Fox Sports Sunday: Dan Beyer and Kerry Rhodes Talk Lakers Take Down Nuggets, Shedeur Sanders, and So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Continue to roll on on a Sunday where the Mavericks
trying to get back in and against the Warriors.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I don't know if it's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Carry It looks a little rough right now.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hey, that's all right. Dallas has been playing well. I
was just hoping they would come out today and play well,
especially after one of their former players had a really
big game yesterday. So I wanted them to not have
to fall into that trap. But I guess here we are.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
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As Klay Thompson pulls up and hits a three in
the face of his whole team, yes to pull them

(00:48):
within seventeen in this matchup between the Warriors and Mavericks.
And when the Luka Dotcich Anthony Davis deal went down,
Carrie I said to myself, I said it on the air,
I said, I actually feel bad for Dirk Novitzky because
I felt he was so close to Luca, And we
even saw it when Luca made his debut, Dirk came
out to La says, hey, I'm not going to be

(01:10):
a Lakers fan, but I'm going to be always be
a Luca fan, showing his support to Luka Doncic. The
other guy that I left out and feeling bad for
was Klay Thompson because when you look at life after
the Warriors and post Warriors life, there was a reason
why Klay Thompson is saying, all right, I'm going to

(01:30):
go to the Dallas Mavericks. That's the place that I'm
going to end up going. And then they have it
switched and here they are in the eighth spot in
the West, better record than Golden State is right now.
So maybe in a better situation than what the what
the Warriors are. But he was another guy that looking
back on the whole trade, thinking all right, who's really

(01:50):
affected here?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Klay Thompson another one of those guys. Yeah, I think
a lot of people have been affected. But yeah, I
mean yeah, Clay right now at this time in his
career to be in Dallas right now. Again, short term
you have to think about Clay short term, right, he's not
going to be playing, you know, a considerable amount of
time left, but you know, in this in this window,

(02:12):
he still has a chance. So I mean, yes, the
prospects of it all has changed. But I think clayill
Bell Okay, you.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Look at you look at a team, you say, well,
they went to the Western Conference Finals, won, that went
to the NBA Finals. I'll join that team because maybe
after another year like that's that's the thought process. Yeah,
and then the will gets pulled over pretty much everyone's
eyes and it's really damning. As you said the former
Maverick considering the night Luka Doncic had last night and

(02:41):
seeing Anthony Davis sitting there in street close right now
for this game. Was last night's Lakers victory over the
Denver Nuggets an anomaly or is this more of more
of things to come with Luka Doncic now a Laker.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, the crazy part about that game, and I think
the or of having Luca playing with the Lakers, it's
just gonna be talked about differently. That wasn't some superhero
game that Luca had yesterday but everybody's talking about it
as such. But when you play the Dallas and he
averaged those numbers, he was just Luca the five time.
You know all NBA and you know he's he's the

(03:18):
future of the NBA, but it was still kind of
swept under the rug. I mean, we knew Luca, and
obviously you can't keep that in a box. But the
stuff that's gonna happen now if he plays in LA,
the amount of attention, the amount of everything that he
does is over the moon. For him, it's going to
be better. But and for the NBA it's going to
be better. But he's been doing his whole career. This

(03:39):
isn't some anomaly anomaly game for me.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
So well, when you see what he did last night
and then you hear the comments after. By the way,
I actually think I'm gonna be not to play Devil's advocate.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's not what we do.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
But I actually, for once, maybe in the role of
on the side of the Lakers, can hear what you say.
This has never really happened before. For the second, it's
like a you're an actor challenging new role. He's only
done sitcoms and comedies now he's going to go into
a dramatic role. Let's hear what was said last night.
We have audio from Lebron James talking about the partnership

(04:15):
between him and Luka Dacic now with the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
I'm a natural born wide receiver and he's a natural
born quarterback, so it fits perfectly. I've been running a
floor and running lanes like you know, pretty much my
whole life, and he's been throwing great passes pretty much
his whole life self. It's not it's not hard to
get a rhythm when it comes to that. You know,
it's just all about you know, eye contact and you
know him being a great quarterback like he is, and

(04:38):
need being the recipient of it.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
So, yep, it's just going to be annoying, that's all.
I'm going to say. Go ahead, Dan, It's going to
be annoying, that's all.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I just don't think that that's a reality like it
was reality last night.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But as time goes on, Lebron is not going to
always want to be the wide receiver. It has never
been that case. Lebron has always been the core. And
so what we saw in the limited amount that we
saw Luka Doncic in a Lakers uniform. Prior to last night,
I think there were questions on what you could do

(05:12):
with Luca and how you could do things with Luca.
So then you come off of Thursday night's win where
Luca doesn't play against the Trailblazers, and now we're praising
Lebron for his effort and the forty points he had
in that the great game that he had at forty
years old. I forgot how many points he had, but
a great game by Lebron and in Portland on Thursday night,
and now Luca comes back on Saturday and then they're

(05:35):
playing together. I think Lebron is saying to himself, all right,
I had Thursday night to myself, I can now kind
of go into this role for tonight fortnight at this point,
which allows Luca to do this. And I also think, Kerry,
the reason why we're overreacting from last night's performance is
because we do feel that maybe Luka Doncic got a

(05:58):
bit of a friend start from the post All Star Break,
didn't play great on Wednesday night, but took Thursday off
and now it's like, oh, okay, this is putting it together.
I don't know if that's realistic considering how much you
think Lebron probably needs the basketball in his hand. But
if he does play like this, and if he does
stick to the wide receiver role, I do think going

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to Denver and beating the Nuggets by twenty three like
they did last night is worth something. It's just not
going to be up to Lebron to be able to
accept whatever role he's going to play. Because Luca did
take center stage with what he was doing with the
basketball last night.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well, that's the only way that Luca excels. So if
they're going to play the way they've been playing, you
know prior to this game, he's going to average fifteen
points and he's going to look like he's just somebody
standing in the corner, which is in five eighteen right, right,
because he's going to four shots that are not his
normal rhythm shots.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
And if we're talking about this move for the future,
for this team, the ball has to be in Luca Donch's,
Luka Doncicic's hands anyway. So that is I guess the
formula for them to win. And I also see what's
gonna be big for them to kind of maintain this
flow that they have is they're going to have to
stagger Lebron and Luca Minuette. So you talk about him

(07:15):
not wanting to play second fiddle, and he never really
has right so for him to have that moment of Okay,
these first five minutes, it's gonna be in Luca's hands
or Lebron's or whatever vice versa. It can be whatever
that situation is. But staggering their minutes where one of
those guys on the court and then the secondary guy
being Austin Reeves, it's going to be there formula to win.

(07:36):
But they're also not going to have four guys and
have twenty points again, yeah, regularly throughout the season. So
the way that game looked, I think it's I think
it's an anomaly, not just because of Lebron, but because
of the way that you know, all four of those
guys were humming that night.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
The time for me to rain on more parades. The
Denver Nuggets, I said, really won the title a couple
of years ago.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
The numbers proved it.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Seating wise, they had the easiest path to an NBA
title that we've ever seen in history. Last year, we
see them flame out in Game seven at home against
the Minnesota Timberwolves in the in the Western Semifinals. So
now Denver comes in, and when we look at the
top of the West, there's questions because Oklahoma City, Memphis

(08:20):
and Houston with these groups haven't been there. Denver has.
Denver has been there. But last night I sit there
and I say to myself, I wonder how good Denver
actually is considering they couldn't handle the ball last night.
The Lakers took care of the basketball and Denver didn't.
Denver turned the ball over a bunch. And so you wonder,
all right, is Denver the NBA champions from a season removed?

(08:47):
Are they overreacting to a Luca Lebron matchup? Are they
overreacting to a Saturday night matchup? And the only reason
I'm bringing up because it's not a Denver Nuggets conversation,
but for the Lakers to have to do what they
did last night and to go and win by twenty
against the Nuggets, I think we all say, wow, what

(09:07):
a statement against the team that won the NBA title.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Two years ago.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
And I'm sitting here saying we all love Jokic, we
think Russell Westbrook has done a great job in blending
in with the Nuggets. Jamal Murray's had his fifty five
point game or whatever he had recently, but still it's
just just the same Nuggets that we really don't know
how good they are, and the same Nuggets that could
get wrapped up into Wow, this is what a big
stage that we've got on Saturday night post football, Lakers

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and Luca coming to town, and then they kind of
what the bed.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
I think it's a combination of all those things. But
on top of them, their roster makeup, Denver doesn't have
any guards that can create and make plays for themselves.
Outside of Jamal Murray, everybody else are recipients to their
greatness and what they do in their two man game.
And obviously the way that the Lakers defended Yoki's last

(10:00):
I mean it was they were fronting them, they were
fronting them heavy, they had somebody behind. I mean, they
pretty much had three guys on them at all times.
And if Jamal Jamal Murray had a really i'm a
pretty good game as well, I guess thrown in that mix,
but they don't have any secondary ball handlers to make plays,
so just from their makeup, they're not I don't think
they're as big as threat as some people may think.

(10:22):
And obviously the seating at top, I don't think it
scares any any of those guys that are four or five, six, seven,
eight to have to play one of those, well, eight,
they will be scared. But other than that, those four
through seven, I don't think they're scared of the top.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
There's the other side of that coin there, just with
basically what you said, or the Lakers seem to be
at least a decent matchup than with this Denver team
if you've got Luca on the floor. But it also
points to the fact of we do think Nicola jokicch
is oh yeah, great. For sure, there is no doubting
that the three MVPs are good enough for me. But

(10:58):
it's also the point that Carrie is this is also
why Luka Doncic's second in the NBA and assists because
everything goes through him and then there's no one else
to have those assists.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
And that's the thing, right, So, and this is what
I want to see. I want to see what's going
to happen with this Lakers team. I am fascinated. And
I remember we had the show, you know, post to trade.
I think it was the day after, right, and so
my initial response to that is Luca's going to be fine,
but I want to see how the rest of that
team's going to be with him as this season progresses.

(11:29):
If we're going to get the Luca that played the
way he played ball dominant yesterday, do the pieces fit
around that moving forward?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Again, Ruey, it's six good? Yeah, Ruey hit five six
threes yesterday? Is he going to consistently make those? Do
they have enough shooters around? I mean, I know Austin
Reeves can get hot from three, He's not a pure
three point shooter, and so Lebron has been shooting really well,
but is he going to continue to shoot that way?
So again, roster build that team isn't going to look
that way. If it's going to just be the Luca.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Team, okay, but if you put Luca on an I'll
take the Mavericks out of this any of the other
twenty eight teams in the NBA, they're a better team. Yes, yeah,
So the question with Luca to the Lakers is how
does Lebron handle it? Like he's gonna make Austin Reeves better,
He's going to make Ruey better. He's going to make

(12:17):
all of these guys better. But it's the fact of
does Lebron allow that? Last night? Lebron did, and that's
going to be the biggest question moving forward. And then
you hear the SoundBite that we played Lebron may have
played tight end wide receiver in high school and could
have gone on to play college football, but he has
got the quarterback mindset and it's always been the issue.

(12:40):
And now when you have another quarterback, the Lakers now
become the forty nine ers with Steve Young and Joe Montana.
Who wants what? Yeah like that and who should be
what Lebron needs to be Jerry Rice in this scenario.
Huh right, he doesn't need to be Steve Young. He
needs to be Jerry Rice.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Maybe that maybe Brenton Jones or John Taylor, one of
one of those. One of them, Absolutely fine, Okay, what
about let's know what he could be Ricky Waters of
Roger Craig, so you know he can get the ball.
Thirty can't be Steve Young. That's that's the point.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's the point, and that's when it's gonna work, because
it's gonna work with Luca at some point, yes and so,
and then when Luca goes into the new situation, that's
Lebron's situation. That's the toughest part of it is how
do I fit in here? When he's here? He can
fit in anywhere else and be fine and be a star,
and you'd be an upgrade for the other twenty eight teams. Yeah,
he goes back to the Mavericks. They're probably better, you know,

(13:36):
you know, because now they're motivating. The point being is
Lebron is the issue, and so Lebron's saying that, and
Lebron allowing it last night. I just I'll believe it
when I see it. On the point, you do it,
you don't think he can make you do?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Not think so.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I think that history has showed us that he has
a difficult time doing it. But if he does it,
then kudos to him, and he better at forty he better.
If he does not, he will wear down as this
season goes on. So it just me it just seems
like and you're right, don't I hear you? And you're
that's never been him. But if his ego is so

(14:10):
big that he can't take his foot off the gas.
As far as controlling everything, and knowing that he has
a guy similar to him that can control everything and
let that play out the way it should, then same
on him. And we've said same, same on him quite
quite a sure. Yeah, he's Carrier Roads. I'm Dan Bayer.
It is Fox Sports Sunday Live from the Tirerek dot

(14:31):
Com studios. Those Warriors continue to have that twenty point
lead over the Mavericks late in the third quarter.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Eighty seven to sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
You got Nascar on Fox, College, hoops, golf and all that.
It's so much more. It's all blending together. In a
week from today, Carrier Roads, it's actually going to be March.
In fact, it's going to be March on Saturday. Is
this messing with you? It's really messed with me. But
for a reason you may not believe that's next year.
He's Carrier Roads. I'm Dan Byer. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
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Speaker 2 (15:13):
Fox Sports Sunday. He's Kerrie Roads, the allpro starter since
day one. I'm Dan Beyer, Manti Belanios is here. She's
at the news desk. She'll have an update at the
bottom of the hor plus. According to Manzi comes up
in a little while. Shay's our executive producer, Chris Purfetter
technical producer, and it is February twenty third. And Jason Stewart,

(15:35):
who produces the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio,
who I work with Monday through Friday, always has this
thing on the first of the month, making fun of
people who say time goes by too fast. Now, January
this year, I don't know if you guys realized it,
but it was seventy eight days. January took forever in

(15:56):
twenty twenty five. It seemed way long, longer than any
other January that I can remember. However, as I told
you Carrie, next week, at this point, we're already going
to be a day in the March. It's going to
be March second. Heck, in two weeks, we've already changed
our clocks again. That's where we are. That's a time
fly sort of thing. I am not to the point

(16:18):
of that. When I am to the point of, though,
is my sports calendar is jacked up and I don't
know if you've lived by this as a professional athlete.
I have lived by it as a sports fan. I
am not sure if Chris Purfett and Shay and Monsey
lived by the sports calendar in their lives. But my
sports calendar is this. Every fall, college football, it's a

(16:43):
pro football. Then February comes along a step aside, Basketball
takes over. College basketball really really gets going with March madness,
and that's the fever of it. And then in March,
spring training ends up starting to bloom. Opening Day comes,
the week of Final Four, and then you slide into

(17:04):
the summer when you have the Masters coming, then the
NFL Draft. Is there just a perfect marriage of sports.
I call it the sports calendar. And the next thing
you know, it's Memorial Day and your summer's starting, and
you take the next three months and then you slide
right back into fall again and the NFL playing Super Bowls.

(17:25):
February ninth was the Super Bowl. Next year to be
February eighth, but it will be later. The presidence of
a possible eighteen game schedule is really gonna mess with
my sports calendar. The fact that Major League Baseball had
a spring training game on February twentieth, and the fact
that opening day again March twenty seventh. None of this
is new new, but what it is it is now

(17:47):
messed up with my sports calendar. To have pitchers and
catchers reporting essentially while we're still talking about a super
Bowl is super weird.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Next year.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Next year, we're gonna have a Winter Olympics start when
the Super Bowl hasn't even been played. The Winter Olympics
will start on February sixth of twenty twenty six. That's
a Friday there were in Northern Italy, and now we
all look forward to it because of the four nations
face off and we can have USA and Canada again.
But the Super Bowl will then be two days later.
We're gonna miss out on two days of the Winter

(18:20):
Olympics because we're still in football mode, and that messes
with my sports calendar. I am annoyed by it. I
don't want baseball in March twenty seventh. You know what
I want on March twenty seventh, the Dodgers and Angels
playing some meaningless game at the Big A that will
warm them up for the season that's supposed to start
the first week in April.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
That's what I want. I don't want more off days
during the season.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I don't want travel to be better for Major League
Baseball because you got to play all these different teams.
I want my sports calendar back. I want the Super
Bowl done by I'll give you February third. Okay, that's
the most February third. I cannot handle all of this blending.
It has become a melting pot of sports that to me,

(19:04):
just does not allow me to enjoy all of the
newness that those sports seasons provide. When I get to
the newness of Major League Baseball, I'm still in my
March madness fever, or if it's even spring training, I'm
still dealing with football or trying to decompress from the
football season. The longer these seasons going, they're not going
to go back. But it is completely messed up my

(19:26):
lifelong sports calendar as a sports fan.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, you know who, sermon over, I see you know who.
It hasn't affected the people that gamble, and that's probably
the reason why they all bland and run together is
you're giving the audience, the sports audience, people who are
watching these games, the ability to have more options to
lose their money on and I think that would probably

(19:51):
be the main reason why. So, you know, the diehard,
the two earthers of the sports world in the calendar
thing that you just said that probably take presidents over
your feelings about it.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
To me, it's the greed of the of the NFL
on seventeen games expanding and then maybe going to eighteen.
It's already a long season. Major League Baseball's unwillingness to
trim from one hundred and sixty two games just go
to one forty four, just start in the first week
of April. I mean, whether it's so bad in so
many parts of the country early part of the season anyway,
like you're getting rainouts and weird off days.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
It just to me is absurd.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's everything was fit nicely, and I felt like I've
done this for thirty plus years, thirty five forty plus years.
Then the Super Bowl would creep up a little bit later,
a little bit later, a little bit later than Major
League Baseball did their part.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
It's just it's really frustrating to me.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
When we talked about the All Star Game, the NBA
All Star Game last week, yeah, I said, great job
by the NBA All Star Game or the NBA to
have their off week as soon as we come out
of football. Now, if the end of the NFL expanse
to an eighteen game schedule, which we think they'll do
at some point, you're gonna have another week longer in
the season, and there's gonna be no place for the
NBA All Star Game except maybe on an off week

(21:10):
between the super Bowl, where it should probably be. Right now,
like all of this stuff is gonna blend into one another,
and I'm sorry, it's just too much for me.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I wonder about Chris, what do you think about that?
What do you think about the your sports fan, what
do you think about that? So I think I've been
operating on that for a long while. But I think
the other issue is, and I was thinking about this,
especially as we had the NBA All Star break, I
feel like basketball is really struggling to remain on my

(21:37):
calendar for a combination of both football and basketball. Reasons
Number one, like you know, football's but football is a favorite.
I cover everything between this and the draft and all
the rest. But like the NBA's regular season tanking the
way it has has really kind of left a void
there that I've been struggling to fill I try to
watch some like, you know, college basketball. I do feel

(21:59):
like brewery is now becomes like, okay, super Bowls open?
What can hold me over until March Madness? And I'm
kind of coming up with I getigs.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I get it. It's like a movie. I don't have
two hours to watch it, So why would I get
invested if I'm only going to watch forty minutes of it?
I get it.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
To that point, there used to be a way I'd
be able to parachute into the NBA season. And then
it's like, okay, but these games still don't matter near
the end of their on the second half of their season.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
What so? Like what about?

Speaker 5 (22:30):
What about?

Speaker 3 (22:30):
What about having your your homer status? Like what are
you guys as teams that you guys root for? Even
like the NCAA. Right, Ohio State fan, You're you're watching
that game now? Like does that? Does that help you
get to that point?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
It helps shoot to Crisi's point of like I can
be locked in with college basketball right and I feel
like I've watched college basketball ever since the season started
in November. It is the NBA that ends up taking
the hit and the parachuting is true, where like you
can parachute into a spot and feel like, all right now,
I'm all caught out. I know what's going on. In
previous episodes, I'm here for the stretch run. You feel

(23:07):
pretty good about it. But with the NFL taking longer
as as it has, just even the newness of Major
League Baseball, like I feel like I'm missing out on
getting this right of spring and being excited for spring
as difficult for me. Yeah, I can see. I can
see how he doesn't have a spot to land when
it comes to the NBA.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, and I should be landing here.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
I should be excited about the Pistons right now because
the first time it looks like they're playing for a playoff.
And yet, like on Friday, I'm scrambling around to find
something to watch and instead of Pistons, I end up
off some friends end up watching Michigan State Michigan because
at least my brain can at least identify from college
that's a big game, that's a big rivalry that still matters.

(23:48):
But like NBA is just it's just a tough watch,
Like and I think I think there's also something to it, Dan,
Where is the psychological effect where I perished. The moment
I parachuted into the NBA was All Star Weekend, and
that's part of the Like we went right from the
super Bowl to nothing, no basketball, straight to All Star
Weekend and the debacle that was All Star Weekend.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
That's what I think that it is.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
There's no momentum that the NBA can grab coming out
of that Super Bowl to maybe grab a fan like Chris.
I don't know if Manci Bolango, she's at the news
that's giving us the latest. I don't know if her
sports calendar is messed up or not, but.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
My entire calendar is just messed up, just life.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I don't know why you brought that in.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I thought we were gonna play the music and then
you would just be like, all right, here's what's happening.
Mavericks Moore.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Did you see her face as you asked that question.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I just what is a calendar? I don't even know.
I can just emigrateful.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Let me just let me ask you this. We've talked
about Monzi and I did some shows this week. Go ahead,
you can keep it playing. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
The Dodgers and Cubs playing.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
In Tokyo coming up, in less than a month to have,
Like the game on Thursday was like what are I
just felt like everybody just got to Arizona, Like everybody
always got to Arizona in late February.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Show up.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Maybe you're playing games on the twenty eighth, but now
because they got to play in Japan in mid March
and then opening days March twenty seventh and everybody's playing
it Just to me, is it just feels it feels.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Rushed, that's all.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I mean, You're not wrong.

Speaker 8 (25:21):
I feel like lately in baseball, the opening day is
getting earlier and earlier. Even it was just like a
day or two, it's like earlier and earlier every time,
we're gonna have opening Day on February twenty eighth, like
in two years.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Watch it's just it's weird. It's weird. So I hear
what you're saying, Dan.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
I think you're right that everything just kind of is
blending together. And before it felt like there were breaks
that you could get ready for the next season.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, like school, like a summer break, a winter break. Yeah. Absolutely,
you are not.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Wrong that it definitely doesn't feel like there is a
break like there used to be.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
And I do blame the NFL because the spanning of
the season that grabbed so much of our attention.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
It causes a ripple effect with everybody else what they're doing. Absolutely,
speaking of the NFL, the NFL Network reported not long
ago that Shador Sanders is not gonna throw at the
NFL Combine.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
Later this week.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
Obviously, he does have a lot of film and so
he plans to focus on his interviews and is going
to throw.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
At Colorado's Pro day.

Speaker 8 (26:22):
That is the plan. In the NBA, Carri's Mavericks are
not doing very well.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
The Warriors are on top.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
One eleven to eighty two early in the fourth quarter.
Jimmy Butler, let's see how he's He's eighteen points so
far in the game.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
But the leading score is Steph A. Curry, who's got.

Speaker 8 (26:38):
Thirty points so far in this one. Earlier today, the
Celtics beat the Knicks, so Boston has won five in
a row. One eighteen to one oh five was the
final score. Jason Tatum just shive a triple double twenty
five points, ten rebounds on nine assists. Something to keep
on eye on with Carl Anthony Towns. In the fourth quarter,
he went in for a dunk missed it, then went
to the locker room and came back in.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Did you watch the game?

Speaker 9 (26:57):
Carry He did not look like he should have been back
in the game.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
He was done.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
He was done.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
And when I saw him back out there, I was like,
he can't.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Even run you guys, like it's stop.

Speaker 8 (27:07):
He ended with twenty four points and eighteen rebounds. But
just something to keep an eye on.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
One with cat scratch fever.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
That's exactly what it was, exactly it he SBN reported
also that the Knicks might be getting their center back
Mitchell Robinson sooner rather than later. The report is that
he wants to be back at some point this week.
No Kawhi, Leonard or Norman Power for the Clippers as
they take on the Pacers that tips off at five
eastern on the ice the Capitol's top the oil or

(27:34):
seven three. Alex Ovechkin a hat trick, three goals, so
he's up to eight hundred and eighty two thirteen away
from breaking when Gretzky's all time goals record, which is
crazy because he broke his leg this year and like
missed a chunk of time and then they played yesterday
and he didn't score and today he scores three.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I know, I was hoping he did it yesterday. Yeah, yeah,
I actually played attention to the game, did you.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I I wonder.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Why you paid attention. We're not going to go right
talk about that.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
We were talking about that apparently off air.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Apparently is what we're gonna do.

Speaker 8 (28:05):
In men's college hoops, there were three games that occurred
with ranked teams.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
They're all done.

Speaker 8 (28:09):
Number ten Saint John's has one now thirteen out of fourteen.
They outscored Yukon eighty nine to seventy five. Indiana had
a seventy three to fifty eight upset over number thirteen
per Due, and number twenty two Memphis crushed Florida Atlantic eighty.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Four to sixty five.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
On the women's side, you guys, the number one team,
Notre Dame went at it with number thirteen NC State overtime,
right double overtime and the wolf Pack one.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Whoa, it was nuts. One of four to ninety five
was the final score. It was such a good game.
It was such a good game.

Speaker 8 (28:39):
And at the NASCAR Cup Series at the Atlanta Motor Speedway,
let's see, Ross Chastain is in the lead after one
hundred and eighty one laps Jessica, I think so not
a cousin.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Maybe I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
I have no idea, you don't what just good chess dainas?
Oh you should I've heard that?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
What did you guys catch my cat Scratch Fever?

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Do you know that song? Do you know the song?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I didn't know?

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, yes, yeah, cat Scratch Fever? Yeah, of course of
course I thought, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yes, she's a very attractive woman.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
All right, yes she is.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
I'll search it.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, you should should American actress, actress and film producer.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
That's right, that's right. Okay. Does that to go from
Mollie's game? Yes? Yeah, okay, yeah, great.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I honestly don't know of anything that that she's been
in because I don't watch movies, but but I think
I've seen her face on the red carpet.

Speaker 8 (29:39):
Yes, she's like a movie she's an a proper movie star,
proper elegant, elegant, yes, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, speaking of elegance. A sweet to announce what Monty
reported that shoudor Sanders would not be competing in the combine. Uh,
it was elegantly reported by ian of the NFL, and
I I just I can't get over this is there
is doing someone a solid, there is pandering to a

(30:09):
certain audience, and then there's this Colorado I'm reading straight
from Ian Rappaport's tweet to announce. By the way, all
he's announcing is that shoud Or Sanders isn't going to
work out at the combine.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
That would suffice. Instead, we get two tweets.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
We get tweet number one, Colorado quarterback and potential topic.
Shaudor Sanders plans to focus on his interviews with teams
at the NFL NFL Scouting Combine, helping them continue to
learn him as a person. He'll allow his four years
of film to speak loudly, then throw at his pro

(30:46):
day with four draftable CEU wide receivers. If that isn't
enough garbage, he quote retweets himself and says, Shaudor Sanders
has impressed teams with his presence, poise and intelligence off
the field and that should continue in Indie. Nice if

(31:06):
you aren't just saying, hey, Dion, don't ever be mad
at me. Look at what I am saying about your
son and your great wide receivers.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
This is it.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
He should have just added Dion Sanders, because that's the
only person that this applies to. We would understand why
should Or Sanders wouldn't work out at the combine. He's
a top ten pick. Most picks don't do that, right,
some do, and when they do, guess what it's usually
thought of. All right, Hey, that guy's a competitor. But
there's really nothing that should or Sanders can do at

(31:38):
the combine that I think would boost who he is.
All of this window dressing is just part of the
problem with should or Sanders is that people aren't sure
exactly on what side is it. Is this a Dion
sort of player? Is should Or Sanders his own sort
of player? None of this helps anybody. This helps no one,

(31:58):
And I just can't stand it when all he had
to say is Colorado quarterback should Or Sanders has decided
to not work out at.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
The NFL Combine like so many other quarterbacks. Right, No,
I agree with you. I think Ian maybe trying to
win the Mark Twain Awards. So give him give a
iPort right right now. Jessica Chestin, would she would she
fill in or not that different? Different award? No, that's different,
but no, no, yes, I agree with you. It's it's
it's a I think the young No, I don't even

(32:27):
if I can say that, so I won't go there.
But it is a nod at Dion for sure, and
trying to get the inside scoop if that ever happens
down the line, as being somebody that could be a
spokesperson or in front of any story that happens moving forward. Right,
That's that's all this is. It's just a campaign.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
And and if you don't believe me, this is what
the opposite would be, Prima Donna Shador. Sanders works fails
to work out at Combine because he doesn't want to
hurt his draft stock in fears competition. That's the opposite
of what Ian Rappleport wrote, which, by the way, is ridiculous.
Like that is also ridiculous. There's just the middle ground

(33:05):
of the guy's not working out. He's projected to be
a top ten pick. We've seen him be a projected
top six pick in a lot of places, maybe to
the Raiders at number six to that point. I've even
seen mox where people are trying to jump up ahead
of the Raiders to get shouldhar Sanders. So there you go,
top five pick. All of these things are true. This
is just unnecessary window dressing, trying to appease Deon Sanders. Sure,

(33:28):
and I'll tell you what another thing like for Sanders
to like really succeed, like he's going to separate from
his father's shadow. And yes, absolutely, and this is that
opportunity to do so. So catering to Dion and catering
to this narrative and all these superlatives of Shoud or
Sanders is just crazy to me. He's carry Roads. I'm

(33:50):
Dan Byer. It is Fox Sports Sunday, liverothtirereq dot Com
studios coming up next. According to Manzi, Oh, she's on
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Speaker 3 (34:20):
He is carry Roads. I'm Dan Byer.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
This is cat Scratch Fever by one Ted Nugent song.
Manzi knows well, Yeah, and if you don't know what
is on Monty's mind right now You're about to find out,
And now it's.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
Time for absolutely.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
According to Monsi, Manzi's got that look on her face
like it's the last day of school.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm a teacher and she just does not want to
be here. You guys can do whatever you want to do.
Just leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
According to.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Traditions are supposed to they.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Are supposed to matter.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Yankees should have never changed their stance on the facial
hair that was around for almost fifty years. Listen, I
would make fun of them sometimes. So it's not that
I can't make fun of them anymore.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's the fact that this is.

Speaker 8 (35:16):
Fixing a surface problem. The problem with the Yankees is
that their aura is a little bit, you know, at
a whack, Like, yes, you went to the World Series
last year, but the year before you didn't even make
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
This isn't fixing anything.

Speaker 8 (35:27):
The idea that maybe players don't want to come to
your team because of facial hair is a silly idea.

Speaker 9 (35:33):
What's the name of that guy, Oh yeah, Juan Soto.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
He has no facial hair and literally went down the
street to the other team.

Speaker 8 (35:38):
What about these international superstars choey Otani, ro Ki Sasaki,
not any facial hair at all, literally signed Devin Williams.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
He looks like a seventeen year old boy.

Speaker 8 (35:48):
He doesn't care. He is there with the Yankees. Just
like Aaron Judge said, if this is a role that's
making you not want to be here, then maybe you
shouldn't be here.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
Like this is much bigger than that.

Speaker 8 (35:56):
And I find it ridiculous that they actually changed the rule.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
And what are you gonna do next? Put last names
on the jerseys? This is just the beginning. Then if
you're taking.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Away one tradition too, you gonna just take away Yeah,
I might as well just change it all.

Speaker 9 (36:09):
This was silly and dumb.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
I hate seeing fans that says Jeter too on the back.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Why did you add that? We know it's Jeter right,
like they don't have it. Why would you do it.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
If you're not wrong?

Speaker 3 (36:23):
No, it's great you said that, though, because I did
think for a while that the face of hair thing
did deter a lot of guys.

Speaker 8 (36:30):
I really don't think so, And like it's more, it's
just like it's not fixing the internal problem I think
with the Yankees like, this is just putting a.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Band aid on it, you know what I mean. Let
them have facial hair, let them not. But you had,
you had this tradition for so long.

Speaker 9 (36:44):
It made you stand out. It made you stand out again.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
I would sometimes make fun of it, but now I
can't make fun of it.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
You got it? No mustage, A mustache shaped band aid. Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
According to Monsey, it should be all or nothing.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Back to baseball.

Speaker 8 (36:58):
So they're trying this challenge thing right with the automated
balls and strikes. I thought I was gonna like this.
This challenge, y'all. I absolutely hate it.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Either we go.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
All in and just put in robot umpires, or we
let the human umpires.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
Continue to do a pretty darn good job ninety.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Four percent accuracy last year.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
What made me change my mind a challenge yesterday between
the A's and the Padres catcher Martin Maldonaldo. They called
the ball and he challenged it, and then they showed it,
you guys, a hare at the bottom of.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
The strike zone.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
A hare is how much that ball went over it
a hare and they overturned it to a strike.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
If I'm the batter, I am taught to not swing
at that ball. That's a low ball.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's kind of like how many motorcycles do you see
you to prove you're not a robot?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
The portion of the motorcycle that is just in the
other side of the Worldow do you have to click? Yes,
you know, that's exactly.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
What it is.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
I have either go all in so it's really fair
for every single person, or.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Just get rid of it. I thought I was gonna
like it. I was wrong. I hate it. I don't
like it.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Is it just for the catchers? Now? It's all the
battles sem dances.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
Well, only it's two challenges and only the catcher, the
pitcher and the batter can do it. And you can't
ask like your coaches are or even look at the bench.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
And it's gotta be quick.

Speaker 8 (38:13):
So it's not that it's even taking a long time,
but that challenge upset me so much.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
I like it for different reasons. But we'll get to
it later on the show.

Speaker 10 (38:21):
Yes, according to Monsey, everyone is acting like it's the movies.

Speaker 9 (38:25):
Okay, And by what I mean by everyone, I mean sports.

Speaker 8 (38:28):
Don't tell me the game starts at five and it
starts at five twenty three.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
You know what I can do in twenty three minutes,
A lot of stuff.

Speaker 8 (38:36):
I can go get Starbucks, I could go to the
gas station, I could go.

Speaker 9 (38:39):
To the bank.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
I could do all of that in twenty three minutes.

Speaker 8 (38:41):
But instead I rush home because I want to watch
a game that you tell me starts at.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Five, and it's all sports. Basketball is getting worse and worse.
The NFL. You are not the movies. You do not
have previews. Tell me the game is.

Speaker 8 (38:53):
Gonna start at five twenty five, not at five.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
I'm over it.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Sea's awake, everybody. There's the game show that starts at four,
right and five. They do more pregame with the main
studio or with the main group on the court.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Do you tell me that it actually makes me.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I've become so accustomed that it makes me mad when
they do start on time. Like the NFL is like
one Eastern boom, we are kicking off. It is not.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
It is not one on one. Oh, we're kicking off
at New and Eastern time.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
So that's what should be. That's what you're telling me.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
NBA's like, we're gonna push this big game back fifteen
minutes because the other game has not come to a conclusion.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
And nobody's watching anyway.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Oh, that's that's but you know, even to piggyback on that,
what's the Oh, we don't have a lot of time.
But the worst thing about ESPN and the sports thing
right now how they run the games concurrently. Stupid. They
never you never get to see the start of your
beginning game. That kills me.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I saw someone tweet today and I wish I would
have remembered who it was. They said they should change
ESPN News to ESPN Starts. Is that's where you go
to watch the start of your game. That is a great,
brilliant tweet. Kudos to whoever said it. He's carry Roads.
I'm Dan Byer, that's Mancy Belanos. Matthew Stafford gets to
talk to others. We'll talk about it next. Every single year,

(40:06):
there's one. Every single year, there's one. In this year,
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buying should be Aaron Rodgers has been the guy, although

(40:29):
he is a supporting actor in this drama involving Matthew Stafford.
It's happen to Tom Brady, it even happened to Ryan Fitzpatrick.
But when I say that there's always one, what I
mean by that is there is one player whose name
is most prevalent when it comes to the NFL offseason.

(40:50):
And we should find out in the next few weeks
and what the future will be for Matthew Stafford in
the Los Angeles Rams. But it is his name above
anyone else that has drawn the most headlines. And now
the NFL Network had reported as recently as Friday that
Stafford and his agent have been allowed to talk with
other teams about possibly working something out. The Rams don't

(41:12):
want to pay Stafford what he would want on a
future deal, and now it's up to the Rams to
see if Stafford likes what he hears from other teams
and something can be worked out, or possibly he goes
back to the Rams. Are you surprised that we've gotten
to this point with someone like Matthew Stafford, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Yeah, because it's it's just it just comes to financials, right.
I mean, obviously he came there, achieved what he was
supposed to achieve, and you know, achieved it with the
team and the coach that wanted him to be a
part of that system. So at this point, now he's
an Asian superstar, a guy that obviously still can spind it,
still can play really well. But is he the guy

(41:54):
that can lead a bunch of young guys to the
promised Land. He couldn't do that last year, even though
I love the season that they had as a team,
and they just ran into the team that won a
super Bowl. Moving forward, so yes.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
You had them in the NFC Championship game. No, and
you picked that mid season before they had really went
on there their run. They had started off what like
one and five, the injuries threw out. But you would
like the Rams, and I like Stafford. I just I
just don't know what that price can be.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
And especially for a team like the Rams that need
need a few more pieces, They're going to need some
of that cap flexibility to make that happen. So if
the merriage was perfect, obviously he would come back at
a little lower number and help the team do that.
But yeah, I mean at this point, I mean, I'm
sure there's some things that he still wants to amass
when it comes to contract.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
There's something more to this story, and maybe other people
have picked up on it, and I'm a little late
to the party, but I felt that the Rams were
doing this, allowing this word to get out that Matthew
Stafford could be available via trade for the simple fact
of they just wanted to see what the value would be.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Sure, and if.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Someone blew them away with an offer in an era
of the NFL where we feel like the quarterback can
make all the difference in a season coming up in
the NFL and an off season in the NFL where
the options aren't necessarily appealing, that this would be the
ultimate sell high move. I think we all know somebody

(43:20):
Kerrie in our life, who said we're going to just
put the house up for sale to see we aren't
interested in moving, but if someone gives us an offer
to make us move, we're going to take it. And
that's what I felt that the Rams were doing. This
seems a little more than that. This seems go out
and finds yourself. And so then what triggers to me

(43:42):
is for a guy that led them to the Super
Bowl for a guy that seems to be in such
lockstep with his head coach Sean McVay and other key
members of that team. What do they know that we
don't know? And that's so if I'm another team and
I'm saying, why are the Rams trading Matthew Stone, you
would probably ask yourself why are the Seahawks really trading

(44:04):
Russell Wilson? Because if Russell Wilson was a fifty million
dollar quarterback, the Seahawks would have paid him the fifty
million dollar that price tag they are not interested in doing. So,
why aren't the Rams interested in paying Matthew Stafford x
amount even though he wants why? Why is that reason?
And that's now where I go. If I'm any of

(44:26):
these teams who are speaking with Stafford or his agent,
what do the Rams know that we don't know about
Matthew Stafford?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
That's a good point. I think we can just look
at McVeigh and the person that he is. You moved
off Jared Goff really quickly after a Super Bowl appearance,
So it's not just about I guess winning, there's another
step above winning for him and what that looks like.
And so just a point, just a blanket statement of

(44:54):
we've seen them move off a quarterback that was a
young version, a younger version of what Stafford could have
been or whatever, and what Stafford ended up being just
off of Super Bowl appearance and knowing that that's not
the guy that you want to move forward with. You
want to go get the guy that you want to get.
Maybe there's somebody that he has already in that locker

(45:17):
room that he thinks gonna be that next guy, or
somebody else that he's iging.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Well that and it's interesting when the Rams moved off
of Jared Goff, they had actually benched him at the
end of the year for John Wafford. Then Wafford ended
up getting a concussion in a playoff game against the
Seahawks in a wild card game, and then Goff had
to start the next week against the Green Bay Packers,

(45:41):
but he was benched. He was benched in favor Sean
McVay was ready to go with the backup in the
playoffs over Jared Goff. Well, then they strike the deal
with the Lions. Lions obviously having familiarity with Brad Holmes
time with the Rams, and so that made it work
and the Lions. The Lions maybe knew something about Jared
Goff that Sean McVay didn't see at that point, but
I would tend to lean more of there's possibly something

(46:05):
wrong with Matthew Stafford. What I find funny is Pro
Football Talk had sent out a tweet. And I'm only
connecting dots here. I'm not saying it is or isn't,
but Pro Football Talk put out a tweet saying look
out for the Rams. One longtime NFL GM says look
out for the Rams when it comes to Aaron Rodgers. Now,

(46:28):
Mark Dominic, who spent twenty years in the National Football League,
was the GM of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has come
on this network multiple times with Doug Gottlieb in his
Weekly Hits and said look out for the Rams in
Aaron Rodgers. That's the one that I don't see. I'm
with you, like in terms of, like, if you're the
Rams and you're looking to reset, let's look at it

(46:49):
this way. Let's try to get younger at the position,
Let's try to get cheaper at the position and build
up these other spots. Even though that hasn't necessarily been
less needs MO but that just seems to make sense
if they were to go to Aaron Rodgers route, that
would totally be the less need situation of finding a veteran,
bringing him in and seeing if it works.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
But I don't know if that would work.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
And Aaron Rodgers was spotted coming outside of a workout
by TMZ saying he's looking for a winner. So now
you have that smoke from that little bit of a campfire.
If you will, do you think Aaron Rodgers would be
a possibility with the Rams if they moved off of Stafford,
he would be a possibility for sure.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I mean again, I don't think McVeigh really looks down
the line. He is a guy that wants to win. Now.
Obviously he's shown that he's traded somebody that was pretty
was a winner for them and obviously had a bad patch.
So looking forward, I don't think really matters to him.
It's about the moment, and so if you bring in
a guy like that at a cheaper price and a

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guy that obviously is a Hall of Famer in the
short term, in the moment of now, it would make
sense in what you're saying, And even if he believed
that he he has that guy on his roster. Even
bringing in in Aaron Rodgers for one year would make
sense as well as a stopgap.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Rogers saying that he wanted to go to a good team,
which completely took out my possibility of him going to
the Raiders if that is true, because the Raiders don't
fit that profile of right now of being that team.
Also takes out the possibility of him going to the
Cleveland Browns because they're also not a good team and
they've got an offensive line that they have to fix.
But there was a point where Aaron Rodgers and Cleveland
actually was a possibility before Deshaun Watson and trying to

(48:29):
figure out that whole deal. I I've told you, I've been,
I said last week, been on record. I don't think
that Rogers plays in twenty twenty five. But if a
team like the Rams come calling, that would be difficult
to turn down if you're the former Jets quarterback.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
And it's so crazy that we're saying Cleveland is a
terrible team and coming into this year, if you look
back at that team and the pieces that they had,
you would think that they were a playoff type team.
So it's funny how fast that falls, right, And how
fast we changed the narrative. I mean, obviously we saw
a product on the field which didn't come what we expected.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yeah, and unlike the Browns, the Rams have. First of all,
they hit it out of the park with their draft class. Yeah,
they completely You miss Aaron Donald because he's Aaron Donald
and there's no one like him in the NFL ever,
and so there's it's not like they replaced Aaron Donald.
That just I don't want to say that they didn't

(49:22):
miss it beat but man, the guys that they had
playing on the defensive line really allowed them to have
much greater success than we thought of the downfall that
they would have. You then had Pooka and Nakua kind
of take you out over for Cooper Cup, which he
did the year previous as well. Cups obviously been told
to look for a trade as well. They got a
running game with Karen Williams and Blake Rum. And the

(49:44):
most important thing is the team at least has had
an offensive line, which was their downfall a few years ago.
They couldn't get anybody healthy along that line at fourteen
to fifteen different lineups, which then brings me to the
Cleveland Browns. At one point of the best offensive line
in the National Football League, and now that they're slowly
dwin because of injuries, and now they're looking to retool there.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
And that's why one of.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
The reasons, one of the reasons, one of the reasons
Deshaun Watson's play is another, but one of the reasons
why the Cleveland Browns are picking second in the draft.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
And Aaron Rodgers coming to la He lives here, he
has a house here, He spends a lot of time here.
So even on top of that, it makes sense.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I just I don't think that there's tons left in
the tank for Aaron Rodgers. And so if you're the Rams,
he may come as a cheaper alternative to Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
But to what point.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I mean, Aaron Rodgers is still going to want to
be paid a certain amount that maybe only on a
one year deal as opposed to something, you know, longer
term with Stafford. But I mean, right now, if we're
having a draft, I don't know anybody who follows football
that would take Aaron Rodgers over Matthew Stafford's I.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Was about to ask you that. I mean, obviously, I
think the numbers are probably probably pretty similar at the
end of the day, if we pull up the stats
and see what the numbers are on a team that
was so distrusted.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
That's your job, right now, give me those stats.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
But on the team that was so dysfunctional as the
Jets were, and for his numbers to be the same,
to be pretty similar or probably better to say that.
I wouldn't take Aaron Rodgers in a one year deal
with the team that's ready to go. I just especially
if you're trying to move off with gud that you're
not trying to pay it just it doesn't make sense
to me.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
I saw Rogers mobility. Yes, this year, they can't move
at all, So I'm saying they're very Yeah, yeah, that's all.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
That's all I'm saying. It's very comparable. So like one
year deal, cheaper version. Hall of Fame, Aaron Rodgers, Hall
of Fame, Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
I think Stafford moves. Rogers looked old and frail at
times this year, like there was nothing, There was nothing
in the get up, and that may be the Achilles
that maybe him forty one. Yeah, but yeah, the days
of Matthew Stafford running wild aren't there. But I do
think that at least he has a bit more more

(51:55):
mobility than Aaron Rodgers had, shade, Do you have those
the numbers.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Aaron Rodgers compared to the two.

Speaker 10 (52:02):
Staffs, So yeah, I got the SATs right in front
of me. So it's like a head to head stats
is what I'm looking at right now? Five and thirteen
in the regular season is Matthew Stafford Aaron Rodgers is
thirteen and five?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Oh you mean against each other? Did you want the
head Oh? You want just normal stats? What they what
they have.

Speaker 11 (52:21):
So fantasy fantasy wise, no, just the season stands, then
how about their let's get it. I'm really I'm looking
at Yeah. So if you're looking at it, Aaron Rodgers'
stats are better.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
That's I mean, that's why I figured a point.

Speaker 10 (52:39):
You're looking at like average, yeah, and everything like rushing wise,
passing wise, even like games played even which is weird,
Like it's almost everything he even in fantasy he has
better stats.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
If you have to hear about that too. And that's
the point. So like you go to that, we have
these narratives that you know Aaron has done, and it's like, sure,
it didn't look pretty in the beginning. As the season progressed,
if you really watched him, his mobility came back, not
Aaron Rodgers of old, and his numbers were decent. It
wasn't like he had some terrible you can't play he

(53:14):
fell off a cliff like forever done. It just didn't.
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
I never really ran with that narrative. Stafford had a
higher quarterback.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Rating and than Aaron.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Rodgers this year through fewer interceptions, did play one less
game than Aaron Rodgers. No Week seventeen for Matthew Stafford
set out that one didn't have as many touchdowns. But
I don't care about touchdown passes. That's a relevant stat
when it comes to quarterbacks. It's all the other things.
It's a bit closer than what you think. But that's

(53:44):
all I'm saying. And you're talking about paying a guy
a little cheaper. You can get him a cheap because
of the narrative going around. When I watch them play,
and when you watch Matthew Stafford, yeah play, it just
there's more life and there should because he's yours. Yeah yeah,
but all right, he's carrying roads. I'm dan byer Adam Kaplan,
our NFL insider will weigh in on this. I'll give

(54:05):
you the win on that one. I'll take the l
on the stats numbers, but I still would take Matthew Stafford. However,
if we are comparing their sophomore year in high school,
Shay will have that next now, just kidding Shay. He
has Carrier Roads. I'm Dan Byer. Hit him up at
Carrie twenty five Roads. You can find me at dan
Byer on Fox. We'll ask Adam Kaplan that question about
the quarterback conundrum that the Rams have involving Matthew Stafford

(54:28):
and where he could possibly end up.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
That's next year on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
He's carry Roads the Allpro I'm Dan Byer. It is
a Fox Sports Sunday Adam Kaplan our NFL insider. Find
him on ex at Kaplin NFL. Read him on the
Pro Football Network, and also hear him on the Inside
The Birds podcast is rely from the tyrec dot Com studios.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Hello Adam, Happy Sunday.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
How are you guys? I am good.

Speaker 12 (54:54):
I'm ready to go to my twenty fifth NFL combine.
I leave tomorrow looking forward to it. Old weather, but
lots of football going.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
On this week.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Indianapolis and those walkways hopefully will take.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Care of much of your walks. Yes, it's the tricky
part too, because you never go outside, well mostly.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Yes, if you want to. Yes, you're right.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
You don't think you're walking as far because you just
stay inside. And you're like, wait a second, I just
walked like ten blocks. Why am I winded? It's such
a it's such a it messes with your mind. It's
gonna use another phrase that was not a suitable for radio.
But yeah, we're gonna keep it. We're gonna keep it clean.
Car Carrie is leading me one nothing in our Aaron

(55:34):
Rodgers Matthew Stafford debate. But Mark Dominic, former NFL GM
has come on, well, yeah, come on a time or two,
we'll work with him. He's come on and said on
our network that if Matthew Stafford were to leave to
keep an eye on Aaron Rodgers to the Rams, I
guess I just want to start there. Carrie pointed out, Hey,
their numbers aren't that much different. I thought Stafford was

(55:56):
a way better option, obviously a younger option, but you
you agree with me, way better option than Aaron Rodgers
would be if the Rams ended up moving, Why would
the Rams be interested in Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 3 (56:07):
Let me ask, Well, here's.

Speaker 12 (56:08):
Why, Dan, This is just so you understand. And I
know some guys will merge in the quarterback position, and
it always happens for the draft. This is this is
not a very deep drafted quarterback. It's a very poor
free agency guys not under contract. Other than Sam Darnold.
It's pretty weak for a street free agents. So Stafford, look,

(56:29):
they're not getting a first round pick based on teams
I've spoken with so far, at least they're not willing
to give him that. But it could be a two
and a five whatever. But here's the problem with Matthew Stafford.
If you want him, you have to pay him. He
wants a new contract. He's vastly underpaid. And that's that's
why the Rams told his aid that his reps listen,

(56:52):
go out and find what's out there.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
We'll do with the compensation. Just find out what you
think is value.

Speaker 12 (56:56):
As now, when you look at stafford situation, and I
say only but just understand the landscape, how underpity is.
He's played very well for a while, he's not regressed.
Thirty seven years old, he'll make twenty seven million total.
He's got a roster bonus that's due fifth day free agency,
so they're going to want to have that done. They'll

(57:17):
want to know what's going to happen by the seventeenth
of March and twenty three million cash and none of
it's guaranteed. The twenty sixth number, the cash is twenty
thirty one million for a guy who's still playing a
very high level, clearly top ten, he's really underpaid they
and they're not willing to do it. This is why
they want to know what he thinks his value is

(57:38):
through his agent. And just so you understand, as I
was talking to Steve Hartman about this yesterday, any agent
worth his weight in gold will never wait for a
for a club to tell him to have permission.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
They always do. They always check.

Speaker 12 (57:49):
Carry probably knows this, and any good agent will always
check behind the scenes about what his players.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Worthy better yep, adam, okay, so this is okay, all
these things been said. You say, way better option. Obviously
he's A. I mean there, the numbers are comparable, and
I understand the optics of what it looks like in
Aaron's stint with the Jets. He's a. He would be
able and the Rams would be able to have a

(58:15):
cheaper option, a guy who could come in on a
one year deal and on a prove it deal, and
obviously schematically what they want to do there is run
the ball, play action, take your shots. He can make.
He can make most of those throws or all those
throws that Stafford can make. He's not younger, obviously mobility
has been hampered. But on a one year deal, if

(58:37):
they're not willing to pay the guy that just you
know has had the success that Stafford has, and they've
made that clear, why wouldn't Rogers be an option for
a one year player.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
No he would, No, he would.

Speaker 12 (58:48):
But their preferences, as I understand, or to keep Stafford
and see what what they figured that they can do
with him.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
It's just that there are a team that's in transition. Right.

Speaker 12 (58:57):
You've got Cooper cup who's not going to be with
the football one way or the other. They've got a
relatively young team that doesn't have a future quarterback. They
need to kind of figure out their offensive line, they've
got to figure out a couple of a couple of
guys who got bench or being paid a lot of money.
So look, there's still going to be a team that's
got a chance to be a playoff team now with Rogers.

(59:20):
So I'm told at two things. With Rogers he had
two significant injuries. He had an MCL sprain and a
great two hamstring straight. I don't think this is out anywhere,
but this is what I was told. He just at
forty one years old, he couldn't move, and to have
those two injuries curry at the same time, how can
he perform now he turns forty two and December. You
really don't want a guy at this age. You could

(59:41):
bring him in for one year until you figure out
who you're Obviously they got to get somebody in the draft,
but you can't think he could play more than one year.
And quite frankly, I don't know his bodies deteriorated. That's
the thing Stafford is not. I know he's had a
number of injuries in recent years, but he plays through it.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
He still is playing at a high level, much better.

Speaker 12 (01:00:00):
I don't worry about the numbers because, first of all,
with with Stafford poking a co missed significant time with
the PCL spraining, Cooper cop missed significant time with the
high ankle sprain. You got to look at that and
Tyler Higby didn't come back late till the scenon he
had the ACL injury in the last game of the
previous season. So yeah, obviously there was a reason why
his numbers weren't great.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
There's not a better running game than the Jets.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
In The Jets offense was honestly the Jets offense.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
I'm still argument.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
The Jets offense was looked.

Speaker 12 (01:00:32):
They had a lot of problems with their offensive line
was bad, but no, Stafford's clearly the better option.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Adam Kaplan joining us here on Fox Sports Radio our
NFL Insider. He's carry roads. I'm Dan Beyer anything on
Miles Garrett or is that just still Bronze keeping them?

Speaker 12 (01:00:46):
And yeah, they're they're still keeping them. But I just
going to bring this up again because I live this thing.
In twenty eighteen, I probably talked to the Raiders ten
times about Khalil Mack and they were like, we're not
trading him. Why do you keep calling? I'm just well,
I just want to know it was my job. I
just was curious. It's like, well, what if this happens, No,

(01:01:08):
he'll be any we think he's going to be and
we know he's going to be in at some point, well,
John Grudin had personnel control. I kind of commandeered it
quite frankly in twenty eighteen, and they wound up making
a trade. Now, another part of this was they thought
the Bears wouldn't be very good. Nobody saw this coming
that the Bears with Klomac and Vic Fangio is a

(01:01:28):
defense coordinator, they wound up making the playoffs as Mitch
Trubisky was a starter in a second year. Like that's
you can't You couldn't have known that. They didn't know
that when they made that trade late. I think it
was maybe in August. But so look understand, the season
doesn't start to September. There was a cap issue with
some bones acceleration if they make a trade, so they

(01:01:50):
have to get through that. But the thing that Andrew
Bird does not want to do, he does not want
to give the impression that they're not trying to win.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Now, I would tell you.

Speaker 12 (01:02:00):
That Miles Garrett, who's one of the top three defensive
players in the National FOOTB League, is one football player.
If you trade with the right team and get three
first round picks or two first round picks, got to
get an edge rusher, back and they're high projected me
first round picks. So like, for instance, under the Eagle
fans want they want.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
The Eagles to get Garrett.

Speaker 12 (01:02:19):
Well, if you're the Browns, why would you make a
trade with the Eagles who are gonna not only just
have this thirty second pick, their roster is so good
if you really look at it for the future, they're
gonna they should be a top three team for years
to come. So why would you make a trade with
a team that's going to be really, really good.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Well, a lot of bonehead things happen. Uh, Luca just
got trade to the Lakers. So nothing that shocked me.

Speaker 12 (01:02:41):
I as a I gotta tell you as a life
I've been a MAVs fan since I was in ninth grade.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
We hold hold on now, you're right story, This is
a great story.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
It has a great I'm ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 12 (01:02:53):
So I am the guy who does not ever want
to be accused of being a bandwagon fan.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
So I love the logo with a hat.

Speaker 12 (01:03:00):
Yes, yes, and Mark Guire I was a huge fan
then We'relando Black.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
But there were years I could name like all all
the players on the roster.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
I was like, do you have a Brad Davis Jersey
that we Brad.

Speaker 12 (01:03:12):
Dave was a point guard from Maryland, and Derek Harper.
I get James Donalds, so I can go to the
whole roster. So then now this one you're gonna love.
This is a typical of me the way I was
as a kid. So I watched the Flyers shut out
the Capital's ten nothing, I'm like, that's it. I'm a
Caps fan. No one else will like them. And I've
been a Caps fan for forty years and I loved

(01:03:33):
it when that Rod Langley, if you fall, I don't
fall hockey much anymore. But so I so Carrie to
to move this along here. I wound up liking the
teams that nobody else does that way.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
They could never say bandwag guy.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Oh that's great, that great.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
I love them. I love the math.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
That's good. The fact that you said Derek Harper. Most
people think Derek Harper with the Knicks. No, but right,
Adam's career now, that's correct. Yeah, so much, so much
success in Dallas though. Yeah, did you guys know I
was a MAVs fan for about.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Forty No, no, come a Seahawks fan.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Well, Well, first of all, Jimmy Jackson when he was
drafted by the Yeah, he was my favorite. He was
my favorite player. So it was the you know, and
then the Triple J's and whatever. But the Seahawks fan,
Dave Craig is from my hometown and I met the
Seahawks when I was seven, and yeah, his dad took
us to a game, and that's that's how I became
a Seahawks Oh that's cool, man, really absolutely cool. In

(01:04:21):
nineteen eighty four County Stadium, Wow, Packers County.

Speaker 12 (01:04:26):
By the way, most fans didn't understand Dan if correctly.
If I'm wrong, you would know this from being from Wisconsin.
Weren't there some years they played in both stadium?

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Yes, they did.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
They actually had a Milwaukee package and there's still is
a ticket package for Milwaukee fans. They have a they
have a gold package and a Green package, and so
the Milwaukee fan base gets three games a year at
lambeau Field. I have relatives who have the other package
because of where we live in the state. But yeah,
they did it for the Milwaukee market. They would play
three games of a year a Milwaukee start. Learn this

(01:04:56):
is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
Yeah, the fact that that you were a math man,
I'm I that's of my thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Yes, I'm like the resident.

Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
Yeah, well, how did you become a Math fan? Hang on,
how do you? I forget? Where'd you grow up? I
don't even know this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Yeah, I grew up. I grew up in Birmingham, in Alabama.
But I became I became a Math fan when I
got I mean I watched him. I saw Dirk when
he got drafted. I saw the story him And now,
of course I'm really I'm close with an ass. I've
known Nashville a long time. But then, but I I
really got on the band bandwagon when Dirk started to
get really good and he couldn't get over the hump.

(01:05:27):
So similar to what you guys are saying, like the
underdog thing, I kind of saw that passion to kind
of get over the hump. And him and me and
Jason Terry shared the same manager. So I met them
and went to the team and just kind of fell
in love with him.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
That's amazing, all right. I got one more question for you,
Adam Kamplin before we let you go. Yep, I ripped
on Ian Rappaport because of the way that he dressed
up this tweet to say that Shad Or Sanders wasn't
going to work out at the combine.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
I didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
It's it's so over the top and ridiculous. It's just
it is such a kiss but tweet the dion. Yeah,
and it's when there's nothing there's nothing wrong. If should
Sanders doesn't work out, of course, yeah, many topics don't.

Speaker 12 (01:06:07):
Although although hang on, hang on with Sanders, kem wore,
it's a way better prospect. It's not remotely close, Wm.
I understand now Sanders will go in the first round.
Now him throwing at the combine, it's not going to
matter because he's going to have a proa private workouts.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
But go ahead. I just want people to understand the
way that the combine goes.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Yeah, and just to let you and this is what
wrap up. Ward said, Shouldor Sanders plans to focus on
his interviews with teams at the Combine, helping them continue
to learn him as a person. He'll allow his four
years of film to speak loudly, then throw at.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
His prodoun that's agent or sty on either one.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Yeah, that's fine here were you probably impressed teams or
his presence poison intelligence.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
I would have said that that's continuing.

Speaker 12 (01:06:49):
Indeed, And I don't like to talk about other reporters
or anything, but I know when you're giving information from
agents or yes or whatever. Yeah, I just tell him, Look, guys,
I there's only so much you I can't be saying.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
There's certain stuff I won't say. I just won't do yes.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
But I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
I'm not accusing Ian of anything. You know, he's fine
with me. I'm fine with that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
What you're saying is this is and this was the question.
So what are the concerns with Shador by him not
working out? Like, what's he gonna have to do with
his pro days?

Speaker 12 (01:07:17):
Honestly, there's nothing because he all he needs to do
is get measurables done. That's right, he's a quarterback. You
know what the tape looks like. The interviews are going
to be very important for him because you got to
get in front of him. I was just actually talking
to a coach.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
From an AFC team today who.

Speaker 12 (01:07:30):
Was telling me the way this is. Things go to
these works. So you got you have two combine interviews.
You've got to formal and informal interviews. Both are fifteen
minutes each. He goes, the kids are coach up so
well the GM's commentary or the formal interview, because they
really need to know whether they could trust the kid.
But you do it before the pro day the big ones. Look,
I'll give you one more before I get out of here.
The Eagles were set to draft Gino Smith in twenty twelve.

(01:07:54):
They met with Gino Smith before the pro day. They
didn't They didn't like his answers. They just weren't comfort
with them, and they didn't draft him.

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
But this is Chip.

Speaker 12 (01:08:00):
Kelly wanted, and I'm not going to go in everything,
but i just know that their interview with him didn't
go well. At some point, Shador will get in front
of clubs. They'll find out what they need from him.
They'll have to make scion. He's gonna be a first
round pick. But cam Or from a tape study, I'm
told by multiple people to Shoudoor Sanders, it's like dial

(01:08:21):
up internet to high speed. It's just one guy's a
late first round pick and the other guys that is
an outstanding prospect.

Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
You got to go through some inaccurate throws and from ward.

Speaker 12 (01:08:32):
You got a great every thrown some interceptions, but he's
a baller. I talked to someone who's doing major background
work on him, said, it's football for him and family,
nothing else. That's all he It's all he cares about
if people put stuff out there about him.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
I don't know the kid, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:08:46):
I have no idea who's represented by I'm just telling
you what I know, as I've always done here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
I just think Shador Sanders just needs to be Shador Sanders,
not the on Sanders soun like. And once you do everything,
everything will be fine. And this is just catering to
the on her or or there's.

Speaker 12 (01:09:01):
Understanding though, Dan the tape will tell you everything. Yeah,
carry notes hit a former player.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Well it'll speak loudly. Four years. I mean I went
to the combine and only bench press two twenty five
or twelve times and still got drafted so.

Speaker 5 (01:09:13):
Better than I could do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
You know what I made? It didn't matter much.

Speaker 12 (01:09:17):
Well you're a dB though, do they really care if
you you lifted?

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
Does it? Did it matter.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
A couple of all pro uh, you know, recipient awards later?

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
Yeah, it obviously doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Adam, we appreciate the time I got so fun and
Joe the MAVs. We'll talk to you later I'll talk
to you next week. Can see he's carry roads. I'm
Dan Byer. Let's go to the news desk. Monte Bolanos.
I know she's not a MAVs fan, so we won't
be surprised by that Clippers till she dies.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Monte Bolanos is here with the latest.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
But I don't hate the MAVs either. I love Dirk.
Dirk yes is one of my faves.

Speaker 8 (01:09:50):
Like I, I would probably pick him first overall. If
I was drafting a team, I would let my heart
pick him instead of using my head.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
And in twenty years you'll have a championships and it'll be.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Worth it, all right. That was the last championship that
wasn't a super team.

Speaker 8 (01:10:05):
Not to take away from all of his uh other teammates,
you know what I mean. It was a great win,
but that was the last non super team that won
go dirt.

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Was there any any one guy like that that took
a team?

Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
It's through that they played the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Lakers that part Portland with Roy and all Brandon Roy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Yeah, I love Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday. But it
was Gianni's title. When you score half your team's points, yeah,
what Game six?

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
But they were All stars though on that team. He
had no other All stars on that team. Know their
guys were past their prime?

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Yep, in theory they were. They were. It was such
it was such a good run for them. What was
that twenty eleven eleven? That was such a good run?
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:10:52):
Let's check in on the NBA, where the Clippers are
losing to the Pacers eighty seven to sixty nine with
about five minutes to go in the game. Tyree Saliburn
with a little double double already for Indiana twenty one
points in ten assists. Clippers playing without Kawhi Leonard and
without Norman Powell. After the first quarter, the Hawks are
losing at home to the Pistons thirty three to thirty.

(01:11:13):
Late in the first the Wizards are on top of
the Magic twenty six to twenty two, and the Raptors
are topping the Suns twenty nine to twenty five, with the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Bucks losing at home to the Heat.

Speaker 8 (01:11:24):
I didn't think that was correct, but it is losing
at home to the Heat thirty six to twenty three.
The Warriors since acquiring Jimmy Butler five and one, they
crushed the Mavericks.

Speaker 9 (01:11:33):
I'm sorry one twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Six to one oh two was the final score.

Speaker 8 (01:11:36):
Curry Steph Curry had to do with thirty points and
seven assists, and the Celtics up not won five in
a row after taking down the Knicks one eighteen to
one oh five. The Knicks, just you know, something to
keep in mind, are zero to seven against the top
three teams in the league. This is not a great sign.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
But you know, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 8 (01:11:53):
And it looks like Kyle Larson, did he just win
the NASCAR Cup Series out of Atlanta?

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Got a wreck?

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
We have a wreck?

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
I see. It was like down to the final two laps.
It was down to the very end.

Speaker 8 (01:12:06):
So I wasn't sure that there is a wreck. I
don't know how there's not more Rex. How they constantly
bump each other, like the way that they're constantly hitting
each other a little by little.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
I mean, I can't believe there's not more Rex. That's
a good thing on the NHL.

Speaker 8 (01:12:20):
Yes, we're keeping an eye on Alex Soovechkin as he
continues to chase the.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Wing Gretzky record for most goals, and.

Speaker 8 (01:12:26):
He's up to eight hundred and eighty two after a
hat trick today with the Capitals topping the Oilers seven three.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Back to you guys, thank you very much. Manzi.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Yeah, Dirk only had Jason Terry, Kron Butler, Tyson Chandler.

Speaker 9 (01:12:38):
Okay, give me their ages.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Absolutely past. The Butler hurt, Karan Butler.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
N Butler was hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Dan jj bereaj.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Remember when he got elbowed by.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Andrew I tried to jump through Jean Marion. That was
so bad, Rick, Yeah, it was great. Tane Page the
Stoyocophans on that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
I'm busting Jops, Tyson Chandler.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
I'll also say this, I Monty called super teams, and
I think that there's there's there's there's a difference because
I don't think that the Big three, as we talked it,
ever worked in the NBA outside of the two.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Years in Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Like the Warriors became a super team because guess what,
the Warriors drafted a lot of good guys and then
signed good guys and then ended up getting Kevin Durant later.
But like there was a core that was built there.
Oh yeah, fortunately, And so like there's there's there's a
difference between like a super team and a big three.
So not that you were saying anything, but when you

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mentioned super teams, I think that how you build those
teams and all they came together, because I honestly think
if you look through history, the Big three has never
worked where you just have three good players and everybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
I agree, you can't. You just can't. You can't buy Yes,
like is a real thing? Yes, absolutely all right? She
is Manzi Blagya s that's Cary Roads. I'm Dan Baier.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
We are Life from the Tirek dot Com Studios. Carry
On coming up next to We're Gonna Move Easy as one, two, three, four,
next hour, just because we had so much fun with
Adam Kaplan and Manzi. That's coming up here on Fox
Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Sunday, Life forth Tirek dot Com Studios.
He's carry Rhodes the Allpro. I'm Dan Bayer, glad to
have you with us on this Sunday deciphering Big Threes, Superstars,

(01:14:29):
this and that. Looking back at past titles, Manzi sayings,
she's just a huge Dirk fan.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
I don't know anybody that doesn't like Dirk Nowitzki. Right,
it's crazy, right, Yeah, Sam's universally alone the.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Right absolutely there are. There are a few players like
that in sports. Why do you think that's the case, Dan,
Because I think rivalries. I don't think that the Mavericks
are a true rival now. People in Houston and San
Antonio may feel different about the Mavericks to that point.
But there's also the staying in one place. There's also
the finally coming out on top after the years of

(01:15:03):
shortcomings you guys mentioned. I think all of that plays
into it. And plus he just seems like he's a
good guy.

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
That's a good dude. Yeah, he is all right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Time for a segment that has been sweeping the nation
in twenty twenty five, no matter how long this year
has been so far, we like to call it carry on,
giving carry roads five topics. He can tell us if
he's on board or off topic. Numero Uno that Duke

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ranked third in the latest eight p pole is actually
the best team in the country right now in college hoops.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Carry on, carry On. Duke showed it yesterday. They went
into Madison Square Garden played a Big ten opponent in
Illinois who was supposed to be a really good team
this year, and they have been. They've hit a little
stretch where it has some bad play, but went in.
Everybody's talking about Cooper Flag, obviously the best player in
the country, but Duke got to show the world there's

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so much more than Cooper Flag. And they have four
or five four guys on that team that will probably
be first round picks. And so that talent alone and
the number two rated defense in the country makes them
the best team in the country.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Now, also have a win over Auburn. That's right this
year as well, the number one team in the country.
All right, Topic number two, that we've seen the last
of Greg Popovich as a head coach in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Yeah, you gonna have to carry on with that one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Got an update yesterday saying you would not return this
season after suffering that mild stroke.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Yeah, no, it's I think this is it for Greg
and man having such a story career, winning multiple championships
I think four, and you know, doing it in different
decades and with different types of players, and obviously showing
the guy that he is as a coach, as a
leader of men. Everybody speaks very highly of him, even
guys that have played with him on the Olympic teams

(01:16:54):
and all that. So sorry to hear the news and
hope hopefully it gets better. But I think I think
it's over. I think is over with him coaching.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
All right, topic number three, number, Both number one seeds
in the NBA playoffs have basically been locked up. You
agree with that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
I'm gonna carry on with that one as well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Calves five and a half game lead over Boston right now,
Thunder eight and a half over the Grizzly.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Yeah, I'm going to carry on. I think. Okay, so
he's locked in the West, having that top seed, nobody's
going to be able to come back and catch them.
I think that's pretty pretty rock solid. The East is
a little bit, you know, up up and up and grabs.
As far as numerically, they're not out of it, but
I think Boston's playing for something bigger. I think Cleveland
needs it more than Boston. So I'd say they have

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it wrapped up. And I think that's that's done.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Not that we are doing this because I don't think
that the Celtics matter, but the way that they played
against the Knicks today, and yeah, Chase pointed out, Monty
pointed it out, and the update, maybe you want to
play the next considering the Knicks can't beat anybody that's
better than they are exactly is part of it, right,
So that would be a two to three matchup in
the Eastern Conferent and Semis. All right, we touched on
this a little bit earlier topic number four, the Yankees

(01:18:05):
altering their facial hair policy to include nicely groomed beards.
Do on board with that or not?

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
I know, MASI went off on it earlier, but I'm
gonna say carry on. I'm gonna say carry on.

Speaker 5 (01:18:16):
Oh, look at his.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Nice beard, Manti, a nice carry rose beard. You gotta
keep it lined up and smooth and presentable because they're
still the Yankees. So I'm gonna say I'm gonna carry on.
I think it's a good deal. I think they've had
I think they have lost out on some free agents
and guys who didn't want to adhere to that rule.
So I'm gonna say this is a big step for

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them to get a few more prospects. Moving on, moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
All right, final one for you ordering an appetizer as
a meal.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Carry off on that one. That's really yeah oooh yeah, yeah,
I boo that as well. No, I'm carrying off the appetizers.
The appetizer for a reason. You want to get your
your palette to the point of whatever you're gonna eat
down the line as that night progresses. It's a little teaser.
It's something that's supposed to wet the beacon, get you
going for the rest of the night. If that's all

(01:19:06):
you're going to eat, you're probably saving a few pennies
and you probably shouldn't be there in the first place.
So I'm gonna say, carry off on the appetite. I
had an appetizer, Mazi. You give him a thumbs.

Speaker 8 (01:19:16):
Down on that, and get what if I want two appetizers, Well,
I'm not trying to save money.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
What if I just want my appetizers to be my meal?

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Is it one appetizer?

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
If I want Mozrella sticks and I want spinach dip.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
No, I'm off that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
No wings and mottsticks, that's still not a meal.

Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
That's a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
I know it will get you fool It can be fine,
but you got to move on or.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Some real I think people a lot of people have
nachos and they'll just have it as their meal. Should
Cooper Flake stick around for another year, we'll see if
carry's on. That could the unthinkable happen in college basketball.
He's carry Oats and I'm Dan Pyre and we are
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should be. The unthinkable being Cooper Flag returns for another
year at Duke. If you had to put a percentage
on him going to the NBA, would you put it
at one hundred percent or would you put it at

(01:20:23):
ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent? Would you
put it at ninety Where were you? Where would you
put it on? Cooper Flag leaving Duke after just one
season one hundred point one, no doubt about it. Gone
see you later, no.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Doubt about it. I mean, the man is NBA. He's
been NBA ready since he was sixteen, seventeen years old,
just turned eighteen during the season, I think in December, November,
December late, I mean in the middle of the season,
so ready to go. Obviously, he's been enamored with the
college lifestyle and obviously with the nil you know, being

(01:20:59):
able to kind of procure some of those earnings already.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
So I mean, it sounds good, but he's going to
be gone. I will say this, and I think that
you are the wrong person to ask this question too.
You don't know why you're laughing what is it? Because
it's actually a conversation Mansi and I think had earlier
this week when we talked about college life and at

(01:21:25):
some point in college, when you're a junior and senior
at Montsey, what do you want?

Speaker 8 (01:21:29):
You just you just want to live it up as
much as you can, like there's an expiring day on
your college experience, and so we were discussing how prior
to NIL, it was a lot easier to maybe want
to get out of college and go make money.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Yes, but now you can make money and live the
college life.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
No, I agree, it was just so fun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
And I agree, and I actually think when you're a
senior in college, you're ready to be an adult. And
now you being a college football player, you're bm he's
BMOC walking around Louis Bowe lettermans jackets.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Yeah we gotta go to the Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we gotta go to West Virginia this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
I don't know if that was. But the point is
is your college experience as a football player is different
than mine. Is just a regular Joe Schmo student, different
as Manzi is a regular student. We weren't top of
the line athletes. Now Cooper Flagg is the top of
the line athlete. But I will tell you what my
freshman and sophomore years in college best times. Blew out

(01:22:32):
high school, blew out junior high even in my glory
days of being twelve and thirteen and loving sports like
at that point, blew them boy shay.

Speaker 10 (01:22:44):
Same thing with you, Okay, I would say, yeah, but
I can't compare myself to an NBA player. So it's like,
think about this. It's like not asking you to compare yourself. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. It's more of like I had
a ton of fun in college. Yes you did, But
I would like to be an NBA player, like as
soon as possible.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
End of I just like I'm in college.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
He's going to be an NBA player.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
But question if I could be seventeen in the NBA
and getting.

Speaker 10 (01:23:09):
Girls way more than in college. What what do you
mean He's a seventeen year old. It's like, that's what
I'm saying, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Like the biggest thing on his head, women is not
going to be a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 10 (01:23:20):
It's like, if you can have a bigger, you know,
global experience to that instead of just my college I'm
one hundred percent going to be an NBA play.

Speaker 8 (01:23:28):
So if he's if he's worried about women right going
to the NBA, that officially becomes a job and you
actually can't mess around the way you may be my
party in college.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
That's true.

Speaker 10 (01:23:39):
I see that, But he's not going to mess around.
He has too much to lose, you know what I'm talking. Yeah,
I understand what you're saying. I understand what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (01:23:44):
It's a very different responsibility from going to the NBA
than you being a star.

Speaker 5 (01:23:49):
I do.

Speaker 10 (01:23:50):
I just think I just think I would if I
could be in the NBA right now, comparing to go
to college, I would, of course, Yeah, I would do that,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
I just also think that the people you're hooking up
with different from when you're in college in the NBA,
but you can get with those college girls.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
Kind of they already know he's about to be Cooper
Flag he's Cooper Flag.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
There there's pros and then there's yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
It'd be like, oh, I got this innocent girl from
girl from Iowa that likes me. Yeah, she knows you're
about to go get that change chang change. It's different
than those showing up.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
At a frat party when you're a freshman and people know,
oh hey, that's It's different than being at the Rich
Carlton and having people waiting for you in the lobby
at one am at your game. I keep telling you,
kind Mary Mac, you're you're right now in your early twenties,
best time in your life right now, Mary Mac.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
He's it's not for.

Speaker 13 (01:24:51):
College was cool, but also like the college I went
to was full of like musicians, so like, I don't know,
it's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
Did you go to When did you go to college?
Because you always tell me you're young and I don't
want to ask your age because it's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Eighteen eighteen nineteen. Was awesome? Right, Oh my god, yes,
it was, it was awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
It was awesome. Yes, Dan, I would rather be in
the NBA than hanging out at a phone party.

Speaker 5 (01:25:21):
Yeah, how about would have.

Speaker 6 (01:25:24):
Been in the league.

Speaker 8 (01:25:24):
But he is gonna lead he's going to be a
small fish in a big pond if he goes to
the NBA, when right now he's the ocean.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
He's the shark.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
He's always going to be the ocean. At a frat
party is like you're drinking well, like's not.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Drinking well anything, but it is.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
It's like it's a frat party.

Speaker 13 (01:25:41):
It's like you damn well, frat parties have ever clear
Like no, you guys, I am fully aware.

Speaker 8 (01:25:48):
But again it's Cooper flag like to think that that's
I don't think he's at frat parties.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
If I'm being completely honest, I think you think.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
You're right about that. You might be right about that
at frat parties.

Speaker 9 (01:25:58):
We were at frat party, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
But he was probably he's definitely not. I didn't go
to frat party. Yeah I was, Oh, Carrie definitely did not.

Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
He was not there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
No, I wasn't not the frat parties. I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
I think we used frat parties as a general college term. Yeah, okay,
just to be like if we were like off campus
house party, like it just doesn't sound right. Let's just
call it a frat party and it's it's fine. It's
it's all generally speaking. Cooper Flag, as Carrie pointed out,
just turned eighteen in December. Cooper Flag should have been

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should be in high school right now. Yes, he reclassified
to enter college early, which then the reason you reclassify
is not to get to college early, it's to get
to the pros early. Yes, so you're right at one
hundred point one percent, you're right about that. But in
the days of nil and if you are having the
best time of your life, and there was even somebody

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that asked Cooper Flag about, you know, what, would you
ever consider returning? And he says that he's really enjoyed
the college life. Who wouldn't when you are at eighteen
or walk on campus at seventeen near the BMOC, right like,
life is good.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Life's really good.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Life is good at that point. So there's there's something
to bring you back. Brad Underwood, who saw his team
Illinois got beat so bad. I can't even do the
math quickly in my head on how bad they got
beat forty three. It took me a little bit, but
to look at it, I'm like, okay, one ten to
sixty seven, what is that like other ones? You can
do really quickly. It took me a second there, but

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that's how much they lost by yesterday. This is what
the Illinois coach had to say about Cooper Flag and
the possibility of him stick sticking around for another year.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
Here was the Illinois head coach.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Why you think you'd be better as Coles at the NBA.

Speaker 14 (01:27:43):
He's eighteen, He's just an eighteen year old kid. Go
have fun, chase a girl. I mean, just just just
enjoy the enjoy the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
And I mean I get the whole thing that slotted.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
He's gonna make what he is.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
And I'm just I'm speaking just completely randomly.

Speaker 14 (01:28:02):
I don't know the kid and with the family, but
got a sharing man, I'm excited about college basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
So there's and I think all of college basketball except
maybe the rest of the a SEC would want Cooper
Flag back next year. I think it would be great
for it. But it's just for it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Yeah, it's it's not going.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
To happen, but there's there's a compelling case, especially because
he is so young, and so when you are experiencing
those things and then be able to have it, I
almost feel like it's a it's a fake topic. Because Carrie,
as you said, it's one hundred point one. Yeah, but
I think that there are a lot of things that
would would appeal to someone if he could just stick
around for another year in college.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Yeah, I mean the idea of it, I would, Like
I said, I've have you ever been a Duke's campus. No,
I actually I haven't. Like number one beautiful campus obviously,
and you know the support the university gets from sure
everybody around. I mean it's like, I mean, you got
the Panthers, that NFL team, you got Seart. None of
those sports really matter. At the end of the day,

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It's about the universities and so the attention to love
and all the stuff that comes with it. Now you're
able to be paid like with no ramiplications, Like I
understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
I get it. Yeah, and there, and they're in the
you know, Raleigh Durham area. You know, the Panthers are
in Charlotte. But I get to your point. I've been
to North Carolina. I've been on in Chapel Hill. So
I went to a game there a few years ago,
which was fun, but we didn't make it over to
Duke But which completely sidetrack. And then we'll get on track.
The great thing about the Duke North Carolina rivalry. Everybody says, yeah,

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they're eight miles apart. There is a highway where you
drive and it says the Duke North Carolina. It's an
exit where you can go to both schools if you
take that exit. So that tells you what the rivalry
is and the closeness of it. So like that's it's
why it's one of the best in all of college sports.
Not saying you should stick around to play Carolina twice
a year, but Duke is Duke, and there's just a

(01:29:57):
lot of neatness, that uniqueness that comes with it. Your
point about that area being smitten with the you know,
the colleges and how all the school I mean, Anti
State's right there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
Yeah, yeah, Wake.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Forest isn't that far away, so you've got all of that.
So it is a different sort of vibe as well.
He's going to the pros for sure. I mean, heck,
even in the USA, the Team USA stuff leading up
to the Olympics, they were like man Cooper flag playing
against the Olympic team like more than held his own
at seventeen years old. Yeah, but it is neat to
think about and in the world of nil we've seen

(01:30:30):
it with other players being able to stick around. Unfortunately,
it's usually been like juniors who maybe aren't going to
translate to the NBA, so they'll stick around for a
senior year. Don't get me wrong, I think that's awesome,
but the reality of someone bypassing a year in the
pros of I don't even want to say of this talent,
because he's could be a generational talent, maybe maybe a

(01:30:51):
once in a decade sort of talent. It's just not
going to happen like he's gone. But there's a lot
of things that that would be that would be fun
and could could benefit him in a fun way if
you were to stick around for another year and.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
We had something like that was similar to this, Obviously,
I think it's obviously it's a little different. But we
were having this discussion about Caleb Williams right like, he's
here at USC getting paid and obviously it was going
to be number one pick in the draft, and people
were saying he may stay because he didn't want to
go to a certainty to make money in college.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Well, I last week when I did my arch manning
to the Saints in twenty twenty six. There's they're going
to have a decision as well. Now the NBA, the
decision to enter the draft is already going to have
to be decided before the NBA Draft lottery takes place.
So it's not like Cooper Flagg can see that, Oh wow,
the Wizards have the first overall pick. I think I'd
rather stay in school. He is not afforded that luxury

(01:31:41):
as you would if you were in the NFL or
trying to enter the NFL draft of knowing you as
the first overall pick. But I guess essentially what you're
we are saying here is Cooper Flagg's got about a
month and a half left in college basketball. Enjoy it
while you can't. Just eighteen years old. He is Carrier Roads.
I'm Dan Byer, easy as one, two, three, four next
year on Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Sunday, I'm Dan Byer.

(01:32:04):
He's Carrie Rhoades, the All Pro Manty Belano.

Speaker 5 (01:32:08):
So have.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
The latest on what is happening coming up in about
twelve minutes or so.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Mary Mack is here a technical producer, Shay, our executive producer, Shay.

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
How do you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
Pronounce your last name?

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
So you want you want to like how that my
teachers did it, or you want me to actually tell
you how.

Speaker 14 (01:32:28):
To do it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:28):
I would love both actually, so so in school I.

Speaker 10 (01:32:32):
Always knew they wouldn't be able to pronounce it, so
i'd go, Mohogan, guard, like, you can say that, Guard,
you can say that, right, Okay, So this is the
real way right here, Shan Moran guard. You can't do
the You guys don't have that. Yeah, I don't blame
you guys. You just can't do the ry Moron gard.

Speaker 1 (01:32:50):
No, just don't split it, just say a guard.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Oh someone did it?

Speaker 5 (01:32:56):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Just yeah, Dan, you always done it. Wouldn't be Dan
that would get it right. It's probably the whitest guy
that's ever done it too, So congrets that the.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Love Amedian Jerry I also said it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Purposely put in a story and according to Manzi, so
she could say, Martine Maldonado, I knew you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
I'm surprised I didn't say it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
Then we were short on time.

Speaker 1 (01:33:25):
Who did it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
What should I pick?

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
I'm gonna pick the one with yeah, Martine, Oh yes,
it was good, got it all right?

Speaker 5 (01:33:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Well I didn't get it, So it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Now I'm gonna say it with that emphasis every single time. Uh,
you are on the hot seat. Carry rhads me. Chia
montcard is one of your lifelines, as is Manzi Blanos
and Mary Mack. I'm gonna hate in school, but she
ain't hating on you. It's time to play easy as one, two, three, four.
This is where I give Carrie four topics. She doesn't
have to give me all of the correct answers, just

(01:33:59):
some of them. What do you need some you need
a piece of paper? This is double sided? Can this
help you anyway?

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Yeah? That's fine, all right, that works. Do you need
a pen as well? Yeah? Have me that panda? Al right,
I got the highlighter here.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
All right. I give Carry a topic. He just needs
to give me some of the right answers, not all
of them. He's got three lifelines. You're ready to play.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
That's doing a.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Perfect score of ten is what we're aiming for. Name
one of two Carry future draft sites for the NFL Draft. Yeah,
the NFL draft has been moved around in recent years.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
That was somebody laughing. Really hot is tapped out? I'm
out one of one of two. Give me a question again.
Down one of two Draft.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
Future draft sites for the NFL Draft in twenty twenty five,
that's coming up in a couple of months. It'll be
somewhere And in twenty twenty six, it's somewhere else in
an NFL city, in an NFL city, Say my god,
money got long long.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
This is a total guess Jerry's world, Dallas. That makes
that makes a little just trying to light it up.
Happened last year, didn't it?

Speaker 10 (01:35:04):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Last year was Vegas?

Speaker 5 (01:35:05):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
No? No, No, that was two years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
I think I was four years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
I'm not very I'm not great the draft. But then Dallas, Mary,
what you got married? I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:35:17):
I feel like Miami, Miami, Florida, Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
I don't think we know, but I'll go. I'm gonna
go and marry on this. I'm gonna go Miami, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
Is it Miami? No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
It's want to be right, y'all. I think this is
the first time I actually asked me or like the
first like out of the box, out of the gate
in NFL questions, Jerry, did you love college?

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Yes? Did you love college yes? Shade loved yes? Mary?

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
Hell no, rough time, y'all. The answers.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
I was like, for you got that wrong, Green Bay.
That's where it's gonna be this year. It's in Pittsburgh
next year. They just released the renderings this week of
where it's gonna be held. It's actually outside of lambeau Field,
but the backdrop will be lambeau Field, but on the
lambeau Fields parking lot area, if you will.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Yeah, I already see what his game is going. You're
trying to get me today. Actually, that was the toughest
of us. You're gonna get these next three.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
I know it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
I know it for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
Name two of three teams in the NBA that have
that have had the best record in a season the
most times. So in NBA history, two of the three
teams that have had the best overall record in the
regular season the most times.

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
The most, the most. I mean, you always want to
go like La and Boston, like you think it olds,
but I know Dallas has had the best record a
couple of times. Manson, you got.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
That's a hard quare question, but we won't talk it out.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
I'm going to say Dallas for one you want, I
will for one of them. And this is in the
history of the NBA. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:09):
Can you repeat the question, Dan.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Yeah, absolutely, Name two of the three teams in the
NBA that have had the best record in a season
the most times, best best record.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
Multiple times, and you think the MAVs are up there.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
Yeah, and that's regular season. This doesn't mean they want to.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
This is This isn't like just West. This is the
entire NBA. So you that have home court throughout the
entire NBA playoffs in the NBA Finals the most.

Speaker 8 (01:37:36):
Yeah, that's how I was like, Okay, so I agree
that the Lakers Celtics might be one.

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
What about the Bulls?

Speaker 6 (01:37:41):
The Bulls?

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:37:42):
You know, like I was thinking the Bulls because and
I just.

Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
Need to.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
I mean with Bulls, I want to go Bulls and
Lakers or Bulls and Celtics going there gun anymore? Carry
let's go Look at Dan, I I hate it. Yeah,
let's go Bulls and Celtics.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Yes, I'm leaning Celtics.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
It's just how many though, that's the that's the caveat
that gets me. Show me the Boston Celtics twenty times.
In fact, it's not even close the most. Is it
the Chicago Bulls?

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
It is not they were fourth, they were on the
outside looking in. Six times the Bulls have had the
best record in the NBA, the Lakers have had it
ten times they were number two, and the seventy six
ers have had it three times in their history they
were number three. What do you think, Dallas, Well, just
in my recent memory, I know, how many seasons do
you remember the MAVs having the best record?

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
At least two? And that's all they've I told you,
I know, I mean, I know that. I'm like I
and it's in my mind like recent so I think,
but that way it's valid. It's valid.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
On the heels of the success of the four nations
face off, name three of the nation three or four
nations current or former that have won the most gold
medals in men's ice hockey in the Winter Olympic Games.
So we're looking for countries, current or former countries that
have won the most gold medals in men's ice hockey

(01:39:16):
in the Olympic Games in history. These are going to
be exactly Listen, you guys, Lakers basically said Lakers Celtics.
The last day should be so, and then somebody threw
bulls in there and then it went all he was, Oh, yeah,
for sure, there.

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
Was there were there were four? Yeah, uh, we go Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Okay, how many?

Speaker 5 (01:39:42):
He said?

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
Three or four?

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
Uh, I'm not trying to trick you, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
This is an easy one.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
And the four you got this?

Speaker 10 (01:39:53):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:39:53):
Cold?

Speaker 3 (01:39:54):
Of cold places that get medals? Canada, the US.

Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
Hockey.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
I'm thinking about the miracle on ice. That's one at least.
So you said Canada, you also a re inspiration because
the anniversary of America on ice.

Speaker 5 (01:40:11):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
So, And then you have to say Russia. I know that,
but if that Soviet Union, would it be Russia?

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
Does it? Does?

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
They are different?

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
I would probably give something like that current trying to
trick us.

Speaker 10 (01:40:26):
I'm not trying to That means none of them. That
means Russia and US s R aren't in it. Then
probably if he wasn't trying to trick us current.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Or former, current or former.

Speaker 5 (01:40:34):
Then.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
You asked Canada Russia double? Do you want Russia? Do
you want Soviet Union? It's not both. Let's go to
the Soviet Union? You because I feel like they were
more you can more dominant.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
Soviet the right Show me Canada you know where it is?
Nine times? Show me the United Dates only twice but
one of those with the miracle on ice. Team show
me the Soviet Union seven times the Soviet Union won
Russia was not included Russia only eight.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
It's really two. Excuse me one, let's go. That's why
I said Soviet Union is whoever said there might be two?
Good job. I don't know if it was Mansier carry,
but good job, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
The whole point of me saying current or former, like
it's either that or East Germany or something along those way. Yet,
I will say that Cha's default was that I was
trying to trick you. He immediately went to me trying
to pull the wool over your eyes, which is not
the case. I try to make this as easy as
I can. You got three points. Finally named four of five?

(01:41:46):
Oh my goodness, we do four or five? Come on, Dan,
name four of the five most recently built stadiums in
the NFL. You can give me team, you can give
me name.

Speaker 6 (01:42:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
I will say if they share a stadium that there's
not count as two. It's only one facility. So you're
cutting out the Jets and the Giants. So you go
go Cowboys for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
Most recently built stadiums in the National Football.

Speaker 3 (01:42:15):
Cowboys, Jerry's world here so Fi?

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Okay, no, they share well that counts as one.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Yeah, it wouldn't be two. Like you couldn't like as
you said, you couldn't do. You couldn't say Jets and giants,
and they have that for two of the four answers,
it would only be one answer.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Gotcha, life State, gotcha Cowboys, so Fi? Who else you got?

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
Vegas?

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
Vegas? Yes? And Cowboys so Fi? Vegas reliant?

Speaker 10 (01:42:59):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Uh, Mary, you got another one? Now what I would
you look at you? I'm out here asking is Cowboys
even right? I don't even know if Jay Rold is
the right answer. I'm like, I don't even sound right.
That's right, that's right?

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:43:14):
When you do that is it?

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
And you're letting my secrets out? Monzi knows it now.
But my cues? Oh you got the cue? Yeah, I
had to write it down after the first time. Nobody
else got another one?

Speaker 6 (01:43:28):
Here?

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
You want to know one more? One more? Most recently,
stadiums in the National Football League.

Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
I'm trying to think of the names of stadiums.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
You can just say team you get that's fire City
if you if you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
Pay him, Oh, Minnesota because they got.

Speaker 8 (01:43:46):
The new one was Mercedes, which is who's Mercedes Benz stadiums?

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Isn't that one?

Speaker 3 (01:43:53):
Falcons as well?

Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
Mercedes been I don't even know where that's at.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Atlanta, so definitely so Atlanta. So the Falcons. You got
the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
Like five, So we need to kick out Dallas, La Vegas,
Atlanta and Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Well let's kick out Dallas.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Okay, alright, but there you go. All right, are you ready?
Those are your final answers?

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
Show me Los Angeles Sofi Stadium absolutely, built in twenty twenty.
Show me Las Vegas Allegian Stadium built in twenty twenty,
that's when it opened. Show me Mercedes Benz Stadium, Atlanta
twenty seventeen, Atlanta, Atlanta, Yes, ome.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
Of the Falcons.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
And show me US Bank Stadium there it is, Minnesota
twenty sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Yes, Dallas was not.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Dallas is not one, thank god.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
Dallas's face was so crazy. I was like, yeah, it's
not all, but you were so confident, Dallas.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
Sure, Dallasallas, We're keeping Dallas. If you're not confident, then
what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:45:09):
You're right, you're right, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
The reason this question was brought up and I'll give
you the other answer is Houston has actually talked about
maybe getting a new stadium, and they just got a
new stadium when the Texans came into the league a
little bit more than twenty years ago. But that's kind
of started to be some talk that NRG Stadium, I
believe is the name of it right now, is maybe
getting to be outdated, which is crazy. It dwarfs the

(01:45:32):
astrodome they're built. It's built right next to the Astrodome.
But there's a report this week from the Houston Chronicle
that the Texans are maybe looking into building a new stadium.
The final stadium on this list Levi Stadium, and Santa Clara,
home of the forty nine ers, are also home of
Super Bowl sixty coming up February eighth.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
No more candles, no more.

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
No good job. That's that's very good. You bounced back
score of eight, yes after the draft one, and then
you could add nine if you would have said the Lakers.
But you want to the Bullets on that way, You're
like Celtics and Lakers pretty obvious. And I'm like, all right, yeahfects.
They played along like like no.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
I was like, it's too too obvious.

Speaker 2 (01:46:12):
Ye, all right, let's go to Manti Blagos giving us
the latest. Oh what's happening on the sun?

Speaker 1 (01:46:17):
Question for you Dan, just off the top of your head,
what's the oldest stadium that's still running.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
Well, it's technically Soldier Field, even though it's been renovated,
it's been on that site. Lambo is old, but it's
not as old as people think. It's not like nineteen twenties,
nineteen thirties. Lambeau, I believe, was built in the late
nineteen fifties.

Speaker 5 (01:46:36):
So there it is.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
Yeah, So then you would have Arrowhead would be up.

Speaker 3 (01:46:42):
There would be one of seventy as well. Arrowheads one
of my favorite to play at too. I've never been.
Ye'd love to love to go. It's cool the more
you know, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:46:50):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:46:50):
All right, let's check in on the NBA fellas, where
Keith Cunningham is just putting on his own show in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (01:46:58):
Twenty nine points.

Speaker 8 (01:46:59):
In tennis, the Pistons are back on top of the
Hawks ninety three to ninety one with about five minutes
to go in the third quarter. Early in the third
the Magic and Wizards have been back and forth. Orlando
is on top fifty six to fifty one. The Raptors
still on top of the Sun seventy six to sixty
six early in the third.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
These are all early in the third, and the Heat.

Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
Continue to be on top of the Bucks in Milwaukee
seventy three to sixty three Tyler Hero nineteen points and
nine assists.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
After the first quarter, the Spurs are.

Speaker 8 (01:47:26):
Beating the Pelicans thirty to twenty six, and late in
the first the Cavaliers have a twenty seven to twenty lead.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
Over the Grizzlies.

Speaker 8 (01:47:33):
The Clippers lost Boo Pacers beat them one twenty nine
to one eleven. Tyrese Saliburn twenty nine points twelve assists.
James harden In the lost thirty one points, seven rebounds,
eleven assists.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
The Warriors. They took down the Mavericks.

Speaker 8 (01:47:45):
One twenty six to one oh two, and the Celtics
outscored the Knicks one eighteen to one oh five. Story
coming out of ESPN about Joe Elmbiid is exploring options
for that knee that he has issues with, including another surgery.
Apparently every they're doing the injections, it's doing nothing. A
couple of weeks ago, Lisa Salters said during one of

(01:48:05):
the games that they were playing that he said to her,
I'm gonna need surgery and I probably will need a
lot of time off in order for my need to
get back. And I guess finally they're saying that he
is probably gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
App surgery, which is what he said to Lisa Salters.

Speaker 8 (01:48:19):
Not long ago, Christopher Bell won the NASCAR Cup Series
out of Atlanta. In golf, Brian Campbell when the Mexico
opened his first PGA Tour win. And in hockey, we're
keeping an eye on Alexavechkin, who had a hat trick
to date thirteen goals away from breaking when Gretzky's all
time goals record is the Capital's top.

Speaker 1 (01:48:36):
The Oilers seven to three.

Speaker 3 (01:48:39):
Back to you guys, Sixers may not even make the
play in tournament.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Yeah, say not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
You guys are talking about players that you loved earlier.
And I think Kerrie threw up or Monty did, Brandon
Roy and Portland Trailblazers. When Brandon Roy came into the NBA,
you knew that his career was not going to be
long because of his knees. I'm not saying it's apples
to apples with Joel Embiid, but there were obvious injury
concerns when Embiid entered the NBA didn't play for the
first couple of years because of those injury concerns. I

(01:49:07):
just don't know how it gets better. So to the
point of that of like him needing a lot of
time off, I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
The process is over.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Yes, yes, yes, it's yeah, absolutely done.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
That tame is done with him being the face of
that franchise. And for an if anybody thinks he's going
to be able to come back and be the player
that was the MVP a couple of years ago, it's
just it's fools. It's fool's goal. It's over.

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
They've played fourteen games I think this year, maybe it's
fifteen now with him, Tyre Smaxy and Paul George on
the court at the same time. And again for a
team that's on the outside looking in right now of
the playing tournament. Not only that they're now down to
twelfth place in the playing tournament, they've lost seven straight games. Yeah,

(01:49:52):
you are right, carry roads. The process has been completed,
and you can't trade them to get any access either.
Like what it's you know what I mean, Like it's
nothing there the cupboards.

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
Bear he's played nineteen games according to yeah, there's and
there's and probably not really the whole game exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
If you were to bring him in, what could your
expectations even be. You don't have like, you don't have
any availability is like your number one goal, and then
anything on top of that would be gravy, So it
wouldn't be there wouldn't be any point to it. It's unfortunate,
and there were great years, and there's an MVP season
and maybe there should have been other MVP seasons.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
But they're gonna go back.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
They're going to look at the twenty nineteen Eastern Conference
semi finals in the Kawhi Shots as like of being
like for real, that was like really as close as
it got for the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
That's sad. It's really sad. And the thing about where
that team was, with all the firepower that they had
at that time, it was one there was a moment
when they had Ben Simmons, Jim Jimmy Butler, and Joe
L ANDB on the same team and that was to me, And.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
They had a lot of opportunities. I mean, they traded,
they traded their pick to draft Markel Fultz. They traded
with Boston. You know, Boston ends up getting Jason Tatum
exactly at that point they drafted two players, wanting them
to be point guards. It was funny too. There was

(01:51:20):
a weird there was a weird niche of a group
that like were Markel Fultz stands who would come at
you whenever you said it was a bet, it just
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
It was not a good pick.

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
And and I always felt that the Jason Tatum would
be a bit of a Babe Ruth sort of curse
of the Boston Red Sox with the seventy six ers
in the Celtics. So far, it's kind of turned out
to be like that. But they've had they've had opportunities.
They haven't made all of the right decisions. Not everyone's
going to bat one hundred percent, but they've they swung
and missed on on a bunch of them. And now

(01:51:52):
when your core and your your main guy is Tyrese
Max he's their main guy now, but when it was
Joel Embiid for all that length of time, then I'll
have an end like this man sad, Yeah, it is
sad unless you hate the Philadelphia, seventy six ers. He
is Carry Rhodes. I'm Dan Buyer. Find Manzi at Monci Belognos.
You can find Carry at Carrie twenty five Roads. You

(01:52:13):
can find me at Dan Buyer on Fox. You can
also find me on Blue Sky at Dan Bayer coming
up next.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
Wait, what was that?

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
Hey, I'll take my two hundred and twenty four followers.
Welcome to the party. It's nice, it's it's nice and fun.
And guess what, I'm not sitting there addicted to Blue
Sky the whole time. It's a casual check in. Even
we had a car chase and outside the building on Friday,
and I put some of the picks on Blue Sky. No,
I talked to Manzi. I saw Manzi's pulse on I
posted the exact same thing. Thanks for following me just

(01:52:45):
ten minutes earily. No, don't worry. There was another Fox
Sports radio host that completely ignored my post and then
like saw hers, and but they retweeted my retweet of hers,
But like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Man?
I also did this. Let's spread the love a little bit,
all right? Find me on Blue Sky at Dan Byer.

(01:53:06):
He is Carry Roads. I'm Dan Bayer, there's drama in
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Radio Fox Sports Sunday. He's the all pro carry Roads.
I'm Dan Byer. A couple of stories to wrap up
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off the air. I don't you're in the music biz,
but I know that you probably have some music favorites.
I'm just guessing that at some point that was a

(01:53:49):
knock on wood that I heard. I'm not trying to
jinx yeah either, Carrie. The point being is I would
assume that there you have a favorite artist, a favorite band,
singer that maybe they put on album and it just
just didn't hit with you. You liked others better, and
you're like, okay, well that just there's still my favorite,
but that album didn't resonate.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
For sure. It happens. That's how I feel about the
NFL combine. With the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
I love free agency, I love the draft, training camps,
even fun start of the new year, schedule release, all
of that. The one part of the NFL that I
just don't care about is the NFL combine. Yeah, I
do not. It is not of interest to me. I
don't necessarily care about the times they care about the
I care about the league as a whole. But we

(01:54:32):
all have our favorite teams that you root for, and
even at that point, you don't necessarily know on who
is what. Maybe if you're a fan of a college team,
you're rooting for your college players to do well. But
that doesn't isn't enough for me to be interested in it.
I'm not a huge combine person. So that's what. So
this week when it begins in Indianapolis, Adam Kaplan joined
us earlier. He was saying he's going to be heading

(01:54:53):
out tomorrow for the festivities. That, Yeah, it combine never
resonated to me. You competed or you took part in
the combine this you were entering the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:55:01):
Yeah, I wonder why it resonates with anyone, To be honest, really,
I really did agree with that huh, Yeah, I agree
with that wholeheartedly. I don't know, I don't even know
how they sell it. I know they that they talk about,
you know, people that are there that are supposing how
they're going to translate to the league and all these things.
I guess for people that are big in fantasy, maybe

(01:55:22):
knowing the guys that are company coming in. But outside
of that, why would you want to sit down in
front of a TV and watch guys work out or
run drills?

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
If it makes no sense to me? I it is
to me so much easier to consume it via social media.
When you see someone run a fast time exactly, you
just end up watching that. Maybe you get to see
a bench press rep. You even mentioned it earlier. You
only bench you know, bench press two twenty five twelve
times and you had no problem making it in the NFL, right,

(01:55:50):
and you know even some of us like, well, twelve,
I'd go for half of one at this point. But yeah.
The other facet of this is when Adam Kaplan said
he was going to be leaving for the Combine tomorrow.
The reason he said that is because this is the
opportunity to hear from coaches and general managers who speak

(01:56:12):
it and will address so they do that before the
even workouts take place. The actual on field workouts from
the players don't get underway until Thursday, but you're gonna
hear stuff all week, and you're gonna hear a bunch
of news all week from the NFL because the coaches
and the gms end up speaking in advance of the Combine,
and then afterwards the players kind of take center stage.

Speaker 3 (01:56:31):
And that's the most important part of it. Obviously, you
want to go and if you're gonna take part in
it as a player, you want to show up and
do well. But it's about the interview process. You know,
you get to sit in his rooms. I'm sitting in
these rooms with Bill Belichick and Eric Manzini as a
twenty one year old getting ready to go to the
league and wanting to, you know, put my best foot forward,

(01:56:51):
like those things matter the most of me.

Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
I thought that the hard knocks with the giants in
their interviews that they did with the players was the
most intriguing thing that I've seen from the combine in
years and for a while, Like they've now allowed fans
to come in at certain point. At one point, even
as a media member. You couldn't watch the combine. You
had to I told you off air, but I covered
one a little over a decade ago, and you needed

(01:57:16):
to be you needed to be like a member of
the Pro Football Writers' Association of America. You needed and
you could only go in the certain area for a
certain while. You're talking to players two days before they
work out. So it's it wasn't a great information thing
for me from the actual players who are being drafted.
Some people love it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:33):
To me, it's not the greatest thing in the world. Yeah,
it's you can do a lot more things than sit
around and watch, you know, men run around in their
tights and perform and do tricks for you. It's more
more more to life than that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
It's the same with spring training. I'm not a huge
spring training guy in baseball, but I know people love it.
I totally get it. I've been to spring training games.
Lacks atmosphere. It's cool and chill. Time to vibe out
if you will.

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
The ABA.

Speaker 2 (01:58:02):
System that's in place for some spring training games. Terry
Francona of the Reds saying that he doesn't even want
his veteran players to deal with it because they're not
going to have to deal with it during the season.
Minor league players have experience with it, so he wants
their players to do it. Monzi talked about an instance
that happened earlier this year, or excuse me, a day
or two ago. Upon review, the ball just barely barely

(01:58:26):
touched the strike zone, so it was called a strike.
I don't know if that's great or not, but you
know what is great the drama of it because it
shows you. Like in tennis, the cyclops system that they use,
there's always drama when you challenge a call to find
out if it's in and out or in or out.
That's the same thing with this pitch, Like there's drama.
The pitch is shown and it brings up and there's

(01:58:47):
actually drama to it. So that's why I can't hate
on it. It may be awful for the game going forward.
Some people says say it's a necessity, but I'm here
for the actual drama. To have a challenge and have
someone come in and say I think that that was
a ball when it was called a strike, and then
you get to watch the graphic pop up.

Speaker 3 (01:59:08):
I'm all for that. Carry That's what I loved about it.
Got no, it's I think I agree with the one
hundred percent that added element, especially in the fall. In
the fall when it really starts the matter. In the postseason,
it'd be a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:59:19):
Imagine that millimeter just right at the end, the difference
between a ball and strike. I think they should do
it with the first downs. If you ever put chips
in the ball and on the chains, you'll be able
to do the soundtrack for it. He's carry rhads. I'm
Dan Byer. This is Fox Sports Sunday. Talk to you
next week.

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