July 17, 2024 • 42 mins
Chris Broussard and Rob Parker discuss whether or not Shohei Ohtani should resume pitching after the season. The guys debate whether the Cowboys should trade Dak Prescott. Plus, why isn't Alex Sarr getting the same heat as Bronny James?
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Ex sim Channel eighty three.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With that said, let me welcome in the long lost
mister Rob Parker. What's up, old man? What's happening?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Mister Chris Bussar, Yes, I'm back I'm back, baby.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I wasn't sure if you were coming back.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Nah, all is good.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was down in Arlington, Texas for the home run
derby and the.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Home run it just ended, didn't it. Yeah, I know, right,
they gotta do something. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But golly and the well, it's funny, Chris, is that
they've changed something, all.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right, right, change longer than usual?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Was it longer? I think so?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't know if they might have to change the
rules back, yeah something.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, but uh. The All Star Game as well, which
was cool everything though, but it was great.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I love going to those events, Chris. You get to
see everybody, talk to everybody. The players are really good.
MLB BRO was down there, a couple of my reporters
down there doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It was great. It was really good. They are more
black reporters from MLB BRO than black players in the game.
I mean, like black American players. It probably it was six.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
There were six black American players and we had four.
They didn't close. They had you get one freeze reporter.
We've had over the lab the last few years have
been a little bit more. But you know, Mookie was heard,
you know, a couple other guys Chris who didn't who
got hurt this year? Didn't play John Carlos Stanton was hurt.
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He's been an All Star before. But but it was great.
It was a good.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, it's good to have you back.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Man. Let's rock the house. We speaking the house. We
got Eddie House joined us at the bottom of the
eye couple crew. Uh pretty much. Uh, well, you know,
we still just makeshift a little bit over the summing.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Rob G. We hope gets well. He's not feeling well.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Strep throat.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I talked to him.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
He's feeling better, but he's got strep throats.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Have you had that, Chris? I had a long time ago. Yeah, probably,
but years ago. You know, I know it's nothing pleasant. No,
you know that throats with drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But Ryan Berschinger is in for Rob G. He's the
super producer today.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And Ryan was all happy because, uh, you know, Otani
hit the home run and then he figured he's gonna
be the m v P of the All Star Game.
Otani write the big home run, Chris, and then nothing.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It didn't happen. It didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sorry, Ryan. DJ Alex Tysher is back. Mighty Mark Ramsey
feeling in for him admirably. But it's great to have
the regime Marty in a while, Chris. Yeah, we hadn't
seen him in a while. On the updates is Martin
whis who filled in for you the last two days, Rob,
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And he did well.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And then I've seen me on Twitter about you gain
twenty pounds or something from all the loop cupcakes.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm just saying that that's par for the course. He
hung in there and kept on, took a licking and
kept doing. All right, all right, Rob, let's get right
into it. You mentioned Otani and he did hit the
home run, and we had on first things first yesterday Rob,
we had Alex Rodriguez on.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's great. He just a great fun I can.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I say this, Chris, And I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Before he got the job and started doing TV, yep,
I thought to myself, some network should have grabbed him
and he should have you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Know as a player that he was.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know he that good.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, because he was won't spoke and he's got the looks,
Chris for television. You know, he's got all the other
stuff and he's smart, and I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Tom still, you know, there have been times I misjudged
the guy, you know, because he was smart, ransome, well spoken,
and they didn't have anything he or two soft so
you know, wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, he he's definitely And what I was gonna say
was I thought Chris like he should have been a
late night talk show host, like a Faon.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Or Jimmy Kimmel. You know why.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm like, if I'm one of the networks, you get
a guy who has a Hispanic background, but you know,
born in New York. He was born in uh uh
in New York.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Born in New York.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, he grew up in Florida, in Miami, but he
grew up he was born in New York, Chris, and
and I just thought to myself, you know, with the
country as it's changing to be more Hispanic or whatever,
I really thought he should have been. And now when
you see him on television, I mean, he's a That's
why he was.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
He was.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
He was the first guy at the ESPN and Fox
ever shared you know that, And.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Right that tells you you're good with ESB and Fox
Share you. No, he could do that, Rob if he wanted.
I don't know if you want to or not, and
he's not just good like some athletes are good and
everybody's got their on niche and that's fine. But some
guys are good because of you know, they'll say that
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you know that that they'll say, uh, that critical thing
that a lot of athletes won't say, you know, they'll
tell it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like it is. He's just good.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He's got like the whole package, I mean of the game. Yeah,
he's insightful. He's not just making hot takes, you know,
like he's he's excellent, excellent. But anyway, we had him
on first things first, and I asked Tim first, I
asked him Rob about Otany's quest for the Triple Crown,
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and then I said, well, if he gets the Triple Crown,
or even if he doesn't, but he continues to have
this type of season. Offensively, he's second in the in
the National League rob in batting average, he's first at
home runs, and he is third in RBI, and he
may not quite get the Triple Crown, but obviously having
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a heck of a he's not going to get it,
know what I mean, does good. He's eight back now
on RBI, so it's gonna be tough. But anyway, I
asked him, does he think he should, you know, maybe
give up the pitching and just be a full time player.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Here's what he says.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If he keeps this up as far as the way
he's hitting, and let's say he gets the triple crown,
do you think he should consider just being a hitter
or should he go back to pitching too?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Well, that that is a great question, and uh, you know,
I'm a guy that likes to try to keep things
as simple as possible. As an example, I don't love
when they move Aaron Judge from center field to DH
to right field. I believe if you have a Lebron James,
you have a Michael Jordan, you just say you sit
here every day and you shoot the basketball, and you
keep it as simple as possible, knowing there's going to
be a lot of distractions around him for a guy
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like Otani. My biggest concern, Chris, if that question you
asked me six seven years ago, I would say no,
as you're near your thirties and you see how valuable
he is about being in the lineup every day. And
I've always said that the most important stat for a
mega superstar is availability how many games played. I wanted
to play one sixty two every year, and if Otana
can get as close to one sixty two as possible,
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you can make an argument that that is his highest
value for the La Dodgers. So it's something to consider.
That's obviously a question for the Dodgers and for Otani
and his family.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
All right, Rob, what do you think.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think that they won't pull the plug on him
even though you know, if he's an everyday dh and
play and every day as a chance, he's just a
tremendous player, Chris. You know, like hitter, you can do
so much damage. But as you know as well, everybody
can't be a number two or one B or whatever
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what like. Like he's not young. As far as pitching, like,
you don't find guys like that. They're not all around
just laying around. Teams need pitching. So Dodgers right right now,
they need they need pitching. So it's hard for them
to really even consider that when we've seen that he's
been able to handle both loads. And you don't need
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to score a gazillion runs every night to win, but
you need pitching, especially chause of your goal is to
win a World Series at some point and you can't
have that guy now if he starts to have other
arm issues or something else, you know what I mean,
that's going upside. He's just average, right, If he's just
average or something, then then you can look and go,
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hey man, we need you in the lineup one hundred
and fifty six games a year. We need you, We
need your bat.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, the fan in me definitely wants to see him
keep doing both, Rod, But I'm with you even strategically,
because here's the first of all, as you said, they
need pitching.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He is an excellent pitcher. He's like an A level pitcher.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He is, And so as long as he's that, then
you might as well keep him out there on the mound.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
As great as he's playing this year offensively, last year,
while pitching full time, he had forty four home runs ride,
which led the league. He hit three oh four. He's
hitting three sixteen now, so that's only a twelve point
drive that like, you'll take three oh four every year?
Oh yeah, right. His on pace he led the most. Right,
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He led the league in homers, on base percentage, slugging percentage,
OPS and OPS plus, and total basis wild pitching full time.
That's actually more than he's leading now. This year, he's
leading the league in runs, but not in OBP on
base percentage, so he's still it's the same amount of
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things that he's leading the league in. So my point is,
if he can hit close to what he's doing now
as a full time pitcher, then yeah, I'm gonna keep
him on the mount. Now. Look when he's twenty nine,
when he gets to be thirty three, even if he
lasts that long rop then he'll he may slow down
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on the mound and need to just hit. But for
the time being, he's thirty actually just turned thirty. For
the time being, I think I would have him do both,
especially a team like the Dodgers, where they should have
plenty of hitting without him.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Right they have a lineup, you know, when they're all healthy.
Obviously Mookie Betts is out. He'll be back though, But
I'm with you. I just think pitching is a premium.
If you have a guy who's an A level type pitcher,
it ain't like he's a C level pitcher, be with
C level Chris, then you'd be like, I could get
plenty of guys to give me five innings and give
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them five runs, right, right, So that would I would
definitely not have him do that with that bat because
you got to remember, I think the way they do
it instead of you know, batting seven days a week, right,
it's five. Could you take off before you start, Chris
and right? Or I think you take off your start
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in the day before, the day after, the day.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Before and the day after, right, and then you start.
He paid one hundred and thirty five games last year.
But it's just a lot considering you were pitching, right,
But that's not one.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Sixty No, that's not one sixty two. That's that right,
You still missed almost thirty games right right, right now?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
He's your Is he your National League MVP?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think he's fine.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I think right now his numbers Bryce Harper is on
the best team, you know, they got the best record,
but his numbers aren't as good. They just aren't.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I mean I looked at him the other day and
I was like, Rice is only in the top five
in homers and he's got twenty one and the show
he's got eight more.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
That's big, I mean, I think. And I saw the
odds came out today, you know, judging O'tani you know,
judging the American League and Otani International League, which is
not a shock that those guys used to compete because
Otani was in the al right with the Angels Chris
and now the two best players and the same thing
with Judge. Judge is another one. Those guys are batting
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over three hundred Chris with power, with power, with power,
And that's the impressive thing is that they're not like
Kyle Schwarber with the Phillies, who hits a lot of
home runs. But it's batting one seventy.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Five right right, And I mean this would be old
Toany's third MVP in four years. I mean just incredible.
This is incredible and incredible what he's doing.
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Speaker 1 (15:19):
All right, It's the I Couple Chris and Rob our
number two on a worship Wednesday and Rob we know
one of the biggest stories in the NFL revolves around
Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And he's looking to become the.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Highest paid quarterback or player in NFL history, and the
Dallas Cowboys right now so far have not ponied up
that money and Dak's content if he has to play
on the last year of this deal. He's fine with it,
knowing that if the Cowboys don't give it to him,
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somebody else likely will. So this is gonna be interesting
to see how this goes. Of course, the Cowboys have
a history of, you know, playing trying at least appearing
to play hardball with some players, but at the end
of the day they generally cave and give the player
what he wants.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
But Charles Halley who won Super Bowls?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Was it Super Bowls or Super Bowl with the Cowboys?
But you know, I think he went with the Ers.
He's a Hall of Famer he but he he won.
So me won five Super Bowls. I knew he wanted
how with each team? Man he won three with San
Francisco and two with Dallas. I mean that's that dude
(16:44):
was was a factor to say the least. And anyway
he came out, Now do we have sound of this,
guys where he said that they should in his opinion,
the Cowboys should go a head and trade Dak Prescott.
(17:05):
Let me see if I can find Uh. It sounds
like we don't have sound of it. Maybe it was
just something we do have it all right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
He kept backloading everything, so now he screwed. So now
he you know, you know if Bill came Doe and
he doesn't have the money to be able to do that,
and so what he's gonna have to do is he's
gonna have to find another way around the saddle cap
or push a lot of older guy's salary cap way back.
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And then you don't know whether these guys are gonna
play one year or two years, and then all of
it come do again. So he played, he gambled a
long time, and now the time is up. So I
can tell you this trade that just put him up
for the trade. Guess what every team in the league
be after him? Yeah, every team in the league. Dak
is a winner. Dak is a great person, a great leader.
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I know, I've up there all the time, ceedee Lamb,
quiet guy leader. He wants the ball here at Jared Wright, just.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Give it to me.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I want And so how do you how do you
not keep those guys together?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, it's interesting, Rob, I mean the way he talked
about Dak, it was like, I don't want to trade
that guy. But where are you at on this? You
you think they should go ahead and trade him.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I mean, I trade him for who and what? And
I mean it's just too much.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think, Rob, it would just be it would be
basically draft picks, you know what I mean, kind of
starting all over at that position.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I don't know how that's starting all over. None of
it makes any sense, because I do agree that at
some you got to make a decision. You can't keep
prolonging it, like we talk about all the time, Chris,
the price doesn't go down, like like you got to
make a decision.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Is he your guy? Is he not?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And just you have to bite the bullet, right, You
have to pay. You have to pay up. It's quarterbacks
or premium. So many teams that don't have any Like
I don't know. If you really don't believe he's that
guy gonna get you to the super Bowl, then move on.
Just just move on as hard as it might be,
you know, then then move on. But to play the
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middle of the road on the fence game, is you
gotta you had enough time to evaluate him, Chris, This
ain't one or two years.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I've had enough time. Well, Haley's right in that the
way he said, Jerry just keeps pushing.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Down the road.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, And I mean the fact that Dak was getting
forty million a year on this last deal. Rob, remember
when it was like people were saying they shouldn't give
him thirty a year, if they had given him even
it was even lower than that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I remember having discussions is he worth twenty seven a year?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I remember that number two, right.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Like, And if you had done that then you'd be,
you know, in a lot better position than you are now.
And so it's just Jerry's indecision. And I agree with you.
I mean, look, we know how hard it is in
this league to find a great quarterback and every blue moon, Rob,
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a team without a great win wins, right, right.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But you have to be so excellent everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That and I actually think Rob, it might get less
and less that we see the average quarterback win a
Super Bowl. It just feels like there's so much, you know,
the game robbed because of the rules. I think the
game is even more dependent on the quarterback nowadays than
it ever was. And it always, of course that's the
most important position, but now I think because of the rules,
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is even more so. Rob. And so if you've got
a guy that's in the top ten ish, which is
where Dak is. I do think. Look, and I know
he's had his strug was in the playoffs. I mean,
and I'm not defending at two or five in the
playoffs one and four and some game, and I don't
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really want to. I mean, those that want to try
to defend what he did last year against green Bay
stop it. I'm with you, Chris. Yeah, I mean you
were down, you were in a hole, and he was
bad and him but he was bad and he threw
picks push that set up green Bay for easy score.
Wasn't one was one of pick six?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yes? Yeah, I mean, don't make it like, oh, the
defensis collapsed.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
No, he put the defense in a bad spot.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
A couple of times.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It was both. I mean we're not saying the defense
didn't play well either, but he You cannot put that
on the defense and act like Dak played great. Rob.
I've said that about some of Aaron Rodgers playoff games,
and I'm saying it about Dak like Rob. Green Bay
was up big, and of course, you know, as we've
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talked a lot about with Dak, he rallied him when
and not even rallied him, like to get back in
the game really, but you know, to put up some
points and some big numbers and make it look like
he he may not have been the problem, but he
was a big part of the problem. And then the
year before, like there's some of their playoff games, Rob
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vind it comically. And so all that said, though, I
do think you can win with Dak. I'm saying that
I think you could win the super Bowl with him
if everything is in place. But I feel like Rob
Jerry Jones, and I've said this before, he may be saying,
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you know what, before I give.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You sixty million, you're gonna have to prove something to me.
And I don't know. I don't think he's saying we
have to get to the super Bowl or win it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But man, I need to see you play well in
the playoffs and I need to see you win US
a game in the playoffs or two like.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Get that. But I don't know how you get around it,
you know, Like.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think they're hoping Trey.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Are they hoping that he plays poorly so they could
pay him less, you know what I mean? Chris Like, no, right, right, Well,
I'm saying if Dak, Yeah, if Dak plays great, And
I said this about Trevor Lawrence, Rob like or Tua,
you know, because I'm one that's like, I'm not ready
to pay two yet, but if he goes out there
and plays great, then I'm willing to and I'll pay
(23:24):
a little tax on it, right because I did. Wait, Jerry,
like you said, Rob, you would think you've seen enough
to pay Dak, right, I mean, I mean he's been
around for a while now. Yeah, he was almost MVP
last year, so I you know, it's interesting what they're doing.
But they they their financial situation is a mess because
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CD wants the big money, Micah wants the big money.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You got Zach Martin.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And obviously Dak that you have to pay so they financially, Rob,
I mean again, it's mismanagement, it appears.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Which is but a typical Dallas Cowboys because we've seen
this before and Jerry always seems to Chris Andie up
at the like he delays it, but he always and
he's up and he ups the money. So he could
just take this out of the conversation and just get
it done right and just say we got this kid.
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You know, we got a team in place. We're not
trying to reset the clock. Chris, we're not trying to
find somebody else now and hope that we Jerry Jones
is the clock is ticking on Jerry Jones. And seriously, Chris,
what really you want to start start the clock over
for five years from now. I just don't see how
you can do that. Not when Jerry's already in the
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Hall of Fame. That's not it. But more than anything,
he wants to win again because he's in the Hall
of Fame, but nobody gives him the credit, Chris, not
since he took over.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And I think more than anything, Rib, he wants to
do it his way. I don't know if he would
admit this, and I don't know if he even feels it,
but when I look at his actions, Rib, I feel
like he would rap. And again I get he probably
doesn't look at it this way, but I kind of
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feel like he'd rather lose his way than win somebody
else's way. You where you at on that, I mean
he won somebody else's way, and you know with Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, No, I think I think it's about him right.
He only wants to win if he's in charge, because
if that wasn't the case, Chris he would have done
something a long time ago, and we talk about it.
It's a family business. He got more relatives all over
the place, and his son is a you know, as
a GM or making like like, I don't know how
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you could just look yourself in the face after thirty years,
Chris and just think like you're doing something right like that,
Like at some point, don't you just go can you
go get the Can you go get somebody else? Can
you go get some football people? Can you stop running
the Dallas Cowboys like a mom and pop store?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
What you just said it when you emphasize the Dallas Cowboys,
This isn't the Lions, right, this isn't the Seahawks, this
isn't the even the Buccaneers. I mean they've won, you know,
they got Brady, but you know what I mean, like,
this is the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, even with the
thirty years of futility, right, what do they have? They
(26:35):
got the three but they have five Super Bowls, So
they're still like one of the winningest franchises ever. With
your three decades of nonsense, and so when you have
made the Dallas Cowboys into just kind of an entertainment spectacle,
(26:56):
you know, but not a real super Bowl contender.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
That's that's just bad. That's a bad job. That's all
that is. Rob That's just a bad job.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It's a terrible job. And unfortunately Cowboy fans have known it, Chris,
They've seen it. And Jerry's ego is too big. It's
just too big, and he wants he wants to win
his way. He does not want to win. Whether he
bring somebody in, Chris, go get it. Imagine you go
get a GM and and and somebody else and they
(27:27):
go and put together and make the right decisions and
then you win a Super Bowl? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Can you imagine that? He wos say he's happy, but
would he really be? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
He would be because it would be like, look what
happened if Cowboys went out and got a football guy
and then they won the next year?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That that's what would be the conversation.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Jerry finally gave up the reins, Chris, and they finally won.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Imagine how many more they could have won had he
done that years ago?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
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for foul or fair rap. How is Sports Rap Radio going?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We are doing all right, Chris, pretty good, coming along,
keeping growing, getting better. You can check us out on
the stream Chris now, and when you get a chance,
go to sports Wrap Radiodetroit dot com the website, click
on listen live and Chris. The stream sounds great, it
really does. And of course Martin and Jr. Are doing
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mid days from noon to three, so Martin's on there quickly.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I was gonna say so, Martin's on there. Lindsey Hunter
has a show in the Afternoon Drive. We've had him
on here.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
His VJ Husky on there too. No, oh, he's okay.
I thought he was, Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I'm we may have Martin jump in because I know
he's been following the w NBA. But Rob, I don't
know if you have. Caitlin Clark is balling like she is.
We talked about, you know, will she do what she did?
And she's starting to her last six games. I think
(30:06):
in July, Rob, she's averaged over eleven assists the game
and she's up to like seventeen point eight points or something.
That what is that?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Seven point eight assists the game? But you hear that storm?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You hear it? Yes? Seven loud?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Close my window.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Wow, give me a second. Let me close my wings.
I'm telling you it sounds loud. I thought it was
happening here, you know what I mean. That's how loud
it was. I thought it was happening here. Was that loud?
I could hear it?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, but that's typical summer thunderstorm, right, thunder bumpers.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, it's been rib it's been in the nineties, one hundred.
A couple of has been burning up.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The earth will cool itself, Chris, you know that, man, Yeah, exactly,
that's you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But Kaitlin Clark is killing. So she and their team
is turned around, and it's because Clark is playing better.
But one reason she's playing better is because of Leah Boston.
Let's just face it. Last year's Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
She just didn't come into the season in shape.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And now she's Yeah, now she's like back to she's
actually playing better probably than she did last year. And
she's great, and you know, she's giving Caitlyn help and
she's another person you gotta, you know, pay attention to.
And so they they actually got something going. They've won,
like after the one and eight start, they've gone ten
(31:34):
and six.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
So that's a mark. You've been checking out, checking them out.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Of course, Angel reeves playing well with the double doubles.
But these two rookies, all that talk about, oh they
you know, they about to find out what time it is.
I mean they coming in blind. Yeah, I've been paying attention.
I've been locked in.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
There's only twelve teams, so it's hard to, you know, to.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Not be locked in right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It doesn't it's easy stay on top of everything exactly right.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
But Clark is looking great.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I mean she she's starting to look like she looked
in college.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
The one thing she's not scoring quite as much, I'd
say the one thing she's got to work on is
her turnovers. And I think her shot selection leaves a
little bit to be desired. Like right now, she's got
fourteen points, I mean seventeen points on fourteen shots, two
for seven from three. I think she might want to
be a little more judicious on some of the three
pointers that she takes.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
But outside of that.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
She's she's pretty much what.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
The ads advertised.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I'll tell you, I'm not being a Debbie downer. I've
seen highlights, but I haven't seen one minute of a
w NBA game this year. I haven't seen. It just
doesn't interest me. Not I watched the highlights because I'm
watching Sports Center, Chris or whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
But you ain't watching the highlights. You're watching sports You.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
See thet you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Right, Well, it's on the hockey highlight, right, Okay, That's
why that's where I'm back, you know what I mean,
it's on, but I haven't watched a single game. I mean,
I know, I was in my hotel the other day
and I was flipping the channel and I guess games,
some games are on CBS.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I heard, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Like, I was like, okay, some WNBA games are on
CBS now. So I didn't know that enough. But I
couldn't tell you, like who was playing or what was
going on. I just it just it just doesn't I'm in.
I'm just never No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I mean, you're actually in the majority, to be honest,
you know what I mean. But the league is experiencing growth,
and everybody's not gonna watch, but they are definitely experiencing growth.
And you know, Caitlin Clark and even Angel Reese to
a lesser degree, but still Angel Reese are really bringing
some popularity to this sport that they really haven't seen
(33:48):
in decades. So all right, rob, let's go here. We
talked with Eddie House about it. Briannie James, who plays tonight.
It'd be starting in about thirty minutes. Actually he's ore
fifteen from three. I think he's seven for thirty one over.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Ass like.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And everybody, of course is talking about Brianie.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Is he ready? Is he a pro? What the heck
is going on?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
But Alex Saar, who was the number two pick in
the draft by the Washington Wizards and was.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Actually viewed for most of the lead up.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
To the draft as the best player in the draft,
and he wouldn't work out for the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
If that's the sole reason, but that may have contributed
to them taking Zachary Rishie instead of Alex Sorr.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I'm surprised I didn't hear Rob say.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I was gonna say it right, I'll just give you
a go ahead already. Sorry Rob? Last night and Martin,
look up what he's been doing in the Summer League,
like his first couple of games, because last night, I
think it was last night, but last game, Rob, he
was oh for fifteen. Now, this isn't Bronnie, this isn't
(35:05):
the fifty fifth.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
This is the second pick in the draft. He's a
seven footer from France and he was oh for fifteen. Yeah,
I mean I think.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Oh for seven from Trey. So what are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And a lot of people wonder why Eddie House even asked,
why aren't we talking about him like we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Brown because nobody he knows who that guy is. His
dad is not one of the most famous basketball players
who ever played. His dad didn't finagel to get him
in to a situation that nobody had for the most part,
Chris had ever had happened. And that's why Bronni is
Bronnie's always going to be a bigger story because of
(35:48):
his dad. And that's why if Bronnie was Chris, the
fifty fifth pick who did not wasn't related to lebron Jones,
Bronnie Jones, and he was off to this you know,
bad star, shaky start, whatever you want to use the term.
It wouldn't be the highlights on Center exactly that you
(36:11):
know that nobody one hundred percent. But if you're going
to if Brownie James has a good day or steal
or Big three or whatever, and they're showing that Chris,
they're gonna show when you when you go zero for
fifteen from three or whatever it is, you know what
I mean, Like, that's what comes with it, because if
he was playing well, they wouldn't be like, oh, we're
(36:32):
not showing that. No, I mean right, they would be like, oh,
we're not showing he's a fifty fifth pick. We're not
showing summer league highlight to that guy. They would be
showing it like crazy. Can you imagine if he was killing, right,
it would be like it would be upbeat, it would
be Chris. You would have to turn the channel. Am
I right?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
If he was kicking And it's interesting, rob like, and
it's not a surprise, but there's number one draft pick,
or there's the seventeenth pick overall dark and connect from Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
He's actually been.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Playing well, like, he's playing really well, and he's not
really getting You're not hearing much at all about him.
And we understand why I will say this about Alex
Sarr And I'm gonna just take it to the nerdy
basketball reason why I think people are, you know, not
(37:22):
as up in arms about him. I agree totally with
what you said. It is Lebron James's son versus some
guy from France that we don't know, we never saw it,
we don't know, we don't know, right, That is the
main reason. But I'm gonna say this as well, and
if Martin, I don't know if if either of you
been watching these games, or at least the highlights, tell
me what you think of this take. I watched Sar
(37:47):
mostly the highlights yesterday of his game when he went
over fifteen or two days ago, whenever it.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Was he.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Like, he doesn't look out Not only does he not
look out of place, he looks incredibly comfortable on the court.
His form is nice. He's seven feet one, but he's
he moves well. He doesn't look gawky, he looks smooth.
He just missed. It wasn't like, oh, he's right, this
(38:22):
guy's got a rushing shots or he can barely get
his shot off. It would be he's missed. He just missed. Now,
I will say this, this is the negative. He loves
the three. I think it was zero for seven from three.
There was a four on one break he pulled up.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
From now, so that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But he's too in love with the three. Like he
could easy because his handles decent, pretty good for a
guy that tall. But his things are clearly fixable. I'm
not really even pressed. I'm not saying this dude's gonna
be a super st I don't know, but I'm telling
you on the court. He looks like he more than belongs.
(39:02):
He just missed shots, Martin, did you see any of
his highlights of the game.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
I saw him block three shots in fifteen seconds, But
that was right.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
He also had three blocks, So but did you agree like.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
No shots today? It was I didn't see yesterday. He
did it maybe two or three days ago. Chris, I
got his numbers here. I think he had three blocks
in the game. He went over fifteen?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
He did? He did? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Right now.
Speaker 8 (39:27):
Shooting percentage from the floor, I robust nineteen point five percent.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Well, how much of that is the old for?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I mean, you go for fifteen, it's gonna be ugly.
What do he do the games before that?
Speaker 8 (39:37):
They just they don't break him down game by game.
This is just his so far in Summer League. He's
on thirteen attempts, he's making about two shots nineteen and
a half percent from the.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Floor for thirteen on average.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Well, yes, on for it takes six threes a game
and makes point seven for really in love with the three?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Eleven? Yeah, he's to he's doing in Love with the three?
But yeah, I mean this is just a basketball thing
on it. I don't think he's and I know what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
You're saying like he's he's obviously a player, just had
a bad day at the office, right right, like just to.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Say, I mean for Wimby's first game. And I know
this wasn't this guy's first game, but you know, Wimby
looked like, wow, he's gonna take a while, and he
wound up.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
He took a game, right Yeah, And then all of
a sudden, everybody was like, everyone knows it's Wimby, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Just yeah, but Brownie Robe, I mean, he's a he's
a project, that's what he is. You don't say that
about I.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Saw your clip on I g from first things first. Yeah,
and you you're gonna give him time and whatnot, which
is fine, No one's gonna no one takes I've talked
to people in the n b A, and you know,
the summer League is not the end all be all
where you're crowning people Chris good or bad.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
You gotta be careful good or bad.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
So I do agree with that, and people in the
NBA i've talked to said, yeah, you just can't put
too much stock in it.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
But I agree with he just doesn't seem comfortable, like.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I mean, he's got a long way to go, like
right now, he's the other thing too, and I look,
this is how role players are. But he doesn't really
do anything, you know, like when he's out there and
he's hustling on defense and he's getting after it. But
(41:35):
if his name, if he wasn't Briannie James, you wouldn't
even you almost wouldn't really.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Know he's out there.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
And that's fair.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
And it was kind of like that at USC, right.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Some people have presence, Chris, even if they're not involved
in the scoring or whatever, Like there's just something about
that player that draws you to them. And I agree
a lot of times I'm looking for Brownie as I
you're looking for looking bernin right, I'm trying, I'm trying
to find him right.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Where's Roal though?
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Is he just standing there in the corner, Bronnie, where
are you
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Mister Chris Bussar, Yes, I'm back I'm back, baby.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I wasn't sure if you were coming back.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Nah, all is good.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I was down in Arlington, Texas for the home run
derby and the.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Home run it just ended, didn't it. Yeah, I know, right,
they gotta do something. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But golly and the well, it's funny, Chris, is that
they've changed something, all.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right, right, change longer than usual?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Was it longer? I think so?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't know if they might have to change the
rules back, yeah something.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, but uh. The All Star Game as well, which
was cool everything though, but it was great.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I love going to those events, Chris. You get to
see everybody, talk to everybody. The players are really good.
MLB BRO was down there, a couple of my reporters
down there doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
It was great. It was really good. They are more
black reporters from MLB BRO than black players in the game.
I mean, like black American players. It probably it was six.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
There were six black American players and we had four.
They didn't close. They had you get one freeze reporter.
We've had over the lab the last few years have
been a little bit more. But you know, Mookie was heard,
you know, a couple other guys Chris who didn't who
got hurt this year? Didn't play John Carlos Stanton was hurt.
(02:51):
He's been an All Star before. But but it was great.
It was a good.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, it's good to have you back.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Man. Let's rock the house. We speaking the house. We
got Eddie House joined us at the bottom of the
eye couple crew. Uh pretty much. Uh, well, you know,
we still just makeshift a little bit over the summing.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Rob G. We hope gets well. He's not feeling well.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Strep throat.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I talked to him.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
He's feeling better, but he's got strep throats.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Have you had that, Chris? I had a long time ago. Yeah, probably,
but years ago. You know, I know it's nothing pleasant. No,
you know that throats with drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But Ryan Berschinger is in for Rob G. He's the
super producer today.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And Ryan was all happy because, uh, you know, Otani
hit the home run and then he figured he's gonna
be the m v P of the All Star Game.
Otani write the big home run, Chris, and then nothing.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It didn't happen. It didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Sorry, Ryan. DJ Alex Tysher is back. Mighty Mark Ramsey
feeling in for him admirably. But it's great to have
the regime Marty in a while, Chris. Yeah, we hadn't
seen him in a while. On the updates is Martin
whis who filled in for you the last two days, Rob,
(04:11):
And he did well.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And then I've seen me on Twitter about you gain
twenty pounds or something from all the loop cupcakes.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm just saying that that's par for the course. He
hung in there and kept on, took a licking and
kept doing. All right, all right, Rob, let's get right
into it. You mentioned Otani and he did hit the
home run, and we had on first things first yesterday Rob,
we had Alex Rodriguez on.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's great. He just a great fun I can.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I say this, Chris, And I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Before he got the job and started doing TV, yep,
I thought to myself, some network should have grabbed him
and he should have you.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Know as a player that he was.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know he that good.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, because he was won't spoke and he's got the looks,
Chris for television. You know, he's got all the other
stuff and he's smart, and I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Tom still, you know, there have been times I misjudged
the guy, you know, because he was smart, ransome, well spoken,
and they didn't have anything he or two soft so
you know, wouldn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
No, he he's definitely And what I was gonna say
was I thought Chris like he should have been a
late night talk show host, like a Faon.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Or Jimmy Kimmel. You know why.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm like, if I'm one of the networks, you get
a guy who has a Hispanic background, but you know,
born in New York. He was born in uh uh
in New York.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Born in New York.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, he grew up in Florida, in Miami, but he
grew up he was born in New York, Chris, and
and I just thought to myself, you know, with the
country as it's changing to be more Hispanic or whatever,
I really thought he should have been. And now when
you see him on television, I mean, he's a That's
why he was.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
He was.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
He was the first guy at the ESPN and Fox
ever shared you know that, And.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Right that tells you you're good with ESB and Fox
Share you. No, he could do that, Rob if he wanted.
I don't know if you want to or not, and
he's not just good like some athletes are good and
everybody's got their on niche and that's fine. But some
guys are good because of you know, they'll say that
(06:31):
you know that that they'll say, uh, that critical thing
that a lot of athletes won't say, you know, they'll
tell it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like it is. He's just good.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
He's got like the whole package, I mean of the game. Yeah,
he's insightful. He's not just making hot takes, you know,
like he's he's excellent, excellent. But anyway, we had him
on first things first, and I asked Tim first, I
asked him Rob about Otany's quest for the Triple Crown,
(07:04):
and then I said, well, if he gets the Triple Crown,
or even if he doesn't, but he continues to have
this type of season. Offensively, he's second in the in
the National League rob in batting average, he's first at
home runs, and he is third in RBI, and he
may not quite get the Triple Crown, but obviously having
(07:25):
a heck of a he's not going to get it,
know what I mean, does good. He's eight back now
on RBI, so it's gonna be tough. But anyway, I
asked him, does he think he should, you know, maybe
give up the pitching and just be a full time player.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Here's what he says.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If he keeps this up as far as the way
he's hitting, and let's say he gets the triple crown,
do you think he should consider just being a hitter
or should he go back to pitching too?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Well, that that is a great question, and uh, you know,
I'm a guy that likes to try to keep things
as simple as possible. As an example, I don't love
when they move Aaron Judge from center field to DH
to right field. I believe if you have a Lebron James,
you have a Michael Jordan, you just say you sit
here every day and you shoot the basketball, and you
keep it as simple as possible, knowing there's going to
be a lot of distractions around him for a guy
(08:13):
like Otani. My biggest concern, Chris, if that question you
asked me six seven years ago, I would say no,
as you're near your thirties and you see how valuable
he is about being in the lineup every day. And
I've always said that the most important stat for a
mega superstar is availability how many games played. I wanted
to play one sixty two every year, and if Otana
can get as close to one sixty two as possible,
(08:34):
you can make an argument that that is his highest
value for the La Dodgers. So it's something to consider.
That's obviously a question for the Dodgers and for Otani
and his family.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
All right, Rob, what do you think.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think that they won't pull the plug on him
even though you know, if he's an everyday dh and
play and every day as a chance, he's just a
tremendous player, Chris. You know, like hitter, you can do
so much damage. But as you know as well, everybody
can't be a number two or one B or whatever
(09:10):
what like. Like he's not young. As far as pitching, like,
you don't find guys like that. They're not all around
just laying around. Teams need pitching. So Dodgers right right now,
they need they need pitching. So it's hard for them
to really even consider that when we've seen that he's
been able to handle both loads. And you don't need
(09:34):
to score a gazillion runs every night to win, but
you need pitching, especially chause of your goal is to
win a World Series at some point and you can't
have that guy now if he starts to have other
arm issues or something else, you know what I mean,
that's going upside. He's just average, right, If he's just
average or something, then then you can look and go,
(09:56):
hey man, we need you in the lineup one hundred
and fifty six games a year. We need you, We
need your bat.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, the fan in me definitely wants to see him
keep doing both, Rod, But I'm with you even strategically,
because here's the first of all, as you said, they
need pitching.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
He is an excellent pitcher. He's like an A level pitcher.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He is, And so as long as he's that, then
you might as well keep him out there on the mound.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
As great as he's playing this year offensively, last year,
while pitching full time, he had forty four home runs ride,
which led the league. He hit three oh four. He's
hitting three sixteen now, so that's only a twelve point
drive that like, you'll take three oh four every year?
Oh yeah, right. His on pace he led the most. Right,
(10:50):
He led the league in homers, on base percentage, slugging percentage,
OPS and OPS plus, and total basis wild pitching full time.
That's actually more than he's leading now. This year, he's
leading the league in runs, but not in OBP on
base percentage, so he's still it's the same amount of
(11:12):
things that he's leading the league in. So my point is,
if he can hit close to what he's doing now
as a full time pitcher, then yeah, I'm gonna keep
him on the mount. Now. Look when he's twenty nine,
when he gets to be thirty three, even if he
lasts that long rop then he'll he may slow down
(11:32):
on the mound and need to just hit. But for
the time being, he's thirty actually just turned thirty. For
the time being, I think I would have him do both,
especially a team like the Dodgers, where they should have
plenty of hitting without him.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Right they have a lineup, you know, when they're all healthy.
Obviously Mookie Betts is out. He'll be back though, But
I'm with you. I just think pitching is a premium.
If you have a guy who's an A level type pitcher,
it ain't like he's a C level pitcher, be with
C level Chris, then you'd be like, I could get
plenty of guys to give me five innings and give
(12:05):
them five runs, right, right, So that would I would
definitely not have him do that with that bat because
you got to remember, I think the way they do
it instead of you know, batting seven days a week, right,
it's five. Could you take off before you start, Chris
and right? Or I think you take off your start
(12:26):
in the day before, the day after, the day.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Before and the day after, right, and then you start.
He paid one hundred and thirty five games last year.
But it's just a lot considering you were pitching, right,
But that's not one.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Sixty No, that's not one sixty two. That's that right,
You still missed almost thirty games right right, right now?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
He's your Is he your National League MVP?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I think he's fine.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I think right now his numbers Bryce Harper is on
the best team, you know, they got the best record,
but his numbers aren't as good. They just aren't.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I mean I looked at him the other day and
I was like, Rice is only in the top five
in homers and he's got twenty one and the show
he's got eight more.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
That's big, I mean, I think. And I saw the
odds came out today, you know, judging O'tani you know,
judging the American League and Otani International League, which is
not a shock that those guys used to compete because
Otani was in the al right with the Angels Chris
and now the two best players and the same thing
with Judge. Judge is another one. Those guys are batting
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over three hundred Chris with power, with power, with power,
And that's the impressive thing is that they're not like
Kyle Schwarber with the Phillies, who hits a lot of
home runs. But it's batting one seventy.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Five right right, And I mean this would be old
Toany's third MVP in four years. I mean just incredible.
This is incredible and incredible what he's doing.
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All right, It's the I Couple Chris and Rob our
number two on a worship Wednesday and Rob we know
one of the biggest stories in the NFL revolves around
Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And he's looking to become the.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Highest paid quarterback or player in NFL history, and the
Dallas Cowboys right now so far have not ponied up
that money and Dak's content if he has to play
on the last year of this deal. He's fine with it,
knowing that if the Cowboys don't give it to him,
(15:58):
somebody else likely will. So this is gonna be interesting
to see how this goes. Of course, the Cowboys have
a history of, you know, playing trying at least appearing
to play hardball with some players, but at the end
of the day they generally cave and give the player
what he wants.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
But Charles Halley who won Super Bowls?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Was it Super Bowls or Super Bowl with the Cowboys?
But you know, I think he went with the Ers.
He's a Hall of Famer he but he he won.
So me won five Super Bowls. I knew he wanted
how with each team? Man he won three with San
Francisco and two with Dallas. I mean that's that dude
(16:44):
was was a factor to say the least. And anyway
he came out, Now do we have sound of this,
guys where he said that they should in his opinion,
the Cowboys should go a head and trade Dak Prescott.
(17:05):
Let me see if I can find Uh. It sounds
like we don't have sound of it. Maybe it was
just something we do have it all right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
He kept backloading everything, so now he screwed. So now
he you know, you know if Bill came Doe and
he doesn't have the money to be able to do that,
and so what he's gonna have to do is he's
gonna have to find another way around the saddle cap
or push a lot of older guy's salary cap way back.
(17:35):
And then you don't know whether these guys are gonna
play one year or two years, and then all of
it come do again. So he played, he gambled a
long time, and now the time is up. So I
can tell you this trade that just put him up
for the trade. Guess what every team in the league
be after him? Yeah, every team in the league. Dak
is a winner. Dak is a great person, a great leader.
(17:58):
I know, I've up there all the time, ceedee Lamb,
quiet guy leader. He wants the ball here at Jared Wright, just.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Give it to me.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I want And so how do you how do you
not keep those guys together?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, it's interesting, Rob, I mean the way he talked
about Dak, it was like, I don't want to trade
that guy. But where are you at on this? You
you think they should go ahead and trade him.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I mean, I trade him for who and what? And
I mean it's just too much.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I think, Rob, it would just be it would be
basically draft picks, you know what I mean, kind of
starting all over at that position.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I don't know how that's starting all over. None of
it makes any sense, because I do agree that at
some you got to make a decision. You can't keep
prolonging it, like we talk about all the time, Chris,
the price doesn't go down, like like you got to
make a decision.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Is he your guy? Is he not?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And just you have to bite the bullet, right, You
have to pay. You have to pay up. It's quarterbacks
or premium. So many teams that don't have any Like
I don't know. If you really don't believe he's that
guy gonna get you to the super Bowl, then move on.
Just just move on as hard as it might be,
you know, then then move on. But to play the
(19:14):
middle of the road on the fence game, is you
gotta you had enough time to evaluate him, Chris, This
ain't one or two years.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I've had enough time. Well, Haley's right in that the
way he said, Jerry just keeps pushing.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Down the road.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, And I mean the fact that Dak was getting
forty million a year on this last deal. Rob, remember
when it was like people were saying they shouldn't give
him thirty a year, if they had given him even
it was even lower than that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I remember having discussions is he worth twenty seven a year?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I remember that number two, right.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Like, And if you had done that then you'd be,
you know, in a lot better position than you are now.
And so it's just Jerry's indecision. And I agree with you.
I mean, look, we know how hard it is in
this league to find a great quarterback and every blue moon, Rob,
(20:15):
a team without a great win wins, right, right.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But you have to be so excellent everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That and I actually think Rob, it might get less
and less that we see the average quarterback win a
Super Bowl. It just feels like there's so much, you know,
the game robbed because of the rules. I think the
game is even more dependent on the quarterback nowadays than
it ever was. And it always, of course that's the
most important position, but now I think because of the rules,
(20:48):
is even more so. Rob. And so if you've got
a guy that's in the top ten ish, which is
where Dak is. I do think. Look, and I know
he's had his strug was in the playoffs. I mean,
and I'm not defending at two or five in the
playoffs one and four and some game, and I don't
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really want to. I mean, those that want to try
to defend what he did last year against green Bay
stop it. I'm with you, Chris. Yeah, I mean you
were down, you were in a hole, and he was
bad and him but he was bad and he threw
picks push that set up green Bay for easy score.
Wasn't one was one of pick six?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yes? Yeah, I mean, don't make it like, oh, the
defensis collapsed.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
No, he put the defense in a bad spot.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
A couple of times.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It was both. I mean we're not saying the defense
didn't play well either, but he You cannot put that
on the defense and act like Dak played great. Rob.
I've said that about some of Aaron Rodgers playoff games,
and I'm saying it about Dak like Rob. Green Bay
was up big, and of course, you know, as we've
(21:55):
talked a lot about with Dak, he rallied him when
and not even rallied him, like to get back in
the game really, but you know, to put up some
points and some big numbers and make it look like
he he may not have been the problem, but he
was a big part of the problem. And then the
year before, like there's some of their playoff games, Rob
(22:15):
vind it comically. And so all that said, though, I
do think you can win with Dak. I'm saying that
I think you could win the super Bowl with him
if everything is in place. But I feel like Rob
Jerry Jones, and I've said this before, he may be saying,
(22:37):
you know what, before I give.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You sixty million, you're gonna have to prove something to me.
And I don't know. I don't think he's saying we
have to get to the super Bowl or win it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But man, I need to see you play well in
the playoffs and I need to see you win US
a game in the playoffs or two like.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Get that. But I don't know how you get around it,
you know, Like.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think they're hoping Trey.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Are they hoping that he plays poorly so they could
pay him less, you know what I mean? Chris Like, no, right, right, Well,
I'm saying if Dak, Yeah, if Dak plays great, And
I said this about Trevor Lawrence, Rob like or Tua,
you know, because I'm one that's like, I'm not ready
to pay two yet, but if he goes out there
and plays great, then I'm willing to and I'll pay
(23:24):
a little tax on it, right because I did. Wait, Jerry,
like you said, Rob, you would think you've seen enough
to pay Dak, right, I mean, I mean he's been
around for a while now. Yeah, he was almost MVP
last year, so I you know, it's interesting what they're doing.
But they they their financial situation is a mess because
(23:47):
CD wants the big money, Micah wants the big money.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You got Zach Martin.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And obviously Dak that you have to pay so they financially, Rob,
I mean again, it's mismanagement, it appears.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Which is but a typical Dallas Cowboys because we've seen
this before and Jerry always seems to Chris Andie up
at the like he delays it, but he always and
he's up and he ups the money. So he could
just take this out of the conversation and just get
it done right and just say we got this kid.
(24:26):
You know, we got a team in place. We're not
trying to reset the clock. Chris, we're not trying to
find somebody else now and hope that we Jerry Jones
is the clock is ticking on Jerry Jones. And seriously, Chris,
what really you want to start start the clock over
for five years from now. I just don't see how
you can do that. Not when Jerry's already in the
(24:48):
Hall of Fame. That's not it. But more than anything,
he wants to win again because he's in the Hall
of Fame, but nobody gives him the credit, Chris, not
since he took over.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And I think more than anything, Rib, he wants to
do it his way. I don't know if he would
admit this, and I don't know if he even feels it,
but when I look at his actions, Rib, I feel
like he would rap. And again I get he probably
doesn't look at it this way, but I kind of
(25:20):
feel like he'd rather lose his way than win somebody
else's way. You where you at on that, I mean
he won somebody else's way, and you know with Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, No, I think I think it's about him right.
He only wants to win if he's in charge, because
if that wasn't the case, Chris he would have done
something a long time ago, and we talk about it.
It's a family business. He got more relatives all over
the place, and his son is a you know, as
a GM or making like like, I don't know how
(25:56):
you could just look yourself in the face after thirty years,
Chris and just think like you're doing something right like that,
Like at some point, don't you just go can you
go get the Can you go get somebody else? Can
you go get some football people? Can you stop running
the Dallas Cowboys like a mom and pop store?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
What you just said it when you emphasize the Dallas Cowboys,
This isn't the Lions, right, this isn't the Seahawks, this
isn't the even the Buccaneers. I mean they've won, you know,
they got Brady, but you know what I mean, like,
this is the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, even with the
thirty years of futility, right, what do they have? They
(26:35):
got the three but they have five Super Bowls, So
they're still like one of the winningest franchises ever. With
your three decades of nonsense, and so when you have
made the Dallas Cowboys into just kind of an entertainment spectacle,
(26:56):
you know, but not a real super Bowl contender.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
That's that's just bad. That's a bad job. That's all
that is. Rob That's just a bad job.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It's a terrible job. And unfortunately Cowboy fans have known it, Chris,
They've seen it. And Jerry's ego is too big. It's
just too big, and he wants he wants to win
his way. He does not want to win. Whether he
bring somebody in, Chris, go get it. Imagine you go
get a GM and and and somebody else and they
(27:27):
go and put together and make the right decisions and
then you win a Super Bowl? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Can you imagine that? He wos say he's happy, but
would he really be? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
He would be because it would be like, look what
happened if Cowboys went out and got a football guy
and then they won the next year?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That that's what would be the conversation.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Jerry finally gave up the reins, Chris, and they finally won.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Imagine how many more they could have won had he
done that years ago?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
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for foul or fair rap. How is Sports Rap Radio going?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
We are doing all right, Chris, pretty good, coming along,
keeping growing, getting better. You can check us out on
the stream Chris now, and when you get a chance,
go to sports Wrap Radiodetroit dot com the website, click
on listen live and Chris. The stream sounds great, it
really does. And of course Martin and Jr. Are doing
(29:22):
mid days from noon to three, so Martin's on there quickly.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I was gonna say so, Martin's on there. Lindsey Hunter
has a show in the Afternoon Drive. We've had him
on here.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
His VJ Husky on there too. No, oh, he's okay.
I thought he was, Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I'm we may have Martin jump in because I know
he's been following the w NBA. But Rob, I don't
know if you have. Caitlin Clark is balling like she is.
We talked about, you know, will she do what she did?
And she's starting to her last six games. I think
(30:06):
in July, Rob, she's averaged over eleven assists the game
and she's up to like seventeen point eight points or something.
That what is that?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Seven point eight assists the game? But you hear that storm?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You hear it? Yes? Seven loud?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Close my window.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Wow, give me a second. Let me close my wings.
I'm telling you it sounds loud. I thought it was
happening here, you know what I mean. That's how loud
it was. I thought it was happening here. Was that loud?
I could hear it?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, but that's typical summer thunderstorm, right, thunder bumpers.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, it's been rib it's been in the nineties, one hundred.
A couple of has been burning up.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The earth will cool itself, Chris, you know that, man, Yeah, exactly,
that's you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But Kaitlin Clark is killing. So she and their team
is turned around, and it's because Clark is playing better.
But one reason she's playing better is because of Leah Boston.
Let's just face it. Last year's Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
She just didn't come into the season in shape.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
And now she's Yeah, now she's like back to she's
actually playing better probably than she did last year. And
she's great, and you know, she's giving Caitlyn help and
she's another person you gotta, you know, pay attention to.
And so they they actually got something going. They've won,
like after the one and eight start, they've gone ten
(31:34):
and six.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
So that's a mark. You've been checking out, checking them out.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Of course, Angel reeves playing well with the double doubles.
But these two rookies, all that talk about, oh they
you know, they about to find out what time it is.
I mean they coming in blind. Yeah, I've been paying attention.
I've been locked in.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
There's only twelve teams, so it's hard to, you know, to.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Not be locked in right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It doesn't it's easy stay on top of everything exactly right.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
But Clark is looking great.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I mean she she's starting to look like she looked
in college.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
The one thing she's not scoring quite as much, I'd
say the one thing she's got to work on is
her turnovers. And I think her shot selection leaves a
little bit to be desired. Like right now, she's got
fourteen points, I mean seventeen points on fourteen shots, two
for seven from three. I think she might want to
be a little more judicious on some of the three
pointers that she takes.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
But outside of that.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
She's she's pretty much what.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
The ads advertised.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I'll tell you, I'm not being a Debbie downer. I've
seen highlights, but I haven't seen one minute of a
w NBA game this year. I haven't seen. It just
doesn't interest me. Not I watched the highlights because I'm
watching Sports Center, Chris or whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
But you ain't watching the highlights. You're watching sports You.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
See thet you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Right, Well, it's on the hockey highlight, right, Okay, That's
why that's where I'm back, you know what I mean,
it's on, but I haven't watched a single game. I mean,
I know, I was in my hotel the other day
and I was flipping the channel and I guess games,
some games are on CBS.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I heard, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Like, I was like, okay, some WNBA games are on
CBS now. So I didn't know that enough. But I
couldn't tell you, like who was playing or what was
going on. I just it just it just doesn't I'm in.
I'm just never No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I mean, you're actually in the majority, to be honest,
you know what I mean. But the league is experiencing growth,
and everybody's not gonna watch, but they are definitely experiencing growth.
And you know, Caitlin Clark and even Angel Reese to
a lesser degree, but still Angel Reese are really bringing
some popularity to this sport that they really haven't seen
(33:48):
in decades. So all right, rob, let's go here. We
talked with Eddie House about it. Briannie James, who plays tonight.
It'd be starting in about thirty minutes. Actually he's ore
fifteen from three. I think he's seven for thirty one over.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Ass like.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And everybody, of course is talking about Brianie.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Is he ready? Is he a pro? What the heck
is going on?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
But Alex Saar, who was the number two pick in
the draft by the Washington Wizards and was.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Actually viewed for most of the lead up.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
To the draft as the best player in the draft,
and he wouldn't work out for the Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
If that's the sole reason, but that may have contributed
to them taking Zachary Rishie instead of Alex Sorr.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I'm surprised I didn't hear Rob say.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I was gonna say it right, I'll just give you
a go ahead already. Sorry Rob? Last night and Martin,
look up what he's been doing in the Summer League,
like his first couple of games, because last night, I
think it was last night, but last game, Rob, he
was oh for fifteen. Now, this isn't Bronnie, this isn't
(35:05):
the fifty fifth.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
This is the second pick in the draft. He's a
seven footer from France and he was oh for fifteen. Yeah,
I mean I think.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Oh for seven from Trey. So what are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And a lot of people wonder why Eddie House even asked,
why aren't we talking about him like we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Brown because nobody he knows who that guy is. His
dad is not one of the most famous basketball players
who ever played. His dad didn't finagel to get him
in to a situation that nobody had for the most part,
Chris had ever had happened. And that's why Bronni is
Bronnie's always going to be a bigger story because of
(35:48):
his dad. And that's why if Bronnie was Chris, the
fifty fifth pick who did not wasn't related to lebron Jones,
Bronnie Jones, and he was off to this you know,
bad star, shaky start, whatever you want to use the term.
It wouldn't be the highlights on Center exactly that you
(36:11):
know that nobody one hundred percent. But if you're going
to if Brownie James has a good day or steal
or Big three or whatever, and they're showing that Chris,
they're gonna show when you when you go zero for
fifteen from three or whatever it is, you know what
I mean, Like, that's what comes with it, because if
he was playing well, they wouldn't be like, oh, we're
(36:32):
not showing that. No, I mean right, they would be like, oh,
we're not showing he's a fifty fifth pick. We're not
showing summer league highlight to that guy. They would be
showing it like crazy. Can you imagine if he was killing, right,
it would be like it would be upbeat, it would
be Chris. You would have to turn the channel. Am
I right?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
If he was kicking And it's interesting, rob like, and
it's not a surprise, but there's number one draft pick,
or there's the seventeenth pick overall dark and connect from Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
He's actually been.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Playing well, like, he's playing really well, and he's not
really getting You're not hearing much at all about him.
And we understand why I will say this about Alex
Sarr And I'm gonna just take it to the nerdy
basketball reason why I think people are, you know, not
(37:22):
as up in arms about him. I agree totally with
what you said. It is Lebron James's son versus some
guy from France that we don't know, we never saw it,
we don't know, we don't know, right, That is the
main reason. But I'm gonna say this as well, and
if Martin, I don't know if if either of you
been watching these games, or at least the highlights, tell
me what you think of this take. I watched Sar
(37:47):
mostly the highlights yesterday of his game when he went
over fifteen or two days ago, whenever it.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Was he.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Like, he doesn't look out Not only does he not
look out of place, he looks incredibly comfortable on the court.
His form is nice. He's seven feet one, but he's
he moves well. He doesn't look gawky, he looks smooth.
He just missed. It wasn't like, oh, he's right, this
(38:22):
guy's got a rushing shots or he can barely get
his shot off. It would be he's missed. He just missed. Now,
I will say this, this is the negative. He loves
the three. I think it was zero for seven from three.
There was a four on one break he pulled up.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
From now, so that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
But he's too in love with the three. Like he
could easy because his handles decent, pretty good for a
guy that tall. But his things are clearly fixable. I'm
not really even pressed. I'm not saying this dude's gonna
be a super st I don't know, but I'm telling
you on the court. He looks like he more than belongs.
(39:02):
He just missed shots, Martin, did you see any of
his highlights of the game.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
I saw him block three shots in fifteen seconds, But
that was right.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
He also had three blocks, So but did you agree like.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
No shots today? It was I didn't see yesterday. He
did it maybe two or three days ago. Chris, I
got his numbers here. I think he had three blocks
in the game. He went over fifteen?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
He did? He did? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Right now.
Speaker 8 (39:27):
Shooting percentage from the floor, I robust nineteen point five percent.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Well, how much of that is the old for?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I mean, you go for fifteen, it's gonna be ugly.
What do he do the games before that?
Speaker 8 (39:37):
They just they don't break him down game by game.
This is just his so far in Summer League. He's
on thirteen attempts, he's making about two shots nineteen and
a half percent from the.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Floor for thirteen on average.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Well, yes, on for it takes six threes a game
and makes point seven for really in love with the three?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Eleven? Yeah, he's to he's doing in Love with the three?
But yeah, I mean this is just a basketball thing
on it. I don't think he's and I know what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
You're saying like he's he's obviously a player, just had
a bad day at the office, right right, like just to.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Say, I mean for Wimby's first game. And I know
this wasn't this guy's first game, but you know, Wimby
looked like, wow, he's gonna take a while, and he
wound up.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
He took a game, right Yeah, And then all of
a sudden, everybody was like, everyone knows it's Wimby, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Just yeah, but Brownie Robe, I mean, he's a he's
a project, that's what he is. You don't say that
about I.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
Saw your clip on I g from first things first. Yeah,
and you you're gonna give him time and whatnot, which
is fine, No one's gonna no one takes I've talked
to people in the n b A, and you know,
the summer League is not the end all be all
where you're crowning people Chris good or bad.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
You gotta be careful good or bad.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
So I do agree with that, and people in the
NBA i've talked to said, yeah, you just can't put
too much stock in it.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
But I agree with he just doesn't seem comfortable, like.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I mean, he's got a long way to go, like
right now, he's the other thing too, and I look,
this is how role players are. But he doesn't really
do anything, you know, like when he's out there and
he's hustling on defense and he's getting after it. But
(41:35):
if his name, if he wasn't Briannie James, you wouldn't
even you almost wouldn't really.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Know he's out there.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
And that's fair.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
And it was kind of like that at USC, right.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Some people have presence, Chris, even if they're not involved
in the scoring or whatever, Like there's just something about
that player that draws you to them. And I agree
a lot of times I'm looking for Brownie as I
you're looking for looking bernin right, I'm trying, I'm trying
to find him right.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Where's Roal though?
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Is he just standing there in the corner, Bronnie, where
are you
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