October 20, 2020 • 36 mins
Doug tells you why he finds himself pulling for “Goliath” in a World Series match up between the Rays and the Dodgers. 49ers kicker Robbie Gould joins the show to talk about playing through injuries after nearly winning the Super Bowl last season.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Doug Otlip Show, Fox
Sports Radio. We've been trained, we've been trained in our
lives too cheer for the little guy, right, because we
like to see ourselves as the little guy. That was
the whole thing back in the seventeen hundreds, all right,
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we were the little guy. We weren't the big guy,
and so we've been kind of trained to really be
that guy, to be to root for the underdog. The
Cinderella story, which, by the way, can I simply point
out how dysfunctional and awful Cinderella is as a story,
just to recap, okay, the real Cinderella story of Cinderella.
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So Cinderella is born, her mom dies. Okay, the mom dies,
that's a terrible story. The dad, who apparently rich beyond belief,
marries some evil step mom who brings in her two
daughters and forces his daughter to live to live up
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in her own little check because I think he died.
So the mom dies, the dad remarries some witch, and
then the dad dies, and then the step mom, instead
of take care of this kid that's been through all
this trauma, puts her and she goes and lives and
her only friend or a bunch of mice. We celebrate
this story as if it's a good thing. Then she
sneaks out she needs a fairy stepmother to make a
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pumpkin uh into a carriage to take her to a ball.
All she meets the prince, who falls madly in love
with her, and of course the evil stepmom does everything
in her power to put her own daughters or flesh
and blood in front of Cinderella, who only because of
some miracle that they have a glass slipperiper fits her foot.
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That does she become, we assume the wife to the prince.
That's a terrible story. The mom dies, the dad dies,
the stepmom makes her live in an attict and her
only friend or some mice. That's some that's some evil
stuff right there. Nonetheless, we've been trained to cheer for
Cinderella because she had to live in an attict. Her
only friends were mice. I'm cheering for Goliath tonight, not David.
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David took the rock and and he did the thing
that the Texas A and M fans do write. And
he slung it and he slayed the the beast, and
it's biblical. Clayton Kershawn two thousand eleven, Um won his
first cy Young. He had a two point to a
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d r A. He was twenty one. In five he
led the league in strikeouts with two hundred, and he
threw two hundred and thirty three innings. The next year
he threw two hundred twenty seven innings, again led the
league in e r A. He was a runner up
for the cy Young Award. In two thousand thirteen, he
won his second cy Young Award. He struck out two
hundred and thirty two. He had a one point eight
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three e r A, which led the league. He threw
two hundred thirty six innings. He had the back problem
in uh In two thousand and fifteen, after winning back
to back cy Young's and winning an m v P
and even with the back problem, alright, we're he only
threw a hundred and ninety eight innings, he led the
league with a one point seven seven e r A.
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His e r A in his career has only been
above three first season twice. Once was last year when
he had a three point oh three e r A
he was an All Star and top ten in cy
Young Award voting, and the other was his first year
when he was twenty years old, when he he UH
he started twenty one games. He had a four point
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to six c r A. Since two thousand nine, so
roughly the last twelve baseball seasons he has been with
one exception below two point nine two with his e
r A. He has been out since. He's led the
league five times, he led the league in strikeouts three times,
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he led the league in innings once, and been over
two innings over six times. He usually starts every six day.
Of course, he has been injured a little bit. He solid,
he's consistent, he's been the ace and through all the failings,
and there have been plenty in in the playoffs. In
terms of his failings, it's fair to point out that
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uh he's played ten years in the playoffs. Of his
nineteen seasons, he's just the eleven and twelve with a
four point three one e r A. Alright, so four
point three one is not terrible. But when you consider
that your career e r a is uh is two
point four three, you're like, Okay, it's two points high,
two runs higher. That's not good. Have you ever heard
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Clayton Kershaw say, you know, and they used me less
than the regular season, I would have had more in
the tank for the postseason. You ever heard that? Have
you ever heard uh, ever heard Clayton Curshall say, you know,
if our bullpen was better, our bullpen was better, they
wouldn't have had me used me in those seventh innings
against the St. Louis Cardinals, and I would have gotten
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out unscathed. You even heard that? Have you heard him
point out that Kenley Jansen is not the picture he
used to be? Have you heard him say that the
Houston Astros stole a World Series from No, not the
perfect picture. I'm sure he's not the perfect human being.
But in a world in which we pick apart everything
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we a guy does, and we understand that he hasn't
been as good under pressure, especially late in games when
he started When when when the he loses a mile
or two off fastball and he loses a mile or
two or a little bit of spin rate off of
the curveball, off you know, off the slider, that he
becomes human and hitable. But for a guy who, over
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the last eleven years has been arguably the best pitcher
in baseball most of those years Max Scherzer in that conversation,
there are others in that conversation for Lander a couple
of years as well. I find it hard to root
against him. I'm not a Dodger fan, Like, well, you're
in l A. You're a Dodger fan, and I'm an
Angel fan. How give me a Dodger fan. Look at
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all the money that they spend. I get it. I understand.
It's you know, I'm sure Andrew Friedman's out there and
he goes like, well, I could spend twenty a million
on an entire team or spend twenty a million on
a guy. I think I'm gonna take this Dodger again,
jee job. You know, it is easier when you're the Dodgers,
when you have the resources of the Dodgers, when you
can trade for Mookie Betts and give him a gigantic contract.
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It's it's it's easier to win that way. Not everybody
wins that way. The Red Sox haven't won a couple
of years, and the Yankees have tried to buy championships
time and again that doesn't work either. This is not
telling you that the Rays are not worthy champions and
they're not worthy of being cheered for. Although most you
don't care about the race, this series is about Clayton
Kershaw and he gets the start Game one, and he's
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probably the third best picture of the Dodgers have, right,
Is that fair? Yeah, Walker Bueller, I'd say Dusty May
in terms of stuff, and then Clayton Kershaw. But we
would all agree that there's a lot of things fishing
going on when Houston beat him and he lost that
game six. And yeah, I don't know any if anybody,
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deserves to win a championship. But if there's a guy
who's close, consider uttering what he's done for his club,
what he's done for baseball, and the fact that you've
never heard him say a negative word about well, you know,
if Dave Roberts wasn't such an idiot would take me
out of the game, or Don Maddeningly would have taken me,
or if you know, like if my catcher would have,
if my my closer would if we would have had
a bullpen. It like, no, none of that. He gets
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the baseball. He throws the baseball. That's the best he
can accountable when he gives up hits. I'm cheering for
for Goliath. As unpopular as that. Maybe you know, I
get it. We we it's not that big an upset
when they come from three games and one down against
the Braves when you consider that the best team in
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baseball and ultimately Water finds this level, got it understood
it completely kers shot of me feels different. He is
a sympathetic figure even though he makes a gigantic amount
of money and his own personal failings because he hasn't
come through our his own personal failings. I'm not gonna
point to one error that we have an We have
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enough data to point out that he's not as good
in the postseason, especially in some big spots late in games,
as he has been in the regular season. And we
can chalk it up to fatigue, and we can chalk
it up to to whatever we want to chalk it
up to the cold weather and whatever. At some point,
it is what it is. But all it takes is
one championship and most of that narrative goes away. I'm
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cheering for Goliath. Coming up next, the Dallas Cowboys lose
more than a game. Now they're losing the locker room.
We'll tell you how next. Be sure to catch the
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Sports Radio. Former Chicago Bears kicker and current Niners kicker
Robbie Gould joins us. He's announced the going Gold for
pediatric cancer through the first ever r G nine Kicks
for Kids campaign support of Cal's Angels. For every field
he kicks during the season, Robbie Gould will donate to
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the Chicago based nonprofit. How many do you have so
far this year, Robbie? Right now, we have eight, which
makes it four thousand dollars that we're donating through six games.
So our ultimate goal is to raise fifty thousand dollars
for Cal's Angels, which is a pediatric nonprofit in Chicago.
And uh, it's been awesome because we've had other people
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um get on board and do some donations. I also
have UH my company, which is an event management company
Event of five. At UM has been able to set
up a donation campaign for this, which is awesome for
people to get involved. So if people want to get
involved and go to Kicks for the Number of Kids
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dot eventifi dot com and uh anybody can get involved
to help us recept fifty goal. Robbie Gould joining us
in the Doug Otlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Weird
year with I mean, just especially on the year with
so many injuries. As a fly on the wall to
that locker room with all of the guys going down,
what's it been like? Yeah, it's definitely tough. I mean
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if you look across the National Football League, I think
this is one of the conversations we had coming into
the season as a union as players. You know, I
was a part of the twenty eleven season where we
didn't have an off season, and you know, injuries are
at an off time high there as well, So I mean,
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you know, you don't have an off season, guys are
working on their own and you know, going to training camp,
I think we had probably fourteen to sixteen padded practices UM,
and you know it's tough at times, but that's what
everyone's dealing with. And I think you're seeing a increase
in injuries, um for a lot of different reasons. For
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us specifically, it's just been kind of some of our
big players. But I think it gives us a great
opportunity to have young guys step up, make some plays
and get that quality playing time at your knee, especially
if some of those guys eventually go down h later
down the stretch. And you know when you have a
play caller like Kyle Shanahan, and you know you have
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a coordinator like Robert sala Um, and then you know
those type of guys are gonna give you the best
game plan to keep being games and win games. And
this locker room has been together for four years now,
and you know foreign close games, we have a chance
to win a lot of those, that's for sure. Well.
One of the reasons is because you you make your
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field goals right, Um, Your your last field goal is
a thirty one yarder? Like when I never get when,
like you guys tried out there everybody, but there's a
chip shot field goal. How much more difficult is a
mid forties to a thirty one yarder? You know, I
think every field goal is different in every stadium, right.
I also think it depends on what fieldable block team
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you're going against. You know, obviously there's different things that
you're gonna try to do. When you're playing against the
guy like pet p out of Arizona. I mean, that
guy coming off the edge is one of the most
elite guys you're gonna find, right, And then there's some
teams that have more a gap rushers, which means you
gotta get the ball up and you have a little
bit more time. So for us, it's it's just about learning,
um what the other team's gonna do, which gives you
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a chance to practice all week timing and rhythm for
the game. And you hope that a thirty one yard
or you would treat it the same as a forty
nine yard or fifty five yard. But then you have
win and other conditions that come into play, and you
obviously have to play those conditions based on what you
saw the warmups. And there's some of those longer ones
for sure, and places like New England and places like
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Pittsburgh and Chicago, Cleveland, they're definitely gonna be more difficult
than some places in some domes. Yeah, you got New
England and then you got Seattle before you get before
you get to back home, and then when you by
the way, when you get back home. This you mean,
do you do you see the story? You're gonna have
fifteen people will be you I think maybe nine people.
How how much different is it for you when you
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played those games and nobody in the stands. Yeah, it's
definitely different. I think it's great to see um, Governor Newsom,
you know, bringing fans back into the stands. I think
Santa Claric County, UM, you know, they're they're pretty great
at trying to help us out and obviously maneuver what
we're going through in a pandemic, as well as obviously, um,
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you know, putting fans in the stands. I think most
places are starting to allow h those fans to come
back into the stadium and a very low capacity. Uh,
It's definitely been different. You have to bring your own energy,
you know. But for us, I think it's just a
matter of we had gone out all preseason and basically
we practiced with music, we practiced in the stadium without fans,
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so you kind of get used to it. And I
think that's an advantage for us being at our stadium
for training camp as opposed to some teams who might
have been more remote into where their stadiums obviously might
be fifty minutes away from their actually practice facilities. So
for us, it's been it's been great. It's gonna be
awesome to have a faithful back, that's for sure, um
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because I think if we look at the schedule, the
first game we would have have with fans would have
been Dallas. So it'll be nice to have some friendly
faces back into the stadium cheering force, and I think
it'll be It'll be great for everybody, not only the
National Football League and the forty Niners. I think it'll
be great for the players as well. I don't know
if you watched, obviously the Chief speak the Bills. I
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think Budker missed another extra point yesterday, and that's like
three or four games in a row. How do you
when you when you have one of those runs going
where like just inexplicable you you miss an extra point.
I don't know what you have you ever had one
of those runs? I mean I've everyone's had a run
where they couldn't make a field goal. But you've had
an extra point since they moved the extra point back.
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Have you ever had a stretch where you couldn't make
you miss one a game? Well, I think you know,
moving the extra point back is obviously gonna be way
different than um where it was at the twenty. Right,
You're gonna see decrease more significantly and make the game
obviously a little bit harder. But I also think that's
what makes our position out so valuable, right, because that
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extra point is just as means as much as a
field goal in the first quarter, if not more. Um.
And when you play games in the National Football League,
you know probably seventy those are one score games, so
you're talking about every point matters. And then you know,
I think when you're on a streak or something like
that happens. Uh. You know, I know, you know he
has a new holder, um uh. And I think sometimes
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it just takes a little bit of time to gel
because it didn't have the whole off season, and that
could be a part of it. But I know that um,
he's also played in a lot of windy games early on,
and it's got two rain games in six games, which
is a little bit I think unheard of coming through
Kansas City. Usually they get a lot of their weather
late in the year. So, um, you know he's a
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great kicker. I know his coach really well at Dave Tobe.
I played with him, uh for seven years, eight years,
and I know they'll get it fixed and he'll do
a great job the rest of the season. Okay, So
is it is it mechanical or do you think so
how much of well, when you've had a tough stretch,
how much of his mechanical? How much of it is mental? Well?
I think a lot of it is just you know,
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that situation I think is different than the situation. And
I was in last year, right, So last year I
came in after I hold out a lockout whenever you
hold out really for a contract, and um, you know
I had a new holder and then we had three
snappers in. So you know you're talking about rhythm and
timing and mechanics all that goes into play when everything
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isn't just like, hey, you three have been together for
eight years, right, So, um, you know, I think there's
more that goes into kicking than the Paul went in
or didn't go in. It starts with a long snapper obviously,
and then you have eleven guys trying to Russian block,
and you have you have O lineman and edge guys
at tight end and D lineman who are you know,
your punch guys on the on the wing positions that
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haven't played it before. And seeing this total change of
like how field goal protection has has been put put
into play. It used to be you put guys at
the wings to try and create fakes for players. Now
with an extra point being the thirty three yards, you're
not going to run a fake from the fifteen yard
line like you wanted to do, right, So I think
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a lot of it is is you know, it's just
every all these little nuances that go into these special
teams plays um have a little bit more impact now
because you're seeing the change in the history of the game.
But you're also seeing a change in how coaches are
coaching it, and that will continue to change from year
to year. You know, no one's ever done this, but
I asked, I was watching the game and I texted
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Jeff Schwartz, as a friend of mine, obviously a former
offensive lineman. I said, as anybody, if you if you
you know, sometimes coaches at the end of games, and
the halves they'll kick on a third down or a
second down whatever, you can fake it on that down
and still get another opportunity, right, Like, it's only if
you kick it and you miss it, do you not
getting now? Granted? Usually league, when you get a kick
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on second door down, it's as the clock expires, but
technically you could fake those and still get another opportunity, right. Yeah.
I think it's just situational football. I think it's every
team obviously has different philosophies, and usually as coaches who
were once coordinators become head coaches, they have scars from
games past in other places they've been that they just
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kind of care with them and say, I'm gonna do
it this way because this is what happened the last
time we try to do something like that. So I
think a lot of what you see in situational football, Um,
I mean every week you have something that somebody's talking about, Oh,
they should have done this or why didn't they do that?
And I think a lot of that just comes down
to understanding. Like coaches and players, everyone is learning from
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situations that come up in a game. And when we
had it happened with Philadelphia right on the on side kick.
You know you're above the two minutes with a certain
amount of time outs, and do you kick it deep
to you on sidekick. It's it's really just about, you know,
how the flow of the game's gone. It's about what
we've done in the past. It's about the recovery rate.
I mean, there's so many dynamics that go into, um
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these situations that just aren't call the time out because
you just call it time out, or you're gonna save
thirty five seconds on the higher end of the two
men at as opposed to the lower end. So um,
you know, I think it just goes from team to team.
And I also think it goes from what team calls
fakes and is willing to run him at certain times.
Robbie Gould joining us the Doug Gotlip Show here on
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Fox Sports Radio. Um, Robbie, last thing, when when guys
come back hurt, right like Jimmy didn't appear to be
healthy last week and doesn't play well, What what is
that like? Because we all, I guess fans, we don't care.
We see you out there, we say back to perform.
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But having been and deal with your own injuries, what's
it like to play and knowing you might maybe shouldn't
be out there, but you kind of pushed out there
to play early when you're still a little bit banged up. Well,
I think everybody wants to play. No one wants to
be held out. And I think again, it goes back
to who the player is, what position are they in,
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what are they gonna be asked to do during the game,
What does the evaluation look like going through the week? Uh,
you know, I think it's tough. It's definitely difficult. But
I think a lot of players in the National Football
League play through injuries, severe and non severe, right, And
I think it's such a physical sport that you have
a bunch of players who needs six days to basically
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piece their body back together to be able to play
on Sunday and then do it again for um, twelve
straight weeks. And I think those are definitely part of
the National Football League. I also think that's a part
of a testament to Tonya. You know, Jimmy as a
leader and the type of guy that he is and
what he thinks he can do to help our team win. Um,
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you know, that's just the type of guy he is
and I think a lot of guys respect him for
uh making that decision and trying to go and trying
to help our team win football games. And that's why
he's our quarterback and that's why he's our leader. Robbie,
great stuff. Look forward to seeing you kick more field goals,
donate more money uh to uh to fight pediatric cancer.
And appreciate you being our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
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Thanks talking to you again. All right, that's Robbie Gold.
Of course you you can. That is going gold for
pediatric cancer, first ever r G nine Kicks for Kids campaign.
He's already, uh, he's already well ahead of his goal,
on track for his goal of raising fifty dollars. Be
sure to catch the live edition of The Doug gott
Leap Show weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific
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gotlic Show, Fox Sports Radio. Do you guys think that
Mike McCarthy is gonna make it a year two? Um?
This is Mike McCarthy after the game. This is this
is the most fake accountability I've ever heard. Taking Portland.
I didn't coach very well. I have a continuing issue
with with ball security on my football team. Um, it's
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something I'd personally take a lot of pride in and
and and how it reflects how you played a game
of football. And I'm not getting that done right now. Okay, Um,
I understand the hey, I didn't coach that well, that's
what guys do, right, That's what they all do. They
go they you know, I didn't coach that well. But
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the I didn't coach that well, we have I have
a ball security issue. Is I didn't coach that well
because these guys all fumbled, right, I'm not miss hearing anything,
am I. I admitted they did it. Everything else. There
was nothing about the defense, nothing about protection. Thankfully he didn't.
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He did not go to the injuries, which are a
major factor. But yeah, that that one feels totally phony
to me. Yeah, I you know what, I'm sorry, that's
my bad. I didn't have good ball secure. I've never
I'm not sure I've ever heard that one before. That's
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a very very new one to me, right, Uh, I
admit it my bad, yep, totally Yeah, ball security my issue,
which we know that's not his fault. He he didn't say, hey,
you know, I didn't get these guys ready, you know,
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clearly you know we're down some guys, and it's up
to me to get everybody to where they feel they
have confidence, like that's hey, I just didn't coach well enough.
Obviously we weren't coach well enough. That's why we didn't
play all that well. That stuff would have been great, great,
but what he offered up it's kind of laughable. And
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and look, we're gonna canonize Dak Prescott because the offense
was humming and then he got hurt. I should point
out they weren't winning and he got hurt. And oh yeah,
by the way, they played a lot of bad teams,
like the Falcons who they came back and beat, or
a bad team. The Giants that came back against are
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a bad team. So yes, they were. They looked better
offensively when they had um you know, when they had
uh Doc as their quarterback. But that didn't make them
look good. That didn't make them a good team. And
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it just didn't not even not even close. And I
think you run the risk now you have this change
Slater article where you have multiple players saying that they
weren't prepared and that they're not teaching us. They're not
coaching us, not coaching us up and we look bad.
That's not good. That not good, not even a little
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bit good. What do you think by are you thinking?
Makes it here too? I think it's gonna be very difficult,
And I think that Jerry Jones has let a lot
of guys stay on longer than they should. I mean
when you look at the track record of Wade Phillips
and Jason Garrett, or at least when when people have
called for them. The The other troubling thing is the
only positive that you could take from the season was
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the way that the offense played when Doak was there,
and he doesn't really have a say in the offense, correct.
The only holdover from the previous regime really was Kellen Moore,
the guy that you wanted to keep the offense going under.
So it's nothing that you know, they haven't done anything
to add or change or I didn't understand that. I
just didn't understand the higher I didn't I didn't understand
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the higher. Yes, So then is Aaron Rodgers proved correct?
Because it was not the problem with Aaron Rodgers like
this guy is so sag and he doesn't do anything new.
He's like just does nothing. So maybe he was right. Oh,
I don't. I don't know if he was right right.
I just know that look it bad. That's the best
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way I can point out. Yet it's it's just not good.
And especially Doug in a in a league that was
so trending to young minds in new football and expanding
and doing different things to go back to the old
school way of doing it not, you know, I mean
so much has been made about Mike Nolan and McCarthy
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is the same thing. It's well, everybody was zigging, they zagged,
and normally I'm like cool with it. But I just
that's why I think that you could see a change.
Oh well, I I definitely think that Aaron Rodgers having success.
They win thirteen games, you have to lose his leaves
and if they win, you know, twelve thirteen this year.
I mean, just regardless of how much different everything is,
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I just think that anybody would say that looks terrible,
doesn't anybody would say that sure, it doesn't help. I mean,
it's a it's a very very reasonable take to have
to go, like, man, that looks really really really bad.
There's also not to not to draw conclusions or connect dots.
But you know, I wondered too, after Oklahoma kind of
had the season that they've had with the COVID UH
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you know obviously the outbreak, and you know, Lincoln Riley
was such a hot, hot name, and now you go
out and you end up losing, you know, to Iowa
State in Kansas State. Like, maybe was it a bit
of a wake up call? It could Dallas be like,
all right, well, now maybe Lincoln Riley you know, realizes
that it isn't always going to be college football playoff
time uh in Norman that maybe it would allow them.
I know, I'm going like way down the road here,
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but if there was if there was a name, like
if you wanted to right your wrongs by doing it
and saying, hey, we made a mistake kind of like
the Arizona Cardinals felt they did with you know, Josh
Rosen in that regime with UH, with uh UM Steve Wilkes.
You know that at least could if you were to
get the big fish that you that you really wanted
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you were able to do that. Maybe that would also
allow Jerry to make a move. Look, that would be
that would be fascinating as well. I just think you know,
what what happens now is what gets really really interesting.
You know what what happens now with with the Cowboys
now that this is all out there, you know, kind
of what kind of a what's been going on sort
of thing? You know, and if it's if it's as
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bad as this feels like it is, who I just
think that that they had they run the risk here
Mike Nolan going against the spread, not having three four
we don't have three four players. Like, look, dude, I
kind of think you're going against an offense that you
haven't ever coached against, you haven't ever coached against. I'll
give you the here's the basketball example of football, y,
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or actually, here's the football example. I had a friend
who was with the Redskins when Joe Gibbs came back,
and Joe Gibbs his first day of offensive install they
started watching old Redskins from before he retired tape and
all the quarterbacks were elbowing each other because the wide
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receivers were in a three point stands right, and they're like, Joe,
we can't, we can't do this. The wide receivers at
three point stands right. In basketball, like everything used to
be in the NBA used to be about double team
to low post and people forget when like Elijah Wan
won the championship, he basically come down the court Lijahan
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post up. He' thrown into LaJuan And if you wouldn't
double team, like you go one on one to score
and if you double team, they pass it out and
find the open shooter. Guy would shoot like that was it.
That was basketball, or you run pick and roll. Now
it's there's lots of movement to balls, touches side to side,
plus the center. Nobody's posting up. If you do post up,
that's a passing position. And so your whole defensive rotations
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everything has changed the same as thing has happening football.
They're using these college and high school concepts which are
really interesting. And granted, the rules are different in college
and where you can go three yards down the field
and not be called for an eligible receiver downfield. Now
it's one yard in the pros, but they give you
about a half yard. But with these r pos, you
can't tell what's a run, what's a pass. The rotations
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are different, the coverages are different, the blitch packages are different.
I think they run the risk of being being a
little bit overwhelmed that that's what it. That's what it
definitely what it feels like. Stunning, kind of a stunning
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or the big news of the day. Dolphins rookie quarterback
to a tongue of our loa named the team starter.
He'll get the start in week eight against the Rams
because the team has a by coming up this week
and week seven. It is to a time not to
be confunfused with tool time. Right, Um, I feel like
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this was already a setting planned place, a set in
place plan. And uh the timing is curious because of
Aaron Donald. But I guess they must really realize he's
fully healthy and they want to get the to a
train rolling. We've got Jonathan Taylor Ramos here running the
board for us here on Fox Sports Radio. Bears have
sound free. Ancient linebacker man sits heyo to their practice squad. Wow,
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Oh the hell the mighty have fallen right? Yes, Um,
what about Lineka does she get? She gets for guy?
I do kind of feel bad for the guy, Like
I agree with you, like I agree you know, like
I totally am with you on that. I mean, I
didn't feel I made a ton of fun of him
at the time, and at some point he knew and
(32:55):
he let the thing kind of let the thing go
on for too long. But yeah, now I'm like, that's
the only thing he's known for, and he was the
hell of a college football player. The We touched on
this a little bit earlier. State of California allowing the
forty Niners to host fans at Levi Stadium because Santa
Clara County is has reached a threshold that is appropriate
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for the state in their minds to allow fans. However,
Santa Clara County has not given the forty Niners authority
to allow fans yet. The hope was to have capacity
in a few weeks for a game against the Packers.
But right now, the state says it's okay. The county
says it's not okay. It's so confusing. Yeah, so confusing.
I mean, I can, can the county just not have
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announcers wear those masks so we can actually hear them
the words. I know a lot of a lot of
forty Niners games early on in this season, Like we're like, like,
that was a brilliant point. You made good, good point, Jim.
You could tell Collinsworth was wearing one. I remember like
this past weekend, and a'l sures that didn't sound like
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he was the According Dude Jason Wright, the president of
the Washington football team, he told the TV station in
the DC area w j l A, that there's a
pretty good chance that the team will be the Washington
football team in one as well. People like it, people
like I hate you know what, it's not terrible the
Washington football team. Also, they're trying to get their brand together,
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get the uniforms, get the approval of the league. As
he said, speaking of up moving ahead, Dodgers co owner
Todd Bullie, I believe it is. Yeah, there are a
bunch of guys in the Guggenheim Group. He's no longer
with it, but he retains his minority ownership. Told the
Milken Institute Global Conference at their industry and revenues likely
won't be normal again until two not much of a surprise,
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but still expected to take a hit. Yes, makes makes
makes sense. Like I've read articles where people like, oh,
it's not that bad. It's really really bad. It's not good.
L the opposite of good. Yeah, it's not good at all.
Indiana Pacers have hired Raptors assistant Nap yorker In to
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be the team's new head coach. Uh comes from the
Raptors staff. And you know one of those guys, kind
of a grinder, been been in that he was in
the D League for a long time and then miss
an NBA assistant to different teams, now getting a shot.
Very interesting on how we become a copycat league to
coach in the NBA Finals started in the video room. Finally,
not surprising here. High School note All American bull featuring
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the top high school players from across the country. That
game has been canceled. Ah, what about all the dumb
announcements of where they're going to school during that game.
The only reason to watch, right, Liz is gonna take
quite a hit from that cancelation. Lid's not doing so well.
And that's the press bag it out there and pressed.
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That was the press Johnny Dodgers rage. What do you
got tonight? Dodgers? I like Clayton had come out big
tonight and the Dodgers continue a role. What about you there,
Dan Buyer, I'm gonna pick the race to win tonight.
I'm gonna give you a score seven seven five? Is
it late? Does Kershaw give up runs late or is
it clay Kenley Jansen gives it like what happened? Race
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jump out early, out early, Clayton Kershaw goes trudging into
the dugout. Um, I told you I'm rooting for Clayton Kershaw.
I think he wins. I think I don't know. Some
tells me that he pitches really well, but they get
him out a little bit earlier than they normally do tonight.
I enjoy the game. It's on Fox. We'll be back tomorrow.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Doug Otlip Show, Fox
Sports Radio. We've been trained, we've been trained in our
lives too cheer for the little guy, right, because we
like to see ourselves as the little guy. That was
the whole thing back in the seventeen hundreds, all right,
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we were the little guy. We weren't the big guy,
and so we've been kind of trained to really be
that guy, to be to root for the underdog. The
Cinderella story, which, by the way, can I simply point
out how dysfunctional and awful Cinderella is as a story,
just to recap, okay, the real Cinderella story of Cinderella.
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So Cinderella is born, her mom dies. Okay, the mom dies,
that's a terrible story. The dad, who apparently rich beyond belief,
marries some evil step mom who brings in her two
daughters and forces his daughter to live to live up
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in her own little check because I think he died.
So the mom dies, the dad remarries some witch, and
then the dad dies, and then the step mom, instead
of take care of this kid that's been through all
this trauma, puts her and she goes and lives and
her only friend or a bunch of mice. We celebrate
this story as if it's a good thing. Then she
sneaks out she needs a fairy stepmother to make a
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pumpkin uh into a carriage to take her to a ball.
All she meets the prince, who falls madly in love
with her, and of course the evil stepmom does everything
in her power to put her own daughters or flesh
and blood in front of Cinderella, who only because of
some miracle that they have a glass slipperiper fits her foot.
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That does she become, we assume the wife to the prince.
That's a terrible story. The mom dies, the dad dies,
the stepmom makes her live in an attict and her
only friend or some mice. That's some that's some evil
stuff right there. Nonetheless, we've been trained to cheer for
Cinderella because she had to live in an attict. Her
only friends were mice. I'm cheering for Goliath tonight, not David.
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David took the rock and and he did the thing
that the Texas A and M fans do write. And
he slung it and he slayed the the beast, and
it's biblical. Clayton Kershawn two thousand eleven, Um won his
first cy Young. He had a two point to a
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d r A. He was twenty one. In five he
led the league in strikeouts with two hundred, and he
threw two hundred and thirty three innings. The next year
he threw two hundred twenty seven innings, again led the
league in e r A. He was a runner up
for the cy Young Award. In two thousand thirteen, he
won his second cy Young Award. He struck out two
hundred and thirty two. He had a one point eight
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three e r A, which led the league. He threw
two hundred thirty six innings. He had the back problem
in uh In two thousand and fifteen, after winning back
to back cy Young's and winning an m v P
and even with the back problem, alright, we're he only
threw a hundred and ninety eight innings, he led the
league with a one point seven seven e r A.
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His e r A in his career has only been
above three first season twice. Once was last year when
he had a three point oh three e r A
he was an All Star and top ten in cy
Young Award voting, and the other was his first year
when he was twenty years old, when he he UH
he started twenty one games. He had a four point
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to six c r A. Since two thousand nine, so
roughly the last twelve baseball seasons he has been with
one exception below two point nine two with his e
r A. He has been out since. He's led the
league five times, he led the league in strikeouts three times,
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he led the league in innings once, and been over
two innings over six times. He usually starts every six day.
Of course, he has been injured a little bit. He solid,
he's consistent, he's been the ace and through all the failings,
and there have been plenty in in the playoffs. In
terms of his failings, it's fair to point out that
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uh he's played ten years in the playoffs. Of his
nineteen seasons, he's just the eleven and twelve with a
four point three one e r A. Alright, so four
point three one is not terrible. But when you consider
that your career e r a is uh is two
point four three, you're like, Okay, it's two points high,
two runs higher. That's not good. Have you ever heard
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Clayton Kershaw say, you know, and they used me less
than the regular season, I would have had more in
the tank for the postseason. You ever heard that? Have
you ever heard uh, ever heard Clayton Curshall say, you know,
if our bullpen was better, our bullpen was better, they
wouldn't have had me used me in those seventh innings
against the St. Louis Cardinals, and I would have gotten
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out unscathed. You even heard that? Have you heard him
point out that Kenley Jansen is not the picture he
used to be? Have you heard him say that the
Houston Astros stole a World Series from No, not the
perfect picture. I'm sure he's not the perfect human being.
But in a world in which we pick apart everything
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we a guy does, and we understand that he hasn't
been as good under pressure, especially late in games when
he started When when when the he loses a mile
or two off fastball and he loses a mile or
two or a little bit of spin rate off of
the curveball, off you know, off the slider, that he
becomes human and hitable. But for a guy who, over
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the last eleven years has been arguably the best pitcher
in baseball most of those years Max Scherzer in that conversation,
there are others in that conversation for Lander a couple
of years as well. I find it hard to root
against him. I'm not a Dodger fan, Like, well, you're
in l A. You're a Dodger fan, and I'm an
Angel fan. How give me a Dodger fan. Look at
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all the money that they spend. I get it. I understand.
It's you know, I'm sure Andrew Friedman's out there and
he goes like, well, I could spend twenty a million
on an entire team or spend twenty a million on
a guy. I think I'm gonna take this Dodger again,
jee job. You know, it is easier when you're the Dodgers,
when you have the resources of the Dodgers, when you
can trade for Mookie Betts and give him a gigantic contract.
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It's it's it's easier to win that way. Not everybody
wins that way. The Red Sox haven't won a couple
of years, and the Yankees have tried to buy championships
time and again that doesn't work either. This is not
telling you that the Rays are not worthy champions and
they're not worthy of being cheered for. Although most you
don't care about the race, this series is about Clayton
Kershaw and he gets the start Game one, and he's
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probably the third best picture of the Dodgers have, right,
Is that fair? Yeah, Walker Bueller, I'd say Dusty May
in terms of stuff, and then Clayton Kershaw. But we
would all agree that there's a lot of things fishing
going on when Houston beat him and he lost that
game six. And yeah, I don't know any if anybody,
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deserves to win a championship. But if there's a guy
who's close, consider uttering what he's done for his club,
what he's done for baseball, and the fact that you've
never heard him say a negative word about well, you know,
if Dave Roberts wasn't such an idiot would take me
out of the game, or Don Maddeningly would have taken me,
or if you know, like if my catcher would have,
if my my closer would if we would have had
a bullpen. It like, no, none of that. He gets
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the baseball. He throws the baseball. That's the best he
can accountable when he gives up hits. I'm cheering for
for Goliath. As unpopular as that. Maybe you know, I
get it. We we it's not that big an upset
when they come from three games and one down against
the Braves when you consider that the best team in
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baseball and ultimately Water finds this level, got it understood
it completely kers shot of me feels different. He is
a sympathetic figure even though he makes a gigantic amount
of money and his own personal failings because he hasn't
come through our his own personal failings. I'm not gonna
point to one error that we have an We have
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enough data to point out that he's not as good
in the postseason, especially in some big spots late in games,
as he has been in the regular season. And we
can chalk it up to fatigue, and we can chalk
it up to to whatever we want to chalk it
up to the cold weather and whatever. At some point,
it is what it is. But all it takes is
one championship and most of that narrative goes away. I'm
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cheering for Goliath. Coming up next, the Dallas Cowboys lose
more than a game. Now they're losing the locker room.
We'll tell you how next. Be sure to catch the
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Sports Radio. Former Chicago Bears kicker and current Niners kicker
Robbie Gould joins us. He's announced the going Gold for
pediatric cancer through the first ever r G nine Kicks
for Kids campaign support of Cal's Angels. For every field
he kicks during the season, Robbie Gould will donate to
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the Chicago based nonprofit. How many do you have so
far this year, Robbie? Right now, we have eight, which
makes it four thousand dollars that we're donating through six games.
So our ultimate goal is to raise fifty thousand dollars
for Cal's Angels, which is a pediatric nonprofit in Chicago.
And uh, it's been awesome because we've had other people
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um get on board and do some donations. I also
have UH my company, which is an event management company
Event of five. At UM has been able to set
up a donation campaign for this, which is awesome for
people to get involved. So if people want to get
involved and go to Kicks for the Number of Kids
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dot eventifi dot com and uh anybody can get involved
to help us recept fifty goal. Robbie Gould joining us
in the Doug Otlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Weird
year with I mean, just especially on the year with
so many injuries. As a fly on the wall to
that locker room with all of the guys going down,
what's it been like? Yeah, it's definitely tough. I mean
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if you look across the National Football League, I think
this is one of the conversations we had coming into
the season as a union as players. You know, I
was a part of the twenty eleven season where we
didn't have an off season, and you know, injuries are
at an off time high there as well, So I mean,
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you know, you don't have an off season, guys are
working on their own and you know, going to training camp,
I think we had probably fourteen to sixteen padded practices UM,
and you know it's tough at times, but that's what
everyone's dealing with. And I think you're seeing a increase
in injuries, um for a lot of different reasons. For
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us specifically, it's just been kind of some of our
big players. But I think it gives us a great
opportunity to have young guys step up, make some plays
and get that quality playing time at your knee, especially
if some of those guys eventually go down h later
down the stretch. And you know when you have a
play caller like Kyle Shanahan, and you know you have
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a coordinator like Robert sala Um, and then you know
those type of guys are gonna give you the best
game plan to keep being games and win games. And
this locker room has been together for four years now,
and you know foreign close games, we have a chance
to win a lot of those, that's for sure. Well.
One of the reasons is because you you make your
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field goals right, Um, Your your last field goal is
a thirty one yarder? Like when I never get when,
like you guys tried out there everybody, but there's a
chip shot field goal. How much more difficult is a
mid forties to a thirty one yarder? You know, I
think every field goal is different in every stadium, right.
I also think it depends on what fieldable block team
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you're going against. You know, obviously there's different things that
you're gonna try to do. When you're playing against the
guy like pet p out of Arizona. I mean, that
guy coming off the edge is one of the most
elite guys you're gonna find, right, And then there's some
teams that have more a gap rushers, which means you
gotta get the ball up and you have a little
bit more time. So for us, it's it's just about learning,
um what the other team's gonna do, which gives you
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a chance to practice all week timing and rhythm for
the game. And you hope that a thirty one yard
or you would treat it the same as a forty
nine yard or fifty five yard. But then you have
win and other conditions that come into play, and you
obviously have to play those conditions based on what you
saw the warmups. And there's some of those longer ones
for sure, and places like New England and places like
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Pittsburgh and Chicago, Cleveland, they're definitely gonna be more difficult
than some places in some domes. Yeah, you got New
England and then you got Seattle before you get before
you get to back home, and then when you by
the way, when you get back home. This you mean,
do you do you see the story? You're gonna have
fifteen people will be you I think maybe nine people.
How how much different is it for you when you
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played those games and nobody in the stands. Yeah, it's
definitely different. I think it's great to see um, Governor Newsom,
you know, bringing fans back into the stands. I think
Santa Claric County, UM, you know, they're they're pretty great
at trying to help us out and obviously maneuver what
we're going through in a pandemic, as well as obviously, um,
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you know, putting fans in the stands. I think most
places are starting to allow h those fans to come
back into the stadium and a very low capacity. Uh,
It's definitely been different. You have to bring your own energy,
you know. But for us, I think it's just a
matter of we had gone out all preseason and basically
we practiced with music, we practiced in the stadium without fans,
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so you kind of get used to it. And I
think that's an advantage for us being at our stadium
for training camp as opposed to some teams who might
have been more remote into where their stadiums obviously might
be fifty minutes away from their actually practice facilities. So
for us, it's been it's been great. It's gonna be
awesome to have a faithful back, that's for sure, um
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because I think if we look at the schedule, the
first game we would have have with fans would have
been Dallas. So it'll be nice to have some friendly
faces back into the stadium cheering force, and I think
it'll be It'll be great for everybody, not only the
National Football League and the forty Niners. I think it'll
be great for the players as well. I don't know
if you watched, obviously the Chief speak the Bills. I
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think Budker missed another extra point yesterday, and that's like
three or four games in a row. How do you
when you when you have one of those runs going
where like just inexplicable you you miss an extra point.
I don't know what you have you ever had one
of those runs? I mean I've everyone's had a run
where they couldn't make a field goal. But you've had
an extra point since they moved the extra point back.
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Have you ever had a stretch where you couldn't make
you miss one a game? Well, I think you know,
moving the extra point back is obviously gonna be way
different than um where it was at the twenty. Right,
You're gonna see decrease more significantly and make the game
obviously a little bit harder. But I also think that's
what makes our position out so valuable, right, because that
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extra point is just as means as much as a
field goal in the first quarter, if not more. Um.
And when you play games in the National Football League,
you know probably seventy those are one score games, so
you're talking about every point matters. And then you know,
I think when you're on a streak or something like
that happens. Uh. You know, I know, you know he
has a new holder, um uh. And I think sometimes
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it just takes a little bit of time to gel
because it didn't have the whole off season, and that
could be a part of it. But I know that um,
he's also played in a lot of windy games early on,
and it's got two rain games in six games, which
is a little bit I think unheard of coming through
Kansas City. Usually they get a lot of their weather
late in the year. So, um, you know he's a
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great kicker. I know his coach really well at Dave Tobe.
I played with him, uh for seven years, eight years,
and I know they'll get it fixed and he'll do
a great job the rest of the season. Okay, So
is it is it mechanical or do you think so
how much of well, when you've had a tough stretch,
how much of his mechanical? How much of it is mental? Well?
I think a lot of it is just you know,
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that situation I think is different than the situation. And
I was in last year, right, So last year I
came in after I hold out a lockout whenever you
hold out really for a contract, and um, you know
I had a new holder and then we had three
snappers in. So you know you're talking about rhythm and
timing and mechanics all that goes into play when everything
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isn't just like, hey, you three have been together for
eight years, right, So, um, you know, I think there's
more that goes into kicking than the Paul went in
or didn't go in. It starts with a long snapper obviously,
and then you have eleven guys trying to Russian block,
and you have you have O lineman and edge guys
at tight end and D lineman who are you know,
your punch guys on the on the wing positions that
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haven't played it before. And seeing this total change of
like how field goal protection has has been put put
into play. It used to be you put guys at
the wings to try and create fakes for players. Now
with an extra point being the thirty three yards, you're
not going to run a fake from the fifteen yard
line like you wanted to do, right, So I think
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a lot of it is is you know, it's just
every all these little nuances that go into these special
teams plays um have a little bit more impact now
because you're seeing the change in the history of the game.
But you're also seeing a change in how coaches are
coaching it, and that will continue to change from year
to year. You know, no one's ever done this, but
I asked, I was watching the game and I texted
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Jeff Schwartz, as a friend of mine, obviously a former
offensive lineman. I said, as anybody, if you if you
you know, sometimes coaches at the end of games, and
the halves they'll kick on a third down or a
second down whatever, you can fake it on that down
and still get another opportunity, right, Like, it's only if
you kick it and you miss it, do you not
getting now? Granted? Usually league, when you get a kick
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on second door down, it's as the clock expires, but
technically you could fake those and still get another opportunity, right. Yeah.
I think it's just situational football. I think it's every
team obviously has different philosophies, and usually as coaches who
were once coordinators become head coaches, they have scars from
games past in other places they've been that they just
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kind of care with them and say, I'm gonna do
it this way because this is what happened the last
time we try to do something like that. So I
think a lot of what you see in situational football, Um,
I mean every week you have something that somebody's talking about, Oh,
they should have done this or why didn't they do that?
And I think a lot of that just comes down
to understanding. Like coaches and players, everyone is learning from
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situations that come up in a game. And when we
had it happened with Philadelphia right on the on side kick.
You know you're above the two minutes with a certain
amount of time outs, and do you kick it deep
to you on sidekick. It's it's really just about, you know,
how the flow of the game's gone. It's about what
we've done in the past. It's about the recovery rate.
I mean, there's so many dynamics that go into, um
(20:09):
these situations that just aren't call the time out because
you just call it time out, or you're gonna save
thirty five seconds on the higher end of the two
men at as opposed to the lower end. So um,
you know, I think it just goes from team to team.
And I also think it goes from what team calls
fakes and is willing to run him at certain times.
Robbie Gould joining us the Doug Gotlip Show here on
(20:30):
Fox Sports Radio. Um, Robbie, last thing, when when guys
come back hurt, right like Jimmy didn't appear to be
healthy last week and doesn't play well, What what is
that like? Because we all, I guess fans, we don't care.
We see you out there, we say back to perform.
(20:50):
But having been and deal with your own injuries, what's
it like to play and knowing you might maybe shouldn't
be out there, but you kind of pushed out there
to play early when you're still a little bit banged up. Well,
I think everybody wants to play. No one wants to
be held out. And I think again, it goes back
to who the player is, what position are they in,
(21:10):
what are they gonna be asked to do during the game,
What does the evaluation look like going through the week? Uh,
you know, I think it's tough. It's definitely difficult. But
I think a lot of players in the National Football
League play through injuries, severe and non severe, right, And
I think it's such a physical sport that you have
a bunch of players who needs six days to basically
(21:32):
piece their body back together to be able to play
on Sunday and then do it again for um, twelve
straight weeks. And I think those are definitely part of
the National Football League. I also think that's a part
of a testament to Tonya. You know, Jimmy as a
leader and the type of guy that he is and
what he thinks he can do to help our team win. Um,
(21:54):
you know, that's just the type of guy he is
and I think a lot of guys respect him for
uh making that decision and trying to go and trying
to help our team win football games. And that's why
he's our quarterback and that's why he's our leader. Robbie,
great stuff. Look forward to seeing you kick more field goals,
donate more money uh to uh to fight pediatric cancer.
And appreciate you being our guest on Fox Sports Radio.
(22:17):
Thanks talking to you again. All right, that's Robbie Gold.
Of course you you can. That is going gold for
pediatric cancer, first ever r G nine Kicks for Kids campaign.
He's already, uh, he's already well ahead of his goal,
on track for his goal of raising fifty dollars. Be
sure to catch the live edition of The Doug gott
Leap Show weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific
(22:39):
gotlic Show, Fox Sports Radio. Do you guys think that
Mike McCarthy is gonna make it a year two? Um?
This is Mike McCarthy after the game. This is this
is the most fake accountability I've ever heard. Taking Portland.
I didn't coach very well. I have a continuing issue
with with ball security on my football team. Um, it's
(23:02):
something I'd personally take a lot of pride in and
and and how it reflects how you played a game
of football. And I'm not getting that done right now. Okay, Um,
I understand the hey, I didn't coach that well, that's
what guys do, right, That's what they all do. They
go they you know, I didn't coach that well. But
(23:23):
the I didn't coach that well, we have I have
a ball security issue. Is I didn't coach that well
because these guys all fumbled, right, I'm not miss hearing anything,
am I. I admitted they did it. Everything else. There
was nothing about the defense, nothing about protection. Thankfully he didn't.
(23:43):
He did not go to the injuries, which are a
major factor. But yeah, that that one feels totally phony
to me. Yeah, I you know what, I'm sorry, that's
my bad. I didn't have good ball secure. I've never
I'm not sure I've ever heard that one before. That's
(24:05):
a very very new one to me, right, Uh, I
admit it my bad, yep, totally Yeah, ball security my issue,
which we know that's not his fault. He he didn't say, hey,
you know, I didn't get these guys ready, you know,
(24:27):
clearly you know we're down some guys, and it's up
to me to get everybody to where they feel they
have confidence, like that's hey, I just didn't coach well enough.
Obviously we weren't coach well enough. That's why we didn't
play all that well. That stuff would have been great, great,
but what he offered up it's kind of laughable. And
(24:48):
and look, we're gonna canonize Dak Prescott because the offense
was humming and then he got hurt. I should point
out they weren't winning and he got hurt. And oh yeah,
by the way, they played a lot of bad teams,
like the Falcons who they came back and beat, or
a bad team. The Giants that came back against are
(25:09):
a bad team. So yes, they were. They looked better
offensively when they had um you know, when they had
uh Doc as their quarterback. But that didn't make them
look good. That didn't make them a good team. And
(25:31):
it just didn't not even not even close. And I
think you run the risk now you have this change
Slater article where you have multiple players saying that they
weren't prepared and that they're not teaching us. They're not
coaching us, not coaching us up and we look bad.
That's not good. That not good, not even a little
(25:55):
bit good. What do you think by are you thinking?
Makes it here too? I think it's gonna be very difficult,
And I think that Jerry Jones has let a lot
of guys stay on longer than they should. I mean
when you look at the track record of Wade Phillips
and Jason Garrett, or at least when when people have
called for them. The The other troubling thing is the
only positive that you could take from the season was
(26:18):
the way that the offense played when Doak was there,
and he doesn't really have a say in the offense, correct.
The only holdover from the previous regime really was Kellen Moore,
the guy that you wanted to keep the offense going under.
So it's nothing that you know, they haven't done anything
to add or change or I didn't understand that. I
just didn't understand the higher I didn't I didn't understand
(26:40):
the higher. Yes, So then is Aaron Rodgers proved correct?
Because it was not the problem with Aaron Rodgers like
this guy is so sag and he doesn't do anything new.
He's like just does nothing. So maybe he was right. Oh,
I don't. I don't know if he was right right.
I just know that look it bad. That's the best
(27:01):
way I can point out. Yet it's it's just not good.
And especially Doug in a in a league that was
so trending to young minds in new football and expanding
and doing different things to go back to the old
school way of doing it not, you know, I mean
so much has been made about Mike Nolan and McCarthy
(27:22):
is the same thing. It's well, everybody was zigging, they zagged,
and normally I'm like cool with it. But I just
that's why I think that you could see a change.
Oh well, I I definitely think that Aaron Rodgers having success.
They win thirteen games, you have to lose his leaves
and if they win, you know, twelve thirteen this year.
I mean, just regardless of how much different everything is,
(27:44):
I just think that anybody would say that looks terrible,
doesn't anybody would say that sure, it doesn't help. I mean,
it's a it's a very very reasonable take to have
to go, like, man, that looks really really really bad.
There's also not to not to draw conclusions or connect dots.
But you know, I wondered too, after Oklahoma kind of
had the season that they've had with the COVID UH
(28:06):
you know obviously the outbreak, and you know, Lincoln Riley
was such a hot, hot name, and now you go
out and you end up losing, you know, to Iowa
State in Kansas State. Like, maybe was it a bit
of a wake up call? It could Dallas be like,
all right, well, now maybe Lincoln Riley you know, realizes
that it isn't always going to be college football playoff
time uh in Norman that maybe it would allow them.
I know, I'm going like way down the road here,
(28:28):
but if there was if there was a name, like
if you wanted to right your wrongs by doing it
and saying, hey, we made a mistake kind of like
the Arizona Cardinals felt they did with you know, Josh
Rosen in that regime with UH, with uh UM Steve Wilkes.
You know that at least could if you were to
get the big fish that you that you really wanted
(28:50):
you were able to do that. Maybe that would also
allow Jerry to make a move. Look, that would be
that would be fascinating as well. I just think you know,
what what happens now is what gets really really interesting.
You know what what happens now with with the Cowboys
now that this is all out there, you know, kind
of what kind of a what's been going on sort
of thing? You know, and if it's if it's as
(29:13):
bad as this feels like it is, who I just
think that that they had they run the risk here
Mike Nolan going against the spread, not having three four
we don't have three four players. Like, look, dude, I
kind of think you're going against an offense that you
haven't ever coached against, you haven't ever coached against. I'll
give you the here's the basketball example of football, y,
(29:35):
or actually, here's the football example. I had a friend
who was with the Redskins when Joe Gibbs came back,
and Joe Gibbs his first day of offensive install they
started watching old Redskins from before he retired tape and
all the quarterbacks were elbowing each other because the wide
(29:56):
receivers were in a three point stands right, and they're like, Joe,
we can't, we can't do this. The wide receivers at
three point stands right. In basketball, like everything used to
be in the NBA used to be about double team
to low post and people forget when like Elijah Wan
won the championship, he basically come down the court Lijahan
(30:18):
post up. He' thrown into LaJuan And if you wouldn't
double team, like you go one on one to score
and if you double team, they pass it out and
find the open shooter. Guy would shoot like that was it.
That was basketball, or you run pick and roll. Now
it's there's lots of movement to balls, touches side to side,
plus the center. Nobody's posting up. If you do post up,
that's a passing position. And so your whole defensive rotations
(30:39):
everything has changed the same as thing has happening football.
They're using these college and high school concepts which are
really interesting. And granted, the rules are different in college
and where you can go three yards down the field
and not be called for an eligible receiver downfield. Now
it's one yard in the pros, but they give you
about a half yard. But with these r pos, you
can't tell what's a run, what's a pass. The rotations
(30:59):
are different, the coverages are different, the blitch packages are different.
I think they run the risk of being being a
little bit overwhelmed that that's what it. That's what it
definitely what it feels like. Stunning, kind of a stunning
development Alright, coming up next year on the Doug ot
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All the stories today we call it the press, the press,
(31:45):
what he got, Doug Let's stunt by a football league
or the big news of the day. Dolphins rookie quarterback
to a tongue of our loa named the team starter.
He'll get the start in week eight against the Rams
because the team has a by coming up this week
and week seven. It is to a time not to
be confunfused with tool time. Right, Um, I feel like
(32:10):
this was already a setting planned place, a set in
place plan. And uh the timing is curious because of
Aaron Donald. But I guess they must really realize he's
fully healthy and they want to get the to a
train rolling. We've got Jonathan Taylor Ramos here running the
board for us here on Fox Sports Radio. Bears have
sound free. Ancient linebacker man sits heyo to their practice squad. Wow,
(32:35):
Oh the hell the mighty have fallen right? Yes, Um,
what about Lineka does she get? She gets for guy?
I do kind of feel bad for the guy, Like
I agree with you, like I agree you know, like
I totally am with you on that. I mean, I
didn't feel I made a ton of fun of him
at the time, and at some point he knew and
(32:55):
he let the thing kind of let the thing go
on for too long. But yeah, now I'm like, that's
the only thing he's known for, and he was the
hell of a college football player. The We touched on
this a little bit earlier. State of California allowing the
forty Niners to host fans at Levi Stadium because Santa
Clara County is has reached a threshold that is appropriate
(33:16):
for the state in their minds to allow fans. However,
Santa Clara County has not given the forty Niners authority
to allow fans yet. The hope was to have capacity
in a few weeks for a game against the Packers.
But right now, the state says it's okay. The county
says it's not okay. It's so confusing. Yeah, so confusing.
I mean, I can, can the county just not have
(33:38):
announcers wear those masks so we can actually hear them
the words. I know a lot of a lot of
forty Niners games early on in this season, Like we're like, like,
that was a brilliant point. You made good, good point, Jim.
You could tell Collinsworth was wearing one. I remember like
this past weekend, and a'l sures that didn't sound like
(33:59):
he was the According Dude Jason Wright, the president of
the Washington football team, he told the TV station in
the DC area w j l A, that there's a
pretty good chance that the team will be the Washington
football team in one as well. People like it, people
like I hate you know what, it's not terrible the
Washington football team. Also, they're trying to get their brand together,
(34:23):
get the uniforms, get the approval of the league. As
he said, speaking of up moving ahead, Dodgers co owner
Todd Bullie, I believe it is. Yeah, there are a
bunch of guys in the Guggenheim Group. He's no longer
with it, but he retains his minority ownership. Told the
Milken Institute Global Conference at their industry and revenues likely
won't be normal again until two not much of a surprise,
(34:45):
but still expected to take a hit. Yes, makes makes
makes sense. Like I've read articles where people like, oh,
it's not that bad. It's really really bad. It's not good.
L the opposite of good. Yeah, it's not good at all.
Indiana Pacers have hired Raptors assistant Nap yorker In to
(35:06):
be the team's new head coach. Uh comes from the
Raptors staff. And you know one of those guys, kind
of a grinder, been been in that he was in
the D League for a long time and then miss
an NBA assistant to different teams, now getting a shot.
Very interesting on how we become a copycat league to
coach in the NBA Finals started in the video room. Finally,
not surprising here. High School note All American bull featuring
(35:29):
the top high school players from across the country. That
game has been canceled. Ah, what about all the dumb
announcements of where they're going to school during that game.
The only reason to watch, right, Liz is gonna take
quite a hit from that cancelation. Lid's not doing so well.
And that's the press bag it out there and pressed.
(35:50):
That was the press Johnny Dodgers rage. What do you
got tonight? Dodgers? I like Clayton had come out big
tonight and the Dodgers continue a role. What about you there,
Dan Buyer, I'm gonna pick the race to win tonight.
I'm gonna give you a score seven seven five? Is
it late? Does Kershaw give up runs late or is
it clay Kenley Jansen gives it like what happened? Race
(36:12):
jump out early, out early, Clayton Kershaw goes trudging into
the dugout. Um, I told you I'm rooting for Clayton Kershaw.
I think he wins. I think I don't know. Some
tells me that he pitches really well, but they get
him out a little bit earlier than they normally do tonight.
I enjoy the game. It's on Fox. We'll be back tomorrow.
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