August 26, 2022 • 37 mins
Super Producer Rob G (Robert Guerra) is in for Rob, and he and Chris explain why the disrespect from current and former NBA players directed at Giannis Antetokounmpo has officially jumped the shark, tell us why Jerry Jones’ effusive praise towards Ezekiel Elliott says a lot about he really feels about Dak Prescott, and discuss why the Washington Wizards appear to be the best fit for Russell Westbrook.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. All right, it is
the I Couple. I am Chris. He is Rob Gee,
not p. That's Rob Rob Garrett, super producer in for
Rob Parker. This is Rob's last week. If is it
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a vacation supposed to be He's in Dubai. Yes, I
gotta get to Dubai. Chris, you gotta fly first class.
That's what you gotta do. Well, look, you keep bringing
that up. So I'm gonna let people in on the
little inside joke or just truth really is a joke.
I when I paid for my own flights, I fly coach.
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I just you know, I mean, that's fine if you're me.
I didn't grow up flying first class. I still think
like I just fly coach. Now when I do speaking engagements,
they fired me first class obviously, when for you know,
when Fox, when I'm flying around for work, I fly
first class. But I will say this, and I you
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know me, rob Gie, but all the joke and I
do and all that you know, I think you would say,
I'm not an arrogant guy, is that right? Very humble?
But I do when I fly coach, I do feel
like some people that recognize me are looking at me
like yo, I dude, was like. And the last time,
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because I flew down to Louisiana, had to take Sara
some business with my family down in Baton Rouge, I
not only flew coach, but I sat. I had the
very last seat on the plane. I was thirty nine
f al right wow. And then on the way back
from Louisiana I flew I sat next to a guy
that did recognize me, and so we're talking and stuff,
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and he's like, damn you you flying coach. And I'm
just like, man, I'm like ruining my reputation or whatever
in your reputation. You can't, especially you knowing that your partner.
Five days a week on this show at least, Rob
Parker is on the Grand flexing on his ten thousand
dollars a seat flying to du Buy, and he also
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flexes about flying Spirit he does when he flies. Okay,
so real talk. If you were in my position, huh
you telling me you would fly first class all the
time most more than yeah, if I could afford it, absolutely,
and you know you can afford it. You just I
just I just yeah, I don't. I mean, I got
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nice stuff. I'm not gonna lie, but I don't splurr.
I'm not just a big I know you're not. I know,
like even when we talk about things, I'll get that
are really nice. Yeah. Even even when we talked about
the sports car we joke around that you bought, you
could have bought it brand new, one hundred thousand dollars car.
You're like, no, I'm gonna get a used one right now.
I do, And I rarely think you should buy a
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new car because I agree with you. It was buy
a year or two. One is a year or two old, right,
I agree with you. Like the truck that guy is
a certified pre owned. But I'm not Chris Broussard. Chris
Broussard can afford a brand new supercar. Well, look you
see you You you're shaming a brother. Well that's how
that's how it started. Because I was telling you I
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was on Monday on my hat when I flew back
from Vegas. There was an actor who was on my
flight and he was across the road. He's the middle seat,
and I was like, man, it's dude struggling. And You're like, well, right,
I do that, and he ain't struggling. Ain't struggling now
now he I can't you did you tell me the name? Yeah?
I did, but I didn't I want to say it publicly.
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He might be he might be, Yeah, he might be struggling.
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then Gilbert Arenas was on his own podcast, right yeah,
And we talked earlier about how the level of disrespect
that a lot of people Charles Barkley, there was an
anonymous executive in the league who said k D burn
turns down your whole franchise, that the level of disrespect
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for KD is getting out of him and it's just
gone awry. Well it's been that way for Yannis too,
and I don't know, maybe some people might say it's worse,
like people really don't give Yannis the respect that he deserves.
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We saw JJ Reddick, remember when on his podcast with
Joel LEMBI leave Yannis out of the top three. Yep Um.
We've heard from KD we're talking about him, at least
allegedly has said things like don't ever compare Yannis to me,
like implying that that dude ain't got half the skills,
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like James Harden saying I wish I could just run
and jump score and unlike that, I gotta, you know,
play basketball. You have andre Iguidala say that Rashid Wallace
would be better than Yannis if they played in today's era.
But this take from Gilbertree and this is my fault.
You know, as a producer, I should know when there's
things like this out there, I gotta find it. And
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apparently this clip is like ten days old and I
just didn't see it and it didn't start popping off
until earlier this evening. This is Gilbert Arena is talking
the Lakers assistant coach Phil Handy. Take a listen. I
can look at his game and say he doesn't understand basketball.
Yet he plays the sport. He won a championship. Cool,
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he doesn't really understand how to be great, how to
be better, how to train this body, Like you know,
I'm looking at the stats, playing thirty two minutes, thirty
four minutes, thirty I'm sorry, but to be here, you
have to train your body at least thirty eight minutes
and above. Brown played thirty seven minutes. At thirty seven.
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That's a whole bit. Like, just that's a whole Iverson
was playing forty three minutes. Okay, I'll let you have
first stab of this. Rob stop it. The no Chill
pod has jumped the shark, like I know, I know.
Gilbert Arena sometimes says things for clicks. I can tell, like,
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you know, he's smart enough where I've heard him talk
basketball and he absolutely knows basketball. There's other times where
he says things. I'm like, Okay, you're saying that because
you're trying to cut through, Like I can see the difference.
This is beyond anything that even JJ or Iguadala or
James Harden has ever said. Because now you're not talking
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about his skill set, which you know, you and I
have talked about it, like, hey, his bag is not
as deep as some of the other guys. But he's affective,
he's a sledgehammer. He can do whatever the heck he
wants to because of his physical abilities. But now you're saying,
because he can't play thirty seven minutes a night, then
he must not be an elite basketball player, or he
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must not be the best player in the world. Why,
Like that doesn't make any sense to me. Well, and
beyond that, Rodgi, is it his choice exactly? I think
it's the Bucks and Yannis. For the record, here's some
of Yannis's minutes per game throughout his career third year
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in the league. Thirty five point three, then thirty five
point six, then thirty six point seven, So basically thirty five,
thirty six, thirty seven minutes a game he's played. And
then under Budenholzer, who came from where San Antonio right,
Greg Pavovich learned a defeat a Pop. That's when Yannis's
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minutes started going down because Pop believes in that Tim
Duncan minute. Tim Duncan never averaged more than he never
averaged thirty five minutes a game over the last one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine. Eleft twelve years of his career. I mean
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he only played what nineteen years, so after the first seven, Popovich,
not Duncan. I'm sure Popovich began cutting his minutes because
he believes in that low management type stuff. So you're
right that it's just a ridiculous take anyway. But then
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when you realize it ain't even his choice, I'm sure
Yannis would play thirty seven minutes, like I mean, yeah,
if he went to the coach. Actually, I don't know.
I would think if he went there and said, look,
I want to play thirty seven minutes, they still might
hold him back from doing it to save him from himself.
But bottom line is it's not his choice. But rob
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G basketball and I get skills and all that, but
basketball it's not a skills competition. It's not We're not
going to I mean you you can look at the
guys that win the skills competitions at the All Star Game.
Who cares? I mean really, don't nobody care? And then
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I've compared it. I can't remember who we were talking about. Kyrie.
Kyrie and Damian Lillard. I compared it to rapping, and
I am a hip hop fan who loves dope lyricism.
I love word play, words, smiths, rock him nas that
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big el like I loved an MC that's a real
MC and can put the words together. But at the
end of the day, it's about making hit records, okay,
and there are a lot of great underground backpack rappers
out there that never made a hot record or certainly
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couldn't make many hot records. And fifty cent let's just
keep it. Not the greatest opera in the world by
any stretch, but he made some dopes, made some hits, right,
a ton of hits, I mean, so, at the end
of the day. In basketball, it's about production and winning.
And Yannis Anti di Koumpo, first of all, he is
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very skilled for a seven footer. I know he's not
Kevin Durant, he's not Dirt Navinski, but he handled the ball.
He can pass ball all he can do. He just
can't shoot very well, but he is still got very
good skills for a guy his size, and when you
combine it with his athleticism, the production rob Gi is
off the charts to the point where he should be
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beyond this type of criticism if you want to. You know,
as time goes on, if he stayed, like if he
doesn't win a championship for the next year, two three, whatever,
then people are gonna again start to be like, uh yeah,
I mean we Yannis, he could have been a he
could be a top ten player of all time, but
i's missing Why can't he win more? Right? Right? But
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at this moment in time, he should be beyond. He's
beyond these little petty criticisms. They weren't criticizing Kareem abdul
Jabbar because he didn't shoot eighteen foot jump shots. They
looked at the production. They didn't criticize Shock because he
didn't shoot threes. Okay, so don't criticize Jannis because he
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doesn't handle the ball like Kyrie Irving or shooting like
Kevin Durant. His production is awesome, Chris, when it's all
said and done, you know, barring injury, and who's to
say that's ever gonna happen. Because I saw Yannis and
need been the wrong direction and he missed like a week.
You know, Yannis already and this is the guy who
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got started late playing basketball This is like, while documented,
he didn't start playing until he was in the teas
a teenagers, an NBA Champ Finals, MVP, two time MVP,
six time All Star, four time first Team All NBA,
two time second team Defensive Player of the Year, four
time All Defense First Team. The way that he's going,
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his accolades could theoretically be better than Shack. Oh yeah,
And you got people consistently finding ways to say that
while he's not that good, he's not he's not really elite.
He's not in the same class as these other guys.
And it's all right, fine, you know he's not. He's
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not as he's not as skilled as Kevin Durant or
Kyrie Irving. When it's all said and done, Yannis is
gonna be ranked higher than those guys, well, certainly Kyrie,
but right now to pace there or Rogie. Yeah, he's
gonna be ranked higher than Kevin Durant. I'm sorry, yes,
And it's just like, and it's disappointing, even from Phil Handy,
especially because I know he didn't feel safe, like he
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didn't say anything. He just kind of nodded, and at
least and even even Gilbert, who I'm sure did this
on purpose. During the rent, there's like another thirty seconds
before that where he's talking about him. He never mentions
jan Is by name. Oh, but you can win a
champion you want a championship, you do this. It's like, well,
how many other guys fit this criteria that you're talking
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about who also doesn't play thirty seven minutes and won
one championship and it is very athletic, Like, you know,
there's there's Lebron but he's got four. There's Steph Curry
shoots a lot. There's there's Kevin Durant's got two. There's Kauhi,
who no one's ever gonna say is not highly skilled.
So you're we can tell who you're talking about, right,
And so you know, maybe that's his cover where he's like,
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well I wasn't talking about Yannest, Like yeah, you were,
Like just just just say that you were and go ahead. No, no,
I just it's it's frustrating to me because the media
gets a bad rap for saying, hey, you guys play favorites.
You guys are a lot of fam boys. Joe and
Soul likes this guy. You know, Chris is a Jordan
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guy's not giving his respect to Lebron whatever. And yet
you have these guys who are supposed to know more
than everyone else. They're supposed to be more experienced in
this field, supposed to be more knowledgeable than the rest
of us, supposedly, and they continue to spew out things
that don't make any sense, right, Like, I don't get that.
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It makes this business look bad when the guys who
are supposed to know more than everyone else say things
like this, right, and again, I'm sorry. I get the
skills talk. I get the old Kyrie's the most skilled
player ever to play the game, and I mean, okay, fine,
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and it's y'all know, I think Kyrie got the best
handle lever in the NBA. But and I mean, it's
make it, make it mean something on the court, and
I know he does to a degree. I'm just saying
this like love affair, Like KD is one of the
ringleaders of this. He almost wants you to just focus
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on his skills, right and look at next season. Forget
how far they go. Heck, they might go out in
the second round. But if his skills were better next
season than this year, he wants you to celebrate. Yes,
look at the handle, he added, I don't care get
to the finals. All right, Come on, all right, let's
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do you think it is? And heck, maybe you different
from me and Rob Gi. Do you think it's warranted?
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talked about it, this disrespect. I mean, we talked about
KD earlier and guys starting to disrespect him, Um, going
way overboard. This is worse. But this is yeah, because
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this is consistent. It's not related to you know, a
trade demand or one incident or anything like that. People
catch just disrespecting Yannis this game. Yeah, it's just it's
like ignoring aspects of him. That's what it's been a
bigger thing. Like with KD and the leadership, we have
evidence that showed that his leadership is lacking. There's no
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evidence that Jannis is not one of the best players
in the league right now. And it's flat out dominant
and it's I don't get it, but we got some
calls on it. Let's go out to the phone lines here.
MO is in San Diego. Mo, you're on the Yad
couple Fox Moor trading. What you got, Mo? Yeah, guys,
thanks for taking my calling FU. Earlier this week, EPAM
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was on the show and you guys were talking about
this too with Kyrie and what makes a superstar? And
I wanted to get in I couldn't get on. But
I try to put together a list of what the
things are that make someone a superstar, and you can
go down the list and look at Yannis versus a
Kyrie and so listen listening to this real quick. So
number one, dominance number two, success or winning number three,
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assistancy number four, uplooting your team number five, marketability number six,
availability number seven, you're a household name. Number eight is
you're likable? Okay, When you look at those things and
you look at how many those the great guys have
already done. This is when Charles Bunky was a superstar.
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Why Lebron is a superstar, This is why every one
of those. Yannis has all of those every single years ago.
Remember a couple of years ago, um Kate Katie Cook.
He set something on Twitter about Lebron's being in the
weight room and started working on the skill set. But
part of being a great player is availability, and you
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have to do that by strengthening yourself. It's not just
how much you can cause global and shoot. You gotta
be there. Calree is not there enough. He's not conceistent enough,
he doesn't the games enough, he doesn't want enough to
be honest, he has some dominant moments, how total name.
But when you look at that lease y'anna checks all
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of those off and he's just getting started. It's it's
I mean, you took the thought out of it. You
don't gotta get you know, emotional about to check it off.
Now that's a that's a good call. That's a good call, um, real, real,
thorough and rob g what I'd say. Look, Yannis has
a legitimate chance to be a top ten player all time. Absolutely,
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it's all about his winning and and and I mean
high high up in the top ten. Ye you know,
because if you look at a lot of like people,
they want to talk about his lack of skills. If
you will, well, like I said, Kareem played strictly in
the post and people might want to say, well, that
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was back in the day, that's how it was. Okay, Okay,
Magic didn't have a jump shot, right, I mean, if
you you know, Matt going a great defender. He got
a lot of steals though he was smart. But Bird
had limitations, athletic limitations defensively as well. Right, he got
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a lot, but he wasn't a great defender. No, he
got a lot of steals like Magic, but he wasn't
like a lockdown defender by any stretch, and so and
Steph has you know, not a lockdown defender of course,
So you know, they just I just think Yannis and
it's gonna be based on how much he wins, but
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he's got a real chance to be a top ten
player of all times. So I just think dudes are tripping.
And I don't know if it's I don't know why.
I mean, they didn't hate on a Shock. Maybe Shock's
personality was what it was, and he did the hip
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hop and you know, you can't even say like the dominant,
like the dominant thing with my first thought, But has
Yannis not dominated the same way? Just you know, less forceful.
He's putting similar numbers. If he've been right, they have
been better numbers. I think the only thing is you
you said it forceful. I think that's what people love
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about Shot. It was so forceful and so dominant physically. Yannis,
like you said, is in a different way, but people
don't see it like that. Um, but yeah, I think
that it's incredible. How how some of these guys aren't
giving him the props that he deserves. Haters and I
think right, they're gonna eat their words, that's for sure.
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They already have and they will continue, all right. Jerry
Jones speaking of eating your words, must not be a
big believer in Dak Prescott will explain. Next, here we go.
It's the eye couple. I'm Chris. He's robbed g Rob
g And for Rob p Rob Garret, for Rob Parker.
We're live from the sports radio studios. And do we
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have sounds of Jerry Jones. Absolutely? All right, let's hear it.
He's in the best shape he's ever been in. Now
it is cell a fact. We go as Zeke goes.
I know it's a lot on dark shoulders, but we
go as Zeke goes. He's very capable of being everything
we've ever wanted to be. The wild card, though, is
the guy that's playing beside him Pollard, Right, And so
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we put Pollard in some plans that with Zeke for
the defensive to have to work against midweek and be
ready to play. Then you've got Pollard. We really like
where we are running back, but it all starts and
stops with Zee Now him on a first take, by
the way, yeah yeah, real impressive. Stephen a up in
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the helicopter with him. I gotta give him. I had
to tell stephen A that was nice. Steve Rights called
Steve Well Steve yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But I look,
and you and I talked about this. You you brought
it up first. You said, this is really an indictment
on Dak. Absolutely that this is Jerry Jones not believing
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on Dak. And look, I've been a guy that you know,
has been a quote unquote that guy, even as a
DAK guy. Though I never said he himself was a star.
What I said is that Dak Prescott is a winner,
and I still believe that. I do think he I mean,
you gotta start winning at some point to keep that title.
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But I do think he has all the intangibles of
a winner, a leader, a galviniser, a guy that the
locker room will follow, high character guy. But I've always said,
as far as a player, he is a game manager
with playmaking abilities. I like that. I love that description.
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I think it's appropriate. He is a game manager with
playmaking a abilities. Most game managers don't have big play abilities,
and Dad has it with his arm, but with his legs,
and I think that sets him apart from the regular
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typical game manager. He's not Aaron Rodgers, he's not Patrick Mahons,
but he is a guy that has the ability to
make the big play when necessary and usually will manage
the game well. And when you look at what Jerry's saying,
Rob g all the teams, now, we know, a running
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game is you know, good to have, right, it's good
to have. But in today's in fl all of the
teams that are based primarily on their run game on
the running back Jonathan Taylor in Indianapolis, the Titans all
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right with Derek Henry, the Browns with Nick Chubb and
Kareem Hunt, the Panthers. The Panthers kind of yeah, Christian
McCarry obviously catches it a lot, but they don't have
none of them have elite quarterbacks. And that's why you're
right when you say this is an indictment or that
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this shows you Jerry. I mean there's other things, right,
it took him so long to sign Dak and so
on and so forth, but this is the latest evidence
that he really doesn't believe Dak is on that elite level.
I would say he's actually right about that. Yeah, I mean,
just look at the numbers in the last four seasons,
Dak is eight and seventeen against team with winning records.
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So that's fair. What's I guess what makes it even
more egregious in my opinion, is Jerry insisting that it's
built around as eek Elliot. He's not the first one
to say that, you know, Tony Ronnod said there is
a few months ago. Emmitt Smith has already said it.
This would make sense if Zeke was still performing like
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arguably the best running back in football, then you could
make the argument, you know what, even if we don't
think that Dak is quite the elite quarterback like a Mahomes, Rogers, Brady, whatever,
he's very good, but we have arguably the best running
back in football, so we'd be crazy not to want
to featu him as much as possible. Zeke has not
been close to the best running back in football for years.
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He wasn't the best running back on his own team
last year, right like he's been a Yeah, he's been
a shell of himself for a long time. And the
fact that Jerry Jones and several other Dallas Cowboys you know,
legends so to speak, feel like they would be better
served riding Ezekiel Elliott and his what you know, Ford
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Escape level learning abilities. These days, he's no longer the
high octane Lamborghini that he used to be. Like, what
does that say about Dak Prescott. Yeah, I mean it
makes you wonder if some of it is just trying
to get Zeke's confidence up. I mean really, because there's
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no reason. Now I will give you this last year
and if you want to write, if somebody wants to
write this office foolishness, half at it. Okay, because I
get it. But still last year for those that like Zeke,
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he looked pretty good. Now, first game nothing, thirty three
yards on eleven carries against Tampa. But then he goes
for seventy one against the Chargers, then ninety five on
seventeen carries against Philly, then one hundred and forty three
against Carolina, then one ten against the Giants, and then
the knee starts to bother him, and it was he
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never ran for seventy yards until the last game of
the season. And so I guess that's what they're saying,
rob G is that, look, the knee is fine now,
and that Zeke that you saw from week two to
week five, four weeks. That's the zeke you're getting for
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the better part of seventeen weeks this season. I would
love to see it, but I gotta be honest right now,
I think Tony Poller is the better back he is,
and even more than that, if you want to really
dive into it, if you want to be the football
guy who's not just talking service level, you want to
get into the Dallas Cowboys, they're down. They're starting left
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tackle from last season, they're starting right tackle from last season.
They're left guard from last season. They're number two and
number three. Right receiver actually be number one. I think
a Mary was the number one all along, even though
CD had better stats because he was getting most of
it in the slot last year as a print outside.
They're down all of these different guys. And usually in
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that situation, when it was in New England with Tom Brady,
if it's Aaron Rodgers now in Green Bay, when you're
short staffed like that, the one thing that you usually
hang your hat on is our quarterback is gonna have
to get us out of this. That was the Raiders
problem for a long time when they sold off all
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their assets and they thought Derek carr by himself could
do it, and he obviously could not. That was not
He's not at that level of a quarterback. And now
you're seeing that the Dallas Cowboys, without actually saying it,
are telling you, yeah, Dak Prescott's not that quarterback either. Yeah. Yeah,
I hate to say it, but they are. They are
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himself tonight, as he should be. He was in the
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was in for Rob Parker, he said that if the
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Lakers let Russ go cut him, he could come back
to Harnham. I thought that was laughable. Yeah, I imagine
you do as well. Yes, yes, I do. And I
had trouble figuring out if if if Russ is cut,
whether he's cut by the Lakers, or he's cut by
(32:53):
the Pacers, if they trade him or whatever. I can
tell where you're going, but let me run something by
you first, and you let me know if Vj's comments
about this coming back to bite the Lakers, that's not
even close to being, you know, the most incorrect take
in my opinion as relates of Russell Westbrook. This is
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my guy Kendrick Perkins, Perk friend of the show now
he's on ESPN's Big Dog over there, said today, I
first take Pat bab and Russell Westbrook could be the
most dangerous defensive backcourt in the NBA. What's your thoughts?
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And we love Perk. Perk's been in studio with us,
we rocked with. But even me, as the most optimist
Laker fan I know, wouldn't go that far. Those are
my thoughts. I love Perk Westbrook. After fourteen years of
not really playing defense, he was all of a sudden
gonna become a great different n He's got the ability
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he doesn't try, but fourteen years No, I'm sorry, sorry,
I but go back to your original point. I just
wanted to run that by him. Wow, I love Perk, Um.
I think I think I found the team. Okay, hit me,
the Washington Wizards. They're not tanking right, They're not They're
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not gonna be bad enough to get the top pick two, three, whatever.
And they don't have like a young guy or even
an old guy at that position. And Russ did play
well his one year in Washington, average a triple double
really helped them get into the playoffs. He and Bradley
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Bill fit together. Look are you gonna you? You still
might miss the playoffs if you got Russ, but you
have a better chance of making them with Russ than
you do without him. They're not gonna do anything when
they get there. But as long as you got him, Hey,
who knows what can happen with him and Bradley Bill.
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So if I'm the Wizards, I want to excite my fans.
I know he won't take away from Bill's. That is
the one team I heard somebody mentioned Charlotte today. No, No,
they got LaMelo. Yes, I am not taking a ball
out of LaMelo Ball's hands to put it in Westbrooks
all right, Um Toronto, No, Like I Washington is the
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place I see a fit. Rob Gie, I agree with you.
I've been saying something similar to that for a long time,
just because when you go through the NBA standings, when
it comes to Russell, Westbrook and manential landing spots, it's
got to be a place that number one does not
have a point guard in place, either a veteran or
a young guy. And number two it's got to be
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a team that's not actively trying to tank. Otherwise you say, hey,
go to Oklahoma City. You know, he could do them
over there, but they're trying to lose. They got Shay
Gill just out, I don't I mean, but they don't
want They might sit him again this season, you know
now that now that chets out, you might see SGA
playing like fifty games because of low management. You know. Like,
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but when I started thinking about there was only two
teams that made sense to me in that regard. One
of them, to your point, was Washington, which I think
is even strengthened now they just resigned Bradley Builds that
horrible contract. And number two and this one less so
now after the free agency was the Knicks, because they
weren't going to be bad enough to pick high in
the lottery, and they're a team that likes to excite
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their fan base at any means possible. But once they
got Jalen Brunts, and that kind of makes it a
little bit of a more point. So I think by
default then easily the team that makes the most sense
to your point is the Wizards. I'm with you on
the Knicks. Now it doesn't make sense, but there was
a point before they free agency where it did make
a lot of sense. You might have been able to
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get rid of some of these contracts. Right, you have
Russ for one year, let him, you know, light up
the garden. The fans would love him. Russ sanity, right,
and he maybe the average to triple double again, who knows.
And then next summer you let him walk and you
got money for free agency. So it did make sense
at one point, not anymore. So. Yeah, I think it's
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Washington man there. I don't think there's any question about it.
And here's our man. Okay, flashback Friday. He's got the
original version. I'm just gonna just gonna groove to this.
It's amazing what dudes did with Sampling, you know what
I mean. It's amazing what Iowa Sam does. What he's
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got time on his hand. Iwa was Sam is the man?
Y'all didn't know they could rock like that's out Nile
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Rob g excellent work. My man's very nice, very nice,
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But I do when I fly coach, I do feel
like some people that recognize me are looking at me
like yo, I dude, was like. And the last time,
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because I flew down to Louisiana, had to take Sara
some business with my family down in Baton Rouge, I
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from Louisiana I flew I sat next to a guy
that did recognize me, and so we're talking and stuff,
(02:27):
and he's like, damn you you flying coach. And I'm
just like, man, I'm like ruining my reputation or whatever
in your reputation. You can't, especially you knowing that your partner.
Five days a week on this show at least, Rob
Parker is on the Grand flexing on his ten thousand
dollars a seat flying to du Buy, and he also
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flexes about flying Spirit he does when he flies. Okay,
so real talk. If you were in my position, huh
you telling me you would fly first class all the
time most more than yeah, if I could afford it, absolutely,
and you know you can afford it. You just I
just I just yeah, I don't. I mean, I got
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nice stuff. I'm not gonna lie, but I don't splurr.
I'm not just a big I know you're not. I know,
like even when we talk about things, I'll get that
are really nice. Yeah. Even even when we talked about
the sports car we joke around that you bought, you
could have bought it brand new, one hundred thousand dollars car.
You're like, no, I'm gonna get a used one right now.
I do, And I rarely think you should buy a
(03:37):
new car because I agree with you. It was buy
a year or two. One is a year or two old, right,
I agree with you. Like the truck that guy is
a certified pre owned. But I'm not Chris Broussard. Chris
Broussard can afford a brand new supercar. Well, look you
see you You you're shaming a brother. Well that's how
that's how it started. Because I was telling you I
(03:57):
was on Monday on my hat when I flew back
from Vegas. There was an actor who was on my
flight and he was across the road. He's the middle seat,
and I was like, man, it's dude struggling. And You're like, well, right,
I do that, and he ain't struggling. Ain't struggling now
now he I can't you did you tell me the name? Yeah?
I did, but I didn't I want to say it publicly.
(04:19):
He might be he might be, Yeah, he might be struggling.
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then Gilbert Arenas was on his own podcast, right yeah,
And we talked earlier about how the level of disrespect
that a lot of people Charles Barkley, there was an
anonymous executive in the league who said k D burn
turns down your whole franchise, that the level of disrespect
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for KD is getting out of him and it's just
gone awry. Well it's been that way for Yannis too,
and I don't know, maybe some people might say it's worse,
like people really don't give Yannis the respect that he deserves.
(05:26):
We saw JJ Reddick, remember when on his podcast with
Joel LEMBI leave Yannis out of the top three. Yep Um.
We've heard from KD we're talking about him, at least
allegedly has said things like don't ever compare Yannis to me,
like implying that that dude ain't got half the skills,
(05:48):
like James Harden saying I wish I could just run
and jump score and unlike that, I gotta, you know,
play basketball. You have andre Iguidala say that Rashid Wallace
would be better than Yannis if they played in today's era.
But this take from Gilbertree and this is my fault.
You know, as a producer, I should know when there's
things like this out there, I gotta find it. And
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apparently this clip is like ten days old and I
just didn't see it and it didn't start popping off
until earlier this evening. This is Gilbert Arena is talking
the Lakers assistant coach Phil Handy. Take a listen. I
can look at his game and say he doesn't understand basketball.
Yet he plays the sport. He won a championship. Cool,
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he doesn't really understand how to be great, how to
be better, how to train this body, Like you know,
I'm looking at the stats, playing thirty two minutes, thirty
four minutes, thirty I'm sorry, but to be here, you
have to train your body at least thirty eight minutes
and above. Brown played thirty seven minutes. At thirty seven.
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That's a whole bit. Like, just that's a whole Iverson
was playing forty three minutes. Okay, I'll let you have
first stab of this. Rob stop it. The no Chill
pod has jumped the shark, like I know, I know.
Gilbert Arena sometimes says things for clicks. I can tell, like,
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you know, he's smart enough where I've heard him talk
basketball and he absolutely knows basketball. There's other times where
he says things. I'm like, Okay, you're saying that because
you're trying to cut through, Like I can see the difference.
This is beyond anything that even JJ or Iguadala or
James Harden has ever said. Because now you're not talking
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about his skill set, which you know, you and I
have talked about it, like, hey, his bag is not
as deep as some of the other guys. But he's affective,
he's a sledgehammer. He can do whatever the heck he
wants to because of his physical abilities. But now you're saying,
because he can't play thirty seven minutes a night, then
he must not be an elite basketball player, or he
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must not be the best player in the world. Why,
Like that doesn't make any sense to me. Well, and
beyond that, Rodgi, is it his choice exactly? I think
it's the Bucks and Yannis. For the record, here's some
of Yannis's minutes per game throughout his career third year
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in the league. Thirty five point three, then thirty five
point six, then thirty six point seven, So basically thirty five,
thirty six, thirty seven minutes a game he's played. And
then under Budenholzer, who came from where San Antonio right,
Greg Pavovich learned a defeat a Pop. That's when Yannis's
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minutes started going down because Pop believes in that Tim
Duncan minute. Tim Duncan never averaged more than he never
averaged thirty five minutes a game over the last one two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine. Eleft twelve years of his career. I mean
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he only played what nineteen years, so after the first seven, Popovich,
not Duncan. I'm sure Popovich began cutting his minutes because
he believes in that low management type stuff. So you're
right that it's just a ridiculous take anyway. But then
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when you realize it ain't even his choice, I'm sure
Yannis would play thirty seven minutes, like I mean, yeah,
if he went to the coach. Actually, I don't know.
I would think if he went there and said, look,
I want to play thirty seven minutes, they still might
hold him back from doing it to save him from himself.
But bottom line is it's not his choice. But rob
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G basketball and I get skills and all that, but
basketball it's not a skills competition. It's not We're not
going to I mean you you can look at the
guys that win the skills competitions at the All Star Game.
Who cares? I mean really, don't nobody care? And then
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I've compared it. I can't remember who we were talking about. Kyrie.
Kyrie and Damian Lillard. I compared it to rapping, and
I am a hip hop fan who loves dope lyricism.
I love word play, words, smiths, rock him nas that
(10:31):
big el like I loved an MC that's a real
MC and can put the words together. But at the
end of the day, it's about making hit records, okay,
and there are a lot of great underground backpack rappers
out there that never made a hot record or certainly
(10:53):
couldn't make many hot records. And fifty cent let's just
keep it. Not the greatest opera in the world by
any stretch, but he made some dopes, made some hits, right,
a ton of hits, I mean, so, at the end
of the day. In basketball, it's about production and winning.
And Yannis Anti di Koumpo, first of all, he is
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very skilled for a seven footer. I know he's not
Kevin Durant, he's not Dirt Navinski, but he handled the ball.
He can pass ball all he can do. He just
can't shoot very well, but he is still got very
good skills for a guy his size, and when you
combine it with his athleticism, the production rob Gi is
off the charts to the point where he should be
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beyond this type of criticism if you want to. You know,
as time goes on, if he stayed, like if he
doesn't win a championship for the next year, two three, whatever,
then people are gonna again start to be like, uh yeah,
I mean we Yannis, he could have been a he
could be a top ten player of all time, but
i's missing Why can't he win more? Right? Right? But
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at this moment in time, he should be beyond. He's
beyond these little petty criticisms. They weren't criticizing Kareem abdul
Jabbar because he didn't shoot eighteen foot jump shots. They
looked at the production. They didn't criticize Shock because he
didn't shoot threes. Okay, so don't criticize Jannis because he
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doesn't handle the ball like Kyrie Irving or shooting like
Kevin Durant. His production is awesome, Chris, when it's all
said and done, you know, barring injury, and who's to
say that's ever gonna happen. Because I saw Yannis and
need been the wrong direction and he missed like a week.
You know, Yannis already and this is the guy who
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got started late playing basketball This is like, while documented,
he didn't start playing until he was in the teas
a teenagers, an NBA Champ Finals, MVP, two time MVP,
six time All Star, four time first Team All NBA,
two time second team Defensive Player of the Year, four
time All Defense First Team. The way that he's going,
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his accolades could theoretically be better than Shack. Oh yeah,
And you got people consistently finding ways to say that
while he's not that good, he's not he's not really elite.
He's not in the same class as these other guys.
And it's all right, fine, you know he's not. He's
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not as he's not as skilled as Kevin Durant or
Kyrie Irving. When it's all said and done, Yannis is
gonna be ranked higher than those guys, well, certainly Kyrie,
but right now to pace there or Rogie. Yeah, he's
gonna be ranked higher than Kevin Durant. I'm sorry, yes,
And it's just like, and it's disappointing, even from Phil Handy,
especially because I know he didn't feel safe, like he
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didn't say anything. He just kind of nodded, and at
least and even even Gilbert, who I'm sure did this
on purpose. During the rent, there's like another thirty seconds
before that where he's talking about him. He never mentions
jan Is by name. Oh, but you can win a
champion you want a championship, you do this. It's like, well,
how many other guys fit this criteria that you're talking
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about who also doesn't play thirty seven minutes and won
one championship and it is very athletic, Like, you know,
there's there's Lebron but he's got four. There's Steph Curry
shoots a lot. There's there's Kevin Durant's got two. There's Kauhi,
who no one's ever gonna say is not highly skilled.
So you're we can tell who you're talking about, right,
And so you know, maybe that's his cover where he's like,
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well I wasn't talking about Yannest, Like yeah, you were,
Like just just just say that you were and go ahead. No, no,
I just it's it's frustrating to me because the media
gets a bad rap for saying, hey, you guys play favorites.
You guys are a lot of fam boys. Joe and
Soul likes this guy. You know, Chris is a Jordan
(14:55):
guy's not giving his respect to Lebron whatever. And yet
you have these guys who are supposed to know more
than everyone else. They're supposed to be more experienced in
this field, supposed to be more knowledgeable than the rest
of us, supposedly, and they continue to spew out things
that don't make any sense, right, Like, I don't get that.
(15:16):
It makes this business look bad when the guys who
are supposed to know more than everyone else say things
like this, right, and again, I'm sorry. I get the
skills talk. I get the old Kyrie's the most skilled
player ever to play the game, and I mean, okay, fine,
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and it's y'all know, I think Kyrie got the best
handle lever in the NBA. But and I mean, it's
make it, make it mean something on the court, and
I know he does to a degree. I'm just saying
this like love affair, Like KD is one of the
ringleaders of this. He almost wants you to just focus
(16:03):
on his skills, right and look at next season. Forget
how far they go. Heck, they might go out in
the second round. But if his skills were better next
season than this year, he wants you to celebrate. Yes,
look at the handle, he added, I don't care get
to the finals. All right, Come on, all right, let's
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throw it out to the listeners eight seven and seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven and seven, nine six
sixty three sixty nine. What this criticism of Yannis? Why
do you think it is? And heck, maybe you different
from me and Rob Gi. Do you think it's warranted?
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talked about it, this disrespect. I mean, we talked about
KD earlier and guys starting to disrespect him, Um, going
way overboard. This is worse. But this is yeah, because
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this is consistent. It's not related to you know, a
trade demand or one incident or anything like that. People
catch just disrespecting Yannis this game. Yeah, it's just it's
like ignoring aspects of him. That's what it's been a
bigger thing. Like with KD and the leadership, we have
evidence that showed that his leadership is lacking. There's no
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evidence that Jannis is not one of the best players
in the league right now. And it's flat out dominant
and it's I don't get it, but we got some
calls on it. Let's go out to the phone lines here.
MO is in San Diego. Mo, you're on the Yad
couple Fox Moor trading. What you got, Mo? Yeah, guys,
thanks for taking my calling FU. Earlier this week, EPAM
(18:35):
was on the show and you guys were talking about
this too with Kyrie and what makes a superstar? And
I wanted to get in I couldn't get on. But
I try to put together a list of what the
things are that make someone a superstar, and you can
go down the list and look at Yannis versus a
Kyrie and so listen listening to this real quick. So
number one, dominance number two, success or winning number three,
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assistancy number four, uplooting your team number five, marketability number six,
availability number seven, you're a household name. Number eight is
you're likable? Okay, When you look at those things and
you look at how many those the great guys have
already done. This is when Charles Bunky was a superstar.
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Why Lebron is a superstar, This is why every one
of those. Yannis has all of those every single years ago.
Remember a couple of years ago, um Kate Katie Cook.
He set something on Twitter about Lebron's being in the
weight room and started working on the skill set. But
part of being a great player is availability, and you
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have to do that by strengthening yourself. It's not just
how much you can cause global and shoot. You gotta
be there. Calree is not there enough. He's not conceistent enough,
he doesn't the games enough, he doesn't want enough to
be honest, he has some dominant moments, how total name.
But when you look at that lease y'anna checks all
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of those off and he's just getting started. It's it's
I mean, you took the thought out of it. You
don't gotta get you know, emotional about to check it off.
Now that's a that's a good call. That's a good call, um, real, real,
thorough and rob g what I'd say. Look, Yannis has
a legitimate chance to be a top ten player all time. Absolutely,
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it's all about his winning and and and I mean
high high up in the top ten. Ye you know,
because if you look at a lot of like people,
they want to talk about his lack of skills. If
you will, well, like I said, Kareem played strictly in
the post and people might want to say, well, that
(20:52):
was back in the day, that's how it was. Okay, Okay,
Magic didn't have a jump shot, right, I mean, if
you you know, Matt going a great defender. He got
a lot of steals though he was smart. But Bird
had limitations, athletic limitations defensively as well. Right, he got
(21:14):
a lot, but he wasn't a great defender. No, he
got a lot of steals like Magic, but he wasn't
like a lockdown defender by any stretch, and so and
Steph has you know, not a lockdown defender of course,
So you know, they just I just think Yannis and
it's gonna be based on how much he wins, but
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he's got a real chance to be a top ten
player of all times. So I just think dudes are tripping.
And I don't know if it's I don't know why.
I mean, they didn't hate on a Shock. Maybe Shock's
personality was what it was, and he did the hip
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hop and you know, you can't even say like the dominant,
like the dominant thing with my first thought, But has
Yannis not dominated the same way? Just you know, less forceful.
He's putting similar numbers. If he've been right, they have
been better numbers. I think the only thing is you
you said it forceful. I think that's what people love
(22:20):
about Shot. It was so forceful and so dominant physically. Yannis,
like you said, is in a different way, but people
don't see it like that. Um, but yeah, I think
that it's incredible. How how some of these guys aren't
giving him the props that he deserves. Haters and I
think right, they're gonna eat their words, that's for sure.
(22:42):
They already have and they will continue, all right. Jerry
Jones speaking of eating your words, must not be a
big believer in Dak Prescott will explain. Next, here we go.
It's the eye couple. I'm Chris. He's robbed g Rob
g And for Rob p Rob Garret, for Rob Parker.
We're live from the sports radio studios. And do we
(23:03):
have sounds of Jerry Jones. Absolutely? All right, let's hear it.
He's in the best shape he's ever been in. Now
it is cell a fact. We go as Zeke goes.
I know it's a lot on dark shoulders, but we
go as Zeke goes. He's very capable of being everything
we've ever wanted to be. The wild card, though, is
the guy that's playing beside him Pollard, Right, And so
(23:24):
we put Pollard in some plans that with Zeke for
the defensive to have to work against midweek and be
ready to play. Then you've got Pollard. We really like
where we are running back, but it all starts and
stops with Zee Now him on a first take, by
the way, yeah yeah, real impressive. Stephen a up in
(23:47):
the helicopter with him. I gotta give him. I had
to tell stephen A that was nice. Steve Rights called
Steve Well Steve yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But I look,
and you and I talked about this. You you brought
it up first. You said, this is really an indictment
on Dak. Absolutely that this is Jerry Jones not believing
(24:08):
on Dak. And look, I've been a guy that you know,
has been a quote unquote that guy, even as a
DAK guy. Though I never said he himself was a star.
What I said is that Dak Prescott is a winner,
and I still believe that. I do think he I mean,
you gotta start winning at some point to keep that title.
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But I do think he has all the intangibles of
a winner, a leader, a galviniser, a guy that the
locker room will follow, high character guy. But I've always said,
as far as a player, he is a game manager
with playmaking abilities. I like that. I love that description.
(24:53):
I think it's appropriate. He is a game manager with
playmaking a abilities. Most game managers don't have big play abilities,
and Dad has it with his arm, but with his legs,
and I think that sets him apart from the regular
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typical game manager. He's not Aaron Rodgers, he's not Patrick Mahons,
but he is a guy that has the ability to
make the big play when necessary and usually will manage
the game well. And when you look at what Jerry's saying,
Rob g all the teams, now, we know, a running
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game is you know, good to have, right, it's good
to have. But in today's in fl all of the
teams that are based primarily on their run game on
the running back Jonathan Taylor in Indianapolis, the Titans all
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right with Derek Henry, the Browns with Nick Chubb and
Kareem Hunt, the Panthers. The Panthers kind of yeah, Christian
McCarry obviously catches it a lot, but they don't have
none of them have elite quarterbacks. And that's why you're
right when you say this is an indictment or that
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this shows you Jerry. I mean there's other things, right,
it took him so long to sign Dak and so
on and so forth, but this is the latest evidence
that he really doesn't believe Dak is on that elite level.
I would say he's actually right about that. Yeah, I mean,
just look at the numbers in the last four seasons,
Dak is eight and seventeen against team with winning records.
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So that's fair. What's I guess what makes it even
more egregious in my opinion, is Jerry insisting that it's
built around as eek Elliot. He's not the first one
to say that, you know, Tony Ronnod said there is
a few months ago. Emmitt Smith has already said it.
This would make sense if Zeke was still performing like
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arguably the best running back in football, then you could
make the argument, you know what, even if we don't
think that Dak is quite the elite quarterback like a Mahomes, Rogers, Brady, whatever,
he's very good, but we have arguably the best running
back in football, so we'd be crazy not to want
to featu him as much as possible. Zeke has not
been close to the best running back in football for years.
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He wasn't the best running back on his own team
last year, right like he's been a Yeah, he's been
a shell of himself for a long time. And the
fact that Jerry Jones and several other Dallas Cowboys you know,
legends so to speak, feel like they would be better
served riding Ezekiel Elliott and his what you know, Ford
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Escape level learning abilities. These days, he's no longer the
high octane Lamborghini that he used to be. Like, what
does that say about Dak Prescott. Yeah, I mean it
makes you wonder if some of it is just trying
to get Zeke's confidence up. I mean really, because there's
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no reason. Now I will give you this last year
and if you want to write, if somebody wants to
write this office foolishness, half at it. Okay, because I
get it. But still last year for those that like Zeke,
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he looked pretty good. Now, first game nothing, thirty three
yards on eleven carries against Tampa. But then he goes
for seventy one against the Chargers, then ninety five on
seventeen carries against Philly, then one hundred and forty three
against Carolina, then one ten against the Giants, and then
the knee starts to bother him, and it was he
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never ran for seventy yards until the last game of
the season. And so I guess that's what they're saying,
rob G is that, look, the knee is fine now,
and that Zeke that you saw from week two to
week five, four weeks. That's the zeke you're getting for
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the better part of seventeen weeks this season. I would
love to see it, but I gotta be honest right now,
I think Tony Poller is the better back he is,
and even more than that, if you want to really
dive into it, if you want to be the football
guy who's not just talking service level, you want to
get into the Dallas Cowboys, they're down. They're starting left
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tackle from last season, they're starting right tackle from last season.
They're left guard from last season. They're number two and
number three. Right receiver actually be number one. I think
a Mary was the number one all along, even though
CD had better stats because he was getting most of
it in the slot last year as a print outside.
They're down all of these different guys. And usually in
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that situation, when it was in New England with Tom Brady,
if it's Aaron Rodgers now in Green Bay, when you're
short staffed like that, the one thing that you usually
hang your hat on is our quarterback is gonna have
to get us out of this. That was the Raiders
problem for a long time when they sold off all
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their assets and they thought Derek carr by himself could
do it, and he obviously could not. That was not
He's not at that level of a quarterback. And now
you're seeing that the Dallas Cowboys, without actually saying it,
are telling you, yeah, Dak Prescott's not that quarterback either. Yeah. Yeah,
I hate to say it, but they are. They are
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more couple coming your way. Chris B, Rob g Infra,
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was in for Rob Parker, he said that if the
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Lakers let Russ go cut him, he could come back
to Harnham. I thought that was laughable. Yeah, I imagine
you do as well. Yes, yes, I do. And I
had trouble figuring out if if if Russ is cut,
whether he's cut by the Lakers, or he's cut by
(32:53):
the Pacers, if they trade him or whatever. I can
tell where you're going, but let me run something by
you first, and you let me know if Vj's comments
about this coming back to bite the Lakers, that's not
even close to being, you know, the most incorrect take
in my opinion as relates of Russell Westbrook. This is
(33:15):
my guy Kendrick Perkins, Perk friend of the show now
he's on ESPN's Big Dog over there, said today, I
first take Pat bab and Russell Westbrook could be the
most dangerous defensive backcourt in the NBA. What's your thoughts?
(33:35):
And we love Perk. Perk's been in studio with us,
we rocked with. But even me, as the most optimist
Laker fan I know, wouldn't go that far. Those are
my thoughts. I love Perk Westbrook. After fourteen years of
not really playing defense, he was all of a sudden
gonna become a great different n He's got the ability
(33:57):
he doesn't try, but fourteen years No, I'm sorry, sorry,
I but go back to your original point. I just
wanted to run that by him. Wow, I love Perk, Um.
I think I think I found the team. Okay, hit me,
the Washington Wizards. They're not tanking right, They're not They're
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not gonna be bad enough to get the top pick two, three, whatever.
And they don't have like a young guy or even
an old guy at that position. And Russ did play
well his one year in Washington, average a triple double
really helped them get into the playoffs. He and Bradley
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Bill fit together. Look are you gonna you? You still
might miss the playoffs if you got Russ, but you
have a better chance of making them with Russ than
you do without him. They're not gonna do anything when
they get there. But as long as you got him, Hey,
who knows what can happen with him and Bradley Bill.
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So if I'm the Wizards, I want to excite my fans.
I know he won't take away from Bill's. That is
the one team I heard somebody mentioned Charlotte today. No, No,
they got LaMelo. Yes, I am not taking a ball
out of LaMelo Ball's hands to put it in Westbrooks
all right, Um Toronto, No, Like I Washington is the
(35:33):
place I see a fit. Rob Gie, I agree with you.
I've been saying something similar to that for a long time,
just because when you go through the NBA standings, when
it comes to Russell, Westbrook and manential landing spots, it's
got to be a place that number one does not
have a point guard in place, either a veteran or
a young guy. And number two it's got to be
(35:54):
a team that's not actively trying to tank. Otherwise you say, hey,
go to Oklahoma City. You know, he could do them
over there, but they're trying to lose. They got Shay
Gill just out, I don't I mean, but they don't
want They might sit him again this season, you know
now that now that chets out, you might see SGA
playing like fifty games because of low management. You know. Like,
(36:15):
but when I started thinking about there was only two
teams that made sense to me in that regard. One
of them, to your point, was Washington, which I think
is even strengthened now they just resigned Bradley Builds that
horrible contract. And number two and this one less so
now after the free agency was the Knicks, because they
weren't going to be bad enough to pick high in
the lottery, and they're a team that likes to excite
(36:38):
their fan base at any means possible. But once they
got Jalen Brunts, and that kind of makes it a
little bit of a more point. So I think by
default then easily the team that makes the most sense
to your point is the Wizards. I'm with you on
the Knicks. Now it doesn't make sense, but there was
a point before they free agency where it did make
a lot of sense. You might have been able to
(36:59):
get rid of some of these contracts. Right, you have
Russ for one year, let him, you know, light up
the garden. The fans would love him. Russ sanity, right,
and he maybe the average to triple double again, who knows.
And then next summer you let him walk and you
got money for free agency. So it did make sense
at one point, not anymore. So. Yeah, I think it's
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Washington man there. I don't think there's any question about it.
And here's our man. Okay, flashback Friday. He's got the
original version. I'm just gonna just gonna groove to this.
It's amazing what dudes did with Sampling, you know what
I mean. It's amazing what Iowa Sam does. What he's
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got time on his hand. Iwa was Sam is the man?
Y'all didn't know they could rock like that's out Nile
in the corn field. He was jamming out there, all right,
Rob g excellent work. My man's very nice, very nice,
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