Darryl "The Guru" Johnson joins the show!

Darryl "The Guru" Johnson to talk about NBA free agency, and about whats really going on with the Cowboys?! 

Episode Transcript

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Guru, Let's do it. Let'stalk warriors. What's up? Baby?
Warriors are in a very interesting position. I want to hear from behind enemy
lines what's happening over there in thebay. What's happening is you can't worry
to me about the future when you'resitting with Steph Curry and Draymond Green.

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And Steph Curry is due fifty onemillion, yet next year you signed Draymond
Green when a lot of fans didn'twant him to come back for four to
four one hundred. So to me, I feel like, guys like Steph
Curry and the Kobe's, if youallow me to the Jordans of the world,
you owe them something. Not letthem run your organization, but they

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built you into a billion dollar business. So to me, I feel like,
Hey, what can we do forSteph Curry and Draymond Green to get
us back into contention in the WesternConference the Wicked West? And to me,
that's going to get somebody like aPaul George and at that Kasha Jonathan
kame me so be it. Ithink they that you owe that to him.

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Now, what's interesting is most peoplewould call Curry, Draymond and Clay
a big three. But you didn'tmention Klay Thompson there, you know,
I haven't, and I love KlayThompson, and I think he's been stabbed
in the back. Now you couldsay by who the Warriors, but also
Steph Dre when they moved him tothe bench when he was down. And

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I was one on the radio outhere on ninety five to seventy game saying,
maybe that's what should happen. ButI think about everything that's gone on
with Clay and you're telling him.I got to watch Pajemski, who had
a great rookie season, I gotto watch Moody and I've helped you win
four championships. But you know whathe did real quick? He did he
played good soldier. He did that. Then he start balling off the bench

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in the second half, and youmoved him back into the starting lineup.
So now all of a sudden,Clay is kind of the Warriors seemed to
be sending the message, hey,we got to do other stuff and we'll
call you back, Clay, andI think he can't get over that.
So I just ended our show justa few minutes ago saying, I think
by Sunday we'll know Klay Thompson becausehe doesn't want to come back and they

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don't want to meet his prize.His played his last game in a war
year uniform. Wow, now thatis very big news, Guru, that
is huge. You don't think KlayThompson go was back to Golden State for
the twenty twenty four to twenty fiveseason. No, not at all.
And on top of that, Imentioned Draymond Green, who you know,
a lot of people out here Igotta fight him off like cats and dogs
think that he's more valuable in thisrun than Klay Thompson. No way.

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But with that, they offered Clayin the offseason two for forty eight,
which is twenty four annually, andhe turned it down, and I'm thinking
to myself, Clay's probably coming drivingto the facility. Let me get this
straight. So Drake punches Jordan Poole, ruins our season basically and gets a
raise, gets suspended in year oneof the contract, and you offer him

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twenty five and I got to taketwenty four. And the reports that the
years are what Clay is yearning for. But just imagine if you were Clay,
wouldn't you feel like and you couldsay, Hey, worry about your
own business, but that would botherme to the core. And I think
that's why Clay has been miserable allseason last year, that he can't stop

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thinking about those type of things.To where man, that's just hypocritical.
So you think Steph Curry deserves achance to win a title, and that's
with Paul George. Am I gettingthat right? There's no doubt about it.
And I said Jonathan Kaminga, He'sgot upside in Potchemski and all these
youngsters who've got to go through theirbasketball puberty. To hell with that.
I know a lot of people don'tlike Paul George, but he can do

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it all and he's not going tobe the one. He'll be in here
playing the easiest basketball with Drey,you know, Steph and Steve Kurr system.
I'm all for it. Okay.Now, I like Paul George too,
I just don't like him for theprice that he's asking. Did the
Warriors have that type of money?They do? And this will probably and
it's another reason I believe Klay Thompsonis gonna be you Gone. And the

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Chris Paul contract, I think theyextended the decision. It was supposed to
be the day till Sunday because theywant to sign him and use that money
in regard to a trade. Sothey do have the money to do that,
and I think that's which direction they'regoing. We're talking to Darryl the
guru Johnson from ninety five to seventhe game. Now the forty nine ers
are picked to win the NFC.They're an over under eleven and a half.

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Are they the returning favorites in theNFC? You know what, it's
a great question, and I feellike they've really blown an opportunity, opportunities
in the nineteen Super Bowl against thesame Chiefs and this one more so than
in nineteen. And I just don'tknow how long windows stay open. I'm
looking at the Rams who have improved, they added something to that offensive line.

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And I'll answer your question. Youasked me the time not built your
So I'm gonna say yes, butI don't think they can beat the Chiefs.
Okay, So their favorites in theNFC, not favorites in the league.
That makes sense, no doubt aboutit. Okay. So then yeah,
okay, go No, I wasjust saying, you know, you
look at the defenses like the BaltimoreRavens that play man that get up in

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the wide receivers grills, and wesaw the Ravens our last Christmas do that
to the Niners. We saw Clevelandkind of do it when the Niners were
sputtering a little bit mid season,and then we saw it on display in
the Super Bowl where you can deboall depending on who you go to or
what out let you read. PFFsaid they couldn't get separation the Niners quote

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unquote great receivers. So they havea problem against the Kyle Shanahan's offense against
a certain style defense, and that'sall littered in the in the AFC,
and that's why I don't think theygot a chance to go back and win
it all. The guru on thephone line with us right now now,
I've been fighting people out with baseballbats, kind of like how you talking
about cats and dogs against Draymond.I feel like I'm the only person left

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in the Stanton Texas defending Dak Prescott. Look, I understand people don't want
to pay him, but that's thegoing great for a quarterback in the league.
Dak Prescott. Where are we rightnow? On him. Listen,
I'm the biggest Cowboys fan you evermeet, Danny White, Roger Starback,
I'm Tom Landry. Listen. I'mtelling you Dak cannot read his own defense.

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He's had enough time and he falterson the biggest stage. And I'm
not gonna he doesn't play defense.But what happened in that playoff game,
I will never get over the factthat he had that desolate look on the
sideline before the game started, andthen he's talking to ceedee lamb. All
that stuff I'm over with. Andlisten. The case study is two years

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ago against the Niners. They shouldhave won that game. The defense was
stellar, you got the ball andthe league going in at halftime, and
he throws one of the worst interceptsto Michael Gallup I've ever seen in other
plays throughout that game. So whenyou talk about the going market, put
Trey Lance in and you know what, we'll find out. You know what,

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if he's not in, at leastwe found out and we didn't pay
top tier dollar. Dak got paidafter he wrecked his leg, and the
Jones brothers stood behind him, andall he's rewarded them with is a Measley
playoff win against the New England theTampa Bay Buccaneers. So I'm I'm coming
after you with that stick because Ireally believe, and I'm I love Dak.

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I wanted to love him, butI divorced him. He cannot read
the zone defenses and I'm done,yeah, or or real quick here you
think I'm playing, I'm doing gurumath here, Trey Lance. I would
tell him if I knew him,that the regular season is gonna be the

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preseason. Buddy. If you thinkthis is just hey, you going out
there to get If you somehow cando what Dak did when Romo got hurt
and had a stellar preseason, there'sno telling where this thing goes. But
the Jones brothers, I'm mad athim, Jerry. I think Jerry's my
uncle because I know he wants towin. He's got his warps. But
I'm telling you the fact that theyhave not caved in. I love every

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minute of it. Let Dak andI think he knows. No, we
don't think you can get it done. And you've had everything and you couldn't
even get us to a championship game. Darryl the Guver Johnson, ninety five
to seven. The game out thereon the West coast. Daryl, thanks
so much for hanging out with us. Hey, you have the best.
Anytime you need me, just giveme a call. Take it easy,

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take it easy, all right now, he defends Dak Prescott. I understand
it. Look, I'm still sayingthis that there's only a handful of quarterbacks
in the NFL who can get thejob done. If we're judging everybody off
of the championships, then Jim Kellygive me back your gold jacket. I
don't love that idea. I thinkthat there's a lot to be said for
very very good regular seasons. There'sa lot to be said. I understand

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the Cowboys organization. They're holding themselvesto a standard, but you're gonna be
in trouble. If that is thebender brer, the watermark is a championship
every single season, then Look,maybe this is coming from a Vikings fan
who's never won anything in his life. I think that we need to give
these guys a little bit more breathingroom. We need to do this out
a little bit more, a littlebit more crowded. I don't think it's

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the end of the world if DakPrescott doesn't win you a Super Bowl.
But maybe that's just me. Maybethat's the hater and me rooting against the
Cowboys, right, Maybe that maybethat is what the real problem is.
And on the take on the Warriors, call, I saw your ears perk
up a little bit because you grewup in the West Coast, you grew
up in the Bay Area. You'reexcited for the Warriors potentially getting back into

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contention, trying to contend for achampionship. And Paul George Kuro sounds like
he's all in on the Paul Georgetrade. As long as you have Steph
Curry on your team, you're alwaysgonna be able to make a run in
the playoffs without a doubt, nota hold, honestly, without a doubt.
Isn't this the same kind of lossof playing game just a couple months
ago? Hold on, Okay,look, it's Friday, fun Day and

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ye, but I get what youwere saying. But as long as you
have stuff, there's gonna be agood chance you're gonna get make the playoffs.
Yes, he's older, but Istill think maybe they can make that
late season run. Who knows,But again, I still think they got
assign Clay. I get what Guruis coming from. I completely get it.
I didn't think of it like that, But it doesn't look good on

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the Clay front. Let me tellyou, as a Spurs fan, I
love this because the Spurs right nowhave four titles from their Big three,
one of the most, actually themost wins from a trio in NBA history.
So I love love the idea thatGolden State's potentially going to blow up
their Big three, because at theend of the day, there's only a
handful of those that really matter,right It's thee the Miami Heat with the

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Heatles. You think about the Lakerswith Worthy Match and Kareem, and then
it's the San Antonio Spurs, Tonyand Manu. So if Clay Thompson decides
to retire in a different jersey,I'm not gonna cry about it. I'm
gonna be okay with hey. EnjoyOrlando. Hopefully you have a great time
in Pensacola. You know, Idon't want to deal with it. I'll

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cry myself to sleep, I will. I think they get a deal done.
They have to get a deal done. Eight day. Here's the best
case scenario. How about a littlebit of a sign trade deal. Why
don't we get Klay Thompson, givehim the money that he wants and then
send him to La. Now wesend him to the other LA team.
We're not giving him the purple andGold. But you know, hey,

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he wants to be in La.Let him be in La. Well,
his dad's in LA too, andhe's an LA guy. Here's the thing,
So you mentioned the dad part ofthings, and we were just getting
we just got done talking about BronnieJames. Is he gonna live with lebron
Is he not gonna live with lebronIs he gonna spend his off days with
his mom and dad? What ishe gonna do? Right? Doesn't really

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matter? Like I understand, MichaelThompson is a great gun. I understand
that him and Clay have a verygood relationship. But does it are we
over playing the Well, his dad'sin LA. He grew up in near
LA, grew up around LA.He wants to go back to Are we
over playing that? We? Doesit really matter? I mean play being
in the Bay Area, he's he'sa hopskip and a jump to LA.

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It's an hour and a half planeride. But I mean, obviously they
play down there, pretty often too. But again, there's there's no place
like home. Man. Here's thething. I agree with you. And
it's funny that you say the noplace like home thing, because I'm just
thinking back to Monday and the conversationsDarvid Pearce gets mutually let go. They
to split ways. That Texas baseballhead coach in Crystal Conte, and I

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said there's no way that relationships aregonna be the thing that brings in a
new Texas baseball coach. And Iwas very wrong about that. So maybe
it's a maybe it's a me thing. Maybe I just don't put enough,
you know, gumpshin into relationships andhow important they are in sports. Maybe
that I think that's a me problem. Are we gonna keep these show rolling
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