September 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Doug gives his take on how the Eagles barely got by the Cowboys in the NFL opener Thursday night. Doug weighs in on the Angel Reese controversy this past week. Doug welcomes Mark Dominik onto the show to talk about the Eagles, Cowboys and the other headlines around the NFL. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "I GOT DIBBS!".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:26):
Do Do Do Do Do Do. I'll be having a
great day. It's a football Friday, and we're here to
celebrate it with you. Crash off our first NFL game
of the season. Do Dan Buyer's here, Jay Stew's here,
Iowa Sam's here getting ready for the cy Hawk Trophy
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to be handed out tomorrow. In Ames, was that in Iowa?
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It might have been New Hampshire when he where wasn't Iowa?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Iowa Caucus.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That was an all time tim right because he won
the Iowa Caucus.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
John Kerry came in, uh kind of like as an underdog,
and Howard Dean was like the front runner in the
in the press, and then Howard John Kerry ended up
winning it. So then Howard Dean was like, no, we're
gonna press on, and that's when he goes.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, no. Well first he said like, well, we're gonna
got a new Hams, right, whatever happened to him?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Hey he's around.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
They're always around.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, they're always practicing medicine.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Still, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Was he a doctor? Yeah, must let's just start. I
was wrong. I'm not smart. I didn't know. The Cowboys
were actually looked yesterday like a really pretty good football team. Now.
Was it helped out by one of the most dynamic
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defensive linemen in the league getting thrown out before the
game really began. Sure, but I think we can all
sit there and go like yeah. It was also helped
out in the fact that Ceedee Lamb suddenly forgot how
to catch a football for the Cowboys. There's a lot
to get to it last night's game. But I didn't
think it would be terribly competitive, and it was, and
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it had everything that was a fun game. It had everything.
It had just enough like Michael Jordan was there, some
of the some comedians were there, some actors. They had
just enough of the pomp and circumstance. It had a
weather delay, which I feel was more commonplace in college
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football this time of year. Usually the first couple of weeks,
there's always a thunderstorm, lightning. Games are postponed or or
delayed or whatever. That happened last night. It had an ejection,
It had a big fumble or two, it had it
had a little bit of everything. But I mean, I
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was wrong. That was a winnable game by the Cowboys
and a well played game by Dak Prescott. Here's Nick Sirianni,
head coach of the Eagles, defending Super Bowl champions, on
the errors his team made throughout the game.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I want these guys to play with great energy, great
tenacity while doing it within the rules of the game.
So we'll address that. We talked about that obviously at
halftime because I felt like, you know, that's a really
good offense, and every one of their drives in that
first half that resulted in points were all penalties, you know,
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And now you know a p I, which that's that's different.
That's in the heat of the game. Those those are
gonna happen. But you know, I know we had one
with Nolan and one with JC and that creates short
fields for for an offense.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
What do you do buyer. I mean to me with
the Jaalen Carter thing, I mean, he had a pre
existing reputation was one of the reasons he sort of
slipped a couple picks in the draft. He's crazy, crazy talented.
It does appear if you watch the video. Like I
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don't know if he was goaded into it. I mean,
if we're honest with ourselves, he shouldn't have been close
to the Cowboys huddle right like the ball was five
yards away. He was supposed to be on the other
side of the football, but he wasn't because he was
talking ish to the Cowboys before they get ready for
their first snap. Dak Prescott could have just done his
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deal and let one of his linemen take care of
it instead. Now he kind of walks over, does little
John Wayne walk spits on the ground, and then gets
spit in his chest. I don't know whether or not
it cleared the chest into that neck area, but I
do like the fact that we now know there was
a second spitter. Like Seinfeld, you know what I'm talking about,
back until left, back until left. But I don't know
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what else you do, Like you pointed out, but he
missed a game because of it. So I kind of
think we're good. Like, if you have another issue, all right,
we're gonna have to sit you for another game or
have to the only thing that he lacked, and I'll
probably he'll probably get it here in the mail is
a fine, and he'll probably get it from the league.
But I don't know what you do with Jalen Carter
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when he was in fact suspended for a game for
hawking a quick little loogie on Dak Prescott's chest.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, I look at it differently. I mean, I think
he got kicked out of a game. I don't think
that the penalty is. It's different if the Eagles are like,
you know what, you did this in practice, You're not
gonna play on Sunday or you're not gonna play on
Thursday night. It's completely different than this, which, by the way,
I thought that completely took the juice and any of
the wind out of the Eagles sales for what could
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have been an exciting first quarter or ramped up first
quarter because of you defending your Super Bowl crown in
the open on Thursday night. I think it took everything
away from Philadelphia. And I do think that it could
be a sign of things to come because of what
you laid out with Jalen Carter. There was a reason
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he fell in the draft and the great play that
he's had. Doug has made Howie Roseman look like a
genius up until this point. But now you have a
Super Bowl ring, and if it's not Jalen Carter, are
other players also falling victim to this sort of thing
of Hey, maybe we don't have to maybe now it's
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more about me since we got that ring. I tweet
the last night I took five seconds for us to
hate the Eagles again, Like that was really quick.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I saw I saw that tweet. And my problem was,
I was at a I was at a gathering and
I'm like, saw your tweet and I look up and
I'm like, I don't even know what he's talking about.
And then people are like elbowing and needling, and I
go look up, like when did that happen? Like before
the first snap?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, it was. That was a weird one.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So it just tells me like there was nothing that
Nick Sirianni or Vic Fangio or Howie Roseman or Jeffrey
Lourie or anybody did to have Jalen Carter say grow
up in the offseason from the Super Bowl. Him getting
kicked out isn't the one game penalty and move on.
I think it's more of it could be representative of
maybe what this is all about with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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I think that there are pitfalls like this. After you win,
does everybody want to get fat and get their own
We shall see seventeen more weeks to play sixteen more games.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That was as classic an Eagles win early in the
season as you're gonna find. Was it two years ago?
They were like ten and one to start the season,
and we're like, and it seemed like every game was
an escape? Yeah, you know, and then yeah, that's what
that felt like. Cowboys felt like the better team last night.
If he didn't know that that the Eagles won the
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Super Bowl, if he didn't know they had Saquon, if
he didn't know that the Giants had trade away their
best defensive player, you'd be like, we just watching these
two teams. The one with the star in their helmet's
probably better. They just made some mistakes and weren't able
to capitalize as much. But that's how the Eagles win.
And I think the one thing you do caution yourself
(08:13):
against And this sounds like the opposite of coach speak.
Am I do I like to implore more discipline on
my team? Sure? Sure, but you do in football you
do have to have that edge. Right. It's like they
want you to block not just to the whistle, but
to the end of the whistle, right before they let
off the whistle. Right, there's just that little there's a
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level of aggression, there's a level of energy. There's that
magical level, if you will, that you're trying to get to.
And you don't want to take it away from Jalen Carter,
but this, as you point out, that tracks like anything
you've read about Jalen Carter leading up into the NFL
and some once he's been in the NFL. Is why
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he is again why Howie Roseman took a risk that
others weren't willing to take. Here's Brian Schottenheimer after coaching
his first game as a head coach with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
I don't worry about see lamb. See He's gonna be fine.
What a great player. Again, you know this was a
this was a team defeat, and uh, we own that.
You know, we understand where we can go as a
football team. We understand. I love the competition. I thought
guys competed their butts off. I thought that was great.
But we're all about winning, and we didn't win tonight,
and so therefore it's not good enough.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here's the other thing we probably missed on Brian Schottenheimer. Now,
the first thing is Dak Prescott looked really good and
really mobile. And I would also point out that again
we've we've never held Dak in the regards of the
elite quarterbacks, and I think rightfully so, because he's never
performed well enough in the playoffs to earn that distinction.
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But Jerry is not an idiot. He did put a
bunch of money in him, and after last night, like
you know what. But the old man still may know
a thing or two about a football player. But the
thing that the Cowboys made sure they did with their
head coach is have continuity. The reason they held on
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to Schottenheimer was Dak really liked him. They worked together well.
He felt like his offense, his style, his play calling.
That works for him. So while we're concern ourselves with Pickens,
who still has he's talented but still got a lot
of turn in him, he doesn't block things, he doesn't
murders routes all out of stack in the ball. But
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while we're so concerned with their wide receiving core, their
offensive line, their ability to run the football, or whatever,
what I thought last night was it was a win
for continuity. Now that will start to even out the
later we get into the season, because the Eagles have
a new offensive cordon or a new play caller, so
it's always going to be a little bit new, a
little bit different, and take a little bit of an
adjustment period. And they didn't play in the preseason. But
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last night was a little bit of a win. Was
a win for the Cowboys, even though they lost, because
we all thought they were gonna get blown out and
they didn't, and they looked like the better team. They
just didn't make a couple plays here or there that
should have solidified them as the better team, or at
least make the Eagles play a little bit better, make
the Eagles throw the ball down the field, something they
didn't have to do last night or couldn't do.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
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Speaker 1 (11:29):
Or Start one sport ends. This is Doug Gottlieb show
Fox Sports Radio. So last night we had the first
NFL game of the season. The WNBA season ended last night. Like, no,
they're sam they still playing.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
They're just wrapping up the regular season in the next
probably either they have or they will be. It's the
end of the season pretty much.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
What mean they have or they will be.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
They might have one game left.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We got about a week to go, okay week in
the regular season, two games left?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, right, but Kaitlyn Clark announced that on social media
that she's going to miss the remainder of the season, right,
so nobody cares now it's over.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Correct, Well, they canceled the playoffs. They're just gonna runekidding.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's that's a good player right there. Like tonight was
isn't tonight Chicago and Angel Reese against Indiana the fever
and supposed to be Kaitlyn Clark, right, but there's no
Sophie Cunningham. There's no Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So, and there's no Angel Reese because she got suspended
for her eighth technical of the season.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Did she Yes? I had no idea. All I knew
about Angel Reese was she said that they need to
get better players around her in Chicago. And then she said,
she said it was taken out of context. How so
how is that possibly taken out of context? We need
we need to have great players, you know, we just
to have better players around me. That was taken out
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of context, Like, huh, you know what we need? Uh?
We need to do a segment and then maybe expand it.
We've done this before. We we clean up misused popular phrases,
misused propaly and my favorite or least favorite one is
(13:14):
I couldn't care less, which is misused as I could
care less, right, because if you could care less, that
means you care there's an amount you could care less.
The actual term is I couldn't care less. I care
so little. There's no amount less than how I care.
So that's the proper usage of the phrase I could
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not care less. It's just like people will say that's
a tough road to hoe. No, it's a tough row
to hoe. Right. The hoe is the garden tool variety.
And if again it's an impossible road to hoe, no
one can hoe a road but row. It's a tough road,
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tough anyway. I say that because people misuse expressions, and
in this case, she's misusing a word. This is angel Reaes.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
By the way, are you frustrated with the organization or
frustrated in general? I don't think I'm frustrated. I probably
am frustrated in myself right now. I think the language
is taken out of context. And I really didn't intentionally
mean to put down my teammates because they've been through
this with me throughout the whole year. They've busted their
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eyes just how I bust some my eyes. They showed
up for me through thick and thin and in the
locker room when nobody could see anything. So I would
apologize to my teammates, which I already have, about the
article and how it was misconstrued, about what was said.
And I just have to be better with my language
because I know it's not the message, just the messenger,
and understanding what I say can be taken any kind
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of way. So I just have to really be better
and grow from this.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Okay, So it's not she goes into cliches, it's not
the messengers the messenger, which means it is on her,
which I do agree with, but it's not being taken
out of context. She has to be she has to
understand the words she says and how they land with
anybody that's not taken out of context. Yes, Stanbyron, you.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Know it's funny because I actually thought that she was
passing the buck when she was saying that by saying,
it's not the message, it's the messenger soever. Whoever took
her message is the one that's and this is I
think part of the problem is I thought that so
because I don't give her the benefit of the doubt
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because of everything else that has happened prior to this.
Even if she was being legit in that case and
taking responsibility, it didn't necessarily sound like that. So I
automatically defaulted to thinking like, Oh, she's mad at whatever
article or whatever writer or podcast or whoever took her
comments and made them sound like the way that they did.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
It was a writer for Front Office Sports, and by
all accounts, this writer is very reputable. I've seen journalists
in the last two days come out and defend her professionalism.
Remember it was Angel Reis who said that it's not
just one person that is responsible for the rise in popularity.
It's two I did it too, and then she told
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us that we took her out of context.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Remember, yeah, she doesn't know what out of context means.
It just she doesn't know what out of context means.
She is using out of context, out of context. You
see what he did there. I'm pretty proud of myself,
actually really proud of myself. My point was, there's no
Kaven Clark, no Sophie Cunningham. They can play a million
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more games. Are we even going to care? And this
is this will be fascinating. Let's see what the playoff
numbers look like. Now, I'm just you can tell us
the league is taking this massive jump. They're doing a
better job of teching it, putting it on network TV,
but prooves in the pudding you get to the playoffs,
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which again mistake to play him against the NFL in
college football. But no, ain't no no Caitlin Clark, no
Sophie Cunningham. Good luck that was part of the Eagles
twenty four to twenty win. Let's welcome in Mark Dominic.
He spent over twenty years in NFL front offices, scouting
and of course works his way up to being the
general manager of the Tampay Buccaneers joins us for his
weekly Friday visit here on the show, Mark, was just
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your reaction to the game last night?
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Well, did see right twenty one to twenty halftime and
only three more points to the rest of the game.
You know, felt like it was going to be a
shootout the whole way. But it turns out like the
legs of the quarterbacks proved to be just as valuable
sometimes as their arms. And for Jalen Hurts, I think
that showed obviously last night.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I was surprised at how competitive the Cowboys were.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Were you, yes, and the fact you know that they
had opportunities, you know, with the fumble standers and obviously
the drop balls by Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They tie.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
It's the winding game, you know, losing Jalen Carter. You know,
in the pre with with Dak Prescott and the spitting,
you could see that that was an impact on this
team and that defense. But yeah, I mean I was
impressed by the Cowboys and you know New News you
know situation there with coach Schottenheimer, and yeah, they were
absolutely in this game, had a chance to win it,
which was incredible when you're when you think about playing
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the filled up the Eagles Week one.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What do you do with Jalen Carter if you're.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
The Eagles, Well, I think you you've already dealt with
it internally, but you understood. I mean, it's the whole adage, right, Doug.
It's you depends how good the players, It depends on
how you're going to handle it. You know, him missing
the game is a lot of punishment. Uh, you know,
they got away with the win. A saint. That's all
you'll see. I think you'll you'll hear the We've talked
to him about it. He's going to grow and learn
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from this speeches and it's not going to happen again
kind of stuff. And I don't expect it to happen again.
It's a big, big mistake, a huge lesson. It feels
like we get one of these every couple about every decade,
right as he goes. Albert Hainsworth was the last one
like this.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, Miles Garrett swung as helmeted at Mason Rudolph. You
know he actually the fact that it happened before the
game started and he got kicked out actually probably helped
him because happens at the end of the game or
in the third quarter, and I'm like, now, we got
to set him for a game, right, So now you're like, ah,
he sat for a game and we go. The only
thing they didn't get was a fine, But the NFL
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can still find him. Mark Dominic's our guest here on
the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. How do
the Eagles do this? And I bring it up because
this kind of reminds me of two years ago, right
where they started out ten and one to start the season.
They're like, Eh, they don't look that great, and last
night they were kind of outplayed. Jalen Hurtsch was not
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able to complete anything like more than ten yards down
the field, and yet they end up one to zero,
and you know, and going into week two with an
extra couple of days to prep, why in your mind
are they able to win games in which at times
they're outplayed.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Well, Barkley's a big piece of that. Us would both know, right.
I mean, his ability to make a play when it
needs to be made certainly feels like it. And you're
right on Jalen. I mean, besides the throw to Jehan Dotson,
I mean he threw from basically a one hundred yards
on on eighteen attempts both quarterbacks. You know, there are
yards per attempt or was pretty shockingly low. I think
the Eagles stay in this because they've been there, done this.
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I think because they're kind of used to playing different
games and different levels. Do they play to the level
of their opponent potentially, but at the same point, you know,
this is some of the I think some of the
rust because we really rest players now in the Nation
Football League through the preseason. You know, they don't play
as much preseason game as they used to play when
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we had four games, actually played more, they played less now,
So I think part of that is just coming out
maybe not crisp. You know, we had the one fumble,
no interceptions last night, no really just the one sack,
and so I think it's just more of everybody kind
of you know, getting their legs underneath them and getting
ready for real football. And then you know, that's what's
going to be great about this weekend is watching every
play and see which teams are even more prepared in
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which teams, you know, came out flat. I think for
both teams, they seem to be prepared for the game.
Even the Eagles certainly made this a lot closer than
we all thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We're going to talk about this next hour, So Dan,
don't worry. You're going to get a chance, because I
know Dan hates this game. That the Chargers and the
Chiefs are playing a divisional game in Brazil. What are
your feelings on it?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
So I love that we're playing in Brazil. I hate
that we're playing a divisional game in Brazil. I just
don't think divisional games are so critical and so important
in terms of playoff seeding and what happens. And I
think that it's so important to have your home games,
when you have your home games or your road games.
But you know, ideally this is maybe the Chiefs versus
some of the AFC, or maybe it's the Chargers versus
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something in the AFC. But you know, I don't love
that it's a divisional game. But I'm very excited to
see this game tonight, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well as a Charger fan, and Jase du can attest
to this, the disparity in the road fans versus the
home fans is not as great as it once was,
but it's still not great. I'd actually say Chargers probably
have a chance at a better fifty to fifty split
in Brazil than they do in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
I would I fully agree with that. I think it's
going to be you know, much more, you know, having
been an opportunity to you know, be the gym of
the Bucks and taking it a couple of trips over
to London and play there. You know, when you take
it out of the country, it's pretty interest It feels
like a Super Bowl because it's you know, there's going
to be Tony Romo jerseys and there's going to be
you know, Pittsburgh Steelers jersey there. But I still think
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the Chargers will support and it'll look more fifty to
fifty than it would be lopside of like you would
expect the.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Get to be Soull Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
what are you most intrigued about. Let's start with the Chargers.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Well, I mean, I think it just goes down to
justin Herbert, right, and just what he's going to be
able to, you know, do this year basically all the
volume of work he's had, but also you know, being
in the system now longer, and what he's going to
be able to I think accomplish. You're not a huge
Chargers fan. You know, hated the injury that was brutal
to them, and you know it's slater and everything. But
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I still like the Chargers offensively. I still like what
they're going to be able to do and move the ball.
I believe in that, So I'm excited about that. I'm
excited to see, uh, you know, Omar Hampton run the
ball and see what he looks like in a Chargers uniform.
And I think the main thing is it's it's the
loss of Joey Bosa. But you know, I think Tuley
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is going to be a guy that's going to step
up on the outside and be a ten sack plus
guy this year that I think is going to erupt
onto the National Footballague. Here's a guy that's going a
great passershop has been stuck and now he's going to
have a chance to be the guy. And I think
he's going to own up to it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
All Right. What about the chief same question? What most
injudes you?
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Your offensive line? Just what's it going to look like?
How's it actually going to come together for the Kanca Chiefs.
Are they going to be able to protect Mahomes this year.
I loved Josh Simmons pick. I've loved watching him on tape.
It's the right side in terms of Jan Taylor, how
does he play? And you know, not having Joe there
at left guard is going to be something to watch too, obviously,
So left guard, right tackle. To me, it's the offensive
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line of what it looks like. But I'm very excited
for Josh Simmons. I think the Chiefs, uh, you know,
pulled a fast one on everybody with him sliding with
the injury. He looks fantastic when he played.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I don't
think we've talked since MIKEH. Parsons was traded. What'd you
think of the deal?
Speaker 10 (24:27):
So, I front was a little short sighted in my opinion, Uh,
from whose perspective? From the Cowboys perspective, like, look, I
love Kenny Clark, you know, and that's you know, that's
he's a very, very very good player and he will
help the Cowboys in the run game all season long.
But two first round picks to me, is just not
enough value for what he can bring and what you're
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what you're losing. I mean, you think about the Chargers
and you know they drafted Lucas Manness a couple of
years ago in the first round, and that hasn't panned out.
So it's easiest to then and go, well, he's twenty six.
You know, I'm going to have to draft the pass
rusher next year anyway, So now I'm really just giving
up one for the sure thing. The only thing, you know,
I don't know about this back being a real issue.
I don't believe it is at all. You I don't
think you get this bar down the road on the trade,
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and certainly with that kind of money, would you ever
signed the player if you felt the back was some
type of an issue. I just I feel like that.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
If the Cowboys ended up doing this, it would have
been ideally done before the draft if you're going to
move in. But I don't think that anybody really understood
where the market was or where it was going. And
I think for the Packers, you know, I'd like to trade.
I hate the contract. If i'm you know, I'm never
mat at the player. Get as much money as you can,
but they just obliterated, you know, the contracts of defensive ends.
(25:38):
I mean, you look around the National Football and you
start to think about the guys that you know just
redid their deals because they're you know, worried about you know,
they feel like they're under I mean, it made Max
Crosby's deals, which tried to be right wrong again. I mean,
it was such an anomaly contract. It's almost Deshn Watson like.
I know, it's not fully guaranteed, but it jumped so
(26:00):
when there was already you know, pieces there that said, hey,
you could blueprint off that. But kudos to the player
and the agent. You know, if you're gonna get that
kind of money, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's gonna be fascinating. Okay, So what does it do
for the Packers this year? For your personal expectations of
the Packers.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Yeah, so, as you know, and as we've talked, and
I'm very thankful that we had a game last night.
We get to watch games tonight and all through the
weekend finally again. But I've been on the Packers bandlegon
and I've been before the trade, and you know, I
still believe in Jordan Love and and then what I
think they're going to do with Golden and at the
wide receiver position, and just you know, I've talked about
Luke Muskray being there. I think that's a piece that
(26:37):
the people haven't paid attention to that I think is
going to give them that, you know, duel with Tucker
Craft and then Jordan Love and the run game. So
I like where the Packers were already. I thought they
were right on the heels, if not right in front
of the Detroit Lions at this point, I still had
Detroit a little bit ahead, but I think with this
Micah Parsons trade, I'm going to put the Packers now
over Detroit. But I think they're both you know, twelve
(26:59):
win teams.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And of course they play Sunday a lambo that's gonna
be fast. A lot of those early season matchups of
divisional with divisional implications are fascinating because you know, so often,
especially with teams limited reps in preseason, it's not really
the true look at who a team's going to be.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Yeah, and it's your point. I mean, they obviously wanted
to do that. For the most part, you think about
the Bucks and the Falcons, or the Browns and the Bengals.
So we've certainly got the Giants, Commanders, We've got a
lot of those games where it's divisional games right off
the bat and we get to kind of see what
everybody looks like. You know what's Pete Carroll's Team's going
to look like? You know what do the Raiders look like?
With Gino Smith's it's just you know, against the Patriots team,
and everybody's darling that they feel like there's going to
(27:41):
be the big team that makes the big move this year.
So we'll see what Brave One Company have done in
New England. But yeah, it's going to be fascinating this
week to see Cam Wore be able to be the
starting quarterback for an entire game and what does that
look like compared to what Caleb Williams and how much
did he grow from your year one to year two?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Arch Manning, what did you think of his debut as
Texas full time starter?
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Yeah, you know it's a hard place to play, you can,
you can put that out there that you know it's
a tough place to play, and you know it wasn't.
But you you know, part of me is like, I
know the name is phenomenal, right, the Manning name, the Manning,
But and I liked Queen Ewers. I thought he was
I never thought he was gonna go all the way
in the seventh round to the Dolphins. But you know,
(28:20):
Arch didn't beat out Queen years. And so when you
sit there and watch that, yes it's one game, and
yes there's so much expectation on and it's probably the
toughest way to start your college career. But it was
concerning for me. And you know, I know that he's
gonna have some games where it's gonna be a lot
more productive, but you know, to be the best, you've
got to be on top of your game, and I
(28:41):
know that some great quarterbacks don't start great. We'll see
what Arch Manning does, but it would be hard to
say that wasn't disappointing, just from a statistical perspective.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
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Speaker 8 (29:54):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Dan so excited Doug for this Friday, the first of
seventeen straight weeks. No seventeen straight weeks, because Week eighteen
is pretty much garbage in the NFL unless you have
like three or four games that matter. So this is
this is the first of seventeen. I'm not a fan
(30:25):
of Week eighteen and I'll even get to more of
that coming up after the top of the hour, which
tells you why this Chargers thing in Brazil is so egregious.
It's just it's just such a bad look by the NFL.
That's later. Now we play a game, and the game
today Doug is I got DIBs. I throw out a topic.
Everybody gets to jump in with their own answer. This
(30:46):
includes Sam and Jason. They can beat Doug and myself
to the punch.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Here.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Who's got DIBs on players winning the NFL MVP for
twenty twenty five? I got dat oh Jason's first, Oh,
I got in, I got in?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Okay, So uh Dan does this really cool thing where
he puts the uh this list of predictions in the studio,
all the talent and producers fill it out, and then
we see at the end who's fool who's right on?
I predicted Jalen Hurts is my MVP this year, and
I think last night was a case for his MVP candidacy.
(31:22):
A quarterback's ability to win a game where your team
is playing ugly that is an MVP caliber performance. I
got DIBs on Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I got DIBs on Joe Burrow because I always take
Joe Burrow every year till he wins one. Give me
the Bengals quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think Joe Burrow is gonna put up ridiculous numbers.
I actually like. I like both of those picks. I'd
love to find fault with out of those picks, Like
both of those picks. Are you doing there, Doug, I'm
gonna I'm gonna go with Jordan Love. Jordan Love. Yes,
I got Matthew Golden, who's got a chance to be
Rookie of the Year wide receiver. He's got a good
(31:57):
running game, he's got a good team, gotta win. Hey,
put up good numbers the past two years, not great,
but hurt last year obviously coming off of thumb injury.
So far this year, I'm gonna go Jordan Love.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Keep in mind a year ago today, he was the
popular pick to win MVP, like the popular like, yeah,
the trendy pick. You know, I'll go outside the obvious
and Jordan Love and he came up way short.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, I gotta take dibbs on who I picked on
this laminate sheet, and that would be the Texans own C. J.
Stroud for MVP coming off that great rookie year than
a sophomore slumping kind of year. Still still okay, But
I think he's gonna He's got some weapons. He's got
a lot of weapons. He's got some Joe Mixon's dinged up.
Tank Dalla was hurt last year, but they brought in
(32:49):
Jaden Higgins Christian Kirks out against the Rams, and they
got my guy Nico College. Yes, and Target, They've they
drafted two guys out of Iowa State who should help
them in the passing game as an.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Iowa as an Ohio State player ever won the MVP.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Oh gosh, great question. Yeah, not that I can think
of off hand. I'll look it up. Go ahead, guys,
all right, Okay, NFL head coach on the hottest of
hot seats? Who's the NFL head coach on the hottest
of hot seats? I got DIBs on Brian Dabole. Now,
I think that there was a way off of it.
(33:27):
But the Giants right now are a team that is
I mean, I think Joe Shane's on the hottest of
hot seats as well as GM, but I'll put Brian
Dabole of the Giants.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I got DIBs on Zach Taylor of the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Maybe it started last year, but uh yeah, all those
close losses.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Zach Taylor, Yeah, he's been on the hot seat for
a couple of years ago and then all of a
sudden it's come back around.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
I got DIBs on Shane Steichens.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That's the way I know.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
It's it's the same ownership family, but it's a different
different people in charge over there. They didn't choose Shane Steichen.
I have a feeling him and our guy, let's see
GM's name, Ballard. I think they might be gone by
the end of the season. You heard it here first.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Wow predictions from Jason Stewart. I'm gonna go with Mike McDaniel.
He was the apple of everybody's eye a couple of
years ago, got a little swagger to him, but seems
to have a weird locker room and Tyreek Hill doesn't help.
But you can't win without Tyreek Hill doesn't help inter
the locker room is what I meant, Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's the hot seat Bowl in Indy coming up on Sunday.
Dolphins and Colts. Whoever wins should sit on a chair
of ice so their yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The hot seat is off.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
We're one to er, all right, guys, on the heels
of what we expect in Ames Iowa. A great showdown
between Iowa and Iowa State. Best in state rivalries in
college football in state in state Michigan, Ohio state does
not count in this army.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
That Michigan.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm just telling for the listener. I'm not telling it
for you.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
Three.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
If I got dibbs on the Sidehawk game coming up
tomorrow on Fox Big New Kick, how many picks can
I make one?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
I mean, I'm I kind of like I'm contractually obligated
to take Bedlam, but it's actually not been particularly close
and they don't play this year, so that doesn't count.
I'm going to go with one that is outside the box.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Definitely in my top five to seven states in the
Union that I love, and maybe in more underrated state
in the Union that I love is the Palmetto State.
Clemson South Carolina. I know, Clemson Comma South Carolina against
South Carolina, which they took a year off because there
(36:01):
was that nasty fight Lou Holtz this last game.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Say coach, absolutely, I'm just I'm gonna get take DIBs
on us c U C l A.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
What about the Civil War between Oregon Oregon State? What
about the isn't the Holy War?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
B y u?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Utah?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Oh that's the one I should have picked. Sorry, Utah.
Oh gosh, can I take it back? Sure? Yeah? Yes,
Apple Cup was another Jason, do you have one?
Speaker 6 (36:33):
I was gonna go. You see us.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Montana Montana State's pretty cool. That's game.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
This is game time on the missed that one?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Egg Bowl? Did miss that one? All right, we'll talk
Chargers chiefs. Why Dan Bayer does not think this game
should be played in Brazil next to The Doug Gotlieb Show,
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Do Do Do Do Do Do. I'll be having a
great day. It's a football Friday, and we're here to
celebrate it with you. Crash off our first NFL game
of the season. Do Dan Buyer's here, Jay Stew's here,
Iowa Sam's here getting ready for the cy Hawk Trophy
(00:48):
to be handed out tomorrow. In Ames, was that in Iowa?
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It might have been New Hampshire when he where wasn't Iowa?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Iowa Caucus.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That was an all time tim right because he won
the Iowa Caucus.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
John Kerry came in, uh kind of like as an underdog,
and Howard Dean was like the front runner in the
in the press, and then Howard John Kerry ended up
winning it. So then Howard Dean was like, no, we're
gonna press on, and that's when he goes.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, no. Well first he said like, well, we're gonna
got a new Hams, right, whatever happened to him?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Hey he's around.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
They're always around.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, they're always practicing medicine.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Still, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Was he a doctor? Yeah, must let's just start. I
was wrong. I'm not smart. I didn't know. The Cowboys
were actually looked yesterday like a really pretty good football team. Now.
Was it helped out by one of the most dynamic
(01:57):
defensive linemen in the league getting thrown out before the
game really began. Sure, but I think we can all
sit there and go like yeah. It was also helped
out in the fact that Ceedee Lamb suddenly forgot how
to catch a football for the Cowboys. There's a lot
to get to it last night's game. But I didn't
think it would be terribly competitive, and it was, and
(02:18):
it had everything that was a fun game. It had everything.
It had just enough like Michael Jordan was there, some
of the some comedians were there, some actors. They had
just enough of the pomp and circumstance. It had a
weather delay, which I feel was more commonplace in college
(02:39):
football this time of year. Usually the first couple of weeks,
there's always a thunderstorm, lightning. Games are postponed or or
delayed or whatever. That happened last night. It had an ejection,
It had a big fumble or two, it had it
had a little bit of everything. But I mean, I
(03:01):
was wrong. That was a winnable game by the Cowboys
and a well played game by Dak Prescott. Here's Nick Sirianni,
head coach of the Eagles, defending Super Bowl champions, on
the errors his team made throughout the game.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I want these guys to play with great energy, great
tenacity while doing it within the rules of the game.
So we'll address that. We talked about that obviously at
halftime because I felt like, you know, that's a really
good offense, and every one of their drives in that
first half that resulted in points were all penalties, you know,
(03:36):
And now you know a p I, which that's that's different.
That's in the heat of the game. Those those are
gonna happen. But you know, I know we had one
with Nolan and one with JC and that creates short
fields for for an offense.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
What do you do buyer. I mean to me with
the Jaalen Carter thing, I mean, he had a pre
existing reputation was one of the reasons he sort of
slipped a couple picks in the draft. He's crazy, crazy talented.
It does appear if you watch the video. Like I
(04:15):
don't know if he was goaded into it. I mean,
if we're honest with ourselves, he shouldn't have been close
to the Cowboys huddle right like the ball was five
yards away. He was supposed to be on the other
side of the football, but he wasn't because he was
talking ish to the Cowboys before they get ready for
their first snap. Dak Prescott could have just done his
(04:35):
deal and let one of his linemen take care of
it instead. Now he kind of walks over, does little
John Wayne walk spits on the ground, and then gets
spit in his chest. I don't know whether or not
it cleared the chest into that neck area, but I
do like the fact that we now know there was
a second spitter. Like Seinfeld, you know what I'm talking about,
back until left, back until left. But I don't know
(05:01):
what else you do, Like you pointed out, but he
missed a game because of it. So I kind of
think we're good. Like, if you have another issue, all right,
we're gonna have to sit you for another game or
have to the only thing that he lacked, and I'll
probably he'll probably get it here in the mail is
a fine, and he'll probably get it from the league.
But I don't know what you do with Jalen Carter
(05:21):
when he was in fact suspended for a game for
hawking a quick little loogie on Dak Prescott's chest.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, I look at it differently. I mean, I think
he got kicked out of a game. I don't think
that the penalty is. It's different if the Eagles are like,
you know what, you did this in practice, You're not
gonna play on Sunday or you're not gonna play on
Thursday night. It's completely different than this, which, by the way,
I thought that completely took the juice and any of
the wind out of the Eagles sales for what could
(05:51):
have been an exciting first quarter or ramped up first
quarter because of you defending your Super Bowl crown in
the open on Thursday night. I think it took everything
away from Philadelphia. And I do think that it could
be a sign of things to come because of what
you laid out with Jalen Carter. There was a reason
(06:11):
he fell in the draft and the great play that
he's had. Doug has made Howie Roseman look like a
genius up until this point. But now you have a
Super Bowl ring, and if it's not Jalen Carter, are
other players also falling victim to this sort of thing
of Hey, maybe we don't have to maybe now it's
(06:32):
more about me since we got that ring. I tweet
the last night I took five seconds for us to
hate the Eagles again, Like that was really quick.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I saw I saw that tweet. And my problem was,
I was at a I was at a gathering and
I'm like, saw your tweet and I look up and
I'm like, I don't even know what he's talking about.
And then people are like elbowing and needling, and I
go look up, like when did that happen? Like before
the first snap?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, it was. That was a weird one.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So it just tells me like there was nothing that
Nick Sirianni or Vic Fangio or Howie Roseman or Jeffrey
Lourie or anybody did to have Jalen Carter say grow
up in the offseason from the Super Bowl. Him getting
kicked out isn't the one game penalty and move on.
I think it's more of it could be representative of
maybe what this is all about with the Philadelphia Eagles.
(07:22):
I think that there are pitfalls like this. After you win,
does everybody want to get fat and get their own
We shall see seventeen more weeks to play sixteen more games.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That was as classic an Eagles win early in the
season as you're gonna find. Was it two years ago?
They were like ten and one to start the season,
and we're like, and it seemed like every game was
an escape? Yeah, you know, and then yeah, that's what
that felt like. Cowboys felt like the better team last night.
If he didn't know that that the Eagles won the
(07:53):
Super Bowl, if he didn't know they had Saquon, if
he didn't know that the Giants had trade away their
best defensive player, you'd be like, we just watching these
two teams. The one with the star in their helmet's
probably better. They just made some mistakes and weren't able
to capitalize as much. But that's how the Eagles win.
And I think the one thing you do caution yourself
(08:13):
against And this sounds like the opposite of coach speak.
Am I do I like to implore more discipline on
my team? Sure? Sure, but you do in football you
do have to have that edge. Right. It's like they
want you to block not just to the whistle, but
to the end of the whistle, right before they let
off the whistle. Right, there's just that little there's a
(08:36):
level of aggression, there's a level of energy. There's that
magical level, if you will, that you're trying to get to.
And you don't want to take it away from Jalen Carter,
but this, as you point out, that tracks like anything
you've read about Jalen Carter leading up into the NFL
and some once he's been in the NFL. Is why
(08:56):
he is again why Howie Roseman took a risk that
others weren't willing to take. Here's Brian Schottenheimer after coaching
his first game as a head coach with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
I don't worry about see lamb. See He's gonna be fine.
What a great player. Again, you know this was a
this was a team defeat, and uh, we own that.
You know, we understand where we can go as a
football team. We understand. I love the competition. I thought
guys competed their butts off. I thought that was great.
But we're all about winning, and we didn't win tonight,
and so therefore it's not good enough.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here's the other thing we probably missed on Brian Schottenheimer. Now,
the first thing is Dak Prescott looked really good and
really mobile. And I would also point out that again
we've we've never held Dak in the regards of the
elite quarterbacks, and I think rightfully so, because he's never
performed well enough in the playoffs to earn that distinction.
(09:52):
But Jerry is not an idiot. He did put a
bunch of money in him, and after last night, like
you know what. But the old man still may know
a thing or two about a football player. But the
thing that the Cowboys made sure they did with their
head coach is have continuity. The reason they held on
(10:13):
to Schottenheimer was Dak really liked him. They worked together well.
He felt like his offense, his style, his play calling.
That works for him. So while we're concern ourselves with Pickens,
who still has he's talented but still got a lot
of turn in him, he doesn't block things, he doesn't
murders routes all out of stack in the ball. But
(10:33):
while we're so concerned with their wide receiving core, their
offensive line, their ability to run the football, or whatever,
what I thought last night was it was a win
for continuity. Now that will start to even out the
later we get into the season, because the Eagles have
a new offensive cordon or a new play caller, so
it's always going to be a little bit new, a
little bit different, and take a little bit of an
adjustment period. And they didn't play in the preseason. But
(10:56):
last night was a little bit of a win. Was
a win for the Cowboys, even though they lost, because
we all thought they were gonna get blown out and
they didn't, and they looked like the better team. They
just didn't make a couple plays here or there that
should have solidified them as the better team, or at
least make the Eagles play a little bit better, make
the Eagles throw the ball down the field, something they
didn't have to do last night or couldn't do.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
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Speaker 1 (11:29):
Or Start one sport ends. This is Doug Gottlieb show
Fox Sports Radio. So last night we had the first
NFL game of the season. The WNBA season ended last night. Like, no,
they're sam they still playing.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
They're just wrapping up the regular season in the next
probably either they have or they will be. It's the
end of the season pretty much.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
What mean they have or they will be.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
They might have one game left.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We got about a week to go, okay week in
the regular season, two games left?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, right, but Kaitlyn Clark announced that on social media
that she's going to miss the remainder of the season, right,
so nobody cares now it's over.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Correct, Well, they canceled the playoffs. They're just gonna runekidding.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's that's a good player right there. Like tonight was
isn't tonight Chicago and Angel Reese against Indiana the fever
and supposed to be Kaitlyn Clark, right, but there's no
Sophie Cunningham. There's no Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So, and there's no Angel Reese because she got suspended
for her eighth technical of the season.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Did she Yes? I had no idea. All I knew
about Angel Reese was she said that they need to
get better players around her in Chicago. And then she said,
she said it was taken out of context. How so
how is that possibly taken out of context? We need
we need to have great players, you know, we just
to have better players around me. That was taken out
(12:51):
of context, Like, huh, you know what we need? Uh?
We need to do a segment and then maybe expand it.
We've done this before. We we clean up misused popular phrases,
misused propaly and my favorite or least favorite one is
(13:14):
I couldn't care less, which is misused as I could
care less, right, because if you could care less, that
means you care there's an amount you could care less.
The actual term is I couldn't care less. I care
so little. There's no amount less than how I care.
So that's the proper usage of the phrase I could
(13:36):
not care less. It's just like people will say that's
a tough road to hoe. No, it's a tough row
to hoe. Right. The hoe is the garden tool variety.
And if again it's an impossible road to hoe, no
one can hoe a road but row. It's a tough road,
(13:57):
tough anyway. I say that because people misuse expressions, and
in this case, she's misusing a word. This is angel Reaes.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
By the way, are you frustrated with the organization or
frustrated in general? I don't think I'm frustrated. I probably
am frustrated in myself right now. I think the language
is taken out of context. And I really didn't intentionally
mean to put down my teammates because they've been through
this with me throughout the whole year. They've busted their
(14:27):
eyes just how I bust some my eyes. They showed
up for me through thick and thin and in the
locker room when nobody could see anything. So I would
apologize to my teammates, which I already have, about the
article and how it was misconstrued, about what was said.
And I just have to be better with my language
because I know it's not the message, just the messenger,
and understanding what I say can be taken any kind
(14:49):
of way. So I just have to really be better
and grow from this.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Okay, So it's not she goes into cliches, it's not
the messengers the messenger, which means it is on her,
which I do agree with, but it's not being taken
out of context. She has to be she has to
understand the words she says and how they land with
anybody that's not taken out of context. Yes, Stanbyron, you.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Know it's funny because I actually thought that she was
passing the buck when she was saying that by saying,
it's not the message, it's the messenger soever. Whoever took
her message is the one that's and this is I
think part of the problem is I thought that so
because I don't give her the benefit of the doubt
(15:35):
because of everything else that has happened prior to this.
Even if she was being legit in that case and
taking responsibility, it didn't necessarily sound like that. So I
automatically defaulted to thinking like, Oh, she's mad at whatever
article or whatever writer or podcast or whoever took her
comments and made them sound like the way that they did.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
It was a writer for Front Office Sports, and by
all accounts, this writer is very reputable. I've seen journalists
in the last two days come out and defend her professionalism.
Remember it was Angel Reis who said that it's not
just one person that is responsible for the rise in popularity.
It's two I did it too, and then she told
(16:20):
us that we took her out of context.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Remember, yeah, she doesn't know what out of context means.
It just she doesn't know what out of context means.
She is using out of context, out of context. You
see what he did there. I'm pretty proud of myself,
actually really proud of myself. My point was, there's no
Kaven Clark, no Sophie Cunningham. They can play a million
(16:42):
more games. Are we even going to care? And this
is this will be fascinating. Let's see what the playoff
numbers look like. Now, I'm just you can tell us
the league is taking this massive jump. They're doing a
better job of teching it, putting it on network TV,
but prooves in the pudding you get to the playoffs,
(17:03):
which again mistake to play him against the NFL in
college football. But no, ain't no no Caitlin Clark, no
Sophie Cunningham. Good luck that was part of the Eagles
twenty four to twenty win. Let's welcome in Mark Dominic.
He spent over twenty years in NFL front offices, scouting
and of course works his way up to being the
general manager of the Tampay Buccaneers joins us for his
weekly Friday visit here on the show, Mark, was just
(17:27):
your reaction to the game last night?
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Well, did see right twenty one to twenty halftime and
only three more points to the rest of the game.
You know, felt like it was going to be a
shootout the whole way. But it turns out like the
legs of the quarterbacks proved to be just as valuable
sometimes as their arms. And for Jalen Hurts, I think
that showed obviously last night.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I was surprised at how competitive the Cowboys were.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Were you, yes, and the fact you know that they
had opportunities, you know, with the fumble standers and obviously
the drop balls by Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They tie.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
It's the winding game, you know, losing Jalen Carter. You know,
in the pre with with Dak Prescott and the spitting,
you could see that that was an impact on this
team and that defense. But yeah, I mean I was
impressed by the Cowboys and you know New News you
know situation there with coach Schottenheimer, and yeah, they were
absolutely in this game, had a chance to win it,
which was incredible when you're when you think about playing
(18:21):
the filled up the Eagles Week one.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What do you do with Jalen Carter if you're.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
The Eagles, Well, I think you you've already dealt with
it internally, but you understood. I mean, it's the whole adage, right, Doug.
It's you depends how good the players, It depends on
how you're going to handle it. You know, him missing
the game is a lot of punishment. Uh, you know,
they got away with the win. A saint. That's all
you'll see. I think you'll you'll hear the We've talked
to him about it. He's going to grow and learn
(18:44):
from this speeches and it's not going to happen again
kind of stuff. And I don't expect it to happen again.
It's a big, big mistake, a huge lesson. It feels
like we get one of these every couple about every decade,
right as he goes. Albert Hainsworth was the last one
like this.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, Miles Garrett swung as helmeted at Mason Rudolph. You
know he actually the fact that it happened before the
game started and he got kicked out actually probably helped
him because happens at the end of the game or
in the third quarter, and I'm like, now, we got
to set him for a game, right, So now you're like, ah,
he sat for a game and we go. The only
thing they didn't get was a fine, But the NFL
(19:18):
can still find him. Mark Dominic's our guest here on
the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. How do
the Eagles do this? And I bring it up because
this kind of reminds me of two years ago, right
where they started out ten and one to start the season.
They're like, Eh, they don't look that great, and last
night they were kind of outplayed. Jalen Hurtsch was not
(19:41):
able to complete anything like more than ten yards down
the field, and yet they end up one to zero,
and you know, and going into week two with an
extra couple of days to prep, why in your mind
are they able to win games in which at times
they're outplayed.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Well, Barkley's a big piece of that. Us would both know, right.
I mean, his ability to make a play when it
needs to be made certainly feels like it. And you're
right on Jalen. I mean, besides the throw to Jehan Dotson,
I mean he threw from basically a one hundred yards
on on eighteen attempts both quarterbacks. You know, there are
yards per attempt or was pretty shockingly low. I think
the Eagles stay in this because they've been there, done this.
(20:18):
I think because they're kind of used to playing different
games and different levels. Do they play to the level
of their opponent potentially, but at the same point, you know,
this is some of the I think some of the
rust because we really rest players now in the Nation
Football League through the preseason. You know, they don't play
as much preseason game as they used to play when
(20:38):
we had four games, actually played more, they played less now,
So I think part of that is just coming out
maybe not crisp. You know, we had the one fumble,
no interceptions last night, no really just the one sack,
and so I think it's just more of everybody kind
of you know, getting their legs underneath them and getting
ready for real football. And then you know, that's what's
going to be great about this weekend is watching every
play and see which teams are even more prepared in
(21:00):
which teams, you know, came out flat. I think for
both teams, they seem to be prepared for the game.
Even the Eagles certainly made this a lot closer than
we all thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We're going to talk about this next hour, So Dan,
don't worry. You're going to get a chance, because I
know Dan hates this game. That the Chargers and the
Chiefs are playing a divisional game in Brazil. What are
your feelings on it?
Speaker 9 (21:23):
So I love that we're playing in Brazil. I hate
that we're playing a divisional game in Brazil. I just
don't think divisional games are so critical and so important
in terms of playoff seeding and what happens. And I
think that it's so important to have your home games,
when you have your home games or your road games.
But you know, ideally this is maybe the Chiefs versus
some of the AFC, or maybe it's the Chargers versus
(21:45):
something in the AFC. But you know, I don't love
that it's a divisional game. But I'm very excited to
see this game tonight, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Well as a Charger fan, and Jase du can attest
to this, the disparity in the road fans versus the
home fans is not as great as it once was,
but it's still not great. I'd actually say Chargers probably
have a chance at a better fifty to fifty split
in Brazil than they do in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
I would I fully agree with that. I think it's
going to be you know, much more, you know, having
been an opportunity to you know, be the gym of
the Bucks and taking it a couple of trips over
to London and play there. You know, when you take
it out of the country, it's pretty interest It feels
like a Super Bowl because it's you know, there's going
to be Tony Romo jerseys and there's going to be
you know, Pittsburgh Steelers jersey there. But I still think
(22:34):
the Chargers will support and it'll look more fifty to
fifty than it would be lopside of like you would
expect the.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Get to be Soull Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
what are you most intrigued about. Let's start with the Chargers.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Well, I mean, I think it just goes down to
justin Herbert, right, and just what he's going to be
able to, you know, do this year basically all the
volume of work he's had, but also you know, being
in the system now longer, and what he's going to
be able to I think accomplish. You're not a huge
Chargers fan. You know, hated the injury that was brutal
to them, and you know it's slater and everything. But
(23:07):
I still like the Chargers offensively. I still like what
they're going to be able to do and move the ball.
I believe in that, So I'm excited about that. I'm
excited to see, uh, you know, Omar Hampton run the
ball and see what he looks like in a Chargers uniform.
And I think the main thing is it's it's the
loss of Joey Bosa. But you know, I think Tuley
(23:30):
is going to be a guy that's going to step
up on the outside and be a ten sack plus
guy this year that I think is going to erupt
onto the National Footballague. Here's a guy that's going a
great passershop has been stuck and now he's going to
have a chance to be the guy. And I think
he's going to own up to it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
All Right. What about the chief same question? What most
injudes you?
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Your offensive line? Just what's it going to look like?
How's it actually going to come together for the Kanca Chiefs.
Are they going to be able to protect Mahomes this year.
I loved Josh Simmons pick. I've loved watching him on tape.
It's the right side in terms of Jan Taylor, how
does he play? And you know, not having Joe there
at left guard is going to be something to watch too, obviously,
So left guard, right tackle. To me, it's the offensive
(24:08):
line of what it looks like. But I'm very excited
for Josh Simmons. I think the Chiefs, uh, you know,
pulled a fast one on everybody with him sliding with
the injury. He looks fantastic when he played.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I don't
think we've talked since MIKEH. Parsons was traded. What'd you
think of the deal?
Speaker 10 (24:27):
So, I front was a little short sighted in my opinion, Uh,
from whose perspective? From the Cowboys perspective, like, look, I
love Kenny Clark, you know, and that's you know, that's
he's a very, very very good player and he will
help the Cowboys in the run game all season long.
But two first round picks to me, is just not
enough value for what he can bring and what you're
(24:51):
what you're losing. I mean, you think about the Chargers
and you know they drafted Lucas Manness a couple of
years ago in the first round, and that hasn't panned out.
So it's easiest to then and go, well, he's twenty six.
You know, I'm going to have to draft the pass
rusher next year anyway, So now I'm really just giving
up one for the sure thing. The only thing, you know,
I don't know about this back being a real issue.
I don't believe it is at all. You I don't
think you get this bar down the road on the trade,
(25:11):
and certainly with that kind of money, would you ever
signed the player if you felt the back was some
type of an issue. I just I feel like that.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
If the Cowboys ended up doing this, it would have
been ideally done before the draft if you're going to
move in. But I don't think that anybody really understood
where the market was or where it was going. And
I think for the Packers, you know, I'd like to trade.
I hate the contract. If i'm you know, I'm never
mat at the player. Get as much money as you can,
but they just obliterated, you know, the contracts of defensive ends.
(25:38):
I mean, you look around the National Football and you
start to think about the guys that you know just
redid their deals because they're you know, worried about you know,
they feel like they're under I mean, it made Max
Crosby's deals, which tried to be right wrong again. I mean,
it was such an anomaly contract. It's almost Deshn Watson like.
I know, it's not fully guaranteed, but it jumped so
(26:00):
when there was already you know, pieces there that said, hey,
you could blueprint off that. But kudos to the player
and the agent. You know, if you're gonna get that
kind of money, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's gonna be fascinating. Okay, So what does it do
for the Packers this year? For your personal expectations of
the Packers.
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Yeah, so, as you know, and as we've talked, and
I'm very thankful that we had a game last night.
We get to watch games tonight and all through the
weekend finally again. But I've been on the Packers bandlegon
and I've been before the trade, and you know, I
still believe in Jordan Love and and then what I
think they're going to do with Golden and at the
wide receiver position, and just you know, I've talked about
Luke Muskray being there. I think that's a piece that
(26:37):
the people haven't paid attention to that I think is
going to give them that, you know, duel with Tucker
Craft and then Jordan Love and the run game. So
I like where the Packers were already. I thought they
were right on the heels, if not right in front
of the Detroit Lions at this point, I still had
Detroit a little bit ahead, but I think with this
Micah Parsons trade, I'm going to put the Packers now
over Detroit. But I think they're both you know, twelve
(26:59):
win teams.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And of course they play Sunday a lambo that's gonna
be fast. A lot of those early season matchups of
divisional with divisional implications are fascinating because you know, so often,
especially with teams limited reps in preseason, it's not really
the true look at who a team's going to be.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Yeah, and it's your point. I mean, they obviously wanted
to do that. For the most part, you think about
the Bucks and the Falcons, or the Browns and the Bengals.
So we've certainly got the Giants, Commanders, We've got a
lot of those games where it's divisional games right off
the bat and we get to kind of see what
everybody looks like. You know what's Pete Carroll's Team's going
to look like? You know what do the Raiders look like?
With Gino Smith's it's just you know, against the Patriots team,
and everybody's darling that they feel like there's going to
(27:41):
be the big team that makes the big move this year.
So we'll see what Brave One Company have done in
New England. But yeah, it's going to be fascinating this
week to see Cam Wore be able to be the
starting quarterback for an entire game and what does that
look like compared to what Caleb Williams and how much
did he grow from your year one to year two?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Arch Manning, what did you think of his debut as
Texas full time starter?
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Yeah, you know it's a hard place to play, you can,
you can put that out there that you know it's
a tough place to play, and you know it wasn't.
But you you know, part of me is like, I
know the name is phenomenal, right, the Manning name, the Manning,
But and I liked Queen Ewers. I thought he was
I never thought he was gonna go all the way
in the seventh round to the Dolphins. But you know,
(28:20):
Arch didn't beat out Queen years. And so when you
sit there and watch that, yes it's one game, and
yes there's so much expectation on and it's probably the
toughest way to start your college career. But it was
concerning for me. And you know, I know that he's
gonna have some games where it's gonna be a lot
more productive, but you know, to be the best, you've
got to be on top of your game, and I
(28:41):
know that some great quarterbacks don't start great. We'll see
what Arch Manning does, but it would be hard to
say that wasn't disappointing, just from a statistical perspective.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
All right. That is the one and only Mark Dominic
twenty years in NFL front offices, most notably the gentle
manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He joins this weekly
Mark Enjoy the Football Tonight Sunday and into Monday. NFL
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Speaker 9 (29:03):
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Speaker 8 (29:05):
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Speaker 8 (29:54):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Dan so excited Doug for this Friday, the first of
seventeen straight weeks. No seventeen straight weeks, because Week eighteen
is pretty much garbage in the NFL unless you have
like three or four games that matter. So this is
this is the first of seventeen. I'm not a fan
(30:25):
of Week eighteen and I'll even get to more of
that coming up after the top of the hour, which
tells you why this Chargers thing in Brazil is so egregious.
It's just it's just such a bad look by the NFL.
That's later. Now we play a game, and the game
today Doug is I got DIBs. I throw out a topic.
Everybody gets to jump in with their own answer. This
(30:46):
includes Sam and Jason. They can beat Doug and myself
to the punch.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
Here.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Who's got DIBs on players winning the NFL MVP for
twenty twenty five? I got dat oh Jason's first, Oh,
I got in, I got in?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Okay, So uh Dan does this really cool thing where
he puts the uh this list of predictions in the studio,
all the talent and producers fill it out, and then
we see at the end who's fool who's right on?
I predicted Jalen Hurts is my MVP this year, and
I think last night was a case for his MVP candidacy.
(31:22):
A quarterback's ability to win a game where your team
is playing ugly that is an MVP caliber performance. I
got DIBs on Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I got DIBs on Joe Burrow because I always take
Joe Burrow every year till he wins one. Give me
the Bengals quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think Joe Burrow is gonna put up ridiculous numbers.
I actually like. I like both of those picks. I'd
love to find fault with out of those picks, Like
both of those picks. Are you doing there, Doug, I'm
gonna I'm gonna go with Jordan Love. Jordan Love. Yes,
I got Matthew Golden, who's got a chance to be
Rookie of the Year wide receiver. He's got a good
(31:57):
running game, he's got a good team, gotta win. Hey,
put up good numbers the past two years, not great,
but hurt last year obviously coming off of thumb injury.
So far this year, I'm gonna go Jordan Love.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Keep in mind a year ago today, he was the
popular pick to win MVP, like the popular like, yeah,
the trendy pick. You know, I'll go outside the obvious
and Jordan Love and he came up way short.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Yeah, I gotta take dibbs on who I picked on
this laminate sheet, and that would be the Texans own C. J.
Stroud for MVP coming off that great rookie year than
a sophomore slumping kind of year. Still still okay, But
I think he's gonna He's got some weapons. He's got
a lot of weapons. He's got some Joe Mixon's dinged up.
Tank Dalla was hurt last year, but they brought in
(32:49):
Jaden Higgins Christian Kirks out against the Rams, and they
got my guy Nico College. Yes, and Target, They've they
drafted two guys out of Iowa State who should help
them in the passing game as an.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Iowa as an Ohio State player ever won the MVP.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Oh gosh, great question. Yeah, not that I can think
of off hand. I'll look it up. Go ahead, guys,
all right, Okay, NFL head coach on the hottest of
hot seats? Who's the NFL head coach on the hottest
of hot seats? I got DIBs on Brian Dabole. Now,
I think that there was a way off of it.
(33:27):
But the Giants right now are a team that is
I mean, I think Joe Shane's on the hottest of
hot seats as well as GM, but I'll put Brian
Dabole of the Giants.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I got DIBs on Zach Taylor of the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Maybe it started last year, but uh yeah, all those
close losses.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Zach Taylor, Yeah, he's been on the hot seat for
a couple of years ago and then all of a
sudden it's come back around.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
I got DIBs on Shane Steichens.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
That's the way I know.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
It's it's the same ownership family, but it's a different
different people in charge over there. They didn't choose Shane Steichen.
I have a feeling him and our guy, let's see
GM's name, Ballard. I think they might be gone by
the end of the season. You heard it here first.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Wow predictions from Jason Stewart. I'm gonna go with Mike McDaniel.
He was the apple of everybody's eye a couple of
years ago, got a little swagger to him, but seems
to have a weird locker room and Tyreek Hill doesn't help.
But you can't win without Tyreek Hill doesn't help inter
the locker room is what I meant, Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's the hot seat Bowl in Indy coming up on Sunday.
Dolphins and Colts. Whoever wins should sit on a chair
of ice so their yes, all right?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The hot seat is off.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
We're one to er, all right, guys, on the heels
of what we expect in Ames Iowa. A great showdown
between Iowa and Iowa State. Best in state rivalries in
college football in state in state Michigan, Ohio state does
not count in this army.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
That Michigan.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm just telling for the listener. I'm not telling it
for you.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
Three.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
If I got dibbs on the Sidehawk game coming up
tomorrow on Fox Big New Kick, how many picks can
I make one?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
I mean, I'm I kind of like I'm contractually obligated
to take Bedlam, but it's actually not been particularly close
and they don't play this year, so that doesn't count.
I'm going to go with one that is outside the box.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Definitely in my top five to seven states in the
Union that I love, and maybe in more underrated state
in the Union that I love is the Palmetto State.
Clemson South Carolina. I know, Clemson Comma South Carolina against
South Carolina, which they took a year off because there
(36:01):
was that nasty fight Lou Holtz this last game.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Say coach, absolutely, I'm just I'm gonna get take DIBs
on us c U C l A.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
What about the Civil War between Oregon Oregon State? What
about the isn't the Holy War?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
B y u?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Utah?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Oh that's the one I should have picked. Sorry, Utah.
Oh gosh, can I take it back? Sure? Yeah? Yes,
Apple Cup was another Jason, do you have one?
Speaker 6 (36:33):
I was gonna go. You see us.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Montana Montana State's pretty cool. That's game.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
This is game time on the missed that one?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Egg Bowl? Did miss that one? All right, we'll talk
Chargers chiefs. Why Dan Bayer does not think this game
should be played in Brazil next to The Doug Gotlieb Show,
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