Brian Noe & Ephraim Salaam Talk James Harden, Rodgers, & Russ

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listen to Fox Sports. Oh what's going on everybody?
I hope you're enjoying your Saturday evening. You know. I
don't want to start on a down note, So I'm
just trying to think of something to talk about here,
big man, other than the Los Angeles Lakers, who you
are a big fan of. And I don't know, we
could go in a lot of different directions. Quarterbacks, James

(00:22):
Harden's debut, Like but the Lakers thinkiness is just top
of mind. I can't lie to you. Let's jump into it.
Let's go. That's how are you doing everything? Good? Vow
was silence to start the show. That's good, that's great
for ratings. But I was just trying to I wanted
to sell all the expletatives in my in my my

(00:44):
mind before I voiced my opinion on on the air.
I got those all out of the way, and now
I'm I'm ready to do, uh be compliant, uh what
we have to do on the station and not to
get our those in trouble. So Okay, that's good, that's good.
It's not a negative thing to start off when teams

(01:06):
are playing portly because it's not us. Yeah, it isn't.
And the Lakers are now five games under five hundred.
They are there, alute mess. They're a joke. I keep
seeing the odds every week of them having a chance
to win the championship and they're still like third or four.
But I mean, they can't, they can't beat bad teams.

(01:30):
The Clippers are terrible. They have zero all stars are
Hall of Famers on the court, and it's it's not
it's not even funny. Yeah, it's funny. I forgot to
look it up. I was doing the Overnight show last
night and we talked about the Lakers being banged up,
and they have been right, like Lebron's miss time, Anthony

(01:53):
Davis is out again. But look at the Clippers. They
haven't had Kauai at all, and they've had Paul George
on a very limited basis. And I just wanted to
add up all the games that both duos had played
this year and the Lakers they might have what four
times as many games with Lebron and a D compared
to Kauai and Paul George, and yet the Clippers still

(02:15):
have a better record. It's embarrassing. Yeah, it is embarrassing.
And look they get what they get if that's if
if you're going to put that type of effort out
on the court, you can't be mad at us for
talking about it. How poorly uh it's done. That has

(02:37):
zero to do with us. And so they deserve to
be spoke about and and talked about because it's it's embarrassing.
It really is embarrassing. Yeah, you come back off the
All Star break, right, and and everybody's fresh and ready
to go, and you go, you're at home. You don't

(03:01):
have to go anywhere. You're at home, and you know
you're losing. So the Clippers, the b squad of the Clippers,
and it's just it's it's hard to put in the words.
It's the dumb stuff at the end of games. Yeah, yeah,
but you know, turnover, you know the turnovers are gonna

(03:21):
be that's just you know, that's something that the Lakers
have just been become synonymous with, turning all over. It's
just like, okay, well, we know, no matter what whatever
runs they go on, they like, you know, they'll stop
themselves because they'll turn the ball over. Now, the crazy

(03:45):
thing is their turnovers. World. They only had a twelve
turnovers that game, but it's the time. It's when they happen, right,
it's when they happen and you shoot thirty one three's
and you only make eight. It's hard to beat a team. Yeah,
And it's like you're down by one towards the end

(04:06):
of the game and Carmelo takes a deep three. Lebron
was triple teams. I can understand why he would pass it,
but mellow, that's a shot you take when it's a
buzzer beater, right, when it's not. When you have time, right,
you don't want to maybe dribble, get a screen, come
off the look man, get a bunch of old Hall
of famers together trying to figure it out. And time

(04:29):
is running out because I believe they only have about
nineteen games left. And this is uh, I mean, they're
lucky to still be in the play in That's the
crazy thing is this is how dire it is for
the Lakers, where of course they're in the play in
stage right now, so they would have to as it stands,
and it could change the standings, but as it stands
right now, the Lakers would face the Blazers in a

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nine ten matchup. Think about that for a second, big Man,
how bad the Blazers have been they traded, c J.
Dame has missed most of the season, Nurkics is out
now like they've been the walking wounded. And yet that
would be the first matchup for the Blazers against the Lakers.
Let's say the Lakers win that game, then they would

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play the winner of the seven eight game. And if
the Lakers won both of those elimination games, then they
would be the eight seed. Where oh, by the way,
they would face either the Sons or the Warriors. They
get boat raced in any of those any either the
Sons of the Warriors. You know, l A could possibly
get swept because those teams are playing at an highly

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efficient clip and they are scattered with youth and energy,
the two things that the Lakers don't have. Youth and energy.
They don't have it. And look, the Lakers can look
great for a quarter. I mean, they can come out

(05:57):
on fire that they're quarter. Yesterday they were on fire. Yeah,
erase the sixteen point deficit, fought all the way back,
they held uh the Clippers to fifteen points. They score
thirty one. We're like, okay, boom, guess what happens in
the fourth out of gas? What you don't realize is

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what were they do realize it? But you know the
fans at home watching that, like, okay, we got this.
But no, when you use that much energy and you're
that old hm coming off a break or not, it's
hard to just consistently keep that up. It's very difficult
to do. So I looked it up real fast. Big

(06:39):
Man Paul George has started twenty six games this season
for the Clippers, Anthony Davis has started thirty seven, Lebron
Is started forty two. So at all this up, No
Kawhi Leonard right this entire season coming off the torn
a c l So the Clippers duo they have twenty
six starts combined. Meanwhile, Lebron and A d they have

(07:03):
seventy nine starts combined. So that's just over three times
as many starts for the Lakers duo compared to the
Clippers duo. So that's the whole thing. Yeah, injuries have
impacted the Lakers, but the Clippers still have a better
record and they haven't had their duo for over three
times as much as the time. Like, so, I don't

(07:23):
want to hear all this stuff about excuses explaining everything. Somehow,
some way. The Clippers have a better record and they've
won six straight in the series, like head to head
against the Lakers, bad man, it's about coaching and effort.
It's about coaching and effort. And you can see you
realize how good your coaches when you don't have the

(07:45):
crutch of superstars, healthy superstars, What product can you put
out there on the court? And what are they gonna do?
Are they gonna fight? Are they going to be able
to to compete? Right? And that goes with your lineup,
It goes with all sorts of things that go into that.

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And I'm I'm okay with Genie and Rob Polinka saying, hey,
you guys wanted this team. We're not going to fix
what you wanted at the at the trade deadline. You
figure it out. And I'm okay with that. This is
what you guys wanted, right, this is what they want.

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And we look and we're talking about Lebron in a
d They both wanted Russ, they wanted Carmelo. They didn't
want young energy and Buddy Yield and shoot it. They
didn't want that. They wanted Westbrook. You got Westbrook. Don't
be mad. You gotta eat, you gotta finish this dinner.

(08:50):
Did you ask for meat loaf? You got meat loaf? Yeah?
How about what how huge of a swing in the
mist does it look now when the Lakers could have
had themar De Rosen, the hometown kid comes home. Look
at what he's doing. He's a legitimate without a doubt,

(09:10):
he's been killing lights out right now. Just imagine the
Lakers with Damar and he wouldn't be an m VP
candidate surrounded by more talent, but he'd be a lot
better than Russ has been this season. He'd be available,
and he would be getting those buckets. He'd be locked in,
and he'd be playing his butt off like he's doing
in Chicago because he's from here, and of course he

(09:34):
wanted to show out and show off here. And no, nope, nope,
we don't want that roll with us. And look, both
you and I have defended Russ most of the time throughout.
He just doesn't deserve defending this season, absolutely not, absolutely not,
And his own fault, not us. We're not projecting anything

(09:57):
on him. I'm using his own comments. I'm telling you
he I was done when he was like as a
point guard, I don't care if I turned the ball.
What Wait a minute, As a point guard, I don't
care if I turned the ball over to me. I
mean I don't. I can't wrap my head around that logic.

(10:23):
That doesn't make sense to me. There is no wrapping
your head around that logic. Man, Who do you supposed
to care about the turnovers in? Yeah? Like Dwight Howard.
Let Dwight Howard worry about the turnovers. I got place
to make over here. I'm not worried about missing shots.
I'm not worried about turning the ball over. Hey, bro,
point guards are supposed to be the most efficient players

(10:47):
on the court, Am I right? Two years ago on
le Bron play point he was more efficient that year
than he had been in his tire career. Let the league, sis,
I mean, that's that's what being a point guard is.
It's not the other way around. Oh, I'm just doing me. No,

(11:09):
wait a minute, we're not. We don't want you to
do you. We want you to get this team. What
if a quarterback was that she's not just winging interceptions?
I don't care. I don't care. Yeah, think about that.
We'd be crushing the quarterback to begin with. But imagine, look,
bred Farve through a ton of interceptions. Imagine if he
just said, look, I can't be worried about that at all,

(11:32):
Like it's just it's not a concern of mine. He
didn't even say that bred Farve was a gambler, right,
but he didn't even say that, and Westbrook did. That's
just that's bad. Matter of fact. If he said it,
I just was like, oh, yeah, he he doesn't get it.
I'm good, I'm cool. That's all. That's that's all I
need to see. Right, we got a lot to get to,
a lot of NFL stuff, quarterback news, dominoes, carousels, all

(11:54):
of that type of deal. Top it up next. You know,
we're gonna stick with hoops for a second here. The
beards debut looked very very good for Philly the Nets.
Who do you like more? Do you like Philly or
the Nets? Right now? How about the box? A lot
of people sneaking on sleeping on the bucks. We'll get
to that right around the corner. I'm Brian though he's
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(13:04):
probably no, he's he from salam here on Fox Sports Radio.
Quick big Man. Which metal band is this? Let it
wash over you for a second? Pantera, It's a Familian effort.
Slayer Man seasons in the Abyss. I figured you listen

(13:25):
to it on the I need the vocals man, Yeah,
I know when Tom Mariah comes in, You're like, oh,
it's signature Slayer right there, for sure, no doubt. Yeah,
it's vocals aren't for a little while. So you got
a luck on that one, but no problem, no problem
on that. Hey, how about the Beard's debut? Very nice

(13:45):
debut for James Harden. Efficient seven for twelve from the
Field twenty seven points and Joel Embiids smile was from
ear to ear. Basically he was loving it and he
was talking about, Man, I've never been so wide open before.
We got all the space to Ben. This is unbelievable.

(14:05):
You got guys that can shoot it from outside. And
so at least one game in all is good in Philadelphia. Yeah,
you know what, Um, they're dangerous now they were going
against Minnesota. It is what it is. But having a

(14:26):
James hardened who is interested right, whose interest is peaked
and playing and playing at a high clip is I mean,
we know what James brings to the team offensively, So

(14:46):
if he's engaged, then he's gonna give you exactly what
he does when he disengaged, when we saw him in
Houston right towards the end, an okay, see, like when
he's disengaged Brooklyn, it's a problem. It's a big problem
because then he just out there, you know, not a

(15:07):
lot of effort and all of that. This is like
a breadth of fresh air for him and to be
able to play with next to someone who is arguably
the best player in the league this year, I mean,
the floor is going to open up tremendously for him.
Would you say there's any passive aggressive miss with this statement? Now,

(15:32):
of course, Joe L. Embiid, he's on NBC Sports Philadelphia.
This is after the game last night. Philadelphia wins in
a cakewalk. Philly wins by thirty one points against Minnesota. Now,
of course Embiid is giving props to James Harden. But
just listen very carefully to what he says. Any shade
toward Ben Simmons, who is not exactly a steph Curry
marksman from outside. Check this out. I've ever been in

(15:56):
my career in the fall quarter the shop making them older.
Uh you know shot career should uh should have seen
my face? It was like, never happen, nothing soul. It's
it's I mean, you could take it a shade or not.
It's the truth. It is the truth. It's the truth.

(16:17):
Do you know how hard it is for a big
man to get space when the guy passing you the
ball can't shoot or won't shoot. That mean, as soon
as that ball goes to you, his man just tracks
the ball and it's a double team. He doesn't have
to get back out to the corner. If someone's driving

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the ball and Ben Simmons is in the corner, they
don't have to guard him. They can just double and beat. Right,
So you can double the ball carrier and you can
help off the ball carrier and cover and beat at
the same time because no one is worried about the
corner shooter. So to have someone who can facilitate but

(17:02):
can also give you buckets in the tune of seven
for twelve five for seven from three point line, that's efficient, right,
And it it stands out even more to MBID because
he had the opposite with Ben Simmons, you know, so
it would be a little bit like let's say a

(17:23):
couple breaks up and the girl complained that the guy
never took her out on Friday or Saturday night, and
she's in a new relationship and now that's all the
guy does, and she's like, this is awesome. I haven't
had this before. Like, of course it ties back to
the previous relationship. It's the same thing with them Bead
now having the beard instead of Ben Simmons. Yeah, and
and look and and and we don't. I don't know

(17:45):
what's going on with with Ben Simmons that he's doing
that ready to play. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what's
going on there um, But it's like they got two
Kyrie's on the same team now, right, Like we were
not sure where the head space is, right. How are
you supposed to win a championship if you can't count

(18:08):
on the people you're supposed to be able to count
on and that and I'm talking I'm speaking Lakers as
well with that, like, if you can't win, if you
can't count on the people you're supposed to count of.
Ben Simmons supposed to be ready, but he ain't played
all year. He should be in shape, he should be
ready to go. He should be on the court already.
M hm. Still not there now. They are expecting Kevin

(18:32):
Durant to be back next week from injury. And I
hear you on what you're talking about with the nets,
but it's crazy because it can go the glass half
full way easily, you know. That's the crazy thing about
the nets. You can't count on Kyrie, you can't count
on Ben Simmons. But that doesn't mean it's a certainty
that they won't be assets when it matters most right,

(18:54):
So it looks like the New York City mandate, the
vaccine mandate might be lifted very soon. In a week
or two, so you might have Kyrie playing home games
as well very shortly. It looks like that's definitely gonna
be the case come playoff time. And then if Ben
Simmons gets out there and you get k D. Now
you're talking, I got something to work with. But you
can't just put pieces together and expect to go into

(19:17):
the playoffs with continuity and chemistry when the teams you're
playing in the playoffs have been playing together the whole year.
Philly just did it. They didn't know they're doing it. One.
This is one game, and they played the Timberwolves. Now
by the time they'll they'll get nineteen more games together
opposed to how many opposed to Brooklyn five. They make

(19:42):
it five together seven good Candy Barbett right there, right,
but they make it seven with all three of those
players playing together, they make it seven games. I'm gonna
go double digits. I say they get ten. No, because
if the mandate isn't listening lifted, I think I believe
they have of uh, only what's so they're at sixty

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they got twenty two less, but I think only like
seven or something like that, or or at home or
something like that, like you only have the opportunity to
play in like seven more games. Well he's playing on
the road. And what I'm saying like, when has been
Simmons coming back? I don't know. That's why it's a crapshoot.
So it's it's uh so if you're handicapping the East

(20:31):
and it's let's look at the top three teams at
least betting wise, right, who do you like the most?
Between the Nets, the Sixers, and oh, by the way,
the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks. You're talking about continuity and chemistry,
They've got the most among those three. I like the Books.
I like the Bucks being a defended champion, having the

(20:51):
whole team together annoying. What what you need to do
in this situation to uh play in those tough seven
games series against talents and then going on to the
championship and winning the championship? You can't. I mean they
didn't get worse, the Bucks got. The Bucks got worse.
So just having that knowledge and and and and that

(21:13):
um that chemistry, I would put Bucks. I would put Philly.
I will put Chicago if they can get back healthy, uh, Miami,
and then Brooklyn, Wow, you got Brooklyn underneath all those teams. Yeah,
I do. And the reason and I'm not. And it's
not because KD is amazing. Kat's coming off another injury.

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Ben Simmons will be a dramatic defensive upgrade. No one
can tell me when Ben will be back on the court.
Kyrie is instant offense. HM. We may only have him
for half the games, right, So it's too many questions.
There's too many questions for me to put them in
front of these teams that I have been playing and

(22:02):
playing well together. I just can't do it. I can't
assume that they're going to uh to to come together
and play dynamic as one because I don't know what
that looks like. Oh, I you know, I'm a Bulls guy,
but I've got the Nets over the Bulls for sure.
It's the Bulls don't play good enough defense. I know

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that the Nets aren't exactly a lockdown defensive unit either.
But Ben Simmons, he will get on the court eventually,
and he's gonna help their defense a whole lot. And
I still can't get out of my head Kevin Durant
putting the team on his back and almost beating the
net the Bucks in the playoffs last season with no

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Kyrie Irving and a hobbled James Harden. Like, imagine if
you've got healthy Kyrie Irving playing Ben Simmons on the court, Like,
that's a lot more to work with. And they almost
got it done last season. Yeah, that is a lot
more to work with. But these teams, I'm telling you
don't sleep on Cleveland. When you look at the East,

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this is the first time in years and years that
the East has a stronger i would say top eight
than the West. Normally, in the East, you can make
the playoffs under five hundred. That's been a standard thing.

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Look go back, look over the years, the eighth seed
was five hundred or worse in the in the East.
And now you're looking at Brooklyn at eight and their
thirty one and twenty nine. I mean that's saying something
that's huge. And you look at at eight in in

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the West and their thirty one and thirty one, right like,
So this is the first time in a long time
the East has has been dominant in its top eight
teams where they're playing really, really good basketball. You know,
it's interesting you say it's the first time in a
long time the East has been dominant. I don't exactly

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know how many shows that our update anchor has been
dominant for. You know, it's the opposite of the first
time in a long time, you know what I mean.
He's been dominant throughout he has had a rain for
a decade plus on the FS. That is our friend
of America. Mr Steve the Sager, Thank you and good evening, gentlemen.

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I'm glad you mentioned the Cleveland Cavaliers because somehow they
enter plate tonight hosting Washington the Calves with a record
of thirty five and twenty four amazing, not just because
this is Cleveland, but they've had a ton of injuries.
Forget the Laker talk of injuries. Here's here. Cleveland last
year won twenty two games. They just had Rajon Rondo

(24:58):
a couple of nights ago sprain his toes, so he's
out at least two weeks. He was taking over for
veteran Ricky Rubio who tour a knee ligament. They just
got Caris LeVert now he's sidelined with a sprained foot,
expected to miss a couple of weeks. Colin Sexton with
a season ending knee injury, and they just keep going
it's really amazing. And you were talking Lakers egg Clippers.

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The Clippers with that roster also amazing three and o
against the Lakers this year. Great item from Stats Inc.
Is that the Clippers record the last decade against the
Lakers thirty and seven. That is the most wins by
any team against any single opponent in the last ten seasons.

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That is stunning, embarrassing, and it's this year embarrassing. You're correct,
it's embarrassing, flat out embarrassing. And with that said, the
Clippers are still seen as the little sister to the Lakers.
Oh did you see the local TV ratings of the
NBA came out in Sports Business Journal. This is your
local team on your local channel so far this season?

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Number one by far the Golden State Warriors on their
Bay Area channel. They got double the ratings of any
other NBA t double Yes. And then down in the
bottom four was the Nets this year on Yes Network
the Clippers. The Clippers get one third of the TV
audience that the Lakers channel does. Nobody cares. And also Denver,

(26:24):
which has had problems with altitude. I don't mean the
actual altitude, but the channel and its carriage and so forth.
But yeah, the Clippers are down near the bottom as
far as attention being paid. Granted, they unpapered, don't have
a roster. You think, oh, I want to watch that game.
And yet a little bit like Cleveland, they keep getting
some wins. I think that put the Clippers up to
the five mark. Last night there was one day game

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in the NBA seven on the schedule. But today Boston
gotta win at Detroit one one oh four. The Pistons
record fourteen and forty six. Brooklyn is at Milwaukee in
an hour. Gore and Dragg makes his Nets debut. Kevin
Durant will return next week from his sprained mc L
Chicago has won six in a row. It starts up
in a half an hour with a home game against Memphis.

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The Bowls are tied for first in the East with
the Heat Miami and a half an hour host San Antonio.
By the way, the Spurs Greg Popovich two wins away
from passing Don Nelson as the winning IS coach in
regular season history. Orlando's Marquel Foltz will finally return on Monday.
He tore an a c l over a year ago.
Guard Tyreek Evans after a two year drug suspension will

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work out for Milwaukee. According to the Athletic Ten NHL
Games Today, Pittsburgh shout out the Rangers one nothing. There's
a stadium series game about to start Tampa Bay at Nashville.
In the NHL's thirty three outdoor regular season games over
the years, home teams are just fifteen and fifteen, with
three overtime losses. To college basketball. Number three Auburn lost

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at Tennessee sixty seven sixty two and fourth rank per
Due gave up a late three and lost at Michigan State.
Number six Kentucky lost in Arkansas seventy seventy three. If
Wisconsin can win tonight, they move into first in the
Big Ten. They're only up fifty Rutgers with nine minutes
to go. Back to you. Thank you, Steve. Brian though

(28:13):
and E from Salon with you here on Fox Sports Radio.
This is gonna shock you, big man. I hope you're
sitting down, but I'm gonna disagree with you on something here.
I hear you. On the Cleveland Cavaliers. They've had a
very good season. They've surprised pretty much anybody that uh
he wouldn't have said I expect them to be eleven
games over five hundred at this stage of the season.

(28:34):
I don't know who saw that coming, So props to them.
They've had a very good regular season, but come playoff time,
like right now, subject to change, but they're matched up
with the Bucks. Like imagine if it's a Buck's Cleveland series,
it's it's it's not even anything. But what I'll say

(28:55):
is they're a half a game out of fourth and
one game out of third place. So coming down the stretch,
this thing can shake up to where they're the third
seed and now at least you have home court advantage,
and you know, now you have a more favorable oppon it.

(29:20):
So you know, these lasts are going to be extremely important, uh,
for Cleveland and everybody, and you know outside of you know,
Miami and Chicago who are in a race their own
not for the number one spot. Yeah, that makes sense.
Let's say they move up to the three spot and

(29:42):
they're matched up against the Celtics. Well, okay, that's I
would say more favorable than going up against the defending champions.
Anybody playing the Bucks in the first round it would
be the same as Cleveland, though in my opinion, anybody
who has to play them in the first round. I
mean Cleveland, just not you know, at stake of of

(30:03):
of losing that. I think Milwaukee playing anyone Boston, Cleveland, UH, Toronto, Brooklyn, Charlotte,
any of those teams. What was succumbed to the same
fate against them in the first round. You know what's
crazy two is the Nets. They trailed the Celtics by

(30:25):
three and a half games for that six spot. The
six spots important obviously as you avoid the whole playing deal.
But I don't know. With U k D expected to
come back next week, we still don't know about the
vaccine mandate, and if Kyrie is playing home games, we
don't know what's up with Ben Simmons. So three and
a half games with just twenty some to go, Like,

(30:48):
I don't know, I don't know if the Nets run
down the Celtics or whoever is in that, I'm I
would bet again, I would bet they wouldn't. So think
about that where you might have Brooklyn as a seven
or eight seed if they, you know, survived the play
in tournament. Right, So the Miami Heat and the Bulls,

(31:09):
who are tied for the best record in the East.
In that scenario, one of those two teams would face
the nets. How about that, Like, congratulations, you have the
best record in the East or the second best record,
you get k D Kyrie, Ben Simmons, and uh, let's
throw in Blake Griffin. Let's throw in LaMarcus Aldridge. That's

(31:29):
your first round opponent. Congratulations. That's that's rough. That's the
way it unfolds. Yeah, that that is rough. And you
know that's why these games are so important, coming down
the stretch, right after the All Star all of these
matter now, every single game that became that the Lakers
loss was huge. If you're in contention, you're trying to

(31:50):
play in playoffs, whatever that is. You want to be
playing your best basketball right now, not putting pieces together
trying to figure out if they fit. And I think
that's what Brooklyn's uh fate is going to end up being,
trying to make these pieces fit. Look, everybody can play,
put him on the court. You at this level, everybody

(32:11):
can play, but can everybody play together. We've seen a
whole season of the Lakers not being able to play together.
So just imagine you know the dynamic with with with
Joel Embiide and Um and the Beard. It's different that's

(32:32):
big little. That's a difference those dying. Those roles are
already sketched in stone. Right. Joelan B is not bringing
the ball up the court, all right, Joelan B's not
coming off the high screen and roll with the shooting threes,
although he will take a three, but that's not what
he does. He goes and punishes, punishes you down low.

(32:54):
So James Harden knows he can control the ball at
the top of the key. I'll tell you one thing.
The playoffs are gonna be extraordin. I mean, people will
actually start watching the NBA. And if you have been
watching even more, I mean you're even more psyched for this.
I mean, just the Net Sixers series. The basketball gods

(33:16):
have to bless us with the Net Sixers series after
this train. Oh, it would be tremendous. Just imagine the
Beard back in Brooklyn and especially Ben Simmons back in Philly.
Oh my gosh, you have to tune in for every game,
all right, coming up next. I can understand why a
network was all set to throw a bag of cash

(33:38):
at this guy, But would he annoy the Jesus out
of you? We'll dive into that. I'm Brian No, he's
he from salam This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No,
He's he from Salam. Here on Fox Sports Radio. So
we've been talking about the quarterback carousel. We'll get to
that at the top of the hour. So news items

(34:01):
on that, who might be going where? All that good stuff.
But how about the commentating carasel. We've got some moving
parts with who's gonna be in the commentating booths over here?
With Troy Aikman expected to go to ESPN from Monday
Night football. And how about this Rams coach Sean McVeigh.
He told Adam Schefter that he's staying put with the Rams.

(34:23):
He'll be back try to defend the Super Bowl crown.
And uh. Amazon was reported to how to have a
meeting scheduled with Sean McVeigh next week, maybe a deal
around five years a hundred million dollars to join the
Thursday night football commentating crew, But Sean McVeigh will be

(34:44):
staying put on the RAMS sideline. How do you think
Sean McVeigh would do as a color commentator? And it
seems like it's just a matter of time until he
eventually does that. I think it'd be great, really Yeah, yeah,
I think he'd be great and I think it. Um,
we talked about him not being a lifer. You know,
a lot of a lot of coaches are lifersy all

(35:05):
day every day. We football football, football. When you start
talking about, hey, you know, I'm getting married, when you
start family, when that is not conducive to the lifestyle,
because it's a grind and it wears on your spouse,
it wears on your family, it really is. And so

(35:29):
being a commentators a breeze. You get paid more sometimes
than you wouldn't mean a coach, and you know there's
an offseason, they're you know, one game a week. It's
just a different lifestyle. That doesn't change your lifestyle. Right,

(35:50):
If you can do that, then you've captured lightning in
a bottle. If your second career could continue to generate
money or income, well you don't have to change your lifestyle.
Then that's what you want, that's what you you want

(36:11):
to do. That's why so many professional athletes go into television,
go into entertainment, because that's where you can make that
type of money. Yeah, I think what do you think
I'm doing this for? Right? I think it'd be huge
for Sean McVeigh huge, But I don't know if Sean
McVeigh would be huge for the commentating world here. He

(36:33):
knows his stuff, he certainly does, but I think he's
got to take it down a couple of notches, right,
Like I like energy, but he's got so much of it,
I don't think he'd have that same energy call because
you don't nothing in the broadcast booth would get you
to that level of you know, he would get to

(36:54):
out there on the field. So many every play something
can get you at that level for a coach, right,
someone's doing something wrong, someone's doing something extremely right, like
every single play offensively and defensively. So that's roughly sixty
five seventy times a game where something is happening to
put you in that state in the booth. It's not

(37:15):
like that. Now, you're right about that. Now, this was
a couple of years ago. The Rams were playing a
preseason game against the Cowboys. So the game was broadcast
on NFL Network, and they went down to Sean McVeigh
who was on the sideline and he was doing a
little bit of color commentating. Now, just a brief sample.
You tell me if you like this or not, big man,

(37:36):
great games had a big stop couple to the last series.
So this is big. If anytime you can get these
offenses and these get back on trackdowns, that's always good
for us defensively and we can kind of get into
attack boat a little bit. It is a very brief sample,
but now he's good. I mean, he'll have a voice, right,
his voice won't be cracking and all that, because he
won't be screaming and yell and right, you take care

(37:58):
of your voice. You as a coach, you're constantly screaming.
I got screamed. My my wife yelled at me today. Yes,
because we have our first game in little legals today
and I'm my my seven year old coach seven and
eight year olds. And you know, sometimes moms don't understand

(38:21):
the dynamic. Uh, Like it sounds like you're yelling and
being mean to the kids, you know what I mean?
Like it sounds it comes across is why are you
so mean? Why are you being so mean? You're just
like I was just telling him to get his head
in the game. Well, no, because I was first base
coach and then they were having like a party in
the dugout. But what was happening with seven and eight

(38:45):
year old. The batter's looking at what's going on in
the dugout because they're having so much fun, and he's
and our dugout wasn't behind it was directly in front
of of of our batter right uh. And so it

(39:05):
was like they were jumped because they had turned it
was a little hot today earlier and they put the
misters on. So they were having like a missed dance
party in the dugout. And as the picture was pitching,
our batter was concerned with all the fund that they
were missing how to in the dugout. So I told him,

(39:26):
I said, hey, put your butts in the seat right,
go back to first base. They're still going, So I
go over. I said a little firmer, Hey, you guys
gotta sit down. In the third time, I was like,
sit down right now, all right, sit down. I like
the first to put the butts in the seats, but
in the seats right. And so I asked my wife

(39:50):
to you know, she's the team mom. I was like, hey,
can you keep the the dugout straight situated? It's affecting
the batter. And then you know, he was like, you know,
the kids said you were mean, and I said, good, good, No,
but I understand when it when it comes back to

(40:10):
Sean McVeigh, here is crackly voice in the postgame press
conference because he's been yelling at the top of his
lungs for three hours, three hours straight. That's what I felt.
I was like, Oh my god, I hope I have
a voice today on the radio. But that's what happens
when you coach, and it's just not for the games.
You screaming it every day as a coach. Coaches very

(40:33):
rarely have voices in any sport. All right, coming up next,
Aaron Rodgers. He's the biggest name that could play for
a new team, but he wouldn't have the biggest impact.
We'll tell you about that. Ah, Yes, what's going on, Hope,
you're enjoying your Saturday? You know not? Ah, not a

(40:55):
marquee matchup. It will be soon, but not a marquee
matchup with the Nets taken on the Bucks. No k
d yet, no Ben Simmons yet. But you do get
Gore and drag Right making his Nets debut. You think
that's a big pickup for the Nets? Uh? Yeah, I do,
I think. Um, he adds veteran leadership, He's played at

(41:18):
a high level. He's extremely talented at the point guard position.
So yeah, I think it does help. Yeah, add some
depth um helps them obviously. While Kyrie can't play home
games as of yet, it's gonna change soon, it sounds like.
But yeah, I like that. It's a sneaky good pickup.
And uh, I mean, Dragic doesn't have a ton of

(41:39):
years left, but they might just need him for this
year and this year alone. Right, They're just trying to
make a go of it this season. I can't wait
to see how it unfolds for the Nets throughout the
course of the end of this season, especially the playoffs, right,
because where it stands right now, it's not pretty. They've
lost a ton of games in a short span, right,

(42:01):
They've lost most of their games that they've played as
of recently. Um, but ma'am, the reinforcements are coming. And
when you get some of the best basketball players on
planet Earth in k D and Kyrie Irving playing all
the games, they are going to be an incredibly tough
outcome playoff time. I I agree, I still need to

(42:24):
see remember last year, I think um, Kyrie, Kevin Durant
and James Harden only played seven games together during the
regular season. Yeah, they had hardly played it all. Yeah, right,
And it just we keep finding ourselves in these situations

(42:48):
when it has to do with the Brooklyn Nets and
and you know, this talent, whether it be the two
or the three talented players being on the court at
the same time. Yeah. I guess if you went team
by team and went and you listed the concerns like
what could come back to bite them, I think the

(43:09):
injury bug that's a bigger concern for me with the
Nets than chemistry is. I'm not saying chemistry isn't a concern.
I would just be more concerned about are they gonna
be healthy because that's what did him in last season
when Kyrie didn't finish the series against the Bucks he
got hurt and James Harden was hobbled with the hamstring issue.
I have that as a bigger question mark for them

(43:31):
than the chemistry issue. Well, yeah, mental and physical health, sure,
because that's what we're that's what we're talking about right now,
because you know, Ben Simmons an intricate part of of
this team moving forward. If they plan on having a
chance to compete for a championship. Is his availability? Yeah?

(43:55):
Is he gonna be there and good to go? We
will find out. But man, come playoff to time. If
it's Nets Bucks again, I'm cool with that. I'd sign
up for that absolutely. But let's work in some NFL here,
big man Aaron Rodgers, of course, he's the biggest name.
I would say that could play for another team next year.

(44:17):
We'll see how it unfolds, um, But I would just
throw this out there. He wouldn't make the biggest impact
because there are a couple of other quarterbacks Russell Wilson.
Just based on age, Russ is thirty three, Rogers is
thirty eight. I think Russ would have a bigger impact
if he went to another team and Aaron Rodgers, let's

(44:37):
say they both went to new teams. I think the
bigger get would be Russell Wilson. I don't think that's
the way the news reports would be because Aaron Rodgers,
he's the four time m v P, he's the reigning
back to back m v P. He's the guy who's
making all the headlines with his I G posts and
whatever he's talking about, right, But Russell Wilson is so

(44:58):
much younger, and I think Deshaun Watson, if his legal
situation sorts itself out, he would have the biggest impact
guys twenty six years old for the next decade. Yeah,
I think that would be a much greater impact than
Aaron Rodgers. And it's not to say that Rogers isn't
at the top of his game, because he is. But

(45:19):
how many years does he have left? Three? Four? Maybe
that's it. You got the Seawan for a decade plus.
I agree with that, And you know, who knows what's
about to happen with this Green Bay saga. I'm going
over it. I think a lot of people are over
it as well. Move on or stay. It is what
it is. If he wants to be the highest paid

(45:41):
quarterback or highest paid player in the league by a
large margin, then that team isn't going to be very
good because it's impossible to do that and sign um
um Adams and anything else they would need. So yeah,
good luck, give him what he what he asked for,

(46:01):
and then we'll see what the next excuses when when
when they don't, you know, make it to the super
Bowl again, At some point you gotta be like people
keep asking, how did Brady do it? Brady was never
the highest paid quarterback in the league. He never was
the highest paid quarterback. That's how he did it. People

(46:26):
keep people keep trying to set the record for having
getting the biggest contract and not understanding that you're sacrificing
things that could help you get to the next level,
get to that Super Bowl, Because I mean, Aaron Rodgers
has had what two hundred plus million dollar contracts he's

(46:50):
been He's gotten way more than so at a certain point,
you gotta say, compensate me. Well, but let's get this
team and make it happen if you truly want to
win a Super Bowl. Yeah. Now I'm not telling I
never asked tell players to take discounts or anything like that.
But what I'm saying is if your goal, I asked

(47:11):
last week, what's the goal? What? What is their goal?
Is a goal to win the MVP? Is a goal
to win the division, which you can because you win
every year because it's a subpart division. There's your goal
to get home and field advantage because you've had that
the last couple of years to no avail. Like, what
is your goal if you're Green Bay And if that's
to win the Super Bowl, then you can't pay Aaron

(47:33):
Rodgers all that money. Yeah, I think that that's the
simplest thing you can do is ask yourself that. Yeah,
it's a really tough game. I hear you, And it
makes all the sense in the world. It's just you
understand that Aaron Rodgers has been a headache, right, He's
been a talent, if you will. That's one of the

(47:53):
things in radio. I was running a radio station. We
had a consultant. He said, our new guy. He said, Brian,
he's a he's a talent. And that meant a colossal
pain in the rectum is what it meant, right, Like,
that's what Aaron Rodgers can be. Also, But one, he's
worth it, and two we know this that there are
a lot of teams lining up to pay him top dollar.

(48:15):
And so it's a dangerous game that the Packers would
be playing on the heels of drafting Jordan's love if
they said everything. And it makes all the sense in
the world to say, hey, look at the template that
Brady had and how successful he was. And I mean,
we're not taking I'm not saying take a haircut with
half your salary, but if you take a bit of

(48:36):
a haircut, it might do us awesome good, It makes
all the sense in the world. I'm just saying it's
a dangerous game for the Packers to play an approach
Aaron Rodgers with that. At a certain point, you still
have to run the organization. Sure, and if he literally would,
just what is out there? He wants to be the

(48:56):
highest paid by a large margin, close to fifty million
dollars a year. What team can you put together? Yeah,
with top tier two and they're already in salary capital
over the capital nobody. First of all, green Bay is
not a destination, right, It's not a free agent destination.

(49:22):
Not a lot, not a lot of guys lining up
to go to Green Bay. So you have to keep
that into consideration when you're talking about we're going to
lose a large use a large chunk of our money
to sign Aaron Rodgers. Where does that leave us in
the draft, And where does that leave us with Adams?

(49:43):
Where does that leave us with key offensive lineman and
defensive lineman. There are so many questions that need to
be answered. And the one guy is supposed to be
leading your team wants the most money out of anybody ever.
It just it doesn't say success to me. I hear you,
and I mean if you look at the playoffs, Joe
Burrow rookie deal, I mean you can still have a

(50:05):
deep playoff run with the quarterback that isn't on his
rookie deal. That can happen. Matthew Stafford wasn't making minimum
wage for the Rams this past season, right, But if
you look, it is an advantage with the Bengals not
having to pay top dollar to Joe Burrow. If you
look at the team, one of the teams that they
beat in the playoffs, the Chiefs, Mahomes is making big

(50:26):
money and you're already seeing the ripple effect. It's not
calling him greedy or anything like that. It's just to
say there's a ripple effect. There's a hard salary cap,
and they've already cut Anthony Hitchens their linebacker. They're talking
about maybe releasing Frank Clark. There's just a ripple effect
when your top quarterback is taking top money. Yeah, it

(50:47):
and it may seem like it's not immediately felt, but
it's looming. It's right there, and you want to really
handicap yourself. Green Bay, do that, mm hm, do that now?
If you're able to trade Aaron Rodgers for handsome right

(51:09):
for handsome price, which it will be. Then you really
have to take that into account. Man, it's tough it
is to GM. I know I would. For me, I
would willingly pay top dollar to get Aaron Rodgers back

(51:30):
because we're instant super Bowl contenders. If that's the case,
and I hear you, it could be a very enticing
trade package. You get picks galore and all of that,
but you gotta hit on a lot of those picks
for it to be worthy. You really can. But if
it if you don't hit and you don't have big success,
it's hard to win a super Bowl. Like you're gonna

(51:52):
be known as the GM who traded Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,
but it's also hard to to win, to win a
super Bowl when you're handcuffed. Yeah, there's a reason, Brady
one how he's able to win so many super Bowls,
to get to so many super Bowls? Yeah, the reason
for that, Hey, man, I get it. And uh I

(52:12):
brought this up with Dak Prescott and I suggested the
same thing you're saying. And look, if you are UH
worth top dollar, they're willing to pay you top dollar.
I understand it's hard to say you know what, just
leave a little bit on the table for some other
players around me. But I think it makes more sense
and goes a long way to giving yourself a complimentary roster.

(52:37):
And and so it's a weird conversation to have. It's
not calling Mahomes or Dak or any of these quarterbacks
making top money greedy. It's what they've earned. But absolutely
as a rip and mahomes contract is team friendly, right,
It's it's not it's five million dollars, but it's not
that at all. You know, it's roughly only add and

(52:59):
what I think fifty two million guaranteed and the rest
is you know, it's like it's the cost of doing business.
It makes way more sense to have Mahomes signed to
that deal than to not have him. Like but but
we're just saying, if it's a little bit, a little
bit left on the table, that can go a long way.
You can stretch those dollars and get an impact player,

(53:22):
maybe a couple of role players. Like that's that's just
what it costs you. It prevents you from doing that
if you're giving top dollars. What really hammers you If
you're paying top dollar to a guy that's not worth
top dollars. That's that's that's the worst thing you could do.
So I see your argument of what he's worth it.
Of course he's worth it, but to what avail? Because

(53:43):
he hasn't been to the super Bowl in twelve years,
it's easy to think about, man, Wow, seriously, twelve years.
So what are we doing? Like he's had two m
v P seasons back to back, right home field advantage
in the playoss to no avail. So as a as

(54:03):
a GM, I'm like, Okay, when do we stop? Right? When? When?
What does that? When do we stop? Because we're not
We're not getting the reward, You're not getting the benefits
of all of those wonderful things. You know, there's one thing.
We'll get to this next because there's another layer to

(54:24):
it where I hear your argument. But then if you
take it a step further with other teams trying to acquire,
trying to trade Aaron Rodgers, what's the thought process with
all of that. We'll dive into that right around the corner.
Hang with us. Brian No and E from Salam with
you here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No, He's

(54:46):
he from Salam here on Fox Sports Radio. You know
it's interesting, man, listen to hear you talk about Aaron
Rodgers and the Packers would have to pay him a
ton of cash and all of that. It just begs
the question, what about another team, because not only would
you have to pay him a bag of cash, you
gotta throw trade assets. Go Lore, We're talking multiple first

(55:10):
round picks, maybe a starter, maybe a second and a
third round pick. Like, when you add the compensation to
trade for Aaron Rodgers on top of having to pay him,
where do you stand on another team doing just that. Well,
it depends on where they are, right. If it's say
Detroit did it, yeah, that wouldn't make sense, right Like,

(55:33):
or say you know, Cleveland did it. Yeah they got
a pre talented roster. It makes a lot more sense.
So you're like, okay, we're willing to take the next step. Yeah.
The problem with Green Bay is they have been on
the same step for over a decade. Right, Mike McCarthy

(55:57):
was fired for this reason, for this reason. Right now,
you got the new coach, in got the floor. Everything's
going well, the m v P back to back home
court home right, nothing. So we saw it in Philadelphia

(56:18):
with Andy Reid Right. NFC Championships, you're there every every
year you're there. It's it's but you stayed on the
same step. So eventually something has to give. Now, if
you have a you know, a person with the value

(56:41):
of of of Aaron Rodgers and they're not happy, which
they've already told you they weren't happy. They weren't happy
last year. You've rearranged some things to give him somewhat
control of what happens in the future. And now he's saying, oh, yeah,
you gotta pay me more than anybody has ever made
in the history of the of the lead. But what

(57:02):
that does, it takes you further away from the step
you've been on for for for so long, for the
last two years. It takes you a step down because
now you're burning up the asset. You don't have enough
assets to continue being taking those steps. So if a
team like Cleveland are a team like um Denver, right,

(57:30):
who who are they're trying to Miami? Nady a team
like Miami, they're trying to take that that step is
a win for them. Everybody wants to win the Super Bowl,
but that step is is going in the right direction.
The problem with Green Bay. If they decided to pay
her and Rodgers that money, they may be going backwards

(57:54):
and that's not a good business move. I understand what
you're saying. I'd just think that, uh, it's a momentum argument, right,
And I would just say that the Packers, even though
this last postseason was a complete meltdown. It's like, look
how quirky it was, though, right, Like, are we, as

(58:15):
the Packers organization, are we just gonna say, you know what,
we might be actually losing momentum, as crazy as it sounds,
if we resign Aaron Rodgers based on how things have
gone for us in the playoffs for a long time.
It's like, look how they lost to the Niners. They
got a punt blocked for a touchdown, you know, like
San Francisco couldn't move the ball hardly at all, but

(58:38):
an opportunity he did what they They melted down special
teams wise. And so that's all I'm saying is are
we willing as the Packers organization to say, you know what,
handwritings on the wall, We just we're not convinced we're
gonna win a Super Bowl even if we bring back
Aaron Rodgers. So let's go in a different direction. I

(59:01):
get it. But the only problem I'm saying is if
you if you allocate that much money of the that
much of the salary cap, then how can you possibly
You're already over so you already have to make some
huge adjustments. How could you possibly sign Davante Adams, Aaron

(59:22):
Rodgers and the other piece, some of the defensive pieces.
And like I said, the office, how that is the problem.
He's already said he needs more help. Right, he's mad
at you because you took a quarterback that's not gonna
play opposed to a position that can help him. Right,
it's still the same Aaron Rodgers. I don't care if

(59:43):
you put makeup on it, perfume, cologne, or whatever it is.
It's still the same guy who held you hostage last year. Yeah,
you'd have to restructure that. You have to do some
cap gymnastics. Of course you'd have to release a couple
of guys. But it can be done. You can, you can.
You can do it in you can have a team
that can roll out there and and you don't get

(01:00:05):
you back to the win the division and get you
into the playoffs. And what I mean, I hear you
like based on what they've done for a while. Yeah,
the odds certainly favor them not winning a super Bowl.
But they're knocking on the door there, right there, right there,

(01:00:27):
right there in the mix as one of the teams.
And I know I can just sense a collective eye
roll from people like, oh, but look at what has happened.
I always argue, just because it has happened before, it
doesn't mean it's destined to always happen going forward. Right,
they have won a super Bowl before, and they've had
some of the flukiest losses in the playoffs, like the

(01:00:49):
Seattle NFC title game on side kick, Like if that's
in a movie, you walk out like, this is the
dumbest script ever, and it happened. Yeah it did. And
when you have a whole bunch of ohs lined up,
then they're just losses. You can't keep saying what we lost,
the only reason we lost, because that the only reason

(01:01:11):
we lost the last year because of this, the only thing.
They just losses. You know. The funny thing is Denver, Miami, Cleveland.
A lot of the teams that you've mentioned, they're praying
to be in the same situations that Green Bay has
been or you at least have a shot for it
to go your way. And that's what I meant by

(01:01:33):
you know, where green Bay has landed the last few
years is a huge step up for for a lot
of teams. Absolutely it is. But is it a step
up for green Bay? Well, you're in the same spot
that those other teams desire to be in. And are
you really are you willing to hamstring yourselves to stay

(01:01:57):
in that spot? Yes? Oh, my answer is yes, and
and and look, and that's just GM. One GM may
say yes, one GM may say no, right, and that's
just Look, we're gonna do the problem green Bay has
if they don't have an owner. So you know, so
it's no owner, Like, no, I don't want to do that. Yes,

(01:02:17):
I do want to do that, whatever that is. And look,
I'm not minimizing how great Aaron Rodgers has been or is.
My only problem is when you talk about greatness like that,
where are the trips to the Super Bowl? Because what
we've seen is we've seen Nick Foles go to the
Super Bowl. We've seen listen, We've seen um Jared Golf

(01:02:45):
go to the Super Bowl. We've seen uh, Matthew Stafford
gold And when We've seen Jimmy Garoppolo, right, We've seen
all of these guys. Matt ryan In Right, you wouldn't
put any of those quarterbacks, I said, on the level

(01:03:06):
of Aaron Rodgers, and we've seen all of them go
to the super Bowl, and where the hell is Erin been?
I know. I still maintain that Denver would be willing
to give up first round or second round, third round,
maybe a player to get to where Green Bay is.
And if I was on Bay, I would strongly consider

(01:03:28):
that because the value that that brings. Now you're rebuilding
or whatever it is you're planning to do, you have
assets to do it with. Just like if we move
time slots are stations are a network. Right. The thing
we would have to take with us to make it

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successful is a guy who brings ultimate value to the
team that hasn't no trade cause in his contract, right
because he is the team. Right, you can't trade this guy.
And that's our very own stephen nta contract. What is that? Yeah,

(01:04:18):
you're right at the Packers currently by fifty mill over
the cap. I've read in the Athletic the Linebacker's that
Darius Smith has a huge cat figure for two so
he could be a cut or finally Mason Crosby the
kicker Randall cob I know there was moved movement today
at tackle. David back t R. Had some of salary
and roster bonus converted. That clears about nine mill in

(01:04:39):
cap space. Saints created cap space by restructuring three contracts.
They're still about forty million over The league year starts March.
As for the NBA, we've got in just a few
minutes the tip off of Brooklyn at Milwaukee. Gor and
Drag with his nets debut. Kevin Durant will return next
week from the Spring MCL. The late game and a

(01:05:00):
half an hour will have Denver winners of four straight
hosting Sacramento. The Spurs are leading late first quarter at
Miami thirty three to twenty. Miami and the Bulls are
tied for first in the Eastern Conference. Bulls are losing
late first quarter at home to Memphis twenty six to seventeen.
Earlier today, Boston was a winner at Detroit one thirteen
to one oh four. The NHL has a stadium series

(01:05:22):
game going. About sixty thousand fans on hand at the
Tennessee Titans Stadium for hockey Nashville is hosting Tampa Bay
and of the first period the Nashville Predators up one nothing.
Attendance at these outdoor games over the years averages over
fifty three thousand in the games which fans have been
able to attend to college basketball Number three Auburn lost

(01:05:44):
at seventeenth ranked Tennessee sixty seven sixty two. Fourth rank
per Due lost at Michigan State sixty five on the
last second three pointer. Sixth rank Kentucky lost seventy seventy
three at Arkansas, and ninth ranked Texas Tech has lost
sixty nine sixty six at TCU. Tech hit a three
pointer at the end, but the shot did come after

(01:06:04):
the buzzer. We have one week left in the college
basketball seasons. Selection Sunday for March Madness is just over
two weeks away. Among the games in progress, fifth rank
Kansas leading at number ten Baylor about seven minutes to
go in the first half, and just starting on FS
one from the Big East Craton at number eleven Providence.

(01:06:25):
As for Major League Baseball, the good news is they
will meet again tomorrow and Florida. The bad news is
MLB and the Players Union are still far apart. On
a new labor agreement. Met again today. They have met
every day this week for negotiations. And then there's this
from dateline Juno, Alaska, a pep club had a country theme,

(01:06:45):
so some student fans dressed like cowboys for their basketball game,
not realizing that it's been on the schedule all season.
Their opponent for that day was a school from Alaska's
only Indian reserve. As for the investigation and the postmortem quotes,
an association with the cowboys Indians theme was foreseeable, should

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have been prevented. We must take accountability, and according to
the report, the situation was escalated by the behavior of
some of the home students that included inappropriate racist remarks
and sounds directed towards the opposing team. They also quote
lacked adult guidance that the responsibility does not fall just

(01:07:27):
on the students, which reminds me of what I saw
from the Auburn basketball team today. Have you seen the
clip of before tip off there at Tennessee and coach
Bruce Pearl's team ranked in the top five, they gather
at center court and just start dancing on top of
the opponent's logo. It never works. Why booze started raining
down from the crowd that was there that early pregame.

(01:07:49):
And yes they lost this one as well. In fact,
as one person said on social media, these dudes are
oh and two in the mid court dances this year.
You think they would have learned after disrespecting the hog
at Arkansas. UH. I would also add the quote from
the Juno Alaska report lacked adult guidance back to you. Wow,

(01:08:09):
thank you, Steve, Brian know Andy from salam with you
here on Fox Sports Radio. It's a very short list
of the teams that dance on the opposing logo and
then go on to win. Yeah, how many have we
seen recently? We've got fail after fail after fail. The
Titans did it at the Steelers, right, who else? The

(01:08:33):
Raiders did it at the Chiefs. There might have been
one or two others in the NFL, but those are
a couple that come to mind. And Yeah, I don't
get it. I don't understand what's the thought process if
the record is so bad doing that, I don't know why.
I don't know why you're if it was if the

(01:08:54):
roles were reversed, that's one thing, but they aren't. So
I don't understand that one you we're in the same
boat on it. We are definitely in the same boat,
you know, because it takes you. It takes your focus
off of the game, right, You're focused on something trivial
that has zero to do with the game. We're gonna
dance on their their logo. We're gonna that has zero

(01:09:18):
to do with the game. And on the flip side,
it just fires your opponent up right, like, so, yeah,
you're doing two things that don't benefit you. I didn't
know that about Auburn, but they went, oh gosh the
second half. I watched a good part of the good
portion of that game where they just went ice cold

(01:09:42):
offensively in the second half. They couldn't buy a bucket
and uh they came up short. Nice little stretch at
the end. Jabari Smith had a four point play to
make it close, but uh no, it did not happen.
Tennessee ran away with it at the end or walked
away with it at least. Are you getting all set
for March madness? Big Man's starting to feel the fever

(01:10:03):
over here. I'm looking forward to it. I was. I
got to go to Vegas one year. I just went
there for the heck of it for the beginning of
the tournament and just kind of hopped from sports book
to sports book. More so for the atmosphere, it was tremendous.
They've got the big screen TVs and it's just the energy.

(01:10:25):
Typically I'd say, like of the room has cash on
the games, and so they're just living and dying with
all these plays. It's awesome. I love that atmosphere. Huh,
it's just fun right, like theage energy. Yeah it could uh,
you might not have a dime on the game, but

(01:10:46):
just when it comes down to it at the end
like that and someone's either losing their mind or just celebrating,
it's fun. It's fun vibe, no doubt. I would recommend
that to anybody who's a big hoops fan. Go to
Vegas for the beginning of the tournament, like the first
couple of days. Oh, I loved it, Absolutely loved it.

(01:11:08):
Have you ever gone to a tournament game? Those aren't
the greatest atmospheres I've been to a tournament game. Yeah, yeah,
come on, man, if you already know brother, what we're
doing here. When they when they go to the tournament,
I go to the tournament. Whatever it is that that's why.
That's what I do. I travel. That's how you guys
get down, That's how I get down. I'm excited to

(01:11:29):
go this year. I think I might go out next
week to the Mountain West Tournament in Vegas. Okay, so
what was the scenario when you saw the Aztecs. I'm
getting vibes of they lost that. Now we went all
the way to the Uh they lost in the sweet
sixteen too, uh ukn okay? All right? Uh? Yeah, so

(01:11:56):
we were born. I went to every single game. That's
good man. Yeah, man, I look, do you ever go
to the Golden Domers Dame and Notre Dame games when
they get into the tournament? No? No, never have I
went to. Uh. It's it's a better experience because you
feel part of it, right, Like you feel part of

(01:12:18):
It's one thing to just go and we're gonna go
and see these teams that you're not invested in. Yeah,
but when you go and your team is here, it's
just like I'm a fair weather Notre Dame hoops fan.
I am. I'm just I'm bandwagon. You know, if they
start playing well and winning games or yeah, go irish,

(01:12:38):
all right, But if they're just medioc or I'm tuned out, man.
I live and die with Notre Dame football. Not the
same thing with Notre Dame hoops, not at all for me.
I know, it's it's what it is. You know, it's
gonna tell you the truth. You know, I'm not gonna
be on that are We got a lot to do
here coming up next. You talk about a bad, bad bet,

(01:13:03):
we have an example for you right around the corner.
I'm Brian No, he's he from salam This is Fox
Sports Radio. I'm Briban. No, he's from Salam Here on
Fox Sports Radio. I big of a d m X fan?
Have you been? Big? Man? What are your favorites? Did

(01:13:23):
you say you think you're a d m X fan? No,
I said, how big of a d m X fan?
Have you been? MX? Yeah? Top five for you personally?
Rappers or no? Who? I know? Right? Yeah, that's tough one.
Top ten, top ten? Top five might be a little Yeah.

(01:13:45):
I grit the teeth on that one a little bit.
I would say one of the top five rap show performers.
That dude gave every ounce of energy in his shows. Man,
that was great. Um, Now you play cards, right? Play Texas?
Hold him, I would. I'm curious if you agree with
this or not. If you you know, you're leading the

(01:14:10):
hand and then someone just has this suck out win,
that's horrible. But I think it's even worse to be
drawing dead, you know, like you have no chance to
win the hand. That's that's a cold. It's just embarrassing, right, Like,
I'd rather, you know, get my heart ripped out with

(01:14:32):
a hand I should have won, then be drawing dead
and have no chance whatsoever to win the hand. Or
do you agree with that or do you you soun
less you have a chance. Yeah, yeah, and listen. I'm
not a fan of bad beats. I hate it. I
hate having my heart ripped out, but I would at

(01:14:53):
least like to be alive to win the hand. You know,
you save a lot more face that way. So I
say all of at because there are a lot of
gamblers that are drawing dead when it comes to the
upcoming NFL draft. So Spencer Rattler, remember the old Oklahoma quarterback.
A lot of people bet on him to be the

(01:15:15):
eventual number one overall pick, and he's not even entering
the NFL right now. He transferred to South Carolina he's
still in college. He got benched last year. It just
it went horribly for him. And according to bet MGM,
five point six percent of all the bets were on

(01:15:36):
Spencer Rattler to be the number one overall pick five
point one percent of the handle, So just about five
percent of the overall money was bet on Spencer Rattler
to be the number one overall pick. And he's not
even entering the NFL right now. That is drawing dead
NFL draft style goodness there that didn't work out too well,

(01:16:01):
did not work the nuts and you didn't Yeah, that's
the worst, man, that is. I think it's even worse
when you don't know they flopped it and then maybe
we got a chance. Yeah, that's rough, it is, I'm
telling you. It's the worst feeling when they're like all right,
both of you are all in, show them and you

(01:16:22):
show your hand and the other person shows their hand. Yeah,
and you're like, wow, it's over already, I have no chance. Uh.
It's a lonely feeling right there, very lonely feeling. Hey,
what do you make of this Tom Brady movie coming
out here? So Brady is going to produce and star

(01:16:42):
in this upcoming film eighty for Brady. It follows four
Patriots fans, older women. They're taking a road trip to
Super Bowl fifty one, which was the the Patriots giant
comeback against the Atlanta Falcons. You interested at all? Yeah?
I think it funny, you do, Yeah, I think it's
gonna be funny. I wonder how big of a this

(01:17:04):
sounds silly, but how big of a role Brady has
in this thing? You know? Like, I understand, he stars
in the Super Bowl, it's the whole reason they're going
taking a road trip to see him. But seriously, how
big of a speaking role is this? I don't know.
I'm curious to find out. I mean, he he was
in Ted. He had a nice size speaking role in Ted.

(01:17:27):
The scene was it was ridiculous. And this is you know,
this is Brady's personality. This is which seen aside of
him that we didn't get to see in in New England.
And I love it. I'm here for it. Yeah, And
I don't know if that's going to take the place
of playing on Sundays and Mondays and Thursdays and sometimes

(01:17:49):
Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Uh uh, you know, I mean the
word now is that Brady's playing this year opposed to
you know, speculation. What do you think is happening here?
Do you expect him back? I personally, do you do? Yeah?
Because I don't think he was ready. I know he

(01:18:10):
didn't want to go out like that, right, I know
he didn't want to go out like that. That Well,
that's that's for sure. Kill him. Yeah, And so you know,
if it's one year in San Francisco, then that would
be to me, for him, it would be a a

(01:18:32):
great capital, a hell of a career, finishing off with
your childhood friend, I mean, your childhood team with talent
all around, offensively, defensively, I mean, why not? Why not
give it a go? I hope you're right. I don't
think he'll be back. Could you imagine Tom Brady with
Deebo Samuels and did you and Kittle? Kyle out a hand?

(01:19:00):
News keeps up the running games probably better than anybody
else as a head coach in the NFL. He would
love that. He'd have so much fun back in the
Bay Area, chilling. Look, I got one year for you,
you know, and let's see if we can do this thing. Hey,
that'd be fun. But Tampa would still have his rights. Yeah. Now,

(01:19:21):
look they broughtly he brought a Super Bowl to Tampa
and and it could be like, yeah, whoa who I
mean will trade you there are? Well whatever that is?
You know what I think about that? It would be
back to back years. So San Francisco they already basically
went all in to get tray Lance, and then they'd

(01:19:41):
have to go all in again and make a lot
more sense to get to get the goat. But it
but what it does is it allows you to let
tray Lance get ready because I don't believe he's ready. Wow,
that is. That is a curveball. We'll have another curveball
for you here and about out seven minutes. But how

(01:20:02):
about this other possibility. Tom Brady the commentator, So Andrew
Marshand of the New York Post, he's like this media
insider guy, right, like he's reporting all this news on
media cummings and goings. And he says, tom Brady's phone
is gonna ring from both uh Fox and Amazon. Though

(01:20:23):
I mean, I don't see him doing that. You think
he'd be good if he did, I don't know, because
he's he's still in play mode. Yeah, you you can't
when you're in play mode. It's hard to look at
the game objectively and right, yeah, that would be difficult.
We got a lot to do coming up next. I
think this is a major quarterback curveball. Others will differ.

(01:20:46):
We'll discuss. Oh, what's going on. I hope you're enjoying
your Saturday evening. Brian No, the Big Many from Salon
with you here on Fox Sports Radio. So big Man,
We've got a lot to do here, Lots going on
with NFL quarterbacks. I found this to be a curve ball.

(01:21:08):
I'm not sure if you'll agree with this or not.
But Adam Shafter This is via PFF. He was talking
about the uh San Francisco forty Niners quarterback situation here,
So just check out the audio. Let it wash over
you if you will. If you're not training Jimmy right
now and after trading up to get trade lance, it's
a sign to your fan base that he's not developing

(01:21:29):
the right way. He's developing the right way. They are
happy with him. He didn't play college football at all
two years ago. He's coming from a small school to
begin with, and there is a steep learning curve for
a quarterback like that. Who's blessed with a lot of
talent who they still are very high on. It's not
a reflection of whether they think he's gonna make it
look people should know if they come on, they're not

(01:21:50):
keeping Garoppolo. They're trading up. Well he played, maybe they
do trade him. I'm not telling you you're wrong. It's
still is absolutely on the table that he could be moved.
I'm just giving you the other side that I don't
think it's a lock that he's gonna be traded. He
very well like, but it's not a lot. Wow. So
Adam Schefter, I thought Sean Payton or um, sorry, Sean McVeigh,
the Rams coach talked fast. You know, Adam Schefter was

(01:22:12):
going on, I've got lots of thoughts in a little
bit of time to tell Leman. So I'm gonna do
all it was. Didn't believe it about. But he says
that he doesn't consider it a lock that the Niners
will trade Jimmy Garoppolo. Well, I know, and I don't,

(01:22:34):
and I share that sentiment. I said at last hour,
I don't think Trey Lance is ready now. People are
so faster. If you draft a kid this high, he's
got to be ready to play, and in some cases yes,
but for someone who hasn't played legitimate college football. And
I'm not talking taking away from you know, division to

(01:22:54):
college football, but the reality of that is, you can
play Division into football college football, right be you saw
me under the bustle here. Yes, for the purposes of
my example to show ordinary the skill level is, I

(01:23:16):
could play at the Division two level. It's what you're saying.
That's what I'm saying that just to illustrate how sucky
the talent level is at that at that level, right
and someone as specialist trade lands where he didn't lose
at that level set out all of then gets drafted.
So he hasn't played football in two years, and when

(01:23:37):
he did play, he didn't play at an extremely high
and competitive level. So why wouldn't you take your time
with him? If he has the tools, why wouldn't you
take your time and get it right with him? A
pose to rolling them out there and having him trying
to fend for itself or develop bad habits. I'm okay

(01:23:57):
with this because in say, doesn't play at all this
past year, and then he comes and he takes to
the world by storm next season, the season after next
then it'd be like, wow, that was the best in it.
Same thing they did with Aaron Rodgers and Rogers sat
on the bench for three years in Green Bay, he

(01:24:19):
said on a bit for three years. Yeah, yeah, I
mean he did. I get it. I understand, but man,
I mean I was like, that's unheard of. Now, that's
unheard of now. Yeah. And and the other part of
this is for Jimmy g Right, like I don't know,
I don't know if Geeve is the answer. That's why,

(01:24:41):
you know, the Brady thing, uh seemed you know, dope. Yeah,
a lot of fun that that. That seemed like okay,
and you then you send you send Brady. I mean,
you send Jimmy g to to Tampa. You you know,
in the trade and whatever else you have to do.

(01:25:02):
But that's just you know, we're here. You know, this
is hypothetically speaking, you know, throwing things on the wall
see if they stick. But to have trade lance in
the same building as Tom Brady would be amazing for
his development. I mean that alone is worth it. Well,

(01:25:27):
I mean, they're there are a lot of moving parts.
One Brady would have to come out of retirement to Tampa,
would have to be willing to trade him to one
of the top teams in the conference that actually got
further in the playoffs than they did. Right, because Tampa
lost in a divisional round, you got the championship Sunday
if you're the Niners. So I mean, I just look

(01:25:49):
at it this and say it's it's an indictment as
to where Trade Lance is right now in his development.
This doesn't mean he's a bust. He's one year in, right.
You gotta give it a little bit of time. I
know we want instant results, but you gotta give it
a little bit of time. So that isn't set in
stone that the sky will never work out. But this

(01:26:09):
was not the plan to trade up to the number
three overall pick and have Trade Lance maybe developing for
a second year. While what you run it back with
Jimmy g who was brutal in the playoffs, it's not
like he even played well, yeah, that's that's there's no
argument there. Whoever the quarterback is. I know they want

(01:26:31):
to take their time with Trey Lance because it's important
because he's the next guy for the next ten twelve years.
So they want to make sure they get how many
of these quarterbacks who didn't quite make it would have
benefited from something like this, right, if you take someone

(01:26:54):
um who let's give me um, I mean some Sam Donald. Yeah,
if they developed a little more, others would have just
they would have panned out the same way. You know,
would have been a mixed bag, you know, because you
it's so much pressure at that position, and not everybody
can come in and be a Russell Wilson. Not everybody

(01:27:16):
can come in and be at Dak Prescott. I know
that's what everybody wants. But neither one of those guys
were first round draft picks. Right, it's neither one of
those guys in the first round draft picks. Not everybody's
gonna be Andrew Luck Well, yeah, that's not everything. Not
everybody's gonna be Justin Herbert or are Joe Burrow, Deshaun Watson.

(01:27:43):
Even the Texas didn't even start Deshaun Watson right when
he first got it. He was clearly better than anything
they had in the quarterback room. But you know that
it's growth. There's nothing wrong with oath. You don't you
don't get, you don't find out, you don't get a

(01:28:06):
return on your investment until it doesn't work didn't work
in the Jets, with the Jets with Sam Donald. It's
not working in Miami with TWA. You know what I'll
say with the what that's not even who drafted him?
Excuse me, it was Arizona. Did not work in Arizona
with Ta And that was over real fast with Rosen.

(01:28:30):
Excuse with with where where do tur Get drafted to Miami? Right?
So I'm excuse me, Josh frozen that You're right, it
was Rosen right that that experiment was over really fast,
real fast. You know, I just look at I'm sorry,
the same type of players. It's uncalled for necessary. I

(01:28:54):
know we're only one year in, but let me just
say this real fast. If you rewind to when the
Niners moved up to the number three overall pick and
the conversation, it was almost unified a collective front. You
don't trade up to get an immobile quarterback and mac Jones.
You trade up to get a guy who's got some

(01:29:14):
mobility and a playmaker like Tray Lance. And again we're
one year in, subject to change, but one year in
advantage Mac Jones. And it's not even close. No, absolutely,
but Matt Jones wouldn't have been mac Jones in this offense.
I agree with that, but he would have been better
than Tray Lance one year in. Yes, but is that

(01:29:37):
what you want? The one year or do you want
the Yeah, yeah, you want you want the Baker's doesn't.
But every now and then you can get seduced by
the ceiling. You gotta look at the floor. Also, that's
a good point. Yeah, we're always looking up. Yeah. Another
quarterback in the news, Kyler Murray. If we go to

(01:29:57):
the Arizona Cardinals. So this is the Cardinals team owner,
Michael Biddwell. He was on Arizona Sports FM, and listen
to what he says about Arizona's pursuit of resigning Kyler
Murray to a big extension. I spoke to him last night.
We've had a good conversations NonStop. I'm not a social

(01:30:20):
media guy, but I think there was a lot of
interpretation around that that was inconsistent with the conversations that
not just I have had, you know, Cliff and Steve
have had. And so the positive conversations that are going
in the right direction. We know we've got to get better. Okay,
it's going in the right direction. Very nice. Now, this

(01:30:40):
I love this just one more from Michael Bidwell what
he says as far as his affection towards Kyler Murray
the quarterback. You saw that the Kyler put out the
statement love me or hate me, I think was his terms.
You know I'm going to get better. Put me in
the category of I love him, and I know he's
going to get better. There you go, put me in
the category of I love him. This is interesting to me,

(01:31:01):
big man, because we were just talking about Aaron Rodgers
and the Packers and paying top dollar for a top quarterback.
The Arizona Cardinals are trying to pay top dollar or
close to it for a guy that, as of now,
is not on Aaron Rodgers level in Kyler Murray. That's
when it gets really dicey when you're backing up the
Brinks truck and Kyler Murray's not even a top ten

(01:31:25):
quarterback and it was what he just finished his third year. Um, yeah, bro,
you you gotta finish this fourth one out. We need
to see some growth. Yeah right, we're not about to
re up. Yeah right now, right, I need more I
need more growth. Yeah. I would say it's similar to

(01:31:47):
similar to I put him in the somewhere in between
Lamar Jackson Baker Mayfield. In terms of both those guys,
they played through their third year. They didn't get extended, right,
So give me that, Josh Allen. Let me see that, right? Yeah? Yeah,
that that third year from Josh Allen was like, holy cow,

(01:32:08):
give me that, and then you can step to the table.
M show me what that's all about. That's growth. You
want talk about growth? You want you want to talk
about work? Yeah? That was that was brilliant. That was
a leap. Show me that before you start dissing me

(01:32:32):
on social media. Are complaining? Come on now? Yeah, that's that.
That's the standard. That's what we're looking at. Looking just
at Herbert, he just playing Joe Burrow. They're just playing

(01:32:56):
Kyler Murray's mad. What yeah talking, I know it. But
what are you doing? Why how man? Yeah? Yeah, yeah
that's it man, But uh, we'll see. That's why it's
it's so interesting to me these teams that are in

(01:33:17):
this middle ground where they've got a quarterback that's at
least serviceable, but they're getting to a stage now where
you're paying well over this guy's serviceable money. Man. That's
when it becomes real and it's some teams over extend themselves,
and they say, well, at least we're not a dumpster fire.
We've got someone who's competent. He's just average, but he

(01:33:40):
gives us a shot to not be bad, right, and
then hopefully if things break our way, we can make
even more noise. But man, when you're paying top dollar
for a guy like a Baker Mayfield, a Ryan Tannehill,
not top dollar for Ryan Tannehill, but a lot, a
lot of money. You saw what happened in the play money. Yeah, Yeah,

(01:34:02):
that's that's a tough tough position to be in. Obviously.
I think everybody wants to do what the Chiefs did
where they had Alex Smith, but they went after the
grand Slam, which was Patrick Mahomes. The opportunity presents itself, Yeah,
I think it's better to be aggressive and try to
find someone who's more special and and and another thing

(01:34:22):
is you don't you shouldn't be trying to get ree
up two years early. Yeah, wait till the bitter end
if it isn't clear cut. Yeah wait, yeah, the GM
in Dakota, I'll be like, no, he scrupt us from
I g freaking deal. We're not We're not extending a

(01:34:43):
guy that we're not sure Baker Mayfield model. Yeah, yeah,
that's better business, right there, no doubt about that. All right.
Coming up next, there is a partnership that leads to
a couple of interesting questions about rule changes. We'll get
to that. I'm iron know he's from salam This is
Fox Sports Radio, Brian, No, he's from Salam. Here on

(01:35:10):
Fox Sports Radio. So we've got this partnership now, big man,
between the NFL and the XFL. So the XFL they're
gone right now, they'll return in February of next year.
And so among other things, that's going to allow the
NFL to experiment with rule changes. Right, just change a

(01:35:31):
few rules. Use the XFL as the guinea pig. Let's
see how we like it. Does it work? Is it clunky?
And then maybe the NFL implements the same rule going forward.
Are they going to use it as a farm system
as well? Well? I think college football is the ultimate
farm system. But yeah, another version, yeah, yeah, for the tweeners,

(01:35:54):
if you will. I mean, the only way that that
that works, any league outside of the NFL works is
if the NFL champions it right allocate however, many teams
that have allocate them to, whether it be a division
or you know conference. However they want to do it
because I know they don't have thirty teams. So if

(01:36:17):
they allocated a team to a division or a couple
of teams per division, and you know, teams can send
their players there too, you know, like the World League
used to be. Remember the World League, late round draft
picks and you know, free agents, undrafted free agents if

(01:36:37):
they didn't play the practice squad guys um in the offseason,
they went and played in the World League to get experience,
and teams would allocate, like Atlanta had a team. And
when I got drafted in the seventh round, all I
kept saying that the number one the number one goal
was to make the team, and number two was please
don't get sent to the World League at the end

(01:36:58):
of the year. If you got sent to the Worldleague,
that means you wouldn't have gotten a lot of experience,
Like right now, Trey Lance would be, you know, playing
for the the Blue Diamond Argonauts or something like that,
just to get the experience of playing pro football. And
so I I think the only way a league can survive,

(01:37:22):
it survive if if you do that if you fill
the roster with guys who made NFL rosters. Oh yeah,
that would give you a lot of juice. That was
the dumbest thing the USFL did was trying to go
head to head with the NFL. Well, now there the
USFL starting right, Yeah, But why wouldn't you just combine
with the XFL, Like, why wouln't you create one just

(01:37:46):
one minor league team because there's not enough superior talent. Yeah,
three pro leagues, I know, just if you're doing a
spring league. Yeah, it's just not what it makes no sense.
And those guys in the springley have a chance to
two make training camps. Yeah, it's like we haven't had

(01:38:07):
one that's successful in the school are gonna do? And
I know everybody got money, and you know the Rock
owns the XFL now, which gave the end with the
NFL and and all of that, But I mean, brighter
minds should get together and like, hey, let's combine this.
That way you get more teams, and you get you know,

(01:38:31):
a better form system for these NFL teams, you get
better talent, the whole nine yards. So you have a
couple of XFL rules right now that there's no way
these would be implemented as NFL rules because they're just
too quirky. One of them we always talk about over time.
So the way it is in the XFL, it's like

(01:38:54):
a soccer style shootout. From this perspective, they have five
round owns right, where each team attempts a two point
conversion and whoever converts more that's the winner. If we're tied,
then I guess there's sudden death after that. That's just goofy, man.
We're never doing that in the NFL, where you have

(01:39:14):
five attempts to convert a two point play and each
teams do that like, that's just goofy to me, right,
that would never happen to me. Now. The other part
is uh uh, no extra points in the XFL. And
this might jog your memory if you watched at all,
but you just you have three options. You can go

(01:39:36):
for one point, two points, or three points, and it
depends on where you put the football on the field. Right,
If you put it at the two yard line and convert,
that'd be one point at the five, two points at
the ten, it's three points. Again, that's just two quirky
for the NFL. I don't see that ever being the

(01:39:57):
new rule in the NFL. One thing I would wouldn't
do in a league is implement rules that would never
work on the NFL level. And I know you're trying
to separate yourself and make the game more entertaining, but
those rules don't work in college and they don't work
in the NFL. So this is the circus that was

(01:40:21):
the XFL when it first started with Vincent Man and
all of that, Like that was supposed to be the
anti NFL. Right, you can date the cheerleaders, you can
write like we know nobody wants to see football like that. Yeah,
And that's the thing is I get it why you
would try to differentiate yourself before. But now that your partners,

(01:40:42):
I think it's gonna be just that. It's gonna be
a trial ground and you're going to see a lot
more rules that could maybe one day be NFL rules. Yeah,
Like I would steer clear of the salaciousness of certain rules.
And you know we're not gonna do a kickoff, We're
gonna do head button content like like, remember how does

(01:41:04):
the XFL used to start? They took a guy and
put them each guy at the goal line or whatever,
and put the ball at the fifty and they had
to run until someone you know, the first three games
someone got hurt, severely hurt out for the season like that.
That's not that's not okay. No, that's not gonna be
it the way it goes. No, that's not okay. They
let you put your nickname on the back of the jerseys. Yeah,

(01:41:27):
he hate me. I get it back then, right, Sugar
Dreams Like, I'm like, wait, of what is happening right there?
Sugar Dreams with a touchdown and I'm like, whoa, whoa, Yeah,
I know it was sweet sauce with a catch over
the mid sweet sauce. Yeah, a little bit different, little

(01:41:50):
bit of Mama's baby, Mama's baby with the with the
the interception. It's crazy. Yeah, I know, I know. If
we're gonna get more normalcy, which might you know, some
people might not like that as much. Now that there's
a partnership with the NFL, do you think last one
for you? Could you ever see this being implemented in
the NFL. This is a current XFL rule. It's on punts,

(01:42:15):
so all touchbacks go out to the thirty five yard line.
They're trying to discourage teams from punning deep into the
opponent's territory. And also if you punt the ball out
of bounds inside the thirty five yard line, that is
also a touchback out to the thirty five A little
too radical from me, Yeah don't. I don't like that

(01:42:36):
because you're taking away the a tremendous element of the game. Yeah. Right.
All of those things are our skills. Being able to
pain a team down on the two, three four yard
line when the ball goes out of like, those are

(01:42:56):
skills and I don't I don't like any rules that
take away from the skill of the game. Yeah, yeah,
I hear you. We'll see what happens in the next
few years. Be kind of interesting to monitor that, but
you know, it's also very interesting to monitor to say
the least. This guy has information and he gives it

(01:43:21):
to you in a fluid, friendly manner. Huh. That is
his calling card. Fluid and friendly and friendly. That is
our very own Mr Steve the Sager Steve F. F
By the way, the USFL gets going this year in
less than two months, and they had their two day

(01:43:42):
draft this week and the Michigan Panthers were first on
the clock and they took former Michigan Wolverines quarterback Shaye
Patterson at number one. Overall, the way they worked at
the first round was quarterbacks only, and then every succeeding
round was just by position. And then they got to
round twelve and it was once again quarterbacks only, and
Michigan took another quarterback, the veteran Paxton Lynch was taken.

(01:44:05):
So as soon as that happened, are Jason Smith, Oh,
we got a controversy, Michigan Panthers quarterback Canturis. You had
mentioned the Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell with his radio visit.
He also suggested in the interview that there could be
a change in the Cardinals uniform coming down the road. Quote,
there's a timeline for this. We're gonna honor tradition, but

(01:44:26):
it is on the radar screen. And as Pro Football
Talk pointed out, any uniform changes have to be approved
at least a year in advance to hoops. Gentleman Ben
Simmons dealing with a sore back yet to play for
the Nets. His coach, Steve Nass has confirmed it's just
a little soreness in the back, not like an injury,
not a long term thing, just flared up a little bit.

(01:44:47):
You know, he hasn't played a game since June, and
that's part of the process returning, He says, you ramp up,
you get a little bit susceptible to certain things, as
you would with muscle soreness or titaness. Keep in mind,
Ben Simmons after the trade told reporters he does hope
to play again by the time the Nets play at Philadelphia,
which is about two weeks away. As for tonight's Nets

(01:45:09):
game in the NBA, we have seven total games on
the schedule. At Milwaukee, late first half, the Bucks are
leading the Nets fifty two to forty seven. It is
the team debut for Nets guard Goran Drag off the bench.
He has six points in seven minutes. Meanwhile, the two
teams that are tied for first in the East are
each in action tonight, the Bulls and the Heat. Miami
is leading early third quarters seventy two sixty five over

(01:45:31):
the Spurs Jimmy Butler twenty points, but Chicago is losing
at home in the third quarter to Memphis sixty nine
sixty two for the Grizzly Steven Adams twelve points, sixteen rebounds.
So far, Cleveland's losing at home in the third quarter
fifty eight fifty Washington and that one Kyle Kuzma with
twenty two points so far, and Trey Young was kind
of on tonight, about eight minutes left in the game

(01:45:53):
at Atlanta, Hawks lead one oh seven eighty six against
the Toronto Raptors. Trey in the first three quarters thirty
seven minutes, thirty two minutes, excuse me, and thirty seven points,
eleven assists, Young fifteen of twenty one shooting from the floor.
To college basketball, number three Auburn lost at Tennessee, Number

(01:46:15):
four rank per Due lost at Michigan State, number six
Kentucky lost at Arkansas, and ninth rank Texas Tech lost
at TCU just one week left in the regular season
in college hoops, and now number two Arizona is losing
with about ten minutes left at Colorado fifty six to fifty.
Fifth rank Kansas leads by two at tenth ranked Baylor
fifty to forty eight Jayhawks with about twelve minutes to go,

(01:46:37):
and it's half time of the game on FS one
from the Big East, eleventh rank Providence up thirty five
six on Creighton. And some good news regarding Major League
Baseball first off, that they've met with the union every
day this week for labor negotiations. The good news now
they will meet again tomorrow, despite how ticked off they've
been at each other at various times today and throughout

(01:46:58):
the week. But also get to know that whenever this does,
and it's probably not coming by Monday, whenever this contract
does get done a new labor agreement, there will be
designated hitter in both leagues. Universal d H has been
agreed on. There will be a draft lottery for Major
League Baseball. The bottom six teams will go into the lottery.

(01:47:20):
Union wanted more, but that's what they've agreed to. And also,
you remember the union contention that teams are just delaying
the debuts of their hot prospects so they can delay
their free agency down the road. That was a big
thing when Chris Bryant was being brought up with the Cubs,
or not being brought up, as the case. Maybe this
is what they've agreed on tonight. If your prospect finishes
first or second in Rookie of the Year voting, even

(01:47:43):
though he didn't spend a full season on the big
league roster, he'll get credit for a full year of
Major League Service back to you. How many teams in
the draft lottery right now? The bottom six? Bottom six? Yeah,
interesting and a universal H. They've been talking about that
for years. I'm cool with that, big man, because look,

(01:48:05):
I'm a National League fan. Nobody I love the St.
Louis Cardinals. I've argued with National League purists for a
long time. It is the worst thing to watch pictures
fail at hitting. Oh it's so bad. Yes, count me
in for the universal d H all day, all day.

(01:48:27):
I used to joke around some n L guys would
be like, but what about the double switch. I'm like,
I'm willing to make that concession to not be able
to have the double switch. So if we can actually
watch hitters hit, yeah, I'm cool with that. I guess
the only thing is not a lot of out there, right, Like, yeah, right,

(01:48:49):
not a lot with them. I did like if, um,
if a picture threw at a guy that he had
to get into the batter's box self. But again, I'm
willing to make that concession as well. It's just not
entertaining to watch pictures fail at hitting. It's a bad product. Yeah,

(01:49:10):
it slows the game down right, Like you're like, okay, yeah. Yeah,
the game's are already slow, so yeah, a little more offense,
you know, I think it's gonna be more entertaining that way.
I'll put it this way. I think that pictures hitting
in this era, it's kind of like if your girlfriend

(01:49:35):
or wife wants to throw away like your old school
Raddy sweatshirt, and you might be like, but no, there's
a lot of sentimental value here, and once it's thrown out,
you're not gonna miss that holy sweatshirt, you know what
I mean. I think that's what pictures hitting in baseball
is very much like. So, um, we talked a little
bit about the Lakers here Lebron James. He says, I

(01:49:57):
live in the moment. So of course this comes on
the heels of All Star Weekend, where Lebron said a
few things that caught headlines right. He talked about uh
one day teaming up with his son Ronnie James. He
also waxed poetic about Sam Presty the Oklahoma City thunder

(01:50:19):
GM and so it was like, is this kind of
reading between the lines shade at Rob Polinka at the
same time, and what do you think about this? Lebron
saying I live in the moment. I'm all about the
here and now with the Lakers. Well, he's created the moment,
the here and the now, So are he better live
in it? Yeah? Yeah, he better living and he talking

(01:50:41):
about something that's gonna happen at the minimum two years
from now. Nobody wants to hear that. Bro, You got
issues to deal with. It's hard to make your argument
that you're living in the moment when you're talking about
teaming up with your son a couple of years down
the road. Two years. Yeah, that's not the epitome of
living in the moment. That's looking to the future. That's

(01:51:04):
exactly what it is. And look, I can't I can understand.
And this has happened many times before with Lebron James.
He's had a wandering eye. You're telling me he's all
about the moment. When they're five games under five hundred
and he sees where this team is headed this season,
He's just in the here and now that and that alone.

(01:51:25):
I don't buy that for a second. No I don't either, Yeah,
I I don't, And I mean I hope he's trying
to focus. We gotta win these playing games, man, Yeah,
that's that's what we that's who we are right now
to play in How amazing just to just that being

(01:51:46):
the position they're in. That's ridiculous. That's it's but it's deserved.
You get what you get. Yeah, you get what you earned, man,
and they've earned this. The lackluster, the nonchalant nous. You know,
you can say injury. Everybody's got injuries, right, but you

(01:52:06):
gotta still put it. You gotta put a product out there.
You're getting beat by teams. I mean they couldn't beat okay,
see yeah the first couple of times this season, it's
just like teams with no stars, right, you got you
got four Hall of Famers out there and it dude, nothing. Yeah,

(01:52:29):
it's just it's embarrassing. Man. If you would have told
me before the season that they would be five games
under five hundred ninth place in the worst, I'd be like,
did Lebron and a D suit up at all? Did
they play any games? Sticulous? I'm so tired of Bambi legs. Yeah,
that's what I call a D. You ever seen Bambie

(01:52:51):
when she's first born? Every time a D jumped, that's
the picture I see in my mind. That might be
the best nickname Oh my gosh, man, just every time
he jumps something, it feels like something tragic is gonna happen.
M I can't alright. Coming up next, we close it

(01:53:14):
down in style. Which team is more unlikable at this
stage and going forward? I'm Brian No, he's he from
Salam This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No, He's
he from Salam here on Fox Sports Radio. I saw

(01:53:37):
this floating around Twitter, big man. I thought it was hilarious.
It just says James Harden has tied Ben Simmons on
the Sixers all time three pointers made list. That's legit.
Ben Simmons, of course with the Sixers for four years,
and uh he made five three pointers in four years.

(01:53:59):
James Harden five three pointers last night. Man is debut
for the seventies Sixers. You know, if you just look
at plants, at Ben Simmons three point numbers year by year,
look at this. This is four seasons worth. First season
over eleven from deep, next season over six. So first

(01:54:24):
two years he was over seventeen from three, and then
I hit a growth spurt two for seven and then
three for ten. Those are over seasons collectively. He was
five for thirty four from three in four seasons played
with the Philadelphia seventy sixers. That is unbelievable in this

(01:54:45):
day in age. You know, you can work on that, right,
Oh yeah, Like that's a that's a skill that you
can work on. A lot of players coming to the league.
You cannot have that type of jump shot, but they
work at it. The fact that you've been in the

(01:55:05):
league five years and you haven't worked, Like, what are
you doing in the offseason? Yeah, I made thirty seven
million dollars a year. What's going on? What are we doing? Yeah?
And I'm curious just the way the nets are structured.
If this takes a lot of pressure off of the
guy because he's not a three point shooter, and that's fine,

(01:55:26):
that's fine, But it was a bigger deal in Philly.
Not being a three point shooter. It's not gonna be
as big of a deal, not nearly as big of
a deal. No, not even Yeah, with scores like k
D and Kyrie, it's like, bro, just play defense, facilitate
some offense, look to create at close range for yourself
where you can make those you know, I think that's

(01:55:46):
gonna work a lot better for the nets. Yeah, They
need him to play defense, rebound and push the ball.
That's it. Yeah, that's it. No one's expecting you to
shoot the threes and do all of that, but we
do inspect, expect could be engaged. Right yeah, yeah, that's
the thing. And and the other thing is I don't

(01:56:07):
think that Ben Simmons was ever. He was never called
out as much for not being a three point shooter
as he was called out for not taking that shot
at point blank range against the Atlanta Hawks in the playoffs, right,
the wide open dunk. Yes, that's what really did it? Yeah.
People were like, you know what, Yeah, yeah, that was

(01:56:33):
the textbook example of shrinking in the moment. That's that's
just what it was. People were like, maybe not so
much here. Now there's another layer to this. So if
you keep it with Ben Simmons and look at the
nets collectively, which team is more unlikable, especially projecting into

(01:56:55):
the playoffs? Would it be the Brooklyn Nets? Not for
you specifically, big man, but if you are you're kind
of like the uh, the weather man, and you're just saying,
now here, we have more people disliking the nets, right,
You're just looking at that chart. If you will do
you think that the Nets are more unlikable or do

(01:57:16):
you think it's still the Lakers that are more unlikable
in terms of in terms of what the masses would say,
right are they now? Now? This is I think it.
I would probably the Lakers because they are underachieving, yeah,
to a high level, at a high level, very like

(01:57:39):
people can't stomach underachieving like that, Like I can't better
team beats you, okay, but underachieving at that level, I
got nothing for you. Yeah, yeah, hey, that's fair. I
also think I'm gonna stick with the Lakers because they

(01:58:02):
got seventeen titles. You know, there's something about again for
a non fan, the showtime Lakers, the Purple and Gold,
like it's just if you dislike the Lakers, there are
beat l A chants, right, there's no beat b r K.
I don't even know what the I mean. Brooklyn has

(01:58:24):
never won. The Nets have never won an NBA championship,
So I mean, you know, yeah, it's just it's apples
to oranges right there. It's it's not even they don't
have the story to have the A B A storied history,
but you know, not the NBA history of of every
year is a championship year in the eyes of the Lakers.

(01:58:46):
I just you know, if you tried to separate the
history as much as possible, which is very hard to do,
and you just tried to make it the here and
now as much as possible. I'm just curious for the
non fan of both teams, Like who's cheering harder for
a team to lose? Are you cheering like crazy for

(01:59:09):
the Lakers to lose more? I know it, But when
you get Kyrie Irving playing home in a way, you
get Ben Simmons, you know he's on that team again,
you at least got a fair fight between the Lakers
and the Nets for who's more unlikable at the we
call that a pick him right right, Like, yeah, Lakers

(01:59:32):
might be a small favorite as far as that goes,
It might be a small favorite. Yeah, okay, So uh
quarterback wise, before we get on out of here, big man, um,
who are you most interested in just the NFL off
season in general? Like who's the wild card, who's the domino?

(01:59:52):
Who's the guy where you're like, for whatever reason, you
either don't know where he's gonna end up or you
think he has the biggest impact. Who do you have
your eye on the closest. I think it's Deshaun Watson. Yeah,
by a mile from me, because we know what the
talent is, but what we don't know is anything else.
Will it be available, who's gonna be available? To the
impact to have on whatever team that is. All of

(02:00:14):
those questions are are more compelling for me than any
of the other UH movements we may see from quarterbacks. Yeah,
I'm with you, man, I'm definitely with you. I think
he's the wild card of the entire season and beyond.
He could be the wild card for the next decade,

(02:00:35):
right like the legal stuff gets sorted out, depending on
where he goes. I think that that one guy would
have the biggest impact on the field, and it's not
even close because of his age. He's so young. Yeah, exactly,
that's exactly right. Yeah, good stuff, man, Good hanging with you,
big man. I'll have a good night. We didn't even
sneak in candy bar bets. There's always next week.

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