August 3, 2017 • 46 mins
Doug argues Colin Kaepernick's girlfriend is doing far more harm than help based on what she's been doing on social media. He explains why it is not surprising at all for Patriots QB Tom Brady to still be great even considering his age. Plus 2-time Pro Bowl running back Robert Smith joins the show and gives his thoughts on Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott's off the field issues.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio, Boom of America. Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
Sports Radio, Coming from you, coming to you from the
City of Angels as we await word on what happened
in Miami earlier today news and the Dolphins to come
(00:24):
and we will wait in a second. Hold on, you're
supposed to be a journalist. You can't speculate on what
you I wonder, Hey, I wonder if Ryan Tannehill tours
a c L today. You're not, because Ryan Tannehill sprained
his m c L and a c L last year.
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By the way, a sprain is a partial tear. I'm
not sure I'm gonna you guys actually know that, Like
the degrees of sprain is how severe the tear is. Hey,
there are torn fibers as part of the sprain. Hyper
extended is when it's the stretched. So Ryan Tannehill, Okay,
a guy who sprained his knee last year, scrambled to
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his right non contact, seemed to plant and then dove
to the ground writhing in pain. And because I've seen
other quarterbacks like Sam Bradford coming off a torn a
c L have the exact same move in the regular
season against the Panthers. And because Ryan Tannehill we thought,
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we thought he tore his knee last year, only he
didn't tear it severely enough to have it surgely repaired.
We are wondering, oh, speculating, watch out, Jeff Passon's gonna
call me in. How dare I maybe, just maybe Ryan
Tannehill tore his A c L today? I'm a journalist.
(01:51):
Where are your facts? Gottlieb. I'm a journalist when I
perform journalistic duties. That's the way when I tell you,
when I break stories, I need two sources. I know
the way it works. When I talk on radio, I'm
like you, only more educated than you, not as educated
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as some people on the scene. And we talk about
sports Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. So here's what happens.
Ryan Tannehill hurts his knee. We don't know how bad
it is. We speculate that he may have torn his
A c L. We wonder if Colin Kaepernick may get
that call. And then we look at Twitter this morning
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and Nessa Nitty, who is a New York City She's
on New York City Radio on hotte is the popular
FM uh FM station nationally syndicated. This is in all caps,
nationally syndicated radio show, MTV Girl Code and host after
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shows for teen Mom. Her snapchat is Nessa on air right.
That's the girlfriend of Colin Kaepernick. That's the woman who
we were told is Uh. Is Uh super opinioned and
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very involved in social issues, so much so that Colin
Kaepernick has only become socially active, socially conscious since they
started dating. Um it's remember that last year this time
when Colin Kaepernick was beaten out by Blaine Gabbert. That
did happen? Who's coming off of surgery and people said
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he can't maintain weight, he was too thin, he was
too frail. That's because he was a vegan. He became
a vegan because she's a vegan. They began dating in
July of two thousand and fifteen, went public with a
relationship in February of two thousand sixteen. She tweeted out
a meme two pictures, one of Ray Lewis and Steve
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Bush Addie with um D Django Django unchained photo as well.
And the idea is that at some point that there's
the slave master slave ultimately you get yours. You can
draw a million parallels from from a picture. Now, she
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doesn't directly say exactly what who Steve Bashati is, but
it's not exactly an endearing likeness, right if you compare
the two photos. The point is and then you know
there's other tweets that are out there. The point is this.
Jason Whitlock said it on Speak for Yourself. You said
it on TV as well, and I was in a
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little bit of denial about it. But you know what,
He's right. The people that think they're helping Colin Kaepernick
get a job are killing him from getting a job. Yes,
Gazelle bunged In did and this is happy forty birthday
to Tom Brady. She did say something about the wide receivers.
You know, I cannot catch the battle as well. Remember
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the Super Bowl when they lost to the Giants and
she was going into the elevator and she was she
was ticked right. Wes Welker dropped the ball on third
down that went through his hands. It was a tough catch,
to be completely fair, God gouts it. But we have
not heard a word about anyone else on his team
from Gizell bunched in since that's because right chevens you mad? Which, Hey,
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if you stick a microphone in front of my wife
when I get off a TV set or after I
got done with the game, or anybody's parent or whatever,
they're all gonna my baby is great that somebody else
screwed it up. That's what wives, That's what girlfriends do. Look,
I talked to three NFL guys yesterday and they all
said the same thing. The problem isn't hiring running um,
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isn't hiring Colin Kaepernick. It's firing him. There's a good
portion of people that like him in the NFL as
a person mixed as a starting player, but like him.
I don't love him, but like him. But just the
idea that anything you do can be judged on the
is it social, is it about is it about race?
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Is about the protest or is it about how good
he is? Then you factor in Kaepernick hurting himself with
his Fidel Castro t shirt last year. Fidel Castro not
exactly beloved in the Cuman community in Miami. Cuban community
biggest in the United States in Miami. So look, we
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don't know how bad Tanna Hills hurt. We do the
sports radio thing and hope for the best, but expect
the worst and let the Colin Kaepernick, would he go
to Miami. Speculation begin and the answer or at least
the answer to Baltimore, like, she just closed the door
on Baltimore. That's what she did. Whether the door wasn't
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was was open. Anyway, whatever you do your your potential
future employer, you don't liken him to a slave owner
or to anybody any anyone really from Django Unchanged, unchanged.
Just just stay off social media. Let him get a job, which,
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by the way, is all ray Lewis was saying. Ray
Lewis might not have articulated it well enough. He may
have said, you stay in your lane, you don't say
anything and just do your job that gives you a
chance to do all the other things you want to do.
Could have articulated it better, but the fact is this
is kind of what he's talking about. Don't make it
about anything other than football, and just tell somebody you're
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there to play football. But instead he's got his nationally
syndicated radio show host girlfriend tweeting things out that can
be perceived, even if her intention wasn't to be so
can be perceived as negative towards Steve Basotti, who was
the owner of the Baltimore Ravens future boss. Two things.
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People don't want to be called stupid and racist. I mean,
do you do you think for one second that Bhatti
is sitting there going, you know what, let's do it.
Like Joe flat Hill probably doesn't want to back up
like this. He's better than Ryan Mallett, but you know what,
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you know what, let's do it. Let's go all in. Yeah,
at first I was out, but now I'm in. So
people don't get jobs for a myriad of reasons. One
reason that I remember this about Nolan Richardson right, and
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I've said this about Art Briles, Like, there's a myriad
of reasons Art Briles will never coach again in college football.
But the biggest reason is you cannot sue your former employer,
especially after you're after you sign a non disclosure agreement
which which says I'm not going to sue, and then
you sue like you sue your former employer. Nobody's gonna
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hire you because they're not worried about hiring you. It's
hiring you that press conference and trying to explain yourself
that's one day, that's one month, that might go away.
And I don't think Briles uh and the continuing errors,
even though he is never too allege to have sexually
assaulted anybody, enough of his players appear to have and
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there was some form of cover up taking place. But
the point is that the hiring is bad enough. The
idea that we can't fire you, that's the real reason,
the real reason that Brians will never get another job.
It's the exact same thing with Colin Kaepernick, who criminally
hasn't done anything wrong. But the fact is that there's
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the thought, if we hire you, all right, there'll be
some guys in the locker room that don't agree with
your stands. They'll probably be a starting quarterback that thinks
you're gonna get too much attention. There's gonna be a
lot of guys in the team that like it, a
lot of guys team like you know what, here's somebody
who put himself out there, who stood up for what
he believed in, and we think he's He's taken a
lot of heat that a lot of us would love
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to take. The problem becomes if you cut Colin Kaepernick,
if you that's being fired if you fire Colin Kaepernick,
even because he's not good enough as a football player,
it becomes more than about football. Did you fire did
you get rid of him? Because of political pressure, because
of corporate pressure, because of race? And then you run
the risk of losing the entire locker room, not just
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a small percentage of guys that didn't like his stands
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Today is Tom Brady's birthday. And look, we've obviously had
the discussion about athlete longevity and Adrian Beltrey's success and
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his three thousand hit throughout the week, and people have
you know, people have brought up like, why don't you
talk about Tom Brady. He's playing as well at thirty
nine last year as he has um when he was
in his early thirties. And you know, the Brady defender
will go and say, like, look at how much he's
changed his diet. Uh, the dude doesn't even drink beer anymore.
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Not that he was an alcoholic, but he's I mean,
his he is completely in totally focused on nutrition, which
and he's a hard worker, which is all they say
about they've they've alwa said about professional baseball players, um
even past the ones that used before, right, they were
they just worked harder, they ate better. So as much
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as his defense is defensible, the difference is this. Look
look around the NFL. Look around the NFL. Did you
realize Eli Manning has never missed a start since he
became a starting quarterback in the NFL? You realize that
we had Philip rivers on since two thousand and six
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has not missed a start, not one. No one paid Manning.
Remember you heard his neck, But with that is the exception,
Like he didn't miss that was the only time he
missed until they pulled him when he was forty years
old coming up the next surgery. Couldn't feel his fingertips.
Like you're talking about sustained longevity, Aaron Rodgers. The only
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time he ever missed the start was concussion. Yam Newton
missed start last year because of concussion. Before that it
was because he was in a car accident. The point
is that they have we we've completely changed how the
quarterback position is able to be maintained and they're smart
about it. They're smart about it. It's like, do you
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guys buy or least cars? Ramast you buy your car
your leasure. We have one lease and one by so
we're doing both. I do both, little both perfect, Okay,
who drives the bought car? Who drives the least? I
drive the bot car. Suzanne drives the lease car. My
wife um again, and she drives the lease car because
she doesn't drive as many miles. Yes, that's correct. I
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drive here and work. It's a lot farther than what
she's doing around the area. So my wife, she likes
to buy a car because she does not want to
ever say she wants like she just she just sold
her car, just did it. She had it for seven years,
put nearly a hundred thousand miles in the car, which
is not a ton of miles, you know, per year,
but it's a lot of miles for any car. Her
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point is she always takes care of her car, and
she'll she'll sign up for one of those deals where
it's like fifty dollars a month you can get it
washed as many times you want to get washed. And
her point is like, look, I'm gonna take care of
my car, take care of as well as I can,
because it's because it's gonna have to last me. She also,
I didn't grow up with much, but she grew up
with nothing. My wife grew up in a single wide,
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and so she takes immaculate care of her clothes. I've
always gotten free sneakers, so I take I have. I
have a hundred of show pair of sneakers. I don't
take particularly good care of them. I've taken them for granted. Well,
the NFL takes for granted running backs replaceable uh two
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back system, three back systems. The way the NFL is
played now, it's really hard to establish a great running
game because you're doing so much from the shotgun. Meanwhile,
they understand there's a limited supply of quarterbacks. Limited supply quarterbacks.
I mean even you look out at the top three
prospects for next year. And I was talking with a
couple of guys about this yesterday. What do you think
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of Sam Donald? And he's great, but you know, look,
he's not refined. His motions a little long, brings the
ball down, he makes plays happen, but boy is a
lot of danger, a lot of a lot of risk,
and the things he does. Is he the top prospect?
I guess, But like the lot, you've only started ten games.
What about Josh Rosen, like super smart but had a
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body like a teenager during his freshman season, got hurt
during his sophomore season. We don't People don't know about
the overall arm strength, know about the acumen, but part
of the acumen is like he's a really smart kid.
But there's a difference between being really really smart and canny.
Actually process the information and play through it. Like there's
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just not enough, not enough data to know. What about
the kid from Wyoming, Ah great arm, great arm, good body,
good athlete, complete his passes? Those are the three best.
Those are like three that locked top five picks next year.
The point is there's a limited supply of quarter but
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there's not just like oh that guy, we'll go get
another one next year. Like No, you gotta build the
whole thing around you gotta you have to act like
you're buying that car. You have to support it, you
have to clean it, you have to care for you
have to change the oil, you have to lubricate the brakes.
But you have to do all these maintenance things. Do
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all these things and maintenance, because you gotta act like
there's not another one coming down, right. The NFL has
done that, with the exception we point out Cam Newton,
maybe Ben Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson. He doesn't get tiny, he
gets hit, he doesn't get hurt. They've done as much
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as they possibly can to wrap these guys in bubble wrap.
Nobody gets hitting practice. You can't hit them high, you
can't hit them below the knee, and they do so
because they know they've got to get as much juice
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at three pm Easter noon Pacific. Sheldon has done some
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dumb things. Good football player. He said this to miniche
Metta in regards to Odell Beckham June now O b J.
Of course, um place for the Giants, Sheldon place for
the Jets. He says, honestly, I understand why he said that, saying,
you want to be the highest paid player in the NFL,
and honestly he should be because the NFL makes a
lot of money off him. He can pretty you can
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pretty much throw the ball anywhere in his direction and
he'll catch it. If this guy's got it done day
in and day out, he should be the highest pay
You sell t shirts jerseys off his name, So why
not due to the superstar bad quarterbacks? It's a lot.
It's a lot. So if there's more bad quarterbacks getting paid,
why not wide receivers. The bitterness over quarterbacks that aren't
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good getting paid is one completely overstated, two completely uneducated,
and three so incredibly soft and bitter. Right, just is
I mean, truth be told? Like Ryan Fitzpatrick was overpaid
last year by the New York Jets may we may
twelve million dollars four team million dollars something like that.
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He held out, held out, held out. They had to uh,
they eventually had to pay him. But the year before
he threw one touchdown passes, he wasn't making any money.
He was wildly underpaid. So it does kind of work out.
And the fact is there's only like good quarterbacks on Earth.
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Sorry you played the wrong position. Sorry you didn't win
the genetic lottery. Being six ft two to six ft
five and able to throw a football like that's just
the way it works. This doesn't happen in any other sport.
Like football players are so insecure and so stupid. Just
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the sheer volume of touches tell you all you need
to know, Like Odell Beckham Jr. Is not the most
I've said this for it is the easiest thing to
anybody who says, like, oh, Beckham Junior, he should be
the highest paid player. The greatest season in the history
of the position at wide receiver was Calvin Johnson, Right,
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Calvin Johnson season when his team won four games. Whereas
when a quarterback has a great season Tom Brady fifty
touchdown passes, Peyton Manning fifty touchdown passes, Aaron Rodgers last year,
all those teams only make the playoffs. But our favorites
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to make a Super Bowl. Matt Ryan great year last year,
NFL MVP candidate. Did they make the playoffs? Yeah? Do
they made the Super Bowl. If a quarterback has a
great year, your team is gonna have a great year.
If a quarterback has a bad year, your team is
gonna have a bad year. There isn't The correlation. Doesn't
mean that a wide receiver isn't important, but it's not
close to being the most important player on the football field.
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Not close. And there is a perception that will you
throw it to him anywhere and he's gonna catch it,
And it sure seems like this, and you're you're talking
to and Odell Beckham Jr. Fan. It's my son's a
uper fan, huge fan um. And you look at his
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stats and the guy is he's obscenely talented. But he
was thrown to a hundred and sixty nine times last year.
He caught it a hundred and one times. Sheldon Richardson
is not a smart fellow, okay, And I know this
because of some of the things he's done off the
football field and some of the things he said. He's talented,
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not a dummy, but he's not. That's he's not smart.
And the idea that every time he throw it to
him he catches it, like are you only watching highlights?
He was thrown to a hundred sixty nine times, he
caught it a hundred one times. Now, I will grant
you that Eli probably is at fault for a portion
of those misfires, but he simply doesn't catch it every
time he's thrown too. And he's not the most important player.
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He had five more catches than the previous season and
played one more game because the previous year. Remember you
got suspended is the Josh Norman thing? Remember that? So
you had five more catches, and the New York Giants
made the playoffs this year for the first time in
like five years. So are those five more catches the
reason they made the playoffs? No, the defense was better,
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ELI was better. They made better decisions at the end
of the game because their coaching staff was better. Period.
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I've been listening to my friend Rob Parker. He's been
filling in on local radio here on five seven Am
in Los Angeles. He joins the show here on the
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Doug Gottlieb Show. I like, I don't know how good
they are. I mean, obviously adding you, Darvish makes them
prohibitably better. But this is about as good of I've
seen a baseball team play collectively as a group of
players play, maybe in my lifetime. Uh as as a
guy that traveled around watched a lot of baseball, How
do you contextualize what we're seeing from the Dodgers of
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the last couple months. Absolutely, League thanks for having me on.
It's it's a it's a magical season. Anybody who's paid
any attention. And I've seen the comebacks and seen guys
step up their first major league at bad you know,
in the first major league games and just deliver for
this team has been incredible to watch. I've enjoyed going
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to Dodger Stadium in the press box, in the stands.
Just just watch a team like this. There was the
the two thousand one, uh Seattle Managers that one and
sixteen games and did not win the World Series, got
knocked out. I think it's two thousand one by the Yankees. Uh.
That team was really good. Great. Uh the eight or
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ninety nine Yankees won a lot of games as well.
I mean there have been a couple of teams that
have been red hot like this. Doesn't guarantee you're gonna
win anything, but right now, the Dodgers are fun to watch.
I tacked them before the season started. I picked them
to beat the Red Sox in the World Series. So
I'm still feeling good about my pick. And you know what,
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and them getting you darbishish was was the move that
they had to make. The needed to add a right
handed guy. And even though Doug he hasn't pitched that
well in his previous eight starts, you know, his his
record and his history is that, you know, this guy
knows what he's doing, has had a lot of success
and probably could get the bugs kink worked out of
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them and contribute to that team. They just need him
to make four starts in the postseason and give them
a chance to win the World Series. Four good starts
and the Dodges will be in good shape. Rob Parker
joining us on the Doug Gallup Show. You you you kind
of hit the trifecta, right. You've been on TV, uh,
you hosted radio shows national and local, you're hosting one
now obviously Forest and Fox Sports Radio. Um, and you've
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also you've also been a print journalist. Okay, so earlier
this week actually Monday, I will actually Sunday, I'm watching
In Monday. I discussed the fact that, um, that we've
been duped before by baseball players, and I watched one
that had a historically significant moment. Adrian Beltre gets his
three thousand hit on Sunday, and I wondered, aloud, man,
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he's thirty eight him last year he had a great year.
His production hasn't waned a matter of facts, production has
been more than steady, maybe even better as he's gotten
older athletes aren't generally like fine ones. I drew the
conclusion that you know, I'm allowed to I'm allowed to think,
I'm allowed to wonder. He has a Dominican background. We've
seen a high number of major and minor league players
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come out of the Dominican Republic. Has been studies done
about how rife their baseball culture is with performance dancing
drugs UM. The Rangers organizationally have had have have had
players that have tested positive in the past, Like I
am I crazy? My wrong? Is that? Is there something
wrong with me to to utter that on national radio?
I think it's unfair, And Doug, I think you're a
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fair guy. But you've got to be really careful just
to throw that out there without having some sort of proof.
And it doesn't mean that you're your way in left
field or you know what I mean, Like, I get
where you're going. But if you're not going to do that,
if you're not gonna question and I'm gonna say it,
you're not gonna question Peyton Manning at his age when
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he played even with the al Jazero report and all
the other stuff that went out, And if you're not
going to question Tom Brady at forty years old and
how well he's played and how much there are use
and h H in the end, if NFL has been
heart and documented, if you're not going to and first
of all that has been done, there was speculation about
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Peyton Manning. Okay, so let's let's not act like we didn't.
We didn't talk about it. People people did talk about
it wasn't on Fox Sports radios and a different network
at the time, but we did talk about it. But
that there there was at least grounds for speculation with
the al Jazero report, which was deemed to be UH
deemed to be uh lack of credibility. But until the
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man follow lawsuit against him, the Zone al Jazero cosequestion,
I'm is wondering. Okay, so sweet, So again, you haven't
but we haven't had an NFL player, we haven't had
a quarterback test positive PDS. We have one? Is there a?
Is there is there any anybody? But does that mean
it's not going on? I didn't say that. I didn't
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say and I didn't say you didn't say that Adrian
and I didn't say that Adrian Beltray. Absolutely, they're not
making any accusations. I'm I'm simply doing what I think
people do at home when they watch TV. That's kind
of the essence of what sports talk radio is, right.
We know, I get it and and don't get me.
I'm not saying that you're the worst guy in the world.
Oh my god, I can't believe you said that. No,
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I get it, but I'm just saying sometimes you gotta
be just be fair from the standpoint that I'm like,
no matter what I would think for if if I did,
I just don't think I would be able to say
that without feeling like I'm doing Adrian Beltrey disservice somewhat
in that I don't have anything. I don't care if
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you plays for the Rangers. I don't care if he's Dominican.
I just don't have anything other than you're connecting dots.
It doesn't mean that he's involved. Even though other people
who look and sound and play water saw on the
same uniform were involved, it doesn't mean that he is.
If here's here's the like, it's fair to say there's
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been a lot of Dominican players have come over that
have been older than they were listed. Correct, So if
I want, if I wondered if he was older than listed,
would would that be would that be the wrong thing?
I mean, you could make the case that that they
found I just I mean, it's the same thing with
like a Chinese Chinese swimmer, Chinese gymnast beats our gymnastic Olympics.
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What do we think why because Chinese athletes are doping
or the Russians doping that we're only so we're only
allowed to do it with people who don't compete in
the United States, or we're only allowed to not do
it with baseball players. Like why, I don't mean basically, no, no,
this this is just this here we go hear me out,
Doug God leave. You're an athlete or whatever, and you compete,
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not just just just roll of dive with you go
with me. Adrian Beltrey is clean and it's been said
about him. How would you feel, seriously that the people
are throwing stuff out at you and it's just not
the case, and that they painted you into a corner
because you fit the profile. It's it's it's like I
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want to say racial profer but it's a profiling. That's
what it is, without having any proof. If you had somebody,
if he was in Consaco's book, which he wasn't, or
if he was somebody, if he was something, if he
was on if he was on the if he was
on the Mitchell Report, you oh three, which we don't
know the actual list. If he was on the Mitchell Report,
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would that do anything for you? Sure? That would that
would that would give you, that would give you more?
So then then does that mean I'm allowed to think
wonder about David Ortiz who was definitely was was in
the Metro. We we do not. I've said it all
the time. I don't know. If he gets a pause
for whatever reason, he gets a pause, and he was
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just a positive it was it was released, his name
was released. He just a positive and and and for
some reason he gets a pause, and everybody's cool with that,
and it's fine. Mony thing is be fair to everybody.
If he gets a pause, then then everybody should get
a pass. If you gonna, if you're gonna don't get
the bad guys, then you can't. It can't be both ways.
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One way. I agree with you. I don't give people up.
My whole thing is. I don't think baseball players have
earned the right yet to get pass this. I just
don't And and maybe maybe I'm wrong for that, but
but that's that's the way kind of my mind I've been.
I've been duped too many times. I believed Ryan Braun
when he looked at the camera in the eye and
said he didn't do it. I believe Raphael Palmero and
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he said, I never ever did. I did. I bought it.
I was like, why would they do it? Look at
their bodies? No chance? And then they did it. Um.
Rob Parker joining us on the Doug Gotlips Show. All right,
let's go to football. Do you see what Colin Kaepernick's
girlfriend tweeted out, Yes, we're emotional, fair to say or not? Listen?
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Hold on, now, listen. You're characterizing all women the same, baby. Huh.
I think you've got to be fair about you have
to be fair. Let me take it back. She's talking.
She's talking about the man she loves, who she thinks
being I think this makes him unhirable, like he was
barely hirable to begin with. But the idea that Steve
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Baschatti may have been thoroughly vetting whether or not they
bring him aboard that she's gonna tweet, She's gonna tweet
that out. I think other NFL teams like dude, forget
about whether or not we hire him. We can't ever
fire him because we're gonna be called racist if we
cut him. No thanks. It's a bad look. I agree
with you, it's a bad look. But but you also
have to be fair from the standpoint that it's not
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him and it's her. And if I'm uh Colin Kaepernick,
I would just have to say, you know, and it's
happening before. We've seen wild girlfriends do stuff and say stuff.
Don't remember when Tom Brady after they lost the Super
Bowl blame the received wife grisel at the elevator, blame
the receivers that they could catch a ball. Do you
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know what I mean? No, No No, we would played that earlier,
absolutely right. Was that Tom Brady talking that his wife talk?
I understand, but this is this is one to which
she's a she's got a syndicated radio show. Um, and
you know, look, his his protests is a hot button
issue and all the things that surround him take away
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from whatever level of success he's had on the football field.
I mean I just I think it makes him when
when you tweet out of meme that likens the owner
of the Baltimore Ravens to a slave owner, jangle and
change like that. That's that's more than just like I can't,
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I can't my husband can catch the ball and throw
the ball at the same time. Like. That's a lot worse,
isn't it. Right now, I get it, the imagery is
not right, not fair. It's a bad look, there's no
doubt about it. But here's my issue with the NFL.
Little simple other guys kneeled down, raised fists whatever. Those
guys are still in the league. All of those guys
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haven't been said. I get it that Kaepernick was the
face of the protests, but those guys are still working.
Nobody stopped to buy to say that they weren't gonna
buy tickets or or or cancel this season tickets because
those guys are on roster. So that's number one. Number two.
I do remember the NFL. And you tell me if
this is not so a social issue or or just
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something else, but I do remember when the NFL took
away the Super Bowl from the state of Arizona. They
never have another Super Bowl as long as they didn't
have them want Luther King Holiday. The people of Arizona spoke,
they voted and said they didn't want it, right, and
the NFL took away to Super Bowl and they did
another vote, and what a surprise, the people of Arizona
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voted for one with the King's Holiday. Is that not social?
What does it have to do with football? If the
people of Arizona had spoken, whose places that for the
NFL to make social commentary or or or or decisions
based upon social commentary exactly? I think it's different because
this is one player who affect who they are scared
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of affecting their bottom. Honestly, I believe it's this. I
don't even think it's as much about about the fans
as much as it's about the players in that this
he has the he has the ability because of who
he is and what he's become, to split a part
of locker room. And if you don't play him, or
if you cut him, if you have the potential there
to ruin your locker room. And that's what everybody's scared of.
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I don't want to lose my I want to lose
the locker room on a player. Who's not he's not
good enough to win me a super Bowl. I think
that's what it is. Yeah, but there's a lot of
guys in the in the league who have jobs second
and third string who can't win you anything either. Yeah,
but they also they also can't split up. They can't
call as a fissure in the locker room. And I
think he's actually I think I agree with that, And
I'm not saying when when they sign him it will
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cause a fissure. I think that if they don't play
him or if they cut him. Now Someway, wait, did
you cut him because of who he is and and
all the different media stuff and because you know, did
the police pressure you to to cut him? Or did
you cut him because he wasn't good enough? Like you,
you run the risk of losing a locker room. And
a lot of these teams are just not in the
place to which you're like, we we can do that,
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Orton and and look like I don't think he was
going to Baltimore because Joe Flacco wouldn't want that, wouldn't
want a guy that talented to be his backup. You
don't want a talented backup quart up. We don't want
any quarterback controversy when you're starting in the NFL. You know,
I get that, but I just think that he should
have a place in the NFL. He's he's good enough
to be a backup quarterback somewhere. And I guess if
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teams don't want to deal with the other stuff, there's
all kinds of other issues of gods, with the domestic
violence and drunk driving and all kinds of other stuff
that somehow some white people overlooked that stuff, but have
an issue. He didn't break any laws, he was he
he was doing what what has afforded him as an
American citizen and his rights. I just I think it's
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it's been totally miscast, and I think the owners I'm
not totally surprised, but I'm still looking for the NFL
to have a branch Ricky for one of them. Maybe
is Isai Knewsome or somebody who stands up and just says,
this just sys isn't right, and you know what, we'll
deal with it the same way that branch Rickey had
to deal with it with the Dodgers, and and the
whole idea that that the teams had said that they
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would they wouldn't play if Jackie Robinson played. They threatened
the Dodgers that they weren't going to even continue to
play them at all. And you know what happened. It
worked itself out. And I'm not saying he's Jackie Robinson,
but I'm just saying I'm looking for somebody in the
NFL to be branch Ricky, to stand up and just
do what's right. You deal with the other stuff. If
you do what's right, if you don't have to worry
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about Doug, how it looks and what people think. If
you you put him on the team, he doesn't play
well enough and you cut them, people will accept that.
If he hasn't played well, if he goes out there
and wins nine games in a row, people will accept that.
I don't think it's as tricky as people make it.
You produce, you stick around. You don't produce, you get caught.
That's how it is. You can hear Rob Parker on
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Saturdays alongside Mark Willard at one pm Eastern time right
here on Fox Sports Radio. Rob Parker, Rob appreciate having
you on. Doug My man. You're fair, dog, You're fair.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Doug gott
Leaps show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Robert
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Smith joined us now on Fox Sports Radio. What's your
sense of Tom Brady? He he missed the first four
games because of suspension. That probably helped him be fresher
late in the year, But we didn't see any statistical decline.
Is it it's reasonable to think at some point he's
going to decline. It happens kind of quickly, won't it. Yeah,
you would think so. And you know, I think unlike
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you know, what we saw with Manning, and as you
mentioned Withdrew Brees, you know, there hasn't been that prior
history of a shoulder issue and and so if you know,
lacking lacking that or some sort of other problem in
you know, whatever they call the kmeetic chain, if there's
not something in his leg or his hip or this
knee that would you know, that would hinder his ability
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to to release the ball as quickly as he had
in the past. If there aren't any injuries like that,
I don't think it's I don't think it's just going
to be an off the cliff kind of thing with him.
Especially the way that guys trained right now, start respect
any huge drop off this year, because we didn't really
see any declined during the course of the year, even
having missed the first four Dames. You are two times
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I'll pro Um. I'm wondering about Ladanian Thomason, who's getting
inducted into the Pro Football of Fame. Um. Obviously, as
a guy grew up watching the Chargers, I have my
own opinion. But from running back to running back, what
was it that he did differently or special that allowed
him to take kind of that next step from being
one of the great players in the league to Hall
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of Famer. You're one of the great players of all time.
What if you described Ladanian Thominson's game, how do you
describe it? Well? I think you did everything that a
great running back does. I mean, you have great vision
and they had a tremendous ability and knowledge of the game.
Follow his blockers extremely well. Uh. He was built in
a way where he was low to the ground, although
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you know, I wasn't one of those guys, Um, but
maybe that you know, maybe that allowed him really to
take to take more of the hits and deliver more
of the hits because you know, when you're more compact,
it's easier to really get behind your pads, meaning your
body uh is shaped in a way that you can
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you can get your weight behind you and when people
are coming to tackle you, that's pretty much all they
see is a helmet and some shoulder bed. So uh,
he did a tremendous job though really after initial contact,
keeping the legs turning good spin and good bursts too,
So you can bind all those elements and plus the longevity,
and that's you know that that can be no pun
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intended to hit or miss with with football, especially with
running backs, combined to make him, you know, tremendous, tremendous talent.
Um Um. Adrian Peterson's in New Orleans this year. Um,
he goes from a dome to another dome. But we've
seen him have multiple knee injuries last year. Look, the
offensive line wasn't particularly good and uh, they didn't have time.
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Bradford completed seventy percent of his passes, but they're all
right around the line of scrimmage. And so even when
he came back, he probably came back too soon. Couldn't
run the football. What what's like what's reasonable at his age?
With that offense to expect from Adrian Peterson, Well, I
don't know that reasonable and the Adrian Peterson really go
in the same sentence. Quite honestly. I remember when he
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first got drafted. Some of the guys, you know, that's
how how long ago it was. Some of the guys
that I still played with were still in the league
and still on that team. So I remember talking to
Matt Burke during training camp and he said, I've never
anything like us, and this guy is an absolute freak.
And of course, you know we had both played with
with Randy Moss, so you know we had we had
seen our our shaff of you know, physical freaks. But
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his endurance, his strength, Uh, and I think you know,
his his ability to recover and home um rush for
two thousand yards after after there in a cl so um,
I don't think there's anything reasonable in that offense. Uh.
You know where they are going to throw the ball
around the lot and where the where the defensive backs
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are going to have to pack off the line. I'm
excited to see it. I think he's gonna I think
he's gonna do more things past the age of thirty
than any running back that we've ever seen Robert Smith
joining us on the Dougoux I want to college football
in a second. Obviously played at Ohio State, so did
Zeke Elliott. Um, everybody I talked, I want to talk
to you about him. You said he's going to be
a star at the next level because you know all
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three phases, running, pass, pro and catching. He's tremendous at
um and he did not disappoint year's He's an unbelievable talent.
There's a bunch of little things off the field that
feel like little things. Um, what what's your level of
cause for concern knowing as much as you know about
one playing in the NFL and two Zeke Elliott. Yeah,
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I'm I'm a little concerned, honestly. Um, you know one
or two of those incidents, and you think that the
guys going to figure it out, especially in this day
and age time. I mean, it was kind of free
for all to a degree, even if even in our day, uh,
you know, at the at the start of the Internet,
you know, you started to started started to get a
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few emails that would leak into the coaching staff that
might have been a concern, But in this day of
of social media, you think guys have just got to know.
I mean you you are always being watched. Uh, and
everything that you do, everything that you say, can be
transmitted around the world. Uh, you know with with one
click of the send one one hit of the send button.
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So you got to be careful. And I've just heard
too many things that would make that would lead me
to believe that there's no cause for concern. So I'm
a little bit concerned about it. And you know, I
hope he's got the right people into here right now.
H tell him he's he's got to change some things
because it's uh, it's it's really becoming. All right, you're
gonna be covering, among other things, Big ten football. Big
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ten comes to Fox Sports this year. Super excited for that.
I just I'm wondering, like JT. Barrett's back, and this
time it um, you know, look, this is a team
that last year we thought was maybe a year away
from competing for a national title, got a little bit
exposed in terms of the limitations offensively once they got
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into the College Football Playoff. Their ranked number two, although
part of it is like we just rank Alabama one
because it's Alabama. Um, what's your sense of just how
good this Ohio State team should be. Well, if they
can get the issues on the offensive line straighten out
and they can develop more of a downfield passing game.
I think they're back in the playoffs. But when you
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look at where the problems were a year ago, you
look at that offensive line, you look at I believe
it was six sacks against Penn State, eight sacks against
Michigan that that line gave up. It was a real
issue clearly. Uh. And the combination of play calling, I think,
oh oh, all right, so look see what happens you
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call out play calling and suddenly your cell phone goes
your alma mater? Is that powerful? Well we'll get we'll
get Robert sent back in a second. All right, let's
let's welcome back in Robert Smith, Fox Sports Football analyst
Dog Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Trading. You mentioned the play
calling um for Ohio State and and that that needs
to improve. Kevin Wilson comes in, but uh, and he
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was the run game courts offensive coordinator with Oklahoma. Then,
of course the head coach Indiana fired last year. How
do you think this offense will be different with J. T.
Barrett to Helm and Kevin Wilson calling the plays. Well,
what was the last thing you heard there was of
my best work? It was it was just imagined. You said,
play calling, you know, and they need to improve their
downfield path and then play calling, and then all of
a sudden it was it was irb Meyer cut the
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line on you. Man. It's unbelievable. I'm gonna say it's
the offensive line. Man. You can have all those shiny pieces,
you can have improved play calling, you can have an
experienced quarterback, but if you don't have an offensive line
that can block, that can allow a quarterback to get
the ball downfield. And then you know that some of
it's on the quarterback, some of it's on those receivers
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because they weren't getting the separation that they needed. Uh,
and back doesn't always being better. You've got four offensive
linemen back from a year, but those guys really struggled
at times last year. So I think it's it's it's
really important that those guys develop. You really need to
see a big jump. And we know so much of
offensive line play is how people play together, and so
I think that's gonna be key for Ohio State if
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that offensive line can be back and better play together
more consistently. Combine that with the play calling experienced quarterback,
you're gonna be fine offensively and defensively. Second year in
a row, we out of four stars replacing out of
the secondary. But that is you know that transition can
be can be made a lot easier when you have
an experienced defensive line and made to have that and
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a guy like Nicky posta younger brother of Joey isn't
even on that front four, so that kind of tells
you what kind of talent to have on that defensive line.
They opened up in Indiana. Of course, then they got
Oklahoma at home today with Indiana yeah, Thursday night, which
gives him an extra time to prepare for Oklahoma. Oklahoma
as a new coach, but the same quarterback, and of
course the team that they dominated down in Norman last year.
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You get what Penn State at home, Nebraska on the road,
Michigan on the road, Michigan State at home. You go
to Iowa this year, so there are it is. It's
probably as difficult to Big ten schedule as you can get,
considering who you cross over. Get you know, the two
of the top programs. There's no Wisconsin on the schedule,
which means you potentially play Wisconsin the Big Big Ten
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title game. Robert, look forward to seeing you back on
the TV college football games in the meantime. Take care
of that family, and thanks so much for joining us
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, that's that's Robert Smith.
This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio, Boom of America. Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
Sports Radio, Coming from you, coming to you from the
City of Angels as we await word on what happened
in Miami earlier today news and the Dolphins to come
(00:24):
and we will wait in a second. Hold on, you're
supposed to be a journalist. You can't speculate on what
you I wonder, Hey, I wonder if Ryan Tannehill tours
a c L today. You're not, because Ryan Tannehill sprained
his m c L and a c L last year.
(00:45):
By the way, a sprain is a partial tear. I'm
not sure I'm gonna you guys actually know that, Like
the degrees of sprain is how severe the tear is. Hey,
there are torn fibers as part of the sprain. Hyper
extended is when it's the stretched. So Ryan Tannehill, Okay,
a guy who sprained his knee last year, scrambled to
(01:08):
his right non contact, seemed to plant and then dove
to the ground writhing in pain. And because I've seen
other quarterbacks like Sam Bradford coming off a torn a
c L have the exact same move in the regular
season against the Panthers. And because Ryan Tannehill we thought,
(01:29):
we thought he tore his knee last year, only he
didn't tear it severely enough to have it surgely repaired.
We are wondering, oh, speculating, watch out, Jeff Passon's gonna
call me in. How dare I maybe, just maybe Ryan
Tannehill tore his A c L today? I'm a journalist.
(01:51):
Where are your facts? Gottlieb. I'm a journalist when I
perform journalistic duties. That's the way when I tell you,
when I break stories, I need two sources. I know
the way it works. When I talk on radio, I'm
like you, only more educated than you, not as educated
(02:11):
as some people on the scene. And we talk about
sports Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. So here's what happens.
Ryan Tannehill hurts his knee. We don't know how bad
it is. We speculate that he may have torn his
A c L. We wonder if Colin Kaepernick may get
that call. And then we look at Twitter this morning
(02:33):
and Nessa Nitty, who is a New York City She's
on New York City Radio on hotte is the popular
FM uh FM station nationally syndicated. This is in all caps,
nationally syndicated radio show, MTV Girl Code and host after
(02:54):
shows for teen Mom. Her snapchat is Nessa on air right.
That's the girlfriend of Colin Kaepernick. That's the woman who
we were told is Uh. Is Uh super opinioned and
(03:15):
very involved in social issues, so much so that Colin
Kaepernick has only become socially active, socially conscious since they
started dating. Um it's remember that last year this time
when Colin Kaepernick was beaten out by Blaine Gabbert. That
did happen? Who's coming off of surgery and people said
(03:38):
he can't maintain weight, he was too thin, he was
too frail. That's because he was a vegan. He became
a vegan because she's a vegan. They began dating in
July of two thousand and fifteen, went public with a
relationship in February of two thousand sixteen. She tweeted out
a meme two pictures, one of Ray Lewis and Steve
(03:59):
Bush Addie with um D Django Django unchained photo as well.
And the idea is that at some point that there's
the slave master slave ultimately you get yours. You can
draw a million parallels from from a picture. Now, she
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doesn't directly say exactly what who Steve Bashati is, but
it's not exactly an endearing likeness, right if you compare
the two photos. The point is and then you know
there's other tweets that are out there. The point is this.
Jason Whitlock said it on Speak for Yourself. You said
it on TV as well, and I was in a
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little bit of denial about it. But you know what,
He's right. The people that think they're helping Colin Kaepernick
get a job are killing him from getting a job. Yes,
Gazelle bunged In did and this is happy forty birthday
to Tom Brady. She did say something about the wide receivers.
You know, I cannot catch the battle as well. Remember
(05:04):
the Super Bowl when they lost to the Giants and
she was going into the elevator and she was she
was ticked right. Wes Welker dropped the ball on third
down that went through his hands. It was a tough catch,
to be completely fair, God gouts it. But we have
not heard a word about anyone else on his team
from Gizell bunched in since that's because right chevens you mad? Which, Hey,
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if you stick a microphone in front of my wife
when I get off a TV set or after I
got done with the game, or anybody's parent or whatever,
they're all gonna my baby is great that somebody else
screwed it up. That's what wives, That's what girlfriends do. Look,
I talked to three NFL guys yesterday and they all
said the same thing. The problem isn't hiring running um,
(05:52):
isn't hiring Colin Kaepernick. It's firing him. There's a good
portion of people that like him in the NFL as
a person mixed as a starting player, but like him.
I don't love him, but like him. But just the
idea that anything you do can be judged on the
is it social, is it about is it about race?
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Is about the protest or is it about how good
he is? Then you factor in Kaepernick hurting himself with
his Fidel Castro t shirt last year. Fidel Castro not
exactly beloved in the Cuman community in Miami. Cuban community
biggest in the United States in Miami. So look, we
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don't know how bad Tanna Hills hurt. We do the
sports radio thing and hope for the best, but expect
the worst and let the Colin Kaepernick, would he go
to Miami. Speculation begin and the answer or at least
the answer to Baltimore, like, she just closed the door
on Baltimore. That's what she did. Whether the door wasn't
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was was open. Anyway, whatever you do your your potential
future employer, you don't liken him to a slave owner
or to anybody any anyone really from Django Unchanged, unchanged.
Just just stay off social media. Let him get a job, which,
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by the way, is all ray Lewis was saying. Ray
Lewis might not have articulated it well enough. He may
have said, you stay in your lane, you don't say
anything and just do your job that gives you a
chance to do all the other things you want to do.
Could have articulated it better, but the fact is this
is kind of what he's talking about. Don't make it
about anything other than football, and just tell somebody you're
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there to play football. But instead he's got his nationally
syndicated radio show host girlfriend tweeting things out that can
be perceived, even if her intention wasn't to be so
can be perceived as negative towards Steve Basotti, who was
the owner of the Baltimore Ravens future boss. Two things.
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People don't want to be called stupid and racist. I mean,
do you do you think for one second that Bhatti
is sitting there going, you know what, let's do it.
Like Joe flat Hill probably doesn't want to back up
like this. He's better than Ryan Mallett, but you know what,
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you know what, let's do it. Let's go all in. Yeah,
at first I was out, but now I'm in. So
people don't get jobs for a myriad of reasons. One
reason that I remember this about Nolan Richardson right, and
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I've said this about Art Briles, Like, there's a myriad
of reasons Art Briles will never coach again in college football.
But the biggest reason is you cannot sue your former employer,
especially after you're after you sign a non disclosure agreement
which which says I'm not going to sue, and then
you sue like you sue your former employer. Nobody's gonna
(09:15):
hire you because they're not worried about hiring you. It's
hiring you that press conference and trying to explain yourself
that's one day, that's one month, that might go away.
And I don't think Briles uh and the continuing errors,
even though he is never too allege to have sexually
assaulted anybody, enough of his players appear to have and
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there was some form of cover up taking place. But
the point is that the hiring is bad enough. The
idea that we can't fire you, that's the real reason,
the real reason that Brians will never get another job.
It's the exact same thing with Colin Kaepernick, who criminally
hasn't done anything wrong. But the fact is that there's
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the thought, if we hire you, all right, there'll be
some guys in the locker room that don't agree with
your stands. They'll probably be a starting quarterback that thinks
you're gonna get too much attention. There's gonna be a
lot of guys in the team that like it, a
lot of guys team like you know what, here's somebody
who put himself out there, who stood up for what
he believed in, and we think he's He's taken a
lot of heat that a lot of us would love
(10:22):
to take. The problem becomes if you cut Colin Kaepernick,
if you that's being fired if you fire Colin Kaepernick,
even because he's not good enough as a football player,
it becomes more than about football. Did you fire did
you get rid of him? Because of political pressure, because
of corporate pressure, because of race? And then you run
the risk of losing the entire locker room, not just
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a small percentage of guys that didn't like his stands
to begin with. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Today is Tom Brady's birthday. And look, we've obviously had
the discussion about athlete longevity and Adrian Beltrey's success and
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his three thousand hit throughout the week, and people have
you know, people have brought up like, why don't you
talk about Tom Brady. He's playing as well at thirty
nine last year as he has um when he was
in his early thirties. And you know, the Brady defender
will go and say, like, look at how much he's
changed his diet. Uh, the dude doesn't even drink beer anymore.
(11:29):
Not that he was an alcoholic, but he's I mean,
his he is completely in totally focused on nutrition, which
and he's a hard worker, which is all they say
about they've they've alwa said about professional baseball players, um
even past the ones that used before, right, they were
they just worked harder, they ate better. So as much
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as his defense is defensible, the difference is this. Look
look around the NFL. Look around the NFL. Did you
realize Eli Manning has never missed a start since he
became a starting quarterback in the NFL? You realize that
we had Philip rivers on since two thousand and six
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has not missed a start, not one. No one paid Manning.
Remember you heard his neck, But with that is the exception,
Like he didn't miss that was the only time he
missed until they pulled him when he was forty years
old coming up the next surgery. Couldn't feel his fingertips.
Like you're talking about sustained longevity, Aaron Rodgers. The only
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time he ever missed the start was concussion. Yam Newton
missed start last year because of concussion. Before that it
was because he was in a car accident. The point
is that they have we we've completely changed how the
quarterback position is able to be maintained and they're smart
about it. They're smart about it. It's like, do you
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guys buy or least cars? Ramast you buy your car
your leasure. We have one lease and one by so
we're doing both. I do both, little both perfect, Okay,
who drives the bought car? Who drives the least? I
drive the bot car. Suzanne drives the lease car. My
wife um again, and she drives the lease car because
she doesn't drive as many miles. Yes, that's correct. I
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drive here and work. It's a lot farther than what
she's doing around the area. So my wife, she likes
to buy a car because she does not want to
ever say she wants like she just she just sold
her car, just did it. She had it for seven years,
put nearly a hundred thousand miles in the car, which
is not a ton of miles, you know, per year,
but it's a lot of miles for any car. Her
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point is she always takes care of her car, and
she'll she'll sign up for one of those deals where
it's like fifty dollars a month you can get it
washed as many times you want to get washed. And
her point is like, look, I'm gonna take care of
my car, take care of as well as I can,
because it's because it's gonna have to last me. She also,
I didn't grow up with much, but she grew up
with nothing. My wife grew up in a single wide,
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and so she takes immaculate care of her clothes. I've
always gotten free sneakers, so I take I have. I
have a hundred of show pair of sneakers. I don't
take particularly good care of them. I've taken them for granted. Well,
the NFL takes for granted running backs replaceable uh two
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back system, three back systems. The way the NFL is
played now, it's really hard to establish a great running
game because you're doing so much from the shotgun. Meanwhile,
they understand there's a limited supply of quarterbacks. Limited supply quarterbacks.
I mean even you look out at the top three
prospects for next year. And I was talking with a
couple of guys about this yesterday. What do you think
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of Sam Donald? And he's great, but you know, look,
he's not refined. His motions a little long, brings the
ball down, he makes plays happen, but boy is a
lot of danger, a lot of a lot of risk,
and the things he does. Is he the top prospect?
I guess, But like the lot, you've only started ten games.
What about Josh Rosen, like super smart but had a
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body like a teenager during his freshman season, got hurt
during his sophomore season. We don't People don't know about
the overall arm strength, know about the acumen, but part
of the acumen is like he's a really smart kid.
But there's a difference between being really really smart and canny.
Actually process the information and play through it. Like there's
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just not enough, not enough data to know. What about
the kid from Wyoming, Ah great arm, great arm, good body,
good athlete, complete his passes? Those are the three best.
Those are like three that locked top five picks next year.
The point is there's a limited supply of quarter but
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there's not just like oh that guy, we'll go get
another one next year. Like No, you gotta build the
whole thing around you gotta you have to act like
you're buying that car. You have to support it, you
have to clean it, you have to care for you
have to change the oil, you have to lubricate the brakes.
But you have to do all these maintenance things. Do
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all these things and maintenance, because you gotta act like
there's not another one coming down, right. The NFL has
done that, with the exception we point out Cam Newton,
maybe Ben Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson. He doesn't get tiny, he
gets hit, he doesn't get hurt. They've done as much
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as they possibly can to wrap these guys in bubble wrap.
Nobody gets hitting practice. You can't hit them high, you
can't hit them below the knee, and they do so
because they know they've got to get as much juice
out of the collective oranges as possible. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaves Show weekdays
at three pm Easter noon Pacific. Sheldon has done some
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dumb things. Good football player. He said this to miniche
Metta in regards to Odell Beckham June now O b J.
Of course, um place for the Giants, Sheldon place for
the Jets. He says, honestly, I understand why he said that, saying,
you want to be the highest paid player in the NFL,
and honestly he should be because the NFL makes a
lot of money off him. He can pretty you can
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pretty much throw the ball anywhere in his direction and
he'll catch it. If this guy's got it done day
in and day out, he should be the highest pay
You sell t shirts jerseys off his name, So why
not due to the superstar bad quarterbacks? It's a lot.
It's a lot. So if there's more bad quarterbacks getting paid,
why not wide receivers. The bitterness over quarterbacks that aren't
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good getting paid is one completely overstated, two completely uneducated,
and three so incredibly soft and bitter. Right, just is
I mean, truth be told? Like Ryan Fitzpatrick was overpaid
last year by the New York Jets may we may
twelve million dollars four team million dollars something like that.
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He held out, held out, held out. They had to uh,
they eventually had to pay him. But the year before
he threw one touchdown passes, he wasn't making any money.
He was wildly underpaid. So it does kind of work out.
And the fact is there's only like good quarterbacks on Earth.
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Sorry you played the wrong position. Sorry you didn't win
the genetic lottery. Being six ft two to six ft
five and able to throw a football like that's just
the way it works. This doesn't happen in any other sport.
Like football players are so insecure and so stupid. Just
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the sheer volume of touches tell you all you need
to know, Like Odell Beckham Jr. Is not the most
I've said this for it is the easiest thing to
anybody who says, like, oh, Beckham Junior, he should be
the highest paid player. The greatest season in the history
of the position at wide receiver was Calvin Johnson, Right,
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Calvin Johnson season when his team won four games. Whereas
when a quarterback has a great season Tom Brady fifty
touchdown passes, Peyton Manning fifty touchdown passes, Aaron Rodgers last year,
all those teams only make the playoffs. But our favorites
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to make a Super Bowl. Matt Ryan great year last year,
NFL MVP candidate. Did they make the playoffs? Yeah? Do
they made the Super Bowl. If a quarterback has a
great year, your team is gonna have a great year.
If a quarterback has a bad year, your team is
gonna have a bad year. There isn't The correlation. Doesn't
mean that a wide receiver isn't important, but it's not
close to being the most important player on the football field.
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Not close. And there is a perception that will you
throw it to him anywhere and he's gonna catch it,
And it sure seems like this, and you're you're talking
to and Odell Beckham Jr. Fan. It's my son's a
uper fan, huge fan um. And you look at his
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stats and the guy is he's obscenely talented. But he
was thrown to a hundred and sixty nine times last year.
He caught it a hundred and one times. Sheldon Richardson
is not a smart fellow, okay, And I know this
because of some of the things he's done off the
football field and some of the things he said. He's talented,
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not a dummy, but he's not. That's he's not smart.
And the idea that every time he throw it to
him he catches it, like are you only watching highlights?
He was thrown to a hundred sixty nine times, he
caught it a hundred one times. Now, I will grant
you that Eli probably is at fault for a portion
of those misfires, but he simply doesn't catch it every
time he's thrown too. And he's not the most important player.
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He had five more catches than the previous season and
played one more game because the previous year. Remember you
got suspended is the Josh Norman thing? Remember that? So
you had five more catches, and the New York Giants
made the playoffs this year for the first time in
like five years. So are those five more catches the
reason they made the playoffs? No, the defense was better,
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ELI was better. They made better decisions at the end
of the game because their coaching staff was better. Period.
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I've been listening to my friend Rob Parker. He's been
filling in on local radio here on five seven Am
in Los Angeles. He joins the show here on the
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Doug Gottlieb Show. I like, I don't know how good
they are. I mean, obviously adding you, Darvish makes them
prohibitably better. But this is about as good of I've
seen a baseball team play collectively as a group of
players play, maybe in my lifetime. Uh as as a
guy that traveled around watched a lot of baseball, How
do you contextualize what we're seeing from the Dodgers of
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the last couple months. Absolutely, League thanks for having me on.
It's it's a it's a magical season. Anybody who's paid
any attention. And I've seen the comebacks and seen guys
step up their first major league at bad you know,
in the first major league games and just deliver for
this team has been incredible to watch. I've enjoyed going
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to Dodger Stadium in the press box, in the stands.
Just just watch a team like this. There was the
the two thousand one, uh Seattle Managers that one and
sixteen games and did not win the World Series, got
knocked out. I think it's two thousand one by the Yankees. Uh.
That team was really good. Great. Uh the eight or
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ninety nine Yankees won a lot of games as well.
I mean there have been a couple of teams that
have been red hot like this. Doesn't guarantee you're gonna
win anything, but right now, the Dodgers are fun to watch.
I tacked them before the season started. I picked them
to beat the Red Sox in the World Series. So
I'm still feeling good about my pick. And you know what,
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and them getting you darbishish was was the move that
they had to make. The needed to add a right
handed guy. And even though Doug he hasn't pitched that
well in his previous eight starts, you know, his his
record and his history is that, you know, this guy
knows what he's doing, has had a lot of success
and probably could get the bugs kink worked out of
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them and contribute to that team. They just need him
to make four starts in the postseason and give them
a chance to win the World Series. Four good starts
and the Dodges will be in good shape. Rob Parker
joining us on the Doug Gallup Show. You you you kind
of hit the trifecta, right. You've been on TV, uh,
you hosted radio shows national and local, you're hosting one
now obviously Forest and Fox Sports Radio. Um, and you've
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also you've also been a print journalist. Okay, so earlier
this week actually Monday, I will actually Sunday, I'm watching
In Monday. I discussed the fact that, um, that we've
been duped before by baseball players, and I watched one
that had a historically significant moment. Adrian Beltre gets his
three thousand hit on Sunday, and I wondered, aloud, man,
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he's thirty eight him last year he had a great year.
His production hasn't waned a matter of facts, production has
been more than steady, maybe even better as he's gotten
older athletes aren't generally like fine ones. I drew the
conclusion that you know, I'm allowed to I'm allowed to think,
I'm allowed to wonder. He has a Dominican background. We've
seen a high number of major and minor league players
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come out of the Dominican Republic. Has been studies done
about how rife their baseball culture is with performance dancing
drugs UM. The Rangers organizationally have had have have had
players that have tested positive in the past, Like I
am I crazy? My wrong? Is that? Is there something
wrong with me to to utter that on national radio?
I think it's unfair, And Doug, I think you're a
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fair guy. But you've got to be really careful just
to throw that out there without having some sort of proof.
And it doesn't mean that you're your way in left
field or you know what I mean, Like, I get
where you're going. But if you're not going to do that,
if you're not gonna question and I'm gonna say it,
you're not gonna question Peyton Manning at his age when
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he played even with the al Jazero report and all
the other stuff that went out, And if you're not
going to question Tom Brady at forty years old and
how well he's played and how much there are use
and h H in the end, if NFL has been
heart and documented, if you're not going to and first
of all that has been done, there was speculation about
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Peyton Manning. Okay, so let's let's not act like we didn't.
We didn't talk about it. People people did talk about
it wasn't on Fox Sports radios and a different network
at the time, but we did talk about it. But
that there there was at least grounds for speculation with
the al Jazero report, which was deemed to be UH
deemed to be uh lack of credibility. But until the
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man follow lawsuit against him, the Zone al Jazero cosequestion,
I'm is wondering. Okay, so sweet, So again, you haven't
but we haven't had an NFL player, we haven't had
a quarterback test positive PDS. We have one? Is there a?
Is there is there any anybody? But does that mean
it's not going on? I didn't say that. I didn't
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say and I didn't say you didn't say that Adrian
and I didn't say that Adrian Beltray. Absolutely, they're not
making any accusations. I'm I'm simply doing what I think
people do at home when they watch TV. That's kind
of the essence of what sports talk radio is, right.
We know, I get it and and don't get me.
I'm not saying that you're the worst guy in the world.
Oh my god, I can't believe you said that. No,
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I get it, but I'm just saying sometimes you gotta
be just be fair from the standpoint that I'm like,
no matter what I would think for if if I did,
I just don't think I would be able to say
that without feeling like I'm doing Adrian Beltrey disservice somewhat
in that I don't have anything. I don't care if
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you plays for the Rangers. I don't care if he's Dominican.
I just don't have anything other than you're connecting dots.
It doesn't mean that he's involved. Even though other people
who look and sound and play water saw on the
same uniform were involved, it doesn't mean that he is.
If here's here's the like, it's fair to say there's
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been a lot of Dominican players have come over that
have been older than they were listed. Correct, So if
I want, if I wondered if he was older than listed,
would would that be would that be the wrong thing?
I mean, you could make the case that that they
found I just I mean, it's the same thing with
like a Chinese Chinese swimmer, Chinese gymnast beats our gymnastic Olympics.
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What do we think why because Chinese athletes are doping
or the Russians doping that we're only so we're only
allowed to do it with people who don't compete in
the United States, or we're only allowed to not do
it with baseball players. Like why, I don't mean basically, no, no,
this this is just this here we go hear me out,
Doug God leave. You're an athlete or whatever, and you compete,
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not just just just roll of dive with you go
with me. Adrian Beltrey is clean and it's been said
about him. How would you feel, seriously that the people
are throwing stuff out at you and it's just not
the case, and that they painted you into a corner
because you fit the profile. It's it's it's like I
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want to say racial profer but it's a profiling. That's
what it is, without having any proof. If you had somebody,
if he was in Consaco's book, which he wasn't, or
if he was somebody, if he was something, if he
was on if he was on the if he was
on the Mitchell Report, you oh three, which we don't
know the actual list. If he was on the Mitchell Report,
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would that do anything for you? Sure? That would that
would that would give you, that would give you more?
So then then does that mean I'm allowed to think
wonder about David Ortiz who was definitely was was in
the Metro. We we do not. I've said it all
the time. I don't know. If he gets a pause
for whatever reason, he gets a pause, and he was
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just a positive it was it was released, his name
was released. He just a positive and and and for
some reason he gets a pause, and everybody's cool with that,
and it's fine. Mony thing is be fair to everybody.
If he gets a pause, then then everybody should get
a pass. If you gonna, if you're gonna don't get
the bad guys, then you can't. It can't be both ways.
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One way. I agree with you. I don't give people up.
My whole thing is. I don't think baseball players have
earned the right yet to get pass this. I just
don't And and maybe maybe I'm wrong for that, but
but that's that's the way kind of my mind I've been.
I've been duped too many times. I believed Ryan Braun
when he looked at the camera in the eye and
said he didn't do it. I believe Raphael Palmero and
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he said, I never ever did. I did. I bought it.
I was like, why would they do it? Look at
their bodies? No chance? And then they did it. Um.
Rob Parker joining us on the Doug Gotlips Show. All right,
let's go to football. Do you see what Colin Kaepernick's
girlfriend tweeted out, Yes, we're emotional, fair to say or not? Listen?
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Hold on, now, listen. You're characterizing all women the same, baby. Huh.
I think you've got to be fair about you have
to be fair. Let me take it back. She's talking.
She's talking about the man she loves, who she thinks
being I think this makes him unhirable, like he was
barely hirable to begin with. But the idea that Steve
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Baschatti may have been thoroughly vetting whether or not they
bring him aboard that she's gonna tweet, She's gonna tweet
that out. I think other NFL teams like dude, forget
about whether or not we hire him. We can't ever
fire him because we're gonna be called racist if we
cut him. No thanks. It's a bad look. I agree
with you, it's a bad look. But but you also
have to be fair from the standpoint that it's not
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him and it's her. And if I'm uh Colin Kaepernick,
I would just have to say, you know, and it's
happening before. We've seen wild girlfriends do stuff and say stuff.
Don't remember when Tom Brady after they lost the Super
Bowl blame the received wife grisel at the elevator, blame
the receivers that they could catch a ball. Do you
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know what I mean? No, No No, we would played that earlier,
absolutely right. Was that Tom Brady talking that his wife talk?
I understand, but this is this is one to which
she's a she's got a syndicated radio show. Um, and
you know, look, his his protests is a hot button
issue and all the things that surround him take away
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from whatever level of success he's had on the football field.
I mean I just I think it makes him when
when you tweet out of meme that likens the owner
of the Baltimore Ravens to a slave owner, jangle and
change like that. That's that's more than just like I can't,
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I can't my husband can catch the ball and throw
the ball at the same time. Like. That's a lot worse,
isn't it. Right now, I get it, the imagery is
not right, not fair. It's a bad look, there's no
doubt about it. But here's my issue with the NFL.
Little simple other guys kneeled down, raised fists whatever. Those
guys are still in the league. All of those guys
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haven't been said. I get it that Kaepernick was the
face of the protests, but those guys are still working.
Nobody stopped to buy to say that they weren't gonna
buy tickets or or or cancel this season tickets because
those guys are on roster. So that's number one. Number two.
I do remember the NFL. And you tell me if
this is not so a social issue or or just
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something else, but I do remember when the NFL took
away the Super Bowl from the state of Arizona. They
never have another Super Bowl as long as they didn't
have them want Luther King Holiday. The people of Arizona spoke,
they voted and said they didn't want it, right, and
the NFL took away to Super Bowl and they did
another vote, and what a surprise, the people of Arizona
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voted for one with the King's Holiday. Is that not social?
What does it have to do with football? If the
people of Arizona had spoken, whose places that for the
NFL to make social commentary or or or or decisions
based upon social commentary exactly? I think it's different because
this is one player who affect who they are scared
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of affecting their bottom. Honestly, I believe it's this. I
don't even think it's as much about about the fans
as much as it's about the players in that this
he has the he has the ability because of who
he is and what he's become, to split a part
of locker room. And if you don't play him, or
if you cut him, if you have the potential there
to ruin your locker room. And that's what everybody's scared of.
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I don't want to lose my I want to lose
the locker room on a player. Who's not he's not
good enough to win me a super Bowl. I think
that's what it is. Yeah, but there's a lot of
guys in the in the league who have jobs second
and third string who can't win you anything either. Yeah,
but they also they also can't split up. They can't
call as a fissure in the locker room. And I
think he's actually I think I agree with that, And
I'm not saying when when they sign him it will
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cause a fissure. I think that if they don't play
him or if they cut him. Now Someway, wait, did
you cut him because of who he is and and
all the different media stuff and because you know, did
the police pressure you to to cut him? Or did
you cut him because he wasn't good enough? Like you,
you run the risk of losing a locker room. And
a lot of these teams are just not in the
place to which you're like, we we can do that,
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Orton and and look like I don't think he was
going to Baltimore because Joe Flacco wouldn't want that, wouldn't
want a guy that talented to be his backup. You
don't want a talented backup quart up. We don't want
any quarterback controversy when you're starting in the NFL. You know,
I get that, but I just think that he should
have a place in the NFL. He's he's good enough
to be a backup quarterback somewhere. And I guess if
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teams don't want to deal with the other stuff, there's
all kinds of other issues of gods, with the domestic
violence and drunk driving and all kinds of other stuff
that somehow some white people overlooked that stuff, but have
an issue. He didn't break any laws, he was he
he was doing what what has afforded him as an
American citizen and his rights. I just I think it's
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it's been totally miscast, and I think the owners I'm
not totally surprised, but I'm still looking for the NFL
to have a branch Ricky for one of them. Maybe
is Isai Knewsome or somebody who stands up and just says,
this just sys isn't right, and you know what, we'll
deal with it the same way that branch Rickey had
to deal with it with the Dodgers, and and the
whole idea that that the teams had said that they
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would they wouldn't play if Jackie Robinson played. They threatened
the Dodgers that they weren't going to even continue to
play them at all. And you know what happened. It
worked itself out. And I'm not saying he's Jackie Robinson,
but I'm just saying I'm looking for somebody in the
NFL to be branch Ricky, to stand up and just
do what's right. You deal with the other stuff. If
you do what's right, if you don't have to worry
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about Doug, how it looks and what people think. If
you you put him on the team, he doesn't play
well enough and you cut them, people will accept that.
If he hasn't played well, if he goes out there
and wins nine games in a row, people will accept that.
I don't think it's as tricky as people make it.
You produce, you stick around. You don't produce, you get caught.
That's how it is. You can hear Rob Parker on
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Saturdays alongside Mark Willard at one pm Eastern time right
here on Fox Sports Radio. Rob Parker, Rob appreciate having
you on. Doug My man. You're fair, dog, You're fair.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Doug gott
Leaps show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Robert
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Smith joined us now on Fox Sports Radio. What's your
sense of Tom Brady? He he missed the first four
games because of suspension. That probably helped him be fresher
late in the year, But we didn't see any statistical decline.
Is it it's reasonable to think at some point he's
going to decline. It happens kind of quickly, won't it. Yeah,
you would think so. And you know, I think unlike
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you know, what we saw with Manning, and as you
mentioned Withdrew Brees, you know, there hasn't been that prior
history of a shoulder issue and and so if you know,
lacking lacking that or some sort of other problem in
you know, whatever they call the kmeetic chain, if there's
not something in his leg or his hip or this
knee that would you know, that would hinder his ability
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to to release the ball as quickly as he had
in the past. If there aren't any injuries like that,
I don't think it's I don't think it's just going
to be an off the cliff kind of thing with him.
Especially the way that guys trained right now, start respect
any huge drop off this year, because we didn't really
see any declined during the course of the year, even
having missed the first four Dames. You are two times
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I'll pro Um. I'm wondering about Ladanian Thomason, who's getting
inducted into the Pro Football of Fame. Um. Obviously, as
a guy grew up watching the Chargers, I have my
own opinion. But from running back to running back, what
was it that he did differently or special that allowed
him to take kind of that next step from being
one of the great players in the league to Hall
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of Famer. You're one of the great players of all time.
What if you described Ladanian Thominson's game, how do you
describe it? Well? I think you did everything that a
great running back does. I mean, you have great vision
and they had a tremendous ability and knowledge of the game.
Follow his blockers extremely well. Uh. He was built in
a way where he was low to the ground, although
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you know, I wasn't one of those guys, Um, but
maybe that you know, maybe that allowed him really to
take to take more of the hits and deliver more
of the hits because you know, when you're more compact,
it's easier to really get behind your pads, meaning your
body uh is shaped in a way that you can
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you can get your weight behind you and when people
are coming to tackle you, that's pretty much all they
see is a helmet and some shoulder bed. So uh,
he did a tremendous job though really after initial contact,
keeping the legs turning good spin and good bursts too,
So you can bind all those elements and plus the longevity,
and that's you know that that can be no pun
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intended to hit or miss with with football, especially with
running backs, combined to make him, you know, tremendous, tremendous talent.
Um Um. Adrian Peterson's in New Orleans this year. Um,
he goes from a dome to another dome. But we've
seen him have multiple knee injuries last year. Look, the
offensive line wasn't particularly good and uh, they didn't have time.
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Bradford completed seventy percent of his passes, but they're all
right around the line of scrimmage. And so even when
he came back, he probably came back too soon. Couldn't
run the football. What what's like what's reasonable at his age?
With that offense to expect from Adrian Peterson, Well, I
don't know that reasonable and the Adrian Peterson really go
in the same sentence. Quite honestly. I remember when he
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first got drafted. Some of the guys, you know, that's
how how long ago it was. Some of the guys
that I still played with were still in the league
and still on that team. So I remember talking to
Matt Burke during training camp and he said, I've never
anything like us, and this guy is an absolute freak.
And of course, you know we had both played with
with Randy Moss, so you know we had we had
seen our our shaff of you know, physical freaks. But
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his endurance, his strength, Uh, and I think you know,
his his ability to recover and home um rush for
two thousand yards after after there in a cl so um,
I don't think there's anything reasonable in that offense. Uh.
You know where they are going to throw the ball
around the lot and where the where the defensive backs
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are going to have to pack off the line. I'm
excited to see it. I think he's gonna I think
he's gonna do more things past the age of thirty
than any running back that we've ever seen Robert Smith
joining us on the Dougoux I want to college football
in a second. Obviously played at Ohio State, so did
Zeke Elliott. Um, everybody I talked, I want to talk
to you about him. You said he's going to be
a star at the next level because you know all
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three phases, running, pass, pro and catching. He's tremendous at
um and he did not disappoint year's He's an unbelievable talent.
There's a bunch of little things off the field that
feel like little things. Um, what what's your level of
cause for concern knowing as much as you know about
one playing in the NFL and two Zeke Elliott. Yeah,
(41:16):
I'm I'm a little concerned, honestly. Um, you know one
or two of those incidents, and you think that the
guys going to figure it out, especially in this day
and age time. I mean, it was kind of free
for all to a degree, even if even in our day, uh,
you know, at the at the start of the Internet,
you know, you started to started started to get a
(41:37):
few emails that would leak into the coaching staff that
might have been a concern, But in this day of
of social media, you think guys have just got to know.
I mean you you are always being watched. Uh, and
everything that you do, everything that you say, can be
transmitted around the world. Uh, you know with with one
click of the send one one hit of the send button.
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So you got to be careful. And I've just heard
too many things that would make that would lead me
to believe that there's no cause for concern. So I'm
a little bit concerned about it. And you know, I
hope he's got the right people into here right now.
H tell him he's he's got to change some things
because it's uh, it's it's really becoming. All right, you're
gonna be covering, among other things, Big ten football. Big
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ten comes to Fox Sports this year. Super excited for that.
I just I'm wondering, like JT. Barrett's back, and this
time it um, you know, look, this is a team
that last year we thought was maybe a year away
from competing for a national title, got a little bit
exposed in terms of the limitations offensively once they got
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into the College Football Playoff. Their ranked number two, although
part of it is like we just rank Alabama one
because it's Alabama. Um, what's your sense of just how
good this Ohio State team should be. Well, if they
can get the issues on the offensive line straighten out
and they can develop more of a downfield passing game.
I think they're back in the playoffs. But when you
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look at where the problems were a year ago, you
look at that offensive line, you look at I believe
it was six sacks against Penn State, eight sacks against
Michigan that that line gave up. It was a real
issue clearly. Uh. And the combination of play calling, I think,
oh oh, all right, so look see what happens you
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call out play calling and suddenly your cell phone goes
your alma mater? Is that powerful? Well we'll get we'll
get Robert sent back in a second. All right, let's
let's welcome back in Robert Smith, Fox Sports Football analyst
Dog Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Trading. You mentioned the play
calling um for Ohio State and and that that needs
to improve. Kevin Wilson comes in, but uh, and he
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was the run game courts offensive coordinator with Oklahoma. Then,
of course the head coach Indiana fired last year. How
do you think this offense will be different with J. T.
Barrett to Helm and Kevin Wilson calling the plays. Well,
what was the last thing you heard there was of
my best work? It was it was just imagined. You said,
play calling, you know, and they need to improve their
downfield path and then play calling, and then all of
a sudden it was it was irb Meyer cut the
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line on you. Man. It's unbelievable. I'm gonna say it's
the offensive line. Man. You can have all those shiny pieces,
you can have improved play calling, you can have an
experienced quarterback, but if you don't have an offensive line
that can block, that can allow a quarterback to get
the ball downfield. And then you know that some of
it's on the quarterback, some of it's on those receivers
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because they weren't getting the separation that they needed. Uh,
and back doesn't always being better. You've got four offensive
linemen back from a year, but those guys really struggled
at times last year. So I think it's it's it's
really important that those guys develop. You really need to
see a big jump. And we know so much of
offensive line play is how people play together, and so
I think that's gonna be key for Ohio State if
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that offensive line can be back and better play together
more consistently. Combine that with the play calling experienced quarterback,
you're gonna be fine offensively and defensively. Second year in
a row, we out of four stars replacing out of
the secondary. But that is you know that transition can
be can be made a lot easier when you have
an experienced defensive line and made to have that and
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a guy like Nicky posta younger brother of Joey isn't
even on that front four, so that kind of tells
you what kind of talent to have on that defensive line.
They opened up in Indiana. Of course, then they got
Oklahoma at home today with Indiana yeah, Thursday night, which
gives him an extra time to prepare for Oklahoma. Oklahoma
as a new coach, but the same quarterback, and of
course the team that they dominated down in Norman last year.
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You get what Penn State at home, Nebraska on the road,
Michigan on the road, Michigan State at home. You go
to Iowa this year, so there are it is. It's
probably as difficult to Big ten schedule as you can get,
considering who you cross over. Get you know, the two
of the top programs. There's no Wisconsin on the schedule,
which means you potentially play Wisconsin the Big Big Ten
(45:55):
title game. Robert, look forward to seeing you back on
the TV college football games in the meantime. Take care
of that family, and thanks so much for joining us
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, that's that's Robert Smith.
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