
(33:11):
are the results going to be? What is that going
to look like? Like that's that's what's going on right now.
If you look at social media, the discussions of this
man just did it at an entire diatribe on how
his son doesn't care about what people say or think
(33:34):
of him, Like what amazing athlete, go athlete, pro player
has to say that has to do interviews about their
son saying that. Think about the amount of mess of
stuff they're hearing for him to to address the media
(33:57):
that way, to him, to address that that type of
question that way, think about what they're saying about him
and his son, like that's that is to me? You
you got to be a different type of special to
be able to shoulder what it is that they're shouldering
right now. And if I'm Lebron, if I'm Lebron James,
(34:20):
I can say I'm the goat. When you're the goat,
you can tell people to kiss your ass, But what
about your son?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Is what does BRONI say?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
The only recourse that he has, the only defense mechanism
that he possibly could execute that makes any type of
sense at this point is not caring. Lebron offered up
the only antidote that makes sense to a young man
that has nothing else to stand on.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
You can't stand.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
On the fact that your dad is the greatest basket
ball one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Can't do it.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
You can't stand on the fact that, despite what y'all say,
I had a dope ass high school career, I had
a dope ass college career, and now I got drafted
to the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
And I'm about to have a dope ass NBA career.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Can't do it, can't win with him, can't do it.
So what are you going to lean on?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Oh, he doesn't care, he doesn't care what y'all said.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Man, I bet you lebron be going in the corner
of his room and his plush, spacious, amazing looking house
or wherever it is that he is in the world,
because they probably living life, doing well, you know what
I mean, and he probably cries in the corner like
what have I done?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'll bet I'll bet Bronny had a sweet room growing up.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Though.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You remember, you remember the movie the Toy with Richard
Pryor Man, that little rich kid.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
They stocked stocked, they stocked a little water with with piranhas.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
By the way, under.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Under the radar until you watch it again and you go,
oh no, this is full blown racist.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Oh it's one of the most racist prejudice bigot it
like storylines, plots, and one of the funniest movies you'll
ever watch.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I wanted a wonder wheel so bad after I saw
him rolling around.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Him the wonder Wheel of the ball. I wanted to
watch so bad. But that kid had every toy you
could post imagine.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
And it wasn't enough. He had to have a person.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
A person just happened to be to have a person,
a black guy, right.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I want him.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I want him.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
He's not for sale. I want him.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
I want him, and he got him.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh man, well look hopefully Bronny had a been.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
I want to get drafted, daddy. I want to play
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
No having a wonder Wheel, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
No no. I want to play in the NBA, daddy.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
By the way, what do they I want that man, but.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I don't care. I want him. Uh, they still make
wonder wheels. If they do, we've got to get our
hands on those
This is the best of two pros and a couple
Joe with Lamar Arings Brady Winn and Jonas Knox on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So Joe Burrows got an idea, all right, he has
figured out an idea now.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
He was on with Pardon My Take.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
He talked about a bunch of stuff, learning piano to
try and help with his recovery from the wrist surgery,
talking about you know, being you know, forgotten as an
injured NFL player, Like a lot of that stuff we
broke down yesterday, just the optimism around Cincinnati or skepticism
if you will, about them heading into this upcoming season.
(00:40):
We discussed a lot of that on the Herd yesterday.
But one thing that he did also talk about on
Pardon My Take was his idea on how to change
and kind of redo the NFL schedule if we get
to this eighteen games and by if, I mean when
we get to these eighteen game seasons that the owners
are going to be pushing for here any minute.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So here was.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Joe Burrow's idea on what the schedule could look like.
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It'd be cool to do a normal bye week schedule
that it is now, like have it spread out, but
then like week thirteen, do like the Pro Bowl break
where you're doing like the seven on seven and all
the skills challenges like the NBA does, because I think
that would get more ratings for the Pro Bowl. And
then it would also give everybody that bye week going
into like the last six games, the guys that are
(01:27):
injured that would be able to potentially come back. And
you want your best players out there. As a league,
you want them in the last six weeks of the season.
You want your best players on the field. So I
think that would be a smart idea.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
As a player, what do you think about Joe Burrow's idea?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
And theory makes sense, It makes sense to have an
all star break within the season in theory. I just
I don't know. Football is just one of those It's
just one of those sports. To me, as a purist,
I just wouldn't want anything to create risk of injury.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
That would be if I was a coach, if I.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Were an owner of an organization, a GM or president,
I would be mortified at them doing skills challenges and
stuff like that. You remember a while back, it's been
a while now when they were doing the flag football
game on the sand. They did it on the beach,
(02:36):
and the one dude was really super talented, big up
and coming rookie star or.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Whatever it was was Edwards.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
It sounds that sounds about right, and tore his leg
out the frame and was never the same To me,
I just look at it more from a cautionary approach.
It to me sounds good in theory, but if you're
gonna do it as an All Star break, then do
(03:09):
it in a way where there is literally no zero
zero chance of any type of injury taking place, because
you're talking about the best players, the best players in
the league, and in a week where they should probably
be resting their their bodies, resting their minds, getting rehab,
(03:34):
getting ready for the next run of an entirely different season.
I just in theory it sounds good, but I just
think the physicality, the nature of football versus basketball.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You know, they do it. I think they do.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
They do All Star Break in hockey too, don't they. Yeah,
and and and it's all like, do they do an
All Star Game or do they do skills challenges?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, they do the game, they do an All Star Games,
skills challenge all that stuff. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I just I don't know, man.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
I just think the physicality of football and what that
looks like and what it brings to the table. I mean,
would I want my guys mid season doing something so
trivial to what the outcome of the season, what that represents.
(04:32):
I like the idea of an all Star break in
the center of the season. I really like that, like
the acknowledgments. But with that being said, what if what
I mean you're talking eight game? He said eight game
because it's seventeen games, right, seventeen now even.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well it's seventeen. This is if they get to the
eighteen games.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
So okay, so you get the eighteen games at week
but what do you say week at week thirteen?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So where you have your bye weeks kind of spread
out like you have now to door. Some teams have
it week four or five. Some teams have it, and
then once you get to week thirteen, that's like a
league wide by week and.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
That okay, so week thirteen and you have five games
left after you come back.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I would venture to say.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
At that point you probably do know who your MVP is,
But a lot could happen in five games, right a
lot could happen in five games, but for the most part,
you probably know who your MVPs are. You probably know
who your all stars are for the season at that
point with five games remaining. So I could see that
(05:48):
making sense in theory to announce your Pro bowlers you're
all pros. Hell, maybe you even do you know, like now,
you don't do awards, can't do awards there, you gotta wait,
you gotta wait.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I just I look at it and I go if
I'm a player, like in the midst of a long
ass season.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, like yeah, like I want to like actually rest,
Like I don't give a rip about the Pro Bowl.
I don't care about the Pro Bowl festivities during the year.
If I want to get to that, I'll do it
after the season. And to your point on the Robert
Edwards stuff and his injury, like that's one that people
sometimes forget about because he was like his rookie year,
(06:31):
he was fantastic with New England, like he was great,
and then he gets to that sand football game it
was basically flag football during the Pro Bowl in Hawaii,
and he almost had to have his leg amputated, like
because he ripped up his knee so bad and just
was never able to really plague and he didn't come
(06:51):
back to the NFL until like four years later. He
played sparingly with the Miami Dolphins for a couple of
games here or there, but other than that, his career
was completely over. So I'm not like I don't want
any part of any of that stuff during a long season.
I get the idea of having a universal bye week
(07:12):
to where everybody's got the same bye week. You know,
from a fairness standpoint, that probably makes some sense, But
I just I can't imagine that there's players around the
league that are like, oh, let's throw the Pro Bowl
in there and we can get more people interested in
the Pro Bowl. The Pro Bowl's done, like it's over.
When they made the decision to take it out of
Hawaii and move it to Orlando and then Vegas, yeah,
(07:34):
completely changed, Like it was never the same. It was
never the same. You were there, you know, like they
were just even watching on television. There was something first
time I ever went to Hawaii, when I went to
the stadium, Aloha Stadium, I wanted to go because it
was presented on the Pro Bowl, or was presented at
the Pro Bowl every year, Like, I just wanted to
(07:55):
see that. And yes, it was run down and it's
you know, it was condemned and they tearing it down,
tore it down, and they're moving on. But there was
something about it that was special and magical because that
was the place where you saw all of these super
teams get together AFC versus NFC, and that's what you
grew up with.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
So tell you what, I had a lot of fun
at cheesecake factory there.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
They do have a cheesecake factory in Waikiki, they do,
by the way, that's it.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
That's it. I had a lot of fun and wykik that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Is a by the way, that cheesecake factory in Wikiki.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Huge damn Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So let me ask you this because I was thinking
about if they did decide that they were going to
do a league wide bye week and they were going
to do a universal bye week in the NFL when
they get to eighteen games, what would the NFL do
to fill time during that week? Like what would be
the move Because if you're not going to do the
(08:58):
Pro Bowl because it's too risky, you know, to be.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Honest with you, they've been pushing this flag football initiative
so big. I say, do a national championship or world
championship flag football NFL flag football, you know, championship like
the girls, the guys, whatever, whatever they have going on,
(09:24):
flag football wise, put it, put it on front and center.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Put the spotlight.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Totally on what's going on within flag football, and take
that gazillion dollars of ad space and valued NFL time
and promote promote flag football. Because what will happen with
that is flag football is easier. It's more easy to
(09:56):
adopt worldwide than tackle. Right, it costs less money. It's
just it's more. It's it's something that you can, it
can be implemented and so and now it's becoming an
Olympic sport. I would say start highlighting your initiative around
(10:18):
that and and have the championship rounds being played like
the everything leading up to week thirteen is qualifying to
make that tournament of that day. Now, I'm not sure
how long the games are at the level that you
(10:38):
know they're talking about and they discuss. But if you
turned that into something that obviously has been very big
with women, don't I don't know how it applies to guys. Honestly,
I'm not even sure because it just seems like it's
a very very big initiative for women. But if it
is indeed guys as well, is it going to be
(11:01):
flag football in the Olympics for guys to I don't know.
I'm not sure, But depending on what it is, find
a way to create a almost like a bracket tournament
of the best flag football teams men and women around
the country and bring them to one place and play
(11:25):
it out.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
I bet you it would be well received.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know, if you were the you know who's hoping
they do a league wide universal bi week later in
the season the NBA, Because if you're the NBA, put
on your best games and your best teams that entire week.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Let me ask you a question, that's a week off.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
If it's the NBA and they're just getting going, they're
just getting going at that point, right.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
And there is.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
An NFL sanction, there's an NFL marketed and advertised World
Flag Football Championship and it's airing instead of an NFL game.
Are you watching the NBA games or are you watching
that that that championship.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Tournament Probably the NBA to be honest with.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Really, hell, yes, if it's the NFL advertising it and
marketing it and the way they're championing it, championing it,
and it's it's now a sport that is in the
Olympics and we're going into an now, I mean, this
is an Olympic year. But I just I think that
(12:36):
it would be intriguing, especially if you bring the look
at this way, who does entertainment of a game better
than the NFL?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Who does it production wise?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
They can't. Nobody can touch the NFL. So if you
bring that production aspect to the table, because you have
a league wide bye week, if you bring those resources
to the table, you're telling me the storylines that they
create with these these people that are participating and what
takes place within the games wouldn't be interesting enough for
(13:16):
you to want to watch it.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's flag football. It's not the same.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
See, but your your scope. You're limiting your scope because
you're saying it's not the same as taxing.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, but listen, I'm a defensive minded guy, like I
think about the serengetti and you're not getting you're not
getting the serengetti when you're playing flag football. Okay, I
need sanctioned violence. That's what I want. I want people.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You haven't been watching the NFL lately?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What do you mean what you say? You calling it
flag football? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, look, I mean whatever, whatever they're going.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
To decide on the eighteen game season is coming, Joe Burrow.
You know, NFL players all know it. It'll be here soon,
and they got to figure out what they do with
that second bye week. But adding that second bye week
would also lead to what many people have been campaigning for.
Super Bowl weekend would be on President's Day weekend, and
(14:12):
thus the Monday after the super Bowl would be a
day off for a lot of people, not us.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know, we're we're grinding away here.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I'm taking off.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You are. See how that goes on?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Take off? You take off?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I'm like Lee, see how that goes over the bosses?
Oh you guys taking off day after super Bowl? My ass.
Scott and Don would beat our brains and if we
did that.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
But don't think that's gonna happen. My guy, my man,
my man, my man. I know you need some rest,
but it ain't. It ain't post super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
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have missed this awesome postgame rant from Djokovic telling the
crowd to get in line, take a listen, and.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
To all those people that have chosen to disrespect the
play player in this case me have.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
A good night night, good night, very good night. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I'm hoping that they were just commenting on RUNA and
that they weren't disrespecting you. They were, they were, they were.
I don't accept it. No, no, no, I know they were.
I know they were changing for Rune. But that's an
excuse to also boo. I listen, I've been I've been
on the tour for more than twenty years, so trust me.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I know all the tricks.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
I know how it works. It's fine, it's fine, it's okay.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I focus on.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Irrespectful people to have respect that paid a ticket to come.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And watch tonight.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I love tennis and love tennis and appreciate the players
and the effort that the players put in here, I
played in much.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
More hostile environment. Trust me, you guys can't touch.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Me, all right.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
That's when you know you a goat. Yeah, that's why
you know you are a goat.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Nothing beats a bad guy promo and professional wrestling, and
nothing beats an athlete telling the crowd they suck.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And they can't do a damn thing about it.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Good for him, you swing a racket player. God, I
get it though.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Damnang bang bang, and everybody was talking to Booty.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He just got like man told him, like listen and
just see. You know, if you guys think you are
any good at this, you're not. Basically just clown the
entire crowd. Well, good for him. You know you are
the You are the man. By the way, Uh, Lee,
we've got time for one more.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Yeah, in case you.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Have been living under a rock.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Haley Welsh, the hawk Tua Girl, did a promo for
the Hard Rock Guitar Hotel. Guess what jersey she was wearing. Yeah,
there you go, Fort Lauderdale Flora that.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Was hosting her. You do does sound mister Midnight.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
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Speaker 2 (18:39):
By the way, if you were listening to close Out
Last Hour, you heard details from Lee to lap Bar
executive producer over the course of the weekend. Guy had
a long weekend, did a lot of damage, got on
the liverloo early, and just continue.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
To go down that slide all the way through. He
left out a.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Key, a key part of the story. Left out.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, I was thinking about another part.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh oh wow, leave that right there.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Lee went to the Lee went to the movies, Yes
he did. Yeah, there's a reason I left that part out.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
What happened he was the movie?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
I don't know, because I uh, I fell asleep during
the trailers and I did not wake up until people
got up for the credits.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
By the way, how slaughtered must you have been day
drinking that you slept through in a movie theater?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
How many people were in the theater?
Speaker 9 (19:34):
It was a full theater, so a full theater in fact, yeah,
in fact, I got the handicap seat because it was
a full theater, and.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You slept through all day, just keep sleeping because you
was in the handicap chair.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
So this guy's handicap. We clearly need to leave him
wherever he is right there? Does he need assistance that
they have to wake you up to leave?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I don't remember exactly how that part happened, but I
I remember being.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Very refreshed after that.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I know this that when Lee sleeps, he sleeps, because
when we were in I think we were in Colombia
at one of the Graduate hotel. Yeah, we were at
the Graduate Hotels remote that we did out there, and
we went out and took an uber back and it
wasn't like a long uber drive, but it was a
little bit long of a walk, and I was like, yeah,
(20:25):
I'll just get an uber.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And he was in no shave to walk anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And he was out cold, like closed the door, completely
out cold. When the uber driver turned the corner to
pull into the front of the hotel, he didn't have
a seatbelt on and went flying across the seat and
didn't wake up.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Literally didn't wake up wake up, like literally.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Throwing somebody down a flight of stairs and just checked it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Not even it might be hurt when I wake up,
we'll worry about that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Not even one of those didn't even know his eyes
to be like, oh, do I have a scratch or anything,
just completely out cold like sleep. Lee's like one of
those that big piece of luggage they just throw around
on baggage claim. They're like, oh, whatever, it's not going
to go anywhere, Like we'll just throw that down the
heap and then somebody else will figure it out.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah. He just when he sleeps, he sleeps movie theater
and all. So I slept through the Northridge earthquake and
I was in Northridge.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
He just sleep through earthquakes. I've only felt like literally
one or two earthquakes since being here. Like I'll wake up,
stuff will be on the floor. People will be like, oh,
my gosh, did you feel the earthquake.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I'd be like, I'll sleep okay.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It happened at the ninety four earthquake. For people listening,
I was in southern California, Like just to give you perspective,
they was listed as a six point seven And I
remember my dad at the time because we lived in
Thousand Oaks and that's like, you know, twenty twenty five
minute drive away from Northridge. And I remember my dad
(22:00):
at the time saying, there's no way that was a
six point seven seven one. He's like, it was had
to be more than a six to seven because places
got destroyed. I mean it was well, and the after
shocks were in the fives. Yeah, whole morning. Japan uh
marked it as a seven to one. But if the
insurance company sees it as over a seven, then it
(22:22):
raises everything. So they marked it as a six nine
or six five.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah. Oh, they was about to get smashed.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, and you were in Northridge and you slept through
the entire thing.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
How old are you at the time? Was six or seven? Okay,
so he probably had like what two three beers?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, that was pretty what do you mean what listen?
He was taking his time? Damn. Well listen, you.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Got how old was he? Six or seven? Three? Four? Beers?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Like two and bottles next to his Ya? Well listen,
what a what a life? What a weekend? Well, I mean,
here's what we do know about what's going on in
the world of sports, and we kind of made the
point that, you know, there's not a lot of action,
(23:18):
especially last night, you had like five six baseball games.
There was a couple of summer league games. But one
of the storylines has been kind of carrying a lot
of people through these difficult times as we wait for
football to start in training camp and all that fun stuff.
Is what the hell's going on with the Los Angeles Lakers?
And I was unaware of this. I did not know
that the Lakers did make a big addition this offseason,
(23:43):
not just Bronnie James, but Gilbert Arenas. And if you
don't think so, why don't you take a listen to
Gilbert Arenas who was on Gil's Arena podcast discussing some
of the deals and rumors about deals that the Lakers
have made so far.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
We didn't offer nobody to know eighty million dolls. Stop man,
stop listening to Vosion, And we didn't offer him no
eighty million. We didn't offer that, damn coach, no seventy million. Man,
y'all crazy, This is crazy talk.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
See, this is why we were the Lakers.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Man, you use our name to get famous, they use
the Laker brand to boost up their their financial status
and other teams. We did not offer these people that
kind of money.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, so I was unaware.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
That he's he's from here. I know, yeah, he's from
And most guys that are from here do that.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
TJ does that all the time on up on game
make sure you too, and then to eleven on.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah Newton to two if you're on the East coach,
damn right.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
But he says like anybody that's from here says like
us my team or or you know, they talk like
they work there or are part of it. So I
understood where he was coming from. But more importantly the content,
the context of the content. I think it's interesting, like
(25:08):
what would be what would be the advantage to Wards
and those guys doing that?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
If anything?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Why playing cat on something like that?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
If anything, I would say woes and a lot of
those guys have been carrying the water for Lebron and
getting his side of the story out before any of
this stuff, like they're the ones that we're trying to
throw out there.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That Yo.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
By the way, Lebron, you know, wanted to be left
out of the JJ Reddick hiring. He had no he
had no input or no saying that he's a fan
of JJ Reddick, but he wanted to leave it up
to the organization like they've been. If anything, they've been
trying to make it look way better than it actually
has gone this off season, which I would argue it's
(25:54):
probably been a great off season for Lebron, James and
the family. I mean, everybody got paid, everybody got drafted.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
They're good.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's just the organization that's, you know, kind of in
a tough spot. And it actually reminds me a little
bit of Kobe Bryant's final years with the Lakers, to
where they gave him that last big deal. He got paid,
but everyone recognized, dude, they're not close to being able
to compete for a title. And Lebron can say whatever
he wants about Oh, I think we're still in contention.
(26:23):
I think we're still in contention. You got worse this
offseason while other teams around got best.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
For certain, they did not get better.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
And it just it just goes back to the original
point of if you had a thought process of We
heard yesterday that it was reported that that Hurley turned
down a difference of like twenty million dollars six years.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Fifty million is what he took at Yukon to down
six or so.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Can you imagine what that man had to hear on
his job conversation I'll say interview, we could say interview.
I guess what did you hear in a job interview
that would make you pass up on a job that
gives you a twenty million dollar pay raise, think about it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I mean it had to be.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
It had to be to him some of the most
egregious ass that you could hear in order for him
to say, yeah, I'm good, I'm good here, I'm not
in need of twenty million dollars. Does not does not
make me feel comfortable or confident in where I can
(27:37):
go and what I can be as a coach, and
where I will end up being, and where I will
end up what I'll end up doing if I take
this job, even if I received the twenty million dollars,
like that, to me to pass up twenty million dollars difference,
that's said something was really really bad.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
It was bad because.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I mean, everybody's got a price, right, It's the old
million dollar man.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I mean, you got to believe that everybody's got a price.
I mean, hey, twenty million you Hey.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I'll tell you. I said it.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, I said when we were filling in for the
Herd yesterday, I would play for the worst team in
the league gladly for some of the money that's being
thrown around.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Hey, Bud, he don't party with Diddy though, so it's
kind of like me that like the price tag is
maybe that price tag is a little too deep man.
Maybe it's a too steep. Maybe it's a little too
steep man. Maybe the thing, maybe the things that you
you got to take part in to get that twenty
million dollars different.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Maybe it just ain't worth it.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Who partied with Diddy?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Video surface in there talking about ain't no party like
a Diddy party.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I mean, that's that's out there that them. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I don't use banana, but that's not a term I used.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh yeah, No, there was a there's a picture that
went around where Lebron and I think it was Chris
Paul and was it Carmelo Anthony We're all sitting on
a banana boat just kind of hanging out altogether.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Just it was listen, it's out there. I don't know
if it was photoshopped or not, but it was there.
So I was just wondering if that was like in
at a pool party or because I had no.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Idea that you hung out with Diddy. I had no idea,
but you know, maybe.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Uh, I mean, I'm just saying maybe that was.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
The By the way, could you imagine if Danny Hurley
actually came out and said, listen, love the opportunity. Love
Lebron as a player. Cannot say enough good things about
the organization. They treated me nicely. They were great to
my family. The money was great. But you know he
hung out with Diddy. I don't know what to tell
you like that.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I just can't. I can't do it. I just can't
do it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It just but when you put in Danny Hurley, you
put in all the other options that were out there
and potentially available for them to try and acquire this offseason,
and all have chosen. Whether it was Klay Thompson wanted.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
To go to Dallas. You know, there was the old.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, you know, the state income tax and you know
Texas compared to California. Oh okay, So what was the DeMar
DeRozan excuse? Because he's playing a Sacramento And if you
would have told Laker fans for years agoeah, if you
would have told Laker fans years ago that and again
it was a sign and trade and all that, but
I feel like that would be something potentially that Lakers
(30:35):
want to pull off because we've been hearing about DeMar
DeRozan potentially being a Laker for a long time because
he's from out here, and I think he was on
stage with Kendrick Lamar and so people thought, well, you know,
does that mean he's coming back home and are they
trying to work behind the scenes. And he ends up
in Sacramento on a three year deal and not with
Lebron and the Lakers. I just I look at it
and I go, it feels like a lot of teams
(30:57):
around the NBA got better. It feels like Minnesota took
a big step last year. Denver is going to be
back and they're going to bounce back. And neither one
of those teams were in the finals. Dallas was. They
got better, but not the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Here's a probably question. Here's a trivia question for you.
Who's the most high profile signing that the Lakers have
had this offseason?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Ronnie James pal.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
That's deep.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
I mean when you put it in that, in that
manner and that that frame.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I mean, if we're going to be honest, Bronnie.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
James is the highest profile signing that the Lakers had
this year.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Look, they did this at the end of Kobe's run.
They were playing for headlines, not for titles. And if
we're gonna be honest about it, what is the most
talked about acquisition this entire NBA off season?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Under so fIF pick right, it's been the most talked
about draft pick period, like not even close.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And look, we discussed earlier Jerry Jones and the greatness
of Jerry Jones. The Cowboys are always a talking point,
even when they're mediocre.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
That's the brilliance of it. I'm telling you, you got
to give Lebron James. You have to.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
He's brilliant too. Yes, you have to.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I mean, even if it means his kids like they
going to be in the headlines now. I mean, it's
it's it's amazing marketing. Yeah, it's amazing, Like it's it's
it's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah, I mean it really is.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
It's just it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And I'm even I'm not even saying that to be
a wise ass. It legitimately is the biggest storyline this
NBA off season, and it's Lebron James who's kind of
behind the scenes orchestrating everything.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I mean, think about right now, where we're at in
this ditch spot of time and space and sports outside
of baseball, think about what what are you what's on
your mind about sports right now? When is Brownie going
to play it right? And what is that going What
(33:11):
are the results going to be? What is that going
to look like? Like that's that's what's going on right now.
If you look at social media, the discussions of this
man just did it at an entire diatribe on how
his son doesn't care about what people say or think
(33:34):
of him, Like what amazing athlete, go athlete, pro player
has to say that has to do interviews about their
son saying that. Think about the amount of mess of
stuff they're hearing for him to to address the media
(33:57):
that way, to him, to address that that type of
question that way, think about what they're saying about him
and his son, like that's that is to me? You
you got to be a different type of special to
be able to shoulder what it is that they're shouldering
right now. And if I'm Lebron, if I'm Lebron James,
(34:20):
I can say I'm the goat. When you're the goat,
you can tell people to kiss your ass, But what
about your son?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Is what does BRONI say?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
The only recourse that he has, the only defense mechanism
that he possibly could execute that makes any type of
sense at this point is not caring. Lebron offered up
the only antidote that makes sense to a young man
that has nothing else to stand on.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
You can't stand.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
On the fact that your dad is the greatest basket
ball one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Can't do it.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
You can't stand on the fact that, despite what y'all say,
I had a dope ass high school career, I had
a dope ass college career, and now I got drafted
to the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
And I'm about to have a dope ass NBA career.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Can't do it, can't win with him, can't do it.
So what are you going to lean on?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Oh, he doesn't care, he doesn't care what y'all said.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Man, I bet you lebron be going in the corner
of his room and his plush, spacious, amazing looking house
or wherever it is that he is in the world,
because they probably living life, doing well, you know what
I mean, and he probably cries in the corner like
what have I done?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'll bet I'll bet Bronny had a sweet room growing up.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Though.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You remember, you remember the movie the Toy with Richard
Pryor Man, that little rich kid.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
They stocked stocked, they stocked a little water with with piranhas.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
By the way, under.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Under the radar until you watch it again and you go,
oh no, this is full blown racist.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Oh it's one of the most racist prejudice bigot it
like storylines, plots, and one of the funniest movies you'll
ever watch.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I wanted a wonder wheel so bad after I saw
him rolling around.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Him the wonder Wheel of the ball. I wanted to
watch so bad. But that kid had every toy you
could post imagine.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
And it wasn't enough. He had to have a person.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
A person just happened to be to have a person,
a black guy, right.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I want him.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I want him.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
He's not for sale. I want him.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
I want him, and he got him.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh man, well look hopefully Bronny had a been.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
I want to get drafted, daddy. I want to play
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
No having a wonder Wheel, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
No no. I want to play in the NBA, daddy.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
By the way, what do they I want that man, but.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I don't care. I want him. Uh, they still make
wonder wheels. If they do, we've got to get our
hands on those
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