July 11, 2017 • 36 mins
Doug reminds you that he said Yankees Rookie Aaron Judge could be the player that makes regular season baseball relevant again BEFORE he won the home run derby. He discusses the Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor news conference and why it reminds him of the WWE. Plus, USC quarterback Sam Darnold joins the show and talks about potentially leaving college early for the NFL draft.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Dune Got Lead show
on Fox Sports Radio. Tell Not Tell Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel
side of the Maccabi games. I'll give you more info.
If you want the info on Twitter, you can call us,
or of course the boys will talk about it. Let's
get after. Last night was a home run derby and
viewership was up thirty eight percent percent. And I know
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there's some haters out there that are unable to actually
listen and comprehend what I'm saying. I told you that
the home run derby can in fact be boring to
watch in person. It just drags. They've done a better
job of making so it doesn't drag on. But I
also told you this is going back two months ago,
both on this show and on The Herd. I know
I told you because as Ryan Music, my esteem producer
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who helped produce The Herd that day, will will affirm
I kind of used the same rints on The Herd
that I did on the Duck Got Leave show, which
which is uh? Is that about right? Ryan? That is true.
There was not that much time between us doing our
show the previous day to the morning the next morning
during the Herd, and it was that wasn't It had
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nothing to do with time. It had to do with
the fact that it was a really, really really good
series of points. And my points there were, okay, my
points there are my same points now, which is, Aaron
Judge can save regular season baseball, Aaron Judge can save
the home run derby. Aaron Judge can make uh, can
make lots of things interesting to watch. Not necessarily listen
to gag because he doesn't give you much at all
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in interviews. But the fact is that he's a Yankee.
That's important. And you can go like, oh, what the eggs?
They have one last time? They won the World Series
and look the eggs one twenty seven world titles. They
are synonymous with winning. They are the biggest name in
the sport and they, by the way, play in the
biggest market. They're the biggest name in the biggest market.
And they have physically the biggest star in baseball who
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now um literally is creeping up on becoming the biggest
star in the sport. He and he's just a rookie.
He's not making a ton of money. He wears nine nine.
He looks like a superhero. He also looks like Aaron
Gordon won the Dunk Contest. There's so much to him that.
In a sport which can be utterly and completely unwatchable
unless it's your team early on in the regular season
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or even the dog days of summer, Aaron Judge hits
balls further steroid free than anybody we've ever seen, or
at least it feels that way. Was that about the
Is that about the ramp music? Is that? Is that
about where I went with it? That sounds like we
actually just replayed the other segment and you actually haven't
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arrived at the studio yet from Jerusalem. Ah, that's what
we did. We got we got knocked off line. So
they just reaired a two month old rant that just
happened to apply today. Now what's the point, Doug? I
realized I watched the Home Run Derby? Well, first is good?
What is it? St F you? Yeah, it's really b
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S T F y. But whatever reason, we go stfu
to Logan Morris. Remember Logan Morrison's like live Derry Sanchez
in the home run Derby. I should be in the
Home Run Derby? Remember that? Yeah, that's why viewership. Gary
Sanchez took baseball by storm last year at the end
of the season and now the right fields are. Aaron
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Judge has taken baseball by storm this year. The Home
Run Derby is about the youth of baseball. It's about
making people watch something which is like, dude, you just
watching guys hit balls far Like they're not curveballs. There's nothing,
it's not really baseball. Get Yankees in it. People will watch.
Get young dudes in it that you haven't heard of.
People watch young dudes that put up ridiculous numbers. Last
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year it was Sanchez, I think nineteen home runs in
forties some odd games something like that. This year it's
Aaron Judge leading the world in home in balls hit
a metric mile. It's not a metric mile, is actually
a kilometer anyway? Um that So the first thing is
st f y or you whichever you want to Logan Morrison.
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It also points to the NBA's need to get something
done in New York, to get something done with the
l A Lakers. And the story of the day from
Lee Jenkins and Sports illustrat, who does an outstanding job.
The story of the day is very very simple. Is um,
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Paul George is open to the idea of hey, we're
really good in Oklahoma City, Like, why would I leave?
It's not a foregone conclusion that he will go to
Los Angeles. On the other hand, Russell Westbrook also hasn't
signed his contract extension. Unless he does, it's not a
foregone inclusion. Russell Westbrook's gonna stay after this year. But
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the NBA they need Los Angeles, they need New York
because while while you and me like, I don't care,
I'm going to watch I'm going to watch Lebron James
and Steph Curry like I don't care whether they like doesn't.
Location of the team doesn't matter to me. But I'm
a sports fan. When you get two major events in sports,
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you need the mainstream fan, not the sports fan, to
kind of help carry the build that huge number. And
when you cut out the two biggest cities in the
country with vibrant basketball fan bases as well, well, you're
limiting the scope of how many people can come listen
or come watch. Um and maybe the other part too.
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It is this tonight see All Star Game. It's on Fox.
I'll watch it. Um. I like the All Star Game.
There's some nostalgia to it, but can we all admit
that the Baseball All Star Game just frankly like the
NBA All Star Game, like the Pro Bowl, but even
more so because it's baseball it is. It is an
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our cane idea, right, it is something from a foregone era.
I'll give you the example. Israel has like the most
ridiculous cell phone technology because many of it was much
of it was developed here. As doug otlip Show Fox
Sports Radio, I'm actually broadcasting from Jerusalem, Israel. The cell
phone and WiFi technology here is spectacular, even though the
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topography of for example, Jerusalem is hilly and mountainous, right,
so um. What's interesting to me though, is that while
the cell phones that were uh that we're developed because
of all the wars, right, all the wars and the
fighting like much of I mean, why we're drones, drones
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that Amazon is gonna use to to drop off your
food now that Amazon bought whole foods like all tho.
That drone technology, the drones that you bought for your
kids for Christmas or for Hanakah, like, that was all
developed in places of war. Necessity is the root of
all invention, isn't it? So um? With all the developed
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technology they have here last night before the show. It means,
like I don't know if I told you this rama's YouTube.
Across the street from where I'm broadcasting from is a
beautiful mall. Now, I'm not sure if you're aware of
this in our country, but people don't go to the
mall anymore. It's not the nineteen eighties, not the nine nineties, okay.
And one of the things that came into play in
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the nine nineties in malls was the food court. Right
remember the food court. You go down and you get
a little Chick fil a and you get hot dog
and a stick like you get like sabarro pizza. Right now,
nobody goes to them all. A matter of fact, malls
are many of them are are almost vacant, and they're
being repurposed for other things. And the reason is Amazon, Amazon,
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you know, on Amazon Prime and Zappo's to deliver shoes
like the next day, and if you don't like them,
you put them back in They're gone. Like It's just
shopping is done online or shopping is done in niche stores.
Why do you need to go to a mall and
fight the traffic or whatever. People don't go to a mall.
But here in Israel, like they still go to malls.
They also still smoke cigarettes. These are all things from
the eighties and nineties that we don't do nearly as
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much in volume. On the other hand, we still have
the Major League Baseball All Star Game, which was created
with a great spirit, great intent because back in the
day they used to have the American League in the
National League. And I I don't know if you know this,
but the American League and National League originally, okay, until expansion,
they only played in the World Series. There wasn't even
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any They were playing for the pennant, but there wasn't
even any playoffs. It wasn't a championship series. Then they
developed the Championship Series. Then it was the Divisional Series.
Then you had the wild Card and now you have
the wild Card play in game and etcetera, etcetera, e sutera.
But we also now have the crossover of every series
having every every week we have a different inter league series.
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Oh yeah, and you can watch any team play anytime, anywhere,
even from your phone. So this idea that well, I
never get to watch Aaron Judge play, that's not true.
Everybody gets the Yes Network. You can watch Aaron Judge
play whatever you want, not even counting the nationally televised
game on Fox. And you want to watch Aaron Judge highlights,
you can put it in your phone, which every time
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he has in that bat, you can see the highlight.
So I don't need to watch the Wall Star games
so I can see Aaron Judge hit against whomever. I mean,
the All Star Game isn't even a game. It's not
like we all know, like starting Matt Scherzer is gonna
throw what two innings? Matt Scherzer and Christie are gonna
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throw two innings. The starting infielders gonna play two, three,
maybe four innings. Then they're gonna shake hands, then they're
gonna get all their swag. Then they're gonna go home,
and they all love it and they'll love the honor
of doing it. But the fact is, you get sixteen
days off in Major League Baseball for a hundred and
sixty two games, and if you're kind of close and
you've got plenty of money, Like it's not like these
guys don't know each other, play against Jenny, play interleague.
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You can see so many play whatever you want. It
is the the Major League Baseball All Star Game to
us is what malls are to Israelis. We still do it,
we still love it, we still kind of go watch it,
but we're like, Okay, they tried to make it mean
something because it's home field advantage, even though it really
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is kind of ridiculous way to describe home To decide
a home field advantage, it's not really a game because
pictures are throwing, you know, starting picture throwing two innings
or one inning, and you're rotating all these guys around
and all these players that back in the sixties, seventies,
even eighties you would never see playing your ballpark and
you couldn't see him play on TV. Now you can
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watch many time you want, and you can watch him
in a legit game. So where is the where is
the allure? Be sure to catch live editions of The
Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three p m. Eastern
noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Radio app. You see, guys are badasses, okay, So anybody
who who um anybody who says what lyar got like
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he's talking trash about you. No, No, that that ain't true.
I've said this before and I mean it. The three
different things that will three things that will survive a
nuclear holocaust. Okay, twinkies, cockroaches, Wrestlers, they just will. Wrestlers
are badasses. And you may not like cauliflowerer. I don't
want my son wrestles. I don't want cauliflower by Sunday,
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get cauliflower. But those dudes are tough embras and you
mentioned and a lot of these guys have a rest
Most of them have a wrestling background and then a
Brazilian jiu jitsu background, Like they're they're bad, dude. They
are not dudes you want to run into and talk
smack two in a dark alley, because especially wrestlers, they
get you on the ground. Once they an edge on
the ground, like that's their office, you're done. You're like,
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I'm sorry, but the UFC press conferences, especially involving Connor McGregor,
are just so over the top, like I'm I'm just done,
I'm just done, and I'm sorry. But when both guys
are going to get super rich, when both are in
on the gag that con McGregor is not a boxer
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and yet he's gonna he's not he's not just fighting.
And the other thing that can fight is a boxer.
He's fighting a guy who is has a master's as
a doctorate in the sweet science. He's arguably the best
pound for pound fighter in the world. Now, I it's
a completely different discipline, completely different discipline. So I just
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and when both guys are making not six, not seven,
but likely you know, Floyd is making eight figures in this,
they're just maybe nine figures this. There's just the level
of I my, I don't give a you know what
in in terms of you don't really dislike a guy.
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I mean, if Connor McGregor gets flattened in the first round,
he's still gonna get He was on he was unwelfare
four years ago, do you guys nothing? He's on well
for four years ago, and now he's going to be
worth a hundred million dollars after this fight. Like, there's
just no way you can tell me that you hate
each other when you had to kind of get together
and finally get the fight done and both are going
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to be rich beyond all possible levels of wealth. And
oh yeah, by the way, Connor's fighting a discipline that's
not even his, Like you don't hate each other. It's
so over the top. That said every media company is
gonna cover it. Everybody will be talking about why because
a Connor McGregor press conference and a Floyd Mayweather press
conference is catnip to the masses can't get enough. It's
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not a It's not any different than w W E.
You know, I don't get it. I don't watch it.
I don't. I do know people that are really bright
that do watch it. But man, that's that's I can't
get into it. I can do it. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaves Show weekdays
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at three pm Easter noon Pacific. I saw this article
from Lee Jenkins, and it's it's interesting that Kevin Durant
apparently told Paul George that place Oklahoma City will blow
you away. George said, quote, he told me they can
offer you what other teams can't in terms of the
people and the preparation the facility, down to the chefs
and meals. By the way, I don't know if you
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know this, but like Kevin Rant gave away, he he
bought to what would be an amount to Brownstones, and
he combined them and I think he spent like three
million dollars on the renovation and the building buildings combined,
which is like within walking distance of the arena, and
then he sold it for like a million dollars. Anyway,
if only Paul George was coming earlier, he could have
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rented it out to So kind of interesting that that
k d Um said such, I mean, it's not interesting
to me. I don't think anything like. Kevin Rant didn't
have any bad feelings about Oklahoma City. He just thought
it was a better place for him and he wanted
to explore living in a different place, playing in a
different team, and by the way, winning a championship, and
he made the right decision. So I don't know any
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Oklahoma City fan that's upset at Kevin Durant. I mean,
I think if you read these quotes from Paul George,
uh then uh, then you you do realize that Kevin
Durant is pretty sincere guy. He really didn't have any
problem with Oklahoma City, and he saw value in it.
He just saw more value elsewhere. George went on to say,
there's no right way to handle it. I get the frustration.
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I get why people are upset, but at the same time,
I want the average fan to understand that we only
get a small window to play this game, and more
than anything, you want to be able to play for
a championship. I wanted to bring that to Indiana, I
really did. I love indian would always be a special place.
I'm sorry for not holding on, but I wasn't sure
that we'd ever get a team together. It could be
for a championship. And that's where it where it came from. Um.
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So he goes on to say that it's it's no
locked up cinch. All I was asking was a little
help and Indie, now I'm getting a lot of help
in Oklahoma. I think uh I fit with how he
plays in vice first of being a knockdown shooter. I
think I can spread the floor for him and run
the floor for him. But I also think I can
help get him easier opportunities. Um. He went on to
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say that, um um it, look, it's not a locked
up cinch that he's going to Oklahoma. I grew up
a Lakers and a Clippers fan. I adolized Kobe. There
will always be a tie there connection there people saying
I want to come home. Who doesn't want to play
for their hometown team. That's a dream come true. You're
growing up, growing up on the outskirts of l A
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to be the man in your city. That's definitely overstated.
I'm searching for it. If we get a killer season
in Oklahoma and we make the conference finals, are upset
the Warriors do something crazy, I'd be dumb if I
want to leave that. So he's not saying that he's
staying in Oklahoma. He's saying like, well, let's let this
thing play out and see how it goes. But he's
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also not saying he's not going to Lakers. Lakers rolled
the dice, but so too to Oklahoma City. My guest
is he still ends up wearing purple and gold next year.
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We welcome in Sam Donald, who most of you know
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as the Heisman Trophy hopeful Heisman Trophy favorite per Vegas.
He's also starting quarterback at USC the one the Rose
Bowl spectacular come from behind fashion against Penn State one
of the one of the just the litany of great
Rose Bowl games, but in the most recent one he
was he was phenomenal. Sam was also a really good
basketball player at San Clemente High School. UM, biggest blowout
football basketball you've ever been a part of. Um. Well, thanks,
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thanks Doug for having me back on. I really appreciate it. UM,
biggest blowout. Uh, either way you got blown out or
you blew somebody else out. Uh, I don't know. I think.
I mean those summer those summer basketball games can be
UM kind of shoddy with the talent that we play.
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So UM, I'm sure there was a team in there
that we blew out by you know, like forty points.
Uh So those are always those are always fun and
I got to sit out that second half, but you know,
those those games are always kind of shoddy on the
talent that we would play. UM, but there's nobody like
a high school football like like okay, cyclemany who is
in your who is in your league? There's always one
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team in in somebody's league in high school that had
no shot. Yeah, I mean we had a couple of those,
um in high school. I mean my senior year we
were pretty good. Uh So, yeah, they're definitely a couple
of those teams. I don't I don't necessarily want to
name him, uh, but you have to play him. It's
not like you have to play him against Sam Yeah,
I know, but yeah, it's uh, we had a couple
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of those teams in our league my senior year. Um,
those games are definitely, you know, not as fun as
the nail Biers, but um no it was. I mean,
you know, you're always going to have one of those
in your league unless you're in the you know, Trinity
League on the West Coast, which has you know, top,
top of the notch talent. So Sam Donald joining us
USC starting quarterback, Heisman Trophy favorite, Um, we caught up,
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but I was at the other plant at a at
a different network. It's great to catch up on this
one twice. Once when you first started and first kind
of took over and took the college football world by storm.
Uh then right after the Rose Bowl. Um, so like
here we are seven months since the Rose Bowl, and
I think people on the West Coast and college football
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people knew you before the Rose Bowl. But it's it's
different in a game of that level of importance. Uh.
That's that's that well regarded nationally. Penn State obviously with
the East Coast and Midwest backgrounds, with the Big Ten,
and of course it's on the East coast with with
that in mind, how has your life changed since that game? Yeah,
you know it's changing a lot ways. Um, and you know,
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obviously it's it's changed a lot for the better. And
you know, I'm really you know, thankful for that, and
you know it's been a blessing the whole way through.
But um, yeah, I mean a lot of you know,
the PAC twelve doesn't necessarily get the credit I think
that we deserve. But um, at the same time, you know,
it's it's an awesome conference and um, it's got great
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talent obviously, um. And it's it definitely gets you ready
for those Bowl games and you know, hopefully down the line,
you know, a playoff game if if we happen to
get there. So um, but I'm in like media obligations
places you go like look, I mean you kind of
stick out like a short thumb anyway, not a short
thumbout me. Like you stick out right, big, red hair,
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red hair, you gotta you know, big, but like you're
not You're not a little fella, you know, like six
four with with a pro body and red hair, like
you can't hide, but I would I would guess it's
different though, or is it I mean you tell me, Um,
you know, sometimes I can hide a little bit. I
mean if I just put a hat on in sunglasses
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and I'm outside, you know, it's it's pretty easy. But
whenever the red hairs out, you know, some people recognize me.
But it's also easier too. I think whenever you know
a football players, you know, popular amongst like the crowd
or something, Uh, it's definitely easier to hide sometimes just
because we have our helmets on, um, whereas like you know,
a basketball player always has his face showing. So um,
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you know, it's it's it can be easy at times.
But sometimes you know if someone um, like I was
at a Dodger game a couple of days ago, and
one person came and took a picture with me, and
then everyone else realized that, Um, you know I was,
yeah it was me, So um, it's you know, it's
definitely interesting. But um yeah, sometimes I stick out, but
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other times I can kind of blend in. There's there's
this sense that you and Josh Rosen, of course starting
quarterback over U C l A, and he had a
tough year last year with a bunch of injuries. There's
a sense foregone conclusion you guys are going pro. You're
gonna be number one and number two in the draft.
How do you handle that? When you hear that from people,
assuming they know what your future holds? How do you
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handle that? Yeah? Um, I think the simplest answer that
I can come up with when people say that is
just you know, and it's kind of cliche, but you
can only control you can control. Uh. So you know,
if I have a bad year this year, you know,
knock on wood, or if I have a great year, Um,
we're just gonna see what happens from there. You know,
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I need to be able to talk to my family,
talk to you know, all of my coaches and um,
so it's it's definitely gonna be a process. But right now,
I mean, um, we're just focused on fall camp and
we just got a bunch of new freshmen, So right
now we're just focused on getting them integrated with our team.
What is the biggest thing you personally have worked on?
Because like, look when I when you came in, it
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electrified the offense. You were different. Obviously the schedule was
really difficult for if you were the starting quarterback to
start year, it might not have mattered. I mean, you
might not have got smacked by Alabama by that same score,
you might not have struggled as much early on. But like, look,
it was a hard beginning to a schedule with a
new head coach and new regime and new quarterback for
anybody that said, uh, you kind of took it by storm.
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But now you kind of have two people have tape
on you. They got they're gonna be able to pick
apart your weaknesses as defensive coordinators. What have you gone
back to self assess with that coaching staff and said,
you know, I need to do this better. Yeah, Um no,
I think I think first and foremost is just um,
in the off season, I mean, continuing to work on
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my strength and my speed and getting better and those
categories and just keeping up, uh, you know, with the
athleticism that I have. But I think also um, going
back and looking at those games with my coaches, probably um,
just I think the one thing that sticks out is
just UM staying with my read and UM staying in
the pocket. But also you know, there's a fine line
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between wanting to stay in the pocket and just kind
of go by instinct and run around out there. And
you know, I think personally that's A strong suit of
my game is to just kind of make stuff happen.
But at the same time, you need to be able
to or I need to be able to, um, you know,
kind of keep with my read and stay on uh
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you know, go one to three with my read rather
than one to scramble and find a guy. So yeah,
it's it's it's different, right, I mean, like and I
mean we saw that. I mean you picked the quarterback.
I mean probably the uh, you know, probably Deshaun Watson
is probably the easiest example of that, right where early
on his career he was I don't even use one
too as much as maybe even one read and then
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tuck and run. And last year now he had a
lot more interceptions, but he stayed until they got to
the college while playoff he stayed in the pocket more
and refined himself. Whether it's for college or maybe for
the NFL. That's got to be part of thinking, right, like,
I have to be a true pocket pass in order
to make it not just at this level but the next. Right, Um, no, definitely,
but yeah, I also, I mean in college football, there's
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also a fine line, like I said, uh, because you
want you know, you want um, your quarterback if he's
able to do it, to be able to go around
and or run around and make plays. So, uh, there's
definitely a fine line there. But I'm definitely working on
staying in the pocket more and um, you know, trusting
my line and being able to feel the rush around
me rather than just kind of guess. Last year, you
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guys lost three of your first four games. People left
you for dead. There was questions about whether coach Helton
would would would be back when that. Those were real,
legitimate discussions that people were having. However insane it sounds
to us on the outside those were apparently being had
on on some level at SC. You turn it around,
You go off and and rip off nine consecutive wins,
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You win a Rose Bowl, you beat U. C. L A,
You beat Notre Dame, you beat Washington who won the
Pack twelve in the Pack twelve Championship and goes to
college while playoff like if you beat them all. But
but there's a hunger there when believe you for dead.
Now you're the Now you're the hunt dead instead of
the hunter. How not just you personally, but for your team?
How do you recreate that? How do you how do
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you stay hungry. How do you keep your crew hungry
instead of fat? And uh and you know, um and
and almost a little bit of arrogance considering how much
you turned it around. Yeah, there's definitely that we want
to stay on track. But UM, I think coach Halton
has done a great job of UM, you know, in
team meetings, UM, from the Rose Bowl on until now,
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I think he's done a great job of UM explaining
how this is a different team. You know, we've lost guys,
and you know it's a huge step because we finished
this season at ranked number three and it's a huge
step to go from number three to number one. UM.
And you know he's made that very clear. And we've
we've worked extremely hard. Um. We were you know, just
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as harder, maybe even harder than last off season. And
you know it's been a great off season with our
strength coach, our strength coaches and uh. UM, you know,
we're just looking to continue the hard work and also
just keep our minds focused on the now rather than
you know, the past. Hey, you went to the do
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you go to the Manning Manning can? Yeah? What's that like? Um,
it's awesome, you know, it's it's you know it's the
experience of a lifetime. Um. You know, you get to
talk to Elin, Peyton and Cooper's He's probably one of
the funniest guys I've ever met in my life. Um.
Uh that's Peyton's older brother. Um. And Archie is just
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you know, he has the ability to when you know,
when he talks, the whole the whole room you know,
goes silent. So um No, it's just it's awesome to
be around them. But UM, I think the biggest thing
I got out of that camp was, um, kind of
just the way they carry themselves. You know, they don't
act like they're too big for anyone. Um, and you know,
I think, um, I think everyone can learn from that.
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And you know the example that they set, you know,
for all of football. Who keeps you in check? Who's
who's the person who most calls bs on you? If
if you start to go Hollywood you said, Hey, sometimes
I throw on sunglasses. Who's you guys like, dude, come on,
don't don't don't, don't don't go Heisman up. Um yeah,
probably my friends, my my roommates. Uh. They definitely keep
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me in check, uh and give me a hard time
whenever they sense any any bit of you know that
uh kind of I guess arrogance in me, but no,
I'm not. I'm not usually that guy. They don't really
have to worry about me. But you know if I
if I happen to show any sign of it, they're
there for sure there too, you know, keep me in check.
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Has the marketing department asked you about any slogans for
you for the Heisman? Like, I don't know if you
know this Vegas has used the favorite to win the Heisman?
Have they asked you like do you like that? Do
you like this? Or you not like that? Or how
how does that work? Um? I mean they'll they'll usually
ask me if you know, I like something here if
I don't, but uh, I usually kind of just tell
them to do whatever they want. And uh, you know
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if they think if they think it's awesome, then you know,
just go ahead. And I'm I'm kind of just rolling
with the flow right now. Um, but you know, it's
been an awesome ride. But you know, we're really just
focused on having a great year. But when it comes
to like slogans and all that, you know, I'll let
them kind of take care of that. Yeah, you mentioned it. Right,
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only ten starts on your belt and think of the
ride that you've been on. Look, man, can't wait to
see it fall camp. I'll pop in. I love to
catch up in the meantime. Enjoy your summer, and thanks
for joining us on Fox Sports Radio. All right, sounds good. Thanks.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug gott
Leap Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app and
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now Fox Say Skip Bayliss on the Undisputed Head this
to say about Aaron Judge and how he compares him
to Lebron James. Aaron Judge is already waite beyond Lebron
James because Aaron Judge is a rookie participated in the
home Run derby, and Lebron James after fourteen NBA season
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still hasn't participated in his first Slam dunk contest. And Lebron,
what happened? Where were you when we needed you? And
this is my theory and I think it's the true theory.
Lebron dreaded being on that solo stage against a potentially
hot opponent who had come up with some shocking new
Slam dunk move and captivated the crowd. Um. Look, I
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agree actually with a lot of what Skip is saying here,
and then I think he just takes it kind of
that step way too far at the end where he's
like he's worried about the hot dunker doing the Dunkey's
never seen. It was a mistake in Lebron james career
the first five years in the NBA to not being
the dunk contest and you could say, well, yeah, but
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that's not his thing. Then why did he wear Michael
Jordan's number? Like Michael Jordan was a great score, was
a great player. But his first commercial and you know,
dunking and the sound of an airplane in the background,
it was like Nike Flight. And he first burst onto
the scene really in the Dunk Contest and then in
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his second year in the NBA playoffs against the Boston
Celtics when he had forty nine and sixty three and
back to back games. But he was he was the great.
He was the greatest big competition dunker we've seen. Like
remember back then, they weren't allowed like now, they weren't
allowed to miss dunks. To give this one dunk of
competition and he won all those competitions he was in,
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so I think it was a mistake. Do I think
that Lebron didn't do it because of a hot dunker. No.
I think he did it because or didn't do it
because he probably felt like there was more for him
to lose than it was for him to gain. But
that sounds like a decision made by other people, or
if you're a competitor, you're like, look, I'm gonna go
win the dunk contest. Anyway, it shouldn't matter. I actually
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do think and as much as look for are and judge,
you can fail in the home run Derby and nobody cares.
Steph Curry failed a couple of times in the the
NBA three point Shooting Contest and nobody cares. The dunk contest.
There is more pressure, There is more focused than the
home run derby and the three point shooting contest. But
I also think that pressure burst pipes. So if you
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don't have it in you, and you know you don't
have it in you, you don't go do it. I'm
I'm still stunned he didn't, But now we've gotten past
the point of no return. He shouldn't be in a
Dunk Contest. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Doug gott Leaves Show weekdays at three pm Easter Noon Pacific.
Much has been made about the dangers of playing football,
to the point that some parents have bemoaned letting their
children even play Pop Warner. However, a study from JM.
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A neurology, players up to the high school level are
not at risk get long term cognitive or mental damage.
The question that studies seeks to answers, does playing high
school football have a statistically and clinically significantly adverse association
with cognitive impairment and depression at sixty five years of age?
In order to answer that question, the piece goes on,
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the study was conducted among about four thousand men who
averaged sixty four point four years of age and utilized
the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study among men who graduated high school
in nineteen fifty seven. According to the study, there was
no statistic or clinical significant harmful association between playing football
and high school and increased impairment or depression later in
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life on average. In essence, men based upon the study
that JM. A neurology who played high school football did
not experience cognitive issues later in life. Okay, this the
piece goes on to say, like, look, this was high
school football played sixty years ago, and so it's very
very different. What it points to is something that I
(33:50):
believe I have said before on radio, but if you
haven't listened here, it is high school football is in danger.
Football is dangerous. We know this football, especially UM at
a high level, but football probably at any level, especially
with helmets and shoulder paths, but especially the helmets, Football
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increases your risk of brain damage. It just does. Like
there's you can we can argue about what percentage of
increase there is, but if you play football at a
high level, you're increasing your risk of brain damage. That
doesn't mean you're absolutely getting brain damage, but you're substantially
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increasing your risk. And while this study does not offer
up any proof that high school football, high school football
can increase your risk of brain damage, all it takes
is a couple of to study. Here, a study there,
(34:54):
a UM somebody to have depression, have et trace it
back to only playing high school football. Sue have others
joined the suit making a class action lawsuit, and states
are scared that look, states are running in a deficit
in most places anyway, they don't have they don't have
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the pockets and their insurance doesn't have the pockets to
cover too much litigation. And at some point, if it
gets too messy and if it gets too deep, they'll
just say, like, all right, the hell with it, We're
not doing high school football because we can't get it insured.
That day's not here and the study doesn't prove it.
But the day is coming. The day is coming. Uh,
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my guess would be, this is just a guess it's
in the next twenty years. Because if you look, we
didn't have any of these studies talking about pro football
five years ago, ten years ago, none of them or
none that at least that became public. Now you have
so many different stories go public. You have college football studies.
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College football at least can protect itself because um, they
have greater resources and endowments to pay things to go away. Uh.
They also you're having players sign up for you know,
with basically with contra the university to play football. It
becomes something that they do in order to or in
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a scholarship, as opposed to a high school football player
who's just trying to perform an athletic event to be
cool with his high school. That's that's still my guess.
I still think high school football is very very much
in danger, very much in danger, and that doesn't mean
imminent danger.
This is the best of the Dune Got Lead show
on Fox Sports Radio. Tell Not Tell Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel
side of the Maccabi games. I'll give you more info.
If you want the info on Twitter, you can call us,
or of course the boys will talk about it. Let's
get after. Last night was a home run derby and
viewership was up thirty eight percent percent. And I know
(00:24):
there's some haters out there that are unable to actually
listen and comprehend what I'm saying. I told you that
the home run derby can in fact be boring to
watch in person. It just drags. They've done a better
job of making so it doesn't drag on. But I
also told you this is going back two months ago,
both on this show and on The Herd. I know
I told you because as Ryan Music, my esteem producer
(00:47):
who helped produce The Herd that day, will will affirm
I kind of used the same rints on The Herd
that I did on the Duck Got Leave show, which
which is uh? Is that about right? Ryan? That is true.
There was not that much time between us doing our
show the previous day to the morning the next morning
during the Herd, and it was that wasn't It had
(01:09):
nothing to do with time. It had to do with
the fact that it was a really, really really good
series of points. And my points there were, okay, my
points there are my same points now, which is, Aaron
Judge can save regular season baseball, Aaron Judge can save
the home run derby. Aaron Judge can make uh, can
make lots of things interesting to watch. Not necessarily listen
to gag because he doesn't give you much at all
(01:32):
in interviews. But the fact is that he's a Yankee.
That's important. And you can go like, oh, what the eggs?
They have one last time? They won the World Series
and look the eggs one twenty seven world titles. They
are synonymous with winning. They are the biggest name in
the sport and they, by the way, play in the
biggest market. They're the biggest name in the biggest market.
And they have physically the biggest star in baseball who
(01:55):
now um literally is creeping up on becoming the biggest
star in the sport. He and he's just a rookie.
He's not making a ton of money. He wears nine nine.
He looks like a superhero. He also looks like Aaron
Gordon won the Dunk Contest. There's so much to him that.
In a sport which can be utterly and completely unwatchable
unless it's your team early on in the regular season
(02:16):
or even the dog days of summer, Aaron Judge hits
balls further steroid free than anybody we've ever seen, or
at least it feels that way. Was that about the
Is that about the ramp music? Is that? Is that
about where I went with it? That sounds like we
actually just replayed the other segment and you actually haven't
(02:38):
arrived at the studio yet from Jerusalem. Ah, that's what
we did. We got we got knocked off line. So
they just reaired a two month old rant that just
happened to apply today. Now what's the point, Doug? I
realized I watched the Home Run Derby? Well, first is good?
What is it? St F you? Yeah, it's really b
(03:00):
S T F y. But whatever reason, we go stfu
to Logan Morris. Remember Logan Morrison's like live Derry Sanchez
in the home run Derby. I should be in the
Home Run Derby? Remember that? Yeah, that's why viewership. Gary
Sanchez took baseball by storm last year at the end
of the season and now the right fields are. Aaron
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Judge has taken baseball by storm this year. The Home
Run Derby is about the youth of baseball. It's about
making people watch something which is like, dude, you just
watching guys hit balls far Like they're not curveballs. There's nothing,
it's not really baseball. Get Yankees in it. People will watch.
Get young dudes in it that you haven't heard of.
People watch young dudes that put up ridiculous numbers. Last
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year it was Sanchez, I think nineteen home runs in
forties some odd games something like that. This year it's
Aaron Judge leading the world in home in balls hit
a metric mile. It's not a metric mile, is actually
a kilometer anyway? Um that So the first thing is
st f y or you whichever you want to Logan Morrison.
(04:05):
It also points to the NBA's need to get something
done in New York, to get something done with the
l A Lakers. And the story of the day from
Lee Jenkins and Sports illustrat, who does an outstanding job.
The story of the day is very very simple. Is um,
(04:27):
Paul George is open to the idea of hey, we're
really good in Oklahoma City, Like, why would I leave?
It's not a foregone conclusion that he will go to
Los Angeles. On the other hand, Russell Westbrook also hasn't
signed his contract extension. Unless he does, it's not a
foregone inclusion. Russell Westbrook's gonna stay after this year. But
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the NBA they need Los Angeles, they need New York
because while while you and me like, I don't care,
I'm going to watch I'm going to watch Lebron James
and Steph Curry like I don't care whether they like doesn't.
Location of the team doesn't matter to me. But I'm
a sports fan. When you get two major events in sports,
(05:14):
you need the mainstream fan, not the sports fan, to
kind of help carry the build that huge number. And
when you cut out the two biggest cities in the
country with vibrant basketball fan bases as well, well, you're
limiting the scope of how many people can come listen
or come watch. Um and maybe the other part too.
(05:38):
It is this tonight see All Star Game. It's on Fox.
I'll watch it. Um. I like the All Star Game.
There's some nostalgia to it, but can we all admit
that the Baseball All Star Game just frankly like the
NBA All Star Game, like the Pro Bowl, but even
more so because it's baseball it is. It is an
(06:02):
our cane idea, right, it is something from a foregone era.
I'll give you the example. Israel has like the most
ridiculous cell phone technology because many of it was much
of it was developed here. As doug otlip Show Fox
Sports Radio, I'm actually broadcasting from Jerusalem, Israel. The cell
phone and WiFi technology here is spectacular, even though the
(06:24):
topography of for example, Jerusalem is hilly and mountainous, right,
so um. What's interesting to me though, is that while
the cell phones that were uh that we're developed because
of all the wars, right, all the wars and the
fighting like much of I mean, why we're drones, drones
(06:45):
that Amazon is gonna use to to drop off your
food now that Amazon bought whole foods like all tho.
That drone technology, the drones that you bought for your
kids for Christmas or for Hanakah, like, that was all
developed in places of war. Necessity is the root of
all invention, isn't it? So um? With all the developed
(07:08):
technology they have here last night before the show. It means,
like I don't know if I told you this rama's YouTube.
Across the street from where I'm broadcasting from is a
beautiful mall. Now, I'm not sure if you're aware of
this in our country, but people don't go to the
mall anymore. It's not the nineteen eighties, not the nine nineties, okay.
And one of the things that came into play in
(07:28):
the nine nineties in malls was the food court. Right
remember the food court. You go down and you get
a little Chick fil a and you get hot dog
and a stick like you get like sabarro pizza. Right now,
nobody goes to them all. A matter of fact, malls
are many of them are are almost vacant, and they're
being repurposed for other things. And the reason is Amazon, Amazon,
(07:49):
you know, on Amazon Prime and Zappo's to deliver shoes
like the next day, and if you don't like them,
you put them back in They're gone. Like It's just
shopping is done online or shopping is done in niche stores.
Why do you need to go to a mall and
fight the traffic or whatever. People don't go to a mall.
But here in Israel, like they still go to malls.
They also still smoke cigarettes. These are all things from
the eighties and nineties that we don't do nearly as
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much in volume. On the other hand, we still have
the Major League Baseball All Star Game, which was created
with a great spirit, great intent because back in the
day they used to have the American League in the
National League. And I I don't know if you know this,
but the American League and National League originally, okay, until expansion,
they only played in the World Series. There wasn't even
(08:35):
any They were playing for the pennant, but there wasn't
even any playoffs. It wasn't a championship series. Then they
developed the Championship Series. Then it was the Divisional Series.
Then you had the wild Card and now you have
the wild Card play in game and etcetera, etcetera, e sutera.
But we also now have the crossover of every series
having every every week we have a different inter league series.
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Oh yeah, and you can watch any team play anytime, anywhere,
even from your phone. So this idea that well, I
never get to watch Aaron Judge play, that's not true.
Everybody gets the Yes Network. You can watch Aaron Judge
play whatever you want, not even counting the nationally televised
game on Fox. And you want to watch Aaron Judge highlights,
you can put it in your phone, which every time
(09:17):
he has in that bat, you can see the highlight.
So I don't need to watch the Wall Star games
so I can see Aaron Judge hit against whomever. I mean,
the All Star Game isn't even a game. It's not
like we all know, like starting Matt Scherzer is gonna
throw what two innings? Matt Scherzer and Christie are gonna
(09:40):
throw two innings. The starting infielders gonna play two, three,
maybe four innings. Then they're gonna shake hands, then they're
gonna get all their swag. Then they're gonna go home,
and they all love it and they'll love the honor
of doing it. But the fact is, you get sixteen
days off in Major League Baseball for a hundred and
sixty two games, and if you're kind of close and
you've got plenty of money, Like it's not like these
guys don't know each other, play against Jenny, play interleague.
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You can see so many play whatever you want. It
is the the Major League Baseball All Star Game to
us is what malls are to Israelis. We still do it,
we still love it, we still kind of go watch it,
but we're like, Okay, they tried to make it mean
something because it's home field advantage, even though it really
(10:23):
is kind of ridiculous way to describe home To decide
a home field advantage, it's not really a game because
pictures are throwing, you know, starting picture throwing two innings
or one inning, and you're rotating all these guys around
and all these players that back in the sixties, seventies,
even eighties you would never see playing your ballpark and
you couldn't see him play on TV. Now you can
(10:43):
watch many time you want, and you can watch him
in a legit game. So where is the where is
the allure? Be sure to catch live editions of The
Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three p m. Eastern
noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Radio app. You see, guys are badasses, okay, So anybody
who who um anybody who says what lyar got like
(11:07):
he's talking trash about you. No, No, that that ain't true.
I've said this before and I mean it. The three
different things that will three things that will survive a
nuclear holocaust. Okay, twinkies, cockroaches, Wrestlers, they just will. Wrestlers
are badasses. And you may not like cauliflowerer. I don't
want my son wrestles. I don't want cauliflower by Sunday,
(11:29):
get cauliflower. But those dudes are tough embras and you
mentioned and a lot of these guys have a rest
Most of them have a wrestling background and then a
Brazilian jiu jitsu background, Like they're they're bad, dude. They
are not dudes you want to run into and talk
smack two in a dark alley, because especially wrestlers, they
get you on the ground. Once they an edge on
the ground, like that's their office, you're done. You're like,
(11:51):
I'm sorry, but the UFC press conferences, especially involving Connor McGregor,
are just so over the top, like I'm I'm just done,
I'm just done, and I'm sorry. But when both guys
are going to get super rich, when both are in
on the gag that con McGregor is not a boxer
(12:12):
and yet he's gonna he's not he's not just fighting.
And the other thing that can fight is a boxer.
He's fighting a guy who is has a master's as
a doctorate in the sweet science. He's arguably the best
pound for pound fighter in the world. Now, I it's
a completely different discipline, completely different discipline. So I just
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and when both guys are making not six, not seven,
but likely you know, Floyd is making eight figures in this,
they're just maybe nine figures this. There's just the level
of I my, I don't give a you know what
in in terms of you don't really dislike a guy.
(13:03):
I mean, if Connor McGregor gets flattened in the first round,
he's still gonna get He was on he was unwelfare
four years ago, do you guys nothing? He's on well
for four years ago, and now he's going to be
worth a hundred million dollars after this fight. Like, there's
just no way you can tell me that you hate
each other when you had to kind of get together
and finally get the fight done and both are going
(13:24):
to be rich beyond all possible levels of wealth. And
oh yeah, by the way, Connor's fighting a discipline that's
not even his, Like you don't hate each other. It's
so over the top. That said every media company is
gonna cover it. Everybody will be talking about why because
a Connor McGregor press conference and a Floyd Mayweather press
conference is catnip to the masses can't get enough. It's
(13:48):
not a It's not any different than w W E.
You know, I don't get it. I don't watch it.
I don't. I do know people that are really bright
that do watch it. But man, that's that's I can't
get into it. I can do it. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaves Show weekdays
(14:10):
at three pm Easter noon Pacific. I saw this article
from Lee Jenkins, and it's it's interesting that Kevin Durant
apparently told Paul George that place Oklahoma City will blow
you away. George said, quote, he told me they can
offer you what other teams can't in terms of the
people and the preparation the facility, down to the chefs
and meals. By the way, I don't know if you
(14:32):
know this, but like Kevin Rant gave away, he he
bought to what would be an amount to Brownstones, and
he combined them and I think he spent like three
million dollars on the renovation and the building buildings combined,
which is like within walking distance of the arena, and
then he sold it for like a million dollars. Anyway,
if only Paul George was coming earlier, he could have
(14:54):
rented it out to So kind of interesting that that
k d Um said such, I mean, it's not interesting
to me. I don't think anything like. Kevin Rant didn't
have any bad feelings about Oklahoma City. He just thought
it was a better place for him and he wanted
to explore living in a different place, playing in a
different team, and by the way, winning a championship, and
he made the right decision. So I don't know any
(15:14):
Oklahoma City fan that's upset at Kevin Durant. I mean,
I think if you read these quotes from Paul George,
uh then uh, then you you do realize that Kevin
Durant is pretty sincere guy. He really didn't have any
problem with Oklahoma City, and he saw value in it.
He just saw more value elsewhere. George went on to say,
there's no right way to handle it. I get the frustration.
(15:36):
I get why people are upset, but at the same time,
I want the average fan to understand that we only
get a small window to play this game, and more
than anything, you want to be able to play for
a championship. I wanted to bring that to Indiana, I
really did. I love indian would always be a special place.
I'm sorry for not holding on, but I wasn't sure
that we'd ever get a team together. It could be
for a championship. And that's where it where it came from. Um.
(16:00):
So he goes on to say that it's it's no
locked up cinch. All I was asking was a little
help and Indie, now I'm getting a lot of help
in Oklahoma. I think uh I fit with how he
plays in vice first of being a knockdown shooter. I
think I can spread the floor for him and run
the floor for him. But I also think I can
help get him easier opportunities. Um. He went on to
(16:22):
say that, um um it, look, it's not a locked
up cinch that he's going to Oklahoma. I grew up
a Lakers and a Clippers fan. I adolized Kobe. There
will always be a tie there connection there people saying
I want to come home. Who doesn't want to play
for their hometown team. That's a dream come true. You're
growing up, growing up on the outskirts of l A
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to be the man in your city. That's definitely overstated.
I'm searching for it. If we get a killer season
in Oklahoma and we make the conference finals, are upset
the Warriors do something crazy, I'd be dumb if I
want to leave that. So he's not saying that he's
staying in Oklahoma. He's saying like, well, let's let this
thing play out and see how it goes. But he's
(17:04):
also not saying he's not going to Lakers. Lakers rolled
the dice, but so too to Oklahoma City. My guest
is he still ends up wearing purple and gold next year.
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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We welcome in Sam Donald, who most of you know
(17:26):
as the Heisman Trophy hopeful Heisman Trophy favorite per Vegas.
He's also starting quarterback at USC the one the Rose
Bowl spectacular come from behind fashion against Penn State one
of the one of the just the litany of great
Rose Bowl games, but in the most recent one he
was he was phenomenal. Sam was also a really good
basketball player at San Clemente High School. UM, biggest blowout
football basketball you've ever been a part of. Um. Well, thanks,
(17:49):
thanks Doug for having me back on. I really appreciate it. UM,
biggest blowout. Uh, either way you got blown out or
you blew somebody else out. Uh, I don't know. I think.
I mean those summer those summer basketball games can be
UM kind of shoddy with the talent that we play.
(18:11):
So UM, I'm sure there was a team in there
that we blew out by you know, like forty points.
Uh So those are always those are always fun and
I got to sit out that second half, but you know,
those those games are always kind of shoddy on the
talent that we would play. UM, but there's nobody like
a high school football like like okay, cyclemany who is
in your who is in your league? There's always one
(18:32):
team in in somebody's league in high school that had
no shot. Yeah, I mean we had a couple of those,
um in high school. I mean my senior year we
were pretty good. Uh So, yeah, they're definitely a couple
of those teams. I don't I don't necessarily want to
name him, uh, but you have to play him. It's
not like you have to play him against Sam Yeah,
I know, but yeah, it's uh, we had a couple
(18:55):
of those teams in our league my senior year. Um,
those games are definitely, you know, not as fun as
the nail Biers, but um no it was. I mean,
you know, you're always going to have one of those
in your league unless you're in the you know, Trinity
League on the West Coast, which has you know, top,
top of the notch talent. So Sam Donald joining us
USC starting quarterback, Heisman Trophy favorite, Um, we caught up,
(19:19):
but I was at the other plant at a at
a different network. It's great to catch up on this
one twice. Once when you first started and first kind
of took over and took the college football world by storm.
Uh then right after the Rose Bowl. Um, so like
here we are seven months since the Rose Bowl, and
I think people on the West Coast and college football
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people knew you before the Rose Bowl. But it's it's
different in a game of that level of importance. Uh.
That's that's that well regarded nationally. Penn State obviously with
the East Coast and Midwest backgrounds, with the Big Ten,
and of course it's on the East coast with with
that in mind, how has your life changed since that game? Yeah,
you know it's changing a lot ways. Um, and you know,
(20:02):
obviously it's it's changed a lot for the better. And
you know, I'm really you know, thankful for that, and
you know it's been a blessing the whole way through.
But um, yeah, I mean a lot of you know,
the PAC twelve doesn't necessarily get the credit I think
that we deserve. But um, at the same time, you know,
it's it's an awesome conference and um, it's got great
(20:24):
talent obviously, um. And it's it definitely gets you ready
for those Bowl games and you know, hopefully down the line,
you know, a playoff game if if we happen to
get there. So um, but I'm in like media obligations
places you go like look, I mean you kind of
stick out like a short thumb anyway, not a short
thumbout me. Like you stick out right, big, red hair,
(20:45):
red hair, you gotta you know, big, but like you're
not You're not a little fella, you know, like six
four with with a pro body and red hair, like
you can't hide, but I would I would guess it's
different though, or is it I mean you tell me, Um,
you know, sometimes I can hide a little bit. I
mean if I just put a hat on in sunglasses
(21:06):
and I'm outside, you know, it's it's pretty easy. But
whenever the red hairs out, you know, some people recognize me.
But it's also easier too. I think whenever you know
a football players, you know, popular amongst like the crowd
or something, Uh, it's definitely easier to hide sometimes just
because we have our helmets on, um, whereas like you know,
a basketball player always has his face showing. So um,
(21:30):
you know, it's it's it can be easy at times.
But sometimes you know if someone um, like I was
at a Dodger game a couple of days ago, and
one person came and took a picture with me, and
then everyone else realized that, Um, you know I was,
yeah it was me, So um, it's you know, it's
definitely interesting. But um yeah, sometimes I stick out, but
(21:52):
other times I can kind of blend in. There's there's
this sense that you and Josh Rosen, of course starting
quarterback over U C l A, and he had a
tough year last year with a bunch of injuries. There's
a sense foregone conclusion you guys are going pro. You're
gonna be number one and number two in the draft.
How do you handle that? When you hear that from people,
assuming they know what your future holds? How do you
(22:13):
handle that? Yeah? Um, I think the simplest answer that
I can come up with when people say that is
just you know, and it's kind of cliche, but you
can only control you can control. Uh. So you know,
if I have a bad year this year, you know,
knock on wood, or if I have a great year, Um,
we're just gonna see what happens from there. You know,
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I need to be able to talk to my family,
talk to you know, all of my coaches and um,
so it's it's definitely gonna be a process. But right now,
I mean, um, we're just focused on fall camp and
we just got a bunch of new freshmen, So right
now we're just focused on getting them integrated with our team.
What is the biggest thing you personally have worked on?
Because like, look when I when you came in, it
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electrified the offense. You were different. Obviously the schedule was
really difficult for if you were the starting quarterback to
start year, it might not have mattered. I mean, you
might not have got smacked by Alabama by that same score,
you might not have struggled as much early on. But like, look,
it was a hard beginning to a schedule with a
new head coach and new regime and new quarterback for
anybody that said, uh, you kind of took it by storm.
(23:17):
But now you kind of have two people have tape
on you. They got they're gonna be able to pick
apart your weaknesses as defensive coordinators. What have you gone
back to self assess with that coaching staff and said,
you know, I need to do this better. Yeah, Um no,
I think I think first and foremost is just um,
in the off season, I mean, continuing to work on
(23:38):
my strength and my speed and getting better and those
categories and just keeping up, uh, you know, with the
athleticism that I have. But I think also um, going
back and looking at those games with my coaches, probably um,
just I think the one thing that sticks out is
just UM staying with my read and UM staying in
the pocket. But also you know, there's a fine line
(24:01):
between wanting to stay in the pocket and just kind
of go by instinct and run around out there. And
you know, I think personally that's A strong suit of
my game is to just kind of make stuff happen.
But at the same time, you need to be able
to or I need to be able to, um, you know,
kind of keep with my read and stay on uh
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you know, go one to three with my read rather
than one to scramble and find a guy. So yeah,
it's it's it's different, right, I mean, like and I
mean we saw that. I mean you picked the quarterback.
I mean probably the uh, you know, probably Deshaun Watson
is probably the easiest example of that, right where early
on his career he was I don't even use one
too as much as maybe even one read and then
(24:42):
tuck and run. And last year now he had a
lot more interceptions, but he stayed until they got to
the college while playoff he stayed in the pocket more
and refined himself. Whether it's for college or maybe for
the NFL. That's got to be part of thinking, right, like,
I have to be a true pocket pass in order
to make it not just at this level but the next. Right, Um, no, definitely,
but yeah, I also, I mean in college football, there's
(25:04):
also a fine line, like I said, uh, because you
want you know, you want um, your quarterback if he's
able to do it, to be able to go around
and or run around and make plays. So, uh, there's
definitely a fine line there. But I'm definitely working on
staying in the pocket more and um, you know, trusting
my line and being able to feel the rush around
me rather than just kind of guess. Last year, you
(25:27):
guys lost three of your first four games. People left
you for dead. There was questions about whether coach Helton
would would would be back when that. Those were real,
legitimate discussions that people were having. However insane it sounds
to us on the outside those were apparently being had
on on some level at SC. You turn it around,
You go off and and rip off nine consecutive wins,
(25:48):
You win a Rose Bowl, you beat U. C. L A,
You beat Notre Dame, you beat Washington who won the
Pack twelve in the Pack twelve Championship and goes to
college while playoff like if you beat them all. But
but there's a hunger there when believe you for dead.
Now you're the Now you're the hunt dead instead of
the hunter. How not just you personally, but for your team?
How do you recreate that? How do you how do
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you stay hungry. How do you keep your crew hungry
instead of fat? And uh and you know, um and
and almost a little bit of arrogance considering how much
you turned it around. Yeah, there's definitely that we want
to stay on track. But UM, I think coach Halton
has done a great job of UM, you know, in
team meetings, UM, from the Rose Bowl on until now,
(26:29):
I think he's done a great job of UM explaining
how this is a different team. You know, we've lost guys,
and you know it's a huge step because we finished
this season at ranked number three and it's a huge
step to go from number three to number one. UM.
And you know he's made that very clear. And we've
we've worked extremely hard. Um. We were you know, just
(26:50):
as harder, maybe even harder than last off season. And
you know it's been a great off season with our
strength coach, our strength coaches and uh. UM, you know,
we're just looking to continue the hard work and also
just keep our minds focused on the now rather than
you know, the past. Hey, you went to the do
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you go to the Manning Manning can? Yeah? What's that like? Um,
it's awesome, you know, it's it's you know it's the
experience of a lifetime. Um. You know, you get to
talk to Elin, Peyton and Cooper's He's probably one of
the funniest guys I've ever met in my life. Um.
Uh that's Peyton's older brother. Um. And Archie is just
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you know, he has the ability to when you know,
when he talks, the whole the whole room you know,
goes silent. So um No, it's just it's awesome to
be around them. But UM, I think the biggest thing
I got out of that camp was, um, kind of
just the way they carry themselves. You know, they don't
act like they're too big for anyone. Um, and you know,
I think, um, I think everyone can learn from that.
(27:56):
And you know the example that they set, you know,
for all of football. Who keeps you in check? Who's
who's the person who most calls bs on you? If
if you start to go Hollywood you said, Hey, sometimes
I throw on sunglasses. Who's you guys like, dude, come on,
don't don't don't, don't don't go Heisman up. Um yeah,
probably my friends, my my roommates. Uh. They definitely keep
(28:18):
me in check, uh and give me a hard time
whenever they sense any any bit of you know that
uh kind of I guess arrogance in me, but no,
I'm not. I'm not usually that guy. They don't really
have to worry about me. But you know if I
if I happen to show any sign of it, they're
there for sure there too, you know, keep me in check.
(28:40):
Has the marketing department asked you about any slogans for
you for the Heisman? Like, I don't know if you
know this Vegas has used the favorite to win the Heisman?
Have they asked you like do you like that? Do
you like this? Or you not like that? Or how
how does that work? Um? I mean they'll they'll usually
ask me if you know, I like something here if
I don't, but uh, I usually kind of just tell
them to do whatever they want. And uh, you know
(29:03):
if they think if they think it's awesome, then you know,
just go ahead. And I'm I'm kind of just rolling
with the flow right now. Um, but you know, it's
been an awesome ride. But you know, we're really just
focused on having a great year. But when it comes
to like slogans and all that, you know, I'll let
them kind of take care of that. Yeah, you mentioned it. Right,
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only ten starts on your belt and think of the
ride that you've been on. Look, man, can't wait to
see it fall camp. I'll pop in. I love to
catch up in the meantime. Enjoy your summer, and thanks
for joining us on Fox Sports Radio. All right, sounds good. Thanks.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug gott
Leap Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app and
(29:45):
now Fox Say Skip Bayliss on the Undisputed Head this
to say about Aaron Judge and how he compares him
to Lebron James. Aaron Judge is already waite beyond Lebron
James because Aaron Judge is a rookie participated in the
home Run derby, and Lebron James after fourteen NBA season
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still hasn't participated in his first Slam dunk contest. And Lebron,
what happened? Where were you when we needed you? And
this is my theory and I think it's the true theory.
Lebron dreaded being on that solo stage against a potentially
hot opponent who had come up with some shocking new
Slam dunk move and captivated the crowd. Um. Look, I
(30:32):
agree actually with a lot of what Skip is saying here,
and then I think he just takes it kind of
that step way too far at the end where he's
like he's worried about the hot dunker doing the Dunkey's
never seen. It was a mistake in Lebron james career
the first five years in the NBA to not being
the dunk contest and you could say, well, yeah, but
(30:52):
that's not his thing. Then why did he wear Michael
Jordan's number? Like Michael Jordan was a great score, was
a great player. But his first commercial and you know,
dunking and the sound of an airplane in the background,
it was like Nike Flight. And he first burst onto
the scene really in the Dunk Contest and then in
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his second year in the NBA playoffs against the Boston
Celtics when he had forty nine and sixty three and
back to back games. But he was he was the great.
He was the greatest big competition dunker we've seen. Like
remember back then, they weren't allowed like now, they weren't
allowed to miss dunks. To give this one dunk of
competition and he won all those competitions he was in,
(31:35):
so I think it was a mistake. Do I think
that Lebron didn't do it because of a hot dunker. No.
I think he did it because or didn't do it
because he probably felt like there was more for him
to lose than it was for him to gain. But
that sounds like a decision made by other people, or
if you're a competitor, you're like, look, I'm gonna go
win the dunk contest. Anyway, it shouldn't matter. I actually
(31:59):
do think and as much as look for are and judge,
you can fail in the home run Derby and nobody cares.
Steph Curry failed a couple of times in the the
NBA three point Shooting Contest and nobody cares. The dunk contest.
There is more pressure, There is more focused than the
home run derby and the three point shooting contest. But
I also think that pressure burst pipes. So if you
(32:22):
don't have it in you, and you know you don't
have it in you, you don't go do it. I'm
I'm still stunned he didn't, But now we've gotten past
the point of no return. He shouldn't be in a
Dunk Contest. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Doug gott Leaves Show weekdays at three pm Easter Noon Pacific.
Much has been made about the dangers of playing football,
to the point that some parents have bemoaned letting their
children even play Pop Warner. However, a study from JM.
(32:45):
A neurology, players up to the high school level are
not at risk get long term cognitive or mental damage.
The question that studies seeks to answers, does playing high
school football have a statistically and clinically significantly adverse association
with cognitive impairment and depression at sixty five years of age?
In order to answer that question, the piece goes on,
(33:07):
the study was conducted among about four thousand men who
averaged sixty four point four years of age and utilized
the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study among men who graduated high school
in nineteen fifty seven. According to the study, there was
no statistic or clinical significant harmful association between playing football
and high school and increased impairment or depression later in
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life on average. In essence, men based upon the study
that JM. A neurology who played high school football did
not experience cognitive issues later in life. Okay, this the
piece goes on to say, like, look, this was high
school football played sixty years ago, and so it's very
very different. What it points to is something that I
(33:50):
believe I have said before on radio, but if you
haven't listened here, it is high school football is in danger.
Football is dangerous. We know this football, especially UM at
a high level, but football probably at any level, especially
with helmets and shoulder paths, but especially the helmets, Football
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increases your risk of brain damage. It just does. Like
there's you can we can argue about what percentage of
increase there is, but if you play football at a
high level, you're increasing your risk of brain damage. That
doesn't mean you're absolutely getting brain damage, but you're substantially
(34:34):
increasing your risk. And while this study does not offer
up any proof that high school football, high school football
can increase your risk of brain damage, all it takes
is a couple of to study. Here, a study there,
(34:54):
a UM somebody to have depression, have et trace it
back to only playing high school football. Sue have others
joined the suit making a class action lawsuit, and states
are scared that look, states are running in a deficit
in most places anyway, they don't have they don't have
(35:18):
the pockets and their insurance doesn't have the pockets to
cover too much litigation. And at some point, if it
gets too messy and if it gets too deep, they'll
just say, like, all right, the hell with it, We're
not doing high school football because we can't get it insured.
That day's not here and the study doesn't prove it.
But the day is coming. The day is coming. Uh,
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my guess would be, this is just a guess it's
in the next twenty years. Because if you look, we
didn't have any of these studies talking about pro football
five years ago, ten years ago, none of them or
none that at least that became public. Now you have
so many different stories go public. You have college football studies.
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College football at least can protect itself because um, they
have greater resources and endowments to pay things to go away. Uh.
They also you're having players sign up for you know,
with basically with contra the university to play football. It
becomes something that they do in order to or in
(36:26):
a scholarship, as opposed to a high school football player
who's just trying to perform an athletic event to be
cool with his high school. That's that's still my guess.
I still think high school football is very very much
in danger, very much in danger, and that doesn't mean
imminent danger.
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