May 4, 2026 • 36 mins
Dan and Monse in for Stu and the guys as they discuss the question of whether or not Joel Embiid is now a feel-good story in the NBA. Stu and the guys welcome Giants' great and long-time NFL analyst Phil Simms onto the show to talk about the NFL draft and all of the headlines around the league. Dan and Jason Stewart talk about their Survivor baseball league.
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Speaker 4 (00:25):
Things just got interesting. You heard the news Anthony Edwards
back for the Timberwolves playing in Game one tonight against
the San Antonio Spurs. I think it's I think it's
a mountain to climb for San Antonio. I may sound cliche, Monci,
but winning and winning against a good team in the
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NBA Playoffs when you haven't done it before, Minnesota has
done it before. I think it's a tough task for
the San Antonio Spurs. And now getting Anthony Edwards back
from Minnesota, I think makes things even tougher for San Antonio.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
They it's just unknown territory right for the Spurs in
this situation going into it, so I understand, but I
do think the Spurs are more prepared. Maybe then I
would have another team that is entering the second round
of the playoff semi finals after not being in the
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playoffs last couple of seasons.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Like, I don't know, I think I think the Spurs
can win it. But having Anthony Edwards is awesome. Well
that's how you want to see the series.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
They should win it.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
They should.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Timberwolves took two of three from the Spurs this past season.
But if we even just go back to last year
with Oklahoma City, right, Oklahoma City was the best team
in the NBA. They were the number one overall seed.
But yet every time along the way we wondered if
they were able to get it done because they hadn't
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been there before, they hadn't done it before, and they
had to prove their way. And they ended up doing it.
And now like we look at their series with the
Lakers and be like, oh, yeah, thunder a gonna win.
So they got past that that mark you you talk
about sometimes having some difficulties sleeping. So my mom got
me this Nintendo nes thing where it's you know, it's
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got just a bunch of games. Yeah yeah, it's got
a bunch of yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
A little replica.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think it's got like a maybe a contra game.
It's got regular Super Mario Brothers. It's got some other
games that I have no idea, but it has Super
Mario Brothers and Super Mario Brothers three.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
That's all you need. And Mario three is that the
one where he flies?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The tail?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Oh so good.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So I have been playing that and I got stuck
playing the son was sick last night and went to
bed early. My wife went to bed. I'm like, I'm
going to play some Super Mario Brothers and love it.
I was up till two. I was up till two o'clock.
But I can't get past this certain world or the
and stage. I just get it doesn't matter if I
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have twelve lives, I cannot get past it.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Which one is it? Can you?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You remember?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's embarrassing because I'm I'm a fifty almost a fifty
year old, guys.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Because now I'm going into.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It, that's even more embarrassing. It's only World two.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
The desert one, yes, yes, And you can't get past
the sun?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Is it the sun that's chasing you?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's tricky, But I was I can do it every
now and but I lost like five lives on it
last night. That's what I feel. It's like for an
NBA team, You just you try and try and try,
and then we finally can break through. The next time
you do it again, it's it's easier, you understand, but
until you actually do it, you're stuck. And I'm stuck
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in World two right now, in that in that Super
Mario Brothers game, and was up until two o'clock last night.
At one point, I I at one point I had
like thirteen lives and I could not get past it.
That is why I think it is a tough task
for San Antonio now with Anthony Edwards, who's playing with
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two bad knees. Let's be real, if he's coming back
from this one, he had the runners knee on the
other knee, so it's not Anthony Edwards at one hundred percent.
But we've seen now other Timberwolves players have stepped up
in his absence. They're still with Dante DiVincenzo because of
his achilles injury. He's not going to be back at
all until next season maybe with the injury, so there's
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not everything is going for Minnesota. But I still just
think a win against Portland in a playoff series is
not the same as beating a team that's been to
the Western Conference Finals the previous two years. And it
sounds very general, and it sounds very cliche, but I
do believe it, and I do believe that there's something there,
and I do believe Minnesota has shown that they can
win games that they need to win. Now they haven't
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made it to the NBA Finals. Maybe the Mavericks were
better in Oklahoma City, was better last year, but in
other previous series, they have shown that they can win
the games that they need to win. And I think
that that is going to be something that the Spurs
are going to have to figure out. They may be better,
but Minnesota's beating them twice during the season, and now
they'll have an opportunity to do it again.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I love the comparison because you hit it right on
the money. Once you get through a level that you can't,
all of a sudden, you can get.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Through it much easier. And so here are the Spurs,
a very young team.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Just in general, right, I think Stefan Castle might be
not Stefan Castle, Darren Fox, thank you. I was like,
Darren Fox might be the one that has had the
most experience when it comes to the NBA for how
long he's been in the league. But I've never and
maybe this is I have never looked at Minnesota in
the last couple of years and been like I.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Am scared of Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Minnesota has never made me feel scared. I love them,
and it's not about not liking them.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
I just don't. I don't know. Like they're good.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
They're good, they've been to the Western Conference Finals, but like.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
I have not been scared of them.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I feel like with a gimpy Anthony Edwards gangster and
major pain because of his knees, they're probably like, Okay,
he's coming out here. That's gonna make a difference. But
I don't know if san Antonio looks at them and
is scared. I do feel that people look at Victor
Winn Banyama and maybe are not scared, but definitely know
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that he's gonna bring it.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
We've seen it from Victor when Banyama doesn't have the attitude.
He has an attitude that we're all asking and craving for.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
So I feel like they know that he's gonna come
out already ready to play the first second of Game one.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
You don't have to tell him it's you know, he's
not gonna warm up in the second quarter. He's gonna
come out ready to play, and so I just I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I think the Spurs are going to be more prepared
than a typical fresh team with.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Young Remember this isn't a Spurs team with Greg Papovich,
so Rich Johnson's also never been here before.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Absolutely absolutely, but there is you.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I got to give some credit to the to the
culture in the history that has been the Spurs, right
there's I just am giving them maybe too much credit,
But I definitely have never been I'm scared of the Timberwolves.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I've never felt that. What about the timber Wolves.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I don't know about the Wolves.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I don't I don't hear it. What do you go
from now on? It'll be Minnesota the rest of the.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Way, Samily, you're picking a night Spurs or Timberwolves.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Save Minnesota timber Wolves. I don't hear it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I mean, I hear you are Timberwolves.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
I prefer timber Wolves because there's more of an f
there isn't there say it.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Manty Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I'm not saying it the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
The rest of the day.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Everyone gives Monty guff for this, and I'm just like,
I let it I let it be a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm just like, thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I don't even hear it though, so I can't adjust
it because I don't even hear it happens.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Okay, okay, I love it. I think it's the first
time that i've I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Think so you mean them like on a Monday.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Maybe maybe on a Monday.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
You is the first.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Time you brought it up really started on the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
The Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh wow, Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah, see, she's got it. It's it's for me. It's
only Timberwolves and Cardinals.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, there you go. You got it. You got it.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
So what am I saying?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
When you say seventy six? You don't say anything wrong.
You don't say anything wrong. It's just how you say it. Listen,
I come from the Upper Midwest, So when I say
grocery bag, who was like, what's a beg? Yeah? Beg?
So don' it's it's all connected. Yeah, it's all connected. Well,
Anthony Edwards back tonight for the Spurs, Joel and Minnesota
or Minnesota. Tonight as they faced Minnesota, I was as
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soon busy trying to make my cool transition to Joel Embiid,
because Joel Embiid is back the process and yet he
is injured as well. That's that is nothing new, but
a healthy version of Joel Embiid who had this to
deal with a hip issue, had Chyree Maxey fall into
his knee late in that game against the Celtics. But
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by and large, Joel Embiid is healthy and the seventy
six Ers, behind a rejuvenated Joel Embiid, have advanced to
the Eastern Conference semi finals. So I ask you the question,
Manzi Blanios, is Joel Embiid now someone to root for?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I think so?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I think the seventy six Ers is that I am
rooting for the demise of Paul George for the rest
of time because of his way out of the Clippers.
So I'm not rooting for him, But I don't dislike
the seventy six Ers. I've been a fan, I guess
from afar of the seventy six Ers since I was
a little girl, because of Alan Iverson. I think Joel
Embiid is a likable player and we have not been
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able to see him get this far, and so I
think this is.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Like I feel like a lot of people are like, Okay,
now I'm gonna root for the seventy six ers, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You know what I'm saying, Like, I feel like you
said that you don't think the Knicks are liked right,
or like a couple of would yea.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, I don't think that the rest of the country
falls in love with the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Correct, And I told you, I was like, I don't
think people hate the Knicks, but I think this matchup,
I think what's happening now, seventy six Ers are the
team that maybe most people are jumping on the bandwagon
at this point to root for.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So I don't think people were behind Joel Embiid because
of his injury history. That maybe that may be unfair
to Joel Embiid, but I don't think that he was
embraced by fans as a whole because it was more
about his unavailability or his inability to be to play
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as opposed to being on the court like someone like Giannis.
I think in the Bucks runs that they made, he
was enduring to a lot of basketball fans out there.
I think Jalen Brunton actually with the Knicks also can
have a similar sort of feel. But I think when
you looked at Joel Embiid, you just thought high draft pick,
all the talent, always hurt, always hurt, they' or not.
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I think that people weren't warming up to him now
after missing half of the season and then missing the
first part of this playoff series and the end of
the regular season because of an appendectomy. Now he comes
back and he actually looks refreshed when he looks like
a different player. I think that there was a point
that we wondered, does Joel Embiid have anything else left?
The seventy six Ers already missed the timeline if they
wanted to trade him, because now you have a player
(11:21):
that gives you diminishing returns. And in the games that
he played against Boston, which by the way, sure seems
to be the difference in that series if we really
get down to it, the Sixers seem like a different team.
But now they seem different because he's healthy, and it
seems different because maybe there is seven seed and maybe
it is a little bit of Paul George also coming back.
But I think something turned with Embiid. I think people
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are warming up to them. Of the Celtics, Knicks and
seventy six Ers. I think the Celtics are disliked by
the most people. I think the Knicks are next, and
then I think it would be the seventy six Ers.
But I don't even know if people dislike the seventy
six Ers anymore. There hasn't been anything too dislike about
them except Joel Embiid not being available for his team's games,
and now he is. Now they're an underdog. Now they're
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facing the Knicks, a team that people may not like,
and I think that Joel Embiid now has this feel
good story behind him and the Sixers do as well
that could carry them even further in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'm scared of the seventy six Ers. I if I'm
on the East, I I'm scared of the seventy six Ers,
not only as you just hit it. Joel Embiid looks
better than I think we all anticipated because of the
history of him just not being available, which has been
the frustrating part. And if you're a Sixers fan this
entire time, you've watched your front office make move after
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move after move to try and make this process work.
And it's taken a while, right, it's taken O don't
how many years. At those point, the process has been
in it process and processing is processing.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
The process been processing.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
But this team, like aside from Joel Embiid, Tyre Smaxi
has been carrying that team whenever Joel Embiid was down
and he is one of the fastest players in the league.
Paul George not having to play because he was suspended,
not because he was injured and had to rehab.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
This dude was just.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Chilling at home, probably working on his game, but not
doing anything too much.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
To his body. He's fully refreshed.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Both of these players, Joel Embiid and Paul George played
under forty games this year, and here they are seeming
like they're in mid season form, not postseason where everyone
else is dragging and tired. They both look really good
and the Sixers look scary. They look like they can
absolutely come out of the East. And if we would
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have been having this conversation ten days ago, I wouldn't
have said that.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
To that point. And I know you can't do it
with every player, but I also think that this is
bad news for the NBA, and it's bad news for
the NBA because you see the Sixers and their key
components in Paul George to your point about the suspension,
well put, But with Embeed I think who played thirty
eight regular season games, it was something.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Again, yeah, under thirty for both.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Correct. So now you're telling me that you can have
their best players older in age George's in the sixteenth season,
older in age, miss half of the season and now
look like the most dangerous team in the East. That's
not good. And you look out to the West and
you have Anthony Edwards now is two bad knees. You
have a Lakers team that doesn't have Luka Doncic and
Austin Reeves trying to come back from his injury. So
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what we are seeing with the seventy six ers is
not good for Adam Silver and the NBA to say,
like your strongest team, fifty percent of what makes them
good is that their players missed half the season. It's
weird because if Embiid played sixty five games and maybe
he's second team All NBA, but guess what, he's probably
not fully healthy for the Eastern Conference semi finals.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
It's something I've never understood because in baseball, when you
get suspended, it's like you're suspended and the postseason, like
you can maybe you're suspended only X amount of games,
but you can't play in the postseason. That's typically tied
into when you get in trouble. This, as you said,
it's going to be something if the Sixers get far,
if they make it to the finals, let's say they
win this, it has to be something that is discussed
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because to your point, look at all the stars that
are hurt because they.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Tried and played the whole season and they have two
that did it.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, right, and this has made them stronger. And I
think that people would say I would rather have this
than have them play sixty five games between mid October
and mid April. Like this is another I don't want.
I hate to use the word indictment on the NBA's
regular season, but if this is what is happening, if
this is what we are we are playing for, guess what.
Maybe guys shouldn't be playing seventeen and eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I actually think that it could be a problem in
the NBA because we can't move on from older stars
because they're still hanging around in some way or another.
So we're talking about Lebron James, We're talking about Kevin
Durant in the Rocket you to.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Put a cap on the amount of years and you're
playing the eshay.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I'm just saying, if guys are if they're that good
and they're that valuable, And you see Joel Embiid and again,
and I'm saying, relatively healthy appendect me. There's nothing that
you could do about. And he got banged up, he
had his hip working on And I mentioned the knee
thing with Maxie.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
That video of him stretching on the sideline so funny.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, I just I think that it's an indictment on
the NBA.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
But anyway, Joel Embiid is now a feel good story.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
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Speaker 2 (16:23):
Oh do we love this man?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I am not certain anyone puts a bigger smile on
our faces collectively than Phil Simms. A great quarterback, great
media career after he was a quarterback. His son is
a good friend of ours and joins us every week.
He's been texting me from Europe. He's crazy, Chris Simms,
but Phil Simms is not.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And I listen, we.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Had a conversation right before we started here. I'm gonna
let mikey A ask the first question. It's a great question,
So mikey A, the floor is yours.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
I didn't hear any great questions.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know it's coming right now.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Well we'll get a great answer, I'm sure. But you
said that you don't give it, you don't give a crap,
And I was just curious, how do you get to
I don't give a crap?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Is it age? Is it money?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
What is it that I can do to get to
I don't give a crap? How do you arrive there? Phil?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Yes, Hey, the first thing is it? Sure as a hell.
Ain't about money because I didn't make any anywhere. So
you played fifteen years? Yeah, my starting salary was sixty thousand,
and we progressed a little bit every year. I mean,
so that's one thing. And AGES definitely is I'm hired.
The crap that I read and see and I turn
the TV on every morning and my kids make fun
(17:35):
of me. Why you watching all those shows? All you
do is get mad? I said, yeah, nobody gives me.
It just makes me want to fight more. And so
I was watching the film No you weren't. You couldn't
have been watching because your take is absolutely wrong and stupid.
But you're telling a big audience out there, you know
(17:56):
what I mean, Yes, all the people to listen to.
Oh yeah, he's smart, he must be right. No, no,
it's every day, so I do let it pass. And
of course my young son met who's in the business too,
He goes, you know, a big guy, just let it go.
You know, you can't, you know, And I said, yeah,
I know, I know. Really what I what would love
to do is have a show and just go Today,
(18:20):
here are the top five stupidest things said by people
on teav I say stupid things too every once in
a while, get it wrong. But I'm gonna tell you
I never talk about something unless I really know, right,
So you know, oh you mean, I got to do
a little homework, could tell the truth. Think of it
this way. Guys, Hey, mom's, dad's wife, kids, whatever, are
(18:44):
listening to some of these shows, and when what else
are they? You know, even the fans, what did they
go by? What they read and what they hear. So
I think that's a big responsibility for the press to
try to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Phil I am all in for a daily show in
which you give us the top five dumbest thing. Said everything, Well,
listen about every single to so you know, be featured.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I got enough, I.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Got enough people that don't like me, so I'm gonna
try to keep it level. G Rara. As Bill Parcell
said to me sometimes during my career, it was kind
of getting late, and he was. He goes, Hey, Sims,
don't worry when you quit, the fans are going to
like you. And I went, is that a is that
a compliment? Quit? The fans are going to like you. Well, Bill,
(19:34):
when you retire, uh maybe, well whatever, I'm gonna write
a book and I'm going to have two chapters on
Lawrence Taylor and then I don't know how many chapters
I'm gonna have on Parcels. But damn to get even
with him, I'd have to write the whole book about him,
because man, he listen, we won, and I tell people
(19:57):
all the time, I love him, would do anything for him.
And I'm here on this show today just because because
of him. He's the big reason. He helped us win
two Super Bowls. So you know, can't can't hate a
guy for that? Was he Yes, did he ever have
a day where he came out and he was nice. No,
(20:18):
he had the great ability to every day to drive you.
And you know it was you know, look, thinking back,
I go, you know, he could have gone out one
day and go, okay, guys, just take it in. We
had a great workout, you know. No, never.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Phil, Phil, Do you remember Taylor? You were at the barn.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
For the draft Chris was doing a show there. Do
you remember Taylor just kind of hanging around the barn there?
What was going on?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
You know, I don't remember much about it. A lot
of people. I wasn't drinking. I don't really drink, right,
I was trying to watch, you know, Christopher and his
his sidekick do this thing. And I'm just going, God,
I'm glad you're doing it, because I sure as the
hell wouldn't want to do what you're doing there. Oh
we're surprised a by the pick and you know whatever.
I don't know, Sorry, I didn't. I wasn't zooming on
(21:11):
and zooming in. And a lot of people, man, there
were a lot of people there too.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Got too many people, right, I mean for a draft,
I mean it's not.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
That complicated, right, Yeah, they were doing the social post,
I guess and all that. So everybody, I did notice,
everybody was working. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So my executive producer who's on the zoom with us
right now, Taylor, he was in the barn. What a
great night, a special night for him to be able
to take in the draft with the Simms family.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
He did.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
He did take a video of you at one point
drinking a diet coke and eating baby carrots.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I believe, And.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I got to tell you, Phil that it was shocking.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
But that is what draft night is all about.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I mean, hey man, let me just tell you something this. Yeah,
it's real, Okay. I don't have what you do, so
I try to watch what I eat a little bit
because I am the one great thing that I can
do in life. I can eat with anybody. I'm serious.
(22:09):
I eat two bread. I've already had two breakfasts today.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We'll get out of here here, come on. I mean, Phil,
were taping this at nine thirty in the morning.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I mean, oh, well, well, you know some of us
get up early, right, And that's the other thing with age,
you know. I look at the clock and I say
five thirty. I go, let me try to sleep another
twenty minutes. But usually I just got I walk to
hell and I get up, so I get up early,
have an early breakfast, and then you know, two hours later,
I'm ready to eat again. Of course, all you got
(22:36):
to do is ask my sons. They laughed their ass
off about me. God, almighty, you can eat, I said, yeah,
you know why because I starved the whole life growing
up in the house with the eight kids.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, so I was all the sacrifices you made, right,
you spent all the money on them, that's right.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Yeah, well, yeah, so whatever. At one time this off season,
I was up to two sixty three.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Yeah, no, wow, and I liked it, you know, damn.
You know, my clothes didn't fit, but it just felt good.
But I realized I had to dropped back down. Now
I'm at two forty five, so man, so I have
to cut down. I'm eating my one joy and I'm
pretty good cooked too. Yeah, we know, better be a
decent cook too.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Did you cook yourself breakfast this morning? Or what? Twice?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Of course, of course, yes, what was the first one,
if you don't mind me asking the early one?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yeah, I had a big bowl of yogurt with blueberry
strawberries crushed, not almonds. Well, I do have those two walnuts. Yeah,
you know, pour a little something on top of it,
smash it, watch a little TV, drink one cup of
coffee or tea. And then I had four eggs fried
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and I put them on toast and put all this
other stuff on it, which is man, I eat it.
So it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Go ahead, teller.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
So the reason why I am such a great guess
said things like this watch party is because I'm wallpaper there.
I'm not there to interact.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You don't even know he's there, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I'm not gonna don't. We didn't even talk, did we.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
We talked for a little, but people people were stut
Gott's and Mikey were like, what's Phil doing? What's Phil doing?
I'm here to report nobody ate more fruit that night
than Phil Simps.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Oh wow, yeah, yeah, I was caught. You know, I
probably had dinner before we went up there. I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
But what with the carrots? What are you doing there?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
I mean, hey, just trying to fill up. But I
don't like it until I feel like.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
God, damn, I'm full, Yes, yes.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Great, but feeling for me, I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So you love the full feeling and you love feeling.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You loved like two sixty five was a good.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Wait for you. You're saying that's odd.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Oh I loved it.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Yeah, Like, man, you know, I'm just going boy. I
wish I had Wade like this when I was younger.
I really would have taken some people down.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
He would have played linebacker.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
No you know.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
To me, Oh, yes, Phil, what did you make of
the Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, it's hard because no one knows, So you're right,
So Phil, like Chris is sitting there doing his thing,
but no one really knows how good these draft picks
are going to be. But what did you make of
John Harbaugh's first drafts as the Giants head coach?
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Well, it went great, it really did. You know. I
didn't study all the guys they drafted, but I know
getting Rville Rees that was a great start. Getting the
lineman from Miami is another one. So you got two
big dudes on a team. Now, that makes the team bigger, better, physically,
all that stuff. And that's John Harball's way, and the
Giants I think got away from that for years. I mean,
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Bill Parcells always had a thing, well, if we can't
make our decision up, just take the bigger guy, you know,
and it's you know, the other thing is too just
about you know that, why do they draft RVL reach.
A lot of people complained about that, whether they got
this and then you know, and I learned this from
George Young and Coach Parcels, don't be afraid of adding
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on to one of the strengths of your team.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Every statement.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
We did that, and you know, we had an unbelievable
linebacking court and we draft this guy, Carl Banks. I went,
oh my god, how many linebackers do we need?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Yeah, I know, he should be a Hall of Famer.
I mean, Carl Banks. You know, as time went on,
it was pretty early, maybe about the second year, I went,
oh my god, he's not good.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
He was.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Carl was great. Yes, And you know, if anybody wants
to argue that with me, you can almost look at
any game, but look at the playoffs in nineteen eighty
six by our football team. He was phenomenal in every
game in the Super Bowl. Listen, there should be a
defensive MVP in the Super Bowls, you know, because it's
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just it seems like it's just holy always going to
go to an offensive player, right, Carl. When you watch
the game, it was, it's unbelievable. Yes, every series against Denver,
he made a play, made a play and they were
outstanding too. Plays that he would make. It wasn't just like,
oh here he comes, I'll make a tackle. But when
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you play with Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson, you know we
had Pepper Johnson, men like God, yeah, Harry. Reasons just
on and on. You know, people don't pay enough attention
to you. So I'm always hey, I know, Carl, but
I'm not. I don't like, we're not super super close
because we don't see each other that much. But one
day he's going to I think he's going to get
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into the Hall of Fame because he deserves it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What'd you make of the Rams? It was weird, the
whole story.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Trying to protect Matthew Stafford. They made it clear he's
the quarterback for now, when Stafford's a Hall of Fame quarterback.
But they drafted for the future, and I thought it
was smart and I thought it was ridiculous. The great
lengths they went to to kind of keep that secret
out of know.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Yeah, well, everything was just I think it was two things.
I feel pretty confident in say this. It was two things. One,
they wanted to make sure Matthew Stafford was understanding there.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Right, but you appreciate of course, right, yes, sure.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
And you know the Giants trapped to Dave Brown one
year in the first round. Yes, they actually called me
and told me. I said, hey, well, I said, wow,
Dave Brown do right? Yeah, okay, but and.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You were okay with it. You understood what they were doing, right, Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:28):
What how did you ask the question at first? That's well, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So they went to great length. There was a secret
meeting with Tyle Simpson. They didn't want the news to
get out there. They wanted to make sure Stafford they
did all the right things. It just seemed it seemed
like they really went out of their way to announce, Hey,
it's still Matthew Stafford's team.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
We know it's still Matthew Stafford, right, right.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
And Matthew Stafford went to Los Angeles. I had arguments
all the time during the week, Well, you know, he's
never won a big game, you know, I said, yeah,
you know, you're right, you're right. Yeah, because many years
before the season started, I said, wow, Detroit, I think
they're a super Bowl team, and they would go okay, okay,
good point. Yeah, no kidding, they're no good. How about
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they gonna wait if they want a game. It was
a miracle, right, But I'll say this I felt, I
said it many times. You can look it up on
podcasts whatever not that you want to or will I will.
I said, Ty Simpson fits the Rams offense perfectly. He's
everything that you would want for that offense. And Sean McVay,
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Sean McVay had to look at him and go really good,
arm very mobile, always too small. Well that you know what,
you don't have to really worry about it as much
because they do all those play actions one way, they
roll the other way, and they got space all around
them and just wait for somebody to come open deep
and rip it and that'll be Ty Simpson. So Matthew Stafford,
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if I had to guess, it's going to be one
or two years. But you know, think about this also,
he plays hurt all the time every year. And now
if you get hitting Ty Simpson up to speed, you go,
let's just give matt Stafford just one game off here
to recuperate and whatever. I think that's a big deal too,
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because man, he played a couple of games this year.
It was unbelievable that he played, uh with the injuries
he was dealing with. But he's tough as hell and
got one of the greatest arms we've ever seen in
the NFL. I'm not saying Ty Simpson's arm is Matthew Stafford's,
but it's not far behind, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Right, And you like to fit in la with Cockay,
that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, Phil, we're very friendly with with Mike Golick and
his entire family. Did Mike Golick ever sack you? Do
you remember playing against Mike Golic Senior?
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Oh yeah, sure, sure, yeah. I mean I don't remember
him hitting me because guys.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hitting me, because.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Jerome Brown, you know, I mean, my god, there Front
seven was like it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And Golic used to well, Golic does tell us that
Reggie White would look over to him before the ball
was snapped and he would say, Hey, Mike, do me
a favor. Don't move or move backwards, And Mike would
be like why, and He's like, you get in my way.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I tell you.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
I was working out one off season and right before
the draft, where a bunch of us and parcels comes
in and he looks as we start talking about the
draft just a little. He goes, ah, sims, our life
is about ready to change, and I go why, well,
why would what are you talking about? He goes this,
this I think it was Detroit. Detroit is going to
screw us in the draft and the egos are going
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to get Jerome Brown, And I went, oh, is he
is really as good as everybody says? He goes, hell,
he might be better than Reggie. This is gonna be
two ass weapons I'm gonna take this year. I won't
even tell you the stories about my interactions with with
with Reggie White. They were I would say things, you know,
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he was a minister that I should never say to
a minister, but I did.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Right. Well, it's football. So of course we love you,
We love you, we love your family.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
And it made my day that you had no idea
Taylor was in the same room with you the entire
evening watching the dress.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
I didn't want to get in.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
We were hanging out, all right, Phil, We'll talk to you.
Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
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a set for NBA playoffs and so much more. And
also a Major League Baseball season that has been up,
down and all around. The National League at one point
just being the class of the league. Is the American
League at a difficult time getting teams even above five hundred.
We've got five now above five hundred in the American League. Well,
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the National League Central has all teams not only above
five hundred, but the Pirates are in last place with
the winning percentage of five forty three. It's been a
crazy year in Major League Baseball. Thirty five games in.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
It really has been.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
In fact, the boyfriend, who's a Yankees fan, was like, man,
the American League is so bad, the Yankees may actually
get to the World Series again, right cause He's like,
the Yankees aren't good, but the American League is so
bad that Yankees may get there.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
So he was excited about that.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
It's also been a crazy year and trying to decide
what happens. I looked at this past week and saw
the Dodgers playing the Marlins. I think the Marlins are
a better team than they were in the past. Last year,
they had a decent second half. Dodgers lost two of three.
Then they went to Saint Louis facing a hot Cardinals
team after a series in Pittsburgh, and they ended up
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dropping two of three. And that you know what that
means A strike in my Survivor league. And I am
not alone in the Survivor League. Jason Stewart is in
the league as well. It's a it's a pool where
you just have to have your team win half the
games that they play that week and you move on.
You get three strikes and you're out. And everybody was
pretty much out this past week because of what's been
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going on in the banks.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Like the cool part about a Baseball Survivor pool is
that you do get those three strikes, so you could
kind of almost count on most of your summer being
filled with some kind of gambling interest. You just pick
a winner. All they got to do is win fifty
of their games. And so there's what five or six
weeks into the MLB season, and most people have two strikes.
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Another half the league are already already out, and.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
We don't even play the first week, by the way,
like we started like the Monday after opening Day on
that Thursday a.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Complete blood bat though yesterday, because the Reds and the
Mariners were the top two picks in the drafts, I
mean in the pool. So like what like forty percent
of the pool had one of those two teams and
they both lost in Survivor on Sunday. And then this
week our pool, a little thing that they do that
kind of it's supposed to shed down, it's supposed to
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like trim down the uh, the amount of pools each year.
We have to pick two winners this week, and both
of them have to win fifty percent of their games.
So we're looking at a pool like six weeks in
that well, keep be down to like under one hundred,
if not like fifty.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
By the end of the week, you had an Angels
team that was facing the White Sox and Mets, and
the Angels were doing all rights. That would have been
your pick. The Angels were swept by the White Sox
in Chicago and then they lost two of three to
the worst team in baseball. So even if you think
your team is good, they're probably not that good. And
really the only bad team in baseball awful team has
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been the Mets, and then then they go and take
two of three from the Angels.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Can I just say both of you are crazy?
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Both of you instead of enjoying the summer and not
dealing with something that's going to stress you like fantasy football,
does you both decide No, I like to live on
the edge and want to be mad.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
All day every day.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
It's the life blood. It's the lifeblood of us, like
we need it in our veins.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Yeah, you're both crazy.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Are you saying that hanging on every pitch of a
Pirate's Reds game on May the third is a bad
way to spend my Sunday?
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, you Google Birds.
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We had a Game seven in hockey starting an hour
after our show. We had the Pistons and Magic going
on yesterday. I had to tell Bo, can you put
Guardians a's yeah? Because I needed in the a's one.
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Speaker 4 (00:25):
Things just got interesting. You heard the news Anthony Edwards
back for the Timberwolves playing in Game one tonight against
the San Antonio Spurs. I think it's I think it's
a mountain to climb for San Antonio. I may sound cliche, Monci,
but winning and winning against a good team in the
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NBA Playoffs when you haven't done it before, Minnesota has
done it before. I think it's a tough task for
the San Antonio Spurs. And now getting Anthony Edwards back
from Minnesota, I think makes things even tougher for San Antonio.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
They it's just unknown territory right for the Spurs in
this situation going into it, so I understand, but I
do think the Spurs are more prepared. Maybe then I
would have another team that is entering the second round
of the playoff semi finals after not being in the
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playoffs last couple of seasons.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Like, I don't know, I think I think the Spurs
can win it. But having Anthony Edwards is awesome. Well
that's how you want to see the series.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
They should win it.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
They should.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Timberwolves took two of three from the Spurs this past season.
But if we even just go back to last year
with Oklahoma City, right, Oklahoma City was the best team
in the NBA. They were the number one overall seed.
But yet every time along the way we wondered if
they were able to get it done because they hadn't
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been there before, they hadn't done it before, and they
had to prove their way. And they ended up doing it.
And now like we look at their series with the
Lakers and be like, oh, yeah, thunder a gonna win.
So they got past that that mark you you talk
about sometimes having some difficulties sleeping. So my mom got
me this Nintendo nes thing where it's you know, it's
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got just a bunch of games. Yeah yeah, it's got
a bunch of yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
A little replica.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think it's got like a maybe a contra game.
It's got regular Super Mario Brothers. It's got some other
games that I have no idea, but it has Super
Mario Brothers and Super Mario Brothers three.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
That's all you need. And Mario three is that the
one where he flies?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The tail?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Oh so good.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So I have been playing that and I got stuck
playing the son was sick last night and went to
bed early. My wife went to bed. I'm like, I'm
going to play some Super Mario Brothers and love it.
I was up till two. I was up till two o'clock.
But I can't get past this certain world or the
and stage. I just get it doesn't matter if I
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have twelve lives, I cannot get past it.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Which one is it? Can you?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do?
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You remember?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's embarrassing because I'm I'm a fifty almost a fifty
year old, guys.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Because now I'm going into.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It, that's even more embarrassing. It's only World two.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
The desert one, yes, yes, And you can't get past
the sun?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Is it the sun that's chasing you?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That's tricky, But I was I can do it every
now and but I lost like five lives on it
last night. That's what I feel. It's like for an
NBA team, You just you try and try and try,
and then we finally can break through. The next time
you do it again, it's it's easier, you understand, but
until you actually do it, you're stuck. And I'm stuck
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in World two right now, in that in that Super
Mario Brothers game, and was up until two o'clock last night.
At one point, I I at one point I had
like thirteen lives and I could not get past it.
That is why I think it is a tough task
for San Antonio now with Anthony Edwards, who's playing with
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two bad knees. Let's be real, if he's coming back
from this one, he had the runners knee on the
other knee, so it's not Anthony Edwards at one hundred percent.
But we've seen now other Timberwolves players have stepped up
in his absence. They're still with Dante DiVincenzo because of
his achilles injury. He's not going to be back at
all until next season maybe with the injury, so there's
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not everything is going for Minnesota. But I still just
think a win against Portland in a playoff series is
not the same as beating a team that's been to
the Western Conference Finals the previous two years. And it
sounds very general, and it sounds very cliche, but I
do believe it, and I do believe that there's something there,
and I do believe Minnesota has shown that they can
win games that they need to win. Now they haven't
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made it to the NBA Finals. Maybe the Mavericks were
better in Oklahoma City, was better last year, but in
other previous series, they have shown that they can win
the games that they need to win. And I think
that that is going to be something that the Spurs
are going to have to figure out. They may be better,
but Minnesota's beating them twice during the season, and now
they'll have an opportunity to do it again.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I love the comparison because you hit it right on
the money. Once you get through a level that you can't,
all of a sudden, you can get.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Through it much easier. And so here are the Spurs,
a very young team.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Just in general, right, I think Stefan Castle might be
not Stefan Castle, Darren Fox, thank you. I was like,
Darren Fox might be the one that has had the
most experience when it comes to the NBA for how
long he's been in the league. But I've never and
maybe this is I have never looked at Minnesota in
the last couple of years and been like I.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Am scared of Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Minnesota has never made me feel scared. I love them,
and it's not about not liking them.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
I just don't. I don't know. Like they're good.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
They're good, they've been to the Western Conference Finals, but like.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
I have not been scared of them.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I feel like with a gimpy Anthony Edwards gangster and
major pain because of his knees, they're probably like, Okay,
he's coming out here. That's gonna make a difference. But
I don't know if san Antonio looks at them and
is scared. I do feel that people look at Victor
Winn Banyama and maybe are not scared, but definitely know
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that he's gonna bring it.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
We've seen it from Victor when Banyama doesn't have the attitude.
He has an attitude that we're all asking and craving for.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
So I feel like they know that he's gonna come
out already ready to play the first second of Game one.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
You don't have to tell him it's you know, he's
not gonna warm up in the second quarter. He's gonna
come out ready to play, and so I just I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I think the Spurs are going to be more prepared
than a typical fresh team with.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Young Remember this isn't a Spurs team with Greg Papovich,
so Rich Johnson's also never been here before.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Absolutely absolutely, but there is you.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I got to give some credit to the to the
culture in the history that has been the Spurs, right
there's I just am giving them maybe too much credit,
But I definitely have never been I'm scared of the Timberwolves.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I've never felt that. What about the timber Wolves.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I don't know about the Wolves.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I don't I don't hear it. What do you go
from now on? It'll be Minnesota the rest of the.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Way, Samily, you're picking a night Spurs or Timberwolves.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Save Minnesota timber Wolves. I don't hear it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I mean, I hear you are Timberwolves.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
I prefer timber Wolves because there's more of an f
there isn't there say it.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Manty Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I'm not saying it the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
The rest of the day.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Everyone gives Monty guff for this, and I'm just like,
I let it I let it be a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I'm just like, thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I don't even hear it though, so I can't adjust
it because I don't even hear it happens.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Okay, okay, I love it. I think it's the first
time that i've I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Think so you mean them like on a Monday.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Maybe maybe on a Monday.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
You is the first.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Time you brought it up really started on the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
The Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh wow, Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah, see, she's got it. It's it's for me. It's
only Timberwolves and Cardinals.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, there you go. You got it. You got it.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
So what am I saying?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
When you say seventy six? You don't say anything wrong.
You don't say anything wrong. It's just how you say it. Listen,
I come from the Upper Midwest, So when I say
grocery bag, who was like, what's a beg? Yeah? Beg?
So don' it's it's all connected. Yeah, it's all connected. Well,
Anthony Edwards back tonight for the Spurs, Joel and Minnesota
or Minnesota. Tonight as they faced Minnesota, I was as
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soon busy trying to make my cool transition to Joel Embiid,
because Joel Embiid is back the process and yet he
is injured as well. That's that is nothing new, but
a healthy version of Joel Embiid who had this to
deal with a hip issue, had Chyree Maxey fall into
his knee late in that game against the Celtics. But
(09:00):
by and large, Joel Embiid is healthy and the seventy
six Ers, behind a rejuvenated Joel Embiid, have advanced to
the Eastern Conference semi finals. So I ask you the question,
Manzi Blanios, is Joel Embiid now someone to root for?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I think so?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I think the seventy six Ers is that I am
rooting for the demise of Paul George for the rest
of time because of his way out of the Clippers.
So I'm not rooting for him, But I don't dislike
the seventy six Ers. I've been a fan, I guess
from afar of the seventy six Ers since I was
a little girl, because of Alan Iverson. I think Joel
Embiid is a likable player and we have not been
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able to see him get this far, and so I
think this is.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Like I feel like a lot of people are like, Okay,
now I'm gonna root for the seventy six ers, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You know what I'm saying, Like, I feel like you
said that you don't think the Knicks are liked right,
or like a couple of would yea.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, I don't think that the rest of the country
falls in love with the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Correct, And I told you, I was like, I don't
think people hate the Knicks, but I think this matchup,
I think what's happening now, seventy six Ers are the
team that maybe most people are jumping on the bandwagon
at this point to root for.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So I don't think people were behind Joel Embiid because
of his injury history. That maybe that may be unfair
to Joel Embiid, but I don't think that he was
embraced by fans as a whole because it was more
about his unavailability or his inability to be to play
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as opposed to being on the court like someone like Giannis.
I think in the Bucks runs that they made, he
was enduring to a lot of basketball fans out there.
I think Jalen Brunton actually with the Knicks also can
have a similar sort of feel. But I think when
you looked at Joel Embiid, you just thought high draft pick,
all the talent, always hurt, always hurt, they' or not.
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I think that people weren't warming up to him now
after missing half of the season and then missing the
first part of this playoff series and the end of
the regular season because of an appendectomy. Now he comes
back and he actually looks refreshed when he looks like
a different player. I think that there was a point
that we wondered, does Joel Embiid have anything else left?
The seventy six Ers already missed the timeline if they
wanted to trade him, because now you have a player
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that gives you diminishing returns. And in the games that
he played against Boston, which by the way, sure seems
to be the difference in that series if we really
get down to it, the Sixers seem like a different team.
But now they seem different because he's healthy, and it
seems different because maybe there is seven seed and maybe
it is a little bit of Paul George also coming back.
But I think something turned with Embiid. I think people
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are warming up to them. Of the Celtics, Knicks and
seventy six Ers. I think the Celtics are disliked by
the most people. I think the Knicks are next, and
then I think it would be the seventy six Ers.
But I don't even know if people dislike the seventy
six Ers anymore. There hasn't been anything too dislike about
them except Joel Embiid not being available for his team's games,
and now he is. Now they're an underdog. Now they're
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facing the Knicks, a team that people may not like,
and I think that Joel Embiid now has this feel
good story behind him and the Sixers do as well
that could carry them even further in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'm scared of the seventy six Ers. I if I'm
on the East, I I'm scared of the seventy six Ers,
not only as you just hit it. Joel Embiid looks
better than I think we all anticipated because of the
history of him just not being available, which has been
the frustrating part. And if you're a Sixers fan this
entire time, you've watched your front office make move after
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move after move to try and make this process work.
And it's taken a while, right, it's taken O don't
how many years. At those point, the process has been
in it process and processing is processing.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
The process been processing.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
But this team, like aside from Joel Embiid, Tyre Smaxi
has been carrying that team whenever Joel Embiid was down
and he is one of the fastest players in the league.
Paul George not having to play because he was suspended,
not because he was injured and had to rehab.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
This dude was just.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Chilling at home, probably working on his game, but not
doing anything too much.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
To his body. He's fully refreshed.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Both of these players, Joel Embiid and Paul George played
under forty games this year, and here they are seeming
like they're in mid season form, not postseason where everyone
else is dragging and tired. They both look really good
and the Sixers look scary. They look like they can
absolutely come out of the East. And if we would
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have been having this conversation ten days ago, I wouldn't
have said that.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
To that point. And I know you can't do it
with every player, but I also think that this is
bad news for the NBA, and it's bad news for
the NBA because you see the Sixers and their key
components in Paul George to your point about the suspension,
well put, But with Embeed I think who played thirty
eight regular season games, it was something.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Again, yeah, under thirty for both.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Correct. So now you're telling me that you can have
their best players older in age George's in the sixteenth season,
older in age, miss half of the season and now
look like the most dangerous team in the East. That's
not good. And you look out to the West and
you have Anthony Edwards now is two bad knees. You
have a Lakers team that doesn't have Luka Doncic and
Austin Reeves trying to come back from his injury. So
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what we are seeing with the seventy six ers is
not good for Adam Silver and the NBA to say,
like your strongest team, fifty percent of what makes them
good is that their players missed half the season. It's
weird because if Embiid played sixty five games and maybe
he's second team All NBA, but guess what, he's probably
not fully healthy for the Eastern Conference semi finals.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
It's something I've never understood because in baseball, when you
get suspended, it's like you're suspended and the postseason, like
you can maybe you're suspended only X amount of games,
but you can't play in the postseason. That's typically tied
into when you get in trouble. This, as you said,
it's going to be something if the Sixers get far,
if they make it to the finals, let's say they
win this, it has to be something that is discussed
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because to your point, look at all the stars that
are hurt because they.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Tried and played the whole season and they have two
that did it.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, right, and this has made them stronger. And I
think that people would say I would rather have this
than have them play sixty five games between mid October
and mid April. Like this is another I don't want.
I hate to use the word indictment on the NBA's
regular season, but if this is what is happening, if
this is what we are we are playing for, guess what.
Maybe guys shouldn't be playing seventeen and eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I actually think that it could be a problem in
the NBA because we can't move on from older stars
because they're still hanging around in some way or another.
So we're talking about Lebron James, We're talking about Kevin
Durant in the Rocket you to.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Put a cap on the amount of years and you're
playing the eshay.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I'm just saying, if guys are if they're that good
and they're that valuable, And you see Joel Embiid and again,
and I'm saying, relatively healthy appendect me. There's nothing that
you could do about. And he got banged up, he
had his hip working on And I mentioned the knee
thing with Maxie.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
That video of him stretching on the sideline so funny.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, I just I think that it's an indictment on
the NBA.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
But anyway, Joel Embiid is now a feel good story.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
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Speaker 2 (16:23):
Oh do we love this man?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I am not certain anyone puts a bigger smile on
our faces collectively than Phil Simms. A great quarterback, great
media career after he was a quarterback. His son is
a good friend of ours and joins us every week.
He's been texting me from Europe. He's crazy, Chris Simms,
but Phil Simms is not.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And I listen, we.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Had a conversation right before we started here. I'm gonna
let mikey A ask the first question. It's a great question,
So mikey A, the floor is yours.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
I didn't hear any great questions.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know it's coming right now.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Well we'll get a great answer, I'm sure. But you
said that you don't give it, you don't give a crap,
And I was just curious, how do you get to
I don't give a crap?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Is it age? Is it money?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
What is it that I can do to get to
I don't give a crap? How do you arrive there? Phil?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Yes, Hey, the first thing is it? Sure as a hell.
Ain't about money because I didn't make any anywhere. So
you played fifteen years? Yeah, my starting salary was sixty thousand,
and we progressed a little bit every year. I mean,
so that's one thing. And AGES definitely is I'm hired.
The crap that I read and see and I turn
the TV on every morning and my kids make fun
(17:35):
of me. Why you watching all those shows? All you
do is get mad? I said, yeah, nobody gives me.
It just makes me want to fight more. And so
I was watching the film No you weren't. You couldn't
have been watching because your take is absolutely wrong and stupid.
But you're telling a big audience out there, you know
(17:56):
what I mean, Yes, all the people to listen to.
Oh yeah, he's smart, he must be right. No, no,
it's every day, so I do let it pass. And
of course my young son met who's in the business too,
He goes, you know, a big guy, just let it go.
You know, you can't, you know, And I said, yeah,
I know, I know. Really what I what would love
to do is have a show and just go Today,
(18:20):
here are the top five stupidest things said by people
on teav I say stupid things too every once in
a while, get it wrong. But I'm gonna tell you
I never talk about something unless I really know, right,
So you know, oh you mean, I got to do
a little homework, could tell the truth. Think of it
this way. Guys, Hey, mom's, dad's wife, kids, whatever, are
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listening to some of these shows, and when what else
are they? You know, even the fans, what did they
go by? What they read and what they hear. So
I think that's a big responsibility for the press to
try to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Phil I am all in for a daily show in
which you give us the top five dumbest thing. Said everything, Well,
listen about every single to so you know, be featured.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I got enough, I.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Got enough people that don't like me, so I'm gonna
try to keep it level. G Rara. As Bill Parcell
said to me sometimes during my career, it was kind
of getting late, and he was. He goes, Hey, Sims,
don't worry when you quit, the fans are going to
like you. And I went, is that a is that
a compliment? Quit? The fans are going to like you. Well, Bill,
(19:34):
when you retire, uh maybe, well whatever, I'm gonna write
a book and I'm going to have two chapters on
Lawrence Taylor and then I don't know how many chapters
I'm gonna have on Parcels. But damn to get even
with him, I'd have to write the whole book about him,
because man, he listen, we won, and I tell people
(19:57):
all the time, I love him, would do anything for him.
And I'm here on this show today just because because
of him. He's the big reason. He helped us win
two Super Bowls. So you know, can't can't hate a
guy for that? Was he Yes, did he ever have
a day where he came out and he was nice. No,
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he had the great ability to every day to drive you.
And you know it was you know, look, thinking back,
I go, you know, he could have gone out one
day and go, okay, guys, just take it in. We
had a great workout, you know. No, never.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Phil, Phil, Do you remember Taylor? You were at the barn.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
For the draft Chris was doing a show there. Do
you remember Taylor just kind of hanging around the barn there?
What was going on?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
You know, I don't remember much about it. A lot
of people. I wasn't drinking. I don't really drink, right,
I was trying to watch, you know, Christopher and his
his sidekick do this thing. And I'm just going, God,
I'm glad you're doing it, because I sure as the
hell wouldn't want to do what you're doing there. Oh
we're surprised a by the pick and you know whatever.
I don't know, Sorry, I didn't. I wasn't zooming on
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and zooming in. And a lot of people, man, there
were a lot of people there too.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Got too many people, right, I mean for a draft,
I mean it's not.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
That complicated, right, Yeah, they were doing the social post,
I guess and all that. So everybody, I did notice,
everybody was working. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
So my executive producer who's on the zoom with us
right now, Taylor, he was in the barn. What a
great night, a special night for him to be able
to take in the draft with the Simms family.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
He did.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
He did take a video of you at one point
drinking a diet coke and eating baby carrots.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I believe, And.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I got to tell you, Phil that it was shocking.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
But that is what draft night is all about.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I mean, hey man, let me just tell you something this. Yeah,
it's real, Okay. I don't have what you do, so
I try to watch what I eat a little bit
because I am the one great thing that I can
do in life. I can eat with anybody. I'm serious.
(22:09):
I eat two bread. I've already had two breakfasts today.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We'll get out of here here, come on. I mean, Phil,
were taping this at nine thirty in the morning.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I mean, oh, well, well, you know some of us
get up early, right, And that's the other thing with age,
you know. I look at the clock and I say
five thirty. I go, let me try to sleep another
twenty minutes. But usually I just got I walk to
hell and I get up, so I get up early,
have an early breakfast, and then you know, two hours later,
I'm ready to eat again. Of course, all you got
(22:36):
to do is ask my sons. They laughed their ass
off about me. God, almighty, you can eat, I said, yeah,
you know why because I starved the whole life growing
up in the house with the eight kids.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, so I was all the sacrifices you made, right,
you spent all the money on them, that's right.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Yeah, well, yeah, so whatever. At one time this off season,
I was up to two sixty three.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Yeah, no, wow, and I liked it, you know, damn.
You know, my clothes didn't fit, but it just felt good.
But I realized I had to dropped back down. Now
I'm at two forty five, so man, so I have
to cut down. I'm eating my one joy and I'm
pretty good cooked too. Yeah, we know, better be a
decent cook too.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Did you cook yourself breakfast this morning? Or what? Twice?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Of course, of course, yes, what was the first one,
if you don't mind me asking the early one?
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Yeah, I had a big bowl of yogurt with blueberry
strawberries crushed, not almonds. Well, I do have those two walnuts. Yeah,
you know, pour a little something on top of it,
smash it, watch a little TV, drink one cup of
coffee or tea. And then I had four eggs fried
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and I put them on toast and put all this
other stuff on it, which is man, I eat it.
So it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Go ahead, teller.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
So the reason why I am such a great guess
said things like this watch party is because I'm wallpaper there.
I'm not there to interact.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You don't even know he's there, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I'm not gonna don't. We didn't even talk, did we.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
We talked for a little, but people people were stut
Gott's and Mikey were like, what's Phil doing? What's Phil doing?
I'm here to report nobody ate more fruit that night
than Phil Simps.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Oh wow, yeah, yeah, I was caught. You know, I
probably had dinner before we went up there. I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
But what with the carrots? What are you doing there?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
I mean, hey, just trying to fill up. But I
don't like it until I feel like.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
God, damn, I'm full, Yes, yes.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Great, but feeling for me, I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
So you love the full feeling and you love feeling.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You loved like two sixty five was a good.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Wait for you. You're saying that's odd.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Oh I loved it.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Yeah, Like, man, you know, I'm just going boy. I
wish I had Wade like this when I was younger.
I really would have taken some people down.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
He would have played linebacker.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
No you know.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
To me, Oh, yes, Phil, what did you make of
the Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Well, it's hard because no one knows, So you're right,
So Phil, like Chris is sitting there doing his thing,
but no one really knows how good these draft picks
are going to be. But what did you make of
John Harbaugh's first drafts as the Giants head coach?
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Well, it went great, it really did. You know. I
didn't study all the guys they drafted, but I know
getting Rville Rees that was a great start. Getting the
lineman from Miami is another one. So you got two
big dudes on a team. Now, that makes the team bigger, better, physically,
all that stuff. And that's John Harball's way, and the
Giants I think got away from that for years. I mean,
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Bill Parcells always had a thing, well, if we can't
make our decision up, just take the bigger guy, you know,
and it's you know, the other thing is too just
about you know that, why do they draft RVL reach.
A lot of people complained about that, whether they got
this and then you know, and I learned this from
George Young and Coach Parcels, don't be afraid of adding
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on to one of the strengths of your team.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Every statement.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
We did that, and you know, we had an unbelievable
linebacking court and we draft this guy, Carl Banks. I went,
oh my god, how many linebackers do we need?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Yeah, I know, he should be a Hall of Famer.
I mean, Carl Banks. You know, as time went on,
it was pretty early, maybe about the second year, I went,
oh my god, he's not good.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
He was.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Carl was great. Yes, And you know, if anybody wants
to argue that with me, you can almost look at
any game, but look at the playoffs in nineteen eighty
six by our football team. He was phenomenal in every
game in the Super Bowl. Listen, there should be a
defensive MVP in the Super Bowls, you know, because it's
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just it seems like it's just holy always going to
go to an offensive player, right, Carl. When you watch
the game, it was, it's unbelievable. Yes, every series against Denver,
he made a play, made a play and they were
outstanding too. Plays that he would make. It wasn't just like,
oh here he comes, I'll make a tackle. But when
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you play with Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson, you know we
had Pepper Johnson, men like God, yeah, Harry. Reasons just
on and on. You know, people don't pay enough attention
to you. So I'm always hey, I know, Carl, but
I'm not. I don't like, we're not super super close
because we don't see each other that much. But one
day he's going to I think he's going to get
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into the Hall of Fame because he deserves it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What'd you make of the Rams? It was weird, the
whole story.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Trying to protect Matthew Stafford. They made it clear he's
the quarterback for now, when Stafford's a Hall of Fame quarterback.
But they drafted for the future, and I thought it
was smart and I thought it was ridiculous. The great
lengths they went to to kind of keep that secret
out of know.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Yeah, well, everything was just I think it was two things.
I feel pretty confident in say this. It was two things. One,
they wanted to make sure Matthew Stafford was understanding there.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Right, but you appreciate of course, right, yes, sure.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
And you know the Giants trapped to Dave Brown one
year in the first round. Yes, they actually called me
and told me. I said, hey, well, I said, wow,
Dave Brown do right? Yeah, okay, but and.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You were okay with it. You understood what they were doing, right, Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:28):
What how did you ask the question at first? That's well, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So they went to great length. There was a secret
meeting with Tyle Simpson. They didn't want the news to
get out there. They wanted to make sure Stafford they
did all the right things. It just seemed it seemed
like they really went out of their way to announce, Hey,
it's still Matthew Stafford's team.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
We know it's still Matthew Stafford, right, right.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
And Matthew Stafford went to Los Angeles. I had arguments
all the time during the week, Well, you know, he's
never won a big game, you know, I said, yeah,
you know, you're right, you're right. Yeah, because many years
before the season started, I said, wow, Detroit, I think
they're a super Bowl team, and they would go okay, okay,
good point. Yeah, no kidding, they're no good. How about
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they gonna wait if they want a game. It was
a miracle, right, But I'll say this I felt, I
said it many times. You can look it up on
podcasts whatever not that you want to or will I will.
I said, Ty Simpson fits the Rams offense perfectly. He's
everything that you would want for that offense. And Sean McVay,
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Sean McVay had to look at him and go really good,
arm very mobile, always too small. Well that you know what,
you don't have to really worry about it as much
because they do all those play actions one way, they
roll the other way, and they got space all around
them and just wait for somebody to come open deep
and rip it and that'll be Ty Simpson. So Matthew Stafford,
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if I had to guess, it's going to be one
or two years. But you know, think about this also,
he plays hurt all the time every year. And now
if you get hitting Ty Simpson up to speed, you go,
let's just give matt Stafford just one game off here
to recuperate and whatever. I think that's a big deal too,
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because man, he played a couple of games this year.
It was unbelievable that he played, uh with the injuries
he was dealing with. But he's tough as hell and
got one of the greatest arms we've ever seen in
the NFL. I'm not saying Ty Simpson's arm is Matthew Stafford's,
but it's not far behind, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Right, And you like to fit in la with Cockay,
that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, Phil, we're very friendly with with Mike Golick and
his entire family. Did Mike Golick ever sack you? Do
you remember playing against Mike Golic Senior?
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Oh yeah, sure, sure, yeah. I mean I don't remember
him hitting me because guys.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hitting me, because.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Jerome Brown, you know, I mean, my god, there Front
seven was like it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And Golic used to well, Golic does tell us that
Reggie White would look over to him before the ball
was snapped and he would say, Hey, Mike, do me
a favor. Don't move or move backwards, And Mike would
be like why, and He's like, you get in my way.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I tell you.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
I was working out one off season and right before
the draft, where a bunch of us and parcels comes
in and he looks as we start talking about the
draft just a little. He goes, ah, sims, our life
is about ready to change, and I go why, well,
why would what are you talking about? He goes this,
this I think it was Detroit. Detroit is going to
screw us in the draft and the egos are going
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to get Jerome Brown, And I went, oh, is he
is really as good as everybody says? He goes, hell,
he might be better than Reggie. This is gonna be
two ass weapons I'm gonna take this year. I won't
even tell you the stories about my interactions with with
with Reggie White. They were I would say things, you know,
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he was a minister that I should never say to
a minister, but I did.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Right. Well, it's football. So of course we love you,
We love you, we love your family.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
And it made my day that you had no idea
Taylor was in the same room with you the entire
evening watching the dress.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
I didn't want to get in.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
We were hanging out, all right, Phil, We'll talk to you.
Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
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Speaker 4 (32:43):
Stu Gott's and Company live on Fox Sports Radio. She's
Moncey Belano, So I'm Dan Byer in for the company
today and Stu Gotts our company made up of Jason
Stewart Iowa. Samonis a glowing crown. Moncey and I not
only are we streaming live on YouTube as well, will
be streaming during Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. Yes,
(33:03):
we are with you all day on this Monday, getting
a set for NBA playoffs and so much more. And
also a Major League Baseball season that has been up,
down and all around. The National League at one point
just being the class of the league. Is the American
League at a difficult time getting teams even above five hundred.
We've got five now above five hundred in the American League. Well,
(33:26):
the National League Central has all teams not only above
five hundred, but the Pirates are in last place with
the winning percentage of five forty three. It's been a
crazy year in Major League Baseball. Thirty five games in.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
It really has been.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
In fact, the boyfriend, who's a Yankees fan, was like, man,
the American League is so bad, the Yankees may actually
get to the World Series again, right cause He's like,
the Yankees aren't good, but the American League is so
bad that Yankees may get there.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
So he was excited about that.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
It's also been a crazy year and trying to decide
what happens. I looked at this past week and saw
the Dodgers playing the Marlins. I think the Marlins are
a better team than they were in the past. Last year,
they had a decent second half. Dodgers lost two of three.
Then they went to Saint Louis facing a hot Cardinals
team after a series in Pittsburgh, and they ended up
(34:15):
dropping two of three. And that you know what that
means A strike in my Survivor league. And I am
not alone in the Survivor League. Jason Stewart is in
the league as well. It's a it's a pool where
you just have to have your team win half the
games that they play that week and you move on.
You get three strikes and you're out. And everybody was
pretty much out this past week because of what's been
(34:37):
going on in the banks.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Like the cool part about a Baseball Survivor pool is
that you do get those three strikes, so you could
kind of almost count on most of your summer being
filled with some kind of gambling interest. You just pick
a winner. All they got to do is win fifty
of their games. And so there's what five or six
weeks into the MLB season, and most people have two strikes.
(35:00):
Another half the league are already already out, and.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
We don't even play the first week, by the way,
like we started like the Monday after opening Day on
that Thursday a.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Complete blood bat though yesterday, because the Reds and the
Mariners were the top two picks in the drafts, I
mean in the pool. So like what like forty percent
of the pool had one of those two teams and
they both lost in Survivor on Sunday. And then this
week our pool, a little thing that they do that
kind of it's supposed to shed down, it's supposed to
(35:31):
like trim down the uh, the amount of pools each year.
We have to pick two winners this week, and both
of them have to win fifty percent of their games.
So we're looking at a pool like six weeks in
that well, keep be down to like under one hundred,
if not like fifty.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
By the end of the week, you had an Angels
team that was facing the White Sox and Mets, and
the Angels were doing all rights. That would have been
your pick. The Angels were swept by the White Sox
in Chicago and then they lost two of three to
the worst team in baseball. So even if you think
your team is good, they're probably not that good. And
really the only bad team in baseball awful team has
(36:08):
been the Mets, and then then they go and take
two of three from the Angels.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Can I just say both of you are crazy?
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Both of you instead of enjoying the summer and not
dealing with something that's going to stress you like fantasy football,
does you both decide No, I like to live on
the edge and want to be mad.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
All day every day.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
It's the life blood. It's the lifeblood of us, like
we need it in our veins.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Yeah, you're both crazy.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Are you saying that hanging on every pitch of a
Pirate's Reds game on May the third is a bad
way to spend my Sunday?
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying, you Google Birds.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
We had a Game seven in hockey starting an hour
after our show. We had the Pistons and Magic going
on yesterday. I had to tell Bo, can you put
Guardians a's yeah? Because I needed in the a's one.
Oh good, and we're done here, but we're still sticking
around on Fox Crazy
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