February 27, 2025 • 38 mins
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All right, it's time for some minor sports stories and
great sports.
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Hot minors sports stories for great sports talks.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Freak dude Greek News. Yes, Matt and I thought it
was Freaknick at first, and then I was like, oh no,
it's freak news.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
God.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I love Freaknick Greek news. In this corner, I got.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The Aphrovi news that is Greek invented the Montgrassi and
were the first people.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Who you know, we seek now here's Petros, Papa Donkeys.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm gonna go out on a limbit here, Matt, but
I just have to say this, and I know I'm
gonna get chronic taco. It's like a fifty year chronic
tacoing literally a half century. But since freaking Kojak became
available on Amazon Prime, and I'm embarrassed to say I
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never watched Kojak.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I wasn't well, it was it was before your time.
I wasn't born in it's late seventies. I wasn't born
so I was born in n irat seventy seven. You know,
I just came around familiar with Kojack. I just came
around to Peter Falk and Colombo. But I just want
to say, man, Kojack is the boobs and he's got
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a bulbousy Colo.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean he is, he is great. I have watched
about two seasons of Kojack and I am convinced. And
I know my cop series okay you do, yes, you do,
from Bosh to the Closer to all the stupid law
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and Orders that we watched when we were kids. I
am deeply convinced that a better cop show or series
has has not been made. You could maybe argue, Twinow,
maybe you could argue Twin Peaks, but you could also
argue that that's not really a cop show either, there's
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just cops in it. Anyway, Matt, I.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Was just thinking maybe more the nineteen seventies, you know,
the Barnaby Jones, the Colombo's the.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well only I like Colombo and it's got some good
la flavor. Barretta now Rockford unter Hunter, we love, but
it's not better than Kojak. Well. Look, I also realized,
perhaps I love Kojak because he has a painting of
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a relative on his office wall, and the relative looks
just like him, but in a Greek Army of Liberation
uniform from the Turks in the nineteenth century, an army
that I was taught to idolize in my young years,
and I still do that, Matt, As you know, is
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the War of Colocotronis. He also has a brother on
set as a detective on his team as the name
under the name Stavdos real name Jorgo savalas Telly's brother,
and he gets popcorn from Central Park from a guy
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named Yanni, And when he gets the popcorn, he goes, yes, Yanni,
I can't I can't show I can't take it. He
has a sister who runs a Greek restaurant in the show.
I mean, I can't, I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It, Like, how did you How did your old man
not have this on VHS when you could buy a
series h three hundred dollars on VHS.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
All my dad had on VHS was my brother and
I played football. It's all we had. According to my
father though, and this might maybe we can get him
because I had never heard this story, Like maybe I
had heard it and kind of blocked it out. You know,
I never paid much attention in my younger years to
Telly Savalas. But according to my father, he created the
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lamb Filo, which was a famous dish at their restaurant
that was open for forty years, The Papadakas Taverna aka
the arni a la Papadakis. It gave you deep into
gestion one night, if I remember correctly, Matt.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It was very good, but I found myself with my
head buried in your couch, going, why does it hurt
so bad?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Might have just drank that Greek beer a little.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Fast, it could have been, but it was delicious.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Apparently, my father says that he created the Arni a
la Papadakis, the lamb and the Filo dough, the saddle
of lamb wrapped in a Filo pastry with the onions
and tomato and feta cheese on top. On a cooking
show with Telly and his brother George in the seventies.
I didn't know that that's what he said. Now, maybe
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my father is prone to exaggeration, and I'm looking for
more clarity on that story. Maybe we'll have him on
to explain it. All I'm saying, yeah, I mean we
can do that. All I'm saying is, yeah, we had
them on for Saint Valentine's Day. You were out, but
we can have them back. All I'm saying is Matt
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and I have zero bias here.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
None.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I think Kojak is probably the greatest television show of
all time. Theo Kojak is the greatest television character of
all time. Nobody goes around New York clowning people like
Kojak and talking ass And you know, Matt. There was
recently a big Golden Mic event at the Universal Sheraton
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where Telly Savalas used to live, and the lobby bar
is called Telly's.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I believe you could contribute to a fund to help
those in need attend an event there.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
They hit their goal.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That they otherwise would not have been able to attend.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They hit their goal. Now it's just a matter of
you know, is it going to be Christall or Don Perrignon.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Anyway from two queens are one king on a high Shane,
It's going to be great.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Check out coaching. It will be able to hit the minibar.
Can we cover that? Check out Kojak on Amazon Prime.
Very strong, and I realize I am fifty years late
to the party, all right, minor sports, sports stories or
great sports talk. True.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, for those of you who have what a day
for me?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You're you're those of you who are waiting for the
next Paul George podcast, You're gonna have to wait a while.
Paul George announced a temporary halt to podcast pe, his
very popular podcast Why. He figured it was a good
(08:57):
time to dedicate his full attention to his physical and
mental conditioning. Oh you think so, Paul. This move comes
as the Sixers navigate through a tough period marked by
a nine game losing streak and various injuries within the team,
and well a lot of media issues the Sixers are
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twenty and thirty eight overall, but twenty and thirty eight
still has you right in the twelfth spot in the East,
two and a half games behind the Bulls, your Chicago Bulls,
for the final spot in the play in tournament. How
will we remember podcast Pete and the many great episodes
that they had. Undoubtedly will remember it for him complimenting
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our bff who joined us today, Don McClain.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
I started working and you know, Mike, Mike Pemberty. I
started working with my legendary shooting coach and Don McClain, right,
Domic clain is who I worked out waiting the draft.
Stuck with him for like my first Donald Clan legend
legend at U c l A played in the league
for a good little while.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Was a bucket.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So that was that was great. We got that compliment.
That's great, And then we learned what hard work sounds
like to an NBA guy. And this this really, this
is this has had legs, as they say in the media,
uh places, this this has had some long legs throughout
the years. And we still enjoyed this clip.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Working my butt off, I've been grinding like literally every day,
six days out of the week. I'm training, you know
what I mean, I'm doing rehab. So I'm gonna give
it every chance I got. Man, this is coming down
to the wire.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So what you're waking up with?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
What time?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
And the morning? Doing therapy?
Speaker 7 (10:44):
I'm up nine o'clock therapy at ten, getting out of
there like one two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Literally in there for like three four hours and.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
You doing I'm doing you know, ISO stuff, kind of
keep the quad you know, strong stem stuff where they
you know, you know, uh massaging it. I'm getting uh
flexi where you know they've been in it, trying to
get you know that that motion and uh you know
that strength back you know. I'm I'm I'm lifting, cardio,
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cold tub, hot tub, literally everything. I'm doing it like
an old man. But I'm getting there. How How what
time do you get up?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Shu'm up nine o'clock?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Wow, kidding me? Nine?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So my children have to get up like two hours
before you.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Shu'm up nine o'clock nine, Shu'm up nine o'clock therapy
at ten.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You're a pro athlete, okay, So you work out for
three hours and we're supposed to act like that's grinding.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Getting out of there like one too.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
For an NBA guy, it's like, okay, but you don't
need to broadcast.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
He sounds like I'm up nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Anyway. The podcast is sidelined, and so is Joy. But
they let her go to the Super Bowl, Matt. They
let her have a victory lap in New Orleans.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Well, Sharon it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We'll be right back with three things Thursday, Real hardcore
football talk with the Voice of the Bolts on A
five seventy LA Sports. You're a home of the Dodgers.
Great sports talk. Thanks for listening, everybody, The Petres and
Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports. Happy to
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be with you. We got Clippers Lakers tomorrow. Tonight. We're
on all the way till seven and then we'll have
Dodger Talk. Angel CITYFC kicks off their twenty twenty five
season on Sunday, Mark sixteenth, at home against the rival
Sandy Go Waves. Every fan in attendance will receive a
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But right now it's time standing by in suburban Chicago
in Indiana is Matt Smette three thingsters.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, I have left Indianapolis. I feel as though I
leave victorious as I arrive in suburban Chicago, northwest Indiana.
At least there was one confrontation that we have been
discussing worthwhile. Happy that we could separate it from three
things so we could focus on the three teams that
I would assume that people want to hear about, just
real football talk as opposed to the stuff that really
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interest the petros and money.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Shows, NFL information, guys acting all cool.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Listen when you're when you got a foot on a
guy and you're barking down at him, and the the
NFL world is staring at how this thing could ultimately transpire,
and you're trying to One guy's got a wingman. That's
the other guy. You know, As I said, if one
of those baristas jumps out and protects Jordan, does she
get her own franchise? You know she'll say, Hey, I
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appreciate you looking out for my son. Guess what I'm
flipping you West Lafayette Congratulations. Maybe they name a whole
new brew over the whole the whole haha, like one
of the Do they still do the Starbucks shakers or
were those incredible failure? You know?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But here's what I got. You will go with the Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
God, you know, that'd be like a green tea, Mott
Green Mascha. Come see, the possibilities are endless. This thing
is gonna birth something special.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Can feel it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Let's start with the chargers tip of the spear. Nothing
has changed, despite what looks to be a clear need
for some juice. In the past catching ranks, obviously they
struggled with. Lad McConkie established himself as a Pro Bowl
level producing, legitimate number one receiver. Beyond the twelve hundred yards,
the seven touchdowns, the eye test, the way defenses attack
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trying to stop them, all that attention and open up
opportunities for others on the field, qualities attached to a
player listed as in number one. Now that's said, I'm
guessing the team isn't all that interested in getting them
those one hundred and sixty or so targets him, having
to take all those hits that go along with it,
and maybe having to be scraped off the turfing.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
He looks so robust and strong, like a real old.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It's like Hey, it's great we're doing that, but let's
maybe cut back a little bit. Injury not an issue
with ladin his rookie year, no doubt, play it hurt
a lot and getting banged up was. So they'll want
to keep that on that level and make their best
effort in finding a complimentary piece to them. But that
was not the conversation with the combine all of it.
The last couple days revolved around the unsexy, but the essential,
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the big guys up front, the Houston game in the playoffs,
magnifying the serious issue that they have with the interior
of their offensive line, trying to figure out how to
unlock the potential a former number seventeen overall first round
pick Zion Johnson. He is one of the biggest, strongest,
smartest players on the team, but it's been a struggle.
Priority number one sounds like is fixing that, and it
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could come by moving him to center.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
At least.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
General manager Joe ort He said that's something that they're
trying out that they're looking at. Bradley Boseman, beloved in
the offensive line room, on a one year deal as
the veterans center last year, played every game after Herbert
remember took that leg twisting shot from Saints defensive lineman
Nathan Sheppard. Boseman retaliated by trying to kill him and
that earned all the respect in the locker room from
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every player out there, so they love him. But reality is,
after eighteen games, including that one brutal playoff loss, probably
going to look at options at all three of those
interior offensive line positions in the free agent market and
maybe even early in the draft.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So well, I won't be surprised. I won't be surprised
if they if they draft an interior alignment earlyer than now. Now,
now that is.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I think people want to hear Coleston Lovelin, they want
to hear te McMillan, they want to hear Ashton Genty,
and I'm sure the draft parties at the top golf
for the local sports bars scattered around the Southland are
going to want to hear running back, wide receiver, tight end.
And I'm sure the digital team tod be like, all right,
let's put out that first round video with a guard.
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But like we said last year with joelt, this is
a this is what the team is, it's what they
believe in, it's how they want to play football. It's
a deep running back class, and now it feels less
and less likely that a player like Ashton Genty is
going to slide to them. And look, Chargers do Charger things.
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And that's guard, that's center, that's d line. So Tyler
Booker from Alabama.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
J C.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Latham's left guard. When he was drafted number six overall
as a tackle by Tennessee. A lot of people say
that he should pay Booker half of his salary because
of how important he was to his development. P is
in name that I know you'll love. Gray Zabel from
North Dakota State is a name to keep an eye on.
An armand Membo out of Missouri. You pair one of
them with my guard, I'd be damned.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He didn't say it again.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I feel like a fool.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Go out here, saym iz and nobody says.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Co Ou likely a number one priority that they want
to get settled going into that September fifth game in
Brazil to kick off the twenty twenty five campaign. Tip
of the spear offensive line and look, if it's not that,
I would just kind of look at the other side
defensive line. Chargers got twenty six free agents pretty much
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the entire interior of the defense, defensive line, poon Afford,
Tier Tart, Morgan Fox, all free agents and behind Derwin.
You can make a pretty easy case that Poonifford was
the second best defensive player on this team last season.
So instead of a one year VET minimum prove it
deal that he was on, probably going to have some
suitors around the league. Not sure whether or not the
team will be willing to meet that price that he
might find in the open market. But as we've talked
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to people that have come on the show before, like
Daniel Jeremiah, the deepest group in this draft, defensive tackle
top of the class servites Mason Graham. He's expected to
go on the top five, but his teammate Kenneth Grant
is being as a hero exactly Kenneth Grant, who was
lined up right next to him all season long. They
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say we had the.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Combut of the safe, He had the combot of the safe.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
You know, is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The special safe in Jason. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The first of three things as we wrap up, Sizzle
would be nice Colston Loveland, the Michigan tight end, Ashton Genty,
Amari and Hampton therunning backs, even Travian Henderson maybe coming
off the national championship. They certainly need juice at the
running back position. They were ninth in rushing when JK
was out there, twenty eighth when he wasn't. So it's
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certainly an offense that looks like it needs a stud back.
But maybe they get that a little bit later in
the draft. So Dylan Samson basshal touton out of Virginia Tech.
And of course I think everybody's favorite would be Cam Scataboo,
a very hardball like player, but that might be the
running backs that you're looking at as opposed to Genti
or a Hampton there in the first round. The second
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thing p the Raiders. I was talking with some Raider
folks last night. First thing, they said, yes, Tom Brady
is very involved. They kind of described him as maybe
like a president of football operations level position. So the
rumors of the old Matthew Stafford took a Montana trip
to a ski chalet with Tom Brady not confirmed, but
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feels pretty real, feels like it did happen, and we
know it was a Matthew Stafford. Sean McVay can Kun
trip or Cabo trip. I think it was Cabo that
led to their pairing in an offseason via trade. Sabe
Goo Beach. He loves an adventure. One year, you go
snow the next. They say that Brady wants Stafford on
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the Raiders is very real. This one's interesting because you
got two and I almost that's right. Wonder if this
is a case of Tom Brady being so competitive that
he just can't stand the idea of a rebuild of
looking at the division, the Chiefs, not just the Kings
of the division, but still probably the favorite in the
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AFC to make the Super Bowl again, of the Chargers
and Broncos taking big steps and being playoff teams last
year and thinking they can figure out a way to
be right there with them. But you know, you think
about Tom Brady ultimate competitor. Pete Carroll is going to
turn seventy four during the season, becoming the oldest head
coach in the history of the NFL. The Stafford thing,
it lines up for those two guys. I said it
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earlier this week when we first discussed it. The Raider
offense has been terrible, just terrible the last three or
four years, and certainly since Derek Carr left, and it's
turned into a little bit of a mess in Vegas
visiting fans taking over the stadium. I saw it in
Week eighteen with all the Charger fans that were there.
They're losing way too much. They're falling way behind in
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a really competitive division. And so with another big contract
for another head coach, with the Tom Brady involvement with
Chip Kelly, I think people forget that Chip Kelly was
hired to be the offensive coordinator at six million dollars
per year, just to be the OC. That is more
than Matt Lafleur makes in Green Bay. He is a
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five million dollars a year head coach.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And Chip Kelly, you know you can lose money quick six.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Million bucks, Yes you can. So it's it's kind of
hard to figure out. Okay, if you're paying him six
million bucks and Tom Brady's here and Pete Carroll's seventy
four ed looks like the quick fix lane more than
the tearot all the way down and build it back up.
But man, you look at the roster and you can
make a case they might have it. Most four building
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block players Rock Bauers, Max Crosby, Christian Wilkins, Colton Miller,
and that's probably it. I mean maybe powers Johnson hopefully.
So it would lead you to think you got a
lot to do before you're going out and hand in
fifty to fifty five million bucks to Matthew Stafford and
maybe taking on the Cooper Cup contract as well, and
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what ultimately that's going to get you. The other part
is the other thinking is, well, okay, you're paying Chip
Kelly six million bucks. He just won the national championship
and he just did it, you know, with tight ends
two monster running backs and Judkins and Henderson, those two
guys are going to go in the top fifty. Maybe
you go out and get former Buckeye Justin Fields for
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a low number, and then you draft a developmental quarterback
who very well could be Will Howard that just won
the national championship for Chip in the third round and
go full Ohio State, Las Vegas Campus, and you spend
your money in free agency to try to supplement those
guys going to be It's two completely different paths, and
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yet either of them, I guess you can make a
case for making sense. But we'll see which direction they go.
Because I would assume as we get to our final,
third and final thing here in three things is What
the hell is Matt Stafford thinking, you know, like you're
thirty seven, you really want to go play the last
couple of years of your football career for the Raiders.
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He's made four hundred million dollars in his career. Four
hundred not enough and it's not enough. Like I get
that fifteen million bucks is a lot of money. Yeah,
people like that's just a one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We don't think along those lines. But we don't get it.
Then again, we're not. No, we don't have that dog.
We don't have that dog in us.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Man, Like, you're gonna leave Los Angeles, you know, leave
Sean McVay, the Rams, the roster, the favorites to win
the division next year because you feel like you're being
disrespected somehow.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It feels like he's always paid gotten what he wanted, right,
I mean he was in Detroit, he got paid.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Did this happen last year?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, he got paid huge in Detroit. They traded him
where he wanted. He got to go where he wanted,
he got to win a Super Bowl. Then he disparaged
the city of Detroit that loved him and treated him well.
And now he's gonna end up pissing off the Rams
and yeah, it's it's doesn't seem worth it. But I
mean maybe he's worried about his generational generational double generational wealth.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Perhaps that yes, first art, the the sixth generation of Staffords,
because four hundred million bucks not in that. Well if
he just plays this contract out four hundred and sixty
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well the podcast is going to outpace him, you know,
because it's gonna you know, well, the podcast will continue forever.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's the next level, you know. So they need the
seed money to really get that podcast to sing. So
it feels like the Rams after going through this last year.
Three hours before training camp started with Ian McVeigh trying
to hammer out some details to make them happy, to
convert some salary into signing bonus so we could walk
out with a big fat check. Is like, you know what, man,
like whatever, well, we'll do the Kirk Cousins or Aaron Rodgers.
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I mean, like, look at how it worked out for
those guys. Aaron Rodgers fifty million bucks from the Jets, terrible.
Kirk Cousins sixty million bucks from the Falcons terrible. He
got what's he got? Four kids? Little kids? You won
a Super Bowl, finish up your career and walk into
the Hall of Fame in ten years instead of showing
up in Las Vegas or New York and playing front
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team that's scrapping maybe to get the final wild card
spot for the next year or two. But hey, good
luck to him, good luck to his dog, Kelly, because
someone's got to be the dog to get you what
you want and made their decision.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
What do I want?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Hey, way to go, man, you got an extra fifteen
million bucks. You're on a fourth place team that's picked
to finish fourth in their division. I'm sure it was
worth it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I wouldn't count Pete Carroll out like that. Matt guy's
got a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, I just said picked, you know, picked to win.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Well, I mean, now you kind of said it, But
the first time you said it was like it was
already manifest destiny that the Raiders are going to be losers.
And that didn't make me come back, come back.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's what made Pete come back. Hey, man, I just
I'd never never even thought about it.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Man, come on, you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh No, I knew it. I knew I was always
going to be right back here.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That was three things. Thursday. We will continue all the
way till seven and then Dave will take over with Dodger.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Talk, Petro, some Money Hanging five to seventy LA Sports
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Speaker 3 (28:22):
Well, I'll tell you when it comes to angels, this
man is the angel on our shoulders. It's sweets Ay,
Order in the court, Order in the court. It's time
for justice with Sweet Chain at eight hundred and nine million.
Whatever's happened, Maybe your house burned down, Perhaps you've been
hidden by the dog and the balls, car accident, motorcycle accident,
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the dead spirit of Jess Bigfoot, the dead spirit of justice,
Sweet James. He knows how to come through for you,
and he's been through it. He comes through for people
to the tune of billions of dollars for thousands of people.
But you got to give him a call at eight
hundred and nine million, the greatest personal injury attorney that
ever lived, and becoming quite a television star with his
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many commercials and just the many tiered commercials, animated and
otherwise the transpirit of justice. Sweet James on your Southern California.
I tell you to dealer celebrity hotline. Hello, sweet James,
how are you? Hey? I'm doing well.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Boys, how are you?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We're okay, Sweet James. H Man is in mad is
in Hammond, Indiana. Uh he just got done and uh
he just narrowly escaped exposure in Indianapolis. And oh I
was exposed, all right, and he's returned. He's returning.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I brought it back with me now.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Uh yeah, Hey, Max, can you bring back some three
floyd like we did last time?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh? You know what, perhaps I will.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Forge your brother. Your brother did that for me.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You have to step back, all right, I will for
since I took all your Puerto Rican beer when you
brought it.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
To us, and unless you exclusively served it, served it
to a bunch of Mormons that didn't come on, God,
drink the beery.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Just drink would you just stop being a wet blanket
and drink it?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
All right, sweet James, I'll get it started. I'll get
it started. I was driving in, uh near my neighborhood
the other day and rolling Hills Estates, which is a
real place, and uh, they have like horses around there, right,
But a horse, a couple of horses were just crossing
the street, not not at a crosswalk.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Not anything like that, in the middle of the street.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Middle of the street. What if I plow into one
of those horses? Am I am I at fault in
my toyota to coma.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
That's funny you say that, because no, the owner of
those horses will be at fault. That is a quasi
wild animal, and the owner is going to be responsible
for anything.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Now, there are signs that say watch for horses.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Okay, but I mean that doesn't that doesn't absolve the
owner of the responsibility to corral those horses and protect
them from people like you.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So let's say the horse you know, in its death
throws kicks its hoof through the through the windshield and
punches me.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
In the face like a Tommy boy.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Right, Yeah, the deer at the back. Does that? Does that?
Can I? My damages also will be paid by the
horse owner.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Petros You dang right?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, how about that, Matt. How's that for a legal
start right.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Break dance move right from the get go?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Man, Try this one on, Try this one on, James Walkers,
walk us through this. So, in the uber competitive world
of breaking NFL news and information, you got two guys
find themselves in Indianapolis at the same time. Rarely do
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their paths cross.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Now they're in a Starbucks, okay, and inside it. One
of them clocks in at about six foot three, played
some Divisional two basketball. The other one, we're probably, if
we're being honest, without shoes maybe five six, claims to
have played college lacrosse at a very high level, but
(32:27):
finds himself eternally combative with what some call little Man syndrome. Now,
these two get into a verbal complex man that that
doesn't doesn't quite touch It doesn't get near the physical
confrontation level. Right, It's just a very uncomfortable verbal confrontation
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for at least fifty people in their industry to witness.
Now here's the rub. Here's the rub. Let's just say
one of them is the sun of one of the
ten richest men in the world because he founded the
most popular coffee establishment in the world. Okay, what would
(33:09):
have what case would the Napoleon complex like information have
if the founder of the most popular and successful coffee
brand franchise in the world had him banned from ever
purchasing Starbucks coffee again? Would he be able to do that?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Well? Look, first of all, that is a blessing. Starbucks
coffee is terrible, and okay, I'll go to most of
them now with that one.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
So it's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Man.
Speaker 8 (33:35):
Yes, you can.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
You can refuse the right to serve anybody as long
as as long as it's not along those certain lines
of race, gender, religious filiation.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Those sort of things.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
But just because he doesn't like your haircut and didn't
your jerk, yeah, he can kick you right out.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Wow, so you got into an argument with my son
at Starbucks. Moving forward, I in Rapaport, you're not allowed
to buy Starbucks anymore. You're eighty sixth from the rest
of the world. Starbucks, he can do that.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yes, yes, yes, Rapaport walks up at an airport with
a Groucho Marx mask on. How are you gonna how
you're gonna litigate.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
That fair point?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Enforcing it is another thing. But yes he can make
that at it because you go ahead and make that the.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Love there's you can put a picture, yes, right next
to it is the picture of being rappaport.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Do not serve this man? All right? Hold on, he
shows I'll see.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
JK. Jim Kates apparently has a question, Sweet James.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I got a friend who was recently in the Midwest,
and while there, he was out and about on a
weeknight and may have been overserved, and uh, on his
way back to his hotel, he walked instead of taking an.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Uber And how long was the walk?
Speaker 6 (34:57):
What about three quarters of a mile? On the way
he stopped about food, and you know, it was just
out and about maybe kind of walking it off, silvering
up a little bit, just to join the nice sky,
all the stars up in the sky in Indianapolis or
somewhere in the Midwest.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
What happens if.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
If a police officer rolls up on him and says, sir,
you're walking a little sideways. You kind of ran into
the paper thing. They're like, what's how much have you
had to drink?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Like?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Can you get a rest dispensers? Can you get there?
On every corner these days?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Can you get your fine?
Speaker 6 (35:28):
And how much is drunk in public?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
The number one thinking as he get down driving he
did the right thing by walking it off too. Yes,
he could get a public intoxication uh ticket And depending
on the jurisdiction where it is, it's the fine is
going to vary.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
But run into the Rhode Island doesn't it take more
than that?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
No? Wait a second, now here's here's the here's something
for everybody out there. When when an officer asked you
have you had anything to drink? What do you say? No? No, no,
What do you tell you say?
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Officer?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Answer that question would require me to violate my constitutional
rights and it would be a shame to give them up, squeezily,
especially after some good men women have died to protect them.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
That's what you say?
Speaker 5 (36:17):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I was thinking I was just gonna say no, Asifer.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Would you like a bite of my burrito? Suprea? You
want this other topo?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Supreme? I'm not gonna eat it?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
All right? Well, I guess that answers your question.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
There thanks for that one appreciated.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I think that's fair, you know what I mean, there's a.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I mean, you know what, since we're already on it,
we might as well just dig a little bit deeper.
What happens if I am in an alley and I
have managed to wiggle my way in between two very
large trash bins, you know, the the industrial size that
take the garbage truck with the forklift thing on the
front to empty them, and I have decided to relieve myself. Okay,
(37:04):
so I'm out of site. No one can see me.
I'm against a wall. There's two garbage on either side.
But I'm relieving myself. But but I'm not exposed to anybody.
What would the what would the ticket and the fine be?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah, you're in a public eric, that's a public hero nation,
So it doesn't matter if you're hidden or not. You're
going to get the ticket and an officer's aue. Though
you weren't that hidden, it.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Could be hard to get a job after that's on
your record.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Well, no, it's not like I'm going to be I'm
not going to get a public indecent exposure or anything
like that. It's just public years.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Wait, wait a minute, if his puzzo's out, doesn't he
become a sex offender?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:38):
No, you could.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Joey Salt ninth grade mooning people down the sidewalk when
when was a cover police officer. He was arrested and
he had to register on the sexistender. Come on for mooning.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
That's not cool.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Yeah, that's not cool at all.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Souse Dickens says, can be an ass.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yeah, just throwing rocks tonight. The one and only sweet
James at eight hundred and nine million, give him a call,
eight hundred nine million, quite simply, the greatest lawyer that
ever walked the earth, Clarence Darrow.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Be down an alley happen in this country?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yes, no, you can't pee in an alley, Matt. Now
you can build a cardboard house and there'll be protections
for you. Don't worry. I can't up with a broken bottle.
I mean, come on, Well, I thought we covered a
lot of legal ground there. That was very good, and
we'll be back with more great sports talk. The one
(38:33):
and only dense Beard of Justice. Wow, always always impactful.
We'll be back. It is a crunchy groove. Tap that
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All right, it's time for some minor sports stories and
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Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hot minors sports stories for great sports talks.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Freak dude Greek News. Yes, Matt and I thought it
was Freaknick at first, and then I was like, oh no,
it's freak news.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
God.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I love Freaknick Greek news. In this corner, I got.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The Aphrovi news that is Greek invented the Montgrassi and
were the first people.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Who you know, we seek now here's Petros, Papa Donkeys.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm gonna go out on a limbit here, Matt, but
I just have to say this, and I know I'm
gonna get chronic taco. It's like a fifty year chronic
tacoing literally a half century. But since freaking Kojak became
available on Amazon Prime, and I'm embarrassed to say I
(02:48):
never watched Kojak.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I wasn't well, it was it was before your time.
I wasn't born in it's late seventies. I wasn't born
so I was born in n irat seventy seven. You know,
I just came around familiar with Kojack. I just came
around to Peter Falk and Colombo. But I just want
to say, man, Kojack is the boobs and he's got
(03:13):
a bulbousy Colo.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean he is, he is great. I have watched
about two seasons of Kojack and I am convinced. And
I know my cop series okay you do, yes, you do,
from Bosh to the Closer to all the stupid law
(03:37):
and Orders that we watched when we were kids. I
am deeply convinced that a better cop show or series
has has not been made. You could maybe argue, Twinow,
maybe you could argue Twin Peaks, but you could also
argue that that's not really a cop show either, there's
(03:58):
just cops in it. Anyway, Matt, I.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Was just thinking maybe more the nineteen seventies, you know,
the Barnaby Jones, the Colombo's the.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well only I like Colombo and it's got some good
la flavor. Barretta now Rockford unter Hunter, we love, but
it's not better than Kojak. Well. Look, I also realized,
perhaps I love Kojak because he has a painting of
(04:31):
a relative on his office wall, and the relative looks
just like him, but in a Greek Army of Liberation
uniform from the Turks in the nineteenth century, an army
that I was taught to idolize in my young years,
and I still do that, Matt, As you know, is
(04:52):
the War of Colocotronis. He also has a brother on
set as a detective on his team as the name
under the name Stavdos real name Jorgo savalas Telly's brother,
and he gets popcorn from Central Park from a guy
(05:12):
named Yanni, And when he gets the popcorn, he goes, yes, Yanni,
I can't I can't show I can't take it. He
has a sister who runs a Greek restaurant in the show.
I mean, I can't, I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It, Like, how did you How did your old man
not have this on VHS when you could buy a
series h three hundred dollars on VHS.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
All my dad had on VHS was my brother and
I played football. It's all we had. According to my
father though, and this might maybe we can get him
because I had never heard this story, Like maybe I
had heard it and kind of blocked it out. You know,
I never paid much attention in my younger years to
Telly Savalas. But according to my father, he created the
(06:04):
lamb Filo, which was a famous dish at their restaurant
that was open for forty years, The Papadakas Taverna aka
the arni a la Papadakis. It gave you deep into
gestion one night, if I remember correctly, Matt.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It was very good, but I found myself with my
head buried in your couch, going, why does it hurt
so bad?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Might have just drank that Greek beer a little.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Fast, it could have been, but it was delicious.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Apparently, my father says that he created the Arni a
la Papadakis, the lamb and the Filo dough, the saddle
of lamb wrapped in a Filo pastry with the onions
and tomato and feta cheese on top. On a cooking
show with Telly and his brother George in the seventies.
I didn't know that that's what he said. Now, maybe
(06:51):
my father is prone to exaggeration, and I'm looking for
more clarity on that story. Maybe we'll have him on
to explain it. All I'm saying, yeah, I mean we
can do that. All I'm saying is, yeah, we had
them on for Saint Valentine's Day. You were out, but
we can have them back. All I'm saying is Matt
(07:13):
and I have zero bias here.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
None.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I think Kojak is probably the greatest television show of
all time. Theo Kojak is the greatest television character of
all time. Nobody goes around New York clowning people like
Kojak and talking ass And you know, Matt. There was
recently a big Golden Mic event at the Universal Sheraton
(07:37):
where Telly Savalas used to live, and the lobby bar
is called Telly's.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I believe you could contribute to a fund to help
those in need attend an event there.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
They hit their goal.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That they otherwise would not have been able to attend.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They hit their goal. Now it's just a matter of
you know, is it going to be Christall or Don Perrignon.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Anyway from two queens are one king on a high Shane,
It's going to be great.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Check out coaching. It will be able to hit the minibar.
Can we cover that? Check out Kojak on Amazon Prime.
Very strong, and I realize I am fifty years late
to the party, all right, minor sports, sports stories or
great sports talk. True.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, for those of you who have what a day
for me?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You're you're those of you who are waiting for the
next Paul George podcast, You're gonna have to wait a while.
Paul George announced a temporary halt to podcast pe, his
very popular podcast Why. He figured it was a good
(08:57):
time to dedicate his full attention to his physical and
mental conditioning. Oh you think so, Paul. This move comes
as the Sixers navigate through a tough period marked by
a nine game losing streak and various injuries within the team,
and well a lot of media issues the Sixers are
(09:17):
twenty and thirty eight overall, but twenty and thirty eight
still has you right in the twelfth spot in the East,
two and a half games behind the Bulls, your Chicago Bulls,
for the final spot in the play in tournament. How
will we remember podcast Pete and the many great episodes
that they had. Undoubtedly will remember it for him complimenting
(09:43):
our bff who joined us today, Don McClain.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
I started working and you know, Mike, Mike Pemberty. I
started working with my legendary shooting coach and Don McClain, right,
Domic clain is who I worked out waiting the draft.
Stuck with him for like my first Donald Clan legend
legend at U c l A played in the league
for a good little while.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Was a bucket.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
So that was that was great. We got that compliment.
That's great, And then we learned what hard work sounds
like to an NBA guy. And this this really, this
is this has had legs, as they say in the media,
uh places, this this has had some long legs throughout
the years. And we still enjoyed this clip.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Working my butt off, I've been grinding like literally every day,
six days out of the week. I'm training, you know
what I mean, I'm doing rehab. So I'm gonna give
it every chance I got. Man, this is coming down
to the wire.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So what you're waking up with?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
What time?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
And the morning? Doing therapy?
Speaker 7 (10:44):
I'm up nine o'clock therapy at ten, getting out of
there like one two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Literally in there for like three four hours and.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
You doing I'm doing you know, ISO stuff, kind of
keep the quad you know, strong stem stuff where they
you know, you know, uh massaging it. I'm getting uh
flexi where you know they've been in it, trying to
get you know that that motion and uh you know
that strength back you know. I'm I'm I'm lifting, cardio,
(11:18):
cold tub, hot tub, literally everything. I'm doing it like
an old man. But I'm getting there. How How what
time do you get up?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Shu'm up nine o'clock?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Wow, kidding me? Nine?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So my children have to get up like two hours
before you.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Shu'm up nine o'clock nine, Shu'm up nine o'clock therapy
at ten.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You're a pro athlete, okay, So you work out for
three hours and we're supposed to act like that's grinding.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Getting out of there like one too.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
For an NBA guy, it's like, okay, but you don't
need to broadcast.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
He sounds like I'm up nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Anyway. The podcast is sidelined, and so is Joy. But
they let her go to the Super Bowl, Matt. They
let her have a victory lap in New Orleans.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Well, Sharon it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We'll be right back with three things Thursday, Real hardcore
football talk with the Voice of the Bolts on A
five seventy LA Sports. You're a home of the Dodgers.
Great sports talk. Thanks for listening, everybody, The Petres and
Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports. Happy to
(12:45):
be with you. We got Clippers Lakers tomorrow. Tonight. We're
on all the way till seven and then we'll have
Dodger Talk. Angel CITYFC kicks off their twenty twenty five
season on Sunday, Mark sixteenth, at home against the rival
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(13:09):
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But right now it's time standing by in suburban Chicago
in Indiana is Matt Smette three thingsters.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, I have left Indianapolis. I feel as though I
leave victorious as I arrive in suburban Chicago, northwest Indiana.
At least there was one confrontation that we have been
discussing worthwhile. Happy that we could separate it from three
things so we could focus on the three teams that
I would assume that people want to hear about, just
real football talk as opposed to the stuff that really
(14:00):
interest the petros and money.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Shows, NFL information, guys acting all cool.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Listen when you're when you got a foot on a
guy and you're barking down at him, and the the
NFL world is staring at how this thing could ultimately transpire,
and you're trying to One guy's got a wingman. That's
the other guy. You know, As I said, if one
of those baristas jumps out and protects Jordan, does she
get her own franchise? You know she'll say, Hey, I
(14:30):
appreciate you looking out for my son. Guess what I'm
flipping you West Lafayette Congratulations. Maybe they name a whole
new brew over the whole the whole haha, like one
of the Do they still do the Starbucks shakers or
were those incredible failure? You know?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But here's what I got. You will go with the Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
God, you know, that'd be like a green tea, Mott
Green Mascha. Come see, the possibilities are endless. This thing
is gonna birth something special.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Can feel it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Let's start with the chargers tip of the spear. Nothing
has changed, despite what looks to be a clear need
for some juice. In the past catching ranks, obviously they
struggled with. Lad McConkie established himself as a Pro Bowl
level producing, legitimate number one receiver. Beyond the twelve hundred yards,
the seven touchdowns, the eye test, the way defenses attack
(15:21):
trying to stop them, all that attention and open up
opportunities for others on the field, qualities attached to a
player listed as in number one. Now that's said, I'm
guessing the team isn't all that interested in getting them
those one hundred and sixty or so targets him, having
to take all those hits that go along with it,
and maybe having to be scraped off the turfing.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
He looks so robust and strong, like a real old.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It's like Hey, it's great we're doing that, but let's
maybe cut back a little bit. Injury not an issue
with ladin his rookie year, no doubt, play it hurt
a lot and getting banged up was. So they'll want
to keep that on that level and make their best
effort in finding a complimentary piece to them. But that
was not the conversation with the combine all of it.
The last couple days revolved around the unsexy, but the essential,
(16:04):
the big guys up front, the Houston game in the playoffs,
magnifying the serious issue that they have with the interior
of their offensive line, trying to figure out how to
unlock the potential a former number seventeen overall first round
pick Zion Johnson. He is one of the biggest, strongest,
smartest players on the team, but it's been a struggle.
Priority number one sounds like is fixing that, and it
(16:26):
could come by moving him to center.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
At least.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
General manager Joe ort He said that's something that they're
trying out that they're looking at. Bradley Boseman, beloved in
the offensive line room, on a one year deal as
the veterans center last year, played every game after Herbert
remember took that leg twisting shot from Saints defensive lineman
Nathan Sheppard. Boseman retaliated by trying to kill him and
that earned all the respect in the locker room from
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every player out there, so they love him. But reality is,
after eighteen games, including that one brutal playoff loss, probably
going to look at options at all three of those
interior offensive line positions in the free agent market and
maybe even early in the draft.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
So well, I won't be surprised. I won't be surprised
if they if they draft an interior alignment earlyer than now. Now,
now that is.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I think people want to hear Coleston Lovelin, they want
to hear te McMillan, they want to hear Ashton Genty,
and I'm sure the draft parties at the top golf
for the local sports bars scattered around the Southland are
going to want to hear running back, wide receiver, tight end.
And I'm sure the digital team tod be like, all right,
let's put out that first round video with a guard.
(17:39):
But like we said last year with joelt, this is
a this is what the team is, it's what they
believe in, it's how they want to play football. It's
a deep running back class, and now it feels less
and less likely that a player like Ashton Genty is
going to slide to them. And look, Chargers do Charger things.
(18:00):
And that's guard, that's center, that's d line. So Tyler
Booker from Alabama.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
J C.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Latham's left guard. When he was drafted number six overall
as a tackle by Tennessee. A lot of people say
that he should pay Booker half of his salary because
of how important he was to his development. P is
in name that I know you'll love. Gray Zabel from
North Dakota State is a name to keep an eye on.
An armand Membo out of Missouri. You pair one of
them with my guard, I'd be damned.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He didn't say it again.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I feel like a fool.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Go out here, saym iz and nobody says.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Co Ou likely a number one priority that they want
to get settled going into that September fifth game in
Brazil to kick off the twenty twenty five campaign. Tip
of the spear offensive line and look, if it's not that,
I would just kind of look at the other side
defensive line. Chargers got twenty six free agents pretty much
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the entire interior of the defense, defensive line, poon Afford,
Tier Tart, Morgan Fox, all free agents and behind Derwin.
You can make a pretty easy case that Poonifford was
the second best defensive player on this team last season.
So instead of a one year VET minimum prove it
deal that he was on, probably going to have some
suitors around the league. Not sure whether or not the
team will be willing to meet that price that he
might find in the open market. But as we've talked
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to people that have come on the show before, like
Daniel Jeremiah, the deepest group in this draft, defensive tackle
top of the class servites Mason Graham. He's expected to
go on the top five, but his teammate Kenneth Grant
is being as a hero exactly Kenneth Grant, who was
lined up right next to him all season long. They
(19:43):
say we had the.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Combut of the safe, He had the combot of the safe.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
You know, is that right?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The special safe in Jason. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The first of three things as we wrap up, Sizzle
would be nice Colston Loveland, the Michigan tight end, Ashton Genty,
Amari and Hampton therunning backs, even Travian Henderson maybe coming
off the national championship. They certainly need juice at the
running back position. They were ninth in rushing when JK
was out there, twenty eighth when he wasn't. So it's
(20:12):
certainly an offense that looks like it needs a stud back.
But maybe they get that a little bit later in
the draft. So Dylan Samson basshal touton out of Virginia Tech.
And of course I think everybody's favorite would be Cam Scataboo,
a very hardball like player, but that might be the
running backs that you're looking at as opposed to Genti
or a Hampton there in the first round. The second
(20:33):
thing p the Raiders. I was talking with some Raider
folks last night. First thing, they said, yes, Tom Brady
is very involved. They kind of described him as maybe
like a president of football operations level position. So the
rumors of the old Matthew Stafford took a Montana trip
to a ski chalet with Tom Brady not confirmed, but
(20:54):
feels pretty real, feels like it did happen, and we
know it was a Matthew Stafford. Sean McVay can Kun
trip or Cabo trip. I think it was Cabo that
led to their pairing in an offseason via trade. Sabe
Goo Beach. He loves an adventure. One year, you go
snow the next. They say that Brady wants Stafford on
(21:17):
the Raiders is very real. This one's interesting because you
got two and I almost that's right. Wonder if this
is a case of Tom Brady being so competitive that
he just can't stand the idea of a rebuild of
looking at the division, the Chiefs, not just the Kings
of the division, but still probably the favorite in the
(21:38):
AFC to make the Super Bowl again, of the Chargers
and Broncos taking big steps and being playoff teams last
year and thinking they can figure out a way to
be right there with them. But you know, you think
about Tom Brady ultimate competitor. Pete Carroll is going to
turn seventy four during the season, becoming the oldest head
coach in the history of the NFL. The Stafford thing,
it lines up for those two guys. I said it
(21:59):
earlier this week when we first discussed it. The Raider
offense has been terrible, just terrible the last three or
four years, and certainly since Derek Carr left, and it's
turned into a little bit of a mess in Vegas
visiting fans taking over the stadium. I saw it in
Week eighteen with all the Charger fans that were there.
They're losing way too much. They're falling way behind in
(22:19):
a really competitive division. And so with another big contract
for another head coach, with the Tom Brady involvement with
Chip Kelly, I think people forget that Chip Kelly was
hired to be the offensive coordinator at six million dollars
per year, just to be the OC. That is more
than Matt Lafleur makes in Green Bay. He is a
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five million dollars a year head coach.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And Chip Kelly, you know you can lose money quick six.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Million bucks, Yes you can. So it's it's kind of
hard to figure out. Okay, if you're paying him six
million bucks and Tom Brady's here and Pete Carroll's seventy
four ed looks like the quick fix lane more than
the tearot all the way down and build it back up.
But man, you look at the roster and you can
make a case they might have it. Most four building
(23:07):
block players Rock Bauers, Max Crosby, Christian Wilkins, Colton Miller,
and that's probably it. I mean maybe powers Johnson hopefully.
So it would lead you to think you got a
lot to do before you're going out and hand in
fifty to fifty five million bucks to Matthew Stafford and
maybe taking on the Cooper Cup contract as well, and
(23:28):
what ultimately that's going to get you. The other part
is the other thinking is, well, okay, you're paying Chip
Kelly six million bucks. He just won the national championship
and he just did it, you know, with tight ends
two monster running backs and Judkins and Henderson, those two
guys are going to go in the top fifty. Maybe
you go out and get former Buckeye Justin Fields for
(23:51):
a low number, and then you draft a developmental quarterback
who very well could be Will Howard that just won
the national championship for Chip in the third round and
go full Ohio State, Las Vegas Campus, and you spend
your money in free agency to try to supplement those
guys going to be It's two completely different paths, and
(24:12):
yet either of them, I guess you can make a
case for making sense. But we'll see which direction they go.
Because I would assume as we get to our final,
third and final thing here in three things is What
the hell is Matt Stafford thinking, you know, like you're
thirty seven, you really want to go play the last
couple of years of your football career for the Raiders.
(24:35):
He's made four hundred million dollars in his career. Four
hundred not enough and it's not enough. Like I get
that fifteen million bucks is a lot of money. Yeah,
people like that's just a one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We don't think along those lines. But we don't get it.
Then again, we're not. No, we don't have that dog.
We don't have that dog in us.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Man, Like, you're gonna leave Los Angeles, you know, leave
Sean McVay, the Rams, the roster, the favorites to win
the division next year because you feel like you're being
disrespected somehow.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It feels like he's always paid gotten what he wanted, right,
I mean he was in Detroit, he got paid.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Did this happen last year?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, he got paid huge in Detroit. They traded him
where he wanted. He got to go where he wanted,
he got to win a Super Bowl. Then he disparaged
the city of Detroit that loved him and treated him well.
And now he's gonna end up pissing off the Rams
and yeah, it's it's doesn't seem worth it. But I
mean maybe he's worried about his generational generational double generational wealth.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Perhaps that yes, first art, the the sixth generation of Staffords,
because four hundred million bucks not in that. Well if
he just plays this contract out four hundred and sixty
million dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well the podcast is going to outpace him, you know,
because it's gonna you know, well, the podcast will continue forever.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's the next level, you know. So they need the
seed money to really get that podcast to sing. So
it feels like the Rams after going through this last year.
Three hours before training camp started with Ian McVeigh trying
to hammer out some details to make them happy, to
convert some salary into signing bonus so we could walk
out with a big fat check. Is like, you know what, man,
like whatever, well, we'll do the Kirk Cousins or Aaron Rodgers.
(26:21):
I mean, like, look at how it worked out for
those guys. Aaron Rodgers fifty million bucks from the Jets, terrible.
Kirk Cousins sixty million bucks from the Falcons terrible. He
got what's he got? Four kids? Little kids? You won
a Super Bowl, finish up your career and walk into
the Hall of Fame in ten years instead of showing
up in Las Vegas or New York and playing front
(26:42):
team that's scrapping maybe to get the final wild card
spot for the next year or two. But hey, good
luck to him, good luck to his dog, Kelly, because
someone's got to be the dog to get you what
you want and made their decision.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
What do I want?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Hey, way to go, man, you got an extra fifteen
million bucks. You're on a fourth place team that's picked
to finish fourth in their division. I'm sure it was
worth it.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Well done.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I wouldn't count Pete Carroll out like that. Matt guy's
got a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, I just said picked, you know, picked to win.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Well, I mean, now you kind of said it, But
the first time you said it was like it was
already manifest destiny that the Raiders are going to be losers.
And that didn't make me come back, come back.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's what made Pete come back. Hey, man, I just
I'd never never even thought about it.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Man, come on, you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh No, I knew it. I knew I was always
going to be right back here.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That was three things. Thursday. We will continue all the
way till seven and then Dave will take over with Dodger.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
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Speaker 3 (28:22):
Well, I'll tell you when it comes to angels, this
man is the angel on our shoulders. It's sweets Ay,
Order in the court, Order in the court. It's time
for justice with Sweet Chain at eight hundred and nine million.
Whatever's happened, Maybe your house burned down, Perhaps you've been
hidden by the dog and the balls, car accident, motorcycle accident,
(28:47):
the dead spirit of Jess Bigfoot, the dead spirit of justice,
Sweet James. He knows how to come through for you,
and he's been through it. He comes through for people
to the tune of billions of dollars for thousands of people.
But you got to give him a call at eight
hundred and nine million, the greatest personal injury attorney that
ever lived, and becoming quite a television star with his
(29:07):
many commercials and just the many tiered commercials, animated and
otherwise the transpirit of justice. Sweet James on your Southern California.
I tell you to dealer celebrity hotline. Hello, sweet James,
how are you? Hey? I'm doing well.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Boys, how are you?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We're okay, Sweet James. H Man is in mad is
in Hammond, Indiana. Uh he just got done and uh
he just narrowly escaped exposure in Indianapolis. And oh I
was exposed, all right, and he's returned. He's returning.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I brought it back with me now.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Uh yeah, Hey, Max, can you bring back some three
floyd like we did last time?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh? You know what, perhaps I will.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Forge your brother. Your brother did that for me.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You have to step back, all right, I will for
since I took all your Puerto Rican beer when you
brought it.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
To us, and unless you exclusively served it, served it
to a bunch of Mormons that didn't come on, God,
drink the beery.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Just drink would you just stop being a wet blanket
and drink it?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
All right, sweet James, I'll get it started. I'll get
it started. I was driving in, uh near my neighborhood
the other day and rolling Hills Estates, which is a
real place, and uh, they have like horses around there, right,
But a horse, a couple of horses were just crossing
the street, not not at a crosswalk.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Not anything like that, in the middle of the street.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Middle of the street. What if I plow into one
of those horses? Am I am I at fault in
my toyota to coma.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
That's funny you say that, because no, the owner of
those horses will be at fault. That is a quasi
wild animal, and the owner is going to be responsible
for anything.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Now, there are signs that say watch for horses.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Okay, but I mean that doesn't that doesn't absolve the
owner of the responsibility to corral those horses and protect
them from people like you.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So let's say the horse you know, in its death
throws kicks its hoof through the through the windshield and
punches me.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
In the face like a Tommy boy.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Right, Yeah, the deer at the back. Does that? Does that?
Can I? My damages also will be paid by the
horse owner.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Petros You dang right?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, how about that, Matt. How's that for a legal
start right.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Break dance move right from the get go?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Man, Try this one on, Try this one on, James Walkers,
walk us through this. So, in the uber competitive world
of breaking NFL news and information, you got two guys
find themselves in Indianapolis at the same time. Rarely do
(32:03):
their paths cross.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Now they're in a Starbucks, okay, and inside it. One
of them clocks in at about six foot three, played
some Divisional two basketball. The other one, we're probably, if
we're being honest, without shoes maybe five six, claims to
have played college lacrosse at a very high level, but
(32:27):
finds himself eternally combative with what some call little Man syndrome. Now,
these two get into a verbal complex man that that
doesn't doesn't quite touch It doesn't get near the physical
confrontation level. Right, It's just a very uncomfortable verbal confrontation
(32:49):
for at least fifty people in their industry to witness.
Now here's the rub. Here's the rub. Let's just say
one of them is the sun of one of the
ten richest men in the world because he founded the
most popular coffee establishment in the world. Okay, what would
(33:09):
have what case would the Napoleon complex like information have
if the founder of the most popular and successful coffee
brand franchise in the world had him banned from ever
purchasing Starbucks coffee again? Would he be able to do that?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Well? Look, first of all, that is a blessing. Starbucks
coffee is terrible, and okay, I'll go to most of
them now with that one.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
So it's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Man.
Speaker 8 (33:35):
Yes, you can.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
You can refuse the right to serve anybody as long
as as long as it's not along those certain lines
of race, gender, religious filiation.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Those sort of things.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
But just because he doesn't like your haircut and didn't
your jerk, yeah, he can kick you right out.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Wow, so you got into an argument with my son
at Starbucks. Moving forward, I in Rapaport, you're not allowed
to buy Starbucks anymore. You're eighty sixth from the rest
of the world. Starbucks, he can do that.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yes, yes, yes, Rapaport walks up at an airport with
a Groucho Marx mask on. How are you gonna how
you're gonna litigate.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
That fair point?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Enforcing it is another thing. But yes he can make
that at it because you go ahead and make that the.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Love there's you can put a picture, yes, right next
to it is the picture of being rappaport.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Do not serve this man? All right? Hold on, he
shows I'll see.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
JK. Jim Kates apparently has a question, Sweet James.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
I got a friend who was recently in the Midwest,
and while there, he was out and about on a
weeknight and may have been overserved, and uh, on his
way back to his hotel, he walked instead of taking an.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Uber And how long was the walk?
Speaker 6 (34:57):
What about three quarters of a mile? On the way
he stopped about food, and you know, it was just
out and about maybe kind of walking it off, silvering
up a little bit, just to join the nice sky,
all the stars up in the sky in Indianapolis or
somewhere in the Midwest.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
What happens if.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
If a police officer rolls up on him and says, sir,
you're walking a little sideways. You kind of ran into
the paper thing. They're like, what's how much have you
had to drink?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Like?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Can you get a rest dispensers? Can you get there?
On every corner these days?
Speaker 7 (35:25):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Can you get your fine?
Speaker 6 (35:28):
And how much is drunk in public?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
The number one thinking as he get down driving he
did the right thing by walking it off too. Yes,
he could get a public intoxication uh ticket And depending
on the jurisdiction where it is, it's the fine is
going to vary.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
But run into the Rhode Island doesn't it take more
than that?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
No? Wait a second, now here's here's the here's something
for everybody out there. When when an officer asked you
have you had anything to drink? What do you say? No? No, no,
What do you tell you say?
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Officer?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Answer that question would require me to violate my constitutional
rights and it would be a shame to give them up, squeezily,
especially after some good men women have died to protect them.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
That's what you say?
Speaker 5 (36:17):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I was thinking I was just gonna say no, Asifer.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Would you like a bite of my burrito? Suprea? You
want this other topo?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Supreme? I'm not gonna eat it?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
All right? Well, I guess that answers your question.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
There thanks for that one appreciated.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I think that's fair, you know what I mean, there's a.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I mean, you know what, since we're already on it,
we might as well just dig a little bit deeper.
What happens if I am in an alley and I
have managed to wiggle my way in between two very
large trash bins, you know, the the industrial size that
take the garbage truck with the forklift thing on the
front to empty them, and I have decided to relieve myself. Okay,
(37:04):
so I'm out of site. No one can see me.
I'm against a wall. There's two garbage on either side.
But I'm relieving myself. But but I'm not exposed to anybody.
What would the what would the ticket and the fine be?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah, you're in a public eric, that's a public hero nation,
So it doesn't matter if you're hidden or not. You're
going to get the ticket and an officer's aue. Though
you weren't that hidden, it.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Could be hard to get a job after that's on
your record.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Well, no, it's not like I'm going to be I'm
not going to get a public indecent exposure or anything
like that. It's just public years.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Wait, wait a minute, if his puzzo's out, doesn't he
become a sex offender?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (37:38):
No, you could.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Joey Salt ninth grade mooning people down the sidewalk when
when was a cover police officer. He was arrested and
he had to register on the sexistender. Come on for mooning.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
That's not cool.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Yeah, that's not cool at all.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Souse Dickens says, can be an ass.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yeah, just throwing rocks tonight. The one and only sweet
James at eight hundred and nine million, give him a call,
eight hundred nine million, quite simply, the greatest lawyer that
ever walked the earth, Clarence Darrow.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Be down an alley happen in this country?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yes, no, you can't pee in an alley, Matt. Now
you can build a cardboard house and there'll be protections
for you. Don't worry. I can't up with a broken bottle.
I mean, come on, Well, I thought we covered a
lot of legal ground there. That was very good, and
we'll be back with more great sports talk. The one
(38:33):
and only dense Beard of Justice. Wow, always always impactful.
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