October 30, 2025 • 53 mins
Doug talks about game 5 of the World Series as the Blue Jays won the game to take control of the series heading back to Toronto.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:24):
you're having a great day. It's a Thursday. Huh, Thursday
is an awesome day. We have NFL football tonight. We
got college football tonight. My team, the Green Bay Phoenix,
have an exhibition game tonight. We're excited.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
A good team this year.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Thank you, Thank you, Potus. We appreciate that one. Bigley
got a lot to get to today. You know, we
on this show, we don't like to we we don't
like to say I told you show. We'd love to
say I told you so. And when I say we,
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it's not always reserved for me, right, Sometimes it's reserved
for Jason Stewart and we give him crap because and
I have friends that listen to him all the time
and they're like, what's the need with your producer, like
he's such a curmudget and then he's so his wit
is so dry. I don't know if he's being sarcastic.
And I'm like, that's that's Jasetu, That's that's who he is.
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And you know, I always give him crap because I'm like,
is are the Dodgers your favorite team or your least
favorite team? And he's just, hey, I'm in search of
whatever the opposite of BS is, Chase, do Mike correct
and all this?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I want to be so One time David Chase, the
creator of Sopranos, when he was eulogizing James Gandelphini, who
played Tony soprano, said, in some kind of a package,
as he was eulogizing gandelphinie, James is probably in having
still looking for whatever the opposite of BS is. And
(01:58):
I said, wow, if somebody could say that at my funeral, Doug,
I give you first DIBs. Maybe buyer one of you
two whoever's still living when I pass say that at
my funeral, no problem.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I say that because Jason told us, hey, team not,
this team's not that good. And I'm like, come on, man,
everybody else says it's an all star team. He's like,
you know, middle relief's not good, and there's these gigantic
hitting droughts. And when you're a guy who tree tops
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sports like baseball, tree top, meaning you just know the
top stuff. You don't get deep into layers. It's kind
of what most of us do. Unlike some, I don't profess.
Some in our position as a radio host profess to
know things about sports we don't actually know about. We
don't pay attention to every day. I think it's one
of the biggest mistakes that sports radio, sports television host
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is a lot of times you don't know. So one
you can ask, like if you have a PA or
other people, But watching and making overarching statements when you've
only watched a couple of games, especially postseason games, it's
it's not smart because ultimately you'll get exposed to the
people that matter the most, the hardcore sports fans. So
I don't profess to know everything about the Dodgers. I
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do lean on Jay s do a lot. I lean
on my baseball friends a lot. But this is a
pronounced trout at the worst possible time, it has exposed
the Dodgers and then you factor in that they looked
not only were they were they completely lost at the plate.
I mean, you go with four wild pitches and some
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other misplayed balls, like what is going on? It felt
like a team that is completely discombobulated, completely discombobulated. And
then you see these numbers. Mooki's hidden one thirty, He's
three for twenty three in the World Series with no
extra base hits. Here's Mookie Betts putting it bluntly on
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his performance today.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I don't want to speak on anybody else, but for
me personally, I've just been terrible.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I've been terrible, and there's no UH.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I wish it was from lack of effort, I really do,
but it's not so I don't have any answers.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Honestly, that's the most honest, fourth right SoundBite from a
star player I can remember hearing. There was no excuses
offered up, there was no nothing. I just haven't been
good enough. Haven't been good enough. The Dodgers offense in
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the regular season UH produced five point nine runs a game.
In the World Series three point six. Their OPS was
point seven to six eight in the World Series point
sixty five. Their home run percentage down slightly from three
point nine percent to three point seven percent. K percentage
is up as well, just not hitting, And yesterday it
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was a I think twenty two year old Treya Savage.
He was asked about his journey to this point.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
At any point when you walk out the game starting,
do you ever allow yourself to think, Hey, they're fifty
two thousand people here, I'm pitching the show at ho
Tani Seven months ago, I was pitching a three hundred
fans in front of me in Jupiter.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, it's a crazy world, crazy world.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Hollywood couldn't have made it this good. So just being
a part of this, I'm just very blessed.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Hey, can we just again? I don't hate to tell
you say I told you so, but this is like
the greatest day in Jason Stewart's life.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We have that cheesy Hollywood couldn't, couldn't, couldn't write this
script line, which Jason has personally pointed out for ever,
how just cornball that line is. Then you have the
fact that he's proven right on the dot not being
as good, especially with their lineup as advertised, and the
curmudgeon is having himself a day even though his team
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is one game away from losing another World Series. That's
a that wild kind of day for you. Jason.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, I think that there's a there's a couple of
things working here, and I want to read I can't
put it any better. So there's a Dodger fan that
we follow each other online and a Dodger's Andrew, and
this sums up I think a lot of what I've
been saying and what Dodger fans how they feel today.
He says, despite the national media narrative of the mighty Dodgers,
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Dodger fans who watch this team all season know how
flawed they are, and all those flaws are being exposed
in this series. I couldn't put it any better. And
I've been trying to tell people that, and I think
that with the national media and the people that just
don't quite follow baseball, they see, Uh, there was this
facade of success, right There was this anomaly where pitchers
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were throwing complete games and deep into games, and it
was just a facade. Underneath those great performances, the offense
has not done anything. The greatest World Series game I've
ever witnessed, maybe the great greatest game I'll ever see
in my Lifetime on Monday Night was filled with flaws
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on offense. Some of the undercovered things that never were
reported was that the bou Jays manager took out half
of his offense in the eighth inning. They had to
play a full game with half of their offense gone.
The Dodgers had all their ones in and they couldn't
put anything on the board for nine innings until Freddie
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Freeman does the heroics. But underneath all of those amazing
stories was a significantly flawed offense. And I don't know
if let's just hope that the next pitcher throws a
complete game as a winning championship strategy.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm gonna draw a parallel, okay, and tell me if
this works for you guys. So tonight we play Saint Norbert.
Saint Norbert is the Division III program really good one?
Coach by Gary Gresh. Gary was a great player here
playing for Dick Bennett. Last year we played. Last year
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we're played Saint Norbert and they were like a twenty
five win team in Division three, high level Division three,
and we pummeled them. But at after the game and
anytime I've watched the film and watched the film leading up,
I know we actually weren't very good. They I don't
know if we beat him or if it's close. Anthony Roy,
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who was my best player last year, the nation's late
scorer again because these games the scores don't get reported.
I don't know if you guys know this. He made
his first twelve three pointers. He had forty six points
in twenty eight minutes. It was the most amazing thing
I've ever seen. But it totally hid the fact that
we stunk outside of Anthony Roy. Like we won by thirty,
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but we weren't very good. We just had one guy
that was light years better than everybody else in the
floor and played at an unbelievable level. And their style
of defense, which kind of dares you to shoot threes. First,
they started at three point line, and then they got
close to him, so he backed up to the NBA line,
then he backed up to near mid court, and he
just couldn't miss. And the point is what exactly, I
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know exactly what you're talking about, Jason, Where we get
so caught up in these magnificent performances, but underneath the hood,
you're like, ooh, ooh, the Dodgers haven't done anything outside
of Otani, and when Otani isn't nine for nine and
constantly on base and putting constant pressure. And even with
the constant pressure, even all the times he was walked,
Mookie didn't do anything behind him. And Freddy Freeman, though
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he hit the ball hard several other times, it took
him until the eighteenth inning and hit went out of
the park. So I know exactly what you're talking about.
Experience that myself, and it's the reason I have such
kind of anxiety over that. But there is this amazing
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decision that we all make in our minds. And Jason, obviously,
when you're a Dodger fan and when you've said all
of these things, the decision has been made in your mind, Buyer,
let me ask you what decision you make in your mind?
Do you choose? And because it is a choice, do
you choose to go? God, the Dodgers have choked in
this thing. How did they not see the holes in
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their lineup? Or do you see how awesome are the
Blue Jays? I mean they throw out some kid out
there who was you know, throwing in Jupiter a couple
months ago, and now he's mowing down the best lineup
in the bigs. It really is a mental choice that
you make. What's your mental choice.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Of those two options.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I would side with the Blue Jays and getting the
hit because the only reason I say that, And I'm
sure there can be an argument made for both sides.
But after Game three, I thought Toronto was really behind
the eight ball. I even said in these studios, in
these hallways, off the air, I come, man, I just
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I don't know how Toronto's gonna be able to back
up and come back from what happened on Game three.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And what do they do?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
They win Game four last night, three pitches in, they're
up to nothing in the game, and it didn't seem
to it didn't seem to bother them. So I would
side with the Blue Jays aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, it's it's a very reasonable thing. Like you it's
you want to do half four or half empty whatever,
you know, Because like if you're a Dodger fan, you're like,
are you kidn me? Some guy wasn't on the big
league roster now was like Bowie us down in the
World Series. Whereas if you're like a fan of baseball,
like can you believe this? This kid comes in and
that about of pressure and pitches. Awesome. Awesome. It's a
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mental choice that you make and obviously some of it
is always swayed. If you have a if you have
a dog in the fight. If you have a dog
in the fight.
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I just got it's purple because that's Oneida. Their color
is purple. It says uh kannata Qui, which apparently is
Oneida translation for green bay.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh wow, that's neat.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That's kind of cool, like yeah, it kind of pops too,
a little purple.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
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Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uniform police, so I respect it. Okay, So when we
break them out Monday, I want your full rundown on
Tuesday at what you think of the Union's fair?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yes, good enough.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. We got Thursday night football.
We'll prep you for.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We still can continue to react to the Blue jays
outstanding performance the Dodgers disappointing performance performance with the Bats
last night, as the Blue Jays taking coming three games
to lead heading back to Toronto. Apparently again something I
just learned, and I learned this via TikTok. It's Toronto.
You don't say the second T.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Toronto. That's correct Toronto.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I don't say the second tea.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Went camping with someone from Toronto, yeah, and she said,
it's not Toronto, it's Toronto, Toronto. So I learned something
that day.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, So they they call all of the surrounding communities
the GTA, the Greater Toronto area. So we only say,
I guess it's greater Toronto. Why do we say one
tea and at the other T. I need somebody from
Canada to help us out with that one. But it's Toronto, Torontronto, right.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I still think you're saying the second tea a little,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Guys. Guys, I know, I am, I can't. It's it's
a It's like my Rizzuto if I was Billy Madison.
I can't stop myself. And I've been in my mind
I've been saying, don't say the second D Toronto.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
It's like someone said that it's not ti Ijuana, it's
t One. That's what That's what someone told me. Don't
say Tijuana, say Tijuana.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Do you have any do you have to sound like
Speedy Gonzalez? Do you have to do your speedy Toronto.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
MM, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Tijuana.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't know, I I do. I have the one
fun fact about Tijuana. You know what it is, let's
hear it. It's the place where the caesar salad was invented.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, real story.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
And I've heard, yeah, I've heard it was invented in Mexico,
which is sort of an interesting fact.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
In Tijuana, Mexico. I think it was a guy named Caesar.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I love Caesar, so I love Caesar.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I think Caesar dressing is super underrated as like one
of the.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Real Caesar dressing though, no.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
No, like like it has chunks of parmesan in it
and peppercorn, Oh delicious.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Do you know what else it has in it?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Anchovies?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's okay? Gives it the saltiness?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Is it does?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay? It does? Maybe a little protein in there, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Know, uh, possibly possibly some protein. Plus everybody throws chicken
or salmon. And there's enough about caesar salad and about Toronto.
Let's do something we do every Thursday where we don't
call it a throwback.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
You don't call it a throwback Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
This is the time of the show on the Doug
Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio, where where we display
our unbelievable historic knowledge. And I turned it over to
Jason Stewart.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Thank you, Doug. I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I want the listeners to all go back to one uh,
one time, one year, thirty thirty three years ago, thirty
three years ago, nineteen ninety two. What were you doing
in the fall of nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Ooh, I was a dude. Three three. I was a
sophomore in high school.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
There you go. I was a sophomore in college. I
was a sophomore in college. So that tells the listeners
the tears of age that we are.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Dan, where were you sophomore in high school?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, you guys are the same age your birthday.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, I'm older.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
He's a year older though.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Okay, But nineteen ninety two, what a year in sports?
Holy crap. Almost to this day, thirty three years ago,
the Toronto Blue Jays won their first World Series team,
the Toronto Blue Jays first ever World Series title. That
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is a story, but maybe the sub story is the
Atlanta Braves, because in the last couple of days I
have I have heard my team, the Dodgers, referred to
as the nineties Braves, and that's a pejorative, that's not
a compliment. That means that they had the best team
in baseball for many, many years and cast it in once.
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So the Braves in their second World Series trip in
two years, they just got done getting beat by the
Twins in ninety one, remember, and then they played the
Jayson ninety two and lost in six games. What a
thriller Game six was, though, I'll tell you what. Devon
White had a big night, Roberto even Dave Winfield, all
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of these Hall of famers, Mike Timlin closed out the game.
That Tom Hankey blewe pause, David kne started the game.
Steve Avery for the Braves. And for those who forget
the names on the Braves, remember Otis Nixon, Yeah, twenty nine,
going on seventy eight. Yes, Deon Sander.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Otis Otis, by the way, is the only guy that
attacks the old black don't crack. Yeah that he didn't crack,
but it was definitely withered.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Deon Sanders is the head coach at Colorado. A lot
of people would not know that thirty three years ago.
Today he was losing a World Series with the Braves.
Think about that one, Sid Breem, Mark lemke oh, Terry Pendleton,
just to name a few. Anyways, nineteen ninety two, what
a fall in sports, Dan, What what strikes your fancy
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most about nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So this is gonna shock you.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Nineteen ninety two probably the best year of my childhood.
Just so much fun. I went to a junior high,
so the freshmen were the king of the school. So
the first half of ninety two I was a freshman.
A lot of fun, but sports wise, absolute heartbreak in
the NFL. The Seahawks won two games that year, and
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Cortes Kennedy was the NFL's defensive Player of the Year
for a Seahawks team that ended up winning two games.
I remember they beat the Broncos on Monday Night Football.
It was their second win of the season. Pretty crazy,
but they stunk sports wise that NFL season. By the way,
the emergence of the Dallas Cowboys is the power that
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they turned in to be under Jimmy Johnson. I also
will say, sports wise, my worst loss is a sports fan,
no doubt about it. Nineteen ninety two Regional Final Southeast
Regional Lexington, Kentucky. A day after Christian Lightner and Duke
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upset Kentucky. Or beat Kentucky. On that last second shot
by Lightner, Ohio State had a chance to punch their
ticket to the Final Four. They had beaten Michigan twice
in the regular season. That Michigan team, of course, known
as the Fab Five, with their five freshmen, Ohio State
had a chance to win it. At the end of regulation,
Jimmy Jackson lost control of the ball. It somehow ended
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up in the hands of Chris Gent along the baseline
and gent panicked shot. The ball didn't have a chance
to go in and Michigan won in overtime. They ended
up going to the Final Four. Well, thank goodness, they
lost to Duke in the national Championship game. I love Duke,
but yes, my worst loss as a sports fan. I
loved that Ohio State basketball team.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
One of the greatest sporting moments of my childhood was
in nineteen ninety two at the Rose Bowl. It was
not the Rose Bull. You're like, what, No, it was
not the Rose Bull. It was USC taken on UCLA.
USC was ranked fifteenth in the country. UCLA was what
the kids say mid right mid. They were five and
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five at the time. I don't know if you guys
remember the story, but they started a quarterback named John Barnes.
John Barnes was a walk on at San Diego State
AH and he ended up starting for the Bruins against
starting for the Bruins all season long and started against USC.
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He had a wide receiver that you may have heard of,
even though he was kind of a bust in the NFL.
It was JJ Stokes. And again I don't know the
exact stats, but I want to say John Barnes trew
for like four hundred yards and JJ Stokes had like
three hundred yards receiving. But like a former walk on,
lighting up USC at the Rose Bowl was awesome. Thirty
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eight thirty seven, Hey thirty. USC's quarterback was Rob Johnson,
and Rob Johnson, by the way, led his team on
what should have been a game winning drive, a sixty
nine yard drive, only to have John Barnes hit JJ
Stokes in a ninety yard touchdown reception. JJ Stokes had
six receptions for two hundred and sixty three yards two
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hundred sixty three yards on six catches. I've never seen
anything like it since it was unbelievable anyway, Again, that's
just personal, personal moment.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
How many notable players on that USC team? John oh A, Ton,
Tony Besselli, Willie McGuinness, Jason Seahorn. Wow, I want to
say JJ Stokes. Guys, if you would say his claim
to fame he like meets people in bars and stuff,
would it be I'm the guy who uh Romanowski is
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spit in the face of in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
No, he was the guy who was supposed to be
Jerry Rice's replacement and that did not work.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You want to know what else happened in ninety two
in college football? Yes, sir, first ever conference championship game, Yes,
SEC Alabama beat Matthews in Florida. Yes, in Birmingham. I
believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Was How much have we evolved in that they played
that game in Birmingham?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah? I think I think that was the I think
that was the case.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It is, yes, side of the That's where because that's
where the conference was located, the conference office is located.
That's where they played the Iron Bowl. Auburn played Alabama
there every year and that was the heartbeat of the conference.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Good poll and Alabama won the national title. George Tige,
Geene Stallings, Yes, this was Jean.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I kind of feel the need to bring up the
Dream Team in Barcelona that summer, just to get such
a monumental sports occurrence. But so much has been written
about it, documentaries and I'm almost dream teamed out and
it's thirty three years later. But in the time living
through that, that was pretty special for the kids out
there listening right now. There was a time when the
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Olympics would not accept professional athletes into the games, so
these teams were made up of college stars and the
US have been getting their ass kick right.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
No, no, no, no, let me let me, let me help
you here. Okay, the US was the only one. They
couldn't have pros in it. The other ones did because
they could say they were club teams and act like
they were amateurs. So in nineteen eighty eight, the late
great John Thompson had a team. It wasn't very good,
they couldn't shoot, and they got beat by the Soviet Union.
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But the Soviet Union had Lithuanian players obviously had Russian
players as well, so it was the first time that
we matched our pros with their pros, and it was
it was a celebration of the sports, celebration of American basketball.
But it was an absolute blood letting, blood letting. Can
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anybody remember anything else about the Summer Olympics, that's my question.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It was the first Olympics after the end of the
Cold War, first Olympics after the end of the Cold War.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, so again, it coincided with the fact that Russia
was broken up, right, And I don't remember if Yugoslavia
was broken up. I think Slovenia was in at that time,
so I think Yugoslavia broke up as well.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Quick golf note, one of the most popular players that
we've ever seen on tour ended up claiming his first
and only major that year. The ball stayed up on
the bank at the twelfth hole for Fred Couples. He
went on to win the Masters in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Right here, Fred Keble still has great hair.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
My favorite part about that exchange was that Dan told
Doug what he thinks of Balkan geopolitics by just going
right into golf. He wanted nothing to do with the
Yugoslavia Serbia.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I'll give you the real I'll give you the real backstory.
I had to I had to quickly get in before.
We've all seen that video of Michael Jordan bombing his
head with his headphones. In that video, he was listening
to this at that time. No, no, you're right. I saw
that exact video Dan, and I'll tell you what. He
had a walkman on and he was strutting to it
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was People thought it was like a kind of a
dance tune, but no, it was actually this song.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Wow, this is under the.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Bridge Take Me all the Way. It wasn't the biggest
song of the year, though it.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Was number one on the charts for seven weeks. Charged
for the most punk band.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
It finished eighth. It was number one, but I guess
it finished eighth, and it's what it's average.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The Red Hot Choice Numbers was a ska punk underground
band from Los Angeles, and they hit it big. I
have often said that this is the point in time
under the Bridge. That was the point part time when
we had to put up with another thirty plus years
of garbage from Red Hot Chili Pepper Come on now,
(27:28):
maybe my least favorite band. They are not very talented
at all. Their catalog of songs is one earworm after
another that you can't stand under the worm.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Means it gets stuck in your head under the bridge.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
This is off Blood Sugar, Sex Magic, which is a
fantastic album front to back when I grew up with
so I will defend this album to the day.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
There's a lot of iconic songs. In nineteen ninety two,
I believe the number one song for the year was
Baby Got Back, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And then I think.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
That Maybe Got Back finished number two on the Billboard
year End Hot one hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Number one was Smells Like Teen Spirit, wasn't it?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That was ninety.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Ninety No, I thought it was ninety three. End of
the Road Boys to Men was the one that ended
up being.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh well, end of the Road was the end of
every mixtape. Okay, kids, what's the mixtape? A mixtape? You
used to have these things called cassette tapes? What's the
cassette tape? Well, I can it's like a VHS tape
but smaller, and they used to have dual dual cassettehere
you could dub it. So if a girl broke up
with you, or if you broke up with a guy
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or broke up with a girl, you'd make a mixtape. Now,
mixtape you can make when you were together. But the
breakup mixtape always had sad songs on it, and it
usually ended with end of the Road, which was apropos
and iconic and oh yeah, by the way, boys to men,
proving that if you want to get ladies, no matter
how ugly you are, sing because those dudes are not
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good looking, and yet they were on every wall of
every teenager in America.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Back to our when grunge hit America nineteen ninety one,
nineteen ninety one. But this song a little bit more upbeat,
finished at number thirteen.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hey, all I can do is just play it for you.
I'm oh yeah, ah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You want to talk about earworm? We just ruined everybody's
day the song. Every personalist of the show has just
had their day ruined because the rest of the day,
this is what's going on in their head.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Can I tell you something about I actually learned about
this right said, Fred was a duo.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They are brothers.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
They were bouncers in like the UK and somehow recorded
this song and just blew up. But they were originally
brothers and they were bouncers at a club, which is
very interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
About five or six years ago, I got a notification
on Twitter that said, right, said Fred is following you,
So I followed them back.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
All right, really, so what are they doing now?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I think they're singing. They have two songs. They have
I'm Too Sexy and not I'm Too Sexy.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, So can I do the movies thing? Because I
gotta tell you want to talk about iconic movies A
few good men? I want the truth. You can't handle
the truth? Right, great movie reservoir Dogs. We can discuss
Tarantino and where that fits in the Tarantino hierarchy. My
cousin Vinny, my biological clock is ticking over here, right.
(30:47):
The two uts I mean Unforgiven, which I think won
the Academy Award Best Picture, and I think one of
the greatest sports movies of all time. League of their Own.
League of their Own was amazing, amazing, Last of the Mohicans, Aladdin,
Scent of a Woman, Oh Rah, Wayne's World, Batman Returns. Okay,
(31:12):
that was that one. A river runs through it, A
river runs through it. Pretty basic instinct. The Mighty Ducks
the cutting edge underrated sports film topick. You have to
have watched it under siege back when Stephen Sagal was
a badass Leath the Weapon three, which I think that's
(31:34):
when Joe Peshi first joined the Leath the Weapon cast,
the crying game, don't watch the End's kids, don't watch
the End? And Beethoven for the kids. Oh Aladdin as well.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
All those movies are awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Unbelievable. You're in movies.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Unbelievable, Yeah, Leo gets was that Joe Pesci's character in
the third one?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Also? Wasn't Renee Russo in that one?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I guess? So I'll give another one that's kind of underrated.
George Strait was in a movie called Pure Country, not Bad,
not bad.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
We all remember this iconic line from Wayne's World.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
For begin to spew, spew into this.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
I mean I said that so many times as a child.
You know now the movie is my gospel.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It really is. I live my life according to Wayne Campbell.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And that is don't call it a throwback Thursday, don't call.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It a throwback.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
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Speaker 1 (32:37):
App that's stuck outleab show Fox Sports Radio. I want
to get the football in a second. Get you ready
for Thursday night football basketball is being played. And what's
interesting about like the Lakers, no Luca, no Lebron, nobody
pays attention, but man Austin Reeves has been incredible in
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Speaker 10 (33:26):
With five with all three Hooston down the middle guns
to win the game, to win the game, what the
winner they are doing, what they are does gets into
the paint and all that celebration that the Timberwolves are
doing six seconds ago, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
If you had that. Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves averaging thirty
four and ten assists a game congratulations. Sorry, sorry, Jase
dou this is gonna be all a Jay's too. Is
the least favorite thing. If you had Austin Reeves averaging
thirty four to ten and five and a half on
your Bingo card, turned that one in right, didn't have
(34:07):
that one on my Bengo card.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I saw somebody compare Austin Reeves to Jeremy Win last night.
Isn't is that like a is that a compliment or
is that a drag?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's a drag, that's a diss Really, it's a drag. Yeah,
because Jeremy Limb was only good for two weeks. He
had like two unbelievable weeks and then he was just
he was just kind of a random NBA player outside
of that. I mean, again, Austin Reeves is having two
incredible weeks, but he's the third best scorer on the
(34:40):
Los Angeles Slikers on a regular basis, So he's not
Jermy Lnn calling him. If Jeremy Lynn was told he's hey,
you're Austin Reeves, that's a compment to Jeremy Lynn, not
the other way around. Agree buyer.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Wholeheartedly, and I do findly. I mean, the Timberwolves were
without Anthony Edwards last night. But that's not the story.
The story is the numbers, Reeves puts up and the
buzzer beater to hit the game winner.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah yeah, Let's get you ready for Thursday of football
in a second. First, let me get you to Dan
Bayer get a quick update. A lot of stuff going on,
especially injury updates for tonight. And by the way, if
you haven't, don't download the uh I want your flex podcast?
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Speaker 2 (35:29):
Doug Quick questioning you guys.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
There are three teams without a win right now in
the NBA, and I think one of the teams is
a bit of a surprise. Pelicans, nets and the Indiana Pacers. Yes,
your Eastern Conference Finals representative obviously no, Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Miles Turner is now a member of the.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Milwaukee Bucks, but the Pacers yet to get a win
this season.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Stug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Adam Kaplan
joins us, he's our Fox Tradial NFL insider. We'll get ready.
We'll preview tonight's Thursday Night football in a second. But
cap also hosts the Inside the Birds podcast, which is
where I want to start. Adam, Sure, what are your
thoughts on AJ Brown's comments in the Athletic article about
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his team?
Speaker 9 (36:18):
All right, so I saw a little bit of it.
You have to understand Aj Brown. I've talked to coaches
who worked with in the past with the Titans. It's interesting.
One Titans coach said to me that while they love
Ryan Tannehill, AJ Brown was the heartbeat of the football team.
He just connects well with people, does everything the right way.
(36:38):
But then you know, you fast forward with Philly, no
problems off the field, but he kind of acts out
on social media his frustrations and you have to understand
he's a complex guy. Really good person at HARP, but complex.
He had a different childhood than you know a lot
of players, just different upbringing and he's just a different guy,
but a good person. It's just look the Eagles of
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they know how to handle social situations pretty well.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
They don't make a big deal out of it.
Speaker 9 (37:07):
But the problem is, and this is you know what,
as one person said to me, when you're off, when
you're passing him struggling, it doesn't help your relationship with
a quarterback when you make comments about I need to
get the football repeatedly, and the one that he made
two weeks ago is like, he's getting the ball, but
I really need the ball. It was more about he
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needs the ball where he's supposed to be getting the ball,
not off a scramble and and a play that breaks down,
just like you see with Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.
That's what That's what AJ wants. He wants the ball.
He just he's not getting it, and that that's where
he's frustrated because you know he's getting up the team.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I understand how how much does it affect this group?
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Doesn't he doesn't at all. They want a super ball
with him.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
By the way, he made some comments last year, he
doesn't walk away, by the way, I'll give him credit,
he doesn't really walk him back.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
He'll say, hey, I shouldn't have done that, but I'll
keep doing it. But he doesn't.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
He never said I was wrong about what I said.
He just he'll say he'll he'll admit that it's probably
not a great idea, but it doesn't divide the team.
This is not this is not going back to two
thousand and four, warth care Lowans and down McNabb.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
It's not stug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Tradio. Okay,
we got Lamar back in Baltimore. This is we're getting
to must win territory at Baltimore. And you got Miami
coming off an outstanding performance at least offensively, but their
defense has been in shambles. It's been in shambles. Feels
like a great night for the Ravens. They're a touchdown
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and a hook seven and a half point.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 9 (38:36):
Yeah, so a couple of things here. Yeah, Baltimore. They
got to start turning things around. You know, they at
one point, Doug, they had seven defensive starters out, Mattabookie,
their best defensive players out for the season, and they
have another d lineman is also out for the season.
So they've had a lot of injuries. The Jay year
Alexander Sunning has not worked at all. He's been a
healthy and actor for most of the season. They got
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to play better defensively. They've been awful on the back end.
They're giving the most big plays in the National Football League.
That's got to stop. The hope is that off the
buy that they're healthier, and they are.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
You met.
Speaker 9 (39:06):
Lamar's definitely in the lineup. Took all the ones, all
the work and their walkthroughs. You don't really have a
practice on a short week. You have walkthroughs and everything's good.
He's ready to go. With his right hamstring injury. They
got to get him when he plays. By the way,
Derek Henry is going to be better. It's hard because
Lamar is an extension of the running game. So yeah,
they should have no problem against Miami Knight. Now, one
thing I want to look at here, and you know
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we're mentioning the Ravens, that the Steelers are really playing
poorly right now defensively. If Baltimore wins this week with
what Pittsburgh's got going on defensively, which is they're struggling
badly on the back end. And by the way, the
Colts come into Pittsburgh this see this Sunday, and that's
a game I really feel like when this division could
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be very interesting to go down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
The no question about it. Speaking of Pittsburgh, what's wrong there?
I just they went all in on this year and
they're just the defense. Everybody, he says, the defensive backfield
but they're not. Also, they're not putting pressure either on
the on the quarterback, so it can't.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
Hide it correct, all right, So here's what I'm told.
The communication in the back end has been poor Darius Slay,
the veteran corner. I don't know, they don't make the
Hall of Fame, but he's he's been a terrific player
over the years. Super Bowl winner with Philly is not
he's just lost his step. As one personal source told me,
you Joey Porter, he you know, he was hurt earlier
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this season.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
He's fine. They're struggling at safety.
Speaker 9 (40:29):
To Shaun Elliotte of the starting safety, he's going to
be out of it with a knee injury. And you're right.
Their pass rush is not quite where they thought it
would be. And you add it up and they're not.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
You know.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
The other thing is, yes, Rogers is playing fine. Their
offense is just okay. It's it's better average, but it's
not great and it can't carry a defense that was
carrying the offense earlier. So they're folding right now. Now
watch them for the trade deadline, by the way, for
a wide receiver. They are looking for speed opposite DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I'm told, yeah, they need anything opposite Dk Metcalf. They
have like fifteen tight ends and receiver. It's just the
most bizarre build up of a team. But bizarre building
of a team that yeah, yeah, different to say the least.
This is the Doug Gotlib Show. You're listening to Fox
Sports Radio. Okay, So here's here's the big question. Dolphins
(41:22):
at two and six, is there every Mike me Daniel
that they would obviously have to turn around? But what
about Tua? What is what does Tua's future look like?
Speaker 9 (41:34):
Well, it depends on several factors. Who's going to be
the general manager. It's Chris Greer going to keep his job.
Okay to a play by the way, he's phenomenal last week. Yeah,
but is he He's not a match for everybody. It's
when you look at his contract, Doug. He's signed through
twenty twenty eight. There's a lot of guaranteed money next year.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Uh, it's it's it's.
Speaker 9 (42:00):
A situation where beauty is in the eye of beholder.
Most most teams didn't love to it for the draft.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
Yeah, it it's.
Speaker 9 (42:06):
Look, it's not a terrible contractor trade, but I don't
see a big trade market for him going into March.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
Forget it now, I'm talking about March.
Speaker 9 (42:15):
And when you look at that team, Tyre Kill's probably
played his last down for the Dolphins. That could get
out of the contract fairly easily. Yep, there's an expectation
around the league that they're gonna be moving a bunch
of players on Tuesday. They deny that they're having a
fire sale, but other teams tell me differently.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
To be honest with ye, I think that would make
a ton of sense. And obviously if you get beat
badly tonight, all that changes. What's the feeling around the league.
There's there's talks in Indie about re upping Danny Dimes.
Speaker 9 (42:42):
Yes, he is so far ahead Doug he is. I
vote in two poles. One of them is a profile
bar Road Association. He will be my most improved offensive player. Now,
that's if he continues to play at this high level.
See here's shirting. You've got the running game. Jonathan Taylor,
He's kind of rebounded from a couple of subpar years,
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but mostly because he was hurt. They need the contract
hold out. He's back better never by the way, their
offensive line is playing better than expected with changes in
the on the interior at center and right guard. That's
worked out better than they expected. Their defense, though they've
had injuries in the back end, it's playing with great discipline.
And you know what's interesting, lou Anarromo, who is fired
(43:24):
by the Bengals defense coordinator. They were bad last season.
They were actually non competitive times. Teams would tell me,
so you could understand why I got fired. He's probably
my vote for a defensive coach of the Year. He's
been phenomenal. It's it's kind of everything. So getting back
to Daniel Jones, yeah, it Now, the thing is, you
got to do a contract like the like the Giants did,
two years of fully guaranteed money. Then you got to
be able to get out of the contract for two years.
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You just Daniel Jones give him. I give him credit.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
He's healthy. By the way.
Speaker 9 (43:49):
They're protecting them the past group between Pittman, Tyler Warren,
who's been a great rookie. We mentioned Jonathan Taylor. They're
keeping on schedule. They don't have to throw the ball
a lot. And Shane Steike is one of the best
play Collis and quarterback developers look at the job that
he did with Jalen Hurts. Hurts has not been the
same since twenty twenty two with Steak and calling.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
The plays with the Eagles.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
So it's all looking good, man, And this is a
team no one saw being this good.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
No, No, and they're really I mean, Jonathan Taylor's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
But no, yeah, that made great.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
MVP caliber, best player in the league. How much Buyer's
remorses there in Minnesota on their decision at quarterback?
Speaker 5 (44:27):
None, No, they look McCarthy had a high aendle spring.
Speaker 9 (44:30):
Here's the thing. Okay, the guy suffers a twin p
teller tenant. Okay, he misses the season, never plays it
down in the regular season, plays one good preseason against
the Raiders last season. Okay, he got off to a
slow start. He wasn't ready till their June camp. Okay,
there mandatory camp to start practicing. He needs work. You know,
Carson Wentz has done for the season with his shoulder surgery.
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So no, they're not. I know fans are up in
arms about McCarthy the way he's played, but and I'm
not trying to protect the guy. I mean they also
have had offensive line problems of Dawer saw their left
tackles come back from the ACL injury. They got to
get McCarthy in there. He's got to get healthy, which
he is. He's recovered, he's on target to start this week.
You know, Look, it's not it's not an ideal situation
(45:12):
playing out Detroit, and Detroit's gonna get a couple of defensive
players back, so it's gonna be a problem. But the
Vikings really need this game to stay in a wild
card hunt.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, yes they do. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show
here on Fox Sports Radio. That's the voice of basically
the voice of the Birds, right. I mean, speaking of which,
what is the status of Philadelphia? Such a weird mercurial season?
And I know they won, but I mean Cam Scattabow's
injury kind of cast a shadow over the whole over
the whole game. So it look, it was a good
(45:42):
bounce back game from when the Giants pummeled them on
Thursday night two weeks before, But what what's the actual
status in that locker room?
Speaker 9 (45:50):
Honestly, Look, they they felt better about it because they
they were dominant both sides of the football. But talking
to teams that have played the Eagles. This is not
a great roster. They're they're they're you know, they five
defensive players to free agency. They've gotten younger, which is
a good thing, mostly younger by the Brandon Grahme's coming
out of retirement. But it's just not as good as
last year. But Doug, see, here's the thing. The entire
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league is down. It's not when you look at thirty
two teams, there's not close to one dominant team. The
lines are good, the Chiefs are on their way back. Sure,
there's not a dominant team that it's really wide open.
It wouldn't shock me if a wildcard team would make
a run. Like Seattle was my breakout team. They're five
and two. I picked them to be a wildcard team
with the way Sam Darnold's playing right now. And we'll
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see what happens Sunday night at Washington. But Washington's falling off.
It's it's a year that's completely wide open. To be
honest with you, Doug, for so.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
A man, it is very wide open, very wide open,
like kind of cliche to say, but it couldn't be
any more accurate. What's what's happened to Houston? I mean,
I say that because here you have it's not just
a young quarterback. You've got a coach that's a former
Texan beloved. But then I saw him say that. You know,
(47:01):
the media in Houston super negative. Guys only say that
when they're feeling it exactly.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
They have a very light media. Here's the thing.
Speaker 9 (47:07):
So, look, they've been bad, particularly on offense until last week. Boy,
they started getting together against the Niners. Were beat up defensively,
down four edge rushers. But so here's what I'm told
with the Texans offense, there's been a structural problem. Not
on the run game, it's been with a pass game.
The new coordinator, Nick Kelly, you know, this is the
first year calling plays for him. They're keeping in the
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West Coast system, but his passing concepts he's just not
there yet.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Didn't have the feel for it. Now.
Speaker 9 (47:35):
The other guy that had the job before it, he
didn't connect well with c. J. Stroud. That's why he
was fired. So Bobby Slowick, by the way, who came
out of nowhere. He had never he's never even a
position coach with the Niners and they hired him and
that heck, you worked for PFF. But he was the
(47:55):
wonder kid after one year, got head coaching interviews and
he was fired after the following season. And the passive
game is not working out well. And by the way,
Nico Collins or to their star receivers out with a concussion.
You start working this week. But there's been a lot
of problems here. I'm surprised. I'll be honest with you.
I I you know, I have to make my picks
for various polls, and I picked the Texas to the
wind Division.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
That does not look very good right now. In fact,
it won't happen.
Speaker 10 (48:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
It's Inside the Birds is the podcast. You can check
him out. He's Adam Kaplan. He's our Fox Sports Radio
NFL insider. Adam, thanks much for joining us. I really
appreciate the inside.
Speaker 5 (48:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
This says the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.
Yeah it, Jason, you're having a good day. Like all
of your things that you've always thought and hypothesized about,
ranted about, kind of coming. And that's sort of what
the There's no great team is. There's a lot of
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below average football being played. I still think it's about
quarterbacks getting hurt and about all these injuries and then
once you get there's just not the depth. There's just
not depth, and it looks so different once you get
to backups.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
But doesn't it also doesn't it also all go back
to one thing? I mean, so there's the there's the
very kind of like accepted reason, which is these guys
don't practice anymore. And I'm in that practice. In that training,
your body is calloused and you're not going to be
as injured. And then when the backups go in, they're
better performed because they get more practice. I mean, doesn't
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it all go back to the same thing, the collectively
bargained lack of practice?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Uh? Yeah, yeah, yes it does, It really really does.
It's a it's a good point. I believe in the
callous effect. Okay, that's is that was that Gruden that
talked about the callouses. I'm trying to think what former
coach talked about building up kind of callouses.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
I've heard a lot of former players and coaches say
it the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
And I think it to be true. Right, So I'm
with you, But I also think the genies out of
that bottle, it's not going back in. That's the other
side to it. It's like we talk to people about NIL.
I was green Bay has two Optimist clubs, to know,
if you guys know that very optimistic town. So I
(50:11):
spoke to the green Bay Optimist Club today and one
of the questions I had was, Hey, will it ever
go back to the old days before NIL? And I
just said no, you know, And it's the same thing
to the will we ever go back to two A
days in the preseason and grinding and practice and guys
playing in preseason? And the answer is no. And so
(50:33):
the question is how can you make the sport better?
Understanding that the days of guys grinding and really preparing
their body for this season are gone because they've been
convinced by doctors of medical that they need more time
and that and then again CTE, we need less repetition
of hitting. And the season is longer now with eighteen
(50:55):
eighteen weeks, that's right, Dan Byer eighteen weeks, only seventeen games, right,
half of eighteen is nine, it's nine, not eight and
a half.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
Anyway, you don't need to tell me. May need to
tell Jason, but you don't need to I know.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
I was, Steve, I was giving you credit for yesterday's argument,
which is really really it was. It was just fun
to be a bystander in anyway. You're right, Jason, but
they're not changing it. It's again it's the argument of
you know, they should really play less NBA games. They're
not giving back any games. They should prove less, play
less Major League Baseball game, they're not getting back any games.
(51:32):
I actually think you said this once and I'll I'm
gonna echo it or it's gonna become mine. Which is
which is You're you're going to have to start anyone
who starts an argument with this, could they should have
fewer games? Just didn't you say just completely don't pay
attention to that argument. I forget, I forget what this
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how you addressed.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
It, But I don't really I just always say that
you don't go back. You just don't.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
You never go back, never go back, kind of like
prices on everything, Doug, You know, like they're really probably
never gonna go down to where they were.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Pre almost like Trump just said that gas is under
three dollars he did, Anti Trump?
Speaker 1 (52:13):
Sam, Yeah, that's you are you know what you really do? Hey,
Anti Trump, We're gonna we're gonna sue you, and we're
gonna put you out of business.
Speaker 6 (52:20):
I just don't think I'm gonna ever go to Chipotle
and get a burrito with everything in it for like
thirteen bucks skin. It's always gonna be seventeen or above.
Just just the way it is. Just feel that inflation
it's locked in forever.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Oh it, I mean it. It will go up and
down in terms of grocery prices and gas prices or whatever.
But no, Chipotle is not going back. They're not.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
They're not going back because they got to pay their workers,
you know everything.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Hey, can I also point out that the variants in
yesterday you guys saw me eating chips like man, Sometimes
you go to Chipotle Kudoba and you get the chips
with a lot of salt in it. Sometimes you get
them dry barren like the desert.
Speaker 6 (52:55):
And then they have no yeah, or they're under salted,
or they're fairly stale, or they're like fresh.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
It's like you just don't know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Let me just tell everybody at Chipotle, whoever salts these things,
there is no amount of salt that is too much.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
No one has ever said careful, we're going to try
to kill you with
Speaker 1 (53:12):
No one's ever said that
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you're having a great day. It's a Thursday. Huh, Thursday
is an awesome day. We have NFL football tonight. We
got college football tonight. My team, the Green Bay Phoenix,
have an exhibition game tonight. We're excited.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
A good team this year.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Thank you, Thank you, Potus. We appreciate that one. Bigley
got a lot to get to today. You know, we
on this show, we don't like to we we don't
like to say I told you show. We'd love to
say I told you so. And when I say we,
(01:01):
it's not always reserved for me, right, Sometimes it's reserved
for Jason Stewart and we give him crap because and
I have friends that listen to him all the time
and they're like, what's the need with your producer, like
he's such a curmudget and then he's so his wit
is so dry. I don't know if he's being sarcastic.
And I'm like, that's that's Jasetu, That's that's who he is.
(01:24):
And you know, I always give him crap because I'm like,
is are the Dodgers your favorite team or your least
favorite team? And he's just, hey, I'm in search of
whatever the opposite of BS is, Chase, do Mike correct
and all this?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I want to be so One time David Chase, the
creator of Sopranos, when he was eulogizing James Gandelphini, who
played Tony soprano, said, in some kind of a package,
as he was eulogizing gandelphinie, James is probably in having
still looking for whatever the opposite of BS is. And
(01:58):
I said, wow, if somebody could say that at my funeral, Doug,
I give you first DIBs. Maybe buyer one of you
two whoever's still living when I pass say that at
my funeral, no problem.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I say that because Jason told us, hey, team not,
this team's not that good. And I'm like, come on, man,
everybody else says it's an all star team. He's like,
you know, middle relief's not good, and there's these gigantic
hitting droughts. And when you're a guy who tree tops
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sports like baseball, tree top, meaning you just know the
top stuff. You don't get deep into layers. It's kind
of what most of us do. Unlike some, I don't profess.
Some in our position as a radio host profess to
know things about sports we don't actually know about. We
don't pay attention to every day. I think it's one
of the biggest mistakes that sports radio, sports television host
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is a lot of times you don't know. So one
you can ask, like if you have a PA or
other people, But watching and making overarching statements when you've
only watched a couple of games, especially postseason games, it's
it's not smart because ultimately you'll get exposed to the
people that matter the most, the hardcore sports fans. So
I don't profess to know everything about the Dodgers. I
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do lean on Jay s do a lot. I lean
on my baseball friends a lot. But this is a
pronounced trout at the worst possible time, it has exposed
the Dodgers and then you factor in that they looked
not only were they were they completely lost at the plate.
I mean, you go with four wild pitches and some
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other misplayed balls, like what is going on? It felt
like a team that is completely discombobulated, completely discombobulated. And
then you see these numbers. Mooki's hidden one thirty, He's
three for twenty three in the World Series with no
extra base hits. Here's Mookie Betts putting it bluntly on
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his performance today.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I don't want to speak on anybody else, but for
me personally, I've just been terrible.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I've been terrible, and there's no UH.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I wish it was from lack of effort, I really do,
but it's not so I don't have any answers.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Honestly, that's the most honest, fourth right SoundBite from a
star player I can remember hearing. There was no excuses
offered up, there was no nothing. I just haven't been
good enough. Haven't been good enough. The Dodgers offense in
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the regular season UH produced five point nine runs a game.
In the World Series three point six. Their OPS was
point seven to six eight in the World Series point
sixty five. Their home run percentage down slightly from three
point nine percent to three point seven percent. K percentage
is up as well, just not hitting, And yesterday it
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was a I think twenty two year old Treya Savage.
He was asked about his journey to this point.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
At any point when you walk out the game starting,
do you ever allow yourself to think, Hey, they're fifty
two thousand people here, I'm pitching the show at ho
Tani Seven months ago, I was pitching a three hundred
fans in front of me in Jupiter.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, it's a crazy world, crazy world.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Hollywood couldn't have made it this good. So just being
a part of this, I'm just very blessed.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Hey, can we just again? I don't hate to tell
you say I told you so, but this is like
the greatest day in Jason Stewart's life.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We have that cheesy Hollywood couldn't, couldn't, couldn't write this
script line, which Jason has personally pointed out for ever,
how just cornball that line is. Then you have the
fact that he's proven right on the dot not being
as good, especially with their lineup as advertised, and the
curmudgeon is having himself a day even though his team
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is one game away from losing another World Series. That's
a that wild kind of day for you. Jason.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, I think that there's a there's a couple of
things working here, and I want to read I can't
put it any better. So there's a Dodger fan that
we follow each other online and a Dodger's Andrew, and
this sums up I think a lot of what I've
been saying and what Dodger fans how they feel today.
He says, despite the national media narrative of the mighty Dodgers,
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Dodger fans who watch this team all season know how
flawed they are, and all those flaws are being exposed
in this series. I couldn't put it any better. And
I've been trying to tell people that, and I think
that with the national media and the people that just
don't quite follow baseball, they see, Uh, there was this
facade of success, right There was this anomaly where pitchers
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were throwing complete games and deep into games, and it
was just a facade. Underneath those great performances, the offense
has not done anything. The greatest World Series game I've
ever witnessed, maybe the great greatest game I'll ever see
in my Lifetime on Monday Night was filled with flaws
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on offense. Some of the undercovered things that never were
reported was that the bou Jays manager took out half
of his offense in the eighth inning. They had to
play a full game with half of their offense gone.
The Dodgers had all their ones in and they couldn't
put anything on the board for nine innings until Freddie
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Freeman does the heroics. But underneath all of those amazing
stories was a significantly flawed offense. And I don't know
if let's just hope that the next pitcher throws a
complete game as a winning championship strategy.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I'm gonna draw a parallel, okay, and tell me if
this works for you guys. So tonight we play Saint Norbert.
Saint Norbert is the Division III program really good one?
Coach by Gary Gresh. Gary was a great player here
playing for Dick Bennett. Last year we played. Last year
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we're played Saint Norbert and they were like a twenty
five win team in Division three, high level Division three,
and we pummeled them. But at after the game and
anytime I've watched the film and watched the film leading up,
I know we actually weren't very good. They I don't
know if we beat him or if it's close. Anthony Roy,
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who was my best player last year, the nation's late
scorer again because these games the scores don't get reported.
I don't know if you guys know this. He made
his first twelve three pointers. He had forty six points
in twenty eight minutes. It was the most amazing thing
I've ever seen. But it totally hid the fact that
we stunk outside of Anthony Roy. Like we won by thirty,
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but we weren't very good. We just had one guy
that was light years better than everybody else in the
floor and played at an unbelievable level. And their style
of defense, which kind of dares you to shoot threes. First,
they started at three point line, and then they got
close to him, so he backed up to the NBA line,
then he backed up to near mid court, and he
just couldn't miss. And the point is what exactly, I
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know exactly what you're talking about, Jason, Where we get
so caught up in these magnificent performances, but underneath the hood,
you're like, ooh, ooh, the Dodgers haven't done anything outside
of Otani, and when Otani isn't nine for nine and
constantly on base and putting constant pressure. And even with
the constant pressure, even all the times he was walked,
Mookie didn't do anything behind him. And Freddy Freeman, though
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he hit the ball hard several other times, it took
him until the eighteenth inning and hit went out of
the park. So I know exactly what you're talking about.
Experience that myself, and it's the reason I have such
kind of anxiety over that. But there is this amazing
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decision that we all make in our minds. And Jason, obviously,
when you're a Dodger fan and when you've said all
of these things, the decision has been made in your mind, Buyer,
let me ask you what decision you make in your mind?
Do you choose? And because it is a choice, do
you choose to go? God, the Dodgers have choked in
this thing. How did they not see the holes in
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their lineup? Or do you see how awesome are the
Blue Jays? I mean they throw out some kid out
there who was you know, throwing in Jupiter a couple
months ago, and now he's mowing down the best lineup
in the bigs. It really is a mental choice that
you make. What's your mental choice.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Of those two options.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I would side with the Blue Jays and getting the
hit because the only reason I say that, And I'm
sure there can be an argument made for both sides.
But after Game three, I thought Toronto was really behind
the eight ball. I even said in these studios, in
these hallways, off the air, I come, man, I just
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I don't know how Toronto's gonna be able to back
up and come back from what happened on Game three.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And what do they do?
Speaker 7 (11:25):
They win Game four last night, three pitches in, they're
up to nothing in the game, and it didn't seem
to it didn't seem to bother them. So I would
side with the Blue Jays aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, it's it's a very reasonable thing. Like you it's
you want to do half four or half empty whatever,
you know, Because like if you're a Dodger fan, you're like,
are you kidn me? Some guy wasn't on the big
league roster now was like Bowie us down in the
World Series. Whereas if you're like a fan of baseball,
like can you believe this? This kid comes in and
that about of pressure and pitches. Awesome. Awesome. It's a
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mental choice that you make and obviously some of it
is always swayed. If you have a if you have
a dog in the fight. If you have a dog
in the fight.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
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So Monday, we play Kansas and we're gonna be wearing
special uniforms to represent the Native American community, the First
Nations in Wisconsin. There's eleven of them in Wisconsin, and
uh uh the we're gonna focus on the Oneida tribe
this year. And so if you look at my my pullover,
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I just got it's purple because that's Oneida. Their color
is purple. It says uh kannata Qui, which apparently is
Oneida translation for green bay.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh wow, that's neat.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That's kind of cool, like yeah, it kind of pops too,
a little purple.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, absolutely against your your.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uniform police, so I respect it. Okay, So when we
break them out Monday, I want your full rundown on
Tuesday at what you think of the Union's fair?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yes, good enough.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. We got Thursday night football.
We'll prep you for.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We still can continue to react to the Blue jays
outstanding performance the Dodgers disappointing performance performance with the Bats
last night, as the Blue Jays taking coming three games
to lead heading back to Toronto. Apparently again something I
just learned, and I learned this via TikTok. It's Toronto.
You don't say the second T.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Toronto. That's correct Toronto.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I don't say the second tea.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Went camping with someone from Toronto, yeah, and she said,
it's not Toronto, it's Toronto, Toronto. So I learned something
that day.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, So they they call all of the surrounding communities
the GTA, the Greater Toronto area. So we only say,
I guess it's greater Toronto. Why do we say one
tea and at the other T. I need somebody from
Canada to help us out with that one. But it's Toronto, Torontronto, right.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I still think you're saying the second tea a little,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Guys. Guys, I know, I am, I can't. It's it's
a It's like my Rizzuto if I was Billy Madison.
I can't stop myself. And I've been in my mind
I've been saying, don't say the second D Toronto.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
It's like someone said that it's not ti Ijuana, it's
t One. That's what That's what someone told me. Don't
say Tijuana, say Tijuana.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Do you have any do you have to sound like
Speedy Gonzalez? Do you have to do your speedy Toronto.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
MM, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Tijuana.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't know, I I do. I have the one
fun fact about Tijuana. You know what it is, let's
hear it. It's the place where the caesar salad was invented.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, real story.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
And I've heard, yeah, I've heard it was invented in Mexico,
which is sort of an interesting fact.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
In Tijuana, Mexico. I think it was a guy named Caesar.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I love Caesar, so I love Caesar.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I think Caesar dressing is super underrated as like one
of the.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Real Caesar dressing though, no.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
No, like like it has chunks of parmesan in it
and peppercorn, Oh delicious.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Do you know what else it has in it?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Anchovies?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
That's okay? Gives it the saltiness?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Is it does?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay? It does? Maybe a little protein in there, I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Know, uh, possibly possibly some protein. Plus everybody throws chicken
or salmon. And there's enough about caesar salad and about Toronto.
Let's do something we do every Thursday where we don't
call it a throwback.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
You don't call it a throwback Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
This is the time of the show on the Doug
Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio, where where we display
our unbelievable historic knowledge. And I turned it over to
Jason Stewart.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Thank you, Doug. I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I want the listeners to all go back to one uh,
one time, one year, thirty thirty three years ago, thirty
three years ago, nineteen ninety two. What were you doing
in the fall of nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Ooh, I was a dude. Three three. I was a
sophomore in high school.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
There you go. I was a sophomore in college. I
was a sophomore in college. So that tells the listeners
the tears of age that we are.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Dan, where were you sophomore in high school?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, you guys are the same age your birthday.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, I'm older.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
He's a year older though.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Okay, But nineteen ninety two, what a year in sports?
Holy crap. Almost to this day, thirty three years ago,
the Toronto Blue Jays won their first World Series team,
the Toronto Blue Jays first ever World Series title. That
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is a story, but maybe the sub story is the
Atlanta Braves, because in the last couple of days I
have I have heard my team, the Dodgers, referred to
as the nineties Braves, and that's a pejorative, that's not
a compliment. That means that they had the best team
in baseball for many, many years and cast it in once.
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So the Braves in their second World Series trip in
two years, they just got done getting beat by the
Twins in ninety one, remember, and then they played the
Jayson ninety two and lost in six games. What a
thriller Game six was, though, I'll tell you what. Devon
White had a big night, Roberto even Dave Winfield, all
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of these Hall of famers, Mike Timlin closed out the game.
That Tom Hankey blewe pause, David kne started the game.
Steve Avery for the Braves. And for those who forget
the names on the Braves, remember Otis Nixon, Yeah, twenty nine,
going on seventy eight. Yes, Deon Sander.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Otis Otis, by the way, is the only guy that
attacks the old black don't crack. Yeah that he didn't crack,
but it was definitely withered.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Deon Sanders is the head coach at Colorado. A lot
of people would not know that thirty three years ago.
Today he was losing a World Series with the Braves.
Think about that one, Sid Breem, Mark lemke oh, Terry Pendleton,
just to name a few. Anyways, nineteen ninety two, what
a fall in sports, Dan, What what strikes your fancy
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most about nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So this is gonna shock you.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Nineteen ninety two probably the best year of my childhood.
Just so much fun. I went to a junior high,
so the freshmen were the king of the school. So
the first half of ninety two I was a freshman.
A lot of fun, but sports wise, absolute heartbreak in
the NFL. The Seahawks won two games that year, and
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Cortes Kennedy was the NFL's defensive Player of the Year
for a Seahawks team that ended up winning two games.
I remember they beat the Broncos on Monday Night Football.
It was their second win of the season. Pretty crazy,
but they stunk sports wise that NFL season. By the way,
the emergence of the Dallas Cowboys is the power that
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they turned in to be under Jimmy Johnson. I also
will say, sports wise, my worst loss is a sports fan,
no doubt about it. Nineteen ninety two Regional Final Southeast
Regional Lexington, Kentucky. A day after Christian Lightner and Duke
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upset Kentucky. Or beat Kentucky. On that last second shot
by Lightner, Ohio State had a chance to punch their
ticket to the Final Four. They had beaten Michigan twice
in the regular season. That Michigan team, of course, known
as the Fab Five, with their five freshmen, Ohio State
had a chance to win it. At the end of regulation,
Jimmy Jackson lost control of the ball. It somehow ended
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up in the hands of Chris Gent along the baseline
and gent panicked shot. The ball didn't have a chance
to go in and Michigan won in overtime. They ended
up going to the Final Four. Well, thank goodness, they
lost to Duke in the national Championship game. I love Duke,
but yes, my worst loss as a sports fan. I
loved that Ohio State basketball team.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
One of the greatest sporting moments of my childhood was
in nineteen ninety two at the Rose Bowl. It was
not the Rose Bull. You're like, what, No, it was
not the Rose Bull. It was USC taken on UCLA.
USC was ranked fifteenth in the country. UCLA was what
the kids say mid right mid. They were five and
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five at the time. I don't know if you guys
remember the story, but they started a quarterback named John Barnes.
John Barnes was a walk on at San Diego State
AH and he ended up starting for the Bruins against
starting for the Bruins all season long and started against USC.
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He had a wide receiver that you may have heard of,
even though he was kind of a bust in the NFL.
It was JJ Stokes. And again I don't know the
exact stats, but I want to say John Barnes trew
for like four hundred yards and JJ Stokes had like
three hundred yards receiving. But like a former walk on,
lighting up USC at the Rose Bowl was awesome. Thirty
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eight thirty seven, Hey thirty. USC's quarterback was Rob Johnson,
and Rob Johnson, by the way, led his team on
what should have been a game winning drive, a sixty
nine yard drive, only to have John Barnes hit JJ
Stokes in a ninety yard touchdown reception. JJ Stokes had
six receptions for two hundred and sixty three yards two
(22:39):
hundred sixty three yards on six catches. I've never seen
anything like it since it was unbelievable anyway, Again, that's
just personal, personal moment.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
How many notable players on that USC team? John oh A, Ton,
Tony Besselli, Willie McGuinness, Jason Seahorn. Wow, I want to
say JJ Stokes. Guys, if you would say his claim
to fame he like meets people in bars and stuff,
would it be I'm the guy who uh Romanowski is
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spit in the face of in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
No, he was the guy who was supposed to be
Jerry Rice's replacement and that did not work.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You want to know what else happened in ninety two
in college football? Yes, sir, first ever conference championship game, Yes,
SEC Alabama beat Matthews in Florida. Yes, in Birmingham. I
believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Was How much have we evolved in that they played
that game in Birmingham?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah? I think I think that was the I think
that was the case.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It is, yes, side of the That's where because that's
where the conference was located, the conference office is located.
That's where they played the Iron Bowl. Auburn played Alabama
there every year and that was the heartbeat of the conference.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Good poll and Alabama won the national title. George Tige,
Geene Stallings, Yes, this was Jean.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I kind of feel the need to bring up the
Dream Team in Barcelona that summer, just to get such
a monumental sports occurrence. But so much has been written
about it, documentaries and I'm almost dream teamed out and
it's thirty three years later. But in the time living
through that, that was pretty special for the kids out
there listening right now. There was a time when the
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Olympics would not accept professional athletes into the games, so
these teams were made up of college stars and the
US have been getting their ass kick right.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
No, no, no, no, let me let me, let me help
you here. Okay, the US was the only one. They
couldn't have pros in it. The other ones did because
they could say they were club teams and act like
they were amateurs. So in nineteen eighty eight, the late
great John Thompson had a team. It wasn't very good,
they couldn't shoot, and they got beat by the Soviet Union.
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But the Soviet Union had Lithuanian players obviously had Russian
players as well, so it was the first time that
we matched our pros with their pros, and it was
it was a celebration of the sports, celebration of American basketball.
But it was an absolute blood letting, blood letting. Can
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anybody remember anything else about the Summer Olympics, that's my question.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It was the first Olympics after the end of the
Cold War, first Olympics after the end of the Cold War.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, so again, it coincided with the fact that Russia
was broken up, right, And I don't remember if Yugoslavia
was broken up. I think Slovenia was in at that time,
so I think Yugoslavia broke up as well.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Quick golf note, one of the most popular players that
we've ever seen on tour ended up claiming his first
and only major that year. The ball stayed up on
the bank at the twelfth hole for Fred Couples. He
went on to win the Masters in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Right here, Fred Keble still has great hair.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
My favorite part about that exchange was that Dan told
Doug what he thinks of Balkan geopolitics by just going
right into golf. He wanted nothing to do with the
Yugoslavia Serbia.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
I'll give you the real I'll give you the real backstory.
I had to I had to quickly get in before.
We've all seen that video of Michael Jordan bombing his
head with his headphones. In that video, he was listening
to this at that time. No, no, you're right. I saw
that exact video Dan, and I'll tell you what. He
had a walkman on and he was strutting to it
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was People thought it was like a kind of a
dance tune, but no, it was actually this song.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Wow, this is under the.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Bridge Take Me all the Way. It wasn't the biggest
song of the year, though it.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Was number one on the charts for seven weeks. Charged
for the most punk band.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
It finished eighth. It was number one, but I guess
it finished eighth, and it's what it's average.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The Red Hot Choice Numbers was a ska punk underground
band from Los Angeles, and they hit it big. I
have often said that this is the point in time
under the Bridge. That was the point part time when
we had to put up with another thirty plus years
of garbage from Red Hot Chili Pepper Come on now,
(27:28):
maybe my least favorite band. They are not very talented
at all. Their catalog of songs is one earworm after
another that you can't stand under the worm.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Means it gets stuck in your head under the bridge.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
This is off Blood Sugar, Sex Magic, which is a
fantastic album front to back when I grew up with
so I will defend this album to the day.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
There's a lot of iconic songs. In nineteen ninety two,
I believe the number one song for the year was
Baby Got Back, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And then I think.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
That Maybe Got Back finished number two on the Billboard
year End Hot one hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Number one was Smells Like Teen Spirit, wasn't it?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That was ninety.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Ninety No, I thought it was ninety three. End of
the Road Boys to Men was the one that ended
up being.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh well, end of the Road was the end of
every mixtape. Okay, kids, what's the mixtape? A mixtape? You
used to have these things called cassette tapes? What's the
cassette tape? Well, I can it's like a VHS tape
but smaller, and they used to have dual dual cassettehere
you could dub it. So if a girl broke up
with you, or if you broke up with a guy
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or broke up with a girl, you'd make a mixtape. Now,
mixtape you can make when you were together. But the
breakup mixtape always had sad songs on it, and it
usually ended with end of the Road, which was apropos
and iconic and oh yeah, by the way, boys to men,
proving that if you want to get ladies, no matter
how ugly you are, sing because those dudes are not
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good looking, and yet they were on every wall of
every teenager in America.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Back to our when grunge hit America nineteen ninety one,
nineteen ninety one. But this song a little bit more upbeat,
finished at number thirteen.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Hey, all I can do is just play it for you.
I'm oh yeah, ah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You want to talk about earworm? We just ruined everybody's
day the song. Every personalist of the show has just
had their day ruined because the rest of the day,
this is what's going on in their head.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Can I tell you something about I actually learned about
this right said, Fred was a duo.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
They are brothers.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
They were bouncers in like the UK and somehow recorded
this song and just blew up. But they were originally
brothers and they were bouncers at a club, which is
very interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
About five or six years ago, I got a notification
on Twitter that said, right, said Fred is following you,
So I followed them back.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
All right, really, so what are they doing now?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I think they're singing. They have two songs. They have
I'm Too Sexy and not I'm Too Sexy.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, So can I do the movies thing? Because I
gotta tell you want to talk about iconic movies A
few good men? I want the truth. You can't handle
the truth? Right, great movie reservoir Dogs. We can discuss
Tarantino and where that fits in the Tarantino hierarchy. My
cousin Vinny, my biological clock is ticking over here, right.
(30:47):
The two uts I mean Unforgiven, which I think won
the Academy Award Best Picture, and I think one of
the greatest sports movies of all time. League of their Own.
League of their Own was amazing, amazing, Last of the Mohicans, Aladdin,
Scent of a Woman, Oh Rah, Wayne's World, Batman Returns. Okay,
(31:12):
that was that one. A river runs through it, A
river runs through it. Pretty basic instinct. The Mighty Ducks
the cutting edge underrated sports film topick. You have to
have watched it under siege back when Stephen Sagal was
a badass Leath the Weapon three, which I think that's
(31:34):
when Joe Peshi first joined the Leath the Weapon cast,
the crying game, don't watch the End's kids, don't watch
the End? And Beethoven for the kids. Oh Aladdin as well.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
All those movies are awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Unbelievable. You're in movies.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Unbelievable, Yeah, Leo gets was that Joe Pesci's character in
the third one?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Also? Wasn't Renee Russo in that one?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I guess? So I'll give another one that's kind of underrated.
George Strait was in a movie called Pure Country, not Bad,
not bad.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
We all remember this iconic line from Wayne's World.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
For begin to spew, spew into this.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
I mean I said that so many times as a child.
You know now the movie is my gospel.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It really is. I live my life according to Wayne Campbell.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And that is don't call it a throwback Thursday, don't call.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It a throwback.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
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Speaker 1 (32:37):
App that's stuck outleab show Fox Sports Radio. I want
to get the football in a second. Get you ready
for Thursday night football basketball is being played. And what's
interesting about like the Lakers, no Luca, no Lebron, nobody
pays attention, but man Austin Reeves has been incredible in
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Speaker 10 (33:26):
With five with all three Hooston down the middle guns
to win the game, to win the game, what the
winner they are doing, what they are does gets into
the paint and all that celebration that the Timberwolves are
doing six seconds ago, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
If you had that. Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves averaging thirty
four and ten assists a game congratulations. Sorry, sorry, Jase
dou this is gonna be all a Jay's too. Is
the least favorite thing. If you had Austin Reeves averaging
thirty four to ten and five and a half on
your Bingo card, turned that one in right, didn't have
(34:07):
that one on my Bengo card.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I saw somebody compare Austin Reeves to Jeremy Win last night.
Isn't is that like a is that a compliment or
is that a drag?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's a drag, that's a diss Really, it's a drag. Yeah,
because Jeremy Limb was only good for two weeks. He
had like two unbelievable weeks and then he was just
he was just kind of a random NBA player outside
of that. I mean, again, Austin Reeves is having two
incredible weeks, but he's the third best scorer on the
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Los Angeles Slikers on a regular basis, So he's not
Jermy Lnn calling him. If Jeremy Lynn was told he's hey,
you're Austin Reeves, that's a compment to Jeremy Lynn, not
the other way around. Agree buyer.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Wholeheartedly, and I do findly. I mean, the Timberwolves were
without Anthony Edwards last night. But that's not the story.
The story is the numbers, Reeves puts up and the
buzzer beater to hit the game winner.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah yeah, Let's get you ready for Thursday of football
in a second. First, let me get you to Dan
Bayer get a quick update. A lot of stuff going on,
especially injury updates for tonight. And by the way, if
you haven't, don't download the uh I want your flex podcast?
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Speaker 2 (35:29):
Doug Quick questioning you guys.
Speaker 7 (35:32):
There are three teams without a win right now in
the NBA, and I think one of the teams is
a bit of a surprise. Pelicans, nets and the Indiana Pacers. Yes,
your Eastern Conference Finals representative obviously no, Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Miles Turner is now a member of the.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Milwaukee Bucks, but the Pacers yet to get a win
this season.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Stug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Adam Kaplan
joins us, he's our Fox Tradial NFL insider. We'll get ready.
We'll preview tonight's Thursday Night football in a second. But
cap also hosts the Inside the Birds podcast, which is
where I want to start. Adam, Sure, what are your
thoughts on AJ Brown's comments in the Athletic article about
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his team?
Speaker 9 (36:18):
All right, so I saw a little bit of it.
You have to understand Aj Brown. I've talked to coaches
who worked with in the past with the Titans. It's interesting.
One Titans coach said to me that while they love
Ryan Tannehill, AJ Brown was the heartbeat of the football team.
He just connects well with people, does everything the right way.
(36:38):
But then you know, you fast forward with Philly, no
problems off the field, but he kind of acts out
on social media his frustrations and you have to understand
he's a complex guy. Really good person at HARP, but complex.
He had a different childhood than you know a lot
of players, just different upbringing and he's just a different guy,
but a good person. It's just look the Eagles of
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they know how to handle social situations pretty well.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
They don't make a big deal out of it.
Speaker 9 (37:07):
But the problem is, and this is you know what,
as one person said to me, when you're off, when
you're passing him struggling, it doesn't help your relationship with
a quarterback when you make comments about I need to
get the football repeatedly, and the one that he made
two weeks ago is like, he's getting the ball, but
I really need the ball. It was more about he
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needs the ball where he's supposed to be getting the ball,
not off a scramble and and a play that breaks down,
just like you see with Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.
That's what That's what AJ wants. He wants the ball.
He just he's not getting it, and that that's where
he's frustrated because you know he's getting up the team.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I understand how how much does it affect this group?
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Doesn't he doesn't at all. They want a super ball
with him.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
By the way, he made some comments last year, he
doesn't walk away, by the way, I'll give him credit,
he doesn't really walk him back.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
He'll say, hey, I shouldn't have done that, but I'll
keep doing it. But he doesn't.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
He never said I was wrong about what I said.
He just he'll say he'll he'll admit that it's probably
not a great idea, but it doesn't divide the team.
This is not this is not going back to two
thousand and four, warth care Lowans and down McNabb.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
It's not stug Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Tradio. Okay,
we got Lamar back in Baltimore. This is we're getting
to must win territory at Baltimore. And you got Miami
coming off an outstanding performance at least offensively, but their
defense has been in shambles. It's been in shambles. Feels
like a great night for the Ravens. They're a touchdown
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and a hook seven and a half point.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 9 (38:36):
Yeah, so a couple of things here. Yeah, Baltimore. They
got to start turning things around. You know, they at
one point, Doug, they had seven defensive starters out, Mattabookie,
their best defensive players out for the season, and they
have another d lineman is also out for the season.
So they've had a lot of injuries. The Jay year
Alexander Sunning has not worked at all. He's been a
healthy and actor for most of the season. They got
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to play better defensively. They've been awful on the back end.
They're giving the most big plays in the National Football League.
That's got to stop. The hope is that off the
buy that they're healthier, and they are.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
You met.
Speaker 9 (39:06):
Lamar's definitely in the lineup. Took all the ones, all
the work and their walkthroughs. You don't really have a
practice on a short week. You have walkthroughs and everything's good.
He's ready to go. With his right hamstring injury. They
got to get him when he plays. By the way,
Derek Henry is going to be better. It's hard because
Lamar is an extension of the running game. So yeah,
they should have no problem against Miami Knight. Now, one
thing I want to look at here, and you know
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we're mentioning the Ravens, that the Steelers are really playing
poorly right now defensively. If Baltimore wins this week with
what Pittsburgh's got going on defensively, which is they're struggling
badly on the back end. And by the way, the
Colts come into Pittsburgh this see this Sunday, and that's
a game I really feel like when this division could
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be very interesting to go down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
The no question about it. Speaking of Pittsburgh, what's wrong there?
I just they went all in on this year and
they're just the defense. Everybody, he says, the defensive backfield
but they're not. Also, they're not putting pressure either on
the on the quarterback, so it can't.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
Hide it correct, all right, So here's what I'm told.
The communication in the back end has been poor Darius Slay,
the veteran corner. I don't know, they don't make the
Hall of Fame, but he's he's been a terrific player
over the years. Super Bowl winner with Philly is not
he's just lost his step. As one personal source told me,
you Joey Porter, he you know, he was hurt earlier
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this season.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
He's fine. They're struggling at safety.
Speaker 9 (40:29):
To Shaun Elliotte of the starting safety, he's going to
be out of it with a knee injury. And you're right.
Their pass rush is not quite where they thought it
would be. And you add it up and they're not.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
You know.
Speaker 9 (40:40):
The other thing is, yes, Rogers is playing fine. Their
offense is just okay. It's it's better average, but it's
not great and it can't carry a defense that was
carrying the offense earlier. So they're folding right now. Now
watch them for the trade deadline, by the way, for
a wide receiver. They are looking for speed opposite DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
I'm told, yeah, they need anything opposite Dk Metcalf. They
have like fifteen tight ends and receiver. It's just the
most bizarre build up of a team. But bizarre building
of a team that yeah, yeah, different to say the least.
This is the Doug Gotlib Show. You're listening to Fox
Sports Radio. Okay, So here's here's the big question. Dolphins
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at two and six, is there every Mike me Daniel
that they would obviously have to turn around? But what
about Tua? What is what does Tua's future look like?
Speaker 9 (41:34):
Well, it depends on several factors. Who's going to be
the general manager. It's Chris Greer going to keep his job.
Okay to a play by the way, he's phenomenal last week. Yeah,
but is he He's not a match for everybody. It's
when you look at his contract, Doug. He's signed through
twenty twenty eight. There's a lot of guaranteed money next year.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Uh, it's it's it's.
Speaker 9 (42:00):
A situation where beauty is in the eye of beholder.
Most most teams didn't love to it for the draft.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
Yeah, it it's.
Speaker 9 (42:06):
Look, it's not a terrible contractor trade, but I don't
see a big trade market for him going into March.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
Forget it now, I'm talking about March.
Speaker 9 (42:15):
And when you look at that team, Tyre Kill's probably
played his last down for the Dolphins. That could get
out of the contract fairly easily. Yep, there's an expectation
around the league that they're gonna be moving a bunch
of players on Tuesday. They deny that they're having a
fire sale, but other teams tell me differently.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
To be honest with ye, I think that would make
a ton of sense. And obviously if you get beat
badly tonight, all that changes. What's the feeling around the league.
There's there's talks in Indie about re upping Danny Dimes.
Speaker 9 (42:42):
Yes, he is so far ahead Doug he is. I
vote in two poles. One of them is a profile
bar Road Association. He will be my most improved offensive player. Now,
that's if he continues to play at this high level.
See here's shirting. You've got the running game. Jonathan Taylor,
He's kind of rebounded from a couple of subpar years,
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but mostly because he was hurt. They need the contract
hold out. He's back better never by the way, their
offensive line is playing better than expected with changes in
the on the interior at center and right guard. That's
worked out better than they expected. Their defense, though they've
had injuries in the back end, it's playing with great discipline.
And you know what's interesting, lou Anarromo, who is fired
(43:24):
by the Bengals defense coordinator. They were bad last season.
They were actually non competitive times. Teams would tell me,
so you could understand why I got fired. He's probably
my vote for a defensive coach of the Year. He's
been phenomenal. It's it's kind of everything. So getting back
to Daniel Jones, yeah, it Now, the thing is, you
got to do a contract like the like the Giants did,
two years of fully guaranteed money. Then you got to
be able to get out of the contract for two years.
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You just Daniel Jones give him. I give him credit.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
He's healthy. By the way.
Speaker 9 (43:49):
They're protecting them the past group between Pittman, Tyler Warren,
who's been a great rookie. We mentioned Jonathan Taylor. They're
keeping on schedule. They don't have to throw the ball
a lot. And Shane Steike is one of the best
play Collis and quarterback developers look at the job that
he did with Jalen Hurts. Hurts has not been the
same since twenty twenty two with Steak and calling.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
The plays with the Eagles.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
So it's all looking good, man, And this is a
team no one saw being this good.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
No, No, and they're really I mean, Jonathan Taylor's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
But no, yeah, that made great.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
MVP caliber, best player in the league. How much Buyer's
remorses there in Minnesota on their decision at quarterback?
Speaker 5 (44:27):
None, No, they look McCarthy had a high aendle spring.
Speaker 9 (44:30):
Here's the thing. Okay, the guy suffers a twin p
teller tenant. Okay, he misses the season, never plays it
down in the regular season, plays one good preseason against
the Raiders last season. Okay, he got off to a
slow start. He wasn't ready till their June camp. Okay,
there mandatory camp to start practicing. He needs work. You know,
Carson Wentz has done for the season with his shoulder surgery.
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So no, they're not. I know fans are up in
arms about McCarthy the way he's played, but and I'm
not trying to protect the guy. I mean they also
have had offensive line problems of Dawer saw their left
tackles come back from the ACL injury. They got to
get McCarthy in there. He's got to get healthy, which
he is. He's recovered, he's on target to start this week.
You know, Look, it's not it's not an ideal situation
(45:12):
playing out Detroit, and Detroit's gonna get a couple of defensive
players back, so it's gonna be a problem. But the
Vikings really need this game to stay in a wild
card hunt.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, yes they do. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show
here on Fox Sports Radio. That's the voice of basically
the voice of the Birds, right. I mean, speaking of which,
what is the status of Philadelphia? Such a weird mercurial season?
And I know they won, but I mean Cam Scattabow's
injury kind of cast a shadow over the whole over
the whole game. So it look, it was a good
(45:42):
bounce back game from when the Giants pummeled them on
Thursday night two weeks before, But what what's the actual
status in that locker room?
Speaker 9 (45:50):
Honestly, Look, they they felt better about it because they
they were dominant both sides of the football. But talking
to teams that have played the Eagles. This is not
a great roster. They're they're they're you know, they five
defensive players to free agency. They've gotten younger, which is
a good thing, mostly younger by the Brandon Grahme's coming
out of retirement. But it's just not as good as
last year. But Doug, see, here's the thing. The entire
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league is down. It's not when you look at thirty
two teams, there's not close to one dominant team. The
lines are good, the Chiefs are on their way back. Sure,
there's not a dominant team that it's really wide open.
It wouldn't shock me if a wildcard team would make
a run. Like Seattle was my breakout team. They're five
and two. I picked them to be a wildcard team
with the way Sam Darnold's playing right now. And we'll
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see what happens Sunday night at Washington. But Washington's falling off.
It's it's a year that's completely wide open. To be
honest with you, Doug, for so.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
A man, it is very wide open, very wide open,
like kind of cliche to say, but it couldn't be
any more accurate. What's what's happened to Houston? I mean,
I say that because here you have it's not just
a young quarterback. You've got a coach that's a former
Texan beloved. But then I saw him say that. You know,
(47:01):
the media in Houston super negative. Guys only say that
when they're feeling it exactly.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
They have a very light media. Here's the thing.
Speaker 9 (47:07):
So, look, they've been bad, particularly on offense until last week. Boy,
they started getting together against the Niners. Were beat up defensively,
down four edge rushers. But so here's what I'm told
with the Texans offense, there's been a structural problem. Not
on the run game, it's been with a pass game.
The new coordinator, Nick Kelly, you know, this is the
first year calling plays for him. They're keeping in the
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West Coast system, but his passing concepts he's just not
there yet.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Didn't have the feel for it. Now.
Speaker 9 (47:35):
The other guy that had the job before it, he
didn't connect well with c. J. Stroud. That's why he
was fired. So Bobby Slowick, by the way, who came
out of nowhere. He had never he's never even a
position coach with the Niners and they hired him and
that heck, you worked for PFF. But he was the
(47:55):
wonder kid after one year, got head coaching interviews and
he was fired after the following season. And the passive
game is not working out well. And by the way,
Nico Collins or to their star receivers out with a concussion.
You start working this week. But there's been a lot
of problems here. I'm surprised. I'll be honest with you.
I I you know, I have to make my picks
for various polls, and I picked the Texas to the
wind Division.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
That does not look very good right now. In fact,
it won't happen.
Speaker 10 (48:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
It's Inside the Birds is the podcast. You can check
him out. He's Adam Kaplan. He's our Fox Sports Radio
NFL insider. Adam, thanks much for joining us. I really
appreciate the inside.
Speaker 5 (48:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
This says the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.
Yeah it, Jason, you're having a good day. Like all
of your things that you've always thought and hypothesized about,
ranted about, kind of coming. And that's sort of what
the There's no great team is. There's a lot of
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below average football being played. I still think it's about
quarterbacks getting hurt and about all these injuries and then
once you get there's just not the depth. There's just
not depth, and it looks so different once you get
to backups.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
But doesn't it also doesn't it also all go back
to one thing? I mean, so there's the there's the
very kind of like accepted reason, which is these guys
don't practice anymore. And I'm in that practice. In that training,
your body is calloused and you're not going to be
as injured. And then when the backups go in, they're
better performed because they get more practice. I mean, doesn't
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it all go back to the same thing, the collectively
bargained lack of practice?
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Uh? Yeah, yeah, yes it does, It really really does.
It's a it's a good point. I believe in the
callous effect. Okay, that's is that was that Gruden that
talked about the callouses. I'm trying to think what former
coach talked about building up kind of callouses.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
I've heard a lot of former players and coaches say
it the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
And I think it to be true. Right, So I'm
with you, But I also think the genies out of
that bottle, it's not going back in. That's the other
side to it. It's like we talk to people about NIL.
I was green Bay has two Optimist clubs, to know,
if you guys know that very optimistic town. So I
(50:11):
spoke to the green Bay Optimist Club today and one
of the questions I had was, Hey, will it ever
go back to the old days before NIL? And I
just said no, you know, And it's the same thing
to the will we ever go back to two A
days in the preseason and grinding and practice and guys
playing in preseason? And the answer is no. And so
(50:33):
the question is how can you make the sport better?
Understanding that the days of guys grinding and really preparing
their body for this season are gone because they've been
convinced by doctors of medical that they need more time
and that and then again CTE, we need less repetition
of hitting. And the season is longer now with eighteen
(50:55):
eighteen weeks, that's right, Dan Byer eighteen weeks, only seventeen games, right,
half of eighteen is nine, it's nine, not eight and
a half.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
Anyway, you don't need to tell me. May need to
tell Jason, but you don't need to I know.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
I was, Steve, I was giving you credit for yesterday's argument,
which is really really it was. It was just fun
to be a bystander in anyway. You're right, Jason, but
they're not changing it. It's again it's the argument of
you know, they should really play less NBA games. They're
not giving back any games. They should prove less, play
less Major League Baseball game, they're not getting back any games.
(51:32):
I actually think you said this once and I'll I'm
gonna echo it or it's gonna become mine. Which is
which is You're you're going to have to start anyone
who starts an argument with this, could they should have
fewer games? Just didn't you say just completely don't pay
attention to that argument. I forget, I forget what this
(51:54):
how you addressed.
Speaker 3 (51:55):
It, But I don't really I just always say that
you don't go back. You just don't.
Speaker 6 (51:58):
You never go back, never go back, kind of like
prices on everything, Doug, You know, like they're really probably
never gonna go down to where they were.
Speaker 3 (52:06):
Pre almost like Trump just said that gas is under
three dollars he did, Anti Trump?
Speaker 1 (52:13):
Sam, Yeah, that's you are you know what you really do? Hey,
Anti Trump, We're gonna we're gonna sue you, and we're
gonna put you out of business.
Speaker 6 (52:20):
I just don't think I'm gonna ever go to Chipotle
and get a burrito with everything in it for like
thirteen bucks skin. It's always gonna be seventeen or above.
Just just the way it is. Just feel that inflation
it's locked in forever.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
Oh it, I mean it. It will go up and
down in terms of grocery prices and gas prices or whatever.
But no, Chipotle is not going back. They're not.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
They're not going back because they got to pay their workers,
you know everything.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Hey, can I also point out that the variants in
yesterday you guys saw me eating chips like man, Sometimes
you go to Chipotle Kudoba and you get the chips
with a lot of salt in it. Sometimes you get
them dry barren like the desert.
Speaker 6 (52:55):
And then they have no yeah, or they're under salted,
or they're fairly stale, or they're like fresh.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
It's like you just don't know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Let me just tell everybody at Chipotle, whoever salts these things,
there is no amount of salt that is too much.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
No one has ever said careful, we're going to try
to kill you with
Speaker 1 (53:12):
No one's ever said that
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