May 2, 2017 • 31 mins
Doug explains why the Spurs got blown out by the Rockets and the one thing in sports you cannot fix. He talks about Alabama’s head coach Nick Saban getting a contract extension and why he deserves every penny. Plus, Ravens Tight End Benjamin Watson joins the show to discuss his new book and what went wrong with the Ravens last season.
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an experience it was last night for both the Toronto
Raptors on the road. Kind of expected, you know, his
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cat playing with mouse a little bit. As the calves
dominated the Raptors, they did allow the Raptors to creep
back in the game before smashing them. You know you're
getting clowned in basketball when dudes are throwing the ball
off the backboard. Right. If somebody's throwing the ball off
the backboard and in transition to another dude and he's
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getting a dunk, you know you're getting clowned. The other thing,
you know it's bad when guys who come in off
the bench are trying to fight, and that's what happened
in the nightcap. Like, there's lots of things that are
different about basketball at the NBA level than basketball at
the level that you and I play when we go
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down and play pick up, or you might have played
at the high school level or the collegiate level, or
the youth level or whatever the the uh the adult level.
Lots of things are different. The spacing is way different
because the skill is way better. Guys cover so much
more ground. But you know what, what doesn't change When
guys can't play, when they can't beat you, when they're
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not as good as you, they try and start a fight.
That's what happens, whether it's trying to get mentally under
your skin or trying to somehow even up or make
you scared about driving to the basket. Are dudes that
come out the bench with one sole purpose. And Dwayne
Deadman was that guy last night. And the reason he
was that guy is, um, it's not Larry the cable guy.
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Who's the guy Ramos who walks around with the drink
in his hand and m comedian and he says, you
can't fix stupid? Who who is? Who is you can't
fix stupid? Guy? Wow, that's a good question, Doug. You know,
I answer a good question we don't know the answer
to because you can't fix her stupid. And that's Ron White, right, Ron?
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Why does the train wreck? He he alleys, he has
a cigar and he has the drink and he says,
you can't fix stupid. But you can't. In sports, you
can't fix old. I mean some people will say, well,
the other time undefeated. But what happens when you get
older You have a tendency to get wiser and get smarter.
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In basketball, usually shoot better, you see things more clearly,
your movement is. It's like if you've ever you ever
sat with an old guy. Okay, a lot of old
guys that they the type of guys like you know,
they have these philosophical God gave you two years and
one mouthless and more than you talk, and so when
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then they talk, they say things in more concise fashion.
It's almost like they know their time on earth might
be limited, so they're gonna say less but say more.
It's like the old guy when he moves, he might
not move as crisply, but he gets where he wants
to get like you, and you increase your level of
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intelligence and you're wherewithal. But what you can't fix is
the fact that you can't move. You just can't. Once
you you'll lose that step, you don't get it back.
And when you collectively, like I said this about Mono Genoble,
and I will go to my grave telling you that
I think Mono Genobly has had a greater impact on
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European basketball based upon his overall career than Dirk Novitski.
The most impactful guy has been Monta Genoblic. He won
two European championships. He won Argentina's gold medal. Think about that,
a gold medal for Argentina. Go back and look historically,
and I know there was a good group of great
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Argentineans who played on that gold medal winning team. I
believe they also won the world championships as well. On
our soil. You look historically like they were never They
weren't even competitive in South America as well. They weren't
the best team in South America, let alone in the
America's how but in the world they win the gold medal.
And of course he's been a huge part of several
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championship teams with San Antonio Spurs. He was shooting fiftent
coming to last night's game, and last night's game wasn't great.
And the reason is he can't move anymore. He's washed.
It's over, it's done. You can't fix stupid in life,
you can't fix old in sports. What what said Vince
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Lombardi said? He said, fatigue makes cowards of us. All.
That's true. Age makes mortals of us, All makes mortals
of us. All. Age will make you get hurt more quickly.
It's harder to recover. But more than anything, it kills
your athletic ability. Right, it just does. And different positions
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are different terms of athletis. Do the Spurs have other problems? Yeah,
they went invested all that money in LaMarcus Aldridge and
one free agency for the first time ever. Right, they
went out one free agency in the past when they
had one in free agency. It's like when Michael Finley
was bought out by the Dallas Mavericks. They got Finley
on the cheap, but they legitimately competed for LaMarcus Aldridge,
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a prize free agent and got him. But LaMarcus Aldred
just soft he's more of an offensive player than defensive player,
and even though he's technically big enough to move over
to center, he can't move to play center. He's not
really needed at power forward, and when being guarded by
mighty mites last night, could do nothing like that's a problem.
But the biggest problem is you can't fix old. You
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can't do it. Stug got lip show Fox Sports Radio
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Ramas Did you
stay up and watch the game or docu? Did not
stay up? It wasn't really that late, but it's so
much different than when you're in the West Coast and
East Coast. Unfortunately, was at the Guardians of the Galaxy
movie premier things, so I didn't see it. Wait what wait?
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How old are you? How old am I in my forties?
Did you take your kids? Uh? No, just my wife?
Only two people could go um and Guardian is is it?
Please tell me it's good because it looks it looks
like something I would watch with my kids. Uh. I
would say it's a little more adult, it's a little
little kids. So that's who you are. You're an adult kid.
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That's okay, as long as you know who you are.
You're like, yes, music, go ahead, you have your hand up.
I'm just funny that I cannot believe that I just
heard that into my ear that he went and see it.
I didn't. I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy.
I like how he starts it with unfortunately unfortunately when
he knows that it's not unfortunate. He was very excited
to go see it, which is fine. But I'm just curious, John,
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what was unfortunate about it? Well, the question was about
a basketball game, and I didn't want to displease Doug
by saying that I did not watch Listen you can
you know, I just don't like you know. Here's the
thing I tell people all the time. I don't lie,
like I will say things that you will be offended
by that will I can't believe you said that. Well,
the good thing is I'm not lying about I just
say what I think, right. And the reason is the
good thing is if you don't lie, you don't have
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to remember what you told somebody. Then go oh damn
when I tell him I can't remember what I told him?
Where do you think I was last night? Right? That's
what you There's all these different It's like when somebody
texts you and you have no idea who they are,
and you you do to who dis right? Who dies?
Because you don't want to act like you you know
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who it is. You don't want to you know what
a lie. And so if somebody says, do you know
who this is? Like, I have no idea who this is?
How do I know you? What? I know you? From
Dan Buyer? You're getting ready wedding plans. Apparently there's some
sort of issue with the catering. Oh no, no, there's
no issue. I just I was just telling you what
I did this morning, just like a very exciting tell
me about, very exciting tell me about you. Did you
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watch the Rockets Spurs game? I had it on in
the second half, so it wasn't like the game was over.
It was over the the the Houston Rockets scored sixty
nine sixty nine points in the first half. They were
up sixty nine too. Was it thirty nine? You're up
thirty at half? That game is over? Like you have
to be you're like me, you have to be a
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ball guy to really really watch it. So I I
respect to understand it. Okay, So here's my question to you.
What was the reason. What was the biggest reason or
the blowout? Um, I just thought that the Rockets were
on fire from outside and the Spurs just from three
point range, and many of those misses were in the
second half, right, so they hit it. But E was like,
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well they beat him because they shot the ball really well.
Is that is that a fair kind of uh average analysis?
Should you just watch for a little bit. But here's
what here's what people should know. The reason they made
all those threes is a lot of them were wide open.
And the reason they were wide open was because the
Houston Rockers were going right by the San Antonio Spurs.
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And the reason they were going right by the San Antono, well,
you go right by somebody, somebody has to help. They
help you kick out. That's how you get it open. Three.
The reason they were going right by the San Antonio Spurs,
Dan Barer, was because they were um faster and maybe
the Spurs were a bit slow. Less. You can pick old,
can't pick so old. That's it. That's it. In a nutshell,
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It's like, look, Payton Manning is paymenting to me. Payment
should go down as the greatest quarterback ever with a
bad arm, Like that's who he was. He never had
a good arm, but he he got to the point
where they couldn't play him in Denver. Like the the
story is going to be forever that Peyton Manning won
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his last game, much like John Elway riding off in
the sunset. But the truth is they had to. He
was hurt, he was tired, He was hurt. He wasn't injured.
He was bad. He had nine touchdown seventeen interceptions, and
they found a way to kind of putter to the end.
And even in the Super Bowl. He didn't throw many,
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if any good balls at all in the Super Bowl.
He was washed up. Why because as a quarterback, when
your arm goes, you're done. Much like pictures, when it goes,
it goes, it's over. Tom Glavin was that way um
in football, for outside of quarterback, it's when you can't run,
you can't play. Do you guys remember when the Ravens
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won the Super Bowl? Remember the forty Niners come back
in the second half and the Four Nights. The reason
the Four Nighters came back was they finally figured out, hey,
why don't we just go to whoever Ray Lewis is
supposed to be covering because he can't run anymore. It
was there used to be game plans designed going away
from Ray Lewis at the end of his career. Remember
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he was taking was the was the phony supplement, that
was a spear Antler spray right like he was doing
whatever it took to try and get him to the
finish line coming back from a torn Uh try a
tricept I think tricept muscle. But the truth was like
he couldn't run anymore, so you went right at him.
And that's what happened last night. Like those guys couldn't
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contain the ball. They just couldn't. LaMarcus Aldres can't get anybody.
Pau Gasol can't guard Anyboddy Tony Parker, you know, couldn't.
You couldn't really hide him defensively, Danny Green couldn't make
a shot and he's good, but what he's best at
doing defensively is classically shutting down the old school shooter,
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just like tracking a guy. And you can't do that
against Houston because that's not the style of play. The
style of plays. Give it to James Harden. Come off
a ball screen wherever the help comes, you kick out.
They couldn't stop the ball, and if you can't guard
the ball, you can't stop the rockets. And if you're
too old, you can't guard the ball. And I can't
fix old. I can't fix old. Uh, Dan, did you
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get all the uh the rehearsal dinner stuff worked out? Like?
Are you guys? I was? You know what you know?
Do you have a band? Next time? I won't. I
won't let you into my life. Doug. You know, if
it's such a problem with you, just the problem, I'm
just I'm I'm concerned. I don't want things to go
This is obviously your I heard I heard your show.
I heard your show on Sunday when you had your
when you had your Lisa came on. It was great,
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very sweet. She's super excited. Why I have no idea
I have but now you're a bad guy. But I
just don't. I I like, I'm like, she's really really excited, Yeah,
really excited. But you guys are like adults, Like I
don't understand what really changes when you're adults. Well, Lisa
is also well versed in the radio biz, so she
knows that you when you come on, you want to
have some energy, you know, you want to be excited. No, No,
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that was not fake energy. She's super excited of getting
married to you, and I kind of think it should
be the other way around. Oh, I'm very excited, not
to her level of excitement, and it's kind of a
bit of a mismatch. I just I'm just gonna tell you, like,
you're you're married up, you're out kicking your coverage. You're
you're accomplishing the goal of any any warm blooded American man.
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But but her level of excitement was with peak. It
was it was when we get some Doug you know,
it's like when you arrive on the super Bowl location
at super Bowl Week, when you get there, Like, that's
what it was. It was like the plane landed on
Sunday and all of a sudden, now she realizes she's
less than a weekend, and it was Yeah, it's game time.
It's time to play the biggest game of your life. Yeah,
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just like when you guys touched down in the n
C Double A Tournament, you know, like all those other
games during the regular season, but when you went to
your first and second round sites, Oh, it's game time.
That's what she was all about. Got gotta crank it up.
She was cranked up. She was fired up as she
should be. This weekend, Mary to catch like you. That's it.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug gott
Leaves Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific. Saban
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is the second highest paid coach annually in camp, in
comparison to Jim Harbaugh, who got his salary increased to
nine million dollars a year last October. I think some
of the stuff is actually really really interesting. Um. He
also got his defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt got a hundred
thousand dollar raised, his co defensive coordinator, outside linebackers coach
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tash Lapoy, who just got there, got a raised from
five hundred fifty to nine fifty dollars, and his strength
coach got ten thousand dollar raised to five thirty five
thousand dollars. Um. So there's a bunch of different things.
I like the inner workings, the the fine print, the
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fine print of the coaches contracts. Like I don't know
if you guys know this, but Jim Harbaugh's deal is
really five million dollars a year. And then there's two
nine million to two million dollar life insurance policies which
are really money makers, and the school is just paying
the premium, Like this is one of those deals to
where when you make a certain amount of money, uh,
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life insurance, people will come to you and they're like,
it's technically life insurance, but it's also a financial growth vehicle,
and that's it's not really nine million dollars they're paying him.
They're paying him what the value of it potentially is
nine million dollars, and eventually he'll get that money out
of it. But it's a really really smart way of
of making a huge amount of money, but as a
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kind of an investment for you. Here's the thing about Saban, though,
I understand that there are many of you who operate
in a world to which you've been told by many
people in my position that because the college coaches make
money and this is an obscene amount of money, let's
just be honest. It's in Tuscaloose, Alabama, which is a
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much nicer town than you would think, and his deal
is much better than even this reads. Two years ago,
the University of Alabama bought back his house for like
two million dollars and then he pays like rent, like
a dollar a year in rent, So he's basically living
there scott Free, just piling away cash. He's making eleven
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million dollars this year. He's got this ridiculous lake house,
and he's setting himself up to this is his last
job ever, and this is the price for holding on
to in our lifetime. Nick Saban is the best college
football coach that we've seen. Right, He's had the most
consistent run of success in college football from the moment
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he got l s U and really what he did
at Michigan State. He hadn't turned the corner yet fully
at Michigan State, but the guy has been incredible and
winning multiple national titles at Alabama and in addition to
winning a national title of L s U, things that
hadn't been done before hadn't been done in the last
forty years. Crazy. So I understand that your thought is
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always that there should be a trickle down to the players,
and there is. There is in the state of Alabama,
or outside of Alabama, in Atlanta, in places to where
there is a fervent SEC alumni base. When you're done
playing football, the strongest thing you can put on your
resume to apply for a job at Striker Right Medical
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Sales is Football University of Alabama. It just is everything
they do at Alabama is built around not just the
football program, but the Nicktator, Nick Saban. How they raise
money because of Nick Saban, How they sell season tickets
because of Nick Saban. They've had three different offensive coordinators
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they've had over the last five years. They've had in fact,
they had to last year in the middle of the season.
They've had three different quarterbacks, three different styles, two of
which could barely complete a forward pass. Over the past
three years play in a national championship game. The one
thing that's been consistent has been Nick Saban. Their TV
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rights package locally, nationally, their radio rights, everything they do
is that, Hey, you know what, trust me, we have Saban.
How do you think they get recruits Saban? It's not
just that he's an indefatigable recruiter, it's that his name sells.
Saban's gonna get you the pros. You know. It's the
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same reason they get assistant coaches. They go there because Saban.
Can you make your life? Hell? Yes, can he undress
you on the sideline? Absolutely? When things go wrong? Are
you to blame her he to blame or is he
to blame? Here to blame, but you got Nick Saban
picked up the phone for you. It's worth it. Fox
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com and within the I Heart Radio app. Benjamin Watson
play for the Pats, play for the Browns, play for
the Saints past couple of years, for for a couple
of years. Right, and they couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't
They couldn't catch a cold. Um and now is with
the Baltimore Ravens and is now an author as well
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as he's written a book, The New Dad's Playbook and
Beat Me to It. This is great. He's got five
kids and uh great cover picture as well. You can
pick it up at Amazon dot com. It's also in
soft soft cover, which for those of us who like
to save money, it's a little bit a little bit
easier on the wallet. Benjamin Watson, the Baltimore Ravens joins
us on the Doug Gotlip Show. How are you good man? Okay,
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so you wrote a book about being a dad while
playing in the NFL, and there are topics in your
I read most of it about sex. Uh like, did
you have to clear with your wife, like, hey, baby,
I'm writing this book and I'm gonna talk about our
most our most intimate details. And even when you don't
mention you know her name, like you know, you know
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people are going to right, So how do you how
do you have that conversation? Well, the thing is she
was sitting right next to me, and she was really
the one giving me the advice about what to tell
because she wants these women to have the support that
they deserve from their husbands and the fathers of the
children that don't know what the heck to do and
how to navigate these things. So she was she was
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actually the one that inspired me to write the book.
She's been telling me for five years. You need to
write a handbook from men so that they not only
are in power when it comes to father and so
they only have information, but so that they can support
the women who are carrying their child and helping them
through this whole process called pregnancy. That's it's it's great.
It's honestly, it's it's really good. I mean, like you know,
like we all and and there's lots of guys who
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didn't grow up with the dad I was fortunate to
have one, but my dad was never kind of the
touchy feeling wasn't really it was from the generation that
they weren't really involved in the child rearing. Right. My
son asked me all the time, like what did your
dad like play one on one with you and play
like No, my dad didn't do all thats Like why
do you do it? Like, well, because I don't know.
I just that's how I want to raise them. So
what is like if Okay, so I actually I got
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a buddy of mine his wife is pregnant with twins
um and he he's asked me about like what should
I be ready for if your wife is pregnant right now?
What's the what are a couple of the things that
they can pick up this book and uh they can
they can take from it? Yeah, even him a good
point because you know, men for the most part, you know,
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I'm in the locker room with Stadi guys every year
for the last thirteen years. So there've been a number
of guys who have had fathers demonstrate things to them.
A lot of guys have not had fathers in their lives.
Some of them have children already and they just want
to do things differently. So you know, there's all these
questions that come up, and you know, when she's pregnant
and you don't know what a birth plan is, you
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don't know what to expect them from the obi appointment
where you're gonna hear the heartbeat for the first time?
Or when do you even hear the heartbeat? Or do
I have to buy a thousand diapers? Or is it
gonna make or break me? Or can I go you know,
a package at a time? You know, well, what about
you know, people coming over after the baby's here, and
should everybody just be allowed to come over? Should I
keep certain people out? What about the ways to have birth?
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You know, there's an epueradural, there's a natural birth, there's
a water birth, there's a home birth. There's different things.
Don't tell me your natural birth, guy, right, like my sister,
we've done well, she's done. I haven't anything we've done
and we've done right exactly. But but but all five
well at all four ways. So we've had the epidural
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with the first one in the hospital. We've had the
epidural that didn't work in the hospital. We've had a
natural birth in a tub hospital birthing center. We've had
a natural birth at home in a tub and the
last two I was the one to helped pull the
baby out of the birth canal. And so every differ
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we had all right, So we've only had we had
I had twins and then my son. They've all been
se uh. And my my sister said, like I was.
I asked her after she had her first she's had three,
and she I said that did you have did you
have drugs? You have epidural? And she's like would you
would you have a root canal without without medication? I
was like no. She's like, well then why would you?
Why would you possibly have a baby without an epidural?
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So a little bit questions though, because when it comes to,
you know, the recovery afterwards, a lot of times it
is quicker for the mother when they don't have an
eadural um and so that this pros and consent. So
literally my whole point in the book and this in
that part of the book, the technical part of the
book is it's having guys think about these issues are
gonna that are gonna come up, um, and how do
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you make a plan to address them. We don't even
talk about some of these things. Sometimes next you know,
you're in the birth of room, you're in the labor room,
and and everything is going on a mile an hour.
And so part of the book is is UH is
equipped in guys when it comes to, you know, these
technical terms that they're gonna hear. And the other part
it's really the Broadley is encouraging men that they have
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what it takes that even though society may tell them
that you know what you're a dad, you don't know
what's going on. You are very important. Even if you
have kids are important, And if the kid isn't even
hear yet, you're important in creating the nest that this
child is going to come into so that they can
be turned into successful young men and women. Um, and
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just empowering fathers from that point of view. See, I
love that this is all great stuff. It's the new
Dad's playbook. Benjamin Watson of the Baltimore Ravens tight in
Baltimore Ravens joining us Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox
Sports Treating. I love it. And I also love that
there are a couple of things you didn't cover, like
the fact, I don't know if you ever heard this,
that difference in the first kid, second kid, third kid. Right,
first kid is don't touch that, you'll hurt yourself. The second,
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second one is you're sitting in your chair like, hey,
don't touch that, you might hurt yourself. The third one
is watch this, he's gonna hurt himself. Right. So I
don't know what you get to within four or five,
don't care. We have five kids, and I swear like,
when the fifth child falls down, you know, well, she's
my baby girl, so I care about her. But let's
go to the fourth one. That's the board that's actually
on the cover of the book. He follows down. It's like, whatever,
he'll be okay. But one thing I do talk about
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in the book is how do you add uh kids
to the mix when you already have children, because as
we know, there's sibling rivalry, there's all those things. So
I do kind of touch on that a little bit.
When you want to expand your team, so to speak, yeah,
we don't you have a team. You have five? You
have you're good, dude, as you guys, you guys done,
you guys, you guys done, or you're going for the
for for for five boys? We we are we are done.
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For now we have three girls. We have three girls
and two boys, and and we're we are definitely in
a holding pattern, I would say, like a very very
strong aling pattern. Everything still works, like the plumbing still works,
so I guess I could still possibly score, but I'm
not really trying to score right now, if you know
what I mean. We're just you know, my wife was
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was Our oldest is only eight, and so we have
eight down the one and so literally we have four
kids and four and a half years. My wife was
either pregnant, nursing, or both simultaneously for about five and
a half years, and so we're enjoying just kind of
not having the nursing and the you know, we just
have one in diapers now, so we're good, all right.
I got I got a couple of quick football questions
for you. Um, weird year for the Ravens last year, right,
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I mean, it's just weird. Um, Steve Smith's last year. Uh,
Joe Flacco coming off the knee. Um, you have you know,
the defense, there's some some age that got exposed on defense.
How far away are the Ravens to being with the
Ravens we've always known them to be. Well, I think
this draft class answers a lot of the questions. And
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I'm not one of the put a lot on drafted players,
you know, college players. We have to see how the
transition is going to go. But you see a lot
of instances early in the draft we talk about corners
and linebackers, rush players, um that they're trying to definitely
uh identify with with the identity that the Ravens have
always had being a player that has been on other
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teams are coming here last year. I wasn't able to
play at him my Achilles last year, but I was
able to observe and the Ravens have always been, like
you said, the team to the tough defense. And so
one thing I know about this league is that, well,
if there may seem like there's large gaps, when you
have an organization the as stability from the top down
from the head coach to the GM that gives you
a chance to be successful in the league, that gives
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you an opportunity, there are some teams that you don't
even have a chance because there's too much turmoil. And
so moving forward, Um, you know, we obviously had to
get a little bit younger in some positions, but also
there are positions. You know, you mentioned sons and although
he may be getting old and older, as they say,
the guy can still get it done. And so I
think that this team uh functions best in the past
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and in the present when the defense is strong, and
we had great defensive play last year except for a
couple of games here, and now offensively you need to
be more consistent. You mentioned your Achilles tendant teared uh
T says, oh he tore us Achilles tendant, didn't he?
I think I think he two years ago. Okay, So
so this it used to be. It used to be
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when you're in your thirties, you terror your Achilles tendant
like that used to be a career ender. What I mean,
what are your own personal expectations for yourself this year?
I mean, like look and I look, I'm a I'm
a Charger fan. Antonio Gates, he raised a pregnant woman,
came in third. I mean, he he but he still
gets open tight ends. Jason Witten looks horrible when he's
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running by himself, but he still finds a way to
get open. It's like it's like the only position outside
of quarterback that you can lose your speed in the
NFL and still be really effective. So what are your
realistic expectations this year coming off that, Achilles, Well, my
expectations are high, Doug. I, Um, my rehip was gone. Well,
I haven't had many hiccups. Um. Yes, I'm I'm over
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thirty thirty five, which is weird to say, um, but
I'm I'm at a place where the doctors have said
up here as as well as they thought I would.
I'm just in a place where I just need to
get a little bit stronger. But I am. I'm running,
I'm running routes. I'm I'm strong. Uh, the calf muscle
takes forever to come back to full strength and so
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that's just the last little bit. Um. But by the
time it's it's time to compete, I'll be ready to
compete on percent and my actually taking at the same
as when I got here. I want to contribute to
this team winning. Um. That's why I came here and
so unfortunately I wasn't able to do it last year.
But my goal this year is to is to do
that anymore. Well, we'll be rooting for you as well
as written for the sale of this book. I mean,
it's pretty amazing, right, like you're thirty five, thirty six now,
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and you've got guys in this draft class that weren't
alive when the Baltimore Ravens came to came into existence, right,
think about that aspective. Yeah, like they were like nineties
six was the first year in which they were they
were the Baltimore Ravens. That's that's UH to me. To me,
Baltimore still seems like common new team, you know. But
but yeah, you're right to those guys. So but yeah,
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thank you, thank you. And and New Dad's Playbook. New
Dad's Playbook dot com UH is where you can find
everything out about the pop and as you mentioned, it
took UH in all retail outlets. Yeah. And if that's
your son, that's a cute little kid. You obviously married
up man because that's a that's a good looking boy
right there. Anyway, I thank God every day from the now.
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You think God for football, she would have married you've
not for football, you know, and then then football gave
your wife and you you think you have a good
brain to your smart guy to say though, I would
say though that we met because of in part because
of football, because she was playing softball at University of
Georgia and we met in fellowship to Christiannapolis. And if
I had the transferred and she hadn't played sports, and
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you're right, we wouldn't have met some sports and the
huge part of our life. Definitely, Hey man, really shape
catching up. People will do so again in the summer
and now only track this book sales but also talks
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an experience it was last night for both the Toronto
Raptors on the road. Kind of expected, you know, his
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cat playing with mouse a little bit. As the calves
dominated the Raptors, they did allow the Raptors to creep
back in the game before smashing them. You know you're
getting clowned in basketball when dudes are throwing the ball
off the backboard. Right. If somebody's throwing the ball off
the backboard and in transition to another dude and he's
(01:04):
getting a dunk, you know you're getting clowned. The other thing,
you know it's bad when guys who come in off
the bench are trying to fight, and that's what happened
in the nightcap. Like, there's lots of things that are
different about basketball at the NBA level than basketball at
the level that you and I play when we go
(01:25):
down and play pick up, or you might have played
at the high school level or the collegiate level, or
the youth level or whatever the the uh the adult level.
Lots of things are different. The spacing is way different
because the skill is way better. Guys cover so much
more ground. But you know what, what doesn't change When
guys can't play, when they can't beat you, when they're
(01:47):
not as good as you, they try and start a fight.
That's what happens, whether it's trying to get mentally under
your skin or trying to somehow even up or make
you scared about driving to the basket. Are dudes that
come out the bench with one sole purpose. And Dwayne
Deadman was that guy last night. And the reason he
was that guy is, um, it's not Larry the cable guy.
(02:11):
Who's the guy Ramos who walks around with the drink
in his hand and m comedian and he says, you
can't fix stupid? Who who is? Who is you can't
fix stupid? Guy? Wow, that's a good question, Doug. You know,
I answer a good question we don't know the answer
to because you can't fix her stupid. And that's Ron White, right, Ron?
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Why does the train wreck? He he alleys, he has
a cigar and he has the drink and he says,
you can't fix stupid. But you can't. In sports, you
can't fix old. I mean some people will say, well,
the other time undefeated. But what happens when you get
older You have a tendency to get wiser and get smarter.
(02:55):
In basketball, usually shoot better, you see things more clearly,
your movement is. It's like if you've ever you ever
sat with an old guy. Okay, a lot of old
guys that they the type of guys like you know,
they have these philosophical God gave you two years and
one mouthless and more than you talk, and so when
(03:15):
then they talk, they say things in more concise fashion.
It's almost like they know their time on earth might
be limited, so they're gonna say less but say more.
It's like the old guy when he moves, he might
not move as crisply, but he gets where he wants
to get like you, and you increase your level of
(03:38):
intelligence and you're wherewithal. But what you can't fix is
the fact that you can't move. You just can't. Once
you you'll lose that step, you don't get it back.
And when you collectively, like I said this about Mono Genoble,
and I will go to my grave telling you that
I think Mono Genobly has had a greater impact on
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European basketball based upon his overall career than Dirk Novitski.
The most impactful guy has been Monta Genoblic. He won
two European championships. He won Argentina's gold medal. Think about that,
a gold medal for Argentina. Go back and look historically,
and I know there was a good group of great
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Argentineans who played on that gold medal winning team. I
believe they also won the world championships as well. On
our soil. You look historically like they were never They
weren't even competitive in South America as well. They weren't
the best team in South America, let alone in the
America's how but in the world they win the gold medal.
And of course he's been a huge part of several
(04:45):
championship teams with San Antonio Spurs. He was shooting fiftent
coming to last night's game, and last night's game wasn't great.
And the reason is he can't move anymore. He's washed.
It's over, it's done. You can't fix stupid in life,
you can't fix old in sports. What what said Vince
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Lombardi said? He said, fatigue makes cowards of us. All.
That's true. Age makes mortals of us, All makes mortals
of us. All. Age will make you get hurt more quickly.
It's harder to recover. But more than anything, it kills
your athletic ability. Right, it just does. And different positions
(05:33):
are different terms of athletis. Do the Spurs have other problems? Yeah,
they went invested all that money in LaMarcus Aldridge and
one free agency for the first time ever. Right, they
went out one free agency in the past when they
had one in free agency. It's like when Michael Finley
was bought out by the Dallas Mavericks. They got Finley
on the cheap, but they legitimately competed for LaMarcus Aldridge,
(05:55):
a prize free agent and got him. But LaMarcus Aldred
just soft he's more of an offensive player than defensive player,
and even though he's technically big enough to move over
to center, he can't move to play center. He's not
really needed at power forward, and when being guarded by
mighty mites last night, could do nothing like that's a problem.
But the biggest problem is you can't fix old. You
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can't do it. Stug got lip show Fox Sports Radio
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Ramas Did you
stay up and watch the game or docu? Did not
stay up? It wasn't really that late, but it's so
much different than when you're in the West Coast and
East Coast. Unfortunately, was at the Guardians of the Galaxy
movie premier things, so I didn't see it. Wait what wait?
(06:42):
How old are you? How old am I in my forties?
Did you take your kids? Uh? No, just my wife?
Only two people could go um and Guardian is is it?
Please tell me it's good because it looks it looks
like something I would watch with my kids. Uh. I
would say it's a little more adult, it's a little
little kids. So that's who you are. You're an adult kid.
(07:04):
That's okay, as long as you know who you are.
You're like, yes, music, go ahead, you have your hand up.
I'm just funny that I cannot believe that I just
heard that into my ear that he went and see it.
I didn't. I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy.
I like how he starts it with unfortunately unfortunately when
he knows that it's not unfortunate. He was very excited
to go see it, which is fine. But I'm just curious, John,
(07:27):
what was unfortunate about it? Well, the question was about
a basketball game, and I didn't want to displease Doug
by saying that I did not watch Listen you can
you know, I just don't like you know. Here's the
thing I tell people all the time. I don't lie,
like I will say things that you will be offended
by that will I can't believe you said that. Well,
the good thing is I'm not lying about I just
say what I think, right. And the reason is the
good thing is if you don't lie, you don't have
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to remember what you told somebody. Then go oh damn
when I tell him I can't remember what I told him?
Where do you think I was last night? Right? That's
what you There's all these different It's like when somebody
texts you and you have no idea who they are,
and you you do to who dis right? Who dies?
Because you don't want to act like you you know
(08:09):
who it is. You don't want to you know what
a lie. And so if somebody says, do you know
who this is? Like, I have no idea who this is?
How do I know you? What? I know you? From
Dan Buyer? You're getting ready wedding plans. Apparently there's some
sort of issue with the catering. Oh no, no, there's
no issue. I just I was just telling you what
I did this morning, just like a very exciting tell
me about, very exciting tell me about you. Did you
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watch the Rockets Spurs game? I had it on in
the second half, so it wasn't like the game was over.
It was over the the the Houston Rockets scored sixty
nine sixty nine points in the first half. They were
up sixty nine too. Was it thirty nine? You're up
thirty at half? That game is over? Like you have
to be you're like me, you have to be a
(08:51):
ball guy to really really watch it. So I I
respect to understand it. Okay, So here's my question to you.
What was the reason. What was the biggest reason or
the blowout? Um, I just thought that the Rockets were
on fire from outside and the Spurs just from three
point range, and many of those misses were in the
second half, right, so they hit it. But E was like,
(09:13):
well they beat him because they shot the ball really well.
Is that is that a fair kind of uh average analysis?
Should you just watch for a little bit. But here's
what here's what people should know. The reason they made
all those threes is a lot of them were wide open.
And the reason they were wide open was because the
Houston Rockers were going right by the San Antonio Spurs.
(09:35):
And the reason they were going right by the San Antono, well,
you go right by somebody, somebody has to help. They
help you kick out. That's how you get it open. Three.
The reason they were going right by the San Antonio Spurs,
Dan Barer, was because they were um faster and maybe
the Spurs were a bit slow. Less. You can pick old,
can't pick so old. That's it. That's it. In a nutshell,
(09:56):
It's like, look, Payton Manning is paymenting to me. Payment
should go down as the greatest quarterback ever with a
bad arm, Like that's who he was. He never had
a good arm, but he he got to the point
where they couldn't play him in Denver. Like the the
story is going to be forever that Peyton Manning won
(10:17):
his last game, much like John Elway riding off in
the sunset. But the truth is they had to. He
was hurt, he was tired, He was hurt. He wasn't injured.
He was bad. He had nine touchdown seventeen interceptions, and
they found a way to kind of putter to the end.
And even in the Super Bowl. He didn't throw many,
(10:38):
if any good balls at all in the Super Bowl.
He was washed up. Why because as a quarterback, when
your arm goes, you're done. Much like pictures, when it goes,
it goes, it's over. Tom Glavin was that way um
in football, for outside of quarterback, it's when you can't run,
you can't play. Do you guys remember when the Ravens
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won the Super Bowl? Remember the forty Niners come back
in the second half and the Four Nights. The reason
the Four Nighters came back was they finally figured out, hey,
why don't we just go to whoever Ray Lewis is
supposed to be covering because he can't run anymore. It
was there used to be game plans designed going away
from Ray Lewis at the end of his career. Remember
(11:21):
he was taking was the was the phony supplement, that
was a spear Antler spray right like he was doing
whatever it took to try and get him to the
finish line coming back from a torn Uh try a
tricept I think tricept muscle. But the truth was like
he couldn't run anymore, so you went right at him.
And that's what happened last night. Like those guys couldn't
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contain the ball. They just couldn't. LaMarcus Aldres can't get anybody.
Pau Gasol can't guard Anyboddy Tony Parker, you know, couldn't.
You couldn't really hide him defensively, Danny Green couldn't make
a shot and he's good, but what he's best at
doing defensively is classically shutting down the old school shooter,
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just like tracking a guy. And you can't do that
against Houston because that's not the style of play. The
style of plays. Give it to James Harden. Come off
a ball screen wherever the help comes, you kick out.
They couldn't stop the ball, and if you can't guard
the ball, you can't stop the rockets. And if you're
too old, you can't guard the ball. And I can't
fix old. I can't fix old. Uh, Dan, did you
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get all the uh the rehearsal dinner stuff worked out? Like?
Are you guys? I was? You know what you know?
Do you have a band? Next time? I won't. I
won't let you into my life. Doug. You know, if
it's such a problem with you, just the problem, I'm
just I'm I'm concerned. I don't want things to go
This is obviously your I heard I heard your show.
I heard your show on Sunday when you had your
when you had your Lisa came on. It was great,
(12:54):
very sweet. She's super excited. Why I have no idea
I have but now you're a bad guy. But I
just don't. I I like, I'm like, she's really really excited, Yeah,
really excited. But you guys are like adults, Like I
don't understand what really changes when you're adults. Well, Lisa
is also well versed in the radio biz, so she
knows that you when you come on, you want to
have some energy, you know, you want to be excited. No, No,
(13:15):
that was not fake energy. She's super excited of getting
married to you, and I kind of think it should
be the other way around. Oh, I'm very excited, not
to her level of excitement, and it's kind of a
bit of a mismatch. I just I'm just gonna tell you, like,
you're you're married up, you're out kicking your coverage. You're
you're accomplishing the goal of any any warm blooded American man.
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But but her level of excitement was with peak. It
was it was when we get some Doug you know,
it's like when you arrive on the super Bowl location
at super Bowl Week, when you get there, Like, that's
what it was. It was like the plane landed on
Sunday and all of a sudden, now she realizes she's
less than a weekend, and it was Yeah, it's game time.
It's time to play the biggest game of your life. Yeah,
(13:59):
just like when you guys touched down in the n
C Double A Tournament, you know, like all those other
games during the regular season, but when you went to
your first and second round sites, Oh, it's game time.
That's what she was all about. Got gotta crank it up.
She was cranked up. She was fired up as she
should be. This weekend, Mary to catch like you. That's it.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug gott
Leaves Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific. Saban
(14:20):
is the second highest paid coach annually in camp, in
comparison to Jim Harbaugh, who got his salary increased to
nine million dollars a year last October. I think some
of the stuff is actually really really interesting. Um. He
also got his defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt got a hundred
thousand dollar raised, his co defensive coordinator, outside linebackers coach
(14:41):
tash Lapoy, who just got there, got a raised from
five hundred fifty to nine fifty dollars, and his strength
coach got ten thousand dollar raised to five thirty five
thousand dollars. Um. So there's a bunch of different things.
I like the inner workings, the the fine print, the
(15:03):
fine print of the coaches contracts. Like I don't know
if you guys know this, but Jim Harbaugh's deal is
really five million dollars a year. And then there's two
nine million to two million dollar life insurance policies which
are really money makers, and the school is just paying
the premium, Like this is one of those deals to
where when you make a certain amount of money, uh,
(15:26):
life insurance, people will come to you and they're like,
it's technically life insurance, but it's also a financial growth vehicle,
and that's it's not really nine million dollars they're paying him.
They're paying him what the value of it potentially is
nine million dollars, and eventually he'll get that money out
of it. But it's a really really smart way of
of making a huge amount of money, but as a
(15:48):
kind of an investment for you. Here's the thing about Saban, though,
I understand that there are many of you who operate
in a world to which you've been told by many
people in my position that because the college coaches make
money and this is an obscene amount of money, let's
just be honest. It's in Tuscaloose, Alabama, which is a
(16:10):
much nicer town than you would think, and his deal
is much better than even this reads. Two years ago,
the University of Alabama bought back his house for like
two million dollars and then he pays like rent, like
a dollar a year in rent, So he's basically living
there scott Free, just piling away cash. He's making eleven
(16:36):
million dollars this year. He's got this ridiculous lake house,
and he's setting himself up to this is his last
job ever, and this is the price for holding on
to in our lifetime. Nick Saban is the best college
football coach that we've seen. Right, He's had the most
consistent run of success in college football from the moment
(16:59):
he got l s U and really what he did
at Michigan State. He hadn't turned the corner yet fully
at Michigan State, but the guy has been incredible and
winning multiple national titles at Alabama and in addition to
winning a national title of L s U, things that
hadn't been done before hadn't been done in the last
forty years. Crazy. So I understand that your thought is
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always that there should be a trickle down to the players,
and there is. There is in the state of Alabama,
or outside of Alabama, in Atlanta, in places to where
there is a fervent SEC alumni base. When you're done
playing football, the strongest thing you can put on your
resume to apply for a job at Striker Right Medical
(17:48):
Sales is Football University of Alabama. It just is everything
they do at Alabama is built around not just the
football program, but the Nicktator, Nick Saban. How they raise
money because of Nick Saban, How they sell season tickets
because of Nick Saban. They've had three different offensive coordinators
(18:09):
they've had over the last five years. They've had in fact,
they had to last year in the middle of the season.
They've had three different quarterbacks, three different styles, two of
which could barely complete a forward pass. Over the past
three years play in a national championship game. The one
thing that's been consistent has been Nick Saban. Their TV
(18:31):
rights package locally, nationally, their radio rights, everything they do
is that, Hey, you know what, trust me, we have Saban.
How do you think they get recruits Saban? It's not
just that he's an indefatigable recruiter, it's that his name sells.
Saban's gonna get you the pros. You know. It's the
(18:56):
same reason they get assistant coaches. They go there because Saban.
Can you make your life? Hell? Yes, can he undress
you on the sideline? Absolutely? When things go wrong? Are
you to blame her he to blame or is he
to blame? Here to blame, but you got Nick Saban
picked up the phone for you. It's worth it. Fox
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(19:16):
com and within the I Heart Radio app. Benjamin Watson
play for the Pats, play for the Browns, play for
the Saints past couple of years, for for a couple
of years. Right, and they couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't
They couldn't catch a cold. Um and now is with
the Baltimore Ravens and is now an author as well
(19:37):
as he's written a book, The New Dad's Playbook and
Beat Me to It. This is great. He's got five
kids and uh great cover picture as well. You can
pick it up at Amazon dot com. It's also in
soft soft cover, which for those of us who like
to save money, it's a little bit a little bit
easier on the wallet. Benjamin Watson, the Baltimore Ravens joins
us on the Doug Gotlip Show. How are you good man? Okay,
(20:00):
so you wrote a book about being a dad while
playing in the NFL, and there are topics in your
I read most of it about sex. Uh like, did
you have to clear with your wife, like, hey, baby,
I'm writing this book and I'm gonna talk about our
most our most intimate details. And even when you don't
mention you know her name, like you know, you know
(20:21):
people are going to right, So how do you how
do you have that conversation? Well, the thing is she
was sitting right next to me, and she was really
the one giving me the advice about what to tell
because she wants these women to have the support that
they deserve from their husbands and the fathers of the
children that don't know what the heck to do and
how to navigate these things. So she was she was
(20:42):
actually the one that inspired me to write the book.
She's been telling me for five years. You need to
write a handbook from men so that they not only
are in power when it comes to father and so
they only have information, but so that they can support
the women who are carrying their child and helping them
through this whole process called pregnancy. That's it's it's great.
It's honestly, it's it's really good. I mean, like you know,
like we all and and there's lots of guys who
(21:04):
didn't grow up with the dad I was fortunate to
have one, but my dad was never kind of the
touchy feeling wasn't really it was from the generation that
they weren't really involved in the child rearing. Right. My
son asked me all the time, like what did your
dad like play one on one with you and play
like No, my dad didn't do all thats Like why
do you do it? Like, well, because I don't know.
I just that's how I want to raise them. So
what is like if Okay, so I actually I got
(21:26):
a buddy of mine his wife is pregnant with twins
um and he he's asked me about like what should
I be ready for if your wife is pregnant right now?
What's the what are a couple of the things that
they can pick up this book and uh they can
they can take from it? Yeah, even him a good
point because you know, men for the most part, you know,
(21:48):
I'm in the locker room with Stadi guys every year
for the last thirteen years. So there've been a number
of guys who have had fathers demonstrate things to them.
A lot of guys have not had fathers in their lives.
Some of them have children already and they just want
to do things differently. So you know, there's all these
questions that come up, and you know, when she's pregnant
and you don't know what a birth plan is, you
(22:08):
don't know what to expect them from the obi appointment
where you're gonna hear the heartbeat for the first time?
Or when do you even hear the heartbeat? Or do
I have to buy a thousand diapers? Or is it
gonna make or break me? Or can I go you know,
a package at a time? You know, well, what about
you know, people coming over after the baby's here, and
should everybody just be allowed to come over? Should I
keep certain people out? What about the ways to have birth?
(22:30):
You know, there's an epueradural, there's a natural birth, there's
a water birth, there's a home birth. There's different things.
Don't tell me your natural birth, guy, right, like my sister,
we've done well, she's done. I haven't anything we've done
and we've done right exactly. But but but all five
well at all four ways. So we've had the epidural
(22:52):
with the first one in the hospital. We've had the
epidural that didn't work in the hospital. We've had a
natural birth in a tub hospital birthing center. We've had
a natural birth at home in a tub and the
last two I was the one to helped pull the
baby out of the birth canal. And so every differ
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we had all right, So we've only had we had
I had twins and then my son. They've all been
se uh. And my my sister said, like I was.
I asked her after she had her first she's had three,
and she I said that did you have did you
have drugs? You have epidural? And she's like would you
would you have a root canal without without medication? I
was like no. She's like, well then why would you?
Why would you possibly have a baby without an epidural?
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So a little bit questions though, because when it comes to,
you know, the recovery afterwards, a lot of times it
is quicker for the mother when they don't have an
eadural um and so that this pros and consent. So
literally my whole point in the book and this in
that part of the book, the technical part of the
book is it's having guys think about these issues are
gonna that are gonna come up, um, and how do
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you make a plan to address them. We don't even
talk about some of these things. Sometimes next you know,
you're in the birth of room, you're in the labor room,
and and everything is going on a mile an hour.
And so part of the book is is UH is
equipped in guys when it comes to, you know, these
technical terms that they're gonna hear. And the other part
it's really the Broadley is encouraging men that they have
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what it takes that even though society may tell them
that you know what you're a dad, you don't know
what's going on. You are very important. Even if you
have kids are important, And if the kid isn't even
hear yet, you're important in creating the nest that this
child is going to come into so that they can
be turned into successful young men and women. Um, and
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just empowering fathers from that point of view. See, I
love that this is all great stuff. It's the new
Dad's playbook. Benjamin Watson of the Baltimore Ravens tight in
Baltimore Ravens joining us Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox
Sports Treating. I love it. And I also love that
there are a couple of things you didn't cover, like
the fact, I don't know if you ever heard this,
that difference in the first kid, second kid, third kid. Right,
first kid is don't touch that, you'll hurt yourself. The second,
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second one is you're sitting in your chair like, hey,
don't touch that, you might hurt yourself. The third one
is watch this, he's gonna hurt himself. Right. So I
don't know what you get to within four or five,
don't care. We have five kids, and I swear like,
when the fifth child falls down, you know, well, she's
my baby girl, so I care about her. But let's
go to the fourth one. That's the board that's actually
on the cover of the book. He follows down. It's like, whatever,
he'll be okay. But one thing I do talk about
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in the book is how do you add uh kids
to the mix when you already have children, because as
we know, there's sibling rivalry, there's all those things. So
I do kind of touch on that a little bit.
When you want to expand your team, so to speak, yeah,
we don't you have a team. You have five? You
have you're good, dude, as you guys, you guys done,
you guys, you guys done, or you're going for the
for for for five boys? We we are we are done.
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For now we have three girls. We have three girls
and two boys, and and we're we are definitely in
a holding pattern, I would say, like a very very
strong aling pattern. Everything still works, like the plumbing still works,
so I guess I could still possibly score, but I'm
not really trying to score right now, if you know
what I mean. We're just you know, my wife was
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was Our oldest is only eight, and so we have
eight down the one and so literally we have four
kids and four and a half years. My wife was
either pregnant, nursing, or both simultaneously for about five and
a half years, and so we're enjoying just kind of
not having the nursing and the you know, we just
have one in diapers now, so we're good, all right.
I got I got a couple of quick football questions
for you. Um, weird year for the Ravens last year, right,
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I mean, it's just weird. Um, Steve Smith's last year. Uh,
Joe Flacco coming off the knee. Um, you have you know,
the defense, there's some some age that got exposed on defense.
How far away are the Ravens to being with the
Ravens we've always known them to be. Well, I think
this draft class answers a lot of the questions. And
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I'm not one of the put a lot on drafted players,
you know, college players. We have to see how the
transition is going to go. But you see a lot
of instances early in the draft we talk about corners
and linebackers, rush players, um that they're trying to definitely
uh identify with with the identity that the Ravens have
always had being a player that has been on other
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teams are coming here last year. I wasn't able to
play at him my Achilles last year, but I was
able to observe and the Ravens have always been, like
you said, the team to the tough defense. And so
one thing I know about this league is that, well,
if there may seem like there's large gaps, when you
have an organization the as stability from the top down
from the head coach to the GM that gives you
a chance to be successful in the league, that gives
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you an opportunity, there are some teams that you don't
even have a chance because there's too much turmoil. And
so moving forward, Um, you know, we obviously had to
get a little bit younger in some positions, but also
there are positions. You know, you mentioned sons and although
he may be getting old and older, as they say,
the guy can still get it done. And so I
think that this team uh functions best in the past
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and in the present when the defense is strong, and
we had great defensive play last year except for a
couple of games here, and now offensively you need to
be more consistent. You mentioned your Achilles tendant teared uh
T says, oh he tore us Achilles tendant, didn't he?
I think I think he two years ago. Okay, So
so this it used to be. It used to be
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when you're in your thirties, you terror your Achilles tendant
like that used to be a career ender. What I mean,
what are your own personal expectations for yourself this year?
I mean, like look and I look, I'm a I'm
a Charger fan. Antonio Gates, he raised a pregnant woman,
came in third. I mean, he he but he still
gets open tight ends. Jason Witten looks horrible when he's
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running by himself, but he still finds a way to
get open. It's like it's like the only position outside
of quarterback that you can lose your speed in the
NFL and still be really effective. So what are your
realistic expectations this year coming off that, Achilles, Well, my
expectations are high, Doug. I, Um, my rehip was gone. Well,
I haven't had many hiccups. Um. Yes, I'm I'm over
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thirty thirty five, which is weird to say, um, but
I'm I'm at a place where the doctors have said
up here as as well as they thought I would.
I'm just in a place where I just need to
get a little bit stronger. But I am. I'm running,
I'm running routes. I'm I'm strong. Uh, the calf muscle
takes forever to come back to full strength and so
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that's just the last little bit. Um. But by the
time it's it's time to compete, I'll be ready to
compete on percent and my actually taking at the same
as when I got here. I want to contribute to
this team winning. Um. That's why I came here and
so unfortunately I wasn't able to do it last year.
But my goal this year is to is to do
that anymore. Well, we'll be rooting for you as well
as written for the sale of this book. I mean,
it's pretty amazing, right, like you're thirty five, thirty six now,
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and you've got guys in this draft class that weren't
alive when the Baltimore Ravens came to came into existence, right,
think about that aspective. Yeah, like they were like nineties
six was the first year in which they were they
were the Baltimore Ravens. That's that's UH to me. To me,
Baltimore still seems like common new team, you know. But
but yeah, you're right to those guys. So but yeah,
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thank you, thank you. And and New Dad's Playbook. New
Dad's Playbook dot com UH is where you can find
everything out about the pop and as you mentioned, it
took UH in all retail outlets. Yeah. And if that's
your son, that's a cute little kid. You obviously married
up man because that's a that's a good looking boy
right there. Anyway, I thank God every day from the now.
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You think God for football, she would have married you've
not for football, you know, and then then football gave
your wife and you you think you have a good
brain to your smart guy to say though, I would
say though that we met because of in part because
of football, because she was playing softball at University of
Georgia and we met in fellowship to Christiannapolis. And if
I had the transferred and she hadn't played sports, and
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you're right, we wouldn't have met some sports and the
huge part of our life. Definitely, Hey man, really shape
catching up. People will do so again in the summer
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