Andy Furman & Geoff Schwartz Recap the NFL Draft

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm fantastic, I'm glad to be here with you. What
a weekend of NFL action. Everyone got better? Of course,
everyone drafted the player they wanted to the position they needed.
And hope is restore to your favorite franchise. And also
the NBA Playoffs are here, so.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We'll hope you take your tongue which is firmly planted
in your cheek away from there right now, because I
would love to hear a general manager come out and say,
you know, I'm really wasn't the please with the with
the draft, But they'll never say that. Everybody's loving it.
Everybody thinks data tremendous draft.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Right, of course they did. And I think for the
most part, teams, you know, they got what they needed
to get out of it. You know that that's always
the way it is. Now the question is, you know,
there's gonna be a bust here and there. There's going
to be a team that just didn't do as well,
you know. Hindsight, I would imagine teams are like, yeah,
maybe you should have taken that guy, but you only

(01:26):
they did the work to put the draft boards together
and they're happy about the additions they made. But it's
very clear. I think that there are teams that are
much better at th other teams are, and it shows
in some of the decisions that the teams make on
some of their.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Personnel, no doubt about that. I have to ask, did
you watch the entire draft all three days?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I watched Day one, Day two I watched. I So
Day two was Friday night, I watched, so I did
radio Friday night, my normal radio slot front and as
I watched Wall, I was doing radio. I did not
watch after I was done with radio, so I didn't
watch the end of the third round. Basically, I paid

(02:09):
attention to who was drafted on my phone. And then
yesterday I was on this radio with Steve Hartman at
the beginning uc ME the middle of the sixth and
seventh round, so that's what I watched. I was out
my kids baseball for the fourth and fifth round. I
wasn't to get home cinemata television watching the draft. AFT. Look,
I've made it very clear about kind of where I'm

(02:32):
at with the draft. So you know, when when I
was younger and I sort of knew more of the players,
like personally, I was more invested in the back half
of the draft. And now because of all the jobs
that I have covered the Pac twelve conference and you know,
cover the NFL for Fox Sports, and I do a

(02:53):
lot of gambling for them, and I have this job
and I have other things I do my podcast, I
have a light, my kids, this is my wife. Look,
I have things to do. I know the top fifty
players pretty well right for the draft. I very prepare
for the first round for probably most of the second
round for most of the offensive linemen. But like went
against the fourth round Andy, I don't know the cornerback

(03:17):
drafted from Troy, Okay. So like, so I'm not gonna
pay attention now. Will I read all the draft recaps? Absolutely?
Why familiar rise myself with rosters by time training camp starts. Yes,
I will, But I can't sit by the television and
watch Steven Rounds not knowing who most of the guys
are drafted after the second day.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm with you exactly, but I tell you what I
learned one thing by watching I'd say maybe forty percent
of the draft. All right? That the top three sports
in America today after watching this draft are as follows.
The NFL's number one. College football is number two, and
the NFL offseason is number three. Gotta be that's it.
I mean, forget about baseball, forget about soccer, NBA, NHL,

(03:58):
that's it. Because when I saw that crowd at Union
Station on TV in Kansas City, I scratched MYA are
these people? I mean, did they work? Are there? Are
they a mind? I mean, really traveling to Kansas City
for to watch a kid walk on the stage?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Hat Well, to be fair, there was a lot of
red in that crowd.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
It was.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was a fair amount of Chiefs fans, and Chiefs
fans are very passionate fans, and and you know, Kansas City,
there's not always as much to do as as other places.
I do. I do wonder. I have to think that
there was I remember someone was drafted by the Colts.
It was Anthony Richardson, and there was just like a
giant following of Colts fans right in the front.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Row and right and they had the cheerleaders.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah. I have to imagine they just pay some fans
to come right like they like say, is like just
you know, I don't know if they run a local
contest in Indianapolis and they that has to be something
specifically set up, because I don't you're just not going
to get twelve fans to show up in Indianapolis to
the draft. That feels very cordiyat. But there's a lot

(05:01):
of red there, a lot of Chiefs fans. They're very
passionate football fans, and they're probably like, oh draft, I
mean the drafts in Detroit next year. I imagine it's
a cool if it was in Charlotte, where I live.
You know, I don't think I would take my kids
down there and maybe for a day. I would take
my kids down there and be like, hey guys, this
is the NFL Draft. I don't know if I would
do that, but I think there's excitement. And again, the

(05:23):
reason why the draft in the NFL offseason is so
such an important part of the sports news and while
we cover it the way we do is the idea
of hope. Andy, Right, It's it's the sport that gives
you the most hope if you're a fan, because baseball
is a month and okay, how many baseball fans right

(05:45):
now are thinking of themselves, Man, my team has a
legitimate chance to win the worst Even if you're a
Pittsburgh Pirates fan right now you have the best start
you've had in so many years. How many Pirates fans
are thinking themselves, you know what, We've got a real
chance to win this thing. Some I guess like probably
not right. If you start like six er on the NFL,

(06:06):
you're like, yeah, we're going to super Bowl, right, Like
there's but the NFL. It gives you so much hope.
How many TOAMNY fan bases today are looking at their
draft and think of themselves, we got the missing pieces, right,
we have the players that we need now. Twenty five
of the thirty two fan basis right, Like, that's just
the way it is in the NFL. The hope, the

(06:28):
hope is so grand in the NFL. That's what makes
the off season so big. If you're a Jets fan
right now, you think you've died and gun into heaven.
You Aaron Rodgers, You're weighing the super Bowl like that.
It doesn't happen in baseball, doesn't happen in basketball, right
So that's why the NFL offseason is so big, is

(06:51):
the hope that it brings your favorite team, that you
have a chance to win the Super Bowl because one
or two players can make a difference. It can be
the you know, when you eleven players on the field,
but there are certain positions that matter more than others.
Those certain players can make a difference, and that, to me,
is why it's so popular.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
You hit it right on the head. But I think
there's another fact biggest what makes the sports so popular
a the gambling aspect. I'm even talking about fantasy football
because people know the players by playing fantasy football. That's
number one. But number two, I've always said less is
more and the fact that it is structured in such
a manner with that every game means so much and
they only play seventeen games with baseball. You know, if

(07:30):
I don't see my team play Team X in April,
I'll catch them again in July. It's just too long.
We don't have the time. It's just too many games.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know. Interesting about it also just you know when
the NFL plays like an a international game, right game
in London, Mexico City a game, and this year they
have two games in Germany, I believe right, the Chiefs
play there, the Patriots play there. It's a big deal.
Like you know about it, you hear about it. There
was a game yesterday in Mexico City, the estents of

(07:58):
the Giants and the Padres played. I don't know About'm
a Giants fan. I know it. It was existing. So
I watched a game yesterday in Mexico City and they
scored a thousand runs. Because elevation is seventy three hundred
feet above sea level, they had at least ten home runs.
But when I went to bed last night, maybe more
by the time I stopped paying attention, and uh it

(08:19):
it like it just there's just not just not as
much hype around around you know, these kind of individual things,
because as you point out, there's just so many baseball
there's so much inventory in an NFL. There's seventeen games. Now.
I imagine they get the eighteen games at some point,
but every game feels so important. Even yesterday, I was
watching the Organ spring game, right and I'm an Organ fan,

(08:41):
so I'm watching it, but like just seeing some things
on the field, man, Like I'm like, oh my god,
I came up for the season to start. I saw
a couple of things like the hope. It's the football.
It's what it does, man. Football. There's there's an ability
to give you that excitement in the off season that
you don't have even in bad you know, fe aout basketball.
You might get yourself a Kawhi letter to Paul George
and not even make out the first round of the playoffs.

(09:03):
It's just, you know, it's just you might, you know,
you might be the Bucks and I'm not kinda the
NFL they don't have as many of those situations where
you're the one seed and and just kind of like
evaporate early in the playoffs. So that's what the NFL does.
The offseason is is so important. Now the off season
kind of ends today, right, It's not much gonna happen now.
Lamar has signed and Aaron Rodgers is traded. But the

(09:26):
three days that we just had, we just had. It's hope, man,
it's hope. You're you're Bengals fed. Bengals fans are over
the moon. Pass rusher, cornerback like they filled their needs.
They got offensive line and there I follow a bunch
of them on are they show them my Twitter page
because I've interacted with with Bengals fans so much over
the last couple of years and like it. It's hope.

(09:50):
Everyone loves the hope right now.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
You're exactly right. And you know, even if baseball wanted
to try to mimic football, they couldn't. You could not
do fantasy baseball. No one, no one in the right
line is gonna update their stats on a daily basis.
You can't do it once a week is fine. The
fantasy football baseball can't do it too much.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, you you just can't. So it was fun to
watch the draft. I think the the overriding kind of
theme of it as usual. It is like the we
know nothing the draft starts as much as as we
think we do. And I think it was I I
believe the credible reports from from a lot of people

(10:29):
that cover the NFL that that the Texans were not
taking a quarterback at two, like the people that and
people that that get these things right, we're telling us that.
But in the end, if you if you had said,
Andy the at the end of the Contra ball season,
who were the top two or three players? You would

(10:50):
go Bryce Young, CD Stroud, Will Anderson. Like in the draft, right,
if you were a draft the top, it would go
those three. Guess who went one, two and three in
the And the most logical solution and the most logical
thing happened where the three best players went one, two
and three.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
We did pretty well, I think on OPI we did
the top five list week. I think we did rather well.
I missed a fifth pick on Seattle. I had Tyree Wilson,
the defensive end from Texas dead and they picked Witherspoon
the cornerback.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, that was that was slightly surprising, I think, but
it makes sense what Seattle wants to do. But for
the most part, the first round, I mean kind of
players that were drafted were all sort of on everyone's radar.
The Will Levis thing, you know, it happens every year,
someone gets overvalued by the media.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
That if it doesn't happen, and why did he go home?
That was the thing? I mean, you really, I mean
a lot of those guys go on. I would stay.
It's it's a thing in your life. It's one of
those days you'll never forget. Stay hang out there. I
don't get it. Second day people that call in the
name up and they just they're not even there. If
that's wrong, I think it's wrong.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I mean, he might not only brought one suit with him,
and I don't even know if he hadn't close for
another day, like you know what I mean, Like I
don't even know. I just don't know if he even
had had outfits ready to go. But look, I'm glad
he found a home in Tennessee. He has an opportunity
to play early there. But again, you know, we there's
so much hype on all these players, and I have

(12:16):
been down on Will Levis. I didn't get it. And
you watch the film and then there's you know, talk
about kind of you know, maybe some you know wasn't
as much you know, trust in him through the process
of meeting with him in the buildings and whatnot. And
then once you got past the colts at four you know,
there wasn't a team desperate for a quarterback, right You

(12:38):
can make the argument that, you know, the Raiders have
Jimmy Garoppolo, like, they don't need Will Levis right now,
right that even before the Titans drafted him, they have
Ryan Dannel, they have they have a molicules that they
don't need Will Levis, And obviously they draft him in
the second round. And when there's other players on the
board that are great to hire, they go in that direction.

(12:58):
So I felt bad for him in the in the
green room a little bit, not as much I think
other people made it look like on social media there's
like a pity party for guy drafted thirty fourth overall.
But uh it uh, it sucks watching a player go
through that on that moment.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, And it's funny because last year they didn't draft
the running back in the first round. This year they
drafted too, so they're running back is alive and well,
but the kid out of Texas, I mean, you had
to draft him Robinson, I mean, and the guy's like,
what number eight to Atlanta and that that guy was
touted by by everybody, you know, the greatest player to
come out of the draft ever so you didn't want
to let him go.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, it I it's just Atlanta. It's just doubling down
on on just trying to run the football.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
They love the run game.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
That offensive lineman in the second round, who is who
is a better run blocker than pass protector. The thing
about it is, you know, you look at at the
NFL right now and you think to yourself, well, kind
of what it's not all of play works. And I'm
not saying the run games would disappear forever, and it's
important part of I think your identity is and offense,
right you need some physicality. There are certainly opportunities and

(14:10):
games to run the football, like there absolutely are, But
when you build your offense around running the football, that's
not winning Super Bowls. It's just not And if you're
the Falcons, that that process, in my opinion, is just
not good. It's not a winning process to build your
team around wanting to run the football. So I get it,

(14:32):
you're protecting you on quarterback, but again, what is that?
How far does that get you? Right in the end
of the Super Bowl, Yeah, the Eagles they ran the
ball great, but what it hurts throw for three hundred yards?
Like you're frow the football man. It's part of the game.
And to set up your offense around running the football
like Atlanta is doing.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Well, it shows me maybe no trust in the quarterback.
But I tell you what, the run game, that's like
nineteen eighty football. You know this the day, the day
of the running game is gone. It's a passing game.
That's just the way it is.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Absolutely, and again there is a part of the game.
You have to run the ball. I'm on, I'm not
like anti running the ball ever. You have to run
the football, there's part of But but you can't, in
my opinion, build your team, your offense around that.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, you have to let the passing game set up
the run game. In years past was the run game
that's set up the passing game. It's a different game
right now. And you know that. I mean, it's all passing.
That's what it is. I mean. Quote back, I remember
when when the Miami Dolphins when Dan Marino passed what
five thousand yards? I mean, he's like almost a godfather
of the forward pass. No one passed like that back there. Yeah,

(15:41):
well do Reno was playing. I know, his highlights are awesome, dude,
he just would take the ball him in l way,
but like backpedal and then just like throw the ball
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
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roll on here, I think it's it's rather important. I
believe to say that Bryce Young, the first pick out
of the NFL's draft. I love what he had to say.
Said he doesn't believe to be entitled because of being
the first pick. It doesn't entitle me to anything. And
I love that. I mean, I don't know the guy,
but I think that sometimes quotes visuals, You know, you

(17:50):
could form an opinion on someone by just watching them
or hearing what they have to say on TV. And
now Bryce Young to me has moved up to a
lot of big time for me for what he had
to say, loved it.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
I think he's always said the right thing, has always
done the right thing. He feels like a really good kid,
and you know he's been a kind of a model
player in Alabama. And you know that's why it's probably
why the Panthers drafted Hi, right, because when you're drafted
number one overall, when you're drafted number four overall, number
two overall as quarterbacks, you become the face of the franchise, right,
so you become, you know, the player that you know

(18:23):
it is most in front of the podium, the player
the fans most know. And so you know, having those
those traits, those personality traits, you know, humbleness like you
hear from Bryce Young, there as important and it's probably
reason why you get drafted where you are. If you're
kind of a if you're a bad person like that,
that that does play into your evaluation as a prospect.

(18:45):
And you know that there are there are teams that
will pass on you even if you're immensely talented, because
you might be a bad representative for their program.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, let's talk about the Philadelphia Eagles, because I can't
believe this. I gotta believe that the rich just get richer.
They had that Huber Bowl roster coming into the draft,
and what do they get. They get defensive tackle Jalen Carter,
outside linebacker Nolan Smith Junior, and the Ringo kid, the cornerback. Yeah,
and I think that, you know, look, the Jalen Carter thing.
There was some pushback by some media people, but I

(19:15):
think Howie Roseman, the general manager, defendant nicely. And you
know what, I did some research on this guy. Because
the Eagles, right now, you got to say that all
the credit goes to this guy. I mean, Roseman led
them to a Super Bowl appearance in five years, the
second one in five years, with a different head coach
and a different quarterback. He becomes the first general manager
to accomplish that, just nineteen eighty And I did some

(19:37):
research on this guy. He never stepped on a football field,
he never worked with a team at any level, and
he did this. He sent hundreds, maybe thousands of letters
to NFL executives over the course of a couple of
years after he graduated law school at Fordham to get
an interview, and then he finally worked his way up
from the I guess the media department in Philadelphia to

(19:59):
become general manager. What a story. And this guy really
and truly knows what the hell he's doing.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
He does, he has a plan and he gets after it.
And I think that they're a model of example of,
you know, how to kind of build your roster right
and understanding what's important. They only used one one draft
one draft pick in the entire draft of this draft
that was their actual own draft pick, because that's how
much wheeling a deal. And they do and often they

(20:25):
move back and acquire more draft picks, which is always
the right thing. Moving back is never going to be
the wrong thing to do. And they get Jalen Carter.
And it's important to note that Jalen Carter, and I
think the the the off the field concerns and there
are concerns with him that were beyond you know, obviously

(20:46):
some of the things that we heard with the unfortunate
accident that he that he was in, but there were some,
you know, some concerns about kind of focus, right and
attentiveness kind of in the building and whatnot. But but
everyone had said that Jordan Davis, who was there the
previous year, who's now with the Eagles. Okay, defensive tackle

(21:06):
the Eagles drafted last year from Georgia, was a really
good influence on Jalen Carter. Well guess what then, now
they're back together again. So you have the guy who
got the most at Jalen Carter, right, who was able
to be his mentor back with Jalen Carter. So the
Eagles paired these two guys together, which is a great
thing to do. So I even like it even more
than you have his mentor, like his best friend now

(21:29):
on the same team as him, can show him the
way to be a professional. It's a home run for
the Eagles. They add another pass rusher and Nolan Smith.
You can't have enough pass rushers in the NFL. You're
trying to play against the Chiefs and you're trying to
bring down Patrick Mahomes. You need as many of those
guys as you can get. And the Eagles are building
their team inside out, right offensive line, defensive line, quarterback,

(21:50):
and kind of going outward. And I think a lot
of teams worry about, how do we build our team
with the best skills players know inside out, build yourself
inside out, and the Eagles just do that as well
or better than anyone else right now. It's a very
important way to build your roster, and they get it.
And I don't know why more teams don't look at
what they do and say, hey, let's build our team

(22:11):
like this.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
You know what, they never used the term rebuild never.
I mean a lot of teams say, oh, we're gonna
be rebuilt. We're rebuilding. Stage. By the way, we have
to mention that they also made that trade with the Lions.
I got the running back de Andre Swift. I mean,
look for a couple of picks. But this team right
now is on the verse of going back to the
Super Bowl. I mean really, and they signed their quarterback
to big time money. He's that guy right now, hurts Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
And you look at well, the NFC is just who
in the NFC right now? Right with Rogers out of
the NFC, they're clearly the favorite at the moment, and
I don't know what would change that right now. So
they're just a roster. You know, the Niners is probably
the best roster in the NFL, but they don't have
the quarterback right, and the Eagles have a great roster

(22:55):
and they have the quarterback and that makes such a
big difference obviously in the end if you're picking the
you know the NFL champion, and I like the way
they build their team. Man, their impressive team to watch
when it comes to how they handle the draft.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
There you go, Jeff Schwartz, Andy Fern by the way.
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Speaker 4 (23:19):
Sports taking place on Sunday, the Knicks will open their
Eastern Conference Semifinals series with the Heat. Julius Randall is
listed as questionable. He's got a spray knee. Another big
game on Sunday, Game seven of the first round of
the Western Conference Playoffs. It's gonna be the Golden State

(23:41):
Warriors versus the Sacramento Kings. Winner of this game will
advance to the Western Conference Semifinals to play the Los
Angeles Lakers. That series begins on Tuesday evening. On Saturday,
the Western Conference Semifinals was the Nuggets beating the Suns
won twenty five one oh seven to take a one
nothing series leaders Jamal Murray had thirty four points and

(24:02):
nine assists. As far as Monday's Eastern Conference semi final
matchup between the seventy six Ers and Celtics, it's looking
like Joel Embiid will not play, as the seventy six
Ers saying that they expect him to be doubtful for
Game one against the Celtics. He missed practice on Saturday. Tuesday,
the league announcing the season's MVP a winner, so we'll

(24:24):
see if it's gonna be Nicolay Yokic or Joel Embiid
in the Stanley Cup Playoffs since the Maple Leafs advancing
to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for
the first time since two thousand and four as they
beat the Lightning two to one in Game six, winning
the series four games to two. The Battle of the
Hudson going a full seven games, Rangers beating the Devils

(24:45):
five to two. The decisive Game seven will take place
Monday evening in Newark. Oilers beat the Kings five to
four to win their series four games to two as
they advanced to the second round. In the NFL, the
Philadelphia Eagle trading for running back DeAndre Swift from the
Lions in exchange for a fourth round draft pick and

(25:06):
some notable draft picks. The two title quarterbacks in college
Stetson Bennett from Georgia Max Duggin from TCU, both going
to Los Angeles as the Rams taking Bennett in the
fourth round, the Chargers taking dug In in the seventh round,
and Deswan Johnson at defensive end from Toledo. This year's
Mister Irrelevant the two hundred and fifty ninth and final

(25:27):
players selected. He went to the Los Angeles Rams back
to you guys, all right.

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talk about this Giannis failure speech in the NBA. The

(25:54):
underdog Miami Heat. They pulled off the upset of the
NBA basketball season, Bob the other day, Wednesday night, I
believe it was. They bounced out Milwaukee from the playoffs,
the top seed in Milwaukee. And then Yannis was asked
at the postgame news conference, was it a failure? And
you know what my feeling was, It was a failure.
They won a number one seed, they failed to advance.
But Yanni's kind of you know, most most athletes, I

(26:16):
would think Jeff would walk out and just say that
the hell would you? But he gave him an answer.
You have to respect him for that. It was somewhat
of a decent answer. But as far as Milwaukee Bucks
are concerned, I think this season was a failure.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
You're absolutely correct, it was a failure. You know, we
could say, if you asked Jannis was a season of disappointment,
he would have been like, he probably would have said, yeah,
it was. It was just ended in disappointment. Right. But
failure can mean such a harsh It feels much harsher
to say failure, failure, right, And when you say failure,
it feels like you're attacking the person. Right, You're a failure, Yannis, Right,

(26:52):
And when you say that and obviously his story, He's
truly not a failure, right, him personally, and a lot
of players obviously who made an n being they're not failures.
And so I think he takes that when you say failure,
he takes that as a shot at him personally, right,
And obviously that's not what the comment was. But failure
in sports and in life, it's all about expectations, right,

(27:12):
And the expectations for the Bucks were to win the
championship this season, and so you have to judge their
postseason success or lack thereof, based off of that, right.
And so even going further than that, you you lost
the last two games of that series, having double digit
leads in the fourth quarter that you blew, especially a

(27:34):
game at home. You're up sixteen points I believe it was, no, Yeah,
sixteen points heading the fourth quarter one O two eighty six.
And you scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter at
home in an elimination game and then lost in overtime.
That's a failure, buddy, And I like his speech. I
agree with him, right. You know, some days you win,

(27:55):
some days you lose. You keep pushing forward. It's a
great speech about life. But in this specific moment, it
felt if the Kings were to lose tonight to the
to the Warriors, their season is not a failure, right, correct.
It depends on your definition, not your definition, but it
depends on what your expectations are or were heading into

(28:19):
a season or heading into life or anything. But it's
absolutely a failure. And I liked his speech. I was
not surprised. People were like, yeah, that's yeah, you're right,
jiannest it's not a failure. No, no, it was. It
was a failure. It's okay to say that. But again,
if the if the reporter had asked, I think it
was a very fair question, had asked, hey, was your
season of disappointment? I think he answers that differently. But

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when you use the word failure, that tends to feel
very personal, and I imagine in that moment Jannis was upset,
obviously and emotional that they lost the series and the
season was over. I think he took that as a
kind of a personal attack on him, when obviously it wasn't.
No one would ever accused Giannis of being a failure,

(29:02):
but that the season was Look, you have a job
to do if you're the one seed. I think even if,
even if they get to the Eastern Conference Finals and
lost to the Celtics, you would not call that season
a failure. But in round one to the eighth seed
who barely got in the Miami Heat, barely got in,
it's a failure.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
You're exactly right now. Everything he said I sort of
agree with. He said there is no failure in sports.
That's where I stopped, because there are failures in sports,
and his team was a failure in sports. There's no
doubt about that. He says. There's good days, there's bad days. Look,
the Boston Celtics bounced out the Atlanta Hawks. Was it
a failure of a season for the Hawks. No, No
one expected that to beat Boston and they were lucky

(29:43):
to even be in the playoffs. So that's the way
it goes. Yes, there are failures in sports, a lot
of failures in sports. Look, you've seen it. You probably
played on some teams that were quote failures.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and again I think what he said about like life,
it's absolutely true. Right, you're gonna have some good days
some bad days as you win and lose. It's certainly
a good lesson for my kids, right, I mean, they're
playing sports, now some days and they play baseball base
spol's hard man, Like, my son's the youngest kid's eight
years old. He's the youngest kid on his baseball team.
There's twelve year old on his team. Like it's just

(30:12):
the weird The league is set up kind of odd
with the ages. Like it's hard man. I tell all
the time, I'm like, yeah, you're gonna have some days
they don't go well, You're gonna have some failure. How
do you respond the next day? I'm with you on
us and everything, he said, But in the end, you're
in pro sports man, and you're the one seed, like
your your job is when you get to the postseason

(30:36):
is to win the championship, and so I you know,
he said, Well, does Michael Jordan consider the nine years
he didn't win a championship of failure? I think if
you're asking him, he'd say yes. I think he would
say absolutely, say yeah. But again, there were some years
when he was he's twenty two years old, Like he's
not supposed to be the championship in twenty two years old.
You know, there are other years he's not the favorite
to the Pistons. The Pistons were the favorite so, like

(30:56):
I said, it just depends on you know, I think
Jordan won all the all you kind of all the
championships where he was the favorite. Okay, yeah, so he
didn't have failure in those moments. You're honest, you're the
favorite man. You lost at home even in Game five,
that was a complete failure. You guys sixteen point ly
hanging the fourth quarter in an elimination game, and you
let Miami come all the way back and you got

(31:18):
Jimmy Butler, who who's an amazing player, one of the
best in the NBA, but you know he's the only
guy who's going to do it, and then they let
him do it every every time he wanted to. So
it was a failure. It's okay.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
If they weren't any failures, coaches wouldn't get fired. I'm
I'm surprised the Buck coach hasn't gotten fired.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I think he will be at some point. But you
also have to understand when you fire somebody, and you
know this, you have to hire someone better. So you
can't just fire a coach, in my opinion, and then
just oh well, let's just we'll just find someone, and
you got to fire someone with someone's specifically a mind
for for for this job. And so I think the

(31:55):
Bucks are probably I imagine, figuring that part out right
now if they want to go back to it. Actually,
but it was a poorly coach series. The timeout usage
was really bad, terrible, and the Bucks It's okay, man,
they just they failed the end of the season. It's
part of sports. It happens. Doesn't make Jannis a failure.
It doesn't make the individual players on the team of failure.
But as a team, they did not win the championship

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when they were supposed to win the championship.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
And what about the Memphis Grizzy is getting bounced up
by the Lagers. They lost by forty But John Moran,
he came out and said something after they were dump
by the Lagas Friday nineties, says, I've got to be
better in my decision making. They off court issues affected
us as an organization. Credit to him, I mean, I know,
I was shocked. I mean, that's a big deal for
him to come out and say that he could have

(32:40):
sold but he didn't. He had a decent playoff but
you know the fact that he was, you know, waving
a gun allegedly in a nightclub and it was suspended
five six games. I think the team kind of lost
their mojo when he was gone.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh I don't know if it allegedly. I mean there's
a picture of it. But yeah, I'm glad he's doing better,
you know, mentally, right, a better place than he was,
which I think is good for him heading to the
next season. But yeah, the team I think struggled a
little bit after that, kind of finding their mojo back again.
But yeah, he needs to go tell Dylan Brooks to

(33:13):
not run his mouth anymore. That would probably help him
a lot.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
But I think Lebron did that.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
And and and you know, like dude, like if you
were to run your mouth, you'll be a better basketball player,
especially when you know it's Lebron, Like, just you just
can't do that. And uh, Lakers, Lakers will play the
Warriors and King Warriors, Kings. Who do you got tonight?
Warriors are Kings.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I got the Kings and the games in Sacramento that
you took place to win.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, but look, I just I think everyone's picking the
Kings tonight. And I was certainly shocked. I think everyone
else was that the Warriors did not that they didn't
even win Game six, but they kind of know showed
they didn't play very well. I just would not count
the Warriors in a must win game.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
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(34:41):
in the NFL draft, mister Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
I think the Lions drafting a running back and off
ball linebacker in the first round because everyone kind of
thought they were smarter than that. That was very surprising.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
All Right, we're gonna talk, old lineman, because you are one,
all right, so you know all about that Arizona picks
Paris Johnson, the kid from Ohio State by way of
Princeton High School in Cincinnati, at the number six. Where
do they play this guy? They have a left tackle
in Humphrees right. Does he play right tackle? Does he

(35:19):
play inside?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Play right? I think he'll play right tackle. This is
why I would have drafted Peter Skorronski, who I thought
was the best offensive lineman, because Peter Scarrotsky can play
over the line of scrimmage. But yeah, he will presumably
play right tackle for the Cardinals. The Cardinals are setting
up for a major rebuild. If you look at their
draft picks for next year, they have like thirteen of them.

(35:42):
And I think they're setting themselves up to just be
very flexible in the draft next year because there's a
quarterback out of USC who is maybe one of the
better quarterback process we've seen in many, many moons, and
I think they would like to be flexible enough to
be able to snag Kalla william As if possible.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
All right, there we go the move in the draft
that you didn't see coming.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh, the Texans trading backup for will Anderson Dariel Jeremiah
NFL Network NFL dot Com. He had that in his
funnel mock draft. I guess I didn't. I did not
see his final mock draft, so he he had he
called it, I guess, But I didn't think the Texas
were moving back up to three for will Anderson.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
M M. The shaker pick, Schwartz's shocker pick, the shocker pick.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
What was the most shocked by.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
The pick that shocked me the most. I mean, you know,
I mentioned Jamir Gibb for the Lions. I was kind
of like, oh, okay, there was like one that was
like sho It was like so shocking to me. It
was it wasn't a draft where you you really had
a was there one for you? But it wasn't like
a It was like a showh my god, he believe

(36:59):
they did that.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
The only thing that shocked me was Roberts, the owner
of the Colts, was asking the fans who he should
draft a quarterback. I mean, what was that all about.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I mean, I think it was more interaction. Yeah, there
wasn't one that was like shocking, like we're like, oh
my god, Hill they did that didn't go. And I
think one of the most shocking things to me was
the way that we that people in the draft media
talk about some of these prospects, like the defensive tackle

(37:33):
uh uh Klaijah Cantsey from Pittsburgh, who people just decided
that he's he's his compass Aaron Donald because he's on
the shorter side of from Pittsburgh. Like besides that, yeah,
I mean, like no, not at all. You know, would
you compare a player to Aaron Donald? Why would you
ever do that? And there's Aaron Donald's one of one.

(37:54):
You know, Flowers gets drafted by the Ravens all of
a sudden, he's the next Tyreek Hill. It's like, well
do we we slow down for a little bit here on?
Like the comps are out of control. That to me
was surprising, Like, I just don't like how we compare
young players to the best players in the NFL. I get,
I get the point of it, right, If you're a
Ravens fan or you're a Bucks fan, you want to
know how this certain player might fit in your in

(38:14):
your your team, but you give that the player unfair expectations.
Next year, we're gonna see it with Kelen Williams compared
to Pat Mahomes. It's just gonna be unfair for the
for for Kaid Williams to live up to those expectations.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
You know, I'm glad you brought that up because to
continue in that vein when someone compares it, compare you
to a great offensive lineman, what kind of pressure does
that put on you? Certainly it's a compliment, but really
and truly, I mean it's pressure where if you don't
come up to that level, then you'll use the word
that Yanni's used failure, Then then you're a failure. Right.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
I surely was never compared to any good offensive lineman
coming out of college. I think it's just I think
that it you know, players probably used his motivation to
be that guy. But yeah, I mean it's, uh, we've
seen over the years, you know, main offensive linemen that
have failed. You know, it's a lot of pressure too.
It's pressure anyways, and they might have failed anyways, but

(39:07):
you know, be compared to one of the best, does
it really help?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Right? Okay, now we're gonna talk about some quarterbacks. Your
take on this Lamar Jackson situation. Basically, he snuck in.
I mean, it wasn't a lot of fanfare with his signing,
but he did sign.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
He's gonna be a raven Yeah, the most logical outcome
was this, go back to the Ravens makes the most sense.
I really do think there wasn't a lot of interest
around the NFL to give up two first round picks
and paint Lamar Jackson all this money, and so I'm

(39:41):
I'm happy for both him and in the Ravens. Now
we can move on.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, last, but not least this Aaron Rodgers now moved
to the Jets. I'm looking at both rosters on both teams.
I don't see a substantial increase in talent going to
the Jets from Green Bay. I think they're very similar
in nature.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Bo really we just have a better defense. But they
played just in a much tougher conference. So, you know, congratulations,
Like I just don't, I don't really, I just don't
think that that we're going to end up with, you know,
a super Bowl championship, which is really the only success
for the Jets if we talk about failure, right with Giannis,

(40:21):
the Jets have to win a super Bowl. That is
that is the reason you brought over Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
It's amazing to me, and I would have stayed in
the NFC because really, there was no competition there. You
got Minnesota, maybe Detroit coming on a little bit, but
other than that, there's nothing. Chicago Bears, you'll forget about them.
And now you got all these AFC clubs don't get it.
So we'll see what happens with Rogers, but tell me
it isn't So can we see this man back in

(40:48):
the NFL next year? That's next we funny retired. That's
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for a second from the NFL in the draft recap.
But let's talk about the NBA from yesterday. Don't forget Denver.
I mean they are like sleeping in the bushes. You know,
they had a great season, been a top of the
division most of the season. No one gives them much respect,

(41:31):
but they gave it to to Phoenix yesterday won twenty
five one oh seven KD for Phoenix. Had a pretty
decent game though, twenty nine points, fourteen boards. But Denver
had six guys in double figures yesterday.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Well, we'll use them respect because the last two postseasons
they didn't they didn't earn it, right, So I think that,
you know, if they were able to get by Phoenix
office even the Western Conference Finals, they would get their respect,
but they would not be a favorites in everyone's mind
over the Lakers, let's say, right, so if the Lakers
will end up, you know, in that position. But yeah,

(42:05):
they dominated the game last night. You know the Suns
again that the depth I think of the Suns plays
a role in a lot of these games. You mentioned
six players for Nuggets in double figures. The Suns play
like seven guys like they don't have They're not very deep,
and so you know, if they get in a situation
where where the Nuggets are going to be this efficient offensively,

(42:28):
it's gonna be tough for Phoenix to keep up. So
good Game one for the Nuggets. You know, I would
expect the Sons to bring this back in Game two
and keep it much closer.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
You know, I I love looking at box scores only
in basketball, not so much baseball, but basketball. I'm looking
at the box score right now with Denver shot forty
from the fleet from the field, Phoenix shot fifty one percent.
But I think the game was one or lost the
three point line, you know, because Phoenix shot thirty seven
for twenty three with Denver shot forty three, sixty to

(43:02):
thirty seven. And then offensive rebounding, I mean Deadver at
sixteen offensive boards as a posts like eight for for Phoenix.
So I think that's where the game was won or
lost if you're looking for Phoenix or Denver.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Yeah, and and but look, but often that's where games
are won and lost, right, which in the three point line. Now,
so that that that doesn't surprise me where you know
where we see the woods and losses coming from in
the NBA. But you're right, Look, the Nuggets are the
one seed for a reason. They're extremely talented. They're healthier
than they have been any point in the in the postseasons,

(43:37):
which is which is obviously very very important when it
comes to handicapping series and how you feel about the
ability to you know, for team to win or not
but what what's in an NBA Like, it's not a
serious till till the road team wins the game, so uh,
you know they're still you know, the game has the

(43:58):
series that's going back to Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Though, oh okay, here's the question. Would it be a
failure if Denver loses this series or is it a
failure for Phoenix using the term failure that they did.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
So I think for I think for either it would
be right because you're the one seed, if you're if
you're the Nuggets, and how many years are you gonna
you know, be one of the better teams in the
regular season and not win the postseason? Right? I would
imagine that getting to getting to the West Garward's Final
is the minimum for the Nuggets, right right?

Speaker 1 (44:31):
And there are one see Phoenix of four seats Maybe
wouldn't be much of a failure situation for Phoenix.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
But but Phoenix though again like tying it back over
the NFL, like they're like they're they're the Jets now, right,
the Jets on the sting Jets are the Suns now.
You traded for Kevin Durant to win a championship, that's
why you did it? And maybe you did it for
next year. This year was just kind of the appetizer,
the warm up, and next year you get a full
season with Durant and you feel better about your chances.

(44:58):
But you specifically traded for Kevin Durant to win a
championship and you did it for this season, right, you
did it for this season, And so if you don't
do that, it's a failure. Do you fail on at
least in year one? This season? You fail on that?
You fail on that trade.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Right, I'm with you. I'm with you on that because
he's like the Aaron Rodgers of Phoenix. Right now, they
got him too, win it all and we'll see what happens. Okay,
let's move to the NFL right now, because this story
made me crazy. He really did, because less than two
months after saying he retired, ab Antonio Brown announces he's
going to resume his NFL career. He says he plans
to play for the Ravens. He's not even on there

(45:37):
freaking roster and he wants to play for the Ravens. Okay,
what is the story with this guy? He needs some
help between the ears. I think you know, I'd like
to see him come back, you know, if he could
control himself, because he's one hell of a player, and
really and truly him added to that roster, you know
what Odell Beckham Junior and Lamar's back, you know, it
makes him pretty formidable, really does. But I don't see

(45:57):
him coming back.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (46:00):
The NFL? There's zero chance. Why would any team want
to want to put up with Antonio Brown? And I
get how much how much talent there is there, but
is there still that same talent right now that there
was five years ago? I no, I mean I could
say I want to come back to doesn't mean anyone's
gonna sign me. I don't. I just don't think that

(46:21):
we're gonna end up with a situation where any TV
be considers bringing me. The last the last two teams
he's been on, he's left the situations in a very
toxic way. And I can't imagine what the Raiders with
the Raiders, right and then the Jets, like the Raiders
and Bucks, I should say, it's just not it's just
not gonna happen. It's he's just not gonna pay the
NFL anymore. And that's just is what it is. I mean,

(46:43):
he end up he cost himself as the back of
his of his NFL career.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Yeah, he hasn't played an NFL game since that he
he took off his jersey I think against when he
was playing for the Buck in his back of twenty
twenty one. Then Tampa released him. He's gonna be thirty
five years old. And I don'tkay, what do you say?
I mean, you can't fight for the time. I mean
he has to have slowed down a step with two
and he hasn't played, so I don't see it happening.
But I think Lamar would want him. I think Lamar

(47:07):
Jackson would would kind of lobby for him, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I mean maybe, But the Ravens, you know they brought
Odell in, right, they drafted who they drafted who they
drafted a wide receiver. This I'm gonna pull up just
to make sure of this. Right, they drafted who they
draft Zay Flowers? Right, draft to Zay Flowers in the

(47:31):
first round. I mean they they they've they've they've added
a wide receiver. Help they're not. The thing about Antonio
Brown is like you just you have to have a
certain type of roster to add a player like that.
Like when you have Tom Brady's your quarterback. I think

(47:53):
it's easier with his just the the leadership presence and
how long he's playing in the NFL that you just
trust tom Brady if he says, okay, I'll take care
of Antonio Brown like all the absolutely did, and you say,

(48:15):
all make sure it works, like it's my responsibility to
make sure this works. And there's only a couple of quarterbacks,
Like I'm not even sure that you would say that
about Pat Mahomes right now, Like if you're the Chiefs,
would You're not saying Antonio Brown like you just you
even Mahomes said, man, I got this, Like I'm not
sure that you would you would do that. I think

(48:36):
it's like one quarterback who was like Tom Brady you
would do that with so I think.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Could handle him. Oh boy, No, So.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
I think this you just you're just not gonna do it.
Just it's just it's just the Ravens and the Ravens
are again, the Ravens are a team that you know,
their culture is great, like their their culture is great.
You know, Martin a great job of leading that in
that organization to do a great job lead the organization.
But I just you can't play Antonio Brown there. You

(49:09):
just can't do it.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
So we're not going to see him. I'm with you.
I don't think would have seen him the NFL this year.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
I really don't know why, why he's why would anyone
sign him?

Speaker 1 (49:18):
I'm with you, And look, I think his skills are
he wrote it as well. But we talk about quarterbacks
right now. Let's talk about Will Levis. You mentioned early
today but picked thirty three. But at Tennessee Titans, he
was tagged as a first rounder and I don't really
know what happened. I guess he wasn't needed, but the
Titans did trade up eight spots to get it. But Tennessee,

(49:38):
this team realizes on the running game with Derek Henry.
But here's the guy you mentioned early on, the kid
from Northwestern, Peter Scarnsky, the offensive lineman in round one
that's got to help the Titans and help their running games.
And you said he's the best offensive lineman in the draft.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Yeah. I like what the Titans did with their offense.
They also brought a Jalen Duncan in the fifth round
from Maryland. I like what they did there. Look the
Will Levis thing, I just I don't see it. I'm
a second round draft pick I think is appropriate for
Will Levis. You know you don't feel as inclined to

(50:13):
play him right away. If it doesn't work out, you
haven't wasted a first round draft pick on him. If
it does work out, you look like a genius. But
I just don't see it with him, man, I just don't.
And it's okay, Like you can be a good college player.
How many times have we seen great culture ball players,
good cultureable players, just not good in the NFL? You know,
I know it seems very This is a very simple take,

(50:38):
and I know people will push back on it, but
dude is too muscular to play quarterback, Like how many
quarterbacks are ripped? Like you have to have some flexibility
in your body to play that position. And if you're
that yoked, you're not going to have the flexibility to

(50:59):
throw the all the way you want to. You're just not.
If that was the case, if it was if if
there was a if it was a has a way
the Roy pass, if there was a it was determined
that being yoked was preferable to play quarterback position, every

(51:20):
quarterback would be yoked, right.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
I've never seen a quarterback yoked. I haven't seen the
muscle bound quarterback.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Think they're not because they limit your range of motion
and your flexibility, and I think that stuff matters. It's
little things like that that when you add the film
in there, and it all matters. Man, And so you
put the main in the mayonnaise in the coffee. It's
just all red flags everywhere, you know.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
But I think he ended up in a good spot
because he's going to be behind Ryan Tanne, who's going
to be thirty five years old and he could take
over that contract at the end of the year. And
also he's going to be behind what a twenty four
year old quarterback on Malik Willis. I don't think he's
have a problem beating that kid out right. So I
think he's gonna get a chance to grow with Tennessee,
I really do. It could be a blessing in disguise for.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Him, Absolutely, it could be a blessing in the skies
and it could. But I don't think he's any goods.
I just don't think he's gonna be a good pro quarterback.
So again, I mean blessing. This guy is great. He
found an organization that he wants to go to. But
remember the Titans passed on him in the first round,

(52:27):
like they could have drafted with eleventh pick overall, and
they didn't think he was worthy of that pick. And
how many times you know or franchise quarterbacks passed on
by that team and then draft you know, the Ravens
are a good example, right, who didn't draft Lamar in
the first with their first pick in the first round,
but the times that chance to draft the franchise quarterback

(52:49):
at eleven, it passed on Levis Like they were okay
just passing on him in general, right, Like they were
okay with with not having him on their roster, not
how much say that's how good they thought he was.
Now all of a sudden, I'm supposed to believe that
they think of him as their two row winning quarterback,
a guy they were gonna they were okay with just

(53:10):
passing on I know, Yeah, that kind of that. That's
my skepticism about what he'll be as a pro.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, And we we talked about the Ortlanta Falcons love
the run game, the run run game first, but I
think Mike Rabel is very similar. Yeah, he understands how
to run the ball first, but he's a coach that
plays for his personnel. And when you got to go
like Derek Henry, you gotta run the football.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
I could make the case that they shouldn't even drafted him, right,
Like if you if if if we agree that quarterback
is the most important position in sports, right and and
it's it's if you don't have one, there's no chance
that you're gonna win. Right. And the Titans had opportunity
to eleven to draft Will Levis and they passed. They said,

(53:51):
you know what, we we can't We're not taking him
at eleven. We we think that you know, Peter Skronski
that ackle Northwestern is a better player than Will Levis,
Then why would you pick him at thirty four? Like
if you think it was good enough to be your
most important player with a higher draft pick, why is

(54:13):
he all of a sudden good enough to be your
most important player at thirty four? But how are you
just like you passed on him at eleven, Just pass
on him like he's not your guy. Wait for quarterback
next season.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
It makes a lot of sense. But you know what,
I'm trying to think now of an NFL team that
has won without really a decent quarterback the Giants won
this year Daniel Jones, and they put a lot of
stock on him, But it was the running game they
really got on there. It really was a se Kwan Barker.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
They also won like eight games by less than a score,
which is not going to happen this season.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
That's true, that is true. But they did win. But
they won. But you know, but again, what did they do?
They made the playoffs, that won their first playoff game.
That's basically they really didn't go deep. But I'm trying
to think of a team that over the years did
not have a blue hip quarterback that has really made
some some waves in the.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
National The forty nine ers, I think would be the
answer this year. Yeah, I mean, Jimmy Garoppolo has never
been better than you know, minimum what back some of
the twelve best quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm trying to think though, really,
but the Bears have won in years past. We're just
on great defense, right, and then they really had a
tremendous quarterback. Yeah, the Bears have done it.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
It's fair.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
I don't remember the Bears even having great receivers or quarterbacks.
It was like you know when Gail Stairs played for
the Bears. That was it and great defenses.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
That Gail Sairs buddy was way before my time.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Well, I mean, you know, but still he was there.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
He was there. I know who he is. I'm up
in my NFL history.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
I know you are there. You go, all right. He's
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(56:30):
this never. That's right around the corner. He's Jeff Schwartz
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(56:50):
because San Francisco the Giants who are playing the Padres
in Mexico yesterday. I love it. I mean, you got
the box score there, twenty seven hits and San Diego
wins twelve to eleven. It's unreal.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
No, no, that wasn't even the final score. The final
score was sixteen eleven.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
I went to pay innings.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Yeah, I went to sleep. It was sixteen to eleven.
I believe there were I mean see when the home
runs hit. There were at least ten home runs hit
in the game. The ball was flying out. The total tonight,
by the way, for the game, I believe is twenty
and a half. The over unders twenty and a half
for the game. There were let's see, yeah, there were

(57:27):
at least ten home There were ten home runs hit yesterday.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Well, which tells me that which I never thought about this.
You know, they have those minor league teams and a
lot of guys are playing in the Mexican League, they
try to bring them up to the bigs. You know
those stats in mean English right now, if you're playing
on that.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Height, yeah they're not well. Yeah, but a lot of
times they say that, you know, the Pacific Coast League.
I think it is that the Triple A where they
play the games in like Reno in Vegas. The hitting
stats in those leagues get a little inflated, and so
the you know, baseball, they generally know that those are
gonna be a little bit a little bit deflated.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
There all right. Now, Now I'm going to go back
to the NFL for a second, because I think the
San Francisco forty nine it is pulled off. Maybe the
biggest surprise in the third round of the draft this
year was Friday Night when they took Michigan kicker Jake
Moody with the ninety ninth over roll pick, and kickers
almost never never drafted that high. The only other kicker
to be taken to the top one hundred pick is

(58:21):
Roberto Aguerrio taken fifty ninth, but a Buccaneers back in
twenty sixteen. You know what, he was released after that
one season. Really, it's amazing why they did that. I
know they didn't have a pick in the fourth round
and there were other needs in that ball club, but
to get that move, I think that Jake Moody had
a decent kicker for sure, but I was really surprised.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I mean, the Patriots took a kicker and a punter yesterday. Yeah,
I mean, it's not surprising because it's Bill Belichick, but
does feel surprising that, you know, a team decided to
take both those players, you know, But yeah, I mean,
the Niners doing that, especially when they didn't have a
high draft pick that I had a bunch draft, kind
of the bottom of the draft. But look, I mean,

(59:03):
you know the Niners have with gold they gig Goo,
they great kicking for so many years. I understand why
they feel like that's such an important position for them,
especially when you know Chinahan is, you know, tends to
be on the conservative side of coaching. He really does.
He prefers field goals over oftentimes going for it. So
I get why, you know, you kind of he kind

(59:26):
of wants a kicker that he can trust.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
And when this guy's a decent kick, because there's no
doubt about that, he hit a fifty nine other in
Michigan's fifty one forty five lous By.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
The way, Michigan had a kicker and punter drafted for
the first time, you know, from the same school, since
like Utah did like eight years ago before that, I
had never happened before.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Wow. I mean, it's just crazy.

Speaker 6 (59:52):
You know.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
I'm glad you mentioned the situation with the Patriots because
all week long leading up to the draft, they were
saying how Bill Bellick and the Patriots were looking to
maybe trade for a quarterback or draft the quarterback. They
weren't really happy with Mac Jones. What happened, they didn't
even touch a quarterback. Really well, maybe they're happy with
mac Jones. Maybe the reports that we had were non accurate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Mack. You believe that at pre draft report might.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Not be accurate, right, Yeah? Yeah, I mean I don't understand.
I mean, are you happy with mac Jones? I would
have drafted a quarterback? Really well, I.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Think the question becomes like, okay, so if you have
Mac Jones, you end up you know, you put it
with Bill O'Brien, Okay, and say whatever you want about
Bill O'Brien. This time in Houston, he can coach offense,
Like the Texans as a team were not bad as
a team when he was there. He was a bad
general manager and in Alabama obviously the last couple of

(01:00:44):
years he can coach offense. I think he will be
a good coach for Mac Jones. I think we will
see the best version of Mac Jones the next couple
of years, which is what the Patriots need to see
before it might be before deciding to move on. And
that's I think what they're doing. Let's they say, like, look,
let's get of ourselves the best evaluation we can of
of Mac Jones before we decide to move on from him,

(01:01:08):
and let's do it this year or the next year.
It's too early to do it. You had Matt Patricia
and Joe Judges off of coach last year. You need
to give a better opportunity to succeed with Bill O'Brien
that whatever you just did with with with with Matt
Patricia last weekend, as you mean last year.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
You know you know this because you play the game,
you were there, you're on the inside. How much is
it an ego thing where you draft a player and
the the they don't want to say they failed or
they got a bad pick that they looked like they lost.
That was a they'll keep the guy as long as
they can to prove to themselves and others, maybe to
the media as well as their fan base, that that

(01:01:46):
he's okay, you know, we didn't make a mistake. It's
a lot of ego in there. I'm sure, of course there's.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Ego in this. There's always ego in in in the
way that you know, the drafting of players and whatnot.
It's it's it's always gonna be that way. But again,
I think it's too early to move on from mac Jones.
You don't. You have to give him a year or
two with a real host, C and Bill O'Brien and
then you can decide what to do with them. It's

(01:02:12):
just too expensive to move on right now, and to me,
it feels kind of pointless in the moment to do so.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
You know, and you mentioned this early on, even prior
to the draft, that you know, the first round, maybe
even a little bit in the second round, you're gonna
draft needs, and after that you want to basically draft
the best player available because your need factor may be gone.
And I think as far as the forty nine ers
were concerned they probably needed a free safety with someone
in that backfield, and maybe even a tackle, maybe a

(01:02:39):
right tackle, and they just let that go. Would you
say that the kicker, this Jake Moody, was the best
player available. I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
I mean, I guess for them there was more of a.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Need because Robbie Gold is gone, so is it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
I mean, you know, again, think about the team needs though,
it's something that we like, we as sitting here saying
that a team meet. We don't know what they what
they think their best. You know, the most important team
need is though right as part of it as well,
Like you know, these teams have their own draft boards.
We don't know what they say. And then Iersman thought, hey, man,
like this this kid is, this kicker is is such

(01:03:18):
an important part of our future. We we better make
sure that we have that that you know, that that
situation settled. It's possible.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Amazing, really, I mean I was sort of shocked, but
we'll see. I mean, look, a lot of things happened
in this draft. A lot of a lot of predictions
went out the window. I think people, as you said,
the first four or five picks, we kind of knew,
but after that everything was in turmoil. It really was.
I mean, I don't think anybody had a great uh
mock draft because it was it was impossible to have that.
It really was and really the best draft right now,

(01:03:50):
I would have to say, walking away this morning, the
Philadelphia Eagles there really were great.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
They did a great They did a fantastic job. You're
absolutely correct on that, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
You got to credit their general manager. I mean, I
don't think it's luck this guy knows and I'm shocked
that this after reading about him. You know, never played
the game, never worked in a ball coach.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
You don't. You don't have to play the game to
be a good coach or to be a good front
office person.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
But what is is it a skill that you have
that you could see that No, you just you just.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
You you start to bottom and you learn how to
build a roster, and you just you get the opportunity
to do so, and you you just you stick to
your guns. Man. It's not that I don't think it's
that like crazy complicated.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Do you think you could do it? If you could?
You be a GM in the NFL?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Like right now, can I just run a draft room?

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Probably not but I think if I if I had
a couple of years and kind of got the opportunity
to be a scout and kind of learn the process
of it, I think I could I could eventually figure
it out.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Yeah, is that something you'd like to do?

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
No, screw.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Sixteen hour days?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Really? Oh yeah, I could be. I would be a
fantastic offensive line coach. I just have no interest in that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
I don't blame you. You never see your family again.
That's correct, right, Jeff Schwartz, Andy Furman, This is Fox
Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. You know, take a
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Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
Yeah, speaking of Round two, the Eastern Conference Semifinals set
to get going on Sunday between the neat the Knicks
and the Heat as Julius Randall of the Knicks is
questionable with a spray name. Another second round game taking
place on Saturday as the Nuggets beat the Suns one
twenty five, one oh seven as Jamal Murray had thirty

(01:05:47):
four points and nine assists. Game seven of the first
round of the Western Conference Playoffs taking place on Sunday
between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings, with
a winner advancing to the Western con diff Semis against
the Los Angeles Lakers, with that series beginning on it Tuesday.
The Eastern Conference Semis between the seventy six Ers and

(01:06:08):
Celtics beginning on Monday. Joel mb doubtful for that opening game.
He missed practice on Saturday with his knee injury. Tuesday,
League announcing it's MVP Award winner for this season. In
the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Maple Leafs winning a playoff
series for the first time in nineteen years as they

(01:06:30):
beat the Lightning two to one to win their series
in six games. Rangers beat the Doubles five to two,
forcing a game seven across the Hudson in Newark, and
the Oilers take down the Kings five to four to
win their series in six games in advance to the
semi finals in the Western Conference. As for the NFL,
the Eagles acquiring DeAndre Swift from the Lions in exchange

(01:06:55):
for a fourth rounder, and just notable notes both quarterbacks
in the National Game going to Los Angeles as Stetson
Bennett going to the Rams. He was picked in the
fourth round number one twenty eight overall, and Max Duggan
from TCU picked in the seventh round by the charters
number two thirty nine overall. Mister irrelevant this year des

(01:07:15):
Wan Johnson, a defensive end from Toledo. The Rams took
him with a two hundred and fifty ninth and final pick.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Back over to you guys, Thank you, Kevseen and our
shockers that you may have missed. That's coming right up
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we have bottom barrel betting coming up in about six
seven minutes from now. First round surprises we have with
the Lions running back Jamar Gibbs. Then they trade their
running back DeAndre Swift to the Eagles, and look, the
Eagles have had a hole to fill in the batfields.
Is Miles Sanders left in free agency. So Harry Roseman,

(01:08:04):
how Howie Roseman basically knows what he's doing. He knew
he had to fill that hole. Miles Sanders has gone.
What do they do? They get de Andre Swift. It's
amazing what they do is plug up the holes and
he's now on the Eagles. Eagles never rebuild. They just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Well, yeah, because good teams don't have to do that
because you continue to look, you continually find your weaknesses
and you attack those weaknesses via fraigency in the drafts.
You never really have a situation where you're like, we
need to have sort of this, like you know, this
this time to to reset, to rebuild. And look a
couple of years ago though, if you do remember that

(01:08:39):
kind of that transition between the Wentz and and and
Hurts years was a tat of a reboot. But again,
the roster around the quarterbacks was good. It's just the
quarterbacks weren't. Weren't weren't those guys And when you have
a roster around a poor quarterback, you're not gonna be

(01:09:00):
it right, and and the quarterback got fixed, and all
of a sudden, boom, here they go.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Right, another surprise, I thought, really with the Texas getting
back to back picks in the first round, I mean
the number two picks C J. Stroud, the quarterback out
of Ohio State, and they come right back with Alabama's
Will Anderson Junior, the edge rusher. That was big.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
That was and and you know, everyone said, and you
know there's these draft uh these draft uh trade value charts,
right the famous, the famous Jimmy Johnson won, and there's
been ones that been updated over the years. And after
a trade, you know, we'll see on social media especially,
hey look there is a here's you know, here's the

(01:09:39):
value of a trade. And and and people said, look,
the Texans gave up too much to move up basically
three I think it was three spots to move up
to three from six. And and and you know they
give a first round pick next year. But guys, they
have the Browns first round pick next year. They have

(01:09:59):
a the first round pick already, so they have extra
assets to use to you get themselves more you know,
more talent in this draft. So it's to me, it's Okay,
to to stretch a little bit, to stretch a little bit,
a little bit thin this year, if you have the
capital to do next year. So I like what they did.

(01:10:21):
I will, I guess I'll kind of be I'll be
found with the aggressive this because you have the opportunity
to have a first run pick next year already.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Yeah, you're right about that. Now in a round two
look at the Joey Port of the cornerback, I was surprised. Look,
I'm not a judge of talent, but what I've read,
I thought that he'd go a lot high, maybe a
top fifteen pick. He goes at thirty two to the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and it allows them to follow in the
footsteps of his father, you know. So that's a pretty
good deal. And he's going to learn and maybe start

(01:10:56):
against with Patrick Peterson. That's gonna help him too. That
helps you grow absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
And uh, you know, Joey Porter long arms, but I
think a little bit stiffer in the hips. So I
think that's why he kind of fell to the beginning
of the second round. It just you it happens instead
of going first rounding, this goes pick thirty two. It's
for him though, it's he gets to go one because
of the second round status. He's a four year contract,

(01:11:24):
not a five year contract, and so it allows him
to hit for agency a year earlier.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
HM. That's interesting for him. Really is unusual.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
It's the way the contracts work out. A first round
pick has five years, the fifth year is a team
option the end, and if you're not a first round pick,
you get a four year deal, so you get your
year closer Fregency.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Interesting, Okay, that's good. You know. I look at the
Detroit Lions and they got this safety Brian Branch forty
fifth overall. Had a pretty good draft. The Lions had
a pretty good draft. They got the quarterback for Tennessee,
Hendon Hooker, who basically go was injured most of the season,
but he could come around and become a pretty decent
at least back up, maybe get a shot with the
Detroit Lions. They got their running back Gibbs, tight end

(01:12:13):
Sam Laporta, linebacker Jack Campbell, and that they got Branch.
So I think that they had a pretty good draft.
You could ask obviously the Eagles number one, but I
think the Lions may have been a top five draft
pick class.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Except They took the running back and off the ball
linebacker in the first round, which are two positions that
are not valued in the first round. So they kind
of don't pass get you know, they just their process.
I don't think was great.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Well they got, but I think Branch is gonna have
he won't have to go in there instantly and be effective.
I think he won't have a lot of pressure to
be a starter instantly. I think he's gonna learn because
they got a CJ. Gardener Johnson over there, so I think, yeah,
So I think that's a good thing. I know it's
funny because the draft quarterbacks, I guess because of the

(01:13:00):
the salaries they make, you have to be instant started
when you were quarterback drafted early on, but when you're
any other position player, give you time to learn at times.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Yeah, if you're a player drafted in the first two
or three rounds, you're and you're not a quarterback, you're
playing almost immediately. You're not sitting.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
And that's the way it should be.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
So like you're you're going like immediately, so there's no
like waiting, like you're your day one mini camp. You're
getting that starting spot probably or or close to it
at one B.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Have you seen anything like that. I mean, you were
drafted late, so you know, I guess you would just
hate to say this kind of thankfully you're on the roster, right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
I think about it like that at the time, But yeah,
I mean I was. I guess I was glad to
have an opportunity to you know, to to play in
the league and get an opportunity. But I never thought
of it other than those terms. I was playing exactly,
but I knew that I could be cut at any time,
like that was always in the back of my mind, right, But.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
You weren't, And that's great. You had eight good years
and that's great. It really is great memories. We'll talk
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I'm not sure where is this match being held?

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
You know what this? I don't know where's Christian? What's
Christian's dad?

Speaker 6 (01:16:27):
Right now?

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
Jeff? Anybody?

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
I mean Swedish.

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
I'm looking it up right now. I think it is Swedish. Yeah,
look at you, good for you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Yes, yes, I.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Think it's the US in the US Virgin Islands.

Speaker 5 (01:16:44):
Now now it's Sweden.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, so they play handball in Sweden. You know, you
gotta be a little.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
With the c if it's supposed to see it's it's
in the Virgin Islands. It's a k.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
It's in Sweden, hip k K. So you're looking it
up now? Are they playing indoors out? Those are using
the black ball that the traditionally using a handball or
a regular like ball that you play like the stickball.
I mean that that I gotta know these things.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Are these both teams in Sweden?

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Yeah, this is a Swedish league.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Okay, what are the teams now?

Speaker 6 (01:17:18):
You said it's I f K Christians Dad versus I
K sab Hoof.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Sweden Handball. I'm gonna I'm gonna have a buddy who
is a who is living Sweden'm gonna pick the team
closest to his to his hometown.

Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
What would that be?

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
He lives in uh in the Upsila, So I'm trying
to find I'm trying to find these two teams play
sounds your Stockholm stock He lives near Stockholm, so Christian
Stod is not near Stockholm. I'll think the other team,
then the other team not Christians.

Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
Dodd Okay, well, sab Hoof, yes, Jef Sophof, got it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
You know you're giving him so much time. He's probably
calling his friend in Sweden right now. Really, that's that's
That's what I'm worried about. Because he's a competitor. He
doesn't want to lose. He played in the NFL. He
doesn't want to lose with me. I'm a loser, but
I was always a loser.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
A lot of handball website and I am just like
I bet you will. I mean, I'm in a different
world right now.

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
Tough to follow. It is you're killing us, Andy, What
are you? What are you thinking here? Christian's dad?

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Oh yeah, Christian of course, Christian Stead of course. That's
why I have K Christian's dad.

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
Yes, yes, I have K my guy, look at yes
all right? On the cricket too, you said, what did
you say?

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Who wasn't getting Christianstad again too?

Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
It was uh sab hoof I k sabhaka Christian Stadt.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
DraftKings I got it from.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
He's still looking it up. Come on, you could him
as something.

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
Yeah, we have a shot clock. All right, we're moving
on a cricket. We're going to cricket.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
This league is in India. We got the Mombay India's
Indians first, rag instead Royals.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
Yeah that you pick them.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
I'm gonna go first, and I'm gonna go with the Royals.
And I'll tell you why I can't believe in India
the term Indians. I know it should be politically incorrect.
I know. I'm just saying you would think, at least
in India, of all places, don't be calling them the Indians.
So I don't like that. It's not politically correct. I'm
going with the Royals.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
I guess I have the other team, so you can
be still. I'm still looking up. I think I found
the location of the handball team.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
It those are indoors. I didn't even know that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
It's all indoors, buddy. It's it's not like handball like
on the wreck on the on the.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Like Coney Island and Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
No, it's inside.

Speaker 6 (01:19:49):
Yeah, I agree, Andy, I don't know why the Redskins
got taken away. Why doesn't Indians get taken away?

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Well, yeah, they got taken away in Cleveland, didn't they?

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
Yeah? Yeah they did good? Good point?

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Guardians, yes, now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
The Mom Bay Guardians.

Speaker 6 (01:20:04):
All right? The uh Premier League, the yes, Lacrosse Premier League.

Speaker 5 (01:20:09):
Now that's abnormal. We don't know anything about that. We're
gonna go pick them. The Archers Versus chaos, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Chaos, that's what this show is. Just.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
I love I was born, and I was born, and.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
You can take chaos. I'll take archers.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
I love chaos. Chaos is my life. I lived in chaos. Yes,
so is that it?

Speaker 6 (01:20:29):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
I have one?

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
That's fine, all.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
Right, all right, one team is going home today. That
are more next on Fox. All right, there's nothing better
than this. We'll tell you why in just about a minute.
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get into the teas and try to answer that tease
and pay it off, I got a couple of questions
I'm gonna ask you because why you played in the
end found Yes, you were there, and I'll never forget that,

(01:21:18):
and I respect you for that, and I'm almost a
little and jealous that you did, because maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Yeah, I have a lot of I have a lot
of surgeries. Though I don't know if you be jealous
about that part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
I'm going for one myself on May ninth.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
What are you getting done?

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Hit my second hip?

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Those are those are? Those are fairly like Uh, it's
like tonsils. My dad's getting his. My dad, I think
is h he's had one one done and it was uh,
and it was you know, the rehab is you got
to put the rehab work in. But it's you know,
you walk the same day. It's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
It's outpatient surgery. I mean, I'm gonna go in there
at noon. I'll be home at six, they said. And uh,
the last time I had the hip deal on my
right hip, I think within four or five days, I
was driving my car. So everything was okay. K.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Yeah, it's wild you good luck on that. So you
have you have to miss the show.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
I want miss the show. It's on a Tuesday, and
it's Sunday, the lolling Sunday. I'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
You're a champion of life. I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
I'm trying. I'm trying my best. You're my idol, you
really are. But I got a couple of questions. Look.
One of them we kind of touched on it early on.
Why do players who aren't picked on day one leave.
I mean, would you have left if you were a
day one, if you were picked to be day one
and everybody in the preseason mock drift said that Jess's
gonna be day one and you won't pick day one,

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would you have left?

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
So I don't know if I would have left. I
probably would have stayed. But there were there were a
couple of players that there were four, I think four
players that were not drafted around one that were invited
to UH to Kansas City, Will Levis, Joey Porter Jr.

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Keon White, and Brian Branch. The only one that came
back was Brian Branch, safety from from Alabama, and Brian
Branch said after he was drafted, he was drafted forty
fifth overall. I said, I'm blessed to be here. Not
too many people can do this, To shake the commissioner's hand,
to be in front of the fans like that, to
the interact with everybody, the vibe consider right now, I'm
just happy I participated in that. So I get his

(01:23:24):
point of view, like he waited your entire life for
this now. Yeah, Brian Branch was also you know, he
was a maybe first round draft pick, Like there was
you know, the mock drafts had him like, yeah, maybe
the Eagles at thirty take him like he wasn't a
guy that was expected to go like will Levis in
the top four or five. So I understand him staying around.

(01:23:45):
I'm sure he prepared for the for the for the
for the idea that I might be here one or
two days like that that's a realistic scenario for him.
Was that, Yeah, I'm going to be here a couple
of days. I'm I'm, I'm you know, I'm, I'm just
gonna be a couple of days. It's it's it's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
But but he was together when he sung to meet
the commiss to shake his hand on TV.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Why not will Levis. Will Levis was not playing on
being there two days. He probably had the one suit
he was wearing for the first round for for for
the green room, and one suit he had brought with
him for his press conference the next day, right, And
I was he just did have to be there, and

(01:24:33):
maybe the embarrassment of it, maybe he didn't want to
be sitting there all day again with the camera on him.
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
With every pick that they missed, they went to the
green room and showed him with his family and his growth.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
So I understand both sides of it. I understand Brian
Branch saying like, look, man, this is a one time
time opportunity. I want to experience this. I want to
be here in Kansas City. I deserve this. I'm gonna stay.
I totally get that. I got the other side of it,
saying like, hey man, this is embarrassing for me. I
got the cameras in my face. Everyone's every time a

(01:25:05):
pick has made. That's not me. The camera's on me,
it's on my family, on me and my I think
that was his girlfriend with him, Me and my girlfriend
or fiance or wife. I think one of those three.
I believe, you know, I'm I'm you know, I'm tired
of me being the focus of the telecast. I get
his point of view. Now. The other the other players,

(01:25:27):
they weren't right, Brian Branch wasn't the focus of the
cameras every time someone else was drafted. So I understand
him feeling more comfortable to stay or Kean White or
or Joey Porter Jr. So I get both sides of this.
We're like, we'll love it. Was like I'm out of here.
I'm done going home or branch designed to stay right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
And I'd like to know the difference as to when
you were drafted. Was it back in New York City?
Radio City Musical?

Speaker 6 (01:25:50):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
So what's the major difference?

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Well, A, the other difference is obviously, you know, it's
it's just now it's even more of a production, like
it's a three day event. It wasn't three days back
when when my draft, you know, they they had more
players went to the draft. I think I think more
players now stay home, you know, they don't really need
it to be at the draft?

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Is mandatory? Does the NFL?

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
So so when when these first rounders come out there
with their family, there's the NFL pick up the tab? Yeah,
when the team picks it up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
No, the NFL does you know players? I think also too,
it was New York City. I think there was a
you know, you wanted to be in Manhattan for this.
I don't know if there's the same sense of like,
I want to be in Kansas City for the draft.
Next year it's in Detroit, Detroit, Yeah, And so I
think there's also you know, there's also that thought as well,

(01:26:50):
where you know, again, people wanted to be in New
York City. In Manhattan felt bigger I I have. You know,
I've been to supporting events to the Garden. I know
this is it was a Radio City Music Hall, but
you know there's when you go to sporting events in
New York they just feel bigger. Man, It's Yankee Stadium.

(01:27:10):
I've been a city field, you know. It just it
feels bigger at the Garden. To see a Rangers playoff game,
which I've been to at the Guard, it's not concert
of the Garden kind of the Giants just feels bigger
in New York City and Radio City Music Hall to
do it there felt like a big event you wanted
to be at. And I just don't know if if
the players feel the same way of you know, of

(01:27:33):
when you know it's in Kansas City or Detroit or
Nashville or Dallas, of like I have to be at
this event.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Good point? I mean, really, the night life of New
York City how to be tremendous Where Kansas City, I
don't think there's that many things to do except the barbecue.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Now that's a great thing to do though, right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
Okay, now, now help me on this one. How shocked.
Are you with the crowd response? They said three hundred
thous some people. I can't believe that number. Really, I
think it was the first day. I think it was
that many people. Really, Yeah, And they said they the
economy of Kansas City, the Convention of Visitors. Buewer said
they they brought like sixteen million dollars into Kansas City. Amazing.

(01:28:17):
I can't believe it. I really can't.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
It looked like that many people. Again, it was a
sea of red Chiefs fans. Man, they're passionate. Again, it's
a pretty big deal. Like I'm in Charlotte and I
know or you know, the Panthers owner talked about wanting
to have the Draft here at some point. You know,
they talked about wanting the Super Bowl at some point.
They need they're get a new stadium for that to happen.

(01:28:40):
But it'd be a big event. Man. People want to
attend these these and again, the draft is you lot
sitting and waiting to announce the picks. But there's a
lot of things to do with the periphery of the
of this event, and I think there's all people want
to be I want to say, Hey, I'm at the
Draft I'm here at the draft. I'm watching, you know,

(01:29:00):
an event that's that's pretty unique to be part of.
And that's why the NFL's the most popular sport in
the world, but in our country really is. So then
me draft would never get anything like this Baseball draft.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
The people don't even know what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
You used to be used to be fifty rounds. It's
like a five cow change itself.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
It shows you the support the league has.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
Right And now, I said coming into this segment, there's
nothing better than this in the world of sports, in
any sport. And that's a game seven, winn will go home,
that's basically. And today we have that Golden State Sacramento
Game seven in Sacramento, the Aaron Fox, I guess he's
playing with that broken finger. And honestly, right now, I
think there's a lot of people would like to see
the Golden Story Sacramento and the Kings moving on. They

(01:29:50):
could score. They got the NBA's best offense. They beat
him badly in Golden State the other night. I was shocked,
and you said this earlier, Golden State looked like they
were sleepwalking in that game.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Oh yeah, I was. I was. I was genuinely surprised
that the Golden State Warriors lost that game because during
this this dynasty run of there, it's just four titles
and I think it's eight years now, they would never
have lost this game in previous years. I mean, I
guess to take that back, they didn't lose the Cavs
of three to one, but in other in most years,

(01:30:23):
they're not losing round one to kind of an upstart
Kings team, right, a team that hadn't been the playoffs
in so many years, and they're doing it at home,
where the Warriors even this season, are just so much
better than they are on the road. And it's not
that they lost, it's that they didn't. Really they weren't
in the game ever. The Warriors were behind the entire

(01:30:44):
game by double digits, and every time they sort of
made it run, and they made a couple runs in
the third quarter, the Kings came right back, you know,
lay up three, lay up up seven, like you know, say,
seven points took very quickly, and the Warriors just kind
of never gott in a rhythm and the Kings just
just just just took it from them. And I think
it was pretty shocking because the Warriors have been atrocious

(01:31:06):
on the road. They only have eleven road wins all season.
And when they won Game five on the road, and
then a lot of the connectional wisdom was like, well,
this is over now, right, They're going back home, and
the Warriors don't lose these games. They don't lose these
games at home in Round one to a team like
the Kings, and they lost.

Speaker 1 (01:31:24):
But I will Sacrament tough at home. They really are.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
I will caution people on this though.

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Yeah everyone, it's a point.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
It's the Kings of everybody, a point and a half
is I I know people are going to be inclined
to pick the Kings because, as I mentioned, the Warriors
are very poor on the road. Whoever they just did,
they just won Game five on the road, So you know,
the recent sample size would suggests that a very small

(01:31:53):
sample size that you know, they just didn't win a
game on the road. But again, they're the champs. They're
the champs. They have played in a million game sevens,
They're seasons for this, they're ready for this. I would
not count them out because they're qute unquote poor on
the road.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
All right, that doesn't mean anything. You're right that doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
The war and the Kings, and they very much. They
impressed me a lot, you know, in game six, but
they have not played a game seven. Right, different atmosphere,
different intensity. This game is at home too, that there's
gonna be a nervous tension. There's gonna be this tension
in the crowd. How do they handle that. It's gonna
be of course it's gonna be incredible crowd today, but

(01:32:36):
just the tension of that environment. So I just wouldn't
count out to Warriors in this spot. The question is
I think now is like what's the what is what's
a better matchup? Is it? Is it Kings Lakers or
Warriors Lakers.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
I'd rather see Warriors lacer You know, it's funny because
if you go back and look at the history of sports,
they used to have teams that dominated for so long,
the Celtics in the NBA, Yankees in baseball, the Montreal Canadians,
and the NHL, and you don't see that anymore. And
I think maybe it's healthier that you have a team
that golden state. Maybe they move aside and let let
other teams take their place. Maybe that's better in the

(01:33:12):
world of sports.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Well, it's interesting. We would you say that, and the
TV ratings would say no, the TV ratings would say
that we watch dynasties more than we watch individual one offs.
The only sport where that seems to not be the
case is college football, where it's so regional based that
we tend to just like, okay, we're tired of seeing

(01:33:36):
the same SEC team win over and over again. The
ratings for the championship games tend to fall down, but
most often in football, basketball, baseball, these dynasties have the
best players, and we're trying to watch the best players play.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
And I think market size. I mean, if the NBA
executives had their way, they'd rather see Golden State win.
They got the start the Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Sacramento is technically the Bay Area, but not not not
really not really to get you get you get, you know,
just go get Oakland to hatee. Oakland's in a tough
spot because they're not rooting for the Lakers and they're
not roding for the Warriors. It's gonna both teams. Poor Oakland. Man.
We had had had three pro teams four years ago

(01:34:22):
and I have zero, and uh, you know, I'm just
as a Lakers fan I don't know who. I'd rather
probably play the Kings. I know the Kings can score
a lot. They they're young, energetic. But the Warriors again,
like there's a worry in me that they can just
you know, Seph Kirry can have that forty point game, right,

(01:34:44):
Clay can have that forty point game. The Kings just
I don't think that as reliable right now to do
things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
Well, I think there's a pride factor. I know it
sounds stupid, but I think you guys like Curry and
Thompson and Draymond, they've they've been even Aaron jol Wiggins.
You know, they've been to the postseason. They know what
it takes, and you know they don't want to lose
that title. They've they've been there, done that, and then
they want to keep it, you know. And this pride
a lot of pride fact absolutely, you know, and you
know you've seen that. You've you've been involved with sports

(01:35:13):
and you know I've seen it with sports teams. But
we'll see what happens today. But again, you talk about pride,
I mean, no one has shown it even better in
these playoffs than Lebron James. Think about that I mean, well,
he came to life. He looked like a twenty year old.
Though he's been playing in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
Lebron's had interesting playoffs. You know, he is not he's
thirty eight. He's just not going to give you the
thirty seven, nine and seven games anymore. This is not
what he does, right, And I think what we've seen
with the Lakers two is, you know, every game there's
a different you know, supporting cast member who's going to

(01:35:53):
be kind of the third option. Right, So we know Lebron,
we know there's a D and I wish a D
would just be way more consistent. Let's just frustrate. You know,
guy can average thirty points a game if if he
wanted to, right, he just doesn't. But then there's you know,
is it the Austin Reeves game? Right? Is it the
is it the Hotchemora game? Is it the is it
the Dangel Russell game?

Speaker 6 (01:36:12):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
And we saw in game six Russell at thirty one points.
I think we're seeing Lebron early in games trying to
figure out who that guy is gonna be. And you know,
maybe he's taking less shots, he's expending a little bit
less energy trying to, you know, so he can figure
out who's going to help him tonight. And so you're
not gonna get those thirty five point Lebron games. You're

(01:36:33):
gonna get twenty five points or twenty four points. And
that seems to be what's working for him so far
in the play and looked to be fair. Anthony Davis
was supposed to be the guy that took over for Lebron, like, this.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Is why he brought it playoff series.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
He's playing, well who Ad is? Yeah, he's playing, but
he's still like it's just I think he could be
so much better.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
He's giving consistent double digit rebo games too.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
Lebron was supposed to be aightyes, supposed to be that guy.
Where like Lebron at thirty eight, like, hey man, I
can still you know, I can still make the game
winning shot at game time shot. I can still be
that guy, but I need you to be the bellcount
for most of the game. And I think Ad has
just not been that guy for most of the time
they've been together.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
Right, No, you're right, he's Jeff Schwartz. He's been that
guy all the time. And get him on Twitter at
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We'll read him, we'll retweet him. Well bet he yet
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game at the end of this hour. But right now
we've got some really good questions on these picks that's next,

(01:37:50):
some really big reaches and they're all yours coming right up. Okay,
he is Jeff Schwartz on Andy Furman and we are
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio from the ti
iraq dot Com studios, and a couple of players right here,
and one of them is John Michael Schmidts. Okay, and
you would know about these guys because they're big guys,

(01:38:11):
and you're a big guy. He's about three hundred pounds
sixty four and I gotta believe the giants who picked
him at fifty seven on the second round. He's going
to start at center like tomorrow out of the University
of Minnesota. He can't go wrong. You can't go wrong,
you know. The late Paul Brown, the founder of the
Cincinnati Bengals, said something very smart. In one of his
books that I read, it says it's what's up front

(01:38:33):
that counts because the first player he ever picked in
the National Football League when the Bengals were formed, was
an offensive center.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
Yeah, he will be the Giants starter immediately at center.
It's a very good draft pick by the Giants.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
Yes, he's big, and they compare him to the center
of the Kansas City Chiefs with Humphrey, which may not
be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
No, that's not the good Combarisson, all right, don't know who.
I don't know who that, but that's not what I
would I would not compare those two guys.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
You know, you played the offensive line, and it's somewhat interchangeable,
isn't it. You played left side, right side, but the center.
Basically he's basically stuck at center. I mean I don't
see him playing a guard.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
Yeah. For the most part, centers are There's a couple
of guys like the kid Joe Tipman, who was drafted.
Who is he drafted by second round by the Jets.
I think, let me make sure here, he's like six
six uh yeah, but Jets. Yeah, Joe Tipman, he's huge.

(01:39:35):
He's six six three fifteen. He can play guard. He
played guard at Wisconsin as well. I believe tackle. He
played all five positions. He might six six is very
tall for a center. I could see him playing guard
center in the NFL. But most centers are you know,
six two sixty three, they're just playing center. Uh. You

(01:39:57):
mentioned Creed Humphries. He's big for a center, and you
know he's gonna just play center, like it's just what
That's just what he's gonna do because that's what obviously
what position he ends up playing. But yeah, there's there's uh,
that's it's a bad conferen John Michael Schmidt.

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
Okay, the Lions on pick number sixty eight, the Tennessee
Hendon Hooker quarterback. Now, I remember the last July, about
a year ago, they were touting this guy as a
Heisman winner. He got hurt, he had the ACL deal. Okay,
but now I guess he could rest, relax, rehab, get healthier,
and be a somewhat successor the Jared Goff down the road.

(01:40:39):
It's low risk, high reward for the Lions right now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
Absolutely, you know. I just he's like twenty six, he's
old man, come up a knee injury. I don't know
he played a very quarterback from the offense at Tennessee.
UF you're the Here's the thing about the draft. Where

(01:41:04):
we sit right now, it's very easy for us to
look in the future and say, hey, look, Caleb Williams
is is uh is there on the horizon, right, he's
us He's quarterback, He's there on the horizon. And Drake
May North Carolin's quarterback. They're there for next year. And

(01:41:27):
so if you're a team like the Lions or anyone else,
you know, maybe you forego to the quarterback this year
looking forward to to using draft capital to go get
Caleb Williams next year or Drake may next year. Because
if the let's say the Cardinals end up at the
top of the draft next year, they might not want
to move on from Coler Murray. They contractually they might

(01:41:48):
not even be able to move on from from from
Coler Murray. So there might be a chance to trade
up and get yourself Caleb Williams. So if you're the Lions,
you're you're out of that now, right you have Hayden Hooker.
But there's we can do that here and say, hey man,
maybe the why should have looked ahead next year? That's
what I would say. I would say, you know what,
don't draft Hayden Hooker, play the year out with Jared Goff,

(01:42:12):
and then next year. You know, I think you go
for it next year for one of those guys.

Speaker 1 (01:42:17):
But then especially the fact that he had the two
things going against him, I think they're the ACL tear
and also, as you say, he's twenty five going on
twenty six. Yeah, yeah, but again he doesn't have to
rush to be ready because he's going to be a
long term deal. Yeah, So who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
I was the best? I just don't. I don't really
you if you look across suspected in the NFL right now,
most franchise quarterbacks, okay, are going to be first round
draft picks or high second round draft.

Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
Picks, except if they're drafted by the Jets.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Well, the Jets right now have a first round draft pick.
That's your quarterback in round.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
I know, but I'm till the years did several years, past.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Couple of years. The best quarterbacks in the NFL, like
your franchise quarterbacks, the ones that we consider a franchise quarterback,
are most often drafted in the first round or high
second round. There are exceptions, Russell Wilson's an exception. Cousins,
Dak Prescott, I think that's about it. Like brock Pray

(01:43:27):
to me, he's not a franchise quarterback yet he started
half a season, and so to think Hayden Hooker is
all of a sudden to be a franchise quarterback two
or three years from now when he gets healthy is
be extreme outwire right. Kirk Cousins wasn't drafted to be
the franchise quarterback. That was Robert Griffin the third. He
was drafted the same year as RG three. He was
not to be a backup. Russell Wilson was drafted to

(01:43:48):
be the backup. They happened to you know, Dak Prescott
was drafted to be the backup. They just happened to
end up being the starter and being better in a moment.
So Haeyter Hooker being this franchise altering quarterback for the Lions,
history would tell you probably unlikely.

Speaker 1 (01:44:08):
When you do have the guy at sixty eight, I
don't think you're looking to see him being your franchise quarterback.
I think he's insurance for Jared Goff. That's basically what
he is.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
Yeah, but he's too injured to be insurance.

Speaker 1 (01:44:19):
This year, perhaps, I mean, I don't know how healthy is.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
So the question, are the Lions still in the market
for a franchise quarterback next season?

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
In the draft next year, I would say yes, I
would say yes.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
I would say I would say that they look at
it as as Hooker takes care of that for that
next year.

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
You think, so, yeah, and what if the health factor
is a problem because you said the ACA maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
It is well then and then then you've was to
waste their draft back. Yeah, I think this. They look
at this as like, he's maybe our future quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
I would hope not if I'm a if I'm a
Lions fan, I would hope not.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
But you know what, the White take the watch draft
the quarterback in the fifth round or for sixth rounding.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
I mean, yeah, no, you're it's kind of a strange pick.
It really was, But we move on. He's Jeff Schwartz.
I me Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday of
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(01:45:27):
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Speaker 4 (01:45:30):
Yeah, a little bit of NFL news this morning, as
ESPN reporting that the Giants and Saquon Barkley are set
to reconvene on talks on a potential contract extension, and
the NFL Draft concluding on Saturday. Just a couple of
notable picks. Both title game quarterbacks going to Los Angeles
Stetson Bennett from Georgia, picked in the fourth round by

(01:45:51):
the Rams number one twenty eight overall. Max Duggan out
of TCU going in the seventh round of the Chargers
pick number two thirty nine. Theadelphi Eagles acquiring running back
DeAndre Swift from the Lions in exchange for a fourth
round draft selection. In the NBA, couple of playoff games.
A couple of big playoff games taking place on Sunday,

(01:46:11):
including a Game seven first round of the Western Conference
Finals between the Kings and Warriors, with the winner advancing
to play the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Semifinals,
with that series set to begin on Tuesday. Game one
of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Knicks and Heat,
set to take place today. Julius Randall is questionable with

(01:46:34):
a sprained ankle. The Western Conference semis featuring the Nuggets
and Suns took place on Saturday. They Nuggets win it
one twenty five to one to ZHO seven as Jamal
Murray had thirty four points in ninety six is Denver
takes a one to nothing series lead seventy six Ers
saying that Joel Mbat is doubtful for Game one against

(01:46:54):
the Boston Celtics that series set to begin on Monday,
and being missing practice on Saturday as he's dealing with
that knee injury. Tuesday, the league set to announce this
year's MVP winner. Stanley Cup Playoffs Maple Leafs advancing in
the playoffs for the first time in nineteen years and
make it to the second round, beating the Lightning two

(01:47:14):
to one as they win their series in six games.
Battle of the Hudson going a full seven games. Rangers
beat the Devils five to two to force that decisive
game Monday night in Newark, and the Oilers finish off
the Kings five for to win their series in six
games back of you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:47:31):
Thanks keV Deegahl. Okay, this is Fox Sports Sunday. Fox
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(01:47:54):
in about seven or eight minutes. For now, quick question
if I can to Jeff Schwartz, do you remember when
they called your name because you you were there, right,
you were there at Radio City when they called you
a name and you woked up on.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
The stage in the seventh round. Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:48:08):
Just curious now I know it sounds crazy, but did
you keep did you record that? Do you have that
tape of that?

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
That would be fun, that would be something.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
So my so, my agents were very honest with me.
They had told me that I'd be drafted in rounds
four through six, like they did, you know, they didn't
kind of you know, they didn't you know. They they
didn't sugarcoat it. They didn't tell me oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, you'll be drafted in the you know, in
the first round. And in my year, the round was
two days. The draft was two days. It was round

(01:48:40):
one and two on day one on Saturday, and then
rounds three through seven on day two. In two thousand
and eight, in around one and two the first day,
ten off of the tackles were drafted. I think that's
still a record for the most office tackles drafted in
UH in the in the first two rounds. So I thought, well,
that must mean my time's coming. When actually, and now

(01:49:02):
I've learned that, you know, if there's a run on
a position right like like off at a tackle, that
means that there's actually gonna probably be a pause on
people drafting tackles for like two rounds. It's like the
tip of the way it works. So I woke up
on Sunday morning on the West Coast and I did
not watch the first two rounds. I was at a
friends baseball game at Junior College in South California. I

(01:49:23):
woke up at six am and sat in front of
the television, and it was a mistake and third round
goes by, fourth round, fifth round, sixth round. And you know,
at this point I had been getting calls about undrafted
free agent opportunities. Yeah yeah, basically, And you know, I
had teams had called me and we're like, yeah, we're

(01:49:44):
thinking about drafting you, blah blah blah blah blah. And
you realize that's just a sugarcoat you for undractored, fragiant opportunities.
And the Panthers called me, and it actually was Brandon Bean,
who's now the general manager of the Buffalo Bills. He
called me. He was at that point kind of like
the not the lowest on total pull of Panthers, but
he was sort of the job was to call kind
of the lower prospects. And he called me and he said,

(01:50:08):
are you excited to be drafted? It was something along
those lines. And this is exactly what I told was.
I SAIDT this point, I don't even care because I
had been called by many teams already, like hey, working
at we're thinking about drafting right here, you know, like
you know, keep your phone close. And I had seven
eight teams call about undrafted free agent opportunities already, and
I just was over. It was over the day we

(01:50:30):
had we had a draft get together at a local
restaurant that we actually had canceled because because, yeah, because
I didn't think I was being drafted. And then and
then he said, hey, you know, Congrasulazed Gumen drafting the Panthers.
And I was, of course a static and super excited,
but it had been just a long, long day. As

(01:50:51):
my fault, I should have watched television. I should have
just taken the advice of my agent not watched anything
and just tried to enjoy the day.

Speaker 1 (01:51:00):
It was a torture, I guess for you, really, but
you know, I would have loved to have kept the
video and the announcement as a keepsake.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
And if your kids this is this is two thousand
and eight, man, we didn't We didn't record everything on
our phones back then.

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
Yeah, you're right now, you're exactly right. It's now. When
your kids watched the draft, could they did they ask
you a question?

Speaker 6 (01:51:20):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
Hey, dad, I mean you you were there, right, you
were drafted?

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
A draft is not well. Friday Thursday night, I wasn't
in town. I was at in Dallas at a friend's
draft party. Friday night, watched a little bit of it
watched yesterday. We were at my kids baseball for a
good amount of the afternoon. The thing about it is
like the draft is not a kid friendly thing to

(01:51:44):
watching television. Like it's just it's just on in the background. Right.
And then you know, my son asked me about Bryce
Young being drafted because they talked about it. You know,
his friends talked about it at school on Friday and whatnot.
But it's not really like a sit down with your
kids and watch four hours of the draft like it's
a it's on the television at the house. We talked
about the draft. My son has asked me about it before,

(01:52:06):
but you know, we don't sit there and just like
obsess over the draft on television.

Speaker 1 (01:52:12):
Interesting, all right, Yeah, yeah, we talked about the draft.
The New England Patriots. They selected the edge routscher out
of Georgia Tech king On White, round two, pick number
forty six, second player in the twenty twenty three NFL Draft,
and that was the second ma for the Patriots. But really,
and truly, and I saw this on TV and now
he's getting some negative reaction from White being picked by

(01:52:34):
Bill Belichick and the Patriots. The Patriots former offensive lineman
Sebastially of Volmar. He read the pick, and then the
broadcast was cut to a view of White and White's family.
They were at home, and White's face he didn't look
too thrilled and he didn't even smile to show a
positive reaction. I mean, really, to me, what was he

(01:52:56):
not happy being drafted by the Patriots? Was he not happy?

Speaker 6 (01:52:59):
He was? Guy?

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
Ah, that's a good question. He was a guy who
was supposed to be a first round draft. He was
one of the guys in the green room, right, and
I think he was, well the guys, was bummed that
he wasn't drafted as he thought he should be. I'm
sure he's pretty excited about being drafted, but I think
he thought he was gonna be drafted higher.

Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
I guess he was. And you know what I don't
think so much is the money situation. I think it's
the ego, like I'm better than that. I should have done.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
Absolutely not the money. It's the ego.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
Absolutely, yes, exactly right. Jeff Schwartz and Deferman Fox Sports
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Now, what's always fun to
point fingers, Let's do it. Why the playing game is
next the playing game right around the corner. Yes it is.
This is Fox Sports Sunday. He's Jeff Schwartz, I me
Andy Ferman. About thirteen minutes before the top of the hour,

(01:53:48):
and at the top of the hour, which would be
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Harmon will talk sports with you right here on Fox
Sports Radio, and we are live from the tai iraq
dot com studios. But right now it's time to play
the blame game. Here is ruin me. It's all your fault. No,
it's your fault. What is all your fault? Maybe it's

(01:54:11):
everyone's fault. Who the liar? That's why there's the blame game,
the blame game. Let's figure out who to blame. The
blame game. Yeah, that's blame the big ee. He's in charge,
Ethan Miller.

Speaker 5 (01:54:22):
Yes, all right, guys, here we go. First blame of
the day.

Speaker 6 (01:54:26):
The number two seed Memphis Grizzlies lost to the number
seven seed the Lakers. Obviously, Memphis was supposed to win
this series. So who is the blame for Memphis collapsing
and losing the series?

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
Well, like you were the favorite. I believe it's just
odd because there was two two. The person blame is
Doyling Brooks for just running his mouth when he should have.

Speaker 1 (01:54:52):
You know what, I'm gonna take that difference that Dylan Brooks.
I think that, yeah, he said some things. I'm not
so certain that it hurt the team as much as
John Morant was out for a while being suspended. I
think that the whole flow of that team was lost.
And you know, he even admitted after they got blown
out by the Lakers the other night, like, you know,
I got to learn to grow up. I really do

(01:55:14):
some of the things I did off the court hurt
this ball club. So I'm gonna blame John Morant.

Speaker 6 (01:55:19):
Okay, all right, next we got uh oh, this is
a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:55:24):
You'll like this one, Andy. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:55:27):
Will Levis fell all the way from the all the
way from the first round to the second round. He
was the thirty third pick to the Titans. Who's to
blame for Will falling all the way down to thirty three.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
I let the big man go first, his film, like
his his player on the field. But this was not
too difficult. I mean, you can blame the media all
you want for hyping him up, which is certainly possible,
and we've seen. Here's the thing, though, is we've seen
players like him get drafted much higher than everyone expects, right,
mister Bisky's Wilson, and so even a Daniel Jones to

(01:56:03):
to some extent. So we've seen it happen quite often.
So I understand the thought of like a guy with
maybe not the best skill set on film with you know,
with with with with with a big arm and can
run a little bit and draft h much harder than
he should. But the blame in the end is his
film wasn't as good as as it should have been,

(01:56:24):
and that that's who I blame.

Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
You know what, I'm gonna go one stuff further, I
think that what he did off the playing field was
a big factor. When I see that he goes out
said he likes mayonnaise and coffee, people think the guy's
a wacko. Really, I really believe that hurt him big time.
You know, yes, yes, right? And and also you said
that he's too muscle bound, maybe he's too to build flexibility.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
I don't think so. When there are when your film
is not perfect, I think that everything else sort of
has to be perfect. As a as a big quarterback,
prospect and it wasn't with with levels. And that's in
the end. What kind of did him in he should do?

Speaker 1 (01:57:06):
Well, I didn't do him in. I mean he's gonna
he's got drafted. I mean really.

Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
Basically be a first round draft pick.

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
How much money did he lose from.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
Being on a top four draft pick to where he's
at now?

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
Yes? Million, three million, four million?

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
Oh no really?

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
Oh my goodness. Oh yeah, no, I'd be ticked off too.
I would have gone home then too. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:57:29):
Wow, that's a lot of money, really, is all right?
Next one?

Speaker 1 (01:57:34):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:57:35):
Throughout the years, well the most recent years, the sport
of boxing has been declining. We don't get the real
big heavyweight fights anymore, like every weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:57:47):
Well, who's the blame for this? I know it's a
little harder.

Speaker 1 (01:57:50):
Sorry, Andy, you're trying to say on that more.

Speaker 5 (01:57:54):
No, you're a genius, you know, a genius.

Speaker 1 (01:57:57):
I'll take this one. I think that when they made
the division of the the different divisions of boxing, the
World Boxing Championships, there were too many champions. No one
knew no one, and I think the pay per view
hurt boxing as well. Used to have the Friday night
fights years back when I was a kid, like the
Friday Night you let fights. I don't know what channel
they were, NBC, whatever it may have been. You know,

(01:58:17):
they were more accessible. People could see it. And there's
really no true cut champion anymore, so no one's gonna
pay for it. And then I want to pay for
that stuff. So that really hurt boxing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
Very quickly. Will Levis will get about ten ten million
dollars kind of where he slaughtered in the second round,
he would have gotten thirty six million if he'd been
drafted at the fourth took overall, so I'd twenty six
million dollars. I've never been a fan of boxing, so
I'm not the right person answer this question I have.

(01:58:50):
I just have. It's not something we watched you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
Are you passing? You're going to pass on this question.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
I don't have a great answer for you. I don't.
I've never don't. I don't know what. I don't have
a great answer. I've never been into boxing.

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
Yeah, and that's why boxing has declined. You answered your
own question because the people like you don't follow with
That's why I went down the crapper.

Speaker 2 (01:59:09):
I mean, I guess so, but like I don't, I
but I never watched it as a child, so I
don't know. It's like it's my my family. We didn't
watch it as a kid very much. I mean, I know,
I guess I watched, idn't know. Yeah, we didn't order
pay per view fights like it's never been something.

Speaker 1 (01:59:25):
And I assume that you and the people you run
with your friends, you're inner circle, they don't watch it either.
So there's my.

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
Best friend loves boxing wrestling UFC, what my radio co
host on my Pack to Hove show. We weren't five
years together. He's an MMA fighter. He calls my MMA
fights for espn uh and PFL. I just have never
something I'm into watch it all right, Well, you know
I watched I've watched Sean fight before. But I'll watch

(01:59:52):
PFL when he's calling the game just because I are matches,
because I just.

Speaker 1 (01:59:56):
So what I'm learning now that Jeff Schwartz is only
aggressive on the foot field, not really an aggressive person
off the football field, because yes, I could.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
Have told you that beforehand, but yes, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:00:06):
Yeah, do we have another one?

Speaker 5 (02:00:09):
We have another one.

Speaker 6 (02:00:09):
We only have a couple of seconds left, so really yeah, unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
But for next week, yeah, next week Finix. Okay, wow,
I didn't realize it's going so fast. So we're out
of here? Ready? Is that it?

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
We're done? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
I believe all right, So right right there them again,
Damn Bayer, Mike Harmen, this swelling don't coming up next
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