July 18, 2024 • 37 mins
Doug talks about the upcoming Olympic Games and explains why the sport of Swimming is the most Olympic sport of all of the sports.Doug welcomes NFL analytics expert Warren Sharp onto the show to talk about Jordan Love. the Chiefs, and all of the other headlines around the NFL. Plus, Nick Coop takes Doug through a Thursday edition of "The Press".
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So the Olympics are upon us, right, and it's weird
like in nineteen eighty four, I was eight years old
and the Olympics came to Los Angeles, and I've heard
people say, like Lebron say like, well, I'm getting out
of LA when the Olympics come. Okay, Well I understand
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that Lebron has played in the Olympics, but I gotta
tell you it's kind of awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I know there's certain things they're doing. I think they're doing.
They're doing the softball in Oklahoma, right, and are they
doing the rowing there as well? Like, I know, it's
going to be spread out, it's not gonna be as
centralized as it was in eighty four, but there is
something really cool about the world's greatest athletes, all competing,
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all coming together in one place, and the chance to
go see sports you never thought you could see ever again.
Like I remember, we saw the Olympic basketball team play
in eighty four. That was Michael Jordan. They had an
exhibition game at cal State Fullarton, which, of course cal
State Fullerton is known basically for three things. Great baseball, Hey,
Phil Nevin, my great baseball. They used to have a
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football team, great baseball, Bruce Bowen and Leon Wood probably
was a member of the Olympic team in eighty four.
And it's also the alma mater of Jason Stewart, right,
I mean there's actually is there a statue or just
a plaque out front Jay stewo.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's a copy of my GPA. So well you can
go on campus and see a plaque of one point
nine to three.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Love it anyway. So if you went to what's now
the Home Depot Center, do the Galaxy still play there?
The Chargers used to play there. That used to be
the velodrome, that used to be where the where the
bike racing was in eighty four and I remember going
to it, and if you've ever seen the I think
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it's a velodrome, right, if you've ever seen it, like
that thing is insane, the pitch and the angle that
they raise spikes at so there's a lot of cool Olympics.
The people that want to get out of town like whatever, goodbye. Uh,
there's they'll do it. They did a great job in
eighty four with the traffic. Obviously Los Angeles is exponentially bigger,
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traffic is exponentially worse. But I'm guessing that they'll do
some of the similar things they did. And so many
people work from home now they can continue that. But
I was thinking about swimming that's going to be at
so FI, and I'm thinking about the Olympics that are
coming up in Paris. And look, I'm not a huge
fan of the Olympics. Now I would still go and watch,
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but like this year, part of it is anything that's
really on in a different time zone I struggle with
I'm not the ugly American. I just kind of struggle
with it. So I'm sitting here and I'm thinking to
myself self, is there any more Olympic sports? Any more
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Olympic sports than swimming? And by swimming, I mean and
swimming is brilliant, right because if you ask somebody, honestly,
I'm gonna list all these sports, where does this one rank?
You would put like swimming pretty low, but they they
almost always have it. I think they always have it,
like in the first week of competition, and let's be honest,
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we all get Olympic fatigue. You know, by the time
you get to the second or third week and they're
doing track and field, they're like, oh, this thing still on.
But in the first week you have almost always swimming,
and swimming only really works in the Olympics because well
nobody cares otherwise, Like, can anyone name any other and
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this is not to the swimming community, but to anyone
outside of the swimming community. Can anyone name anybody that
races for USA Swimming? Have you ever watched this swim
meet outside the Olympics ever? And yet during the Olympics,
from Mark Spitz to Michael Phelps to Katy Ldecki to
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everybody in between, Like these names become synonymous with American sports,
not just Olympics. And oh yeah, by the way, it
only works because of the video presentation of swimming. Otherwise,
like and just people racing in a pool. I don't
know who's who, but they do such a good job
of like you know that little arrow that comes down
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with the timing and the world record and then they
touched the wall and all of that stuff. I think
it's the most Olympic sport ever. And by that I
mean it's literally only important every four years. It's only
good because it's on TV. None of these people matter
in mainstream sports world, in the mainstream world forever except
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for during the week and a half or two weeks
in which their events take place. And yet for that
week and a half, it is literally the biggest thing
on the planet. That's my presentation of facts, chasing Stewart
your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I think it's perfect. It's a because everyone pays attention
to it times one thousand in that first week of
the Olympics. You're right, the first week, because the first
week of the two weeks is swimming. The second week
is track and field. If I'm not mistaken, but you're right,
swimming is is like the I guess what is the
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perfect example of an Olympics sport and that everyone cares
a lot. And then the annoying part of our industry
is that you get talk show hosts that act like
they know a lot about it. Yeah, for a couple
of days, and then it goes away. I can think
of a couple of hosts on this network. I think
that they're going to have a lot of swimming takes
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and then disappear for four years. But you're right, You're right.
And by the way, Amy van Dykin was, I want
to say, a gold medalist or at the very least
an Olympic swimmer who had a really bad accident. And
she is an alum of Fox Sports Radio. She hosted
a show with Rob Dibble nightly. I don't know ten
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to fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Dibbs Dibbs, Sam, are you an Olympic?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Not?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Kind of sew are you Olympic? You consume the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I only have red hot takes over the biathlon.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
It's winter.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Is that running and.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Shooting steeple chase?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Maybe it's the Uh it's where you like cross country
ski and then you stop and you have this weird
looking twenty two caliber rifle and you get down on
your on your chest and you fire at a target.
Then you get up and you continue to cross basically
GTA right, It's it's an interesting sport. Is that not
a winter sport?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It is?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's a winter sport. So I'm more into the Winter Olympics,
uh than the Summer Olympics. Uh is it? Where is
it a Paris? So it's gonna be like on yeah,
like different hours, tape delay, whatever it's going to be.
I'll catch a little bit of it. Summer Olympics not
so much into, but Olympics in general not so much into.
I think I tend to favor the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's basically GTA before GTA, right, basically GTA without shooting
actual people or punching out people and robbing them right
where you're running in your shooting and you're running in
your shooting.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I have I don't, I could be. I'm sure, I'm right.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
How do we not dominate in that? I mean just
it feels like we should be completely dominant in the run?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Where did that sport?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Did it come from? Like Russia where they'd like country
ski and like hunt at the same time, and they're
like I can cover a lot of land and I'll
carry my gun.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know they have in the Winter Olympics too, where you're
actually like skiing, right, is that is it the same?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Is the biathlon Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's only window. Yeah, I didn't know if there was
a there was a summer version.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I like this ski well that would be yeah, I
don't know, you could use how about rollerblading and shooting
a gun? I like, uh, I like skiing as well.
In the Winter Olympics, Yeah, in the cross countries, like
you know, Usain Bolt captivated us all. I mean like
he was a one of you know, one.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of the one fastest, Like look the the so he
was watch him right track and field. You're talking about
the fastest human beings on Earth.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Shakari Richardson's pretty cool. She draws a lot of eyeballs
and uh so, yeah, I mean I'll probably catch that
some some of that stuff. The swimming, you know, since
Michael Phelps and what was that kind of the the
the Mimbo guy, uh the Ryan Lockte those two like
those who are definitely memorable, but they're time Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Lockedty but but Ryan Lockety. I got to know Michael
felt a little bit last year. I did an event
with him. He's amazing, Like it's just amazing kind of
the transformation of him. I heard him speak. He was great.
But yeah, I mean, you talk about one of the biggest,
one of the most popular, fascinating athletes on the planet
and people saw him. What was it was it twelve
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three different times for like two weeks, and then never
saw him perform ever again, and yet it's still resonated.
It's kind of an amazing thing. It's the art of
the Olympic Games in which we care about things we
don't ever care about. What's amazing about the Olympics now
is you know now we used to care because well
we used to you know, our rivals worldwide, where our
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rivals in the Olympic Games right seventy two and in
the eighty Winter Olympics was against the Russians. Now because
the Russians in most sports have been exposed as frauds,
and because our enemies now don't exactly field the greatest
Olympic Olympic teams.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Does North Korea have a biathlon in the team?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
They do not?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Should they have a basketball team? Or like soccer is
not not at anyone's level, Not that our soccer team's great,
or you know, any of the things that we're good at. Yeah,
I'm fascinated by the by the Olympic thing. And I
agree with you, Jason, and that's something you'll never hear
me do. I'm not going to profess to be an
expert on anything anything.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well, the gymnastics are so huge, especially with the women,
like there's you almost have to have. Like I remember
your most one of your most resonating takes was your
take of Simone Bios when she failed. So it's gonna
be like one of those things again, like those kind
of transcendent topics. But do not try to tell me
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that you are into the Olympic trials and timing. And
this is the key term I remember in the London
Games was that the London pool was a slower pool
than the Beijing I remember that takeaway. I remember somebody
had that take. I'm like, how do you know what
makes water slower? What does that even mean? Nick Cope?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
You have takes on Olympic swimming, don't you.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I was thinking just the excitement with swimming. I wonder
how much of that is from Rowdy Gaines because as
long as I've been alive and watch, I mean, he's
just yelling through his microphone and excitement and he's been
doing it for a long time, and so I feel
like Rowdy Gaines is probably paid a little bit of
a part of that was swimming too.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Are you familiar with Rowdy Gaines?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I am familiar with Roddy Gains.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I'm not so that you just saying that is
he's the guy that does a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
He'll be the color, commented Dan.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He was.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He was a very good I don't think he was
ever the best swimmer in the world, but one of
the he was a gold medalist, I believe.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, eighty four and great.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Name, right, that's one of those things where great name. Yeah,
if his name was like Stan Gaines, probably doesn't have
nearly as good a broadcast.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Well, his real name is Ambrose, Ambrose Gains.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The fourth Ambros is a solid that's a solid name.
That's definitely obviously with the fourth. It's a family name, right,
it's Tradish. But I think but the nickname of Rowdy
like that one resonates also because you know, he was
still popular back when Rowdy Roddy Piper was dominating WWE.
Any man who can go in front of ninety three
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thousand people at the Silver Dome in a kilt, I'm
all four. So yeah, and no, it's not the same
I know it's not the same guy who swam. I
know they're different people. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show
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the tyreg dot com studios. Bob Newhart died at the
age of ninety four years old. Again this one, Nick Cope, Sam,
you guys are just.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I know who Bob Newhart is.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I know you know who he is, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I used to watch what was the show he's on? Uh,
Mary Tyler Moore?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Wow? You watch Mary Tyler Moore.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Like Nick and Knight reruns?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So also it was on he had new Heart.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah, his own show fair and he's also like the Simpsons.
He had Camas. Very funny guy, very dry sense of humor.
Great life he was.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
He was I think most famous for the one person
conversation when he was a stand up comedian. I know
my dad had cassettes and he had LPs of some
of the great comedians, Richard Pryor, which is I mean
just hysterical, but about Bob Newhart as well, and Bob Newhart.
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Would it would it would it would be as if
you were listening to me on the phone talk to
somebody else like that. That was like the one person conversation,
if you will, and I mean just a ride. And
then of course New Heart. I think the most famous
part about New Heart the TV show was one of
the characters, I'm Darryl. This my brother Darryl. I'm my
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other brother Darryl. Say Hi Darryl. A Jay dude?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You or you?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Were you a New Heart guy? At all?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I was? I was his His particular style of humor
is right at my alley.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Honestly, that's been There have been times in which I
have thought you were doing a New Heart in a
way in which you cracked me up.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
He just he never gave away the joke. If you
weren't smart enough to pick up on his humor, that
was on you. I love those kind of comics.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, he's absolutely absolutely brilliant man, brilliant man. I was
thinking about this, it's uh, what are we at July?
What day? Stay eighteenth? Isn't it fascinating that last July eighteenth,
if I would have mentioned the name Jordan Love, what
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do you think your reaction would have been? Right? Because
at the time. Jordan Love, remember, was the guy who
basically the Packers had chased Aaron Rodgers away or upset
Aaron Rodgers. All depends upon, you know, I don't know
whose side you're on or how they handle it or whatever.
But we had people, talented television people, very few football analysts,
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but mostly yackers who said he can't play. They didn't
say he's not great, he's not good, he's not top ten,
he's not top fifteen. They were people who said he
can't play. He's not an NFL caliber starting quarterback. That
was one year ago, right if I were to reracket,
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and my whole thought was like, hey, let's see how
this thing plays out. My entire thought when he was drafted,
we have the tape to prove it. My entire thought
was like I totally understood when he was drafted. It
was coming off of Aaron Rodgers having a disappointing year.
He was a project guy. He'd had two years in college,
one where he was good, one where he wasn't very good.
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He went through a ton of personal stuff going back
to when he was in middle school. High School's dad,
of course everybody knows, was a cop, committed suicide, so
there was a lot there to unpack, and he was.
He was potentially a top ten, top fifteen prospect, but
the Packers would never draft in that spot, so they
took a flyer on him because they knew the Aaron
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Rodgers thing eventually would come to an end. And last year,
this time, you guys tell me if I'm wrong, most
people thought he couldn't play, And here we are now
where the Packers seem to found their quarterback in the future.
Most people think that in the coming days before they
have camp starting Monday in Green Bay, that he'll sign
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a new deal an extension. I think he makes like
eight million dollars this year, which again that was an
extension to his rookie contract eight million dollars. Warren Sharp
joins us. He's an expert in predictive NFL analytics, the
founder of Sharp footballanalysis dot com. Warren, if I was
to ask you what Sharpfootballanalysis dot Com thought of Jordan
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Love last year this time, what would the answer be.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Oh, well, that's a good question. I think coming off
of the season that we saw out of Aaron Rodgers,
and in terms of predicting what we might get out
of the twenty twenty three Green Bay Packers. I was
on there over I want to say they were at
seven and a half wins. So the overall expectation in
terms of like what you are suggesting is absolutely accurate.
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Though the league as a whole, the betting markets did
not think that we would get a Jordan Love season
like we saw. I believe that their win total was
only seven and a half wins. I did not think
they would win first place in their division, the NFC North,
but I thought they would exceed their expectations. At seven
and a half, I thought there was room for growth.
I thought that there would not be that much of
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a drop off twenty twenty three Jordan Love versus twenty
twenty two Aaron Rodgers, because twenty twenty two Aaron Rodgers
was extremely bad. But Jordan Love did a lot of
things this past season that I don't think anybody could
see possible, anybody would have predicted. And in addition, there
are some things that like just are not going to
improve in twenty twenty four over what he was doing
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last year in twenty twenty three. For example, I'll just
share this one simple statistics goal to go situations last
year Jordan Love was the number one best quarterback in
goal to go situations, in success rate, in touchdown rate
in EPA. For pass attempts, he threw the number five
most touchdown of any quarterback in goal to go situations
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while delivering the best efficiency in those situations. You're not
going to do any better than that this upcoming year.
So I think Jordan Love obviously exceeded expectations last season.
But I'm just I'm really curious what this assent is
going to be. And I hope it's great. I want
excellent quarterbacks throughout the league, but there was a lot
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of things that really went well for him last year
that I'm just not sure that we're going to see
a huge jump in twenty twenty four over what he
was delivering last season.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating to see what happens now.
Look in fairness, okay, I don't know. If they win
the division, if Kirk Cousins doesn't get hurt right like that,
they may look very very different. On the other hand,
you know, they are a player two away, a made
field goal away from beating the San Francisco forty nine
ers and going to Super Bowl. So there's a or
potentially going to Sup Bowl, So there's a lot to unpack.
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I brought him up because who do you think is
this year's Jordan Love? Where we don't really know, right,
we don't really really know and it's an important year.
Is there one quarterback you can think of who is
this year's Jordan Up doesn't mean they have the success
in first and goal to go and overall success of Love,
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but is in a similar predicament in terms of we
just don't have enough data, but this is going to
be a telling year.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Well that's a really tough question for me because I
don't think that there is somebody who. I mean, Jordan
Love was in such a unique situation where he had
the ability to sit and not play for several years,
and when he was injected into the offense that the
one key thing that really helped Jordan Love, let's be honest,
was that offensive line. They're one of the best young
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offensive lines in the NFL that could protect for him,
and so he had that ceiling. So what you're looking
for is somebody who is probably is not a rookie,
who's got the maturity and the experience even though he
hasn't had playing experience. He just had the experience of
working within a system, working within the same offense for
several years, and is going to be past protected with
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one of the best offensive lines in the NFL. I'm
looking around the league right now at all the teams,
I just don't see another player like that out there.
There are some players that are obviously really good quarterbacks
that have done nothing with their time in the league,
and one of them would be like a Justin Herbert,
where Justin Herbert, I don't think his weapons this year
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are going to help him excel and really reach his zenith.
But I do think that Justin Herbert is better even
than what we've seen the last couple of years. If
you just look at what he's been delivering, he's been
playing behind one of the most injured offensive lines in
the NFL. If you look back at how frequently Mike
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Williams and or Keenan Allen were actually healthy, because they're
not there this year. Both of them are gone this year.
But those guys, I think over the last two years,
that's out of thirty four combined games they have actually
played on the field and been healthy for six of
those games together. They really have not been there independable.
Now they've got a new head coach there, they've a
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new philosophy. They're going to be running the football a
lot more, which should open up things when they do
end up passing the football. But I just think that
their general manager gutted that receiving corps and they do
not have any good receivers. I do not like their
number one receiver. He's the second year player.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Is his name?
Speaker 9 (24:19):
I'm forgetna now, Quintin Johnston now of TCU. Didn't really
like him coming into the league. Relying on him as
your number one. I don't think it's going to get
you very far. But he's a guy who could potentially
if there were things around him at that receiving class
that improved a lot. You know, Justin Herbert's a guy
who I would throw into that group. But I don't
think there's anybody like a Jordan Love this year. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, but please don't mention that name. We're just so,
you know, myself and Jason Stewart are Charger fans. So
when you say Quentin Johnson, we get that, you know,
that little taste of barf in your mouth, we kind
of get that thing, that thing going a little bit
too much. Although Lad McConkie I think is going to
have an nice litt run and everybody likes Josh Palmer
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thinks he can be all right. But again, they're they're
going to do I mean, this is going to be
the Ravens, right, They're going to run the football. This
is this is classic. It worked in Buffalo, it worked
in San Francisco, and it worked in Baltimore with the
same offensive coordinator. We'll see if it works with the
with the LA Chargers. You mentioned your thoughts on overs
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and unders. Who do you believe is the easiest pick under?
Who's the team that Vegas or the number in Vegas
is in love with more so than you are.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Unfortunately, I don't think they're going to win by like
a whopping margin here. But I just think that Dallas
Cowboys are so fragile right now. The best thing they've
got going for them, in my opinion, is the simple
fact that Jason Kelsey is no longer the starting center
for the Philadelphia Aples, and so there's a lot of
questions as to how effective inefficient the coach Bush is
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going to do without them. But apart from that, everybody
in that division has gotten better, and I don't think
the Dallas Cowboys have. I think the Dallas Cowboys have
progressed and gotten a little bit worse. We tend to
overlook we focus so much on the offensive side of
the football, whether that's because the fantasy football or that's
because the quarterback contract values of things of that nature,
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but we don't focus as much on defense as we should.
And the Dallas Cowboys for three consecutive years have had
such a good defense that their turnover margin has been
positive double digits for each of the last three years their
overall turnover margin, and only eight teams in the last
two decades have delivered three consecutive years where their team
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has been double digit to the positive and turnover margin.
None of those teams that Dallas Cowboys were one of
them in twenty one, twenty two to twenty three. None
of those teams we're able to deliver four consecutive years
with plus ten or more total turnover margin, and most
of them average plus four the very next year. If
you take away six turnover margin, this team is losing
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easily three more games. I mean, the turnover margin is
so predictive of game outcomes that if you take those away,
there's no way that they're going to have a season
like they did last year. And then let's also remember
that they lost their defensive coordinator who was really responsible
for that scheme and that aggressive attacking ability. They had
I believe five return touchdowns last season. That's hard to repeat.
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That's probably unlikely to happen. And all those guys now
went to DC, right, and so that's a competitor of yours.
DC's got a new quarterback, Daniel Jones, probably hopefully is
going to be healthy this season, and I think the
Philadelphia Eagles replacing their coordinators, it's going to make a
big difference for this team. I think last year. People
(27:45):
forget the Philadelphi Egos last year started ten to one,
which is identical to what they started in twenty twenty
two when they went to the Super Bowl. But that
Eagles team last year was not even close to the
twenty twenty two team because of their style on offense,
because of that offensive coordinator place, their offensive coordinator, their
place in defense corner. I think this team is going
to be more aggressive, get out to leads earlier in games.
(28:06):
I think that they're more well rounded than the Dallas Cowboys.
So you know, I think the Cowboys move back a
little bit. They won first place in that NFC East
last year. I think they win second place at best
this year. I think the Eagles are going to go
over their win total. I think the Eagles are going
to win that division. I think the Cowboys go under
their win total. I think the Cowboys finished second in
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the NFC East.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Steg Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports. Trady Warren Sharp is
our guest. He's an expert in predictive NFL analytics, founder
of Sharp Football Analysis dot com. Okay, last year felt
like the worst possible supporting cast offensively for the now
defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. What does your
predictive analysis say about the chief season this year?
Speaker 9 (28:50):
The only thing that's difficult for the Chiefs this year
is just their overall strength to schedule, which you would
expect when you win that division, when you win that
conference and you're the best team from a Super Bowl perspective,
you have to play that first place schedule, and so
their schedule overall is the twelfth most difficult. But this team,
they lost a couple of pieces defensively, But I think
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they're going to be better offensively, which can compensate for that.
This team did so many things that weren't perfect last season.
They threw so many passes behind the line of scrimmage.
They were not an aggressive downfield passing attack. You know
two years ago when they won the Super Bowl in
twenty twenty two. This is a team that had sort
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of quote unquote solved the two high safety defenses that
they started throwing at them, and oh my gosh, it's
taking away the deep stuff. What are offenses going to do?
The Chiefs had figured it out a little bit in
twenty twenty two, but in twenty twenty three, they did
not have the confidence in their receiving cores. They did
not have the expertise there to really solve that, to
really punch back, and so they struggled in against Cover two.
(29:56):
Unlike in twenty twenty two. I think they're going to
be better suited to deal with it this upcoming season.
The long question you really have here is just how
long is Travis Kelsey going to be healthy for They
did a smart thing last year where they pulled him
off the field pretty predictively on run plays. So that
he did not have to waste his snaps run blocking
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quite as much. So he was mostly out there when
they were passing the football to take advantage of what
he could deliver. But they're going to need to lean
more on some of the other guys because it's one
thing for him to run as many routes as he's running,
but if he's actually going to be targeted at that
same rate, that requires the stress of catching the football
and then running after that, cast being tackled and being
(30:40):
dragged to the ground, all things that you don't have
to do if they simply target a secondary weapon there.
And I think getting Marquise Brown in there is definitely
going to be very interesting. Marquis Brown has never been
in the past first offense. Keep this in mind, he
played under Greg Roman's scheme. We talked about him earlier
in Baltimore. Then, who's playing in their Arizona last year,
which had a league average rate with some really bad quarterbacks.
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Now he's going to hind the city one of the
highest pass rates of any team in the NFL, and
he's playing with the best quarterback in the NFL. His
involvement here is going to look much different and then
of course you've got to David Worthy, the speed demon
on the outside. So I think there's a lot more
that the Chiefs are going to be able to throw
at teams, and I think it's an X factor, a
hidden weapon that they still get to retain Steve Spagnola.
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I mean, the fact that Stags has been delivering at
such a high rate and hasn't been poached by another
team is absolutely ridiculous and is a massive edge for
the Kansas City Chiefs because he's just so good at
those big game situations, at crafting a defensive scheme that
can slow down your opposing offense.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Awesome stuff, Warren, You're the best man. I'd love to
have you on as often as possible. By the way,
if you like this stuff, then you got to go
to his site, Warrene Sharp Sharp Analytics. It's the best.
Thanks so much for really wetting our appetite as you
get ready for training camp, to get in a way
and being our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Absolutely thanks for miss He's.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The best at what he does.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
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Let's get to the press, the press. All right, Doug,
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what do you got my friend?
Speaker 7 (32:39):
All right, Doug, we got a ESPN's been counting down
their top one hundred professional athletes of the twenty first century.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Something.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
I'll add that we did have Fox Sports Radio a
few years ago, but with a couple more years of data.
I'm wondering if you want to take a stab here
at the top five top one hundred professional athletes of
the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
The top five, yeah, yeah, Novak Djokovic not in the
top five, Roger Federer number six. Okay, So I mean
Tom Brady and Tiger Woods and Tom Brady Tiger Woods.
And here's then as Tom Brady Tiger Woods. Lebron James
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definitely top three. Pat Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Mahomes is down in the teens.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, then they're idiots. Yeah, he's one, he's one. How
many super Bowls?
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Three? Right, beginning to lose count.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, that's but the I'm bizarre. Okay, so we got
those three Tim Duncan.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Duncan's down in the teens.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Needs to be another sport. I'm guessing yes, we did.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Pretty might be on topic from Michael Pelps. There you go,
Michael Phelps, number one on this list. You were correct
with a sport earlier and a couple of your guesses. Yes, oh,
Serena Williams.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Serena Williams number two.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
There you go. There's a top five right, number.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Three actually messy, they got messy, messy Lebron and then
Tom Brady that's their top five. Tiger Woods number eight.
Actually that was a little behind me, Simone Biles and
Tom Brady is no tiger Woods.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Tiger Woods behind someone Miles correct. Okay, that's the dumbest
list there in my life. No, I'm serious, Like that's
the dumbest. Like Miles is great, amazing, breakthrough athlete, incredible.
I think the key here because she's was she the
first black No.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
One distinction They were careful to point out in this
list is not to account for anything before the year
two thousand, so were they were. They were clear about
that in their rankings, So I got it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
There was a couple of things. There was some stuff
he did before, but I mean he was dominant golf
for post two thousand, Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Yeah, by the way, our list at Fox Sports Radio
a couple of years ago, Brady, Lebron, Tiger, Phelps, Serena,
that was our top five.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, sure, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
Last night Doug Kaitlin Clark, she said a WNBA record
nineteen assists, had twenty four points to go with it.
Starting to get some MVP buzz, and here was her
talking about overpassing at.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Times, I just try to set my teammates up for success.
I think at times like I can almost overpass, and
there probably could have been a few times where instead
of passing that leads to turnover that I may have.
I can probably shoot the ball, but especially with Ab,
like I'm just looking to set her up so much
like my eyes are just always on our post players,
whether that's List or whether that's Ab or whoever's in
the game at the time at the time, and then
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kind of look out from there.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
What'd you make a Kaylyn Clark last night?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Doug, you can absolutely overpass.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I talked to one of my guys about that today.
You know it's selfishly selfishly unselfish if you will.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Here was an interesting story. Former NFL right tackle Willie
Anderson said the blind side created an unfair bias against
right tackles and as part of the reason he isn't
in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
That has.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I like Willy and but come on, man, who are
we doing? What are we doing.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Too much? Are we actually doing it?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Next?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
One more NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens. He said Tom
Brady ignored him when he reached out about joining the
Bucks in twenty twenty one following Antonio Brown's exit from
the team, and felt disrespected by that who said that Terrell.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Owens whatever I mean, Teo has been a victim. Last year,
I was at a he was at a dinner and
I introduced him, and he whispered to me that it
was his mom's birthday. He wasn't honored at the dinner.
He was simply there in attendance, and he got mad
at me. I think tweeted out something negative about me
because I didn't announce that it was his mom's birthday.
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So the Olympics are upon us, right, and it's weird
like in nineteen eighty four, I was eight years old
and the Olympics came to Los Angeles, and I've heard
people say, like Lebron say like, well, I'm getting out
of LA when the Olympics come. Okay, Well I understand
(02:54):
that Lebron has played in the Olympics, but I gotta
tell you it's kind of awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I know there's certain things they're doing. I think they're doing.
They're doing the softball in Oklahoma, right, and are they
doing the rowing there as well? Like, I know, it's
going to be spread out, it's not gonna be as
centralized as it was in eighty four, but there is
something really cool about the world's greatest athletes, all competing,
(03:20):
all coming together in one place, and the chance to
go see sports you never thought you could see ever again.
Like I remember, we saw the Olympic basketball team play
in eighty four. That was Michael Jordan. They had an
exhibition game at cal State Fullarton, which, of course cal
State Fullerton is known basically for three things. Great baseball, Hey,
Phil Nevin, my great baseball. They used to have a
(03:41):
football team, great baseball, Bruce Bowen and Leon Wood probably
was a member of the Olympic team in eighty four.
And it's also the alma mater of Jason Stewart, right,
I mean there's actually is there a statue or just
a plaque out front Jay stewo.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It's a copy of my GPA. So well you can
go on campus and see a plaque of one point
nine to three.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Love it anyway. So if you went to what's now
the Home Depot Center, do the Galaxy still play there?
The Chargers used to play there. That used to be
the velodrome, that used to be where the where the
bike racing was in eighty four and I remember going
to it, and if you've ever seen the I think
(04:24):
it's a velodrome, right, if you've ever seen it, like
that thing is insane, the pitch and the angle that
they raise spikes at so there's a lot of cool Olympics.
The people that want to get out of town like whatever, goodbye. Uh,
there's they'll do it. They did a great job in
eighty four with the traffic. Obviously Los Angeles is exponentially bigger,
(04:45):
traffic is exponentially worse. But I'm guessing that they'll do
some of the similar things they did. And so many
people work from home now they can continue that. But
I was thinking about swimming that's going to be at
so FI, and I'm thinking about the Olympics that are
coming up in Paris. And look, I'm not a huge
fan of the Olympics. Now I would still go and watch,
(05:06):
but like this year, part of it is anything that's
really on in a different time zone I struggle with
I'm not the ugly American. I just kind of struggle
with it. So I'm sitting here and I'm thinking to
myself self, is there any more Olympic sports? Any more
(05:29):
Olympic sports than swimming? And by swimming, I mean and
swimming is brilliant, right because if you ask somebody, honestly,
I'm gonna list all these sports, where does this one rank?
You would put like swimming pretty low, but they they
almost always have it. I think they always have it,
like in the first week of competition, and let's be honest,
(05:51):
we all get Olympic fatigue. You know, by the time
you get to the second or third week and they're
doing track and field, they're like, oh, this thing still on.
But in the first week you have almost always swimming,
and swimming only really works in the Olympics because well
nobody cares otherwise, Like, can anyone name any other and
(06:14):
this is not to the swimming community, but to anyone
outside of the swimming community. Can anyone name anybody that
races for USA Swimming? Have you ever watched this swim
meet outside the Olympics ever? And yet during the Olympics,
from Mark Spitz to Michael Phelps to Katy Ldecki to
(06:36):
everybody in between, Like these names become synonymous with American sports,
not just Olympics. And oh yeah, by the way, it
only works because of the video presentation of swimming. Otherwise,
like and just people racing in a pool. I don't
know who's who, but they do such a good job
of like you know that little arrow that comes down
(06:58):
with the timing and the world record and then they
touched the wall and all of that stuff. I think
it's the most Olympic sport ever. And by that I
mean it's literally only important every four years. It's only
good because it's on TV. None of these people matter
in mainstream sports world, in the mainstream world forever except
(07:20):
for during the week and a half or two weeks
in which their events take place. And yet for that
week and a half, it is literally the biggest thing
on the planet. That's my presentation of facts, chasing Stewart
your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I think it's perfect. It's a because everyone pays attention
to it times one thousand in that first week of
the Olympics. You're right, the first week, because the first
week of the two weeks is swimming. The second week
is track and field. If I'm not mistaken, but you're right,
swimming is is like the I guess what is the
(07:58):
perfect example of an Olympics sport and that everyone cares
a lot. And then the annoying part of our industry
is that you get talk show hosts that act like
they know a lot about it. Yeah, for a couple
of days, and then it goes away. I can think
of a couple of hosts on this network. I think
that they're going to have a lot of swimming takes
(08:20):
and then disappear for four years. But you're right, You're right.
And by the way, Amy van Dykin was, I want
to say, a gold medalist or at the very least
an Olympic swimmer who had a really bad accident. And
she is an alum of Fox Sports Radio. She hosted
a show with Rob Dibble nightly. I don't know ten
(08:41):
to fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Dibbs Dibbs, Sam, are you an Olympic?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Not?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Kind of sew are you Olympic? You consume the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I only have red hot takes over the biathlon.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
It's winter.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Is that running and.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Shooting steeple chase?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Maybe it's the Uh it's where you like cross country
ski and then you stop and you have this weird
looking twenty two caliber rifle and you get down on
your on your chest and you fire at a target.
Then you get up and you continue to cross basically
GTA right, It's it's an interesting sport. Is that not
a winter sport?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It is?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
It's a winter sport. So I'm more into the Winter Olympics,
uh than the Summer Olympics. Uh is it? Where is
it a Paris? So it's gonna be like on yeah,
like different hours, tape delay, whatever it's going to be.
I'll catch a little bit of it. Summer Olympics not
so much into, but Olympics in general not so much into.
I think I tend to favor the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's basically GTA before GTA, right, basically GTA without shooting
actual people or punching out people and robbing them right
where you're running in your shooting and you're running in
your shooting.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I have I don't, I could be. I'm sure, I'm right.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
How do we not dominate in that? I mean just
it feels like we should be completely dominant in the run?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Where did that sport?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Did it come from? Like Russia where they'd like country
ski and like hunt at the same time, and they're
like I can cover a lot of land and I'll
carry my gun.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know they have in the Winter Olympics too, where you're
actually like skiing, right, is that is it the same?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Is the biathlon Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's only window. Yeah, I didn't know if there was
a there was a summer version.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I like this ski well that would be yeah, I
don't know, you could use how about rollerblading and shooting
a gun? I like, uh, I like skiing as well.
In the Winter Olympics, Yeah, in the cross countries, like
you know, Usain Bolt captivated us all. I mean like
he was a one of you know, one.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of the one fastest, Like look the the so he
was watch him right track and field. You're talking about
the fastest human beings on Earth.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Shakari Richardson's pretty cool. She draws a lot of eyeballs
and uh so, yeah, I mean I'll probably catch that
some some of that stuff. The swimming, you know, since
Michael Phelps and what was that kind of the the
the Mimbo guy, uh the Ryan Lockte those two like
those who are definitely memorable, but they're time Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Lockedty but but Ryan Lockety. I got to know Michael
felt a little bit last year. I did an event
with him. He's amazing, Like it's just amazing kind of
the transformation of him. I heard him speak. He was great.
But yeah, I mean, you talk about one of the biggest,
one of the most popular, fascinating athletes on the planet
and people saw him. What was it was it twelve
(11:17):
three different times for like two weeks, and then never
saw him perform ever again, and yet it's still resonated.
It's kind of an amazing thing. It's the art of
the Olympic Games in which we care about things we
don't ever care about. What's amazing about the Olympics now
is you know now we used to care because well
we used to you know, our rivals worldwide, where our
(11:39):
rivals in the Olympic Games right seventy two and in
the eighty Winter Olympics was against the Russians. Now because
the Russians in most sports have been exposed as frauds,
and because our enemies now don't exactly field the greatest
Olympic Olympic teams.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Does North Korea have a biathlon in the team?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
They do not?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Should they have a basketball team? Or like soccer is
not not at anyone's level, Not that our soccer team's great,
or you know, any of the things that we're good at. Yeah,
I'm fascinated by the by the Olympic thing. And I
agree with you, Jason, and that's something you'll never hear
me do. I'm not going to profess to be an
expert on anything anything.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well, the gymnastics are so huge, especially with the women,
like there's you almost have to have. Like I remember
your most one of your most resonating takes was your
take of Simone Bios when she failed. So it's gonna
be like one of those things again, like those kind
of transcendent topics. But do not try to tell me
(12:46):
that you are into the Olympic trials and timing. And
this is the key term I remember in the London
Games was that the London pool was a slower pool
than the Beijing I remember that takeaway. I remember somebody
had that take. I'm like, how do you know what
makes water slower? What does that even mean? Nick Cope?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
You have takes on Olympic swimming, don't you.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I was thinking just the excitement with swimming. I wonder
how much of that is from Rowdy Gaines because as
long as I've been alive and watch, I mean, he's
just yelling through his microphone and excitement and he's been
doing it for a long time, and so I feel
like Rowdy Gaines is probably paid a little bit of
a part of that was swimming too.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Are you familiar with Rowdy Gaines?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I am familiar with Roddy Gains.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, I'm not so that you just saying that is
he's the guy that does a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
He'll be the color, commented Dan.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He was.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He was a very good I don't think he was
ever the best swimmer in the world, but one of
the he was a gold medalist, I believe.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, eighty four and great.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Name, right, that's one of those things where great name. Yeah,
if his name was like Stan Gaines, probably doesn't have
nearly as good a broadcast.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Well, his real name is Ambrose, Ambrose Gains.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The fourth Ambros is a solid that's a solid name.
That's definitely obviously with the fourth. It's a family name, right,
it's Tradish. But I think but the nickname of Rowdy
like that one resonates also because you know, he was
still popular back when Rowdy Roddy Piper was dominating WWE.
Any man who can go in front of ninety three
(14:24):
thousand people at the Silver Dome in a kilt, I'm
all four. So yeah, and no, it's not the same
I know it's not the same guy who swam. I
know they're different people. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show
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you guys are just.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I know who Bob Newhart is.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I know you know who he is, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I used to watch what was the show he's on? Uh,
Mary Tyler Moore?
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Wow? You watch Mary Tyler Moore.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Like Nick and Knight reruns?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So also it was on he had new Heart.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah, his own show fair and he's also like the Simpsons.
He had Camas. Very funny guy, very dry sense of humor.
Great life he was.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
He was I think most famous for the one person
conversation when he was a stand up comedian. I know
my dad had cassettes and he had LPs of some
of the great comedians, Richard Pryor, which is I mean
just hysterical, but about Bob Newhart as well, and Bob Newhart.
(15:46):
Would it would it would it would be as if
you were listening to me on the phone talk to
somebody else like that. That was like the one person conversation,
if you will, and I mean just a ride. And
then of course New Heart. I think the most famous
part about New Heart the TV show was one of
the characters, I'm Darryl. This my brother Darryl. I'm my
(16:07):
other brother Darryl. Say Hi Darryl. A Jay dude?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You or you?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Were you a New Heart guy? At all?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I was? I was his His particular style of humor
is right at my alley.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Honestly, that's been There have been times in which I
have thought you were doing a New Heart in a
way in which you cracked me up.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
He just he never gave away the joke. If you
weren't smart enough to pick up on his humor, that
was on you. I love those kind of comics.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, he's absolutely absolutely brilliant man, brilliant man. I was
thinking about this, it's uh, what are we at July?
What day? Stay eighteenth? Isn't it fascinating that last July eighteenth,
if I would have mentioned the name Jordan Love, what
(16:58):
do you think your reaction would have been? Right? Because
at the time. Jordan Love, remember, was the guy who
basically the Packers had chased Aaron Rodgers away or upset
Aaron Rodgers. All depends upon, you know, I don't know
whose side you're on or how they handle it or whatever.
But we had people, talented television people, very few football analysts,
(17:23):
but mostly yackers who said he can't play. They didn't
say he's not great, he's not good, he's not top ten,
he's not top fifteen. They were people who said he
can't play. He's not an NFL caliber starting quarterback. That
was one year ago, right if I were to reracket,
(17:44):
and my whole thought was like, hey, let's see how
this thing plays out. My entire thought when he was drafted,
we have the tape to prove it. My entire thought
was like I totally understood when he was drafted. It
was coming off of Aaron Rodgers having a disappointing year.
He was a project guy. He'd had two years in college,
one where he was good, one where he wasn't very good.
(18:06):
He went through a ton of personal stuff going back
to when he was in middle school. High School's dad,
of course everybody knows, was a cop, committed suicide, so
there was a lot there to unpack, and he was.
He was potentially a top ten, top fifteen prospect, but
the Packers would never draft in that spot, so they
took a flyer on him because they knew the Aaron
(18:27):
Rodgers thing eventually would come to an end. And last year,
this time, you guys tell me if I'm wrong, most
people thought he couldn't play, And here we are now
where the Packers seem to found their quarterback in the future.
Most people think that in the coming days before they
have camp starting Monday in Green Bay, that he'll sign
(18:47):
a new deal an extension. I think he makes like
eight million dollars this year, which again that was an
extension to his rookie contract eight million dollars. Warren Sharp
joins us. He's an expert in predictive NFL analytics, the
founder of Sharp footballanalysis dot com. Warren, if I was
to ask you what Sharpfootballanalysis dot Com thought of Jordan
(19:11):
Love last year this time, what would the answer be.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Oh, well, that's a good question. I think coming off
of the season that we saw out of Aaron Rodgers,
and in terms of predicting what we might get out
of the twenty twenty three Green Bay Packers. I was
on there over I want to say they were at
seven and a half wins. So the overall expectation in
terms of like what you are suggesting is absolutely accurate.
(19:39):
Though the league as a whole, the betting markets did
not think that we would get a Jordan Love season
like we saw. I believe that their win total was
only seven and a half wins. I did not think
they would win first place in their division, the NFC North,
but I thought they would exceed their expectations. At seven
and a half, I thought there was room for growth.
I thought that there would not be that much of
(19:59):
a drop off twenty twenty three Jordan Love versus twenty
twenty two Aaron Rodgers, because twenty twenty two Aaron Rodgers
was extremely bad. But Jordan Love did a lot of
things this past season that I don't think anybody could
see possible, anybody would have predicted. And in addition, there
are some things that like just are not going to
improve in twenty twenty four over what he was doing
(20:21):
last year in twenty twenty three. For example, I'll just
share this one simple statistics goal to go situations last
year Jordan Love was the number one best quarterback in
goal to go situations, in success rate, in touchdown rate
in EPA. For pass attempts, he threw the number five
most touchdown of any quarterback in goal to go situations
(20:43):
while delivering the best efficiency in those situations. You're not
going to do any better than that this upcoming year.
So I think Jordan Love obviously exceeded expectations last season.
But I'm just I'm really curious what this assent is
going to be. And I hope it's great. I want
excellent quarterbacks throughout the league, but there was a lot
(21:04):
of things that really went well for him last year
that I'm just not sure that we're going to see
a huge jump in twenty twenty four over what he
was delivering last season.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating to see what happens now.
Look in fairness, okay, I don't know. If they win
the division, if Kirk Cousins doesn't get hurt right like that,
they may look very very different. On the other hand,
you know, they are a player two away, a made
field goal away from beating the San Francisco forty nine
ers and going to Super Bowl. So there's a or
potentially going to Sup Bowl, So there's a lot to unpack.
(21:38):
I brought him up because who do you think is
this year's Jordan Love? Where we don't really know, right,
we don't really really know and it's an important year.
Is there one quarterback you can think of who is
this year's Jordan Up doesn't mean they have the success
in first and goal to go and overall success of Love,
(22:00):
but is in a similar predicament in terms of we
just don't have enough data, but this is going to
be a telling year.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Well that's a really tough question for me because I
don't think that there is somebody who. I mean, Jordan
Love was in such a unique situation where he had
the ability to sit and not play for several years,
and when he was injected into the offense that the
one key thing that really helped Jordan Love, let's be honest,
was that offensive line. They're one of the best young
(22:30):
offensive lines in the NFL that could protect for him,
and so he had that ceiling. So what you're looking
for is somebody who is probably is not a rookie,
who's got the maturity and the experience even though he
hasn't had playing experience. He just had the experience of
working within a system, working within the same offense for
several years, and is going to be past protected with
(22:53):
one of the best offensive lines in the NFL. I'm
looking around the league right now at all the teams,
I just don't see another player like that out there.
There are some players that are obviously really good quarterbacks
that have done nothing with their time in the league,
and one of them would be like a Justin Herbert,
where Justin Herbert, I don't think his weapons this year
(23:17):
are going to help him excel and really reach his zenith.
But I do think that Justin Herbert is better even
than what we've seen the last couple of years. If
you just look at what he's been delivering, he's been
playing behind one of the most injured offensive lines in
the NFL. If you look back at how frequently Mike
(23:39):
Williams and or Keenan Allen were actually healthy, because they're
not there this year. Both of them are gone this year.
But those guys, I think over the last two years,
that's out of thirty four combined games they have actually
played on the field and been healthy for six of
those games together. They really have not been there independable.
Now they've got a new head coach there, they've a
(24:00):
new philosophy. They're going to be running the football a
lot more, which should open up things when they do
end up passing the football. But I just think that
their general manager gutted that receiving corps and they do
not have any good receivers. I do not like their
number one receiver. He's the second year player.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Is his name?
Speaker 9 (24:19):
I'm forgetna now, Quintin Johnston now of TCU. Didn't really
like him coming into the league. Relying on him as
your number one. I don't think it's going to get
you very far. But he's a guy who could potentially
if there were things around him at that receiving class
that improved a lot. You know, Justin Herbert's a guy
who I would throw into that group. But I don't
think there's anybody like a Jordan Love this year. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, but please don't mention that name. We're just so,
you know, myself and Jason Stewart are Charger fans. So
when you say Quentin Johnson, we get that, you know,
that little taste of barf in your mouth, we kind
of get that thing, that thing going a little bit
too much. Although Lad McConkie I think is going to
have an nice litt run and everybody likes Josh Palmer
(25:02):
thinks he can be all right. But again, they're they're
going to do I mean, this is going to be
the Ravens, right, They're going to run the football. This
is this is classic. It worked in Buffalo, it worked
in San Francisco, and it worked in Baltimore with the
same offensive coordinator. We'll see if it works with the
with the LA Chargers. You mentioned your thoughts on overs
(25:23):
and unders. Who do you believe is the easiest pick under?
Who's the team that Vegas or the number in Vegas
is in love with more so than you are.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Unfortunately, I don't think they're going to win by like
a whopping margin here. But I just think that Dallas
Cowboys are so fragile right now. The best thing they've
got going for them, in my opinion, is the simple
fact that Jason Kelsey is no longer the starting center
for the Philadelphia Aples, and so there's a lot of
questions as to how effective inefficient the coach Bush is
(25:56):
going to do without them. But apart from that, everybody
in that division has gotten better, and I don't think
the Dallas Cowboys have. I think the Dallas Cowboys have
progressed and gotten a little bit worse. We tend to
overlook we focus so much on the offensive side of
the football, whether that's because the fantasy football or that's
because the quarterback contract values of things of that nature,
(26:17):
but we don't focus as much on defense as we should.
And the Dallas Cowboys for three consecutive years have had
such a good defense that their turnover margin has been
positive double digits for each of the last three years their
overall turnover margin, and only eight teams in the last
two decades have delivered three consecutive years where their team
(26:37):
has been double digit to the positive and turnover margin.
None of those teams that Dallas Cowboys were one of
them in twenty one, twenty two to twenty three. None
of those teams we're able to deliver four consecutive years
with plus ten or more total turnover margin, and most
of them average plus four the very next year. If
you take away six turnover margin, this team is losing
(27:00):
easily three more games. I mean, the turnover margin is
so predictive of game outcomes that if you take those away,
there's no way that they're going to have a season
like they did last year. And then let's also remember
that they lost their defensive coordinator who was really responsible
for that scheme and that aggressive attacking ability. They had
I believe five return touchdowns last season. That's hard to repeat.
(27:23):
That's probably unlikely to happen. And all those guys now
went to DC, right, and so that's a competitor of yours.
DC's got a new quarterback, Daniel Jones, probably hopefully is
going to be healthy this season, and I think the
Philadelphia Eagles replacing their coordinators, it's going to make a
big difference for this team. I think last year. People
(27:45):
forget the Philadelphi Egos last year started ten to one,
which is identical to what they started in twenty twenty
two when they went to the Super Bowl. But that
Eagles team last year was not even close to the
twenty twenty two team because of their style on offense,
because of that offensive coordinator place, their offensive coordinator, their
place in defense corner. I think this team is going
to be more aggressive, get out to leads earlier in games.
(28:06):
I think that they're more well rounded than the Dallas Cowboys.
So you know, I think the Cowboys move back a
little bit. They won first place in that NFC East
last year. I think they win second place at best
this year. I think the Eagles are going to go
over their win total. I think the Eagles are going
to win that division. I think the Cowboys go under
their win total. I think the Cowboys finished second in
(28:26):
the NFC East.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Steg Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports. Trady Warren Sharp is
our guest. He's an expert in predictive NFL analytics, founder
of Sharp Football Analysis dot com. Okay, last year felt
like the worst possible supporting cast offensively for the now
defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. What does your
predictive analysis say about the chief season this year?
Speaker 9 (28:50):
The only thing that's difficult for the Chiefs this year
is just their overall strength to schedule, which you would
expect when you win that division, when you win that
conference and you're the best team from a Super Bowl perspective,
you have to play that first place schedule, and so
their schedule overall is the twelfth most difficult. But this team,
they lost a couple of pieces defensively, But I think
(29:13):
they're going to be better offensively, which can compensate for that.
This team did so many things that weren't perfect last season.
They threw so many passes behind the line of scrimmage.
They were not an aggressive downfield passing attack. You know
two years ago when they won the Super Bowl in
twenty twenty two. This is a team that had sort
(29:33):
of quote unquote solved the two high safety defenses that
they started throwing at them, and oh my gosh, it's
taking away the deep stuff. What are offenses going to do?
The Chiefs had figured it out a little bit in
twenty twenty two, but in twenty twenty three, they did
not have the confidence in their receiving cores. They did
not have the expertise there to really solve that, to
really punch back, and so they struggled in against Cover two.
(29:56):
Unlike in twenty twenty two. I think they're going to
be better suited to deal with it this upcoming season.
The long question you really have here is just how
long is Travis Kelsey going to be healthy for They
did a smart thing last year where they pulled him
off the field pretty predictively on run plays. So that
he did not have to waste his snaps run blocking
(30:17):
quite as much. So he was mostly out there when
they were passing the football to take advantage of what
he could deliver. But they're going to need to lean
more on some of the other guys because it's one
thing for him to run as many routes as he's running,
but if he's actually going to be targeted at that
same rate, that requires the stress of catching the football
and then running after that, cast being tackled and being
(30:40):
dragged to the ground, all things that you don't have
to do if they simply target a secondary weapon there.
And I think getting Marquise Brown in there is definitely
going to be very interesting. Marquis Brown has never been
in the past first offense. Keep this in mind, he
played under Greg Roman's scheme. We talked about him earlier
in Baltimore. Then, who's playing in their Arizona last year,
which had a league average rate with some really bad quarterbacks.
(31:04):
Now he's going to hind the city one of the
highest pass rates of any team in the NFL, and
he's playing with the best quarterback in the NFL. His
involvement here is going to look much different and then
of course you've got to David Worthy, the speed demon
on the outside. So I think there's a lot more
that the Chiefs are going to be able to throw
at teams, and I think it's an X factor, a
hidden weapon that they still get to retain Steve Spagnola.
(31:27):
I mean, the fact that Stags has been delivering at
such a high rate and hasn't been poached by another
team is absolutely ridiculous and is a massive edge for
the Kansas City Chiefs because he's just so good at
those big game situations, at crafting a defensive scheme that
can slow down your opposing offense.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Awesome stuff, Warren, You're the best man. I'd love to
have you on as often as possible. By the way,
if you like this stuff, then you got to go
to his site, Warrene Sharp Sharp Analytics. It's the best.
Thanks so much for really wetting our appetite as you
get ready for training camp, to get in a way
and being our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Absolutely thanks for miss He's.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The best at what he does.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
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Let's get to the press, the press. All right, Doug,
(32:38):
what do you got my friend?
Speaker 7 (32:39):
All right, Doug, we got a ESPN's been counting down
their top one hundred professional athletes of the twenty first century.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Something.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
I'll add that we did have Fox Sports Radio a
few years ago, but with a couple more years of data.
I'm wondering if you want to take a stab here
at the top five top one hundred professional athletes of
the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
The top five, yeah, yeah, Novak Djokovic not in the
top five, Roger Federer number six. Okay, So I mean
Tom Brady and Tiger Woods and Tom Brady Tiger Woods.
And here's then as Tom Brady Tiger Woods. Lebron James
(33:25):
definitely top three. Pat Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Mahomes is down in the teens.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, then they're idiots. Yeah, he's one, he's one. How
many super Bowls?
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Three? Right, beginning to lose count.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, that's but the I'm bizarre. Okay, so we got
those three Tim Duncan.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Duncan's down in the teens.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Needs to be another sport. I'm guessing yes, we did.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Pretty might be on topic from Michael Pelps. There you go,
Michael Phelps, number one on this list. You were correct
with a sport earlier and a couple of your guesses. Yes, oh,
Serena Williams.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Serena Williams number two.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
There you go. There's a top five right, number.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Three actually messy, they got messy, messy Lebron and then
Tom Brady that's their top five. Tiger Woods number eight.
Actually that was a little behind me, Simone Biles and
Tom Brady is no tiger Woods.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Tiger Woods behind someone Miles correct. Okay, that's the dumbest
list there in my life. No, I'm serious, Like that's
the dumbest. Like Miles is great, amazing, breakthrough athlete, incredible.
I think the key here because she's was she the
first black No.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
One distinction They were careful to point out in this
list is not to account for anything before the year
two thousand, so were they were. They were clear about
that in their rankings, So I got it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
There was a couple of things. There was some stuff
he did before, but I mean he was dominant golf
for post two thousand, Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Yeah, by the way, our list at Fox Sports Radio
a couple of years ago, Brady, Lebron, Tiger, Phelps, Serena,
that was our top five.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, sure, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
Last night Doug Kaitlin Clark, she said a WNBA record
nineteen assists, had twenty four points to go with it.
Starting to get some MVP buzz, and here was her
talking about overpassing at.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Times, I just try to set my teammates up for success.
I think at times like I can almost overpass, and
there probably could have been a few times where instead
of passing that leads to turnover that I may have.
I can probably shoot the ball, but especially with Ab,
like I'm just looking to set her up so much
like my eyes are just always on our post players,
whether that's List or whether that's Ab or whoever's in
the game at the time at the time, and then
(35:49):
kind of look out from there.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
What'd you make a Kaylyn Clark last night?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Doug, you can absolutely overpass.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I talked to one of my guys about that today.
You know it's selfishly selfishly unselfish if you will.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Here was an interesting story. Former NFL right tackle Willie
Anderson said the blind side created an unfair bias against
right tackles and as part of the reason he isn't
in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
That has.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I like Willy and but come on, man, who are
we doing? What are we doing.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Too much? Are we actually doing it?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Next?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
One more NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens. He said Tom
Brady ignored him when he reached out about joining the
Bucks in twenty twenty one following Antonio Brown's exit from
the team, and felt disrespected by that who said that Terrell.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Owens whatever I mean, Teo has been a victim. Last year,
I was at a he was at a dinner and
I introduced him, and he whispered to me that it
was his mom's birthday. He wasn't honored at the dinner.
He was simply there in attendance, and he got mad
at me. I think tweeted out something negative about me
because I didn't announce that it was his mom's birthday.
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