August 9, 2023 • 36 mins
Johnny Manziel admitted in his new Netflix documentary that he watched ZERO tape during his time with the Browns. Literally not one minute. MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi swings by for all the latest headlines from around the diamond. Plus, two NFL quarterback battles to watch out for!
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just watch, even though without the sound, I am ready
to call it, Mike Carmon, the greatest episode in the
history of Hard Knocks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was didn't see.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Any sound, don't know anything that was said because we're
doing the show. But Aaron Rodgers in every single frame
of the video, dropping dimes, throwing the ball into baskets.
He's talking on the sideline when he's in a T
shirt and Robert Sala's in a T shirt. It looks
like he's the head coach and Sallas the assistant coach,
coming up asking him questions. I mean, really, Rogers is
the head coach of the offense. But I mean it
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just looked like everything you would want, and it looked
like Hard Knocks that said to themselves, Okay, now we
could come in here and we could talk about Roger
a little bit. Yes, yes, then we have the position
battle at backup running back, we have a position battle
and defensive Listen, hey, guys, nobody cares about that. Let's
just make it all about Aaron Rodgers. Well, and a
little bit of Zach Wilson. Okay, fine, that's right, but
make sure we do Zach Wilson. We talk about Aaron Rodgers. Okay.
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And that's kind of what it looked like. Everything on
Hard Knocks was. Every time I looked up, Aaron Rodgers
is smiling, he's laughing, he's throwing a long paths. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, I mean, you gotta show how much he loves
being there. He loves his teammates, he loves the city,
he loves it all. The final exchange is pretty funny,
as the closing credits role about surfing and growing up
in Chico, So that was kind of funny. But it's
the idea for hard knocks.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's the sell the hell out of your stars.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The other stuff were great little side side stories, right,
a little bit of Zach Wilson. Here's the walking up
to the podium. Remember the pre draft photo when he
was in the mirror and that selfie looked like he
was going to prom and all the jokes that transpired there.
They made sure to really point out how Rogers called
the play for the fifty seven yard completion. Of course,
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I love the reaction on the sideline. That's an a
one blank in throw right there. QB one, Frostburg, you
saw it, I saw it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We all heard it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
QB two can't throw fifty seven yards, So yeah, Zacha, listen, listen.
After Rogers wins a couple of Super Bowls in the
next four years and retires, he'll be the Jets head
coach and he'll be coaching Zach Wilson. That'll be fine.
I'm okay with that. We have we had a long
deal with Aaron Rodgers being the head coach man, every's
gonna be drinking tea on Tuesday for their off day.
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You know, this was a it was a fun episode.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And obviously when you try to highlight your stars and
you can get all this great background and he's smiling
the whole time, and he's meeting all these guys that
are chuckling about his age, and then he's putting on
a show throwing balls into baskets. I'd love to see
the unedited and how many Aaron throws there are, but
that's okay. And he was trying to impress his actor
buddy the Voice of God, and he kept bringing that up.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
He's like, you know, you see him over there.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And yeah, he likes me. All of that kind of
fun stuff. No, it's like, it means football's back. As
soon as the opening credits rolls, soon as he got
off that helicopter and we saw a shreiver, it's like, yeah,
he's not fighting Wolverine right now. He's gonna narrate the
blank out of this episode. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So while that's going on with Hard Knocks, we're gonna
play some Johnny Man audio for you right now. That
is just amazing. Now his documentary is coming out via
Netflix and has come out already, and you heard a
little bit last week. He talked about how he attempted
suicide during one of his benders, and learning about the
life of Manzel, who as great as he was in college,
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and and and the roller coaster ride he had in
the NFL. I mean, look, Johnny football was a really
really popular dude and everybody wanted to see him succeed.
He was fun, he was different, and he was his
own worst enemy. And this is taking you inside and
in depth everything with Manzel throughout his NFL career. Now,
what has just dropped is the latest episode of Untold,
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which is the name of the Johnny Manziel documentary on Netflix.
We're gonna play some audio for you right now, and
this is from the most recent episode that just came
out a little while ago today. Apparently, when Manzell was
drafted by the Browns, obviously the Browns wanted him to
watch game film because you know, you kind of have
to as a qual show, and you can't just watch
it when you're at the at the field. You got
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to watch it at home, right, This is how you
get better. He was given a team iPad where coaches
could secretly track the amount of time he spent watching film.
So here's a here's an iPad, great watch film and
the coaches can tell how much time he spends on
the iPad watching game film. Here's a conversation with Johnny
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Manziel's agent and the Browns general manager as to how
much tape Johnny Manziel actually watched.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Their gms, calling me going, he didn't watch tape. I'm like, well,
he's got to watch some tape. It's like, ebe his
iPad hours is zero point zero zero.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Zero zero zero. They looked and they checked zero point
zero Blue Tarski zero point zero zero. Johnny Manzel watched
zero video zero film. What would you say you do here?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Johnny?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Zero point zero zero hours of film on his iPad
when he's supposed to be watching at least some getting
ready for the next wonder That.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Kind of explains a lot, now, didn't it explain?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Explain? Anytime you see a story, if you show me,
show me a guy that hasn't watched tape, and I'll
show you the story of a failed quarterback, right like
what they took the you know, I mean, look The
last time we heard about this to this level was
the the JaMarcus Russell, right, the you know, the coaches
put one hundred dollars bill in the DVDs. They sent
him home with and and and he said, yeah, I
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watch them all them all good. And they put a
hundred dollar bill in there. He didn't say anything about it.
They use that story for draft day, right for all
that I mean, but you see it. You can tell
being a quarterback and working in the NFL, it's hard. Man.
There's a reason why the best of the best get
forty and forty five and fifty million dollars because they
have so much more responsibility than any other position, right,
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I mean, it's the most important position on the field.
It's why quarterbacks went m all the time. It's why
they get paid the most money. But it also comes
with a little bit more responsibility. Not that running backs
and wide receivers and defensive tackles can just say, hey,
then I'm gone, man, Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So are we done? I'm done. I'm gone.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I'm going to the beach. I'm done.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Hey, I'm going to see Barbie. Then I'm going to
see Oppenheimer. Then I'll come back and play video games
till four.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, that's a way up for practice. No, but there's
just a little bit more that goes along with being
a quarterback. And either you're a quarterback, you have that
gene in you or you don't. And to see this
is this surprising about Johnny Manziel, No, it's not. Because
Manziel is a guy who is who played even in college,
with a very improvisational style that mentally you could see
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that he was way past what he saw in coverages.
He had an instinct for the game that was unmatch
especially in college football, some of the plays he makes,
being able to know exactly where to be where he
could buy time. But in the NFL, all the dbs
are fast, the defensive line is faster, the linebackers are
all big, can all cover. You gotta bring something else
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to the party. And when you succeed on your own gifts.
For as long as Johnny Manziel did, you don't suddenly
just get a work ethic. He decay say, Oh, now
I get to the NFL, Now I got all I
gotta work.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I didn't watch it. I didn't watch a second of film.
At Texas, a and m Man. I didn't even go
to practice. They just had a guy dressed into my
number two jersey. I didn't even go. Man four years,
I didn't go, but I showed up on Saturday, and
boy I played great. You don't suddenly just get that
work ethic when you have that kind of success early
on in your career and you are Johnny f and
football and that's how you are pushed. Do you really
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get to the NFL and think, yeah, I really need
to do more. No, you think I got this. I
know what I'm doing. Yeah, yeah, all this blah blah blah.
Watch watch film, watch all this. I'm Johnny Manzelman, I'm
a Heisman Trophy winner. I got don't worry about I
can continue to do my thing and not have to
worry about doing what everybody else does. And tada here
he is out of the league.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, I mean you go down the line. I mean
we've seen it a couple of times. The best stuff
that JaMarcus Russell was right blank tapes and Bruce Gradkowski
was on the team with him, saying he bribed him
by bringing satchels of cheeseburgers for them to sit and
commiser raid.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Over Eatles.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But you know, I mean, think about the contract we
watched signed by Kyler Murray and all the back and
forth before that finally went down, was all right, he
doesn't study enough.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
He's playing too many video games. Same thing.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Heisman winner, a guy who's kind of a big deal,
top ten pick well, football and baseball, all of these things.
And the knock on him was he wasn't working hard
enough in the film room. And we'll see what happens.
Seems to have a nice rapport going with the new
coaching staff and front office and everything else, but is
he destined and doomed to repeat that history? You know,
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do you learn after all the success and after the
mega contract coming back off injury. We'll see what happens
as the year flows on, if he even plays another down.
But for Manzell, I mean, it just explained so many things, right,
heart breaking. The other part of it, you know, talking
about where he was mentally and all of that, I
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mean that is just you know, you cringe and you
say send up the prayers that you know you find
your piece and keep going and find the good. But
you know, this part of it really explains an awful
lot of what we didn't see on Sundays.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And it's not just about the the lack of a
hard work the stuff I need to do. I have
it all. I have it all taken care of very rarely.
And there's some people that I see in the world
that do things creatively for a living can just show
up and do their thing right and just kind of
do what they do for a living, not put a
lot of work in and not really take it seriously
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and be successful. So sometimes it's really difficult, and it
sucks to see people do that because that shows you that,
you know, hey, listen, you don't always need hard work.
But the one thing that I have seen all across
you know, the board in this profession, but anytime you
do something that is subjective that be criticized that you
can actually see quantitative results on, is that the most
successful people are the ones that take what they do
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for a living seriously. Doesn't mean you have to be
completely serious about it and not have fun, but you
have to take what you do seriously and understand about
the responsibility that goes along with what you're doing. And
this could be I got to take my responsibility as
a bank manager very seriously. I can take my responsibility,
you know, running a website seriously, my responsibility as a
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quarterback seriously, anything where I can see the results and
I can be judge as to how I'm working. You
need to take what you do for a living serious
because if you don't, eventually, most likely you're gonna wind
up out of that because there's other people that will
outwork you, that will will take what they're doing more
seriously than you and want to be able to succeed.
And that's the other part of Johnny Manziel. Did he
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ever take the NFL seriously? Do you ever take his career?
Or is he doing or is he on the field
warming up before games, texting on his phone?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Or what was he was? He was he not watching film?
All of these things? You know what Johnny manzel was doing.
And you know that he wasn't taking what he did
for a living seriously because if he did, he would
have worked a little harder. But that's the other part
is I can see every single time when I see
someone taking what they do for I go that person's
going to be successful whatever. They not to know how successful,
but they're gonna be successful. They're gonna get what they
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want because they know this is what I want, and
I got to work hard at it. And I have
to understand that I have a responsibility if I'm going
to succeed because other people want what I have. Right.
If you're a manager at a bank, other people want
to be the manager. If you're running a website, other
people want to run that website. If you're a quarterback,
other people want to be the quarterback. And that's the
other part of Johnny Manzel and why he ultimately failed.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, and sometimes you can say or do stuff and
no matter how bad it is, you just shrug and go, well,
what are they gonna do to me in the NFL?
That doesn't happen with quarterbacks?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
That you will find your way on the outside looking
in Fast.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
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can name the artist, you'll give me a big Mac.
I will buy you a big Mac. This is Luscius Jackson.
It's not this is blink one. How'd you know this is?
I don't know who is it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
This is Makoto Montshue, Matsushika.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh that was my next guest. How you know that
was my next guest. I don't think you can say
that on air, No, you just did. You can see
what happened to Tony Uh, big stuff going on in
Major League Baseball. We will get to the Kevin Brown
situation because it looks like everybody's favorite broadcaster is getting
back on the air, joining us now on the hotline.
Nobody better than our favorite MLB broadcaster, MLB Network insider,
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current interim head coach at the University of Michigan football program.
He's wearing khakis, he's tweeting, he's covering it all. It
is John Paul Morosi JP. What's happening man, Good evening,
my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I am actually coming to you live from Queens, New York.
How about that?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Look, but you got to see the Cubs beat the
Mets tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Right after watching the Dodgers take down the Padres.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Big couple of days, right, and we have our game
tomorrow night here in New York, a showdown here Cubs
and Mets. I have to make sure I get that
on there, that will be on that will be network
tomorrow night. And yes, I did not expect that by
the time I arrived here in August that the one
team we'd be talking about a lot in terms of
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contending for a playoff spot would be the Cubs and
the Mets would have traded for two Hall of Fame
bound pitchers in the same span of three days. But
these are the times in which we live, my friend.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, and also, and you didn't expect this, that you're
going to got to play right field for the Mets tonight.
You did pretty well out there. I thought the fact
that you had the glove in one hand and your
microphone in the other and you still made a couple
of plays was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Amen. No, I will say this that when you are
going into the clubhouse of a team that has just
made a lot of trades, you have to sort of
do that thing where you're there on the first stay
at school, you take a tenance again, a lot of
meet and greet, we're your name tag, make sure that
you know all the new people there. I'm definitely having
that experience here in Queens this week.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, Well, we'll get to what's going on with
Kevin Brown this craziness because as a broadcaster, look, I
know you got a big opinion on this, but I
want to ask you something we brought up on the
show last night. This would be completely against Major League
Baseball rules and it would never fly, But I don't
know that you could say no to this. At this
point after the trade deadline, the Angels had not won
a game. They are now eight games out of the
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wild Card. If the Angel said, hey, oh we change
our mind, we want to trade show heo Tani? Who
says no? I mean, really, who says no? Rob Bamfords
A We'll have our own show, heo Tani. Trade deadline.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
The rules are the rule. I get it, but I
understand the spirit of what you're saying. And let's be honest.
We are now August the eighth. There are those in
the industry who believe that we should push back the
trade deadline until right about now, basically what we're now
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one week. Just think think how different everything is a
week later. And it was a week ago on this
night that the Angels kept him, and now look at
where things have gone. And there is exactly this case.
And I'm sure it's going to be mentioned at the
General Managers meetings this offseason in November when all the
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gms get together that if there's an argument to move
it back by a week, and now that we're in
a world where we're not married to July thirty first,
at four pm Eastern time anymore. I think you'll have
a lot of GMS saying, you know what, I'll take
the extra week or the extra ten days. Because this sport,
because of all the competitiveness and the number of teams
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that are still in it or close to in it
at the deadline, it's really hard. It's hard to make
a trade. And so I think anything anytime you can
give teams another week's worth of clarity, it helps them
out in a huge way. And that would be the
answer that we'll never know is because they made that
choice to pull him off the market with about a
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week or so to go before the deadline. If they
were to have all the games would have gone exactly
as they did and the deadline was tonight, My goodness,
what kind of choice they would have been faced with.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
From an angel standpoint, we'd be talking about that more
than hard knocks.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
JP.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Let me go back to that Mets cub series for second.
Who found and how did they hit the reset button
on Cody Bellinger?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Well, and to me it is one of the great
stories in baseball. I think he needed the change of scenery.
I think David Ross and the Cubs coaching staff have
been tremendous for him. I also think that he took
Cody did a real hard look at at what he
wanted to still get out of his career. Obviously, things
came very quickly for him. He was immediately NL Rookie
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of the Year type player wins, an MVP, wins the
World Series Championship. He was around a lot of winning
very quickly, and then all of a sudden, the game
got pretty hard. I think that the shoulder injury was
part of it, but I think he also realized that
he still had a lot of road to go in
his career, strengthened the area around that shoulder, and then
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found a swing that works for him with a little
bit of an adjustment. I mean, it's remarkable. I was
speaking today with our research department at at MLB Network
about just getting set for tomorrow's game and his numbers
against lefties. He's hitting better than three hundred against lefties.
He's able to He's been able to do a lot
of damage at two strike counts. It's unbelievable what he's
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doing right now. And I've just been so impressed by
the approach that Bellinger has taken and the overall improvement
in his game.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
JP. Let's talk about Bellinger's old team for a second here,
because if you're a major League Baseball team, you are
throwing your hands up and going, Okay, the Dodgers go
and they spend a lot of money, they have a
great minor league system, and they win the NLS for
ten years, they win the World Series. I get it. Okay, Well,
this year they didn't spend money in the offseason. They
relied on the younger guys, had a horrible injury to
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Gavin Lux early on in the preseason, didn't really have
a lot of other guys step up. They made some
minor moves the deadline. Yeah, and they're still twenty games
over five hundred. I mean, this has to be so
disheartening for the rest of baseball. And this is the
most This is, to me, is the most impressive thing
that Dodgers have done in the last decade because they
did not get better. Yes, they made solid moves the
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deadline and getting i met Rosario for Cindergard is a
phenomenal move, But you know, Missario is a solid player,
Joe Kelly is a is a serviceable reliever, and here
they are still twenty games over five hundred.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
When your superstars are unselfish and productive and play every day,
it is amazing what it does for your overall roster.
And that's exactly what they've got with Mookie Bets and
Freddie Freeman. And it's why, with all due respect to
the rest the industry, why wouldn't showey Otani want to
play for the Dodgers this offseason? I think that too.
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You look at this club, They've done a really good
job of sequencing and planning out when they make their
big investments in players, and you don't have to do
it every year. You don't have to sign a superstar
every year to have the right balance on a team
or to generally be in the market for all the superstars.
I don't think it was any accidents that when Nolan
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Arnado was mentioned as being available, the Dodgers were mentioned
prominently in that conversation. I think that Andrew Friedman has
a list of players that he wants to acquire if
the circumstances are right. I would expect that Arenado's on
that list. I would expect that show is obviously prominently
on that list. But the thing is, when your team
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is already good. And when you want to call up
a James outman and he comes up and plays really well,
And when Jason Hayward has a bounce back year for you,
and you trust your coaching staff that much that you
can bring in guys who are good Major leaguers but
not superstars, that your coaching staff is going to get
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the most out of them. It is the perfect it's
the perfect organization. They're not perfect in every way, but
the way that the whole thing harmonizes is really something
cool to see. And we were in San Diego yesterday,
as you mentioned, and let's talking to Dave Roberts about
exactly that. When you've got unselfished superstars, it really makes
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the manager's job easier. It sets the clear standard for
the room. And we look around the teams that have
failed this year, I think a lot of them have
not had the strength of clubhouse chemistry and character that
the Dodgers have right now.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Now, Ronald Acuna Junior got hit in the elbow today
x rays negative. But talking about that unselfishness, you mentioned
Freddie Freeman's name. The last couple of weeks, JP just
ridiculous numbers hitting at a four to six de clip
the extra base hits. Has he caught Acunya in the
MVP polling amongst your peers there at MLB Network.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
You know, it's a great question. I think right now
that there is not just a one versus one, a
Kunya versus Freeman. I think we've got like a four
player matrix here. I think Mooki is part of the conversation.
I think matt Olsen's part of the conversation. And listen, Akunya.
If you are someone that heavily indexes for base running,
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Akunya is probably going to be your guy unless he
misses his significant time with an injury. Because he's already
banked all those stolen bases. He's having one of those
historic home runs stolen based type seasons. So for all
those reasons, he's a great choice. But how could you
not say that Freddy Freeman's also an amazing choice. He
has been amazing so far this season. Of Matt Olsen,
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he might hit dur near sixty home runs. So it's
And by the way, what Mookie Betts does by playing
second base is it opens up the entire outfield for
the for Dave Roberts, so for example, yesterday against the
righty starter, you move Mooki into second base, and then
you have the all left handed outfield that allows you
to get as many lefty bats lineup as possible. When
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you go Peralta outman Hayward, there's value in that too.
So it's I think there are four players that have
a reasonable case. And the thing I love about the
MVP is don't make you don't make your decision too early.
I know Kuna was the first half MVP and I
got it, but let's keep an open mind because this
award can be won over the final six weeks of
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the season.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Can they just do a tag team match at WWE
Payback in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Let's start a September.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I mean, I think I think we're gonna see. Listen,
if it's not Brave Dodgers in the NLCS, then we've
had a significant upset somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, JP, Let's bring into this conversation that has
just spread crazy over the last twenty four hour. There's
a case of Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown, who's going to
get to come back on Friday after he was suspended
by the team because they didn't like the fact that
he pointed out that the Orioles didn't play well at
the Trap against the Rays. For the past few years.
(25:15):
We talked about this a lot last night. The video
and audio have been everywhere. Obviously you've had some time
to look at this and see what other people in
the media are saying. What's your takeaway from this story?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Well, a couple of things. I mean, we could go
on all hour about this, but I'll make a couple
of quick points. Number One, when I watched the video
and I saw the open of the show again, it
was the open to the broadcast, and for all of
us that have been involved in television, what happens and
(25:46):
what is said on the open of the broadcast is
not strictly the purview of the announcer. Okay, this is
something that's discussed at length with the production team, graphics.
There's a lot of people involved. So I think it
was very unfortunate Tan was singled out. Obviously, he's the
front man and that's part of the business, but that
(26:06):
part was not fair. The second part is all he
said was factual, and so when we start policing what
is said when it's factual, we have a lot of
problems with that is that is not healthy, certainly in
topics that are much weightier than the season series between
(26:30):
the Oriols and race conversation about life in the world
in twenty twenty three about what is factual what's not.
But to me, the manner in which the Orioles have
overcome their struggles against that team frames the story. That
is essential in terms of how you set the scene
(26:51):
for a broadcast, and when the broadcast comes on the
ear and says, wow, here's the Orioles. They're playing exceptionally. Well,
that's your best record in the division, by the way,
and and look at how much better they're playing against
their division rather than they have in a lot of years.
That to me seems first of all innocuous in any
reasonable assessment of it, and second of all important context
(27:13):
because it tells the viewer wild This is one further
way in which the Oriols have gotten a lot better.
So to me, sports are about wins and losses. Sports
are about context and the journey. And if we can't
talk about what happened before and how teams have adapted
and improved, then I'm not quite sure what we can
(27:34):
talk about, Because that's how we measure things in sports,
wins and losses, and a final statement on the whole situation.
If there has been no disciplinary action for Kevin Brown,
no one would be talking about the open on the
massive broadcast to that game of Tropicana Field. No one
outside of Baltimore would have seen it or commented on it.
(27:58):
The whole situation has become much more uh, much more
radioactive and more prominent simply because of the reaction of
the ball club. That's that's what I see it was.
It was It was a credible part of a broadcast,
and it was important context, but it was not with
all due respect to my friends who produced it, it
(28:18):
was not spectacular and memorable television in any real way
except for the aftermath of it. And I think that's
where we have to remember perspective that most things in
life do tend to go off into the ether when
we don't grab them and make them into these massive stories.
And I think that was a very very good lesson
(28:39):
here for everybody involved.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi, that
is at John Morosi, MLB Network insider in Queens. Has
the Mets look to make their run Okay, not really Uh.
JP is always buddy, appreciate your time. Thanks so much,
great stuff, have a great week. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Oh that's my friends. Believed the conversation and what we'll
look forward to talking next week as well, when I'll
have some more suggestions for the Mets future.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Very good, duty good, Thanks a much, JP solving problems.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
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quarterback depth chart news that make you go WHOA. Two
teams put out their depth chart today and there's or
a bunch of teams with out their death sharts day,
and two teams have a couple of situations that make
you go wait a minute. First of all, the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers in the race to succeed Tom Brady, Baker
(30:14):
Mayfield and Kyle Trask are both listed as co number
one quarterbacks. Mayfield, who was signed to come in and
be the air apparent to Tom Brady, is now not
even leading the competition. Kyle Trask, look, dude, you're lucky
you're in the league. He has a whoa whoa Uh,
(30:35):
nobody you got to do that to him because because
you were a guy was sitting behind Brady.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
What's he's gonna do. He's gonna leap frog him.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Because you wouldn't sign Baker Mayfield if he thought Kyle
Trask was gonna be You gotta sign somebody. It's not
like they brought in someone who was really good and
they didn't have any minute.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Who are you bringing in that's really good?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Actly if you other than Carson Wentz, who's now the
high Brady's wearing shorts from one team, pads from another jersey.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
He's like all over the place.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
He looks like some sort of quarterback made up of
parts of lesser quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yes, it's like a weird quilt. What you do with
old concert t shirt. He's Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You look like some sort of super quarterback made up
out the parts of lesser quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well, look, you had to sign as somebody, and Baker
ended up being the guy that fit the suit.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, but if you like Kyle Trask to be your quarterback,
you would have done what the Falcons said. No, we
like Desmond Ridder, he's our guy. What about all the
other guy? No, no, we like Desert Ridder. If you
really like Kyle Trask, you would say, no, Kyle Trask
is our guy. We'll bring in somebody to back him up.
We like Kyle Trask. Instead, you brought in a guy
to give him the job and say, Okay, Baker, you're
our guy, as we tank for Caleb Williams, and instead
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he could wind up. Now, maybe that's what it is.
He's playing so well, but no, really, if you can't
beat out Kyle Trask, I mean, this is this is
why I go back to what I said about Baker
Mayfield a year ago. Dude, you got cut by your team. Wait,
go some with the Buccaneers. Right goes out of the
Buccaneers a year ago. Back up, Tom Brady, stay out
(32:05):
of the news for a while, learn what it's like
to be a quarterback, and you'll get handed the job
in a system that you're familiar with. And instead, no,
I run to the Panthers. I lose that job to
Sam Bleep and Darnald, and now I'm on another team,
and now I'm already the point where I could be
losing it to Kyle Trask. This is Baker Mayfield. I
go back to making that bad decision instead of going
(32:26):
somewhere for a year and staying out of the limelight. No, no,
I gotta stay and I gotta stay in. And look
where he is right now. He's gonna wind up losing
his job to Kyle Trusk.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, he would have been fighting Kyle Trast for that job.
And it's funny you mentioned Sam Darnold because.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
That's the other one. That's the other one now, right,
is that the forty nine ers have listed their quarterback
depth chart. Number one is brock Party, no surprise there,
But number two is Sam Darnald or Trey Lance. What
did we tell you about ten days ago at some
point before the season starts, Trey Lance is gonna get traded.
(33:05):
It's gonna happen. He's already losing favor. He's not the
number one quarterback. We knew he wasn't gonna be the
number one quarterback. It was gonna be Brock Perdy's job
because Brock Purdy did everything last year right, and now
it's proven that he's healthy. Sam Darnold is impressing. You're
not keeping all three of these guys, and you have
to find some way to move on to keep a
situation from getting from boiling over too much. If you
(33:28):
don't trust Trey Lance, nobody cares at this point. If
you move on from him, nobody cares. John Lynch, Yes,
moved up to draft the guy you were in the
NFC Championship game last year with mister Irrelevant. Your team
is loaded right now, doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter
Trey Lance sunk cost, move on. There's gonna be other teams.
We told you about a couple last week that would
do more than well to trade for him. The Patriots
(33:50):
could make a move, give him a new place to go,
and there's a couple other teams that I would say Okay, yeah,
we can make a move for Trey Lance and see
if this works out, and at least you recoop a
draft pick for him and you give him to a
team while they're looking for a quarterback. Can't wait till
the offseason and say, oh, we'll do it then, because
no teams are gonna get different quarterbacks then. But right
now there'll be some teams looking for some guys, and
(34:12):
I'm telling you, Trey Lance is gonna get dealt. He's
not gonna play, he's not gonna start, he's not going
to back up. The forty nine ers would be just
as well right now to trade him. And the fact
that he's listed as the code number two tells me that, yeah,
this is the last thing we want people to call us.
We want to move him before we have to make
him the third quarterback and people are gonna go, why
the he would anybody want him? He's a third string quarterback.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I just love that we have top notch decision makers.
You know what, I don't want to put the guy third,
Just put or next to his name. How about you
have some conviction there, oh, C head coach GM whoever's
filling out the form is like having your sid fill
out your coach's poll.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Same thing I just put or listen. You don't want
to rank him, No.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
We're trying to trade the guy. If he looks like
he's this second string quarterback, we'll get a fifth round pick.
If he's the third string quarterback, we're gonna get a
seventh round pick. Just go with me for a little
bit out of it. List of is the code number two?
Explain it to Sam Darnold and everything is fine.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's just too hotly contested, Like we could talk with
Jason Cole who watched it live and a living color
last week. Right, Ah, there's some good stuff, but then
he misses the obvious throws like yeah, it's not ending
well and unfortunately that word is out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I'll tell you things not going well for Trey Lance,
things not going well for Baker Mayfield. At this point,
any Trask might be able to beat him out.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
It should be a Hall of Famer.
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just watch, even though without the sound, I am ready
to call it, Mike Carmon, the greatest episode in the
history of Hard Knocks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was didn't see.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Any sound, don't know anything that was said because we're
doing the show. But Aaron Rodgers in every single frame
of the video, dropping dimes, throwing the ball into baskets.
He's talking on the sideline when he's in a T
shirt and Robert Sala's in a T shirt. It looks
like he's the head coach and Sallas the assistant coach,
coming up asking him questions. I mean, really, Rogers is
the head coach of the offense. But I mean it
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just looked like everything you would want, and it looked
like Hard Knocks that said to themselves, Okay, now we
could come in here and we could talk about Roger
a little bit. Yes, yes, then we have the position
battle at backup running back, we have a position battle
and defensive Listen, hey, guys, nobody cares about that. Let's
just make it all about Aaron Rodgers. Well, and a
little bit of Zach Wilson. Okay, fine, that's right, but
make sure we do Zach Wilson. We talk about Aaron Rodgers. Okay.
(01:40):
And that's kind of what it looked like. Everything on
Hard Knocks was. Every time I looked up, Aaron Rodgers
is smiling, he's laughing, he's throwing a long paths. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, I mean, you gotta show how much he loves
being there. He loves his teammates, he loves the city,
he loves it all. The final exchange is pretty funny,
as the closing credits role about surfing and growing up
in Chico, So that was kind of funny. But it's
the idea for hard knocks.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's the sell the hell out of your stars.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The other stuff were great little side side stories, right,
a little bit of Zach Wilson. Here's the walking up
to the podium. Remember the pre draft photo when he
was in the mirror and that selfie looked like he
was going to prom and all the jokes that transpired there.
They made sure to really point out how Rogers called
the play for the fifty seven yard completion. Of course,
(02:34):
I love the reaction on the sideline. That's an a
one blank in throw right there. QB one, Frostburg, you
saw it, I saw it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We all heard it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
QB two can't throw fifty seven yards, So yeah, Zacha, listen, listen.
After Rogers wins a couple of Super Bowls in the
next four years and retires, he'll be the Jets head
coach and he'll be coaching Zach Wilson. That'll be fine.
I'm okay with that. We have we had a long
deal with Aaron Rodgers being the head coach man, every's
gonna be drinking tea on Tuesday for their off day.
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You know, this was a it was a fun episode.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And obviously when you try to highlight your stars and
you can get all this great background and he's smiling
the whole time, and he's meeting all these guys that
are chuckling about his age, and then he's putting on
a show throwing balls into baskets. I'd love to see
the unedited and how many Aaron throws there are, but
that's okay. And he was trying to impress his actor
buddy the Voice of God, and he kept bringing that up.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
He's like, you know, you see him over there.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And yeah, he likes me. All of that kind of
fun stuff. No, it's like, it means football's back. As
soon as the opening credits rolls, soon as he got
off that helicopter and we saw a shreiver, it's like, yeah,
he's not fighting Wolverine right now. He's gonna narrate the
blank out of this episode. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So while that's going on with Hard Knocks, we're gonna
play some Johnny Man audio for you right now. That
is just amazing. Now his documentary is coming out via
Netflix and has come out already, and you heard a
little bit last week. He talked about how he attempted
suicide during one of his benders, and learning about the
life of Manzel, who as great as he was in college,
(04:16):
and and and the roller coaster ride he had in
the NFL. I mean, look, Johnny football was a really
really popular dude and everybody wanted to see him succeed.
He was fun, he was different, and he was his
own worst enemy. And this is taking you inside and
in depth everything with Manzel throughout his NFL career. Now,
what has just dropped is the latest episode of Untold,
(04:38):
which is the name of the Johnny Manziel documentary on Netflix.
We're gonna play some audio for you right now, and
this is from the most recent episode that just came
out a little while ago today. Apparently, when Manzell was
drafted by the Browns, obviously the Browns wanted him to
watch game film because you know, you kind of have
to as a qual show, and you can't just watch
it when you're at the at the field. You got
(05:00):
to watch it at home, right, This is how you
get better. He was given a team iPad where coaches
could secretly track the amount of time he spent watching film.
So here's a here's an iPad, great watch film and
the coaches can tell how much time he spends on
the iPad watching game film. Here's a conversation with Johnny
(05:22):
Manziel's agent and the Browns general manager as to how
much tape Johnny Manziel actually watched.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Their gms, calling me going, he didn't watch tape. I'm like, well,
he's got to watch some tape. It's like, ebe his
iPad hours is zero point zero zero.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Zero zero zero. They looked and they checked zero point
zero Blue Tarski zero point zero zero. Johnny Manzel watched
zero video zero film. What would you say you do here?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Johnny?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Zero point zero zero hours of film on his iPad
when he's supposed to be watching at least some getting
ready for the next wonder That.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Kind of explains a lot, now, didn't it explain?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Explain? Anytime you see a story, if you show me,
show me a guy that hasn't watched tape, and I'll
show you the story of a failed quarterback, right like
what they took the you know, I mean, look The
last time we heard about this to this level was
the the JaMarcus Russell, right, the you know, the coaches
put one hundred dollars bill in the DVDs. They sent
him home with and and and he said, yeah, I
(06:34):
watch them all them all good. And they put a
hundred dollar bill in there. He didn't say anything about it.
They use that story for draft day, right for all
that I mean, but you see it. You can tell
being a quarterback and working in the NFL, it's hard. Man.
There's a reason why the best of the best get
forty and forty five and fifty million dollars because they
have so much more responsibility than any other position, right,
(06:56):
I mean, it's the most important position on the field.
It's why quarterbacks went m all the time. It's why
they get paid the most money. But it also comes
with a little bit more responsibility. Not that running backs
and wide receivers and defensive tackles can just say, hey,
then I'm gone, man, Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So are we done? I'm done. I'm gone.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I'm going to the beach. I'm done.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Hey, I'm going to see Barbie. Then I'm going to
see Oppenheimer. Then I'll come back and play video games
till four.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
In the morning.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, that's a way up for practice. No, but there's
just a little bit more that goes along with being
a quarterback. And either you're a quarterback, you have that
gene in you or you don't. And to see this
is this surprising about Johnny Manziel, No, it's not. Because
Manziel is a guy who is who played even in college,
with a very improvisational style that mentally you could see
(07:41):
that he was way past what he saw in coverages.
He had an instinct for the game that was unmatch
especially in college football, some of the plays he makes,
being able to know exactly where to be where he
could buy time. But in the NFL, all the dbs
are fast, the defensive line is faster, the linebackers are
all big, can all cover. You gotta bring something else
(08:02):
to the party. And when you succeed on your own gifts.
For as long as Johnny Manziel did, you don't suddenly
just get a work ethic. He decay say, Oh, now
I get to the NFL, Now I got all I
gotta work.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I didn't watch it. I didn't watch a second of film.
At Texas, a and m Man. I didn't even go
to practice. They just had a guy dressed into my
number two jersey. I didn't even go. Man four years,
I didn't go, but I showed up on Saturday, and
boy I played great. You don't suddenly just get that
work ethic when you have that kind of success early
on in your career and you are Johnny f and
football and that's how you are pushed. Do you really
(08:34):
get to the NFL and think, yeah, I really need
to do more. No, you think I got this. I
know what I'm doing. Yeah, yeah, all this blah blah blah.
Watch watch film, watch all this. I'm Johnny Manzelman, I'm
a Heisman Trophy winner. I got don't worry about I
can continue to do my thing and not have to
worry about doing what everybody else does. And tada here
he is out of the league.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, I mean you go down the line. I mean
we've seen it a couple of times. The best stuff
that JaMarcus Russell was right blank tapes and Bruce Gradkowski
was on the team with him, saying he bribed him
by bringing satchels of cheeseburgers for them to sit and
commiser raid.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Over Eatles.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But you know, I mean, think about the contract we
watched signed by Kyler Murray and all the back and
forth before that finally went down, was all right, he
doesn't study enough.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
He's playing too many video games. Same thing.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Heisman winner, a guy who's kind of a big deal,
top ten pick well, football and baseball, all of these things.
And the knock on him was he wasn't working hard
enough in the film room. And we'll see what happens.
Seems to have a nice rapport going with the new
coaching staff and front office and everything else, but is
he destined and doomed to repeat that history? You know,
(09:45):
do you learn after all the success and after the
mega contract coming back off injury. We'll see what happens
as the year flows on, if he even plays another down.
But for Manzell, I mean, it just explained so many things, right,
heart breaking. The other part of it, you know, talking
about where he was mentally and all of that, I
(10:05):
mean that is just you know, you cringe and you
say send up the prayers that you know you find
your piece and keep going and find the good. But
you know, this part of it really explains an awful
lot of what we didn't see on Sundays.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And it's not just about the the lack of a
hard work the stuff I need to do. I have
it all. I have it all taken care of very rarely.
And there's some people that I see in the world
that do things creatively for a living can just show
up and do their thing right and just kind of
do what they do for a living, not put a
lot of work in and not really take it seriously
(10:44):
and be successful. So sometimes it's really difficult, and it
sucks to see people do that because that shows you that,
you know, hey, listen, you don't always need hard work.
But the one thing that I have seen all across
you know, the board in this profession, but anytime you
do something that is subjective that be criticized that you
can actually see quantitative results on, is that the most
successful people are the ones that take what they do
(11:07):
for a living seriously. Doesn't mean you have to be
completely serious about it and not have fun, but you
have to take what you do seriously and understand about
the responsibility that goes along with what you're doing. And
this could be I got to take my responsibility as
a bank manager very seriously. I can take my responsibility,
you know, running a website seriously, my responsibility as a
(11:31):
quarterback seriously, anything where I can see the results and
I can be judge as to how I'm working. You
need to take what you do for a living serious
because if you don't, eventually, most likely you're gonna wind
up out of that because there's other people that will
outwork you, that will will take what they're doing more
seriously than you and want to be able to succeed.
And that's the other part of Johnny Manziel. Did he
(11:53):
ever take the NFL seriously? Do you ever take his career?
Or is he doing or is he on the field
warming up before games, texting on his phone?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Or what was he was? He was he not watching film?
All of these things? You know what Johnny manzel was doing.
And you know that he wasn't taking what he did
for a living seriously because if he did, he would
have worked a little harder. But that's the other part
is I can see every single time when I see
someone taking what they do for I go that person's
going to be successful whatever. They not to know how successful,
but they're gonna be successful. They're gonna get what they
(12:22):
want because they know this is what I want, and
I got to work hard at it. And I have
to understand that I have a responsibility if I'm going
to succeed because other people want what I have. Right.
If you're a manager at a bank, other people want
to be the manager. If you're running a website, other
people want to run that website. If you're a quarterback,
other people want to be the quarterback. And that's the
other part of Johnny Manzel and why he ultimately failed.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, and sometimes you can say or do stuff and
no matter how bad it is, you just shrug and go, well,
what are they gonna do to me in the NFL?
That doesn't happen with quarterbacks?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
That you will find your way on the outside looking
in Fast.
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Speaker 6 (13:58):
Jason, I will give you a big Mac. If you
can name the artist, you'll give me a big Mac.
I will buy you a big Mac. This is Luscius Jackson.
It's not this is blink one. How'd you know this is?
I don't know who is it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
This is Makoto Montshue, Matsushika.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh that was my next guest. How you know that
was my next guest. I don't think you can say
that on air, No, you just did. You can see
what happened to Tony Uh, big stuff going on in
Major League Baseball. We will get to the Kevin Brown
situation because it looks like everybody's favorite broadcaster is getting
back on the air, joining us now on the hotline.
Nobody better than our favorite MLB broadcaster, MLB Network insider,
(14:43):
current interim head coach at the University of Michigan football program.
He's wearing khakis, he's tweeting, he's covering it all. It
is John Paul Morosi JP. What's happening man, Good evening,
my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
I am actually coming to you live from Queens, New York.
How about that?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Look, but you got to see the Cubs beat the
Mets tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Right after watching the Dodgers take down the Padres.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Big couple of days, right, and we have our game
tomorrow night here in New York, a showdown here Cubs
and Mets. I have to make sure I get that
on there, that will be on that will be network
tomorrow night. And yes, I did not expect that by
the time I arrived here in August that the one
team we'd be talking about a lot in terms of
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contending for a playoff spot would be the Cubs and
the Mets would have traded for two Hall of Fame
bound pitchers in the same span of three days. But
these are the times in which we live, my friend.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, and also, and you didn't expect this, that you're
going to got to play right field for the Mets tonight.
You did pretty well out there. I thought the fact
that you had the glove in one hand and your
microphone in the other and you still made a couple
of plays was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Amen. No, I will say this that when you are
going into the clubhouse of a team that has just
made a lot of trades, you have to sort of
do that thing where you're there on the first stay
at school, you take a tenance again, a lot of
meet and greet, we're your name tag, make sure that
you know all the new people there. I'm definitely having
that experience here in Queens this week.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
All right, Well, we'll get to what's going on with
Kevin Brown this craziness because as a broadcaster, look, I
know you got a big opinion on this, but I
want to ask you something we brought up on the
show last night. This would be completely against Major League
Baseball rules and it would never fly, But I don't
know that you could say no to this. At this
point after the trade deadline, the Angels had not won
a game. They are now eight games out of the
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wild Card. If the Angel said, hey, oh we change
our mind, we want to trade show heo Tani? Who
says no? I mean, really, who says no? Rob Bamfords
A We'll have our own show, heo Tani. Trade deadline.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
The rules are the rule. I get it, but I
understand the spirit of what you're saying. And let's be honest.
We are now August the eighth. There are those in
the industry who believe that we should push back the
trade deadline until right about now, basically what we're now
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one week. Just think think how different everything is a
week later. And it was a week ago on this
night that the Angels kept him, and now look at
where things have gone. And there is exactly this case.
And I'm sure it's going to be mentioned at the
General Managers meetings this offseason in November when all the
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gms get together that if there's an argument to move
it back by a week, and now that we're in
a world where we're not married to July thirty first,
at four pm Eastern time anymore. I think you'll have
a lot of GMS saying, you know what, I'll take
the extra week or the extra ten days. Because this sport,
because of all the competitiveness and the number of teams
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that are still in it or close to in it
at the deadline, it's really hard. It's hard to make
a trade. And so I think anything anytime you can
give teams another week's worth of clarity, it helps them
out in a huge way. And that would be the
answer that we'll never know is because they made that
choice to pull him off the market with about a
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week or so to go before the deadline. If they
were to have all the games would have gone exactly
as they did and the deadline was tonight, My goodness,
what kind of choice they would have been faced with.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
From an angel standpoint, we'd be talking about that more
than hard knocks.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
JP.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Let me go back to that Mets cub series for second.
Who found and how did they hit the reset button
on Cody Bellinger?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Well, and to me it is one of the great
stories in baseball. I think he needed the change of scenery.
I think David Ross and the Cubs coaching staff have
been tremendous for him. I also think that he took
Cody did a real hard look at at what he
wanted to still get out of his career. Obviously, things
came very quickly for him. He was immediately NL Rookie
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of the Year type player wins, an MVP, wins the
World Series Championship. He was around a lot of winning
very quickly, and then all of a sudden, the game
got pretty hard. I think that the shoulder injury was
part of it, but I think he also realized that
he still had a lot of road to go in
his career, strengthened the area around that shoulder, and then
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found a swing that works for him with a little
bit of an adjustment. I mean, it's remarkable. I was
speaking today with our research department at at MLB Network
about just getting set for tomorrow's game and his numbers
against lefties. He's hitting better than three hundred against lefties.
He's able to He's been able to do a lot
of damage at two strike counts. It's unbelievable what he's
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doing right now. And I've just been so impressed by
the approach that Bellinger has taken and the overall improvement
in his game.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
JP. Let's talk about Bellinger's old team for a second here,
because if you're a major League Baseball team, you are
throwing your hands up and going, Okay, the Dodgers go
and they spend a lot of money, they have a
great minor league system, and they win the NLS for
ten years, they win the World Series. I get it. Okay, Well,
this year they didn't spend money in the offseason. They
relied on the younger guys, had a horrible injury to
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Gavin Lux early on in the preseason, didn't really have
a lot of other guys step up. They made some
minor moves the deadline. Yeah, and they're still twenty games
over five hundred. I mean, this has to be so
disheartening for the rest of baseball. And this is the
most This is, to me, is the most impressive thing
that Dodgers have done in the last decade because they
did not get better. Yes, they made solid moves the
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deadline and getting i met Rosario for Cindergard is a
phenomenal move, But you know, Missario is a solid player,
Joe Kelly is a is a serviceable reliever, and here
they are still twenty games over five hundred.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
When your superstars are unselfish and productive and play every day,
it is amazing what it does for your overall roster.
And that's exactly what they've got with Mookie Bets and
Freddie Freeman. And it's why, with all due respect to
the rest the industry, why wouldn't showey Otani want to
play for the Dodgers this offseason? I think that too.
(21:07):
You look at this club, They've done a really good
job of sequencing and planning out when they make their
big investments in players, and you don't have to do
it every year. You don't have to sign a superstar
every year to have the right balance on a team
or to generally be in the market for all the superstars.
I don't think it was any accidents that when Nolan
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Arnado was mentioned as being available, the Dodgers were mentioned
prominently in that conversation. I think that Andrew Friedman has
a list of players that he wants to acquire if
the circumstances are right. I would expect that Arenado's on
that list. I would expect that show is obviously prominently
on that list. But the thing is, when your team
(21:48):
is already good. And when you want to call up
a James outman and he comes up and plays really well,
And when Jason Hayward has a bounce back year for you,
and you trust your coaching staff that much that you
can bring in guys who are good Major leaguers but
not superstars, that your coaching staff is going to get
(22:09):
the most out of them. It is the perfect it's
the perfect organization. They're not perfect in every way, but
the way that the whole thing harmonizes is really something
cool to see. And we were in San Diego yesterday,
as you mentioned, and let's talking to Dave Roberts about
exactly that. When you've got unselfished superstars, it really makes
(22:31):
the manager's job easier. It sets the clear standard for
the room. And we look around the teams that have
failed this year, I think a lot of them have
not had the strength of clubhouse chemistry and character that
the Dodgers have right now.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Now, Ronald Acuna Junior got hit in the elbow today
x rays negative. But talking about that unselfishness, you mentioned
Freddie Freeman's name. The last couple of weeks, JP just
ridiculous numbers hitting at a four to six de clip
the extra base hits. Has he caught Acunya in the
MVP polling amongst your peers there at MLB Network.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
You know, it's a great question. I think right now
that there is not just a one versus one, a
Kunya versus Freeman. I think we've got like a four
player matrix here. I think Mooki is part of the conversation.
I think matt Olsen's part of the conversation. And listen, Akunya.
If you are someone that heavily indexes for base running,
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Akunya is probably going to be your guy unless he
misses his significant time with an injury. Because he's already
banked all those stolen bases. He's having one of those
historic home runs stolen based type seasons. So for all
those reasons, he's a great choice. But how could you
not say that Freddy Freeman's also an amazing choice. He
has been amazing so far this season. Of Matt Olsen,
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he might hit dur near sixty home runs. So it's
And by the way, what Mookie Betts does by playing
second base is it opens up the entire outfield for
the for Dave Roberts, so for example, yesterday against the
righty starter, you move Mooki into second base, and then
you have the all left handed outfield that allows you
to get as many lefty bats lineup as possible. When
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you go Peralta outman Hayward, there's value in that too.
So it's I think there are four players that have
a reasonable case. And the thing I love about the
MVP is don't make you don't make your decision too early.
I know Kuna was the first half MVP and I
got it, but let's keep an open mind because this
award can be won over the final six weeks of
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the season.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Can they just do a tag team match at WWE
Payback in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Let's start a September.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I mean, I think I think we're gonna see. Listen,
if it's not Brave Dodgers in the NLCS, then we've
had a significant upset somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, JP, Let's bring into this conversation that has
just spread crazy over the last twenty four hour. There's
a case of Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown, who's going to
get to come back on Friday after he was suspended
by the team because they didn't like the fact that
he pointed out that the Orioles didn't play well at
the Trap against the Rays. For the past few years.
(25:15):
We talked about this a lot last night. The video
and audio have been everywhere. Obviously you've had some time
to look at this and see what other people in
the media are saying. What's your takeaway from this story?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Well, a couple of things. I mean, we could go
on all hour about this, but I'll make a couple
of quick points. Number One, when I watched the video
and I saw the open of the show again, it
was the open to the broadcast, and for all of
us that have been involved in television, what happens and
(25:46):
what is said on the open of the broadcast is
not strictly the purview of the announcer. Okay, this is
something that's discussed at length with the production team, graphics.
There's a lot of people involved. So I think it
was very unfortunate Tan was singled out. Obviously, he's the
front man and that's part of the business, but that
(26:06):
part was not fair. The second part is all he
said was factual, and so when we start policing what
is said when it's factual, we have a lot of
problems with that is that is not healthy, certainly in
topics that are much weightier than the season series between
(26:30):
the Oriols and race conversation about life in the world
in twenty twenty three about what is factual what's not.
But to me, the manner in which the Orioles have
overcome their struggles against that team frames the story. That
is essential in terms of how you set the scene
(26:51):
for a broadcast, and when the broadcast comes on the
ear and says, wow, here's the Orioles. They're playing exceptionally. Well,
that's your best record in the division, by the way,
and and look at how much better they're playing against
their division rather than they have in a lot of years.
That to me seems first of all innocuous in any
reasonable assessment of it, and second of all important context
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because it tells the viewer wild This is one further
way in which the Oriols have gotten a lot better.
So to me, sports are about wins and losses. Sports
are about context and the journey. And if we can't
talk about what happened before and how teams have adapted
and improved, then I'm not quite sure what we can
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talk about, Because that's how we measure things in sports,
wins and losses, and a final statement on the whole situation.
If there has been no disciplinary action for Kevin Brown,
no one would be talking about the open on the
massive broadcast to that game of Tropicana Field. No one
outside of Baltimore would have seen it or commented on it.
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The whole situation has become much more uh, much more
radioactive and more prominent simply because of the reaction of
the ball club. That's that's what I see it was.
It was It was a credible part of a broadcast,
and it was important context, but it was not with
all due respect to my friends who produced it, it
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was not spectacular and memorable television in any real way
except for the aftermath of it. And I think that's
where we have to remember perspective that most things in
life do tend to go off into the ether when
we don't grab them and make them into these massive stories.
And I think that was a very very good lesson
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here for everybody involved.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi, that
is at John Morosi, MLB Network insider in Queens. Has
the Mets look to make their run Okay, not really Uh.
JP is always buddy, appreciate your time. Thanks so much,
great stuff, have a great week. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Oh that's my friends. Believed the conversation and what we'll
look forward to talking next week as well, when I'll
have some more suggestions for the Mets future.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Very good, duty good, Thanks a much, JP solving problems.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
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Speaker 1 (29:18):
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Speaker 6 (29:21):
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Speaker 1 (29:22):
The post on that come on, I was playing. I
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Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh that's good.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
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quarterback depth chart news that make you go WHOA. Two
teams put out their depth chart today and there's or
a bunch of teams with out their death sharts day,
and two teams have a couple of situations that make
you go wait a minute. First of all, the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers in the race to succeed Tom Brady, Baker
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Mayfield and Kyle Trask are both listed as co number
one quarterbacks. Mayfield, who was signed to come in and
be the air apparent to Tom Brady, is now not
even leading the competition. Kyle Trask, look, dude, you're lucky
you're in the league. He has a whoa whoa Uh,
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nobody you got to do that to him because because
you were a guy was sitting behind Brady.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
What's he's gonna do. He's gonna leap frog him.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Because you wouldn't sign Baker Mayfield if he thought Kyle
Trask was gonna be You gotta sign somebody. It's not
like they brought in someone who was really good and
they didn't have any minute.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Who are you bringing in that's really good?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Actly if you other than Carson Wentz, who's now the
high Brady's wearing shorts from one team, pads from another jersey.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
He's like all over the place.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
He looks like some sort of quarterback made up of
parts of lesser quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yes, it's like a weird quilt. What you do with
old concert t shirt. He's Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You look like some sort of super quarterback made up
out the parts of lesser quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Well, look, you had to sign as somebody, and Baker
ended up being the guy that fit the suit.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, but if you like Kyle Trask to be your quarterback,
you would have done what the Falcons said. No, we
like Desmond Ridder, he's our guy. What about all the
other guy? No, no, we like Desert Ridder. If you
really like Kyle Trask, you would say, no, Kyle Trask
is our guy. We'll bring in somebody to back him up.
We like Kyle Trask. Instead, you brought in a guy
to give him the job and say, Okay, Baker, you're
our guy, as we tank for Caleb Williams, and instead
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he could wind up. Now, maybe that's what it is.
He's playing so well, but no, really, if you can't
beat out Kyle Trask, I mean, this is this is
why I go back to what I said about Baker
Mayfield a year ago. Dude, you got cut by your team. Wait,
go some with the Buccaneers. Right goes out of the
Buccaneers a year ago. Back up, Tom Brady, stay out
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of the news for a while, learn what it's like
to be a quarterback, and you'll get handed the job
in a system that you're familiar with. And instead, no,
I run to the Panthers. I lose that job to
Sam Bleep and Darnald, and now I'm on another team,
and now I'm already the point where I could be
losing it to Kyle Trask. This is Baker Mayfield. I
go back to making that bad decision instead of going
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somewhere for a year and staying out of the limelight. No, no,
I gotta stay and I gotta stay in. And look
where he is right now. He's gonna wind up losing
his job to Kyle Trusk.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, he would have been fighting Kyle Trast for that job.
And it's funny you mentioned Sam Darnold because.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
That's the other one. That's the other one now, right,
is that the forty nine ers have listed their quarterback
depth chart. Number one is brock Party, no surprise there,
But number two is Sam Darnald or Trey Lance. What
did we tell you about ten days ago at some
point before the season starts, Trey Lance is gonna get traded.
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It's gonna happen. He's already losing favor. He's not the
number one quarterback. We knew he wasn't gonna be the
number one quarterback. It was gonna be Brock Perdy's job
because Brock Purdy did everything last year right, and now
it's proven that he's healthy. Sam Darnold is impressing. You're
not keeping all three of these guys, and you have
to find some way to move on to keep a
situation from getting from boiling over too much. If you
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don't trust Trey Lance, nobody cares at this point. If
you move on from him, nobody cares. John Lynch, Yes,
moved up to draft the guy you were in the
NFC Championship game last year with mister Irrelevant. Your team
is loaded right now, doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter
Trey Lance sunk cost, move on. There's gonna be other teams.
We told you about a couple last week that would
do more than well to trade for him. The Patriots
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could make a move, give him a new place to go,
and there's a couple other teams that I would say Okay, yeah,
we can make a move for Trey Lance and see
if this works out, and at least you recoop a
draft pick for him and you give him to a
team while they're looking for a quarterback. Can't wait till
the offseason and say, oh, we'll do it then, because
no teams are gonna get different quarterbacks then. But right
now there'll be some teams looking for some guys, and
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I'm telling you, Trey Lance is gonna get dealt. He's
not gonna play, he's not gonna start, he's not going
to back up. The forty nine ers would be just
as well right now to trade him. And the fact
that he's listed as the code number two tells me that, yeah,
this is the last thing we want people to call us.
We want to move him before we have to make
him the third quarterback and people are gonna go, why
the he would anybody want him? He's a third string quarterback.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I just love that we have top notch decision makers.
You know what, I don't want to put the guy third,
Just put or next to his name. How about you
have some conviction there, oh, C head coach GM whoever's
filling out the form is like having your sid fill
out your coach's poll.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Same thing I just put or listen. You don't want
to rank him, No.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
We're trying to trade the guy. If he looks like
he's this second string quarterback, we'll get a fifth round pick.
If he's the third string quarterback, we're gonna get a
seventh round pick. Just go with me for a little
bit out of it. List of is the code number two?
Explain it to Sam Darnold and everything is fine.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's just too hotly contested, Like we could talk with
Jason Cole who watched it live and a living color
last week. Right, Ah, there's some good stuff, but then
he misses the obvious throws like yeah, it's not ending
well and unfortunately that word is out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I'll tell you things not going well for Trey Lance,
things not going well for Baker Mayfield. At this point,
any Trask might be able to beat him out.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
It should be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Get it done.
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