The Customers Always Right

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To be quite honest, all right, let's get to it.
Story of the day is not all the fisticuffs in
Major League Baseball last night or yesterday afternoon in Colorado,
last night in Boston. The story of the day is
not the NBA Playoffs being set in Minnesota, squeaking in

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in overtime over the Denver Nuggets. Truth is, Timberwolves probably underachieved,
laid down against some of the worst teams in the NBA.
It's the only reason they were the eight seed. There
better than that, and I do think they could be
a dangerous out for the Houston Rockets. That's not the
story of the day. The story of the day is
Colin Kaepernick, and you're like, oh God, I am so

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tired of talking about Colin Kaepernick. You know who else
is tired of talking about Colin Kaepernick Fans? They are
And I know that because of the story which broke
earlier today, Adam Schefter tried to break Twitter his own
sort of woad bomb after arranging for Colin Kaepernick. This

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is a tweet from Schefter to work out for the
Seahawks this week. Of course, the Seahawks are in need
of a backup quarterback, and even though last year when
they brought Kaepernick in, they summarily dismissed him, saying, hey,
we know he's a starter where he wants to be
a starter, this might not be the right fit, so
they wanted to work him out. See where he was

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Seattle again. This is from the tweet postponed the trip
when the quarterback declined to stop kneeling during the national
anthem next season. League sources tell ESPN that was the
first tweet, all right. The second tweet on the essentially
the same topic is from Ian Rappaport also covers the

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NFL for the NFL Network. Instead his tweet, the Seahawks
did postpone tendively scheduled workout with Colin Kaepernick. As Adam
Schefter reported, it was not because he declined to stop
kneeling though and by the way, used the correct th
h O in Twitter speak. Though the team asked for
his plan moving forward on how to handle everything, and

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there was no firm plan. Alright, let's start with the
ladder and then work to the former. One of the
big issues with Colin Kaepernick's protest has been there has
there has been no plan. There has been The good
works he has done off the football field was not
part of the plan. He has done an amazing amount

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of good works. But people's reaction to the words that
he used and the protest I think spiraled out of control.
And he was not ready for that last year at
this exact same time. Actually, you go back to a
year and a half ago, at the year and a
half ago when he was out of the league and

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Colin Kaepernick had planned to stop kneeling. That was when
when San Francisco released him. Adam Schafter reported that he
was going to stop kneeling. Alright, So whether or not, Seattle,
you think is the bad guys because they don't want
to have a quarterback kneeling, or they don't even want
to bring him a quarterback who's thinking about steal kneeling,

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or you want to think Kaepernick is wrong because he
has no plan. Here's what you need to know, all right.
If you run a business, you're gonna nod your head
because you know I'm right. And if you don't nod
your head, it's because you either don't operate a business
or you don't operate a successful business. I believe Jalen

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Rose says, give the p of what they want a
quote Drill and Rose. But the old business adages the
customer is always right. The customer is always right. Some
of you will ask, and listen to this show, why
don't you talk about hockey? You know why? Because the
customer is always right. There have been enough there, there
has been enough research to tell us that not enough

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people care about hockey, so we won't talk about it.
Does it exist? Sure? Is it a great sport? Nobody's
disputing it. If I go to a hockey game in
the playoffs, I don't know any of the players, I
don't really understand the matchups, but I have a good
time drink a beer, and you know what, dudes, are
I mean, last night I did happen. I was in
a bar having dinner with some friends, and I saw

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that Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia was seven and nothing, and all
of a sudden they started fighting. And all I know
about hockey is generally the playoffs. Seven nothing seems like
an ass whopping and there was a fight, and there's
never fights in the playoffs. That said, that's the most
I will talk about hockey the rest of the day.
You know why, because the customers all He's right. Customer
is always right. You may ask yourself why there's Chippotle,

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there's Kotoba, there's I know, there's Indian restaurants, Why DoD
there's um whether it's Pie Not or Blaze, which is
Lebron James's pizza place. Why why do we have so
many of these restaurants where they make it right there,
kind of subway style in front of you and it's done.
Whatever happened to old school fast food or the old

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school restaurant sit down style. People want things fast, but
they want to see them made in front of him
because they want to feel like they pick the ingredients.
Do you know how they came upon that idea? Research,
what does the customer want? Because the customer is always right.
And and look, Jerry Jones, he knows something about football,

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having played football. He knows a lot about business, having
run a seriously and ridiculously successful business in Dallas. And
all he has tried to implore is not that the
president is right. You may think this is a Republican
I as the Republicans and rich guys shutting down. This
is the man shutting down, shutting down the liberal agenda

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to start a conversation on police abuse of the citizens. No,
it ain't. All of it is is the NFL is
coming coming off of their biggest ratings decline in the
last twenty five years. The Seattle Seahawks are coming off
the season where they had a fiercely divided locker room

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and they need a backup quarterback. They don't need a
starting quarterback, they need a backup quarterback, backup quarterback. No drama.
And the people, or at least enough people have spoken
out that says, you know, there are even people that
believe in what Colin Kaepernick is protesting. But you know

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what they don't want. They don't want it on Sunday
when they're watching football they don't want it on Monday
when they're watching football. They are so tired. I'm sure
many of you are like, dude, why are you talking
about it? Because it only iterates and reiterates my point.
The customer has spoken, and the customer is right, right,

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And like, look why they put Roseanne back on TV?
Go back and watch old Roseanne's and you know Roseanne
was kind of Family Guy before Family Guy. You know
they went there. And also, who watches who watches Network TV? Right?
Network TV is watched by old people. It just is like,

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why has CBS dominated prime time network TV? Like, man,
that'sho that show is old. I'm not really blue. My
mom watches Blue Bloods. But that's good because old people
are the only ones watching network TV. The rest of
us have moved on to Netflix and Amazon and we
watch sport. And you know, my wife watches h G

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TV and she's trying to you know, she wants to.
Everybody wants to have their outlown reality show or rehab
houses or rehab houses while having a reality show. And
the reason you skew your programming to fit those who
are watching it is because the people have spoken. The
customer is always right. So you don't have to agree

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with the Seahawks and not wanting to bring him in.
You don't have to agree with Colin Kaepernick not having
a plan. But you have to understand that the NFL
is simply reacting to enough of their fans saying I've
had it, I don't want it, and and an NFL
front office saying, you know, look, it's not hiring Colin Kaepernick.

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Putting on the team, that's easy, it'll be celebrated. You know.
The hard thing is not playing him on Sunday, discussing
it when he's a backup, and if you ever have
to cut him, that's really hard. But but the basic premise,
it's not clue shan And this, by the way, proves
it's not clue. It's not NFL teams getting together. This

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is one NFL team saying, hey, do you want to
come work out for us? And what do you decided
on on the whole protesting thing. I don't know. You
don't know. It's the most polarizing political topic in sports
in the last twenty five years. You don't know. It's
not a good enough answer. And by the way, if

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the answer is taking a knee, that's not the correct answer,
because we've had enough of our fans say no thanks,
remember the most there's a do you know why my
TV network, Fox has gone after Peyton Manning? You know
what you and why? Father? Why Peyton Manning is in
so many TV ads because he plays in the Midwest.

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Everybody in the Midwest. First he played for Midwest to
Midwest teams. Kind of I know that Denver is not
in the Midwest, but the Midwest is kind of always
kind of claimed the Broncos as sort of their quasi team.
Of course, the Indianapolis Colts is in the Midwest. And
if you look at a map red and blue, guess
which states are more red than blue. A matter of fact,

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they are bright bright red the Midwest. It doesn't say
that these problems don't exist. It doesn't say that Colin
Kaepernick on some level hasn't done an incredible job of
trying to make a change in the world. And doesn't
even mean it that the Seahawks don't want the world
to be a better place. Remember this is Seattle, and

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and while it's not San Francisco or maybe Portland, I
do believe that more women shaved than don't shave as
opposed to Portland's. I like Portland. Portland's weird though, right,
it's it's it's if you've been a point like man
Portland getting Seattle is still got a little weird to it,
not as weird as Portland's a little weird to it.
But remember just as many Seahawk fans come from outside

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of urban areas, and maybe more than in the Seattle metropolis,
and they have spoken, and they have said, look, I
love my Hawks, but I might not watch or I
might not buy season tickets. And while while you think
that as an empty threat, we set it time and
again it's not for the starting quarterback. It's for the
backup quarterback. Backup quarterback should be no drama. And if

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you don't think that, there's drama when you just say
the name Colin Kaepernick, and it starts to debate in
any barbershop, in any restaurant, in any home in America,
and nobody wants to have a debate over a backup
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(11:58):
I've I've seen. I want to get his thoughts on
the Kaepernick situation. Plus the Browns taking Josh Allen at
number one, what happens with the Giants at number two?
And the Jets are just sitting there praying, hoping that
one of their guys that they want fall to them
as they moved heaven and earth to maybe get the
third best quarterback. We'll dive in next live from San Diego.

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Daniel Jeremiah on Twitter at moved the sticks by the way, DJ,
we're in San Diego today, are you in l A.
Did we cross pass somewhere on the five Freeway? We did.
I'm gonna be honest you, I'm not happy about this
report that I'm getting. Doug. I'm a wife long Padre fan.

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I've been grown up in San Diego. I mean, you're
you're an O guy. You're your Angels fan, right, not
a doctor's fan. You wouldn't do that. I'm listen, I'm
I'm an Angels fan. We did go to the Dodgers
World Series Game one, and my son has the same
birthday as Clayton Kershaw and he's a left handed pitch
so so so I did. But I mean we still

(14:38):
got Mike Trout, Sho, Heyo Tani and um and it's
it's still the Halos. So he's he's a little bit
of both. But what you're mad because at some part
I'm not throwing out the frist. I'm not throwing it
out tonight. I've just received word that they were gonna
do one of these, like five guys throughout the first
pitch at the same time, nobody puts baby in a corner.
I'm not throwing out that. I'm not throwing out the

(14:59):
first pitch of like t dudes, Hey, hey, there's only
one guy that can get to that mount. You can
say you're bringing out five, but there's that's that's that's
for you. So if you're not going to be that guy,
you can't do it. Yeah. So anyway, we're gonna we'll
go to the game, but we're gonna reschedule that still.
Uh look, I I am what I am. I'm not
gonna be a phony. I'm not gonna sit here and
suck up. I love the folks in San Diego. They

(15:19):
should have built the stadium. They would have gotten every
different event possible and now they don't. But we're gonna
keep it real for the folks in San Diego. All right,
I want to get to h the two l A quarterbacks,
Orange County l A quarterback. I want to get to
all that quarterback discussion. First, let me just kind of
get your reaction as a guy who's been in the
front office so now in Rapp Border works for the
NFL network, has kind of continued this discussion on Kaepernick

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and why the they have in definitely postpone poned his
visit to Seattle because they want to know what his
plan was for the protest, what his plan was moving forward,
and he apparently didn't have one. His camp says, well,
it was all about the test and taking a kneel
and taking a knee and nothing else. How what's your

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reaction to this story. Well, the reaction is teams. We're
just talking about this a little bit earlier on on
a different subject, but it's the same. Answer is that
teams don't want to be surprised. Now we were talking
about it in the context of these draft prospects and
what do you want personality wise? It's it's not about
you know what you want personality wise, it's it's about
you know, knowing what you're getting and and knowing the
answers and you can prepare to deal with whatever comes

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with that. I would say it's it's pretty similar in
this situation, I would think, and not you know, they
just want to know what what is what's your game
plan so we can then, you know, create our game plan.
It's not necessarily a hey, you you want to Neil,
We're not going to bring you in. I would think
it's more along the lines. If we just want to know,
if you can let us know, then we can go forward. Um,

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and he's also a backup quarterback to right, Like it's
even that's been the narrative forever. I mean, it's just
if it was you know, if it was a player
that had been playing an elite level this, you know,
we wouldn't be talking about it. Johnia, Dania Jeremiah joining
us on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Okay, so now we're

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hearing all different sorts of rumors about quarterbacks. Let's just
start with the Cleveland Browns because they determined so much
with this NFL draft. They had Tyrod Taylor, so there.
I mean, look, I I've said all along, it makes
sense to have a veteran because John Dorsey can do
in Cleveland what they did in Kansas City last year.

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Red shirt, whoever your quarterback is. So who are you
led to believe will be the number one pick? Well,
who I think it should be is who I've said
all along, and Sam Donald who you know the latest
when you just talk to people around the league, you
just hear more and more about Josh Allen being the
pick there and that's again not coming from inside the
Browns organization, but everybody else around the league that I

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talked too lately, that's been the buzz that's been you know, hey,
just be ready for that. I think that's gonna happen.
I really think that's gonna happen. Um So I would
say right now it's I think it's totally a toss up.
Would would be my answer to that, Doug, I think
it should be Donald. Um, I think Donald is a
double off the wall to stay with the baseball analogy,
whereas I think with Josh Allen you could hit a

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home run which could strike out? What about Rosen? And
uh so much of what we've heard now, Um is
one thing that I don't here discussed a lot that
I've talked to NFL people about is the durability issue.
I mean a lot of people have talked about the personality,
but for NFL people, there's also an issue about with

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with durability. How real is that issue? Well, that's the
thing that comes up when I talked to teams. It's
not it's not the other stuff. I mean, that's the
stuff that gets focused on in the media. But um,
when you talk to teams, the durability is the major concern.
And I'll be quite honest with you, if if he
had been durable and hadn't missed any time at U
C l A, I'd have him as the top quarterback

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in the entire draft. So that to me was my
major hang up there with Josh. Yeah, but that's a
hang up. What about Donald's the elongated release of Donald
and some of the turnovers. How do you balance out
his negative with with with Rosen's negative. Well, to me,
when you look at Donald's negative, okay, the along elongated

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doesn't really bother me because I see how quick and
how explosive he is with it, So I don't think
it's as big of an issue. But when I when
I look at the turnovers, the fumbles are the thing
that you worry about. I don't worry about the interceptions.
They mostly took place early in the season, um and
you can I can point several of them that weren't
even on him. But the fumbels in the pocket is
a legit, that's legit issue. I just when I watch

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these guys all back to back, and you watch how
fast damn Donald processes and how quickly he moves and
sees things and reacts. I thought he was on another level. Um,
I'm trying to figure out what the Giants are going
to do. Uh, you have a guy who in Dave Gettleman,
who um coming from Carolina where they went to the

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Super Bowl with a running game and when the defense
they got after you right and and talented defensive backs.
It's a guy who when he was successful previously again
in Carolina, they jettisoned their star wide receiver Steve Smith,
but he was longer in the tooth later on in
his career. Give me your sense for what the Giants
maybe should do well. I mean I sit there and

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look at it and say, you've got a thirty seven
year old quarterback who has not played at a consistently
high level for going on what five six years now,
where he's been up and down and the turnovers have
been an issue, and I don't know when you're ever
gonna be picking up there again. So I I view
there's a gap between the second third quarterbacks. For me,
it's it's Rosen in uh or Donald first then Rosen,

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then a little bit of a gap before you get
to three and four with Mayfield and Allen. So it
was me and you're in a team picking second and
you think you've got a franchise quarterback there at number two.
You know, look, I think Chubb in in Barkley or
higher graded prospects, but I think you owe it to
your organization to take the quarterbacks. And then you have
the Jets, who of course that they move up, but

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they don't move up into prime position. They still are
beholden to other teams to make the decision before they
get their choice. Um, what are your thoughts in the
Jets position. Well, it's still one of those things when
you talk to people around the league, they're still kind
of just struck by how bizarre that was to do
that at that point in time, so early in the process. Um,

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to not know, you know, so many variables in place
and who's going to be there. So it was a
very unusual trade. But obviously they feel comfortable with three
different quarterbacks and uh, you know, we'll kind of find
out who those are. I assume that that that Sam
Donald is one of them. It's trying to figure out
who the other two would be. Um, you know, I
look at him in Baker Mayfield's name, you keep hearing
associated with him more and more and I think that's

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kind of the opposite theory, right, He's basically the polar
opposite of Hackenburg, who you took a big swing and
miss on there. He's he's a polar opposite in terms
of what he's He's he's much more accurate. Uh, he's
much more mobile, but he's smaller, he's more athletic, he's
more accurate, he's a such pass or he doesn't have
the huge arm that Hackenburg has. He's got he's kind

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of more more personality. Like, he's literally almost the opposite
just every way Hackenburg was wasn't winning enough games that
Penns date. Baker Mayfield was learning a bunch of games
in Oklahoma, you know, on and on and on and on. Yeah,
doesn't that have a big possibility of I just my
fear with Baker Mayfield is that it's not all horse,
no cattle. But you're like, look, tell me the last

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big twelve quarterback to really do it. Now. Granted he
went in and lit up Ohio State, but um, it's
an offense that that produced Johnny Menzel, produced Case Keenum right,
and didn't produce Russell Wilson. And there are times to
which they're just a limited. Yes, you have to have
some of the intangibles. He has super high football i Q.
And he's got that kind of cock of the walk

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chip on his shoulder thing that works for him. But
he is small. He isn't as athletic as Russell Wilson.
He doesn't have the arm of Russell Wilson. And people
want him to be the next Russell Wilson because they
they don't want to miss on the next Russell Wilson.
I just I feel like we're creating this narrative to
we his talent won't necessarily live up to. Yeah. I mean,
for me, my comparison has actually been Jeff Garcia. You know,

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that's who he kind of reminds me of. Yeah, that's
just you look somebody has you know, we're gonna operates.
He's quick, he's not explosive, and I mean that in
terms of as an athlete and as a as a thrower.
I think he's got a good arm. He doesn't have
a huge arm. It's good enough. Um, But to me,
it's got to be a quick rhythm throwing offense to
part you know it's some somewhat similar. You're not gonna

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be able to duplicate what they did at Oklahoma. But
he's limited in terms of what what he can function in,
and that to me is why there's the cut off
between those top two guys, who I think you can
put them in just about any type of offense they
can function and be successful. I think it's got to
be very, very very uh very specific with what you're
gonna ask Baker Mayfield to do. Game to Jeremiah NFL Network,

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joining us Doug Gotlip Show Fox Sports Radio. DJ has
an incredible podcast, Move the Sticks. It's also on TV.
He's on TV on the NFL Network along with Bucky Brooks.
You should follow him on Twitter at Move the Move
the Sticks. Best guess of what's going on in New
England to first now two seconds and a third, A
lot of holes to fill. Um went out and got

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Cordarol Patterson as a return guy. Um, you know you
filled a hole that wide receiver as well. What do
you think they're doing there with all those picks? That's
the opposite of what they did last year? Well, I
know in New England, I wouldn't be surprised if at
the end of the day like they ended up with
no first round picks, they trade back both of those
picks and end up, you know, with seven picks in

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the second round. I mean, that's that'd be like a
New England type thing to do, and they end up
with somehow having a first round pick an extra first
round pick in next year's draft. I mean, that's kind
of the way they've operated. We've talked and kicked around
the idea of maybe them trading up for a quarterback.
That's just that's not really in their d n A.
So uh so many different holes to fill. I think
you've got to come out of this draft with a

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with a linebacker, You've got to come out of this
draft with a tackle. You've got to hopefully come out
of this draft with with somebody you can throw in
the quarterback position that gives you hope. That could be
the suster down the line. And I think the way
they do that is more second third round than what
they would do in the first round. Yeah, I don't
see them moving up those with those two picks to
get Roquan Smith is number one rated middle linebacker. He's great,

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But I just that does not seem like a Patriot
short of thing to do that would be good. Yeah,
I don't. I don't. I don't see it see it either. Alright, anyway, uh,
next time we'll high five on the five when we
crossed pass. But I really appreciate you joining us. Thanks buddy,
Go get us the win today, all right. I mean, listen,
I'm available. I'm available out of the pen um. I've
been throwing mostly to fourth and fifth graders, um. But

(25:34):
you know, listen, um, there was some fourth There was
a fourth and fifth grade fight going on yesterday in Colorado.
So maybe maybe that's maybe that's why they're bringing me in,
to bring me out of the pen. Danner Jeremiah form
NFL Scout, NFL Network analyst, joining us in the Doug
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Let's check in with Dan Bayer and find out what
else is going on the world of sports. What he got?
You touched on it with Daniel Jeremiah at the start
of the Seahawks did postpone a schedule visit with free
age of quarterback Colin Kaepernike. The NFL Network says the
Seahawks asked Kaepernick for a plan on he would on
how he would proceed in a variety of issues such

(26:17):
as kneeling during the national anthem. Kaepernick could not give
them an idea of what his plan was, so that
meeting was postponed. The sides do plan to at least
talk at some other time, According to the NFL Network,
forty Niners on backer Reubin Foster charged with three felonies today,
stemming from an alleged domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend
in February. He'll be arraigned this afternoon. The Browns and

(26:39):
wide receiver Jarvis Landry close to terms on a five year,
seventy five million dollar extension. The deal would include forty
seven million dollars guarantee. The Knicks fired had coached Jeff
Hornessa today after two seasons. Well, Frank Vogel is out
after two seasons with the Orlando Magic, winning just fifty
four games during his time. Doug and of course, the
NBA regular season, yeah wrapped up last night, so i'll

(27:01):
playoff time gets going, starting off on Saturday, Warriors and
Spurs playing the first game coming up Saturday afternoon. You're
gonna be interest to see if the Warriors can do
you remember the remember the old the clapper Clap, clap
on claper, the clapper, right, you can turn on your lives,
traum off your lights, and now we can do it
on our phone. Um. But that's it feels like the Warriors.

(27:24):
You're trying to be team Clapper, right, Like we could
take a dump last game of the season against the
Jazz and just clap on all of a sudden we'll play. Well,
we'll see if they can do that. Does anyone know
anyone who actually bought the Clapper? I don't. I'm not never. Yeah,
that's one of those deals. It's like Life Alert, Like
obviously somebody must have bought Life at Life Alert was
the I follow it and I can't get up, which

(27:46):
is really sad like that that is the if you
actually look in the heart of it, like that is
just an awful like the image of a grandma falling
down her husband. You just kind of paid the picture.
Her husband died right for kids, her kids like got
her some condo to where there's a bunch of old
people around but nobody can hear when she felt like
that is an awful image, like oh, you press life

(28:07):
alert and they're supposed to come and take care of granny.
Obviously people bought these items, otherwise they wouldn't have been
able to afford. Somebody must have bought Tomamanski's um baseball tape.
Remember back to back to back national championship. Remember the
Fred McGriff crime dog with the foam foam hat, foam
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worked together to make this thing work out, which is awesome.
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(29:55):
The NIXT job is open again, right, this does feel
like roundhog Day. Hey, the Knicks fired their coach, Like,
what year is it? Pick a year? Right, I mean
the the all time Knicks coaches. Right, It's an incredible list,
and you think about it, think about the men who
have tried to turn this thing around. The guy who

(30:18):
came closest was pat Riley John McCleod, who I played
for UM he proceeded pat Riley. I played for John
McLeod and John Cloud only coach there for like a year.
And John McLeod what he what he did was he
had two point guards, Mark Jackson, Rod Strickland, and he
I believe he benched Mark Jackson, who had been Rookie

(30:39):
of the Year the year before. He had two good
point guards who now you've played together. But think of
these names. Red Holtzman is one of the top ten
coaches in NBA history. He last won them an NBA championship,
and even he tried to come back and recapture the
glory of seventy three. Seventy seventy three, they won the championship.

(30:59):
So you're gonna ask yourself, like Jay Right, apparently the
Knicks are gonna reach out to Jay Right, and you're like, man,
why would you ever leave Villanova. You've won two of
the last three championships you got even though they lost
you know, uh, Mikail Bridges and Jayalen Brunson to the
NBA Draft. They got arguably the top point guard in
the country coming in next year. They got a bunch
of guys back. They could very well easy easily win

(31:21):
it over the next three or four years. And they've
won the Big East, the New Big East in the
last five years. They didn't win it this year, but
they were really the best team. They just didn't win
it because of injuries. Like you got that thing dialed in,
you know, you become kind of the signature guy. And
Villanova was not even in Philadelphia. It's in now, it's
suburbs of Philadelphia. It's on the main line. Um, but

(31:42):
you'd be kind of become like the down of Philadelphia sports.
It's the Big Five. They have five actually have six schools.
They only count really five sorry drexel Um, but they
they've dominated the Big Five like it's never been dominated before.
He's got that thing why like why would you leave?
It's the same reason that Red holtzsmen tried to come

(32:03):
back and recapture their glory. Hubie Brown, Rick Pattino, John McCleod.
You might not even think thing of John mccleoud. Like
people forget John mcleoud was seen as a great NBA
coach when he's with the Phoenix Sons. He coached the
Sons in the NBA Finals. Some people call it the
greatest NBA Finals game ever. I think was four overtimes
with the Boston Celtics. Pat Riley, don Nelson, Jeff Van Gundy,

(32:26):
Lenny Wilkins, who I believe he's been passed, but Lenny Wilkins.
When he took the job, he was the all time
winning ist and losing his NBA coach of all time
Larry Brown, Isaiah Thomas, Mike D'Antoni, Mike Woodson, Derek Fisher,
Kirk Rambis, I mean, I guess Rambis he was the
interim coach, and Jeff hornersa like, why would you try

(32:48):
to be because it's New York and you may be
over the New York thing, and you may think you're
over I'm over the New York thing, Okay, Like, look,
I I lived for the last three years, I worked
in New York City, and as the non New Yorker
son of a New Yorker New Yorker, I can tell

(33:11):
you that I'm kind of over the New York thing,
right Like anybody who says, oh, New York's greatest city
on Earth, like, okay, there are three months, three weeks
in the winter, three weeks three weeks in the summer
in which it's uninhabitable because of weather. You eliminate yourself
from consideration of the best city on Earth if for

(33:31):
six weeks out of the year you physically cannot and
do not want to live there. We okay with that.
Right In the summer, there are three weeks to which
it is so gross, sticky, humid that every that every
bum who's ever urinated on any sidewalk, it just it's
it just hits you. You hop out of a cab
orn uber off the subwady like, oh god, it's hot,

(33:53):
it's sticky, and it smells like p No thanks, Oh yeah.
And by the way, traffic ridiculous, everything ridiculously expensive. No space.
There's a reason that New Yorkers you can find a
parking place on Fridays because everybody tries to get the
hell out of the city in the summer. No boy,
now and then the winner, same thing. But do you

(34:14):
remember linsanity? Do you remember lisanity? Like Jeremy Lynn took
over the NBA for like two and a half weeks.
It's all anybody could talk about. Why New York. Lets
it New York like Michael Strahan. He's on. Dude. The
hardest thing to do in this business is to work

(34:37):
for one network. He works for two. He works for
two competing networks. He's on One in the morning with Kelly,
and then he's on one on the weekends with Fox
covering the NFL. He will be on Thursday with Fox.
It's it's nearly impossible, and he does it. And he
was a great football player, probably a Hall of Famer

(34:59):
on his own, but definitely Hall of Famer New Why
New York Joe Namath still a name? You know? Why
New York? Did he call he shot the Superowl? Sure? Sure,
but he did in New York. It's different. And so
I don't know. If Jay Wright leaves leaves Camelot, I
don't know. I don't know if he does, I don't know.

(35:20):
If he leaves the perfect job where he can coach
the perfect type of college kid, get guys to red
shirt and invest and play the right way. He can
survive a bad season or two, which he had six
seven years ago. I don't know. Yeah, the money will
be ridiculous. He's already got the suits for he didn't
even need to change suits, right, Like, hey, j you
don't need to buy new suits for New York. You're good.

(35:44):
Probably doesn't even need to move. I like, Philadelphia is
an hour and a half away. I mean type of
money he'd be making buy himself a chopper. You'd always
go back to college having Rick Pettino. But the reason
he he wants the statue if he does it because
of the statue. You want to be the guy that
resurrected the Knicks. Many have tried. I feel like, um,

(36:06):
do you guys remember Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Right,
and you walk in and there's like there's all these
you remember that, there's the heads and there's the bones. Like,
why would so many people try? Because it's the holy
the holy grail of basketball is being the guy who
wins the title for the New York Knicks. Many have tried.

(36:27):
Some have lost a head, some have lost a foot,
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(37:12):
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Doug guests Subervana lists as the favorites to win the
NBA title at the start of the NBA playoffs. Don't
say Warriors, Yes, that is correct. Warriors seven to five

(38:20):
favorites according to Bravada, followed by the Rockets at eight
to five, the Calves coming in with thirteen to two odds.
Here's the thing. I generally believe that the Warriors of
Healthy will do it. I am not an even privately
cheering for Chris Paul to do it. Uh. I think
that Chris Paul receives um way too much blame for

(38:42):
the fact that the Clippers couldn't get out of the
second round. He's my favorite modern day true point guard.
I think he does it all. I understand he's not
as good as shooter as Steph Curry. I actually prefer
the all around game to to Chris Paul. I still
think the Warriors are the better team if they are
fully healthy. Doug guests Supervana is having the longest shot
at winning the NBA title at the start of the

(39:03):
NBA playoffs, the longest shot. Uh. I don't think it's
the Timberwolves though, honestly because, uh, even though they take
on um, even though they take on the Rockets to start,
I'm not I'm gonna say it's not Timbles. Let's go
to the Eastern Conference getting warmer. By the way, you're

(39:28):
getting warmer Miami Heat. Yeah, there, it is great to
catch John Heat listed as one to one favorites. Pacers, Pelicans, boxed,
Wizards all at one one those Timberwolves one favorites, according
to Pravada, And that's because the road they'd have to
go through. Let's sneak in a couple more guests. Who
Doug wants to play more? Is the Major League Baseball

(39:50):
season rolls on? Shoo Tony, Yeah alright, three for three,
telling reporters through a translator. Once the season gets tougher
and the schedule gets tougher throughout the summer, hopefully I
can make them want to play me more. I'd like
to play more. If not, that's what it is. I
have to follow what they have to say. That's thirteen innings,
so farthest year. It's hard. You had three at bats,
got a hit last night. Doesn't pitch again until Sunday.

(40:15):
This is game time. On The Dug Gottlieb Show, Bob
McNair said something that got everybody's um. Gotta burn everybody's saddle.
He said the He said the inmates don't run the prison,
which of course is a way of saying the inmates
don't run the asylum. It's funny. Aaron Rodgers essentially said

(40:36):
the same thing in Green Bay. We'll have that discussion.
You'll hear from Aaron Rodgers himself next in the Doug
Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. What uf Doug Gotlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in. I'll be her off to

(40:57):
a great start to your Thursday. Thursday, right. NBA playoffs
start this Saturday. As good. That's good. Last weekend we
had Masters weekend before, we had college hoop weekends. Setting
up pretty well for us, right, setting up pretty well
for US. Um, we can go through the NBA playoffs

(41:19):
at some point very soon. Sam Amock from USA today
is gonna join us. In fifteen minutes, we'll ask him
about um, what what is likely to be the most
competitive series. It's interesting there's some series to which the numbers,
you know, because so many teams end up tied, and
there's so many injuries and so many teams tanking, sometimes

(41:40):
it's hard to tell how good a team really is.
I'll give you the Timberwolves, and I don't think it's
a great matchup for them against the Houston Rockets per site,
But the Timberwolves are a lot better or a lot
more talented than the eighth place team in the West.
They lost to the They're the opposite of say, the
seventies six. Right, they lost to some of the worst.

(42:03):
They're the only team in two thousand eighteen to lose
at home to the Memphis Grizzlies. Only team. It's amazing,
stat right. They've also lost to the Hawks, a couple
of other seller dwellers teams. They're trying. It's crazy they
lost to tanking teams. On the other hand, they were
very competitive against the top teams in the West, So

(42:24):
it leads you to believe that, hey, if there's a
team that could stretch out the Houston Rockets, it does
feel like they're potentially that team. I'll give you my
thoughts on the thunder. Sam Amy's gonna join his fiftheaen minutes.
I also, I want to get into the m v
P discussion. We'll do so here in six or seven minutes.
While the m v P is not the most Valuable
Player isn't, wasn't and won't ever be. But I do

(42:52):
want to get to something that Bob McNair said last
season to witchiate, first apologized for, and then last week
back pedaled on that apology. And what am I apologizing for?
It's a business expression. The inmates don't run the asylum.
Aaron Rodgers essentially said as much. Right he did, He

(43:13):
said as much. Take a listen to what Aaron Rodgers
on a station called the Hog in Wisconsin Draft night.
Where are you going to be? I don't know. I
couldn't even tell you when the draft do is. You're
not gonna be perched on Mike McCarthy's right shoulder helping
him or telling him who you need on your side
of the ball this year. I think it's pretty clear
that players play and UH coaches, coach and personnel people

(43:35):
make their decision. That's the way they want, that's the
way they wanted us versus them. That's the way they
want it. He didn't say that's the way we want it.
And Aaron is incredible. If you ever spend time around
Aaron Rodgers, he's incredibly bright, and he does he makes
the mistake that smart people do of parsing every word

(43:58):
and understanding what he said. He's going to get a reaction,
and he knows it. Look, Aaron Rodgers clearly unwanted Jordy
Nelson to be elsewhere. Well, when you cut Jordy because
you couldn't redo his contract, but you never talked about
redoing a contract, Why would you? Why would you do that? Remember,
there is a new regime in Green Bay, a new

(44:20):
general manager. They bumped a young guy app and they moved.
They kicked Ted Thompson upstairs and took away most of
his power. They did it because they were tired of
getting criticized, whether internally from Aaron Rodgers and from Mike
McCarthy over not thinking outside the box, not going and
getting free agents or externally for some of those same

(44:44):
ill fated moves. They've been successful to a point, but
mostly on the arm and legs of Aaron Rodgers. And
so the reaction was to hire somebody and let him
do his job. Now there are many people and for
example called on Coward, Colleague of Ours and Fox Sports trader.
He thinks that this is a negative. Aaron's mad. Aaron

(45:05):
should be like he should be like Lebron James and
be given us. Say, by the way, though they give
Lebron James the heads up, most of the things have
been done this year have not been done because because
Lebron wanted them done. Look at the successful franchises in
the history of the NBA and you and look at
the successful franchise in the history of the National Football League,

(45:26):
look at the successful franchise in the history of Major
League Baseball, and you tell me where the where the
success is in players making the call. Michael Jordan's was
first that they went out and got They went out
and and and got rid, got rid of Charles Oakley.

(45:53):
Charles Oakley was his protection. Charles Oakley was his guy.
Charles ogle was basically his goon that could start along.
It him that when Jordan felt like he was getting
bludgeoned by the Pistons and by the Celtics, when here
the Nicks. When he drive to the Lane. That was
his guy to have his back. He was his hatchet man.
He loved Charles Oakley. Charles Oakley is super seriously and

(46:17):
incredibly loyal, and the Bulls got rid of him. Brought
in medical Bill Cartwright. That was Bill Cartwright's nickname, Medical
Bill Cartwright, because he could never stay healthy. Do you
remember what happened after they traded for medical Bill cart Right?
They wont NBA Championship. They did not solely because of
Bill cart Right, but Bill car Right had this super

(46:37):
funky elbows out, really high release shot, but he could
actually make a fifteen footer. He was a better center
for the triangle offense. And he was better in the
locker room than Charles Oakley was, even though Oakley was
super super close with Michael Jordan. Jordan didn't like the

(46:57):
Scottie Pippen trade when it was first mate. Plenty of
moves that were made that Jordan didn't like. But you
know what they did. They put a team around him
that gave him the best opportunity to be his best
version of himself. The San Antonio Spurs. They nen't asked
him Duncan, who he'd want to bring in, even the

(47:21):
Miami heat, they didn't go out and acquire players. Remember
the story from earlier this week and pat Riley's book,
is that Lebron James came in and asked pat Riley
if he had the itch to coach again, because Lebron
James was testing to see if they wanted to get
rid of Erik Spoelstra. LaMarcus Altridge wanted a trade from

(47:43):
San Antonio last year. Remember that didn't go his first
year there didn't go so well. He wanted out. Pop
said no. Now they were arguably the third, the third
or fourth best team in the Western Conference without Kauai
Leonard most of this year. So you can tell me,
hey man, Lebron. By the way, if Lebron James is

(48:06):
making decisions because he's the man behind the curtain with
Tristan Thompson and j R. Smith, Dude, they're in cap hell.
He can't stay in Cleveland because they can't make it
work financially to go make any moves if this doesn't work.
So the idea of players play, coaches, coach and owners,

(48:26):
own and front office guys. They do whatever they do.
That's the reality of That's what Bob mcnerires said. The
inmates can't run the asylum. You can't run the prison.
They just can't. It's so different than have you ever
been to the New Orleans Saints facility. When you walk
in to their practice field, you look up and there's

(48:46):
a huge sign. You know that huge science says when
a sign says, it says do your job. So it
says the Patriots. That's and by the way, that comes
from the Patriots, and it's the same expression the Spurs
have used, do your job. And that's all Aaron Rodgers saying. Look,

(49:09):
is he cynical about it? Is he snickering about it?
Is he ticked about it because they got rid of
his guy? Sure does he worry that Jimmy Graham? Ain't
that Jimmy Graham of old? Okay, But you know what,
you've always wanted an all Pro or Pro Bowl level
pass catching tight end to throw too. We got you one.
You have Davontae Adams, you have Randall Cobb. We think

(49:33):
we might have figured out the running back situation. We've
had to rework the defense. Like, look, we heard you.
We understand you do your job. Coaches do their job.
We'll do our job. New Orleans Saints when you walk in.
It says in bright letters, do your job, and that's all.
Aaron Rodgers saying, the Patriots have been the most successful

(49:55):
team we've ever seen, the most successful franchise we've ever
are seen in the history of the Nation Football League,
and doing it year after year. You guys know the
stat right, I mean, like, you don't have to be
an NFL fan to know the stat that half the teams,
on nearly average, half the teams that make the playoffs
every year don't make it next year. The exception to

(50:17):
that rule the New England Patriots. Do you know why?
Because the front office does what the front office does,
coaching staff which does a coaching staff does, and the
players do their job. Do your job. You have to
like it, right, I don't, I asked by I was
a true story. I was driving down here today and um,

(50:39):
some of you who listen to our show on Sirius XM,
I got a text from a buddy, Hey man, I
wanted to hear that interview you had with Ray Allen yesterday,
But I was I was listening to soccer and look,
there's a lot of reasons that deals get done and
to which they were done before I ever came to
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(51:01):
Channel eight three, like, why does it? So? I called
and I got an answer. I didn't necessarily love the answer,
even though it wasn't. The person who I spoke to
his fault that that was the answer, But that was
the answer. You know, I can't do. I can't call
up Steve Cohen at Serious sex M and called my boss,
say why can't you guys worked it? Because that's not
my job. My job is press the on button and

(51:22):
hopefully you get to hear me or the people we
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state this, the m v P has never been what
it is termed to be right there? Other things like this.
You know I was driving down um, you know you

(52:06):
you drive? What is it you drive? On a parkway
and park on a driveway. Right, that doesn't make any
sense at all, but we do it. And then you know,
the m v P is not for the most valuable
player because value is really hard to assess. Lebron James
got eviscerated three years ago. Remember Steph Curry was the

(52:27):
unanimous m v P and Lebron James. He started by saying, Hey,
when you look at what he's done, they've won more
seventy three wins. His shooting percentages numbers ridiculous. Um, he's
the m v P. He's But when you want to
talk about value, that's a whole different conversation. You guys,
remember that, right, And people crush like, oh, Lebron saying

(52:48):
he should have been the m v P. No, he's
saying that the m v P is not about value.
The m v P is who had the best season
the best team. It's always been that who had the
best season the best team. It's not about who the
best player is or who the most valuable player is
because that's really hard to evaluate. People are crushing Kevin

(53:10):
Durant like, hey, they finished seven and ten down the
stretch without Steph Curry. Kevin Durant not as good as
Lebron James. Part of it is the construct of his
team is different. Kevin Durant's actually had a much better
season defensively. He might be a defensive Player of the Year,
Like what is his value to Like, oh, Steph Curry
is more valuable. Maybe, or maybe it's that the Golden

(53:33):
State Warriors chose to put a D League er or
G leaguer in Quinn Cooking at point guard instead of
playing their backups and moving them up. They didn't want to.
They didn't want to play Sean Livingston starters minutes or
play Andrea Goo Dallas starters minutes. It's like a conversation
no one's actually had, like, hey, they're doing it. So
they're old, guys are fresh and rested for the postseason

(53:53):
and playing a guy in Quinn cook who once Steph
Curry comes back, they ain't gonna play anymore. He will
go from starting to not playing at all. That's and
and there's Yeah, there's a bit of a fall off
between a two time m v P and a guy
who was in the G League a month ago. You think,
but this is important in basketball, it's important in football.

(54:16):
Matt Ryan was the MVP two years ago in the NFL.
Wasn't he Matt Ryan the best? Has he ever been
the best quarterback in the NFL? No, he has never
been better than Tom Brady. He has never been better
than Aaron Rodgers. Wasn't mean Aaron Rodgers that year and
they beat Aaron Rodgers team in the playoff. He wasn't better.
He simply had a great season on a great team
that had a better record. That's it. It's the reward

(54:37):
for a great season. Otherwise it would get really boring
giving the m v P to Michael Jordan, Lebron James
or Kevin Durant every single year. And this has been
going on for twenty five years in sports. And if
you don't like it, fine, maybe we should change the
name of it. But everyone knows that you don't. You
don't drive on a driveway and park on a par

(55:00):
park way. We don't change those names, just like we're
not gonna change the name of the m v P.
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the teams are set, the tanking has been completed. We'll
see how successful Tanka Blooza two thousand eighteen was. But

(57:25):
the NBA regular season is over. Sam Amick from USA
Today covers the league kind enough to join us, Um,
why do you think it wasn't It felt like it
wasn't made to be that big a deal and it
was assist a league wide issue all these teams tanking.
Why wasn't it made to be a bigger deal nationally?

(57:46):
Good question, I think, And I don't know. Maybe it's
because Doug the you know, the rules are obviously changing
this uh, this nonth this June, the following June when
it comes to the draft, and I kept using the
parallel or the analogy of the people of it. It's
like happy are at the bar and all these teams
are trying to get their orders in before seven pm
rolls around and trying to up their odds of of

(58:07):
getting in on this particular draft. But you know, it's
also interesting to have, you know, have to reconcile the
tanking teams with the Sixers Cinderella story in which they've
taken off. So you know, maybe that's another subset of it, right,
Like you know, we're seeing some of the stuff pay off,
and teems like Dallas and and a lot of others
like them in Chicago all the way down the line

(58:28):
or are trying to go down that road, right. I mean,
it's workd for Philadelphia, but people have missed on it's
worked from Milwaukee tank, Minnesota tanked, right, they're like and
outside of basketball, the Houston Astros tanked. People are copying
it because you know it's worked. It's better to be
really really bad than to be competitive and just and

(58:49):
just and just. Okay, Um, the New York Knicks have
been They're just They're just stuck here right now. They
do have Perzingis coming back off of injury, so there
is some hope. They fired Jeff Horn a second today. Um,
what's your thoughts on how they I mean, everybody wants
to look at the guys, the Larry Brown's, the Huby Browns,

(59:10):
the Rick Pettino's. I mean you named Phil Jackson come
back to be president. They've all tried to get the
Knicks back, but they've all and pat Riley came the
closest but still couldn't do it. What direction do they go?
We'll see. I think that the guiding force here, Doug,
that that you know, if anybody is not familiar at
all with got Perry their GM, you know, I think

(59:31):
learning a little bit about his background and kind of
what he's trying to do is is what you start with. Um,
because I do think Jim Dolan is letting him figure
out what he wants to do. You know, Scott had
a good little run in Sacramento after years at in Orlando.
Comes from Oklahoma City before that, and even Seattle to
a degree from the Sam Presty Tree and and Scott.

(59:51):
You know, I wasn't shocked at all when I saw
the decision to fire Jeff because I did think that
Scott's going in wanted to hire his own guy. And
how you know, right out of the gate, you're hearing
names like David Fizdel obviously from Memphis and previously Miami
heat assistant, you know, beloved by Lebron James and d
Wade and all those guys. Definitely a hot name right now.

(01:00:12):
David Blatt, which is a little unexpected considering the way
he ended in Cleveland, but I do think that's going
to be in the running. Mark Jackson is is, you know,
kind of the go to obvious name that I think
is legit as well. So we'll see. I think Scott
with that front office from Steve mill is still part
of it. They're gonna figure out. You know, to me,
it's who's the best developmental guy they've got, you know,
young guys that have got to get better right now,

(01:00:34):
and we are seeing in terms of trends and you
mentioned tanking and Philly and takeaways and lessons that need
to be applied here is that, you know, the good
old fashioned prospect of developing guys that are not lottery
picks and getting the most out of the guys you
have in house through coaching and through your system and
through your training is huge and they got to hit
the right mark with this coaching higher sam Ammy joining

(01:00:56):
us on the Doug Gottlip Show. What's the most interesting
first round series? Probably? And I'm admittedly I end up
being a little having West Coast bias because I'm out here, um,
but Oklahoma City, Utah is probably the one I would pick.
It's not sexy in terms of having it's essentially two
small market teams, and so I almost lament the fact

(01:01:16):
that mainstream America probably won't pay too much attention, but
it could be really, really good. And I love the
contrast because you have star power for the thunder reigning
m v P Russell Westbrook with his you know, two
new all star buddies and Paul George and Carmelo Anthony,
a lot of pressure and Paul's free agency coming quickly
in July, and they really need to make noise in

(01:01:37):
the playoffs and it is a it's a tough ask
for them to get over on this Jazz team that
is arguably the best in the NBA for the last
three months other than Houston, and the way they defend
with Rudy Gobert in the middle and Donovan Mitchell doing
what he's been doing as a rookie has been incredible.
And the contrast that I think is going to make
for potentially good theater is that again you've got all

(01:01:59):
this experiences on the Okay Sea side and all this
pressure and then you have all this inexperience and really
not I think, not very much pressure at all for Utah.
They have already, you know, just knocked it out of
the park. And um, you know, can Donovan play on
this stage, you know in the playoffs if that spolight,
can Rudy be that dominant? I think, you know, just

(01:02:20):
kind of waiting and seeing which way that goes is
gonna be fun. Um Russell Westbrook average of triple double
second straight year. But people's reaction far different this year.
What what are people and what are people in the
NBA say about how Russell has played this season with
this crew. It's tough to get a beat on it
because it's always like two conversations. It's it's amazement and

(01:02:45):
there's nothing but respect when it comes to what he
does individually and the impact you just you can't like
that conversation is a full stop right there. Averaging and
triple double is still incredible. It's never been done twice
by the same guy, and so it's incredible to me
that full disclosure Doug yesterday, to give you a quick example,

(01:03:05):
it snuck up on me. I didn't even realize he
needed sixteen rebounds, and then you know, my office called
me and said, hey, we probably could use a story
if you wouldn't mind. I mean, I had very little
time to put something together and we were a little
bit kind of late reacting to it because it was
under the radar um. But the team concept and the
team discussion is a lot more nuanced and probably a
lot more negative because they have underperformed. They have the

(01:03:27):
They ended up winning one more game this season than
they did last year when they didn't have Paul George Anthony.
So how do you not have some of that, if
not a lot of it fall at Russell's feet, Even
with those incredible numbers. You know, the questions are, why
couldn't they defended a higher level, Why couldn't they score
at a higher level? You know why it was mellow
not more successful. And the point guard a lot like

(01:03:50):
the head coach, is going to be analyzed, and I
think fairly when it comes to just a team not
playing up to their potential and then the thunder haven't
done that this year? Say maybe this from USA Today
covers the NBAH Doug Gallant show, Fox Sports Radio. Well,
most I think most people think, all right, James Harden's
team finished with the best record, James Harden had a
great season. James Harden becomes your kind of de facto

(01:04:13):
m v P. I could make the argument that it
should be Lebron James. Um. He did play ten more games,
so it hurts his averages a little bit, but he
also kind of seemed to turn around this season. That
was that was falling apart. Some of it was his
own doing, some of it was was not his doing.
They still won fifty games. If you want to go
true value, um, could you the second straight year average

(01:04:36):
you can triple double, something we hadn't seen since Oscar Robertson.
That's Russell Westbrook. I don't think it'd be Kevin Kevin Durant,
but he still scored a high level and he could
be defensive Player of the Year. Um I look at
m v P and say, it's the guy who had
the best year on the best team, not the most valuable.
That's that's too hard a conversation for voters to really
get into. Is it James Harden? Without any question? It?

(01:05:00):
For me? Yeah? I mean with one the only qualifier
for me would be that I was riveted in the
final few weeks and and almost the entire month when
Lebron was playing at an incredible level and it was
fun to watch. And but what made it fun obviously
is the context and the fact that not only was
he doing what he was doing, not only did they
kind of come out of nowhere to finish really strong

(01:05:20):
after having such a hard time. And you know, I said,
Tom's getting traded, all that stuff that went down. But
it's it's everything you already know, Doug. It's fifteenth year,
it's thirty three years old, it's leading the league in minutes,
it's you know, conversations about MJ and how he never
did this fifteen seasons in even he can't say that.
So super compelling stuff. But when you bring it all

(01:05:42):
back to the m v P debate and the m
v P discussion, what settles it for me is that,
for one, you're talking about James Harden and what he
has done being from beginning to end, and also his
narrative is not too bad because I hear a lot
of people talk about how well Lebron James would have
loved to have had somebody like Chris Paul. Well, guess
what Christmas games and they kept winning when Chris was out.

(01:06:05):
Jane led the way opening night. I think set the
perfect tone. They beat the Warriors on a night when
Chris hurts his knee at Oracle Arena and James has
a really good night, and they send an early message
that they were for real. So that the consistency all
the way through for me gets it done. The fact
that they were in the end fourteen games better than
the Calves gets it done. Uh. And then in terms

(01:06:27):
of Lebron, for me, I'm just a major knock that
has been consistent the last couple of years is again
you talk about culpability that calvs Defense twenty ninth in
the NBA. I mean, that's just inexcusable. If that was
hard in the defense and his Rockets were at that
kind of a place, I'd be saying the same thing.
So I think that doesn't help Lebron's case. All right,
help me out. Vegas still believes the Warriors are the

(01:06:49):
favorites right there there. I think seven to five favorites
to win an NBA championship to the Rockets are eight
to five favorites. And I point out that I think
one thing that's missed that they did was when Steph
got hurt, they didn't just get Quinn call Quinn cook up.
They moved him to being the starting point guard right
like he's paying thirty five forty minutes, so that they

(01:07:11):
wouldn't have to play Sean Livingston, they wouldn't have to
play Andre Goodala huge minutes. They kept them in their
standard roles and simply elevated a you know, a G
League point guard, uh to a level that though he
performed well, the team didn't play all that well. Um,
what's your level of confidence that the Warriors when, if
will they be fully constituted? If so, are they still

(01:07:33):
the favorite? I don't feel like they're the favorites, you know,
and as you know, I'm based in northern California and
around them all the time. In terms of the stuff
that's tough to quantify. The vibe, the mojo, the feeling.
It's not a good one around them. Lately. They lose
ten out of seventeen games. A couple of times now,
Steve Kerr has said one thing and his analysis and

(01:07:53):
Kevin Durant has pushed back and said another, Um, you're
kind of alluding to something though, that I think could
be really interesting thing, you know, Do they have some
sort of grand plan here that we are missing in
which Sean Livingston feels fresh and ready to roll despite
some of his injuries and some of the other vets
are able to bridge this gap that we've seen between
them and whoever they're playing the past couple of weeks.

(01:08:15):
Maybe because the Quinn Cook thing, to me has been
as much as I respect the heck out of his story,
what he's done, it's been a little deceiving because he's
been having good individual numbers, but Clay Thompson's, you know,
just not getting the same looks, not having the same
production that Kevin Durant is still putting up huge numbers,
but they're not winning. Draymond is not scoring very much
or being the playmaker that he once was. I just

(01:08:37):
haven't seen the dominant Golden State Warriors in quite some time,
so it's hard for me to say they're the favorites
with Houston. They've been dominant for a long time. That
Luke Mamba mute injury is a big deal, and I
actually think that opens the door up a little bit
to kind of help the Warriors bridge that gap. But
I think it's Houston, uh and the Golden State is
going to be super fascinating and interesting because there's a

(01:08:59):
lot of miss are there. We don't know what they're
gonna be. Sam Amick does a great job covering the NBA.
Read his work online or in print with the USA Today,
or follow him on Twitter as well. Sam will catch
up after we get somewhere here through this first round.
Can't wait to hear your feedback on all of these
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just talking about Nick's letting go a Jeff Horne sec
after two seasons. Kurt Rambis also out in New York

(01:09:46):
after two years. Frank Vogel out after two seasons with
the Orlando Magic. Yeah, who sports is? The Wizards are
signing free agent guard Ty Lawson, who just wrapped up
playing a season in China. Seattle Seahawks post part day
schedule visit with free agent quarterback Colin Caperna, according to
the NFL Network, after Kaepernick didn't know if he'd continued
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(01:10:06):
the Seahawks just wanted to know a plan that Kaepernick
had on how he was going to deal with a
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and Tiger Woods officially filed his entry to play in
the US Open. He last played in the US Open

(01:10:50):
at chambers By and when he missed the cut by
the way at the RBC Heritage Rory saventeen. He has
the lead at seven under part dug back to you.
So he wait, wait he qualified for what now? The
US Open? Yeah, he just filed his paperwork that he's
going to play in the US Open, which was just
a formality. But he hasn't played in the last two years, right,
and he gets like a ten year exemption because ten

(01:11:13):
years ago he won it, right and so after so
now in order to qualify from this point forward, Um,
is it based upon ranking? Is that? What it is
are a lot of different ways that that he could
get into the U s Open. But yes, his exemption.
This is the final year yet top sixty in his

(01:11:35):
If he's top sixty in the world, he automatically gets
invited in. And they also the U s g A
has allowed of special exemption. They've given it thirty four
times to eight players. I'm gonna guess he would be
player number nine if he's not top sixty in the world. Yes,
especially considering next year if he didn't get the exemption,
it would be at Pebble Beach where he ended up

(01:11:56):
having the magnificent US Open in two thous him. So, yeah,
which was um was? Now was speed more dominant? I'm
trying to think what the finishing score was. That was
the most down performance we've ever seen today the the
US Open one was Tiger was twelve under part I
think the next closest was plus two. So that was
that was that For as much as the Masters before

(01:12:19):
what he broke on the scene, the two thousand US
Open really is Tiger's most dominant that he's ever been. Hey,
a quick question, there's a guy who's trolling me on
Twitter because I'm wearing a Lance all Worth jersey, and
of course we're broadcasting live in San Diego. He's like, Wow,
what's with the jersey? Really? Why don't you just put
up another I'm not even going there, Like I can't

(01:12:42):
like it's a Lance all Worth Charger jersey. This is
I mean, you gotta relax. I didn't move the team.
I didn't vote on whether or not the stadium should
be downtown or you know, at where the site of
qualcom like I was. I'm like the only real Charger
fan on national radio. Don't make me dislike you, San

(01:13:03):
Diego fan, listen to us one. If you can't get
with the reality of the stadium wasn't built and the
team moved that you are. You are a guy whose
wife left you because you were unwilling to change something
that she said you gotta change. That's what it is.
We have a new sponsor coming on board, and my

(01:13:25):
wife is not to the where I'm leaving you stage.
But I store, I do, I store, and she does
not get a good night's sleep. Thankfully. I'm I make
enough money to which to this point, we do have
a guest room. I have slept in the couch, I've
slept in the guest room and comes sometimes I don't
snow that bad or she just grins Embarrett and I

(01:13:45):
sleep in the bed, but it's a problem. Like imagine
if you're snoring was so bad and your wife's like, look,
you gotta fix the story, and you gotta fix story.
I'm leaving and you're like, I'm not gonna fix it.
And then she leaves, you like I can't believe she left.
And then your buddy comes over and you're like, yeah,
Sheena left. I liked her. She was cool cool. I mean,

(01:14:06):
you know, and you got you got, you got those kids.
You have kids to worry about. That's all it is.
The team left. It's been a season. It still hurts.
The San Diego Sandy who Chargers just rolls off your tongue.
It feels right. I'm not disputing that. Yes, they play.
They train five minutes from my house. They play a
little bit closer to my house than they used to play.

(01:14:29):
I don't love the idea of Carson anyway. They don't
seem to fit there. I wish they would have built
the stadium in Orange County. They're gonna play in downtown
l A. But I kind of thought the whole thing
about being a fan was you're gonna be a fan.
And by the way, what did you really miss out on?
What did you miss out on? If there was a
new stadium and here's a little thing, San Diego, if
you had a new stadium, yes, I mean, look, you

(01:14:51):
missed the Final four. You would have had it because
it was domed. You would have had essentially every event. Uh,
the College Football Playoff would have come to San Diego.
Why not bigger bowl games, bigger events? Um, you would have.
You probably had the NFL Draft you want, you did,
but okay, but for losing, just losing the Chargers, which
is all you actually lost. You lost eight games and

(01:15:14):
you lost two preseason games. You would have had to
buy tickets for that. You didn't want. Chargers have made
the playoffs in years. I do think they're gonna be
really good this year because Forest Lamp, I love Lamp
coming back off injury, the Williams kid from Clemson. They
basically read shirt their first and second round pick. I mean,
they're I think they're gonna be really good. Um, but

(01:15:36):
you you you missed out on the right to pay
PSLs for a new stadium that you have to pay
money for the rights to buy tickets. You have to
pay money for the right to pay money. That's what
you have to do eight times a year. Your weekends
are free. You can still watch the Chargers and guess what,
if you really want to go see him, you get
in your car and you go see him. Tickets were

(01:15:56):
available last year. Tickets were available. Cut out the emotion
of it, and you're like, my change in life hasn't changed.
I still live in like arguably the greatest city in
the country, and my taxes didn't go up, and you
know what, I got some ancillary income that I can
spend elsewhere that I was spending on Chargers, which was
kind of a love hate thing because they always seem

(01:16:18):
to let me down. Trust me, I remained a Chargers fan,
and it wasn't fun when they started out owing four
because they can't make a field goal. You're probably in
a better place emotionally, if you really get down to it.
At some point, after she's been gone for a year,
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it's got gorillas? Is it is? The gorillas? The reason
why it's PG thirteen, Ralmos, do you let your your daughter?
You're I'm trying to think Lucas and six, So I did.
He did, like the gigantic guerrillas and the big monsters.
I said, I think you're a little too young yet.
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(01:18:10):
it's PG thirteen. Will sneak her in somewhere. My I'll
make it. I'll just tell you a bad parents. Well,
I don't know if it's a bad parents. My kids
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had Keith Pompey, really good writer covers the Philadelphia seventies
six Ers. He had this interesting little tidbit about number

(01:19:40):
one overall pick Marquelle Folds. I don't think anything was
ever wrong with the show. For whatever reason, Marquale was
going through a tough time and he developed the yips,
and I think that fixers were probably trying to protect him.
And I also think that within uh, you know, certain
you know dialogue. Wait, key, do you think the Sixers

(01:20:01):
made this like is this a cover with the shoulder
being hurt? That he had the yips with his shot
and it wasn't any damage to his shoulder. This is
what I think would happen. I think that his shoulder
was bothering him. But I kind of think that there
was more involved with that. You know, if if he
if you say his shoulder was sore. Yeah, but I've

(01:20:23):
never heard of anyone having the shoulder injury that he
had who couldn't play basketball or had to relearn his shot. Now,
and I just think that there were people probably trying
to protect him, and they you know, and they came
up with things. But I do not believe that the
trainer messed up his shot. I do not believe that

(01:20:44):
his shoulder is the reason why he didn't play. That
was earlier today on the Dan Patrick Show. Look, do
I do I think that he had the yips? Yes?
Do I think he had a shoulder injury? Um that
that that made the yips worse? Probably? I mean, like, look,

(01:21:04):
the numbers don't lie. Last year, he played twenty five
games at Washington. Granted to three point line in college
is much closer, but he shot a hundred and twenties
six threes shot from three while playing at Washington. All right,
he's been back now for about ten or so games.

(01:21:26):
He's taken one three pointer. The fact is that Mark L.
Folts not only had the yips, he still has the yips.
He does. He only takes mid rain shots. He seems
to be absolutely positively frightened of getting fouled, and he's
not making free throws when he gets there. I do
I think he had his shoulder injury? Yeah? Do I

(01:21:47):
think he had the yips? Yeah? Do I think the
shoulder injury wasn't the real reason they held him out
for as long as they held about Probably? Keith knows
that team a lot better than I do. Do I
think the hips are solved? I do not. He's taken
one three point shot since his returned from injury. A
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the new He's like, oh, Colin Kaepernick, and that reaction
is exactly why the Seattle Seahawks had their reaction. Kaepernick
was almost on a plane to go visit the Seattle
Seahawks and then he wasn't find out why next in
the dug outlive show and anyway to get a little

(01:22:57):
Twitter back and forth with people who are upset they're
triggered because I'm wearing a lance Over throwback jersey back
when it was the San Diego Chargers. Yes, I actually
knew what I was doing. Like the Lance artwork, throwback
jersey is the most iconic, greatest throwback jersey's jersey in
the history of throwback jersey's right, just is next time

(01:23:20):
I'll throw in my Mark Gastineau throwback jersey. See how
you like that one? Anyway? Um I am. It's it's
interesting that, Uh, I've said this before and I mean
it to be true. Whatever business you're in, generally you're
in one of two businesses, Okay, sales and even sales

(01:23:42):
is the same business the people business or in the
people business. And Colin Kaepernick, I think in many ways
either doesn't understand maybe the gravity of the discussion in
and the movement to which he really not only started

(01:24:04):
but kind of spearheaded, or the fact that he has
started something and then completely walked away from the fire.
Really it it was big at the time when Colin
Kaepernick decided to take a knee, people weren't really noticing.
A local writer asked him about it, and that started,

(01:24:24):
I think some sort of national conversation and maybe he
couldn't have been prepared to answer the questions in the
right way then. But whatever his answers or lack there
of them, of them were now, um, it wasn't good
enough for the Seattle Seahawks. It just wasn't. Ian Rapport

(01:24:47):
reported that the Seahawks did postpone their tentatively scheduled workout
with Colin Kaepernick. As Adam Schefter reported, it was not
because he declined to stop kneeling, though the team asked
for his plan moving forward and how to handle everything,
and there was not a firm plan. It almost feels
like Kaepernick in his side were more offended than anything else.

(01:25:07):
What do you mean I have to have a plan.
What do you mean I have to tell you if
I want to stop kneeling. What do you mean I
have to tell you if I'm gonna start and kneeling
that is a personal decision, Like, no, it ain't, dude,
No it ain't. Because you are in sales and you
are in the people business, because that's what we're in
and the customer is always right. The customer has said, hey, man,

(01:25:32):
we don't got one guy's kneeling. And that doesn't mean
every customers said it, but enough customers have said it
to which customers right And for a backup quarterback for
a guy who does not have a job to not
understand they're gonna ask you about that. I've worked at
two other places, okay, and I do think that one

(01:25:53):
of the reasons we're on in San Diego is not
just because of the dulcet sounds of my voice, right,
or the hottest of hot eggs to come out of
this microphone, or even the interviews that we have. By
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(01:26:14):
iTunes wherever you download your podcast. Fox sport Trade dot
com is also a good sight. But a big reason
why we're on in San Diego is I got a
boss in New York I used to work for who
allowed this to happen, right, And so here's why why
it relates to Kaepernick. When you're trying to get a

(01:26:36):
new job. They are not just going to call your references.
They are going to call your previous bosses. That's why
you have to list places that you've worked, because they
want to check you out. I want to ask about you.
And then when they find out things, I want to
ask about things. Hey, what happened with this? Hey? What
happened with that? And when your answers, when your answer

(01:26:59):
is like, I don't know, how are you going to
handle when this happens, they ask you scenarios. I almost
feel like woke America sometimes forgets that this is business America,
and in business America, one customer is always right. And
enough customers have told the NFL, we're clicking off our

(01:27:21):
channels because guys renealing, guys were disrespecting the flag. It
doesn't matter what the intended message Kaepernick and some of
his teammates and some others in the NFL had, honest
the goodness, it doesn't matter because there's no ability to
contextualize it. He not only did he not have a

(01:27:43):
plan for it, but apparently now he doesn't have a
plan and oh yeah, by the way, while he has
like look, Kaepernick has done a lot of good works
since he's been now the NFL. Obviously they would be
made more public. They would be made more public had
he um had he been in the Nashtional Football League. Right, like,

(01:28:03):
all these the good things he's been doing in his
year away from football, though some of them we have learned,
we would learn all of them had he been playing
on Sundays. But he was unable to control the narrative.
He wasn't good enough as a quarterback to overcome any
kind of naysayers. And I understand where the Seahawks are
coming from. Remember think of it. If you're the Seahawks,

(01:28:24):
they had the genocid the likes of Richard Sherman and others.
Michael Bennett's no longer on that team. And it wasn't
just that Michael Bennett was politically woke. He's a polarizing
figure in the locker room. Richard Sherman's a polarizing figure
in the locker room. They had issues with their quarterback
and getting along with the rest of the team and
the rest of the team respecting their quarterback. And so

(01:28:47):
you're gonna bring in a backup quarterback who automatically divides
the locker room. Hey, how are you going to handle
the fact that there's gonna be guys that don't want
you sign because of the protest, or there's gonna be fans,
and when you don't have the right answer and you've
had a year and a half prepare for the answer.
This is honestly, this is like how NFL people talk

(01:29:09):
about drug tests. Do you know how it works? In
the NFL drug testing policy, you have one test before
training camp, one one. If you fail that test, then
you're into the program. And once you're into the program,
now you get tested more readily. Right, NFL front office

(01:29:29):
people call that first test not a drug test, they
call it an i Q test Because if you're dumb
enough to get caught using something during that period of
time where everyone in the league knows you're going to
get tested once, you don't deserve to be in the
next fool that you're too stupid. That's what they believe.
That's what they'll they'll never say that on camera. That's

(01:29:49):
what they all say. I know several of them. That's
what they all say behind camera. And the reason is
you've had the entire offseason to prepare for that testing moment.
It's no different in the wonder Lick, or failing drug
tests at the combine, or not running well or not
lifting well. Well, you didn't know you were going to
drug test at the combine. You didn't know there was
a wonder lick at the combine. You didn't know you

(01:30:11):
were gonna be asked hard questions the combine. You didn't
know this, of course you do. We've had a combine
for a quarter century. What's what's the old John Wooden statement?
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. And so if
Colin Kaepernick didn't have a plan in place for how
he was going to execute his protest or lack of protest,

(01:30:35):
he didn't have an answer. We even knew over last
year and a half. You haven't figured it out. It
doesn't mean that his protest doesn't mean that Seattle didn't
want him. They probably didn't want him to take a knee,
because enough customers have said don't take a knee, but
to not back it up with here's what I plan
to do. And if I'm if I'm hired, I there'll

(01:30:59):
be people that trolled me. They're like, Yo, what were
you gonna do if you've got a basketball coaching job
last year? Well, There's a friend of mine who's the
head coach and major university in college that I asked
that exact same question, like what should I be doing?
And he set me a plan. He's like, look, here's
my first hundred days. You should do the same, And
I have it and I formed my own. You know why,

(01:31:21):
because failing to prepare his preparing to fail. And Colin
Kaepernick has not worked out for the Seattle Seahawks, a
team that is in a liberal area, a team that
needs a backup quarterback, a team that starting quarterback runs
around a lot. At some point, you gotta feel like
Russell Wilson's gonna get hit, gonna get hurt because they
don't protect him. It's a great opportunity, but he wasn't prepared,

(01:31:44):
and whatever his answers were weren't even getting good enough
to get him on site. Mike Uh Mike tweets the
show Kaepernick not having a plan tells me he really
doesn't want to play football. He likes the idea of playing,
but doesn't want to play. I tend to agree with you,

(01:32:05):
right music, You said the exact same thing to me
when we were driving here today, the exact same thing
to me. Yeah, it just seems like they are trying
to understand where he is and what he wants to do,
and they're trying to form Okay, what are you about
in your life right now? And Kaepernick's not all in
on playing football, and so they don't want to bring

(01:32:26):
him in. Now. You can argue the merits of whether
or not that's fair or unfair, or make the comparisons
to other players in the league who also have things
that they do outside of football. That's all fine and good.
But the point is for the Seahawks, they have a
job opening, and for the job opening, their requirements are
are you about coming in and playing football? Essentially Colin

(01:32:48):
Kaepernick's answer is no. So they said, you're not the
candidate we're looking for. Um. Yeah, look I I I
actually think I actually think the opposite could be true.
I actually think that he could have said, Hey, I
just want to come here and play football, and like,
what about the protest stuff? He's like, you know, I
don't do you have a plan for it? Like I
just like, look, I just want to be about football,

(01:33:08):
not about the protests. UM. On the other hand, if
you signed Colin Kaepernick, you have to know that this
is the first question asked, right, are you going to
take a knee? If he says no, why why are
you no longer taking a knee? Are you ditching all
the people that supported you? If you say yes, all right,
how are you going to respond when other people in
your locker room, when you divide some of the locker room,

(01:33:31):
or when you divide some of the fan base. You
know what happens when police local police officers say like, look,
we don't want to be on the field with Colin
Kaepernick because some of the language he initially used was
was visceral. Al right, he called cops murderers. That's what
he did. And so how are you going to handle that?

(01:33:54):
Either way? You gotta have a plan for it. And
it's not like it was a question that he didn't
didn't know was coming. It's unlike it was this is
this is a lot like when you when you get
to a test and do you remember you get to
a test in college and you look at you're like, man,
is that one written in Mandarin? Did I? Was I?
And why was it? Because he weren't paying attention and
keep up with the syllabus, he didn't know what was

(01:34:14):
going on. These are not questions. He shouldn't have been
prepared to ask. He should have had a plan in place. Now, look,
if the plan wasn't good enough, that should have been
what we heard from Colin Capno. We had a plan
in place. He was going to continue kneel. He wanted
to do good works. He wanted to change the reset
the narrative of what the protest was about, and show

(01:34:35):
his growth over a year, and be a good soldier,
and be a backup quarterback and just be there to
be a great guide for Russell Russell Wilson's future. But
that wasn't when we heard failing to prepare, preparing to fail.
If he didn't know that, he has divided some of
his the locker room, some of his fan base, and
some of he divide fans in the National Football League

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(01:36:22):
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(01:36:46):
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(01:37:09):
we don't know everything about every story. We know a lot,
and we try and get knowing ourselves more informed, but
you more informed. We call it. We don't know everything,
but we know people that know what you want to know.
You know, it sounds like you need a guy. I
got a guy. I do got a guy in New York.

(01:37:33):
His name is Mike Karo. He covers the New York
Nicks and other stuff for the New York Post at
Mike back that's v A C C on Twitter, Mike,
not a lot of surprise that the Nicks aren't horny anymore.
They get rid of uh Jeff horna sec after a
couple of years new management, So not a lot of
tears shed. But did he do a good job considering

(01:37:56):
Christopsprezingis got hurt and they were competitive before he got hurt,
you know, And sometimes you have to judge a guy
on two different levels, dou I think, And the fact
is that you know, the Knicks were better than people
fought for the first thirty games when they had a
full team. But I think also once you show yourself
to be better team and than you thought you were
going to be, then you get judged differently. And I
think on that other level, he kind of came up

(01:38:19):
wanting and certainly, look but nobody could really be judged
off with the mix for the last two months after
Porzinions got hurt, because it was just a there was
a complete disaster night after night and really unwatchable basketball.
But I mean, I don't think he was the worst
failure of the Nicks have never had as a coach,
But I do understand why they want to make a
change given no more the reason that he's kind of
the last vestage of It's called Jackson Europe yep okay,

(01:38:39):
so um. Like, look, many have tried, and with the
exception of pat Riley, I mean some huge names have
all failed, I guess. But like, look, my my dad
was a New Yorker. I get the whole New York thing.
I get that. Anybody who's ever been around the Guarden
knows it's different. Those fans are so they still oh

(01:39:00):
even when the team stink, right. That's what one of
the problems is that there's there's no real push for
them to be great because people still go anyway. But
so many basketball people have tried to be the guy
to turn that thing around. Is it still as attractive
a job nationally to the big name NBA coaches as
it once was. I don't think it is in the

(01:39:20):
same way. Playing for the Nix isn't the same thing.
I mean, there was a time, I think twenty years
ago when Lebron James, given the opportunities certainly that have
tried to play in New York because it meant a
lot of other things. But you can be Lebron James
in Cleveland now everything as easy ways it could be
in New York. And I think coaches are feel the
same way. I mean, look, people see Mike D'Antoni was
a great coach before, he's a great coach now, and
he failed Mr p at the Knicks. Larry Brown is

(01:39:43):
the Hall of Fame coach, and you know what's the
one dark stand on his resume when he was with
the Knicks. I think coaches look at that, and I
think they're smart to look at it, because, uh, you know,
it's it's it's it's a wonderful place to to to work, obviously,
and one thing in times are good, there's probably no
other places that you'd rather be a part of a
basketball team. But it's just been so bad there for

(01:40:03):
so long that I mean, you really have to have
a lot of faith in yourself and your process to
be able to succeed there. Okay, so what's let's let's
start with Jay right, he wins two titles in three years.
He's from Philly. There's always been this desire to maybe
try and get him to coach the Sixers in the NBA.
Now there's talks they're gonna reach out. Uh, they're gonna

(01:40:25):
reach out and discuss with him. Is he a fit
for the turnaround of the Knicks? What I think from
the mixed standpoint, they'd be true to be true for
them to be able to interest Jay right in the job. Um,
I I don't know that that that that you want
to abandon what's probably a pretty secure job for life
where he is right now, where he's already pretty well

(01:40:45):
compensated for a job that basically right now, the appeal
is that they're probably able to pay you a lot
of money. Um. But that that said, I think it's
it's you know, the mixer is smart to talk to
him because he's certainly one of the one of the
better guys in the business, the overall business that there is.
But I just be very surprised I've got the connection there,
just because there's so many, so much stuff attached to

(01:41:07):
the next when the ownership on down that I just
don't know that somebody like you right, who's got plenty
of options, would want to we want to trust his
career that all right. I'm I'm big on guys hire
people generally they know, right, I mean, that's that's kind
of the way it works. Guys hire people they know.
So Scott Perry um Sonics became Thunder, He's got that.

(01:41:30):
Then he followed Rob Rob Hennigan to Orlando. Uh, then
he went to you know, he did go to Sacramento
for a short period of time. So somewhere along the
line he bumped elbows. It's got to be either a
Thunder guy in Orlando magic guy or a San Antonio
Spurs guy. Because as as you know, those of us
in sports now Spurs obviously very close um, very close

(01:41:54):
with with the guys from the Thunder. What's your best
guests on who is target Obey? Well, you know, it's interesting.
I agree with me and to me, I think that
would be a smart way for him to go is
if you've got a guy that he always feels good about,
because that's how you wanted up with some other like
Quinn Snyder and Utah Uns. How you wind up with
someone like Terry Stocks in Portland. It's how you wind
up with a coach who's actually really good at a job.

(01:42:17):
The problem is in New York. I mean, he's going
to have to talk to Mark Jackson, He's going to
have to talk to Doc Rivers, if he's available next,
I think, I thank those are the things that you
have to kind of mean you navigate right now, and
you know, you hope he's got enough authority and he's
got enough of a place of prominence in the organization
now where those guys aren't fits for him, that he
will then go to his own to his own past.

(01:42:39):
But you know that that that that that's always the
issue with the mixes, that they talk a good game
and then we want him doing stuff that you know,
almost seems like the you know, always the easiest way out,
and that's what I would see here. Not to Mark
Jackson or Doc Rivers wouldn't be good highers. It's just
that I fear they're going to limit themselves to those
kind of guys. I think that would be a mistake.

(01:43:00):
It's gonna be fascinating to watch. Mike Facaro will cover
it all for you with The New York postfum on
Twitter at Mike vac. Mike, thanks so much for joining
us in the Doug Golip Show. They're talking, I got
a guy, Let's go to Seattle. One of my favorite guys,
David Softiemuller, joins us. He host Son three to three
to six thirty PM on nine fifty A m k

(01:43:20):
j R. In Seattle. We're on their other am affiliate
in Seattle at soft e kJ R. Softly, I want
to ask you about Colin Kaepernick. Um, there's kind of conflicting,
sort of combined stories here from Adam Schefter and Ian
Rappaport on Colin Kaepernick. He was supposed to come and

(01:43:40):
meet with the Seahawks, their in need of a backup quarterback.
He'd been up there before. They wanted to see him
work out. What do you know about what actually happened? Well,
first of all, if I'm one of your favorite guys,
that list must not be very long. Number one, and
then number two, I don't know a damn thing about
what actually happened. Yeah, because nobody from the Seahawks, at
least from a local perspect is talking yet. I mean, look,

(01:44:02):
here's here's what we do know, right. We do know
the Seahawks have a need for a backup quarterback. As
you mentioned there, Doug number one, Russell Wilson right now
is the only quarterback on the entire roster. For crying
out loud, we also know that Russell Wilson has been
taken a beating the last two years behind this offensive line,
and it's a freaking miracle that he has not missed
to start. So at some point, knock on wood, just
reality tells you, logic tells you there's going to be

(01:44:24):
a need for a backup quarterback at some point in time.
In Seattle, right, nobody plays their entire career without missing
a game. So would you rather have an established like
a Colin Kaepernick or maybe a rookie, you know, maybe
a a younger guy like a Travon Boykin or or whoever.
So this has been a real polarizing topic for a
lot of people in Seattle. Uh we we we do know,

(01:44:44):
as you said it earlier, that he was here a
few months ago. What I had heard about that visit,
by the way, is that Colin Kaepernick showed up and
thought he was the cock of the walk, right, thought
he thought his you know what, didn't stink that a
major ego, was not ready yet to accept the backup role,
was not ready to accept the kind of money the
Hawks were offering as a backup potentially, and the vibe
they got from him was not a good one, so

(01:45:06):
they let him go. Now, I think that Colin Kaepernick
has accepted reality that he's not gonna get starting money
from the NFL and that he does not have a
chance to really pick and choose where he wants to play. Uh,
maybe he's willing to consider a backup role for for
little to no money in a place like Seattle. What
what I don't understand about the whole story, Doug, to
be honest with you, is if it's true that they

(01:45:26):
did have a visit scheduled and then reached out to
him and said, Hey, just so we know before you
show up here, are you gonna kneel again for the anthem?
And he said, yes, I am, and the Hawks pulled
the plug on the visit. Why would they not figure
that out before they schedule a visit. Why would they
not reach out to Colin Kaepernick and say, hey, we're
interested in talking. We want to sit down, but we
want to know what your plan is moving forward. And

(01:45:48):
if he says my plan is to still kneel, then
the Hawks can say, well, until that changes, we're gonna
have to hold off on a visit. Uh. They may
have taken some heat for that, by the way, but
now they're taking heat for actually scheduling a visit and
pulling the plug. What they should have figured all this
out before they scheduled. Okay, I had the radio analogy
that I just figured out because I'm talking to a

(01:46:08):
great radio guy. Right, So here's here's here. No, no, no, here,
here's how I see it. Okay, Um, afternoon drive what
you do in Seattle? And you've done for how many years? Softie?
I've been with years overall? How many years you've done
afternoon drive? I don't want to change the question since
the Atlanta Games of five years? Five years? Okay, so

(01:46:30):
five Once you do afternoon drive, you either mornings or
afternoon drive on local, like those are your prime spots, right.
So they brought him up last year and he's an
afternoon drive guy, but they already have an afternoon drive guy.
And they're like, yeah, we brought you up here to
do nights. Okay, No, we brought you up to here
do nights. Okay, you're gonna do graveyard. Okay, we got
a guy who do the afternoon. We don't do everything.

(01:46:52):
But he's a little volatile. His numbers have been up
and down, Like we love him, but you know, he
might move to a bigger market, he might whatever we're
gonna bring here to nights, and he was like, dude,
I'm I'm an afternoon guy. I do afternoon drive, but
I do have to drive here. Okay. So this year
they called him back and they're like and he's like, okay,
I'll do whatever. I haven't worked for a year. I'll
do nights, I'll do weekends, I'll do remote set at

(01:47:15):
at where wherever you want me to do it. I'll
do it for whatever. And they're like, all right. Turns
out that um, he made an inappropriate joke at a
previous station, right and it got him fired. And they're like, look,
when we hire you, people are gonna ask you about
this inappropriate joke. Are you gonna make it inappropriate humor?
And if you're asked about it, how are you going

(01:47:36):
to handle it? And you're like, you know what? And
he his answer is, you know, look, I haven't even
thought about it. I'm just coming up here. Do you
want me to do nights or not want me to
do nights. I'm just a radio host. That's how I
see Kaepernick. What what would your if if? If that's
an appropriate analogy, I think it's fair to say Seattle
could could balk at a visit. Well, I don't blame
those guys at all, uh for for not bringing him

(01:47:57):
in here. If he's going to continue to kneel for
the anthem, it doesn't bother me any. But I'm one guy,
You're one guy. I mean, I think we'd be naive
if we did not admit that there's a certain segment
of the Seahawks fan base that is completely bothered by
anything involved in the name Colin Caprick. There's also a
certain segment of the fan base that is totally okay
with it. I mean, for me, from a personal perspective,
I I I don't have a real problem with the

(01:48:19):
way he's protesting. I I find it funny that people
have a bigger issue with the protest itself than what
the guy is protesting in the first place. But that's
just me. That's one dude's opinion. The Seahawks are running
a business, and they've got to be cognizant of a
certain segment of their fan base that would be totally
turned off. I mean, look, John Mara from the Giants
even admitted like a year ago, he can't bring in

(01:48:39):
Colin Capritick because his fans would cancel season tickets. It's
not stupid. He knows his fan base and the Hawks
no there. So I just wish they would have taken
care of all this insider information about the kneeling and
YadA YadA YadA before they scheduled the visit. But if
he look, if they're bringing him into be a backup quarterback,
the last thing that the Seahawks want is a backup
quarterback to be the story. Right, you played basketball. You

(01:49:01):
want the tough guy on the bench to be a
to be a story. You want the tiled guy in
the bench to be a distraction. That's not what the
Seahawks want. You. You're talking about a guy who hopefully
knock on wood if Russell Wilson doesn't get hurt, never
plays a snap, yet he's a giant story every week
in that locker room. They're not gonna go through that
for a guy who's thirty one years old November, hasn't
played football in fifteen months, and hopefully, if things go

(01:49:22):
the right way, we'll never play it down for them.
So I I look, I I get the Seahawks stance
as well, but I also understand Colin Kaepernick stance. I mean,
in the end, you know, he he probably wants to
have his cake and eat it. Two, he wants to
continue his protest the way he wants to continue it,
and he wants to do it in the NFL. And
and right now the NFL doesn't want him to do
it to do it like that. So he's got to
make a decision. Does you want to continue to protest

(01:49:44):
or didn't want to play by the NFL's rules which
they've set up, which we can argue if they're just
or not. But unfortunately for him, that's what the NFL
is looking for. He's not ready yet to make that move.
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him for all three hours when we serve up some
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My car to myself, I have a great time, and yeah,
we'll be back at it this Sunday. NBA playoffs will

(01:51:13):
obviously be a big topic of conversation as the NBA
regular season wrapped up. Joel Embiid says he's unlikely to
play a game one of their playoffs series Saturday against
the Heat because of a facial fracture. Other notes from
the NBA today, the Knicks fired dead coach Jeff hornessec
after two seasons. Kurt Rambis also out as an assistant
New York Daily News, saying the team will reach out
to Villanova's Jay Wright about their coaching vacancy. Frank Vogel

(01:51:35):
done after two seasons with the Orlando Magic, fired today
as he won just fifty four games during his tenure
at Wrigley. And there's a line drive to left field
date this ball is gone. A line drive home run
Rita Bella for Francisco the cup Killer might have delivered
a knockout punch. The Bucks now laid six to one

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in the seventh On the Pirates Radio network, that's the
final from Wrigley, as the Pirates are not nine and three?
Dug Yeah, who needs and Row McCutchen and Garrett Cole
the Pirates leading the nl central with that nine and
three marks Sure it's early Browns and wide receiver Jarvis
Landry close to terms in a five year, seventy five
million dollar extension, according to reports, forty seven million dollars

(01:52:20):
guaranteed by the Way for Landry. According to the NFL Network,
it's a faverage of fifteen million year, right, isn't that fascinating?
How bad is that Sammy Watkins deal? That's what That's
what it leads me to that that that because my
my biggest question, like Sammy Watkins to the chief is
an awful deal? Not that like Jarvis Landry is um.

(01:52:45):
Jarvis land has been far more productive. He's been a
number one ride receiver. Sammy Watkins was not. Hasn't stayed
healthy and went healthy? He wasn't. Now could you say
he started to come into his own last year with
the Rams as he got healthy, Yeah, and got good
for him. But I guess at some point you've got
to be paid commensurate with what you've been able to
produce on the football field. We've seen who who Sammy

(01:53:06):
Watkins is, and he seems seems to be a little
bit overvalued by the Cancer Chiefs as supposed to the
Browns paying a million less per year for a more
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day getting his own auto zone. I saw this, and
this is really interesting to me. Okay, I have a
different way of looking at the Barry Bonds home run record.
I do not believe that he is the rightful home
run king because he used steroids in order to do it. Like,
think about it. Barry Bonds, who was previous to indulging
in steroids, was a shore Fire first ballot multi m

(01:53:49):
v P Hall of Famer. Right, there's nobody who argues
with that he should not be in the Hall of Fame.
I don't believe he shouldn't be in the Hall of
Fame because he achieved the game to Cheetah Sports Barry Bonds.
Think about this. At thirty five, he had forty nine
home runs. At thirty six, he had seventy three. At

(01:54:10):
thirty seven, he had thirties. He had forty six at
thirty eight, at forty five, at thirty nine, he had
forty five. Look if you go back to when he
was first in Pittsburgh, when he was an m v P,
he was two time m v P. When he was
in Pittsburgh, he had thirty three and thirty four home runs.

(01:54:33):
He comes to San Francisco and he hits forty six.
And now look, am I willing to believe that early
on his run in San Francisco he wasn't absolutely on steroids.
Maybe maybe remember his powers began to fade yet an
injury plagued when he was thirty four, and that's usually
when you start the process of decline. That that's when

(01:54:53):
you start that start to decline. So um, when I
look at Barry Bonds, it makes me just in awe
of Hammer and Hank because Barry Bonds, who was already
a Hall of Famer, had to juice up and hit

(01:55:14):
home runs into his late thirties and early forties. Right,
Remember he had twenty six and twenty eight. He would
still get walked the time. People just wouldn't pitch to
him because he was a monster. And you know, how
do he maintain that size and that strength? Pretty obvious
how he did with Boco, right, especially in the steroid

(01:55:34):
era in the early two thousand's seventy three. I think
of Henry Eron, who did it when half the people
in the country didn't want him to succeed. I think
of Henry Eron, who did it during the dead ball era,
and Henry Eron, who never had a season where he
hit over fifty home runs and he was like picture

(01:55:56):
of home run hitting consistency. Last night, the Timberwolves made
to the playoffs the first time in thirteen years. Right
when if you saw the stat uh, Carl Anthony Towns
is the second player in NBA history to score twenty
plus points a game, ten rebounds, over tenn rebounds a game,
shoot over from two from three, over five percent from

(01:56:20):
the free throw line. You know the other one was
Larry Joe Birt Larry Bird. People have missed on the
fact that at before injury, Larry Bird was as or
more productive than even Lebron James. Now he's not as
athletic as Lebron James, he's not the better shooter. I

(01:56:40):
believe he's a better passer um and he played a
different position in a different era. But when I see
Carl Anthony Towns, who had an incredible offensive season, do
something that only one guy has done before, my knees
are Correctually, who's that other guy? And why don't we
give it more credit? That's just how I look at
the sports world. Will the process be ready in time

(01:57:02):
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(01:57:25):
just coming in for Major League Baseball. Joe Kelly of
the Red Sox HA spended six games for his role
in last night's brawl with the New York Yankees. Tyler
Austin and the Yankees, who was the Hall of part
of that suspended five games for his role. He did
the spike's high slide into brock Holts and then got
plunked by Kelly and then the benches cleared. Yep, So

(01:57:47):
that just coming in from mid league baseball. Yes, yeah,
that's pretty cool. The let's move on from baseball to
the NBA six or Senner Joel Embiads says it's unlikely
he'll play a game one of the playoffs series Saturday
against the Heat because of his facial fracture. Not ruling
himself out completely, but yes, the NBA did it. Ounce

(01:58:09):
today they set a new record for attendance for the
fourth straight season. Is more than twenty two million fans
attended games this year. Yeah, yeah, congratulations, first time the
league has broke the twenty two million barrier. Tristan Thompson
a father again. Yes, the Cavaliers big man at the
birth of his second child. Today. Chloe Kardashian gave birth

(01:58:30):
to a baby girl. It's her first child. Thompson was
excused from practice today for the birth. Hey, I don't
I don't think that happened. Um, but I'm sure it wasn't.
I'm sure it was pretty awkward to say the least, right, Yeah, Roger.
That Duke freshman Wendell Carter is the latest decision on

(01:58:54):
whether to enter the NBA Draft or stay in school,
according to The Undefeated, because he actually likes it at Duke.
The report says, well, his mother would be fine with
him staying in Durham. His father wants him to leave
for the n b A. How about this? Wrap it up?
W n b A star Lindsey Whalen says she will
continue to play in the league in addition to coaching

(01:59:14):
her alma materis Today, she was officially named as the
head coach of the Minnesota women's basketball team. So yes, yes,
double duty for Lindsey Whalen. I bang it out there
and pressed. That was the press.

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