June 4, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike debate if there's anyone in the sports world who has a bigger ego than Angel Reese. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the show for all the latest on Justin Jefferson’s monster contract and OTAs. Plus, some LeBron James NBA Trade rumors!
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buying should be.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Are you gonna blow this game? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Here, I want to tell you this. If the Mets
sum Hell blow another three run ninth inning lead, come
to the ninth inning of this game against the Washington
Nationals with a three run, eight to five. If they
blow this game, I'm never watching baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm never like.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Bringing you back in here. How is that guy not
leaned in. You got to take one for the team.
I can't, man, I can't. I mean, bases loaded, eight six,
now one out. I mean, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I don't know what to do. It's it's just if
they blow this game. I mean, I will have to
stop watching baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
There's one run.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I will have to stop watching sacrifice fly. So now
it's eight seven, two outs, tying run at third, winning
run at first. Jason, Yeah, ask me how much the
Mets suck. I don't know that you're gonna. I don't
know that you can quest. He's gotten a whole algorithm.
He's been working on this all Okay, okay, okay, Yeah,
justin how much it's science?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Justin how much do the Mets suck?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dude, they suck so much they gave up a home
run the Joey Gallo.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Gallo Yeah, Joey Father, Joey Joey Gallows found his power
again Joey Gallows twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Year is hey the real dad of the woman who
he thought was the dad from Mark Davis? And now
he's got a home run against the Mets. That's Joey
Gallows twenty twenty four, and you know what you're gonna
wear if the Nationals win this game? What not?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Home run? You know how fast he's going to turn
around the sound for that?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He's got a finger over the button waiting for the
game to end. To trust me, I would play it
right now if it wasn't for Rob Manford an MLB.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Stupid ye fly down on you like a ninja.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In fact, I think there is a new rule that
you're not allowed to play any highlights at all until
the next day. I think that's a new thing with
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Can't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So this is where things fall apart because the Mets
are one strike away from winning. But this would be
the sixth ninth inning loss that the Mets would have had,
fifth in the last two and a half weeks. Nobody's
got more than two. No, no, I'm telling you, if
games were eight innings long, the Mets would have War
World Series.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The last twenty years of being first place. They figured
out how to blow it in the eighth. No, no, no, no,
I just you just cut it off of the eighth
nown and I just cut it off of the eighth.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We can do eight and eighty would actually tell you,
we can do it and end them alternating Thursdays and
the game ends after eight innings.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We can do it. Met's when.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's when.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Met's when Jess win, Medo win Man. Oh, Jake Diekman
with a strikeout. Oh, I can watcha it's still on
your shoulder. I can watch basement.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're on fire. That was awful.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's what I could do right now, guys.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
What can you do?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Here?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You go?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Gallo says, what high in there to right?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
This?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Paul is crushed. This, Paul's out of here.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Joey Gallow's fifth of the year puts the Nationals on
top here.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
In the fourth.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I wouldn't have said he even had four up until that,
but it literally went final eighteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter because a home running the
loss Frosper, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I don't care. The Met's one. I do it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You play the Gallow home market, you play the Gallome
and it's fine.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Backwards k is the fire, I know, I know, Yeah,
that's on the corner. Yeah, but his strike zone has
been pretty large from the outre and he still takes
strike three.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I believe that's the first lead the Mets have held
in the ninth inning since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That sounds about right. Yeah, I gotta go all the
way back.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, won two of their last three games, twenty two
of thirty three from.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The national that's pretty good. Yeah about that?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, you did not have your ninth inning collapse today.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What do you right now?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Let me ask you guys a question, seriously, what do
you think? What love is greater? The love I have
for the Mets. Oh, that's second to none, or.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Or or or or.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The love Angel Reaves has for herself. What's greater?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's close, man, isn't it. That's close? You know what, though,
I I that's confidence. That's close.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That sucks for her. If it's close, it's a dude,
that's close. Man, it's close. That's really close. I don't
know that there is a threatening to abandon the next.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Angel Reese is never once intimated that she would give
up on herself.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, it's not even close.
You're talking about me. I know, but I have a yeah,
I got I got a good forty five year head
start on that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But that's threatening to quit repeated. But there you recognize
the folly of your waking.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And that's the thing is. But I've been so close.
But I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I seriously, I don't know that there is anybody in sports,
in sports with a bigger ego than Angel Reese.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I don't know that anyone I know is anybody with
a bigger ego than her.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Man's gonna get his kid drafted? Yeah, who got no
business being draft?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They just made.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But he's doing a whole day for that ship.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But that's at least being done behind the scenes, pulling strings.
This is just out and out. Hey, I you know
I It's me, This is me. I'm me. Nobody I
don't know anybody in sports has a bigger ego that
she does.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And the reason we talk about this is coming off
the big issue of the weekend, which still is the
biggest story of Monday Night. We had the big foul
in the Fever game this past weekend against the Chicago
Sky Caitlin Clark was fouled a dirty foul and there
has been all kinds of controversy that have come out
since that and all talk about their foul and how
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dirty it was and what's going on and Why didn't
anybody police this? Why didn't her teammates protect her? There's
so much to go on with this story. It's okay
the WNBA. Okay, you want smoke, you're gonna get it. Right,
You wanted the smoke, same thing, Angel Reach, you wanted smoke,
You're gonna get it. All the talk over this vowl.
You've seen it now a thousand times, and you're wondering
what kind of play it is, how dirty it was.
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There was no talking about the play after the game.
Angel Reese was seen celebrating the foul right after it happened.
She was hugging her teammate after the foul, which was
a dirty play. It was a dirty teammate who has
also been kicked off in two teams for being a
bad teammate.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, mind you if you do the backstory.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So there's a lot going on with that. And the
fact that they didn't speak after the game on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. We're not going to
talk about this.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We're not gonna we're not gonna answer any questions, we're
not gonna block and they.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Blew it off.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
But it was amazing to me about the sound in
terms of cutting it off. I'm not talking about Caitlyn Clark.
Was that you were given the opportunity to kind of
explain the situation.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I don't think anybody would have been happy with whatever
she said, but the questioner at least I seemed to
afford a little bit of Hey, I could put some
of the blame on Caitlyn Clark here.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, for Cauz.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Look, she was doing a bunch of hitting herself, doing
a bunch of trash talking as she is wont to
do so, Kennedy Carter, she had the opportunity there to say, well,
here was the interaction and there now you're gonna be
the villain either way. It's just a question of whether
you're going to address it or not. And then coach
Weatherspoon shut it down there, eventually fined for non cooperation.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, look, I mean the way it went down, Kennedy
Carter commits the foul, wouldn't talk about it after the game,
but was happy to go on social media, was happy
to say what else you know to like a comment
of what does Caitlin Clark do besides hitting threes? So
you could tell she's anti Caitlin Clark. Right, there's a
lot of antiiness going on right now. At least now
that's the one good thing I can say from this
week because at least, Okay, now it's all out in
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the open. Now nobody can hide behind. Oh we love Caitlin,
but now now it's all out in the open. And
Angel Reese obviously is going to be at the front
of this because being the rival that she was with
Caitlyn Clark in college and seeing that, hey, she celebrated
the dirty hit. She hugged her teammate after it. Okay,
not the classiest thing in the world to do. But
finally today they both spoke and Kennedy Carter talked about
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how listen, don't judge me off of one play. Okay, fine,
and Angel Reese wanted to go on and this is
the big money SoundBite while we were talking about Angel
Reese because okay, she wants to smoke down, She's going
to get it. She wanted to make sure that everybody
knows that it's not just Caitlyn Clark why people are
watching the WNBA. There's other people, more specifically her.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It all started from the National Championship Game and I've
been dealing with this for two years now and understanding like, yeah,
negative things have probably been said about me, but honestly,
I'll take that because look where.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Women's basketball is.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
People are talking about women's basketball. You never would think
that me.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
We talking about women's basketball. People are pulling up to games.
We got celebrities coming to games, sold out arenas, like
just because of one single game, and just looking at that, like, I'll.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Take that role.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I'll take the bad guy role, and I'll continue to
take that on and be that for my.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Teammates and if I want to be that, and I
know I'll go.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Down to history. I'll look back in twenty years and
be like, yeah, the reason why we watching women's basketball
is not just because of one person.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's because of me too, and I want you.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To realize that.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, So when I look back, I'll go down in history.
Has Lebron ever said I'll go down in history? Lebron
ever said that? So Lebron said, in twenty years ago,
back and look at me. I love how she says
it's not about one person. Won't say Caitlyn Clark's name,
and then we'll say, but it's about me. It's it's
not about one person. Oh but it's about me. It's
about me, and I love every bit of this.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, and if Angel Reese were here now, I would
hide five her.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
He had hugger and be like, thank you. We need
biggest ego in sports. It's amazing heroes. It is villains,
hype men, heype women.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
My favorite people on the dais when it comes to
the WWE, WWF and all wrestling.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
What are they usually the managers? Right? I love the talkers. Yeah,
but she's her own hype woman.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh. I mean, I guess you're saving money not having
to pay someone to be your hype man or hype woman.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
She's her own hype one. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Though.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It's like she's got the mic and she'll work in
the low post.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
So this is great. She's a great foil and she
is embracing the villainy. I don't know that you needed
to say it one hundred percent. I want to be
the villain, but you know what I appreciate. Yeah, it's
hard to you have to kind of be just just
your cast as off.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You can't openly canvas to be there.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
And she's already been there, so I appreciate her embracing it.
And you know, we could quibble and quarrel about you
know who's watching for what, But don't you can't tell
me that the the Reese Clark subplot to everything didn't
bring eyeballs to the game coming into the women's tournament
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last year, especially once the tournament bracket. Hey, what do
you know the algorithm said they should be in the
same regional just so we can make sure we get
it again. But when we get down to this game
on Saturday, right that was put out as a noon
start on Big ESPN, Right, they they've got the spotlight.
Now could they have changed the game since the NBA
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was done for the week, sure, and the long layoff,
But for Angel Rees to come out with this proclamation,
Hell yeah, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
What's the one big rule, guys? Well, being villain, what's
some one big rule?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Is that you have to you have to believe what
you're selling. I have to believe it. She doesn't even
believe it. You can listen to her voice. She doesn't
even believe what she's saying. God, she's trying to be
that person to gain attention. She thinks off of Kate Clark.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's it. Look, look, that's all she has.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Look, he's changing the Okay, you know here, here's the
thing about Angel Reeves. Angel Reese is a big celebrity. Okay,
she's a celebrity. Is she a superstar player?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
She's not. She's a ten and eight player. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
This is like if Isaiah Hartenstein was walking around going,
I should be done. Okay, let's just understand. You can
be a star, right, you can be a star. You're
not the show. None of these players are the show.
And they have to understand that Caitlin Clark is the show.
You don't pick who the superstars are. You don't get
to vote who the superstars are. Superstars and and and
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players who come around once a generation. Those are those players.
Lebron came around twenty years ago. We're still waiting for
the next person to come in to take his place, right,
Lebron has been that guy. Caitlin Clark has shown up,
and for whatever reason, you now see that the players
of the past and the players of the president don't
like that she's getting all this credit. Players of the
past are upset that, hey, we should have been getting
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credit before now and they didn't. Their anger at Caitlyn
Clark is misplaced because she didn't do anything other than
coming to the league. She's not walking around saying how great.
If she would say the same thing as Angel Reese was,
oh my goodness. But she's come into the league, and
I'm not trying to defend her. It's just she came
into the league as the number one leading score in
the history of college basketball. She's got a huge fan base,
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more bigger than anybody else in the league that the
league has ever seen. If you don't like her, that's fine,
but there's so much misplaced anger where the players who
have weighed in for the passcode they should have been
watching us before. So yeah, okay, but that's not anybody's fault.
And it's sure as Ella is in Caitlin Clark's fault,
but she embodies it. So is an anti Caitlin Clark
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from the former players the current players. They love the
fact that Caitlyn Clark has brought attentionly, but now it's
we don't like that. It's her should be paying attention
to Leak, but you should be playing attention to us,
not Caitlyn, and we don't like that. I'm sorry, but
this is how it goes. There's room for all of you.
There is room for everybody in this conversation. You can
be a star. Caitlyn Clark is the biggest star. That's
just how it goes. And that's what you can see
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over the course of the past few days. The current players,
the past players, even people in the media who want
to make this a big thing. Oh you know, I
can't believe you should be talking about this three years ago. Sorry,
when transit When transcendental players show up, that's a big deal.
Caitlin Clark showed up this year. That's not anybody else's fault,
and it sure is. It isn't her fault, but it's
being all pushed towards her. That this anger and it's
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all misplaced. That's funny because you mentioned Lebron James. You
talk about the NBA, what was the biggest criticism for years?
You only got to see the same eight teams on TNT.
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Mike Harmon from a week ago in Munich. It's Metallica.
You know when we saw these guys the first time,
when I was in Prague did a show back in
ninety seven. I want to say it was, you know,
coming off the Black album success. They get in the
load a little bit, now, is it. I really thought
(16:37):
you were gonna go full monsters sake. Yeah, I were
bagging back in two thousand and seven. I saw an
interview with James Headfield. I'm just telling you some things
I saw on behind the music to retell a story
from twelve years ago.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, but you can't assume everybody is remembering line for
line the behind the music.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You could repurpose that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I always thought there was one rule though, when playing
a concert.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What's that like?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You you get out of the way, stop playing if
there's pouring rain and lightning? Right So no, no, no, no,
you keep playing the rein that's the athlete's version of
playing in pain.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Is you play in the rain. You play in the rain.
It's the great Well.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
No, if there's a danger, if there's a danger lightning,
you're gonna get it up, But you're gonna have to
leave the field.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Everybody plays in the rain. It's like it's it's the thing.
It's playing in pain. So without lightning, there's no danger.
Well if you slip and fall, oh talking about like electricity.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, I think they figured that out. It's round, it's
not nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
What happened when we plugged in with the high LOLd. No,
they figured that out. No, you play in the rain.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You play in there. That that's what it is. If
you don't play in the rain, you're not playing hurt,
you're not there for the team. No, you play in
the rain.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That was a big hot. They all played in the rain.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Although I really was expecting the Darren Waller song because
it looks like he's gonna retire.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're gonna talk to Jason locking for about that. Mary.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I know you and I both love the Darren Waller song.
I thought we get the Darren Waller song.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He me to it.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
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Speaker 2 (18:12):
What's happening, man?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Good buddy, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We're watching Justin Jefferson get paid all kinds of money.
Do not catch passes from JJ McCarthy. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Come wow, he made him a Jets quarterback just like that.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Man, I'm waiting to run that joke all day.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
He wasn't a long time to talk about Zack Wilson
that way. But McCarthy's getting it.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Even though he's part of a Michigan family, Jason, he's
cut ties within that fast.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Look, I mean, who do you play with last year?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
McCarthy?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
And there they were in the hunt until like real
late in the season. Weren't they Like I can't remember
them playing the Bengals, you know, in like a weird
Saturday game.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, they had like they had like seven quarterbacks last year.
I think I think played a couple of snaps.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
I mean, like it was there, they were a revolving
door and they still stayed pretty viable and then they had,
you know, some injuries on top of that. So look,
I think Kevin O'Connell knows what he's doing. I don't
think they have to have a superior quarterback to derive
(19:29):
a lot of value out of Jefferson. I think he
really had a you know, like a lot of these times,
it's like timing is everything right, and it's the confluence
of events, and he played this out perfectly. And they're
not paying a quarterback anymore, and they're not paying a
(19:49):
pass rusher crazy money, right, I mean you just go
look at like, you know, it's it's not like their
offensive line is breaking the bank. So it really is
sort of the perfect storm for him. You know, he
waited long enough to let some of these other guys
do their thing and get there and get their deals,
which continued to sort of push things up. But you know,
(20:09):
why risk any sort of freak injury happening, you know
at some sort of off season thing or lifting or
camp or whatever. When you've got a chance to secure
a bag like this, you do it, you know. And
this is the kind of terrain that Aaron Donald used
to step in, right, like the highest paid non quarterback
in the league type stuff. So good on him, man,
(20:32):
he deserved it. And you know, I can remember Mike
Brown and Cincinnati, stewing in his own juices about something
that happened at the quarterback market right with the team
right in his division down the road with Sean Watson,
and that was obviously a gross mistake on a lot
of levels. But the timing again is everything, And that
happened to the quarterback market about a year before he
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was going to have to pay a guy, and now
this has happened to the wide receiver market right around
he's going to have to start paying the guy. So
Jerry Jones can't be loving it. Mike Brown can't be
loving it. I think it further complicates the situation for
the forty nine ers. But I understand why the Vikings
did it, especially with their pay structure as it is
(21:15):
right now. And you know they once upon a time
they traded Diggs right kind of knowing that this was
going to be happening, and it's happened.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
How quickly do we see Jerry Jones make a move?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I mean, Cyway Seedland's a great player. I don't think
we had this debate on my show today. Like Cebee,
Liam is a great receiver. I don't think he's Jefferson.
I don't think he's Jamar Chase. I just don't think
he's that transcendent. I don't think he's the complete and
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absolute upper echelon, like total package, the way those guys are.
And you know, Jerry doesn't really want to spend on
anybody anymore. And he's got this situation with his quarterback,
and he's really good at deflecting and telling you all
the problems he's got and everything he has to sort out.
It's a little different situation than Minnesota, where everybody can
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see that you know, hey, you guys were spending a
lot of money for a while, but you don't really
have any long term or even real short term commitments.
It doesn't make it any easier. And again, I'm not
saying that Lamb is going to get what just happened today,
but he can drift off of that right like he
can say I'm at least eighty five ninety percent of
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that guy or whatever, and Jerry's not going to like
the cap ramifications of what that would mean for him.
So I don't know, guys, you know, I mean, look,
he has the money to pay everybody whatever they want
any given year. He has the revenue streams to run
a team that he could be the New York Yankees
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if he wanted to, like the old school Yankees, like
the Steinbrenner not the House Steinbrenner Yankees, like. He could
run in his own tax bracket if he wanted. And
the reality is he wouldn't have to pay the kind
of luxury tax that you have to in baseball, like
he'd have to contribute more to certain funds. But I mean,
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there's ways just to navigate the cap. Jerry used to
be really good at it back when he used to
spend money. So I don't know, Man. I suspect he
eventually pays him, but I'm not sure it's imminent.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
NFL Inside of Jason Locking for our guest The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the tirec dot
Com Studios. All right, another big story from today. The
Giants are expecting Darren Waller to retire. He hasn't been
with the team for the last few weeks, hasn't been
to OTAs. He had a video about his ex wife
that went out. That's about the biggest piece of news.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I look back at this, Jay and yes, I see
it likely he's.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Going to retire, and I go, wow, is that like
the biggest the the deer of the downfall the Giants
last year was trading for Darren Waller and thinking he's
going to be healthy enough that we can build the
because they built the offense around him, knowing, hey, he's
a guy that's not on the field, he's had two
good years, and yeah, of a sudden, they just fell
apart like they built it around him.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah, I mean calculated gamble that blew up in their face.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I think I feel like this kind of.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
We don't talk about it as much with tight ends
as we do running backs, but you know, those guys
take and we got a little bit probably skewed by
you know how long an Antonio Gates was able to
hang on and you know, maybe a Tony Gonzalez, but
I mean Gronk, I'm old enough to remember, Like Gronk
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kind of shut it down a couple different times. Now,
Like they're such big targets. They take so many shots,
they take so many shots to their knees, they take
so many shots from awkward angles, like they're often the
guys going up to get the worst throws of the worst, right,
the worst medicine balls, the fifty to fifty balls where
you're vulnerable and the other guy's coming with the head
of steam. I mean a lot of times that's tight
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ends on seam routes and you know, running something in
the middle of the field, trying to be cover too
or whatever, or a cross or like, you know, it
can go pretty quickly. Like you know, the guys with
Jeremy Shockey, they go from being a thing to being
like you know, they're not quite as fast, not quite
as durable, and they get kind of chewed up and
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spit out a lot of times. And as the injuries mount,
especially somebody like him who was such a sort of
freak athlete, you just kind of lose it a little bit.
And I mean he's been through a ton in his career.
He's overcome some incredible odds and some severe serious personal demons,
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you know, to even be able to become an NFL
player again, and then let alone, to become the kind
that he became. And I know he's got a lot
of interest outside of football, and his body is probably
fairly wrecked. So if he does decide to move on,
obviously I don't think that's going to come as a
shock to anybody at this point in time. And I
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think the Giants had to know last year that this
is a probably a bit of a declining asset. Again,
just the time missed the last few years would point
to that. But that's partly why he was available when
he was available. And you know why you could get
a guy who had that sort of pass production without
having to mortgage your draft.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Jason, take me there locally seven or fifty k. All right,
it's his money. Do what you're gonna do. What was
the point of OTAs for the Ravens this week with
no Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
I mean, I'm the wrong guy to try to get
upset about OTAs. I think the whole thing is a
sham to begin with, Like pay guys to practice when
the practices matter and let them do their own, you know,
let them do fake practices on their own. So I mean, look,
if it was a higher price point, I guess, you know,
maybe he'd be there. I mean, they agreed to this.
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He's in the past before he got this contract. You know,
he'd made it clear a couple of times that, hey,
you know, why am I here while I'm here Because
I'm not thinking what I should be making, and this
is a decent chunk of money now, seven hundred and
fifty k. Look, I don't really know because he doesn't
have a marketing agent or really you know what I mean,
because he's he doesn't have a regular agent. I don't
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think we're privy to the inner inner workings of Lamar
Jackson inc. The way we are with some of these
other players. So what he has pouring in from other
sort of you know, outside things, what his other business
ventures may or may not be doing. You know, how
much he's monetizing his time away from football. I don't.
I don't really know. But this is a business man,
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and I'm old enough to remember when they made him,
you know, beg and sweat and threatened to leave here
before he got a deal. Like how many players of
that magnitude, in the prime of their career and their
age whatever twenty four season are putting on social media?
Sorry but they got to trade me. Like he didn't
whisper it.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
He said it out loud, so like the owner came
out and said, I don't think he thinks he's worthy
of my money, and I don't think I have to
give it to him yet. Like he said that, so
you know, it's all it's just business, right, I guess
it's on ball every side. It's just business. So they
made it.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
They put up seven hundred and fifty k and said
that's what we think. It's worked for you to be here,
you know, to incentivize it, for you to be here
for these fake practices. And he said, nah, better for
a couple. But I'm like, I can't get like this
is literally business. This was literally negotiated. Like if they
think it's the end of the world. They also like,
you know, everybody went bowling or whatever last week, Like
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I'm trying to remember, Oh they were top golf. I'm
sorry they all went golfing. So like that's how important
these things really are. And if they think it's important enough,
I don't know, rip the contract up and give him,
give him two million next year if he shows up
for three quarters of the OTAs maybe he won't.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason lock and for Odyssey Washington Post one.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh five seven. The fan of Baltimore Jay is always fight.
You appreciate it, man, We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That funk, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
There goes Jason locking for it. Look, obviously, you know
our heart's the big story today. Just a sad story,
the death of Larry Allen, one of the greatest offensive
linemen the NFL had ever seen, one of only three
players on two All decade teams. He passed away on
vacation with his family in Mexico. Just a just a sad,
sad story. But you know, you know you which today
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people are talking about, Oh man, I remember what.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
A great player he was.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Just to be that great of a player, Like you're
talking one of the greatest football players that ever played,
not just a lineman, you'd be one of the greatest
football players who ever played the game.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well he played every position except center. Yeah, you would
do it Larry right now.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
But like some of the stories are just the best
of he would start making, you know, sounds like he's
gonna to be a locomotive and even tell you where
the play was coming, saying okay, go ahead, stop and
all of these things. Just fifty two years old, just
celebrated and just crazy. You know, we we have these
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stories all the time. You know, it was and it's
great to get the retrospectives and all of the videos
you know out road grading guys thirty yards downfield and
the athleticism just heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Rest in peace, Larry Allen, Just fifty two. The Jason
Smith Show with.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Mike Carmon Live from the Tiraq dot Com Studios tiraq
dot Com. Of course we'll help you get there. But
coming up next. You know, we told you last week, Hey,
this week is not going to go by without Lebron
James stories of where he could wind up where it's
not the Lakers. We told you that's what's gonna dominate
the four days five days in between now and the
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NBA Finals. You're gonna get Lebron linked to a bunch
of teams. Well, he's already been linked to one. We'll
break that down next right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
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last week we told you, hey, there's too much time
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between the end of the Conference finals in the NBA
Finals for Lebron James not to have a story break
that's going to dominate the headlines. What did we tell
you the three most likely things were last week? Number
one was you're gonna see, hey, it's serious and Lebron
is gonna wind up. The story is going to be sources,
Lebron serious threat to leave Lakers, and you're gonna get
(31:51):
like three or four teams linked with Lebron where he
could go.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Sure, opting out like Rich Paul you know, I said, well,
you know he is a free agent. Now, yes, intensibly,
it's really just the all right, now, what's the max deal?
The Lakers could pay him far more money than everybody else, right, right,
it's a three year, one sixty two.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I think be can.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Max at So it could be just semantics. But in
the interim, hey, let's have some fun with Oh.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, no, this is what's gonna because this is how
Lebron gets his leverage by saying, hey, I could leave,
I could go here, even though he's not. The first
team that he has been linked with has come out.
We told you was gonna happen. First team is out.
He is now linked with the seventy six Ers. Sixers
Beat reporter put out a story yesterday that the Sixers
want a star player from a pool that involves Lebron
(32:38):
brandon Ingram Paul George, but Lebron is specifically mentioned as hey,
Sixers want a star player out of these out of
this group of people who will be available in the
office site.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Make sure if you're Keith Pompey from the Philly Inquirer,
and make sure your story gets read, because if it's
Jimmy Butler and a couple other guys leading the way,
they're fun. Butler coming back to Philly. But Lebron ya,
and here's the first team Lebron is linked to. Let
me just say this, okay, because this is hilarious. Lebron
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is not leaving the Lakers for the seventy six Ers. Okay,
it's not to.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
He's That would be like trading in your current team
for almost a mirror image of your current team. I'm
gonna trade one big guy, who's that best player on
the team who has trouble staying in and out of
the lineup. You worry about his effort level sometimes, but boy,
when he plays, he plays at a high level. I'm
gonna leave that guy and I'm gonna go join a
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team where you have a big man who has trouble
staying in the lineup. You worry about his effort level
at times, but boy, when he plays, he could be
one of the best players of the entire sport.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well, you do have maxy that helps you maybe push
the envelope a little bit. He's not.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
He's more consistent than the other. Yeah, I'm gonna trade
a D for him.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Beat.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That's like trading for the same thing. That's like me.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Saying, hey, I got a fifty two. Men, I'm gonna
trade with you. What do you want to go? I
want a fifty two? Mental Wait what?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, well you want to trade one? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well that's the overall condition of Anthony Davis versus the
overall condition of Joel Andbi.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Where are more surface issues? See a crease on this
card in the upper right hand corner, blaving you joke.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
The corners could look great. You may get screwed on surface.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
This card was filled. You could see it was filled
in with little bits of cardboard on the side. Here,
I could see it with my with my withby exactly.
I mean, he's not going to trade the Lakers for
the Sixers all the way across. Look, he's not going anywhere.
He's not going anywhere. I'll tell your he is not
going and he's staying with the Lakers. He will sign
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they will most likely get Brownie James. He's not He
picked the Lakers because this is where he wants to
be for after his career is over. He's not going
to say, hey, guess what the last Yes, we're going
to go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I mean, come on, id you want to hang out
with Gritty? But I mean, he's not going to Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Would be great about it. And and this is why
you can get some fuel. Is what's the desire for
Lebron James at this point. And if you want to
say winning still has the same juice and thrust, then
adding any of the would be contenders to the in
the Eastern Conference to the list of would be suitors
is at least good for the mental exercise, right of
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because that look, the path of the West is a
pain in the ass no matter what they do this offseason,
in the draft, free agency, whoever they're able to convince
to come on board.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
The West is a pain up and down.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
And don't forget a couple of those teams were down
North near the bottom because of injuries or youth. Right,
Houston's gonna be better, John Moran's gonna come back, Memphis
will be better. So now you're fighting with them for
one of the last playoffs. About versus the East? What
do you got Nicks?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Look, Look, and that's not a whole lot. If you
want to say, look, I told you he's not leaving.
I told you he's not leaving. But if you want
to say, is there any place he would go for
one year or two years? What's the place he's always
had the fascination with Madison Square guard now that they
really good, but now the really good he's always wanted
to play at MSG. It's probably the only thing he'll
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walk away from his NBA career saying, what's one thing
you want?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I wish I could have done that. Well, you had
twenty some odd years it could have gone. But that's
the only team I can And he's not gonna do that. Either,
He's not gonna go now, I'm gonna go three thousand miles. No,
his life is here, his family is here. It's a
great story. But this is how Lebron has his leverage
is Oh, I could wind up leaving. Okay, We're we're
gonna give you the money you want. We're gonna try
to get your kid. What else do you want us
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to I mean, what else do you want us to do?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
We added a second night to the draft specifically for
your kid.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
He's not he's not, but I would love him. I mean,
it's true.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's really I'm gonna trade a D for Joe wellenb
not doing it.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He's not gonna do it. Well, it beats a better
sound bite and a comic spoil.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
He's not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
That would just be hysterical.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I'm training one big guy for another with the same
issues and the same things, and we're falling and he's
falling short the same.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
But people will be betting the over under of which
guy plays more games.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
Are you gonna blow this game? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Here, I want to tell you this. If the Mets
sum Hell blow another three run ninth inning lead, come
to the ninth inning of this game against the Washington
Nationals with a three run, eight to five. If they
blow this game, I'm never watching baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm never like.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Bringing you back in here. How is that guy not
leaned in. You got to take one for the team.
I can't, man, I can't. I mean, bases loaded, eight six,
now one out. I mean, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I don't know what to do. It's it's just if
they blow this game. I mean, I will have to
stop watching baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
There's one run.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I will have to stop watching sacrifice fly. So now
it's eight seven, two outs, tying run at third, winning
run at first. Jason, Yeah, ask me how much the
Mets suck. I don't know that you're gonna. I don't
know that you can quest. He's gotten a whole algorithm.
He's been working on this all Okay, okay, okay, Yeah,
justin how much it's science?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Justin how much do the Mets suck?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dude, they suck so much they gave up a home
run the Joey Gallo.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Gallo Yeah, Joey Father, Joey Joey Gallows found his power
again Joey Gallows twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Year is hey the real dad of the woman who
he thought was the dad from Mark Davis? And now
he's got a home run against the Mets. That's Joey
Gallows twenty twenty four, and you know what you're gonna
wear if the Nationals win this game? What not?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Home run? You know how fast he's going to turn
around the sound for that?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He's got a finger over the button waiting for the
game to end. To trust me, I would play it
right now if it wasn't for Rob Manford an MLB.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Stupid ye fly down on you like a ninja.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In fact, I think there is a new rule that
you're not allowed to play any highlights at all until
the next day. I think that's a new thing with
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Can't do it.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So this is where things fall apart because the Mets
are one strike away from winning. But this would be
the sixth ninth inning loss that the Mets would have had,
fifth in the last two and a half weeks. Nobody's
got more than two. No, no, I'm telling you, if
games were eight innings long, the Mets would have War
World Series.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
The last twenty years of being first place. They figured
out how to blow it in the eighth. No, no, no, no,
I just you just cut it off of the eighth
nown and I just cut it off of the eighth.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We can do eight and eighty would actually tell you,
we can do it and end them alternating Thursdays and
the game ends after eight innings.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We can do it. Met's when.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's when.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Met's when Jess win, Medo win Man. Oh, Jake Diekman
with a strikeout. Oh, I can watcha it's still on
your shoulder. I can watch basement.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're on fire. That was awful.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's what I could do right now, guys.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
What can you do?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Here?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You go?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Gallo says, what high in there to right?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
This?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Paul is crushed. This, Paul's out of here.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Joey Gallow's fifth of the year puts the Nationals on
top here.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
In the fourth.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I wouldn't have said he even had four up until that,
but it literally went final eighteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter because a home running the
loss Frosper, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I don't care. The Met's one. I do it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You play the Gallow home market, you play the Gallome
and it's fine.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Backwards k is the fire, I know, I know, Yeah,
that's on the corner. Yeah, but his strike zone has
been pretty large from the outre and he still takes
strike three.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I believe that's the first lead the Mets have held
in the ninth inning since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That sounds about right. Yeah, I gotta go all the
way back.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, won two of their last three games, twenty two
of thirty three from.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The national that's pretty good. Yeah about that?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, yeah, you did not have your ninth inning collapse today.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What do you right now?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Let me ask you guys a question, seriously, what do
you think? What love is greater? The love I have
for the Mets. Oh, that's second to none, or.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Or or or or.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The love Angel Reaves has for herself. What's greater?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's close, man, isn't it. That's close? You know what, though,
I I that's confidence. That's close.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That sucks for her. If it's close, it's a dude,
that's close. Man, it's close. That's really close. I don't
know that there is a threatening to abandon the next.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Angel Reese is never once intimated that she would give
up on herself.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, it's not even close.
You're talking about me. I know, but I have a yeah,
I got I got a good forty five year head
start on that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
But that's threatening to quit repeated. But there you recognize
the folly of your waking.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And that's the thing is. But I've been so close.
But I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I seriously, I don't know that there is anybody in sports,
in sports with a bigger ego than Angel Reese.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I don't know that anyone I know is anybody with
a bigger ego than her.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Man's gonna get his kid drafted? Yeah, who got no
business being draft?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
They just made.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But he's doing a whole day for that ship.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But that's at least being done behind the scenes, pulling strings.
This is just out and out. Hey, I you know
I It's me, This is me. I'm me. Nobody I
don't know anybody in sports has a bigger ego that
she does.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And the reason we talk about this is coming off
the big issue of the weekend, which still is the
biggest story of Monday Night. We had the big foul
in the Fever game this past weekend against the Chicago
Sky Caitlin Clark was fouled a dirty foul and there
has been all kinds of controversy that have come out
since that and all talk about their foul and how
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dirty it was and what's going on and Why didn't
anybody police this? Why didn't her teammates protect her? There's
so much to go on with this story. It's okay
the WNBA. Okay, you want smoke, you're gonna get it. Right,
You wanted the smoke, same thing, Angel Reach, you wanted smoke,
You're gonna get it. All the talk over this vowl.
You've seen it now a thousand times, and you're wondering
what kind of play it is, how dirty it was.
(06:44):
There was no talking about the play after the game.
Angel Reese was seen celebrating the foul right after it happened.
She was hugging her teammate after the foul, which was
a dirty play. It was a dirty teammate who has
also been kicked off in two teams for being a
bad teammate.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, mind you if you do the backstory.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So there's a lot going on with that. And the
fact that they didn't speak after the game on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. We're not going to
talk about this.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
We're not gonna we're not gonna answer any questions, we're
not gonna block and they.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Blew it off.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
But it was amazing to me about the sound in
terms of cutting it off. I'm not talking about Caitlyn Clark.
Was that you were given the opportunity to kind of
explain the situation.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I don't think anybody would have been happy with whatever
she said, but the questioner at least I seemed to
afford a little bit of Hey, I could put some
of the blame on Caitlyn Clark here.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, for Cauz.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Look, she was doing a bunch of hitting herself, doing
a bunch of trash talking as she is wont to
do so, Kennedy Carter, she had the opportunity there to say, well,
here was the interaction and there now you're gonna be
the villain either way. It's just a question of whether
you're going to address it or not. And then coach
Weatherspoon shut it down there, eventually fined for non cooperation.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, look, I mean the way it went down, Kennedy
Carter commits the foul, wouldn't talk about it after the game,
but was happy to go on social media, was happy
to say what else you know to like a comment
of what does Caitlin Clark do besides hitting threes? So
you could tell she's anti Caitlin Clark. Right, there's a
lot of antiiness going on right now. At least now
that's the one good thing I can say from this
week because at least, Okay, now it's all out in
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the open. Now nobody can hide behind. Oh we love Caitlin,
but now now it's all out in the open. And
Angel Reese obviously is going to be at the front
of this because being the rival that she was with
Caitlyn Clark in college and seeing that, hey, she celebrated
the dirty hit. She hugged her teammate after it. Okay,
not the classiest thing in the world to do. But
finally today they both spoke and Kennedy Carter talked about
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how listen, don't judge me off of one play. Okay, fine,
and Angel Reese wanted to go on and this is
the big money SoundBite while we were talking about Angel
Reese because okay, she wants to smoke down, She's going
to get it. She wanted to make sure that everybody
knows that it's not just Caitlyn Clark why people are
watching the WNBA. There's other people, more specifically her.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It all started from the National Championship Game and I've
been dealing with this for two years now and understanding like, yeah,
negative things have probably been said about me, but honestly,
I'll take that because look where.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Women's basketball is.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
People are talking about women's basketball. You never would think
that me.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
We talking about women's basketball. People are pulling up to games.
We got celebrities coming to games, sold out arenas, like
just because of one single game, and just looking at that, like, I'll.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Take that role.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I'll take the bad guy role, and I'll continue to
take that on and be that for my.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Teammates and if I want to be that, and I
know I'll go.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Down to history. I'll look back in twenty years and
be like, yeah, the reason why we watching women's basketball
is not just because of one person.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's because of me too, and I want you.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To realize that.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, So when I look back, I'll go down in history.
Has Lebron ever said I'll go down in history? Lebron
ever said that? So Lebron said, in twenty years ago,
back and look at me. I love how she says
it's not about one person. Won't say Caitlyn Clark's name,
and then we'll say, but it's about me. It's it's
not about one person. Oh but it's about me. It's
about me, and I love every bit of this.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, and if Angel Reese were here now, I would
hide five her.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
He had hugger and be like, thank you. We need
biggest ego in sports. It's amazing heroes. It is villains,
hype men, heype women.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
My favorite people on the dais when it comes to
the WWE, WWF and all wrestling.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
What are they usually the managers? Right? I love the talkers. Yeah,
but she's her own hype woman.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Oh. I mean, I guess you're saving money not having
to pay someone to be your hype man or hype woman.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
She's her own hype one. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Though.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It's like she's got the mic and she'll work in
the low post.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
So this is great. She's a great foil and she
is embracing the villainy. I don't know that you needed
to say it one hundred percent. I want to be
the villain, but you know what I appreciate. Yeah, it's
hard to you have to kind of be just just
your cast as off.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You can't openly canvas to be there.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
And she's already been there, so I appreciate her embracing it.
And you know, we could quibble and quarrel about you
know who's watching for what, But don't you can't tell
me that the the Reese Clark subplot to everything didn't
bring eyeballs to the game coming into the women's tournament
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last year, especially once the tournament bracket. Hey, what do
you know the algorithm said they should be in the
same regional just so we can make sure we get
it again. But when we get down to this game
on Saturday, right that was put out as a noon
start on Big ESPN, Right, they they've got the spotlight.
Now could they have changed the game since the NBA
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was done for the week, sure, and the long layoff,
But for Angel Rees to come out with this proclamation,
Hell yeah, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
What's the one big rule, guys? Well, being villain, what's
some one big rule?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Is that you have to you have to believe what
you're selling. I have to believe it. She doesn't even
believe it. You can listen to her voice. She doesn't
even believe what she's saying. God, she's trying to be
that person to gain attention. She thinks off of Kate Clark.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's it. Look, look, that's all she has.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Look, he's changing the Okay, you know here, here's the
thing about Angel Reeves. Angel Reese is a big celebrity. Okay,
she's a celebrity. Is she a superstar player?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
She's not. She's a ten and eight player. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
This is like if Isaiah Hartenstein was walking around going,
I should be done. Okay, let's just understand. You can
be a star, right, you can be a star. You're
not the show. None of these players are the show.
And they have to understand that Caitlin Clark is the show.
You don't pick who the superstars are. You don't get
to vote who the superstars are. Superstars and and and
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players who come around once a generation. Those are those players.
Lebron came around twenty years ago. We're still waiting for
the next person to come in to take his place, right,
Lebron has been that guy. Caitlin Clark has shown up,
and for whatever reason, you now see that the players
of the past and the players of the president don't
like that she's getting all this credit. Players of the
past are upset that, hey, we should have been getting
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credit before now and they didn't. Their anger at Caitlyn
Clark is misplaced because she didn't do anything other than
coming to the league. She's not walking around saying how great.
If she would say the same thing as Angel Reese was,
oh my goodness. But she's come into the league, and
I'm not trying to defend her. It's just she came
into the league as the number one leading score in
the history of college basketball. She's got a huge fan base,
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more bigger than anybody else in the league that the
league has ever seen. If you don't like her, that's fine,
but there's so much misplaced anger where the players who
have weighed in for the passcode they should have been
watching us before. So yeah, okay, but that's not anybody's fault.
And it's sure as Ella is in Caitlin Clark's fault,
but she embodies it. So is an anti Caitlin Clark
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from the former players the current players. They love the
fact that Caitlyn Clark has brought attentionly, but now it's
we don't like that. It's her should be paying attention
to Leak, but you should be playing attention to us,
not Caitlyn, and we don't like that. I'm sorry, but
this is how it goes. There's room for all of you.
There is room for everybody in this conversation. You can
be a star. Caitlyn Clark is the biggest star. That's
just how it goes. And that's what you can see
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over the course of the past few days. The current players,
the past players, even people in the media who want
to make this a big thing. Oh you know, I
can't believe you should be talking about this three years ago. Sorry,
when transit When transcendental players show up, that's a big deal.
Caitlin Clark showed up this year. That's not anybody else's fault,
and it sure is. It isn't her fault, but it's
being all pushed towards her. That this anger and it's
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all misplaced. That's funny because you mentioned Lebron James. You
talk about the NBA, what was the biggest criticism for years?
You only got to see the same eight teams on TNT.
You know what, everybody else still got their revenue share. Yeah, right,
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Mike Harmon from a week ago in Munich. It's Metallica.
You know when we saw these guys the first time,
when I was in Prague did a show back in
ninety seven. I want to say it was, you know,
coming off the Black album success. They get in the
load a little bit, now, is it. I really thought
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you were gonna go full monsters sake. Yeah, I were
bagging back in two thousand and seven. I saw an
interview with James Headfield. I'm just telling you some things
I saw on behind the music to retell a story
from twelve years ago.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, but you can't assume everybody is remembering line for
line the behind the music.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You could repurpose that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I always thought there was one rule though, when playing
a concert.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What's that like?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You you get out of the way, stop playing if
there's pouring rain and lightning? Right So no, no, no, no,
you keep playing the rein that's the athlete's version of
playing in pain.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Is you play in the rain. You play in the rain.
It's the great Well.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
No, if there's a danger, if there's a danger lightning,
you're gonna get it up, But you're gonna have to
leave the field.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Everybody plays in the rain. It's like it's it's the thing.
It's playing in pain. So without lightning, there's no danger.
Well if you slip and fall, oh talking about like electricity.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, I think they figured that out. It's round, it's
not nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
What happened when we plugged in with the high LOLd. No,
they figured that out. No, you play in the rain.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You play in there. That that's what it is. If
you don't play in the rain, you're not playing hurt,
you're not there for the team. No, you play in
the rain.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That was a big hot. They all played in the rain.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Although I really was expecting the Darren Waller song because
it looks like he's gonna retire.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're gonna talk to Jason locking for about that. Mary.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I know you and I both love the Darren Waller song.
I thought we get the Darren Waller song.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He me to it.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
A fellow Metallica fan is on the line's right now
to break it all down longtime NFL inside to check
him out on Odyssey one of five seven. The fan
in Baltimore Washington Post on Twitter at Jason Lock and
for it is Jason Lock and for it j Low.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What's happening, man?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Good buddy, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We're watching Justin Jefferson get paid all kinds of money.
Do not catch passes from JJ McCarthy. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Come wow, he made him a Jets quarterback just like that.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Man, I'm waiting to run that joke all day.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
He wasn't a long time to talk about Zack Wilson
that way. But McCarthy's getting it.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Even though he's part of a Michigan family, Jason, he's
cut ties within that fast.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Look, I mean, who do you play with last year?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
McCarthy?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
And there they were in the hunt until like real
late in the season. Weren't they Like I can't remember
them playing the Bengals, you know, in like a weird
Saturday game.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, they had like they had like seven quarterbacks last year.
I think I think played a couple of snaps.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
I mean, like it was there, they were a revolving
door and they still stayed pretty viable and then they had,
you know, some injuries on top of that. So look,
I think Kevin O'Connell knows what he's doing. I don't
think they have to have a superior quarterback to derive
(19:29):
a lot of value out of Jefferson. I think he
really had a you know, like a lot of these times,
it's like timing is everything right, and it's the confluence
of events, and he played this out perfectly. And they're
not paying a quarterback anymore, and they're not paying a
(19:49):
pass rusher crazy money, right, I mean you just go
look at like, you know, it's it's not like their
offensive line is breaking the bank. So it really is
sort of the perfect storm for him. You know, he
waited long enough to let some of these other guys
do their thing and get there and get their deals,
which continued to sort of push things up. But you know,
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why risk any sort of freak injury happening, you know
at some sort of off season thing or lifting or
camp or whatever. When you've got a chance to secure
a bag like this, you do it, you know. And
this is the kind of terrain that Aaron Donald used
to step in, right, like the highest paid non quarterback
in the league type stuff. So good on him, man,
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he deserved it. And you know, I can remember Mike
Brown and Cincinnati, stewing in his own juices about something
that happened at the quarterback market right with the team
right in his division down the road with Sean Watson,
and that was obviously a gross mistake on a lot
of levels. But the timing again is everything, And that
happened to the quarterback market about a year before he
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was going to have to pay a guy, and now
this has happened to the wide receiver market right around
he's going to have to start paying the guy. So
Jerry Jones can't be loving it. Mike Brown can't be
loving it. I think it further complicates the situation for
the forty nine ers. But I understand why the Vikings
did it, especially with their pay structure as it is
(21:15):
right now. And you know they once upon a time
they traded Diggs right kind of knowing that this was
going to be happening, and it's happened.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
How quickly do we see Jerry Jones make a move?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I mean, Cyway Seedland's a great player. I don't think
we had this debate on my show today. Like Cebee,
Liam is a great receiver. I don't think he's Jefferson.
I don't think he's Jamar Chase. I just don't think
he's that transcendent. I don't think he's the complete and
(21:51):
absolute upper echelon, like total package, the way those guys are.
And you know, Jerry doesn't really want to spend on
anybody anymore. And he's got this situation with his quarterback,
and he's really good at deflecting and telling you all
the problems he's got and everything he has to sort out.
It's a little different situation than Minnesota, where everybody can
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see that you know, hey, you guys were spending a
lot of money for a while, but you don't really
have any long term or even real short term commitments.
It doesn't make it any easier. And again, I'm not
saying that Lamb is going to get what just happened today,
but he can drift off of that right like he
can say I'm at least eighty five ninety percent of
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that guy or whatever, and Jerry's not going to like
the cap ramifications of what that would mean for him.
So I don't know, guys, you know, I mean, look,
he has the money to pay everybody whatever they want
any given year. He has the revenue streams to run
a team that he could be the New York Yankees
(22:56):
if he wanted to, like the old school Yankees, like
the Steinbrenner not the House Steinbrenner Yankees, like. He could
run in his own tax bracket if he wanted. And
the reality is he wouldn't have to pay the kind
of luxury tax that you have to in baseball, like
he'd have to contribute more to certain funds. But I mean,
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there's ways just to navigate the cap. Jerry used to
be really good at it back when he used to
spend money. So I don't know, Man. I suspect he
eventually pays him, but I'm not sure it's imminent.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
NFL Inside of Jason Locking for our guest The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the tirec dot
Com Studios. All right, another big story from today. The
Giants are expecting Darren Waller to retire. He hasn't been
with the team for the last few weeks, hasn't been
to OTAs. He had a video about his ex wife
that went out. That's about the biggest piece of news.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I look back at this, Jay and yes, I see
it likely he's.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Going to retire, and I go, wow, is that like
the biggest the the deer of the downfall the Giants
last year was trading for Darren Waller and thinking he's
going to be healthy enough that we can build the
because they built the offense around him, knowing, hey, he's
a guy that's not on the field, he's had two
good years, and yeah, of a sudden, they just fell
apart like they built it around him.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah, I mean calculated gamble that blew up in their face.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I think I feel like this kind of.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
We don't talk about it as much with tight ends
as we do running backs, but you know, those guys
take and we got a little bit probably skewed by
you know how long an Antonio Gates was able to
hang on and you know, maybe a Tony Gonzalez, but
I mean Gronk, I'm old enough to remember, Like Gronk
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kind of shut it down a couple different times. Now,
Like they're such big targets. They take so many shots,
they take so many shots to their knees, they take
so many shots from awkward angles, like they're often the
guys going up to get the worst throws of the worst, right,
the worst medicine balls, the fifty to fifty balls where
you're vulnerable and the other guy's coming with the head
of steam. I mean a lot of times that's tight
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ends on seam routes and you know, running something in
the middle of the field, trying to be cover too
or whatever, or a cross or like, you know, it
can go pretty quickly. Like you know, the guys with
Jeremy Shockey, they go from being a thing to being
like you know, they're not quite as fast, not quite
as durable, and they get kind of chewed up and
(25:27):
spit out a lot of times. And as the injuries mount,
especially somebody like him who was such a sort of
freak athlete, you just kind of lose it a little bit.
And I mean he's been through a ton in his career.
He's overcome some incredible odds and some severe serious personal demons,
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you know, to even be able to become an NFL
player again, and then let alone, to become the kind
that he became. And I know he's got a lot
of interest outside of football, and his body is probably
fairly wrecked. So if he does decide to move on,
obviously I don't think that's going to come as a
shock to anybody at this point in time. And I
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think the Giants had to know last year that this
is a probably a bit of a declining asset. Again,
just the time missed the last few years would point
to that. But that's partly why he was available when
he was available. And you know why you could get
a guy who had that sort of pass production without
having to mortgage your draft.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Jason, take me there locally seven or fifty k. All right,
it's his money. Do what you're gonna do. What was
the point of OTAs for the Ravens this week with
no Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
I mean, I'm the wrong guy to try to get
upset about OTAs. I think the whole thing is a
sham to begin with, Like pay guys to practice when
the practices matter and let them do their own, you know,
let them do fake practices on their own. So I mean, look,
if it was a higher price point, I guess, you know,
maybe he'd be there. I mean, they agreed to this.
(27:03):
He's in the past before he got this contract. You know,
he'd made it clear a couple of times that, hey,
you know, why am I here while I'm here Because
I'm not thinking what I should be making, and this
is a decent chunk of money now, seven hundred and
fifty k. Look, I don't really know because he doesn't
have a marketing agent or really you know what I mean,
because he's he doesn't have a regular agent. I don't
(27:25):
think we're privy to the inner inner workings of Lamar
Jackson inc. The way we are with some of these
other players. So what he has pouring in from other
sort of you know, outside things, what his other business
ventures may or may not be doing. You know, how
much he's monetizing his time away from football. I don't.
I don't really know. But this is a business man,
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and I'm old enough to remember when they made him,
you know, beg and sweat and threatened to leave here
before he got a deal. Like how many players of
that magnitude, in the prime of their career and their
age whatever twenty four season are putting on social media?
Sorry but they got to trade me. Like he didn't
whisper it.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
He said it out loud, so like the owner came
out and said, I don't think he thinks he's worthy
of my money, and I don't think I have to
give it to him yet. Like he said that, so
you know, it's all it's just business, right, I guess
it's on ball every side. It's just business. So they
made it.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
They put up seven hundred and fifty k and said
that's what we think. It's worked for you to be here,
you know, to incentivize it, for you to be here
for these fake practices. And he said, nah, better for
a couple. But I'm like, I can't get like this
is literally business. This was literally negotiated. Like if they
think it's the end of the world. They also like,
you know, everybody went bowling or whatever last week, Like
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I'm trying to remember, Oh they were top golf. I'm
sorry they all went golfing. So like that's how important
these things really are. And if they think it's important enough,
I don't know, rip the contract up and give him,
give him two million next year if he shows up
for three quarters of the OTAs maybe he won't.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason lock and for Odyssey Washington Post one.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh five seven. The fan of Baltimore Jay is always fight.
You appreciate it, man, We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That funk, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
There goes Jason locking for it. Look, obviously, you know
our heart's the big story today. Just a sad story,
the death of Larry Allen, one of the greatest offensive
linemen the NFL had ever seen, one of only three
players on two All decade teams. He passed away on
vacation with his family in Mexico. Just a just a sad,
sad story. But you know, you know you which today
(29:34):
people are talking about, Oh man, I remember what.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
A great player he was.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Just to be that great of a player, Like you're
talking one of the greatest football players that ever played,
not just a lineman, you'd be one of the greatest
football players who ever played the game.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well he played every position except center. Yeah, you would
do it Larry right now.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
But like some of the stories are just the best
of he would start making, you know, sounds like he's
gonna to be a locomotive and even tell you where
the play was coming, saying okay, go ahead, stop and
all of these things. Just fifty two years old, just
celebrated and just crazy. You know, we we have these
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stories all the time. You know, it was and it's
great to get the retrospectives and all of the videos
you know out road grading guys thirty yards downfield and
the athleticism just heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Rest in peace, Larry Allen, Just fifty two. The Jason
Smith Show with.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Mike Carmon Live from the Tiraq dot Com Studios tiraq
dot Com. Of course we'll help you get there. But
coming up next. You know, we told you last week, Hey,
this week is not going to go by without Lebron
James stories of where he could wind up where it's
not the Lakers. We told you that's what's gonna dominate
the four days five days in between now and the
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NBA Finals. You're gonna get Lebron linked to a bunch
of teams. Well, he's already been linked to one. We'll
break that down next right here, Jason and Mike.
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last week we told you, hey, there's too much time
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between the end of the Conference finals in the NBA
Finals for Lebron James not to have a story break
that's going to dominate the headlines. What did we tell
you the three most likely things were last week? Number
one was you're gonna see, hey, it's serious and Lebron
is gonna wind up. The story is going to be sources,
Lebron serious threat to leave Lakers, and you're gonna get
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like three or four teams linked with Lebron where he
could go.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Sure, opting out like Rich Paul you know, I said, well,
you know he is a free agent. Now, yes, intensibly,
it's really just the all right, now, what's the max deal?
The Lakers could pay him far more money than everybody else, right, right,
it's a three year, one sixty two.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I think be can.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Max at So it could be just semantics. But in
the interim, hey, let's have some fun with Oh.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, no, this is what's gonna because this is how
Lebron gets his leverage by saying, hey, I could leave,
I could go here, even though he's not. The first
team that he has been linked with has come out.
We told you was gonna happen. First team is out.
He is now linked with the seventy six Ers. Sixers
Beat reporter put out a story yesterday that the Sixers
want a star player from a pool that involves Lebron
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brandon Ingram Paul George, but Lebron is specifically mentioned as hey,
Sixers want a star player out of these out of
this group of people who will be available in the
office site.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Make sure if you're Keith Pompey from the Philly Inquirer,
and make sure your story gets read, because if it's
Jimmy Butler and a couple other guys leading the way,
they're fun. Butler coming back to Philly. But Lebron ya,
and here's the first team Lebron is linked to. Let
me just say this, okay, because this is hilarious. Lebron
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is not leaving the Lakers for the seventy six Ers. Okay,
it's not to.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
He's That would be like trading in your current team
for almost a mirror image of your current team. I'm
gonna trade one big guy, who's that best player on
the team who has trouble staying in and out of
the lineup. You worry about his effort level sometimes, but boy,
when he plays, he plays at a high level. I'm
gonna leave that guy and I'm gonna go join a
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team where you have a big man who has trouble
staying in the lineup. You worry about his effort level
at times, but boy, when he plays, he could be
one of the best players of the entire sport.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well, you do have maxy that helps you maybe push
the envelope a little bit. He's not.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
He's more consistent than the other. Yeah, I'm gonna trade
a D for him.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Beat.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
That's like trading for the same thing. That's like me.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Saying, hey, I got a fifty two. Men, I'm gonna
trade with you. What do you want to go? I
want a fifty two? Mental Wait what?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes, well you want to trade one? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well that's the overall condition of Anthony Davis versus the
overall condition of Joel Andbi.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Where are more surface issues? See a crease on this
card in the upper right hand corner, blaving you joke.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
The corners could look great. You may get screwed on surface.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
This card was filled. You could see it was filled
in with little bits of cardboard on the side. Here,
I could see it with my with my withby exactly.
I mean, he's not going to trade the Lakers for
the Sixers all the way across. Look, he's not going anywhere.
He's not going anywhere. I'll tell your he is not
going and he's staying with the Lakers. He will sign
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they will most likely get Brownie James. He's not He
picked the Lakers because this is where he wants to
be for after his career is over. He's not going
to say, hey, guess what the last Yes, we're going
to go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I mean, come on, id you want to hang out
with Gritty? But I mean, he's not going to Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Would be great about it. And and this is why
you can get some fuel. Is what's the desire for
Lebron James at this point. And if you want to
say winning still has the same juice and thrust, then
adding any of the would be contenders to the in
the Eastern Conference to the list of would be suitors
is at least good for the mental exercise, right of
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because that look, the path of the West is a
pain in the ass no matter what they do this offseason,
in the draft, free agency, whoever they're able to convince
to come on board.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
The West is a pain up and down.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
And don't forget a couple of those teams were down
North near the bottom because of injuries or youth. Right,
Houston's gonna be better, John Moran's gonna come back, Memphis
will be better. So now you're fighting with them for
one of the last playoffs. About versus the East? What
do you got Nicks?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Look, Look, and that's not a whole lot. If you
want to say, look, I told you he's not leaving.
I told you he's not leaving. But if you want
to say, is there any place he would go for
one year or two years? What's the place he's always
had the fascination with Madison Square guard now that they
really good, but now the really good he's always wanted
to play at MSG. It's probably the only thing he'll
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walk away from his NBA career saying, what's one thing
you want?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I wish I could have done that. Well, you had
twenty some odd years it could have gone. But that's
the only team I can And he's not gonna do that. Either,
He's not gonna go now, I'm gonna go three thousand miles. No,
his life is here, his family is here. It's a
great story. But this is how Lebron has his leverage
is Oh, I could wind up leaving. Okay, We're we're
gonna give you the money you want. We're gonna try
to get your kid. What else do you want us
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to I mean, what else do you want us to do?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
We added a second night to the draft specifically for
your kid.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
He's not he's not, but I would love him. I mean,
it's true.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's really I'm gonna trade a D for Joe wellenb
not doing it.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He's not gonna do it. Well, it beats a better
sound bite and a comic spoil.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
He's not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
That would just be hysterical.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I'm training one big guy for another with the same
issues and the same things, and we're falling and he's
falling short the same.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
But people will be betting the over under of which
guy plays more games.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Exit outbouta Fresca, exit swollen dome. Come up next, we
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