January 28, 2019 • 50 mins
Dr. Mitch Roslin is joined by Gregg Sussman to preview the Patriots/Rams SuperBowl matchup, discuss the Anthony Davis trade talk, and touch on when or where Machado and Harper will sign.
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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. That's going on. Everybody,
Welcome inside studio. This is Doc Jock here in the
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Fantasy Sports Network alongside Dr Mitchell rosalind. I am Greg Souceman. Doc,
have the Super Bowl week to you, sir? Yes, the
Super Bowl is here and we've got the Patriots, We've
got the Rams. Um. It's um a remarkable story. Yeah.
When I was watching the Boston Celtic Golden State Warrior
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game Saturday night, I was thinking, it's really really amazing that,
you know, I look at Golden State and I think
they're hitting their stride and I think they're a dominant team.
And it's not surprising when dominant teams win, right, And
you look at the pay Treats that have been in
five of the last nine Super Bowls and Bree in
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a row, and they really haven't been a dominant team
since the team that the Giants beat back in the
Tyree Super Bowl. You know, think think about think about
in in a way they beat Seattle on uh an
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interception that we all thought they should have ran the
ball right right right. They beat Atlanta when everybody can't
figure out what Atlanta was doing in the fourth quarter
and they lose a nail bita to Philadelphia. So it's
hard to argue that there talent is so much much better.
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And what's even really interesting is that on the surface,
when we talk about all sports, we'd say baseball is
got no salary cap. Okay, the Yankees, I know, now
there's attacks and teams don't want to go over the tax,
but at least theoretically they can. Also, there's less revenue
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sharing in baseball, you know, in fact, you're more dependent
on the local revenue, so that the Yankees are far
more valuable franchise than the New York Mets. And that's
really not true between say the Giants and the Green
Bay Packers, which are the only publicly owned NFL franchise,
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because the NFL shares all their revenue. And what's strange
is that the sport that has no salary cap has
the different teams in the World Series on a regular basis,
different champions, and the team that has the league that
has the hardest salary cap the same every year. And
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the NBA, which is somewhere in between with what i'd
call a soft cat, seems to have the teams that
have the most disproportioned and the least you know, Let's
let's face it, Okay, the Knicks can't win this year,
no matter what, no matter what. Okay, you know, I
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like frankes Isola writing a column Hanning David Fissdale. I
don't think a combination of Red all Back and John
Wooden should win with this team, of course, um, And
I think that's deliberately. So it's just kind of remarkable
when you look at it. And you told me the
biggest news today is Anthony Davis going ahead and asking
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for a trade. I'm excited to get into that with you,
to be honest with you, because I think you'll You'll
think you'll feel the same way, um that I do.
The crazy thing with the Super Bowl. To me, I
think you'd appreciate this is that it's all kind of
come full circle of those Rams team, right like for
those Patriots team, because the first up they played your
in Dynasty, it's the Rams. It is the greatest show
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on turf. And here we are back again, Brady and
Belichick again. We're doing it all over again. Doc. But
you know what, what's what's what seems is sometimes you
see these great teams and they fizzle out and they
win one more based on the fact that they know
how to win, right. But I've had that feeling with
the Patriots for a long time. And you know, I
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know he came out and said that he's not retiring.
I never saw, you know, if you look at the
human emotions, just like I said right from the beginning
that Kyler Murray is not going to ride a bus
in Amarillio, Yes, you did, okay, the same thing. You know,
People retire from sports because they don't want to put
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in the work to play the games, or they can't
perform to that level, or they have like an injury
that they're really really concerned that can change there you know,
the rest of their life. Brady meets none of those criteria.
In fact, I would say that his passion is moving,
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that nutrition, fitness can allow him to do things that
people haven't done, and the games are just fun. I mean,
my guess is Monday morning after the Super Bowl, by
five o'clock he's back in the gym and and doing
something and you know, and eating the same exact diet
that E eight old times. So there's no reason for
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him not to come back unless something drastic happened. Sure,
he'll be back. Why wouldn't he be He's been there forever.
And what's so different about this team is that there's
zero loyalty. And Belichick wanted to get rid of Brady
Jimmy Jimmy Garoppolo, right Like, there's zero loyalty on this
team except for Bill Belichick. And because of that, I
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believe that's why they've been able to sustain. They don't
overpay their veterans, they don't overpay guys that won them
championships or lad them to division titles in the past.
They're always looking toward the future. And that's why they've
remained the class of the NFL for fifteen years. Well,
they're not nostalgic. There's the other word, exactly, they're not nostalgic.
And and it's interesting they say that's why Dave Gettleman
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lost his job in Carolina. Really, if you go back
that he didn't want to sign Davis, who was the
NFL Man of the Year, He didn't want to extend
different people. Yet there must be something in the New
York thing, because the first thing he does is given
overflated contract to Jonathan Stewart, right, because he was a
good locker room guy doc, which but again, if you
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look at that, it tells me that he's looking exactly
the same stuff we are and that ellis not back.
But that's a different type of conversation, Yes it is.
It's obviously a very different type of conversation. But you
mentioned the Dynastys and I told you that when you
walked in here today. At the biggest story in sports
right now, he's Anthony Davis requesting and trade. And I
talked about this earlier on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever,
and it's a power play. It's a power play by
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the agent who's best friends with Lebron, who is also
lebron'e agent, to get him to l A The team
that cannot make an offer right now, that is the
biggest competition for Anthony Davis is the Celtics. Because of
the Rose rule, in which you can't have two players
that that same contract, the Celtics cannot make an offer
until that contract is up on July one. So what
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Rich Paul is doing is saying, hey, we want to trade.
The Lakers are the best option. They're going to make
an offer. And I'm not saying their offer would be
any worse than the Celtics, but the Celtics can't make
any offer right now, so and and and what you're
really asking is, first of all, uh Davis can't move
until after next season. That's correct, the year and a
half left of his contract. So there really isn't any
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reason for New Orleans to move him for the off season.
Zero zero need to do that, because you would tend
to believe that they'd want to mock it and they'd
want the Celtics in there with them. And the Celtics
just have so many draft picks up they have hate.
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Um well is probably what you want back in that deal.
Um and and the draft picks. And now let's look
at the Lakers. I really I don't love a Lonzo
ball unless I'm missing something, Okay, it seems fair, Okay.
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I think that Brandon Ingram has done very very little
because he's in the NBA. UM he's a weird player.
I mean, he's you know, tall, but he plays very
very very very small and he's not a great long
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range shooter. So I think that he really hasn't reached
anything as when he came out of Duke and everybody
thought he was really going to be special. Um, so
I don't see great value in him. Uh. The kid
from Utah plays zero defense? Um? Um the I'm blak
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Donovan Mitchell. No, not Donovan Mitchell on the Lakers. He
went to you undergrad. Um Kuzma, who'sma? Sorry? Whom Kuzma play? Zero?
Is a defensive liability? So if you take your pick
or take all three, do you like any of them? Right? So?
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I think it comes down to what the Pelicans want
to do, right it's are you going to try to
do what? And rightfully? So what the Pacers did in
getting Oladipo that they were trying to compete right now,
continue to compete and it worked out obviously as Oliva
improved and they traded their superstar and they were fine.
Or do you do what the Magic did, trade Dwyne
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Howard for a bunch of picks and some young guys
never and legitimately not recovered fifteen years later, right, Like,
that's what they're gonna have to balance. Do you go
after just these graphics which the Celtics can give you,
or do you believe in a young core and get
three of Kyle Kuzma brandon Ingram lazo ball. Is that
what you think? You answered your question when you talked
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about the Patriots and then you brought up basketball football,
And yes, Brady is probably the greatest conductor that we've
ever seen in sports. Okay, and you probably need a
great conductor, right But football is a game where the
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depth of your roster and next man up determine Super
Bowls rather than you know, you really win during the
season and a war of attrition, then you do the
team that wins the offseason, which classically the Washington Redskins
at infinite um and sometimes the Jets has very rarely
won on the field. Basketball is exactly the opposite. You
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pick your stars and the other players are interchangeable. So
the answer to your question is the deal you have
to get is the best player, and the best player
that you can potentially get is Jayson Tatum. He has
the highest upside of any of the teams that you're
talking about that you could possibly get. And you look
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at the n B a is if you don't have
that guy, and maybe Tatum won't be that guy, you
have no chance. Okay. So people, there were a lot
of articles in New York Who's better off the Knicks
or the Nets. Clearly, the Nets are a world's better team.
The Nets have one of the best records in the NBA.
But if the goal is to win a championship, I
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really can't see D'Angelo Russell leading that, George, although he's
getting better by the daily basis. You know, the Nicks
would have a better chance with Pauzingis and Durant assuming
Durant comes okay, which is a big if. But that's
what you need in the n b A and you know,
Philadelphia might have told you something with the so called process.
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I don't think you can win by assembling five B
plus players. It's been a long time in the NBA
since you were able to do that. I very much
agree you need stars, you need superstars. I always think
back to that Pistons team that was wound be the
Lakers as a team that was a lot of B
B plus players that fit together, that worked right. Since then,
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it's always been about the stars, the decision, the whole deal. Um.
Now that's why you all these teams are ultimately going
to be desperate foreign Anthony Davis. But as I said
to you, and as I said this afternoon, when it
comes to the Pelicans doing what's right for their team.
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There is no way, no freaking way that I am
trading this guy before I can get everybody's best offer,
and that includes Boston absolutely, and the best offer has
to have. The best offer is defined as who is
bringing back the best player? Right, okay, because it's it's
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It's not like getting more value by getting free for
one because I'll take two pieces of chop meat and
the best player, okay, and then I'll turn over the
chop meat and hope I find another great player. So,
off the top of my head, of any team that
can make an offer, okay, Jayson Tatum is that best player. Okay.
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If I'm the Knicks I'm trying to sell pazingis is
that best player because I'd make that deal and driven
whatever they want. And that even assumes that he has
a bionic k need. Well, when he asked that, she
said to do whatever they want. Is that Christmas prosingis
and the number one pick with him absolutely, absolutely, no
question about out it. Okay. First of all, the number
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one pick. If you look at this year's draft and
you watch people are saying that Zion Williamson is exceptional.
The rest is very little difference between the top of
the first round in the bottom of the first round. Um,
you watch people say R. J. Barrett's the second best
player in this draft, and he's a very nice player,
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but he's got limitations. He's certainly you know, again, you're
trying to project how twenty year olds are gonna play
against men, and it gets harder and hardy old eighteen
year olds against men, and and you know there are
people like you know, the Buckstan Maker is is on
thinking who everybody was talking about as being fantastic. He's
twenty one, and now people are saying, do what I
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want to give him a second contract? Right? I mean
you see that all the time in the NBA now
and found a maker. It was extremely, extremely raw when
he went into the draft, and I thought it was
a reach by the Bucks. But because of where the
Bucks are, because the best record Eastern Conference, they're not
gonna give this kid a chance to develop. There's there's
no way they can't afford to. And at one years old,
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you're absolutely right, do you give him a second contract?
That's why I kind of like in this clear rebuilding
year for the Knicks, getting all these guys that are
under twenty five years old and seeing with the Avid
them like, I like no von Lay who's never been
getting at true opportunity. And you know, it's interesting the
Knicks are a collection of lottery bus absolutely I like that. Yeah,
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And unfortunately none of them have really emerged. You brought
up Von Lay and Von Lay. Actually the Knicks have
the least rights to in the you know, the NBA
is very, very difficult. The Knicks really don't have any
Bird exception, and he's actually the most valuable. He's actually
somebody who's clearly a rotation. Nothing more than that. He's
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a backup big That's fine, nothing nothing more for for
when you want to play small ball. But the end
to be a story has got to be right now,
James Harden, Yeah, absolutely, before we move off, you mentioned
Kyle Kuzma before uh Freezing cold takes just retweeted an
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old Kyle Kuzman tweet from seven years ago. It's probably
in high school at the time. Right, this is the
day of the James Harden trade. It's o're all looking
at together, James Harden trade that sent him okay see
to Houston. Good trade for okay seek who says Kevin
Martin isn't no slouch and Jay Lamb is the future.
Plus first round picks that try work out for Okay,
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see one of the worst trades and basketball history history,
one of the worst. I mean it goes down with
Nolan Ryan, Jim Fregosi. You know amoss otis for Joe Foy,
many Babe Ruth Steven, many many other trades, A very
very bad trade. What you know, But it's it's it's
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I can't remember the exact number, but James Harden has
gone more than two hundred baskets without having anybody assist
on his baskets. So this is clear isolation. Three hundred
and seven consecutive points without having a ball assisted on right?
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Is this what we want in the NBA? And should
there be rule changes allowing zone defense so that you
don't you can actually double and not be within three
ft of somebody? Um? Is this isolation? Ball? I mean,
I mean is this what you want to watch? You know?
I guess I have several questions. Number one, is this
what you want to watch? Where it's basically pick and roll,
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pick and roll, pick and roll until he gets the
matchup that he wants, where he that drives fouls and passes,
and now he's has had assists and you know the
game against the Knicks, who he hit twenty two out
of twenty five foul shots. Um. And the second question
is can you win this way and you win four
games against the real team? And I asked this question
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last week, and to me, the answers no, Like you
can win a game, right, you can definitely win a
game with Superhero hard, But can this sustain over the
long run, over a seven game series? And I don't
think the answer is also can this sustain until June
when now only in February. Okay, this is god to
take a physical toll? Yeah, you know, let's let let's
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give him credit. You know, one thing he is he
comes to play every single night. He really works like
you can't possibly imagine. I really, you know, I always
try to think of comps in basketball. I really can't
think of a comp that I've ever seen like him.
He gets fouled, he has the ball, he's got incredible
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body control, he's a reasonably good shooter. He's really kind
of different than any god that I've seen in my lifetime.
I can't think of one comp to him. Some people
have said Oscar Robinson, which us like, I remember Oscar
Robinson playing for the Milwaukee Bucks with Lou Lou at
that time Lou House into which the end of his
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But I can't remember one real comp to haunt it.
I don't have one. I don't have one, by the way,
it just comes in. Adrianojanowski tweeted this. New Orleans gave
this statement to ESPN on Anthony Davis this past week,
and Anthony Davis's representatives informed us that Anthony does not
wish to sign a conscious extension with our team, and
subsequently as requested the trade. Although we are disappointed in
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this decision, not dot dot our organization's top priorities to
bring an NBA championship to our city and fans, build
our team for a law for long term success, relative
to specific talks of a trade. We will do this
on our timeline when that makes sense for our team
and will not be dictated for the by those outside
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of our organization. We've also requested the league to strictly
enforced the tampling rules associated with this transaction. I hope
he likes Nathaniel Hall because because you know, essentially that's
like saying we do not like what the Lakers have. Sure,
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of course it is. We're not just giving in, We're
not just sending you the Lakers. That's exactly what that says.
That's exactly what that says. And and and you know,
now you look at it from the Boston perspective where
you have to give something to get something. But you
know what, you know, we love you, Jason. You are
phenomenal as a rookie, you know, a little bit worse
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as a sophomore year. You have an incredible upside. Okay,
but welcome to Bourbon Street. Absolutely, I mean that's that's
basically what that says. Absolutely absolutely, I love it. I
thought it was a great There was a good job
there by the New Orleans Pelicans. Let's move on here.
Let's go back to the NFL where we were talking
about Tom Brady and his legacy, um, and we were
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talking about the Patriots. One of the rams here for
a moment when Sean McVeigh was interviewed by Monday Morning
Quarterback or formerly London Morning Quarterback for one morning American
Peter King. And he he gets it before o'clock in the morning,
and he goes to the to the office and he
has his bright memory and he actually his friends with Belichick.
He talks to him every week after every game, they
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text their friends. What does Sean McVeigh have to do
differently in order to win the Super Bowl? Jean McVeigh
number one. I think that if you actually look at it,
he has to stay true to what he was when
he you know, that got him there right to begin with,
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Like I I thought that, you know, again, he's somebody
who said you should definitely just go for everything, just
go for everything, just go for everything. And then when
the push on, then he gets nervous and does that.
I think the Rams have a really good chance in
this game because I think the Rams bring to the
table exactly what what um what bothers New England the most,
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which is they have excellent defensive tackles which can give
them pressure up the middle. Also, I think they have
good team speed. And one of the things that you know,
we can't forget is that Kansas City put thirty one
points on them in the second half and they could
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not stay with Kansas City. So their schemes were great
in the first half. Once Kansas City began to figure
it out and move my homes around they couldn't stop them.
So this is a Floyd Patriot team. So I think
the Rams have a really, really, really good shot. And
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as I pointed out, you know, again, we go five
out of nine Dynasty. It's not like New England's rolled
over anybody in the Super Bowl in the last five times,
So why would you think that they were going to
roll over? And I still think that this is their
worst team in the Super Bowl. I think this is
the worst Gronkowski going into the game. I think that,
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you know, it would seem to me that Julian Edelman
does not have four to speed. Somebody should be able
to keep him from getting exactly where he wants to go.
And it's you know, as far as if I was
doing the game plan for Los Angeles, I would play
like the Chad Pennington defense that Oakland played against the Jets.
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I would make Brady beat me over the top. Let
Brady take away as much of the intermediate, the fast
passing game ship at the line of scrimmage. If they
make big plays, I have the big play offense. I'll
come back. I'll live with the eighty odd bomb, but
I want to take away and I know that's the
exact opposite that most people preach. I want to push
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the field long on him and make him throw over
the topic. You don't think he has what he used
to have. I don't think he has the receivers to
do it. And I think I can get enough pressure
with Fowler, Um, Aaron Donald and and Sue especially and
Flowers as well. I think I can get enough pressure
that if I can make him hold the ball, I
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think that I can make some place. I believe I
saw or franktel Me. I believe Wade Phillips fifteen and
sixteen his career against Bill Belichick. So what's my wonder there?
So he's gonna shot at it. And one thing that's
guaranteed is I guess we won't have any referees that
come from California. What do you think of that story?
I think it's stupid. I cannot believe this is the
story I I I mean, it's it's it's unbelievable. So,
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I again, I don't think people people understand how people
think these are professionals, Okay, I I don't think once
you become an NFL referee that you think the same
way as a fan. Not you know, I think It's
it's like saying, you know, this is what bothers fans
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is that players change jersey and and people are loyal,
you know, fans loyal to the jersey. Look like you know,
Anthony Davis. You know, I love the people of New Orleans.
They've been very, very great to me. Can I get
a coach? Can I get a first class ticket to
Los Angeles? Okay? He wants to do what's best for him.
It's it's it's not like there's loyalty to the Pelicans.
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You know. One of the stories I heard this morning
is Kevin Durant is going back as they're retiring Nick
Collinson's jersey for Okay see and Dennis Schroederz said that
the fans of Oklahoma City should welcome him back warmly. Why.
I don't know why. I mean, if somebody left you
a boyhood team who offered him the world, would you,
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you know, would you be like, oh, boy, that's a
great guy. You know, we love him, you know, type
of deal um that leads me, that leads me to
the Knicks. Last night? Who was up there, who was
sitting front row of the garden last night, Anthony Carmelo,
Anthony were there to watch the nixt who's there to
hang out with his buddy Dwayne Wade. Who's gonna hang
out with this bundy Dwan Wade? But there he was
carrella Athony Knicks fans couldn't wait to get rid of
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a year ago. It wasn't five years ago, ten years ago,
three years ago, a year ago fans collaborating here in
a carrella Anthony and he was so good. Then now
a year later, he's on the sidelines, in the front
row and dress clothes watching the Knicks. But you know
what having to him, he's standing ovation well, but a
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different obviously, very just very different. It's not like he
left at the top of his game. Okay, who is
He's actually become a sympathetic figure. He's become a sympathetic figure,
which is hard to imagine. And maybe he was. Remember
I said, you know, he's just always in Dwayne Wade
surrounds himself. He's like I I said this once before
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in Doc Jack. He's like the girl that hangs around
with all the best looking girls on campus. And then
when you actually say, well she's really not that attractive
because she's in the club. You know, He's always been
in that club. You know, Lebron Wade, Carmelo Anthony's won
the most Olympic Games. But if you actually look at
his career, phenomenal college player at Syracuse, his NBA career,
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I think once it Denva made it to the conference
finals and with the Knicks they won one playoff series
in his whole time. Now that's right, Okay, that is accurate.
And and yet he a lot of people considered him
second to Lebron James Well for a while, that was
that's a distant at least at least as a score,
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that is a as distinct of a second as you
could possibly be. You know, it's amazing to me to think,
Doc that Carmelo Anthony was known as his unbelievable score,
that could do anything. And then you watched James Harding.
This is what we're talking about. This is who we
thought Carmelo Anthony was. Well, but Houston got off to
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a bad star with arguably the second best player injured. Sure,
maybe that's an advantage to them because as you know,
you know, you know, Harden doesn't even have to give
the ball to anybody else. There's not even the charade
of anybody else touching the ball on that team. When
you have Chris, you can't not even trying it. Okay,
when you have Chris Paul on the thing, you know
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you have to let him touch it sometime, just to
justify the State Farm ads all the time. You know,
you you don't want him to have more air time
on State Farm than you do on the basketball. So
it's it's like, that's why they got rid of Carmelo
so fast, because Carmelo actually wants to bounce the basketball
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and just doesn't do it as well. That's why they
couldn't run him out of town. Where do you think
he he winds up that really plays again? Doc? He'll
play again? Why because he can and somebody will want
him to and he and he. I don't think he
wants to go out this way. I don't Portlandland. He's
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not going to Portland. Okay, he's not going to Portland.
Who go play in l af Lebron wants him to.
I don't think Lebron wants him to. I agree with you.
I think that's a smoke screen. I think it's over.
And you know the other thing about Lebron James is
supposedly he doesn't want Luke Walton to coach. Well, I
knew that was coming, right. You know what our O,
Corey Parsons and some other people believe the next coach
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of the Los Angeles Lakers is Dwane Wade. Really, that's
what some people believe. Well, why not make Lebron player coach? Basically?
Is I mean basically he's he you know, people are
talking about like the All Star selection and you know,
out sixteen games. But you know, it would be really
really interesting the Lakers right now two games out of
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the playoffs. Okay, when Lebron comes back, they'll move up,
no doubt. But it would be great to see the
Lakers play Golden State in the first round. That's not
a match that they'd really want. They would not we
want that at all. Let's be real. Let's be real, Doc.
Nobody don't want to face Lebron in the first round, right,
nobody wants to face Lebron. But but I mean, that's
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a very realistic. Sure, it's that's that's very realistic. Coming
back the State faces and is there anybody in the
East that can give Golden State a run? You want
to think that, you want to think that Milwaukee could,
But I don't know, like can I. First of all,
who do you think the favorite in the East is?
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Probably the probably the Raptors. Probably I would agree with you.
But I think that you I think that the Celtics
have a realistic chance to get better, and and and
and I would say that Gordon Hayward was a terrific
player and now he's a shade of himself. Okay. And
is that permanent or is he just got to play
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more to get back in the in the in the field,
you know, if he can really become a top player,
I think that helps him. I really don't like Philadelphia
the way they're constructed. Now, something's off on that team.
What about Carmelo There, You're gonna put another guy who
just wants the ball all of the second. He doesn't
want to do that again, I think at this point
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he would. So that's where we disagree, right Like to me,
Carmelo Anthony knows his best days are behind him. He
doesn't need to travel the world. He doesn't need to
be like Paul Pierce and just sit on the bench
for a while. He said Paul Pius was one of
the great finishes of all time, no doubt about it.
He also could play defense. Those are two things. You know.
Carmelolo was not a great finisher for the Knicks. No,
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he's not. He's not a great shooter, and in today's
there's not a place for that. What Philadelphia needs his shooters.
He's not that anymore. Unfortunately, I think the teams that
could use them, like you know who could use them
in all Honestly, Brooklyn could use Carmelo Anthony, but I
don't think they want to sign him. And you know
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they have this, you know that they're playing the ultimate
of what we would just talk the B plus the
ultimate with B plus players playing, there's nobody on the
team playing thirty minutes a game. Winning When winning winning
games you know, again against a despart n B a great,
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great story. I don't see them winning a playoff series.
I agree, And we talked about the stars right, it's
it's a lot of B pluses. Interestingly, though, they've won
more than their fast share of close games, which abolutely
which goes against everything that we're saying. So maybe we're
we're we're stupid, um. But I just and this is
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the whole thing, I don't believe that Harden can do
it for four games against a great team, and do
that I wanna go to talk to you about like
a fascinating interview that I heard with Mark Cuban. Okay,
and Mark Cuban was interviewed on a freaking omics podcast
and graduated Indiana. Great to listen to, you know, whether
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it's on. Very interesting guy who actually made his money
by creating a streaming service before there was YouTube, and
very tact tech savvy person. And they asked him, if
you had to long a sport, what sport would it be?
And if you had the shortest sport, what sport it
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would it be? And his answers were my guesses to
you which were correct before the show was I thought
that he was short football, which is the obvious one
given concussions. Um that people would people are saying for
many many years, the NFL is going to die. They
slow death. Um that p that that the best athletes
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in our country would not play that game anymore, and
people was not watching it because now my lenin is
so I said the NFL. That was correct. When it
came to buying in longing a sport, I thought it
would be esports. He's already listed him. Yet I thought
it'd be E sports. And again that was correct. You
are absolutely correct, And I'm asking you you know you're
(34:12):
getting you're engaged, not yet had children. Now I'm sitting
here with three, two in college, and I'm saying, like,
you know what, I drave a pay for the University
of Miami from my daughter Kylie. Then have one of
my kids beyond an East Sports scholarship staring at a
computer all day. And maybe I'm just too much of
like a bariatric surgeon or you know, wellness individual and
(34:37):
just can't regard looking at a computer as a sport.
But I don't know what do we define as a sport.
And and that's a common conversation when I disagree, Right
because E sports obviously very very popular, or many believe
how popular is gonna become with all these billionaires investing
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in it, Right I to leave of my child he's
the best at something, or is good enough to get
a scholarship to college at the University of Maryland to
play a video game better than anybody else as a
talent right there, that's a talent. That's awesome, and I
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support them. So why am I so screwed up that
if my kid was the best piano player. I'd be
proud of them if they were, you know, not just
in sports. You understand what I'm trying to with you.
You don't believe the video is a talent. If if
they won the voice, I'd be of course be a dancer. Okay,
I'd be proud of them. And why why am I
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drawing the line on East sports? Am I just pigheaded?
Am I just you know? Am I just like just
a creation of habit? You know? I asked one of
our medical students when we were having this conversation today.
He goes, yeah, I watch East What's I go? Where
do you watch it? He said? YouTube? YouTuber twitch? Okay,
YouTube and watch it all the time is the only
way you can get better in living legends. And it's
(36:07):
really interesting and Mark legal legends, Mark Cubans, you know,
I'm still in the old time sports living legends legend. Okay,
you know, Larry bird Um. Mark Cubans argument is that
when sports proliferate, it's because you have a lot of
amateurs playing and they want to imitate the pros, and
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that every kid is playing this to a certain degree.
And I agree with that. I'm cool with my kids
playing video games, Like I'm not like you know, band
their screen time. I think it's part of their generation.
But I really prefer that to take my friend, my
son Jared to a tennis lesson, Okay, then I do
to have him home practicing video games. And I understand
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that right, Like there is a social aspect that you
want your child to be around other kids, other people.
It's also it's also a health aspect, of course. I mean,
it's it's it's it's that we've already become in my
mind to set and Terry, well, there's no doubt about it. Okay,
(37:15):
you know what from what we've we've already become and
I've I've told you that the history of sports derives
from the fact that they said, if we take thirty
guys and we have some sort of competition, that's better
than everybody getting killed. At most thirty people get killed.
And then we've taken it into different sports and different
(37:36):
leagues and channeled a bunch of energy. But maybe this
is the true cure the CTE. You know, you know,
video games instead, And I don't mean to make light.
I'm sure it takes tremendous skill and what I found
really amazing is by medical student today said, yeah, and
by the time these people are twenty three, they're done
because they lose their reaction time, which to me is
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and then like that on And this to me is
like really fascinating because here, you think about it, at
the Australian Open, we basically have two dinosaurs and we
have these great young players throughout the world. Tennis is
truly an international sport. Yes, we have Djokovic, Nadal and
Federa and it's essentially been that way for how many years.
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It's just incredible that hold my whole life, okay, that
no one can break through. You you know, when Federa
broke through, Nidal came after, when Nadal breakthrough, Jokokovic came after,
and then for a short time Andy Murray made it
like the beatles of quartet, right, okay, And then we
have japar Off coming out of Canada. Looks great. Okay.
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You have the kid that beat Federa uh from Greece
this year. But none of them seemed to be able
to crack it, you know, Nisha Kory. None of them
seemed to be able to crack it consistently, which is amazing. Like,
how long can these guys keep on going on? That's
a good thing. I don't play video games because they'd
be done at And you thought you thought the Dollar
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was gonna be done with his back injury years ago.
You thought Federer was falling off years ago, and it
just hasn't happened. It just has not happened. It's which
is just absolutely amazing because historically tennis was a sport
where you reached a young peak. Not quite like gymnastics,
but when I was a kid, you had you know,
Chris Evertt winning majors. It's sixteen, right, Okay, yes, it
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was more in the females, but even Pete Sampras won
the US Open at one. Agassi was a child prodigy.
Jimmy Connors was dating Chris Chris Everett back in the day,
was in his early twenties when he was winning majors.
McEnroe the best part of his career was right when
he came after Stanford. It used to be said you
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could win a Grand Slam in your thirties, Ken Rosewall,
then Agassy, Connors, they went further than anybody else. So
it's it's just it's just amazing. In this day and age.
You know, some of it has to do with training,
but it's also amazing that no one comes behind to
push them from the throne. Absolutely not. I don't think's
lack of trying, you know, I just think it's they're
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really good. I mean, there are three of the best
players we've ever seen in our lives. So it's as
we started with Brady, I think we should kind of
rap it up, bring bring it up. So first of all,
let's let's go to Super Bowl picks. Super Bowl picks.
I think Patriots win and they cover. Okay, give me
a score. I think the Patriots win thirty three seventeen.
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Do you think it's a big win. Okay, I'm gonna
you know, I'm gonna play roulette. I'm gonna keep on
hitting black, black black. Although I thought the Patriots would
kill the charges. Okay, but but you know, after that,
I really thought Kansas City was gonna win because I
really thought this was the league. So I'm gonna go consistently.
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I'm gonna go Rams. Not only are we get a
good game, but Rams win it. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
But you know, again, I hope I don't get you
you know, I know there's not gonna be any southern
California or any referees from the New England area. Probably not,
which is I think just the absolute thing about that.
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But you know, one of the things that we're talking
about quarterbacks and just to put out thinking caps on
and said, let's let's go through the teams that you
think are gonna have new starting quarterbacks next year and
name who do you think that quarterback is gonna be? Right?
Also the Jacksonville Jaguars and their quarterback with Nick Foles. Okay,
so you think the Felippo signed Nick Foles, who takes
this first snap for the Denver Broncos. Who takes the
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first snap for the Denver Broncos. I say, case Keenum,
you think Case Keenu. I think Kate keen is gonna
wind up being the Giants bridge quarterback. Okay, I would
be surprised if Eli and him rated places. Okay, I
have interested I well, I think I think they will
do that and I think case keenan will will will
be the bridge. What do you think the Washington Redskins still,
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I think they needed They will have a new quarterback
for sure, unless it's just called mc coy well, you know,
the problem with called McCoy okay is he wasn't great
when he played for Cleveland. He looked much better when
he played for Washington. But he really can't stay on
the field. Always gets hurt. Okay, he really can't stay
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on the field. And you know, you could say, I'm
a firm believer that injuries are a talent like any other.
I think that sometimes, you know what I equate this
too in my medical knowledge is like accidents can happen
to anybody, but if you spend time in a trauma slot,
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accidents more often happened the people secondary to alcohol, rug, etcetera, etcetera.
I'd say the same thing is true about injuries. You know,
right hit, right place, anybody can get injured. But there
are certain people that have certain body habituts you know,
that can't be reproduced. Maybe they have the sixth sense
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to not take a hit and stuff like that. That
injuries are a skill like any other avoiding them type
the deal. So I think that there is something to
being very much injury prone as opposed to people like
you know Manning's you know bread fall of Drew Brees
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who had a terrible shoulder injury, but has managed to
stay on the field for ten years since that time.
I do think there's something to that. I agree that.
I agree that there is something to you just Eli
Manning style, right, Russell Wilson, and I don't think it's
a skill that you can actually predict. Um. But let's
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take for example, both the Shawn Watson and Robert Griffith
had a c LS repaired before they made it into
the NFL, as to Todd Jurley. But that's that's a different, different,
different story. One more quarter about free Well, I can
answer Washington theoretically. Joe Flacco maybe, yeah, I think he
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makes sense for them, um, Jay Gruden and stuff like that.
People have talked about how Washington had this great coaching
staff that had Kyle Shanahan, John McVeigh and excuse me,
Matt LeFleur on the same coaching staff underneath Mike Shanahan
at that time, and that was I think the team
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that you know. Yeah, and I think we should look
back at that time very finally, because what they did
that rookie season, it was only anything we've seen in
the NFL. So let me ask you this question. I
was thinking about this when watching Lamarge action play quarterback
for the Ravens. Is the league coming back to Robert Griffith,
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Like Jake Gruden couldn't run him out. They are fast
enough because he didn't have the read progression and now
basically everybody's offense is the run pass option and stuff
like that. Had it be different times, but if his
career gone differently, extremely extremely extremely different, I think that
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they would have forced him to be smarter. They would
have forced him too, not be a different quarterback, but
not be as wild or and as free thinking as
he was. I think. Is that fair? Yeah? I mean
(45:51):
I think from the nation, I just think he's bad
at goods at this point in time, he's he's a
show of himself. Going back to that term again, right,
he's just not the same guy anymore. Yeah, because he
was truly special that first year when they let him play,
and you know he probably you know, injured and already
was was was just injured, you know, and I think
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in that playoff game, but he was will never forget
I mean just listening to games in the radio and
watching then I go, the Giants are gonna be screwed.
For the next twenty years of my life. Because this
guy is unstoppable, right, unstoppable. I mean, I actually, you know,
and it's interesting that's the same year as Andrew Luck,
in the same year as Russell Wilson. And obviously Andrew
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Luck had a near m v P year, but he
missed two years. Yeah, I mean, the argument after the
first year was who's better Andrew Luck, Ross Griffin. And
right now you'd actually have to say that Russell Wilson's
had the best career of the three, and a lot
of that is because he stays on the field. He
stays on the field anyware, super Bowl, but but ultimately
he does stay on the field. There you go, and
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as we head into the Super Bowl, Machado and Hopper
out there still out there's still out there, still waiting.
And you know, again, people ask for a lot of reasons.
I think the reason is very very simple. And then
given the offer they want, they haven't been given the
offer that they want and or by the team that
they want. And I think that it's you know, when
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you look at the history of long contracts, the math
just isn't there. And you know, I think that that
people are reassessing the marketplace. I think it's a re
equilibration in the marketplace. And I think it's also greedy
owner is realizing that they can get away with not
having to spend and spend and spend. You know, it's
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interesting because I think that for example, of this team
that should spend, we bring up and baseball's local revenue
as opposed to other sports. And like in our town,
the Yankees are valued is the first or second most
valuable franchise in all pro sports, and Mets are very
highly valued, don't get me wrong, but they're not the Yankees.
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And when I was growing up, New York was considered
a National League town in nineteen sixty nine when the
Giants and the Dodgers left, the Mets with the Darlings,
Yankees go through those dormant years when Horace Clark was
their second basement and you know Steinbrenner science catfish hunter,
Reggie Jackson kind it changes the whole equation that people
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don't realize. But the Mets should make an investment because
they could have the upside there. But again, really really interesting.
One thing, you gotta say, Washington Nationals best team on paper?
Where did they finish in the nationally Ueast third? It
might have been second, or think it might have been
but a distant second to Atlanta who you couldn't name
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one player in their starting life coon you but but
but Fred Freeman. But yeah, but Freeman be the only
one coming into the year. And you know Baltimore was
in last place with Machado. Is is somebody once said
we can finish last with you at last with absolutely
or as David Fisdell says, what are we gonna do?
Lose more games? That's the truth. So next week our
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post super Bowl edition. And he enjoy watching the super Bowl.
And if you don't enjoy the game, you can turn
on East Sports and and watch you know, the end
of the end of Fortnite and the Fortnite, end of
the Legends and the end of a whole lot more.
Doc has been a pleasure enjoy the super Bowl. What's
your going to super Bowl food? Go to Super Bowl?
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Is is? We got to Dan Marino's place, you know,
because he you know, I'm doing a plug to Anthony's
cole Lovin. Get the meat ball ricotta pizza. Actually the
best wings that they put in their their raven that
that yeah, the best around and and the meatballs that
come in the pot you know is is I think
(49:53):
what what? What? What? We'll do? How about you? For me?
I like my buffalo chicken dip, give me some wings,
get me some hmm, that's it. I'm satisfied. I bubble
what you can, dip and some wings. I'm happy. So
do you think the commercials have gone down in the
last few years? Think so? I really do too. I
think that there's been too much pressure or or maybe
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it's maybe it's just that everything is so politically correct,
maybe that they're not not as fun anymore. They're not
as fun as they used to be. Yeah, I agree
with that. There you go. That is Dr Mitchell rosalind
I am Greg Sauceman for any episode you missed. Just
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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. That's going on. Everybody,
Welcome inside studio. This is Doc Jock here in the
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Fantasy Sports Network alongside Dr Mitchell rosalind. I am Greg Souceman. Doc,
have the Super Bowl week to you, sir? Yes, the
Super Bowl is here and we've got the Patriots, We've
got the Rams. Um. It's um a remarkable story. Yeah.
When I was watching the Boston Celtic Golden State Warrior
(00:44):
game Saturday night, I was thinking, it's really really amazing that,
you know, I look at Golden State and I think
they're hitting their stride and I think they're a dominant team.
And it's not surprising when dominant teams win, right, And
you look at the pay Treats that have been in
five of the last nine Super Bowls and Bree in
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a row, and they really haven't been a dominant team
since the team that the Giants beat back in the
Tyree Super Bowl. You know, think think about think about
in in a way they beat Seattle on uh an
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interception that we all thought they should have ran the
ball right right right. They beat Atlanta when everybody can't
figure out what Atlanta was doing in the fourth quarter
and they lose a nail bita to Philadelphia. So it's
hard to argue that there talent is so much much better.
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And what's even really interesting is that on the surface,
when we talk about all sports, we'd say baseball is
got no salary cap. Okay, the Yankees, I know, now
there's attacks and teams don't want to go over the tax,
but at least theoretically they can. Also, there's less revenue
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sharing in baseball, you know, in fact, you're more dependent
on the local revenue, so that the Yankees are far
more valuable franchise than the New York Mets. And that's
really not true between say the Giants and the Green
Bay Packers, which are the only publicly owned NFL franchise,
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because the NFL shares all their revenue. And what's strange
is that the sport that has no salary cap has
the different teams in the World Series on a regular basis,
different champions, and the team that has the league that
has the hardest salary cap the same every year. And
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the NBA, which is somewhere in between with what i'd
call a soft cat, seems to have the teams that
have the most disproportioned and the least you know, Let's
let's face it, Okay, the Knicks can't win this year,
no matter what, no matter what. Okay, you know, I
(03:18):
like frankes Isola writing a column Hanning David Fissdale. I
don't think a combination of Red all Back and John
Wooden should win with this team, of course, um, And
I think that's deliberately. So it's just kind of remarkable
when you look at it. And you told me the
biggest news today is Anthony Davis going ahead and asking
(03:39):
for a trade. I'm excited to get into that with you,
to be honest with you, because I think you'll You'll
think you'll feel the same way, um that I do.
The crazy thing with the Super Bowl. To me, I
think you'd appreciate this is that it's all kind of
come full circle of those Rams team, right like for
those Patriots team, because the first up they played your
in Dynasty, it's the Rams. It is the greatest show
(03:59):
on turf. And here we are back again, Brady and
Belichick again. We're doing it all over again. Doc. But
you know what, what's what's what seems is sometimes you
see these great teams and they fizzle out and they
win one more based on the fact that they know
how to win, right. But I've had that feeling with
the Patriots for a long time. And you know, I
(04:19):
know he came out and said that he's not retiring.
I never saw, you know, if you look at the
human emotions, just like I said right from the beginning
that Kyler Murray is not going to ride a bus
in Amarillio, Yes, you did, okay, the same thing. You know,
People retire from sports because they don't want to put
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in the work to play the games, or they can't
perform to that level, or they have like an injury
that they're really really concerned that can change there you know,
the rest of their life. Brady meets none of those criteria.
In fact, I would say that his passion is moving,
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that nutrition, fitness can allow him to do things that
people haven't done, and the games are just fun. I mean,
my guess is Monday morning after the Super Bowl, by
five o'clock he's back in the gym and and doing
something and you know, and eating the same exact diet
that E eight old times. So there's no reason for
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him not to come back unless something drastic happened. Sure,
he'll be back. Why wouldn't he be He's been there forever.
And what's so different about this team is that there's
zero loyalty. And Belichick wanted to get rid of Brady
Jimmy Jimmy Garoppolo, right Like, there's zero loyalty on this
team except for Bill Belichick. And because of that, I
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believe that's why they've been able to sustain. They don't
overpay their veterans, they don't overpay guys that won them
championships or lad them to division titles in the past.
They're always looking toward the future. And that's why they've
remained the class of the NFL for fifteen years. Well,
they're not nostalgic. There's the other word, exactly, they're not nostalgic.
And and it's interesting they say that's why Dave Gettleman
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lost his job in Carolina. Really, if you go back
that he didn't want to sign Davis, who was the
NFL Man of the Year, He didn't want to extend
different people. Yet there must be something in the New
York thing, because the first thing he does is given
overflated contract to Jonathan Stewart, right, because he was a
good locker room guy doc, which but again, if you
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look at that, it tells me that he's looking exactly
the same stuff we are and that ellis not back.
But that's a different type of conversation, Yes it is.
It's obviously a very different type of conversation. But you
mentioned the Dynastys and I told you that when you
walked in here today. At the biggest story in sports
right now, he's Anthony Davis requesting and trade. And I
talked about this earlier on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever,
and it's a power play. It's a power play by
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the agent who's best friends with Lebron, who is also
lebron'e agent, to get him to l A The team
that cannot make an offer right now, that is the
biggest competition for Anthony Davis is the Celtics. Because of
the Rose rule, in which you can't have two players
that that same contract, the Celtics cannot make an offer
until that contract is up on July one. So what
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Rich Paul is doing is saying, hey, we want to trade.
The Lakers are the best option. They're going to make
an offer. And I'm not saying their offer would be
any worse than the Celtics, but the Celtics can't make
any offer right now, so and and and what you're
really asking is, first of all, uh Davis can't move
until after next season. That's correct, the year and a
half left of his contract. So there really isn't any
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reason for New Orleans to move him for the off season.
Zero zero need to do that, because you would tend
to believe that they'd want to mock it and they'd
want the Celtics in there with them. And the Celtics
just have so many draft picks up they have hate.
(07:58):
Um well is probably what you want back in that deal.
Um and and the draft picks. And now let's look
at the Lakers. I really I don't love a Lonzo
ball unless I'm missing something, Okay, it seems fair, Okay.
(08:20):
I think that Brandon Ingram has done very very little
because he's in the NBA. UM he's a weird player.
I mean, he's you know, tall, but he plays very
very very very small and he's not a great long
(08:40):
range shooter. So I think that he really hasn't reached
anything as when he came out of Duke and everybody
thought he was really going to be special. Um, so
I don't see great value in him. Uh. The kid
from Utah plays zero defense? Um? Um the I'm blak
(09:04):
Donovan Mitchell. No, not Donovan Mitchell on the Lakers. He
went to you undergrad. Um Kuzma, who'sma? Sorry? Whom Kuzma play? Zero?
Is a defensive liability? So if you take your pick
or take all three, do you like any of them? Right? So?
(09:27):
I think it comes down to what the Pelicans want
to do, right it's are you going to try to
do what? And rightfully? So what the Pacers did in
getting Oladipo that they were trying to compete right now,
continue to compete and it worked out obviously as Oliva
improved and they traded their superstar and they were fine.
Or do you do what the Magic did, trade Dwyne
(09:50):
Howard for a bunch of picks and some young guys
never and legitimately not recovered fifteen years later, right, Like,
that's what they're gonna have to balance. Do you go
after just these graphics which the Celtics can give you,
or do you believe in a young core and get
three of Kyle Kuzma brandon Ingram lazo ball. Is that
what you think? You answered your question when you talked
(10:11):
about the Patriots and then you brought up basketball football,
And yes, Brady is probably the greatest conductor that we've
ever seen in sports. Okay, and you probably need a
great conductor, right But football is a game where the
(10:33):
depth of your roster and next man up determine Super
Bowls rather than you know, you really win during the
season and a war of attrition, then you do the
team that wins the offseason, which classically the Washington Redskins
at infinite um and sometimes the Jets has very rarely
won on the field. Basketball is exactly the opposite. You
(10:57):
pick your stars and the other players are interchangeable. So
the answer to your question is the deal you have
to get is the best player, and the best player
that you can potentially get is Jayson Tatum. He has
the highest upside of any of the teams that you're
talking about that you could possibly get. And you look
(11:20):
at the n B a is if you don't have
that guy, and maybe Tatum won't be that guy, you
have no chance. Okay. So people, there were a lot
of articles in New York Who's better off the Knicks
or the Nets. Clearly, the Nets are a world's better team.
The Nets have one of the best records in the NBA.
But if the goal is to win a championship, I
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really can't see D'Angelo Russell leading that, George, although he's
getting better by the daily basis. You know, the Nicks
would have a better chance with Pauzingis and Durant assuming
Durant comes okay, which is a big if. But that's
what you need in the n b A and you know,
Philadelphia might have told you something with the so called process.
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I don't think you can win by assembling five B
plus players. It's been a long time in the NBA
since you were able to do that. I very much
agree you need stars, you need superstars. I always think
back to that Pistons team that was wound be the
Lakers as a team that was a lot of B
B plus players that fit together, that worked right. Since then,
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it's always been about the stars, the decision, the whole deal. Um.
Now that's why you all these teams are ultimately going
to be desperate foreign Anthony Davis. But as I said
to you, and as I said this afternoon, when it
comes to the Pelicans doing what's right for their team.
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There is no way, no freaking way that I am
trading this guy before I can get everybody's best offer,
and that includes Boston absolutely, and the best offer has
to have. The best offer is defined as who is
bringing back the best player? Right, okay, because it's it's
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It's not like getting more value by getting free for
one because I'll take two pieces of chop meat and
the best player, okay, and then I'll turn over the
chop meat and hope I find another great player. So,
off the top of my head, of any team that
can make an offer, okay, Jayson Tatum is that best player. Okay.
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If I'm the Knicks I'm trying to sell pazingis is
that best player because I'd make that deal and driven
whatever they want. And that even assumes that he has
a bionic k need. Well, when he asked that, she
said to do whatever they want. Is that Christmas prosingis
and the number one pick with him absolutely, absolutely, no
question about out it. Okay. First of all, the number
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one pick. If you look at this year's draft and
you watch people are saying that Zion Williamson is exceptional.
The rest is very little difference between the top of
the first round in the bottom of the first round. Um,
you watch people say R. J. Barrett's the second best
player in this draft, and he's a very nice player,
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but he's got limitations. He's certainly you know, again, you're
trying to project how twenty year olds are gonna play
against men, and it gets harder and hardy old eighteen
year olds against men, and and you know there are
people like you know, the Buckstan Maker is is on
thinking who everybody was talking about as being fantastic. He's
twenty one, and now people are saying, do what I
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want to give him a second contract? Right? I mean
you see that all the time in the NBA now
and found a maker. It was extremely, extremely raw when
he went into the draft, and I thought it was
a reach by the Bucks. But because of where the
Bucks are, because the best record Eastern Conference, they're not
gonna give this kid a chance to develop. There's there's
no way they can't afford to. And at one years old,
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you're absolutely right, do you give him a second contract?
That's why I kind of like in this clear rebuilding
year for the Knicks, getting all these guys that are
under twenty five years old and seeing with the Avid
them like, I like no von Lay who's never been
getting at true opportunity. And you know, it's interesting the
Knicks are a collection of lottery bus absolutely I like that. Yeah,
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And unfortunately none of them have really emerged. You brought
up Von Lay and Von Lay. Actually the Knicks have
the least rights to in the you know, the NBA
is very, very difficult. The Knicks really don't have any
Bird exception, and he's actually the most valuable. He's actually
somebody who's clearly a rotation. Nothing more than that. He's
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a backup big That's fine, nothing nothing more for for
when you want to play small ball. But the end
to be a story has got to be right now,
James Harden, Yeah, absolutely, before we move off, you mentioned
Kyle Kuzma before uh Freezing cold takes just retweeted an
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old Kyle Kuzman tweet from seven years ago. It's probably
in high school at the time. Right, this is the
day of the James Harden trade. It's o're all looking
at together, James Harden trade that sent him okay see
to Houston. Good trade for okay seek who says Kevin
Martin isn't no slouch and Jay Lamb is the future.
Plus first round picks that try work out for Okay,
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see one of the worst trades and basketball history history,
one of the worst. I mean it goes down with
Nolan Ryan, Jim Fregosi. You know amoss otis for Joe Foy,
many Babe Ruth Steven, many many other trades, A very
very bad trade. What you know, But it's it's it's
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I can't remember the exact number, but James Harden has
gone more than two hundred baskets without having anybody assist
on his baskets. So this is clear isolation. Three hundred
and seven consecutive points without having a ball assisted on right?
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Is this what we want in the NBA? And should
there be rule changes allowing zone defense so that you
don't you can actually double and not be within three
ft of somebody? Um? Is this isolation? Ball? I mean,
I mean is this what you want to watch? You know?
I guess I have several questions. Number one, is this
what you want to watch? Where it's basically pick and roll,
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pick and roll, pick and roll until he gets the
matchup that he wants, where he that drives fouls and passes,
and now he's has had assists and you know the
game against the Knicks, who he hit twenty two out
of twenty five foul shots. Um. And the second question
is can you win this way and you win four
games against the real team? And I asked this question
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last week, and to me, the answers no, Like you
can win a game, right, you can definitely win a
game with Superhero hard, But can this sustain over the
long run, over a seven game series? And I don't
think the answer is also can this sustain until June
when now only in February. Okay, this is god to
take a physical toll? Yeah, you know, let's let let's
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give him credit. You know, one thing he is he
comes to play every single night. He really works like
you can't possibly imagine. I really, you know, I always
try to think of comps in basketball. I really can't
think of a comp that I've ever seen like him.
He gets fouled, he has the ball, he's got incredible
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body control, he's a reasonably good shooter. He's really kind
of different than any god that I've seen in my lifetime.
I can't think of one comp to him. Some people
have said Oscar Robinson, which us like, I remember Oscar
Robinson playing for the Milwaukee Bucks with Lou Lou at
that time Lou House into which the end of his
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But I can't remember one real comp to haunt it.
I don't have one. I don't have one, by the way,
it just comes in. Adrianojanowski tweeted this. New Orleans gave
this statement to ESPN on Anthony Davis this past week,
and Anthony Davis's representatives informed us that Anthony does not
wish to sign a conscious extension with our team, and
subsequently as requested the trade. Although we are disappointed in
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this decision, not dot dot our organization's top priorities to
bring an NBA championship to our city and fans, build
our team for a law for long term success, relative
to specific talks of a trade. We will do this
on our timeline when that makes sense for our team
and will not be dictated for the by those outside
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of our organization. We've also requested the league to strictly
enforced the tampling rules associated with this transaction. I hope
he likes Nathaniel Hall because because you know, essentially that's
like saying we do not like what the Lakers have. Sure,
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of course it is. We're not just giving in, We're
not just sending you the Lakers. That's exactly what that says.
That's exactly what that says. And and and you know,
now you look at it from the Boston perspective where
you have to give something to get something. But you
know what, you know, we love you, Jason. You are
phenomenal as a rookie, you know, a little bit worse
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as a sophomore year. You have an incredible upside. Okay,
but welcome to Bourbon Street. Absolutely, I mean that's that's
basically what that says. Absolutely absolutely, I love it. I
thought it was a great There was a good job
there by the New Orleans Pelicans. Let's move on here.
Let's go back to the NFL where we were talking
about Tom Brady and his legacy, um, and we were
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talking about the Patriots. One of the rams here for
a moment when Sean McVeigh was interviewed by Monday Morning
Quarterback or formerly London Morning Quarterback for one morning American
Peter King. And he he gets it before o'clock in the morning,
and he goes to the to the office and he
has his bright memory and he actually his friends with Belichick.
He talks to him every week after every game, they
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text their friends. What does Sean McVeigh have to do
differently in order to win the Super Bowl? Jean McVeigh
number one. I think that if you actually look at it,
he has to stay true to what he was when
he you know, that got him there right to begin with,
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Like I I thought that, you know, again, he's somebody
who said you should definitely just go for everything, just
go for everything, just go for everything. And then when
the push on, then he gets nervous and does that.
I think the Rams have a really good chance in
this game because I think the Rams bring to the
table exactly what what um what bothers New England the most,
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which is they have excellent defensive tackles which can give
them pressure up the middle. Also, I think they have
good team speed. And one of the things that you know,
we can't forget is that Kansas City put thirty one
points on them in the second half and they could
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not stay with Kansas City. So their schemes were great
in the first half. Once Kansas City began to figure
it out and move my homes around they couldn't stop them.
So this is a Floyd Patriot team. So I think
the Rams have a really, really, really good shot. And
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as I pointed out, you know, again, we go five
out of nine Dynasty. It's not like New England's rolled
over anybody in the Super Bowl in the last five times,
So why would you think that they were going to
roll over? And I still think that this is their
worst team in the Super Bowl. I think this is
the worst Gronkowski going into the game. I think that,
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you know, it would seem to me that Julian Edelman
does not have four to speed. Somebody should be able
to keep him from getting exactly where he wants to go.
And it's you know, as far as if I was
doing the game plan for Los Angeles, I would play
like the Chad Pennington defense that Oakland played against the Jets.
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I would make Brady beat me over the top. Let
Brady take away as much of the intermediate, the fast
passing game ship at the line of scrimmage. If they
make big plays, I have the big play offense. I'll
come back. I'll live with the eighty odd bomb, but
I want to take away and I know that's the
exact opposite that most people preach. I want to push
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the field long on him and make him throw over
the topic. You don't think he has what he used
to have. I don't think he has the receivers to
do it. And I think I can get enough pressure
with Fowler, Um, Aaron Donald and and Sue especially and
Flowers as well. I think I can get enough pressure
that if I can make him hold the ball, I
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think that I can make some place. I believe I
saw or franktel Me. I believe Wade Phillips fifteen and
sixteen his career against Bill Belichick. So what's my wonder there?
So he's gonna shot at it. And one thing that's
guaranteed is I guess we won't have any referees that
come from California. What do you think of that story?
I think it's stupid. I cannot believe this is the
story I I I mean, it's it's it's unbelievable. So,
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I again, I don't think people people understand how people
think these are professionals, Okay, I I don't think once
you become an NFL referee that you think the same
way as a fan. Not you know, I think It's
it's like saying, you know, this is what bothers fans
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is that players change jersey and and people are loyal,
you know, fans loyal to the jersey. Look like you know,
Anthony Davis. You know, I love the people of New Orleans.
They've been very, very great to me. Can I get
a coach? Can I get a first class ticket to
Los Angeles? Okay? He wants to do what's best for him.
It's it's it's not like there's loyalty to the Pelicans.
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You know. One of the stories I heard this morning
is Kevin Durant is going back as they're retiring Nick
Collinson's jersey for Okay see and Dennis Schroederz said that
the fans of Oklahoma City should welcome him back warmly. Why.
I don't know why. I mean, if somebody left you
a boyhood team who offered him the world, would you,
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you know, would you be like, oh, boy, that's a
great guy. You know, we love him, you know, type
of deal um that leads me, that leads me to
the Knicks. Last night? Who was up there, who was
sitting front row of the garden last night, Anthony Carmelo,
Anthony were there to watch the nixt who's there to
hang out with his buddy Dwayne Wade. Who's gonna hang
out with this bundy Dwan Wade? But there he was
carrella Athony Knicks fans couldn't wait to get rid of
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a year ago. It wasn't five years ago, ten years ago,
three years ago, a year ago fans collaborating here in
a carrella Anthony and he was so good. Then now
a year later, he's on the sidelines, in the front
row and dress clothes watching the Knicks. But you know
what having to him, he's standing ovation well, but a
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different obviously, very just very different. It's not like he
left at the top of his game. Okay, who is
He's actually become a sympathetic figure. He's become a sympathetic figure,
which is hard to imagine. And maybe he was. Remember
I said, you know, he's just always in Dwayne Wade
surrounds himself. He's like I I said this once before
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in Doc Jack. He's like the girl that hangs around
with all the best looking girls on campus. And then
when you actually say, well she's really not that attractive
because she's in the club. You know, He's always been
in that club. You know, Lebron Wade, Carmelo Anthony's won
the most Olympic Games. But if you actually look at
his career, phenomenal college player at Syracuse, his NBA career,
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I think once it Denva made it to the conference
finals and with the Knicks they won one playoff series
in his whole time. Now that's right, Okay, that is accurate.
And and yet he a lot of people considered him
second to Lebron James Well for a while, that was
that's a distant at least at least as a score,
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that is a as distinct of a second as you
could possibly be. You know, it's amazing to me to think,
Doc that Carmelo Anthony was known as his unbelievable score,
that could do anything. And then you watched James Harding.
This is what we're talking about. This is who we
thought Carmelo Anthony was. Well, but Houston got off to
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a bad star with arguably the second best player injured. Sure,
maybe that's an advantage to them because as you know,
you know, you know, Harden doesn't even have to give
the ball to anybody else. There's not even the charade
of anybody else touching the ball on that team. When
you have Chris, you can't not even trying it. Okay,
when you have Chris Paul on the thing, you know
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you have to let him touch it sometime, just to
justify the State Farm ads all the time. You know,
you you don't want him to have more air time
on State Farm than you do on the basketball. So
it's it's like, that's why they got rid of Carmelo
so fast, because Carmelo actually wants to bounce the basketball
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and just doesn't do it as well. That's why they
couldn't run him out of town. Where do you think
he he winds up that really plays again? Doc? He'll
play again? Why because he can and somebody will want
him to and he and he. I don't think he
wants to go out this way. I don't Portlandland. He's
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not going to Portland. Okay, he's not going to Portland.
Who go play in l af Lebron wants him to.
I don't think Lebron wants him to. I agree with you.
I think that's a smoke screen. I think it's over.
And you know the other thing about Lebron James is
supposedly he doesn't want Luke Walton to coach. Well, I
knew that was coming, right. You know what our O,
Corey Parsons and some other people believe the next coach
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of the Los Angeles Lakers is Dwane Wade. Really, that's
what some people believe. Well, why not make Lebron player coach? Basically?
Is I mean basically he's he you know, people are
talking about like the All Star selection and you know,
out sixteen games. But you know, it would be really
really interesting the Lakers right now two games out of
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the playoffs. Okay, when Lebron comes back, they'll move up,
no doubt. But it would be great to see the
Lakers play Golden State in the first round. That's not
a match that they'd really want. They would not we
want that at all. Let's be real. Let's be real, Doc.
Nobody don't want to face Lebron in the first round, right,
nobody wants to face Lebron. But but I mean, that's
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a very realistic. Sure, it's that's that's very realistic. Coming
back the State faces and is there anybody in the
East that can give Golden State a run? You want
to think that, you want to think that Milwaukee could,
But I don't know, like can I. First of all,
who do you think the favorite in the East is?
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Probably the probably the Raptors. Probably I would agree with you.
But I think that you I think that the Celtics
have a realistic chance to get better, and and and
and I would say that Gordon Hayward was a terrific
player and now he's a shade of himself. Okay. And
is that permanent or is he just got to play
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more to get back in the in the in the field,
you know, if he can really become a top player,
I think that helps him. I really don't like Philadelphia
the way they're constructed. Now, something's off on that team.
What about Carmelo There, You're gonna put another guy who
just wants the ball all of the second. He doesn't
want to do that again, I think at this point
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he would. So that's where we disagree, right Like to me,
Carmelo Anthony knows his best days are behind him. He
doesn't need to travel the world. He doesn't need to
be like Paul Pierce and just sit on the bench
for a while. He said Paul Pius was one of
the great finishes of all time, no doubt about it.
He also could play defense. Those are two things. You know.
Carmelolo was not a great finisher for the Knicks. No,
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he's not. He's not a great shooter, and in today's
there's not a place for that. What Philadelphia needs his shooters.
He's not that anymore. Unfortunately, I think the teams that
could use them, like you know who could use them
in all Honestly, Brooklyn could use Carmelo Anthony, but I
don't think they want to sign him. And you know
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they have this, you know that they're playing the ultimate
of what we would just talk the B plus the
ultimate with B plus players playing, there's nobody on the
team playing thirty minutes a game. Winning When winning winning
games you know, again against a despart n B a great,
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great story. I don't see them winning a playoff series.
I agree, And we talked about the stars right, it's
it's a lot of B pluses. Interestingly, though, they've won
more than their fast share of close games, which abolutely
which goes against everything that we're saying. So maybe we're
we're we're stupid, um. But I just and this is
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the whole thing, I don't believe that Harden can do
it for four games against a great team, and do
that I wanna go to talk to you about like
a fascinating interview that I heard with Mark Cuban. Okay,
and Mark Cuban was interviewed on a freaking omics podcast
and graduated Indiana. Great to listen to, you know, whether
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it's on. Very interesting guy who actually made his money
by creating a streaming service before there was YouTube, and
very tact tech savvy person. And they asked him, if
you had to long a sport, what sport would it be?
And if you had the shortest sport, what sport it
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would it be? And his answers were my guesses to
you which were correct before the show was I thought
that he was short football, which is the obvious one
given concussions. Um that people would people are saying for
many many years, the NFL is going to die. They
slow death. Um that p that that the best athletes
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in our country would not play that game anymore, and
people was not watching it because now my lenin is
so I said the NFL. That was correct. When it
came to buying in longing a sport, I thought it
would be esports. He's already listed him. Yet I thought
it'd be E sports. And again that was correct. You
are absolutely correct, And I'm asking you you know you're
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getting you're engaged, not yet had children. Now I'm sitting
here with three, two in college, and I'm saying, like,
you know what, I drave a pay for the University
of Miami from my daughter Kylie. Then have one of
my kids beyond an East Sports scholarship staring at a
computer all day. And maybe I'm just too much of
like a bariatric surgeon or you know, wellness individual and
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just can't regard looking at a computer as a sport.
But I don't know what do we define as a sport.
And and that's a common conversation when I disagree, Right
because E sports obviously very very popular, or many believe
how popular is gonna become with all these billionaires investing
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in it, Right I to leave of my child he's
the best at something, or is good enough to get
a scholarship to college at the University of Maryland to
play a video game better than anybody else as a
talent right there, that's a talent. That's awesome, and I
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support them. So why am I so screwed up that
if my kid was the best piano player. I'd be
proud of them if they were, you know, not just
in sports. You understand what I'm trying to with you.
You don't believe the video is a talent. If if
they won the voice, I'd be of course be a dancer. Okay,
I'd be proud of them. And why why am I
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drawing the line on East sports? Am I just pigheaded?
Am I just you know? Am I just like just
a creation of habit? You know? I asked one of
our medical students when we were having this conversation today.
He goes, yeah, I watch East What's I go? Where
do you watch it? He said? YouTube? YouTuber twitch? Okay,
YouTube and watch it all the time is the only
way you can get better in living legends. And it's
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really interesting and Mark legal legends, Mark Cubans, you know,
I'm still in the old time sports living legends legend. Okay,
you know, Larry bird Um. Mark Cubans argument is that
when sports proliferate, it's because you have a lot of
amateurs playing and they want to imitate the pros, and
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that every kid is playing this to a certain degree.
And I agree with that. I'm cool with my kids
playing video games, Like I'm not like you know, band
their screen time. I think it's part of their generation.
But I really prefer that to take my friend, my
son Jared to a tennis lesson, Okay, then I do
to have him home practicing video games. And I understand
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that right, Like there is a social aspect that you
want your child to be around other kids, other people.
It's also it's also a health aspect, of course. I mean,
it's it's it's it's that we've already become in my
mind to set and Terry, well, there's no doubt about it. Okay,
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you know what from what we've we've already become and
I've I've told you that the history of sports derives
from the fact that they said, if we take thirty
guys and we have some sort of competition, that's better
than everybody getting killed. At most thirty people get killed.
And then we've taken it into different sports and different
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leagues and channeled a bunch of energy. But maybe this
is the true cure the CTE. You know, you know,
video games instead, And I don't mean to make light.
I'm sure it takes tremendous skill and what I found
really amazing is by medical student today said, yeah, and
by the time these people are twenty three, they're done
because they lose their reaction time, which to me is
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and then like that on And this to me is
like really fascinating because here, you think about it, at
the Australian Open, we basically have two dinosaurs and we
have these great young players throughout the world. Tennis is
truly an international sport. Yes, we have Djokovic, Nadal and
Federa and it's essentially been that way for how many years.
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It's just incredible that hold my whole life, okay, that
no one can break through. You you know, when Federa
broke through, Nidal came after, when Nadal breakthrough, Jokokovic came after,
and then for a short time Andy Murray made it
like the beatles of quartet, right, okay, And then we
have japar Off coming out of Canada. Looks great. Okay.
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You have the kid that beat Federa uh from Greece
this year. But none of them seemed to be able
to crack it, you know, Nisha Kory. None of them
seemed to be able to crack it consistently, which is amazing. Like,
how long can these guys keep on going on? That's
a good thing. I don't play video games because they'd
be done at And you thought you thought the Dollar
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was gonna be done with his back injury years ago.
You thought Federer was falling off years ago, and it
just hasn't happened. It just has not happened. It's which
is just absolutely amazing because historically tennis was a sport
where you reached a young peak. Not quite like gymnastics,
but when I was a kid, you had you know,
Chris Evertt winning majors. It's sixteen, right, Okay, yes, it
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was more in the females, but even Pete Sampras won
the US Open at one. Agassi was a child prodigy.
Jimmy Connors was dating Chris Chris Everett back in the day,
was in his early twenties when he was winning majors.
McEnroe the best part of his career was right when
he came after Stanford. It used to be said you
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could win a Grand Slam in your thirties, Ken Rosewall,
then Agassy, Connors, they went further than anybody else. So
it's it's just it's just amazing. In this day and age.
You know, some of it has to do with training,
but it's also amazing that no one comes behind to
push them from the throne. Absolutely not. I don't think's
lack of trying, you know, I just think it's they're
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really good. I mean, there are three of the best
players we've ever seen in our lives. So it's as
we started with Brady, I think we should kind of
rap it up, bring bring it up. So first of all,
let's let's go to Super Bowl picks. Super Bowl picks.
I think Patriots win and they cover. Okay, give me
a score. I think the Patriots win thirty three seventeen.
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Do you think it's a big win. Okay, I'm gonna
you know, I'm gonna play roulette. I'm gonna keep on
hitting black, black black. Although I thought the Patriots would
kill the charges. Okay, but but you know, after that,
I really thought Kansas City was gonna win because I
really thought this was the league. So I'm gonna go consistently.
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I'm gonna go Rams. Not only are we get a
good game, but Rams win it. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
But you know, again, I hope I don't get you
you know, I know there's not gonna be any southern
California or any referees from the New England area. Probably not,
which is I think just the absolute thing about that.
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But you know, one of the things that we're talking
about quarterbacks and just to put out thinking caps on
and said, let's let's go through the teams that you
think are gonna have new starting quarterbacks next year and
name who do you think that quarterback is gonna be? Right?
Also the Jacksonville Jaguars and their quarterback with Nick Foles. Okay,
so you think the Felippo signed Nick Foles, who takes
this first snap for the Denver Broncos. Who takes the
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first snap for the Denver Broncos. I say, case Keenum,
you think Case Keenu. I think Kate keen is gonna
wind up being the Giants bridge quarterback. Okay, I would
be surprised if Eli and him rated places. Okay, I
have interested I well, I think I think they will
do that and I think case keenan will will will
be the bridge. What do you think the Washington Redskins still,
(42:10):
I think they needed They will have a new quarterback
for sure, unless it's just called mc coy well, you know,
the problem with called McCoy okay is he wasn't great
when he played for Cleveland. He looked much better when
he played for Washington. But he really can't stay on
the field. Always gets hurt. Okay, he really can't stay
(42:32):
on the field. And you know, you could say, I'm
a firm believer that injuries are a talent like any other.
I think that sometimes, you know what I equate this
too in my medical knowledge is like accidents can happen
to anybody, but if you spend time in a trauma slot,
(42:54):
accidents more often happened the people secondary to alcohol, rug, etcetera, etcetera.
I'd say the same thing is true about injuries. You know,
right hit, right place, anybody can get injured. But there
are certain people that have certain body habituts you know,
that can't be reproduced. Maybe they have the sixth sense
(43:15):
to not take a hit and stuff like that. That
injuries are a skill like any other avoiding them type
the deal. So I think that there is something to
being very much injury prone as opposed to people like
you know Manning's you know bread fall of Drew Brees
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who had a terrible shoulder injury, but has managed to
stay on the field for ten years since that time.
I do think there's something to that. I agree that.
I agree that there is something to you just Eli
Manning style, right, Russell Wilson, and I don't think it's
a skill that you can actually predict. Um. But let's
(44:01):
take for example, both the Shawn Watson and Robert Griffith
had a c LS repaired before they made it into
the NFL, as to Todd Jurley. But that's that's a different, different,
different story. One more quarter about free Well, I can
answer Washington theoretically. Joe Flacco maybe, yeah, I think he
(44:23):
makes sense for them, um, Jay Gruden and stuff like that.
People have talked about how Washington had this great coaching
staff that had Kyle Shanahan, John McVeigh and excuse me,
Matt LeFleur on the same coaching staff underneath Mike Shanahan
at that time, and that was I think the team
(44:44):
that you know. Yeah, and I think we should look
back at that time very finally, because what they did
that rookie season, it was only anything we've seen in
the NFL. So let me ask you this question. I
was thinking about this when watching Lamarge action play quarterback
for the Ravens. Is the league coming back to Robert Griffith,
(45:07):
Like Jake Gruden couldn't run him out. They are fast
enough because he didn't have the read progression and now
basically everybody's offense is the run pass option and stuff
like that. Had it be different times, but if his
career gone differently, extremely extremely extremely different, I think that
(45:29):
they would have forced him to be smarter. They would
have forced him too, not be a different quarterback, but
not be as wild or and as free thinking as
he was. I think. Is that fair? Yeah? I mean
(45:51):
I think from the nation, I just think he's bad
at goods at this point in time, he's he's a
show of himself. Going back to that term again, right,
he's just not the same guy anymore. Yeah, because he
was truly special that first year when they let him play,
and you know he probably you know, injured and already
was was was just injured, you know, and I think
(46:12):
in that playoff game, but he was will never forget
I mean just listening to games in the radio and
watching then I go, the Giants are gonna be screwed.
For the next twenty years of my life. Because this
guy is unstoppable, right, unstoppable. I mean, I actually, you know,
and it's interesting that's the same year as Andrew Luck,
in the same year as Russell Wilson. And obviously Andrew
(46:33):
Luck had a near m v P year, but he
missed two years. Yeah, I mean, the argument after the
first year was who's better Andrew Luck, Ross Griffin. And
right now you'd actually have to say that Russell Wilson's
had the best career of the three, and a lot
of that is because he stays on the field. He
stays on the field anyware, super Bowl, but but ultimately
he does stay on the field. There you go, and
(46:55):
as we head into the Super Bowl, Machado and Hopper
out there still out there's still out there, still waiting.
And you know, again, people ask for a lot of reasons.
I think the reason is very very simple. And then
given the offer they want, they haven't been given the
offer that they want and or by the team that
they want. And I think that it's you know, when
(47:18):
you look at the history of long contracts, the math
just isn't there. And you know, I think that that
people are reassessing the marketplace. I think it's a re
equilibration in the marketplace. And I think it's also greedy
owner is realizing that they can get away with not
having to spend and spend and spend. You know, it's
(47:39):
interesting because I think that for example, of this team
that should spend, we bring up and baseball's local revenue
as opposed to other sports. And like in our town,
the Yankees are valued is the first or second most
valuable franchise in all pro sports, and Mets are very
highly valued, don't get me wrong, but they're not the Yankees.
(48:01):
And when I was growing up, New York was considered
a National League town in nineteen sixty nine when the
Giants and the Dodgers left, the Mets with the Darlings,
Yankees go through those dormant years when Horace Clark was
their second basement and you know Steinbrenner science catfish hunter,
Reggie Jackson kind it changes the whole equation that people
(48:21):
don't realize. But the Mets should make an investment because
they could have the upside there. But again, really really interesting.
One thing, you gotta say, Washington Nationals best team on paper?
Where did they finish in the nationally Ueast third? It
might have been second, or think it might have been
but a distant second to Atlanta who you couldn't name
(48:45):
one player in their starting life coon you but but
but Fred Freeman. But yeah, but Freeman be the only
one coming into the year. And you know Baltimore was
in last place with Machado. Is is somebody once said
we can finish last with you at last with absolutely
or as David Fisdell says, what are we gonna do?
Lose more games? That's the truth. So next week our
(49:09):
post super Bowl edition. And he enjoy watching the super Bowl.
And if you don't enjoy the game, you can turn
on East Sports and and watch you know, the end
of the end of Fortnite and the Fortnite, end of
the Legends and the end of a whole lot more.
Doc has been a pleasure enjoy the super Bowl. What's
your going to super Bowl food? Go to Super Bowl?
(49:31):
Is is? We got to Dan Marino's place, you know,
because he you know, I'm doing a plug to Anthony's
cole Lovin. Get the meat ball ricotta pizza. Actually the
best wings that they put in their their raven that
that yeah, the best around and and the meatballs that
come in the pot you know is is I think
(49:53):
what what? What? What? We'll do? How about you? For me?
I like my buffalo chicken dip, give me some wings,
get me some hmm, that's it. I'm satisfied. I bubble
what you can, dip and some wings. I'm happy. So
do you think the commercials have gone down in the
last few years? Think so? I really do too. I
think that there's been too much pressure or or maybe
(50:13):
it's maybe it's just that everything is so politically correct,
maybe that they're not not as fun anymore. They're not
as fun as they used to be. Yeah, I agree
with that. There you go. That is Dr Mitchell rosalind
I am Greg Sauceman for any episode you missed. Just
good to use you and write in dot jock and
you'll see what we come up with. For Dr Mitchell Rosalon,
I'm Greg Sauceman. Thank you so much for watching here.
(50:36):
Enjoy the Super Bowl, have some fun this weekend, enjoy
the game. We'll see you next week. Everybody, good night,
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