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s R. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome inside.
It is the Dan Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Happy fourth of July Eve, staying with the holiday theme.
Jason and Rob in for Dan and the Dan Nets

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today as well. As I was waiting, I thought we'd
have a Hamilton's open Rob, because finally Hamilton's here. You know,
we counted down this week to Bobby Benia Day. We
celebrated that, and now Hamilton's here today, and you know,
maybe you could do the show by yourself, because my
daughter is gonna want to fire up Hamilton as soon
as she wakes up. Everybody is so worked up about
in an excited did the hottest Broadway show for a

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long time, trying to even get tickets. I never got
to see it. I'm a Broadway show guy. I've been
to a lot. Probably one of my greatest things I saw. Um,
oh my goodness, I just forgot it was so good.
Phantom of the ot No, Phantom of the Opera in Sydney,
Australia from Center fourth Row. I mean, you want to

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talk about an unbelievable seat and moment I saw the
Lion King on Broadway, fourth Row, Center, unbelievable. I had
goose bumps with that. So many different shows. But Hamilton,
it's the rage. I know, everybody's crazy. Oh it's I mean,
there's really I look at like, there's my life before

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I saw Hamilton, and then the life after you see Hamilton,
because all you do is listen to the music over
and over and over and over again. It's it's it's crazy.
I I wasn't ready for the type of phenomenon that
it was. And then I saw it and I said,
you got to see it again. And then I took
my daughter to go see it, and all would listen.
That's when we go in, what do you want to
listen to? Put in Hamilton's and we listen to Hamilton's
songs all the time. It's like three years now, it's

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like there's been no new music, Like the world has
stopped because we listen to Hamilton's three years ago, We're
still listening to Hamilton today and today. Now that movie
is gonna come out, and people who never got a
chance to see it anna see it over and over
again because and it makes sense. It makes sense. You
got a captive audience, you know. Now, if you're ever
gonna do it, I think this is the time. It's perfect.
That's happened. Well, look, this is a big week overall

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in sports because we talk about counting down. And obviously, yes,
Hamilton's a very big deal. And and and uh, you
know Rob will do some of the songs later on,
he'll learn something. Yeah, and I'll be singing, uh if
I were a rich man. I mean I'm still on
Fiddler on the Roof. I know about those songs. That's
how dated I am Fiddler on the West to play

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like in the nineteen sixties, Yes, seriously, and a taff
I belong in Anna Taffka. Oh yeah, no, no, no,
you were right to become a writer. I mean that's
and I was barely a writer. So you know your
parents would say to you, no, no, follow that dream.

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That's the dream. You follow follow that dream. But like
today is a huge day because Major League Baseball. It's
like today, the last couple of days have been the
pre celebration days because today, finally we're gonna get to
hear from players. There's gonna be a lot of interviews.
There's wall to wall coverage planned on many different networks.
As baseball players started to report on Wednesday, took their

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coronavirus test, and now as they get cleared, we're gonna
see workouts. There's gonna be We're gonna actually see video
of baseball players throwing balls to each other and hitting
and and everything else. That's gonna feel as close to
normal a time as it is in sports, because now, okay,
baseball is gonna start now it is early July instead
of the early part of April. But I feel like

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this last couple of days are, especially today now is
like phase two of sports is now happening. Like for
so long we had these conversations about how sports is
going to come back and when it comes back, and
how it's going to be and how are we going
to do it, And let's face it, I was not
ready that the overwhelming compelling storyline every day of when

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sports is going to come back? How much that was
going to feed us the past three months. I thought, okay,
after a while, when in sports, coming back is going
to fade and we're going to do different things. But
every day there was something different with sports, whether it
was football or baseball or basketball, that hey, oh he's
all right, here's a new thing to come back. Here's
another wrinkle, here, here's a big thing that could stop it,
here's a great thing that could advance it. And this

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was every single day. But at some point we got
to get to the next phase. And since we're in
phases in the country of reopening or stopping or reopening,
this is like the next phase of sports because now
we've gotten team sports to the point where here are players,
they are going to be here and they're actually on
the field. And while we are going through still how
do you navigate COVID nineteen, we're actually here and doing

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it rather than talking about it. And that's why today's
should be a great big these last couple of days,
but especially today, it should be a great big day
of Okay, we're gonna try it. We're gonna try sports,
baseball's gonna try it. We're here, and you know, hopefully
we can we can gather some of this, you know,
positivity and happiness that Okay, baseball's here. Now let's see
how it goes. Especially Jason, when you consider, you know,

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what's going on in the country and some of the
states that rush to reopen and you know, let their
hair down. Now they got the pushback from the virus,
and you know, people are like, oh my goodness, what's
going on. And you know some people are like us
in sports really gonna come back now with the second wave.
But I'm with you. I think that once you start

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to see the players in their uniforms and they're on
the field and they're trying to make it happen, these
leagues are going to try and I don't know, I mean,
we don't don't know what's going to be the outcome
and how many players test positive. And it's the same
thing with the NBA in a bubble, you know, both sports.
Baseball will be a week before and get it going,

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hopefully what July twenty third or fourth, Jason, and then
the NBA the following week, So we're on the cusp.
I don't know. Football is still there. They've already gotten
rid of two of the preseason games, they're not going
to do the Hall of Fame game, so they're making
steps so that you can kind of like get straight
to trying to play the regular season. So I agree

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with you. I'm excited. I did write a column for
deadspin dot com. I've weekly column there, and it was
an open letter to MLB America, Jason, which was basically
that don't listen to the naysayers and all the people
who are trying to delegitimize Major League Baseball for its

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sixty game season. Hello, is this a microphone on? It's
a pandemic, Mick. I'll take sixty games, Jason, given where
we are, do you know what I mean? Like, like,
what are we expecting? I'm serious. If we can get
sixty games in and a full postseason, I'm good. The

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late great Sparky Anderson, who I got to cover when
I was a columnist in Detroit. I thought you used
to barely a writer, and now now your name writer. Okay, wait,
I was barely a writer. And then in the last
minutes I'm gonna name drop my column on dead Spin
that I'm writing. Name dropped Sparky Anderson, who I cut.
So are you a writer or barely a writer, Okay,

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I was a writer for a long time. And Sparky
used to always talk about Jason, how baseball's really decided
by forty two games when you really think about He
used to say, most teams win at least sixty and
most teams, even the good ones, lose a least sixty. Right,

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So there's your one twenty and the difference between most
teams is what happens with those forty two games. And
he's right on the money on that. And that's where
sixty games deciding what's going to happen and who's gonna be.
I'm cool with that in a pandemic. There's some other things.

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I'm not that crazy about it. I don't I'm not
a DH guy, and I guess you know it'll be okay,
I guess, but once they add it to me, I
believe they're gonna keep it. The other thing is putting
a man on second base to start extra innings. I'm
not cool with that. I want to see how that looks.
We don't have that many extra inning games. I don't

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know what the need is for that. But I'm gonna
embrace baseball, Jason, no matter what it comes in, and
I'm happy about it. I'm excited and I'm and I'm
going to watch the Fast and Furious season. You know why,
because there's only gonna be sixty It'll be over like that.
Jason Smith Rob Parker in for Dan and the Dannets

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today here on Fox. Well, first of all, the you know,
just real quick on the on the runner leading off
a second base. I'm I'm happy with that because the
Mets can lose games faster that way. I mean, they're
bullpen stinks. Anyway you put a guy on second base,
they'll lose really fast. I won't have to worry about
long and drawn out losses. I can just get it
over with right as possible, Like when you go to
the dentist day. God, just pull the tooth right away.

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Just you just pull it right away. Let's not get
into anything. Don't worry about a cleaning it. Just pull
the tooth and I can do it. But you know
the thing about sports and and and you brought in
everything as we're trying to get back and fans, I
get it, they're still a little upset. All of us
are upset because of what's happened in our lives the
past few months. It's been upheaval and we you know,
we thought we were opening getting past it, and it

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turns out because you know, we wound up not opening
smartly enough. Were you know, that's had to hit a pause.
And now who knows the land we're in right now,
we're you know, living it day to day. But right
now I get it. Fans are up said, okay, here's this,
what's what's the season going to be like? But to
have a little bit more vision on it and just
think about, all right, people are not going to come

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back to baseball when the games start. I'm not gonna watch.
I'm not gonna come back. It's gonna be a sixty
game sprint, unlike anything we've seen before. It cuts through
the clutter. You know, we're gonna remember this pandemic season
more than we remember most any other season. Can you
get if you you know, years from now, someone's gonna say,
can you remember what happened in baseball in twenty seventeen, Oh,

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twenty seventeen? What was that? Ask people right now? What
happened in two thousand and nine in Major League base
what happened in two thousand and two in the World Series?
In two thousand and nine. Yeah, you can. You can
guess that a lot and be right. But you know,
I mean, you know about the season I remember was
this and but twenty twenty oh, the pandemic season. That's
when A, B and C happened. And we're still gonna

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have by the time the season ends up, normal playoff
in the cold weather, just like we normally get, and
it's gonna seem like, Okay, the pandemic as long as
we get to play, the pandemic is behind us. We're
gonna get no matter what it is, even for the NBA,
for Major League Baseball. By the time it gets to
it in the playoffs and the deeper rounds, everybody's going
to be into it as much as they were before.

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I get the skepticism and getting some of the anger
out now before the game started, but once they start,
everybody's coming back to it. We've been waiting for this
for so long that once all that does begin, we're ready.
And you'll see baseball be embraced even when it's just
workout video and what I think I can see for
us in radio and in TV, and you know, while

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all the different shows that are odd is we're going
to talk about baseball and basketball every day, like we
talked about the NFL leading up to the draft in
you know, in the pandemic. What were we talking about
in a pandemic? It was really just football because the
other sports were done, they weren't coming back for a while,
and we pushed forward with football like we normally would.

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There was free agency going on. Then it was the
lead up to the draft, and every day we would
talk football and the draft, and that took up a
lot of programming. And I think that's you're gonna see
for the majority of July is every day it's gonna
be Okay, who are your new favorites here, who can
do well? Let's rank who are the top five teams
coming back? Who are going to be the top five
teams that could surprise in Major League Baseball and the NBA.

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And that's kind of what the next month is going
to be on the radios. Okay, these sports are coming
back now, and now we're gonna get into more on
the field preview stuff, which I think is going to
be welcome for everybody involved, no doubt it will be,
and I think people as soon as because because it's
it'll be a sense of normalcy, even though the stands
will be empty, and I get that, as it'll be
a different look. But I'll be able to put on

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a ball game at night, you know, in the house,
and have my dinner and watch and and you know,
and there'll be some fantastic finishes and big home runs
and you'll go, Okay, this is what this is what
we're used to. You know, life is kind of coming
back a little bit. I got a ball game to
watch at night. I mean, this has been unbelievable when

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you really think about how intertwined sports is into the
American culture and what we've had to deal with the
last four months or so. So I'm welcome in baseball.
I'm thrilled. I'm excited. Yeah, it's it's a it's a
big day. It's a celebratory day, and even for the
NBA too, because they're figuring things out and now it
looks like the bubble looks it looks like it's going

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to be the best idea for them. But you know,
we're going to get to see both of these ideas unfold.
And you know that's the other fascinating part of the
return of baseball today is that all right, we have
two sports coming back, and there's two philosophies of how
we're going to play. There's putting everybody in a bubble
and there's letting everybody do their normal thing, train with
their team open air and see how it goes. And

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we're going to see how both of these things. But
which is the better idea? Because if the bubble works,
I guarantee you sports in the fall are going to
come back and say, Okay, we need a bubble. And
if baseball works better, it's going to be Okay, Nope,
we don't need a bubble. We can do it. We
can do it that way. So this is also going
to be a fascinating thing to watch, is as every
day goes on, here's how baseball is doing it, what's
going on with positive COVID nineteen tests, Here's how the

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NBA is doing it. You know who's on the snitch
line telling everybody that I saw a car come in
to uh, you know Lebron's, uh, where where he's staying?
And I don't know that that was an approved car.
And you know that that daily drama is gonna be
so much fun too to follow us as which one's better,
because like, whichever one works out better, other sports are
gonna say, yeah, write me down for it. They're gonna

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copycat it, and they probably should because if that's the
way forward, that's the way forward. Yeah, the old snitch line,
you got that in there. They pick up the phone
and dime out. Uh. You know one of your fellow players, Hey,
he just brought in two I just saw him come
in with two chicks. Hey. You know, I don't know
he's going to blow the bubble. You know that the

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whole idea of did you really just say chicks? Really? Yeah? Chicks?
A couple of chicksbelievable? I told you, I'm still living
in the sixties. I know, Ken, how are you are?
I think I think for dead Spin you should do
a story. You should be on the snitch line one
night and that's that's your story. You're the guy running
the snitch line and then and you write about it.

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I think I think that's a story that wouldn't be
a fun story. Twitter At how about a fresco rob
at Rob Parker FS one. We're in for Dan and
the dan Nettes today. We got more on baseball coming
up throughout the show. But maybe you either woke up
this morning or went to bed last night going a
B to the Texans? Is Antonio Brown gonna be on

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the Texans? What does this mean for Deshaun Watts and
everybody else? Is this a real thing? We get into
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Welcome inside the Dan Patrick Show, Dan and the Dan
Nets with the day off Jason Smith. Rob Parker in
for them today and maybe last night you were going
to bad check Twitter real fast, or woke up this
morning and you see why is a B to the
Texans trending at the top of Twitter, And I'm like,
oh my god, what it really? Did the Texans sign

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Antonio Brown? And I'm thinking, did Bill O'Brien really do this?
I mean, that's the first thing Rob Parker that came
to me was, Okay, Bill O'Brien has made so many
horrendous traits, did he really sign off on getting Antonio Brown?
And it turns out. Chad Johnson put out a tweet
saying a b to the Texans with praying hands, and
it kind of went from there. As Brown has been
sending out videos, making sure to post videos every five minutes. Look,

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I'm working out. I'm at Russell Wilson's field. I'm here,
I'm working out with this quarterback all trying to get
his way back into the National Football League, as if
by putting stuff on social media it's going to force
people to sign him. It was really crazy last night. Yeah,
those things are out. I mean, you know, as Chad
Johnson as he is, he a reporter. Now, you know
how athletes loved like throw stuff out. They got a

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little information. You know sometimes where they smoke there's fire,
they know something, they've had a conversation with somebody, and
with social media, they throw those things out. So my
only thing is when it comes to ab like like
how long is this investigation by the NFL? This should
be some sort of you know, training camps not that

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far away. Is he disqualified as he on the exemple
list where he can't play? What is it enough already?
You know there were allegations. Did they investigate it at
some point? This guy's still young enough and can still play.
We saw he had a cup of coffee in the
sweet role with the Patriots, and that was a good

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look for a couple of games. We saw him, right.
We know he can play, we know he's a playmaker.
So I'm ready to have a ruling from the commissioner
and let's let's do that. We're still waiting for Robert
Kraff investigation wrapping up, right, I don't remember that story

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going away has been has that been concluded? I'm just
asking Jason, now, that's one of those things that kind
of was there and then hey, if it goes away,
we can we can. We can just forget about it.
I didn't forget about it, Roger Goodell, and I'm gonna
keep talking about it until you address it. Okay, you
always talk about protecting the shield. I want to know
what happened down in Florida. I want details, but I

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do want to know if ab is gonna be available.
If he's available, and I'm a team that needs a
wide receiver, we come on, Jason, this guy patch six
of the greatest seasons ever by a wide receiver. Would
you admit that, of course he did he's also been
out of the game for a while and can't last
more than five minutes without finding his way out of town.

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You know, that's the other side of the coin with
AB two. So let's figure things out. Let's head to
the hotline. Bring in Fox Sports Radio Serious X and
NFL insider Adam Kaplan. Adam, what's happening? Good morning, my friend,
Good morning, Good to talk to you. Yeah, I've I've
known you guys for a long time, so it's great
three of us could be on the air. So yeah,
I've been listening in look with the Antonio Brown someday

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he'll play in the National Football League, And I felt
that way, you know, in my hits on the network
for the last year, I said, it's simply it's an
off the field issue. Is a comfortability of it with
with NFL teams and whether he'll get cleared or not. Now,
my understanding is the expectation would be, you know, if
the team wants to sign him, he'll wind up being

(19:30):
suspended first and then they'll we have no idea how
long it will be. And then the other thing is,
you guys were talking about this because of COVID, it's
hard to get these investigations done because you really it's
hard for you to get people to get cleared to
be interviewed with Brown. Antonio Brown, there's so many off
the field issues over the last three years. You gotta
get through. You gotta get you have to interview people

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and see what's real and what's not. It's very, very difficult.
But one thing I've learned and cover the NFL for
twenty one years, guys teams when they I want to win.
We saw the Patriots do it last year and then
obviously they cut him after that one game. They will
do whatever they have to do to win, and that's
why he will get a job again. I totally agree
as long as he can play. Once he can't play,

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then it's not worth the headache. But I'm with you.
I think a guy of that talent, he's not forty
years old trying to play a wide receiver in the NFL.
He's still a young guy. And that little glimpse we
saw in New England that peaked people's interests. Oh yeah,
he looked great. Yeah. It was against Miami on the
road and it was just crazy how he was. He

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had not been there very long and all of a sudden,
he lights it up. He turns thirty two, by the way,
next week. He's a guy. It's really really adorable. The
thing is, it's really the amazing thing about Antonio Brown
has talking to the guys who worked with him, he
never had to worry about him on the field in
terms of production and the one two. It's what would happen,

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whether it's in the locker room, going Facebook live, which
you never do. In everything else that he's done off
the field, that's where you get concerned and that which,
by the way, you can't control as a club. It's
really up to the player. But no one doubts that
the talent level, he's absolutely lost nothing and he's if
he retires today, just based on statistics, he's an NFL

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Hall He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer. There's no
question in my mind, Adam, Is there any truth to
the story about a b to the Texans? Is this something?
Are they one of the teams that's interested in signing
and potentially Look, the Texans, by the way, are still
loaded wide receiver Jason even after the trade of Hopkins.
That they have not for one to understand, they have
not done anything on this yet the Seahawks have been

(21:41):
rumored that what that is. Russell Wilson went on record
apparently saying that he'd like to have him, He's interested
in him because he worked out with him. That doesn't
mean that the GM or the head coach wants the player.
That That's the thing with all these rumors. It's generally
player driven, players that have a relationship with the player.
It's not club driven. I think that sometimes you have
to you have to be careful when when one of

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the star quarterbacks it hands in social media or works
out with a player, that doesn't mean Okay, that does
not mean that the club wants him. Adam. We obviously
have to talk about I don't say the team name
Washington's NFL franchise, but you know it's been talked about
forever about changing that name. And now once you get

(22:26):
sponsors involved, and we saw go to Nike dot com
and try to order a Washington NFL team jersey or
had or anything and it's gone vanished. How serious is this?
And and do you expect this name to be changed?
All right? So Daniel said, I when I was at
ESPN many years ago, I remember working on the story

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Talk Talk to Washington. We won't say their team name
for the sake of this conversation. Yes, talking to Washington's
football team and their people in their business area. Owner
Daniel Snyder was the client. He said he would never
change it. Rob, you just talked about this is what
matters more to football teams. When sponsors pull out, that

(23:08):
changes the way that owners think. Then they go, oh,
I'm losing money. I'm losing a lot of money. And
if they pull out and they get lawyers involved, then
the owners could face with the decision. Daniel Snyder could
be defining all he wants and based on the social
climate right now, this is one battle despite him owning
the football team, he's probably gonna lose. Now. I could

(23:29):
tell you as of this morning, there's been nothing from
Washington's football team that would suggest that he's willing to
change it right now. A couple more weeks, I think
we're going to start thinking about changing that narrative. I
think in the end he's going to have to come
up with something. And by the way, I could tell you,
fans over the years love to be involved with name

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changes and coming when you have expansion teams, they love
to be involved with voting online. They could actually make
this really really fun for their fans instead of making
a negative situation, which the owner has done really since
the last seven years. And if you really do research
on this situation, the length that the Redskins sorry for
mentioning that, but it happens, I get it. I mean
the length that they did to shut this down to

(24:11):
get people to stop talking about it. It was just
it's pretty bad that the way that they did it
many years ago, doing research on it. But I don't
think this in this situation what you did, Rob, you
just said it, and you're right. When sponsors pull out completely,
and you mentioned Nike and by the way, Fred Smith
from from FedEx and who, by the way, FedEx Field

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is what the Redskins own. If they pull out, they
got Daniel Steiner's not gonna have a choice here. And
let me just follow up here, and the NFL at
some point we'll have to get involved too, because these sponsors,
if the NFL is supposedly walked now and they're gonna
do the the black National lanthem before every game a

(24:57):
game one in week one and they've spot that they're
gonna put up two hundred and fifty million dollars over
ten years, but they still have a team in their
ranks that has a racist nickname, do you know what
I mean? So at some point they might have to
prod Daniel Schneider to do the right thing because in
this climate with the change in and statues coming down,

(25:20):
in a Confederate flag going away, and at the state
of Mississippi has removed is going to remove the Confederate
flag from midst flag. I mean, how in the world
can he survive this? Yeah, but there are byelows in
the National Football League where there's only so much from
a league level that they can get involved with. They
can't tell the owner how to handle this football team.

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And let now, now we saw the NBA with Donald Sterling,
when you could prove that something's racist and or someone
is racist who wants a basketball team. We know that
Adam Silver, the commissioner, did the right thing. They're gonna
have to. They would have the NFL from a commissioner's
level would have to get involved and feel like the
name Redskins is racist and they would have to back

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that belief. If they did, that'll change the narrative. Right now,
they're not involved with it. They were not involved with it,
by the way, I'm told the last time this came up,
So just keep that in mind. Adam Kaplan with us
Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider. All right, lastly for me, Adam,
as we get you know, past everything going on, we're
looking at the field, we're seeing all plans being made
other sports returning. The NFL has started the last few

(26:26):
days to bend a little bit in their plans. They
canceled two preseason games. I think they're going to wind
up canceling two more. Is everything still going to be
on pace? We're going to start week one beginning of September,
because already there's some players who were saying maybe the
report date is going to be in doubt for the
end of July. Well, Jason, First of all, training camps,

(26:47):
which are the first thing you had that they are
going full steam. We had with that, and the issue
is now how many players are you going to allow
on your rosters? Are going to be ninety men rosters
for training camps there could be seventy five. The NFLPA
and NFL work through that. As far as the regular season,
they're still going full steam ahead. You know, the NFL
to their credit, when everyone was up in ours about

(27:08):
having a free agency, they had it. They didn't move
it back. They had it as it was scheduled for
the draft. When people say they shouldn't have the draft,
the GM's drafted from the homes. They're they're they're very
they're very much reactive on situations for the right for
the right reasons. They've been incredibly proactive in COVID prevention
the best that they could. I'll give them credit for

(27:29):
that right now, talking to people involved, they're going to be.
Their belief is they'll open up on time, but with
the flexibility Jason if they have to move at the
beginning of the season back. The other thing is, which
you didn't mention, which we should mention. It's very important.
We all know this is probably going to happen. It's
it's there's no way to put a percentage on it.
But I can tell you this. I just I don't

(27:51):
think it's likely we'll have fans this season. I don't
know how you could you could prevent. First of all,
you know the league. It's been reported out there by
the athletic that at the very least they're going to
ask fans potentially sign waivers. I just don't know how
you could you could avoid get getting people sick. I
don't care if you have tested coming in. Don't forget folks.
A lot of the infections are with people are asymptomatic

(28:13):
and then eventually have it. So I just don't think
it's preventable. But I applaud the league for doing all
that they have done. He's on Twitter at Kaplan NFL.
That is at Kaplan NFL. Good to talk to you
during this friend. I have a great weekend you guys,
stay stay well. Thank you you too, take it easy,
great stuff. They're always fun. Visit from Adam Kaplan And

(28:33):
you know, Rob, this is the typical story of you know,
the FedEx controversy. You know they want the Washington Redskins
to change their nickname. Is that for the longest time,
maybe this was being fought through the aughts and the
early parts of the teens in this country with with
Daniel Snyder, who was very adamant that we're not changing
the name, and he showed all research saying that you

(28:55):
know the majority of Native Americans don't think this term
is offensive and all we're gonna keep it. We're gonna
keep it. But the minute it was money, the minute
that FedEx, who sponsors the field, says we'd like you
to change your name, the minute Nike is saying we're
not going to sell merchandise. Now, the minute that suddenly
money is affecting it. This is when you're going to
see a change because because they're not gonna sit here

(29:17):
and say, okay, we're gonna lose all kinds of money
because of our name. Now people are not going to
buy our gear. We're gonna have different sporting good apparel
companies not sell it. This is what's gonna wind up
doing it. And it's also sad, but it's also kind
of ends justifying the means and that okay, fine, if
that's what it takes for the nickname to change finally
once and for all, that's kind of what it takes.

(29:38):
And here it is money, and this is what's doing it.
It's always money. Cindy law Or sang the song money
changes everything. That is exactly like that, Money changes every now.
All right, So at least you went from the beginning
of the show. You went from a nineteen sixties brought
in reference. You're into eighties music. So that's okay, you're

(29:59):
my changes everything. I'm sorry off the she's so a
usual LP. It's Cindy Lauper with but but but it does.
It does come down to that. And I really believe
he's gonna have two choices, which is sell the team
to save face because he said it would never happen

(30:22):
under his watch, or to just acquiesce and and and
conform and make the change. Those are to me the
only two changes because Jason, all the other sponsors once
they read what happened yesterday with you're talking about Pepsi
and FedEx and Nike. If you're another sponsor, the mayor

(30:44):
of Washington has already said, if you're building a new stadium,
it won't be in the district with that name. It
will not be in the city limits. That that that
that's what's in front. So all the other sponsors have
to look at themselves and how do they answer to
their customers and to their shareholders when all these big

(31:05):
companies are doing what they're doing. It's a financial squeeze,
and he won't have a choice. You can stand on
principle when it ain't about money and it's just about
putting up some bogus poll that Native Americans or they
want the name to stay stay, and it's about pride
and we're celebrating the Native Americans, which is all bs

(31:28):
and he got away with that. But as statues come
down all over this country and name changes, Uncle Ben's
out of work and Jemima's out of work. Look at
what's going on. They're talking about changing, uh, For it's
all over the country that have um Confederate and and
and as soldiers and and and whatnot generals, their names

(31:52):
are gonna potentially come down. Look at what's going on.
The The Confederate flag is no longer welcome at NASCAR.
I mean, it's lightning fast. What's happening and the changes.
This is going to be lightning fast. This is going
to happen, Jason, I never thought it would. I wasn't sure.

(32:13):
And I could go back to nineteen ninety two when
I was covering the World Series and I was in Atlanta.
The Braves and the Blue Jays and Native Americans were
outside the stadium and they wanted the tomahawk chop to stop.
Do you remember that? Oh? Yeah, I mean this is
not new, but this is a different America right now.
In a different climate. And if Daniel Snyder doesn't get

(32:35):
on it, he's going to be out of it. Watch
and see. Well, I'll tell you exactly how this is
going to play out. And the first thing is I
get that there's blowback on stories like this. We have
to change everything. Why do we have to change? You know?
The look Mount Rushmore is now under question of should
have changed. Just because something was accepted and around for
a long time doesn't mean it was a good idea,

(32:57):
all right, And then that's what you have to differentiate yourself.
It is a different time now and things that were
that were looked at that had racist pass are now
no longer you can say, okay, but we can blow
it off and move on to other things ignore it. No.
Now we're at the time where now we're gonna do
something about it. And a lot of things were around
and it doesn't mean they were a good idea. Certainly,
the Confederate flag, whatever glory it had, you know, for

(33:21):
for people in the South, they wanted to look at
it as a symbol of of of of of them,
what heritage. It's also a symbol of slavery and discrimination.
And so people after they were traders. They tried to
overthrow the United States government. Yeah, well, I don't know
why people don't understand that. And it's like I said,
but it was acceptable for a long time. But now

(33:42):
you have to realize that things aren't accept Just because
they were around doesn't mean it was okay. And you know,
you mentioned a lot of those brands. Look, the Dixie
Chicks are changing their name, you know, because of the
connotation with Dixie, all of these things. But for Daniel Snyder,
he's going to survive this because it's not like he
you know, you brought the team into the NFL and
said Redskins is the nickname. He has stood to keep

(34:04):
the nickname for a long time, and obviously he has
had some sort of support on it because had he not,
it would have happened. But now he's going to be
the guy that's finally say okay, we'll change the name.
We'll do something as Adam Kaplan, reference will have something fun.
We will, you know, let the fans rename the team,
will come up with something else, and everybody will calm
down and go, Okay, Daniel Snyder finally did the right

(34:25):
thing and we'll move forward. He'll wind up keeping the team.
It's it's if he says, we don't change the nickname,
I either sell the team. We're not changing the nickname.
Well that's but he's not going to do that. He
wants to continue to be an NFL owner. He's going
to continue to own the team. He'll eventually say all right,
we'll change it, and then everybody will back off and
he'll wind up being the Washington team owner like he

(34:46):
has been. I don't see this ending with him being
out in the NFL would take him meltdown. Man. This
is a guy who said it would never happen unto
his watch, and he's been very quiet during everything that's happened.
I'm just some guys who are rich guys that they
don't never want to be wrong, and they're not gonna
be told what to do. So, Jason, I think what
you're saying. I hear you. But when it comes to

(35:09):
Daniel Snyder, I'm not so sure that he's gonna conform
because guys like that dig in and don't want to
It's my toy and you're not gonna tell me what
to do with it. I'm telling you, this is gonna
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(35:32):
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you Mercedes AMG Driving Performance. So as you get said,
I assume Cindy Laupre will be in heavy rotation your
celebratory weekend here for the fourth of July. Absolutely, she's
in the rotation in the car, definitely when I'm driving
around that is. I got my favorite one hundred songs
and she is in there. A couple of times, Clare

(36:58):
I thought, for a second, you're gonna say he's in
the rotation and instead of saying the cars, or you're
gonna say the cars are in the rotation. No, no, no,
they I would like the cars. But it is going
to be a different weekend as far as for all
of us, you know, celebrating fourth or July. However, it's
going to be it at cookouts and please everybody be safe,

(37:19):
you know, do it smartly so the country can continue
to reopen. But you know, usually everybody, no matter what
you're doing on the weekend, you peek in on the
fourth of July hot dog eating contest, and it's going
to be much different this year. Gone is going to
be the big crowd at Coney Island and everybody in
the hot sun. Instead, the hot dog eating contests is

(37:39):
going to be done in a private indoor location nearby
because you simply can't do it and subscribe to the
social distancing laws. Joey Chestnutt, who has won, you know,
twelve times, says he's going to set a record rob
because the eating conditions are going to be better. And
we first you see that and go, oh my god,
really eating conditions, But you know, eating hot dogs in

(38:01):
a in a cool environment where you're not in the
hot sun and sweating your ass off that I would
rather eat more in that situation than than than what
they do for Nathan's hot dog eating contest. I can't
doubt the guy. Yeah, it's gonna be a little different
because I think the crowd adds to it and uh,
you know when I when I do, I'm the biggest

(38:23):
hot dog connoisseur going. I love hot dogs. I owned
a hot dog restaurant in Detroit called All Star Dogs. Jason,
you know this, uh from New York. I sold the
sub bread hot dogs with the red onion sauce that
you get into push carts. On the street in New York,
right with the spicy brown mustard. I mean, it doesn't

(38:44):
get any better than that. I think I need a
cigarette after they's talking about the hot dog. But nobody
talks about hot dog. I don't think Joey Chester talks
about hot dogs like that. I mean, you know, and
the Nathans. You know, there's so many good ones. When
you go to Yankee Stadium, I think this is the
thing that's unbelievable. And Jason, I know you're a Mets guy,

(39:07):
but they're not too many places you go to a
ballpark where they serve more than one hot dog. And
when you go to Yankee Stadium, they sell some Bretts,
they sell Nathan's Hebrew National. Do you know what I mean?
Like you can get three and they're all have distinct
different tastes. Taste Am I right? No, you're right, But
I'll be honest with you, rob Is, you know, and

(39:29):
all that time you're coming out all the ball games
I came to, I go to Chevez Ravine and I
will get two hot dogs at a time because Dodger
I don't know what it is, Dodger dogs are phenomenal,
and I'll get the it's and I'll eat it and
it'll be gone in like a second, and I go,
oh my god, I just ate that really fast. I'm
so glad I bought a second one. I'm so glad
I got to. And I'll slow down and meat that

(39:50):
one a little bit slower. But man, I'll tell you what,
Dodger dogs. I don't know what it is. It's just
it's a food that's made that you can I can
just keep eating. It's like eating bacon. Just keep eating
it and eating it. It's not doesn't matter. You can
just keet it forever. You're a certain food will fill
you up and go oh, I can't do it. I'm
so full. No, no, no, those hot dogs like bacon,
I could eat forever. It's just And when I was

(40:12):
a kid, I always go back to it. I was
about twelve years old a barbecue. It might have been
the fourth of July or something like that. I can
remember eating twelve hot dogs with all my buddies as
a twelve year old. So I was practicing to be
joey chest that it didn't happen. But I love them.
You know, your beer parents should have pushed you, and
you know they should have gotten you into a camp

(40:33):
or some kind of training schedule with your personal hot
dog coach. And look where you could be right now.
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hot dog eating contest and Robert I tell you I
can't get over there's Fourth of July stories, and then
there's Joey Chestnut thinks he could set a record for

(41:19):
hot dogs because the eating conditions will be just right
for it. I mean, for all, you know, my whole life.
Oh boy, there's not gonna be a lot of points
scored today, the rain and the snow and the you know,
in this NFL game, but the eating conditions are gonna
be right. Watch out. We could see big time eating
fireworks a day from now. You know what, I've always

(41:40):
had an issue with dipping hot dogs into water for
them to go down easy. Whatever happened to the ketchup
and the mustard and the relish and the onions, the condiments.
I just couldn't do it. You know, I want to
run your hot dogs. Well, it makes it well. You
have to do it for the bread. Otherwise you're not
gonna be You can't eat the bread as much winning

(42:00):
The winning person would have like eight hot dogs. I'm sorry,
I'm this bread is just I filled up on it.
I can't eat any more. That bread does fill you up,
but just the wet bread for the hot dogs. I
just I've watched them and I've just been amazed at
how those guys are able to do it. I'm gonna
start doing that when I go to dinner, and you know,
and I'm able to go out to restaurants again and

(42:21):
going out to dinner instead of filling up on bread
to oh man, I ate too much bread and by
the time your meal comes you can't eat it. When
I want bread's gonna dip it in water and eat it.
And then I realize I'm gonna be good. I do
that then I can I can have the feeling of
eating the bread, and then I can have my meal
when it comes and I'll be okay. And they'll also
be room for dessert after it's all over. I dip

(42:42):
the ice cream in the water and I eat the
exactly and the cheesecake in the water, and yeah, and
I can just digest. It'll be a lot easier. You know.
Sometimes you know, you have dinner and then you they're
like dessert and you just look at them, like dessert.
What do I have room for dessert? It's so hard
to get dessert now. So while we're looking ahead at

(43:03):
Fourth of July, maybe we get some Fourth of July
fireworks and find out that someone like Antonio Brown has
a new NFL team. Because last night, uh late last night,
before I went to bed, normally do that. I do
the same thing whenever I'm gonna fill in, you know,
for Dan here today, you know, with you and you
know and Doug and all of us, you know, filling
in you and Chris do some days too. Whenever I do,

(43:24):
I always get online at and I go, okay, here's
some stories that we like we're looking at for early
in the morning, and I get online last night and
I see at the top of everything a B to
the Texans, and I go, oh my god, seriously Antonio
Brown to the Texans. That happened. And then now I
gotta I gotta go through Twitter, which is like going
through the looking glass. You know, it's you know, there's

(43:44):
gonna don't know what's real. No, no, and I may
as well go to Reddit and try to figure something out.
So I'm like, Okay, what is it? And then it
boils down to the fact that Chad Johnson put out
a tweet saying a B to the Texans with praying hands.
So then I'm like, oh, okay, this is yet another
push from Antonio Brown to try to get people interested

(44:04):
in him. Like if he throws it out there that
he wants to go to the Texans, Bill O'Brien's gonna
go huh. I never thought about that. Let's call and
get into I never thought about Luckily he put that
out on Twitter. I would have never thought about Antonio right,
let's call and try to get him, because that's been
AB's strategy the past few weeks. Here's video of me
working out with Russell Wilson. See I'm a good guy,

(44:26):
you can put me back in the NFL. Here's video
of me working out with other teams. And now you're seeing,
you know, the stories of teams interested in Antonio Brown,
which I look at this and go, okay, is this
real or is this like the story we get every
year that there are teams interested in Colin Kaepernick. Teams
are calling and then nothing winds up happening of it.
You know, I feel like the same thing, like this

(44:47):
is what we're getting. Here's you know, let's try to
get some juice around Antonio Brown coming back to the NFL.
And this is where we're at now. I don't doubt
that eventually there would be some teams interested in him,
but Rob, this is like, you know what came first,
the chicken or the egg. Because if a team wants
Antonio Brown, they're going to tell the NFL we want
to sign him. The NFL is going to say, well, okay,

(45:08):
he's going on our exempt list because he's got to
figure out his legal problems, which which include, uh, you know,
being accused of sexual assault by by a woman he's
got but I mean, you have to clear that up, right,
But you got to clear that up. If he's going
to come back to the NFL, he's got to have
a clean slate legally to be and he doesn't have

(45:29):
that right now. He's still coming off of a few
months ago when he had a melt down and him
and him and a buddy beat up a driver who
was trying to get furniture from his house. You know,
he's got to clean his slate if he's going to
come back. So he doesn't have that yet. So if
a team says we want to sign him, the NFL
is going to say, okay, he's on our exempt list
and we're going to do an investigation into him. And
teams are gonna say, okay, well we're not into it now,

(45:50):
U or you know, okay, is it likely he's coming back.
If it's not, okay, we're not going to sign him.
So teams know this that if they do wind up
signing him, they would want him for now. They'd want
him to be ready. Hey, we have a season coming
up soon. We haven't had a regular offseason. Let's get
a great receiver who has been fantastic, who you know
is a self motivated workout guy. The one thing you

(46:12):
never have to worry about him was working out he
loved practicing, he loved doing all of those things. But
if teams know he's gonna go on the examp list,
well why are we going to sign him? So he's
kind of in that that purgatory of Okay, yeah, potentially
you can come back, but this is what's gonna happen.
If a team wants him, and so because he's got
to go on the exemp list, then nobody's going to
sign him. That's kind of what's happening right now. Yeah,
I get it, but I'm gonna tell you, and we've

(46:36):
seen this over and over. When you have a talented
guy like that and people are looking for talent. As
many players are as there are Jason in the NFL,
there aren't that many talented people laying around, you know.
And if you really believe like adding a player of

(46:57):
his caliber could make a difference, you're willing to do that.
The only people who don't they don't bend over backwards
for guys who can't play right. Then they won't take
the headaches, they won't take the other stuff that comes
with it. I believe he's going to get back in
the league because he's young enough, and the last time
we saw him was good enough. I think he's been

(47:18):
humbled by everything that's gone on. He's really it's weird
where he was in Pittsburgh despite the you know, Facebook
live kind of thing. But he was never disruptive. This
guy was just productive, not disruptive, and was very good
in Pittsburgh. And the thing that people never say is

(47:39):
he doesn't work hard. He's not a you know what
I mean, he doesn't put in his work, or he's
a slacker. It's never been that. Or he's not a
great teammate as far as on the field. He just
has some personal issues that really derailed his life and
his career. And if he can get that straightened out.
If I'm a GM in the NFL, I want to

(48:00):
Tonio Brown if I have a spot for a wide receiver,
and I could think of a number of teams that
could use him, So I hope he gets it together.
I'm I love redemption stories and comebacks, especially if he
can get his personal life Jason straightened out and see
what everything was and make sure that all the claims

(48:21):
against him, you know, and the NFL does due diligence.
But after that, if that all works out, get him
back in the league. See, I'm on the other side
of you. I'm a GM. I'm giving Ab a hard
pass because it's if you want to take his career
and think about it what it used to be. Okay,

(48:41):
it's kind of like, you know, people want to look
at Cam Newton and go, oh my god, look at
if Cam Newton can make plays like this with the
Patriots and all the stuff that fills my social media feed,
and I go, this is a play from two thousand
and thirteen. This is two thousand and twenty. He's been
hurt for two years. This he can't just suddenly oh,
because he could make a play like this seven years ago,
suddenly do that. But Antonio Brown, when he was in

(49:04):
his heyday, when he could do it, he was the best.
And I'm not arguing that with you. But Pittsburgh enabled him.
You know, all the behavior issues that he had, Pittsburgh
was able to cover it up and keep him around
because that's what they did. That's what Mike Tomlin didn't.
He deserves a lot of credit. Oh, you talk about
Leveon Bell and Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown keeping those guys

(49:26):
all on the field and throwing the football to each
other that's some kind of job that he probably shouldn't
have had to do, but he did. Aby leaves the Steelers,
and what happens. He goes to Oakland and he finds
his way out before he even plays a game. He's
at odds with the Raiders over stupid reasons, and John Gruden,
who wanted him so desperately, finally said we have to
get rid of him. He has a meltdown to practice

(49:48):
and calls Mike Mayock a racist term, and he's out,
all right now, he's out, now, okay, Now let's see
what happens. The Patriots signed him, and everybody says, I
can't believe. It's just how he wanted it to work.
Now the Patriots are gonna have him. They're gonna win
the Super Bowl. He plays one game and then the
sexual assault story has a second break in the story

(50:08):
and the Patriots say, we can't have anything to do
with you, and he's gone. He has found his way
now off of three teams. He wanted out for Pittsburgh
for so long. Finally Pittsburgh said fine. He gets he
gets to Oakland, he's out before he plays a game.
He goes to New England, he's there for a week.
He's his own worst enemy. You know, he can't stay
away from Twitter, he can't stay away from controversy. So

(50:29):
if I go through a jump through all of these
hoops to sign him, how long do I know I'm
going to have him for until he's out of the league?
How long until I wake up on an idol Tuesday
and go he tweeted that, like, oh my, I can't
believe he tweeted that, Oh my, good Jason. So how
long am I going to have him for before I
realize he's got to be off the team. It's not
worth that investment for a guy I know could be

(50:51):
gone in one game. It mayn't even play a game
for us. But this is the only issue I have.
You know, you're talking about tweeting in social media. The
NFL has so many guys who are convicted felons, who
are vehiculo homicide, got chances, who beat up women, and
and and all kinds of other things. And the list

(51:11):
is too long for me to go into it. But
those guys seem to get chances to play again. And
because a guy does some social media stuff that people
don't like, it's the end of the world. I think
he's been treated way too harshly. He's got sexual I'm
talking about but you're you're talking about social media and

(51:32):
and posting videos. I'm I'm That's what I'm saying, that
there are other guys who have done some pretty bad
things in the league. Would you at least give me that, Yeah, yeah,
have they gotten have they have they gotten chances? But
we got to stop at some point, right, I mean,
that's no but that But but that's my thing. If
you told me that nobody in the league with with
those kind of things happening to them didn't didn't know,

(51:54):
then I got it. But the league is literally with
those guys, and I just don't understand where you're drawing
the line. And because of his social media activity, that's
the last straw. The guy's a talented football player and
if he can get and I'm just saying, go through
the due diligence, right, let these things play out. Just

(52:16):
because people accuse you of stuff doesn't mean so I
can remember other players where this stuff has happened before
and we find out later that it's not true. So
all I'm saying is the NFL should do it just
because someone says you did this or did that doesn't

(52:36):
mean that it's it's fact because someone makes a claim
against you. That's all I'm saying is I would I
want the NFL to investigate it, find out really where
he is. But Jason, I'm I'm I'm against. I'm against
your stance that he shouldn't get another opportunity. He's way
too good, way too talented. Yes, he's had some issues,

(52:58):
but I'm willing to give the guy another chance if
he can, if he can clear his name. Has he
shown anything in the last year and a half that
he could do that he hasn't. He has to say
that he can he can play in the NFL. He has,
He's shown that he's going to be able to stay
in the NFL. He hasn't. He found his way. He
did everything he could to find his way off of
the Raiders, everything he could. He finds his way off.

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Then he lands in a perfect spot, and then what
does he do? Then text messages come out of him
sending a text to one of his friends about taking
care of the woman who is accusing him of sexual assault.
So this is why I'm giving you that you have
given you that you can't trust, investigate all that. What
day you're gonna wake up and see something like that
on a day A team is not gonna say, listen,

(53:40):
we're not gonna I can't go to bed every night
thinking the next day Antonio Brown, something's gonna happen, that's
gonna embarrass the franchise, you know, and I get that
from team. I understand. How how long can they possibly
have him? For? You have other you have other guys
in the league, the Cowboys, the uh um, I just
don't have to name in front of me. Uh who

(54:00):
got signed after he left Carolina? He was convicted. Um,
he was convicted in a in a court of law,
and and the Cowboys picked snapped him up. They couldn't
snap him up fast enough. And and I'm just saying,
like I've seen these circumstances and people don't seem to
have an issue there. I just change change uniforms. Well,

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but you gotta start somewhere. You know, you're talking about
Greg Hardy, Right, Greg Hardy, Thank you, Greg Hardy. Do
you remember that case he was convicted. It wasn't even
it wasn't even like hearsay. He was convicted in court
and the Cowboys couldn't fell over himselves to sign Greg Hardy.
But it's not that that the NFL is keeping him out.

(54:43):
It's it's what he has done. He is keeping himself
out of the NFL. He's the guy. He's a guy. Obviously,
the teams say, we can't trust that, we don't know
about getting him back, and it's at some point you
have to start somewhere. We're saying, all right, if this
guy is doing this, he can't come act to the NFL.
It's look, it's it's almost like the same thing we're

(55:03):
dealing with with all these changes going on in the
world about Hey, let's let's let's take care of Washington's nickname.
You know, here goes the Confederate flag, all all of
these ideas that were out there that have been out
there for a long time, or bad ideas, well they
were accepted for a long time. Well that was bad.
But we gotta start somewhere. So let's start now, NASCAR bands,
the Confederate flag. You're seeing all the other things happening

(55:26):
in the world right now with the Washington Redskins, they
may not have their nickname for a while. We got
to start somewhere. So if Antonio Brown is the guy
for Hey, I can't get back in the NFL. Dude,
if you could, if you could not be in a
situation where you are beholden to the law because of
stuff you didn't been accused of, you'd be in the
National Football League. And the fact that he's not in

(55:49):
my heart doesn't bleed for him, that he's not in
the NFL. If he if he can clean up his
act and get back in and show that he can
clean his act up, and yeah, okay, then he'll get
another chance. But he hasn't done it yet. An he's still,
you know, sitting out there waiting wondering why am I
not getting another chance? Well, I mean you gotta look
in the mirror at some point and go, Okay, what
I'm doing is and what I've done is what's I'm not.
I'm not I'm not saying that I'm endorsing his behavior,

(56:12):
but I just I don't understand, like who determines which
guys get other chances and which guys don't. And when
the Patriots signed him, if you remember, and I don't know,
and maybe you were one of those guys when he
got released by the Raiders, I remember people reveling in, Oh,
that's it, He'll never play in the NFL again. He's done.

(56:36):
Look at what he did with the Raiders alway released
that video. Do you remember all that? And and then
the Patriots signed him eight hours later or whatever it was.
I'm just like, that's what I'm saying, is like the
overreaction from people now with the legal stuff. I'm not
saying he's clear and free and he didn't do anything,
but let's have let's find out what's what's been done

(56:58):
and figure out what's true what's not true. You can't
just convict a guy because people have made claims against you,
That's all I'm saying. And once that is done and
you figure it out, then you should be able to
put them back out there and let teams decide whether
they want to deal with talent. Sometime, when you have
talented people, it comes with issues and some people are

(57:19):
willing to work through them. Everybody's not a choir boy,
everybody some people have different issues. I'm just not in
that camp to throw away a talented guy. And we
heard Adam Kaplan just recently on our show say that
this guy's a hall from his body of work he's
already a Hall of Fame. But that's how good he is.

(57:39):
That's why it's worth the risk to me twitter at,
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sides of Cam Newton, So we got to get to
that coming up later on this You mean Cam that

(58:00):
is going to win the AFC Least Division. Yes, Cam,
who may not make it to week one. That Camp
for President is Garret Contracts guarantee. Look at you, I'm
all insident Cam for President does the score. He can
wear the scarf at the White House. I'm all in Oh,
He'll bring great hat fashion to the White House, that's

(58:21):
for sure. So we got that coming up later on
this hour. But straight ahead, is the NBA really ready
to open up a second bubble? Are the Lakers title
chances higher after this long layoff? Anthony Davis says, So
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Sports Illustrated NBA Insider and Rob I know you talked
about this yesterday on your show, and we talked about
it yesterday as well, the possibility that we're getting a
second bubble in the NBA. Certainly we have the bubble
in Orlando that we're going to try to finish the
regular season in playoffs, and but NBA working on a

(59:24):
second bubble. Agent Walzerowski having this story a day ago
to invite the teams that weren't invited to Orlando to
have some kind of training camp in the month of September.
They're gonna be able to play games, because obviously it
would be unfair if you're going to start the season
at some point soon after that you have twenty two
teams that are going to be in the mindset of

(59:46):
playing having just played a bunch of games, and you
have these other eight teams not doing it. So those
teams would be invited. The Knicks would now be to
have a chance to maybe win something as they are
invited to the n I of bubbles. So I'd be
pretty happy for them there. Not only can the Knicks
uh that they would wind up in the trouble bubble.
That's for the bad teams. I mean, you know, I

(01:00:10):
get it. It's funny though, but the but but Adam
Silver doesn't want to be in any bubble. He's not
gonna stick around, which is interesting. Oh my god, what
a horrible optic that is. I mean, you guys all
gotta stay. What about your commissioner. Now I'm gonna be
in and out. I might pop in and say hey,
then I might my jet, but then I'm coming back,
but then I'm gonna jet again, and then I'm coming back.
I mean it, just like, you know, like give him that.

(01:00:32):
People are like putting themselves and you know, when jeopardy
health wise, and it just would be like if the
commissioner was there and go, I'm in this with you.
I get it. You know, I'm asking you to do something,
but he he clearly said he was not interested. But
the second bubble, I guess it's weird because you're right,
other teams wouldn't be able to do anything, and then

(01:00:54):
that would be a long layoff until the next season, right,
because the season ended prematurely, so they probably got a
lot of pushback from the other teams that weren't involved.
It would be different if they would have just taken
a sixteen other teams, right, the sixteen teams that qualified
for the playoffs when the season started, and went from there, Jason,
But that's not what they did. By adding the other

(01:01:15):
teams that still had a chance and having twenty two teams,
you left out the other eight. So I get it.
Joining us now on the hotline. For more on these stories,
you can follow them on Twitter at SI Chris Mannox.
That's at SI Chris Mannox, Fox Sports one Sports Illustrated
NBA insider Chris, Good morning. What's happening, man, what's happening?
Chris's going on? Guys? What's going on? Dude? We're talking

(01:01:37):
a second bubble, maybe a third bubble, fourth bubble, it's
something maybe a fifth bubble. Five let's have bubbles for
everybody in the NBA. Yeah, on the second bubble. The
way it was explained to me yesterday was you don't
get too far ahead on all this. There has already
been some pushback from some teams. You know, Michelle Roberts

(01:01:58):
has made it clear that she is not going and
she and the player is not going to sign up
on anything unless there are the exact same protocols in
a second bubble as there are on the first one,
and that logistically, you know, maybe incredibly difficult. What may
be the more likely scenario is that we see teams
be allowed to have mini camps in September. You know,

(01:02:20):
maybe they're a week two weeks long where they can
get their whole team and maybe their two league affiliate
involved in all that. And if teams regionally want to
get together specifically Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, if they want to
find a way to create a smaller bubble, that would
you know, take you know, less resources to put together.
That's that's possible. I just I just can't envision an

(01:02:43):
eight team bubble happening amongst those eight teams that have
been left out. Chris, you know, Dwight Howard hasn't committed
to come into the bubble and playing. I think that
would be another blow to the Lakers. You know, the
longer that he doesn't commit to me, and obviously he
was with kywe and about whether they should even play

(01:03:06):
and whatnot. Just my gut tells me the longer guy
holds up and isn't sure that there's a good chance
at the end, he's gonna say, I'm not coming. Well,
what's your take or what have you heard about Dwight Howard? Well,
the Lakers from what I've been told that they they
remain cautiously optimistic that they can work the situation out

(01:03:27):
with Dwight. I think right now, the greater concern in
Dwight Howard's life is his young son who's with right
now after the passing of her his mother, that that
is of a more significant concern than the social justice movement.
I think, like like a lot of other players, you know,

(01:03:48):
the players have been, um, yeah, I don't want to
know what the right words impressed, but they've been. They
felt good about what the NBA's done over the last
week or so. To ensure that the social justice movement
will you get the appropriate and considerable attention inside the bubble,
So I'm not sure that's necessarily Dwight's number one concern

(01:04:09):
at the moment. He's got a familiest deal with the
Lakers are hoping they can find a way to make
all this work. So there, you know, obviously, Avery Bradley
being out is a body blow, but I get the
sense the Lakers are still, you know, cling to a
strong hope that Dwight Howard can play ballpark this for me, Chris,
because with the NBA players getting set to go and evilessly,

(01:04:32):
there's different thoughts from everybody about going and not going.
Percentage of players who are going to the bubble that
are going to be into it, excited, ready to go
compete rest of the season, win a championship percentage of
players that want to do that, versus the players who
were saying, you know what, We're gonna go play a
bunch of games and then I'm out and going home,
and I'm really gone. I'm showing up to the bubble

(01:04:52):
with one foot in and one foot out. And I
think even players that are excited about winning a championship
aren't excited about going to the bubble. I mean, I
would put the number of players excited about resuming at
like one percent. I mean, I don't know who that like,
they're just it's just like not an ideal circumstance for
as you point out, a variety of reasons, whether it's

(01:05:13):
health concerns, family concerns, um, you know, physical safety, you know,
when it comes to getting injured in that situation. I mean,
there's there's just a lot of you know, kind of
like resignation. I guess that this is how the NBA's
going and the season now that makes change as they
get into games, and certainly will change to get deeper

(01:05:34):
into the postseason and the possibility of a championship crystallizes
for a lot of these players. But there's not a
lot of enthusiasm at all. I mean, players are certainly
anxious to you know, to get out of their houses
and get back to playing, and you're kind of seeing
that reflective on some of the interviews guys are doing
after practices this week. But I mean this, you know,
there's an understanding that this is going to be a

(01:05:55):
mentally taxing ordeal, especially for the players that are down
there for the duration they'll be there for at least
a month, you know, without family members and friends, and
after that, we'll see how many they can bring in.
And it just it's not going to be a comfortable
situation for all players, and there really isn't a lot
of excitement because of that. Chris, I'm gonna jump ahead.

(01:06:18):
I picked the Clippers before the season started. I think
that the deepest team. I love what they did a
year ago without any star. They beat the Warriors twice
in oaklandon you know, like they just have a dog
about them, and then they had Kawhi and Paul George.
If Kawai and the Clippers were able to win the championship,

(01:06:38):
would what would that do for Kawai just the idea
that he would have on his resume obviously wanted. San
Antonio was a Finals MVP, But to win back to
back championship with two organizations that had never won a championship,
would that elevate him? How would you look at Kawhi
Leonard after that? If if the Clippers did win, Yeah,

(01:07:00):
significantly elevate him in my eyes, and I think they
and the eyes of most around the league. I mean,
it is really hard to put together a championship team.
It takes years sometimes to put together a championship team.
Even when you have the pieces that are assembled, most
teams don't always win that first year or second year.

(01:07:20):
I mean, even the Miami superteam, you know, didn't win
that first year with Lebron, Wade and Bosh. It just
takes time to build chemistry. And I think that a
championship this year would establish Kawhi is just that kind
of guy that can fit into any situation that's close
to championship caliber and elevate that team to a title.
I mean it would I don't know what kind of
rarefied air it would put him in. I don't know

(01:07:42):
if it puts him in the Jordan category or even
the Lebron category, but whatever that tier right behind them,
you would have to include him in that group because
it's just it's just not easy to go to two
different teams, adjust to two different situations, coaching staffs, terminology,
and get comfortable with your teammates and accomplish something in
that first year. So this would really be a reckoning,

(01:08:03):
I think, for Kawhi Leonard in a moment for him
to jump into another tier of players. And Chris, let
me just follow up, who did you pick going into
the season and are you sticking with your pick or
have you changed your mind as who's going to win
the NBA Championship. Yeah, I think I had the Clippers
coming into this season, but this is one of them.

(01:08:26):
There's gonna be something weird that happens. Like, it's just
just the way it is. You go back to the
ninety nine season when the Nicks made that run of
the eight seed. Something like that is going to happen.
And this isn't even a weirder situation because there's no
home crowd, there's no home court advantage. So if it
ends up being Portland versus Philly in the finals, I'm
not going to be surprised at this point. I'm just
not like, I mean, you look at it. I mean

(01:08:47):
I kind of choke about those two teams, but there's
reasoning behind it. I mean, that's the best offensive backcourt
that you might have in the game, you know, which
is now suddenly getting their starting front court back, Like
here comes Zach Collins and use of Nurkic, who were
done in mid March, and now they're ready to play
maybe thirty minutes a night. On the other side of
the bracket, I mean Ben Simmons just did an interview
where he said, like, I'm better than I was to

(01:09:09):
start the season. I'm stronger than I was to start
the season. So this was also a guy that was
done in mid March. And I remember that Sixers team.
You know, they'll lose something not playing at home, but
they were terrible on the road. So maybe that, you know,
it has an advantage of not having to play road
games in the playoffs. So I think, you know, we
can sit here and say Lakers, Bucks or Clippers versus
Raptors or Clippers Celtics. But something weird is almost assuredly

(01:09:32):
going to happen in this postseason. That's going to see
probably a bottom you know, four seed wind up in
the finals. All right. Lastly, speaking of weird, you know,
Rob and I talked about this a few minutes ago.
Is Adam Silver gonna have to change his mind and
hanging the bubble for the entire time because that optic
is not playing well that Yeah, everybody's got to be there,
but he's going to be in and out, coming back
and forth. Yeah, it's it's not a great optic. I

(01:09:55):
don't know that. I don't know that's going to change
his mind on it. I don't think the I don't
feel too I don't feel too strong one way at
the other about one person going in, and especially given
the precautions. I'm sure that Adam Silver is going to say,
my bigger concern still is what those Disney employees are
going to do and what kind of access they're gonna
have to players. I mean, you're gonna see. I mean

(01:10:16):
the terminology says that the only people untest they're gonna
be people that are within or have to be six
feet away from anyone inside the bubble. How do you
police that? I think the only way to ensure the
best kind of safety is to make sure everybody is
tested on a regular or semi regular basis if they're
going in and out of that bubble. The idea that
just temperature checks and like a symptoms questionnaire is enough

(01:10:39):
to get people in and out that that doesn't that's
not a good look. I think that that is a
far more significant importance than you know, Adam Silver potentially
parachuting in a couple of times and Chris real quick,
is it true to Adam Silver picked Orlando because this
is the closest Magic Fans we'll ever get to see
in a championship. Is true, Hey, they could make a run.

(01:11:02):
Maybe maybe this is the year the Magic Kingdom, the
Magic make their run behind. I don't know who he's
even playing for them at this point, but you know,
maybe this is the year they run the table. It'll
be a Mickey Mouse championship. No matter what, you feel
better getting that out, Rob, You feel better now after that? Okay, great,
try to beal Okay, I'm here all week. That's thirty

(01:11:23):
seconds of Chris Maddox's life. He's never going to get back.
There's just so you know. He's on Twitter at SI
Chris Maddox. That is at SI Chris Maddox. Chris has
always man appreciated. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to
you soon. You got a good I knew when you said.
And lastly, is it true picked Orlando? I knew exactly
what where I was going. I've known you. I've known
you so long that I go He's just going for

(01:11:45):
the cheap one line already. That's all he's doing, is
going for it. You know, it's interesting that he says,
look something crazy he's going to happen in the playoffs,
like like the Knicks run in ninety nine is an
eight seed all the way to the NBA. You remember
that Alan Houston shot against It stayed on the rim forever, right,
It hit like every piece of the rim before. And

(01:12:06):
if viewing doesn't get hurt, the finals go differently against
the Spurs because they had nobody to stop Duncan, and
Robin said, oh man, but all right, anyway, I can
worry about the next layer. Um. You know, the thing is,
he says something crazy's gonna happen, and it's really hard
to break down what we're gonna see. But I think
I can tell you what we're gonna see. You're gonna

(01:12:27):
see some teams show up that are just going there
for a few games and they're ready to go. You'll
be able to tell right away what teams are there
for the long haul that think we can win a championship.
Let's be here and do it. And you're gonna tell
what teams are there to play eight games and maybe
four in a playoff round and then go home. So
so from that perspective, you're gonna eliminate a lot of
teams right away, and you're gonna see a playoff in

(01:12:50):
which there's gonna be a lot of sweeps. There's gonna
be a lot of sweeps. There gonna be a lot
of five game series because you're not gonna have to
worry about, well, what happens when you know it's two
ZI but they're gonna go home and win two games
and then we go back and forth and we're at
game seven at home. That's not gonna happen. It's gonna
be whatever team wants to win is gonna steamroll through
the playoffs, and you're gonna see a lot of sweeps,

(01:13:10):
five game series. I don't know, if you had to say,
what if I would put long odds to say, could
I bet we don't get a seven game series in
the playoffs? And I would put money on that because
I think that would come true, because I just don't
think you're gonna see it. With everything else going on,
the neutral sits or Lando, no crowds. Whoever wants to
win is going to have such a big advantage because
so many players, as Chris said, look, one percent are

(01:13:32):
excited to be there. You're gonna tell right away this
team doesn't care about being there. This team just wants
to go home. And I get it. I get players
who are who are being forced to go into this
because it's what the NBA wants them to do. I
understand that part of it, and I get that they're
gonna go there and say, Okay, I'm just gonna hopefully
be Okay. I get tested every day. We're gonna play this,

(01:13:53):
and then we're going home. And then mentally, I need
to decompress for a while, because this has been a
lot of stress about what's gonna happen and us going
back and now actually being put in a situation where
some people could get sick. It'll be interesting. And I
think you're right. And one guy who has to be
highly motivated even though he could be down two important players,
and I'm talking about Lebron James, because let's just face it, Jason,

(01:14:15):
this might be his best last chance to win a championship.
The way that the Lakers have played this year before
the stoppage, right where he is in year seventeen. You know,
one day it's just not the same. I know he's
playing at a high what's playing at a high level
next year's year eighteen. The body has just so much

(01:14:36):
in it, and all of a sudden, things aren't always
like they used to be Anthony Davis the future, what
else other moves? The team is set up to win now,
So I think Lebron will be highly motivated, don't you
in this situation, because this could be if he doesn't
win this year, I don't know if he'd ever win again. Yeah,

(01:14:58):
I don't know that. It's I don't worry out the
pieces for Lebron because the Lakers figured it out right
before coronavirus hit. They didn't make a lot of adjustments,
but they figured their team out and they were rolling
through people and I said, Okay, this this is how
they're going to do it, and they're certainly going to
pick up where they left off. It's the same team
you're you're adding Dion Waiters and look, Jr. Smith isn't

(01:15:18):
even gonna play. He's just there's break glass in case
of emergency, in case other players get sick or get hurt.
But they figured it out, and Lebron, after a long
rest like this, he's gonna be able to blitch through
the playoffs. Look, I think Anthony Davis is right. The
long layoff is gonna help us any all the older teams,
the long layoff is gonna help because They're just going
to be fresher. Lebron's not going to be worn down

(01:15:41):
by the time he gets to the NBA Finals. They
have had time to decompress and now get ready and
it's eight games and then the playoffs. Yet the Lakers
are still the favorites in the West. You know, I really,
I just I don't see the Lakers as the favorites
because when you talk about the Lakers and the Clippers,
the Slippers were able to beat the Lakers Jason, even

(01:16:03):
when they didn't have their full squad. They won two
of the three games. I know the Lakers won the
last one. But the other part is all year to late,
the Clippers were dealing with Kauhir not being one hundred
percent healthy. Paul George. Now these guys who are younger
and now they've had three months to heal up and
get and feel better and shake off those injuries. How

(01:16:26):
in the world could you not look at the Clippers
and think that they still would be better. And when
they were a team, I mean fully loaded and healthy.
They they were fourteen and one in the fifteen games
where everybody was healthy, so they didn't lose. I just
don't I see them as the favorites going in. Oh.
I picked the Clippers in the beginning of the season

(01:16:48):
because they were deeper, but obviously things have changed now
with the coronavirus pandemic, and especially if Lou Williams doesn't
go and he says he's fifty fifty right now, you're
not gonna win. I mean, there's gonna be teams, they're
gonna lose players here and there, and I get that
that's just something you're gonna have to go through. There's
gonna be players who have to sit out with COVID
nineteen and who knows, one day it could be Lebron,

(01:17:09):
it could be honest and that could There are that
variables to it. But if Lou Williams, he's one of
the He's one of the main reasons that I think
that I picked the Clippers to win because he can
win two games in the playoffs all by himself's coming
off the bench, scoring twenty eight points a game. They
don't have Lou Williams. That's a huge blow for the Clippers.
That's why this is like a big story that people
aren't watching that they need to because of all the

(01:17:31):
builders and having a healthy Kauhi and a healthy Paul George.
And don't get me wrong, Lou Williams is a big piece.
I'm not pooh pooing him, but to have those two
guys finally healthy, I just think that that's what they
didn't have all year. And it's not like the Lakers
ran away from the Clippers. They had a five game
lead over them, but they were banged up all year.

(01:17:52):
And I'm just saying, when you get those two guys healthy,
and Patrick Beverly was banged up, get him back and
look the depth that they've added. They got all the
players that were available. I mean, they made some moves.
I love what the Clippers have and Doc Ruvers has
that championship caliber coaching. So when you put all that together,

(01:18:13):
I know people love Lebron and love what they were
doing at the n Jason, but I'm gonna go with
the Clippers. I think the Clippers run away with it.
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As today as a huge day from Major League Baseball.
But Rob, something I've been looking forward to talking to
you about this week. You seriously think that Cam Newton
is going to deliver the Patriots to the AFC East
Crown and is going to have a better year than
Tom Brady with the Buccaneers. Absolutely. I think, first of all,

(01:19:21):
camp people are looking at Cam. Kim was hurt, Kim
wasn't healthy. I remember watching one of his last games.
It was a National game. He couldn't even deliver the
football he was so banged up, and so he's past
his physical I think if they give him an opportunity
to play and Bill Belichick and what he does up
in New England, I think that the AFC least I

(01:19:43):
get the Jets finished seven and two. I don't know
how many meaningful games they wont during that stretcher they
played nobody at the end. That's what I'm saying. So
I'm not there Buffalo. I know that they've got to
pretty good team as well. I don't know. They never
seem to be able to put together back to back
good years when they even have a good year, Jason,
So that's up in the air with me. And when

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you talk about Tom Brady and you talk about the Patriots,
I mean talk about Tampa Bay. The issue that I
have is that I've seen this movie before. Everybody would
jump on the Cleveland Browns bandwagon. If you remember a
year ago they went from a million to one odds
to fourteen to one. They're going to the super Bowl.

(01:20:26):
Oh my god, they got old b J. Baker Mayfield.
Nobody will be able to stop them. Me at so
many weapons, it won't even be fair. Do you remember
all that? And then all of a sudden they didn't
even make the playoffs. And the same thing. Tampa hasn't
made the playoffs in twelve years. It will be a
Baker's dozen with Tom Brady. Because I see on paper,

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but I also see the Saints. I also see the Falcons.
I'm not convinced that the gronk who had to be
talked in the play in football again, who had already
given up his competitive card when he joined the pro
wrestling So I'm not sure where he's gonna be. Guys
like that who come back often wind up getting injured.

(01:21:11):
I don't want him to get injured, but I'm thinking
it could happen. And Tom Brady wasn't great last year.
Let's just be honest. It was the worst eight no
team I'd ever seen. They beat a lot of also rands,
and when Tom Brady and then play better teams, they
struggle and go look at his numbers across the board.
He's gonna be a forty three year old quarterback. I'm

(01:21:34):
not convinced what tom Brady's gonna be there. Is it
the quarterback that won the Super Bowl without throwing a touchdown?
Is it that Tom Brady? Or was it the Tom
Brady last year who threw or pick six to end
the playoff game and his last pass as a Patriot?
Is it that Tom Brady? I just think people are
living in the past. Tom Brady is not the same guy,

(01:21:56):
and nobody's gonna be surprised by the Bucks everybody instead, Oh,
the Bucks are gonna sneak up on everybody and beat No,
nobody's going to be surprised by the Bucks. And as
bad as Jamis Winston was, he threw for five thousand yards,
had thirty touchdowns, Jesse had the thirty picks. I get it.
But he put up some unbelievable numbers and they still

(01:22:16):
couldn't win. I'm not buying the Bucks until further notice.
All right, Well, first, you can't just say yeah, I
get the thirty picks. It's thirty interception. I get it.
If I get it. Look, you talk about living in
the past. Cam hasn't been an elite quarterback in five years.
Five years. His one loss record is five hundred, His
quarterback rating is below average. He has not been great

(01:22:37):
since twenty fifteen, and now he's coming off injuries. I
don't know if he makes it to week one. I
don't Is Cam serviceable? Sure he is, but you want
to make a bet on that, let's make a wink.
I will tell I will tell you this. Brady wins
more games with the Bucks than Cam wins with the Patriots.
If he even makes it to Week one. That gay

(01:22:58):
look Brady, I give you, Brady is more Joe Montana
with the Chiefs at the end than he is Peyton
Manning with the Broncos. All right, because Brady is really
one or two years left and this will be the
best year he has. But he's got enough weapons down there,
way better than he had in New England. There's gonna
be a fresh batch of energy around the team. They'll

(01:23:19):
win enough games to get in the playoffs. Eventually they'll
play a team that's better than they are, and they'll
wind up going home. It'll be very much like Montana
with the Chiefs, where they make it to the playoffs,
but they play teams that are better easily. I will
go with Brady and the Bucks over over cam Newton.
How many wings? How many wings do you want? Twenty
wings and a large diet coke for me? No, you

(01:23:41):
know what? How about two large diet I'm feeling cocky
and arrogant. Two diet cokes. Let's do it, two diet
cokes and twenty wings. I'm gonna how long do I
have to wait to eat? I mean, should you just
give him to the beginning of the year, because it's
so when they start out when the when the Bucks
start out, oh and five, you can opt out of
your bet and bet ten wings and diet coke and

(01:24:01):
I'll have my Pauma Gen Gallic all flats and a
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(01:24:24):
in for Dan and the Danets. Today. Happy fourth of
July Eve as today is a huge day. Yes, Hamilton
showed up today, which is very exciting, but today is
a huge day in Major League Baseball as finally robbed.
We're gonna get some pageantry. Some celebration players started reporting
to camps on Wednesday, took their coronavirus tests. Today. You

(01:24:47):
have many different sports entities planning long coverage and we're
gonna get interviews with players. We're gonna see them working
out and to actually see the players on the field
and hear them talk about things like how they expect
so and so to work out at shortstop this year
or their bullpen is going to be so much fun. Yes,
there will be a lot of COVID nineteen talk, and
clearly that's going to be the talk. But to get

(01:25:10):
a little bit of sense of normalcyn now, I feel
like we're at like phase two of sports now where
at least we've gotten a team sport back in. They're
gonna be on the field getting ready to try to play.
I'm with you, I agree, and uh, it just you know,
we're closer, like three weeks away from opening day, and
the whole idea of trying to get some normalcy back

(01:25:31):
in our lives. Baseball has always been a part, Jason
of trying times and and and we can remember nine
eleven and George Bush coming out on the mount at
Yankee Stadium. Do you remember throwing that pitch in Game three?
And and and people being able to settle back. Baseball
has done that. Uh, even in wartime. That's where the

(01:25:54):
national anthem started getting played at baseball games as as
like to rally the troops and and bring up the
morale of the country. So baseball being the sport coming
back in this fashion, that's the way I look at it.
It will be a return or some sort of normalcy.
I know it'll be different because there won't be fans

(01:26:14):
in the stands, But but people will be able to
sit down in their living rooms, have dinner or something,
and turn on the set and be able to go like, Okay,
I'm watching my team. There's a ball game tonight. You know,
I got something to do for the next two or
three hours, and feel like life is somewhat returning back

(01:26:34):
to some semblance of normalcy. So I'm excited. I agree
all the stuff coming out, all the conversations we're starting
to talk about the season. You got two really really
good teams, and the Dodgers and Yankees who I picked
before this whole thing can happen, and who knows, you
know how it shakes out. The some surprise team comes in.

(01:26:58):
The Houston Astros get off a hook because they won't
have to face fans all over Baseball America this year.
What if they win? What if this Houston? Ask jos Win, Jason,
have you thought about that? Joining us now all the
hot Line for more on these stories USA Today Baseball Insider.
You can follow them on Twitter at b Nightingale. It's

(01:27:19):
Bob Nightingale. Bob, good morning man. What's happening? Yeah? Good
He didn't here run what's up the best baseball writer
in the country, Bob Nightingale, point blank. Wow, he's gonna
borrow money from you. Now, Bob, just just so you know,
un Bob, what kind of set of normalcy are we
gonna how much normalcy are we gonna get with this?

(01:27:40):
With this train summer training camp now is where we're going.
We'll see. I mean, this afternoon, we'll announced how many
pods of testers were among the players in staffers. You're
talking about about sixteen hundred players, about four hundred staff members.
So I mean I'm going to assume them that we'd
over to have over a hundred pots of tests very easily.

(01:28:02):
So I think baseball is bracing themselves for that. Uh,
you know, we'll see. I mean, the uh, the COVID cases. Now,
we're you know, spiking everywhere. We're having record highs now,
particularly you know, you know where you're in California, Arizone
up forward of Texas, right, so every keeping our fingers
crossed and see it. Sehm, we get the season, but

(01:28:22):
at least they're gonna try. Yeah, I think that it's important,
uh for these sports to try. I guess in a
perfect world, if there weren't all this TV money and
millions to be lost, Bob, Right, you could just call
it a day and come back next year. But I
don't think the networks want that. I don't think that
the owners want that all the players not to try

(01:28:44):
and if it doesn't work out or it becomes a thing,
you just shut it down. But I think that at
this point, am I right? That they just have to
try to see if they could put this together. Yeah,
see what happens. You know. They they said the big
test will be, you know, the first week or ten
days at spring training camp, and then the big test
of courses when they get that far and when the

(01:29:05):
season opens up on July twenty third, as far as
when guys are traveling on planes at different hotels. Uh,
then that's that's a big test too, that those first
weekly games, Bobby is that's a big deal. If if
we wind up getting that magic number of one hundred
positive COVID nineteen tests, is this is this a concerning number?

(01:29:28):
Is this an expected number? Like, like, like, what's the
reaction going to be if it gets out? A certainly
there's more players in baseball than other sports, but one
hundreds a lot of a lot of players. Yeah, I
think they're expecting at least one hundred. You know, it's
equo by uh, you know, the NBA, I think was
twenty five positive tests that were about you know, three
hundred and twenty five hundred fifty players. So just if

(01:29:48):
you go by the same percentage, I thought Baseball's you know,
certainly play themselves for for at least one hundred. Now
if you get over two hundred, that's that's concerning. And
if if it's less than one hundred or whatever, then
you'd be like, Okay, we might be able to make
this work. I mean, yeah. The other thing is if
we get there opening day. I brought up earlier in

(01:30:12):
the show Bob that you know, some people say it's
not a legitimate season. The late great Sparky Anderson, of course,
manager with the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers. He used
to always talk about each team wins sixty, each team
loses sixty, and it's the forty two kind of other
games that really determine you know, uh, you know, how

(01:30:33):
good a team is or whatever. Can we see the
best teams after sixty games, or is there a chance
that some flukey team the Florida Marlins just get off
to a great start and play well and they're in
the World Series. Or do you expect the Dodgers and Yankees,
the teams that have the best rosters, to be those
teams even in a short season like this. I think

(01:30:54):
we'll definitely see I think we'll see some good if
great teams get left out. Uh, anything can happen sixty games,
I really can. I mean, like Ryan Brown was telling
the day you go to think about it will be
the first season baseball history where no team will be
mathematically limited by September. It's right, except for the balls.

(01:31:15):
I think, even to ballands, even in sixty games, I think,
dear old, no, yeah, no, but yeah yeah. The thing
is too, is that it's only ten game postseason. So
if it was a sixteen team, okay, we'll hit doubly
have more flukes, but I don't think we'd be in
dangers amazon great teams left out, But with ten ten

(01:31:37):
team postseason, it certainly happened. Bob, we talk about the
teams there, we're going to see crazy things happen. Give
me percentage. We talked about this with NBA players. Percentage
of players who were excited for the season, ready to go,
ready to play, want to win a championship. First percentage
of players who were here, Okay, we're gonna try it,
and the minute things start looking bad, I'm ready to

(01:32:00):
pull out or I'm just gonna go through the motions
here for a couple of months. I think, you know,
generally there's you know, uh, you know, well over you know,
sixty seventy percent of guys are excited, But by the
same measure, I would think sixty seven percent of those
guys are apprehensive too. Uh. You know, several players I said,
you know, how are we going to pull this off?
You know, in the a miracle we get sixty games in.

(01:32:22):
So I think, you know, people see what's going on.
It's like a you know, with the way that cases
are surging throughout. Uh, you know, I'm not sure if
all they're talking about baseball and the Union saying, well,
you know, we've make it all this time, I'm not
sure they could have played before this anyway, and uh,
you know who knows that they even play now? Yeah,
I'm with you. How about some of the rule changes?

(01:32:45):
Universal dh I grew up as a National League fan
in New York ILike National League Baseball, not not that
keen on the DH and the idea. I don't know, Bob,
was there that many uh extra inning games that we
have to put a runner on second base to to
make sure the game is over quickly? Is that really

(01:33:07):
what we needed to do? I don't remember people going,
oh my god, another extra ending game I have to
sit through. Are you cool with these changes? Well? The
you know the one thing about the you know DH
with so many games in the league now yet you know,
uh twenty their sixty games our interleague who has had
to do with DH, So you know that's coming. Uh

(01:33:29):
the extra inning thing, I think it's gonna be around,
not beginning the tenth inning, but I bet later on
maybe twelfth or thirteenth in years to come. Uh yeah,
I mean baseball purist of course hated. But the one
thing's been brought to my attention. Remember doing a round
table year ago with anthing Rizzo and Chris Bryant. I
think was Rizzo who said, I never thought of it.

(01:33:51):
You know, think about it, the four major sports we
have the most boring overtime. And you know, I thought,
you know what when when the ninth getting is over?
Or fans stream for the exits. You know, Rob, you
know how everybody morning and drowning in the press box anything?
Oh no, no easy. So at least this provides some excitement.
You know. The one rule I think is going to
come to bite baseball is the rule of three battered

(01:34:15):
minimum rule. Yeah, I don't like what if a guy
stinks so doesn't have it? I know, and particularly in
a short season, and guys, let's be on this. Guys
are not gonna be ready when the season starts at
us three weeks of spring training. So you could easily
see some guy coming in based a loaded situation and
walking three straight guys are getting them a home, you know,
the three straight guys? Uh? To me? Too often something

(01:34:38):
like this is going to cost teams games. Yeah, everything
you guys have mentioned the last forty five seconds, none
of that is good news for the Mets. Nothing, none,
none of that is going to be playing. Is not
good news for the Mets. What are you talking about?
Well maybe it says that's what it should be healthy,
so that should be fine. He was not gonna be healthy,
so we'll see and he could be at DH. You know,
one thing we could see, Bob, a wee to see

(01:35:00):
potentially with all the changes because the batters of the
three battered minimum, everybody wants to save their bullpens. Could
we see and expect a full time expansion of rosters
for that, Hey, you can carry more pitchers because look,
the game is evolved. Nobody goes seven innings anymore, so
we kind of need to maybe have more of an
active roster as well. Yeah, we're gonna start off with

(01:35:22):
thirty guys and then after two weeks twenty eight and
after a month back to twenty six for the rest
of the year. So yeah, at the beginning here, you know,
we'll see about you know, fifteen pictures on the staff
for sure, Uh, you know, just because gadging and going
four or five innings that happened to get go. But
you know, tell you well, with the sixty game schedule though,
I think we'll see managers much more aggressive to managing,

(01:35:44):
almost like the postseason where Yank you started. You don't
think he guys it, you know, bring a start to
really leave things like that. But Bob, they're also there's
a trading deadline and everything. I don't know if everybody's
in the mix and not going to be eliminated. Does
that mean that there are more trades or no trades?
Because why would you be helping or why would you

(01:36:05):
be giving up anybody? Could we have no trades because
everybody's in the mix. Do you see what I'm saying?
Nobody would be dumping out of this? Yeah? No, I
go on the no trade side. I mean, like you said,
nobody everybody able to get a mix. And remember everybody says, well,
why would I trade for a guy for just two
months and give up prospects? Right, I'll know you're traded

(01:36:26):
for a guy for twenty seven days and that's you know,
that's if there's a postseason. Who knows that that will
even happen. So I mean the doctors would have made
the Mookie Bett David price to you if he knew
there's only sixty games in the season. So yeah, I
think we'll have very very few trades. I really do.
Remember now, all these trades to involve prospects. What there's

(01:36:46):
no minor leagues going on, so nobody's seen any prospects
for a year. So yeah, I see very few. He's
on Twitter at B Nightingale, that is at B Nightingale
USA today MLB Insider extraordinary. Bob always appreciate your time
with us, have a great all right, they're great stuff

(01:37:07):
with Bob as always. I mean, and you know, listen,
if you wonder about the optic rob of of seeing
a hundred positive COVID nineteen tests. Now, once you get
past that and you get past the headline, it's okay,
there's a lot more players, and it's understandable and all right,
we're gonna move on past this. But this is going
to be the fascinating part of baseball and basketball, which

(01:37:29):
is you are seeing the two sports trying to come
back with two completely different philosophies of how it's going
to be done. Right, you have Major League Baseball that's
saying teams are gonna train in their cities and they're
gonna train with each other, and then we're gonna play games,
and we're gonna teams are gonna fly and they're gonna
travel and we're gonna play. And then you have the NBA,
which is saying, everybody's in a bubble, no one's traveling,

(01:37:51):
no one's flying anywhere. We're gonna play games in front
of no fans. This is how it's gonna work. And
whichever one winds up working better, which everyone keeps the
COVID nine team test down. I guarantee you when the
winter sports come back, whether it's the NFL or college
football or college basketball, you're gonna go with whatever one works.
If the NBA bubble idea works and the and the

(01:38:12):
COVID nineteen tests are down, those sports are gonna have
to find a way to play in a bubble. Conversely,
if baseball works this way, hey we got it under control.
Everything is outdoors, It's all right. Everybody's gonna go with
that one. This this is gonna be to me, one
of the most fascinating things to follow. It's like a
big science experiment over the next couple of weeks. Which
way is better? Which way is our way forward? So basically,
you're saying the MLB and NBA guinea pigs, because they are,

(01:38:35):
and they really they don't they we don't know, we
don't know, and we don't know. And I think Bob's
taking a guest, and he's right. If a certain amount
of NBA players, you just do the percentages, so nobody
should be a gasp. If it's a hundred players, you
know what I mean That would be on par The
question would be if it was two or three hundred
players didn't you would have to go, wait a minute,

(01:38:56):
is this going to work or if this gonna happen?
So if that numb where as one hundred we are
expecting it today, right, you know, And you know what,
and that's one thing that I think everybody needs to
give players and to understand them. Coming back a little
bit more. Now, you you have MLB and NBA players
who are going to play now, and there's going to
be big time positive COVID nineteen tests. Right, they are

(01:39:19):
now going into an atmosphere where they are susceptible to
get in COVID nineteen. Now step back for a second
and think about our lives. You know, we're lucky, you know,
and many people across the country are lucky in that
what we do for a living. Managers and bosses are
able to say, okay, let's figure out how you can
work remotely and not have to come into the office,

(01:39:40):
and you can social distance and we can still keep
our jobs going. And you know here at Fox, you know,
they gave us all machines to do stuff out of
our our homes in and our home offices, which has
been great, and many businesses across the country are doing
the same thing. People are working from home and they're
they're you know, they're they're staying safe and that's awesome. Now,
think about players, Yes, they get paid a lot of money,

(01:40:00):
they do all these things. They have no choice but
to go into an atmosphere that they could get COVID nineteen,
where they are put into a circumstance where they could
wind up getting it because people they are working with,
they're going to have to work in close quarters with
there's no way around it, and they are going to
make themselves susceptible to get in COVID nineteen. Not think

(01:40:23):
how fortunate that you are if you don't have to
do that. Athletes, NBA and MLB players don't have that choice.
Rob they have to go if they want to play.
This is what they have to do. So you are
going and putting your health at risk to play because
this is the only way forward for them. So I
think in the end when we talk about these oh yeah,
the players will be okay, they'll be No. That's very

(01:40:44):
big mentally to weigh on you because they're going in
to play these games. That's on everybody's mind. Looks like
it's like you and I go into a store. Right,
if you and I go to a store with masks on,
are we going in and browsing in Target? Or going
to the grocery store like we used to? Ay, we're
here for a few minute having fun with rebbit. Don't
nut off the you know, out of the out of
the bakery rack and eat it on the way. Maybe

(01:41:05):
I pay for it, Maybe I don't, you know, I
mean all those guys, I might eat it during my
trip in the supermarket and I just forgot that I
had it. Oh sorry, Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. Yeah,
as you crumple the piece of plastic up exactly all
the chocolate I single on my mustache. Right, did you
have a donut? No? Not me, sir? Can you look
in the mirror, sir? You know? But that but we

(01:41:27):
don't do that anymore. That but that's what players are doing,
going to work every day, going into that atmosphere. And
how do you feel when you go to a store. Now,
It's like I gotta get my stuff and get out.
I don't want to be next to somebody. I want
to get home, and I'm gonna feel better. And you're
talking about players having to play sports under those same circumstances. Yeah,
I mean it will be different, um, but but this

(01:41:50):
is all uncharted waters. So so I think people will
just just the way Jason that you talked about it,
that we've had to adjust our lies. Right Like for
me during during the heart of this pandemic, me going
getting in my car driving to go get a diet
coke from McDonald's was my day. That was the only
thing I had to look forward to to get some

(01:42:11):
fresh air, do you know what I mean? And you
would go back for free refills? Yeah, no, you would.
They would you say, They would say, oh, you cannot
do that. You need to buy another drink, you can't
use the same cup. And that's so so that that
that that really hurt me because I couldn't get my
free refills. I think that's but what we did change
our lives, do you know what I mean? And that's

(01:42:32):
what the players will have to do if they want
to be professional athletes and earn a living, they'll have
to work around it, you know it, just real quick.
I think that's my favorite. So someone says, what's your favorite?
Rob Parker story from knowing, I'm saying, oh, it's easily
this one. When you know, right up the street from
us is Alpoyo Loco, Right, It's it's big place where
everybody goes there get something eat. We could walk out

(01:42:52):
of the studio, walk up to Alpoio Loco, get some
food and come back. So one day Rob goes up
before the beginning of the of the Odd Cup show
and he gets you know, dinner and you know, and
comes back. And then at the end of the show
when when I'm coming to do to Do to do
my show, You're leaving and I go, why are you
going that? When you go, oh, I still up my
local cup. I'm gonna go up and get a refill

(01:43:12):
before I go on the road. And I'm like, there
was three hours ago you went too. There's no time limit.
When when I see that, when I see free refills,
I couldn't say you have to get it within the
first fifteen minutes or of your meal. I ate my
meal there, I have my cup, I have my receipt.
It's not like I did it a day ago. No, No,

(01:43:34):
I'm entitled to a refill. Twitter hell about a fresca
Rob at Rob Parker fs fund. We're in for Dan
and the Dan that's today. Uh. That that's clearly that
is my favorite Rob Parker story of all time. Uh.
Coming up next? Oh boy, do we have a burgeoning
controversy in the national football that I think we can

(01:43:58):
see how it's gonna end, Rob, and I'll tell you
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(01:44:21):
Rob Parker in for Dan and the Danes today, and
a couple of late breaking stories that we have here
coming for you here. Happy fourth of July Eve number one.
We talked about this earlier in the show. Maybe saw
the headline yesterday that FedEx that sponsors Washington Redskins FedEx
Field wants the Redskins to change their nickname. Now, there's

(01:44:44):
been a long debate about how the racist overtones of
the Redskins nickname, and Daniel Snyder has beat it back
at every turn for the past few years. But now
the way the world is going, just because something was
accepted and around for a long time doesn't mean it
was a good idea. Will Daniel Snyder be faced with
having to make that change? Well, the Redskins just put

(01:45:07):
out a statement today. I'm going to read you from
it for a couple of seconds here, and it says,
in light of recent events around our country and feedback
from our community, the Washington Redskins are announcing the team
will undergo a thorough review of the team's name. This
review formalizes the initial discussions the team has been having
with the league in recent weeks. Dan Snyder is quoted

(01:45:29):
as saying the process allows the team to take into
account not only the proud tradition and history of the franchise,
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this is going there, it's just a matter of time.
The nickname is going to be done. It's happening. Stick
a fork in it. I know people don't want to
believe in the idea that that Washington and Schneider were
put together a press release talking about you don't review it.
He could have said, what could he have said, Jason,

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it ain't happening. It ain't happening under my watch. He
could have ignored it. You can't ignore FedEx, a big
sponsor that has its name on your stadium. You can't
ignore Pepsi. You can't ignore Nike, which has removed your
merchandise from its a website, and other sporting good stores

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which would follow. You can't ignore it. The financial pressure
always wins always. I remember when the state of Arizona
didn't vote for the Martin Luther King Holiday. Do you
remember that Jason and the NFL showed up and they said, Okay,
you will never get another Super Bowl. You know much

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money is pumped into an economy for a Super Bowl.
What the people of Arizona went to the polls and
voted for the Martin Luther King Holiday for it to
be a paid holiday in the state of Arizona because
of the financial pressures. Daniel Schnyder stuck out his chest,
talked a big game when there was no money on

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the line, when nobody was gonna push back other than
having to fend off some Native Americans who were protesting.
Then all of a sudden, the big boys showed up
and guess what, they got gobs and gobs of money,
and they're saying, we're gonna take these gobs and gobs
of money away from you if you don't do what's right.

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Look at the climate in this country. Things are changing
every day, Jason. I never thought I would see the
Confederate flag come off the state flag in Mississippi, or
not be welcome at a NASCAR event. These things are happening.
So I'm not surprised at how quickly this has turned,

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because it didn't take that long, did it. Once the
money was talked about being pulled back, Yeah, it's you know,
it's money. And it's also the timing because let's just
say FedEx decided in two twelve, two eleven, Hey, we
want Washington Redskins to change their name. And this was
a story that Daniel Snyder has fought against for most
of the odds the early teens in the country. And

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what happened he was able to win. At every turn.
He would come out with some kind of pull that says, hey,
the vast majority of Native Americans like the fact that
we have the team named the way it is and
it's really a very small number of people. He would
find a way, even with the money, because FedEx would
say we don't want to do it. Daniel Snyder would say, Okay,
I'll get somebody else. You will because that's what ha

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happened because it was still the NFL and that's the
way the world was it. Does it suck that it
took this long to make changes like this, to have things,
you know, for all miss and running Rebels and all
these nicknames that had a really bad add connotation to
be reviewed and changed over. Yeah, it should have happened
a long time ago. But this is where we're at

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right now because of the way the country's at. It's
the combination of where the money comes through. Because now
here's FedEx saying we'll pull the money, and no one
else is going to jump in because whoa, this is
a hot button topic. We're not gonna be involved in
controversy here. If FedEx pulls out and another company jumps in,
they're gonna say, whoa, you're promoting a racist brand and
a racist nickname. We're not going to partake in your

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company and you wind up losing money. So it's the
combination of the money and the right time, because now
the time is there to say, hey, this is no
longer acceptable and we need to make change here. And
I get the pushback from some people saying we got
to change everything everything. Just because something was accepted and
around for a long time doesn't mean it was a
good idea. And I know that's where we're at right now.

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We're at that point where we are pushing through it,
saying okay, let's make a let's go through all these
things and say this was really a bad idea, Let's
change this, let's change just let's change this. And the
other thing that I hear all the time, we're people
pushing back. You can't a race history. I'm not for
a racing history and things that are no, no, no,

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nobody's saying that we're a racing history. But we don't
need to celebrate bad people in bad situations and things
that went on when we know better. We know better now.
Why are we celebrating Confederate traders? Right? Who are traders
to this country? Why would we celebrate them? Why do
we have the names on buildings of people who are

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bad people and slave owners and did bad things to
bad people. We all know the history. We know, let's
correct it. It doesn't mean that that we're going we're
going to say that we're gonna act like nothing ever
happened and not acknowledge it. But we don't need to
celebrate it, that's all. It ain't about a racing history.

(01:50:54):
That's a lame excuse of people who are trying to
hold on the things. You know what Washington, d C.
There was a team called the Washington Bullets and a
poland who was the owner. Do you remember what was
going on in DC? Jason? I remember it was an epidemic.
People were getting killed left and right in DC. And
he said, I don't want my team to be called

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the Bullets, and he changed it to the Wizards. And
you know what everybody did in DC? They brought new jerseys.
That's what they did. It was just that simple. And
you move on. And the same thing when it comes
to Washington nickname, you'll go out, you'll put a new
name on it, everybody will go buy new jerseys. There'll

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be a windfall for Daniel Snyder in that organization, and
you just move on. That was a part of the history.
It was there before. No one's not gonna say that
when years ago, when Washington beat a certain team in
the Super Bowl, Yes, that's what they were called back then,
but now they have a new name. I don't understand
what people are holding on to. I really don't. And

(01:52:01):
and for Daniel Snyder, this is how it's gonna play
out for him, Jason Smith, Rob Parker in for Dan
and the Dantes today, he's going to survive this. Yes,
he has pushed against the name change for a while,
but it's not like he brought the Redskins into the
league and he says, this is our name, and this
is what we're doing. He's going to now by putting
this statement out saying we're going to review the nickname

(01:52:23):
of he's just making it seem like I'm taking charge
of this now, right like now I'm in charge of this.
This is what I wanted to make it seem like
it's my idea. You know, hey, I've heard from I've
heard the fans. Now it's my idea to make this
decision because it's my football team, because I own it,
and I'm going to make this decision. And we're going

(01:52:44):
and we're going to have a name change. It's gonna happen.
Is it gonna happen in time for this year? No?
But I know most for the twenty twenty one season.
So we'll see it for twenty twenty one. And he'll
survive it because of that, because and he'll be and
in some aspects he'll be looked at as well. He's
the one. He really brought this change finally, you know

(01:53:05):
that's now it's about spinning the narrative. So for so
long he was against it. We're never changing the name. Now,
how do I make it look like it's my idea?
And how do I look like a great guy for
being for finally saying I'm listening to the people and
doing it. But that's how it's gonna greet all his
spin people and PR people. They're all sitting around and go, Okay,
how do we push this forward? What do we do?
How do we make Dan Snyder look like a visionary?

(01:53:27):
All that stuff. That's exactly what's going on right now
with the rest and the other part Jason two is
the Ron Rivera is included in that uh right, there's
a quote from him the coach and it's funny. I
watched a clip just the other day Ron Rivera being
interviewed by Washington NBC Washington, and he was so noncommittal

(01:53:50):
and oh, I'm not political and I don't want to
get into that, and all of a sudden, you know,
a few days later, now he wants to do right
by the Native Americans, you know what I mean, Like,
it's it's mind boggling how people talk out of both
sides of their face, out of the out of their face.
Because the bottom line, and you're one hundred percent right,

(01:54:11):
it's now about spin. The same man who talked and
stuck out his chest and told anybody who would listen
that it wouldn't happen under his watch. Those are the
direct quote he said, you could write it down to
the reporters, it won't happen under my watch. And now
there's a review. Now there's a review, and he's heard

(01:54:32):
from everybody, and he's gonna take a good look at
it and do what's right for the organization. Isn't that interesting? Yeah?
Twitter At how about a Fresca rob at Rob Parker
FS one. It is the Dan Patrick showed Jason Smith
Rob Parker in for Dan and the dan Nets today.
So that's one big story that we're following over the
course of the past few minutes. Again, Adam Schefter just

(01:54:54):
had that as the Washington Redskins put that statement out
a few minutes ago. The other one comes from the
Green Bay Packers, who say, you know what, we're looking
right now at no fans in this season for the
NFL as every state probably is going to be able
to make their own call on fans in the stands,
because that's kind of how things seem to be going

(01:55:14):
as far as COVID nineteen goes. Each state is making
their response decisions, and then that's how it's going. And
here are the Packers saying, hey, right now, it doesn't
look like we're going to have fans. We've already looked
at other teams saying we're ready to have fans. In
Texas they want to have fans, and you know, Ohio
they want to have fans. But right now the Packers
are saying no. And there's a big push around the
NFL to get fans to sign waivers if they go

(01:55:37):
to games, saying we can't hold you responsible if you
get COVID nineteen, so you have to sign this waiver
if you want to come to an NFL game. Now, Rob,
I get that this is a really bad optic for
the NFL because it's basically they're saying, we can't guarantee
your safety and if you and you may wind up
getting COVID nineteen if you come to our games. But

(01:55:59):
I think that's kind of obvious, first of all. And
I have to think that NFL teams, you know, I
understand the desire to say, Okay, we can't have one
hundred and fifty lawsuits on us after one game that
people are saying, I went to this game and got
COVID nineteen, So we have to wind up doing something
about this now. Could could there be a better way
to do it? Sure? But is this something that I

(01:56:20):
expect all NFL teams to go through. Yeah, they're gonna
have to go through something like this. Yeah, But I
just think, why even if you have to ask somebody
to sign a wave where you're already telling people it's
not safe, so just not have fans. Baseball in the
NBA going without fans, what does this need to try
to get fans into its stadium? And Green Bay? You know, Jason,

(01:56:44):
there are no seats you're like sitting on the benches right,
You're like right on top of each other. It's it's
that kind of venue. So I just think, take that
out of the mix. Do right by the fans. Don't
don't even give them an option of going. And you
saw what was it. Vanilla Ice was gonna have a
concert or something, and the pushback was enormous. He canceled it.

(01:57:08):
Why why why are you doing that? Why would you?
Because sometimes we have to save people from themselves, right
by not giving them the option. That's why governors step
in and say you can't do this or you can't
do that, you know, for your public safety. Otherwise, if
you didn't tell people that, they would just go about
their business and put themselves in harm's way. There's no

(01:57:31):
need to have fans this year. Stop with the money
grab and you have the nerve to ask people a
sign away, like they could bring back an illness to
their family and to their parents or grandparents, or lose
their jobs because they get sick to go to a game.
I just don't understand what is that all about? You know?

(01:57:53):
The NFL really is I think as far as this goes,
eventually they're starting to bend on things now because it's
always been full steam ahead. It's us versus the coronavirus,
Like we have a sword and a shield and we're
going to kill this dragon. And they're understanding that. Okay,
COVID nineteen has other plans. They're going to need to

(01:58:13):
come with something, because up until a couple of weeks ago,
I thought they'd be able to do this. I thought, Hey,
we're going to have fans in the stands, maybe not
full capacity, but could we have twenty percent capacity and
fans sit every five seats from each other, maintain social distancing. Yeah,
we can do that easy. We're about that, And now
we're not. As we've seen the last two weeks, not

(01:58:34):
only with the coronavirus cases going up. You see there's
many states and many people who don't want to wear
masks because they feel their freedom is threatened. And meanwhile,
wearing masks is just a way to keep everybody safe.
And so there's no way you're going to get people
going to a game that's going to make everybody be
safe where everybody is wearing masks, unless the NFL says

(01:58:55):
if you come to games, you got to wear masks
and do they want to get in that kind of
controversy as well, because it's clear that we're not going
to be able to come to one agreement of everybody
wearing a mask going to a football game. There's gonna
be people saying, I don't care about this, I'm not
going to wear a mask. I don't feel like I
have to. And and you can't have those two sides

(01:59:15):
together in that kind of atmosphere because that all that
lends itself to is controversy and hopefully you know, not illness,
but that that's not no longer tenable. Up until two
weeks ago, I would have said, yeah, I think we
could do it, rob but now I think, you know what,
we can't. We're just not at that point in the
country we're gonna do it, and and to have to
think about having fans. In a span of ten days,

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it went from this is going to happen to now,
I don't know that you can do it that way. Yeah,
I just I think it's so strange to even put
that out there, especially, as I said, the two sports
that are starting saying that they're not going to do it,
and then they were trying to come up with fifty
percent capacity and all kinds of other things and space

(01:59:59):
people Loud. I just think that this is We're just
gonna take a mulligan. We're gonna try to get some
games on Jason on television right for people to be
able to watch at home and try to stay safe.
And then next year, you know that we got a vaccine,
you know, the virus subsides, and we can kind of

(02:00:19):
get back to life as normal and going to games
and going to concerts and going to Broadway shows and
movies and all those different things. But for right now,
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in for them as we get set for a Fourth
of July weekend that really none of us have had.
And we went through a Memorial Day weekend and that
was different. Now fourth of July is gonna be even
more different. Is we're gonna be used as we're used
to fireworks and barbecues and cookouts and everything else. And

(02:02:30):
please if you do one of those this weekend, do
it smartly, social distance. We need to continue to stop
the spread of COVID nineteen. Jason, Before we get to
the hot dogs and what's going on, I do want
to say that's got a text from my old boss
who is a huge Redskins fan, a Spielberg and he

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you know, he's one of these guys, lifelong fan or whatever,
and say it's without question, you know, time for a change.
And here's a big question is going to go forward,
and this is a good one is what the new
name will be and the one that he says it
shouldn't be as Skins like that shouldn't be the name.
And it'll be interesting to see what they come up

(02:03:12):
with and how much fun fans have with trying to
rename the team. I think they should open it up
to let the fans do it. What do you think. Yeah,
you can't just say, oh, it's gonna be a skins
because that still alludes to the to the past, right,
and you know you can't. It's got to be something
completely new and it but it also needs to be cool.
So if you allow the fans to do it, they're

(02:03:35):
gonna come with something crazy, because you know that's what's
gonna wind up getting all the bugs. Oh, here are
the five finalists, and the answers are isotopes and the answers.
You know it's gonna be crazy. But if you come
up with something that is going to be that you
can that you can both come with a new uniform,
If you can pay an homage to the past while

(02:03:55):
also freshening it up for the future. That's where you
should That's where you should. You you should come from.
And if you can find something else that does that,
that's the right thing. It's not just let's talk it's
the Rockets, or it's gonna be the you know whatever,
it's gonna be the Grizzly Bears. Now you've got to
find something. What's part of our past that we can
have now that goes into our future. That's about the

(02:04:16):
city going forward. You're gonna wind up with a pretty
good name that people are gonna like, No, I'm with
you on that. And Jason, are you barbecue in this
weekend or what are you guys doing? Oh, we are
going to have a social distance get together with two
friends in there and their child who's always friends with

(02:04:36):
and uh, we've already planned out being able because we've
done this before, having social distance get together, So we
pretty much have it down. And it's really about limiting
the people. You know, you know, don't go where there's
a bunch of people and there's you know that you
can kind of limit the interaction and you can still
have fun and still do it responsibly. Because look what
we saw Memorial Day weekend. I think people just went
a little bit too crazy and if they did it

(02:04:58):
safely enough, game yeah. He look here in California, Governor
Gavin Newsom says that he can trace the big uptick
in California, which was doing great for a long time
back to Memorial Day weekend where where nothing was done
to with the protection needed possible to go forward. So
that's why it's like Okay, if you're gonna do it,
do it smartly. It's not that you can't do it,

(02:05:19):
it's just you gotta be smart doing it. And and
there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to plan
that way. What about you? What are you got going on?
Nothing major? You know, you know it's obviously you know
it's a holiday because I'm working today a little double duty.
Are you working tonight or no? No tonight, I'm off. Okay,
we're doing the Odd Couple from seven to ten Eastern

(02:05:39):
with Chris Boussard, and then the weekend really laying low.
I'm hoping that maybe I get invited to somebody's barbecue
so I can relive my youth when I was twelve
years old and I ate twelve hot dogs at a barbecue.
I don't know if I could do that anymore. No,
that's tough. When you were when you were younger, you
could do that. Like I remember waking up going to

(02:06:01):
having breakfast. My mom would say, what'd you eat for breakfast?
I had three full bagels. You could do that when
you're ten years old. I'm just gonna keep eating bagels
because I remember when white castles were the hamburgers were
like ten cents or something or something like that. And
we used to go with three dollars and just get
a sack of burgers, do you know what I mean?
Like it was no tomorrow, three dollars you could get

(02:06:24):
fifteen burgers and a drink and fries. Yeah, you would
eat lunch, go play, and then like four hours later,
have more hamburgers. So great, but we could actually see
speaking of hot dogs, we could actually see a record
at the hot dog eating contest because look, there's great
headlines and there's this headline Joey Chestnut who has won
twelve times now Nathan's hot Dog Eating Contest because they're

(02:06:45):
having it in a nearby indoor facility because you can't
have it at Coney Island. He says, the eating conditions
are ripe for a record because eating in a controlled
cooler environment's gonna be better than sweating your ass off,
you know, in a hundred degree heat at Coney Island.
So because the eating conditions, Rob Parker, I never thought

(02:07:05):
about this, the eating conditions, we could see a new record.
M Well, I'm not I'm not into the record because
you still have to dip the hot dogs in water,
so I'll pass. You don't dip the hot dog, It's
just the bun you have to dip. Well, but the
hot dog is on the barn, you know. For Rob,
I'm Jason Twitter at how about a Fresca Robin? Rob

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