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Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield is at camp without a contract extension, and it sounds like the relationship is souring. Bucs beat reporter Rick Stroud stops in to talk to Dan about the Buccaneers and how the situation has developed with the team, Baker Mayfield and Vita Vea.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We did it. We did it collectively. I had the
under but we made it to Friday. A Meet Friday
Hour one, Come on in, stay a while. A lot
of things to talk about. Baker Mayfield is not happy.
Please are not giving any more information about Kyle Shanahan
and the WNBA has another problem. We say good morning.

(00:27):
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Tyler has one job today answering the phone calls as
only he can. Todd's here, Dylan is here, Dylan doing
double duty as a Danett and also Meet Friday. In

(00:48):
case you're wondering what's on the menu, Dylan, what do
we have? It's another little steakhouse theme day.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay, so we've got Cowboy cut Ribbis Porterhouse Steaks. You
try tip a deconstructed wedge salad, which means it's just
I chopped the lettuce up. Oh, it's not with the wedge.
It's the the wedge chopped. So it's not a wedge No,
it's an unwedged wedge salad okay, and lobster mac and

(01:15):
cheese okay, all of the meat courtesy of Heartland Steak Co.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Heartland Steakco dot com. Yes, Tom, And what about.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
The classic Plaine Hamburger?

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Is that also on the list, like the classic cheese Pizza.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
I took a shot at him.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, but we're having steak hamburger is Do you want
to lose your I do not your steak, privileged.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Mus put the chicken porm pizza away from me.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I know it's nine oh two and you're already doing this.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Okay, apology.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
How about we's into the day? All right, Friday, I
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question of if he's going somewhere, but where he's going.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yes, Marvin, so no one's got it better than us.
Think Fritzy interrupted you so you can even see. How
about we start again?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
I threw you off your game, and that's just not accepted.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Alrighty, welcome to the program. It's a meet Friday. Everybody's here, Todd,
we got Dylan, we got Marvin, we got Paulie. What's
on the menu today, Dylan?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, Dan, it's a steakhouse theme again. We're having Cowboy
cut Ribbis, porterhouse steaks, wag you try tips, a deconstructed
web salad and lobster mac and cheese.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Where's the classic hamburger?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's a great line.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Who has it better than we do?

Speaker 6 (02:44):
No?

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(03:07):
Twitter handle at dp show. Let me start with the
Baker Mayfield situation. We've discussed this. I think that he
has performed admirably for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We always
attach the salary though it's okay, is it commensurate to
what you're getting paid? It's a sliding scale Baker Mayfield
at thirty six thirty five million dollars a year. Okay,

(03:32):
had a good year last year, previous year, had a
great year. You got a division that's getting tougher and
not a foregone conclusion where you just win nine games,
you're going to win this division. Baker Mayfield thinks he's
being disrespected, and he said the quiet part out loud.

Speaker 7 (03:51):
Disappointing in that regard to it. To not have, you know,
to feel disrespect a little bit, and that's really the
disappointing part. To feel undervalued after you know, thinking you've
earned it. This is not a poor me thing. It's
there's a lot other people that have it way worse off.
But I can sit here and look at other quarterbacks
and peers and evaluate myself based on that and put

(04:13):
myself in certain categories that I deserve to be compensated
for that. And I think I'm a franchise quarterback. I've
been told I'm a franchise quarterback. It's been said publicly
from ownership down here, and so to not have a
deal done is very disappointing.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now, I don't know if somebody followed up in the
media and said Okay, where would you place yourself? Because
I would want to know if I look at some
of these salaries. Jalen Hurts is at fifty one million dollars?
Is he Jalen Hurts? Is he Sam Darnold? Sam Donald's
thirty five million? So if he's already in that category,
Sam won a Super Bowl? But is he Daniel Jones

(04:52):
He's making around forty four forty five Deshaun Watson forty
four forty five million, Like where do you place yourself?
Would be my question, just so I would get an understanding.
And I don't know about this business philosophy, this strategy
with Baker Mayfield unless he's gotten to the point where, hey,
this is training camp. Vitevea wants out like things are

(05:15):
starting to unraveled just a little bit. And I don't
know if saying it publicly, hey, I'm being disrespected if
that helps, because it's personal for you, it's not personal
for management ownership, Like they can't attach emotion to this.
They have to be very pragmatic in saying, hey, here's

(05:38):
here's where we see you, here's the slot, here's the
sweet spot, and what's Baker Mayfield going to do? You're
going to have to play out this year. Then you
can go wherever you want to go after that. But
they can franchise tag you and then you might be
there for you know, two years. This year's salary and

(05:58):
then I think franch ice tag is round forty six
forty seven million for quarterbacks. But if I'm Tampa, are
we rebuilding? And maybe we don't even know we're rebuilding?
How good are we? Yes, you lost Mike Evans. Still
a good team, but that division is going to be
a lot more challenging, I think. But we'll check in

(06:23):
Rick Stroud. We haven't had on in a little while.
He's the great reporter in Tampa. He'll join us. Coming
up in a little bit. Poll question for the first
hour of the program is what Dylan uh?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
We got one from Todd to kick things off? Bakermayfield
dot dot dot preach on preacher or keep it in house, dude.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, this is Baker Mayfield, Like that personality is what
you love about make Baker Mayfield. And you know, if
you look at the headline, it's not he went didn't
go scorts to Earth, but you got that feeling from
the headlines like oh oh oh yeah, disrespected Okay, I mean,
that's the word that jumps out there. But this is

(07:06):
who Baker Mayfield is. He's out in front. He's going
to say what he feels. If he feels disrespected, okay,
then figure out how do you respect him? What is
a respectable number there? That's what I would be curious about.
But we see these other quarterbacks. I mean, Dak Prescott's
never been the best quarterback in the NFL, but he's

(07:28):
the highest paid. I mean, do other quarterbacks feel disrespected
because of that? Kirk Cousins always got a fully guaranteed contract.
He wasn't anywhere near the best quarterback in the NFL.
It's all about timing and it's about leverage. Now, if
Baker Mayfield had not last year's season, last season, but

(07:50):
the season before that, now you probably have a little
bit more leverage. Is he a forty five million dollar quarterback?
Maybe in their eyes, probably so?

Speaker 8 (08:01):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Jalen Hurts probably not? Yeah, Dylan, Yeah, It's kind of.

Speaker 9 (08:07):
Funny because I think it was twenty eighteen Matt Ryan
became the first thirty million dollar quarterback, and now only
eight years later that is like considered sort of lower
end of the barrel money for a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, well, look at receivers when somebody got to twenty
or twenty one and we went, oh my goodness, and
then it was thirty. Now we got defensive players, Megan forty.
It's going to continue to go up. The question is,
and you know we've said this before about Jerry Jones

(08:41):
with Michael Parsons, he could have gotten him at a
cheaper price earlier. Chose to play the game and then
decided to trade him. But he could have kept him
if he wanted to. It's rare when you say, you
know what, let's see how this plays out, and it,
you know, plays out where you get somebody from or
less than what they were negotiating for. So, if I'm Tampa,

(09:04):
I got to decide do I want Baker Mayfield. I
got to decide at what price I want Baker Mayfield
because the following year he's going to be more expensive
just because of you know, the quarterback next guy up mentality?
Can you get him for less than fifty million dollars

(09:24):
at the going rate. If I'm Baker Mayfield or his agent,
I'm better than Daniel Jones. You can count on me
over Deshaun Watson. Although we have to kind of take
Deshaun Watson out of this because that was desperation by
the Cleveland Browns. The Colts. I still don't understand why
they did this with Daniel Jones, but you know, that's okay.

(09:44):
It's their money, their quarterback. But I think Baker Mayfield
probably thinks he's a fifty million dollar year quarterback. But
if Jalen Hurts is at fifty one and he's accomplished,
I can't pay him more than that. But although that
doesn't mean he's not going to want more than that. Yeah, Paulin, it.

Speaker 10 (10:05):
Does seem like a prudent move by Tampa if they regress.
If he regresses, Baker Mayfield, they're not locked into anything. Yeah, well,
they have to pay him fifteen million more on the
next contract, four years, two hundred million. Yeah, but the
danger is he balls out and it's complete free agent
and Pittsburgh calls or another team calls.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know the philosophy, but that's why
we'll have Rick Stroud on of what is the mentality
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I also I get a
kick out of and I understand the hype machine you
got to report on things, or you got to kind
of create things. NFL reporters talking about somebody had a
great day in camp, somebody threw two interceptions, somebody threw

(10:45):
three touchdown passes. I want to take you back to
when Jamar Chase came out. If LSU is a rookie,
do you remember social media talking about all the drops,
Oh my gosh, this guy can't hold onto the football.
He went on to have over fourteen hundred yards and
thirteen touchdowns as a rookie and is widely considered one

(11:08):
of the top two or three receivers in the game.
But we get caught up in that he's dropping the ball.
Oh my goodness, well he's he's going to be a bust.
And then all of a sudden it's like, uh, never mind.
It's something to say in training camp, Marvin Harrison struggling
with drops. Okay, let me see what happens when the

(11:33):
season starts. It'd be like if somebody says, man, you
know who is bawling out Shadoor Sanders two touchdown passes,
no interceptions. I mean like, uh, does he have pads on?
Are they playing? Is he wearing shorts? Is he got
footflops on? Is the defense able to hit him? Like?

(11:55):
Those are things I just go, Okay, I know what
gives us content. You're searching for content here. But I
have to laugh when these headlines. You know, Baker Mayfield's
a headline, Vita Veya. That's a headline. That's real. Somebody
dropped like that to me is not like stats in

(12:16):
training camp. There's probably some guys. I mean, I counted
all my shots that I made in warm ups when
I was in college and be like, man, I'm killing it. Yeah,
go sit down, Golden boy. Okay, yeah, Pauline.

Speaker 10 (12:31):
What if we made like a negative version of it?
Shador Sanders is twelve for till twelve verse during a
scrimmage and then then we say, you know, the Browns
defense does not look good this year. That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, you can spin it anyway you want, yes, Marvin.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Yeah, my favorite thing was training camp Hall of famers
for me, first ballot Kevin Cobb of the Philadelphia Eagles. Boy,
they were like Cobb or vic.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I was like, are you serious? Kevin Cobb? Though he
got paid, didn't he Then he suffered a concussion. I
think bad concussion? What other pole question, do we have
for the first down favorite cut of steak?

Speaker 8 (13:09):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Since I have a whole steak day?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Are you a rabbi, a strip of file At or
another guy?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Probably a strip because I always think of New York strip.
I always think of a steak it's New York and
it's usually New York strip, So I would say that, yeah,
New York strip. Oh, by the way, Deebo Samuel back
with the Niners, and the Niners got a lot of
questions if I start to look at everything that's going on.
So you had quarterback they split quarterback games last year

(13:41):
nine to eight, I think so Purty and Jones. I
think Perdy had nine starts and Mac Jones had eight.
Mike Evans missed nine games last season, Ricky Pearsaw could
be out for the year, Kittle coming off an injury,
Deebo and Christian McCaffrey consistently banged up, so and you
got a coach who's banged up as well. So the

(14:03):
injuries just keep mounting for the Niners. But we'll get
to that story about information on this Kyle Shanahan car accident,
because I mean, once again, if you tell me upfront
your coach involved in a car accident. He is non
life threatening injuries. We hoped to have him back to

(14:24):
start training camp. Okay, but all of a sudden, it's
information that's now leaking out. Nothing leaked out for eleven days.
But it just feels like this makes me question it
even more. And then the police aren't going to give
us information. TMC I think filed a report they wanted to.

(14:46):
Maybe it's the Freedom of Information Act they were hoping
to get and the police said no. Palo al to
A police said no, we're not releasing any other information.
Why what is that they don't want us to see? Now?
Is it available for us to be able to see
this or read this? So I just want to make

(15:08):
sure that but TMZ is asking for this. But from
what I read palal weel to A police are not
giving up any more information, even a dash cam video
like nothing, which makes me wonder even more why or
why not? All right, eight seven to seven to three
DP show, we'll get to your phone calls on this

(15:29):
meet Friday. We'll check in with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers WNBA.
I don't know if they how many days they can
go without making a headline that they don't want. But
they did it again, and it has to do with
something they put on social media took down off social media,
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
Oh, it's a time honored tradition. When things go wrong
with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, we call Rick Stroud. He
covers the Buccaneers for the Tampa Bay Times Sports Day
Tampa Bay Podcast. You want to start with Baker or
Vita Vea.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Well, Dan, I'm feeling a little disrespected.

Speaker 13 (17:26):
I'm a little undervalued by you quite frankly, I've been
on you know, McAfee and Rich Eisen, but you finally.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
Got around to me.

Speaker 13 (17:33):
But yeah, let's start with Baker because that seems to
be the headlines.

Speaker 6 (17:38):
He kind of went after his ownership a little bit yesterday.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Okay, help me understand this business strategy with Baker I
mean this, you know, fits with his personality. But I
don't know what kind of number he's looking for and
if ownership is going to acquiesce to this.

Speaker 13 (17:56):
Yeah, well, I think he was looking, you know, as
much as the number obviously that was the would have
begin with a five.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
I think it is in fifty something million.

Speaker 13 (18:03):
But the years is what really was disappointing to him
as much as anything. And they felt like they came down.
I'm sure that they probably started a four years and
we're talking about guaranteed money, right, because that's really all
that matters, you know. I think they felt like they
moved to three and the Glaziers were insisting on two.
And if you feel or you've been told you're a

(18:23):
franchise quarterback, I think most guys would expect more than
two years. And to be honest with you, Dan, I
mean this franchise. The thirty million dollars or thirty three
million that Baker has averaged the last three years, that's
the most money they've ever paid a quarterback. They never
paid quarterbacks. And you go back to Doug Williams before
the Glaziers, Steve Young, Benni Testaverdi, Trent Doper, Jamis Winston.

(18:44):
Those guys never made second contracts, So I think the
valuation of the position is kind of shocking.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
To the Glaziers a little bit.

Speaker 14 (18:52):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (18:52):
They say they love Baker, and I believe they do,
but you know, it just it wasn't gonna happen for
him for two years. He just didn't think that that
was something that he felt he had earned more than
that after the last three years that he's.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
Put in here.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Okay, so what happens.

Speaker 13 (19:08):
Well, I think you know, they can say that it's
not going to be an effect on his team. You know,
Baker is best when he's backed into a corner. We
all know that walk on to Texas Tech, walk on
in Oklahoma, win the Heisman, all that kind of stuff.
But I think you have to kind of look and say, Okay,
what happened in the offseason. Mike Evans decides to go
to San Francisco. They offered him more money to stay,

(19:31):
he didn't stay for whatever reason, and then you have
Vitavea saying he wants to be traded, not a new contract,
I want out of here. And then fortunately for him,
he got the oh I gotta tweaked back situation. So
I don't get fined fifty thousand dollars a day. And
then now you have Bakers. So you know when guys
in that locker room see they're not taking care of Baker,
they're not taking care of Vita. I gotta believe that

(19:53):
that they have talks and it's probably not a good vibe,
but you know that Baker's going to go out there
and play with his hair on fire, and and that's
really all that matters at the end of the day
is just how hard he goes and hopefully he'll be healthy.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
That's another thing. He's the only one of.

Speaker 13 (20:06):
Three guys Dan that started all three years, every game,
but he's played, but he's not played well at times
because of the injuries.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
That he's had.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
So how does this go bad?

Speaker 13 (20:20):
It goes bad if if Baker gets hurt, it goes
really bad for Baker. He's no security after this year.
It goes bad. If they get to the end of
the year, and you know Baker, if he has a
good year, Uh, they can franchise tag him.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
I know there's a lot of dead.

Speaker 13 (20:37):
Money, but they you know, the cap is is you know,
hocus pocus stuff. Anyway, they'll move money around, so they'll
try to lock him up. But I mean, I could
see Baker getting to the end of the year if
he had a great year and saying I don't want
to be franchised. You guys had your chance before the season.
You know this, this is kind of what he's been mister,
you know, shoulder chips. So I don't, I don't, I

(20:58):
don't really know. But but they have a chance to
win this division. It's gotten a little better. They're still
I think the best team in the division, and winning
kind of cures everything. I mean, it's not impossible that
you know, they've done this with other players, including Mike
Evans when you get through the season.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Mike Evans didn't want to talk about a contract.

Speaker 13 (21:14):
He was in his last year, but right before free
agency they gave him, you know, two years, fifty two
million dollars and everybody was happy. So there'll be time.
Franchise tag hold places for guys to get longer term deals.
So we'll see how it goes. It all depends on
how he plays well.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And that's different to Vi Deeveos saying it, I don't
want to hear about a contract. I want out. What's
the likelihood that he'll be traded.

Speaker 13 (21:40):
I think it's probably very slim to none.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
They need him in their defense.

Speaker 13 (21:46):
They I've talked to Todd Bowles last year and he said,
that's the one guy I have. No one I can
replace him with. You know, he occupies two guys on
every play. But when you're thirty one years old and
you're way upwards of three hundred and fifty five pounds,
probably no one's actually gotten on a scale next to him.
So I don't know what he weighs, but you know,
that's that's a tough thing. But he's making seventeen million.

(22:09):
I think they could just juice up this year, give him,
you know, get him into the twenties for this season,
let him become a free agent after this season, and
if they do that, he'd be in the top ten,
which is where he belongs as far as pay goes.
And maybe everybody's happy, but he is here. He has
that back tweak. He hasn't walked out of camp, he's
not being fine, So those are all good signs that

(22:31):
maybe they can work something out.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Always great to talk to you, Rick, Thanks, thank you,
Thanks good saying, Jean, that's Rick Stroud covers the Buccaneers
for Tampa Bay Times Sports Day Tampa Bay Podcast. You know,
you look at the NFC South, I've always thought that
the Falcons were on the verge, always on the verge,
like that offense is too good and you turn in

(22:57):
an eight and nine season. I think the defense is underrated.
But I think Tua, if healthy, could have a you know,
a really great year with all those weapons, Like he
should have a great year, let's put it that way.
Panthers made the playoffs. I think the Saints are sneaky good,
and then you bring in Tampa Bay. I don't think

(23:21):
there's a Super Bowl contender out of that group, and
if there was, there is, I would probably say maybe
the Falcons, but I would probably go kicking and screaming
with that pick. But still you can win that division.
Do I think that they'll give Baker Now, I wouldn't
give a franchise quarterback two years. I do think that's disrespectful.

(23:43):
You either want him or you don't, And I think
that's that's probably the problem that he has. It's like,
wait a minute, two years, Like we're going to be
back doing this in another year, and I don't want
to be in that situation, can you get this done
for three years? Three years, one hundred and fifty million dollars?
Is that what it's going to take? Guaranteed money, all

(24:06):
of that. Maybe, man as Rick said, do I give
Videvey a couple more million dollars that let's just get
through this year and that at that age, that size,
then maybe you let him test the free agent market.
But with Baker, if he's your guy, show him that
he's your guy. Get a couple of phone calls in

(24:27):
here eight seven seven three DP show Jim and Tampa. Hi, Jim,
what do you have for me today?

Speaker 14 (24:33):
Hey?

Speaker 15 (24:33):
Dan?

Speaker 8 (24:34):
How are you Gooday?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Here?

Speaker 15 (24:35):
A long time? First time, A long time? All right,
So I've been down here in a Tampa market for
quite a while, and it seems to me that just
there is an undercurrent of teams kind of sabotaging their talents,
sabotaging their you know, what's gotten them to be good.

(24:55):
For example, the next one you're going to see here
is the Marlins that are pushing out. They have them
move up to another stadium, whereas right now they're on
fire in the stadium they're in. And all these little
changes are just unexplainable by you know, a fan like
myself watching these guys from the Lightning to you know,

(25:17):
every one of them, they just yanked the talent.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
When it seems Yeah, but I'm just talking about the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, not you know, the Lightning or Yah,
the Rays that this is. This is just about football
with Baker Mayfield, and they had comments. I just don't
understand that. And when Rick Stroud said ownership doesn't pay quarterbacks, well,

(25:39):
come on in to you know the nowadays NFL. You
know this isn't the nineties two thousand. It's you got
to pay your quarterback. Are you going to go out
and find somebody that you can bring in and go, yeah,
we're fine with that. Are you trying to win? Do
you want an upgrade a quarterback? Do you want to
keep this guy? You want to show him respect and

(26:02):
give him three years? If not, then let him walk,
let Vita Vea walk, trade him, start over. If you
want to get a cheap quarterback draft one. Yeah, Pauline,
it does.

Speaker 10 (26:17):
Feel in the NFL now, like you said, at some
point you aspire to pay your quarterback two hundred and
fifty million dollars. That means you found him when they
gave Joe Burrow the money with the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's a win. Yeah, it's kind of mind boggling when
you think about what is your philosophy here? And maybe
you're fine with we hope to make the playoffs, but
you hope to go far in the playoffs. And if
you're going to do that, you're going to need Baker
Mayfield and you're going to need Vita Vea. Those are

(26:46):
two really good players. Yeah, Paul, The NFC South is
such a weird division. Three to eight win teams last
year and a six win team. All four teams were
outscored by their opponents last year. Yeah, is there a
contender in the group.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
Now?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
The Falcons could be, could be, but you know they
might have eight nine or nine and eight written all
over him as well. Buddha in San Francisco, Good morning, Buddha, Yo, buddy.

Speaker 8 (27:17):
Happy to meet Friday boys.

Speaker 16 (27:19):
Let's go, Marvin Dan.

Speaker 17 (27:22):
The Baker Mayfield situation is fascinating because, I mean, if
you were to play the oooh stats, would you want game?
I mean, he's put up the stats that would garner
a way higher salary. In my opinion, I don't know,
we'll see, but I'm super excited about getting Debo back then.
I mean getting him back into the Niners lineup is

(27:42):
like he's definitely like one of those guys that you
were talking about earlier this week who are not all stars,
but they're just super important and popular amongst the fans
and players on the team, Like I was thinking about
Kyle Yuschek the other day when you guys are talking
about it on the show. And lastly, Dan the real
and why I'm calling Fritzy got me all fired up

(28:03):
about the first Bites situation. This hits home for me,
like this is such a Fritzy light topic, like finding
the negative and the server checking in on him and
making sure his meal is satisfying, like I would tell
my servers at the restaurant, like, don't check in on
Fritzy unless he's had, like I don't know, eleven bites.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Buddha and Todd went to dinner and the waiter came
around and said, how are first bites?

Speaker 4 (28:30):
I love when they check out on you, and I
am a very good tipper and if they do things
like that, I will add to whatever The twenty twenty
five percent whatever I have in mind. But the first
bites phrase just for some reason turns me off.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
It seems harmless.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
It does seem harmless, and it's not. They're not meant
to make it feel awkward. But I'd rather than just
say someone just checking you guys?

Speaker 6 (28:47):
Got everything? Is everything warm?

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Can I get you anything else? Refill on drinks? But
how are first bites? I don't know why that bothers me?

Speaker 2 (28:54):
So yeah, yeah, pull.

Speaker 10 (28:55):
I looked up on WebMD about anxiety and being offended
it and they say you bother you, not the other
person bothers. That's probably it's a can of worms tide.
But I'm reading off the waiter is well intended. There
are nice intentions that I just don't like that phrase.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Josh and Texas. Hi, Josh, what do you have for
me today? Good morning?

Speaker 18 (29:14):
Uh five. I just had a quick question about like
journalistic integrity between like the Kyle Shanahan story and then
Lebron making a deal with ESPN. It just kind of
got me thinking that, you know, the line between journalistic
integrity and conflict of interest has kind of gotten blurry.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Oh no, it's it's blurred. Yeah, I mean, few places
do have lines. Other ones have blurred the lines absolutely,
and and Lebron's people came back and said that there
they have no plans to do a documentary with ESPN.
Whether that's true or not, but this was reported that
they were, you know, there's talks of doing Now if

(29:57):
they don't do a documentary, I'm going to be shocked.

Speaker 10 (30:00):
Yeah, Paulin Maverick Carter said there's no type of last
dance documentary because we don't know when the last dance is.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, that's what I said yesterday. If you are doing
a documentary and this is the last year, then that's
breaking news in my opinion, because I think there's a
chance Lebron plays another year, two years. But yes, and
I've talked about this, withes about ESPN with Shanahan and
we've discussed this already. But it's not just ESPN. There's

(30:32):
a lot of hey, you help me, I'll help you
that goes on. You know, you're trading, Hey i'll help
you here, you help me here. That's how you get
inside information. But this one, given the timing of it,
no information. Eleven days people knew about it. Weighted Weighted, Weighted,

(30:54):
Weighted Niners announce it now all of a sudden, Chefty
tweets it a minute later at twelve vote one and
then twelve vote two. There's an article that to me
is something that is scripted, that is planned. I have
a problem with that. Let's see. How about Sam and Tampa. Hi,

(31:14):
Sam ah.

Speaker 19 (31:16):
Dan, thanks for taking my call. I'm a big fan,
always been for a long time. I just wanted to say,
make a comment about the Bucks. I'm from Tampa. I'm
a Buccaneers fan. I've been you know, go Tampa Bay.
And what Baker said yesterday about the Glaziers, at least
half of the fan base and Tampa feel that the
Glaziers are the problem at the Bucks. But the sports

(31:38):
media especially but media generally in Tampa, and I'm gonna
call them out. I know you had Rich Strada. They
never they never mentioned the Glaciers name. If they win something,
they mentioned their name. But if you recall what I
see similarities actually right now with what they did. The
Glaciers did after they cut Gruden and we went on
a twelve year no playoff run, the worst along with

(31:58):
the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 14 (32:00):
They were the.

Speaker 19 (32:00):
Reason because they took all the money invested in the
Manchester United, and actually they destroyed matches to United as
well because they're incompetent and cheap. But now this year
you got via requests the trade. This is Baker Evans
is gone, Levanta David retired. It's all starts, like in
any organization, it starts with the with the ownership.

Speaker 16 (32:19):
With the van on top.

Speaker 19 (32:20):
And I'm just sick and tired that the sports media
in Tampa don't talk about the Glaziers. It's all them.
They're just incompetent and they're cheap. I mean, how could
you let Evans go?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
And now y yeah, but if it's true you offered
Evans more money to stay and he decided not to,
that to me tells me a little bit more about
what's going on with that organization. But thank you, Sam,
I appreciate your passion. If you're the Glaziers and you're
in the money making business, do you make more money

(32:51):
if your team is better? Do you make more money
if you're going to the playoffs? I would think that
increases the value of the frame. They're good enough business
people that they got a soccer team, maybe the soccer
team and you got the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But as
far as the media not calling them out, I don't

(33:14):
know the local angles here. I don't know that aspect
of this. All I can look at is from Afar
and see that Baker Mayfield is being disrespected. If you
give him a two year deal, that's not a franchise quarterback.
Videvea wanting out tells me a little bit more. And
maybe there's more to the Mike Evans not wanting to stay.

(33:35):
I mean, this is Hall of Famer. He should have
retired as a Tampa Bay buccaneer. But Tom Brady wanted
to go there. But he wanted to go there because
he wanted to play for that coach and he knew
he had weapons, he knew that he had an easier
path probably to get win the division, get to the playoffs,
get to a super Bowl. I understand all of that,

(33:56):
but maybe these owners don't leave in paying that kind
of money for your quarterback. And if that's the case,
then you're not going to have a franchise quarterback. This
is as close as you've gotten since Tom Brady. We'll
take a break play the day next. Fox Sports Radio
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Speaker 10 (34:24):
Oh my, God.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Of the day. This is the play of the day.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Check this out pitch swung on and hit high in
the air deep right center field for Tony Clemens, towards
the big.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
Wall, and it's gone to the game.

Speaker 20 (34:41):
Win you Glen Slam and Tony Clemens has fulfilled the
prophecy and the Twins walk off the Royals for the
second time and fill am a day.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes, that's Roger Clemens. Sonny homered on an O two pitch.
He's the second player in baseball history to hit a
walk off grand Slam with two outs and his team
trailing three to nothing. That's courtesy of Treasure Island Baseball Network.
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Speaker 14 (35:34):
Hi, Chris, Hey, Thanks Dan, Hey, I got two things
for you. Okay, I loved Ideana's football head coach Kurt
Stignetti taking a healthy poke at the SEC. We all
love to talk about greatest rivalries in sports, and it's
always between teams. For manning college football, the SEC first
Big Ten for the foreseeable future may top of them all.
And as a fan of college football, I love the

(35:56):
fact that it gets my mind off the transfer portal
on IL eight, all all the ancillary stuff that has
seemed to take it over college football, and it brings
us back to the essence of why we love college football,
the great competition on and off the field, and it
looks like a two horse race of the Big Ten
in the SCC. I can't wait. And also Dan Cince
Lebron signed on as a free agent in Philly. There's

(36:17):
been some banter of where Lebron ranks as far as
top signings in Philly sports history. A lot of talk
about Pete Rose, Takwon Barkley, Reggie Why, Troy Vincent, even
George McGinnis. But to me, one guy stands alone. Moses Malone.
Five All Star selections, two All NBA selections, and in
his first season with the Sixers, he led them to

(36:37):
a championship and that year garnered NBA MVP and Finals MVP.
I would think there's a short list of guys who've
done that.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, but if you look at a free agent bargain,
there's no better, bigger free agent bargain than Lebron James
going to Philadelphia for basically nothing. Kurt Signetti, the Indiana
head coach Big Ten Media Day, a shot at the SEC.

Speaker 21 (37:02):
The Big Ten is the best league in football and
a lot of really good football teams. It's hard to
win on the road, very physical football teams, very well coached.
It definitely prepares you for the playoffs, There's no doubt
about it. The numbers speak for themselves. I mean, we
don't run a hype machine up here in the Midwest.
We believe everything's aren not given, and when we fall short,

(37:23):
we say we fall short. We don't cry a river,
whine and complain, all right, and that's why we're the best.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
When you climb Mount Everest, shout, you've earned it. Now.
You're going to be coming back down off Mount Everest
at some point, but you're up there at the top,
go ahead and shout. I would love to have you
know you have that sometimes the Big Ten ACC in
basketball where they start the season and everybody is matched

(37:51):
up against somebody in the other conference. How about you
had the Big ten SEC and you just play one
game against the SEC. You can pick out whatever opponents
you want to have, rotate it whatever you want to do.
Home and home. But that would be fun. You want
to talk about you know some money ratings you could
do that. Have the Big ten SEC matchup opening week

(38:14):
if you wanted to, and all the hype going into
that with those matchups, you know, half the games will
be at the SEC home games and then the other
half with the Big ten. Or you want to have
a neutral site with let's say Indiana facing off against Alabama.
Neutral site, okay, but it would be fun if you know,

(38:35):
if you had a schedule maker in college football, and
we will have one eventually, we will have these kind
of fun matchups and signetti. Go get him. Indiana won
the national championship. It's okay, you're the king temporary, but
you're the king. Carlos in South Carolina, Hi, Carlos, good morning.

Speaker 8 (38:59):
Second time a long time six y two eight, slimming
down three twenty. So the first time I called, I
had to hard any question about Russell Wilson, which was
a better pick up him or Sierra? Maybe answer that question?
So my new suggestion would be whole question would be
fra the greatest American R and B bands? Right, So

(39:22):
my think of R and B graves American bands for me,
I'm thinking about Frankie Berman, mays Izi brothers who don't
get enough credit to me, you know, Tony, Tony, Tony,
those kind of bands to me, the other bands I
grew up with. So one throw out for a whole question.
Thank y'all listen and Paulie.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Beardown alrighty, thank you, Carlos. I'm not an expert on
R and B. I don't know, Marvin, are you an
expert on R and B?

Speaker 5 (39:51):
I like to consider myself one. I'm gonna say earth
Wind and Fire would probably be the one seed for me.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I would second that.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
So Issley brother also Parliament, Commodore's, Commodoores, SAMs Lino, Richie Spinners.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Oh, Jason in La, Hi Jason, what do you have
for me?

Speaker 8 (40:16):
Hi?

Speaker 16 (40:16):
Doing VP?

Speaker 6 (40:18):
Just calling?

Speaker 16 (40:19):
Uh? You know, I travel every week, so usually Wednesday
and Thursday or my travel days. I love listening to
your Gamble podcast. The only reason why I miss Larry
is Uh. He's the one guy that can never get
the point spread. So I can never understand how this
guy does business if he can never get the point
spread right. But anyway, calling because of Ray. Ever since

(40:43):
Ray joined, I know he is very detailed and what
he does. I've made a lot more money than I
have with Uh with him than I did with Dylan
and Shaye, So I think Ray is a great addition
to that. Also, one last comment, I know you respectfully

(41:04):
talk about orson Wells as partner aka Shay. I think
you should have the back grow make a shirt for
Barb that has the letter I with a big heart,
a picture of you with your shorts and your legs

(41:24):
and it says I love Danny's stems.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
All right, thank you. Jason obviously does listen to the
podcast mentioning Shay's wife Barb and my legs, my stems.
I'm going into the confessional. Not sure why, but I'm
being told I'm going in to be interrogated one hour
in the books on this Meet Friday too to go,

(41:49):
Jeff passing from the mother Ship. Let's solve the Carrick Schooble,
mystery of where he's going before the trade deadline,
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