April 18, 2025 • 36 mins
Rob & Kelvin debate if the NBA is in a good place after ratings dip this year, FSR NFL Insider & host of the Inside the Birds podcast Adam Caplan joins the show, Puka Nacua has thoughts on the 49ers Super Bowl window if Brock Purdy gets paid, and more!
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Speaker 3 (01:30):
But let's stick with the NBA here and the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We got the play in has been going on, and
now we got the playoffs officially going to start, and
numbers have come out, and Adam Silver tried to put
some lipstick and earrings on the pig and was happy
that the ratings only went down kelvin two percent. That's
nationally the scary numbers overall down thirteen percent this year
(01:55):
TV ratings and locally there was a story out some
team saw fifty percent drops. Yeah, untell that, which is
just a crazy number. And you're ready for the cities
that had that big of a drop.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, these are kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Chicago and Miami, like, these are places where they've won championships,
they got a basketball tradition, and those two cities have
fifty percent drops on local broadcasts. So there's a lot
of fat there to chew. And I'm just wondering with
the play in how that goes. You know, it's been
around for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Our people.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is the NBA in a good place? Cause I don't
think it is, and I'm gonna tell you why. Okay,
I think it has devalued the regular season. Too many
teams to play in. Everybody's under five hundred. What was
the regular season for? Like, like, that's my issues. So
(02:57):
you're telling me not to watch or not pay attention
because everybody's gonna make the playoffs anyway, I don't even
understand it. Twenty of the thirty teams make the playoffs.
So we're playing eighty two games to eliminate ten teams?
Is that what we're doing? Why not put everybody in
(03:17):
and just have a tournament like all thirty teams. If
that's what you want to do. They're probably afraid of
that and people really won't watch. I think that you
gotta make the regular season worth something.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I gotta pay attention. Where's my team? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
This big matchup?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
If you're a certain amount of teams with twenty teams
making the playoffs, even the Suns as bad of a
year as they had, they had a chance to make
the playoffs. Remember that, Like they weren't totally out of
it and they were bad.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I don't know. I'm a guy who.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was a big NBA guy, not just as a guy
who covered the sport since nineteen eighty seven, but somebody
who watched basketball the entire game from two nothing. You know,
I've watched all the matchups, all the games. A lot
of games guys are playing aren't playing, And I know
(04:15):
they would talk about cracking down on load management Kelvin.
There's still a lot of games where guys don't play,
and they'll say something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
With them or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But you know it's Oh, they had a back to
back last night on the road and he's taken off.
And I just think that it's a turnoff for fans.
I really do, And I get it. It was worse
in the beginning of the season. Remember it was down
the national more like down twenty or thirty percent the
national rating.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, so where are you on the league? And I
think it has still has issues.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I think it ate along with anything right now is struggling.
If you're talking in the league, if you're talking cable television,
if you talk oh, let's not talk Hollywood. In the
movie industry, many through it right now. So that's I
think that's a big thing. A lot of folks are
trying to figure out as we've entered into this streaming
social media era, how the heck do I take this product,
(05:11):
this service, these goods and then make it translate social
media wise, streaming wise, this digital era.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
This digital space.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So I do think the league clearly was struggling, but
I think a couple of things have helped the league.
Number One, Luca, that was a nobody saw that trade coming.
I mean everywhere I was going, there were conversations. Everybody's
watching the games, everybody's talking about everybody's blown away. It's
leading all conversations in all sports if it's a sports show,
that is what they've talked about the last couple of months.
(05:39):
So I think that spiced things up, almost to the
tune of people cracking jokes saying Adam Silver was on
the bat phone, like, hey, spice some things up, get
rid of Luca, and so I definitely think that helped.
Would also think helped was having a couple of young
teams all of a sudden be good, right Oklahoma City,
You're like, oh man, this is a fun team to
you know, kind of keep an eye on the resurgence
of New York that they've been great. But just the
(06:01):
fact that they're you know, around being the Knicks. So
I think you had that. I think a team like
a market like Detroit as you know that when they
get going, it's pretty fun, not sucking. Tripling their win
total that is very helpful. And lastly, a couple other
things Rob I think to keep note of. You have
(06:21):
the potential this postseason to finally have the passing of
the Guard, or at least the big great beginnings of it.
If SGA likely the MVP gets to the finals, if
SGA were to beat Lebron, if SGA were to beat
Steph and you start to say, oh, he is now
(06:42):
one of the faces. If Aunt were to do what
we thought he might do this year and play better,
but he were to beat the Lakers, he were to
talk smack to Lebron, he said it, He already said,
I want to be Lebron has been one of the
best players ever. I want to be the one to
put him in the casket and get him out of here.
And so if you start to have these young whipper
snappers who want to talk, who love it, who want
to own it at John Morant all of a sudden
(07:03):
and the Grizzlies were able to get in the plaoffs
and makes the noise again. I think that's good that
you can say the young boys are here.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The Pistons are claiming it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Kate Cunningham saying I want to be the absolute best
player in the league. These are things that can give
you hope. To me and lastly, Rob, I do think
we have Mark Steino. We had a couple of people
who were social, were people who understand the money of
this all.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
One thing we gotta look at.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
The NBA is dwarfing other leagues when it comes to streaming,
when it comes to highlights, when it comes to social media.
I was looking at some numbers here, Rob, so when
you're looking at let's say Instagram, the NFL as an
entire league, which is the biggest by far league, has
thirty one million followers, MLB, which is obviously a massive league,
(07:54):
twelve followers. Steph Curry himself has fifty eight million. Lebron
James one hundred and fifty nine million followers. Pat Mahomes
is the best player. You can argue Lamar Jackson. If
you want to argue, you're talking about Lamar Jackson with
four million followers, Patrick Mahomes with seven on Rond.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, but those people watch the games though.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
So what I'm going with this is, as we heard
Scott Boris on Scott Boris, the great, maybe the best
agent in all the sports, said one thing that the
NBA is doing right. They mastered the streaming, They've mastered
the digital space, and MLB is behind that. The NFL
is trying to catch up with that. And so I
do think some of these numbers are slightly skewed in
(08:35):
that NBA is the younger of all the sports. It's
the youngest fan base. They know where their fans are.
So I do take these numbers with a massive grain
of salt, maybe a tea spoon of salt, because I
do think they know where their audience is. A younger
audience is consuming differently than maybe you or I are.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't agree with that. I still think that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I mean facts though those are numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm not talking, but I'm saying, you can't tell me
that the NBA is sitting there going, oh, we're happy.
They had Luca and Lebron joined together and T and
T still saw a seven percent drop. The same thing.
ESPN was flat like as far as their numbers, that
that should have boosted it that that should have helped,
don't you think when you have stars of that magnitude
(09:19):
in the same I.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Mean, that's the last month and a half two months,
so I totally get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All I'm saying is like, like, I'm not saying that
they have to accept TV uh, break records or whatever,
but you gotta be disheartened as how bad that people
stop watching or decided that they would rather not.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And I understand.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Looking at social media and watching a one minute video
or or a dunk or something, but that is not Ultimately,
they make their bread and butter on what they can
do when they sell TV rights and they just got
a new deal and all that, but you gotta be
careful that you don't make it so that people don't
feel compelled to watch. And that's that's what I'm talking about,
(09:59):
Like like, yes, all that other stuff is great. I'm
not don't got my head in the in the sam
all great, but I'm talking about where you set the
league up where you're not paying attention or the league
what's happening during the regular season isn't important, or you're
waiting till.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
After football season to watch your first NBA. Do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Listen, those are the things that you don't want.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You're like cause it used to be Christmas Day, which
all right, I give it, that's a month and a half,
two months in the season.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
But now it's like, let's get pushed past All Star break?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
When do I want to get into it? And so
I think that's why Rob I'll said this again quickly.
I think this is why this postseason will be big.
Meaning if these young stars show up, if there's beef
in a good way, like meaning competitive beef, if there's rivalries,
if they're smashed so like, it becomes engaging, like all
these young guys really want it and they're gonna, you know,
(10:54):
be the new carriers of the torch. If you're just
there and they don't really care, no fire, nobody, then
I agree. But these playoffs can really charge things up
to where you can say SGA and the Okay City,
Oklahoma see thunder?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Are they here to stay? Ant man and amped up?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Some You can say, Okay New York is bat baby,
you can say the Pistons are back.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
This can be huge.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
They have to capitalize on it moving into the next season.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
In my opinion.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, I just I just feel like the regular You
gotta make the regular season mean something that that's all
that that's my got that got your players players, you
gotta you can't make it to where the.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Regular rivalries and beef helps with yes, you know what
I meant to have the juice.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Right, like, like there are games that you want to see,
But how many times do we turn on games and
nobody's playing you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
On so I have no argument with that. I'm having
no argument. That's the biggest argument. I mean, win be healthy.
So you can say wimb going up against you know,
ant Man, like whoa, Okay, I'm gonna see that's I.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Want to watch that, right or you want to see
guys going each other all right?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. And we're basically
here on the doorstep of the playoffs starting tomorrow. We
still got playing games today, but the play playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And where is the league?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, the ratings down two percent nationally, bigger, locally,
bigger overall thirteen percent? Is the league in a good place?
Do you like where the league is? Do you not
like it. Do you like the play and what do
you like? What don't you like? This is for your
chance to chime in on the NBA and if you
still love it or the NBA is still fantastic to you,
(12:34):
tell us if it's not, what don't you like and
what would you like to see fixed?
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Speaker 4 (14:03):
All right, Rob, what is it?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Just talking about
the NBA the start of the postseason and just where
are you?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Is the league in a good place? You're happy?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Got young players, you know, and maybe a changing of
the guard as you talked about, or no, you're still
unhappy with the uh load management and everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Making the playoffs and all those other kind of things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So let's uh take a temperature of NBA America. Let's
start with Mark in Sacramento. You're on the couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
What's up, Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Right?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
And mister Washington, you knew I was gonna call on
that run.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I knew that as much as you watch NBA.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Yeah, I think you fish. I think you're fishing me
out on this one today. But in my opinion, is
too a couple of things going on here. Number one,
there's so much more to watch because of you know,
the environment just took how much more things you got
to choose. I'm looking at my television now, I'm doing lost,
trying to find stuff. There's so much more to watch.
That's number one. Number two as far as comparing to football,
(15:06):
First of all, football is the most gambled gamble sport
in the country by far as the gambling, and it's
the short and it's the shortest gambling season, so of
course it's been to be the most popular.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah when you yeah, there's no doubt, there's no I
said that all the time. If you took all the
sports and they all had sixteen games or seventeen games,
it would be different.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yes, that's that's true.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Absolutely with with with the landscape of the NBA. I
can say this for a fact, and you know this.
I can say in the last five years, and I think, Rob,
you know this because it's been six years I've been
calling going on seven, I've been calling you and I
always talking about young players. The one thing I've been
telling you for the last five years is what Rob,
there's a group of young players coming that I hadn't
seen before this that's just going to growing. I was
(15:48):
liking it. And for five years we talked about it.
Well that that see now you've seen his growing.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Rob.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
We've talked about.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
S g A.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Man Garius gone, we talked, we talked about you guys
are four years.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Haven't we?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Absolutely you I remember you mentioned and Man right, yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Yeah, these are the guys who can go up. And
what has to happen is there's there's a there's a
just up here going on. You see it air leaving
thirty eight, thirty nine to forty year old KD Steph Lebron.
You see the next year are coming. So it's at
the same time.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Let me let me add to your point. Let me
let me add to your point. I think one thing
we forget. I think you'll you'll feel me on this.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Historically we're coming in at twenty one, Steph Curry, you know,
played a bunch of years. You got guys just you know,
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. These guys are coming
in at literally Cooper Flag is gonna be coming at
eighteen years old. These guys are coming at nineteen Jason
Tatum and then so like they're needing a three year,
four year process of getting it understanding the game and
(16:51):
now boom, I'm ready to go at twenty three, twenty four.
That I sometimes think we forget and we're ready to
throw the tile in and we're forgetting about them because
they're so young entering the league.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Now here's what I will say about the young kids
coming in the league. I've seen what's happened. Everything is changing,
including the learning curve. We used to have a patter
of these kids live and grow up three or four years.
But what's happening here is these kids are so talented,
not just talented, they're learning the game faster. So the
learning curve is not as big as it used to be.
It's why I always say, yeah, I used to take
(17:20):
four years for teams to get there. Now I'm going
wait a minute, if these young teams help the right veterans,
it doesn't take four years to get there anymore now
two all. So it's there's.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Process going on, no doubt, Marsh. Thank you appreciate it.
Casey and Oregon, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
What's up Casey Hey, Rob Hey, Calvin h Yeah, I've
been wanting to talk talk to you guys about the
state of the NBA.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Manu.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Some of my best memories as a kid, well, when
my dad took me and my brother to the early
two thousand Portland Trailblazer games. I got to see John
Start and Garry Payton, chef Jeff Fan, Dundee, Alan Houston,
and so sad to me, what has happened to the NBA.
It's just a complete joke. The level of playing the products,
(18:06):
it's terrible. I used to love how physical Dundee used
to be. They gotta bring that back.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I hear you. Some people don't like but they don't
like the Olympian style, you know what I mean of that.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
They gotta let them play a little bit too. Rod.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
That's why his playoffs be interesting because they you know,
the reps are out there. They're banning stuff, you know,
keeping stuff out of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Tim in California, you're in the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tim?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I don't know about Tim, but his kids anyway, half
a good party, brother. I don't know. You don't like
to talk religion, but half the good part of Rob.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Who guys and I don't like to talk religion.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Way what am I heath Way?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Anyway? Rob?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
But I sit on this Sunday anyway. You know what,
I'll turn the load management. I'm tired of these guys
back to back. If they kept playing like.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
The good old days eighty two.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
They're making Clifton to you listen to. But you know what,
let's short it up, but let's take out this playing
game because all are doing is playing and playing and playing.
Oh maybe we'll get in at this in anyway. The
only way I see it coming back if it's a
Lakers Celtics this year, if you want Comforence finals in
the Calves and the Celtics and uh and the Lakers
(19:20):
and okay, see the.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Old and the younger I'm out all right, thanks can
appreciate it. What about Chili, Jim, he's at Atlanta to church,
I know, and you're already couple of Fox Sports radio.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
What's up, Chili? Hey?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
What's up? Guys?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
How you doing this?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Doing? Gray? How are you?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
I'm good man, rub you kind of hit it from me.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
You know what you said, the two points that you made.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I watched the Warriors Clippers game, and it meant two reasons,
and the two reasons you gave.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
First of all, I saw Kawhi Leon and playing.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
He was playing good, and he and Jane Harden and
Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry, and it was like stars
playing stars.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
You've got to actually see these guys.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Playing at their best.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And the second part was it.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Meant something, and they played like it meant something, and
they're to me for me there you know the difference.
So I made kitch the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I've watched the Clippers different game because there'll be stars
playing and then if they're playing for something, so somehow
you got to make the regular season.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Means right, It has to mean something. Yeah, exactly, Chillie, Tim.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
And I with Chillie, I with you, I think That's
why rivalries are gonna be so important, you know what
I mean, Because if you get people, oh shoot, it's
gonna be a good game, they're gonna go out it tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
You look forward to that, Appreciate all the calls, everybody.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
All right, just the boys, the Odd Couple, Robin Kelvin
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Speaker 4 (20:56):
Less than all?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
I know?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Man, I know six days here.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
It's let me just set our discussion up tonight like
this just just folks got to understand this is not
an astically great first round.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
In terms of true first round.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I was gonna say that it just doesn't have that
field to me, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
But that up surprises guys.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I'm just telling you there, you're gonna go man, they
took that guy, Well, that's because it's not a great
first round draft. If you can't trade out, you got
to take somebody.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Just can't. You can't let the time expire, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Okay, so so, yeah, guy, Kevin, I was gonna say,
I mean you you mentioned trade house. That's I think
that's gonna end up being more interesting than anything is
if a team decides to move up a little bit,
if the Steelers say, you know what, Aaron Rodgers maybe
doesn't want to play, we gotta go get a quarterback,
we need to move up, or some other teams decide
to do that as well.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What do you what do you make of those types
of scenarios.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
So guys, here's let let's let's talk about the Steelers
right and in Aaron Rodgers situation, and you're kind of
where they're at. So my understanding is that you know,
they when after he left there with a visit, they
felt very strong that he would sign with him. But
he never told them when, and he never said for sure,
but they felt really good about their meeting.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
So Rogers, now this is fascinating.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
So the other complicated part to this was that it
was Rogers who called the Vikings, not the other way around.
Rogers actually called the Vikings. They were intrigued and flattered
that he called show interest in them, but they already
made a commitment of J. J. McCarthy's ready after his torminiscus,
and everything I've been told privately is that he's doing
really well in his rehabiting and he should be ready
(22:31):
to go in a couple of weeks to start throwing
with his teammates and Ota. So they've left the door
just a jar, but it's highly unlikely that it happens
unless something happens with McCarthy. So Rogers doesn't have a
lot of options here now. He did say to Pat McAfee,
and this is interesting, I didn't know about this. That
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it's okay. He's dealing with some stuff personally that he
needs to get through. We don't know what that is,
and that's okay. I mean, to deal stuff in a
private life.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I think sometimes people just want stuff when they want
and they don't really know what's going on in somebody's life.
And it was honest for him to just say, Hey,
I'm going through some stuff and I really got to
figure this out. And I think that's why the stealers
are We're just going to wait it out, you know
what I mean. It ain't like he's just and he
said he's talked to Mike Tomlin, so you know what
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I mean, he's got to have a feel of what's happening.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I want, you know, I'm intrigued by Shador Sanders.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Not that sure.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I just I hear so many different things. I'm not
where is he going? Is he going to drop to twentieth?
Is he going to be Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I like you remember that.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
I was doing television then in locally and Philly and
Comcast Sportsnet, and I remember the debate with Smith and Rogers.
But all right, Rob, here's where I'm at. He's going
to go in the first round. Okay, this is let
me just let me just kind of break him down
from the way that offense coordinators, quarterback coach you see him.
He's good.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
He's a good college quarterback. You like the football. IQ.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Not the greatest athlete in the world. You know, today's quarterbacks.
You either drop pass or you could really move. His
arm isn't great. There's some throws. You feel that when
you break down his tape. Is he on the side
a little bit or only six to two but he's two,
twelve to fifteen, You don't have it, But it's deceiving.
He doesn't have the biggest frame from but it's it's
(24:25):
interesting that you asked that.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
That's why I'm asking because yeah, he's done the.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Best frame in the world. Yes, and he's arm is
just okay. Quite honestly, had this been a better draft,
he would not go in the first round. This is
just I know this angers people who are big Shoulder
Sanders fans are Dion fans. It's just not a great process.
He's a nice prospect. He's again, if this is a
I have based on the information I have, there are
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about ten players of two first round greats. That means
a bad draft. Under under fifteen means it's not a
good first round. It's just not Shuter Shuter Sanders. I'd
be flu if he went in the top ten. And
I'm saying I'm not saying it's not gonna happen. You know,
the teams are teams, don't tell reporters what they're going
to do, but you can gather information and kind of
know through the grave, fine, how they really feel. I'd
(25:13):
be surprised if he went in the top ten. Now,
you mentioned the Steelers. Let's get back to them before
we move on here. If the Steelers don't draft, let's
say Jackson dart Or Sanders or Jalen Milroe, although I
think Milroe's more of a second round pick. That's when
they turned to the veteran market. They've said publicly. I'm
aware of it. I know the way that Mason Rudolph
(25:34):
is a solid backup. He's a guy for three or
four starts. You can get away with it in no
way or shape or form, or they satisfy with him
to being the starter if they can't at Rogers, they
don't get that first round quarterback. I don't care what
they say. He's not that good of a quarterback. He say, Okay, backup,
nothing more, all.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Right, Adam, I want to ask you about a running
back who is making all the noise right now, asking Genty.
We know finalists for the Heisman. It's funny. One thing
I like about him. Let me tell you who loves
some Ashton Genty. Ashton Genty, he loves. He loves himself
in a good way, though, but he keeps comparing himself
to the greats. He's like, yeah, I'm like Christian McCaffrey,
a little bit of Barry Sanders, a little bit of
(26:14):
Derek Henry.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm like, WHOA did you leave anybody out a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I know, yeah, that's a lot, But when you look
at him, that means run the other way. I'm just
saying when you.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Look at him, at him and maybe a team like
the Raiders who have come out and said, hey, yo,
you know the GM loves coming from Michigan, love to
run the ball. You have Pete Carroll loves to run
the ball. Yeahatly head coach, Pete exactly loves to run
the ball. What do you what do you make of
him going there? Pairing him up with Gino? Is that
enough to get an offense started?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Well?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
See Pete when he had personally he actually had personnel control,
believe or not. For a majority of his career with
the Seahawks, he just rarely used it. He would defer
to John, to the GM. But the air that was
shot Penny came out. I'm told that that was this
guy that he wanted. So that's who they drafted and
unfortunately didn't work out. Penny. He had just had a
bad injury history. He was certainly overdrafted. I would say
that there's no question he was overdrafted. But when it
(27:07):
comes to gent, what's fascinating is if you talk to
some teams. I know multiple teams have Omrion Hampton, the
running back from Carolina, over him. I know fans think
I'm out of my mind, but it's true. So yeah, look,
yes it meets what Carol would want. Though John spy
Tech will make the call. Their new general manager. Spy
(27:29):
Tech has been very out in the front about running back.
Is his kid thinks he's crazy if he doesn't draft genty.
It's kind of funny that. I don't know if he's
trying to create interest in the pick. It's just very
odd to be that out in front. That's just no
subst futige at all. It wouldn't be a bad pick,
and they're in dire straits at running back. To be
honest with you, they need one. Pete wants to run
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the ball. In fact, look what he did in twenty
twenty during the give you a twenty second story here
in twenty twenty when the let Russ Cooks season two,
where Russell Wilson had twenty eight passing touchdowns in eight games,
he said for an NFL record, Pete made the call
for them to stop throwing the football. That was his decision,
he told Brian Schottenheimer. And they clashed badly. He said,
(28:11):
that's it. We're running the football. Our defense is not good,
so we got to control the clock, which is bad coaching.
But that was on Pete, So you know it's coming here,
and that would fit certainly at running back. I certainly
could understand why people are saying it.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
How about Kim Ward. We just don't hear anything.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It's just he's going to one one.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
But is there anything to look forward to us?
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Yeah, he's Robbie rob Let me tell you who he is.
And now he hadn't played a game, but he could
tell you where he's at with with the NFL people.
A very strong NFL source told me that. And this
guy's information gathering. This guy's all ball, okay, he said.
Cam Ward family in ball, ball and family. He doesn't
care about anything else extracurricular. He's about football, very serious
(28:52):
about it, loves it. He a little cocky, but that's okay.
He's very confident.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Now, I'll tell you what the Titans they their offensive
line had been one of the worst in the NFL
for a number of years. They've addressed the last two years.
They have a chance to have a really good offensive
line at top ten. Uh, you're running back. They're okay receiver,
they're not okay defense. They need help, but at least
they're building something there and they're gonna get cam Ward here.
But I will tell you before you get out of here,
Travis Hunter is the best player for this draft by far.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I sometimes when you have a guy like that, oh,
you and you don't draft on you don't draft for
a position because you know, we always brought it up.
I bought this over Kelvin about the reason that the
Portland Trail Blazers didn't take.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Michael Jordan, Sam Buoye, don't say no, no, no, yeah,
because of Clyde Drechsler.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
Like they already had a guard Rudd, a two guard
and you and you passed on Michael Jordan. Can't do that, right,
And that's what I'm saying, like, like it's hard to
sometimes you got to take no matter what you have.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
If somebody is of that good, you gotta take him.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
I would listen if if the three of us had
a vote, Let's say it was three of us running
a franchise and we had the first pick overall, we're
probably going to take Travis Hunter. We'll live with not
having a franchise quarterback potentially and cam Ward Now that
obviously it leaves a major hall. We can't really go
forward with what we have. Will Levis isn't the answer.
(30:21):
But I feel good that we got the best player
in the draft now and who also could play two
persons we.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Could play, right, there's two holes that may be a film.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I know.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Well, look, guys, we'll talk about this next week and
whenever we're on together next and you can't really play
him two for a long period of time physically, just
the demands are strong from a coaching standpoint, but game
planning it's really tough. I don't see that. But yeah,
this this came. The stuff with Hunters fascinating. I could
tell you talking to so many people I trust, it's
(30:52):
not even close. Hunter is the best player for this draft.
We'll see if he plays out, if he plays to
that level. But on paper, he's just a special player.
And Rob, you're right, you don't want to pass up
on this place. You don't want to have any regrets.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
No doubt, all right, No, he's incredible and he could
have been on both best player on either side if
he just played that.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Hey, we appreciate you, Adam, thank you so much for
got it. Thank you. Yep.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
All right, there's somebody arrival of a team is calling
out the forty nine er saying, if you pay that
man his money isn't party, that's gonna mess up the team.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
We'll tell you who that is.
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You and I have kind of differed on Rock Purty
and what to do with him is specifically if you
are the forty nine ers, well is in on my Yeah, Hey,
Pooka Nakoua has some things to say.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
He believes robbed at the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Window closes if your boy party was to make more
than fifty million a year.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
We do have sound of him on This is the
Who is Julius Edelman Podcast? Games with Names? Let's do it? Perty?
Is he gonna get a five?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Do you think he's gonna go with a four? It's
gonna start with a four?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
High four? Um No, I think mid for forty five?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I mean I think if he does that, that'd be
smart for him and them.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah, I mean I think he's he seems like a
smart guy, and think he like they're still they have
a chance to still be in their window.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
And I think if if he goes for a five,
that the window closes. Wow. Yeah, you know one thing.
It's been funny.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
But I tell you what, Robert, I don't remember so
many players talk about other players contract as much, like.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, Micah, that's because the podcast. By god, it's funny
that people would even be worse the most. This is
the most pocket watching this era ever. Like, and I'm
not saying guys didn't talk about it.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
We know that publicly, but not publicly because they're either
Usually you're either rooting for guys to get paid because
you go you look at it as well, Shoot, I'm
next up.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
But he ain't getting even making that kind of he
ain't making that.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
But I'm saying, you know, usually it's just one of
those you root for the league just because if the
league goes up, salary goes up, all that good stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
But these guys are, man, they're pocket watching.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
But with that being said, I think you look at
a team like the forty nine ers who've had a
good run the last you know, seven eight years, give
or take, and I think Brock Purdy is being a
part of that. I think he acknowledges and has seen
in order for us to make a run, we gotta
stay loaded up. So I'm gonna take a good deal.
I was quote unquote mister irrelevant. So I'm gonna get
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a bunch of money. Do I need to break the
bank as far as fifty when it can be forty three,
forty four, forty five and still save a few extra
bucks for somebody else. I think he's gonna do that
because I think he's in it, trying to be in
it for the long run. I want to be their
quarterback for the next eight to ten years, go back
to the Super Bowl two, three, four times and have
a shot to win. So I kind of fully expect
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them to fall all them the organization him, everybody called him,
fall on line, find a number that makes both sides
happy and that they can make a couple of deals,
because I think they absolutely do not want that window
to close, because otherwise they're gonna be ticked off. They
had two chances at it and came up empty handed.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, I just if you're his representation taking forty when
Dak Prescott has sixty and that hasn't gotten to.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
But they're not gonna pay him sixty.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I didn't say he's gonna pay him sixty, but I'm
not taking forty three. I'm just saying, like, if if
you're represented he got to the Super Bowl, he did,
I'm just I'm just trying to say, like, really, I
should make seventeen million dollars less than Dak Prescott or
whatever it is. I'm just saying I would be surprised
if it's that low. That That's all I'm saying. Like
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he's gonna want market value, Yes, I think he would
want mark value, walking value. They giving everybody fifty something,
How is he gonna get forty three?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I just don't see it.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I don't I totally.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I think that if you know, you am I right,
most guys are getting at.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Least okay everybody, especially with his I mean, he might
have the best resume. I'm selling Patrick Mahomes, you know,
And that's how I massing. I mean, Jayalen Hurts could
argue that too. Is I got a ring and also
I went to another super Bowl. But Brock Purty absolutely
all these guys will get more money than him. That's
why I said maybe for forty four, forty five for
the six. I just think for him, the way in
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which I've seen him, the personality trait, I don't see
him arguing over extra four or five when he's like,
I'll make that up if I'm the super Bowl reigning quarterback.
I'll make that up. In another four years, I'll ball
out and the MVP candidate.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
And that's crazy to think like that. I just think
you just want your fair market value.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
But I.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Wouldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Quarterbacks want to win and they need help.
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Speaker 3 (01:30):
But let's stick with the NBA here and the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We got the play in has been going on, and
now we got the playoffs officially going to start, and
numbers have come out, and Adam Silver tried to put
some lipstick and earrings on the pig and was happy
that the ratings only went down kelvin two percent. That's
nationally the scary numbers overall down thirteen percent this year
(01:55):
TV ratings and locally there was a story out some
team saw fifty percent drops. Yeah, untell that, which is
just a crazy number. And you're ready for the cities
that had that big of a drop.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, these are kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Chicago and Miami, like, these are places where they've won championships,
they got a basketball tradition, and those two cities have
fifty percent drops on local broadcasts. So there's a lot
of fat there to chew. And I'm just wondering with
the play in how that goes. You know, it's been
around for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Our people.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is the NBA in a good place? Cause I don't
think it is, and I'm gonna tell you why. Okay,
I think it has devalued the regular season. Too many
teams to play in. Everybody's under five hundred. What was
the regular season for? Like, like, that's my issues. So
(02:57):
you're telling me not to watch or not pay attention
because everybody's gonna make the playoffs anyway, I don't even
understand it. Twenty of the thirty teams make the playoffs.
So we're playing eighty two games to eliminate ten teams?
Is that what we're doing? Why not put everybody in
(03:17):
and just have a tournament like all thirty teams. If
that's what you want to do. They're probably afraid of
that and people really won't watch. I think that you
gotta make the regular season worth something.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I gotta pay attention. Where's my team? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
This big matchup?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
If you're a certain amount of teams with twenty teams
making the playoffs, even the Suns as bad of a
year as they had, they had a chance to make
the playoffs. Remember that, Like they weren't totally out of
it and they were bad.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I don't know. I'm a guy who.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was a big NBA guy, not just as a guy
who covered the sport since nineteen eighty seven, but somebody
who watched basketball the entire game from two nothing. You know,
I've watched all the matchups, all the games. A lot
of games guys are playing aren't playing, And I know
(04:15):
they would talk about cracking down on load management Kelvin.
There's still a lot of games where guys don't play,
and they'll say something's wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
With them or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But you know it's Oh, they had a back to
back last night on the road and he's taken off.
And I just think that it's a turnoff for fans.
I really do, And I get it. It was worse
in the beginning of the season. Remember it was down
the national more like down twenty or thirty percent the
national rating.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, so where are you on the league? And I
think it has still has issues.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I think it ate along with anything right now is struggling.
If you're talking in the league, if you're talking cable television,
if you talk oh, let's not talk Hollywood. In the
movie industry, many through it right now. So that's I
think that's a big thing. A lot of folks are
trying to figure out as we've entered into this streaming
social media era, how the heck do I take this product,
(05:11):
this service, these goods and then make it translate social
media wise, streaming wise, this digital era.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
This digital space.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So I do think the league clearly was struggling, but
I think a couple of things have helped the league.
Number One, Luca, that was a nobody saw that trade coming.
I mean everywhere I was going, there were conversations. Everybody's
watching the games, everybody's talking about everybody's blown away. It's
leading all conversations in all sports if it's a sports show,
that is what they've talked about the last couple of months.
(05:39):
So I think that spiced things up, almost to the
tune of people cracking jokes saying Adam Silver was on
the bat phone, like, hey, spice some things up, get
rid of Luca, and so I definitely think that helped.
Would also think helped was having a couple of young
teams all of a sudden be good, right Oklahoma City,
You're like, oh man, this is a fun team to
you know, kind of keep an eye on the resurgence
of New York that they've been great. But just the
(06:01):
fact that they're you know, around being the Knicks. So
I think you had that. I think a team like
a market like Detroit as you know that when they
get going, it's pretty fun, not sucking. Tripling their win
total that is very helpful. And lastly, a couple other
things Rob I think to keep note of. You have
(06:21):
the potential this postseason to finally have the passing of
the Guard, or at least the big great beginnings of it.
If SGA likely the MVP gets to the finals, if
SGA were to beat Lebron, if SGA were to beat
Steph and you start to say, oh, he is now
(06:42):
one of the faces. If Aunt were to do what
we thought he might do this year and play better,
but he were to beat the Lakers, he were to
talk smack to Lebron, he said it, He already said,
I want to be Lebron has been one of the
best players ever. I want to be the one to
put him in the casket and get him out of here.
And so if you start to have these young whipper
snappers who want to talk, who love it, who want
to own it at John Morant all of a sudden
(07:03):
and the Grizzlies were able to get in the plaoffs
and makes the noise again. I think that's good that
you can say the young boys are here.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The Pistons are claiming it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Kate Cunningham saying I want to be the absolute best
player in the league. These are things that can give
you hope. To me and lastly, Rob, I do think
we have Mark Steino. We had a couple of people
who were social, were people who understand the money of
this all.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
One thing we gotta look at.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
The NBA is dwarfing other leagues when it comes to streaming,
when it comes to highlights, when it comes to social media.
I was looking at some numbers here, Rob, so when
you're looking at let's say Instagram, the NFL as an
entire league, which is the biggest by far league, has
thirty one million followers, MLB, which is obviously a massive league,
(07:54):
twelve followers. Steph Curry himself has fifty eight million. Lebron
James one hundred and fifty nine million followers. Pat Mahomes
is the best player. You can argue Lamar Jackson. If
you want to argue, you're talking about Lamar Jackson with
four million followers, Patrick Mahomes with seven on Rond.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, but those people watch the games though.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
So what I'm going with this is, as we heard
Scott Boris on Scott Boris, the great, maybe the best
agent in all the sports, said one thing that the
NBA is doing right. They mastered the streaming, They've mastered
the digital space, and MLB is behind that. The NFL
is trying to catch up with that. And so I
do think some of these numbers are slightly skewed in
(08:35):
that NBA is the younger of all the sports. It's
the youngest fan base. They know where their fans are.
So I do take these numbers with a massive grain
of salt, maybe a tea spoon of salt, because I
do think they know where their audience is. A younger
audience is consuming differently than maybe you or I are.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't agree with that. I still think that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I mean facts though those are numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm not talking, but I'm saying, you can't tell me
that the NBA is sitting there going, oh, we're happy.
They had Luca and Lebron joined together and T and
T still saw a seven percent drop. The same thing.
ESPN was flat like as far as their numbers, that
that should have boosted it that that should have helped,
don't you think when you have stars of that magnitude
(09:19):
in the same I.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Mean, that's the last month and a half two months,
so I totally get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All I'm saying is like, like, I'm not saying that
they have to accept TV uh, break records or whatever,
but you gotta be disheartened as how bad that people
stop watching or decided that they would rather not.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And I understand.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Looking at social media and watching a one minute video
or or a dunk or something, but that is not Ultimately,
they make their bread and butter on what they can
do when they sell TV rights and they just got
a new deal and all that, but you gotta be
careful that you don't make it so that people don't
feel compelled to watch. And that's that's what I'm talking about,
(09:59):
Like like, yes, all that other stuff is great. I'm
not don't got my head in the in the sam
all great, but I'm talking about where you set the
league up where you're not paying attention or the league
what's happening during the regular season isn't important, or you're
waiting till.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
After football season to watch your first NBA. Do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Listen, those are the things that you don't want.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
You're like cause it used to be Christmas Day, which
all right, I give it, that's a month and a half,
two months in the season.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
But now it's like, let's get pushed past All Star break?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
When do I want to get into it? And so
I think that's why Rob I'll said this again quickly.
I think this is why this postseason will be big.
Meaning if these young stars show up, if there's beef
in a good way, like meaning competitive beef, if there's rivalries,
if they're smashed so like, it becomes engaging, like all
these young guys really want it and they're gonna, you know,
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be the new carriers of the torch. If you're just
there and they don't really care, no fire, nobody, then
I agree. But these playoffs can really charge things up
to where you can say SGA and the Okay City,
Oklahoma see thunder?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Are they here to stay? Ant man and amped up?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Some You can say, Okay New York is bat baby,
you can say the Pistons are back.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
This can be huge.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
They have to capitalize on it moving into the next season.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
In my opinion.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, I just I just feel like the regular You
gotta make the regular season mean something that that's all
that that's my got that got your players players, you
gotta you can't make it to where the.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Regular rivalries and beef helps with yes, you know what
I meant to have the juice.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Right, like, like there are games that you want to see,
But how many times do we turn on games and
nobody's playing you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
On so I have no argument with that. I'm having
no argument. That's the biggest argument. I mean, win be healthy.
So you can say wimb going up against you know,
ant Man, like whoa, Okay, I'm gonna see that's I.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Want to watch that, right or you want to see
guys going each other all right?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. And we're basically
here on the doorstep of the playoffs starting tomorrow. We
still got playing games today, but the play playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And where is the league?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, the ratings down two percent nationally, bigger, locally,
bigger overall thirteen percent? Is the league in a good place?
Do you like where the league is? Do you not
like it. Do you like the play and what do
you like? What don't you like? This is for your
chance to chime in on the NBA and if you
still love it or the NBA is still fantastic to you,
(12:34):
tell us if it's not, what don't you like and
what would you like to see fixed?
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Speaker 4 (14:03):
All right, Rob, what is it?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Just talking about
the NBA the start of the postseason and just where
are you?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Is the league in a good place? You're happy?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Got young players, you know, and maybe a changing of
the guard as you talked about, or no, you're still
unhappy with the uh load management and everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Making the playoffs and all those other kind of things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So let's uh take a temperature of NBA America. Let's
start with Mark in Sacramento. You're on the couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
What's up, Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Right?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
And mister Washington, you knew I was gonna call on
that run.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I knew that as much as you watch NBA.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Yeah, I think you fish. I think you're fishing me
out on this one today. But in my opinion, is
too a couple of things going on here. Number one,
there's so much more to watch because of you know,
the environment just took how much more things you got
to choose. I'm looking at my television now, I'm doing lost,
trying to find stuff. There's so much more to watch.
That's number one. Number two as far as comparing to football,
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First of all, football is the most gambled gamble sport
in the country by far as the gambling, and it's
the short and it's the shortest gambling season, so of
course it's been to be the most popular.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah when you yeah, there's no doubt, there's no I
said that all the time. If you took all the
sports and they all had sixteen games or seventeen games,
it would be different.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yes, that's that's true.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Absolutely with with with the landscape of the NBA. I
can say this for a fact, and you know this.
I can say in the last five years, and I think, Rob,
you know this because it's been six years I've been
calling going on seven, I've been calling you and I
always talking about young players. The one thing I've been
telling you for the last five years is what Rob,
there's a group of young players coming that I hadn't
seen before this that's just going to growing. I was
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liking it. And for five years we talked about it.
Well that that see now you've seen his growing.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Rob.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
We've talked about.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
S g A.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Man Garius gone, we talked, we talked about you guys
are four years.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Haven't we?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Absolutely you I remember you mentioned and Man right, yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Yeah, these are the guys who can go up. And
what has to happen is there's there's a there's a
just up here going on. You see it air leaving
thirty eight, thirty nine to forty year old KD Steph Lebron.
You see the next year are coming. So it's at
the same time.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Let me let me add to your point. Let me
let me add to your point. I think one thing
we forget. I think you'll you'll feel me on this.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Historically we're coming in at twenty one, Steph Curry, you know,
played a bunch of years. You got guys just you know,
twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. These guys are coming
in at literally Cooper Flag is gonna be coming at
eighteen years old. These guys are coming at nineteen Jason
Tatum and then so like they're needing a three year,
four year process of getting it understanding the game and
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now boom, I'm ready to go at twenty three, twenty four.
That I sometimes think we forget and we're ready to
throw the tile in and we're forgetting about them because
they're so young entering the league.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Now here's what I will say about the young kids
coming in the league. I've seen what's happened. Everything is changing,
including the learning curve. We used to have a patter
of these kids live and grow up three or four years.
But what's happening here is these kids are so talented,
not just talented, they're learning the game faster. So the
learning curve is not as big as it used to be.
It's why I always say, yeah, I used to take
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four years for teams to get there. Now I'm going
wait a minute, if these young teams help the right veterans,
it doesn't take four years to get there anymore now
two all. So it's there's.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Process going on, no doubt, Marsh. Thank you appreciate it.
Casey and Oregon, you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
What's up Casey Hey, Rob Hey, Calvin h Yeah, I've
been wanting to talk talk to you guys about the
state of the NBA.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Manu.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Some of my best memories as a kid, well, when
my dad took me and my brother to the early
two thousand Portland Trailblazer games. I got to see John
Start and Garry Payton, chef Jeff Fan, Dundee, Alan Houston,
and so sad to me, what has happened to the NBA.
It's just a complete joke. The level of playing the products,
(18:06):
it's terrible. I used to love how physical Dundee used
to be. They gotta bring that back.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I hear you. Some people don't like but they don't
like the Olympian style, you know what I mean of that.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
They gotta let them play a little bit too. Rod.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
That's why his playoffs be interesting because they you know,
the reps are out there. They're banning stuff, you know,
keeping stuff out of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Tim in California, you're in the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Tim?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I don't know about Tim, but his kids anyway, half
a good party, brother. I don't know. You don't like
to talk religion, but half the good part of Rob.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Who guys and I don't like to talk religion.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Way what am I heath Way?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Anyway? Rob?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
But I sit on this Sunday anyway. You know what,
I'll turn the load management. I'm tired of these guys
back to back. If they kept playing like.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
The good old days eighty two.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
They're making Clifton to you listen to. But you know what,
let's short it up, but let's take out this playing
game because all are doing is playing and playing and playing.
Oh maybe we'll get in at this in anyway. The
only way I see it coming back if it's a
Lakers Celtics this year, if you want Comforence finals in
the Calves and the Celtics and uh and the Lakers
(19:20):
and okay, see the.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Old and the younger I'm out all right, thanks can
appreciate it. What about Chili, Jim, he's at Atlanta to church,
I know, and you're already couple of Fox Sports radio.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
What's up, Chili? Hey?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
What's up? Guys?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
How you doing this?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Doing? Gray? How are you?
Speaker 7 (19:36):
I'm good man, rub you kind of hit it from me.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
You know what you said, the two points that you made.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I watched the Warriors Clippers game, and it meant two reasons,
and the two reasons you gave.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
First of all, I saw Kawhi Leon and playing.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
He was playing good, and he and Jane Harden and
Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry, and it was like stars
playing stars.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
You've got to actually see these guys.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Playing at their best.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
And the second part was it.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Meant something, and they played like it meant something, and
they're to me for me there you know the difference.
So I made kitch the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I've watched the Clippers different game because there'll be stars
playing and then if they're playing for something, so somehow
you got to make the regular season.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Means right, It has to mean something. Yeah, exactly, Chillie, Tim.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
And I with Chillie, I with you, I think That's
why rivalries are gonna be so important, you know what
I mean, Because if you get people, oh shoot, it's
gonna be a good game, they're gonna go out it tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
You look forward to that, Appreciate all the calls, everybody.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
All right, just the boys, the Odd Couple, Robin Kelvin
company live on a fucky flash back Friday, and we're
joined now by Adam Kaplan, Fox Sports Radio, NFL Insider Caplin,
NFL on X. Make sure you give them a following
if you don't already. Adam, what's up man?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Less than all?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
I know?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Man, I know six days here.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
It's let me just set our discussion up tonight like
this just just folks got to understand this is not
an astically great first round.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
In terms of true first round.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I was gonna say that it just doesn't have that
field to me, it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
But that up surprises guys.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I'm just telling you there, you're gonna go man, they
took that guy, Well, that's because it's not a great
first round draft. If you can't trade out, you got
to take somebody.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Just can't. You can't let the time expire, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Okay, so so, yeah, guy, Kevin, I was gonna say,
I mean you you mentioned trade house. That's I think
that's gonna end up being more interesting than anything is
if a team decides to move up a little bit,
if the Steelers say, you know what, Aaron Rodgers maybe
doesn't want to play, we gotta go get a quarterback,
we need to move up, or some other teams decide
to do that as well.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What do you what do you make of those types
of scenarios.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
So guys, here's let let's let's talk about the Steelers
right and in Aaron Rodgers situation, and you're kind of
where they're at. So my understanding is that you know,
they when after he left there with a visit, they
felt very strong that he would sign with him. But
he never told them when, and he never said for sure,
but they felt really good about their meeting.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
So Rogers, now this is fascinating.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
So the other complicated part to this was that it
was Rogers who called the Vikings, not the other way around.
Rogers actually called the Vikings. They were intrigued and flattered
that he called show interest in them, but they already
made a commitment of J. J. McCarthy's ready after his torminiscus,
and everything I've been told privately is that he's doing
really well in his rehabiting and he should be ready
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to go in a couple of weeks to start throwing
with his teammates and Ota. So they've left the door
just a jar, but it's highly unlikely that it happens
unless something happens with McCarthy. So Rogers doesn't have a
lot of options here now. He did say to Pat McAfee,
and this is interesting, I didn't know about this. That
(22:53):
it's okay. He's dealing with some stuff personally that he
needs to get through. We don't know what that is,
and that's okay. I mean, to deal stuff in a
private life.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I think sometimes people just want stuff when they want
and they don't really know what's going on in somebody's life.
And it was honest for him to just say, Hey,
I'm going through some stuff and I really got to
figure this out. And I think that's why the stealers
are We're just going to wait it out, you know
what I mean. It ain't like he's just and he
said he's talked to Mike Tomlin, so you know what
(23:23):
I mean, he's got to have a feel of what's happening.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I want, you know, I'm intrigued by Shador Sanders.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Not that sure.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I just I hear so many different things. I'm not
where is he going? Is he going to drop to twentieth?
Is he going to be Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I like you remember that.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
I was doing television then in locally and Philly and
Comcast Sportsnet, and I remember the debate with Smith and Rogers.
But all right, Rob, here's where I'm at. He's going
to go in the first round. Okay, this is let
me just let me just kind of break him down
from the way that offense coordinators, quarterback coach you see him.
He's good.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
He's a good college quarterback. You like the football. IQ.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Not the greatest athlete in the world. You know, today's quarterbacks.
You either drop pass or you could really move. His
arm isn't great. There's some throws. You feel that when
you break down his tape. Is he on the side
a little bit or only six to two but he's two,
twelve to fifteen, You don't have it, But it's deceiving.
He doesn't have the biggest frame from but it's it's
(24:25):
interesting that you asked that.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
That's why I'm asking because yeah, he's done the.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Best frame in the world. Yes, and he's arm is
just okay. Quite honestly, had this been a better draft,
he would not go in the first round. This is
just I know this angers people who are big Shoulder
Sanders fans are Dion fans. It's just not a great process.
He's a nice prospect. He's again, if this is a
I have based on the information I have, there are
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about ten players of two first round greats. That means
a bad draft. Under under fifteen means it's not a
good first round. It's just not Shuter Shuter Sanders. I'd
be flu if he went in the top ten. And
I'm saying I'm not saying it's not gonna happen. You know,
the teams are teams, don't tell reporters what they're going
to do, but you can gather information and kind of
know through the grave, fine, how they really feel. I'd
(25:13):
be surprised if he went in the top ten. Now,
you mentioned the Steelers. Let's get back to them before
we move on here. If the Steelers don't draft, let's
say Jackson dart Or Sanders or Jalen Milroe, although I
think Milroe's more of a second round pick. That's when
they turned to the veteran market. They've said publicly. I'm
aware of it. I know the way that Mason Rudolph
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is a solid backup. He's a guy for three or
four starts. You can get away with it in no
way or shape or form, or they satisfy with him
to being the starter if they can't at Rogers, they
don't get that first round quarterback. I don't care what
they say. He's not that good of a quarterback. He say, Okay, backup,
nothing more, all.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Right, Adam, I want to ask you about a running
back who is making all the noise right now, asking Genty.
We know finalists for the Heisman. It's funny. One thing
I like about him. Let me tell you who loves
some Ashton Genty. Ashton Genty, he loves. He loves himself
in a good way, though, but he keeps comparing himself
to the greats. He's like, yeah, I'm like Christian McCaffrey,
a little bit of Barry Sanders, a little bit of
(26:14):
Derek Henry.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I'm like, WHOA did you leave anybody out a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I know, yeah, that's a lot, But when you look
at him, that means run the other way. I'm just
saying when you.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Look at him, at him and maybe a team like
the Raiders who have come out and said, hey, yo,
you know the GM loves coming from Michigan, love to
run the ball. You have Pete Carroll loves to run
the ball. Yeahatly head coach, Pete exactly loves to run
the ball. What do you what do you make of
him going there? Pairing him up with Gino? Is that
enough to get an offense started?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Well?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
See Pete when he had personally he actually had personnel control,
believe or not. For a majority of his career with
the Seahawks, he just rarely used it. He would defer
to John, to the GM. But the air that was
shot Penny came out. I'm told that that was this
guy that he wanted. So that's who they drafted and
unfortunately didn't work out. Penny. He had just had a
bad injury history. He was certainly overdrafted. I would say
that there's no question he was overdrafted. But when it
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comes to gent, what's fascinating is if you talk to
some teams. I know multiple teams have Omrion Hampton, the
running back from Carolina, over him. I know fans think
I'm out of my mind, but it's true. So yeah, look,
yes it meets what Carol would want. Though John spy
Tech will make the call. Their new general manager. Spy
(27:29):
Tech has been very out in the front about running back.
Is his kid thinks he's crazy if he doesn't draft genty.
It's kind of funny that. I don't know if he's
trying to create interest in the pick. It's just very
odd to be that out in front. That's just no
subst futige at all. It wouldn't be a bad pick,
and they're in dire straits at running back. To be
honest with you, they need one. Pete wants to run
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the ball. In fact, look what he did in twenty
twenty during the give you a twenty second story here
in twenty twenty when the let Russ Cooks season two,
where Russell Wilson had twenty eight passing touchdowns in eight games,
he said for an NFL record, Pete made the call
for them to stop throwing the football. That was his decision,
he told Brian Schottenheimer. And they clashed badly. He said,
(28:11):
that's it. We're running the football. Our defense is not good,
so we got to control the clock, which is bad coaching.
But that was on Pete, So you know it's coming here,
and that would fit certainly at running back. I certainly
could understand why people are saying it.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
How about Kim Ward. We just don't hear anything.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It's just he's going to one one.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
But is there anything to look forward to us?
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Yeah, he's Robbie rob Let me tell you who he is.
And now he hadn't played a game, but he could
tell you where he's at with with the NFL people.
A very strong NFL source told me that. And this
guy's information gathering. This guy's all ball, okay, he said.
Cam Ward family in ball, ball and family. He doesn't
care about anything else extracurricular. He's about football, very serious
(28:52):
about it, loves it. He a little cocky, but that's okay.
He's very confident.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Now, I'll tell you what the Titans they their offensive
line had been one of the worst in the NFL
for a number of years. They've addressed the last two years.
They have a chance to have a really good offensive
line at top ten. Uh, you're running back. They're okay receiver,
they're not okay defense. They need help, but at least
they're building something there and they're gonna get cam Ward here.
But I will tell you before you get out of here,
Travis Hunter is the best player for this draft by far.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I sometimes when you have a guy like that, oh,
you and you don't draft on you don't draft for
a position because you know, we always brought it up.
I bought this over Kelvin about the reason that the
Portland Trail Blazers didn't take.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Michael Jordan, Sam Buoye, don't say no, no, no, yeah,
because of Clyde Drechsler.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
Like they already had a guard Rudd, a two guard
and you and you passed on Michael Jordan. Can't do that, right,
And that's what I'm saying, like, like it's hard to
sometimes you got to take no matter what you have.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
If somebody is of that good, you gotta take him.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
I would listen if if the three of us had
a vote, Let's say it was three of us running
a franchise and we had the first pick overall, we're
probably going to take Travis Hunter. We'll live with not
having a franchise quarterback potentially and cam Ward Now that
obviously it leaves a major hall. We can't really go
forward with what we have. Will Levis isn't the answer.
(30:21):
But I feel good that we got the best player
in the draft now and who also could play two
persons we.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Could play, right, there's two holes that may be a film.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I know.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Well, look, guys, we'll talk about this next week and
whenever we're on together next and you can't really play
him two for a long period of time physically, just
the demands are strong from a coaching standpoint, but game
planning it's really tough. I don't see that. But yeah,
this this came. The stuff with Hunters fascinating. I could
tell you talking to so many people I trust, it's
(30:52):
not even close. Hunter is the best player for this draft.
We'll see if he plays out, if he plays to
that level. But on paper, he's just a special player.
And Rob, you're right, you don't want to pass up
on this place. You don't want to have any regrets.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
No doubt, all right, No, he's incredible and he could
have been on both best player on either side if
he just played that.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Hey, we appreciate you, Adam, thank you so much for
got it. Thank you. Yep.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
All right, there's somebody arrival of a team is calling
out the forty nine er saying, if you pay that
man his money isn't party, that's gonna mess up the team.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
We'll tell you who that is.
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you know conversation we had. We're talking little NFL action.
(32:21):
You and I have kind of differed on Rock Purty
and what to do with him is specifically if you
are the forty nine ers, well is in on my Yeah, Hey,
Pooka Nakoua has some things to say.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
He believes robbed at the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Window closes if your boy party was to make more
than fifty million a year.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
We do have sound of him on This is the
Who is Julius Edelman Podcast? Games with Names? Let's do it? Perty?
Is he gonna get a five?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Do you think he's gonna go with a four? It's
gonna start with a four?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
High four? Um No, I think mid for forty five?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I mean I think if he does that, that'd be
smart for him and them.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah, I mean I think he's he seems like a
smart guy, and think he like they're still they have
a chance to still be in their window.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
And I think if if he goes for a five,
that the window closes. Wow. Yeah, you know one thing.
It's been funny.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
But I tell you what, Robert, I don't remember so
many players talk about other players contract as much, like.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, Micah, that's because the podcast. By god, it's funny
that people would even be worse the most. This is
the most pocket watching this era ever. Like, and I'm
not saying guys didn't talk about it.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
We know that publicly, but not publicly because they're either
Usually you're either rooting for guys to get paid because
you go you look at it as well, Shoot, I'm
next up.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
But he ain't getting even making that kind of he
ain't making that.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
But I'm saying, you know, usually it's just one of
those you root for the league just because if the
league goes up, salary goes up, all that good stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
But these guys are, man, they're pocket watching.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
But with that being said, I think you look at
a team like the forty nine ers who've had a
good run the last you know, seven eight years, give
or take, and I think Brock Purdy is being a
part of that. I think he acknowledges and has seen
in order for us to make a run, we gotta
stay loaded up. So I'm gonna take a good deal.
I was quote unquote mister irrelevant. So I'm gonna get
(34:19):
a bunch of money. Do I need to break the
bank as far as fifty when it can be forty three,
forty four, forty five and still save a few extra
bucks for somebody else. I think he's gonna do that
because I think he's in it, trying to be in
it for the long run. I want to be their
quarterback for the next eight to ten years, go back
to the Super Bowl two, three, four times and have
a shot to win. So I kind of fully expect
(34:40):
them to fall all them the organization him, everybody called him,
fall on line, find a number that makes both sides
happy and that they can make a couple of deals,
because I think they absolutely do not want that window
to close, because otherwise they're gonna be ticked off. They
had two chances at it and came up empty handed.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, I just if you're his representation taking forty when
Dak Prescott has sixty and that hasn't gotten to.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
But they're not gonna pay him sixty.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I didn't say he's gonna pay him sixty, but I'm
not taking forty three. I'm just saying, like, if if
you're represented he got to the Super Bowl, he did,
I'm just I'm just trying to say, like, really, I
should make seventeen million dollars less than Dak Prescott or
whatever it is. I'm just saying I would be surprised
if it's that low. That That's all I'm saying. Like
(35:28):
he's gonna want market value, Yes, I think he would
want mark value, walking value. They giving everybody fifty something,
How is he gonna get forty three?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I just don't see it.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I don't I totally.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I think that if you know, you am I right,
most guys are getting at.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Least okay everybody, especially with his I mean, he might
have the best resume. I'm selling Patrick Mahomes, you know,
And that's how I massing. I mean, Jayalen Hurts could
argue that too. Is I got a ring and also
I went to another super Bowl. But Brock Purty absolutely
all these guys will get more money than him. That's
why I said maybe for forty four, forty five for
the six. I just think for him, the way in
(36:04):
which I've seen him, the personality trait, I don't see
him arguing over extra four or five when he's like,
I'll make that up if I'm the super Bowl reigning quarterback.
I'll make that up. In another four years, I'll ball
out and the MVP candidate.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
And that's crazy to think like that. I just think
you just want your fair market value.
Speaker 7 (36:23):
But I.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Wouldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Quarterbacks want to win and they need help.
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