Odell Beckham Jr Is Dramatic & That's OK

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and we'll take you to the Browns. Will take it
to the Giants. The gene Man who lost to the
Brownies last night in Cleveland on Monday Night Football, which
is where we will begin. Um, there are boxes that
you can check for the perfect storm diva wide receiver right.
First of all, part of being a diva is position based.

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Like you can't be a look at me guy, a
celebration guy if you're I don't know, a middle linebacker.
Like middle linebacker has to be a position of toughness
and leadership and tenacity. You're not gonna Michael Jackson moon
walk after every hit when you're a middle linebacker. I
mean even if you look at um, what's the name

(01:08):
of the punter for the Oakland Raiders who last year
was dancing Marquette King. Like, look, Marquette King dancing was
kind of cool, but he's a punter, so you get
away with it. On the other hand, Travis Kelsey clowned
him when they played against him because he's just a punter. Right.
The thing about the thing about wide receivers is you
have to be a little bit crazy in order to

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go across the middle. You have to be super talented
in order to get open. And you gotta be fast
and elusive and special to get open, catch the ball,
take contact or make people miss and take the ball
into the house like you have to be an elite
freak athlete talent, and because of it you're wired differently.

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You get a little bit of a pass for being
a quirky, flamboyant personality. There's like thirty guys on this
earth that can legitimately do what you do. Even if
there are thousands of guys who are as athletic as
you need to be, there's thirty guys who can do
all the things. You gotta be tough, you gotta bill catch,
you gotta be rolling routs, gonna be roll gree defense. Uh,

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you gotta be able to hand fight. You gotta be
able to make people miss. You know, you gotta not
get hurt like all these things. So wide receivers are
a special group, and they know they're a special group.
They are the beautiful woman who's a beautiful woman has
been told they're a beautiful woman for a long time
and believe they're a beautiful woman. But like tight ends

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are usually a little bit different because they're good athletes.
They're tough, they can catch, they can run, they can
do a little bit everything. But they're not necessarily sexy
or um like the Austin Cups of the world. Who's
like the new Welker, who's the new Edelman, the underneath
wide receiver, the guy who's not really the one or

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the two. They've had to bite clad, scratch claw to
get everything because they're not the freak talent that these
Skylar digs is. They're not the freak talent. The Odell Beckham's,
the you name it. The Dez Bryan's are like those?
Are you like the Welkers of the world because they're
the beautiful woman that weren't always told that they were beautiful.

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But Odell Beckham Jr. Got hit last night at about
knee level coming down to make a catch. He was open.
Wasn't a great toss. Although I don't know about the
window that Eli Manning had to make the throw. It's
the hit heard around the world, and the reason we're
paying attention to it is it's O b j h.
He's asked for a contract extension that is bigger than

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any wide receiver and frankly, he wants quarterback type money. Right.
He is among the most popular players in the league.
He plays in New York City, which makes him a
bigger than life figure. He has actually averaged more yards
per game than any player in his first three years
in major in NFL history. Like all of these things,
he has a cool look. He has the amazing one

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handed catch. He played on Monday Night Football, which, even
though it was against the Browns and Hiss preseason Monday
Night Football does breakthrough in comparison to the other NFL
preseason games. Right, it was the only thing. It was
either that our Bachelor in Paradise last night. Frankly, I
was toggling between the two. The point is that there's

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a lot of boxes that are checked that made us
all pay attention, and Twitter was filled with NFL players
paying attention to it. Here's Odell Beckham Jr. On the
hit his reaction afterwards. I don't know, man, I'm I'm
pretty concerned, but I think I'll be all right. High ankles. Um.

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I didn't go to school. Uh, you know, in anatomy
and kinesiology. I'm not really a doctor, but I think
they know the answer to that. So it's like, so
he was smiling when he said it. It appears that
he's okay, and he seems to have um he's he

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seems too, uh feel like he's going to be all right.
That he just freaked out in the moment. Right. Of course,
this caused NFL players to get getting a Twitter storm
with the how it was the hit was too low,
the hit was dirty, the preseasons pointless, this is why
they shouldn't be playing. My takeaway was quite different. First

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takeaway is, look, this is how close you are to
a catastrophic seasonating injury. You do nothing wrong, you go
up and you make a play and by all uh,
by all aspects of the written rule, that is a
legal hit on Odell Beckham Jr. Absolutely positively legal and

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so a legal play, a good play by a wide receiver,
a tackle by a defensive back can lead to a
season ending injury. If you want to know why, NFL
players get the least amount of guaranteed money even the
stars in comparison, or the least amount of years and
guaranteed money in comparison to the best the major Major
league ers and NBA players. There's other factors. Number of

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appearances is one of them. Length of career is one
of them. Um. But one of the big ones is
that think about all the things that can go wrong
that can keep you out for a game, for two games,
for a season, and can end your career rather quickly.
That's a big reason that careers are so short in

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the NFL. Second thing, NFL players who always say I'd
rather be hitting the head than hitting the knee. That's
that's somebody who has never been hitting the knee. That
reminds me of motorcycle guy who doesn't believe in the
helmet law. Right, my god, the helmet law that lacks
limits my protection. Okay, but when your head is rolling

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off of your neck because you chose not to wear
a helmet, one good luck telling that your family to
all the rest of us have to pay for it.
When your head is performing so poorly it doesn't know
it needs a helmet to perform such an activity, it
ceases to become a head that we should pay attention to.

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James Lofton is a Hall of Fame wide receiver calling
games this year for CBS. He was on Dan Patrick's
show earlier today on Fox Sports Radio. He offered this up.
Players who have not been concussed with say hit in
the head, players who who have been concussed a couple
of times and says, bring it on low. Oh yeah, no, no,
hit me hit me high rather than low. You ever
had a concussion? No, what's it like? Well, you can't

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find your car keys, you have a headache, you're in
a fog, and if you have too many of them
then you'll never play football again. Yeah sure, and oh yeah,
by the way, when you get to like forty, you
start losing some cognitive function. Hit me high, not low.
Is the guy who's never been hit high, not low.

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I'm not gonna freak out over Odell Beckham. He does
check the box of diva's but he's also a super
talented diva. He's the hot chick who's been told he's
the hot chicks since the day he first put on
addressing heels. And the one thing you can't deny about
a beautiful woman. Is she is in fact a beautiful woman.
I've said this before about Hallie Berry, Right, there's gotta
be something wrong with halle Berry. She's married three times,

(08:33):
can't be happy in love. But you know what, she's
still Hallie Berry. We can still right like it's you're
not gonna eat kick Hallie Berry out of bed for
eating crackers, and you're not gonna get rid of O'Dell
Beckham Jr. Just because he's kind of a pain in
the ass. He's kind of worth it. Mark Slaith joins us.
Upcoming next, um, I want to ask him about the

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news that we talked about yesterday. Colin talked about it
earlier today. Is Denver admitting a mistake by not starting
Pats Lynch, the mistake being that they drafted packs Lynch?
And if so, why can't John Elway draft a quarterback?
Wouldn't he know what a really good quarterback you would
think looks like? And what do you what Mike March

(09:15):
said or is alleged to have said about Jared Goff's
new head coach and why he doesn't think it'll work.
We'll get stinks, reactions things thoughts on it since Sean
McVeigh came from one of his other previous teams, the
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(11:05):
Slayers le join us in mirror moments. Um I thought
this was interesting. Sean mcveigh's head coach of the l
A Rams, former NFL coach Former Rams head coach Mike
Mars denied making harsh comments attributed to him in an
upcoming book as whether or not Sean McVeigh is capable
of having an impact on Jared Golf in the book Blitz,

(11:27):
why NFL teams gamble on starting rookie quarterbacks throughout In September,
Marx was asked whether McVeigh could make a difference with golf.
Golf appeared in seven games last season under veteran head
coach Jeff Fisher. An excerpt was obtained by ESPN. What
is he a couple months older than Jared? They hired
a buddy for Jared. The NFL has nothing to do

(11:47):
with about being a friend or a buddy to the quarterback.
You've got to coach him and worked them hard with respect.
But buddy, and this guy is a quarterback expert and
offensive expert. Wait a minute while I puke. McVeigh, of course,
was thirty when he was hired turned thirty one. Mike
March told in l A radio station seven ten that

(12:09):
the quote is uh in its entirety was not accurate.
I would never say something like that. The coat was
kind of embellished. It was a very short interview, and
I think I told Thomas George that there was only
a couple of years difference between them. That they probably
brought him in because of his ability to communicate with golf.
You want somebody more his age, I guess, but all
the other garbage. I would never say something like that.

(12:33):
Um in the book marked his quote is expressing any
doubt that McVeigh could succeed with golf simply because of
his age. Right, He's gonna be able to teach him
and handle and guy Jared through the tough times because
of all his expertise and knowledge. Right, I'm not going
to drink that kool aid. Kind of feels like Mike
mart said it and then read it and other people

(12:55):
read it and like, dude, are you killing this guy?
Um An NFL GM texted me this morning when I
asked him about it. Based upon his demeanor, mcveigh's demeanor,
intellect and track record, Uh, he should work really well
with golf, got with with a golf The big question
is whether or not he can coach the whole team,

(13:15):
not coach the quarterback. Like March doesn't even know the question.
That's really um that's really being asked. So, oh, I
don't know. I think part of it is young guys

(13:36):
and old guys. That's really what it is. Well, I'm
not gonna i've I've now I was the young guy
when I started this thing. I was the young guy.
I'm not the old guy now, so I'm not the
curmudgeon and I I have similar wondering or questions about
kind of the new guard to come in to try

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and they want to rule the world. Like all these things.
I wonder, just like anybody else, if somebody is legit
when they come in to this industry and there, which
I would guess guys that are my age now were
like then. But but I thought McVeigh was was thought
to have done a very very good job with Kirk Cousins.

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And most people are in the league think Cousins a
good quarterback but not super talented in terms of arm strength.
And yet they've been able to put him in a
place to which he succeeded and gotting paid you know,
forty million over these uh these two years. He's gonna
get another contract next year. And so whether it's Kyle
Shanahan who got a job and look his offensive coordinator.

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Mcveigh's worked under Kyle Shanahan last year as a quarterback coach.
So I kind of feel like this kind of young guard,
this young group, they're gonna get a chance to prove
themselves with the Rams. But just because they haven't done
it as a head coach, as as a head coach,
doesn't mean it can't be done. Well. Let's ask Mark Schlaire.
He played in this league for a long time. He
won three Super Bowls, play with the Redskins, play with

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the Broncos, a part of the Super Bowl teams. He
joins us in the Doug Golic show Stink Up March. However,
he might have been quoted or misquoted. Doesn't totally believe
that Sean McVeigh at thirty one years old, having not
played in the NFL can be a difference maker, um,
for for golf and for the Rams. What you're taking
the likelihood of success there, well, I think for most guys,

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when they get their first opportunity, they're so busy screwing
things up and it's overwhelming that it's usually the next
opportunity that that that they have success. And I think
one of the mistakes that a lot of owners have
made is everybody feels like we gotta go young at
the head coach as somebody that that relates to the
players more. You know, somebody that grew up with the

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this generation of social media and all this stuff. And
I don't necessarily think that's that's true. And just because
you've grown up with social media doesn't make you a
great communicator, um. And I think that's a misnome. I mean,
I watched here in Denver as the Denver Broncos defense
just excelled under Wade Phillips, and there was no more

(16:09):
connected guy to his players than Wade was to his.
You know, they loved Wade Phillips, and the guy is
seventy some odd years old, but they absolutely loved him.
They played hard for him, they had great reverence for him.
So it's really your ability to communicate can you or
can you not? That I think sets it apart. I
think the other thing that's really hard for coaches like

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a Kyle Shanahan, like a Sean McVeigh, is that when
you get that opportunity, a lot of the coaching, a
lot of the stuff that you loved, the connectivity that
you had with your players is taken away from you
because now you're coaching your coaches and they're the ones
that are in relationship, and your day is spent putting
out fires, doing the media stuff that you have to do. UM.

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It really makes it difficult to still have that kind
of same connection with your players, UM and so it
takes some of that away. So there's a big adjustment
period I think for first time head coaches and and
I think it's really hard to just have success when
all those kind of other factors kind of getting mounted
on top of you and you haven't dealt with him
in the past. Okay, so he hired Wade Phillips as

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his defensive coordinator. Does that say to you that he
understands he needs somebody in the other side that has
experience and he's going to only pay attention to the office.
What does it say to you as a former player
and now analysts. It says to me that I understand.
I'm smart enough to understand and know what I don't know,
so to speak. And I've got a guy here who's

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been a head coach for the Bills, he's been a
head coach for the Broncos, he's been a head coach
for the Dallas Cowboys. So I can lean on him.
I can glean whatever experience I can from him, and
he can help me along the way as I process
all this stuff. Um, there's this letting go process to
becoming a head coach. And I think a lot of guys,

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especially coordinator type of guys who have made a name
for themselves on the offensive defensive side, coordinating their offense
or defense. Um, there's this letting go process that I
think it's hard for guys. It's hard to give that up.
And Yeah, I just feel like there comes a time
when Jack of all master Anne and you've got to

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let go of some of that stuff, empower people, trust
the people that you empower to do the job, and
then just oversee the whole thing. So I think that's
the process. And the more experience you have and the
more people you can lean on as you go through
that process, the better off you're gonna be. That's the
voice of Mark Schlaire at three time Super Bowl champion
Fox NFL analysts joining us Tell Gotli show Fox Sports Radio.

(18:42):
You mentioned in Denver where you have your own radio
show Denver, where you played Denver, where you played with
John Elway. Is uh is starting Trevor Simeon announcing that
Trevor Simeon is the guy, especially after how much Paxson
Lynch struggled as the starter in their second preseason game.
Is that the Broncos telling the world we admitted we

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made a mistake. Paxson Lynch is not going to be
the guy here? Well, I mean in a sense, yes,
that is, he is not ready for prime time right now.
But I think it's a you know, I think it's
a warning sign to all the all the people out
there that play out of a spread offense that there

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is so much, you know, there's so much to learn
going from the college game to the professional game. And
when you haven't lined up in a huddle and you
haven't called plays from the huddle, and you haven't diagnosed
the defense, and you haven't read a route combination and
known where to throw it based upon the defense that
you're getting in the coverage schemes that you're getting, that's
a huge step and a huge transition. And what they're

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saying right now is, hey, listen, man, we knew it
was gonna be a project. We thought we could speed
the project up, and we really haven't. Um you can
call it admitting to a bust. Here's the thing about
the think, you know, the rookie waste scale that was
negotiated in the last collective barging agreement. Guys become throwaways.
Now you can reach on a quarterback. If he doesn't

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pan out in two or three years, you can dump him.
And it really doesn't cost your franchise that much, doesn't
hamstring you. You're not essentially married to that guy for
the long term. You're just you know, you're leasing with
an option to buy. And so from that standpoint, if
you make a mistake, at least you can wash your
hands from that mistake and move on. I still think

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they'll give him an opportunity with Trevor simeons injury history.
He may get that opportunity this season, But the bottom
line for him is, you've got to learn how to
be a professional. You've got to learn how to study.
I always tell people watching film and studying film are
two different things, and it takes time for a young
player to learn how to actually study the game, understand

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the game and its totality, and not just watching film
for the sake of Hey, everybody else spends two hours
in here watching it. I'm gonna spend two hours here
watching it. Which does you know good if you're not
learning how to study it and and to learn and
glean information from the film that you're actually preparing. You
know that you're actually watching and preparing for a team
that you're you know, game planning. Again, now it should

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be pointed out they won the Super Bowl with subpar
quarterback play. I mean, as great as Paymenting is, he was,
he was bad that year nine touchdowns, seventeen interceptions and
really struggled did A had some moments in the playoffs,
but struggled in the Super Bowl. They won because of
their defense more so than anything they did offensively. Okay,
so is this defense loaded enough and their skill position

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players and offensive line fixed enough to cover up for
the fact that if Trevor Simeon or Paxston Lynch is
the guy, they can still win in spite of not
because of their quarterback play. I think they are with
Trevor Simeon, a healthy Trevor Simeon playing. I don't know
that they are with Paxton Lynch playing, because he's just

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not ready to take that next step. He's not ready
to read those defenses. But you of the Denver Broncos,
the way they're built from the back end forward on defense,
their secondary is honestly second to none. I mean they
You can argue that the Giants secondary is outstanding as well,
So it may be the Giants and the Broncos, and
you can make an argument about whose secondary is better.

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But they're loaded um from that position um linebacker corps
in one place in man coverage where they get exposed,
or they got exposed a little bit last year, although
they swear they've been working up and down on that
and some injuries played a part of that, and then
they didn't defend the run very well last year. They
loaded up in free agency, they got some other players,
but they can rush the passer with von Miller, Shane

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Ray when he's healthy. You know, he's a guy that
uh he heard his risk, but he was great last year.
Um as he was filling in for de Marcus Ware.
So they can rush the pastor they've got a great secondary,
they can they can essentially lock you down. There's no questions.
The Broncos had to look at themselves saying, hey, listen,
this defense is a championship caliber defense and we have

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a chance to win as long as we get good
quarterback play. Um it doesn't have to be outstanding quarterback play,
but it just has to be good and not put
our defense in harm's way. Can we possess the ball?
John Elway, one thing he did, and you can argue
about his inability to pick a quarterback, One thing he
did is he attacked the weakness of this offense and

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was the offensive line. He drafted Bowls in the first round,
who's exceptionally athletic um and is aggressive and nasty. He
just needs to continue to learn how to play. But
the inside positions, the guard positions, they've revamped that and
I look at them. There are three guys who started
significant games last year started that. I don't think you're

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gonna make the roster this year. Three guys. That's how
much more depth than That's the direction they went into
this offseason. So if you couple that with a healthy C. J. Anderson,
this this kid that they've got D'Angelo Henderson running the
ball out there is a third down back. Um, they've
got a chance to be better than people expect them
to be. Last thing, Odell Beckham Jr. Got hit hit

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a little bit low. Uh it's a legal hit, but
is a clean hit from a from a former player
and especially somebody who had nearly uh thirty surgeries on
his knee. What do you think of the hit? I
didn't have any problem with at all. Man, that's football,
and you know not to be that guy. Well, you
didn't play the game. You know. I know you're an athlete.
I knew you played at a very high level. But

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and you can relate to this, and this is in
no way bashing people who haven't played the game, but
you have. You don't understand just the feeling of desperation
you have when you're dude that you're blocking is about
to make a tackle, or that when your dude who's
about to make a catch could go to the house,

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and that level of desperation, it's not it's one that
all of a sudden, men, I'll do anything to get
you down to make that block, whatever it takes. And
there's no malicious intent there. It's just about, hey, this
is what I've got to do. And I've been or
Doug where I'm you know, didn't do a very good
job locking. And my guy is about to make a
tackle on a on a draw and I've just dove

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with his legs and dropped him in half and had
flags Pepper and me, And there was no malicious intent.
It's just that fear factor of oh my god, I'm
gonna lose and my dude is gonna make a tackle
for a three yard loss. I can't allow that to happen.
And so that fear is what motivates guys. And obviously
the way the league has changed the rules where you know,
even incidental helmet and helmet contact you get flagged and

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you get fined for I understand the defensive players saying, Hey,
the only way that I can survive and not get
money taken from me and still be a factor or
an intimidating factor is I gotta take guys out the
legs and and so that's the way the rules are written,
and that's the way it's gonna be. Great stuff is
always think. Mark Schlaire, three times Super Bowl champion, joining
us on the Doug Gotlic Show. We'll talk soon. Okay,

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all right, take every buddy. Pleasure is always mine. I'll
be broadcasting from Las Vegas starting tomorrow. So we're getting
ready for Mayweather versus McGregor, and I kind of feel
like this is a no win for one side down.
I'm yelling Timber Doug gotta leaves show, Fox Sports Radio

(26:16):
Ramos on the ones and twos, so um Doug Kazarian
wrote an article, uh for ESPN, say, Monday solar eclipse
may last longer than Conrad Gregor in the ring against
Floyd Mayweather on Saturday. But if McGregor somehow wins he

(26:37):
could turn Vegas lights out on the Las Vegas Strip.
UH Strip sports books quote. All I know is we're
less than a week away from making a lot of
money or getting clovered. That's William Hill, director of trading
Nick Bugdanovitch told ESPN of the Weekend William Hill. They
set the lines for everybody. They taking all the information. Bogdanovitch,

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I never dreamed in a million years it would create
this kind of frenzy. I'm taking bets in this fight
from guys I've never seen before. Winds sports book director
John Avello told told ESPN. The Westgate Las Vegas sports
book first posted Mayweather as a minus favorite and McGregor
as a plus eleven hundred underdog and a hypothetical bout

(27:25):
back on February six The since the fight became official
on June fourteen, sports books have witnessed a mind boggling
handle handled as the amount of money that's gambled on
on a fight, on a sporting event or whatever, driving
the consensus price to Mayweather minus four McGregor plus three

(27:46):
seventy five. In other words, like, if you bet McGregor
way back in the day before was the fight, you'd
be sitting pretty like, just put a hundred dollars down,
put a thousand dollars down, you got a chance to win.
Um crazy, crazy money. Most people just asked to bet McGregor.
South Point oddsmaker Jimmy Vacaro said they don't even care
what the prices. This is like hanging negative three on

(28:09):
a superlet and seeing the line move to negative eight.
J J. Rude, vice president of MGM Racing Sports Book, says,
revealing the company's current ticket ratio is twenty one. Last
month it was fifty to one. This could be the
worst loss in the history of MGM. Ultimately, we want

(28:29):
to be in position where we win a significant amount
on Mayweather. We want to be We don't want to
be destroyed if if McGregor wins. We don't want this
fight to cost us the whole year. It's a giant
unknown posting a point spread in a college football team
against the world uh college, the best college football team
against the worst NFL team. It's just so difficult to compare, engage.

(28:49):
That's that's actually the perfect analogy. Sharps are waiting for
Mayweather line to hit when it bottoms out. Sharps are
people who are professional betters. They will bet lots of
big money bets on Mayweather. The question is how much
of that will offset the public betting on McGregor. McGregor
is not just the people's champion. People searching for a

(29:10):
long shot, right, it's the Calvin bow Rail is writing
who That's who I'm going with. Kara was asked the
largest reported wager he took came from Las Vegas residents.
The Malouf brothers risked UH eight hundred and eighty thousand
dollars on Mayweather minus five fifty to win one sixties.

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So maloos are like, we're betting the favorite. This an
easy bet. We're only gonna win a hundred sixty grand
out of eight eighty grand. But it's just it's smart.
The price keeps coming down, and then it was just
too good to pass up, said Mayweather neighbor Gavin Malouf,
as he and his siblings vow to donate winnings to

(29:52):
charities in Las Vegas and in Los Angeles. Why are
they gonna donate it? They lost their NBA team, they
lost their hotel, Like do you need to keep all
that money? Look, I look at it as a no
win for anything in boxing, anything in boxing, this is
no win. If Mayweather wins, You're like, I can't do
this anymore. I can't do it. I can't spend money.

(30:15):
And the Codo Triple G fight is gonna be a
great fight. But I do know that's like the I
just I can't. I can't do the Mayweather thing. I
can't do the this is the biggest, this is the greatest.
You have to spend a hundred bucks again, and if
he loses, it was rigged because it's boxing, Because there's

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no way a guy who's never been in a professional
boxing match can beat the best professional boxer fighting, right.
I think it's a no win now. I think there's
an actual big loss out there for UFC, but I
think there's a big win for mixed martial arts. McGregor
looks good or decent, and you can see that he's

(30:58):
athletic and he can and some shots against Mayweather that
others have not been able to. When then you kind
of bought it like this is he's not even a
boxer and he's able to box with this guy. But
the if he looks bad and he gets clowned, it
looks there's just no erasing. There's no, deleting that memory
from your from your brain. Yes, John Rolds, do you

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think there's any possibility at all that some MMC or
m m A or whatever it is comes into the
fight like they don't do they don't do tag team
in m m A. John, No, No, he's like always
people up. He's like tag team. And also John Jones
comes in, and now John Jones comes in, and now
Anderson Silva comes in. Ohly cow, there's Randy good Door

(31:44):
out of retirement, Rhonda Rousey, they're all fighting in the
like what was that called? Uh in the world rush
w w E? What's that called? When they all royal
rumblet know. I was saying, do you think McGregor were
ever like like maybe trying to like knee him or
or like do something that's m m A move at

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some point by maybe forgetting that he's boxing and just
kind of naturally do something that he would normally do
in a fight. That's what I think people are. I
would look for him maybe to like try to sweep
him and go oops, sorry or do something like that.
Do you think it's too regulated that he cannot do that?
He's not gonna knee somebody I do think there are
people that think he's gonna get down and do something crazy,

(32:26):
or he's he's so awkward that he might catch him.
You know, he might catch him with That's really what
you're betting on here, right, You're betting on him to
catch him with some crazy punch. I catch him in
a but like he slaps, it doesn't fight like a boxer. Look,
can I can I see him landing a punch? Yeah?

(32:46):
I mean, like again, I'm I've I've been around long
enough to know and and watch boxing enough. Everybody's watched
boxing enough to know all it takes is one punch, right,
It's it's baseball. I I watched Kirk Gibson limp, pup,
limp up and go no way, No way. Guy can
even swings, got pulled a hamstring. He's going against Dennis Eckersley,

(33:06):
who is the best closer, having the best season arguably
the history of Major League Baseball from that position. Like
I could, I could not see that, And he hit
home run and he won the game. Walcome, I don't
believe what I just saw. I don't believe what I
just saw right, Like I could see it happening. But
I'm not buidding any money on it. It'd be crazy.

(33:27):
Are you crazy? That's peeing money down? I don't even
I'm not. I don't know. I don't eve think I'm
gonna gamble next week, guess whose favorite to win the
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car buying experience. Doug Olive Show, Fox Sports, Rady, all right,
I'm gonna fully admit something. Okay, we came over here.
We want to kind of change out some of the
things that we did and um and if mine, but
it wasn't like it was things were embargoed right when
they're like, oh, you can't do that there because you
did it here. And sometimes things just work. We've we've

(34:09):
called my sack of games the sack. But I also
think it's a little I just I don't know, I
don't know. I came up with it. I didn't love it.
So because the old thing worked, we'll call it the
old thing. Okay, this is game time on the Doug

(34:29):
Gottlieb show there. Yeah, we called the game time before,
we'll call it game time now. Is that that that? Okay?
We welcome in my friend Dan Buyer. Dan, are you okay?
It's like that, just like the Chicago Bulls. Yes, let's
do it. Get some game time in game time today, Doug,
we have got a little guess who. Okay, since we

(34:53):
played the Chicago Bulls. Drop of game time, let's start
in the NBA Guess who. Doug was named as the
most likely player to win the NBA's Rookie of the
Year award in the upcoming season in a survey of
thirty nine NBA rookies. Ben Simmons, No, No, it was
Dennis Smith Jr. Of the Dallas Mavericks. In fact, the

(35:14):
Mavericks carred received at twenty five point seven percent of
the vote. Alonzo Ball of the Lakers received just twenty.
Mark l Foltz was actually third. I don't know if
the rookies were smart enough to know that can actually
vote for Ben Simmons to be Rookie of the Year,
But Dennis Smith Jr. Got the nod. I think they're
smart enough to know. I think one of the things
at work here is that um uh, is that Dennis

(35:39):
Smith is one. I mean, he can score a bill
score right away and too they're gonna be bad, So
he's gonna be given the ball and be getting allowed
to play right away, right and they're gonna play Dirk
at center some so they'll be playing a space for
him to get to the hoop, and that dude can
get to the rim and can tear off for him
when he gets there. So I think there's some other
kind of mitigating some of the factors in it. But

(36:00):
I think that's I think that's where that that thought
comes from. I will say this, I'm not trying to
say that the rookies are dumb. Maybe they just didn't
know that Ben Simmons would be eligible for the award.
I think I don't know, because remember Joel Embi nearly
when it last year, and he had he had for
two previous years. Remember Donovan McNabb didn't understand overtime either,

(36:21):
so you've got that as well. For sometimes the athletes
just aren't his clued in as we would have hooped.
All right. Guess who was named as the preseason first
team All American quarterback by the Associated Press in college football? Well,
I've been listening to your updates, so I just kind
of a giveaway, Sam Donaldson, and you're just edging him out.
It's amazing that the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback was relegated

(36:45):
to second team. What maybe even more surprising, Doug, is
that the a c C, even without Jackson on that
first team, had the most players on the first team
with seven. The SEC had five, Big ten and Pack
twelve ended up having four players each. But Sam donald
your first team All American quarterback, give me a fascinating
year USC. We talked about last year their schedule could

(37:05):
not have been tougher out of the shoot. This year
you have Texas at home, Stanford at home. The tougher
games are at home early in the season. We'll talk
to former USC head coach current Florida Atlantic head coach
Lane Kiffin later on in the show. Oh not too
bad was the best I could do, too. It was
the best I could do to tease that UH and

(37:27):
somehow bridget you know, the conversation about Lamar Jackson and UH,
Sam donald with UH with line Ki guess who dug
hits a bunch of home runs in the major leagues
and believes that sixty one is the real single season
home run mark. M Aaron Judge, it's actually John Carlos Stanton,

(37:51):
the guy who could be pushing sixty one, made the
comments recently to the South Florida Sun Settinel. Stanton has
forty five on the season yesterday, but saying that he
considers sixty one as being the number. There were six
seasons where players hit more than sixty one home runs.
Sammy Sosa, in fact, had three of those six, but Stanton,
to him, says, sixty one is that magical number. Says

(38:11):
he remembers watching the sand Lot and Roger Morris and
Mickey Mantle and and remembering that as sixty one being
that magic number hit by Marris. So Giancarlo Stantons has
sixty one is the real mark. I actually agree with
that one. I think sixty one is the mark. I
and I mean Barry Bonds is on steroids. You know,
Barry Bonds goes from being a great hitter and m

(38:32):
v P but home run a year guy to hitting
seventies seven home runs or seventy three home runs, but
it was seventy three home runs. Yeah, not buying it.
I consider uh, and I you know, I also consider
him the all time home run king as well, not
not not Barry Bonds, Um, Hank Karon, Henry Aaron the
all time home run king. And I actually forgot that

(38:52):
Sosa had three seasons of sixty one or more, which
is pretty crazy. Final one guests who on the crew
has met John Travolta. I guess who on the crew
has met John Travolta. I'm going with John Ramos. Ah, Yes,
they crossed paths in In fact, John sent a tweet

(39:15):
out about it a few years back. But John Ramos
was able to meet John Travolta. Really, Yes, how that happened? John? Ah,
he was doing some I was talking to Travolta, who
I thought was here. No, I'm just kidding. He was
doing some stuff for Primary colors, I believe. And I
just he came to the radio station and I said, Hey,
what's up there? You go? The rest is history. I

(39:37):
just retweeted a picture Doug of John John Travolta from
John's Twitter account. Yes, it's at Dan Byron Fox. Where
is it not Dan Byron Fox? Where's my Dan? Am
I not following Dan Byron on Fox? I thought I
followed Dan Byron Fox. You did at one point maybe

(39:59):
like my stuff. See now, why can't I don't know.
I'll we'll review the picture or review the picture. Plus,
Lane Kiffin joins us next on the show or atlantic
s head coach? What upp? It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
Sports Radio coming to you from the City of Angels.

(40:22):
We are getting closer, kids, getting closer to football season.
M M, getting closer. Uh. Football season gets underway this Saturday,
Oregon State, Colorado State, Portland's State. Portland's on the State's
the City against b y U at lavel Edward Stadium.

(40:43):
Hawaii takes on you Mass. South Florida, who has Charlie
Strong's right coach, takes on San Jose State. Stanford takes
on Rice. That one's down in Sydney, Australia. Sydney, Australia.
But look, there are teams and coaching changes that have
made news. We talked about South Florida. Uh, that's one.
UM Florida. Atlantic opens up with the Naval Academy a

(41:06):
week from Friday, So we from Friday, and their head
coach will be Lane Kiffin. And it's interesting because Lane
Kiffin this time last year was the offensive coordinator at Alabama.
Then towards the end of the year was thought that
when Houston needed a head coach, he would end up
getting the Houston job. He did not. And then when

(41:27):
that didn't happen, everyone thought that Lane Kiffin was going
to join at Oorgron and be his offensive coordinate, do
the kind of reverse Saban if you will. And instead
of going L s U. And I know State went
to the Miami Dolphins before going to Alabama, but L
s U to Alabama, he was gonna go Alabama to
L s U. Like how good would that have been?

(41:48):
Something was amiss with their relationship, and it's interesting. It's interesting,
but I also think that, look, this whole deal is
a long is a long journey, A long journey. Careers
last a long time. Man. Remember Georgio Leary a couple
of years ago at Central Florida UM when Blake Bortles

(42:12):
was his quote, his UH was playing when Blake Bortles
was his quarterback. Remember they were in the Fiesta Bowl.
Do you guys remember when Georgio Learry was the head
coaching Notre Dame, remember Bayer. Do you remember when Georgio
Leary was the head coach and Notre Dame. Never lost
a game, Yeah, never lost the game, never coached a game.
He lied on his resume or on his somewhere on

(42:34):
his bio. It was a lie about I think playing
at New Hampshire. He never played at New Hampshire. And
he end up getting fired from Notre Dame before ever
coaching a game at Notre Dame. UM. But the point
is that, like is a long life man if you
can lie on your resume and get the Notre Dame
head coaching job and get another head coaching job, and

(42:54):
after leaving Georgia Tech ended up getting to a BCS
Bowl game. Like, I don't know if that doesn't signal
it's a long life. I don't know what does. I
don't know what does. And so I'm intrigued by the
Lane Kiffins story. Right at a very young age, he
got the Oakland Raider's job, and then we remember the
press conference with Al Davis where he called Lane aliyah Lane.

(43:18):
Lane gets fired. Then Lane gets the Tennessee job and
immediately gets Tennessee turbo charged in recruiting. Is there a year?
And then he leaves in his y at USC, and
remember USC was on probation and I think people think
of Lane at USC as a disaster, and it wasn't.
The problem was it wasn't sustainable, some because of whatever

(43:41):
was going on within the coaching staff and with the players,
but some of it was they were just decimated by
the n c A limiting their numbers of scholarships. And
his first year at SC they won eighth, and they
won ten and won the Big PacTel South. Then the
roof fell a little bit seven and six and they're
blown adders on the staate, got fired, goes to Alabama.

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He did a terrific job at Alabama. He had he
had two quarterbacks who are not great throwers, not great
fits for his system, and got them both to the
College Football Playoff, won a national championship two years ago,
and uh and left the program before the championship game
this year. So I just I'm fascinated by his journey.

(44:24):
We talked about this yesterday. But how everybody has a story.
They tell me your story. Lane story is a good one,
but we're only I don't know halfway through it. How
do you think Lane Kivin is Take a guess, Romas
don't look. I would say, ah, a little bit older.

(44:46):
What about you did you did you look? But my
guest was gonna be thirty ninety two years old, forty
two years old. Do you think with what we were
talking about earlier with Sean McVeigh, the not only do
people worry about his age just based off of experience,
but also based off of what happened with the likes

(45:07):
of like a Lane Kiffin or Josh McDaniels. So you
can already be concerned with his lack of experience, But
is it also that they've tried young coaches before and
it didn't quite work out. Yeah. I mean, like, look,
if we want to be fair to Lane, the Raiders
are bad. For the Raiders have been bad since basically
the turn of the century. They went to the Super

(45:28):
Bowls start of the turn of the century, that was
when they were really good. And once rich Gannon got
hurt and with all of their front office and with
John Gruden leaving and going to Tampa, when they lost
all those guys like the Raiders were, it didn't matter
who coached the Raiders. They were bad. So and and
and many people thought that Steve Sarkisian was actually Al

(45:50):
Davis's first choice. And when Steve Sarkisian turned down the
chance to talk about that job. Al turned to remember,
USC was king of the college football world. Then he
went and he interviewed Lane, who called plays for a
crazy successful but crazy talented USC offensive team. So I
think there's some of that. But also it's McVeigh has

(46:11):
been in the in the NFL for a while now,
whereas um he had been in the NFL for like
a year as quality control coach. Like to go from
college football in USC and being there um past game
coordinator offensive coordinator to the Raiders head coaches a huge
leap as opposed to Sean McVeigh was the offensive coordinator

(46:34):
with the Washington Redskins the past two years and they
were good, and he hired a legit veteran defensive coordinator.
So do I think that that some young coach have failed. Sure,
but there's some old coaches that failed. There's some college
coaches that have failed. There's pro coaches that have failed. Like, look,
Jeff Fisher has done it forever, forever. He did a

(46:59):
good job the Rams last year. You know what the
crazy thing about Jeff one, Jeff Fisher's offense was rudimentary, right,
it was just, Hey, Why don't you guys all go
get open? Oh that was that was their plan. But
more than anything, what's amazing about Jeff Fisher is for
a guy who had spent his entire professional career in
the National Football League, he couldn't figure out the pr

(47:21):
of the National Football League. Like he botched everything you're
supposed to do with and and and he The whole
reason for holding out a Jeff Fisher wasn't, well, he's
moved before, which I never really understood that right that
that is saying like what she looked like she's got
a great personality. That is not really the sale. He
Jeff Fishers a great coach, He's didn't dynamic defense of

(47:44):
the schemes, the things he said that's not always said.
Why is Je Fisher still the coach? Oh, he's an
expert in this relocation thing. What he knows all the
reorders he's big on. He understands all the different school
districts public for private. He relates that to his players.
But like Fisher had been in the NFL for years,
so he should have known how to handle it better,
and he could not have handled it worse. It was like, um,

(48:09):
do you guys used to watch Looney Tunes night Saturday
mornings Looney Tunes. It was like sometimes, um, you know,
my kids still like Tom and Jerry, which, by the way,
really violent, so good, still good. I'm more of a
wildly County super genius guy. The road Runner ain't um.
But and while he County has had some of these two,

(48:31):
but more more Tomcat where he steps onto a broom,
he steps onto a rake in the rake hits him
in the mouth right, and he's like at the stars.
But then he backs up and he steps unto another
ache and that one smacks him in the head. Then
he walks back forward and he steps on another ache.
That was Jeff Fisher last year. They trade up, they

(48:53):
draft Jeff Jared Goff. Uh. Then he says the you know,
we don't want to be not eight and eight nine
and having thing on hard knocks and Jared Goff is
a disaster on hard knocks and that's another rake and
then the offense is terrible to start, and all his
answers are bad and it's just it's it's step on rake, boom,
step on right, boom, step in a bear trap like

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that's that was Jeff Fisher last year. So that's as
experienced as respected an NFL veteran head coaches you can have,
and he botched the thing. But I Mark Slevery joined
us earlier, and he's like, you know, I kind of
like guys that have failed before. And you know Robert
Robert Orguayo, did you guys see his first field goal

(49:39):
with the Chicago Bears. I don't. I've never I've never seen.
How does the ball go that way? It looked like
my first drive every Saturday when I used to belong
to golf Club of Avon right, like whoa, whoa to
the right far. I mean it was going straight and

(49:59):
then it was go dead right. But I was talking
to a couple of NFL people and I said, well,
Leguyo eventually make it, like he'll probably make it it
just most kickers, they don't make it with their first team,
and coaches are a lot that way. So eventually we'll
get lane. And I want to ask him, like, uh,

(50:23):
I want to ask him, how what did you learn
from all those stops? And how hard? How hard is
it going to be to get back to where he
was his second year at SC when they won ten games.
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uh text us call us eight seven, three six nine.
Even his s I D is like, I don't know,
I don't know, And I know Lane intended to do
the interview because he followed me on Twitter last night
and then he started trolling me. That's what we started doing.
You suck God leave. That was like I got that
all of a sudden, my my my d M last night.
I'm kidding, but I'm kidding. Um. It's interesting that baseball

(53:22):
expanded the playoffs a couple of years ago, right, do
you remember when that was, Ramos? I want to say
maybe seven years ago, uh, five below two thousand twelve,
but yeah, two thousand twelve, they expanded, and the idea
was I think it was it was good on several fronts, right.

(53:43):
The first front is, obviously it gets more teams involved,
and so baseball matters more right now in more cities
than it used to. Right, so instead of it being
you know, Boston is not running away with the division,
but Boston, New York now Orioles are kind of around

(54:06):
Raised or kind of around Minnesota, five and a half
back of the Indians, but right there would be in
the wild card if it was as of it was today, Angels, Mariners,
Rangers hanging around in the National League. You know you
have the Nationals have already clinched a division. If you
didn't have, you didn't have another one, why would you
go to it. It's interesting because in college football people

(54:29):
talk all the time about expanding the College Football Playoff
to include a couple additional teams. But look at the
what who's going to be the fourth team in the
American League? Like there're five dred teams. They're not playoff
caliber teams. And so among the arguments against adding a fifth, sixth, seventh,
even an eighth team to the College Football Playoff would

(54:50):
be like at some point you're going to get a
three or four lost team. On the other hand, USC
was a three lost team last year that you could
have made the argus I've made the aren't they're the
best team? Packed? Well? They beat Washington, Washington, even though
Washington went. I'll get back into this in a moment.
We found Lane Kevin he joins us in the Doug
Gottlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. What happened, dude? We I

(55:11):
got I'm locked in, I'm ready, I got all my
Florida Atlantic Owl's stuff ready. Okay, I'm good. I have
no idea watching film and then they bring me a
phone and I'm supposed to get on the radio. No worries,
no worries. How is it great? Um? We're just plugging
along here. UM finished up training camp and UM getting

(55:32):
ready for exciting opener versus Navy. UM to Friday nights
from now. Okay, So, UM, when when you took the job,
like you know flori Atlantic. For people who haven't been there,
I've been to the campus. You actually have good facilities.
They've wanted to be good for a long time. But like, look,
you came from every head coaching job you've had in
college football has been and even at Alabama's offensive quity,

(55:55):
you've had everything at your disposal right yet sc he
had and I know you had the and see a
stuff to where you couldn't have full scholarships. But Tennessee
and even at Bama. What is it going from the
uber elite super high major to Florida Atlantics level in
terms of facilities and resources. Well, we do have some
really um good things here. UM. First off, the stadium

(56:19):
is a great stadium, fairly new. UM. I guess they
say the best in the conference. UM facilities are on
their way um to being a new facility being built,
so we'll get there. But um, but the good thing is,
and we used to say this at s C two
when everybody said how great Oregans facilities were and everything,
and ours weren't very good at UFC at the time.

(56:39):
We just say, well, you guess what, we get to
have this weather, so we really don't need him that much.
So it's kind of similar down here. We don't have
big indoor facilities and not stuff, but you know, we
got pretty great weather to practice and every day. Yeah,
you got a little humidity, you got some big old bugs,
and you've got occasionally occasional thunderstorm which I'm sure which
I'm sure can be can be troublesome. Um, how are

(57:00):
you different like you haven't it's been a couple of
years since you've had your own training camp, your own program.
How are you different now than you were your last
year getting ready for a season at SC. Well, I
went through um three years with arguably the best coach
in the history of college football and certainly the most
probably the you know, the best recruiter and most organized

(57:21):
details there is, so um, you know, having that after
having all the experience you know, with coach Carroll there
and not even kind of combined the two and mold him.
You gotta be yourself too. But um, you know, you
get to take a lot of stuff from not just
from being with him for three years, but also being
there and being in one of the greatest runs too,
you know in the history college football, you know, the

(57:43):
last three years there. So, UM, I feel like I'm
I'm a lot better now than than I was, you
know before going there. There are there are lots of
people who have different perceptions of your relationship with coach Saban.
What's the reality of what's the reality of what you
and him he were like working together? Uh, we had
a very respectful, um working relationship. Um that worked extremely well.

(58:08):
And it is kind of like a marriage really when
when you're the offensive coordinator for a defensive head coach,
especially when you really didn't know very much. You hadn't
worked for him, didn't know that much about him. It's
kind of like being married and but like a blind marriage,
like you really didn't know what anything going in all.
It's like like like in a range marriage, yes, range marriage,
Like all of a sudden you just all right, you

(58:28):
gotta work together and and figure this thing out because
he he runs his program this way and it has
these different thoughts, Um, not just within the Bournmount offense too,
you have your thoughts too, and then it's got to work. Um.
You know. So, UM, that's not always easy right at
first with regards no matter who you are, and so
that takes a little bit of time in transition to

(58:49):
figure that out. UM. And we got through that and
went forty I think went forty and three, you know,
in three straight SEC championships and in the Heisman Whitney
cooff and um, you know, an SEC Freshman of the
Year or SC Offensive Player of the Year last year,
um for the third straight year. So there were some
really great things there. Um won a lot of games. Yeah,

(59:11):
it's it's interesting. Line Kiff and head coach that floor
Atlantic joins us. I think the part that goes underrated
the most of the job you did at Alabama was
the three years three very different quarterbacks. You know, Blake
Sims tremendous athlete, right not not not a great thrower.
Then you have Jake Coker, who's more kind of traditional
traditional thrower who had earned the job. Then you had
Jalen who uh not, you know, not totally refined, but

(59:34):
also a true freshman to put him in and to
start um in Alabama win all those games. Uh So
now you have now you bringing Kendall Briyle's to be
your offensive coordinator. He obviously comes from the Baylor system.
What what were your offense look like? You had three
very different guys and you had a different style even
when you're at USC based upon the different quarterbacks. What
are you guys gonna look like at Floor Atlantic? We're

(59:56):
going to be a lot more um towards his system.
So I kind of took a different approach in this
one after going through it and see kind of, you know,
I really thought that Saving did such a great job
of running the whole program. And so before being the CEO,
and if you're going to call one side, you know,
he didn't call the defense. You're gonna call one side

(01:00:17):
and do the whole thing and coach all the coaches, players, everything,
You're gonna have to give up some areas and and
that's what I did before, you know, by always calling
plays and running the whole offense wherever I was. And
so this has allowed me to have some more time
to be more involved in defense, special teams, UM player relations,
UM fundraise. You know, all the different things are with

(01:00:37):
the head coach that now I think it is better
so UM he's running it and so is UM much
more UM his system. You've you've obviously taken several transfers
at floor Atlantic. Part of it is that's the culture
of college football, but it's also if you want to
win at Florida Atlantic, you're going to have to take

(01:00:58):
guys who need a second chance, need a place where
they haven't been seen before. What's that like for you?
Instead of Alabama SC, even Tennessee where you guys were
killing it and recruiting, taking off the top of the deck,
instead taking guys who you know, it's not the way
we're boys home, but guys that need that second or
sometimes third or fourth opportunity. Well, I think you know

(01:01:19):
the SC experience. You know, they always say something good
comes out of something bad. You know, the losing the
thirties scholarships there and trying to manage a roster through that,
which at the time, everybody, as you remember, called it
the death penalty and USC was over you know for
years and years. You know, when we managed to go
through that and go fifteen and um, they've had some
great season since. So I think going through that has

(01:01:41):
helped a little bit because we had to try to
find every single walk on every single avenue. We could
have anyone anywhere. Um, I mean our last game verse
Arizona State, when we're getting fired, you know, we have
a receiver in there that was in our s id
department a couple of weeks before as intern. So you know,
we had to do everything there and so you I
gotta do that here. And so this at this place

(01:02:02):
is you know, you're not gonna take twenty high school
kids that are four point of students who win a
lot of games. So you've got to look everywhere for
guys and and you know everywhere that you can, and
that's what we've been doing, Um, and create a culture
that you can bring them into that the culture is
set here of our expectations and standards laying Kiff and
our guests on the Doug Gottlip Show. You mentioned USC

(01:02:24):
and and it was really like the third quarter against
Arizona State, where and and and the and the lack
of depth. Have you gotten closure from it? I mean,
because like, look, it was the way in which he
was handled doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
Um have you have you personally gotten kind of closure
on how everything went down? Uh? Yeah, I don't that

(01:02:45):
that part. I mean, do you fired, do you get fired?
That's people's decisions. And you know, um, you know, whatever
the story is that you know you're you know, fired
in the third quarter of the game and told you know,
at three o'clock in the morning on the tarmac, and
you've heard the stories, but that is what it is.
The part that the only part that bothers me is
that it's like everyone forgets about the thirty scholarships. That's

(01:03:07):
kind of a big deal because now that's thirty we
don't have. And guess what they're playing against us those
other thirty year and the rest of the conference because
those are you know, a lot of those are California
kids that that we're dying to come to death see
and we couldn't take. So that's the part that that's
the only part that really bothers me that you know,
we did this horrible job you know, as as a
as a head coach and with the program and really

(01:03:29):
as you look at I think somebody said, whatever it
is three or four of the last six seven years
or something have been ten wins seasons at UFC since
since when we were there. Well, I think everybody would
have taken out the time when they were talking about
the death penalty and that you know, we're gonna win
four and five games a year, you know, like uh,
kind of like Miami went through, you know when they
had it. Lane Keptin joining us on the Doug Gotlip

(01:03:51):
Show Naval Academy. Is your is your opener? What are
your realistic expectations for your team? That is a very
difficult match up, um, you know, especially because their offense
is completely opposite of ours. So for our defense, it's
a very big challenge. So um, and we're not going
to get as many possessions on offense, you know as
we used to because they grind the clock and they

(01:04:13):
play really slow. So it's gonna be a very challenging
game for us. But it's getting very exciting, you know
his home here um on ESPN, So it'll be exciting. Yeah, no, listen,
it'll be fun. That first first down for you guys
on offense is the big thing, right, get them on
their heels so that you can guys get going Temple.
Otherwise you gotta kick it away and then they gotta
get you grinding with their option game. Like doesn't the
first first down become the most important thing for you? Yeah?

(01:04:36):
These systems here, um, you know, just like when we
used to have play play Oregon there. You know, if
you can get them stop before they get going, you
know you've got a chance. Um, it's when they when
you make the first one or two, now all of
a sudden, you're on your heel. So um, now we're
running that offense. So we've got to make those first
first downs. Well, listen, they we wish you the best
of success this year, especially against Navy, and then you

(01:04:58):
got Wisconsin on the road. It doesn't get any easier.
Thanks so much for spending some time with this. You're
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, you gotta have a
great week. All right. That's a Lane Kiffin, head coach
at Florida Florida Atlantic Ezeke Yellett is appealing his six
games suspension, but people are upset with how he spent
his off day. Tell you how he spent it. Figure
out if we're supposed to be mad about it. I

(01:05:20):
wanna talk about Zeke Yelley in a second. But I
was talking big Mike and a friend of moms texted
me about gambling. So we're going to Vegas tomorrow, right,
And I think I'll be in Vegas until Sunday, which
is are you're gonna stay the whole weekend? Because when
I first texted you when we found out we were
doing this, you said you were not We'll see I

(01:05:43):
mean like, no, no, no, Like I got some guys
in Vegas and they're like convinced, like we're gonna get tickets,
and oh, so that's what you're banking on. Cowhard said,
that's like your best friend. He said, he's going to
the fight? How are you going to fight? When he
said on his show, he's referenced that as he's going
to the fight. I don't doubt that Colin Cowherd is
going to the Colin remember used to host. He used

(01:06:06):
to be a U sports anchor in Vegas. Like he
he's he's pretty big and his radio show has been
very good in Vegas. He's big, he's connected in Vegas.
Um So like, yeah, I think I don't have the
tickets in hand, and I am not a coming out
of my pocket for it, and I know that they're

(01:06:26):
not giving away freebees whatever, so it's gonna be wildly
But also the Big Three Championship is on Saturday before
the fight, so I want to see both of those things.
Like it would be a good Vegas weekend. The problem
is there's not anything I really feel compelled to bet
on outside of maybe stand maybe a couple of these

(01:06:46):
college football games. But like, I wish it was next
weekend because it's all those college football games. Just I
would just sit in that sports look like, oh, this
is awesome. I'm betting on all the preseason NFL games.
You're hating on preseason in I'm just kidding. Okay, you
have a problem. That's like betting on w n b A.
It's time to admit you have a problem. So, um,

(01:07:10):
there's a bunch of questions. What's the most what's the
most money you've ever won in Vegas? Uh, you're not
twenty one yet, you don't ramos. I think I want like, yeah,
I've never won. The most I ever won I think
was like basically breaking even because the most I won
was seventy five and I took back seventy five from
the black check table to the sports book and lost

(01:07:31):
all of it. So I don't think I've ever walked
away from Vegas. I don't. I don't think you ever
make you have a real run on the sports book, right, Like,
I just don't feel it's there's nothing. There is nothing
like sitting on a stack at chips in Vegas, right,
That is a that is a AMA and it doesn't
matter what the stack of chips are. Like when I
when I first turned twenty one, like, I played like

(01:07:52):
the five dollar black jack tables, right, and you can
be sitting on a hundred bucks, but you're sitting on
like you had twenty twenty five dollar chips that weren't
there previously. And they look you look like a baller
and you're like and then they change out the chips.
She's like yeah, and then you get up another hunter
like yeah, But do you guys know any of these
people that have won Grand? I've heard they exist. I

(01:08:14):
don't know. I guess I just have no nuts to it.
Like I just like if I got up like a Grand,
I'd be like, all right, I'm good, that's good. Yeah.
I mean that was one of the earlier trips I
ever did. I was up like seventy and I was like,
you know what, maybe I can turn this into like
five hundred at the sports book and then I cried. No,

(01:08:35):
I didn't cry, but I just lost all it. Um. Yeah,
I mean now, once you have kids, you don't like
when you have kids, you get so you like every
everything becomes like a everything becomes such a much more
monumental dear you can have. I'm sure like Michael Jordan's,
well maybe not. Other people, like people who have tons

(01:08:56):
of money in the bank go to Vegas and it
still hurts when they lose five hundred bucks like I've
never I've lost like two fifty and when I actually
the last time I went and gambled with my wife,
which is a bad decision, right, like just because she's
just looking at you like that we could use that money, right,
I lost two fifty and like a heartbeat, I was like, whoa, whoa,
what happened. You're like, okay, I'm going to wait that

(01:09:18):
that's gone. That's gone. But here's the question. Okay, when
do you start. If you're going to be there until Saturday,
potentially Sunday, when's the front when do you first go
to the tables? Because it's a it's a lot like
to fight itself. This risk reward, Like if you first

(01:09:39):
go to the tables on Friday, you're like, I'm gonna wait,
go to tables on Friday. That way, if I lose,
not that big a deal, I might gamble a little Saturday.
I might not. But if you win and you're on
a run, you're like, man, and I started on Wednesday,
I could be just killing it here by Saturday. When
do you start? Ramos? I don't really gamble a lot,
but if I was going to, I would start. But

(01:10:00):
the Thursday, I give myself one day to kind of
get a film. One day. You get a feel for
the place, hotel, room, great meal, right that you know
you can pay for, right, And then you're like, all right,
you scope out where you want to gamble, who you
want to gamble with. Do you want to be solo?
Do you want to be with some friends you know?
Do you want to drink while you're doing it? What's
the game you want to play when you're on target? Yeah? Yeah,

(01:10:24):
I mean, like, look, blackjack is the easiest and best
and simplest, and you can make some money on it.
There is something to a craps table, which is amazing,
right when when when those dice, when somebody's rolling some
hot I will tell you though, I hate betting on
somebody else rolling dice. Yeah, I don't. I don't. I
don't enjoy it. Well, I mean, like I enjoy winning,

(01:10:46):
but I don't. It's it feels. I know the odds
are the same. I understand that the odds don't change
based upon who is rolling. When I was younger, before
I got married, I was fed. Why did you do that?
I always felt it was so fun to see when
people are rolling on the craps table, all the girls.
If you're really hot, like rolling great. You always felt

(01:11:07):
like all the girls would come over and like be
next to you and like because you were like on
a roll and people are winning money and ramos. That's
just you. But okay, do we do we determine what
your game is? Your roulette lette? Yes? Isn't that terrible odds?
I don't know. I just like the I like the
will when it's not a will anymore. It's like the
electronic now, but I just get to feel you don't
have the the the regular wheel. Yeah they do, oh electronic, Yeah,

(01:11:31):
you can do the electronic que or they have the
actual wheel. Okay, well I just feel I get a
fill for Roulette. That's just my personal feeling, that's all.
And then you're a Roulette guy too, aren't you. Music.
I like Roulette just for like a quick you can
just double it up, um real quick, because I do
more of just like red black one through eighteen, one
through third nineteen thirties. You ever win it, then, yeah

(01:11:56):
you do. I mean those ones you have, those are
odds red black, red black, or one through eighteen or
nineteen through thirty six. Oh so you don't have to
bet on a specific number. No, you don't have to.
That's why taking in exact science that that that doesn't
sound like that cool to win a lot of opening,
right exactly so, but take any number that ends in

(01:12:18):
the number. What are my how are my odds? Like?
They're pretty good? Pretty good? See my strategy as always,
if I feel like I'm getting down, I'll try and
go away from the black check table, and then you
lay down like twenty bucks, and all of a sudden
you're like, all right, quick, I'd like doubled my money
and you get back up or you just lose it
all on one role. No, not the most people. Do

(01:12:39):
you get a couple hundred bucks out, you sit down
and then you you you put like a limit like, hey,
I'm not gonna go below a hundred bucks buy er.
What's your game of choice? Well, I just play slots.
But one time I did play with Ryan Music in Vegas.
We lost all our money on red z because we
placed all of the money on it and it just
it never came up. And play. Do you play like

(01:13:01):
Nickels slots and you smoke and you don't ask your
cigarette like some old ladies. No, I'm not. I'm not
a big gamer. I'll maybe just put in a twenty
dollar bill here or there. I always assume everybody around
me is winning, and so I can't stand losing too much.
But trust me, they're all losing. I just everybody loses.
It's just a matter. It's not a matter of if,

(01:13:22):
it's a matter of when. And I honestly, like my
biggest issue is I'm a hotel room stop. I'm a
hotel room stop. So like I I even if I
even though I was to go on a like bender,
when I get do we get done at three local time?
You know, and you start, I start drinking and have
you know, start gambling, then go out with friends and

(01:13:43):
then go out like I want to come back and
be comfortable. So my biggest thing is is the hotel
room cool. I still haven't gotten to Zeke Killett stories.
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(01:14:27):
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we like to bring back the best stuff, the most
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(01:14:48):
call it Dan had Adrian war Janowski on and of
course the Lakers are reportedly being investigated for tampering with
Paul George while a member of the Indiana Pacers. Here's
loads on the real reason the Pacers are accusing the
Lakers of tampering. They did not file the tampering charges

(01:15:10):
based on that television interview that they feel there was
um significantly more that went on. Magic is the target
of this. He's the one that they believe that there
is evidence of tampering with. And that's what the League
will investigate. The League has a law firm that does it.
What Indiana is frustrated with and what other teams, smaller
market teams is Paul George had two years left on

(01:15:32):
his contract, at least one full year, and then he
could have opted out. That the frustration and why other
teams are watching this is they feel like they're getting
targeted by bigger market teams when guys have multiple years
left on their deal and they're not accepting of that premise.
That that premise is okay, right, I mean, like, look,
the idea that you could go to the Lakers or

(01:15:55):
want to go to the Lakers is reasonable. The idea
that the Lakers would want I got a kid who
grew up watching the Lakers in southern California. Again, all
of that is acceptable, and maybe if you're going to
be a free agent that year the A when it
comes open, like all that, But when you've got two
years left in your deal and all these players are

(01:16:17):
ganging up and leaving small markets or and going to
super teams, it just doesn't sit well with people Like
That's not that, that's not the spirit of having a league.
Were as all for one and one for all. We're
only as chain is only as strong as its weakest
linked all that stuff. And so I don't blame the

(01:16:37):
Pacers for being ticked, and do I do. I think
it will be really hard to prove tampering unless they
get unless they get magics, phone records, is text messages, um.
But I absolutely think that magic did it. And and
the the great thing about the Pacers and their pursuit

(01:16:59):
is if they can get those electronic records, which I
don't know if they'll have access to. If they can,
there's no control group. Right like, it'll look I have
I'm telling you right now, I think it'll look really
really bad. But it's a lot like the Patriots with
Tom Brady, Like do I think that the the deflator
took air out of the football? I do. Do I

(01:17:21):
think that there are other guys, equipment guys that put
air into and take air out of football's for quarterbacks.
I do, But we don't have a control group to say, like,
does this go on everywhere? They don't care. There's no
control group to know if other NBA g M s
are texting agents or texting friends about getting connecting to
Paul George. And look if there's direct contact with Paul

(01:17:43):
George from Medic Johnson with US, bad as bad bad
look bad look. So people can say, well, they didn't
get Chris Paul, so they can't go after the Lakers,
like this is a big thing for the other owners.
You can get our players via free agency, but this

(01:18:04):
fleecing of free agents and fleecing of the mid level markets.
Utah losing Gordon Hayward. Do you think they're pissed, Yeah,
they're pissed. Yeah, Oklahoma City. I grant they trade away
James Harden, but they lost Kevin Durant and I think
they're gonna be mad and lose Russell Westbrook. Oh yeah,

(01:18:24):
oh yeah, And that's what the Fox says so people
are apparently mad. There's a TMC photo of Ezekiel Elliott
chilling on a lake on his day off. I've always
said this, not now there's women around him, but he's
on a lake outside of Dallas. If you give me

(01:18:45):
on a lake in the summer in Dallas, there's gonna
be women wearing bikinis. Right. He's not drinking, he's not
pulling anybody's bikini down. He's just hanging on a lake.
I've always thought that people who have issues with somebody
doing something enjoyable because they're supposed to feel bad about themselves. Uh,
those people are the ones who didn't get invited to

(01:19:07):
the party, right, Like, I'm mad Zeke didn't text me
do you want to go to Lake Dallas today and
chill out? And maybe that's what it is, but this
is one of those if you really think you did
nothing wrong. And Zeke's side has been like this is
a complete lie. I didn't lay a hand on her.
Why is he on his day off supposed to act
like he did something wrong? Like he's not doing anything

(01:19:33):
two intimate intimidate women or there's he's not alleged to
have anything. You wanna talk about a much ado about
nothing thing. So all right, next hour, we're gonna get
to what Eric Winston said about the NFL. He's Eric
Winston is the NFL Players Association President, and why the

(01:19:57):
NFL p A is really really talking tough today. I'
and really talking to But I have an eleven year
old daughter, actually have two eleven year old daughters, are twins,
And it's funny, um watching Ezekie Elliott, excuse me what
I'm watching O'Dell Beckham Jr. Last night, The reaction to him,

(01:20:18):
the things he said, the way he carried himself. And
I'm managing the emotions of my eleven year old daughter.
And you know, you know what, Ramo's you have a
girl about my age, right. I think you'll find they're
actually kind of one and the same. And I'm not
calling him a girl. I'll explain it next to The

(01:20:39):
Dog Gotlip Show? What upp It's The Dog Gotlieb Show?
Fox Sports Radio. So, um, I just moved out to
California from back from the East Coast. It's weird when
you start to think of it, because, uh, if you're

(01:21:01):
from southern California, there's a couple of things that you
know like you you called. My dad used to always
call different freeways in different roads by their name, like
they made the Deagon Expressway. Right, Well, what's the interstate number?
Because I grew up in southern California, So it's the five,
the four or five, the ninety one, the seventy three, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Right,

(01:21:22):
So the first thing is that everything is that it's
not just the number. It's the number, right, the four
oh five, thus seven ten, the one, thirty four, the
one on ones right out the door, one on one
connects to the four oh five, I take the four
oh five to seventy right. So that's the first thing.
The second thing is that, um, there's just a different vibe,

(01:21:46):
a different feel east to west coast. Just it's hard
to explain. And I was thinking about this yesterday with
the Dodgers. Dodgers went again last night, y'all. C L
Puig hit a game winning home run in the I'm
gonna say, eleventh inning come from behind. Wasn't a walk
off because it was in Pittsburgh, right, So it's like
a let down. What do you mean? We won and

(01:22:06):
it wasn't a walk off, but the Dodgers one again,
came from behind and got a big win one again, ramas,
you want to take a guess at the Dodgers record
and whatever comes after that. It was a twelve eighty
eight and thirty five. Remember they started the year twenty
one and eighteen. So what I was saying to a

(01:22:29):
friend of mine, a baseball friend of mine, was, uh,
can you imagine, Like it's a big thing in l A.
And I know everybody's like, well, you can't see all
the games on TV? Would just stop it? Like you'd
be watching every Dodger game on TV? Anyway? Come on,
can you imagine if the Yankees were eight eight and
thirty five? Right? Can you imagine and oh eight here's

(01:22:53):
a little and the Yankees hadn't won a World Series,
which doesn't seem whatever reason, ninety eight doesn't seem at
long ago for those of us who are like, yeah,
I remember, but it really was a long time ago,
years ago. So can you imagine if the Yankees hadn't
won a World Series in twenty nine years and they

(01:23:14):
were eighty eight and thirty five, The the amount of
hype that would be surrounding the Yankees, the amount of
hype is obscene. Curtis Granderson, I think it was his
first game as a Dodgery to Grand Slam last night.
That game hit a Grand slams. The grandy Man can't
um and so the Dodgers are And you know, part

(01:23:39):
of it is the hype because of the media market.
I guess the hype because of how important the Yankees are.
Part of it is like they ain't got that much
else going on. Once you get around until now and
you're back in the city and you're not going to
the Jersey Shore or out to Mont Talk or you're
not going to Upstate New York and the Lake George
and the weekend, Like now you kind of lock in
and sports is what you do and who you are.

(01:24:01):
Whereas in California is like there really isn't that much
different between summer and falls, Like, yeah, kind of cool
Wayne for us see to start playing like that'd be cool.
Rams and Chargers and yeah, I like to see Lonzo
ball and there's there's sc basketball is good this year,
Like there's just there's not There's a lot of stuff.
There's all that stuff in New York, but it feels

(01:24:21):
more like it's more important to them. Stuff whereas that's this,
it's just stuff. But when you move with kids, it's
it's hard. And we moved a lot. We were here,
we're in California for we're in Connecticut for nine years,
in California for two years and two different houses, and
they were back in Connecticut for three years. Different part

(01:24:43):
of Connecticut, completely different part of the state. I know
it's a small state, like you can do it with
your fingers together, but in reality, we were like an
hour and a half from when we used to live
because I was working in New York City and now
we're back out actually to the same exact house in California,
weirdly enough, but because it's been three years, because it's
still summer here, they don't start school till after Labor Day.

(01:25:03):
Like my my girls are driving my wife crazy because
they don't. They have a couple of friends, but they're
not like in the circle just yet. And so you know,
one of my daughters is a little overly emotional about
well just about everything, and when you get to the
root of it, probably the biggest thing is she left

(01:25:24):
her She not only left her friends behind, but nowadays
she has a phone, she can face time with her
friends and see her old neighborhood and see her old friends,
which actually makes you miss them more. Right, it's the opposite.
You'd think, well, you can stay connected, you can stay
closer friends, but not having those people around, not be
able to walk across the street to her best friend's

(01:25:46):
house or walk down the street with her dog to
other friend's house. She can't do those things, and so
then she those emotions drag into everything else. Odell Beckham
got hurt last night. Everybody thinks he's gonna be okay,
look bad at the moment you held your breath. Hey.
And the thing about and this is the thing about
fantasy football which has changed, is there's a lot more

(01:26:06):
Odell Beckham junior fans than just New York Giant fans,
not just because the one handed catches, but fantasy football.
I mean, you're in the keeper league or your drafts
coming up, you're like, oh, whoa wait a second, that
just changed a lot of things. He's in the conversation of,
if not the most popular player in the league, especially
for kids. They love him. The hair, the one handed catches,

(01:26:29):
the flamboyance and the touchdowns. It's all great. Plus like
I said, he placed the New York Giants. It's just
more important to them, which makes it more important to everybody.
Here's Beckham after the game talking about the injury. I
don't know, man, I'm I'm pretty concerned, but I think
I'll be all right. High ankles, grand an um. I

(01:26:52):
didn't go to school, uh, you know, and anatomy and kinesiology.
I'm not really a doctor, but I think they know
that to that, so I look, I I the thing
about it is, I'm not calling Odell Beckham Jr. Girls.
So don't anybody go like, oh god if you called
him a girl. No, But there are parts. It's a

(01:27:15):
it's a position to which there's a ton of emotion.
Maybe a little bit too much emotion, right, it's a
it is and eleven year old girls are kind of emotional.
They just are right like they're pre pubescent. They're not
quite there yet. They want to be bigger girls, but
they're not really. They don't want to be treated like

(01:27:36):
they're young, but they're still She's like, she's just eleven
years old. Like, we don't want to walk down to
the park on accompany unaccompanied. Maybe we know too much now,
maybe we're too overly protective. I don't know, but she
didn't get to do a ton on her own, and
she's kind of trying to break out and be independent.
Plus she's in a new place, in a place to

(01:27:57):
which she she will have friends. She doesn't have them yet,
and it all right. Well, this is Odell Beckham Jr.
He's at a position at wide receiver that you have
to play with heightened emotions. He's in a year in
which he knows if he can just stay away from
injury and have an equally productive season to what he

(01:28:19):
had last year, if he can just stay out of trouble,
stay out of injuries, stay out of harm's way, just
be the best. He doesn't have to be great. He
just has to be what he's been. He didn't have
to get any better. He's just as good as what
he's been. He's going to be the highest paid wide
receiver in the history of the sport next offseason, and
so that kind of heightens your emotions. Right Monday night

(01:28:40):
football then you're so it's a little bit more emotional.
Plus there there's got to be part of you two
which going into the game you want to play, but
you don't really want to play because what can you
really prove. On the other hand, once the whistle blows
and you hear the popcorn popping, you want to go
up and make is because you are Odell Beckham Jr.

(01:29:01):
Like just instincts take over. The point is it? Just
like my eleven year old daughter has heightened emotions because
of her age and because of where she is in life,
so too does Odell Beckham Jr. His age, he's still young,
his his position in life, his position on the football
field is one of emotions, and he's overly dramatic. He

(01:29:23):
thought his leg was going to fall off. He acted
like he was really really hurt. He's fine, But I
kind of understand it. I kind of understand. What I
think is equally understandable is NFL players commenting on the hit,
which was really knee level and below and whether or

(01:29:44):
not it was dirty. They were all saying, like, that's
a dirty hit. I saw people saying, you can't play
the preseas and do that, And there wasn't a penalty.
It was a very legal hit, which of course starts
that conversation that NFL players have now. And then I'd
rather good hit in the head than hit in the knee.
James Lofton is a Hall of Famer. He's an NFL
anatist for CBS. He was on with Dan Patrick. Here's

(01:30:05):
what he said about getting hit in the head as
opposed to knee. Players who have not been concussed would
say hit in the head. Players who who have been
concussed a couple of times and say bring it on low. Yeah,
anybody who says I want to get hit. This is
always my thing with Lebron James. But like Lebron James
wouldn't be a good bat, wouldn't be a good full
player because he doesn't want to get hit. Hey, here's

(01:30:27):
the thing. Nobody wants to get hit. There's never been
a guy that goes, I can't wait to get ear
hold today. That's gonna feel really good. You know what
I want to do. I want to be a defenseless
wide receiver and just get laid out and then lie
there motionless so that my mom can fear that I'm paralyzed. No,
no one has ever done that. Odell Beckham Jr. Is

(01:30:49):
a lot like my eleven year old daughter. And I'm
not calling to mcgirl. I'm just saying he's super emotional
because of this time, the date. It's not yet the season,
just like it's not yet the school year, and it's
to be understand understood. And he freaked out, freaked out
because he thought he was possibly hurt over a meaningless

(01:31:10):
preseason game, just like my daughter freaked out over numerous things,
or bed, having to make her bed, having to do
math to catch up, having to do some reading. Everything
becomes the thing. And Ramosk has a twelve year old daughter.
I'm sure he can attest to, even though they haven't
moved across country, a lot of the same stuff. Ready

(01:31:30):
to have kids yet for music, no thanks, I'll take
it to Cleveland. We'll find out who's going to be
the Browns starting quarterback. Oswilder. Kaiser also taken to New
York to see just how concerned the g men are
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(01:33:40):
Let's get you updated from people who know more about
stuff than we know. Sounds like you need a gal. Hey,
I gotta ga. I got a gal who knows a
lot more about Cleveland and the Cleveland Browns than we
could ever hope to. Coming off Monday night football, a
win for the Browns. Hey, winning in Cleveland and football

(01:34:02):
is big, even preseason. No kid yourself. Mary kay Cabot
joins us Georgia Cleveland dot com Cleveland Plaine Dealer at
Mary kay Cabot is her Twitter handle Mary Kay. Where
are they in terms of brock Osweiler, what's the likely
that he's the starter Week one of the season. Well,
he was keeping everyone in suspense, but he will end
that tomorrow. He's going to name his starter tomorrow, not

(01:34:22):
just for the Tampa Bay game, but also for the
season opener against the Steelers on September ten. And it's
anybody's guess at this point right now. I wrote a
column earlier saying, I think it should be Deshaun Kyser.
I don't think that brock Oswarler has shown enough just
to come out and see the job. You know, Deshaun
doesn't necessarily seem to be a percent ready, But there's

(01:34:44):
no time like the present. Oswalder was six of eight
last night, did throw a pick, but didn't play a ton.
What is it that he's not doing? You know, what
he's doing is overthrowing guys too much. He's not scoring points.
He's had six preseason series and he has not put
one point on the board. Now, he hasn't always been

(01:35:05):
in the best of situations, but those were mostly with
the starters. One of those times, he got all the
way down to the three against the Saints second team
defensive line and still couldn't put it into the end zone.
So six chances, no points. That's not going to cut it.
What's the reaction been there? There was a bunch of
Cleveland players that took a knee during during the national anthem.

(01:35:28):
What's been the local reaction to that? Very very mixed.
There are plenty of people that support the players actions,
and there are plenty more who are very very upset
with them. I've gotten emails today with with people saying
they will not support the Browns anymore. Some say, uh,
you know that they're not going to you know, renew
season tickets. Uh So, it's just a very volatile response.

(01:35:52):
What about what about Hugh You know, he wanted to
stay out of the fray and then of course he
kind of uh jumped back into it. Where where is
he in this whole thing? You know? I think he respects, uh,
their right protests, and I don't think that kneeling during
the anthem would be his choice. It's not his preference.
He doesn't really want them to do that at that
moment because of how he feels about the national anthem

(01:36:15):
and what it stands for. By the same token, he's
not going to begrudge them their moment. Interesting stuff going
on in Cleveland. Mary kay Cabinet covers at All. Follow
her on Twitter at Mary kay Cabital reader work at
Cleveland dot com. Thanks for being our gal in to
thank you, I got a guy. Let's go to Poli Schwartz.
He covers the g men for The New York Post

(01:36:35):
fall on Twitter at ny Post underscore Schwartz should have
been May the Schwartz be with you or something that
that should have been. That should have been your Twitter handle.
I could have worked with you on this one. Paul Um.
All right, let's start with we collectively held our breath
that Odell Beckham Jr. Would get up. He did get up,
and then he was beside himself in the tunnel and

(01:36:56):
then they carted him away. What's the latest on O
b J's ankle, Hey, Doug. The latest on oh b
J's ankle is that an m R I confirmed it
is indeed a sprained ankle. Um whether it's high or
low was not something that the coach, Ben McAdoo wanting
to share with us today. I UM, I'm sensing it
as a low apple sprain because O'Dell said he rolled

(01:37:16):
it and they said he's um. He'll see how he
response to treatment, and they're treating his day to day.
So concerning the Giants don't have to play a game
that counts for eighteen days, I think they dodged a
bullet here. The running game was a was a big
point of concern going back to last year. Have they
been able to alleviate any concerns from Giant fans? H? No,

(01:37:39):
I think they've gained more concerns. There's been no alleviating
of that at all this summer. Um. You know, Paul
Parkins has been annointed as a starting running back and
you know he has um eleven Russian attempts in the
preseason and he's got thirteen yards. Yeah, I mean that's
not a misprint. Thirteen yards you know, one point one
yards per carry. Um he has Uh, he hasn't had

(01:37:59):
back to back carry to where he's gained positive yards
yet this summer. Um. So you know, the running game
looks as bad or worse than it did last year
at this point. I think it will evolve into something
better than that. But um, that's talk. As far as
the action, the Giants came run the ball right now?
What about what about Eli? How has he looked? How
has he played? You know, I look fine, um last

(01:38:19):
night you know ten fourteen, Uh, avoid any turnovers. Just
missed on a couple of big play to Brandon Marshall,
big play to um Sterling Shepherd. And I think that
can be attributed to it was the first time out
and he's getting the ball out of his hand quick.
He doesn't want to get hit or hurt in the
preseason game, even though it's on Monday Night football. So um,
you know, ELI has been pretty sharpened this summer. Yeah.

(01:38:41):
And look, they start three of their first four on
the road, two of them against division rivals and the
other one. You got the Buccaneers, who everybody thinks on
the uptick, you got the Lines who are nearly a
playoff team last year. How they start is really and
I know that NFL teams, hey, we don't know who
we are to October one, but this is a this
is really important to get off to a hot start.
Um shure, it's important. Yeah, And and not only then.

(01:39:03):
I mean it's just a very funky schedule. I think
there's only four or five weeks all year where the
Giants are like on a normal schedule, you know, Sunday
to Sunday. They've got a Thanksgiving game. They've got Monday
night games, They've got Sunday night games. Uh, as you said,
you know, the first two games of the season or
night games Sunday and Monday night. So it's all over
the place. That's what happens when people think you're a
good team, they want to see you and so it

(01:39:25):
will be a challenge. So yeah, I mean, you know,
people are assuming that Dallas is down, but you know,
going to Dallas for Sunday night games is not easy.
The Giants know that they happen to do that last
year and win. Uh. They've also had their seasons to
get off the bad starts when they start the season
with a loss, you know, either to or at Dallas.
So um, yeah, no, if they got to shore up
these problems and hit the ground running here, great stuff

(01:39:46):
as always, Paul Schwartz, New York Post beat writer, for
covering the New York Giants at ny Post Underscore Schwartz.
May the Schwarts be with you, Paul, Thanks for joining us.
Thanks Doug, take care. So you needed a guy I'm playing,
We got you a guy. I saw this story, um
that that came down oh about midway through the show,

(01:40:07):
and it was that Eric Winston, who's the president of
the nfl p A. Okay, president of the nfl p
A is quote is saying he doesn't care if the
NFL dies out in twenty years. Okay, you gotta read
the entire quote, not just the headline. It's really important. Remember,
Demorris Smith made some comments going back to last week.
More Smith is the executive director of the nfl p A.

(01:40:30):
So the Moore Smith, not a player lawyer, very smart, says, Hey,
there's likely to be a work stoppage or maybe even
a lockout or strike in two thousand one. Um, here's
what Winston said. Honestly, I don't care, and I don't
think these guys care in this locker room whether the

(01:40:52):
NFL is gonna be around in twenty years, because none
of us are going to be playing. Winston, an offensive
tackle for the Bengals, told w c p O. So,
if these guys the owners want to own for a
long time, they can own for a long time. But
another work stoppage might kill the golden goose, the Morris
Smith said. The union's executive directors said last week that
there's the likelihood of either a strike or a lockout

(01:41:13):
is almost a virtual certainty. The NFL's collected bart In
Agreement is set to expire two thousand one. Uh, there
was a hundred and thirty two day lockout in two
thousand and eleven. You didn't miss any games, right, Winston
went on. He said, I'm certainly not worried about it.

(01:41:34):
I'm not going to be around for too long. I
don't care if there are rookies in here. They're not
going to be playing that long. So if this thing
dies out in twenty years, it dies out in twenty years,
that's not really my concern. I don't think any of
these players concerns are there either, So I guess the
nfl p A, like uh, Winston said, there are. He

(01:41:58):
acknowledge there's always issues between labor and management. The n
f l p A has clashed about Adrian Peterson's suspension
or child abuse. Tom Braddy's to flake Gate suspension is
Zekie Elliott's. Uh. My personal theory is that fans think
they have a stake in the team. I was blindsided,
probably as anybody in two thousand eleven. They don't look

(01:42:20):
at the issues wages, hours, working conditions, health and safety.
You talked about the same thing coal miners meetings. We
do in our meetings. I think fans look at the
team and say it's their team. They have ownership. That's
why they hear their fans say, oh the salary cap,
and they think they're kind of like general managers. Obviously
fantasy football and things playing into that. I'm I'm not

(01:42:42):
a big fan of trying to win this. Here's what
I'm not a big fan of. What are you doing
negotiating this thing through the media. What are you doing
talking about it four years before it actually happens, right Like,
Eric Winston is not even gonna be the president of
the NFL p A in four years likely and the
idea that well, I don't care about twenty years from now.

(01:43:04):
That's not really being a guardian of the game. This
is this is what happens unions and the Moora Smith
is a lawyer, and Eric Winston essentially is acting like
a lawyer. Right Like, if you ask a lawyer, a
guy can get caught with the victim's blood on him,
hand holding the murder weapon, footprints and blood and urine

(01:43:27):
and whatever all over the scene of the crime, and
his his lawyer would be like, Nope, didn't do it.
You know, um, the evidence will prove him not, Like
that's what they do. Whereas you ask the other side,
they're like, yeah, I got this, got that. The other
This is just posturing and it's kind of annoys me,

(01:43:48):
and I actually think Winston is taking the wrong tone. Look,
I don't can they want to own these teams forever.
I don't care about forever. I care about now. In
other words, I care about money right now, he's saying. Now,
we're saying, which is really what this is about. The

(01:44:10):
NFL p A doesn't care about Tom Brady getting suspended
or Adrian Peterson getting suspended or whomever again, or Zeki
Elli getting suspended. They don't care about that, not even
a little bit. They care about how much they're gonna
get paid because they got hammered in the last negotiations.
And here's the reason that they're saying it now as

(01:44:30):
opposed to saying it a half year in advance, because
they're telling football players save up, dude, save up all
your money. Because what the owners have on the players
and what they'll always have on the players, is that
it's not the primary source of income. It's just not.
Whereas for players. There isn't anywhere on earth that they

(01:44:52):
can earn six seven figures if not for the NFL,
they're not. And so while there is pressure for the
NFL owners to always have a league and to have teams,
and they have deals with stadiums, Look, this is not
gonna win you fans, This is not gonna win public support.

(01:45:15):
And it's four years away. I don't I don't like
the tone like tact. I don't think it makes sense.
And I think posturing four years before your contractors help Paul,
it might be sending money, sending messages to constituents. The
messages sends us fans are we just care about money

(01:45:36):
and not the game. And there may be some reality
to it. But the other reality was you had a
hundred three day lockout. The most NFL fans in reality
didn't even know existed, right, but we have a lockout, yeah,
during the off season, and we lost some money. Like

(01:46:00):
do you know the NFL team's salary cap is like
seventy million dollars more than the NBA salary cap. There's
just more guys, three guys, and they're gonna get more jobs.
They'll next time, they'll have sixty jobs. Next time, sixty
roster spots, and there'll be a higher salary cap, but
it'll be spread over sixty guys, so the money will
go up incrementally, but not percentage wise in terms they're
gon split it fifty fifty or whatever they're doing. Now,

(01:46:22):
is Cam Newton back? Find out? After we find out?
What's trending? Doug out Lip Show, Fox Sports Radio. So
much to get to today. We got some Texans news,
Panthers news, Jets news, Colts news, Packers news, Lebron news,

(01:46:44):
and uh uh kookie story out of Dubai. Let's get
after it. Here's the press, the press, Dan Buyer's got
the news. What do you got for me? Dan Well?
Houston Texans It coach Bill O'Brien now into any surprises.
Confirmed Tom Savage is he's starting quarterback. Deshaun Watson, the
rookie out of Clemson, will be the backup to Savage.

(01:47:07):
No controversy in Houston. Savage is the guy. If you
watch their second preseason game, it wasn't close. If you
watch the first preseason game and you knew what to
look for, you'd say it wasn't close. And then you
have to remember this is a marathon not a sprint
for Watson, but he's got to improve his accuracy when
he's in the pocket. Um Well and Houston, by the way,

(01:47:28):
even though they have some playmakers on offense, that team
is built around defense. So I think this is the
smart long play, and I I think that you are
infatuation with Deshaun Watson. You have to remember there's a
reason that so many people it wasn't a strong quarterback year,
and a lot of people had him more as the
second round grade because of some of those accuracy issues.

(01:47:50):
The New York Jets have to settle on a quarterback.
We just don't know exactly when it's gonna be, but
we do know it's gonna be after their third preseason game.
That's because Todd Bowle said his mind hasn't been made
up yet. They'll decided, likely on Monday, who their starter
for the start of the season. Well, do you see
how hard Christian Hackenburg got a hit in that game?
Oh yeah, yeah, tattooed? Okay, Jet fans, yea. Bryce Petty

(01:48:14):
was fifteen of twenty four. But the fact that he
hasn't been named starter that that doesn't seem like a
great thing. Um Jets third preseason gameings, they'll split time.
They're both playing against the Giants, who gotta be Josh McCown.
It's gotta be you would think you would think, I
mean a guys trying to get his job, save his job.

(01:48:35):
They open on the road at the Bills, who though
they're playing for next year, also want to beat the Jets.
Then they go to the Raiders. Yesh, although the Raiders
defense back into that defense is bad. Then home of
the Dolphins, Home of the Jaguars on the road to Cleveland.
The start of their schedule is not crazy difficult, like
if you can play in Buffalo branded Buffalo has hope

(01:48:56):
early in the year, but at least you're not playing
in snow. Not a terror. But does Buffalo versus the Jets, yikes?
Not a great that that's not a game in which
you're like anybody's bummed out over sitting not saying what
is interesting today. Moe Wilkerson, the lineman defensive lineman for
the Jets, said in May that he guaranteed they'd be

(01:49:16):
better than five and eleven. When asked if he stood
by that guarantee or would say it again, he didn't
say yes or no, he just said that he got
in trouble by the Jets organization for saying they'd be
better than five and eleven the first time around. I
don't know if he's backtracking on his original guarantee or
if the Jets actually didn't want him talking about their record,
but five and eleven seems pretty pretty high if you

(01:49:38):
were to ask me, especially the Jets. The whole jetspr
thing is weird. You see, they wouldn't let Josh McCown
talk to the media the last last amazing. If they suck,
it's bad, it's bad. They're just not good. Carolina Panthers
looking to turn things around from a disappointing Panthers quarterback
Cam Newton had offseason surgery to repair his torn rotator cut.

(01:50:00):
He's gonna be able to make his preseason maybe Thursday
night against Jacksonville. Right, He's gonna have Kelvin Benjamin, It's
got Greg Olsen now's gout, Christian McCaffrey. That should be
pretty outstanding to watch. All the weaponry they have. We
gotta see because you know, Cam is not a touch guy.
Cam is a brute force guy in terms of his

(01:50:21):
arm strength, whistling balls in there, and I'm intrigued to
see how how far back he is if his shoulder
gives him any trouble after that roadtator cut surgery. The
old saying is no news is good news, except in Indianapolis,
where Colt said coach Chuck Begano still doesn't know when
starting quarterback Andrew Luck will take part in training camp practices.
Luck remains of the populist following off season shoulder surgery.

(01:50:45):
Colts have the Steelers on Saturday Night, but there's one
report Doug from the Indianapolis Star that says that they
wouldn't be surprised if Luck doesn't come back until week
three of the regular season. Well, I saw the Colts play,
and I know they have a bunch of injuries. I
watched the game against the Cowboys, and the culture terrible there.
It was varsity versus j V playing against the first

(01:51:08):
team offense without Ezekiellett for the Dallas Cowboys. That's really
good news for the Rams if he doesn't play week
one of the season in a chick Oh, I'm sorry, No,
that's it. I was gonna saying a chat on Sports
Nation final NFL story. Former Packers wide receiver Antonio Freeman
was asked if he wears his Super Bowl ring from
Super Bowl thirty one to beat the Patriots and Bill
Parcels that year. Freeman replied, Brett Fire fractured to dislocated

(01:51:33):
seven of my ten fingers on my hands, so I
can't wear the ring. Life of a wide receiver in
the NFL. Yeah, have you seen some of those guys?
They have bad, bad, bad fingers, right, That's why they
That's one the reason they all wear those gloves now
is that it allows them to not be catching the ball, uh,
catching the ball at with their fingers, but the same
kind of brute force whatever. They catch it differently now

(01:51:53):
than they used to have. Seven of his ten fingers
are just looking that's nasty. Do you even ponder passing?
I mean you can take a knee. Tory Holt flashes
l a every time he goes for a high Yeah. Yeah,
those digits everywhere. A report from Cleveland dot Com, quoting
sources close to Lebron James, is saying that they think
Duwayne Wade will end up on the calves at some

(01:52:15):
point during the upcoming season. That should be surprised you
you kind of actually surprised. The way you read that,
just you know, maybe he trying to go after Duyne
Wade if he gets released. Remember he's still under contract
with the Bulls. A trade would have to be made.
They could buy out his contract, but at some point
you could see Lebron and Dwayne Wade reunited. I think

(01:52:35):
he'll be in Cleveland this year. I think there's no
question about it. Again, Cleveland's gonna still gonna try and
move mountains to prove how much they love Lebron, how
much they want to keep Lebron. Even though it's a
dysfunctional marriage. Sometimes dysfunctional marriage still make it. They still
make it. They're like, oh man, they hate each other, Like, yeah,
they still have been together fifty years. Do we have

(01:52:56):
any due by drops, John Ramos, let me check. I'll
get back to okay. Because a man in Dubai facing
serious charges after smuggling five point seven million meth pills
in the intestines of sheep, Yes Doug. The pills were
expected to be headed other way to Saudi Arabia through
the United Arab Emirates. Should be noted that the pills

(01:53:17):
weren't an actual sheep, but that the intestines were already
out of the sheep, and that's where they jammed the
five point seven million pills. Did you know that there's
a new show about the meth cook who cooked up
this meth. Yes, it's called Breaking Man. And ah there
we go do thank you, thank you. And that's the

(01:53:39):
pressed out there and pressed that the press. Uh I
got feel I feel such pride in that one. Jerry
Jones has a lot of crazy things, but this time
I think he had a perfect response. Share it with you. Next,
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(01:54:00):
car buying experience. Doug Alliams Show, Fox Sports Radio. Jerry
Jones's stupid stuff right, right, Like even when he knows
stuff that he shouldn't let out, like the Zekey Elliott
thing where you know, no, there's no evidence of domestic

(01:54:22):
assault whatever. I'm protecting your guys this one thing. But
just just a way a tone in which you shouldn't
say things, all right, you go back to last year.
I am a monkey fan, right, remember that, Like he
just says some crazy stuff. I have to give a
credit where to do. Though. The story we shared with
you yesterday is Roger Goodell is standing to get a

(01:54:43):
contract extension to remain as the commissioner of the NFL
through two thousand twenty four. Here was Jerry being asked
about that story on a local Dallas radio station. But
obviously internal, very internal thing, and I would not comment
about it, and I don't want that to be interpreted.

(01:55:04):
I just would not comment about it. I'm one of
the people that are are basically involved in how that
it is said being negotiated, and so it wouldn't be
appropriate for me to come in about it. Yeah, I
mean like, look, I can't talk about it. And so um.
The first thing is there was this perception out there

(01:55:29):
that well, Jerry Jones, hell, Jerry Jones can't can't be
happy about Ezeki Ellett, and he was reportedly furious about it.
You can be furious with somebody's decision and still think
they're doing a good job running a company. That's what

(01:55:50):
you have to be able to compartmentalize each individual situation.
And as I told you guys when the suspension came
down for Ezeki Ellett, one, look, there's a process us
of an appeal to this is really important. These were
not the findings of Roger Goodell. He hired people to
go out and investigate more thoroughly the previously investigated because

(01:56:13):
of things they had done, things that had happened to
the league in the past. And so when they investigate
and they find that it's more probable than not that
that something happened, some form of physical abuse happened between
Zeke and his ex girlfriend, like, that's out of that's honestly,
even though it's in Goodell's hands, it's out of his hands.
What is he supposed to do if you think there's

(01:56:35):
an uproar now over the suspension length there of for
Ezekiela Elliott, considering the text messages out there, imagine if
Roger Goodell had chosen to do nothing or a one
game suspension or a two game suspension, considering the the
former prosecutor thought, there's more probably than not that something

(01:56:57):
that he did something to her. So I think that
it's a It's though it's a tough conversation. Those are
the conversations the decisions you have to make if you're
going to run a company, especially a billion dollar plus
company like that of the national Football. It makes total

(01:57:19):
and complete sense. Yeah, um or, no preseason football on
TV tonight, no Priesason football on it. Baseball night. Mm hmm.
I was saying this earlier, like baseball doing the more
is more. Have you looked at the teams and the

(01:57:41):
like the wild card standings in the American League, Like
the Yankees appeared to be a legit playoff team, and
they've had a lot of injuries. They've got They've had
a bunch of injuries, and some of them, you know,
Matt Holiday couldn't hit, plus he got hurt. Aaron Judge
has only been able to hit home run second half
of the season. They've had, They've had injuries, they start
all this. Chapman wasn't right now he lost his and

(01:58:01):
they're still gonna be a wild card team. But after that,
I mean the Minnesota Twins, the Angels, the Mariners, the Broils,
the Rangers, the Orioles, the Rays, those of the teams
all hanging around for a wild card. Bit Nationally gets
a little bit more respectable with the Diamondbacks and Rockies,

(01:58:23):
but after that, Brewers, Cards, Marlin still alive. This is
a classic example of more isn't always more. Less is
more now. I I think Baseball added added the additional
wild card spot for a bunch of reasons. It does
energize all these fan bases, but it also creates a

(01:58:45):
greater likelihood that the Yankees and or Red Sox are
always in the playoffs. It hasn't worked out that way
because the Yankees have been down, but the Yankees and
the Red Sox and now obviously the Cubs on the
other side in the playoffs is great for Baseball. The
Yankees and Red Sox in the playoffs are too Baseball's
ratings as well as the Cubs what Tiger Woods is

(01:59:07):
to golf. It doesn't matter how good the Dodgers are.
They just don't bring in the East Coast audience no
matter how good they are, even though people haven't seen them,
like the Yankees and the Red Sox too. It does
feel like the Yankees and Red Sox have played each
other like a billion times this year, doesn't It doesn't
it bad They just played two of the last three

(01:59:29):
and then you go back, like a weekend ago they
played a three game series. They only played six games
here in their last twenty five, but it feels like
they've because They've both been weekend series. It feels like
they play each other every single day. Odell Beckham Jr.
Is fine, and we're all happy that he's fine. Nobody
if you rooted for somebody's injury, you're a loser. Concluding,

(01:59:53):
even if you're in Cleveland he got hit and a
guy another team, you're a loser. On the other hand,
the over dramatics we saw from Odell Beckham Jr. Are expected.
That's who he is. He has earned a reputation as
an elite player, but an over dramatic one at that,
And for a position that always is seen as being

(02:00:14):
dramatic and overvaluing themselves and overstating their level of importance
on a team, He's important. But I said this today
on Colin Coward Show. The greatest UH single season the
history of the position was Calvin Johnson. Calvin Johnson had
it with the Detroit Lions. The team won four games.
The greatest single seasons we've seen recently, whether it was

(02:00:38):
Peyton Manning with over fifty touchdown passed with Denver Broncos
one seed, or uh Brady last year or Brady when
he had his fifty touchdown passes, they didn't lose a game.
Quarterbacks more important. Wide receivers are divas. Though talented, you
have to have him to win this. The Doug Gotlief
Show will be in Vegas tomorrow on Fox Sports Radio.

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