June 2, 2023 • 40 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, LaVar Arrington and Geoff Schwartz react to the Nuggets winning a decisive game 1 over the Heat in Denver. Mac Jones might hit his stride with Bill O’Brien at OC and Geoff rips the SEC for sticking with an 8-game conference schedule. Plus, theme parks and Vegas pools on “ICYMI.”
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
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And if you're concerned about hearing my voice right out
the gate, don't be. It's just me, it's your friendly guy,
it's LeVar. You know one thing that had to take place,
Jonas got a Brady suspended, so I had to go
ahead and get Jonas suspended. Now, well we're two guys down,
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but we're one pro up again. I got my man,
the dynamic personality himself, My man, Jeff Schwartz is going
to join us today. What's happening, my guy? How are
you feeling? Good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Good morning to you too, Glad to be here. I
hopefully I don't gay anyone suspended today. So yeah, yeah,
you know, I'm gonna make sure it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
There's just a whole lot of beef going on, Jeff,
you know what I mean, Like, you know, Uh, Brady
forgot Jonas's birthday, so he's been suspended indefinitely. Uh Jonas, Actually,
well I will leave that. Uh that that's private internal
business as to what he did why I got him suspended.
But no, yeah, I'm the last man standing. So you
(02:07):
know what I brought in, my guy. Obviously, you got
to bring in a protector, somebody that goes up front
that's sturdy and strong. So you know what, we got
to get you in the mix, man, and that's why
you're here. Like, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'll take sturdy and strong any day. Yeah, I'm in
for that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I love that sounds great, that's awesome, awesome all right,
we got a big show plan for everybody today. We'll
talk quarterbacks, SEC schedules. I know you you're feeling pretty
good about that conversation. A lot to get to, but
first let's obviously discuss and talk about last night's game.
The Nuggets take a decisive game one over the Heat.
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What was your takeaways from the game, Jeff, Like, what
what'd you enjoy most?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, I feel like sports are fun for many reason.
I don't feel like I know that right there, and
one of them is that, you know, they can be unpredictable. Right,
you turn on a game, you don't know what's gonna happen,
and other times last night happens, which is extremely predictable, LaVar. Right,
if you were to say, okay, how does this game
one go? But you know what, the Nuggets, who don't
lose at home, play really well, and Miami, whose role
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players played eitherir mind against the Celtics, kind of went
back down to earth and that's what we got last night. Right.
The even argue that Nuggets didn't play like the best
they can play, but they played well. They won three
or four quarters. They were upheaded, you know, twenty points
heading the fourth quarter, ish right, And obviously they've had
some issues in the fourth quarter scoring points in the playoffs,
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but I think part of that is, like, Okay, we
just kind of shut down a little bit, and the
Miami's role players just didn't play as well. Martin three points,
Strews zero points, right like things. You know, Duncan Robinson
three points. Now, are they gonna play that bad the
rest of the series? I would say no, But it
was very predictable that in Game one on the road
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in the altitude, after shooting way above their season averagers
against Boston, they would come back down to earth a
little bit in Game one. So to me, this almost
shows nothing what the series can be because I figured
this was going to happen game one. The question to
me is what adjustments get made. You know, Denver I
think can play better. We know Miami can play better
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on on on offense, And to me, I think we
we rightfully praise Eric Spolstra, the Heat coach, for the
great job he's done, but Mike Wilds a pretty good
coach too, And you saw early on the matchup of
finding Aaron Gordon on smaller players down low. You know,
I think joke, I think Joker had three field goal
attempts in the first half. Yeah, up nineteen points. Like
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he though, they moved the ball around well, and I
think the size Denver's long. They were just all long,
and I think that really affected Miami's ability to get
some clean shots. They did not go to the paint,
did Miami, And in two three foul shots, Like it
wasn't two foul shots, two foul shots the entire game.
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They weren't going the pay like they weren't. They weren't
being aggressive, and so I think game one was expected
for me. I don't know if it was for you,
And I think game two will be when I see
like how the adjustments are made. Is this going to
be a series or will this be over fast?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know, it's interesting that you mentioned the offense and
how stagnant it was for the Miami Heat. Here's what
star player Jimmy Butler had to say about their offenseive woes.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Why do you think the offense struggled so much to
find its rhythm throughout the night.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Probably because we shot a lot of jump shots, myself
probably leading that pack instead of putting pressure on the rim,
getting layups, getting to the free throw line. You know,
when when you look at it during the game, they
all look like the right shots. And I'm not saying
that we can't as a team make those, but got
to get more layups, got to get more free throws,
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and whenever you miss and don't get back, the game
gets out of hand kind of quickly. We gave up
to any layups, which we can also can't have happened,
but that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
As a whole.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
We got to attack the room a lot more, myself included.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, Jeff, what I take from that is you
got comfortable with a team that just wasn't playing consistently
hard nosed, hardcore, bang you defense in the Celtics series.
I think they got comfortable. And I think why they
were shooting those jump shots and why they weren't getting
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the fouls and going to the free throw line is
because the defense was so aggressive and it was so
in place for the Denver Nuggets that the Miami Heat
was forced to do other things based upon necessity not
I think Jimmy Butler comes from a good place and
saying what he's saying, they do need to hit those shots,
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because if you hit those shots, I think that does
allow for them to put Denver in a stressful situation
where they have to think about how they're going to
d up against the Heat and who they have to
d up against. Obviously, they got to pay attention to
Jimmy Butler, they got to pay attention to Bam, but
they weren't making those mid range shots, they weren't making
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those jumpers, and they weren't getting second tries at at
trying to get to the hole. I think it created
a lot of complications, a lot of duress and stress
for this Miami Heat team, not only from the offensive
perspective of not making the ball making the shots, but
it also was the transition of getting back on on
defense and transitioning from offensive minded into being defensive minded.
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And we all know that, you know, those guys can
light it up for Denver. I mean, you saw, as
you mentioned, Joker didn't have to do very much because
as they collapsed down on him and as they rotated
the defense to him, he was finding the open guys,
and those open guys were making making things happen. I mean,
Joker also was overpowering dudes that time. But yeah, but
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that just seems to be what Denver's game has been
has been overpowered, wereing their their opponents. Like you said,
they're big, they're long, and and you know what, they
shoot really well. I think they they I think they
find such a good balance and their attack against teams,
and like you said, they can play better. So now
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the question becomes if both teams can play better. And
one thing that you mentioned that has been a big conversation,
should we not take too much out of this loss
and them playing the way that they played because of
the altitude, Like have you played in Denver? Like talk
to us about altitude.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I didn't find it to be that big of a
deal during the game. I felt after the game it
was pretty rough, Like I remember Monday, my lungs were
burning a little bit. But like during the game, again,
I'm not running quite the distances that the Miami heater
are during the game. But I didn't think it was
that big of an issue. But it obviously can. I
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don't that to me was not the reason that they lost.
I mean, you can get tired, you know, more easily,
but I didn't feel that that was, you know, one
of the main factors about why they lost. Didn't look
like particularly tired to me, as far as you know,
their shots were not short early in the game. They
just missed a lot of their shots. But I think
(09:22):
it can I just think when you when you play there,
there's so much talk about the altitude right there, there's
there's so much you know, I promise you there. Trainers
talk to them about it, right Hey, guys, we have to.
You know, they're nutritious. You have to eat differently, you
have to prepare, and it kind of gets in your
head a little bit, and then when things aren't going well,
you start reverting back to it. Well, well it must
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be the altitude that that must be the reason why,
like you just use that as a crutch for for
poor play. I didn't did you notice it? I didn't
notice that.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I didn't notice it. I really didn't. But you know,
but I do know Ryan Clark, and I know that
he felt it and had to do with it because
of his condition. But I mean a lot of people
that I've spoken to said that they were impacted by
the elevation. I mean some people said it's a real thing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, I mean, obviously Ryan had the sickle cells. That's
a that's a specific you know, he could even he
could even go he couldn't even play, he couldn't even
go to Denver for for his health. Yeah, I don't
think that's a small factor in this game. I think
what Butler said is pretty interesting because what it feels
like to me is he's saying he's acknowledging that they
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tried to kind of run an offense that worked last series,
expecting the role players to shoot the same way, like
we're gonna make our threes again because we did it
last series. And I understand that idea of that, but
each series the NBA Playoffs is different, and I think
one of the reasons I don't don't think, I know
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one of the reasons Miami is here is because the
role players have played well. They were a negative point
differential this season. Like they've had they've had issue scoring,
they've had shoes keeping up with with other teams there.
They're the eight seed for a reason, and none of
that worked last night. And I think Butler's correct and say, hey,
we have to go back to getting the ball inside,
to creating foul shots. Look foul shots. Obviously, I know
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I's always talking about reps, like foul shots can be
created right you go in the paint, you get contact,
you get the line, they're free points. Right like that,
there's a reason why you try to get to the
line and be more physical inside. I think Butler acknowledged, like, yeah,
our game plan was we try to run back the
Celtics game plan with a different team, Like, we can't
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do that. We can't just rely on our on our
guys being out of their minds. Again, I don't think
Max Shrew's is going to go oh for ten from
the field again, and I think Martin will have more
than three points. But I think his point is well taken,
like we got to go back to getting the ball inside,
to stressing the Numbet defense a little bit inside out
to get some better shots and not just rely on
on a bunch of our you're C and D and
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any options to shoot fifty percent from three point line.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Indeed, that's Jeff Schwartz right there. He's filling in and
filling in nicely. Obviously he's a pro of pros. Jonas
and Brady are taking the weekend off. I still got
my man lead to live here though, last of the Mohicans. Yeah,
well you know it is what it is coming up
next on two pros and a Cup of Joe live
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from the tyraq dot Com studios. We'll talk about, well,
a quarterback that seemingly came in with so much fanfare,
so much potential, kind of had like a cool, little
cool period, but could heat back up. Who is he
and why is he heating up? You'll find that out soon,
and you'll find that out in a few minutes on
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Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
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Speaker 1 (13:05):
All right, welcome back into Two Pros and a Cup
of Joe. I'm LeVar Arrington. I got my man Jeff
Schwartz with me filling in for Jonas and mister Brady Quinn.
Jeff like, what's it like getting up this early?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
How are you feeling right now?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You're you're I mean you're on the West Coast. How
are you feeling? I mean, you're up every day?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I did, Yeah, I gotta do it all.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I mean I normally get up at six thirty.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's not much of a not much of a difference.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Okay, Okay, I do. I do a six am show
Sunday Mornings here with with Anny Furman. So I'm you know,
the older I get, I've become more of a morning person,
less of a night person.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's it's harder to sleep, right, It's no.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I sleep fine. It's just a struggle to stay awake,
like a I stay up very later in football season, right,
I'm up to midnight, you know, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday.
So the offseason, though, I go to bed, like last
night was a struggle to stay away for that game.
Like it is a struggle. Like if I get past halftime,
(14:08):
I'm good. It's like that fifteen minute halftime world, You're like,
all right, let's fight it, let's make it happen. And
you know, being a fan of West Coast teams, I
grew up in Los Angeles, you know, you just don't
get to watch your West Coast tams very often. But
I'm like watching. You know, I stay up to watch
a Laker playoff game when it starts at ten o'clock Eastern,
it's not gonna happen, just as what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, you mentioned staying up late during football season, so
I guess that's a great transition in a segue, Mac Jones,
you know, twenty twenty one, his first year in his
completion percentage was pretty decent, sixty seven point six. His
passing yards, he was at three thousand, eight hundred and one.
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He was just shy of making it to four thousand
passing twenty two tds. He did throw thirteen interceptions, but
his was a ninety two point five. Coming into this year,
we could say it's a little different, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
While his completion percentage was at sixty five percent and
kind of close to what it was in his rookie season,
his yardage was down. He was down to two thousand
and nine hundred and ninety seven, where he was just
shy of three thousand yards, and he threw fourteen tds,
which was a little bit of a ways away from
the twenty two. And then he threw less interceptions, but
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his quarterback rating was eighty four point eight. A lot
of questions, a lot of criticisms where they am were
they out as a is Belichick a fan? You know
what's going to take place with that? Well, Mac Jones
seems to think that he may have his best season
coming up this year, and you know what, don't take
my word for it, Jeff and people. Yeah, listen to
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what Mac had to say.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
It's been really good. It's been normal. I think everything
he's done so far has than really good. I think
the communication is the most important part. And trust. I
think it all starts with that. When you're with a
new coach and he's done a great job and controlling
the room, I feel like everyone's on the same page.
Just got to continue to do it. It's a marathon,
not a sprint, so we know that. And he's obviously
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had great experience in the NFL and at Alabama where
I was at. So there's a lot of good stuff
that we've talked about and just looking forward to working
with him. There's a lot of familiarity, but it's a
new relationship still and we're just working on that trust.
That's what I care about. I'm very, very much so
a trustworthy person and that's what we're trying to build.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Okay, so clearly Mac did not trust his offensive coordinator
or whatever his title was last year. Clearly it was
not a normal way of running an offense, because why
would he say it's normal, this has been normal. It's
almost like he's saying this is digestible, it's understandable. It
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makes sense to me, and that's why I feel confident.
Trust is definitely the key, Jeff. I mean, obviously, if
you're going to to play play your heart out, you
want to play your heart out knowing that I can
trust that what's being taught to me, what's being handed
to me as the game plan is something that you know,
(17:16):
I feel confident about because of the brain of the
person that is distributing that information. What was your takeaway
from what what macads say?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, Lafar, would you trust an offensive coordinator who called defense?
Like you know, I'm like, that's what he had, Like
he had a defensive coordinator calling the offensive players last year.
That's correct, Like, of course he didn't trust that person,
And like, I mean, so that's not a surprise to me.
I'm very happy for him and for the Patriots they
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went with a real offensive coordinator. And see what you
want about Bill O'Brien as a general manager of the Texans
wasn't great. D you can coach offense though, Like his
team's won in Houston. He made the playoffs four out
of sixty, He won the Vision four out of six years.
And he like he can he can coach. He coached
at Alabama. He just coached Bryce Young for the last
two seasons. Guy can coach. General manager not so great.
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But he's not the general manager in in New England, right,
He's just there to coach offense. And so mac Jones
is getting an opportunity to work with a real offenseive
coordinator again, And this has got to be refreshing for
him because he has, at the minimum an opportunity to
be better with better coaching, Like he's he's going to
be better this year. Like I think we understand that
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it's gonna be better. The question is at what degree, right,
Like is he good enough in that in that even
in that division with Josh Allen, with Aaron Rodgers with
a healthy tua? Is is he one of the top
in his division? But he has a chance now with
a real offense coordinator, like this is a big deal
to upgrade from Matt Patricia and Joe Judge to Bill O'Brien.
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And I can't imagine how excited he is to get
that opportunity and he has to continue to work. I
know he made a comment about how he maybe didn't
put as much effort and a preparation last season. He
was vacation too much and he's kind of recommitted, which
you know, all young players I have that moment in
their career where they realized like, yeah, I wasn't doing
what I needed to do to be the best I
(19:10):
can be. I think we all have that. It all
happens to all of us, right at some point you
realize like, yeah, I thought I was working hard, but
I really wasn't. It took me to my fifth year
to like really understand that, like, oh, yeah, I gotta it. Kids,
gotta do a little bit more. I'm gonna do a
little bit more. And for Matt Jones, it happened between
your year, year two and year three, and it's important
milestone for a player to get that. It seems like
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he has gone that now he has better coaching and
the question is, you know, do they have enough wide receivers?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Off it's long gonna be good enough, but at the minimum,
LeVar he has proper coaching, which is a big step
forward for that for that offense.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Mm hmmm. Hmm. It'd be interesting to see if he
can take some steps forward. Obviously, there have been a
lot of discussion points about Matt Jones and what that
looks like in terms of what what's going to take
place with him, So I'm interested to see if he
can can improve. I think he will improve. I think
that was a big hire for New England to get
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Bill O'Brien back and to be able to help them
with offense. He is an offense of guru, no doubt
about that. So we'll see how that all plays out.
In a matter of moments, we're gonna talk SEC football schedule,
that eight game conference schedule. There there's an interesting twist
to it that my man Jeff Schwartz is gonna talk
to us about, and I'm gonna talk with him about it,
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but first we're gonna go to my man Brian Finley.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Four.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Nice little update, what you got b fiens LeVar and Jeff.
Good morning to both of you guys. Yes, and as
you guys mentioned, the NBA Finals Game one was last night,
one of four to ninety three. It went to the
Nuggets way in big part due to Nicole Jokichan his
triple double. He and Jamal Murray actually teamed up for
fifty three points, so more than half of his team's
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points of their team's points coming from those two guys.
Game two is coming up on Sunday, and there is
a chance that Miami's Tyler Hero could be ready in
time to play in that one, a stand out for
Miami as he works his way back from a surgically
repaired right hand by the way. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
spoke to the media yesterday right before tip off of
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Game one of the NBA Finals and relayed to all
that the final decision on John Moran's punishment has been
made internally, but that will not go out and be
made public until after the finals. And this is tied
to Moran now having multiple occurrences where he has been
seen in a video post on social media with a
gun in his hand. These Celtics are going to keep
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their thirty four year old head coach Joe Missoula for
next season after a disappointing and challenging Game seven where
his team lost in the Eastern Conference Finals. With that,
let's get it back to LeVar Arrington and Jeff Schwartz,
who are manning both sides of the line and now
teaming up. Bam. I like that. I like that a
lot brown friendly. Yeah, I liked it. It was good.
(21:58):
Is it all right? Yeah? You know what else I like?
You know what else?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I like?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
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hashtag flip the turf to real grass. All right, sec
football schedule, it will stay with an eight game conference schedule. Now, Jeff,
there's been a whole interesting conversation about maintaining the rivalry games,
the great games, and how the rotations work around that.
(22:44):
Talk to us a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
First of all, how many times can you sign that
petition to play on grass fields? Can I sign that?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
Sticks, turf sticks, sign me up, me up for that.
Uh So, Look, okay, I love college football, right, I
cover it for for a living full time. It's a
it's a great sport, but it has a lot of problems, right,
and part of it is scheduling. And I understand the
SEC is the best conference, at least in the top right.
I mean, there's no disagreement. You won't find one for
me from for anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Who knows right now. Yeah, you're they're they're the best.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I would argue that are they the deepest conference?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That Big ten is the deepest, the deepest? Yeah, I
agree with you there.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I think I will say I'll throw my Pack twelve
hat in the ring on some of the conversation for
that this year, the PAC twelve is pretty good, you know.
But nonetheless, we have a scheduling problem in in in
college football. Right, You're the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball,
you have an equal kind of an equal schedule, right, Like, Yeah,
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some years of the NFL you have an easier schedule,
but that's on rotation, right, You're on a rotation and
a lot of it's based off your record. Right, the
SEC has no incentive to change your schedule, So I
get why they're not doing it. We was scheduling a problem.
Right when the Big Ten has thirteen of fourteen schools
that play ten Power five conference opponents this season, right,
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the Big twelve has eleven of fourteen schools, the Pac
ten has ten of twelve, the ACC has ten to fifteen,
the SEC has two of fourteen, two of fourteen. LeVar
and I understand that they're doing this because it helps
them with competitive balance. But they're going to a sixteen
team conference next season with a guess two seasons from now,
(24:32):
right with Oklahoma and Texas, and they're stilling eight conference games.
Conturble has to find a way to try to have
more uniform scheduling because otherwise you're going to get you
a twelve team playoff with six SEC teams in there.
Because more conference games is more more losses, right, it's
more variance. It's tougher to play those games. That is,
to play Northwest Tech State in week twelve if you're Alabama,
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that is to play another conference opponent who is better.
And we have to find a way in college football too,
if we're gonna go to a twelve team playoff, we
have to find a way for me to have scheduling
more uniform, whether it is everyone does eight conference games
non conference games, there has to be more incentive to
make this a thing that we're all part of in
college football. Not the SEC is an outlier.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Whatever they do, well, you propose like well you think
the solutions.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Non conference games? It should be pretty simple, right, you
gonna have a sixteen teen conference? How often? Like part
of expanding is to play each other, right or just
to expand to expand.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean, I would assume it would be to play
each other. I mean, and maybe if you look at
it from the standpoint of if you're talking about you
will meet possibly you know, in the championship round, because
I guess if you if you if you have too
many teams while building a mega conference, you're not going
to have enough obviously weeks in the in the year
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to play. So if you if you're breaking it down
in a way where I mean, I almost feel like
you get to a point of where one side, it's
almost like the NFC and the AFC one side kind
of may play the other side like one part of it,
you know, like you break it down into different different
(26:15):
divisions within within that distinction. I mean that if they
continue to grow as big as they're growing, you would
have to assume that they're going to have to adopt
some type of scheduling that would model, like you said,
in a I guess structure, where you could be able
to kind of schedule it in a way where it
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Or we need to also not hold non conference losses
where you schedule tough as weighted as we do, right,
Because if you're going to say, okay, we need to
schedule tougher, which I agree with, and make these matchups
and if you lose one of those and then twelve
team planoffings solves some of that, it can't be the
end of your playoff journey right to lose one of
(26:59):
those tough games. Look, again, George is the best team
in college football. I bet on them to win again
this year. Like this is not at all saying that
they're not they're not up to task this year. But
Leavart they play UT Martin Ball State and UAB is
three of their four non conference games. Yeah, like come on,
come on, right, like like really.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do you think?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You think? And turning into mega conferences you do away
with the non conference games and you just stay all
in conference.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It might get to that at some point if the
conferences expand like expected right where you know, the thought is,
you know, ten years from now we have two mega
conferences with thirty six teams in them, right and just
and it might even get to a point where let's
say the you know that's the Big Ten and the
SEC these two mega conferences, it's just one league. I
(27:48):
think they might become their own league and you might
play one sort of out of the league game, but
otherwise just gonna be in this one league. There's one
giant league, and you're gonna pick games in that pool
of teams and obviously be very competitive, but you'd have
your own championship, your own playoff in that league, and
everyone else would play them play. It would be structured
(28:09):
very similarly to kind of the English soccer league right
where you have a top division of lower division, another
lower division and you just kind of play each other
through in your your division. You might play some non
division games, but you have your own playoff in the
in the championship league. Don't your own playff for the
Premier League. It's the same thing, and I think more
collegtable is getting to But until we get there though,
(28:30):
I think we need to have a situation where we
schedule similarly and we don't have you know, again, the
SEC playing two teams have ten games against Power five opponents.
The Big Ten has thirteen of them.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
The Big Ten, and I think they're doing away with
this though, has made it, has made it, you know,
known that you can't play I believe you know more
than one group of five or lower team in your
non conference. So they make it a purpose to make
their teams skins to talk WOU I like, I like that.
I like that thing.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is that because it brings money to those smaller schools. Well,
you think the reason for that.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Is the reason that that they don't do it as.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Much, yeah, or or the reason they want their.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Teams to schedule schedule tough. I know, I think it's
it's because also, you know, fans, I don't know if
you have seen tickets to any to any team, like,
it's it's hard when to have fans show up to
games when they're playing Nobody's like, it's just hard to
do that. And and I think that the Big Ten
is realize that that's not what they want to be.
(29:32):
They don't want to have the Georgia schedule, Like, would
you would you want Penn State to play those three
non conference opponents.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Georgia, Like what U A B and T Martin ball
State and U A B. Well, we played ball State
one year.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
So one of those is fine. I feel like one
is fine.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I wouldn't want I wouldn't want them to play non
competitive games, that's for certain. I would like for the
like they came out this year and play Perdue on
their their opening game. I liked it. Auburn wasn't No,
it was Purdue this year. I think it might have been. No,
it wasn't Auburn the year before, No, it was Purdue
this year. You did play We did play in Auburn
(30:13):
two years in a row as well, two years and
and so and went there one of the years. So
I liked the competitive, competitive non conference game. It almost
in a way replaces the Bowl game, right, I mean,
if you think about it, you don't get to see
a major team from one conference play another team, like
(30:36):
when Oregon came into the Horseshoe and played Ohio State.
Like I loved that game, right, Like that was just
an amazing game. So I think when you get to
see like great matchups from big, strong conferences that take
place early in the year. It definitely makes it worth
watching more so than any other game that is definitely
(30:57):
more of a focal point. If you ask me, well.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
It certainly is fan friendly, right what I mean? I
would say, so, yeah, it makes it, you know, easier
to watch. But you know, again we have to you know,
the Organ Ohio State game is a good is a
good you know good a good one talking about because
you know, either of those teams with a four team playoff,
Like that's a game where it's a great, it's great,
I'm glad. Obviously Organ won the game, but like that's
(31:22):
a game where in our current system, one loss in
that week within this week two game could end up
costing either one of those teams to shot the playoff,
which it did. Ohio State lost to Michigan that year
and they're out of the playoff. Now, twelve team playoff
mostly solves that, right where one loss doesn't hurt you,
But there is no incentive for the SEC schedule tough
because right now we don't look at those games and
(31:45):
give any grace to a team that loses one of those,
right we don't at all. We say, okay, well that's
a loss. You're out. Twelve team playoffs solves a lot
of that, where now we give a little more leeway,
but until we give a little bit of grace to
to to an early season loss. Some of those losses
are close summernomy or you got blown out by Georgia
last year. You know that's account for what it was,
(32:06):
which is we got our butts swooped. But like you
have to to me, you have to give a little
bit of grace if you're gonna ask like myself to
schedule some tougher games early season for competitive reasons. I
think for fans we want to watch those games. You
have to give grace as a as a playoff owder
to some in an early season loss when you're playing
a better opponent, and we don't do that quite yet.
(32:29):
Twelve team playoffs I think solves some of that.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
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Martin lamarg orton, Jeff, how you guys doing this morning?
Speaker 7 (35:10):
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Speaker 7 (35:18):
You go, guys, A story that maybe not only the
pros can relate to, but also anybody who's ever been
to a theme park. Micah Parsons took to Twitter the
other day calling Universal Studios quote a ripoff man. He
had to pay for three different parks at Universal Studios Florida,
that of course being Islands of Adventure, Volcano Bay, and
I think the Water Theme Park, and of course the
(35:39):
usual Universal like two hundred and fifty bucks ahead for
his whole his whole posse there, opposed to what he's
used to, which is the eighty five bucks at Hershey's
Hershey Park. Poor Pa out in Pa. For where you
get to go into any of their their parks. I'm
sure you guys have been there. I'm sure everyone has
been there. Theme parks are just a ripoff in general.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean I would start off, I say, yeah, I
do think that theme parks do get you know, they
they get they're going to get their money. I mean,
whether it's buying souvenirs, hats, you know, different things like that,
they're going they're going to get you. I mean, when
you got to buy a soda and the soda costs
as much as a liquor beverage, an adult beverage, you know,
(36:26):
you just you gotta you gotta be prepared for theme
park prices. That is what i'd say.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know why this is a
surprise to him. This is I mean, they're there are
three different parks. That's what you have to pay to get,
Like you don't you gotta pay for Disneyland and California Adventure, right,
like you're paying for just you can't just get this
taken a good California Adventure. So I don't know, I
don't know it's that big of a deal. But it's
funny when people kind of start like being like adulting
(36:56):
a little bit. What cost does it? And you know,
Micha is an adult now, he's got his own money,
he's he's getting older, he's got a family, Like you
start realizing expensive a family and a couple of money.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
And he hasn't gotten that big contract yet either he's
still on that record.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, I'm sure he's struggling, but nonetheless, again it's it's
about becoming an adult. Like you realize like, oh wait, wait,
this stuff all costs money. Now we have to like
pay to do these things. It's part of being young
mature a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I like that, what else you got lead and you
gotta have the tricks of the trade.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
You gotta sneak in your your.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
That that that's like when you become like he's too
young for that type of adult, you got seasoned. That
that's like when you're in your like I remember like
going to us like football game as a kid, we
sneak in entire meals, like we aren't paying for a
single cent of the Rose Bowl. Like that's that's like,
you know, that's like when your forties and fifties, he's
kind of mature as an adult.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Me and the girl, we're doing a double feature later
today and we're we've already like all right, we're gonna
pack some sandwiches, We're gonna do thing.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That is hilarious. It's hilarious. I think everybody as old
or does that. It's so.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Why not, like you can finish subway sandwich in your
in your jacket, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Right, I mean, and they don't get paid enough to
check for y'all like that either, So if you give
it a little effort, you'll probably be able to make
it in. Yes, all right, Okay, what you got, Lee Fellas.
Speaker 7 (38:26):
In case you missed this, I'm sure you didn't. NFL
coach Raheem Morris, defensive coordinator for the Rams, the other day,
helped save a life out of Las Vegas pool. That
being at the Encore UH nine one was called in.
Uh paramedics first responders were giving uh the usual saving
life mechanisms, but he called out for the a ED,
(38:46):
the automatic external defibrillator, which of course was big news
this year after the whole Damar Hamlin situation. Uh So, yeah,
another situation where the NFL safety and doctors have helped
kind of progress.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, it was a credits you know, the the CPR
kind of a d training that they did with their trainer,
Reggie Scott, and you know kind of you know, that's
just something that I think everyone should should have to
learn how to do with. The AD is fairly easy
to use it. It's it saves a lot of lives
and so I'm glad Morris was able to get it done.
(39:22):
I'm I'm kind of surprised the lifeguard didn't know, right,
Like that's for the part.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
And kinda to that point, that lifeguard missed out on
being a hero at the Encore pool. If you know
about the Encore, the Encore pool is pretty dope. So
Raheem Morris was probably I mean, they had plenty of them,
by the way, but Rahie Marris was probably having a really,
really better time. Yeah, after he was the hero of
(39:51):
saving someone's life, I mean, you just got to assume
he his time went up from there. It was it was,
it was up on on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
You gotta he got he got a kind of a
free ticket to the Encore Beach Club after that week,
I'm sure.
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Speaker 7 (40:08):
In case you missed this, there was a video going
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fan streak in the field.
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He made it all the way around the diamond.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
The back way guy got closest to him was the
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Good morning to you too, Glad to be here. I
hopefully I don't gay anyone suspended today. So yeah, yeah,
you know, I'm gonna make sure it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
There's just a whole lot of beef going on, Jeff,
you know what I mean, Like, you know, Uh, Brady
forgot Jonas's birthday, so he's been suspended indefinitely. Uh Jonas, Actually,
well I will leave that. Uh that that's private internal
business as to what he did why I got him suspended.
But no, yeah, I'm the last man standing. So you
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know what I brought in, my guy. Obviously, you got
to bring in a protector, somebody that goes up front
that's sturdy and strong. So you know what, we got
to get you in the mix, man, and that's why
you're here. Like, let's do this.
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I'll take sturdy and strong any day. Yeah, I'm in
for that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I love that sounds great, that's awesome, awesome all right,
we got a big show plan for everybody today. We'll
talk quarterbacks, SEC schedules. I know you you're feeling pretty
good about that conversation. A lot to get to, but
first let's obviously discuss and talk about last night's game.
The Nuggets take a decisive game one over the Heat.
(02:46):
What was your takeaways from the game, Jeff, Like, what
what'd you enjoy most?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You know, I feel like sports are fun for many reason.
I don't feel like I know that right there, and
one of them is that, you know, they can be unpredictable. Right,
you turn on a game, you don't know what's gonna happen,
and other times last night happens, which is extremely predictable, LaVar. Right,
if you were to say, okay, how does this game
one go? But you know what, the Nuggets, who don't
lose at home, play really well, and Miami, whose role
(03:13):
players played eitherir mind against the Celtics, kind of went
back down to earth and that's what we got last night. Right.
The even argue that Nuggets didn't play like the best
they can play, but they played well. They won three
or four quarters. They were upheaded, you know, twenty points
heading the fourth quarter, ish right, And obviously they've had
some issues in the fourth quarter scoring points in the playoffs,
(03:34):
but I think part of that is, like, Okay, we
just kind of shut down a little bit, and the
Miami's role players just didn't play as well. Martin three points,
Strews zero points, right like things. You know, Duncan Robinson
three points. Now, are they gonna play that bad the
rest of the series? I would say no, But it
was very predictable that in Game one on the road
(03:54):
in the altitude, after shooting way above their season averagers
against Boston, they would come back down to earth a
little bit in Game one. So to me, this almost
shows nothing what the series can be because I figured
this was going to happen game one. The question to
me is what adjustments get made. You know, Denver I
think can play better. We know Miami can play better
(04:16):
on on on offense, And to me, I think we
we rightfully praise Eric Spolstra, the Heat coach, for the
great job he's done, but Mike Wilds a pretty good
coach too, And you saw early on the matchup of
finding Aaron Gordon on smaller players down low. You know,
I think joke, I think Joker had three field goal
attempts in the first half. Yeah, up nineteen points. Like
(04:38):
he though, they moved the ball around well, and I
think the size Denver's long. They were just all long,
and I think that really affected Miami's ability to get
some clean shots. They did not go to the paint,
did Miami, And in two three foul shots, Like it
wasn't two foul shots, two foul shots the entire game.
(04:59):
They weren't going the pay like they weren't. They weren't
being aggressive, and so I think game one was expected
for me. I don't know if it was for you,
And I think game two will be when I see
like how the adjustments are made. Is this going to
be a series or will this be over fast?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know, it's interesting that you mentioned the offense and
how stagnant it was for the Miami Heat. Here's what
star player Jimmy Butler had to say about their offenseive woes.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Why do you think the offense struggled so much to
find its rhythm throughout the night.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Probably because we shot a lot of jump shots, myself
probably leading that pack instead of putting pressure on the rim,
getting layups, getting to the free throw line. You know,
when when you look at it during the game, they
all look like the right shots. And I'm not saying
that we can't as a team make those, but got
to get more layups, got to get more free throws,
(05:53):
and whenever you miss and don't get back, the game
gets out of hand kind of quickly. We gave up
to any layups, which we can also can't have happened,
but that's it.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
As a whole.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
We got to attack the room a lot more, myself included.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, Jeff, what I take from that is you
got comfortable with a team that just wasn't playing consistently
hard nosed, hardcore, bang you defense in the Celtics series.
I think they got comfortable. And I think why they
were shooting those jump shots and why they weren't getting
(06:26):
the fouls and going to the free throw line is
because the defense was so aggressive and it was so
in place for the Denver Nuggets that the Miami Heat
was forced to do other things based upon necessity not
I think Jimmy Butler comes from a good place and
saying what he's saying, they do need to hit those shots,
(06:46):
because if you hit those shots, I think that does
allow for them to put Denver in a stressful situation
where they have to think about how they're going to
d up against the Heat and who they have to
d up against. Obviously, they got to pay attention to
Jimmy Butler, they got to pay attention to Bam, but
they weren't making those mid range shots, they weren't making
(07:08):
those jumpers, and they weren't getting second tries at at
trying to get to the hole. I think it created
a lot of complications, a lot of duress and stress
for this Miami Heat team, not only from the offensive
perspective of not making the ball making the shots, but
it also was the transition of getting back on on
defense and transitioning from offensive minded into being defensive minded.
(07:32):
And we all know that, you know, those guys can
light it up for Denver. I mean, you saw, as
you mentioned, Joker didn't have to do very much because
as they collapsed down on him and as they rotated
the defense to him, he was finding the open guys,
and those open guys were making making things happen. I mean,
Joker also was overpowering dudes that time. But yeah, but
(07:55):
that just seems to be what Denver's game has been
has been overpowered, wereing their their opponents. Like you said,
they're big, they're long, and and you know what, they
shoot really well. I think they they I think they
find such a good balance and their attack against teams,
and like you said, they can play better. So now
(08:17):
the question becomes if both teams can play better. And
one thing that you mentioned that has been a big conversation,
should we not take too much out of this loss
and them playing the way that they played because of
the altitude, Like have you played in Denver? Like talk
to us about altitude.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I didn't find it to be that big of a
deal during the game. I felt after the game it
was pretty rough, Like I remember Monday, my lungs were
burning a little bit. But like during the game, again,
I'm not running quite the distances that the Miami heater
are during the game. But I didn't think it was
that big of an issue. But it obviously can. I
(09:00):
don't that to me was not the reason that they lost.
I mean, you can get tired, you know, more easily,
but I didn't feel that that was, you know, one
of the main factors about why they lost. Didn't look
like particularly tired to me, as far as you know,
their shots were not short early in the game. They
just missed a lot of their shots. But I think
(09:22):
it can I just think when you when you play there,
there's so much talk about the altitude right there, there's
there's so much you know, I promise you there. Trainers
talk to them about it, right Hey, guys, we have to.
You know, they're nutritious. You have to eat differently, you
have to prepare, and it kind of gets in your
head a little bit, and then when things aren't going well,
you start reverting back to it. Well, well it must
(09:44):
be the altitude that that must be the reason why,
like you just use that as a crutch for for
poor play. I didn't did you notice it? I didn't
notice that.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I didn't notice it. I really didn't. But you know,
but I do know Ryan Clark, and I know that
he felt it and had to do with it because
of his condition. But I mean a lot of people
that I've spoken to said that they were impacted by
the elevation. I mean some people said it's a real thing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, I mean, obviously Ryan had the sickle cells. That's
a that's a specific you know, he could even he
could even go he couldn't even play, he couldn't even
go to Denver for for his health. Yeah, I don't
think that's a small factor in this game. I think
what Butler said is pretty interesting because what it feels
like to me is he's saying he's acknowledging that they
(10:35):
tried to kind of run an offense that worked last series,
expecting the role players to shoot the same way, like
we're gonna make our threes again because we did it
last series. And I understand that idea of that, but
each series the NBA Playoffs is different, and I think
one of the reasons I don't don't think, I know
(10:57):
one of the reasons Miami is here is because the
role players have played well. They were a negative point
differential this season. Like they've had they've had issue scoring,
they've had shoes keeping up with with other teams there.
They're the eight seed for a reason, and none of
that worked last night. And I think Butler's correct and say, hey,
we have to go back to getting the ball inside,
to creating foul shots. Look foul shots. Obviously, I know
(11:19):
I's always talking about reps, like foul shots can be
created right you go in the paint, you get contact,
you get the line, they're free points. Right like that,
there's a reason why you try to get to the
line and be more physical inside. I think Butler acknowledged, like, yeah,
our game plan was we try to run back the
Celtics game plan with a different team, Like, we can't
(11:40):
do that. We can't just rely on our on our
guys being out of their minds. Again, I don't think
Max Shrew's is going to go oh for ten from
the field again, and I think Martin will have more
than three points. But I think his point is well taken,
like we got to go back to getting the ball inside,
to stressing the Numbet defense a little bit inside out
to get some better shots and not just rely on
on a bunch of our you're C and D and
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any options to shoot fifty percent from three point line.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Indeed, that's Jeff Schwartz right there. He's filling in and
filling in nicely. Obviously he's a pro of pros. Jonas
and Brady are taking the weekend off. I still got
my man lead to live here though, last of the Mohicans. Yeah,
well you know it is what it is coming up
next on two pros and a Cup of Joe live
(12:26):
from the tyraq dot Com studios. We'll talk about, well,
a quarterback that seemingly came in with so much fanfare,
so much potential, kind of had like a cool, little
cool period, but could heat back up. Who is he
and why is he heating up? You'll find that out soon,
and you'll find that out in a few minutes on
(12:48):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
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
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
All right, welcome back into Two Pros and a Cup
of Joe. I'm LeVar Arrington. I got my man Jeff
Schwartz with me filling in for Jonas and mister Brady Quinn.
Jeff like, what's it like getting up this early?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Man?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
How are you feeling right now?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You're you're I mean you're on the West Coast. How
are you feeling? I mean, you're up every day?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I did, Yeah, I gotta do it all.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I mean I normally get up at six thirty.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's not much of a not much of a difference.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Okay, Okay, I do. I do a six am show
Sunday Mornings here with with Anny Furman. So I'm you know,
the older I get, I've become more of a morning person,
less of a night person.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's it's harder to sleep, right, It's no.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I sleep fine. It's just a struggle to stay awake,
like a I stay up very later in football season, right,
I'm up to midnight, you know, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday.
So the offseason, though, I go to bed, like last
night was a struggle to stay away for that game.
Like it is a struggle. Like if I get past halftime,
(14:08):
I'm good. It's like that fifteen minute halftime world, You're like,
all right, let's fight it, let's make it happen. And
you know, being a fan of West Coast teams, I
grew up in Los Angeles, you know, you just don't
get to watch your West Coast tams very often. But
I'm like watching. You know, I stay up to watch
a Laker playoff game when it starts at ten o'clock Eastern,
it's not gonna happen, just as what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, you mentioned staying up late during football season, so
I guess that's a great transition in a segue, Mac Jones,
you know, twenty twenty one, his first year in his
completion percentage was pretty decent, sixty seven point six. His
passing yards, he was at three thousand, eight hundred and one.
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He was just shy of making it to four thousand
passing twenty two tds. He did throw thirteen interceptions, but
his was a ninety two point five. Coming into this year,
we could say it's a little different, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
While his completion percentage was at sixty five percent and
kind of close to what it was in his rookie season,
his yardage was down. He was down to two thousand
and nine hundred and ninety seven, where he was just
shy of three thousand yards, and he threw fourteen tds,
which was a little bit of a ways away from
the twenty two. And then he threw less interceptions, but
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his quarterback rating was eighty four point eight. A lot
of questions, a lot of criticisms where they am were
they out as a is Belichick a fan? You know
what's going to take place with that? Well, Mac Jones
seems to think that he may have his best season
coming up this year, and you know what, don't take
my word for it, Jeff and people. Yeah, listen to
(15:54):
what Mac had to say.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
It's been really good. It's been normal. I think everything
he's done so far has than really good. I think
the communication is the most important part. And trust. I
think it all starts with that. When you're with a
new coach and he's done a great job and controlling
the room, I feel like everyone's on the same page.
Just got to continue to do it. It's a marathon,
not a sprint, so we know that. And he's obviously
(16:17):
had great experience in the NFL and at Alabama where
I was at. So there's a lot of good stuff
that we've talked about and just looking forward to working
with him. There's a lot of familiarity, but it's a
new relationship still and we're just working on that trust.
That's what I care about. I'm very, very much so
a trustworthy person and that's what we're trying to build.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Okay, so clearly Mac did not trust his offensive coordinator
or whatever his title was last year. Clearly it was
not a normal way of running an offense, because why
would he say it's normal, this has been normal. It's
almost like he's saying this is digestible, it's understandable. It
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makes sense to me, and that's why I feel confident.
Trust is definitely the key, Jeff. I mean, obviously, if
you're going to to play play your heart out, you
want to play your heart out knowing that I can
trust that what's being taught to me, what's being handed
to me as the game plan is something that you know,
(17:16):
I feel confident about because of the brain of the
person that is distributing that information. What was your takeaway
from what what macads say?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, Lafar, would you trust an offensive coordinator who called defense?
Like you know, I'm like, that's what he had, Like
he had a defensive coordinator calling the offensive players last year.
That's correct, Like, of course he didn't trust that person,
And like, I mean, so that's not a surprise to me.
I'm very happy for him and for the Patriots they
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went with a real offensive coordinator. And see what you
want about Bill O'Brien as a general manager of the Texans
wasn't great. D you can coach offense though, Like his
team's won in Houston. He made the playoffs four out
of sixty, He won the Vision four out of six years.
And he like he can he can coach. He coached
at Alabama. He just coached Bryce Young for the last
two seasons. Guy can coach. General manager not so great.
(18:08):
But he's not the general manager in in New England, right,
He's just there to coach offense. And so mac Jones
is getting an opportunity to work with a real offenseive
coordinator again, And this has got to be refreshing for
him because he has, at the minimum an opportunity to
be better with better coaching, Like he's he's going to
be better this year. Like I think we understand that
(18:29):
it's gonna be better. The question is at what degree, right,
Like is he good enough in that in that even
in that division with Josh Allen, with Aaron Rodgers with
a healthy tua? Is is he one of the top
in his division? But he has a chance now with
a real offense coordinator, like this is a big deal
to upgrade from Matt Patricia and Joe Judge to Bill O'Brien.
(18:50):
And I can't imagine how excited he is to get
that opportunity and he has to continue to work. I
know he made a comment about how he maybe didn't
put as much effort and a preparation last season. He
was vacation too much and he's kind of recommitted, which
you know, all young players I have that moment in
their career where they realized like, yeah, I wasn't doing
what I needed to do to be the best I
(19:10):
can be. I think we all have that. It all
happens to all of us, right at some point you
realize like, yeah, I thought I was working hard, but
I really wasn't. It took me to my fifth year
to like really understand that, like, oh, yeah, I gotta it. Kids,
gotta do a little bit more. I'm gonna do a
little bit more. And for Matt Jones, it happened between
your year, year two and year three, and it's important
milestone for a player to get that. It seems like
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he has gone that now he has better coaching and
the question is, you know, do they have enough wide receivers?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Off it's long gonna be good enough, but at the minimum,
LeVar he has proper coaching, which is a big step
forward for that for that offense.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Mm hmmm. Hmm. It'd be interesting to see if he
can take some steps forward. Obviously, there have been a
lot of discussion points about Matt Jones and what that
looks like in terms of what what's going to take
place with him, So I'm interested to see if he
can can improve. I think he will improve. I think
that was a big hire for New England to get
(20:06):
Bill O'Brien back and to be able to help them
with offense. He is an offense of guru, no doubt
about that. So we'll see how that all plays out.
In a matter of moments, we're gonna talk SEC football schedule,
that eight game conference schedule. There there's an interesting twist
to it that my man Jeff Schwartz is gonna talk
to us about, and I'm gonna talk with him about it,
(20:28):
but first we're gonna go to my man Brian Finley.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Four.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Nice little update, what you got b fiens LeVar and Jeff.
Good morning to both of you guys. Yes, and as
you guys mentioned, the NBA Finals Game one was last night,
one of four to ninety three. It went to the
Nuggets way in big part due to Nicole Jokichan his
triple double. He and Jamal Murray actually teamed up for
fifty three points, so more than half of his team's
(20:53):
points of their team's points coming from those two guys.
Game two is coming up on Sunday, and there is
a chance that Miami's Tyler Hero could be ready in
time to play in that one, a stand out for
Miami as he works his way back from a surgically
repaired right hand by the way. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
spoke to the media yesterday right before tip off of
(21:14):
Game one of the NBA Finals and relayed to all
that the final decision on John Moran's punishment has been
made internally, but that will not go out and be
made public until after the finals. And this is tied
to Moran now having multiple occurrences where he has been
seen in a video post on social media with a
gun in his hand. These Celtics are going to keep
(21:36):
their thirty four year old head coach Joe Missoula for
next season after a disappointing and challenging Game seven where
his team lost in the Eastern Conference Finals. With that,
let's get it back to LeVar Arrington and Jeff Schwartz,
who are manning both sides of the line and now
teaming up. Bam. I like that. I like that a
lot brown friendly. Yeah, I liked it. It was good.
(21:58):
Is it all right? Yeah? You know what else I like?
You know what else?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I like?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
What do you like? Natural grass? You know what? Did
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hashtag flip the turf to real grass. All right, sec
football schedule, it will stay with an eight game conference schedule. Now, Jeff,
there's been a whole interesting conversation about maintaining the rivalry games,
the great games, and how the rotations work around that.
(22:44):
Talk to us a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
First of all, how many times can you sign that
petition to play on grass fields? Can I sign that?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Like? Yeah you can? Yeah, Just go to Pennington dot
com slash hashtag turf turf.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Sticks, turf sticks, sign me up, me up for that.
Uh So, Look, okay, I love college football, right, I
cover it for for a living full time. It's a
it's a great sport, but it has a lot of problems, right,
and part of it is scheduling. And I understand the
SEC is the best conference, at least in the top right.
I mean, there's no disagreement. You won't find one for
me from for anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Who knows right now. Yeah, you're they're they're the best.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I would argue that are they the deepest conference?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That Big ten is the deepest, the deepest? Yeah, I
agree with you there.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I think I will say I'll throw my Pack twelve
hat in the ring on some of the conversation for
that this year, the PAC twelve is pretty good, you know.
But nonetheless, we have a scheduling problem in in in
college football. Right, You're the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball,
you have an equal kind of an equal schedule, right, Like, Yeah,
(23:48):
some years of the NFL you have an easier schedule,
but that's on rotation, right, You're on a rotation and
a lot of it's based off your record. Right, the
SEC has no incentive to change your schedule, So I
get why they're not doing it. We was scheduling a problem.
Right when the Big Ten has thirteen of fourteen schools
that play ten Power five conference opponents this season, right,
(24:12):
the Big twelve has eleven of fourteen schools, the Pac
ten has ten of twelve, the ACC has ten to fifteen,
the SEC has two of fourteen, two of fourteen. LeVar
and I understand that they're doing this because it helps
them with competitive balance. But they're going to a sixteen
team conference next season with a guess two seasons from now,
(24:32):
right with Oklahoma and Texas, and they're stilling eight conference games.
Conturble has to find a way to try to have
more uniform scheduling because otherwise you're going to get you
a twelve team playoff with six SEC teams in there.
Because more conference games is more more losses, right, it's
more variance. It's tougher to play those games. That is,
to play Northwest Tech State in week twelve if you're Alabama,
(24:57):
that is to play another conference opponent who is better.
And we have to find a way in college football too,
if we're gonna go to a twelve team playoff, we
have to find a way for me to have scheduling
more uniform, whether it is everyone does eight conference games
non conference games, there has to be more incentive to
make this a thing that we're all part of in
college football. Not the SEC is an outlier.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Whatever they do, well, you propose like well you think
the solutions.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Non conference games? It should be pretty simple, right, you
gonna have a sixteen teen conference? How often? Like part
of expanding is to play each other, right or just
to expand to expand.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean, I would assume it would be to play
each other. I mean, and maybe if you look at
it from the standpoint of if you're talking about you
will meet possibly you know, in the championship round, because
I guess if you if you if you have too
many teams while building a mega conference, you're not going
to have enough obviously weeks in the in the year
(25:55):
to play. So if you if you're breaking it down
in a way where I mean, I almost feel like
you get to a point of where one side, it's
almost like the NFC and the AFC one side kind
of may play the other side like one part of it,
you know, like you break it down into different different
(26:15):
divisions within within that distinction. I mean that if they
continue to grow as big as they're growing, you would
have to assume that they're going to have to adopt
some type of scheduling that would model, like you said,
in a I guess structure, where you could be able
to kind of schedule it in a way where it
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Or we need to also not hold non conference losses
where you schedule tough as weighted as we do, right,
Because if you're going to say, okay, we need to
schedule tougher, which I agree with, and make these matchups
and if you lose one of those and then twelve
team planoffings solves some of that, it can't be the
end of your playoff journey right to lose one of
(26:59):
those tough games. Look, again, George is the best team
in college football. I bet on them to win again
this year. Like this is not at all saying that
they're not they're not up to task this year. But
Leavart they play UT Martin Ball State and UAB is
three of their four non conference games. Yeah, like come on,
come on, right, like like really.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do you think?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You think? And turning into mega conferences you do away
with the non conference games and you just stay all
in conference.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It might get to that at some point if the
conferences expand like expected right where you know, the thought is,
you know, ten years from now we have two mega
conferences with thirty six teams in them, right and just
and it might even get to a point where let's
say the you know that's the Big Ten and the
SEC these two mega conferences, it's just one league. I
(27:48):
think they might become their own league and you might
play one sort of out of the league game, but
otherwise just gonna be in this one league. There's one
giant league, and you're gonna pick games in that pool
of teams and obviously be very competitive, but you'd have
your own championship, your own playoff in that league, and
everyone else would play them play. It would be structured
(28:09):
very similarly to kind of the English soccer league right
where you have a top division of lower division, another
lower division and you just kind of play each other
through in your your division. You might play some non
division games, but you have your own playoff in the
in the championship league. Don't your own playff for the
Premier League. It's the same thing, and I think more
collegtable is getting to But until we get there though,
(28:30):
I think we need to have a situation where we
schedule similarly and we don't have you know, again, the
SEC playing two teams have ten games against Power five opponents.
The Big Ten has thirteen of them.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
The Big Ten, and I think they're doing away with
this though, has made it, has made it, you know,
known that you can't play I believe you know more
than one group of five or lower team in your
non conference. So they make it a purpose to make
their teams skins to talk WOU I like, I like that.
I like that thing.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is that because it brings money to those smaller schools. Well,
you think the reason for that.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Is the reason that that they don't do it as.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Much, yeah, or or the reason they want their.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Teams to schedule schedule tough. I know, I think it's
it's because also, you know, fans, I don't know if
you have seen tickets to any to any team, like,
it's it's hard when to have fans show up to
games when they're playing Nobody's like, it's just hard to
do that. And and I think that the Big Ten
is realize that that's not what they want to be.
(29:32):
They don't want to have the Georgia schedule, Like, would
you would you want Penn State to play those three
non conference opponents.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Georgia, Like what U A B and T Martin ball
State and U A B. Well, we played ball State
one year.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
So one of those is fine. I feel like one
is fine.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I wouldn't want I wouldn't want them to play non
competitive games, that's for certain. I would like for the
like they came out this year and play Perdue on
their their opening game. I liked it. Auburn wasn't No,
it was Purdue this year. I think it might have been. No,
it wasn't Auburn the year before, No, it was Purdue
this year. You did play We did play in Auburn
(30:13):
two years in a row as well, two years and
and so and went there one of the years. So
I liked the competitive, competitive non conference game. It almost
in a way replaces the Bowl game, right, I mean,
if you think about it, you don't get to see
a major team from one conference play another team, like
(30:36):
when Oregon came into the Horseshoe and played Ohio State.
Like I loved that game, right, Like that was just
an amazing game. So I think when you get to
see like great matchups from big, strong conferences that take
place early in the year. It definitely makes it worth
watching more so than any other game that is definitely
(30:57):
more of a focal point. If you ask me, well.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
It certainly is fan friendly, right what I mean? I
would say, so, yeah, it makes it, you know, easier
to watch. But you know, again we have to you know,
the Organ Ohio State game is a good is a
good you know good a good one talking about because
you know, either of those teams with a four team playoff,
Like that's a game where it's a great, it's great,
I'm glad. Obviously Organ won the game, but like that's
(31:22):
a game where in our current system, one loss in
that week within this week two game could end up
costing either one of those teams to shot the playoff,
which it did. Ohio State lost to Michigan that year
and they're out of the playoff. Now, twelve team playoff
mostly solves that, right where one loss doesn't hurt you,
But there is no incentive for the SEC schedule tough
because right now we don't look at those games and
(31:45):
give any grace to a team that loses one of those,
right we don't at all. We say, okay, well that's
a loss. You're out. Twelve team playoffs solves a lot
of that, where now we give a little more leeway,
but until we give a little bit of grace to
to to an early season loss. Some of those losses
are close summernomy or you got blown out by Georgia
last year. You know that's account for what it was,
(32:06):
which is we got our butts swooped. But like you
have to to me, you have to give a little
bit of grace if you're gonna ask like myself to
schedule some tougher games early season for competitive reasons. I
think for fans we want to watch those games. You
have to give grace as a as a playoff owder
to some in an early season loss when you're playing
a better opponent, and we don't do that quite yet.
(32:29):
Twelve team playoffs I think solves some of that.
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my homies made the list. Yep, he plays for the
Dallas Cowboys. Y'all know who I'm talking about, mister Stike City,
the second. Uh yeah, you know, well he's the third. Actually, yeah,
(33:15):
he's the third. Uh no, he's the second. Well, he's
one of them, but he's stick City nonetheless, and that's well,
you know who he is. It's Michael Parsons. We'll talk
about him and a couple other big stories that well
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Martin lamarg orton, Jeff, how you guys doing this morning?
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Guys, In case you missed this, I have a story
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Speaker 7 (35:18):
You go, guys, A story that maybe not only the
pros can relate to, but also anybody who's ever been
to a theme park. Micah Parsons took to Twitter the
other day calling Universal Studios quote a ripoff man. He
had to pay for three different parks at Universal Studios Florida,
that of course being Islands of Adventure, Volcano Bay, and
I think the Water Theme Park, and of course the
(35:39):
usual Universal like two hundred and fifty bucks ahead for
his whole his whole posse there, opposed to what he's
used to, which is the eighty five bucks at Hershey's
Hershey Park. Poor Pa out in Pa. For where you
get to go into any of their their parks. I'm
sure you guys have been there. I'm sure everyone has
been there. Theme parks are just a ripoff in general.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean I would start off, I say, yeah, I
do think that theme parks do get you know, they
they get they're going to get their money. I mean,
whether it's buying souvenirs, hats, you know, different things like that,
they're going they're going to get you. I mean, when
you got to buy a soda and the soda costs
as much as a liquor beverage, an adult beverage, you know,
(36:26):
you just you gotta you gotta be prepared for theme
park prices. That is what i'd say.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know why this is a
surprise to him. This is I mean, they're there are
three different parks. That's what you have to pay to get,
Like you don't you gotta pay for Disneyland and California Adventure, right,
like you're paying for just you can't just get this
taken a good California Adventure. So I don't know, I
don't know it's that big of a deal. But it's
funny when people kind of start like being like adulting
(36:56):
a little bit. What cost does it? And you know,
Micha is an adult now, he's got his own money,
he's he's getting older, he's got a family, Like you
start realizing expensive a family and a couple of money.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
And he hasn't gotten that big contract yet either he's
still on that record.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, I'm sure he's struggling, but nonetheless, again it's it's
about becoming an adult. Like you realize like, oh wait, wait,
this stuff all costs money. Now we have to like
pay to do these things. It's part of being young
mature a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I like that, what else you got lead and you
gotta have the tricks of the trade.
Speaker 7 (37:32):
You gotta sneak in your your.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
That that that's like when you become like he's too
young for that type of adult, you got seasoned. That
that's like when you're in your like I remember like
going to us like football game as a kid, we
sneak in entire meals, like we aren't paying for a
single cent of the Rose Bowl. Like that's that's like,
you know, that's like when your forties and fifties, he's
kind of mature as an adult.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Me and the girl, we're doing a double feature later
today and we're we've already like all right, we're gonna
pack some sandwiches, We're gonna do thing.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That is hilarious. It's hilarious. I think everybody as old
or does that. It's so.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Why not, like you can finish subway sandwich in your
in your jacket, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Right, I mean, and they don't get paid enough to
check for y'all like that either, So if you give
it a little effort, you'll probably be able to make
it in. Yes, all right, Okay, what you got, Lee Fellas.
Speaker 7 (38:26):
In case you missed this, I'm sure you didn't. NFL
coach Raheem Morris, defensive coordinator for the Rams, the other day,
helped save a life out of Las Vegas pool. That
being at the Encore UH nine one was called in.
Uh paramedics first responders were giving uh the usual saving
life mechanisms, but he called out for the a ED,
(38:46):
the automatic external defibrillator, which of course was big news
this year after the whole Damar Hamlin situation. Uh So, yeah,
another situation where the NFL safety and doctors have helped
kind of progress.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, it was a credits you know, the the CPR
kind of a d training that they did with their trainer,
Reggie Scott, and you know kind of you know, that's
just something that I think everyone should should have to
learn how to do with. The AD is fairly easy
to use it. It's it saves a lot of lives
and so I'm glad Morris was able to get it done.
(39:22):
I'm I'm kind of surprised the lifeguard didn't know, right,
Like that's for the part.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
And kinda to that point, that lifeguard missed out on
being a hero at the Encore pool. If you know
about the Encore, the Encore pool is pretty dope. So
Raheem Morris was probably I mean, they had plenty of them,
by the way, but Rahie Marris was probably having a really,
really better time. Yeah, after he was the hero of
(39:51):
saving someone's life, I mean, you just got to assume
he his time went up from there. It was it was,
it was up on on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
You gotta he got he got a kind of a
free ticket to the Encore Beach Club after that week,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Alright, Lee, one quick one for you guys.
Speaker 7 (40:08):
In case you missed this, there was a video going
viral of Oakland A security basically giving up on a
fan streak in the field.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
He made it all the way around the diamond.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
The back way guy got closest to him was the
guy with the leaf blower.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Security didn't even try to enjoy Hour two.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
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