March 9, 2023 • 34 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss discuss Joe Boeheim goes out in the weirdest way possible after 47 years as men's basketball coach at Syracuse. Woody Johnson, Robert Saleh, Joe Douglas, and Aaron Rodgers all have something in common, and Kevin Durrant takes a fall during warmups proving he really is a glass man now!
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Look obviously, the I won't say retirement because he wouldn't
even say it. It's just been handled so awkwardly today
of Jim Beheim, who will not be returning to Syracuse
forty seven years with the school, and a very awkward
press conference question and answer after the game after Syracuse
got knocked out of the ACC Tournament by Wake Forest. Today.
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It's just awkward. I feel awful for the guy. That
this is how it went out. The guy's a legend,
and he had to say answer questions that that that
he didn't want to give an answer to. He wants
you to know that he feels like he's pushed out.
It's just, it's just, it's just I don't know how
it ended. Itavery right. We see acrimonious departures and in
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our personal lives and friendships and relationships and marriages and
whatever else. And it's never a clean end for most athletes,
right the jersey gets ripped off them. Very few just
say yeah, it's it, I'm done. Very rarely do you
get that. And from the coaching perspective, you're hired to
be fired. But this seemed like a circumstance where Beeheim
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as terse and weird as it might be, that you
wouldn't get to where it was this level of confusion, acrimony,
and and really Beheim taking and the knob and turning
it to eleven. Now we're gonna play the the big
back and forth. It's getting all the attention today, which
I'm embarrassed when I hear it. I feel bad when
I hear it, because you know, look, I'm a class
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of ninety two Variety's my guy. And here it was
after they lose to Wake Forest and the news of
his not returning, because again they still don't call to retire. Man.
By the way, that was a hell of a shot, man, dude,
those last two shots were just I would want to
retire after those. Then one dude takes a Michael Jordan
bleeping heat check, spinning jumper in the lane. Come on, man,
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and then you hit some kind of slap dash throw
off balance three to win. I would want to retire defense,
you know, Come on, man, just that goat we have
over the desk by or tie shirt and Mark sit
again in the studio there and you pressed something in
the bottom in the leg. Just collapse. That was every
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Syracuse player like they were part of Ultron. Yeah, and
they were deactivated. Someone hitting the center. His players let
him down. Jason Hildrid just scored. He scores twelve points
a game. He hits a Jordan turn re twisting and
come on man, all right? Anyway he was. Here was
the back and forth with Beheim where his quote retirement, quitting,
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stepping away, being forced out became public. Well, I gave
my retirements piece on the court last Saturday, and I
gave it in the press conference afterwards, and nobody except
will William Payne figured it out. Right now that you're
you're going to retire, this is up to the university.
You want to come back. I didn't say that. Okay,
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So what are you saying. You're not saying you're retiring.
I just said it. I don't know, So you don't know, okay.
I said this is up to the university. Right now,
that you're you're going to retire, this is up to
the university. You want to come back. I didn't say that.
You take determination. But when you will come back. You're
talking to Jason. I heard he's going at Georgetown after this. Yeah,
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among the things you won't be seeing again, it's it's
it's yeah, yeah, I don't think they're gonna want Yeah,
I'm not gonna happen. Uh. Now, Look so that that's
the Beheim. Everybody is used to right their curmudgeon, and
he's and he's he's he's ornery and all this. But
let me just give you a little bit something different
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on Jim Beheim. This is an interview we did with
him right after Syracuse went to the Final four in
twenty sixteen, right the last time of his five visits
to the Final four. It was kind of an upset run.
For their last two runs of the Final Four were
very upset style. No one expect there were ten seed
going in. Here they are in the Final four. And
Beyheim comes on, and you know, as I told you before,
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he and I have are our birthdays are a day apart,
and you know, getting to talk to him on the
show was a great thing. And here he is having
some fun with us, talking about what he did and
what's going on. And when I thank them for coming
on the show, well here's how it went with Jim Beeheim. Well,
you know, I have to be nice to Syracuse guys,
so you know, hopefully they'll be nice to me sometimes.
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You know, I figured, because your birthdays the day before mine,
we can have like two or three hour conversations on
our birthdays, we can go over a whole bunch of stuff.
I don't know about three hours. I mean, I don't know.
I think ten minutes we can handle that. But more
much more than that. It's very good. I saw you
on Dan Patrick's show earlier today talk about how you
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would come back for at least one more year, no
matter what happens here. But does this run convince you
maybe know the ten years or so, I think we
can put together a couple hundred bucks here at Fox
get you to stick around a bit. No, I mean
it's been great. Just team's been graa. I'm so happy
for these guys. They've come through a lot of adversity,
and you know, coaches are supposed to be able to
handle that players it's difficult for them. We had an
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up and down season. You know, we started out good,
we struggled, we got going, and we struggled again, and
you know, we got into the tournament and and just
you know, really have played well and you know, made
two really almost impossible comebacks against Gonzaga and against Virginia yesterday.
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Just you know, it's hard. It's when you're down six,
seven points to those teams, and the last few minutes
with Gonzaga and then when you're down fifteen or the
second half against Virginia. Those are hard games to come
back from and the players deserve an unbelievable amount of credit. Thing.
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You know, Virginia is a great defensive team. They've held
us about thirty percent shooting, and we shot nine out
of ten in the second half, so you know it's
pretty hard to do that. So tell me about the comeback.
I saw assistant coach Mike Hopkins say after the game
that I don't know what happened. I have to go
back and look at the tape. Can you explain what
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happen in the second half any better after having a
few hours to look back at it. Well, the one thing,
we only made two steals, but Virginia missed two layups
and they walked down under the basket, and you don't
expect a team like Virginia to make that kind of mistake.
They is uncharacteristic. We had eleven steals against them. You
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don't expect that against a Virginia team. We had zero
turnovers in the second half and they had five or six.
You just don't expect that from a Virginia team. But
we still at the other end, they had to make
down out of ten shots and freshmen, two freshmen made
three straight threes. So you don't expect that to happen,
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But you're you're happy that it did happen, and we're
moving on. The players just deserve an unbelievable amount of
credit for what they've what they've done, and what they
did yesterday. Hope we all hope wasn't lost obviously, but
was not in plain view very often yesterday. All right, coach,
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what'd you say to Maliki at halftime yesterday? Because everybody's
talking about his performance. I told her to drive the ball,
you know, get to the basket. You know, let's let's go.
You're hesitating. He's done that before. He's had bad first
half and bounced back with fifteen sixteen point second half.
But we talked about just changing our offensives. Drive more,
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let's screen away from the ball more and try to
open up driving lanes. And that helped us. That helped us.
But he once he made a couple of layups, he
kind of got feeling good. He made his two free throws,
and then he made a three, and you know, he
just kept going from there. He had a tremendous second half.
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He said, your language is a little more colorful than that, though,
the way you talked to him at halftime, No, I didn't,
not too much. I used to do. I'm too old
for that stuff now. I was pretty pretty somber at halftime,
and you know, but I did want him to try
to get to the beast and make plays, and he
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did and that's why we won the game. Well. Also,
I think if you can get Tyler Lydon to shoot
threes with just one shoe one for most of the game,
I think that might help too. Yeah, that was amazing
to you know, most guys, they don't even want to
keep playing. He just kept playing, laying up and happened,
and they made him go back and play defense for
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a possession too. So yeah, he's a great young player.
Our two freshmen played great yesterday, and of course our
two seniors were great. They've been great leaders all year
and they're the reason we're still playing and happy to
be playing. Uh, it's great for them, and it's great
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for our fans to be able to get back to
the final four. It's always great to do that. And
the only problem is I have had fifteen phone calls
today and now I got to go watch a lot
of tape and that I don't want to watch against
North Carolina. I don't want to watch that, really, but
I'm going to go do right now when I get
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off with you. With North Carolina coming up. Coach, obviously,
some of the interviews you do this week won't be
the greatest. They'll be rules and fractions, questions that'll be discussed.
In fact, coach Williams talked about him last night after
North Carolinas win. How are you answered those this week? Well,
I don't talk about it. It's in the past and
we just where we've moved on and that's that's all
you can do. Things happen and you have to face
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your punishment. You move on. You don't continue to get
punished for it. It's in the past and you've paid
your price and you move on. And that's what we've done.
Last thing, coach, the internet is having a ton of
fun with how you're wearing your Final four hat after
the game yesterday. It's pretty high up on your head
and I see the pictures and I go, you know,
those hate just too small sometimes and I think it
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was too small on your head or was it something else? Oh, yeah,
it really was. I don't think I pulled it down
for whatever reason. I probably was afraid to mess up
my one or two hairs that I do have, so
we didn't pull it down enough. And I'm not a
big head guy anyway. Less, I'm playing golf, which I
like to be wearing a hand, because if I'm wearing
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a hand, I'm either fishing or playing golf. And that's
that's the two good things. He'll be playing a lanks
for having me and I gotta run, gotta go look
at some film and I appreciate it. Congratulations coach, look
forward to seeing it at the final four. Thank you?
Right there was he was done at the end, name
he was done. I got another call. Yeah, you asked me,
asked me about that, and you asked me about the
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f frags my hat and okay, now it asked me,
I'm about a flipping hat. I'm done. I'm done. But listen,
the funny was having a syricus things about me and stuff.
But this is kind of who he was too. But
you know, he doesn't make the headlines for this. He
makes the headlines for winning, all right. Looking at him
yelling at a reporter, looking at him yelling at this kid,
looking at him doing this, look him doing that. You
know there there's there's a couple of different guys. And
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you know I say this all the time, is that
I kind of have the view of Beheim, like like
people view the TV show Sons of Anarchy, right. And
in Sons of Anarchy, the show was about a cast
of characters who were maybe forty percent good and sixty
percent bad, Like they did a lot of bad things, right,
But they're the stars of the show. And and and
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that's who that's who you watch, right, You watch them
because why because Kurt Sutter would even say this, he goes,
people watch because they're your monsters. They're my monsters. We're watching,
we're rooting for them because the forces they're fighting against
are maybe ten percent good and ninety percent bad. But
there are monsters. They're your monsters. And I feel the
same way. You know about Beheim, It's like, yeah, but
he's he's curmudgeon le and he's crusty. He says this,
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and he criticizes players, and he says this about guys
like Andy Katz. Go yeah, but he's my guy who's
krusty and says these things about Andy Kats and criticizes players.
He's my guy, He's that's that's my coach who does that.
And so it's that's kind of how I have always
looked at him. And like I said, you know, I
still think of you know, walking on campus, you know,
in nineteen eighty eight for the first time and go, hey,
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I don't know what's gonna happen now, but we're coming
off the national championship game and losing by a point
to Indiana. I can't wait. And it's been that's been
Syracuse basketball for me now for the last thirty five years,
and I can't. Here I am fifty two years old.
I'm like, he's just walking away to dude, Frostburg, you
didn't even go to college, Okay, so just just stop,
just stop with that. You seriously, you didn't even go No,
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they just gave me a degree. You have a long
Beach State University hat, and that's and that's the only
thing you have that's worth more than your diploma, not
in Beheim's hat that we talked about there. Yeah, there
you go. Well my two cents here. Two things. Number One,
you have the the circumstance where we talk about the
humanity there of Beheim having a little bit of fun,
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kind of joking and going along with it again, acquainting
to Popovich, Belichick, all the guys that have historically been
in the monster in front of the podium and the
assembled media the other I mean, just how gracious I
was since this was such a great opportunity for you
to kiss Beheim's ass that I just laid out and
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let you talk a lot. But what it was really
that was really great of me. I mean, I mean,
that's Mark Coney kind of stuff right there. I didn't
know where my space was. I don't have to call
him for you. The guy was just gone to the
final four. That's the story. Yeah, yeah, But the point
being that you know, I laid out because it's you
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getting to be fan boy about the final four. I
think we should do more of that, you laying out
and me getting to be fanboy about things. We should
do more of that. I think we don't. We don't
do enough. Nixon. We we talk on a daily basis,
and we're gonna have to add in our the Lakers
are back television show. So now we're gonna have to
add this do it? Why not? Exclamation point Twitter and
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out about a fresca Mike and Swollender's just a different
look at Jim Beheim there, who is now not coming
back to the sideline after forty seven years because it
just got so awkward. It's tough. But syracustin Georgetown are
gonna have new coaches, because there's no way in hell
you ink's coming back. No, after a thirty two point blowout,
they're gonna spop. Yeah, he's won like four games in
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the last six years. I don't though, I don't think
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Due d Um. We've had a lot of nbas and
I've been a lot of stuff going on. We talked
about we got John and Kevin Durant slipping and falling
while he's messing around before the game Arizona. How many
jobs are lost over that? Well, the guy who with
the blue mop whose job it is to sweep the floor,
it definitely loses his gig. Yeah, that fall on a loop. Yeah,
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it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it's uh that that guy whoever
whoever has the big blue broom that they push out
to always have, that guy's getting fired if he hasn't
gotten fired already over undrawn games missed. There's one. Oh
you imagine. Let's see Eugene who we pay fifteen bucks
an hour? Two? Kevin Durant? Who are giving forty eight
million dollars to Eugene? You're fired? Isn't it the guy
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in the gorilla suit that mops up there? Oh? I
would hope not. They need, they need, they need to
keep him. I mean, he can't have you like we
had to fire the gorilla. Why because Bright and kdfell.
He was too busy hyping up the damn crowd on
the others a lot of cash due. I think he's
the highest paid mascot in the NBA. He might be.
We had Yeah, he was over there with his hot
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dog guns. He had a good run into the crowd.
So what do we have now, Well, now we have
the armadillo, the army. Yeah, he doesn't get up. He
can't dunk like the gorilla. I hated that gorilla in
ninety four trying out Mat Scott's here's the bull Mastiff terrier.
Let's say no, he can't dunk either. That's not gonna work.
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You can imitate Katie's fall from tonight you get the job,
oh man, because you know there's gonna be somebody who
does that, right, one of those people who online that
specialty is looking like the NBA star, like hitting the
jumper that looks like Kobe, or the fade away like Luca.
Someone's gonna do that and go, yeah, here's Katie like
in Boom and then slipping fat. I'm not saying it's
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funny that he got hurt, but he's funny how he
got hurt. It's I can't believe that's how he went.
I mean, just slipping baseball injury, oh man. But look,
there's big stuff in the NFL too, And the story
of the last couple of days has been the Ravens
placing the non exclusive franchise tag on Lamar Jackson, who
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now is free to sign an offer sheet with any
team in the NFL, and the Ravens then decide, yes,
we're gonna match it and keep him, or we're going
to let you, Athman, you're gonna give us two first
round picks. This is insane until you realize how this
is going to play out, right, Because I'll tell you
exactly what's gonna go on with Lamar Jackson, because now
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that anybody can sign him, you are going to see
teams jump in that you would not normally believe would
be teams that would go out to get Lamar Jackson
right because we thought, well, teams like Atlanta is gonna
get involved and Caroline is gonna get involved any quarterback. No,
you're gonna see teams like Tennessee may say hey, we
want to get involved. Indianapolis is gonna say they want
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to get involved. These are the teams you could see
the Patriots say, hey, we're ready. Hey, Lamar, we're gonna
pay you. This is Bill Belichick's dream. Hey, we're gonna
we'll give you. We'll give you all this money, Lamar,
and we'll create the contract so the Ravens can't really
match it, and we'll pray away two first round picks
and the page leve Lamar Jackson. You're gonna see people
get involved that you're not expecting, which means someone's gonna
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give him the contract that he wants, which is more
than two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed, which is
exactly what he wants. And you know, Lamar Jackson doesn't
care what team. He just wants to get paid. He
has made that absolutely clear over the course of the
past year and a half. So here's how it plays out.
Somebody signs Lamar Jackson to an offer sheet, and when
it does, Lamar Jackson plays his final trump card, Ravens,
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do not match this. I do not I can't go
back because things are too bad. I'm ready to move on.
Do not match this. Let me go someplace else in play,
and the Ravens will say, okay, we'll take the two
first round picks. Now, why would that? Why is it
going to happen that way? Because Lamar Jackson doesn't want
to stay there, and so he's gonna say I want out,
and no team wants a guy who says I don't
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want to be there, and the Ravens will say okay,
and that Meanwhile, the real reason the Ravens are saying
it is because they don't want to pay Lamar Jackson
that money and they just want to look like we
did everything we could to keep him, but we can't.
Because the optic of a team not being able to
resign your twenty five year old franchise quarterback, that's embarrassing
on so many levels. Man, the guy's one an MVP's
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one of the best in the game. No, no, we
can't find a way to do it because we don't
want to pay like other quarterbacks are getting paid in
the league right now. Okay, so guess what, You're gonna
lose that quarterback. But that's how it's gonna go. Lamar
Jackson signs, he tells the Ravens not to match. Ravens say, okay,
Lamar's on his new team. That's how it goes. Yeah.
I think there's a lot of fun conversation that comes
to this, and it gets, you know, into personal relationships,
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how you deal with things right the devil you know,
versus the devil you don't as related to the organization
you've been playing for, and you know, to a lot
of the narrative has been, well, the Ravens don't want him, Well,
they don't want him at that price, and that's what
you and I have talked about for a long while.
And in putting the non exclusive, they've given them the
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opportunity to go into the marketplace. They may very well
come back, and the only offers that avail themselves are
in the range the Ravens we're talking about and all
of a sudden, Tata, here you go. And it's not
the hey, you gotta come crawling back with your tail
between your legs, But the reality of a marketplace sometimes
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slaps you in the face that you're not as valuable
to another program as you were here, particularly when you
have to give up assets to bring him in. And
while it's less than Russell Wilson and some of these
other trades, right, Matthew Stafford, we talk about all the
draft compensation that go through. Ravens were willing to put
that up. So for Lamar Jackson and the one I
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like that is maybe the best theory was the Princess
of Darkness herself. On this National International Women's Day, we
celebrate our friend Amy Trask and in this in tandem
with something friend of the show, Jason locking Forward put out,
it's like, what if Daniel Snyder. We don't know if
he's selling or not. Right as much as people want
to talk about valuations and the lists of potential suitors, whatever,
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but if say does get to the point where it's
it's inevitable that it's done, wouldn't a great final act
be that all guaranteed money two hundred seventy two hundred
and eighty and then waved to all the other owners
as he sells his team for six billion dollars or
whatever good loves what. That was a combination between Lock
and Vora and Trast that I saw in my timeline,
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and I thought I'd give it some love here as
we're talking about Lamar. But from a business perspective, I've
just seen you know what Lamar and the disrespect you
brought up the MVP, Well, that's what he was. You're
not paying them based on what he was. Right now,
he's a guy that you're figuring out the next iteration,
trying to figure out how many more years of elite
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status you have back to back years. He missed five games. Look,
we can argue about what the final five games were
for twenty twenty two. The end game is he wasn't
on the field. A lot of talk about the training staff. Well,
like the Chargers, the Ravens get rid of their trainer,
So obviously something was a miss as far as you
know diagnoses, rehabilitation programs, whatever they were looking at, and
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a disagreement of are you ready are you not? Can
you played through it? How many former players did you
see line up to say, oh, he's just got to
put a brace on and go through it. We have
no idea how hurt that knee was right, and that's
between him, the team, doctors, whatever, because we always know
the NFL teams want you on the field three weeks
faster than you're supposed to be right or yesterday, as
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in the old terminology. So it's it's the curiosity. I
still think they're they're very well could be a reunion there.
Don't forget you also have Las Vegas if we're gonna
keep putting up potential suitors because they don't know what
they're doing, so they didn't emphatically rule anything out. They
talked about veterans, but I think that was more in
the we don't want a thirty nine year old veteran
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coming in here with the Aaron Rodgers thing. But as
we know, everything changes on a dime. You get some
fuzzy maths, some good accounting, a good rapport, maybe a
plea from Davante Adams or a threat, and all of
a sudden, the Raiders are back in the mix as well,
And who knows, Aaron Rodgers could be a Raider still too.
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No sha look, the Raiders, they they could sign, They
could sign Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers or Gardner Minshew. None
of that would be surprising, No, but that's just it available.
Anybody the Raiders would sign. It had surprise you is there.
And even if the Raiders said will trade for Zach Wilson,
that would not surprise me because it's the Raiders that
would not surprise legitimately, Like it wouldn't surprise me at all.
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The way they've gone through this, all we know is
they've given no vote of confidence or at a boy
for anybody currently on the roster, and they told Derek
Carter beat it. You know, the thing about Lamar Jackson
is this is that this is why someone's going to
give him the money he wants, because it's the money,
and it's two first round picks, which is less than
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you had to give up for Russell Wilson, less you
had to give it for anybody. It's the same you
may have to give up for Aaron Rodgers depending on
the money. This is two first round picks for a
quarterback who is going to be your guy for at
least the next five years. Now you're hoping he stays
healthy obviously, but this is not Carson Wentz, where the
guy when the MVP six years ago and he really
is shown he can't do it anymore. This is you know,
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he's three years removed from it now and when healthy,
he's still one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
And if you're a team that, hey, we have trouble
figuring out the quarterback position, or we're not going to
draft late enough, we're yeah, we'll get in on that.
When can we possibly get in on a guy better
than Lamar Jackson? And free agency and we can take
a swing at it, because if we don't make it, okay,
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we're no worse off than we were before we tried
to get Lamar it didn't work. We'd love to have them.
We still have a whole of quarterback we'll fill it
in draft. So I don't doubt for a second someone's
going to give him that money. Now, are there going
to be a ton of teams that go after it
that way? Probably not. But all you need is one, right,
you say it all the time, All you need is one.
But then there will be that one team that goes back.
And the thing is Lamar just wants the money. So
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It may not be a great destination, but you know what,
if they're gonna pay me, that's where I'll go. Well,
and for the Ravens, right, that's the hope is that
it's the lowest, the bottom of the barrel as it.
You were just going to say the Jet. You're hoping
it's you were almost gonna say Jen Metted. You were
gonna say Jets. Oh, look, the Jets are interesting to me.
You know, you've got the defending rookies of the year,
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You've got a good infrastructure. I don't know how well,
maybe Captain Carson Wentz, but outside of the quarterback position,
at least on paper, you're competitive. Now how many wins
it is in a cannibalizing division, and obviously the AFC
and the strength thereof I can't say for certain. But
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it's a good destination. And the draft picks because of
the year that they had, aren't as desirous. But here's
the thing. The Ravens put that into play themselves. Now,
when it comes down to money, are you desperate because
to pull guys in, Well, it's not everybody, almost everybody.
I don't want to say everybody, because I haven't looked
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at the numbers from this year, but generally teams are
playing to near capacity. Right, Maybe not in December where
seats are old and you're not catching in on revenue
on beer and parking and concession sales, but the tickets
are generally going to be sold. Not to mention, you
get a giant sized novelty check from all of your
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rights holders, right, all your broadcast partners, and with Sunday
ticket moving, guess what that the price of poker went
up again, right, So you're getting lots of checks in
that regard. So the money for a couple of teams
perhaps isn't and we see the salary cap rise coming
out of that, so maybe it's it's not the same
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as it might be otherwise because you don't need a
gotta put butts and seats if you're looking to make
a splash and say we've arrived. Well, if the rest
of your infrastructure stinks and your GM can't do anything,
then it really doesn't matter. But that's the hope for
the Ravens is that yes, one of those teams is
desperate enough to get him into that range of what
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he was desiring. Whether it's too fifty, whether it's two eighty.
It's all rumor because right, we don't have any agent
leaking anything. Yeah, he's not gonna Yeah, the only way
was his sources. Who is your soul goat? Sorry guy, Yeah,
I kind of fell apart on that one. For unless
it's one of the inner circle. And if Lamar treats
his inner circle like Aaron Rodgers does, I mean he
cuts them loose so they don't know anything. Oh that's true. Yeah, yeah,
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who liked this man? Aaron Rodgers waking up next Tuesday
going why is Lamar Jackson? Pat McAfee, why is he
sitting in my spot? How did this happen? Inner circle?
Talk to me right now? This is not acceptable. Look,
you're out, You're out. I can't. I can't have it anymore.
That would be such a baller move for Pat McAfee. Hey, sorry,
you haven't called me Aaron in two weeks. Here's Lamar
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Jackson in your slot. Hey, I had to fill the slot,
and I signed a big enough deal that I can
pay him some money to come in and spill what's
going on in his world. But yeah, I mean the Ravens.
It's an interesting way of doing business, right, because you're
not getting the the full cadre of draft picks, and
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you're kind of subject right now to what the market
will do and banking on the fact. And this is
where the collusion talk begins. That nobody's going to come
up with that offer that's gonna make Lamar really happy,
and that when it's all said and done, he signs
an offer sheet. And you're standing there waving as he
comes into the parking lot, going yep, how fast can
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I sign that sheet? And I've got a notary public
standing next to me. Let's notary public? Who are you?
Are you Lamar's agent? Note, I'm a notary public. I'm
making sure that this is I'm making sure this is
all nice legal. And look at this. I have attached
this fax machine to the Wi Fi. Actually, you know what,
we're going, full on, doc. You sign as soon as
you're here. Bom, it's gone. Dude. Your notary travels with
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his own fax machine. It's how all notaries travel with
a fax machine. Wireless fax machine. Baby, no snaff foods here.
As soon as this is final, it goes into the
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be not and there will not be a year forty eight?
How are you going to console yourself tonight? Is it
ice cream cake, McDonald's late night pizza? What are we
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looking at me? I am all of the above. Yeah, well,
well here's here's what I think it's gonna wind up being.
I think it's gonna wind up being a little bit
of ice cream before I leave here. And then I
think it's gonna be a big Mac attack on the
way home. Okay, I haven't gotten I've had a big
Mac in probably almost two weeks, No, almost two weeks. Yeah,
it's been a while. It's been a while, man, And
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now it's like an early breakfast. Where are you, my friend?
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He was not very happy with the officiating tonight, and again,
we can't play it for you because it's just really
too hard for him to choose one bleep. Yeah, so
I'm going to read a little bit of the Fred
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from the game tonight, and uh Ben Taylor was the
ref and Fred van Vleet was not happy, and he
went on a rant about how bad the officiating is
and every other word was an F bomb, And that
was kind of Fred van Vleet quote. I thought, I
thought the referee was blanking terrible tonight. I think that's
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most nights, you know, out of the three, there's one
or two that just blanked the game up. It's been
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and I get a blank, blank tech That changes the
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it's kind of fun though, right because did they get
him by the expletive or is it, you know, just
one rant against official discounts as one rant against officials? Man,
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I'll tell you I don't think money's worth No he didn't,
No he did. That's a cool twenty five k right there.
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Look obviously, the I won't say retirement because he wouldn't
even say it. It's just been handled so awkwardly today
of Jim Beheim, who will not be returning to Syracuse
forty seven years with the school, and a very awkward
press conference question and answer after the game after Syracuse
got knocked out of the ACC Tournament by Wake Forest. Today.
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It's just awkward. I feel awful for the guy. That
this is how it went out. The guy's a legend,
and he had to say answer questions that that that
he didn't want to give an answer to. He wants
you to know that he feels like he's pushed out.
It's just, it's just, it's just I don't know how
it ended. Itavery right. We see acrimonious departures and in
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our personal lives and friendships and relationships and marriages and
whatever else. And it's never a clean end for most athletes,
right the jersey gets ripped off them. Very few just
say yeah, it's it, I'm done. Very rarely do you
get that. And from the coaching perspective, you're hired to
be fired. But this seemed like a circumstance where Beeheim
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as terse and weird as it might be, that you
wouldn't get to where it was this level of confusion, acrimony,
and and really Beheim taking and the knob and turning
it to eleven. Now we're gonna play the the big
back and forth. It's getting all the attention today, which
I'm embarrassed when I hear it. I feel bad when
I hear it, because you know, look, I'm a class
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of ninety two Variety's my guy. And here it was
after they lose to Wake Forest and the news of
his not returning, because again they still don't call to retire. Man.
By the way, that was a hell of a shot, man, dude,
those last two shots were just I would want to
retire after those. Then one dude takes a Michael Jordan
bleeping heat check, spinning jumper in the lane. Come on, man,
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and then you hit some kind of slap dash throw
off balance three to win. I would want to retire defense,
you know, Come on, man, just that goat we have
over the desk by or tie shirt and Mark sit
again in the studio there and you pressed something in
the bottom in the leg. Just collapse. That was every
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Syracuse player like they were part of Ultron. Yeah, and
they were deactivated. Someone hitting the center. His players let
him down. Jason Hildrid just scored. He scores twelve points
a game. He hits a Jordan turn re twisting and
come on man, all right? Anyway he was. Here was
the back and forth with Beheim where his quote retirement, quitting,
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stepping away, being forced out became public. Well, I gave
my retirements piece on the court last Saturday, and I
gave it in the press conference afterwards, and nobody except
will William Payne figured it out. Right now that you're
you're going to retire, this is up to the university.
You want to come back. I didn't say that. Okay,
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So what are you saying. You're not saying you're retiring.
I just said it. I don't know, So you don't know, okay.
I said this is up to the university. Right now,
that you're you're going to retire, this is up to
the university. You want to come back. I didn't say that.
You take determination. But when you will come back. You're
talking to Jason. I heard he's going at Georgetown after this. Yeah,
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among the things you won't be seeing again, it's it's
it's yeah, yeah, I don't think they're gonna want Yeah,
I'm not gonna happen. Uh. Now, Look so that that's
the Beheim. Everybody is used to right their curmudgeon, and
he's and he's he's he's ornery and all this. But
let me just give you a little bit something different
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on Jim Beheim. This is an interview we did with
him right after Syracuse went to the Final four in
twenty sixteen, right the last time of his five visits
to the Final four. It was kind of an upset run.
For their last two runs of the Final Four were
very upset style. No one expect there were ten seed
going in. Here they are in the Final four. And
Beyheim comes on, and you know, as I told you before,
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he and I have are our birthdays are a day apart,
and you know, getting to talk to him on the
show was a great thing. And here he is having
some fun with us, talking about what he did and
what's going on. And when I thank them for coming
on the show, well here's how it went with Jim Beeheim. Well,
you know, I have to be nice to Syracuse guys,
so you know, hopefully they'll be nice to me sometimes.
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You know, I figured, because your birthdays the day before mine,
we can have like two or three hour conversations on
our birthdays, we can go over a whole bunch of stuff.
I don't know about three hours. I mean, I don't know.
I think ten minutes we can handle that. But more
much more than that. It's very good. I saw you
on Dan Patrick's show earlier today talk about how you
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would come back for at least one more year, no
matter what happens here. But does this run convince you
maybe know the ten years or so, I think we
can put together a couple hundred bucks here at Fox
get you to stick around a bit. No, I mean
it's been great. Just team's been graa. I'm so happy
for these guys. They've come through a lot of adversity,
and you know, coaches are supposed to be able to
handle that players it's difficult for them. We had an
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up and down season. You know, we started out good,
we struggled, we got going, and we struggled again, and
you know, we got into the tournament and and just
you know, really have played well and you know, made
two really almost impossible comebacks against Gonzaga and against Virginia yesterday.
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Just you know, it's hard. It's when you're down six,
seven points to those teams, and the last few minutes
with Gonzaga and then when you're down fifteen or the
second half against Virginia. Those are hard games to come
back from and the players deserve an unbelievable amount of credit. Thing.
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You know, Virginia is a great defensive team. They've held
us about thirty percent shooting, and we shot nine out
of ten in the second half, so you know it's
pretty hard to do that. So tell me about the comeback.
I saw assistant coach Mike Hopkins say after the game
that I don't know what happened. I have to go
back and look at the tape. Can you explain what
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happen in the second half any better after having a
few hours to look back at it. Well, the one thing,
we only made two steals, but Virginia missed two layups
and they walked down under the basket, and you don't
expect a team like Virginia to make that kind of mistake.
They is uncharacteristic. We had eleven steals against them. You
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don't expect that against a Virginia team. We had zero
turnovers in the second half and they had five or six.
You just don't expect that from a Virginia team. But
we still at the other end, they had to make
down out of ten shots and freshmen, two freshmen made
three straight threes. So you don't expect that to happen,
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But you're you're happy that it did happen, and we're
moving on. The players just deserve an unbelievable amount of
credit for what they've what they've done, and what they
did yesterday. Hope we all hope wasn't lost obviously, but
was not in plain view very often yesterday. All right, coach,
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what'd you say to Maliki at halftime yesterday? Because everybody's
talking about his performance. I told her to drive the ball,
you know, get to the basket. You know, let's let's go.
You're hesitating. He's done that before. He's had bad first
half and bounced back with fifteen sixteen point second half.
But we talked about just changing our offensives. Drive more,
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let's screen away from the ball more and try to
open up driving lanes. And that helped us. That helped us.
But he once he made a couple of layups, he
kind of got feeling good. He made his two free throws,
and then he made a three, and you know, he
just kept going from there. He had a tremendous second half.
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He said, your language is a little more colorful than that, though,
the way you talked to him at halftime, No, I didn't,
not too much. I used to do. I'm too old
for that stuff now. I was pretty pretty somber at halftime,
and you know, but I did want him to try
to get to the beast and make plays, and he
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did and that's why we won the game. Well. Also,
I think if you can get Tyler Lydon to shoot
threes with just one shoe one for most of the game,
I think that might help too. Yeah, that was amazing
to you know, most guys, they don't even want to
keep playing. He just kept playing, laying up and happened,
and they made him go back and play defense for
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a possession too. So yeah, he's a great young player.
Our two freshmen played great yesterday, and of course our
two seniors were great. They've been great leaders all year
and they're the reason we're still playing and happy to
be playing. Uh, it's great for them, and it's great
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for our fans to be able to get back to
the final four. It's always great to do that. And
the only problem is I have had fifteen phone calls
today and now I got to go watch a lot
of tape and that I don't want to watch against
North Carolina. I don't want to watch that, really, but
I'm going to go do right now when I get
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off with you. With North Carolina coming up. Coach, obviously,
some of the interviews you do this week won't be
the greatest. They'll be rules and fractions, questions that'll be discussed.
In fact, coach Williams talked about him last night after
North Carolinas win. How are you answered those this week? Well,
I don't talk about it. It's in the past and
we just where we've moved on and that's that's all
you can do. Things happen and you have to face
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your punishment. You move on. You don't continue to get
punished for it. It's in the past and you've paid
your price and you move on. And that's what we've done.
Last thing, coach, the internet is having a ton of
fun with how you're wearing your Final four hat after
the game yesterday. It's pretty high up on your head
and I see the pictures and I go, you know,
those hate just too small sometimes and I think it
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was too small on your head or was it something else? Oh, yeah,
it really was. I don't think I pulled it down
for whatever reason. I probably was afraid to mess up
my one or two hairs that I do have, so
we didn't pull it down enough. And I'm not a
big head guy anyway. Less, I'm playing golf, which I
like to be wearing a hand, because if I'm wearing
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a hand, I'm either fishing or playing golf. And that's
that's the two good things. He'll be playing a lanks
for having me and I gotta run, gotta go look
at some film and I appreciate it. Congratulations coach, look
forward to seeing it at the final four. Thank you?
Right there was he was done at the end, name
he was done. I got another call. Yeah, you asked me,
asked me about that, and you asked me about the
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f frags my hat and okay, now it asked me,
I'm about a flipping hat. I'm done. I'm done. But listen,
the funny was having a syricus things about me and stuff.
But this is kind of who he was too. But
you know, he doesn't make the headlines for this. He
makes the headlines for winning, all right. Looking at him
yelling at a reporter, looking at him yelling at this kid,
looking at him doing this, look him doing that. You
know there there's there's a couple of different guys. And
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you know I say this all the time, is that
I kind of have the view of Beheim, like like
people view the TV show Sons of Anarchy, right. And
in Sons of Anarchy, the show was about a cast
of characters who were maybe forty percent good and sixty
percent bad, Like they did a lot of bad things, right,
But they're the stars of the show. And and and
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that's who that's who you watch, right, You watch them
because why because Kurt Sutter would even say this, he goes,
people watch because they're your monsters. They're my monsters. We're watching,
we're rooting for them because the forces they're fighting against
are maybe ten percent good and ninety percent bad. But
there are monsters. They're your monsters. And I feel the
same way. You know about Beheim, It's like, yeah, but
he's he's curmudgeon le and he's crusty. He says this,
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and he criticizes players, and he says this about guys
like Andy Katz. Go yeah, but he's my guy who's
krusty and says these things about Andy Kats and criticizes players.
He's my guy, He's that's that's my coach who does that.
And so it's that's kind of how I have always
looked at him. And like I said, you know, I
still think of you know, walking on campus, you know,
in nineteen eighty eight for the first time and go, hey,
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I don't know what's gonna happen now, but we're coming
off the national championship game and losing by a point
to Indiana. I can't wait. And it's been that's been
Syracuse basketball for me now for the last thirty five years,
and I can't. Here I am fifty two years old.
I'm like, he's just walking away to dude, Frostburg, you
didn't even go to college, Okay, so just just stop,
just stop with that. You seriously, you didn't even go No,
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they just gave me a degree. You have a long
Beach State University hat, and that's and that's the only
thing you have that's worth more than your diploma, not
in Beheim's hat that we talked about there. Yeah, there
you go. Well my two cents here. Two things. Number One,
you have the the circumstance where we talk about the
humanity there of Beheim having a little bit of fun,
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kind of joking and going along with it again, acquainting
to Popovich, Belichick, all the guys that have historically been
in the monster in front of the podium and the
assembled media the other I mean, just how gracious I
was since this was such a great opportunity for you
to kiss Beheim's ass that I just laid out and
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let you talk a lot. But what it was really
that was really great of me. I mean, I mean,
that's Mark Coney kind of stuff right there. I didn't
know where my space was. I don't have to call
him for you. The guy was just gone to the
final four. That's the story. Yeah, yeah, But the point
being that you know, I laid out because it's you
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getting to be fan boy about the final four. I
think we should do more of that, you laying out
and me getting to be fanboy about things. We should
do more of that. I think we don't. We don't
do enough. Nixon. We we talk on a daily basis,
and we're gonna have to add in our the Lakers
are back television show. So now we're gonna have to
add this do it? Why not? Exclamation point Twitter and
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out about a fresca Mike and Swollender's just a different
look at Jim Beheim there, who is now not coming
back to the sideline after forty seven years because it
just got so awkward. It's tough. But syracustin Georgetown are
gonna have new coaches, because there's no way in hell
you ink's coming back. No, after a thirty two point blowout,
they're gonna spop. Yeah, he's won like four games in
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the last six years. I don't though, I don't think
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Due d Um. We've had a lot of nbas and
I've been a lot of stuff going on. We talked
about we got John and Kevin Durant slipping and falling
while he's messing around before the game Arizona. How many
jobs are lost over that? Well, the guy who with
the blue mop whose job it is to sweep the floor,
it definitely loses his gig. Yeah, that fall on a loop. Yeah,
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it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it's uh that that guy whoever
whoever has the big blue broom that they push out
to always have, that guy's getting fired if he hasn't
gotten fired already over undrawn games missed. There's one. Oh
you imagine. Let's see Eugene who we pay fifteen bucks
an hour? Two? Kevin Durant? Who are giving forty eight
million dollars to Eugene? You're fired? Isn't it the guy
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in the gorilla suit that mops up there? Oh? I
would hope not. They need, they need, they need to
keep him. I mean, he can't have you like we
had to fire the gorilla. Why because Bright and kdfell.
He was too busy hyping up the damn crowd on
the others a lot of cash due. I think he's
the highest paid mascot in the NBA. He might be.
We had Yeah, he was over there with his hot
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dog guns. He had a good run into the crowd.
So what do we have now, Well, now we have
the armadillo, the army. Yeah, he doesn't get up. He
can't dunk like the gorilla. I hated that gorilla in
ninety four trying out Mat Scott's here's the bull Mastiff terrier.
Let's say no, he can't dunk either. That's not gonna work.
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You can imitate Katie's fall from tonight you get the job,
oh man, because you know there's gonna be somebody who
does that, right, one of those people who online that
specialty is looking like the NBA star, like hitting the
jumper that looks like Kobe, or the fade away like Luca.
Someone's gonna do that and go, yeah, here's Katie like
in Boom and then slipping fat. I'm not saying it's
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funny that he got hurt, but he's funny how he
got hurt. It's I can't believe that's how he went.
I mean, just slipping baseball injury, oh man. But look,
there's big stuff in the NFL too, And the story
of the last couple of days has been the Ravens
placing the non exclusive franchise tag on Lamar Jackson, who
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now is free to sign an offer sheet with any
team in the NFL, and the Ravens then decide, yes,
we're gonna match it and keep him, or we're going
to let you, Athman, you're gonna give us two first
round picks. This is insane until you realize how this
is going to play out, right, Because I'll tell you
exactly what's gonna go on with Lamar Jackson, because now
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that anybody can sign him, you are going to see
teams jump in that you would not normally believe would
be teams that would go out to get Lamar Jackson
right because we thought, well, teams like Atlanta is gonna
get involved and Caroline is gonna get involved any quarterback. No,
you're gonna see teams like Tennessee may say hey, we
want to get involved. Indianapolis is gonna say they want
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to get involved. These are the teams you could see
the Patriots say, hey, we're ready. Hey, Lamar, we're gonna
pay you. This is Bill Belichick's dream. Hey, we're gonna
we'll give you. We'll give you all this money, Lamar,
and we'll create the contract so the Ravens can't really
match it, and we'll pray away two first round picks
and the page leve Lamar Jackson. You're gonna see people
get involved that you're not expecting, which means someone's gonna
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give him the contract that he wants, which is more
than two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed, which is
exactly what he wants. And you know, Lamar Jackson doesn't
care what team. He just wants to get paid. He
has made that absolutely clear over the course of the
past year and a half. So here's how it plays out.
Somebody signs Lamar Jackson to an offer sheet, and when
it does, Lamar Jackson plays his final trump card, Ravens,
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do not match this. I do not I can't go
back because things are too bad. I'm ready to move on.
Do not match this. Let me go someplace else in play,
and the Ravens will say, okay, we'll take the two
first round picks. Now, why would that? Why is it
going to happen that way? Because Lamar Jackson doesn't want
to stay there, and so he's gonna say I want out,
and no team wants a guy who says I don't
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want to be there, and the Ravens will say okay,
and that Meanwhile, the real reason the Ravens are saying
it is because they don't want to pay Lamar Jackson
that money and they just want to look like we
did everything we could to keep him, but we can't.
Because the optic of a team not being able to
resign your twenty five year old franchise quarterback, that's embarrassing
on so many levels. Man, the guy's one an MVP's
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one of the best in the game. No, no, we
can't find a way to do it because we don't
want to pay like other quarterbacks are getting paid in
the league right now. Okay, so guess what, You're gonna
lose that quarterback. But that's how it's gonna go. Lamar
Jackson signs, he tells the Ravens not to match. Ravens say, okay,
Lamar's on his new team. That's how it goes. Yeah.
I think there's a lot of fun conversation that comes
to this, and it gets, you know, into personal relationships,
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how you deal with things right the devil you know,
versus the devil you don't as related to the organization
you've been playing for, and you know, to a lot
of the narrative has been, well, the Ravens don't want him, Well,
they don't want him at that price, and that's what
you and I have talked about for a long while.
And in putting the non exclusive, they've given them the
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opportunity to go into the marketplace. They may very well
come back, and the only offers that avail themselves are
in the range the Ravens we're talking about and all
of a sudden, Tata, here you go. And it's not
the hey, you gotta come crawling back with your tail
between your legs, But the reality of a marketplace sometimes
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slaps you in the face that you're not as valuable
to another program as you were here, particularly when you
have to give up assets to bring him in. And
while it's less than Russell Wilson and some of these
other trades, right, Matthew Stafford, we talk about all the
draft compensation that go through. Ravens were willing to put
that up. So for Lamar Jackson and the one I
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like that is maybe the best theory was the Princess
of Darkness herself. On this National International Women's Day, we
celebrate our friend Amy Trask and in this in tandem
with something friend of the show, Jason locking Forward put out,
it's like, what if Daniel Snyder. We don't know if
he's selling or not. Right as much as people want
to talk about valuations and the lists of potential suitors, whatever,
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but if say does get to the point where it's
it's inevitable that it's done, wouldn't a great final act
be that all guaranteed money two hundred seventy two hundred
and eighty and then waved to all the other owners
as he sells his team for six billion dollars or
whatever good loves what. That was a combination between Lock
and Vora and Trast that I saw in my timeline,
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and I thought I'd give it some love here as
we're talking about Lamar. But from a business perspective, I've
just seen you know what Lamar and the disrespect you
brought up the MVP, Well, that's what he was. You're
not paying them based on what he was. Right now,
he's a guy that you're figuring out the next iteration,
trying to figure out how many more years of elite
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status you have back to back years. He missed five games. Look,
we can argue about what the final five games were
for twenty twenty two. The end game is he wasn't
on the field. A lot of talk about the training staff. Well,
like the Chargers, the Ravens get rid of their trainer,
So obviously something was a miss as far as you
know diagnoses, rehabilitation programs, whatever they were looking at, and
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a disagreement of are you ready are you not? Can
you played through it? How many former players did you
see line up to say, oh, he's just got to
put a brace on and go through it. We have
no idea how hurt that knee was right, and that's
between him, the team, doctors, whatever, because we always know
the NFL teams want you on the field three weeks
faster than you're supposed to be right or yesterday, as
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in the old terminology. So it's it's the curiosity. I
still think they're they're very well could be a reunion there.
Don't forget you also have Las Vegas if we're gonna
keep putting up potential suitors because they don't know what
they're doing, so they didn't emphatically rule anything out. They
talked about veterans, but I think that was more in
the we don't want a thirty nine year old veteran
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coming in here with the Aaron Rodgers thing. But as
we know, everything changes on a dime. You get some
fuzzy maths, some good accounting, a good rapport, maybe a
plea from Davante Adams or a threat, and all of
a sudden, the Raiders are back in the mix as well,
And who knows, Aaron Rodgers could be a Raider still too.
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No sha look, the Raiders, they they could sign, They
could sign Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers or Gardner Minshew. None
of that would be surprising, No, but that's just it available.
Anybody the Raiders would sign. It had surprise you is there.
And even if the Raiders said will trade for Zach Wilson,
that would not surprise me because it's the Raiders that
would not surprise legitimately, Like it wouldn't surprise me at all.
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The way they've gone through this, all we know is
they've given no vote of confidence or at a boy
for anybody currently on the roster, and they told Derek
Carter beat it. You know, the thing about Lamar Jackson
is this is that this is why someone's going to
give him the money he wants, because it's the money,
and it's two first round picks, which is less than
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you had to give up for Russell Wilson, less you
had to give it for anybody. It's the same you
may have to give up for Aaron Rodgers depending on
the money. This is two first round picks for a
quarterback who is going to be your guy for at
least the next five years. Now you're hoping he stays
healthy obviously, but this is not Carson Wentz, where the
guy when the MVP six years ago and he really
is shown he can't do it anymore. This is you know,
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he's three years removed from it now and when healthy,
he's still one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
And if you're a team that, hey, we have trouble
figuring out the quarterback position, or we're not going to
draft late enough, we're yeah, we'll get in on that.
When can we possibly get in on a guy better
than Lamar Jackson? And free agency and we can take
a swing at it, because if we don't make it, okay,
(25:26):
we're no worse off than we were before we tried
to get Lamar it didn't work. We'd love to have them.
We still have a whole of quarterback we'll fill it
in draft. So I don't doubt for a second someone's
going to give him that money. Now, are there going
to be a ton of teams that go after it
that way? Probably not. But all you need is one, right,
you say it all the time, All you need is one.
But then there will be that one team that goes back.
And the thing is Lamar just wants the money. So
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It may not be a great destination, but you know what,
if they're gonna pay me, that's where I'll go. Well,
and for the Ravens, right, that's the hope is that
it's the lowest, the bottom of the barrel as it.
You were just going to say the Jet. You're hoping
it's you were almost gonna say Jen Metted. You were
gonna say Jets. Oh, look, the Jets are interesting to me.
You know, you've got the defending rookies of the year,
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You've got a good infrastructure. I don't know how well,
maybe Captain Carson Wentz, but outside of the quarterback position,
at least on paper, you're competitive. Now how many wins
it is in a cannibalizing division, and obviously the AFC
and the strength thereof I can't say for certain. But
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it's a good destination. And the draft picks because of
the year that they had, aren't as desirous. But here's
the thing. The Ravens put that into play themselves. Now,
when it comes down to money, are you desperate because
to pull guys in, Well, it's not everybody, almost everybody.
I don't want to say everybody, because I haven't looked
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at the numbers from this year, but generally teams are
playing to near capacity. Right, Maybe not in December where
seats are old and you're not catching in on revenue
on beer and parking and concession sales, but the tickets
are generally going to be sold. Not to mention, you
get a giant sized novelty check from all of your
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rights holders, right, all your broadcast partners, and with Sunday
ticket moving, guess what that the price of poker went
up again, right, So you're getting lots of checks in
that regard. So the money for a couple of teams
perhaps isn't and we see the salary cap rise coming
out of that, so maybe it's it's not the same
(27:36):
as it might be otherwise because you don't need a
gotta put butts and seats if you're looking to make
a splash and say we've arrived. Well, if the rest
of your infrastructure stinks and your GM can't do anything,
then it really doesn't matter. But that's the hope for
the Ravens is that yes, one of those teams is
desperate enough to get him into that range of what
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he was desiring. Whether it's too fifty, whether it's two eighty.
It's all rumor because right, we don't have any agent
leaking anything. Yeah, he's not gonna Yeah, the only way
was his sources. Who is your soul goat? Sorry guy, Yeah,
I kind of fell apart on that one. For unless
it's one of the inner circle. And if Lamar treats
his inner circle like Aaron Rodgers does, I mean he
cuts them loose so they don't know anything. Oh that's true. Yeah, yeah,
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who liked this man? Aaron Rodgers waking up next Tuesday
going why is Lamar Jackson? Pat McAfee, why is he
sitting in my spot? How did this happen? Inner circle?
Talk to me right now? This is not acceptable. Look,
you're out, You're out. I can't. I can't have it anymore.
That would be such a baller move for Pat McAfee. Hey, sorry,
you haven't called me Aaron in two weeks. Here's Lamar
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Jackson in your slot. Hey, I had to fill the slot,
and I signed a big enough deal that I can
pay him some money to come in and spill what's
going on in his world. But yeah, I mean the Ravens.
It's an interesting way of doing business, right, because you're
not getting the the full cadre of draft picks, and
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you're kind of subject right now to what the market
will do and banking on the fact. And this is
where the collusion talk begins. That nobody's going to come
up with that offer that's gonna make Lamar really happy,
and that when it's all said and done, he signs
an offer sheet. And you're standing there waving as he
comes into the parking lot, going yep, how fast can
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I sign that sheet? And I've got a notary public
standing next to me. Let's notary public? Who are you?
Are you Lamar's agent? Note, I'm a notary public. I'm
making sure that this is I'm making sure this is
all nice legal. And look at this. I have attached
this fax machine to the Wi Fi. Actually, you know what,
we're going, full on, doc. You sign as soon as
you're here. Bom, it's gone. Dude. Your notary travels with
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his own fax machine. It's how all notaries travel with
a fax machine. Wireless fax machine. Baby, no snaff foods here.
As soon as this is final, it goes into the
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Easy Chewy. Can I ask a question? Go ahead? The
floor recognizes Mike Harmen. Now, as we get into our
evening and you're digesting the beehim certainty that there will
be not and there will not be a year forty eight?
How are you going to console yourself tonight? Is it
ice cream cake, McDonald's late night pizza? What are we
(30:35):
looking at me? I am all of the above. Yeah, well,
well here's here's what I think it's gonna wind up being.
I think it's gonna wind up being a little bit
of ice cream before I leave here. And then I
think it's gonna be a big Mac attack on the
way home. Okay, I haven't gotten I've had a big
Mac in probably almost two weeks, No, almost two weeks. Yeah,
it's been a while. It's been a while, man, And
(30:57):
now it's like an early breakfast. Where are you, my friend?
I've missed you so much? Show, there's a big standwich.
I can never big mack on the way home. And
then it's gonna be a really big Mac when you
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the call, Kawhi Clippers are back, baby, the Clippers are back.
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The coming in second for Play of the Night, Fred
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van Vleet's postgame press conference. We can't play for you,
but I can I can read you what he said.
He was not very happy with the officiating tonight, and again,
we can't play it for you because it's just really
too hard for him to choose one bleep. Yeah, so
I'm going to read a little bit of the Fred
van Vleet statement. He was not happy with the officiating
(32:43):
from the game tonight, and uh Ben Taylor was the
ref and Fred van Vleet was not happy, and he
went on a rant about how bad the officiating is
and every other word was an F bomb, And that
was kind of Fred van Vleet quote. I thought, I
thought the referee was blanking terrible tonight. I think that's
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most nights, you know, out of the three, there's one
or two that just blanked the game up. It's been
like that a couple of games in a row. Denver
was tough. Obviously, you come out tonight competing pretty hard
and I get a blank, blank tech That changes the
whole dynamic of the game, changed the whole flow of
the game. I like a lot of the refs. They're
trying hard and pretty fair and communicate well then you
got the other ones who just want to be blanks
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and just kind of blank up the game, and no
one's coming to see that blank at about something. He's
getting twenty five thousand dollars. That's money worth for Fred
van Vleet right there. He's every penny of that money
is going to the NBA. He earned that one. Man. Yeah,
it's kind of fun though, right because did they get
him by the expletive or is it, you know, just
one rant against official discounts as one rant against officials? Man,
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I'll tell you I don't think money's worth No he didn't,
No he did. That's a cool twenty five k right there.
Oh yeah, and hey, just really quick this story that's
gonna start gaining a lot of momentum tomorrow. The video
is out of the Sean Kemp drive by arrest and shooting.
Oh boy, video of him looking like he's firing out
(34:12):
a car during a parking lot dispute and then talking
to police after that is not good for the rain. Man.
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