July 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Steve DeSaegher celebrate the 15th anniversary of the decision. Kirk Cousins felt misled by the Atlanta Falcons. And Shohei Ohtani's 31st homer sets a new franchise record for most home runs before the All-Star break!
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This is a no Hobo week now right, It's a
no Hobo week, ty shirt, no Hobo week, no hobo
week at all. Right, It's right no hobe to say
no week means I'm here all week. I mean, wow,
Are you sure about that? Yes? Okay, it's making sure. Okay,
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let's making sure because usually say, I'll be here every day,
and then the next two days you miss. Yeah, but
then I remember I got to see you something. Hey, Hey,
I'm the best part of your day. Are you kidding?
What do you want to see other people when you
come in here? Come on, man, I'm happy with Steve's here.
You don't want That's all my It's why it's a
no Hobo day. It's no Hobo day, No no hobo.
Uh So, hey, big day in the NFL. Quarterback is
(01:28):
back and who knew we missed that show so much?
But it's not often that a big anniversary just stands
out so much in the world of sports. But you know, look,
it's it's a it's a thing, uh that fifteen years
ago today, you know, all of us who were old enough,
we all remember where we were, We all remember what
(01:50):
we saw, we all remember seeing And I don't know
that I feel like this is a hot take, but
I don't know that really is Steve is that I
think this is the biggest moment in basketball for the
last twenty five years. You want to go back to
two thousand, This has been the biggest moment for basketball
the last twenty five year, which is kind of nice,
saying in twenty twenty five, you can look back to
a nice round number of two thousand, like, hey, this
(02:12):
is the biggest story, the biggest thing the NBA has
had in the last twenty five years. And it was
summer of twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Lebron James was, to say the least a known quantity
in high school and congratulations for the Cabs not blowing
it in the standings and still.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Being able to draft him.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It was looking a little dicey there for a little bit,
and the question was was he going to decide to
stay in Ohio or decide to go elsewhere. It's kind
of like, I think it's Martin Weiss on our airwave
says a lot of these draft like the NBA draft recently,
this really could have been done in a memo. But okay, fine,
you're having the I mean, people hockey fans left and
(02:50):
right across the continent complained about TEA draft show this
year that man, this is taking a long Would you
just announced the next name?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Ready, Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
In this announcement it took, as I recall, it was
sixty to ninety minutes, it was an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It was an hour and it was. It was an
incredible day. Look, the night turned out to be not
great for Lebron James. Right, we know this, right, you
see how it is aged. You see how the decision
is aged. And it turned out to be not great
for him. But it was an incredible moment for basketball
and the decision which turns fifteen today. There's been no
(03:28):
bigger event in the NBA the last twenty five years.
And when Jim Gray, finally, after an hour hour plus
of sitting in front of a bunch of kids from
the Boys and Girls Club, finally asked the question that
Lebron James was going.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
To answer to, the biggest play just gets hit, the
ball is loose and it's alive.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, I know, I think. I think in the NFL
that's up there, last twenty five years, that's up there.
But in the NBA, which is basketball. Oh yeah, this
fifteen years ago tonight the answer to the question. Everybody
wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And this fall, man, this is very tough, and this
fall I'm gonna take my town as to Sava Beach
and joining Miami Heat.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Miami Heat, that was a conclusion. You woke up with
this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So there was after it, and you know, so no
one really clapped like, whoa, no going to.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The he get more cheers at some high school or
picking a college. Oh that's on a hat.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, just think about it for a second, right,
Because I heard this was in the you know, the
middle of my first run at ESPN, I could peel
back the curtain and tell you, I'll tell you a
great story about the decision.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
By the way, this clip that we just played of that,
I honestly thought they were gonna go to the clip
of Jim Gray so you still bite your nails.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I thought highlight of the I thought we were
gonna get the fail Mary on Thanksgiving Day from last
year of the Jets Dolphins. But it was this, This
is champions come and go, big players, come and go.
This story this stopped time. Here's Lebron James, the best
player that we had seen, a guy we want to
(05:07):
fill the void for Michael Jordan, a guy who has
been so incredibly polarizing his entire career. We didn't talk like, yeah,
Jordan was around before social media, but he still was
a dominant conversation piece. But sports talk radio really didn't
start blowing up until the late nineties early two thousands.
By this time, Michael Jordan was at the end of
his career. You had sports talk radio on the weekends
(05:29):
in the early nineties, it wasn't really every ESPN radio
was only on the weekends at that point, so he
really hadn't had that exploded. Jordan really got to survive
and thrive in an era in which his every move
wasn't documented. Lebron James was the first big star of
that era. And when he said I'm gonna become a
free agent, I'm going to decide where to go, that
(05:51):
was the dominant story. Every day was something new he
visited with all the different teams and every day, well today,
the Knicks showing up to their presentation to Lebron James
and Donnie Nelson, I think who was who was running
the next of the time, had like you know, broken
his his uh uh ankle or something had to be
wheelded in a wheelchair to give the presentation to the
(06:14):
to Lebron and his TA wheelchair. Paul Pierce. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no no no no, this was this is like he
had to be wheeled in and he saw teams and
they were and every every day it was how did
this meeting go? How did this presentation go? And there
were rumors that hey, he didn't really he was kind
of tuned out during the Knicks because it was the
same type of presentation that the Nets had for him,
and and everywhere he is doing his Shoudur Sanders impersonation.
(06:38):
Everywhere you looked, it was where is Lebron going to go?
And it got dragged out and there was no story
that stopped time more than this, again, biggest thing the NBA,
because we're still talking about this big situation fifteen years later.
I mean, yes, when Lebron is still playing, he's still
playing really well. He's still someone who was pushing the
conversation forward. He's still the guy we talk about the
(07:01):
most in the NBA. There has been no bigger moment
and fallout than what we had with the decision. Because
after Lebron made his decision, he became public enemy number one.
He left his hometown team. How do you leave? How
do you leave Cleveland to go play someplace else? Well,
because he got together with Dwayne Wade, and Chris Botch
the Olympics. Wouldn't it be cool if we all played together? Yeah,
where do you want to play? And Dwayne Wade said, well,
(07:21):
we got the salary cap room on my team. Okay,
we'll go to the heat. Like it was that simple,
Like it was that the pat Riley gets all this
credit for. Hey, we but no, they walked into your officead, hey,
we all want to play here together. Let's make it work. Oh,
we'll just cut everybody, sign you three and then that's
what we'll have going forward. But this was, I mean, really,
there's been no bigger moment. We won't talk about Steph
and their and their championships, Lebron chased down Block, we
(07:43):
won't talk about the Lakers back to back championships, the
back to back Lakers Celtics finals, nothing as much as
the decision, because all these other stories were big. But
this the world ceased to exist when it was what
is Lebron going to pick? Where is he going to go?
And I'll tell you this, Steven A. Smith had it
(08:03):
and we didn't go with it at ESPN. Okay, now
you got to go back to the time. This is,
this is fifteen years ago. This is twenty ten, and
Stephen A. Smith wasn't quite the person he the personality
he is now. You mean he was more respected here
he was Yeah, well he was still an NBA insider,
but he was making he made the twist to go
to the turn to be a more personality driven at
(08:24):
ESPN in first take. So when he would have something,
it wasn't always oh, here's a big insider, like it
wasn't like woj Or Shams or Jay Glazer, Adam Scheft
or was Steino Stephen He's got this. And every day
leading up to this, for like a week and a half,
there was a different so and so is reporting Lebron's
gonna go here, right, like, hey, Lebron's gonna go to
(08:46):
the Lebron's gonna go to Cleveland, Lebron's gonna go Lebron's
gonna go to Dallas, Lebron's gonna go to the Lakers.
Lebron's gonna go to the Knicks. Like there was I
can't tell you how many different reports there were by
so many different outlets. And then like about I think
a half a day before or a day and a
half before the special, like he had it and he
was saying he's going to the heat. He's going to
(09:06):
the heat. I I got this, He's going to the heat.
But because it was so crazy, like, we didn't report
that as ESPN. Like normally, if an insider comes out
and Adam Schefter says, hey, so and so is getting traded,
the report is never well, if the report is true.
When Adam Schefter is right, it's oh hey, Adam Schefter
says this is happening, this is going on. When Jay
Glazer says this goes down, it's okay, this is happening.
(09:28):
We treat that as it's a breaking news story. But
like he said, he kept saying, it's the heat. I
got it. It's the heat. It's the heat. And I
remember coming into work every night, you know, everyone going, okay,
new stuff. Is there anything that we're reporting, And the
last couple of nights coming in, it's and I remember
I remember saying to my producer saying, hey, Stephen A. Smith,
he's pretty seems pretty certain that it's the heat, and
(09:49):
they said, yeah, but we're not reporting it. We're not
reporting it as fact. It's just we're just you want
to mention it when you talk about it, but we're
not reporting it, So I don't know what kind of
battle there went there there went on, but he could
have had the the biggest scoop in the history of
sports baseline. You look back and hey, schefter getting the
Andrew Luck retiring thing, Wow, what a big deal. If
he had Lebron a day and a half before the decision,
(10:11):
that would have been the biggest scoop ever. But it
was just ESPN didn't go with it as an official
thing for whatever reason. I didn't ask about I just said, Okay,
we're not going, but I'm going to talk about it
and say Stephen A. Smith, if he goes to the heat, X, Y,
and Z, and my producers and the managers all said, yeah,
that's fine, go with that as long as you say,
this is what Steven A. Smith says. If if and
you leave it out there now. I don't know if
(10:33):
part of it was they didn't want to go with
it because here's the special that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Air, which they didn't own, right, Jim, we didn't want
to work for ESPN at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So I don't know if there was kind of a
decision where, hey, this is a big day for basketball,
we're not going to report this because you know it's
a big deal and we're taking the wind out of
the sales because there's a special that's coming up. Or
if it was just we don't want to say this
and get it wrong, because if we say this and
get it wrong, then we make an enemy of making
end of his new team and it becomes a whole
big thing.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I think Chris Brusard the day of had mentioned it,
but you talked about what a huge deal it was here.
This anniversary is July the eighth. July first is when
free agency starts. Yeah, so it's to say the least
had build up by the time the actual TV show
the Decision starts up.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
There were teams that were saying, we have to pull
out because if he doesn't come to us, we're stuck
because other free agents were getting signed. I wish I
could go back to that. That probably two or three
week span. We got to the end of the NBA
season and Lebron was was going to be a free
agent and and was gonna be Lebron sweepstakes like that
(11:39):
entire run. I can't even tell you how every day
was filled with energy and confusion and excitement, and it
was I could still feel. I still remember the energy
of that story and Neil, I think back. I still
remember the energy of big plays in the NBA finals.
I remember big, big draft picks going on in the NBA.
Maybe Cooper Flagg getting drafted will be a big deal
(11:59):
one day, but there's not been anything bigger in the
NBA the last twenty five years. And the decision and
so much that has fallen off of it and come
out of it the last few years because nobody's ever
done that again because they saw a boy Lebron really
made himself put himself into a corner there with with
this whole decision thing because it didn't go over how
he thought it was gonna go over. So now nobody
does something like that anymore. No one's going to try
(12:21):
to do it. But still the impact of that that
here's a here's a player who can now take all
the empowerment away from from other teams and and and
say I'm gonna grab this for myself and I'm going
to have a special and I'm going to say where
I'm going to go, and I'm going to take ownership
of my career and my brand and everything else like
this was. This was such a such a a trendsetting
(12:46):
day in so many ways for the NBA, for NBA fans.
I mean, I can't imagine what it would have been
like without it. I mean, really, NBA, everybody else, you
know where you are. I remember where I was when
I saw it. I remember the big intake of breath
I had at my house when he's he's going to
the heat, He's really going to the heat. I think
even Jim Gray was surprised because Jim Gray said Miami heat,
(13:06):
like like like nobody said anything. So I wonder if
Jiff Jim Gray is thinking, Okay, nobody heard what you said.
So I'm gonna say Miami heat, Miami heat, Miami Okay.
So that's you woke up with this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's kind of a sixty minutes type follow up there.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, mind me, let's playing one would be a
little more. Please play one more time. You can hear
what I'm saying that Maybe because he said mat did
no one here because no one was applauding, no one
was clapping. One more time? T shirt. The answer to
the question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
In this fall?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Man?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It's very tough and this fall, I'm gonna take my
town's to South Beach and joining Miami Heat.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Miami Heat that you woke up with this morning. Yeah,
that was alike up this morning. Yeah, like two clocks. Yeah, hey,
but Miami show noise is it really is going to
be the heat, right, It's really is the heat. Okay,
it's it's going to be the Heat.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And by the way, part of the reason this is
so big in the year since is because what happened
with the Miami Heat. You referenced Chris Bosh he had
just joined this same offseason to Dwayne Wade in Miami.
Now you had the heatles, you had the big three
together and yes, four years and four times winning the
East and Lebron two time MVP in the league.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Out of those four years.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So it was the follow up of always winning the
Eastern Conference Miami of you know what really cemented this
being a big story.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It was big in and of itself for that summer,
but now we look back on.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
The long two decade career of Lebron and there's proper context.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah. Really, I mean, tell me something that was bigger,
that had a bigger impact, that was bigger at the time. Yeah,
you could have the most watched Game seven of the
NBA Finals. Ever, it's not gonna be what this was
with everybody just waiting with Baita. I'm gonna watch this
show for an hour. You know, he's not going to
answer the question until like at least forty five or fifty.
It doesn't matter. I'm gonna watch for it just in case.
(15:04):
I'm gonna watch for an hour, Gonna make sure we
got it.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
One item before we break A's All Star shortstep. Jack
Wilson has just been hit by a pitch on the
hand and left the game against the Atlanta Braves. Oh
boy in the first inning.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Ooh boy, not good news. And the Mets have taken
the lead in extra innings at Baltimore. All right, we
have more on this coming up. Jason Smith Steve de
Sager in for Mike Harmon, happy fifteenth anniversary to the decision.
I guess it's apropos that on the fifteenth anniversary of
the decision, we have an NFL decision that one quarterback
(15:39):
probably would have done differently if he gets his chance.
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(17:08):
anniversary of the decision, and uh, I guess it's just
the Steve did this be the one year anniversary of
the Kirk Cousins decision. One year of the decision, he'd
probably do over.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I think there was a if there wasn't even a
six minute show for good sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Uh So Quarterback is back the Netflix show. And I'll
be quite honest with you, I didn't know how much
I missed this show until all of a sudden, bang
bang bang we got we got a host of stories
coming off this today with the first episodes and the
and the the teasers being released. Uh stuff with Kirk Cousins.
We'll get to the Joe Burrow crazy story coming up
(17:45):
in a few minutes. But you realize it. We're so
thirsty for NFL right now, Like this is okay, it's
we're just pass the fourth of July. Everybody had their vacations.
I'm there, I'm yeah. The bad news is all We're
gonna get it on his preseason. I need I need
at least the teams to be on the field together.
We're all like dying for it now and all of
(18:06):
a sudden, here comes quarterback, and we're like, oh, what
an unbud. Look, the the month of July on the
schedule is crying for incredible NFL content, right because we've
had enough of the off season. We had free agency,
into the draft, then into mini camps and then okay,
and now it's okay. Now it's away for a month.
(18:26):
I need I need something like it's it's it's the
arit it's the Gobi Desert of NFL programming. All of
a sudden, here comes quarterback to save us all. It's
like walking out walk finding an oasis, just jumping out
in the rain, like like Tim Robbinson shawshing when he
gets out for a sorry spoiler, when when he crawls
out through all the worst muck and filth you could
(18:48):
ever want to imagine, and the rain is just down.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And impression by the way he pulls the shirt off,
it was a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And he pulls his shirt off and the rain is
he's he's he's seeing the outside as a free man
for the first time. That's NFL fans, right, now, go
give us something and we get quarterback.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now, not all of us subscribe to what gave us Quarterback,
or today or last year for that matter. So I
have yet to and may never see an episode of Quarterback.
But the way you're framing it is the timing of
the release, not necessarily that it's better than any of
the HBO stuff that we've gotten over the years, because
(19:27):
they have in season HBO stuff, you know, with divisions.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So you're missing on Kirk Cousins, media star, you're missing
Kirk And you didn't know Kirk Cousins, who has a
has a room under the stairs like hand like that,
and he and he you know, he shops at Target
and and Coohle's and and and you know, Patagonia and
all these This is who Kirk Cousins is. He's down
home guy. He is it. Yes, And so now that
(19:50):
the new season is going to be chronicling Kirk Cousins
and and a couple of other quote including Joe Burrow,
but Cousins, who was such a big story in the
first Quarterback because we got the story of of what
he was like and how different he was and and
and look, Kirk Cousins kind of cut through the clutter
of oh, this is not how you expect a quarterback
to act right, you get you get the Mahomes. Okay, Mahomes,
(20:10):
that's great. You understand. Mahomes is the big superstars dealing
with things. Here's Marcus Mariota, who is trying to stay
a starting quarterback in the NFL, and it's about a journey.
It's kind of like a mini Hard Knocks. And here's
Kirk Cousins. Yeah, he's been good for a while, he's
got got paid a lot of money. Why is Kirk
Cousins so interesting? Oh? I get it, I get it.
Kirk Kirk Cousins is the guys. It seems like a
real regular, albeit eccentric, a little you know, kind of
(20:35):
weird dude, but kind of a little bit more down
to earth than you'd expect.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
This.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I mean, this is Kirk Cousins weird. He's he's like,
you know it, Kirk Cousins is kind of like the
friend you have that. Yeah, he's a good dude. He
says a couple of things once in a while, but
it's a good dude. Like that's kind of how you feel.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Even the head lies today of what he said in
the episode, I don't find terribly controversial.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well here's well, this is the one year anniversary of
the decision. So now Kirk Cousins, who was still a
member of the EU, well, I'm gonna get to everything
is gonna be the decision. Everything coming up. We got
Joe Burrow's decision with the batmobile. We got all these
things happen, the decision to walk Alonzo.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
If you boy, we're gonna get that some September game
and you're gonna have an anniversary for.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The Everything is a decision, the decision. So Cousins, who
is still backup quarterback with the Atlanta Falcons, the Falcons
have said, hey, we're gonna keep him rather than trade him.
He's valuable to us as a backup. Clearly nobody will
trade for Cousins with the contract that he has because
last year in the offseason, the Falcons gave him four years,
one hundred and sixty million dollars only to see him
(21:39):
watch them draft Michael Pennix Junior in the top ten
and then midway part of the season. Later part of
the season, Cousins is not playing well. He's dinged up
a little bit. He loses his job to Michael Pennick,
and we do relate that by the way he didn't
play well because of the shoulder he's not, so they
went and he lost his job. Now Michael Pennick Junior
is the president and the future, and Kirk Cousin is
(22:00):
a thirty plus million dollar a year backup. It is
not at all how he thought it was going to go,
not at all how the Falcons thought it was going
to go. But we'll have the good Falcons in the
second So here's Cousins. And this is the first big
thing coming off of the second season of quarterback is
that he says he felt the Falcons weren't really truthful
(22:22):
with me when they told me what their off season
plans were at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback and was
so high and at the time it felt like I
had been a little bit misled or certainly if I
had the information around freegency, it certainly would have affected
my decision. I had no reason to leave Minnesota with
how much we loved it there if both teams are
going to be drafting a quarterback high. But I've also
(22:48):
learned in twelve years in this league that if you're
not entitled anything, it's all about being able to earn
your spot and fo yourself sarre.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He was saying he was misled by the Falcons who said, yeah,
we're going to take a quarterback. But here they are.
Michael Pennick Junior is there. They take him in the
top ten. Now this is where Isaac when you think
I'm gonna zach? He felt misled. He felt misled, well,
and who knows what they told him. They may said, yeah,
we're gonna take a quarterback, but don't worry about it.
You're we just gave you four years, one hundred and
sixty million dollars, right, they gave more money this offseason.
(23:17):
He's still on the team. What are you worrying about? Man,
what are you really worried about? What do you think
you're gonna do? Draft a guy in the top ten
because he's event go on, We're not gonna do oh wait,
except they absolutely did that. Yes, what would have been
a better thing, right, This would have been a better
thing and a more apropos thing for the kirk Cousins
to say, hey, how'd you feel about about Falcons?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Instead of saying, well, I felt misled by the Falcons
a little bit. I would have said I didn't think
the Falcons would be that stupid, but here they are,
because honestly, who gives a who gives a quarterback four
years and one hundred and sixty million dollars in the
off season and then drafts a quarterback in the top ten?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Who does that?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'll tell you who does that? Nobody? No teams do that,
no one. It was stupid at the time, it's stupid now.
It was stupid a month after, it was stupid four
months after, and it's just gonna be more stupid as
time goes on. Either Kirk Cousins is your guy and
you went out to get him. Hey, four years, one
hundred and sixty million, this is our guy. Man, this
isna Oh but wait, but a quarterback's available, maybe we
(24:18):
should take him. This is like strategies that I see
teams using fantasy drafts and it screws up their team. Well,
I already have my homes. But oh, man, I'm telling you,
what do I do? Another quarterback is right here? Like
I do, I go on, I take Jalen Hurts. He's available.
I need another quarterback through the day. If I pass here,
I'll take Jalen Hurts. Why not, I'll take y'all like,
(24:39):
these are decisions that are made in the heat of
the moment in fantasy drafts. This is a decision. This
is a franchise altering decision. Now, I like either decision.
I like either one. I keep saying decision and decision.
I like going after Kirk Cousins. Just because Cousins got
hurt didn't work out, didn't mean it was a bad
call at the time, right, And it's not a no,
(24:59):
it's not He's not gonna be the quarterback unless something
happens to Michael PENNOCKX and it's the NFL. I also
like going in and taking Michael Pennix in the top ten.
I like, hey, Pennix has shown he could be special.
I wasn't the biggest Penix fan coming out of school,
but I'm not gonna say that, Hey, I didn't think
he could be a really good quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
So okay, he proved healthy. He's more mature than some
guy's coming out. Nobody not giving him a ten year contract.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Nobody does both of those things. Nobody, no team, not
even the Jets, do something like that. We thought the
Jets are gonna take shador Set. I said, oh my good,
they're gonna give Justin Fields his two year, forty million dollars,
We're still gonna draft a cooin. It's gonna happen. No, no,
why why do we draft a quarterback? We like Justin Fields.
He's our guy. He's come in and he's shown leadership
taking over. The Jets believe in him and at least intangibly,
(25:43):
that's working other teams the same way. No, we got
our guy. We're not gonna go crazy to go draft
Shador Sanders or some other quarterback or you know, we
couldn't get Cam Word. Okay, that's fine. We're not gonna
go crazy doing it. But the Falcons decided they would
do that. That's just stupid. It's just stupid. And before
you send it by saying people defend it by saying, yeah,
but no, you have a backup quote doesn't matter. You
(26:04):
know you're you have Michael Pennix Junior is on a
rookie deal. Yeah, just think about how great it would
be if you have your quarterback on a rookie deal
and you have that extra one hundred and twenty million
dollars that you could spend on other players to be better.
Think about that thirty million dollars that would go on
to Kirk Cousins this year, or the money you paid
him that could go to other big players that could
go to bring bring something else in that you need
(26:25):
offensively or defensively. Think about how that would work. Like
this made absolutely no sense at the time, and it
makes no sense a year later, and the Falcons are
absolutely stuck. I really this was a decision. I mean,
look and the Falcons again, decision, decision, decision, Like the
Falcons decision, Kirk Cousins would do that decision again. The
Falcons should say, yeah, we would do that decision over
(26:47):
again one hundred times out of one hundred. Right, either
you're going to get a quarterback in the draft or
you're going for Kirkcott. Nobody does both. And you see
how they're stuck right now. Because Cousins isn't going to
take less money. He's not gonna say, hey, I'm going
to take les cash and you're gonnay. He's gonna make
them cut him, pay him all the money that he's doing,
and then he'll go sign someplace else. He has been
(27:07):
a businessman from the beginning, right he he wanted a
big offer from the Jets the first time he was
a free agent because he wanted the Vikings to match it.
Vikings match it gave him all the all the money guaranteed,
and that changed things for quarterbacks forever. Guys are getting
fully guaranteed contracts. Now. He has been a great businessman.
Don't let the Target gear fool you. You know, he's
the guy that will show up in in you know,
(27:29):
Target or Champion Target Gear or Levi's or Lee or
Wrangler or whatever else some of the other styles they
have there. The good Fellow gear they have it at
Target now. Oh good Fellow is a big thing. It's
like a Polo knockoff, Ralph Lrond knockoff. Like don't he
will make sure that you are paying him every single
dime he deserves. The fact. It was stupid then, it's
(27:51):
stupid now. And now they're stuck, and they stuck as
a good word for it.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
They kind of had to pick up that ten million
dollar bonus in the spring when new NFL league year started.
We've got training camp starting in a few weeks. We've
got two quarterbacks going, but one is a declared starter,
and it's not the guy you're paying the most. They're
on the hook for so much salary well over twenty
five million dollars this year. That it's kind of like
(28:16):
what we talked about on last night show, How in
the world is Lebron James ever going to be traded?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Because he just opted in for a set.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Amount that's more than double the twenty five million by
the way, So who's going to pick up a large
portion of what the Falcons owe this year to Kirk
Cousins to make a trade possible. So it's looking more
and more like he stays as the backup. You let
an NFL season play out, and what do you know,
Quarterbacks get hurt, even good ones, even rookies, even top
(28:46):
ten selections. Kirk Cousins may be playing half the season
this year for all we know. They're in a corner
of their own doing. But it's not a bad thing
now that you've done that to keep him. I don't
I get that they're trying to, you know, paint a
rosy picture on this. Okay, well, maybe he plays.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You know, if Penix gets hurt, it's like, yeah, no,
you know, there's a reason why you're not paying your
backup quarterback thirty million dollars a year. Nobody does Again,
the Jets don't. The Raiders don't even do that. The Raiders.
The Raiders don't even do that. And they had a
guy they could have won a game last year. All
the quarterback had to do was take the snap from
center and they would have beat the Chiefs. But instead
of hit him in the helmet and he fumbled. Right,
(29:28):
the Raiders didn't. Even the Lions at their worst before
Jared Golf wouldn't do something like this. But the Falcons,
I really it was this. This was getting Michael Pennix
Junior is awesome. Right if he turns it, and it
doesn't matter if he turns out to be to be
bad or not. Right, the signing of Kirk Cousins at
the time, whether he's good or bad. Yeah, anybody would
have done it. Drafting Michael Pennix at the time, Yeah,
(29:50):
anybody would have done it. Nobody would have done both. Nobody,
No one, absolutely no one, not even if the Mets
played football, and before Steve Cohen bought the team, would
the Mets do that. No, not even close. Speaking of Mets,
not even the A's. They don't even have a home.
They wouldn't do something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
They're just the A's not the Sacramento as No, not
the West Sacramento as you mentioned the Mets.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yes, speaking of the Mets, you have some news about
the Mets Orioles game tonight. We shall lead with the Mets.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Game at Baltimore tonight because there was about a one
hour raind lay at the start. Eventually, in ten the
Mets beat the O's seven to six. Now the closer,
Edwin Diaz, pitched a scoreless ninth inning and then got
credit for the victory as Juan Soto had to go
ahead single in the tenth. The Mets hit two two
run homers in the eighth to come from six to
(30:42):
two down to a six to six tie. Francisco lindor
Pete Alonzo with the two long balls, and they were
long each over four hundred feet. Mets win seven to
six at Baltimore. Believe it or not, they're playing baseball
in Saint Louis. There was an even longer raindo lay
at the start there. And right now, bottom of the
second inning, we're past nine thirty in Missouri. Cardinals scoreless
(31:06):
with the Nationals end of two. Now they're in a
rain delay. In Chicago, White Sox may be facing defeat again.
Blue Jays lead six to one over the White Sox.
Rain delay in the top of the seventh. Minnesota was
a winner over the Cubs eight to one. Milwaukee beat
the Dodgers three to one. The Dodgers have lost five
in a row, and the winning pitcher for the Brewers,
Jacob Missarowski, allowed a lead off homer to Shoheo Tani
(31:28):
and then struck out twelve in his six innings. Kansas
City handed Pittsburgh a fifth straight loss, four to three.
The Yankees got an Aaron Judge homer, his thirty fourth,
and a ten to three win over Seattle gen Carlos
Stanton with a three run shot. Cal Raley of the
MS did hit his thirty sixth home run. Detroit won
its fifth straight game, four to two over Tampa Bay.
Boston won its fifth straight game, ten two against Colorado.
(31:51):
The Rockies record is twenty one and seventy one. I
would say the All Star Break can't get here soon enough,
but they still have to play months of games after
the All Star Break. They have twenty one wins and
the All Star Break comes up.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
After this weekend. Fifty games under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Goodness, not fifteen before the break fifty Miami a twelve
to two winner at Cincinnati Boy. The Marlins are getting
closer to the five hundred mark now as we approached
the break. Anthony Davis of the Mavericks reportedly at eye
surgery this offseason for a detached retina, but he's due
to be healthy for training camp in September. Two WNBA
games tonight, Washington beat Chicago eighty one seventy nine, although
(32:32):
Angel Rees had twenty two points fifteen rebounds, and it
was New York at home beating Las Vegas eighty seven
to seventy eight. Sabrina Yinescu with twenty eight points. By
the way, she was one of the early selections for
the All Star Game, which is coming up in Indianapolis
July nineteenth. The team captains Nafisa Collier and Caitlin Clark
(32:53):
had the draft of their rosters tonight. One of those
selected was Asia Wilson to Caitlin Clark's squad along with
you and Ask You, But Wilson, in her game for
Vegas tonight, left in the first half with a wrist
injury after a fall.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Didn't Caitlyn Clark draft Angel Rees first overall? Didn't that happen.
I thought I saw that somewhere, not in our dream
first pick. Hey, come on, did not happen. In fact,
she was taken very late in the draft.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Angel Reese a reserve taken by Team Nafisa Collier, I
did notice they switched to coaches. So Collie, your Minnesota
is going to get the Minnesota coach and we did have.
By the way, Caitlin Clark news today that she is
returning to the court tomorrow. She's missed five straight games
with a groin injury, and number one Arena Sablenka won
her Wimbledon quarter final in three sets.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Back to You, Maga, Steve O. The Jason Smith Show
is Steve de Saga and from Mike Harmon coming up next. Yes,
Kirk Cousin is not the only big quarterback making news
with Quarterback release on Netflix. Way do we tell you
what Joe Burrow had to say about the Batmobile? My
best advice I can give to the ultra rich. Coming
up next Fox Sports Radio. Don't avoid taxes, Well, pay
(34:04):
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avoid Yeah, don't avoid paying your taxes. Yeah yes. Wesley
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Speaker 5 (34:15):
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Quarterback is back on Netflix. NFL news is coming in.
We just broke down the Kirk Cousins decision decisions a
big decisions. But now Joe Burrow also gave us a
big story Tay with his decision. See Steve, everything's going
(35:07):
to be a decision today? Is it really? Everything's a decision?
Should it be? You made a decision to come into
work today, didn't you? I think we all did yeah,
and now you're thinking about doing that over again, just
like Kirk Cousins, just like Lebron James. Now we know
that Joe Burrow, who is a part of the subject
of this version of Quarterback which is airing on Netflix,
he was going to buy the Batmobile a few months ago. Now,
(35:29):
you know, one of the few Batmobiles that were on
sale like for you know that was well publicized. Yeah,
there was like I think there was like five or
seven of them, and they were like three million dollars each,
and he was going to buy it. Remember that there
was video of him a practice telling his front hey
you Hear'm gonna buy the Batmobile and buy the battle
to buy the Battlebile. Now he says on on Quarterback
that he decided against it after the big break in
(35:50):
that happened at his home a few months ago. Uh
he was not home. Yeah, and he wasn't home and
there was a break in, and he you know, now
he thinking, Okay, maybe I'm not gonna buy that because
maybe I have the Batmobile and and someone tries to
come in and steal it. They put on a they
put on a cape, and then you get in and
try to steal a battle.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Actually, this crime is something that you really need to
put the spotlight up in the air for and get
sure Man on.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, get Batman. Why but Batman can't get here?
Why because the batmobile was stolen. He got He's gonna
get in an uber and Batman will be here really
really soon. I mean it was members of a large
criminal network. It wasn't just your neighborhood guys breaking in.
It was a whole operation that investigated. I mean they
(36:38):
in a in a bad way. I want to say this.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Put the time in with the famous athletes, Burrow being
one of them, knowing he was going to be gone
that day, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
This is screaming Batman get involved. See and I'm thinking
of Batman getting in a way moo to try to
try to get someplace as a batmobile was stolen. He
gets in a weymo into the driverless cars. I'll make
a make a life tier. Mega left here, Mega left here.
There's no one in the car. There's no one in
the car like man. Maybe the batmobile was the first
way moo because it could drive without a drive.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You were kind of doing the Christian Bale automated voice yes,
maybe the way more voice should be Christian Bale.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yes, yes, Commissioner Gordon. No one's going to know it's me,
Bruce Wayne if I talk like this, But if I
do my normal voice, people will know it's a Batman.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So it's like when Superman puts on glasses his question,
we won't recognize him at all.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I don't know that guy, isn't all. I couldn't tell
you pirate Steve. Yeah, you know Steve on our team.
Dress is like a pirate.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
No, no, you talk.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So he had a second decision to not buy the Batmobile.
Part of what he says everybody knows where I live now,
and he still lives in that house or he still
owns that house. Other things to deal without that point
is maybe getting back, maybe to get to the Batmobile
needs to be lower my list of priorities. But after
the break in right now, because of course, I have
advice for the ultra rich, right for you know, look,
(37:55):
when Joe Burrow signed a three hundred million dollar contract extension,
like all they get a paper and pencil. When you
see stories like this, I say, okay, if I was
really rich, right this and this is just me. But
I think My advice is pretty sound. Right, you don't
want to obviously, you want to avoid stuff like this happening.
You know you're not going to be home all the time,
and you know that people are going to know where
(38:17):
you live. They're going to see you coming out to
your car. Hey, dude, that's Joe burrow Man. Joe burrow
is next door to People are going to know where
you live. If I was really ultra rich, right and
I needed a play, like where was I going to
live in Cincinnati for the season, I would go wherever
I was. If I was ultra rich in an athlete,
I would buy a place. I'd buy a great place
in the biggest, most guarded gated community I could, right,
(38:40):
because at least in the gated community, things are a
little bit harder. It's a little bit harder to have
someone people break in, take your stuff and leave because
hence gated community like Calabasas near where the Rams practice.
I would one try to because it's okay, right, you
can still live in a great, great house. Right, It's
just in a gated community, and lots of stars live
in gated communities. But I would absolutely do I'm not
(39:00):
gonna live on my own somewhere out far. Hey, I'm here.
My closest neighbor's a mile and a half away. That
that's that's not a great decision because people are gonna know,
they're gonna know where you live. The second thing is
when I'm out of town, if I have if I
have a three hundred million dollar contract, I'm pretty sure
I could hire an assistant or someone to come and
stay at the house. And hey, I'm out of town
(39:22):
for these four days or five days, stay at the house.
I'll pay. Just all you can do is stay at
the house. Nothing you need to do? And what about
the game from the house?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Watching it? Here's you anything else you need? Hey, yeah,
maybe there's certain things you need to do. Hey, can
you you know my dog is here? Whatever the plants, Yeah,
make sure you water the plants. The boy that scene
from the bear about the plant wading, so i'll spoiler
alert reference No, no, no, it's just the beginning of
one of the episodes.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Those two things gated community and anytime I was out
of town, I have the money to spend to give
somebody three hundred dollars a day to just live at
the house, right, don't leave. Hey, go out and do
your thing. Just don't leave for the entire day, of
the entire night, go to the movies, go to dinner,
but sleep, sleep there overnight, stay there, just so people
(40:07):
know that there are people there, and I'll pay you
to go do that.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
It's just like all athletes now have the money to
get somebody else to drive them home. It should seem
like they should know that before the evening starts. It
seems like what you were talking about, an athlete should
know that before the season starts.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
It's a little astounding that it's not followed up on
quite as figuous. And then you can own the batmobile,
and then you can have the batmobile, can be in
your run, you can have that person drive it around
a drive it to the store. But just make sure
you know nobody's steal. Okay, Greg, I got I got,
I got the batmobile. I'm all good. The two biggest
pieces of advice gated community, someone's staying at the house,
two biggest deterrence you can have to Batman, I'm disappointed.
(40:51):
I thought I would hear that much earlier as we
were talking about the battle. It was a decision. It
was a decision to not have that. Hey, a huge
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Uh So, hey, big day in the NFL. Quarterback is
(01:28):
back and who knew we missed that show so much?
But it's not often that a big anniversary just stands
out so much in the world of sports. But you know, look,
it's it's a it's a thing, uh that fifteen years
ago today, you know, all of us who were old enough,
we all remember where we were, We all remember what
(01:50):
we saw, we all remember seeing And I don't know
that I feel like this is a hot take, but
I don't know that really is Steve is that I
think this is the biggest moment in basketball for the
last twenty five years. You want to go back to
two thousand, This has been the biggest moment for basketball
the last twenty five year, which is kind of nice,
saying in twenty twenty five, you can look back to
a nice round number of two thousand, like, hey, this
(02:12):
is the biggest story, the biggest thing the NBA has
had in the last twenty five years. And it was
summer of twenty ten.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Lebron James was, to say the least a known quantity
in high school and congratulations for the Cabs not blowing
it in the standings and still.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Being able to draft him.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It was looking a little dicey there for a little bit,
and the question was was he going to decide to
stay in Ohio or decide to go elsewhere. It's kind
of like, I think it's Martin Weiss on our airwave
says a lot of these draft like the NBA draft recently,
this really could have been done in a memo. But okay, fine,
you're having the I mean, people hockey fans left and
(02:50):
right across the continent complained about TEA draft show this
year that man, this is taking a long Would you
just announced the next name?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Ready, Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
In this announcement it took, as I recall, it was
sixty to ninety minutes, it was an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It was an hour and it was. It was an
incredible day. Look, the night turned out to be not
great for Lebron James. Right, we know this, right, you
see how it is aged. You see how the decision
is aged. And it turned out to be not great
for him. But it was an incredible moment for basketball
and the decision which turns fifteen today. There's been no
(03:28):
bigger event in the NBA the last twenty five years.
And when Jim Gray, finally, after an hour hour plus
of sitting in front of a bunch of kids from
the Boys and Girls Club, finally asked the question that
Lebron James was going.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
To answer to, the biggest play just gets hit, the
ball is loose and it's alive.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, I know, I think. I think in the NFL
that's up there, last twenty five years, that's up there.
But in the NBA, which is basketball. Oh yeah, this
fifteen years ago tonight the answer to the question. Everybody
wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
And this fall, man, this is very tough, and this
fall I'm gonna take my town as to Sava Beach
and joining Miami Heat.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Miami Heat, that was a conclusion. You woke up with
this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So there was after it, and you know, so no
one really clapped like, whoa, no going to.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The he get more cheers at some high school or
picking a college. Oh that's on a hat.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean, just think about it for a second, right,
Because I heard this was in the you know, the
middle of my first run at ESPN, I could peel
back the curtain and tell you, I'll tell you a
great story about the decision.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
By the way, this clip that we just played of that,
I honestly thought they were gonna go to the clip
of Jim Gray so you still bite your nails.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, I thought highlight of the I thought we were
gonna get the fail Mary on Thanksgiving Day from last
year of the Jets Dolphins. But it was this, This
is champions come and go, big players, come and go.
This story this stopped time. Here's Lebron James, the best
player that we had seen, a guy we want to
(05:07):
fill the void for Michael Jordan, a guy who has
been so incredibly polarizing his entire career. We didn't talk like, yeah,
Jordan was around before social media, but he still was
a dominant conversation piece. But sports talk radio really didn't
start blowing up until the late nineties early two thousands.
By this time, Michael Jordan was at the end of
his career. You had sports talk radio on the weekends
(05:29):
in the early nineties, it wasn't really every ESPN radio
was only on the weekends at that point, so he
really hadn't had that exploded. Jordan really got to survive
and thrive in an era in which his every move
wasn't documented. Lebron James was the first big star of
that era. And when he said I'm gonna become a
free agent, I'm going to decide where to go, that
(05:51):
was the dominant story. Every day was something new he
visited with all the different teams and every day, well today,
the Knicks showing up to their presentation to Lebron James
and Donnie Nelson, I think who was who was running
the next of the time, had like you know, broken
his his uh uh ankle or something had to be
wheelded in a wheelchair to give the presentation to the
(06:14):
to Lebron and his TA wheelchair. Paul Pierce. No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no no no no, this was this is like he
had to be wheeled in and he saw teams and
they were and every every day it was how did
this meeting go? How did this presentation go? And there
were rumors that hey, he didn't really he was kind
of tuned out during the Knicks because it was the
same type of presentation that the Nets had for him,
and and everywhere he is doing his Shoudur Sanders impersonation.
(06:38):
Everywhere you looked, it was where is Lebron going to go?
And it got dragged out and there was no story
that stopped time more than this, again, biggest thing the NBA,
because we're still talking about this big situation fifteen years later.
I mean, yes, when Lebron is still playing, he's still
playing really well. He's still someone who was pushing the
conversation forward. He's still the guy we talk about the
(07:01):
most in the NBA. There has been no bigger moment
and fallout than what we had with the decision. Because
after Lebron made his decision, he became public enemy number one.
He left his hometown team. How do you leave? How
do you leave Cleveland to go play someplace else? Well,
because he got together with Dwayne Wade, and Chris Botch
the Olympics. Wouldn't it be cool if we all played together? Yeah,
where do you want to play? And Dwayne Wade said, well,
(07:21):
we got the salary cap room on my team. Okay,
we'll go to the heat. Like it was that simple,
Like it was that the pat Riley gets all this
credit for. Hey, we but no, they walked into your officead, hey,
we all want to play here together. Let's make it work. Oh,
we'll just cut everybody, sign you three and then that's
what we'll have going forward. But this was, I mean, really,
there's been no bigger moment. We won't talk about Steph
and their and their championships, Lebron chased down Block, we
(07:43):
won't talk about the Lakers back to back championships, the
back to back Lakers Celtics finals, nothing as much as
the decision, because all these other stories were big. But
this the world ceased to exist when it was what
is Lebron going to pick? Where is he going to go?
And I'll tell you this, Steven A. Smith had it
(08:03):
and we didn't go with it at ESPN. Okay, now
you got to go back to the time. This is,
this is fifteen years ago. This is twenty ten, and
Stephen A. Smith wasn't quite the person he the personality
he is now. You mean he was more respected here
he was Yeah, well he was still an NBA insider,
but he was making he made the twist to go
to the turn to be a more personality driven at
(08:24):
ESPN in first take. So when he would have something,
it wasn't always oh, here's a big insider, like it
wasn't like woj Or Shams or Jay Glazer, Adam Scheft
or was Steino Stephen He's got this. And every day
leading up to this, for like a week and a half,
there was a different so and so is reporting Lebron's
gonna go here, right, like, hey, Lebron's gonna go to
(08:46):
the Lebron's gonna go to Cleveland, Lebron's gonna go Lebron's
gonna go to Dallas, Lebron's gonna go to the Lakers.
Lebron's gonna go to the Knicks. Like there was I
can't tell you how many different reports there were by
so many different outlets. And then like about I think
a half a day before or a day and a
half before the special, like he had it and he
was saying he's going to the heat. He's going to
(09:06):
the heat. I I got this, He's going to the heat.
But because it was so crazy, like, we didn't report
that as ESPN. Like normally, if an insider comes out
and Adam Schefter says, hey, so and so is getting traded,
the report is never well, if the report is true.
When Adam Schefter is right, it's oh hey, Adam Schefter
says this is happening, this is going on. When Jay
Glazer says this goes down, it's okay, this is happening.
(09:28):
We treat that as it's a breaking news story. But
like he said, he kept saying, it's the heat. I
got it. It's the heat. It's the heat. And I
remember coming into work every night, you know, everyone going, okay,
new stuff. Is there anything that we're reporting, And the
last couple of nights coming in, it's and I remember
I remember saying to my producer saying, hey, Stephen A. Smith,
he's pretty seems pretty certain that it's the heat, and
(09:49):
they said, yeah, but we're not reporting it. We're not
reporting it as fact. It's just we're just you want
to mention it when you talk about it, but we're
not reporting it, So I don't know what kind of
battle there went there there went on, but he could
have had the the biggest scoop in the history of
sports baseline. You look back and hey, schefter getting the
Andrew Luck retiring thing, Wow, what a big deal. If
he had Lebron a day and a half before the decision,
(10:11):
that would have been the biggest scoop ever. But it
was just ESPN didn't go with it as an official
thing for whatever reason. I didn't ask about I just said, Okay,
we're not going, but I'm going to talk about it
and say Stephen A. Smith, if he goes to the heat, X, Y,
and Z, and my producers and the managers all said, yeah,
that's fine, go with that as long as you say,
this is what Steven A. Smith says. If if and
you leave it out there now. I don't know if
(10:33):
part of it was they didn't want to go with
it because here's the special that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Air, which they didn't own, right, Jim, we didn't want
to work for ESPN at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So I don't know if there was kind of a
decision where, hey, this is a big day for basketball,
we're not going to report this because you know it's
a big deal and we're taking the wind out of
the sales because there's a special that's coming up. Or
if it was just we don't want to say this
and get it wrong, because if we say this and
get it wrong, then we make an enemy of making
end of his new team and it becomes a whole
big thing.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I think Chris Brusard the day of had mentioned it,
but you talked about what a huge deal it was here.
This anniversary is July the eighth. July first is when
free agency starts. Yeah, so it's to say the least
had build up by the time the actual TV show
the Decision starts up.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
There were teams that were saying, we have to pull
out because if he doesn't come to us, we're stuck
because other free agents were getting signed. I wish I
could go back to that. That probably two or three
week span. We got to the end of the NBA
season and Lebron was was going to be a free
agent and and was gonna be Lebron sweepstakes like that
(11:39):
entire run. I can't even tell you how every day
was filled with energy and confusion and excitement, and it
was I could still feel. I still remember the energy
of that story and Neil, I think back. I still
remember the energy of big plays in the NBA finals.
I remember big, big draft picks going on in the NBA.
Maybe Cooper Flagg getting drafted will be a big deal
(11:59):
one day, but there's not been anything bigger in the
NBA the last twenty five years. And the decision and
so much that has fallen off of it and come
out of it the last few years because nobody's ever
done that again because they saw a boy Lebron really
made himself put himself into a corner there with with
this whole decision thing because it didn't go over how
he thought it was gonna go over. So now nobody
does something like that anymore. No one's going to try
(12:21):
to do it. But still the impact of that that
here's a here's a player who can now take all
the empowerment away from from other teams and and and
say I'm gonna grab this for myself and I'm going
to have a special and I'm going to say where
I'm going to go, and I'm going to take ownership
of my career and my brand and everything else like
this was. This was such a such a a trendsetting
(12:46):
day in so many ways for the NBA, for NBA fans.
I mean, I can't imagine what it would have been
like without it. I mean, really, NBA, everybody else, you
know where you are. I remember where I was when
I saw it. I remember the big intake of breath
I had at my house when he's he's going to
the heat, He's really going to the heat. I think
even Jim Gray was surprised because Jim Gray said Miami heat,
(13:06):
like like like nobody said anything. So I wonder if
Jiff Jim Gray is thinking, Okay, nobody heard what you said.
So I'm gonna say Miami heat, Miami heat, Miami Okay.
So that's you woke up with this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's kind of a sixty minutes type follow up there.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, mind me, let's playing one would be a
little more. Please play one more time. You can hear
what I'm saying that Maybe because he said mat did
no one here because no one was applauding, no one
was clapping. One more time? T shirt. The answer to
the question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
In this fall?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Man?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
It's very tough and this fall, I'm gonna take my
town's to South Beach and joining Miami Heat.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Miami Heat that you woke up with this morning. Yeah,
that was alike up this morning. Yeah, like two clocks. Yeah, hey,
but Miami show noise is it really is going to
be the heat, right, It's really is the heat. Okay,
it's it's going to be the Heat.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And by the way, part of the reason this is
so big in the year since is because what happened
with the Miami Heat. You referenced Chris Bosh he had
just joined this same offseason to Dwayne Wade in Miami.
Now you had the heatles, you had the big three
together and yes, four years and four times winning the
East and Lebron two time MVP in the league.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Out of those four years.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
So it was the follow up of always winning the
Eastern Conference Miami of you know what really cemented this
being a big story.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It was big in and of itself for that summer,
but now we look back on.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
The long two decade career of Lebron and there's proper context.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah. Really, I mean, tell me something that was bigger,
that had a bigger impact, that was bigger at the time. Yeah,
you could have the most watched Game seven of the
NBA Finals. Ever, it's not gonna be what this was
with everybody just waiting with Baita. I'm gonna watch this
show for an hour. You know, he's not going to
answer the question until like at least forty five or fifty.
It doesn't matter. I'm gonna watch for it just in case.
(15:04):
I'm gonna watch for an hour, Gonna make sure we
got it.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
One item before we break A's All Star shortstep. Jack
Wilson has just been hit by a pitch on the
hand and left the game against the Atlanta Braves. Oh
boy in the first inning.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Ooh boy, not good news. And the Mets have taken
the lead in extra innings at Baltimore. All right, we
have more on this coming up. Jason Smith Steve de
Sager in for Mike Harmon, happy fifteenth anniversary to the decision.
I guess it's apropos that on the fifteenth anniversary of
the decision, we have an NFL decision that one quarterback
(15:39):
probably would have done differently if he gets his chance.
Get to that coming up next right here, Jason Smith,
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(17:08):
anniversary of the decision, and uh, I guess it's just
the Steve did this be the one year anniversary of
the Kirk Cousins decision. One year of the decision, he'd
probably do over.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I think there was a if there wasn't even a
six minute show for good sixty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Uh So Quarterback is back the Netflix show. And I'll
be quite honest with you, I didn't know how much
I missed this show until all of a sudden, bang
bang bang we got we got a host of stories
coming off this today with the first episodes and the
and the the teasers being released. Uh stuff with Kirk Cousins.
We'll get to the Joe Burrow crazy story coming up
(17:45):
in a few minutes. But you realize it. We're so
thirsty for NFL right now, Like this is okay, it's
we're just pass the fourth of July. Everybody had their vacations.
I'm there, I'm yeah. The bad news is all We're
gonna get it on his preseason. I need I need
at least the teams to be on the field together.
We're all like dying for it now and all of
(18:06):
a sudden, here comes quarterback, and we're like, oh, what
an unbud. Look, the the month of July on the
schedule is crying for incredible NFL content, right because we've
had enough of the off season. We had free agency,
into the draft, then into mini camps and then okay,
and now it's okay. Now it's away for a month.
(18:26):
I need I need something like it's it's it's the
arit it's the Gobi Desert of NFL programming. All of
a sudden, here comes quarterback to save us all. It's
like walking out walk finding an oasis, just jumping out
in the rain, like like Tim Robbinson shawshing when he
gets out for a sorry spoiler, when when he crawls
out through all the worst muck and filth you could
(18:48):
ever want to imagine, and the rain is just down.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And impression by the way he pulls the shirt off,
it was a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And he pulls his shirt off and the rain is
he's he's he's seeing the outside as a free man
for the first time. That's NFL fans, right, now, go
give us something and we get quarterback.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Now, not all of us subscribe to what gave us Quarterback,
or today or last year for that matter. So I
have yet to and may never see an episode of Quarterback.
But the way you're framing it is the timing of
the release, not necessarily that it's better than any of
the HBO stuff that we've gotten over the years, because
(19:27):
they have in season HBO stuff, you know, with divisions.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So you're missing on Kirk Cousins, media star, you're missing
Kirk And you didn't know Kirk Cousins, who has a
has a room under the stairs like hand like that,
and he and he you know, he shops at Target
and and Coohle's and and and you know, Patagonia and
all these This is who Kirk Cousins is. He's down
home guy. He is it. Yes, And so now that
(19:50):
the new season is going to be chronicling Kirk Cousins
and and a couple of other quote including Joe Burrow,
but Cousins, who was such a big story in the
first Quarterback because we got the story of of what
he was like and how different he was and and
and look, Kirk Cousins kind of cut through the clutter
of oh, this is not how you expect a quarterback
to act right, you get you get the Mahomes. Okay, Mahomes,
(20:10):
that's great. You understand. Mahomes is the big superstars dealing
with things. Here's Marcus Mariota, who is trying to stay
a starting quarterback in the NFL, and it's about a journey.
It's kind of like a mini Hard Knocks. And here's
Kirk Cousins. Yeah, he's been good for a while, he's
got got paid a lot of money. Why is Kirk
Cousins so interesting? Oh? I get it, I get it.
Kirk Kirk Cousins is the guys. It seems like a
real regular, albeit eccentric, a little you know, kind of
(20:35):
weird dude, but kind of a little bit more down
to earth than you'd expect.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
This.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I mean, this is Kirk Cousins weird. He's he's like,
you know it, Kirk Cousins is kind of like the
friend you have that. Yeah, he's a good dude. He
says a couple of things once in a while, but
it's a good dude. Like that's kind of how you feel.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Even the head lies today of what he said in
the episode, I don't find terribly controversial.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well here's well, this is the one year anniversary of
the decision. So now Kirk Cousins, who was still a
member of the EU, well, I'm gonna get to everything
is gonna be the decision. Everything coming up. We got
Joe Burrow's decision with the batmobile. We got all these
things happen, the decision to walk Alonzo.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
If you boy, we're gonna get that some September game
and you're gonna have an anniversary for.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The Everything is a decision, the decision. So Cousins, who
is still backup quarterback with the Atlanta Falcons, the Falcons
have said, hey, we're gonna keep him rather than trade him.
He's valuable to us as a backup. Clearly nobody will
trade for Cousins with the contract that he has because
last year in the offseason, the Falcons gave him four years,
one hundred and sixty million dollars only to see him
(21:39):
watch them draft Michael Pennix Junior in the top ten
and then midway part of the season. Later part of
the season, Cousins is not playing well. He's dinged up
a little bit. He loses his job to Michael Pennick,
and we do relate that by the way he didn't
play well because of the shoulder he's not, so they
went and he lost his job. Now Michael Pennick Junior
is the president and the future, and Kirk Cousin is
(22:00):
a thirty plus million dollar a year backup. It is
not at all how he thought it was going to go,
not at all how the Falcons thought it was going
to go. But we'll have the good Falcons in the
second So here's Cousins. And this is the first big
thing coming off of the second season of quarterback is
that he says he felt the Falcons weren't really truthful
(22:22):
with me when they told me what their off season
plans were at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback and was
so high and at the time it felt like I
had been a little bit misled or certainly if I
had the information around freegency, it certainly would have affected
my decision. I had no reason to leave Minnesota with
how much we loved it there if both teams are
going to be drafting a quarterback high. But I've also
(22:48):
learned in twelve years in this league that if you're
not entitled anything, it's all about being able to earn
your spot and fo yourself sarre.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He was saying he was misled by the Falcons who said, yeah,
we're going to take a quarterback. But here they are.
Michael Pennick Junior is there. They take him in the
top ten. Now this is where Isaac when you think
I'm gonna zach? He felt misled. He felt misled, well,
and who knows what they told him. They may said, yeah,
we're gonna take a quarterback, but don't worry about it.
You're we just gave you four years, one hundred and
sixty million dollars, right, they gave more money this offseason.
(23:17):
He's still on the team. What are you worrying about? Man,
what are you really worried about? What do you think
you're gonna do? Draft a guy in the top ten
because he's event go on, We're not gonna do oh wait,
except they absolutely did that. Yes, what would have been
a better thing, right, This would have been a better
thing and a more apropos thing for the kirk Cousins
to say, hey, how'd you feel about about Falcons?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Instead of saying, well, I felt misled by the Falcons
a little bit. I would have said I didn't think
the Falcons would be that stupid, but here they are,
because honestly, who gives a who gives a quarterback four
years and one hundred and sixty million dollars in the
off season and then drafts a quarterback in the top ten?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Who does that?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'll tell you who does that? Nobody? No teams do that,
no one. It was stupid at the time, it's stupid now.
It was stupid a month after, it was stupid four
months after, and it's just gonna be more stupid as
time goes on. Either Kirk Cousins is your guy and
you went out to get him. Hey, four years, one
hundred and sixty million, this is our guy. Man, this
isna Oh but wait, but a quarterback's available, maybe we
(24:18):
should take him. This is like strategies that I see
teams using fantasy drafts and it screws up their team. Well,
I already have my homes. But oh, man, I'm telling you,
what do I do? Another quarterback is right here? Like
I do, I go on, I take Jalen Hurts. He's available.
I need another quarterback through the day. If I pass here,
I'll take Jalen Hurts. Why not, I'll take y'all like,
(24:39):
these are decisions that are made in the heat of
the moment in fantasy drafts. This is a decision. This
is a franchise altering decision. Now, I like either decision.
I like either one. I keep saying decision and decision.
I like going after Kirk Cousins. Just because Cousins got
hurt didn't work out, didn't mean it was a bad
call at the time, right, And it's not a no,
(24:59):
it's not He's not gonna be the quarterback unless something
happens to Michael PENNOCKX and it's the NFL. I also
like going in and taking Michael Pennix in the top ten.
I like, hey, Pennix has shown he could be special.
I wasn't the biggest Penix fan coming out of school,
but I'm not gonna say that, Hey, I didn't think
he could be a really good quarterback.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
So okay, he proved healthy. He's more mature than some
guy's coming out. Nobody not giving him a ten year contract.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Nobody does both of those things. Nobody, no team, not
even the Jets, do something like that. We thought the
Jets are gonna take shador Set. I said, oh my good,
they're gonna give Justin Fields his two year, forty million dollars,
We're still gonna draft a cooin. It's gonna happen. No, no,
why why do we draft a quarterback? We like Justin Fields.
He's our guy. He's come in and he's shown leadership
taking over. The Jets believe in him and at least intangibly,
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that's working other teams the same way. No, we got
our guy. We're not gonna go crazy to go draft
Shador Sanders or some other quarterback or you know, we
couldn't get Cam Word. Okay, that's fine. We're not gonna
go crazy doing it. But the Falcons decided they would
do that. That's just stupid. It's just stupid. And before
you send it by saying people defend it by saying, yeah,
but no, you have a backup quote doesn't matter. You
(26:04):
know you're you have Michael Pennix Junior is on a
rookie deal. Yeah, just think about how great it would
be if you have your quarterback on a rookie deal
and you have that extra one hundred and twenty million
dollars that you could spend on other players to be better.
Think about that thirty million dollars that would go on
to Kirk Cousins this year, or the money you paid
him that could go to other big players that could
go to bring bring something else in that you need
(26:25):
offensively or defensively. Think about how that would work. Like
this made absolutely no sense at the time, and it
makes no sense a year later, and the Falcons are
absolutely stuck. I really this was a decision. I mean,
look and the Falcons again, decision, decision, decision, Like the
Falcons decision, Kirk Cousins would do that decision again. The
Falcons should say, yeah, we would do that decision over
(26:47):
again one hundred times out of one hundred. Right, either
you're going to get a quarterback in the draft or
you're going for Kirkcott. Nobody does both. And you see
how they're stuck right now. Because Cousins isn't going to
take less money. He's not gonna say, hey, I'm going
to take les cash and you're gonnay. He's gonna make
them cut him, pay him all the money that he's doing,
and then he'll go sign someplace else. He has been
(27:07):
a businessman from the beginning, right he he wanted a
big offer from the Jets the first time he was
a free agent because he wanted the Vikings to match it.
Vikings match it gave him all the all the money guaranteed,
and that changed things for quarterbacks forever. Guys are getting
fully guaranteed contracts. Now. He has been a great businessman.
Don't let the Target gear fool you. You know, he's
the guy that will show up in in you know,
(27:29):
Target or Champion Target Gear or Levi's or Lee or
Wrangler or whatever else some of the other styles they
have there. The good Fellow gear they have it at
Target now. Oh good Fellow is a big thing. It's
like a Polo knockoff, Ralph Lrond knockoff. Like don't he
will make sure that you are paying him every single
dime he deserves. The fact. It was stupid then, it's
(27:51):
stupid now. And now they're stuck, and they stuck as
a good word for it.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
They kind of had to pick up that ten million
dollar bonus in the spring when new NFL league year started.
We've got training camp starting in a few weeks. We've
got two quarterbacks going, but one is a declared starter,
and it's not the guy you're paying the most. They're
on the hook for so much salary well over twenty
five million dollars this year. That it's kind of like
(28:16):
what we talked about on last night show, How in
the world is Lebron James ever going to be traded?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Because he just opted in for a set.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Amount that's more than double the twenty five million by
the way, So who's going to pick up a large
portion of what the Falcons owe this year to Kirk
Cousins to make a trade possible. So it's looking more
and more like he stays as the backup. You let
an NFL season play out, and what do you know,
Quarterbacks get hurt, even good ones, even rookies, even top
(28:46):
ten selections. Kirk Cousins may be playing half the season
this year for all we know. They're in a corner
of their own doing. But it's not a bad thing
now that you've done that to keep him. I don't
I get that they're trying to, you know, paint a
rosy picture on this. Okay, well, maybe he plays.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You know, if Penix gets hurt, it's like, yeah, no,
you know, there's a reason why you're not paying your
backup quarterback thirty million dollars a year. Nobody does Again,
the Jets don't. The Raiders don't even do that. The Raiders.
The Raiders don't even do that. And they had a
guy they could have won a game last year. All
the quarterback had to do was take the snap from
center and they would have beat the Chiefs. But instead
of hit him in the helmet and he fumbled. Right,
(29:28):
the Raiders didn't. Even the Lions at their worst before
Jared Golf wouldn't do something like this. But the Falcons,
I really it was this. This was getting Michael Pennix
Junior is awesome. Right if he turns it, and it
doesn't matter if he turns out to be to be
bad or not. Right, the signing of Kirk Cousins at
the time, whether he's good or bad. Yeah, anybody would
have done it. Drafting Michael Pennix at the time, Yeah,
(29:50):
anybody would have done it. Nobody would have done both. Nobody,
No one, absolutely no one, not even if the Mets
played football, and before Steve Cohen bought the team, would
the Mets do that. No, not even close. Speaking of Mets,
not even the A's. They don't even have a home.
They wouldn't do something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
They're just the A's not the Sacramento as No, not
the West Sacramento as you mentioned the Mets.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yes, speaking of the Mets, you have some news about
the Mets Orioles game tonight. We shall lead with the Mets.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Game at Baltimore tonight because there was about a one
hour raind lay at the start. Eventually, in ten the
Mets beat the O's seven to six. Now the closer,
Edwin Diaz, pitched a scoreless ninth inning and then got
credit for the victory as Juan Soto had to go
ahead single in the tenth. The Mets hit two two
run homers in the eighth to come from six to
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two down to a six to six tie. Francisco lindor
Pete Alonzo with the two long balls, and they were
long each over four hundred feet. Mets win seven to
six at Baltimore. Believe it or not, they're playing baseball
in Saint Louis. There was an even longer raindo lay
at the start there. And right now, bottom of the
second inning, we're past nine thirty in Missouri. Cardinals scoreless
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with the Nationals end of two. Now they're in a
rain delay. In Chicago, White Sox may be facing defeat again.
Blue Jays lead six to one over the White Sox.
Rain delay in the top of the seventh. Minnesota was
a winner over the Cubs eight to one. Milwaukee beat
the Dodgers three to one. The Dodgers have lost five
in a row, and the winning pitcher for the Brewers,
Jacob Missarowski, allowed a lead off homer to Shoheo Tani
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and then struck out twelve in his six innings. Kansas
City handed Pittsburgh a fifth straight loss, four to three.
The Yankees got an Aaron Judge homer, his thirty fourth,
and a ten to three win over Seattle gen Carlos
Stanton with a three run shot. Cal Raley of the
MS did hit his thirty sixth home run. Detroit won
its fifth straight game, four to two over Tampa Bay.
Boston won its fifth straight game, ten two against Colorado.
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The Rockies record is twenty one and seventy one. I
would say the All Star Break can't get here soon enough,
but they still have to play months of games after
the All Star Break. They have twenty one wins and
the All Star Break comes up.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
After this weekend. Fifty games under five hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Goodness, not fifteen before the break fifty Miami a twelve
to two winner at Cincinnati Boy. The Marlins are getting
closer to the five hundred mark now as we approached
the break. Anthony Davis of the Mavericks reportedly at eye
surgery this offseason for a detached retina, but he's due
to be healthy for training camp in September. Two WNBA
games tonight, Washington beat Chicago eighty one seventy nine, although
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Angel Rees had twenty two points fifteen rebounds, and it
was New York at home beating Las Vegas eighty seven
to seventy eight. Sabrina Yinescu with twenty eight points. By
the way, she was one of the early selections for
the All Star Game, which is coming up in Indianapolis
July nineteenth. The team captains Nafisa Collier and Caitlin Clark
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had the draft of their rosters tonight. One of those
selected was Asia Wilson to Caitlin Clark's squad along with
you and Ask You, But Wilson, in her game for
Vegas tonight, left in the first half with a wrist
injury after a fall.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Didn't Caitlyn Clark draft Angel Rees first overall? Didn't that happen.
I thought I saw that somewhere, not in our dream
first pick. Hey, come on, did not happen. In fact,
she was taken very late in the draft.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Angel Reese a reserve taken by Team Nafisa Collier, I
did notice they switched to coaches. So Collie, your Minnesota
is going to get the Minnesota coach and we did have.
By the way, Caitlin Clark news today that she is
returning to the court tomorrow. She's missed five straight games
with a groin injury, and number one Arena Sablenka won
her Wimbledon quarter final in three sets.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Back to You, Maga, Steve O. The Jason Smith Show
is Steve de Saga and from Mike Harmon coming up next. Yes,
Kirk Cousin is not the only big quarterback making news
with Quarterback release on Netflix. Way do we tell you
what Joe Burrow had to say about the Batmobile? My
best advice I can give to the ultra rich. Coming
up next Fox Sports Radio. Don't avoid taxes, Well, pay
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your taxes. Pay your tax yeah, yea, so said, don't
avoid Yeah, don't avoid paying your taxes. Yeah yes. Wesley
Snipes will be on my podcast. We'll talk about that.
Yeah maybe mc hammerson. Sure.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
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up at the top of your screen. So here we are.
Quarterback is back on Netflix. NFL news is coming in.
We just broke down the Kirk Cousins decision decisions a
big decisions. But now Joe Burrow also gave us a
big story Tay with his decision. See Steve, everything's going
(35:07):
to be a decision today? Is it really? Everything's a decision?
Should it be? You made a decision to come into
work today, didn't you? I think we all did yeah,
and now you're thinking about doing that over again, just
like Kirk Cousins, just like Lebron James. Now we know
that Joe Burrow, who is a part of the subject
of this version of Quarterback which is airing on Netflix,
he was going to buy the Batmobile a few months ago. Now,
(35:29):
you know, one of the few Batmobiles that were on
sale like for you know that was well publicized. Yeah,
there was like I think there was like five or
seven of them, and they were like three million dollars each,
and he was going to buy it. Remember that there
was video of him a practice telling his front hey
you Hear'm gonna buy the Batmobile and buy the battle
to buy the Battlebile. Now he says on on Quarterback
that he decided against it after the big break in
(35:50):
that happened at his home a few months ago. Uh
he was not home. Yeah, and he wasn't home and
there was a break in, and he you know, now
he thinking, Okay, maybe I'm not gonna buy that because
maybe I have the Batmobile and and someone tries to
come in and steal it. They put on a they
put on a cape, and then you get in and
try to steal a battle.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Actually, this crime is something that you really need to
put the spotlight up in the air for and get
sure Man on.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, get Batman. Why but Batman can't get here?
Why because the batmobile was stolen. He got He's gonna
get in an uber and Batman will be here really
really soon. I mean it was members of a large
criminal network. It wasn't just your neighborhood guys breaking in.
It was a whole operation that investigated. I mean they
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in a in a bad way. I want to say this.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Put the time in with the famous athletes, Burrow being
one of them, knowing he was going to be gone
that day, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
This is screaming Batman get involved. See and I'm thinking
of Batman getting in a way moo to try to
try to get someplace as a batmobile was stolen. He
gets in a weymo into the driverless cars. I'll make
a make a life tier. Mega left here, Mega left here.
There's no one in the car. There's no one in
the car like man. Maybe the batmobile was the first
way moo because it could drive without a drive.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You were kind of doing the Christian Bale automated voice yes,
maybe the way more voice should be Christian Bale.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yes, yes, Commissioner Gordon. No one's going to know it's me,
Bruce Wayne if I talk like this, But if I
do my normal voice, people will know it's a Batman.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So it's like when Superman puts on glasses his question,
we won't recognize him at all.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I don't know that guy, isn't all. I couldn't tell
you pirate Steve. Yeah, you know Steve on our team.
Dress is like a pirate.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
No, no, you talk.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So he had a second decision to not buy the Batmobile.
Part of what he says everybody knows where I live now,
and he still lives in that house or he still
owns that house. Other things to deal without that point
is maybe getting back, maybe to get to the Batmobile
needs to be lower my list of priorities. But after
the break in right now, because of course, I have
advice for the ultra rich, right for you know, look,
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when Joe Burrow signed a three hundred million dollar contract extension,
like all they get a paper and pencil. When you
see stories like this, I say, okay, if I was
really rich, right this and this is just me. But
I think My advice is pretty sound. Right, you don't
want to obviously, you want to avoid stuff like this happening.
You know you're not going to be home all the time,
and you know that people are going to know where
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you live. They're going to see you coming out to
your car. Hey, dude, that's Joe burrow Man. Joe burrow
is next door to People are going to know where
you live. If I was really ultra rich, right and
I needed a play, like where was I going to
live in Cincinnati for the season, I would go wherever
I was. If I was ultra rich in an athlete,
I would buy a place. I'd buy a great place
in the biggest, most guarded gated community I could, right,
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because at least in the gated community, things are a
little bit harder. It's a little bit harder to have
someone people break in, take your stuff and leave because
hence gated community like Calabasas near where the Rams practice.
I would one try to because it's okay, right, you
can still live in a great, great house. Right, It's
just in a gated community, and lots of stars live
in gated communities. But I would absolutely do I'm not
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gonna live on my own somewhere out far. Hey, I'm here.
My closest neighbor's a mile and a half away. That
that's that's not a great decision because people are gonna know,
they're gonna know where you live. The second thing is
when I'm out of town, if I have if I
have a three hundred million dollar contract, I'm pretty sure
I could hire an assistant or someone to come and
stay at the house. And hey, I'm out of town
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for these four days or five days, stay at the house.
I'll pay. Just all you can do is stay at
the house. Nothing you need to do? And what about
the game from the house?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Watching it? Here's you anything else you need? Hey, yeah,
maybe there's certain things you need to do. Hey, can
you you know my dog is here? Whatever the plants, Yeah,
make sure you water the plants. The boy that scene
from the bear about the plant wading, so i'll spoiler
alert reference No, no, no, it's just the beginning of
one of the episodes.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Those two things gated community and anytime I was out
of town, I have the money to spend to give
somebody three hundred dollars a day to just live at
the house, right, don't leave. Hey, go out and do
your thing. Just don't leave for the entire day, of
the entire night, go to the movies, go to dinner,
but sleep, sleep there overnight, stay there, just so people
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know that there are people there, and I'll pay you
to go do that.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
It's just like all athletes now have the money to
get somebody else to drive them home. It should seem
like they should know that before the evening starts. It
seems like what you were talking about, an athlete should
know that before the season starts.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
It's a little astounding that it's not followed up on
quite as figuous. And then you can own the batmobile,
and then you can have the batmobile, can be in
your run, you can have that person drive it around
a drive it to the store. But just make sure
you know nobody's steal. Okay, Greg, I got I got,
I got the batmobile. I'm all good. The two biggest
pieces of advice gated community, someone's staying at the house,
two biggest deterrence you can have to Batman, I'm disappointed.
(40:51):
I thought I would hear that much earlier as we
were talking about the battle. It was a decision. It
was a decision to not have that. Hey, a huge
story out of the NBA is next Fox
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