05-20-25 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here with you. Post Rocky Short Show edition. We'll have
another one of these tomorrow night, then a full show
on Thursday where I'll be joined by Orlando Franklin filling
in for Nick Ferguson's. That'll be a lot of fun.
You guys want to put that on your calendar as well.
Short show obviously post Rockies edition. Rockies taken on the Phillies,

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Philadelphia Phillies here in Denver, and yesterday the Phillies certainly
got the better of the Rockies in a game that
I you know, I thought it was looking fairly good
for the Rockies up until about that eighth to night
inning when the Phillies put seven runs on the board

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between the both those innings, and that really was it
was sort of the end of it. You saw, you know,
Bryce Harper at a sack fly to get Brandon marsh
and I like Baum homered, Trey Turner doubled and got
the marsh associan then in the ninth so the homeward
Schwarber homeward to deep Bright, so four hundred and sixty

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four feet on that one, by the way, So there
was quite a few late game theatrics that did the
Rockies in yesterday. I didnt get a chance to get
to that too too much. There were Rockies for themselves.
Tovar homeward in that one. That was the only home

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run that they had. You saw Tovar had two hits
and four of bats. It really was the most effective
batter TOTALLYA Doyle also had hits doubles. I believe Beck
had a double in that one as well. And Moniac
came on and got a hit in relief of Freeman

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out there in right field. But the Rockies just unable
to put enough put enough offense together in these type situations.
Freeland and Byrd pitched pretty well. Talked about seven innings
of pretty good work between the two of them. They
had allowed two runs, only one of them was earned.

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That was Freelance. Early on. Freelance struck out six and
five point one nings. Pitched. Bird came on one point two
innings to relieve twenty six pitches and continues to be
the Rockies' best relief pitcher out there. But again, the
bats for the Phillies just just too much for the Rockies.
Uh so uh switching gears here. The Denver Broncos had

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some news today and that is, they announced that the
the two teams that they're playing on the road will
be the Saints at forty nine ers who already knew that.
But they're going to do joint practices with the Arizona

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Cardinals when they come to town. The Cardinals playing the
Broncos Saturday nights August sixteenth, I think around seven pm,
and the practice session is actually gonna take two play
place two days before the game on August fourteenth. It's
the third time in three years head coach John Gannon

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that the Cardinals have had joint practices. They worked with
the Colts last year, Vikings year before that, gets the
Broncos this year, get you know, Broncos get that scrimmage
sort of feel that they want, you know a little
bit with ease joint practices, and there's potential that they
may get a Green Bay joint practice just coming out
here for a couple of days. I don't know that

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that's necessarily gonna happen, but that was something that had
been discussed. I love these joint practices because I think
they shake things up a little bit. We've talked about
it before, but when you get in practice and you're
up against the same guys every day. You let's let's
talk wide receivers corners just for example. You get the
same guys every day, and you kind of you stop

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playing your technique and you start playing the man. You
get used to what that guy can or can't do.
You know what he can't do because you've been up
against him rep after rep after rep. And so you
get to the point where you start playing the guy
and you start you start using things you know they're
gonna do that instead of playing your technique. And I
think having these joy and practices get a little bit

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of shake up, so you go back to playing your technique.
I think they're great. The main thing is, you know,
you got to keep people from get a little chippy
because they've got all that energy bound up and wanted
to release it. Guys been wanting to, uh, you know,
to get out and hit and all that kind of stuff.
And so what happens is you see situations where things
get a little chippy, You get some fights, you know, things
like that, and it's just, you know, not that part

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of it. You you want to make sure you don't
you know you don't have But at the end of
the day, you know I think that, uh, I think
that having these the risks out weigh the rewards. For me,
I mean a little bit of fighting practice versus getting
some quality practices, in getting guys refocused and playing the

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way they're supposed to rather than beating up on the
guy across from them, if they you know, if they
happen to know their weaknesses. So I think that's I
think it's a good thing anyway. Arizona Cardinals August fourteenth,
joint practice. That's gonna be That's gonna be a lot
of fun. Roger Goodell talking today, twenty twenty five NFL

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schedule features seven games outside of the United States, so Broncos.
Of course, one of those is gonna be playing in
London against New York Jets, but the league wants to
expand that to sixteen games a year in other countries.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's and the league's all in on opening
new international markets and is it slowing down, Telling CNBC's

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Scott Wapner, I do see sixteen regular season games, and
I do think that will happen in the very near future.
Goodell also said within five years probably the nfl'sbout as popular.
It could be in the US, but Goodell think there's
a lot of room for growth in other countries. Says
international is in open market force. We're excited about that
potential end quote. A sixteen games slate of international games

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could mean playing international games almost every week of the season,
and possibly all thirty two teams playing eight home games,
eight road games, one international game at least while they
keep the seventeen game schedule. An expanding international schedule could
motivate the NFL to continue its push to an eighteen
game regular season, which would give the league a larger
inventory of games to move overseas. This year, the NFL

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plays three games in England, which we already mentioned in
the brocau is a one of those, one game in Brazil,
one game in Germany, one game in Ireland, and a
game in Spain. Next year, the league has committed to
a game in Australia, multiple games in England, a potential
return to Mexico in the renovated Astadio Azteca. Once the

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NFL hits sixteen games a year outside the US, several
new countries will likely be added to the NICKS. Goodell
continues to make his push for American football to become
a global sport. I like the idea of it. And
if we're going to do this, then I think, you know,
I think that you're going to have to eventually have

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like a European Division or something like that, four teams
over there where teams can make a whole sweep over there,
you know, and do it like that, because I just
don't otherwise I think that that's going to be viable
for these one off games like that without bye weeks
and everything else. The other part of this is the
NFL hasn't done and something I've been pretty outspoken on

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since they introduced the concept of Thursday Night football, is
that the NFL should have buye weeks before the Thursday
night game, you know, having that short week. NFL talks
about safety and all that kind of stuff, but the
one thing that they absolutely ignores these short week games,
and the product is diminished on Thursday nights. You know,
we get kind of sloppy product. It'd be a much

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better and would be much better games if we got
bye weeks before the Thursday night game. Uh, and then
of course left ten days rest after that, so it creates,
you know, a de facto rest period for a team
to you know, to be able to gather themselves and
not have disadvantage internet inside and outside of it. Just
something to keep your eye on as uh UH as

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as the league continues to move forward and you know
pushed you know push pushes these into uh foreign markets
and everything else, and how we're going to continue to
do that. Zach Taylor has no update on Trey Hendrickson,
but has spoken with him. Last week, Bengals defensive end

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Trey Hendrickson showed up in Street Close for Cincinnati's voluntary workout.
Toll reporters that things had become quote personal in his
contract dispute uh speaking to the media. Is the team's
face two session was ongoing, hendricks incited a text he
received from head coach Zac Taylor about fines for missed
mandatory mini camp as a factor that set him off.
In his Tuesday press conference this morning, Taylor said that

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he had no update on Hendrickson, but noted that the
two had talked, saying, quote, I put a lot of
time into thinking those situations. There's real money at stake,
Taylor said, So I put a lot of time and
energy into thinking about how to communicate when to communicate,
and so that's how it's handled that one. Yeah, Trey
and I have spoken. I think every situation is unique,
every personality is different, every player is different. Timing of

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everything is different, So you just adapt as you go
with that stuff. Taylor noted that it's his decision when
on how to handle those exchanges, adding that he didn't
find it distracting for Hendrickson to be speaking to the
media during a workout. It was good to see him,
good to have him in town. Practice had really wrapped
up for the most part. I didn't have any issue
with that. There was no doubt that Taylor sees the
need for Hendrickson on the team's defense as everybody does,

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saying quote, I mean, he's an elite rusher. He's had
a great job in this league for a long time
since he's been here, so obviously he's a valuable part
of our team. Inkston led the league last season with
seventeen and a half sacks, becoming a first team All
Pro for the first time in his career, and has
said that he will not play this season. Under his
current deal, he's slated to make a base salary of
fifteen point eight million with a salary cap hit of

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eighteen point six million in twenty twenty five. Speaking of
the Bengals, their first round pick Shamar Stewart remains unsigned
and on the sidelines as well during the club's on
field work. Rookie Edge Rusher has been a boiled in
his own contract dispute with the club and has not
been participating during Cincinnati's voluntary workouts, though he has been
in the building. Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Inquirer reported

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on Tuesday morning that Stuart wanted his contract to look
like Cincinna's last two first round picks, both of whom
were taken after seventeen overall. As been the case, Stuart
is not planning to practice until the dispute is resolved.
At coach Zach Taylor said after practice there's no update
yet on his status, noticed that he's done a great
job in meetings. Stuart recorded four and a half sacks

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twelve tackles for a loss in his thirty seven games
at Texas A and M. Somebody that's been in voluntary
work and doing it. Michael Parsons of the Cowboys head
coach Brian Schottenneimer was happy to see defensive van Michael
Parsons in attendance. Schottenneimer did not say at the press
conference today how much work Parsons has been doing or

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how often he's attended the team's voluntary workouts this year
bod He did say he's been in and out despite
his ongoing wait for a contract extension. Schottenneimer added that
he's been in a little bit the last couple of
days and that he appreciates Parsons coming at a time
when he's not required to be with the team, saying, quote,
the first couple of days, we're doing some team building things,
some culture, Schottneimer said via the team's website, trying to

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create one of the greatest cultures in professional sports. Michael
is going to be a leader for us. He wants
to be a leader for us. He's going to do that.
I felt like it was very important for him to
be here to begin to process that. Yeah, it's voluntary camp,
but the fact that he did that means a lot
to me. End quote. The only mandatory worker the offseason
program comes at next month's mini camp. After that, attention

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will shift to whether he attends and fully participates in
training camp. If the Cowboys have not gotten his contract
done by the time to report. A lot of people,
most people, I think think that you know that deal
is going to get done and that Parsons will be
in camp for that. So we'll see, we'll update it

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as we as we go along. Tomorrow supposed to bring
a vote on whether to adopt a rule change proposed
by the Packers that would ban all pushing or pulling
of ball carriers. Change would actually be a reversion to
two thousand and five, which was the final season when
that was prohibited by the NFL rule book. The proposal
is designed to put an end to the toush push

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quarterback sneak that the Eagles have perfected in recent seasons.
During a press conference this morning, Eagles wide receiver A. J.
Brown was asked about the potential change and said he
didn't have quote any thoughts on it, before sharing one saying, quote,
it's only one yard, so Brown said, well, shrugging and laughed.
That doesn't seem like he's gonna spendo much time worrying
about what Wednesday may hold for a play that's become

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a staple of the Eagles offense. Yeah, I mean, I
think you know I've been over this time and time
again said the same thing. Look, I where I sit
with this is, you know, it's just pretty simple. I'm
against banning the tush bush as a play, but I
am for banning pushing and pulling ball carriers, which would
effectively eliminate the play. I just conceptually, I have a

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problem with banning a play because what you're saying is
this is too difficult to stop, so we're just eliminating
it instead of saying, okay, the concept with which we
play the game needs to be altered, which would be
the actual scenario here. I also have a problem with
the NFL talking about safety and you know, and then

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and then that running that play that way, because defensive linemen,
you know, are already in a disadvantage off the snap
when it comes to that, and that situation just does
not create, you know, I think the most positive outcomes
for football. But I am not for banning the play
unless you're banning the concept of pushing and pulling ball

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carriers from an external player. I just I can't sit
there and justify one thing without the other. And it's
you know, it's it's sort of weird to me that
this argument has gotten away from that, you know, And
that's one of those things that I think that at

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the end of the day, if the NFL bans one
without banning the other, you know, then I I am
before or I against them doing that, because the ending
result is, uh, it creates a mess, you know. Then

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then okay, then what are we doing. We're allowing people
to to run to the edge of the rules on
different things and then noth and then not ultimately banned
the concepts like they're just gonna just revamp the concept
a little bit, so you know that I you know,
I don't know, I have a problem with this unless

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it's banned the concept. Luckily, the packers have changed their
verbiage to do the concept. So didn't want to talk
about this real quick. The Dolphins are trying to move
on from Jayalen Ramsey and that's expected to happen. Miami
keeps reaching out to veteran cornerbacks Berry Jackson. The Miami
Herald called in choir said that the Dolphins called in
quire by corner of Sante Samuel Junior. Samuel is still

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recovering from next surgery. He's not received any offer from
Miami or been in for a visit, but according to Jackson,
the Dolphins have made it known that they're interested in
one to remain in touch as Samuel continues his recovery.
If a deal comes together between the two parties would
likely happen in July. Samuel has had a visit with
the Saints. He was a charge your second round pick

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at twenty twenty one thirty seven passes, defense, six interceptions
in fifty career games, but was limited to four contests
last year. The Dolphins have also been in touch with
free agent corner Russell Douglas as they continued to work
on trading cornerback Jalen Ramsey. And we do expect for
Ramsey to get dealt here fairly soon. So you know
they've been working that for a while. I believe after

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June first that deal get done. So you guys are
listening to Broncos Country tonight. I'm Benjamin Albright and appreciate
you guys sticking with us. We'll be right back right
here on a fifty a ninety four one FM News
Talk Sports. It's been all right here with you short
show post Rockies edition again. We've been over at the

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Thursday is going to be a full show, full live show,
Orland and Frank a little be joined me instead of standan.
Nick Ferguson will be out so that it'll be fun.
Look forward to having you guys in for that. I
don't know if you guys saw the back and forth
between Ryan Clark and r G three. I just it's

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it's a weird thing when when people are getting on
each other and and all that kind of stuff. But
r G three, you know, he is trying to create
a media career for himself and has injected himself into
a couple of conversations where I had sort of head
scratching stuff on. I thought he was all right on
the uh you know, on the on the desk doing

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college football and all that kind of stuff. I think
that's probably his niche. Sports punditry doesn't really seem to
be his thing, and he sort of injects his opinion
is fact on some things, and he kind of waded
into the Caitlin Clark Angel Reyes things saying, and I'm
quoting here after watch in Kaitlyn Clark's flagrant fell on

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Angel rees in the aftermath, There's no way, there's no way,
excuse me, Angel really Angel Rees can continue the lie
that she doesn't dislike Kaitlyn Clark. I know what hatred
looks like. Angel Rees hates Cleitland Clark all caps on hates,
not some basketball rivalry either hate. And it's pretty obvious

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that r G three is there for engagement. You know,
it's obvious that that's that's what he's doing. He's there
for the engagement. It's it's odd to me that you
felt the need to inject yourself into that when you've

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got other stuff and you scroll back on RG three
and you can find him celebrating Draymond Green, punching Jordan
Poole and and firing off jokes at that point and
all that kind of stuff. RG three doesn't know. He
doesn't know if Kaitlin Clark and Angel Rees hate each
other or not. Into their credit, neither one has say
that they do. You know, honestly, the claim that she

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hates her is sort of ridiculous coming from him. But
then you had Ryan Clark who felt the need to
weigh in and weighed in on what RG three said,

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and it's just, I don't know, it gets weirder from here.
RG three said he could recognize hate when he sees
it when referring to Angel Reese's feelings toward Kaylin Clark
was this is Ryan Clark talking here. Irresponsible but not
at all surprising. Clark's the biggest star in women's basketball, deserverly,
so no need to beat up Reese. Toad shine to it.
RG three plays into the narrative that Reeses the villain

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in Clark's hero origin story. And now you've got Olberman
and port Noy, who berated recent college have an ally
in RG three adam to the list of black men,
and who have adopted the corny trend of denigrating black
women to affirm their choices. Attacking Reese multiple times in
order to gain favor from his desired crowd won't help
RG three blend in more, echoing the microaggressions a racist

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won't make him any less black than me. And that
felt a little charged from RG three, And I mean,
excuse me from Clark, who then Ryan Clark, who then
proceeded to make comments later on, you know, about him
not understanding the plight of black women and because he's
married to a white woman and all that kind of stuff,

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And I'm like, yeah, okay, Well, Ryan Clark just went
over the line in the other direction. RG three responded
to that and said, there's a line you don't cross
in life. Ryan Clark spread it past it. Clark didn't
like my take on Angel Reese hating Kaitlin Clark. That's fine,
disagreement as part of the game, but instead of debating
my point, he personally attacked me and my family. That
shows how low a person he is. I gave a

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sports opinion. I said Angel Reese hates Kaitlin Clark based
on repeated visible actions on the court and press conferences.
I backed it up with five separate examples in the
game basketball, because that's what I do. I analyze sports,
I stay in the arena. Just because Angel Reese is
black doesn't mean that our game at actions cannot be critique.
A black man or woman is not restricted from giving
a sports opinion on another black man or woman just

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because you don't like it. Everyone can give their opinion
on everyone, no matter what color they are. We've got
to be better in this space. Debate the game, don't
play with people's families, because if you need to cross
that line and attack the person and their family instead
of the point to win an argument, then you've already lost.
Ryan Clark said, I don't understand the struggles of black
women because I'm married to a white woman. That's wrong

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and way out of bounds. He suggested, I don't value
my wife as the woman I love, protect and raise
a family with, and only value her because of the
color of her skin. That's also wrong and way out
of bounds. And he implied that he, a man who
has never sat at our dinner table, values my wife
and knows my marriage better than I do. That's wrong
and way out of bounds. He dismissed my blackness because
I have a different opinion of Angel Reese than he does.

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That's wrong and way out of bounds. And I'm not
having conversations about the struggles with black women in my
own home because my wife is white. That's wrong and
way out of bounds. We also raise black daughters together.
We don't teach them to hate people or just qualify
their opinions based on the color of their skin. He
claimed that I would appeal to certain audience. The only
audience I'm focused on is the audience of one God.

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I support all people, not some people. My support is
not based on the color of someone's skin, but the
content of their character. My sports opinions are not based
on the color of someone's skin, but from what I
see in my experience as a player and analyst. Let
me be clear, it is wildly inappropriate, wrong, and extremely
low to weaponize and attack a person's wife, marriage, and
their family because you disagree with a sports take. I

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didn't make it personal with Angel Reese. I didn't drag
her family. I didn't question her soul. I spoke about basketball. Ryan.
You crossed the line. You made it personal and some
There should be no space in sports media for personal attacks,
and wives and children are always off limit. You attacked
me and my family in a public forum on a
level that shows how low of a person you are.
Disagree with me. All you want which my take, keep

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my family and wife out of it. That's a boundary
that should always be respected. And he had a full response.
Don't want to get into it because he could repeats
the same things. Ran Clark then turns around in response
to this as well, saying, Bro, you know what it
is with me and you. I saved you the entire
season on Monday Night football. I urged people to let

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you be you. No matter how corny, no matter how
bad a teammate you were, I had you back. What
did you do invite someone on your show? You know,
I don't fool with to ask questions about me. And
it hit me weeks later to tell me you're going
to challenge one of my takes. You're a phony bro,
one of the worst teammates I ever had, both on
the field and in TV. You gotta do what you

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got to do. I didn't attack your wife. I spoke
on what you do on social media and TV. Like
I said, I met your wife. She seemed like a
lovely lady that was worth more than the color of
her skin. You be good, and you know, people sort
of went on to drop down on both sides of that.

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I'm with RG three in the sense that, yeah, you
don't bring wives and kids into it. Youn't bring family
members into it. I've been on social media long enough
that that kind of stuff is out of bounds. That's
happened to me. I've seen it happen. I've seen it
happen personally. I've seen what it does to people, and
that part of it is out of bounds. That said,

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you know, r G three is placing his own speculation
is fact, and Ryan Clark, because of his irritation at
some of r G three's things over the years, is
countering with an argument, none of which is rooted in
what the original opinion is even about this whole angelry

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is Kaitlin Clark thing, which I don't believe they actually
hate each other, is rooted in it's good for the
w n v A to have a rivalry. The w
b A has never been more paid attention to then
because of this rivalry. And it's certainly not the first
time that RG three has been called corny or a
phony by one of his former teammates. That's been a

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long running theme, dating back to his second year in
the league. In fact, what was it Rob Parker on
ESPN got suspended for calling RG three a cornball brother
back in the day. You guys could look that up,
you know, if you want to. I just, you know,
it just feels like that we are so so much

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more at odds these days. We're just so at each
other's necks all the time. And I don't know. If
that's the Internet culture, I don't know, if it's a
political thing, I don't know, you know, I don't know
what the origin of that is. But you know, one
of the things that and fellas we probably need to
have a conversation about this. One of the best things
I ever did was get myself in therapy, talk to somebody,

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hash them things out, and help me try to make
a better person out of myself. But one of the
things that you know, a couple of things that you
know that I noticed from my con doing that is
is that if you're not you know, if you're not
actively adding to the universe, then what are you doing?
You know, are you subtracting from it? Are you are
you out there is your opinion? Are you celebrating the

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pain as somebody else that that that's that's horrible? You
know these people that laugh at that kind of stuff.
Are you Are you out there adding to the negativity
or adding the positivity? It's not it's you know, it's
really not that difficult. You should be able to to
answer that to yourself and figure out which one you're doing.
And the reality in this situation is both these guys
are adding the negativity, and a lot of sports commentary
adds to the negativity. You know. One of the things

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when Ryan and I started doing this show is that
you know, we determed, we didn't want to be that
people accused us of cheerleading and being what was the
quote spin doctors. I think that was the lie they used,
and it's not you know, just because we don't want
to sit there and be negative and whiny all the
time and wanted to add a little positivity, doesn't you know,
it doesn't make us cheerleaders or spin doctors. Neither does

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it make you if you want some positivity in your life.
I think at the end of the day, my problem is,
first of all, why you guys are in dirty laundry
on the internet. You know that kind of stuff, you know,
is ridiculous. You know, I just for my part, I

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want to do better. I want to be better, and
putting out people's dirty laundry and attacking people personally and
all that kind of stuff doesn't do anything to further
any point that you've made, and tearing anybody down is
never going to lift anybody up. So you know, I
both those guys need to need to figure their situations out.
As far as the Angel Rees and Kaitlin Clark thing,
and Reese addressed the WNBA investigation into alleged hateful fan

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comments directed towards her during the season opener against Indiana,
saying quote, obviously there's no place in the league for that.
I think the WNBA and our team and our organization
have done a great job supporting me. I've had communication
for everybody, so many people across this league going through
this process. Obviously it could happen to me, It could
happen to anybody. I think they've done a great job
supporting me and recent Obviously the mom is hard to

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hear when asked how she the remarks affected her during
the game, but really didn't seem to have any hateful,
you know, anything towards it. She was asked about the
w NBA's quick response to the alleged remarks and issuing
a statement condemning racism, hate and discrimination. And you know

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they understand that this is the priority, no space for hate.
You know, the women in this league, they know that.
I believe every player in this league deserves to be
treated with respect. So reason for her part, seems to
seems to have a grip on this as far as
it goes. For those that don't know, and we can
go back a little further. Fans at Fever games are
criticized for malicious remarks last season. Notably, online messages were

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racial slurs threats of assault directed toward Dejona Carrington after
she accidentally poked Clark in the eye during a game
last season. Carrie, then team mate Lista Thompson, said the
racist comments were worse than she the worst she'd experienced
at eleven w based seasons. You know, Clark and Fever
coach Stephanie White both condemned the remarks, say there's no
place for that in the game, and uh so, you know,

(29:15):
it's for their part. Both these players are taking it
seriously and uh certainly are addressing it in a manner
that I think, uh is professional. It's just the punditry
and and the fans that have gotten bad about this.
You look online and fan bases for these two players
are basically divided by skin color. It's it's it's just
the it's the weirdest thing to watch for me. I

(29:39):
just don't I don't get it. I don't understand it.
I don't even understand conceptually, like in your head, how
someone could even be racist. It's I mean, like, what
when you at the end of the day, what do
you what are you discounting black lab dogs because they
have black fur like this, This is the dumbest concept ever.

(30:00):
The idea that you hate people that look a little
different than you is just it's stupid, Like you have
to be stupid to embrace that concept. But that's a
subject for me to rant on another day. In the end,
this sports space has become less an escape for people.
There are fewer and fewer escapes for people. And what
I mean by that is, you know, sports was in

(30:22):
a lot of ways designed to be the great equalizer.
You know, the meritocracy on the field is designed to
be the great equalizer. It doesn't matter what background you
came from, who you are, what you look like, how
you do. If you perform, you perform. That's it. And
the sports discussion space, while charged at times, used to
be escapism for people who didn't want to deal with
the crushing realities of you know, everyday politics and things

(30:45):
that are going on in the world. Sports, much like
you know, movies, is supposed to be a bit of
an escape for that, and it feels like it hasn't
become that. It feels like that it's morphed into something else.
And we're battered with whatever message it is all the
time and remind did of how horrible people can be
on a larger scale and a more frequent basis, and

(31:07):
I just I'm sick of it. You know, it's I
get it. Everybody has their own agenda with things. Everybody's
fighting to get noticed in a space. I know what
it's like to sit there and say things in an
effort to get attention because most of the sports punditary people,
that's what you're doing. It's there's so much of it
out there that whatever you're saying gets lost in the wash.

(31:30):
Most times. That's the reason you get the Skip Baylesses
of the world, because they get paid attention to because
they say bombastic things and they know you'll react, and
those reactions come in the form of tweets and eyeballs
on their shows whatever else, and those are demonstrable metrics
for which they can prove to their bosses that they're
good at their job, that they have an audience, that

(31:51):
people pay attention to them. Before clickbaiting was a thing,
headline baiting was had been around for hundreds of years.
Newspapers used to use it to get you to by newspaper,
you know, the little you see them in the movies,
the little kids selling the newspapers on there, and they would,
you know, they'd shout out what would at the time
be a clickbaity headline, even though there was no clickbait
back then, in an effort to get you to buy

(32:12):
the paper. So these concepts aren't new, These concepts aren't
something that that you know, aren't established. They've just infiltrated
every part of I think our culture, and you know
it's it's we got to find a way to push
back against this. Stop clicking on those kinds of stories,
stop clicking on the clickbait, stop responding to it. Block

(32:34):
the sources that put that stuff out any if if
you've got a website or a Facebook pages, but remove
that from your daily diet so you don't have to
worry about seeing that kind of content all the time.
But what do I know, I'm just some guy. My
frustration with this has gone on and on for a while,

(32:56):
and really it boils down to, like I said, this
stuff is infiltrating every corner of the space, and guys
like me who don't want that. I don't want to
be that guy. I don't want to sit here and
have to say dumb things to get you to react.
I've never had to be that person, and if they
try to make me that person, frankly, I just leave
the industry. I'm sure I can find something else to

(33:18):
do with my time. But it's frustrating to watch as
those tactics and those people succeed. And I'll put succeed
in air quotes to a degree because people pay attention
to them. They do click, they do respond, they do say.
Everybody feels the need to get a zinger in when
the reality is the only escape from These kinds of

(33:41):
things are the same tactics you'd use on a narcissist.
Just gray rock the situation and it goes away. And
what I mean by gray rocking is just ignore the situation,
just let them go until it goes away. People quit
running those kinds of stories, or making those kinds of comments,
or using those kinds of tactics if they don't get
the desired outcome. So help me spread the message. Help

(34:01):
me spread the word that we're trying to clean up
sports stock. We're trying to be a little bit more
positive with it, and we're trying to get rid of
the clickbait and get back to having a fun atmosphere
that people want to turn to every night. Appreciate you.
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