Cooper Flagg Debuts, Thunder's Big Three Locked In, Cam Newton Talks SEC, Xavier Worthy Speaks

Today, the guys talk about Cooper Flagg's NBA Summer League debut. The Thunder locked up their third in their Big Three to a long-term deal. Fireworks blinded Naja Harris. Xavier Worthy had some things to say to Kay Adams. The Texas Longhorns baseball team has two players looking forward to the draft. Cowboys' linemen are saying and thinking the right things. Cam Newton hypes up the SEC. Paul Finebaum have issues with college football loyalty. "The World's Strongest Take!" Plus, conversations with Austin Gamblers' CEO JJ Gottsch and Orangebloods.com's Zach Symm. You can hear it all here on "The Morning Kickoff Show!"

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (02:08):
What up? Mark? How you doing, bro?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I'm doing good man. I mean I gotta I gotta
take for you today. I mean I woke up feeling
some kind of way.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Man. Is that gonna be your world's strongest take.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
That is going to be the world's strongest take today.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay, all right, I can't wait to hear it because
I know you got something crazy up your sleeve.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
But's it's just very informative because.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Okay, I like it. Well, that's what we do. We
provide infotainment. Yeah, we bring all that. Speaking of infotainment,
as I mentioned, it is uh Christmas in July, especially
in Las Vegas for the m b A. Obviously there
was a ton of basketball games. The Spurs looked amazing

(02:56):
last night. We'll get into them a little bit. Well
right now, want of the talk a little bit about
Cooper Flag and his announcement of being in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
And here's Flag on the breaking it home.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Welcome to the league, Cooper pla.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now Mark, he obviously didn't get off the way a
lot of people wanted him to get off, but you
could see that the inks was there a little bit
in the first couple of shots.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
He was excited.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
He was trying to, you know, get the party going,
so to speak, because he knew the limelight was on him,
everybody's looking at him. Everybody was there for that, and
of course there was another he got he got a
he gotta we go t too, man. I like the
way he was shaking it up. But there was other
guy that was there, and he and Brannie James were considered,

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you know, a little bit of cinema. The more consistency
offensively in the minute he gets it's up to two
hundred and fifteen pounds, not the way put the claffs
on flag.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Handcuffs, put a ball balls against James's getting.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Kind of spooky in here, Jim, I'm not too sure
about this call.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I mean, he's standing his ground really well.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
And Cooper Platt was trying to hit him with that
shoulder and back.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Him up, and Bronnie wasn't really moving a whole lot.
He was very active. Yeah, they forget Bronnie had grown.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Man. Sometimes people forget that he works out with his daddy.
You know what I'm talking about. He putting in the work.
And I will say I was impressed with the way
Bronnie came out. And people forget too that this kid
is only twenty years old.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
He's a young player in the league as well.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
And the expectations for Brownie obviously heavy as the crown
that has bestowed upon you, right, and you come at
the king, you're the prince.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
You're the prince, so you got to stand up to
it as well.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
So it's been an interesting time, but it was a
good look for for both of them.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, I'm not down with the hierarchy the king, the
Queen and prince and the princess. We understand, but you
know what, man, I really do feel like. And then
my world strongest take, I'm gonna talk about this. This
is one of the things that relates to it don't relate.
It relates to Cooper Flag and Briannie James, but they're

(05:27):
just pawns. I'm talking. My take is about the disappointment
of bad market. So it's they relate close to the
NBA has done a lot of good, but they've they've
done some, uh, some things. That's gonna get me to
talk about them.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'm gonna talk about it, all right.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, let's hear from Cooper Flag and what he you know,
he played last night, but let's hear what he had
to say.

Speaker 7 (05:58):
No, I definitely heard him, uh and that was cool,
you know, seeing that new showing up the supported US.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
I didn't really say any dings, kind of looked at him.
They were kind of saying stuff a couple of plays before.
So that was just a funny. I like him. I
like him modesty. I like the way it comes out.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I mean, there's obviously it's one preseason not even preseason
Summer league game, and you know the play.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
The place was packed rightfully.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
So I mean, if we were in Las Vegas, I'm
sure that we would have made an appearance there as well.
So Vegas, uh not? Well, I mean this is Caesar.
You know what I'm saying. This is Caesar here in
my nephew's apartment, so uh, chilling out, getting getting ready.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
But uh, we're in the thirteen. Yeah but wait us apartment?
So what you say nephew's apartment? Yeah? Yeah, what's up
with the statue?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
That's what I just said that season man oh man,
yeah that immediately. Yeah, y'all thought I was, like Mark said,
y'all thought I was at Caesar's palace for a second.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wait, man, you're out there with your cousin. Put one
of the dollars on something for me?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, Hey, I want I wanted to talk about this,
but Cooper, Cooper Flag to wrap this up, Cooper Flag,
when I did what he was supposed to do played
a decent amount of minutes. He got the butterflies out
the way, and I guarantee you to be a much
better performance. I do want to ask you about your boy,
Dalton connect Man. He finger rolled an airball like what,

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then came.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Up with a mysterious illness.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
They shot me, Hey, a mysterious illness call. I can't
make a layup. I'll be sick too. Yeah, there was
no there's no cure for that. Going to the bench
and then knowing that you're gonna have film study, and
knowing that in film study they're gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Click back three seconds back way. I can't wait back They're.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Gonna do it for like five minutes, you remember, yeah,
oh before I know every athlete that had that one
moment with their coach absolutely or our teammate.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh but I keep saying, I keep running that back.
Did you see what he did? Run that back? I
do want to transition because the NBA continues to make
major moves and major waves. And I don't know about you,
but okay, see must have a plethora of dollar dollar bills.

(08:53):
They got the they kept their trio together.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Jaylen Williams signed an extension yesterday, and he's going along
with chay Gilchris Alexander and Chaed Hunger and shay Gilchris
is twenty twenty twenty six, Jaylen Williams is twenty four,
and ched Hungren is twenty three. If you're gonna do this,

(09:18):
this is the group to do this with because these
guys understand what it's about. You got them on their
rookie deals, so you max them out. The grand total
of the money between those three players is eight hundred
and twenty two million dollars.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
The money, y'ut have poor people around.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh my god, y'all too much, too much?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
But harje like, it's better to get them locked the
way now, agree because it's gonna be a kinfolk deal
at the end, because you look ten years from now,
like you save yourself maybe forty and sixty million, and.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
That might be per player, not overall.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
But the whole point is to go ahead and get
it done. They have so much draft capital, I mean,
uh yeah, draft capital that they can mortgage the house
off what they have on their bench and give me
more picks. I got the they're gonna have four picks
in the draft next season.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Four picks.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
The Spurs and Brooklyn both had three picks, and we
were talking about how much that was. Right, we're gonna
underestimate the fact that they got four picks and they
can't keep them. You gotta trade them.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well the picks they like.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
In reality, if those are second round picks, like we've
talked about before, that's not much you want to do
with those. So you'll see what happens. But even then,
now you're putting yourself in a position to where if
you want to trade off some of those contracts, you'll
be able to at the end of at the end
of the deal, because the money's gonna be a little
bit different at the other end. So hopefully those guys

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continue to grow, they continue to play at an elite level,
and then we'll be able to see what's going to
happen after that. But Mark, coming up next, I'm tired.
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Homeboy, Oh what happened? Man, Let's talk about it on
the other side.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
We're gonna have to talk about it on the other
side because some people just can't get right.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's a feel good Friday edition of.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
The Morning Kickoff right here on Sports Radio and thirteen
hundred Design Coming up.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
In the next segment, we'll have our guy J. J.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
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Speaker 3 (12:34):
Let me just say this, man, we go through this
every single year.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
People really have to understand, especially especially now everybody has
to follow suit, but especially professional athletes.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Your job, this is your job.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
And you cannot keep putting yourself in danger, regardless of
who or how smart tough.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Uh prepared. You are I think you are, or think
you are. Remember Jason Pierre Paul, what was.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
He doing, Mark popping fireworks? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, you're a grown bleak man and you are out
there trying to play with fireworks. Yet you're putting yourself
in danger every time you get a firework.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Now you can say, come on, Harge, have some fun
lighting up? What are you? And my my wife called
me Mark the fun police.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
The I am the fun police because my job if
I'm trying to make sure that you are out of
harm's way. Yep, that's the responsibility that I feel I
need to take upon myself to help you and yours because,

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as I talked about yesterday, sometimes we can see around
the corner what you don't see.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Because I let me just explain to why I'm mad, Son.
Let me explain why I'm mad. Son.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm mad because of the fact that Nase Harris, Naji Harris,
has put himself in harm's way.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Fourth of July. Everybody want to go out and pop fireworks?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Hey man, Let the professionals do the fireworks and you
go to a game and watch a fireworks show. There's
some seashore that you could go to where all these
people are popping fireworks and you could be there watching
the show.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
You don't have to create the fireworks show.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
So naj Harris has an eye injury from a fireworks incident.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Let me read this to you now.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Los Angeles Chargers running back Najee Harris sustained an eye
injury after a fireworks mishap at a July fourth event,
says his agent Doug Hendrickson. He told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Hendrickson said that the injury was superficial and that Harris

(15:31):
is expected to be ready for the upcoming season.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Henderson. Hendrickson went on to say the.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Mishap quote the mishap resulted in injuries.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
To several attendees.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
One person was hospitalized after he lost fingers.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
In the accident.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Now, Mark, as I said, I'll take the title of
fun police.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'll take that. But here's the reason.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
For a while, Najia Harris is now a guy that
I can't trumpst.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
You know why, because you put yourselves in harm's way.
Bro even that.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Ah ah, exactly, you have now put yourselves in harm's way.
Let's not forget they grabbed a new running back. You're

(16:44):
in competition. Now they got a rookie. They got a
rookie that they.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Are trying to bring along Marion Hampton from North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
After the last night exactly what no, Yeah put on
the board.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
I just I don't get the infatuation with being around
and being the person change those.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Things as an olympian. To live at the training center,
you had to sign this contract.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, it's in their contract. In a tail.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
It told us we couldn't do ATVs, we couldn't do
jet skis, we couldn't Scott died, which you an don't
worry about.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
I mean Scott died, like.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
All of these things like rope climbing, I mean not
rope climbing, mountain climbing.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
I was like, who does that anyway?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
But the whole point is there's a bunch of things
that I could never do no more while I had
that contract exactly, or it would violate the deal that
they had.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
They could avoided it, or they could assume me right
like my man Sam give us.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
My man Sam just said, hey, good morning, Harball and
Mark Pros should know better.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
One got it thirteen fourteen million dollar contract or more.
And he can't say listen, man, I need an elite
fireworks team.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Here's one thousand dollars. I wanted to really look nice.
You are all expagating goodbye. Yes, that is the thing
that has been killing me.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Man. It's just I don't understand the infatuation with people
that think that they have to go out and do it.
Because here's the other thing, Mark, here's the here's the
biggest thing for me. Those things malfunction.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Bro. I can't even spell pyrotechnics. But those guys earn
that damn money. They are trained professional, highly trained professionals,
because it's not just a question of if, but when

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they know that somebody's going to make a mistake and
their professionals, what do you think the ratio of injury
or something going wrong is with somebody with zero experience?
All the half is a damn match? And how long
is a match?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
It better be one of those.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Matches an engine a half? Yes, maybe maybe the power
of technist. Guys don't use matches. They push buttons. They're
fifty feet away when it goes off. People, please stop

(19:45):
doing this. I don't never want to hear this again.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I looked at a thing the other day, and they
were showing the emergency rooms, right, the emergency rooms and
what they have to go through every single fourth of July.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
People's hands. Obviously, your face is getting burnt. Just now
his eye. You walking around with a patch.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
You was my cousin. You know that you would have
had a bottle rocket war agreed when I was ten.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, I'm not doing it at fifty three years now.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Your hair has got to have better judgment than to
be around a little young twelve year old Mark Henry
with a pop bottle and a bunch of bottle rockets.
I was gonna shoot you in the eye. I was
aiming for the eye. I think somebody was aiming for
his eye because they got you. They got Now you're
walking around. Now you're looking walking around looking like Captain Hook. Okay,

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looking like long John Silver.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh my god, I'm trying to get trying to get
a combo plate right now with one patch on his eye,
like it just doesn't make sense to me. And I
believe that real talk, real talk. I think that this
is the point that needs to be made. You brought
it up perfectly. We all when we've been signed a
professional contract, there are stipulations in that contract, that can

(21:15):
have that contract voided and as simple as fireworks, and
people can sit there and say, man, it's just fireworks.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Dude almost lost his eye, Dude lost two fingers.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Can't even play himself as O man anymore. Wow, that's
so horrible that over there he can chamber. He got
one of them claws. He got a claw up like
the lobster. I mean, come on, man, unbelievable. Coming up next,
we got our.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Guy J J Got, CEO of the Austin Gamblers. I'm
gonna ask him if he played with fireworks.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm scared of that answer.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Right here on the Morning Kicked Out Home Sports Ready
Up A thirteen hundred a ZOL Welcome back to a
feel good Friday edition of the Morning Kickoff right here
on Sports Radio A thirteen one hundred The Zone. He
is the CEO of the defending champion Austin Gamblers.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
He's a friend of the show, and he's a good
friend of mine. He is JJ gotch JJ. The season
is getting ready to start, and now is the time
to go.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Out and defend that championship.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
The only thing harder than winning the world championship is
defending it.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
You guys know that, no doubt, no doubt. So you
guys are getting ready to kick off the season. I
believe it starts tonight if I'm not mistaken. And you
guys are up in Oklahoma City. I mean that's where
it's always going on when you start to think about
the rodeo.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
But now Austin Gambler's become the place to be.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
But if you're gonna kick it off, you gotta go
up into Oklahoma to get this thing started.

Speaker 8 (22:58):
Yeah, you couldn't be any more sure, any more cowboy
than than here in Oklahoma City. We kicked the We
kicked the season off every year here. Last night was
the Heroes and Legends Dinner, which is essentially the PBR
Hall of Fame. They kicked that off the night before
and then net we roll into that, we're gonna be
at Paycom Center where the Thunder just won the NBA

(23:19):
Championship what less than a month ago, So lots of
good vibes in there. But yeah, we're excited to be
to Cobac and defend the title, try to represent Austin, Texas.
You know, not only did we we get ready for
this season with the same group of guys, we reloaded
and retooled and added a couple other pieces. So you know,
but this sport, like any other sport, it's or unlike

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any other sport, it's brutal and injuries can take a toll.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
And before we've even gotten to the.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
First game, one of our stars, Kayiki Pusheka, the twenty
eighteen champion, he's got a broken finger on his riding
hand that still hasn't healed, so he's going to be
out this first weekend. So it's going to be a
battle of attrition over the these next four months as
we work towards Las Vegas and October. But hope to
get off to a good start this weekend and then
to be able to be back at the Moody Center

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August twenty second to the twenty fourth for Gambler Days,
to be able to host the World of Western Sports
and all of our PBR friends there in the capital city.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, that's outstanding stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
I've been there for the first couple of years and
it's outstanding stuff.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Mark JJ.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
You so I'm with to be in a high level
sport like y'all are. The NBA and the NFL has
their scouting combines and their drafts, and we went through
y'all had the draft recently, and like, how do you
go about that process of it? Do you do guys

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develop over time or somebody just matures into something and
then you have to have that same negotiation like they
do in the other pro sports.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
How does that work?

Speaker 8 (25:01):
It's similar to most sports. Market's probably most similar to
I would say basketball and baseball, and that the international
nature of it. You know, when you look at NFL
and football, there's just not a lot of guys from
other countries that you know, other than probably the Samoan
Allen Nations and guys going through Utah and BYU to play.

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But you know, we're a real international sport. When you
look at the top ten, top twenty, top fifty riders
in the world every single year for the last twenty
five years, more than half of them have been from Brazil.
When you look at the makeup of our team, the
Austin Gamblers, we've got nine riders on our team, seven
are from Brazil. And so for US, while yes, you

(25:44):
know scouting here within the United States, we host a
combine here, the PBR does. We're continually looking and developing
writers at the high school level, at the collegiate level,
but we do a lot of work internationally and we
were the first to go down to Brazil. We hired
a coach down there, We've got home operations there. We

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go there every year. I was I usually go there
the first or second weekend in June. We do a
full tour down there. But it's much like any other sport,
you know. We we have to go fine riders to
begin with, and then you got to develop them. And
we feel like we've got two of the best guys
in the business. Hardball is a very good friend with
our head coach, g Man Michael Gaffney, one of the

(26:26):
founders of the PBR. He was a world champion in
nineteen ninety seven. And then the guy that heads up
our Brazil operations is none of than Adriana Marias. He
was the very first PBR world champion, the first three
time world champion.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
And when you talk about.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
Technique and fundamentals in the head game that goes into this,
there's nobody better than those two combined. And so that's
really our job mark is when you think about the
future of this sport, wall that's grown and we're you know,
there's between a million and two people watching on CBS
on Sundays, and the popularity the sport now that the
team is. Our biggest challenge is finding and developing more

(27:04):
riders because the pace that the bulls have gotten better,
these animal athletes, they're bigger, they're faster, they're stronger, and
the ability for bulls to recreate faster than humans. That's
our biggest challenge is going out and finding these guys
and then developing him because it's not like a market.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's not like a weight room or hard ball. It's
not like a baseball field. In America.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
You know, there's not many places you can't just walk
down the street in West Lake. You can't just walk
down the street in East Austin and there's a bull
riding arena with bulls, you know, with the proper equipment
and safety equipment and safety men and so there's just
not a lot of access, you know, very remote areas,
you know, ranches and things like that. But so we're

(27:46):
trying to get creative, you know, we're trying to maybe
go to these collegiate campuses and for that, you know,
for that point guard, you know that didn't get drafted
in the NBA, or that second basement that thought he
was going to go in the third round or didn't,
or even gymnasts looking for for really elite athletes usually
smaller in that five five to five seven range. Weain
in about one fifty to one seventy five because the physics,

(28:08):
they can't be big, like Mark. They got to be
small because you know they're going to be on the
back of the space we're looking well. You know, hey, Mark,
I tell you what, when we come in August and
I think we're going to be able to get you
out there, we'll get you on one of these bulls.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, we want, no, we want, we will not do that.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I feel sorry for that bull, Phil Sorrer for that
world's strongest paying on it.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
See what it is.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
No, thank you, Jack, you said you said something that
that really resonated with me because of the international part
of it and the fact that.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Like you.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
You have a baseball background, so you understand what it's
like to go out and scout people from different countries
to be able to find that and the fact that
Austin has that many Internet national riders is pretty dog
gone cool.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
It is, you know, one of the interesting challenges. And
you know the same with you hardball. Baseball as an
international sport, multiple languages, and you know these days you
need to know Spanish as well as you know English
and mark obviously, with you know that there's people all
over the world that are competing in strongman competition, you
had to travel all over the world, and that's been
the interesting thing. Is what's really cool is is I

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didn't anticipate that. I really think about that when I
made the jump. Is that just the different cultures and people.
While yes, you're still getting out of bowl and you're
still having to down for eight seconds, how people are
brought up and where they're brought up is wildly different.
And so when we go down to Brazil, it's a
big eye opener because while while I can, while I'm

(29:46):
somewhat handy in Spanish, not not real good, but I
can kind of get around when.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I need to, Portuguese is a different sport. And you
know how and where.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
These guys have grown up in the mentality that they
have because here in the United States, I think a
kid maybe wants to be a bull rider or would
like to be a world champion, but not necessarily is
it going to change their lives forever? Or is it
going to create you know, generational wealth. These guys from Brazil,
they come from really really poor backgrounds, and poor in

(30:15):
Brazil is different than poor in America. And so for
these guys, not the want or that they have to.
You know, when they come over here and they leave
everything behind, they burn the boats and they come to America,
they have to be successful. But if they are, they
will be able to create generational wealth for their family.
You know, they win a world championship here, you're winning

(30:36):
somewhere between one point three to two million dollars. You
go back to Brazil in the reale, that's five times
and that's a real conversion. So for them to be
able to go back and have five million or more, reality,
that's generational wealth for their family.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And so it's a different mindset.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
And so when you go down there and you see it,
it's just different when somebody wants to do something or
when they have to. And that's been a real eye
open and kind of gets you excited and makes you
want to work harder as well.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah, I love that. I love that. JJ.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Before we let you go, I was on my Soapbox
in the last segment about fireworks and people not knowing
what the hell they're doing when they're dealing with fireworks.
Somebody almost lost an eye. We already know somebody lost fingers.
Please tell me you do not let your guys deal
with fireworks.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
Well, I don't know. My bull riders do with fireworks. Well,
I said, I don't let them. The good thing is
the PBR doesn't, so they So you hardball. You've been
to a bunch of the bunch of our shows and
there is a lot of and that's the thing is
really cool because it's likely we took Rodeo and we
married it with with Mark's WWE programming, right, just a

(31:47):
full entertainment spectrum. And so when you come in, there's
great music and fire and smoke, but there's pyro, but
there's actual license pyro technician license, license license travel with
each show and so yeah, it's it's interesting. And then
you can't see it when you're when you're there, but

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on the dirt, there's different locations that are marked off.
There's guys that are kind of hitting on the side,
and when you're kind of mosing out and trying to
get some shot for Instagram. They'll grab your shirt and
throw you back. But it's no that that's the key.
They are licensed there, it is.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
There, it is. That's what we said. Let the license.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
People do it that they get professional jobs, they do
professional things. Let them do it, and we're excited about then.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
They get a.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Chance to depend their title starting tonight. It's an exciting time.
And that's right. We'll be promoting Gambler Days coming up
pretty soon too, so we'll make sure to get with
you again.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
JJ. I appreciate you, brother, and tell g man go
get them well. I know you're going to be the
hardball and Mark.

Speaker 8 (32:54):
Are we gonna be able to We're gonna be able
to get you to lead the team.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Out one night. Oh yeah, I'm told you. I'm down.
We got it, We got it.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
Thanks, JJ, appreciate you other as always, thanks fellas. All
right there is JJ Gotch, CEO of the Austin Gamblers.
When we come back, I want you to hear from
our guy x men exam you're worthy right here on
the morning kickoff on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
It does zo.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Great stuff from our god JJ Gotch, CEO of the
Austin Gamblers. We'll get you more information about Gambler Days
as we get closer, because it's the next month, so
we'll be up in there having a good time. But
right now, I want to give you an opportunity to
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(33:48):
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Speaker 3 (33:49):
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tickets as well. But don't forget Craig Waite, the voice
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in Atlanta doing our show for.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
SEC Media Days.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Just an exciting, exciting time as well, so good good
stuff and we're looking forward to it next week being
in Atlanta for SEC Media Days. I want to bring
this up because it is important football season is just
around the corner.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
And our guy.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Xavier Worthy went on k Adams Show, and Xavier Worthy,
obviously being his second year in the league, he was exciting,
made some plays and now he's going to get a
full compliment of players because.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Rashi Rice is going to be back, Hollywood Brown is
going to be back.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Jason, not Jason, but Travis Kelsey looks like he's in
great shape. And he was asked about Patrick Mahomes and
Patrick Mahomes mindset, who's.

Speaker 9 (35:15):
The most ang Like, who's you said angry? I think
that's good, Like even just out of Patrick and Travis,
who've been there, done that together all the time. Like
you're saying who's more pissed?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
I think Pat? Who? I think Pat Why? I don't know?
He cut his hair. He had a different mode.

Speaker 9 (35:32):
Right now, fifty different Like are they different right now
from where the last year in Ogas?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think we're really locked in right now. Everybody. Everybody's
came back.

Speaker 10 (35:44):
This is my year two, this is Rashid year three,
this is Hollywood's You're two in the system. So I
feel like a lot of guys came back more comfortable
in it. It made things easier we're not just kind of.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Easier than things. We're not learning the playbook, we're not thinking.
We're just going out there and we'll go out there
and play.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, that's good stuff right there. I got the mindset.
My favorite is when he said, got a haircut. You
know when they get the haircut, I mean.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
He feel implying, yeah, it's time to get to work.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Even X cut all of his hair off and walking
around with the Caesar. You know what I'm saying, He
got the haircut, ready to go. He's in the game.
So I'm looking at that. I'm excited for. But one
thing that I'm excited about for him, And remember when
he was at the University of Texas. He scared the
living crap out of all of us when he was

(36:33):
back there returning punts, and he was talking about the
possibility of returning punts in the NFL.

Speaker 9 (36:39):
You know you do all these things well, I don't
always want to harp on your speed, right and like that,
deep like I love that. Dave Tobe, your special Teams coach,
he said recently, and I'm sure you heard this, that
you're the best punt returner in the league that nobody
knows about you didn't return it all last year, but
you ranked seeing it looking at it right now, second

(37:01):
in all of college football. You're final year in Texas.
Will we see you returning punts this year?

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Man, I don't know. Stay tuned, stay to him, and
I can can't up there yet.

Speaker 9 (37:14):
How dangerous can you be back there?

Speaker 10 (37:17):
I think every time I touch the ball, I'm live
with a score. So if I have that chance to
be on pub return and change the game for my team,
I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 9 (37:26):
You know, Dave Tobe coach Devin Hester, I do.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
How you always. I always watched Devin Hester highlights. We
always watch him in the special teams meeting with him.
We watched it all last year.

Speaker 10 (37:35):
So, and Devin Hester is kind of like an I
kind of guy that you always see and watch, like
a table in Austin highlight.

Speaker 8 (37:40):
So when you talk.

Speaker 9 (37:44):
Pops to you, he's like, he's I mean, I'm from Chicago.
In Chicago, he's obviously one of the beasts to go.

Speaker 11 (37:50):
What Pops about Devin Hester, that's his understanding of the
leverage and what he's gonna do when he gets the ball.
He hits the scene better than anybody as it slow up.
He hits the full speed, and that's what I feel like,
as a perm turner needs to be done.

Speaker 10 (38:04):
If you hit the speed, if you hit the full speed,
the you're gonna have to change direction.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Love it, and I hope that he does with turn
punts because he is electric when it comes to that.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
When we come back, Mark, we're gonna talk Major League
Baseball Draft.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I told you thirty five years ago, your boy and
Chipper Jones and quite a few other people were drafted.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
During that time.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
But we're gonna talk to the Zach sim of Orange
Bloods as he breaks down the draft, talks a little
bit about the transfer portal and.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
What's next for these Texas long Guards.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Our number one of a feel good Friday is in
the book.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Our number two is right around the corner right here
on the morning Kickoff on sports Radio AM thirteen.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Hundred The Zone.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Welcome back to our number two of the morning kickoff
right here on sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone,
and our number one. We talked about Cooper Flag making
his debut. We also talked about the fact that you
need to stay away from fireworks if you're a professional.
That's not a professional. In the Fireworks game, and we

(39:12):
heard from J. J. Gotch of the Austin Gamblers, And
right now we're gonna talk to our guys, Zach Simoorrangebloods
dot Com as we prepare for the Major League Draft
that will take place starting on Sunday go through Monday,
and of course a lot of Texas Lunghorns expect to

(39:32):
hear their names call. But there were some news that
came out the other day Zach that three Lunghorns decided
to pull their names out of the Major League Draft.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Good morning, how are you and where are you at? Dog?
You look like you're on vacation.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
I'm met at my wife's parents lake house. So we've
been in Austin all week. Augie went to Texas Longhorn
Baseball camp, so shout out to Drew Bishop and Chuck
Box and the entire team. They put on a great camp.
So if you got a kid, send him out there.
They'll have a great time. It was a lot of fun.
So I literally been at the dish all week long,
which has been fun, which.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
Is perfect for this.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
So talk about those three guys that decided to come
back to the University of Texas.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
Yeah, absolutely, you know Ruger, you know, he he had
some draft mocks that had him maybe in the kind
of the fifth to seventh round range, but you know,
he felt like he had some unfinished business. He felt
like he could improve and do some more things, show
the scouts what he can really do, maybe as a starter.
And then for Luke Harrison, he's another guy where it's
another year removed after that that surgery and that injury,

(40:37):
and so he really blossomed this past year in the
SEC for Texas and it felt like, hey, I want
to finish what I started here at Texas. I want
to bring a title. And then same thing with Max Grubbs.
You know, he's he's been a big part of the
rotation for the past two seasons, and it was all
about finishing the job right. You know, They've got a
lot of good pieces coming back in that rotation, and
they felt like, hey, let's go do something special, let's

(40:59):
let's have some fun. And there's not a lot better
to place the player than the University of Texas. It's
you know, I think so Los Angles talk to these
guys a lot about it, but going and playing in
the miners is a very different experience in playing in
college where yeah, no doubt a lot of fans you've got,
you know, you've got these great trips to Starkville and
in all these different places. It's not always the same

(41:20):
in the minors. So you know, that message is really resonated,
and I think it speaks to the culture that they've
built very quickly here with this new staff.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
You think that coach Slasonegle's ability to become mind melt
with these young guys, way able to get them to
come back because he can sell them on the bigger
picture on with you, we can win a championship next year.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
Yeah, I definitely think that plays a big part of it.
They also see, you know, it's it's always funny this
time of year. You get these guys that are start
going through the draft process. They're listening to the evaluations
and the mocks, and they're getting professional feedback and feedback
from the team themselves. And you only need one guy
to go back, you know what, I really want to

(42:04):
come back, and all of a sudden, all these other
guys start getting fomo. They're like, hmm, this could be fun,
Like this could be real special, And so I think
that definitely plays into it. But certainly the culture they
built speaks a lot to what coach Wiener is doing
with Nolan Kane with Tulo, and obviously it's loss at
the top.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah, that's kind of crazy when you sit back and
think about how this team has changed so much as well,
eighteen guys in the transfer portal, and then you go
out and you flip it and you get these different
types of guys. I had a person, my man Chan
text me yesterday or hit us on our text line.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Make sure you hit us up.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
He asked a question about all the left handed pictures
and for some reason, I mean, it just seems like
there's more left handed pictures than I've ever.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Seen at the University of Texas.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
And the question that he asked was what do you
think the philosophy is behind that and why they went
out and got so many lefties.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
Well, I think you look at the lefties they brought
in and they're really good compliments to what they already
have in place. And then you start looking at pitching
philosophy and what he likes to do, and coach Maxweener
loves the left handed guys. They offer a very different look.
You know, if you if you're a good enough lefty,
it doesn't matter if you're facing a right handed batter,
because you can still run it inside and cause them troubles,

(43:20):
or run it outside and cause them troubles. So I
think it has to do with, you know, mostly the
pitching philosophy of Maxweener and what he likes to do
with his staff. But certainly you see a lot more
lefties that are more dominant than righty's in the SEC
as well.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yeah, that's kin I was.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
I was been impressed with it, and all the moves
obviously were huge, and they weren't just slouches as we
talked about before. Some of them were all Americans. Some
of them have been prolific hitters. So it's been an
interesting economy of what coach has been really getting out
there to get We're talking to Zach Sam of Orangebloods

(43:58):
dot com. You can follow them Zach at the Dish
where he's been all week, so you can check him
out there.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Well, let's get into it.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
You know, Max Malou probably will be the first name
off the board on Sunday. What is it about Max
that that is gonna make these guys get excited about?

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, it starts with a hit tool. He doesn't.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
He's not just one of those guys that can hit
for power. He has the average as well, right, and
that's pretty unique. Like if you look at a lot
of the other top hitters, especially in this draft, you
see a lot of boom or bust, and that's obviously
where the MLB is gone, where it's more about, hey,
if you hit thirty home runs, but you strike out
a bunch of times, we can live with that. Well,
Max kind of filters into that gray area where he

(44:42):
can give you that everyday production or every at that production,
and at the same time he can still obviously swing
the stick and hit for power. So he'll definitely be
taken early. On the mocks that I've seen have him
in the late late first round or comp range or
second round. Yeah, you know, it depends on how you
look at that injury that happened this year. Some people say, wow, man,

(45:04):
you didn't get as many at bats. Well, that's true.
At the same time, he showed scouts and he showed
the GMS. Hey, I'm willing to dot, live and die
for my team. Right, I'm gonna do whatever it takes
to play, and I love to play and I want
to play, So I think that speaks as well to
his character and the kind of guy that he is
for teams, So I think that'll help push him up
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Ryland Galvaughan obviously catcher position finalist for the Buster Posey Award.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Where do you see him in this draft? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (45:35):
I actually got a chance to sit down and chat
with Ryland a little bit this week, and I don't
think a lot of people know where he's going to go.
It's kind of a unique draft in the fact that
it's pretty thinnic catcher. You know, you got Ode, you
got Stevenson from UNC at the top, and you got
another kid I can't remember his name now, but you
kind of have those three in the mocked in the
first round or maybe early second round, and then there's

(45:56):
kind of a there's kind of a big gap, and
so Ryland's really that first name off the board. There's
a number of teams that are looking for catcher help,
and so he's a guy that could get pushed up.
But every mark that I've seen has anywhere between the
fifth and sixth round. There's been a few that have
him as late as the eighth round. I just don't
see him sticking around that long. I think he'll be
a fifth, sixth round.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Guy, especially when you talk about the numbers of the
scarceness of catchers, and he does have that ability to
hit for a lot of power and a hard job. Yeah,
I know he's got to be a little bit smoother
behind the play, but I don't think that'll be a
problem at all.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Last, but not least obviously, the.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Case study is I've been calling him has been Jalen Flores.
I mean, this is a guy that went from All
American status and now it's like, Okay, you talked about
it earlier.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Is he going to hit thirty home runs and strike
out a bunch.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Or is he going to be a guy that you're
going to end up having to move to third base?
I mean, what do you see his projection? And where
have you seen him in some of these mops.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
Yeah, certainly the chase rates have some some folks a
little worried about what that hit Tiol looks like. At
the same time, he's shown that he can hit for power.
You know, he's shown that when he's right, he can
certainly extend and get it out there. So he's definitely
a guy that a lot of teams. Like maybe the
thing that surprised me the most when I was going

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through and talking to scouts and talking to various folks
was there was more concerns still about him sticking at shortstop,
which you know, I'm not a scout obviously, but they're
worried about his body movements and everything else, and they
think he might end up at third base long term,
which obviously pushes.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Him down a little bit.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
Yeah, he's got a lot of range. He's not the
quickest and most fluid, but he's got a lot of range.
So I think that's that's hurt his stock a little bit.
But he's certainly a guy that you know that fifth
to eighth round probably trending backwards towards the sixth and
seventh round would be where I think someone will take
him because they're.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Going to want to take him.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
They're going to want to put him in miners, they're
going to want to start tweaking that swing and really
put them to the grindstone and what he can do.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
All right, Zach, Before we let you go, I wanted
to ask about, obviously caseon Kinneham is gonna be a
guy who's gonna get his name called early. But you
posted something yesterday about Texas recruits being in the home
run Derby.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Texas has three.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Of their top recruits that may hear their name called
pretty high as well. But do you think either any
of those three make it to the University of Texas.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
Oh so those three guys that I posted, they're actually
all in the next year's Class six class.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
So Grady Emerson, though, is he's not consensus, but I
mean he's number one player in the nation, not just
the state. Bo Peterson is probably the top ten player
in the nation out of Kansas and then East and Austria.
Easton Audrey, he has shown some light tower power last
year's he went viral for that five hundred and forty
four foot home on at Arlington.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
But either way, like getting Emerson and Peterson on the
campus even next year would be probably the biggest coup ever.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
I mean, that's like saying the two Vince Young's at
the same time. So yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Would be very rare. Ma, man, it'll be very rare.
One last player, Gavin Thine, what do you think?

Speaker 5 (49:12):
Yeah, I really think Cason Cunningham out of San Antonio,
and then Gavin Fine out of California. I think they're
both gonna hear their names in the first round. There's
some questions around Fine where he kind of sticks long term,
hit a little bit of a quieter spring, but you know,
last summer with Team USA and just on the circuit,
he showed so much helium and pop that they'll both

(49:32):
be taken. I like cutting him in the kind of
that eighteen to twenty four range. I've been told the
Detroit Tigers are a team to take a look at
it twenty four, and then I know the Bosox really
like Gavin Fine. I know they've got a couple of picks,
including at thirty three in the comp range. So the
other team to look out for right now is the Orioles.
Though the Orioles now have four first round draft picks,

(49:53):
and they've got the biggest pool of money as well,
So certainly picking up a high school bat like like
a Gavin Fine, it would make a lot of sense
because if they can get his number down, they can,
you know, really really bolster their talent pool. Which it's
insane the fact that they have four first round draft
picks considering the immense talent they already have in the miners.
I mean, the Orioles are a team to watch for
the future for sure.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
That moves in a boardroom, right, It's like, man, that's
kind of wild.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Hey, Zach, enjoy your vacation time.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Obviously it's been at the dish, but enjoyed the time
at the lake House. And we're getting ready to grind
it out because we got the draft starting on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
So we'll talk to you again next week, buddy, Thank you,
appreciate y'all.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Okay, right there is Zach Siam of or Bloods dot Com.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
When we come back.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
The Cowboys are making moves on that offensive line. I
think that's gonna put a smile on the big fella's face.
Right here on a feel good Friday edition of the Morning.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Kickoff All Sports Radio and thirteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Zone, What stuff, Good stuff by our guys, Zach Sam
of Orgebloods dot as he breaks it down about the
MLB Draft.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Can't wait for that.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
It's this Sunday, so we'll see where a lot of
folks are gonna end up. So exciting times and futures
will be changed for sure.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Is there anybody that you you want to go somewhere specific.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
That you like no, I really like as I said before,
I really like.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
That kid case and kind of him from from San
Antonio Johnson. He's a kid that's got so much talent.
Some upside, smaller guy, but very very talentful. Today he's
been my favorite, one of my favorite players in the
state of Texas the whole time. Obviously, a Max Blue

(51:43):
is a guy that that could sneak up in the
higher part of the draft just because of his talent level.
Once he's healthy, he's dangerous. So we'll see what ends
up happening.

Speaker 12 (51:55):
What's weird about the MLB draft is is you don't
know where what teams will be when a guy is
finally called up. So at any point, like a guy
would be looked at us, why are you picking him
here at this position?

Speaker 3 (52:09):
And then two years later it just looks like a
genius move.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yeah, it's a different thing. As somebody who's gone through this,
I totally get it. I mean, in my draft, we had,
as the Montreal exposed, we had ten picks in the
first two rounds because of trades and moves that were
made and compensations and all this other stuff. So it
was a lot because you have free agents that were

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going different places, so you awarded those picks, so.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Big time stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
But another big time form of athletics is the NFL,
and we can't go a day without talking about the
Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
And with the Dallas Cowboys, we can, but it won't
be pleasant. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
With the Dallas Cowboys and what they've been able to
do on that offensive line is something that you and
I have been talking about. Got to be able to
protect your quarterback, you got to be able to move around.
And they got a bunch of Tyler's on that line.
Tyler Smith, Tyler Geydon, and Tyler Booker their number one pick.

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Both all those guys were first round picks, all named Tyler.
But the interesting part about this is Tyler Smith is
somebody that when that draft pick was made, I was
sitting at Pluckers and I was part of a draft
at the other station, and when that pick came through,
kind of lost my mind. And the reason why I

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lost my mind is because this guy was one of
those dudes that was penalized a lot in college, penalized
a lot in college, and Jim.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
And I was like, this is awful. Well he gets there.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
You find out that he's got some dog in him,
he's got some savage in him, and he goes out
and fills in for Tyron Tyron Smith and does an
unbelievable job. Denny slides down, does even better job and
not called for a lot of pelopies.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
So I was excited to see the growth.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Sometimes when I'm over, I get mad about something and
it works out.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
It works out for works out for me, Mark so
Tyler Smith exactly. Tyler Smith talked about what's his next
step to getting better.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
I mean, I think I can get better, like in
every fashion.

Speaker 13 (54:33):
That's something I try to stress every offseason and every season.
It's just getting being the best version of myself.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
I could be like, what can I do to make
myself that much better? At run blockers? Past blocking?

Speaker 2 (54:43):
You know what can I do in the film room to.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Make myself that much better?

Speaker 13 (54:47):
I play diagnosis like dignos how people are gonna move
and how people react to certain situations. So I think
it's actually told me best. Before he retired, he said
always being a sending player, and that's something that's really
I'm trying to exemplify. I just want to I just
want to get better. I mean I want to stay
and I want to stay having that attitude that you know,
I need to get better like.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
You got You got to prove yourself every day.

Speaker 13 (55:07):
But you're accountable to that and that's what I believe.

Speaker 7 (55:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Wow, So yeah, you heard him talk about the VET
one of the best to ever do with Zach Martin
told him be a sending.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
And he took that to heart.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Complacent. Yeah, I don't get him because they call you
a good runt block. You want to be a good
bomker yep.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
And so I was very impressed to hear that from him,
and in the way that he's kind of taking that
maturity level, that next step immaturity.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
So that was exciting.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
But the new rookie, Tyler Booker the road greater, the
one that wants to get down and dirty and came
in with an attitude. He was asked about playing right
guard and what his expectations are.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
It's been a lot of fun. You know, you just
got to think a little bit more.

Speaker 7 (56:00):
But at the same time, it makes your technique better
because you're you're a lot more connaisance of what you're
doing with why you're doing here, and then it's not
it's not too hard because my freshman year at them,
that would be at every game that I played my
freshman year, I'll get two drives that love Guard and
two drives at Rock also, and the SHOT's coach saving
the Coast Wolfman for getting ready for the NFL, and.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
How much you're looking forward to getting out to California
and finally get their passed on.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
I'm I'm very excited about training camp. I'm very excited to.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
Go put the pads on and really see how I'm
really excited the opportunity to get better, you know, because
I know there's gonna be dantastic work on things that
I'm gonna have to get better at.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Fail, then I have to learn and do. Very excided
to go through the whole process and learn. Look at that,
what look at you? What I told you you was
go like that? I told you you was go like that?

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Hey, man, first you make me laugh to I cry,
and then you hit me with that news like come
on man, like I You're gonna give me some money, dude.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Man, what a day.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Yeah, they are putting themselves. Look, we understand what the
cowboys are and as we've talked about before, this has
been a great off season. As far as silence, we
are a couple of weeks away from the NFL training
camp starting. I mean they just talked about it, getting

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ready to get out to Oxnard and get ready to
start practicing. But the thing about it is Mark, I
think sometimes we talk about certain things to a fault,
Like right now they're doing so many good things, talking,
hanging out, bonding, group things. But until you get on

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the field, that's all kumbaya, and then everybody things.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
They're coming at you. What is next? What is next?
How are you going to react?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
It is a common force to know that the guy
next to you in one direction and the guy next
toe the other direction, y'all have the same objective and
you're willing to execute the plan even if you have
to sacrifice a little, right. That's that's team sports, and
that's not just football, but the Cowboys and the Longhorns

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have that.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
We we talked.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
We've been talking about this for a year now, Coach
Sark's ability to the mind melt with his players, and
when we do an interview, we hear the same thing right,
just in different ways, and and all of them they
use the term buy in to to like to really

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immerse yourself into the playbook because you want everything to
be so simple. Man, that's I'm amazed. I think they
got some vulcan mind mail stuff going on over there.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
In the University of Texas campus. Man, all are good coaching,
whatever you want to call it. I think it's a
combination of both.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
And I think that what people are looking at this team,
as the Dallas Cowboys is concerned, is the fact that
we talked about the run game.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
There will be a lot of run game. There will
be a lot of play action.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
This is an opportunity for some of these guys that
are on that one year deal that's trying to get
that extra money. They're trying to find a way to
get that done. We're gonna see a team that is
more motivated than ever looks the NFL. Everybody wants to win,
Everybody wants to win the championship. Everybody wants to be
the star. Everybody's gonna push each other. But at the

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end of the day, when you start to look at
what's happening in the NFL and on your particular.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Team, are they doing things the right way?

Speaker 1 (59:46):
And right now it sounds good from the Cowboys and
it's looking good too. As you said, Texas wins the
National Championship. Cowboys get ten wins. That's all that were
you looking for. And coming up next, we got the
world's Strongest Man as he gets ready to bring you

(01:00:09):
his World's Strongest take right here on the morning kickoff
on Sports Radio and thirteen.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
Hundred is on. You heard that beat drops, so you
know exactly what it means.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
WWE Hall of Famer and the World's Strongest Man beat
Mark Henry tells.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
You exactly what he do in the World's Strongest Take.
Take it away, big fellow, hard, Yes, sir, you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Know what time it is?

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
What time is it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
It's time for the World's Strongest Take by the world's
Strongest Man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
My guests back then they didn't know me. Now I'm hot.
They're all on man last night.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Well, before we get to last night, let's talk about yesterday.
During the day, during the morning and afternoon, all the
NBA could do is talk about Bronnie James.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
Versus Cooper flag like it was meant to be equal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
When we knew you, we talked about it yesterday, we
knew that that was just a marketing campaign. It's a
market employee. Because now let's get to last night the results, Bronnie.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
James going five to twenty one and zero for five
and threes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Cooper Flag, who I thought was gonna go out there
and just mop the floor with them guys. At times
he looked pedestrian because he had a kind of a
look on his face like, wait a minute, these guys
are really good.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
And he has all the tools to be better than everybody.
It's gonna come down.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
My take is that Cooper Flag, in order to not
put itself in a category with average, are above average
in the NBA is still incredible because the guys that are.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
Good are.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Once in a lifetime's usually, and the people that are
average are people that you can'tnot let that guy just
go and drive cars, are choose another life. He's good
enough to do something incredible. Cooper Flag is on the
other side of that. He could be iconic and he's

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gonna have to bring that every night in the NBA,
and it shouldn't shock him that people are good. But
that's what the first game is, and it's just his
first NBA caliber game and the pressures that come with that.
I think he's gonna shake it off. What's say you, Oh, yeah,

(01:03:00):
I'm not. I'm yeah, I'm not. I'm not tripping on
what I saw last night. As we talked about at
the very beginning of the show, you start to look
at what.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
The game is.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
There's really no structure. Yeah, they're running around, they're trying
to set some pigs and do some different things.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
But it's not a it's not an NBA setting.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
I think, to me, what I was most impressive with,
impressed with, excuse me, was the fact that he plays
the entire game like he plays the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
Game the right way.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
He moves without the ball, He set screens, He had
six rebounds, four assists, had three steals, in a dunk
you know, had a block, he did he did things that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Yeah, he played.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
He's a basketball player, man, he's a hooper, and he
enjoys the game and and like anything else, you're you're
first time playing in a game. You're not gonna go
four for four with a home run, a double trip,
you ain't gonna hit for the cycle. You are gonna
go out there and get a feel for your new teammates,

(01:04:13):
the way that the game is being played. Some of
these guys are trying to get theirs. You know what
I'm saying, and you knew, you knew, you know what's
gonna happen in these types of settings. This is more
of an AAU type setting, if you ask Wow. But
like anything else, I don't put too much stock in it.

(01:04:33):
I know that the marketing part of that was to
get eyes on the TV. And they were talking about
the pricing of the ticket to get into that game.
And you know, now we're past that. The lusters w
you know, now we're okay, we open our presence. Now
let's go out here and see what he does in
the next game. Just like what we talked about with

(01:04:54):
ast Bailey. You know, people were talking about East Bailey
in his first game and what do you do in
the next game? Out there and killed it at like
thirty pointsmos. I mean, it's just just certain things you
you you you want to watch during these games, And
the only thing that I really wanted to watch was
how he moved, how he reacted to certain situations, how
he played with others, and what he was able to do. So, yeah,

(01:05:20):
we were talking about it, and you and I have
talked about it, and we we made it a pat
to to kind of dive all into that and watch
what they were able to do, and.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
He passed the test. Let's just say that, you know,
the shot is not falling, the.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Rebounds, the steel, the block, the setting screens, and being
a willing defensive participant. That's that's the number one thing
when you come in how to regard it. You may
you may not, your shot might not fall, but your
defense better.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
Carry no doubt, no doubt. So yeah, it was it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Definitely. He showed that he can. He's gonna be a
two way player. He's gonna be out there to put
put pressure on his teammates.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Yeah, they were all there, like all those guys came
to the game and they at one point they show
a picture of him eating not chosen hot dogs and
I was like, yeah, that's great, guys. Yeah, sure, you're
outstanding athletes eating hot dogs. Well it is a trip
to Vegas.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Yeah, you got you gotta turn up, man, you gotta
be able to turn up and act the food. Sometimes
they ain't playing so they could do what they need to.
I guess that's true, they're not playing. Also, I wanted
to put out there two marks, and she brought it
up and talked about the League. San Antonio Spurs won
last night one eleven to seventy over the seventy six ers.
Bro And Carter Bryant is somebody that Look, he only

(01:06:55):
scored five points, he was one of six from the field.
But there's fear him out there right now of him
doing exactly what we're talking about. He's talking on defense,
he's telling people where they need to be. He's communicative.
You gotta be able to open up your mouth to
play this game. And the more you don't talk, the

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less coaches.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Want to be around you. Yep. And he played very
very physical.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Yeah, and a couple of cases Draymond Green like, I
don't like it, but I like it if the hens
is what I'm saying, Yeah, I got you, unless they
play on my team. But June Garcia too hard like Yep,
that that guy has a baller he could play.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
He looked like a thirty year vit.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Yeah, he's been He moves well without the basketball, he
moves well with the ball in his hand. But the
question that I have, the question that I have for
all of that, Okay, what is is Johnny Broom gonna
do with his hair? Harde He has joined the category
of Stevie Wonder.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
And stephen A. Smith. It's like if stephen A. Smith
and I guy, sometimes you gotta let it go. You
got you gotta let it go. Stevie Wonder and he
got it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Stevie can't see his hairline receiving, so I'm gonna give
I'm gonna give him. I'm gonna give him a little credit.
But stephen A he see that line hairdline. It's I mean,
he's in the middle of the top of his head.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Even his daughter's cracking on his headline. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Broome had a headband on, trying to use that as
a disguise, but it didn't work.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
I saw how far that head hairline was. Another great
take by the World's Strongest Man.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
We're gonna close out the show and send you to
Damn Patrick, but Cam Newton talks about the SEC and
Paul Finebaum wants to know about loyalty.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
All that coming up next on the morning kick Off
on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
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of the Texas Longhorns. You heard Coach Sark and the promos.

(01:09:39):
We will be in Dallas. I mean, excuse me, Dallas,
I'm in Dallas now.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
We will be in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Tuesday and Wednesday, actually Monday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday bringing
you the show. So we'll have guests and a lot
of interviews to be played during that time of fun,
fun stuff as always and since we're talking SEC, the
SEC has been everything that we thought it was gonna

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be a lot of people that think Texas was going
to come in there, but it is still recognized as
one of the top leagues, the top league in college football.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
And Cam Newton had something to say about that.

Speaker 14 (01:10:22):
This is the words that was uttered to me by
coach Jean Chisen that I'll never forget about, you said, Cam.
The four most important people in the state of Alabama.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
It's the head coach of album, it's the head coach
of Alabama.

Speaker 14 (01:10:33):
It's the starting quarterback for Allum and it's the starting
quarterback for the University of Alabama.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
You're one of those four. It's just a little different.

Speaker 14 (01:10:41):
The state of Alabama does not have no professional sports.
So but you're talking about Alabama football and Auburn football.
Anybody from Alabama where you're from, dosed in burning hair?

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Ohfield, Mintgomery, that's enough. You have this one question? Oh Thanksgiving?
What color you win? And they already know turkey flying.

Speaker 14 (01:11:02):
I'm not man, listen, call them crazy, I call them round, buncious,
beautiful people.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
But lizarn fans. Not all fans make it in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
One hundred thousand dollars fine to rush the field.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Man, I guarantee this.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Let it upset happen in the NCC.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Man, they gonna pay that. We gonna make that, man,
and man, is that come out?

Speaker 14 (01:11:23):
Man? The tailgates started on a winds what you had
going on Wednesday? The people will bring their RVs on
Wednesday because they knew if they wait the Friday, they
not gonna have their spot. An eight and two or
seven and three sec sec matchup is way better than
a six and oh six and oh big ten match up.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
I'm saying that it's just different.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Brother, just because you got a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
That don't mean everybody hanging out in the window like
the Joker. Why damn Let you know, Doug, it's just
different in the SEC. Hey, that guy went off about
his love for where he from, and you know it,
you know exactly what it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Alabama, there's no pro team, so that Alabama and Auburn
are your pro teams and we're going all in on it.
Speaking of the SEC, we will be seeing Paul Finebaum
this week, and Paul Finebaumb had some thoughts on loyalty
in college athletics.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
If if a player makes the money good, the only
thing I don't like is the is the lack of loyalty.
And you used to grow up in West Texas or
or Dallas or Houston, or San Antonio or Austin, and
you had a pretty good idea. You knew what you
wanted to do. You wanted to go to Texas, you
wanted to go to A and M. You might, you know,

(01:12:50):
go to Oklahoma if if, if they offered you enough money.
But ultimately, now it's now, you may end up going
where you want, but you won't stay there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
And players are leaving for all the wrong reasons. It's
the truth. It's not the same anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
But I do say this, Mark, and fortunately for you
at this particular time, you've got a son that is
chasing his dream and being able to get back on
the gridiron and getting a chance to go play football,
although it's on the other side of the river and
a lot of people ain't happy about that, but I digress.

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He's getting an opportunity to showcase his skill once again,
where before nobody would have saw it because it would
have been on the wrestling matt you know, because he
was there for wrestling.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
When you get these my cousin Niko getting a.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
Chance to go to Wyoming because it was a better
fit for him and he was going to get an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
It's always good to understand of.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Making the most of those opportunities because if you look
across the country, there's too many that are looking for
those opportunities and they never come. So don't take that
stuff for granted and understand this is a blessing that
you get a chance to do these types of things.

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And most importantly, Sean Adams used to say this use
the university like the university would use you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
What he meant by that was the educational part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
Yes, it's great to make this money that we're being
looked at as that, but the bottom line is when
you get a chance to understand what it is like
to be special and being able to have that education,
that's the most important part.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Yeah, most definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Man, shout out to my guys Sean Adams man all
of all the lessons that he taught us, No doubt
that do right there was special for radio.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
Read. Yeah, yep, that's what it is, man, that's what
it is.

Speaker 12 (01:15:06):
Her quick question, Yeah, I see on your wrists. He
had a little wrist band. Somebody went out last night.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
No, man, I'm here for basketball, dog. And that's the
be able to get it too. The you gotta be
able to get into the events. You know, mar Is
checking in on you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Make streetbody, Hey, you think I'm aut Caesars.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
He thinks I'm at Caesar Yeah, he thinks you are
in them streets. Make sure you for the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:15:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
So it's always, uh, it's always one of the things
that you gotta understand. Bro, you gotta understand you got
you gotta be able to move some things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Around to get into some spots, Bro, But hey, I
ain't gonna out to you. If they're using these kind
of wrist bands.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
For me, you're gonna use it at other places. Yeah. Outside,
she was really going on out there. Oh my gracious, Mark,
what you got this weekend? Your daughter's wrestling. Tell everybody
what your daughter's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Man, My face is going to be glue the Flow
Sports because that's where I can watch the whole competition.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
I can watch every match that she made.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Like a few years ago, I missed Jacob Wrestle at State,
and I missed him at Fargo at the National Championships.
And I was able to make it this past year,
but the year before that, I couldn't be and I
had to watch it on Flow Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
So that's what I'm going to be doing with Joanna.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
I'm going to be watching on flow Sports while we're
in while I'm in Dallas, while I'm in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Nice nice up here from basketball, a lot here coaches
to talk to the players now group, So we'll see
what happens after this weekend, and then we will be
in the at a shouting. We will be in Atlanta,
having a good time and talking SEC football it is here.
I'm excited to say Wait, We'll see y'all Monday. From

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Mark Henry. From Marcus Tears, I'm Harball, harror, and just
remember this. Don't believe everything you see. The South lost
like ship period