This is Prime Cuts! The best of The Colin Cowherd Podcast. First it's Colin's top takes of the week (3:00), including his thoughts on Bruce Arians' surprise retirement announcement, if Tom Brady's fingerprints on it, and why fans and media are overreacting to the Chiefs moving on from Tyreek Hill.
Then, longtime NFL writer Mike Silver (19:00) gives his thoughts on the shocking Arians announcement, including if Arians was forced out , and how it played out differently than the power struggle between Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson in Seattle.
Next, comedian - and host of The Adam Carolla Show - Adam Carolla (24:00) discusses Will Smith's viral slapping of Chris Rock at the Oscars, and why Adam's experience writing jokes at the Oscars makes him unsympathetic to Smith.
Finally , College Hoop Insider - and host of The Aaron Torres Sports Podcast - Aaron Torres (31:00) explains why this year's tournament has been such a huge success (19:00), why Duke is so dangerous right now and why Kentucky is like the Dallas Cowboys of college hoop.
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This is Prime cuts, the best of the Colin Coward
podcast Crazy Week Awesome guests. Mike Silver reacted to Bruce
Arians in Tampa moving upstairs. It's Tommy's team. Comedian Adam
Carolla thoughts on Will Smith's ridiculous Oscar slapping of Chris Rock.
I talked Final four with College hoops insider Aaron Torres
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and why makes John Calapari look even worse with Duke's success?
But first, my top takes of the week. Any time
things seem sudden and strange, there is usually a coup involved.
Bruce Arians, who never showed any interest in the front office,
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although he had hinted at retirement, suddenly retires so quickly
that the Buccaneers had to rush the staff and rush
the players together to tell them, meaning it wasn't really planned,
meaning Brady wanted him out. Listen, tom retires, the un
retires Arians. I'm good here, Then suddenly I'm moving upstairs.
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Todd Bulls is in it. All is very strange and sudden.
Come on, now, I think most of you understand how
the game works. This was never culturally New England to
Tampa was always a weird fit. One is academic cold weather, Boston, politics, sports,
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a powerbroker's Town, one Tampa Ebor City Cocktails early a
goofy franchise, one obsessed quarterback, one dysfunctional franchise. Tom went
there for more control and better weapons. He got the weapons,
he got the super Bowl. But what Tom never truly got,
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even in his super Bowl winning season was control. And
that Arians is a seat of the pants, go with
your gut coach. When Arians and I like Bruce, but
when he went to CBS to broadcast, the feeling was
he wasn't overly prepared, he was funny. People liked him.
He is as seat of the pants guy and Brady's not.
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This was always a weird cultural fit. It was always
a weird fit, old school Bruce, adapting, evolving obsessed Tom,
and it worked the first year, folks. We saw this
multiple times. I mean Arians called out Brady. Tom took
one for the team. You think Tom liked that. Legends
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don't like to be called out. They can laugh, they
can fall on the sword at the podium. They don't
like that. So this has always been a very very
turbulent relationship, and of course it is, of course it is.
You know, I always think Bruce Arians was a perfect
fit with big Ben. Big Ben was not obsessed. Big
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Ben was a gun slinger. Big Ben isn't over the
top backyard football quarterback arians and big Ben to me, like,
that's a perfect relationship. You know what I think Tom's
perfect relationship is Kyle Shanahan, obsessed, maniacal, considered the great
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scheming coach. Remember, as good as McVeagh is, mcveay will
acknowledge privately, Shanahan is the better scheme guy. Sean is
the better culture builder, better in front of the room,
and he has built that with Rams. So you know,
fit matters. This is why Aaron Rodgers, for all his talent,
has one super Bowl. He doesn't always get along with players.
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He has struggle with coaches, he has struggled with executives.
Aaron Rodgers should have multiple super Bowls. If you looked
at his talent in Tom, you'd say he's got seven
super Bowls. The other guy has won. Tom usually is
a better fit, easier to get along with. Aaron's difficult
and so you know, fit has always been undervalued in sports.
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Chemistry has always been undervalued. We talked about this often
that you know, if it was just about movie stars
make movies, then why wouldn't Paramount or Sony or Disney,
just go higher. Five movie stars make movies and everybody
files into the theater. Doesn't work that way. It's plot.
Its director works very well with casting, director and producer
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and stars and complimentary pieces. So, you know, Brady and
arians was destined to have a great deal of tumult.
It was destined to be turbulent. They got a Super
Bowl out of it. But all these things happening so strangely,
and so suddenly they tell you wanted two things in Tampa.
He wanted better weapons and more control, and he got
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one and he didn't get the other. Now, Todd Bowles
as the coach, I'm going to talk about that in
a couple of minutes with Mike Silver. You know, Todd
is the kind of coach that will let Brady take
the offense. That's very much his personality. Todd's a great
defensive coach. He's not power hungry. You know, he is
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not a formulaic coach where this is the way I
do it, my way or the highway. It's not really
todd Bulls personality. He'll let Tom run the offense. He'll
run the defense. It will you know, Bowles when he
was with the Jets. You know, he wasn't much at
the podium. He's not much of a personality. He is
not a self promoter. He's just a really driven, humble, grateful,
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gracious guy who coaches the hell out of defense. You know.
Is he a great coach, He's a great coordinator. But
I think he and Brady will align better than Bruce
and Brady. And I mean Tom is obsessed. I still
contend that. And we've had multiple reports to confirm this,
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including Tom Brady's dad. What did Tom Brady's dad say
two three weeks ago Tom didn't want to retire. There
were external forces. Was one of the external forces the
power grab? I mean, Tom Brady's dad said there were
there were other things going on. He didn't name names.
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So you know, Tom Brady's dad has to a fault,
not for me, but for Tom to a fault. Been honest,
he came out. Tom doesn't want to retire. So this
is um. It may be sudden and strange, but it's
fairly predictable. And I mean Brady is too detailed and
too planned to suddenly retire and unretire. That is the
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most Unbrady move ever. That is just that's just not
what he does. I mean Aaron Rodgers and drama. Yeah,
that's kind of predictable. Brady not having everything thought out,
that's just not that's so off brand. So listen, I
think bowls and Brady will be a better fit. Tom
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runs the offense, I'll have say in personnel when he
can absolute control of the game plans. Which were you
watched Tom versus time he wanted more control of the
game plans. That's well documented. Now he's going to have it.
So you know a lot of times you go for
a job and there's two or three things that you
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want and you get one or two of them early,
and then you have success, and then you get that
one you didn't get the first year in your second
or third year. And so once Brady won the Super Bowl,
the owners probably went all right, let's let's weigh the
options here. Greatest football quarterback ever, good coach, good guy.
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We still owe the money on the salary. We'll just
move him upstairs. But that's what this is. Now, you're
probably gonna have agents, and you're gonna have people come
out and say, oh, this is really their best of friends.
Oh stop, we're not idiots here. Sports fans, you follow it,
I fallow, this is incredibly easy to spot what happened here.
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It's not like Bruce and Tom can't walk down the hallway.
Arians is still getting his money. They're still going to
be in the same building. They're adults, still get along. Fine.
This is better for the franchise, it's better for Tom.
You know, Bruce Arians has had a heck of an
NFL career. Now he's just gonna have a different office,
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probably on the second floor. NFL free agency isn't done.
I am very interested to see where New York Giants
corner James Bradberry lands. He's good and the Chiefs are
leading on him. Well well, well so Kansas City, which
has twelve draft picks and a lot of cap space,
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loses Tyreek Hill, and what do you know, they're adding
really nice players. We always overreact to this stuff. About
thirty three percent of free agents hit are highly productive.
That means almost seventy percent are not. Listen, Tyreek Hill
is great, but he's going to go from Andy Reid
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and Patrick Mahomes to rookie head coach Mike McDaniel and
Tua Call me Zaney, I see a drop off. In production.
The Chiefs went out and got ju Juice Smith Schuster.
He was a good slop receiver with an old, bad
quarterback and a terrible old line. What's he going to
be in Kansas City? The reality is, and we know
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this to be true, if just a bunch of great
actors made great movies, then you just as a studio
higher five or six A list actors regardless of the plot,
and put them on screen. But we know that some
of the biggest busts in Hollywood history, the biggest flops,
have been when you throw multiple A list actors together.
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the fit. So much of that is true in Hollywood,
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where you go to college and free agency. Listen, you
know this and I know this. You can look around
the NBA. Lebron is the rare player that works everywhere.
NBA is a great example. Chris Paul works everywhere. But
we've seen time and time again in some guys just
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don't connect. Kyrie Irving James Harden both are too ball dominant.
The reality with Tyree Hill, Kansas City has good chemistry,
a great play designer, and a world class quarterback. Juju Smith.
Schuster's numbers should increase, by the way, so should Marquis
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Valdez Scantling's number. Why Because Aaron Rodgers generally doesn't trust
anybody but his favorite wide receiver or favorite tight end
in big spots, Patrick mahomes much more willing to distribute
to multiple wide receivers. Take a deep breath. Kansas City
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Longtime NFL rider Mike Silver Holy Schnikey's so listen, Mike,
this is not a difficult one to read. The tea
leaves like, these personalities were always different. I said when
Tam went to Tampa. The cultures are different. One Boston
sports politics, obsessed, prep schools, intense, academic, lousy weather, workaholics,
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the great history the other Ibor City baby cocktails early.
You know. So I always thought, and I said this,
I said, Tom Will, it's the football is not the problem.
It's the cultural gap that he's gonna have to get
used to. Like he's gonna have to train this team
to be obsessed. Remember the helicopter pictures at the high school.
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I'm like, Okay, he's getting there. He's getting there. But
this feels like and probably the term sounds too intense,
a little bit of a power grab, older coach obsessed quarterback.
Tom went to Tampa for two things. Weapons in control.
He got one right out of the shoe. He didn't
get the other and he wanted it is that fair? Well, Okay, listen,
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first of all, let's let's let's step back. They had
two pretty good years together, right, They won a Super Bowl,
went to Lambeau, albeit fanless Lambeau, but one in the
cold at Lambeau, and then killed the Chiefs. And then
this year one of my favorite Brady games ever, if
not my favorite, And I wrote about this when he
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retired for a while. But you know, he's down twenty
seventy three and we all know about twenty eight three
and all the crazy things that had to happen there,
but this was to be equally epic. And yeah, there
was a coverage breakdown at the end that Cooper cut
made a play and the Rams did win that game,
but you know, what he did in that last game
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was incredibly hard and maybe if they get that to
overtime and win, you know, who knows what would happen.
So two great years, and look, I don't want people
to oversimplify and go on Tom Brady and Bruce arians.
I mean, was it a perfect bat of course not,
but way better match than Tom Brady and Bill Belichick
(20:06):
personality wise. And that one lasted what twenty years and
obviously they did incredible things together. So I think if
you gave trom Brady truth Sarah had said, would you
rather play another year with Bill Belichick or Bruce Arians?
He would laugh and be like, please be a it's great.
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But yeah, I don't think it's I think more just
you know, the control thing I don't think was an
issue in terms of the offense. I think based on
what Bruce Arias told me that first year, he told Tom,
let's run what you want, let's put your stuff in,
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and he kind of stepped back a lot, and they
ran Brady's offense for better or worse, and obviously for
better in terms of the results. I just wonder, you know,
if I think, you know, you could look to the
Antonio Brown thing for example, right, Bruce Arians had had
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it with Antonio Brown in that moment, and maybe a
younger coach who is less by way or the highway
would have massaged that. I actually don't know. I'm kind
of on BA side on that one, but you know,
maybe things like that, Tom Brady would think, hey, we
(21:33):
could be a little less reactionary here. You know, BA
grabbed his own guy. Uh. You know, there's some old
school moments. But but I honestly think it's an oversimplification
to just go well, Tom needed to get rid of
Bruce arians just that's that's a terrible batch. He's a
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host of the podcast The Adam Carolla Show. He was
one of the first big podcasts in this industry, you know,
and from The Man Show. He has a book out.
His latest book is Everything Reminds Me of Something advice
answers but no apologies. And with that we bring in
the world renowned Adam Corolla. So, Adam, I'm gonna give
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you my take, my ninety second take on Will Smith,
and then you slice it, dice it, do whatever you
want with it. As a stand up comedian, as somebody
who's on stage, you tell me where I'm wrong on this.
So I'm agnostic. So I don't speak about religion. But
there's a certain reality for the mobster who goes to
(22:37):
repent his sins on Sunday then shoots the guy in
front of a steakhouse on Thursday night. He's not fooling
God right, like he's fooling himself. The Hollywood athlete or
the athlete, or the Hollywood act or the leading man,
they've all got side dishes right multiple when they come out.
And I'm not speaking specifically to Will, but you know,
(22:59):
leading man, an athlete, there are no industries where men
cheat more than those two. They use their power in
the leverage to gain access to beautiful women. I saw
a lot of takes from athletes, current former, a lot
of leading men types, big tough guys saying, hey, you
got to protect your woman, and I'm like, no, No,
(23:20):
like the mobster who shoots the guy in front of
the steakhouse. You're not fooling anybody but yourself. If you
cared about the woman in your life, you wouldn't be
fucking around all the time. This is about your ego,
which you couldn't subjugate because your wife cheated on you.
It's very public, and in this moment you look small.
This was not about your wife. This was about your ego.
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Take a well. Also, there's a context. You know you're
going to be in show business. You're gonna sit in
the front seat of the oscars. I've written for two oscars.
I've been there. You know. The process is you show
up days before and they have the picture of all
the celebrities and where they're sitting by the way, always
(24:04):
in black and white. I always thought to myself, this
is the Oscars. You can't afford a color ink cartridge.
But they can't. It's black and white. And by the way,
some of the older guys and some of the other guys,
you have to look at it for a while before
you can realize just who that is. But anyway, so
there's a context, your front seat of the Oscars, and
(24:24):
here comes Chris Rock and it is his job to
roast notable people that are sitting up front. So this
essentially it's like marrying a porn star, going to the
set of the porn movie and then freaking out because
someone's your wife. You knew the job was dangerous when
you took it. There's a context. Chris Rock didn't show
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up to your home and start making fun of your wife.
You sat in the very front seat of the Oscars.
He's a comic, he's going to roast. That's your context.
It shouldn't elicit that kind of response. Adam, I go
to you her most of Beach Comedy Store. I've gone,
you know, down on Sunset West Sunset. So I've had
friends that are comedy writers. I've talked to Leno. You know,
(25:10):
when I was a kid, I wanted to be Johnny Carson.
Like a lot of kids, I didn't want to be
a sportscast. I didn't even know what it meant. Just
wasn't talented enough. So I went into sports lower bar
for that. Probably. So one of the things I've noticed
about the great comedians They've got a set, but they
played with the crowd. They interact with the crowd. I
don't think somebody said it's not as scripted. It wasn't scripted.
(25:33):
It was you look at her, you have a line.
By the way, g I Jane was sort of an
empowered woman, right, She was like a powerful, successful woman.
So in that instance, I think Jesus. If you tell
comedians they can't add lib in the biggest stage in
the industry, the Oscars, what are we doing here? Yeah?
(25:54):
I disagree, just because I've been behind the curtain there
a couple of times. It probably was an ad libbed
It could have been quickly thought of backstage or at
some previous point, but it probably wasn't ad libbed. And
that you get writing assignments. It's like here's gonna here's
(26:15):
gonna be sitting here and this person's gonna be there
and they'll go give me a few jokes for this person,
and give me a few jokes for that person. So
probably wasn't off the cuff. Regardless whether it's off the
cuff or not, you're on stage, you're telling the joke.
There's no barrier between you and the audience, and sort
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of taking the law into your own hands is not
a good precedent. Speaking of the law, I literally just
got done doing a podcast with Attorney Mark Garrigos. And
as far as the law goes, if Chris Rock doesn't
want to press charges and there was no damage done
(26:56):
to him, then the law is gonna leave it a
loan unless you have some prosecutor who's looking for a
bunch of publicity who would like to take this on.
Is really a grand stand type type trial. What would
you do if I was the prosecutor? No, if you
were Chris Rock, we're a bigger, stronger you. You're a
(27:17):
former boxer. I think you're something right. Yeah, well, first off,
I'd be so surprised that I don't know what I
would do. Like, it's hard to fathom. Chris's brain must
have been whirling like a dervish, not only from the slap,
but just from the bizarre context of the whole thing. Right,
(27:39):
I probably would have done what he did. I probably
would have just sort of carried on. Now, what I
was hoping for is that they would escort will Smith
out of the building, and then later on, when he
won the Academy Award, Chris Rock would accept it on
his behalf. You still do a lot of stand up, right, Yes,
(28:01):
you drive a lot of revenue and podcasting that we
all know. I figured you drive a lot of revenue
in your stand up which you're very active. Do you
worry now this incentivizes some idiot for Miller lights in
the heck a you. I have little to no regard
for my own personal safety. I've just always kind of
been wired that way. It's never a thing for me.
(28:23):
I've been in fights, I used to teach boxing. I
just don't have a fear for my own personal safety.
But you know, Jeff Ross does, and so he's gonna
have to think about it when he goes up on stage.
I am wired from where I come from and work
in construction and riding motorcycle, getting in fights, you know,
(28:43):
teaching boxing and stuff like that I just don't have that. Sure,
oh you know what could happen. It doesn't mean it won't.
It certainly is kind of greased the skids for that behavior,
and I won't it won't be in the back of
my head when I perform well. I think he does
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as good a job as anybody in the country in
college basketball. Aaron Torres I met him a few years ago.
He came on my set when people were allowed to
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of the Eron Torres podcast. He really knows his stuff.
Author of One in Fun, the book about the twenty
ten Kentucky Wildcats. Listen, this is now a cliche, but
(29:25):
it's been a it's been a really great tournament we've had.
Aaron jot like the Saint Peter's story is obviously great.
Miami shocked me. I don't really get them. I you know,
I'm five minutes from UCLA. I watched them all year long,
and I'm like, they're just I don't know what I get.
Then I watched them in the tournament. Then in the
minute I fall in love with them, they get whacked
(29:46):
by Carolina. So I mean, my takeaway is we ended
up with a lot of blue bloods. I like that,
but it's interesting. I don't feel we have a great team.
I think we have four good teams. I think do
feels like to me the most talented. But you do this,
you love this, you watch all of these. You're encyclopedic.
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Is did this tournament have more upsets? Did it feel different?
Or is it just the fact that it's been good TV,
good announcers, good times mostly right that you know, outside
of a couple of late games, it just feels this
year has been special. Well, col I mean, I think
the biggest thing with this tournament we gotta remember this
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is the first time in three years that we've had
a normal tournament. And you know, as the Carolina game
goes final and we realize we're getting this this final
four basically of a television you know, executive's dream right
as much as there can be. I went back and
you think about it twenty twenty, then see a tournament's
really the only major sporting event that really ended up
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being canceled. We figured out a way to play the
NBA in a bubble Major League Baseball and a bubble
the NFL with limited fans. Then last year, the twenty
twenty one tournament is planned in the middle of the pandemic,
and so it was it was really the last major
sporting event that felt like a COVID sporting event. Two
weeks later, we're starting in the NBA playoffs. We have
full arenas. I mean, I remember turning into that first
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Knicks game against the Hawks. Madison Square Garden's rocking, and
so I think it's it's a lot of things. I
think that the early rounds were awesome. They were fun.
You know, you have the storylines that always carry the tournament.
You have the familiar faces and coach k Jay Wright,
Bill self later, and I just think fans in the
stands normal time schedule. Like you said, if you remember
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last year, we were playing games on like Monday, Yesterday nights.
It's just good to have it feel in a little
bit normal again after three full years, twenty nineteen was
the last time we had one of these normal ones.
And even though we have blue bloods, let's talk about this.
So I try to I watch more Duke and Gonzagger
than anybody else because I know Mark Fu I went
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to college up there, so I probably watch a half
dozen games a year. I always watched Duke when they're on,
and they're on constantly. But let's let's talk about that.
So let's start with Duke. I think they're the most
talented team. You know, they've got a five star point
guard who is not as good as everybody thinks. And
you know, I watched them in the tournament and I'm like, oh,
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total gamer. It feels like he's busting out and becoming
like a star. But when I watched them play, my
eyes tell me that and this is I think endemic
of college basketball. They're figuring out how to play together finally,
but they feel like the most gifted team athletically are
they Oh they're zeroed out And it's crazy because you know,
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they just I don't really ever remember anything quite like
it where they have a couple of really nice wins.
Early in the year, you mentioned being a Gonzaga guy
and knowing that program. Well, yeah, they played in Vegas
on Black Friday. I was there Duke one, and you
came out of that game saying Duke's the best team
in the country because Gonzaga had just destroyed UCLA a
few nights before. So that's all the way back in November.
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Then we have two and a half months where they
basically hit cruise control in the ACC. And that was
kind of the crazy thing about it to me coming
into this tournament was I sat there and said, listen,
by the way, I am not the guy that picked Dukes,
so I'm not trying to take credit and pat myself
on the back. But it was also kind of crazy
to think about most talented team, legendary coach in a
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tournament where everybody has stuff to play for, they have
the most to play for, you know, sending out coach
k and style, and so I think, not only have
they figured it out, Kom, but but what I notice is,
and I'm sure you've noticed it too, they're figuring it
out throughout the tournament. Right Like the Arkansas game felt
easier than the Texas Tech game, the Texas Tech game
felt easier than the Michigan State game. And so what
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does that mean for next weekend in New Orleans? I
don't know. But they are the most talented team. That's
why I thought they would give Arkansas trouble. Arkansas, what
they're great at doing is taking away what you do best,
what you got five NBA players on the floor. You
could do just about anything you want in any game,
even time. And we saw that in the Saturday games.
And I think your spot on it. They're by far
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the most talented team we'll see if they get these
two final wins. But as you said, very much figuring
it out here as we go along in this tournament.
You know, it's interesting. I don't know why I instinctively
think this every time, every time Duke has a great run,
I know it must eat away at Calapari because I think, listen,
he took a shot at Duke in their recruiting, their
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one and done stuff, saying, you know, they say we'll
take care of her for life, and he's like, you know,
we don't sell that stuff. And my takeaways it's recruiting.
You do whatever you gotta do. You just show the
kid more love. If that's the way Duke shows the love.
But I do think because I think we understand Duke
is a you know, private small academically. You know, I
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understand athletes can take classes. But I think instinctively, I
think Kentucky should be better than Duke, right, like Kentucky
should be better than Duke. The revenue, the arena is bigger.
You know, they recruit in the South big that they
are the name in the South, or as that unfair
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and that Duke, because they're so prestigious, should be the
best team in college basketball. Well, Duke has the thirty
year track record of the same guy in that seat.
And now, you know, I mean coach K. You can
say what you want about him, but what five national championships?
That the other thing that Coach K did a great
job of selling probably about seven eight years ago, all
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those Olympic gold medals. Oh yeah, I coached Kobe, I
coach Lebron, I coach Katie. You know, there's no there's
no high school player that there isn't a comp to
in in you know, Coach K's rolodex. So you know,
are they supposed to be better? I don't know. What
I would say is definitively they're not supposed to be
losing to Saint Peter's. And it's like you said, you know,
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seven years so Final four twenty fifteen, that seven years,
one year there's a COVID season, there's no term played.
So really the last six tournaments I would say, is
this so actually I think you'll like this. Colin I
don't know if you saw me say this the other day,
but right now, to me, they are the Dallas Cowboys
of college football college basketball, and it's because they win
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in the regular season. They win enough where you can't
really like just clean house and start over, but they
don't win the games that matter. And that's to me
where I think Kentucky and Kentucky fans would say, oh,
you know, the Cowboys haven't won a World super Bowl
since blah blah blah. But I bring it up because
where Kentucky is now is I don't think their fans
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are national championship or bust. If they got to an
Elite eight and they lost to UCLA or Baylor or
they got to a Final four and lost to Kansas
or North, they'd be frustrated. But you can't lose to
Saint Peter's. And it's like I said, with the Cowboys.
You can lose in the playoffs. You can't lose because
Dak doesn't know when to spike the ball and when
to go and you're running up field and it's you know,
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And that to me is where we are with Kentucky.
I don't I really don't believe that the fan base
is if we don't win a national title, fire everybody.
That's not what it's about. But you can't lose to
Saint Peter's as a fifteen seed. And again, by the way,
in a season where Duke is in a final four,
Kansas is in a final four. All those that have
all the advantages that you do, they're in the final four.
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This is Prime cuts, the best of the Colin Coward
podcast Crazy Week Awesome guests. Mike Silver reacted to Bruce
Arians in Tampa moving upstairs. It's Tommy's team. Comedian Adam
Carolla thoughts on Will Smith's ridiculous Oscar slapping of Chris Rock.
I talked Final four with College hoops insider Aaron Torres
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and why makes John Calapari look even worse with Duke's success?
But first, my top takes of the week. Any time
things seem sudden and strange, there is usually a coup involved.
Bruce Arians, who never showed any interest in the front office,
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although he had hinted at retirement, suddenly retires so quickly
that the Buccaneers had to rush the staff and rush
the players together to tell them, meaning it wasn't really planned,
meaning Brady wanted him out. Listen, tom retires, the un
retires Arians. I'm good here, Then suddenly I'm moving upstairs.
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Todd Bulls is in it. All is very strange and sudden.
Come on, now, I think most of you understand how
the game works. This was never culturally New England to
Tampa was always a weird fit. One is academic cold weather, Boston, politics, sports,
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a powerbroker's Town, one Tampa Ebor City Cocktails early a
goofy franchise, one obsessed quarterback, one dysfunctional franchise. Tom went
there for more control and better weapons. He got the weapons,
he got the super Bowl. But what Tom never truly got,
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even in his super Bowl winning season was control. And
that Arians is a seat of the pants, go with
your gut coach. When Arians and I like Bruce, but
when he went to CBS to broadcast, the feeling was
he wasn't overly prepared, he was funny. People liked him.
He is as seat of the pants guy and Brady's not.
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This was always a weird cultural fit. It was always
a weird fit, old school Bruce, adapting, evolving obsessed Tom,
and it worked the first year, folks. We saw this
multiple times. I mean Arians called out Brady. Tom took
one for the team. You think Tom liked that. Legends
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don't like to be called out. They can laugh, they
can fall on the sword at the podium. They don't
like that. So this has always been a very very
turbulent relationship, and of course it is, of course it is.
You know, I always think Bruce Arians was a perfect
fit with big Ben. Big Ben was not obsessed. Big
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Ben was a gun slinger. Big Ben isn't over the
top backyard football quarterback arians and big Ben to me, like,
that's a perfect relationship. You know what I think Tom's
perfect relationship is Kyle Shanahan, obsessed, maniacal, considered the great
(05:38):
scheming coach. Remember, as good as McVeagh is, mcveay will
acknowledge privately, Shanahan is the better scheme guy. Sean is
the better culture builder, better in front of the room,
and he has built that with Rams. So you know,
fit matters. This is why Aaron Rodgers, for all his talent,
has one super Bowl. He doesn't always get along with players.
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He has struggle with coaches, he has struggled with executives.
Aaron Rodgers should have multiple super Bowls. If you looked
at his talent in Tom, you'd say he's got seven
super Bowls. The other guy has won. Tom usually is
a better fit, easier to get along with. Aaron's difficult
and so you know, fit has always been undervalued in sports.
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Chemistry has always been undervalued. We talked about this often
that you know, if it was just about movie stars
make movies, then why wouldn't Paramount or Sony or Disney,
just go higher. Five movie stars make movies and everybody
files into the theater. Doesn't work that way. It's plot.
Its director works very well with casting, director and producer
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and stars and complimentary pieces. So, you know, Brady and
arians was destined to have a great deal of tumult.
It was destined to be turbulent. They got a Super
Bowl out of it. But all these things happening so strangely,
and so suddenly they tell you wanted two things in Tampa.
He wanted better weapons and more control, and he got
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one and he didn't get the other. Now, Todd Bowles
as the coach, I'm going to talk about that in
a couple of minutes with Mike Silver. You know, Todd
is the kind of coach that will let Brady take
the offense. That's very much his personality. Todd's a great
defensive coach. He's not power hungry. You know, he is
(07:26):
not a formulaic coach where this is the way I
do it, my way or the highway. It's not really
todd Bulls personality. He'll let Tom run the offense. He'll
run the defense. It will you know, Bowles when he
was with the Jets. You know, he wasn't much at
the podium. He's not much of a personality. He is
not a self promoter. He's just a really driven, humble, grateful,
(07:47):
gracious guy who coaches the hell out of defense. You know.
Is he a great coach, He's a great coordinator. But
I think he and Brady will align better than Bruce
and Brady. And I mean Tom is obsessed. I still
contend that. And we've had multiple reports to confirm this,
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including Tom Brady's dad. What did Tom Brady's dad say
two three weeks ago Tom didn't want to retire. There
were external forces. Was one of the external forces the
power grab? I mean, Tom Brady's dad said there were
there were other things going on. He didn't name names.
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So you know, Tom Brady's dad has to a fault,
not for me, but for Tom to a fault. Been honest,
he came out. Tom doesn't want to retire. So this
is um. It may be sudden and strange, but it's
fairly predictable. And I mean Brady is too detailed and
too planned to suddenly retire and unretire. That is the
(08:56):
most Unbrady move ever. That is just that's just not
what he does. I mean Aaron Rodgers and drama. Yeah,
that's kind of predictable. Brady not having everything thought out,
that's just not that's so off brand. So listen, I
think bowls and Brady will be a better fit. Tom
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runs the offense, I'll have say in personnel when he
can absolute control of the game plans. Which were you
watched Tom versus time he wanted more control of the
game plans. That's well documented. Now he's going to have it.
So you know a lot of times you go for
a job and there's two or three things that you
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want and you get one or two of them early,
and then you have success, and then you get that
one you didn't get the first year in your second
or third year. And so once Brady won the Super Bowl,
the owners probably went all right, let's let's weigh the
options here. Greatest football quarterback ever, good coach, good guy.
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We still owe the money on the salary. We'll just
move him upstairs. But that's what this is. Now, you're
probably gonna have agents, and you're gonna have people come
out and say, oh, this is really their best of friends.
Oh stop, we're not idiots here. Sports fans, you follow it,
I fallow, this is incredibly easy to spot what happened here.
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It's not like Bruce and Tom can't walk down the hallway.
Arians is still getting his money. They're still going to
be in the same building. They're adults, still get along. Fine.
This is better for the franchise, it's better for Tom.
You know, Bruce Arians has had a heck of an
NFL career. Now he's just gonna have a different office,
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probably on the second floor. NFL free agency isn't done.
I am very interested to see where New York Giants
corner James Bradberry lands. He's good and the Chiefs are
leading on him. Well well, well so Kansas City, which
has twelve draft picks and a lot of cap space,
(11:06):
loses Tyreek Hill, and what do you know, they're adding
really nice players. We always overreact to this stuff. About
thirty three percent of free agents hit are highly productive.
That means almost seventy percent are not. Listen, Tyreek Hill
is great, but he's going to go from Andy Reid
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and Patrick Mahomes to rookie head coach Mike McDaniel and
Tua Call me Zaney, I see a drop off. In production.
The Chiefs went out and got ju Juice Smith Schuster.
He was a good slop receiver with an old, bad
quarterback and a terrible old line. What's he going to
be in Kansas City? The reality is, and we know
(11:52):
this to be true, if just a bunch of great
actors made great movies, then you just as a studio
higher five or six A list actors regardless of the plot,
and put them on screen. But we know that some
of the biggest busts in Hollywood history, the biggest flops,
have been when you throw multiple A list actors together.
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You know that fit matters. Because college preparatory counseling has
become a huge business in the last two decades. What
a good counselor will tell you, even if you have
the perfect student, great grades and act scores, that doesn't
mean they fit at Harvard and Yale. It's all about
the fit. So much of that is true in Hollywood,
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where you go to college and free agency. Listen, you
know this and I know this. You can look around
the NBA. Lebron is the rare player that works everywhere.
NBA is a great example. Chris Paul works everywhere. But
we've seen time and time again in some guys just
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don't connect. Kyrie Irving James Harden both are too ball dominant.
The reality with Tyree Hill, Kansas City has good chemistry,
a great play designer, and a world class quarterback. Juju Smith.
Schuster's numbers should increase, by the way, so should Marquis
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anybody but his favorite wide receiver or favorite tight end
in big spots, Patrick mahomes much more willing to distribute
to multiple wide receivers. Take a deep breath. Kansas City
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Longtime NFL rider Mike Silver Holy Schnikey's so listen, Mike,
this is not a difficult one to read. The tea
leaves like, these personalities were always different. I said when
Tam went to Tampa. The cultures are different. One Boston
sports politics, obsessed, prep schools, intense, academic, lousy weather, workaholics,
(18:11):
the great history the other Ibor City baby cocktails early.
You know. So I always thought, and I said this,
I said, Tom Will, it's the football is not the problem.
It's the cultural gap that he's gonna have to get
used to. Like he's gonna have to train this team
to be obsessed. Remember the helicopter pictures at the high school.
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I'm like, Okay, he's getting there. He's getting there. But
this feels like and probably the term sounds too intense,
a little bit of a power grab, older coach obsessed quarterback.
Tom went to Tampa for two things. Weapons in control.
He got one right out of the shoe. He didn't
get the other and he wanted it is that fair? Well, Okay, listen,
(18:57):
first of all, let's let's let's step back. They had
two pretty good years together, right, They won a Super Bowl,
went to Lambeau, albeit fanless Lambeau, but one in the
cold at Lambeau, and then killed the Chiefs. And then
this year one of my favorite Brady games ever, if
not my favorite, And I wrote about this when he
(19:19):
retired for a while. But you know, he's down twenty
seventy three and we all know about twenty eight three
and all the crazy things that had to happen there,
but this was to be equally epic. And yeah, there
was a coverage breakdown at the end that Cooper cut
made a play and the Rams did win that game,
but you know, what he did in that last game
(19:42):
was incredibly hard and maybe if they get that to
overtime and win, you know, who knows what would happen.
So two great years, and look, I don't want people
to oversimplify and go on Tom Brady and Bruce arians.
I mean, was it a perfect bat of course not,
but way better match than Tom Brady and Bill Belichick
(20:06):
personality wise. And that one lasted what twenty years and
obviously they did incredible things together. So I think if
you gave trom Brady truth Sarah had said, would you
rather play another year with Bill Belichick or Bruce Arians?
He would laugh and be like, please be a it's great.
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But yeah, I don't think it's I think more just
you know, the control thing I don't think was an
issue in terms of the offense. I think based on
what Bruce Arias told me that first year, he told Tom,
let's run what you want, let's put your stuff in,
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and he kind of stepped back a lot, and they
ran Brady's offense for better or worse, and obviously for
better in terms of the results. I just wonder, you know,
if I think, you know, you could look to the
Antonio Brown thing for example, right, Bruce Arians had had
(21:11):
it with Antonio Brown in that moment, and maybe a
younger coach who is less by way or the highway
would have massaged that. I actually don't know. I'm kind
of on BA side on that one, but you know,
maybe things like that, Tom Brady would think, hey, we
(21:33):
could be a little less reactionary here. You know, BA
grabbed his own guy. Uh. You know, there's some old
school moments. But but I honestly think it's an oversimplification
to just go well, Tom needed to get rid of
Bruce arians just that's that's a terrible batch. He's a
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cheat more than those two. They use their power in
the leverage to gain access to beautiful women. I saw
a lot of takes from athletes, current former, a lot
of leading men types, big tough guys saying, hey, you
got to protect your woman, and I'm like, no, No,
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like the mobster who shoots the guy in front of
the steakhouse. You're not fooling anybody but yourself. If you
cared about the woman in your life, you wouldn't be
fucking around all the time. This is about your ego,
which you couldn't subjugate because your wife cheated on you.
It's very public, and in this moment you look small.
This was not about your wife. This was about your ego.
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Take a well. Also, there's a context. You know you're
going to be in show business. You're gonna sit in
the front seat of the oscars. I've written for two oscars.
I've been there. You know. The process is you show
up days before and they have the picture of all
the celebrities and where they're sitting by the way, always
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in black and white. I always thought to myself, this
is the Oscars. You can't afford a color ink cartridge.
But they can't. It's black and white. And by the way,
some of the older guys and some of the other guys,
you have to look at it for a while before
you can realize just who that is. But anyway, so
there's a context, your front seat of the Oscars, and
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here comes Chris Rock and it is his job to
roast notable people that are sitting up front. So this
essentially it's like marrying a porn star, going to the
set of the porn movie and then freaking out because
someone's your wife. You knew the job was dangerous when
you took it. There's a context. Chris Rock didn't show
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up to your home and start making fun of your wife.
You sat in the very front seat of the Oscars.
He's a comic, he's going to roast. That's your context.
It shouldn't elicit that kind of response. Adam, I go
to you her most of Beach Comedy Store. I've gone,
you know, down on Sunset West Sunset. So I've had
friends that are comedy writers. I've talked to Leno. You know,
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when I was a kid, I wanted to be Johnny Carson.
Like a lot of kids, I didn't want to be
a sportscast. I didn't even know what it meant. Just
wasn't talented enough. So I went into sports lower bar
for that. Probably. So one of the things I've noticed
about the great comedians They've got a set, but they
played with the crowd. They interact with the crowd. I
don't think somebody said it's not as scripted. It wasn't scripted.
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It was you look at her, you have a line.
By the way, g I Jane was sort of an
empowered woman, right, She was like a powerful, successful woman.
So in that instance, I think Jesus. If you tell
comedians they can't add lib in the biggest stage in
the industry, the Oscars, what are we doing here? Yeah?
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I disagree, just because I've been behind the curtain there
a couple of times. It probably was an ad libbed
It could have been quickly thought of backstage or at
some previous point, but it probably wasn't ad libbed. And
that you get writing assignments. It's like here's gonna here's
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gonna be sitting here and this person's gonna be there
and they'll go give me a few jokes for this person,
and give me a few jokes for that person. So
probably wasn't off the cuff. Regardless whether it's off the
cuff or not, you're on stage, you're telling the joke.
There's no barrier between you and the audience, and sort
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of taking the law into your own hands is not
a good precedent. Speaking of the law, I literally just
got done doing a podcast with Attorney Mark Garrigos. And
as far as the law goes, if Chris Rock doesn't
want to press charges and there was no damage done
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to him, then the law is gonna leave it a
loan unless you have some prosecutor who's looking for a
bunch of publicity who would like to take this on.
Is really a grand stand type type trial. What would
you do if I was the prosecutor? No, if you
were Chris Rock, we're a bigger, stronger you. You're a
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former boxer. I think you're something right. Yeah, well, first off,
I'd be so surprised that I don't know what I
would do. Like, it's hard to fathom. Chris's brain must
have been whirling like a dervish, not only from the slap,
but just from the bizarre context of the whole thing. Right,
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I probably would have done what he did. I probably
would have just sort of carried on. Now, what I
was hoping for is that they would escort will Smith
out of the building, and then later on, when he
won the Academy Award, Chris Rock would accept it on
his behalf. You still do a lot of stand up, right, Yes,
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you drive a lot of revenue and podcasting that we
all know. I figured you drive a lot of revenue
in your stand up which you're very active. Do you
worry now this incentivizes some idiot for Miller lights in
the heck a you. I have little to no regard
for my own personal safety. I've just always kind of
been wired that way. It's never a thing for me.
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I've been in fights, I used to teach boxing. I
just don't have a fear for my own personal safety.
But you know, Jeff Ross does, and so he's gonna
have to think about it when he goes up on stage.
I am wired from where I come from and work
in construction and riding motorcycle, getting in fights, you know,
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teaching boxing and stuff like that I just don't have that. Sure,
oh you know what could happen. It doesn't mean it won't.
It certainly is kind of greased the skids for that behavior,
and I won't it won't be in the back of
my head when I perform well. I think he does
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as good a job as anybody in the country in
college basketball. Aaron Torres I met him a few years ago.
He came on my set when people were allowed to
come on my set pre COVID, Fox Sports Radio, host
of the Eron Torres podcast. He really knows his stuff.
Author of One in Fun, the book about the twenty
ten Kentucky Wildcats. Listen, this is now a cliche, but
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it's been a it's been a really great tournament we've had.
Aaron jot like the Saint Peter's story is obviously great.
Miami shocked me. I don't really get them. I you know,
I'm five minutes from UCLA. I watched them all year long,
and I'm like, they're just I don't know what I get.
Then I watched them in the tournament. Then in the
minute I fall in love with them, they get whacked
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by Carolina. So I mean, my takeaway is we ended
up with a lot of blue bloods. I like that,
but it's interesting. I don't feel we have a great team.
I think we have four good teams. I think do
feels like to me the most talented. But you do this,
you love this, you watch all of these. You're encyclopedic.
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Is did this tournament have more upsets? Did it feel different?
Or is it just the fact that it's been good TV,
good announcers, good times mostly right that you know, outside
of a couple of late games, it just feels this
year has been special. Well, col I mean, I think
the biggest thing with this tournament we gotta remember this
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is the first time in three years that we've had
a normal tournament. And you know, as the Carolina game
goes final and we realize we're getting this this final
four basically of a television you know, executive's dream right
as much as there can be. I went back and
you think about it twenty twenty, then see a tournament's
really the only major sporting event that really ended up
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being canceled. We figured out a way to play the
NBA in a bubble Major League Baseball and a bubble
the NFL with limited fans. Then last year, the twenty
twenty one tournament is planned in the middle of the pandemic,
and so it was it was really the last major
sporting event that felt like a COVID sporting event. Two
weeks later, we're starting in the NBA playoffs. We have
full arenas. I mean, I remember turning into that first
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Knicks game against the Hawks. Madison Square Garden's rocking, and
so I think it's it's a lot of things. I
think that the early rounds were awesome. They were fun.
You know, you have the storylines that always carry the tournament.
You have the familiar faces and coach k Jay Wright,
Bill self later, and I just think fans in the
stands normal time schedule. Like you said, if you remember
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last year, we were playing games on like Monday, Yesterday nights.
It's just good to have it feel in a little
bit normal again after three full years, twenty nineteen was
the last time we had one of these normal ones.
And even though we have blue bloods, let's talk about this.
So I try to I watch more Duke and Gonzagger
than anybody else because I know Mark Fu I went
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to college up there, so I probably watch a half
dozen games a year. I always watched Duke when they're on,
and they're on constantly. But let's let's talk about that.
So let's start with Duke. I think they're the most
talented team. You know, they've got a five star point
guard who is not as good as everybody thinks. And
you know, I watched them in the tournament and I'm like, oh,
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total gamer. It feels like he's busting out and becoming
like a star. But when I watched them play, my
eyes tell me that and this is I think endemic
of college basketball. They're figuring out how to play together finally,
but they feel like the most gifted team athletically are
they Oh they're zeroed out And it's crazy because you know,
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they just I don't really ever remember anything quite like
it where they have a couple of really nice wins.
Early in the year, you mentioned being a Gonzaga guy
and knowing that program. Well, yeah, they played in Vegas
on Black Friday. I was there Duke one, and you
came out of that game saying Duke's the best team
in the country because Gonzaga had just destroyed UCLA a
few nights before. So that's all the way back in November.
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Then we have two and a half months where they
basically hit cruise control in the ACC. And that was
kind of the crazy thing about it to me coming
into this tournament was I sat there and said, listen,
by the way, I am not the guy that picked Dukes,
so I'm not trying to take credit and pat myself
on the back. But it was also kind of crazy
to think about most talented team, legendary coach in a
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tournament where everybody has stuff to play for, they have
the most to play for, you know, sending out coach
k and style, and so I think, not only have
they figured it out, Kom, but but what I notice is,
and I'm sure you've noticed it too, they're figuring it
out throughout the tournament. Right Like the Arkansas game felt
easier than the Texas Tech game, the Texas Tech game
felt easier than the Michigan State game. And so what
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does that mean for next weekend in New Orleans? I
don't know. But they are the most talented team. That's
why I thought they would give Arkansas trouble. Arkansas, what
they're great at doing is taking away what you do best,
what you got five NBA players on the floor. You
could do just about anything you want in any game,
even time. And we saw that in the Saturday games.
And I think your spot on it. They're by far
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the most talented team we'll see if they get these
two final wins. But as you said, very much figuring
it out here as we go along in this tournament.
You know, it's interesting. I don't know why I instinctively
think this every time, every time Duke has a great run,
I know it must eat away at Calapari because I think, listen,
he took a shot at Duke in their recruiting, their
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one and done stuff, saying, you know, they say we'll
take care of her for life, and he's like, you know,
we don't sell that stuff. And my takeaways it's recruiting.
You do whatever you gotta do. You just show the
kid more love. If that's the way Duke shows the love.
But I do think because I think we understand Duke
is a you know, private small academically. You know, I
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understand athletes can take classes. But I think instinctively, I
think Kentucky should be better than Duke, right, like Kentucky
should be better than Duke. The revenue, the arena is bigger.
You know, they recruit in the South big that they
are the name in the South, or as that unfair
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and that Duke, because they're so prestigious, should be the
best team in college basketball. Well, Duke has the thirty
year track record of the same guy in that seat.
And now, you know, I mean coach K. You can
say what you want about him, but what five national championships?
That the other thing that Coach K did a great
job of selling probably about seven eight years ago, all
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those Olympic gold medals. Oh yeah, I coached Kobe, I
coach Lebron, I coach Katie. You know, there's no there's
no high school player that there isn't a comp to
in in you know, Coach K's rolodex. So you know,
are they supposed to be better? I don't know. What
I would say is definitively they're not supposed to be
losing to Saint Peter's. And it's like you said, you know,
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seven years so Final four twenty fifteen, that seven years,
one year there's a COVID season, there's no term played.
So really the last six tournaments I would say, is
this so actually I think you'll like this. Colin I
don't know if you saw me say this the other day,
but right now, to me, they are the Dallas Cowboys
of college football college basketball, and it's because they win
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in the regular season. They win enough where you can't
really like just clean house and start over, but they
don't win the games that matter. And that's to me
where I think Kentucky and Kentucky fans would say, oh,
you know, the Cowboys haven't won a World super Bowl
since blah blah blah. But I bring it up because
where Kentucky is now is I don't think their fans
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are national championship or bust. If they got to an
Elite eight and they lost to UCLA or Baylor or
they got to a Final four and lost to Kansas
or North, they'd be frustrated. But you can't lose to
Saint Peter's. And it's like I said, with the Cowboys.
You can lose in the playoffs. You can't lose because
Dak doesn't know when to spike the ball and when
to go and you're running up field and it's you know,
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And that to me is where we are with Kentucky.
I don't I really don't believe that the fan base
is if we don't win a national title, fire everybody.
That's not what it's about. But you can't lose to
Saint Peter's as a fifteen seed. And again, by the way,
in a season where Duke is in a final four,
Kansas is in a final four. All those that have
all the advantages that you do, they're in the final four.
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