July 19, 2024 • 41 mins
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So Summer League action, we watch Brownie James hit yet
another three pointer tonight. Now that he's he's not gonna stop.
He's just gonna hit like one or two once in
a while. It's gonna happen, Lakers winning Summer League. But
here's Bronni James suddenly hitting freeze.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He goes oh for fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now here I am and I've hitting threes, and
I'm scoring thirteen points, pulling down five rebounds. Rich Paul
is Indio going, Okay, let's see if we can get
you starting over Ruyachama.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Let's let's see how long it's gonna take to make
that happen.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I like the way you immediately went for Ruyacha Mora,
but you know, for Bronnie James, I think maybe some
of it is fail spectacularly, and then anything you do positively,
folks are gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Fall all over them.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So I love that idea, just fail, just fail, fail, fail,
and then you set the bar so low that all
you got. It's so easy you do. It's like stepping
over a piece of paper. Oh I love that idea.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
That's bottle of every one of your teams.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That is. Yeah, hey, fail spectator that way.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Once in a while, when you win a couple of games,
everybody loves you.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
People get excited again.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Go on a little bit of a streak, go on
a little bit of a winning run, and all of
a sudden, you're you're not the bat the fish wrap
problem here. No, you actually get some love because of
that run, because you were so horrid. Now people feel
compelled like they feel sorry for you, Uh that they feel.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sorry like you're from they feel sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You're sorry if you're a coaching your organization, I'm sorry
the organization. Anytime you get to say organization, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. But yes, the the idea being that, you know,
now you get probably folks that are gonna fall all
over themselves the other way, Not that they weren't already, right,
Sicka fans were out in full force.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know who they are.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
But now you get to put a little bit on
tape that's a little bit better offensively, right, defensively, He's
been on skates a few times. He's made some some
other good plays to where that's where you know everybody
was hanging their hat. But now if you actually hit
some jump shots.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Wow, look out, what plan has more pages in it?
Like what's the big what's the bigger, thicker plan? The
plan that Rich Paul is writing up to get Bronnie
James a starting spot with the Lakers, or the plan
the guy that took the illegal video the Michigan head
coach did to take over the Michigan football program, Like,
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which do you think has more pages to that plan?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Take the Michigan Michigan football program or getting Browny to
start in La.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Wow, the guy with the Michigan plan, because that was
hundreds of pages of rambling.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What do you think this is gonna be? Come on,
come on, what do you think No?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
No, no, no, no, no, this is gonna be a succinct
business plan. There's not a lot of incoherent ram I mean,
I'm not saying it's not from the people that are
writing the column inches and going on TV or whatever.
There's plenty of unhinged stuff and plenty of monologues that
are being scrapped that if you printed him off probably
get us across the country.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We can walk out a little bridge.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But from the actual Clutch Sports Rich Paul's side of it, no,
it's very succinct.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's my guy. Lebron's kind of a big deal. It
is one page plan.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, I think you need a two page plan because
now I can see it. Now I can a cover page,
just page. Okay, you need cover page and the back
page to support it. So it's four pages overall. Oh,
cover page. You open it up and it just is
on the top. Bronny starts and it's a big picture
of Lebron smiling, and then you turn the page. Bronny
sits and it's a picture of lebron frowning and there's
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like ace bandages all over his body, on his knee,
on his elbow, on the and he's sitting in a
rocking chair. It's like, oh, okay, I see where this
plan could work here. I I I read the I
read the plan. I'm on board with it. Hey, let
me see call Ruey into my office. Let me make
sure he's oh, you know what, hey, and bring bring
Austin Reeves into Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I gotta just saying that the Michigan Manifesto guy had
at least four pages of him practicing his autograph. Do
I put head coach next to my name? Under my name?
There's that extra for the inscription.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Uh So we'll have more on Browny more NBA on
the way. But this is the the silliest story. And
I got admit. I love when I learned things right,
Because I'm fifty three now. How often do I realize
like I know everything already, rig I know how things
are gonna go. I know we make big bull bridges
to come through all the time. But I always love
when I learned something Lamar Jackson is in a huge
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dispute with Troy Aikman over the number eight because he
wants to continue to wear eight when Baltimore Aikman has
said no, no, because Lamar Jackson is challenging Aikman's use
of their shared number eight in a big patent and
Trademark office complaint.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Sure, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Lamar Jackson's applied for several trademarks using the number eight
in different phrases like the era eight is something he's.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Looked at and.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Fl a couple of eight eight twenty eighteen era because
it was when he got drafted. There's a bunch of ways,
but it's about the number eight and he wants to
use it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And this is now runs.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Contrary to Troy Aikman, who wants to use the number eight,
of course, number he wore throughout his career in the
NFL on apparel and begs so now there's a big
thing now, And Lamar Jackson is in court about this
because he says this could be deceiving or confusing and
cause a mistake with the purchasing public as to whether
they're buying apparel from Lamar Jackson's company or for Troy
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Aikman's company. So he's trying to get all the rights
to the number eight. What do you got, Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
It's just a little more than a peril though he
has a whole beer company.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, he's already got his beer company exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, that has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh sure, no, no, no, And and I understand this
and I get it now. The first thing was that, Okay,
I really think if you know, you really understand if
you're buying something that's Troy Aikman eight or Lamar Jackson eight,
I really think you got to give the public a
little bit more than that, a little more credit than
this is a purple eight.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
With a Okay, so is this Akman or not? I
don't understand. This is a blue eight and it says
Troy on it, and so I think you can beget it.
But I get. I get.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What's going on is both of them want to have
access and be able to own the number eight.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And when I saw this, I.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Said, man, you can really own an I don't think
you can own a number. I don't think you can
get kind of access to that, to number eight. And
sure enough, when I looked into it, you can do
this all right, Christine Farley, So, I guess they call
it Chris Farley, She's a law professor at American University,
and said, the truth is, you can own almost anything
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you think of as a trademark.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You can own a smell, you can own a sound,
you can own a single color, you can own a
single number. And I'm like, you can really do that.
And I'm saying, if you could do that, how have
people met. I would love to own purple like you
would think Prince would.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Be able to own. You can't own purple. I can
own purple if I want to. I can own purple.
I'll crush you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I can own it. I can own a smell. Hey,
I just passed gas. I own that smell.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah. I don't want any of that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But like certain things, I didn't know you could own
some of this stuff. You could own things like I
can own a How can I own a color?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Real? I can own green, I can own orange. I
can I mean, come on, if I own I think
you have eracuse guy?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, I think you have to trademark a particular shade
of any of those colors at this point though, right,
because I think the base ones had probably been filed
by Crayola and many others. But the point being, it's
it's like shoeing people in the United States. You can
do it for anything and then you sort it out
in the wash.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But you can own a number, you can own a color,
you can own a sound.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
How do you own a sound? I own the sound
of all the jets taking off? Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So every time a jet takes off and you hear it,
you owe me money? Like I mean, how is how
have more people not monetize this or found out a way?
I have a boy, I gotta I gotta pay money.
Why because I said orange three times? Well there's that.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Well, but but the bigger thing is just from the
relegigiousness of it, because then if you're gonna go down
that road, Jason, you then.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Have to challenge every use of it.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And to Justin's point, now you're a lot of billable
hours for legal teams to send cease and desists and
whatever else, right, because that's the first step generally is like, hey, you're.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Infringing on my trademark. I'm gonna be nice uh and
tell you to beat it.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And then we start really getting the lawyers involved.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
In getting after it very expensive to protect some of
those trademarks. So while they made me common sense of hey,
this is cool, Like even if you have something designed,
you know, art or whatever for your podcast, it's expensive
to keep that up.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It really is. But how does like Steve Young not
join the lawsuit? Wait a minute, I'm number eight.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Now he's got to decide he's a lawyer. Maybe he's
decided it's not worth his time and effort.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
How is cal Ripkin was number How is Aaron Rodgers
not joining he's number eight? Wait a minute, everybody calls
me eight. I was number eight. Well he's got joining
this here. He's got far less close out as a
number eight. You were snaps as a number eight, So
he doesn't really count just yet. Yeah, but that Jets
throwback jersey with eight looks so sweet. It is such
a sweet looking jersey.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Man. But I mean, but if you.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Was in Yogi Barra number eight, Yogi bar all time winners, Sure,
Yoki Barre.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Maybe Yogi bar wants all of this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Maybe Carlustremsky, Yeah he wants number eight too, sure?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Or Bingo, let's go Daryl Boston. I mean, there's a
lot of guys.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Darryl Boston X met Darryl Boston very nice, but like
I but I feel like this this hole back and forth. Okay,
so let's say Lamar Jackson wins number eight. As you said,
you can own different for so like if if orange
is something that's owned by Creola, and I have to
be more specific, I have to be burnt orange or whatever.
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But like can't Aikman or or Lamar Jackson say well
my eight is blue eight or eight or something else
like that, Like if that it works that out a
little get around it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, I think you could probably work that out also
of you know, let's play nice sandbox and realize that
there's plenty of marketability and numbers to be had for
all of us. And this is stupid. Cowboy fans ain't
buying your Ravens crap, and the Ravens fans ain't buying
your Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But right he was.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
He did have the the first mover, like the beer
has gone over, well, it's had great sales. We're not
talking about, you know, having that opportunity to be the
billion dollar deal like cosam Egos and the afore Engine.
Clooney got to listen to the whole show or things
of that nature. But you know, it's it's a niche
and it's a large market, so even a fraction of
it represents pretty good sales. But yeah, it's it's very
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costly to try to enforce all this stuff. So I
would advise them to get into a room and figure
out how to how to settle this, because obviously you're
also going to go down the highways and byways of
some other guy who squatted on the number eight years ago,
like people used to do on websites. Madonna wants to
have her own website.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Some guy, some.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yokel in the basement in Michigan went and registered all
of the URLs Madonna dot com, Madonna whatever the year was, dot.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Com, material girl dot com.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah right, so it becomes a big fight of like, hey,
they're cybersquating here, same thing will happen. I think in
some of these trademarks that it won't be so easy
for the celebrity to get them because you've got folks
that have already put in paperwork and then you start
looking into the parsing out the language, what what things
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is you have to pay to file for each category?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
These wants money for it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
They can do that, sure, sure, but it's again the
point of what's been protected by someone in the marketplace
and what hasn't. Maybe Lamar Jackson is legal team find
the holes that that Akman left behind. We don't you
know what we get to make beer coozies. You bought
the beer, but you didn't do that, and now we're
coming for you.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I just think now of all the things that I
could buy that I didn't know I could own.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Look, I had no idea like.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
If I owned or if I own the color orange,
Here's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I would just demand.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I would just watch everything that Syracuse and the Mets
and the Knicks did, and I would say, you guys
gotta pay me. Anybody else use an orange Netherlands use
orange as your color. That's fine, I don't care. But
I'd say, hey, Syria, you owe me money. And that's
who I would focus on. They would say, boy, this
guy's a watchdog. He's watching everything we do him. But
that's all he does is watch the three of you.
So of course, and I'd make enough money and I'd
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be fine. I didn't know I could do this. This
is the way I could have just retired so early.
Man legal things, Man, legal things that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I don't know. I can't believe I've found this out now.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You should have told me before this, Mike, you apparently
would have known something like this. You're smart, I know
enough to be dangerous. And that's about where it ends.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
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Speaker 6 (16:26):
How are we? How are we? Are we? I'm just
I fresh back. I'm back home. I was in Vegas
for the last few days, and uh and I survived.
So sorry, I was. I think I was supposed to
come on a little earlier. I was. I want to
say I was in transit. I wasn't in transit. I
simply lost track of time. So glad to be with you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Now, all right? So all right, then, then do this
for us here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, the biggest, the biggest or most surprising thing in
Vegas the last few days for you that you saw
is Wow, boy, that's pretty wide birth there ran even
for Colin in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Can'd no.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You gotta tell us biggest most surprising thing, what'd you
see in Vegas the last few days?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Biggest thing?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Oh? Actually, you know, the probably the craziest thing is
just seeing the Sphere in person.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Isn't it outstanding? Isn't it outstanding?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
It is just it is the most bizarre. I can't
take my eyes off and you're like, what the hell
did somebody just drop this massive marble that keeps changing
colors in the middle of Vegas. It's it is captivating.
I didn't go inside, and I hear it's a great
venue and all that, but it's just, you know, Vegas
has got this like bizarre We've got the Eiffel Tower
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in the middle of the desert all kids, We've got
all this kind of crazy stuff going on, and somehow
they found a way to top it with the Sphere.
It's just of all the weird, strange, out of place things,
the Sphere is probably it basketball wise, man. I don't
you know. A scout texted me this morning and he
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was asking me, like, who impressed you? And I said,
impressed is a really big word. I don't know if
anybody like impressed me. Reed Shepherd looked really, really good,
but I thought he would be good, but he he
looked like arguably the best player that I saw. Donovan
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Klingen absolutely put Alex Sar in a body bag. And
after watching Alexar's body language aside from his you know,
his struggle on the court, watching him go by go
back to the bench, and an assistant coach was trying
to talk to him and he just he walked right
by him, uh and and ignored him. And I was like, man,
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that's not a good look for summer league, for a
guy who's playing the way that he is. Having seen
whether it was Victor Winbin Yama or Tim Duncan or
any number of guys that that is a bad, bad
look for a guy who was already struggling. So I
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could go down the line, there's some some other guys
that that have impressed me here and now Philip Philipkowski
looks like he was a steel for Utah. There's the
kid Terrence from from Minnesota. I think he had the
legal issues that he had and then was cleared of them.
And it looks like a lot of teams didn't reset
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where he uh he should have gone talent wise in
the draft, But you know, I didn't see anybody that
was like a huge game changer. And I was really
just I was I was fighting, like I think, maybe
this is this is the most amazing thing. The most
amazing thing was And this will lead us into our
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next subject. Was the fan reaction to Brownie James. It was,
I just it was. It was remarkable. I don't even
know how to describe it. It didn't it didn't matter
what he did. If he touched the ball, the place
went nuts. If he scored, it went nutsier. It was
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I've never seen a second round pick or a guy
who's played as badly as he has, who was the
crowd was just captivated by him. I mean, it was
just And I don't want to hear from anybody out
there about well, you know the reason that he's getting
he's getting ripped is or the reason he's being critiqued
is because the media are paying all this attention to him. No,
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I mean, the media is reacting to fans being enthralled
with the kids. So then the media is going to
follow that lead and say, Okay, you guys are really
fascinated by him. We're going to give you a take
on him. We don't think he's very good. Don't blame
us like I just it. You know, I'm glad he
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had He's had a good couple of games. I saw
his first decent game last night before before I left.
But I was also I was just fatigued. I'm so
fatigued by the attention to a second round pick. And
and there's no way you can fairly assess him because
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of all the attention that he gets. If you, if
you were honest about where he is, you know, he's
not an NBA player. He's had two good summer league
games now and everybody's going nuts the summer league games
we never like. I'm not reach efforts looks great. Do
I think he's gonna I doubt he's going to start.
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I don't know. And and he made the game look easy,
and he's looked good every every minute he's been on
the floor. But it's summerly, so you know, if you
if you, if you critique Brownie the way his attention
demands he be critiqued, then you're a hater. And if
you ignore him, then you're ignoring the player that people
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seem to be most captivated by so I just I
don't I don't know how you win that battle.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, it's a difficult proposition, no question about it. Rick
trying to navigate that part of it. Switching to the
fun and exciting world of the US Olympic squad beaten
down of Serbia. I mean, and the other night you
had Nikola Jokic was watching them like he was clever
laying for Rocky three, and then they went out and
got worked from collar to post. This squad obviously a
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little bit of the controversy with Jalen Brown or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
But are they going to walk through this thing?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I do not. I do not expect that they're going
to walk through this thing, though I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I mean, the win over Serbia was definitely impressive, and
Serbia is just and I don't know whether they can
shoot better. They missed a lot of shots and then
the game kind of got away from them, and it
is an exhibition. So I don't know how you know
how much they were trying to get back into it.
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I still, you know, seeing the Australia game, there are
times where the execution in close games is troubling, and
it's understandable simply because of the lack of familiarity and
still trying to figure out roles. I mean, this is
the problem, and Jalen Brown is a microcousem of it
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is when you bring all these guys together that are
used to being the centerpiece to the team, now you're
asking them to play complementary roles. And there is a
skill and a talent and a nuance to that that
these guys for the most part, have not had to
do for the last umpteen years. And now you're asking
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them to play off the ball, and you're asking them
to all of them defensively, to rotate and read each
other and know what's going on, and it's just it's
a challenge. And whether it's Serbia or France or any
of these teams, you know they've they've had years in
years and years of experience. They it's almost you know,
they have that that muscle memory of playing together that
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that our guys don't. And and they're also much more
familiar with the with the rules and the officiating. So
I thought it was a very promising sign. I was
very impressed, particularly with the combination of Bam out of
Bio and Anthony Davis defensively. I mean, my goodness, those
two the way they can play off each other. And
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you put Through Holliday out there. I was, I will
say this, I think the most surprising thing. Forget. Maybe
I said it on Collins said it somewhere. I picked
my starting five and I said, I assure you that
it's not going to be the one. I might have
done it on your show. Did I do it on
your show? Ye? I was asked to do the starting five,
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and I said, I guarantee you my starting five is
not going to be the starting five for this team.
And lo and behold second half of Servia. This is
the first first minute or two of the Serbia game.
But second half, my starting lineup of MBD, Tatum Brown,
Curry and Drew Holliday was out there. I'm like, what
do you know, Steve Kerr not as bad as he thought.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Team TMUSA head coach Rick Buker. See, and here's the
thing is is you know about Embiid. I know that
everybody is going crazy about his play, his level of conditioning,
and I understand, Oh no, I want to see more
Embid because you know What I love, Rick, is that
Embiid is playing like it's the end of the second
round against the next Like I'm on one leg, but
(25:34):
I gotta take every shot, and I got to get
to the free throw line, and I got everything's got
to come through me, and I'm just gonna slow the
game down for everybody, Like I want.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
To see more of that.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's because like he's playing it just like he's he
would play the Knicks in the second round of the playoffs,
it was outstanding.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Well, I will say this, like he's not doing that
by accident. Steve Kerr wants him to establish that like
how they're going to play because they're going to be
games when the Olympics start where they're they're going to
need his size, and they're going to need his scoring
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inside and they're going to need to beat up some
of these teams in the paint, and so they're trying
to get everybody acclimated to that. You are, I mean,
you're right in terms of like, man, it's it's very
MBD centric for sure, But I don't I don't believe
like if he was doing that against what Steve Kerr
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wants to see, then we wouldn't be seeing it anymore
at this point. And I and and that's not how
they're playing. They are feeding him and they're having him
work his way into the paint so that everybody can
kind of acclimate. Because let's face it, you look at
all the guys on this team, how many of them
play with an MB type Like nobody nobody, nobody plays
with the center that plays the way MB does. So
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they almost that they have to get used to where
do I need to be? Where do I cut? How
to where how do I space with a guy like that?
Playing with a guy like that? So and and again,
like people are ripping on his effectiveness or you know,
his conditioning or whatever. Look, we're as good as a
(27:15):
D and VAM have been. There is going to come
a time in the run for gold where they're going
to need MB to play his best And and I'm
not saying that they're gonna get it, but there's a
reason that he's on this team. There's a reason that
he's vital, And there's a reason that we've been beat
up the last few years in the paint because we
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simply have not had a size a center of MB's
ability or size and if there's a reason that I
that I like this team for winning gold, he's one
of them.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harman here at Fox
Sports Radio. Rick Bucher guest FS one the On the
Ball podcast, and you hear him here with us each
and every week.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Rick.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
The trade that goes down and then and eventually the
signing Russell Westbrook going to be a member of the Nuggets.
I think the odds to win the title, Uh didn't
move at all.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
For you.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
I would I would not be surprised by the way.
Can we just change Utah's the team name to the
Utah Clearinghouse. They seem to be They seem to be
the place where everybody trades a player and then buys
them out just so they can either get off a
contract or they can pick up another second round pick
and add to their coffers. It's fine. I've just had
(28:33):
to laugh when I saw, Well.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Unless it's the next in which case Danny Ainge was
going to say, we want your whole team for Donovan.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Everything else is that though, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Well yeah, and then and then you're even if you
offer to us, we're gonna say, now, never mind, we
were just we were just kidding.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
We're just kidding.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah, you make a you make a good point there.
I look, it's so fascinating. Russell Westbrook is so fascinating
in that the perspective of players in the league is
so dramatically different than the public, by and large, the
(29:13):
public's perception and probably the media too. I mean, Lebron
James wanted Russell Westbrook, thought he was going to be
the missing piece. Nikola Jokic now sees Russell Westbrook as
a guy that he has to have, and uh it,
(29:34):
he's I appreciate how hard Russell plays. I don't think
he's going back to his days in Oklahoma City. I
never thought he was. He was selfish. I thought that
he you know, I mean, Katie doesn't win all the
scoring titles if if Russell Westbrook is truly a selfish
point guard. But he's he's difficult to play with and
(30:00):
and he hasn't been part of a successful recipe since
Oklahoma City in terms of getting anywhere near the finals.
And yet you talk to players in the league and
they just they swear by him, they love him, they'd
love to play with him until they actually do play
with him. But you know, I don't know. It's like
(30:25):
it's going to be different with me. I guess that's
what they're thinking. I just you know, they didn't they
didn't handle Russell right or I don't. I actually haven't
really talked to you guys. Guys just gave me an idea.
This is this is all I need to talk to
some players about about the fascination with Russell Westbrook and
why why they appreciate him and why they continue to
(30:47):
appreciate him in spite of his track record. It's like
being on the court with him and you see how
hard he plays and there was a respect there. But
you know, can you maybe this is why we don't
have players buy and large. Players shouldn't be gms or
making personnel decisions because and again this is we know
where fans are, like, you should have players decide on
(31:10):
this and that. And it's like now players, players have
a more skewed view of the game than any media
person does because we don't have skin in the game,
like and we don't. We're not we're not influenced by
what a guy like did to us one on one
on the court. We're just stepping back and looking at
(31:31):
a guy in the big picture and big picture I got.
I love watching Russell Westbrook play. Would I ever say
he's the missing piece to a championship team? No, I
I don't. I don't know that those words could come
out of my mouth without without an eye roll.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker,
check out the on the Ball podcast, and of course
is continuing trumpeting of being all in on the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
For this season.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Rick, as always, Buddy, appreciated my friend. We'll talk to
you soon. Have a great night, Be good, Rick, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Rick's interview with Ryan Arkadiakino will be real.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports with Martin Wise.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What he got for us.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
The Lakers draft picks Bronnie James and Dalton Connects played
well against the Cavaliers in their last Summer League game,
Bronnie James finishing with thirteen points on five for tennis,
shooting Connect seven for sixteen from the floor for twenty points.
Wizard's number two overall pick, Alexander shar struggled again in
his Summer League match up with the Kings, finishing with
two points on one for six from the floor. It's
made one shot in his last twenty one attempts games
(32:42):
going on right now.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I know Rick was just talking about Reed Sheppard.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
He's five for thirteen right now with eleven points, zero
for five from three. Rob Dillingham, the eighth pick in
the draft, was traded to the Minnesota Timboles Draft Night.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Four for sixteen, one for six from three to nine points.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Guys, It's almost like they're playing at a new level
for the first time.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
How about that shock it off learning curve?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I mean some serious learning curve.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
The Clippers trading for Russell Westbrookay, guys were just talking about.
Also included for Russell Westbrook there a second rown pick
and cash of the Utah clearing house per Rick Buker,
and assigning trade for Chris Dunn. Usbrook expected to agree
to a contract Bile with Utah had eventually signed with
the Nuggets.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Nick Saban's getting.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
An honor as the University of Alabama plans to honor
their former head coach by naming the playing field for
him at Bryant Denny Stadium. Jacksonville Jaguars are suing am
At Patel, a staffer who stole twenty two million dollars
from the team in a three and a half year
period to pay off his gambling debts. That's a lot
of debt. Twenty two million. He's Shohil Tonney get a
(33:47):
load of that. UH funded sixty six point six million
is the number that Jacksonville Jaguars are suing him for
in damages in a Florida state court. Daniel Brown at
six hunder the heads the first round of the Open,
Shane Lowry five unders, anderschaw Flea two under in Brooks
Kopka and Scotti Scheffler both one under at the Open.
(34:08):
Tiger Woods is eight over, Roy McElroy seven over, in
Bryighton d Chambo five over. As the first round of
the Open concluded yesterday, the next round will get started
in just about an hour. Saint Petersburg City Council approved
plans for the new Ray's Stadium one point three billion
dollars the price tag. It has thirty thousand seats, a
(34:29):
fixed roof, and a scheduled to be ready for opening
day twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
That's when I ask you, guys, h.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Thirty thousand seats for a professional athletics stadium. I feel
like there's high school football stadiums in Texas that seat more.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
But how many.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Sellouts do you think the Rays will have in twenty
twenty eight? Other's thirty thousand Seed Stadium. Jason and Mike
ponder that one.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
How many? How many people are you spotting me? Are
you spotting me? Fifteen thousand people? I'll say they sell
out every game?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
How many concerts can you fit in?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Are they covering the spread? I don't know. Taylor Swift
could draw thirty thousand in Ah too soon soon? Wow,
Thank you very much, Martin, appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Coming up next, an NFL star quarterback has made the
boldest statement of any quarterback this offseason.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
What is it? You'll find out next right here.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
This be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (35:30):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, And we now have the biggest, boldest statement
made by a quarterback. As we get ready for training
camp to begin, the Houston Texans very aggressive in the
off season, get ready. They opened training camp in a
few hours. Kind of fun and quarterback c J. Stroud,
(35:54):
who had a great rookie year's phenomenal, says coming into
year two, he's a five headed monster in his offensive
skill group. Now, remember they brought in Joe Mixon and
Stefan Diggs, two pretty good acquisitions.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
They re signed Dalton Schultz. You also have.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Nico Collins who turned into a great one and Tank Dell,
who before he got hurt, was one of the best
slot middle of the field receivers in the NFL. This
is an absolutely powerful offense. And yes, health is always
a thing, and you hope Tank Dell will stay healthy.
And you know Joe Mixon's getting older, so is Deefon Diggs.
(36:31):
But it's not like you're asking these guys to come
in and be the big ones. You're saying, hey, Diggs,
come in and take some pressure off of Collins and Dell.
So it's okay, and somebody as good as c. J.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Stroud.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I got news for you the biggest, most popular super Bowl,
the trend I'll say trendiest. The trendiest super Bowl picks
of this summer are going to be the Texans and
the Packers. That will be the trendiest pick that anybody
is going to have who are teams that are not
the Chiefs or the Eagles that I can pick where Boy,
(37:04):
they had a good year last year and they're young,
and they had a little bit of taste of playoff success,
and now they got even better in the offseason. And
who's gonna make who can take that leap and win
that extra one or two games. I don't know that
you're gonna see a more trend toier pick than Texans Packers.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
And it's hard to go against it because both these
teams are really deep and good. It's just I look
at it and go, everybody's gonna pick them? Can I
really go Texas Packers?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean, well, I gotta go Jets obviously because we're
going to the super Bowl, But like outside of that,
I mean Texas Packers is is gonna be the pick?
Like that's what everybody is going to pick. They're gonna
go down and go, yeah, oh everything.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
That happened here.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Here's Team A, which was really good last year and
made the playoffs, and they have a great base and
they have a lot of weapons. Plus the increases they
made in the offseason. That's team beat Boom. They're going
to the Super Bowl. I mean Texans Packers. That'll be
the trendy pick and it won't be close.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Texans at this point the fourth best odds for an
AFC squad. You've got the Chiefs, you got the Ravens,
and then you've got the Cincinnati Mangles just ahead of them,
Texans coming in at sixteen to one. On the other side, Packers.
Anywhere from sixteen to one to twenty to one are
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the current odds there.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
But hey, look, I'm surprise it's that low.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Coming off the playoff and coming off Jordan Love with
that game against the Cowboys, I'm surprised that the odds
aren't a little bit more, a little bit low, a
little bit lower, I would say, I'm surprised.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, the curiosity for me, right forty nine Ers obviously,
even with the Brandon Ayuk drama and how that plays out,
I say they hold him and try to sell people debo.
You've got the Detroit Lions, sexy pick for a lot
of folks coming off of their season expecting another big
run in division and through the NFC. The team that
(38:53):
is curious to me that comes in ahead of the
Packers Packers again. You know, fourth is the the Eagles
at fifteen to one, some changes on the offensive line,
but the expectation that another year, uh, that Jalen Hurts
gets together, You've still got all that offensive weaponry, uh,
(39:15):
and that they're able to make things happen. That's the
one that's curious for me, Jason. They come in at
about fifteen to one again, Packers drifting towards twenty to one.
Packer's just ahead of the Cowboys. So take that for
what it is.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yeah, I mean that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I mean, come on, the Cowboys didn't get better. Jerry
Jones is punting on the season on sudden, they're gonna
get better?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Noat And then you have right after them the Jets
twenty point one, followed by the Dolphins. Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
You know, look, I'll tell you right now, I'm not
picking the lines again. I did it last year, right,
I put the lines on the Matt.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I gotta heard some Super.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Bowl I got I know, I got them when they
cast them too bad, Dan Campbell NFC Championship Game mistakes.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
I got them that close. Man. You got to be
able to see that over the finish line. No, no, no,
you got to be the EXE cute.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
You gotta be able to execute, and they made the
right plays, play call. They just didn't finish the plays
let's go obviously.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Obviously even the wrong places because they didn't complete them.
They if they completed it would have been the right play,
but it wasn't the right play.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
They didn't complete it.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I'd bean, but I can't do I can only do
so much. I can only do this. I can't catch
the ball for him, Mike. I can't make the right
decisions like I got them within two quarters of the
Super Bowl. Man, it would have been the greatest Bowld prediction
in the history of bold predictions. And I'm still taking
a W four because I got the Lions that far.
But I can't pick them this year. I cannot pick them.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
You'll come back to them before it's over. I'll still
roof them. I want the Lions. Look by my wife's
whole family are Lions fans. They're fun. I've watched a
lot of Lions foot You know.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
This is why you turn heel and rip your shirt
and say blank you last year and now I'm taking
it taking it away.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I'm turning a heel in the Lions.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
What are you thinking of? The Super Bowl No? Five
and twelve what Yeah? Five and twelve suck it. Don't
call me anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Don't text me. I'm blocking you. Wait, but I'm your aunt.
I don't care who you are, never heard of you
wrong number.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome. You will
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So Summer League action, we watch Brownie James hit yet
another three pointer tonight. Now that he's he's not gonna stop.
He's just gonna hit like one or two once in
a while. It's gonna happen, Lakers winning Summer League. But
here's Bronni James suddenly hitting freeze.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He goes oh for fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And now here I am and I've hitting threes, and
I'm scoring thirteen points, pulling down five rebounds. Rich Paul
is Indio going, Okay, let's see if we can get
you starting over Ruyachama.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Let's let's see how long it's gonna take to make
that happen.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I like the way you immediately went for Ruyacha Mora,
but you know, for Bronnie James, I think maybe some
of it is fail spectacularly, and then anything you do positively,
folks are gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Fall all over them.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So I love that idea, just fail, just fail, fail, fail,
and then you set the bar so low that all
you got. It's so easy you do. It's like stepping
over a piece of paper. Oh I love that idea.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
That's bottle of every one of your teams.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
That is. Yeah, hey, fail spectator that way.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Once in a while, when you win a couple of games,
everybody loves you.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
People get excited again.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Go on a little bit of a streak, go on
a little bit of a winning run, and all of
a sudden, you're you're not the bat the fish wrap
problem here. No, you actually get some love because of
that run, because you were so horrid. Now people feel
compelled like they feel sorry for you, Uh that they feel.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sorry like you're from they feel sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You're sorry if you're a coaching your organization, I'm sorry
the organization. Anytime you get to say organization, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. But yes, the the idea being that, you know,
now you get probably folks that are gonna fall all
over themselves the other way, Not that they weren't already, right,
Sicka fans were out in full force.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know who they are.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
But now you get to put a little bit on
tape that's a little bit better offensively, right, defensively, He's
been on skates a few times. He's made some some
other good plays to where that's where you know everybody
was hanging their hat. But now if you actually hit
some jump shots.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Wow, look out, what plan has more pages in it?
Like what's the big what's the bigger, thicker plan? The
plan that Rich Paul is writing up to get Bronnie
James a starting spot with the Lakers, or the plan
the guy that took the illegal video the Michigan head
coach did to take over the Michigan football program, Like,
(03:15):
which do you think has more pages to that plan?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Take the Michigan Michigan football program or getting Browny to
start in La.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Wow, the guy with the Michigan plan, because that was
hundreds of pages of rambling.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
What do you think this is gonna be? Come on,
come on, what do you think No?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
No, no, no, no, no, this is gonna be a succinct
business plan. There's not a lot of incoherent ram I mean,
I'm not saying it's not from the people that are
writing the column inches and going on TV or whatever.
There's plenty of unhinged stuff and plenty of monologues that
are being scrapped that if you printed him off probably
get us across the country.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We can walk out a little bridge.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But from the actual Clutch Sports Rich Paul's side of it, no,
it's very succinct.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's my guy. Lebron's kind of a big deal. It
is one page plan.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, I think you need a two page plan because
now I can see it. Now I can a cover page,
just page. Okay, you need cover page and the back
page to support it. So it's four pages overall. Oh,
cover page. You open it up and it just is
on the top. Bronny starts and it's a big picture
of Lebron smiling, and then you turn the page. Bronny
sits and it's a picture of lebron frowning and there's
(04:23):
like ace bandages all over his body, on his knee,
on his elbow, on the and he's sitting in a
rocking chair. It's like, oh, okay, I see where this
plan could work here. I I I read the I
read the plan. I'm on board with it. Hey, let
me see call Ruey into my office. Let me make
sure he's oh, you know what, hey, and bring bring
Austin Reeves into Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I gotta just saying that the Michigan Manifesto guy had
at least four pages of him practicing his autograph. Do
I put head coach next to my name? Under my name?
There's that extra for the inscription.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Uh So we'll have more on Browny more NBA on
the way. But this is the the silliest story. And
I got admit. I love when I learned things right,
Because I'm fifty three now. How often do I realize
like I know everything already, rig I know how things
are gonna go. I know we make big bull bridges
to come through all the time. But I always love
when I learned something Lamar Jackson is in a huge
(05:17):
dispute with Troy Aikman over the number eight because he
wants to continue to wear eight when Baltimore Aikman has
said no, no, because Lamar Jackson is challenging Aikman's use
of their shared number eight in a big patent and
Trademark office complaint.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Sure, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Lamar Jackson's applied for several trademarks using the number eight
in different phrases like the era eight is something he's.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Looked at and.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Fl a couple of eight eight twenty eighteen era because
it was when he got drafted. There's a bunch of ways,
but it's about the number eight and he wants to
use it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And this is now runs.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Contrary to Troy Aikman, who wants to use the number eight,
of course, number he wore throughout his career in the
NFL on apparel and begs so now there's a big
thing now, And Lamar Jackson is in court about this
because he says this could be deceiving or confusing and
cause a mistake with the purchasing public as to whether
they're buying apparel from Lamar Jackson's company or for Troy
(06:25):
Aikman's company. So he's trying to get all the rights
to the number eight. What do you got, Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
It's just a little more than a peril though he
has a whole beer company.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, he's already got his beer company exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, that has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh sure, no, no, no, And and I understand this
and I get it now. The first thing was that, Okay,
I really think if you know, you really understand if
you're buying something that's Troy Aikman eight or Lamar Jackson eight,
I really think you got to give the public a
little bit more than that, a little more credit than
this is a purple eight.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
With a Okay, so is this Akman or not? I
don't understand. This is a blue eight and it says
Troy on it, and so I think you can beget it.
But I get. I get.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What's going on is both of them want to have
access and be able to own the number eight.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And when I saw this, I.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Said, man, you can really own an I don't think
you can own a number. I don't think you can
get kind of access to that, to number eight. And
sure enough, when I looked into it, you can do
this all right, Christine Farley, So, I guess they call
it Chris Farley, She's a law professor at American University,
and said, the truth is, you can own almost anything
(07:37):
you think of as a trademark.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You can own a smell, you can own a sound,
you can own a single color, you can own a
single number. And I'm like, you can really do that.
And I'm saying, if you could do that, how have
people met. I would love to own purple like you
would think Prince would.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Be able to own. You can't own purple. I can
own purple if I want to. I can own purple.
I'll crush you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I can own it. I can own a smell. Hey,
I just passed gas. I own that smell.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah. I don't want any of that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But like certain things, I didn't know you could own
some of this stuff. You could own things like I
can own a How can I own a color?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Real? I can own green, I can own orange. I
can I mean, come on, if I own I think
you have eracuse guy?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, I think you have to trademark a particular shade
of any of those colors at this point though, right,
because I think the base ones had probably been filed
by Crayola and many others. But the point being, it's
it's like shoeing people in the United States. You can
do it for anything and then you sort it out
in the wash.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But you can own a number, you can own a color,
you can own a sound.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
How do you own a sound? I own the sound
of all the jets taking off? Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So every time a jet takes off and you hear it,
you owe me money? Like I mean, how is how
have more people not monetize this or found out a way?
I have a boy, I gotta I gotta pay money.
Why because I said orange three times? Well there's that.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Well, but but the bigger thing is just from the
relegigiousness of it, because then if you're gonna go down
that road, Jason, you then.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Have to challenge every use of it.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And to Justin's point, now you're a lot of billable
hours for legal teams to send cease and desists and
whatever else, right, because that's the first step generally is like, hey, you're.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Infringing on my trademark. I'm gonna be nice uh and
tell you to beat it.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And then we start really getting the lawyers involved.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
In getting after it very expensive to protect some of
those trademarks. So while they made me common sense of hey,
this is cool, Like even if you have something designed,
you know, art or whatever for your podcast, it's expensive
to keep that up.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It really is. But how does like Steve Young not
join the lawsuit? Wait a minute, I'm number eight.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Now he's got to decide he's a lawyer. Maybe he's
decided it's not worth his time and effort.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
How is cal Ripkin was number How is Aaron Rodgers
not joining he's number eight? Wait a minute, everybody calls
me eight. I was number eight. Well he's got joining
this here. He's got far less close out as a
number eight. You were snaps as a number eight, So
he doesn't really count just yet. Yeah, but that Jets
throwback jersey with eight looks so sweet. It is such
a sweet looking jersey.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Man. But I mean, but if you.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Was in Yogi Barra number eight, Yogi bar all time winners, Sure,
Yoki Barre.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Maybe Yogi bar wants all of this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Maybe Carlustremsky, Yeah he wants number eight too, sure?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Or Bingo, let's go Daryl Boston. I mean, there's a
lot of guys.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Darryl Boston X met Darryl Boston very nice, but like
I but I feel like this this hole back and forth. Okay,
so let's say Lamar Jackson wins number eight. As you said,
you can own different for so like if if orange
is something that's owned by Creola, and I have to
be more specific, I have to be burnt orange or whatever.
(10:52):
But like can't Aikman or or Lamar Jackson say well
my eight is blue eight or eight or something else
like that, Like if that it works that out a
little get around it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, I think you could probably work that out also
of you know, let's play nice sandbox and realize that
there's plenty of marketability and numbers to be had for
all of us. And this is stupid. Cowboy fans ain't
buying your Ravens crap, and the Ravens fans ain't buying
your Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But right he was.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
He did have the the first mover, like the beer
has gone over, well, it's had great sales. We're not
talking about, you know, having that opportunity to be the
billion dollar deal like cosam Egos and the afore Engine.
Clooney got to listen to the whole show or things
of that nature. But you know, it's it's a niche
and it's a large market, so even a fraction of
it represents pretty good sales. But yeah, it's it's very
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costly to try to enforce all this stuff. So I
would advise them to get into a room and figure
out how to how to settle this, because obviously you're
also going to go down the highways and byways of
some other guy who squatted on the number eight years ago,
like people used to do on websites. Madonna wants to
have her own website.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Some guy, some.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yokel in the basement in Michigan went and registered all
of the URLs Madonna dot com, Madonna whatever the year was, dot.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Com, material girl dot com.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah right, so it becomes a big fight of like, hey,
they're cybersquating here, same thing will happen. I think in
some of these trademarks that it won't be so easy
for the celebrity to get them because you've got folks
that have already put in paperwork and then you start
looking into the parsing out the language, what what things
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is you have to pay to file for each category?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
These wants money for it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
They can do that, sure, sure, but it's again the
point of what's been protected by someone in the marketplace
and what hasn't. Maybe Lamar Jackson is legal team find
the holes that that Akman left behind. We don't you
know what we get to make beer coozies. You bought
the beer, but you didn't do that, and now we're
coming for you.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I just think now of all the things that I
could buy that I didn't know I could own.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Look, I had no idea like.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
If I owned or if I own the color orange,
Here's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I would just demand.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I would just watch everything that Syracuse and the Mets
and the Knicks did, and I would say, you guys
gotta pay me. Anybody else use an orange Netherlands use
orange as your color. That's fine, I don't care. But
I'd say, hey, Syria, you owe me money. And that's
who I would focus on. They would say, boy, this
guy's a watchdog. He's watching everything we do him. But
that's all he does is watch the three of you.
So of course, and I'd make enough money and I'd
(13:36):
be fine. I didn't know I could do this. This
is the way I could have just retired so early.
Man legal things, Man, legal things that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I don't know. I can't believe I've found this out now.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You should have told me before this, Mike, you apparently
would have known something like this. You're smart, I know
enough to be dangerous. And that's about where it ends.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
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what they've done so far. Bronnie James is hitting threes.
Russell Westbrook's on the move. Nobody better to talk to
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told us last week, he is all in on the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
For this season. It is Rick Buker. Rick, what's happening? Bud?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
How are we? How are we? Are we? I'm just
I fresh back. I'm back home. I was in Vegas
for the last few days, and uh and I survived.
So sorry, I was. I think I was supposed to
come on a little earlier. I was. I want to
say I was in transit. I wasn't in transit. I
simply lost track of time. So glad to be with you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Now, all right? So all right, then, then do this
for us here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, the biggest, the biggest or most surprising thing in
Vegas the last few days for you that you saw
is Wow, boy, that's pretty wide birth there ran even
for Colin in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Can'd no.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You gotta tell us biggest most surprising thing, what'd you
see in Vegas the last few days?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Biggest thing?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Oh? Actually, you know, the probably the craziest thing is
just seeing the Sphere in person.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Isn't it outstanding? Isn't it outstanding?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
It is just it is the most bizarre. I can't
take my eyes off and you're like, what the hell
did somebody just drop this massive marble that keeps changing
colors in the middle of Vegas. It's it is captivating.
I didn't go inside, and I hear it's a great
venue and all that, but it's just, you know, Vegas
has got this like bizarre We've got the Eiffel Tower
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in the middle of the desert all kids, We've got
all this kind of crazy stuff going on, and somehow
they found a way to top it with the Sphere.
It's just of all the weird, strange, out of place things,
the Sphere is probably it basketball wise, man. I don't
you know. A scout texted me this morning and he
(18:04):
was asking me, like, who impressed you? And I said,
impressed is a really big word. I don't know if
anybody like impressed me. Reed Shepherd looked really, really good,
but I thought he would be good, but he he
looked like arguably the best player that I saw. Donovan
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Klingen absolutely put Alex Sar in a body bag. And
after watching Alexar's body language aside from his you know,
his struggle on the court, watching him go by go
back to the bench, and an assistant coach was trying
to talk to him and he just he walked right
by him, uh and and ignored him. And I was like, man,
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that's not a good look for summer league, for a
guy who's playing the way that he is. Having seen
whether it was Victor Winbin Yama or Tim Duncan or
any number of guys that that is a bad, bad
look for a guy who was already struggling. So I
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could go down the line, there's some some other guys
that that have impressed me here and now Philip Philipkowski
looks like he was a steel for Utah. There's the
kid Terrence from from Minnesota. I think he had the
legal issues that he had and then was cleared of them.
And it looks like a lot of teams didn't reset
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where he uh he should have gone talent wise in
the draft, But you know, I didn't see anybody that
was like a huge game changer. And I was really
just I was I was fighting, like I think, maybe
this is this is the most amazing thing. The most
amazing thing was And this will lead us into our
(19:55):
next subject. Was the fan reaction to Brownie James. It was,
I just it was. It was remarkable. I don't even
know how to describe it. It didn't it didn't matter
what he did. If he touched the ball, the place
went nuts. If he scored, it went nutsier. It was
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I've never seen a second round pick or a guy
who's played as badly as he has, who was the
crowd was just captivated by him. I mean, it was
just And I don't want to hear from anybody out
there about well, you know the reason that he's getting
he's getting ripped is or the reason he's being critiqued
is because the media are paying all this attention to him. No,
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I mean, the media is reacting to fans being enthralled
with the kids. So then the media is going to
follow that lead and say, Okay, you guys are really
fascinated by him. We're going to give you a take
on him. We don't think he's very good. Don't blame
us like I just it. You know, I'm glad he
(20:57):
had He's had a good couple of games. I saw
his first decent game last night before before I left.
But I was also I was just fatigued. I'm so
fatigued by the attention to a second round pick. And
and there's no way you can fairly assess him because
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of all the attention that he gets. If you, if
you were honest about where he is, you know, he's
not an NBA player. He's had two good summer league
games now and everybody's going nuts the summer league games
we never like. I'm not reach efforts looks great. Do
I think he's gonna I doubt he's going to start.
(21:39):
I don't know. And and he made the game look easy,
and he's looked good every every minute he's been on
the floor. But it's summerly, so you know, if you
if you, if you critique Brownie the way his attention
demands he be critiqued, then you're a hater. And if
you ignore him, then you're ignoring the player that people
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seem to be most captivated by so I just I
don't I don't know how you win that battle.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah, it's a difficult proposition, no question about it. Rick
trying to navigate that part of it. Switching to the
fun and exciting world of the US Olympic squad beaten
down of Serbia. I mean, and the other night you
had Nikola Jokic was watching them like he was clever
laying for Rocky three, and then they went out and
got worked from collar to post. This squad obviously a
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little bit of the controversy with Jalen Brown or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
But are they going to walk through this thing?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I do not. I do not expect that they're going
to walk through this thing, though I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
I mean, the win over Serbia was definitely impressive, and
Serbia is just and I don't know whether they can
shoot better. They missed a lot of shots and then
the game kind of got away from them, and it
is an exhibition. So I don't know how you know
how much they were trying to get back into it.
(22:59):
I still, you know, seeing the Australia game, there are
times where the execution in close games is troubling, and
it's understandable simply because of the lack of familiarity and
still trying to figure out roles. I mean, this is
the problem, and Jalen Brown is a microcousem of it
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is when you bring all these guys together that are
used to being the centerpiece to the team, now you're
asking them to play complementary roles. And there is a
skill and a talent and a nuance to that that
these guys for the most part, have not had to
do for the last umpteen years. And now you're asking
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them to play off the ball, and you're asking them
to all of them defensively, to rotate and read each
other and know what's going on, and it's just it's
a challenge. And whether it's Serbia or France or any
of these teams, you know they've they've had years in
years and years of experience. They it's almost you know,
they have that that muscle memory of playing together that
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that our guys don't. And and they're also much more
familiar with the with the rules and the officiating. So
I thought it was a very promising sign. I was
very impressed, particularly with the combination of Bam out of
Bio and Anthony Davis defensively. I mean, my goodness, those
two the way they can play off each other. And
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you put Through Holliday out there. I was, I will
say this, I think the most surprising thing. Forget. Maybe
I said it on Collins said it somewhere. I picked
my starting five and I said, I assure you that
it's not going to be the one. I might have
done it on your show. Did I do it on
your show? Ye? I was asked to do the starting five,
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and I said, I guarantee you my starting five is
not going to be the starting five for this team.
And lo and behold second half of Servia. This is
the first first minute or two of the Serbia game.
But second half, my starting lineup of MBD, Tatum Brown,
Curry and Drew Holliday was out there. I'm like, what
do you know, Steve Kerr not as bad as he thought.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Team TMUSA head coach Rick Buker. See, and here's the
thing is is you know about Embiid. I know that
everybody is going crazy about his play, his level of conditioning,
and I understand, Oh no, I want to see more
Embid because you know What I love, Rick, is that
Embiid is playing like it's the end of the second
round against the next Like I'm on one leg, but
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I gotta take every shot, and I got to get
to the free throw line, and I got everything's got
to come through me, and I'm just gonna slow the
game down for everybody, Like I want.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
To see more of that.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's because like he's playing it just like he's he
would play the Knicks in the second round of the playoffs,
it was outstanding.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Well, I will say this, like he's not doing that
by accident. Steve Kerr wants him to establish that like
how they're going to play because they're going to be
games when the Olympics start where they're they're going to
need his size, and they're going to need his scoring
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inside and they're going to need to beat up some
of these teams in the paint, and so they're trying
to get everybody acclimated to that. You are, I mean,
you're right in terms of like, man, it's it's very
MBD centric for sure, But I don't I don't believe
like if he was doing that against what Steve Kerr
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wants to see, then we wouldn't be seeing it anymore
at this point. And I and and that's not how
they're playing. They are feeding him and they're having him
work his way into the paint so that everybody can
kind of acclimate. Because let's face it, you look at
all the guys on this team, how many of them
play with an MB type Like nobody nobody, nobody plays
with the center that plays the way MB does. So
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they almost that they have to get used to where
do I need to be? Where do I cut? How
to where how do I space with a guy like that?
Playing with a guy like that? So and and again,
like people are ripping on his effectiveness or you know,
his conditioning or whatever. Look, we're as good as a
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D and VAM have been. There is going to come
a time in the run for gold where they're going
to need MB to play his best And and I'm
not saying that they're gonna get it, but there's a
reason that he's on this team. There's a reason that
he's vital, And there's a reason that we've been beat
up the last few years in the paint because we
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simply have not had a size a center of MB's
ability or size and if there's a reason that I
that I like this team for winning gold, he's one
of them.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harman here at Fox
Sports Radio. Rick Bucher guest FS one the On the
Ball podcast, and you hear him here with us each
and every week.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Rick.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
The trade that goes down and then and eventually the
signing Russell Westbrook going to be a member of the Nuggets.
I think the odds to win the title, Uh didn't
move at all.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
For you.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
I would I would not be surprised by the way.
Can we just change Utah's the team name to the
Utah Clearinghouse. They seem to be They seem to be
the place where everybody trades a player and then buys
them out just so they can either get off a
contract or they can pick up another second round pick
and add to their coffers. It's fine. I've just had
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to laugh when I saw, Well.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Unless it's the next in which case Danny Ainge was
going to say, we want your whole team for Donovan.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Everything else is that though, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Well yeah, and then and then you're even if you
offer to us, we're gonna say, now, never mind, we
were just we were just kidding.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
We're just kidding.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah, you make a you make a good point there.
I look, it's so fascinating. Russell Westbrook is so fascinating
in that the perspective of players in the league is
so dramatically different than the public, by and large, the
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public's perception and probably the media too. I mean, Lebron
James wanted Russell Westbrook, thought he was going to be
the missing piece. Nikola Jokic now sees Russell Westbrook as
a guy that he has to have, and uh it,
(29:34):
he's I appreciate how hard Russell plays. I don't think
he's going back to his days in Oklahoma City. I
never thought he was. He was selfish. I thought that
he you know, I mean, Katie doesn't win all the
scoring titles if if Russell Westbrook is truly a selfish
point guard. But he's he's difficult to play with and
(30:00):
and he hasn't been part of a successful recipe since
Oklahoma City in terms of getting anywhere near the finals.
And yet you talk to players in the league and
they just they swear by him, they love him, they'd
love to play with him until they actually do play
with him. But you know, I don't know. It's like
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it's going to be different with me. I guess that's
what they're thinking. I just you know, they didn't they
didn't handle Russell right or I don't. I actually haven't
really talked to you guys. Guys just gave me an idea.
This is this is all I need to talk to
some players about about the fascination with Russell Westbrook and
why why they appreciate him and why they continue to
(30:47):
appreciate him in spite of his track record. It's like
being on the court with him and you see how
hard he plays and there was a respect there. But
you know, can you maybe this is why we don't
have players buy and large. Players shouldn't be gms or
making personnel decisions because and again this is we know
where fans are, like, you should have players decide on
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this and that. And it's like now players, players have
a more skewed view of the game than any media
person does because we don't have skin in the game,
like and we don't. We're not we're not influenced by
what a guy like did to us one on one
on the court. We're just stepping back and looking at
(31:31):
a guy in the big picture and big picture I got.
I love watching Russell Westbrook play. Would I ever say
he's the missing piece to a championship team? No, I
I don't. I don't know that those words could come
out of my mouth without without an eye roll.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker,
check out the on the Ball podcast, and of course
is continuing trumpeting of being all in on the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
For this season.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Rick, as always, Buddy, appreciated my friend. We'll talk to
you soon. Have a great night, Be good, Rick, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Rick's interview with Ryan Arkadiakino will be real.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports with Martin Wise.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What he got for us.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
The Lakers draft picks Bronnie James and Dalton Connects played
well against the Cavaliers in their last Summer League game,
Bronnie James finishing with thirteen points on five for tennis,
shooting Connect seven for sixteen from the floor for twenty points.
Wizard's number two overall pick, Alexander shar struggled again in
his Summer League match up with the Kings, finishing with
two points on one for six from the floor. It's
made one shot in his last twenty one attempts games
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going on right now.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
I know Rick was just talking about Reed Sheppard.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
He's five for thirteen right now with eleven points, zero
for five from three. Rob Dillingham, the eighth pick in
the draft, was traded to the Minnesota Timboles Draft Night.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Four for sixteen, one for six from three to nine points.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Guys, It's almost like they're playing at a new level
for the first time.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
How about that shock it off learning curve?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I mean some serious learning curve.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
The Clippers trading for Russell Westbrookay, guys were just talking about.
Also included for Russell Westbrook there a second rown pick
and cash of the Utah clearing house per Rick Buker,
and assigning trade for Chris Dunn. Usbrook expected to agree
to a contract Bile with Utah had eventually signed with
the Nuggets.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Nick Saban's getting.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
An honor as the University of Alabama plans to honor
their former head coach by naming the playing field for
him at Bryant Denny Stadium. Jacksonville Jaguars are suing am
At Patel, a staffer who stole twenty two million dollars
from the team in a three and a half year
period to pay off his gambling debts. That's a lot
of debt. Twenty two million. He's Shohil Tonney get a
(33:47):
load of that. UH funded sixty six point six million
is the number that Jacksonville Jaguars are suing him for
in damages in a Florida state court. Daniel Brown at
six hunder the heads the first round of the Open,
Shane Lowry five unders, anderschaw Flea two under in Brooks
Kopka and Scotti Scheffler both one under at the Open.
(34:08):
Tiger Woods is eight over, Roy McElroy seven over, in
Bryighton d Chambo five over. As the first round of
the Open concluded yesterday, the next round will get started
in just about an hour. Saint Petersburg City Council approved
plans for the new Ray's Stadium one point three billion
dollars the price tag. It has thirty thousand seats, a
(34:29):
fixed roof, and a scheduled to be ready for opening
day twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
That's when I ask you, guys, h.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Thirty thousand seats for a professional athletics stadium. I feel
like there's high school football stadiums in Texas that seat more.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
But how many.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Sellouts do you think the Rays will have in twenty
twenty eight? Other's thirty thousand Seed Stadium. Jason and Mike
ponder that one.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
How many? How many people are you spotting me? Are
you spotting me? Fifteen thousand people? I'll say they sell
out every game?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
How many concerts can you fit in?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Are they covering the spread? I don't know. Taylor Swift
could draw thirty thousand in Ah too soon soon? Wow,
Thank you very much, Martin, appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Coming up next, an NFL star quarterback has made the
boldest statement of any quarterback this offseason.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
What is it? You'll find out next right here.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
This be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (35:30):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, And we now have the biggest, boldest statement
made by a quarterback. As we get ready for training
camp to begin, the Houston Texans very aggressive in the
off season, get ready. They opened training camp in a
few hours. Kind of fun and quarterback c J. Stroud,
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who had a great rookie year's phenomenal, says coming into
year two, he's a five headed monster in his offensive
skill group. Now, remember they brought in Joe Mixon and
Stefan Diggs, two pretty good acquisitions.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
They re signed Dalton Schultz. You also have.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Nico Collins who turned into a great one and Tank Dell,
who before he got hurt, was one of the best
slot middle of the field receivers in the NFL. This
is an absolutely powerful offense. And yes, health is always
a thing, and you hope Tank Dell will stay healthy.
And you know Joe Mixon's getting older, so is Deefon Diggs.
(36:31):
But it's not like you're asking these guys to come
in and be the big ones. You're saying, hey, Diggs,
come in and take some pressure off of Collins and Dell.
So it's okay, and somebody as good as c. J.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Stroud.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I got news for you the biggest, most popular super Bowl,
the trend I'll say trendiest. The trendiest super Bowl picks
of this summer are going to be the Texans and
the Packers. That will be the trendiest pick that anybody
is going to have who are teams that are not
the Chiefs or the Eagles that I can pick where Boy,
(37:04):
they had a good year last year and they're young,
and they had a little bit of taste of playoff success,
and now they got even better in the offseason. And
who's gonna make who can take that leap and win
that extra one or two games. I don't know that
you're gonna see a more trend toier pick than Texans Packers.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
And it's hard to go against it because both these
teams are really deep and good. It's just I look
at it and go, everybody's gonna pick them? Can I
really go Texas Packers?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I mean, well, I gotta go Jets obviously because we're
going to the super Bowl, But like outside of that,
I mean Texas Packers is is gonna be the pick?
Like that's what everybody is going to pick. They're gonna
go down and go, yeah, oh everything.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
That happened here.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Here's Team A, which was really good last year and
made the playoffs, and they have a great base and
they have a lot of weapons. Plus the increases they
made in the offseason. That's team beat Boom. They're going
to the Super Bowl. I mean Texans Packers. That'll be
the trendy pick and it won't be close.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Texans at this point the fourth best odds for an
AFC squad. You've got the Chiefs, you got the Ravens,
and then you've got the Cincinnati Mangles just ahead of them,
Texans coming in at sixteen to one. On the other side, Packers.
Anywhere from sixteen to one to twenty to one are
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the current odds there.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
But hey, look, I'm surprise it's that low.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Coming off the playoff and coming off Jordan Love with
that game against the Cowboys, I'm surprised that the odds
aren't a little bit more, a little bit low, a
little bit lower, I would say, I'm surprised.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, the curiosity for me, right forty nine Ers obviously,
even with the Brandon Ayuk drama and how that plays out,
I say they hold him and try to sell people debo.
You've got the Detroit Lions, sexy pick for a lot
of folks coming off of their season expecting another big
run in division and through the NFC. The team that
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is curious to me that comes in ahead of the
Packers Packers again. You know, fourth is the the Eagles
at fifteen to one, some changes on the offensive line,
but the expectation that another year, uh, that Jalen Hurts
gets together, You've still got all that offensive weaponry, uh,
(39:15):
and that they're able to make things happen. That's the
one that's curious for me, Jason. They come in at
about fifteen to one again, Packers drifting towards twenty to one.
Packer's just ahead of the Cowboys. So take that for
what it is.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yeah, I mean that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I mean, come on, the Cowboys didn't get better. Jerry
Jones is punting on the season on sudden, they're gonna
get better?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Noat And then you have right after them the Jets
twenty point one, followed by the Dolphins. Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
You know, look, I'll tell you right now, I'm not
picking the lines again. I did it last year, right,
I put the lines on the Matt.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I gotta heard some Super.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Bowl I got I know, I got them when they
cast them too bad, Dan Campbell NFC Championship Game mistakes.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
I got them that close. Man. You got to be
able to see that over the finish line. No, no, no,
you got to be the EXE cute.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
You gotta be able to execute, and they made the
right plays, play call. They just didn't finish the plays
let's go obviously.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Obviously even the wrong places because they didn't complete them.
They if they completed it would have been the right play,
but it wasn't the right play.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
They didn't complete it.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
I'd bean, but I can't do I can only do
so much. I can only do this. I can't catch
the ball for him, Mike. I can't make the right
decisions like I got them within two quarters of the
Super Bowl. Man, it would have been the greatest Bowld prediction
in the history of bold predictions. And I'm still taking
a W four because I got the Lions that far.
But I can't pick them this year. I cannot pick them.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
You'll come back to them before it's over. I'll still
roof them. I want the Lions. Look by my wife's
whole family are Lions fans. They're fun. I've watched a
lot of Lions foot You know.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
This is why you turn heel and rip your shirt
and say blank you last year and now I'm taking
it taking it away.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I'm turning a heel in the Lions.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
What are you thinking of? The Super Bowl No? Five
and twelve what Yeah? Five and twelve suck it. Don't
call me anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Don't text me. I'm blocking you. Wait, but I'm your aunt.
I don't care who you are, never heard of you
wrong number.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome. You will
hear the craziest thing from the night in sports. Next
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