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Don't listening to Fox Sports, Hey, let's do it again.
It is a beautiful Sunday morning. Whatever you're doing wherever
you're headed. Thanks for making us part of your Sunday rituals.
Mike Harmon alongside the All American, the pro bowler, the
King of the Mammals himself. It's our guy, LaVar Arranton.
What up? What is going on? Sir? It's another beautiful

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day in southern California waiting for the sun to arise.
As you heard from Ilo, we got the All Star Game.
People can go go and try to detegrate it in
any way, shape or form. How do we fix the
dunk contest? How about you? Did you grab a beer,
sit on your couch and enjoy it? Mm hmm. That
always sounds amazing. See the way I just fixed that

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so fast. Everybody wants to have stars. Whatever the idea
of the game, The idea of those contests at this
point is to create new stars. Like everything else, survive, adapt, advance.
On the couch part better well, I mean, it's it's
part of the overall experience. And then if you have
a good um sugger finger on your remote control, I

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mean there's myriad viewing options if you don't like what
you're seeing it funny did you watch Coming to America too?
You know what I've saved it. Okay, I have I
have it yet part of me is trepidacious of it.
I gotta be honest with you because the reviews were
not kind. People who's trying, you know, movies, reviews and

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and thoughts haven't exactly been positive sending me just don't
spend your time like, but I wanna did you watch it?
Do you want me to give a review or do
you want me to let you watch it first? I
don't want to. Well, I'm going to get in on it.
I mean, there's no there's no question. I'm gonna watch
it until you watch it. Okay, I'm gonna wait tell

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you why I did watch it. That's that you're just
gonna lead it at that. Okay, I don't want to.
I don't want to sweat I didn't like it. Okay,
say I'm trying to go in with the open mind,
right and you won't and you won't. It's for me.
The thing that normally historically for me watching any type

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of you know, event movie, is if I see it
too late and too many people have come in and
tried to praise it to me, you know in all
ways shapes and forms. Uh, then by time I go in,
I'm looking to pick it apart, and film critic Harmon
shows up like I never got to I don't think appreciate.
And again this is for for anybody out there that

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has watched the trilogy can and they loved it. I
send the hate mail at at Swall and down. Uh.
By time I saw the Matrix, so many people had
told me how brilliant it was. That I went in
and I hated the whole experience, and I think part
of it was just well, my angst with them and
maybe they had done a bad job at work that week,
so I took it out on them in terms of

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their movie watching. Mm hmm. Well, I was excited to
watch it. I will say. I will say that the
nostalgia of it was was pretty cool, you know, like
kind of the way they kind of connected the old

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one with the new one. But other than a couple
of moments, I there it is. We'll get two more
positive things momentarily. Hey, a reminder, we're broadcasting live from
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and get a quote today we are farmers positivity in
the air on a Sunday morning. Why because we had
a notice at the end of the week, LaVar. I
know you guys have been back to work on the
practice fields for football. My daughter's back on the pitch.
But we got one a big announcement as related to
professional sports here in California, ring the bell. Because the

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rest of the country we've seen hundred percent capacity and
all these different you know, big bold proclamations. The fact
that by opening day we may have as many as
of fans in the stadiums when we're talking about Dodger
Stadium or down in Anaheim for the Angels. I'll take
that win because I was not anticipating such a rapid

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move here. I think anybody that has followed the California
world would be remiss too, uh and really would be
blind to ignorant, fail to acknowledge what's been going on
politically in terms of signatures for recalls and such as.
Potentially a little bit of the thrust towards it. But quote,

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we're working on the final details, but we were working
very closely with Major League Baseball confidence all the confidence
in the world that fans will be back safely. That's
from Governor Gavin Newsom. That came in the middle of
the week, and we talked about home games scheduled for
April one in San Diego, the Angels with the White Sox,
my beloved White Sox visiting, uh, the Oakland A's, and

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then the Dodgers home opener the defending champions slated for
April nine. So while you're not gonna get a full
tier and full capacity, uh they as we say, progress
begins with that first step, LaVar and and I am
trying to figure out exactly how many tickets I can
get and how many forms of I D I have
to show to get in the ball. Yeah. I didn't

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think about it that way, but I was thinking about
how with baseball, you know, generally speaking, very few, very
few franchises pack out back out the stadiums um throughout
the course of the year anyway. So it's kind of
like one of those things where if you're a baseball
goer and you've gone to the games, you do realize

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that saying full capacity just means saying full capacity that
almost could be a ployed to move some more tickets,
because you know, regular season games sometimes aren't the most populated,
uh of of deals. So with that being said, though,
there are some stadiums and some teams that they're big

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there there there they are the show and people love
participating and going and that will be interesting to see. Um,
you know, the stadiums that that people um clamor to
and and and do so much. What will tailgating look like? Um,

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you know, just a lot of different things in terms
of getting back to the place of of normalities and
and and what that that feels like, what that looks like.
It's still it's interesting. I was in studio all last week,
well the last two weeks Mike and doing a lot
of television over the Speak to Yourself and First Things

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First on FS one. It's a grind, uh you know.
I I thought it was very It's just different, like
coming in people that you've hugged, people that you have
you know, conversations with, and you're up on, you know,
in in each other's faces and you're it's like, oh

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that d and this that another and this is going on,
and it's like it's so different, and it's almost like,
I don't know if you how much you've been around
people like since all of this has happened, like it's
almost like it's depressing. It's like a sad feeling that
you can't see one another because you have mask on.

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Um you you don't know if you should hug them
or if you should shake their hands. It's just awkward. Man,
It's just so. And I think that it takes a
toll on you. It takes a toll on your emotions
and your mental like that's one extra adit, Like, think

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about this, this is pretty interesting. That's one extra edit
level of thinking that you never had. You never had
to to involve yourself with. I'm a hugger, I'm a handshaker.
I don't like any of those things. Um just a
high person Like what whatever your thing is was your
thing and that was it, Like you don't think anything

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of it. But now it's like since the rules of
engagement have changed, it's like you gotta think about you
gotta think about even that, Like, WHOA do I go
in for the hug? Oh wait, nope, this one doesn't
want to hug. Oh okay, whoa is it? Is it
a fist bump? Oh? No? I had an act? This
is on this guys through when I had to go

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go back home for my grandmom's funeral. I want to
go hug my aunt Mike. And she only rolled the
window halfway down. Yeah, how did you feel in that moment? Uh? Well,
you know the way a nephew would feel in that moment, dejected, confused, confused.
It was like because it was kind of like, you know,

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it was like, all right, I don't even want the
arm or the hand, Like the the hey I love
you Auntie would have been good enough through the window,
but you standing here, and you're still standing here. So
I'm gonna roll this window down, but I'm not going
to roll it down very much. I roll it down
low enough for you to say hi. And I tried
to stick my arm in. My arm couldn't get in there.

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It was it starts rolling up on your arm. I
pulled it out. She was like, and that's that. I guess.
I was like day COVID. That changed everything up. But
you wonder if it gave everybody the excuse they never
wanted to deal with you. Now after a year, they've
got the full on excuse of keeping you at arms length.

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No pun intended. I was, I was, what's funny? I
was arms length away, and you know what though, it's
it's just that's what it's gonna be. It's so that
first home run or that first playoff game or that
first world series, Like, how are people going to treat

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one another? How are they going to react to one another?
You know, you're gonna have the people that are like,
I don't care, high fives, hugs, da da da, let's
share popcorn and cracker Jack's and da da da and
pretzels and bears and that. Then you're gonna have the
people that are there that are like, you guys are
so irresponsible? Why aren't you keeping your distance? Social distancing

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data that It's like gonna be so many different dot
processes that are in one area. And sports is generally
the one place that brings out the best of people,
but it also brings out the worst of people. You know,
if that's certain person that's saying social distancing and you
guys are being irresponsible, is a fan of the other

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team and they're doing that and they're in your stadium,
how is that going to go down? Like I just
ever since the lift has taken place, I've just been
kind of thinking about all of these different little scenarios
that may play out within the playout. Well, yeah, we
start seeing how much people are are adapting and where

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sentimentality is. I mean, obviously we've seen flashes in our state, right,
both you and I being in California where the the
Farmer's Insurance Fox Sports radio studios are nationwide, Obviously state
to state it's been different. But here when you're talking
about I could see where you're still a hey, the
way they're selling tickets, you stay where you are, well,

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virtual high five and you stay in your lane. Once
we get past I think if you you're attending a game,
your ability to say, hey, there's uh, you know, mind
my bubble becomes a little more difficult. And not that
you don't have the right to feel that way, but
you know, as soon as you start getting closer to capacity,

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now saying hey, stay out of my space becomes a
much more difficult proposition and potential, as you say, for
flare ups. Uh. To go back to the nineteen season,
LaVar Dodgers averaged forty nine thousand people per home date
out of how many uh capacity? Bow what what's capacity
at Dodger Stadium these days? Uh? Six? I believe al right,

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so sixty. But I mean that's four million fans in
a year. I mean that. And then you have the
Cardinals and the Yankees, uh both you know, right around
three and a half million the Cubs smaller stadium, but
just over three million the Angels, even though generally those
last couple of months don't have a whole lot of

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meaning other than watching Mike Trout and Albert Poole's do
their work. Uh, they were still over three million. Why
it's a beautiful day for a ballgame. Uh. And you
go on down the line. Obviously Tampa and Miami and
Baltimore and Pittsburgh, those are your bottom four. Add Kansas
City just a couple of years ago. Uh, World Series arrival.

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But all of those teams, Um, well I'll just not
even shame them for the actual numbers that are in
the stands. So to your point of, hey, it won't
even make a difference, well, in those cities it won't.
But either way, here in California, it's just a very
it might make a positive difference. Maybe there's people just

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looking to get out. Yes, people have been cooped up
and this is the time that it's opening up. So
it's like, all right, well, what season is it. Oh,
it's not football season. Oh, oh, it's basketball season. Oh
it's baseball, Like baseball's outside. The weather's to changing, it's
the spring coming, it's it's rolling on in like it
may help. And that's gonna come down to the marketing, right,

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that's what I would assume you. You're going to have
to do something really good marketing and just kind of
convince people that instead of going to indoor sports or
indoor arenas, indoor places to hang out, come be outside,
Come be come, come join us, you know, come get
a little bit of this spectacle. Smell the air, Smell
the cabosses and the air. You got kill. We'll get

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tall and proud, we'll find that and find your wins. Uh.
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away now from the well not even were two weeks
from the start of the league year, which means things
are really gonna start changing and all the rhetoric is
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guys yesterday, another two hours of auto honorable greatness. That
was pretty good, pretty good. Yeah, we had some good discussions.
I mean, you know, the one the one topic that
was really really a hot topic was the Deck conversation.
It just continues to be. As we're getting closer and
closer to that time where you have to make the

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decision on the you know, the salary cap deal and
do do franchise tag, it's just you know, once again,
you know, we've been talking about Dak since I've known you,
and we will continue to talk about Dak. Let's let's
kick the Russell Wilson conversation. We'll we'll save that for

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afterwear from Ilo. Let's stay with Dak Prescott for the moment,
because he's an important cog in this whole machine, right obviously,
the way Jerry Jones has talked about him, I mean,
that's like finding the the diamond in the rough, right
to go all Aladdin as everybody smiles that that's sat
there nine thousand times with their their daughters, sons, nephews, nieces, whatever,

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and watch the live action with Will Smith. Are going
back to the the animated movie all those years ago.
But that's the guy that he can hang his hat
on of. I'll look what we did, right, fourth round pick,
and he's the last man standing out of that draft class.
All the others have been moved to new spots, and

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he's talked to it, talked about him so glowingly that
it's always surprising they haven't done the deal. And now
they're between the rock and the heart place because you've
got to decide if you're gonna franchise him. It's costing it,
I mean, just where the economics are and if you
want to sign him, well, he's probably looking for that,
still looking at that forty million plus range, and you

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have to decide if he's that guy. Have you seen
enough to determine that he's that guy? Or is the
idea that well, he's your guy and you have to
pay him. Well, if you're asking me if I have
seen enough, it doesn't matter if I have seen enough.
It matters if they have seen enough. Sure, But from
from where you stand as a guy that used to

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chase down quarterbacks and now you coach him up, is
he is he a guy that you would be jumping
and putting a giant pile of cash at his feet? Again,
I think you have to take everything into consideration when
you're about to give out that type of a concert track.
Put it to you like this when and again, I

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want to give you a yes or no answer, but
it just isn't simple enough when you're talking about that
amount to give a yes or no answer. And the
reason being is is that to me, you have to
take your entire team into consideration. Is is that player
you're about to give that type of contract to good

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enough for you to be able to start replacing other
players with other players? Right? So, in other words, if
if you're talking about a Omari Cooper, or if you're
talking about a Jalen Smith, if you're talking about you know,
a Gallop uh, if you're talking about a uh uh

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Ezekiel Elliott, what whoever it may be, because you're going
to have to figure out how that plays into your
salary cap and and how that plays into your your
roster build out. So you have to ask yourself the
question this, Mike, is this player so good like a
Tom Brady, like uh, like a Patrick Mahomes? Is he

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so good that I know, no matter what happens moving
into the future, as I as I maneuver with the
amount of money that we have left every single year
moving forward, is he's so good that he is going
to impact our wins and our losses at an astonishing

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positive rate, no matter who we bring in here to
play with him. So then once you go through that
line of questioning, if they're not winning at all, right,
I mean, I don't want to say at all, if
they're not winning at at the level of actually competing
for the NFC Championship, competing for and uh a Super

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Bowl championship, if you haven't already shown me that you
can take my team to that level by taking me
to that level, I don't know what to say. I
don't I don't think I can give a definitive yes
on paying somebody forty million dollars a year if you

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haven't already had an m VP bid if you haven't.
If you haven't, there's the one lone flyer, and that's
that's Deshaun Watson. And do I agree with giving that
type of contract to a Deshaun Watson based off of
his play? Sure? But but would I wouldn't met Would

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I have given that contract based off of his accomplishment
so far? The answer would probably be no. And I'm
just being honest. I wouldn't give it. And I wouldn't
give it, maybe based upon the fact that I don't
really like the look of my entire team. I don't
I don't like the feel of what direction our entire

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team is going into. So I have to figure out
what I'm going to do with the entirety of what
our our culture of a team is before I start
dishing out that type of money, Because you're just throwing
money at it at an issue that isn't going to
be rectified or corrected, and look at how it's it's
going to end. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean when

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you look at where the team is, right, obviously, you
always want to have that face of the of the franchise.
But at what cost? Right if the rest of the
team is rotten and you're potentially losing all the rest
of your talent to free agency, I want to be
going in the right direction. You've got a problem right
with Dallas the way it looks. For one, at least

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most of your free agents are guys you probably didn't
want back. They're either at the end of their run
or heading towards retirement anyway, Right, how much you're gonna
pay Shawn Lee to come back or Tyrone Crawford or
you know, even Andy Dalton has a decent space because
he's not that expensive. But there are other teams that

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are gonna be in the mix firm this time, so
he might actually cost you a bit more. I mean,
he could end up as the quarterback battling Drew Lock
in Denver. Before this is all done, the one thing
you need to do, obviously is shore up the offensive
line because the last couple of years, the media types, uh,
there's just been a lot based on reputation as opposed
to looking at how well or poorly they played of late.

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The Cowboys do have twenty million dollars of cap space
heading into the process before they shed a number of
these other deals or or re re up. So some
of the names you mentioned, I like Gallup, I think
he's kind of gotten lost in the process there, uh
in their offense. But you paid a Mariti Cooper twenty
million a year. You paid Zeke when he was hanging

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out in Mexico, uh and brought him back, so you
know some of your key cogs you've Ceedee Lamb is
on a rookie deal, So you've got a couple more
years before you need to worry about paying him. It's
just more the as you spin the wheel, you know what,
what's the end game here in that division? Nobody's running
and hiding right, So right, I mean you're looking at

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a bunch of eight and eight teams. Yeah, so Dad
could actually be the guy to put you over. Uh No,
I mean I don't know. Well, there's still a lot
of work. I think the East, I do. I do
believe the East is improving uh and and I do

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believe they will be better. But when I look at
when I look at that type of a contract, I'm
not just looking at the NFC East. No, Sure, you
gotta look at it at the large s. But I
mean you gotta win step one before you can win
step two. I mean, right, I got I gotta get
out of out of the division before I can worry
about the conference. T J made a great point on

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this this topic yesterday, and I didn't think about it.
But you know, the quarterback against UH Los Angeles for
for the Chargers, and and the quarterback in UH Cincinnati
if he comes back healthy and they buy him an
offensive line that can keep him from having to throw

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from his backside. But go ahead, those are two guys
that you could see um being being at that level
in the next two to three years of exceeding and
pushing um the envelope of how much you pay a
quarterback beyond where Patrick Mahomes is. But today, today, there's

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not a quarterback that is going to get close to
Patrick Mahomes money today. It's not gonna happen. So now
it leads to a sobering moment of thinking and thought
to say, if the franchise tag is at thirty eight million,
I believe thirty seven point something thirty eight million. If

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if it's that high and you're not at if you're
not going to get that forty one million, forty two million,
forty million, whatever it is he's looking for. If you're
not going to get that, and you're coming off of
playing that playing that role where you actually um, you're

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actually getting that franchise tag and you're gonna get it
for the second year and you're not going to get
You may get thirty nine after that, you may get
forty to three years down in the line, just because
of where the amount of money is going for the position,
the value of the position, but you're not going to

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get it anytime soon. So why not lock in? Why
not lock in something that's close to what your franchise
tag is going to be? Well, I agree with like,
I'm also not a guy that wants to pay guys early. Right.
I was adamant here on Fox Sports Radio and yelling
like an idiot into the wind when Golf and Wins

(30:22):
got paid. I'm like, good for them, but we saw
how that worked out for both franchises. You don't know
and Dak Prescott coming off a huge injury. I don't.
I don't know what he is like. So if I'm
the Cowboys, I'm not. I'm not up in my offer,
Like you either took what was on the table the
last time we met after injury, when they were still
talking about these things, or you play for your thirty

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seven point seven and roll the dice. Well, then he's
going to be a free agent, so he's gonna have
to go somewhere else. And then now the next conversation
Mike is is can he get the money he wants
from somewhere else? Are you going to get that forty
million plus somewhere else? It's somebody else going and somebody
is actually sitting in their cars, sitting at home, listening

(31:06):
to us right now. They're like, yes, he's gonna get it,
He's gonna get that where But you've got another five
teams that are going to get their presumptive quarterbacks of
the future this year. I got a number of guys
from the last two years that are still working through
the process. And you know, you mentioned both Burrow and Herbert,

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the fact that they succeeded to the level they did
despite all of the challenges and problems of getting things
together for in terms of virtual learning versus on field training,
training camps, and you know the preseason that they normally
get a bunch of reps in uh, those are outliers, man.

(31:50):
Those that's that is not the norm to be able
to achieve that kind of level of success. So um
is assuming that you know, the next guys, with another
year of in house learning can actually get that solidify
their jobs there. There's not gonna be the same carousel
that we have this year. And everybody's using kirk Cousins

(32:11):
as the the example, like, oh, kirk Cousins did it,
Kirk Cousins played it beautifully, Kirk Cousins, Kirk Cousins ain't
asked for that type of money. Oh, it was a
lot of money. Yeah, it was a lot of money.
And he got more. He got more than what he
was going to get from the Washington football team. He

(32:31):
got more. Minnesota went for it. They paid him. But
it's a different category. That is not and they're like, well,
during that time it wasn't, Yes, it is. Well he
played two teams. That that's it. He had two teams
to work with. Its Patrick Mahomes reset the way we

(32:56):
are going to look at contracts. Case closed. He has
reset the way that that elite quarterbacks will look at contracts,
and it's going to be for a for a while.
It is going to be an unobtainable goal to get

(33:17):
a Patrick Mahomes deal. You can, you can try, but
once you've tried, like Doc has now tried Mike right
for taking multiple bytes at the Apple, you've tried your representation,
you'll say, oh, it's the market, it's it's Dallas. They
should pay this, that and the other. You can come

(33:40):
up with a lot of reasons as to why that
money should go to Doc. There are a lot of justifications.
But if they have not budged on wanting to go
to the number that Doc wants and it's going to
be a number that Dallas is just not going to do.
They're not going to do it. You're just gonna go

(34:01):
ahead and take another risk. When you lost last this
past year, you got hurt, missed the season. So you
don't have UH an m v P like season. You
don't have a Pro Bowl season, you don't have a
UH playoff season, a Super Bowl run season. You don't
have a tremendous amount of equity from this past season

(34:24):
to be able to continue to leverage what it is
you believe you should be getting. I just don't understand
why we're still here. I feel like you gotta find
a compromise. There's nothing wrong with finding a comparable number
that both sides can can walk away from the table
and be okay about it. Just remember the old line

(34:47):
from pulp fiction. You hear that, that's pride blanking with you.
He's LaVar Arnin, I'm Mike armin Um, And that's both
sides of this equation. LaVar daggon his his camp. They
don't want to back down, and well neither. There's Jerry
uh At, LaVar Arrington at King of the Mammals, find
me over at Swollen Dow. I'm coming up next. We
will get into that Russell Wilson conversation. But first we

(35:10):
got our guy, Isaac Lowen Crown. He's got an update
on what's trending in the sporting universe. Good morning, Michael,
Good mourning, LaVar. We've got another team in the field
in the n C Double A Tournament. More Head State
on Saturday joined Liberty in the n C Double A
Tournament by beating Belmont in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament
championship game eighties six to seventy one. More Head State

(35:31):
advances to the n C Double A Tournament for the
first time in ten years. More Head State the alma
mater by the way of Phil Simms, the Super Bowl
winning New York Giants quarterback back in the day. Duke's
dull drums continued in seventy three lost to North Carolina,
so Duke at eleven and eleven overall, finishes the regular
season without a winning record for the first time since,

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which was also the last time they missed the n
C Double A Tournament. They will be the Tennessee in
the upcoming a CC Tournament. On Saturday, NBA Commissioner Adam
Silver held his annual All Star weekend news conference and
was asked about Kyrie Irving's recent suggestion to change the
NBA logo. There are no ongoing discussions right now at

(36:16):
the league office about changing the logo. I certainly saw
Kyrie Irving's comments. Everything changes over time, so you know,
nothing's permanently fixed. But the logo is iconic. Even changing
the logo purely, even from a legal standpoint, isn't an
easy exercise. Not that that should be the impediment. It
doesn't mean that again that we won't turn back and

(36:37):
look at some point. But to me, I appreciate the sentiments,
but it feels like the logo is appropriate right now.
Looks like Kyrie's suggestion fell flat. Back to you, Michael
in the bar, nicely done. But that's my guy at
Isaac lowin Crime bringing the puns. I don't I don't
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get into a quarterbacks release and likely ending spots and
see that's there's no shortage of quarterbacks. I didn't even

(38:04):
intend to talk about Dak Prescott. And we went down
that rabbit hole, LaVar Well, and we went all the
way into Yeah, there's no question deep dives. We don't.
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to another quarterback situation in Seattle. Russell Wilson, I don't

(38:26):
want to leave, but here's the four teams from his agent,
uh that that could work. Right? We talked about at
Dallas and New Orleans and Las Vegas and Chicago being
the four teams. I have the radical approach to solve
this and make Russell Wilson happy and and get the
team rolling in a in a whole new world. You

(38:47):
choose him over peat Carroll. It's been a minute since
you've won a Super Bowl, been to a Super Bowl,
and you've got a quarterback that is we can still
are you top five? Right? And I don't like doing
all ranking lists until I put out a podcast that's
just nothing but ranking stuff. But you've got a guy that,

(39:11):
based on the way he takes care of himself, his
nano bubbles and everything else, you expect to still play
another five years. Right? We can safely say that, at
least for the moment, I think so do I choose
him and what he could be and reconfigure the squad
and quote unquote let Russ cook. That doesn't mean I

(39:33):
don't have to still address the offensive line and some
of the deficiencies they're in. But do I say, hey,
Pete Carroll, we've had a good run with you, I'm
choosing the quarterback. That's That's the way I'd angle it. Well,
first and foremost, let's start at the beginning of of

(39:54):
what what you put out there, right Like, it's the
idea of let me put out these teams. And it's
interesting because the one team that has no way, no how,
no option of getting Russ their mayor comes out and
talks about come, come be a part of our town.
We had fun with that last week, no question. You know,

(40:16):
the more I thought about it, that was that was
a strategic That was strategical. That wasn't That wasn't that
was that was part of the plan, Mike, if you
really think about it, do this this helps us. It
creates a market. He has no chance of going there.
Their cap situation does not allow for Russell Wilson to

(40:40):
make it too to New Orleans. Yeah, even with Drew
Brees making the move he did with his contract and
we don't know what that is, but there were still
seventy million over the cap with him taking a twenty
four million dollar pay cut, it won't work and and
so that's not even a realistic move. But yet you

(41:01):
put that on your list of four and you get
UH an endorsement from the mayor. Now Seattle has to
look at that they're looking at and then their mayor
response to it. Now Seattle has to look at it
and pay attention even more so now there's more pressure
on on Seattle. Then Seattle is now putting the media

(41:22):
this week for saying they don't hold the coach accountable
for the things that he does. So any mistakes, anything
that happens, anything um that you know Russ doesn't like,
UH is not going to go you know, with a
A a solution. It's going to go without because nobody

(41:43):
checks Pete Carroll more pressure. So you're saying you want
to be in Seattle, But how exactly would you be
able to remain in Seattle because you're not going to
get a coach that at the at the least at
the least you don't you know what they're if they

(42:04):
have to answer to somebody, it's not you, Russ, right,
it's not you. So you're not going to be in
that type of situation. And and where are you going
to get that situation? Right, it's not going to be
in Dallas. You're not going to get that situation. So
that almost makes that a a bad a bad deal.
And then you look at Chicago and it's like, Okay,

(42:24):
if you go to Chicago and you do that, I
think the biggest the biggest thing with Chicago is in
my in my estimation, that's more of a play for
off the field than it is for on the field.
I don't know that he goes there and has the success.
I just think there's a lot connected to it, Mike,

(42:45):
and and I think Vegas is probably the most logical
that might be the one He's trying to make sure
that he he leads the pathway too. But then Mayall
comes out and says they support their quarterback and they
feel really good about it. I just, you know what,
I don't know how this plays out for for Russell Wilson,

(43:05):
honestly speaking, well, I think for Derek Carr, part of
that is he needs the public public, uh vote of confidence,
because we we've seen them be a bit thick skin.
I'll talk for our thin skinned I say, should say
both he and his brother blocking guys just for a
lot of basic, you know, criticism, in the social media sphere,

(43:27):
so perhaps you're just trying to do that. They also
do love his contract, by the way, because the contract
that car is under, I mean that that's the one
most attractive piece I think if you were looking to
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in the spring. Let's go Mike Carment alongside the King
of the Mammals himself. It's my guy, LaVar Arrington back

(46:41):
at practice schools opening up here in southern California, and
that grill is always going, how are you, my friend? Well,
you forgot to mention back in traffic to yeah, no,
I drove up this way yesterday. I decided that I
needed to have some genos East have a little Tata
home on a Saturday, and there's one here. Uh Chicago

(47:03):
staple for those that have ever traveled to the Windy City,
go get the Deep Dish pizza. Since I can't quite
import the little locals places, I gotta go to ones
that are bigger chains. That's fine, but it took me
an hour and a half to get up here. Tough man.
And when I say tough, I mean tough. A thirty

(47:24):
five minute drive from my house to Topico Um going
they're not so bad coming back, really really bad, like
an hour in twenty minutes so in the hour added
to the drive, and then another forty five minutes to

(47:47):
drive to the school to coach, and then another forty
five minutes to drive back, which is generally only a
twenty minute drive five minute drive. So but as I'm
I know, you took advantage of every one of those
minutes to reach out to your contacts to plan greatness
to the next evolution of up on game tend to

(48:10):
twelve Pacific here on Fox Sports radios on Saturday, and
everything you got popping, you know, my One of my
latest ventures, UH is working with a contracting company. I'm
actually uh will be named an executive vice president of
a company, UH, contracting company later later this month. And

(48:34):
it's been it's been interesting because the the awesomeness of
what I've been doing with you on radio is really
the catalyst of everything that that I'm doing. You know then,
is that what is that what you're telling me? Well,
you get an opportunity. That's for opportunity is key. Yeah,
It's all we can ask for in life. Yeah, you

(48:56):
will be a part of my plans moving forward as
a senior you know, ranking executive. I like the sound
of that. As long as I don't have to wear pants. Uh. Well,
we'll we'll talk through that. Um, we'll figure that one out. Mike. Well,
it's one of the uh you know, I'm here to
help you out. Man. Well, it's been one of my
movements for years here, LaVar because of what we do

(49:17):
here on radio. People know the pretty face that I have,
and they know that it's all about Quadzilla and they
and the Calves like baseballs. Yeah, I gotta have a
strong base as you start rolling into the not that
I've done the TikTok challenge about you know, the waste
base and all that stuff. Uh, LaVar out my garment.

(49:40):
I'm just gonna leave it there because that was funny. Um,
all right, Alex Smith is out in Washington, no surprise,
some parting shots for the way things transpired there, which
is really not unlike well so many things for many
years with Washington players leaving. Uh, you're you're welcome to

(50:01):
expound on on your history or we can save that
for the book. But another situation, new coaching staff coming in, uh,
and and a lot of trepidation. I think of putting
him back on the field. Acquitted himself well, I think
it was in terms of performance, obviously stabilized Washington, put

(50:22):
him on the right path. Taylor Heineke. They've already resigned him.
But four teen point nine million against the cap very
difficult for a guy that you're you're wondering if he
can go through a full sixteen games, and I think
that's gonna be the hard part of trying to find
that new home. As we get closer to the start
of the new calendar year, LaVar is you know what

(50:45):
what what are the expectations of him in beyond just
being a great mentor to somebody. We mean expectation. If
you sign a players for that player to provide value
for your team, that's got to be the expectation. Then
you can't deviate from that. So there's no door prizes
and and hide getting hired as as a quarterback to

(51:08):
a team, it's not a door prize. You've got to
bring something to the table. You know how many millions
and millions and millions and millions of people you are
more likely to get struck by lightning or when the
lottery then you are to be a starting quarterback a
backup quarterback in the National Football League. Now, if you

(51:30):
take those odds and you kind of add a little
bit of like wow, like I could actually get struck
by lightning before I would become a backup quarterback. Uh,
then you look at where Alex Smith is and you
say to yourself, first off, I wouldn't even thought he

(51:52):
would have been on a team last year, this dispatch year.
First off, based off of everything given I think the
captain it was so heavy. Yeah, and if and if
you couldn't get him ruled out medically, that relief then again,
but for but for that type of injury. It just

(52:13):
it just seems sensible that he would not play for
every game, wouldn't be on the team. Then he is,
and he comes back and he actually plays well, and
and so he did himself. He did himself some service,
some justice, gave himself some value by playing well, because
if he would have been a backup all year, I

(52:34):
just don't see how you could look at moving forward
with him. So there's a ray of hope, there's a
conversation to be had as to if he can help
your team, um, but there's going to be questions of
durability issues. I I just personally, I would have a
hard time feeling comfortable, um hiring him and putting him

(52:55):
on my staff, um to play as a quarterback, just
because I wouldn't why that on my hands if something
happened to him. And and I just kind of when
I look at it and I see how like, I
don't know, but that's it. It's a it's a different
injury history, right. It's one thing to say, all right,
this guy has had a shoulder, this guy's had a knee,

(53:17):
he had some cracked ribs. We can go through pick
any quarterback, Go go look at Cam Newton going into
last year questions, and then we watched that the delivery
of the football. It's all right, can that shoulder ever
be right again right to where he was shot putting?
But that's still an injury of just all right, a
normal football injury. This wasn't a normal football injury that

(53:38):
you're playing and hoping that he can get through another
sixteen games. I mean he played in eight, started six
when five and one completed two thirds of his passes,
six touchdowns, eight I n t s. But the five
and one record is the thing you circle here, right,
The guy wins for all all of the early career

(54:00):
shuffling that they did in terms of coaches and offensive
coordinators whatever else. Guys still sixty seven and one as
a starter all these years later. Well, I just I
just don't. I just don't feel comfortable when like when
I saw it, And I'm trying not to like be

(54:21):
like so blunt about it, but I'm gonna be blunt.
The way the deformity of the way his leg looks,
it would I would have too many feelings of I
just have to protect you, bro, like I got for me.
It's a no for me because I just the way

(54:42):
it like I'm a leg guy. You gotta understand, like
maybe this is my my own like personal experiences based
upon what my dad went through and and you know,
knowing that, and then for those who don't know, my
my father was Almo uh fatally injured in in Vietnam. Uh.

(55:04):
They got ambushed. He jumped on the tank the operator
before he could get up onto the tank to man
the machine gun. He pulled off. He jerked off my
dad's uh something gets caught into the tread of the tank.
The tank is moving, The tank continues to move, it
starts to bite into my dad's foot. He's got to

(55:25):
use his other foot to try to get himself off.
So now that one is getting eight up by the tread.
So the long story short, as grotesque as that that
story is. He ends up living, obviously, but he walks around. Um,
he uses prosthetic limbs. My my history with legs are

(55:45):
a little bit more intensified than probably most people's will be.
So when I look at that, and it makes me
feel like I get a certain emotional feeling when I
see his leg and and I just don't you know,
my first thought is I feel like he's fragile or
I feel like he can get hurt. And and I

(56:08):
just wonder if if other people will will see him
because he's gonna have to go through a physical, he's
gonna have to pass the physical, he's going to have
to go through a physical evaluation. I just don't know
how many doctors and and and how many um you know,
medical staff for teams will see that and be like, yeah,

(56:31):
we're good with bringing him in and and and and
it might sound like you're discriminating, but you know what,
the NFL, Pro sports, all of this in general, is
all about discriminating, right, That's what it is. And that's
the thing, right, That's why do we have to combine
every year, right? Right? So that's that's just my take
on it, Mike. And you know, I hope he you know,

(56:54):
he does what what makes him happy. But I also
hope he does what it is smart for him and
his family, um as he moves on into his life.
Because for the sake of saying you're the comeback player
of the year and the sake of being able to
say you made it back. I get all that, and

(57:14):
and I buy into overcoming the odds. But sometimes, you know,
sometimes once you've done it, it's okay to move on
from it and and and do and delve into different things.
Well and well, first, thanks for sharing that story of
your family. Uh. Shout out to Pops uh and the

(57:35):
family for sure. Uh. And I think the you underscored
it at the end there too, write the thoughts of
the family and being able to live a normal life
with the kids. It's always going to be in the
back of your head. I mean, think about one of
those five offensive linemen, right, you give up a sack
that ends up getting him hurt again and again. You

(57:58):
have that responsibility with your quarter back on every snap.
But it's gonna be different, right, It just is. And
I think he could be a great mentor to a
guy like Trevor Lawrence or any of these rookies coming out,
some of these second year guys, you know. But it's
also that can you trust if your starter goes down?
I think that's the bigger thing that we talked about

(58:19):
for the NFL at this point. You've gotta make sure
you've got a guy who's not just serviceable. Right, we
saw what happened in San Francisco. Jimmy g Whether you
like him or not as soon as he went down
and they start getting into their second string, third string,
whoever else can come off the bench, signing guys off
the street, whatever. You've given up, your seasons done, and

(58:41):
I think it's time to, you know, for teams to
start re evaluating maybe the position more than they ever did.
It used to be the we've got our a one starter.
I'm not worried about the guy's psyche. Right, It's like
what we saw in Philadelphia. If if the competition of
another guy being drafted is gonna make you tank, then
you're not the guy. You're not the guy we need.

(59:03):
M That's life in general, right, If if competition is
gonna make you will, you're you're kind of showing and
then settle into whatever that next stop stop is on
your career. For Alex Smith, I wish him the best
in the decision making process. We'll see as the offseason
rolls on, because there's still a lot of backups on
teams that are going to be viable starters slash high

(59:26):
end backups elsewhere. Right, we're talking a lot about the
Raiders on the Derek Carr side. The more interesting is
what happens with Marcus Mariotta hues right, trade release. Obviously
he wants to be released so he can get his
choice of venue. But when there's actually value for your services,
maybe they can flip that into a couple of draft picks.

(59:49):
Maybe we'll have to wait and see how that all
plays out. Isn't it fun? Though? It's funk because it's
always about hope. Right. We talked in the first hour
about the opening of California a little bit bit by
bit as the color codes here online with capacities and announcements,

(01:00:11):
maybe even Disneyland and these theme parks coming back on track, right,
because you mentioned traffic has returned. Traffics returned before a
lot of the other So, uh, where's that monorail? Let's
go uh eats LaVar Arrington. I'm Mike Armen. This is
Fox Sports Sunday. Uh coming up next, You've got well, well,

(01:00:31):
we'll get back into Russell Wilson because there's one team
that may go all out for him. I don't know
that it fixes all the ills we mentioned it before,
but they're they're really starting to write articles and building
a bandwagon form there in Chicago. We'll do that next.
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But that's a whole other thing we need to talk about.
I would love to do a program directors appreciation zoom

(01:01:58):
call at some point. It would be I think we
need to pull that off. Why we'll we'll try to.
I'll send a note to Scott's trying to start hooking
that up a little later. They all matter, and they're
all the reason why we we have the opportunities that
we have. And you know, I'm very appreciative of what

(01:02:18):
they bring to the table. And like I said, I
would love to continue to move down the road of
building relationships with our our national program directors because I
feel like we can all together come together and make
a difference. Think about it, the virtual tour city to city,
taking calls and video chats across seat that we're brainstorming,

(01:02:42):
marketing and sales everybody. We'll get them online and on
board because this could be massive. That and once we
can rent the you know, the bus like we're Walter White.
Not that we're gonna cook that type of stuff like
Walter White, but we can, we can ring our our
gas stronomy nationwide and new meetups as well. See, I

(01:03:05):
I got a whole thing plan. This is great. And
then we'll end up in Happy Valley for one of those,
so there you go, uh and and then Evanston for another,
so we'll get the best of Chicago. See how it
all plays together. Yeah, I got a plan. Now we
have to work it. Another guy with a plan. I
bring it back to Chicago because while the report Brad
Biggs NBC Sports dot Com in Chicago, Uh, Ryan Pace

(01:03:30):
targeting the idea of bringing in Russell Wilson and and
it's a three outcome league and Major League Baseball. You
like it or you don't. You know, you have home runs,
strikeouts and walks. And I'll apply that logic to Ryan
Pace and just running any type of business whatever you're
in out there pondering, right you swing for the fences,

(01:03:51):
buying new equipment and materials. Maybe you're fixing up your house,
the idea being not only is it gonna be better
to live in short term, but long term them there's
an added value. Right you redid your kitchen, you put
in another you know, redid a room, maybe furnished your basement,
whatever it is. Across the land, everybody's got different landscape

(01:04:12):
that they navigate or in your jobs with Ryan Pays,
that's the way he's operated the Bears. With some would
would hate because he took the one big swing when
he traded up the one spot to get Mitchell Drabinsky.
I remind you San Francisco didn't get fat in the
in that trade, they got a part time player who's
sometimes a disruptor when healthy on defense. The biggest winners

(01:04:35):
ended up being Alvin Kamara as the trades of draft
picks were conferred. But I'm always about take your swing right.
Trying to get into this business took a big swing,
a lot of extra hours of unpaid airtime and just hustling,
showing up and making yourself available, going into random events

(01:04:57):
like your LaVar. Right, you take extra reps as you
can get them and get that brand building opportunity out there.
With Ryan Pace, he takes swings. He's traded up to
go get Leonard Floyd, Eddie Jackson, Anthony Miller, who's been
a serviceable number three for them. H David Montgomery was
it was a guy they traded up for. They made

(01:05:19):
the big trade with the Raiders for Khalil mac That
was at the time again kind of laughed at because
remember when you trade draft picks, what do we always
say the team that gets the draft picks have to
do it right and it is an inexact science. So
you take your shot. So if you go and you
want a player, you gotta. You gotta sometimes come to
the table big, and for the Bears that may mean

(01:05:41):
moving on from a Khalil Mack and sending him to
Seattle or some big package to make it worth worth it.
But anybody that just shoots it down. You know, you
talked about the branding idea for Russell Wilson because he's
got to waive the no trade clause for the Bears,
it's on brand for Ryan Pace, especially with his potentially
is job on the line. You make that type of

(01:06:04):
move and it doesn't work, yeah, you you can. You
can probably assume that that that's going to be the
end result. And you know, I don't think Russell Wilson
changes that team drastically. So when you look at that decision,

(01:06:28):
the first thing I think is what are you giving up?
And how much of it are you giving up? Because
you would assume that Seattle is going to try to
to leverage that for you know, a lot. Well, yeah,
you gotta leverage it for all you worth again. You know,
to me, it's like everybody keeps talking about Deshaun Watson
trades or whatever. It's always, well, you need all these

(01:06:50):
draft picks like here, because if it works I'm drafting
in the bottom half of the first round the nuts.
I get that, But do you feel like Chicago. I
know Chicago's defense is pretty good. They were good and
at times they failed them right they were. They ended
up an upper division We're talking top half defense for

(01:07:14):
the like Chuck Begano ended up being the fall guy
for this past year. But there were times they couldn't
get off the field even when pressure numbers for Khalil Mack,
I know double teams, but we see guys getting doubled
on other teams that are still making plays. So there
there were times where there was just some head scratching
um deficiencies on that. Well, then let's just say what

(01:07:37):
the entire team right as we could break that down
um by detail. Well, and you have to figure out
what you're doing with the the guy from your neck
of the woods, Allen Robinson. Is he staying? Is he going?
That's probably the biggest decision that they're going to make
this offseason. I mean, so I just think that it

(01:07:58):
is it could work to your advantage to bring in
a Russell Wilson. It could totally work to your advantage.
It brings a ton of value. It brings a ton
of excitement. I mean, they're you know, I'm I'm such
a conspiracy theorist type of guy. Like I'm sitting here

(01:08:18):
thinking to myself the political influence because you have the
the entertainment aspect of it, with with him being married
to an entertainer and a legendary one in a well
known one, Um and Sierra. There's so many connections to
entertainment in Chicago. There are so many connections to political

(01:08:44):
moves in Chicago. So I think this this is an
opportunity for Russell Wilson and his family to become a
power couple and a power market where you have connections
to Oprah, or to Barack Obama or to Common you know,
there's so many names. Now, I want to bring up

(01:09:07):
the fight scene from John Wick two. There you go.
I just I think this is more of a win
situation for for Russell Wilson and his family than it
would be for the Chicago Bears. And that's I'm pretty
firm on that. No, I think it's certainly as as
you look at the way the division sets up, Detroit

(01:09:30):
is in retool mode and they bring in Jared Goff,
You've got the Packers assuming that everything is going to
play out and Aaron Rodgers and they just keep getting
along because he's been quiet. He's been more worried about
his engagement of late and those appearances with Pat McAfee.
I mean those were gold. I give him all the

(01:09:50):
credit in the world that that was fun stuff every Tuesday. Uh,
and then Kirk Cousins in Minnesota. There's a lot of
folks that are trying to figure out every trade scenario
because now his thirty million dollars a year doesn't look
prohibitive in terms of a movement. Right at one point
that was top of market when he played the Jets
um and got his contract with Minnesota, And and now

(01:10:13):
look at him, going all right, is he your guy?
Are you gonna win with him? Do you let him
play out the last couple of years of the deal
or or do you try to move on from that.
So he's another guy that could enter the carousel. But
for the Bears, you've got Darnell Mooney, and I think
he's a guy people are gonna notice over fifty catches
as a rookie and speed to where he's starting to

(01:10:35):
get the comparisons to some of your your top burners
in the league. Now they need the trigger man to
make that happen. But if Alan Robinson doesn't come back,
you're you're looking at a massive growth from coal Comet.
You've got an offensive line that is passable but not great.
And as much as I like Montgomery, we saw you know,
a great run from him down the stretch with a

(01:10:56):
couple of big games, but that offensive line still needing
some tweaking and another weapon, uh downfield. And so you
bring it in Russell Wilson to that scenario and you
expect the results to be what, no, Well, And that's
the thing, right, it's if because he complained about he's

(01:11:17):
maybe the playoffs two of the last three week years, right,
even with all the deficiencies, and everybody that's student line
to tell you how terrible Mitchell Trobinsky is and then
celebrated Nick Foles until what was time to not celebrate
Nick Foles anymore. Uh, So you have that, So you're
you're still going to compete, probably for a wild card,
but that shouldn't be your ceiling, right saying hey, we're

(01:11:41):
resigned to chasing the packers and trying to hold off
Dan Campbell and whatever Detroit becomes mhm. Seems like a
big push for potentially little little game team race in
that that division right now. But Russell Wilson would provide

(01:12:01):
some potential uh candidacy changes um at the top for
Chicago and and and I just you just have to
be willing to take the good with the bat and
take them both and there you have. You know, that's
I think that that's all you're gonna be able to
come up with my guy LaVar Arrington as he waxes

(01:12:24):
poetically on two D and the Facts of Life, because
it was all about two it was it. See, I
don't know, I was more about Blair bro I was
a Blair fan, you know, I don't know. We could
probably get her on the show if you want. We could,
We could. I've actually I've actually been around two D before.

(01:12:47):
I've been around Kim Fields. Pretty cool, very cool person. Yeah,
just well, you know when when I went to the
New York Giants, we we went to a couple of
basketball games, and and and you go into the v
I P areas, the v ip entrances, and you meet
certain people and and Kim Fields was there one time.

(01:13:08):
Very gracious person, very very nice down the earth person.
So that was like, that was my interaction that there's
your story time right there. Okay, it worked out not
as salacious as maybe America hoped or me as your
esteemed co host. Sorry, we'll see I had no facts
of life exchanging with two D nicely done. To appreciate it,

(01:13:33):
East LaVar anton On, Mike Harmon, Hey, we've got a
cost on what the entirety of the COVID nineteen situation
has been when it comes to the major professional sports.
Uh keep adding zeros. As we're live from the Farmer's
in Churance, Fox Sports Radio Studios called Farmers Today for
a quote. First, we're gonna go over to another master

(01:13:54):
of the pun and wordsmanship. It's our guy, Isaac. What's
the matter with you two? You forgot about Joe Nancy McKeon.
She was my favorite, and we didn't forget about Joe.
And I question you by saying that she's your favorite?
But what do you mean by that? What do you
mean by that? Well? I don't know. I don't think

(01:14:14):
that she was was the best one. She wasn't the
one I was checking for. All Right, you're you're entitled
your opinion. It's wrong Oh sorry, I was pressed supposed
to press the cough button there when. By the way,
this true story Nancy McKeon back in the day dated
Hockey Hall of Famer Luke Robotie. By the way, about

(01:14:35):
that interesting from better Hair. Wow, boy, you know what,
that's Luke. That was not McKeon. That was the celebration
of the hair of Luke Robottie. I'm gonna percolate on
that for a little bit because I think you have
a really good point there, you know, I just looked
her up on Google. I mean, she's not bad, thank you.

(01:14:55):
There we go. She's not. I'm not mad at you,
all right, see there you mad at I gotta get
control of this. What's going on? In control? That's overrated
Michael from hockey. See I was seguing from hockey to
college basketball. Saturday, Morehead State joined Liberty in the n
C Double A Tournament with an eight win over Belmont
in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship game. So more

(01:15:19):
Head State advances to the n C Double A Tournament
for the first time in a decade. Duke in danger
of missing the n C Double A Tournament completely for
the first time at a quarter Century. They lost on
Saturday in their regular season finale to North Carolina one
to seventy three. They're gonna be the ten seed in
the a c C Tournament. Coming up tonight the NBA's

(01:15:40):
All in One All Star Weekend. It starts with a
three point shootout at six thirty Eastern. The All Star
Game itself tips off at eight pm Eastern, and the
Slam Dunk Contest will be held at halftime of the
All Star Game. And now with more of the facts
of life, here are LaVar Arrington and the Baron of

(01:16:01):
brisket Kso, Michael, there you go. I like that. I
liked it too, Yeah. I mean one of my favorite
wrestlers of all time was Baron von Rashki. I could
see you with like one of them Baron helmets on
and with with keso uh keso logo on the helmet,
and you're making brisket ca so. Yeah. I think Ilo

(01:16:24):
was also asking me to make brisket ca so for
a future Sunday. So we'll have to make that work,
you know me so well, Free free food, your tupperware, Ilo,
because when we do what we do at large. The
last of one I made was seventeen pounds. Yeah, that's right,
seventeen pounds of brisket at Isaac Low and gros. Was

(01:16:45):
that lavarse stomach rumbling? By the way, you gotta challenge yourself,
you know what I mean, Like, go twenty pounds, right,
and I'll see if I can find one even larger. Yeah.
Expanding the cooking uh yeah, rep up a choire here, Ilo.
We'll make sure we feed you for weeks. There's no question.
It's like getting back to the That's why a lot

(01:17:07):
of guys and in the media I've been pushing for
the reopening. Uh, and everybody getting back in person for
stadium work because they like their meals. I sure, what
like for the local gem to open? That would be kind,
That would be I can make my way back to
my revenge body. Yeah, revenge body with LaVar Arrington. Were

(01:17:31):
you're getting revenge on? I was about you? Who I'm
getting Yeah? Against me? Against you? Use my whole lot
COVID experience has been the meat got me. Yeah, man,
I just you know, I've been waiting for this, this
gem to open up. I've been driving past every single
day and it will not open. Does it play? Does

(01:17:52):
the song Hello play? In your head. No, like you're
thinking about the video and the Clay Lionnel Rich good.
It's good. I get. I get the imagery of what
it is that you're creating for me right there. It's good.
But you know, I'm like really like like motivated to
start backing on the journey of getting back in shape

(01:18:14):
and the gem that can help me with my salvation.
There doesn't seem to look like it's going to reopen
the road to swoll is real. I'm looking for a
new television show to binge watch, folks, So if you
can hit me up with whatever you're watching at Swollen Dome.
I finished Ted Lasso, did that in one night. Couldn't sleep,

(01:18:36):
so I said, all right, let's let's start this, and
then I couldn't start. So it's uh, it's Netflix. This
is an Apple plus Apple plus. Jason sudeikis as a
football coach that goes well that that's just it. There's
there's a lot going on, but a football coach who
goes over as a man on the itch. So he

(01:19:01):
becomes a football coach and he has to win over
the locker room, the the owner, and fans, and it's
it's pretty pretty entertaining. Jason Sadek is fantastic and he's
got a lot of little one line quips that well,
because you and I words smithing is our job we
love so much interesting, So that that was good. I've

(01:19:23):
seen one division. You got what I do like word smithing. Yeah, no,
that's certainly one of your one of your big characteristics,
big trains. You know, A big, big show was The
All American and it was like based off of this
whole All American deal in high school and out here

(01:19:45):
in California. I think we should start writing a script
for All American for college. Well, let's get out and
we'll loosely base it off of, uh, the life and
times of an All American that played. You know, let's
just choose I think I know one or two. Let's
choose one from Penn State about that, because I think
we got a couple of them from that university that

(01:20:07):
we can draw on some experience. There were there were
if we if we loosely base it off of a
time frame. In particular, there were three or four All
Americans on the team at the time, So we make
for a pretty interesting TV show. I think I'm in
and I think we got a couple of guys that
we can reach out to. I know one in particular.

(01:20:29):
I will text him after the show to ask him
if he's interested. Hey, Major League Baseball, the NHL, NFL, NBA,
n C Double A took their massive money hit over
the COVID period, according to Forbes, net revenue losses for
the n C Double A and these four major US

(01:20:51):
sports league You want to take a guess at the number, Nope,
fourteen point one billion dollars. Wow, it's a couple. Um,
it's a couple of coins. That is a lot, a
nice hefty bit of coin. Do you think that would
look like in terms of dimes quarters? That's a good

(01:21:13):
question because I always relate those kind of piles of
money to how many huge beds do I make? And
everybody can go in and uh, you know, go back
and look at Hugh from Breaking Bad, the famous picture
of him laying down on the bed of money and
the storage container. But yeah, that show speaking of Ben

(01:21:33):
with benj watching, Yeah, that'll get you on it. Well,
that show will make you physically ill. This is true.
Like if you like, there are certain shows like when
that Joint finished up, Mike, I was almost I think
I was depressed for at least two or three days
after I watched that show. Yeah, I remember that was

(01:21:54):
appointment viewing when I used to go into the lot
and do some Sunday wrap up stuff video. Hey been
to doing that again for football? Just like letting you
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a whole lot of something on auto insurance. It's that time, LaVar,
we go off the go down with my car man
and Love are airing dun on Sunday morning. We're about
that talk about curious headlines, but it takes y man

(01:24:23):
reporting on the earner of the absurd, but already took
it off the light. Good night everyone. That that reminded
me of one of those awards shows where the person
is giving the acceptance speech and it goes on a
little long for the award show taste, and so the
band starts playing the music, playing them off the stage.

(01:24:45):
I'm just glad I took us off the rails before
you got your You're awesome off the rails intro. Actually, no,
that was off the rails for this week, so long
ay alright, that was nicely done. This is part soccer art,
American football and all off the rails. Last November, a
man in Great Britain escaped from a prison. The fugitive

(01:25:10):
successfully eluded capture until he was caught when he came
out of hiding to buy the new Call of Duty
video game. We have the play by play, so video
emerged this week of the man being captured. Back in January,
while the city of Birmingham, England, was on COVID lockdowns
and nobody was supposed to be on the street, so

(01:25:31):
listen for a couple of things here. First of all,
in one of the most British things ever, the Constable
addresses the man and his buddy as cheps. The man
explains that he's come to get the new Call of
Duty game because he can't sit around and lockdown. The
man then suddenly kicks the Constable tries to want run away,
but he slips and falls and is how can I

(01:25:51):
put this tackled? For a loss? Listen? Then this is all.
The guy risked his freedom for the new Call of
Duty video game. Listen, my chaps, he's have a quick chap.
Means today while wend today sit around in lockdown on
where you're gonna where you did? Alright, it's not appropriate travel. Okay,

(01:26:17):
I'm gonna check your details because rate said blatantly you
both saw us walking up here and in your turn
around and you've come walking around and in the postgame
press conference, Superintendent Nick Row of the West Midlands Police said,
and I quote quite why he decided to risk being

(01:26:39):
returned to prison by making the idiotic decision to come
into town during lockdown with a friend to buy a
video game. Will remain a bit of a mystery unquote apparently.
The bottom line is call of duty must be one
heck of a game. If somebody's risking their freedom to
go out of hiding to buy it, it's a heck
of a drug. Yeah, apparently, So you're a call duty guy,

(01:27:00):
take it. No, I'm not. I'm not a video game guy.
But I watched how these kids are. They turned into
zombies on call of duty, and they don't call it
call of duty. They call it c O D. Really okay,
like cash on delivery. Huh yeah, like like uh c
o K. The hell of a drug. I had to

(01:27:27):
process a little bit of that right there, right down
into that, and that's where it came from. So I'm
glad we just went all the way there a tribute
to Rick James prettiest singers of all time. We off
the rails. Thanks Silo. That's a great story. I like

(01:27:47):
the tackling it was. You know, you gotta take the
loss and I mean risking your freedom. That's beautiful. About
the second half of the NBA season, We preview next
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(01:28:07):
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(01:28:30):
The tag out has occurred. Chris Perfett. We thank him
for the first two hours. Iowa Sam, Now in LaVar,
you're missing one of the great visuals of all times.
I looked through the glass. We were talking about Rick
James little a little a little while ago. He's got
some Rick James like hair going on. Hey, hold on,

(01:28:51):
hold on, Mike, Harmon, hold it. Stop the presses. Okay, listen,
Rick James. Yes, yes, yes, I'm gonna be cold blooded
right now. You, my friend, need to refrain from talking
about anything and everything outside of sports, Okay. I want

(01:29:14):
you to focus in on speaking about all sports topics.
Thank you very much. I'm gonna put my blinders on
and we're gonna stay between the rails, unlike off the
rails with Ilo that we do coming up minutes more sports,
more sports. All right, let's talk sports, sports, sports, and
it up. The NBA is at its yes is at

(01:29:38):
the All Star break, the Adam Silver gave his State
of the Union that he does during this time, talking
about hoping everybody gets back in full, that the schedule
is on track to be a full eighty two games schedule,
and and all is right with the world next year.
But for tonight, we've got the All Star Game, We've

(01:30:00):
got the skills competitions mixed. They're in right, so three
points shooting before the game. The dunk contest at halftime.
I've been subjected on my Twitter timeline. I muted a
lot of people this week because I because they started
going down the tired road of how do we fix
the dunk contest? What's to fix? Guys are gonna dunk.

(01:30:25):
You either like them or you don't. You watch or
you don't. If you're saying you need big names for
a dunk contest, then okay, that's on you. Okay, those
those guys have moved on and decided that the probitive
value wasn't there. Likewise, you need to just adjust, like everything,
Times change motivations, change and what people think they can

(01:30:48):
get out of it. Change. If you're Lebron James, what
are you winning by trying to compete in a dunk contest? Nothing?
If you're Zion Williamson, you're one of the rising stars
in this league. Rising stars? Huh? Like that? Uh is
rising stars game? Right? But but just the idea of
you got a guy who's they're shuffling their nationwide TV

(01:31:09):
schedules to include the Pelicans so you can get a
look at this guy. What's he going to get by
going into a dunk contest? Zero? Oh. By the way,
he's also actually playing in the All Star Game. He
is playing in the All And that was where I
I originally had an issue with Zion not doing it

(01:31:30):
because I just feel like, outside of Lebron, everybody's done it.
Everybody has done it. Now, I would say there's two reasons,
and one being the reason that played out for his Zion,
and I think is in his favor. Nobody wants to
see his Zion come out at halftime of a game
and try to do a dunk contest and then come

(01:31:52):
out and finish the game. That's not right to put
that on him. I don't look at that as being
like it's enough to have an emotional um, you know,
you have to connect your emotions to the game you're
playing in or what it is that you're doing. To
take that into two separate you know, competitions like to

(01:32:14):
build a competition within the competition of the competition itself.
I don't like that, all right, So it should have
been yesterday if you were going to do the dunk contest.
I just don't like it. That's one, But then the
second one would be, don't do it if you know
you're gonna get embarrassed, like like if Morant and those

(01:32:34):
guys are, like if you got some some real high flyers.
Because I look at I look at Zion, and Zion
can do dunks, Like I understand he can do dunks,
and I've seen his dunks, and I know he's a
YouTube sensation with the dunks. But Zion's best work is
in games. He's a I say, there there is a
dunk contest dunker, and there is a game dunker. I

(01:32:59):
think Zillion is more of a game dunker than he
is a dunk like a dunk dunker, slam dunk dunk
um contest type like Kenny Skywalker. Right now, he's not
he's not going to be your best player on your team, right,
but he wanted to dunk contest. You know. That's just
like there's guys that have made something like they're they're good,

(01:33:23):
solid NBA players, but this is where they get over, right,
because there's been complaints in the past. Hey, here's a
guy that's only averaging two points per game, but he's
in the dunk contest because he's a good dunker, right right,
there's the YouTube clips, whatever else, and and you've got
guys that that do this and have their YouTube and
TikTok channels and whatever else, and there's a whole other

(01:33:45):
scene with it outside the NBA. That's fine, but when
it gets down to it for these spectacles and these events,
man I, I'm just all cool with play the All
Star Game, do your handshakes, business deals, and get out
of town. LaVar, We've got to kick it over to
our guy, Isaac Loan. Crowd, who's got some breaking news
in this breaking news from Fox Sports SM's Charantia is

(01:34:11):
just reporting that Philadelphia seventies Sixers All stars Joel and
Bead and Ben Simmons are potentially ineligible to play tonight
in the NBA All Star Game because of contact tracing
from exposure to a likely COVID positive individual before they
arrived in Atlanta. Charantia reports that the exposure occurred with

(01:34:32):
Mbid and simmons personal barber, who had a positive test
result and is awaiting another test. Presently, both Embad and
Simmons traveled by themselves on private planes and have had
no exposure to other players or people down in the
Atlanta bubble. And this, of course as somewhat reminiscent of
what happened a week before the Super Bowl when the

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Kansas City Chiefs and mass were lined up to get
haircuts from a barber, and as the haircuts were being conducted,
they found out that the barber attested positive for COVID.
So we'll continue to follow up on this story again.
They're potentially ineligible to plate tonight because of contact tracing. Well,
that will be interesting to see how potentially UH is handled. Yeah,

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can you get guys on the roster? Do you take
some of the guys that are there and have cleared
tracing that are part of these other events? Now, Hey,
I got to play in an All Star game. We're
an All Star. Now, I was in the dunk contest,
but I passed all protocols and they needed a guy
at the end of the bench. Funny, I'm serious, you
might have You might actually have one or two guys

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that get called up they're an All Star games this
type of money type deal, you can always call in
somebody and get them on a on a trip. Yeah,
I would think so, yeah, you could get them in
there pretty quickly. Let's see as we go down the
list of teams, man you got, this would be Team
Team Durant would be down. Joe l embiid that that hurts.

(01:36:05):
That hurts because they didn't take them with their top
picks anyway, so they didn't think he was that important. Well,
Kevin Durant drafted terribly. So yeah, well we'll keep an
eye on that. Thanks to Isaac Loan Cron, he's got
you add Isaac Loan Kron as well. But as we're
talking the NBA, we get to uh the quote midpoint

(01:36:28):
of everything and assessing where teams are. The East is
a is a mess. Right. You've got a couple of
teams that are ahead of the pack, but you've got
a lot of teams that look awfully similar, and so
I'm afraid for our usual trade talk segments that are
gonna keep coming up, LaVar, over the next couple of weeks,

(01:36:50):
there might not be a lot of activity, because you
can still sell yourself on the fact that we just
need to get into the tournament in the East, and
we've got a chance. Even though we may stipulate that
the Sixers, pending what happens with this out of the
gate here for the second half, you do have a break,
so at least a few days off should the worst

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come back on Simmons and Embiide. But you know you've
got the Sixers a top things and and obviously all
eyes are on Brooklyn, and all eyes are on Brooklyn
now as you've got Blake Griffin getting it back to
the Dunks. See how I tied that all together? Uh,
and getting getting once upon a time one of the

(01:37:32):
great dunkers who now after jumping the Sharks slash keya
car all those years ago, hasn't dunked in a game
in forever. But now he's available, and Brooklyn might be
one of the suitors. And I think that would be
a great fit for for break. Blake Griffin, and I
think that would provide a nice role player, which that's

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what Blake Griffin is at this point, is is a
nice role player for a team. And he wouldn't have
to be a superstar like he once was when he
was in in Clip City. He wouldn't have to do
the crazy dunks to impress people. He just had to
play some pretty good defense and and which we don't
know if he'll be able to do that, but we

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do know that he has jumpers or his shot is
not so bad. He's got a little bit of game
with him outside of dunking the ball. Um. There are
there are positives that Blake Griffin can bring to a
team like Brooklyn where it would fit, uh. But I

(01:38:38):
would not be looking for him to go to a
team to be the franchise guy or to be the
Blake Griffin that we had come to known once he
had just came into the league. So I think that
that's where he's at right now. Mike, Yeah, he's an
auxiliary part at this point. And to me, I think
one of the things as you're you're looking at new destinations.

(01:38:59):
You and I have talked a lot, uh here at
Fox Sports Radio and then just back and forth texts
and and chatting it up about what the Lakers do
with the injury to Anthony Davis. Now you can be
as positive and be positive Perry and take everything that
they're they're coming out with and saying, all right, he's
gonna be back in two to three weeks. This is
all good, but you need to make sure you've fortified things.

(01:39:21):
And to me, the hot take that comes with it is,
how about you come back to l a play on
a minimum deal. You get to relieve Lebron James a
few minutes each game, right, he's averaging about four assists
per game. It's still work on the lower block and
and as really not the same player obviously in terms
of star power, but also a guy that people remember

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as only an inside guy. And that this goes back
to Zion needing to keep expanding his game. Right, Eventually,
he's got to work on the jump shot. Blake Griffin
eventually did that, but it didn't really get the same
notoriety because well, that's not hotlight highlight. Real stuff comes here.
It hits a few shots, and if he can be
a part of a Laker team that's able to take

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down the Clippers that sent him to Detroit. He's able
to derail Steve Bomber's hopes and excitations of raising a banner.
Tell me that wouldn't be sweet revenge. Well, I think
the I think the Nets are going to compete for

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it regardless. And so if if I'm Blake Griffin, I
try my darndist to get to to Brooklyn. You know,
I know they've been talking about if he comes to,
you know, the Lakers, that could be a positive contribution
um or or addition, I should say to the team,

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but I think that you're looking at a team like
like the Brooklyn Nets. They're the most intriguing team for
him to go to. And I would also ultimately say
that if you're getting Kevin Durant on the on the
court at some time soon, and you get all three
of those guys put together, that's that's a train I

(01:41:12):
would want to have a seat on if I'm a
player like Blake Griffin. Yeah. I mean, because we talk
about the Eastern Conference being shuffled, some of the teams
haven't gotten out of their own way. Some have been
derailed by long COVID exposure. Right when we look at Washington,
they've been decimated. So they're on the outside looking in,

(01:41:33):
even after bringing over Russell westbrook and and looking for
bigger things from second year guy Rudy Hachimura. Uh so
they're on the right. You look at the Miami Heat,
missed a lot of time for both Jimmy Butler and
the playoff and finals hero Tyler. Hero is finally back
on the court and suddenly like, that's the team. I

(01:41:53):
think it's dangerous in the East if they can get
on a run. But the Celtics can't get out of
their own way. We we don't know what the Sixers
are long term, right, you bring in Doc Rivers. There's
been some good, there's been some bad, and we'll just
leave that as it is because we've already talked about
the facts of life and people get mad at us
when we do that. But the uh, the Embiid and

(01:42:15):
Simmons train. Can that work in the playoffs? Remains to
be seen. The Milwaukee Bucks are they good enough to
get over They're always good in the regular season. Can
they finish? So? Yeah, Brooklyn's that team with those three players. Again,
they've played fewer than ten games together at this point,
which is amazing and you've seen what James Harden has
been able to do, Kyrie hitting big shots. Uh, and

(01:42:37):
then they'll get Durant back. But they also have that
near six million dollars they got from the Spencer Dinwitty
injury that they have for spending. And if things are
tight in terms of player movement because of what a
mess the standings are there in the East, then this
is where maybe you can make some noise on the
cheap to just say, hey, you want take a shot

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at the title, you want to go try And I
think it works there for Steve Nash and company. But
you know what, as they say, it all play out
in front of us. We talked about live sports and
we're so happy that they're they've been back and that
will be able to attend them in mass here soon
because there's no better drama live or on television. That

(01:43:24):
maybe if you brought Law and Order back, if you
brought Law on Order back, No, I'm just kidding. Uh,
he's LaVar Ericton. I'm Mike Carmen. Well you know what
we could we could always have Season twenty one. We're
live from the Farmer's Insurance Fox Sports Radio Studios. Hey,
coming out next. A lot of proposals that go into
the off season every NFL cycle in terms of rules changing.

(01:43:46):
I don't really like the one that I've seen uh
bandied about. I will get an opinion from a three
time pro bowler next here on Fox Welcome Back in
Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday. I was say, I'm
feeling a little bit funky, you know, Uh LaVar. I
brought him a giant stack of Iowa player cards from

(01:44:10):
across the NFL, NBA, and Uh, he's He's like a
kid in a candy store. Now. So we're live from
the Farmers Insurance Fox Sports Radio Studios. You can call
Farmers today for a quote. Alright, the annual League Virtual
Meeting is gonna come up here shortly. This this hit

(01:44:31):
middle of the week, but something that percolates as people
start thinking about all these different rules proposals. And there's
a lot on what to do with overtime, what to
do with the ball going out of the end zone
on a FuMB all of those things that we fight
about every year. But one that's coming up, and and
I wanted to get your take on this one, LaVar.

(01:44:52):
He knows what I'm gonna ask, Uh, making the roughing
the passer reviewable by replaying. Here's why I hate it.
You shouldn't be you shouldn't be making this many touch

(01:45:17):
foul calls as as there are being called. Like, I
understand you want to protect the quarterbacks. I get that,
but you shouldn't even be in a position where you
have to review a roughing the passer, Like go back
to the old one and a half steps. You get

(01:45:38):
one and a half steps. And if your head is
is not down. There's two things, just two simple things.
If your head is up, meaning your eyes can see
the quarterback, you should not get flagged for a penalty
with a hit. You should get a stab up and

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a half to hit the quarterback. I just think that
that's what it is. Like, Uh, you should not have
to worry about how you hit them. So if somebody's
dragging you down, like by the way, which you could
call a holding call, which you're not gonna call. So
if they're getting drugged down and they hit this guy,

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the quarterback in a place that isn't a tolerable place
for him to be hit, that should not be a foul.
You hit a guy that plays, um, what's the description
of this game. Um oh, tackle football. Oh yeah, that's right.
The biggest problem that I've had with it, LaVar is

(01:46:44):
when they amended it to the inclusion of if you
land down the quarterback. It's like, unless these guys are
spending their off season going to train with the w
W E as to how to take a bump and
and hit a guy without landing on him and go
lailing off to the side where you can spin up
and do another move or or motion of the crowd. Hey,

(01:47:06):
you're gonna land on the quarterback. That's part of it.
I'm sorry. Having the pressure and physicality of a two
to three pounds sometimes tipping near to four bills. Let's
call it what it is. When we get to real,
real inside players, that it's gonna happen, and it can't
automatically be a penalty. It has automatically become a pencil penalty.

(01:47:33):
It also has become a a real focal point for
a lot of onlookers. And and I say that to say,
when you're watching this game, like, you're always going to
have moments in time where people are going to frown
upon the rules that are put in place to govern

(01:47:54):
the game. That's just out it's always good. I mean
people that watch me and Joe Green and Lambert and
those guys play, they tend to look at, you know,
night train lanes and all those guys, they tend to
look at what came after that as this is not football,
it's soft. And then you transition out of that period

(01:48:17):
of time with uh when when you started to see
stuff like Greg Lloyd hitting Dan Marino and Greg Lloyd
sitting there saying if you want to put a skirt
on them, then put a skirt on them. This isn't
flag football. And then you started putting more and more
rules into governing that era of time, and then it changes,
and then it comes out of that and you know,

(01:48:38):
there's no more heads slapping, no more clothes line, and
no more real blatant like hitting a quarterback and stinging him.
And then you go into that next that next level,
that next phase, that was my phase where you were
still able to make hits, but you were getting fined. Um.

(01:48:58):
They might have not had necessarily called did a penalty
in the game, but they were finding you so that
they were letting you know, don't hit the quarterback, don't
hit certain players as hard as you're hitting them, and
then you have those long drawing out rules sessions during
the course of your training camp, and then you get
to now and I don't know where you go from here,

(01:49:19):
because the only other recourse after where we're at now
is not to touch the quarterback. And then now you've
got to figure out, well, what does that look like?
Like it's almost it's almost interesting to look at some
of the successes, Mike of these quarterbacks these days, like, oh,
they're a dual threat quarterback. They can run, dona die

(01:49:41):
this and not the other. You know what the best
tool for a quarterback is right now? A pump fake. Yes,
all you gotta do is know how to pump fake,
and you give yourself an opportunity to be a pretty
decent dual threat quarterback because you never know if he's
gonna throw it or if he's gonna keep it. That's

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the thing. If he throws it, you're gonna get a
penalty if he keeps it. If he keeps it, you
look like you're not doing your job. You've created too
much doubt with with the defenders as it applies to
that position, and so you you would ultimately look at
some of the success of these these players as being
a little bit overblown because they're they're in a position

(01:50:24):
to take advantage of how how defenders are are forced
to play him. Well, that that's the interesting part, right
when you get into the pump fake. Add that to
working towards the sidelines, and as a defender you're in
the man's land. The pump fake particularly effective because on
the field, once you're in the middle of the play,
you're not quite sure where you are relative to the

(01:50:44):
line of scrimmage. Because we see guys pump fake in
seven yards being you know beyond yeah, he's they're still
pump fake, and because you're not quite sure where he
are that he may still throw the ball. Listen, all
I know is this the whole replay of hitting the
quarterbacks and roughing the passer and all that stuff. Just

(01:51:06):
make the quarterback a part of the game again, that's all.
That's that's how they need to be thinking. Make the
quarter like like, I am a big fan of quarterbacks.
I'm a big fan of of of Tom Brady. Everybody
knows that my my feelings for him have been made
public and are well documented. But let's be clear, if

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they had to go by the same rules and regulations
that everybody else had to. There would be no Tom
Brady planning football right now. There would there would be
no Drew Brees thinking about playing football right now. Brett
Farve wouldn't have been planned as long as he did.
You're the brutality of the sport does not allow for

(01:51:48):
you to be able to play as long as these
guys are playing for So now you're you're just like
in the natural ecosystem of of the planet. If you
get rid of too many uh apex predators right then,
or get rid of predators so to speak, by doing
something else like oh, you're killing off the wolves, or

(01:52:09):
you're you're taking away the natural habitat of of tigers,
or this, that and other. Well, you're gonna see more antelope,
You're you're gonna see more you know, more ward hogs.
You're gonna see more of this, You're gonna see more
of that because you've you've disrupted the balance. So now
there's a kid that was supposed to be the next
Tom Brady that will never be the Tom Brady because

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the lifespan of these quarterbacks are being lengthened so long
and so far that they're not going to get an
opportunity because you're creating a log jam approach, an overrunning
of of people at the position, so to speak. And
you only have what thirty two times two maybe sometimes three,
So you're talking about sixty four sixties six, what what

(01:52:55):
is the thirty six three three? Say two so four
six six Steve four sixty four guys in general will
be on an NFL roster as a quarterback and some
carry three. So you're telling me, by not allowing these
guys to naturally let them run their course in their careers,

(01:53:18):
that they can play until they're like Tom Brady is
going to push for fifty years old. In some instances,
we can look at how amazing the feat is and
be excited about, oh my gosh, he's still going, Oh
my gosh, he's able to win a super Bowl at
that age. But if people are allowed to hit Tom
Brady like they hit the other guys on the football field,

(01:53:38):
do you think that they would have been winning a
Super Bowl with Tom Brady at the age he is.
So that's the thing about it is, I feel as
though there are a lot of disruptions that come with
all of these rules that are in play for these
quarterbacks and at some point you gotta really take a
step back and look at it, like, man, he's right, Like,
if it's going to be a full contact sport, then

(01:54:00):
let it be a full contact sport. Somebody else is
gonna have to come in and they're gonna have to
try to figure out how to have success at the position.
You know what, just like every other player outside of
kickers and and really place holders. Um, they have to
figure out how to survive in the game for as
long as they can, just like everyone else. So it's

(01:54:24):
it shocks me. It hits me differently when people say
how great an athlete a quarterback is, or oh my gosh,
what an iron man. Iron man and he's indestructible and
he's just brilliant and this down, now, what's so brilliant
about being protected the way that they're being protected. I mean,
if we're being real about it, stop protecting them and

(01:54:45):
let them be what we have to be. Least, I checked,
the linebacker has to take on alignment and and they're
not making calls in favor of linebackers, so that three
hundred pound plus man is able to do some some
things to linebackers that should be against the rules. I
mean I've been thrown down on the ground and speared.

(01:55:07):
I remember Trey Thomas caught me one time, threw me
on the ground and then when head first power drive
into my into my mid section and it hurt bad.
Right now, the video of this, yeah, I mean, mama, no,

(01:55:27):
for real, Like, if you've ever seen Trey Thomas and
big big he was, that's that's a whole lot of
man raining down on you while you're on the ground.
So so when you think about when you think about
what we're dealing with, right, like what we're dealing with, Like,
sure there have been Okay, you can't chop block guys anymore,

(01:55:47):
you can't high low guys anymore, you can't blindside block anymore.
But for what it's worth, I like, you should still
be able to blindside somebody. I'm sorry, just my my innion.
In the game of football, if you get yourself in
the proper position and you're able to crack back on
on a defender or you know it would be tackler,

(01:56:13):
you should be able to crack back and listen, I'm sorry,
But when you start getting injuries and you have to
concern yourself with what comes along with those injuries. You
have to make decisions for your career. So I feel
like we're getting a little bit off the off the
beating path of being really legit on on safety and

(01:56:36):
protocols versus being able to play the game right, Like,
there are inherent dangers that come along with being in
law enforcement and being in the military and playing full
contact sports. At some point you have to look at
what those inherent dangers are and make an educated decision
on if you are going to retire from that sport

(01:56:57):
that allows for other people to have the opportunity need
to participate and have a job and say I was
a professional and I was able to play. It just
should have that natural um recircular recycling or cycling of
of how things happen. Mike and I just feel like,
you know, especially for the quarterbacks position, because all of

(01:57:19):
these rules in the way they govern and and all
these different things like who cares about a replay for
for if you if you rough the passer or not
if you if it was a late hit or if
you who cares let the guy be a part of
the game. That's what I care for. You Pad on
a swivel playing equitably that's the game, and in this

(01:57:40):
case it's the game, and you miss a bunch of them,
right because we see the face masks or whatever that
they're being taken down that are missed, and certainly from
a defender as long as you're not getting into my
pocket over finds for some of these than uh yeah,
just just keep it on the field. The extra guide

(01:58:00):
of the booth if you need do to watch it
on TV as it happens. But no review. I'm out
on that as well. Not as passionately, uh because look
I wasn't on the field head on a swivel, but
I do like the crackback block as well. All of
that just great stuff. Preaching wisdom. There we go, the
wisdom of LaVar Arrington, no question at King of the Mammals.

(01:58:23):
Following there on Instagram as you go up on game
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(01:58:46):
Joel Embid and Ben Simmons of the Philadelphia seventy sixers
are potentially ineligible to participate in tonight's NBA All Star
Game because of contact tracing after their personal barber had
an initial oddsitive COVID test. Doc Rivers just told reporters
it's not looking great for them to play and that
they're still waiting for the NBA to tell them what

(01:59:08):
the next steps are. And Beat and Simmons are on
separate All Star teams, and Beat on Team Durant. Simmons
is on Team Lebron. The action begins with a three
point shootout tonight at six thirty eastern. The All Star
Game atself typic off at eight eastern. The Slam Dunk
Contest will be held at halftime of the All Star Game.
On Saturday. Morehead State joined Liberty in the n c

(01:59:31):
Double A Tournament within eight to seventy one win over
Belmont in the Ohio Valley Championship Games, so Morehead State
advancing to the n c Double A Tournament for the
first time in a decade Today coming up at the
top of the hour, another team will join them after
the Big South championship game between Winthrop and Campbell. Campbell

(01:59:51):
guys has one of the more unique names in college basketball.
Their nickname the Campbell Fighting Camel's. So they will be
tipping off against the Winthrop Eagles at the top of
the hour back to you win. Just don't know how
you come up with that as your your team mascot.
They actually don't know either. They literally do not know

(02:00:14):
how they came up with that nickname. There are a
bunch of theories dating all the way back to nineteen hundred.
Somebody was joking around. Somebody was joking around, and the
joke caught on and it ended up being that nobody
wants to take, uh, take responsibility for it. No, somebody
with Cloud at the time who had a big buy in.
That's that's the guy that got to name the team,

(02:00:36):
and nobody wanted to talk down to him and university
they got a big chair. Well that's had this big chair,
I had this big decision. Hold on, I'm sorry, I
love for interrupting you, but you got this big chair,
you got this big pocket book, and you got all
this big stuff, and you want to take your big
influence and name the whole university after camel. Well, that's

(02:00:59):
actually one the theories because one of the local interests
is the R. J R. Tobacco Company and the cigarette brand.
So that's one of the theories, but it is not
the only theory. There, you go appreciate that. I look
at Isaac lohen Crin. That was a mini off the right.

(02:01:21):
I don't like nefarious. It's good, good word, five dollar
word for you right there. How about this Antoine Walker
telling tales playing a game of spades with Michael Jordan's
and two other guys thirty six hours LaVar laying spades.
He was on the All Things Covered podcast, buying twenty
thousand bets got as high as fifty and at one

(02:01:43):
point Jordan and Walker were down nine hundred thousand dollars
and Jordan was supposed to uh go have his press
conference to rejoin the Bulls after his foray into baseball,
but as Michael Jordan's was wont to do, uh he
wasn't leaving down nine hundred thousand dollars. So cash game,

(02:02:05):
send someone out to go get another half million dollars.
And so that's why we got the facts that I'm back.
M hmm. It's a lot of money. To try to
win back, and then a lot more money to try
to win that a lot of money back. I like
that playing spades for thirty six hours saying forget it,
just just tell them I'm coming back, which is about

(02:02:26):
like you combine the two stories. I mean, that's about
as good as it gets. As we're live here from
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kind of time for our Mammals of the Week with

(02:02:47):
LaVar getting back up in the pulpit to evangelize. That's
next on Fox. Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Sunday.
Rev it up here on a big Sunday, the All
Star Game coming. I've got soccer on the pitch with
some Premier League action as I'm coming to you alive

(02:03:09):
and LaVar from the Virtual Farmers Insurance Fox Sports Radio
Studios called one eight eight Farmers, you can save a
whole lot of something on auto insurance. And without further ado,
it's time to give the stage to my guy, the
pro bowler, the King of the mammals himself. It's my guy,
LaVar Arrington, and a segment that we love to hear

(02:03:31):
him evangelize. It takes an apex predator to properly assess
situations and spot potential greatness no matter how big or small.
LaVar Arrington puts the spotlight on them all. These are
his mammals of the weed all mammal. Yeah, this is

(02:03:56):
a good one. I got three really really good ones
and the last one being the best one in the
most amazing one of them all. And I'm sure you
will all agree and give a little respect and show homage.
But I'm gonna start with number one and these two
our teammates, and you'll find find the theme very consistent,
very quickly. All Right, when you make an All Star

(02:04:18):
game and you get an opportunity to be a part
of it, it shouldn't turn from being a moment of
success and jubil jubilation and excitement to disappointment and anger
and frustration and resentment. So I'm gonna send a shout
out to Donovan Mitchell. I believe that him being an

(02:04:39):
All Star and playing at such a high level for
so long and being on well the NBA's top team
right now going into All Star weekend should have received
a little bit more respect than what he did. And
the choosing of the All Star guys being the last
of the last has to to be selected for the game,

(02:05:04):
Donovan Mitchell should not be that way. So I'm making
him my all mammal and shining some light on the
star that he is. And then that leads me, of
course to the next one, Rudy Gobert. Now maybe his
style of play doesn't really fit the All Star game format,
I get it. But to be the last pick to

(02:05:26):
be on that situation where you and your teammate have
been disrespected, and then the heir of the reasoning from
Lebron about nobody chooses Utah Jazz players, nobody pays attention
to him, even going back to Stockton and my loan,
how horrible is that? I mean, it's it's a it's

(02:05:48):
a lot of things. I won't get into the details
of what it may or may not be, but couldn't
because you couldn't don't on the game, he had a
zero Well not good is is what my conclusion was.
And I wanted to make them all mammals for this
week of course. And then the last one. Of course,
I think everyone will really appreciate this one. Uh. You know,

(02:06:12):
he was an awesome coach, an awesome uh advocate, a
person that was a part of hockey in such a
great way. We we lost a great father, Um, and
Walter Gretzky and and you know, I'm a big fan
of Mario Lemieux and and Wayne Gretzky. I would I
would argue that Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player

(02:06:37):
of of all time. We could debate it, but the
one cool thing about it is he shared his dad
with us. His dad passed away after a long fight
with Parkinson's disease. So UM, shots out to the Gretzky family,
shots out to Walter being someone who produced, uh, someone

(02:06:58):
as special as Wayne Gretzky for us. So yeah, these
are my all mammals, and Walter rest easy. You are
all mammals, sir. See. This is where it ties together.
He's all mammal. That's actually one of the pieces that
we'll talk about and find your wins. Next hour, We're
gonna go to Ilo really quick. Some breaking news on
the All Star Game. The NBA just officially announcing that

(02:07:22):
Joel Embad and Ben Simmons will not play in the
All Star Game tonight because of contact tracing in their
personal barber testing positive for COVID. So the NBA officially
ruling out Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons. Here you go, Ilo,
you want it now that it's no longer you know? Newsman? Ilo,
you want to give me your line? Say it looks

(02:07:44):
like Simmons and and Bead were cut from the All
Star roster. That's my guy, that's Ilo. LaVar Arrington out
of my Carmen. Coming up next, Hey, what's the plan
in New England? What are they doing? For one? We
have some theories. Next here on Fox Sports Radio, Greg Eggs,

(02:08:04):
welcome in fourth hour of the program. Like we do
when we talk at sporting events. When you're at a
football game, what do you do in the crowd? You
get those fours up? So get them up. We're hanging
out Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Harmon alongside the All American
The King of the Mammals. It's LaVar Arrington. As we're
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What else you gonna do with your phone for the
next few minutes, you know, look at pictures the food
that your friends eight. Yeah, you're gonna look again. Call
one eight eight eight farmers for a quote. We are farmers,

(02:08:46):
And honestly, I do scroll back and look at the
food that Lavark cooks a second or third time because
it always inspires me to want to either match or
one up that. Oh I like it. I don't have
a flamethrower yet, though I made some ribs yesterday. They
seem to be very well received, nicely done. Thank you.

(02:09:09):
Boil then grill or know them. I let them, I
seasoned them, and I let them sit, and then once
I let them sit, then I ninja them for twenty minutes,
and then I'm flame grilled them for about ten minutes.

(02:09:31):
How we don't have a partnership with the ninja at
this point, given your love of that product, I have
no idea. I live by it. I mean, you are
living the life. We should make the your own cookbook.
You know, Patrick Willis went out and did it too,
So outs out to Pat Willis. We've had conversations about

(02:09:51):
our techniques using it. That's one of my favorite guys.
He was always extraordinarily kind back in the day when
I'd be at training camps. So shout out Patrick Willis. Yeah,
that's a good dude right there. It's good stuff, all right.
So we got the fun and exciting world of the
NFL quarterback carousel, and we've talked about all the big principles.

(02:10:15):
I just want to talk about one that right now.
There's just a giant, well I mean silhouette of a
football player with a giant question mark on it, and
that's the New England Patriots coming off the season with
Cam Newton looking and anybody that watched as much as
Cam could try to bolster things. And and he's a
good like. I love Cam Newton. I think he's great

(02:10:37):
for the game. I think he's his own man and
that and that is just you got. You gotta admire
that because it does most quarterbacks kind of fit into
a box. Might be a bigger box than it used
to be the last couple of years. But Cam's Cam's
his own guy, and I wish him physical health that
we can see some semblance of what Cam was before

(02:10:59):
the latest injuries. I don't know that we will, but
I also don't believe we're going to see him back
in New England. They clearly don't think much of Jared Stidham.
They've got a roster that gets some of its help back, right,
number of defenders that had opted out for this season.
A number of those players will be back, including you know,

(02:11:19):
a couple of big impact guys and that that back seven.
But when we look at the offense, a lot of
questions at wide receiver and those remain Julian Edelman, can
you duct tape him together? And does he come back?
And look, I we gotta call it what it is, LaVar.
We love these guys, but you know they're walking versions
of the game operation and and and all the way

(02:11:44):
up and down their body. You can put the red
red mark on. That's what we used to do with
Matt Stafford before games. When we talk about is availability
for fantasy purposes is like what else is going to
be listed as hurt before this next game? But at
the quarterback position, it's it's a big spot and you
already have the buffer years, so you're no longer the

(02:12:04):
guy replacing Tom Brady. But there is speculation that Jimmy
Garoppolo finds his way back to New England in San Francisco,
makes a switch either bringing in Teddy Bridgewater from Carolina.
I mean a lot of it has to do with
what the Texans ultimately decide with Shawn Watson. There's I mean,

(02:12:29):
you just unloaded a whole lot on me. Just now
you can take it to choose your own adventure. Like
the old books we had as kids, Let's start with Cam.
Um My starting with Cam would be I had I
had confidence that they would end up Um having a

(02:12:49):
relationship go further into the future. The New England Patriots
and Cam since harring Uh, Rodney Harrison come out and
say what he had to say, like basically, Cam can't
play anymore and it would be a tremendous mistake for
for New England to bring him back. I just it

(02:13:14):
made me come to the realization that Cam is fighting
against elements that are it maybe beyond his ability to
overcome and and have that opportunity moving forward. And it
makes me wonder where will he land, where will he
end up, and what will his role be? Because the

(02:13:37):
more I hear experts come out, and you gotta remember,
Rodney Harrison finished his career in in New England. You know,
he has a Super Bowl with New England here, he'll
probably I would assume, maybe end up being a Hall
of Famer UM and and as a very well respected voice,

(02:13:58):
UM as an analyst and that experts. So when I
look at what people like him are coming out and
sane and how it directly is being received by the Patriots, uh,
probably the media, I think it's going to cause too
much pressure too to actually bring Cam back. And then

(02:14:22):
now the question becomes weird, does he go what is
his role and and what does that look like? And
I don't see starter um on that list, So it
now it becomes okay, is he a serviceable back up?
And where is he that serviceable backup? Because Cam is

(02:14:42):
one of the most polarizing figures in all of football.
He's a strong personality. Are you really going to bring
him into your locker room and take that chance of
Cam being a backup in your locker room with somebody
else as a starter? Is that starter strong enough and
and and secure enough to be the starter and deal

(02:15:02):
with him being his backup? Well? And there there's there,
I think is the larger question. LaVar And you know,
and The third one becomes Cam accepting that he would
need to start as a backup somewhere. I mean that
might just be what what what it is like? He's
a dude. I'd love to sit down and have a
full chat with, not just just style because you know,
he and I loved to rocket nice for Dora. Yeah,

(02:15:25):
you guys have a similar style with the way you're
dressing and the you know, loud glasses and everything else.
We're all on board there, but you know, with Cam
and and it wasn't even trying to say, hey, we
gotta get him back to m v P form. It's
just more a guy that doesn't look like he's compensating
for an injury, right which this year watching is throwing motion.
There were times going all right, he's playing through something

(02:15:48):
more than we know. At least that was my my
estimation of it, and that they weren't good enough as
a squad with the the guys that opted out and
where they're at with the skills asians to overcome that.
So it becomes that that question that you raise to
a large degree, the Carson Wentz Jalen Hurts model of

(02:16:10):
guys shut down as soon as there was competition on
the scene, and I seriously wonder how many locker rooms
that would actually be an issue, and that that I
think is sad to a degree because it's a sport
based on really intense, violent competition, Yet you'd be fragile

(02:16:32):
to to that point to even be looking over your shoulder. Well,
then now you move on to Houston and the other
person that you unloaded and Deshaun Watson. My take on that,
it's very simple. You're going to see a situation where
they are going to show that they have try to

(02:16:53):
trade you. They have put it out there where we're
trying to move you just like you asked, but they're
gonna ask for too much. They're going to ask for
so much that it's going to be too much for
anyone to be able to get DeShawn Watson. That's how
I see that playing out. They will ultimately make the attempt.

(02:17:16):
So it's seen and it's understood, and oh we tried
and we did what we could do, but you know what,
no one was willing to give us what it is
that you were seeking. So, um, you're gonna be here
and and uh, how exactly do you want to go

(02:17:37):
about doing this? Because honestly speaking, Um, honestly speaking, de Sean, Uh,
we paid you a whole lot of money. Well, I
need they paid him a lot of money. And we've
talked about this, and I again, I'm surprised outside of
you and I talking about it, and you on FS

(02:17:58):
one speak for yourself. Uh, and and where you've appeared
and and certainly up on game like just the idea
that Deshaun Watson tried to play the system right in
terms of signing this deal, and that he may have
had resentment towards them all along, even you know, the

(02:18:18):
trade of DeAndre Hopkins happened, and long before he signed
the deal, all of these things played together and they
gave him the no trade And now that can all
come back to bite him because they'll just document and
leaked schefter Glazer insertain insider here. Look that we this,

(02:18:38):
we we tried, and this is the offers we're getting
and they're not commensurate with the level of player that
DeShawn is. And now they're in a holding pattern and
folks say you can't hold them just for spite, I say,
yeah you can. Is it wise long term probably not?
But but short term you know, in in terms of

(02:19:00):
because how many more guys if if this becomes the norm,
that's that's that's pretty interest. The other precedent that it
sets of how I want out and people I I
know I'll already get the tweets because I get them,
uh during the week, bringing on at swollen him, what
about Matt Stafford? What about J. J. Watt? Well? J J.
Watt they decided they want to pay him seventeen million dollars,

(02:19:23):
diminishing asset and moving on and maybe some level of dissatisfaction,
But you didn't hear that necessarily play out in the media.
Matt Stafford, I'm convinced it was mutual of you know,
look at what his wife was saying all about Detroit
as much as they loved the city and issues they
were having. And then certainly, you know, Stafford hitting the

(02:19:45):
point in his career that wants to win and Detroit
wasn't moving forward so much different than Hey, I'm I'm
this level of player, I just signed a massive deal,
you know, form on Ago and I the best years
of my career yet to come. They're they're completely different

(02:20:06):
circumstances and trying to make it about the color of
his skin which is what normally the tweets are in
this regard is just disingenuous. I think that the best
play is what I just stated. Houston has to try
to figure out a way to paint themselves in a

(02:20:29):
positive light and a positive picture that puts the ball
into Shaun Watson's hands, so to speak. And and that
is trying to make the trade. You try to make
the trade, and if they don't take the trade, what like, okay,
so you're gonna sit out because we couldn't trade you.

(02:20:49):
Now it becomes Deshaun Watson's uh task to do, you know,
um management of of what's going on with with him
and and and just do damage control on his reputation.
What that looks like moving forward? If you actually demanded

(02:21:10):
a trade, they tried to trade you based off of
your demand, they couldn't trade you, and and now you're
still going to sit out. I just think that that
becomes that becomes a situation that that now Deshaun Watson

(02:21:31):
has to handle. So it'll be interesting to see if
it if it pans out that way, but it would
be quite a flip and a changing of momentum. If
you tried to make the trade it didn't happen, and
now Deshaun Watson has to make decisions based upon those
trades are not happening. He's LaVar Arrington. I'm Mike Harmon.

(02:21:52):
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(02:22:15):
love you forever and ever, no question about it. Now,
if you buy things online, and maybe you're a collector
of shoes or trading cards or or any of those things,
you've been victimized by bots. There's no question about it.
It appears that one NFL owner maybe using them to
help his cause. We'll get into that next year on

(02:22:37):
Fox Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Rmen alongside the All American
my guy, LaVar Arrington. We're live from the Farmer's Insurance
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Call farmers Today to get yourself
a quote LaVar, here's one, uh well that I toss
up to you. So the NFL, the investigation of the

(02:22:57):
culture involved me of executives and ownership with the NFL.
The Washington football team reportedly, uh well, there there's a
little bit of Shenanigans going on here. Um yeah. Michael
Phillips at the Richmond Times Dispatch reporting someone has purchased

(02:23:17):
Facebook ads that promote an article touting Daniel Snyder's charitable activities.
The article appears on a website called NYC talk dot
org or usually you know, community involvement slash, you know,
governmental agencies and all of those kind of things. And

(02:23:39):
there's all that. A number of new Year users appeared
on Twitter quote all female, all accounts created in October
that have been tweeting out praise of Snyder's efforts over
the past week. So the question of bots not representing
actual people, but folks being being uh paid to just

(02:24:01):
go on and write laudatory things here. So shenanigan z
now a clumsy that's the word from the article, and
I echo it here trying to figure out you had
a good year? P R wise right, team finished well?

(02:24:23):
Taylor Heineck went well on the field. You at least
got some positivity, right, Alex Smith was a great story.
Let's make sure we clarify there's two there's two parts, right.
But the team got a lot of good good press. Yes,
I mean, you know, the coach beating cancer, returning, like
you said, Alex Smith returning, a lot of great feel

(02:24:46):
good stories that that could um really really and and
I mean listen, I've heard like again, I have been
I am always wanted to keep it one from the hip.
And you know, as of eight for for the last season,
you know, the whole Jason Wright thing. I've spoken to
Tim high Tower at times, UM who works in the organization,

(02:25:09):
a couple of other people that worked there. By all
accounts given, there are a lot of really really good
positive things taking place there. So that's great, and I'll
talk about that. But there are still this there are
still a lot of stories that have surfaced and speculated. UM.
I know people personally, just even looking on social media

(02:25:31):
that people have come out and actually stated him by name,
UM basically talking about and I think it's more connected
to the cheerleading culture. UM. And and I think that
there have been a few things that have come out
that have stated at him specifically as being you know,
an issue. So I don't know that he has gotten

(02:25:54):
um great headlines. You can certainly the two actually can
you definitely can. Yeah, and you see things turn a
corner in one one part, but it doesn't absolve, it
doesn't negate what's going on on the other side. I
certainly wasn't trying to. I was just making sure my

(02:26:14):
my involvement of of of whatever I say as it
applies to that team. I just have to make sure
I'm clear on the things that I say, because my
things are you know, the things that come out of
my mouth as it applies to them is scrutinized on
a different level. So question about it. Just making sure
I can and I have an accountability because some of

(02:26:35):
the people that are involved with some of these stories
I know, so I don't I don't want to, you know,
make sure that you know I'm handling it as responsibly
as I can from that side of it, not just
as a media personnelity. No, certainly keeping it you know
one hundred as the kids say all the way across,

(02:26:55):
but just just an interesting tact right thinking at mentions
or support anonymously on a blog, would would have any
residence with the league. That's the thing that gets me
to scratch my head. It's like, this isn't you know
thirty years ago where a couple of guys could write

(02:27:16):
a nice spot in the local newspaper that carried a
lot of sway like, it's a different world. It is
a different world. And listen, I don't have a problem
with it if even if it's bots, I don't have
a problem with He does a lot of great things
in the community. People may not talk about those things
that because the bad things you know, over over, you know,

(02:27:40):
overcast doesn't allow the sun to shine on the things
that he does. But he does do a lot of
things charitably. You know, his wife and her involvement with
cancer awareness and just there are a lot of things
that the dude does that are really really um commendable,
commendable acts within the communities. Um. But again, you know,

(02:28:05):
if that's you're out of place where putting those type
of articles out, there's nothing wrong with trying to repaint
and rebrand and rebuild what your images to your clientele,
to your fan base, and to your peers. I would assume,
so you know, if there's gonna be bots out there

(02:28:26):
that are going to say all the bad things that
he's done and and what type of person he is.
I mean, there should you know, there's also the opportunity
for positive I mean, there's nothing wrong with that trying
to find their their new spot. As as it were. Uh,
in terms of this dialogue and waiting to see what

(02:28:46):
the next details are in lengthy investigation by the league. Uh,
they'll keep the Washington football team Moniker for at least
one more year, as we've come to find out. And
you mentioned some of the principles working behind the scenes.
You've got Tim high Tower, who is a a classic uh,
you know, and NFL he was a fantasy football hero

(02:29:09):
for a stretch. And you know Jason right, go Cats.
Uh as part of the Hey I gotta do it,
you do it every time. It's a great layoup for certain,
it's a layup for me. So if I'm a fan
of plenty of of North Northwestern Wildcats, I love NAPO
Napoleon Harris. You know, my family ties to to Udaifa Ishmali.

(02:29:31):
One of my guys went to the same high school.
His dad is really um like that. He's so close
with my family and my dad that we called each
other cousins. And uh, you know there are guys that
Autrey I'm I'm a big fan of the running back
Autrey Um and Pat Fitzgerald. I mean, like I said,
if there were a a picture of what a big

(02:29:55):
ten linebacker, it's supposed to look like Pat Fitzgerald be
the picture. Um connected to the definition. So I got
I got mad love for for Northwestern. I love Bates.
Bates was a Dwayne base Yeah he was. He was
pretty cool getting to know him, UM and competing against him.

(02:30:15):
So you're just going down the list, getting me all sentimental,
taking me back to the glory days when I was younger,
with more hair and the meat hadn't gotten me at
that point. Oh but that's the way it works. No, mom, no, No,
that's the problem. I didn't say, Mama, no enough when
it came to eating at the trough. He so far,

(02:30:39):
Mike armand this is Fox Sports Sunday. We find self
deprecation and humor at every turn. We're gonna turn it
over to Isaac Glow and God, give us a update.
I know he's got the latest on the All Star Game.
Could affect the betting line. What do you got, buddy? Indeed,
the NBA ruling out officially Joel and Beat and Ben Simmons,
both of the Philadelphia seventy sixers, for the All Star

(02:31:02):
Game tonight because of contact tracing after their personal barber
tested positive for COVID nineteen and Beat and Simmons were
on separate rosters for the All Star Game tonight, and
Bead was on Team Durant, Simmons on Team Lebron. The
action all starts with the three point Shootout tonight at
six thirty pm Eastern time. The All Star Game itself

(02:31:24):
tips off at eight pm Eastern time, and the Slam
Dunk Contest is going to be held at halftime of
the All Star Game. In college basketball, right now, one
conference tournament championship game going on. That would be the
Big South Tournament championship game between Winthrop and Campbell. And
right now, Winthrop off to the heart start say it again.

(02:31:46):
Say it again, Winthrop. That's what Winthrop. I've never heard
in training places. It's okay, you're saying it correctly. I
just enjoy the way. Well, now I'm trying to get

(02:32:11):
all Winthrop. You know the reason I'm trying to egg
you on is I've never heard that sound before in nature.
I'm gonna have to go. There's like a high pitched
sound that emanates from your mouth when you laugh, specifically
when I say Winthrop. He didn't hear that? Did you

(02:32:35):
hear that little that only dogs can hear? There it
is again? Relax. I could picture dogs throughout America listic
on Fox Sports Radio with their ears turned up. I'm
just I'm just endlessly amused by you, LaVar, and I
am endlessly amused by you. Let me tell you, hey,

(02:32:59):
Iowa sound, sure you clip that? Send that to me.
I gotta make that my my ring tope and Iowa Sam,
make sure to make sure you you clip that high
pitched whatever that is that emerged out of Lavars. There
it is again, and said that to me. I don't
know what you're talking. Did I give the score of though?

(02:33:19):
Give the score with five fifty five left to play
in the first half, the score is Winthrop. He's not
even like intentionally laughing. This is all natural for some reason,
it's here. I gotta got control myself so you can

(02:33:47):
campbell sixteen Winthrops. You're so stupid. The camels are down six. Next,
DJ Burns off, I'm gonna start four out of five
from the field. So Burns is been oh man, excellent,
All right, what's going on here? Look? Listen, you even
got a bird m Arne. I'm literally searching Urban Dictionary

(02:34:11):
right now to see what I'm missing here and why
this is so amusing to you. And I can't even
find anything on Urban Dictionary under the listing Back to you, guys,
than Shilo n had Isaac sixty eight new notifications on Twitter. Interesting.

(02:34:31):
Hey you say you say it, Mike say, yeah, that's funny.
I would not be able to say it that way
went through. Yeah, you didn't find me nearly as entertaining. Hey,
welcome back to the farmers. Though you rolled it well.
His role, his role was so hilarious. Man, The rolling

(02:34:57):
of the throp is the funniest part of the whole thing. Yeah,
I just say there, listen away, I said, listen, listen,
win Throp. You see what I'm saying. Like Winthrop, his
throat is so rolled, it just tickles. It tickles you.

(02:35:19):
The the sound effect of it tickles you. That's why
I had to laugh. I love it. It's a tickling.
It's a tickling role when I couldn't even do it.
If I wanted to win, I can't. I can't roll it.
We'll get you start practicing some of your Spanish. Hey,

(02:35:41):
welcome back to the Farmer's Insurance. Fox Sports radio studios
called want to hate Farmers to switch and you can
save a bundle on your auto insurance. I had to
stop the streak. Al right, here's a story. Then I
wanted to get as a high school coach. Get your
opinion on uh Tennessee high school girls basketball team room
from the playoffs and now they're on promation after a

(02:36:04):
kid attached, attacked, punching, and attacked the other team's coach
at a semifinals game um on Tuesday. The way back
to high school. So the girls team Arlington High School
in Memphis beat Dyer County by twenty in the Region

(02:36:25):
seven Triple A semifinals Tuesday. After the game, an Arlington fan,
the winners of this mind you, went and punched the
Dyer County coach, Derek McCord several times. So a dad, Well,
they're saying it's a kid that attacks. Yeah, the juvenile.
So it wasn't a player was evidently a fan charged

(02:36:48):
with simple assault. He told please that he punched McCord
because he was talking bad about his mother. So a
fan that was a dude of the team that lost,
of team that one of the team that won, went
and socked the coach of the team that lost because
he was saying something about something about his mom. I

(02:37:10):
guess two thousand dollars fine for the incident. Their banned
from next year's playoffs. They can't have camps or participating
team camps until the end of next season, and well
they can't schedule Dyer County in either girls or boys basketball.
M hmm. I don't know that anybody's gonna step to
you on a on a football field, but this seems

(02:37:34):
like an escalation and a pretty serious issue that needs
to be addressed. Let me tell you something about parents
and disgruntled fans and family members. They are capable of anything.
You can't sit there and say, oh, they wouldn't say
anything to you, Yes they would. I'll give you a
great example. I was playing against we we had a

(02:37:54):
game against a Zooza high school and we're playing against them,
and and it finally gets to the point it was
a back in fourth game. It could have gone either
way and we are about to lose, like in the
time is right winding down. They got the ball back.
We had an opportunity. We let it get away. And

(02:38:15):
I hear this guy behind me and he's like, yeah,
NFL guy, you died. I die and bleep it to
bleep bleep bleep. You bleep it. He bleep bleep bleep.
You ain't bleep it. He bleep bleep bleep. You get
the idea of it, It continued. He was heckling, heckling.
He came from the other side of the bleachers and

(02:38:37):
was making it known that that their team had outcoached
and they had outplayed an NFL coached team, and and
so you just never know. You just never know what's
gonna jump off because fans parents, um, the connection, the

(02:38:57):
emotional connection, UM, I see it happen with my daughter, um,
and even my son they have to deal with contending
with that's LaVar Arrington's daughter. So it's like she's she's
sitting there and she's dominating games, and it's like a

(02:39:18):
championship game. Every time teams play against my daughter. Every time,
it's the wildest thing you'll see. And I sit there
and I make no noises. I don't. I don't. All
I'll do is what my dad used to do with me,
point to my head and say, just use your head,
play with your head. Be smart, be strong. And I

(02:39:38):
never scream. I never like pop off when when she's
dominating the games, because I've noticed now that there's this
thing where people are are always wanting to beat my daughter.
And then like when my son is playing, it's like
if he gets ah, if he gets blocked, or if

(02:39:59):
he gets hit and tackled, it's like everybody goes nuts.
It's like once they figure out that, oh, you know
their their parents is a former NFL player, like it,
it travels and then it once it travels, then it's
like by the next game or by the next setup,
it's like now the stakes are so high, um so

(02:40:21):
and it gets wild. I'm telling you some of these
parents get I have seen a parent almost get physical
with the referee at the volleyball tournaments because they were
trying to say that my daughter was touching the net
when she was killing the ball. And it's like, are
you really going to go that hard at a tournament

(02:40:43):
about a net? And she it's questionable. It could have
gone either way. But you're like literally standing at the
ladder where the referee is. You're on the court where
the kids are, and you're going nuts at the ref
So I've seen in at all like I've I've seen
some craziness. I've seen some something like, man like, this

(02:41:06):
is this is really what it's this is what sports
has turned into one. It's it's almost it's disappointing. So
I'm not I'm not shocked by the least bit that
this happened. Of course, they had to come out with
a number of statements. These do not represent the values
of the school and motivating players, administrators doing their due diligence,

(02:41:29):
et cetera. But you know, as we return to activities
across the US, Yes, we returned to fans in the
stands and short for fanatics of course, and once the
families get involved, all bets are off protection bubble for
your kids and hopefully they take it as fuel into

(02:41:50):
heightening their competitive spirit and for you to, you know,
find some new adjectives that you can put into the
next book when we talk about these things. He's Var Arrington.
I'm Mike Harmon. This is Fox Sports Sunday. Here from
the Farmers Insurance, Fox Sports Radio Studios. All tales to
be told. LaVar we get just start for running the Yeah, Winthrop,

(02:42:11):
we'll get him into. Now you're getting the aerospace industry
in here too. I like what you're thinking. Keep expanding
beyond sports and entertainment. We'll take that over too. Yeah,
and we're gonna find some wins. And we're gonna do
that next year on Fox. Hey, welcome back in It's

(02:42:33):
Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Sunday. Coming up about ten
minutes from now. Steve Hartman, Rich Hornburger take you into
the day. Talk more NBA All Star Game, the quarterback carousel,
and everything else that is flowing around the world of sports.
Obviously developing stories and Bead and Simmons will not participate
in All Star activities. Were live from the Farmer's Insurance

(02:42:55):
Fox Sports Radio Studios called well on eight eight Farmers,
you can save a whole lot of something on your
auto insurance. Mike Armon and the Pro Bowler, the All American,
the All Mammal. Okay, so what we got TV wise
this week? I get a break, but I think I'll
be doing first things first on Friday. So but I

(02:43:16):
get I think you know you're always on call. But
you know I did did two weeks on uh, five days,
UM each of the last two weeks hosting first for it,
a dispute it, and then speak for yourself this week.
So I'm I'm a tap bit exhausted, but it was

(02:43:37):
a fun, fun run. Um. And yeah, so I'm not
certain I'm tired a little bit. Uh. But people are like,
you worked five days a week and he's tired. I'm like, no,
the man has many hats. Well yeah, yeah, that goes
without saying I don't. I don't want to try to
flex on anybody and talk about how many how many

(02:43:58):
things I do in the course of a day. But um,
but yeah, I mean it is a challenge to go
into studio and and the pressure of being the host
of the show, to drive the show is always, uh,
always an interesting challenge. So I appreciate the people that
Fox UM giving me the opportunity to do it. Um.

(02:44:19):
It was great working with with Jason McIntyre and with
Joey Taylor and Rick Buker and Greg Jennings, so um
having and Chris Brussard for certain, UM having the opportunity
to get that those valuable reps and and get the
experience was was just it was amazing. There you go,
but I'm chilling this week. That was my wins for

(02:44:40):
your wins. No, that's a that's a huge wins. Flashing
a lot of an extra look, exposure is a is
a good thing. Opportunity there. Uh. As we we got
the update, someone pointing out, like the article I read
didn't say it directly, but it was a winning coaches
um kid that assaulted the other coach in the in

(02:45:01):
that story that we did so uh, fun fun times
all around. Hey, you gotta protect the honor of the
family name. And you know what we'll do that by
finding a few wins here. Flocker room squabbles, struggling teens,
cheeters and no account owners. There's so much negativity at
sports that it can ruin your day. But not Mike
Hard That piece here to shine a light on the

(02:45:22):
good at sports with a simple mantra, find your winds.
While we were talking about baseball cards a lot here,
I brought Iowa sam the stack of Iowa cards and
all of that back in the news. People getting millions
of dollars off sales. It was a Tom Brady earlier
this week LaVar that fetched about one point three million

(02:45:44):
dollars in an auction. You know what Brady's response was,
I gotta go look in the basement because you I
mean they sent you trading cards to keep right, and
so he may have some of those rookies just sitting
around as well. So just be smart about it, folks.
A lot of fakes out there for this stuff. Because
there was actually a court case uh in Canada over

(02:46:08):
uh Alexei la Fronier, rookie for the Rangers. Someone was
making cards off a peewee tournament from a few years back,
and the official um statement from the Quebec Quebec Police was, Hey,
these are selling for a hundred dollars. They're not officially
licensed by the tourney, tournament day Peewee Hockey. I just

(02:46:31):
like the way they phrased that, which is kind of cool. Uh.
We've talked a lot about, you know, just getting back
to our activities, and one of those in ballparks is drinking.
Like to report that the you know from the one
oh eight, the the White Sox a team on the rise. Uh.
Their consumption was greater than any other fan base this

(02:46:52):
past year. So you gotta win there, and then you
mentioned Wayne Gretzky uh and speaking on the passing of
his father and all that he meant. Uh, if you
have the opportunity, as we always say, reach out to family,
reach out to friends, reach out to your folks. Just
see what they're talking about. What what they what's going
on in their world. Uh, they'll appreciate the phone call,

(02:47:13):
even if it's just a yell at you for some
of the failures that you've had. Uh, it's still a
good time and something that you should make part of
your Sunday. What else you got on tap LaVar? Anything good? Well, yeah,
I'm head out to go get get some food. Nice
nice celebration of sixteen years of hanging out in a marriage.

(02:47:33):
So we're going to have a good time. I don't
know that she'll really appreciate you saying hanging out. Oh
believe you me, hanging out and being friends is much
better than trying to fight through, like you know, the
other stuff. There's no question about it. At LaVar Arrington
at King of the Mammals, find me over at Won't
with Dome. Thanks for hanging with us this Sunday morning.
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