March 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Steve DeSaegher have all the details on Tracy Morgan being taken out of MSG in wheelchair after vomiting courtside in worrying scene. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops by for all the latest Aaron Rodgers. And Jason hands out his NCAA Tournament picks!
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it's day after what what he got? Our final fours?
What are the five twelve upsets? Who do we have?
Who's gonna win it all? Saint John's what do we think?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Saint John?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
However?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh, just to not to find a reason to start
with the Knicks. Okay, not to find her. I know
they are thumping the Heat right now.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
No, you start with the Knicks, whether there's a reason, no.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, no, no, nook.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
This was a close game, and the Knicks decided, Okay,
even without Jalen Brunson, we are better. Uh, and they're
beating the Heat right now the couple minutes left to
go one twelve to eighty nine. However, a crazy moment
in this game earlier where Tracy Morgan TV and Film
Star had to be wheeled out of the game in
a wheelchair. That's how bad the Knicks are. It was
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all come on, stop and the dudes had health problems
for like a decade. Man, he's had something. He's had
some real problems. Man, he's he's and he he was,
he was.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
He's often in the front row of Madison Square.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Guard he threw up on the floor and he was
escorted out in a wheelchair with a bloody nose.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And you could see it looks like the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
One of the Knicks towel boys is telling Scott Foster,
who was officiating the game, is probably why why the
Knicks are up by twenty. He's telling Scott Foster, we
don't have a MOP. Like I'm trying to read it. It
looks like you're saying, we don't have a mop, Like,
how are we gonna clean this?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
This this up?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
We don't have the court se see oh my god, yeah,
like what are we gonna do? Like, who's gonna go
do that?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, he got wheeled out like it was Paul Pierce.
Oh yeah, did he come back?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then I don't know. I think we're still we're
still waiting for an update on Tracy.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Okay, So it's not like Paul Pierce.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, it's it's not it's not this was an actual illness.
Uh well, Paul Pierce had an illness too. It was
just a stomach illness. It was just you know, I
you know, ooh boy, like mistiming my temporary mistiming my
pregame coffee kind of thing, is what happened. Oh hey,
you know, nope, gotta go, gotta go, Nope, gotta go.
Uh So, I hope he's okay. I mean, everybody's wondering
what's going on right now. I mean when he left,
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I mean it was just I'm like, okay, that's kind
of weird and you hear the guy's talking about it. It
looks like it's a trade thirty rocks. Tracy Morgan is
throwing up on that. You're thinking, is this this sounds
like a sketch from thirty Rock when it happened? Oh,
trace every when you got sick of the mixed game
like that. It's something with him and and Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
In case it's the kind of thing Tracy Morgan himself
would comment.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So, I mean, I hope he's okay, hope we find out.
I mean, Frostburg's going to hell already for trying to
make that joke like that. I mean, it's gonna happen
for you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So, but this next game is going to end with
the Knicks victory and.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
The Miami Heat wondering how many in a row do
we have to lose before we get Cooper flag?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You just keeping it too late. Just keep going, just
keep going, just keep just keep going.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's all They're dribbling out the clock in New York.
So this will be eight straight losses for Miami. Unfortunately
only twenty nine and thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now see.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And that's the thing, is that with the NBA, Like,
fifty five has always been my magic number of the
right amount of games to play in a season because
for a couple of reasons, fifty five is great. And
I've said this for years, because fifty five is where
you can start, have the regular, have the normal season,
and you can start on Christmas Day. Right, you can
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play fifty five games, start the season on Christmas Day,
and boy that's a huge deal, right, start Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Day and go all the way through.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, when the NBA owned Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, okay, and if the NFL is playing, you can
start Christmas Eve. Okay, you can do that, or the
day you can play on Boxing Day, all right, you
need to buy because that's a twenty six right, Boxing Day,
we can play that.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yes, it's boxing our stuff from Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Or if Honkkah is after Christmas, you can start on
day one of Honkah.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Take a holiday and we'll start.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But the second biggest thing is that fifty You get
to fifty five, and that's when you know we're past
the trade deadline. And this is where teams are either
in full tank mode or they understand that where things.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Just aren't going to get better.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Nothing really changes with the standings after fifty five games.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
In fact, it's teams like the Heat.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, yeah, we traded away Jimmy Butler, we're done, We're done,
and we're just gonna go.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We're's gonna lose games.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
A losing streak that literally they've never had and this
coach has been there forever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, yeah, we're doing it because we know we know
we're done, we know the season's done, we know we're
not going anywhere, we know we're starting over. So yeah,
all these games that happened when when you're a when
you're a team, a contending team with and you're playing
a team that's looking the next year, and half the
league is doing that the last you know, twenty five
twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Games of the year. This kind of nice that you get.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You get these long ass losing streaks or teams winning
fifteen in a row again because you're playing teams that
have absolutely given up. The Cavaliers aren't any better now
than they were early in the year, but two fifteen
game winning streaks, while the second fifteen game winning street,
you're playing teams that are just, yeah, we're finished. We're
not even gonna we're gonna we'll put four guys on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Maybe we'll do the whole Gen hack.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
We're gonna honor Gene Hackman by putting four on the
floor and finishing a game that way.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
My team's on the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Guy, Yeah, that's how you get So it's good, but
that you could always have done it. You could always
get down fifty five games. That's a perfect number for
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Honestly, when you at the start of this paragraph said
I think fifty five is in magic. I thought you
were talking about like Wizard's losses or the Hornets and
that's how you know that's a bad team. I really
thought that's where you were going. Actually, those two teams
are gonna be topping fifty five losses this year.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Is there a uh? Is there?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is there some sort of magic number for Cooper Flag
Like I don't want to but is there a number
where we actually clinch getting him?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Like?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Is that that?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Because I want to call and tell and tell Duke
not to play him in the tournament, Like he's our guy.
Now you're done. You had him for a year. Everything
is great, it's down to our guy.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Now four teams will have the chance at the worst record.
Four teams are currently still under twenty wins here and
we're only a month left in the regular season. So
I mentioned two of them in the East, and Utah
which lost again last night, and New Orleans which is
about to lose again. They in the West. So it's
those four if you if you can call it battling,
(06:34):
it's those for battling it out. And I think instead
of looking at how many losses at this point, we
really say how few wins is it going to take
to get the top pick in the draft in June,
because some of these teams are sitting on fifteen eighteen
right now twenty one wins. In other words, say three
four more victories max in the next three four weeks.
(06:56):
Will that do it?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Listen, let me know when we're getting dangerously close to
that number. Okay, just let just let me know. Let
me know we're getting there.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We'll sit everybody, we'll take the fine, we'll play less
than eight players, suit it up.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Who cares. Cuban's done that before, so yeah, why not?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Ratt's four so out the Cuban national team.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Mark Cuban, I've done that before.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So again, good thoughts to Tracy Morgan because normally, if
you hear, hey, somebody throws up court side during a
game on Saint Patrick's Day, you think, oh, I know
exactly what happened there, so hopefully you know, you know
everything is well.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Throwing up court side at a next game used to
be commonplace. Now this is an actual good team.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Welling on sating. My dad always says, Saint Patrick's Day,
you want on Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Dead? No, why it's that's amateur hour.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Saint Patrick's Day and New Year's Eve says amateur hour.
I don't go out those days. I don't want to
be in the door, to be on the road, don't
want to be out anywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I stay home. It's amateur hour. Those I'm like, oh,
not a bad bit of advice.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I started thinking back to my old Saint Patrick's days
and I'm like, yeah, okay, I can kind of kind
of go although now for the last and this is
this is a big day. Actually, I didn't know if
I was going to talk about this or not, but
this is my wife and I's thirty year anniversary of
our first date. Our first date was March seventeenth, nineteen
ninety five. Renovation thirty years today, How many hats did
(08:09):
you give her? Oh? So many hats, so many hats,
A Florida hat, a Bronco. I remember she told me
I really liked the Broncos log. I bought her like
two Broncos hats, Like, yeah, I brought two Broncos hats
for you. Oh yeah, yeah, so it worked, Yeah, oh yeah,
it worked.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It worked.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Thirty years We went to Poncho's in in Southington, Connecticut,
and we had we had dinner, and we went to
them And did you go to the movies after? I
think we went to see Legends of the Fall, if
I'm not mistake one. That's a good with Legends of
the Fall and Brad Pitt, Craig Scheffer, Julia Ormond, Anthony
(08:42):
Hopkins definitely dead. Yes, yeah, And I walked away going, wow,
So she she had sex with like all three guys
in that movie, Like she hooked up with everybody in
that movie.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
That was your conclusion. Okay, it was this gorgeous fie
the Wilds of Montana, And that's your conclusion, like a
soap opera, you know, yeah, absolutely, it is, like.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That's what it was. Like, I think she hooked up
with everybody in that movie. I mean, it's not what
the movie was, and that move was it was you know,
it was a.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I'm not gonna mention World War One because this is
the this is your show of records for spoiler alerts,
and I don't want to contribute then, So, h.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
What do you got for us? But you got something
on Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, he's actually addressing the media.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now we should probably go live to this. Oh yeah,
let's go, let's hear it. Go ahead, come on.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I really thought you would have something from thirty one
participating in this. The Knicks played, well, you went to
see the Knicks play, Well, you have killed the man?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
He stops to Frousburg.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
What's what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What do you do? Am I doing?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This is there could be something that just kill Carl. Yeah,
well that actually did happen. Yeah, yeah, and Austin Austin's
ferry and Jenkins did complete the catch. He did complete
the game, or may not have taken out one of
the greatest comedians of all time.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I all best thoughts to Tracy Morgan. Three. I really
thought we're getting something.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
But it's all of those things happening at the same
time with an ill person in public. Don't you expect
like Dustin Hoffman to come swooping in on the military
helicopter and clear you out the town?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh that's outbreak right, that was outbro Oh yeah yeah, okay,
okayber Russo or yeah yeah, yeah yeah that was where
the uh that was back when the big run of
movies and the the disaster the world disaster movies. Yeah,
that was Armageddon.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Came on cable again, you know, like five years ago,
where hey, there's an actual close up here in the
movie of people catching droplets in the dark movie theater
and everybody's leaving sick.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
We thought at the time, that'll never happen. What don't
we it's a movie. It's Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
No, no, you know, you know we should.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That'd be pretty That would have been great if they
actually did a movie like you know when they sometimes
I'll have the d box chairs where you sit and
it like rumbles and you can you can get oh yeah,
a lot of the special theater seats a movie like this,
like where there's a big content aging out, like when
someone that was another movie wag when someone sneezes on
screen to get it then you get that like.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
That is your case.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
No, that actually happened.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Universal in the Shrek ride where the seats, you know,
rumble and jumble when they're going through both, and then
when someone sneezes, Yes, there's a mist that comes.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
To the suites and like it's someone like when a
zombie bite somebody else, you feel like this, like little
pinprick on your arm.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh what just happened there? Oh my god, I got it?
Aget it again it Yeah, make people in there.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
That's right. It's one step above smell a vision.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Make people think, Oh, I'm actually I'm actually going through
it right now. Okay, that's great. I got out and
I don't know what I need.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
As long as you're only going through it for two
hours and you can leave health Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah sure sure, Oh yeah yeah, I'm walking out here.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
At the end, right, I paid for this.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Matt Damon's Matt Damon's the only one walking out of
this movie?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Is this another spoiler alert?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh, come on, we've been out a long time now.
Well you could say that about every movie. I'm not
asking you to give away the ending of Psycho either.
Not everybody you've seen every every movie. Okay, okay, contagent,
if you if you ever wanted to see movie where
a lot of a listers just fall by the wayside,
like that's contained. Again, well that's that happened. But it's
a movie about a big global pandemic and and a
(12:09):
lot of I mean, it's like, I mean, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Mean any of the stars immediately necessarily this.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You know, you got he's gotta be some kind of
accountabil you know, it's got something. I mean, I gotta say,
like in the beginner.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Maybe Jimmy Kimmel was executive producer, and so David. But
where's the scene when I can kill off Kimmel's character?
Where's that scene? I'm gonna call He's not in the movie. No,
we're putting him in just so we can do that. Yeah,
but we have Gwyneth Paltrow. No, no, no, no, we
have Kate Winsley. No, no, no, where's Kimmel. I'm gonna
kill Kimel in every scene. It's like killing Kenny in
(12:39):
South Park. We're gonna kill him in every He's gonna
be a different guy in every single scene. That's how
it's gonna go. Uh So, well from we got more
from Tracy Moore. Waits talking, he's got more from Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Go ahead, exit, How about a fresca?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
You know, it's dinner.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'm somewhere in the world it is it is it
in Uh hopefully not not for you with this.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
See, I was going to tell you.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Coming up shortly, it's dinner time for the Cubs and
Dodgers as they get ready.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I was at Yeah, I was actually going to tell
a story of time about what one time when I
had to as a as a sophomore, sophomore sophomore, Yes,
I was forced to clean up the men's room on
my floor.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Uh we're talking college there.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I got sick after
a Friday Saturday night. And normally like that what happen
and you would call and some day come up and
clean and the uh, well, you know what, Okay, I'll
tell the story real quick now. So I got sick
coming back from happy hour or something and a friend
and I got sick, and I got sick in the bathroom.
And normally when it would happen, you would call, they
would come and do it. But apparently there was such
a rash of it happening that the person whose job
(13:47):
was said I'm not doing it, and and and the
person can put a note on the on the on
the door to the bathroom that said, hey, stone or brains.
I still remember, hey, stone or brains, clean up your
own mess. Not my job to do it. And I
was like, oh, man, so of course nobody knew, and
nobody knew it was me. I could tell the story
now nobody knew it was me, and like nobody wanted
to use that bathrooms. You went and it smelled terribly,
(14:08):
and I'm going, I don't know what to do. So
the next day, like twenty four hours later, it was
still awful. Everybody on the floor was talking about it,
and I just said, I'll go in and do it.
So I go and I take a couple of T
shirts and I clean it up and I throw the stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Away and one of those pine scented felt Christmas trees
you put in the car.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It was it was awful, like it was terrible, and
I did the stupidest thing. I'm like, well, I'm gonna wash.
I should have just thrown the T shirts away, but
I threw one in the watching machines and tried to
watch it, and of course that overloaded the watching machine.
The watching machine had to be fixed. But I cleaned
up the bathroom. Right, So here's the thing. Because nobody
knew it was me, they all thought I was a hero. Hey,
thanks for going into clear bytes. I said, oh, you know,
(14:45):
that does happen in life.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Sometimes I had to do yeah, create the problem, fixed
the problem, considered hero for the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I looked like I was like, hey, thanks, Hey, that
was really nice. You man, Yeah, no, probably yea. I
want to you know, somebody had to do it, so
you know, why not me? Why that mean nobody knew.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It was me?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It was that look like a hero. And then then
I ruined the washing machine. So there's that exit. How
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we're still waiting on Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson, who
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for what's happening.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Man, were waiting, I'm not waiting. I'm not even sure
how much these teams are waiting all.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Do you think are we gonna like, are Rogers and
Wilson gonna sign before August first?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Like?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I just want to make sure that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That'll happen, I think so okay, I probably okay, at
least to one of them.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
At least one of them, you know, the whole thing
with Rogers, right, And this is where I can't wait.
I really want Rogers to go to the Vikings just
so I can laugh at Vikings fans that got all
mad at me last week. If this is the team
he's waiting for, you're really telling me the Vikings decided
we're gonna just let Sam Donald walk because we love
JJ McCarthy, But oh no, we're gonna bring in Aaron
(18:18):
Rodgers to start this year instead of JJ McCarthy, Like,
and what world does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I mean it doesn't. It doesn't, especially when you know
they could have transitioned Donald and probably just got to
wait with it that way, when you really looked at
what Seattle did. Excuse me, I mean, that's kind of
what they did, and so I don't know that somebody's
putting together an offer sheet if Minnesota just puts a
(18:46):
transition tag on Sam Donald, which is what some other
general managers thought they would do. But like, I don't
like there's this narrative out there that like this guy's
walking the beach, you know, like kung Fu, and everybody's
just waiting on him. I mean, like nine of every
(19:07):
ten people are going to get that reference. But whatever,
David Keriedy, I just don't think that's necessarily what the
scenario is. I think these teams have made it clear
where their price points are, and there's not any like
there's no mystery here and he's either going to take
it or he's or he's not, or maybe they come
up with something a little more creative and see if
(19:28):
these teams are interested. But I don't really, you know,
I don't think it's oh, he's holding everything up, but
people just waiting to hear from now. I mean, I
think he's got to decide, I guess if he wants
to play, but what's out there? But there's nothing precluding
these teams from Yank can get off the table or
just going in another direction. So you know, Jameis Winston's
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still out there. There's still the potential specter of a
cousin's trade. I don't care about the contractual stuff there.
You don't want to have him there unhappy with the
young quarterback who needs to play, and sometimes you got
to eat some money in order to make you a
more football trade to get more in return. So I
don't think these teams are sitting there like, oh my god,
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it's Aaron. You know it's Aaron Rodgers or bust. If
any of these teams really wanted him, he'd be in Pittsburgh,
or he'd be in with the Giants, or he'd be
with Minnesota. I mean, if somebody was really courting him
and wouling him, I don't think. Well, maybe he'd still
appeal on the beach or being the Jung rule or whatever,
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but he'd be doing it with an NFL contract At
the back part.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Jason keeping the theme of Aaron Rodgers, I personally am
in the dark about the Bengals signings. Congratulations quarterback, two
star wide receivers signed. They missed the playoffs by a
game with them. Your thoughts on the offense and how
they've shaped things in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well, I do get a little kick out of people
applauding them for doing this. They could have did this
to your Higgins a year three and Chace that to
year three and gotten them both much cheaper and had
wouldn't have to be doing it all at once and
wouldn't have to be blowing up this much of their cap.
They could have done it before, you know, or at
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least concurrently with Higgins in terms of the Joe Burrow deal. Like,
they could have staggered things and structured things differently. So,
I mean, it's great that Mike Brown's spending money, but
they you know, don't tell how many games last year
they scored twenty eight points a more and lost anyway,
And they haven't drafted that well. And to think that
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they're going to fix their defense, all three levels of
it in the draft, I think is a bit naive.
And I don't think Trey Henderson's going to fit into
this thing. And they're going to need draft picks. I mean,
they're going to need additional draft capital because of the
lack of talent, the lack of difference makers on the
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defensive side of the ball, and like, I mean, they're
in a conference that's loaded with either exceptional offensive head
coaches or generational quarterbacks or in some cases bothoth So
you got to the dirty little secret about the year
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they went to the super Bowl, they had the best
second half defense in the NFL. Go look what lou
Ana Rumo was doing through halftime on against the lead offenses.
He was shutting them down. That was really sort of
the catapult for them. I don't think they're anywhere near
a below average defense, let alone a league average one.
(22:34):
So it's it's going to be interesting, but thirty five
points is not necessarily going to be enough for them
depending on the opponent.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
See, I look at it this way, Joe.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I felt like this was Joe Burrow flexing and making sure, Hey,
you got to keep me happy if you want me
to stay in a couple of years, because.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Two years ago, I mean I should like he's always plans.
Just listen to him. And he said, like I'm not
even knocking him, Like, hey, this guy, we could restructure this.
We can move this paragraph five around. I mean he's
given like he's going on podcast and given detail, you know,
explanations of what they're all season could entail the problem
is you probably should have started putting the sheet on
more before last year.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Jason Locking Forward with us, Jason Smith, Steve Disaga, Fox
Sports Radio. All right, so we go to the other
big signing of this weekend and Cooper Cup goes to
the Seahawks, and I, okay, I get that he was
gonna end up somewhere good.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I didn't think he was going to get that kind
of money.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And I'm kind of scratching my head Jay, because I go, Okay,
So the Seahawks, they got rid of Gino Smith, they
brought in Sam darn Okay, great, uh, but they get
rid of DK Metcalf. Okay, now they're bringing in Cooper Cup. Like,
are they going for it?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Are they not?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Are they just rearranging a living room furniture here? Like
thee I'm trying to get what they're doing, and let's
just just hey, do something, even.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
If it's wrong. Like that's kind of what I get
the Seahawks trying to do.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I get the quarterback saying, you know, look, they've done
a good job drafting a lot of receivers. Now this
is not a generation a lot of receiver draft by
any stretch of the imagination, but you know, there may
be some guys they right there. I have concerns about
how much Cooper Cups has left in the tank. I
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do understand how he would fit the offense that they're
trying to put together, and he can help teach it
to other people and all that. I mean, I still't
think they're the second best team in that division, and
I think they will have a chance to get in
the playoffs if Mike McDonald can meet his part of
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the assignment, which is rats at that defense up another
level or so and get you know, get them playing
with a little more bite, get them turning people over
a little bit more, you know, ramp up a pass
rush because that's the side of the ball, and that's
you know, why he got that job as early in
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his career as he did. And if those things happened,
you know, I don't I don't think the offense is
going to have to be generational to at least make
the postseason. And what I still think is an inferior conference.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Got to ask about the Ravens. Therefore, we have the
Baltimore guy on the air, the most recent in the
backup quarterback signing. But this is still such a good team,
is it not? What's it going to take to punch through?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
They could use another pass rusher, Like I'm surprised that
they're not taking flyers on somebody like a Jizo July
for four million dollars, or you know, maybe they didn't
get in on you know, not getting in on somebody
like foul or like I mean to think Kyle van
Noy is going to do what he's done again. Dafay
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always an edge defender. I don't really think of him
as a pass rusher, a natural pass rush or he's
never really morphed into that. He'll get some sacks, usually
in bunches against really inferior tackles. I think if you
look at their defense in the playoffs, it has not
produced turning like Lamar Jackson's never played in games whereas
defense produced turnovers for him, where his defense has you know,
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produced more sacks than the Ravens have given up. Like
they've just been sort of tepid and a little bit
buffish at times, and that's part of a cutting edge
that they've lacked. But I mean, I love the Cooper
rush booth getting Ronnie Stanley back at the price point
they got him back at as huge, But I do
wonder about do they have dudes like they've got scheme
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and Chuck Pagano will help with that, but I just
don't know if they've got dudes who you know, up
front win games for you. They got to get out
of BK back in top for him, but like you know,
he doesn't really have a running mate. It wouldn't shock
me if they brought Kalays Campbell back. And I just
don't think they have individuals on the end to make
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you worry about chipping them or doing something extra to
defend them.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
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Speaker 4 (27:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We'll talk to you next week. I have a great one.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Always my pleasure. Thank you.
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that kind of money, it's really tough to be if
two guys.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
This is a salary cap league steal. Even though the
Cats keeps going up.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I mean, who's the last team that did Oh the Jets. Oh,
and how did they do?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Let's see all that really did work? But I feel
like this was it really was. This was Burrow.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
This was done to appease him because the Bengals know
he's the best shot. We haven't winning anything ever. Burrow
is just that good, and yes, you got to keep
them healthy, but now you see good, you got to
keep them happy.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
He's one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL,
no no doubt. And overall what he does he makes
everybody better is he is just that good. But you
got to keep him happy. And you've heard in the
last couple of years, hey, we should do this, we
should do this, And what have you seen with the Bengals.
Now it's almost like he's had a Caitlin Clark like
effect on the Bengals, where all of a sudden, Kaitlyn
Clark shows up in the WNBA and it's, oh, hey,
(28:26):
guess what, Oh, she's taking commercial flight next week. No
more commercial flights, right, everybody. Everybody's flying charter.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
This is for all the teams. Oh, look at the
money that is now we're making television revenue. It's in
the billions of dollars. Now, all this stuff Kaitlyn Clark's
done for the WNBA, it's like what Joe Burrow's done
for the Bengals. Oh, we don't have a we don't
have our own practice facility.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Hey, we're got our.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Own practice facility. Ay, we need to keep stars. Hey,
we're going to keep the Star. It's like cause he's
had that out. Hey a couple of years. When his
contract is up, there'll be thirty two, and he's one
of those guys that I can easily see him saying, dude,
I bought the batmobile. Man, I don't care what to do.
I'll make more money at some point. Yeah, I will
hit free agency at thirty two and go somewhere and
make three hundred million dollars. So like, I feel like
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this is what it's done. This is not a reflection
on Brown or Chase or Higgins, who should be thanking
Joe Burrow, but this is him exercising his and flexing
his muscles that you want to make sure you keep
me happy. So I'm a quarterback here past another two
years from now, and so I can be the court
until I'm thirty six, thirty seven.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
But the bat signal spotlight in the sky should have
been for offensive linemen. Congratulations, you have two star receivers back.
But Joe Burrow My first reaction, while some people were saying, hey,
they're getting paid great, and my first reaction is, oh,
so Joe Burrow is gonna get sacked fifty times this
season still, but.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I can sell it. That's where it could be an
offensive coordinator. He lines up in the gun and a
lot of quick slants quickly becomes Tom Brady just quick
slants like you know, you know, I mean, not like
unlike the Bears last year at the end where I
think where I think that Caleb Williams was getting hit
before he got the ball, like as long as you
get that snapped. But he can throw that slant really quick, right,
really good. No one's gonna get in on him. You
throw that slant, dot Fan, just throw a slant. Every
(30:03):
single play was about a five.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Hundred quarterback with the Bengals. Last couple of years, despite
his talent, despite his stats, because I felt like I
was watching the Brandon Stay Chargers all over again, where
if Justin Herbert didn't score thirty points, they weren't winning.
And that was the Bengals season. Last year they missed
the playoffs by one game.
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Speaker 3 (30:52):
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Speaker 5 (30:54):
You know that last part. There are so many jokes
to come back with, but I will move on to
the NBA score board because we are going overtime at Houston.
The Rockets have won sixth straight. They are tied with
Philadelphia one thirty one to one thirty one. You may
have heard today that Paul George of Philly is officially
out for the year after injections in his ductor and knee.
(31:15):
Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxi is out again tonight with finger and
back injuries, missing an eight straight game. So Quentin Grimes
has forty points as we head toward the OT at
Minnesota five seconds left. That game is tied Timberwolves even
at one seventeen with the Pacers, who are missing Tyrese
Halliburton tonight out with a sore back. Anthony Edwards of
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Minnesota with thirty points. He was named Player of the
Week in the West today the Bulls Kobe White won
Player of the Week in the East, and the Bulls
are leading seventy four to sixty eight at Utah with
four minutes left in the third. The Utah Jazz have
lost nine games in a row. And then we've got
the late games, and there are plenty of them underway,
including Denver leading at Golden State twenty four twenty two
(31:58):
with under a minute and a half to go. So
in the first quarter, Denver's Nicola Jokic is out with
an elbow injury. Jamal Murray out with an ankle injury.
The late game just getting underway. It's the Lakers hosting
San Antonio. Jaylen Brown of the Celtics is out Tuesday
with backspasms. NHL Tampa Bay at two to nothing winner
at home against Philadelphia Buffalo in overtime. One at Boston
(32:19):
three to two Twins. Third baseman royce Lewis will miss
opening day with a strained hamstring. Paul Skeens had the
Pirates win today at Spring Training in a four to
two victory over Minnesota's. He had seven strikeouts in four
and two third innings. Rory McElroy won the players in
a playoff, easily beating JJ spawn And you mentioned the
Caitlin Clark effect. As we head toward the start of
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the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments this week, the
women's teams will finally earn money for winning games in
the NCAA tournament this year, just as the men have
four years. A team that reaches the women's Final four
could be bringing its conference about one point two million
dollars now over the next three years in financial performance rewards.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
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Speaker 3 (33:04):
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to the show, you kind of know where I'm going.
Am I gonna change my mind? Aquad Man Jason, you
know Syracuse is not all no no, no, no no,
(33:48):
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
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Speaker 4 (34:53):
R J.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Lewis, Cadery Richmond, gonna wear my white suit every night.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I let the Catada bag on this Steve to Saga
about a month and a half ago. But I said, listen,
they're the best team in the country, are they?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
They have everything you need to navigate March. You have
one of the top three defenses in the Hall college basketball.
You have the biggiest player of the year in r. J.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Lewis. You have two.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Incredibly talented guards. Caldari Richmond is fantastic, dave On Smith
as long as he's healthy.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
If you're talking about Saint John's, I'm not sure about
that top three defense, but I'm telling now you look
there there, he's got a defense.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Hennessey to Houston's got a defense. No, well, who plays defense.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Well, you'll see my official Final four picks. You see
where the defensive efficiencies are. But Saint John's is number
two in the country and offensively they got every they
they have the strong guard play to navigate March. Candarry
Richmond's a triple double threat. Now I miss him at Syracuse.
Can't believe they let him leave. But anyway, Lewis is great. Oh,
we gotta score it. Lewis is the guy like this
team has everything you need and a guy it's navigated
(36:00):
March many times before. This could be his fourth team
in the Final four, right, this is it's something that's
really unprecedented. You can like or hate Rick Patino, and
I'm with you on that.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Coaches didn't used to bounce around quite like this.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
No, no, no, but overall.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Like you know, look, Saint John's the team I grew up,
I grew up watched. I haven't been this good in
forty years. And you know, for them to be a
two seed is kind of a slap in the face.
So for me to be a little worried that boy,
they've been so good for so long, been kind of
a machine here they are not, I think getting that
two seeds a little bit of a slow.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
We're really we're a two seed right when the big East.
Oh we're a two seed. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
You sound like the women's coach.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
We'll say, well, well that everybody on the women's side
of the bracket. But we'll get to that next out.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
By the way, slap in the face. Duke is not
the number one overall seed. No, no, I look, I know,
I know they're being punished for their conference.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I don't know, but if I think if they knew,
if you knew the health of Cooper Flag, I think
you probably would be the number one overall.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
So the committee is not believing Duke when they purposely
made a point to tell the committee he's playing. I'm playing.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Our star is going to be there did he.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Play the rest of How much money do you have
on Duke? Like this seems a bobby like you did
you bet on Duke?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Like no, No, I'm just saying as a news guy
when you see, Hey, the final polls are out and
Auburn slips to number four in the country, but they
are the number one overall seed of the four to
one seeds.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But that's your championship game, Saint John's and Duke. That
is my official champion. That's we're going to see. We're
going to see an incredible Monday night. Cooper flag Rick, Patino,
white suits. They'll be playing seams from Italian restaurant. Oh,
it's gonna be fit out and not.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
A single game in the Eastern time zone for them
if they're gonna make that run because technically, and you know,
if you know the pod system, technically they're in the
West region. So yeah, that means the regionals are going
to be in the Bay Area in San Francisco. But okay,
but you know they got the Providence games. But I
need to say this again out loud more clearly, just
(37:58):
because you're in the region doesn't mean you play all
the games in the Eastern time zone. So like the
coaches they put in those Providence games this week, Blake Patino,
who used to coach at Providence, Okay, there's your Eastern
time zone I'm talking about. It's a it's an East
region or West region in name only. It just helps
us sort the teams, that's all.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, I mean, because it's not it's not where the game,
it's just this is where the region is, right And
by the way, yeah, everybody gets it. Everbody understands all
you're in the West region, you're going to be traveling,
you're in the East region. Doesn't mean you're playing. Hey,
we're playing at seven thirty. No, no, no, you're not playing.
You know you're not playing that.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Well, how about Auburn, which is I say again the
number one overall seed and they might have to be
playing Louisville in the second round this week, and the
Louisville games this week are in Lexington Rifle, Kentucky's arena.
Louisville of course not terribly far from Lexington. So I
want to see an Auburn Louisville matchup this coming weekend
(38:59):
with the one seed overall as a road team, that's possible.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
See and and I think what you're gonna see is,
because it's that kind of year, all of Rick Patino's
former teams are going to win as well. So Louisville's
gonna make it through Kentucky's. Can you imagine that that
that's your final four? You got yeah, Patino and then
you have Kentucky, Louisville and Duke, Like like, that's what
the final four?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
It's all it's all Patino. It's an all Patino final four.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Duke, Well, Duke's gonna get there.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, I mean there's there's nobody else in that region
though that I can, I can. I can link to him,
though my internet's a little slow here. Steve Jason, what
what time is the Syracuse game? It's not Syracuse play.
Syracuse plays at nver o'clock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll find it.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Are they going to be in the Crown? Uh no.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I mean if we were five hundred, weed to made it,
but I mean we can't. I mean, we were that bad.
You need to hang a banner that says that we
have hanging band next time. We finished over five hundreds.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
You see, Irvine is a one seed in the n
I T Yeah, you saw Irving's a great, a pretty
good school. They were a game behind. You see San
Diego for the Big West. You see San Diego which
made the NCAA Tournament the first year it was eligible.
They're men's and women's teams. Did that had never happened
before in first year of eligibility in your athletic department.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Now, I mean, look, it's it's gonna be a really
fun tournament because I think many people just have no
idea how it's gonna play out with a lot of teams,
because the parody is really there this year.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Even the CBI tournament, when you get that army game
opening against Elon, I have no clue how that's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Well, Elon's just gonna lay off everybody an army and
that's how they're gonna win. They're gonna win everything that cuts.
We're gonna right before the game, they lay everybody off.
You're fired. You only get to play the game if
you answer an email about what you did last weekend.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Please televise that game and tell me that fans are
going and going with signs. That's gonna write itself.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
But I'll give you Saint John's Duke, Michigan State, and Tennessee.
There's my final four shout out to Peter the ant Eater.
Uh sure, sure, it's gonna be fine. Hey, you see
your fighting to be great.
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What are the five twelve upsets? Who do we have?
Who's gonna win it all? Saint John's what do we think?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Saint John?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
However?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh, just to not to find a reason to start
with the Knicks. Okay, not to find her. I know
they are thumping the Heat right now.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
No, you start with the Knicks, whether there's a reason, no.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
No, no, no, nook.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
This was a close game, and the Knicks decided, Okay,
even without Jalen Brunson, we are better. Uh, and they're
beating the Heat right now the couple minutes left to
go one twelve to eighty nine. However, a crazy moment
in this game earlier where Tracy Morgan TV and Film
Star had to be wheeled out of the game in
a wheelchair. That's how bad the Knicks are. It was
(01:39):
all come on, stop and the dudes had health problems
for like a decade. Man, he's had something. He's had
some real problems. Man, he's he's and he he was,
he was.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
He's often in the front row of Madison Square.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Guard he threw up on the floor and he was
escorted out in a wheelchair with a bloody nose.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And you could see it looks like the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
One of the Knicks towel boys is telling Scott Foster,
who was officiating the game, is probably why why the
Knicks are up by twenty. He's telling Scott Foster, we
don't have a MOP. Like I'm trying to read it. It
looks like you're saying, we don't have a mop, Like,
how are we gonna clean this?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
This this up?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
We don't have the court se see oh my god, yeah,
like what are we gonna do? Like, who's gonna go
do that?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, he got wheeled out like it was Paul Pierce.
Oh yeah, did he come back?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then I don't know. I think we're still we're
still waiting for an update on Tracy.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Okay, So it's not like Paul Pierce.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, it's it's not it's not this was an actual illness.
Uh well, Paul Pierce had an illness too. It was
just a stomach illness. It was just you know, I
you know, ooh boy, like mistiming my temporary mistiming my
pregame coffee kind of thing, is what happened. Oh hey,
you know, nope, gotta go, gotta go, Nope, gotta go.
Uh So, I hope he's okay. I mean, everybody's wondering
what's going on right now. I mean when he left,
(02:45):
I mean it was just I'm like, okay, that's kind
of weird and you hear the guy's talking about it. It
looks like it's a trade thirty rocks. Tracy Morgan is
throwing up on that. You're thinking, is this this sounds
like a sketch from thirty Rock when it happened? Oh,
trace every when you got sick of the mixed game
like that. It's something with him and and Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
In case it's the kind of thing Tracy Morgan himself
would comment.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
So, I mean, I hope he's okay, hope we find out.
I mean, Frostburg's going to hell already for trying to
make that joke like that. I mean, it's gonna happen
for you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So, but this next game is going to end with
the Knicks victory and.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
The Miami Heat wondering how many in a row do
we have to lose before we get Cooper flag?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You just keeping it too late. Just keep going, just
keep going, just keep just keep going.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
That's all They're dribbling out the clock in New York.
So this will be eight straight losses for Miami. Unfortunately
only twenty nine and thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now see.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And that's the thing, is that with the NBA, Like,
fifty five has always been my magic number of the
right amount of games to play in a season because
for a couple of reasons, fifty five is great. And
I've said this for years, because fifty five is where
you can start, have the regular, have the normal season,
and you can start on Christmas Day. Right, you can
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play fifty five games, start the season on Christmas Day,
and boy that's a huge deal, right, start Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Day and go all the way through.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, when the NBA owned Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, okay, and if the NFL is playing, you can
start Christmas Eve. Okay, you can do that, or the
day you can play on Boxing Day, all right, you
need to buy because that's a twenty six right, Boxing Day,
we can play that.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yes, it's boxing our stuff from Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Or if Honkkah is after Christmas, you can start on
day one of Honkah.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Take a holiday and we'll start.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But the second biggest thing is that fifty You get
to fifty five, and that's when you know we're past
the trade deadline. And this is where teams are either
in full tank mode or they understand that where things.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Just aren't going to get better.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Nothing really changes with the standings after fifty five games.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
In fact, it's teams like the Heat.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, yeah, we traded away Jimmy Butler, we're done, We're done,
and we're just gonna go.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We're's gonna lose games.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
A losing streak that literally they've never had and this
coach has been there forever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, yeah, we're doing it because we know we know
we're done, we know the season's done, we know we're
not going anywhere, we know we're starting over. So yeah,
all these games that happened when when you're a when
you're a team, a contending team with and you're playing
a team that's looking the next year, and half the
league is doing that the last you know, twenty five
twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Games of the year. This kind of nice that you get.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You get these long ass losing streaks or teams winning
fifteen in a row again because you're playing teams that
have absolutely given up. The Cavaliers aren't any better now
than they were early in the year, but two fifteen
game winning streaks, while the second fifteen game winning street,
you're playing teams that are just, yeah, we're finished. We're
not even gonna we're gonna we'll put four guys on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Maybe we'll do the whole Gen hack.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
We're gonna honor Gene Hackman by putting four on the
floor and finishing a game that way.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
My team's on the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Guy, Yeah, that's how you get So it's good, but
that you could always have done it. You could always
get down fifty five games. That's a perfect number for
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Honestly, when you at the start of this paragraph said
I think fifty five is in magic. I thought you
were talking about like Wizard's losses or the Hornets and
that's how you know that's a bad team. I really
thought that's where you were going. Actually, those two teams
are gonna be topping fifty five losses this year.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Is there a uh? Is there?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is there some sort of magic number for Cooper Flag
Like I don't want to but is there a number
where we actually clinch getting him?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Like?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Is that that?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Because I want to call and tell and tell Duke
not to play him in the tournament, Like he's our guy.
Now you're done. You had him for a year. Everything
is great, it's down to our guy.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Now four teams will have the chance at the worst record.
Four teams are currently still under twenty wins here and
we're only a month left in the regular season. So
I mentioned two of them in the East, and Utah
which lost again last night, and New Orleans which is
about to lose again. They in the West. So it's
those four if you if you can call it battling,
(06:34):
it's those for battling it out. And I think instead
of looking at how many losses at this point, we
really say how few wins is it going to take
to get the top pick in the draft in June,
because some of these teams are sitting on fifteen eighteen
right now twenty one wins. In other words, say three
four more victories max in the next three four weeks.
(06:56):
Will that do it?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Listen, let me know when we're getting dangerously close to
that number. Okay, just let just let me know. Let
me know we're getting there.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We'll sit everybody, we'll take the fine, we'll play less
than eight players, suit it up.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Who cares. Cuban's done that before, so yeah, why not?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Ratt's four so out the Cuban national team.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Mark Cuban, I've done that before.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So again, good thoughts to Tracy Morgan because normally, if
you hear, hey, somebody throws up court side during a
game on Saint Patrick's Day, you think, oh, I know
exactly what happened there, so hopefully you know, you know
everything is well.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Throwing up court side at a next game used to
be commonplace. Now this is an actual good team.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Welling on sating. My dad always says, Saint Patrick's Day,
you want on Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Dead? No, why it's that's amateur hour.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Saint Patrick's Day and New Year's Eve says amateur hour.
I don't go out those days. I don't want to
be in the door, to be on the road, don't
want to be out anywhere.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I stay home. It's amateur hour. Those I'm like, oh,
not a bad bit of advice.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I started thinking back to my old Saint Patrick's days
and I'm like, yeah, okay, I can kind of kind
of go although now for the last and this is
this is a big day. Actually, I didn't know if
I was going to talk about this or not, but
this is my wife and I's thirty year anniversary of
our first date. Our first date was March seventeenth, nineteen
ninety five. Renovation thirty years today, How many hats did
(08:09):
you give her? Oh? So many hats, so many hats,
A Florida hat, a Bronco. I remember she told me
I really liked the Broncos log. I bought her like
two Broncos hats, Like, yeah, I brought two Broncos hats
for you. Oh yeah, yeah, so it worked, Yeah, oh yeah,
it worked.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It worked.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Thirty years We went to Poncho's in in Southington, Connecticut,
and we had we had dinner, and we went to
them And did you go to the movies after? I
think we went to see Legends of the Fall, if
I'm not mistake one. That's a good with Legends of
the Fall and Brad Pitt, Craig Scheffer, Julia Ormond, Anthony
(08:42):
Hopkins definitely dead. Yes, yeah, And I walked away going, wow,
So she she had sex with like all three guys
in that movie, Like she hooked up with everybody in
that movie.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
That was your conclusion. Okay, it was this gorgeous fie
the Wilds of Montana, And that's your conclusion, like a
soap opera, you know, yeah, absolutely, it is, like.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That's what it was. Like, I think she hooked up
with everybody in that movie. I mean, it's not what
the movie was, and that move was it was you know,
it was a.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I'm not gonna mention World War One because this is
the this is your show of records for spoiler alerts,
and I don't want to contribute then, So, h.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
What do you got for us? But you got something
on Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, he's actually addressing the media.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Now we should probably go live to this. Oh yeah,
let's go, let's hear it. Go ahead, come on.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I really thought you would have something from thirty one
participating in this. The Knicks played, well, you went to
see the Knicks play, Well, you have killed the man?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
He stops to Frousburg.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
What's what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What do you do? Am I doing?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This is there could be something that just kill Carl. Yeah,
well that actually did happen. Yeah, yeah, and Austin Austin's
ferry and Jenkins did complete the catch. He did complete
the game, or may not have taken out one of
the greatest comedians of all time.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I all best thoughts to Tracy Morgan. Three. I really
thought we're getting something.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
But it's all of those things happening at the same
time with an ill person in public. Don't you expect
like Dustin Hoffman to come swooping in on the military
helicopter and clear you out the town?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Oh that's outbreak right, that was outbro Oh yeah yeah, okay,
okayber Russo or yeah yeah, yeah yeah that was where
the uh that was back when the big run of
movies and the the disaster the world disaster movies. Yeah,
that was Armageddon.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Came on cable again, you know, like five years ago,
where hey, there's an actual close up here in the
movie of people catching droplets in the dark movie theater
and everybody's leaving sick.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
We thought at the time, that'll never happen. What don't
we it's a movie. It's Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
No, no, you know, you know we should.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That'd be pretty That would have been great if they
actually did a movie like you know when they sometimes
I'll have the d box chairs where you sit and
it like rumbles and you can you can get oh yeah,
a lot of the special theater seats a movie like this,
like where there's a big content aging out, like when
someone that was another movie wag when someone sneezes on
screen to get it then you get that like.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
That is your case.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
No, that actually happened.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Universal in the Shrek ride where the seats, you know,
rumble and jumble when they're going through both, and then
when someone sneezes, Yes, there's a mist that comes.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
To the suites and like it's someone like when a
zombie bite somebody else, you feel like this, like little
pinprick on your arm.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh what just happened there? Oh my god, I got it?
Aget it again it Yeah, make people in there.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
That's right. It's one step above smell a vision.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Make people think, Oh, I'm actually I'm actually going through
it right now. Okay, that's great. I got out and
I don't know what I need.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
As long as you're only going through it for two
hours and you can leave health Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah sure sure, Oh yeah yeah, I'm walking out here.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
At the end, right, I paid for this.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Matt Damon's Matt Damon's the only one walking out of
this movie?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Is this another spoiler alert?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh, come on, we've been out a long time now.
Well you could say that about every movie. I'm not
asking you to give away the ending of Psycho either.
Not everybody you've seen every every movie. Okay, okay, contagent,
if you if you ever wanted to see movie where
a lot of a listers just fall by the wayside,
like that's contained. Again, well that's that happened. But it's
a movie about a big global pandemic and and a
(12:09):
lot of I mean, it's like, I mean, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Mean any of the stars immediately necessarily this.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You know, you got he's gotta be some kind of
accountabil you know, it's got something. I mean, I gotta say,
like in the beginner.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Maybe Jimmy Kimmel was executive producer, and so David. But
where's the scene when I can kill off Kimmel's character?
Where's that scene? I'm gonna call He's not in the movie. No,
we're putting him in just so we can do that. Yeah,
but we have Gwyneth Paltrow. No, no, no, no, we
have Kate Winsley. No, no, no, where's Kimmel. I'm gonna
kill Kimel in every scene. It's like killing Kenny in
(12:39):
South Park. We're gonna kill him in every He's gonna
be a different guy in every single scene. That's how
it's gonna go. Uh So, well from we got more
from Tracy Moore. Waits talking, he's got more from Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Go ahead, exit, How about a fresca?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
You know, it's dinner.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'm somewhere in the world it is it is it
in Uh hopefully not not for you with this.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
See, I was going to tell you.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Coming up shortly, it's dinner time for the Cubs and
Dodgers as they get ready.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I was at Yeah, I was actually going to tell
a story of time about what one time when I
had to as a as a sophomore, sophomore sophomore, Yes,
I was forced to clean up the men's room on
my floor.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Uh we're talking college there.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because I got sick after
a Friday Saturday night. And normally like that what happen
and you would call and some day come up and
clean and the uh, well, you know what, Okay, I'll
tell the story real quick now. So I got sick
coming back from happy hour or something and a friend
and I got sick, and I got sick in the bathroom.
And normally when it would happen, you would call, they
would come and do it. But apparently there was such
a rash of it happening that the person whose job
(13:47):
was said I'm not doing it, and and and the
person can put a note on the on the on
the door to the bathroom that said, hey, stone or brains.
I still remember, hey, stone or brains, clean up your
own mess. Not my job to do it. And I
was like, oh, man, so of course nobody knew, and
nobody knew it was me. I could tell the story
now nobody knew it was me, and like nobody wanted
to use that bathrooms. You went and it smelled terribly,
(14:08):
and I'm going, I don't know what to do. So
the next day, like twenty four hours later, it was
still awful. Everybody on the floor was talking about it,
and I just said, I'll go in and do it.
So I go and I take a couple of T
shirts and I clean it up and I throw the stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Away and one of those pine scented felt Christmas trees
you put in the car.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It was it was awful, like it was terrible, and
I did the stupidest thing. I'm like, well, I'm gonna wash.
I should have just thrown the T shirts away, but
I threw one in the watching machines and tried to
watch it, and of course that overloaded the watching machine.
The watching machine had to be fixed. But I cleaned
up the bathroom. Right, So here's the thing. Because nobody
knew it was me, they all thought I was a hero. Hey,
thanks for going into clear bytes. I said, oh, you know,
(14:45):
that does happen in life.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Sometimes I had to do yeah, create the problem, fixed
the problem, considered hero for the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I looked like I was like, hey, thanks, Hey, that
was really nice. You man, Yeah, no, probably yea. I
want to you know, somebody had to do it, so
you know, why not me? Why that mean nobody knew.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It was me?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It was that look like a hero. And then then
I ruined the washing machine. So there's that exit. How
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we're still waiting on Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson, who
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for what's happening.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Man, were waiting, I'm not waiting. I'm not even sure
how much these teams are waiting all.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Do you think are we gonna like, are Rogers and
Wilson gonna sign before August first?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Like?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I just want to make sure that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That'll happen, I think so okay, I probably okay, at
least to one of them.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
At least one of them, you know, the whole thing
with Rogers, right, And this is where I can't wait.
I really want Rogers to go to the Vikings just
so I can laugh at Vikings fans that got all
mad at me last week. If this is the team
he's waiting for, you're really telling me the Vikings decided
we're gonna just let Sam Donald walk because we love
JJ McCarthy, But oh no, we're gonna bring in Aaron
(18:18):
Rodgers to start this year instead of JJ McCarthy, Like,
and what world does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I mean it doesn't. It doesn't, especially when you know
they could have transitioned Donald and probably just got to
wait with it that way, when you really looked at
what Seattle did. Excuse me, I mean, that's kind of
what they did, and so I don't know that somebody's
putting together an offer sheet if Minnesota just puts a
(18:46):
transition tag on Sam Donald, which is what some other
general managers thought they would do. But like, I don't
like there's this narrative out there that like this guy's
walking the beach, you know, like kung Fu, and everybody's
just waiting on him. I mean, like nine of every
(19:07):
ten people are going to get that reference. But whatever,
David Keriedy, I just don't think that's necessarily what the
scenario is. I think these teams have made it clear
where their price points are, and there's not any like
there's no mystery here and he's either going to take
it or he's or he's not, or maybe they come
up with something a little more creative and see if
(19:28):
these teams are interested. But I don't really, you know,
I don't think it's oh, he's holding everything up, but
people just waiting to hear from now. I mean, I
think he's got to decide, I guess if he wants
to play, but what's out there? But there's nothing precluding
these teams from Yank can get off the table or
just going in another direction. So you know, Jameis Winston's
(19:49):
still out there. There's still the potential specter of a
cousin's trade. I don't care about the contractual stuff there.
You don't want to have him there unhappy with the
young quarterback who needs to play, and sometimes you got
to eat some money in order to make you a
more football trade to get more in return. So I
don't think these teams are sitting there like, oh my god,
(20:10):
it's Aaron. You know it's Aaron Rodgers or bust. If
any of these teams really wanted him, he'd be in Pittsburgh,
or he'd be in with the Giants, or he'd be
with Minnesota. I mean, if somebody was really courting him
and wouling him, I don't think. Well, maybe he'd still
appeal on the beach or being the Jung rule or whatever,
(20:30):
but he'd be doing it with an NFL contract At
the back part.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Jason keeping the theme of Aaron Rodgers, I personally am
in the dark about the Bengals signings. Congratulations quarterback, two
star wide receivers signed. They missed the playoffs by a
game with them. Your thoughts on the offense and how
they've shaped things in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well, I do get a little kick out of people
applauding them for doing this. They could have did this
to your Higgins a year three and Chace that to
year three and gotten them both much cheaper and had
wouldn't have to be doing it all at once and
wouldn't have to be blowing up this much of their cap.
They could have done it before, you know, or at
(21:09):
least concurrently with Higgins in terms of the Joe Burrow deal. Like,
they could have staggered things and structured things differently. So,
I mean, it's great that Mike Brown's spending money, but
they you know, don't tell how many games last year
they scored twenty eight points a more and lost anyway,
And they haven't drafted that well. And to think that
(21:30):
they're going to fix their defense, all three levels of
it in the draft, I think is a bit naive.
And I don't think Trey Henderson's going to fit into
this thing. And they're going to need draft picks. I mean,
they're going to need additional draft capital because of the
lack of talent, the lack of difference makers on the
(21:52):
defensive side of the ball, and like, I mean, they're
in a conference that's loaded with either exceptional offensive head
coaches or generational quarterbacks or in some cases bothoth So
you got to the dirty little secret about the year
(22:12):
they went to the super Bowl, they had the best
second half defense in the NFL. Go look what lou
Ana Rumo was doing through halftime on against the lead offenses.
He was shutting them down. That was really sort of
the catapult for them. I don't think they're anywhere near
a below average defense, let alone a league average one.
(22:34):
So it's it's going to be interesting, but thirty five
points is not necessarily going to be enough for them
depending on the opponent.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
See, I look at it this way, Joe.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I felt like this was Joe Burrow flexing and making sure, Hey,
you got to keep me happy if you want me
to stay in a couple of years, because.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Two years ago, I mean I should like he's always plans.
Just listen to him. And he said, like I'm not
even knocking him, Like, hey, this guy, we could restructure this.
We can move this paragraph five around. I mean he's
given like he's going on podcast and given detail, you know,
explanations of what they're all season could entail the problem
is you probably should have started putting the sheet on
more before last year.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Jason Locking Forward with us, Jason Smith, Steve Disaga, Fox
Sports Radio. All right, so we go to the other
big signing of this weekend and Cooper Cup goes to
the Seahawks, and I, okay, I get that he was
gonna end up somewhere good.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I didn't think he was going to get that kind
of money.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And I'm kind of scratching my head Jay, because I go, Okay,
So the Seahawks, they got rid of Gino Smith, they
brought in Sam darn Okay, great, uh, but they get
rid of DK Metcalf. Okay, now they're bringing in Cooper Cup. Like,
are they going for it?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Are they not?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Are they just rearranging a living room furniture here? Like
thee I'm trying to get what they're doing, and let's
just just hey, do something, even.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
If it's wrong. Like that's kind of what I get
the Seahawks trying to do.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I get the quarterback saying, you know, look, they've done
a good job drafting a lot of receivers. Now this
is not a generation a lot of receiver draft by
any stretch of the imagination, but you know, there may
be some guys they right there. I have concerns about
how much Cooper Cups has left in the tank. I
(24:23):
do understand how he would fit the offense that they're
trying to put together, and he can help teach it
to other people and all that. I mean, I still't
think they're the second best team in that division, and
I think they will have a chance to get in
the playoffs if Mike McDonald can meet his part of
(24:44):
the assignment, which is rats at that defense up another
level or so and get you know, get them playing
with a little more bite, get them turning people over
a little bit more, you know, ramp up a pass
rush because that's the side of the ball, and that's
you know, why he got that job as early in
(25:07):
his career as he did. And if those things happened,
you know, I don't I don't think the offense is
going to have to be generational to at least make
the postseason. And what I still think is an inferior conference.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Got to ask about the Ravens. Therefore, we have the
Baltimore guy on the air, the most recent in the
backup quarterback signing. But this is still such a good team,
is it not? What's it going to take to punch through?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
They could use another pass rusher, Like I'm surprised that
they're not taking flyers on somebody like a Jizo July
for four million dollars, or you know, maybe they didn't
get in on you know, not getting in on somebody
like foul or like I mean to think Kyle van
Noy is going to do what he's done again. Dafay
(25:55):
always an edge defender. I don't really think of him
as a pass rusher, a natural pass rush or he's
never really morphed into that. He'll get some sacks, usually
in bunches against really inferior tackles. I think if you
look at their defense in the playoffs, it has not
produced turning like Lamar Jackson's never played in games whereas
defense produced turnovers for him, where his defense has you know,
(26:16):
produced more sacks than the Ravens have given up. Like
they've just been sort of tepid and a little bit
buffish at times, and that's part of a cutting edge
that they've lacked. But I mean, I love the Cooper
rush booth getting Ronnie Stanley back at the price point
they got him back at as huge, But I do
wonder about do they have dudes like they've got scheme
(26:40):
and Chuck Pagano will help with that, but I just
don't know if they've got dudes who you know, up
front win games for you. They got to get out
of BK back in top for him, but like you know,
he doesn't really have a running mate. It wouldn't shock
me if they brought Kalays Campbell back. And I just
don't think they have individuals on the end to make
(27:01):
you worry about chipping them or doing something extra to
defend them.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
He's on Twitter at Jason locking for that is at
Jason lock and for As always check him out on
Odyssey Washington Post one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore.
Jay is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We'll talk to you next week. I have a great one.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Always my pleasure. Thank you.
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the Bengals, Like, you know, you can pay one receiver
that kind of money, it's really tough to be if
two guys.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
This is a salary cap league steal. Even though the
Cats keeps going up.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I mean, who's the last team that did Oh the Jets. Oh,
and how did they do?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Let's see all that really did work? But I feel
like this was it really was. This was Burrow.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
This was done to appease him because the Bengals know
he's the best shot. We haven't winning anything ever. Burrow
is just that good, and yes, you got to keep
them healthy, but now you see good, you got to
keep them happy.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
He's one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL,
no no doubt. And overall what he does he makes
everybody better is he is just that good. But you
got to keep him happy. And you've heard in the
last couple of years, hey, we should do this, we
should do this, And what have you seen with the Bengals.
Now it's almost like he's had a Caitlin Clark like
effect on the Bengals, where all of a sudden, Kaitlyn
Clark shows up in the WNBA and it's, oh, hey,
(28:26):
guess what, Oh, she's taking commercial flight next week. No
more commercial flights, right, everybody. Everybody's flying charter.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
This is for all the teams. Oh, look at the
money that is now we're making television revenue. It's in
the billions of dollars. Now, all this stuff Kaitlyn Clark's
done for the WNBA, it's like what Joe Burrow's done
for the Bengals. Oh, we don't have a we don't
have our own practice facility.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Hey, we're got our.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Own practice facility. Ay, we need to keep stars. Hey,
we're going to keep the Star. It's like cause he's
had that out. Hey a couple of years. When his
contract is up, there'll be thirty two, and he's one
of those guys that I can easily see him saying, dude,
I bought the batmobile. Man, I don't care what to do.
I'll make more money at some point. Yeah, I will
hit free agency at thirty two and go somewhere and
make three hundred million dollars. So like, I feel like
(29:07):
this is what it's done. This is not a reflection
on Brown or Chase or Higgins, who should be thanking
Joe Burrow, but this is him exercising his and flexing
his muscles that you want to make sure you keep
me happy. So I'm a quarterback here past another two
years from now, and so I can be the court
until I'm thirty six, thirty seven.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
But the bat signal spotlight in the sky should have
been for offensive linemen. Congratulations, you have two star receivers back.
But Joe Burrow My first reaction, while some people were saying, hey,
they're getting paid great, and my first reaction is, oh,
so Joe Burrow is gonna get sacked fifty times this
season still, but.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I can sell it. That's where it could be an
offensive coordinator. He lines up in the gun and a
lot of quick slants quickly becomes Tom Brady just quick
slants like you know, you know, I mean, not like
unlike the Bears last year at the end where I
think where I think that Caleb Williams was getting hit
before he got the ball, like as long as you
get that snapped. But he can throw that slant really quick, right,
really good. No one's gonna get in on him. You
throw that slant, dot Fan, just throw a slant. Every
(30:03):
single play was about a five.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Hundred quarterback with the Bengals. Last couple of years, despite
his talent, despite his stats, because I felt like I
was watching the Brandon Stay Chargers all over again, where
if Justin Herbert didn't score thirty points, they weren't winning.
And that was the Bengals season. Last year they missed
the playoffs by one game.
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Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's Steve Disager, you know.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
You know that last part. There are so many jokes
to come back with, but I will move on to
the NBA score board because we are going overtime at Houston.
The Rockets have won sixth straight. They are tied with
Philadelphia one thirty one to one thirty one. You may
have heard today that Paul George of Philly is officially
out for the year after injections in his ductor and knee.
(31:15):
Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxi is out again tonight with finger and
back injuries, missing an eight straight game. So Quentin Grimes
has forty points as we head toward the OT at
Minnesota five seconds left. That game is tied Timberwolves even
at one seventeen with the Pacers, who are missing Tyrese
Halliburton tonight out with a sore back. Anthony Edwards of
(31:36):
Minnesota with thirty points. He was named Player of the
Week in the West today the Bulls Kobe White won
Player of the Week in the East, and the Bulls
are leading seventy four to sixty eight at Utah with
four minutes left in the third. The Utah Jazz have
lost nine games in a row. And then we've got
the late games, and there are plenty of them underway,
including Denver leading at Golden State twenty four twenty two
(31:58):
with under a minute and a half to go. So
in the first quarter, Denver's Nicola Jokic is out with
an elbow injury. Jamal Murray out with an ankle injury.
The late game just getting underway. It's the Lakers hosting
San Antonio. Jaylen Brown of the Celtics is out Tuesday
with backspasms. NHL Tampa Bay at two to nothing winner
at home against Philadelphia Buffalo in overtime. One at Boston
(32:19):
three to two Twins. Third baseman royce Lewis will miss
opening day with a strained hamstring. Paul Skeens had the
Pirates win today at Spring Training in a four to
two victory over Minnesota's. He had seven strikeouts in four
and two third innings. Rory McElroy won the players in
a playoff, easily beating JJ spawn And you mentioned the
Caitlin Clark effect. As we head toward the start of
(32:42):
the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments this week, the
women's teams will finally earn money for winning games in
the NCAA tournament this year, just as the men have
four years. A team that reaches the women's Final four
could be bringing its conference about one point two million
dollars now over the next three years in financial performance rewards.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Back to you.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
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(33:27):
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speaking of give you my final four picks, my official
final four picks, and my national champion. If You've listened
to the show, you kind of know where I'm going.
Am I gonna change my mind? Aquad Man Jason, you
know Syracuse is not all no no, no, no no,
(33:48):
it's it's okay, yeah to know this. And they're not
eligible for any tournament. Like, there's not one tournament that's
gonna take them, not anyone, not the CBI, the New
Fox Crown, not even CBI, which the hell w U
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(34:09):
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Speaker 2 (34:14):
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
This is like the official song of Saint John's Fox
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Speaker 4 (34:53):
R J.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Lewis, Cadery Richmond, gonna wear my white suit every night.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I let the Catada bag on this Steve to Saga
about a month and a half ago. But I said, listen,
they're the best team in the country, are they?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
They have everything you need to navigate March. You have
one of the top three defenses in the Hall college basketball.
You have the biggiest player of the year in r. J.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Lewis. You have two.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Incredibly talented guards. Caldari Richmond is fantastic, dave On Smith
as long as he's healthy.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
If you're talking about Saint John's, I'm not sure about
that top three defense, but I'm telling now you look
there there, he's got a defense.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Hennessey to Houston's got a defense. No, well, who plays defense.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Well, you'll see my official Final four picks. You see
where the defensive efficiencies are. But Saint John's is number
two in the country and offensively they got every they
they have the strong guard play to navigate March. Candarry
Richmond's a triple double threat. Now I miss him at Syracuse.
Can't believe they let him leave. But anyway, Lewis is great. Oh,
we gotta score it. Lewis is the guy like this
team has everything you need and a guy it's navigated
(36:00):
March many times before. This could be his fourth team
in the Final four, right, this is it's something that's
really unprecedented. You can like or hate Rick Patino, and
I'm with you on that.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Coaches didn't used to bounce around quite like this.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
No, no, no, but overall.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Like you know, look, Saint John's the team I grew up,
I grew up watched. I haven't been this good in
forty years. And you know, for them to be a
two seed is kind of a slap in the face.
So for me to be a little worried that boy,
they've been so good for so long, been kind of
a machine here they are not, I think getting that
two seeds a little bit of a slow.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
We're really we're a two seed right when the big East.
Oh we're a two seed. Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
You sound like the women's coach.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
We'll say, well, well that everybody on the women's side
of the bracket. But we'll get to that next out.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
By the way, slap in the face. Duke is not
the number one overall seed. No, no, I look, I know,
I know they're being punished for their conference.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I don't know, but if I think if they knew,
if you knew the health of Cooper Flag, I think
you probably would be the number one overall.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
So the committee is not believing Duke when they purposely
made a point to tell the committee he's playing. I'm playing.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Our star is going to be there did he.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Play the rest of How much money do you have
on Duke? Like this seems a bobby like you did
you bet on Duke?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Like no, No, I'm just saying as a news guy
when you see, Hey, the final polls are out and
Auburn slips to number four in the country, but they
are the number one overall seed of the four to
one seeds.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
But that's your championship game, Saint John's and Duke. That
is my official champion. That's we're going to see. We're
going to see an incredible Monday night. Cooper flag Rick, Patino,
white suits. They'll be playing seams from Italian restaurant. Oh,
it's gonna be fit out and not.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
A single game in the Eastern time zone for them
if they're gonna make that run because technically, and you know,
if you know the pod system, technically they're in the
West region. So yeah, that means the regionals are going
to be in the Bay Area in San Francisco. But okay,
but you know they got the Providence games. But I
need to say this again out loud more clearly, just
(37:58):
because you're in the region doesn't mean you play all
the games in the Eastern time zone. So like the
coaches they put in those Providence games this week, Blake Patino,
who used to coach at Providence, Okay, there's your Eastern
time zone I'm talking about. It's a it's an East
region or West region in name only. It just helps
us sort the teams, that's all.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, I mean, because it's not it's not where the game,
it's just this is where the region is, right And
by the way, yeah, everybody gets it. Everbody understands all
you're in the West region, you're going to be traveling,
you're in the East region. Doesn't mean you're playing. Hey,
we're playing at seven thirty. No, no, no, you're not playing.
You know you're not playing that.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Well, how about Auburn, which is I say again the
number one overall seed and they might have to be
playing Louisville in the second round this week, and the
Louisville games this week are in Lexington Rifle, Kentucky's arena.
Louisville of course not terribly far from Lexington. So I
want to see an Auburn Louisville matchup this coming weekend
(38:59):
with the one seed overall as a road team, that's possible.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
See and and I think what you're gonna see is,
because it's that kind of year, all of Rick Patino's
former teams are going to win as well. So Louisville's
gonna make it through Kentucky's. Can you imagine that that
that's your final four? You got yeah, Patino and then
you have Kentucky, Louisville and Duke, Like like, that's what
the final four?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
It's all it's all Patino. It's an all Patino final four.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Duke, Well, Duke's gonna get there.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, I mean there's there's nobody else in that region
though that I can, I can. I can link to him,
though my internet's a little slow here. Steve Jason, what
what time is the Syracuse game? It's not Syracuse play.
Syracuse plays at nver o'clock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll find it.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
Are they going to be in the Crown? Uh no.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I mean if we were five hundred, weed to made it,
but I mean we can't. I mean, we were that bad.
You need to hang a banner that says that we
have hanging band next time. We finished over five hundreds.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
You see, Irvine is a one seed in the n
I T Yeah, you saw Irving's a great, a pretty
good school. They were a game behind. You see San
Diego for the Big West. You see San Diego which
made the NCAA Tournament the first year it was eligible.
They're men's and women's teams. Did that had never happened
before in first year of eligibility in your athletic department.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Now, I mean, look, it's it's gonna be a really
fun tournament because I think many people just have no
idea how it's gonna play out with a lot of teams,
because the parody is really there this year.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Even the CBI tournament, when you get that army game
opening against Elon, I have no clue how that's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Well, Elon's just gonna lay off everybody an army and
that's how they're gonna win. They're gonna win everything that cuts.
We're gonna right before the game, they lay everybody off.
You're fired. You only get to play the game if
you answer an email about what you did last weekend.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Please televise that game and tell me that fans are
going and going with signs. That's gonna write itself.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
But I'll give you Saint John's Duke, Michigan State, and Tennessee.
There's my final four shout out to Peter the ant Eater.
Uh sure, sure, it's gonna be fine. Hey, you see
your fighting to be great.
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