Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Preview Super Bowl Week!

Mark Willard and Ephraim Salaam get you ready for Super Bowl week and wonder if we see some QB shakeups this offseason. They celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the Luka Trade and wonder where Giannis lands before this week's trade deadline. They hope this is good riddance to the "Pro Bowl Games" and share “3 Things” they learned from the season. All that and much more! 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, I'm not gonna lie. This is a very very
big week. As we all know, the countdown now begins.
We're seven days away from the last football game that
we've got and ephram I originate to you live right
here from the center of it all. The Bay Area
is going to host. We're going to be doing the

(00:25):
radio road thing all week long. We'll tell you about
where Fox Sports Radio is going to be all week long.
The Countdown is on as we broadcast live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. But at the same time, Ephram
I also need to shed a tear with you. First
of all, Hello, Hello, how are you great? Okay? Wonderful?

(00:51):
Are you feeling the same thing that I'm feeling right now?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's over?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
What the hell was that we just did Sunday? Was
that Sunday? I didn't feel like Sunday? Ephraim, We've been
doing four or five months. Now, what do we do
on Sunday? You and I get together. It's five o'clock,
We catch our breath, We go Wow, those twelve games,
those fourteen that was amazing. Let's go through all of it.
Twenty minutes from now. The other one's gonna kick off.

(01:17):
We've been doing all of that today, the first football
without or the first Sunday without football in months, and
it always makes me feel some kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Way, just said, you know, just looking off into the distance,
gazing out the window, deep size everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I always always feel for any football fan who has
to look at all of the people around them and
the things that when weekends come, that people ask you
to do. And it can either be of the variety
of errands grocery store and I don't know, chasing kids

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to do homework.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Uh, it's a nice day here in California.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Maybe maybe go rake some leaves out in the yard,
or people will come to you with things that you
could all go do. You could you could go to
a brunch together, you could you could go for a
walk or a hike, or I don't know, maybe go
for a drive and get an afternoon coffee and e
from today. I didn't I didn't have the thing that

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usually allows me to say no to all to those things.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Wide open wife, he's packing that.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Thing for man.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
We are at we blew through.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Ten thousand steps hours ago rather hours ago. So I
don't know, man, how did you do I had two
youth sports games today. We got a flag football game,
just came running up from a from a youth basketball game,
and so all of it.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
And actually, I mean, I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Of course, it's kind of nice to actually get to
do some of those things on a Sunday, but it's
it's different. And and buckle up because for the next
eight months we actually only have one Sunday that has football.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Just happens to be next Sunday.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's it. So we got enjoyed people.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
What the hell did you do today?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Slept?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah? Can you sleep in the in the daytime hours?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Oh see, I'm not built that way. I'm kind of jealous.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I slept, Dude, I can't sleep past seven am,
six thirty seven am.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
So I stayed up. I stayed up late last night
playing Halo.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh Hello, Hello, Okay, how to Go?

Speaker 5 (03:55):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I love it, Love it a Halo guy, love you are.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
And went to bed like a five fifteen on purpose
because I was like, I can just sleep all day.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
Did you just say to me five point fifteen?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yes, something's coming.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Up that yeah dog awesome.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I mean, I like don't get to do that much,
but love it.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
I don't think that I could do that even if
I tried.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Wow, I'm impressed because you know, like, I got teenagers
in the house, so I get the whole idea of
quote unquote staying up late. And I always teased with them.
I'm like, at a certain point, you're no longer up late.
It's now what's called early. Right, you have flipped, and
it happened for me. It happens usually somewhere in that

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three three thirty area. That's like I stayed up late.
If you get to four. To me, you're just up early.
So you didn't go to bed late. You just just
just stayed up un till early, just stayed up.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
You went to bed twelve hours ago.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
What times you get up three o'clock?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh my god, reckless? Oh my? So when will you
be able to go to sleep again? Oh?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I can go back to sleep. I'm a dad, dude,
I can go back to sleep.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I'm impressed. I'm impressed. And and and the kids didn't
you know nothing? No, you didn't have any games today,
no coaching fifty teams.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
No, no, no, no, no, it's great, all right.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
It's one of the only weekends I'll have like this,
so I took advantage of it.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I get it. I get it. Like I said, I'd
do it if I could, I can't, so I don't.
And I've been I've been up for twelve hours already
and now I'm all ready to talk to you and
and UH, let's break down this game and UH and
everything that's going on around the league. And it also
allows us the opportunity to depart a little bit from

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the league. I mean, I can tell you this. The
NFL doesn't want to hear this, but this is just
the facts of the matter. And I know Radio Row,
and for those of you who don't know what Radio
Row is, is kind of like the media center of
the Super Bowl build up. In this particular case, when
it's in the Bay Area, the media center in Radio

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Row is actually a good solid hour from where the
game is played in Santa Clara. But all of this
will happen right in the center of downtown San Francisco.
And there's a little secret that I unfortunately don't want
to tell the NFL, but I have to. And all
of the national media that will be there sure, and

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the Boston media will be there in the media from
the Northwest, and then every other market gets to kind
of pick and choose who they want to talk to
and what they want to talk about this week. But
the host media outlets this week here in the Bay Area,
as the Patriots and Seahawks descend on the San Francisco

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metropolitan area, are going to be talking about basketball. I'm
sorry to say it. The trade deadline is four days away.
This fan base has been force fed by the national media,
absolute Yannis fever, and I can't wait for Thursday at

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noon in the center of the NFL world where this
entire city is going to be talking about whether they
did or did not get Yannis attended. Compole.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
You think they're gonna get them? No? No, what would
they have to give up to get them?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
All of it?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Everything?

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, I can tell you the deal.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
The deal is you use Jimmy Butler's contract as the matcher.
But then if I'm Milwaukee, I say there's other contracts
I'd like to get rid of, be that Miles Turner
or Kyle Kuzma or whatever, and that on track gets
matched by whichever young player's Milwaukee wants. I would suggest

(08:06):
Jonathan Kaminga, Will Richard and Brandon Pajemski. But then we
get to the part that Milwaukee's really after four first
round draft picks and a pickswap. That's your deal. So
call it Janie and three and a half years of
Miles Turner in exchange for Jimmy Butler, Jonathan Kaminga, Brandon Pajemski,

(08:31):
Will Richard for future first round unprotected picks and one pickswap.
You biten Bucks and are you biting Yannis?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'm biting Bucks if but is Yannis biting? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I think is gonna bite okay, because you get to
play with an all time great for two years. Uh
but I think uh, I think that's what he wants.
I think he wants. If you put Giannis and Steph
Curry in the pick and roll, I don't know how
you stop it.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Uh yeah, now they have to play the whole game.
Uh stay healthy.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
I mean stay healthy, not stop them or their knees
and their cabs anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, But other than that, like, I don't I don't
see how you would even be able to stop that
that high pick and roll.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, that's crazy, I.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Mean it did, It's a pretty seems like a pretty
effective duoh. Yeah, to me, it's just kind of the
staying power of the whole thing. What's sustainable? Does Giannis
want to spend the next six years here when maybe
only half of it's with Steph and you.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Know all of that. But we we can get to that.
I know that we will.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
But like, are you feeling kind of the same way
I am about this game? And again, I want to
I want to be mindful of the fact that yes
I'm here, uh in the Bay Area where the NBA
trade deadline is is story one, And part of that
is also because the Seahawks are playing the Patriots, and
I think Brea fans want to stick their head in

(10:05):
the sand on that.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
But like, boy, I'm having a hard time finding the
kind of.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Buzz, excitement and kind of that chatter about this game.
I don't know if we're waiting for Drake May's shoulder
to be okay or or what what have you. But
what what is your initial read.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
On this matchup?

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Initially it's ken New England proved to everyone that.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Their opponent schedules don't matter.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Can they okay? Can they prove that they're a good team?
Because no bad teams win the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right?

Speaker 5 (10:55):
I don't even know if like bad teams don't go
to the Super.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Bowl, right right, So, but all we hear about is
what we hear about the strength of schedule, which is
the easiest in four hundred years or whatever whatever it is.
We hear they had to go through a backup quarterback
to get here. They had to play, you know, a

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Texans team with c. J. Stroud who decided he didn't
want to play football anymore. So there's all there are
questions about, you know, their road to the Super Bowl.
And so for them, I believe it's more of it
doesn't matter who you line up against us, we're gonna win.
And this is an opportunity in this Super Bowl for

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them to beat arguably the best team in the league
in terms of offensively and defensively.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
So, you know, Seattle's role.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Was a little bit more contentious, sure, and proven so
for New England. With all that said, if they be
a team that had a war, because let's not forget
people including myself, were saying whoever won the NFC championship
game was gonna win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
They've heard all of that. Yeah, no, it's not a secret.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
This by the way, I just want to tell people
some of you have been around for a minute and
some of you haven't. Back in the day, early nineties,
there was an entire stretch, and it wasn't every year,
but this is what we did. NFC championship was the
Super Bowl, and it was usually some form of the
Cowboys or the Niners or both that were doing whatever

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they're doing in the NFC title game. The Giants moonlight
in there a little bit. It was kind of the
stretch where the Bills kept going to the Super Bowl
and losing even though a field goal gives them one
of those. But that was often the case. From this
is not that, no, I don't think no. I like

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when I hear people go, oh, god, Seattle by a million,
I'm like, eh, that's not how i've They might they
might win by a touchdown. Whatever. Again, I don't know
about Drake Man's shoulder right now. I'd like to hear more.
We'll get more information this week, maybe, but I don't.
I tend to never buy it when someone gets all

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the way to the end and people go all their
schedule was easy.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Ah, that's a little flippy to get this.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, that's tough because you play who you play right now.
There have been plenty of teams who've had terrible schedules
and having made the Super Bowl. So this a new coach,
a second year, second year quarterback. Uh, they spent a
bunch of new pieces. They spent the most I think
in the league in the offseason last year. So you

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had to bring a new coach, new people, new players,
and a second year guy in and do the impossible.
And then they've been able to do that. So I'm
not going to discredit their journey and what they've what
they've gone through.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
To get here.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
They have had a week schedule, they have had some
breaks in the playoffs. They have, but for the most part,
they deserve to be here because they did what they beat.
The people in front of them.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
They hear them, and it's not like i'd also I
would I would contend if that's where you're coming from,
then when they get a chance to go against a
good team, they would suddenly look they would look like frauds.
And that's not what's happened. This team played Buffalo twice.
They won once, they lost by four. The other time

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they went into Baltimore late in the season and and
won that football game nobody else was beating the Houston
Texans over the last two months of the season, but
they did by double digits.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
And I understand what happened with Denver.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
It was snowing and Jared Stidham was the quarterback. I
get it.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
But they fell down by seven points against that really
good defense. They should have kicked a damn few. Boy,
we probably should have a conversation.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Good lord, I just thought about you. I was like,
here we go.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
I think about you every time.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
That's it. Here we go, here we go. You know what?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
And actually, coming up next, let's dive a little further
into this because I think there are two tipping points
that have arrived in professional sports. One is football, one
is not. But two major tipping points have arrived because
of things that have unfolded just in the last three weeks.

(15:33):
So we can we can get to that. I'm glad
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we thank you so very much. To me, two things
have probably hit some sort of a tipping point. I
don't know exactly how it's gonna unfold, but a tipping
point you just touched on one of them. I think
there's going to be a backlash to the backlash. There
used to be a backlash with conservative play calling go

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for it, go for it, and then analytics took over,
and now everybody's going for it. And I've never heard
more people more NFL fans in my life get mad
at coaches for not kicking field goals. But we've moved
into an offseason where just about everybody I know thinks
that Sean Payton cost his team a potential trip to
the super Bowl by not kicking an easy three and

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taking a double digit lead in the first half.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
So I think it's gonna be different next year.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
It has to be.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
I mean, eventually, these coaches, they're going to learn. We've
seen the rise and demise of Dan Campbell and his
decision making in games that will send you to the
super Bowl. You have to know, and I know Sean.

(18:49):
You have to know, as Sean Payton with a backup
quarterback at home, you know what the weather is going
to turn into because you live there, right, You have
been prepared, They've You've had conversations about this.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
All week. You have to know.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
In this type of game with a guy who hasn't
played since twenty twenty three, I believe every single point
is paramount. If you're up by two scores early in
the game at home and inclement weather is coming you

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with with the number two defense in the league, that's
the conversation that needed to be had in his head
or with his advisors whoever was in the earphones, going yet,
let's do it. That's any call the time out, and
then assessed and went back like, no, that's what I
would have said. So no, no, no, let's get this three.

(19:56):
Let's be up ten to nothing. Uh good kickoff. Let
our defense go to work. You know, second half, we're
not going to be able to see the field. And
he would have been like, you're right, let's get to
take the three. That changes the whole complexity of the
game by a mile.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, here, you just brought up for me. What is
question number one? And you know this professional sports teams.
When we hear fans talk about analytics, I wonder how
many of you listening to us know millions upon millions
upon millions of dollars and unbelievable levels of technology are

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spent by professional sports teams now on analytics millions. They
have entire departments that are dedicated to.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Does with glasses just locked in a room.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
The most unbelievable depth of information you could ever imagine.
And I watched that football game. I don't know this
thought crossed your mind. I'm like, you mean to tell
me that that department, the Broncos department, probably knows which

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shoe trade meon Henderson ties first back when he was
eight years old.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
But they don't know it's gonna snow in the second half.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
You cannot convince me that that level of information is
available to teams, but you're just out here winging it
with something as simple as the weather. No, that overwhelmed

(21:45):
my mind that night. How can you be that in
depth and not know that it's gonna blizzard in the
second half.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I audibly gasped. I was because clutch your pearls moment,
I was like, oh, what.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
A ten point lead?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Was?

Speaker 5 (22:03):
Gold?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Gold? Gold? Gold.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
So my sentiments are you get what you get.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
You sure do, except for its pro sports, so you
can get upset the old saying you get what you get,
don't get upset. No, they all got upset. I don't
know if y'all. I bet everybody noticed that. The Denver Broncos, Oh,
they kind of started all throwing stones at each other.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
H Over.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Since that loss, you got Sean Payton out here firing.
People start talking about the inevitability of bo.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
Nix's surgeries and injuries, and then.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Bo's like, Sean probably shouldn't be talking about my surgeries
and my injuries.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
And I was like, WHOA, it falls apart fast, don't it.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
WHOA?

Speaker 5 (22:50):
This real feel good story just took a turn.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Don't it fall apart? Fast?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Fast?

Speaker 4 (22:56):
One decision can crumble that thing. There's a guy in
Buffalo of a job.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
A third of the league got fired.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
A third of the league got fired.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Seven jobs last year in this year.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
My gosh, my gosh.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
You know who has a job who hasn't been fired.
We will get fired if we don't bring this man in.
That's Steve no trade clause to say bring him out,
bring him out.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
You're very kind, but completely mistaken. There is no such clause.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
The uh should be that way.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
While we are talking about this game, specifically Denver, which
amazingly was only seven days ago, doesn't seem like a
lot longer ago than this. Really New England won the
AFC Championship in that bad weather game, as it turned out,
ten to seven at Denver. Now, the word analytics is
used these days as a catch all, usually by people

(23:55):
for I hate stats or I hate people who like stats.
They don't actually know the analytics every time they rail
against the analytics. And Greg Olsen, who's one of the
great TV football analysts, did point out after hearing Mark
Schlarath sometimes a Neanderthal, speaking, if I hate analytics, I
hate all the analytics people.

Speaker 9 (24:16):
I don't like the nerds.

Speaker 8 (24:17):
You know, what are they doing going forward on the
You know Olsen's response that day was the irony.

Speaker 9 (24:24):
Here is the quote.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Analytics actually said kick, but that's not as fun, I
guess end quote. The Broncos in the first half went
for it on fourth and one in the red zone
through incomplete, got no points, lost by three and Drake May,
you guys brought up the schedule they've had. They've played
good defenses and the passing game has not been there,
and they keep advancing through every round. Drake May had

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eighty six yards passing in that game, was sacked five
more times. In the previous game when they ended the
Texans ten game winning streak, he had three touchdown passes,
but three turnovers as well and was sacked five times.
And then when they the home game against the Chargers,
it was only nine to three in the fourth quarter
and May finish with one touchdown pass, two turnovers, sacked

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five times. The one great thing is he can run,
and he's been running. And at Denver first seven carries
of the game, the quarterback had sixty eight yards rushing
at a touchdown. His running back Ramandre Stevenson. It took
him twenty five carries to get seventy one yards rushing,
so in a game that had a combined fourteen punts

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in the game, Drake May's team advances again. If Seattle
can just play its normally good defensive game and get
the pressure on May that he has seen from other
good defenses this postseason, if they can keep the quarterback
of New England to thirty forty yards rushing and not
sixty seventy yards rushing. I'm tempted to say out loud,

(25:48):
how does Seattle lose this game? And the only quick
answer I can is if Sam Darnold turns into a
turnover machine again. But that is the matchup of New
England at Seattle a week from today. By the way,
Seattle did win its game against the Rams last weekend
for the NFC Crown thirty one twenty seven, and Darnold
was superb nearly three hundred and fifty yards passing three touchdowns.

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And while we had the game at Denver with almost
no offense, it was twenty five drives total and twenty
three first downs. Then we got the Rams at Seattle game,
which had a combine fifty first downs and Matthew Stafford
in defeat, threw for almost three hundred and seventy five
yards and three touchdown passes. But the Rams two big

(26:33):
bugaboos in that game. First off, the third down conversions
were awful one for eight, and yet again special teams.
It's the one thing that kept the Rams from being
the best team in the NFL this year. If they
had cleaned that up, without a doubt, the Rams would
be the number one team in the NFL this year.
It's why they lost at Philly. It's why they lost

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on the punt return at Seattle late season. Of course,
they fumbled a punt guy thinking he can return. It's
in the NFC title game and they lose by four.
By the way, the Super Bowl matchup has only one
First Team AP All Pro player at its Seahawks wide
receiver Jackson Smith injigmut. Now, this is a guy who

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in the regular season had one hundred and nineteen catches.
So yeah, he's the first player since Jerry Rice to
be leading the NFL in receiving yards while playing for
the one seed in his conference. But incredibly impressive to
me JSN is he's known first player in the Super
Bowl era to lead the league in receiving yards while
he's playing for an offense that ranks bottom three in

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pass play percentage that year. They do not sling it
around the yard normally. They had two healthy running backs
during the season and used him, and yet this guy
had nearly eighteen hundred yards receiving. The only other Super
Bowls since the merger where we've had only one or
fewer All pros on the field nineteen seventy and it

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was Chuck Halle Cowboys linebacker, and nineteen eighty two and
it was the kicker for Washington, Mark Moseley.

Speaker 9 (28:06):
All Pro.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
Do not be confused. It's not Pro Bowl. All Pro
is both conferences combined. There is one All Pro first
team AP player in this matchup. Now to the NBA,
We've got a game going on in New York. That's
at halftime. Lakers are leading the next fifty six fifty two.
Luka Donsich with eighteen points in the first half. Among
the earlier games at Boston, Jalen Brown thirty points and

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thirteen rebounds as the Celtics rit Milwaukee one oh seven
seventy nine. Just saying the word Milwaukee, I'm obligated to
say and the NBA trade deadline is Thursday. Home games
for Detroit in Miami. They each won at home and
also Washington won at home, beating Sacramento won sixteen to
one to twelve despite thirty five points from Zach Lavine

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College hoops number nine illinoisl winner at number five Nebraska
seventy eight sixty nine. There's an NHL outdoor game going
on right now at Tampa Bay. I don't know if
you saw, but pregame the hockey team, the lightning was
dressed completely in the creamsicle Tampa Bay Bucks football uniforms
to walk to the Tampa Bay Bucks Stadium where they

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have the sheet of ice on top of the football field.
They're playing this outdoor game with temperature in the low forties.
It is the Boston Bruins in the lead at Tampa
Bay five to two in the second period. And finally,
the NFL new is the Arizona Cardinals new head coach
Mike Lafleur from the Rams. The Raiders are expected to
hire Seattle offensive quarter Clint Kubiak as head coach after
the Super Bowl. The forty nine ers new defensive coordinator,

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apparently Raheem Morris, the former Falcons head coach, and the
dolphins new defensive coordinator will reportedly be Sean Duggan from
the Packers.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Back to you, Steve, great stuff. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Lots to chew on there, including those coaches he just
mentioned at the end. There's a fight online going on,
and isn't there always? But some are calling it the
McVeigh coaching tree, and others are calling it the Shanahan
coaching tree, and it's really the same tree, uh quite frankly,
because both of those guys, so did Rahee Morris. By

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the way, they all came up together. So anyone with
the last name Lafleur, anyone with the last name Kubiak,
and you could really trace this to their dads too,
Mike Shanahan and Gary Kubiak, and but all the Lafloors
and all the Kubiaks and the Shanahans and the mcveigh's,
and you can look all up and down the league.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
We joked that, you know, I mean, the third of
the league got fired.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
At least of the third of the league right now
is being coached by this tree.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
And you know, I guess why not.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Coming from the NFC West, which had three teams with
twelve wins or more. A tree you know, well, yeah, yeah,
you know very well.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
That tree is serious. I just I love the I
love the level of knowledge on that tree. And you know,
when you say stuff like the apple doesn't fall far,
it's just not blood relatives. It's you know, you learn

(31:18):
the nuance of play calling a football, of defense, of
getting the upper end at its core offense and defense
at its core. It's trying to get an advantage offensively.
I'm trying to get you on a defense that I

(31:38):
can take advantage of. Defensively, I'm trying to disguise and
make you think that I'm doing one thing and do another.
It's all to get the upper hand. And when you
have these type of prolific you know, coaching trees, they've
all studied under the senseis right, Like, so.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
You like rosal ghoul.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Of of of play calling, this is one of those things,
is like all right, you know it's it's it's intense,
but I love it because it brings such a youthful
energy to the league. Right, It's it brings a new
Oh okay, I remember when they first started, when Kyle

(32:24):
first started doing read options. I'm like, what the I
don't remember that in the Denver offense right right, RPOs
and stuff like that, And it's just the evolution of
great football. Min Mike McDaniel. He used to fill our
playbooks with the plays right and hand them out to us,
put them in our locker and collect them. And I

(32:44):
told Mike, I told Mike O six, I said, you know,
you're gonna end up running running the league one day,
because that's how meticulous he was with the attention to
detail and stuff like that. So for me, you could
see it on him. All he wanted to do was
learn and sit in the corner and suck it up

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like a sponge.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
It was one of those situations where.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
You can see, you know, you can see the people
who who are invested in this thing. And so now
you punt those trees and here we go. We got
a whole forest of great minds all over the place.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Man all over the place. McDaniel's another name that you
just mentioned. Even though he lost his gig, he's gonna
be running the Chargers and working with Justin Herbert. Boy.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, Charger fans should be a static.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yep, yep, I agree. I think that's a that's a
dark horse situation. Next year, for.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Sure they're gonna be slaying that thing around.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
All right. So we're in the Fox Sports Radio studios
and there's so much to get to us.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
We get ready for the Super.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Bowl, the NBA trade deadline, will continue to try to
see if we can get Ephraim to talk in the
middle of a Laker game.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
I know that's probably yeah, I'm sorry, Hello, did I
say you know anything?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, Lakers at Madison Square Garden right now. So we
got that, and then I got to pay the rest
of this off. I said there were two tipping points,
and I mentioned one of them is the field goal thing.
One of them is not from football at all, and
I'll bring that up coming up next to marketing from
on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay, we're sitting here live in these Fox Sports Radio studios.
That's say from salam My Mark Willard. And we don't
need to belabor this point because I don't think it's
where most people's heads are at right now, but they
will be later this year. As a follower, a coverer,

(34:44):
a fan of the San Francisco Giants, I wanted to
let you know, Ephraim, I've come to terms with the
Dodger signing Kyle Tucker to a quarter of billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Okay, do you want to know why I've come in
terms with it?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Though, tipping point, based on the conversations I've had, based
on the reading that I've done, based on my sort
of like t Leave's opinion, that was the straw that
broke the camel's back. That was the deal that's gonna

(35:22):
get enough other owners this offseason to say it is
like I mean, and again, it's no shade at the Dodgers.
They've done it well. They've done it better than anybody else.
They've done it within the rules. They've done all the

(35:44):
things that all the other teams and all the other
fans wish their teams would do. But at a certain point,
I sort of look at what's happening in baseball is
kind of like the way you used to be allowed
to hit the quarterback. It's fair, like why does the

(36:05):
quarterback get special rules? Well, because at a certain point
the league goes, you know what sucks is when our
quarterbacks are all hurt, So we better do this for
the betterment of our overall product, and that's what baseball
will do too, and it will probably be some form

(36:26):
of a salary cap, salary floor. I think some of
next season will get missed because of labor disagreement all
of that stuff.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
It's going to be a rough and tumble year. It's
going to be a really bad fight.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
But when I saw that, like players from around the
league started speaking up and going, well, this is just like,
I don't know how you would like us to beat
that team.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
This isn't like we'll go play.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
But that's as kind of silly, right, And so the
league will make changes. The NBA made changes when the
Warriors signed Kevin Durant, they made changes. We're gonna do
aprons and luxury a tack penalties and all these things.
So doing that anymore. So same thing here, tipping point.

(37:17):
And it's probably a good thing for baseball as a
whole that the Dodgers did that, because come on, there
needs to be some sort of competitive balance.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Yeah, he look, this is what I would say. What
you're gonna say, I would say, get it while the
getting is good, open up the pocketbooks, throw extra twenty.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
On on a player if you want them. That's what
I would.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Do you're saying that's all the teams.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Yes, see, I wonder if right now they're not anticipating
I'm watching some teams this offseason really change. Well, they
don't want to do a long They're like short term
deals only please, because if they do long term agreement
and then the rules change, you could end up in
a real spending freeze, right, you could like if this happens,

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the Dodgers are gonna have a problem in two years.
They're like they're gonna have like because they'll they'll literally
just be there'll be nothing but tax and so I
I see teams, it feels like potentially getting ready for that.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
What it looks like to me.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Look, I'm you know, I'm a Dodger fan, So I'm
like running.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Up, Well, yeah, you'll get while the getting's good.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Absolutely, how many rings you want to row for?

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Four would be great, But.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
You know, it's lower like when the battle lose the
war thing, I think for fans of other teams, because
it's just like, what the hell is everybody supposed to
do about this? You know?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, well you to me point, that's all.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
I think. It's a deal that we're going to remember
years from now.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
I get it, and you know, conventionally you would be
like okay, but you gotta realize, like some teams, the
floor is the thing that has to happen absolutely, whether
they put a cap on it, you gotta have a
floor because this underspending is out of control.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
And that's way worse.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
You're not way worse. It's worse for the fans, is
worse for the sport, all of it.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
The Dodgers headlines, they'll grab the headlines, they'll force the issue,
but like the A's are way more offensive than the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, if you have the white Sox, that's like, what
are we doing?

Speaker 2 (39:57):
What are we doing?

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Well, that's the insulting part for me. It's like, okay, yeah,
you can run, you can. If they're gonna come and
you can pay them, then pay them. But don't not
pay people for whatever reason. It's not like you're trying
to get a great draft. But it's not like the
NFL where if you have the worst record, you're going

(40:21):
to get the number one pick in the draft and
that could change your whole franchise and.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
You're a thousand percent right, You're a thousand percent right,
all right.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Mark Willardy from Salam, I gotta Sam Darnold question for
you coming up next.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
I mean I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Probably about third quarter this time next week. Third quarter
of that football game is about where will be the
last football game of the twenty twenty five NFL season.
And we're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
looking ahead, thinking about it all as we get ready
and as we spend our first Sunday without football in

(41:01):
about four or five months. Really really glad you're with us.
I got a Sam Donald question for you, and I'm
going to loop all the teams into this, even though
I think the situations are different. But let me ask
you this in the wake of the way Sam Donald
is playing, because as the Sega mentioned earlier, Donald isn't

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just in the Super Bowl my man with an oblique injury,
crushed it in the NFC title game. He was fantastic
in that football game. I thought so incumbent upon all
of the teams who have had Sam Donald in their
quarterback room wearing their jersey to ask the question of, like,

(41:43):
how does the way he's playing now make those teams
look so who kind of has the egg on their
face the most in Sam Donald's career. This is his
fifth football team, So Jets, Panthers, Niners, Vikings.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
That was chronological, right for that's a great question. And
for me, it starts with the Jets. It starts with
the Jets. The Jets because they didn't create an environment
to nurture and pull out his ability, which he obviously has.

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And it's the Jets because they've done that to every
single quarterback that they've ever had outside of Broadway Joe,
and so it has to start with them. But then
the eggs also on the face of the Minnesota Vikings.

(42:51):
You had a sure thing in the building, and you
got a a guy, a young guy on a rookie
contract who may or may not be weak. I still
don't know what the quarterback he's gonna end up being.
But you had years, you had time to figure that out. Yeah, well, no,
you do, because you look what happened with what Jordan
Love Okay, Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, it's okay, it's okay. I mean that's a fair point.
I mean, if you want Sam, you had to do
three years.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
That's fine. Three years, that's fine. You don't lose anything.
You don't lose anything unless which I'm not sure they did.
Unless they thought JJ McCarthy was the guy. Well, and
that's not the sense I get from no from them

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at all.

Speaker 5 (43:41):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
I think that you can see when a team is
not aligned, and I think that this is probably one
of those situations where the football people thought and saw
one thing and the ownership people thought and saw something different.
It's like, you're not you're not putting that kind of
reason into a young player and then not playing him

(44:02):
right and and so you know, look, I think I agree.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
I agree with the way you lay that out.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Let's start with the Jets and and think about how
poorly things are run to where the best thing we
got out of Donald as a Jet was a cool
quote where he was seeing ghosts ghosts, and that's that's
all we got. But the rest of the league you
could tell and you heard whispers and coaches would say it.

(44:32):
They're like, no, he's still got arm talent. He's got
arm talent. You just got to see about a situation.
But you want to know who like while everyone it's
easy to point laugh for the Jets, and it's super
easy to criticize the Vikings and the Niners over here
sort of get a pass because he really never even

(44:52):
played for them, and their quarterback is also good.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
And I think that.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
I mean that year that Sam Donald was there, they
went to a Super Bowl, So like, what are you, like,
what are you gonna do? You know, you know, like
that that's not something the Niners could have done. Can
we have a different conversation though about the Panthers? Yeah,
I mean, like you're gonna bring Sam Donald and Baker
Mayfield in in the same year for no reason and

(45:19):
for no reason, and then while both of them are there,
they're winning the job, they're losing the job. They're trading
back and forth, and and now both of them, I know,
Baker's not in it this year, but Baker Mayfield. Hell,
a month and a half into the season, we're like,
that might be the MVP. And now here's Sam Donald
and the super Bowl. These guys were both there, they're

(45:41):
both there, and they kicked them both out, and now
they're gonna pick up a fifty.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
Year option on I know, well he had his best year.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Yeah, up, I guess. But eventually you got to make
a decision, right, Yeah, I mean you gotta be like, hey,
that would be next year. Yeah, okay, I mean, you.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Know, look shout out to that young man for playing
and playing himself into a chance because they were like, Okay,
this is not gonna work. I still don't think he's
an NFL starting quarterback. Size matters, that's a real thing,
and it'll it'll be more and more difficult for him

(46:36):
because he's not growing anymore, not that I know of,
So he'll be put in a position where he'll constantly
not be able to see over his offensive line and
so on and so forth. So it's just a situation where, look,
does he have talent? Yeah, anybody who gets drafted into
the NFL has talent. Does he have enough talent to

(46:59):
be a starting quarterback? And the price that comes with that?
That answer is easier for me to answer, And that's
a no. That's what it build boils down to.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Right.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
I'm not saying he's not talented. I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is he doesn't have enough talent. In
my opinion, our size are intangibles to be a starting
quarterback and garner that level of pay.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
And yeah, and and and others have gotten it, and
they didn't deserve it. But this is an experiment that's
been going on for going into five years now. And
unless they win the division, win a playoff game, those
two things happened this year.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Damn near did.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
I mean, they're the lead against the Rams with a
minute to go, you know, and they did win the division.
And I think that division is now currently that division
is causing those teams that are in it to aim
too low.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
That's what's happening.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
So you like, to me, you're watching four football teams
that right now, let's talk about the quarterback position. I
think Baker Mayfield's a good player, but in that division
he's a damn star. And then what's happening everywhere else, Like, okay,
let's pick up Bryce Young's option, Let's act like Tyler

(48:33):
Shuck is Rookie of the year, and Atlanta's over here
going yeah, like, let's cut, let's let's let's let's cut
Kirk Cousins in what has been the weirdest I've said
this to you so many times, the weirdest quarterback handling
I think I've ever seen in my lifetime. To draft

(48:53):
somebody and then sign Kirk Cousins to that much money
and now they'll cut Kirk Cousins and they'll go back
to a coming off of injury, Michael Pennix, who, while
it's very early, has never looked like anything more than
just slightly above. Okay, I wouldn't cut Kirk cous Well,
that's the word. Yeah, I like so No. So part

(49:15):
of the problem is is I think that those teams
are trying to win the division instead of trying to
be great.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Yes, they're settling, which is crazy to say, for just
an opportunity to win the division.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Yep, But I mean when you do that in a.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Division that bad, you're just settling for mediocrity, like you're
you're not you're not trying to win the number one seed.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
You're not trying to you know, win thirteen fourteen games.

Speaker 5 (49:48):
They're not trying to win.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
You've nine gets you in. You aiming for nine?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Well and eight or nine gets you in and oh,
by the way, it gets you in when over a
third of your schedule is against those teams, those teams,
so you by definition already have an easy schedule and
there still can't get to ten wins.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
Yeah, they're aiming too low.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Just imagine if let me see what.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Let me see, let's just say, for the sake of argument,
this will never happen. But Baltimore was like, you know
what we want to trade. We want to trade Lamar
and he goes to Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Oh god, right, yeah, you want to talk about a
runaway train.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
It would be like Tom Brady in the AFC North
for ten years.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Yes it would, Yes, it would. They would be an overwhelming.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Favorite every single year.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
It's one of those teams needs to do is get
that get that position.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
Right, and the Bucks kind of habit.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
But even that is like, I mean, they didn't even
they didn't even win nine games.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Right, And I'm and I'm not Look, I just threw
that name out there as a hypothetical. I'm not saying
that that's an option or that could happen. I'm just
saying someone of that caliber mm hmm, Right, Joe Burrow
ends up in New Orleans. Now it's like, oh wait

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a minute, that's twelve thirteen win team.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
But that's what I would be trying to do, because
I would be trying to do those type of things.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
There just isn't I mean, there's nothing available.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
No, there's not, like the two biggest names if you're
like looking at quarterbacks and it's not the direct aft.
The two most intriguing things this offseason are Malik Willis
and Mac Jones.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
And I'm like, I'm out, I'm out.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
I've told you this, this whole debate that rages through
here about who should they trade Mac Jones or not.
I'm like, they're not going to get a great offer
for mac Jones. I don't think I could. Boy, I
might be wrong, but there'd be a terrible trade for
the forty nine ers unless somebody comes with at least
a second round pick. And I don't think anyone's gonna

(52:35):
do that for mac Jones. No, I don't think so either,
and make them their starter.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
I played well enough to get an opportunity, though he has.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
But now, now make yourself a fan for a second.
You're a fan for a team and the team goes
We've made the move. We have given up our second
round draft pick, and Mac Jones is our starter next year.

Speaker 5 (52:59):
How do you feel exactly?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
And that's what no one understands. I feel like when
they just you look at the stats and you're like, oh,
he went five and three, like he looked super competent,
that's not That's not how you bring in a new
franchise QB and get your team and your fan base.
Yeah no, you just like what so he could go

(53:26):
somewhere where there's like a battle for the gig, you know,
or high level backup? Do you want to go pluck
him into you want to throw him to Houston so
that they feel ready If c J. Stroud keeps looking awful,
they got a pretty good backup already too.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
I'm trading CJ. Stroud to the Rams?

Speaker 5 (53:49):
Who to the Rams? To the Rams? Want CJ. Stroud?

Speaker 2 (53:54):
I'd love to hear about that.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
Why depends on if Matt Stafford is deciding to stay
or go.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
But you know you don't.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Word on the wire is he's uncomfortable in Houston for
whatever reason. I know he cost himself a whole bunch
of money.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
Yeah he did.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
These two playoff outings, two biggest games of his career
were god awful.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
God awful.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
If somebody like I know CJ has not kicked in
an extension yet.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
No, and two has I think I already know the
answer to this.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
But like, if I'm intrigued by a quarterback who has
a little cache and a playoff appearance and all that.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Which of those two are you after?

Speaker 4 (54:50):
I would probably do CJ, CJ, I think yeah, yeah,
I think so too, to be honest, like TOOOO just
doesn't do anything for me, so you know, not at all.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Yeah, no, I get that. But yeah, that's the free
agent market this year. There it is there. So you know,
Raiders did a good job. Dude, whatever quarterback you want,
just grab him and then you know, these other teams
Cleveland can go ahead and give she do her a shot.

(55:36):
But if you're Miami, if you're the Jets, if you
are I'm just scanning.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
Who else you know, I guess like yeah, if the.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Bryce young thing doesn't look good, If you're Arizona, those
teams are in a real, real rough spot in terms
of who it is they would love to be there
their labor day weekend quarterback. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
I don't know who the hell that's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Slim piggings out there.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
This sure is, this sure is.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
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Speaker 5 (56:48):
Do you know? I bet you, dud Do you know
what happened a year ago today?

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Do you remember one year ago today, one year.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Ago today, about four hours from now, maybe maybe five hours,
but then three four hours from.

Speaker 5 (57:03):
Now, do you remember? I do not.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
We need to talk about it because it was a
big night for you and for many many others around
the league of which I am speaking, So we'll unveil
that here in just a second.

Speaker 5 (57:20):
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Speaker 2 (57:35):
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ninety minutes from now. I'm sorry about your Los Angeles
Lakers trash. I'm sorry about your Lakers, man, but you
still should celebrate. You should still celebrate, man. You want

(58:21):
to know why you got Luca? Oh yeah, that was
that was one year ago tonight. Wow, Where were you?

Speaker 5 (58:33):
I bet you remember where you were?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
That was nuts?

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Where were you?

Speaker 3 (58:37):
I was here?

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Were you on the air? I was here, Yes, you were. Yeah,
well it must have been a Saturday. It was a
saturday here I was here. Look, Oca, I step out. Okay,
I know, I know. As long as we have that understanding,
it's okay. I guess. Yeah. Still, I'll never forget it. Mean,

(59:03):
I know a lot of people have a similar story.
For me, it was my then eighteen year old son,
he's now nineteen, and he's sitting on the couch and
he's doing what they do, and just scrolling through that phone, Dad, Yeah,
Luca got traded to the Lakers. I'm like, that's not real.

(59:29):
I'm like, that's not real. There's no way that's real.
And there's all that, like this will happen at least
once twice a month, you know, Like I can remember, gosh,
a handful of weeks ago, my wife says to me, Hey,
what happened with and I'm trying to remember which coach
it was? Is one of the white coaches in the NFL.

(59:52):
She's like, hey, he got caught sending out racist stuff. Huh.
I'm like I had been like John Harbaugh or something.
I'm like, no, what, I'm like, what are you talking about?
And you know that like if you just on social media,

(01:00:13):
it's a parody account. Take this or whatever. It's all
over Facebook or TikTok or whatever, and so they get you.
And so when my son said that to me, I'm like, oh,
he got one of them. He got called silly parody accounts.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
FSPN Adrian whooping Rowski.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I'm like, dude, you got God And uh no, no, Luca.
I just saw it with my own eyes. He plays
for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Now it's a good day, good day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
I can't think, at least out off the top of
my head of a more like surprising trade, honestly, like
stop you in your tracks? Wait, who did what?

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
How?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
That's the winner for me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
I cannot think of something that surprised me more than
that transaction.

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
That was so out of nowhere that it was like, holy,
it was hard to believe. Yep, it was great for me. Yes,
the rest of the league hated it, but for me,
it was amazing.

Speaker 10 (01:01:38):
I don't know the rest, like Dallas hated it, but
the rest of the league did because the other teams
didn't get a chance to bid, Like you could have
got a lion's haul for Luca if you knew he
was I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Know why people acted like that was a thing, Like
there's no, they don't owe that to the league.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
No, they don't trade him to whoever the hell.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
You want?

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Two friends just doing business with you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
Yeah, and the.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Lakers always freaking get their guys. That's the rule of
the NLA. Sometimes it takes longer than it's supposed to, right, Yeah,
Lebron kind of was like, it's obviously still very good,
but that that that took him in. There was that
gap between Kobe and Lebron where they were just like
what do we do? But you know whatever, Shaq Dwight,

(01:02:29):
Anthony Davis, Lebron sure will kareem go back?

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
For sure?

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Absolutely Lakers. Lakers are always gonna hap. Yeah, like that's fine,
that's just kind of the way. That's the way it works, you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Know, Marquis Tea, Yeah, I mean it would.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
It should bother everybody else more if they just started
winning championships right away.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
But like they still.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Got more building to do, We got more building to
Lebron is in his forties.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Time for him to move on.

Speaker 5 (01:02:59):
I know, Oh, y'all just want him gone.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
Yeah, because it's time to you know, you don't get
a new girlfriend and hey, your old girlfriend still living
in the house. He's just like, hey, when is she
moving out again?

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
I mean, listen, I've seen some blurred lines in my day.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Yeah, we don't want to hear that line. Yeah, right,
Like if.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
We had a new update guy and we were just
sitting here waiting for Steve to Sega to move on, impossible, that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Would be weird. Yeah, that'd be weird.

Speaker 9 (01:03:25):
Gentlemen in the NBA after this result.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
New York just beat the Lakers. Come on, you gotta
start with that.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
If this season ended right now, oh I love these
Your playing game would be Golden State at the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Heay That'm finn.

Speaker 8 (01:03:39):
Eight versus seven. New York next beat the Lakers one
twelve to one hundred. LA superstar Luka Doncic with thirty
points and fifteen rebounds, eight assists, just three turnovers. Lebron
James had twenty two points in this game. Lebron today
was named an All Star for the twenty second straight year.
He missed last Seas event due to injury. Also in

(01:04:02):
Kevin Durant, who will be out Monday for Houston with
a sprained ankle. Carl Anthony Towns was named an All
Star reserve today. He was held to eleven points in
the Knicks victory. Also on the All Star list today
Anthony Edwards, Devin Booker, three first time All Stars from
the West, including Jamal Murray. Three first time All Star
reserves from the East, including Jalen Johnson. The Clippers Arena

(01:04:23):
is going to be hosting the All Star Game in
two weeks. No Clippers have been selected, however, Kawhi Leonard
could be selected to replace the injured Giannis Antennacumpo. That
would be a commissioner's pick. We shall see. The All
Star Game reserves were selected by the league's head coaches
a list of fourteen players, seven from each conference. And
there's a new All Star Game format this year. Two

(01:04:46):
teams of US players, one team of international players. Around
robin tournament. You'll get four twelve minute quarters, but really
it's four twelve minute games.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
This year.

Speaker 8 (01:04:56):
The All Stars are being selected without regard to position.
The proce says for signing the players to the last
two US teams is coming up later. Nick did beat
the Lakers one twelve, one hundred, twenty points for Josh
Hart and twenty five for og Onanobi. Landry Shammitt with
twenty three points in the win for the New York Knicks. Now,

(01:05:17):
the Clippers are in action and leading at Phoenix sixty
four fifty two.

Speaker 9 (01:05:20):
That's mid third quarter.

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
Washington sent Sacramento to a ninth straight loss one sixteen,
one twelve. The Kings have Zach Levine who had thirty
five points, and they have DeMar DeRozan who has thirty
two today and they lose to the Wizards, who nobody
can name. Boston beat Milwaukee one oh seven seventy nine.
Bucks have lost five in a row. The NBA tread
deadline is Thursday, home games for Detroit and Miami, wins

(01:05:47):
for them, home game for Toronto, and a win for
the Raptors over Utah one oh seven, one hundred. The
Jazz have lost six in a row. Also in progress,
Spurs out to a lead of thirty one fifteen on
Orlando late first and Cleveland on our already leads at
Portland twenty nine to nineteen late in the first quarter.
In college basketball, number nine Illinois won at fifth rank
Nebraska seventy eight sixty nine and nineteenth rank Florida beat

(01:06:10):
number twenty three Alabama one hundred to seventy seven. Women's
hoops Number one Yukon over fifteenth ranked Tennessee ninety six
to sixty six. Michigan won at Michigan State and women's
hoops in overtime ninety four ninety one. There is the
NHL outdoor game going on right now. Was a big
Boston lead. Now it's Bruins five to four at Tampa

(01:06:30):
Bay with about thirteen minutes to go. Earlier, Carolina won
in overtime against LA three to two. Coming up Vegas
at Anaheim, NASCAR's Clash was moved to Wednesday nights on
Fox TV after the weekend snowstorm in North Carolina. This
is the annual exhibition opener, so it's a race with
just twenty three drivers, two hundred lap main event. It

(01:06:51):
starts Wednesday at six pm Eastern time. The Reds are
signing dh au Helio Suarez to a one year deal.
Justin Rose won by seven strokes in San Diego and
the LPGA after bad weather in Orlando. American Nelly Corda
won it when the final round was canceled. The Arizona
Cardinals new head coach is Mike Lafleur from the Rams.

(01:07:12):
The Raiders are expected to hire Seattle offensive coordinator Clint
Kubiak as head coach after the Super Bowl. The forty
nine ers new defensive coordinator is Raheem Morris. The Dolphins
new defensive coordinator will reportedly be Sean Duggan from the
Packers and number one. Carlos Alcarez won the Australian Open.
He is the youngest to win the career Grand Slam.

(01:07:33):
That is, at the age of not yet twenty three.
He has already won all four major titles in his
career Wimbledon, French US Open and now the Australian Rafael Nadal,
who was watching the final from the front row in Melbourne,
is one of those rare men's players who has won
the career Grand Slam. Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Rod Laver

(01:07:56):
also on the list, but Alcarez the youngest and the
guy he beat in four sets in today's final is
Novak Djokovic, who has twenty four career Grand Slam titles.
If he had won today and he took the first set,
if he had won, it would have been a twenty
fifth and that would have set the all stump, the
all time record for total Grand Slam titles. Before today,

(01:08:17):
Djokovic at the Australian when he won the first set
of a match, had a record of ninety three and two.
And still Alcarez, amazing as he is, comes back to win.
And this is a guy who in the Semis had
won a five setter that went about five and a
half hours, and that qualifies him for a final against Djokovic,
one of the all time greats who had been in

(01:08:39):
ten finals at Melbourne Park over the years and gone
ten to zero in the Australian Final and still a
comeback win for the amazing Carlos Alcarez. And I'm tempted
to say the career is just getting going back to you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
Ooof yeah, that was that was a doozy.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
I don't usually get late night to about tennis, but
I did that night. I did that night. Producers and
friends and everybody like are you watching this? And I'm like,
what are you talking about? But yeah, that thing went deep,

(01:09:19):
deep into the night. All right, great stuff, Steve, Thank
you so much. Mark Wellerty from Salam we are live
here in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Hey, I wanted
to get your expertise on this just because we talked about,
you know, Shanahan.

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
And McVeigh and the tree and all of that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
What's your thought on Raheem Morris as the replacement for
Robert Salad defensive coordinator forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
I think that's a good move.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
I think, you know, number number one, Robert sala is
amazing to be able to do what he's he did
with with what he had, and I still think the
Jets made a mistake by fire.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Yeah, still.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
But I think, you know, you need that that that
level of energy and fire that he has, and I
think it's gonna be great for the Niners.

Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
Apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
He and Kyle Shanahan also like they have known each
other and been very very tight for a for a
long long time since they were like first first young
assistants coming into the league, like you know, way back when,
like I don't know when you were playing.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
Yeah, yesteryear, way back, way way way back. I am
a dinosaur.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
You turn fifty? Yet when do you turn fifty?

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
Not yet?

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
When are you doing it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Soon?

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
But yet later this year?

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Holding on to it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Well, later this year, holding on to the rope. You're
talking about forty nine ers, we're talking about you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Hold on to the rope.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Don't make me look at I can go the internet
and get your birthday. What's your birthday?

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
It is in June. I'll be fifty in June. Okay,
So what are you doing turning fifty? What are you
doing for your birthday?

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Turning fifty?

Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
Don't start planning. Nah, I'm good. June nineteenth, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
I'm good man.

Speaker 9 (01:11:23):
Your birthdays on Juneteenth?

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Yeah, it is a.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Yeah, it's a great day you have to celebrate. I
will be celebrating the freedom of our.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
People good by doing what.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Being black?

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
Yeah, stay up all night playing Halo, and that would
be a dream for me. I'm a simple man, Mark,
I really am. I am a simple man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
I don't need much, No, don't need much, But I
don't need much.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Yeah, but what do you want?

Speaker 5 (01:12:00):
What do you want?

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Happiness? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
You already got that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
That's it, that's all. I'm just all. I'm good. Yeah,
I'm good man.

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
Never like take a vacation or something.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
I want my kids to be okay, your kids are.
As a parent, I'm consumed with Am I messing them up?
Will they be okay?

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
You know it's.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Almost Hey, I've been to therapy before I can answer
those questions.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
I think we all have. I think everybody in here
should have been all right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Are you messing them up? Yes, that's the way it works.
Are they gonna be okay? Yes, they're gonna be okay,
that's how it works.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
It's not your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
But yeah, you mess them up. Didn't yours mess you up?

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
Yeah, absolutely, I'm really trying not to do what they did.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
Yeah, but you're doing it in a different way.

Speaker 4 (01:12:52):
Oh man, Yeah, keeps me up at night, clearly, clearly,
very very late.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
Oh gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Okay, hey, you know what's happening on Tuesday, right, big day, big, big, big, big,
big day on Tuesday. And I hope you can hear
the sarcasm because I would like to talk about this,
and so we will coming up next. That's he from Salam.
I'm Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Radio, sitting here live in the Fox Sports Radio studios
with e from Salam. I'm Mark Willard. It's not the
Pro Bowl, it's the Pro Bowl games. And I have
the shortest of questions for you. Why why? I don't know,

(01:13:49):
like why why? Why? Why?

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Go?

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Like, is somebody honestly I mean this even just I
don't mean this sarcastically and rudely. I mean this functionally,
Like is someone making money off?

Speaker 7 (01:14:01):
This?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Is somebody? Why?

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
If somebody are watching.

Speaker 5 (01:14:11):
The Pro Bowl games?

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Tough sale?

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I mean, it's no different than And there's another one
this year every February. Every March, here's a new football league.
And they start advertising in December, coming in March, and

(01:14:36):
then it's a football league and I'm like, do you
all you all know that's not gonna work, right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
There's a new league.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
They do this every year, and I know exactly where
it comes from. It's not that people are aspirational. It's
not that people have a new spin on it. It's
not that people have a new idea. It's that and
you know this better than anyone one with what you
do in the entertainment world. It is executives in the
world of entertainment who are trying to figure out, how

(01:15:10):
can we grab the millions upon millions upon millions of
people that statistically depart when football stops. They depart, They depart,
they're gone, They leave their TVs, they leave their screens,
their iPads, their lap they leave, and so they try

(01:15:30):
to capture them. And it's just funny to me that
because I'm fifty one and every year they're like, we
have an idea, how about stay with me now more football,
but different, worse football. And everybody's like, Okay, how many

(01:15:56):
times do we have to say no?

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
It's because I mean harassment.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Quite frankly, I said no every time you gotta say no.
So Pro Bowl, NBA, in season tournament, I got a
whole list of like why, why?

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
What is in this for the fans?

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
Now, what I will say is I do like the
NBA in season tournament.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
I knew that was gonna get you going.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Why, It's just now.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
It's just a different level of competition that we're not
used to having. Until after the All Star Break you think, yeah,
it is those guys want to win that like he
was a joker first and everybody's like whatever, But no,
when you watch those I'm talking about bad teams. When
you watch those NBA Cup games, those are the best

(01:16:54):
games of the season up until coming down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Hmm, without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
I don't. Yeah, I don't know if I have felt
that in the past. I really, I really don't. I
don't like and maybe and and the other thing about
it is even if they want it that bad, do
you know what I think happens? But I think people
get offended by that. Well.

Speaker 4 (01:17:16):
I mean, I just want a good product that would
defend me or not. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Well, but I think what I'm saying by that is, oh,
I'm sorry, you're gonna load manage every Tuesday, But if
you making forty million a year, are dangled another half
mil now you want.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
To play, Yeah, but everybody not making forty million years.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Okay, fine, I don't I think that's so what if
you make three million? I think a fan has every
right to go. Now it matters to you that eight
from that's fair. I think it's fair. I get right.
If you the body and all of the analytics and

(01:17:58):
the information that we have, if you need to protect
yourself and it's difficult, then I'm gonna listen to that.
But if you're gonna turn on the Jets in the
first half of the season because money's being dangled in
front of your face, that's my issue with the NBA
in season tournament is I want to know what's in.

Speaker 5 (01:18:15):
It for the fans.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
A trip to Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
To do what I don't need. I don't need. I
don't need Steph Curry to be there to go to Vegas.
That's where I was last week. That's why I wasn't
talking to you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
Right right, I wasn't here either, Oh you weren't. No,
who the hell was here?

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
I don't know who was here. Anybody know who was
here more than us?

Speaker 5 (01:18:42):
Do you want to know? It's funny you probably didn't
see this.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Somebody tweeted at me about the show and here I
want to pull it up.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
He goes, yo, oh gee, I love the show, but
I got a question. Is something up with you?

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
And eat from That's funny the past few weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Someone seems maybe heated because you dipped out a few
weeks ago and Bro was running solo.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
Hey, that is funny.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
I was like, oh, like, yeah, we're beefing right, unprofessional because.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
I left you. I left you to do it that
you were fully capable of doing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
I think that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
It was funny.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
I think, yeah, he thinks you're mad at me.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
No, man, come on, now, maybe you are.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:19:31):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
I was in Sunday. I was that was amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
Our production company partner with with the Sundance Institute. We
started a Uh. I've had a production company forever, but
we've started a film division of our our our our
film company, excuse me, a sports division and I run
our sports division, so weaves first time, you know, we
took sports to Sundance Sports based ip docr beuter how

(01:20:02):
to go.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
It was amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
We had a great panel, we had a good party,
uh introducing the brand and it was four hundred people
in the in the building.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
It was amazing. That's fantastic, unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
You had a way better reason to be off than me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
What was you was hitting the tables.

Speaker 5 (01:20:19):
I turned fifty one and my wife took me to bag.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
There you go. That's today.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Man. You won't even get you won't even get loose
for fifty I'm over here, get lose for fifty one.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
He didn't lose. You deserve it, I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
But anyway, we're back and not done yet.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
So uh Giannis, the super Bowl, all of it is
still on the table.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
Coming up next the.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Yeah off We go into the night, broadcasting live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios, and Super Bowl Week has begun.
Touchdown means something else this Sunday. For the last four months,
touchdown meant six points. Tonight, it means the planes for
both teams have touched down here in the Bay Area

(01:21:06):
which will be the site, and the build up begins
now exactly seven days away from Patriots and Seahawks, but
also the NBA trade deadline looms as well. Sitting there
on Thursday, and it's pretty hard to find yourself scrolling
anywhere without pictures of Giannis at Tennecompo showing up because

(01:21:31):
he is all the talk right now.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
I wanted to ask you this.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
You feel like it's kind of true or false, Like
it feels like most of the time when there's one
of these kinds of deals and I don't even know
if that deal is going to happen. But when you
have the major name on the market and somebody needs
to give up the house in order to get the
major name, and then we look at it five six

(01:21:56):
years down the road, didn't the house usually win?

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:22:02):
Right, Yeah, So whether it's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
Jannie you were just kind of musing about Lamar Jackson
and Joe Burrow, we could go anywhere else. Uh, that
name's not really out there as far as a trade target.
I wouldn't say in baseball, but there certainly have been moments.

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I don't know, would you do it? Is it circumstantial?
Because it all like it's funny. It's kind of like
I was mentioned in going to Vegas. It's kind of
like going to Vegas where you always you know, that
Friday night flight is always really loud and boisterous, and
everybody thinks they're gonna win. And then on Sunday, everybody
is asleep, hungover and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
Broke, lost souls coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
But then six months later you're like, I think we
should go to Vegas. Like the same thing here. When
someone brings up the idea of let's use Giannis as
an example, you'll hear people go, well, if you got
a chance to get Yannis, you do it?

Speaker 5 (01:23:06):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
I would say, yes, there are very few occasions you
can get a top fifty player, very few occasions.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
Sure doesn't happen a whole bunch.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
And so if you can do that, especially one with
tread left on the tires, you have to you have
to take that in consideration.

Speaker 5 (01:23:36):
That's a yes from me, no matter what the cost.

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
It depends, right, Like, so if we're talking Golden State,
we know Steph isn't going.

Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
Anywhere, No, but anybody else might.

Speaker 4 (01:23:48):
Anybody else is on the table, anybody. So you know,
pairing two top fifties together, you know, is the new
You know Big three. You can't do Big three anymore

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because that doesn't work right, right, So you know, pairing
two guys, like I said, you instantly have an unguardable
offensive set. Right, You're going to get wrong every time
on defense probably, and so it's just gonna keep that.
That's the juice, that's the energy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
Okay, but look at this through like earlier, where you
surprised me is when you you basically stated with just
your chest out that yes, this like Giannis would like
that pairing as well.

Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
Well, Steph's about turn.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Thirty eight years old, and you're joining a team that
in order to get you has got to give up
seven years of draft capital. So even if Steph and yeah,
he's still playing wonderfully at his age, and so will
that continue. I kind of don't have really reason to

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say no, But the injuries will probably be a little
bit more frequent, the play will decline a little bit,
and somewhere in these next three years or so, he'll
turn forty and he won't play anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:25:22):
Okay, Yiannis, Now what are you left with?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
You're thirty four, everybody left and there's no draft picks.

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Lots of cap space, but no draft picks. Is that
the right thing for him to do?

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
Opposed to staying in Milwaukee and well and doing what
he's been doing for the last ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
I gotta think that there are other trade offers out there, Okay,
like what, well, would you rather be in Miami?

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Of course you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
Would the city or to win the situation.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Oh well, no, they don't have anything done there, but
that's a destination. Guys want to come to Miami, I know.
So you would pair them with who it would be
him and hat cass HEIMI Hakkas Junior, you.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Know, Bam out of Baio.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
You probably may have to give up Bam for Giannis.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
I think that it would probably more be like a
anemiler hero centered situation.

Speaker 4 (01:26:29):
Yeah, but then you have Bam and and Yannis essentially
the same person are the same. You know, Bam is
a lesser Yannis in terms of his abilities on the court. Yeah,
so what now, what who's actually going to shoot the
three ball?

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
Well, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
You're going to you're going to fill in around him? Okay,
they do have there's some good young players. Yes, you'd
have to give some of them up. Okay, sell me
on it. So that's where that's where you'd go. You'd
go join staff R l A and join Luca. Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
I don't even know how the hell would you get
that done?

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
It's impossible, right, That's why no one's talking.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
About it, right. I think it's funny that everyone's talking
about the Knicks. How the hell do you get that done?
You don't have any draft picks, you don't have any
young players.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
You have mkil Bridges. Yeah, that's why you don't have any.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Draft picks, right right, And and the last thing on
earth that the Bucks want are any established veteran stars,
because what the Bucks would like to do is tank
the rest of this year, yes, and and and get
even more draft capital, like they want to start over
all right, So, so.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
So you do this deal right now?

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
I do the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
You do the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
I would.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
If you're the Bucks, you do the deal. Yes, if
you're if you're honest, you do the deal. And if
you're the Warriors, you do the deal.

Speaker 5 (01:28:00):
Okay, well, then Thursday is going to be quite a day.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Quite a day.

Speaker 6 (01:28:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
I'll give you this like to me, and this is
never a fun answer. I know everything's supposed to be
yes or no and write it in ink and say
it with your chest. I think every circumstance is different.
With that, I don't think the Warriors have much of
another play. They've sort of rearranged their situation over the
last three years to be ready for this moment if

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it ever presented itself.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
And now here we are. So therefore, if you're the Warriors,
you do it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
But I do think in general what I was mentioning earlier,
which is, if you go back in history and look
at herschel Walker, Ricky Williams, and actually even some of
the lesser things, like you want to go back into
Lakers Lore. I was there, We were all there talking
this out on a daily basis when they were in

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the process of being rumored to get Dwight Howard and
then eventually getting Dwight Howard, and La thought that they
had just purchased multiple rings when when that trade went down,
they were an eight seed and got swept and that

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was the end of that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
So I don't know, man, So these things always look
great on paper?

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
That was yeah, yeah, I mean I think.

Speaker 4 (01:29:32):
You know, trades are always hidden, miss unless you know
free agencies, different trades are are, right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
It took it took a while for you know, any like.

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
Big trades to to to take hold. It's hard to
middle the season, right, you know, there's feeling you just
look at look at the Luca trade last year, like
it took him a minute. He didn't even know what
was going on.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Well, ye.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
Who was like, how the hell did this happen? And
so it took up a real adjustment period. Now they
turned that thing around and you know, made a run
at it. But you know, it's it's one of those
situations where you always want to be guarded. You don't
want to make a mistake when it comes to giving

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up too much for something. But whenever it's someone like
a Yiannis or like a Luca, then you you gotta
pull that trigger.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
You just have to.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Hmm.

Speaker 5 (01:30:49):
You're actually making me think that there's a chance this happens.

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
I mean I thought there was a chance, but everything,
like you asked me off the top of the show,
you think it's happening like no, But I mean, the
odds are less than fifty to fifty for anything in
this space, so I'll keep saying no. But you know
that's the challenge of an NBA star under these new rules,

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with the aprons and.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
The tax penalties and all of that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Wherever they go when when you finally say it's time
to go, when you go, you arrive at a barren spot.
So where's he gonna go? I don't know when's he
gonna go I don't know. But maybe the bigger question
is do you think Giannis is ever gonna win another ring?

(01:31:41):
Like what is the path for him to do that?
And that's where I go. It getting I could have
a machete in my hand. It is getting hard to
see it, it really is. I know, you think if
Steph and him are together, it's just snap fingers, but
snap fingers doesn't usually work in the NBA.

Speaker 5 (01:31:59):
It takes a minute. I don't know if they've got
a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:32:03):
People are over here getting real old, real.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
Fast, really fast.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
It seems like it's happening faster than normal, uh these days.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
But look, that's that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:13):
When you look at the All Star Game, it's like,
who are these people on the All Star team?

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:32:19):
Like it's it's one of those you're really like, wait,
who who's this guy?

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
But the league this turnover, there's turnover.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
And you know that the days are of the the Lebron's,
the Steph, the KDI those are dwindling down. Those are
winding down as they should. But who's the next Who's
the next guy in the league? You know, we don't know,

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we don't know who that is.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
I want to say this, This pairing of Caid Cunningham
and Jay.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
And Duran has my attention.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Okay, I want to say that, but.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
You know, half the fans don't know who, right they are?

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
Y' all know what team I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
Right, seriously like that?

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
It's yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
But and that's what I mean by.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
You gotta do it.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
You got to do it and then and then people
know who they are.

Speaker 4 (01:33:23):
Yes, So we don't We don't get to know the
new stars until the playoffs. I think Kate got a
huge boost last year in the playoffs. But for the
most part, there are not many Detroit Piston games on
national television, not.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Yet, not yet. Or maybe it's Victor. Maybe they're already ready.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Yeah, they're already ready. Now that everybody know him.

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
Yeah, it's right. I didn't even need to use his
last name.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
No, everybody knows him, that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
Yeah. Demand Okay, let's dive back into the Super Bowl
here coming up next, and I want to explore a
little further your statement from the top of the show
that the Patriots need to go prove in this game
that they're a good team. So let's dive into that
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Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
Let me ask somebody who's been there Forget all of
us dorks, let me ask somebody who played in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (01:35:31):
Winning games. Is winning games in the NFL easy?

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
No oh no, it's not. No, no, no, no, no oh.

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
What do you mean against the good teams?

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
No, against any any game is? It's one of the
most difficult things you can possibly does really.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Really do you remember when you and I before the
season started, were like Patriots Patriots, watch out for the
Patriots this year. And then they came out and they
lost at home against the Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders
the team with the number one overall pick. The Raiders

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defeated the Patriots in Foxboro, and one weekend the Raiders
were one to zero and tied for first, and the
Patriots were zero and one and time for last. Then
they went to Miami. He squeezed out a win, and
they came back home to take on Aaron Rodgers and
the Pittsburgh Steelers. They lost that football game fourteen. They

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were one and two. This football team has lost one
other game for the remainder of the year, and it
was a game on December fourteenth against the Buffalo Bills,
a game in which the Patriots led twenty four to

(01:36:58):
seven at halftime. Now, they collapsed and they need to
be accountable for that. But that game was the only
time they've lost a football game since September twenty first,
So like, are we really sitting here in February telling

(01:37:22):
that team that they need to prove that they're good?

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 5 (01:37:31):
Does that make any sense to you?

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
It doesn't make any sense, But it's a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Okay, Like I can go week by week and I
get it. I get it. You know, you beat Carolina,
you did win on the road at Buffalo on Sunday night,
at New Orleans, at Tennessee home to Cleveland, home to Atlanta,
at Tampa, home to the Jets, at SINC home to

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the Giants, at Baltimore at the Jets again home to
the Dolphins. Nothing pops off the screen, Like even the
win at Baltimore. They were trailing going into the fourth quarter.
Lamar Jackson had gotten hurt, and then they came back
and won. But I'm just always like, maybe this is
too simplistic. I always I look at teams in the

(01:38:20):
league and when sebenty wins a bunch of games, and
people go, well, you haven't played anybody, Say, yes, they've
played the teams that don't win the games. That's the
difference between a good team and a bad team. Some
of the teams don't win the games, they're the bad teams.
And then the teams that beat the bad teams and
do it just about every time they play, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
The good teams.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
So I expect the Patriots to give him a game
they might lose. Steve Disager might disagree with me. He'll
be here in five minutes, he said. Off the top.
He kind of laid out a real good case for like,
I don't even know. I don't even know how the
hell you can make a case that the Patriots can win.
And I'm like, well, because it's a game and they're good.

(01:39:10):
I mean, they're clearly doing something right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
They're doing something right.

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
Their quarterback is going to finish second in the MVP.

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
I think, yeah, yeah, I would, I would, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
So tell me about that, tell me about oh, you
haven't played anybody, versus a really good quote from so
many coaches. But Mount Lafleur in Green Bay is the
one who it just resonates from earlier this year when
his team early in the year was feeling a little overconfident,
and he said, I try and like hell to remind

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these guys that it's a week to week league.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
That's a great quote. It's week to week.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
So tell me about being a good team and going
up against bad teams.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
It's easy to play down to your competition. It's a
it's a it's a real thing where you don't take
a team serious during the week. Like I'm not saying
you don't go work. What I'm saying is it's just
a different thing. Like if you're going up against the

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Kansas City Chiefs and then the next week you're going
up against Cleveland are the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
The energy is different, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
There's an expectation of winning when you're going up against that.
Like when I was playing, it's like the Colts, right,
We played against the Colts when I was in Houston,
and then you had Tennessee. Are are Jacksonville? Like the
attention to detail was a little bit different against Peyton

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Manning and the Coats in Denver, We'll go playing against
the Raiders. It was different.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
Because a completely different situation.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
So it's easy to overlook teams or to think that
teams that's the that's the reason I liked Robert Sala
at the Jets and the job he did.

Speaker 3 (01:41:25):
They always came out to fight.

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
They were good, they were gonna they weren't just gonna
let you walk over them.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Now, whether they won the close game or not.

Speaker 4 (01:41:35):
I remember, I think at one point they had lost
like six games and we were total of like six
or ten points or something like that. But they were
they were game. They were a young team trying to
find their legs to win.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
And so.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
Then they brought in Aaron Rodgers and in that experiment
didn't work and it kind of like soured everybody on
Roberts Salah, and to me, it just didn't make sense.
I thought, there are much better team when Robert Salah
was the coach, surely better than what we've seen of
them this year. And oh yeah, oh god, yes, yes, yes,

(01:42:19):
yes that bad. Uh So it's one of those things
where you, yeah, you have to Preparation is everything.

Speaker 11 (01:42:29):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
The fact that Mike Vrabel had those guys ready to
go every single week and they came to play and
they were gonna give you everything.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
They had.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
It's you know, that's why he's a good Coach of
the Year candidate, as he should be. Yep, it's it's
very nuanced when it comes to winning games like it.
Anything can go wrong and everything can go right, and
you can still lose the game. Momentum is everything. That's

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why I'm hell bent on coaches throwing games away by
doing silly things but not taking points.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
That bothers me.

Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
Fourth and two is a disease.

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
Bothers the heck out of me. Yep, it's too hard
to win games to do that. Too hard. I just
don't get it. I don't get why you just throw
something out the window.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
So, which which which is why we always try to
be on time for Steve to say, don't want to windows.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
All the windows are closed.

Speaker 5 (01:43:35):
Here they're gonna throw a good thing away. Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:43:37):
Speaking of throwing things away, that was the method of
operation for Sam Donald the first half of the season.
I did mention an obvious way that his opponent wins
the Super Bowl next Sunday, New England over Seattle is
if Donald reverts to that. Because first ten weeks he
had ten interceptions thrown, including four in the loss at
the Rams, and he threw two more in the rematch

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with the Rams, that overtime classic in December, but no
interceptions thrown these last three games, which have all been
against division opponents. And now they'll go up against the
New England team that won every road game it had.
And this is neutral site game, but certainly not at home.
And yes, the Super Bowl teams did arrive in the
Bay Area tonight. By the way, interesting stat I saw
it was Super Bowl sixty at the forty nine ers

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Levi Stadium. That means every game this postseason will be
played outside. First time that's happened since the two thousand
and two playoffs. Seattle, a team that's sixteen and three
Jackson Smith and Jigma had ten more catches in the
NFC title game beating the Rams. That was for one
hundred and fifty three yards and a key touchdown late
first half, but the Rams were stopped by that Seattle

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defense on a fourth down at the Seattle six with
five minutes to go in the game. So a near
seven and a half minute drive for LA fourteen plays
eighty four yards got them no points and they lost
by four at Seattle. New England won ten to seven
at Denver in the AFC champion Ship Game. The Arizona
Cardinals new head coach is Mike Lafleur from the Rams.

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The Raiders are expected to hire Seattle offensive coordinator Clint
Kubiak as head coach after the Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 (01:45:10):
They just met with him on Saturday.

Speaker 8 (01:45:12):
The forty nine ers new defensive coordinator is Raheem Morris,
and the dolphins new defensive coordinator will reportedly be Sean
Duggan from the Packers. He's worked with the new coach there,
Jeff Hafley, at three other places. To the NBA final
thirty seconds, Clippers are leading big at Phoenix one, seventeen
to ninety three Kawhi Leonard twenty five points. Neither Leonard

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or any other Clipper has been selected to the All
Star Game, which the Clippers Arena will host in two weeks,
but Leonard could be selected to replace the injured Giannison Tinnekumpo.
The All Star reserves were named earlier this evening. Lebron
James is one of them, an All Star for the
twenty second straight year. Kevin Durant also on the list,
although he's out for Monday's Houston game with the sprained ankle.

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Also in the All Star Game, Anthony Edwards, Devin Booker,
Karl Anthony Town selected as a reserve as well.

Speaker 9 (01:46:00):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:46:00):
Portland has lost four in a row. Portland all starred
Denny Avdiez out tonight with a bad back. Among the
games in progress, Cleveland leads at Portland seventy six fifty
nine mid third quarter. Spurs only up on Orlando seventy
to sixty seven mid third and late second quarter. At Denver,
It's Oklahoma City already fifty nine forty seven over the Nuggets,

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fifteen points for Shay Gilgis Alexander. Earlier at New York,
the Knicks won their six game in a row, beating
the Lakers won twelve to one hundred. Washington sent Sacramento
to a ninth straight loss one sixteen, one twelve. In
college hoops number nine, Illinois won at fifth rank Nebraska
seventy eight sixty nine. Florida ripped Alabama in the NHL.

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The outdoor game is over at Tampa Bay.

Speaker 3 (01:46:43):
What a comeback.

Speaker 8 (01:46:44):
A shootout win for the Lightning over Boston sixty five
Nearly sixty five thousand fans in attendance at the Football
Stadium Lightning trailed five to one in the second, but
still took the game. NASCAR's Clash was moved to Wednesday
night on Fox TV after the weekend snowstorm in North Carolina.
The Reds are signing dhau Henneo Suarez to a one
year deal. Number one rank Carlos Alcarez won the Australian Open.

(01:47:08):
He's the youngest to win the career Grand Slam Now
and Phil Mickelson said today he will miss the opening
to Live Golf events this year because of a family
health matter. Live opens its season this week in Saudi Arabia,
followed by an event in Australia in mid February. By
the way, at the PGA event in San Diego, brooks Koepka,

(01:47:28):
who's on tour again, barely made the cut Friday, finished
in a tie for fifty sixth place. I know you
guys were not here last week and we were football focused.
But Scottie Scheffler won last weekend by four strokes at
PGA West in Southern California at twenty seven under par
for the weekend. So that's his seventh win in his
last thirteen events in stroke play, twentieth victory of his

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career already, so he's a lifetime member of the PGA
Tour now. And for Scheffler, he just the third player
to in twenty times including four majors or more before
the age of thirty. The other two are Jack Nicholas
and Tiger Woods. Today, Justin Rose was the winner in
San Diego, his thirteenth career tour title, and he is

(01:48:14):
the first wire to wire winner at Tory Pines since
nineteen fifty five. You guys can attest La Joya. California
is a gorgeous place. There are many great spots in
San Diego. That is one of them. And Jim Nantz
was almost apologizing for the great views they were showing
yesterday as they opened the coverage because it was like

(01:48:35):
all of the pr stock photos were being used with
the helicopters and drones flying, and the golf courses right
on the coast and the cliffs and the Pacific Ocean,
and it's a gorgeous It's been eighty degrees in southern
California this weekend. Those were live shots, those were not
stock photos. It was just incredibly beautiful at Tory Pines

(01:48:57):
in much of southern California, all weekend, and this guy
the winner. Justin Rose, opened with a sixty two on
the North course and wound up breaking the seventy two
hole tournament record, finishing at twenty three under par, one
better than Tiger Woods did there in nineteen ninety nine.
The runner up honors go to three different golfers including

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and I'm sorry I've never heard of him, Pearson Cooty.
Consolation prize for him over seven hundred thousand dollars and
that likely puts him into a pair of the signature
events to end the West Coast swing on tour. The
signature events, as we've mentioned, those also like Live Golf,
have a twenty million dollar perse. This guy Coody delivered

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the best performance of the day in the final round
seven under par, so he went from tied for fourteenth
to a tie for second.

Speaker 9 (01:49:47):
Congratulations.

Speaker 8 (01:49:49):
Next weekend, the tour stop is the Phoenix Open, always
rowdy and racus with the fans there at TPC Scottsdale,
and then the weekend after that Pebble Beach pro Am
in Northern California. After that back down to La at
Riviera the Genesis Invitational, and then the tour heads for Florida.

Speaker 9 (01:50:07):
Gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
Back to you, Steve before you go. And that is
the one thing, the one and maybe the only thing,
Ephrom that's good about the football season coming to an
end is it reboots the seven thirty Pacific Times. Steve
goes deep on golf segment and we learned something and

(01:50:28):
I got to know how you guys are feeling about
this sort of slow leak of the live players coming
back to the PGA with tears in their eyes and
tails between legs.

Speaker 8 (01:50:41):
They really are making it punitive though, aren't they. Oh yeah,
PGA Tour, you left us. You're not gonna collect this.

Speaker 3 (01:50:47):
You're not.

Speaker 8 (01:50:47):
It's as bad as the teams that we're trying to
join the ACC for football. It's fine, but you're not
getting any TV money for the next seven years. You
want to play Florida State, great, but you're not getting
what we have.

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
Right. But then again, if you went to live for
a few years, you got your money money.

Speaker 3 (01:51:03):
You're done and well.

Speaker 8 (01:51:04):
And similar to SMU joining the ACC for football, as
soon as they announced, hey we're in ac SU school
that they got donors coming out of.

Speaker 9 (01:51:12):
The woodwork for that school. So they did make it
up just a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
But you're what a what a great example of the
old age old question with every decision we make for
love or money, right, And.

Speaker 5 (01:51:23):
This is like.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
I guess you did one and now you want to
come back. It's just like a familiar story. I bet
we can all relate to it in life. You make
the decision about one, then you regret it, you come
back and try to make the decision about the other.
But I don't know, man, I don't know. Watching the
emotions of the situation, it's like, I don't know. If

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you feel that way, then give the money back.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
They not give them money. I give them money back.

Speaker 8 (01:51:54):
And Brooks Koepka really was welcomed by the fans in
San Diego this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
The fans aren't mad.

Speaker 5 (01:52:01):
Yeah, I got nothing against the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:52:03):
They don't. They don't. Fans aren't mad.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
Some of them were.

Speaker 5 (01:52:07):
Some of them were about the greater, the greater idea.

Speaker 4 (01:52:11):
That's like, you know, being mad, and how could they like?
How remember how mad Cleveland fans went when when Lebron left. Hey,
guess what happened when he came back. Guess what happened?
Forgot it exactly. So it's that's what fans do. Their fanatics.

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They overreact, and then you can they'll come back again.

Speaker 5 (01:52:36):
Social media versus real life.

Speaker 11 (01:52:39):
Social media versus real life, yep, yep, anger And then man,
I've never and this is I'm blessed.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
I guess I've never run into a human being on
planet Earth that's as mad as most people are on
social media.

Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
Man, goodness, great, never even I've never seen someone.

Speaker 8 (01:53:00):
Because when you're that mad in real life, sometimes there
are consequences.

Speaker 5 (01:53:04):
Yeah, usually, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:53:07):
Well that's it, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:09):
Fair enough, all right, Steve, great stuff tonight, Thanks, thank
you so much, appreciate it. As always, we love our
times with Steve Decader. And yes, Steve on golf, Ladies
and gentlemen is back and we're live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Okay, with a few minutes we got left.
If the Patriots are actually good, do you actually think

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they've got a shot to win the game. Let's let's
dive into it because these will be our last words
before the football season ends. That's e from Salama Mark Willard.
Fox Sports Radio.

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top of your screen real quick. Like, I mean, all
that said, do you think the Seahawks run away with
this or we got a close game?

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
I think it'll be close, Okay, I think, uh, you know,
Mike Rabels an excellent coach. You know, the weakest part
of I think New England's team was their defense and
not being able to get pressure on opposing offensive passers.
And and they've completely changed that in in the playoffs.

(01:54:41):
The defense is ringing one of the tops in the
playoffs now. And so I think that's it's all about
moments and it's all about coaching, and I think I
think that that that keeps this game close. So last
game is is you you're not gonna save anything. I
can tell you that, right, You're not saving nothing. You're

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gonna let it all. You're gonna let it all out.

Speaker 5 (01:55:05):
Yeah, I think it's best that two week layoff. I
think both these.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
Offenses might have a little a little bit of a
hard time, might be a little sloggy for about three quarters,
a little sleepy. But also, I'm with you somewhat close.
Doesn't mean the Seahawks can't cover. You know, they can
win by a touchdown. But I think both of these
offense is gonna have a little bit of a hard time. Hey,

(01:55:34):
I just realized and you're probably Are you off next Sunday?
Oh yeah, okay, you are too. Well, I'm off five
to eight. I'm gonna do after the game. I'm gonna
do after the game. But the next time I talk
to you, did no more NFL games? Nope, no more
NFL season. I thought we could have some fun. Just

(01:55:56):
look back real quick. Let's do two or three things
things that stand out. What are your top memories, your
top moments of the NFL season that has been to
this point.

Speaker 4 (01:56:07):
The fall off of the Kansas City Chiefs. I think
that's right at the top.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
It just.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
The writing was on the wall.

Speaker 4 (01:56:19):
You can see the Cracks can't win that many one
score games and expect to have that same level of
of of success.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
The next year. I think.

Speaker 4 (01:56:31):
I think for me that the number that was the
number one thing where I was like, Okay, well, you know,
now what what do they do?

Speaker 3 (01:56:37):
Now? You know where do they go? Now?

Speaker 4 (01:56:42):
See, they're bringing Eric b Enemy back, They're trying to
figure this thing out. And then the injury to Patrick Mahomes.
So it's a lot of questions in the air. But
I don't think and I didn't. I didn't think they
would make the playoffs, but I didn't think. It just
looked bad. They didn't look like the Kansas City Chiefs. Wow,
that's a really good one.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
I want to bring up the Thursday night game between
the Seahawks and Rams. They just put on a good
show in the NFC title game, but I want to
go back to that Thursday Night game.

Speaker 5 (01:57:11):
I thought that that if Sam.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
Donald wins the Super Bowl, that second half was the
turning point in his career. He had thrown a pick six.
He was going to be the bad Big Game Sam again.
And then he brought them all the way back and
we got two point conversions bouncing off of people's helmets
and being picked up by people that didn't even know
they were picking it up.

Speaker 5 (01:57:34):
I mean that game to.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Me, was one of the one of the top three
memories of the season for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Yeah, I agree we I think that the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 4 (01:57:46):
For me, it sticks out the dysfunction that was the
Bears last year and how Ben Johnson came in in
the reports and training camp and in OTAs, how you
know there was contingent in the building. They weren't getting long,
He's kicking the offense off the field and people questioning
the process. But to see what they were able to

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turn into now, I will caution them, They're not going
to be able to do fourth quarter heroics, last two
minute heroics and make a mill of.

Speaker 5 (01:58:16):
That this year's last year's Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (01:58:18):
Yeah, they're going to have to solidify that and fix
that now. I think Caleb Williams is gonna have to
be better with the ball, passing it down the field
more accurate in order for them to continue to get better.
But the Bears for me, were a huge surprise, a
good surprise, and it looks like they found their quarterback

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that they have been looking for since ever.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
Let's say it with an eye to the sky. The
Bears are not who we thought they were. They are
not and I actually want to bring up not just
the Bears, but how about one specific moment if you
hide the circle one play in the NFL season, was
it not Caleb Williams to Cole Comet, the fourteen yard

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pass that traveled fifty two yards off of a back
foot in crazy weather Divisional round playoff game against the
Los Angeles Rams. We'd be talking about that as one
of the great, you know, miracle at the Metowlands type
situations if the Bears had won the game, but they
did not, But that that play is going to be

(01:59:27):
forever etched in my mind. And also because it happened
while you and I were sitting here talking to each other.

Speaker 5 (01:59:32):
It happened on our show, and both of us were gasping.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
I remember screaming, oh my god. Right, Well, but.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
Whatever TV you were watching might have been like a
tick ahead of mine.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Yeah, Like, oh my god, and the.

Speaker 2 (01:59:49):
Ball is still flying through the air on my TV.
I'm like, no way, do not tell me someone's about
to catch this thing. Oh gosh. I will never forget
that moment. Out you got any more?

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
Yeah, I got another one. I think.

Speaker 4 (02:00:05):
The the Raiders, uh the disappointment to let down because
I picked that as hard as it was from that
I picked them to be better, and just the disappointment
of the organization and and and you know, it was
there for them and.

Speaker 3 (02:00:20):
It just fell apart.

Speaker 5 (02:00:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:00:22):
Pete Carroll's probably done coaching, and you know, it's a
sad way for such an iconic coach uh to go out,
But it was. It was quite disappointing when it came
to what we expected from the Silver and Black this year.

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
Yep, yep, no doubt about it. I want to give
a shout out to the trick the trick play in
the wild card round Juwan Jennings to Christian McCaffrey that
dethroned the champs in Philadelphia. But also, I know you
and I both Lamar Jackson just wasn't his South this year.
And I thought all year long, we thought they were
going to make the playoffs, and I thought they were

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all the way until Aler Loop walked out onto that
field and knocked that thing wide right.

Speaker 5 (02:01:03):
I still can't believe the Ravens didn't even go.

Speaker 4 (02:01:07):
Yeah, that's a that's a tough one, not having them
and the Chiefs in the playoffs and the Bengals

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
Woof, yeah, yeah, great man, enjoyed the Super Bowl for
apram I'm Mark