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let's go. Here we go, TJ. First of all, before,
before we jump into this first topic of conversation, how
you feeling, man, How you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Man, I feel good. You know it's again you live
in a high rech district. Before, I love man. Here
we go, clear skies and palm trees. Man, A wonderful day,
wonderful weekend. Man, ready to rock and roll?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, all right, well that's good. How did y'all do
last week? By the way, did y'all do our or
was it the week before? The week before?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, no week last week too? You go?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Two weeks ago we lost in the semis we went
four and one. But once again, man, we can talk
about this with cuffs. Brought My son in the sixth
grade just turned twelve. You got kids in the sixth
grade saying they twelve with mustache just trying to dunk
on fast breaks. Come on, man, so them kids ain't
twelve years old? Kids be thirteen fourteen years old in
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the sixth grade.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Bro reclassified sixth graders.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Come on, their parents be cheating. I'm like, but it's
gonna hurt him in the long run. And the tournaments
don't give a damn. All they care about is let
me make as much money as I can as if
if you enforce the rules, they not just gonna play
with their original age group because the parents still want
their kids to play. But yeah, we played against fourteen
year olds, so we lost in the semis, but we're
a true sixth grade team. No cheating like a lot
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of people do out here.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, speaking of not being good for you in the
long run. Per espn ap KC TV five. On May
twenty eighth, May eighth, May twenty ninth, Rashi Rice. He
was booked in Dallas County Jail serving a thirty day
sentence from from May May nineteenth. So he's thirty days
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because of a probationary violation of a positive THCHC test
means he was smoking weed. He gets released on June sixteenth,
misses all of Chief's OTA's mandatory mini camp, and June
ninth he had a knee surgery A week before sentencing.
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All right, so he was suspended six games to start
the twenty twenty five season from drag racing ended in
a crash.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Coach Red he had some quotes.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He said, Listen, we're moving forward as normal, and when
he gets back, we've got to get him caught up.
Life lessons are important, and Red declined to answer if
he trusts Rashi Rice's judgment. Right now, they have Jalen
Royals taking the first team reps in his absence. The
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Chiefs in twenty twenty five, they were six and eleven.
Tj missed the playoffs for the first time since twenty fourteen.
Mahomes obviously went down with a torn acl LCL December
fourteenth versus the Chargers. The Chiefs traded for Justin Fields
from the Jets and Mahomes. Obviously they're hoping he's going
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to be back. But let's start right here. Rashi Rice.
He's in jail during the OTAs Andy Reid says, we're
moving forward and business as usual. Do you feel as
though patience for Rice is running out?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
One, Andy Reid, You're moving forward. You ain't got no
choice what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay, Well, that's captain obviously, that's that's.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What choice do you have.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
But as long as Rashee Rice can still play at
a high level, the Chief's gonna tolerate it, or they
gonna find somebody else that can do what he does
for the team. And last year when Rashi Rice got hurt,
they didn't have that. They didn't find that. And so
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until then, and we notice, teams are going to tolerate
what they have to tolerate until hey, the player falls
off or b we find a player that can do
what you're doing, and as soon as that happens, we
get rid of you. And so it's kind of unfortunate
because of Rashee Rice has put himself in this position.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
All of this is his fault, all of it.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
The car accident in the in the street and the
unfortunate incident that happened, that's your fault. Now when he
gets hurt in the football field, you know that. I'm
not saying that. I'm talking all off the field stuff
and you know, the stuff with his girlfriend. I'm not
here to speculate on and assume he did this, he
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did that, I don't know. I wasn't there, but we
were talking the accident and now getting yourself in trouble
because you can't stay off the weed.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I've never smoked the damn my life, so I never
understood guys that can't stop smoking. But again it's coming
from somebody that has never smoked anything.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Ever. I don't understand it.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
But the world of football, if you can play, you
will get multiple opportunities, and as soon as your production
starts to slip or they find somebody that can produce
and do close or more than what you were doing,
they will move on.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And I don't know if they have that on the team.
Who do Who do the Chiefs have That's a scored.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
All I'm gonna say is he scored two touchdowns in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But because he was it's because he was hurt. I
get that hurt. He was coming off an injury.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But he was also suspended, right, you know what I mean?
He was also suspended.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
He was he was suspended the first what six games.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
First five, five to six, let's see.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I think it was first five six games. But he's
coming off of an injury. And so when he was suspended,
did anybody on that team that play wide receiver give
them closer to production every Rashi Rice was giving them, No,
they did not. Had somebody given them the type of
production that Rashi Rice was giving them when he was playing,
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then it'd be a different story. Then Andy Reid would say, well,
you know, we have some and so he looked pretty
good when uh, I don't know what that when Double
R was out, so we can They haven't that. They
don't have that. They don't have that, and so they
gonna tolerate it. And as soon as they find somebody,
they're not going to tolerate it. And it's just kind
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of unfortunate because when you get when you get our
age levard, you're gonna regret all these dumbass decisions you
made when you're younger, and you can't tell these young
players when you're going through it what it is. Do
you remember these three words choice's, decision, consequences. You remember
where you first heard that?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
At?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, the NFL of a Symposium.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Rookie Symposium. I never ever forgot those three words, never
Choices and consequences. I never forgot those three words.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Bro.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I heard it so much turned the weekend at the
Rookie Symposium. It's stuck with me. It's been over twenty
five years a quarter of a century. That's how old
we are, and I never forgot it, and so you
got to live with it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Choice's decision and consequences. Bro.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah, I don't disagree with that, Listen. I think the
surgery puts them in a bad position here. Injuries aren't
aren't really, Maybe they look at them differently in today's NFL,
because it is. It is very different how things are
done anymore, and the amount of attention to people's health
and their mental health and all those things. Maybe maybe
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it's a different day and age. But I think I
think when you when you since we're doing sayings, what's
the saying fool me once, right? Or or fool me
wants shame on me, fool me twice shame on No,
fool me want shame on you, fool me twice, shame
on me. I think that that's the scenario that we
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got going on here, right. The first fooling is the
drag racing you out there. You're doing what you're doing,
and that's running a muck. If you ask me, you're not.
When when you want to put yourself in danger, you
got to deal with the consequences and the repercussions as
it applies to you when you're doing things that put
other people in danger with the REPERCUSSI and the consequences
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of what you chose to do. I don't have a
whole lot of patience for that. I don't have a
whole lot of you know, grace for that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
TJ.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
So right off the gate, I got an issue with
him if he's not showing that he truly understood how
dangerous what he did was when he got the six
game suspension and was put on probation. The fact that
probably something that led to a substance that led to you,
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you know, doing what you did that night, is something
that was put on your probation. Of what you're being
monitored for, we're testing your judgment and your commitment to
the change that you said you're going to change for
being under probation, because that's what probation is for. Right,
We're going to make sure we check on you to
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know that what you're doing on this probationary period of
time lets us know that we can trust you enough
to take you our probation right clear on that, right,
and then you test positive for the weed like you
test positive for it to me. I don't see how
you can have any real trust for him. If he's
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going to let himself down multiple times, then who are
we to be let down by him multiple times? In
a team environment? And a coach, most importantly a coach,
not just Brett Veach the GM, but the coach has
to manage guys that can create a locker room environment
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like that TJ where it may rear its head.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I don't know if it's well, you didn't do that
to Rashi, or you didn't you didn't handle things with
rights like that, or or just his his inability to
do what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I don't know how impact handling everybody the same. You're
not handling everybody the same.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Sure, no you're not.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh you didn't handle him like that? You not him?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well that's fair, you not him. But nonetheless, you and
I both know them dudes is in the locker room.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Them dudes are in the locker room, and the dudes' problems,
the dudes ask gonna question you, well, you didn't handle
him like that, or either him or above him, because
anybody that's under him won't even utter those worlds out
their mouth them words will never come out their mouth.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You didn't do this with Rashi right, that will never
utter those words.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Do you trust him?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Hid? Trust?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
If he's your teammate in the locker room, what are
your feelings towards him after this?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh? Man? Because I'm a I'm a type of dude.
I gotta be around you.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I gotta see how you act, the type of morals
that you you move by, and how you treat people,
your integrity, Like I gotta know who you are as
a person, because you can make these mistakes and be
my dog and I'd be like, bro, what are you doing?
But damn, he is a solid dude. He moves the
right way. I don't know him, so on the outside
looking in seeing this, I would say.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, I don't trust him.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
No, But I'm a guy that how you move and
how you treat me, and how I see you treat
other people, I'm LaVar you've been around me, man, I
treat everybody like.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They like they matter.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I never treat anybody like they're less dan, because I
just don't believe in that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Because at one point people looked.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
At me like I was less stand sure, you know,
and so I would never treat anybody that way, and
again I would just have to be around him. But
from the outside looking in, no, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's a hard that's a hard one. That's a hard
one to get around. Now, I will say this, Patrick Mahomes,
he is practicing. He's in the yellow non contact jersey.
He's recovering from his surgeries from the ACL and the
LCL looks as though they're planning on him being back
and being back on time. But they did, as I mentioned,
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bringing justin Fields as a backup. I think that's an
interesting backup. I think that could be a great landing
place for him. You got Eric Bienemy back calling the offense.
I think that that is going to be a positive
thing for the Chiefs as well. How important is it
in this conversation TJ before we go to break, how
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important is it for Patrick Mahomes to vouch for Rashi
Rice in this scenario?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't think Pat needs a vouch for him.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Rashi Rice has proven himself in the league. Like he's
not one of the top receivers, but he's damn sure
very good. And so he's proven himself by his ability
to go out there and make plays for the Chiefs,
and then when he's not in the game, the other
guys can't do what he's doing. And so that within itself,
Mahomes don't have to speak for him. His play is
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spoken for itself. That that just and now what Patt
is going through, what Mahomes is going through, Pat Trick
is going through, he got enough to worry about. He
got to make sure that he's possibly healthy for a
week one if not later in the season to get ready.
I'm sure he's disappointed. He Mahomes wants to win. Mahomes
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know whatever she rights can help them win. And so
for him to have his setback, because it's not so
much missing OTA's and Minie camp, it's can we rely
on you? You just had a surgery. You damn show ain't
getting no type of rehab while you locked up like that.
So I hope you were paying attention to what they
said you were gonna need to do. And you can
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kind of just do some body weight stuff, but what
about the massages, getting a scar tissue out and the
range of motion and all that you need to be doing.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You can't do that.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You locked up, So now that's setting you back when
you sat back, you setting the team back. So it's
just a lot that goes into it. But Mahomes has
enough to worry about on his plate with getting himself
ready to go.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Oh man, it just sounds as though it's a is
the mess worth you know? Is it worth it? Because
this is messy. It just sounds like it seems like
it's a messy situation that doesn't look like why what
about his decision making that has led him to where
he is now would give me any confidence that he's
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going to be anything different moving forward? And I think
that that's sad that you have to be in a
frame of mind where as a coach or a GM
you have to look at it in those those terms
for the simple fact that obviously you could lose your
job off of making bad decisions on personnel, So you
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don't always get the grace, you don't always get the
time to pull it together. But I mean we saw,
you know, Josh Gordon was a smoker, and Josh Gordon
and couldn't stop smoking, and he kept getting opportunity after opportunity.
So to your point, based on your talent level, people
will continue to try to give you opportunities but with
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that being said, man, he sure has placed himself far,
far far behind the eight ball on moving forward with
having success. And it might be a heart reaction to
what it is that he's got going on, but being
incarcerated for a mistake that you could have prevented is
a heart reality and a poor decision as well. So
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I do wish him the best, I wish him well,
and we'll see how that all plays out. All Right,
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Sports Radio on YouTube. All right, a hard salary cap?
Is it coming to college football within eighteen months? I'm
thinking eighteen months?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Protect college sports act.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Is at the moment in front of and being pushed
out their cruise and can't well delivered the bipartisan deals. Signetti,
Smart Elco. These are the biggest coaches in the sport.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They're all in.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
That's all they wanted, is the wild West ending? Is
it a write it down type of thing that's taking place.
Keep in mind Kirby Smart thirteen million dollars a year.
He is the highest paid coach one hundred and thirty
million ten ten year contract through twenty thirty three. Signetti,
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he just won the national championship with roster closer to
fifteen million rather than forty million. Texas they lead the
way in college football at forty seven point nine million
dollars for their roster value with the likes of Archie
Manning and others. But you have six programs reportedly over
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forty million dollars in a roster roster budget, TJ.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I know you.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Feel a certain type of way about this. What where
do you want to start off with this conversation.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
I don't know where I'm gonna start. I don't know
where I'm gonna finish, but I got a lot to say. Okay, first,
Curse Signetti. You know the market is pretty expensive. It's scary.
It's scary. I think players should get paid. But something's
going to have to be done in the next twelve
or fourteen months or universities might not be able to
handle this. College football won't exist the way we're going
right now. They gonna exist with your weak ass making
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all that money. Yeah, you took a nap, took Indiana
and they won a national championship. But as soon as
you started winning, didn't ya ass reup? Kurse Signetti? Did
your ass reup and get paid? Did you get paid,
Kurt Signetti on the backs of the kids? Did you
not get paid? Did you get your pot of gold?
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Kirby Smart? Did you get your pot of gold? You
the hoighest paid coaching college football. It's okay for you
to do it, but it ain't okay for the players
to do it. What world are we living in where
these dudes feel so entitled where they can make all
the money, but they want something done about the players.
For years and decades and decades and decades, the NCAAA
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robbed us.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They robbed us.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
So all that money that is saved up for all
these damn universities that made everybody believe we were student
athletes and we were amateurs and you couldn't get paid,
and the scholarships and the food it was enough. Oh,
we can see now it wasn't enough. It was nowhere
near enough. And so now that these young fellas are
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reaping the benefits of what we should have reaped, that
we did not. Let these young kids get every dollar
and make every dollar they can make, because the majority
of them will never make it as a professional football.
Let them make the money now, why they can Shame
on all the Kurt Signettes and the Kirby Smarts that
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are preaching, is if my son was a high school recruit,
we would never consider those two schools, Georgia and Indiana.
We will x you off the board because this is
how your coach feel. You really don't want my son
to be making no money. Why am I going to
But you want my son to help you make money?
Oh okay, I get it. You don't want him to
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make it, you want him to help you make it.
That's what it looks like. I never understood coaches that
do this. Kurt Signetti has a one hundred million dollar
deal with the University of Indiana. One hundred million dollar deal.
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I don't know any player that's getting that. Kirby Smart,
You've made over one hundred million dollars coaching. I don't
know any college player that's getting that. So what is
you'all problem?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Like?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I just don't understand why these coaches are doing it.
Oh yeah, certain universities have more money to spend. Well,
that's the personal problem. Get to another university, then, oh
this school, Texas Tech has more money, Well, go to
Texas Tech.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
If you can.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
SMU has to go to SMU Texas, Go to Texas
or be completely satisfied where you're at, Kirby Smart, why,
because Georgia can't win anymore. You can't have backups that
are better than everybody else's starters sitting on your bench
waiting because they gonna go somewhere else now and get
this money.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Kurse Signetti. You've done a hell of a.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Job at the University of Indiana with the guys you've
brought in, But now they want this money here. You
don't want fam this money. You want to make sure
you and your coaches get all that money. It's just
hypocrisy at his fine, it's unfair. And you want to
go to Congress now. I never heard any any coach
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talking about going to Congress. When Ad o'banna was saying
we should be getting paid. Did you hear any cose
that LeVar No, when LeVar Arrington was a happy valley
at Penn State, crushing every team that he played against
every Saturday. Did you hear any coach sa LeVar Arrington
and Courtney Brown need to get paid.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Oh, but now you want to stop the pay man.
They need to get up out of here with that.
That irritates me that you want help now. But when
you guys knew you were taking advantage of the players,
you didn't want to help us. Then it's crazy to me.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Let me ask you this, and looking at it, there's
also the conversation of breaking away from the NCAA, and
these conversations will continue to persist.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We've heard the SEC this week just.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Really really lean in sanky and smart, just really lean
into how unhappy they are with how things are currently
situated and set up the SEC and the Big ten.
They control, the money, they already get got and have
the biggest TV deals. I wonder, in some way, form, shape,
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or fashion, is it more about creating a structure that
takes them into a pro model versus it just being
more about the kids. I almost feel as though with
the idea of thinking that you can break away from
the NCAA and govern your own situations, control your own,
(26:38):
you know, pool of money and TV rights deals and
all of those different things. I just wonder if if
they're setting up a structure, if the idea is to
set up a structure, because they don't have a cap
on what they pay coaches in the league either, and
they have a cap on the players.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So I just wonder, do you look at it from
this standpoint of positioning a.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Salary cap at the college level is now forcing the
conversation of a bigger structure that has to be in play,
which means that obviously you got to start talking about unionizing,
You got to start talking about benefits. You have to
start talking. You have to go away from saying the
college football player is a student athlete, and you have
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to go in the direction of saying that college football
players are indeed and actually employees to the university. That
to me, I think is that is the one teetering
line that is falling apart very quickly. How do you
maintain the athlete still being a student athlete and being
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judged and based upon being a student athlete? Right, you
can put it in the contract, which that's what they
are doing.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
The part they'll always be student aff as long as
you have to go to school, you're a student athlete.
But because I'm a student athlete, what does it have
to do with the amount of money that I can make?
That has nothing to do with it. Yeah, but he
being a student athlete has nothing to do with liability in.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
You the liability connected to an employee versus a student
or that's that's where.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
But as far as what liability, as far as what.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Of any if they get injured, whatever, it may.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Be, Okay, but when you because now I'm getting paid
when I get injured?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
What when I got injured? One on? When we get paid?
You guys take care of it the same way you do.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Now, I think it starts the conversation. Creating a salary
cap starts the conversation of what what direction are we
going in with these athletes, because again, I don't think
you can avoid You cannot avoid calling them employees at
this point in time.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
And I don't think you should avoid it. And I
don't believe they should have a salary cap. I don't
believe they should have a salary camp. Let it be
what it is.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I can understand, I can understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Why does there need to be a salary cap?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Why why I think there should be I think there's
a salary cap.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You sound crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Here's why I'm gonna say. I think there should be
a salary cap because.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
That money, the money that they're going to be able
to generate from anyway, is going to come from an Adidas,
it's going to come from a Nike, is going.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
To be Why does it need to be a salary cap.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I don't think there needs to be. I don't think
there needs to be a cap on the player making money.
But I don't have a problem. I don't see there
being a problem with having a salary cap for for
the conferences and for college.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Want you to introduce a salary cap. Yeah, they're going
to try to make sure. Okay, it's a salary cap
for basketball, it's a salary cap for football, it's a
salary cap for baseball, salary cap for softball, track and field,
et cetera, et cetera, etcetera.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
I don't think that goes that deep, honestly, because those
other sports don't control that type.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Of life money.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
My thing is, it was a certain way for so
long when everybody knew the players were getting taken advantage of.
This was at least a half a century, maybe longer.
For sure, it was longer players are getting taken advantage of.
You should have enough money in the coffins to where
you should be able to handle this. Sign the right players,
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give them the right amount of money, don't overpay, and
you should be fine. If you know what you're doing,
you should be fine. You can't give so and so
that's a five star recruited X amount of dollars. But
when you really watch so and so, he ain't played
great competition in high school. So I don't know how
this is going to translate. So and so looked really
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good against these kids, but when he played against the
best kids, it's production. You got to beware of that.
You have to evaluate the right way. And if I'm
a curse Signetti at Indiana, I won with less. Why
do I care? Because that's what you said, Google me,
I win. That's what you say.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
But I think that's why it does matter to him.
He was closer to fifteen million than the highest.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Okay, what you're doing, keep doing.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Give me, give me, But I can honestly say, if
I'm looking at it from Kirk Signetti's standpoint, I do
want to put a cap in place because I don't
have the resources to be able to do it. So
you put a salary cap in place, right my fifteen,
If the other teams have fifteen, then I should be
that much further along, and that much further he.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Put a coach put a salary cap on what Kirk
Signetti can make you think he want that.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I agree with that. You you kind of contradicting yourself because.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You want to, But really I'm not.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
All I'm saying is that the NFL doesn't have one
for their coaches and they have them for players.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I mean that that's that's the truth.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That issue. My thing is.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
If you're going towards a pro model, if you're going
towards a pro model, which that's what it sounds like
they're trying to do. If you're going towards a pro model,
I do not have a problem with a salary.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
We can go towards it. Let's go towards a pro model.
We baseball. That's the pro model we going towards. We're MLB.
That's different. That's the pro model. That's the pro model
we want baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That's not the one they're going at.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Because you are worth whatever anybody is willing to pay you.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That's your worth. That's your worth.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
And let the kids get it because the majority of
them aren't going to make it, and the smart ones
are going to use this money. That's a launching pad
for the rest of their life, their lives. And I
just don't understand that, like the coaches that want to
take it down and salary cap this and let's put
parameters around it. You never wanted to pay the players
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when you knew they should have been paid. You didn't
want parameters around it then, but now you want it.
That's what bothers me more than any thing. And I
promise I don't understand the coaches that are out on the.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Front line talking like this.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Why are parents sending their kids to these schools?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Why?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Because once they start seeing they not getting these kids.
I guarantee they shut their mouths. Let one of these
top kids come out and say something about it. I
bet the coaches won't run their mouth then all that
yeah they're doing, they shut up.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Well, you got to have a card that's fast enough
to go fast for all of the fast issues that
they got going on down there in Georgia. Trying to
throw no shade right right, right right. They're driving some
pretty fast cards down there in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
But that's what I hear his players from getting in trouble.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
But he wanted, he wanted to fix the n C
Double A, but he can't even fix his own team.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
All right, sound good? All right? I can tell you
how to raise your kids, but he can't raise his own.
All right.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I gave I gave you a love that was my
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Speaker 2 (34:06):
What you got my.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Guy, That's what I'm talking about. Hello, fans, the eyes
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a one nothing lead over Paris Saint Germaine. They're now
in the fortieth minute. Arsenal's Kai Havert storing in the
(34:30):
six minute. Here's how the goals sounded on CBS Perry Carley.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
The Kai have us.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
He's gone second with him.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
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Speaker 3 (34:41):
What's just start?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He's great, happy, cool, He's storing in the Champions League
final before he is also's golden.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Goal score up.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Now, I'm gonna play you guys. How that exact same
Arsenal goal sounded on the Paris Saint Germain broadcast. And
to be honest, I can't tell if my guys are
angry or happy here, but I know one thing. They're excited.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Tell this cup ross it a.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Bad dis all.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Big so declusive face.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Tell me here to translate. I I wish I could
speak like that.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Well, that's what I was gonna say here to translate
Fox Sports Radio French expert LeVar Arrington LeVar.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Well, what they were saying was, oh my gosh, he's
got the ball. He's dribbling. Look out he passed it up.
He's really really fat. This guy is amazing. Look at
Oh oh my goodness, he just scored a gold. Look
look look he scored the gold. But it sounded way
better the way he said it. Folks excite.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
According to Google Translate, LeVar got it word for word
or for batim. Did you minor in franch at Penn State?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Not BS? I got a BSNBS, hey man.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
According to my wife, I got a doctorate in BS.
I'll tell you that right now. Beck, back on this
side of the pod. Tonight, at eight Eastern, Game seven
of the Western Conference Finals from Oklahoma City between the
Thunder and San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma Cities rolled out Jalen
Williams because of a strained left hamstring. Finally in Major
League Baseball, today, the Chicago White Sox place rookie first
(36:34):
baseman Munataka Murakami on the ten day injured list with
a strained right hamstring. Murakami with twenty home runs this season,
tied for second in the majors.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Guys, all yours appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Up next, NFL trade rumors are exploding. AJ Brown trade
watches on forty eight hours from the June first deadline,
plus Coleman, Comet, Richardson, Thibodeaux who's on the move. You'll
find out here. We're gonna talk about it on Up
on Game. This is Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome
(37:08):
back into the show. You are listening to Up on Game.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Uh well, we got hour two coming at you guys
pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Cuffs.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
The legend will be in on hour two. It will
be NBA heavy, so make sure you stay connected to that,
all right. As mentioned this last segment, gotta talk trades,
gotta talk what's going on. You got Keon Coleman, You
(37:42):
got AJ Brown, who's leading the conversations as the most
high profile coveted free agent.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
But another few names.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
As I mentioned Coleman, you got Cole Comet, he's confirmed
to have restructured his deal, lowering his twenty twenty six
cap hit. You got Anthony Richardson. He's he's obviously an
interesting one to talk about. He's an indie but you
know they're committed to Daniel Jones obviously, but he's coming
(38:12):
off of a surgery.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You got Caveon Thibodeaux, who is in New York.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
They just drafted Rvelle Reese to there, so now they
got Burns, Carter and Thibodeaux. I'm sure my baby needs
to be careful in New York where they mess around
and trade him and keep Thibodeaux.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
But that's a whole nother conversation. What's your take on
what's going on right now?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
I would say I don't feel as though Keon Coleman
is going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I think the biggest the biggest two stories on this
list of guys would would obviously be AJ Brown and
where we think he's gonna go obviously lost speculation for
New England.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
And then Caveon Thibodeaux. Anthony Richardson comes in maybe a
next next place to those two. But what's your take
on at TJ.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I mean, obviously AJ Brown is the biggest name of
the bunch wherever he goes, particularly if it's the New
England patron which has been speculated that turn that makes
the Patriots a much much better team That's just what
it is. AJ Brown is a dog. He can play
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one of the best receivers in the league.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And so.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
That is the domino, the big domino that matters. Like
Kevon Tibodau is a good player, he not AJ Brown.
Cole Comets a good player, he not AJ Brown. Anthony
Richardson is hasn't done anything yet in the National Football League.
He was just drafted high and so for him it's
(39:49):
still can he reach his potential? We know what Aj
Brown is. AJ Brown was on his way to the
Hall of Fame until the last couple of years kind
of derailed him the product wise, And so for him,
that is the domino. Where he goes, whether it be
New England, the Los Angeles Rounds, whatever team he goes to,
(40:09):
he will make them better and we'll get them an
excellent chance to get to and win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
What do you see happening with just super quickly with
Anthony Richardson, It just seems like that that situation is
dead and gone. And indeed, who would who would who
would benefit from them?
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Anthony Richardson needs to get If I'm Anthony Richardson, I'm
trying to get to a team and the coaching staff
that really has rehab quarterbacks have done a great job.
And I'll give you three teams. I'll say the Green
Bay Packers and Lafleur. Okay, I'll give you Kevin O'Connell
and the Minnesota Vikings. And I'll give you Kyle Shanahan
(40:49):
and the San Francisco forty nine ers. Those three teams
and those three coaching staffs you can get with one
of those three, you good to go.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I truly believe it.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Well, we'll see forty eight hour watches on so make
sure you're checking that out. Hour two is coming at you.
The NBA insider himself cuffs the legend joins us WCF
Game seven tonight, that's Western Conference Finals. We're gonna talk
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