June 3, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan is watching Edmonton Oilers C Connor McDavid and it sparks a discussion about who the best current players are in each professional sport. Plus, he takes a preliminary look at how the NBA Finals will look starting in Boston on Thursday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody morale
is high.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Gang's all here ready to go, a lot of topics
to look back upon and look forward to. NBA Finals
get started on Thursday. Right now, I'm looking at DraftKings.
They have the Celtics favored by six and a half
Game one NBA Finals. Also, who is the odds on
favorite for MVP? Jason Tatum, followed by Luca Jalen Brown,
(00:31):
and then Kyrie Irving. Much more on this coming up.
Hall of Famer James Worthy will join us a little
bit later on phone calls always welcome, especially on Monday.
Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that
you liked you didn't like. Operator Tyler is sitting by
ready to take your phone calls. Eight seven to seven
three DP Show. Ten teams have mandatory mini camps this
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week in the NFL. I have no idea what that
means other than you're supposed to be there and then
if you're not there, and it becomes a bigger story.
So Ceedee Lamb. Micah Parsons. They didn't go to OTAs.
I don't know if they're expected to go. Dallas is
one of those ten teams that have mandatory mini camps
this week. I don't know if there are any other
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headlines potential headlines there. You also have the Justin Jefferson
contract situation that needs to be rectified as well. Eilers
beat the Stars and they go to the Stanley Cup
final versus my Panthers.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you, thank you, mar I.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Appreciate that and get ready for a healthy dose of
Conor McDavid. Best player in hockey now he'll be on
the biggest stage against the Panthers and their star goaltender,
and he is the best player in the sport. And
we were wondering, if you look at each individual's sport,
when's the last time you could say that guy is
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the best in his sport, Like Patrick Mahomes is considered
the best player in the NFL now. Even when Tom
Brady was Tom Brady, he wasn't considered the best player
in the NFL because you can make a case people
thought other quarterbacks or Aaron Donald, there were other players
you would go, he's better than Tom Brady. Is tom
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Brady was always the bottom line, Well, he's going to
win a Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But when it comes to hockey, it's Connor McDavid.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
When it comes to basketball, it was Joker until Joker
got eliminated. Now Joker apparently is not the best player
in the world. That is Luca, which I would say
it's still Joker in my opinion. He just got eliminated
and give credit to Minnesota. Do I think that Luca
is better than Joker? I don't, but it's close and
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they're in the conversation, so clear cut that guy is
the best player in his sport. Football, you got Mahomes basketball.
I guess there's some discrepancy, some argument there. Baseball show. Hey,
Utani's not even the best player on his own team.
If I look at the MVA p odds, it's Mookie Betts,
but we would consider him the best player in the sport.
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Bryce Harper would be in there, Mike Trout when he
was healthy, So you have a little bit of an
argument there as well. But when it comes to hockey,
it's Connor McDavid. He is the best player and maybe
they can improve upon this stat. The last Canadian based
team to win the Stanley Cup was nineteen ninety three
and that was Montreal, who.
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ESPN Radio as well. All Right, so we come up
with the poll question, got to play of the day,
a few stats of the day coming up, the drama
filled weekend for the WNBA, we'll talk about that as well.
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But let me go back to the topic that we
were discussing discussing earlier this morning, and that is the
brilliance of Connor McDavid. And you put him in an
Edmonton uniform and you can't help but think of Wayne
Gretzky and the Oilers and getting back to the Stanley
Cup Final. But would you guys agree if you're looking
at football, the general consensus is Patrick Mahomes is the
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best football player because we can look at talent and
we could look at bottom line the end result as well,
whereas Tom Brady, you didn't look at talent as much
as you looked at bottom line. It's the position as well.
But I would say people would the general consensus is
the best football player. Is Patrick Mahomes the best baseball player.
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We would have a discussion about that. Best basketball player.
I still think Joker is the best player in the world.
But you might say Jannis, you might say Luca, you
might say Jason Tatum, Shay gilgis Alexander. To me, it's
still Joker. You know, we're looking at recency bias here.
If Joker was still playing and Luca was not, would
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we say Luca is a better player And the answer
is no. So it is a recency bias there. But
I would still say Joker is the best player in
his sport. But it's close. Golf, Scotti Scheffler is the
best golfer. Not close, not even a discussion. You can
try to put you know, Rory in there, whoever you
want to put in there, but it's still it's Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes, Marv is Messi still the best soccer player on Earth?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I would say no, but I think he is. He
would be emeritus, like you would still say the fact
that he's still playing, but he's you know, he's playing
the MLS and I think there it's a little harder
to differentiate. Seaton would have a better sense of that.
It's like Lebron in the NBA, like he's in the
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conversation of still great players.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I wouldn't look at Messi as, oh, he's the greatest player,
and so you know he's the most well known.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yes, yeah, him and him and Christiano Ronaldo are still
probably the two most famous in the world. But it
might be like killing Himbappe might be considered the best
in the world, somebody like that. Jude Bellingham is really good,
he's having a huge year, people like that. But they're
certainly the two most famous, there's no doubt about that.
They're Tiger Woods. Uh, you know, Lebron, James everything.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, And that's another thing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Sometimes you'll look at how famous somebody is, like show
Heyo Tani is famous. That doesn't mean he's the best
player on his own team because Mooki BET's MVP odds
are better than show Heyo Tani. But he's still recogniz
He's known, You know, Mahomes is known, but he's also
the best player at his position, and it's the most
important position. Like there was a run where Aaron Donald,
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you can make the argument was the best player in
the NFL because there was no answer for him, and
they ended up winning a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, pol I.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Went back and looked at the NFL network has a
list before every season, and last year, before the season,
Mahomes was the number one player in the league. He
had a nice regular season forty one hundred yards, twenty
seven touchdowns and fourteen picks. That's actually probably the worst
regular season Patrick Mahomes has ever had. They reranked at
the end of the year who had the best seasons
and it was Tyreek Hill. They said Hill had had
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the best season in football last year, and maybe you
weigh the quarterback position so heavily that it has to
be Mahomes though, yeah, fault.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, because the bottom line is he won the Super Bowl. Like,
who had a better year than him? Nobody? He won
the Super Bowl. Now that's not fair perhaps to rank
somebody and say, are you the best player. We've had
quarterbacks who've won the Super Bowl. That doesn't mean they
were the best at their position. Yeah, Nick bos is
going to be in there.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
T J.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Watt's going to be in there, justin Jefferson with what
he did. Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So there's a lot of people that Paul's reeling off,
you know when when you're looking and a lot of
times it comes down to position. In the NFL. With basketball,
it's just you're a basketball player. Golfer, you're just a golfer. Soccer.
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Baseball is a little trickier.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Used to be that pitchers you could say that you
know that pitcher is the best player in baseball, which
is not the case anymore. So Conor McDavid will be
front and center, which will be exciting because you'll be
able to see somebody that we normally don't watch and
you'll be able to see him, uh you know, and
he's going against a really good goaltender. So Bolbrovski has
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been the goalie to defeat, the last one to do so,
the top overall seeds and three of the last six seasons.
So he beat the Rangers this year, the Bruins. Last
year Tampa Bay when he was with Columbus in twenty nineteen. Also,
in case you're wondering, and I know you are, what's
the mileage difference between Sunrise, Florida, home of my Panthers
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and Edmonton? If you said two thousand, five and forty miles,
you'd be correct. And that's the longest distance between Stanley
Cup Final opponents in NHL history.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Stat of the days, Steat of the day, stat of
the day. Here comes that? What stat of the day?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
All right, we'll get to the drama filled weekend for
the WNBA coming up. We'll hear from Caitlin Clark and
seton what's the poll question. We're going to go with
first hour.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
First hour, We're going with who is the most Who
is the most best player in their sport? Okay, Nikola Jokic, Connor, McDavid, Conor, McDavid, Patrick, Mahomes,
Shoheo Tani. Who is the most best player? And you
also have the joker.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
If you were going to put tennis in there, I
guess well we'd have to differentiate jokers.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, the jokers.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
An individual sport versus a team sport, because Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think would be she might be above everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
If we're looking what who's the most valuable athlete in
their respective sport, it'd probably be him. I don't think
there'd be much argument with that. Who else do we
have there? Seeing what other pole questions are we considering?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
We got another one here from the Twitter moth throughout
Who needs to win a title? Jason Tatum, Luka Doncic
or Connor McDavid. Oh yeah, a lot of Connor McDavid
covers today. Okay, yeah, we're going to put up both
of those for our one.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It feels like Jason Tatum more than anybody else. Although
when we look at oh, you're the best player in
your sport, Connor McDavid, you should win.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It just always down to goaltending. It just these games
are so close. It's two to one, it's three to two,
it's over time. Then it's your goaltender. I would say
Tatum because he's been there a few times now, whereas
Luca got there. I don't know if it's I mean,
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it's important to him. I don't know of how we
look at him if we go, oh, he got there,
you can't be the best player in the sport. It's
interesting when I look at trying to assess how this
series is going to play out, because I would pick
Boston to win because I think Boston has a better team.
I have the I think they have a variety of
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defenders there, and I think it comes down to Kyrie
is the X factor. I know that Tatum and Brown
are probably going to give you close to sixty points
a night. Now, there's always, you know, the case that's
problematic for the Celtics, and that is one of the
two has an off night, appears or has a terrible
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fourth quarter or overtime that's happened before. Drew Holliday is
going to have his moments, Derek White's going to have
his moments there. Poorzingis would probably be the X factor
here for the Celtics. Gives them a little bit of size.
How healthy is he going to be? But when I
think of Dallas, I think Dallas is not necessarily the
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sum of its parts because they're top heavy with Luca
and Kyrie. But you're going to need contributions. Can Kyrie
be consistent? Can he give you Luca's going to give
you thirty thirty five a night. Now, can Kyrie give
you a couple of those games where he gets thirty
or twenty five and ten assists, then they can win
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this series. But it can't be just Luca and then
you're not sure. What if Kyrie is Kyrie of the
Cleveland Days, then Dallas can win this thing. But I
like Boston just because of the balance they have sort
of under the radar here, the fact that Jalen Brown
was the Eastern Conference Finals MVP. I like that as well.
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Let's just see, you know, if the big moment is
not too big for them. That's what it's always been,
where you're like, what is going on here? Dribbling the
ball off your feet, missing shots, no show in an
overtime or fourth quarter. But Boston is favored, and I'm
not surprised by that. Favored by six and a half
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in Game one. Got to steal one though, got to
get one. This is the one, Dallas. If you get it,
now you have house money for Game two. Now you
got a chance. You got to put pressure on Boston.
We've seen what happens when they have pressure. Teams go
through the regular season. We've seen this before where you're
like man, they just blitzed right through the season. Then
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they get to a tense moment. I always go back
to UNLV when UNLV in the nineties they were blowing
out everybody, and I kept thinking, if they get to
a moment in the you know, March madness, are they
going to be able to be ready for that moment?
And we thought, well, maybe they won't be in a
close game. Well, then they got into a close game
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and they couldn't even get a shot off. They had
a play that was poorly designed. They couldn't even get
the shot off in time. I go back to Seattle Mariners.
Seattle Mariners were unbelievable, one more games than any other
team in the regular season, and I kept thinking, if
you get into a tight game, a must win situation,
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do you have that pitcher? And they didn't. They had
a really good pitching staff, unbelievable lineup. They got into
a tense moment. You get into the tense moment, that's
when we that's when you decide that guy's ready for
the moment or he's not. James Worthy is going to
be on with us later today. And if you go
back when the Celtics lost at home to Magic. Magic
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had the skyhook in the garden. Well, Boston had one
more play. They had time for one more play. They
call a timeout and they draw up a play that
Larry Bird is going to shoot from the corner. Well,
James Worthy's job, his only job was to make sure
Larry Bird did not get the ball, to make sure
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that he didn't lose sight to Larry Bird. He loses
sight of Larry Bird, and I can bring it up
to James because Larry didn't hit the shot. I'll bet
you out of every shot that Larry Bird took and made,
that shot is the one that still haunts him because
he had a wide open shot.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yes, Mark watching the shot. It is per it is
on line, yes, yes, back iron.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So Boston had their guy, had their play, had his
shot in the garden, not able to hit it. But
you get those moments, those guys who want those plays.
You get that shot. But James loses sight of Larry
and he jokes about it. Now It's like, how do
you lose sight of Larry Bird?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But he did. But that's the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's the kind of things that are created when you
get to play for a championship that stand out forever,
all the plays that Larry made or James Worthy made.
Sometimes it's a play that somebody didn't make and how
it might define them, at least in the moment. All Right,
we'll take a break when we come back the drama
filled weekend for the WNBA. Did the WNBA have a
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Speaker 2 (17:19):
Play the day coming up, settle on our poll question.
Your phone call is always welcome. Operator Tyler's sitting by
each seven seven three DP show. There's a mandatory mini
camps for ten teams now once again OTAs. I don't
know what happens at an OTA. I didn't even know
what OTA stood for until Todd brought it up and
(17:40):
he goes, you know what OTA stands for? I go
off season team, organized team activity or organized team I'm
not even one hundred percent or I think that's what
it is. Yeah, oh yeah, the OTAs. And then you
have mandatory mini camp just for ten teams. But I
don't know why it's mandatory.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
And is it like an organized team activity? Like, hey guys,
we're all getting together to play paintball, but it's got
to be organized.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Now, let's come on, we're all going to meet up
in non activities.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Do they have disorganized team activities? I love that we
don't know what OTAs me, I don't know what happens.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I think basically the team wants to get an update
on you before we get to training camp.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You know, do you weigh three fifty or do weigh
three twenty? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
How's everybody doing? Let's take a temperature, right, now. Everybody good,
everybody in one piece? Everybody okay here?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, it feels like, hey, let's see what you look
like before we put you in a bathing suit.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
A lot of downtime in the offseason. How's everybody handling it?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, we're good. Yeah, yes, time.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
And who's not here for these organized conectivities? And what
does that mean for the future with the team.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
CD Lamb and Micah Parsons. I don't know if they're
going to be there. They got contract situations. Justin Jefferson,
is he going to be there?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Yes, Pauling, I have from the CBA, the Collective Bargain Agreement,
know what that means. There are three phases of mini camps.
We're in phase three. Phase one mini camp is strength
and conditioning. No contact is just working out and getting tested,
seeing the doctors and so forth. Phase two, which was
last month, allows offenses of defense to practice together but
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not against one each other. They can't go against each other,
just practicing on their own. Phase three of many camps
allows helmets to be worn, plays to be installed in
defensive situations with no live contact. These are all meant
to ramp the players up for training camp later next month.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Can we check and see if Justin Jefferson has signed
a new deal, because I got a email from a
buddy who said, Justin Jefferson I think has agreed to
a new contract.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So no details on that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I don't know if anybody's reporting that, but I got
somebody who just sent me a note here.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, Pauline, Yeah, it came about four minutes ago from
Adam Schefter and others. A record deal of the Vikings
and Justin Jefferson in recent agreement four years blank million,
four years, blank million. Who wants to.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Guess, Well, my friend gave me the numbers. Okay, four years,
one forty.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Four years, one hundred and forty million, one hundred and
ten million guaranteed makes him the highest paid wide receiver
in history, also the highest paid non quarterback in the
NFL history.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, okay, yeah, got the bag.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Get the bag.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He got the bag. Justin got the bag. Thank you,
Todd hit the bag. Yeah, hit the bag. You got
himself the bag.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yes, he did four for one. Okay, Ced Lamb's probably
interested in that number. I thought that, you know, once
AJ Brown got to thirty two. Justin Jefferson's going to
go to thirty five, and here he is at thirty five.
Now C d Land can't come in after this and
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expect more than Justin Jefferson. I would think you would
want to get in that aj Brown community thirty two million, but.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Justin Jefferson is.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I guess he'll be at their mandatory mini camp now
that he signs that deal. Plus, part of his job
is not just to be great, but to make sure
that he elevates his quarterback. He's got to make JJ
McCarthy better. Jordan Addison. They have to make him better
because I don't know when he starts. They have Sam Darnold.
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But part of your job is going to be usually
you know, you want your quarterback to make your wide
receivers better. Mahomes when he lost Tyreek Hill, people didn't panic.
He was going to make whoever he had along with
Travis Kelcey better. How many wide receivers you know Tyreek
Hill makes Tua better. Jalen Waddle makes to a better.
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I don't think it's the other way around. The wide
receivers with San Francisco make Brock Purty better. I think
the receivers in Philadelphia make Jalen Hurts better.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I don't think it's the other way around.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
C J.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Stroud I think made his receivers better his first year.
And I think that's the tricky part. When you're paying
Joe Burrow, that's probably reciprocal with his receivers and Joe
they both make each other better. Can you think of
Josh Allen is going to have to make some receivers
better this year?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
No, stef On Diggs. You're going to have to make
them better.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But when you're signing somebody giving them that amount of money,
like does Dak Prescott make cd Lamb or does Ceedee
Lamb make Dak Prescott? By the way, do you see
where c J. Stroud had his power rankings at quarterback?
He's been in the year at league a year and
he said that he would have Dak in there as
one of his top five quarterbacks.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
C J.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Stroud's in there, Jalen Hurts is in there, Lamar Jackson
is in there. And I think he initially had Josh
Allen not in the top five and then came back
and put him in the top five. So now we
got power rankings from players who were playing in the NFL.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
C J.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Stroud yes, Marvin, Yeah. CJ.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Strout was on million dollars worth of game and he
said Patrick Mahomes in disorder, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson himself,
Dak Prescott, Jalen Hurts. Those are his five.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But then I think he came back because he forgot
about Josh Allen and had had to put him in.
Joe Burrow was injured last year, and so I understand
you're not going to put him in just based off of,
you know, recency bias. But if you said these guys
are all healthy, then Joe Burrow's in the conversation top
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five quarterback. Josh Allen's certainly in there. I mean, there's
a lot of guys that are. It's like one through twelve.
It feels like the interchange. You know, even Aaron Rodgers
injured last year. But if Aaron Rodgers can play at
the level we think he will, then he's the top
five quarter back. But I like, now I got a
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quarterback giving me his power rankings there, and I did
like that he put himself in the top five. You know,
he's betting on himself. So justin Jefferson is in camp
or in the books there four years one hundred and
forty million dollars for the Vikings. You know who's happy
about that, aside from Justin Jefferson, JJ McCarthy and Sam Darn.
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Sam Darn was like, yeah, yeah, Jamar Chase is probably
happy as well.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's like, wait, what do you what did he get?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He got one, he got the bag, he got one
forty boot Cede Lamb woo. You know who's not happy
The owners of C. D. Lamb and Jamar Chase, those teams.
They're like, you imagine Jerry Jones, He's already gonna get
crushed with Dak Prescott's contract, Micah Parsons, and you know,
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now Ceede Lamb's got a number to play off of.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Like, it's kind of awesome because you can sign your player,
say like the Vikings for a record amount of money
and be like and screw over another bunch of teams
all at the same time.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I wonder if owners ever say to somebody. I know
the owners were upset with Jimmy Haslam and the Browns
with what they did with Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And rightfully so.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I mean, it was a stupid contract, but they had
to say to DeShawn, no, no, you're gonna love Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
All the money is guaranteed, and those owners had to
be living, like what are you doing when Kirk Cousins
got the first guaranteed all guaranteed money. And I remember
talking somebody with the Players Association, they go, this won't
go over well with some of these owners because they're like,
if you've got to guarantee Kirk Cousins all that money,
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you're gonna have to guarantee all the money with these
other quarterbacks. It's all gonna be guaranteed. And now here's
justin Jefferson. What is it over one hundred million dollars
that's guaranteed. Yeah, Yeah, he's a great player.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Yeah, Paully his first four years in the league, he
averaged ninety eight yards per game receiving. That's the best
in history, including Randy moss Is six point five catches.
It was only two years ago the DeVante Adams signed
a five year, one hundred and forty million contract with
an average salary of twenty eight million. So it went
from twenty eight million as the max two years ago
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to thirty five million this year.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, it's you know, the lesson to be learned is
if you now, there's certain quarterbacks I've said I would
not have extended Kyler Murray. I would have wanted to
see another year Daniel Jones. I would want to see
another year. There's certain players where I go, I got
to see a little bit more. Jalen Hurts. I wanted
to see a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Tua.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I wanted to see a little bit more. Brock Perdy.
I'm going to want to see a little bit more.
I mean, you're you're changing your franchise when you go,
all right, we're giving this guy fifty million dollars and it's,
you know, one of those decisions that you know, people
lose jobs over that when it doesn't work out well.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with It's not
(27:13):
a slap in the face. You're being a you're running
a business here. But I think Arizona, you did not
need to extend Kyler Murray because there was already questions
about his how prepared he was, how willing was he
to study like the simple things. That's a red flag.
Absolutely never would have you know, signed him to an extension.
(27:34):
I know he's talented. I just need to know if
he wants to be great, and I don't know if
he does. But Kirk Cousins, I never would have signed him.
If I'm Atlanta to that contract, I wouldn't. But once again,
there are times when I've said, you know, to the
opposite and then all of a sudden somebody turns out
that they're not worth it. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
And if you're a high school running back or college
running bag, you know what I'm moving to.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Why yep? Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Over the past month or so, a lot of people
have been discussing Justin Jefferson in his free agencies, so
on and so forth, and a lot of people said,
I'm just fan saying this guy doesn't want to stay
in Minnesota. They can't pay him enough to stay in Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Do you think players in sports care at all about
not lifestyle, but like cold Weatherstone they live.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, I would if like the money was close.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, if it was close, then I would probably go
to a place that is warmer, or I'm from there,
or I have family there. There's more of a lifestyle
there than I want. Then I might have in Buffalo
as opposed to southern California.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, I mean I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I could go to Texas or Florida and you know
the income tax and state income tax.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Weather's an issue. It would be for me.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I mean, I wouldn't have picked Bristol, Connecticut for my career,
but that's where ESPN was. Yeah, not exactly. You know,
the center of media. Bristol, Connecticut had a.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Lot of distractions though for you there there.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Were not many distractions. There was the Hall of Fame
bar and uh what was the other j tims.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
More than anything, there was cheap land to build a
gigantic facility.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
That that that's probably why they picked Bristol netic That's.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Exactly why they picked the middle of nowhere Connecticut. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, and our girls and the Yukon you know women
of course.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
So ESPN's the Green Bay Packers a media. They're in
a small town. Oh okay, little Chili.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Okay, Yeah, you're not there for the weather the ambiance,
but there you know, if you like, uh you know,
the countryside, it's very nice. A lot of land, okay,
late compounds, yeah, lake compound. You can see the stage
where Millie Vanilli got busted for uh lin never forget. Yeah,
(30:06):
it was right there, right there. That was our big
picnic every year at ESPN. We got to go to
Lake Compounds.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Not all of us. Some of us had had to work.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Oh yeah, Like if you're a younger scrub, day's like
you haven't work the night shift.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, we had a great time. Yeah, Lake Compounds. That's it,
all right, So we'll settle on our pol question. A
couple of phone calls in here Carrie in Minnesota, Hi Carrie,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Hi Carrie from Minnesota. I am five to seven and
one hundred and thirty eight ish pounds. I apologize because
my comments and topic are a little bit delayed. Responds.
I did try to call in Friday, and there were
some technical difficulties apparently. But the Minnesota timber Wolve performance
(31:01):
on Thursday night is probably causing some fans to need
to take comfort in some of your Keeper's Heart and
flucked to your favorite distillery. But I'm a little bit
(31:22):
concerned that they're not going to find it because you
keep referring to that distillery as Keeper's Heart Distillery, and
the official name of that distillery is O'Shaughnessy's Distillery.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Okay, Well, I'm hopeful that our audience is wise enough
to be able to find the Keeper's Heart. O'Shaughnessy Distillery
where the home of Keeper's aret did a great job there,
Whiskey Art very nice, Gus in La I guess.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Good morning, mister Patrick. Good to talk you and the
boys again. All right, besting worth the weekend, your best
the weekend. There's a lot of great stuff going on.
Con McDavid's finally in the Stanley Cup. Good baseball over
the weekend. The cringe of the weekend was watching Deontay
Wilder get knocked out the way that he got knocked out.
But the worst of the weekend, and yes it's coming
(32:19):
from the wnba Is and Matt Barnes touched upon this,
where the hell are Caitlin Clark's teammates because we've all
seen it, which is kind of weird that they're only
going after Keanlin Clark. No one's going after Cameron Brink,
No one's going after Angel Reese called Milla Cardoso. No
one's going after the other rookies. They're going after one
(32:41):
specific one. They're talking about one specific one. But where
the hell are the teammates? Though, I mean, we've seen
it throughout time that rookies are always gonna get hazed,
you know when they come in the league. But there's
always someone there. There's a veteran, there's an enforcer, there's
someone there to be like, uhh, do that to me? Right?
Speaker 9 (32:59):
To me?
Speaker 10 (33:00):
Want to boy, somebody you want to try to hit someone?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Hit me?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
That to me is the worst of all this. That
we're seeing Caitlin Clark hit the deck and you'll see
a teammate come up and they send a hand and
live them up instead of going and getting in the
face of that individual that is either talking smack or
physically putting hands on him.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That to me is the worst.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
You boys, have a great week.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Thank you, Gush. Kennity Carter plays for the sky. We'll
talk a little bit more about this, and Gus is right,
Caitlyn Clark gets knocked down and nobody is going over
to the woman who knocked her down. They're gonna go
give a helping hand to Caitlyn Clark. We'll take a break.
Got her play of the day coming up next after this.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
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Speaker 10 (33:53):
My God.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Of the day. Play of the day.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Check this out, McDavid top of the circle, now dry subtle,
coming off the goal line. Fawn's McDavid heading for the
net around steel to drag pacinter store.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
What a sensational goal by the jip, said the donner McDavid.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
It's what that they got it said.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
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Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's courtesy of the Oilers Radio Network. I had to
watch it three times before I realized what Connor McDavid did.
He passed to himself between his legs that I had
a backhand, had a goal and an assist in the series.
Now is thirty one points in the postseason. He's in
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Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's Express Pros dot misspoke. Kennedy Carter is the woman
who found Caitlyn Clark. And here's the call on the
mother ship.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Kennedy Carter, Now which twelve points off the page and
big time contact afterwards, saw the knock away there for Clark,
and then lay from Boston as the officials, they are
gonna take a look at what's just transpired between Carter
and Clark.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Okay, and then this was not just that moment. They
had been going back and forth with each other. There's
been some trash talking there as well. Caitlyn Clark was
responsible as well for how this escalated, not to the
point where you're going to have somebody come up and
do a hip check into Caitlyn Clark right in front
of everybody. Here is Kennedy, Carter the sky guard after.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
The game, and then Kennedy give you an opportunity to
talk about that moment to maybe and Kate the what
was on that play?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
What was said and kind of what led to you
next question?
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Yeah, a little bit, Yeah, I answered, okay, link to
Clark questions and she said, I don't know what she said.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
What you say, We're good already.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Angel Reese is on that team. She did not speak,
she was fine. The team was fined. I don't know
undisclosed amount. But here's Caitlyn Clark on the hip check
by Kennedy Carter.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
Yeah, I wasn't expected hitot.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I think it's just like just respond come down while
you played to the talking, and it.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
Is what it is.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
It's a physical game. Go make the free throw and
then as you on offense, and I feel like that's
kind of what we did, but.
Speaker 10 (36:46):
It is what it is.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Okay, So there was a lot leading up to this.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You don't really have rivalries or you don't think of
rivalries in the w n B A where people don't
like each other.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
I mean we grew up.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
If you're old enough that teams didn't like each other,
star players didn't like the other star player.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
This happens.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Then we got into this world of everybody loved everybody
and socialized with everybody. Now what you have in the
WNBA is you have some rivalries here and not everybody
is embracing Caitlyn Clark. Not everybody is going to let
you get away with what you got away with in Iowa.
She's her own economy right now. All of these different
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media outlets, they know that you're going to get clicks
when you have something on Caitlin Clark. In the WNBA,
she is her own market and This was big. This
was a big moment there where she gets knocked down.
Now what happens. Nobody went after Kennedy Carter who knocked
down Caitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Clark said all the right things afterwards,
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but Caitlin Clark is talking trash with her, and you
have to understand. Do I think it's a cheap shot, yes,
but also these women they're earning a paycheck here, they
don't care, they don't want to be out there just
so Caitlin Clark gets thirty five points. Their job is
to shut her down, be physical with her. This happens
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with rookies. It's going to happen. It'll continue to happen.
And they played a lot of games, with eleven games
in what twenty two days? That's a lot and they
look spent And Caitlin Clark is going to have to
get stronger in the off season. She had an unbelievable
college season to go right into the WNBA and then
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when this is over, she's got the Olympics and then
she'll have a nice breather after that. But I think
this was a great has been a great learning process
for her that there are grown women out there who
are going to be physical. And these are women you're
not even aware of who they are because they're probably
a lot of you who became WNBA players because of
Caitlin Clark. Now you're going wait a minute, they knocked
(38:54):
her down. Candice Parker got roughed up her first year
after Lee Tennessee, it happens. They're gonna test you, they're
gonna knock you down. But social media picking sides here,
and it was, you know, it's a lot of pro
Caitlyn Clark. You got to look at the whole play,
not just that moment there. Just Caitlyn Clark played a
(39:18):
role in this as well.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah. Right, there's this.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Impression by people somehow that like, hey, Caitlyn Clark, she's
just a girl out there trying to play basketball, and
why are people being so mean to her? Like she's
got the worst mouth of anybody. She's not afraid she
and there are a lot of people who are called
out for having like a bad mouth or something. She's
constantly apping obscenities, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
And she did say that to Kennedy Carter. Dan Kennedy
Carter was not having it. I mean, this is what
it is. This is what sports is. It's rivalries, it's
things getting intense. It's taking a cheap shot on a player.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
That actually is sort of a sign of respect in sports,
because if you're somebody that doesn't matter, nobody's wasting their
energy on that, you know. But this is what This
is how you intensify rivalries. This is how you ratchet
up the sport more it's been going on forever.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
You get the feeling, then it means more, like we
want to invest in something that means more. Oh, something's
at stake there. Oh it's intense, like that's what we love.
And Caitlin Clerk's not the one that's complaining here. Privately,
I'm sure she is. I would be upset that my
teammates didn't defend me in that moment. But Carter's like,
I'm not putting up with this. I don't care who
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you are. And I understand that while it is a
cheap shot, I understand where if you're going back and
forth with me, then I'm going to hit a jumper
and then I'm gonna give you a nudge here. Now
we look forward to the next time they play again.
It's a business, and she is a media gravy train
(40:55):
right now, so everything is going to be amplified. More
phone calls coming up, best and worst of the weekend.
Hall of Famer James Worthy will stop by one hour
in the books on this Monday, Two to Go Dan
Patrick's show,
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody morale
is high.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Gang's all here ready to go, a lot of topics
to look back upon and look forward to. NBA Finals
get started on Thursday. Right now, I'm looking at DraftKings.
They have the Celtics favored by six and a half
Game one NBA Finals. Also, who is the odds on
favorite for MVP? Jason Tatum, followed by Luca Jalen Brown,
(00:31):
and then Kyrie Irving. Much more on this coming up.
Hall of Famer James Worthy will join us a little
bit later on phone calls always welcome, especially on Monday.
Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that
you liked you didn't like. Operator Tyler is sitting by
ready to take your phone calls. Eight seven to seven
three DP Show. Ten teams have mandatory mini camps this
(00:52):
week in the NFL. I have no idea what that
means other than you're supposed to be there and then
if you're not there, and it becomes a bigger story.
So Ceedee Lamb. Micah Parsons. They didn't go to OTAs.
I don't know if they're expected to go. Dallas is
one of those ten teams that have mandatory mini camps
this week. I don't know if there are any other
(01:13):
headlines potential headlines there. You also have the Justin Jefferson
contract situation that needs to be rectified as well. Eilers
beat the Stars and they go to the Stanley Cup
final versus my Panthers.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you, thank you, mar I.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Appreciate that and get ready for a healthy dose of
Conor McDavid. Best player in hockey now he'll be on
the biggest stage against the Panthers and their star goaltender,
and he is the best player in the sport. And
we were wondering, if you look at each individual's sport,
when's the last time you could say that guy is
(01:53):
the best in his sport, Like Patrick Mahomes is considered
the best player in the NFL now. Even when Tom
Brady was Tom Brady, he wasn't considered the best player
in the NFL because you can make a case people
thought other quarterbacks or Aaron Donald, there were other players
you would go, he's better than Tom Brady. Is tom
(02:13):
Brady was always the bottom line, Well, he's going to
win a Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But when it comes to hockey, it's Connor McDavid.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
When it comes to basketball, it was Joker until Joker
got eliminated. Now Joker apparently is not the best player
in the world. That is Luca, which I would say
it's still Joker in my opinion. He just got eliminated
and give credit to Minnesota. Do I think that Luca
is better than Joker? I don't, but it's close and
(02:42):
they're in the conversation, so clear cut that guy is
the best player in his sport. Football, you got Mahomes basketball.
I guess there's some discrepancy, some argument there. Baseball show. Hey,
Utani's not even the best player on his own team.
If I look at the MVA p odds, it's Mookie Betts,
but we would consider him the best player in the sport.
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Bryce Harper would be in there, Mike Trout when he
was healthy, So you have a little bit of an
argument there as well. But when it comes to hockey,
it's Connor McDavid. He is the best player and maybe
they can improve upon this stat. The last Canadian based
team to win the Stanley Cup was nineteen ninety three
and that was Montreal, who.
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with the poll question, got to play of the day,
a few stats of the day coming up, the drama
filled weekend for the WNBA, we'll talk about that as well.
(04:22):
But let me go back to the topic that we
were discussing discussing earlier this morning, and that is the
brilliance of Connor McDavid. And you put him in an
Edmonton uniform and you can't help but think of Wayne
Gretzky and the Oilers and getting back to the Stanley
Cup Final. But would you guys agree if you're looking
at football, the general consensus is Patrick Mahomes is the
(04:45):
best football player because we can look at talent and
we could look at bottom line the end result as well,
whereas Tom Brady, you didn't look at talent as much
as you looked at bottom line. It's the position as well.
But I would say people would the general consensus is
the best football player. Is Patrick Mahomes the best baseball player.
(05:06):
We would have a discussion about that. Best basketball player.
I still think Joker is the best player in the world.
But you might say Jannis, you might say Luca, you
might say Jason Tatum, Shay gilgis Alexander. To me, it's
still Joker. You know, we're looking at recency bias here.
If Joker was still playing and Luca was not, would
(05:27):
we say Luca is a better player And the answer
is no. So it is a recency bias there. But
I would still say Joker is the best player in
his sport. But it's close. Golf, Scotti Scheffler is the
best golfer. Not close, not even a discussion. You can
try to put you know, Rory in there, whoever you
want to put in there, but it's still it's Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes, Marv is Messi still the best soccer player on Earth?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I would say no, but I think he is. He
would be emeritus, like you would still say the fact
that he's still playing, but he's you know, he's playing
the MLS and I think there it's a little harder
to differentiate. Seaton would have a better sense of that.
It's like Lebron in the NBA, like he's in the
(06:17):
conversation of still great players.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I wouldn't look at Messi as, oh, he's the greatest player,
and so you know he's the most well known.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yes, yeah, him and him and Christiano Ronaldo are still
probably the two most famous in the world. But it
might be like killing Himbappe might be considered the best
in the world, somebody like that. Jude Bellingham is really good,
he's having a huge year, people like that. But they're
certainly the two most famous, there's no doubt about that.
They're Tiger Woods. Uh, you know, Lebron, James everything.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, And that's another thing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Sometimes you'll look at how famous somebody is, like show
Heyo Tani is famous. That doesn't mean he's the best
player on his own team because Mooki BET's MVP odds
are better than show Heyo Tani. But he's still recogniz
He's known, You know, Mahomes is known, but he's also
the best player at his position, and it's the most
important position. Like there was a run where Aaron Donald,
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you can make the argument was the best player in
the NFL because there was no answer for him, and
they ended up winning a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, pol I.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Went back and looked at the NFL network has a
list before every season, and last year, before the season,
Mahomes was the number one player in the league. He
had a nice regular season forty one hundred yards, twenty
seven touchdowns and fourteen picks. That's actually probably the worst
regular season Patrick Mahomes has ever had. They reranked at
the end of the year who had the best seasons
and it was Tyreek Hill. They said Hill had had
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the best season in football last year, and maybe you
weigh the quarterback position so heavily that it has to
be Mahomes though, yeah, fault.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, because the bottom line is he won the Super Bowl. Like,
who had a better year than him? Nobody? He won
the Super Bowl. Now that's not fair perhaps to rank
somebody and say, are you the best player. We've had
quarterbacks who've won the Super Bowl. That doesn't mean they
were the best at their position. Yeah, Nick bos is
going to be in there.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
T J.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Watt's going to be in there, justin Jefferson with what
he did. Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So there's a lot of people that Paul's reeling off,
you know when when you're looking and a lot of
times it comes down to position. In the NFL. With basketball,
it's just you're a basketball player. Golfer, you're just a golfer. Soccer.
Same thing.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Baseball is a little trickier.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Used to be that pitchers you could say that you
know that pitcher is the best player in baseball, which
is not the case anymore. So Conor McDavid will be
front and center, which will be exciting because you'll be
able to see somebody that we normally don't watch and
you'll be able to see him, uh you know, and
he's going against a really good goaltender. So Bolbrovski has
(08:48):
been the goalie to defeat, the last one to do so,
the top overall seeds and three of the last six seasons.
So he beat the Rangers this year, the Bruins. Last
year Tampa Bay when he was with Columbus in twenty nineteen. Also,
in case you're wondering, and I know you are, what's
the mileage difference between Sunrise, Florida, home of my Panthers
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and Edmonton? If you said two thousand, five and forty miles,
you'd be correct. And that's the longest distance between Stanley
Cup Final opponents in NHL history.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Stat of the days, Steat of the day, stat of
the day. Here comes that? What stat of the day?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
All right, we'll get to the drama filled weekend for
the WNBA coming up. We'll hear from Caitlin Clark and
seton what's the poll question. We're going to go with
first hour.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
First hour, We're going with who is the most Who
is the most best player in their sport? Okay, Nikola Jokic, Connor, McDavid, Conor, McDavid, Patrick, Mahomes,
Shoheo Tani. Who is the most best player? And you
also have the joker.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
If you were going to put tennis in there, I
guess well we'd have to differentiate jokers.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, the jokers.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
An individual sport versus a team sport, because Scotty Scheffler.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think would be she might be above everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
If we're looking what who's the most valuable athlete in
their respective sport, it'd probably be him. I don't think
there'd be much argument with that. Who else do we
have there? Seeing what other pole questions are we considering?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
We got another one here from the Twitter moth throughout
Who needs to win a title? Jason Tatum, Luka Doncic
or Connor McDavid. Oh yeah, a lot of Connor McDavid
covers today. Okay, yeah, we're going to put up both
of those for our one.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It feels like Jason Tatum more than anybody else. Although
when we look at oh, you're the best player in
your sport, Connor McDavid, you should win.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It just always down to goaltending. It just these games
are so close. It's two to one, it's three to two,
it's over time. Then it's your goaltender. I would say
Tatum because he's been there a few times now, whereas
Luca got there. I don't know if it's I mean,
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it's important to him. I don't know of how we
look at him if we go, oh, he got there,
you can't be the best player in the sport. It's
interesting when I look at trying to assess how this
series is going to play out, because I would pick
Boston to win because I think Boston has a better team.
I have the I think they have a variety of
(11:41):
defenders there, and I think it comes down to Kyrie
is the X factor. I know that Tatum and Brown
are probably going to give you close to sixty points
a night. Now, there's always, you know, the case that's
problematic for the Celtics, and that is one of the
two has an off night, appears or has a terrible
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fourth quarter or overtime that's happened before. Drew Holliday is
going to have his moments, Derek White's going to have
his moments there. Poorzingis would probably be the X factor
here for the Celtics. Gives them a little bit of size.
How healthy is he going to be? But when I
think of Dallas, I think Dallas is not necessarily the
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sum of its parts because they're top heavy with Luca
and Kyrie. But you're going to need contributions. Can Kyrie
be consistent? Can he give you Luca's going to give
you thirty thirty five a night. Now, can Kyrie give
you a couple of those games where he gets thirty
or twenty five and ten assists, then they can win
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this series. But it can't be just Luca and then
you're not sure. What if Kyrie is Kyrie of the
Cleveland Days, then Dallas can win this thing. But I
like Boston just because of the balance they have sort
of under the radar here, the fact that Jalen Brown
was the Eastern Conference Finals MVP. I like that as well.
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Let's just see, you know, if the big moment is
not too big for them. That's what it's always been,
where you're like, what is going on here? Dribbling the
ball off your feet, missing shots, no show in an
overtime or fourth quarter. But Boston is favored, and I'm
not surprised by that. Favored by six and a half
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in Game one. Got to steal one though, got to
get one. This is the one, Dallas. If you get it,
now you have house money for Game two. Now you
got a chance. You got to put pressure on Boston.
We've seen what happens when they have pressure. Teams go
through the regular season. We've seen this before where you're
like man, they just blitzed right through the season. Then
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they get to a tense moment. I always go back
to UNLV when UNLV in the nineties they were blowing
out everybody, and I kept thinking, if they get to
a moment in the you know, March madness, are they
going to be able to be ready for that moment?
And we thought, well, maybe they won't be in a
close game. Well, then they got into a close game
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and they couldn't even get a shot off. They had
a play that was poorly designed. They couldn't even get
the shot off in time. I go back to Seattle Mariners.
Seattle Mariners were unbelievable, one more games than any other
team in the regular season, and I kept thinking, if
you get into a tight game, a must win situation,
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do you have that pitcher? And they didn't. They had
a really good pitching staff, unbelievable lineup. They got into
a tense moment. You get into the tense moment, that's
when we that's when you decide that guy's ready for
the moment or he's not. James Worthy is going to
be on with us later today. And if you go
back when the Celtics lost at home to Magic. Magic
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had the skyhook in the garden. Well, Boston had one
more play. They had time for one more play. They
call a timeout and they draw up a play that
Larry Bird is going to shoot from the corner. Well,
James Worthy's job, his only job was to make sure
Larry Bird did not get the ball, to make sure
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that he didn't lose sight to Larry Bird. He loses
sight of Larry Bird, and I can bring it up
to James because Larry didn't hit the shot. I'll bet
you out of every shot that Larry Bird took and made,
that shot is the one that still haunts him because
he had a wide open shot.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yes, Mark watching the shot. It is per it is
on line, yes, yes, back iron.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So Boston had their guy, had their play, had his
shot in the garden, not able to hit it. But
you get those moments, those guys who want those plays.
You get that shot. But James loses sight of Larry
and he jokes about it. Now It's like, how do
you lose sight of Larry Bird?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
But he did. But that's the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
That's the kind of things that are created when you
get to play for a championship that stand out forever,
all the plays that Larry made or James Worthy made.
Sometimes it's a play that somebody didn't make and how
it might define them, at least in the moment. All Right,
we'll take a break when we come back the drama
filled weekend for the WNBA. Did the WNBA have a
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Speaker 2 (17:19):
Play the day coming up, settle on our poll question.
Your phone call is always welcome. Operator Tyler's sitting by
each seven seven three DP show. There's a mandatory mini
camps for ten teams now once again OTAs. I don't
know what happens at an OTA. I didn't even know
what OTA stood for until Todd brought it up and
(17:40):
he goes, you know what OTA stands for? I go
off season team, organized team activity or organized team I'm
not even one hundred percent or I think that's what
it is. Yeah, oh yeah, the OTAs. And then you
have mandatory mini camp just for ten teams. But I
don't know why it's mandatory.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
And is it like an organized team activity? Like, hey guys,
we're all getting together to play paintball, but it's got
to be organized.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Now, let's come on, we're all going to meet up
in non activities.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Do they have disorganized team activities? I love that we
don't know what OTAs me, I don't know what happens.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I think basically the team wants to get an update
on you before we get to training camp.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
You know, do you weigh three fifty or do weigh
three twenty? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:24):
How's everybody doing? Let's take a temperature, right, now. Everybody good,
everybody in one piece? Everybody okay here?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, it feels like, hey, let's see what you look
like before we put you in a bathing suit.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
A lot of downtime in the offseason. How's everybody handling it?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, we're good. Yeah, yes, time.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
And who's not here for these organized conectivities? And what
does that mean for the future with the team.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
CD Lamb and Micah Parsons. I don't know if they're
going to be there. They got contract situations. Justin Jefferson,
is he going to be there?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Yes, Pauling, I have from the CBA, the Collective Bargain Agreement,
know what that means. There are three phases of mini camps.
We're in phase three. Phase one mini camp is strength
and conditioning. No contact is just working out and getting tested,
seeing the doctors and so forth. Phase two, which was
last month, allows offenses of defense to practice together but
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not against one each other. They can't go against each other,
just practicing on their own. Phase three of many camps
allows helmets to be worn, plays to be installed in
defensive situations with no live contact. These are all meant
to ramp the players up for training camp later next month.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Can we check and see if Justin Jefferson has signed
a new deal, because I got a email from a
buddy who said, Justin Jefferson I think has agreed to
a new contract.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So no details on that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I don't know if anybody's reporting that, but I got
somebody who just sent me a note here.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, Pauline, Yeah, it came about four minutes ago from
Adam Schefter and others. A record deal of the Vikings
and Justin Jefferson in recent agreement four years blank million,
four years, blank million. Who wants to.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Guess, Well, my friend gave me the numbers. Okay, four years,
one forty.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Four years, one hundred and forty million, one hundred and
ten million guaranteed makes him the highest paid wide receiver
in history, also the highest paid non quarterback in the
NFL history.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, okay, yeah, got the bag.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Get the bag.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He got the bag. Justin got the bag. Thank you,
Todd hit the bag. Yeah, hit the bag. You got
himself the bag.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yes, he did four for one. Okay, Ced Lamb's probably
interested in that number. I thought that, you know, once
AJ Brown got to thirty two. Justin Jefferson's going to
go to thirty five, and here he is at thirty five.
Now C d Land can't come in after this and
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expect more than Justin Jefferson. I would think you would
want to get in that aj Brown community thirty two million, but.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Justin Jefferson is.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I guess he'll be at their mandatory mini camp now
that he signs that deal. Plus, part of his job
is not just to be great, but to make sure
that he elevates his quarterback. He's got to make JJ
McCarthy better. Jordan Addison. They have to make him better
because I don't know when he starts. They have Sam Darnold.
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But part of your job is going to be usually
you know, you want your quarterback to make your wide
receivers better. Mahomes when he lost Tyreek Hill, people didn't panic.
He was going to make whoever he had along with
Travis Kelcey better. How many wide receivers you know Tyreek
Hill makes Tua better. Jalen Waddle makes to a better.
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I don't think it's the other way around. The wide
receivers with San Francisco make Brock Purty better. I think
the receivers in Philadelphia make Jalen Hurts better.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I don't think it's the other way around.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
C J.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Stroud I think made his receivers better his first year.
And I think that's the tricky part. When you're paying
Joe Burrow, that's probably reciprocal with his receivers and Joe
they both make each other better. Can you think of
Josh Allen is going to have to make some receivers
better this year?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
No, stef On Diggs. You're going to have to make
them better.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But when you're signing somebody giving them that amount of money,
like does Dak Prescott make cd Lamb or does Ceedee
Lamb make Dak Prescott? By the way, do you see
where c J. Stroud had his power rankings at quarterback?
He's been in the year at league a year and
he said that he would have Dak in there as
one of his top five quarterbacks.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
C J.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Stroud's in there, Jalen Hurts is in there, Lamar Jackson
is in there. And I think he initially had Josh
Allen not in the top five and then came back
and put him in the top five. So now we
got power rankings from players who were playing in the NFL.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
C J.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Stroud yes, Marvin, Yeah. CJ.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Strout was on million dollars worth of game and he
said Patrick Mahomes in disorder, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson himself,
Dak Prescott, Jalen Hurts. Those are his five.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But then I think he came back because he forgot
about Josh Allen and had had to put him in.
Joe Burrow was injured last year, and so I understand
you're not going to put him in just based off of,
you know, recency bias. But if you said these guys
are all healthy, then Joe Burrow's in the conversation top
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five quarterback. Josh Allen's certainly in there. I mean, there's
a lot of guys that are. It's like one through twelve.
It feels like the interchange. You know, even Aaron Rodgers
injured last year. But if Aaron Rodgers can play at
the level we think he will, then he's the top
five quarter back. But I like, now I got a
(24:03):
quarterback giving me his power rankings there, and I did
like that he put himself in the top five. You know,
he's betting on himself. So justin Jefferson is in camp
or in the books there four years one hundred and
forty million dollars for the Vikings. You know who's happy
about that, aside from Justin Jefferson, JJ McCarthy and Sam Darn.
(24:26):
Sam Darn was like, yeah, yeah, Jamar Chase is probably
happy as well.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's like, wait, what do you what did he get?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
He got one, he got the bag, he got one
forty boot Cede Lamb woo. You know who's not happy
The owners of C. D. Lamb and Jamar Chase, those teams.
They're like, you imagine Jerry Jones, He's already gonna get
crushed with Dak Prescott's contract, Micah Parsons, and you know,
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now Ceede Lamb's got a number to play off of.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Like, it's kind of awesome because you can sign your player,
say like the Vikings for a record amount of money
and be like and screw over another bunch of teams
all at the same time.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I wonder if owners ever say to somebody. I know
the owners were upset with Jimmy Haslam and the Browns
with what they did with Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And rightfully so.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I mean, it was a stupid contract, but they had
to say to DeShawn, no, no, you're gonna love Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
All the money is guaranteed, and those owners had to
be living, like what are you doing when Kirk Cousins
got the first guaranteed all guaranteed money. And I remember
talking somebody with the Players Association, they go, this won't
go over well with some of these owners because they're like,
if you've got to guarantee Kirk Cousins all that money,
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you're gonna have to guarantee all the money with these
other quarterbacks. It's all gonna be guaranteed. And now here's
justin Jefferson. What is it over one hundred million dollars
that's guaranteed. Yeah, Yeah, he's a great player.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Yeah, Paully his first four years in the league, he
averaged ninety eight yards per game receiving. That's the best
in history, including Randy moss Is six point five catches.
It was only two years ago the DeVante Adams signed
a five year, one hundred and forty million contract with
an average salary of twenty eight million. So it went
from twenty eight million as the max two years ago
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to thirty five million this year.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, it's you know, the lesson to be learned is
if you now, there's certain quarterbacks I've said I would
not have extended Kyler Murray. I would have wanted to
see another year Daniel Jones. I would want to see
another year. There's certain players where I go, I got
to see a little bit more. Jalen Hurts. I wanted
to see a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Tua.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I wanted to see a little bit more. Brock Perdy.
I'm going to want to see a little bit more.
I mean, you're you're changing your franchise when you go,
all right, we're giving this guy fifty million dollars and it's,
you know, one of those decisions that you know, people
lose jobs over that when it doesn't work out well.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with It's not
(27:13):
a slap in the face. You're being a you're running
a business here. But I think Arizona, you did not
need to extend Kyler Murray because there was already questions
about his how prepared he was, how willing was he
to study like the simple things. That's a red flag.
Absolutely never would have you know, signed him to an extension.
(27:34):
I know he's talented. I just need to know if
he wants to be great, and I don't know if
he does. But Kirk Cousins, I never would have signed him.
If I'm Atlanta to that contract, I wouldn't. But once again,
there are times when I've said, you know, to the
opposite and then all of a sudden somebody turns out
that they're not worth it. Yes, Marv.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
And if you're a high school running back or college
running bag, you know what I'm moving to.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Why yep? Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Over the past month or so, a lot of people
have been discussing Justin Jefferson in his free agencies, so
on and so forth, and a lot of people said,
I'm just fan saying this guy doesn't want to stay
in Minnesota. They can't pay him enough to stay in Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Do you think players in sports care at all about
not lifestyle, but like cold Weatherstone they live.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, I would if like the money was close.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, if it was close, then I would probably go
to a place that is warmer, or I'm from there,
or I have family there. There's more of a lifestyle
there than I want. Then I might have in Buffalo
as opposed to southern California.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, I mean I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I could go to Texas or Florida and you know
the income tax and state income tax.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Weather's an issue. It would be for me.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I mean, I wouldn't have picked Bristol, Connecticut for my career,
but that's where ESPN was. Yeah, not exactly. You know,
the center of media. Bristol, Connecticut had a.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Lot of distractions though for you there there.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Were not many distractions. There was the Hall of Fame
bar and uh what was the other j tims.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
More than anything, there was cheap land to build a
gigantic facility.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
That that that's probably why they picked Bristol netic That's.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Exactly why they picked the middle of nowhere Connecticut. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, and our girls and the Yukon you know women
of course.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
So ESPN's the Green Bay Packers a media. They're in
a small town. Oh okay, little Chili.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Okay, Yeah, you're not there for the weather the ambiance,
but there you know, if you like, uh you know,
the countryside, it's very nice. A lot of land, okay,
late compounds, yeah, lake compound. You can see the stage
where Millie Vanilli got busted for uh lin never forget. Yeah,
(30:06):
it was right there, right there. That was our big
picnic every year at ESPN. We got to go to
Lake Compounds.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Not all of us. Some of us had had to work.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Oh yeah, Like if you're a younger scrub, day's like
you haven't work the night shift.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, we had a great time. Yeah, Lake Compounds. That's it,
all right, So we'll settle on our pol question. A
couple of phone calls in here Carrie in Minnesota, Hi Carrie,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Hi Carrie from Minnesota. I am five to seven and
one hundred and thirty eight ish pounds. I apologize because
my comments and topic are a little bit delayed. Responds.
I did try to call in Friday, and there were
some technical difficulties apparently. But the Minnesota timber Wolve performance
(31:01):
on Thursday night is probably causing some fans to need
to take comfort in some of your Keeper's Heart and
flucked to your favorite distillery. But I'm a little bit
(31:22):
concerned that they're not going to find it because you
keep referring to that distillery as Keeper's Heart Distillery, and
the official name of that distillery is O'Shaughnessy's Distillery.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Okay, Well, I'm hopeful that our audience is wise enough
to be able to find the Keeper's Heart. O'Shaughnessy Distillery
where the home of Keeper's aret did a great job there,
Whiskey Art very nice, Gus in La I guess.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Good morning, mister Patrick. Good to talk you and the
boys again. All right, besting worth the weekend, your best
the weekend. There's a lot of great stuff going on.
Con McDavid's finally in the Stanley Cup. Good baseball over
the weekend. The cringe of the weekend was watching Deontay
Wilder get knocked out the way that he got knocked out.
But the worst of the weekend, and yes it's coming
(32:19):
from the wnba Is and Matt Barnes touched upon this,
where the hell are Caitlin Clark's teammates because we've all
seen it, which is kind of weird that they're only
going after Keanlin Clark. No one's going after Cameron Brink,
No one's going after Angel Reese called Milla Cardoso. No
one's going after the other rookies. They're going after one
(32:41):
specific one. They're talking about one specific one. But where
the hell are the teammates? Though, I mean, we've seen
it throughout time that rookies are always gonna get hazed,
you know when they come in the league. But there's
always someone there. There's a veteran, there's an enforcer, there's
someone there to be like, uhh, do that to me? Right?
Speaker 9 (32:59):
To me?
Speaker 10 (33:00):
Want to boy, somebody you want to try to hit someone?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Hit me?
Speaker 10 (33:03):
That to me is the worst of all this. That
we're seeing Caitlin Clark hit the deck and you'll see
a teammate come up and they send a hand and
live them up instead of going and getting in the
face of that individual that is either talking smack or
physically putting hands on him.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That to me is the worst.
Speaker 10 (33:20):
You boys, have a great week.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Thank you, Gush. Kennity Carter plays for the sky. We'll
talk a little bit more about this, and Gus is right,
Caitlyn Clark gets knocked down and nobody is going over
to the woman who knocked her down. They're gonna go
give a helping hand to Caitlyn Clark. We'll take a break.
Got her play of the day coming up next after this.
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Of the day. Play of the day.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Check this out, McDavid top of the circle, now dry subtle,
coming off the goal line. Fawn's McDavid heading for the
net around steel to drag pacinter store.
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What a sensational goal by the jip, said the donner McDavid.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
It's what that they got it said.
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Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's Express Pros dot misspoke. Kennedy Carter is the woman
who found Caitlyn Clark. And here's the call on the
mother ship.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Kennedy Carter, Now which twelve points off the page and
big time contact afterwards, saw the knock away there for Clark,
and then lay from Boston as the officials, they are
gonna take a look at what's just transpired between Carter
and Clark.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Okay, and then this was not just that moment. They
had been going back and forth with each other. There's
been some trash talking there as well. Caitlyn Clark was
responsible as well for how this escalated, not to the
point where you're going to have somebody come up and
do a hip check into Caitlyn Clark right in front
of everybody. Here is Kennedy, Carter the sky guard after.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
The game, and then Kennedy give you an opportunity to
talk about that moment to maybe and Kate the what
was on that play?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
What was said and kind of what led to you
next question?
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Yeah, a little bit, Yeah, I answered, okay, link to
Clark questions and she said, I don't know what she said.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
What you say, We're good already.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Angel Reese is on that team. She did not speak,
she was fine. The team was fined. I don't know
undisclosed amount. But here's Caitlyn Clark on the hip check
by Kennedy Carter.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
Yeah, I wasn't expected hitot.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I think it's just like just respond come down while
you played to the talking, and it.
Speaker 10 (36:35):
Is what it is.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
It's a physical game. Go make the free throw and
then as you on offense, and I feel like that's
kind of what we did, but.
Speaker 10 (36:46):
It is what it is.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Okay, So there was a lot leading up to this.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You don't really have rivalries or you don't think of
rivalries in the w n B A where people don't
like each other.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
I mean we grew up.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
If you're old enough that teams didn't like each other,
star players didn't like the other star player.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
This happens.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Then we got into this world of everybody loved everybody
and socialized with everybody. Now what you have in the
WNBA is you have some rivalries here and not everybody
is embracing Caitlyn Clark. Not everybody is going to let
you get away with what you got away with in Iowa.
She's her own economy right now. All of these different
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media outlets, they know that you're going to get clicks
when you have something on Caitlin Clark. In the WNBA,
she is her own market and This was big. This
was a big moment there where she gets knocked down.
Now what happens. Nobody went after Kennedy Carter who knocked
down Caitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Clark said all the right things afterwards,
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but Caitlin Clark is talking trash with her, and you
have to understand. Do I think it's a cheap shot, yes,
but also these women they're earning a paycheck here, they
don't care, they don't want to be out there just
so Caitlin Clark gets thirty five points. Their job is
to shut her down, be physical with her. This happens
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with rookies. It's going to happen. It'll continue to happen.
And they played a lot of games, with eleven games
in what twenty two days? That's a lot and they
look spent And Caitlin Clark is going to have to
get stronger in the off season. She had an unbelievable
college season to go right into the WNBA and then
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when this is over, she's got the Olympics and then
she'll have a nice breather after that. But I think
this was a great has been a great learning process
for her that there are grown women out there who
are going to be physical. And these are women you're
not even aware of who they are because they're probably
a lot of you who became WNBA players because of
Caitlin Clark. Now you're going wait a minute, they knocked
(38:54):
her down. Candice Parker got roughed up her first year
after Lee Tennessee, it happens. They're gonna test you, they're
gonna knock you down. But social media picking sides here,
and it was, you know, it's a lot of pro
Caitlyn Clark. You got to look at the whole play,
not just that moment there. Just Caitlyn Clark played a
(39:18):
role in this as well.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah. Right, there's this.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Impression by people somehow that like, hey, Caitlyn Clark, she's
just a girl out there trying to play basketball, and
why are people being so mean to her? Like she's
got the worst mouth of anybody. She's not afraid she
and there are a lot of people who are called
out for having like a bad mouth or something. She's
constantly apping obscenities, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
And she did say that to Kennedy Carter. Dan Kennedy
Carter was not having it. I mean, this is what
it is. This is what sports is. It's rivalries, it's
things getting intense. It's taking a cheap shot on a player.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
That actually is sort of a sign of respect in sports,
because if you're somebody that doesn't matter, nobody's wasting their
energy on that, you know. But this is what This
is how you intensify rivalries. This is how you ratchet
up the sport more it's been going on forever.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
You get the feeling, then it means more, like we
want to invest in something that means more. Oh, something's
at stake there. Oh it's intense, like that's what we love.
And Caitlin Clerk's not the one that's complaining here. Privately,
I'm sure she is. I would be upset that my
teammates didn't defend me in that moment. But Carter's like,
I'm not putting up with this. I don't care who
(40:32):
you are. And I understand that while it is a
cheap shot, I understand where if you're going back and
forth with me, then I'm going to hit a jumper
and then I'm gonna give you a nudge here. Now
we look forward to the next time they play again.
It's a business, and she is a media gravy train
(40:55):
right now, so everything is going to be amplified. More
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