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the NBA is back on NBC, and yes, I admit
I went from Oh, it's gonna be exciting to hear
round Ball Rock and now I'm like, okay, I've had
(01:11):
enough with all of you in the round Ball Rock,
and suddenly it's gonna be like the skies have opened
up and people are dropping free money. I got I
got to that point pretty fast. Hey, this is fun too, Okay,
I'm done. Yes, Round Ball Rock, it's gonna be all right,
all right, all right, all right, alright, yes, it's gonna
be awesome, and go okay, okay, we're gonna get it's
going okay. It's not gonna solve everybody's problem. This is
not suddenly gonna turn the Jets into being seven. And
oh you're gonna hear Round Ball Rock, and if you're
(01:33):
of a certain age, you're gonna love it. That's how
made you happy for a minute until it was the
forty eighth time in your scroll that suddenly it appeared times.
We're good. Hey, we're going to the finals this year. Man,
just watch out. This is our year, just like last
year and the year before that. Okay, we would have
gone two years ago, but everybody got hurt. We should
have gone last yob but I can't talk. I still
can't talk about that. But this is the year. This
(01:56):
is The Knicks have not think about this, right, The
Knicks have not been this favorite to get to the
finals since the nineties. So it kind of makes sense
that here's the NBA back on NBC, Round Ball Rock.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And Michael Jordan retiring again hosting the Charlotte Hornets Game
two the best of seven series. The next took the
first one one oh four ninety five, Greg Anthony nineteen
points and ten assists, Ken Muggsy Bogues and the Hornets
steal Game two and get home court a vantage back
Game two up next on NBC. Don't yes, don't we
(02:33):
get Well, I could do it for a fee, but
don't we get like AI Marv Albert. I mean we
don't need to because Marv could do it himself. And
I was gonna say we get like AI Marv Albert.
Well he's retired though, so I mean, don'tant to bug
him and say, hey, Marv, can you do some liners?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Can talk? I mean i' mean he can talk, he
can do liners. I'm okay with I mean, really, I'm
okay with AI Marv Albert doing all the matchups here.
I mean he did a lot of games. I mean,
you can Ai the hell out of the entire English language,
can't you. At this point, it is Check and KD
the NBA on NBC right now filtering some Snapper Jones,
(03:07):
Bill Walton bizarre. I mean, they got lots of guys
you could go when Bill Walt would say no, no, no,
snapper that no snapper that is not correct. Snapper that
are reaching over each other to like slap each other.
U three zho seven to go in the fourth are
actually two minutes ago. In the fourth quarter, one oh one,
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one hundred. The Rockets have taken the lead over the
defending champs. It's a big night for oppin Shangoon. He's
got twenty eight, seven assists and seven rebounds. Meanwhile for
Oklahoma City, Uh, not a great night three point shooting wise. Uh,
they are one for seventy five. They're actually they're eight
for thirty eight. Not a great night. Guy having a
(03:47):
rough night tonight. In the opener, Man chet is leading
the way with twenty SGA with nineteen. It is a
one point game again with a couple of minutes left
to go. Again the first game back on NBC, we
got the Lakers and the and the Warriors coming up.
Second game tonight of the NBA Opening night doubleheader. I
got a Northwestern guy that cracked the rotation. Oh look
at that, Evan Eschemeier Barnheiser. Oh okay, all right, always
(04:10):
going to say I know, I'm always gonna say I've
been retired for thirty years out of the game as
long as Michael Jordan, he was in the game in
the nineties. Right now, Here's the thing about this, right,
this is a big to hear. Here we are opening
night for the NBA was celebrating its return. I feel
like we just had the finals, but it was only
four months ago. Uh, you know, and I get literally
four months, I get where I where I feel like
(04:32):
I am sort of okay the Round Ball Rock, I
understand everything because the NBA and NBC.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Again, in case you didn't know, they're back. They did
a little bit today a precursor teaser for the game,
where they asked a bunch of current stars what they
felt when they hear Round Ball Rock and the NBA
being on NBC. They talked to SGA and chet Holmgren
and Wemby is on here and Jalen Brunson's on here.
Here's a sample of the answers you're getting from the stars. Hey,
(05:03):
what do you think of when you get this wave
of NBA nineteen nineties nostalgia? This is what it was. Alright,
let's hear.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
When I say the NBA on NBC, what memories come
to mind? I have non zero nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh, I need a memory from there. I have no idea.
I wasn't old enough.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I wasn't alive.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're joking, right, So that was wemby wit that you're joking.
It was Jalen Brunson saying, yeah, I wasn't old enough,
And it was Sga the first one to say nineteen nineties,
Like he almost said world War One. Mean, you're talking
about Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke getting assassinated. You want me
(05:51):
to tell by we wanted to have that in history? Oh,
we're talking about is Dan Bullen Constantinople? Is Dan Bullen Constantinople?
Was it is Dan Bullen? On Stanton Lopel Like that's
kind of what we're asking the nineties? The way he
say he looked at the cameraon goes the nineties wide eye. Okay, Hey,
you know, hey, the last great decade was the nineties, right,
the last decade, and we I think we peaked as
(06:12):
a as a population in the globe in the nineteen nineties.
Everything was still. People were making money and everybody bought houses,
and Michael Jordan was winning championships and the Cowboys were
winning and where else did you want to go had
sports where sports were fantastic. The Yankees were winning. Oh,
it is everything we want, and then and then everything.
You know, the last twenty five years has been a
little bit more of a rougher go. Well, there's a
(06:33):
lot of stuff. I mean, parody has come into play
quite a bit. I'll use that as the word to
describe life in general.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Parody.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You win some sometimes you don't. Last game, some times
you win, sometimes you don't win. Ok, that's right. Last
game on NBC where the two thousand and two NBA
Finals Lakers and Nets, June twelfth, two thousand and two.
Let me guess that was a that was a late
It was a Laker win. Jason Kidd with a ten
point tennis is ten rebound triple double. But Shaq went
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for like thirty five and nineteen and the Lakers won.
I would assume that because I was pretty sure that
was a sweep. I'm pretty sure they swept the Nets
that year. Yeah, it's fun. Maybe the Nets got a game,
but I'm pretty sure the Lakers swept that series.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, uh yeah, last game until now twenty three years later,
and now I feel old, right because you know, the NBA. No, no, no, man,
Hey Aaron Lebron may Or may not play this year. Hey, Aaron,
can we ask you how do you feel about the
NBA going back to NBC? What what you're over forty?
We need you to say something, because there's a lot
(07:39):
of people over forty who are really upset about this,
Like because you see this and when the NBA is
returning back and NBC's got it, everybody, you know, but
you gotta be of a certain age, and when this
first came back, it's like, Oh, everybody's gonna be so excited.
All the old video you're gonna get to see and
all the music and maybe Marv Albert will voice some
stuff over and in the end he reales, you see
all the great play from today. Are going, Yeah, God,
(08:01):
I don't know what you're talking about, man, nineties. I'm
none of these guys have any memories of anything that's
not twenty ten or later. But that's the big The
bigger thing, though, is the and whether whether it's a
bit or not, there's always been the the question of
how much of the history of this game, the legacy
(08:23):
of this game, the players really know and care about. Yeah, no, no,
But it's layers like they know they know Lebron and
that's just being shack. But I don't think they go
back to the night. But that's the question. That's just
a bunch of guys on the whole video term of
memory versus when I say the NBA on NBC, what
does it mean? Right, because that becomes a all right,
(08:46):
did you know it was on NBC? I guess would
be the question. But certainly you I have to believe
you've seen a ton of the video of the guys
that were the stars, So you would have invoked one
of those names or championships or battles, just based on
your knowledge of the game. Yeah, regardless of your age. Yeah,
(09:07):
but I think no, No, but I think they know. Look,
every kid grows up, every kid who plays sports for
the most who grows up for the most part, grows
up loving the sport, seeing it on television and you
find your favorite players and you fall in love with
the game. Right, some people I understand they don't because
I'm wasn't a fan. I had a great aptitude for it.
And then you hear their story. This coach went and
saw me and said, come here, come here and do this.
(09:28):
But my shot up to six eight. Wait, most players
get that. But none of these, none of these guys
grew up watching Michael Jordan, Like this is like you
and I grow watching highlights of Bill Russell with the Celtics, going, yeah,
I was twenty five years ago. That was Bill Russell
like Jordan. For us, if you're if you're in your
mid forties or later, you remember Jordan. It was the heyday.
Remember the NBA and how great and how great a
(09:50):
series it was and becoming the first real global superstar.
The NBA had Michael Jordan, Like it was a very
special time, right. That's why I think all of us
who are a little bit older hold it near and dear.
But the whole disconnect between the you know, the gen
between gen z now it's like, I don't know that
they remember NBA finals that aren't that didn't start in
twenty fifteen. I don't know if they remember the beginning
(10:11):
of the Warriors run because they were still, you know,
twelve thirteen years. Seriously, do you think Wemby Wenby remembers
the first championship Steph Curry went with the Warriors or
does his NBA stuff come later than that? Hey, I
came in the tail end of the Warriors dynasty. There, oh,
the tail end of the dynasty. Oh that's still going on.
I mean, that's kind that's the disconnect you get between
players that are stars now because say they're twenty five, right,
(10:34):
So say they were born around two thousand, right, let's
just use as an average number. So when do you
start really remembering things? Well, okay, if you're a fan,
probably two thousand and eight, twenty ten, right, two thousand
and ten, because when you're eight ten years old, But
do you really remember that that well? Or do you
remember he's really come Hey, when I was in middle
school in high school, when I started to understand the
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game and I understood what was going on and I
watched players, I didn't just watch the game, was just
like wow, wow, wow. Like, I think a lot of
players would have some sort of of of of scattershot
memories of the Lakers beating the Magic and the Lakers
beating the Celtics to win the title, and the Celtics
beating the Lakers the year before. Like, I think people
have some some sort of really dim memories of that,
(11:17):
but like their first memories are probably hey, you know,
Lebron getting to the finals in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,
and the Warriors winning for the first couple of times, Like,
that's probably where most of these guys their NBA of
players they love and play like, that's where they begin
and when they go. I want to look back at
at guys careers like I'm looking back at at at
Kobe and Pau Gasol from two thousand and nine. I'm
(11:40):
looking back at Tim Duncan from two thousand and eight. Yeah.
But the accompanying clip to all of these is when
when you have these these moments, right, like the profiles
of the stars from different squads, not the ones that
are in heavy rotation, but when they crack through, it's like, hey,
let's have that introductionory moment. It becomes the yeah, I
grew up watching Blank and I'll be like, I grew
(12:00):
up watching Kyrie Irving. I grew up Yeah, right, guy,
guys of that, you know, in parallel with what you're
talking about, uh, in terms of championships, it's not uh,
you know, harken back to this player and I modeled
my game after some video I watched. It becomes you know,
the more recent and you see the dejected look when
(12:20):
it's the one on one interaction. I grew up watching you,
Like dude, I'm only thirty five. Yeah, yeah, I grew
up everything. It's like, okay, that's like, uh, what was
what was that? What's the demmur movie from last year
where she was the substance?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All of a sudden, Okay, you're my idol growing up
and you're me and you're me when you were younger.
What do you got? Frostburg opening Night? Happy opening night?
Justin Lakers? Yoh yeah? Getting ready? You know who else
doesn't remember the mea Finals? Okay? Who Knicks fans?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh? With his version of a knocked down joke, we
just remember the finals with other teams in them. No, no, no,
but that, but that, But that's part of the video
remembers in nineteen ninety nine Knicks finals when they had
the lockout and the Knicks went to the finals against
the Spurs, nobody remembers. That's that's it. You need you
need Georgian ch walkaway, go play baseball to get to
the finals. And everybody remembers that. For oj More, the
(13:13):
finals that is ancient history. Man, you're going back into
I mean really the nineties. It's great, And that's not
that I'm I would have thought one of them would
have said OJ. Yeah, oh no. But again that you're
going back, that's thirty years. That's they watched it, the
OJ the OJ Chase for them, And again it's documentaries.
It's not watching it live like the OJ Chase for
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players now, right is like when you and I growing
up seeing the Kennedy assassination or something from the late fifties,
early sixties, video for video from World War Two, when
you're seeing a bunch of things like that's kind of
what you're going back and looking at. That's that's the
same time frame that you and I had in the
nineteen eighties that they're having right now in twenty twenty five.
(13:57):
I mean, no, it's tough. For it's tougher because retro
is so is so much more in vogue now and
there's so many more ways to consume the past. Yeah,
where you could, like you had to go to like
the library and check out microfiche to look to I
want to look at the NBA Finals in nineteen sixty
four when Bill Russell scored thirty eight point you have to.
But now it's like oh, I can click on in
(14:17):
a computer in seconds, right, you can. You're you're that
much closer to the past now, which makes it easier
to see. But again, for the players, that's the whole thing,
is that, Yeah, that's what it's is for them, this
is not well, I want to say, very rare is
the Kobe Bryant that can sit down and say, let's
talk about the the nineteen eighty eighty one finals, let's
talk about Magic and the Lakers, and let's talk about
Magic's hook shot like they know, there's very rare people
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that could that could do that. And now I just
feel old because at the nineties, HGAO in the nineties,
come on, man, exit ou about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
It looks like we could be headed to overtime rockets
and the Thunder tied one oh four a piece with
two seconds left to go, thanks to SGA's heroics picking
(15:01):
up where he left off hits a fade away jumper
to tie it. Time out on the floor, we got
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here we are right now in the NBA Opening Night
Rockets and the Thunder. First time out of overtime, the
Thunder take a one oh seven, one oh four lead
over the Rockets. It was a big jumper at the
end of regulation to tie the game for SGA. He
(17:07):
now has twenty three, chet Holmgren with twenty five. Meanwhile,
Shane Goons got thirty seven and seven for the Rockets.
KD has twenty. Fun game Opening Night. Uh again, I'm
a little surprised here here are the Rockets. No Fred
van Vliet, Obviously he's out and it's a huge blow.
I'm I'm kind of impressed they're sticking so close here
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opening night. They get their rings, everything is going their way,
and they nearly pulled this off in regulation. Well, we
look at the rotation for the Rockets a little bit shorter,
but big night. Get a lot of speculation, right, Kevin
Durant signs his new deal another two years, ninety million dollars.
Talk about the coin that he's racked up over time.
But you know, Ring night's always a little a little
(17:52):
difficult because we've seen some pretty poor shooting. You talked
about the three point arc earlier at nine to forty one.
That'll allow you to into a geam. Yeah, if you're
the opposition, that's true. Yeah, when you go nine nine
for forty one that I feel like that was uh anyway,
there was a Mets choke in there. So we'll keep
you updated here. One ten, one oh six, a little
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over three minutes left to go on regulation Opening night,
and of course coming up we have the other marquee
game of the night. We have the Lakers and the
Warriors and the debut of Skinny Luca. But today NFL News.
You know, as soon as I saw Woody Johnson trending,
I said, oh, what what has happened? What has happened
(18:35):
with the owners meetings happening now in the NFL? Woody
Johnson decided to take today to talk to the media
about how he feels about his zero to seven Jets team.
Aaron Glenn, and more specifically justin fields. So let's deal
with Aaron Glenn first, because this is the one that
really upsets me. So look, I've told you Aaron Glenn
(18:55):
is knockut out to be a head coach. I'm waiting
him out like I had to wait out Adam Gase.
It's off because you had that two month lead up
to the season. You're very excited. I loved him, him
and Vraible running in parallel. Maybe they fight at some point,
but you know, culture builders, and you know guys that
character and long teeth with the league, and well, here
(19:16):
we are building a long road to nowhere. I mean, really,
I mean when when Aaron Glenn two weeks in a
row just won't throw a hail Mary from midfield in
the final play of the first half, just because I
want to get to halftime? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I mean really this time, I mean, I've said for
being a head coach is too much. Not everybody has
cut out to be a head coach. Some guys got
to be really good coordinators. Maybe after seeing how good
the Lions are without him, maybe he wasn't that great
a coordinator. But I mean, come on, man, you're supposed
to be building a culture, supposed to be but not
only is he not building a culture because the players
are making really bad mistakes. No again, now it's like
(19:50):
I'm hearing all these big names the Jets are gonna
let go. These are all the best players. Oh yeah,
Quincy Williams could be gone and Jermaine Johnson could be
gone and Bresse home Like, Okay, I get a couple
of guys, but wow, you get rid all these guys
not buying into Aaron Glenn. Like the Jets are in
an absence. They stink. So it becomes the how do
we shed uh salary and everything else and start over? Now,
all I can hope for is that at the end
(20:12):
of the year, when the Jets are zer to seventeen,
one in one and sixteen whatever it is, and they're
picking first, understand that it's not you know, forget for
a second that he's not up up to being a
head coach. You're gonna trust Aaron Glenn number one pick
in the draft, most likely one or two you're getting
Fernando Mendoza or Dante More likely those are the first
two picks in the NFL draft. In some order. There
(20:33):
could be another quarterback that rises up as the season
goes on, but right now it looks like these are
the guys at one and two that drafts out another
position at this point. But that's just you know, Jet Jet,
We've been looking for quarterbacks since name it okay, looking,
so you need you need somebody that's good, one you
trust to be in charge of this. You need somebody
with an offensive acumen. And what did Aaron Glenn come in.
I'm gonna go sign Justin Fields who stinks, and we're
(20:56):
gonna go back to nineteen sixties football where we have
a quarterback in two running backs want to run the
ball every single play, Like this is not how you
win modern day NFL. This is the guy that's gonna
be in charge of Fernando Mendoza or Dante Moore. Come on, man,
you gotta do something different to be fair. I mean,
it wasn't Aaron Glenn that signed him, No, but still,
but Aaron Glenn said, we don't watch you, Aaron Rodgers.
(21:16):
We we we're gonna go in a different direction. Okay,
we're gonna get somebody else. But that was part of
that was excising the last couple of years you had
in the building, but it was a lot bastion and
negativity and a lot of it's surrounding, right, But stuff
has happened. He's made decisions and they haven't gone well.
So I'm sorry if I don't trust you to make
bigger decisions when instead of a bridge quarterback, it's we're
(21:37):
gonna take care of this guy's career. The one is it,
Darren moy What am I gonna?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What am I?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'm gonna watch Fernando Mendoza be awful with the Jets
for three years and then sign with the Rams and
take over for Matthew Stafford and he's gonna be a superstar.
But that's one hundred percent the way it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
This can go back.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Do you want to play the round ball rock start again?
I mean you can circle all the way back to
that two year blip with Sanchez. Whatever the Jets do
is wrong. Otherwise it's been miserable now. But so I'm like, Okay,
we're going it's gonna be a one and done year
for Aaron Glenn. No, but here's Whatdy Johnson today talking
about how much he loves what Aaron Glenn is doing
with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It looks like he's turning around parts of it.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You know, it's hard when you have a quarterback with
a rating that we got, you know, I mean, he
has the ability, but something just is not giving. But
if you look at any any head coach of the
quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results if you.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Wire across the league. If I were a player, he would,
I would respond to.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Him because he's the real deal.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Nobs is you know, second a gender's what you're hearing
is the truth. And a lot of time players don't
get the truth.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
They get a lot of gobbledy goog Great, So now
I'm good, he said, gobbled Stuck with Aaron Glenn. I'm
stuck with airon everybody, we're stuck with Aaron Glenn. But
you get a billionaire owner that said Gobbler's stuck with Aaron.
Just one of us, we're stuck with him. Yeah, And
then he went on the end of that state when
he says, hey, Jets fans are the smartest fans. They
know what's going on. Okay, they know what's going on.
I'm like, no, fifteen years, I have no idea what's
(23:02):
going on. I have no idea, how every other team
in the NFL has gone to the playoffs. Who every
other team with no hope has found a way to
have hope. How the Lions have found a way to
have hope. And we don't how the Arizona Cardinals have
actually played in a playoff game. Every other team is fair,
but we can't know. So I don't know what's going on.
Jet's van Ziels, No cards got a couple of Super
Bowl I don't know what's going on. I don't know
(23:23):
what's We could just complete a pass, it would look good. Well,
we got we got that, we got, we got, we
got Glenn here and we got It's okay, we's all
set up doing a lot of wood we got, we
got Woody. Here's let's let's since Okay, since you since
you live and mark tape on that. Okay, we're playing
that back for Frostburg. Okay, ty share, we'll play it
back for me. It's about you playing it back on Frostburg.
(23:44):
I wasn't recording. Uh, here's Woody Johnson laying the blame
squarely at the feet of Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know they found a little spark with that quarterback.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I was talking to John Mayer not too long ago,
and I said, we were hoping that that change would
have Now that's that's shot. The other the other Woody
Johnson won maybe hard. We should have just he should
have just said it.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
If I were a player, he would I would respond
to him because he's a real deal. Nobs, there's no
second Agender's what you're hearing is the truth.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
A lot of time players.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Don't get the truth and they get a lot of
gobbledy googy. All right, that's the that's the other way. Okay.
So Woody Johnson threw blame at Justin Fields and said,
as you said, if we could just complete a pass,
that would be okay. Right, we just complete a pass,
that would be okay. This is why it's tough being
a Jets fan because what he said was true, it
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was embarrassing, it was harsh, it needed to be said,
and it's a really rough optic. It's all of these things.
What do you John, It's all of these things. It's
not just bad, it's not just rough, it's not just
what's ne this is everything. This is why it's so tough.
It's hard to be a Jets fan. And then we
(25:05):
got the news later on today ESPN reporting that likely
they're gonna change over to to Rod Taylor to be
the quarterback this week, and now Justin Field is losing
his job. And maybe that was the whole thing, was
Woody Johnson getting out in front of it. So, hey,
it's okay to make a quarterback change. It's all right,
we're doing it. But like that, that's what makes it
so tough because Justin Fields has been terrible, right, he's been.
He's been absolutely awful. But now here's your owner saying
(25:27):
our quarterback has been terrible. We don't need that. We know, don't.
I don't think any team need to say. Oh, I
don't need to say how bad a quarterback? We all
see it again. I don't need you to tell me
how deep the ocean is. I can see everybody knows
that he's bad. But yet, but like I said, it's needed,
but it's embarrassing. It's so hard to be the Jets.
It's so hard. But the first step is admitting it
(25:49):
you have a problem.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He was also asked, well, since quarterbacking has been so difficult,
do you regret what went on with Aaron Rodgers quote.
I never looked back this is what he said to
It's Semini. Yeah. Uh, you have to look forward in football.
Even when you cut players, they could be a Hall
of famer. You just never know. But Aaron's playing great now.
He's in a situation that's working for him again. Organizational
(26:15):
ineptitude taken to the highest degree. Uh, two years, forty
million dollars. Look, he had to sign off on that.
The aforementioned GM right brought him up. It's not Aaron
Glenn that unilaterally just said I like the cut of
that guy's Jim No, let's give him two years, forty
million dollars. And now to go to Torod Taylor when
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you're own seven? What the hell's the point? You know
what Gerd Taylor is. You're playing for number one. We
might win three games here. Yeah, but why why would
you be stuck with my or at seven? But why
would you not say like this, I just whether you
like cook or not or you want to just go
find someone who's still hanging out. I'm glad you have
no man, I can answer that question, boss a question
(26:59):
for you. Yeah, because Woody Johnson is the worst owner
in the NFL. Okay, he is the He's worse than Jerry.
At least Jerry Jones has somewhat of a plan of succeed.
It may not be good, but at least he's got
some kind of plan. See, I keep defending Jerry. All
those double digit win seasons. We'd kill for those. Man,
come on, I mean, it's really it is. There is
no harder team to root for in all of sports
(27:22):
than the Jets. There is no harder team. Every other
team has found a way to have some sort of excitement,
some sort of positivity. There's no team harder than the Jets.
And when you see stuff like this today, we're here's
an owner saying, hey, our quarterback can't compete a pass,
complete a pass. Yeah, we all know that. But man,
where we're at, and there's nowhere to go just we
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are just absolutely dysfunctional. We are just at We can't
get out of our own way, and it's never gonna change.
Which is worse that or I mean, and we got
plenty of time to talk about, you know, Miami and
everything going on there. But like their their biggest claim
to fame is celebrating when the last team loses. It's
the ghost of Mercury More is raising up a dog. Yeah,
(28:03):
we have Marino. They went to playoffs, like the Jets are.
They're living off a one win. We're living off a
one win. Saved the NFL five years ago, but that
made the NFL. He just did a whole thing about
how NBA starts. Don't remember the nineties. Now, Okay, the
Jets are living off a one win and it was
fifty six years ago. Okay, that's how long ago that.
(28:24):
I don't know if the Jets would still be a
team if they didn't win that game. But this is
how bad. There's no worse team to root for in
all those sports. You give me every other team, I'll
say they have more positivity than the Jets. I mean, really,
you see, there's no factory of jad Jones. Jerry Jones
says all the stuff going on with Michael Parsons, all
the things he probably wanted to say, he never said
something like this. He never did. Jerry Jones even knows. Yeah,
(28:46):
I'm not gonna throw my quarterback under the bus like that. Now,
Justin Fields can never play for me. Justin shots before
the season. Not that I want to see Justin Fields
play again, but still, I mean, you know, you don't
see this happen. This is a level of dysfunction that
is just wow. There is nothing that's gonna solve this, man,
There is nothing. Even if you bulldoze it and you
build it back up again, You're not gonna build anything good.
You're gonna build it in a faulty uh landlights. It's
(29:08):
just gonna fall down again. It's like slash and burn
agriculture that never grows back. Well, we burned it. Is
it growing back? No? Well you slashed it, yeah and
you burned it. Yeah, where's the rest of it? It's
not back. It was That's all. We didn't rotate, really
is it is the It is the hardest team to
root for in all the sports. And yet I must
love the misery because I keep coming back for what
(29:30):
he's round up. They keep coming back. He's always there
for you. I keep coming back for I mean every fault. Jason,
we found out what he sound you wanted? Oh you did, Okay,
let's hear it. Good. You keep pulling the button. He
keeps saying it the smartest thing what Johnson's ever said.
That's fair. That's what he should have said today instead
(29:52):
of saying justin fields that you know, if we can
just complete a pass like I mean, I really, we
could just complete a pass. Everybody knows that. We all
know that. We all watch the games. Jets fans are smart.
We all watch the games. We all know what's going on.
Excep I have no idea what's going on. This is
what it is to be a Jets fan. Again. Whatever
team you root for, just think, well, I don't I
don't have it like Jason, and somehow he keeps coming back.
(30:14):
I don't understand. That's how it goes. Got to be smarter, man.
You still have time to change change your evil ways.
Just an unbelievable day with the end of it the
hard reset. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. So someone who's been called
the Woody Johnson of Fox Sports Radio because he walks
around and tells me, Jason, no more tears. It's deep
to say, and I can complete a pass.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
As for the NBA tonight in downtown La Genie Buss
is seated next to the new Lakers owner Mark K Walter,
but of course multiple Laker fans are not seeing that
right now. You see, it's opening night in the NBA
and NBC has a new eleven year media rights deal
starting tonight. There's only two games to televise tonight, and
(30:56):
we're nearly done with the first quarter in LA, and
it's on stream.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I mean only peacock Baby, my goodness.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Golden State leads the Lakers in LA twenty two to
fourteen late in the first half. It's apparently going to
a second overtime. At defending champion Oklahoma City. The scoreboard
shows a tie at one fifteen for the Rockets Kevin
Durant with twenty points, thirty five for his new teammate
Alpera and Shngoon for Oklahoma City. Twenty eight points each
(31:24):
for Shay Gilgis Alexander, who sent it to the first
overtime with a bucket, and twenty eight for chet Holmgren,
who had started seven for seven from the floor. One
fifteen all end of the first overtime. Again, there's only
two games to me Most of the NBA teams start
on Wednesday. For the next Karl Anthony Towns is questionable
(31:44):
with a string quad, but he can complete a pass.
Memphis guard Jah Morant was cleared to play tomorrow after
a sprained ankle. Paul Georgia Philadelphia's out tomorrow after offseason
knee surgery.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Opening night rosters in.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
The league, by the way, include a record tying one
hundred and thirty five international players, over seventy from Europe.
The Angel's new manager is Kurt Suzuki, a former catcher
from nearby cow State Fullerton. He had a sixteen year
Major league career, finished as an Angel in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Oh see, I'm sorry, you mispronounced Albert pool Holes right,
because the Angels hired Pools Tory Hunter, right, Oh right,
Tory Hunter. No, Tory Hunter. They hired both pool Holes
and Hunter.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
All three of.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Those were being paid by the Angels on personal services contract.
So I guess throw spaghetti against the wall and some
strand is gonna stick. But can we just say out
loud they were paying Albert pooh Hooles a million dollars
a year for what exactly ten years, ten million dollars
(32:45):
for a personal services contract after they already overpaid on
the actual playing contract and released him before he was
actually finished playing.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You could just make personal services be manager of the Angels.
That's your personal services, you know.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
And Mike Trouty still signed through twenty thirty and he's
been batting about two thirty the past two seasons. You know,
it's not all about We talked about this in baseball.
The Mets spent a lot of money, didn't make the play.
It's not all about money. You actually have to have
a front office for doing some big people. The Halos
have had a losing record for ten straight years now.
(33:21):
The World Series starts Friday night on Fox TV Toronto,
hosting the Dodgers. All the games are at eight pm
Eastern time. Game one for LA. We'll have pitcher Blakesnell
on the mound and then the Yoshinobu Yamamotos starting Game
two Saturday night in Toronto. Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz will
start again Thursday at the LA Chargers. And among the
(33:41):
NHL games tonight, Florida four to three winner on a
late goal at Boston, New Jersey's five and one after
a win at Toronto five to two and tied in overtime,
LA at Saint Louis even at one again for the
one of two whole games tonight for NBC to televise.
It's the Rockets starting a second overtime at Oklahoma City,
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tied at one fifteen back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Thank you, Steve O. We'll keep you updated on both
of these NBA games. But coming up next, got the
Play of the day and are the Dallas Cowboys on
the verge of a huge trade that could vault them
up the standings. That's next right here, Jason and Mike
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end of one twenty five twenty two Warriors with the lead. Meanwhile,
in double overtime right now the Rockets and the thunder
Rockets with a one to nineteen to one seventeen lead.
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and you kick things off by hitting a big shot
to send the game to overtime, Jay Gilders, Alexander, you
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Thunder Radio Network on the call a big night? What's
turned into a big night for SGA wasn't it wasn't
one early on for him. He's got thirty seven out
of ten from the free throw line. But it's a
two point deficit for the Thunder right now, still a
lot of time left to go, just under two minutes.
The curiosity they just put up the graphic. Kevin Durant
was seven to thirteen after three quarters. He's taken one
(36:00):
shot since yeah he is uh, well, you know he
got to feel the game come yeah, I mean, I
don't know he's waiting. He's a little tired. Come on, man,
a little tired. Opening night. You gonna running around? What
the hell I expected? More so, we'll have more NBA
coming up in about ten minutes. A big thing from
everybody who's trying to watch the Lakers and Warriors game now.
(36:20):
But big trade rumor Today reports that the Cowboys have
spoken to the Raiders about Max Crosby, which, again, the
easy joke here is, Oh, now, Jerry Jones realized you
needed to defend the pass too. If only you had
a guy like that. Oh you did have him in
Micah Parsons. Okay, he still would have had to pay him,
(36:42):
don him money. I got that guy, and I'm trading
this guy, and I'm trading that guy's making all these trades.
So look, I'm gonna do things my way. Yeah, and
my way is terrible. So if I make enough trades,
people won't be able to keep track of it, and
they'll just say, hey, I did a good thing. Three
card money. That is. See the queen is right here,
No follow it, the good old shell game. Let's go.
That's maca this moving moment. Now, Not only would this
(37:03):
be a great move for the Cowboys because it would
show the Cowboys that, hey, Jerry Jones has confidence in
this team because the offense is tremendous. Right, it's even better.
And I said beginning of the season, I said, watch out,
how good this Cowboys offic is gonna be? Right, don't
get a shootout with them. The offense is legit, and
it's the best offense in the NFL. It's even a
(37:24):
little it's it's putting up numbers a little bit better
than what the Colts are putting up. Well, you look
at Jake Ferguson's your number one tight end fantasy. Yeah,
he's been ridiculously considerent. George Sickens had an incredible first
six games. He's gonna be Graham is back. Now it's
a question of whether you can keep Pickings happy. Now
like that that becomes the thing. Javonte Williams has been
a great fine at the running back now again, ric
(37:44):
o'dowdell was a thousand yard runner last year. But all
of that to say is you've got weapons, and now
you figure out defensively how to make things easier on Eberflus, Right,
And it would because Max crossby the guy, he's a
plug and play guy. That will get after the quarterback
he's got, you know, to get him. He's already following
a lot of Dallas players on Instagram, Like he's following
nine players on Instagram. Like all of a sudden, that
(38:06):
changed today. Yes, if you're the Raiders, you really don't
have any use for Max Crosby anymore. He's still an
elite pass rusher that will get to the quarterback. He
will bring the Cowboys the defensive attitude they need their missing.
This is a home run move for the Dallas Cowboys.
Getting Max Crosby vaults them up into contender status. Right.
This will do that because you see how good the
offense is. They don't in the defense to play the
(38:28):
level of league you know, league elite. They just need
to be hey, just play league average. And certainly Crosby
is a plug and play guy, he would be great.
But more importantly, and this is why it's gonna get done,
because Jerry Jones knows he can rebuild all that goodwill
that he lost with the Micah Parsons trade, because he's
still hated so much in Dallas for the move, and
you got rid of our best guy. He goes out
(38:49):
and gets Max Crosby. Okay, we changed things up a
little bit. We don't pay Mic up, but we got
a couple of draft picks. Now we have Max Crosby.
He changes the conversation and he gets back a lot
of good will. He buys back a lot of goodwill
and a lot of optimism, and suddenly everything in Dallas
feels better. The team feels better. They feel that Jones
has confidence in them. They feel they have confidence in
(39:12):
the team going forward with Dak, they can win any game.
Crosby's gonna help them defensively. Jerry Jones gets the trust
from the players and the media and Cowboys Nation. Like
everybody wins in this. I can't see how this doesn't
get done at this point, Like this is this is
an absolute must for Jerry Jones to get done. Yeah.
A couple of insiders followed up, and again it's all
(39:32):
fluid with a couple of weeks before the trade deadline,
but Pellisero said that the Raiders met with him to say, hey,
you're not leaving, We're not going away. And then Jane
Slater covers everything there in Dallas. She also actually put
a gift of someone throwing a bucket of water on
stuff in the conversations to say I would love this
for you. However, at this point it's not happening. But
(39:54):
that doesn't mean it isn't subject to change if the
price is right. Because we look at the Raiders right now,
they're domster fire right. And the contract that Crosby has,
it's a three year, one hundred and six million dollar
deal that was signed in March that keeps him there
through twenty twenty nine, average salary about thirty five and
a half ninety one guaranteed. We know that Parsons got
(40:17):
his four year, one eighty eight one hundred and thirty
six million in guarantees flowing on there. But all that is,
you make a decision in the moment you're paying heavy
on the offensive side of things. And I gotta say
I go back to I defended Shane on a lot
of it, except for the phone call that where he
was crying, hey, you're gonna let us know, right, say, Kwan,
(40:40):
no bad job I have likewise with with Jerry Jones,
like you're trying to figure out how you build out
the best roster and what Mico might mean to you
in terms of wins and losses. Now clearly it killed
your your defense because well you know you're planning with
him being there. Well, now you can plug and play.
It's a home run. Jerry Jones has to get this done.
(41:02):
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the NBA is back on NBC, and yes, I admit
I went from Oh, it's gonna be exciting to hear
round Ball Rock and now I'm like, okay, I've had
(01:11):
enough with all of you in the round Ball Rock,
and suddenly it's gonna be like the skies have opened
up and people are dropping free money. I got I
got to that point pretty fast. Hey, this is fun too, Okay,
I'm done. Yes, Round Ball Rock, it's gonna be all right,
all right, all right, all right, alright, yes, it's gonna
be awesome, and go okay, okay, we're gonna get it's
going okay. It's not gonna solve everybody's problem. This is
not suddenly gonna turn the Jets into being seven. And
oh you're gonna hear Round Ball Rock, and if you're
(01:33):
of a certain age, you're gonna love it. That's how
made you happy for a minute until it was the
forty eighth time in your scroll that suddenly it appeared times.
We're good. Hey, we're going to the finals this year. Man,
just watch out. This is our year, just like last
year and the year before that. Okay, we would have
gone two years ago, but everybody got hurt. We should
have gone last yob but I can't talk. I still
can't talk about that. But this is the year. This
(01:56):
is The Knicks have not think about this, right, The
Knicks have not been this favorite to get to the
finals since the nineties. So it kind of makes sense
that here's the NBA back on NBC, Round Ball Rock.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And Michael Jordan retiring again hosting the Charlotte Hornets Game
two the best of seven series. The next took the
first one one oh four ninety five, Greg Anthony nineteen
points and ten assists, Ken Muggsy Bogues and the Hornets
steal Game two and get home court a vantage back
Game two up next on NBC. Don't yes, don't we
(02:33):
get Well, I could do it for a fee, but
don't we get like AI Marv Albert. I mean we
don't need to because Marv could do it himself. And
I was gonna say we get like AI Marv Albert.
Well he's retired though, so I mean, don'tant to bug
him and say, hey, Marv, can you do some liners?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Can talk? I mean i' mean he can talk, he
can do liners. I'm okay with I mean, really, I'm
okay with AI Marv Albert doing all the matchups here.
I mean he did a lot of games. I mean,
you can Ai the hell out of the entire English language,
can't you. At this point, it is Check and KD
the NBA on NBC right now filtering some Snapper Jones,
(03:07):
Bill Walton bizarre. I mean, they got lots of guys
you could go when Bill Walt would say no, no, no,
snapper that no snapper that is not correct. Snapper that
are reaching over each other to like slap each other.
U three zho seven to go in the fourth are
actually two minutes ago. In the fourth quarter, one oh one,
(03:27):
one hundred. The Rockets have taken the lead over the
defending champs. It's a big night for oppin Shangoon. He's
got twenty eight, seven assists and seven rebounds. Meanwhile for
Oklahoma City, Uh, not a great night three point shooting wise. Uh,
they are one for seventy five. They're actually they're eight
for thirty eight. Not a great night. Guy having a
(03:47):
rough night tonight. In the opener, Man chet is leading
the way with twenty SGA with nineteen. It is a
one point game again with a couple of minutes left
to go. Again the first game back on NBC, we
got the Lakers and the and the Warriors coming up.
Second game tonight of the NBA Opening night doubleheader. I
got a Northwestern guy that cracked the rotation. Oh look
at that, Evan Eschemeier Barnheiser. Oh okay, all right, always
(04:10):
going to say I know, I'm always gonna say I've
been retired for thirty years out of the game as
long as Michael Jordan, he was in the game in
the nineties. Right now, Here's the thing about this, right,
this is a big to hear. Here we are opening
night for the NBA was celebrating its return. I feel
like we just had the finals, but it was only
four months ago. Uh, you know, and I get literally
four months, I get where I where I feel like
(04:32):
I am sort of okay the Round Ball Rock, I
understand everything because the NBA and NBC.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Again, in case you didn't know, they're back. They did
a little bit today a precursor teaser for the game,
where they asked a bunch of current stars what they
felt when they hear Round Ball Rock and the NBA
being on NBC. They talked to SGA and chet Holmgren
and Wemby is on here and Jalen Brunson's on here.
Here's a sample of the answers you're getting from the stars. Hey,
(05:03):
what do you think of when you get this wave
of NBA nineteen nineties nostalgia? This is what it was. Alright,
let's hear.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
When I say the NBA on NBC, what memories come
to mind? I have non zero nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh, I need a memory from there. I have no idea.
I wasn't old enough.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I wasn't alive.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're joking, right, So that was wemby wit that you're joking.
It was Jalen Brunson saying, yeah, I wasn't old enough,
And it was Sga the first one to say nineteen nineties,
Like he almost said world War One. Mean, you're talking
about Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke getting assassinated. You want me
(05:51):
to tell by we wanted to have that in history? Oh,
we're talking about is Dan Bullen Constantinople? Is Dan Bullen Constantinople?
Was it is Dan Bullen? On Stanton Lopel Like that's
kind of what we're asking the nineties? The way he
say he looked at the cameraon goes the nineties wide eye. Okay, Hey,
you know, hey, the last great decade was the nineties, right,
the last decade, and we I think we peaked as
(06:12):
a as a population in the globe in the nineteen nineties.
Everything was still. People were making money and everybody bought houses,
and Michael Jordan was winning championships and the Cowboys were
winning and where else did you want to go had
sports where sports were fantastic. The Yankees were winning. Oh,
it is everything we want, and then and then everything.
You know, the last twenty five years has been a
little bit more of a rougher go. Well, there's a
(06:33):
lot of stuff. I mean, parody has come into play
quite a bit. I'll use that as the word to
describe life in general.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Parody.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You win some sometimes you don't. Last game, some times
you win, sometimes you don't win. Ok, that's right. Last
game on NBC where the two thousand and two NBA
Finals Lakers and Nets, June twelfth, two thousand and two.
Let me guess that was a that was a late
It was a Laker win. Jason Kidd with a ten
point tennis is ten rebound triple double. But Shaq went
(07:04):
for like thirty five and nineteen and the Lakers won.
I would assume that because I was pretty sure that
was a sweep. I'm pretty sure they swept the Nets
that year. Yeah, it's fun. Maybe the Nets got a game,
but I'm pretty sure the Lakers swept that series.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, uh yeah, last game until now twenty three years later,
and now I feel old, right because you know, the NBA. No, no, no, man,
Hey Aaron Lebron may Or may not play this year. Hey, Aaron,
can we ask you how do you feel about the
NBA going back to NBC? What what you're over forty?
We need you to say something, because there's a lot
(07:39):
of people over forty who are really upset about this,
Like because you see this and when the NBA is
returning back and NBC's got it, everybody, you know, but
you gotta be of a certain age, and when this
first came back, it's like, Oh, everybody's gonna be so excited.
All the old video you're gonna get to see and
all the music and maybe Marv Albert will voice some
stuff over and in the end he reales, you see
all the great play from today. Are going, Yeah, God,
(08:01):
I don't know what you're talking about, man, nineties. I'm
none of these guys have any memories of anything that's
not twenty ten or later. But that's the big The
bigger thing, though, is the and whether whether it's a
bit or not, there's always been the the question of
how much of the history of this game, the legacy
(08:23):
of this game, the players really know and care about. Yeah, no, no,
But it's layers like they know they know Lebron and
that's just being shack. But I don't think they go
back to the night. But that's the question. That's just
a bunch of guys on the whole video term of
memory versus when I say the NBA on NBC, what
does it mean? Right, because that becomes a all right,
(08:46):
did you know it was on NBC? I guess would
be the question. But certainly you I have to believe
you've seen a ton of the video of the guys
that were the stars, So you would have invoked one
of those names or championships or battles, just based on
your knowledge of the game. Yeah, regardless of your age. Yeah,
(09:07):
but I think no, No, but I think they know. Look,
every kid grows up, every kid who plays sports for
the most who grows up for the most part, grows
up loving the sport, seeing it on television and you
find your favorite players and you fall in love with
the game. Right, some people I understand they don't because
I'm wasn't a fan. I had a great aptitude for it.
And then you hear their story. This coach went and
saw me and said, come here, come here and do this.
(09:28):
But my shot up to six eight. Wait, most players
get that. But none of these, none of these guys
grew up watching Michael Jordan, Like this is like you
and I grow watching highlights of Bill Russell with the Celtics, going, yeah,
I was twenty five years ago. That was Bill Russell
like Jordan. For us, if you're if you're in your
mid forties or later, you remember Jordan. It was the heyday.
Remember the NBA and how great and how great a
(09:50):
series it was and becoming the first real global superstar.
The NBA had Michael Jordan, Like it was a very
special time, right. That's why I think all of us
who are a little bit older hold it near and dear.
But the whole disconnect between the you know, the gen
between gen z now it's like, I don't know that
they remember NBA finals that aren't that didn't start in
twenty fifteen. I don't know if they remember the beginning
(10:11):
of the Warriors run because they were still, you know,
twelve thirteen years. Seriously, do you think Wemby Wenby remembers
the first championship Steph Curry went with the Warriors or
does his NBA stuff come later than that? Hey, I
came in the tail end of the Warriors dynasty. There, oh,
the tail end of the dynasty. Oh that's still going on.
I mean, that's kind that's the disconnect you get between
players that are stars now because say they're twenty five, right,
(10:34):
So say they were born around two thousand, right, let's
just use as an average number. So when do you
start really remembering things? Well, okay, if you're a fan,
probably two thousand and eight, twenty ten, right, two thousand
and ten, because when you're eight ten years old, But
do you really remember that that well? Or do you
remember he's really come Hey, when I was in middle
school in high school, when I started to understand the
(10:55):
game and I understood what was going on and I
watched players, I didn't just watch the game, was just
like wow, wow, wow. Like, I think a lot of
players would have some sort of of of of scattershot
memories of the Lakers beating the Magic and the Lakers
beating the Celtics to win the title, and the Celtics
beating the Lakers the year before. Like, I think people
have some some sort of really dim memories of that,
(11:17):
but like their first memories are probably hey, you know,
Lebron getting to the finals in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,
and the Warriors winning for the first couple of times, Like,
that's probably where most of these guys their NBA of
players they love and play like, that's where they begin
and when they go. I want to look back at
at guys careers like I'm looking back at at at
Kobe and Pau Gasol from two thousand and nine. I'm
(11:40):
looking back at Tim Duncan from two thousand and eight. Yeah.
But the accompanying clip to all of these is when
when you have these these moments, right, like the profiles
of the stars from different squads, not the ones that
are in heavy rotation, but when they crack through, it's like, hey,
let's have that introductionory moment. It becomes the yeah, I
grew up watching Blank and I'll be like, I grew
(12:00):
up watching Kyrie Irving. I grew up Yeah, right, guy,
guys of that, you know, in parallel with what you're
talking about, uh, in terms of championships, it's not uh,
you know, harken back to this player and I modeled
my game after some video I watched. It becomes you know,
the more recent and you see the dejected look when
(12:20):
it's the one on one interaction. I grew up watching you,
Like dude, I'm only thirty five. Yeah, yeah, I grew
up everything. It's like, okay, that's like, uh, what was
what was that? What's the demmur movie from last year
where she was the substance?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All of a sudden, Okay, you're my idol growing up
and you're me and you're me when you were younger.
What do you got? Frostburg opening Night? Happy opening night?
Justin Lakers? Yoh yeah? Getting ready? You know who else
doesn't remember the mea Finals? Okay? Who Knicks fans?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh? With his version of a knocked down joke, we
just remember the finals with other teams in them. No, no, no,
but that, but that, But that's part of the video
remembers in nineteen ninety nine Knicks finals when they had
the lockout and the Knicks went to the finals against
the Spurs, nobody remembers. That's that's it. You need you
need Georgian ch walkaway, go play baseball to get to
the finals. And everybody remembers that. For oj More, the
(13:13):
finals that is ancient history. Man, you're going back into
I mean really the nineties. It's great, And that's not
that I'm I would have thought one of them would
have said OJ. Yeah, oh no. But again that you're
going back, that's thirty years. That's they watched it, the
OJ the OJ Chase for them, And again it's documentaries.
It's not watching it live like the OJ Chase for
(13:34):
players now, right is like when you and I growing
up seeing the Kennedy assassination or something from the late fifties,
early sixties, video for video from World War Two, when
you're seeing a bunch of things like that's kind of
what you're going back and looking at. That's that's the
same time frame that you and I had in the
nineteen eighties that they're having right now in twenty twenty five.
(13:57):
I mean, no, it's tough. For it's tougher because retro
is so is so much more in vogue now and
there's so many more ways to consume the past. Yeah,
where you could, like you had to go to like
the library and check out microfiche to look to I
want to look at the NBA Finals in nineteen sixty
four when Bill Russell scored thirty eight point you have to.
But now it's like oh, I can click on in
(14:17):
a computer in seconds, right, you can. You're you're that
much closer to the past now, which makes it easier
to see. But again, for the players, that's the whole thing,
is that, Yeah, that's what it's is for them, this
is not well, I want to say, very rare is
the Kobe Bryant that can sit down and say, let's
talk about the the nineteen eighty eighty one finals, let's
talk about Magic and the Lakers, and let's talk about
Magic's hook shot like they know, there's very rare people
(14:40):
that could that could do that. And now I just
feel old because at the nineties, HGAO in the nineties,
come on, man, exit ou about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
It looks like we could be headed to overtime rockets
and the Thunder tied one oh four a piece with
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here we are right now in the NBA Opening Night
Rockets and the Thunder. First time out of overtime, the
Thunder take a one oh seven, one oh four lead
over the Rockets. It was a big jumper at the
end of regulation to tie the game for SGA. He
(17:07):
now has twenty three, chet Holmgren with twenty five. Meanwhile,
Shane Goons got thirty seven and seven for the Rockets.
KD has twenty. Fun game Opening Night. Uh again, I'm
a little surprised here here are the Rockets. No Fred
van Vliet, Obviously he's out and it's a huge blow.
I'm I'm kind of impressed they're sticking so close here
(17:30):
opening night. They get their rings, everything is going their way,
and they nearly pulled this off in regulation. Well, we
look at the rotation for the Rockets a little bit shorter,
but big night. Get a lot of speculation, right, Kevin
Durant signs his new deal another two years, ninety million dollars.
Talk about the coin that he's racked up over time.
But you know, Ring night's always a little a little
(17:52):
difficult because we've seen some pretty poor shooting. You talked
about the three point arc earlier at nine to forty one.
That'll allow you to into a geam. Yeah, if you're
the opposition, that's true. Yeah, when you go nine nine
for forty one that I feel like that was uh anyway,
there was a Mets choke in there. So we'll keep
you updated here. One ten, one oh six, a little
(18:13):
over three minutes left to go on regulation Opening night,
and of course coming up we have the other marquee
game of the night. We have the Lakers and the
Warriors and the debut of Skinny Luca. But today NFL News.
You know, as soon as I saw Woody Johnson trending,
I said, oh, what what has happened? What has happened
(18:35):
with the owners meetings happening now in the NFL? Woody
Johnson decided to take today to talk to the media
about how he feels about his zero to seven Jets team.
Aaron Glenn, and more specifically justin fields. So let's deal
with Aaron Glenn first, because this is the one that
really upsets me. So look, I've told you Aaron Glenn
(18:55):
is knockut out to be a head coach. I'm waiting
him out like I had to wait out Adam Gase.
It's off because you had that two month lead up
to the season. You're very excited. I loved him, him
and Vraible running in parallel. Maybe they fight at some point,
but you know, culture builders, and you know guys that
character and long teeth with the league, and well, here
(19:16):
we are building a long road to nowhere. I mean, really,
I mean when when Aaron Glenn two weeks in a
row just won't throw a hail Mary from midfield in
the final play of the first half, just because I
want to get to halftime? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I mean really this time, I mean, I've said for
being a head coach is too much. Not everybody has
cut out to be a head coach. Some guys got
to be really good coordinators. Maybe after seeing how good
the Lions are without him, maybe he wasn't that great
a coordinator. But I mean, come on, man, you're supposed
to be building a culture, supposed to be but not
only is he not building a culture because the players
are making really bad mistakes. No again, now it's like
(19:50):
I'm hearing all these big names the Jets are gonna
let go. These are all the best players. Oh yeah,
Quincy Williams could be gone and Jermaine Johnson could be
gone and Bresse home Like, Okay, I get a couple
of guys, but wow, you get rid all these guys
not buying into Aaron Glenn. Like the Jets are in
an absence. They stink. So it becomes the how do
we shed uh salary and everything else and start over? Now,
all I can hope for is that at the end
(20:12):
of the year, when the Jets are zer to seventeen,
one in one and sixteen whatever it is, and they're
picking first, understand that it's not you know, forget for
a second that he's not up up to being a
head coach. You're gonna trust Aaron Glenn number one pick
in the draft, most likely one or two you're getting
Fernando Mendoza or Dante More likely those are the first
two picks in the NFL draft. In some order. There
(20:33):
could be another quarterback that rises up as the season
goes on, but right now it looks like these are
the guys at one and two that drafts out another
position at this point. But that's just you know, Jet Jet,
We've been looking for quarterbacks since name it okay, looking,
so you need you need somebody that's good, one you
trust to be in charge of this. You need somebody
with an offensive acumen. And what did Aaron Glenn come in.
I'm gonna go sign Justin Fields who stinks, and we're
(20:56):
gonna go back to nineteen sixties football where we have
a quarterback in two running backs want to run the
ball every single play, Like this is not how you
win modern day NFL. This is the guy that's gonna
be in charge of Fernando Mendoza or Dante Moore. Come on, man,
you gotta do something different to be fair. I mean,
it wasn't Aaron Glenn that signed him, No, but still,
but Aaron Glenn said, we don't watch you, Aaron Rodgers.
(21:16):
We we we're gonna go in a different direction. Okay,
we're gonna get somebody else. But that was part of
that was excising the last couple of years you had
in the building, but it was a lot bastion and
negativity and a lot of it's surrounding, right, But stuff
has happened. He's made decisions and they haven't gone well.
So I'm sorry if I don't trust you to make
bigger decisions when instead of a bridge quarterback, it's we're
(21:37):
gonna take care of this guy's career. The one is it,
Darren moy What am I gonna?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What am I?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I'm gonna watch Fernando Mendoza be awful with the Jets
for three years and then sign with the Rams and
take over for Matthew Stafford and he's gonna be a superstar.
But that's one hundred percent the way it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
This can go back.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Do you want to play the round ball rock start again?
I mean you can circle all the way back to
that two year blip with Sanchez. Whatever the Jets do
is wrong. Otherwise it's been miserable now. But so I'm like, Okay,
we're going it's gonna be a one and done year
for Aaron Glenn. No, but here's Whatdy Johnson today talking
about how much he loves what Aaron Glenn is doing
with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It looks like he's turning around parts of it.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You know, it's hard when you have a quarterback with
a rating that we got, you know, I mean, he
has the ability, but something just is not giving. But
if you look at any any head coach of the
quarterback like that, you're going to see similar results if you.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Wire across the league. If I were a player, he would,
I would respond to.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Him because he's the real deal.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Nobs is you know, second a gender's what you're hearing
is the truth. And a lot of time players don't
get the truth.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
They get a lot of gobbledy goog Great, So now
I'm good, he said, gobbled Stuck with Aaron Glenn. I'm
stuck with airon everybody, we're stuck with Aaron Glenn. But
you get a billionaire owner that said Gobbler's stuck with Aaron.
Just one of us, we're stuck with him. Yeah, And
then he went on the end of that state when
he says, hey, Jets fans are the smartest fans. They
know what's going on. Okay, they know what's going on.
I'm like, no, fifteen years, I have no idea what's
(23:02):
going on. I have no idea, how every other team
in the NFL has gone to the playoffs. Who every
other team with no hope has found a way to
have hope. How the Lions have found a way to
have hope. And we don't how the Arizona Cardinals have
actually played in a playoff game. Every other team is fair,
but we can't know. So I don't know what's going on.
Jet's van Ziels, No cards got a couple of Super
Bowl I don't know what's going on. I don't know
(23:23):
what's We could just complete a pass, it would look good. Well,
we got we got that, we got, we got, we
got Glenn here and we got It's okay, we's all
set up doing a lot of wood we got, we
got Woody. Here's let's let's since Okay, since you since
you live and mark tape on that. Okay, we're playing
that back for Frostburg. Okay, ty share, we'll play it
back for me. It's about you playing it back on Frostburg.
(23:44):
I wasn't recording. Uh, here's Woody Johnson laying the blame
squarely at the feet of Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know they found a little spark with that quarterback.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I was talking to John Mayer not too long ago,
and I said, we were hoping that that change would
have Now that's that's shot. The other the other Woody
Johnson won maybe hard. We should have just he should
have just said it.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
If I were a player, he would I would respond
to him because he's a real deal. Nobs, there's no
second Agender's what you're hearing is the truth.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
A lot of time players.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Don't get the truth and they get a lot of
gobbledy googy. All right, that's the that's the other way. Okay.
So Woody Johnson threw blame at Justin Fields and said,
as you said, if we could just complete a pass,
that would be okay. Right, we just complete a pass,
that would be okay. This is why it's tough being
a Jets fan because what he said was true, it
(24:44):
was embarrassing, it was harsh, it needed to be said,
and it's a really rough optic. It's all of these things.
What do you John, It's all of these things. It's
not just bad, it's not just rough, it's not just
what's ne this is everything. This is why it's so tough.
It's hard to be a Jets fan. And then we
(25:05):
got the news later on today ESPN reporting that likely
they're gonna change over to to Rod Taylor to be
the quarterback this week, and now Justin Field is losing
his job. And maybe that was the whole thing, was
Woody Johnson getting out in front of it. So, hey,
it's okay to make a quarterback change. It's all right,
we're doing it. But like that, that's what makes it
so tough because Justin Fields has been terrible, right, he's been.
He's been absolutely awful. But now here's your owner saying
(25:27):
our quarterback has been terrible. We don't need that. We know, don't.
I don't think any team need to say. Oh, I
don't need to say how bad a quarterback? We all
see it again. I don't need you to tell me
how deep the ocean is. I can see everybody knows
that he's bad. But yet, but like I said, it's needed,
but it's embarrassing. It's so hard to be the Jets.
It's so hard. But the first step is admitting it
(25:49):
you have a problem.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He was also asked, well, since quarterbacking has been so difficult,
do you regret what went on with Aaron Rodgers quote.
I never looked back this is what he said to
It's Semini. Yeah. Uh, you have to look forward in football.
Even when you cut players, they could be a Hall
of famer. You just never know. But Aaron's playing great now.
He's in a situation that's working for him again. Organizational
(26:15):
ineptitude taken to the highest degree. Uh, two years, forty
million dollars. Look, he had to sign off on that.
The aforementioned GM right brought him up. It's not Aaron
Glenn that unilaterally just said I like the cut of
that guy's Jim No, let's give him two years, forty
million dollars. And now to go to Torod Taylor when
(26:37):
you're own seven? What the hell's the point? You know
what Gerd Taylor is. You're playing for number one. We
might win three games here. Yeah, but why why would
you be stuck with my or at seven? But why
would you not say like this, I just whether you
like cook or not or you want to just go
find someone who's still hanging out. I'm glad you have
no man, I can answer that question, boss a question
(26:59):
for you. Yeah, because Woody Johnson is the worst owner
in the NFL. Okay, he is the He's worse than Jerry.
At least Jerry Jones has somewhat of a plan of succeed.
It may not be good, but at least he's got
some kind of plan. See, I keep defending Jerry. All
those double digit win seasons. We'd kill for those. Man,
come on, I mean, it's really it is. There is
no harder team to root for in all of sports
(27:22):
than the Jets. There is no harder team. Every other
team has found a way to have some sort of excitement,
some sort of positivity. There's no team harder than the Jets.
And when you see stuff like this today, we're here's
an owner saying, hey, our quarterback can't compete a pass,
complete a pass. Yeah, we all know that. But man,
where we're at, and there's nowhere to go just we
(27:42):
are just absolutely dysfunctional. We are just at We can't
get out of our own way, and it's never gonna change.
Which is worse that or I mean, and we got
plenty of time to talk about, you know, Miami and
everything going on there. But like their their biggest claim
to fame is celebrating when the last team loses. It's
the ghost of Mercury More is raising up a dog. Yeah,
(28:03):
we have Marino. They went to playoffs, like the Jets are.
They're living off a one win. We're living off a
one win. Saved the NFL five years ago, but that
made the NFL. He just did a whole thing about
how NBA starts. Don't remember the nineties. Now, Okay, the
Jets are living off a one win and it was
fifty six years ago. Okay, that's how long ago that.
(28:24):
I don't know if the Jets would still be a
team if they didn't win that game. But this is
how bad. There's no worse team to root for in
all those sports. You give me every other team, I'll
say they have more positivity than the Jets. I mean, really,
you see, there's no factory of jad Jones. Jerry Jones
says all the stuff going on with Michael Parsons, all
the things he probably wanted to say, he never said
something like this. He never did. Jerry Jones even knows. Yeah,
(28:46):
I'm not gonna throw my quarterback under the bus like that. Now,
Justin Fields can never play for me. Justin shots before
the season. Not that I want to see Justin Fields
play again, but still, I mean, you know, you don't
see this happen. This is a level of dysfunction that
is just wow. There is nothing that's gonna solve this, man,
There is nothing. Even if you bulldoze it and you
build it back up again, You're not gonna build anything good.
You're gonna build it in a faulty uh landlights. It's
(29:08):
just gonna fall down again. It's like slash and burn
agriculture that never grows back. Well, we burned it. Is
it growing back? No? Well you slashed it, yeah and
you burned it. Yeah, where's the rest of it? It's
not back. It was That's all. We didn't rotate, really
is it is the It is the hardest team to
root for in all the sports. And yet I must
love the misery because I keep coming back for what
(29:30):
he's round up. They keep coming back. He's always there
for you. I keep coming back for I mean every fault. Jason,
we found out what he sound you wanted? Oh you did, Okay,
let's hear it. Good. You keep pulling the button. He
keeps saying it the smartest thing what Johnson's ever said.
That's fair. That's what he should have said today instead
(29:52):
of saying justin fields that you know, if we can
just complete a pass like I mean, I really, we
could just complete a pass. Everybody knows that. We all
know that. We all watch the games. Jets fans are smart.
We all watch the games. We all know what's going on.
Excep I have no idea what's going on. This is
what it is to be a Jets fan. Again. Whatever
team you root for, just think, well, I don't I
don't have it like Jason, and somehow he keeps coming back.
(30:14):
I don't understand. That's how it goes. Got to be smarter, man.
You still have time to change change your evil ways.
Just an unbelievable day with the end of it the
hard reset. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. So someone who's been called
the Woody Johnson of Fox Sports Radio because he walks
around and tells me, Jason, no more tears. It's deep
to say, and I can complete a pass.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
As for the NBA tonight in downtown La Genie Buss
is seated next to the new Lakers owner Mark K Walter,
but of course multiple Laker fans are not seeing that
right now. You see, it's opening night in the NBA
and NBC has a new eleven year media rights deal
starting tonight. There's only two games to televise tonight, and
(30:56):
we're nearly done with the first quarter in LA, and
it's on stream.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I mean only peacock Baby, my goodness.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Golden State leads the Lakers in LA twenty two to
fourteen late in the first half. It's apparently going to
a second overtime. At defending champion Oklahoma City. The scoreboard
shows a tie at one fifteen for the Rockets Kevin
Durant with twenty points, thirty five for his new teammate
Alpera and Shngoon for Oklahoma City. Twenty eight points each
(31:24):
for Shay Gilgis Alexander, who sent it to the first
overtime with a bucket, and twenty eight for chet Holmgren,
who had started seven for seven from the floor. One
fifteen all end of the first overtime. Again, there's only
two games to me Most of the NBA teams start
on Wednesday. For the next Karl Anthony Towns is questionable
(31:44):
with a string quad, but he can complete a pass.
Memphis guard Jah Morant was cleared to play tomorrow after
a sprained ankle. Paul Georgia Philadelphia's out tomorrow after offseason
knee surgery.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Opening night rosters in.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
The league, by the way, include a record tying one
hundred and thirty five international players, over seventy from Europe.
The Angel's new manager is Kurt Suzuki, a former catcher
from nearby cow State Fullerton. He had a sixteen year
Major league career, finished as an Angel in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Oh see, I'm sorry, you mispronounced Albert pool Holes right,
because the Angels hired Pools Tory Hunter, right, Oh right,
Tory Hunter. No, Tory Hunter. They hired both pool Holes
and Hunter.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
All three of.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Those were being paid by the Angels on personal services contract.
So I guess throw spaghetti against the wall and some
strand is gonna stick. But can we just say out
loud they were paying Albert pooh Hooles a million dollars
a year for what exactly ten years, ten million dollars
(32:45):
for a personal services contract after they already overpaid on
the actual playing contract and released him before he was
actually finished playing.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You could just make personal services be manager of the Angels.
That's your personal services, you know.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
And Mike Trouty still signed through twenty thirty and he's
been batting about two thirty the past two seasons. You know,
it's not all about We talked about this in baseball.
The Mets spent a lot of money, didn't make the play.
It's not all about money. You actually have to have
a front office for doing some big people. The Halos
have had a losing record for ten straight years now.
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The World Series starts Friday night on Fox TV Toronto,
hosting the Dodgers. All the games are at eight pm
Eastern time. Game one for LA. We'll have pitcher Blakesnell
on the mound and then the Yoshinobu Yamamotos starting Game
two Saturday night in Toronto. Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz will
start again Thursday at the LA Chargers. And among the
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NHL games tonight, Florida four to three winner on a
late goal at Boston, New Jersey's five and one after
a win at Toronto five to two and tied in overtime,
LA at Saint Louis even at one again for the
one of two whole games tonight for NBC to televise.
It's the Rockets starting a second overtime at Oklahoma City,
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tied at one fifteen back to you.
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the verge of a huge trade that could vault them
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end of one twenty five twenty two Warriors with the lead. Meanwhile,
in double overtime right now the Rockets and the thunder
Rockets with a one to nineteen to one seventeen lead.
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buying should be. Well, when you win the NBA title
and you kick things off by hitting a big shot
to send the game to overtime, Jay Gilders, Alexander, you
get to be the play of the day, Shay in
the open court, Puss at a time on the seven
shutter steps off, Tomas Tompson pulls up fires a leaning sixteen.
But to forget it, it's het at one oh four,
Jugas Alixander something special? Baby is he ever?
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Clutch?
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Thunder Radio Network on the call a big night? What's
turned into a big night for SGA wasn't it wasn't
one early on for him. He's got thirty seven out
of ten from the free throw line. But it's a
two point deficit for the Thunder right now, still a
lot of time left to go, just under two minutes.
The curiosity they just put up the graphic. Kevin Durant
was seven to thirteen after three quarters. He's taken one
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shot since yeah he is uh, well, you know he
got to feel the game come yeah, I mean, I
don't know he's waiting. He's a little tired. Come on, man,
a little tired. Opening night. You gonna running around? What
the hell I expected? More so, we'll have more NBA
coming up in about ten minutes. A big thing from
everybody who's trying to watch the Lakers and Warriors game now.
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But big trade rumor Today reports that the Cowboys have
spoken to the Raiders about Max Crosby, which, again, the
easy joke here is, Oh, now, Jerry Jones realized you
needed to defend the pass too. If only you had
a guy like that. Oh you did have him in
Micah Parsons. Okay, he still would have had to pay him,
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don him money. I got that guy, and I'm trading
this guy, and I'm trading that guy's making all these trades.
So look, I'm gonna do things my way. Yeah, and
my way is terrible. So if I make enough trades,
people won't be able to keep track of it, and
they'll just say, hey, I did a good thing. Three
card money. That is. See the queen is right here,
No follow it, the good old shell game. Let's go.
That's maca this moving moment. Now, Not only would this
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be a great move for the Cowboys because it would
show the Cowboys that, hey, Jerry Jones has confidence in
this team because the offense is tremendous. Right, it's even better.
And I said beginning of the season, I said, watch out,
how good this Cowboys offic is gonna be? Right, don't
get a shootout with them. The offense is legit, and
it's the best offense in the NFL. It's even a
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little it's it's putting up numbers a little bit better
than what the Colts are putting up. Well, you look
at Jake Ferguson's your number one tight end fantasy. Yeah,
he's been ridiculously considerent. George Sickens had an incredible first
six games. He's gonna be Graham is back. Now it's
a question of whether you can keep Pickings happy. Now
like that that becomes the thing. Javonte Williams has been
a great fine at the running back now again, ric
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o'dowdell was a thousand yard runner last year. But all
of that to say is you've got weapons, and now
you figure out defensively how to make things easier on Eberflus, Right,
And it would because Max crossby the guy, he's a
plug and play guy. That will get after the quarterback
he's got, you know, to get him. He's already following
a lot of Dallas players on Instagram, Like he's following
nine players on Instagram. Like all of a sudden, that
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changed today. Yes, if you're the Raiders, you really don't
have any use for Max Crosby anymore. He's still an
elite pass rusher that will get to the quarterback. He
will bring the Cowboys the defensive attitude they need their missing.
This is a home run move for the Dallas Cowboys.
Getting Max Crosby vaults them up into contender status. Right.
This will do that because you see how good the
offense is. They don't in the defense to play the
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level of league you know, league elite. They just need
to be hey, just play league average. And certainly Crosby
is a plug and play guy, he would be great.
But more importantly, and this is why it's gonna get done,
because Jerry Jones knows he can rebuild all that goodwill
that he lost with the Micah Parsons trade, because he's
still hated so much in Dallas for the move, and
you got rid of our best guy. He goes out
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and gets Max Crosby. Okay, we changed things up a
little bit. We don't pay Mic up, but we got
a couple of draft picks. Now we have Max Crosby.
He changes the conversation and he gets back a lot
of good will. He buys back a lot of goodwill
and a lot of optimism, and suddenly everything in Dallas
feels better. The team feels better. They feel that Jones
has confidence in them. They feel they have confidence in
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the team going forward with Dak, they can win any game.
Crosby's gonna help them defensively. Jerry Jones gets the trust
from the players and the media and Cowboys Nation. Like
everybody wins in this. I can't see how this doesn't
get done at this point, Like this is this is
an absolute must for Jerry Jones to get done. Yeah.
A couple of insiders followed up, and again it's all
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fluid with a couple of weeks before the trade deadline,
but Pellisero said that the Raiders met with him to say, hey,
you're not leaving, We're not going away. And then Jane
Slater covers everything there in Dallas. She also actually put
a gift of someone throwing a bucket of water on
stuff in the conversations to say I would love this
for you. However, at this point it's not happening. But
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that doesn't mean it isn't subject to change if the
price is right. Because we look at the Raiders right now,
they're domster fire right. And the contract that Crosby has,
it's a three year, one hundred and six million dollar
deal that was signed in March that keeps him there
through twenty twenty nine, average salary about thirty five and
a half ninety one guaranteed. We know that Parsons got
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his four year, one eighty eight one hundred and thirty
six million in guarantees flowing on there. But all that is,
you make a decision in the moment you're paying heavy
on the offensive side of things. And I gotta say
I go back to I defended Shane on a lot
of it, except for the phone call that where he
was crying, hey, you're gonna let us know, right, say, Kwan,
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no bad job I have likewise with with Jerry Jones,
like you're trying to figure out how you build out
the best roster and what Mico might mean to you
in terms of wins and losses. Now clearly it killed
your your defense because well you know you're planning with
him being there. Well, now you can plug and play.
It's a home run. Jerry Jones has to get this done.
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