June 3, 2024 • 30 mins
Big Ben talks about Joe Mazzulla downplaying Kyrie Irving's status as a villain, Russell Wilson getting the majority of reps at Steelers OTAs, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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that NBA Finals game that was played on Sunday? O?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
MG, now you did not.
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Now I could have started with hockey and just mocked
Eddie Garcia for disrespecting my Edmonton rlis.
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bouncy Ball. We'll get to the Oilers later, as Eddie
had them dead and buried mister hockey over there, but
we'll start out with the gap, not the gap gap,
but the gap the NBA Finals, as you probably know,
they don't get started for like several more days. This
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is our Monday show. They don't have the NBA Finals
until Thursday. One of the big storylines leading into the
finals has been what good versus bad? Good versus bad?
Kyrie Irving is right out of Central casting. He's the
villain and the Dallas Mavericks are the bad guys. The
Celtics by default, are the.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Good guys, so let them play.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Joe commented recently on this dynamic while we were away
from the Watchtower here, I thought this was interesting and
really the story of the finals. It's the thing that
is being used to drum up interest if you're not
from Boston or that region, or Dallas or that region.
So if you didn't hear about this over the week,
maybe not. The Celtics coach Joel Missoula let him play
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Joe Joe Missoula. He argued that when asked about Kyrie
Irving in his role, he has been characterized as the
evil villain. Well, Joe Missoula argued that everyone can be
seen as a villain. Aren't we all in someone's eyes?
He said, We're all villains in someone's eyes. He also
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then slobbered all over Kyrie Irving, saying that he's a
great player, He's done a lot of good things.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
On and on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, so let us discuss the question, what is
your ruling on Joe Missoula down playing, right, down playing
Kyrie Irving's villain status in the lead up to the
NBA Finals. So I've got Milton Bradley, star wars and
parachute and we will combine all of these things together.
(04:01):
We will throw them against the wall and see what sticks.
All right, So a on the surface, these comments by
coach Joe sleepyat Joe whatever you want to come, Joel
Mozoul let him play. Joe were innocuous, Now that were innocuous.
You hear them and you chuckle. There's a term that
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is used in sports. Some call it Lou Holtz disease.
That's an old football coach from a million years ago.
Others call it poor mouthing. And that's the classic coaching
technique that calls for the effusive and insincere praise of
the opposition. Kill them with kindness is the mantra for many.
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But when you dig a little deeper, it's more right.
It's more than that. And Joel mozoul has been around
Boston for a number of years. There he was given
the key to the castle because the previous Celtic coach
he stepped out of class there and had to be
kicked out out of the organization. But Joe Mizzoula, who
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didn't really deserve to be the head coach, now he's
the head coach.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And so does he know Kyrie? Does he have a
great I don't know. He probably does. He pays a
relationship with him.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But that response was Milton Bradley, like it was twister,
It was Missoula stretching his hands and his feet all
over those multi colored circles, twisting his body into a
pretzel to stretch the truth.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Clear lines have been drawn. That's that's it. I'm into it,
like I'm pulling for the Celtics. I don't like Kyrie Irving.
How we lose this, I.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Don't ever see him one again. Kyrie Irving is a
low level batman villain in my mind, He's a mischief maker,
someone who is a rogue actor. Now the only hiccup
and this is the problem, and I'm trying to wrap
my head how to get around this while I have
type cast Kyrie Irving in the NBA Finals as the villain,
like I believe that my issue in this is a
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rather big hiccup. It's a couple of hiccups of belches.
Is that Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown of the Boston
basketball team, they totally buy the dogma of Kyrie. Right,
Kyrie is like a godlike figure for them, it would appear.
So it's Kyrie versus not Tatum and Brown because they
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all want to cuddle up together and eat donuts. It's
Kyrie versus the Boston fans, right, and will Kyrie, who's
been on his top behavior here.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't know if he's on meds or what.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
But will Kyrie be able to control himself when inevitably
something will go sideways between the Mavericks, Kyrie and the
fan base there in Boston, And how does Kyrie handle that?
And does everything unravel at that point? Now we pivot
away from that to a timeless conversation on the airwaves
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of sports radio, the Great Debate, The Great Debate. Now
Rashid Wallace, remember him if you're older to know who
that is. Rashid Wallace recently said that the twenty oh
four Pistons, that he was a central figure in the
twenty oh four Pistons.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Would have beaten the I'm gonna clean this up because
we're on the.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Radio, the poopy out of the twenty seventeen Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So where are you at on this one?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So this is the standard trope, that's my first thought,
the battle of egos. Now, I'm gonna side with Rashid
Wallace on this one.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You can't do that, you shock jock. No, let me explain.
Let me explain my rationale. There's two reasons.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
On one hand, I find Rashid Wallace to be much
more tolerable than Draymond Green. Right, Wallace, I still laugh.
We did shows years ago when he was playing for
the Portland jail Blazers, Rashid Wallace as they were known
in those days, and he got in trouble for not
talking to the media. Kept getting fined, and so Rashid
Wallace came out and every answer he was told by
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some Portland pr hack just give an answer, and that
way you can't get fined. So he kept saying, both
teams played hard, my man, both teams played hard.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It was the funniest thing.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And that alone has me in Rashid Wallace's camp. The
other thing, as you appeal back the onion on this,
it's like Star Wars, you know the scene with Yoda
teaching Luke Skywalker the Way of the Force, revealing his
identity as the Jedi Master. Well, Draymond Green was a
child around the Four Pistons and was influenced by the
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teachings of Rashid Wallace. He's like a cheap ripoff version
of what Rashid Wallace was. Rashid Wallace was good. It
was a good player all around. Dreymugen is not that
he's rode the coattails of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
But hypotheticals are also great because you're never wrong. You
can't say here you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
No, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
These debates exist in the abstract. Okay, it's impossible to
prove or disprove I'm right because the four Pistons, if
they had played the seventeen Warriors, the Warrior players would
have been children, and if vice versa had happened, the
Pistons players would have been old dudes, middle aged dudes
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at that point, you see, all right? Last word here
interesting story from the coaching circuit in the NBA. We
got to Arizona where Mike Budenholzer, Yes, that's the new
head coach of the Phoenix basketball team. He made a
run try to convince Darvin Ham Ham Sam which Darvin
Ham to come out of I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
He's not retired. He just got whacked.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
As coach of the Lakers to join the staff in Arizona.
And they said, why not, we'll reunite the band. Well,
Darvin Ham turned it down. He said, I don't want
to do that. I want nothing to do with that
so Phoenix, we talked about this at the end of
last weekday instead kept David Fisdale. But the reason they
kept him they were going to get rid of him
as a coach, as an assistant.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Take that for data.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But they got rid of They didn't get rid of
him because Darvin Haam turned the job down. So why
the question is why did Darvinham reject the opportunity to
stay in the the NBA on the sidelines join the
Sun's coaching staff. So many many say already I've seen
some commas Darvinham, and you know he's making a mistake here.
He and Budenholzer go back to the days of Atlanta
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in twenty thirteen. They were together in Milwaukee when they
won the Bucks won the championship because of your honest
but nevertheless, right, Darvin's got the parachute. That's the main
reason you don't bother to take the job. He's got
the golden parachute. Genie Buss and the Lakers are going
to be paying all of his bills, his vacations, everything,
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It'll all be paid for. And he all he has
to do is not bad mouth the Lakers, and he
gets all that money and he doesn't have to worry
about anything. It's all taken care so he can go
on a paid sabbatical or is our friends in Australia
and New Zealand say.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A holiday, you bloody rue and just go away.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And plus the other thing I was thinking about with Darvinham,
even though he likes Mike Budenholzer, even he knows the
Phoenix job is a dead end job. It's a dead
end job. It's a cluster bomb of a roster. The
pieces do not fit together, and that is problematic. I
don't care how wonderful you think you are as a coach,
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you can only do so much. And as of all
the sports, as we've talked about many many times, if.
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You were to put a big board together, which.
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I do not do only on the podcast to do
a big board, but if you put a big board
together of all the sports, bat professional basketball coaches matter
the least in professional basketball.
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about you, but I'm a sucker for a quarterback battle.
I jump at the opportunity to talk about quarterback battles. Now,
some are more interesting than others. If you look at
the tablet depth chart, we have one of these in Pittsburgh.
Or is that a fabrication? Is that a fabrication? Is
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that dishonest? Totally dishonest to say that there is a
quarterback battle. But in theory, we were told you're gonna
have Russell Wilson versus Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's the matchup.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Only one will stand the other will dance with the devil,
and that's it. So if you haven't heard the latest
on this, and maybe not, we are told that Russell
Wilson is getting the overwhelming majority of reps, the vast
majority of reps during OTAs. Now publicly everyone involved has
(14:11):
regurgitated the talking points memo that it's a quarterback battle
and I just want to win, and I'm here to
help the team win.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Blah blah blah blah blah all that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
But here we're getting the information that says, well, one
guy is getting a lot more opportunity than the other guy.
That comes in cohoots with a story that claimed that
the quarterback from Chicago, Justin Fields, is also being under
consideration for a slash.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Role, like if you're old enough to remember player named
Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So let us discuss the question how big a deal?
How big a deal is it that Russell Wilson is
getting the vast majority of the reps at the OTS.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's only off season workouts. How big a deal is that?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So I've got the Daytona five hundred, software development and crayons,
and we'll put all these together and we will not
mind our p's and hughes.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We're not all right.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
So number one, Russell Wilson, pretty obvious here. You don't
have to have played in the NFL. You don't have
to have coached in the NFL. You don't have to
have a dopey overnight radio show to know that Russell
Wilson is in the driver's seat right, He's in the
big chair. As one of our old morning guys used
to say, every man, woman and child knows it. It
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is stunning, though, to think that that is where the
Pittsburgh football team is at this particular point. Think Kenny
Pickett was so bad, so bad, they've gone with a
fixer upper in Russell Wilson at this particular point, when
you consider the level of performance that Russe has had
his last year in Seattle and the two years he
was in Colorado, it's not just like he sucked in Denver.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
He was bad in Seattle at the end when they
got rid of him.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But if you think of this in terms of the
Great American Race, the daytone of five hundred right now,
Russell Wilson based on OTAs and that's all the information we.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Have to go for.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Or with Russell Wilson, he's got the inside track, right.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Obviously, right.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I mean he would have to stink, while Justin Fields
would have to take advantage of less opportunities. It does
not appear that the Steelers are exploring all avenues. They've
honed in on the guy that used to be good
as opposed to the guy that's never been good as
a pro quarterback in Justin Fields, and you look around, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Like this guy's got the inside track, and it's Russell.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Wilson's job to blow as a old Steeler broadcaster say,
double YOI oh yeah YOI bring in those terrible towels.
That's got a whole new meaning there, my goodness. And
then I get an email every time I bring up
Russell Wilson question whether or not he can play right.
I think he will freeze up and give it enough time,
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it will not go well. And it doesn't mean the
Steelers can't win a few games. The Broncos won a
few games with Russell Wilson, but it wasn't because of
Russell Wilson that were winning those games. They played hide
the quarterback, and we imagine the same thing will happen
in Pittsburgh going forward. All right, now, Page two is
sticking with the quarterback Situationean, we pinwheel our way to Jacksonville.
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We go there because that is where a quarterback story
is bubbling up. Not a quarterback controversy, though, not a controversy,
not that, but Trevor Lawrence reports over the weekend saying
that Trevor Lawrence is in line to be the next
quarterback to sign a mega mega mega mega mega mega
mega millions extension. Say what, and while still being negotiated,
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it's not a done deal yet, So this could change.
People could come to their senses. But at this point
we talk about what's going on right now. We do
the show today. We don't do the show tomorrow. That's
a different show. This is today's show, so we worry
about what's going on today and today's show. It is
still being negotiated, so it's not done. It's still pouring
over the numbers. But Trevor Lawrence's deal is expected. That's
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weasel terminology. Expected to make him the second highest paid
quarterback in Pro football, with an average annual salary sandwiched
in between Joe Burrow, who's still going to be number one,
and Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So question this is for the panel.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Has Trevor Lawrence done enough to warrant to earn a
massive Jags extension? And the only way you could say
that is if you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs? Right, I'm
shaking my head, No shaking my head. Knowing now, we
were very bullish on Trevor Lawrence and the Jags.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
In twenty twenty three, we wax poetic on the.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
TV show Benny Versus the Penny, singing the virtues of
the Clemson quarterback with the golden locks, and he made
us look like absolute bloody ruse is.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What he did. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
This is not a finished product. We haven't seen enough.
But I look at it like this. If you're in
the computer world, it's like software development, and think of
it like beta testing. And if you've got something in
beta testing and you get it back and there's all
kinds of bugs and glitches and thing of the jigs
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in there, it's not ready for the big time. And
Trevor Lawrence say what you want. He's rough around the edges.
He was never supported. This was supposed to be the
chosen one. He hasn't earned a massive extension.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
The chatter is that there they've got so such low
self esteem. I we'll expand on this more once the
contract is done, but it appears they have some much
of a me problem in Jacksonville, right, They're so they're
so like, ah, we don't went on blog. You know,
we finally got a halfway decent quarterback. It reminds me
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of in basketball, Zion Williamson, who had no business signing
a Max contract in New Orleans but did and saw
it happen. He got hurt when the playoffs came around,
but you pay top dollar for an unfinished product, and
Trevor Lawrence is an unfinished project. Because you have foma,
you have fear of missing out. New Orleans in Pro
Basketball was concerned Zion Williamson was gonna leave and go
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to the Lakers or the Knicks or the Celtics and be.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Great, and they would have missed out on that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And Jacksonville, based on reading the tea, leaves here it's
the same thing. They're like, this guy's gonna leave, and
he's gonna go, You're gonna go to the Cowboys or
the Seahawks and become great. We don't want that, so
we got to keep him and we'll figure out a
way to make him great here, all right, final point.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
This also popped up.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
On our radar over the weekend, but I thought it's
worthy of some conversation here.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
We did not get a chance to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
In Buffalo Orchard Park, New York, the Bills over the
weekend made a signing that's not really newsworthy, but the
fact that they sign a guy that isn't a football
player is very rarely with a business that's in the
football business. Signed a guy that's not a football guy.
But that happened, right. How often do baseball teams sign
people that aren't baseball players. It does happen everyone, so
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I think the last time was like in the seventies
when Charlie o'finley added is it Herb Washington as a
pinch runner. But in football every once in a while
this happened. So the Gable Stevenson who as a professional wrestler.
The Bills have added a professional wrestler, Gable Stevenson. He
won a gold medal in the twenty twenty Summer Olympics.
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I must not have watched that in Tokyo. I guess
I missed it, But wasn't wasn't that in the twenty
twenty one that twenty twenty Summer Olympics actually did in
twenty twenty one?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I think they did because of.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
The pandemic anyway, either way, He then became a professional
wrestler for the WWE, but he was so bad at
that he had such little ras mataz that he got
out of his contract earlier this month. He was let
go by the WWE. Was that from what I'm told?
I'm not the wrestling guy, but I used to be
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but my guys that watch wrestling say he was so bad.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
He's just he had no persona, there was no act there,
there was no there there.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So Stevenson has had never even put on a pair
of cleats before he recently worked out for the Buffalo
football team. So where are you at on the Bills?
Adding a former WWE wrestler who has never played football before,
Gabe Stevenson, So.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Where are you at on that?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So someone in Buffalo, We're not sure who either knows
this guy is friends with an agent or they're just
playing with crayons and they just want to color outside
the lines.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
How about all of you above?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now Stevenson who has never I can't stress this enough,
he'd never put on a pair of cleats, he never
played organized football, and now you're expecting him to try
to make the Bills roster as a defensive lineman. And
what this is a kick in the nuts to all
those cats that have spent their whole life playing football.
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Pop Warner high school, college, and I would like to play,
but I actually played football and I'm not some wrestler.
So it's pretty obvious what's going on here. Unless Gable
sticks the landing which is highly unlikely. That's the stuff
of dreams.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
They make a Disney movie out of that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's more likely than not that what's going to happen
here is Gable Stevenson is going to be a pet
project that he's a speculative investment enterprise, if you will,
And they'll put him on the practice squad. And all right,
here's I imagine how embarrassing that's going to be when
he shows up to the Bill's practice. Here's how you
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put your older pads. I was like freshman football at
high school. All right, here's how you strap your helmet on. Okay,
now you gotta tie your shoes, but you gotta tiere this.
Wait a minute, you're in the Buffalo Bill's locker room.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Like, how detached from reality are we?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What is going on? But that's where we are.
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
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This is one big gets grilled.
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Eh we say hello to the Cooper.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Red Sox manager Alex Cora recently discussed his contract situation
and said that he has no intention of negotiating during
uh and negotiating an extension during the season. Now this
is like many to speculate that he may test the
open market. Ben, do you think Cora is back with
the Socks next year.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
No, He's done.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And it's an odd situation because Alex Cora was part
of the few people punished for the Astros. He didn't
play for the Astros, but he got pushed. He was
one of the masterminds of the cheating scandal, and and
then they had problems in Boston, and then they brought
him back, and it seems like he's just done. He
knows he's not going to be back. The Red Sox
haven't spent a lot of money to try to improve
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the team. They're a mid level team and talent wise,
and so yeah, he'll be managing somewhere else next year,
doing television.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Next Marvin Lewis is making his return to the NFL sidelines,
as he will be assistant head coach for the Raiders
on Antonio Pierce's staff. Ben, do you think Lewis could
eventually make a return to the big chair.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
No, but I could.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
See a scenario where he becomes the defensive coordinator for
the Raiders of their defense gets off to a bad start.
Marvin Lewis and is still living off that Ravens defense
that he oversaw back back in the day. But he's
the guy that's helping Antonio Pierce kind of show Antonio
Pierce the way as a head coach and the Raiders,
if they just get like ten wins, they could be
a wildcard team, but that division is stacked.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Next.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Former Jets GM Mike Tannebaum recently made an appearance on
Dan Patrick when he revealed that if you were to
do a raft of all NFL players today, he would
take Patrick Mahomes number one and Jordan Love number two.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Ben, this is quite a hot take. Yeah, very hot. Yeah,
so hot. The mics are burning up. Yeah, that's right.
Where where would you take Love?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I think Mike Tannenbaum proved why he's an embarrassment now,
that's what I think with and why he sucked as
a GM of the Jets.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Well, first of all.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Mahomes goes one, Joe Burrow goes number Hello, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But Jordan Love he would be a top ten pick.
How did we don't come you pass this edition? That
is a wave you could put it on the bar
that thing.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
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talking to songs? Here some internet advice? Hold that thought.
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds.
And if you don't like it, and no way we go.
It's the incident advice.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like on the screen radio, the safety net is all
who needs or advice? Well, it's a combo this week
on the incident advice line.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
The Dallas Stars.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That's an NHL team and they were supposed to take
care of the Edmonton oilage and they gagged. So advice
to the Dallas Stars and Eddie Garcia, mister hockey over
there who embarrassed himself, My Edmundton, no oilers with Connor
McDavid and all that great time they ended up waiting
without a goaltender. They still won, making Eddie look silly
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and the Dallas Stars look silly.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
What is your advice to them?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
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nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
If you would like to be part. Let's go to
the phones. We'll start out with you online.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
One advice to the Dallas Stars and also Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Hello, line one.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Eddie get ben a two finger polloo. All right, yeah,
well actually listen, I am number one. That's one figure
salute as in the first figure, not the middle figure.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Line two.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You're next, Hello, line two. Okay, thank you for that.
James go to bed, James, go to bed, James. I
think Tammy has your number. Line three, you're on the
air Line three.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Hello, Oh yeah, I saw that. All right, thank you
this guy.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
But it's the it's the instant advice line for both
the Dallas Stars and Eddie Garcia. Mister hockey over there,
who got the picker on my Edmondon rls in the
Stanley Cup Final? A made for TV matchup? Unless it's not,
Oh boy, uh the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton rulis
you are?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You're next on line four? Hello? Line four.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
The NBA is on break till Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No problem, we got w NBA games.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, all right, hangout for yourself. So you're embarrassing yourself.
I think there was sarcasting Line one. Hello, line one.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Think it to Eddy by rooting for the Oilers in
the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, here we go, Ooilers, here we go. Good job, Fergie.
Line two, you're on the air line too, Hello in
morning time.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Related to the Dallas.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Cowboy, Well they did share the same same region.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That's our buddy in Maryland, Rick and Maryland. Line line five. Hello,
line five, they are.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Who we thought they were and we let them off
the hook.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You want to crown them, crown them, but they are
who we thought they were.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
All right, let's go to you and line six. Line six.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Advice to the Dallas Stars as they lost to the
Edmonton Orders. Any Garcia who picked the Stars? Is what?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Mister hockey over there? Hello, you're on the air.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Has anyone heard from jail Dot in Utah? Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, we haven't heard from Jay died in Utah. I
don't think I thought someone on social media over the weekend,
but I'm not sure if that was him or not.
Maybe I was imagining that. And we've not heard from
the hippie weed man. Hippie, We've not heard from him even.
Let's go to you. Line one.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hello, line one, All right, thank you for line one.
Good job not paying attention, you schmuck. Line two you're
on the airline too.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Forget all your words and come out to the Mallard
Meet and Greet in Vegas this summer.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, well you'll be hosey all right. One more Coop picket.
Last one instant advice line for the Dallastars and Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Who picked the stars. Line four. Line four, you're on
the airline. For go look about a woman you're looking
at the walk? Oh, Coop, you should have you should
have gone. Line six. There on that you went, you
went to warrong line There was was that man
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that NBA Finals game that was played on Sunday? O?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
MG, now you did not.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now I could have started with hockey and just mocked
Eddie Garcia for disrespecting my Edmonton rlis.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, No, I'm a sick to my roots here pro
bouncy Ball. We'll get to the Oilers later, as Eddie
had them dead and buried mister hockey over there, but
we'll start out with the gap, not the gap gap,
but the gap the NBA Finals, as you probably know,
they don't get started for like several more days. This
(02:21):
is our Monday show. They don't have the NBA Finals
until Thursday. One of the big storylines leading into the
finals has been what good versus bad? Good versus bad?
Kyrie Irving is right out of Central casting. He's the
villain and the Dallas Mavericks are the bad guys. The
Celtics by default, are the.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Good guys, so let them play.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Joe commented recently on this dynamic while we were away
from the Watchtower here, I thought this was interesting and
really the story of the finals. It's the thing that
is being used to drum up interest if you're not
from Boston or that region, or Dallas or that region.
So if you didn't hear about this over the week,
maybe not. The Celtics coach Joel Missoula let him play
(03:08):
Joe Joe Missoula. He argued that when asked about Kyrie
Irving in his role, he has been characterized as the
evil villain. Well, Joe Missoula argued that everyone can be
seen as a villain. Aren't we all in someone's eyes?
He said, We're all villains in someone's eyes. He also
(03:32):
then slobbered all over Kyrie Irving, saying that he's a
great player, He's done a lot of good things.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
On and on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
All right, so let us discuss the question, what is
your ruling on Joe Missoula down playing, right, down playing
Kyrie Irving's villain status in the lead up to the
NBA Finals. So I've got Milton Bradley, star wars and
parachute and we will combine all of these things together.
(04:01):
We will throw them against the wall and see what sticks.
All right, So a on the surface, these comments by
coach Joe sleepyat Joe whatever you want to come, Joel
Mozoul let him play. Joe were innocuous, Now that were innocuous.
You hear them and you chuckle. There's a term that
(04:22):
is used in sports. Some call it Lou Holtz disease.
That's an old football coach from a million years ago.
Others call it poor mouthing. And that's the classic coaching
technique that calls for the effusive and insincere praise of
the opposition. Kill them with kindness is the mantra for many.
(04:43):
But when you dig a little deeper, it's more right.
It's more than that. And Joel mozoul has been around
Boston for a number of years. There he was given
the key to the castle because the previous Celtic coach
he stepped out of class there and had to be
kicked out out of the organization. But Joe Mizzoula, who
(05:05):
didn't really deserve to be the head coach, now he's
the head coach.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And so does he know Kyrie? Does he have a
great I don't know. He probably does. He pays a
relationship with him.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But that response was Milton Bradley, like it was twister,
It was Missoula stretching his hands and his feet all
over those multi colored circles, twisting his body into a
pretzel to stretch the truth.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Clear lines have been drawn. That's that's it. I'm into it,
like I'm pulling for the Celtics. I don't like Kyrie Irving.
How we lose this, I.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Don't ever see him one again. Kyrie Irving is a
low level batman villain in my mind, He's a mischief maker,
someone who is a rogue actor. Now the only hiccup
and this is the problem, and I'm trying to wrap
my head how to get around this while I have
type cast Kyrie Irving in the NBA Finals as the villain,
like I believe that my issue in this is a
(05:57):
rather big hiccup. It's a couple of hiccups of belches.
Is that Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown of the Boston
basketball team, they totally buy the dogma of Kyrie. Right,
Kyrie is like a godlike figure for them, it would appear.
So it's Kyrie versus not Tatum and Brown because they
(06:18):
all want to cuddle up together and eat donuts. It's
Kyrie versus the Boston fans, right, and will Kyrie, who's
been on his top behavior here.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I don't know if he's on meds or what.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
But will Kyrie be able to control himself when inevitably
something will go sideways between the Mavericks, Kyrie and the
fan base there in Boston, And how does Kyrie handle that?
And does everything unravel at that point? Now we pivot
away from that to a timeless conversation on the airwaves
(06:52):
of sports radio, the Great Debate, The Great Debate. Now
Rashid Wallace, remember him if you're older to know who
that is. Rashid Wallace recently said that the twenty oh
four Pistons, that he was a central figure in the
twenty oh four Pistons.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Would have beaten the I'm gonna clean this up because
we're on the.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Radio, the poopy out of the twenty seventeen Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So where are you at on this one?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So this is the standard trope, that's my first thought,
the battle of egos. Now, I'm gonna side with Rashid
Wallace on this one.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You can't do that, you shock jock. No, let me explain.
Let me explain my rationale. There's two reasons.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
On one hand, I find Rashid Wallace to be much
more tolerable than Draymond Green. Right, Wallace, I still laugh.
We did shows years ago when he was playing for
the Portland jail Blazers, Rashid Wallace as they were known
in those days, and he got in trouble for not
talking to the media. Kept getting fined, and so Rashid
Wallace came out and every answer he was told by
(07:57):
some Portland pr hack just give an answer, and that
way you can't get fined. So he kept saying, both
teams played hard, my man, both teams played hard.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It was the funniest thing.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And that alone has me in Rashid Wallace's camp. The
other thing, as you appeal back the onion on this,
it's like Star Wars, you know the scene with Yoda
teaching Luke Skywalker the Way of the Force, revealing his
identity as the Jedi Master. Well, Draymond Green was a
child around the Four Pistons and was influenced by the
(08:30):
teachings of Rashid Wallace. He's like a cheap ripoff version
of what Rashid Wallace was. Rashid Wallace was good. It
was a good player all around. Dreymugen is not that
he's rode the coattails of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
But hypotheticals are also great because you're never wrong. You
can't say here you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
No, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
These debates exist in the abstract. Okay, it's impossible to
prove or disprove I'm right because the four Pistons, if
they had played the seventeen Warriors, the Warrior players would
have been children, and if vice versa had happened, the
Pistons players would have been old dudes, middle aged dudes
(09:09):
at that point, you see, all right? Last word here
interesting story from the coaching circuit in the NBA. We
got to Arizona where Mike Budenholzer, Yes, that's the new
head coach of the Phoenix basketball team. He made a
run try to convince Darvin Ham Ham Sam which Darvin
Ham to come out of I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
He's not retired. He just got whacked.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
As coach of the Lakers to join the staff in Arizona.
And they said, why not, we'll reunite the band. Well,
Darvin Ham turned it down. He said, I don't want
to do that. I want nothing to do with that
so Phoenix, we talked about this at the end of
last weekday instead kept David Fisdale. But the reason they
kept him they were going to get rid of him
as a coach, as an assistant.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Take that for data.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But they got rid of They didn't get rid of
him because Darvin Haam turned the job down. So why
the question is why did Darvinham reject the opportunity to
stay in the the NBA on the sidelines join the
Sun's coaching staff. So many many say already I've seen
some commas Darvinham, and you know he's making a mistake here.
He and Budenholzer go back to the days of Atlanta
(10:14):
in twenty thirteen. They were together in Milwaukee when they
won the Bucks won the championship because of your honest
but nevertheless, right, Darvin's got the parachute. That's the main
reason you don't bother to take the job. He's got
the golden parachute. Genie Buss and the Lakers are going
to be paying all of his bills, his vacations, everything,
(10:35):
It'll all be paid for. And he all he has
to do is not bad mouth the Lakers, and he
gets all that money and he doesn't have to worry
about anything. It's all taken care so he can go
on a paid sabbatical or is our friends in Australia
and New Zealand say.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A holiday, you bloody rue and just go away.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And plus the other thing I was thinking about with Darvinham,
even though he likes Mike Budenholzer, even he knows the
Phoenix job is a dead end job. It's a dead
end job. It's a cluster bomb of a roster. The
pieces do not fit together, and that is problematic. I
don't care how wonderful you think you are as a coach,
(11:12):
you can only do so much. And as of all
the sports, as we've talked about many many times, if.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You were to put a big board together, which.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I do not do only on the podcast to do
a big board, but if you put a big board
together of all the sports, bat professional basketball coaches matter
the least in professional basketball.
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(13:18):
about you, but I'm a sucker for a quarterback battle.
I jump at the opportunity to talk about quarterback battles. Now,
some are more interesting than others. If you look at
the tablet depth chart, we have one of these in Pittsburgh.
Or is that a fabrication? Is that a fabrication? Is
(13:39):
that dishonest? Totally dishonest to say that there is a
quarterback battle. But in theory, we were told you're gonna
have Russell Wilson versus Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's the matchup.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Only one will stand the other will dance with the devil,
and that's it. So if you haven't heard the latest
on this, and maybe not, we are told that Russell
Wilson is getting the overwhelming majority of reps, the vast
majority of reps during OTAs. Now publicly everyone involved has
(14:11):
regurgitated the talking points memo that it's a quarterback battle
and I just want to win, and I'm here to
help the team win.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Blah blah blah blah blah all that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
But here we're getting the information that says, well, one
guy is getting a lot more opportunity than the other guy.
That comes in cohoots with a story that claimed that
the quarterback from Chicago, Justin Fields, is also being under
consideration for a slash.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Role, like if you're old enough to remember player named
Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So let us discuss the question how big a deal?
How big a deal is it that Russell Wilson is
getting the vast majority of the reps at the OTS.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's only off season workouts. How big a deal is that?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So I've got the Daytona five hundred, software development and crayons,
and we'll put all these together and we will not
mind our p's and hughes.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We're not all right.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
So number one, Russell Wilson, pretty obvious here. You don't
have to have played in the NFL. You don't have
to have coached in the NFL. You don't have to
have a dopey overnight radio show to know that Russell
Wilson is in the driver's seat right, He's in the
big chair. As one of our old morning guys used
to say, every man, woman and child knows it. It
(15:31):
is stunning, though, to think that that is where the
Pittsburgh football team is at this particular point. Think Kenny
Pickett was so bad, so bad, they've gone with a
fixer upper in Russell Wilson at this particular point, when
you consider the level of performance that Russe has had
his last year in Seattle and the two years he
was in Colorado, it's not just like he sucked in Denver.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
He was bad in Seattle at the end when they
got rid of him.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But if you think of this in terms of the
Great American Race, the daytone of five hundred right now,
Russell Wilson based on OTAs and that's all the information we.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Have to go for.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Or with Russell Wilson, he's got the inside track, right.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Obviously, right.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I mean he would have to stink, while Justin Fields
would have to take advantage of less opportunities. It does
not appear that the Steelers are exploring all avenues. They've
honed in on the guy that used to be good
as opposed to the guy that's never been good as
a pro quarterback in Justin Fields, and you look around, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Like this guy's got the inside track, and it's Russell.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Wilson's job to blow as a old Steeler broadcaster say,
double YOI oh yeah YOI bring in those terrible towels.
That's got a whole new meaning there, my goodness. And
then I get an email every time I bring up
Russell Wilson question whether or not he can play right.
I think he will freeze up and give it enough time,
(17:04):
it will not go well. And it doesn't mean the
Steelers can't win a few games. The Broncos won a
few games with Russell Wilson, but it wasn't because of
Russell Wilson that were winning those games. They played hide
the quarterback, and we imagine the same thing will happen
in Pittsburgh going forward. All right, now, Page two is
sticking with the quarterback Situationean, we pinwheel our way to Jacksonville.
(17:27):
We go there because that is where a quarterback story
is bubbling up. Not a quarterback controversy, though, not a controversy,
not that, but Trevor Lawrence reports over the weekend saying
that Trevor Lawrence is in line to be the next
quarterback to sign a mega mega mega mega mega mega
mega millions extension. Say what, and while still being negotiated,
(17:52):
it's not a done deal yet, So this could change.
People could come to their senses. But at this point
we talk about what's going on right now. We do
the show today. We don't do the show tomorrow. That's
a different show. This is today's show, so we worry
about what's going on today and today's show. It is
still being negotiated, so it's not done. It's still pouring
over the numbers. But Trevor Lawrence's deal is expected. That's
(18:14):
weasel terminology. Expected to make him the second highest paid
quarterback in Pro football, with an average annual salary sandwiched
in between Joe Burrow, who's still going to be number one,
and Jared Goff.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So question this is for the panel.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Has Trevor Lawrence done enough to warrant to earn a
massive Jags extension? And the only way you could say
that is if you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs? Right, I'm
shaking my head, No shaking my head. Knowing now, we
were very bullish on Trevor Lawrence and the Jags.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
In twenty twenty three, we wax poetic on the.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
TV show Benny Versus the Penny, singing the virtues of
the Clemson quarterback with the golden locks, and he made
us look like absolute bloody ruse is.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What he did. Right.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
This is not a finished product. We haven't seen enough.
But I look at it like this. If you're in
the computer world, it's like software development, and think of
it like beta testing. And if you've got something in
beta testing and you get it back and there's all
kinds of bugs and glitches and thing of the jigs
(19:35):
in there, it's not ready for the big time. And
Trevor Lawrence say what you want. He's rough around the edges.
He was never supported. This was supposed to be the
chosen one. He hasn't earned a massive extension.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
The chatter is that there they've got so such low
self esteem. I we'll expand on this more once the
contract is done, but it appears they have some much
of a me problem in Jacksonville, right, They're so they're
so like, ah, we don't went on blog. You know,
we finally got a halfway decent quarterback. It reminds me
(20:10):
of in basketball, Zion Williamson, who had no business signing
a Max contract in New Orleans but did and saw
it happen. He got hurt when the playoffs came around,
but you pay top dollar for an unfinished product, and
Trevor Lawrence is an unfinished project. Because you have foma,
you have fear of missing out. New Orleans in Pro
Basketball was concerned Zion Williamson was gonna leave and go
(20:32):
to the Lakers or the Knicks or the Celtics and be.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Great, and they would have missed out on that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And Jacksonville, based on reading the tea, leaves here it's
the same thing. They're like, this guy's gonna leave, and
he's gonna go, You're gonna go to the Cowboys or
the Seahawks and become great. We don't want that, so
we got to keep him and we'll figure out a
way to make him great here, all right, final point.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
This also popped up.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
On our radar over the weekend, but I thought it's
worthy of some conversation here.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
We did not get a chance to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
In Buffalo Orchard Park, New York, the Bills over the
weekend made a signing that's not really newsworthy, but the
fact that they sign a guy that isn't a football
player is very rarely with a business that's in the
football business. Signed a guy that's not a football guy.
But that happened, right. How often do baseball teams sign
people that aren't baseball players. It does happen everyone, so
(21:19):
I think the last time was like in the seventies
when Charlie o'finley added is it Herb Washington as a
pinch runner. But in football every once in a while
this happened. So the Gable Stevenson who as a professional wrestler.
The Bills have added a professional wrestler, Gable Stevenson. He
won a gold medal in the twenty twenty Summer Olympics.
(21:41):
I must not have watched that in Tokyo. I guess
I missed it, But wasn't wasn't that in the twenty
twenty one that twenty twenty Summer Olympics actually did in
twenty twenty one?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I think they did because of.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
The pandemic anyway, either way, He then became a professional
wrestler for the WWE, but he was so bad at
that he had such little ras mataz that he got
out of his contract earlier this month. He was let
go by the WWE. Was that from what I'm told?
I'm not the wrestling guy, but I used to be
(22:13):
but my guys that watch wrestling say he was so bad.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
He's just he had no persona, there was no act there,
there was no there there.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So Stevenson has had never even put on a pair
of cleats before he recently worked out for the Buffalo
football team. So where are you at on the Bills?
Adding a former WWE wrestler who has never played football before,
Gabe Stevenson, So.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Where are you at on that?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So someone in Buffalo, We're not sure who either knows
this guy is friends with an agent or they're just
playing with crayons and they just want to color outside
the lines.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
How about all of you above?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now Stevenson who has never I can't stress this enough,
he'd never put on a pair of cleats, he never
played organized football, and now you're expecting him to try
to make the Bills roster as a defensive lineman. And
what this is a kick in the nuts to all
those cats that have spent their whole life playing football.
(23:18):
Pop Warner high school, college, and I would like to play,
but I actually played football and I'm not some wrestler.
So it's pretty obvious what's going on here. Unless Gable
sticks the landing which is highly unlikely. That's the stuff
of dreams.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
They make a Disney movie out of that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's more likely than not that what's going to happen
here is Gable Stevenson is going to be a pet
project that he's a speculative investment enterprise, if you will,
And they'll put him on the practice squad. And all right,
here's I imagine how embarrassing that's going to be when
he shows up to the Bill's practice. Here's how you
(23:59):
put your older pads. I was like freshman football at
high school. All right, here's how you strap your helmet on. Okay,
now you gotta tie your shoes, but you gotta tiere this.
Wait a minute, you're in the Buffalo Bill's locker room.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Like, how detached from reality are we?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What is going on? But that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
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Speaker 1 (24:21):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Eh we say hello to the Cooper.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Red Sox manager Alex Cora recently discussed his contract situation
and said that he has no intention of negotiating during
uh and negotiating an extension during the season. Now this
is like many to speculate that he may test the
open market. Ben, do you think Cora is back with
the Socks next year.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
No, He's done.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And it's an odd situation because Alex Cora was part
of the few people punished for the Astros. He didn't
play for the Astros, but he got pushed. He was
one of the masterminds of the cheating scandal, and and
then they had problems in Boston, and then they brought
him back, and it seems like he's just done. He
knows he's not going to be back. The Red Sox
haven't spent a lot of money to try to improve
(25:09):
the team. They're a mid level team and talent wise,
and so yeah, he'll be managing somewhere else next year,
doing television.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Next Marvin Lewis is making his return to the NFL sidelines,
as he will be assistant head coach for the Raiders
on Antonio Pierce's staff. Ben, do you think Lewis could
eventually make a return to the big chair.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
No, but I could.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
See a scenario where he becomes the defensive coordinator for
the Raiders of their defense gets off to a bad start.
Marvin Lewis and is still living off that Ravens defense
that he oversaw back back in the day. But he's
the guy that's helping Antonio Pierce kind of show Antonio
Pierce the way as a head coach and the Raiders,
if they just get like ten wins, they could be
a wildcard team, but that division is stacked.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Next.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Former Jets GM Mike Tannebaum recently made an appearance on
Dan Patrick when he revealed that if you were to
do a raft of all NFL players today, he would
take Patrick Mahomes number one and Jordan Love number two.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Ben, this is quite a hot take. Yeah, very hot. Yeah,
so hot. The mics are burning up. Yeah, that's right.
Where where would you take Love?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I think Mike Tannenbaum proved why he's an embarrassment now,
that's what I think with and why he sucked as
a GM of the Jets.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Well, first of all.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Mahomes goes one, Joe Burrow goes number Hello, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But Jordan Love he would be a top ten pick.
How did we don't come you pass this edition? That
is a wave you could put it on the bar
that thing.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
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Speaker 3 (26:49):
Hey you sports figure, guy or hero. Here were you
talking to songs? Here some internet advice? Hold that thought.
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds.
And if you don't like it, and no way we go.
It's the incident advice.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like on the screen radio, the safety net is all
who needs or advice? Well, it's a combo this week
on the incident advice line.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
The Dallas Stars.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That's an NHL team and they were supposed to take
care of the Edmonton oilage and they gagged. So advice
to the Dallas Stars and Eddie Garcia, mister hockey over
there who embarrassed himself, My Edmundton, no oilers with Connor
McDavid and all that great time they ended up waiting
without a goaltender. They still won, making Eddie look silly
(27:37):
and the Dallas Stars look silly.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
What is your advice to them?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
If you would like to be part. Let's go to
the phones. We'll start out with you online.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
One advice to the Dallas Stars and also Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Hello, line one.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Eddie get ben a two finger polloo. All right, yeah,
well actually listen, I am number one. That's one figure
salute as in the first figure, not the middle figure.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Line two.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You're next, Hello, line two. Okay, thank you for that.
James go to bed, James, go to bed, James. I
think Tammy has your number. Line three, you're on the
air Line three.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Hello, Oh yeah, I saw that. All right, thank you
this guy.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
But it's the it's the instant advice line for both
the Dallas Stars and Eddie Garcia. Mister hockey over there,
who got the picker on my Edmondon rls in the
Stanley Cup Final? A made for TV matchup? Unless it's not,
Oh boy, uh the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton rulis
you are?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You're next on line four? Hello? Line four.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
The NBA is on break till Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No problem, we got w NBA games.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, all right, hangout for yourself. So you're embarrassing yourself.
I think there was sarcasting Line one. Hello, line one.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Think it to Eddy by rooting for the Oilers in
the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, here we go, Ooilers, here we go. Good job, Fergie.
Line two, you're on the air line too, Hello in
morning time.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Related to the Dallas.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Cowboy, Well they did share the same same region.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That's our buddy in Maryland, Rick and Maryland. Line line five. Hello,
line five, they are.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Who we thought they were and we let them off
the hook.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You want to crown them, crown them, but they are
who we thought they were.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
All right, let's go to you and line six. Line six.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Advice to the Dallas Stars as they lost to the
Edmonton Orders. Any Garcia who picked the Stars? Is what?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Mister hockey over there? Hello, you're on the air.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Has anyone heard from jail Dot in Utah? Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, we haven't heard from Jay died in Utah. I
don't think I thought someone on social media over the weekend,
but I'm not sure if that was him or not.
Maybe I was imagining that. And we've not heard from
the hippie weed man. Hippie, We've not heard from him even.
Let's go to you. Line one.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hello, line one, All right, thank you for line one.
Good job not paying attention, you schmuck. Line two you're
on the airline too.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Forget all your words and come out to the Mallard
Meet and Greet in Vegas this summer.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, well you'll be hosey all right. One more Coop picket.
Last one instant advice line for the Dallastars and Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Who picked the stars. Line four. Line four, you're on
the airline. For go look about a woman you're looking
at the walk? Oh, Coop, you should have you should
have gone. Line six. There on that you went, you
went to warrong line There was was that man
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