July 27, 2024 • 35 mins
On this edition of The Best Of The Week Of The Doug Gottlieb Show: Doug talks about the comments made by Paul George about playing in L.A. Doug explains why Lebron James's game translates so well to international play.
Doug welcomes new UCLA head coach Deshaun Foster onto the show to talk about getting hired for his first head coaching job, UCLA in the Big 10, and to address the viral video of Deshaun at the Big10 Media Day introduction.
Doug talks about the US Men's basketball team and has a live reaction to the news that the Dolphins have signed quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to a large extension.
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I appreciate that. That's really really nice of you. Got
a great show plan for you. We'll continue to keep
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an eye on things down the street from me as
Jordan Love has not yet signed a contract extension, but
most people expect that to go down this week as
he's doing the sit in sit in you know where,
He's there but not participating there, which is fine. We'll
keep you keep you updated on anything going on. Training
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camp wise. Obviously we're getting ready for the Olympics, and
I want to talk about the national team, who yesterday
survived yet again, this time against the German national team.
So before it was South Sudan and everyone making fine,
not everyone, lots of dudes making fun of the team
for nearly losing to South Sudan. Now there seems to
be a trend with the struggles to be Germany, another
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team that you know has NBA players, but no one
thinks Germany should challenge Team USA. Why they did. We
can get to all that upcoming. I do want to
start with with just one thing before we get to
something that I think is under discussed in regards to
Lebron James dominance, especially late in games for USA basketball.
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It's this sound going around from Paul George on his
podcast talking about his time with the Clippers, and Paul said,
you know, hey, the from the get go he was
playing on the B team. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Coming back to LA. That was home when I first
came back to LA.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But it ain't.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's not the same love because when I was in LA,
they like, man, you should have been a Laker.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I was here.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It wasn't no like, oh, welcome to the Clippers. We
happy you in LA, but you should have been a
Laker team. I'm on the B teams. That's how the
vibe and the love felt.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, I mean they're the Clippers. Dan Byer's lived out
here for over twenty years, right, JAYSETU grew up, lived, born,
raised everything in southern California. Obviously, I was raised in California,
and then I've come back up until now living in
Green Bay nine of the last twelve years of my life.
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And previously that, from the time I was six and
a half until the time I was nineteen, I lived
in southern California. And you can't say you're from LA if.
There's just a couple of dead giveaways, right, a couple
of dead giveaways. The first is, if you call a
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freeway by the freeway's name, you're not from LA. If
you call a freeway by the freeway's name, you're not
from LA. Now, the opposite is true in New York.
In New York, everything's known by the name. Oh that's
the Hudson River Parkway. Oh that's the saw mill. There
are numbers that coincide with these things, but nobody in
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New York knows the numbers. In LA, no one goes
by the numbers. No one goes by the names. Everyone
goes by the numbers. So the first dead giveaway in
that you're not really from southern California is if you
call a freeway by the freeway's name. Oh, I was
on the San Diego Freeway. I don't even know what
freeway is the San Diego Freeway. I mean, I'm guessing
it's the five. But no one calls the five the
San Diego Freeway. They call it the five, call it
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the five. I think the second thing is you understand
the differences in areas in areas like Ventura County not LA.
In an empire not LA, Orange County not LA. They
all have their own kind of areas and things. And
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the last one is if you don't know the Clippers
are the B team, you don't say you're from LA.
And by the way, he's from Lancaster, which is outside
of Bakersfield. It's not LA. And the surprise that he
felt like he reacted to tells you all you need
to know, Like, really, did you think this was a
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Clipper town? I mean, even with the new arena, which
they displayed to everybody this weekend, and if you watch
social media, like this is amazing, everyone I know walked
away with the same thought, that's incredible. Only one problem.
The Clippers play there all right, let's get to the
NBA playoffs or sent me playing. Plus the team USA
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playing in the in the friendlies getting ready for Olympic basketball. Yesterday,
they survived Germany, got to be at one point game late.
Germany took some bad shots, missed a couple of them,
Lebron James a couple of gigantic shots, did miss two
free throws, and Team USA ends up getting to win.
They continue to wait on Kevin Durant to be healthy
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coming off of the strained calf muscle. And that's, by
the way, what we're told it is the strained calf muscle,
even though there's no rap and he has gone through practices.
Here's Paul Pierce on Undisputed this morning talking about Lebron's
play with USA basketball.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You know, when you look at the regular season and
you like, oh man, it's next inline or Jason Tatum
is this, But when you see the collection come all
together and you watch Lebron man, he might be clearly
the best player still in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I mean it just that way watching this time, no
sens you just punk shoot you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't look at the collection, so you Jack.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Why isn't nobody else doing this?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Okay, why is that stepping up? I want to see
aunt Man or Tatum do this a couple of games.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
But this is this is supposed to be one of
the young boys coming and doing this for them.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, you know what I'm saying. Okay, So there's a
couple of things. Paul's not wrong in terms of end
of game. Now, part of the reason Lebron hit a
wide open three at the end of the game was
Germany was daring him to shoot because the Germans they
don't think most foreign teams don't think Lebron is nearly
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as good a shooter as sometimes reputation would have you
believe in the NBA when he missed two free throws
there late, Like the foreign teams are still in the
belief of like the San Antonio Spurs, if you're gonna
make a beach hip, make a beach with a jump shot.
The other part was the big drive and finished he
had was with his left hand and as anybody who's
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watched Lebron knows, he likes to drive to his right
and to his left. He likes to shoot that kind
of weird sort of side step step back pull up three.
He doesn't usually get to the basket. All of that
being said, what I think most people don't account for
most people is the fact that this is a very
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different game. And look, you have to be big, you
have to be able to make shots over the top.
The game is very physical, and there's a reason that
there's a reason that European teams are able to hang
with the far more athletic American players in FIBA basketball.
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That's the way it's always been. And so while you
say shooting is valued from Steph Curry, the problem with
Steph is once he gets it and he puts it
on the floor, you can hand check, and so Steph
becomes can be marginalized a little bit, and then defensively
they'll post him up. It's really hard Taysom Tatum dribbles
too much, ant Man's two much mid range and gets
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the hoop there. It's just they don't have the same
lanes to the basket. And while Lebron is clearly not
one of the best player on his own team, let
alone one of the top ten players in the NBA
because he doesn't play both sides of the ball in
FOBA basketball, where you can take breaks, you can play zone,
you can be super physical in both offense and defense
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if you know how to do it. And then late
in the game, older players just win and he doesn't
have to play big minutes because they have so many guys.
So if you want to say he's the best player
at playing Phoeba style basketball right now, the answer is yes.
He also has the supreme amount of confidence. They believe
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in him, and those other guys don't really know how
to react, how to play, and it gives Lebron the
chance to take over. Now. I think most of that
will change when Kevin Durant comes back, and then KD
becomes the go to score late because Lebron still holds
the ball too long in k remember build this out.
In last Olympics, he was the guy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But Paul Pierce is making the I think ill fated
assumption that what you see in Phoebea style basketball equates
to what we would see in the NBA, and that's
just not true. He is right right. This should be
a time in which one of these young guys steps
up makes plays like WHOA. Jason Tatum is the next
great one, Anthony Edwards is the next great one. But
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only Lebron has the confidence and the strength to make
these plays. But that doesn't mean that in an NBA
style game he's anywhere close to those players.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
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we're gonna welcome in a special guest. And actually, not
only am I so happy for him and his family,
but also like, look right now, he's the sound bite
everybody's talking about from Big ten media days. He's the
new head coach of the UCLA Bruins. He's de Sean Foster,
former ruined himself, former first round draft pick at the
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Carolina Panthers. And hey, he's a former Tuestin tiller and
for a period of time he's my teammate at Tuestin.
He was a freshman, I was a senior. He played
basketball as well as being an absolute star in football.
Ran for over three thousand yards his senior year running
the running the wing. Tea Sean, how are you?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I'm great?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
How you doing, bro, I'm good man. I know we're
supposed to catch up in LA. Obviously I get a
coaching job, You get a coaching job, and we'll we'll,
we'll figure it out. I gotta I gotta ask. Everyone's
talking about like you're opening salvo where it felt like
you had a bunch you wanted to say and you're
just like, hey, I'm just I'm just happy and yeah,
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UCLA and USC in LA. Was was that plan? Like,
what what happened with the opening salvo?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, we wanted to give them more chances to ask
me questions than me talking to that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, so was planned. You just didn't know how to
get to that. You don't know how to get to
the transition of hey, I'm here, ask away, I'm good
you're you're you know, you know. For now on, you
could say like, look, I'm a number two chair guy,
the two chair and radio was the reaction chair. Ask
me anything, I'll tell you what you want to know.
Is that fair?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
What was it like to go from okay, cause Chip leaves,
you're going to be the Raiders running back coach, and
then you circle back and now you're the head coach
of your alma matter. What was that month or so?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Like, well, it was only like three days.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So it was the lead up if forgive me, Deshaun,
because it was the lead up of Chip kind of
letting it out there like hey, he'd taken offensive coordinator job,
and I thought like no way, what So take me
through what it was like. She liked for you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So I hear a coach is leaving and then well, no,
not yet. I actually took the Raiders job first.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Right, yes, So about about what day is this? Do
you remember that you took the Raiders?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Soh, this is like tuesday? This is Tuesday, take the
Raiders job. I think coach left like a Thursday. No,
a Wednesday. No, I took the job on Monday. Coach
left Wednesday. I ended up getting hired Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, so you get hired, so so you take the job,
and then you're like, you take a job. What happens?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I see coach, I see coach ends up taking off
of the coordinator job at Ohio State and I'm like whoa.
And then that's when the school called me and we
did the zoom, we zoomed. They interviewed me. I didn't
think anything that'll make because I just talked to her. Okay,
that's just They're just interview other coaches. Then they called
me and we had a face to face and then
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that's when I was like, Okay, things are getting serious.
I ended up killing that and then Super Bowl Sunday,
Martin called me and I was like, hey, would love
to meet. We soon have to sit down and talk.
We sat down and talked after the game was over
and definitely let me know I'm gonna be the next
head coach of.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You, Sila, what's that feeling like?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
It was unreal? You know, it was totally unreal. It
was just something that you can you can't put it
in the words, you know, being being able to be
the head coach, that's her all My mother is just
something that you're not sure as as obtainable can. You know,
I'm just fired up. I'm just fired up about it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Who is your first call?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well? I called my wife and then what did she say?
She was just fired up. Well, you're kind of new
because when I left, she said, I think you're about
to get hired. And I was like, don't us to
see what happens. And then you know, he told me
they get the great news. And then I called my
wife from my way home.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
What'd your parents say?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
My dad was fired up. It was just fired up.
You know. I didn't really tell a lot of people
about the process or anything, so I didn't want to,
you know, get too far ahead of myself. So I
just came I was kidding close to the best time
and talked to new people.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, you and I are like very dissimilar in terms
of sport and location, but similar in this. You know,
people look at UCLA and they're like, well Chip went
the left because Chip left because they don't have the
nil that they're not they're not they can't compete. You know,
UCLA too much about academics. You know, stadium is now
going to be half full with big ten fans. I'm
at Green Bay and people say, hey, you know, not
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enough investment, financially, not enough nil. How do you combat
that where people come to the conclusion without ever seeing
you practice, without ever senior team play, that you can't
compete because you don't have the money.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, it's just outside noise. You just can't get caught
up in it. You know, we Howa was able to
keep on our top B tackle and you know Texas
offered them a lot of money when we were able
to keep him. So everything isn't really always just about money.
You know, relationships do go the long way, and being
being coached up and knowing that you're going to get
developed go a long way else on it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, how how much of that is what you play on?
Because we do the same thing right, We sit there
and go like, hey, look, you know one you can
play here where you're gonna somebody else is going to
pay you to sit And the real money is if
you play right. And the other part is if you're
used in a way in which you can really be successful.
What is do you use the same thing?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yes, I use the exact same thing, the exact same thing.
You know, I'm just huge in development. You know, you're
not already ready already just ready to go. You've got
to get developed in you know, no other places that
want to be developed.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
In La Listen. I know you open up in Hawaii,
which is great, right, you get to get an Hawaii trip.
But you play at LSU, at Penn State at Nebraska?
Are you on a suicide mission here? Like? Can you?
I mean, why are you playing LSU when you have
to go to Penn State and Nebraska as well?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I know, I know, but you know, we don't turn
down in the game. So I'm just excited that we're
you know, we're going to a chance to play. They
came to the rose Ball a couple years ago. You know,
we got after a pretty bad so I know they're
looking forward to the game.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Oh, I'm sure they. I'm sure they are. Hopefully that's
a big game, not a night game. I do have
to ask, Okay, you guys ran wing ta in high school, right,
you had like thirty two hundred yards rushing. Is the
wing tea at all in the offensive package?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yes? It is.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh my god, I can't wait. I can't wait. Oh
my gosh, I can't I can't wait. It has to.
There has to be some level like who prepares for
wing tea right?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Exactly exactly, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Teams are thrown out there, eight nine defensive backs. We'll
run wing team. We'll just line up in our big uglies.
We'll take care of business. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Nothing? Nothing you're gonna do. You better be able to
block and tackle. You better be able to tackle somebody
because they're coming at you. Last thing, I know, you
got to go, and I appreciate your time to sean.
Coolest thing about this experience.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Just being at my alma mater, you know, just getting
the support. I already had a lot of support being
a player here too, so just now being a head
coach is kicked out thirty not so I'm just a
credit for it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Well, man, I can't wait to see you when you
guys will have to I have to get there and
see a game. I'm trying to think you don't play.
You don't play Wisconsin this year. I'll get out there
to see a game. I gotta see my guy, my
Test and Taylor going and code coach and ball. I
don't know, you know, my sister was the UCLA cheerleader.
So I've been in more games than Bose Bowl than
any so so I do have some some aight clapp
in my blood. Listen, best, best of luck and again
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just for facts, okay that the plan was to open
up the questions, right that because everybody's talking about Trope
and South. That was the plan.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yes, okay, player man, have.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
A great day. Congrats on the job. Let's catch up
in Personville soon.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right, for sure? You bro.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Thanks. That's the Sean Foster, head coach UCLA Bruins. Okay,
he's he's joining us here on the Doug Gottlib Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, I uh do you do
you guys know, Sam, do you know what the wing
tea is?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I mean again, do you do you have any idea
what that offense is? It's like one of the oldest
offenses in football.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Is there is there like is there like seven linemen
on the line, Like it's just like a lot of
big moving bodies and maybe a little misdirection. It's it's
an old offense.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's it's yeah, it's very little, so see it. Yes, yes,
it's like no, I have to go go and look.
But remember with the high school team he played on. Okay,
had Sam Baker, who of course played at SC and
then played for the Falcons. Had Frosty Ruckers played at
SC and then played mostly for the Cincinni Bengals in
the NFL. They had at one time they had more
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pros from test High School than any other high school
in the country. And it was all right there in
a couple of years. But they ran the wing tea
and the wing ta is basically like when they talk
about student body left, student body right. USC football right,
and back in the day it was you have basically
a T formation in your backfield, and yeah, you run
like a belly fake or whatever to one side and
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then you basically pitch it out and then everybody blocks
to the right side like we're going on swooping and yes,
and then everything. And then every once in a while
you pull it back and you know, you can chuck
it deep because they commit They got to commit both
safeties in there. And so he ran for like thirty
two hundred and change like some crazy record, and then
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the other like fullback ran for like fifteen hundred yards
like it was. It was nuts, And you know, then
they get to the cif finals and lose to one
of the private schools I think the Santa Margarita which
is where Carson Palm we're played. But outside of that,
they would beat the snot out of out of just
about anybody else. But Deshaun is a great dude. And
that's the challenge that he has is the challenge that
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so many of us have at the college level. There's
the haves and they have not. It's the difference is
in his league. You know, you got Ohio State and
what they're spending on players is ridiculous. What they're spending
on his former head coach is ridiculous. But I'll be interested.
I'll be interested to see if you if he can compete,
If he can compete, We've got a lot to get
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Fox Sports Radio. In case you missed it, Okay, I
want to play for you really quickly. Deshaun Deshaun Foster.
So you just heard from him and he said like, look,
this was planned. I mean, I don't think it went
as planned, but the idea was to open it up
to questioning. And here was his opening statement, the first
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one in UCLA history in front of the Big Ten media.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
U c l A in a Big Ten where a
school that's won what one hundred and twenty three championships,
So this fits us being right in this conference.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Football wise, which is excited.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, I'm sure you guys don't know too much
about UCLA but our football program. But we're in LA,
it's us in usc.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
We got we gotta work on the film material there.
I'll open it up to question Yeah, you gotta go.
I'm opening up to questions. It happens, it happens. So
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but Jay suh, he's getting crushed on social media a
little bit.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, and I think I'm gonna put it on the handler.
Whoever his handler was, did not inform him that you
should probably say something, you know, have something prepared.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, just yeah, that's that's one of those deals where
uh yeah, but they just want to open questions. Hey,
I could talk forever about UCLA football. I'm better at
answering anything you want to know. You know, you don't
even have to have an opening salvo. But it don't
you know, none of that. It lasts for like a
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day or two days, and somebody else is going to
say something and we'll go on. But Deshaun's a great dude,
and obviously he was an amazing athlete, and we wish
him nothing but but success. Yes, yes, they're semi well.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
We all remember how clunky and awkward Nick Sirianni of
the Eagles, how his uh what it was? His I
think opening introductory press conference got off to a weird start,
and then he totally redeemed himself and forgot about that
when he went on to you know what was this
playoff appearance in his first season?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, went to a well obviously to a to a
super Bowl and then even what's the what's the Cardinals
head coach?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Like he was?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
He was awkward too, who also came from the Eagles.
By the way, he had the he had the really
weird uh not just presser, but some of their videos
that they released, and then some of the stuff in
front of the team. Jonathan Gannon. Yeah, he were like,
what but again, doesn't really matter, No, it doesn't doesn't
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really matter, but it does. It is. It is funny
and obviously I think he knew that question was coming
without it us even telling him that question was coming.
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How you doing? You do understand what this is? The
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last week? Have right?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
This last week? Last week? Have no football on TV,
No football on TV. Hall of Fame game is next week,
so we'll have football on television in the meantime. Yeah,
in the meantime, let's get you to some of the
stories and storylines that are I think more pertinent right now,
don't get me wrong. I can't wait to see what
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CD Lamb gets in terms of money. I don't know care.
I mean, Seede Lamb's gonna be a Cowboys, gonna play
for the Cowboys. It because the question of is you
play this year in the fifth year option, likely with
a contract extension, et cetera, et cetera. The Olympic Opening
ceremonies are tonight in Paris, France, and it's one of
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those and guys, if you don't mind, we'll talk about
this on the pod some remember the in the bonus
podcast is available right after this show. Just typing doug
ot download podcast. The opening ceremonies is it's one of
those things. It's way more for the athletes than for
anybody else, you know, But the games themselves what's interesting. Yeah,
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Jim Nasa is going to be interesting. We'll pay attention
to those swimming for a moment, you know, for a
week that it's taken place. Track and field is always cool.
You know. They have some new ones like breakdancing. I
don't know how you get great breakdancing or whatever, and
I give a gold medal in break dancing. But basketball,
I think is going to be a really hotly contested tournament,
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and on paper, if you look at the names of
who we have, it's a very reasonable conversation in your
brain to go, well, this won't be close. You know,
over the last ten years, the three best player, three
best American players in the NBA, or the last fifteen years,
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Lebron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant all on the team.
Throw in Joel Embiid, who foreign born player naturalized the
United States, and you have four of the absolute elite
players in the entire world. Then you round out the
rest of the roster with the likes of Jason Tatum
(26:51):
and Anthony Edwards, and you're like, this is a rap.
Why would any of the games be relatively close? And
yet every warm up game, every friendly is just that
it's exceedingly close. And so you're trying to rack your
head because you're sitting there going like, well, you know,
our guys they don't play together all year. Neither you're theirs.
(27:17):
You know, neither you're theirs. Now, some of them do
come together and play together during national team time every year,
but many of them, the NBA players do not. You know,
the French players don't. They all play scattered now, did
they grow up playing together. Sure, but it's not like
they train, they live, they travel the country the world
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playing games together all year long. No, they get together.
They got a couple weeks camp just like we do,
and they go and play. And yet they seem a
lot closer despite the fact their personnel is not close.
How is that true? And I do think some of
it is. Look, we're not well liked. I think we're respected,
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or actually, no, no, let me finish, let me go back.
I think we're liked. I'm not sure we're respected. I
think what happens is the athleticism that we have across
the board in basketball gets diminished some based upon one
the fact that it's a way more physical game, the
style of the other rules and how they're how they're
(28:27):
officiated or adjudicator or whatever, and you know, some of
the some of the ways in which players sell calls
and play whatever kind of balances the playing field. My
point is we're getting ready for the Olympics, and if
you just looked at the rosters, you'd go, this is dumb.
It's going to be USA and Canada and nobody else
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even close, maybe France. And the fact is that Canada.
I don't think they're nearly as close as people think,
and France has always been disappointing in these things until recently.
It is a very rugged style. It is a different
style of basketball, and it's gonna be fascinating to see
Australia and Serbia. I mean, we saw South Sudan give
(29:13):
us trouble. I'm excited for it. But as the favorite,
and we've always considered ourselves a country of underdogs, it's
just a different way to view basketball, in a different
way to hope we win, despite the fact that our
talent on an individual basis appears to be way better.
You know, Jason, you asked a question earlier this week, okay,
(29:37):
about who you're cheering for in the women's game, and
I wonder how many of us are going to do
the same in the men's game. We have more on
this discussion a second, though. First, let's welcome to our
good friend Dan Byer. He's back, obviously after doing a
lot of other shows. Could be in a rich one
of them, as well as filling in for me yesterday.
Dan's got breaking news, Dan what he got? Breaking news
(29:59):
from Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
To a tongue of Iloa and the Miami Dolphins have
agreed to terms on a new four year contract for
two hundred and twelve point four million dollars. This according
to multiple reports, the average annual salary will break down
to about fifty three point one million dollars per season.
That would be the third highest of any quarterback in
the National Football League, behind Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence
(30:21):
in just ahead of Jared Goff, whose average salary is
flat at fifty three million, but again to a tongue
of Iloa, who was limited to practice earlier this week,
Doug and then was a full participant today. Now we
know why four year deal two hundred and twelve point
four million dollars according to the NFL Network and ESPN.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We don't know how much is guaranteed, correc No, we
don't know much. Sciente. I gotta tell you, I don't
love it. No one is willing to do what we
all know needs to be done. You know, no one
is willing to do what we all know needs to
(30:59):
be done. I'm sorry, I just I don't see it.
I'm willing to be wrong in this one. I'm not
saying he stinks, but no, it's it's just a bizarre
way of doing business where we put him in the
fifty million dollar category and he's not a fifty million
dollar quarterback. And I actually would think that the truth
(31:21):
is that tuas a guy who if he was on
the open market, I don't think he's getting fifty million dollars.
No one's ever tested that, No one's ever tried that.
He doesn't have great arm strength. We'll see if he
has increased mobility since losing weight this offseason. He's been
off injured, and he is surrounded by as much talent
(31:46):
and speed as you're ever gonna find. And so what
happens is, look, this year he'll play under the old
dealt even though he'll get the new money. Next year
it'll kick in and next year becomes the first part
of the challenge of being able to field the type
of elite roster around him. I don't think, to a
(32:07):
tongue of Iloa is anywhere near an elite quarterback. Just don't.
Just don't. Does he stink? No? But everyone said the
same thing. He has to have the right coach, the
right pieces around him, the ability to just get it
and get rid of it very quickly. He has to
(32:27):
play either in a dome and warm weather. All these
boxes have to be checked in just so, just the
right thing in order for him to be special. I'm
not surprised because remember the Dolphins brass. One of the
reasons they moved on from Flores as their coach was
(32:48):
he didn't believe in Tua. So those guys drafted him.
Those guys believe him. Those guys are the ones that
have said, he's our guy. We're sticking with him. Yeah.
By the way, you know, Mike McDaniels came in, he
got the job, and he made them believe, Hey, I
can work with him. But the bizarre thing is this
(33:13):
is what we do. It's like, it's like, do you
guys remember videos of lemmings and does a lemming translate
to people these days? To kids these days? Lemmings are
a small animal. I think it's there, like in the
gophers sort of family and they literally will follow whatever
(33:34):
the one in front of them does. I feel like
that's what the Dolphins are doing. Well, you know, we
got to sign this deal. Why why you mean to
tell me that Tua would turn down another year guaranteed
if it was thirty two million dollars and like, yes,
(33:54):
he would really Okay, you go back two years ago.
Some people are like, I don't know, you go back
last year, like he's really good, but it has to
be supported, and now the dolphins are all in. I
don't love it. It feels like those Lemmings and Lemmings
by the way, with the ones. I don't know if
(34:15):
there's a real video. I remember being kid watching a lemming.
One jumps off of like a cliff and then the
others fall right behind. There was a video game like
that too.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yeah, it was a computer game Lemmings.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
There was actually a National Geographic video. We're kids, see
here's the difference, Sam, When I was a kid, when
you're a kid. When I was a kid, we used
to get the National geographic magazines, not just in doctor's offices,
but you have it at school, and that's where you
could see boobies. But also there'd be some videos that
would come with them, and you watch them at school someday,
(34:50):
and that's where you learn about lemmings. Don't be a lemming,
don't just be a follower, don't do something as the
person in front of you did it. That's where it
feels like the Dolphins are
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Jordan Love has not yet signed a contract extension, but
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he's doing the sit in sit in you know where,
He's there but not participating there, which is fine. We'll
keep you keep you updated on anything going on. Training
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camp wise. Obviously we're getting ready for the Olympics, and
I want to talk about the national team, who yesterday
survived yet again, this time against the German national team.
So before it was South Sudan and everyone making fine,
not everyone, lots of dudes making fun of the team
for nearly losing to South Sudan. Now there seems to
be a trend with the struggles to be Germany, another
(01:28):
team that you know has NBA players, but no one
thinks Germany should challenge Team USA. Why they did. We
can get to all that upcoming. I do want to
start with with just one thing before we get to
something that I think is under discussed in regards to
Lebron James dominance, especially late in games for USA basketball.
(01:51):
It's this sound going around from Paul George on his
podcast talking about his time with the Clippers, and Paul said,
you know, hey, the from the get go he was
playing on the B team. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Coming back to LA. That was home when I first
came back to LA.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But it ain't.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It's not the same love because when I was in LA,
they like, man, you should have been a Laker.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I was here.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It wasn't no like, oh, welcome to the Clippers. We
happy you in LA, but you should have been a
Laker team. I'm on the B teams. That's how the
vibe and the love felt.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, I mean they're the Clippers. Dan Byer's lived out
here for over twenty years, right, JAYSETU grew up, lived, born,
raised everything in southern California. Obviously, I was raised in California,
and then I've come back up until now living in
Green Bay nine of the last twelve years of my life.
(02:50):
And previously that, from the time I was six and
a half until the time I was nineteen, I lived
in southern California. And you can't say you're from LA if.
There's just a couple of dead giveaways, right, a couple
of dead giveaways. The first is, if you call a
(03:13):
freeway by the freeway's name, you're not from LA. If
you call a freeway by the freeway's name, you're not
from LA. Now, the opposite is true in New York.
In New York, everything's known by the name. Oh that's
the Hudson River Parkway. Oh that's the saw mill. There
are numbers that coincide with these things, but nobody in
(03:35):
New York knows the numbers. In LA, no one goes
by the numbers. No one goes by the names. Everyone
goes by the numbers. So the first dead giveaway in
that you're not really from southern California is if you
call a freeway by the freeway's name. Oh, I was
on the San Diego Freeway. I don't even know what
freeway is the San Diego Freeway. I mean, I'm guessing
it's the five. But no one calls the five the
San Diego Freeway. They call it the five, call it
(03:58):
the five. I think the second thing is you understand
the differences in areas in areas like Ventura County not LA.
In an empire not LA, Orange County not LA. They
all have their own kind of areas and things. And
(04:20):
the last one is if you don't know the Clippers
are the B team, you don't say you're from LA.
And by the way, he's from Lancaster, which is outside
of Bakersfield. It's not LA. And the surprise that he
felt like he reacted to tells you all you need
to know, Like, really, did you think this was a
(04:41):
Clipper town? I mean, even with the new arena, which
they displayed to everybody this weekend, and if you watch
social media, like this is amazing, everyone I know walked
away with the same thought, that's incredible. Only one problem.
The Clippers play there all right, let's get to the
NBA playoffs or sent me playing. Plus the team USA
(05:03):
playing in the in the friendlies getting ready for Olympic basketball. Yesterday,
they survived Germany, got to be at one point game late.
Germany took some bad shots, missed a couple of them,
Lebron James a couple of gigantic shots, did miss two
free throws, and Team USA ends up getting to win.
They continue to wait on Kevin Durant to be healthy
(05:24):
coming off of the strained calf muscle. And that's, by
the way, what we're told it is the strained calf muscle,
even though there's no rap and he has gone through practices.
Here's Paul Pierce on Undisputed this morning talking about Lebron's
play with USA basketball.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
You know, when you look at the regular season and
you like, oh man, it's next inline or Jason Tatum
is this, But when you see the collection come all
together and you watch Lebron man, he might be clearly
the best player still in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I mean it just that way watching this time, no
sens you just punk shoot you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I don't look at the collection, so you Jack.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Why isn't nobody else doing this?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Okay, why is that stepping up? I want to see
aunt Man or Tatum do this a couple of games.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
But this is this is supposed to be one of
the young boys coming and doing this for them.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, you know what I'm saying. Okay, So there's a
couple of things. Paul's not wrong in terms of end
of game. Now, part of the reason Lebron hit a
wide open three at the end of the game was
Germany was daring him to shoot because the Germans they
don't think most foreign teams don't think Lebron is nearly
(06:33):
as good a shooter as sometimes reputation would have you
believe in the NBA when he missed two free throws
there late, Like the foreign teams are still in the
belief of like the San Antonio Spurs, if you're gonna
make a beach hip, make a beach with a jump shot.
The other part was the big drive and finished he
had was with his left hand and as anybody who's
(06:54):
watched Lebron knows, he likes to drive to his right
and to his left. He likes to shoot that kind
of weird sort of side step step back pull up three.
He doesn't usually get to the basket. All of that
being said, what I think most people don't account for
most people is the fact that this is a very
(07:16):
different game. And look, you have to be big, you
have to be able to make shots over the top.
The game is very physical, and there's a reason that
there's a reason that European teams are able to hang
with the far more athletic American players in FIBA basketball.
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That's the way it's always been. And so while you
say shooting is valued from Steph Curry, the problem with
Steph is once he gets it and he puts it
on the floor, you can hand check, and so Steph
becomes can be marginalized a little bit, and then defensively
they'll post him up. It's really hard Taysom Tatum dribbles
too much, ant Man's two much mid range and gets
(08:01):
the hoop there. It's just they don't have the same
lanes to the basket. And while Lebron is clearly not
one of the best player on his own team, let
alone one of the top ten players in the NBA
because he doesn't play both sides of the ball in
FOBA basketball, where you can take breaks, you can play zone,
you can be super physical in both offense and defense
(08:22):
if you know how to do it. And then late
in the game, older players just win and he doesn't
have to play big minutes because they have so many guys.
So if you want to say he's the best player
at playing Phoeba style basketball right now, the answer is yes.
He also has the supreme amount of confidence. They believe
(08:43):
in him, and those other guys don't really know how
to react, how to play, and it gives Lebron the
chance to take over. Now. I think most of that
will change when Kevin Durant comes back, and then KD
becomes the go to score late because Lebron still holds
the ball too long in k remember build this out.
In last Olympics, he was the guy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But Paul Pierce is making the I think ill fated
assumption that what you see in Phoebea style basketball equates
to what we would see in the NBA, and that's
just not true. He is right right. This should be
a time in which one of these young guys steps
up makes plays like WHOA. Jason Tatum is the next
great one, Anthony Edwards is the next great one. But
(09:31):
only Lebron has the confidence and the strength to make
these plays. But that doesn't mean that in an NBA
style game he's anywhere close to those players.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
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we're gonna welcome in a special guest. And actually, not
only am I so happy for him and his family,
but also like, look right now, he's the sound bite
everybody's talking about from Big ten media days. He's the
new head coach of the UCLA Bruins. He's de Sean Foster,
former ruined himself, former first round draft pick at the
(10:33):
Carolina Panthers. And hey, he's a former Tuestin tiller and
for a period of time he's my teammate at Tuestin.
He was a freshman, I was a senior. He played
basketball as well as being an absolute star in football.
Ran for over three thousand yards his senior year running
the running the wing. Tea Sean, how are you?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I'm great?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
How you doing, bro, I'm good man. I know we're
supposed to catch up in LA. Obviously I get a
coaching job, You get a coaching job, and we'll we'll,
we'll figure it out. I gotta I gotta ask. Everyone's
talking about like you're opening salvo where it felt like
you had a bunch you wanted to say and you're
just like, hey, I'm just I'm just happy and yeah,
(11:12):
UCLA and USC in LA. Was was that plan? Like,
what what happened with the opening salvo?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Well, we wanted to give them more chances to ask
me questions than me talking to that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Okay, so was planned. You just didn't know how to
get to that. You don't know how to get to
the transition of hey, I'm here, ask away, I'm good
you're you're you know, you know. For now on, you
could say like, look, I'm a number two chair guy,
the two chair and radio was the reaction chair. Ask
me anything, I'll tell you what you want to know.
Is that fair?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
What was it like to go from okay, cause Chip leaves,
you're going to be the Raiders running back coach, and
then you circle back and now you're the head coach
of your alma matter. What was that month or so?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Like, well, it was only like three days.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So it was the lead up if forgive me, Deshaun,
because it was the lead up of Chip kind of
letting it out there like hey, he'd taken offensive coordinator job,
and I thought like no way, what So take me
through what it was like. She liked for you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So I hear a coach is leaving and then well, no,
not yet. I actually took the Raiders job first.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Right, yes, So about about what day is this? Do
you remember that you took the Raiders?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Soh, this is like tuesday? This is Tuesday, take the
Raiders job. I think coach left like a Thursday. No,
a Wednesday. No, I took the job on Monday. Coach
left Wednesday. I ended up getting hired Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, so you get hired, so so you take the job,
and then you're like, you take a job. What happens?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I see coach, I see coach ends up taking off
of the coordinator job at Ohio State and I'm like whoa.
And then that's when the school called me and we
did the zoom, we zoomed. They interviewed me. I didn't
think anything that'll make because I just talked to her. Okay,
that's just They're just interview other coaches. Then they called
me and we had a face to face and then
(13:09):
that's when I was like, Okay, things are getting serious.
I ended up killing that and then Super Bowl Sunday,
Martin called me and I was like, hey, would love
to meet. We soon have to sit down and talk.
We sat down and talked after the game was over
and definitely let me know I'm gonna be the next
head coach of.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You, Sila, what's that feeling like?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
It was unreal? You know, it was totally unreal. It
was just something that you can you can't put it
in the words, you know, being being able to be
the head coach, that's her all My mother is just
something that you're not sure as as obtainable can. You know,
I'm just fired up. I'm just fired up about it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Who is your first call?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well? I called my wife and then what did she say?
She was just fired up. Well, you're kind of new
because when I left, she said, I think you're about
to get hired. And I was like, don't us to
see what happens. And then you know, he told me
they get the great news. And then I called my
wife from my way home.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
What'd your parents say?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
My dad was fired up. It was just fired up.
You know. I didn't really tell a lot of people
about the process or anything, so I didn't want to,
you know, get too far ahead of myself. So I
just came I was kidding close to the best time
and talked to new people.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, you and I are like very dissimilar in terms
of sport and location, but similar in this. You know,
people look at UCLA and they're like, well Chip went
the left because Chip left because they don't have the
nil that they're not they're not they can't compete. You know,
UCLA too much about academics. You know, stadium is now
going to be half full with big ten fans. I'm
at Green Bay and people say, hey, you know, not
(14:49):
enough investment, financially, not enough nil. How do you combat
that where people come to the conclusion without ever seeing
you practice, without ever senior team play, that you can't
compete because you don't have the money.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, it's just outside noise. You just can't get caught
up in it. You know, we Howa was able to
keep on our top B tackle and you know Texas
offered them a lot of money when we were able
to keep him. So everything isn't really always just about money.
You know, relationships do go the long way, and being
being coached up and knowing that you're going to get
developed go a long way else on it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, how how much of that is what you play on?
Because we do the same thing right, We sit there
and go like, hey, look, you know one you can
play here where you're gonna somebody else is going to
pay you to sit And the real money is if
you play right. And the other part is if you're
used in a way in which you can really be successful.
What is do you use the same thing?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yes, I use the exact same thing, the exact same thing.
You know, I'm just huge in development. You know, you're
not already ready already just ready to go. You've got
to get developed in you know, no other places that
want to be developed.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
In La Listen. I know you open up in Hawaii,
which is great, right, you get to get an Hawaii trip.
But you play at LSU, at Penn State at Nebraska?
Are you on a suicide mission here? Like? Can you?
I mean, why are you playing LSU when you have
to go to Penn State and Nebraska as well?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I know, I know, but you know, we don't turn
down in the game. So I'm just excited that we're
you know, we're going to a chance to play. They
came to the rose Ball a couple years ago. You know,
we got after a pretty bad so I know they're
looking forward to the game.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Oh, I'm sure they. I'm sure they are. Hopefully that's
a big game, not a night game. I do have
to ask, Okay, you guys ran wing ta in high school, right,
you had like thirty two hundred yards rushing. Is the
wing tea at all in the offensive package?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Yes? It is.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh my god, I can't wait. I can't wait. Oh
my gosh, I can't I can't wait. It has to.
There has to be some level like who prepares for
wing tea right?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Exactly exactly, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Teams are thrown out there, eight nine defensive backs. We'll
run wing team. We'll just line up in our big uglies.
We'll take care of business. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Nothing? Nothing you're gonna do. You better be able to
block and tackle. You better be able to tackle somebody
because they're coming at you. Last thing, I know, you
got to go, and I appreciate your time to sean.
Coolest thing about this experience.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Just being at my alma mater, you know, just getting
the support. I already had a lot of support being
a player here too, so just now being a head
coach is kicked out thirty not so I'm just a
credit for it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Well, man, I can't wait to see you when you
guys will have to I have to get there and
see a game. I'm trying to think you don't play.
You don't play Wisconsin this year. I'll get out there
to see a game. I gotta see my guy, my
Test and Taylor going and code coach and ball. I
don't know, you know, my sister was the UCLA cheerleader.
So I've been in more games than Bose Bowl than
any so so I do have some some aight clapp
in my blood. Listen, best, best of luck and again
(17:55):
just for facts, okay that the plan was to open
up the questions, right that because everybody's talking about Trope
and South. That was the plan.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yes, okay, player man, have.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
A great day. Congrats on the job. Let's catch up
in Personville soon.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right, for sure? You bro.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Thanks. That's the Sean Foster, head coach UCLA Bruins. Okay,
he's he's joining us here on the Doug Gottlib Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, I uh do you do
you guys know, Sam, do you know what the wing
tea is?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I mean again, do you do you have any idea
what that offense is? It's like one of the oldest
offenses in football.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Is there is there like is there like seven linemen
on the line, Like it's just like a lot of
big moving bodies and maybe a little misdirection. It's it's
an old offense.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's it's yeah, it's very little, so see it. Yes, yes,
it's like no, I have to go go and look.
But remember with the high school team he played on. Okay,
had Sam Baker, who of course played at SC and
then played for the Falcons. Had Frosty Ruckers played at
SC and then played mostly for the Cincinni Bengals in
the NFL. They had at one time they had more
(19:06):
pros from test High School than any other high school
in the country. And it was all right there in
a couple of years. But they ran the wing tea
and the wing ta is basically like when they talk
about student body left, student body right. USC football right,
and back in the day it was you have basically
a T formation in your backfield, and yeah, you run
like a belly fake or whatever to one side and
(19:27):
then you basically pitch it out and then everybody blocks
to the right side like we're going on swooping and yes,
and then everything. And then every once in a while
you pull it back and you know, you can chuck
it deep because they commit They got to commit both
safeties in there. And so he ran for like thirty
two hundred and change like some crazy record, and then
(19:49):
the other like fullback ran for like fifteen hundred yards
like it was. It was nuts, And you know, then
they get to the cif finals and lose to one
of the private schools I think the Santa Margarita which
is where Carson Palm we're played. But outside of that,
they would beat the snot out of out of just
about anybody else. But Deshaun is a great dude. And
that's the challenge that he has is the challenge that
(20:09):
so many of us have at the college level. There's
the haves and they have not. It's the difference is
in his league. You know, you got Ohio State and
what they're spending on players is ridiculous. What they're spending
on his former head coach is ridiculous. But I'll be interested.
I'll be interested to see if you if he can compete,
If he can compete, We've got a lot to get
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want to play for you really quickly. Deshaun Deshaun Foster.
So you just heard from him and he said like, look,
this was planned. I mean, I don't think it went
as planned, but the idea was to open it up
to questioning. And here was his opening statement, the first
(21:14):
one in UCLA history in front of the Big Ten media.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
U c l A in a Big Ten where a
school that's won what one hundred and twenty three championships,
So this fits us being right in this conference.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Football wise, which is excited.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, I'm sure you guys don't know too much
about UCLA but our football program. But we're in LA,
it's us in usc.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
We got we gotta work on the film material there.
I'll open it up to question Yeah, you gotta go.
I'm opening up to questions. It happens, it happens. So
(22:09):
but Jay suh, he's getting crushed on social media a
little bit.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Yeah, and I think I'm gonna put it on the handler.
Whoever his handler was, did not inform him that you
should probably say something, you know, have something prepared.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, just yeah, that's that's one of those deals where
uh yeah, but they just want to open questions. Hey,
I could talk forever about UCLA football. I'm better at
answering anything you want to know. You know, you don't
even have to have an opening salvo. But it don't
you know, none of that. It lasts for like a
(22:47):
day or two days, and somebody else is going to
say something and we'll go on. But Deshaun's a great dude,
and obviously he was an amazing athlete, and we wish
him nothing but but success. Yes, yes, they're semi well.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
We all remember how clunky and awkward Nick Sirianni of
the Eagles, how his uh what it was? His I
think opening introductory press conference got off to a weird start,
and then he totally redeemed himself and forgot about that
when he went on to you know what was this
playoff appearance in his first season?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, went to a well obviously to a to a
super Bowl and then even what's the what's the Cardinals
head coach?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Like he was?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
He was awkward too, who also came from the Eagles.
By the way, he had the he had the really
weird uh not just presser, but some of their videos
that they released, and then some of the stuff in
front of the team. Jonathan Gannon. Yeah, he were like,
what but again, doesn't really matter, No, it doesn't doesn't
(23:42):
really matter, but it does. It is. It is funny
and obviously I think he knew that question was coming
without it us even telling him that question was coming.
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How you doing? You do understand what this is? The
(24:31):
last week? Have right?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
This last week? Last week? Have no football on TV,
No football on TV. Hall of Fame game is next week,
so we'll have football on television in the meantime. Yeah,
in the meantime, let's get you to some of the
stories and storylines that are I think more pertinent right now,
don't get me wrong. I can't wait to see what
(24:57):
CD Lamb gets in terms of money. I don't know care.
I mean, Seede Lamb's gonna be a Cowboys, gonna play
for the Cowboys. It because the question of is you
play this year in the fifth year option, likely with
a contract extension, et cetera, et cetera. The Olympic Opening
ceremonies are tonight in Paris, France, and it's one of
(25:21):
those and guys, if you don't mind, we'll talk about
this on the pod some remember the in the bonus
podcast is available right after this show. Just typing doug
ot download podcast. The opening ceremonies is it's one of
those things. It's way more for the athletes than for
anybody else, you know, But the games themselves what's interesting. Yeah,
(25:47):
Jim Nasa is going to be interesting. We'll pay attention
to those swimming for a moment, you know, for a
week that it's taken place. Track and field is always cool.
You know. They have some new ones like breakdancing. I
don't know how you get great breakdancing or whatever, and
I give a gold medal in break dancing. But basketball,
I think is going to be a really hotly contested tournament,
(26:11):
and on paper, if you look at the names of
who we have, it's a very reasonable conversation in your
brain to go, well, this won't be close. You know,
over the last ten years, the three best player, three
best American players in the NBA, or the last fifteen years,
(26:31):
Lebron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant all on the team.
Throw in Joel Embiid, who foreign born player naturalized the
United States, and you have four of the absolute elite
players in the entire world. Then you round out the
rest of the roster with the likes of Jason Tatum
(26:51):
and Anthony Edwards, and you're like, this is a rap.
Why would any of the games be relatively close? And
yet every warm up game, every friendly is just that
it's exceedingly close. And so you're trying to rack your
head because you're sitting there going like, well, you know,
our guys they don't play together all year. Neither you're theirs.
(27:17):
You know, neither you're theirs. Now, some of them do
come together and play together during national team time every year,
but many of them, the NBA players do not. You know,
the French players don't. They all play scattered now, did
they grow up playing together. Sure, but it's not like
they train, they live, they travel the country the world
(27:40):
playing games together all year long. No, they get together.
They got a couple weeks camp just like we do,
and they go and play. And yet they seem a
lot closer despite the fact their personnel is not close.
How is that true? And I do think some of
it is. Look, we're not well liked. I think we're respected,
(28:04):
or actually, no, no, let me finish, let me go back.
I think we're liked. I'm not sure we're respected. I
think what happens is the athleticism that we have across
the board in basketball gets diminished some based upon one
the fact that it's a way more physical game, the
style of the other rules and how they're how they're
(28:27):
officiated or adjudicator or whatever, and you know, some of
the some of the ways in which players sell calls
and play whatever kind of balances the playing field. My
point is we're getting ready for the Olympics, and if
you just looked at the rosters, you'd go, this is dumb.
It's going to be USA and Canada and nobody else
(28:50):
even close, maybe France. And the fact is that Canada.
I don't think they're nearly as close as people think,
and France has always been disappointing in these things until recently.
It is a very rugged style. It is a different
style of basketball, and it's gonna be fascinating to see
Australia and Serbia. I mean, we saw South Sudan give
(29:13):
us trouble. I'm excited for it. But as the favorite,
and we've always considered ourselves a country of underdogs, it's
just a different way to view basketball, in a different
way to hope we win, despite the fact that our
talent on an individual basis appears to be way better.
You know, Jason, you asked a question earlier this week, okay,
(29:37):
about who you're cheering for in the women's game, and
I wonder how many of us are going to do
the same in the men's game. We have more on
this discussion a second, though. First, let's welcome to our
good friend Dan Byer. He's back, obviously after doing a
lot of other shows. Could be in a rich one
of them, as well as filling in for me yesterday.
Dan's got breaking news, Dan what he got? Breaking news
(29:59):
from Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
To a tongue of Iloa and the Miami Dolphins have
agreed to terms on a new four year contract for
two hundred and twelve point four million dollars. This according
to multiple reports, the average annual salary will break down
to about fifty three point one million dollars per season.
That would be the third highest of any quarterback in
the National Football League, behind Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence
(30:21):
in just ahead of Jared Goff, whose average salary is
flat at fifty three million, but again to a tongue
of Iloa, who was limited to practice earlier this week,
Doug and then was a full participant today. Now we
know why four year deal two hundred and twelve point
four million dollars according to the NFL Network and ESPN.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
We don't know how much is guaranteed, correc No, we
don't know much. Sciente. I gotta tell you, I don't
love it. No one is willing to do what we
all know needs to be done. You know, no one
is willing to do what we all know needs to
(30:59):
be done. I'm sorry, I just I don't see it.
I'm willing to be wrong in this one. I'm not
saying he stinks, but no, it's it's just a bizarre
way of doing business where we put him in the
fifty million dollar category and he's not a fifty million
dollar quarterback. And I actually would think that the truth
(31:21):
is that tuas a guy who if he was on
the open market, I don't think he's getting fifty million dollars.
No one's ever tested that, No one's ever tried that.
He doesn't have great arm strength. We'll see if he
has increased mobility since losing weight this offseason. He's been
off injured, and he is surrounded by as much talent
(31:46):
and speed as you're ever gonna find. And so what
happens is, look, this year he'll play under the old
dealt even though he'll get the new money. Next year
it'll kick in and next year becomes the first part
of the challenge of being able to field the type
of elite roster around him. I don't think, to a
(32:07):
tongue of Iloa is anywhere near an elite quarterback. Just don't.
Just don't. Does he stink? No? But everyone said the
same thing. He has to have the right coach, the
right pieces around him, the ability to just get it
and get rid of it very quickly. He has to
(32:27):
play either in a dome and warm weather. All these
boxes have to be checked in just so, just the
right thing in order for him to be special. I'm
not surprised because remember the Dolphins brass. One of the
reasons they moved on from Flores as their coach was
(32:48):
he didn't believe in Tua. So those guys drafted him.
Those guys believe him. Those guys are the ones that
have said, he's our guy. We're sticking with him. Yeah.
By the way, you know, Mike McDaniels came in, he
got the job, and he made them believe, Hey, I
can work with him. But the bizarre thing is this
(33:13):
is what we do. It's like, it's like, do you
guys remember videos of lemmings and does a lemming translate
to people these days? To kids these days? Lemmings are
a small animal. I think it's there, like in the
gophers sort of family and they literally will follow whatever
(33:34):
the one in front of them does. I feel like
that's what the Dolphins are doing. Well, you know, we
got to sign this deal. Why why you mean to
tell me that Tua would turn down another year guaranteed
if it was thirty two million dollars and like, yes,
(33:54):
he would really Okay, you go back two years ago.
Some people are like, I don't know, you go back
last year, like he's really good, but it has to
be supported, and now the dolphins are all in. I
don't love it. It feels like those Lemmings and Lemmings
by the way, with the ones. I don't know if
(34:15):
there's a real video. I remember being kid watching a lemming.
One jumps off of like a cliff and then the
others fall right behind. There was a video game like
that too.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yeah, it was a computer game Lemmings.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
There was actually a National Geographic video. We're kids, see
here's the difference, Sam, When I was a kid, when
you're a kid. When I was a kid, we used
to get the National geographic magazines, not just in doctor's offices,
but you have it at school, and that's where you
could see boobies. But also there'd be some videos that
would come with them, and you watch them at school someday,
(34:50):
and that's where you learn about lemmings. Don't be a lemming,
don't just be a follower, don't do something as the
person in front of you did it. That's where it
feels like the Dolphins are
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